Blinds Capped

We've hit the top blind level of this stage of the Heads Up tournament - 300/600. The last level saw more preflop re-raising than previously, with tit for tat four-betting picking up a couple thousand here and there... Just before the blinds were raised Marcus Otto asked the all-in question after being re-raised out of the small blind by Richard Gryko once again. The covering stack of thousand chips was over the line in an uncharacteristic flash, and Gryko relinquished the 1,850 he'd put in the pot.

Something tells me that within about 20 minutes someone will take up the other's offer of a preflop contest...


Incidentally, note the blinds in front of both players in this photo. See how they're all blue? Blues are 25 chips, and the blinds are 200/400. Why do people do this? I am getting inefficiency tilt just watching. I suppose if you nick the blinds you get between 3 and 10 seconds extra stacking time, and your pot moving towards you makes a really nice noise due to the extra numbers of chips. But still.