Doc makes it 56k from the cutoff and Lawrence Gosney calls in the big blind.

Barry Neville commentary: "'E's a rock what's raised that oop."

They see a flop and check it; in fact they both check the turn and the river until Doc shows A-K and Gosney mucks.

This could take a while.

An interesting hand.

Paul Newman made it a min-raise 40k utg and there was a Mexican wave of suspicious folds all the way around to Doc in the big blind, who called.

The flop came down and Doc checked it; Newman swiftly announced all in for over 300k. Doc looked as though he was really thinking about it, but passed. "Show it, show it," chanted Hassan Irfan. "What do you want me to show?" asked Newman. "Kings," was the very confident reply. Not 100% on this, but I'm pretty sure that Newman flashed the ...

Mr Lawrence Gosney made it 55k to go, and after a moment's rather excellent play-acting, Colin Young in the small blind announced that he was all in for 122k total. Call, and oops...

Gosney:
Young:

Board:

The more perceptive of you will have noticed the absence of threes, straights, flushes etc on that board, and will thus have come to the correct conclusion; namely that Mr Young doubled up to around 250k. Gosney meanwhile down to 170k. We are still nine, and I'd like a nap.

Probably happier than he looks:

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then i can already feel players wanting to make a deal.dont do it,for the love of cheesecake dont do it.

If they did a deal now, they'd get around £9k apiece. Not bad for a weekend's work. Go go go the deal!

I would like to applaud DTD for increasing the size of their chicken Caesar salad roughly threefold since the last time I ate one. Value for money now imo.

Well, play is underway, and has largely been characterized by gentle caginess thus far.

Sunny nicked some blinds with a moderate raise.

Colin Young raised to an ambitious 66k from the cutoff, but folded when Dipak Makanawa (henceforth to be known as Doc) reraised him all in from the small blind. Doc's chip lead gets bigger, and Young is left with 150k or so.

Ooh, players are on their way back to the table, scuppering Floppy's plan to get ice cream.

Please stand by.

gogogogogoggogo lawrence - ship it all to Leeds

"no deals no deals no deals"

Please deals, for the updaters' sakes. 

Either way, should be an interesting final.

well im putting my money on anyone who can keep their eyes open lol.

Me not ftw. 

Seat 9: Hassan Irfan and his Calvin Kleins

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Seat 8: Peter Renkel

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Seat 7: Lawrence Gosney

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Seat 6: Gurpreet "Sunny" Nagi

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Seat 5: Paul Newman

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Seat 4: Dipak Makanawa

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