CPL Week 7 Goes To Wally!!

Wally "The Cowboy" Behr took down week 7 of the CPL this week in a display of card superiority that I haven't seen in the CPL for quite some time!

Wally not only took out yours truly....but managed to take out several others throughout the night.

The Cowboy had timing and was catchin cards faster than his 10 gallon hat!!

I saw The Cowboy with Rockets twice, Cowboys once, The Ladies at least twice, and Fishhooks. Talk about crushing the deck!!! Take this man directly to Grand Casino and have him buy a Powerball while your at it!!

Congrats Wally for a great win!

CPL Honorable Mention goes to both New Life and Urkelnator for holding on to the take 3rd and 2nd place!

CPL News of the Week! Jeff "Matusow" Matson made a comeback into the Winter Session this week to make a run at the coveted CPL Tournament of Champions!!

We had a whopping 18 CPL members this week at CPL Headquarters in Blaine.

Below are the results!

Wally--39.6
Jeff K--23.1
Greg--16.6
Phil--13.2
Wanda--11.0
Mark--9.6
Shane--8.5
Pam--7.7
Bill--7.0
Jill--1.0
Tim--1.0
Mike--1.0
Jeff M--1.0
Jodi--1.0
Damon--1.0
Gene--1.0
Steve--1.0
Brad--1.0

Below is the CPL Leaderboard with Adjusted Totals (removing each players worst 3 weeks thus far)

JP--80.10
Bill--73.50
Damon--68.10
Gene--61.10
Shane--59.20
Tim--55.00
Jill--53.30
Steve--51.90
Mike--46.30
Wally--42.60
Jeff K--41.70
Wanda--38.30
Greg--27.80
Brad--25.90
Pam--24.70
Mark--20.80
Phil--16.20
Jodi--14.00
Malinda--10.40
Jeff M--1.00

Jill Takes CPL Week #6!!

Congrats to Jill for taking the top spot in the CPL week #6! Gotta love home field advantage!!!!

There were 12 CPL members who attended week 6 and below are the results!

Jill--28.2
Gene--16.6
Tim--12.1
Wanda--9.7
Greg--8.2
Brad--7.1
JP--1.0
Shane--1.0
Bill--1.0
Jodi--1.0
Mike--1.0
Wally--1.0

Thanks again to Brad and Jill for hosting last minute while I was out in Pittsburgh and for running the league in my absence!!

--
CPL Director Mark Cardenas
and
CPL Co-Director Phil Fuehrer

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The Blind Me Down "Hand of the Week" - Hand 4 by Mike Behr

So we left off last week with a difficult decision to make. Do we
call all in on the money bubble with top set on a dangerous board or
fold and try to make it into the cash. After much thought as usual I
decided that I couldn't lay this down. I felt as though I was being
pushed around in a spot that the chip leader knew would be tough for
me to call in and so I made the call. He rolls over 10d Jd. In this
case, almost the most powerful hand in poker. His play makes sense on
the turn as it may be what anyone would have done in his shoes. The
river was a 4 of clubs and we took down a monster pot to put us in
the chip lead and in great shape to make some real money. Pat
yourself on the back if you had the stones to call here. Not an easy
decision.

Now onto our hand of the week for week 4:

It's a $3 KO tournament that started with 938 players. We're down to
436 and the blinds are at 40/80 with 14 minutes to go until the first
break. Obviously a loose game as this type usually is. We have
carefully built our stack up to 7985 which is a little more then
twice the average at this point. Rock is sitting in the big blind
with a Qd 10c and it folds around to the button who just calls. The
small blind throws in an extra 40 for a call and we just check. The
flop comes Qh 7c 10s rainbow. Fantastic. We have top two. The small
blind checks, we check and the button checks. The turn is the Kc. The
small blind checks. We bet out 180 into a pot of 240 to see if
someone hit the king and because we don't need the board to get any
more dangerous before we put out a bet. The button folds and the
small blind raises to 360. We take a moment and then just call. The
river is the 5h. The small blind bets out 560 into a pot of 960. He
has 2540 left and we have 7545. What do we want to do here? At a
minimum we make the call. But the question is, what could he have and
should we push for more chips and try to get his entire stack in
there somehow and taking down yet another bounty.

CPL Week 5 results!

Congrats to JP for his second win during this 2008 Winter Session!

Below are the weekly point totals and the CPL Leaderboard!

 

Week 5 Results

 

JP	28.2
Bill	16.6
Gene	12.1
Brad	9.7
Shane	8.2
Damon	7.1

Phil

1.0

Wally

1.0

Wanda

1.0

Jill

1.0

Jodi	1.0
Greg	1.0

CPL Leaderboard (unadjusted totals):

JP	80.1
Bill	74.5
Damon	69.1
Shane	52.7
Steve	51.9
Mike	46.3
Gene	45.5
Tim	43.9
Jill	26.1
Wanda	20.6
Brad	19.8
Jeff K	18.6
Pam	18.0
Jodi	14.0
Mark	12.2
Malinda	10.4
Greg	5.0
Wally	4.0
Phil	3.0

 

 

--
CPL Director Mark Cardenas
and
CPL Co-Director Phil Fuehrer

Find the Podcast on ITunes: CPLDirectors Podcast

The Blind Me Down "Hand of the Week" - Hand 3 by Mike Behr

First we will start off again by answering last weeks dillema. If you need a refresher, please scroll down and read through the hand before going any further. This was a seemingly great hand for our hero Rock Lobster. We had a great draw, we hit our ace with a decent kicker and still had an out if we were beat on the turn. But instead we had a perfect storm brewing from the beginning. We have to give props to the Villian here whom played this hand perfectly. (that may or may not be the correct use of the word "whom" there. I so rarely get a chance to use it.) There are any number of hands that he could have here at the end and his bet of 1500 is such that it begs to be called. So if he was trying to bluff our hero off the hand, he has to be worried that it will get called. Unless, he caught his flush too and doesn't figure us for the nut flush. We have committed too much to the pot at this point to not call 1500 at the end when we have what could be good enough to win here. True, the board looks scary but can't let this one go. We will still have 2450 left after the call and for me that's good enough to come back with. Unlike last weeks hand, our tournament will not be at stake by paying this guy off if he does have a full house. So, we put in a lot of thought and run through our timebank and finally put the chips in the pot. He flips over pocket nines and takes it down with a full house. A very well played hand to the end for the villian who was ahead the entire time.

Now onto our hand of the week for week 3:

We are sitting in an 18 player 20 dollar sit and go and the blinds are at 150/300 with 5 people left in the game. For those unfamiliar with this game on full tilt this would be known as the money bubble. A dangerous place to be in any tournament especially when you have less then the average chip stack. We have 3950 in chips and need to pick up some ground in this tournament. There is one person with less chips then us at 1710 sitting on the button and has been folding his way into the money for the last 20 minutes. Just over 10 times the big blind we have too much to expect a call from a pre-flop all in and too little to be messing around with too many non-premium hands. Our hero Rock Lobster is under the gun and picks up 2 red aces. Nice. Getty as a 10 year old in a candy store we start dreaming of all the things we could do with the chips we are going to rake in on this hand. Not wanting to scare anyone away, because we do need at least one caller here, we raise to 1050. It folds around to our villian in this hand who is sitting in the big blind with 7320 in chips. The flop comes As 10s 2s. Our hero crys out "why me, why me". Not the flop we were hoping for here even though we have a set. We could either go forth cautiously, not wanting to get knocked out on the bubble or move all in here hoping the chip leader isn't holding at least one spade. In a situation like this I like to act as if I may or may not have hit something and proceed cautiously. I think if we push all in here he's going to know we don't have a spade and is going to call even on a draw hoping to hit his flush. Our villian checks and Rock bets out 1050 again. This is for two reasons. It still leaves us with enough chips to get away from the hand if another spade comes on the turn and it says to the big blind that I'm not betting enough to try and scare you away so I might have something here. Almost as if we are trying to draw him in. He calls and the pot is now 4350. If he's on a flush draw we just gave him 3 to 1 to call to catch his flush which is exactly the odds he needed to call in that situation with two cards to come. The turn is a Jc. Ouch! Now there is a straight and a flush on the board. Our villian now bets out 2000. Enough to put us all in. The fourth spade didn't come but the board just got even more dangerous. Are we good enough to get away from this hand and survive being knocked out on the bubble or do we roll the dice in this treachorous terrain and see if we have the best of it doubling up through the chip leader. If we fold we will still have 1850 in chips and doubling up gets us back to where we were. Do we really want to play for an hour and a half and walk away with nothing because of the endless allure of our two red aces? Remember, there is good money to be made here if we can make it to the cash. What do we do?

--
CPL Director Mark Cardenas
and
CPL Co-Director Phil Fuehrer

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A Boy in the Woods - "What a Mess"

Okay: You have got to hear this song and it can be found here:

http://www.garageband.com/artist/aboyinthewoods

Click on the green play arrow next to What a Mess (upper right hand area) to hear it. And, enjoy!!

Karaoke Phil