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Puggy beats Fett in 848 race!

the beej — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:36:31 +0000

After a fairly quiet week last week, the Allies were back with a bang this week with a couple of big scores. Both Fett and Puggy came to the party in a big way this Sunday, with both of their scores coming on the same site, 848. Fett got his score in the $215 $50k Turbo which he shipped for a very tidy $13k. Puggy had to wait a good few hours to top Fett’s score, but top it he did, finishing 2nd in the Sunday major for $17k!
After Fett had shipped his Turbo, he ran through me some of the key spots deep in the tournament, starting with how he got a huge stack with 15 left when another big stack open jammed his 55 in to Fett’s KK. After this great start to the final stages of the tournament, he eased his way to the final table, not really playing many hands until the action got down to 5 or 6 handed. One of his opponents who started the final table with a small stack, doubled a few times and then started to use his stack quite aggressively, shoving a fair amount of the time and knocking a couple of players out along the way. He then shoved the button with Fett in the big blind, Fett calling it off with Ax and holding vs his opponents Q9 to boost his stack considerably. His aggressive opponent knocked out another couple of players for them to get down to 3 handed play and then he again shoved in to Fett’s big blind, with Fett making the call this time with 88 and holding vs Ax to give him a decent chip lead 3 handed. His aggressive opponent busted a couple of hands later and Fett went in to heads up play with a nice chip lead. He ground his opponent down to 5 big blinds on 3 occasions, but on all 3 of them his opponent managed to double back up, however the fourth time he was unable to do it, shoving Q9 in to Fetts 99 and not being able to get there. All in all a great win for Fett and a great start to the day for the Allies!
It didn’t take long for Puggy to make it two 10k scores for the Allies in one day, with his 2nd place finish in the 848 $100k. He was able to keep a stack most of the way through the tournament and when he got to the final table he was lying 1/9. However, even though he had the chips, his seat was one of the worst and so his hands were somewhat tied as to how active he could be. He bided his time for the first part of the final table, laddering while his aggro opponent two to his left took out player after player. With 5 left Puggy was in 4th position and went from there to 4/4 and 3/3, before getting to heads up play a huge underdog, with 12 big blinds! Although he hadn’t played many hands, Puggy must have been delighted at the ease at which he got to heads up play, however after doubling once with A5 > Kx, he then lost A8 to JJ to confirm his 2nd place finish but with a $17k consolation prize!! A 30k day for the Allies and they weren’t finished there……
It wouldn’t be a Sunday without a rail from the Visionary and this one was no exception as he went deep in the Ongame SH Turbo. Yet another quick tournament for the Allies and again it resulted in another win, when the Visionary shipped it for $6.5k adding to the number of times the tournament has been won by an Ally.

That was it for the Allies on Sunday…….well not quite actually, that was it for the Allies pool, but the Chazman(on his own funds), was by no means done. The annual SCOOP schedule on Stars had started and with it was came the Chazman’s deep runs! He made day two of the $2k 6max finishing 33rd for $7.8k and then his big score came in the $1k rebuy, in which he came 7th for $41k!! Nice work mate and we will definitely be watching this space for the next Chazmanchazaments!

Speedy comeback for Visionary!

the beej — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:42:21 +0000

This week the Allies relied mainly on one of their stalwarts for any chance of a big score. The Visionary provided most of the action for the rail this week, reaching two final tables and having a deep run in the Party Pokerfest 1k. There were some other deep runs by a few of the other Allies, including Sufur, Ahurazor and Puggy.
The Visionary’s two final tables came in the Party Speed, which is especially large on a Sunday and the 848 Mega Deep tournament.
The first final table, due to it’s nature, was the Party Speed and even with around 20 left the Visionary was always in with a shout, being in and around the top 3 all the way down to the final table. When they got to the final table he was 2/10 and in great shape and remained in and around there all the way through, getting a couple of ladders early and knocking one opponent out himself. The major hand of the tournament for the Visionary came with 3 players left and unfortunately didn’t go his way. He got his money in way ahead of his opponent, who was at risk, with the Visionary’s QQ in front of his QJ. However after flopping a straight draw, the Visionary’s opponent turned his straight to crush the Visionary’s hopes of a big lead to take in to heads up play. He was out very quickly after this, shoving his last few chips in behind and not being able to get there, to take 3rd place and take $3k for his troubles.
Visionary’s second deep run came in one of the longest regular Sunday tournaments. The 848 Mega Deep normally runs late in to the night and this week proved to be no exception, running on in to the wee hours. Along the way the Visionary enjoyed the structure that comes with the Mega Deep, allowing him to bully his opponents and develop a decent sized stack throughout. With around 30 left he won a big pot when he called Yerlikya’s 18bb jam over his high jack open with AT, to find that he had his opponent dominated, only needing to avoid a 5 to take the pot, which he duly did to increase his stack further.
He made it to the final table again in pretty good shape, lying in the top 5 stacks, but unfortunately this time rather than get ladders early, they were missed on a couple of occasions which started to become frustrating for the Visionary. There were also quite a few decent players at this final table, including friend of the Allies, Pim van Wieringen, which always brings an added spark to proceedings! After a couple of initial ladders Neil four bet QT in to one of his opponents AA to get crippled and then unfortunately lost A8 < Q8 with a Q on the river! Visionary ended up with 4th place and $7k for his troubles!

The other deep runs this week came firstly in the 848 Turbo where Puggy came 14th for $550. He also went deep in the Party 1k along with the Visionary, both finishing in the top 30 to take $2k cashes. Sufur and Ahurazor had deep runs on Stars, sufur having a good run in the Bigger 109, unfortunately coming up short of the final table in 22nd place and Ahurazor final tabling a smaller 30 rebuy, taking 4th for $750.
Next week we should be back to near the full compliment of Allies again so we are looking forward to a plethora of deep runs and final tables and hopefully a ‘bink’ from someone too!

Ahurazor leads Allies comeback!

the beej — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:24:37 +0000

After last week’s washout, the Allies were out for redemption this week and they found a leader in the form of Ahurazor. He ended a pretty good week, in which he narrowly missed out on a MatchBall, with a fourth place finish in the iPoker major worth $14k! He wasn’t on his own though with Sufur, Fett and Chaz all having deep runs in a few tournaments, to make it a better Sunday all round.
Ahurazor had a stack in the tournament for quite a lot of the way and went in to the Final table lying in 2nd place and in a pretty good position. There was very large stack as they started the final table and Ahurazor had planned to stay out of his way for the most part, wait for good spots and take ladders when they came along.
This plan worked well and after a couple of the very short stacks busted, another couple of medium stacks followed suit to leave him and 3 others battling it out, with the chip leader on 4 million, 2nd on 3 million, himself on 2 million and the short stack on around 800k.
Initially the action slowed down and there was a fair bit of sparring, the middle two stacks not wanting to risk too much and the short stack trying to ladder as best he could. However, not one to shy away from the action Ahurazor, didn’t wait long to up the ante. Ahurazor opened K8 from the small blind, with the chip leader in the big blind, who by now he knew as a pretty capable villain. The chip leader 3 bet and Ahurazor had already decided that it was time to get his chips in on a 4 bet. The chips went in, but unfortunately the big blind snapped off his 4 bet and showed AQ, meaning that Ahurazor needed some help. Unfortunately there was no help to come on the board and Ahurazor was sent to the rail in a very commendable 4th place, with $14k to help him get over the busto hand! Great effort mate, hopefully there is more to come in the near future!
The other 2 final tables of the day came from Fett and Sufur in the Party 20k and the 848 Major respectively. Fett grabbed a 7th place finish in the 20k on Party, unfortunately losing AK < A7 in a big pot to be knocked out, taking $1.5k for his troubles. He also grabbed a 42nd place finish in the iPoker major too, making way for Ahurazor to make his assault on the final table!
Sufur took 9th in the 848 major but it could have been so much more had it not been for one particular opponent that he clashed with several times just prior to the final table. Sufur won a decent sized pot off him after they both flopped flush draws, but Sufur rivered an Ace for a boat and his opponent over shoved his draw for Sufur to ship a nice pot, taking him in to a 3 way tie for the chip lead with around 12 players left. Unfortunately he got in to another big pot with him where he limp called with 33 and flopped a boat v sufurs AK, who rivered an Ace and with the type of player he was up against decided to 3 bet to call a 4 bet and lost a sizeable pot to knock him down to 18bbs as they got to the final table. Sufur tried to bide his time to wait for a ladder, but after 20 mins he got his money in on a turn with 2nd pair only to see that his opponent had turned the flush…..sigh!
Chazmanchaz was the other Ally to go deep this Sunday, with quite a few cashes on Stars, his best coming in the 162 where he took 16th place for $1.2k.

An all together better week for the Allies who will be hoping to build on this when Sunday comes round again…..gl to all!

Allies suffer Hangover after Fett ships 5th MatchBall!

the beej — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:59:06 +0000

After Kidcardiffs adventures on Stars last weekend, it seemed that the Allies were suffering with a mild headache this Sunday! No deep runs or final tables this week, however theKid and Chazmanchaz did make day 2 of the Stars.fr SCOOP Main Event, but neither could make the money, finishing in around 300th and 250th respectively.

This meant that the headlines would again be taken by the Fettmesiter! He extended his lead atop the MatchBall leaderboard, shipping his 5th to increase the gap to two now over Puggy and Beej.

His first win came in the Ongame Canadian 100, which he took down for $1.6k, narrowly missing out on another MatchBall by one day!

The second win of the set came in the Party Speed. Fett took his chances well in this one and rode his luck in places to get to the final table. Once there he got his money in good a couple of times and when he got to heads up made short work of his opponent to take the ‘W’ and ship the $4.2k!

The final win and the MatchBall provider, came in the early Ongame turbo which he took down for another $1.6k, leaving another Ally, chazmanchaz in his wake in the process! His total cashes came to ~$8.5k and the 2012 MatchBall Race is again being dominated by the Scotsman!

All the Allies will be hoping that the this weekend will bring better results and with everyone back playing the chances of that look pretty good! Watch this space!