The Masters 2005

	The Masters 2005
	Winner: Paul
	Runner Up: Kev Mc
	3rd: Sean
	4th: Kev R
	5th: Yvonne
	6th: Andy
	7th: Rob (DNS)*

Well here it is Poker Fans, the TPS night of the year, the night where one brave Poker Warrior will go home the King of Kings. After 11 gruelling tournaments the mighty gladiators gathered, like some kind of card playing Highlanders to see who would become 'The One'.

A night that would become legend got off to a shaky start when TPS 1 winner Rob failed to materialize due to a 'prior engagement'. The first hour was a tense affair with nun-minge tight play all round until Andy, feeling the need to make a move, went all in with Ace-Rag, but it turned out to be Ace-Jam Rag when he became the first victim of the night crashing head first against Kev Mc's Full House: Queens Full Fours. Kev R pulled a Dick Dastardly style sneaky bluff to win a big pot and showed the world he likes to go large with a pocket pair of Snowmens. Fuelled with his success he saw Yvonne All In; Yvonne was holding Jack King of Hearts and was looking for a flush, but the flop was a bastard and she fell foul to Kevs pair of 5's.

It was TPS 11 winner Sean's turn to 'make a break make a move' next seeing Paul all in with Bitch and a Bullet - Paul was holding Ace Deuce and hit second Duck on 4th Street. This was too much for Sean's, Queen Ace and, "qwack qwack oops", Paul took the chips and a Hairy-Cuntflake sized chunk out of Sean's stack. Sean was still in the game but only just.

This left Kev R in last position and so, needing to make some chips faster than Harry Ramsden he began to make raises, scaring everyone off and purloining some blinds along the way until Kev Mc saw him all in. In a truly audacious Roots Manoeuvre Riggers saw the all in with a -witness the shitness- 4-5 off suite, he must have shat when Kev Mc turned over King King; The Kaisers held up and Kev R was out for the count.

By now Kev Mc was the Poker Daddy with nearly twice as many chips as Paul and Sean combined and it looked like a battle for second place. After being 'Johnny Chip-Lack' for most of the night Sean managed to build up a pile until he was called all in by Paul. Sean thought his Ace 6 was worth a punt - Paul revealed a Queen 8 - The flop came down 7, 6, Ace- Sean had Two Pair! He can taste the Play Off! Then… a 4 on Fourth Street! Can Paul get a Straight?! There's only 1 card that can stop Sean getting to Heads Up and it's a… a 5! On the River! And Sean's Masters Dreams are in ruins, he's down, he's out, he's Mr. Blobby World, he's 'Police Academy 7 (Mission to Moscow)'.

And so this is it. The final of finals. And who better to face off than the two time champ Kev' The Ice-Box' McVittie and the three time champ and league winner Paul 'The Godfather' Taylor. They're pretty equally matched for chips with Paul having the slight advantage. A couple of hands are played…cards are folded blinds are exchanged… it's the third hand of the final…the flop comes down… Jack, Jack, Ace… a brief, tense pause… the champions face each other across the table… Paul speaks: "All In"… Kev looks at the deck…he checks his hand…thinks...speaks… "I'll see it".
This is it, the final showdown, the decider, the moment, the culmination of 11 Tournaments and hundreds of hands of Poker and it's all down to this hand... Paul turns over his cards… Jack, 3!! Kev's head slumps into his hands, his cards fall on the table - 5, 10! The next cards' a 5 but it's not enough, Kev's drawing dead! A 3 on the river gives Paul a Full House: Jacks Full Salad and take-this-game-out-of-the grill-and-serve-it-up-with-onion- gravy it's done, it's over! He is the Champion; Paul is the TPS Master 2005!

The Masters Poster		Andy Feels The Pain!

TPS11 September 10th 2005

Winner: Sean

2nd: Kev Mc

3rd: Kev R

4th: Yvonne

5th: Tatter

6th: John

Sweeps: Kev R

Date: Saturday September 10th 2005 Location: John C's

Number of Players: 12.
Table 1 Derek, Keith, Kev R, Rob, Tatter, Yvonne.
Table 2 Andy, Dave, Kev Mc, John, Paul, Sean.

TPS 11 welcomed its first 'Special Guest Face' with the arrival of Dave from Chesterfield, a regular of Pokerstars.com invited by online Poker buddy Sean. The Tournament kicked off with a shock with the departure of two time winner Andy, who bet his stack on a pair of Rockets only to get his pants pulled down to Kev Mc's Diamond Flush after only the second hand of Table 2.

He was joined a few hands later by his brother and pre-game favourite, the 3 time champ Paul. Table 1 was a much tighter affair with Rob, (pissed up and sporting a black eye from a ruck the previous night), taking an early lead. Table 2 soon turned into a battle for 3rd place between new bloke Dave and the Jimmy White of TPS John who where both early chip midgets to a boozed up Sean and the super chilled Kev Mc.

John eventually won out reaching the final table for just the third time in 11 appearances. Back on Table 1 Rob's wild style poker play soon saw him knocked out (for the second time in 2 days), closely followed by Derek and Keith leaving Chip Ape Tatter, Yvonne and Kev R for the final.
John's time in the final lasted just two hands when he went all in with Trip Dukes and came unstuck against Kev 'The Ice Box' McVittie who flopped yet more Flushed Nuts with a Fist Full o' Clubs.

Tatter gave up most of his chips after his Pocket Bullets got bum raped by Yvonne's Full House; all in on the next hand he grabbed a pair of 6's, Kev R flashed a pair of 7's and Tatter was out. After Yvonne and Kev R both bit the baize it was heads up between Sean and Kev Mc. Sean, fuelled up on 12 hours of Booze showed some strong aggressive play which put the heat on the sub zero king of cool Kev Mc and a 9 - King Straight took him to his first TPS Championship and the final Golden Ticket to the 2005 TPS Masters.