Well - once I finally home from work and then with a little bit help from michele1024 (thanks!) we had a nice little crowd of 13 people.  A big welcome to first time Gus Handsom.  Poor guy went out first though.  Cheers mate.  Unfortunately for me I was out quick too.  Of course that's cause I was being nice to my peeps. :)  Riiiiight.   After Kryptic was knocked out we had our final table.  After a long day on the job and a sore back, dave143 was out next.  Last weeks winner michele was out next.  1010 didn't hold up vs the AQ when the A hit on the river.  There were several times when pairs beat pairs.  That's always tough.   My man Agro was out next and the RipleyBP.  big_lar8 lost to dudley_ with 33 vs KK.  burldog44 got knocked out next by dudley_ with two pair over two pair.   We're now down to four:

 

Dudley_  6535

Hazy_Cat  5820

HooterHanna 3000

Al-swearengen 2900

 

Well- HooterHanna was our bubble girl tonight.  A valiant effort in what I think was her first Joker tourney.  Boom.  Dudley_ is gone in third.  Hazy hit's a sly straight and Dudley bluffs at it and Hazy knocks him out.  Hazy's getting the cards and playing them well.  It's now a showdown between Hazy and Al-Swearengen (aka manbearpig).  Hazy was wearing him down but Al just had a nice almost double up.  We're lookin at Hazy 13580 to Al's 5100.   Al's making a comeback and takes the lead.  Break time.  Well- three hands after the break and Hazy is all in with 77.  Al show AQ. Race time. Q on the flop and boom Al-Swearengen takes it!

 

Thanks to everyone and hope to see everyone next week!

 

Gary

 

PS- Missed ya annieboom and mellow, and blondee!! :)

 

A nice crowd of 18 sat down tonight looking for that Joker title.  Welcome back to Annieboom who's been MIA for a while.  Nice to see her at the table and actually playing!   deadmanshand_ was out first tonight.  Sometimes it just isn't your night.  Sigh.  Well I've had so many distractions, I didn't keep up with the action.   All I remember is getting beat by overs twice!  Boom won a big pot off me with AA over QQ and then michele1024 knocked me out with AA over KK!! Dadgummit.  Poker's tough.  Here's your top 4:

 

michele1024

glenso

gjones

mellow_yellow

 

I've been so impressed with michele's play.  She's really making a name for herself!

 

Great job all and you next week!

 

Gary

 

 

 

 

Well - we finally had a decent tourney again.  I got the tournament request in early and UB set it up right.  :)  13 peeps circled up to try and win poker's biggest.. um well win some bragging rights anyway.  Kingflop was out first with a tough beat.  Hazy_cat and TxMom were out next and we were down to the final table.  Things moved along pretty quickly.  -Manbearpig- went out, followed by smartin and then newcomer DStyle4.  Agro was next, Annieboom (missed ya boom) and then mellow_yellow.  We were down to 4.  tommy1053 had a good lead but had a couple of bad beat to knock him down and then finally out.   MisterSGB knocked out RipleyBP and it was head up, me (gjones) vs MisterSGB.  We had pretty even chip stack with Mister having the slight lead.  It went back and forth a bit.  Mister has a real solid game and will raise a bit preflop instead of just limping.  That kept things real interesting.  As thousands looked on, well maybe about 2, we dueled on.  Mister won a nice pot when I had AQ and nothing flopped.  He bet, I decided to fold and he showed 99.   We dueled a little more until hand 89 of the final table came up.   MisterSGB called the blind.  I raised it to 600 and he called.  The flop was 954.  I checked (a slow play) and Mister raised to 1200.  I doubled it (shouldn't that have scared him??) :).  Mister calls.  The turn was a 6.  I moved in for 4415 not wanting him to catch any draws.  He called.  He had middle pair with a J5.  Doh!  I had him nailed with KK!!  Well UB didn't think so.  The river was a 5 and he hit trips.  Doh doh!  I was gone and MisterSGB won the tourney.  Afterwords, Mister said he had put me on AK.  It was a great play by him and a nice showing.  Congrats to MisterSGB! 

 

Thanks all for a successful tourney and hope to see everyone next week.

 

Gary

 

 

Hey everybody,

 

Well it was a total screw up tonight.  I emailed UB this morning to set up the tourney.  I usually do it a few days sooner, but after going to NY I was late in getting the email written.  I didn't have time to check the tourney set up until I got home.  I specified 9:30 but they set it up for 9.  When I got home about 9:10, it was already going.  I hadn't signed up myself either, so I wasn't even in it.   So I can't hardly blame UB, even though I specified 9:30, it was really my fault.

 

To my surprise we actually had 6 people in the tournament.  When I signed in to UB, three were already gone.  Rankdizzle had a pretty good lead on dudley_ and tommyguner03 had some chips but had to sit out.  So it was heads up.  After tommy finally blinded out, Rank won the tourney on Quad K's.  He was all in with KK and dudley_ had Ax.  The flop was KKx and it was over.  A pretty fitting ending to a poorly run tourney.  I guess I need to either run these properly or turn out the light in the Joker room.  Thanks to those who played and let's get it going back next week.

 

My apologies to everyone,

 

Gary