Playing were Bob and Carol Jones, Glenn and Beth Bramer, Dave and Noreen Fair, Dan Korn, Kevin Bealer, Bill Ruvinsky, and last minute addition, Jason Ruvinsky.
Thanks to Dave for providing the chips and cards, setting up and running the game. Per Dave’s idea we doubled everyone’s initial amount of chips while keeping the blinds low in order to give everyone more playing time. It seemed to work quite well as the first player out got to play for nearly two hours before busting. The game ran about four hours before a winner emerged.
There were a few highlights that bear mentioning. Glenn was the initial chip leader having taken most of Bob’s stack after Bob drew a straight on the Flop only to lose to the flush Glenn made on the River. Bob recovered when he managed to deal a similarly devastating blow to Glenn. Carol took over and was chip leader for most of the evening. Carol was a veritable killing machine knocking out four of the first six players - Bill, Jason, Beth and Glenn. By the end of the night, Dave had knocked out four himself - Noreen, Dan, Bob and Kevin. The only other person to knock someone out was Kevin who took out Carol.
The tally is as follows.
- 10 - Bill
- 09 - Noreen
- 08 - Jason
- 07 - Beth
- 06 - Dan
- 05 - Glenn
- 04 - Bob
- 03 - Carol $10
- 02 - Kevin $30
- 01 - Dave $60
Dave was the big winner and played a good game throughout. A couple of times he was down to a handful of chips but he stuck around and at the end held all the chips. He did get a couple of very lucky breaks that were really the highlight of the evening. The first was taking out Dan.
Dan versus Dave:
Dan had Q-4 offsuit
Dave had Q-8 offsuit
Pre-flop Dave was 68% to win heads up against Dan.
The Flop was Q-7-4 giving Dan two pair, Dave one pair with no possibility of a flush.
Post-flop, Dave was a 26% underdog.
Carol bet, Dan raised all in and Dave called, leaving himself with three low denomination chips if he lost. Carol folded.
The Turn was no help. After the turn, Dave was a 17% underdog.
The River was an 8, giving Dave a higher two pair and knocking Dan out of the game.
The second highlight was the last hand of the night when Dave went head to head against Kevin.
Dave versus Kevin:
Dave had about 65% of the chips in play. Kevin had about 35%.
Kevin had K-3 offsuit
Dave had 7-7
Kevin moved all-in pre-flop. Dave called.
Dave was a 71% favorite pre-flop.
The Flop was A-10-10
Dave is still a 69% favorite.
The turn was another A, putting two pair on the board, and counterfeiting Dave’s sevens. Now both players had two pair (Aces and Tens) while Kevin had a King kicker! Kevin is now the favorite. Dave is a 91% underdog. Only a seven can save him.
The River was a 7. Dave won with a full house.
Thanks to everyone who came out. It was a great time. I hope to do it again soon.
Bob
