Christmas Cracker £750 Main Event - Final Day - At A Glance

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Welcome back to grey, drizzly Luton, where the players for the second day (and there are quite a number of them) are milling around wondering why breakfast doesn't start at 3pm, but the tournament does.  Or maybe that's just me.  I'll be flying solo today, as Nick's hotel quite unreasonably chucked him out at 11am and he quite reasonable left by train, but many thanks for his considerable help yesterday.  One of the team...

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To save your collective fingers from the strain of re-opening yesterday's thread, the chip counts:

Dan Samson     24,800
Mark Harris       25,800
Justin Turner    14,600
Alan Geddes     10,100
Steve Walmsley 11,700
Marc Goodwin   16,800
Paul King          25,300
S. Patel           29,500
Andrew Whittaker  12,400

Morton Rustad   12,600
Tim Blake          12,400
Ryan Fronda      28,300
Tracey Dell        32,400
Ali Mallu            49,500
Michael McCool   25,000
A. Douglas         21,400
Gez Morris          34,900

D. Knight          14,500
Chris Eddleman  44,400
J. Vaccarella      19,200
Michael Clements  13,400
Jim Mcbride        53,500
Ambro Morreale  11,400
Martino Libertini  15,000

Dick Shek          13,100
Bill Davies           26,300
Trevor Reardon  32,300
Srogd Gjerdal      23,200
Bhupinder Kholi   24,300
Mickey Wernick   52,500
Chris Huyton      35,200
Paul Webb         8,300

Barry Earnshaw    18,900
Anthony Kirkbride  8,100
Driton Haxhiaj       25,300
Paul Alterman       34,800
Xuyen Pham        19,800
Damon D'Cruz       33,800
Jim Mcshane         20,700

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Apologies to Thomas Dunwoodie, whom I omitted - he is in fact, here:

D. Knight          14,500
Chris Eddleman  44,400
J. Vaccarella      19,200
Michael Clements  13,400
Thomas Dunwoodie  18,000
Jim Mcbride        53,500
Ambro Morreale  11,400
Martino Libertini  15,000

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That Alan Geddes is on one hell of a run. Wouldn't be surprised to see him take this one down too.

Um, just gone... AQ against Jacks.  But he was pipped to first out by Paul Webb.

Elsewhere Michael Clements doubles through Ambro Morreale with (even though two Aces came on the board), leaving the latter with a bowl of rice (2,200 with the blinds at 600/1,200).  He blind vs. blind doubled that next hand with good old , but is still pretty much down to the felt.

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Womble has just been eliminated... A6 vs. A4, which hit three Fours... guess whose it was.  One guess.  OK, I'll tell you:  Marc Goodwin.


Elsewhere Ali Mallu's enjoying his decent stack - into a pot of about 5,500 he just announces all-in when opponent Morton Rustad checks to him.  Bullying the small stack on 13k; Morton folded on the flop.

Lots of Fours in these Luton decks.

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Short stacked Andrew Whittaker, whom I saw make several valiant attempts at double-or-busting, just moved on the button when it passed to him with .  Fair enough, and so was Dan Samson's small blind call with x.
The board came:    (don't breathe your sigh of relief yet - you know what's coming)
Turn: 
River: 

And the tables are getting shorthanded - expect a break soon...

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Mr. Cool is OUT - he raised under the gun with, as eliminator Dan Samson put it, "the kind of hands he likes to do this with - suited connectors" and Dan re-raised with on the button to 9,000 (initial raise to 3,500).  Call from Marc.
The flop:  .  Marc checked, Dan moved in and got a call from Marc with his .
Turn:    Just the card Dan wanted to see...
River:  blank

And the first table of the day has broken.

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And here are your up-to-the-minute counts:

Table Dell

Paul Webb      12,200  (not OUT as previously mentioned, just moved beyond the reach of my peripheral vision)
Ryan Fronda    47,000  (Just won a pot off Ali Mallu, who's insisting someone give him a quid for folding)
Tracey Dell      23,500
S. Patel          30,000
Ali Mallu          55,000  (but who really knows; his stacks are a mess)
Michael McCool  41,000
Gez Morris       46,300

Table Samson

Dick Shek        27,000
Bill Davies         36,000
Trevor Reardon 20,400
Srogd Gjerdal    9,100  (I hope I've spelt your name right)
Bhups Kholi       17,200
Mickey Wernick  64,000
Chris Huyton     15,700
Dan Samson      78,000

Table Harris

Dave Knight      17,000
Paul King           25,600
Giovanni Vaccarella  22,400
Michael Clements  27,000
Thomas Dunwoodie  8,200
Jim Mcbride          65,000
Mark Harris           23,000
Martino Libertini    17,400

Table Haxhiaj

Anthony Kirkbride   58,000  (I think this guy's a Qualifier - either freeroll or bluesquare...)
Driton Haxhiaj        19,700
Paul Alterman        21,000
Bad Girl                 28,000
Justin Turner         26,500
Jim Mcshane          19,900
Chris Eddleman       56,000

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Mickey Wernick reports a potentially stack-threatening bluff - he raised with and received two callers.  The flop was all rags, and it was checked round.  The turn brought the which made two diamonds, so he bet, as you do - getting one caller.  Not what he was after, and when the river brought another small diamond he bet big (c.9k) and his opponent dwelled for awhile, then said what Mickey thought was, "call," but was actually, "fold."  So Mickey turned over his AK saying, "Good call," after the whole thing was already over and the pot was his.  D'oh.

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Tracey Dell is OUT -

She didn't climb too fast today, and eventually called a button raise (see the leading language I use here) with .  The flop came 7-high, and she check called all in.  But she was up against KK and is now at liberty to sample the Breakfast.

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Ali Mallu busts S. Patel with 8 4 off.  And Patel had , spiking a set and seeing a straight come as if from nowhere to send him to the rail.  Mallued.

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Dan Samson - briefly chip leader before "losing 40k in the last ten minutes."

He's not wanged his big stack as quickly as Ali Mallu though, who just paid off Aces (all-in preflop re-raise with theatrical dwell), although he's still on around 50k.

Ariston says, "never try to run a re-steal on Mallu.  He's calling you."

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OK all the pieces of the jigsaw coming together - a happier Dan Samson just came out (they're on a break) saying that he was the recipient of the double up with , which Ali called preflop with his losing .  Dan's on 90k and is, in fact, the chip leader.

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Dick Shek Doubles Up With Straight Flush Shocker News Now:

I think I've rather spoiled the ending on this one, but never mind...in a multiway pot, Dick Sheck checks (he's small blind) and it gets round to Dan Samson on the button who moves in, for a lot.  Dick calls.  The flop which generated this action:  .
Dan showed: 
Dick showed: 

Turn: 
River: 

"That's the first time I've ever gotten a straight flush," remarks Dick, which I am sure makes the dead set of sevens feel better.

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Down to the last three tables, and here are the chips.

Table Climber-to-Leader

Michael McCool    46,500
Anthony Kirkbride  94,000  (started the day with just 8,100)
Driton Haxhiaj       19,500
Paul Alterman       32,500
Bad Girl                37,000
Justin Turner        21,000
Dave Knight         16,500
Chris Eddleman     34,000

Table Trailing Fronda

Paul King             34,500
Ryan Fronda          8,000
Michael Clements  25,000
Thomas Dunwoodie  7,500
Jim Mcbride           81,500
Paul Webb            46,500
Mark Harris            25,000
Martino Libertini     24,500
Jim Mcshane          OUT

Table Mallu

Dick Shek             67,000
Bill Davies             50,000
Trevor Reardon     21,500
Frode Gjesdal         OUT
Bhupinder Kholi      OUT
Gez Morris             42,000
Mickey Wernick      71,000
Chris Huyton          40,000
Ali Mallu                 60,000
Dan Samson          53,500