What is going on with this group? In order to win the tournament I guess you almost have to get felted early? Last year the standings at the break were pretty much the way we finished - usually. This year so far, the almost out player has come back to win. Amazing stuff.
We also welcome a new player, McGuiness007. He works at my corporate office in Cleveland. I know he lives in Ohio, but try and like him anyway.
We had nine players , and should have had ten. Tigercub, fresh off his tourney cashing was looking to smack down us mopes, but he seems to have an “I thought it was at 8:30?” obsession - for three weeks in a row. Well, he got in a qualifier instead and won a seat in the Poker Stars Sunday $100,000 tourney. When you are hot, you’re hot!
I told him to tattoo "8:00 PM" on the underside of his right wrist so he would see it everyday – if you know what I mean.
On to the action:
34min: Sev4TSev gets crippled with (AA) by Matchy (QQ) when a [Q] hits the flop AND the river! PS: Thirty four minutes before a serious hand and the early crippled guy wins the tourney??? This group is scaring me.
51min: Nahanni (9th), I think frustrated with the computer problems McGuiness007 and I were having in Ohio got her motor racing. She fires a semi-bluff with (22) at a flop of [864] and ArticBlast calls her with (Q4).
59min: Rownder (8th) got caught in a PS special as his (A9) hit a flop of [49A] against ArticBlast’s (JJ). But a [J] on the turn ended his night.
Break (7 players!!!)
ArticBlast 4215
Duder 1990
McGuiness 1785
Mikeniks(Faldo) 1775
Matchy 1370
Sev4TSev 1290 (up from 495 at one point)
Boother 1075 (work had him sitting out until 2 hands before the break)
65min: ArticBlast raised with (KQ) into a flop of [K93]. Boother (7th) didn’t believe him holding (22) and no help came. Boother was then given the new nickname of LIFO by ArticBlast – “Last In, First Out”. Ouch
71min: Matchy (6th) is getting close to go time with his stack and hits the flop of [7Q4] with his (AQ). When a [Q] comes on the turn, he goes all-in only to run into McGuiness and his (44) and full house. No seven or Queen on the river and the slow play of McGuiness paid off.
84min: ArticBlast (A5) loses the chip lead to Duder (KQ) with a flop of [K5K]!
96min: Now it is my turn to smack down the former chip leader with a PS SB vs BB special. Duder, ArticBlast and I all see the flop of [TTJ]. I bet and only Artic calls. The turn is an [8] and ArticBlast (J8) moves all-in. I call with (KJ). I have him out-kicked but a lovely (for me) [K] falls on the river to seal it.
98min: The now short-stacked ArticBlast (5th) loses to Duder’s straight.
109min: Duder gets crippled when his (88) trips on the flop runs into Sev4TSev’s (TT) trips on the flop. I’ve been there and done that! And against 747 too!
117min: Duder (4th) and Sev4TSev see the flop of [Q68]. Sev bets and Duder calls. Turn [4], and they both check and wait to drown on the river [5]. Duder goes all-in with (Q5) for 2 pair but Sev4TSev has the straight with (97).
This means the newbie is taking some cash home. That like never happens!
Will we make it to a second break? Uh, no.
118min: A short-stacked (of course compared to 747, we are both short-stacked) McGuiness (3rd) has to go all-in. On the river, I bet Sev4TSev off the pot as my flush ends the rookie’s night. But a great showing none the less against this group of sharks.
119min: I – Faldo (2nd) succumb right after as my (Ac4c) loses to Sev4TSev’s (Qc7c) as a [Q] hits the flop. Great comeback 747 from a hard smack down early!
1st – Sev4TSev (14pts)
2nd – Mikeniks (Faldo) (15 pts)
3rd – McGuiness (5 pts)
4th – Duder (3 pts)
5th – ArticBlast (2 pts)
6th – Matchy (15 pts)
7th – Boother (7 pts)
8th – Rownder (7 pts)
9th – Nahanni
Aqualung (10pts)
This win gives 747 the NPP tournament win lead over everyone – including Faldo!
"He beat me, straight up. Pay that man his money!"
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i was on a 8:30 start time also. but the good news is that i got into another large money tourney and lost (bubble) w/ KK when A4 comes on the flop and the moron called my all in w/ A4 pre flop. i might have to quit poker for a while. im getting faldo cards.
beerhog
I love and cherish smoking fine cigars. It’s not a hobby, and it’s certainly not a habitual vice – it is more of an outright passion. Sitting back and relaxing with a good cigar quells the mind and stirs the soul. It revitalizes and invigorates, transforming a mentally and physically exhausted being into a relaxed and clear minded gent. Unwinding after a long, hard day with a premium hand rolled cigar is a rite of passage, a joyous moment of solitude, and a celebration for another day well lived.
Cigars have always been associated with celebration. The birth of a child, a victory on the field, or a gain in the stock market has always caused lovers of the leaf to gather in exaltation. Having a “smoke” with a good buddy garners fraternal bonding and stimulating conversation. In fact, the cigar just may be the world’s ultimate bonding tool. A former president of ours even found his torpedo to be a bonding tool of a very different nature.
When you think about it, there is nothing even remotely pretentious about a cigar. While some may purchase jewelry or fine clothing in order to impress those about him, a cigar, as Sigmund Freud once said, is just a cigar. It was born for one purpose – to give perhaps forty-five minutes to an hour’s worth of pleasure to its owner and then it is gone, poof. A once oily-brown cylindrical work of art is reduced to ashes, returning to the very earth from where it once came.
While some enjoy a light and golden Connecticut wrapped cigar, others a hearty and earthy dark Nicaraguan, and then of course those who will only partake in the fruits of the island ninety miles south of Key West – we can all agree on one thing: we are devotees of the leaf. We are mesmerized by the alluring scent of its blue swirling smoke that calls us like sirens in the night. This is far beyond an addiction my friend, it is truly a spiritual encounter.
Now for someone who doesn’t smoke cigars, they would read my sacred words above and most likely blurt out a simple yet meaningful: What the F@#K?! It is because they do not and care not to understand our love affair with our puros. There is no empathy for our emotional attachment to the stoag. To them it is a disgusting, stinking habit that causes illness and breeds contempt. They frown upon us like we are leapers who should be colonized and placed on an island of our own. Bastards.
And to make matters worse, these smug turds wish to eradicate…annihilate our very source of enjoyment. They will not rest until there is complete genocide in the tobacco world. The politically correct, do-gooders of society wish to save us from our very own selves because we apparently are incapable of making rational and competent decisions.
Entire U.S. cities are banning smoking everywhere within their towns – in the open streets, cars, and even in residential back yards. Good Lord in Heaven this is some kind of madness found in an old Hollywood script, yet we are the actors and the screenplay is for real. What the bloody hell happened to the land of the free where the brave sacrificed so we could have choice?
And now the new tobacco tax is being bandied about under the guise of saving children. Putting millions of workers worldwide out of jobs is not the answer to saving the children. But these scathing low-life politicians can only sustain their careers if they capture your vote. So they will pander to the largest common denominator, using sick children as their rallying cry. And you know that these thieving dirtbags enjoy a good smoke as much as we do. But they are in the position of power. They can get all the contraband they desire. Again I say, bastards.
Does this piss you the hell off? God damn it, it should. I’m friggin’ steaming just typing this.
Guys, we’ve got to make noise… a hell of a lot of noise. We need to rattle the cages of these dirty stinking political apes and get their attention once and for all. We must be heard as a group that will not succumb to the type of tyrannical rule that our forefathers battled against.
I love and cherish smoking fine cigars and I bet you do too. No one is going to take away my right to choose what’s best for me. And no one is taking away my cigars.
You heard me. – Tommy Zarzecki jr.
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