A Trip to Yesteryear!

    As the RSVP’s started rolling in, it looked as if “Little Hill” would barely fill one table with poker players. And really, how fun can that be? Well, let me tell you! Seven players would mark the lowest attendance in S.B.P.T. history. And before the cards were dealt, we had to all agree to pay down to only third place because of fears that there would not be a sizeable enough pot for first place to host the next tournament. Again, let me tell you!

    First hand would see most of Pablo’s chips on Scoots side of the table forcing a re-buy from the Quapster. Butterfingers found himself re-buying twice within the first hour and “The Saw” was an early victim forcing her to dig deep into hubby’s pockets to continue her attempt at a second victory! All total $2,500,000 in chips were bought and paid for, during and at the end of the first hour. I would say it had to be the most exciting first hour of our young poker tour.

    That takes us to break where the hosts had set up a comfort food themed entrée to welcome in this fall season. Fried Chicken, Chili, Corn Bread and Ghetto Cupcakes were the item on the menu. Though maybe the staff at “Little Hill” should rethink serving chili to some of the competitors. Sponges may absorb but that’s not all they do! Everyone seemed to really enjoy their fixin’s, and was hungry to get to the task at hand and play cards.

    Early action would find “The Saw” chipping her teeth on the rail as she went crashing head first into it, and top pair with the nut flush draw, all but sent “The Snake” slithering after her, as he would lose that hand to a flopped flush. What makes it even worse is that after going all-in with his few remaining chips, he would be sent out by another flopped flush!

    Scooter was quietly taking chips from everyone on the table and had grown a nice pile of chips and was looking to be quite a force in the game. In fact, she was holding the chip lead for a large part of the game.

    Sponge had amassed a very large chip stack during the first hour from the failed open-ended straight draw attempts of Butterfingers, which allowed him to play a little loose, choosing to play hands that he may have otherwise chosen to fold. That strategy would end up paying off as time after time he flopped two pair while holding an eight/deuce off-suit (almost scary). A flopped two pair of 8/2 off-suit would be the demise of his lovely wife after she committed all her chips to what would seem to have been the best hand.

    That leaves three still battling for the title. And after being down in the first hour, El Guapo is comfortably and somewhat aggressively manipulating his stack and smiling as he’s watching it grow. Until that ever-fateful hand that always seems to occur when the big man is close to a championship! This time it would be, his pocket kings falling to pocket jacks. That hand would have doubled the big man up giving him the chip lead, and had the Sponge on life support, all but sending him to the rail. I can’t explain it… but “Little Hill” has been good to the Sponge, crowning him champion three of the four tournaments that he has played in this card house.

    What a heads up battle between Scoots and the Sponge. I think by far the best heads up battle to date. Chip leads going back and forth for almost 45 minutes until one fateful hand when Scoots made the all-in call only to find UniSponge with a pocket pair of bullets (ouch)!       

Congrats to the Sponge on a well played tournament and his fourth tour victory! Viva La Sponge!!!

Slick A.K.A. Snake