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I gather that they are down to 3 tables, & Lawrence Gosney is dancing - he's in great shape, almost chip leader. Carlo still there too, and a guy who's said to be from London - Jonny Popper.

Lawrence will play to win. So he could bust out, or build a huge stack & walk it.

Look like a late night in prospect Thursday evening!

Gosney and Carlo are both good mates of mine, though I am afraid I don't know Mr Popper.

Come on lads!

Would'nt it be something if Lawrence or Carlo won it??!!

Down to final 9.

Laurence and Carlo still in. Final tonight.

Lawrence is second in chips.  Carlo hanging on!  I don't know Alan Purdy.

1 Jarl Lindholt (Aarhus, Denmark) Going to the Final Table with $437,000 Chips
2 Lawrence Gosney (Leeds, United Kingdom) Going to the Final Table with $323,000 Chips
3 Tony Rila (Las Vegas, NV, USA) Going to the Final Table with $305,000 Chips
4 Shack Ko (Naperville, IL, USA) Going to the Final Table with $287,000 Chips
5 Dustin Woolf (Los Angeles, CA, USA) Going to the Final Table with $270,000 Chips
6 Bjorn Isberg (Stockholm, Sweden) Going to the Final Table with $166,000 Chips
7 Alan Purdy (United Kingdom) Going to the Final Table with $165,000 Chips
8 Carlo Citrone (Newcastle, United Kingdom) Going to the Final Table with $151,000 Chips
9 J C Tran (Sacramento, CA, USA) Going to the Final Table with $47,000 Chips

Wow...kick on Lawrence. A fantastic performance.

Three Brits, one Dane and one Swede in a NLH final.

Fantastic.

  :o

Heres hoping they do well, main threat i see is Dustin Woolf (Neverwin on 'Stars) who has a good game and is fearless.

Is that "Internet Donkey"?

Come on the Brits and Euros (especially the Brits) a great chance to bring a second bracelet to this side of the pond!

151k is far from hanging on for carlo, with blkinds of 6-12 he is ok for a few rounds. I hope it goes the way of a brit. I am not going to "ironside"anyone after my earlier tips in a couple of the finals.

Gooooooooooooooo JokerThief (Alan Purdy)

Come on son you can do it and 50K to wear a Full Tilt T Shirt is not enough :o.

Regards
BigArmo(BOT Vegas2005)

This is just AWESOME.

I am trying to set up a sort of blonde Mini Live Update for tonight.

Watch this space.

any idea when this final goes UK time. first 100 game I ever played at Nottingham I had Lawrence Gosney sat to my immediate left. Didn't know who he was when I sat down, Damn sure I was going to remember him after the first few hands. proper table captain. I'd hate to be the 21 yearold table smaker who trys it on with that guy.

It's 3pm Vegas, so that's, what, 10, 11, midnight UK?

Gosney? Very much in the Ali Mallu/Gus Hansen style. Unreadable. Hope he plays his game, but equally, hope he does not get too busy too early. He can win or lose huge stacks very fast. You NEVER forget Gosney's play!

He came to Barcelona last year, arrived an hour before the comp, I collected him from the airport, dropped his bags in my room, straight to the Casino. He busted out in 10 mins, & was on the 7pm plane home!

Ditto Vienna. They lost his luggage in Amsterdam, he arrived 2 hours into the comp (you can do that in Viennna), he busted out in 20 minutes, then flew straight to Paris to catch the biggie there.

Great, great character, real Yorkshire type.

Adam, he has knocked me out of Three tourneys in the last two weeks, he has some game.

My first experience of live play was at Napolians Bradford where i would play the 10 rebuy and i had the pleasure of sharing a table with Mr Gosney a few times,he was just another regular to me who seemed to make the final table alot.
He was always friendly and would answer my many questions its great to see him reaching the upper limits of the game.
Don't think he plays the 10 rebuy at Naps anymore ;D but u never know.

P.S.
The game looked alot easier on Late Night Poker :'(.
Played 22 live games at Naps and NEVER made a final LOL wished i'd never listened to him :P.

Regards
BigArmo(BOT Vegas2005)

 

Lawrence DOES still play the 10 rebuys in Bradford. And he always will. Mashes the table up a treat, too.

Paul Phillips has made an interesting blog entry (where he shows his thinking) about his exit hand:

http://extempore.livejournal.com/102173.html

I'm a great fan of Paul's blog and think this, plus the "controversy" about his play in the comments makes great reading.

Lawrence plays all the local comps still Armo. He comes for the cash games I suppose but he is still feared when at your table.

LAWRENCE WILL WIN IF HE DOESNT PLAY Q5 JON NEWSOME SAYS SO  ALSO I WOULD SWIM SHARK INFESTED WATER WITH A PORK CHOP TIED ROUND MY NECK TO PLAY HIM AT CASH

The thing I remember was him talking some poor bloke through his hands. something like;
"Now I appreciate you're mixing it up with your king Jack, and I know you've hit your jack but you're also pretty sure I've got the Queen. You've showed some game trying to take me off it but you know I'm probably gonna bet the river if..." I'm obviously para-phrasing as it was a while ago, but basically the more he talked to the guy, the less colour he had in his face. Struck me as a great reader of players and the bone dry sence of humour was getting a few laughs from anyone NOT involved in a hand with him.

Adam - that's Lawrence to a "T"...!

Bongo. I am a big reader of PP's blog, his technical analysis fascinates & bewilders me at the same time. We became acquainted in Barcelona, then more so in Dublin last year. I was sat in the corner, quietly reading a fascinating book "Fermat's Last Theorem", an awesome read about an obscure mathematical formula proven (arguably) many centruries ago, but which no modern mathematician could re-prove. Paul introduced himself (I thought Wow, millionaire man talks to tikay), said he'd noted what I was reading, & asked if I had seen another book by the same author, Simon Singh. No, I replied, but I'd like to. Next day Paul brings me the book, wow I say, fancy you having THAT very book with you here in Dublin. No, he said, I went & purchased it for you this mornming, it's such a great book I want you to read it.

So, a new hero of tikay was born. His wife is adorable too, very tall, but beautifully mannered.

But after Paul Maxfield got 2nd at The Bellagio, Paul P was extremely critical of Paul M's play, so much so that in my mind, some of Paul P's halo slipped. His criticism was so off track (he claimed shoulda bet when he hit top two pair, but he trapped & Phan hit a gutshot) that I discussed it with DC, who said, in not so many words, Paul P was talking out of his backside. I just thought it was the xenophopic thing, the Yanks v Brits syndrome.

But if anyone enjoys deep technical analysis - & I DO mean deep - take a look at the link Bongo posted. Jaw-dropping stuff. It's a different game that those boys play, make no mistake.

Is the other Simon Singh book called "The Code Book"? I bought that during my first year at Uni but it went missing before I could read even one page of it.

As for the critique of PM's play I think it was more the call preflop (out of position) he didn't like.

"I don't fault the flop check that much though, since Tuan may push drawing nearly stone dead. I do cringe at flat calling with six high. That's just begging to let Tuan back into the game without making a hand."

Anyway his latest post is something else, the comments are intriguing

"Why call here when you are more skilled than the rest of the table?"
"The call here is what makes me more skilled"

I've actually been thinking a bit about this "principle of chip conservation" that makes people think you should fold there and have some ideas about why it's been incorrect all along. I might post once i've thought some more, it'll be fun to be proved wrong in any case.

Correct, "The Code Book".

Here's a typical Paul Phillips one-liner, which sums up his mindset. Arrogant? Self-assured? Whatever, it's lovely to see the thought process so beautifully articulated.

"..... My table included two big stacks in the hands of fairly exploitable players and I was dying to put together enough chips to put a big hurt on one of them...."

Or as we'd put it, "I fancied the two muppets chips"

Exploitable = fish!

Good News - Rhow has agreed to be tableside tonight & feed me with text updates. We gotta love that Lady.

So, we are all set. See you guys later, I'm off for a snooze.