Some months ago, I decided it would be great to design a game where skill takes precendence. Where the good players will be able to survive bad beats and the cream would rise to the top. Well, after last night's game... F@#K that....k
I have never seen so many suckouts, I have never seen so many runner runners / two outers / dominated hands win. It was a hell of a ride, but here comes the summaries. I can't possibly note all of the suckouts, but if you see a hand that looks like a routine beat, just assume that the hand previous to that, the person went in a 90% favorite and lost.
10th place:
Blinds 50/100 (Hey, we made it through two whole levels without a bustout!)
Mark raises to 375, called by Trevor in the BB
Flop 7-4-3 with two spades
Trevor pushes all in for 1700.
Mark announces "I hope you're on a draw" and calls
Mark: AK (K spades)
Trevor A7
Turn: 6s
River: As
Yup... that is the kinda night it's going to be, and Trevor is out in 10th place.
9th place:
Blinds: 50/100 (so much for getting through the rounds)
5 callers pre-flop
Flop: 5-7-9 (2 spades)
Checked to Dave K who pushes all in for 1275
Tom calls, everyone else folds
Dave K 66
Tom 9-10
Turn / River are both 4s, and Dave is out 9th
8th place:
Blinds 75/150
Dave P raises to 550, Josh re-raises to 1600, and Dave pushes all in 2525 more
Josh ponders, says that he hopes it's a race, and calls.
Josh 77
Dave 99
Flop: A-2-K
So far so good!
Turn: 8
Wait for it....
River 7
Dave's out in 8th place.
7th place:
Blinds: 100/200/25
Josh raises to 500
Shannon pushes all in Josh calls
Shannon 77
Josh QQ
Board of A-9-10-4-Q
Best hand won... whadda ya know?
(It should be noted that Shannon's JJ was cracked by Mark's A-10 all in on a board of 2-3-4-5-J)
Shannon's out 7th
6th place:
Blinds: 100/200/25
Mario raises to 700
Josh re-raises to 1700
Mario calls
Board: A-Q-6 (2 diamonds)
Mario bets 1,000
Josh pushes Mario all-in
Mario thinks, and calls with A-5
Josh gets his hand caught in the cookie jar with Q-J
(NOTE: At this point, Mario stands up, and Mark immediately turns him away from the board screaming "Don't look... don't watch this")
Turn: 10d
River Jc
A board of 6c-9d-2c-5c-10s ends Tom's night in 5th place
4th place:
Blinds: 150/300/50
After calling Johnnie's all in pre-flop of 6800 with AA and losing to 77, Mark is short, and pushes all-in for 1450. Josh calls.
Mark: A8
Josh: QJ
Board: 6-10-Q-8-9 ends Mark's night..
** A quick colour-up break is held, chip counts going into the home stretch:
Johnnie: 21, 600
Tye: 18, 100
Josh: 10, 300
3rd place:
Blinds: 300/600/100
Johnnie limps from the SB, and Josh raises 1300. Johnnie calls
Flop: 8c-9c-3d
Josh pushes all in (5,800), and is called by Johnnie
Josh: AK
Johnnie: QJ
In keeping with the night....
Turn: Kd (Happy Josh!)
River: 10h (sad Josh)
Josh is out
HEADS UP!!
Johnnie is a significant chip lead, and Tye is in trouble, so he goes into hyper-aggressive mode, and starts pushing a lot. Two hands make this game interesting again, as Tye pushes all in with 8-9 to be called with Johnnie's K-9, and Tye spikes an 8... another dominant hand is cracked. The next hand, Tye is still short-ish, so pushes again with K-10, but again Johnnie calls, with A-10... and Tye turns ANOTHER 3-outer, giving him chip lead... which lead to this:
2nd place:
Blinds: 400/800/100
Johnnie pushes all-in preflop with 3,800
Tye calls
Johnnie Q-9
Tye K-J
Board: 8-8-6-6-4
The best hand wins..... WTF?
Johnnie's out, and our KWGM II final preliminary game winner is TYE!!
Tye wins $50, 13, 000 in finale chips, and perhaps most importantly, a grandfathering into KWGM III!!!!
Updated chip counts are in the OP, the finale will take place on SATURDAY - MAY 13 at 1:00 PM.
Location: The recently resurrected Park Street Poker Pit!!!
Good luck to all players, and watch here for live updates on Saturday.
Great job through the prelims everyone. The chip count going into the final is pretty damn evil. And, we'll see you at the Easy and Smashy Awards of Excellence at Bristol Street for the post-game party.
Note: Over half of the final table of tonight's Bristol were grudge match participants.
Congrats Mark, Shannon, Tom and Trevor.
Goodluck East Shit Saturday!!!
Note that had one player not made it, the number of Grudge match players at the Final Table would be the same percentage wise as the number of Grudge match players playing in the tournament. (3of9 v 9of27)
So, congradulations!! You statisically held on to the number of players that entered the tournament. Way to go! You guys did average!
Of course, none of you placed the Top 2...
(Hey, gotta start the heat for KWGM III, don't I?)
Comments
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Some months ago, I decided it would be great to design a game where skill takes precendence. Where the good players will be able to survive bad beats and the cream would rise to the top. Well, after last night's game... F@#K that....k
I have never seen so many suckouts, I have never seen so many runner runners / two outers / dominated hands win. It was a hell of a ride, but here comes the summaries. I can't possibly note all of the suckouts, but if you see a hand that looks like a routine beat, just assume that the hand previous to that, the person went in a 90% favorite and lost.
10th place:
Blinds 50/100 (Hey, we made it through two whole levels without a bustout!)
Mark raises to 375, called by Trevor in the BB
Flop 7-4-3 with two spades
Trevor pushes all in for 1700.
Mark announces "I hope you're on a draw" and calls
Mark: AK (K spades)
Trevor A7
Turn: 6s
River: As
Yup... that is the kinda night it's going to be, and Trevor is out in 10th place.
9th place:
Blinds: 50/100 (so much for getting through the rounds)
5 callers pre-flop
Flop: 5-7-9 (2 spades)
Checked to Dave K who pushes all in for 1275
Tom calls, everyone else folds
Dave K 66
Tom 9-10
Turn / River are both 4s, and Dave is out 9th
8th place:
Blinds 75/150
Dave P raises to 550, Josh re-raises to 1600, and Dave pushes all in 2525 more
Josh ponders, says that he hopes it's a race, and calls.
Josh 77
Dave 99
Flop: A-2-K
So far so good!
Turn: 8
Wait for it....
River 7
Dave's out in 8th place.
7th place:
Blinds: 100/200/25
Josh raises to 500
Shannon pushes all in Josh calls
Shannon 77
Josh QQ
Board of A-9-10-4-Q
Best hand won... whadda ya know?
(It should be noted that Shannon's JJ was cracked by Mark's A-10 all in on a board of 2-3-4-5-J)
Shannon's out 7th
6th place:
Blinds: 100/200/25
Mario raises to 700
Josh re-raises to 1700
Mario calls
Board: A-Q-6 (2 diamonds)
Mario bets 1,000
Josh pushes Mario all-in
Mario thinks, and calls with A-5
Josh gets his hand caught in the cookie jar with Q-J
(NOTE: At this point, Mario stands up, and Mark immediately turns him away from the board screaming "Don't look... don't watch this")
Turn: 10d
River Jc
Mario's out
5th place:
Blinds: 150/300/50
Tom pushes all in and is called by Josh AND Tye
Tom: A8 (suited hearts)
Josh : A2 (suited spades)
Tye: A9 (suited diamonds)
Wow... strange
A board of 6c-9d-2c-5c-10s ends Tom's night in 5th place
4th place:
Blinds: 150/300/50
After calling Johnnie's all in pre-flop of 6800 with AA and losing to 77, Mark is short, and pushes all-in for 1450. Josh calls.
Mark: A8
Josh: QJ
Board: 6-10-Q-8-9 ends Mark's night..
** A quick colour-up break is held, chip counts going into the home stretch:
Johnnie: 21, 600
Tye: 18, 100
Josh: 10, 300
3rd place:
Blinds: 300/600/100
Johnnie limps from the SB, and Josh raises 1300. Johnnie calls
Flop: 8c-9c-3d
Josh pushes all in (5,800), and is called by Johnnie
Josh: AK
Johnnie: QJ
In keeping with the night....
Turn: Kd (Happy Josh!)
River: 10h (sad Josh)
Josh is out
HEADS UP!!
Johnnie is a significant chip lead, and Tye is in trouble, so he goes into hyper-aggressive mode, and starts pushing a lot. Two hands make this game interesting again, as Tye pushes all in with 8-9 to be called with Johnnie's K-9, and Tye spikes an 8... another dominant hand is cracked. The next hand, Tye is still short-ish, so pushes again with K-10, but again Johnnie calls, with A-10... and Tye turns ANOTHER 3-outer, giving him chip lead... which lead to this:
2nd place:
Blinds: 400/800/100
Johnnie pushes all-in preflop with 3,800
Tye calls
Johnnie Q-9
Tye K-J
Board: 8-8-6-6-4
The best hand wins..... WTF?
Johnnie's out, and our KWGM II final preliminary game winner is TYE!!
Tye wins $50, 13, 000 in finale chips, and perhaps most importantly, a grandfathering into KWGM III!!!!
Updated chip counts are in the OP, the finale will take place on SATURDAY - MAY 13 at 1:00 PM.
Location: The recently resurrected Park Street Poker Pit!!!
Good luck to all players, and watch here for live updates on Saturday.
Mark
Good luck to everyone!
   For what it's worth, I had 2075 when I donk'ed out.
     Dave Kostis
Congrats Mark, Shannon, Tom and Trevor.
Goodluck East Shit Saturday!!!
Everytime I have gone all in and won in both the KWGM and at Bristol last night, I had the best hand before the flop, and on the river.
And that's the truth.
Mark
AQs vs AJo is not 60/40, he has 3 outs... he hit TWO of them... how lucky is THAT?
Mark
Note that had one player not made it, the number of Grudge match players at the Final Table would be the same percentage wise as the number of Grudge match players playing in the tournament. (3of9 v 9of27)
So, congradulations!! You statisically held on to the number of players that entered the tournament. Way to go! You guys did average!
Of course, none of you placed the Top 2...
(Hey, gotta start the heat for KWGM III, don't I?)
How did KWGM I players not returning to KWGM II do?
Mark
Therefore:
4/9 = .44
9/27 = .33
Variance = .33 - In favour of KWGMII
BOOYAWKASHA!