BCPC and RPC Champions League II – Saturday 9 November 2013
Venue: The Raven
Revenge! . . . is a dish best served by a cold deck. I think that’s the phrase anyway, and revenge is what the BCPC were out for following their 23-77 loss to the Raven in the first Champions League event in May.
To manage your expectations, what follows could never be described as a write-up. So apologies for that. It was a genuinely intense game and because I was playing in it (usually I’m sat at the side reading a book) then I found it quite hard to follow big hands and exits. Time for a new manager I say….
The buy in for this event will be £36 and prizes will be…
Team Prize GPS Main Event worth £440
1st – 888 Superstack seat worth £165 (or similar)
2nd- GUKPT side event seat (or similar) worth £110
20th – £5 booby prize
Your captains for this epic battle were:
|
BCPC – Brian ‘Captain Bluebook’ Yates |
RPC – Graham ‘Mooch’ Gorton |
 |
 |
We again started with two tables of eight, alternate club players, but the wrinkle this time was the inclusion of 2 subs for each side, replacing the first two knocked out from each time and coming in with 10k instead of everyone else’s 5k. The two subs were: Kamy Cunningham and Graham Gorton for The Raven and Brian Yates and Andy Duncan for the BCPC.
Team Format
Both teams definitely handled the team format better in this game than in the last. I don’t think anybody knocked a team member out while the cup was still in the balance, and there were multiple examples players folding massive hands to their team mates, including Dom who had to fold a royal flush.
Big hands against opposing players seemed to be less prevalent, though BCPC Courtney hit quad jacks against Raven’s Gav, who had QQ. Courtney did further damage to Gav when his 66 out-drew JJ to hit a set on the flop.
On Table 1 Tod got very low reasonably early after his set of 7s and pocket aces both got cracked. Bank of Trippier kept him alive but then the bank closed early due to excess Guinness-based shoving top pair against opponent with AA. Doh!
However the BCPC still managed to win Table 1 by a margin of 3-1.
On Table 2 Mooch was the Raven sub but got unlucky against BCPC Adam as his flopped 2-pair was well behind Adam’s flopped baby flush. That left Mooch very low. Bri (7-7) then took Mooch (Q-J) out on a A-K-J flop…….7 on the turn.
The table ended also 3-1 to the BCPC and that meant that the maximum points the Raven could get was 43 points and so the BCPC were declared champions!
Final Table
Players were:
Kamy Cunningham (Raven)
Dom Hazlett (Raven)
Andy Duncan (BCPC)
Adam Phelan (BCPC)
Dawn Wilson (BCPC)
Tod Wood (BCPC)
Brian Yates (BCPC)
Courtney Penn (BCPC)
With blinds being reset to 100/200/25 there was now plenty of room for people to play poker again. Also the team game was over so there could be plenty of incestuous team action.
Courtney is the 1st off the final table in 8th.
Brian Yates falls next hand 7th.
Kamy lost a big hand against Tod, her flush draw and overs not hitting against top pair for Tod. She was knocked out soon after by Adam, which left just Dom left from the Raven.
4-handed Tod won a huge hand against Andy, raising with 88 (that Duncan boogie-hand again!) he was called by AQ. The flop was 8AQ. Tod actually didn’t realise he’d hit the 8(!) and so did a confident check. Andy checked behind. The turn was a K and by this point Tod realised he’d hit a sit. He assumed Andy must have some of the board, hopefully two-pair, so shoved. Andy called but didn’t hit a boat.
Dawn was knocked out 5th by Tod, shoving A7 post-flop but losing to Tod’s Q8 who had flopped an 8.
Adam ended up finishing fourth, but that meant unless Dom got 1st or 2nd then all three prizes would go to the BCPC.
Still competing for the top 3 places were Andy and Tod (BCPC) and Dom (Raven).
Final 3
Three handed it was a bit of a war of attrition, and Tod was able to grind down the stacks of Andy and Dom who both appeared to be waiting for the other to go out first.
In the end Tod knocked Dom out in 3rd, king-high outdrawing ace-high?
And then Tod dealt the final blow to Andy, A5 beating, uh, something else (sorry).
So that meant that the BCPC won the team event and Tod will play on their behalf in a Genting seat worth £440. Andy won the 2nd place seat for £165 and Adam sneaked into the 3rd place seat for £110.
Final individual positions (victims and killers) and points were:
1. Tod Wood (25)
2. Andy Duncan (18)… Tod
3. Dom Hazlett (14)… Tod
4. Adam Phelan (12)…Andy D
5. Dawn Wilson (10)… Tod
6. Kamy Cunningham (8)… Adam Phelan
7. Brian Yates (6)… Dom
8. Courtney (4)… Andy D
9. Steve Healy (2)… Andy D
10. Helen Franklin (1)… Andy D
11. Gavin Jones … Tod
12. Tony T … Kamy
13. Matt Green … Anon (poss Adam)
14. Mooch … Brian
15. Kevin Berrie … Tod
16. Denise … Courtney
17. Dale M … Dom
18. Anne Wright … Helen
19. Brandon Slater … Courtney
20. Wozza … Matt Green
Final score in the team event (assuming the points structure was the same as last time) was:
BCPC – 77
RPC – 23
So the combined score from the two matches is:
BCPC – 100
RPC – 100
🙂
Thanks to Mooch for a brilliant day and also capturing information which I was able to use in this report. You. Da. Man.
“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked upstarting –
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! – quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”
Until next time…..
