Mick McCool has hit the rail after it looked like it was all going so well. Just half this level ago Richard Gryko was down to just over 3,000, and I was poised to announce his imminent busting as he moved all in preflop over McCool's button raise. No dice. McCool folded that one and literally one circuit of the room later and he was the one hastily exiting the tournament area as Gryko stacked the lot. Metaphorically. There's no point stacking your stack when you've just won.
The final hand saw McCool's 5c-7s play Gryko's 8h-8c, ahead on the 5d-6h-Qd flop and still ahead after the Qc 3d turn and river. An earlier crucial hand, according to Manager Woody Deck, saw McCool bet out an A-5-2 two-heart flop, a 7 turn and check-call an overbet on a 7 river, only to find that Richard Gryko had limped in with a plenty-good A-T.
Still, it wasn't all smiles and congratulatory handshakes. "I played so bad," self-chastised Gryko, before trying to get Woody to tell me about a particularly mangled J-Q hand. "That wasn't so bad," he was countered, "I like how you played." He has until tomorrow to raise his game until he can both win and be happy about it.
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