The clock has been paused while our remaining nine are reseated at a single table to decide who will make the official eight-handed final and who will be presented with a £38,000 wooden spoon.
It folded around to Vivek Rajkumar in the small blind, who looked as though he was considering a raise. "May I find a hand," warned Nikolai Senninger in the big blind. Rajkumar raised anyway, to 150,000. There was a pause. "No?" ventured an amused Rajkumar. Senninger folded, and Rajkumar showed him pocket queens.
Wow, a brief blind on blind raising war between Benny Spindler (small blind) and Marty Smyth (big) ended up with the cards on their backs, racing for Spindler's tournament life.
Check this out for a blind-on-blind cooler:
Spindler:
Smyth:
Board: and an irrelevant
With handshakes all round, Spindler busts out in 12th, while Smyth is back up to 1.15 million.