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Stephen Ladowsky
Although Djinn was looking forward to using her Gobbobubble pun, it was in fact Stephen Ladowksy who has been forced to bite bubble dust, the likes of fellow shorties Jimmy Fricke, Marc Goodwin, and Tom Nightingale all evading that painful just-out-of-the-money spot.
It was a pretty quick and painless departure, the cool-as-a-cucumber Ladowsky down to just 1.2K before he finally made his move. He'd been teasing us for awhile, and had allowed the blinds to pass more times than we expected, but with an ace showing in Stud, now was a great time to pounce.
As expected, Ladowsky found action in more than one place, with Jesus Ferguson and onetime chip daddy Gary Jones progressing with the hand. But after Ferguson had bet Jones out of the hand, it was on their backs time with Ladowsky looking for a fifth club that never arrived.
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Razz -- Jimmy Fricke surprised Barny Boatman when he called 2K with his , Barny showing the . And he called again on fourth street, then check-raising fifth street when their hands were:
Boatman: (X-X)
Fricke: (X-X)
Barny called the raise, and confidently led out 4K when he received the to Gobboboy's on sixth street. A quick glance at Fricke's stack was enough to tell it was looking the felt in the face, and when he paid off the 4K river bet (Boatman showing the () for a winning six-low) he was left with around 10K.
The tension is mounting...maybe when the bubble bursts the three-deep spectators will all fall forward into some kind of two-table vacuum...
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Why couldn't it be Horsel?
Still in this HORSE tournament is veteran poker player Eric Dalby. The name Eric Dalby hasn't achieved worldwide notoriety, but over here on English shores he established himself as a fearsome player when he rose triumphant in the inaugural Ladbrokes Poker Cruise a few years back.
Nicknamed "Lowball" online, I have actually played this amicable chap a few times on the Omaha/8 cash tables, but as his name suggests, Lowball is clearly his field of expertise. In fact, back in 1994, he became the British Lowball Champion and continues to play the game whenever he can.
However, Lowball is undoubtedly a dying game, and one that wasn't resurrected by the HORSE event. But Eric surely holds a passion for the old-school games, not to mention the skills which have attributed to the Londoner reaching what is now the bubble in this event.
Eric is currently sitting on 65,000, with a great shot of making the final table.
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David Levi, almost the bubble
So near and yet so far...David Levi's last hand was in Omaha/8, and it caught my attention not because of the size of the pot, but because of the volume of the...discussion Mark Vos was having with the dealer about the size of the main and side pots (Mark and Yuval Bronshtein were both in on the turn when Levi's last chips crossed the line).
The board read: and two stacks of grey 100 chips were already poised for the river in front of Mark Vos...they successfully saw off Bronshtein. Vos, awarded the tiny side pot, showed his hand: to take the main pot as well.
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HOLD'EM--Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke raised from the cutoff and Barny Boatman reraised from the button. Gobboboy called. The flop was . Gobboboy checked, Boatman bet, and Gobboboy called. The turn was the and both players checked. The river was the and both players checked again. Gobboboy showed for a pair of queens while Boatman tabled . Boatman shook his head after Gobboboy cracked his jacks.
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Mr. Cool - Like a Minty Ice Cube
Calmly facing the potential pre-bubble place like his name would suggest, Marc "Mr. Cool" Goodwin just put his remaining 8,200 in preflop in Hold'em -- as you would expect with good ol' . Barney Boatman gave him a spin with the nicely dominated , and the board brought no upsets. Barely an eyebrow twitch from the English pro.
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HOLD'EM--Marc Goodwin lost a big pot to Jan Sorensen. On a board of J-3-3-9-x, Goodwin thought his J-9 would be good enough to take down the pot. However, Sorensen flipped over for a better two pair. Goodwin slipped to 8,400 after that loss.
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Stephen Ladowsky must have been pleased to see the cycle back round of the flop games, as his 6,800 stack can't take very many more 500 antes before it dwindles to nothing. Looking decidedly unimpressed with what Hold'em brought into his hand, however, he left Jennifer Harman and John Juanda to take chunks out of Kirk Morrison and Gary Jones' stacks respectively. On the last hand I saw, Gary Jones was check-calling Juanda all the way to the river, when the board looked like: ...at which point he let it go to the player who'd reraised him preflop.
Snoopy has gone to rail Ladowsky's table like the little Brummie vulture he is.
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. And he called again on fourth street, then check-raising fifth street when their hands were:
to Gobboboy's 
) for a winning six-low) he was left with around 10K.
and two stacks of grey 100 chips were already poised for the 
to take the main pot as well.
and both players checked again. Gobboboy showed 
. Boatman shook his head after Gobboboy cracked his jacks.
...at which point he let it go to the player who'd reraised him preflop.