Bluesquare.com GUKPT London - Day 1A - Interactive

[Djinn]

Blind vs. bllind Blitz

People are going out all over the place on the blinds against the other blinds at the moment.  In the case of Bambos flopping Aces full on the small blind and getting his opponent's whole stack in, apparently, on a flush draw, that stands to reason.  Elsewhere the action kicks off preflop - Christopher Pan re-raises all in on the big blind for 3,075 (after an initial thousand came in from small blind Marc Lousky).  Lousky topped up his bet to call, and showed against the all-in player's .  The flop brought , and all hope for the straight chop vanished when the and then totally irrelevant came next.  Quite a bit of table reshuffling has already been going on, and it looks like a pretty fast start to this leg of the GUKPT.

[Djinn]

Richard Simmonds has a bit of a wincing exit with ... it looks like he was the aggressor until the turn with his only opponent being Glen Martin.  I caught this hand just as the was coming down to join the and already flopped.  Glen Martin then moved in, and it was just a small stack which Simmonds had left to shove with his Aces, only to be shown which had raced firmly into the lead with the second Jack falling.  Another one out.

[tikay]

Osman Mustanoglu is OUT, after tangling with Ian Woodley (pictured at a previous event in a more pleasingly garish T-shirt than he's wearing today).

It looked like Mustanoglu had raised and found Woodley and another player looking up the flop.  I caught the action from when 1,525 appeared in front of Woodley, only to find a check-raise to 4,525 coming from his opponent.  A pretty quick move all-in from Woodley, and Osman Mustanoglu called, with that old chestnut, "If you got it, you got it..."

He had it: to Mustanoglu's .  22,000 for Ian Woodley, the rail for Mustanoglu.

Incidentally, the brief recap given by the exiter to pal Rumit Somaiya perfectly sums up how busted players can tell a story in such a way that they seem most hard done by.  "Pair of Kings vs. Ace-Queen.  He made a flush on me."  Just the right amount of ambiguity to imply horrible outdrawing and potential donkeying on the part of the opponent. 

GREAT stuff by Jen, Updating at it's vey best. Tells it as she sees it, & has the ability to sum up what we are all thinking.

[coral and becky]

Updates on John Murphy would be great if you can, thanks!

[T8MML]

Wow you had me worried with the picture for a moment - thought you had caught me with my thong on - urgggggggggg!

Hi Jen - from Aruba to the "Vic" - wow your life is one never ending round of exotic places!!!!

Gl to Jeff Kimber, Tommy Dunwoodie and of  course the Beagle

Tim

Hi there - hope you enjoyed your extended holiday.  My tan has already faded to an inconsequential yellowish colour.  But you give me the perfect excuse to put up a picture from Aruba.  Here it is.

[Djinn]

Chip Counts in Chip Order... (from the end of the first break)

Denton, Charles    38325
Cicekli, Necmettin  25425
Shakerchi, Talal  24150
Woodley, Ian   24100
Owen, Craig  24000
Tyler, Matthew   23225
Heller, Adam   22350
Xanthos, Charalambos   22325
Robbins, Neil   21500
Kelly, John-paul  21450
Mcgilly, Terence  21425
Moran, Sean  21350
Boon, Robert  21275
Jones, Robert  21100
Mehmet, P  18550
Rogers, Jeffrey   18475
Moult, James   18425
Goulding, Adam   17875
Hoang, Hieu  17575
Campbell, Rory   17325
Vinson, Alan  17275
Bebb-jones, Marcus  17025
Gibson, Nick   16000
Nosko, W  15950
Rajah, Bardi   15850
Gallagher, Jimmy  14850
Ioannou, John   14800
Grace, Richard   14800
Somaiya, Rumit   14775
Lewis, Daniel   14600
Murray, Patrick   14400
Ioannou, Damon   14275
Carter, Daniel   14025
Lundberg, Jan   13800
Greco, Michael   13750
Lundy, Jon  13675
Delany, Eamon   13500
Alterman, Paul   13375
Wilkinson, Adam   13275
Gale, John  13100
Goodwin, Marc   12900
Krasniqi, Kastriot   12625
Dorrington, Philip   12475
Martin, Alexander   12450
Volpe, Antonio   11875
Steele, Guy   11775
Rogers, Peter   11775
Eastwood, Simon Joseph   11725
Hedlund, Peter   11575
Gilbert, Brian   11325
Nikkhah, S   11200
Booth, Andrew   11200
Liffey, Rory   11125
Seymour, Ronald   11000
Immanuel, Dana   10875
Dobson, Paul   10750
Mcdonagh, Simon   10475
Halsey, David   10375
Persaud, Nikhil   10375
Hewston, John   10300
Bale, M   10275
Scotney, Lisa   10250
Cherbanich, nicholas   10200
Sanders, Dean   10050
King, Paul   9675
Ngo, Hoa   9675
Dunwoodie, Thomas   9250
Murphy, John   9025
Colclough, David   8975
Cohen, Paul   8825
Ellis, Michael   8725
Kohli, Bhupinder   8700
Lousky, Marc   8475
Cruickshank, Andrew   8375
Powell, Jack   8250
Martin, Glen   8150
Stoneham, Adam   8150
Gourlay, Paul   8100
Hill, Steven   8000
Evans, Peter   7950
Basri, Stephen   7850
Stain, Robert   7450
Hardwidge, Paul   7250
Fronda, Ryan   7225
Murrell, Paul   7200
Tse, Chen   6875
Mahmud, Sultan   6850
Reynolds, John   6675
Windish, Lawrence   6575
Denton, Michael   6425
Shevket, Yilfer   6275
Biedak, Joshua   6225
Buskirk, Carl   6100
Kimber, J   5975
Nicholas, Raymond   5350
Dborin, Danny   5200
Pearson, Trevor   5100
Fuller, Darren   4975
Mcelhinney, M   4825
Segal, Mark   4400
Simmonds, Richard   4100
Chesses, Zack   3700
Walden, Steven   3000
Pan, Christopher M   2825
Nordigan, Gary   2600
Holbrook, Nick   2525
Leckey, Paul   2425
Patel, Samir   2275
Vinson, Adam   1375

[JungleCat03]

Had a quick chat with Alex Martin...

"Yeah doing ok" he tells me. "Er I rivered a full house against a made flush" and begins giggling like a naughty schoolboy. I'm guessing a fair few of the chips went in when he was behind then!

Nonetheless, Alex looks composed and focused and had time in between talking to me to quickly raise the button and pick up the blinds.

It seems during my time updating for blonde I have been unable to avoid Barry soundbites but for good or bad, he does draw action round him like a magnet. As I pass by JP Kelly's table which has been supplemented by the presence of Jeff Kimber and Ian Woodley, Barry(who plays tomorrow but is happy to wind everyone up today) is causing mischief by giving Ian Woodley a hard time.

"Ave you seen me wife?" says Barry pointing at one of the attractive waitresses...

"Has she seen you!" fires Woodley back. "Can you get this annoying northener out of my face" pleads Ian to one of the staff. "We need a barrier.....and a bloody big one at that!" Barry laughs before wandering off to annoy Michael Beppe.

Meanwhile a hand develops between Jeff Kimber and Daniel Lewis. The preflop action is unknown but facing a big bet on a 9 5 5 rainbow flop, Jeff Kimber folds and shows Q Q. His opponent flips over 99 for a flopped house and Jeff's made an excellent laydown there to save his tournament. He's earnt himself a jaffacake or two with that one.

[booder]

great updates as per usual...........any chance of a pic of Rory Campbell please.....thanks muchly

[JungleCat03]

Blinds have just risen to 100 200 so there are likely to be some interesting pots developing in this level.

[quantify]

hi jen please give spherical head tyler a nudge to slow down he is turning into a poker player,  god luc to gourlay goodwin and kingy today m surveying all this fom my hospital bed ,is depressing to say the least, never been so grateful for the updates ..............

good luck to all bar thewy ........ lol bout time he shared the wealth elsewhere and he dont need luck at the mo he is to good.

[Djinn]

Snoopy doesn't keep his stack behind the line for long - he's been all in again this level, in these circumstances...

Threeway to the flop of .  Snoopy checks, Kastriot Krasniqi checks, Bambos bets 1k.  Snoops check-raises to 4,000, Krasniqi calls.  Bambos gives it the full almighty think before passing.
Turn:   Snoopy's remaining 10k is over the line as soon as the turn turns.  He covers Krasniqi, who eventually passes, showing .  Snoops deigns to reveal the .  This sets Bambos off about his hand he passed, "I was thinking about raising...if I'd done that I would have won a big pot with my ..."  Perhaps, perhaps.  But the chips go beaglewards.

[Djinn]

great updates as per usual...........any chance of a pic of Rory Campbell please.....thanks muchly

I think we've bluffed it pretty well so far, but I think it's time we levelled with you.  We don't have the camera.  It's arriving in about an hour's time and then the pics will flow thick and fast as shift-swapping NoflopsHomer takes over.

[Djinn]

hi jen please give spherical head tyler a nudge to slow down he is turning into a poker player,  god luc to gourlay goodwin and kingy today m surveying all this fom my hospital bed ,is depressing to say the least, never been so grateful for the updates ..............

good luck to all bar thewy ........ lol bout time he shared the wealth elsewhere and he dont need luck at the mo he is to good.

I can give you a good Golden Goodwin story to cheer you up, perhaps...

With 10k+ in the pot, I caught Mr. Cool putting a big chunk of chips in on the river, the board reading: .  Eventually he got paid by what looked like a set as it flashed on the way into the muck - he only had .  When I play suited connectors I seem to get it all in with a dominated flush draw - when Marc Goodwin plays them he gets a straight flush. 

[Djinn]

Dana 'danafish' Immanuel is just under 19,000 in chips now, after, "That gentleman had an accident with Aces and I hit trips on the river."  To elucidate: Dana limped with A-Q after 'the gentleman' limped with A-A.  The flop brought one queen and the turn a second, meaning that a pretty good pot moved over to Dana, without her opponent actually losing his whole stack.

Here's Dana pictured at home making fun of me when I was abroad without wine and she had lots of it.  Maybe not having the camera around is a good thing for a little while.

[JungleCat03]

A big pot was brewing between two guys who appeared to be Simon Eastwood and Michael Ellis on Alex Martin's table.

I joined the hand on the turn where Michael Ellis was betting around 5k allin into a 6k pot on the turn of a board.

This was most of Simon Eastwood's chips and he dwelt  for a while, throwing a few questions at Ellis. Ellis could have been forgiven, given Eastwood's surname, for asking him "Do you feel lucky, well do ya....PUNK" but merely shrugged and eventually Eastwood decided he did feel lucky and made the call with , 2nd pair.

It proved an excellent call as Ellis showed for the flush draw and Eastwood was rewarded with a good, not a bad and certainly not an ugly river to complete the hand and add a few dollars more to his stack, sergio-ing him up through the leaderboard and leaving Ellis' dreams of finishing the tournament with a fistful of dollars in tatters...

Dinner break approaches and in other news, Jeff Kimber has augmented his stack, taking Ian Woodley off a pot and appears to be doing relatively nicely with around 15-16k now, a vast improvement from earlier. JP was seen smiling mischievously as he raked in a pot on the same table.