€50 + €10 Frezeout...Kiltimagh...Sun. Feb 22nd

[muscles]

1. Run by : Mayo Poker Tour

2. Charity/Commercial/Other : Commercial

3. Date/Location : Cill Aodain Hotel, Kiltimagh. Sunday, Feb 22nd

4. Registration/Start Time : 6pm

5. Any prerequisites? : Max. 40 players

6. Ticket purchasing details :

7. Type of Tournament : NL Texas Holdem Freezeout

8. Cost of entry/rebuys/top-ups : €50.

9. Reg Fee: €10

10. % of entry fee/rebuys/top-up going into Prize fund : 100%

11. Any guarenteed prize pool? : No.

12. If applicable, Number of re-buys allowed and over what time frame/blind levels :

13. Starting Chips : 40,000.

14. Rebuy and Top-up chip amounts : N/A

15. Blind levels :

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16. Blind timeframes : 20 mins

17. Places being paid and if any prizes are other than cash: 100 % cash payout

18. Dealers : Yes
19. Documented list of rules? : Yes

20. Is there a tournament director? : Yes

21. How are disputes handled? : TD has final say

[Cathal]

Hi Muscles, I assume you organise the hold'em competitions as you post alot of the notices. Myself & a couple of friends will be in mayo first week of April. Is there any hold'em tournments on Fri 3rd April? Many thanks.

[muscles]

Feb 14, 2009 21:46:13 GMT @Cathal said:

Hi Muscles, I assume you organise the hold'em competitions as you post alot of the notices. Myself & a couple of friends will be in mayo first week of April. Is there any hold'em tournments on Fri 3rd April? Many thanks.

There's a €25 + €5 Freezeout every Friday night in Kiltimagh.

[muscles]

Anyone thinking of playing this..please post here to give me an idea of numbers. Thanks.

[muscles]

Good bit of interest in this from players outside the area so any locals coming to play, please text in advance to hold a seat.

[thingy]

Anyone know of any games in westport on a friday night? cheers

[muscles]

Results: 25 Runners

1st - Keith Lydon - €500

2nd - Pat Boyle - €310

3rd - Chris Flynn - €210

4th - John Honan - €160

5th - Mick O'Hara - $70

€70 was taken off top prize to pay the bubble (5th place)

[bobflatley]

Enjoyed this game. Played my absolute A game and if I played that well all the time I'd win much more often.

Got very unlucky when Martin Mullaghy read my raise with AA wrong and pushed subsequently hitting the trip Qs.

Just interested to know what people think of the hand I went out on.
I'd been hitting lots of big hands(it does help) and raising quite a bit because of this. Taking the hit on the AA had hurt my big stack and I was down to 90K+, by now only mid stack. Blinds 3-6K five mins or so to 4-8K.
UTG I pick up 88 and bump to 18K (or something close). Folds to Mick O' Hara who pushes all-in. He has me covered.
I remember M O' H making this same move on me before in Kiltimagh one night when I had AKs and I folded. However, the blinds were not nearly as big that time and we weren't as close to the money.
I discount the possibillity of the big two (AA KK) as I don't think he is likely to push with either.
Folding leaves me about 80K, 13 BB's(soon to be 10) so I gamble on being 50/50 and call.
He turns over AK and hit's the turn which is fair enough.
I think this is the correct call with the structure of the Tourney at this stage but do we think 88 is too small?

[nutboy]

ok bob again u need to think more about his hand than urs.what has he.so u know moh is a good player and has seen u raise utg so he has u on a fairly good hand even if u are in his eyes playing a bit loose.so whats his range for shoving here/id say ak aq 1010 jj qq kk aa.now u might say that he could av 66 77 aj qk kj a10 but he is a good player and there is no need to take risks yet id say both of ye above av id say so i doubt he would.also id say there is some small stacks at the table so u wouldnt raise utg without a fairly good holding in case they decide to gamble.so if u can put him on ak aq 1010 jj qq kk aa ur odds r bad racing in 2 out of 7 v bad shape in other 5. if u fold u r still maybe av stack id say but u didnt give details.id say to fold but maybe cant blame u for calling

[bobflatley]

Pretty much the way I'm thinking at the time but I have the history where he has seen me show the AKs before so he knows I can fold a hand. It's just the timing here that made me call. I now have an idea what sort of hand MoH does this with and can adjust accordingly in future.
I knew I wasn't going to be (way) ahead here but I'm thinking of taking the tourney down at this stage. As I said I was playing really well and I decided he wasn't on an absolute monster fairly quickly. I didn't like the move and said as much, cue table banter (where MoH declares he cannot remember playing against me before, which is quite possible). I take it that he doesn't want a call from the exchange and so make it.
I don't mind losing here on the day, that's poker. I agree that I probably wasn't going to be any better than 50/50 and accepted that but if it goes my way I'm difficult to beat and prob take charge of a relatively tight table.
I never believed him for AA or KK and think I'd be unlucky to be up against one of the other four over prs. I played for the 50/50 with the intention of kicking on which is something which lets me down often. Often I fold here in agony telling everyone I can't make the tough decisions.
I think I maybe should have folded TBH, because 88 really isn't a calling hand except under extreme pressure (although the blinds were threatening). I can then get it in with the next big hand on my own terms. It was just the timing and the history. I don't regret it as it was a good call/read that didn't work out in my favor.

[muscles]

Personally i think this was a very good tourney and a number of players went out of their way to tell me so and to make sure and let them know when the next one is on. Having dealers seems to be the way to go. Cuts out all the sh1te and speeds up play. Very few regular players came along for but we had players from Westport, Castlebar, Ballina, Crossmolina, Ballyhaunis, Charlestown, Foxford, Knock, Claremorris, Kiltimagh, Foxford etc so hopefully it will grow legs. Going to run with this at least once a month. Next one is on Sunday, March 15th.
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[culchie]

Feb 26, 2009 1:51:02 GMT bobflatley said:

Pretty much the way I'm thinking at the time but I have the history where he has seen me show the AKs before so he knows I can fold a hand. It's just the timing here that made me call. I now have an idea what sort of hand MoH does this with and can adjust accordingly in future.
I knew I wasn't going to be (way) ahead here but I'm thinking of taking the tourney down at this stage. As I said I was playing really well and I decided he wasn't on an absolute monster fairly quickly. I didn't like the move and said as much, cue table banter (where MoH declares he cannot remember playing against me before, which is quite possible). I take it that he doesn't want a call from the exchange and so make it.
I don't mind losing here on the day, that's poker. I agree that I probably wasn't going to be any better than 50/50 and accepted that but if it goes my way I'm difficult to beat and prob take charge of a relatively tight table.
I never believed him for AA or KK and think I'd be unlucky to be up against one of the other four over prs. I played for the 50/50 with the intention of kicking on which is something which lets me down often. Often I fold here in agony telling everyone I can't make the tough decisions.
I think I maybe should have folded TBH, because 88 really isn't a calling hand except under extreme pressure (although the blinds were threatening). I can then get it in with the next big hand on my own terms. It was just the timing and the history. I don't regret it as it was a good call/read that didn't work out in my favor.

If I'm not mistaken there was a flat call before my push here bob (it was weeks ago but I think I remember the hand).

I felt you had 8 8 -10 10 range... or AQ/AK ... I'm sure you were flat called before the action came to me.

To be honest I was surprised you called (and I wasn't too comfortable with it either as I'm sure other player had AQ and he called as well.) I remember thinking the ideal resukt would be for you to fold and player x to call as I was pretty sure I was well ahead of him.

You had plenty chips to fold ... one of the main reasons I pushed.

Results based thinking proved it was a good call by you ... but I think it was a loose enough call.
You're a good player and shouldn't be settling for coin flips which neutralises your advantage.....88 is rarely ahead here. There's the argument that you know that I know what you know etc..... but at the end of the day you're calling your stack with 88... and it must have irked you a little to go out in this manner ....otherwise you wouldn't have brought it up

Glad you got a feel for this move ... look forward to future exchanges

Mick