Athir Kamal Ali was all in holding against Jonathan Slater's - the former quickly hiding his head in his hands and not wanting to watch as the dealer put out a board of .....
When Ali finally looked up, he was in sheer disbelief. "I knew I'd lose with aces today, I knew it!"
Jake Sharpe moved all in for his last 110,000, a not insubstantial amount, but PokerStars player Benjamin Spragg found the call on the button with . When Sharpe turned over another player felt moved to cry. “Race.” and so it was.
The cards fell [tsk s 6s 4h 6h]. Spragg’s eights held and Sharpe went home just before the end of the day; or more accurately, to the bar.
A short-stacked Roy "The Boy" Brindley, who opted to call off from the big blind for 90,000 or so against another stack who had pushed but had Brindley covered.
Brindley:
Big stack:
Brindley was in trouble and in need of some help. The flop put out some chop options, and it came through when the turn paired the board. Both players held sixes and fours with an ace kicker and were primed to chop. The dealer burned and put out the . It took Brindley a moment to realize that both now had aces and sixes but that his opponent's kicker played.
Keith Hawkins raised to 16,000 preflop and got one caller in Paul Glaister before Dino Sabatini made it 54,000 out of the blinds. Hawkins moved all in, Glaister folded and Sabatini snap-called.
Hawkins:
Sabatini:
The board came, Hawkins unable to crack aces a second time.
Thomas McAlister, a PokerStars qualifier from Ireland, went all-in on the last hand of the night and was surely regretting it when he heard fellow countryman Daniel Wilson say “Call.” McAlister tabled . Wilson, the inevitable .
The board ran out and McAlister. Never mind Thomas, the party is about to start and you can have a late night now to drown your sorrows.
“Last hand now lads, let’s not go crazy.” said Ireland’s Christine Ann Dunn. She had been grinding a small stack brilliantly all day, showing down premium hands and gaining the respect of the table.
Craig Sweden was having none of it and min-raised to 16,000 from first position. The small blind folded and Dunn made the call from the big blind. We saw a flop of .
Dunn checked and Sweden continued for 18,000 hoping to take it down. Dunn called. The turn was the . Sweden suddenly got gun shy and checked leaving the door open for Dunn to fire of a bet of 35,000. Sweden sheepishly folded and Dunn triumphantly showed her cards . What a move.
“Don’t write about that.” Sweden told your PokerNews correspondent.
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against Jonathan Slater's 
- the former quickly hiding his head in his hands and not wanting to watch as the dealer put out a board of 
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. When Sharpe turned over 
another player felt moved to cry. “Race.” and so it was.
, Hawkins unable to crack aces a second time.
. Wilson, the inevitable 
and McAlister. Never mind Thomas, the party is about to start and you can have a late night now to drown your sorrows.
. Sweden suddenly got gun shy and checked leaving the door open for Dunn to fire of a bet of 35,000. Sweden sheepishly folded and Dunn triumphantly showed her cards 
. What a move.