SHOWDOWN #5

The showdown this weekend is cancelled and will be added to the end of the season. The date for the final table will now be showdown #8 and we will determine the final table date during that night.

Showdown #5

Were looking to move showdown #5 from Saturday Dec 12 to Fri Dec11th. Please let either Wayne or myself know if this is good for you. If not Friday then the following Saturday. As for your Wisecrack Mr. Kozic yes I do get to the blog rather quickly when I do cash and I'm not proud to admit it. I usually take extra time when Shane cashes because I have a hard time supressing my nausea for the time it takes to post. I happy to see you taking your wife's advice in not waiting until the final table to collect yourself.

SHOWDOWN #4

The 4th meeting of the Saturday Night Showdown took place at uber host Chris Schutters house on Saturday night. Missing from our group of course was Kasey Lewis. Kasey will remain in our thoughts and our hearts for a long time coming. Kasey's dad Mike Lewis graced our poker league with a poker table that he had built for Kasey. An amazing table would be understating this masterpiece. Schutter had a brass plate made and affixed it to Kasey's permanent seat #1. We thank Mike for the gift and will always think of Kasey and you while playing our tournaments.

On to the nights play. The best part of tournament #1 was watching Shane bust out on the bubble. Always a treat to watch. Hoping to build upon his monster $20 of winnings through 3 Showdowns was last year's cash champ Tom. Tom did ultimately take down the first prize winning the chip count against Jeff. Over at the Kiddie table Wayne and Rich were heads up battling it out. Wayne saw 4 players at the cash table and figured he had some time when all of a sudden they were done and Wayne lost to Rich L. to a chip count.

Tourney #2 got down to the money with chip leader Ronnie leading the way followed by Eric and the shortstacked Shane and Rich L. Shane was forced to go all in as his chips were getting gobbled up by the blinds leaving Ron, Eric and Rich L. Rich was the shorstack but benefited by Eric going all-in on a bluff and being called by Ronnie. This allowed Rich L to backdoor his way to heads up. Rich battled his way back a little and went all-in with pocket 8's. Ron called and flipped over an Ace. Ron hit the Ace on the river and took down the first place prize. No Ace and these two would have been even in chips. Big Hand.

With the nights play Ronnie continues to lead the way in points and cash while the standings shuffled the players up a bit. Super sub filled in admirably for Randy collecting a whopping 4 POINTS! Way to go Phil!!

I will post time and host info for the next showdown shortly.

Thank You

KASEY LEWIS

It is with great sadness, sadness beyond words that I state on this page the passing of our friend Kasey Lewis. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers as well as his father during this very sad time.
God Bless you Kasey

SHOWDOWN #4

The next showdown was mistakenly posted by me on this site as Nov 28th. It is actually Nov 21st. Sorry for the confusion. I also apologize for the delay in updating the site. I currently cant find the sheet wayne gave me that has all the results. I know its in my house and I will scour the joint this weekend at which time I will update the points.

SHOWDOWN #3

Showdown #3 slated for Oct 24th is on. Kasey's work trip has been changed so we should only be missing 2. Randy will be the host and the start time is 7:00pm

Next Showdown

Due to several showdown members not able to play on the 24th we are looking to move the next showdown toOct17th. Please let me know if this is good for you.
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SHOWDOWN #2

The Saturday Night Showdown #2 took place saturday night at Tom's house. Play was delayed a little since many of the showdown players played in the St Joe's Golf Tournament. Tourney #1 lasted quite some time. The blinds got up to 300/600 before we split tables. Ron ultimately won a chip count against Rich L with Shane finishing 3rd and Tom 4th. Big hand of the tourney had to be Tom slow playing AA just limping in. Rich L had J 3 and just checked from the big blind. The flop produced 2 threes and Rich had made a set. Tom decided to get aggresive with his aces and got busted out by Rich's set of threes. Any bet from Tom pre flop would have pushed me off that hand and Tom probably finishes in the money. Ron continued his great play with his second win of the season. Over at the kiddie table Eric won the $20 first place.
Tourney #2 got going and moved along a little quicker. Rich, Kevin Eric and Shane made it to the kiddie table that was finally taken down by Shane. At the cash table the final 4 was Kasey, Randy Jeff and Wayne. Wayne busted out in 4th and was followed by Randy. Jeff and Kasey played heads up for quite some time resulting in our first split pot. Jeff and Kasey agreed to split the $210 and play 1 hand for the win. Jeff made a pair of queens while Kasey had sixes. Hand of this match was an all-in by Kasey with A J called by Jeff with K Q. The flop produced a 10 and nothing much else. The turn gave Kasey a J making a pair. An A hit the river and Kasey had made 2 pair not realizing the A made a straight for Jeff. This hand knocked Kasey way down to about 2 or 3 BB in his stack. Kasey doubled up a couple timesand found himself even up again. Thats when these two titans of the felt decided to split the pot.
Great night of cards as always. Next showdown will be at Randy K's house

SHOWDOWN #1

The long awaited start of the 3rd season of the Saturday Night Showdown has come. Season 3 got off with a bang at Waynes house Saturday night. Newcomers Eric Vitunac was at the football game and Tim Hockney was absent as well. Filling in for Eric was none other than Phil the Show Killer. ( ESPN Reference ) Tourney #1 got off to a great start with some of the usual suspects venturing off to the Kiddie Table. Kiddie table King Jeff headed the table along with Kasey, Kevin and Chris. Every time I looked at Chris all I could see was tailgate hangover. This dude is not in the right mental capacity to duel it out with some of the greatest poker players in the world. I mean really, we got players that play Q-J like its pocket Aces and WIN! What a JOKE!! All kidding aside we have a great group of guys and our league runs well because of it. Onto the Cash Table. 2 time defending champ Shane took down the seasons first tourney winning a chip count against Rich K. Wayne and Phil took 3rd and 4th ( that's a JOKE ) while last seasons cash winner Tom busted out on the bubble. Rich K started the season off great with a $50 win. I think I heard through the grapevine that Mrs. K suggested to Rich that he wins some money DURING the poker season and not wait for the final table. I geuss he took her advice.
Tourney #2 saw Rich L, Randy , Phil, Shane and Rich K all make the Kiddie table. Shane took down the $20 prize outlasting Randy in a marathon. Over at the Cash Table Ron hung in there against semi-pro Kasey Lewis to take down his first win since season 1. Kasey is used to playing with the likes of Phil Hellmuth and getting tips from Jackie Chan. Thats a little different that looking across the table at Leroy and listeneing to Randy ramble on about how to play 9-4 offsuit. Anyway Ron took the $130 top prize while Kasey netted $60. Coming in 3rd was the Big Fella Kevin for $40 and gate kid finishing 4th for $30.
Great night of cards with more to follow. The next showdown is set for October 3rd. I will post the host this week.

SHOWDOWN #1

This Saturday night
Wayne Renz's house
7PM please be early
First night cost is $75 ( $70 + $5 for new cards )

SEASON 3

Season 3 of the Saturday Night Showdown is upon us. The first showdown will be Sept 12th at 7pm at Wayne's house. We will go over some of the details with the new players as well as bring everybody up to speed regarding changes for the new season. Being that that night is a Penn State home game we'll probably start a little late to give you tailgaters time to arrive. So whats new for the 3rd seaon. First are 2 new players. Tim Hockney and Eric Vitunac. Eric's played with us many times as a sub and Tim hosts his own game at his home in Deerfield. We lost 1 player. Doc Sheldon has relocated to Montana and we wish him well. Hopefully he'll chime into the site from time to time. This means that we'll have 13 players. We will start each tourney with 1 table of 6 and 1 table of 7. The kiddie table will now be 5 seated while the cash table will remain 8. The extra $20 will go into the cash table pot while the kiddie table pot will remain $20. Same rules apply as the previous 2 seasons as well as the points allocated to your finish. Another change for this year will be additional bonus points. They will be as follows:
1 point to the player who knocks out the previous tourneys winner
1 point if you win both tourneys that night.
1 point if your the bounty and you win.
1 point if you rebuy and win
1 point for 3 consecutive cashes
3 points for the last man standing. Last man standing will go to the player who is the last player to appear at the kiddie table. ( That was me last year )

Rebuy's You will be permitted to rebuy during the first 15 minutes of the tournament at any time up to 1500 chips. Last year we allowed 1 rebuy if you got knocked out in the first 15 minutes. You may now rebuy at anytime during the first 15 minutes up to 1500 chips.

Exposed card policy We will discuss a league policy involving exposed cards. We will discuss this the first night and come up with a policy.

That should be it for the changes.
The schedule is as follows:
1 Sept 12
2 Oct 3
3 Oct 24
4 Nov 29
5 Dec 12
6 Jan 9
7 Jan 30
8 Feb 20
Final Table March 13

I did my best to avoid PennState home games and Girls and Boys Basketball. There is only 1 showdown scheduled for a boys BBall game and 1 scheduled for a Girls BBall game and only 1 pennstate home game which just happens to be our opening night. The conflicts should be mim=nimal. Our policy has always been the schedule is the schedule however if an event pops up that a large amount of showdown members must attend we will look into moving the date. Otherwise if you cant attend you are required to get a sub. We dont want any empty seats.

I will continue to post up until Tourney 1.
Stay tuned and I'll see you then.

FINAL TABLE RESULTS

Wayne wins final table.
Shanes the champ.
Randy's a d*** ( ooo did I say that out loud )

Thats about all I have to say

FINAL TABLE

Please arrive by 6:30 at Schutters house for the final table. We will go over some details from 6:30 -7 pm and the cards get dealt at 7. I will post the format for the final table prior to saturday night.

FINAL TABLE

Final table will be May 2nd, 7pm at Chris Schutters house.
This is the date. If you cant make it we'll let you know how it went.
I will post the format of the final table this weekend.

FINAL TABLE

A date needs to be set for the final table. Right now the next 2 weekends are out. That leaves May 2nd, a saturday as the next saturday to play. We can also play on a week night if everybody has a common night available. If a weeknight cant be agreed upon then May 2nd will be the date. This needs to be wrapped up as soon as possible. We will not go past The weekend of May 2nd. Please get in touch with either myself or Wayne with your availability.
Thanks

SHOWDOWN #8

The last showdown went down last night and it probably was our most dramatic showdon yet. Up for grabs was the points cash as well as positioning for the champion points. Once again just like in showdown 7 we had a player who was hanging around in the middle jump up and pull off the double dip. Jeff won twice and put himself right in the mix for overall champion. As of right now the overall champion will come from one of 5 players. Tom, Jeff, Shane, Kasey and myself. We will try and attach some odds to these players before the final table. Shane won the points crown for the 2nd year in a row and will be looking to repeat as champ. The road will be tougher this year .
Onto last nights play.
Tourney #1 saw Jeff take down first place followed by Randy, Tom and Rich K. Rich it seams is gearing up for his usual late season blitz on the felt. Last years final table winner has placed himself right were he was last year. An afterthought but a dangerous one. Tom took 3rd and continued his hot play. The highlight of the tourney of course was Randy. Down to 150 chips ( due to a major mental blunder by Jeff ) rallied and came back to take 2nd. Jeff had thought he put Randy all-in with a 2500 chip bet. We all thought so. It turned out that Randy had Jeff covered by 150 chips and lived to double up several times and get back into it.
Tourney #2 Saw Jeff pull off the not so rare anymore double dip. Hanging in the balance was points standings. This table saw Jeff and Tom heads up. If Tom won he surpassed Rich in points for 2nd place. A Jeff win and Rich holds on for 2nd. A $50 swing. Jeff held on and won while Tom took 2nd. Finishing in 3rd was Shane and "Doc" took 4th.
The showdown format proved that you play till the end. 2 showdowns ago Rich, Shane and Kasey were out in front but the great play of Tom and Jeff made it a 5 man race for overall champ. It should be very dramatic come final table.

Final Table:
We are working on setting a date. Right now it looks like either the last weekend in April or the first weekend in May will be the date. The format for the final table will be posted within a day or two. Cash payouts for the points will be made at the final table. Until that time stay tuned

One more thing. We had to take Louie up to Ken Bergs early today. Louie was having a rough night, couldn't sleep and was whining all night. We had an MRI performed and an Atlantic Equipment ID card was found in Louie's Bowels. Were hoping he will be able to pass it sometime today. If anybody knows of anybody that may have an Atlantic Equipment ID card please let me know so I know were to send the MRI bill along with DR. Bergs fee.

SHOWDOWN #8

Right now it looks like April 3rd, Friday night 7 pm at Rich Loeb's house is the choice over April 10th. Please continue with the input.

SHOWOWN #7

Showdown #7 took place at the Schutters on Saturday night. All the wives got together and hit the strip while Tom had his way at the felt. Tom pulled off the double dip winning both showdowns. In showdown #1 Tom beat out Wayne and in #2 he held off Me. I geuss it was good that most of the money stayed in the familt last night. Hand of the night had to go to Wayne with Quad 9's. The board had two pair and I had an ace. I felt I had a great shot to at least split the pot. Little did I know Wayne was had the carrot on a stick and won a big pot. The points picture got a little more crowded at the top with Tom's great night. One of the players in the 50's needed a great night while the top 3 stumbled. Well Tom came through as big as you can and Casey and Shane both went home penniless. Only Rich with his second place finish in #2 didn't completely fall. Quirk of the night happened TWICE. In #1 Casey went all in with a short stack just before the rebuy period hoping to either double up or rebuy 1500 chips. Only problem was that he went up against a player he had covered by a couple hundred chips. Casey lost and was severly short stacked and ultimately busted out first. This exact scenario happened again in #2. Casey put up a proposal to allow a rebuy under a certain amount of chips after the first 15 minutes. I think the idea is good but I also think we should finish out this year the way we've been doing it so far. Bring the proposals at our meeting in the off season for Showdown 3.
As for the next and last showdown, April 3rd is out due to the Baseball banquet and the CYO banquet. I would really love for all our members to make the last showdown. I'm putting up 2 dates. April 3rd ( Friday ) and April 10th ( Friday ) . Please let me know if you can make either or. The final table will be the first day we can find that everybody can attend even if it's only 2 weeks later. It's time o wrap it up.
I'll be posting points payout info and Overall Champion scenarious over the next few days so please stay tuned.

SHOWDOWN #7

March 14th at 7pm

Chris Schutter - Host

We cant push this off much further guys.

We will go 3 weeks after that for #8 April 4th Rich Loeb - Host

Final Table we will talk about during #8

SHOWDOWN #7

Wayne and I are trying to set dates for the last 2 showdowns so that everyone can make it. We will be reaching out to the members over the next few days to figure out what times are good. If each member could get in contact with us and let us know the "bad "times for March and April that would help. Were looking at Fri Nights, Sat nights or afternoons and Sunday afternoons. With only 2 showdowns left plus the final table we should be able to get it done.

SHOWDOWN #7

The showdown headed into Frosty Valley's Back Yard at host Rich L's house. Missing tonight were cash and chip leader Kasey and Ron. The showdown beam shone bright over Deerfield and Eric answered the call ala Batman. Eric subbed for Kasey and Ronnie sent the ever intimidating Phil in his stead. Showdown #1 saw Phil, Kevin Doc and Wayne belly up to the Kiddie Table. I really thought Wayne broke through last showdown with his high finishes but tonight wasn't his night. Lots of bad beats and *&$%^&*(#$%*^^^#%%%#@ was heard from table 2. The big fella Kevin cashed at the kiddie table pocketing a cool $20. Over at the big boy table Tom and Jeff built up the sizeable chip stacks with Rich L not to far behind. Jeff probably had the hand of the night going all in against Rick K. Rich had pocket Aces and jeff flipped over A-6. As the tabled awwwwed for Jeff, Rich said all he needed were some sixes. And sixes he got. One on the flop and one on the turn. Jeff took down the pot and he back in it. The table got down to the final 4 with Tom, Jeff, RichL and Shane. Rich busted out Shane and then took a big blow to his stack from Tom. With only 250 chips left Rich doubled up 3 times and was looking to get back into it when Tom hit a card on the river to bust him out. Tom took down the 1st place cash and Jeff placed 2nd.
Tourney #2 saw Phil and Doc make early exits blowing off the kiddie table. Wayne was soon out again and was shortly followed by Jeff. Jeff and Wayne played heads up at he kiddie table and Wayne prevailed for the $20. Over at the Big Boy table Rich K was out in the first hand and was followed by Kevin. Eric and Tom busted next and we were down to 4. Rich L, Shane, Randy and Chris made the money and the hunt for the cash was on. First out was Randy. Rich L busted out Chris and we were down to 2. Shane and Rich L. These 2 traded blinds for about 20 minutes. Rich started to accumulate a small lead. Finally there was ann all-in by Shane and a call by Rich. Rich flipped over A-K to Shanes low suited connectors and Rich took down the Pot. Both Rich and Shane took advantage of the absent Kasey pilling up the points and Cash.
Once again another great night of cards. The next showdown's date is in a bit of question. Due to the skipped week of the Superbowl there seems to be a little confusion as to what the next date should be. Wayne and I will be in touch with everybody to see if we can come up with a good time. Until then stay tuned.

Showdown #6

The 6th showdown is scheduled for Sunday Feb 8th at 3pm.

SHOWDOWN #5

The showdown heade back to the Valley Green development once again as the home of Chris Schutter hosted. Chris put out a fine spread highlighted by some fine jumbalaya. As preparations were being made for this showdown, some of the wives of the showdown players felt that a poker game in the middle of a major snowstorm was foolish. AAAAAGGHH I say. Deal the cards.
Saturday nights play was all about the mighty Casey. Casey stepped up to the plate and most certainley did not strike out. Pulling off the rare double dip, Casey swept the nights action and took home $250 and 21 points. Both SNS records. In the first tourney Rich L took out Leroy and thus winning the bonus point. Following Ron at the kiddie table was Doc, Chris and Eric. Eric was subbing for the absent Kevin. The early action at table #1 was furious as 3 of the top point and money winners were seated at the table. Casey, Shane and Rich L were all at table #1 and the play was hot. Rich couldn't pass up an opportunity to knock out Shane early calling his all-in. Shane nervously sweated out the flop, turn and River to hang on. " I had to take a shot at knocking you out" muttered Rich as Shane raked in his chips. Over at Table #2, Wayne was building quite the stack as he was desperately trying to cash in on the big boy table for the first time. Once Jeff busted out on the bubble the money was on. Casey, Wayne and the 2 Rich's remained. Rich L busted out first as he went all in with A - 10 to Casey's A - 4. Casey got a 3 on the river to make a straight to bust Rich and we were down to 3. Wayne was desperatley trying to take down a big pot from Casey but just couldn't get any action with his big hands. Ultimately Rich K. was done and we were down to a chip count. Casey prevailed and Wayne collected $50 for his 2nd place.
Tourney 2 saw 2 re-buys from table 2 to boost the pot. Busting out first was Tom followed by Doc, Randy, Rich K and Shane. What? Shane at the Kiddie table? Don't say it. Yes. That was the great Shane, Last years champion mired in a 3 week slump finding himself sitting at the jiddie table for the first time. I was watching him play a little at the kidde table and he seemed as interested as 5 year old in a Trigonometry class. Over at the 7 handed money table, Eric had quite a stack follwed by Casey. Rich L. was low stack and went all in on the first hand once again getting rivered by Eric. Ron shortly followed and then Chris the host busted out going home ( upstairs ) empty handed for the night. Jeff collected the $30 4th place and Wayne collected $40 in what was most definately his best night of the season. The monkey is off the back. Casey and Eric battle it out with the Mighty Casey prevailing for he win and double dip. Next showdown Casey will be going for the rare triple play. A feat only achieved by poker legend Shane Reamer. The heat will be on. I hear all the showdown members are privately putting up a secret bounty on Casey to knock him out.
Casey took over as points and cash leader as the stumbling Shane drops into 2nd. Whats wrong with Shane talk has been heard around the water coolers in the office of the SNS.
The next showdown is getting pushed back to Sunday Feb 8th. Time is tbd although I think a later afternoon like 3pm would be better than 6pm. I will post a time after talking to a few players.
Finally all this nonsense from Wayne Saturday night about "Eli" being 2 games from the Hall of Fame needs to come to a halt. I look at Eli as being one David Tyree FLUKE catch away from being just another shlub QB who's team took him to the playoffs. Eli showed what he is against the Eagles. A vastly overrated, mistake prone mediocre QB. Give me Ben, Brees, Rivers, Manning ( the real one ) Brady, Palmer, Warner, McNabb, Rodgers, Pennington, Cutler and real soon Flacco and Ryan before that chump. Giants should be drafting a QB next year.

JAN 31ST SHOWDOWN

We have plenty of time for the Jan 31st showdown. I dont mind moving it to Sunday if Friday conflicts with Danville sports. Either date is good for me. I need everybody to let me know what they think.