Pass The Dip On The Road / Separated at Birth?

Thank you to Michael Smith and his friends who had a couple of us out to his place for a tournament last night.  He is friends with Lemon who extended the invite to a few of us for the 30 man tournament.

Here's how it all went down;

Co Bra got snapped off early after the re-buy period.  I didn't see him play a single hand, but I'll bet there was a coin involved.

When I went to check on Kramp who was playing on a table in another room, he seemed to be doing well.  So in the spirit of the game I put a 10 dollar bounty on his head that he had to keep as part of his stack.  Despite this, he managed to build a monster stack after the re-buys were done.  "Oh yeah, this is all because I'm a luck sack" he responded when I asked how he got all the chips.  Then with a big stack and closing in on the final table, he played his 10s too aggressively and dumped almost the whole thing to a guy who was check-calling.  He was soon out in 13th or 14th, knocked out by Lemon.

I was the next out.  I had developed a good stack before the re-buys were over and then I had bad seat draws and got nothing.  By the time we hit the final table, I was dwindling in chips and drew the worst seat at the table.  The biggest stacks were 2  and 3 to my left and Lemon with the next biggest and the most aggressive game was to my right.  I was trapped into playing only real hands with no option for stealing.  On my last hand my KQ got called by K7 suited pre-flop, but the river spiked the dude a club and I was out in 5th - at least it was in the money!

Lemon has hit in the face with the deck early, creating a "table of death" as player after player was placed at our table  only to be eliminated after a few hands.  The other tables had 2 players total eliminated before the re-buy, while our table alone eliminated 7!  On one hand Lemon eliminated 2 players at once with his well-played aces.  Despite his problem remembering chip values, he played well and made it all the way to heads up before getting eliminated in 2nd place.

Mike and a few of the players there extended invitations to future tournaments.

Again thanks Mike for the invite!  We will be back!

And lastly..

SEPARATED AT BIRTH???

Russell Hantz - 2nd place at Survivor: Samoa

Michael Lemon - 2nd place at surviving the tournament;  Smith's house

(By the way this is the "collecting the bounty" shot after Lemon eliminated Kramp - hahaha)