$2,500 PLH (D2) / $5,000 6-H - Interactive

[Djinn]

$2,500 PLH

Iwan Jones gets the Star Treatment (well, a pointy mic waved in his face) over in the PLH corner.  Here are my best shots of him, pre and post his noticing me waving at the rail.

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[snoopy1239]

$1,500 NL

Padraig Parkinson just folded to an all-in from Seat 1 (Richard, I believe the announcer referred to him as).

Flop was

Parkinson is still running well.

Incredibly, whilst he was thinking about whether to call or not, the fellow in Seat two was chatting away to his buddy on the phone, and the dude on the mic didn't do anyhting about it until just before Padraig folded.

It's also a shame that, like Gosney's last year, this final table isn't being filmed. It seems that the ones that the Europeans win never see the light of day. Aaaah well.

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[Colchester Kev]

GO Padraig .... and Iwan.

[snoopy1239]

$5,000 6-H

They say in poker that it's all about timing (aka luck), and just now my timing was impeccable.

I thought I'd take a quick snap of Joe Awada's highly impressive towers, and then, out of the blue, down they came.

Board =

Pot = 15-20k

MB bets 15k

Awada makes a deep reach

MB calls all-in

MB =

Awada =

The latter was drawing dead, and now finds himself down to the felt.

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[Djinn]

$5,000 6-H

Neighbours Hellmuth and Dubai (!) with stacks 20k (Phil) and 50k (Dave) - not a quiet table.  While I was standing there it was Hellmuth who kept the conversation going, with himself, while Dubai seemed uncharacteristically sedate.

Phil says, "Come on and deal 'em fast; I've been here 8 minutes and they've re-raised me three times already."  Here a finger gets waved in Dubai's general direction.

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[Djinn]

By the way (by the Rail anecdote coming) I saw Karl Mahrenholz sitting in one of those Money Collection chairs (where people struggle with the forms sneaking you out of tax if you hold a British passport) collecting his 47th place money from late late last night.  He went out in the last half hour (at which point I was actually asleep across two chairs in the Press Room - one of them was Snoopy's and instead of pushing me on the floor as I deserved, he brought another chair over and typed over my head) and he's flying home tomorrow.  Still has job, but got that dreamy look in his eye when I asked him when he was turning pro...

[Djinn]

GO Padraig .... and Iwan.

Apparently Padraig has taken a chip lead!  Marvellous...the people in the Press Room who have heard of him are very complimentary of his writing style and sense of humour.  Quite a bit of support for him in here actually.  Snoops brings you more.

[snoopy1239]

$1,500 NL

approximate chip counts

Mats Rahmn -- 950k
Chris Birchby -- 800k
Padraig Parkinson -- 550k
Richard Toth --  500k

[snoopy1239]

$2,500 PLH

Iwan Jones gets the Star Treatment (well, a pointy mic waved in his face) over in the PLH corner.  Here are my best shots of him, pre and post his noticing me waving at the rail.

I received that gesture too, I think it meant something else though...

[Djinn]

$5,000 6-H

Kenna James over in the NL area - last saw him, I think, in the Monte Carlo Millions, although he's very well known over here.  Do you think he developed his accessory affiliation from watching Brunson?

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[danafish]

I thought you said Jenna James for a second there

[danafish]

Jenna Jameson, I meant. I'm having a strange day...

[Colchester Kev]

Jenna Jameson, I meant. I'm having a strange day...

I think about having a strange day with Jenna Jameson quite a lot too

[Colchester Kev]

WAKE UP SNOPPY & JEN !!!

[snoopy1239]

Sorry, having connection problems here.

had to restart the ol' lappie, am still moving in slo-mo

Anyhow, back to the 1,500 NL, whilst Padraig is still hovering around the 600k mark, your new chip leader is young Hungarian Richard Toth is your new chip leader with around 900k.