MONTE CARLO - THE FINAL

[tikay]

Abdullaziz has some weird headphones on, & is jigging to the music.

Brandon has large, quite expensive headphones, & he's jigging around happily too.

And Rob has what seems to be a regular i-pod & earpieces. He aint doing no jigging though. He has a sort of laconic, laid back, seen it all before look about him. Occassionally, he raises an eyebrow at one of the young guns as if to say "you wanna mess with me, boy?". He has great table presence & image. In fact, when he curls his lip & scowls, he reminds me of Marlon Brando as The Godfather.

[Stumpy]

How long does a final day like this usually take?

[tikay]

You are not missing much folks, it's a bit "flat" at the moment. We have to remember that these fellas are playing for a helluva lot of money.

But it will loosen up soon, for sure.

[tikay]

It varies Stumpy. Vienna & Deauville were quite quick, Copenhagen took hours & hours but was thrill a minute stuff.

[Ironside]

i was tempted to make a tip in the culcutta cup match thats just started but i am refraining

although not a tip i do hope this one goes against the  bookies

[tikay]

Warming up now though!

Romain & Alex clash, Alex moves in, Romain says "lets do it baby".

Romain is ahead with A-T, & it looks like curtains for Alex with his KQ.

But this is poker, & the flop comes an amazing A (see ya Alex baby?) K (I'm not dead yet Romain) K (whahoo!).

AKK!

Romain catches his second pair on the river, but Alex doubles through.

[Stumpy]

Dude Seeger has been laying down to the re-raise.  How does his stack look?

[tikay]

His stack looks just great!

I think the blinds have just gone to 5k-10k, running ante 1k, meaning a cost of 21k per round just to sit still. I need to confirm that though.

[Stumpy]

Thanks Tikay.   We're on pins and needles.

[tikay]

Rob now trying to make his mark on this table. He R'd 30k & waited for Romains reaction. Romain gave him a wry look. Rob gave him a grade one scowl. Romain passed.

I think Rob is gonna try & dominate now, but these young guns dont do fear, dont do respect, and dont do suck-up. Then again, that wont bother Rob - he dont subscribe to any of them either......

[Steve B]

How are the chip stacks?

[tikay]

WOW, now we've got REAL poker.......

Romain has been trying to dominate, but young Brandon, the Deauville winner, is looking more & more like a quality act.

We just had a monster pot of 450k, which Romain bet every strreet, & Brandon called every street.

Board was A K 6 T T.

When Romain bet 130k on the nd, it looked like he did not want a call, & Brandon seemed to know exactly where he stood with his raggedy kickered A & called pretty much instantly.

Brandon showed A-4. Romain showed 8-7.

GREAT call Brandon!

[Junior Senior]

a stupid bluff on every street!!!

i thought i wasn't playing! - thats my game

[tikay]

Man GONE.

Abdullaziz Abdullaziz has busted out in 6th, for 99,500 Euros.

[MammothMD]

wow - guess the action has begun!