This final table are like limescale, it's hard to get rid of any of them. The latest player to survive by the skin of his teeth was short stacker Isaac Settle, his chips inevitably flying in with . Initial raiser Deepak Bhatti, whose stack has gone up and down like a kangaroo on a bungee, had .
The flop favoured Settle, but left backdoor straight and flush possibilities for Bhatti, neither of which arrived on the turn and too-little-too-late river.
As a result, Bhatti drops to 900,000, whilst Settle shoots up to 1,500,000, the first time, I believe, that he has broken that one million mark.
Since then, this has been a flop-free game, with our players taking turns raising preflop and picking up the blinds and antes without a fight every time.
Isaac Settle, Bart Daivs and Deepak Bhatti are all firmly in the danger zone, though, so we expect to see some serious action before long.
We didn't have to wait long for some juicy action, as it folded around to Bart Davis on the button, and he went all in for 630,000. Nick Mitchell reshoved in the small blind, big blind Deepak Bhatti wisely got out of their way, and they were on their backs.
Davis:
Mitchell:
Upon learning that their boy Mitchell was dominaitng the all-in player, the by now extremely tipsy rail went wild.
Board: bink!
Davis' double up was to 1.4 million, below average but no longer in any immediate danger. The rail quietened down a little, but Mitchell is no trouble either - he was left with 2.2 million after that encounter.
The beered-up Mitchellites have just had a supervisor come and have a word with them about standing up on the final table set and approaching the table - this is apparently Not Allowed. Once they'd had it explained to them that the organizers basically just don't want anyone injured or any of the lovely expensive equipment up here broken, they were actually very reasonable through their beer goggles - but this happy exchange of ideas was interrupted when they all stood up because up on the table, a player was all in...
Deepak Bhatti open-shoved from under-the-gun for 405,000; Gabe Costner called one seat down with . After both blinds, one of which - Bart Davis - folded , we had our showdown.
The flop changed nothing, but the turn did, and by the river, it was all over.
It's time to spend another 20 minutes milling around in the hallway, or alternatively trying to feed Nicholas Mitchell eight beers if you are a member of his railing party.