Shock Horror! We have jsut witnessed two eliminations.
First off the hoodied Farbod Javad shoved when it was folded round to him in the small blind. Jim Reid took little time to call with his
, and Farbod showed his frustration fist-clench style as he turned over his dominated As
.
The board came 4-K-T-8-4, meaning, since Jim's enormous stack more than consumed that of Farbod, that Javed Farbod is out in 11th to the congratulations, hugs and handshakes from his assembled supporters on the rail...
10 remained at this point but any suggestion that this would mean a laborious drawn out process as the players tried to outlast each other was shattered soon afterwards.
Rob Garfield raised to 25k from mid position (5k/10k/500)on Joe Grech's big blind...
"He loves your blind!" exclaimed Nik Persaud, possibly cheekily trying to encourage a little action to boost his chances of making the final table...possibly.
He needn't have worried as Karim Louis called from the small blind, and Joe felt obliged to call the extra 15k for value and did.
The flop came an action packed
.
Karim now moved allin for what was Rob entire stack of 150-200k. Rob stood up and rubbed his forehead as he tried to make a decision...
Eventually...HE CALLED!
Karim showed
for bottom set whilst Rob showed
for a gutshot, nut flush draw and gutshot royal flush draw.
All eyes were on the Dena as she flipped over the turn which was the
, meaning Rob was now in the driver's seat with the nut flush. The river fell the ....
though, which meant Rob's flush was now redundant, ruined on the river by Karim's splendid and final-table-bubble-bursting full house!
What an exciting culmination to today's play!
As the players were now reduced to the final 9, this brought an immediate end to proceedings. We have some photos of the final drama to share with you, which will be appearing shortly and we will be passing out accurate chip counts for the final 9 players any time now...
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