Hendon Mob League: Game 11

The penultimate Hendon Mob Poker League game started at 8pm with 56 players. The tournament payed DOUBLE ranking points hence a good performance was vital. My goal for this game was to remain in the top 10.

As usual, Stan James added $500 prize money to the $25+$2.50 NLH event and there were $100 bountys (and this week 10 bonus points instead of 5) for any Mobster that you knocked out.

Started off on Joe Beevers' table. The first half hour I made a lot of mistakes and lost 20% of my stack. It didn't help that 10 minutes b4 the start of this tournament I had bubbled somewhere else. Was being a little too passive and wasn't catching any flops with some speculative hands I was playing. My bad luck/bad play combo continued for the next 15 minutes and lost a further 20%. So I was down to 1,500 chips from 2,500. Rocked up for the next 15 minutes to try and get to the break with at least half the starting stack. Like to make things harder for myself! lol

At the break, 44 remaining: 1st Almunia24 7875, 2nd p3rcy 6120 and 3rd Wellboy 5785 - 43rd DaMatrix 1234.

Things went from bad to worse. Was doing my best to hang on and try and get into the points but lost my one and only attempt, after 90 minutes of playing, to double up with JJ in the SB against clear overcards/smaller pair. Unfortunately I was up against the DaMatrix - QK, and just like in the WHUPC, my opponent caught a queen on the river. I finished 37/56 but hopefully other results will go my way and I'll still be in the top 10 after this game - that's really all I was hoping for at the start of the game anyway.

So, overall Game 11 was a shambles. Not the time to put in my worst performance of the League season so far!

It was inevitable that today's game would be bad though. Last night something good happened... my protégé, Gattopardo, qualified for The Sun Online Poker Championship live final to be held at the Palm Beach Casino in December! He came 1/180 in the Weekly Final held at The Sun Poker.

Final League Game 11 results:

Mob League: Game 11 Results

With the final game next week being TREBLE points, remaining in the top 10 for a chance to play in the play-off will be hard to achieve with everybody gunning for a top finish. Anything worse than final table and it's bye bye Bellagio.

Top 40 (click to enlarge)

Above is the Top 40 going into the last game where the points up for grabs will probably (if less than 100 players) be: 1st 63, 2nd 60, 3rd 57, 4th 54, 5th 51, 6th 48, 7th 45, 8th 42, 9th 39, 10th 36, 11th 33, 12th 30, 13th 27, 14th 24, 15th 21, 16th 18, 17th 15, 18th 12, 19th 9, 20th 6 points and everyone outside top 20 get just 3 points. There will also be 1 to 4 bountys at 15 points each.

See the Hendon Mob League Top 10 Players.