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Hoa Ngo, short-stacked for some time, moves all in in late position and finds Stuart Nash, also a relative short stack, shoving over the top in the small blind. Big blind Jim Kerrigan sighs, and passes pocket jacks face up. There is some expression of surprise around the table. Ngo turns over and Nash turns over ; Kerrigan receives a bit of a ribbing from his tablemates and the two who got their chips in are racing.
Board:
Ngo doubles up to 6,000, Kerrigan sighs and Nash makes a face like the proverbial bulldog chewing the proverbial wasp.
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Despite using every opportunity available to introduce himself to the press as James Bond, Yilfer Shevket is not, in fact, 007's namesake in disguise involving full grey beard and Vic baseball cap, although I would have taken him at face value were it not for the prior experience of danafish...
In any case he just lost all but 1,700 of his stack in a race with Rick Fuller. With the blinds at 150/300, Fuller raised preflop to 3,800 from middle position. After his tablemates doubletook, there was genuine interest in the hand registered from Shevket alone in the small blind. After a bit of a think about it, during which time he appeared to be saying a sequence of numbers, he moved his whole stack across the line and was quickly called all-in.
Shevket:
Fuller:
The board emerged doubling Fuller through and knocking Mr. Bond nearly to the felt. Comeback needed of Casino Royale proportions.
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Further ooh-ing and aah-ing from Jim Kerrigan's table as he knocked out cheerful Irishman Sylvester Geoghegan in most upsetting fashion. They got their chips in preflop, Geoghegan holding and Kerrigan miles behind with .
Flop:
Turn: and Geoghegan couldn't be much further ahead
River: meaning that Kerrigan has rivered a one-outer to take the pot. "He's redeeming himself for folding those jacks," chuckles a neighbor. Geoghegan makes a gentlemanly exit and Kerrigan politely ignores the neighbor.
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After a momentary dwell, Richard Wheatley called all-in (well, with an additional 475) his opponent's bet of 3,300 on a board. Wheatley had for the turned straight, but his assassin had for the bigger straight.
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John Juanda has been enjoying some good luck, doubling up to 7,500 with a dominated hand. All in preflop, it wasn't looking fantastic for Juanda with rather behind Stuart Taylor's , but a board later and Juanda was feeling much better about the whole thing.
Taylor was rather less happy about it, but remained in the game, doubling up a few hands later with against Rumit Somaiya's , the board coming a pleasing . On 6,000 now, he remains rather disgruntled.
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"I'm trying my best to exit the tournament," claimed Ben 'milkybarkid' Grundy, "but every time I play a pot I seem to win it."
"I've got about 25,000 now," he continued, "but I have to be at a restaurant soon, I didn't expect to be in for this long."
After I swam through Grundy's sea of negativity, I finally prised a hand from him. "I was down to 2,000 at one point, but doubled up four times. On the biggest one I called a raise with J-9 and hit a J-J-x flop with two of the same suit. I got looked up by tens."
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Cheeky monkey Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow has entered the building and quickly circumnavigated Daniel Negreanu's table to see how his friend/foe was getting along. As always, Matusow wasn't shy in sharing his thoughts.
"He [Daniel] is gonna give all those chips away. He'll give them to..." Matusow hesitated as he scoured the table. "... My God, there's no one here to give them to. How did you get this table?"
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Or the other way round, to be precise. German player Stefan Hachmeister was hovering under the starting stack when James Vogl made it 800 to go preflop - he moved in and was called immediately by the even shorter-stacked Vogl with his . Hachmeister had and while that looked promising on the flop, the on the turn ended up cinching it for his opponent.
In desperate shape himself now, Hachmeister then moved in preflop over the top of a Dennis O'Mahoney raise to 850. He was called so fast he didn't realize it had happened yet and the dealer had to prompt them to get their hands on their backs.
Hachmeister:
O'Mahoney:
This time the made an appearance straight away on the flop, and with the board coming a further O'Mahoney was drawing to one lone hearty Jack which missed the river and doubled Hachmeister right back up.
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While Mike Matusow twittered on by the table about a method he had discovered to save himself $800 on ludicrously overpriced London internet connections, John Juanda raised. He received one caller before youthful GUKPT winner Tony "Ginger" Phillips announced all in. Juanda also announced all in over the top, the caller got out of the way and they were on their backs, as it were.
Phillips:
Juanda:
Board:
With a sigh and a quick, "Good luck, boys," Phillips took his leave. The Matusow drone didn't let up for a second. "...You see, that's how Juanda wins pots..."
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I joined the action late in the day, but the pot had already escalated to 14,000 with the final decision on William Martin. With the board reading , Brandon Cantu had pushed all in for a total of 7,150 and was patiently awaiting the decision of Martin who was tinkering with his stack of 19,325.
As Martin continued to mull, Cantu remained as cool as the Arctic breeze, although the soothing head massage he was receiving at the time probably made the task a little easier. A minute or two later, Martin made a very reluctant fold, to allow Cantu to scoop up the pot and construct a new and improved stack of 22,000.
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and Nash turns over 
; Kerrigan receives a bit of a ribbing from his tablemates and the two who got their chips in are racing.
doubling Fuller through and knocking Mr. Bond nearly to the felt. Comeback needed of Casino Royale proportions.
and Kerrigan miles behind with 
and Geoghegan couldn't be much further ahead
board. Wheatley had 
for the turned straight, but his assassin had 
for the bigger straight.
, the board coming a pleasing 
. Hachmeister had 
flop, the 
