Winner Sids
2nd John
3rd Paul
4th Steve
5th Kev Mc
6th Tatter
Total: 6
With no suitable venues available in July it looked as if TPS 7 `08 might not happen, but in order to avoid sabotaging the entire season John’s gaff was made available at the last minute albeit with a much reduced field due to space restraints. Six players took up their places for the smallest, quietest and soberest TPS ever. It was Steve who took the nights first scalp when his pocket Jacks beat Tatter’s desperate 5, 10. Kev Mc was next when his Ace 8 went up against John’s Ace Queen, John hitting a Queen on the flop.
Despite his recent reading of the ‘Sacred Book of Poker Secrets’, a.k.a. Harrington On Hold ‘em (the book John credits with turning his game around), Steve was the third to drop out after going all in with Ace 4. Sids had the Jacks this time to take the hand but it would have been Paul’s chance to knock them both out if he hadn’t folded his pocket 5’s with another five on the board.
By the time it got down to the last three of John, Sids and Paul, (who’d gathered a healthy stack after winning a couple of big pots with what maybe his signature hand of a pair of 4’s), the big blind had reached 32 and only Sids had a comfortable amount of chips. Several desperate All In’s saw John’s chip pile get back to healthier proportions after its steady decline since his early lead, but Paul helped him out big time by going all in with just a 10 and a 2, Sids called with just a Queen and a 4, hitting another 4 on the board.
This took Sids to his first heads up of the season and John to his fourth but with Sids having the superior chip count by some margin it would take John a couple of double ups to even things out. Sids put the pressure on straight away going all in with Queen 8. Luckily for John he’d managed to grab himself a pocket pair of Kings, unluckily for John two more 8’s on the board gave Sid’s the title and a third TPS winning star.
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