| Seat 1 : Henry Nowakowski (Ger) |
Polish-German who
puts al the chips in |
| Seat 1 : Gary Jones (UK) |
Moderately
strong |
| Seat 2 : 'Mad' Marty Wilson (UK) |
lively player from
Birmingham, if you couldn't tell |
| Seat 4 : Joe Beevers (UK) |
'The
Elegance' |
| Seat 5 : Charalambos Xanthos (UK) |
plays Backgammon
better than most poker players |
| Seat 6 : Ram Vaswani (UK) |
one of the Hendon
Mob |
| Seat 7 : Ken Lennaard (Swe) |
Making a living at
it they say? |
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| Early play was quite tight and nobody made
any serious blunder. |
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| After Ken had lost some chips to Ram with a
straight/flush draw that didn't come through he found a pair of nines in the
hole and raised Ram again who called with K-J. The flop brought no help, the
turn a deuce but the final card was a king and Ken was first out. Ram
early chip leader. |
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| Henry being quite short stacked put all his
chips in with T-T and Bambos called with the best hand he'd seen, A-K. Behind
him Ram called for the value with A-J hearts. The flop showed 7-T-3 and two
hearts for a flush draw but trips for Henry. The turn was a rag and although
the river was a jack, Henry tripled-up and Bambos was gone. |
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| Marty sees a flop of 7-T-2 with Gary. Marty
has A-5 and decides to bet the flop thinking that unless Gary has hit the ten
he will pass. Gary reads Marty for the same thing and raises all-in with his
A-9. Marty has too few chips to pass and calls all-in himself. The turn is a Q
and dramatically the river card is a five and Gary goes out. |
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| Joe Beevers tries to take Henry off a hand
by raising all-in but the German is not a man to leave chips in a pot without
defending them and calls the all-in bet from Joe. Joe turns over Q-T but Henry
has K-T. Bad luck for Henry as a Q flops with no improvement. |
| The two clash immediately again when Joe
calls Henry's all-in. Henry once more in the lead with A-7 clubs against K-T
but once again Henry is unlucky as the cards fall 3-T-Q-5-7. Henry
out. |
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| With three left Marty and Ram begin a duel
of hands when first Ram escapes from an all-in with A-6 against A-Q. With a
pair and an A-K on the flop the hand is tied. The next hand Ram gets all-in
with K-J only to see Marty's A-Q but again escapes with a king on the River.
The next hand Marty is all-in leading once again with A-9 against K-9 but the
flop brings a king for Ram. Escape this time for Marty as an Ace hits on the
turn and he's back in the game. |
| Now its the turn of Joe and Ram to fight it
out with a battle of small pairs, 4-4 for Joe and 8-8 for Ram. Again the
underdog takes the lead with a 4 on the flop but Ram can't improve and
this time goes out. |
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| Marty has a small stack in the heads-up
battle but doubles through once with 2-2 and then again when calling A-7 with
Q-J to make it level. He then butchers some chips and sets himself all-in with
K-T on a flop of 3-3-6 banking on Joe not connecting with the flop. Joe has 6-7
and calls to win the semi-final as an 8 and a deuce hit. Marty runner-up
in the worst spot and Joe into the final. |
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