SuS III Game 8 Results

NO NEW WINNER THIS WEEK...9 time winner, Richie Rich, answered the bell to remind us who really is the king of the Summer Seasons.

Thanks to Pibb and Dog's for hosting.

Final Table

1. Richie Rich - $335
2. II-Pod - $165
3. Jun - $125
4. Shock G - $55
5. Hey Zeus (formerly Plasma Pete)
6. Bookie
   
7. Wou-Tang
8. Alek
   
   THE REST
9. Complex Slim
10. Pibb
11. The Most
12. Randomizer
13. Cooler
14. Lo-Lo
15. Marco
16. The Kelvin
17. Tony B
18. Grimace
19. Ivan the Terrible
20. Gene
21. Will Call
22. Sandman
23. Maneater
24. C-Mint
25. Storm
26. Fist
27. High Noon
28. Jeopardy
29. Dog's Playing Poker
30. Drud Crusher
31. Will Shake
32. First Lady
33. Dr. DILIH
34. King Richard

Comments

[Storm]

Congrats Richie.

Good luck to Al and Sandman in the Main Event.

Represent fellas.

Hate you Pibb.

[First Lady]

NINE WINS?!? Holy hell.

[Pibb]

Congrats Richie!

Brent, if it helps all proceeds ultimately went to the "Shock G 4th Place Clam Chowder" foundation.

[Storm]

I tried to tell you that Gerrit had his aggresion shoes strapped on last night.

[Dr. DILIH]

what a luck box...how does someone get lucky 9 times? hell, it only happened to me once.

nh, sir.

[Ivan]

Well done, Rich... well done. Glad to see Shock G got his $50 back.

[will]

Nice job netting $5 Shock G.

[Shock G]

Don't mess with we boys. I'm a 4th Place machine! The new Max Factor, if you will. In fact, I challenge the Factor to a 4th-Place-Off. You and me, my friend. To the death.

And, incidentally Pibb, all but $5 of my $55 winnings actually ended up going to Ivan anyways!! (Little bastard.) Can't believe he stayed strong and didn't play a hand for an hour. I can only hope you learned something young man. When you win next week, you have me to thank, that's all I'm saying. Then you'll be able to read all about it in my next book: "Finishing 4th the Shock G Way". It's coming out in May.

And Richie is now one away from filling up both hands with title rings. I blame every one of you out there for allowing that to happen. Especially Elliott. You allowed him to go all in using your catch phrase - with absolutely no consequences! Grow some sack sir!!

Nice win.

And an especially nice 2nd Place for II-Pod, who came to the Final Table with about 5-6 white chips, I think. Something like that. Monster comeback.

Marco, you're buying the Newcastles next week. HA!
-G-

[Alek]

Richie... very nice. And I asked Carlo, "Why would he go in knowing he was 50/50 for all his chips against the other big stack?" Answer: "Because he's won eight times and you're a punk whose name no one can remember."

Good point.

Good luck, Vaughn. For those who don't know, he did once come in second in the chess nationals. I remember it well... "HOW can you move in with that pawn! I've got a Queen here, donkey!" Good times.

And hey, maybe if I make it to a third final table in a row, someone might remember my name. (Not including people who were also in Ms. Holder's nursery class.)

Cheers.
- A-l-e-k

[Ivan]

I don't think I can be there next week, but next time I make it to the tour, I'll buy the Newkies.

[Richie Rich]

Thanks for the congrats, all.

Alek:

I can push there for almost the same reasons you mention except for one key fact, you're the one that had to call, not me. I felt you had plenty of chips to fold and still would have had more chips than half the table. I honestly put you on 99-77 or AA. I won't go into why, but I did. I was pretty confident it wasn't KK-TT or AK, AQ, or AJ. I didn't think you were crazy enough for 66-22, or could even call an all-in with those hands. I decided to take a gamble that you didn't have AA and trust my read.

With my read correct, I'm thinking: "How can he call with a medium pocket pair knowing that he's 50/50 against two overs and a 4:1 dog against a bigger pair against the other big stack? The only hands he has crushed are 66-22. Surely he can find a better spot than _calling_ off his tourney here. He probably assumes I'm making a move in this spot, but putting in a 3rd raise for all the chips should scream that my hand is strong since he's the other big stack and I'm still willing to put them in." Let me ask you this: what hand(s) did you put me on?

This is not meant in any way to berate your play. I'm not even saying my way was the best way to play the hand. I'm just letting you know what was going on in my sick little head. You did get your money in with the best hand.

** Background for those who missed it. (numbers are guesstimated) Final table, blinds 400/800/50. Folded to me in the cutoff (one behind the button), I raise to 3000 with A9o. Alek reraises from the SB to 8000 with about 9000 left. I have him covered. I go into the tank and put him all-in. He calls with 77. Board: 9J92A

[Alek]

Richie: Thanks for the note. And please, berate away! (Even though I know you weren't doing that.) I'm still learning and this is all helpful. After you bet, I was in the unenviable position of thinking you might have done that with just about anything. If I had it to do again, I might have let that thought lead me to just stay away from the big stack. Instead, I felt you probably had two overs or a small pair, and the evil voice inside me said to push it.

While you were swimming in the tank, calling my small pair out loud, it seemed like you had to have a pretty good, but not great ace, or a baby pair. (You looked like you trusted your read, but still struggled with it, so I eliminated AA, KK, QQ, etc.) With that read, and (here's where I may have gone astray) knowing I was probably the least experienced player at the table, I thought that getting it in at least 50/50 (but probably a little better) was the best (or at least "a") way for me to win it all.

Then today, at Hollywood Park, I folded 77 to a small raise in honor of the painful sense memory that flared in my nethers. Good hand.

- Al