Retro Report: Bristol Street Classic IV
As Bristol Street IV came into view, the popularity was growing, as it was the first Bristol Street to fill up within 24 hours of me sending the email out. This was an especially funny thing as I thought I was shooting myself in the foot scheduling the tournament to run on Easter Monday. LOL
I was, however, beginning to worry that I was burning out players as this was the fourth tournament held in little over a month.
Bristol Street IV increased the starting chip count to 500 and was the first tournament to get rid of those pesky "1" chips and start at the 5/10 level. Due to my low number of chips, I also had to come up with more denominations of different colours and confused everyone. Blue (10) chips were in use as well as promoting whites to (50). As the tournaments began you often had 5 different colours of chips in front of you. Some people really hated that!! (Me included!!)
The Class of Bristol Street IV included 3 new players. One, Dakota, got a job in a different city and moved away while the other two are more regualr names to the Bristol Street Casino; Jonathan "Oragami" C. and Bill "Skittlepoker" S. (formerly nicknamed "B.S.")
Oh yeah, one thing I almost forgot. I'm sure it pissed everyone off to no end, but I was also in the habit at this point of taking a chip count after the rebuy period ended, and then again at the end of EVERY LEVEL AFTER THAT. Now that's overkill, ladies and gentlemen.. (and probably slowed down the game to a crawl!)
BSC IV also had another first (which has, incidentally, never been repeated in the first 16 Bristol Streets), but I'm sure you'll be able to figure out what that is by the end of the report.
This tournament would also strongly hint at a disturbing trend, the winner of each tournament seemed to go out early in the next. It wouldn't be properly called by it's real name until BSC V.
Bristol Street Classic IV - RESULTS!!!
April 12th, 2004
On Monday, Bristol Street Classic IV attracted the creme de la creme of the poker world for an evening of No-Limit Texas Hold'em. Would Dave "Brava" Selberg be able to repeat as champion? Would one of the previous victors reclaim the crown? Or would a new champion step forth from among the shadows to win the Bristol St. Classic IV??
Fourteen people arrived and paid their $10 entry fee for a chance at an eventual pot worth $190. 500 Chips were given to each player, and the group was divided into two tables.
On table one; "The Corpse" Chris Klien, Adam "Dumb F(l)uck" Stanley, Erin "The River" Moffat, Amanda "Easy" C., "Slippery Pete" Aultman, Jonathan "Oragami" Clayman, and Matt "Kelso" Lantz
On table two; Dave "Brava" Selberg, Rob "the Knave" LeGood, Bill "B.S." Stride, Chris "Zorro" Taylor, "The Rock" Dakota Pardy, Tye "8-Ball" Zinger, and "The Incredible Hulk" David Baxter
Table two immediately looked at Table one and everyone wished fondly for a seat over there.
Level 1 (5-10)
All players (500)
As usual, there was very little action during the first three blind levels and people jockied for position, playing fast and loose knowing that a re-buy was only $10 away. Five rebuys during the first hour propelled the pot up to $190 giving the first place prize finish of $95. The Champion of Bristol St. II, "The Corpse" was last on the chip count going into the second hour, while "The Rock" and "Kelso" were both sucking the chips out of table one, while the action on table two was more closely contested. No one knew if the chip leader going into the second hour, "Kelso", was playing mind games with the rest of the field or just simply playing tidlywinks in his mind.
"Easy" who at the beginning at the 3rd level had only 175 chips left, attempted to bust out to rebuy but was accidentally successful in grabbing two quick pots to bring her total up to 600 chips.
Level 4 (25-50)
"Kelso" (1500)
"The Rock" (1325)
"The Knave" (925)
"The Hulk" (925)
"dumb F(l)uck" (765)
"Brava" (715)
"B.S" (625)
"Easy" (600)
"Slippery Pete" (500)
"8-Ball" (445)
"The River" (440)
"Zorro" (380)
"Oragami" (350)
"Corpse" (155)
Even though the Corpse had the small stack, Jonthan "Oragami" ('cause that's what he folds like) Claymen was the first competitor eliminated. Unluckly draws or the pressure of being in his first money tournament we're not sure, but look for "Oragami" to make his return at Bristol St. V to gain some measure of revenge! The same hand saw the demise of "Zorro" with an ever descreasing chip stack. With "Zorro"'s initially bigger chip stack, Zorro took 13th place. Of course, at that point in the match, that's kind of like comparing someone that got kicked in the nuts to someone that just got kicked in the left nut; either way you look at it... you got kicked in the nuts.
With these eliminations the tables were even at six players a piece and "The River" was the next to go...
"Well, it was certainly an off night for me. I only won ONE hand all night, and it came with a less-than-impressive pot. It was a less-than-impressive hand, too. I only won it because everyone else folded out before even the
turn showed up. But the river didn't dry up for me. It wasn't the river that was the problem! Most of the time, I got crap dealt to me...and the times I actually got something sorta decent dealt to me, the flop did not match ANY of it. So I don't want to see anything about rivers drying up in your report.
"
I would never say anything like that.
During the fourth round, we head to "B.S." who calls the action on one of the more exciting hands on table two...
"I started the night with the goal of trying to play conservatively, work on my Spidey-poker sense and most of all, out last Peter Aultman. Towards the end of the first hour (it was actually just after the beginning of the first hour - Ed.) I was dealt a J4. Something told me (Spidey-poker sense?) to hang on to them and just see what happened to come up in the flop. The initial round table of meeting the big blind was done and the flop was revealed.
The three initial cards were JJ4. I looked at the cards in disbelief. I checked my two cards again and rechecked what was on the table. I had been dealt a full house on the flop. It was at this moment that my bowels, bladder and stomach content threatened to exit my body simultaneously. I felt my chances of having a good hand by the time the last two cards were shown was pretty good so I bet the blind amount on my turn.
A few table mates followed me in and the next card was revealed. You could have put a live turkey and an extra nutty o-henry bar beside the flop and I wouldn't have had a clue of what they were. The turn was placed on the table it was my turn to bet. I think Rob (sitting to the right of me) put some in, I don't remember exactly. I raised the amount of chips ... I think I doubled the initial bet. A few table mates followed me in and a couple dropped out.
The river was placed on the table. I believe Rob bet. I saw his bet and raised him (again, the exact numbers fail me ... I think it may have been about 100). In turn, everyone dropped out of the hand except Rob. He put his cards in front of him, settled back in his chair and started the wheels a turning in his head. I could feel him looking at me, trying to catch a hint of what I may have had in my hand. His stare felt like he was piercing my skull. I asked him to turn off his laser skull piercing glasses and it felt better. I stared straight, I looked at the table, I looked at the door, I looked at anything but Rob. (I try to do that on a daily basis but this moment was pretty important)
After another minute Rob said "I'll call you". This was it. He revealed 2 pair. I turned my cards over, "full house on the flop". Rob was not a happy man. He said something to me but it seemed distant. I raked in the chips from the table and tried not to ease the muscle control that had held the majority of bodily fluids within me.
Would love to hear how things were from Rob's side of the cards
"
From Rob's side of the cards the "Knave" says...
"I'm not sure what happened... I'm sure I had a Royal Frush.
Bill got the action a little wrong but it was close. I had a fairly decent hand off the flop and so, with a semi bluff I bet out 100, Bill called and everyone one else was out. The turn addded nothing to my hand, so, after Bill checked, I fired out with a bet of 200. Once again he called and that's when the alarm bells went off.
When the river came up, my hand did not improve and Bill checked. I immediately sensed a trap and decided to check-through. I seem to recall Bill upset that I didn't bet as he was planning on bringing me all in at that point. All in all, my chip stack went from ~900 to about ~600 and it was definately a hand that hurt."
Action for the rest of the round was fairly tight as the blinds were increasing dramitically and the field was now at 11 players
Level 5 (50-75)
"Kelso" (1500)
"dumb F(l)uck" (1150)
"B.S" (1025)
"The Hulk" (1000)
"8-Ball" (950)
"Slippery Pete" (875)
"Corpse" (775)
"The Knave" (625)
"The Rock" (700)
"Easy" (600)
"Brava" (175)
With an unfortunate hand in the 4th round, Brava was left with nearly nothing, he survived one all-in call, but was quickly ejected from the tournament in 11th place.
For most of the game, the erratic playing style of "Kelso" (which many either called a clever buff or complete mis-understanding of the rules of the game) was beginning to confuse the competitors. As the Corpse, our 10th place finsher, reported...
"Dealt a A-K, I HAD to put 75 of my remaining 275 on the table to call in. But, the flop gave me nothing. But with nothing but checking coming in from Dumbfluck, "Slippery Pete", "Kelso" and me, I sensed weakness at
the table. The river came up giving a hand which could be a gutshot straight IIRC, and the highest card was a jack. My A-K was pretty useless, but I saw my opening. I called all-in on the hand which was nothing but Ace-high.
My two opponents on the left folded immediately. "Kelso", who had tripled his rebuy after the break with a couple of very strong hands which beat other strong hands for big pots, called out of habit more than anything else. My Ace-high couldn't beat his anemic pair of 7s, but not only was it an extraordinarily weak hand to call a bluff on, he even miscalled having nothing. (Unforunately for The Corpse, the cards read themselves - Ed.) Such is the unpredictability of a beginning player."
Shortly after the Corpse was tossed, the most dramatic hand of the evening elimated two more players. We go to the Knave to call the action...."
"Sitting on the Big Blind I was dealt Q-6 offsuit, which normally I'd throw away. But, action went around the table with the first three players folding their hands, "8-Ball" Tye Zinger, who was on the button called, and the Small blind to my right "The Hulk" called up. I was able to check the flop for free and it came up.. K - 6 - 6
Not only did I just flop trips 6's, but I had a very strong kicker to boot. My chip stack was at about ~600 while both Tye and Dave had ~950 each, so I knew I was the small chipstack. "The Hulk" immediately led out with a 200 bet, and I guessed that me may have had the missing fourth "6". The only question was which of us had the better kicker. I decided to take the risk and pushed my remaining chips in the stack calling All-in in dramatic fashion.
Tye thought for a good while and decided to call my All-in bet, covering me with about 300 chips left in his own stack. Perhaps Tye had the extra 6! To add to the confusion, "The Hulk" almost immediately raised, calling all-in, (covering Tye by 25 chips), which forced Tye into the pot as he was too far committed all ready. At this point I put Dave on the 6 and Tye with just a bad call. Speculation ended quickly as we had three way all-in pot and a race-off about to happen.
Tye turned over a K - 4 giving him two pairs, and Dave laid down a 6 - 10. Triumphantly, I turned over 6 - Q and you could almost see the colour rushing out of Dave's face. (As well as Tye's as he realized the error he made in staying in the hand) The turn came up blank and I could almost count the chips in my pot. Tripling up would give me ~2000 chips and an almost guaranteed spot at the final table. Dave only had 3 outs at this point (one of the three remaining tens), and just before the river was revealed, most of table one had gathered around us watching the action.
The river came a 10, and I went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. "The Hulk" has made a full house, sixes full of tens. Both Tye and myself busted out in 8th and 9th respectively, and that was the end of Bristol St. IV for me."
With only seven players remain, a short break was taken as the tables merged into "The Final Table". Four people would get paid, three would go home empty handed. The remaining few minutes was played tight and we headed into Level 6 with the following chip positions
Level 6 (50-100)
"dumb F(l)uck" (3075)
"The Hulk" (~3000)
"Easy" (1000)
"Kelso" (750)
"The Rock" (600)
"Slippery Pete" (575)
"B.S" (500)
The action of Level 6 saw a lot of good action from the players. B.S. was able to grow his dangerously low chipstack into a healthy size, while "The Hulk" started giving away some of the money won from "The Knave" and "8-Ball".
"Slippery Pete" avenged his first tournament performance of busting out first by making it to the final table, but his short stack would not hold and wound up exiting the tournament at this level in 7th place.
Level 7 (100-150)
"B.S" (3050)
"dumb F(l)uck" (2650)
"The Hulk" (2000)
"Easy" (1850)
"Kelso" (500)
"The Rock" (475)
Over the next round, the playing really tightened up and it would be another half hour before another play was eliminated. The trends starting in Level 6 continued into this round; Dumb F(l)uck held on to a strong chip stack, "Easy" saw her chip stack slowly increasing, "The Hulk" kept giving away my chips, and "Kelso" had no clue what was going on.
Level 8 (100-200)
"dumb F(l)uck" (4200)
"Easy" (1900)
"B.S" (1000)
"The Rock" (1000)
"The Hulk" (800)
"Kelso" (500)
In the 8th round we finally had some eliminations with both "Kelso" and "The Hulk" eliminated on the same hand to a great bit of playing by "Easy". Nothing like a flush draw on the River!
The four players left were now in the money and the action for first place began in earnest.
"Easy" continued her bossing around of the table and considerable grew in chip size and position.
Level 9 (150-300)
"Easy" (6200)
"dumb F(l)uck" (3000)
"The Rock" (1700)
"B.S" (1500)
After Level 9 hit, Easy took Dumb F(l)uck out of the running in fourth place with a $20 prize, followed by the quote of the night...
Someone: "You seem to be collecting a lot of those Purple (500) chips."
Easy: "They're pretty. Like me! Tee hee".
At this point "Easy" informed the remaining players that, if she won, they'd be paying for a new skirt. I'm not positve, but I think the remaining players went on tilt after hearing this comment.
B.S. was soon elimated, with his $28 prize and third place.
Level 10 (200-400)
"Easy" (6800)
"The Rock" (1900)
The Blinds raised and "Easy" had "The Rock" well covered. After only a few hands, the "The Rock" gave up, exclaiming "Let's finish this!" going all in with 9-4 offsuit. Amanda's "J-10" held up during the race off, and the Bristol St. Nightclub and Casnio crowned it's first female champion. Congrats to "Easy", the champion of Bristol St. Classic IV!!
Amanda took home the top prize of $95, (and now does, in fact, have a new skirt.. it's pink), while "The Rock" took home runner up position and his prize of $47.
The battle lines were drawn in the sand, and the we'll be back on Wed. April 28th as "Easy" defends her crown at the Bristol Street Classic V!!
I was, however, beginning to worry that I was burning out players as this was the fourth tournament held in little over a month.
Bristol Street IV increased the starting chip count to 500 and was the first tournament to get rid of those pesky "1" chips and start at the 5/10 level. Due to my low number of chips, I also had to come up with more denominations of different colours and confused everyone. Blue (10) chips were in use as well as promoting whites to (50). As the tournaments began you often had 5 different colours of chips in front of you. Some people really hated that!! (Me included!!)
The Class of Bristol Street IV included 3 new players. One, Dakota, got a job in a different city and moved away while the other two are more regualr names to the Bristol Street Casino; Jonathan "Oragami" C. and Bill "Skittlepoker" S. (formerly nicknamed "B.S.")
Oh yeah, one thing I almost forgot. I'm sure it pissed everyone off to no end, but I was also in the habit at this point of taking a chip count after the rebuy period ended, and then again at the end of EVERY LEVEL AFTER THAT. Now that's overkill, ladies and gentlemen.. (and probably slowed down the game to a crawl!)
BSC IV also had another first (which has, incidentally, never been repeated in the first 16 Bristol Streets), but I'm sure you'll be able to figure out what that is by the end of the report.
This tournament would also strongly hint at a disturbing trend, the winner of each tournament seemed to go out early in the next. It wouldn't be properly called by it's real name until BSC V.
Bristol Street Classic IV - RESULTS!!!
April 12th, 2004
On Monday, Bristol Street Classic IV attracted the creme de la creme of the poker world for an evening of No-Limit Texas Hold'em. Would Dave "Brava" Selberg be able to repeat as champion? Would one of the previous victors reclaim the crown? Or would a new champion step forth from among the shadows to win the Bristol St. Classic IV??
Fourteen people arrived and paid their $10 entry fee for a chance at an eventual pot worth $190. 500 Chips were given to each player, and the group was divided into two tables.
On table one; "The Corpse" Chris Klien, Adam "Dumb F(l)uck" Stanley, Erin "The River" Moffat, Amanda "Easy" C., "Slippery Pete" Aultman, Jonathan "Oragami" Clayman, and Matt "Kelso" Lantz
On table two; Dave "Brava" Selberg, Rob "the Knave" LeGood, Bill "B.S." Stride, Chris "Zorro" Taylor, "The Rock" Dakota Pardy, Tye "8-Ball" Zinger, and "The Incredible Hulk" David Baxter
Table two immediately looked at Table one and everyone wished fondly for a seat over there.
Level 1 (5-10)
All players (500)
As usual, there was very little action during the first three blind levels and people jockied for position, playing fast and loose knowing that a re-buy was only $10 away. Five rebuys during the first hour propelled the pot up to $190 giving the first place prize finish of $95. The Champion of Bristol St. II, "The Corpse" was last on the chip count going into the second hour, while "The Rock" and "Kelso" were both sucking the chips out of table one, while the action on table two was more closely contested. No one knew if the chip leader going into the second hour, "Kelso", was playing mind games with the rest of the field or just simply playing tidlywinks in his mind.
"Easy" who at the beginning at the 3rd level had only 175 chips left, attempted to bust out to rebuy but was accidentally successful in grabbing two quick pots to bring her total up to 600 chips.
Level 4 (25-50)
"Kelso" (1500)
"The Rock" (1325)
"The Knave" (925)
"The Hulk" (925)
"dumb F(l)uck" (765)
"Brava" (715)
"B.S" (625)
"Easy" (600)
"Slippery Pete" (500)
"8-Ball" (445)
"The River" (440)
"Zorro" (380)
"Oragami" (350)
"Corpse" (155)
Even though the Corpse had the small stack, Jonthan "Oragami" ('cause that's what he folds like) Claymen was the first competitor eliminated. Unluckly draws or the pressure of being in his first money tournament we're not sure, but look for "Oragami" to make his return at Bristol St. V to gain some measure of revenge! The same hand saw the demise of "Zorro" with an ever descreasing chip stack. With "Zorro"'s initially bigger chip stack, Zorro took 13th place. Of course, at that point in the match, that's kind of like comparing someone that got kicked in the nuts to someone that just got kicked in the left nut; either way you look at it... you got kicked in the nuts.
With these eliminations the tables were even at six players a piece and "The River" was the next to go...
"Well, it was certainly an off night for me. I only won ONE hand all night, and it came with a less-than-impressive pot. It was a less-than-impressive hand, too. I only won it because everyone else folded out before even the
turn showed up. But the river didn't dry up for me. It wasn't the river that was the problem! Most of the time, I got crap dealt to me...and the times I actually got something sorta decent dealt to me, the flop did not match ANY of it. So I don't want to see anything about rivers drying up in your report.
"I would never say anything like that.
During the fourth round, we head to "B.S." who calls the action on one of the more exciting hands on table two...
"I started the night with the goal of trying to play conservatively, work on my Spidey-poker sense and most of all, out last Peter Aultman. Towards the end of the first hour (it was actually just after the beginning of the first hour - Ed.) I was dealt a J4. Something told me (Spidey-poker sense?) to hang on to them and just see what happened to come up in the flop. The initial round table of meeting the big blind was done and the flop was revealed.
The three initial cards were JJ4. I looked at the cards in disbelief. I checked my two cards again and rechecked what was on the table. I had been dealt a full house on the flop. It was at this moment that my bowels, bladder and stomach content threatened to exit my body simultaneously. I felt my chances of having a good hand by the time the last two cards were shown was pretty good so I bet the blind amount on my turn.
A few table mates followed me in and the next card was revealed. You could have put a live turkey and an extra nutty o-henry bar beside the flop and I wouldn't have had a clue of what they were. The turn was placed on the table it was my turn to bet. I think Rob (sitting to the right of me) put some in, I don't remember exactly. I raised the amount of chips ... I think I doubled the initial bet. A few table mates followed me in and a couple dropped out.
The river was placed on the table. I believe Rob bet. I saw his bet and raised him (again, the exact numbers fail me ... I think it may have been about 100). In turn, everyone dropped out of the hand except Rob. He put his cards in front of him, settled back in his chair and started the wheels a turning in his head. I could feel him looking at me, trying to catch a hint of what I may have had in my hand. His stare felt like he was piercing my skull. I asked him to turn off his laser skull piercing glasses and it felt better. I stared straight, I looked at the table, I looked at the door, I looked at anything but Rob. (I try to do that on a daily basis but this moment was pretty important)
After another minute Rob said "I'll call you". This was it. He revealed 2 pair. I turned my cards over, "full house on the flop". Rob was not a happy man. He said something to me but it seemed distant. I raked in the chips from the table and tried not to ease the muscle control that had held the majority of bodily fluids within me.
Would love to hear how things were from Rob's side of the cards
"From Rob's side of the cards the "Knave" says...
"I'm not sure what happened... I'm sure I had a Royal Frush.
Bill got the action a little wrong but it was close. I had a fairly decent hand off the flop and so, with a semi bluff I bet out 100, Bill called and everyone one else was out. The turn addded nothing to my hand, so, after Bill checked, I fired out with a bet of 200. Once again he called and that's when the alarm bells went off.
When the river came up, my hand did not improve and Bill checked. I immediately sensed a trap and decided to check-through. I seem to recall Bill upset that I didn't bet as he was planning on bringing me all in at that point. All in all, my chip stack went from ~900 to about ~600 and it was definately a hand that hurt."
Action for the rest of the round was fairly tight as the blinds were increasing dramitically and the field was now at 11 players
Level 5 (50-75)
"Kelso" (1500)
"dumb F(l)uck" (1150)
"B.S" (1025)
"The Hulk" (1000)
"8-Ball" (950)
"Slippery Pete" (875)
"Corpse" (775)
"The Knave" (625)
"The Rock" (700)
"Easy" (600)
"Brava" (175)
With an unfortunate hand in the 4th round, Brava was left with nearly nothing, he survived one all-in call, but was quickly ejected from the tournament in 11th place.
For most of the game, the erratic playing style of "Kelso" (which many either called a clever buff or complete mis-understanding of the rules of the game) was beginning to confuse the competitors. As the Corpse, our 10th place finsher, reported...
"Dealt a A-K, I HAD to put 75 of my remaining 275 on the table to call in. But, the flop gave me nothing. But with nothing but checking coming in from Dumbfluck, "Slippery Pete", "Kelso" and me, I sensed weakness at
the table. The river came up giving a hand which could be a gutshot straight IIRC, and the highest card was a jack. My A-K was pretty useless, but I saw my opening. I called all-in on the hand which was nothing but Ace-high.
My two opponents on the left folded immediately. "Kelso", who had tripled his rebuy after the break with a couple of very strong hands which beat other strong hands for big pots, called out of habit more than anything else. My Ace-high couldn't beat his anemic pair of 7s, but not only was it an extraordinarily weak hand to call a bluff on, he even miscalled having nothing. (Unforunately for The Corpse, the cards read themselves - Ed.) Such is the unpredictability of a beginning player."
Shortly after the Corpse was tossed, the most dramatic hand of the evening elimated two more players. We go to the Knave to call the action...."
"Sitting on the Big Blind I was dealt Q-6 offsuit, which normally I'd throw away. But, action went around the table with the first three players folding their hands, "8-Ball" Tye Zinger, who was on the button called, and the Small blind to my right "The Hulk" called up. I was able to check the flop for free and it came up.. K - 6 - 6
Not only did I just flop trips 6's, but I had a very strong kicker to boot. My chip stack was at about ~600 while both Tye and Dave had ~950 each, so I knew I was the small chipstack. "The Hulk" immediately led out with a 200 bet, and I guessed that me may have had the missing fourth "6". The only question was which of us had the better kicker. I decided to take the risk and pushed my remaining chips in the stack calling All-in in dramatic fashion.
Tye thought for a good while and decided to call my All-in bet, covering me with about 300 chips left in his own stack. Perhaps Tye had the extra 6! To add to the confusion, "The Hulk" almost immediately raised, calling all-in, (covering Tye by 25 chips), which forced Tye into the pot as he was too far committed all ready. At this point I put Dave on the 6 and Tye with just a bad call. Speculation ended quickly as we had three way all-in pot and a race-off about to happen.
Tye turned over a K - 4 giving him two pairs, and Dave laid down a 6 - 10. Triumphantly, I turned over 6 - Q and you could almost see the colour rushing out of Dave's face. (As well as Tye's as he realized the error he made in staying in the hand) The turn came up blank and I could almost count the chips in my pot. Tripling up would give me ~2000 chips and an almost guaranteed spot at the final table. Dave only had 3 outs at this point (one of the three remaining tens), and just before the river was revealed, most of table one had gathered around us watching the action.
The river came a 10, and I went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. "The Hulk" has made a full house, sixes full of tens. Both Tye and myself busted out in 8th and 9th respectively, and that was the end of Bristol St. IV for me."
With only seven players remain, a short break was taken as the tables merged into "The Final Table". Four people would get paid, three would go home empty handed. The remaining few minutes was played tight and we headed into Level 6 with the following chip positions
Level 6 (50-100)
"dumb F(l)uck" (3075)
"The Hulk" (~3000)
"Easy" (1000)
"Kelso" (750)
"The Rock" (600)
"Slippery Pete" (575)
"B.S" (500)
The action of Level 6 saw a lot of good action from the players. B.S. was able to grow his dangerously low chipstack into a healthy size, while "The Hulk" started giving away some of the money won from "The Knave" and "8-Ball".
"Slippery Pete" avenged his first tournament performance of busting out first by making it to the final table, but his short stack would not hold and wound up exiting the tournament at this level in 7th place.
Level 7 (100-150)
"B.S" (3050)
"dumb F(l)uck" (2650)
"The Hulk" (2000)
"Easy" (1850)
"Kelso" (500)
"The Rock" (475)
Over the next round, the playing really tightened up and it would be another half hour before another play was eliminated. The trends starting in Level 6 continued into this round; Dumb F(l)uck held on to a strong chip stack, "Easy" saw her chip stack slowly increasing, "The Hulk" kept giving away my chips, and "Kelso" had no clue what was going on.
Level 8 (100-200)
"dumb F(l)uck" (4200)
"Easy" (1900)
"B.S" (1000)
"The Rock" (1000)
"The Hulk" (800)
"Kelso" (500)
In the 8th round we finally had some eliminations with both "Kelso" and "The Hulk" eliminated on the same hand to a great bit of playing by "Easy". Nothing like a flush draw on the River!
The four players left were now in the money and the action for first place began in earnest.
"Easy" continued her bossing around of the table and considerable grew in chip size and position.
Level 9 (150-300)
"Easy" (6200)
"dumb F(l)uck" (3000)
"The Rock" (1700)
"B.S" (1500)
After Level 9 hit, Easy took Dumb F(l)uck out of the running in fourth place with a $20 prize, followed by the quote of the night...
Someone: "You seem to be collecting a lot of those Purple (500) chips."
Easy: "They're pretty. Like me! Tee hee".
At this point "Easy" informed the remaining players that, if she won, they'd be paying for a new skirt. I'm not positve, but I think the remaining players went on tilt after hearing this comment.
B.S. was soon elimated, with his $28 prize and third place.
Level 10 (200-400)
"Easy" (6800)
"The Rock" (1900)
The Blinds raised and "Easy" had "The Rock" well covered. After only a few hands, the "The Rock" gave up, exclaiming "Let's finish this!" going all in with 9-4 offsuit. Amanda's "J-10" held up during the race off, and the Bristol St. Nightclub and Casnio crowned it's first female champion. Congrats to "Easy", the champion of Bristol St. Classic IV!!
Amanda took home the top prize of $95, (and now does, in fact, have a new skirt.. it's pink), while "The Rock" took home runner up position and his prize of $47.
The battle lines were drawn in the sand, and the we'll be back on Wed. April 28th as "Easy" defends her crown at the Bristol Street Classic V!!