July Poker League 2009 - Game #6

Game #6 took place at the House of Zeus in Teaneck, NJ on Thursday, July 16. Eight excellent poker enthusiasts played: Hoboken, Chick, Daffy, My Choice, Pads, Zeus, Lady Luck, and .com, and these eight regulars did not disappoint. With the laptop computer and speakers near the table, a few viewings of the press conferences that led to this excellent video took place before poker commenced.

July Poker League 2009 - Game #6

Shortly after play commenced, Hoboken's aggressive play got him into trouble. A flop of 9-10-10 led to betting between Hoboken and Zeus. A blank turn and an 8 on the river induced Hoboken to check-raise Zeus all-in. Zeus quickly turned over 10-10 to show quad 10s. Hoboken did not show, went out in an unceremonious 8th place but did stick around for some cash games.

.com, who once again found himself uncharacteristically short-stacked and card-dead, pushed all-in with 4-4. My Choice made a gutsy call with 5-5 to knock out .com in 7th place. Like Brad Lidge, .com is left to figure out how to return to last season's form in his next appearance.

Lady Luck played solidly but found himself unable to take down pots and finished in 6th, to be followed by Daffy, who once again played tight poker but was unable to translate that into much point success. Daffy did earn one point for finishing 5th. My Choice found himself short-stacked and eventually went out in 4th place, earning 3 points.

Three players remained: Chick, Zeus, and Pads. Chick went all-in shortstacked. Pads contemplated for a while and folded his A-7. Zeus, however, made the call with A-5 and found himself facing Chick's A-K. When a 5 hit the flop, though, Chick was crippled. After a scare of going all-in with A-7 against Zeus' 9-7 and seeing a 8-10-J flop but hitting a 9 to chop the pot, she eventually fell to Zeus to go out in 3rd place. Zeus earned a bonus point for knocking out then-chip-leader Chick, while Chick earned 7 points.

Pads had gotten his chip stack close to even with aggressive play when the game was 3-handed. Now heads-up against Zeus, and with blinds hitting 500-1000 (with only 8000 total chips in play), Pads won the big hands heads-up to take down the victory and 10 points plus one for knocking last week's winner Zeus out, while Zeus earned himself 7 more points.

Points (Total):

Chick: 5 (34)
Pads: 11 (33)
My Choice: 3 (30)
Zeus: 8 (29)
Daffy: 1 (17)
Hoboken: 0 (14)
Lady Luck: 0 (6)
.com: 0 (3)

Game 7 will take place in the Ed Daffy basement on Monday, July 20th.