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Week 17 Winner... Mike!
Padma shoves all-in for about 2700. She just lost a few big pots and is steaming a bit so there may be a wide range of hands I'm going to call with just to finish the job off. I look down and see, you guessed it, my pkt K's. Joy. So despite my bitter-sweet history with the K's it's an easy call for Padma's chips. Unfortunately Mike is to my left. I had given him a bunch a chips in a couple of hands earlier, and had just recently got them all back and more from other people. I don't want to give them away again. Go away Mike, go away. Nope, no such luck. He actually shoves all-in for more than than I have, putting me on a decision with my K's that I rarely seem to get correct. I reluctantly call thinking there's only one hand to be afraid of and talking myself into the possibility he would do that with Q's. Again, no such luck, he flips over pkt Aces. They hold up and take out my K's and Padma's pkt J's. Mike was able to turn those chips into an even more massive chip stack at the final table, and eventually to the first place win in Week 17 of this, the 20th season of the BPC. Congrats Mike! Mike had early success this season with a Week 2 win, but then went on an 8 week cold streak without pointing. But that ended on Week 11 and since then he's had 5 pointings in 7 weeks, including 2 wins and a 2nd. All that success puts him into 1st place overall, 9 points ahead of Padma. Charlie took down 2nd place and jumps from 9th to 5th. Eric took 3rd and remains in 7th. Allan U got 4th and moves past Amir into 3rd place. Kelly got the scrappy 5th and Kurticus, normally the perennial Bubble Boy, bubbles for the first time this season. Player Week 17 --------------- Mike 15 Charlie 12 Eric 9 Allan U 6 Kelly 3 Kurt Bubble Player Total --------------- Mike 80 Padma 71 Allan U 68 Amir 66 Charlie 64 Jeena 62 Eric 62 Kurt 59 Jagu 53 - - - - - - - - - Brice 49 Scott 47 Jeremiah 42 Allen Y 41 Judy 39 Steve 32 Potts 32 Chess 32 Andy 21 Hirrum 19 Kelly 17 zGuest1 16 JC 16 Ryan 7 Julie 3 Papa Kumo 2 Bagu 2 Ryan M 1 Johnny 1
From the WTF file, early in the night of Week 16 of this, the 20th season of the BPC, Jeena, Andy and Amir end up all in pre-flop with: Jeena: A-K Andy: A-Q Amir: A-J Jeena and Andy are in for all their chips. Amir: "Jack, jack, jack!!!" Flop comes... J-10-4. Doh, he actually hit it. Turns come something, but... "Wait, wait! Wrong deck!" yells Potts, who is the secondary dealer at the table. Say what? It's true, everyone re-looks at the backs of their cards and Jeena, the real dealer confirms, its the wrong color. Ok, that was a fun little fake-gasim for Amir and everyone (but mostly Amir), but let's get back to reality with the real deck. Jeena deals and... Jack in the window! First card out and lighting strikes twice for Amir. Next card is whatever, and third card... bang! another Jack. Amir flops trips with the real deck, and Jeena rebuys. Amir wasn't able to do much with those chips, but still remains tied for second overall with Mike, both still behind Padma. This weeks winner... Kurticus! He seems to be an all-or-nothing-not-playing-for-second kinda player, because he only has 3 pointings for the year, but all 3 are first places. Congrats Kurt! The win moves him up from 10th to into the Top 9 at 6th. Jagu got 2nd and also moves in the Top 9 from 11th to 8th. Judy gets her 2nd pointing of the season with a 3rd place, and Jeena gets value from her rebuy chips with a 4th. Andy must have re-bought also because he got the scrappy 5th. And Allan U was the Bubble Boy, his first of the season. (Still well behind my league-leading 3 bubbles.) First place... Kurticus!
2nd place... Jagu!
3rd place... Judy!
4th place... Jeena!
5th place... Andy!
Bubble Boy... Allan U!
Week 16 Final Table
Happy Birthday Chess!!!
In game action...
Player Week 16 ---------------- Kurt 15 Jagu 12 Judy 9 Jeena 6 Andy 3 Allan U Bubble
Ok, it looks like I've fallen behind both in BPC updates and BPC points. But now that we've wrapped up Week 15 and the 3rd Mini-Season, and are heading into the final stretches of this, the 20th season of the BPC, I will try to keep up with both. I've missed just about a full Mini-Season of updates and catching up would be asking a little too much of someone of my advanced age and limited intellect, so all I can offer is a shout out to the last 5 winners, and an update of current standings. Week 11 Winner... Kurticus!
Week 12 Winner... Mike!
Week 13 Winner... Charlie!
Week 14 Winner... Amir!
Week 15 Winner... Jeremiah!
Congrats to the winners and the rest of the pointers who have pulled ahead of me in the process. And congrats to Amir who squeaked out the Mini-Season 3 victory over Mike by a single point. Overall, Padma still hangs on to the lead but has only pointed once in the last 5 weeks with a 4th place. Meanwhile both Mike and Amir have had 3 significant finishes each, and are now tied for 2nd place just 5 points behind. Player Total --------------- Padma 69 Mike 64 Amir 64 Allan U 61 Jeena 55 Eric 52 Charlie 51 Brice 48 Scott 45 - - - - - - - - - Kurt 43 Jeremiah 40 Jagu 40 Allen Y 39 Potts 31 Steve 30 Chess 30 Judy 29 Hirrum 19 Andy 18 zGuest1 16 JC 15 Kelly 13 Ryan 7 Julie 3 Papa Kumo 2 Bagu 2 Ryan M 1 Johnny 1
