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One of the Oddschecker tipsters has put it up, but it's still around 12/1.

Maybe chuck a few quid on, and that way you're happy enough either way?

Nothing of note so far, not going to moan.  Will just start winning

Leigh Wiltshire has decided he wants to let someone else win this year. Having just met the chap, he seems nice and took his exit like a gent (story is a slightly dull succession of running into better hands and not getting therrrrrre).

I would have done this:

Cimbolas gathers more chips. Tuna, harpooned, sinks back into his chair   

 

meanwhile across the bottom floor is a real table

Alex Goulder
Alex Spencer
Wadey
Mad Turk

all sat in seats 5-9

looking like two choirboys and two gangsters thrown together in a weird altar-lock up combo

as i arrive at the table Spencer has raised and Goulder has called in the big blind

they both check

Goulder leads for 15,000 on the turn

Spencer calls

river

Goulder 40,000

Spencer looks up from his cajun chicken long enoguh to call and Goulder says "no pair"

Spencer shows to win the pot

--

i continue to watch and its all raise fold until a short-stack doubles through Wadey, shoving Q-J, Wadey calls in the big blind with Ace-King and loses to a flopped queen

unfortunately, as the TV rigging has added a lot of paraphanealia to the room i am unable to exit sharply

i am caught

wadey rises and saunters towards me

i know what is coming, and it is unavoidable

"lost three times with kings to an underpair this tournament."

pause

"each time on the river"

pause

"now he flops a queen"

"can't believe it"

i take my medicine, and eventually make my excuses

poker updaters should get aural danger money

161 remain with ten minutes before the break.

A long slog to get here and an even longer one ahead.



Who will save the Princess?

Did I hear the sound of a falling gauntlet, Tighty?

So I have been perambulating

There are some terrific tables. And tikay's

At oen end of the bottom tier i stood to watch a bit of the chip leader Matas Cimbolas play. After all, i might learn a thing or two, such is his live form going back over the last year

He is co-tabling with Skalie and Brammer

i watched, and Cimbolas and Skalie are the two biggest stacks at the table and the two most active


Cimbolas opened to 15,000 at 3000-6000

Gabriel Tuna called

"ahh, you again" said Cimbolas as if Blofeld stroking a white persian in a Bond movie



Cimbolas 16,500

Tuna called



Cimbolas checks

Tuna 38,000

"i am sorry, but i have to do this" says Cimbolas

"because i know you have ace-king"

all this in a halting lithuanian-english that gives a frisson of menace to proceedings

he counts out 85,000 and looks at Tuna....

he smiles, shyly

and check raises

Tuna folds

Cimbolas gathers more chips. Tuna, harpooned, sinks back into his chair   

Just received a text message from my daughter that a horse that her boyfriends family owns is running today and do I want to place a bet on it? Trouble is I cant get hold of her as to whether it's fancied or not. The horse is called Murray Mount and running at Doncaster at 16:50.

Is this worth a punt? I have no idea about horses!

Thanks.

Are they filming to show on general Sky Sports or the Poker show?

Sky Sports

Richard Orford is here. They couldn't afford a real commentator.