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| Week 6 sad and pensive Winner... Kurticus!!! |
Speaking of mucked up, I had the rare opportunity to put a nasty beat on two of my favorite people, Chess and Judy...
It's getting close to the third level and before the hand Chess leans over and whispers to me, "you can still rebuy." Well gee thanks for the advice Miss, breath mint?
That's what I said on the outside at least, especially because, even though I was down I still had plenty of chips. In my head at least. Deal comes and I get pkt-9's. Ok, I can work with that. There was some minor pre-flop betting and then the flop comes 9-K-Q rainbow. Bingo, flopped a set! Not necessarily the ideal flop with all the connectors, but at least it hit me squarely and hopefully me and no one else. Me, me, me!
Judy shoves all-in for about 2700. Well there goes me. Wait no, it's Judy, she's probably on a draw right? So I smooth call her, thinking very seriously about raising ahead of Chess to get him out and isolate so he doesn't catch something stupid, because he ain't got a piece of that flop, those cards are way too high for him.
Chester not-so-smooth raises about 8,000.
Crap.
I'm getting that not-so-fresh feeling about this hand very quickly and the spidey senses feel over-caffinated. Probably time to let this hand go.
"You can still rebuy... rebuy... rebuy..."
"... rebuy... rebuy..." [reverb echo in my head]
Oh yeah, good point Mr. Short Term Memory, thanks for that. Where've you been by the way? I miss you. Right about that time the buzzer goes off for the next level. Time for a decision.
Better double check on the rebuy, that may have been two hands ago. "Chess, we can still rebuy, right?"
"Oh yeah" he said, with his big Chess-ire cat grin.
Disturbing. Ok, why not, I got outs no matter what they have. So I put the rest of my chips in. Judy shows K-Q for top two pair. Better than I put her on but I'm still ahead, for now. After the call I was hoping to hear a "fk you" or "you're ahead, but a deuce is coming" or something comforting like that from Chess but instead he shows what I was most afraid of, 10-J for a flopped straight.
I still got outs, but I'm reaching for the rebuy money. Pair the board, pair the board!
Flop comes rag. Dernit. River comes... 9!!! Giving me a very handsome two pair (ok quads.) Cha-ching! Narwhals!
That was the best hand of the night for me, the rest of the night was spent nursing a very average stack all the way to the less than fabulous Bubble.
[8:50] Eric shoves pre-flop for about 3000. Tempting but I fold. Charlie wakes up from a dealing sleep and sees the bet. "Wait, I don't even have to look." Go gurl. "How much again?" 3000 Charlie. "Ok I need to look." [looks]
Oh I see, you had to look and make sure your two unders were suited. I like your style. Eric turns over and shows Ace wait wuh? ... 5-6 off-suit? Well isn't that special.
I wish I could say the flush came, but instead they both river of all things a straight. (Not every story has to end with a bang, right?)
[8:30 Table 1] "Chess is an A-hole. Brice, what is A-hole in English?" - Eric
"A-hole." - Brice
Bang.
[9:13] "Can I get a Floorman!" - Kurt yelling.
"Yeah, me too!" - Mike, in the hand with Kurt
"Chess, Floorman!!! I don't like how he's playing." - Kurt
"Mike, you have to ante." - Chess, not even looking up from his cards.
Well played.
[9:18] Flop comes Qs-8d-2d. Kurt shoves all-in, Charlie reluctantly folds, and Mike goes into the tank.
"I think my hand is actually good." - Mike
"You have A-8." - Kurt
"No, I call with that." - Mike
"Really? I learn about you more every day." - Kurt
(For the record, Mike folds and the Dealer (Charlie) runs it. Kurt shows Q-J for top pair, and Charlie shows folded flush.)
[9:26] "OMG HE'S SUCH A DONKEY!!!!" - Jeena
My, that was loud (thus the caps and 4 exclaimation points.)
Who? Eric? No, he's already out. Mike? No he just scooped a pot. Potts? Yeah, but no, he's not here.
"Chess!!! OMG Chess you're such a DONKEY! You were never ahead in any hand you won tonight!" - Jeena, excused from Table 1.
Thankfully she didn't see my earlier hand with Chess ahead 70% on the flop and 80% on the turn. But yeah, outside of that one hand apparently he was donkey kong all night.
Donkester was able to donk-hee-haw his way to the Final Table for the first time this season, and get all the way to heads up with Kurt. I don't know how Kurt won it, but in my notes I have in quotes "Domers" and "Quad Chuckles" so maybe someone can piece it together for me.
Regardless, Kurticus becomes the 6th different winner in the first 6 weeks of this, the 20th Season of the BPC. Congrats Kurt! It's his first pointing of the season and vaults him up from tied at 17th (with Chess) to tied for 5th with tonight's nemesis, Mike.
Donkester gets his first pointing of the season with 2nd, and moves up from tied at 17th to into the Top 9, into a three-way tie for 9th with Andy and tonight's nemesis, Jeena.
Brice, who I actually thought was going to win the night, pulled in a healthy 3rd place and jumps ahead of Mike and Steven Earl and into sole 2nd place. (He missed Week 2 and would be tied with me for 1st place if he'd had bought his point. Whew.)
Charlie, who so far is in the lead for Dealer of the Season, is also the first one with 3 pointings. His 4th place this week moves him from tied for 11th and into the Top 9 at 4th place.
Jagu got his second pointing with the Scrappy 5th, and as mentioned I was this week's Bubble Btch.
2nd Place... Chester!
3rd Place... Brice!
4th Place... Techno Dance Viking Charlie!
Scrappy 5th Place... Jagu!
Stupid Sad Face Bubble... Me
Player Week 6
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Kurt 15
Chess 12
Brice 9
Charlie 6
Jagu 3
Scott Bubble
Player Total
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Scott 28
Brice 27
Steve 24
Charlie 21
Mike 20
Kurt 20
Amir 18
Allan U 18
Jeena 17
Chess 17
Andy 17
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zGuest1 16
Potts 16
Padma 16
Jagu 16
Allen Y 15
Eric 11
Kelly 8
Judy 6
Jeremiah 6
JC 5
Ryan 4
Hirrum 4
Julie 3
Papa Kumo 2
Ryan M 1
Johnny 1
Jaclyn 1
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| Week 6 Final Table (hey, there's Chess!) |
Key hand for Kurticus...
And for Milkman...
Narwhals!!!
And Techno Charlie...
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