pokerforum.ca Celebrity Challenge

Zithal · Jul 25,2004, 01:11 AM

The inaugural pokerforum.ca Celebrity challenge is now complete and big congrats goes out to Hork 42 who took FIRST PLACE in the Main Event, winning a prize of $517. Second place went to the tournament host, Zithal winning $287.

Heads up lasted one hand as Zithal foolishly found himself all-in with K6o against, Hork 42's A9o. The board helped no one and Hork was crowed champion.

Rounding out the players in the money were Dick Hertz (3rd - $172), Mickey Holdem (4th - $115) and ScottyZ - (5th - $57). Sloth donated some pokersupplies.com swank to the party and that was given out to the 6th-9th place finishers.

The festivites began a little late and the Satelitte tournament began with 20 players. The blind schedue was a little long, but after 3.5 hours, four players won their entry into the Main Event; Sloth, ScottyZ, Iron and the Professor. On the bubble was my g/f "The Princess" who absolutely dominated her table before the final table was formed.

The rankings for the Satellite were as follows.

1st-4th:
Sloth (entry to Main Event)
ScottyZ (entry to Main Event)
Professor (entry to Main Event)
Iron (entry to Main event)
5th: The Princess a.k.a. Zithal's g/f (5:45pm)
6th: Chugs (5:34pm)
7th: Mrs. Holdem (5:32pm)
8th: Hork 42 (5:18pm)
9th: AK*1 (5:01pm)
10th: (Forfieted) PaulStanley (4:53pm)
11th: HelmuthFan (4:25pm)
12th: Ventrick (4:13pm)
13th: Zithal (4:10pm)
14th: Mickey Holdem (4:02pm)
15th: Azriel (4:00pm)
16th: Micr0be (3:35pm)
17th: Astroboy (3:37pm)
18th: Siswanto (3:09pm)
19th: Kelso (3:01pm)
20th: Shnoobs (3:01pm)

(As a side note, the most memortable hand of the satellite was the one that Shnoobs was busted out on. She ending up in a three-way all in with AA against AJ and JJ, and lost when the two played river-rivered a straight.)

The BBQ was fired up and a wide variety of dead meat filled our gulllets. Due to the satellite going over time, the start time of the Main Event began at 7pm. The official standing for the Main Event were...

1st: Hork 42 (12:51am - $517)
2nd: Zithal (12:51am - $287)
3rd: Dick Hertz (12:44am - $172)
4th: Mickey Holdem (12:36am - $115)
5th: ScottyZ (12:31am - $57)
6th: Ventrick (12:10am - hat)
7th: Astroboy(12:05am - hat)
8th: Iron (11:58pm - tshirt)
9th: Teach (11:46pm - tshirt)
10th: Micr0be (11:27pm)
11th: Shnoobs (11:21pm)
12th: Chugs (11:01pm)
13th: AK*1 (10:51pm)
14th: All Aces girlfriend (10:40pm)
15th: Professor (10:35pm)
16th: All Aces (10:21pm)
17th: Esool (10:12pm)
18th: Xsqueezeme (10:05pm)
19th: Mrs Holdem (10:02pm)
20th: McTib (9:40pm)
21st: McTib's g/f (9:38pm)
22nd: All Aces brother (9:30pm)
23rd: Sloth (8:09pm)

All in all a good time was had by all (I hope) and there were hopes that the next one will be very, very soon.

Please use this thread to respond with your person stories/reports of the tournament.

Ventrick · Jul 25,2004, 01:25 AM

Thanks for the great tournament Zithal. Was very well run and met a lot of good people today. As a little correction to the results you busted me out in 6th not 7th:P

Astroboy · Jul 25,2004, 01:41 AM

It was real nice getting to meet everyone that was there. The competition was probably the stiffest I've come up against in Ontario. It's real intimidating being there and listening to all the big wins that some of the people have had. All in all, it was an awesome experience. I'm happy with my playing today, although there were some pots that I wish I didn't commit so much to. I would really like some feedback on how people thought I played. I do consider myself "dead money" and would like some advice on how to improve.

Again, thanks to Zithal for being such a wonderful host. Congrats to Hork42! and thanks for the ride, Iron.

BTW, I busted out 7th. $60 well spent for a hat. LOL! Neil, I plan to sport the hat all over Guelph. Hopefully it gets you some business. LOL.

Zithal · Jul 25,2004, 01:42 AM

My personal report...

Wow. First thanks to everyone for so gratiously letting me get in the money.

It was a fun tournament and I learned a lot from it. The style is incredibly different from the games I normally organize; normally games are loose with 5 or 6 people having a look at the flop. In this tournament, everyone was very tight and very agressive. It was a style I hadn't really played against and found myself out very early in the Satellite.

At this point I counted myseld as dead money and offered to just be TD if we got over 24 people. Luckily, 23 peope eventually showed up and I was allowed to play.

I was seated at table 2 and the agression level was big. I lost a big semi bluff early on and reduced me to just over 1000 chips (starting with 1500). On a whim, just after that I raised 3x the BB with 72o and (luckily) no one called and so I showed! Yay for 72o. After that inital loss, I decided to tighten up my game and play premium hands hard.

For the most part it worked well, but I coudn't get above a 1300 chip count. Sloth busted early "Claiming a need to go to a b-day party" and the poker world was in shock. He didn't even have time to remove his pants.

Table 3 busted out 2 players in a row and I was the one chosen to go there. The change of scenery was nice my luck completely took a 180. Seating next to Dick Hertz, three hands in a row I rasied UTG. By the second time, he looked displeased with me and said if I did it again, there'd be trouble. The next time the cards came around I got dealth AK and said, "You're really going to hate me."

I hit good cards and my chips doubled in size. I made one very timely bluff that put me back in the running. I liked my new table but eventually the tables collasped and I was back on table 2.

The one bad beat I gave was one that busted out AK*1. I had KQ in my hand and raised the blinds. The AK*1 re-raisded all in and I called. (It wasn't much to finish the call and I had him covered. The flop hit the queen and no other help came for him.

So, for the next while I got dead cards, but stole enough builds enough to stick around as an average chipstack. I then started getting good cards and went into final table actions with a slightly above average chip stack.

Once I hit the final table I went on a mad rush of cards and found myself with a good deal of chips. I used it to bust out alot of the players at the final table (mostly because I got great cards at the correct time. For example, astroboy made a move at the pot with I held KK in my hand)

I decided to coast into the money, but sadly was forced to play with excellent hands. By the time we got to three players I had ~10,000 chips and pushed poor Dick Hertz around. (Though it was freaky how many good hands I'd get dealt when he has the BB) He made a BIG laydown as he folded AK against my KK prefolp. (We went rabbit hunting and discovered he would have caught on the ace on the river. Eventually we were heads up and rest is history. I stupidly found myself all in first hand. Though, at one in the morning, I don't think my brain was working too well.

It was a fun time and I can't wait til the next time!!

Thnanks.

Hork42 · Jul 25,2004, 02:02 AM

First off, Thanks to Zithal for hosting. Great event with very good poker played.

I'm not very experienced in live poker. Most of my play is online, and this is the first "real" tournament that I've played in that was not online...

What can I say, I think I played pretty well, got the cards when I needed them. Made a couple of boneheaded moves in the satellite (Including calling all in with AJ vs AA and JJ... and then rivering a straight to split the pot) but I think I limited my mistakes in the main event.

One thing that I've got to get used to.... The staredowns. Doesn't happen online. But there were a lot of thinkers... Staring right at me when I'd make a raise. Thanks goodness for CPP magazine and "It's a Small World". That tune was going off in my head on many a pot.

One very memorable roller coaster of a hand that I was not involved in, but is worth posting...

AA vs QQ, player all in.
Flop Q x x (3 hearts)
Turn xh (Aces makes Nut Flush)
River Board pairs up to give Queens the boat.

Anywho. Thanks again to all who showed up. It was nice to meet you all. It was a wonderful experience and I'm looking forward to the next one.

hork.

Chugs · Jul 25,2004, 09:46 AM

Zithal thanks for throwing a great tournie. While i have nothing to compare it against, i enjoyed myself and everything seemed very proffessional. For a guy like me who's good old fashioned 'Dead Money' this was great value for $60.

I also really enjoyed the people at Table #1. It was the most quiet table in both the satellite and the tourney (and the only table i sat at), but it was a great game. Real friendly play all night, and with lots of players who really seemed to know there stuff.

all i know is that you can count me in for your next tournament and thanks again for putting on a great tourney.

neil (aka chugs)

ps. i tried to stare people down, with no clue what i was looking for. just doing it to be cool

what type of stuff are people looking for when they stare at a person, or is it just pure intimidation.

Ventrick · Jul 25,2004, 10:37 AM

I spent some time this morning replaying my moves in yesterdays Main event and it dawned on me. Despite finishing 6th I was only dealt 1 pocket pair all night long, and that was a Pair of 2's which I folded to Scotty's 500 bet pre-flop when blinds were 100-200. He showed Cowboys. I did however seem to have more then my fair share of AK.

Just want to thank you again Zithal for putting on a great tournament and to everyone else who showed up and helped make it great. Wasn't a sore loser among the entire group.

And Heh, I'll be sporting my nifty new $100 pokersupplies.com hat around T.O.

esool · Jul 25,2004, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Hork42

One very memorable roller coaster of a hand that I was not involved in, but is worth posting...

AA vs QQ, player all in.
Flop Q x x (3 hearts)
Turn xh (Aces makes Nut Flush)
River Board pairs up to give Queens the boat.
hork.

Yeah I was AA.

I limped in wanting to set a trap and it worked.

The proffesor to the left of me raised, folded to me and I put him all in.(he was low stack of the table I believe) Maybe I bet to hard too fast but it doesn't matter in this case because we both had hands that would have ended up all in at some point.
I never really recovered from this loss, the cards went cold and the action heated up. Oh well it was an awesome hand and at least I was involved with it.

Scotty or anyone else at my table: Any advice for me on my playing? Other then of course maybe memorizing the chip $ values?

Astroboy · Jul 25,2004, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by esool

Scotty or anyone else at my table: Any advice for me on my playing? Other then of course maybe memorizing the chip $ values?

LOL! I was watching you play from the table over. I don't think you could have played your aces any other way. I think with AA, your best bet is to get someone else all in and have them draw at you. As far as I can tell, you were real animated, as was your whole table. Real friendly (vicious) game on table 2. Lots of action. I'm real glad I didn't have to step over till the final table.

Zithal · Jul 25,2004, 11:43 AM

My apologies about my mangled session report above. It was really late when I was writting it and my brain was in the process of turning off. In fact on sentance, I tried writing about how the agression wasn't something I was used to, and when I went and re-read the sentance I talked about how I didn't have enough chicken wings?!?

It was really, really messed up and perhaps I should have kept the whole thing.

Anyway, I cleaned it up so it should make more sense now.

The AA v QQ hand above was incredible to watch; a real rollercoaster.

McTib · Jul 25,2004, 01:54 PM

Zithal,

Great Tourney, And thanks for squeezeing My G/f and I in... Couldn't sleep last night when I thought of how poorly I played those pocket 3's... but it was a fun!! I'll be in next time forsure

-Eric

shnoobs · Jul 25,2004, 02:38 PM

Thanks for organizing this tournament, Zithal and anyone else involved. I had a great time and now I've got a great pocket Aces bad beat story to tell my grandkids!

I have to agree with everyone else and say that it was a very professional and serious game.

Quote:

I also really enjoyed the people at Table #1. It was the most quiet table in both the satellite and the tourney (and the only table i sat at), but it was a great game. Real friendly play all night, and with lots of players who really seemed to know there stuff.

Woohoo! Go Table 1! We were the polite, ultra-quiet and friendly table, and we had some good laughs too. It was nice meeting everyone and thanks for a great time!

shnoobs

Astroboy · Jul 25,2004, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by shnoobs

I have to agree with everyone else and say that it was a very professional and serious game.

Especially when Scotty moved over to table 1

Graham · Jul 25,2004, 04:30 PM

Thanks so much Zithal again for your hospitality. I had a fantastic time. We'll have to squeeze in at least one more this summer. As I had said before as well, I'd like to look into having trophies made up for such future events.

Perhaps these things will continue growing at a rate that before long we'll need to hold them elsewhere! (I have a few places in mind already)

Iron · Jul 25,2004, 08:49 PM

What a great event. I was lucky enough to be seated at the very friendly and chilled out table 1 for the main event, between Shnoobs and Chugs who were great table neighbours. I had an absolutely ridiculous lucky run of cards when I was down to 200 chips after posting the big blind at the 200/400 (I think) level that got me to the final table, where I busted out very quickly.

Wish I could remember all the details of some of the hands that blew me away, because there were a lot of great hands. The hands I CAN remember of course are the ones I want to forget about. Thanks for adding the swag to the prize pool, Sloth and to Zithal for hosting a great tournament.