A near bubble round with tighty14 1 Reuben Marriott 80,000
14 3 Saifon Lambe 50,000
14 4 Todd Fullarton 40,000 (dead stack/player absent)
14 5 Ian Gascoigne 170,000
14 6 Andrew Hulme 210,000
14 7 Paul Romain 220,000
14 8 Simon Deadman 140,000
14 9 Paul Ratford 65,000
blinds 2-4k
Hand 1 button seat 8Folded to Deadman on the button who makes it 8,800
the blinds pass
Hand 2 button seat 9 Folded to Deadman in the cut off makes it 8,800
All fold
Hand 3 button seat 1Dead big blind
Folded to Deadman who makes it 8,800
Marriott on the button 3 bet to 35,000
Deadman all in
(Applying the pressure, much?)
Marriott big dwell. A big one
Tormented by this decision
Head down, head up, lean back, breathe out
Hand over mouth, switch position on the chair
Chip riffle, bang chips on felt
Seven minute dwell. I was counting. Best to know, I find
Fold
A sly smile from the watching Hulme in the direction of an impassive Deadman
Hand 4 button seat 3Romain raises to 9,200
All fold
Hand 5 button seat 4 (dead button)Folded to the blinds
Gascoine in the small blind 9,000
Hulme in the big blind calls
Gascoine leads for 20,000
Hulme calls
Gascoine 25,000
Hulme calls
Gascoine 35,000
Hulme asks how much Ian has left
the big denoms in the Ian stack are 80,000
Hulme all in
Instant call
Gascoine
for the rivered straight
Andrew mucks
a Hulme grimace as he has lost most of his stack to Ian G
Hand 6 button seat 5Gascoine button raises to 16,000
All fold
Hand 7 button seat 6Fullarton arrives after a Christening (I get all the scoops)
Fullarton all in
All fold
Hand 8 button seat 7Gascoine opens to 12,000
Deadman 29,300 from the small blind
Gascoine calls
Deadman 31,300 lead
Gascoine passes K-Q
and then we hit a break. That took 25 minutes!
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