Tanya Gawarecki just flat called a raise with pocket kings and another player behind called as well to see a three-way flop . The opponent bet and Gawarecki moved all in, a reluctant call with pocket nines followed and both further community cards bricked.
Marcia Topp doubled up as well. In a battle of the blinds, she three-bet shoved for 122,000 chips with and got called by pocket fours. The board saw her on the rise and the now crippld opponent busted two hands later. "Ace queen has been good to me, except for the one time earlier today," Topp said before stacking up the chips with a smile on the face.
The Seniors Championship may have a reputation, and deservedly so, for being friendly and good natured, but the players are in the money now and there is a serious payday awaiting the eventual winner, so there are a few sticklers for rules making sure everything is above board.
A player announced raise and then appeared to put out chips in two motions. The player in the big blind asked if that wasn’t a string bet and the floor was called. It was indeed ruled a string bet and a min-raise was declared the legal bet. The player in the big blind was demonstrating how the other player had put out his chips and another player piped up, “Isn’t that a call?”
The player quickly pulled back the calling chips and the dealer let it slide and no more was said. The big blind finally looked at his cards and folded to be greeted by some eye rolling from a couple of players.
It appears that we do have eight ladies left in this Seniors Championship and another one just lost her final all in showdown, ironically with against . The biggest stacks of those remaining belongs to Marcia Topp.
Two screens in the tournament area now show some horse racing and quite some of our remaining participants seem to have been betting on exactly that. We can hear a lot of cheers, yells and laughter. Let's see who picks up some extra cash. They even overtake the "player out" yells from the dealers!
It didn't take long for Terry Timmins to make a move after being crippled just before the break and he picked the most unfortunate timing. Michael Wilson, who he already lost the huge pot to, woke up behind him with and Timmins stood no chance at all with . After the turn he was already drawing dead and got picked up one community card later to receive his payout.
"It is all good," he said with a smile on the face before exiting the tournament area.
On a flop the action between Terry Timmins and Michael Wilson escalated to see Wilson at risk for his last 115,000. He had the better hand though in and Timmins had a slightly worse kicker with . Both the turn and the river blanked out and one of the bigger stacks going into the day is now left with around 14 big blinds.
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board saw her on the rise and the now crippld opponent busted two hands later. "Ace queen has been good to me, except for the one time earlier today," Topp said before stacking up the chips with a smile on the face.
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and Timmins stood no chance at all with 
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flop the action between Terry Timmins and Michael Wilson escalated to see Wilson at risk for his last 115,000. He had the better hand though in 
and Timmins had a slightly worse kicker with 
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turn and the