Jim Collopy has opened up a sizable lead again after raising all-in on the river yet again. He opened to 48,000 from the button and Ram Raswani called to see a 
flop. Vaswani check-called a 52,000 bet here and a 120,000 bet on the 
turn before leading for 160,000 on the river. Collopy thought for a while and then moved all-in for just over 500,000. Vaswani looked at his cards and folded.
Jim Collopy checked the 
flop before calling a 35,000 bet from Ram Vaswani. Most interesting.
Collopy checked again on the 
turn before calling a further 75,000 from Vaswani. This was turning into a big pot.
They saw a 
river and Collopy checked a third time; this time the bet from Vaswani was 200,000, with 350,000 left behind.
Collopy sat back in his chair, and commenced to tank.
"You can't have quads twice in a heads-up match, right?" he mused. Vaswani remained silent.
Eventually Collopy called it - in every sense of the word - and then "muckled" again as Vaswani revealed, indeed, 
for quads.
"You called it," Vaswani told him, as he snuck back into the lead on around 1 million to Collopy's 900,000.
The last three pots have all included flops but not beyond and none escalated into any big or interesting. The button was all important and whoever had that used it to claim the pot. Two went Vaswani's way, one Collopy's.
Level: 6
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 0
We haven't seen a flop since Jim Collopy snuck the lead back from Ram Vaswani, and the vast majority of the preflop tussles have gone Collopy's way.
Mostly they have been button-raise-big-blind-fold affairs, or sometimes button-raise-then-fold-to-a-re raise, and have been relatively small pots.
Things might be beginning to get serious, though, as just now Collopy opened to 44,000 and faced a reraise to 145,000 from Vaswani. Collopy now promptly pushed his whole stack across the line, and Vaswani folded with alacrity.
Vaswani - 500,000
Collopy - 1.4 million approximately
Two hands in a row for the young American have seen his stack rise to 1.1 million. He raised from the button pre-flop and was called before both checked to the turn. The board read 
and Vaswani led for 90,000. Call. The river came and Vaswani led again for 125,000 and was called again. The Brit mucked and Collopy claimed the pot with 
.
Th very next hand Vaswani raised to 50,000 and then called Collopy's 136,000 three-bet. The flop came 
and Collopy's c-bet was enough force a fold from Vaswani.
A new poker term for you:
Muckle; verb - to muck one's hand and chuckle to oneself while doing so.
This is exactly what Jim Collopy did when he called a 100,000 bet from Ram Vaswani on the river of an 
board, only to muck to Vaswani's 
for quads.
Vaswani, who was already slightly in the lead before the hand, increased to 1,165,000. The muckling Collopy slipped to 755,000.
Ram Vaswani found showdown on the river of a hand to scoop a pot. He raised to 50,000 from the button and was called to go to a 
flop. Vaswani continued the aggressive line with a 60,000 bet that was called. Both checked the 
turn and river and Vaswani took the pot with his 
.
Jim Collopy picked up another smallish pot when his 
came good against what we think was Ram Vaswani's pocket threes on a raggy board which featured a four.
Vaswani got his chips back a moment later, though, when Collopy opened to 44,000 but then laid it down to Vaswani's reraise to 140,000.
Gus Hansen is still sitting at the table, watching the other match and making phonecalls - but he could be in for a long wait if he's hoping to go straight into the final, because these two aren;t going anywhere just yet.
Jim Collopy was the biggest aggressor on the turn of a 
board to take a pot down. Collopy had raised to 35,000 pre-flop and was called before both checked the flop. It was Vaswani who led on the turn for 50,000 but he folded to a raise to 141,00 by the young gun.
Chips:
Collopy: 1,070,000
Vaswani: 850,000
