If you forgot how 2007 went down...

If you forgot how the Main Event went down last year (2007), You can read all about it here.

Reed Poker League Main Event Results

Another great year finished with the RPL Main Event on Saturday night. With 11 players who all qualified by playing three or more events throughout the year. This year was a tournament of destinies (I will explain as they appear).

We started the at 5pm with 11 players on two tables with Sean and Trinity dealing. Trinity started out strong and aquired a decent chip lead early on. Play continued for an hour and ten minutes before the first bust out when Aris reraised Adam with a straight draw against Adams set. Adam improved to a boat and Aris was out first (destiny #1 - Aris was out first last year thanks to Adam). At seven Brad sent Shorty to the rail. About 30 min later Sean pushed with JJ and chip leader Trinity called with AQ and flopped the ace to put Sean out. Within five minutes, Trinity send Jeff home when they both flopped top pair but Trinity had the better kicker. Another hour before short stacked Vern busted when he did not believe Trinity was betting top pair. Just after nine, Adam and Brad got into a hand and Adam came out on top, leaving five players.

The bubble lasted about 30 minutes before destiny #2 would be fulfilled. Derrick had A7 and shoved preflop and Adam, who held AQ called. Derrick did not improve, sending him home on the bubble and fulfilling destiny #2 (Derrick has bubbled the most of any RPL player... sorry man)

Its 9:30 and we are in the money with four players left. Final four play consist of Trinity, Adam, Brian and Jason. After about 30 minutes. Two players saw the flop and Jason pushed over the top of Adam's raise, when he made top pair with a Jack on the flop. Adam who had a large stack was pretty much committed to the pot at this point. Adam thought about it and apologized if he won but he had to call with his King rag hand. The river gave Adam a King, Trinity's A7 would later bust Brian's AK suited when the flop comes 7 X X with two hearts. Brian pushes and Trinity calls suspecting the flush draw. Flush never comes and Brian is out third.


Heads up play would begin at 10pm with Trinity and Adam, brother-in-law vs brother-in-law. Trinity had Adam out chipped about 2 to 1. Adam started out strong by pushing all in almost every hand. Not being able to call Trinity would have to fold. This eventually gave Adam the chip lead. When they both got it all in the first time Trinity managed to survive when his AQ outlasted Adam's A3. This left Adam very short but he managed to work back up to over 100K by playing his aggressive style. Trinity threatened to call the floor on him when Adam continuously would go allin out of turn. (Since they are brother-in-laws they of course pick at each other). Thirty minutes after heads up began, it ended with the chips allin preflop. Trinity's AQ out did Adam's A6 suited. For first, Trinity took home the Main Event bracelet and $400(Destiny #3 - Player of the Year and four time regular season winner takes down Main Event)


Thanks goes out to Sean for making the RPL a well organized monthly tournament and taking care of all the money and prizes. Also thanks to Adam for hosting the Main Event.


gg


(Main Event photos will be posted within next day or two)

Champion - Trinity $400 (Player of the Year)

2nd - Adam - $280 (last year's Main Event champion)

3rd - Brian - $160

4th - Jason -$60

5th - Derrick

6th - Brad

7th - Vern

8th - Jeff

9th - Sean

10th - Shorty

11th - Aris

Tournament of Champions Winner

With only four players in the tournament of champions, Adam, Trinity, Brad and Vern. The winner of the TOC gets a free buyin to the Main Event. Adam was the first one out thanks to Brad. Vern was the next to fall to Brad. And Trinity and Brad started HU. Early HU Trinity rivers a flush to double up but not much later Brad rivers a flush on Trinity after the chips got all in on the flop. Congrat Brad...

My First Royal Flush

This hand was a turning point in the game. When Heads Up started, he had me by about a 6 to 1 chip count. I ended up winning the game. Three straight hands of AK after that didn't hurt either.

December Main Event and TOC

It’s almost December which means it’s time for our 2nd Annual RPL Main Event! The date will be Saturday, December 13th. We are still finalizing the location at the moment. We’re working to find a place where noise and so on will not be a factor. I will email again with this information or if you have any suggestions let me know.

We will NOT be making up the missed August Event since Trinity has already locked up the Player of the Year award. Since we missed an event, I am lowering the qualifying number to 3 events played to be eligible for the Main Event.

Please let myself or Trinity know if you will be coming to Tournament of Champions and the Main Event, so we can make the proper arrangements.

Here’s a list of players who are eligible to play the Main Event:

• Trinity - confirmed
• Sean - confirmed
• Derrick - confirmed
• Brian - confirmed
• Mitch
• Chris Sloce - confirmed
• Vern - confirmed
• Jason H. - confirmed
• Duffy
• Donnie
• Brad - confirmed
• Aris - confirmed
• Adam - confirmed
• Anthony - not attending
• Shorty - confirmed
• Mark - not attending
  
• Jeff - confirmed
• Bo

Tournament of Champions Qualifiers:

• Trinity - confirmed
• Vern - confirmed
• Brad - confirmed
• Adam - confirmed
• Rick
• Chris Daniels - maybe
  
• Andy

(The winner of the T.O.C. wins a seat in the Main Event regardless of number of events played.)

Main Event Saturday 12/13/08 Details:

Tournament of Champions:
Buy-in: Freeroll (See list above for eligibility)
Start Time: 3pm
Format: Freezeout w/ Turbo type structure

RPL Main Event:
Buy-in: $60.00 + $5.00 (Food/Drinks)
(See list above for eligibility)
Start Time: 5pm
Format: DeepStack Freezeout w/ 22 minute levels
$300 added to prize pool

60 Minutes Online Poker Segment to Air This Sunday

According to the CBS News website, the long awaited
"60 Minutes" segment on online poker cheating will
air this Sunday, November 30th. An e-mail to the
"60 Minutes" subscriber base has also confirmed
this information.

The segment is titled "The Cheaters", and will
apparently be the lead segment for this Sunday's
program. The story is described as a "joint
investigation" between the Washington Post
and "60 Minutes". (full story)

November RPL Event Results

The November RPL Live Event had a good crowd and a lot of new faces. We started the evening with 17 players and six hours later only one was left standing. When play got down to the bubble a deal was made to allow everyone to get $40 back and play out the rest as planned. The final five consisted of Rick, Wally, Donnie, Duffy and Trinity. Shortly after the deal was made, Rick busted out. Donnie was next to go when he called Trinity's allin with Trinity showing KK and Donnie 44. The flop came 4xK, giving both players a set. Play continued three handed for some time with chips moving around to each player. Wally was getting short but managed to double up when Trinity called his all in with sevens which never improved against Wally's pocket eights. Around 12:30 Wally and Duffy got allin. Duffy was way ahead with KK vs Wally's QJ(I think). Duffy flopped another King for a set sending Wally to the rail.

Heads up started with the blinds at 5K/10K and Duffy holding about a 3 to 1 chip lead. Trinity took an aggressive approach and managed to take over the chip lead. The chips got all in with Trinity's Kx vs Duffy's AQ. We thought the game was over when the board came J5K5 only a 10 to come on the river to give Duffy the straight (which no one noticed until Trinity pointed it out). This hand put both players at close to even. A few hands later Trinity pushed allin with A9suited and knowing he might be behind Duffy called with KQ and neither hand improved. Trinity took down the title for his fourth RPL title and extending his POY points lead even more.

Champion - Trinity
2nd - Duffy
3rd - Wally
4th - Donnie

Good game everyone. Hope to see you next month for the makeup for August and the Main Event (must have attended four RPL games to qualify). If your name is not on the list as qualified email Trinity or Sean. Hopefully we will have the list updated shortly. We will also note all those who are one game short of qualifying so that if you are one short you can attend the Dec 11th game to qualify for the Main Event on Sat Dec 13th.

See you at the tables.

UIGEA regulations pass

Letter from PPA...

I have unfortunate news to report.  Despite the efforts of the poker community, the opposition of the banks and the recent news exposing inappropriate influence by the White House, today the current administration finalized the UIGEA regulations to be made effective on January 19th the day before president-elect Obama officially takes office.  A copy of the final UIGEA regulations and the PPA’s response can be found on our Web site.

I am sure that you share my outrage over this last-minute "midnight rulemaking," but I have not lost my drive to correct this injustice and I call on you to join me and the million strong PPA to help continue our fight.  In fact, the Politico Newspaper reports on 11/12 that Congressional leaders are already plotting legislation for next year that will undermine the White House's "midnight" regulations.  We must make sure that UIGEA is part of this regulation reversal.

There are 4 things you should do to respond to the government's actions:

1.   Call your Member of Congress and let him or her know how disappointed you are by the lame duck administration's implementation of UIGEA and subsequent erosion of your personal freedom.

2.   Send an email to the Obama Transition team and tell President-elect Obama that once in office he should immediately turn back the UIGEA and other "midnight rules" issued by President Bush.
3.   Help the PPA help you.  Become a Premium Member of PPA if you are not already. For only $20 you help us be effective advocates for poker and your membership put us in a strong position to defend your rights.  If you are already a Premium PPA member please consider making an additional contribution to our fight.

4.   Forward this to your friends and stay updated on the latest developments regarding the UIGEA regulations.

This is not the time to bow our heads in defeat; rather we must continue our efforts with renewed vigor.  Thank you for your support and dedication to protecting the game we love.

Proud to play,
Alfonse D'Amato, Chairman
Poker Players Alliance

Shorty in the news again with his blue Sebring

Found this article from the Sunday Johnson City Press about Shorty and his dad's electric car...

Pulling plug on gasoline: Kingsport father-son tandem go electric
KINGSPORT — Gasoline prices may be dropping, but that means nothing to someone who drives an electric car. That person would pay next to nothing anyway.
And that’s true even for an electric vehicle that is three decades old, like the “Lectric Leopard” driven by Jim Leatherwood of Kingsport. Jim and his son, James, both drive electric cars. Jim’s car was purchased in October 2007 and James bought his several years ago. (Read Full Article)

November Nine Blackout

Today is the beginning of the final table of the WSOP and the November Nine. To avoid knowing anything about who wins or who is ahead, I am having to maintain a poker blackout from all poker news sites, blogs and poker sites. Since the purpose of delaying the final table was to build hype and allow us to see the final table "as it happens" somewhat delayed, I might as well get that benefit without it being spoiled. Is anyone else planning a blackout?

I also think that there was not enough hype built up about the November Nine. Does a one hour episode about nine players really do the justice deserved. You would think ESPN would show much more.

[UPDATE] I made it all the way to Tuesday afternoon before my blackout was for naught. While talking with a female co-worker, she said, "Oh yeah, I saw on Yahoo that xxxxxxxxx won $9 million dollars." My hands went to my head with a loud NOOoooooooo. And I let her know that she ruined my day... and now I know way too much information. I will try to watch the final table and pretend I don't know what I know. (luckily she did not give me a name but enough information that if I looked up the players again I would know the answer within a few seconds)

November RPL Event Scheduled for Nov. 13th

The email has been sent out for our November event (not to be confused with the WSOP event also held in November). We will play on Thur Nov 13th. If you plan on playing please either respond to the sent emails or use the SIGN UP NOW option in the right hand column on this page. If you need directions note that in the email/sign up now option.

See you at the tables.

November RPL Event to be Announced

We are working on scheduling the November game. An email will probably be sent out within the next 48 hours with the schedule. So stay tuned.

October Reed Poker League Results

We played the October RPL game on the 16th with a good turnout of ten. We had two new faces in the mix. The evening was record breaking in that Derrick cashed for the first time in his RPL history. Congrats. Other winners were Trinity who finished 2nd and Ricky (new face) who finished 1st.

Champion - Ricky ($200)
2nd - Trinity ($140)
3rd - Derrick ($60)
4th - Jason
5th - Vern
6th - Sean
7th - Wally
8th - Shorty
9th - Adam
10th - Mitch

Trinity maintains the points lead for Player of the Year with Sean in second.

September Reed Poker Results

Even after we missed a month of play, the crowd was low tonight. With it being a rebuy we built a decent prize pool with only eight players. The night finally ended with a split between Adam and Shorty. Both were very close in chips, once Shorty took Sean out in 3rd, but Adam was still the chip leader and now qualifies for the Tournament of Champions. Congrats to Adam on his first win of the year and his most humble win to date.

..::CHAMPION::..

Adam Bradley ($225)

2nd - Shorty ($225)
3rd - Sean ($80)
4th - Derrick
5th - Brian
6th - Vern
7th - Jason
8th - Trinity

Good game guys, hope to break you all next month.

Also as a side note... Congrats to Brian on his Reed Poker Open Online  win on Wednesday in the H.O.R.S.E. tourney. While the points have not been updated, I think it is safe to say Brian is leading the RPO.

Congrats to Aris on His Big Win

Congratulations to Aris on his big win at the Daniels Fall Big Game Event. I don't have any details on the game other than that. When I do I will post the details. Maybe I can get Aris to write it up and then post it.

September Reed Poker Event Scheduled

Reed Poker League LIVE is back! We all missed not having a game in August but we are coming back. Due to work and schedule conflicts RPL had to take its first month off in two years. The missed August game will be made up before the December Main Event. Meanwhile, the September event has been scheduled for Thursday, September 18th @ 7PM. This will be a rebuy event with unlimited rebuys for the first three blind levels, with an add-on at the end of the third. Buy-in will be $20. Hope to see you at the tables. Please email us (use the link in the right column) if you plan to play so we plan accordingly.

Where have all the poker books gone?

Donna and I enjoy hanging out at the bookstore, sipping coffee while reading books and magazines. I should also note that I am not a complete freeloader... I actually buy the books I find worth buying after reading a bit. Of course, I always make a B-line for the Poker section. (I know its not a freakin' library, but hey have you been to the library lately? Nothing but old books and homeless people trying to stay cool/warm)

This past weekend, my favorite section took another hit. The poker books are right between Chess and video game strategy guides in the "Games" section at Barnes & Noble. I have witnessed over the past couple of years (since the passing of UIEGA) the shrinkage of the poker book real estate. Back in the day, It took an entire section (5-6 shelves) plus at least two additional shelves in another section. Over time that section has slowly been reduced to approx. two shelves. WTF! And it looks like no new books are coming in either. I was actually shocked to see a single copy of Gus Hansen's new book and equally disappointed to find no new Harrington Cash Game books. Meanwhile it seems that the number of chess books and vg strategy guides have increased. And don't even think about going over to the magazine rack and flipping through a Card Player, BLUFF, All In or even Ante Up! Magazine... cause they ain't there like they used to be.

While I know it's easy (and usually cheaper) to order books online, I do like to actually flip through it myself to judge whether it is worth the money. And reviews can only tell me so much.

Has anyone else noticed this trend or is it just the three bookstores I visit?

August LIVE Event To Be Rescheduled

Due to scheduling conflicts for most of August the Reed Poker LIVE Event has been postponed until a suitable date can be arranged. Once that date has been determined we will post it on the blog as well as send an email blast to those on the mailing list. I'm sure that if we are unable to fit it into the month of August we will make it up in September.

Sick Run Continues in July? Possibly...

June: $20k + in online cashes w/ 15 FT's

July: $7k in cashes w/ 4 FT's

Sunday night, I FT'd both Big Daily Doubles again (3rd time) and finished 6th and 8th, but took $5.2k with all the bonuses. Here's a rundown of my cashes when I doubled FT'd. 1st) $10.2k, 2nd) $4.3k and 3rd) $5.2k. I LOVE these tournies...small fields with big potential results.

Wild and Crazy RPO #18

Reed Poker Open #18 Results:

We had 10 players show up for the $3+1 rebuy event. Play was fast and loose with the prize pool building to $219.00. It paid 3 spots.

Champion:
airwave16 $109.50

2nd: Merchdawg $65.70
3rd: Chef106 $43.80
4th: Dumont81
5th: All in Reed
6th: rascony
7th: Zerkaboid
8th: Blazman
9th: car_guy_67
10th: OutlawJesco



Final Hand

Reed Poker Open #18 Rebuy Tonight

Name: Reed Poker Open #18
Password: RPO18
Date: Wednesday, June 25th at 9pm EST
Game: NL Holdem
Buy-in: $3 +1 w/ rebuys
Where: FTP

Reed Takes Another Big One

Reed Poker Live June Results

Champion - Trinity "The Hitman"
2nd - Anthony
3rd - Duffy

Trinity won his third event of the season and second consecutive win. He continues to rein as the points leader, as well as the knockout king with 19 total (6 last night). Anthony who was short stack from early on put up a good fight and made it to HU. The two battled HU for almost two hours before the final hand... [more to come].


My vote for Player of the Game goes to Anthony who played a great short stack from early on and came very close to winning Heads Up. Good Game.

Reed Poker Open Event #17 Results

Reed Poker Open Event #17, Double Stack made for a great game tonight. Congrats to dman1331 who came back from behind and took out the two (Outlaw and Carguy) that had been back and forth CL from at least the bubble.

Final Results
Champion - dman1331 - $45
2nd - OutlawJesco (co-host) - $27
3rd - car_guy_67 - $18
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4th - merchdawg
5th - Detroit Grinder
6th - ChipsVillian
7th - All In Reed (co-host)
8th - sundog17
9th - madfox54

Join us next week same time.
Name: Reed Poker Open #18
Password: RPO18
Date: Wednesday, June 25th at 9pm EST
Game: NL Holdem
Buy-in: $3 +1 w/ rebuys

Reed's Great Sunday Run...

I hadn't really played any poker in about 7-8 days. I was anxious to get back to the grind. I played Saturday night and laid an egg cashing in 0 of 9 MTT's played. Mostly to some bad beats, but that's part of it.

Sunday was a different story. After spending most of the day on the lake with Colby and friends (Lisa's still recovering from back surgery) for Father's Day, we headed home for dinner. I knew I was going to get to play the 7pm MTT's so the night started then. I played 11 MTT's last night and had a remarkable 5 cashes. Four of the five were final tables too. First, I FT'd the $20 rebuy on FTP. It was a 6-max tourney only having 6 people at the FT. I came in 4/6 in chips and after a few hands got 66. I call a small raise and flop a set. I check and the raiser bets, so I go all-in and he calls w/ suited rags for a flush draw. He hits and I finish 6th.

Next up was AP's $75k gtd. final table. First place paid $18,500 and I came into FT 6/9 in chips. The chip leader was a maniac and I had chipped up from him a couple of times. The short stack busts to the donkey chip leader's rags and we're down to 8 players. I get AQ in late position and there's a early raiser, the chip leader re-raises and I figure I am way ahead of him. I decide to go all-in and the chip leader instacalls me with 10-4off. Of course, he hits one his napkins and I am out to the donk. By this time, I am tilted some, but still in a couple of other mtt's.

I bust out of one and I am left short stacked in both of FTP's Big Daily Doubles ($75 buy-ins). If you recall I doubled final tabled these back in January for a $10k+ score. Well, I play a good short stack and eventually chip up to top 10 stack with about 15 to go in each of them. Play continues and in "A" I double up twice in a row to get a top 4 stack and cruise to the FT easily. I end up making the FT in "B" barely going into FT 8/9 in chips. A couple of players go bust in "B" and I end up moving up in the money before I shove in the BB to the CL and go bust for 7th place. I make some moves and end CL with 4 left in "A", but we played for a long time 4-handed and chips came and went. I finally trapped one of the other players with my straight and get a nice chip lead. Eventually, I get HU w/ a girl and she's been pretty loose aggressive not wanting to fold her hands. We play about 5 hands with nothing really happening. I get 6d8d and call her min. raise. The flop comes 97A with two diamonds. I bet out, she raises, then I call. I insta-shove after the turn diamond. She calls w/ KK and I take this tourney down.

The crazy thing is that 3 people made both final tables, so we split the double final table bonus. and one of the finished 2nd and 4th, so he got the best double finish bonus. Pretty sick!

Here's the final totals:

FTP $20r- 6th place for $444.00
AP $75k gtd.- 8th place for $1,950.00
FTP Big DDA- 1st place for $3,078.00
FTP Big DDB- 7th place for $425.00
Bonuses for Double FT- $900.00

Almost $7k in cashes...Happy Father's Day!!

Reed Poker Open #16 Tonite on FTP

Join us on Full Tilt for tonights game. You will find us under the Tournaments / Private tab

Name: Reed Poker Open #16
Password: RPO16
Date: Wednesday, June 11th at 9pm EST
Game: HORSE
Buy-in: $5.50

What are the Odds

Is was great to have merchdawg in the RPO but when the following hand happened I had to send him to the rail... barely

RPO 15 Results

Congrats to cgcpointledge for winning the Reed Poker Open #15. car_guy_67 finished 2nd this week after winning last week. And OutlawJesco finished third after a bad attempt at a steal against cgcpointledge. Also cgcpointledge managed to take All in Reed out early on when All in Reed was short stacked and his preflop all in with pocket 77 ran into cgc's AK who then flopped two pair and ended with a boat.

Final Hand


Next weeks game info
Name: Reed Poker Open #16
Password: RPO16
Date: Wednesday, June 11th at 9pm EST
Game: HORSE
Buy-in: $5.50

RPO 14 Results

With a table of nine in a $2 rebuy...
Final Hand


champion - car_guy_67 - $41
2nd - rascony - $24.60
3rd - madfox54 - $16.40


Thanks to all those that played. Hopefully we will have more next week when we play $5+.50 NL Holdem in the Reed Poker Open #15 (password RPO15). To receive email reminders just email OutlawJesco

I'm Feeling A Little Flushed

Brian splits one at Caesars

Brian got away for a few days this week. He and Kathy ended up at Caesars, IN. Tuesday night. Checked to see if any tournaments were going on. Every Tuesday night at midnight they have a nl holdem $65+15. So they got a room for $79 a night.

Started play with 1500 in chips and 50 people in the tourney. After the 3rd round a $5 addon for 1000 chips.

By the end of the 3rd round Brian was the short stack with 600 in chips,got the addon so started the 4th round with 1600 still the short stack.Slowly started to get some hands and by the time they were down to 3 tables Brian was the chip leader. took a big hit when he raised with KQo got 3 people to go allin so he called. Player to his left had pocket AA and won the hand. By the time they were down to 15 players he was again the CL.The final table played for about an hour and down to 4 players. Chip leader had 24k and Brian had 21k 3rd had 19k and 4th had18k.Play continued for another 15 mins no one got any where so they split the $2583 at 4:15 in the morning 600+ each.

Reed Poker Online Championship is Back!

Starting Wednesday, 5/28 at 9pm on Full Tilt Poker we will resume our RPO Championships. I am inviting some other online players that do not normally play with us to play. Hopefully, the will add to our attendance.

The passwords will change...for example, if the event is named "Reed Poker Open #14" , then the password will be RPO14. And the will continue like that throughout the rest of the year.

Join us every Wednesday night from now til the end of the year!

May RPL Event Results

After the date being moved and being played on a Wednesday instead of Thursday, we still had 9 players play Event #5. The event was a $20 rebuy event and the prize pool ballooned up due to the rebuys. All players made it thru the rebuy period.

• About 2 hours into play, Duffy, Trinity and Adam got invlolved in a pot where Duffy was all-in. Adam and Trinity checked it down to the river where Trinity went all-in and Adam called quickly. Trinity shows the A-high flush to beat Adam's two pair and Duffy's mucked cards.To give Trinity a huge chip lead with approx. 1/3 of the chips in play.
  


• Almost 2 hours later of 7 handed play, Chris S. KK held vs. Aris' 77.


• It took 15 min. until Brad and Brian hooked up in a pot where Brian got Brad all-in and busted him in 6th place.


• Five players left, Sean raised UTG w/ 77 and Derrick was in the BB. He decides to go all-in and Sean goes into the tank contemplating the call. He thinks he's ahead with his pair and calls to see Derrick's K10. The 7's hold and Derrick finishes in 5th place.


• The money bubble arrives, Chris' stack was up and down all night but Trinity decided he needed more chips to his fortress and busted Chris in 4th place when Trinity's A5 held against Chris' QJ
  


• Sean, Trinity and Brian all are close in chip count and in the money. play continues 3-handed until Brian gets Sean off a big pot when a possible flush and straight hit the board. A few hands later Sean's small pair go up against Trinity's 10-10 to send Sean to the rail.
  
  
• When heads up began Trinity had a slight chip lead. Brian ask if he got the lead would Trinity be willing to make a deal so he could qualify for the TOC. Trinity was not willing to make a deal since he had made that mistake in the past.
  
  
• The chip lead passed back and forth until a hand where the flop came 6-9-5. Trinity thought long and hard before deciding to push allin. Brian insta-called and shows 9-4(not 100% on the 4)... Trinity turns his cards over and thinking he had a 9 with a higher kicker only to realize he had merely a 7-8... and oh but wait he flopped the nuts. This left Brian with only about 26K with over 200k in play.
  
  
• The next hand Trinity folded on the button knowing Brian would push with any two. The next hand had Brian (66) pushing and Trinity (A3) insta-calling. Brian's hand only improved to finish with a boat to double to about 52K.
  
  
• The very next hand Trinity (A4s) pushes and Brian (33) calls and the pair holds. Brian is now back to just over 100K.
  
  
• The very next and final hand, Trinity has AKs to Brian's KQo... Preflop Trinity puts Brian all in. Trinity flops an Ace to end the night with his second win of the year (January).

Trinity, who was the first to bust out and rebuy (5 hands into the evening), ended the night with five knockouts (hitman leader with 13 for the year) and first place. He also regained the points lead over Sean and became the first two time winner in 2008.

Wow, what a rush!

I have had one heck of rush the last 5 days playing online.

2nd in $10 rebuy on FTP for $2400.00
1st in $9k gtd. on AP for $2700.00
2nd in $30 rebuy on AP for $2708.00
3rd in $20 rebuy on Stars for $2,633.00

I sure hope this continues...

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April's Event Results

Last night was our 4th event of the year and had 9 players. It had a $45 buy-in for $15,000 starting stacks, so there was plenty of room to play. Play was 9-handed for nearly 3 hours...

• Trinity was the first person out when he and Chris D. got it all in on a low flop. T's AK could not catch up to Chris' JJ.
• Derrick was next in line when he basically got priced into a pot where 3 players were all-in. Newcomer Mark got credit for the knockout.
• Chris vs. Chris with Sloce holding A-X and Daniels holding 88. The 8's held sending Sloce to the rail.
• Newcomer Mark evetually busted to past champion Brad as Mark was all-in in the dark.
• Brad didn't last long though because Chris D. added to his stack by busting Brad.
• Down to the bubble, Sean looks at JJ in the BB and Chris D. raises in the SB causing Sean to shove. Chris instacalls w/ QQ and Sean is the bubble boy.
• Brian's stack was up and down all night until he got in Chris' crosshairs and busted in 3rd place.
• Aris and Chris D. were heads up w/ Chris holding a nice chip lead. After a couple of hanbs, Aris shoves w/ KJs and Chris calls w/ A9off. A 9 on the river seals the victory for Chris D.

Sean takes over the RPL POY points lead w/ Trinity and Brad not far behind.

***Hand of the night***

Sean raises a couple of limpers since he held AA. Mark was the only caller. The flop came 55J rainbow. Sean bet and Mark called. Turn was an 8 and Mark decided to go all-in and Sean called holding A's and 5's. Mark turned over the "NUTS" w/ quad fives and Sean instantly mucked only to see a A hit the river for a sunken boat. Nice hand!

Payout:

3rd place: Brian $50

2nd place: Aris $100

Champion: Chris D. $200

Reed gets a nice score Sunday!

I played some online tournaments late Saturday night cashing in 2 early tournaments. About 11pm, I wasn't tired at all so I bought in for $11 to play a 6-max tournament. There were 969 entrants. I got a great table draw with some really bad players. I doubled early when I shoved AA pre-flop and got called by 33. Then the journey began. I eventually busted all the original players at my first table to build a top 5 stack and I held a top 5 stack til the final table.

At the final table, I came in 3rd in chips and lost a big pot when my AQ was beat by A10 and got KK cracked by 1010. Once it was 5-handed everyone was asking to chop it for about $1,200 each. I said "no" because I felt I could win the whole thing. Play continued until 3-handed and I was the chip leader. They kept asking for a even chop and I told them I would take 1st place money and they could chop 2nd and 3rd. That pissed them off and they gunned for me. I trapped one of them with my straight and then I was heads-up w/ a 3:1 chip lead. My opponent had over $40k in PokerStars winnings, so I knew he could play and he was very aggressive. The 3rd hand I had 33 and he raised, I re-reaised, he shoved and I called. The 3's held and I won the whole thing!!!

Ship the $2,228.71 my way!!!

Fairwell to Matt...

Matt played his last RPL event last night. He's moving back to New Jersey in April. I just wanted to say that it was nice meeting you over the last year or so. Good luck in life and at the poker tables. Maybe we can get a trip to Atlantic City and meet up again soon.

Keep in touch and we'll still play on FTP on Wednesday nights!

Sincerely,
Sean

March RPL Results...

Last night was RPL #3 and it had a record turnout with 19 players making for a nice payout. Play went on for about 45 minutes until the first bust.

• Last year's Main Event Champion, Adam was the first to go busto by Patrick.
• Only minutes later, Patrick busted two more in the same hand by sending Chris S. and Brian to the rail. Patrick had a nice chip lead after 3 early knockouts.
• Newcomer Bo was the next victim after Trinity busted him.
• Play continued for a while til Donnie and Brad got busted by newcomer Andy.
• The first knockout at table #2 was Matt who was busted by Elmer.
• Elmer got moved to table #1 and didn't last too long after Trinity busted him.
• At the final table bubble, Sean knocks out Duffy in a blind vs. blind matchup.
• Patrick get his 4th victim when busts Jason.
• Mitch lost his "tall" stack to Anthony in a huge 3-way pot.
• Jeff hung on as long as he could, but Vern finished him off.
• Mr. Unlucky, Derrick had his QQ cracked by Trinity's 88 to finish 7th. Brutal!
• Anthony went from chip leader to bust when Andy takes out another person.
• On the bubble, Sean luckily sends Patrick to the rail when he rivers a K to beat Patrick's A-high.
• With 4 players in the money, Trinity gets crippled a hand before Vern busts him with 2 pair.
• Only a couple of hands were played 3 handed when Sean's middle pair w/ A kicker ran into Andy's set of 4's. Sean finishes in 3rd for the 3rd time this year.

Vern and Andy played a few hands before the decided to chop the money and Andy gets the "victory" since he was chip leader at the time of the deal.

Top 4

Andy- Champion ($252.50)

Vern- 2nd ($252.50)

Sean ($120)

Trinity ($80)

Daniels Heads Up Tourney Continues

Jeff lost in the first round in the Heads Up Tourney when he faced off with Chris Daniels. Sean moved forward after winning his round and will be playing his second round next week. Trinity beat Chris Sloce in the second round to advance to the final four and will probably play his third round match next week.

I thought about giving some hand results from my Heads Up against Chris S. but that might give away too much information. I will say Chris made some big laydowns that the average player could not have gotten away from.

RPO #10 - HORSE Results

Wednesday nights RPO Event was the smallest number of players we have had all year, with only four players. This game also would decide who would take the RPO points lead.

Champion - Brian ($12)
2nd - Trinity ($7)
3rd - Jeff
4th - Sean

Tonights win gave Brian the points lead. Congrats.

RPO Event #9 Results

With five players,tonights game was NL Hold'em.
And the winner is....


final hand can be seen here
Champion - Outlaw Jesco
2nd - Jzwired
3rd - Harley1998
4th - All in Reed
5th - Brian

"21" Coming to Theaters March 28th

New Poker Song...RPL Theme?

This song is hilarious and will remain in your head for weeks...

RPO #8 Results

Rebuy Tournament this week with six players.

Champion: Jeff
2nd: Brian
3rd: Matt
4th: Trinity
5th: Jason
6th: Sean

Seat Opens Up in the Daniels Heads Up

A seat has come available (Brian's Seat) for anyone interested in the Heads Up Tourney. Email Trinity or Sean if you are interested. (or click chat if Outlaw Jesco is Available). Buyin is $50. If you win your first round match you get $25 back. Payout continues with each round.

Congrats to Chris S., Sean and Trinity in winning their Round One to move on to Round Two.

Daniels Heads-Up Continues...

Last night, Sean and Chris S. both played their opponents in the first round of the HU Championship. Chris won his first match and lost the second one. However, he did win the last one when his opponent moved in on Chris when Chris had "pocket rockets". Game over, nice job Chris. Chris and Trinity will now play each other in round 2.

Sean's match was a long one with the first one lasting over an hour. Sean finally trapped his foe w/ a set of 2's for the win. The second match saw alot of action again, but Sean eventually lost it on a draw. The final and deciding match lasted just a few hands after Sean crippled his opponent on the 3rd hand of play. Sean hit a K with K7 vs. Doug's A4 and took the victory.

Brian and Jeff are the remaining RPL players scheduled to play their 1st round matches.

More to come next week!

Daniels Heads Up Tourney has begun.

Today, I played the first round of my bracket in the Heads Up Tournament sponsored by the Daniels Poker League. As the exception to the day, two of my three games where more than an hour long (with the other lasting less than the first blind session). It was a good match with me playing Greg Loggins. I managed my chips well in all three and usually had the lead, but I got caught up in a hand that hurt my stack badly to give Greg the win in the first game after well over an hour. The second game was over in under 20 min with me easily taking that one down.

The third round was as grueling as the first with me tearing Greg down and then building him back up on more than one occasion. The final hand was one for the books for sure... On the button I had 95 and I raised preflop. The flop brought 9-5-5. Feeling comfortable here I slowed down to allow Greg to get there only he must have hit since he check raised me. I just called. The turn made the board 9-5-5-Q. Greg bet out and I pushed my remaining stack (which was not alot since we were almost even before this hand)putting Greg all in. He shows a set of fives with a 4 kicker. And the game is over on a great hand (for me, no so much for Greg). Good game Greg...

Now it's off to the next bracket!
For the rest of you guys playing in the tourney from the Reed Poker League. Get with Chris S. or Chris D. to schedule your game. The schedule is flexible and open to week nights as well as weekend play. If you need to contact them call or email me and I will get you in touch with a Chris.

In case you did not know... If you win your first round bracket, you get $25 of your buyin back, and I think second bracket pays additional $50. cheers.

RPO Event #7 Results

Champion - Trinity - $15
2nd - Brian - $9
3rd - Sean - $6
4th - Jason (Jeff's Friend)
5th - Adam
6th - Jeff

Terrific Tuesday!

Double whammy!!!

Sean played two MTT's on Absolute Poker Tuesday night while out of town for work and won both of them. The first win was a $5 mtt with 250 players good for $284 in winnings. The second one was the nightly $3 rebuy that had 730 players in it. This victory was a nice one for $1,840. This is his 6th $3 rebuy win in alittle over 12 months.

Sean cashes in HUGE online tourney!

Sean finishes in the money of the of FTOPS Main Event that had a $2.645 million prize pool. The buy-in was $535, but Sean won his seat for $31 in a satellite. He finished 256th out of 5,291 players for $1,375.66. He got to as low a 1.5 bb's 3 hours into play, then grinded all the way back to play for about 2.5 more hours.

Unfortunately, the races were lost late in play when AK vs. 99 and AK vs. 66.

First place was in excess of $444,000. Damn!

Six players signed on tonight for RPO event #6 to play HORSE. It was a pretty long event, and Brian ended up taking down his 2nd in a row.

6th- Chris D.
5th- Chris S.
4th- Sean
3rd- Jeff
2nd- "jzwired" (Jeff's co-worker)

Champion: Brian (2 in a row!)

RPL Event #2 Recap

A record 17 players showed up for Event #2. The $20 rebuy event had a very nice prize pool with the winner taking home $460 for his efforts. We had several newcomers and 2 of them cashed in the event.

The top 5 finishers were as follows:

5th place: Elmer

4th place: Matt

3rd place: Sean

2nd place: Duffy

Champion: Brad ($460)

RPO #5 Results

Six players signed on tonight for RPO event #5. It lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes with Brian and Jeff eventually heads up.

6th- Matt (His Spot)
5th- Trinity
4th- Chris S.
3rd- Sean $6
2nd- Jeff (Off to a nice start in '08) $9

Champion: Brian (Broke his slump) $15

Poker Bling and AIPS Tourneys on Full Tilt

Have you ever wanted some poker bling to intimidate your opponents at the poker table? Well now is your chance. You could buy one but it would feel so much better if you won one from PokerBling.com's weekly tourney on Full Tilt. The tourney runs most Tuesdays at 9PM EST. This is a $10+1 Knockout Tourney. It is usually a small field of players. Go to their site for more information. You will probably see All In Reed or OutlawJesco playing in these when available.

Another great tournament series is the Ante Up! AIPS events. This is a year long set of tournaments with a mix of all the games we love to play. If any of you guys have not checked out Ante Up (2007 Best Poker Podcast, Bluff Magazine Readers Choice Awards) then you don't know what you're missing. Make it your goal this month to start listening to these guys. There are more than 138 episodes of poker info, tips and interviews with top poker professionals. Start by listening to the current episodes and then go back and listen from the beginning. Reed and I have been listening to these guys for almost two years.

Good luck and we'll see you at the tables.

Poker's own version of MySpace/Facebook

After an episode of Ante Up, Sean and I became aware of a new social network for poker players. Check out PokerPlayersSocialNetwork. It is full of pros and joes.

Also, ReedPoker has added a new feature to make signing up for Home games much easier. In the right column under SIGN UP you can select from the live game list and it will open an prepared email that goes directly to us.

RPO Event #4 Results

Tonights game was a NL Holdem Rebuy and seven players showed up. As with most of the rebuys everyone was in for the first hour. Then the real poker game took place with a total prize pool of $52.

Champion - Tom ($26)
2nd - Chris D. ($15.60)
3rd - Trinity ($10.50)
4th - Sean
5th - Jeff
6th - Brian
7th - Chris S.

Congrats Tom on your first RPO win. Trinity and Chris D. will move up in the POY points standings but will it be enough to knock Sean out of the top position...

See you guys next week.

Reed Hits it Big on FTP!

Sean was playing a pretty good slate of mtt's Sunday night and was deep into 4 of them. He ended up busting out of one and min. cash in another. However, it was the two remaining tournaments that would become exciting. He was still in both of the New Big Daily Doubles on FTP ($75 buy-in).

The Daily Doubles have a jackpot that's added to every night. Basically, if you cash in both mtt's you get a %, highest combined double cash gets %, double FT gets 20% and double wins get the jackpot. The jackpot was $22k.

Sean was able to avoid the suckouts and get a couple on his way to two final tables. He ended up finishing 6th in B and won A. Once the numbers were finalized, Sean brought in $10.3k for his efforts. This is largest cash to date and best month ever!!!

RPO Event #3 Results

We had 8 players tonight for Pot-Limit Omaha. Sean dozed off, but when he did join it was with a lead foot. In just a few hand, he took the chip lead. It ended up with Chris D. and Sean HU for title. Sean about a 3:1 lead, but it didn't matter. Chris chipped away and eventually took Sean down for the win. Nice Job!

8th- Adam (haha)
7th- Brian (Sophomore Slump?)
6th- Trinity
5th- Tom
4th- Jeff
3rd- Chris S.
2nd- Sean

Champion: Chris D.

Reed Poker Online Event #2

Tonight we had five players (really 4 since Sean was a no show). Trinity started off the game taking the first hand and remained chip leader until heads up where Jeff gained the chip lead when his river flush beat Trinity's top two pair. After battling back Trinity retook a massive lead during Razz and then Jeff hit great cards in the Stud Hi round. Trinity managed to survive to the next level of Stud H/L only to go out a few hands later.
Congrats Jeff!

1st - Jeff ($16.25)
2nd - Trinity ($8.75)
3rd - Sean (never played a hand)
4th - Brian (wasn't he the POY last year?)
5th - Matt (last again)

Reed Poker January Event Results

It was an exciting night and everyone was ready for another year of poker. This night was the longest night in RPL history with a 2 a.m. finish. I am sure everyone is waiting with baited breathe as to who the winner was.

Champion - Trinity
2nd - Matt
3rd - Sean
4th - Brian
5th - Jeff
6th - Aris
7th - Chris
8th - Adam
9th - Derrick
10th - Mitch
11th - Donnie
12th - David
13th - Brad

RPL Gains a Decent Second Table for '08

With the new year, it was decided by the executives at the Reed Poker League that it would be good to invest in a decent second table since more often than not we were having enough people for two tables. January's game will debut the new table complements of Dick's Sporting Goods (actually we had to pay them)

RPO Event #1 Results

The first was a record breaker w/ 9 players signing on to play. The game of the week was NL Holdem and $5.50 buy-in.
Here's the results:

9th: Matt
8th: Jeff
7th: Adam
6th: Brian
5th: Chris Sloce
4th: Derrick
3rd: Chris Daniels ($9.00)
2nd: Trinity ($13.50)

RPO #1 Champion: Sean ($22.50)