Event 11 Recap

21 players showed up in San Pablo on Saturday, January 26th for the 11th tournament of the season. Early notable hands included Bill Sims hitting a Straight Flush against Patrick Galamay’s two pair in the very first round. Leading up to the final table, Tony G. was clearly securing his lead, double busting Ricky and … Read more

Ricky and the Rematch

It was Tony vs Ricky, once again, heads up for Piranha first place points. The last time they were heads up was on September 8, 2018 when Mr. Robinson won the day and 43 points to Ricky Flora’s second place 31 points. Would this battle end with the same results? It was tournament 10 on … Read more

Cracking Aces in Foster City

It was a dark and stormy day when 21 hearty poker degenerates braved the elements to battle it out in Foster City this past weekend.  Cards were shuffled and dealt, chips were wagered. Big hands held up, unless the were blown up by suited connectors. Bad bluffs and good calls came and went.  Aces were … Read more

Old Guys Rule

A small, but spirited twelve players showed up to do battle on a chilly Saturday in San Pablo. First out was our gracious host, Jan K, who pushed with a set of Jacks and ran into Dominic’s flush. The final table had Dominic and Gerry clearly in the lead, with big stack dominance. Less than two … Read more

Hot Rod Strikes Again

17 brave souls braved the worst air quality on the planet to do battle in Fremont for Event 7, 4 of whom would be awarded points for their efforts. Rich Modjeski was the bubble boy when his pocket kings were outdrawn by ace five. FINAL FOUR With the blinds sitting at 800/1,600/200, the final four … Read more

Rod Rebounds

[Points standings are not up yet. Working on it! – Ryan] Twenty people showed up last Saturday to do battle in what turned out to be a roller coaster ride of a tournament. I’ll post some of the more interesting hands below: First bust-out, in round 1, preflop Christine raised out of position, and Lisa … Read more

Golly My, It’s Galamay!

Tourney 4 in San Pablo almost didn’t happen. We only had 7 people signed up early Friday, but with a lot of recruiting and yours truly playing as well as being TD, we ended up with 11.  I thought it’s going to be an early day, but surprisingly we didn’t finish until almost 7 p.m. 

First hand of note at a table of 5, was a 4-way limped pot on the last hand of the second level with blinds at 50/100.  Patrick, on the button with , Bharad in small blind with , and Lisa in big blind with J9. Ricky also limped in but folded after action on the flop of .Lisa led out for 250 with calls from Patrick and Bharad.  Turn is and Patrick is first to lead out for 750, Bharad calls and Lisa raises to 1500, with two callers. River is completing a straight on the board. Bharad leads out for 1000, Lisa folds and Patrick calls. Both Bharad and Patrick flopped straights with Lisa flopping two pair. Bharad takes it down with the higher straight.

Ryan was the first bust out in Level 3 followed soon after by Jan when her pocket Aces were cracked against Patrick’s QJ who hit a straight on the river.  We reached our final table just before the lunch break.

Bharad, Ken, Amo, Lisa, Gordo, Mark, Ricky, Patrick, and Rob. 

In Level 6 we had a 3-way all-in.  Mark, who was short-stacked shoved first with his pocket 10’s, Ken, who was shorter stacked than Mark also shoved with , followed by Gordo who went all in with pocket QQ.  The flop is Q 2 2 and that’s all she wrote after Gordo flopped a boat. Ken out in 9th and Mark out in 8th.

Late in Level 7 Ricky shoves preflop with pocket Kings.  Patrick raises with pocket 7’s and folds around. No help for Patrick and Ricky doubles up. Then Amo goes in with his A 9 which is no match for Lisa’s A Q and Amo is out in 7th. In Level 9 Ricky shoves preflop with A K and Rob calls with A 10.  Flop is K 3 10, giving each player a pair but Ricky’s is bigger and Rob gets no more help knocking him out in 6th place. In Level 10 Bharad shoves preflop with pocket 55. Patrick calls with . Patrick overtakes Bharad on a Flop of and finishes Bharad off with a on turn and on river.  Bharad out in 5th.

In Level 11, Ricky shoves with 10 9, Calls by both Patrick with Q Q and Lisa with J Q.  The run out is A A 9 10 4 making Ricky the bubble boy finishing in 4th and we are down to the final 3, Lisa, Gordo, and Patrick, all in the points.

Still in Level 11, Patrick gets pocket Q Q yet again and shoves preflop being called by short-stacked Gordo with his .  Gordo hits an on the river but not before Patrick seals the deal with a on the turn. Gordo out in 3rd for 10 points.

Patrick goes into heads-up with an overwhelming chip advantage over Lisa and heads-up play only lasts a few minutes.  Bet, call preflop and on flop of . Again, bet call on turn of . Once the river comes Lisa, holding , shoves on river with her pair of 6’s.  Patrick instacalls and flips over for the straight flush and the tournament win. Congrats to Lisa who earned 18 points and Patrick who earned 27 points for his 1st place finish.

MASSuda Effect!

Congratulations to Nora Massuda for taking down the 3rd tournament of Season 13.  Nora’s excellent play and a little bit of luck which included a ROYAL FLUSH sent the other 22 players packing. Early in the Tournament- On a board of , Steve Stockmal in the BB checks and Ryan Drake Cbets from the button … Read more

AND HERE’S TO YOU, MR. ROBINSON

Piranha’s 2nd tournament of Season 13 brought 22 players to sweat it out – literally!  It was an extremely hot day in Tara Hill making things quite sticky. After taking last season off,  Steve Stockmal came ready to play, but unfortunately the poker gods were not with him and he was our first of 2 bust-outs … Read more