BPC Season 10 - Week 15

BPC Season 10 - Week 15
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It was a double header week, and normally I would be very much looking forward to back to back games, but Thursday's game set an all new low for pace of game, and I think we still had a full final table after midnight.  The game did not end up wrapping up until after 3:00 am, making for a brutal morning and a long day of work.  Come game time on Friday, I find myself with limited success propping up my eyelids with what little chips I have just to see my cards.  Tired, so very tired.  A couple of points in the night I thought I had some good hole cards, only later to realize I was just seeing double.  Such was my night.

I did happen to scrap my way to the final table, but as the short stack with even less chips than Jeena, who made it there without playing a single hand.  I'm so jealous of that strategy looking back, I could have had more chips and propped myself up in the corner somewhere for a few blissful moments of sleep.

So this week's color commentary comes from cub reporter Burt Trosey:

"Two guys enter the poker octogon:  Kurt K-Large Lohse with 25,000 and Captain Cupcake with 175,000.  KLarge rallies to 50,000, then "The Hand."  KLarge gets pocket 4's and pushes pre-flop.  Cupcake calls with 9-10 off suit, and the flop comes... 9-10-K.  'Oh shit!'  Turn comes... 8, no help.  River... 4!!!!  'Sweet, sweet two-outer'."

"About 30 minutes later, KLarge just calls with 2-4 off, and Cup checks.  Flop comes 2-2-8, both check.  Turn comes... 2.  KLarge checks, Cup checks and the river comes... A.  KLarge bets out 15,000, Cup raises and KLarge shoves all in.  The Cup calls with an A, and its all over."

So Cup's run for an unprecedented hat-trick of three wins in a row is cut just short at the finish line.  The 2nd place and 12 points is huge for him though.  First, he crushes the Mini-Season 3 with 44 points, more than double of what the Mini-Season 1 winner had.  And after being in dead last for the first 12 weeks of the season, he is now in 5th place overall!  Very impressive Cup.  That deal you made with the devil is really working out for you.  Have fun in hell.

Kurt's first place is big too, creating some significant separation from the rest of the field, most notably Chess and Potts who blanked last night.  The 15 points for first last night put him at 76, a full 12 points ahead of Chester. 

Jeremiah follows up the previous game's 2nd place with a 3rd place and 9 points last night, moving him into third overall at 58 points, 18 points behind the lead.  And forth place goes to... Arjan!  He's on the board with 6 points and nets Eric some of Chester's dough for their last longer side bet.  Jeena gets 5th place, and stays in 7th place overall.  Rumor has it Bagu was the Bubble Boy, but let me know if it was someone else.  For now its going in the books as Bagu.

So with 10 weeks to go and assuming conventional wisdom that 70 points is usually the cutoff for the Top 90, Kurt and Chess are locked in, and Jeremiah pretty much so.  (If he blanks the rest of the season, he'll have 68 points which gives him a chance at getting in, but any pointing from here on out pretty much locks it.)  The rest of the spots are still wide open, and we're setting up for yet another exciting finish.

10 weeks left, and Mini-Season 4 starts on Thursday.  Here's the standings:


Player      Week 15
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Kurt        15
Cupcake     12
Jeremiah     9
Arjan        6
Jeena        3
Bagu         Bubble
   
   
Player      Total
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Kurt        76
Chess       64
Jeremiah    58
J Potts     53
Cupcake     51
Jagu        49
Jeena       48
Bagu        47
Eric        45
Scott       44
Omar        39
Steven      35
Nicole      34
J Hall      33
Mike        31
SoupOrSalad 30
Ruby        28
Guest 1     27
Sungina     25
KarrieCake  25
Padma       21
Arjan       20
Kelly       17
Judy        14
Julius       6
Nisha        4

   
Player      Mini-Season 3
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Cupcake     44   <--- Winner 250,000 bonus chips!
Eric        35
Kurt        31
Chess       30
Jeremiah    24
Scott       18
Jeena       18
J Potts     13
SoupOrSalad 12
Jagu        10
Arjan       10
Nicole       8
Ruby         6
Steven       5
Mike         5
Judy         5
J Hall       5
Bagu         5
Sungina      4
KarrieCake   4
Omar         2
Kelly        1

BPC Season 10 - Week 14

BPC Season 10 - Week 14
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After blanking the first 12 weeks and 9 appearances of the season, Cupcake got on the board last week with a first place finish, and follows it up AGAIN this week with another first place.  He was absolutely bullet proof last night, driving the action, pushing big stacks around and catching nasty cards time and time again.  Buy a lotto ticket son, cuz you're on da roll.  The 30 points in the last two sessions puts him at 39 for the season and has him knocking on the doors of the Top 9.  AND, it has him at 32 points for the Mini-Season, ahead of Chester by 3 and behind Eric by 2.  Its a 3 horse race now between those guys, everyone else is out of contention for the Mini-Season, which ends TONIGHT!!!  Side bet anyone? 

Jeremiah got second and he's climbed to the 4th spot overall now at 49 points.  I got 3rd, giving me just enough to cling on to that final Top 9 spot (for now.)  Ruby is back after several weeks in India, and she hasn't lost a step at all taking down 4th, while Nicole takes 5th for the second week in a row.

Arjan was the Bubble Boy last night.  Chess and Eric have a continuation last-longer on Judy and Arjan, and he almost came through for Eric last night.  No soup, but there's always tonight.

No movement from either Chess or Kurt last night, so Chess will hang on to the top spot for another week.  Er, night.


Player      Week 14
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Cupcake     15
Jeremiah    12
Scott        9
Ruby         6
Nicole       3
Arjan        Bubble
   
   
   
Player      Total
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Chess       63
Kurt        61
J Potts     52
Jeremiah    49
Jagu        48
Bagu        46
Jeena       45
Eric        44
Scott       43
- - - - - - - - -
Cupcake     39
Omar        38
Steven      34
Nicole      34
J Hall      32
SoupOrSalad 30
Mike        30
Ruby        28
Guest 1     27
KarrieCake  25
Sungina     24
Padma       21
Kelly       17
Arjan       14
Judy        13
Julius       6
Nisha        4


Player      Mini-Season 3
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Eric        34
Cupcake     32
Chess       29
- - - Out of Contention - - -
Scott       17
Kurt        16
Jeremiah    15
Jeena       15
SoupOrSalad 12
J Potts     12
Jagu         9
Nicole       8
Ruby         6
Steven       4
Mike         4
KarrieCake   4
Judy         4
J Hall       4
Bagu         4
Arjan        4
Sungina      3
Omar         1
Kelly        1
Padma        0
Nisha        0
Julius       0

Season 10 Week 13

BPC Season 10 - Week 13
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Going into Week 13 there were 3 players left who had not pointed this season, Arjan, Judy and Cupcake.  Being the bunch of degenerates we are something like that can't go without some money on the side, so Chester, Eric and I had a last longer going on them.  Chester had Judy, Eric had Arjan, and I got the Cup.

I helped my cause early in the night by putting the hurt locker on Judy when she did her usual trick of calling down all my big bets and then catching her heart flush on the river again.  Only this time I pulled the old switcher-roo on her and had the nut flush.  Sorry Judith, but I still owe you a few hundred more of those.

Arjan was at Table 2 hanging on, but went out about mid way, so that just left the Cup.  Well not only did my horse come in, but he took first place last night, besting Chester in heads up play.  Nicely done Cupcake.

Chester's 2nd place boosts him back to the top overall spot again ahead of Kurt, who tried to keep pace with a third place finish last night but still finds himself two points behind now.  The Milkman took down 4th place, and Nicole hung on to $.50 worth of chips to sneak into the 5th spot.  And I was this week's Bubble Boy after donking off the 600,000 I had accumulated.

The Mini-Season race is a good one.  Eric is keeping the pedal to the ground with a 1st, 2nd and 4th place finish in the 3 weeks so far for 33 points.  But Chester is still in striking distance only 5 points behind at 28.

The only other news to report is that Earl brought his boy Mike from Sheboynigan who luckily was a cool guy so Judy didn't have to bounce is ass out the door.


Player      Week 13
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Cupcake     15
Chess       12
Kurt         9
Eric         6
Nicole       3
Scott        Bubble
   
   
Player      Total
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Chess       62
Kurt        60
J Potts     50
Jagu        47
Bagu        45
Jeena       44
Eric        43
Omar        37
Jeremiah    37
Scott       34
Steven      33
Nicole      31
J Hall      31
SoupOrSalad 29
Mike        29
Guest 1     27
KarrieCake  24
Cupcake     24
Sungina     23
Ruby        22
Padma       21
Kelly       17
Arjan       13
Judy        12
Julius       6


Player      Mini-Season 3
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Eric        33
Chess       28
Cupcake     17
Kurt        15
Jeena       14
SoupOrSalad 11
J Potts     10
Jagu         8
Scott        8
Nicole       5
- - Out of contention - -
Bagu         3
Jeremiah     3
Steven       3
J Hall       3
Mike         3
KarrieCake   3
Arjan        3
Judy         3
Sungina      2
Kelly        1

Season 10 Week 12

BPC Season 10 - Week 12
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Sort of a small crowd last night, only 18 players so after starting with 3 tables we collapsed pretty quickly down to two.  And we got started pretty close to 7:30 as well, which is the good news.  The bad news is that I was sent to the kiss n cry area pretty shortly after that, after getting my pkt Kings cracked yet again, this time by Judy (who was proud enough of her 5-7 after hitting a Q-J-7 flop that she called all my oversized bets long enough to catch a 5 along the way,) and then losing the rest to Chester on his pkt 9's vs. my pkt J's.  The 9 always hits.  And of course I had a last longer bet with Chess to add some additional steam and nuggets to the already hefty pile of poo.

So I got nothing else to report, but it looks like Kurt dodged enough poo to again place in the points for the 6th time this season (more than anyone else).  His 5th place finish is enough to push him once again to the top overall spot, which he seems pretty intent on keeping.  Jagu got 4th and is in 4th overall, and Potts grabs 3rd place.  The 9 points pushes him into a tie for second with Chester.

Heads up came down to Jeena and Eric, who battled it out for a bit, but in the end The Milkman delivered and took down first place.  The 12 and 15 points respectively are enough to push both of them into the Top 9 (and me out to the curb again.)

Eric also takes a commanding lead in the third Mini-Season.  His first and second places in the first two weeks of the Mini-Season already put him at 27 points.  If he just buys his points for the next three weeks, he'll still have more points than the previous two Mini-Season winners.


Player      Week 12
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Eric       15
Jeena      12
J Potts     9
Jagu        6
Kurt        3
Bagu        Bubble

Player    Total
-----------------
Kurt        51
J Potts     50
Chess       50
Jagu        46
Bagu        44
Jeena       43
Omar        37
Eric        37
Jeremiah    36
Scott       33
Steven      32
J Hall      30
SoupOrSalad 28
Nicole      28
Mike        28
Guest 1     27
KarrieCake  23
Sungina     22
Ruby        22
Padma       21
Kelly       17
Arjan       12
Judy        11
Cupcake      9
Julius       6
Nisha        4

Season 10 Week 11

BPC Season 10 - Week 11
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Chester is back at his winning ways, taking first place last night, and taking over the overall top spot from Kurt, who held on to it for the last 5 weeks in a row.  Second goes to Eric, who was down to a pretty short stack late in the game, but doubled up through me on a good (?) call on my stone cold bluff to take me out.  He had crap, but I had crapper.  That was the first pointing for Eric all season, and a second place is a good one.  Now only 3 regulars, Arjan, Judy and Cupcake, have not pointed yet this season.  Last longer anyone? 

Kikoo, or someone who looked like him but with the mute button on all night, takes down the 3rd spot for Team SoupOrSalad.  I got 4th, boo.  Its enough to squeek me back in to the Top 9 though.  And Kurt gets the scraps of 5th place, putting him just a single point behind Chess. 

Mike Hot Boilers was the Bubble Boy for the week. 

Here's the standings:

Player    Week 11
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Chess       15
Eric        12
SoupOrSalad  9
Scott        6
Kurt         3
Mike         Bubble Boy
       
   
Player     Total
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Chess       49
Kurt        48
Bagu        43
J Potts     41
Jagu        40
Omar        37
Jeremiah    35
Scott       32
Steven      31
Jeena       31
- - - - - - - - -
J Hall      29
SoupOrSalad 27
Nicole      27
Mike        27
Guest 1     27
Sungina     22
Ruby        22
KarrieCake  22
Eric        22
Padma       21
Kelly       17
Arjan       11
Judy        10
Cupcake      8
Julius       6
Nisha        4

Season 10 Week 10

BPC Season 10 - Week 10
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[8:10]  Week 10 of Season 10, its after 8:00 and are cards in the air?  No.  Nothing in the air except the sweet smell of onion enchiladas.  Delicious, but we can only hope that Chess goes out early, it may get ugly after he's had a chance to process them.

[8:30]  Eric makes it 500 from under the gun, and I look down and see pkt K's.  I don't have the fear I used to, at least I can smooth call without breaking out in a cold sweat.  We end up with 5 callers on the 500 bet, and I like the way the pot is forming so early in the round, and I'm guessing the other 4 guys and gals have each other's Aces.  Lets see a flop, it comes... A-A-5.  Well, so much for that theory.  Eric bets out, and I gotta insta-muck, especially with 3 people behind me.  Surprisingly, no one else calls though, and Eric shows his A and scoops the pot he built up for himself.

[9:05]  Sungina's already short stacked and pushes for about 5000 with a flop of 8-9-2.  Jagu calls with J-10 open ended straight draw, and Sunj shows pkt K's.  Sorry Sunj, this can only end badly.  For some reason, Sunj starts yelling for a Queen, and of course it hits on the river, making Jagu's straight and proving once again Bagu's theory of the 5th dimension.  Sunj says "shit", and makes her exit.

At some point later we're down to 2 tables, blinds are going up and I'm getting a little short stacked.  Again I'm in early position, and Potts bumps it up for about a third of my stack.  I look down and once again, see my buddies the pkt K's.  I just smooth call, actually hoping for some callers behind me, and a couple of people hop in for the party.  Flop comes A-Q-7.  Damn, the Ace always comes doesn't it.  Potts bets out enough to push me all in, and I hate the call because I know I'm behind, but call anyway with the blind hope that Potts is betting with a Q and not an A.  Nope, he has the Ace, and my little buddies can't find one of their brothers, and I'm out.  Chester's still in, and those onion enchilada's have to to be working their way through.  I suspect we'll be hearing from them again soon, so I make my break for the door before Chess has a chance to lock them.

Sucks that I still can't win with pkt K's, but at least both of these times were more my fault.  To me, if the money goes in when you're ahead and you lose, then that's a bad beat.  If the Ace comes on the flop before all your money goes in, then that's bad luck.  If the Ace comes on the flop and you still call, then that's just bad play.

[9:26]  "Wow, you're a tight player."  - New guy to Omar.

So that's all I saw, but apparently our overall leader Kurt made it to the edge but couldn't get past the bubble.  He still holds on to the overall top spot because Bagu and Jagu went point-free.  Jeena gets the crumbs of 5th place for the second week in a row, and her third of the season, just enough to keep her clinging onto the final Top 9 spot.  Omar and Mike get 4th and 3rd respectively, and new guy Morty (Marty?  Morgan?  Mortimer?) grabs second.  And Mr. Potts, who left me hanging at the altar on Superbowl Sunday, takes the first place points and money.

And finally, the winner of Mini-Season 2 is Earl!!!  He didn't point last night, but his first and second from the previous two weeks were enough to win him the 250,000 bonus chips.  Congratulations, but on an administrative note, Earl's guest pass privileges have been suspended indefinitely, per Article 422 section 7a dash 11.3 of the BPC bylaws.  Earl, if you wish to have your guest privileges reinstated, please submit your petition in writing to the BPC Executive Committee. 

Player      Week 10
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J Potts     15
Guest/Morty 12
Mike         9
Omar         6
Jeena        3
Kurt         Bubble


Player      Total
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Kurt        45
Bagu        42
Jagu        39
J Potts     40
Omar        37
Jeremiah    34
Chess       34
Steven      30
Jeena       30
- - - - - - - - -
J Hall      28
Guest 1     27
Scott       26
Nicole      26
Mike        26
Ruby        22
Sungina     21
Padma       21
KarrieCake  21
SoupOrSalad 18
Kelly       16
Eric        10
Arjan       10
Judy         9
Cupcake      7
Julius       6
Nisha        4
Guest 2      1
   
Player    Mini-Season 2
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Steven      29
Bagu        27
Kurt        27
Chess       24
J Potts     23
Jeena       23
Jagu        21
Jeremiah    18
Omar        18
Guest 1     13  (Morty)
Mike        13
J Hall       9
Ruby         9
Scott        7
Kelly        6
Arjan        5
Eric         5
KarrieCake   5
Nicole       5
SoupOrSalad  5
Sungina      5
Cupcake      4
Judy         4
Padma        4
Nisha        3
Julius       2

Season 10 - Week 9

BPC Season 10 - Week 9
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Sorry, not much of a write up again this week.  I actually made it pretty far and was approaching the bubble so got to see a lot of hands, that is until Mr. Hall 6-outer'd me to take all my chips.  It stung too, he was the little blind, and I was the big blind, and everyone folds to us.  Lay it down Champ, just lay it down, nothing good can come out of it.  There's no money in the pot, why bother.  But noooooo, he has to go ahead and bet, Mr. Greedy.  I know he's got nothing, he's just trying to pilfer my big blind.  But ha!  I got a strong Ace.  I should have just shoved all in right then in there, we both have around 15,000, and he bet out about 4000.  Nah, no problem, just call here and I'll shove after the flop after his continuation bet.  Board comes rags and I'm positive he just wiffs at it, and sure enough he bets out at it.  I'm positive he has air, so I push all in.  He calls reluctantly, and then rivers me with the 6 outer.  I'm sent to the slopes.

The other hand I remember from the night was earlier when we were still with 3 tables.  Nicole and Jagu both have over 10,000, and end up all-in together.  Jagu shows pkt Q's for an overpair of the board, but Nicole has the bullets.  No help for Jagu on the turn, but the Queen shows up on the river for a heart breaking 2 outer, and Nicole is sent to the rail.

But Jagu wasn't done there.  When it was down to 4 players, Jeff Hall was the chip leader (thanks in part to the chips he bad beat from me) and he has Jagu all in with maybe 6000 left.  Jeff has JJ and Jagu has Q-5.  Jagu promptly hits the 5 on the flop to make it interesting, then the Q on the river.  Later, Jeff just call's Jagu's big blind with A-Q, but Jagu flops a full house with 8-3 and doubles up again through Jeff.  And in the last hand of the night for him, The Champ flops trips, but Jagu flops a boat.  Gotta love it.

So somewhere along the way, Kelly lasted long enough to become our second double bubble of the season, and Jeena slips into the points for 5th.  Jeff goes out in 4th with the hands above, and The Professor places in the money for 3rd.  Jagu is able to ride his nine lives all the way to second, but the story of the week is Steven, who is channeling his alter-ego Earl.  Apparently Earl is a much better player than Steven, and far more protective of his chips.  Earl takes down the top spot for the week, and with his second place for last week he is not only in the Top 9, he's taken over first place for Mini-Season 2 with 28 points, just a couple ahead of Kurt and Bagu.  Nicely done.  And he's only played 3 weeks this season! 

But ok Earl, you've had your fun, please bring Steven back.

Here's the results:

Player    Week 9
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Steven    15
Jagu      12
Bagu       9
J Hall     6
Jeena      3
Kelly      Bubble
   
   
Player     Total
----------------
Kurt       44
Bagu       41
Jagu       38
Jeremiah   33
Chess      33
Omar       31
Steven     29
Jeena      27
J Hall     27
- - - - - - - -
Scott      25
Nicole     25
J Potts    24
Ruby       22
Padma      21
Sungina    20
KarrieCake 20
SoupOrSalad 17
Mike       16
Kelly      15
Guest 1    15
Eric        9
Arjan       9
Judy        8
Julius      6
Cupcake     6
Nisha       3


Mini-Season 2
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Steven     28
Kurt       26
Bagu       26
Chess      23
Jeena      20
Jagu       20
Jeremiah   17
--- Out of Contention ---
Omar       12
Ruby        9
J Potts     8
J Hall      8
Scott       6
Kelly       5
Sungina     4
SoupOrSalad 4
Padma       4
Nicole      4
KarrieCake  4
Eric        4
Arjan       4
Mike        3
Judy        3
Cupcake     3
Nisha       2
Julius      2