Round 8 was held at Bayside Room 6 at the RACV Club. Several players were MIA this round due to other commitments and others mistaking the dates despite the dates being published here on the site. Note, there are several ways to keep tabs on the upcoming dates like marking them onto your smartphone calendar or work Outlook calendar in advance. There’s even an Event Gadget on this site when you accept it will enter the date on your Google calendar which you can configure on your iPhone/smartphone to use.
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We had one hired-gun in Paul Harb who substituted for Swampy Marsh. Sam Mohamed was back from his overseas trip refreshed and ready re-establish his presence on the leaderboard after his hired-gun had an early exit last month.
Rusty was on a major heater very early, taking down several pots. Sam’s night didn’t quite go to script as a large pot brewed between he and Rusty. On the river a bet, raise, re-raise, all-in, snap-call ended with Rusty tabling the top-end (Jack-high) straight and Sam showing a lower straight to hit the rail.
Rusty’s dominance continued with another big pot between he and Nate. The flop was QQx and once again all the money was in by the River and Rusty tabling KQ and Nate with trip-Queens but a lower kicker (J?) for another knock-out by Rusty.
Arnold too was steadily growing his stack with the occasional pot and putting a big dint to Bini’s stack. Rodney opened UTG, Bini called on the button and Arnold called in big blind. I’m not sure of flop but was either QJx or QTx and Arnold checked, Rod either C-bet the flop and we called or we checked round but regardless all three saw a Turn card which was an Ace. Arnold first to act made a big bet, Rod folded and Bini called on the button. The river card was either a Ten or Jack (regardless any K would make a straight). Arnold made a big bet on the river, Bini went into the tank for some time verbally going through the hand and eventually called with Arnold showing AK for the Ace-high straight. Bini mucks but says he had an Ace.
Paul Harb for the most-part was fairly card-dead but found himself all-in pre-flop after Bini opened. Paul had QQ and Bini AK. Unfortunately for Paul an Ace and a King hit the flop. The turn was a T to give Paul four Jacks as additional outs but missed a J or Q on the river. Bini double’s-up to which Rusty needles Mark with the phrase “Tinni-Bini.”
Paul was eventually knocked out by Arnold when Paul opened the pot and Arnold came over the top with a re-raise to effectively put Paul all-in. Paul called tabling I think an A6 (suited?) and Arnold with AJ. The board did not run out in Paul’s favour and Paul was out.
Another interesting hand occurred with Rod and Bini. Rod makes standard opened pre-flop and Bini called. Flop and turn came at least 2 or 3 broadway cards and Rod kept betting. He finally gave up on the river and checked to which Bini then fired a decent size bet on the River. Rod snap-calls and Bini insta-mucks !?!. Rod shows pocket Ten’s on an AKQx board and Mark begins to rant. Rod says he was semi-bluffing his straight draw but checked on the River to “trap” .. Bini goes into a minor tail-spin LOL!
Rod severely cripples Rusty when he rivers a 7 to make trips and Rusty departs in 3rd place losing a 60-40 against Arnold. Final hand was Rod shoves pre-flop with a King and Arnold calls with an Ace which holds. Game over.
The latest scoreboard has been updated on the blog. Bini still holds a 60 point lead on Arnold who just narrowed the gap.
FYI: I’ll be on holidays for the next two games so Allan will fill-in for me. From now on whoever wins that nights tournament is charged with writing up a “Match Report”. Can everyone therefore please sign-up to the Discussion forum linked to this site and post there. Once you have signed up you will be notified that you can also email to Group Email Address and anyone registered as a member of discussion forum will receive the email automatically.
Whoever is updating the Tournament scoreboard spreadsheet (Rodney) please update and post it on the discussion forum so everyone can see their points (either post it as is, make it read-only or post as PDF document).
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