BPC Season 12 - Week 2
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26 players played last night, making it the largest field in quite a while. Also one of the noisiest. Can someone please give some headphones out during this year's gift exchange please? Go ahead and put "Kumo" on it and we can skip all the picking and stealing pleasantries of the White Elephant exchange.
Mortimer was back in town, and stacking chips nicely. He took a big pot down from Hee Hall on a Q-Q-J board. Hall called the final big bet on the river with A-Q into a monster pot, and Morty shows pkt J's for the flopped boat. Remo took most of it a bit later though, when the flop comes A-8-8. Remo and Morty exchange bets until Morty goes all in on the inconsequential river, showing A-K for top two. Remo shows A-8, slow playing the flopped boat to perfection, and reducing Morty down to just a few blinds.
Meanwhile on Table 1, Chester keeps taking down pots and flashing pkt Aces. BPC freshman rookie Papa Kumo moves over to Table 1 a bit later, and gets, you guessed it, pkt Aces. But runs into Jagu's 6-8 so you know he's drawing dead. Sure enough, Jagu flops a straight, and Papa Kumo is sent to donate at the cash table. (And it wouldn't be the only time Jagu cracked Aces this night.)
In one of the sicker hands of the night, Eric goes all in with A-7 and knows he's drawing real thin when Chess calls with 2-3. Sure enough, deuce come in the window, then 6-3 completes the flop for two pair. A 4 on the turn gives Eric some outs with a 5 for a straight. But a 3 on the river gives Chess the boat and Eric a trip to the rail.
The results are below, and the rest of the write up comes from this week's cub reporter, Jaclyn:
Kurt was killing it at the final table, taking out one person after another. The hand that took Mike out on the bubble: Kurt had pocket 9s, Mike had AK. Kurt hit a 9 on the flop and turned quads. I'm pretty sure Kurt took everyone out except Charlie and me who were knocked out by my dad.
Kurt and Jagu heads up: Kurt would've ended it if his pocket aces had held up against my dad's pocket Js, but Jagu hit a J on the river! Turning the tide and taking the win.
Well played by all!
Congrats Jagu and the rest of the point winners, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING to everyone!!!
Player Week 2
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Jagu 15
Kurt 12
KarJacked 9
Charlie 6
J Potts 3
Mike Bubble
Player Total
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Jeena 16
Jagu 16
Chess 13
Kurt 13
Padma 10
KarJacked 10
Julius 7
Charlie 7
Nicole 4
J Potts 4
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Sungina 2
Scott 2
Remo 2
Mike 2
Judy 2
Jeremiah 2
J Hall 2
Bagu 2
Arjan 2
Anthony 2
Omar 1
David 1
Steven 1
Papa Kumo 1
Morty 1
Kelly 1
Eric 1
Derrick 1
2nd place, Kurt...
3rd place, Karjacked...
4th place, Charlie...
5th place, Potts...
Bubble Boy (2nd week in a row), Mike...
Captain Aces...
Eric's A-7 pre-flop all-in vs. Chester's 2-3...
BPC Season 12 - Week 1
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A Sauza Margarita fueled Jeena was able to take down opening night of the brand spanking new season of the BPC. Great job Jeena, way to get off to a good start. (And sorry about the pic, its the only one I have of you from last night.)
And the streak has ended!!! After finishing Season 11 with a very full bodied 16 week point-less streak, Chess is back in the points and back in the money with a 2nd place finish behind Jeena. "The streak ends now, and a new one begins tonight!" he was quoted as saying.
Padma was able to overcome a hurt Chess put on her chips early in the night, and look past the jerk-face verbal abuse he was trying to apply as well, and finish with a solid 3rd. She's clearly one of the favorites to make the Top 9 this year, after just missing out the last two seasons but committing to a full season this time around.
Also committed to a full season is our very own Donkey-with-a-Shotgun, Julius. Word on the street is that he laid down pkt Aces last night. That's something I'd like to see. Whatever he did, it was good enough for 4th place.
Nicole grabs the scrappy 5th spot, just ahead of this week's Bubble Boy, Mike.
Player Week 1
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Jeena 15
Chess 12
Padma 9
Julius 6
Nicole 3
Mike Bubble
Player Total
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Jeena 15
Chess 12
Padma 9
Julius 6
Nicole 3
Sungina 1
Scott 1
Remo 1
Omar 1
Mike 1
Kurt 1
KarJacked 1
Judy 1
Jeremiah 1
Jagu 1
J Potts 1
J Hall 1
David 1
Charlie 1
Bagu 1
Arjan 1
Anthony 1
Second place, Chess...
Third place, Padma... (and Jeff)...
Fourth place, Julius...
Fifth place, Nicole...
Bubble, Mike...
Chester's new shoes...
This week's pic of Jeena was so bad and blurry, I had to dig out an older one...
This year's winner of the Mike Alzona Donkey (MAD) Award is no new comer to the honor. After losing the distinction to Cupcake for the last two seasons running, Julius has once again claimed the title!
He's planning on playing a full Season 12, and planning on playing solidly. So much so, that's he's guaranteeing that he'll make the Final Table.
Good luck to you sir, and in the mean time, CONGRATULATIONS!
BPC Season 11 - FINAL TABLE
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And we have our Season 11 Final Table Champion!!!
After just missing the season points champion by a mere 2 points, Jeremiah came in with the second largest chip stack and was able to combine them with good play and put them to good use to outlast the rest of BPC's November 9.
It was a great final table with no shortage of action and great poker being played all around, and it was a very well deserved win for Jeremiah. He got hurt pretty early when he took the opportunity to take Bagu out with a J-10-5 board. Bagu shoved with just pocket 7's, and Jeremiah didn't seem too comfortable about it, but ended up calling with A-K. Nothing came and it was a nice double up for Bagu, and a big dent for Jeremiah. But he calmly leaned over to Potts and said... "No worries, I'll get them back."
And so he did. I wish I had kept a better record of some of the key hands, there was a lot to write about, but it ended up with Jeremiah faced off against all 3 of the Brothers Tejwani. They dropped one by one, the key one being Jagu, who was the massive chip leader for most of the tournament. Finally it ended up just Jeremiah and Bagu, with Jeremiah holding 90%+ of the chips, the tournament ended when his 5-6 found a straight.
Great, great job Jeremiah, and again very well deserved. Its great to see you with your poker swagger back.
Season 11 Final Table Champ, Jeremiah...
The great wall of Tejwani...
The hand that took Jagu out, and made Jeremiah the monster chip leader...
Heads up chip stacks...
BPC Season 11 - Week 25
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And Season 11 is in the books!!! What a grind last night, with play led by two camps... the "Stay out of my way" camp, led by Chester, and the "I'm only playing Aces, Kings, and 8's" camp, led by Mike (and followed very closely by me and others.)
The "Stay out of my way" faction took a big hit early when on the first hand of the night Chester bets out big and gets a call from Judy. Flop comes 5, 7, 9. Chess pushes all his chips in and roars "Stay out of my way!" And what does he hear in reply? Those dreaded heart sinking words that just seem to cut a little bit deeper when they come from Judy... "I have to call."
Doh. Turns out they both had a piece of it, the 9 I think, but Judy was ahead and stayed ahead and Chester's season comes to an abrupt end. Unfortunately Judy wasn't able to parlay that quick double up into anything meaningful, and was out not too much after that. Don't let that fool you though, her true intent was to play some online poker, and she fared much better in that, taking down first place in a Rush poker tournament and netting a nifty $450 or so.
Julius was there again last night, and was a complete chip magnet. Within the first hour of play, he had accumulated a stack of about 60,000 chips. He should have just fired up some Madden 2006 and waited it out from there, but instead decided to gift his chips off to everyone on the table except for me. Thanks Jules, good looking out.
The turning point for him was a critical heads up hand with Mike. The board is A-K-rag with two spades, and Julius fires large into an already substantial pot. Mike mulls a bit, then a bit more. "Good fold Mike" from Julius. "All in". "Crap." Julius' turn to think. "F it, let's gamble," showing a flush draw against Mike's A-K for top two. "Spade! spade! spade!!!" Turn comes... 7 of spades!
Doh! And Mike is out. Oh wait, what? Oh, the river, right. Go ahead, its just a formality, Mike's drawing to a 4-outer. River comes... ACE!!! Full boat for Mike.
Huge pot, and Mike takes it down. Even more importantly, it was the "switch" moment that always seems to come to move Julius from a solid poker player, to a monkey with a shot gun. After that, his chips found their way to everyone except for me.
Going into the night there were about 8 players or so in the bubble zone, all who had a chance at still making it into the Top 9 if things played out right, or being kicked out if they went wrong. I think Judy was the first to go out, but she'll sleep well on a bed of online winnings. Then I think Nicole, who flopped trip Jacks with a board of J-J-5, but ran into pkt 5's.
Padma was next in line, going all in against Eric with a nasty Q-7 or something like that, but hit just enough to stay in. Eric ground it out to the final table, but couldn't make it into the points.
8 handed came down to: Jeremiah, Potts, Scott, Mike, KarJacked, Padma, Bagu and Jagu.
A lot of things could have happened at that point, and many fates could have changed. For example, I don't think we realized it at the time, but if it had finished Padma, Scott, KarJacked, Mike and Bagu, there would have been a 3 way tie for 9th place with Jeena, Mike and Bagu. That would have been fun.
As would any of the other multitude of finishes that were possible, but in the end, Padma dropped, then KarJacked. Then finally Jagu dropped on the bubble, leaving Scott in the points and back at the final table.
Unfortunately that was as far as I was able to go, going all-in pre-flop with pkt Q's and running into Mike's pkt K's not much later. At least it didn't happen a few hands earlier though.
Bagu hung around for 4th place, and Mike ended up with 3rd. Scratch that, Mike got 4th and Bagu got 3rd.
Head's up was down to Jeremiah and Potts, who happen to be the 2nd and 3rd overall, separated by only 3 points. Being heads up, Jeremiah secured 2nd place overall, but they were also battling for the Mini-Season 5 victory. The winner here, wins the mini-season.
I don't know how it played out, but Jeremiah ended up taking it down. The 15 points ends his season just 2 points behind our season points winner Steve. Great job everyone.
Top 9 Changes: Scott back in, KarJacked out.
Chester's cold streak is extended to 16 weeks.
Great season everyone! Final table is this Saturday and Sunday at the Burnett's. More info to come.
Player Week 25
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Jeremiah 15
J Potts 12
Bagu 9
Mike 6
Scott 3
Jagu Bubble
Player Total
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Steven 116
Jeremiah 114
J Potts 106
Arjan 83
Mike 80
Bagu 80
Jagu 78
Jeena 77
Scott 72- - - - - - - - - -
KarJacked 71
Padma 70
Nicole 62
Judy 62
Eric 60
Chess 55
Sungina 53
Kurt 53
Remo 36
Morgan 32
Ruby 25
J Hall 24
Omar 22
Julius 20
Guest 1 11
Ben 10
Anthony 10
Nisha 8
RiceCake 7
Kelly 7
Guest 2 2
Player Mini-Season 25
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Jeremiah 41 <--- Winner!!!
Steven 35
J Potts 34
Padma 33
Mike 24
Judy 21
2nd place, Potts...
3rd place, Mike...
4th place, Bagu...
