DTD Mini Festival: Final Day - At A Glance

[danafish]

I have eaten an enormous hamburger, and Marc Goodwin has doubled up. These things are not related.

After raising to 15k from the cutoff and laying it down to an all in reraise from Richard Berridge in the small blind, the very next hand Marc raised again, and sure enough, Berridge reraised all in again. This time Marc called.

Goodwin:
Berridge:

Board:

Marc is now up to an averagey sort of 160k, and Berridge is down to an averagey sort of 170k. In fact all the stacks are more or less even. We could be here forever.

[danafish]

Disaster!

Chris Bruce makes it 20k utg, and finds callers in Randera on the button and Marc in the big blind.

They see a flop. Marc checks. Chris bets another 20k. Randera flat calls, at which Marc announces all in. Everyone gets up and wanders about, tensely. Chris folds. Randera calls, and this is bizarre, as he is calling for his tournament life, and he is holding...







... . Apparently Chris folded A-J. Marc is holding .


Turn: wait for it.......















.....











Ouch.

River: which doesn't pair the board, obviousl, and Randera doubles up to around 300k, while Marc is down to a disgruntled sort of 25k or thereabouts.

With very evil Fran looking on:

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Happy:

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Sad:

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[danafish]

The very next hand, Marc is all in with against Richard Berridge's .

Board: a straightalicious

"That makes it all square then, right?" says Marc Goodwin, who in spite of his legendary cool appears to be sulking just a little bit. "I won one and I lost one, so that's all ok."

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Shahnawaz Randera   15   8   300300
Andy Greekfish   15   1   186400
Richard Berridge   15   5   161500
Christopher Bruce   15   4   117200
Marc Goodwin   15   2   24300

[snoopy1239]

And just a few hands in, Marc Goodwin pushes his shortstack all in and is looked up by Chris Bruce.

"Chris shows ," announces Simon Trumper, "and Marc has "..."

Marc reveals just the one card and adds, "I haven't looked at the other yet."

"... and ," continues Trumper as Marc flips over the other. "Two live cards."

Board = ... academic river...

... and Mr Cool doubles through.

[danafish]

And again, Mr Goodwin doubles through most fortunately, as if the poker gods feel bad about that gutshot.

He moves in for 36k utg and it folds around to Andy Greekfish on the big blind, whose attention is entirely absorbed by the steak dinner in front of him and just the hand before said that he intended not to get involved in anything until the steak was gone. He calls.

Goodwin:
Andreou:

Greekfish is already looking back down at his steak, but the board is a Goodwin-favouring . Apparently Berridge folded K-9, which in retrospect considering the board was probably not in his interest. Goodwin doubles up to 80k or so.

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[snoopy1239]

They've all got alligator blood here, the latest player to survive an all-in being serial final tabler Chris Bruce. Pushing for around 70,000 from the small blind (3k/6k blinds), he found a call from Richard Berridge in the big blind who showed . Chris tabled .

Board =

Brucie lives to fight another day. Didn't he do well?

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After battling his way back into contention with the determination of the most fearsome of Trojan warriors, poor Marc Goodwin has suffered yet another unfortunate setback as he crosses swords with local favourite Richard Berridge. With the latter pushing all in for a total of 85,800, Marc Goodwin sighed momentarily before leaning back in his chair and announcing, "One again, I call."

On their backs...

Richard =

Marc =

Flop =

Marc walks away from the table in disgust.

Turn =

He needs help...

River =

Richard pumps the air as his fans on the rail quietly celebrated his victory with a smattering of muted cheers.

Marc, meanwhile, is back below 50,000.

"This is the sickest final table I've ever seen," observes a flabber gasted Chris Bruce.

[danafish]

Oh dear. Poor old Marc Goodwin.

It folds to him on the small blind. "I'm all in blind," he says to big blind Chris Bruce. "That's how everyone else is playing. Turn 'em over, decide if you want to call." Bruce doesn't turn them over, but he folds. Marc's cards are mucked without him looking at them.

This is what he looks like:

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The next hand, he moves in from the button, and Richard Berridge calls from the big blind.

Goodwin:
Berridge:

Board:

Everyone applauds, except for Marc who seems to be performing more of a slow clap.

A rather disgruntled Marc Goodwin is OUT in 5th place winning £4,147.

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[snoopy1239]

Seat 1: Andrew Andreou -- 155,000
Seat 4: Chris Bruce -- 125,000
Seat 5: Richard Berridge -- 215,000
Seat 8: Shahnawaz Randera -- 260,000

[danafish]

Awesome bluffage by Mr Chris Bruce. With a raise and a call preflop, Berridge checked the flop. Bruce bet 20k, and Berridge called.

Berridge also checked the turn, and then laid it down when Bruce announced all in for another 75k. Berridge folded, showing the . Bruce showed .

[danafish]

Mr Bruce raises utg to 22k. Mr Greekfish, on the big blind, goes all in. Their stacks are roughly even. There follows a lengthy and at times bizarre conversation between the two, in a weird attempt to determine what the other is holding. Eventually Bruce folds face up. With much cackling all-round hysteria, Greekfish shows .

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Just as I was thinking it only takes a couple of big hands, the action suddenly exploded unannounced. In a matter of seconds, Chris Bruce raised, Andrew Andreou pushed all in and Chris called.

Chris =

Andrew =

Board =

Andrew drops to 21,000, whilst Chris doubles up to 340,000.

[danafish]

Super-short-stacked Mr Greekfish pushed all in on the small blind and very quickly indeed Mr Chris Bruce called, keen to finish the job.

Greekfish:
Bruce:

Board:

Double-up! Greekfish now on around 42k.

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Next hand he pushed in from the button. Big blind Berridge considered it but folded, saying he'd had K-9. Greekfish showed K-3. Blinds for Greekfish!

[danafish]

Greekfish decides not to push next hand, and thus allows Chris Bruce to raise to 25k form the button. Small blind Berridge flat called, and they saw a flop. It was , which pleased Bruce greatly. He bet another 25k. Berridge called.

Turn:

Bruce announced all in. "I run so bad," said Berridge, before folding face up. Bruce shows him the for sympathetic vindicatory purposes as he rakes in the chips.

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Another big hand versus big hand affair occurred just moments ago when Richard Berridge and Chris Bruce found themselves all in with jacks and tens respectively. As the Berridge fans raced down from the cash game to cheer on their man, the dealer dealt out a Berridge-friendly flop. The turn was similarly harmless, and after a "one time" shout from the rail, the dealer dealt out the non-ten on the river. "Yes!" exclaimed Richard as his supporters shared in his delight.

Berridge now on around 250,000 and back in contention.

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As a result, the chip counts are thus with Andrew Andreou remaining the current short stack:

Seat 1: Andrew Andreou -- 54,000
Seat 4: Chris Bruce -- 230,000
Seat 5: Richard Berridge -- 245,000
Seat 8: Shahnawaz Randera -- 250,000

Still anyone's game...

[snoopy1239]

Richard Berridge is OUT and becomes the 4th place finisher winning £5,332

Crumbs. More drama than a Die Hard Trilogy boxset as Richard Berridge is eliminated by Shahnawaz Randera, just moments after doubling up to 250,000.

All in preflop from the button, Richard was quickly called by Shahnawaz who triumphantly revealed . Richard looked understandably a glum as he showed .

With the rail holding their breath and praying for a bullet, it failed to arrive as the board came a non-rocket-delivering .

Shahnawaz had his man just about covered, meaning he jumps up to the half a mil mark as Richard trudges towards the door.

And then there were three...

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I'm not sure my heart can take much more of this. Yet another all-in!!!

All in preflop...

Andrew Andreou =

Chris Bruce =

Flop =

"Oh, come on, don't put a heart down there," said Greekfish sarcastically.

Turn =

River =

He's aliiiiiiiiiiive!

[danafish]

Two double ups have put Mr Randera, who actually calls himself a much more RSI-friendly Babu, in a bit of an awkward position.

First, Chris Bruce announced 25k from the small blind. "50k," announced Babu before Bruce had even counted out the 25k. Raising an eyebrow, "All in," announced Chris, and, "Call," announced Babu.

Babu:
Chris:

Board:

Chris Bruce doubles up to around 350k.

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A few hands later, Babu raised to 25k from the button. Greekfish announced all in from the small blind, clearly not really expecting a call, because he turned over . Babu turned over .

Board:

Babu: down to around 120k.

Greekfish: up to aorund 300k. "I need a cigarette break. Did you see what I just done?"

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Seat 1: Andrew Andreou -- 295,000
Seat 4: Chris Bruce -- 375,000
Seat 8: Shahnawaz Randera -- 122,000

[snoopy1239]

With blinds of 5,000 and 10,000 and a running ante of 1,000, Chris Bruce limps on the button, Shahnawaz Randera pushes all in on the small blind for 172,000, Andrew Andreou calls in the big and Chris passes.

Andrew =
Shahnawaz =

Flop =

Turn =

"Oh, for fuck's sake," rants a clearly disappointed Andrew, perhaps showing signs of a real will to win this event.

River =

With Andrew left with 90,000, he's obviously unhappy: "Yeah, yeah, you know you can't win the tournament so you're going in all the time. I'd do the same in your position."

As Andrew walks away from the table to calm himself down, Chris echos his previous declaration of "This is by far the sickest... the sickest final table I have ever been involved in."