Craig Smith Tops 100,000 on Table Tuned to Radio Dunwoodie
Thomas Dunwoodie is performing what can only be described as a one-man variety show, keeping up a chain of banter with his neighbour Jonathan Bowers while stopping to croon "You are so beautiful... to me!" or, mysteriously, show someone his toes.
Somehow poker is still being played; Craig Smith just busted a player to boost his stack to 104,000 in a battle of the (just) overpairs. Bowers opened preflop for 3,500, called by the cutoff, button, small blind Smith and big blind Nikolay Ponomarev.
The flop brought the 
and checks to the button, who jammed for 35,800. Smith re-raised all in; the rest of the players in the hand suddenly weren't.
Smith: 
Button: 
The bigger overpair held over the 
turn and river. Smith, who apparently travelled down with the Edinburgh gang of Usman Ulhaq and Gary Bertram, looks to have outlasted his buddies on Day 1c.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
104,000
104,000
|
104,000 |
|
28,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
up against Lawrence's 
- but not for long. McManus was drawing dead after the flop came down 
, the 
and you just know the next time we’re in this spot and I bluff at it he’ll call me with the 
."
- which raised an eyebrow or two on the table. Ponomarev tabled 
and the 
flop, cutoff Tate check-called Richardson's 3,000 bet to see the 
turn. Another check-call, this time for 5,500. The river brought the 
.