Seat 1 : Ram Vaswani (UK) |
funny how the
Hendon Mob are in different heats?? |
Seat 2 : Pascal Perrault (Fra) |
A Frenchman who
can play ! |
Seat 3 : Chip Winton (USA) |
Left out for a few
series, now the All-American Pro is back |
Seat 4 : Colette Docherty (Ire)
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no one
knows |
Seat 5 : Asher Derei (UK) |
plays sort of
well |
Seat 6 : Liam Flood (Ire) |
Very
experienced |
Seat 7 : Adam Heller (UK) |
Been everywhere,
previous runner-up |
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Early play didn't involve much other than
nervous and half-hearted steal attempts. |
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Heller traps himself with a 6-4 spades when
the flop arrives 9-J-K all spades. He checks and Perrault checks with the Ace
of spades. The 10 of spades hits next and oddly both check again. Last card is
the Q of spades, making a straight flush on the board to the King, Pascal
having it to the Ace. Heller announces "I flushed the flop", Pascal bets small
and Heller has to call. |
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Asher is first to go when again
small suited cards traps a player. This time 6-5 clubs makes a flush on the
flop and Derei plays all-in only to see Flood calling with the 7-2 of clubs. No
escape. |
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Heller short stacked (SS) moves in with A-2 clubs to be called by Ram with
5-5. Flop of 6-2-6 is of little use and Turn and River don't improve.
Heller goes out. |
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Chip makes one successful all-in
with A-K and then tries again against the Ace-Ten of Pascal. PP hits the ten
first card and Chip sees no improvement. |
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Liam slows plays Ace-Ace into a flop
of K-K-5 which trips Ram holding K-7. It was a poor play if all he could do was
bet out on the flop which is what he did. Ram goes chip leader. |
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Under the pressure of short handed play
Colette tries a fast play with 10-8 diamonds but catches Ram with K-K.
They stand and Colette misses out on a step into the next round. |
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Ram goes into the heads-up battle the chip
leader but really outplays himself when a simple flop of K-Q-2-4-4 gets him to
put a lot chips in with his A-J vs K-3. He couldn't really beat any hand that
PP would be there with. Soon after he tried an impatient move with K-Q offsuit
only to be caught with A-T of Pascal. No help and Ram goes into the
semi-final and Pascal makes the final for the first time. |
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