Live team event February Birmingham - reports!

vul scott.

gl to everyone else still in

End of the day drinks, 5 remain, Scott, Discord and Wildrick out.

36 players remain, top 18 get team points.

Hows the stacks looking Bain ?

hoppy wrote:Hows the stacks looking Bain ?

Jen has 41,000 and the rest of us are about average.

........Breaking News........Breaking News.......Breaking News............Breaking News................

Our Star Sub, Jen, is about to take her seat at the Final Table!

Well Done, Jen! Well done on points and on cashing.......now enjoy the FT and know we are all behind you...here at the Casino and those at home......

GOOD LUCK! GOOD LUCK! GOOD LUCK!

TID!

CHEERS APPLAUSE SMILIES FIREWORKS

(Sori, don't kno how to do icons on my mobile :-( ! )

PS: Jen is no longer allowed to just elect to be a sub... She HAS to be in any future teams!

Good Luck Jen

Aaarggghhhh! Sadly, Jen's shove with A High did not hold up to another all-in and a call but she comes away with a well-earned and well-deserved 7th place!

GG VWP Jen CONGRATS! We are proud of you!

Sorry for lack of proper updates - Not one of my best skills, lol. I also really am useless at using my mob to surf the fora and interact!

However it has been a great w/e and was really fun meeting everyone. We had a great team and good fun was had by all!

Having just gone out 10 mins before end of Day 1, in THE comp, I got a bit of confidence back busting out 8th of a small tourney put together for 30 of us this afternoon. Enjoyed it too!

TC all.

VWP to all, and great to meet you all, but must commiserate with Redbull who did such a fine job going deep on the final day but just unlucky enough to bubble on points. You did a darn fine job, tho', David.

wp all

ty for them kind words discord its 1 30 and got in half an hour so just having a quick peek will sit down later on and start my 3 days posting free from the interlectual tounge of dont put your chips against me if you want to stay in bainn erm time for bed o and ty carn

Very well played all and nice one DAVID lol thats made me week and its only 8.40am on monday hehe

nice one guys

wp all and vwp to jen

What a great weekend!

A huge pleasure to meet everyone, so thanks to all for coming! Special mention to hopelessglory who's first train was cancelled so he realised early on he was going to be too late for team event, but still turned up to support the team, n1 m8!

Scott - First casualty, but after checking in the bb with 10 8 and the flop coming down 988... limper had 99... what can you do lol. Turn 9 river 8 for quads v quads exit arg lol.

After that harsh set up start things were going along nicely for team sps, with 8 team members in the last 50, from 90 runners.

I'd made a great start with a few nice hits and payoffs, but after getting trip 10s, AA, and KK all cracked it was starting to go wrong. Jen and Bainn on the otherhand were both going great, and the rest of the team were looking solid, so all was well. I got a lucky double on a K high board, where i check raised my KJbb only to find the button raiser had AA but i sucked out

However things soon started to go wrong, I lost a big pot, 36k, and most of my chips after raising QQ and getting shoved on by A7 who proceeded to hit AAA77 lol. I wont mention what happened to my last 3k but the damage was already done lol, and i was out in 45th ish 30 mins before the end of day one. Harmony and Madv followed shortly after, but good performances from both, and we were looking good for day 2, with 5 team members making the last 35, with Jen as team chippy in 5th with 45k, Tripped with 28k, and Nick, Red and Bainn all just a little under average stack.

So we kicked off day 2 with high hopes but things didnt run according to plan - first tripedd lost 2 5050s trying to knock shorties out, and ended up getting short himself, then Bainn hit an A on the flop after raising with AJ, unfortunately the flop was AQ5 and his shove was insta called by oppo holding AQ, and we were down to 4.

The next 2 minutes were pretty brutal, as first Nick went out - calling a miniraise from the sb in the bb with 34s and flopping AA3 he shoved over oppos weak flop bet - unfortunately he had the A and nick was gone. Tripped then got his stack into the pot in great shape - holding JJ v 89 and A9 for a great shot a triple up, but the poker gods weren't having it, and after an 8 on the flop the 9 on the river was a rather sick exit.

That just left Redbull and Jen in the last 25, and with only 18 people getting points the teams chances were haning on a slim thread with 1st and 2nd being probably the only hope!

Red's day 1 had been unfortunate to say the least, and he was unlucky to be short after running AK into JJ about 4 times and losing all of them. His determined run on Day 2 with his shortish stack wasn't to be, and he was the point bubble on 19th when his 910 shove got a nice looking call from 66 but he lost the flip, vwp and great effort tho.

Jen was going great, but took a big hit with 12 left, her AK losing to A7 with a river 7. She started the final table in 8th/9, managed to hang on for a bit, but pushed a 9bb stack in from the co with A9s, and ran into QQ in the sb and KK in the bb! Harsh! An awesome performance from the super-sub tho to get 7th, and she wont be allowed to be sub for the next one!

Once again thanks to the team, I had a chat with the organiser and got our name downn for the provisional next one, hopefully this summer some time. I cant wait!

Big congrats on the FT/cash JEN, vwp!!

Massive thanks to you all for a great weekend

FaQ(George)

Hi All Scott told me to sign up as quadnines (top bloke) after knocking him out and tell you all that he didn’t go all in with rubbish.
I was on the button with 4 limpers the table had been quite tight and aggressive and for 4 people to limp was very unusual im sat with pocket nines and have a feeling that I was behind to at least one bigger pair. I decide to limp as well and SB calls and Scott checks with his K8s.
Flop comes down 988 Scott hits trips and bets out about 1k only to be re-raised by UTG to about 3.5K folds around to me and I push my 9k into the pot (not wanting an over pair to hit on turn or river) Scott instantly calls with his trips as he only has about 5k left. UTG then spends 5 mins before folding general consensus is he had JJ or QQ ( if I was wrong to limp he was even more so) what made this even more interesting was that one girl was away from the table and was folded automatically. After the hand was done the dealer said she had AA. Any way turn comes down 9 and river another 8
Quad 9 over Quad 8s
Unlucky mate gutting

Hope you all had a great time Whipit (UKSharks and now Quadnines)

FaQsaKe wrote:Big congrats on the FT/cash JEN, vwp!!

Massive thanks to you all for a great weekend

FaQ(George)

oi oi George, to our forum, pleasure to meet you at the weekend, and great to see you here

Hopefully you'll see that SPS is the future in terms of team If not then Tesco-Kick-dac will be having words

Cheers Quads lol!

was great day and great to meet u all.

well done to all. sorry i had to dash off for what turned out to be a false alarm!

A very well done again to all and especially redbull and jen. SUPERSUB! (no longer tho!)

Hello folks,

Firstly a massive thanks to Wildrick for the opportunity to play and secondly it was wonderful to meet you all. It was a fantastic weekend with some great poker and some awesome people.

I was quite happy with my personal performance managing the second day and only going out to a bad beat.As i finished 3rd in the team does that make me the 3rd best player on the forum lol.The short and simple answer to that is no but at least i did not disgrace myself at the event.

One thing i have learnt is that drinking heavily till silly o clock in the morning 2 nights running is not condusive too decisive poker but without the drinking i would not of had such a cracking deep conversation with Madv on the friday night and such a good laugh with Redbull, Bainn, Discord and eventually Scott and Redbulls nephew George(faqsake) when they staggered back from the 3 card poker table at 5 am in the morning with a pocket full of cash.

Bainn was a inspiring captain always letting me i was playing poorly but without his hilarious antics at the table on day 1 it would of not been the same.

Rick got a disgusting beat on his queens the other guys push was strange then he hit miracle cards.

Also a nasty beat for discord for a treble up with ak vs aj and qj with the queen jack winning. She may of been short stacked but a treble up would been another player in day 2 and anything can happen. ul harmony.

A big thankyou the Nikthebad as i know now the finer tactics to Black jack and 3 card poker.

A massive congratulations to Geminis for a fantastic 7th place and some awesome play.

A big shout out to hoplesglory who was so unlucky with the train but still made it down . Pleasure to meet you mate.

One thing i was very happy with was being called a student and a youngster all the time although im actually 32 and older than a few of the team, Very flattering and without that i would not have had the pleasure of Bainns father like wisdom. (a clip round the back of the head and no dinner only kidding dude)

Finally thankyou so much Dave for the lift although my plonker like brain managed to send you 30 mins in the wrong direction before a 7 and a half hour drive it was a massive favour and i really appreciated it. It was very kind of you and george not to give me a quick kicking leave me in a ditch by the side of the M6 and leave me with a comment "theres your lift ya wee barstard". Seriously mate thanks and glad you got home ok. Wp as well dude.

Thought i would leave a long post as wont be able to comment much or play poker because im back looking after my grandparents.

My body is a temple now and zen poker is the future one thing i have taken from the weekend.
Thanks again rick without you and the site this great experience wouldnt of been possible. Great to meet you all and hope to see you all again. Do look after yourseves. Choose peace and love over fear and hate(which you guys will)but most of all be good to yourselves and help others

PEACE GUYS.

P.S BOOOOOOOMMMMMMM ive hit the miracle Queen

P.P.S sorry about the bad grammer BAinn

quadnines wrote:Hi All Scott told me to sign up as quadnines (top bloke) after knocking him out and tell you all that he didn’t go all in with rubbish.
I was on the button with 4 limpers the table had been quite tight and aggressive and for 4 people to limp was very unusual im sat with pocket nines and have a feeling that I was behind to at least one bigger pair. I decide to limp as well and SB calls and Scott checks with his K8s.
Flop comes down 988 Scott hits trips and bets out about 1k only to be re-raised by UTG to about 3.5K folds around to me and I push my 9k into the pot (not wanting an over pair to hit on turn or river) Scott instantly calls with his trips as he only has about 5k left. UTG then spends 5 mins before folding general consensus is he had JJ or QQ ( if I was wrong to limp he was even more so) what made this even more interesting was that one girl was away from the table and was folded automatically. After the hand was done the dealer said she had AA. Any way turn comes down 9 and river another 8
Quad 9 over Quad 8s
Unlucky mate gutting

Hope you all had a great time Whipit (UKSharks and now Quadnines)

hey hey quadnines, to our forum, and thanks for the hand history

My version was a little hazy as it was as told by Scott, who walked away from table once you turned over your hand lol. I believe it started off with K8 v 98, but by the evening after a few pints it was 10 8 v 99 lol.

Anyway, see you at the next one, scott will be having his revenge i'm sure

Evening all, thx for the support on here,I personaly had a great time and was very funny putting names to faces.
I am not the best at writing up on these things as I have a terrible short term memory problem so a lot of it will be fairly hazy and perhaps only a few hands will be mentioned but here goes...
We set off late friday night and raced down the motorway in a vain atempt to make the freeroll game which last reg was 9.20, we arrived at 9.30 which was very frustrating but thankfully someone had put us on the late reg thingimy and so just had enough time to say hi to peeps and get a drink before we sat down to a very odd game of poker. I was a red's table and so was good as I dont treally play much live and having a friendly face at the table made things a lot easier and funnier at times(red has a very strong scottish accent and I had to translate to the dealer several times, much to red's irritation).

I dont remember much of the game apart from stacking off my very first hand, thankfully still in the rebuy period, tho I do think Red was a little worried at what I was up to but i their turned out to be method to my madness and it ended up being myself and red left in the last 20 from 160 odd players, I think I ended up 17th or something but I was chuffed that I had made it so far being I was so inexperienced live and had deffo caught the bug and was well up for the team game the next day... but alas I was just a sub. A big well done to red who was the last to go out I think 12th in the end.

So Trip,Vad,Red,George,Nic,Ric and myself all hit the bar, ordered some 99p brekies, Which I must say went down very well in our drunken states.Trip made me laugh, while we were ordering the food he was saying how he can never eat this time of the morning and he was not hungry, then proceeded to eat it saying how each mouthfull was like a piece of gold, and when he finished stared at Vads munch covetously, which also threw me a little... since when was fish fingers considered breakfast!

Ok on to the next day ( sorry about the waffeling), Ric and I woke late and had lots of messing trying to sort out the patches, we managed to put the sticky on 3 but decided that many hands make light work so took them downstairs to Vad, Nic and Red and turned the lobby of the hotel in to what only be described as a kiddie craft area/ Blue Peter studio, with tons of double sided sticky take all over the place.

They did a great job of the patches and we were off over to the casino to meet the rest of the team, tho as it stood at that time I was the only one who wasnt going to be playing and so must admit their wasnt much spring to my step. Its at this point we get news that Hopeless isnt going to make it on timefor the start, the poor bloke had had a mission with the trains and was not going to be there untill at least 2 hours after kick off and so I had to step in! YAYAYAY

to be cont...

Im going back to grandparents on train now. Just to say thanks again and that breakfast was gold!!!!

PEACE BOOM ZEN POKER

We find the lovely Helen, Bain and Scott and all get in to our team shirts, all be it with a little fuss from me who didnt want to , I gave in and we all went to get the team pic done, then to take our seats, lets the games begin!.
My table was all male and brimming with testosterone, one guy to my right was showing his bluffs and being very aggressive and so I got irritated and started playing him at his own game rather than stearing clear which I must admit was prob why I did so well. One hand of note being my 77 on a AQJ flop two other peeps were in the pot one of which being the nutter, I lead out which was a very mad play for me as well as being very foolish, the wrong chap called and I had no clue where I stood but thankfully a larger bet on the turn soon sees him off.

The next few hours were so sweet, winning all of the hands I play with only 1 showdown,I have KJ sooted on the button and is raised to 800 when blinds were 200, I have about 19k at this point and have been very active so decide to peel off a flop, flop is 10 Q 7 rainbow, the chap bets pot and I decide to go fishing hehe and call, turn is a 9 sweeeeeeeeeeet, he goes ai for about 6k sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! I insta call he huffs and puffs a bit and shows AJ, the turn comes a blank and I scoop a yummy pot taking me up to about 28k,

The rest of the evening I just run the table, only having to fold out of one hand I played and cruising up to 41k about 5th in chips ready for the mornings play. The team is looking in great shape at this point too with 5 players still left in, Hopeless finally here and takes down the sit and go side game YAY him x. A huge shout out to Scott at this point who seems to be having a nightmare of a day, first going out the team game quads v quads, then out the STT and then out the 20 second chance . I had better not start on the way ric went out Ahem. We all go off and get a yummy meal at the resturant,the quote of the weekend has to be from Nic, when everyone had finnish eating Red offered his left over chips to Bain, Nic quickly remarked "surely if Bain should be taking anyones chips then he should be taking them from Ric" lol , anyway we have tons more drinks and end up in bed around 4am.

Blimey I am banging on will let u all have a rest and my fingers too lol, back with the last day a bit later

Hey guys sounds like you all had a great time. Brilliant performance Jen clearly you will have to be the first name on the team-sheet the next time!

Gutted I missed it but hopefully the next one wont collide with anything I can't get out of.