WHUPC 2005

• Qualification
• The Draw
• Round 1
• DaMatrix v David Leigh
• Round 2
• Round 3 & 4
• 500 NLHE
• Quarters & Semis
• Final
  
  
  Picture by "PokerFaced Doc"

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Hendon Mob League: Game 5

Today is the Hendon Mob Poker League's Game 5. My odds have been slashed from 66/1 to win Game 4 to 33/1 to win Game 5 today. Don't see why, as I haven't come close to winning a game yet.

Gonna be tougher now but my aim is to be top of the league after this game. Unfortunately, that is not going to happen as I am already out 34/54. Moved my short stack all in from the SB with ATs but the BB woke up with AKo. Two of my suit on the flop but no further help ensured I went for an early bath :( - It seemed that everyone that came back from Barca did the same lol.

Played pretty shit and went against my instincts a few times. Was also playing 2 other prima type software tables and watching another, and I was surprised that I couldn't keep up with the action - must be because I haven't multitabled/played online poker for 2 weeks but they seemed very fast.

Anyway, I'm still in the other two tournaments trying to get something out of them...

Finished 16/266 in the Stan James Lout Bout Freeroll and in the top 50 out of 4872 in the Ladbrokes Cruise Mania Freeroll.

That's it until the next HMF League game, I've decided to take a little break from this. In the meantime I have added a "Trip Reports" section on the right below the clock.

Good luck all.


Hendon Mob League: Game 5 Results.

Hendon Mob League Top 10 Players

WHUPC: Final

Simon Nowab LOST TO Peter Gunnarson

€100,000 (winner) Peter Gunnarson

€50,000 (runner-up) Simon Nowab

€20,000 (semi-finalists) John Falconer, Dave Colclough

€10,000 (quarter-finalists) Pascal Perrault, Andreas Hagen, David Leigh, Peter Abela

€3,250 (last 16) Stephen Pearce, Simon Trumper, Raul Paez Corral, Jamie Sharrat, Jac Arama, Frej Rutenskold, Jin Cai Lin, Paul Jackson.


Last year's winner, Angel Blanco, ready to hand over the trophy to Peter Gunnarson.

Go to The Mob Poker Database Results

WHUPC: 1/4 Finals & 1/2 Finals

Quarter Final results:

Quarter Final 1A:
Pascal Perrault LOST TO Peter Gunnarson

Quarter Final 1B:
Dave Colclough BEAT Andreas Hagan

Quarter Final 2A:
David Leigh LOST TO John Falconer

Quarter Final 2B:

Simon Nowab BEAT Peter Abela





Semi Final 1:

Peter Gunnarson BEAT Dave Colclough

Semi Final 2:

Simon Nowab BEAT John Falconer

Jump to Final

WHUPC: €500 + €40 NLHE Freezeout

After getting two backers for this event (40% Joe "The Elegance" Beevers & 10% Abhey "The Doc") I made up the rest and entered the €500 freezeout.


The Doc - Poker Faced!

Players were allowed to register for the tournaments up to 90 minutes into it, and by the time I had decided to play we were nearly at the end of level 2 (30/60 blinds). By that time of course some people had already amassed a considerable stack and sure enough I was drawn to a table that was being bullied by a big stack. That was okay though, as most of the players had about the same or less than the 3,000 starting chips I had just sat down with.

I won the first hand I got after sitting down when I raised in late position and only the blinds called. When I bet the flop they both folded. I think the table got the impression that I was playing loose!

I played my second hand in level 3 (50/100 blinds). Jim "Celtic Tiger" Britton was in the Big Blind. I was under the gun and raised to 300 with AA. Ilari Sahamies in EP2 calls and everyone else folds. The flop was 755 with two clubs. I bet about the pot but EP2 raises. I put him on an over pair (88-JJ) or flush draw and reraise all in trying to get all the money in before any scare card comes. He calls with 63 of clubs for a gutshot straight flush draw which misses when runner runner Queens hit.



Phew! I thought I would get busted after only playing 5 minutes and 2 hands! The next hand I play is AK in mid position, the big stack makes a standard raise to 300 in EP. Feeling confident and with a 6,000 stack, I re-raise to 1,000 to isolate him and he calls. Flop was QTx, he checks and instead of betting I try to hit an Ace, King or Jack. The turn is another blank, and when he checks again, I bet 1,000 to try to pick the pot up. He calls and the blank river is checked out again. He takes the pot with JJ.

I am back down to 4,000 and a few blinds later at 70/140 I get JJ under the gun. The short stacks have been going all in, so I limp in expecting one of the short stacks in late position to move in allowing me to make a move. The plan works, I limp and its folded to a short stack on the button who moves all in, the blinds fold and I call easily to beat his 75o.



With me knocking two people out and the big stack doing his fair share of busting, our table is very short handed. We do a draw for a seat at other tables and I am moved to Noah "Exclusive" Boeken's immediate right and one from Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott's left. I have about 5,000 chips and most of the players have a similar stack.

The blinds are at 150/300, when I get KK in mid position. After an early limper I raise it to about 1300 but everybody folds and I pick up 750. I pick up a couple of small pots, Devilfish is then busted out when his small stack is picked off with JJ versus Dave's KTs. We get to the break, and I have exactly 7,500 chips.

Free buffet later, and the blinds still at 150/300 but now with a 30 ante, I get AK in the small blind. There's an under the gun limper, everyone folds to me. With about 1050 in the pot I make a pot bet and Noah in the BB says, "Are you raising me or him? (refering to the UTG limper). I said, "Both!". I would have preferred to win the pot preflop, but Noah's loose call induces another call by the UTG.

The pot is now about 4000 and I have 6000-ish left. The flop comes AcJc4. I bet out trying to win the pot right there, Noah folds but the UTG who has me covered goes all in. And I call with 13/3 expecting him to turn over A2-AQ/flush draw. He has A4o, the turn and river don't help me and I am out in 75th-ish/180+.

Twice!

I would have probably played that hand differently online, but in hindsight, since the antes had just been introduced I should have probably raised more/limped because I´d noticed quite a few people loose calling to see a flop. Nevertheless, I was playing my premium hands strongly and was going for a top finish rather than just sneak into a money place. The UTG limper must not have read me for an Ace...why else would he call?

Alright, he could have been a fish (limping in with A4 UTG and then calling a pot raise would suggest that lol), and Noah's call kind of gave him good odds in position. If he had just flopped an ace without pairing his kicker, I'm sure he would have made the same move.

I still enjoyed the tournament very much and learnt a lot. Thanks to JoeB for sharing a large chunk of the risk, pity I couldn't get the reward :(

Go to The Mob Poker Database: €500 NLHE Results




Jump to Quarters & Semis

WHUPC: Round 3 & Round 4

Round 3 Results

BRACKET 1:
Ivo Donev LOST TO Pascal Perrault
Dave Ulliot LOST TO Stephen Pearce
Simon Trumper BEAT Martin Cedercrantz
Peter Gunnarson BEAT Mickey Wernick

BRACKET 2:
Dave Colclough BEAT Juan Sastre
Raul Paez Corral BEAT Barny Boatman
Richardo Gryko LOST TO Jamie Sharrat
Manuel Garcia LOST TO Andreas Hagan

BRACKET3:
Derek Baxter LOST TO David Leigh
Hans Eskilsson LOST TO Jac Arama
Isabelle Mercier LOST TO Frej Rutenskold
Chen Guosen LOST TO John Falconer

BRACKET4:
Jin Cai Lin BEAT Cui Guogun
Peter Abela BEAT Jatinder Singh
Zhang Luzhe LOST TO Paul Jackson
Simon Nowab BEAT Rory Liffey

Round 4 Results

BRACKET 1:
Pascal Perrault BEAT Stephen Pearce

Peter Gunnarson BEAT Simon Trumper

BRACKET 2:
Dave Colclough BEAT Raul Paez Corral

Jamie Sharrat (above) LOST TO Andreas Hagan

BRACKET3:

Jac Arama LOST TO David Leigh
Frej Rutenskold LOST TO John Falconer

BRACKET4:
Jin Cai Lin LOST TO Peter Abela
Paul Jackson LOST TO Simon Nowab

Jump to 500 NLHE

WHUPC: Round 2 matches & results

BRACKET 1:
Angel Blanco LOST TO Ivo Donev
Pascal Perrault LOST TO Roy Brindley
Carlos Muntan BEAT Dave Ulliott
Stephen Pearce BEAT Daniel Larsson
Albert Ashanki LOST TO Simon Trumper

Ross Boatman LOST TO Martin Cedercrantz
Peter Gunnarson BEAT Paul Hersleth
John Kabbaj LOST TO Mickey Wernick

BRACKET 2:
Dave Colclough BEAT Noah Boeken
Josep Talens LOST TO Juan Sastre
Raul Paez Corral BEAT Alexander Kravchenko
John Huckle LOST TO Barny Boatman
Woody Deck LOST TO Richardo Gryko
Jim Britton LOST TO Jamie Sharrat
Manuel Garcia BEAT Dan Simcelescu

Andreas Hagan BEAT Mathias Wilkens

BRACKET3:
Derek Baxter BEAT David Slowik
David Leigh BEAT Rino Mathis
Hans Eskilsson BEAT Gary Collins
Michael Keiner LOST TO Jac Arama

Isabelle Mercier BEAT Peter Eichardt
Frej Rutenskold BEAT Bengt Sonnert
Chen Guosen BEAT Padraig Parkinson
John Falconer BEAT Anthony Lelouche

BRACKET4:
Bruno Fitoussi LOST TO Jin Cai Lin
Cui Guogun BEAT Ali Osman
Peter Abela BEAT Julian Thew
Jatinder Singh BEAT Robert Binelli
Mark MacMahon LOST TO Zhang Luzhe
Bill Edler LOST TO Paul Jackson
Mattias Backstrom LOST TO Simon Nowab
Mark Foster LOST TO Rory Liffey

Jump to Round 3 & 4

WHUPC: DaMatrix v David Leigh

DaMatrix v David Leigh

I lost my Round 1 match today to David Leigh, representing the University Poker League, who I have to admit was favourite to win before the deck was opened as you will soon realise.

On Monday I met Mathias Wilkens who, like me, was also representing Stans Poker. Later that night after the draw, we arranged to have a heads up match. Using the same structure as the championship, we had a great game and exchanged ideas. We even swapped a couple of %s.

I ended up winning after checking my pocket aces in the BB preflop. The K high flop with 2 diamonds was checked and when the turn was the 5 of diamonds, I bet out about the size of the pot. Mathias called and the river now made 4-straight on the board too, I bet the same as I did on the turn but Mathias reraised all in giving me a tough decision with a 3-flush and one card to a straight the only hands I could beat were one pair or a stone cold bluff.

I told him that I wasn't folding yet, but I was turning my cards over to show him what a tough decision I had. After his initial reaction to my pocket aces, I studied him a little bit longer before eventually calling. He turned over A5!



The next day after breakfast at the hotel, we had a rematch to prepare for his match later that day. I think he raised to 3xBB preflop and I called with 62 flopping trips. I bet out, he raised, and then I reraised him all in. He called thinking I was on a bluff and my set improved further still to quads. Carlo Citrone was watching us play and he challenged the winner to play him. I won the first game and then I had a big lead in the second game but as I aggressively tried to bust him he doubled up 2 or 3 times before eventually winning. We left it as a draw as his match against Daniel Larsson was starting in about a hour.


Carlo Citrone

After the first two Round 1 brackets on Tuesday which saw Mathias Wilkens beat fellow Prima Poker qualifier Henry Bull and Carlo Citrone unfortunately lose to Daniel Larsson who won a crucial pot after rivering trips, the Prima Poker team had a chance to sit and talk with The Hendon Mob. Soon, Devilfish arrived and started cracking jokes and giving some good heads up advise. Winning against Mathias twice, having 2 great games and discussions with Carlo and generally listening to Hendon Mob and Devilfish, I felt a massive pressure on me to win. I had planned to reread Zen and the Art of Poker to detach myself but instead went out drinking til 5am!

Yeah that's right. Me and 2 other Floridian Prima Poker players went "3 deep" around Barca. It was a night of debauchery - alcohol, chicas, vomit, pimps, drug dealers, piss, trannies, scum, pole dancers, six pack street sellers, geordie slappers, dangerous side streets, whores, Devilfish with an umbrella in a night club, dodgy taxi drivers, brummies, pick pockets, mad Russians - and at the end of it all we got a bucket of icy water thrown all over us and no surprise that one of the americans lost is passport. You should have seen me walk into the hotel at 5am looking like my bladder had just exploded....


STD dealer in Las Ramblas checks for the nuts...

You could say that my preparation for the match was thrown out of the window and before the match I had effectively abandoned my game plan. In fact, I had no game plan left. I didn't even know who David Leigh was - a short search led to think that he was a journalist for the Guardian! On the other hand I knew that he had a lot of info on me from this site but I felt that most of the heads up info was misinformation when related to the WHUPC structure and the practice matches I had played. Nevertheless, heads up, you need every edge (just ask Simon "The Edge" Nowab) you can get to overcome the luck component and on Wednesday I had none.

Despite all this, and to further emphasize the nature of high level heads up - it all came down to a coin flip after 90 minutes which if I had won instead of being rivered - I would have had the confidence to feel favourite (even with only 30% chips) after finally gaining focus just after the first break.



When the match started I was feeling very nervous and losing the first 3 hands didn't help. The quality of hands I was received was well below par. In 90 minutes, I got dealt JJ, AQ, 77 and 88 and the best hand I hit on the flop with all the other cards I was dealt was just top pair/bad kicker.

I tried to pick up pots with junk but most of the time David Leigh would reraise or call and then bet. Aware that on a few occassions he might have been bluffing with the best hand. If I was sharper I might have re-rebluffed, but with me being already down to 2/3k and generally having no outs to a decent hand if called, the risk was too much.

Up to the first break, I won a pot with a bet on the flop with JJ overpair, AQ standard button raise. Some stabs with Ten high and 5 high and hitting 2 pair on the river with weak hands after receiving free cards.

Just before the end of level 1 break, I got dealt 77 in the BB. David Leigh raised from the button and I almost moved in but still having a couple of chips left I decided to call and then probably move all in if no ace flopped as on a similar hand before we'd checked it out to the river and he showed AQ versus my A9.

Unfortunatelly the flop was 44A rainbow, I checked and David made a very small bet - I called as I was suspicious. The turn was an 8 and there was now 2 clubs on the flop. Again I checked and David bet 1/3 of my stack. This was a clever bet as it was small compared to the pot but one that would severely cripple me. It left me with a tough decision as I really wanted to steal that pot and give myself a good chance after the break but David never looked like he would fold from start to finish. So I mucked my hand face up and when I was to return from the break I'd have to play jam or fold. David Leigh later told me at the bar after the match that he had AK.



After the break, my first all in with Ace rag wasn't called, then I almost went all in with K7 but flat called instead. He raised a little and I seriously considered moving in but mucked and dodged bullets.

Finally, David raised from the button and I looked down to find a pair of eights. This was it. ALL-IN! The call to him was enough to fold if he felt he was dominated but he called correctly with his KQ. The flop was ATx, turn another blank but the river brought the paint he needed to win the match.

Las Shamblas...




Jump to Round 2

WHUPC: Round 1

Complete Round 1 Results

BRACKET 1:
Angel Blanco BEAT Jonathan Sullivan
Ivo Donev BEAT Carlos Lopez
Pascal Perrault BEAT Rumit Somaya
Roy Brindley BEAT Luke Smith
Carlos Muntan BEAT Xuyen Pham
Dave Ulliott BEAT Alex Leviev
Boudet Patrice LOST TO Stephen Pearce
Carlo Citrone LOST TO Daniel Larsson
Luca Pagano LOST TO Albert Ashamn
Charles Mailhot LOST TO Simon Trumper
Martin Cedercrantz BEAT Jean Postmus
Ram Vaswani (below) LOST TO Ross Boatman
Frank Blumlein LOST TO Peter Gunnarson (above)
Paul Hersleth BEAT Tom Brady
John Kabbaj BEAT Marco Monica
Mickey Wernick BEAT Michael Hewitt

BRACKET 2:
Mark Bannin LOST TO Dave Colclough
Paul Zimber LOST TO Noah Boeken
Josep Talens BEAT Bruce Atkinson
Juan Sastre BEAT Makus Lehman
Raul Paez Corral BEAT Ben Battle
Alexander Kravchenko BEAT Vladimir Troyanovsky
Willie Tan LOST TO John Huckle
Phil Shaw LOST TO Barny Boatman
Woody Deck BEAT Sargon Ruya
Mark Bartlog LOST TO Richardo Gryko
Jim Britton BEAT Pouya Majd
Colin Gerrard LOST TO Jamie Sharrat
Nicu Simcelescu LOST TO Manuel Garcia
Dan Simcelescu BEAT Dave Gardner

Mathias Wilkens BEAT Henry Bull
Andreas Hagan BEAT Peter Troejborg

BRACKET3:
Rob Hollink LOST TO Derek Baxter
David Slowik BEAT Daniel Steine
David Leigh BEAT DaMatrix
Rino Mathis BEAT Jeff Kimbler
Paul King LOST TO Hans Eskilsson
Gary Collins BEAT Ben Grundy
Chris Sokrati LOST TO Michael Keiner
Sean MacMahon LOST TO Jac Arama
Christian Engblom LOST TO Peter Eichardt
Isabelle Mercier BEAT Steve Vladar
Brian Benedon LOST TO Frej Rutenskold
Howard Plant LOST TO Bengt Sonnert
Santiago Terrazas LOST TO Chen Guosen
Padraig Parkinson BEAT Joe Beevers
John Falconer BEAT Kevin O'Connel
Anthony Lelouche BEAT Romain Feriolo

BRACKET4:
Bruno Fitoussi BEAT Santiago Planas
Jin Cai Lin BEAT Erik Forsberg
Cui Guogun BEAT John Cunningham
Gary Chatterton LOST TO Ali Osman
Peter Abela BEAT Rosa Massimiliano
Julian Thew BEAT Per-Werner Svenson
Jatinder Singh BEAT Paul Gamhart
Robert Binelli BEAT David Mahmood
Jim Goodwin LOST TO Mark MacMahon
Zhang Luzhe BEAT Chris Evans
Bill Edler BEAT Michael Thuretz
Paul Jackson BEAT Maurice O'Connor
Lothar Landauer LOST TO Mattias Backstrom
Simon Nowab BEAT Khayam Ezzat
Mark Foster BEAT Kate Szeremeta
Rory Liffey BEAT Andrew Kinsmann




Jump to DaMatrix v David Leigh

WHUPC: The Draw

May 16 - 24, May 2005

Hello all from Barcelona! Updating you from Hotel Marina. Later today is the draw for the heads up tournament.

Last night I checked out the Casino Barcelona where the Party Poker WHUP Championship will be held. The first person I met there was Rolf "Ace" Slotboom, I introduced myself and we chatted for a bit. There were a few games of poker going on; some 20/40 LHE and 5/10 PLO. The Omaha game seemed the most interesting as there were some people playing really trash hands - but what do I know? Omaha high isn't really my game - yet! ;)

A couple of TV screens were showing re-runs from last year's WHUPC. I have to say that it looks easier on the telly than it really is. Having said that, I believe that even someone who loses in Round 1 would have had a significant chance to win in the final. Luck plays an important in heads-up - whether it is getting good cards, hitting flops or drawing out. It's the deciding factor between 2 opponents of similar skill.



128 Players, 4 brackets, 7 Rounds, the draw for the Championship:

BRACKET 1:

Angel Blanco v Jonathan Sullivan

Ivo Donev v Carlos Lopez

Pascal Perrault v Rumit Somaya

Roy Brindley v Luke Smith

Carlos Muntan v Xuyen Pham

Dave Ulliott v Alex Leviev

Boudet Patrice v Stephen Pearce

Carlo Citrone v Daniel Larsson

Luca Pagano v Albert Ashamn

Charles Mailhot v Simon Trumper

Martin Cedercrantz v Jean Postmus

Ross Boatman v Ram Vaswani

Peter Gunnardon v Frank Blumlein

Paul Hersleth v Tom Brady

John Kabbaj v Marco Monica

Mickey Wernick V Michael Hewitt

BRACKET 2:

Mark Bannin v Dave Colclough

Paul Zimber v Noah Boeken

Josep Talens v Bruce Atkinson

Juan Sastre v Makus Lehman

Raul Paez Corral v Ben Battle

Alexander Kravchenko v Vladimir Troyanovsky

Willie Tan v John Huckle

Phil Shaw v Barny Boatman

Woody Deck v Sargon Ruya

Mark Bartlog v Richardo Gryco

Jim Britton v Pouya Majd

Colin Gerrard v Jamie Sharrat

Nicu Simcelescu v Manuel Garcia

Dan Simcelescu v Dave Gardner

Mathias Wilkens v Henry Bull

Andreas Hagan v Peter Troejborg

BRACKET3:

Rob Hollink v Derek Baxter

David Slowik v Daniel Steine

David Leigh v DaMatrix

Rino Mathis v Jeff Kimbler

Paul King v Hans Eskilsson

Gary Collins v Ben Grundy

Chris Sokrati v Michael Keiner

Sean MacMahon v Jac Arama

Christian Engblom v Peter Eichardt

Isabelle Mercier v Steve Vladar

Brian Benedon v Frej Rutenskold

Howard Plant v Bengt Sonnert

Santiago Terrazas v Chen Guosen

Padraig Parkinson v Joe Beevers

John Falconer v Kevin O'Connel

Anthony Lelouche v Romain Feriolo

BRACKET4:

Bruno Fitoussi v Santiago Planas

Jin Cai Lin v Erik Forsberg

Cui Guogun v John Cunningham

Gary Chatterton v Ali Osman

Peter Abela v Rosa Massimiliano

Julian Thew v Per-Werner Svenson

Jatinder Singh v Paul Gamhart

Robert Binelli v David Mahmood

Jim Goodwin v Mark MacMahon

Zhang Luzhe v Chris Evans

Bill Edler v Michael Thuretz

Paul Jackson v Maurice O'Connor

Lothar Landauer v Mattias Backstrom

Simon Nowab v Khayam Ezzat

Mark Foster v Kate Szeremeta

Rory Liffey v Andrew Kinsmann




Jump to Round 1

I, Rounder?

Found $2 in my Crazy Poker Prima skin account a couple of days ago and decided that I would play one of those TV broadcast tables.

The lowest buyin is $2+$0.50. So I sat down in a low limit game for a hit&run and first hand I get is AA. They held up and I've now got the buy in for the TV sit&go.

Then I noticed the Rounders tournaments - 5 Rounds, first place $3k, so instead of playing the TV s&g I try to build the $5+$0.50 for Round 1.

Firstly, I win a $1+0.20 heads up match, I then take my $3 to a PLO8B low limit table and build it up to the $5.50 there.

Time for the Rounders Round 1. Played a patient game and picked the right spots to double up. Eventually winning (1st out of 8) to qualify for:

Round 2, a $27.5 s&g with 10 players. Top 2 qualify for Round 3, 3rd place gets another Round 2 entry.

In Round 2 I was dealt absolutely nothing until TT in early position with 7 left. The BB was the short stack, so I make a standard raise, anticipating that he will go all in. Sure enough, the small blind calls my raise, the BB goes all in and I reraise to push out the SB. Ok so far, problem is BB rolls over AA! :(

Next hand and I get AA under the gun. I raise my short stack all in hoping someone thinks I'm steaming. Everybody folds to the BB who calls with A8o and I double up.

Finally, I get AQo in the BB. UTG limps, SB raises pot and I reraise all in. UTG folds but the fish in the small blind who called me with A8o previously, calls me with KTs and knocks me out in 7th when he hits a King.

I, Rounder?

No. My challenge of turning $2 into $3k ends.

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Meanwhile, my FPP Qualifier challenge came to an end, in my 4th attempt I made the last 3 tables in a 1,000 FPP WSOP Freeroll Round 2 at Poker Stars with 249 starting players. Unfortunately, my medium stack was severely crippled when a steal attempt failed and I didn't recover after that. I had been playing fairly tight, I think in the first hour or two I was dealt 62o about 5 times!

Before my failed steal attempt my pots won at showdown was 3/3.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 208 hands and saw flop:

- 4 out of 25 times while in big blind (16%)

- 2 out of 24 times while in small blind (8%)

- 4 out of 159 times in other positions (2%)

- a total of 10 out of 208 (4%)

Pots won at showdown - 3 of 5 (60%)

Pots won without showdown - 13

So, I was very surprised when my all in (covering both blinds) in late position with K9s was called by the small blind with A4o for all of his stack. Who was it that called me? redrumxxx AKA Morten Sembach.

Other news. Last weekend at Full Tilt Poker, I also finished 14th out of 1496 in their WSOP Freeroll, busting out when I reraised a steal attempt. The thief had J9 but he beat my 99 when a J hit the board.

Finally, hit a Royal Flush today for a profit of over 100BB's- my opponent gave me a free card on the turn to draw to my one out! Sweet ;)

Runner Runner

Game: No Limit Hold 'em
Stakes: $0.10/$0.25 Blinds ($0.05 Minimum Chip)

Seat 1 : DaMatrix starts with $49
Seat 2 : mass2500 starts with $15.35
Seat 3 : Lotusman starts with $18
Seat 4 : niupokergod starts with $7.20
Seat 5 : evoltin900 starts with $2.85
Seat 6 : ManosM starts with $9.15
Seat 7 : ForzaRoma starts with $6.45
Seat 8 : smashed starts with $15.40
Seat 9 : low_key005 starts with $5.85
Seat 10 : SyrEEn starts with $4.75
Seat 3 : Lotusman has the dealer button
niupokergod posts the small blind $0.10
evoltin900 posts the big blind $0.25

***DEALING HOLE CARDS***
DaMatrix dealt down Ah Ad

ManosM folds
ForzaRoma raises $0.25 to $0.50
smashed raises $1.35 to $1.85
low_key005 folds
SyrEEn folds
DaMatrix raises $4.55 to $6.40
mass2500 folds
smashed: sorry
Lotusman folds
niupokergod folds
evoltin900 folds
ForzaRoma folds
smashed calls $4.55

***DEALING FLOP*** [ Kh 5h Ks ]

smashed bets $9 and is all-in
DaMatrix calls $9

***DEALING TURN*** [ 6d ]

***DEALING RIVER*** [ 7h ]

smashed cards were 8d 9d
DaMatrix mucks hand

smashed wins $30.10 with a nine high straight

Hendon Mob League: Game 4

Good news. I did managed to play and finished 6th out of 59!

It was a game of two halves. In the first half I played like a one eyed lemon - mainly because I had one eye on the Liverpool v Chelsea match!

FIRST HALF

I got a couple of premium hands when the blinds were low but couldn't really do anything despite limping in with them. I should have been out in the 30s but I managed to double my short stack by going all in on the button with Q high despite being called by the BB with a K high hand.

League points are awarded for finishing in the top 20, so concentrated on moving from the 30s, to the 20s and finally into the points positions. Achieving this by carefully picking the right spots to go all in.

When we were down to 2 tables, I managed to double up again after THE_THIEF had made a pot sized bet in early position with 55 and I called in LP with QQ. The football match was almost over, and half time was approaching League Game 4 in the form of a 5 minute break. Just before the break I layed down 55 after THE_THIEF had once again raised in early position enough to put me all in. To be honest, I thought he had an overpair and thats why I didn't call. Nevertheless, I was happy to see what would happen after the break even though he said he had an Ace.

SECOND HALF

I never believed I would make the final table, but the players started to drop one by one... 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12. Thanks to Mathias_666 (a fellow Stan's Poker freeroll qualifier to the WHUPC) who came to the table urging me to hang in there ;)

At this point I was forced all in when I posted the BB with 54o and I was sure I was dead meat when three or four people called to check it out. At the same time, the short stack at the other table went all in preflop with AQ but got called and outdrawn. I was very fortunate to avoid the bubble and in the mean time my 54 had made 2 pair on the four flush board! At the showdown I was again surprised when one by one my opponents all mucked - none of them had a single spade for the flush.

So here I was now at the final table and in a good position to move up the ladder and gain some more league points especially since most players are playing for the money rather than the points. The difference betwee the two really isn't that great but when you are a short stack trying to maximise the points you get it helps a lot.

Thats why I folded AJo in mid position. I know that apart from the possibility of better cards being out there, the chances that some stacks could go to war is very high. Especially since big stacks can target medium stacks who are afraid to bust out before a short stack. Sure enough, a battle of the blinds occured, with the small blind all in with 33 vs JJ. The board came down AxJxA and even though I would have won the pot I think I made the right play. I was rewarded the very next hand when I doubled up with JJ against Grumbledook's TT!

I had gained and extra 4 places but my luck finally ran out when once again I was forced all in when I posted the BB with AQs. I thought I would quadruple up when the flop came ten high with 2 of my suit but Grumbledook's AT held up and I finished 6th.

Grumbledook went on to win League Game 4. Well played!


Game 4 Results.

I have now made the final table in 3 consecutive League games.

See the Hendon Mob League Top 10 Players.

Hendon Mob League: Game 4 (Pre-Match)

Today is the Hendon Mob League's Game 4. Unsure whether I'll be playing or not due to some broadband connectivity issues because of a faulty telephone line.

Therefore it is probably not wise to back me at 66/1 to win Game 4. Even if I do manage to start the game I could get disconnected at any point.

Expect a full report later today if (touch wood) I manage to play.

May Poker Babe

Since I have just opened an account there, this month's poker babe is straight out of Bodog.com.


May Poker Babe.