Seat 3: Frazer Beattie

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Seat 2: Colin Young

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Iiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnn Seat 1: Steve Jelinek

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Mr Rab Bain, my heretofore largely unmentioned Name Of The Day That Isn't John Dick, stuck in his sad little 55k stack with and got himself called by Hassan Irfan holding .

Board:

(Mc)Bain will not be back, and we are hand for hand while we wait for the final table bubble to burst.

dont think that there will be deals whilst Lawrence Gosney is at the table and running like god!

think you could see 5am

 

[TOTALLY UNEXPECTED SCANDIE EXIT]

TOTALLY UNEXPECTED SCANDIE EXIT

Jesper Persson raised to 30k utg and it folded around to Hassan Irfan on the big blind. He reraised, to perhaps 100k. Persson made it All In, and Irfan called in about a millisecond.

Persson:
Irfan:

Board:

Irfan is now the proud owner of precisely one s***load of chips, while Persson is down to, umm, 1k. Which is all in on his ante/big blind the next hand. Lawrence Gosney and small blind assassin Irfan limp in and check down the board; Persson mucks and goes home and Gosney shows a queen to win it.

11 left; making it home to a cup of cocoa and bed by 3am is looking like a real possibility. Sniff.

[Monstrous Pot]

Monstrous Pot




Jesper Persson raised to 29k from the cutoff, and Lawrence Gosney called in the small blind. Our short-stacked Alistair Cairns, unable at this time to shove utg, shoved from the big blind instead for a total of 91.5k, and sat there clapping for a bit. Persson asked how much Gosney had left, and was met with the answer, "All you can see," = 95k or so. After a brief dwell, he passed.

Back to Gosney, and some more dwelling. And eventually, a call.

Cairns:
Gosney:

Board:

Meaning that Gosney had a flush at the end of that, and Cairns had a ticket out of the tournament in 14th place.

Alistair Cairns moved all in utg (apparently his favourite move), and Peter Renkel, shorter-stacked still than Cairns, called all in from the small blind - I believe for a total of 57k.

Cairns:
Renkel:

Board:

Double up for Renkel, woe and perhaps 90k remaining to Cairns.

Meanwhile back in Pokerland, Steve Jelinek made it 30k from the cutoff, only for Colin Young to reraise to an intriguing 105k, leaving himself just 80k behind. Jelinek made a face, and eventually folded, showing pocket sixes.

[IMPORTANT UPDATE]

IMPORTANT UPDATE

I've caught Floppy's cold. Ill me.

[People Who Have in the Past 15 Minutes Shoved Preflop and Taken the Blinds Uncontested]

People Who Have in the Past 15 Minutes Shoved Preflop and Taken the Blinds Uncontested

- or, the Not Much Has Happened Just Lately Post.


- Lawrence Gosney
- Alistair Cairns, twice
- Paul Newman (showed pocket jacks)
- Jesper Persson (from the small blind; Peter Renkel in the big blind showed 3-T as he folded)
- Stephen Holden

[Persson Getting Jiggy Again]

Persson Getting Jiggy Again

The very next hand, Persson raised to 25.5k from the button, and Frazer Beattie shoved for a total of 117.5k from the big blind.

Beattie:
Persson:

Board: SMACK

Double up for Beattie.

[More Persson Action]

More Persson Action

Indeed he is a Persson non grata as far as Steve Vine is concerned. Probably. Vine shoved with , and Persson called him from the big blind with .

Board: an excitement-free and we're down a Vine in 17th place.

Lawrence Gosney has done himself a bit of harm.

With 120k or so in the pot by the river of the board, he bet 80k. Jesper Persson disappeared into the tank for a long time, during which someone unrelatedly knocked over a chair. Eventually he called.

"You win," said Gosney and mucked even before Persson had a chance to show him . Persson looked smug, and Gosney is down to 115k.

Matthew Tandy raised to 27k from the cutoff, and Steve Jelinek called from the big blind. A flop followed.

Flop:

Check, check.

A turn:

Jelinek checked, Tandy bet 45k, and Jelinek called.

River:

Both players checked, and Jelinek's elicited a simple muck from Tandy.