Park Street Poker Pit KW Tournament
The Park Street Poker Pit
“...Offering lucrative cash games and tournaments since 2005. â€
- Pit Boss
Proudly Presents:
An Evening of No-Limit Texas Hold’em
Saturday February 12th, 2005 - 2:00pm
(please arrive by 1:30pm to assure seat)
$100 buy-in for 2000 chips
One $50 re-buy within the first 90 minutes for 2000 chips
(you must be below 500 chips to re-buy, no add-on)
Maximum 36 players
Saturday February 12th, 2005 - 2:00pm
(please arrive by 1:30pm to assure seat)
$100 buy-in for 2000 chips
One $50 re-buy within the first 90 minutes for 2000 chips
(you must be below 500 chips to re-buy, no add-on)
Maximum 36 players
Contact parkstpokerpit@hotmail.com for details
located in KW, Ontario
Comments
STP, are you running this tournament?
e-mail your name to parkstpokerpit@hotmail.com to reserve a spot.
tournament is about half full and we will have a list up soon that will be edited accordingly to show availability
thanks guys,
johnny
Believe me, the most difficult thing about all of this was finding the appropriate "house name"
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Main Event Waiting List
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22. Duggy
23. Paul J.
24. Marleene
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Thanks!
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Also, a waiting list will be created once the Main Event is full. The winner of the Main Event is almost assured to walk away with more then $2000 but you will need to get past the Brantford Charity Casino Ultimate Poker ChallengeII Champion who will be honouring us with his presence. Bragging rights up for grabs...
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Again, the winner here should easily take over $2000. Top 5 get paid 45/25/15/10/5% estimated $2137.50/$1187.50/$712.50/$475/$237.50. Those numbers are estimated on a 15 person re-buy scale and all 40 players showing up.
Here is the Blind Structure we are using..30 minute intervals with a 20 minute break after level 4, and 12 and a 40 minute break after lavel 8. You will start with 2000 worth of chips for the Main Event.
10-20
15-30
20-40
30-60*
*Break 20*
50-100
75-150
100-200
150-300*
*Break 40*
200-400
300-600
400-800
600-1200
800-1600
*Break 20*
1000-2000
1500-3000
2000-4000
3000-6000
4000-8000
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I am curious to know how Omar made out. I was the big stack at our table right before the 1st break when I pushed him all-in with my trip Aces. He had a 5 high straight.
Needless to say we both went opposite directions from there.
Best line of the night went to CanadaKev for his, "This is internet friggin sh*t!". I must say I did see my fair share of "internet" hands last night. Here are a couple before I get to the results.
A7 vs J9 (limp limp)
Flop 7, 8, 10
A7 bets 200, J9 raises to 500...A7 (big stack) calls
turn 7, A7 puts J9 all in, j9 calls and A7 hits an ace on the river.
*that was my A7 vs. Ionstorms J9...brutal*
Pkrfce all in with A8 vs. Huge stack Andrew with J9
Flop K J 9
Turn K
River A to counterfeit...woooo.
I will let Kevin explain his frustration with running into aces when flopping top pair/top kicker when everyone had limped...damn!
Final Table results (I finished 9th)
8. pkrfce9
7. Mark
6. Larry L.
5. John L. ($168)
4. CanadaKev ($335)
3. Omar ($502)
1. Jeff Campbell ($1207)
1. Andrew R. ($1210)
After Andrew knocked out Omar with pocket ten's vs. AQ he had a dominating stack in comparison to Jeff Campbell's. Jeff jokingly offered a deal that Andrew easily and wisely dismissed. There were echoes in the back ground of how the Brantford Charity Casino Ultimate Poker Challenge 2 champion was an amazing shorthanded/shortstacked player. He proved everyone right and once he was close to even with Andrew they struck a deal and Jeff went home to play UB's $200 Aruba Tournament, which he was already late for.
Thanks to all for coming out, I'm glad to see the cream rise to the top in our first major tournament. Hope to see more of you out for the next one.
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A few hands are still vaguely accessible to me so I'll share them with the members...
4th hand in, flop comes down 789 with 2 suits. Big bets all around. 3 guys end up practically all-in by the river. 1st hand flopped J-high straight, second in flopped the 9-high straight and the 3rd in caught the fh on the river! The second guy actually folded on the river rather than put in his remaining 100 or so chips since he figured he was beat. I'm not sure if I could throw away a straight with such great odds in a re-buy period BUT he did make the right decision. Mr fh ends up with about 6000 in chips and rides that right to the final table. Ok, he had to play a bit after that...
Later in the re-buy period, I'm in the BB and get to see the flop for free. I flop top 2 pr, someone else flops top pr with top kicker and someone else flops the nut flush draw. I end up tripling.
Guys played a bit more cautiously after they had made their single re-buy alotment. I think some people wisely took advantage of that...
After the re-buy period, I was in the BB with Qc9c. Again I got to see the flop for free. I didn't even watch the flop. I was watching the reaction on the guy beside me since he was such a difficult player to get a read on and I wanted to see what he though of it. I heard someone say "Wow that's a lot of clubs". I took a look and what do I see but 3 clubs! Schweeeeeeeet! I made a small bet. A guy to my right who had been chasing flushes all day went all-in. He had me covered but I didn't figure him for an A- or K- high flush. I had to call. I believe he had top pr with a 3c kicker. Another club came on the river. It gave him a flush as well but it gave me a straight flush! I'm still waiting on my Cadillac, Shannon...
Not long after, I limped in with Ks9s and hit another flush with As on board. Made a decent bet. Same guy puts in a big raise. I re-raise enough to cover his stack. He decided this time he should fold. :-(
I cruised through the end of the re-buy period as one of the big stacks and into the middle phase things stayed about even.
The hand where my balls shrivelled up: I was dealt KK in late position. Make the standard raise. Tough guy behind me calls. The flop comes jack high. I checked, hoping to trap tough guy. He checks. Damn! Turn comes Q. Tough guys shouts out "I'm all-in" before I even get a chance to bet. He was chastised by the table for acting out of turn. But now he's bound by his words to go all-in when it gets to him. What do I do? The rest of the table tells me to call since we haven't seen his cards all night and he was taking down a lot of pots. I asked them if they wanted to chip in to have a look. No takers. I had him covered but my stack would have been crippled. So I run the analysis in my head. What kind of hands would he have smooth called with? AA? QQ? JJ? QJ? All these hands beat me. Could he be on a straight draw? Would he be in there with just a Q? At that point I figured it wasn't worth the gamble so I folded. I showed the table my kings. Didn't even get a reaction out of him. Even later, he wouldn't tell me what he had. Most of the guys felt I had made a good laydown there. (Someone later on said he told them it was AQ. Makes sense. Kind of. I guess he owes me one. But I still say he had me beat - he was lying to that other guy! Interestingly, tough guy was buddies with Andrew - Mr Gargantuan Stack. They both played very similar games.)
Another shriveller - I'm on the button with A9s. Folded around to me and the BB in in the bathroom! Golden! I raise it. SB folds. Bathroom guy just gets back as they are about to fold his cards. He looks at them for 5 minutes. Painfully calls. The flop comes down with an A but only 1 of my suit. I bet 4xBB. He agonizes for at least 10 minutes. I was considering a nap. He counts his chips about 32 times. Finally he announces "all-in". So was it all an act? We'll never know. Everyone was quite pissed off with this guy for taking so long. He had me covered and I wasn't ready to go home yet.
So maybe I made a couple of mistakes. This cost me the chance of having a huge stack late in the tourney but also ensured I didn't bust out by running into a monster. Maybe this is a leak in my game? I had a couple disappointing hands before the table broke up. I was dealt AA UTG. Made the standard raise but didn't get any callers. I didn't want to slow play that into 7 other players. Maybe I should have gone with the minimum raise? Also, hit another flush made a minimum bet from EP and couldn't get any action. Frustration!
Once we got down to the final 16, my game went into the toilet. I got almost no cards worth risking a tournament on. I just didn't get any cards I felt like playing. I'm not sure if it was fatigue, stress or intimidation? We had been playing about 5 hours at this point.
I got to 'watch' some excellent hands, most of them involving Shannon, who from this point on will forever be known by some Lithuanian word that means 'pussy'.
Larry, himself, made a huge laydown of AKo against a standard pre-flop raise from a guy who had been playing tough but loose (this guy finished in 5th). He showed the whole table his hand (violation! plus a big mistake if you want to go all-in and have a chance to get the other guy to fold...) and took about 5 minutes before he folded. I felt that was a mistake since Larry was short-stacked and if you can't get your chips in pre-flop with that, what are you waiting for - AA or KK? Myself I'd have pushed them in and hoped for a fold or worst case, a coin flip. (But who am I to criticize? 'Dad' ended up finishing higher than me. Although he was Bubble Boy. Or as I like to say, Bubble Grandpa... :biggrin: )
My stack slowly dwindled until finally I was down to 1 chip. 1000. Andrew (the eventual 'true' champ aka Mr Gargantuan Stack) was completely running all over the table. He was sitting 2 to my right. He made his standard pre-flop raise. I'm in MP and look down at JJ. I said "I guess it's time to go home boys". I didn't even have enough to call Andrew but I tossed the chip in. Heads-up he shows TT. Woohoo! I double up. Shortly after that we get down to the final table. Yes, I was the short-stack. :frown:
I was quite happy to make it to the final table. That is until I noticed who I'm sitting with. Mr Gargantuan Stack is on my right. Mr Brantford Champion is on my left. On his left is Omar, another very good player. Tough crowd! I only had one move at this point - all-in. I was careful to pick my spots. It actually worked a few times. I doubled up once against Andrew as mentioned below. Eventually, Omar called my 55 with AQ and hit a Q. I can't feel too bad about that since even if I'd had JJ, I still would have lost. I'm really proud to be able to say at least the champ doubled me twice. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: If I had been able to hit a couple hands when I needed it and double up, we could've had a whole different story. Please refer to my luck vs skill post for more detail...
Heads-up was interesting to see. It was obvious that Jeff had more experience with this style of play. He played masterfully. Andrew had a huge lead but Jeff pretty much caught up. I would have loved to see Andrew finish him off. It would have only taken one hand. (I need to believe that one day I can win these tourneys. See the whole luck vs skill thing again...) But insisting on finishing vs cutting a deal could've cost 400 bucks so I don't blame him. Given the fact that Jeff was antsy to get to his UB game, I think Andrew could have cut a better deal but that's hard to say for sure. That would have been real hard ball but I would have loved to see a ballsy negotiating stance like that!
It was a great tournament. Nine hours of balls to the wall fun! Can't wait for the next one.
When he put me all-in when the board showed Ac Kh 4h Jd I had an agonizing call against him with my AJ in front of me, I told him that "a better player might have folded." He flipped over the same hand, whew. I hadn't played with many of the players that were out for the tournament and perhaps having to run it was distracting me a bit from studying the people at my table (which is a big part of my game). I did however make some mistakes late in the tournament that had nothing to do with being distracted ie. calling raises with less then par hands and trying to out play people on the flop. I called Andrew's (big stack bully) 5x raise with Ac5c when everyone else folded. Flop came down K J 6 rainbow, he bets out 1000, I raise to 2500 and he goes all-in...I fold..he shows KJs. Every move I seemed to make was the wrong one. Anyway, live and learn. It only cost me $20 as I won my entry through the satellite.
Thanks for the post and I'm glad you enjoyed yourself.
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