CHRISTMAS CRACKER: £750 F/O (At A Glance)

[dino1980]

Two out in two hands at Mickey's table, but Lord Wernick was not involved.

On the first hand a short stacked Paul Higgins pushes in for 1k with  , Dave Knight flat calls from the small blind and Ian Woodley pushed all-in from the big blind. Knight insta-called with  . Woodley was in front with  . However the dreaded ace appeared on the flop of  and the  that fell on 4th and 5th street meant that Higgins was out and Woodley was left with just 400...

which went in on the next hand as he was in the small blind.

Knight, his nemesis from the last hand, raised to 2000 from the button and the big blind folded. Kinght had  whilst Woodley had  , an  in the door on the flop saw Woodley walking.
 

[dino1980]

Simon Trumper is out.

He moved in from the button with  and Damon D'cruz in the small blind work up with 

[Djinn]

Double up for Bad Girl courtesy of Driton...

He limped on the button, and it was heads up as she checked in the dark. 
Flop:  .  Xuyen checked, he bet a bit, she pushed in straight away for around 7k more (after the obligatory, "You made me look...").  Call.
She showed: 
He showed:    and was frowning somewhat as the turn and river came to take a chunk off his stack.

[Djinn]

In the closing minutes, Dan Samson loses a pot which could have secured him that coveted Leader spot - Matey raised to 3,500 preflop (holding around 16k) - Dan re-raised 6,000 with his , and then Matey moved in - Dan couldn't pass and found himself against .  Which held up.  He related this tale to me while overcoming the late night frustration in the smoking alcove.  It's probably good they're stopping soon as he'll find his 37,000 isn't as pitiful as he reckons right now when he returns tomorrow.

[Djinn]

I just heard Paul King remark: "I was down to 2,000, and now I have 20,500."  OK, Paul, YOU are climber of the day.  Congratulations.

We're going to sit in hope that the chip counts arrive promptly, then I shall deliver Nick to the luxury of the Days Inn where he can sleep off his first day's running around.

Back at 3pm for the restart....

[Djinn]

Final Counts:

Dan Samson     24,800
Mark Harris       25,800
Justin Turner    14,600
Alan Geddes     10,100
Steve Walmsley 11,700
Marc Goodwin   16,800
Paul King          25,300
S. Patel           29,500
Andrew Whittaker  12,400

Morton Rustad   12,600
Tim Blake          12,400
Ryan Fronda      28,300
Tracey Dell        32,400
Ali Mallu            49,500
Michael McCool   25,000
A. Douglas         21,400
Gez Morris          34,900

D. Knight          14,500
Chris Eddleman  44,400
J. Vaccarella      19,200
Michael Clements  13,400
Jim Mcbride        53,500
Ambro Morreale  11,400
Martino Libertini  15,000

Dick Shek          13,100
Bill Davies           26,300
Trevor Reardon  32,300
Srogd Gjerdal      23,200
Bhupinder Kholi   24,300
Mickey Wernick   52,500
Chris Huyton      35,200
Paul Webb         8,300

Barry Earnshaw    18,900
Anthony Kirkbride  8,100
Driton Haxhiaj       25,300
Paul Alterman       34,800
Xuyen Pham        19,800
Damon D'Cruz       33,800
Jim Mcshane         20,700