Close to the Edge
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Stephen Pearce has played a good number of hands in the first two levels, and doesn't need too much encouragement at the moment to get his chips in. It's worked well so far, but not in this most recent Razz hand I saw: Pearce was showing
against Lawrence's 
. After calling for his river card, Pearce checked and then started to count out 300 (the potential call amount) in 25 chips in front of him. This puzzling behavior was soon explained as he was indeed made to call a river bet. He announced, "Nine," only to be one bettered with, "Eight," the young American tabling 
to his 
. It was good timing for him - as he scooped this pot he'd been down to his last 1,025... against all expectation it does look like this tournament could progress at a reasonably swift pace.