BPC Season 10 - Week 8
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The Professor takes down his first win and third pointing of the season, bumping him up to a tie for 2nd overall at 32 points. Steven shows up late and out of nowhere and takes down 2nd, giving him 12 points and just enough funds for the lucrative cash game. Kurt continues his consistent solid play and finishes 3rd. The 9 points pushes him further ahead in the overall lead, and he also takes over the lead from Chester in the mini-season with 2 weeks left. Jagu and Kelly round out the top 5 for 4th and 5th respectively, and team KarrieCake bubbles for the second time this season. Technically our first double bubble of the season, but The Cake bubbled for the team the first time, so its a gray area.
Player Week 8
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Bagu 15
Steven 12
Kurt 9
Jagu 6
Kelly 3
KarrieCake Bubble
Player Total
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Kurt 43
Jeremiah 32
Chess 32
Bagu 32
Omar 30
Jagu 26
Scott 24
Nicole 24
Jeena 24
J Potts 24
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Ruby 21
J Hall 21
Padma 20
Sungina 19
KarrieCake 19
SoupOrSalad 16
Mike 15
Steven 14
Kelly 14
Guest 1 14
Eric 8
Arjan 8
Judy 7
Julius 5
Cupcake 5
Nisha 2
Player Mini-Season 2
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Kurt 25
Chess 22
Jeena 17
Bagu 17
Jeremiah 16
Steven 13
Omar 11
Ruby 8
Jagu 8
J Potts 8
Scott 5
Kelly 4
Sungina 3
SoupOrSalad 3
Padma 3
Nicole 3
KarrieCake 3
Eric 3
Arjan 3
Mike 2
Judy 2
J Hall 2
Cupcake 2
Nisha 1
Julius 1
BPC Season 10 - Week 7
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[8:14] Money is being collected, seats are being assigned, food is being consumed, playoff football is being discussed, and Chess is drinking out of a pimp cup. All is aligned in the world once again. Let's get some cards in the air now. (Speaking of which, we gotta start earlier people!)
The very first hand of the night on Table 1, and there's 3 limpers to Chester, who makes it 250 with a couple of callers. J-5-7 flop, Arjan checks, Kurt checks, and Chess makes it 1400. Arjan calls, Kurt folds, and the turn comes 8. Arjan checks again, and Chess bets 2500, causing Arjan to take some time to think. Chess: "I'll show you." Which seems to perk Arjan's interest even more. "Ok, show me." Arjan lays down his J-K off for top pair second kicker, and Chess shows J-7 for flopped 2 pair. Good laydown by Arjan.
[8:28] 8-2-9 flop, two spades. King on the turn, and the pot is already big, with Kurt and Chester in the hand. Kurt checks, Chess bets out 1000, and Kurt check raises to 2500. Chess tanks for a bit, and decides Kurt has K-8 and folds. Kurt shows 5-3 offsuit for a nifty little bluff and collects the chips.
[9:31] Down to two tables. Flop comes Q-4-7, check check. Turn is a King and I bet out 1600, getting a quick all in from Kurt for about 4000. I call with my flop set of 4's, and Kurt is out with A-K.
[9:54] 4-3-5 flop, one diamond. Omar bets out and gets a call from Judy. Turn is the 6 of diamonds. Omar bets again, and Judy calls again. River comes the Ace of diamond, and this time Omar shoves all in, forgetting who he's playing against. Judy calls, and Omar shows 6-7 for the flopped straight. Judy shows J-Q diamonds for the runner-runner flush, yeah like I had to tell you. Omar is crippled down to 1800, and Judy is over 19,000.
Omar: "Don't be surprised if I'm over 40,000 in a few hands." No, I wouldn't be surprised, but its not in the cards tonight.
[11:43] Final table, in order: Jeremiah (30,000), Karrie (8000), Nicole (2500), Chess (8500), Kumo (40,000), Arjan (16,000), Kikoo (12,000), Potts (38,000), Jeena (45,000).
I donked of 20,000 in the first two hands somehow, I think I had A-K both times, which unfortunately is not always as good a hand as it looks like.
Jeena is able to ride her chip lead and past my apparent slow rolls and take down the win for the week. Great job. The 15 points slips her into the Top 9, tied for 5th at 23 points, and gives her good position for the mini-season. Old skool Jeremiah is back playing consistently solid poker, and takes down his second 2nd place of the year, and 3rd pointing for the season, boosting him up to second place overall, tied with Chess who took 3rd last night. Potts took 4th, and I get the measly 5th spot after charitably doling out all my chips to everyone.
We're 7 weeks into the season, and we've had 7 different winners, and 7 different bubbles.
Player Week 7
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Jeena 15
Jeremiah 12
Chess 9
J Potts 6
Scott 3
Arjan Bubble
Player Total
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Kurt 34
Jeremiah 31
Chess 31
Omar 29
Scott 23
Nicole 23
Jeena 23
J Potts 23
Ruby 20
Jagu 20
J Hall 20
Padma 19
Sungina 18
KarrieCake 18
Bagu 17
SoupOrSalad 15
Mike 15
Guest 1 14
Kelly 11
Judy 7
Eric 7
Arjan 7
Julius 5
Cupcake 4
Steven 2
Nisha 2
Guest 3 0
Guest 2 0
Player Mini-Season 2
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Chess 21
Kurt 16
Jeena 16
Jeremiah 15
Omar 10
Ruby 7
J Potts 7
Scott 4
Sungina 2
SoupOrSalad 2
Padma 2
Nicole 2
Mike 2
KarrieCake 2
Judy 2
Jagu 2
Eric 2
Bagu 2
Arjan 2
Steven 1
Nisha 1
Kelly 1
Julius 1
J Hall 1
Cupcake 1
BPC Season 10 - Week 6
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[8:50] A bit late and I just got here, but even after being blinded out I probably have more chips than I normally do at this point in the game. As I sit, people catch me up on a hand that happened just a few minutes earlier...
Blinds are 50-100, Chess makes it a 600 preflop bet, and folds all around to Bagu in the big blind. Bagu raises it 1700 more, and Chess raises 4000 on top. Bagu shoves all in and Chess snap calls, getting his chips in faster than Bagu can even reach for his. Bagu shows A-10 clubs, and Chess shows pkt Aces, which hold up and Bagu is severely crippled early in the game.
[9:06] "Two all-in's" called from Table 3. As some of us head over to check out the action, we hear "make that 3 all-in's." The board is 3 hearts, Jack high. The Cup has pkt 6's, Omar has pkt K's, and Mike has A-K, with the A of hearts for the nut flush draw and the Ace out. Turn comes 6, good for The Cup, but its not over yet, both Mike and O have their outs. River comes... the case 6, for runner-runner quads. Cupcake wins the main pot, a whopping 2000 chips, Omar gets 15,000 for the side pot, and Mike gets first seat at the cash game.
[10:05] Kurt raises to 1200 from late position and a bunch of limpers before him. Jeremiah calls, and I really feel like Kurt is just making a move to pick up all those blinds, and I nearly shove with my rags just to find out, but end up just calling. Sapna on the other hand shoves for 6000 more. Whew, glad I didn't shove. Kurt calls. Double whew, would have gotten 2 callers. Jeremiah folds and I fold, and Sapna shows pkt Jacks, while Kurt is rolling with pkt Aces, showing just how bad my read was. The bullets hold up, and team SoupOrSalad is out.
[10:15] Down to two tables, and the blue table calls 3 all-in's again. I think the chips were all in preflop, but when we get over there to check it out, there a Jack high board with 2 spades. Nisha has J-10 spades for top pair with the flush draw. Nicole has pkt 10's for the under pair, and Omar is ahead with pkt Q's. The Q's hold up, Nisha and Nicole are sent to the rail, and Omar is the chip leader at over 40,000.
[11:15] Down to the final table, in order Ruby, Jagu, Sungina, Chess, Kumo, Jeremiah, Omar, Jeena, and Kurt on the button. Omar continues to be on da roll, taking down the first hand with pkt Aces.
[11:22] Blinds are 400-800, 100 ante and Jeena shoves preflop for 8000 (on my big blind, damnit.) Everyone folds to Jeremiah under the gun, and he calls with pkt Q's. "Damnit" from Jeena, showing pkt J's. No help and Jeena is out in 9th.
[11:33] Jagu makes it 2400 preflop. Chess thinks a bit, then folds. Omar thinks a bit, then folds as well. Ruby, with a ton of chips, calls. Flop comes A-rag-rag and Ruby checks. Jagu goes all in and Ruby insta-calls with A-J against Jagu's A-6. No help and Jagu is out in 8th.
Not long after, I bet about 4000 (half my stack) with suited A-Q, making Jeremiah think for a bit before he puts me all in with his A-K. I call, and despite both of our past experiences, the A-Q does not crack the A-K this time and I'm out in 7th, lasting a few hours longer than last week, despite another night of flowing 40's.
Sungina ends up the Bubble Girl for the week, and Jeremiah slips into the 5th spot for the 3 points. Ruby had a pretty massive chip stack when I left, but only hangs on to the 4th spot and 6 pts. There's probably a story in there somewhere. Omar, also with a huge stack for most of the night, ends up in 3rd, while Chester, who like me was down to about 12,000 late in the game, is able to parlay them to a 2nd place finish and 12 pts. And the winner for the week is Kurt, whose 15 pts is enough to push him into the overall lead for the season, and of course gives him a great start to the 2nd mini-season.
Player Week 6
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Kurt 15
Chess 12
Omar 9
Ruby 6
Jeremiah 3
Sungina Bubble
Player Total
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Kurt 33
Omar 28
Nicole 22
Chess 22
Scott 20
Ruby 19
Jeremiah 19
Jagu 19
J Hall 19
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Padma 18
Sungina 17
KarrieCake 17
J Potts 17
Bagu 16
SoupOrSalad 14
Mike 14
Guest 1 14
Kelly 11
Jeena 8
Judy 6
Eric 6
Arjan 6
Julius 5
Cupcake 4
Nisha 2
Steven 1
Guest 3 0
Guest 2 0
Final 3: Big chips in front please...
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Week 5, the final week in the first mini-season, and just about everyone is in contention for the bonus 250,000 chips that are on the line. Thanks to Mike, the 40's are flowing and I'm immediately out of contention. So worth it though... mmmmm, 40's.
Eric was the actual first one out though and within the first few hands played it seems, definitely before his seat was even warm (barring any Taco Mesa induced flatulence of course.) Not sure what the hand was but from the foul language and intense frustration it induced, I think the whole room knew Judy was involved.
I didn't capture any hands of significant hands of any sort, I was too busy dealing hands, nursing my Mickey's, and laying down monster hands after letting people river out on me, but I hear that there was a straight flush somewhere along the way. That's always exciting.
And I hear that Padma was on a bit of a run at the final table. In one hand Sungina raises in late position, getting Padma and another caller. Flop comes K-J-rag rainbow, and Sunj bets out. Padma raises and Sunj shoves all in with K-J for top two. No good against Padma's flopped set of Jacks, and Sungina gives up about 25,000 and is crippled down to 2,000 with 7 players left and blinds at 4-8. The determined little traveler was able to claw her way back up the proverbial chip mountain and claim 2nd place though, so don't feel too bad for her. Impressive.
In another hand, Kurt raises pre-flop and gets a smooth call from Padma. Flop comes 6-7-2 and Kurt moves all-in with 7-8 for top pair. Padma calls with A-2 (must have been a pocket change call for her) and an Ace hits on the turn.
The results are below. Padma holds on to her chip lead and takes down first, Sungina pulls out from the gutter for 2nd, Kikoo playing for team SoupOrSalad takes down the bronze, and Kelly takes down 4th. And Nicole sneaks in for the 5th spot, and the 3 modest points are enough to give her the overall win for the first 5-week mini-season. For her efforts she will help herself to 250,000 bonus chips at whatever final table she ends up at. Nicely done!
Results:
Player Week 5
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Padma 15
Sungina 12
SoupOrSalad 9
Kelly 6
Nicole 3
KarrieCake Bubble
Player Total
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Nicole 21 <--- Winner #1 for 250,000 bonus chips!
Scott 19
Omar 19
J Hall 19
Kurt 18
Jagu 18
Padma 17
Sungina 16
KarrieCake 16
Jeremiah 16
J Potts 16
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Bagu 15
SoupOrSalad 13
Ruby 13
Mike 13
Guest 1 13
Kelly 10
Chess 10
Jeena 7
Judy 5
Eric 5
Arjan 5
Julius 4
Cupcake 3
Steven 1
Nisha 1
Guest 3 0
Guest 2 0
BPC Season 10 - Week 8
