Simpson lost all but two big blinds in a coinflip with David Lloyd, and he moved all-in for those two bigs with pocket eights. However, sadly for him and his legion of fans, sixth is as deep as Simpson would progress. Having found himself with a tiny stack at one stage, 888poker Ambassador Ian Simpson climbed into the final six players in the Big Shot.

Another queen on the river gave Dean a full house, and rubbed more salt into Laidlaw's wounds. Laidlaw thought he was in good shape against Dean, but Dean had turned two pair with his queen-ten. Laidlaw found pocket kings again and was all-in on the turn of the three-queen-six-ten board. The ten of clubs on the river was not one of them. Olsen's sixes remained true on the flop, but the ace of spades on the turn left Olsen drawing to two outs. Panyi, who recently won a £3250 buy-in event in London for £34,942, committed his last six big blinds with king-jack of hearts, and ran into Dan Laidlaw's pocket kings.Ī short-stacked Jack Olsen then found himself all-in with pocket sixes against the ace-jack of Dixie Dean. Elliott Panyi was the first of the nine finalists to fall by the wayside.

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