Hlam14 Return to the Winner’s Circle

Ok, your host screwed up and had a limit tourney this evening. I set up the tourney this morning – pre coffee and breakfast. I got a lot going on right now and I forgot to set the thing to NL.

I blame Poker Stars as the setup should default to NL, as it is the most popular tourney format.

Anyway, on to the 8-player action (no new players – and that is a shame!).

34 min: Poor Duder (8th) never won a hand the entire time. He finally flops a pair of sixes, only to run into a flopped two pair by Rennzzo.

48 min: Rennzzo (7th) is out when his flopped pair is no match for 7Joker’s (QQ) in his hand.

56 min: Arctic Blast (6th) makes his move and comes up short.

57 min: I missed writing down Arctic’s demise as Mikeniks-Faldo had to play his (AA) to outlast Doneill’s (5th ) (AK).

I got the sneaky suspicion that Doneill was tired of the 'limit' grind and bailed. I just happened to be the lucky recipient of his chips. But I could be wrong.

Break:

7Jokers 4864
Mikeniks-Faldo 2503
Hlam14 2368
Tigercub 2265

95 min: A 35 minute battle ensues and it would take a smack down to break the gridlock. Tigercub (4th) is the victim as his turned two pair is crushed by Hlam’s trips on the river.

99 min: 7Jokers (3rd) was completely card dead since the break and has to make a move with (A8) and runs into Hlam’s (AQ).

105 min: The absolute worst heads up player in the country, Mikeniks-Faldo (2nd) is made short work of. I hit two pair on the turn, but Hlam gets his straight on the river.

Welcome back Hlam14.

1st – Hlam14 10 pts
2nd – Mikeniks-Faldo 7 pts
3rd – 7Jokers 5 pts
4th – Tigercub 3 pts
5th - Doneill 1 pt
6th - ArcticBlast
7th - Rennzzo
8th - Duder

Total points race is on the side of the blog