As Gomes Goes
As players bust, those who remain are being shuffled around to keep tables balanced. Just now the tourney director came to Table 431 to tell chip leader Alex Gomes he was being moved across the room to an empty seat at Table 427. The variety of responses among those who've been playing with Gomes all afternoon were amusing.
"Thank God," said Steven Loube with a grin. Gomes had been sitting to Loube's left. "I already doubled you up once," cracked Gomes as he stood up.
"Noooo...!" said Jonathan Hart from across the table, perhaps referring to the disappearance of an opportunity to double up himself through the chip leader.
"Awww," said Alan DeJesus, currently short-stacked at about 15,000. He then delivered the line that got the most laughs.
"He's the only guy at the table I can beat!"