2009 Tournament of Champions Results

The tourney starts out with five players. Mike,chris,trinity,Brian and Derrick. Thirty minutes in Trinity and Derrick face off and get Allin on a J-8-7 board. Derrick shows 9Ts for str8 vs Trinity's QQ. Trinity is out 5th.

A family pot preflop. Comes 9-2-3 all hearts. Brian pushes and Derrick calls with 22 vs Brian 6h8h. Derrick hits a 3 on the river for a boat. Brian left with 800 and in the SB 400/800.

Next hand both Brian and Derrick have K-Q. Brian manages to hit 4 to the flush to double up.

Later Mike puts Brian who is Short stacked all in. Mike's AQs hits a Q to put Brian out. We are now three handed.

Mike raises to 2300 and Chris RR allin for 3400. Mike calls with AQs vs Chris' ATs. The board comes J-2-3-K-A. Chris bust out 3rd. We are now HU.

Derrick and Mike face off for the free buyin to the Main Event. Blinds are 600/1200.

On a 9-6-K-J-5 board. Mike pushes allin and the CL Derrick calls. Mike says you win and mucks as Derrick shows K3.

Derrick wins the seat into the Main Event. gg.

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2009 Tournament of Champions & Main Event Qualifiers

Just to remind everyone start times and such for tomorrow. All qualifiers for the Tournament of Champions, we will start at 4pm "sharp", so if you're going to be late let me know and we'll blind you in.

Main Event qualifiers will start at 5:30pm "sharp" as well. We will have pizzas delivered between 6:30pm-7pm. We should have a full table for the Main Event and 1st place will be $400 paying and payout will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd. If anyone else wants to come hangout, watch NFL playoffs, etc then you're more than welcome to come.

Remember Thursday, 1/21/10 at 7pm will be Event #1 "January Freezeout" that is open to all players. 20 seats available!!!

UB: SNG Challenge

As I noted a few weeks ago I am starting 2010 with a personal goal/challenge to turn $100 on UB into $500 by the end of January. I started off strong in my early days of UB but then between 12/22 and 12/28 (only played 30 SNGs) I dropped down from $293 to as low as $234. I attribute this to variance but it still did not come easy. I took a slight break and ran reports on my play to see what I was doing wrong and managed to find a few leaks. Also I think I got a bit cocky on UB thinking I could not lose.

I started things back up on Jan 1 with $253 and have had four short sessions totaling 18 SNGs over 2 days with positive returns each session to manage to finish Sunday with $315. With the holidays and being sick I did not get in as much poker as I would have liked over New Years weekend but... oh well. I will probably not get too much play in this week either since I will be on location for a photo shoot in Chicago for three days and then the RPL Main Event on Sat. That will just make reaching the goal more of a challenge.

Days Remaining:....................... 28
Bankroll:................................ $315
Need:.................................... $185

Running Hot

After running hot in cards in 2009, Trinity managed to finish the year by running hot one more time. Trinity participated in a nuclear hot wing eat-off on Daytime Tri-Cities. The challenge: to eat 20 Beef O'Brady's Nuclear hot wings in less than 20 minutes. "I feel pretty confident that I can do this in under 10 minutes," Trinity said when ask prior to the beginning of the challenge how he thought he would do. Friends and co-workers were all in agreement that Trinity would go untouched in this challenge.

The Results: Trinity (1st on left) finished in 6min, Mike 7min (2nd from right), Kevin 7min45sec (1st from right)...

To quote Andrew T (2nd from left) from Beef O'Brady's "Impressive".

Trinity hopes to continue his hot streak with a win in the 2009 RPL Main Event on January 9th. Trinity was also the 2009 Player of the Year and is going into the Main Event as the defending champion.

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2009 Reed Poker League Tourney of Champions and Main Event

First of all, thanks to everyone for playing again in 2009. We have had 70+ different players play in our game over the 3+ years. Our numbers fell off somewhat this year, but that's expected the economy and "real life" has been over the past 12 months. Hopefully, we can get back to two tables in 2010. Before we can get into 2010 we have the 2009 Tournament of Champions and Main Event to play. Both will be played on Saturday, 1/9/10 with the TOC at 4:00pm and Main Event at 5:30pm.

The TOC is a winner-take-all freeroll for a $75 seat into the Main Event. The Main Event is obviously a $75 buy-in deep stack finale with added money to winner, trophies, non-playing final table dealer (hopefully), etc.

Looking towards 2010, the first tournament will be played on Thursday, 1/21/09 at 7pm. If anyone has any suggestions for changes in 2010 please let me know. I think the $10 rebuy was a success, so I see another one of those. Let us know! Thanks!

Tournament of Champions Qualifers 4PM 01/09/10
Shorty - confirmed
Brian R - confirmed
Mike K - not coming
Derrick N - confirmed
Adam B - maybe
Chris S - confirmed
Daniel
Trinity L - confirmed

Main Event Qualifers 5:30PM 01/09/10
Sean - confirmed
Trinity - confirmed
Vern - confirmed
Adam B - maybe/maybe not
Kevin D - not coming
Mike K - not coming
Brian R. - confirmed
Derrick - confirmed
Aris - confirmed
Chris S. - confirmed
Bean - not coming
Shorty - confirmed

Hot Turns to Cold, at Least For Today

I played nine SNGs tonight and managed to mincash once, bubble once and the other eight times were not good. I probably should not have been playing tonight. It didn't exactly feel right before I started but I pressed on anyway (especially since D was not home). I managed to drop 8 buyins for the evening. I attribute this to my mood and of course variance. I like to think this is my hot streak with a minor correction. I decided to stop while it was going downhill and not donk off another 8-10 buyins. I am still up a significant amount but just wanted to move past the $300 mark as I work to reach $500 before the end of January.

My overall ROI for UB is 60.1% over 46 games with my bankroll at $252.