Speaking to Tim Magnus, I asked him what had propelled him chip wise in the run down to two tables
First he doubled through with Queens against tens, then steal-raised in late postion with ad
, the big blind called with his pocket pair
the flop came
and from there it took off
Two tables out he found himself with a succession of hands in the blinds with which he was able to call short-stacked pushes, won every one and enters the final table exceedingly well placed
Jeldon Fernandes (a Gutshot player) is his nearest challenger and as we saw made most of his progress with pairs of nines and tens, once out-drawing Jacks and then the pairs holding up in a number of races
Coincidentally,when I asked them both where they came from, they both said "Croydon/South Norwood" which is Crystal Palace country down in South London commuter land
Elsewhere Sam Morris has come all the way from Lincolnshire and is being railed by his Mum. I asked his Mum "so you"ve done well to come this far to support him" and she replied "well,I"m Welsh so it was nice to come home"
Simon Auckland hits his second successive APAT final table
Paul Sloggett is being railed by some of the Bristol massive
Dave Potter comes from Cornwall and Damon Hill, sorry Noel Edmonds, sorry Alan Rickman, sorry John Murray says
"I live in Portsmouth"
Despite that, I wish him well
