From: kubey@summit.engr.sgi.com (Ken Kubey) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 11:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: TARGET report 2002 Hi all, Here it is. The official 2002 Report. The 9th TARGET event was held at the Mirage. Friday, 4/19. Party at Paul's place. Plenty of poker celebs... Daniel, Layne, Eric. About a dozen pretty women showed up a midnight. Paul was sporting a bright red suit. A very cool party. Thanks Paul. Saturday, 4/20. About 20 of us have brunch. I didn't think to ask for a special section ahead of time. Someone remind me to do that next year. Jeff Siegal brought the lammers for TARGET and saved me a trip to Binion's. Thanks Jeff. Richard White is again the TD. Donna Harris helped set up the tournament. Patrick Milligan has written a really nifty Tournament Timer. We hurried to set it up on Dave Orr's laptop and had it up and running just in time. Contact Patrick if you are interested in learning more about it. You can get a free copy for RGP events. Lee Jones helped out with the timer early on as I was racing around getting the sign-up sheets done. Thanks Lee. Long-time TARGET players Michael Hall and Ed Fernandez were late additions as were first-timers Ken Heck and Lisa Haupert. I was glad to see long-time player Mark Sadausky show up as that meant that no one would be blinded off this year. Hooray. The tables: Jerry Gerner Ray Klann John Davis Robert Sadowski Dave Orr Keith Bronson Marc Matz Ken Kubey Jerrod Ankenman Patti Beadles Steve Watanabe Michael Hunter Mark Trombley Eric Holtman Steve Daniel Ming Lee Chris Colby Peter Secor Bill Chen Alan Bostick Barry Tenenbaum Tony Goldstein Mark Sadausky Russ Fox Ken Heck Ed Fernandez Michael Hall Lisa Haupert Peter Secor was the first one out. Apparently he thought pocket kings was a raising hand on the button. He ran into Russ' pocket aces in the big blind. Ouch! Foldem received some Swedish Fish candy and a $10 Mirage coin. I went out with just less than two tables left. I was all-in with AA against AQo, AJo, and Q9s. 3-1 favorite. Flop is Jc-9c-Xy. I'm still a 2-1 favorite. Turn is the 10c. I still have half the deck. River is a K. Tony hits the big straight to knock me out. Someone went out in 11th and the final table was set: Barry Tenenbaum 3600 Ming Lee 6600 Tony Goldstein 2100 Steve Daniel 11100 Marc Matz 9400 Ken Heck 1200 Russ Fox 6500 Patti Beadles 8400 Jerrod Ankenman 5600 Dave Orr 1600 Interestingly, no one from the 2001 final table made it in 2002. Top two get 4 $500 lammers. 3rd $500. 4th $350. 5th 100. The late fees allowed me to give something for 5th. My notes are little sketchy, I hope this is all right. Fasten your seat belts. Let's get "straight" to the action. Ken Heck went out in 10th with K4s against Steve Daniel's ATs. An ace and king flopped, but nothing crazy happened. Patti lost a huge hand to Ming. She flopped top set with QQ against Ming's AA only to watch in horror as Mr. Lee made a runner- runner broadway straight. Moments later, Patti was all-in with KK against Ming and Marc. The flop was J-9-5. Patti was nearly drawing dead. Ming again had AA, Marc had QTs. An 8 on the river made the straight and gave Marc the chip lead and sent Patti out in 9th place. Tony ran out of karma when he took Presto! (55) against Marc's A3s. An ace on the flop and a 3 on the river put Tony out in 8th. Dave Orr was low on chips and pushed in with K6s. Ming's KQ made a broadway straight (another straight?) to knock Dave out in 7th. Bubble time. Jerrod's KQs was drawing live against Barry's AT. A harmless 10 hit on the river. 6th place for Jerrod. 5-handed. I don't know how long it was, but we were 5-handed for a *long* time. I'd guess 30 minutes. These guys put on a clinic of no-limit play down the stretch. Marc called Russ' re-raise with A9s. Russ had AK. Gee, sounds like a hand that Jesus and T.J. played. Same result. A 9 on the flop doubled Marc up. Barry went with A8o against Ming's AJo. A jack on the flop sent Barry out in 5th with a $100 refund. A big pot developed with Russ, Ming and Marc all putting T4500 in pre-flop. The flop was Q-7-7. Checked around. The hand was checked down as blanks hit on the turn and river. Russ' 44 took the huge pot against Ming and Marc's ace-face hands. Marc's A4o was rivered by Russ' J9o when a jack hit on the last card. MATS winner Matz was on the mat. Marc walked away with $350. Not bad for the first-time TARGET player. Down to three. Russ, Steve and Ming were all even at one point. The final hand was just amazing. Steve limped in on the small blind. Russ checked in the big blind. The flop was A-Q-T. Steve checked. Russ pushed all-in. Steve called instantly. What were the hands you ask? KJ against AT? AK against A9? Ax against KQ? No. Russ pushed in with K6o. A reasonable play. Steve called with T6o. Blanks on the turn and river. Russ was out in 3rd and got $500. Steve's read was perfect. What a play. We gave the dealers $200. Congratulations to Steve and Ming. Massachusettes r00lz. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A rather small group met up for the craps tour. Only eight of us. We again ended up at the California. Let's remember to skip the Plaza and Main Street next year? Jerrod was the star of the show. He had two long rolls that helped us pass bettors and did damage to the don't bettors' stacks. Jaeger got the dice and shot from the "dark side". He made three straight passes and hit a hardway for me too. I tossed him a sympathy dollar after the third pass. It was a crack up. Ray and I were dabbling with the hardways. I think I even talked him into betting the 12. RGP'ers Roy, Keith and Garrett showed up to cheer us on. I locked up a $100 win and decided to call it. Apparently, things broke up shortly after that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve played in the $2000 NLH event. He will be sending a report. As far as I can tell, he didn't make the money. Ming played in a couple of satellites. Was busted late in one by another RGP player. Michael Hunter, I think. He took the remaining $1500 to play in the Hi/Lo Stud event. His key hand was (A3) 5-6-A-A-K that lost to a J-high straight. In other words, Ming had trip aces and draw to a 6 low. A tremendous stud-8 hand and was apparently beaten by a clueless idiot. You really aren't supposed to make a J-high straight in stud-8. Oh well. There's always next year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks to everyone who played in TARGET and a big Thanks to all of the folks that sent checks in early. That really helps me a lot. This year's TARGET went very well. Everyone I talked to said they had a good time. Thanks again to Patrick for letting us use his timer. It worked very well. I'll be sending out a survey soon. I hope everyone had a good time during the TARGET weekend. TARGET will be held in April or May again next year. I'll get the word out as soon as I can. Can't wait for TARGET 2003 :-) Ken Kubey kubey@engr.sgi.com (650) 933-3536