Tango Poker League

Manchester’s No1 poker league Tango Poker. Had its first team event at the Cleveland.
Nine teams of four took to the tables for the bragging rights of being Tango Poker Leagues first team champions.
The first part of the game, was where every team player, played an individual table. And where you finished determined how many extra chips you brought to the Team final table
8th place 0 chips
7th place 200chips
6th place 400chips
5th place 600 chips
4th place 800 chips
3rd place 1000 chips
2nd place 2000 chips
1st place 3000 chips

This would make the final table team event very interesting; as you could potentially have a team with 6000(all 8th) sat down to a team with 18000chips (all 1st)
The seating and chip stacks where as follows

Pos 1 Team 3’ Danny’s Army’ with 12.6k chips
Pos 2 Team 7 ‘The Mighty Ducks’ 11k chips
Pos 3 Team 8 ‘Blackley Champs’ 10.6k chips
Pos 4 Team 6’Any Two Will Do’ 9.2k chips
Pos 5 Team 2 ‘Dream Team’ 10.6k chips
Pos 6 Team 5 ‘Scholesy’s Angels’ 10.4k chips
Pos 7 Team 9 ‘Out of Towner’s’ 10.2k chips
Pos 8 Team 1 ‘Horwich Dirty Donkers’ 11.6k chips
Pos 9 Team 4 ‘The Usual Suspects’ 7.6k chips
The rules of the team event was that each player had one time out (where he could discuss the hand with the rest off the team.)
Each team member could only play for 1 blind level, and then had to change.
That a player could not play again until all of the team had had their go.
The Blinds started at 100/200

The first out was Team 4 ‘Usual Suspects’
With a board of Q99 J and being re raised holding 8 10
Richard Johnson calls for a time out.
When he comes back and pushes all in. Danny from team 3 calls with A 9
A on the rivers seals it and Team 4 ‘Usual Suspects are out in 9th
Next we have a big clash .Team 8 Blackley Champs push with A 10.Only to be called by Team 7 Mighty Ducks AQ and Team 2 Dream Team with QQ
With a board of K 10 6 5 2 Queens hold up and the Blackley Champs and Mighty Ducks hit the rail.
Next big move is when Badger (Out Of Towner’s) raises with KJ and Scholey’s Angels move all in with 89 suited. Board 10 J K 4 3
Out of Towner’s double up
Eugene is the next to hit the rails. With a board of 8s 6h 10h Eugene pushes all in holding 9h 5h
Danny call with 9 7 and the straight holds up, with no help for Eugene on the turn or the river
Any Two Will Do out in 6th
Next to leave the table is Danny’s Army
With a board of 489 7 Adam White pushes all in
Danny calls after a time out with 56
Adam has the higher straight with 6 10
No help on the river and Danny’s Army out in 5th
Andy Mac is the next to make a move when he pushes with A7 only to be called with Ashton’s pocket 7
K69 8 4
Scholesys Angels out in 4th
Danny McDermott makes the next move, when he pushes all in on a 663 board with A3
Only to be called by Ashtons pocket 8s
No help on the turn or the river and Danny’s Dream Team are out in 3rd
Down to heads up, but this did not last long as Carl pushed all in, and Badger looking at pocket 5.
Badger called, only for Carl to turn over pocket Q
273 10 J
Queens hold up and the Horwich Dirty Donkers win the first Tango Team Event

Hard luck the Out Of Towners.Running into a higher pocket pair heads up

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The number one poker league in Manchester, Tango Poker League, had its first final at the Albion
61 Runners sat down to see who would be the new poker champion, and pick up the £600 top prize.
With 15k of chips each and 30 mins blinds, there should be a lot of play early.
The first out and the winner of the wooden spoon was Steve Kama, when his 2 pair got beaten by a flush on the river.
The last surviving woman, Amanda (AJ) Leslie went out in 12th

AJ Out in 12th

We eventually got down to the final table and into the money, with the following players
Seat 1 Chris Gallagher 210k
Seat 2 Alec Pagel 52k
Seat 3 Steve Francis 55k
Seat 4 Lewis Greenhalgh 53k
Seat 5 Faz Karodia 24k
Seat 6 Jonathon Howell 191k
Seat 7 Andy McGuigan 91k
Seat 8 Curt Cragg 58k
Seat 9 Malcolm Young 194k.

The first casualty was Faz. Who pushed with A8, only to be called by AJ.
AJ holds up and Faz is out in 9th, but £20 the richer.
The next out, is a regular on the final table, Steve Francis
Chris Gallagher raises and Steve comes over the top, all in.
Everybody else folds to the chip leader Chris.
Showdown
Chris AK suited Steve KK
Steve’s KK holds up to the turn, then the case A hits the river
Steve Francis out in 8th.
Curt Cragg was next out
Lewis raises Curt all in on the big blind. Curt being short stacked decides to call with K6 spades
Lewis has KQ and hits a straight on the flop. With no help on the turn or river, curt is out in 7th
This was Curt’s first final table, well done.
Next to hit the wire is Alex Pagel
Alex goes all in with pocket 3s and gets called by Jonathon with AQ
A on the river sees Alex Pagel out in 6th
This was Alex’s first Tango final, and what a good showing
Jonathon Howells is the next to hit the wire
He rises with A7 only to be rerased all in by Lewis with AJ
Jonathon calls, but with no help for either hand on the board, AJ wins
Jonathon is out in 5th, but with £60 a seat to the next Manchester Confidential poker game at the 235 Casino. Not a bad result
Lewis Greenhalgh now makes a move with Q10 and goes all in, only to be called by Malcolm on the big blind with A5
With a board of 334 7 8 Lewis Greenhalgh is out in 4th. Lewis has also won a seat to the Manchester Confidential and £80
Andy McGuigan is the next to go all in on a short stack, with 74
Chris calls with K8. The flop is 469. Andy is in front. A 5 on the turn gives Chris more out(any K 8 or 7)
7 on the river give Andy two pair, but gives the straight to Chris.
Andy McGuigan out in 3rd. Andy picks up £100 and a seat to Manchester Confidential.
We are finally down to heads up.
This is Malcolm’s first Tango Poker Final.
He has done well to get here. He took a big hit, when down to 5 players, and built his stack back up.
Chris has also done well. Although chip leader from the get go, He has managed to keep pressure on the smaller stacks, and not over played his hands.
We finally get down to the winning hand
Malcolm big blind is 10 2. When the flop J 9 8 hits the board, Malcolm is all in
Chris quickly calls having hit top pair with 4J
Turn is 4 river J

Malcolm misses his straight, but Chris has hit a full house
Malcolm Young picks up £240 plus a seat to Manchester Confidential
Chris Gallagher is the new Tango Poker League Champion, and wins £600 first prize

Albion Final

Well done Chris

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