Tod Wood wins Season 13 Week 3, Kev O’Driscoll 2nd, Adam Smith 3rd

BCPC Season 13, Game 3 – Friday 9 January 2015

HNY to all my homies. Still early days in Season 13 but the leaderboard after week 2 looked like this:

A windy more than cold night saw 23 great apes descend on the New Talbot for week 3. Double chance tonight (someone tell Chris).

Right, let’s get lubed up

Tony G kicked things off with quad jacks in about the first 30 seconds 🙂 . Ant turned up late (obv) but Steve R still managed to finagle £1 for the high hand even though the current jackpot had been won. Ant’s response: bovvered?

Ant was more concerned about Bri leaving a card on the table from the previous hand while dealing the next. Representative of a fall in standards at the BCPC, he didn’t say. (His actual words: “Book!”)

Speaking of Captain Courageous, he had Tony over a barrel with QQ v 88, but the 8 on the flop (or turn/river) ended all that.

More sets for Tony not long after (“I felt it and it came…”), though he wasn’t in the hand. Paul Foy had KK, Bri QQ, Ant AT. Flop A47 leaving Ant looking good and Tony quietly vomiting. Turn blank, river queen – Captain Bluebook back, baby!

On the feature table, Sean woke up with Aces (pity he wasn’t there to play them), Andy Overton with KK and Matt Wilson with QQ. Andy relatively slowed played his cowboys, as did Matt his lovely ladies. We saw a flop anyway which was 396(ish) and the chips didn’t all go in until the Q on the turn. Quite a night for sets of queens.

Shout from the secondary table: “Foyie smashed Tone!” Not sure what that was about (possibly a won race) but think it left Tony low. But not quiet.

Talk at the feature table moved to 80s legendary pop due Pepsi and Laverne, or possibly Laverne and Shirley. Seriously, who’s Laverne? Ooh, just found it’s a TV show!

From there we somehow got on to the subject of: just how camp is Tod? Telling everyone I clap the night away while watching the Oscars probably didn’t help. Although Andy O took away the statuette for his mouth words at a Corinne Bailey Rae set at V Festival. I love this: so at the end of a particularly well-received song everyone’s whooping away and cheering and then the noise suddenly drops but by this time brain-to-mouth has been engaged and Andy shouts, “Go girl!”

After some slightly dodgy table-moving – musical chairs without the music. Or chairs. (© Mooch) – we carried on. Chris bless him crashed out with no-show Sean sitting on less than 2 BBs. Doh.

Tod was looking good for a biggish stack at the final table before donating over 10k to Adam Smith who smoothly milked Tod with a very nice quad deuces.

Adelaide Bull was this week’s Bubble Boy.

Final table!

Position	Pts	Name	Comment
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10	1	Paul Foy	After resilient short stack play and being completely card-dead, Foyie finally succumbed. Tod raised with QQ, John Harfield called and Paul shoved for a few more. His J4 hand missed the XXT board but did allow Tod to get some chips back as John had AT.
I think it was around this time that Kev O’Driscoll declared he was like a tadpole. Er, OK.
9	2	John Harfield	Another QQ, this time for Adam Smith, saw John call all-in with J6. The thing with J6 is it absolutely never loses apart from the 70% of the time when it loses. A brave effort though.
A raise and call doesn’t scare Kevod (he was using his rejuvenated stack to good effect) – he just goes all in. Bri: “Power poker from the Tadpole!”
8	3	Ant Williams	Also short for a long time, Ant had already shoved UTG with cheese like 64 and 67 (winning the 67 v Adam Smith’s 66), and was pleased (he was) to see A5 on the button. Good for a shove but Tod woke up with AQ in the SB. A cruel flop saw a 5 come out first only to be followed by two queens.
7	4	Jay Scott	Another final table for Jay but you gotta win races and his AQ suited didn’t overcome Kevod’s pocket tens.
6	5	Matt Wilson	Similar story for Matt who’d played well all evening, his AJ missing and the Tadster’s pocket nines holding up.
5	6	Kev Berrie	Another deep run for Kev but his Q8 shove called by Bri with A4 which held.
The currant reappears.
4	8	Brian Yates	More like Cryin’ Yates (I’m channeling Joe Stapleton) – Bri should quit playing KK at the BCPC. For the second time in the last few games he hits a set of kings only to go out to a flush. Kevod raised with Qd8d, Bri min-raised and Kev called. The flop was 7d2s5d and so, to continue with the great man’s words, “See you at the river!” The king came on the turn but it was the king of diamonds, and no paired board on the river saw Bri exit.
An amazing hand 3-handed saw Adam open-shove about 22k with K9 only for Kev to wake up with aces. The board ran out: 3h…5h…Th… (can you see where this is going?)…9h…Kh. Adam then said, “That’s annoying – I hit two pair.” Lol.
3	10	Adam Smith	Second cash of the season for Adam but his A2 reshove against Tod’s raise was called and in bad shape against AK. A king in the utility room didn’t leave Adam much hope and the board bricked out after that.
Runner up	12	Kev O’Driscoll	What a brave swimmer! Yes you are! Yes you are!Kev 3-bet all-in to Tod’s raise with 44 but Tod somehow had 77 which stayed in front.
Winner	15	Tod Wood	“The hearings around Currantgate will continue.”

Thanks to Gaz for dealing, and in particular for dealing me 44, AK and 77. 🙂

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Friday 13 February 2015

BCPC Team Event

This will be on Sat 7 March – think Bri needs everyone’s £33 by 14 Feb.

Vegas Monster Stack Tournament

This will be on Sat 28 March. Check out the details on Facebook – think Bri is trying to set satellites up in the next couple of weeks.

TV

If you get the chance, catch up with episode 1 of the new series of Room 101 on iPlayer – Len Goodman is hilarious on it. Who’s never eaten spaghetti?!

Wim outta here

Laters ‘gators.