A great start for Solent and nearly a fantastic one.
Thirteen players turned out for the team and there were a couple of tables with three and four Solent players. Don"t know whether that helped or hindered you. We came really close to getting three players on the final table, with Keith Bartholomew finishing 11th and David Grimsdale 10th. The bubble went on for ages before David was the unlucky one. As often happens, Dave Howard was the star of the show, building a very big stack early through some careful play (cough). He finished 3rd and in the end was unlucky when he was knocked out.
Overall, a really good start. As always in poker, we were really close to it being so much better, as Bart and Dave G could easily have made the FT and Dave H could easily have won the whole thing. Plenty to be optimistic about for future weeks!
For those who finished further down the list, that"s just the way it goes. As you know, poker is weird like that. You could be 99th one week and 1st the following one. I know what it"s like to have your name way down the list - last year I didn"t score a single point in this league - but it means nothing and it is usually better to risk going out early while giving yourself a chance of a high finish than to struggle along and end up disappearing out in, erm, 15th place for the same points. So see you all next week - same time, same channel.
Finishing Positions:
3 Dave Howard T6isbest
10 David Grimsdale Vaughan1978
11 Keith Bartholomew GoldnEagle8
15 John Murray Mint Trav
23 James Bagley bagface
25 Andy Heath each it
36 Maggie Holt Raggy Maggie
39 Scott Kinnear KardKlub1
41 Leigh Efford TPTKMav
42 Doug Winborn SpongeDoug
57 Ben Justice Leo9
63 Harry Brownsdon AitchBB
67 Bruce Shannon BIGERSHAN
