Poker Shuffle- South Africa

Poker Shuffle Season 9: The Viking leads the way

stefk — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:11:13 +0000

Been a bit quiet on the blogging side of Poker Shuffle and a overdue update just took place Yes, can you believe it???

Catch the leader board fro game 7 of season 9 by clicking here

Malcolm “The Viking of Ilha” Stockdale is leading with a mighty score of 490 points , followed by Derek Hebbert, Mike Barfoot and Deon Joubert and great to see that new comer Mathew Phillips is in the top 9 too.. This is going to be another close season by the looks of it.

Top 9:

Malcolm Stockdale 490
Derek Hebbert 475
Mike Barfoot 460
Deon Joubert 455
Jenny brackenridge 375
Matthew Phillips 375
Shaun Schutte 375
Tanith Rothman 375
Mike Milligan 370

Funny Poker Pic of the Week

Game 3 and Game 4: Two Page Essay

stefk — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:16:12 +0000

Mulligan on the 3rd!

Newcomer Mike Milligan took honors in game 3 with a superb win, taking down players almost at will. I managed to sit at his table last week and saw some crazy but clever hands played by Mike. His consistent play is proof that he has what it takes to keep featuring on most if not all our tournaments for Season 8.

Ricky Collins does it Again!

Ricky Collins said to me with about 8 places from the end and VERY shorstacked…”I have a strategy”. Somewhat skeptical i brushed his comment aside, not realizing he was actually making a statement. He came back to win in fine fashion! What more can i say…

What do you want to achieve @ Poker Shuffle?

This got me think about what i would still like to achieve at Poker Shuffle and things that maybe i havent been able to do.

1. I want to Win a Poker Shuffle Season

2. I would like a hatrick of tournament victories.

3. Average 100 points per season.

Share with us your goals and what you still want to achieve, whether it be win one tournament etc

Poker Points Update

Eish! All the Ricky Collins all over the world!

All-in Pauly wins Poker Shuffle Season 8: Game 2

stefk — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:53:40 +0000

All-in Pauly wins Poker Shuffle Season 8: Game 2

Another great turn out saw around 40 players take to the tables.

Already having a win behind his name, Ricky Collins has eased into the poker league leading position with 200 points! Another few players are on his heels, with the likes of Shaun Schutte and Ashley Gerber who seems to be making use of his A-Game.

All-in Pauly kept away from his poker alias and played one of the best poker games in recent times…playing a truly tight aggressive game and opened up on the final places to take control. Well done Paul!

This poker league gets better and better. This week is set to be a showdown for the top position.

Paul Carstens 150
Matty Kemp 120
Ricky Collins 115
Ashley Gerber 95
Sage Lourenco 85
Stefano Kruger 75
Shaun Schutte 65
Andre Joubert 55
Mike Milligan 45

Other Poker Shuffle News:

Mike “The Viper” Barfoot played in a professional poker tournament in the Portsmouth, UK and placed 2nd!

Mike made a major error with q and k diamonds. He caught the flush on turn, went all in and got called on 2 pair. Only to find out that he indeed has the king of hearts! One of those things that does happen to all of us. Well done to Mike for taking 2nd and winning about R9000.00

Seems like team Poker Shuffle is representing to the max.

See you all this Thursday. Poker Points are up.

Mighty Mike ‘The Viper’ Barfoot takes down Poker League Game 1

stefk — Mon, 30 May 2011 11:54:31 +0000

Poker Shuffle Season 8 started in good fashion with an amazing turn out of about 40 players.

Our 1st victim of the season went to Gavin ‘show me the money’ Taylor who got knocked out 1st. He hit a full house queens and 2′s and was beating by Queens and 6′s .

The rest of the tournament was very tight with the exception of a few gunslingers like Yourek. Yourek made full use of his reputation as a loose aggressive poker player and quickly stacked up.

Final table was very solid, with the likes of Manny Lourenco, Mike Barfoot, Ricky Collins, Shaun Schutte, Garth Mackrill and Alex Deabreu. A mention must go to Ashley Gerber who seems to have raised his game and once gain makes an appearance at the final table.

Mighty Mike ‘The Viper’ Barfoot went into the final table in full control and watched as all the players attacked. He took on newcomer and chip leader Leah, in what seemed to be an impossible task. Mike won the match in fine fashion and once again is the leader of the pack.

Final Table:

Mike Barfoot 150
Leah Bester 120
Shaun Schutte 115
Stefano Kruger 95
Ricky Collins 85
Garth Mackrill 75
Manny Lourenco 65
Ashley Gerber 55
Alex De Abreu 45

View your Poker League Points

Poker Shuffle Season 8 Starts Today

stefk — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:18:13 +0000

Poker Shuffle Season 8

Yes, the new season starts today! The all new season is set to be action packed with great poker to be played and even more opportunities for Poker Shuffle to more players represent team Poker Shuffle on the “pro-circuit”.

Come along, start the season with a new mind set and lets see more players challenging the leader boards.

Poker Shuffle Sponsorship and Contributions

We would like to invite the Poker Shuffle Community to assist with any donations or sponsorship of prizes for the season. We would love to get a new set of cards and recover the tables for our league. Please contact us if you would like to contribute to the league. Your support would be greatly appreciated.

Ilha Bar and Restaurant- 5th Birthday Celebrations

Ilha will be celebrating its 5th Birthday on the Saturday, 5 June 2011. Malcolm and the Ilha Crew will be putting up a festive bash to celebrate the big birthday. As our Poker Shuffle Hosts, it would be great to see everyone out to support Ilha and have a good time.

Ilha Golf Day

For those who cant make it, there will be a Golf Day on Friday, 4 June 2011. This will be hosted by Ilha in conjunction with the birthday and in aid of the UK Royal Academy of Dance.

The competition will be a 4 Ball Alliance Scramble drive
The maximum handicap for Men and Women will be 24.
Mixed teams allowed
Tee off time will be as from approximately 10h00
On booking your 4 Ball, your tee off times will be confirmed on received payments and entry forms.
Caddies and golf carts wil be for players own accounts.
A cash bar will operate throughout the day.

COST: R1400.00 per 4-ball (R350.00 per player)

PRIZES: All Teams
Nearest Pin on 2 Holes
Longest drive on 1 Hole

CONTACT: Malcolm 082 650 9994 / 021 555 4824 ilha@telkomsa.net

Derick 083 440 7868

Poker Shuffle Team at Grandwest

stefk — Thu, 19 May 2011 08:35:16 +0000

This past weekend, The Poker Shuffle Champions – Ricky Collins and Shaun Schutte, went to play the Sunday Tournament at Grandwest.

They were joined by a vibrant support crew of Mike Barfoot, Amalia das Neves, Stef Kruger(Me), Shaun Scholtz, Manny Lourenco, Louis Koch, Derek Hebbert and Malcolm Stockdale.

There was a definite buzz in the air, as 50 players took to their seats. Armed to the teeth with chips, an add-on and re-buy arsenal.

As with any good poker tournament, you are bound to sit at a table where you have to go up against a player you know. And so was the case on this occasion.

Table 1: Amalia, Shaun Scholtz, Shaun Schutte, Ricky Colloins and Louis Koch

Table 2: Mike Barfoot, Derek Hebbert and Malcom Stockdale

Table 3: Stef Kruger

And this is how it went down…

Shaun Scholtz:

Exit 1-40th or so

Blinds 300/600.

Ricky calls on the button with A6 hearts ,small blind calls ,Sean checks his KQ ( i think ).

Flop Jh10c2h. Ricky checks, small blind checks, Scholtz raises to 600, Ricky calls, small blind fold.

Turn – brick, Ricky checks, Shaun bets again, Ricky calls, river 9hearts.

Ricky Hollywoods and checks the nuts, Sean bets 1k, Ricky repops to 3k, Sean over the top all in , Ricky calls. Doubles to 13k(Shaun Rebuys)

Exit 2- Must have also been around 40th place. Missed that action.

Manny Lourenco:

Exit-40th or so

Missed this action but was also an early finisher at around 40th place.

Malcolm Stockdale:

Exit- 35th or so.

8k in the pot,went all in with pocket jack and 27k. Was called down with pocket King,preflop.

Derek Hebbert:

Exit- 23rd or so

Missed his hand.

Shaun Schutte:

Exit- 19th

Blinds were at 4K/8K. Was in the cut off, big stack at the table limped position before him. Shaun had 3 BB’s left and shoved with Ah 7h … with only an extra 17K to call big stack calls and turns over A5 off. All blanks on the board until the river where he spikes a 5.

Louis Koch:

Exit- 16th

Blinds 4k and 8k. Early middle position with A 6 offsuit, player before Loius put a raise on the table but didnt announced raise so it was just a call for 8k. Louis raised all in with 35K figuring this is my chance to do something, to have a chance at the final table. everyone else folded and he called with J 10 suited. I actually liked the situation although i was marginally favorite preflop. Flop comes with A K 5, with his top pair, then a blank on the turn and the River, Q!!!!!!! he makes a straight.

Amalia das Neves:

Exit-15th

No add-on at break and walked in with 12 000 shorstack. Managed to grind up to 24 000 and then started to bleed. Went down to shortsatck again, BB with Q8 and under the gun, shoved K2 and Amalia had to call and missed the board.

Stef Kruger:

Exit- 11th

Avergaed a stack of 30 000 after the break. Card dead for about 30 hands and eventually picked up A( suited in cut-off. Shoved 19 000. Walked into Button who had KK.

Mike Barfoot:

Exit-9th

He must have been the chip leader for a good part of the tourney. He was short stacked at final table. I think just before the blinds got to him he went all in with KQ suited, the big stack called him with a J9 off and it came on the flop.

Ricky Collins:

Placed- 4th

Doubled up by Sean early. Knocked out Manny and then Loose cannon doubled him up again when both hit 2 pair on the flop ( my K9 held up in the big blind ).

Added on at the break up to 35k. Got cards after that but not great flops. Big stack at the table took 13k off and Ricky eventually dwindled down to 11k.

Got pocket AA on the button – doubled. Then pocket 1010 – took the blinds. 35k.. Cowboys – doubled up against A7 spades. 70k.

Final table- Solid play. Ricky’s AQ wins a race against QQ(Forget this players name but has cashed in All Africa) – doubled.

Players start to drop as the chip leader starts knocking people to the rails with real loose and lucky calls.

Exit came blinds 8/16, Short stack 48k first to act 44 all in, small blind calls, big blind calls. Flop Kd5d3d.. small blind check, big blind raise, small blind call. Turn Ah. Small blind check, big blind all in. Small blind folds 88. Big blind on a gut shot straight draw with JhQd.. river Qc.

Gone in 4th Payout R3175

Ricky Collins – A Poker Champion is Crowned

stefk — Mon, 09 May 2011 20:10:27 +0000

Ricky Collins – A Champion is Crowned

Poker Shuffle Finals at Ilha Restaurant and Bar rocked. We had about 24 players who took part in the Wild Card Event, with the likes of Dario”Wing Nut” Badenhorst, Yourek”The Cowboy” Dotan, The Stockdale Brothers, no one was safe!

The Wild Card came down to 3 players, Gareth Vlotman, Shane Mackrill and Etienne Van Lingen, who were shoving chips around faster than a McDonalds chip frier! Gareth Vlotman won the Wild Card!

The Final Table took their seats along with being awarded their Fantastic Sponsored Prizes from Ilha Bar and Restaurant and The Sports Science Institute.

Each Poker Shuffle Finalist walked away with a One Month Memebership, with a Personal Trainer, valued at over R1400.00.

Ricky”Mr. Consistant” Collins, took down Poker Shuffle Season 7 Poker Cup with patient and cunning play.

The Final Table was one of the roughest tables i have ever seen at Poker Shuffle. The playing style was aggressive, and 3-betting was the order of the day. Poker Shuffle Poker has reached a new level!!!

Gareth Vlotman, the Wild Card, was the first casualty…and so the table played it out for a while. Garth Mackrill, managed to hang around for a while after being crippled by Gavin Taylors pocket aces.

Mike Barfoot had a quiet game, not picking up any cards at all, whilst Brian Stotter played just about 98% of his hands.

The final three were Matty Kemp, Derek Hebbert and Ricky Collins.

Matty was short stack comming into the the final three. Unfortunately, her stack was not threatining enough to ward off the value calls. Matty finished in a well deserved 3rd place.

Derek and Ricky played very conservatively. Both are champions in their own right, Ricky a past league winner and Derek a past cup winner, this heads-up play was set for a dinger.

The final hand was very tricky. No raise pre-flop(if memory servers me correctly)…both players checked to the turn. Ricky checked the river, enducing an all-in bet from Derek…snap call, Derek showed mid pair…Ricky shows a straight!

What a Poker Game- What a Poker Season- What a Poker Champion

Ricky Collins, wins his first Poker Shuffle Cup and in so doing, he adds to his Poker Shuffle Accolades!

Ricky Collins and Shaun Schutte will be representing Poker Shuffle at Grandwest 15 May 2011. Game starts @ 12h00 and i know that they will do us all proud. Join us as we will be there to support them.

Shaun Schutte is Poker Shuffle League Winner

stefk — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:41:57 +0000

Season 7 has been the most competitive season yet, and of the Poker Shuffle Players have stepped up to the plate and raised their game.

With the last game to be played, there were about 12 people still in contention to slip into the final 9 and stake their claim for the silverware!

Antony Stone needed a big win, hoping that the other player above him would submit to the pressure. Action man Stone stepped up and won, unfortunately the other players above him also preformed and his narrowly missed out by two places.

Shaun Schutte has set a new all time record by winning the league and being the 1st person to surpass the 1000 point barrier. As winner of the Poker Shuffle League, Shaun will represent the official Poker Shuffle team at Grand West along with the soon to be crowned Poker Shuffle Cup Winner.

The top 9 look are as follows:

1. Shaun Schutte 1005
2. Ricky Collins 765
3. Mike Barfoot 685
4. Manuel Mota 505
5. Brian Stotter 505
6. Gavin Taylor 480
7. Matty Kemp 480
8. Derek Hebbert 445
9. Garth Mackrill 430

Wild Card Seat up for Grabs

The poker finals will as always have the wild card up for grabs. This is open to all players that are not in the final 9. Lets see who can slip into the finals.

Just a reminder that this will start at 19h00 at Ilha Bar and Restaurant, with the final table starting at 20h00.

Thursday 5th May 2011.

See you all there, and remeber that this is party time!

Trevor Nunes Memorial Poker Cup

taryn — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:53:11 +0000

Season 7: Game 11, Mikes Overview

stefk — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:11:09 +0000

Well Done to Garth Mackrill who won the penultimate Game of Season 7 with a heads up with Brain Espin.

The results of this weeks competition opens up a field of Contenders for the places in the final table, so Game 12 is going to be a thrilling climax to the Season.

With many eyes NO DOUBT on the leader board throughout the evening.

For those who don’t make the finishing line this week, don’t despair we still have the Wild Card entry on final table via the back door – just get there!!

Enjoy an evening of exciting poker.

Poker Shuffle- South Africa

Poker Shuffle Season 9: The Viking leads the way

Game 3 and Game 4: Two Page Essay

Mulligan on the 3rd!

Ricky Collins does it Again!

What do you want to achieve @ Poker Shuffle?

Poker Points Update

All-in Pauly wins Poker Shuffle Season 8: Game 2

All-in Pauly wins Poker Shuffle Season 8: Game 2

Other Poker Shuffle News:

Mighty Mike ‘The Viper’ Barfoot takes down Poker League Game 1

View your Poker League Points

Poker Shuffle Season 8 Starts Today

Poker Shuffle Season 8

Poker Shuffle Sponsorship and Contributions

Ilha Bar and Restaurant- 5th Birthday Celebrations

Ilha Golf Day

Poker Shuffle Team at Grandwest

Ricky Collins – A Poker Champion is Crowned

Ricky Collins – A Champion is Crowned

What a Poker Game- What a Poker Season- What a Poker Champion

Shaun Schutte is Poker Shuffle League Winner

Trevor Nunes Memorial Poker Cup

Season 7: Game 11, Mikes Overview

NEWSFLASH:

Poker Shuffle Finals will be on 5 May 2011, Thursday at 19h00.