| Seat 1 : Donnacha O'Dea |
the best cash
player in Europe |
| Seat 2 : Karina Mikelis |
top Las Vegas lady
player |
| Seat 3 : Kevin O'Connell |
occasional big
tourney player |
| Seat 4 : Peter Evans |
"The Bandit" -
scrap metal man |
| Seat 5 : Surindar Sunar |
high flyer with
success, no one knows how |
| Seat 6 : Bruno Fitoussi |
World Champion
Heads-Up player |
| Seat 7 : Robin Keston |
found money in
Bingo |
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| Some real heavy-weights in this game but
not all of them are suited to this format of poker play. |
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| Bruno, fresh from victory in the Heads-Up
World Championship, fell victim to the short nature of a heat and the short
stack problem as well as his aggressive nature. With A-6 spades, Bruno checked
the flop of A-K-Q as did two others. When a second spade hit on 4th he bet and
found himself raised. Pot odds were not good enough but he didn't want to give
up and struggle on with a smaller stack. He flat called and even though the
River failed to bring his flush he still called Keston bet all-in. Bruno
out. |
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| Karina shows us some professional moves but
then offers a sign of complete novice at no-limit (or pot limit). Karina makes
a small preflop raise with A-5 when last to speak and the bandit calls. The
flop of A-2-5 is checked by both players but when a third club hits (9) on 4th
the Bandit leads with a bet. Karina had wanted this as she raises back with a
medium bet. Call. The last card is a J of no consequence and the bandit checks.
Now Karina's only play is to check. Any bet can only be called here by a better
hand and he already indicated that he had something. But bet she does and Peter
calls with trips to go into an early chip lead. The only thing she did right
was not to get all in. A little later Karina goes out with a three way
show down, Kestner taking the money. |
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| O'Dea put down several hands when behind
only to find himself going all-in with J-J when Surinder held Q-Q. No help and
O'Dea is out without making a mistake. |
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| Kevin moves all-in with 8-8 to be called by
the Bandit with 10-10. Kevin middle pins on the River to make a straight and go
chip leader. Steaming from the out draw the Bandit bets all-in on a flop of
8-5-3 holding A-6. Kevin finds 7-7 in the hole and calls to take his buddy
Peter out as he finds no help. |
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| Kestner doubles through with A-A against
Surinder's A-K spades. Shortly afterwards Sunar puts all his chips in
with nothing and Kevin takes him out. |
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| Heads-Up is Kevin against
Robin. Neither player plays well in the battle but Robin takes the
majority of the chips. Kevin finds himself with K-T and goes all-in. Robin
calls with 4-4 which holds through the River and he goes into the final. |
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