Luton wins Heads Up challenge

[TightEnd]

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Paul Martin (Lut) beat Barry Neville (Nott)

Justin Turner (Lut) beat Malcolm Muskett (Nott)

Tikay (Omnipresent) beat JP Kelly (Luton) when 99 stood up against AQ with both all in

Nick Whitten (Nott) beat Ray Hammer (Lut)

David Lloyd ( Lut) beat Lawrence Gosney (Nott via Yorkshire)

Rob Yong (Nott) Annihilated Richard Prew (Luton), and that is no exaggeration

and finally Gary Bush (Luton) beat Greg Hill (Nott)

In the final match Bush had hill down to 500 of his 2500 starting chips before Junior made a spectacular comeback to level. Then Bush went all in, Hill insta called

Bush A10, Hill AJ...the 10 comes on the turn to settle it


Thank you to Tikay and his team for a great match played in the right spirit with a substantial sum raised for Poker4life.

Pictures to follow

Tikay played his match with a certain style...he had three caps on the table...a cap to represent a good hand, a cap to represent a drawing hand and a cap to represent a rubbish hand...changing which was on his head each hand accordingly!!!

[Ironside]

thought it was 8 man teams

[TightEnd]

this was 7 a side

[robyong]

Tightend, don't be so hard on yourself!

[AdamM]

Hard luck Notts boys. lets get the A team Vs B team game on soon and we can finish the job

[ShortStack]

  Does this mean that notts will have to wait at least untill their next festival to try to qualify to play a heads up challenge again. I was so looking forward to playing malclom for the title of top trustee of Game for Life now I am going to have to wait for at least a year. Also I understand that Tikay employed unprofessional tactics to win his match against JP, by starting the match later than planned knowing full well it was past his bedtime & then during the match humming lullabys. Shame on you Tikay!

[JP]

Good game notts looking forward to a rematch, although keep me away from tikay no nicking his blinds!!!!
Nice to see shortstack doing his best to avoid the heads up, good thing we had the 'cursed' Whacker to use
his skill to beat Junior in the final match. 

Gl all for the rest of the week

[Junior Senior]

Bushy's a lucky Fish!!

No - fair play, well played Tightend and the boys.  Congrats!

[tikay]

Well, we enjoyed our few months of glory, we chirped for England, but the king is dead, long live the king.

Well played Luton, you are now the Inter-Casino Heads-Up champs, & I guess you will accept a Challenge from Walsall at their next Festival. And you are worthy Champs too. Not just because you won fair & square, but you played it in EXACTLY the right spirit. The concept is safe with Luton, I am quite sure.

A special word of thanks to Carmel, for all her hard work, & to Jonathan Rabb. There were trophies for everyone who played, & a glass of champers afterwards. Thanks.

As to the match itself, Rob Yong showed yet again that he is a quite exceptional Heads-Up player. If he plays one of the Major Heads Up Tournies, he'd be a good bet against anyone. He's as game as a pebble, & has game to spare.

Oh, & my clash with the boy, J P Kelly. Two versions, choose the one you think is the real one.

1) EXACTLY the opponent I wanted. Not frightened of a kid, I let him have his moment of glory, by leading for a while, then crushed him , like a crushed thing. Game him a little lesson in Heads Up Play for schoolboys.

2) The LAST guy i wanted to be drawn against. Truly. 0 from 1 in Heads-Up so far, I knew this guy has the game to beat me, I was facing ignomony and humiliation from a talented youngster. The first 15 minutes he played me off the table, I just could not cope with him. But I DID recognize that HE was under pressure too - he was EXPECTED to thrash the 'ol fella. So i changed tactics, by starting to move in on him, time after time. Clever? Not really - just reducing the skill quotient, & increasing the luck factor. The best way to play someone Heads Up who is better than me, was how I saw it. I scrimped and scraped and ducked & dived until I had a slim chip lead. JP then made a R pre-flop, with the blinds getting unwieldy, I looked down at 9-9 - massive heads up - & JP is way too good a player H-U to pre-flop R with TT or better (IMO), so I reckoned I was ahead, & moved all-in. JP called, he had AQ, it was a race, all down to luck. And the luck was with me. He's a smashing lad, well mannered, well behaved, & dignified in defeat. A truly great prospect when he's had a bit more experience, and Luton, & his parents, should be proud of him.

Finally, a big thank you to all the Notts lads. You did just grreat. Real tough on Junior to have to play the decider against Bushy, thats a TOUGH draw, but Junior did brilliant, fightiing back from a huge defecit, no mean feat against a player of Bushy's calibre. And Junior went in ahead - massively so - in the final hand. Proud of you Greg, that must have been a bitter pill to swallow.

Good Luck to Luton, hope you enjoy your reign as Champions as much as we did. As Captain of the losing side, I do the dignified & proper thing, & resign.

Great fun!