| Seat 1 : David Colclough (UK) |
experienced player |
| Seat 2 : Vicky Lincoln (UK) |
this woman has got something |
| Seat 3 : Jac Arama (UK) |
Graduated from Backgammon, top
tourney results |
| Seat 4 : Pascal Perrault (Fra) |
A Frenchman who can play |
| Seat 5 : Korosh (UK & Iran) |
Fruit cake never seemed this
nutty |
| Seat 6 : Joe Beevers (UK) |
'The Elegance' |
| Seat 7 : Padraig Parkinson (Ire) |
Top Irish drinker and player |
| Seat 8 : Surinder Sunar (UK) |
still one of the top tourney
players |
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| £100,000 to play for. £50,000
to the first place player. |
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| The beginning of the final saw most players
cautious which played into Korosh's hands as his style never changes. In this
respect he plays well and manages to take Jac off a weak hand with a total
bluff and the same happened to Joe. Korosh takes an early chip lead. |
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| Continuing the theme Korosh semi bluffs
all-in with a big drawing hand, Ace high four clubs after the flop. Surinder
has top pair with his K-Q and calls all in, a slightly weak play but against
Korosh it seemed OK. The pair stands and Korosh's march is checked. |
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| In earlier LNP series Colclough played
nervously and not well. Here he is a changed man and takes his time to make
moves. Against Jac he sees the flop of 4-K-4 and the Turn a 7. Jac bets and
David calls. The River is a 9 and Jac bets again. David has 10-7 in the hole
and eventually believes Jac to be on a steal and calls. Jac turns over 6-6. Was
it an amazing call or just bizarre? Probably Jac gave something away. |
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| Immediately after that hand Korosh (chip
leader) decides to bluff a flop of 3-4-J with 6-8 by betting a lot of chips.
Colclough has Aces and his all-in is not called. |
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| A strong theme in the final is the lower
chip stack in a hand comes through to win the hand. Pascal rather weakly gets
all-in with A-J against Joe's A-K and Joe takes the money leaving Pascal short
stacked. Pascal gets all-in in the next with K-9 in desperation and hits a King
to beat Colclough. Then soon again he gets all-in with 3-3 against A-J from
Colclough and it holds once more for a second double through. No one is going
out easily and the blinds are rising! |
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| Unable to change gear, Pascal now gets
aggressive with 9-9 after a flop of A-J-2 induces Jac to make a small bet. The
raise isn't enough and eventually Jac calls with K-J to take Pascal out
of the final. |
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| Colclough shows again that he is in control
of himself when he puts down top pair with lower kicker, Ace-6 and looks good
to finish high. |
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| Surinder has had little luck with finding
hands up to this point but is delighted to get all-in with A-K of hearts
against Joe. Joe flips over Jacks for a classic showdown hand. The flop shows a
King, the Turn nothing but the River spikes a Jack. Surinder is the
second player out. |
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| AT this point the chip leaders are Joe and
Jack just ahead of Korosh. |
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| Korosh now opens up 10,000 with A-T
diamonds only to see Joe raise all-in another 15,000. With 35,000 in the pot it
is a mandatory call. He's a 2-1 dog against Kings, Queens or Jacks and is
getting 2.15-1 in the pot. He's 2.25-1 against A-K. He passes. The chip winner
would have made him a strong favourite and he should have called. |
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| All this time Vicky has struggled and finds
the approaching big blind forcing her to play all-in with Q-T. She gets respect
except from Padraig who calls with Q-4 hearts. She makes a top straight and
doubles through. |
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| Padraig is now short stacked and off-camera
manages four straight all-in coups where no one called and he picked up the
blinds each time. He then doubles through Colclough with his favourite hand
9-10 against David's K-6. Its pretty desperate now with high blinds making
people go in with low hands. Colclough (A-6) now short gets all-in again
against Padraig (Q-J), he leads once more but a Queen on the flop puts him out
of the competition without doing anything wrong. |
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| The biggest hand of the final was also
started by Vicky in bad shape with low chips. She bet all-in with J-T offsuit
to see Korosh come over the top all-in with A-K. Joe (chip leader) thought for
some time and called the 20,000 bet, turning over pocket Queens. The flop was
harmless but a King appears on the Turn to put Vicky out and make Korosh
good chip leader with 50,000 in chips, half of all the chips on the table. |
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| Jac now gets all-in with A-3 against
Padraig with Q-7. Both a Q and a 7 appear on the flop with an 8. An Ace on the
Turn gives Jac outs but the River King sees him gone. |
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| The three way position was Korosh 50,000,
Padraig 38,000 and Joe 11,000. |
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| Joe makes a small bet and gets raised
8,000. Joe calls all-in he has Ace-Jack against Padraig 2-2. 13/12 favourite
Joe sees a reasonable flop 5-9-9. Any Ace, Jack or 5 or running pair to win.
The cards finish 6-8 and Joe is out third after having a big shot at
winning the final. |
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| Heads Up it is even in chips. From the
start its an uneven battle as Korosh plays poorly. He calls a 10,000 bet with
5-6 hearts and gets nothing on the flop. He tries a bet of 10,000 with Q-8 to
raised very quickly with K-7. He passed. Then staggeringly Padraig put
it all-in with Queen-8 and didn't want a call but Korosh did and turned
over another 5-6 hearts. The board fell 8-9-4-T-J and it was over quickly. |
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