Gladiator Finals Day *Report

**LPL_Mike** · 2nd March 2009, 12:51 PM

The Gladiator Inn Gloucester hosted our first local finals day for 2009, and even though it was held on a saturday we still had a very good turn out.

First out honor went to Sharon Morris from Cheltenham who was short stacked and shoved with K 10, Scott McCarthy from Bristol won with Ace high!

Hand of the day
Blinds 100-200

Rob Morris raised to 600
Ross Ciddelapaz called and the BB also called

Flop 5h 3 2h

Rob bet 1200 and both players called

Turn 5

Rob bet 1200 both players called

River Qh

Rob pushed all in and both players called!!

Rob shows pkt 2's for a full house; Ross shows pkt 5's for quads; and BB (sorry forgot name) shows 7h 8h for a flush

Amazingly no player went out!!

Debbie Cook from Gloucester was the bubble for the final table, and even though she cracked ace's twice it wasn't going to be enough to see her onto the final table!

FINAL TABLE

Seat_1 Darren Bartlett Bristol 24,500
Seat_2 Dan Vick Bristol 11,000
Seat_3 Tony Mayne Bristol 89,000
Seat_4 Mike Chapman Yate 36,000
Seat_5 Tim Deady Cheltenham 17,500
Seat_6 Scott McCarthy Bristol 31,000
Seat_7 Dish Patel Gloucester 187,500 Chip leader
Seat_8 Tom Pullen Dursley 85,500
Seat_9 Kris Evans Gloucester 73,500

The Bush Tavern in Bristol had a very strong showing with 4 players on the final table including South-South West league winner Scott McCarthy!

Players all agreed to give the bubble in 9th £25 from the winners cash....

9th Place-Scott McCarthy £25

8th Place-Mike Chapman £25

I fell when my early shove with A 10 ran into Kris Evans Pkt 8's and with no help on the board i swiftly moved to the dealers position!

7th Place - Dan Vick £25

Dan came to the table the short Stack but survived a couple of allin's before finally going out to Kris Evans

Kris raised in early position to 20k, Dan shoved for 75k making it 55k to call....Kris went to the tank before calling

Kris Evans J Q vs A K

Jack on the flop saw Dan out in 7th place!

6th Place - Tim Deady £25

Landord of the Irish Oak and Shamrock in Cheltenham managed his short stack into 6th place but lost his race with Q 10 vs A J Dish Patel

5th Place - Dish Patel £50

Dish who was chip leader on the final table was a surprise 5th place finisher, when his all in was called by both Tom Pullen and Kris Evans, both players checked down ....and dish was out in 5th place when Tom's K J hit two pair.

Chip Counts

Kris Evans 169K
Tony Mayne 102k
Tom Pullen 239K
Darren Bartlett 26K

4th Place - Darren Bartlett £75

Darren can consider himself unlucky to find himself out in 4th place when his K Q vs J 9 Tom Pullen

Tom hits runner runner to win the hand!

3rd Place - Tony Mayne £100

Tony Mayne a first timer to the finals day and last of the Bush players finally went out in a very respectful 3rd place

Heads Up Chip Counts

Tom Pullen-Dursley 236K
Kris Evans-Gloucester 320K

Player Profile-Kris Evans

Total Games Played 324
Rock
1st Place Finishes 37
Top 5 Finishes 109
Total Times Placed 271
Overall Average 264.35
Points Reward Scheme 1310

Kris who plays out of the Gladiator Inn is a long term player with the LPL and has a 2nd place finish at a monthly finals, and is looking to go one better!

Player Profile-Tom Pullen

Total Games Played 276
Rock
1st Place Finishes 29
Top 5 Finishes 105
Total Times Placed 243
Overall Average 234.87
Points Reward Scheme 350

Tom also a long term player out of the LPL plays out of Dursley near Gloucester

Battle of the heads up went on for quite a period of time, with blinds at 10K-20K it wasn't long before a player was all in!

Kris Evan was on a losing streak of 10 hands and with his stack disapearing he shoved with A2which was called by Tom with A K

Runner Up-Kris Evans £200

WINNER-TOM PULLEN

Big thanks to Pete landlord of the Gladiator for hosting another enjoyable final and great grub!

NEXT FINAL is in two weeks at stanshawes in Yate on Sunday the 15th of March.... hope to see you all there!

**shaz72** · 2nd March 2009, 04:09 PM

yeh thanks for reminding mike i was first out.i think too many vodkas didnt help haha.my mind was not in the game very but i would like to thank all the poker players for making it an enjoyable day.

**GameGuru** · 2nd March 2009, 05:00 PM

What a wicked day!!!!, congrats to Tom for winning :-)

**DanV** · 2nd March 2009, 05:56 PM

Thanks for putting it on the forum Mike, now everyone can see what an ugly call Kris made, three quarters of his chips with QJ off!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh..................