| Seat 1 : Ram Vaswani
(UK) |
journeyman player |
| Seat 2 : Kevinn
O'connell (UK) |
occasional big tourney player |
| Seat 3 : "Gentleman"
Liam Flood (Ire) |
experienced but too nice to win |
| Seat 4 : Hamish Shah
(UK) |
succesful tourney player |
| Seat 5 : Charlabambos
Xanthos (UK) |
ex-backgammon player turned poker enthusiast |
| Seat 6 : Korosh
(Iran) |
london local and vocal |
Seat 7 : San Kwon Carlos
(Thai) |
not
heard of before or since |
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| The
early play was a prime example of how not to play poker. Shah slow played Aces
and then bet into three people and called two bets. Vaswani called a big
pre-flop bet with TENS and found JACKS. |
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| First
to exit was the short stacked Shah who desperately hoped K 10 would improve to
beat Bambos's 7-7. |
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| Then
the also short stacked Vaswani tried the much better AK against the same man
with the same hand and the same result. |
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| Third
out was the lady from Thailand who played very solidly. Infact a re-raise from
her had made Xanthos put down AK before the flop! (something we don't know
Bambos?) Sadly she chose 9-9 to go all in against Korosh with
10-10. |
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| Flood
played O.K. but tried too hard with a K-Q off-suit. A fairly poor call with Q-9
clubs brought O'Connell a flush on the flop. The gentleman thought he would
bluff it from there. |
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| Xanthos
was now very low on chips and stuck it in with J-8 suited versus O'Connell's
Aces and nothing came. He had played weirdly all night. |
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The
heads-up dual decides who goes into the final.
We were left with the
two most vocal and active players and it couldn't last long. Immediately there
was another class demonstration of how not to play when O'Connell saw the flop
with 7-2 and Korosk 8-6. The cards fell 5-6-8 of hearts where upon Korosh bet
his two pair for small money. O'Connell calls with a straight and flush draw,
both a tad hopeful. A Queen on 4th made Korosh bet larger and he was
called again. Now with a 7 on the River O'Connell stuck it all in using the
open ended straight on the flop as his bluff. It worked. If Korosh had bet
bigger from the off he would have been safe and O'Connell was swimming
unnecessarily in mirky waters with his hopeful style of bluff. Korosh then gets
the upper hand in the needle stakes and induces O'Connell all-in with A-6
versus his pocket KINGS and it was all over. Korosh won.
Who the
best player was and if he they won is a mistery. At least the final will be
lively. |
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