Jugload of Chips for Toby
Young Brit Toby Lewis hasn't been playing for very long - he's only been around on the circuit for a year or so - but in that time he's already amassed an impressive list of cashes including 28th place at EPT Prague last year, a final table appearance at the PokerStars IPT Venice and a cash at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo in April of this year. Not bad for just a whippersnapper - he's barely out of nappies, even in online circles where he goes by the moniker of "810ofclubs".
Lewis started the day as one of three Brits (motherland, represent!) in the top ten - the others being his somewhat more well-known buddies Sam Trickett and Paul "Pab" Foltyn - and although he's slipped down a little in the counts since then, he is still incredibly dangerous and his current 120,000 stack is still easily enough to do a lot of damage to the rest of his table.
Just now we watched him involved in a preflop showdown with Brock Parker lookalike Tim Finne. Lewis held , Finne was all in for 70,000 with . Looking pretty good for a chop - until the flop came down and the turn brought a second club, the . Finne stood up as though to leave - but sat down again with relief when the river was a harmless .
Tablemate James "Flushy" Dempsey laughed and warned Finne, "Toby's built a career on that sort of thing."
"Well, I wouldn't call it a career," Lewis reflected.
Maybe not yet, but soon.