Blogger Poker Tour S2 Game 5

It was a packed house with 116 people sitting around the smokey tables in the "House Of Blues" Tourney, hosted by Skinski, (our Target for the Day)... we were induced into the laid back style of poker "Blues Style".

Shorthanded Poker..

At my table was
Seat 1 Bardiya
2 tomonbass
3 cazwil
4 myself
5 Wade79
6 empty seat

And sitting with the Target were..
Seat 1 astinaguy
2 skinski
3 mortguns
4 cashline
5 ATheGuruK
6 mimi2mik
and 20 other tables ready to go.

At 1500 it was Shuffle up and deal with the Final Table on all our minds.

6 hands into the tourney we already have 3 out and a clear leader with over $4k. (Crazylegs1984) and our 3 casualties are, redeyed030, CawtBluffin, and pinyo08.

Meanwhile our target skin's is up with solid hands but only in the Black by $120.


Lightening36 next to go and helped move TheBigSurprise into 2nd place with CentFootball59 just holding last with $65.

My own personal hands have been ok to start with but nothing to where I can make a larger bet to start on a stack... but lots of game to go yet.

Ok my description of the tourney is now over... AQ UTG just called in called Turn the Q and have cazwil go over the top with 2 pair sooted Q2... 2 weeks of waiting and bust out with monster hands ... out in 109th... looks like it may have to be BPT S3 b4 I have any chance of winning anything... The Blues are now playing in my house....

The link below is the final result link. Good Luck to everyone.. I am going back to get some more sleep as I had Forum Leage at 6am this morning.

http://www.poker.com/results/index.html?id=4199170-1


Moved back to the Tour to check in on the Final Table to see The Target Man still sitting there low stacked.. with iytoni and JayNYC the other remaining players.

Skin is ultra low stack and gets lucky heads up with his A5 vs A7 and K10 to AK.

The main money is going back and forward between Jay and iytoni until Jay moves all in with A7 spades and lost to iytoni's A6o.

Final 2 players Skin and iytoni.... with Skin at 48k and iytoni just over 200k.

Skin doubles up and stays alive catching the straight with his K8 vs Q9.
Totals now skinski 60k iytoni 160k.

Skin moves in with a reraise holding A5 running up against iytoni's AK. The King hits the flop and skinski is out in 2nd with iytoni recieving the win and the scalp of skinski, and skinski himself picking up 2nd place points and the host bonus...

check out the updated leaderboard at the link below... Congrats to the winners and commiseration to us losers.

http://www.bloggerpokertour.com/leaderboard.html

BPT Season 2 Event 5

The House of Blues, is the Blogger Host.. go check out the site and get that password.

Here is the Link Shane put on the p.com Forum... http://forum.poker.com/showthread.php?t=9635

And a direct link to our Host... The one and Only Skinski.......
http://the-house-of-blues.blogspot.com/

So if you don't have a Blog as yet... then get your self moving and checkout the Tour it is a great time for all and you never know.... you may even win.

Good Luck everyone see you at the Tables.... Earl... watchout your mine.

My Bad

I suppose that I should really have mentioned our safe arrival back in NZ...

The continuation of the Kiwi Returns Home was briefly as follows.

After Getting up and having a quick breakfast we went down to the Front desk for Timings of the Metro and Buses into Downtown LA.

After finding that the closest one was about 1 minle south of us I decided it was such a nice day with nothing but time on our hands we could walk...

Brandy deciding that she didn't like the fact that I was in control of the Directions, decided to ask a Police Officer who was finishing a report regarding an accident that occured on the road in front of the Hotel.. Before I knew what had happened. We were all bundled into the Police car and driven down to the Metro Station.

We go into Downtown Hollywood for the Typical sightseeing and have our meal and phots around the place including several hundred of the Pavement with those Stars, before we saw a big commotion across the Street in front of the New complex that was built since my last visit there a couple of years earlier.

With the Kids in tow I tried to get them across the road so that they could see the Cameras and Boom Microphones used in Television etc, and just as we were about to cross the road, they started to come to us.

Apparantly it was a series of a Fairly new show where New Bands are challenged to get passers-by to go on video with them singing their new Song and they would get points for each person who does it. So The kids and myself all agreed to do it, we wondered over the road and were promptly handed some percussion instruments to strike as the Band sang the song for the Video camera with about 36 others...

The show airs on MTV2 so keep an eye out for the Singing and Rocking Kiwi and family.

We were delayed with this filming so much that even the final 50 yards to the Manns Theatre was too much time and we had to hurry back to the Metro to get back to the Hotel to catch the Valet Service to the Airport for our trip to Auckland...

WELLLLLLLL, all did not go as planned... the metro had Mechanical problems delaying the second train we had to catch, and a little panic started to strike Brandy, I just shrugged shoulders and said oh well not much we can do now except wait. About 20mins later along came the Metro that took us all the way back without another single hitch.

Bags into Bus and off to the Airport to go back into Security Lines for Baggage checks before Ticketing, and then onto the Ticketing Counter... where I then found out we didnt have a direct flight, it was with a 2 hour layover in Tahiti, a nice place to visit with Time on your hands, AND DAYLIGHT, we arrived at 11pm local time and had to remain in the Airport... at least this airport allowed smoking... so that was a welcome and timely relief for me if nothing else.

Then onto NZ and arrival around 6am and then slight Custom Delays before being met by my brother with his medium sized car, and knowledge that we all 4 had 2 suitcases, 1 personal and 1 carry one bag each... so it was into the Airport Shuttle service and $100 later we got to his house for a well deserved relaxing 4 days until our move to Tauranga.

And her is where we are to this date...

So sorry about the delay in this.. but as the say better late then never.

Blogger Tour Event 4

Saturday Nov 4th 1500.

97 players were seated and rearing to go in the Irongirls Omaha Hi, 8 seat tourney.

Players at my table:
newfie25
stuarthomegame
DamRiver
bolcs5
KiwiWiz
lifesagrind
gohabs1234
thepurdle

The players with Irongirl as their target and at their table were...
Goliath2180
SweBlackbird
skinski
Chatuba
Kugr84
biggestron
abstratto
and of course Irongirl

Even before the Blinds had been raised the first time the field had found its first casualty... z0ot64 and the leaders had also put a little distance on the rest of the field.

Enortore 2nd casualty of the tourney, and EgonOlsen rasing to a 4,320 1st place position and still the blinds havn't been raised.

Irongirl is still secure mid field only posting blinds and sitting near the starting chip count.
Just in time to see the first Blind Raise the Field loses 2 more players and Egon Moves further ahead...

My luck so far has been having KKQQ (2 suited) raising that and seeing 3 cards to another suit hit the board... Flopping a set of Ks only to lose to running straights,(and the wheel at that to make it worse). I am hoping I can at least have a strong hand hold for once, as my return back to p.com since the move back to NZ has been very bad, every dominating hand has lost and every set beaten on the river by the Fish....

Anyway back to the game....

20 hands into the tourney... The top 2 players have over 5k already and we have lost 8 from the starting field of 97.
I am well down the field in 72nd place with 1740... njust ahead of Irongirl our Target (and host of this tourney).

Over the next 10 hands, my luck didn't change raising AAK10 to see 995 hit the board, in yet again the suit I don't have covered...

10 more players out, and the spread of Chips still going to the same players.... Hi stack TOMASO2 with 6500 and low stack has a meagre 540.


Irongirl is still midfield with 1,630 in chips and I am not even sure if she is seated 35 hands dealt 1 win and lots of close but bad luck hands... I am back in 70 of 75 with 1415 in chips, meanwhile TOMASO2 has doubled his stack to over 11k..

My Table is down to 6 with thepurdle taking both the other players out and moving his stack onto 8235.

Managed to double up through flopping 2 pair from BB and having it Boat on the Turn for me.. now in 36th of 75.. Irongirl is losing her chips and is now down to 1130, 68 of 75.. I hope we break tables and I have a chance at those chips.

50th hand just dealt, TOMASO2 has again lept up in the chip count to a 2-1 lead over 2nd place thepurdle, low stack is currently Rahaboss with 540, and I am sitting in 36th with 1765. Irongirl is still holding in there with 930 after posting her BB. And we have 73 remaining.

BB raised I have am 2 suited with A10 my top cards call and see yet again.. the Other suit dominate the flop, maybe I should just throw money on anything and hope like some of the Omaha players.

The first of the table changes due to the field size has occured and I am still sitting on my and am now joined by, tomonbass and mick5453 both of which are sitting around the same chip stack as myself... TOMASO2 has joined irongirlll with his 15k in chips.

Hand 60 on my table and 52 on Irongirls... she has 630 left and just posting blinds next hand... I think, she is close to giving someone her points


Her bb she goes all in over the top of TOMASO2 and loses.... so Chip leader increases his lead and takes the Hosts scalp.

57 remaining average chip count 3403, Chip Leader 15115, low stack, 415 I am holding firm at 38th with 1390.

And on we go to the break....

Current Standings...

Chip Leader Goliath2180 , since skinski took 6k in chips off TOMASO2 on the hand before the break...

2nd skinski 10210
3rd EgonOlsen 10142

Low Stack
DaMatrix 145

I am currently in 36th position with 1390 and blinds only 2 hands away at 200/100


Still my luck is running dry... AAKQ 3 suited. Only to see KQ10H hit the flop... Im dead yet again.

The field is now down to 50 with Hi Stack astinaguy with 14255 and low stack zowieZ with 60, average stack is now 4127 and I am back in 30th with 1915.
I have not seen the positive side of the chips (2000) since the start of the game...

WQith the blinds now at 150/300 I have just about no option but to push really hard on mext bet to try and make up some ground.

88th Hand 40 left and the chip spread is $16155 to $25 and average stack @ 4850.
I am currently nestled away in 24th place.


Ok My last 5 BBS raised all in by people I make a stand with AQQ10 against higher stack... He has AA26... and calls my reraise all in.

Flop A enough for me to go out in 30th place and yet again to a marginal hand.. sure AA is good but to hit the Case Ace really hurts...

Stack amounts at the moment are.

Hi Stack 31,120 astinaguy
14,292 EgonOlsen 2nd

Low stack in 28th place crazylegs1984 with 50.

Slowly the field is reduced :
Egon has moved into 1st with 39392
while flushedhand is low stack in 16th with 2443. The average stack is 12125 with only 4 players above that

Final table time...

1st freeroll26 46607
2nd astinaguy 38072
egonOlsonn 31963
MTLdon 30930
imjusthereforthebeer
kufolem
stenenslb
Rahaboss

A little too and frowing and the final 5 are set with freeroll in 1st Egon in 2nd
and MTLdon in 5th the chip range is 84133 to 26052.

Final 3... freeroll, Egon and Imjusthereforthebeer..

Chip stacks 80k 57k 56k.. freeroll started to take control of the final 3 moving into a comanding 110k chip stack to the other stacks of 41 and 26k.

Egon out in 3rd with freeroll increasing his lead to nearly a 2 - 1 chip lead over imjusthereforthebeer.


Next handbeer raises AA and is reraised by freeroll holding Kqq... turn 5 river a 9 to complete freerolls straight and give him the win...

Congrats to freeroll, and all who played...

see ya at the next one.
Flop JTK setting freeroll up for the straight.