Young Brit Toby Lewis hasn't been playing for very long - he's only been around on the circuit for a year or so - but in that time he's already amassed an impressive list of cashes including 28th place at EPT Prague last year, a final table appearance at the PokerStars IPT Venice and a cash at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo in April of this year. Not bad for just a whippersnapper - he's barely out of nappies, even in online circles where he goes by the moniker of "810ofclubs".
Lewis started the day as one of three Brits (motherland, represent!) in the top ten - the others being his somewhat more well-known buddies Sam Trickett and Paul "Pab" Foltyn - and although he's slipped down a little in the counts since then, he is still incredibly dangerous and his current 120,000 stack is still easily enough to do a lot of damage to the rest of his table.
Just now we watched him involved in a preflop showdown with Brock Parker lookalike Tim Finne. Lewis held , Finne was all in for 70,000 with . Looking pretty good for a chop - until the flop came down and the turn brought a second club, the . Finne stood up as though to leave - but sat down again with relief when the river was a harmless .
Tablemate James "Flushy" Dempsey laughed and warned Finne, "Toby's built a career on that sort of thing."
"Well, I wouldn't call it a career," Lewis reflected.
Jonathan Proudfoot opened to 4,000 from the button and JP Kelly called in the small blind.
The flop was and Kelly check-called a bet of 7,000 from his compatriot before both checked the turn. The river was the and Kelly now led for 14,000 but Proudfoot raised to 42,000. Kelly thought for several minutes before calling and Proudfoot quickly mucked, Kelly not needing to show either.
He said however, "I hate that rule that I don't have to show but I may as well take advantage."
A very weird hand played out between Alexey Golodyaev and Dan Heimiller, the board was reading , the Russian had bet 9,100 and Heimiller raised to 20,100 only for Golodyaev to make it 34,100.
Heimiller made the call with neither having more than around 50,000 back, the came on the river and Heimiller now bet a very small 18,000 which got Golodyaev to fold. Sam Trickett looked on bemused by the entire proceedings but Heimiller was much more busy raking in the colossal pot.
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James "Flushy" Dempsey - headed for the golf course
James "Flushy" Dempsey, the man who won his first WSOP bracelet this summer ($1,500 PLO) and came as close as you can get to winning a second without actually managing to seal the deal (runner up in the $10,000 O8) will definitely not be picking up an EPT title this week as he has been knocked out of the running by fellow Brit JP Kelly.
It seems that Dempsey called all in to a five-bet from Team PokerStars Pro Kelly with . Kelly's stayed ahead, and propelled one Brit to the heady heights of 225,000 while relegating the other to the rail.
Firstly, Jonathan Proudfoot seemed to have recovered from his early knock and with 75k got it all in preflop from late position vs. a big blind Toby Lewis, who was in a re-raising mood with his but ran into Proudfoot's which held to pretty much halve his shiny new stack.
Across the room Vegard Nygaard, down quite a bit from his high chip point yesterday, bet off David Williams (also now nursing a mid-to-short stack) in a small blind on blind confrontation - but a couple of thousand is a couple of thousand when you're under 40k.
Also a stroke of good fortune for Fabrizio Ascari, whose pocket Threes flopped a house while the player to his left picked up the nut flush draw and got his stack in. A boost in chips for the Italian who has been in good shape chipwise right from the start of the whole tournament.
Here's a selection of other stacks which have seen some fluctuation this hour:
Some of the craziest three-way action I've seen since university (in a poker game I mean, obviously) as three stacks went to war on a flop of
Wolfgang Haag:
Michel Abecassis:
Ronny Kaiser:
The turn was the giving Kaiser a huge number of outs, one of which was the making the German the nuts to win a 135,000 chip pot. Abecassis won a small side pot but was left with just 40,000 remaining. Haag meanwhile is out.
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Ciao, everybody! See you at EPT London!
By the by, one of the unfortunates who did not make it through the last level was Dario Minieri. We regret that we did not manage to catch the hand, but he is definitely bust, and we suspect that if you need him in the next couple days he'll be on or near the beach.
Maybe some of the players have given up cigarettes, or perhaps they were all queuing for the bathroom at the last break - whatever the reason, there were fewer people we recognised hanging out in the sunshine on the smoking balcony this time around. Nevertheless we managed to catch chip leader Grzegorz Cichocki, EPT Snowfest winner Allan Bække and self-proclaimed "Mad Italian" Fabrizio Ascari.
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, Finne was all in for 70,000 with 
. Looking pretty good for a chop - until the flop came down 
and the turn brought a second club, the 
. Finne stood up as though to leave - but sat down again with relief when the river was a harmless 
.
and Kelly check-called a bet of 7,000 from his compatriot before both checked the 
turn. The river was the 
and Kelly now led for 14,000 but Proudfoot raised to 42,000. Kelly thought for several minutes before calling and Proudfoot quickly mucked, Kelly not needing to show either.
came on the river and Heimiller now bet a very small 18,000 which got Golodyaev to fold. Sam Trickett looked on bemused by the entire proceedings but Heimiller was much more busy raking in the colossal pot.
. Kelly's 
stayed ahead, and propelled one Brit to the heady heights of 225,000 while relegating the other to the rail.
which held to pretty much halve his shiny new stack.
making the German the nuts to win a 135,000 chip pot. Abecassis won a small side pot but was left with just 40,000 remaining. Haag meanwhile is out.
