One great thing about "Live" is that, for the most part, players take their beats like grown-ups, even though the money is usually much bigger.
If those hands went off on Sky Poker there'd be 3 or 4 "wa-wa-wa it's not fair" or "HOW COULD HE CALL, I BLAME SKY" threads, usually accompanied by an interrobang of some sort.
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He had 3-3 v K-K & turned a three, but Matey Boy with the K-K four-flushed it. Very big pot, & K-K man might just be the new chippie.
One great thing about "Live" is that, for the most part, players take their beats like grown-ups, even though the money is usually much bigger.
If those hands went off on Sky Poker there'd be 3 or 4 "wa-wa-wa it's not fair" or "HOW COULD HE CALL, I BLAME SKY" threads, usually accompanied by an interrobang of some sort.
Meh.
You are not missing anything, play has slowed to a crawl & we still have 10 left. Everyone wants to be on the FT, understandably.
Yay, the reverse anti-bok never fails.
As usual, I'll try & get full chip counts & names before the Final starts.
Players are taking a 20 minute break whilst we do the chip counts.
Chip Counts & seat allocations soon, but I can tell you @chrisdonkb is in Seat 5 so it looks like he is in the region of 1.5 milly.
Here we go....
Seat 1Christian Watt 1,171,000
Seat 2 Tom Foster 738,000
Seat 3 Chris Riggens 146,000
Seat 4 Alan Chrzaszcz (sp...) 1,970,000
Seat 5 Chris Whittaker (@chrisdonkb) 1,615,000
Seat 6 GK 489,000
Seat 7 Alex Tong 414,000
Seat 8 Callum Reid 641,000
Seat 9 Mark Macpherson (@Mark277) 1,175,000
We are halfway through Level 9, Blinds are 12k/24k-24k
Payouts;
1st £15,500
2nd £10,500
3rd £7,150
4th £5,725
5th £4,550
6th £3,800
7th £3,060
8th £2,400
9th £1,900
Average stack? 965,500.
The short stack in Seat 3 just trebled up after hitting trip 9's with J-9.
Not much happening yet, it's mostly bet/fold stuff.
Blinds & Antes are 16k/32k-32k
BIG HAND ALERT
Seat 4, Alan Chrzaszcz has A-K & seat 7, "GK" has Q-Q, so naturally it's all in pre.
Big sigh of relief from GK when the Q appears on the turn to give him the lock.
Quite a rail building...
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Pardon my terrible memory, but am I right in thinking @chrisdonkb is bidding to win his second SPT?
It's possible I'm confusing him with @cpfc_2010 who looks very similar, if a tad more rotund.