Day 2 - Edinburgh

 

£100+£10 Texas Hold'em NL Freezout

Starting Chips: 7500 Points

Clock: 30 Mins

The £100 event was a sell out with a £12,000 prize pool. All were greeted and seated in the cardroom for the 8pm start. Snooker star John Higgins was in attendance and in good spirits adding to what appeared like a good turn out from the Scots. Some patriotically arrived to take their seats in full kilt regalia. The lure of a bonus seat into the weekend’s GBPT Main Event for the winner was foremost in many minds, so with deeper chip stacks our dealers knuckled down for an eventful night’s action.

Highlights and Selected Key Hands From The Final Table.    

As the blinds and antes continued to creep up, our final table of nine eventually congregated to play this one out for their share of £12,000 prize money (top ten were in the money).

First casualty on the first hand when Ian Moffat holds Aces on the small blind; Balvinder Nijjar raises 24,000 from late position holding K10 and Moffat goes all-in for 45,000 followed by Nijjar’s call; Turn card = 10 with river = K; Nijjar’s two pair against Moffat’s bullets wins just shy of 100,000 in the first pot and it’s goodbye to Moffat.

Later Norwegian player Leiv Kare Johannessen sees his chance to go all-in 58,000 with QQ against Galapoker.co.uk’s William Leckie holding 99. The Norwegian nail in the coffin comes as Leckie hits a sweet straight with 8, 10, J, Q.

Leckie is again valiant when Scott Gracie holds 63 raising to 30,000, prompts Leckie's re-raise on pocket 4s, pushing Gracie to call as pot committed but of course the 4s stand-up.

The action hots up around 4am. With a flush on the board, Graeme Harrison raises to 60,000 in early position. Leckie calls followed by Nijjar re-raise to 113,000 which Harrison then calls. Leckie gets out of the way. Harrison shows AQ Hearts to hit the nut flush against Nijjar’s Cowboys and takes down the 255,000 pot

Nijjar then manages a plausible 5^th place when his KK was outdone by Leckie’s pocket Aces for 150,000.

Late knockings Colin Syme backs his pocket 10s with 157,000 to which Gordon Anderson re-raises all-in with 77. Leckie follows all-in with 187,000 AQ Spades to leave 471,000 in main pot plus 60,000 on side pot. Syme hits 10 on the flop and 10 on the turn for Quads and Anderson takes side pot as he hits a flush to topple Leckie.

The end of the 30 minute clock saw final three hands played with Harrison narrowly taking first place over Syme with a chip count finish 481,000 v 419,000.

Position	Name	Prize
1	Graeme Harrison	£3,540
2	Colin Syme	£3,420
3	Gordon Anderson	£1,680
4	William Leckie	£1,080
5	Balvinder Nijjar	£720
6	Sunny Rehihu	£480
7	Scott Gracie	£360
8	Leiv Kare Johannessen	£300
9	Ian Moffat	£240
10	William Edgar	£180

Entries = 120

Re-buys = 0

Add-Ons = 0 

Total = £12,000

 

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