RTR Game 4

My apologies guys, but I am keeping it short and sweet this week as I am seriously struggling for time.

So a quick break down:

11 players only this week, slightly dissapointing, but still a well fought out battle. 33 mins until our first bustout.

11th - teaulc - 2nd WOODEN SPOON - 99 losing to JQ(Bullmeist)

10th - BurnleyMik - 74 vs 79

9th - Bullmiester - ATs losing to TJ (MattyH) on a Tc Ks Js flop.

8th - The Cloud - Short and pushed 44 into 88 (Hammerheid) AIPF

7th - Scouse -Missed most of game sat out, got back short and pushed 22 into KQ (MattyH)

6th - YorkiePud - Got it AIPF with QTs vs JJ (Mair) and JJ held.

5th - Acornman - Acorn shoved over the top of a raise with JKs and was called by AJ (Hammerheid)

4 handed a BIG hand went down that turned things around.

Before the hand the stacks were as follows:

Seat 4: Oenone (2690 in chips)
Seat 5: Hammerheid (3527 in chips)
Seat 7: Matty H UK (7043 in chips)
Seat 9: Mair38 (3240 in chips)

Then the monster:

Table ‘101075559 1′ 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 4: Oenone (2690 in chips)
Seat 5: Hammerheid (3527 in chips)
Seat 7: Matty H UK (7043 in chips)
Seat 9: Mair38 (3240 in chips)
Mair38: posts small blind 100
Oenone: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Oenone said, “gg”
Hammerheid said, “gg zag”
Hammerheid: raises 400 to 600
Matty H UK: raises 6443 to 7043 and is all-in
Mair38: folds
Oenone: folds
Hammerheid: calls 2927 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (3516) returned to Matty H UK
*** FLOP *** [6d 7c Ts]
Matty H UK said, “oops”
Matty H UK said, “8″
*** TURN *** [6d 7c Ts] [3c]
Matty H UK said, “8″
Matty H UK said, “8″
Matty H UK said, “8″
Matty H UK said, “8″
*** RIVER *** [6d 7c Ts 3c] [Jd]
Matty H UK said, “8″
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hammerheid: shows [As Ad] (a pair of Aces)
Matty H UK: shows [9s 9h] (a pair of Nines)
Hammerheid collected 7354 from pot
Oenone said, “nh”
Mair38 said, “nh”
Matty H UK said, “nh”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 7354 | Rake 0
Board [6d 7c Ts 3c Jd]
Seat 4: Oenone (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Hammerheid showed [As Ad] and won (7354) with a pair of Aces
Seat 7: Matty H UK (button) showed [9s 9h] and lost with a pair of Nines
Seat 9: Mair38 (small blind) folded before Flop

this was followed up with the same two players clashing again in another big hand:

Table ‘101075559 1′ 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 4: Oenone (2590 in chips)
Seat 5: Hammerheid (7054 in chips)
Seat 7: Matty H UK (3116 in chips)
Seat 9: Mair38 (3740 in chips)
Oenone: posts small blind 100
Hammerheid: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Matty H UK: raises 400 to 600
Mair38: folds
Oenone: folds
Hammerheid: calls 400
*** FLOP *** [Qc Qd Js]
Hammerheid: bets 600
Matty H UK: raises 600 to 1200
Hammerheid: calls 600
*** TURN *** [Qc Qd Js] [7d]
Hammerheid: bets 1600
Matty H UK: calls 1316 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (284) returned to Hammerheid
*** RIVER *** [Qc Qd Js 7d] [Jc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hammerheid: shows [Jh 8h] (a full house, Jacks full of Queens)
Matty H UK: shows [Tc Jd] (a full house, Jacks full of Queens)
Hammerheid collected 3166 from pot
Matty H UK collected 3166 from pot
Matty H UK said, “typical”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6332 | Rake 0
Board [Qc Qd Js 7d Jc]
Seat 4: Oenone (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Hammerheid (big blind) showed [Jh 8h] and won (3166) with a full house, Jacks full of Queens
Seat 7: Matty H UK showed [Tc Jd] and won (3166) with a full house, Jacks full of Queens
Seat 9: Mair38 (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

4th Spot eventually went to Mair - AJ vs A5 and it went in on the river after a 5 flopped on a raggy board. - Bubble Girl

3rd - MattyH - He shoved AT into AQ (Hammerheid) - $11

Heads Up

Stacks:

Seat 4: Oenone (2465 in chips)
Seat 5: Hammerheid (14035 in chips)

So, with Hammer having an almost 7:1 chip lead, things were looking bleak for Zanshin.

Two hands later it was all over. Here is the final hand of the tourney this week:

Table ‘101075559 1′ 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 4: Oenone (2090 in chips)
Seat 5: Hammerheid (14410 in chips)
Oenone: posts the ante 25
Hammerheid: posts the ante 25
Hammerheid: posts small blind 100
Oenone: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Hammerheid: raises 400 to 600
Oenone: raises 1465 to 2065 and is all-in
Hammerheid: calls 1465
*** FLOP *** [2c Kd Js]
*** TURN *** [2c Kd Js] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [2c Kd Js 4h] [5d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Oenone: shows [Tc Ad] (high card Ace)
Hammerheid: shows [Kh 8h] (a pair of Kings)
Hammerheid collected 4180 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4180 | Rake 0
Board [2c Kd Js 4h 5d]
Seat 4: Oenone (big blind) showed [Tc Ad] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 5: Hammerheid (button) (small blind) showed [Kh 8h] and won (4180) with a pair of Kings

So a big congratulations to Hammerheid who adds another $27.50 to his points.

Commiserations, but a very well done to an extremely patient Zanshin to pick up second spot, he also adds points to his final total because he won $16.50

CONGRATULATIONS HAMMERHEID!!

So, after week four, lets have a look at the current standings:

Position	Name	Points ($)
1st	Hammerheid	62.50
2nd	Yorkshire Pudding	37.50
2nd	Zanshin	37.50
3rd	smoothplease	35
4th	BurnleyMik	22.50
5th	Scouse	21
6th	Acornman	15
7th	The Cloud	14
7th	Teaulc	14
8th	MattyH	11

So things are starting to open up a bit at the top with Hammerheid taking a clear lead. This is the first week where a points scorer from a previous week has made it into the top three and this week TWO of them do it!

As I always say its all still to play for. With 6 weeks remaining can you afford to miss this week?

Now for the bit you have all been waiting for!

1. Best Hammer Play- BM hammering cloud early doors, when cloud folded his 88 to a 3-bet.

2. Bad Beat Of the Night- MAttyH - Sufferred numerous!

3. Wooden Spoon Award- Teaulc

4. Best Show Bluff - None

5. Bubble Girl-Mair

A big thank-you to everyone who played and supported RTR. Please don’t miss round 5 next week!

Raise the River Podcast: Bounty Tournament Special

The RTR admins and mods take on the rest of the forum for bragging rights and bounties. Who will prevail?

RTR Premier League - Game 3 Write-up

Once again Sunday night saw the coming together of Raise The River’s finest at the virtual felt. 15 Players turned up, raring to play poker and “hammer” each other into oblivion!

3 Mins in and we almost had our first elimination, when Cloud and Pud clashed Head to Head with this hand:

Table ‘101075423 2′ 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: scouse3465 (1500 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 3: teaulc (1320 in chips)
Seat 4: Bullmeister (1500 in chips)
Seat 5: Oenone (1650 in chips)
Seat 6: zagga (1550 in chips)
Seat 7: Yorksh1rePud (1470 in chips)
Seat 8: the_cloud71 (1510 in chips)
the_cloud71: posts small blind 10
scouse3465: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
teaulc: folds
Bullmeister: folds
Oenone: folds
zagga: folds
Yorksh1rePud: raises 30 to 50
the_cloud71: calls 40
scouse3465: folds
*** FLOP *** [Kh 8d 4s]
the_cloud71: bets 80
Yorksh1rePud: raises 140 to 220
the_cloud71: raises 200 to 420
Yorksh1rePud: raises 1000 to 1420 and is all-in
the_cloud71: calls 1000
*** TURN *** [Kh 8d 4s] [6c]
*** RIVER *** [Kh 8d 4s 6c] [9h]
teaulc said, “eeeek”
*** SHOW DOWN ***
the_cloud71: shows [Ah As] (a pair of Aces)
Yorksh1rePud: shows [Kc 4h] (two pair, Kings and Fours)
the_cloud71 said, “wow -vnh”
Yorksh1rePud collected 2960 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2960 | Rake 0
Board [Kh 8d 4s 6c 9h]
Seat 7: Yorksh1rePud (button) showed [Kc 4h] and won (2960) with two pair, Kings and Fours
Seat 8: the_cloud71 (small blind) showed [Ah As] and lost with a pair of Aces

Really harsh on Cloud, but its fully understandable that its probably going in on that flop with those two hands, already Pud runs goot! That left cloud with just 90 chips. After 3 mins of play. Surely he had to collect this weeks Wooden Spoon??

Well next to get into the frame of short stack and contender for the Wooden Spoon was Ant66 (Aka THE ROCK) when he was crippled by daser in this action generating hand:

Table ‘101075423 1′ 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: BurnleyMik (1670 in chips)
Seat 3: 1966ant (1220 in chips)
Seat 5: dasertr (1510 in chips)
Seat 6: RacingFerret (1440 in chips)
Seat 7: Matty H UK (1770 in chips)
Seat 8: Mair38 (1590 in chips)
Seat 9: Hammerheid (1300 in chips)
Mair38: posts small blind 10
Hammerheid: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
1966ant: raises 40 to 60
dasertr: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [Qd 8c 8h]
1966ant: checks
dasertr: checks
*** TURN *** [Qd 8c 8h] [9h]
1966ant: bets 60
dasertr: raises 60 to 120
1966ant: calls 60
*** RIVER *** [Qd 8c 8h 9h] [9d]
1966ant: bets 100
dasertr: raises 100 to 200
1966ant: raises 300 to 500
dasertr: raises 300 to 800
1966ant: calls 300
*** SHOW DOWN ***
dasertr: shows [Qc Qs] (a full house, Queens full of Nines)
1966ant: shows [Ac 8d] (a full house, Eights full of Nines)
dasertr collected 1990 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1990 | Rake 0
Board [Qd 8c 8h 9h 9d]
Seat 3: 1966ant showed [Ac 8d] and lost with a full house, Eights full of Nines
Seat 5: dasertr showed [Qc Qs] and won (1990) with a full house, Queens full of Nines

OOF! thats rough! PokerStars was on fine form! Flopped trips vs the flopped full house! The river probably saved ant from going broke in this hand.

So thats two lots of big hands, putting two players in contention for the dreaded wooden spoon!

Which of these two players do you think got the wooden spoon? Go on, have a guess…?

NEITHER! It was snatched right from under their noses!

This weeks Wooden Spoon goes to.. BULLMEIST! Out in 15th spot with this unlucky hand:

Table ‘101075423 2′ 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: scouse3465 (1440 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 3: teaulc (1190 in chips)
Seat 4: Bullmeister (1460 in chips)
Seat 5: Oenone (1480 in chips)
Seat 6: zagga (1600 in chips)
Seat 7: Yorksh1rePud (2330 in chips)
Seat 8: the_cloud71 (140 in chips)
Seat 9: simonjjj (2360 in chips)
zagga: posts small blind 15
Yorksh1rePud: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Bullmeister: raises 30 to 60
Oenone: calls 60
Yorksh1rePud: raises 140 to 200
Bullmeister: raises 1260 to 1460 and is all-in
Yorksh1rePud: calls 1260
*** FLOP *** [6c Ah Ts]
*** TURN *** [6c Ah Ts] [Td]
Bullmeister said, “oooh NH pud!!”
*** RIVER *** [6c Ah Ts Td] [9s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Yorksh1rePud: shows [Kc Kh] (two pair, Kings and Tens)
Bullmeister: shows [Qs Qh] (two pair, Queens and Tens)
Yorksh1rePud collected 2995 from pot
Yorksh1rePud said, “ty”
Yorksh1rePud said, “gg”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2995 | Rake 0
Board [6c Ah Ts Td 9s]
Seat 4: Bullmeister showed [Qs Qh] and lost with two pair, Queens and Tens
Seat 7: Yorksh1rePud (big blind) showed [Kc Kh] and won (2995) with two pair, Kings and Tens

Someone needs to tell Bully to respect the Pudsters raises!!! You can’t go busto with QQ when the Wooden Spoon has not yet been taken! Let that be a lesson to you all!!!!!!

This is just for you Bull “The Wooden Spoon” Meister..

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With the first player gone, the short stackers relaxed a little, knowing they wouldn’t be the loser of the week. ;-). Ant then became the second player to hit the rail in 14th place. Unfortunately I did the old trick of copying the wrong HH and I cannot remember exactly what hand he made his move with, but he was short and didnt have much choice.

Things opened up a little and Cloud started to make an excellent comeback and it was looking promising for the greatest comeback since Lazarus, until he went over the top of Acornman’s raise with QKo. Acorn called with 55 and all the hopes and dreams of Mr Cloud were ended when he didn’t manage to hit any of the board. Cloud exited in 13th spot.

Leaving the virtual felt in 12th spot was Matty H. Matty was another player who was crippled quite early, but managed to make an excellent comeback, as he did the week before, with his “never say die” attitude, when with just over 10 BB’s, he made a shove with A7o and ran straight into Mair’s 99, which held and Matty was
eliminated.

11th position, this week, was picked up by Racing Ferret. I have no idea what the hell went on because this time I somehow copied the hand before RF’s shove! FFS! Sorry RF. RF had less than 10 BB’s, so i assume he made a push and got a call.

The final table Bubble was this week taken by Amatay. The man with his poker mind all messed up (see his blog!) had his stack up and down more than a bride’s nightie! There were some people hoping he would get the better of that Yorkshirefish (which one I hear you call! ;-)), Pud! Amatay eventually bust when he shoved A9 into AJ and AJ flushed.

Then we made it to the final 9, the boys and girls who had pitted their wits and made the final table!

Well done to anyone who got this far.

The first player to bust out in 9th, was the man who finished 2nd in week one, Zanshin. Zan still managed to attend the game despite being stuck in a hotel! He was considering whether to play in the bar or not either way it couldn’t help him to score anymore points when he shoved his AK over an UTG raise from Teaulc, who called with TT and won the race.

8th player to hit the rail this week was daser, when he was unfortunate enough to run his JJ into BurnleyMik’s KK AIPF. Very unlucky, but daser stayed around long enough to encourage us to try and eliminate Yorkie pud so he didn’t have to read all about it on Pud’s Blog!

Out in 7th position was Mair, who got it all in pre flop with AQ vs Puds KQs. The KQs hit a flush. Pretty rough way to go, but all you can do is get the money in good and the rest is with the poker gods (amen) to decide.

6th placed finisher was Mair’s other half, Stanley, aka Hammerheid! Hammerheid’s JQ was no match for BurnleyMik’s AQ on a Queen high flop when all the money went in. Hammers JQ didn’t improve and he hit the rail.

The 5th placed player was the only player to have so far made the final table in all three games... Scouse. The Mega short stacked Scouse made his shove with Q9 only to run into Yorkshire Pud’s KJ. the board missed them both completely and K high takes down the pot and eliminates Scouse.

So here we were already. The final four. Bubble time!

No-one wants to get this close and then bust, but even worse, no one wants to get this far and then burst to a bad beat! This is exactly what happened to Teaulc in this hand:

Table ‘101075423 1′ 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: BurnleyMik (11004 in chips)
Seat 2: Yorksh1rePud (3947 in chips)
Seat 3: zagga (3020 in chips)
Seat 6: teaulc (4529 in chips)
BurnleyMik: posts the ante 25
Yorksh1rePud: posts the ante 25
zagga: posts the ante 25
teaulc: posts the ante 25
BurnleyMik: posts small blind 100
Yorksh1rePud: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BurnleyMik [8d Ah]
zagga: folds
teaulc: raises 600 to 800
BurnleyMik: raises 1400 to 2200
Yorksh1rePud: folds
teaulc: raises 2304 to 4504 and is all-in
BurnleyMik: calls 2304
BurnleyMik said, “oh chit”
*** FLOP *** [3c 6c 5c]
*** TURN *** [3c 6c 5c] [2c]
*** RIVER *** [3c 6c 5c 2c] [8s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BurnleyMik: shows [8d Ah] (a pair of Eights)
teaulc: shows [Ts As] (high card Ace)
teaulc said, “ffs”
BurnleyMik collected 9308 from pot
Yorksh1rePud said, “jesus”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 9308 | Rake 0
Board [3c 6c 5c 2c 8s]
Seat 1: BurnleyMik (small blind) showed [8d Ah] and won (9308) with a pair of Eights
Seat 6: teaulc (button) showed [Ts As] and lost with high card Ace

Once again you can do no more than get it in ahead. Teaulc was very unlucky and there were rumours that BurnleyMik had tears in BOTH of his glass eyes! ;-). In reality, a horrible way to bubble.

Teaulc Mr Bubble

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That left three. The best/luckiest three players (well ok two, BurnleyMik and Pud!) at the virtual felt that evening. All of them wanting the win. It was the battle of the Two Roses and a Thistle!

There was a bit of to-ing and fro-ing going on, with no player really giving much up and the button steals working with alarming frequency for all three players. No one was getting any hands to play back with, so it was pretty tight.

here is how the stacks were looking going into three handed:

Seat 1: BurnleyMik (15533 in chips)
Seat 2: Yorksh1rePud (3947 in chips)
Seat 3: zagga (3020 in chips)

BurnleyMik had a commanding lead, but could he make it count?

Eventually we had our 3rd placed finisher, when it all went in pre flop on this hand:

Table ‘101075423 1′ 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: BurnleyMik (16133 in chips)
Seat 2: Yorksh1rePud (3572 in chips)
Seat 3: zagga (2795 in chips)
BurnleyMik: posts the ante 25
Yorksh1rePud: posts the ante 25
zagga: posts the ante 25
BurnleyMik: posts small blind 100
Yorksh1rePud: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BurnleyMik [Ah Qs]
zagga: raises 400 to 600
BurnleyMik: raises 1200 to 1800
Yorksh1rePud: folds
zagga: raises 970 to 2770 and is all-in
BurnleyMik: calls 970
*** FLOP *** [Qh 3h Ts]
zagga said, “nh gg”
*** TURN *** [Qh 3h Ts] [7c]
*** RIVER *** [Qh 3h Ts 7c] [Td]
BurnleyMik said, “ul mate.”
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BurnleyMik: shows [Ah Qs] (two pair, Queens and Tens)
zagga: shows [9h 9c] (two pair, Tens and Nines)
BurnleyMik said, “gg”
BurnleyMik collected 5815 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5815 | Rake 0
Board [Qh 3h Ts 7c Td]
Seat 1: BurnleyMik (small blind) showed [Ah Qs] and won (5815) with two pair, Queens and Tens
Seat 2: Yorksh1rePud (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: zagga (button) showed [9h 9c] and lost with two pair, Tens and Nines

A race was the decider for Acornman, who picks up 3rd spot and $15/points. A great perfomance “Mr Consistent”!

and then ther were two…

the battle of the roses.

Burnleymik - Lancashire Red Rose
YorkshirePud- Yorkshire White Rose

Pride was at stake. The two “gobbiest” trash talkers at the virtual felt got to the heads up, but all went quiet apart from a few “meh”’s and “ffs”’s..

The stacks were looking like this:

Seat 1: BurnleyMik (18928 in chips)
Seat 2: Yorksh1rePud (3572 in chips)

BurnleyMik had an almost 5:1 Chiplead on Yorkshire Pud. The blinds were 100/200 as we entered the warriors cove.. Heads Up!

One of the first hands in the HUI battle all went in Pre Flop and looked like this:

Table ‘101075423 1′ 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: BurnleyMik (19153 in chips)
Seat 2: Yorksh1rePud (3347 in chips)
BurnleyMik: posts the ante 25
Yorksh1rePud: posts the ante 25
BurnleyMik: posts small blind 100
Yorksh1rePud: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BurnleyMik [8d As]
BurnleyMik: raises 400 to 600
Yorksh1rePud: raises 2722 to 3322 and is all-in
BurnleyMik: calls 2722
*** FLOP *** [Ks 3h Qs]
*** TURN *** [Ks 3h Qs] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [Ks 3h Qs Td] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Yorksh1rePud: shows [9h Ts] (a pair of Tens)
BurnleyMik: shows [8d As] (high card Ace)
BurnleyMik said, “haha”
BurnleyMik said, “n1″
Yorksh1rePud collected 6694 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6694 | Rake 0
Board [Ks 3h Qs Td 6d]
Seat 1: BurnleyMik (button) (small blind) showed [8d As] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 2: Yorksh1rePud (big blind) showed [9h Ts] and won (6694) with a pair of Tens

Pud putting it in slightly behind, but coming out on top by the showdown. This changed the dynamics of the HU now, Puds double put him right back in the fight. Stacks were now looking like this:

Seat 1: BurnleyMik (15806 in chips)
Seat 2: Yorksh1rePud (6694 in chips)

BM’s chip lead reduced to 2.5:1 and now it was game on!

A lot of folding out of position followed and then came a big hand:

Table ‘101075423 1′ 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: BurnleyMik (15706 in chips)
Seat 2: Yorksh1rePud (6794 in chips)
BurnleyMik: posts the ante 25
Yorksh1rePud: posts the ante 25
Yorksh1rePud: posts small blind 200
BurnleyMik: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BurnleyMik [Jd Th]
Yorksh1rePud: raises 800 to 1200
BurnleyMik: calls 800
*** FLOP *** [Td 6s Qd]
BurnleyMik: checks
Yorksh1rePud: bets 1969
BurnleyMik: raises 4031 to 6000
Yorksh1rePud: calls 3600 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (431) returned to BurnleyMik
*** TURN *** [Td 6s Qd] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [Td 6s Qd Qc] [3s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BurnleyMik: shows [Jd Th] (two pair, Queens and Tens)
Yorksh1rePud: shows [Qs Jc] (three of a kind, Queens)
BurnleyMik said, “meh”
Yorksh1rePud collected 13588 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 13588 | Rake 0
Board [Td 6s Qd Qc 3s]
Seat 1: BurnleyMik (big blind) showed [Jd Th] and lost with two pair, Queens and Tens
Seat 2: Yorksh1rePud (button) (small blind) showed [Qs Jc] and won (13588) with three of a kind, Queens

This tore the game wide open and for the first time Yorkie Pud now had the Chip lead.

Play continued with BM getting himself back to level with small pots.

then came the decider and Final Hand of Game 3..

Table ‘101075423 1′ 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: BurnleyMik (10787 in chips)
Seat 2: Yorksh1rePud (11713 in chips)
BurnleyMik: posts the ante 25
Yorksh1rePud: posts the ante 25
Yorksh1rePud: posts small blind 200
BurnleyMik: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BurnleyMik [Ts Jd]
Yorksh1rePud: raises 800 to 1200
BurnleyMik: calls 800
*** FLOP *** [Kh 7c Qs]
BurnleyMik: bets 1550
Yorksh1rePud: raises 2450 to 4000
BurnleyMik: raises 5562 to 9562 and is all-in
Yorksh1rePud: calls 5562
BurnleyMik said, “9″
*** TURN *** [Kh 7c Qs] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [Kh 7c Qs 4h] [Qh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BurnleyMik: shows [Ts Jd] (a pair of Queens)
Yorksh1rePud: shows [7d Kd] (two pair, Kings and Queens)
BurnleyMik said, “nooo”
Yorksh1rePud collected 21574 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 21574 | Rake 0
Board [Kh 7c Qs 4h Qh]
Seat 1: BurnleyMik (big blind) showed [Ts Jd] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 2: Yorksh1rePud (button) (small blind) showed [7d Kd] and won (21574) with two pair, Kings and Queens

BurnleyMik flopping the open ender and YorkiePud flopping a raggy two pair! the two pair hold and Yorkshire Pud walks away with the top spot!!!!

Commiserations to BurnleyMik who picks up second place and $22.50/points

A Huge Congratulations to Yorkshire Pudding, who wins $37.5/Points and will also move into first spot in the League as there were more players this week than the previous week!

Last Man Standing…

YORKSHIRE PUDDING!!

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So after week 3 - Once again three different people entering the money and Points. Here are the latest Standings:

Position	Name	Points ($)
1st	Yorkshire Pudding	37.50
2nd	smoothplease	35
2nd	Hammerheid	35
3rd	BurnleyMik	22.50
4th	Zanshin	21
4th	Scouse	21
5th	Acornman	15
6th	The Cloud	14
6th	Teaulc	14

This shows everything is still to play for. No single player has made the money mroe than once as of yet, although Teaulc was very very close.

Now for the bit you have all been waiting for!

1. Best Hammer Play- Please vote here: LINK

2. Bad Beat Of the Night- split two ways.. Mairs AQ losing to Pud’s KQ AIPF or Teaulc’s ATs losing to BM’s A8o

3. Wooden Spoon Award- Bullmeister

4. Best Show Bluff - See hammer plays

5. Bubble Boy- Teaulc

A big thank-you to everyone who played and supported RTR. Obviously with only 3 players scoring again this week, the whole league is still wide open, so make sure you play next week!!!

Game 2 of the RTR Premier League

Sunday Night was the 2nd game in the series of the all new raise the river premier league of poker. Once again 14 players took to the virtual felt of the tables over at PokerStars to battle down to the top three. Those three would then go into battle where there could only be one winner.

This week the game started off much slower than usual and after over 30 minutes of play there wasn’t a single bust out, I mean it was clear no one wanted the weekly title of the dreaded… WOODEN SPOON!

So who got it I hear you ask……

This week our Wooden Spoon winner is….

ZANSHIN! - Here is the hand that sealed his fate:

Table ‘98902179 2′ 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: smoothplease (3400 in chips)
Seat 2: Bullmeister (3170 in chips)
Seat 5: Oenone (600 in chips)
Seat 6: scouse3465 (1670 in chips)
Seat 7: Matty H UK (510 in chips)
Seat 8: Mair38 (650 in chips)
Seat 9: biffa85 (500 in chips)
smoothplease: posts small blind 15
Bullmeister: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Oenone: raises 60 to 90
scouse3465: folds
Matty H UK: folds
Mair38: folds
biffa85: folds
Bullmeister said, “LOOOl”
smoothplease: folds
Bullmeister: raises 150 to 240
Oenone: raises 360 to 600 and is all-in
Bullmeister: calls 360
*** FLOP *** [Qs Kh 7c]
*** TURN *** [Qs Kh 7c] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [Qs Kh 7c 4h] [3d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Bullmeister: shows [Kc Ks] (three of a kind, Kings)
Oenone: shows [Qd Ac] (a pair of Queens)
Bullmeister said, “my chair??”
Oenone said, “nh”
Bullmeister collected 1215 from pot
Bullmeister said, “gg”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1215 | Rake 0
Board [Qs Kh 7c 4h 3d]
Seat 1: smoothplease (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: Bullmeister (big blind) showed [Kc Ks] and won (1215) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 5: Oenone showed [Qd Ac] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 6: scouse3465 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: Matty H UK folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 8: Mair38 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: biffa85 (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

Well done Zanshin,  here is the wooden spoon just for you!

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Just before this exit hand Racing Ferret had a monster hand where he made a straight flush! That was nice!

BurnleyMik pulled off a Hammer play vs Teaulc.. here is the hand in all its own glory:

Table ‘98902179 1′ 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: teaulc (1420 in chips)
Seat 2: RacingFerret (2050 in chips)
Seat 3: zagga (1470 in chips)
Seat 4: BurnleyMik (1150 in chips)
Seat 6: dasertr (1030 in chips)
Seat 8: 1966ant (1400 in chips)
Seat 9: Hammerheid (1980 in chips)
Hammerheid: posts small blind 10
teaulc: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BurnleyMik [7h 2s]
RacingFerret: folds
zagga: folds
zagga said, “i saw someone call poker a vicious game the other day.v true at times!”
BurnleyMik: raises 40 to 60
dasertr: folds
1966ant: folds
Hammerheid: folds
teaulc: raises 40 to 100
BurnleyMik: raises 200 to 300
teaulc: calls 200
*** FLOP *** [4c 6h 5c]
teaulc: checks
BurnleyMik: bets 850 and is all-in
teaulc: folds
Uncalled bet (850) returned to BurnleyMik
teaulc said, “urs”
BurnleyMik collected 610 from pot
BurnleyMik: shows [7h 2s] (high card Seven)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 610 | Rake 0
Board [4c 6h 5c]
Seat 1: teaulc (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: RacingFerret folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: zagga folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: BurnleyMik collected (610)
Seat 6: dasertr folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 8: 1966ant (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: Hammerheid (small blind) folded before Flop

Things were now going at the speed of light and we had our 13th position exit, courtesy of Mair, when the two short stacks, herself and biffa got it all in pre flop with 78o for Mair and Biffa with JJ. 78 didnt get the suckout and Mair exited the game.

Biffa was the next out in 12thwhen he went to push daser off a hand on the river, his read of Daser being weak seemed right, but unfortunately the river card had given daser the full house with 5’s full of 4’s to Biffa’s 2 pair.

11th Position went to the “RTR Rock”Ant!! “Tighter than a ducks *#@$ (another word for bottom)” is just one of the comments heard about Ant! hehe. The poker gods were simply not on his side after he proceeded to miss every flop he played. He eventually go extremely unlucky when his short stack shove on a board of Kd3d3c was called by Hammerheid with QdTd vs Ant’s AcQc and the flush got there by the turn.

Final table bubble (10th)was earned by Bullmeist, who went out in a straight race with his 55 vs KJs. Bully also made the strangest lay down I have ever seen at the virtual felt,earlier in the game, with this hand..

Table ‘98902179 2′ 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: smoothplease (3835 in chips)
Seat 2: Bullmeister (3275 in chips)
Seat 6: scouse3465 (1805 in chips)
Seat 7: Matty H UK (405 in chips)
Seat 8: Mair38 (725 in chips)
Seat 9: biffa85 (455 in chips)
scouse3465: posts small blind 15
Matty H UK: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Bullmeister [5h 5d]
Mair38: calls 30
biffa85: folds
smoothplease: folds
scouse3465 said, “lol maybe not then”
Bullmeister: calls 30
scouse3465: folds
Matty H UK: checks
*** FLOP *** [3d 2s 2h]
Matty H UK: checks
Mair38: checks
Bullmeister: bets 90
Matty H UK: calls 90
Mair38: calls 90
*** TURN *** [3d 2s 2h] [3s]
Matty H UK: checks
Mair38: checks
Bullmeister: checks
*** RIVER *** [3d 2s 2h 3s] [5c]
Matty H UK: bets 285 and is all-in
Mair38: calls 285
Bullmeister: folds
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Matty H UK: shows [Th 2c] (a full house, Deuces full of Threes)
Mair38: shows [Ac 4c] (a straight, Ace to Five)
Matty H UK collected 945 from pot
Bullmeister said, “LOL”
Matty H UK said, “sorry mair”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 945 | Rake 0
Board [3d 2s 2h 3s 5c]
Seat 1: smoothplease folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 2: Bullmeister (button) folded on the River
Seat 6: scouse3465 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: Matty H UK (big blind) showed [Th 2c] and won (945) with a full house, Deuces full of Threes
Seat 8: Mair38 showed [Ac 4c] and lost with a straight, Ace to Five
Seat 9: biffa85 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

He managed to fold the nuts on the river, where he could have eliminated two players! LOL Donkaments!

So here we were, down to the final table and the 9 remaining players were to go on to battle it out. With no mercy given at any point and banter flying around the chat like a drug-crazed bat!

First person to be eliminated from the final table was BurnleyMik (9th Spot)When he shoved over a raise by Teaulc and was insta called. It was a good situation for Teaulc who’s QQ held vs the AK of BM.

here is the showdown and finally on stars, justice was done!

*** RIVER *** [9d 6d 9h Ad] [2d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
teaulc: shows [Qc Qd] (a flush, Ace high)
BurnleyMik: shows [As Kc] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
teaulc collected 3640 from pot

Out in 8th was Daser, who ran his AQ smack into AK! Not much you can do with those to be fair!

7th Spot went to Mr Straight Flush himself, Racing Ferret. RF made his move with J9, only to run head on right into the mighty KK.

At this stage with 6 left the chipleader was clearly Smoothplease and after his win last week he was looking at another promising finish until a key turning hand happened for him vs the new terminator, Teaulc! Here is the clincher:

Table ‘98902179 1′ 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: teaulc (5015 in chips)
Seat 3: zagga (1705 in chips)
Seat 6: smoothplease (6700 in chips)
Seat 7: Matty H UK (1770 in chips)
Seat 8: scouse3465 (4035 in chips)
Seat 9: Hammerheid (1775 in chips)
Matty H UK: posts small blind 75
scouse3465: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Hammerheid: folds
smoothplease said, “yep”
teaulc: raises 150 to 300
zagga: folds
smoothplease: calls 300
Matty H UK: folds
scouse3465: folds
*** FLOP *** [5c 8c Qc]
teaulc: bets 4715 and is all-in
smoothplease: calls 4715
*** TURN *** [5c 8c Qc] [5d]
*** RIVER *** [5c 8c Qc 5d] [Js]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
teaulc: shows [Kh Kc] (two pair, Kings and Fives)
smoothplease: shows [Qs Kd] (two pair, Queens and Fives)
teaulc collected 10255 from pot
smoothplease said, “nh”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 10255 | Rake 0
Board [5c 8c Qc 5d Js]
Seat 1: teaulc showed [Kh Kc] and won (10255) with two pair, Kings and Fives
Seat 3: zagga folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 6: smoothplease (button) showed [Qs Kd] and lost with two pair, Queens and Fives
Seat 7: Matty H UK (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: scouse3465 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Hammerheid folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

Flopped top pair into the over pair. Very unlucky, but this was crippling to Smooth.

Smoothplease then made his exit in 6th Spotby pushing 88 in position and was called by Hammerheid A6s. An ace on the board sealed Smooth’s fate and unfortunately this week he will be receiving NIL POI! Smooth is now on holiday for a couple of weeks which gives us all chance to catch him!!

So, then there were 5. The Man to bust out in 5th was this weeks short-stack-ninja and Mr “never say die” Matty H, who came back from some horrible early luck to claw his was back to this deep. He eventually pushed with his 33 and ran into hammers AK, which got there and took Matty out.

Now it was bubble time…. No one wants to get this deep and get sweet FA for their hard efforts. Here were the final four..

Seat 1: teaulc (9955 in chips)
Seat 3: zagga (1180 in chips)
Seat 8: scouse3465 (5010 in chips)
Seat 9: Hammerheid (4855 in chips)

None of them had scored points in last weeks game, which was good for the rest of us and meaning it would keep the game wide open.

Teaulc held a good strong chip-lead and was playing well and in no mood to relinquish it!

Time for this weeks bubble boy then.. congrats to Acornman on his 4th spot(aka Zagga)!!!!! Zag made his move and here is the hand:

Table ‘98902179 1′ 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: teaulc (9955 in chips)
Seat 3: zagga (1180 in chips)
Seat 8: scouse3465 (5010 in chips)
Seat 9: Hammerheid (4855 in chips)
scouse3465: posts small blind 75
Hammerheid: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
teaulc: folds
zagga said, “n1″
zagga: raises 1030 to 1180 and is all-in
scouse3465: calls 1105
Hammerheid: folds
*** FLOP *** [Ts 9s Jd]
*** TURN *** [Ts 9s Jd] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [Ts 9s Jd Jc] [3d]
scouse3465 said, “woop woop leave my blind”
*** SHOW DOWN ***
scouse3465: shows [Jh Ah] (three of a kind, Jacks)
zagga: shows [Kc 8c] (a pair of Jacks)
zagga said, “gg”
scouse3465 collected 2510 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2510 | Rake 0
Board [Ts 9s Jd Jc 3d]
Seat 1: teaulc folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: zagga (button) showed [Kc 8c] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 8: scouse3465 (small blind) showed [Jh Ah] and won (2510) with three of a kind, Jacks
Seat 9: Hammerheid (big blind) folded before Flop

So this weeks Bubble boy is: ACORNMAN!

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Then there were 3. The finest at the virtual felt this week. 3 Poker warriors fighting it out, knowing there could only be one winner.

Scouse, hammerheid or Teaulc, there could only be one.

The stacks were as follow:

Seat 1: teaulc (10880 in chips)
Seat 8: scouse3465 (6615 in chips)
Seat 9: Hammerheid (3505 in chips)
small blind 100
big blind 200

So plenty of play available for Teaulc and also for Scouse. Hammer had an “M” of just over ten so was also not in desperate trouble. They fought on for a while and then a key hand occurred between the short stacked Hammerheid and the big stack Teaulc.

here is how the action went down:

Table ‘98902179 1′ 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: teaulc (10880 in chips)
Seat 8: scouse3465 (6615 in chips)
Seat 9: Hammerheid (3505 in chips)
teaulc: posts small blind 100
scouse3465: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Hammerheid: raises 400 to 600
teaulc: raises 1200 to 1800
Hammerheid said, “a bit lol”
scouse3465: folds
scouse3465 said, “lol again look”
Hammerheid: raises 1705 to 3505 and is all-in
teaulc: calls 1705
*** FLOP *** [5d 8d Jd]
*** TURN *** [5d 8d Jd] [7c]
*** RIVER *** [5d 8d Jd 7c] [Jh]
scouse3465 said, “55″
*** SHOW DOWN ***
teaulc: shows [Qh Ad] (a pair of Jacks)
Hammerheid: shows [Qd Jc] (three of a kind, Jacks)
teaulc said, “oooh”
Hammerheid collected 7210 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 7210 | Rake 0
Board [5d 8d Jd 7c Jh]
Seat 1: teaulc (small blind) showed [Qh Ad] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 8: scouse3465 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Hammerheid (button) showed [Qd Jc] and won (7210) with three of a kind, Jacks

This gave Hammerheid a key double up at a prominet time also reducing the Chip Leaders stack, meaning all three were roughly on level stacks. looking like this at that stage:

Seat 1: teaulc (6675 in chips)
Seat 8: scouse3465 (6915 in chips)
Seat 9: Hammerheid (7410 in chips)

At this point a HUGE hand occurred. A real monster of a hand that helped decide the fate of the game. A monster pot was created and here’s how it went down…

PokerStars Game #19516843232: Tournament #98902179, $5.00+$0.50 Hold’em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2008/08/10 - 17:25:00 (ET)
Table ‘98902179 1′ 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: teaulc (6675 in chips)
Seat 8: scouse3465 (6915 in chips)
Seat 9: Hammerheid (7410 in chips)
Hammerheid: posts small blind 100
teaulc: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
scouse3465: raises 400 to 600
Hammerheid: raises 1200 to 1800
scouse3465 said, “woop woop”
teaulc: raises 4875 to 6675 and is all-in
scouse3465: folds
Hammerheid: calls 4875
*** FLOP *** [Td 6s 3c]
scouse3465 said, “wow i hand too !!”
teaulc said, “nh”
*** TURN *** [Td 6s 3c] [2c]
*** RIVER *** [Td 6s 3c 2c] [Jc]
scouse3465 said, “not that good though”
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hammerheid: shows [Ac Ah] (a pair of Aces)
teaulc: shows [Kd As] (high card Ace)
Hammerheid collected 13950 from pot
scouse3465 said, “gg”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 13950 | Rake 0
Board [Td 6s 3c 2c Jc]
Seat 1: teaulc (big blind) showed [Kd As] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 8: scouse3465 (button) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Hammerheid (small blind) showed [Ac Ah] and won (13950) with a pair of Aces

So Teaulc’s bad luck continued when it mattered and he left the game in a very respectable 3rd spot, but I am sure dissapointing for hm, 3rd spot and a small payday of $14/points.

Hammerheid had now come back from last in chips to having a monster stack of around 15k. He had a rough chip lead of around 3:1 going into the heads up Battle vs Scouse.

Here we were, Heads Up. Two players left. Both wanting the win.

Hammerheid had played well and aggressively, making a few tough calls, but being on the right end of the showdowns. He was now the danger and the man with the chips. He knew he had it within his reach, all he had to do was take out Scouse!

Scouse had been tight-solid all the way through, making very few mistakes and never going to showdown without a good hand. Nothing crazy and a few “woop woop” ’s along the way got him into this HU situation!

Hammerheid chipped away at Scouse and by the looks of the play Scouse wasn’t hitting the flops and Hammer was continually keeping the pressure on, until finally it all went in here:

Table ‘98902179 1′ 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 8: scouse3465 (1415 in chips)
Seat 9: Hammerheid (19585 in chips)
Hammerheid: posts small blind 100
scouse3465: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Hammerheid: raises 400 to 600
scouse3465: raises 815 to 1415 and is all-in
Hammerheid: calls 815
*** FLOP *** [Kd 7h 2c]
*** TURN *** [Kd 7h 2c] [9s]
scouse3465 said, “lol”
scouse3465 said, “nh”
*** RIVER *** [Kd 7h 2c 9s] [Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
scouse3465: shows [5d Ah] (high card Ace)
Hammerheid: shows [8d Ac] (high card Ace - King+Ten+Nine+Eight kicker)
Hammerheid collected 2830 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2830 | Rake 0
Board [Kd 7h 2c 9s Th]
Seat 8: scouse3465 (big blind) showed [5d Ah] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 9: Hammerheid (button) (small blind) showed [8d Ac] and won (2830) with high card Ace

Commiserations to this weeks runner up - Scouse! Who takes 2nd spot and $21/points which are valuable at this stage!

So, there we have it, this weeks winner and last man stading…

HAMMERHEID!!

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CONGRATULATIONS AND VERY VERY WELL DONE!

Hammerheid picks up $35/points for his win!

So the League Table is Now all level!

We have two in first spot, two in second and two in third! All six though have done the important thing and gotten onto the scoreboard. This is how it looks after week 2:

Position	Name	Points ($)	Position Change
1st	smoothplease	35	No Change
1st	Hammerheid	35	No Change
2nd	Zanshin	21	No Change
2nd	Scouse	21	No Change
3rd	The Cloud	14	No Change
3rd	Teaulc	14	No Change

1. Best Hammer Play- By BurnleyMik for representing a monster in the hand posted above.

2. Bad Beat Of the Night- Teaulc’s AQ vs Hammer JQ 3 handed was pretty rough!

3. Wooden Spoon Award- Zanshin

4. Best Show Bluff - See hammer play!

5. Bubble Boy- Acornman

A big thank-you to everyone who played and supported RTR. Obviously with only 3 players scoring again this week, the whole league is still wide open, so make sure you play next week!!!

Game 1 of the New RTR Premier League

The first game of the new RaiseTheRiver Premier League was played out on Sunday evening.

14 of RTR’s finest, took to the virtual felt to battle it out for those valuable points, on their way to the title!

Before the game started a betting chart was organised and right at the beginning, this is how things looked..

Mair 9/2jf
BurnleyMik 9/2jf
MattyH 9/2jf
Biffa 5/1
Acorn 11/2
Cloud 11/2
Scouse 11/2
Teaulc 6/1
RacingFerret 6/1
JonnyFish 7/1
Ant 1966 7/1
Zanshin 9/1
Bullmeist 9/1
Hammerheid 9/1

With late edition smoothplease probably looking at about 6/1. Although he didn’t have his name in until very late, so unfortunately an initial price wasn’t set.

A few people put small wagers on themselves and their friends, just to add some interest.

The time arrived and the 14 players proceeded to do battle. There could only be one winner and here is how it panned out…

Out in 14th was teaulc, who made a mis-read of Scouse and ran his top pair into Scouse’s, only Scouse had the better kicker! Teaul was already short before his elimination.

You can see the hand and the banter here:

Table ‘98901965 1′ 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 3: biffa85 (1620 in chips)
Seat 4: scouse3465 (1620 in chips)
Seat 5: Mair38 (1530 in chips)
Seat 6: zagga (1880 in chips)
Seat 7: teaulc (513 in chips)
Seat 8: RacingFerret (1607 in chips)
Seat 9: J65_SA (1730 in chips)
J65_SA: posts small blind 10
biffa85: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
scouse3465: raises 40 to 60
teaulc: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [Jd 3s Qh]
scouse3465: bets 200
teaulc said, “your A/K is no good”
teaulc: raises 253 to 453 and is all-in
scouse3465: calls 253
scouse3465 said, “ty”
*** TURN *** [Jd 3s Qh] [Ad]
teaulc said, “booger”
*** RIVER *** [Jd 3s Qh Ad] [4d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
scouse3465: shows [Ac Qs] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
teaulc: shows [3h Ah] (two pair, Aces and Threes)
scouse3465 collected 1056 from pot
scouse3465 said, “good read”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1056 | Rake 0
Board [Jd 3s Qh Ad 4d]
Seat 4: scouse3465 showed [Ac Qs] and won (1056) with two pair, Aces and Queens
Seat 7: teaulc showed [3h Ah] and lost with two pair, Aces and Threes

It get worse though… being the first person out means that this week Teaulc wins the RTR WOODEN SPOON!!!!!!!!!:

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The 13th player to leave the virtual felt was the normally consistent HammerHeid.

Hammer unfortunately pushed his Open ended straight draw, whilst short stacked, straight into the flopped two pair of Zanshin!

Hammerheid, just missed the mighty wooden spoon by a matter of seconds!!!

Out in 12th was Bullmeisterwho went for the kill vs BurnleyMik holding the HAMMER! BurnleyMik picked up the 2nd nut flush draw and two overs on a low raggy flop. Kudos to Bullmeister for the mighty effort and exiting with the best hand in the game!

here is the hand in all its glory:

Table ‘98901965 2′ 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: Oenone (2225 in chips)
Seat 3: BurnleyMik (1830 in chips)
Seat 5: Bullmeister (890 in chips)
Seat 6: smoothplease (1410 in chips)
Seat 7: the_cloud71 (2480 in chips)
Seat 9: dasertr (1665 in chips)
Bullmeister: posts small blind 15
smoothplease: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BurnleyMik [Kh Th]
BurnleyMik: raises 60 to 90
BurnleyMik said, “i;ll call”
Bullmeister: calls 75
smoothplease: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [3h 2s 8h]
BurnleyMik said, “FISH!”
Bullmeister: bets 800 and is all-in
smoothplease: folds
BurnleyMik: calls 800
Bullmeister said, “HAMMERTIME”
*** TURN *** [3h 2s 8h] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [3h 2s 8h Qs] [Qh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Bullmeister: shows [2d 7s] (two pair, Queens and Deuces)
BurnleyMik: shows [Kh Th] (a flush, King high)
BurnleyMik collected 1870 from pot
BurnleyMik said, “haha.. oops”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1870 | Rake 0
Board [3h 2s 8h Qs Qh]
Seat 2: Oenone folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: BurnleyMik (button) showed [Kh Th] and won (1870) with a flush, King high
Seat 5: Bullmeister (small blind) showed [2d 7s] and lost with two pair, Queens and Deuces.

Very unlucky Mr Bullmiest!

The normally extremely consistent Acornman exited the game in 11th Spot, when his 88 was no match for JonnyFish’s AK. AIPF.

The Final Table bubble prize (10th) was received by Daser who was the mini-raising King!!. Unfortunately it was the only exit hand I totally missed, so I am really sorry about that.

Then there were nine….

First player to bust the Final Table was Scouse, when his TT didnt hold against Smoothpleases AQ. Scouse ended the tourney in 9th Position.

With eight players remaining things slowed a little, but not much! haha.

Mair exited 8th when short-stacked she moved her chips into the middle. The new terminator, Smoothplease, called with AJ and Mairs KJ didnt improve for the APAT champion to exit the game.

In 7th Positionwas “the cash game donk” JonnyFish! Unfortunately jonny’s internet had bust and he had to leave where he was playing and so he was sat out when BurnleyMik stole his final chips!

6th placed finisher was Racing Ferret, who put in a decent performance for his first RTR game, when he made a move with 10 BB’s from the button with TJ, only to run into The Cloud, who was lying in wait in the SB with QQ. A ten flopped, but that was as good as it got for RF.

In 5th place was Biffa85, who stayed quietly aggressive over the side of the table, not doing much,but then suddenly pouncing and taking pots! The very active Smoothplease raised Biffa’s BB and so, biffa then moved his chips into the middle. The insta-call by Smooth obviously wasn’t a good sign and smooth tabled QQ, which held vs Biffa’s A2.

So now its time for the points/money bubble boy….

BURNLEYMIK - 4th Place for me!

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I went out with a MONSTER. i went for the kill with THE HAMMER. I would show you the hand, but I managed to copy the HH from the hand directly after instead! haha.

Basically, I shoved from the button with about 7 BB’s. Cloud woke up in the SB with 99 and made the call. The flop came a magnificent 77x for me to catch trips baby, but two hearts on the board and then another two on the turn and river meant my suckout was humongously RE-sucked out on!! it was a hand for the cameras!

So out I went on the Bubble.

So then there were three top names at the table. The three guys who deserved to be there and the three guys who were now grappling for that top spot after week 1!

the_Cloud71
SmoothPlease
Zanshin.

these were the boys who raised, folded, called and shoved their way into the money spots. Over 1 hour and 30 mins of tough poker play. Now the heat would turn up…

The Cloud was the man to pick up 3rd spot and $14/points. here is his exit hand…

Table ‘98901965 1′ 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: the_cloud71 (2722 in chips)
Seat 2: smoothplease (14091 in chips)
Seat 7: Oenone (4187 in chips)
the_cloud71: posts the ante 25
smoothplease: posts the ante 25
Oenone: posts the ante 25
the_cloud71: posts small blind 100
smoothplease: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Oenone: folds
the_cloud71: raises 400 to 600
smoothplease: raises 1200 to 1800
the_cloud71: raises 897 to 2697 and is all-in
smoothplease: calls 897
*** FLOP *** [Th 3c Qd]
*** TURN *** [Th 3c Qd] [Kh]
*** RIVER *** [Th 3c Qd Kh] [9d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
the_cloud71: shows [6h Ah] (high card Ace)
smoothplease: shows [Js Kc] (a straight, Nine to King)
smoothplease collected 5469 from pot
smoothplease said, “gg”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5469 | Rake 0
Board [Th 3c Qd Kh 9d]
Seat 1: the_cloud71 (small blind) showed [6h Ah] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 2: smoothplease (big blind) showed [Js Kc] and won (5469) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 7: Oenone (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

The terminator had done it again. This time he was stealing the thunder of the cloud!

So here we were.. Heads Up For the first game of the series.

Two warriors of poker playing their best, trying to out-think and out play each otehr at every single given opportunity. Each man trying to expose a weakness of his foe, so he could pounce.

Here were the final stacks:

Smoothplease - 16.9k
Zanshin - 4.1k

Smooth (aka the terminator) was heading into the HU with a healthy 4:1 chip lead. the blinds were 100/200 with 25 antes.

There was a bit of to’ing abnd fro’ing, but two miutes later the action hand came…

Seat 2: smoothplease (16763 in chips)
Seat 7: Oenone (4237 in chips)
smoothplease: posts the ante 25
Oenone: posts the ante 25
Oenone: posts small blind 100
smoothplease: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Oenone: raises 300 to 500
smoothplease: calls 300
*** FLOP *** [3s Js 5c]
smoothplease: bets 1400
Oenone: raises 2312 to 3712 and is all-in
smoothplease: calls 2312
*** TURN *** [3s Js 5c] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [3s Js 5c 7d] [9d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
smoothplease: shows [4c 6d] (a straight, Three to Seven)
Oenone: shows [Ks 5d] (a pair of Fives)
smoothplease collected 8474 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 8474 | Rake 0
Board [3s Js 5c 7d 9d]
Seat 2: smoothplease (big blind) showed [4c 6d] and won (8474) with a straight, Three to Seven
Seat 7: Oenone (button) (small blind) showed [Ks 5d] and lost with a pair of Fives

Smooth flopped the open-ender and Zanshin hit second pair good kicker. It all went in and once again the terminator came out on top of a showdown! Commiserations, but a fine performance from Zanshin on his second spot finish for $21/points

but that was it and we had our winner!!

SMOOTHPLEASE!!

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A massive congratulations from all at RTR on the first round win.

Here is the table after game 1:

Position	Name	Points ($)	Position Change
1st	smoothplease	35	No Change
2nd	Zanshin	21	No Change
3rd	The Cloud	14	No Change

As for the Categories for highlight…

1. Best Hammer Playis split between BurnleyMik and Bullmeist, who both exited going for death or glory with the HAMMER!

2. Bad Beat Of the Night - Wasn’t all that many to be fair, well nothing that majorly stood out.

3. Wooden Spoon Award- teaulc

4. Best Show Bluff - Goes to daser, for this hand -

Table ‘98901965 2′ 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 2: Oenone (2050 in chips)
Seat 3: BurnleyMik (3660 in chips)
Seat 6: smoothplease (2570 in chips)
Seat 7: the_cloud71 (1015 in chips)
Seat 9: dasertr (1205 in chips)
Oenone: posts small blind 50
BurnleyMik: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BurnleyMik [Tc Kd]
smoothplease: folds
the_cloud71: folds
dasertr: raises 1100 to 1200
Oenone: folds
BurnleyMik said, “haha.. whats the 5 behnd about”
BurnleyMik said, “will you fold if I shove?”
smoothplease said, “bus fare home”
BurnleyMik said, “lol”
dasertr said, “shove”
BurnleyMik: folds
Uncalled bet (1100) returned to dasertr
dasertr collected 250 from pot
dasertr: shows [2c 7s] (high card Seven)

5. Bubble Boy- BurnleyMik

A big thankyou to everyone who played and supported RTR. Obviously with only 3 players scoring, this is going to make the games wide open, so make sure you play next week!!!

The New RaiseTheRiver Premier League is Here!

Well folks, its back this weekend! Sunday night at 9pm is the place and Pokerstars is the venue. All the members of the forums are invited to come and battle it out for 10 games, one per week, until eventually the cream rises to the top and we have a winner.

Can you get your name up there with the previous winners:

rickyrosa
kenn121
BurnleyMik

Well I promise you, it will not be easy!

There will be a weekly write up where we will be searching for the following criteria each week -

1. The Best Hammer Play of the game. (Basically, whoever plays 72o the best). There is also a $10 reward available for anyone who can eliminate another player with this hand.

2. Bad Beat of the night. Exactly what it says on the tin.

3. The Wooden Spoon Award - The first person out!

4. Best SHOWN bluff - As described.

5. Bubble Person - Always deserve a mention for getting so near yet so far.

6. Obviously the cash and points scorers.

So, not only is this going to be a hotly contested league with some excellent players, there will also be an element of fun and insanity thrown in jut to mix it up!

Below are the full details and instructions:

When: Sunday Evenings at 9pm
Where:Pokerstars
Buy-In: $5+0.5
Password:“hammertime”
Duration: 10 weeks
Points system : Simply based on Cash wonCan all players please ship an initial entry fee (to create a final prize pool) of $10 to “BurnleyMik” on Pokerstars anytime before 9pm on Sunday. If you haven;t got the funds right now, but can pay before week 3 of the league, please contact me for a concession. Once you have paid the Entry fee, please drop me a PM on here and I will add you to the PAID list. Anyone who doesn’t pay the entry fee cannot be eligible for the final prizes.In addition, RTR will be donating a seat in either the Pokerstars Sunday Million, or Sunday Warm-Up, worth $215 to the overall league champion!

There will be a weekly bonus available of $10, paid by me, for any player who eliminates another with 72o (AKA THE HAMMER).

Weekly prop bets, i.e. last longer bets are more than welcome between the players.

Also, once we have all the names and entries, we are considering running a “book” to which you guys can place wagers on yourself to increase the interest! We will confirm this nearer the time and if there is a call for it. After all we are poker players and gamblers!

Hope to see you there!

So as you can , see its dead easy to get involved and will be a hell of a good craic for all involved.

Hope to see you there.