| Game Type: | Pot Limit |
| Buy-in: | £200 |
Luton was all hustle & bustle again this evening, following a low-key evening on Thursday. 122 players sat down for the £250 PL Hold 'em, & between them, they paid for 129 rebuys, giving the following Prize Structure for the kitty of £62,750:
1st - £24,200
2nd - £12,100
3rd - £7,560
4th - £5,140
5th - £3,630
6th - £2,420
7th - £2,120
8th - £1,810
9th - £1,520
10th - 18th - £250 each.
The Field
As our top names start to return from their travels to Aussie, Tunica, & Atlantic city, so the quality of fields at the Grosvenor Luton Festival this week have gradually improved, & tonight we were joined by a number of truly world class players. Dave Colclough from Bet365 had already played here on Wednesday & Thursday, and tonight he was joined by the full strength Prima Poker sponsored Hendon Mob team of Barny, Joe, Ram & Ross. William Hill Poker had a full side out too, "Bad Girl" Pham, Julian Thew, & Steve Vladar, whilst the lone Ladbrokes man was Roy "The Boy" Brindley.
But this was a night for the rank & file boys, & not one of the elite group made it to Day 2. ElBlondie had a mare, & continually ran into monster hands, & exited mid-field, whilst none of the Hendon Mob went deep. The same fate befell the William Hill trio.
The Blackpool Boys were down in strength, including Howard Plant, Shaf, Mann Ip, EPT hero "Burnley John" & Simon Nowab, ditto the Salford duo of Dave Gardner & Alan McLean. Ash the Cash & his Walsall warriors were here in strength, Max Hussain was down from Sheffield, & George Geary, & Chris Johnson had come south, as had the ever-smiling Keith Hawkins.
A rare visitor these days was Paul Zimbler, fresh from his minor money finish in the Five Diamonds WPT in December. The Zorro look-alike Robert Binelli was making a rare visit to Luton. Robert made Festival Finals during 2004 in Iceland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Austria & Ireland.
The East Midlands, increasingly becoming a force on the UK Poker scene, included amongst their number Rumit, Big Micky Jones, Greek Jack, Dave Smith, & scratch golfer Greg Hill.
Attempting to keep the money local were Mark Banin, Denis O'Mahoney, and the usual luton hotshots.
Big Stacks & Big Hands
El Blondie found himself in a tidy pot when he flopped and aggressively chased a flush draw, & ran into Dave Smith with bottom set on a 2-4-5 flop, & Steve Vladar sitting with 4-6 - the absolute nuts. This was always bound to end in tears, & Steve's flopped straight held on. Then Colclough clashed with his blondepoker partner tikay. Both in the blinds, Dave was entitled to think his K-6 on a flop of K-K-5 was good - excellent in fact, when Dave Smith tried to steal it, but lucky tikay with K-5 had flopped the boat! Later, these two again got it on, when the by now low-stacked DC moved in with K-3 on an 8-8-3 flop - but once again tikay got lucky, this time holding J-8 for trips.
Derby's Micky Jones was plundering the tables from the very start, & had over 30,000 chips within half an hour. Throughout the evening he continued to build his stack, with a combination of monster hands & sheer aggression.
But even he paled into comparison with The Camel, who was harvesting chip stacks for fun. He took down an almighty pot against Ash Pervaiz (AA) & A.N. Other(two pair) with his set of tens. Then, down to 3 tables, he put a huge beat on tikay who was seemingly dominating Keith's AQ with AK, but Keith's 3 outer rivered for a pot in excess of 70,000.
And the deep-stacked Rumit must have thought his hand was good when he got JJ and a customer on a flop of 9-T-T,
& filled up on the turn, only to find his oppo had flopped quads!
Overnight Situation
A halt was called to play at 4.30am when the field had reduced to the 18 who are due to return at 2.30 on Saturday. 15 minutes remain at blind levels of 2k - 4k, with a 30 minute clock. 1,255,000 chips are in play, so the average stack now is 69,000, & will be 138,000 for the 9 man Final.
Table 1
Viv Williams, 58,000
M Ellis, 23,000
"Big" Micky Jones, 156,000
Paul Zimbler, 90,000
Roy "The Boy" Brindley, 79,000
I Jones, 46,000
A Parsons, 36,000
A Hussain, 53,000
Table 2
Keith "The Camel" Hawkins, 189,000
J Dwyer, 54,000
F Richardson, 80,000
D Mitchell, 76,000
D Jones, 62,000
P Discussino, 61,000
J P Kelly, 127,000
Dave Gardner, 49,000
M Khan, 39,000
George Geary, 23,000
It's hard to imagine The Camel, Micky Jones, Zimbler or Brindley, all with enormous stacks, sitting quietly on day two, & when these guys start attacking each other, the chips are gonna fly. None of them are exactly shrinking violets, & this one is gonna be a real stonker!
1st - £24,200
2nd - £12,100
3rd - £7,560
4th - £5,140
5th - £3,630
6th - £2,420
7th - £2,120
8th - £1,810
9th - £1,520
10th - 18th - £250 each.
The Field
As our top names start to return from their travels to Aussie, Tunica, & Atlantic city, so the quality of fields at the Grosvenor Luton Festival this week have gradually improved, & tonight we were joined by a number of truly world class players. Dave Colclough from Bet365 had already played here on Wednesday & Thursday, and tonight he was joined by the full strength Prima Poker sponsored Hendon Mob team of Barny, Joe, Ram & Ross. William Hill Poker had a full side out too, "Bad Girl" Pham, Julian Thew, & Steve Vladar, whilst the lone Ladbrokes man was Roy "The Boy" Brindley.
But this was a night for the rank & file boys, & not one of the elite group made it to Day 2. ElBlondie had a mare, & continually ran into monster hands, & exited mid-field, whilst none of the Hendon Mob went deep. The same fate befell the William Hill trio.
The Blackpool Boys were down in strength, including Howard Plant, Shaf, Mann Ip, EPT hero "Burnley John" & Simon Nowab, ditto the Salford duo of Dave Gardner & Alan McLean. Ash the Cash & his Walsall warriors were here in strength, Max Hussain was down from Sheffield, & George Geary, & Chris Johnson had come south, as had the ever-smiling Keith Hawkins.
A rare visitor these days was Paul Zimbler, fresh from his minor money finish in the Five Diamonds WPT in December. The Zorro look-alike Robert Binelli was making a rare visit to Luton. Robert made Festival Finals during 2004 in Iceland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Austria & Ireland.
The East Midlands, increasingly becoming a force on the UK Poker scene, included amongst their number Rumit, Big Micky Jones, Greek Jack, Dave Smith, & scratch golfer Greg Hill.
Attempting to keep the money local were Mark Banin, Denis O'Mahoney, and the usual luton hotshots.
Big Stacks & Big Hands
El Blondie found himself in a tidy pot when he flopped and aggressively chased a flush draw, & ran into Dave Smith with bottom set on a 2-4-5 flop, & Steve Vladar sitting with 4-6 - the absolute nuts. This was always bound to end in tears, & Steve's flopped straight held on. Then Colclough clashed with his blondepoker partner tikay. Both in the blinds, Dave was entitled to think his K-6 on a flop of K-K-5 was good - excellent in fact, when Dave Smith tried to steal it, but lucky tikay with K-5 had flopped the boat! Later, these two again got it on, when the by now low-stacked DC moved in with K-3 on an 8-8-3 flop - but once again tikay got lucky, this time holding J-8 for trips.
Derby's Micky Jones was plundering the tables from the very start, & had over 30,000 chips within half an hour. Throughout the evening he continued to build his stack, with a combination of monster hands & sheer aggression.
But even he paled into comparison with The Camel, who was harvesting chip stacks for fun. He took down an almighty pot against Ash Pervaiz (AA) & A.N. Other(two pair) with his set of tens. Then, down to 3 tables, he put a huge beat on tikay who was seemingly dominating Keith's AQ with AK, but Keith's 3 outer rivered for a pot in excess of 70,000.
And the deep-stacked Rumit must have thought his hand was good when he got JJ and a customer on a flop of 9-T-T,
& filled up on the turn, only to find his oppo had flopped quads!
Overnight Situation
A halt was called to play at 4.30am when the field had reduced to the 18 who are due to return at 2.30 on Saturday. 15 minutes remain at blind levels of 2k - 4k, with a 30 minute clock. 1,255,000 chips are in play, so the average stack now is 69,000, & will be 138,000 for the 9 man Final.
Table 1
Viv Williams, 58,000
M Ellis, 23,000
"Big" Micky Jones, 156,000
Paul Zimbler, 90,000
Roy "The Boy" Brindley, 79,000
I Jones, 46,000
A Parsons, 36,000
A Hussain, 53,000
Table 2
Keith "The Camel" Hawkins, 189,000
J Dwyer, 54,000
F Richardson, 80,000
D Mitchell, 76,000
D Jones, 62,000
P Discussino, 61,000
J P Kelly, 127,000
Dave Gardner, 49,000
M Khan, 39,000
George Geary, 23,000
It's hard to imagine The Camel, Micky Jones, Zimbler or Brindley, all with enormous stacks, sitting quietly on day two, & when these guys start attacking each other, the chips are gonna fly. None of them are exactly shrinking violets, & this one is gonna be a real stonker!