Back on Day 1, we published a hat breakdown of one of our tournament rooms, finding three cowboy hats, an average of three baseball caps per table, and a grand total of one yellow fisherman hat. It is interesting to note that this final table contains exactly three baseball caps (Hall, Dresel-Velasquez and Harb), no cowboy hats, but our single fisherman hat remains, gracing the head of Jim Geary.
Thus we deduce:
- Cowboy hats: running bad
- Baseball caps: running averagely
- Fisherman hats: on fire
Brent Sheirbon had been rather quiet all final table and was down to 404,000 when he shoved with pocket . But lucky Anthony Harb! He woke up with pocket , snap-called, obviously, and although Sheirbon managed to pick up a flush draw by the turn, it was not to be. He tossed his bag of beef jerky into the crowd at the rail, shook hands with everyone, and headed for his exit interview.
Jim Geary and Anthony Harb saw a flop, and while Geary was considering his options, a TV gent appeared trying to change the battery in his mic pack thingy. Realizing that Geary was in a hand, the gent stopped trying to change the battery and crouched very still by the table, hoping that nobody would see him. Everyone saw him. Nevertheless Geary bet out 130,000, Harb folded, the battery was duly changed and play continues as normal.
McGowan, by far the most active player on the final table, raised again, to 85,000. This time, however, Micahel Dyer re-popped him for a massive 500,000. Everyone else got out of their way, and back around to McGowan, a call.
Dyer:
McGowan:
Board: ("A five will chop it," says the TD; "Not going to happen!" shouts a pro-McGowan railer)
Thus McGowan doubles up to around 1,200,000, to the delight of his buddies at the rail.