WEEKLY SHUFFLE 77

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1. Gary K was the terminator, collecting 2 bounties last Thursday!

Hat's off to everyone who played with a bounty last Thursday at BackDraft and to the players who knocked em out Pictures from the Bounty Tournament here

APC's Player of the Season, John F made the biggest pre-flop laydown I've ever seen in an APC tournament, laying down Pocket Kings when Lee L made a huge aggressive all-in re-raise early in the Tournament.

Huge Laydown John! Gary H and Bob M were the last two Red-Shirts standing with Bob outlasting all but the toughest players that evening. You can read more about the bounty tournament in the forum and get all the prizes won (and lost!).

I wrote some hand details down below - scroll to the bottom to read about the hand that busted Spry out at the final table!

August 14th, 2005 - FINAL TABLE and LEAGUE / WSOP POINTS

Final table
TheSeige
WildOats
Troywillwin
Capper74
FL1105
joelarbear
unomeimdfp
DaculaJones
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Forum Thread of the Week: $$ Game Question at a Casino I've been playing forever and am just about to leave the table when I look down and see KK

TALK ONLINE POKER w/Spry
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As most of you guys know I'm a pretty big fan of online poker. I've been playing online for over 2 years and have consistently won at lower stakes online poker. I'm going to start giving a report of my weekly win or loss rate.

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I broke one of my cardinal rules and stayed at a bad table at Empire Poker playing 2/4 limit. My stubborn arse wouldn't get up and find a new table even though I knew I should have. I bought in for $100 and within an hour I'm down to $50... bah!

Next I decided to play some short handed 1/2 limit at Bodog Poker. My table was ultra aggressive and I never hit any cards, another quick loss, joy!

Sometimes poker is painful... I need more table time.

Another tough finish for me 2 weeks ago in the Sunday night league tournament. I played a tight game early and pretty much avoided most confrontations and got short-stacked. I wasn't getting the cards and I lost a few pots that I did get involved with or if I completely missed the flop.

I was down to around 700 chips with around 16 or so people left which was near the bottom of the chip count. I employed the all-in or fold method that 6foot3 talked about when we were at the World Series of Poker and the recent knowledge I learned in the Harrington on Hold 'Em Volume II that I just finished...

I built those few chips into around 4500 chips by the time we hit the final table. I was in 3rd or maybe 4th chip position when the final table started.

How I lost all my Chips at the Final Table.

A few hands in, I pick up KQs UTG (under the gun, 1st after the big blind).

The table seems to be playing fairly tight and I think an aggressive bet from me in early position will probably pick up the blinds. I thought about folding here, but decided to raise.

Tiff calls, who is only 2 seats to my left and the rest of the field folds. Ok - I'm putting Tiff on something like Jacks through a medium pair. I think AK would have re-raised pre-flop and AA/KK are possible but unlikely. AQ is possible

The flop comes KK5 - with two diamonds, this is beautiful for me, right?

There is 1500 in the pot and I consider slow playing here, but I had a feeling that if I make a probe bet I might get raised big, which is what i want.

I bet 500 and am called. - Ok that fits my idea that a middle pair is out. I'm hoping it is Aces that are out now and I'm about to double up.

The pot is now 2500 - The turn is Js.

Now as long as Tiff isn't holding pocket Jacks, I'm in the lead, right? I don't want to give a free card to AQ or a diamond draw. If I'm beaten here I've got outs but I think I'm still in the lead.

I bet out 1000 and am called. - Ok, what the hell is Tiff playing here? AK would have re-raised me on the turn for sure. Would she really call another 1000 with a gutshot? Does she have the case King?

The pot is now 4500 and I've got about 2500 in chips left or so.

The river is the Th - Ok christ this is a bad card for me.

Final Board - Kd Kh 5d Js Th

I'm holding trip kings with a queen kicker. I've raised and been betting the entire hand up to now.

I shouldn't have bet here (looking back) but I'm hoping she is on a Diamond Draw... but a lot of possible hands still beat me. For example, AK, KJ, KT, AQ, JJ, TT, Q9.

I bet 1000 and get re-raised all in. I know I'm beat but I call anyway. She flips over KJ. She played the hand great after the very loose pre-flop call in my opinion. I bust out and go lick my chops.

I honestly don't know if I could have gotten away from that hand unless I folded it pre-flop. I smelt that I was beat on the river but called anyway...

I can't wait till next Sunday!

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