yes indeedy, the protracted bubble period is indeed at an end.
Various things happened during the bubble, such as Paul Gardner getting very short with J-J vs A-A before multiple shoves, which weren't looked up got him back into the running.
Dave Colclough took some chips off
Joe Grech, nicely judging a value bet with his K-K on an A high flop before making a good bet for a decent amount of his stack with 2nd pair as Joe bluffed with a missed gutshot...
HOWEVER, most importantly, we had our unlucky bubbler in 28th spot.
James "Mcepitome" Atkin had become very short over the bubble period, missing a spot to double up earlier when he passed A-Q to no raise in the cutoff...
Down to 14k or so with 4k in the BB, he was virtually committed if someone raised, although perhaps the A-Q pass from James earlier convinced
Rob Garfield that he could get one through, so raise he did and James called allin, holding Ah
versus Rob's surprising 6-2...
"This is going to be sick!" announced James and his words were to prove prophetic...
The flop came
........"OOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH" said the watching crowds, who have clearly been attending the Josh Tyler school of commentary excellence, if such an organisation exists....
The turn improved Rob's chances of outdrawing James even further as a
fell, meaning Rob now had an open ended straight draw. James could barely look at the river and it fell....
THE
!
A single pair on the river was sufficient to give Rob the popt and consign James to the growing ranks of nearly men, leaving the casino to console themselves with fish, chips, gravy and large and bountiful quantities of ale...
Here is James, taking his defeat in good grace and managing to squeeze a smile out despite his beat...
And here is Rob, happy to burst the bubble and increase the size of his piles...of chips.
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