Bluesquare.com Grosvenor Grand Prix: Day 1a Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Where's the Henry-love?  I'm getting withdrawal haha

Ok, now I'm worrying myself with my cheerleading...

Don't worry, the love of your life is still there, and more than hanging on now as he seems to have jumped up to the dizzy heights of 23k. Next door to him is Martyn Cavanagh, who Iwan requested. Martyn is currently on 6,500 and seemingly frustrated at having to fold big hands to fast action before him. One of those occasions was the last hand I witnessed, Henry raising to 2.1k from early position only to be re-raised to 7.1k by Amrat Patel, and then again by Matthew Haden who pushed all-in. Apparently Martyn had A-Q this hand, so understandably got out of the way, as did initial raiser Henry Griffiths, but Amrat wasn't going anywhere, the extra shrapnel to call quickly zipping into the pot.

On the backs, and Haden was in seemingly good shape with versus . The created two sweaty palms, and the even triggered the odd gasp, but when the hit the River, there was an eerie silence as Matthew was left to exit the table with an understanding, but clearly broken hearted expression on his face.

[snoopy1239]

Any magic chipcounts?

and just for some forum banter, who knows what hand is the gay waiter?

[undisputed]

Any magic chipcounts?

and just for some forum banter, who knows what hand is the gay waiter?

Where's the Henry-love?  I'm getting withdrawal haha

Ok, now I'm worrying myself with my cheerleading...

Don't worry, the love of your life is still there, and more than hanging on now as he seems to have jumped up to the dizzy heights of 23k. Next door to him is Martyn Cavanagh, who Iwan requested. Martyn is currently on 6,500 and seemingly frustrated at having to fold big hands to fast action before him. One of those occasions was the last hand I witnessed, Henry raising to 2.1k from early position only to be re-raised to 7.1k by Amrat Patel, and then again by Matthew Haden who pushed all-in. Apparently Martyn had A-Q this hand, so understandably got out of the way, as did initial raiser Henry Griffiths, but Amrat wasn't going anywhere, the extra shrapnel to call quickly zipping into the pot.

On the backs, and Haden was in seemingly good shape with versus . The created two sweaty palms, and the even triggered the odd gasp, but when the hit the River, there was an eerie silence as Matthew was left to exit the table with an understanding, but clearly broken hearted expression on his face.

Id have to have a guess that you indeedare gay, i didnt know u were a waiter? Do you play blackjack by any chance?

[njbh86]

Bang.

[njbh86]

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Id have to have a guess that you indeedare gay, i didnt know u were a waiter? Do you play blackjack by any chance?

I'm not gay, just impressed at how well Swiss is running.  sorry to disappoint

[danafish]

The magic board is now displaying 46 players left in, with blinds 400/800, average stack 23k.

However I heard some people muttering that there are in fact only 42 players left, which I must admit makes my heart leap with joy, although I think they're not massively happy about whatever implications the number of players left in might have upon how they play the last level or two of the evening. Anyway, if by some miracle we haven't lost the requisite number of runners by the end of the next level, we're all going home anyway.

[snoopy1239]

The latest batch to hit the deck include:

Dave Smith
Stuart Fox
Des Jonas (pictured)
P Stribroski
R Wilcox
R Barber
M Gogerty
Rumit Somaiya
M Aden
Ed Arees
Martyn Cavanagh

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[snoopy1239]

Richard Simmonds -- 23,500
P Georgiou -- 19,200
Rob Sherwood -- 7,700
Jeff Kimber -- 25,000
Chris Smith -- 5,000
Chris Sokrati -- 35,700
Stephen Holden -- 20,000
Toni Dicesari -- 13,200
Lawrence Gosney -- 77,000
Javed Iqbal -- 31,000
Paul Rayner -- 30,700
Osman Mustanoglu -- 23,900
Ashfag Hussain -- 29,500
Alan McLean -- 10,400
James Moult -- 42,000
Olabode Ayegun -- 18,600
Karl Mahrenholz -- 30,800
Marcus Bebb-Jones -- 11,100

[snoopy1239]

Alan McLean was knocked down to 10k after Osman Mustangolu bust his Aces with A-K, King on Flop, another on the River.

Ouch!

[danafish]

Ed "The Fonz" Arees is OUT, didn't quite catch the hand (all I saw was that his opponent was holding A-Q) but I managed to get a blurry "no photos!" photo.

[MadTurk]

snoopy  m8   howmany runners were on side event please?  ty

[danafish]

Once again, Red Dog, this is what you're up against. We want a Day 2, er, face-off.

[danafish]

Double-up for this guy, Ashfag Hussain, whose A-J somehow defeated the mighty .

[snoopy1239]

With the eliminations of Russell Jones and D Page, a new contender to the end of day chip leader throne has emerged in the form of Javed Iqbal, who has comfortably the surpassed the 50k mark and now has his sights firmly set on current big daddy Lawrence Gosney.

[snoopy1239]

And Javed 'Chief' Iqbal is indeed your new chip leader with just over 60,000 in chips. He actually gained that 'top of the tree' status from the former pace setter Lawrence Gosney, Patel check-calling Aces on a K-K-3-3 board before pumping it in on the Queen River. Lawrence mucked pretty swiftly, so I think it's safe to say that he didn't have Aces beat.