If the PokerNews magazine ever needs a fill in for the David Steicke Mailbag column they need only to turn to fellow columnist David Saab for a sick soul reading substitute.
On a board reading Michael "The Big SiCkO" Guzzardi was contemplating calling a smallish bet from Saab.
"Don't overplay King-Jack" warned Saab several times as Guzzardi contemplated the call.
"I'm not overplaying King-Jack" retorted Guzzardi as he called.
"Ok then" was the reply from Saab as he fired out a bet of 1,700 on the river brick.
"You're an online player, if you have any balls you'll shove" taunted Saab.
This sent Guzzardi back into the tank as he contemplated the call. Eventually he made the call and Saab tabled .
"Of course I'm light value betting" said Saab.
When Guzzardi tabled his the whole table went into raptures over Saab's sick soul read.
There was some massive all-in-pre-flop action between Milan Gurung, Ismail Ismail and an unknown opponent - such were the amount of chips in the middle we could only watch as the cards were tabled:
Gurung:
Ismail:
Opponent:
The board ran out , crippling the opponent and eliminating Ismail.
Meanwhile, Gurung has sprung up to the outright chip lead with 48,000 in his stack.
Scott Kerr couldn't get the run good going today. He's over by the rail after pushing all in with on a board only to run into an opponent holding for a flush draw.
The flush draw got there on the turn with the and the river blanked off the .
Tony G has just given Julian Powell a lesson in how to win multi-table tournaments. After spending some time over at the Las Vegas Bar getting a drink and entertaining some of his fans, Tony returned to the table in time to pick up against Powell's .
A flop of saw all the money go in. The board bricked sending Powell out of the tournament.
"Who can be more patient than me? I wait at the bar for an hour, come back, flop a set and now i'm back to the bar" said Tony.
He's made good on that promise, last spotted back in the Las Vegas Bar. Maybe Julian Powell will join him?
"Don't do it Roy, don't do it!" was the cry from David Saab as Roy Vandersluis reraised his bet all in before the flop. We rushed through the crowd to get the best spot around table 29 and got just in time to see Saab snap-call.
Saab:
Vandersluis:
The board bricked out, thus seeing Saab send Vandersluis to the rail.
The money was all in the middle on a flop that read - we caught the action just as the Billy Jordanou and an unknown opponent rolled up their cards for the showdown:
Opponent:
Jordanou:
It was looking grim for Jordanou and his tournament life would come to an end after the turn and river fell .
Darko Balaban has become the beneficary of some multi-way madness.
On a flop of , an early position opponent shoved for his last 2,000. Balaban moved over the top all-in for 5,000. Action passed to Peter Aristidou who went into the tank for a bit before calling covering both players.
Aristidou:
Balaban:
Early Position:
Aristidou would need his flush draw to hit, but the board bricked out with the on turn and on the river.
Balaban moves up to 13,000, while Aristidou takes a bit of a hit.
Ben Savage has lost some chips to Milan Gurung after some heavy action on table 29.
The action folded around to Savage who limped in from the small blind, only to find Gurung raising from the big blind to 1,200. Savage reraised to 3,500 and Gurung made the call.
Both men would check down the flop and turn of ; Savage checked on the river but Gurung shoved all in, prompting Savage to fold.
After that hand, Gurung moves up to 25,000 in chips. Savage is in strife, dwindling on 5,500.