"I'm a card rack," declares Ariston whilst assuring me that his dirty stack is still over the 20k mark.
On the other side of the cardroom, Steve Jelinek and Neil Channing cross swords, the latter betting 3k on the Turn of a
board and provoking a quickfire exchange of words.
"I can't believe you'd put in 3k without a six," thinks Steve out loud as he peers pensively into the distance.
Neil, meanwhile, covers his face animatedly and jigs up and down like a child awaiting his Christmas prezzies.
He removes his hands suddenly and asks, "What you got?"
"You've got 6-7," replies Steve, perhaps not quite understanding the question.
"Have you got anything?" inquires Neil.
"Oh I've got something," replies Steve abruptly.
"Have you got a pair?" probes Neil. "Maybe a pair with the flush draw?"
After a momentarily silence (a rarity in this hand), Steve folds a
face up (one card flipped over by mistake) before Neil inquires to the identity of the other. "A King," says Steve. "King-Jack of spades." The dealer reveals the second card to confirm.
Neil smiles, his face gleaming like a school kid who's just avoided detention. "Ooooooooh," he jokes as he reveals his
. "I was worried you had a bigger flush draw."
Consequently, Neil jumps up to 15k, leaving Steve with 8,1025 and his own mumbling of "I'd only committed x number of chips."
On the same table, Fran appears to have around 13k, whilst Keir Fitzgerald has 10,050. Also, Ian Gerrard has 10,250 and Clive Layton 5,225.
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