| Seat 1 : Manuela Seliger |
tournament pro
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| Seat 2 : Ian Dobson |
unlucky not to win
the Poker Million |
| Seat 3 : Dave Ulliott |
winner series I,
world class player |
| Seat 4 : Mike Magee |
very experienced
and strong tourney player |
| Seat 5 : Bambos Xanthos |
ex-backgammon
player turned poker enthusiast |
| Seat 6 : Jon Shoreman |
runs European
Poker website |
| Seat 7 : Steve Vladar |
very solid, strong
successful tournament player |
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| A tough line-up. We pick it up with four
left. Shoreman - Magee - Ulliott - Vladar |
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| Ulliott short stacked doubles through
Vladar's K-Q when his 4-7 caught a 7 on the river. Minutes later the Devilfish
found A-Q suited and bet 900 all-in and bizarre play by Magee, he called with
2-5 spades. Ulliott doubled through again. |
| Even stranger than that play was Ulliott's
willingness to repay the favour by calling Magee's Q-J diamonds with 6-5
offsuit for all the chips. He went out as Magee flushed and paired. |
| A desperate Shoreman called an all-in bet
with 8-8 by Vladar with his K-9. If he read this as a small pair it was
brilliant but otherwise over-rating his hand. With a flop of A-Q-K-7-Q Vladar
went low. |
| Magee opens for 1200 with A-9, a third of
his chips and Shoreman comes back with all-in with his K-Q, 6200 in the pot.
Magee thinks for some time and then passes. His bet was too strong with this
hand and with this pot size he must call. A smaller bet would have allowed him
to think more clearly as to whether Shoreman was bluffing and get away from his
hand if not. Only A-A makes his hand dead and A-K,Q,J,T in trouble. He can't
risk throwing away these chips on the chance that Shoreman had one of these as
much of the time Shoreman would be bluffing or sensing a bluff from Magee. |
| After hanging on for some time Vladar
eventually falls to Magee. |
| Shoreman now out plays himself with his
chip lead. Bets with K-7 against K-T. Flop A-T-9 and he jerks a big bet. Not
difficult for Magee to raise and Shoreman passes quickly knowing that his play
was read easily. |
| Aggressive again he opens with A-2 to be
called by J-T. Flop 2-5-T and he bets out, call. He spikes an Ace on the river
to stay alive. Lucky. |
| Once more he bets pre-flop with A-2 and is
called. He checks a flop of 3-5-7 but the turn shows an Ace and he bets medium.
Magee thinks and goes all-in, Shoreman instantly calls, a sign of wanting an
end one way or another. Magee turns over 4-6 for the lock nuts. Magee goes to
the final, Shoreman to the semi. |
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