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Also, Siro is no slouch at poker, and I don't mean this as a slight, but he was catching cards like a mother****** this last game.

Sometimes lady luck is just with you.
 
Bronco70 said:
To my recollection (if there is still any question) the players went out in this order on Saturday:

Austin
Bronco70
Peterzz
Gameface
Gustavo
devgchr

Siro wins.

One of the interesting things about this game was that Austin was on fire for the first little bit and had a nice stack. He went out in an unfortunate (for him) case of a good hand being beaten by a great hand. Siro hitting a straight flush on the river saved him from being on the other side of that bad beat. In any case, as hot as Ausrin was early on, he went out less than an hour into the game (like 45 minutes or so). It was well more than another hour before another player succumbed (me), but that opened the flood gates, and the game was over within another half hour or so. Fastest poker game I've ever played.


Sometimes you have one of those games where you just can't get a hand... this was not one of those games for me. I got good cards most of the game, and ended up with some good hands, but was beaten by a better hand almost every time. And Peterzz has an uncanny knack for folding when I have something, and raising when I do not. His ranking belies his skill as a poker player.

I'm with Gameface now. No more good time poker. Time to get serious.
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I made my straight flush on the flop. Didn't catch it on the river. A Jack of diamonds dropped on the turn (or river) giving me a BETTER straight flush, but I had one on the flop anyway. :)
 
Siro said:
I made my straight flush on the flop. Didn't catch it on the river. A Jack of diamonds dropped on the turn (or river) giving me a BETTER straight flush, but I had one on the flop anyway. :)
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Think it over... the Jack sits in the middle of that straight flush. Minus the river Jack, you have a flush (no straight). You flopped a flush and converted it to a straight flush with the Jack on the river. Full house beats flush.

But you hit the straight flush. You won.
 
Bronco70 said:
Think it over... the Jack sits in the middle of that straight flush. Minus the river Jack, you have a flush (no straight). You flopped a flush and converted it to a straight flush with the Jack on the river. Full house beats flush.

But you hit the straight flush. You won.
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Since I have no recording of the hand, I'll take your word for it. However, I played the hand thinking that I had a straight flush, and I was trying to squeeze every last chip off of Austin. If I indeed only had a flush, then yes, I got super lucky.
 
I'm not saying you played the hand wrong, or were just lucky. A flush on the flop is a hand to bet on. As was Austin's eventual Full House. I am saying that Austin had the hand won until the river Jack, but ultimately you won it, and that's what matters.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I remember the series you ended up with as diamonds 8-9-10-J-Q-K (a straight flush two ways and a hell of a hand.) I'm certainly NOT disparaging your play in that hand, or dismissing it as pure luck. I'm merely pointing out Austin had a monster, and lost a sizable chip stack to a bigger monster, on the river. That's all.

You are obviously a skilled player (two consecutive wins is hard to argue with).
 
Bronco70 said:
I'm not saying you played the hand wrong, or were just lucky. A flush on the flop is a hand to bet on. As was Austin's eventual Full House. I am saying that Austin had the hand won until the river Jack, but ultimately you won it, and that's what matters.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I remember the series you ended up with as diamonds 8-9-10-J-Q-K (a straight flush two ways and a hell of a hand.) I'm certainly NOT disparaging your play in that hand, or dismissing it as pure luck. I'm merely pointing out Austin had a monster, and lost a sizable chip stack to a bigger monster, on the river. That's all.

You are obviously a skilled player (two consecutive wins is hard to argue with).
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Oh wow, you're right. I did end up with that. I don't see how I could have made a straight flush without that J, and I must have been playing a King high flush. I hit a straight on the river, beating his full house. Crazy.
 
Wanted to join this but I would've missed every game so far. Have you guys ever done this during the winter?
 
tfivas said:
Wanted to join this but I would've missed every game so far. Have you guys ever done this during the winter?
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The plan going in was to end this league in Oct so that we could start a winter league in Nov. The we're several people who said they wouldn't be able to do this in the summer. We'll have to see what the interest is.

I'm thinking of doing a non league tournament in Sept, in part to recruit players for the winter league.
 
I'd like to get some feedback from the current players on how they'd like the next season to be.
 
We've only been 7 handed so far. The games have been taking about 3 to 4 hours
 
Bronco70 said:
For the longest time it never occurred to me how much you can control the duration of a game with the blind schedule.
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Yeah, a lot. Tournaments usually end when the blinds account for around 5 to 10% of the chips in play. Obviously it can go faster, but usually doesn't go much longer. At that point as soon as both players have a playable hand it usually means someone is all in.
 
So if we do another league I want more than six games. I'd prefer 9, but I'd also prefer to do it in 7 months.
 
Just want to post it again. I created a facebook account for the primary purpose of having a way to announce poker tournaments and see who intends to be there.

For the Aug 13th tournament the event is here https://www.facebook.com/events/621415418013543/

It is a public event, so I don't think you need to be my "friend" in order to see it or to sign up.

This isn't required but I'll be a little disappointed if it doesn't work. I considered creating a meetup.com group but that costs money and the same basic functionality on facebook is free.

All that aside, you can let me know via Jazzfanz, in person, via text or on facebook if you're gonna make the next game or not. I haven't heard from anyone yet saying they aren't going to make it so I'm hoping we have the full group for the first time!
 
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