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BOINGBLITZ:
The new season opened with a few veterans sitting out this one (Marcel Furet, Steve Freer and Mick Wells), a few old faces returning to the fold (Debjani and Andy Duncan plus Paul Melia) and a World Champion newcomer(Charles Mason).
 
 On the night, no fewer than SIX players were absent for various reasons so just 15 players sat down and it would be a new name on the "Shirt Of Shame" as Malcolm Howell shoved with   ac   qh  on a Q-high flop and was called by Steve Redfern with   qs   4c   only for the   4s  to hit the river to leave Malcolm out and muttering something about bad calls and fish.


Paul Melia had improved his profile with a terrific performance at the BCPC Team Championships when he top scored to take down the Individual Title but it was an early exit tonight as it was for Ant Williams and Tony Trippier.
 When Andy Overton also exited after shoving with   kh   9h  and getting called by Charles Mason with   ad   qc  AND by Richard Davis with   :as:   ac  that meant that of the 7 players who won seats in Season Five, only Matt McKinlay was in the points for Week One of the new campaign.


Matt had struggled during the first level when his aggression failed to intimidate Charles to his immediate left and Matt had lost half his stack in the first ten minutes, maybe a little disconcerted by his drinking orange juice all night following a rather painful operation during the week (ouch !!)



The Final Table bubble saw Rob Hewlitt go when he shoved his short-stack with   jh   :3c:  and Mark Eagles was priced in and made the call with   6s   8c  and an   8s  on the flop sealed Rob"s fate.



The Final Table opened with not some much a bang as a thunderclap !......Debjani Duncan shoved with   qd   qs  and Charles made the call with   8c   8d  . Brian Yates passed   :3d:   :3h:  and Matt passed   tc   td  but Richard Davis called with   kc   ks   meaning that Ant Williams had dealt 5 pocket-pairs in a row !
  The board came down   6c   9d   :3s:   jc   9s  and so Richard trebled up and Deb left in 9th with Charles in 8th.


Andy Duncan then doubled-up through Steve Redfern to leave him short and that prompted his shove with    kh   :3c:  and Mark Eagles called with   ah   7c   .The familiar "luckbox" cry went up as the flop came   kd   td   7d  but the   7h  gave Mark trips and Steve was gone. 



Paul Foy had nursed his small stack into 6th spot before shoving    ah   ks  and getting a call from Matt holding         ac   9c  and also from Mark and his   ks   kd    and the board was no help to anyone to send Paul to the rail.



Brian Yates decided to FLAB (Fold Like A Bri) to a shove after raising with 7-7 but then decided a shove was the order of the day with   kh   8h  but Richard had   :as:   tc  and Bri left in 5th and when a deal was cut, it gave Richard Davis his first EVER BCPC cash at the 22nd attempt and meant that of the 4 players remaining, 3 were chasing there first ever BCPC victory.



That was not to be for Andy Duncan who ran   tc   jd  into Matt's  ad   qh  and Matt then quickly became the big-stack when his   ah   4h  outdrew Richard"s   :as:   jd  on a   8h   jh   4d   th   :2s:  to devastate Richard"s hopes.



Matt quickly finished him off to go Heads-Up with Mark Eagles and when Mark shoved with   jd   8h  Matt called BLIND.....and turned over    qs   qc  !!

 It looked like Matt's night until the flop came   7d   jh   8d  to give Mark  2 pair but the   5c  turn and    5d  river counterfeited that 2-pair and Matt was the winner - the first 4-time BCPC winner and it also sent him to No.1 in the new BCPC rankings.


WEEK ONE TABLE

POS                                  PTS
1   MATT McKINLAY             15
2   MARK EAGLES                 12
3   RICHARD DAVIS              10
4   ANDY DUNCAN                8
5   BRIAN YATES                 6
6   PAUL FOY                      5
7   STEVE REDFERN              4
8   CHARLES MASON             3
9   DEBJANI DUNCAN            2
10  ROB HEWLITT                 1
11=  ANDY OVERTON             0
11=  TONY TRIPPIER             0
11=  ANT WILLIAMS              0
11=  PAUL MELIA                  0
11= DARREN HOOPER             0
11= TOD WOOD                    0
11=  CLIVE PADDEN               0
11=  CHRIS BAKER                 0
11=  MAXINE McKINLAY          0
20  MALCOLM HOWELL           0  

AMRN:

--- Quote from: BOINGBLITZ on May 18, 2011, 11:35:41 AM ---  
 Malcolm Howell shoved with   ac   qh  on a Q-high flop and was called by Steve Redfern with   qs   4c   only for the   4s  to hit the river to leave Malcolm out and muttering something about bad calls and fish.


--- End quote ---


Actually subtly different in reality - with a mid position limper, and me with a 2xAvg stack, I limped the button with Q4. Malc checked his BB with AQ whilst holding a stack of less than 20x - perfect shove spot?   flop is Q hi, and Malc leads out for small bet - I set him all in with my top pair hand and he snaps.....  all pretty standard really, but shouldn"t really have got to the flop.   OK turn was a 4, but as usual in poker, aggression rules over passivity.   Only one fish in this hand - letting three others see the flop cheaply whilst holding AQ and short stacked was pretty bad.


And GG MattBlue - awesome form right now!

blowfly:
My exit was not quite like that - Charles shoved with his 8"s, I called all in for less, you and Matt folded than Richard called. Pretty standard bad luck really seeing as I"d had QQ a couple of hands before and had a walk when I was desperate for a double up. Very pleased for Richard though who was due a deep run like that.

1TRW1:
Well done Matt, nice work fella.

stone:
Nice report Brian, thanks to everyone at the club for such a nice welcome, looking forward to my next visit in July ( can"t make June as I"m at the Isle of Wight Festival).

Well done Matt

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