Die Hard Poker League
Updated: September 16, 2013
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Next Event:
DHPL Event #1
Date Time: 6pm Friday, September 20,
2013
Location:
Arizona Room, Eaglequest Coyote Creek Golf Club, 7778 152nd Street Surrey, BC
Darren: darrenkennedydk@gmail.com,
425-894-4030
Tourney Dates (all start times 7pm)
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LEAGUE
FINAL Friday, April 11 2014 WSOP $10,000 Main Event and 2014
WSOP NLH $1000 or $1500 Event Rio in Las Vegas |
League members require $100
for this event ($50 cash and $50 league), and non-league members need to bring
$60.
May 9, 2013: When Will Our Winners Be Playing?
Just to clarify who won what:
$10K Winner: Mike Felhauer
$3K Winner: Mike Menkes
$1.5K Winners: Andrew
Krywaniuk, Everett Wicklund, Jason Nadeau
$1.0K Winners: Bruce Lawson, Darren
Kennedy, Mike Twitchell, Paul Deol, Ramiro Dominguez, Trevor Massey
I have talked with all of our
winners and most of them have firmed up their travel plans. I will update any
changes, but for now it looks like the following:
Event 3 (May 30): Jason
Nadeau ($1k) – league in for $750
Event 7 (June 2): Jason
Nadeau ($1k) – league in for $750
Event 18 (June 9): Ramiro
Dominguez ($1k)
Event 20 (June 10): Mike
Menkes: ($1.5k Limit Omaha 8)
Event 24 (June 13): Mike
Menkes ($1.5k)
Event 24 (June 13): Trevor
Massey ($1.5k) – league in for $1k
Event 26 (June 14): Mike
Twitchell: ($1k Senior’s)
Event 49 (June 27): Everett
Wicklund: ($1.5k)
Event 53 (June 29): Andrew
Krywaniuk ($1.5k)
Event 54 (June 30): Paul Deol
($1k) - or Event 53
Event 54 (June 30): Bruce Lawson
($1k) - Tentative
Event 62 (July 6-16): Darren
Kennedy: ($10k) - Main Event Unknown Day – league in for $1k
Event 62 (July 8-16): Mike
Felhauer: ($10k) - Main Event Day 1C, Monday July 8
To track tweets from DHPL players,
please go to my DHPL list page here: (and also I have list of current members)
April 21, 2013: League Final Chipcounts for those that
are interested
As I mentioned I wrote down
some chipcounts after Levels 4, 7 and 10 during the league final. They can be
found here.
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Seat |
Table 1 |
Level 4 |
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Level 7 |
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Level 10 |
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1 |
Mike T |
16,200 |
Mike T |
27,700 |
Everett |
65,600 |
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2 |
Bob D |
8,500 |
Ramiro |
9,900 |
Mike Men |
117,900 |
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3 |
John F |
3,600 |
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Mike Fel |
77,000 |
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4 |
Everett |
19,200 |
Trevor |
31,700 |
Ramiro |
30,500 |
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5 |
Guy |
22,500 |
Darren |
19,000 |
Darren |
26,600 |
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6 |
Rob S |
6,300 |
Rob S |
5,100 |
Mike T |
22,200 |
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7 |
Kai |
11,900 |
Kai |
26,700 |
Jason N |
18,900 |
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8 |
Kal |
5,300 |
Andrew |
35,300 |
Bruce |
64,600 |
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9 |
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Mike Men |
76,100 |
Andrew |
29,300 |
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10 |
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Trevor |
23,200 |
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Seat |
Table 2 |
Level 4 |
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Level 7 |
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Level 10 |
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1 |
Karim |
15,600 |
Karim |
16,800 |
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2 |
Howard |
16,200 |
Jason N |
21,100 |
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3 |
Brant |
7,300 |
Brant |
28,100 |
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4 |
Dave S |
21,900 |
Dave S |
38,400 |
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5 |
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Bruce L |
38,900 |
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6 |
Ray R |
9,100 |
Mike Fel |
11,800 |
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7 |
Mo |
5,600 |
Everett |
51,000 |
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8 |
Steve T |
4,600 |
Paul |
32,400 |
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Seat |
Table 3 |
Level 4 |
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Level 7 |
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Level 10 |
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1 |
Mike Fel |
34,700 |
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2 |
Mike Far |
16,200 |
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3 |
Elton |
10,500 |
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4 |
Ramiro |
10,900 |
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5 |
Colin |
29,300 |
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6 |
Paul |
22,800 |
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7 |
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8 |
Darren |
21,900 |
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Table 4 |
Level 4 |
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Level 7 |
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Level 10 |
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1 |
Larry |
7,800 |
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2 |
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3 |
Mike Men |
27,700 |
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4 |
Ashley |
6,200 |
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5 |
Bruce L |
26,900 |
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6 |
Trevor |
23,800 |
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7 |
Jason N |
28,600 |
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8 |
Andrew |
28,200 |
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April 13, 2013: Congrats to Mike Felhauer Winner of Our
Main Event Package!
A huge congrats goes out to
Mike Felhauer who outlasted Mike Menkes heads-up to take down the Main Event
package. Best of luck in the Main Mike, make us all proud (and rich).
I will write some more up
later, but I only have a half hour to kill prior to playing this $880 at Fraser
Downs so I will at least list the other winners:
Mike Menkes, Everett
Wicklund, Jason Nadeau, Andrew Krywaniuk, Bruce Lawson, Darren Kennedy, Trevor
Massey, Ramiro Dominguez, Mike Twitchell and Paul Deol who will all play for
the league down in Vegas this year.
There was lots of drama,
coolers and suckouts again with multiple AA vs QQ aipf (and yes Guy the player
on the way over to the table should always be dealt in, let it go). But of all
the coolers I think the toughest one was with 13 left (and 11 getting paid).
Dave Sims was dealt KK and saw a flop against Everett Wicklund of AAK. The
money went in and Everett rolled over AK for the bigger boat leaving Dave just
a couple spots shy of a seat. His brother Rob Sims would be pained as well as
he would go out on the bubble. A bubble deal paid him $500 though so he didn't
go away empty-handed.
Kai Picard and Karim Sulemin
were the stories of the night starting with 1000 and 2000 chips respectively before
making very deep runs. Karim would ultimately go out 15th and Kai would fall
just 3 spots from the prizes in 14, leaving Brant Taylor with the record of
earning a seat starting with the fewest chips. He won a seat starting with just
1200 a couple years back.
Mike Menkes who already had a
seat in his backpocket got into a monster hand. There was a standard bet and a
call preflop between him and Colin Genges. The saw a flop of T64dd with about
6000 in preflop. Colin then open-shipped for 25,000 and Mike made the call all
in for 20000 with KJdd vs Colins ATdd. The river was a King and Colin was near
crippled while Mike jumped into a massive tourney chiplead.
At heads-up there were two
very distinct hands. One was KQ of Mike F vs 88 of Mike M with Mike F starting
the hand with 2-to-1 chiplead. The flop came 679, turn K putting Mike M on the
ropes, but he hit one of his 10 outs on the river when the 8 spiked. The two
would battle for another 20 minutes before the final hand which again had some
drama. Mike held a 3-to-2 chiplead when they got it all in pre A7 vs QT. Axx
flop looked to seal it for Mike M, but wouldn't you know it, a runner-runner QT
gave Mike F two pair and the victory. Well played everyone.
Some other notes. Table 4,
the infamous table of death that started with all the big stacks ended up
having 5 of the 11 winners coming from it, although not the overall champ.
Table 2 and 7 had no one make it, Table 3 and 6 had one winner and tables 1 and
5 had 2 winners.
Shortest stack to make it was
Ramiro Dominguez who started with 6500 chips. Everyone else that claimed a
prize started with at least 10,000 chips.
The starting positions of the
winners were: 1st, 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 29th.
I believe this is the first year
that the 2nd in chips has won a prize. Way to break the curse Andrew.
I recorded some chipstacks at
the breaks and will try and get them on here later. But for now, I hope you
enjoyed the mini-writeup and more importantly I hope everyone once again had a
great time playing this season. We are sending 11 very good players to Vegas.
Hopefully we can get some good sweats and at least a couple of nice cashes. A
special good luck to Mike Felhauer. The Main Event is unlike any other poker
tournament in the world. Win or lose, play your best, take in the atmosphere
and enjoy the experience. It truly is an amazing event.
March 14: Darren Kennedys 2013 WSOP Staking Package
I will be playing a bunch of
WSOP events this summer and am looking for up to 30% backing. If you think I
have the skills to do well, you have some disposable cash and want to take a
small shot on me, or if you are just a degenerate gambler that thinks it’s more
interesting to follow along if you have a piece of the action please take a
look at the following link: DK
Staking
March 11: League Finals Blind Structures as Per Rules
Page
While this is already posted
in the Rules I figured it was worth putting here on the front page for those that
don’t navigate the site that much:
For this years final, there
will be 470,100 chips in play and the blinds structures will be as follows with
half hour levels until Level 12:
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Final Tournament
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Minutes |
Small Blind |
Big Blind |
Start Time |
BB’s |
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1 |
30 |
100 |
100 |
7:00pm |
4701 |
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30 |
100 |
200 |
7:30pm |
2350 |
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2 |
30 |
200 |
400 |
8:00pm |
1175 |
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3 |
30 |
300 |
600 |
8:30pm |
784 |
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10 Minute Break |
9:00pm |
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4 |
30 |
400 |
800 |
9:10pm |
588 |
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5 |
30 |
500 |
1000 |
9:40pm |
470 |
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6 |
30 |
600 |
1200 |
10:10pm |
392 |
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10 Minute Break |
10:40pm |
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7 |
30 |
800 |
1600 |
10:50pm |
294 |
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8 |
30 |
1000 |
2000 |
11:20pm |
235 |
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9 |
30 |
1200 |
2400 |
11:50pm |
196 |
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5 Minute Break |
12:20am |
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10 |
30 |
1500 |
3000 |
12:25pm |
157 |
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11 |
30 |
2000 |
4000 |
12:55am |
118 |
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12 |
30 |
3000 |
6000 |
1:25am |
78 |
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5 Minute Break |
1:55am |
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11 |
20 |
5000 |
10000 |
2:00am |
47 |
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12 |
20 |
7000 |
14000 |
2:20am |
34 |
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13 |
Unlimited |
10000 |
20000 |
2:40am |
24 |
Last level continues until
end of tournament.
March 10: Event 10: Jamie Hucul Beats Jason Nadeau to
Win Event 10. Mike Menkes Claims First in League Points!
There was a lot to play for Friday
night as the guaranteed seat for finishing first in the league was up for grabs
between 4 people. Colin and Andrew went out relatively early and then when John
Forsythe went out with 22 remaining the only person that could catch Andrew was
Mike Menkes who needed to finish in the top 7. Mike pulled it off finishing 5th
to cap off a great year and win the guaranteed WSOP prize.
That being said there was
still first place to be played for. Thanh Nguyen would fall in 4th
and Brant Taylor in 3rd in a massive 3 way all in with Jason Nadeau
holding KQo vs Thanh’s 77 and Brant’s 99. A flop of AAK pretty much sealed it
and Jason and Jamie Hucul would face off heads up with Jason holding a 4-3
chiplead. They made a money chop with Jason getting $850 to Jamie’s $730 and
then played it out for the points. The key hand was Jason’s KK vs Jamies 33
with Jamie winning the hand for nearly all the chips. A few hands later Jamie
was crowned the victor.
We also had by far the biggest
last longer of DHPL history. With 41 players putting in $50 for a crazy last
longer pool of $2050. When there were 10 last longer players remaining they
tried to make a deal, but Brant who held an enormous chiplead said no. When the
final table was reached I tried to facilitate a deal. Brant who had everyone
covered by 3.5 to 1 (except Jason who was not in the last longer) agreed to
take $670 and 6 other players (Roger, Tyler, Jamie, Trevor, Kent and Mike
Menkes) pocketed $230, which was better than 5th place money. Nice
work guys.
The in-the-point finishers
included: Jamie Hucul ($730), Jason Nadeau ($850), Brant Taylor ($400), Thanh
Nguyen ($300), Mike Menkes ($220), Roger Grossett ($150), Tyler Marples ($100),
Darrell Wakelam ($100, non-league, playing for Mike Farnese), Kent Senko,
Trevor Massey, Greg Getty, Howard Holt, Jeff Scott, Ramiro Dominguez, Kal
Kooner.
As players busted we also
randomly drew seat cards for the league final. The resulting 7 tables that were
drawn are below. Note that the button will start in Seat 1 and we will break
tables from high to low for the final. There are 470,100 chips in play and 55
players, putting the average stack at 8500 chips. The mean stack is 7000.
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February 17: Event 9: The Prizes Being Played For!
Even though we have
considerably less league members this year, the fact that we each paid more in
league fees results in us having 11 prizes instead of just 10 this year. The
prizes will be as follows:
1st: $10,000 WSOP Main Event + $800 cash
2nd: $3,000 WSOP + $500
cash
3rd-5th: $1,500 WSOP + $500 cash
6th-11th: $1,000 WSOP + $500 cash
February 17: Event 9: Andrew Krywaniuk wins, takes
over the Points Lead!
Andrew Krywaniuk made it down
to 3 handed before agreeing to a cash chop with Mark Juvelin and Mike Farnese.
Mark would go out in 3rd and after a fairly lengthy heads-up battle
Andrew would dispatch Mike Farnese and take over the league points lead with
just one event to go. This is very significant as now only Andrew, Colin
Genges, Mike Menkes or John Forsythe can win the guaranteed prize that goes
with winning the regular season. John would require a win in Event #10, Mike
Menkes would need a 7th and Colin Genges a 9th or better.
Dan Cassidy unfortunately
bubbled the cash, but he did manage to get a Royal Flush with AsKd on a Ad,Qd,Jd,Td, 6c board. You don’t see those every day. Also of
significance, on the bubble of the points we had 3 of the remaining 5 players
that had no points remaining. Unfortunately TJ Johnston would bubble the points
when his AK fell to QJ. That left both Kent Senko and Eric Ruttan to get their
first points of the season.
The in-the-point finishers
included: Andrew Krywaniuk ($620), Mike Farnese ($620), Mark Juvelin ($620),
Bruce Lawson ($280), Mike Twitchell ($210), Ryan Fritz ($150, non-league,
playing for Steve Tamboline), Mo Pannun ($100), Dan Cassidy (non-league), Josh
Hughes (non-league, playing for Everett Wicklund), Tyler Marples, Keith
Matsalla (non-league, playing for Kent Senko), Ed Sue (non-league, playing for
Scott Brynen), Dave Sims, Mike Mittermuller, Eric Ruttan.
January 26: Event 8: Bobby Gagnon wins Event 8,
Chopping Money with Tyler Marples. And Grant Willis Cashes!
Bobby Gagnon came out on top beating
Tyler Marples heads up. There was also a particularly momentous occasion when
Grant Willis, our most regular and colourful spare player over the years who is
more known for his cash game exploits finally cashed in the tourney. It was his
38 try and he finished in 8th place. Congrats.
As of this event everyone
should be paid up in full on their league fees, thus you will only need $50 for
next week. It looks like we have enough money to easily send 11 players to
Vegas this year. So that’s one extra spot for someone to win.
The in-the-point finishers
included: Bobby Gagnon ($860, non-league, playing for Elton Ngan), Tyler
Marples ($860), Rob Sims ($440), Ray Rohrback ($340), Everett Wicklund ($240),
Trevor Massey ($160), Jason Nadeau ($100), Grant Willis ($100, non-league,
playing for Bruce McCallum), Mike Menkes, Bruce Lawson, Mo Pannun, Roger
Grosset, Richard Wardroper, Darren Kennedy, John Forsythe.
January 25: Event 7: Mike Menkes scores his second win
of the season in Event 7
Mike Menkes made his way
through a 61 person field to claim his second title of the season and 3rd
in two years beating Jeff Scott heads-up.
The in-the-point finishers
included: Mike Menkes ($1,000), Jeff Scott ($640), Bruce Lawson ($440), Mike
Twitchell ($340), Karim Kaleem ($240, non-league), James Bowser ($160,
non-league), Scott Brynen, Larry Williams, Gerald Samborski, Brent Senko,
Andrew Krywaniuk, Ray Rohrback, Rick Rohrback, Lorna Acker (non-league), Bob
DeForest, Mo Pannun, Rob Sims, Mark Juvelin.
December 13, Event 6: Paul Deol wins Event 6, chopping
3 ways with Mike Felhauer and Graham Spence
63 players showed up for the
Christmas version of our event and Paul Deol would ultimately outlast them all
and take home the cash, the title and 10,000 points. I don’t recall many hands
from the night as I ended up playing about 20 more hours of poker that weekend,
but I do remember the cash games being very active. Dave Sims snuck into the
points in 15th and has now pointed in 5 of 6 events… amazing!
Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year to everyone. Looking forward to January’s events. See you all in 2013.
The in-the-point finishers
included: Paul Deol ($700), Mike Felhauer ($700), Graham Spence ($700,
non-league, playing for Jamie Hucul), Trevor Massey ($340), Ashley Samborski
($250), Mike Farnese ($200), Cory Breland ($150, non-league, playing for Andrew
Krywaniuk), Chris Fraser ($100), Rick Rohrback, John Scott (non-league, playing
for Ramiro Dominquez), Richard Getty, Guy Bottin, Rob Sims, Brant Taylor, Dave
Sims.
November 18, Event 5: Andrew Krywaniuk comes back from
a single chip heads up to win
Andrew Krywaniuk and Howard
Holt both outlasted a field of 71 players and entered heads-up play fairly even
in chips and actually came to an agreement to chop the cash evenly. Howard then
proceeded to win a crucial all in with KK to Andrews A3. At that point he had a
40 to 1 chip lead before miraculously Andrew seemingly couldn't lose a hand. He
won hand after hand after hand and eventually came back to win the tournament
after being down to just one chip. Mike Bigelow made it to the points when he
was also down to a single black chip with 32 players remaining.
The in-the-point finishers
included: Andrew Krywaniuk ($920), Howard Hotl ($920), Thanh Nguyen ($450,
non-league), Mike Mittermuller ($320), Rommel Catalan ($250, non-league playing
for Ramiro Dominguez), Greg Herman ($200), Elton Ngan ($160), Dan Cassidy
($130), Greg McDonald ($100), Marie Gilbert, Mike Felhauer, Mike Menkes, John
Forsythe, Greg Getty, Kai Picard, Ryan McDonald, Mike Bigelow, Mark Juvelin.
November 8, Event 4: Ashley Samborski gets his first
ever DHPL Cash and it's a Win
I wasn't there so not too
much I can report on, but I do know that we had 72 players and that Jason
Nadeau built a massive stack befroe ultimately falling in 5th place and Dave
Sims took a monster beat 3 handed and fell in third. Both Ashley Samborski and
Steve Tamboline secured their first ever DHPL cashes and Ashley was able to
outlast non-leaguer Stacey Evans who had back-to-back 2nd place finishes.
The in-the-point finishers
included: Ashley Samborski ($1,160), Stacey Evans ($730, non-league), Dave Sims
($470), Ryan Fritz ($320, non-league), Jason Nadeau ($270), Roger Grosset
($220), Mark Juvelin ($180), Steve Tamboline ($140), Cory Breland ($100,
non-league, playing for Pat Woelk, Kal Kaleem (non-league), Andrew Krywaniuk,
Mario Baptista, Kal Kooner, Jeff McCormack (non-league, playing for Richard
Getty), Dallas Bowden, Paul Deol, Jesse Williams (non-league, playing for Larry
Williams), Rob Sims.
October 16, Event 3: Darren Kennedy finally wins a
DHPL Event after 71 tries
Well it took me until my 71st
try but I finally won one, outlasting 3 non-leaguers in the final 4 including the
two players that dominated the tournament from midway on. Both Brian
Henningston who finished 3rd and Stacey Evans who ultimately ended up as the
runner-up spent a good portion of the tournament with dominating stacks. When
we reached heads-up, Stacey had me outchipped 840k to 140k. I won a couple of
pots to get close to even when we got all the chips in preflop with me holding
A2 to his JJ. I would go on to suck-out with a board of A2xAx and then claim
the victory on the next hand.
Earlier in the Final table we
had a bizarre hand where Mike Mittermuller held 88 and called Everett's all-in
preflop after Darren folded TT with Everett eventually showing pocket Kings.
The board was brought out and there were two Tens on board but no 8 or King and
Everett won ... or so he thought. Then it was noticed that we used the wrong
deck. So we ran it with the correct deck and the board came AAJJJ resulting in
a chopped pot.
Earlier in the tournament
Laura Anker was one of the dominant chip-leaders buy would ultimately fall to
Brian Henningston's set of 2's in a massive 3 way pot where Chris Fraser would
fold top pair top kicker.
The in-the-point finishers
included: Darren Kennedy ($1,100), Stacey Evans ($650, non-league), Brian
Henningston ($450, non-league, playing for Colin Genge), Jason Sheppard ($350,
non-league), Trevor Massey ($250), Mike Mittermuller ($200), Everett Wicklund
($140), Chris Fraser ($100), Bob Deforest ($100), Mike Twitchell, Bruce Lawson,
Richard Getty, Tyler Marples, Dean Hilts, Dave Sims, John Evans (non-league),
Laura Anker (non-league), Bruce McCallum, Mike Menkes.
September 23, 2012 Event 2: Colin Genges outlasts John
Forsythe as they both go back-to-back top 3
Every year we have players
come out of nowhere to dominate the leaderboard. This year it appears both John
Forsythe and Colin Genges may be those players as they both finished in the top
3 in back-to-back events. 4 players made the points in both of these events
with Rick Rohrback and Dave Sims sneaking into the points. This was the lowest
turnout since March 7, 2010 in season 5. We were able to introduce the newly
acquired Kem cards into the mix and they were much appreciated.
Gerald Samborski was
fortunate enough to be dealt pocket Aces on back-to-back hands but had them
both cracked and was out by the end of the second hand. That second hand saw 3
way all in preflop with Gerald's AA vs Dean Hilts KK and Mike Farnese's QQ. The
board came clean until the Queen on the river.
The in-the-point finishers
included: Colin Genge ($1080), John Forsythe ($620), Kal Kooner ($430), Paul
Deol ($300), Guy Bottin ($220), Mike Bigelow ($150), Elton Ngan ($100), Karim
Suleman, Mark Juvelin, Ryan McDonald, Mike Mittermuller, Mario Baptista, Jeff
Scott, Rick Rohrback, Dave Sims.
September 13, Mike Menkes Wins Event #1
Another year has kicked off
and we are off to a good start with 63 league members so far and several more
already committed to joining the league in time for Event #2.
The season started off well
with 70 players entering Event #1. The tournament played down quite fast and we
were down to the final two tables in no time. The points bubble burst with
Dallas Bowden coming up just shy of points. When we entered the Final Table
Everett had less than a single Big Blind and as his luck would have it he drew
the Big Blind as a starting position. On the very first hand we would lose
Everett and Brent to Colin Genges two pair as both of the other two would hit
top pair. Just like that we were down to 8. Dave Sims would also fall to Colin
when Dave's AKhh lost to Colin's AKcc. The flop only contained one club, but
runner runner clubs sent Dave home in 8th. Dave Slater would fall in 7th and
then I myself would drop in 6th followed out the door by Rob Sims. The Sims
brothers were the top brothers on this day finishing 5th and 8th. Our other
connections were the Senko's 9th and 57th, Rohrback's 15th and 28th, Hilts 14th
and 30th and Samborskis 31st, 46th and 68th.
The big tourney-defining hand
came 4-handed when Mike Menkes limped with QQ and Pat Woelk, with K3 saw a free
flop. The flop came King high and all the chips got in the middle. But
sometimes you get in < 9% and get lucky as would happen when Mike, who was
outplayed on the hand, turned one of the 2 remaining Queens to take the lead
and the massive pot. Really the pot was pretty much the ballgame as the pot
itself was about 500,000 of the 840,000 in play and Mike had Pat covered by
90,000. Colin would drop out shortly after that and then John Forsythe and Mike
Menkes would battle for another 15 mins before Mike eventually won.
The in-the-point finishers
included: Mike Menkes ($1150), John Forsythe ($700), Colin Genge ($450), Pat
Woelk ($350), Rob Sims ($250), Darren Kennedy ($200), Dave Slater ($150
non-league), Dave Sims ($100), Brent Senko ($100), Everett Wicklund, Howard
Holt, Scott Brynen, Kal Kooner, Marie Hilts, Rick Rohrback, Jason
Nadeau.
September 4, 2012 Its Go Time!
Ladies and Gentlemen (and the
rest of you),
ARRIVE NO LATER THAN 6:30PM
PLEASE!
We are mere days away from the
start of our EIGHTH season of the Die Hard Poker League. Over the past 7
seasons we have given out $162,430 in cash prizes and $82,000 in WSOP buy-ins
plus $31,300 in Final cash prizes for a total of $275,730 in total prizes. We
have had a total of 70 events with some 3705 total entries and 418 individual
players play in our league. We have used 3 different venues (thank you Roger
for the emergency use of your townhouse amenity room for that one event years
back), and we've had 4 individuals cash at the World Series of Poker as prize
winners representing the DHPL. Some of our members have done well on their own
in outside tournaments with members cashing in the BCPC including one member
winning an event. Others have cashed at the WSOP including two members cashing
in the WSOP Main Event. We've also had a member final table the Pokerstars
Sunday Million and had a WSOP bracelet winner play in our tourney. Finally
we've had players playing in all sorts of major tourneys across the globe from
$500-$10,000 buyins. In short we've come a long, long ways from our humble
beginnings of a bunch of friends sitting around 2 tables playing for $20, but
at the same time the spirit of the league remains. Although there is real money
on the line we continue to try and be one of the friendliest poker environments
you will find. There is no room for Phil Helmuth style behaviour at the Die
Hard Poker League. We are all here first and foremost because we enjoy the game
and we enjoy playing with the people who are in this league. Please make sure
you remember this first and foremost. I'm also vey proud of how much the level
of play improves every year. We truly have some excellent poker players in this
league.
Now onto the important
details.
This Event: Event #1
Start Time: 7:00pm Friday
September 7, 2011
Location: Arizona Room,
Eaglequest Coyote Creek Golf Club, 7778 152nd Street Surrey, BC
Darren:
darrenkennedydk@gmail.com, 425-894-4030
Please try and arrive early
(no later than 6:30pm) so that we can handle all of the buyins and start on
time. Drop-ins are as always welcome, but if you know of any players coming as
drop-ins only, please email me and let me know so I can be prepared for
numbers. League members need to bring $200 for the first event and then $100
for each event from #2 to #8 with just $50 for events #9 and #10. I expect we
will have between 65-75 league members this year, same as the past couple of
seasons. Rules wise, chips wise and levels wise nothing has changed from last
year.
As was mentioned in earlier
emails I will be doing a $100 last longer for anyone who is interested in
playing for a little more money on the side.
Extremely excited for the new
season to begin. Can't wait to see you all again and lay down a few bad beats
on you.
August 28, 2012 Who's Coming Back For 2012/13?
Here is what I know so far.
If you are on the unconfirmed list below and you know whether you are coming
back or not, please drop me an email.
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Andrew Krywaniuk |
Al Clue |
Bruce Lawson |
Dan Molatore |
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Ashley Samborski |
Bruce McCallum |
Cory Breland |
Ed Sue |
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Bob DeForest |
Colin Genge |
Darcy Penner |
James Tichenor |
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Brant Taylor |
Dallas Bowden |
Denise Henderson |
Kerry Nikolai |
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Brent Senko |
Gavin Curley |
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Steve McLarty |
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Chris Fraser |
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Greg Getty |
Jordi Muckle |
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Darren Kennedy |
Gregory McDonald |
Ken Douglas |
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Dave Sims |
Maggie Horner |
Lynn Leavens |
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Dean Hilts |
Ramiro Dominguez |
Mike Henderson |
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Dylan Ruocco |
Richard Getty |
Mo Pannun |
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Elton Ngan |
Trevor Massey |
Padraic Garrety |
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Eric Ruttan |
Tyler Marples |
Richard Wardroper |
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Greg Herman |
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Guy Bottin |
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Roland Calapiz |
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Mike Menkes |
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Mike Mittermuller |
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Mike Schubert |
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Mike Twitchell |
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Pat Woelk |
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Paul Deol |
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Ray Rohrback |
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Rick Rohrback |
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Rob Sims |
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Rod Smith |
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Roger Grosset |
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Ryan McDonald |
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Ryan Watkins |
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Scott Brynen |
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Steve Tamboline |
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TJ Johnston |
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July 30, 2012 How
The Rule Changes Shook Down.
First off lots and lots of feedback.
Feedback that you saw and tonnes more sent privately. Obviously this is a hot
topic. I very much appreciate everyones feedback. I always encourage people to
let me know how best to improve the league. That being said this league is not
a democracy and in the end I make a decision along with Roger based on what we
would like to see done combined with what we believe is the right thing for the
league. As such I will not try the two-tiered tourney approach as an official
tourney.
Website
I will be updating the
website with who is planning on playing in the league this year sometime this
weekend, so if you haven't told me already that you will be playing please send
me a quick reply to this email telling me whether you are in or out or on the
fence.
Charging Non-league Members
More For Tourney Buyin
As for the $60 for non-league
vs $50 for league members I need to point a few pieces of information that went
into my thought process before telling you my ultimate decision:
1) Non-league members DO have
an advantage as there is a VERY REAL points bubble that some of them have
exploited very well in the past. To some of you this may not seem like a big
issue, but it is a definite advantage.
2) Non-league members are the
hardest ones to 'control' as I don't generally know a lot of their names and
they are the ones that more often leave without letting me know they busted out
etc, etc. In short, the amount of work per non-league member is much greater
than for league members.
3) This league was created
for giving people an opportunity to play with the big boys in Vegas and NOT to
get friends of friends to come play poker on occassion. I would never consider
saying no to non-leaguers as I think it is a nice venue for league members to
bring friends out, etc, but essentially they are the leagues guests.
4) Any monies paid by cash
players MUST go to that nights pot. It is not legal
for me to take money out of the non-league members for end-of-the-year prizes.
5) Making non-league players
pay $60 makes it simpler to handle buyins as most people are carrying $20's.
6) If a league member walks
out on their food/drink bill accidentally I never have an issue covering for
them as I know I will get paid back the following event. Our waitress also
knows most league members by name. Non-league members become a bigger issue.
7) During sign in I typically
get about 6-10 non-leaguers that have let me know ahead of time that they are
coming. The other 10-15 just show up. This is a more time consuming process for
me.
So due to all of the above I
will be charging non-league members $60 to play each event and league members
will be charged $50. All of the $60 will be going to that nights
prize pool.
Dual Level Tournaments
1)I will run a dual level satellite tourney on Oct 26th
where anyone that wishes can pay an extra $100 and we will award as many $1675
prizepools as possible with the remaining money going to the next place.
2) As for other dual
tourneys, I plan on just doing this: I will run a $100 last longer with anyone
that wants to join in. I personally want to play for more money. Period. Anyone
that wants to is welcome to enter my last longer bets on any given night. This
will be a personal side bet that will not be 'officially' run by the league. I
pretty much have last longers in every tournament I play in so this is not a
new concept.
One other note is that the
question of whether going with a Saturday night would work better for people. I
will not be changing the dates for this year, but let me know if thats
something you would prefer I look into going forward.
Five weeks from today to our
first event when the dream begins again! Can't wait.
July 30, 2012 A New
Season On the Way.
Hello Poker Fanatics,
First and foremost please
reply to this email if you plan on particiapting in the league this year as a
league member. Its time to start updating the website with who's in and who's
out again for the coming season.
Do it!!!
Ok so the ony dates that I
heard were bad were Dec 14 (3 people) and March 22 (5 people). Those have been
removed and we are going to lock in the following dates:
1. Sept 7
2. Set 21
3. Oct 12
4. Oct 26
5. Nov 16
6. Dec 7
7. Jan 11
8. Jan 25
9. Feb15
10. Mar 8
FINAL. April 12
Take a SOLID look at these dates
in particular the League Final. Once again no substitutes for that event.
Other notes:
1. The World Series of Poker
Circuit Events are indeed coming to Vancouver on October 27 - November 7, The buyins will range from I believe $300 to 1675 (Main Event).
Should be a lot of fun.
2. You will need to bring
$200 to the first event to cover 3 nights of $50 league fees and one $50 cash
buyin.
3. I have had numerous
players ask me about substantially raising the buyins for the cash tourney. I
have resisted because I beliee there are a lot of people very content with the
level of the buy-in and significantly raising it would result in the loss of
several players that would no longer wish to compete for the higher costs. As
such I am considering having an optional buyin of $100 more on top of the
mandatory $50 entry for cash part of the tourney to allow those who wish to, to
play for more money. It would essentially act as a multi-payout last longer.
Example: we get 82 players
for the tournament all buying in for $50. 20 of those players also wish to play
for $100 more. As per our usual tournament payout sheet we pay top 10 players
in tourney from $1200 down to $100 for the primary $50 buyin tourney. But in
addition the top 4 finishing players of those paying $100 extra would get a
bonus $1000, $500, $300, $200. These players may finish 8th, 11th, 12th and
18th, as long as they are the top players of those paying the extra money. Of
course if they finish high enough to be in the money for the main tournament they
would get both prizes.
Essentially we would be
running two tournaments at the same time. It may sound confusing, and of course
it will add a bit of extra effort to run from my side, but I don't think it
will alter much as far as tournament play goes and would server the purpose of
satisfying both sides of the coin. Please send any feedback my way.
4. Additionally for our 4th
event on October 26th I was thinking about making the $100 addon a satellite
tourney where we woul pay out one Main Event WSOP Circuit seat for each $1675
in the prizepool.
Looking forward to another
fun season,
Darren
www.diehardpoker.ca
425-894-4030