poccer

The second poccer tournament organised by the legendry Clinton (ClintonO) Orchard and his sizzling wife Rachel were held on 04/08/07 once again in Birmingham at the goals soccer centre and Broadway casino, Our team, having managed to strike a sponsorship deal with the kind people at Sunpoker.com, had changed name to 'Team Sunpoker' with a few new signings:

Jimmy Cairns (Eyesight:)
Tom Cairns (Eyesight)
Jonny McCann (Onny87)
Andy Reynolds (007apr/JERI)
Matt Lewis (CUTEMOFO)
Ben Scott (BenScott)

As expected the mornings football part of the event was not one to shout about as we placed 11th out of the 11 teams in the competition despite winning our second match against the SS banana dwarves 6-3 who went on to be runners up in the football!!!

So, to the poker, We started on the lowest possible chip stack (3,000) and the winners of the footy starting on (9,000) So it was always going to be an uphill struggle! first out (and first out of the event) was one of my biggest hopes to do well, Andy Reynolds after turning a house and increasing his small stack by 50% in the first hand he was out and at the bar a few hands later when one of the footballing fishes could not put down his gutshot draw and eventually spiked his J on the river, so with 5 players left we did very well to all make the first break, no-one having made any significant stack increases, however shortly after the break Ben scott won a race (he duly celebrated with a small victory dance on his seat) and my A10 held on a 10 high flop against j 10, who had a flush draw after flop, Tom was out shortly after when he lost a flip to a guy on a flush draw and was disappointed to not be able to improve on his 4th place from last time, 3rd period now and our next faller was Jonny McCann who was allowed to see a board of AT86 a guy pushed him all in and Jonny obviously instacalled, only to see the cruel river card reveal another 8 when his aggresor is holding AK!! Shortly before the 3rd period ended Matt pushes his AK and is called by his tables 'station' on j6 who goes on to turn a 6.

20 players remain and we still have 2 left, Myself and Ben Scott,
Im not entirely sure what Ben eventually lost on, but judging from his lack of moaning, it wasnt one to gripe about.
shortly before the final table i was fortunate enough to catch a river against Luke (berbatov) Guest, who incidently won £52,000 the very next day, so congratulations to you mate!! his luck was defo in even on sat when on A4 he saw a flop of 444 lol.
Going into the final table i had built quite a healthy stack (around 40k) and was on around 35,000 when i found AK hearts on sb 1200/2400 mr 'at it' raises to 7,500 so i say nothing and simply push my stack into the middle.....The dweeb next to me who couldnt bring himself to fold a blind all night stared at his cards before eventually declaring ''call'' wtf im thinking, initial raiser folded, as i expected him to do to my raise, however the dweeb had called a raise and re-raise all in put his 30,000 stack in on 9 10!!! Tom is jumping up and down laughing, however im not so entusiastic as thats one of the last hands i want to race with ak! he flop a 10 and rivers a 9 leaving me with 5k im un-impressed, especially as he goes on to take the trophy, i managed to double before my kj d eventually lost to j7 on a straight! i think i finished 7th and was incredibly disappointed not to take the title as i felt in control of most tables i was on and quickly gained respect from most players apart from 1 or 2 of the donks who were non poker players!

Team Sunpoker eventually finished in 5th place from 11 after losing football so badly which was an amazing achievement and my boys did very well, i hasten to add we were not a million miles off of first spot (points wise) a great day was had by all and was a very well run tourney once again so thank you again to Clinton and Rachel and also to sunpoker.com

p.s thank you Whitedog for your help getting my wasp sting out! ;) your my knight in shining armour! lol.

Gl all, Jimmy.