PokerNews' own Matthew Parvis raised from under the gun plus one to 250. The player in the cutoff seat called and then the big blind also called. The three of them saw the flop come down and the big blind open-shoved for 2,300. Parvis stuck all of his chips in for a reshove worth 3,125. The cutoff then folded.
When the hands were turned over, two flush draws were shown and Parvis' hand wasn't looking too good. He held the against the for his opponent.
After a fell on the turn, Parvis could no longer win this pot. The river completed the semantics of things with the .
Parvis sent over the chips and was knocked down to 825 chips.
We missed the action, but overheard Martins Adeniya telling his buddy Praz Bansi that he was done. We then checked Adeniya's old table and indeed his chips were all gone. Who got them? Kevin MacPhee was busy stacking up to about 11,000.
I spoke to Jamie Burland during the break. He's currently on 2,700 after a rather uneventful opening two levels. He did play one slightly interesting pot, raising it up to 250 from the button with before being called in the small blind by Vic grinder Julian Quance.
Burland fired out on the flop, but then checked back on the turn and river. Quance revealed for top pair.
Burland was wondering how profitable shoving the river would be (an all-in would be around twice the pot), thinking he could get his opponent, who was playing pretty tight, to fold top pair. But although Quance is a solid player, he's also rather shrewd, and could possibly smell out the bluff and make the call.
"Would be great if I'd shoved it in," added Burland, "and he'd deemed the over-shove to be a bluff and made the call with tens or something and turned my hand into an accidental value-shove."
Ramsey Ajram has been dropped to just 1,675 after he called a squeeze all-in from a Scandananvian-looking short-stack. Ajram tabled ahead of the weak but live but the board came and the disappointed British youngster was forced to hand over a 5,000+ pot as a result.
Just before the break started, JP Kelly got all-in with against Chris Moorman's but the former managed to four-flush to much hilarity from their friends. Kelly is up to an instant 6,000 while Moorman dropped back to his starting stack.
"It's what the crowd wanted!" shouted James Dempsey.
They (well, Tony G, mainly) say you need "heart" in poker, but in Jon Lundy's case, he needed five to stay in the event. All in with , he came unstuck against with the flop reading . No flush on the turn and river and Lundy was out, evidently disappointed, but still a gentleman as he left.
Last year's winner of this event, JP Kelly has just arrived at the tournament, "Nice stack Flushy," he said walking past his friend James Dempsey's paltry 1,175 in chips and moved into the seat next to Chris Moorman.
Dempsey pointed out he was a short stack in the Pot-Limit Hold'em event that he won this summer (following in Kelly's footsteps who won it the previous year) but he is up against it at the moment.
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and the big blind open-shoved for 2,300. Parvis stuck all of his chips in for a reshove worth 3,125. The cutoff then folded.
against the 
for his opponent.
fell on the turn, Parvis could no longer win this pot. The river completed the semantics of things with the 
.
almost happy to be coinflipping against 
.
pretty much sealing Dempsey's fate.
and the river a full-house completing 
ending the tournament for one of today's more colourful characters.
before being called in the small blind by Vic grinder Julian Quance.
flop, but then checked back on the 
turn and 
river. Quance revealed 
for top pair.
but the board came 
against Chris Moorman's 
, he came unstuck against 
. No flush on the 
turn and 
river and Lundy was out, evidently disappointed, but still a gentleman as he left.
