Mark Teltscher, premier talker and tournament player, has fallen silent after Stephen McNamara called his all in and proceeded to bust him. Teltscher moved in over the top of McNamara's raise preflop to 2,500, for just under 10k in total. Back to McNamara, who did every possible fiddling motion I have seen players make with their cards (sliding over and under, tweaking corners) and their chips (counting out the call, dropping them from hand to hand, counting out the stack) all the while giving Mark the mother of all staredowns. Eventually he threw the extra chips in, showing .
"Good call," said Teltscher, showing the .
Flop: "Ten, Ten!" says perverse Harry Demetriou (he'd been keeping up a good line in amusing banter with Teltscher up until this point).
Turn:
River:
And the Snapper headed for the exit, shaking his eliminator's hand and making his way through the brave spectators wedged into the entranceway to the room.