Carron Crows His Last as Lewis Lead Increases
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Patrick Carron open-shoved from the cutoff into Fabrizio Ascari's big blind. "Yes! Yes yes! Number one!" shouted Ascari, and then asked the dealer, "How many chips?" before the action had even got around to him. In the small blind, chip leader Toby Lewis announced a call.
"I see my card now," Ascari told the table. Then, "I pass." He flashed the 
.
On their backs, and Carron was in trouble.
Carron: 
Lewis: 
Board: 
"I had king-eight, once," lamented another player, but no-one seemed particularly to care. Carron was busto and Lewis was up to what looked like almost a million in chips.
Ascari continued to needle Lewis, who calmly but completely ignored him. "Number one," Ascari said, giving up on Lewis and turning to us at the rail. "Not for the table. For a few minutes."
With that cryptic adieu from Ascari, we retreated from the table.