Table Thewy is very interesting with two of the online prodigys Steve Chidwick and Chris Moorman facing off against grizzled cometitor Micky Wernick, live phenomenon Julian Thew and a player I believe is Team Pokerstars pro Marcin Horecki.
Two interesting hands played out as I watched the table.
The first saw Steve Chidwick betting 1,750 on the turn of a 6-3-6-7 board heads up versus Horecki. After some thought Marcin made the call.
The river came a 5 and Steve now led out for 3.5k. Steve is one of those players who the diametric opposite of livewires like Mike Matusow at the table.
Whereas Mike tends to keep up a constant dialogue, telling stories and jokes, giving rubdowns and remaining animated, Steve makes his moves with robotic precision before going into his shell and becoming statuesque until his opponent has acted.
On this occasion Marcin made the call and Steve instantly spun his hand into the muck without even waiting to see what the player had.
A few moments later though Marcin showed him anyway, flipping up just K-9 for King high!
Marcin laughed to himself as he raked in the pot..."Could you beat K-9?" he asked slightly mockingly and Steve issued a terse but decisive "NO" in response...
After this hand, Steve had circa 24,000.
Next up we had Thew vs Moomin.
Moomin had raised it up to 1,200 preflop and Julian made the call on the button...
The flop fell
and Moomin led for 2,200, only for Julian to raise it up to 4,400. Only a minimum raise to call Moomin did so before checking the
turn.
Julian now bet out a hefty 13,000 and after some thought Moomin laid down his hand, looking a little forlorn and perhaps cursing the fact Julian is sitting chipped up, confident and in position on him!
Chris was knocked down to 15,000 after this hand...Poor Moomin!
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