Water Tank Championship 2/22/07
(photo from our home games)
On Thursday 2/22, 42 out of 64 qualifiers came prepared to
play one long five hour game where blinds were slower, stacks were deeper, and
skill was more of a factor in making the final table than a good run of cards. The big story was chip leader Eric Bandy,
starting the final table of 8 with 310,000 -- nearly HALF the chips in play.
The competition was tough however with Jay Hayley and Daniel
Vaughn at the table, both quiet and dangerous and both having finished as top 10
point leaders this session. Also
present were tight/solid players Kyle Picone, Mike Wheeler, and Garrett
Bary. Then there were the ATC wildcards
Patrick Morgan and Shawn Brown who could easily take it should the cards
cooperate. Only the top 4 would get a
piece of the $300 prize pool, with $200 for first.
Starting chip counts:
Patrick Morgan – 90,000
Eric Bandy – 310,000
Kyle Picone – 60,000
Mike Wheeler – 60,000
Daniel Vaughn – 90,000
Garrett Bary – 80,000
Jay Hayley – 60,000
Shawn Brown – 10,000
Action was fast with two eliminations on the very first
hand. With the blinds at 10/20k, Shawn
was already all in in the bb for 10k and his tournament life. Patrick moved all in under the gun for 90k,
and Kyle also moved in for 60k behind him.
Shawn showed AKh, Kyle had pocket QQ and Shawn turned over 75o. The board came A J T 3 7, and Kyle and Shawn
were both eliminated by Patrick’s “top top”.
He was now up to 160k in chips.
He would lose most of what he made on the next hand when he
and Eric engaged in a battle of the blinds.
Everyone folded to Patrick in the sb who limped, Eric checked the
bb. The hand was checked to the river,
the board showing 2 2 3 Q 6. Eric fired
50k into the pot on the river. After
thinking about it, Patrick called with K7o showing King high, but Eric turned
over a bb special 24o for flopped trips!
Mike Wheeler is the king of the chip and a chair
theory. After folding through the blinds
Mike was left with 10k. On hand #6 he
chose to move it in with A8o on the button.
Daniel completed the sb and Garrett checked. They checked to the river with a board of 6 T
T K J. Daniel turned over 92o, Garrett
show Q9 for a rivered straight, eliminating Mike Wheeler in 6th
place.
It was clear Daniel couldn’t get much in the way of cards
either at the final table. Having been
whittled to 30k, he pushed in with A8 on hand #9 and was called by Patrick and
Eric in the blinds. The board came A T J
K 5, and the blinds showed QJ and Q2 for a four card straight. Daniel’s top pair wasn’t enough to keep him
from being the bubble boy. We now had
our 4 money finishers!
On hand #10 Jay, who had steadily worked his stack up,
pushed all in utg for 210k. Eric and
Garrett both called; Eric having Jay covered and Garret looking to triple his
80k. Garrett took his chances with QJ
and it paid off when Jay and Eric both showed AK and the board came J 9 2 5
5. It was now anyone’s game.
On hand #11, Patrick pushed all in for 80k with the blinds
now at 20/40k and Jay called. Patrick
showed QTo and Jay K9d. Neither player
connected with the 7 7 8 2 3 board, and Jay’s King high eliminated Patrick
Morgan in 4th place ($20).
The next few hands were a lot of shoving all in preflop to
take the blinds, or checking the flop down.
It wasn’t until hand #20 that Garrett pushed in for 100k with J8o on the
button that we saw a significant pot.
Eric after thinking for a minute, called with Q5o in the bb. The board came Q 5 4 Q 9 and even though he
didn’t need it, Eric’s turned full house sent Garrett to the rail in 3rd
place ($30).
Going into heads up Eric had Jay outchipped by roughly 2 to
1 so all it would take is one double up for Jay to take the chip lead away from
Eric for the first time. However, with
the blinds at 40/80k there wasn’t much wiggle room and all the chips were in
preflop no more than 10 minutes into the match.
Jay limped on the button and Eric pushed all in. Jay beat him into the pot to show KQ, but
Eric was in a commanding position with AK!
The board didn’t improve either hand and Jay was eliminated in 2nd
($50), while Eric took down the big $200 first place prize with A high.
Congratulations again to Eric Bandy, and to all the players
for qualifying!
Final Results:
1) Eric
Bandy - $200
2) Jay
Hayley - $50
3) Garrett
Bary - $30
4) Patrick
Morgan - $20
5) Daniel
Vaughn
6) Mike
Wheeler
7) Kyle
Picone
8) Shawn
Brown
9) Patrick
Roney
10) Sherri
Frost
11) Bill
Wofford
12) Yvonne
Breone
13) Jason
Porter
14) Paul Rowe
15) Sabrina
Delisle
16) Archie
Mckonnen
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