| Seat 1 : Padraig Parkinson (IRE) |
Top Irish drinker
and player |
| Seat 2 : Phil Hellmuth (UK) |
1989 World
Champion, previous winner of LNP |
| Seat 3 : Kevin O'Connell (UK) |
Brummie player of
great experience |
| Seat 4 : Willie Tann (UK) |
Dry but tough
player |
Seat 5 : Lise Vigezzi (Fra)
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Someone to make
the game look healthy |
| Seat 6 : Jon Shoreman (UK) |
Very good
Heads-Up, methodical |
| Seat 7 : Ken Lennaard (Swe) |
Making a living at
they say? |
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| Early play sees Phil (10,10) give money to
Kevin (K,J) when a J hits the flop. Phil talks about it for the rest of the
show. Willie outplays Padraig on a scary K,K,10 flop to pick up chips. Kevin
plays badly with Q,Q when the flop is A,9,9,2,9 and bets into Shoreman holding
an Ace. His bet had no meaning, it could never have won any more money. |
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| Phil outplays himself with a bluff-bluff on
7-3 after a flop of A-K-T. Kevin had the straight. Then Phil, short stacked
(SS) by now, moves all-in with 8-8. Padraig calls
with A-7 and hits an Ace. Phil is out first after coming from
California. |
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| Kevin (SS)
gets all-in with A-3 vs A-Q spades of Ken. Ken makes a flush and Kevin
is out admitting he played a poor game. |
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| Liz and Willie get all-in twice with
each other when both (SS). First Liz has J-J
against A-4 but the Ace hits and then her K-5 hits a 5 vs his A-K but Willie
makes a straight on the River card. Liz is out. |
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| Ken promotes himself with a strange all-in
call with A-4 against Padraig with 6-6. He hits an Ace and doubles through.
Willie then doubles through Padraig when his K-J makes a flush against
3-3. |
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| Quiet Jon gets caught playing Ace-Ace when
Ken makes another weak call with K-Q for a sizeable pre-flop bet. K-K-8 on the
board catches Jon out when he tries to take it there and then. Jon then gets a
little back from Ken when his 6-5 makes a straight. Finally Jon gets
all-in favourite with K-J against Padraig but an off-suit T hits the River and
Jon is gone. |
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| Short Stack play dominates as usual as the
antees force play. Willie (SS) gets in with
A-J but Padraig's Q-8 makes a pair and were are down to two. |
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| Exchanges see Ken hit many good starting
hands that force Padraig to back off from stealing blinds. Then when Padraig
tries to steal Ken's opening bet with K-J he sees himself called and on trouble
with the K-7. A 7 hits and Padraig makes the final after playing pretty
well and Ken into the semi-final with some scratchy play and a bit of
luck. |
| (Until Next
Time) |
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