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2nd July £30 TRIPLE CHANCE RE-BUY AND ADD-ON EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL INCLUDING 6 RE-BUYS AND 12 ADD-ONS WAS:
£930.00

1st £372.00
2nd £223.20
3rd £111.60
4th £93.00
5th £74.40
6th £55.80

25th June £30 TRIPLE CHANCE RE-BUY AND ADD-ON EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL INCLUDING 3 RE-BUYS AND 14 ADD-ONS WAS:
£840

1st £420
2nd £252
3rd £168

18th June £30 DOUBLE CHANCE RE-BUY EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL INCLUDING 5 RE-BUYS WAS:
£960

1st £432
2nd £288
3rd £144
4th £96

11th June £40 FREEZE-OUT EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£760

1st £342
2nd £228
3rd £114
4th £76

28th MAY £40 FREEZE-OUT EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£760

1st £342
2nd £228
3rd £114
4th £76

9th APRIL £30 FREEZE-OUT EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£930

1st £372
2nd £232
3rd £139
4th £102
5th £83

12th MARCH £20 RE-BUY EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£940

1st £423
2nd £282
3rd £141
4th £94


26th FEBRUARY £20 RE-BUY EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£980

1st £441
2nd £294
3rd £147
4th £98

12th FEBRUARY £20 RE-BUY EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£780

1st £351
2nd £234
3rd £117
4th £78

9th FEBRUARY £20 RE-BUY EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£760

1st £380
2nd £228
3rd £152

22nd JANUARY £20 RE-BUY EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£1,080

1st £432
2nd £270
3rd £162
4th £118
5th £97

5th FEBRUARY £20 RE-BUY EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£1,300

1st £595
2nd £390
3rd £195
4th £130

22nd JANUARY £20 RE-BUY EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£1,080

1st £432
2nd £270
3rd £162
4th £118
5th £97

11th DECEMBER £20 RE-BUY EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£880

ANOTHER FANTASTIC NIGHT OF POKER, EVEN MORE NEW FACES TURNED UP TO PLAY IN THIS EXCITING EVER GROWING POPULAR EVENT!

THIS EVENT STARTED OUT DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHER TOURNAMENTS SEEN. THERE WAS 1 OR 2 PLAYERS THAT WERE PLAYING VERY AGGRESSIVE ON 2 OF THE 3 TABLES. THIS SEE NEARLY TWICE AS MANY RE-BUYS THAN USUAL, THIS PRODUCED TWO VERY BIG STACKS EARLY ON.

BY THE FIRST BREAK THERE WAS ONE CLEAR HUGE CHIP LEADER SHE WAS A NEW FACE AT THE TABLES AND A PLAYER THAT KNEW HOW TO PLAY POKER!

NEARLY EVERY ONE TOOK THE OPTIONAL ADD-ON AT THE FIRST BREAK, SO EVERY ONE WAS SITTING ON PLENTY OF CHIPS AS THE BLINDS WERE ONLY 300 / 600 AND THE AVERAGE STACK WAS AROUND 25K.

SOME EXCEPTIONAL POKER WAS BEING PLAYED WITH NEARLY THE WHOLE FIELD STILL IN AFTER A FEW HOURS BUT WHEN THE BLINDS INCREASED TO 2000 / 4000 PLAYERS STARTED GETTING KNOCKED OUT IN QUICK SUCCESSION, WHICH SOON FOUND US AT THE FINAL TABLE.

ONE PLAYER FROM TABLE 1 WHO WAS THE CHIP LEADER EARLY ON HAD ACCUMULATED EVEN MORE CHIPS TO TAKE TO THE FINAL TABLE ALONG WITH ONE OR TWO OTHER BIG STACKS BUT EVERY ONE STILL HAD ENOUGH CHIPS TO STAMP THERE MARK ON THE GAME!

IN THE EARLY PART OF PLAY AT THE FINAL TABLE THE BIG STACKS SEEMED TO BE AVOIDING EACH OTHER LIKE THE PLAGUE! THIS LEFT THE SMALLER STACKS HAVING SOME REALLY GOOD BATTLES TO TRY AND INCREASE THERE CHIP STACK AND GET IN A DOMINANT POSITION TO HAVE ANY CHANCE OF BUSTING OUT A BIG STACK! THE 3 BIG STACKS DURING THE PLAY OF THE FINAL TABLE WERE CONSTANTLY INCREASING THERE STACK. AS THE BLIND LEVELS INCREASED IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT SOONER OR LATER THE BIG STACKS WOULD COLLIDE! (AND COLLIDE THEY DID) 2 OF THE BIG STACKS COULDN'T STOP GETTING INVOLVED IN POTS WITH EACH OTHER WHILE THE OTHER BIG STACK KEPT OUT OF IT. THIS IS WHERE THE PRICE OF POKER JUST WENT UP! WE WAS NOW GETTING DOWN TO THE BUBBLE WHERE PLAY HAD SOME WHAT SLOWED DOWN BUT AFTER ONLY A FEW HANDS WE WERE DOWN TO FOUR PLAYERS!

THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ON A SPLIT AND THE CHIP LEADER WOULD ONLY AGREE IF THE MONEY WAS SPLIT EQUAL TO CHIP SIZE! ONE PLAYER REPLIED; "NO! LETS PLAY IT OUT!" AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DID!

THIS DIDN'T LAST LONG AS IT SEEMS WE HAD A FEW COLD DECKS, THERE WERE SOME ALL-INS WITH HANDS LIKE: Q Q VERSUS K K AND HANDS LIKE 9 9 VERSUS 10 10.

WE WERE NOW AT HEADS UP AND THE BLINDS WOULD SOON GET TO 10,000 AND 20,000 BUT THERE WAS AROUND 480,000 CHIPS IN PLAY WITH BOTH PLAYERS BEING ALMOST EVENLY MATCHED IN CHIPS AT ONE POINT. ONE PLAYER OFFERED A SPLIT BUT THIS WAS TURNED DOWN, SO THEY PLAYED TO A FINISH. THIS DIDN'T LAST LONG AS AFTER A FEW HANDS WERE PLAYED 1 PLAYER FLAT CALLS ON THE SMALL BLIND WITH POCKET 4's HIS OPPONENT JUST CHECKS TO HER BIG BLIND AND THE FLOP CAME DOWN: 2 2 BLANK “I THINK WAS A QUEEN“. THE PLAYER WITH POCKET 4's CHECKS TO HIS OPPONENT , WHO THEN PUSHES ALL-IN. THIS WAS QUICKLY CALLED WITH THE POCKET 4's. WE WERE NOW AT A SHOW DOWN! POCKET 4's WERE LAID DOWN FIRST, THEN A 6 WAS SHOWN. THE POCKET PAIR HOLDS UP TO TAKE 1st PLACE AND WINNING A WHOPPING £396.00

4th DECEMBER £20 RE-BUY EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£800

1st £200
2nd £200
3rd £200
4th £200

YET AGAIN EVEN MORE NEW FACES TURNED UP TO PLAY IN THIS EVER GROWING POPULAR EVENT. THERE WAS SOME OLD FACES BACK TOO! (WAS GOOD TO SEE YOU GUYS BACK AT THE TABLES!). WELL WHAT CAN I SAY WE HAD 3 TABLES RUNNING WITH ALL OF THE PLAYERS HAVING A GREAT DEAL OF LIVE POKER EXPERIENCE PLAYING IN TOURNAMENTS. THE EVENT STARTED VERY SLOW THERE WAS ONLY ABOUT HALF A DOZEN RE-BUYS, EVERY ONE WAS PLAYING REALLY GOOD POKER. ALL THOSE PLAYERS WHO BOUGHT INTO THE EVENT WAS STILL IN BY THE FIRST BREAK AND AGAIN NEARLY ALL THE PLAYERS TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE £20 ADD-ON, THIS BUMPED THE PRIZE POOL UP TO £800 WHICH IS ONE OF OUR BIGGEST PRIZE POOLS SO FAR! AS THE BLINDS WERE SO LOW DURING THIS EVENT NO ONE WAS GETTING TOO INVOLVED IN ANY POTS UNLESS THEY NEW THEY HAD THE NUTS! THIS PROVIDED PLENTY OF ROOM TO PLAY POKER AND NOT BEING FORCED TO GO ALL-IN BECAUSE THE BLINDS ARE EATING AWAY AT YOUR STACK.

PLAYERS STARTED TO GET KNOCKED OUT AFTER A FEW HOURS OF PLAY, THEN WE GOT TO THE FINAL TABLE WHERE THE STYLE OF POKER DIDN'T CHANGE MUCH FROM THE START OF THE EVENT. EVENTUALLY WE WERE DOWN TO 4 PLAYERS AND AFTER CAREFUL CONSIDERATION EVEN THOUGH THE CHIP LEADER HAD AROUND 50% OF THE CHIPS IN PLAY, DECIDED ON A FOUR WAY SPLIT AS THE BLINDS ON THE NEXT LEVEL WOULD OF INCREASED TO 10,000 AND 20,000 AND THERE WAS AROUND 430,000 CHIPS IN PLAY AND IT WAS 11:40PM, SO A SPLIT SEEMED SENSIBLE. EVERY ONE OF THE 4 PLAYERS WALKED AWAY WINNERS WITH £200 IN THERE POCKET (NOT A BAD NIGHT'S WORK).

AS PLAYERS WERE KNOCKED OUT OF THE TOURNAMENT THE CASH TABLE WAS FILLING UP WITH EVENTUALLY A FULL TABLE. THIS PRODUCED AN EXCITING SIDE GAME WITH AROUND £500-£1000 ON THE TABLE!

20th NOVEMER £20 RE-BUY EVENT! THE PRIZE POOL WAS:
£660

1st £330
2nd £198
3nd £132

MORE NEW FACES TURNED UP TO PLAY IN THIS EVENT, WITH THE NUMBERS GRADUALLY INCREASING EACH WEEK. ALL OF THE PLAYERS SEEMED TO HAVE A GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF POKER, THIS WAS A GREAT RECIPE FOR A FANTASTIC NIGHTS POKER!

THE GAME STARTED SLOW WITH EVERY ONE PLAYING QUITE TIGHT AS LOTS OF NEW FACES WHERE AT THE TABLES, SO IT TOOK A FEW HANDS TO GET SOME INSIGHT TO HOW YOUR OPPONENTS WHERE PLAYING. THERE WASN'T MUCH ACTION UNTIL AFTER THE FIRST BREAK. THERE HAD BEEN A FEW RE-BUYS AND ALMOST EVERY ONE TOOK THERE ADD-ON. WHEN PLAY RESUMED THE GAME CHANGED PACE. IT JUST SEEMED LIKE EVERY ONE WAS WAITING UNTIL AFTER THE BREAK TO CHANGE GEAR. EVERY ONE WAS PLAYING VERY AGGRESSIVE NOW SO IT WAS EXPENSIVE TO GET INVOLVED IN A POT. AS PLAYERS WERE NOW GETTING KNOCKED OUT AND THE TABLES BECAME SHORT HANDED YOU COULD SEE THE AGGRESSION INCREASING ON BOTH TABLES WHERE THE PRE-FLOP RAISING WAS SO AGGRESSIVE THERE WAS VERY FEW FLOPS AND PLAYERS NOT WILLING TO GET INVOLVED AS THE FINAL TABLE WAS DRAWING NEARER. AT THIS POINT MOST PLAYERS ARE EVENLY MATCHED IN CHIPS WITH 1 OR 2 BIG STACKS, SO IT WAS STILL ANY ONES GAME.

ALL EYES ARE ON THE SHORT STACKS NOW AND NO ONE WANTED TO DOUBLE THEM UP. EVENTUALLY THE SHORT STACKS WERE DOWN TO A POINT WHERE THEY WERE FORCED TO PUSH WITH ANY THING AND HOPING A GOOD TIMED ALL-IN WOULD HOLD UP IF CALLED. THERE WASN'T MANY BAD BEATS AND IT SEEMED THE BEST CARDS WERE HOLDING UP, THIS HASN'T SEEMED THE CASE FOR QUITE SOMETIME.

THE FINAL TABLE STARTED VERY TIGHT BUT AGGRESSIVE PRE-FLOP. A FEW PLAYERS GOT BUSTED OUT AND THE BLINDS WERE SO BIG NOW THE SHORTER STACKS WERE GETTING POT COMMITED WITH ANY KIND OF PLAY. THERE WAS A LOT OF ALL-INS WHICH SOON SEE OFF THE REST OF THE FIELD TO LEAVE THE LAST 3 PLAYERS. BY THIS POINT 1 PLAYER HAD AROUND 80% OF ALL THE CHIPS IN PLAY. THE CHIP LEADER HELD HIS GROUND TO TAKE FIRST PLACE. WHAT A BATTLE! SOME OF THE VERY BEST POKER WE HAVE SEEN IN A WHILE!