Season X - First Game!

The first game of the season was some serious good times.  We were 18 players, some new faces, some familiar faces, and some that we haven't seen in a while.

Here are some pictures of the gang a few minutes into the game (once I finally remembered to take some pictures)

The children's table (the table I was on).

 

The pros' table, as proclaimed by that table, obviously.

 

 

For those of you who didn't know, you can follow all of our games' updates by following @MonctonPokerC.  I won't be posting a lot of details, but I'll try to post whenever somebody gets knocked out and the circumstances surrounding it.

Here are the tweets I posted, along with some of my thoughts on the knockouts.

 

1. Nick busts out first with 66 against Dave Fraser's KK when the flop came K62 with 2 diamonds. Nick moved all in after Dave's raise. Now 17.
   Nick is one of the last person I would have guessed as being the first one out.  However, set over set, I can't imagine any situation where I could get away from it either.
    
2. @Marc_Julien you're missing out!!
    

Thanks a ton to our gracious host Dan for surprising the league with a celebratory cake for MPC's season X!  It was delicious and gave me a sugar rush for 48 hours.

3. Sherry is out second. Moved in with 77 with her short stack and ran into Dave Fraser's AA. Dave is dominating his table.
   I can't blame Sherry for shipping a short stack with a pocket pair... but man, Dave was picking up some serious hands at the right time!  His stack at this point was huge.
    
4. Angela is out 3rd. Her JJ vs Chris Campbell's AK. All money went in on the river when it came a J giving Angela a set and Chris, broadway.
   A pretty bad cooler.  Not much to say about this hand but, ew.
    
5. Roland and Lou get knocked out by Dave Fraser when the flop came AQ9. Roland had AK, Lou had KK, and Dave had Q9. Turn/river was blank.
   I don't know what the stacks were, or who moved in first... but with a flop with an Ace, I probably get away from KK there, but not sure I can get away from AK.  Dave16 wins again.  Oh yeah, did I mention that Dave now goes by Dave16?
    
6. Shawn is out! Moved in with QT and Matt insta-called with KJ of spades. Flop came QA5. And turn/river came runner runner spades for Matt.
   Shawn couldn't get much going today... but it's pretty typical.  Shawn's such a donk.
    
7. Todd's out! Jim hit his flush vs Todd's set.
   I don't know much of the details on this.  Something like, Todd flopped a set, Jim started walking around to assess the chip stacks, so Todd called clock... and then Jim took the full 70 seconds, called, and hit his flush.  Is that right?
    
8. Chris left to go let his dog out like 45 minutes ago and has been posting blinds on a 6-handed and now 5-handed table. Crazy!
   OMG, he was blinding off 50/100 and 75/150 blinds on a 6-handed table for over an hour.  What we do for man's best friend.
    
9. Chris Campbell is out. Marcel knocked him out with middle set vs his flush draw and inside straight draw. Merge time!!
   Self explanatory.  I think a hand like that plays out by itself, espeically since Chris was short after being away for a while.
    
10. For those of you who are interested, and I know @Marc_Julien is, Dave Robichaud is sitting at 7800.
    I was basically just tweeting for Marc, since he was the only one following @MonctonPokerC, so I was just giving him a heads up of my chip count.
     
11. 9 left, average stack is 5000, dan is short stack at 750, and I think Dave is big stack at 7950
     
12. Stacy is out. Marcel and Stacy all in pre-flop. Marcel has AQ vs Stacy's KJ. Board comes 84JKT. Rivered a straight. Weeeeeee.
    Marcel really had Stacy's number today.  I think he delivered 2 or 3 bad beats vs Stacy.  88 vs KK, hit is 8.  Some other one, and then this one.  Although, he did have the best hand going in, the way the cards fell, it was just kinda gross.
     
13. Marcel gets knocked out with AK vs Dave's QQ when the board didn't improve his hand. On the bubble now that we're down to 5!
    Pretty critical coin toss, just glad my Queens held up.
     
14. Matt Dawson is out! Moved in with his last 400 and barb had 77. The sevens held. Down to 4. In the money! Barb, Dana, Matt, and Dave.
    I forget what was the hand right before this that he lost most of his chips, but that was obviously the hand that mattered.  Matt was in the big blind of 800, and couldn't even complete it with his 400 chips left.
     
15. Matt is out!! His QT was defeated by Dana's A5 suited! Down to 3 handed.
    I honestly don't remember this hand.  I don't remember stack sizes or anything.  Anybody care to elaborate?
     
16. Heads up! Dave 20k vs Dana 16k
     
17. Dave wins the first game of season 10!! Only 4 hands to decide the winner once heads up! Thanks to everybody who came out!
    Really not much to say about the heads up.  I got hit by the deck... hard.  I think I laid down the first hand to Dana's raise, the second hand, I flopped two pair, the third hand, I flopped top pair, the last hand, I had AJ suited vs Dana's A5.  I'd love to say I outplayed Dana, but I honestly just got cards.  But I'll take good cards over skill any day!

 

Here is a picture of all the chips at my seat, my last hand, and my little buddy Homsar.