Die Hard Poker League Season 2: 2006/07
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Updated: July 29, 2007
Next Event: Event #1 of Season 3
Date Time: 8:00pm Friday, September 7th,
2007.
Location: Elks Hall in Cloverdale at
Unit 412, 17665-66A Ave,
Tourney Dates (all start times are 8pm)
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xLEAGUE
FINAL (top 10 players) Friday, April 27th xWSOP
Event #35 or 38 in
(NL
$1500 US buy-in) |
League members require $60
per event and non-league members need to bring $40.
July 9th, 2007 – Darren Kennedy Cashes in
2007 WSOP Event #35, Mike Burns Out and the League Goes 0-3
A DHPL Player cashes at the
WSOP. Unfortunately for the rest of you it was Darren Kennedy who bought
himself in to Event #35 that cashed and not one of our winners so no payback to
the league. I finished 267th out of 2450 players to collect a $2947
payout. Only 270 players got paid so I really snuck in to the money. I was so
short-stacked with 272 players I only had enough chips for 8 more hands and
when dealt QQ under the gun, I folded it knowing that I only needed to fold 2-3
more hands to make the money. Can any of you say you’ve ever folded QQ without
any action in front of you before? On that hand a player 2 behind me had AK so
I was quite happy with the lay down. And sure enough 2 hands later we burst the
bubble into the money. I then pushed an unraised pot with 55 only to run into
AK and an AKx flop. But hey I cashed!
As for the league
representatives, both Mike and Ed played Event #35 on Thursday, June 21st.
Ed took a horrible beat when he got all his chips in the middle on a 952 flop
while holding KK against 44. And would you believe it, the turn is a 4 and Ed
is out only 1.5 hours into the event. I also started poorly losing 1000 of my
3000 chips on the very first hand when my two pair A2 got beat by rivered trips from a Q6 on an AQ25Q board. I was down to
just a single 500 chip early in level 3 but I won 3 of 4 hands, at least
doubling up each time to get to 7000 and the race was on.
What happened to Mike you
say? He started very strongly building a healthy chip stack almost immediately
and wielding it well until Level 4 when he just couldn’t defend against…. a god
damn Rio waiter spilling scalding coffee on his lower back!!! With about 8600
chips when average stacks were around 5500, Mike burnt out. His lower back
received 2nd degree burns over an area about the size of two hand
prints. He tried valiantly to continue but could not and spent the next 5 hours
in the hospital.
So Roger and Darren K entered
event #38. Roger would not last long bowing out only 30 minutes in when his AK
ran into Aces on a King high flop. Darren would last a little longer grinding
it out with two pro’s Arnold Spee and John Murphy at
his table. After a couple of table moves I was sitting a table away from some
big names in Rene Angelil, David Plastik,
Vanessa Selbst, Chris Ferguson and others. I used KK
to triple up and then KK again to double through another opponent up to as high
as 9000 chips. But a horrid hand where I held KQ on a board that flopped QJ2
with me betting out and turned K, bet larger and the river came A only to have
a donkey call me to the river with A2 for a rivered
higher two pair (yes I was frustrated). That left me quite short-stacked and I
was in survival mode. I cracked Aces with 35 on a board of T53 and stayed alive
for a while. But with my stack shrinking I pushed UTG with KQ and ran into AQ.
I finished about 600th out of 2778 players about 30 minutes prior to
the dinner break and well off the money and our league is now 0-6 in WSOP
attempts.
May 28th, 2007 (Standings, All
Time Leaders)
We are less than a month away
from the big dance. Our winners (Ed, Mike and Roger) will be joined by Darren
C, Darren K along with last year league members Rahim and Dave and out of town
poker dude Derek Thomson for the big trip south to the mecca of poker.
Hopefully the league members can rack on some cashes as we all get somewhere
between 1.5% and 3.3% of their winnings.
Just some info I found that
you might find interesting. I was going to just send this out to Roger, Ed,
Darren and Mike (the guys actually going down to Vegas) but I figured some of
you other leaguers might find it an interesting read So here's a what’s up with
the 2007 World Series of Poker update.
As you know it will be held
at the
I love playing single table
satellites. Did a lot of this last year, and it's a great way to kill an hour
or two while attempting to make some coin. They changed them around quite a bit
this year and the structures this year are found at this link: WSOP
Satellites.
I hate it when you make the
money and get like your buy-in back plus a mere 40%. Guess what? They changed
the payouts so that if you make the money just barely you will make more money
this year (I think at least double the buy-in) than you would have last year.
Of course if you make the final table you will now make slightly less. Hope I
have to worry about that ;) WSOP
Flattens Payout Structure.
Our events will not be televised.
Note that they will be doing the Main Event Final Table live on Pay-per-view
again this year with Phil Gordon hosting. I paid for it last year and was
pretty happy with the product. If you want to see the list of televised events
(televised final tables anyway) they are here: WSOP Televised Events.
Another good read which talks
about change to penalties for using the F-word, doubling the starting stacks,
the addition of 80 more tables, the introduction of mixed-holdem
and a few other things: WSOP 2007
Misc Info
Well hope this little primer
gets your juices flowing as we are now only 30 days from Event #35 on Thursday
June 21st (Mike, Ed and myself will be entering) and 32 days from Event #38 on
Saturday June 23rd (Roger and possibly myself).
Darren
April 30th, 2007 – Congrats to Ed Sue, Mike Schubert
and Roger Grosset (Standings, All
Time Leaders)
Well, the pretenders are all
gone and we have our league winners and representatives to send down to the
World Series of Poker. Ed, Mike and Roger outlasted the field and are on their
way to Vegas baby. They all played great and I wish them the best of luck.
How we got down to the final
3 was exciting and started with the tie-breaker heads up match between Lance
Murdoch and Rick Rohrback. The guys started with
5,000 chips a piece and the battle began. Rick pounded on Lance early and often
gaining a nice size 2-to-1 chip lead before the following hand occurred:
RR: 35
LM: 46
Flop: 57Q, Rick bet out and
Lance called
Turn: 3 giving Rick 2 pair
and Lance the straight. Rick pushed all in and Lance called.
River: x
A short while later Rick
pushed all in for 1300 with 45 to find Lance holding AA. A miracle board of
5xxx4 however saved him and he made up ground from there to get back to even.
Lance gained the lead again though and the final hand came as follows:
RR: AK call
LM: Q2 check
Flop: Q2x, LM bet, RR, allin, LM call
Turn/River: xQ
Lance was the winner and the
final table was finally set. The rest of the boys took their seat and the
action got underway.
Level 1 (200-400):
Starting chips and seating order
looked like this:
Seat 1: 26,400 Lance Murdoch
Seat 2: 28,400 Darren Corea
Seat 3: 46,800 Ed Sue
Seat 4: 51,600 Al DeLeon
Seat 5: 37,600 Darren Kennedy
Seat 6: 42,800 Scott Brynen
Seat 7: 31,600 Roger Grosset
Seat 8: 52,400 Mike Schubert
Seat 9: 27,200
Seat 10: 30,800 Jordi Muckle
Unlike last years final this one had lots of action right off the bat.Only 20 minutes in, Darren C and Mike faced off in a
big hand with a flop of A5x. Darren C led out for 2,000 on the flop and Mike
made it 6,000. The turn cam a second diamond and Mike bet 10,000 which Darren C
went into the tank before calling 5 minutes later leaving himself only 2,800
chips. The river was a blank and Mike put Darren C all in. Darren C thought for
a while and made the crying call with the AQd and
knowingly watch Mike flip over a set of 5’s. Darren Corea
finished in 10th place and Mike move up to over 75,000 chips.
The very next hand saw Al
raise under the gun with AJc and Darren K call with
that same dreaded AQs and Mike call behind them. The flop of 985 missed both Al
and Darren K who checked. Mike bet out 2,000, Al called and Darren K folded.
The turn was a J and Al bet out, Mike raised and Al called. The river of 6
slowed both players down and Mike took down another large pot of 60,000 chips
with his set of 9’s.
A few hands later in a limped
pre-flop 6 way hand, the flop came down JT8 and was checked around. The turn
came another 8 and Darren K led out 2,000, Roger called and
Ed, Roger and Jordi were in a
decent sized preflop pot when the board came down
245. Jordi moved all in and received no action and then showed the AK bluff.
Level 2 (300-600):
Our 2nd
elimination of the night came courtesy of Scott who KO’d lance when Lances 2nd
nut flush ran into Scott’s nut flush in the following hand. Lance had J5h and
Scott had QTh. The board was AhKh3hXX. Lance finished
in 9th place and Scott joined Mike in the big stack category. This
also pretty much ended Level 2 of play and brought us to our first break.
Seat 3: 32,400 Ed Sue
Seat 4: 21,800 Al DeLeon
Seat 5: 28,800 Darren Kennedy
Seat 6: 75,100 Scott Brynen
Seat 7: 32,400 Roger Grosset
Seat 8: 128,000 Mike Schubert
Seat 9: 36,900
Seat 10: 20,200 Jordi Muckle
Level 3 (400-800):
Level 3 began with the final
8 and only two hands I noted. One included Adrian making it a large 5,000 chips
to go and then Ed pushing all in for 32,000 over the top.
Level 4 (600-1200):
Moving into Level 4 with only
7 players remaining we saw lots of action. A dramatic hand between Scott and
Mike occurred where Scott held KK and Mike AQ. The board came an
action-stifling QJTAA with checks to the river where Mike bet 10,000 and Scott
showed good discipline by just calling the bet thus preventing catastrophe when
his straight lost to Mike’s boat.
A hand shortly after saw Mike
holding AQ again, but this time against Rogers AK with a flop of KQT, Roger
checked and Mike bet 15,000 on the flop, Roger called. A turn of 8 and a
check-check and a river 7 and a check to Mike who pushes Roger all in. Roger
thought for a bit and made a good call, doubling up to about 65,000.
The very next hand saw the
two lock horns again. The flop came 422 and Mike bet 4,000 and Roger raised to
12,000. Mike made the call and the turn came T. roger bet 40,000 and Mike laid
it down stating he had big slick.
Still in level 4, Jordi moved
all in preflop for 20,000 with pocket tens and Ed
made the call with AJ. A board of 99xxx allowed Jordi to double up.
Roger and Adrian bet 6,000
each preflop and saw a flop of AKQ to which they both
checked. When a 7 hit the turn, Roger bet 12,000 and
Scott opened up a pot for
3,300 and Jordi started to get his chips ready to call with 33 when
Level 5 (800-1600):
Jordi bet 4,200 with 88 and
A few hands later, it was
folded to small blind Jordi who pushed all in to Ed. Ed made the easy call with
QQ and was pleasantly surprised to see Jordi holding a mere 75c. The board came
xxx7x and Jordi was sent packing as our 7th place finisher.
Mike got some revenge on
Roger when he held 66 on a board of A62T4 in a limped pot. A 30,000 bet on the
river was called by Roger who did not show but said hehad
hit two pair. The 100,000 chip pot bounced Mike back into the chip leader
position.
A couple hands later saw Mike
open for 4,200 and Ed push all in for 41,300. Mike held QQ but decided he was
likely behind and laid it down. As it turns out Ed held AQ.
Seat 3: 47,500 Ed Sue
Seat 5: 41,500 Darren Kennedy
Seat 6: 59,800 Scott Brynen
Seat 7: 60,000 Roger Grosset
Seat 8: 127,000 Mike Schubert
Seat 9: 42,800
Level 6 (1000-2000):
Scott ran into a cooler early
in Level 6 as
A monster pot developed that
would change the face of the table when on a board of AxxAx,
Ed moved all in on the river for 39,500. Mike made the call with AJ, but Ed
held AK and took down the 117,000 chip pot and the tourney lead.
Scott would fall in the last
hand of Level 6 when he pushed all in with 77 and was called by Roger with AK.
A King on the flop sealed Scott’s fate and just like last year, ended up in 6th
place.
Level 7 (1500-3000):
Just one hand of note from
this level saw an agonizing lay down by Roger. Ed opened for 12,000 and Roger
made it 24,000. Ed made a quick call and the flop came J52. Ed checked to Roger
who be t 20,000 and Ed check-raised him all for his last 29,000. Roger put him
on Kings or Aces and made the lay down. We were later informed that Ed held AJ.
Seat 3: 151,000 Ed Sue
Seat 5: 39,000 Darren Kennedy
Seat 7: 29,000 Roger Grosset
Seat 8: 68,500 Mike Schubert
Seat 9: 88,500
Level 8 (2000-4000):
With only 5 players remaining
for 3 spots the intensity was stepped up a notch. Deep into Level 8, all 3 of
Darren, Roger and the once big-stacked Mike were on life support with all
having less than 30,000.
Level 9 (3000-6000):
With 3 short-stacks, Darren,
Roger and Mike kept doing there damnedest to stay alive, all of them pushing in
and surviving numerous times. Darren finally fell when from the SB he pushed in
his last chips with 56 only to watch Roger call it easily with TT. The Tens
held and we were down to the bubble with Darren dropping out as the 5th
place.
Seat 3: 204,000 Ed Sue
Seat 7: 52,000 Roger Grosset
Seat 8: 20,500 Mike Schubert
Seat 9: 99,500
Level 10 (5000-10000):
Going into Level 10 it looked
like Mike was destined to be our bubble boy as he was critically short-stacked
against his 3 opponents. However he steamed thru winning two hands per lap and
getting up to 50,000 before treading water for awhile. In the meantime
Ed doubled up Roger on a
board of 235 when Roger held A4 for the wheel versus Ed’s J2 for bottom pair.
Interestingly Mike folded 46 on this hand which would have given him the larger
straight. This hand really secured
The final hand occurred when
Seat 3: 209,000 Ed Sue
Seat 7: 122,000 Roger Grosset
Seat 8: 45,000 Mike Schubert
Congrats to the 3 of you. You
will be representing our league in Event #32 or #35 in the World Series of
Poker down at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino in
Thanks to everyone in the
league for another successful year and here’s to more of the same next year.
April 16th, 2007 – League Final Seating Chart (Standings, All Time Leaders)
Seating arrangement for the
Final was drawn this morning by Grant. So without further ado the table will
look like this:
Seat 1: 26,400
Seat 2: 28,400 Darren Corea
Seat 3: 46,800 Ed Sue
Seat 4: 51,600 Al DeLeon
Seat 5: 37,600 Darren Kennedy
Seat 6: 42,800 Scott Brynen
Seat 7: 31,600 Roger Grosset
Seat 8: 52,400 Mike Schubert
Seat 9: 27,200
Seat 10: 30,800 Jordi Muckle
April 16th, 2007 - Event #10 is in the Books (Standings, All Time Leaders)
Well Event #10 is complete
and we still don’t know who the 10th member at the final table will
be. It was a night in which all the top point leaders took the majority of the
points, only one player came from out of the pack to snag a coveted seat at the
final and two players ended up tied in points, tied in points earned and tied
in cash won. Those two players, Rick and Lance will need to show up early on
the day of the final and will play a heads up match for the final spot at the
final table. The heads up match is expected to take 20-30 minutes and the blind
structure will be such that it will not go longer than an hour. The starting
chip stack will be 5000 chips, with 10 minutes levels of: 50-100, 100-200,
200-400, 300-600, 500-1000, 1000-2000.
Darren Corea
was the player who clutched up and moved up the ladder into the final table
with a 4th place finish that was good enough to move from 13th
to 8th. But as I mentioned it was the night of the points leaders as
6 of the top 7 points leaders scored in the points, proving that playing with
no pressure is a lot easier than playing with your tournament life on the line.
Al won the match and $360, Scott came second for $200, Darren K settled for 3rd
and $130 while Darren C got 4th with $60. The tournament deciding
hand came when short-stacked Darren C pushed all in with Q2 on a Q85 flop, Al
pushed in over the top with K5 and Darren K called him with QJ. With about 75%
of remaining chips in the pot, the turn came K and Al took down a monster, eliminated
Darren C and crippled Darren K.
The big hand of the night
came when Darren C pushed all in with his tourney life at stake with AA when he
needed to move up just 2 places to get a seat in the final. Harry called him
with Q8 spades and the flop came 2 spades. The turn was an Ace giving Darren C
trips and the river Ace of spades gave Harry the flush but Darren C’s quads
were good to take down the pot and Darren C was able to hang on a get into the
final.
It was disappointment for
those players in 8th-10th as Adrian, Lance and Grant
could not hold on and garner much needed points and all were knocked out early
and had to sit back and watch to see if there positions would hold. Grants
place would not hold as both Darren C and Rick passed him and with both still
live and already tied with Lance, Lance went home figuring his fate was sealed.
But Rick would run into some bad luck and go out in 7th leaving him
tied with Lance in all three categories (and now we at the league office will
be needing to put more tiebreakers in for next year).
Others on the bubble that
couldn’t get it done included Robin and Kerry who both came close to the points
and Jay who made the points and tried to hang on but just couldn’t, bowing out
in 8th only 3 spots from where he needed to be.
As for the final, the blinds
structures will be as follows with half hour levels until Level 10:
Level 1: 200-400
Level 2: 300-600
Level 3: 400-800
Level 4: 600-1200
Level 5: 800-1600
Level 6: 1000-2000
Level 7: 1500-3000
Level 8: 2000-4000
Level 9: 3000-6000
Level 10: 5000-10000 (one hour)
Level 11: 8000-16000 (one hour)
Level 12: 10000-20000 (one hour)
Note that last years final lasted 4 hours and 15 minutes, ending in Level
9. A full six players reached Level 9 and three players (Adrian, Jordi, Scott)
were KO’d in the same hand before the final hand saw Etienne’s AA take down an
all in by Al holding K4 with an AJ4 flop. Last year the average chip stack was
36,280 with stacks ranging from 30,400 to 48,000 and only Al having more than
40,000. This year the average is up slightly to 37,560 but more noticeable is
the gap between the haves and have-nots as the chips range from 26,400 to
52,400 with a total of 3 players with less than 30,000 and 4 players over
40,000.
April 9th, 2007 (Standings, All
Time Leaders)
Long time between updates.
Event #9 was nearly two weeks ago and resulted in some interesting results. The
top 2 spots went to non-leaguers as Jesse Low took home top honours
and former league member Dave Yee came second for $440 and $260 respectively.
Ed Sue finished in 3rd which was good for $150, top honours and 10,000 points among league members. Jordi sent
Harry to play for him and it was a good choice as Harry finished 4th
for $80 and 8,000 pts.
We had a couple of noticeable
DNP’s in Robin and Kerry who apparently were unaware of the schedule and were
simply at home being couch potatos.
The battle for top 10 and a
coveted spot in the final has had some official casualties as Shane, Dean,
Gary, Javid, Neil and Colin are all officially elminated. There are basically 6 people in home and cooled
with 9 players in an intense battle for those final 4 spots. Roger, Adrian,
Lance, Grant, Kerry, Rick, Corea, Robin and Jay are
all in there with very realistic shots with Jesse and Ray on the bubble needing
a top 2 placing to have any hope. Pat and Andrew can only get in with a first
place finish and some considerable help.
Make sure you are ready to
play Friday as we hand out the remaining 4 tickets to the big dance.
February 24th, 2007 (Standings, All Time Leaders)
Event #8 went Friday night and
I’d call it the night of the big hands. It seemed like every second hand
someone had Bullets, Slick, Cowboys or Bitches. Twive
the Cowboys faced the Bullets with pre-flop all-ins. And both times the Aces
held. Congrats to Harry A for becoming the first non-leaguer to win an event.
We had 27 players out including a rare-showing by Jesse R who had missed the
last 4 events. As for the leaguer’s the big moves were from Lance who came 2nd
but tops among leaguers for 10,000 points and moved up from 17th to
8th place and Darren C who obtained 8,000 points and moved from 19th
to 12th. Darren K became the
5th player to lock up a seat in the finals as he placed 4th
good for 6,400 points and 5th overall. And then there is Kerry who
has showed up for 4 events and made points 4 times. No other player has pointed
in every event they played in. Good job Kerry. Another shout out to Kerry who
took part in the Women’s Poker Open the next day and placed 23rd out
of 300 players doing what no one else from our league has ever done, cashed in
a major poker tourney. Congrats. And for another interesting tidbit, with Grant
missing Event #7, Mike Schubert is now the only player to have played in every
single event in DHPL history. He’s our iron man.
The tourney saw some big hands
and some amazing feats of survival. Darren K and Grant were severely
short-stacked with 14 players remaining but hung on and with a few nice hits
managed to finish 4th and 6th respectively. Darren
survived an all in with QQ vs
AK vs K3 preflop. On a KTx flop it looked grim but a turn card J gave him an
open-ender and the river 9 saved the day. Shortly later Grant got all in preflop against 2 opponents holding JT and flopped a
perfect KQ9 to live a little longer.
Our dominating points leaders
Mike and Al both didn’t point in the same event for the first time this year.
Nice of them to let the rest of us get a few much needed points. The important
10th spot moved up 2,400 points from 22,800 to 25,200. And with 5th
at 31,200 the battle is on for the remaining 5 spots. The pack tightened as
well with 4,400 points separating 6th and 14th. With 2
events remaining the race is on. There are 6 players that if they don’t point
in Event 9 will be officially out of it.
The new blind schedule seemed
to work well as there was a lot more play without forcing people to go all-in
pre-flop and people seemed to enjoy the action.
League pointers included:
Lance, Darren C, Darren K, Kerry, Dean, Grant, Roger, Scott, Jay, Rick.
February 3rd, 2007 (Standings, All
Time Leaders)
Event #7 started out as the
Al and Mike show once more as both front-runners built some big stacks early in
our 27 deep field. Both would make the points but not be a threat at the final
table. A huge tourney win by Ed moved him into the growing group of players who
have guaranteed a spot in the final along with a 3rd overall
standing and $370. Rick who knocked his brother Ray out on the bubble on the
way to getting heads up with a 4 to 1 chip lead only to finish second and $220
made the big move on the night . He jumped from 15th to 8th
in the overall standings.
League pointers included: Ed,
Rick, Adrian, Kerry, Ray, Mike, Al, Grant, Dean, Javid.
January 13th, 2007 (Standings, All
Time Leaders)
We’ve had 3 people now ask
about the fact that the league final is on a day they can
not make. As such I want to propose that we wait and see who is in the
final 10 after event #10 before moving the date. At that point if anyone can not make the final, then we can just find a date when
all 10 people can make it. Please let me know what you think on this. I think
since the final is only 10 people we could do it pretty much anywhere and I’m
sure we can find a date that works for everyone.
January 13th, 2007 (Standings, All
Time Leaders)
Another great night of poker
and another night of domination by Mike Schubert. He wielded a big stack all
night long and dominated the field until the final 4 when thing s got very
evened out. He did prevail and became our first back-to-back winner with his 3rd
tourney win of the year. A little better night had 24 players show up for 3
tables of fun. Scott also made news as he cleared the
30,000 point plateau and likely secured a spot in the final with a second place
finish. It was the night of the suckout and no one
sucked out more than Darren K (yah me) in one case with K6s all in preflop vs. Scotts KQs only to river a straight. Doug was
KO’d early when his Cowboys got blindsided by two pair on the flop courtesy of
Jay Friesen who was a monster chip holder early on. The final 4 lasted about 45
minutes at 5k/10k before losing anyone as the lead changed with every single
flop. Eventually Scott KO’d Darren K and he and Mike outlasted Robin to get
heads up. The two battled for a bit before Scott finally succumbed. The big
position mover of the night was Robin who moved from 13th to 7th
place with a nice 3rd place showing.
Points went to Mike, Scott, Robin, Darren K,
Ed, Jordi, Grant, Kerry, Javid, Gary.
In other news the Harrahs released the full 2007
World Series of Poker Schedule finally last week. Looking at the schedule
we have determined that the best event for our winners to enter will be either
Event 35 on Thursday June 21st or Event 38 on Saturday June 23rd.
So if you plan on winning or plan on going down regardless of whether you win
or not (aka me), you’ll do well to set that weekend aside from any other plans.
December 17th, 2006 (Standings, All Time Leaders)
Small night as only 16 league
players and 2 designated alternates showed up for our 5th event. Al
and Mike continued their combined dominance both finishing in the top 3 with
Mike winning his second tourney of the season and closing to within 2,000 pts
of Al. Adrian made the big jump of the night moving from 15th to 5th
place. Dean became the 24th person to get points leaving only Colin
in the pointless land. A full 9 league members didn’t show, although 2 of them
did send replacements and those replacements both got points for Jordi and Pat.
Points went to Mike, Adrian,
Al, Pat, Darren C, Grant, Jordi, Gary, Lance and Dean.
Lots of hands where two big
cards like AJ or AQ pushed all in only to have another player holding AA call them
down. One particularly nasty hand with 6 players remaining had Darren Corea and Grant both short-stacked and even in chips and on
the blinds. It was folded around to SB Corea who
pushed all in with KT. Grant looked down at AA and made the easy call only to
watch in horror as the flop came KKxxx and sent Grant
away in 6th place. Scott B and Al were the early big stacks, but
Scott was unable to parlay that big stack into any points as he went out in 12th.
It was also the first day that replacement players got any points as both Colin
(for Pat) and
Here’s hoping the new year gets us some bigger turnouts for our tourneys. Time
to get back to the 30+ realm.
November 27th, 2006 (Standings, All Time Leaders)
New feature. I have compiled
the all time cash leaders from all Die Hard Poker League tourneys. No surprise
that Al leads this one by a country mile. Also updated the Average placing on
the standings sheet.
November 24th, 2006 (Standings)
Another tourney, another big
point night for Al who fnished 4th and
moved into guaranteed top 10 spot already. A big battle between Roger and Ed
heads up for the tourney championship was very interesting for two reasons.
Firsts they tried to chop the points, and then when I wouldn’t allow it, Roger
tried all sorts of interesting maneuvers like offering Ed $40 to call on a hand
when Roger was holding suited Big slick. In the end
Roger won and took home the 10,000 points and the $360 for first. Ed was quite
satisfied with 2nd and 8,000 points to go with the $200. Scott
finished 3rd and took $120 while Al took $60 for 4th. We
had a total of 26 players out on a cold night. I don’t remember too many hands
other than when I pushed all in on a Thigh flop and got called down by Jay
Friesen who was holding QJ with no flush draw. Of course the runner-runner AK
gave him the broadway
straight and sent me to rebuy. Grant was first man out which is almost unheard
of. The kiddie table had plenty of excitement. Kerry dealt me JJ and Robin AA.
We got all of our cash in preflop for about $75 a
piece only to watch Kerry deal out AKQxT and give me
a straight. On a board with 55xxK and 3 spades. Roger bet out $40,
The point placings
went to: Roger, Ed, Scott, Al, Kerry, Adrian, Jay P, Rick, Mike and Pat. There
are now 4 people that have had two top 4 placings and
not surprisingly they are the 4 people on top of the standings at the
moment.
November 6th, 2006 (Standings)
The big shocker for Event #3
was that 3 more people showed up and joined the league bringing our total
league members to 25. All three of these new guys (and girl) then proceeded to
get points. In fact of the ten people making the points, 7 were without points
prior to that night and one had only 400. The second shocker was that all 25
league members were on hand, not one person couldn’t make it. WE ended up with
31 players on the night which is a pretty solid turn out.
Congrats to Al who continues
to show he’s no one year wonder by winning Event #3 after being the runner up
in Event 2. Al out-duelled Jordi heads up to take
home the first place and 10,000 points. The final hand of the night saw both
players all in preflop for approximately equal stacks
with Jordi’s KQ dominating Al’s Q9. The flop of JTx
left both players open-ended and the turn card 8 however left Jordi with only 7
outs (9 or A) which didn’t come.
Earlier action from the night
saw Grant and Scott get all in pre-flop on the first hand of the tourney.
Grant’s QQ did not improve against Scotts AA and Grant was left calling
‘rebuy’. Grant went out later in the night when he flopped a 49T while holding
44. He happily got all in only to find out he was up against a set of tens.
With 5 players remaining
Robin was all in on the BB with 84 against Jordi’s 55. A board of 236x5 gave
him the straight and kept him alive.
The cash game tried to rid
itself of the name ‘kiddie table’ when players were winning and losing multiple
$100’s and at one time about $1200 was in play on the table. Doug walked away
big winner and a few others were up well over $100 which begs the question: who
donated all the money?
One other note is that the
WSOP has announced that the dates for the tourney will be June 1st –
July 17th next year, so likely our winners will be going to Vegas
mid to late June.
The point placings
for the night were Al, Jordi, Robin, Roger, Darren, Ray, Ed, Gary, Kerry,
Andrew.
October 16th, 2006
Event #2 came quickly on the
heels of Event #1 and we gained another 3 league members putting us at 22 now.
That’s a good number that will allow us to do the same thing we did last year,
sending two people down and give 3rd place the buy in only.
We had 21 people out for the
tourney and it start out very different than event #1. We had the computer
clock up and running and Jesse wasn’t there to knock everybody out quickly. It
wasn’t until after the first break before we even lost a single person. By that
time the Darren, Darren and Grant had run into some good luck and developed
some healthy chip stacks. Grant was dealt AA twice in 6 hands and got paid off
on them with all ins both times resulting in 15,000
chips by Level 2.
Jordi played the role of
bubble boy for points this time around when his big king ran into Scott’s two
pair and was sent packing. Darren Corea played a
monster hand against Darren Kennedy with a flop of Ace high all hearts and
holding AJ he re-raised Kennedy. Kennedy thought for a long time with his AT (T
was hearts) before making the 12,000 chip call. The heart didn’t come but the
Ten did and Corea made the “Rebuy” call as Kennedy
raked a 45,000 chip pot. AT was huge in another hand early on when Jordi
holding KQ on a J84 flop reraised Javid all in for about
3800 chips and Javid made the call with AT!! A
perfect runner-runner QK gave Javid broadway and left Jordi stunned.
The final table started with
Al making his comeback to the league and Darren Kennedy holding approximately
60% of the chips in play between them while the other 8 split the remainder. A
couple quick losses to Grant and Jay left Darren quickly below average stack
however and fighting to survive. Mike won a couple big hands and soon was in
control of the table. Several bust outs later it got 5 handed with Grant,
Darren and Lance fighting to stay alive against the 2 big stacks of Mike and
Al. Grants luck ran out and then on a 3 way all in between Darren, Lance and
Al, Darren’s K2 tripped up and sent Lance away as the bubble boy. Shortly after
that Mike KO’d Darren in 3rd place ($100) and the battle for first
was on. Mike holding the working hand (95) and Al with Texas Dolly (T2) were
all in and Mike stayed alive with a 5 on the river. A couple hands later and
Mike was victorious adding a first place ($300) to go with his 3rd
in Event #1. Al settled for 2nd ($170)
The point placings
for the night were Mike, Al, Darren, Lance, Grant, Jay, Pat, Scott, Doug and
Neil.
October 9th, 2006
Well event #1 is over and we
had a smaller turnout than hoped for with only 20 players showing up of which
18 were in for the league. We have 20 league members for sure so far with 3-4
others still waffling heading into Event #2. We also had some crappy cards and
no software running on the computer. Both of those will be addressed for Event
#2.
The action was completely
opposite at the two tables in play as one table was action after action after
action as Jesse kept hitting monsters while on the other table very little
happened early on. There were no bust-outs in the first 4 levels which was
unusual, but in level 5 they began and by the rebuy point we had 15 of 20
players remaining. Jesse was a one man machine knocking out by my count 12 of
the 19 KO’s to end up winning the tourney and the $300. Scott did his best
actually holding a chip lead heads up over Jesse, but this was Jesse’s night
and Scott was left with second place and $150. The 3rd place
finisher was Mike Schubert who walked away with $100. The point finishers can
be seen below. Unfortunately I can’t remember much in the way of hand action
but suffice it to say Jesse was on the winning side of a few bad beats.
Event #2 is coming up in 4
days so lets get ready to
rumble! And get some more of your friends out. I like the 30-45 players turnouts we had last year. Also we are starting at
8pm precisely this week. If you are running late phone me at 604-306-6267 and
let me know and we’ll just deal you in.
September 13th, 2006
OK boys and girls, above is
the list of dates and times for Season 2.
We have about 15-16 people so
far that said they are interested in playing the league portion. I would love
to get that number up to 20-25 by go time. So talk to your friends and lets get some more poker fanatics
in here.
Aug 30th, 2006
Well, Jamie Gold was just
crowned the new 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event champion a few days ago
(and won a hefty $12million) and it’s time to start thinking about 2007. We need
to get ready to start up season 2 of the Die Hard Poker league. Our winners
went to Vegas and Grant represented us very well while the rest of us took our
lumps, but that won’t discourage us from trying again next year. We are going
to operate very similar to last year with a few minor changes:
1) Substitutes: We will
continue to allow substitutes, but you will need to send someone specifically,
that person must approach the tourney organizer and state who in the league s/he
is playing for and that person MUST PAY your $30 WSOP drop before the
tournament begins for you to be eligible for any points that person gets you.
2) The tourneys we are
discussing doing $40/tourney and $30/WSOP drop.
3) The starting time will
remain the same at 8pm start but we will do our best to get the show going on
time as this was the number one complaint from last year.
What I need from you guys?
First and foremost I want to know who is interested in returning for another
season and who is interested in joining. We don’t have an upper limit in mind
but we would like to have a good approximation of numbers so that we know what
we are dealing with. I’m expecting 65-70% of you guys returning and a few guys
will join (some of Lance, Ed, Sean B, Dean, Attila, Roger, Jay P, who were
semi-regulars last year anyway). But let all your friends know, the more the
merrier. And note that the same $120 for first event will be required.