Heads Up Matchday Reports

[Burnley Joe]

1st match day

The English eSport-Poker HeadsUp closed league starts. Richlizzard plays a risky all-in bet to beat BurnleyJoe with an ace-king pre-flop hand. On table 1, Dave888 makes a strong comeback to beat PL_wallg after an hour of exciting play. The English eSport-Poker HeadsUp closed league started on Tuesday 18th March. The 1-against-1 tournaments were played on nine of the ten available tables, as the tournament scheduled for table 2 was cancelled. The games on table 4 and 5 were over at the bat of an eyelid, with players PL_Dodger and mahtalj148 coming away with a win, and therefore 3 points each, after 5 and 6 minutes respectively. Table 10 served as the scene for aggressive and highly interesting play between richlizzard and BurnleyJoe. Although this tournament was a more or less even match between the two players, BurnleyJoe got off to a better start than his opponent. At first, the game was played fast and with small amounts, but hasty betting with generally bad cards got richlizzard below the 900 chips mark. On the other hand, BurnleyJoe was a little more cautious with his chips and showed his opponent that he knew with which cards to play more confidently. The tournament took a slower pace when richlizzard also began to play for higher bids with good hands. After 28 minutes of play and no clear winner on the table, an ace-king hand gave richlizzard the confidence to go for an all-in bet before the flop. It´s not for nothing that ace-king is known as the Anna Kournikova of poker hands, i.e. it looks great but almost never wins, and richlizzard´s move was indeed risky. BurnleyJoe responded with another all-in bet, but lost when richlizzard hit another ace in the flop. The game was decided and the tournament brought to a surprisingly quick end. On Table 1, the style of play was much slower but nonetheless exciting. Dave888 and PL_wallg played for an hour in what was by far the longest and most drawn-out tournament in this first day of the closed HeadsUp league. Here, at least the second half of the game was less about hands, and more about players placing higher bids in order to put off their opponents and encourage them to fold their cards. At one point, Dave888 was hanging by a thread with 125 chips. Extremely cautious play with relatively high bids was his ticket to tipping the balance heavily in his favour, and eventually, to winning the tournament. An all-in bet of 800 chips by PL_wallg was easily matched by Dave888, who had nothing to lose, and the game was over. The winners at tables 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9 were: SPSlick Mick, Fonzie1411, vic3485, Mr Intensity and pokermbe, respectively.

[smithylfc]

Re: Heads Up Matchday Reports yup table 2 was cancelled,my rival didnt enter, ile take the 3 points any day tho, i think the PL at the beginning of my name might have made my rivals arse twitch:moon