Sadler and Carter Poker Supply
Miracle on Shire Blvd.
Ed “Soon to be Poker Princess” Mayhall here with an update on the 8th tournament of the 2008 WSOP freeroll series. For those of you who do not get the Poker Princess reference then I shall quickly explain. Keith Noblett and I made a last longer prop bet the week before. Whoever lost the bet would be wearing a “Poker Princess” t-shirt (luckily not the tube top) for the next 3 events. Needless to say I lost after getting short stacked by a slow playing Charlie Nethaway who limped with QQ and then the final blow was delivered in the following hand:
Table 3 - Blinds 25/50
Everyone folds to the button who limps. Greg Miles limps from the SB. Ed Mayhall pushes 180 more from the BB. Button quickly folds and Greg goes into tank for a bit before calling.
Ed: 
Greg: 
Flop: 
Turn: 
River: 
Greg got the $25 bounty gift certificate for The Parlour and the evil eye from me.
After getting knocked out I was able to run around and watch the other tables. It is not easy having 7 tables going and being the only person taking notes but I tried and here are some of the hands I was able to catch.
Table 1 - Blinds 50/100
Jack Mader pushes 425 from UTG. Button calls. Chris Kelton calls from BB.
Flop: 
- Both players check.
Turn: - Chris throws in a bet of 400 and the button folds.
Jack: 
Chris: 
River: 
Chris takes a nice sized pot and Jack heads for the rail.
Table 9 - Blinds 50/100
Ray limps UTG. Torrey Schoel limps from the cut off. SB folds and BB checks.
Flop: 
Ray checks. Torrey pushes. BB quickly folds and Ray takes up some camera time as he thinks a bit before mucking.
Table 1 - Blinds 100/200 w/25 antes
Debbie Molina pushes 700 in early position. BB calls.
Debbie: 
BB: 
Flop: 
Turn: 
River: 
Debbie is saved by the turn and doubles up.
Table 1 - Blinds 100/200 w/25 antes
With only the player in cut off limping in Chris Kelton pushes 925 from SB. BB folds and cut off calls.
Chris: 
Cut off:
Flop: 
Turn: River:
Chris doubles up.
Table 3 - Blinds 100/200 w/25 antes
Greg Miles pushes 1275 from early position. SB folds. Charlie Nethaway is in BB and goes into the tank before mucking and showing a pair of 6s. Greg kindly shows him pocket Jacks.
Table 1 - Blinds 100/200 w/25 antes
Ruby pushes from UTG. Billy Brewer pushes. It folds to Keith Noblett who is on BB and he quickly calls.
Ruby: 
Billy: 
Keith: 
Billy spikes a J on the flop and nothing comes along to help Ruby or Keith. Billy takes a nice sized pot. Keith vents a bit.
Table 1 - Blinds 100/200 w/25 antes
3 limpers come into the pot and BB checks.
Flop: 
Michael Zaleski checks from SB. BB pushes. Folds to Larry Dugger who is in cut off and he calls. Michael raises 500 more. Larry pushes for 1200 total and Michael quickly calls.
Michael: Larry: BB: XX (cards taken before I got them written down but he wins main pot so I guess they were good)
Turn: River:
Michael takes side pot and BB gets main pot.
(Keith talks me into playing a SNG at this point which I had declined but peer pressure got the better of me. I last longer than expected and go heads up with Torrey who takes the win.)
Final table has been going and I come back from the SnG to see Brian Tiesman going out at 5th.
Final Table - Blinds 2k/4k w/300 antes
UTG mucks. Debbie Molina pushes. Ray folds in SB. BB thinks for a while and calls for less.
BB doubles up when his dominated 
hits 2 pair.
Next hand Debbie pushes from UTG with 
. Ray folds the button and SB folds too. Alan Prochnick calls for less from BB with .
Debbie knocks Alan out with a boat on the river. (A little over kill if you ask me. She can be so brutal sometimes.)
A few hands later Chris Clayton pushes from SB with 
.. Debbie folds BB and Ray quickly calls with
Nothing comes to help Chris and he is out at 3rd.
Final Table - Blinds 4k/8k w/500 antes
1st hand of heads up. Debbie pushes. Ray calls.
Debbie: Ray: 
Flop: Turn: 
River:
Ray gets lucky.Debbie gets no love from the poker gods and Ray takes the win. I hear everytime Ray wins a tournament an angel gets its wings.
I hope you enjoyed the mini report on the tournament. I will try and get better with the names of newer people or those I have not seen much this season. If you have any suggestions or would like to see other things talked about besides key hands then let me know at the next event or in the comments if you can leave them.
There are no more events until next year so have a safe and happy holiday break!
December 21st, 2007 at 4:57 pm
That is the most awesome tournament break-down I have ever seen! *Mayhill all your drinks are on me at the next tournament.
*Excludes any alcoholic beverages or caffeine products.
Ray
December 26th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
nice job Ed. keep up the good work