Game #2 - Wednesday 8th April - The "Trees" have it!

After a staggered start - Barron has it, after having all 3 of his accounts locked-out, sloppy quickly hustles him up a login, so he can join the late starting game. The Big Scum taking a few early hands and dropping Korutz and the Tree Hu$tler down a few pegs.  Korutz hang in there with a couple of  glam hands.

Korutz takes a hand of sloppy to double-up!

An uneventful head to head, at times it seemed Tree Hu$ler was flushing money away, with Sloppy bouncing back several times.

Sloppy flush - does well to push Tree Hu$tler off the pot.

After some unsuccessful taunts from onlookers Koruts and The Big Scum - We finally all-in pre-flop with Sloppy sitting on KS QC and Tree Hu$tler holding AD, 3C. The flop comes down 5S AC 5C and immediately swings in the Tree's direction with 94.3% to 5.7$. With a 6S and 2C nothing changes for Sloppy and he's out. The with and WTA $85,000 goes to Tree Hu$tler.

Final hand - Sloppy's luck runs out.

CPT #2 - Chip graph and final standings.

Game #1 - Sunday 5th April - Sloppy firsts for Sean Perry A.K.A "Sloppy.as.muff"

Sloppy as muff, drops Korutz - as he bets over the pot $3k after seeing a QD,KS,7C, way too hot for the Baroni, leaving it to Sloppy - raise $6k, Korutz re-raise $9k - this shit getting real. Sloppy calls and we see the JH on the turn. Korutz likes what he sees, and is All-in $20K and change. Pot now at $41k. Sloppy to act .... Sloppy calls to reveal pocket 7's - giving trip-7s vs pair K's. Pocketing $61.5k.

Korutz out at after All-in call against trip 7s from Sloppy!

Just 3min later the head to head hit climax with the Hot Baroni short stacked on $16.5k against Sloppy sitting on $102k. After a small pre-flop raise from Sloppy, the Hot Baroni pushes All-in. Sloppy calls. Sloppy AH,5D (58.2%) and Hot Baroni 9H,QS(41.8%). Sloppy flops an A pair, and the odds swing heavily in his direction at 94%. We see 10C on the turn, giving Hot Baroni a glimmer of hope at 18.2% - looking for the straight. But the river seals it for Sloppy finishing with 2 pair Ace's over eights.

The "Big Scum" takes out the First up - LOCK DOWN POKER session

As expected a weeks warning was not enough to get the aging CPT members signed in and setup on the technology, Gold stars go to Nick the River and Korutz, for getting in early and figuring it all out (Korutz - Gold star removed for the no show!! Had to go see his Mum). We managed to get 6 around the table with a number onlookers who missed the 10min cut-off. Rhys the "Gold-Fish" O'Cain dropped in breifly but was denied entry to, so departed at the same rate. Wade/Lisa watched on as they cooked focaccia bread and chicken broth.

Seated at the table were new comers Sean "Sloppy.as.muff" Perry and Ben "Pokes", who both fancy them selves as players. They joined the old guard David "Cossie Aegyptus" Cosgrove , "Big Scum" and AB the "Poker Baroni".

The stakes were high ($20k play money) with a total prize pool of $102,000 to be split over the top 15%  - 1st $71,400 and second $30,600. This trial first round was set to be a doozy!

After hovering around the $20k mark for the lion share of the game - "Big Scum" managed to clear out Sloppy.as.Muff and the always dangerous "Cossie" to take out the Session WIN!!! So how did it play out ...

Game play was 3hrs 15 min. Blinds made level 10 (upping every 20min). Sloppy.as.muff taking an early lead at around 37min taking a chuck out of the stacks of Poker Baroni and Ben Pokes, sending him on a slippery skid to bottom of the table. Until 1:39 Ben Pokes turned the table on the River (6) and sent him spiraling out out of the game. Soon the Poker Baroni (5) felt the strike back from a slowly declining Cossie and was out at the 2hr mark. Next to go was Ben Pokes (4) suffering a deadly blow from the Big Scum - who was now chipped up and ready to take on the stack leaders "Cossie" and Sloppy.as.muff. Shit got real with the silent one at about 3hrs, he was bleeding out and need to make a move, which did not end well sending "Cossie"(3) home - with not even as much as a FFS for the gathering crowd. Leaving just the Sloppy.as.muff to go head to head with the now dominant Big Scum. A few all in bets, pre-flop later and it was all over. The Big Scum rises victorious.

"Poker Baroni" takes out an early hand with some paired ladies.