I have been watching the feature table for a long while this morning, and will give you a few of the major hands from the afternoon"s play so far.
Hand 1 - Binds 2k/4k Paul Pitchford raises to 9k after a few folds, Gary Colcough and Joe Beevers both call and we see a flop
Everyone checks and we go to the turn
Gary leads out for 10k, Joe gets out of the way and Paul calls
Both players quickly check and Gary shows his AK, Paul Mucks and Gary rakes in the pot
The next hand, and things escalated rather quickly!
Hand 2 - 2k/4kThe action folds to Tristan and he raises to 8.5k, next to act Gary is on the button and calls, with Joe calling in the small blind. Phil is in the big blind and after a think, raises to 23.5k!
Tristan thinks for a while, and finds the call, with Gary very quickly putting his call in. Joe then looks at his hand one more time and moves all in!!
Phil asks for a count and looks pained. He looks at Joe, who is sat back in his seat and looking comfortable. Phil eventually folds, and Tristan who has been sat quietly while all this has been going on calls, with a very similar stack to that of Joe.
Gary gets out of the way and the cards are on their backs
Joe
Tristan
The flop comes a very interesting
giving Joe a few more outs
The turn
is no help and neither is the river of
and after a lot of counting (100 chips still on the table for antes is NOT helping speed these things up!) Joe is left with 5k, and Tristan is up to 340k and towards the chip lead in the tournament.
Hand 3 2k/4kJoe, with his now decimated stack, pushes all in for 5k after the action is folded to him in late position, with less than 1bb. Phil calls the BB, Brian makes up from the small and Paul checks his option.
The flop comes
and the action is checked around by the 3 remaining players.
Turn
Brian checks, Paul checks and Phil fires a bet into the middle that is met by instant mucks from the other 2.
Phil shows
for the flopped straight
Joe
and is still live to any Jack or 10!
The river unfortunately comes such a blank that I forgot to write down what it was and we lose Joe to the bar after a quick interview on the live stream.
