Friday Night Poker with Prizes!!!

We hosted a NL hold-em tournament at our house. We had 17 players sign up and we started promptly on-time. The list of players were as follows (no bloggers): Cindy, Corley, Cristine, Diane, Dolores, Godfrey, Hoa, Jim, Kevin, Michael, Michael G., Rico, Stacey (aka JerseyGirl and my lovely wife!!!), Steve, Stuart, and Todd.

Stacks to start were 15,000, with rebuys for the first hour (for stacks <= 5,000) and either a 5,000 or 10,000 add-on after the first hour.

We gave prizes to make it interesting...
You got a prize if you:

• loose a showdown with AA, KK, QQ, or AK (suited)
• are the first one knocked out after the rebuy rounds are complete
• bubble
• rebuy the most
• get to a showdown and you hold quads or higher
• win a hand by bluffing and show the hammer (72)

There were only two rebuys and the tables played very tight. I started off at a table with JerseyGirl and successfully bluffed her with the swedish hammer (no prize), but after Michael busted out before the rebuy period was over, I was moved to the other table.

There was one particular early hand where Hoa worked me for a few thousand by slow playing his flopped wheel (A5 straight) to my pair of 10's. Stuart was at this table and chipped up big by a combination of bullying and getting good hands. Todd and Godfrey were also doing very well, and Rico was holding his own. I managed to take Stuart out with AA, after he was crippled by Todd.

We were at the final table.

At the final table the chip counts were as follows:

Player	Count
Todd	101,000
Godfrey	71,000
Corley	49,500
Cindy	45,000
Rico	38,000
Me	30,500
JerseyGirl	30,500
Cristine	17,500

I was short for a while until I caught Godfrey bluffing when I limped one from the button with A5. I took a lot of chips from him and that set me up. I then knocked out Corley (my AA vs. his 33), Rico (my KK vs. his 44) and Cindy (my AK vs. QJ?? I think). Rico seemed to have learned the chip throwing technique from Wes. I think he was a little TILTY.

Cindy was the bubble... then it was Kevin, Todd, Godfrey and me for the $$$.

Kevin was short stacked and took forth... We played a few hands and the rest of us chopped.

At the end it was me - 174,500, Todd - 146,000, and Godfrey - 68,500. I took $100 and each of them took $74.

The prizes went down as follows....

Prizes	Who won...
Big Hand Losers	Cindy-QQ, Corley-QQ, Hoa-AA
Hammer Bluffers	Corley, Stuart
Most Rebuys	Cindy, Michael - 1 each
1st Out	Diane
Bubble	Cindy
Win with Quads or Higher	Nobody

Thanks to everyone that made it out to the tourney. We had a great time and look forward to the next one.