The Barrington Ridge crowd represented with three of the four cashes in the HU tourney. We just beat the previous record with 23 entrants.
Drumm (two "m's") ran through the field at the Featured Table before facing Doug. After dispatching Drumm (two "m's"), Doug beat Kevin (who had guaranteed himself a cash two hours earlier) in a marathon match. Doug faced off in the final against Hank, and if I had watched it instead of playing on-line, I could tell you what happened. I'm sure it was enthralling, but Doug ultimately won. Kevin took third with Drumm (two "m's") cashing fourth. Congrats to Hank for not letting non-tour players take all the cash...
Doug has now cashed in three of his four GPT appearances. If he keeps it up he might get his tour card for the Fall 2006 season. That’s not true of all the new faces Saturday...
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Tons of pics - more to come.
The Hand that Never Was - This is from the match between Doug and Kevin. Doug raised from the small with pocket fours. Kevin folded reluctantly and they three the flop out. After Doug went wild, Kevin said "run it out," which Doug thought was pointless, but did anyway. Needles-in-hay, they would have been AI on the flop. As it happens, Kevin would have caught an eight on the river to cripple Doug.
The Boat that Everyone Saw - Except Hank
In Hank's match with Jim he was frustrated on a couple of occasions. In this hand, Hank held a pair of sevens with two kings on the board. Jim bet into him, and Hank went with his (wrong) read announcing “I don’t think you have a king.” He did. With all the chips in, Hank spiked a seven on the turn to take a big league, but as he was celebrating he flipped the last card face down and didn’t notice that it paired the board with deuces, giving Jim a kings-full. As you can see, plenty of people were pointing it out...
Heads-up is often a game of top pair, or the best draw. It’s very rare that a player can show his opponent the nuts, but Drumm (two "m's") found a way.
