Gus Mango Fish at the Western Festival

[Gus Mango Fish]

Gus Mango Fish at the Western Festival main event. Follow the action here, with live updates: blondepoker.com festival report

[Prowler]

jesus, a lucky mango? so theres 2 lucky mango's there then!!

[trustme]

Just noticed this, hes doing very well!

Good luck mango

[cuyber]

Will check it out again later, any idea what time it kicks off again?????.

Or is the update going to be here's the last 24 to the winner is?

[Prowler]

hes now got 65k avg stack 39k blinds 800/1600 no antes after the break

23 runners left

[Prowler]

LMFAO!!!! he's only gone and got 125K in chips!!!! fingers crossed time!!!

[trustme]

Originally Posted by Prowler

LMFAO!!!! he's only gone and got 125K in chips!!!! fingers crossed time!!!

The updates are a bit infrequent, only 20 left and a rough guess is that 125 k is a tenth of all chips in play and hes looking in good shape for a final table appearance!

good luck fella

[cuyber]

14 left matt has 132k


only 2nd to the chip leader

[Gus Mango Fish]

I'm out, and absolutely and utterly gutted lol

I had 150k chips and chip leader by at least 30k chips. There are 14 runners left, and the average stack is around 65k. £35,00 to the winner, all the way down to 9th for £2,700.

Then comes the fateful hand...

I get dealt AK of clubs in early positon. First to act (Luke Patten) raises to 9k. I count his chips and estimate them at 65k or so, so raise another 30k. Everyone else folds, and he goes all-in.

Turns out he has another 65k+ and once everyone else has folded round to him, he chucks em all in.

I think he has one of a range of hands - in order of likeliness: AK, AQ, AJ, Pair QQ>99, absolute bluff.

Weighing up all the options, I decide I have to call, leaving me with a minnow stack of 15k or so.

Luke flips AK of hearts... The assembled crowd say "After all that!! A split pot!!!?!"

Flop comes 2 hearts and a black card.

Turn comes a diamond, and Luke says "ah split pot".

Then, in a moment of genious I decide to Bokk myself big-stylee saying "actually, no. A heart on the river would win it for you."

I don't need to write the rest lol

Still, a great event, and loads of fun. Just wished I'd held on when I had 150k. There was no reason to get involved in any pot for 2 hours or more, and I'd have made the final table with 100k easily.

Look forward to the next festival at The Western. Congratulations to Geoff, Philip, all the dealers, catering and all the rest of the Western crew for an incredible event.

Tonights winner will recieve £35,000 plus an added value ticket of $8,500 for the Jonny Chan Invitational in The Turks & Caicos Islands. Lucky bastard!

[Gus Mango Fish]

Just a quick update. The beat was even more heartbreaking, due to the following:

The flop was a rainbow with one heart, one diamond, one spade.
The turn was a heart. It is then that Luke Patten says "Ahh... split pot" and I stupidly say "no, a heart will give you the flush".

Lo and behold, the heart hits the river Sick.

Still, if you can't stand the bad beats in poker then don't play the game.