DEEPStack 11 Preview

this friday is our 11th installment of the DEEPStack series.

im going to preview the players and give my predictions on who will be in the money. some of the trash talk here will be sarcastic, some will be fact-based real stuff and the rest will be fantasy...you can decide what is what

first, the lineup:

simon
eman
john v
eitan
bill
sean
jane
cathy
bob
kent
240

second, the order of finish

1. simon - no surprise really. the most talented poker player in the group should handily walk away from this game with his 2nd DEEPStack series victory and 3rd 1st place (one was chopped with Eman). unless i get involved with someone trying to make a donkish move on me and somehow gets lucky in the hand, my spewage of chips will be minimzed. blessed with an uncanny ability to read the pulse of most of the people in our group, i can see myself winning probably the first 6 or 7 pots i enter without much resistance. after all, who wants to get involved in any hands with someone who can use x-ray vision to view the beating of his/her heart? if i sense a flutter or irregular beat in your breathing i will jump all over it and put you to the test by saying those four special words..."im all in fag!"

everyone else is playing for 2nd place

2. bill - bill is a lucky mofo who is on an incredible run right now. i had a dream last night that bill was following his usual strategy of playing 120% of the hands dealt to him. every hand is a potential winner according to bill so why not give them all a try? if bill doesnt lose his stack in the first hour he will have a comfortable enough stack to cruise into the top 3. he will finish in 2nd after limping in with K4 suited, then calling the 2nd preflop raise cold, he will flop a King and get it all in vs AK and go runner-runner flush to crush the hopes and dreams of our 3rd place finisher

3. eitan - he will go ballistic after bill pops him in the goolies with the K4 suited. a speech containing the deficiencies in bill's game will ensue and an silent volcano will erupt deep within the belly of our resident jew. without outwardly critisizing his opponents play too much, eitan will get his point across with short, pointed barbs that cut like a knife...and then we will see him the following week. its about time eitan finishes in the money so he really should feel good about this result.

the rest:

4. sean - gets it all in "with the best hand preflop" but loses

5. kent- back from his self-imposed exile, kent leaves a lot of wreckage behind him as he puzzles his dejected opponents with his choice of starting hands.

6. john v - standard huge stack 20 minutes in then he slowly pisses it all away with top pair no kicker after preflop raising it up with Kx, Jx and Ax. "TOP PAIR IS GOLD AT THE FCPC AND I HATE THIS F'N PLACE!"

7. cathy - takes a bad beat from sean and bows out after playing 5% of the hands she gets dealt

8. jane - her marvelous run of late comes to screeching halt when her aces gets ravaged by john's 55 all in preflop

9. eman - simon takes care of him early when he tries to run an unimproved 67 suited by simon's 35 of diamonds on a 58A flop. Eman cont bets the flop but simon's x-ray vision foils all attempts to be bluffed. getting invlolved in a big pot with simon is foolish so this is noone's fault but eman's

10. 240 - this is a standard finish for 240 who's new baby has forced him to attend only select FCPC events. he wont get any cards but wont complain. when he does get a premium hand he jams and gets called by someone with one overcard to his pair and it hits on the turn

11. bob - sorry bob, but your time has come, you will be uttlerly destroyed by everyone you tangle with. y0u wont win a pot and you'll be home in time to catch the soft-core porn on showcase