HOLD'EM TOURNAMENT

I went down to the freezeout tournament at the casino last night, it was quite an eventful night. There were 70 odd players and after some 4 or 5 hours of pokering I found myself at the final table. So there's then a short break and then the tournament commences again.

The way the prizes were divied up was 8 prizes - £720 for first, down to £50 for eighth. So for everyone at the final table, the priority is to not to go out before you hit eighth place, first 2 out go home with nothing.
The way the chipstacks were that I was about 5, or 6th out of 10 going into the opening hand. Cards dealt, I'm in the big blind, everyone folds round to the 2 short stacked players, both of them go all in and it's round to me, I look at my cards, pocket kings. so I call. Kings hold up and the 2 of them go out 1st hand. Everyone left is now in the money - wahey!!

The game continues and I manage to put out another 2 players, some others fall by the way side too and before I know it we're down to 4 players. At this stage the minimum is £210 for fourth place, up to £720 for first. I was roughly equal chipleader, one guy had a bit less and the last guy probably had a 1/3 less chips. It was about 3:30 am so I suggested a deal, divy up the £1980 pot 4 ways - everyones happy. Everyone was happy..apart from one American guy who was roughly equal with me in chips. He said something about not being interested in winning (roughly) £500 said he was here to win the tournamennt and the £720 prize. All though it's his right, everyone was a bit pissed off with the guy and thought he was being a bit of an arse. The end result was that he was public enemy no1, particularly the short stacked guy kept going on about how greedy he was and he hoped he'd be out 1st!.
Anyway, I managed to take about 1/4 of the chips off the American guy in one early hand, the others chipped at him, blinds were absolutely huge and eventually he ended up short stacked. He went all in against my small blind, I looked down at pocket 3's, no way - I mucked them. Action moved round to the big blind, who was the guy who was originally short stacked who had a personal vendetta against the American guy. He gleefully called, turned over Ace something, American guy had King something, Ace held up. American guy goes out in fourth place, scooping £210, or £290 less than he would have got had he not rejected the deal. Poetic justice I suppose.
Soon as he went out, the three of us say "deal!" and divy up the remaining £1750 3 ways.
4:30 am, my biggest win ever by a mile, superb !!

PHOTO

..nearly forgot about todays photo.... went for a walk with my lovely wife down seafield way, found this industrial bit next to the Sewage works, quite liked the shapes.