Bluesquare.com London GUKPT: Day 1C - Interactive

[Djinn]

Big Hand for the Joker...  Joe Grech set off a pretty large pot when he re-raised on the button to 1,200 after an early position raise from Hugh Kirton and a subsequent flat call from Glen Whitehead.  Both of them called the Joker (who had an impressive 34,000 or so at the time) and they saw a flop:
  Check to Grech, who bet 1,200 again.  Hugh then re-raised all in, and must have been disappointed when not just Grech, but Whitehead too got all their chips in the middle.  Joe Grech covered both of them easily, and showed .  But Glen Whitehead had - both were therefore ahead of Kirton's .
Turn: a club - giving the Tens another few outs
River: - taking all hope away, even if that hadn't been the last card to come.

So treble up for Whitehead, knock back to 24,000 for the Joker, knock out for Hugh Kirton (pictured).

[Djinn]

More Press Join the Tables

Poker Verdict's Amy Trodd has taken her seat a lot closer to the action than usual, in fact in it.  This GUKPT event has the highest percentage of bloggers so far, and at least one is headed for Day Two already.  Will she be joining Snoopy in the later stages?

Current chip count: 8,100

[JungleCat03]

Chip counts from end of level 2 courtesy of the majestic moguls at blue square.

Please note some of these counts will now have changed but this will give a flavour of the current state of events...

Rokach, Lucy   39700
Herbert, Richard   28175
Herron, Mike   28150
Hicks, Nichiei   27400
Nagrecha, N   27300
Artemis, Michael   25650
Thew, J   23875
Hayes, M   23800
Palmer, Daniel   22950
Yilmaz, Huseyin   21775
Grech, Joseph   20950
Fletcher, Michael   20450
Goodman, Gary   19350
Kabbaj, John   19325
Nawab, M   18875
Callow, Kim   18700
Ullah, Ibrahim   18675
Sapiano, Albert   17800
Rathbone, John   17200
Jones, Iwan   15975
Lee, Nathan   15800
Ozkarapinar, D   15325
Poulengeris, Antonis   14900
Shellum, Jason   14850
Dwyer, John   14325
Hepburn, George   14175
Mcdonald, George   14000
Bracey, Johnel   13950
Pavlou, M   13875
Harris, Sid   13775
Libertini, Martino   13350
Simpson, Terry   13350
Nijar, Bally   13125
Ringe, G   13100
Karelas, Konstantinos   13025
Gurnam, H   13000
Bointon, Mark   12850
Atkin, J   12775
Oshea, Jerome   12650
Romanello, Nicholas   12650
Mitchell, Chris   12550
Dionysiou, Kyriacos   12550
Ngo, Billy   12275
Kirton, Hugh   12225
Choraria, Rajendra   12200
Sareen, Anooj   12000
Mlynek, Craig   12000
Ford, Zachary   11975
Jackson, Paul   11925
Scullion, Alex   11800
Morris, James   11700
Linton, Peter james   11700
Taunton, Kevin   11550
Barraclough, David   11525
Francis, Nicholas   11500
Mohammed, Barkatul Hassan   11425
Kennedy, S   11300
Francis, Nicholas   11125
Mulla, Reyaaz   11075
Herbert, Ian   10800
Davies, Gary   10750
Altham, Glen   10725
Sherwood, Robert   10675
Hussain, Arshad   10650
Keown, John   10625
Tung, Man Kit   10400
Constantinou, Costas   10400
Wilson, Barry   10375
Smurfit, Peter   10350
Rudd, Daniel   10350
Sadarangani, Davijay   10225
Cox, Ian   10200
Tehrani, Darius   10000
Kourosh, Nikkhahe   10000
Chatterton, Gary   9950
Palanca, Manuel   9875
Penly, Dave   9750
Bradpiece, Jerome   9750
Trodd, Amy   9675
Mills, Stephen   9675
Price, Robert   9650
Sudworth, James   9575
Davies, Alan   9525
Green, Martin   9425
Annan, George   9375
Arees, Tariq   9250
Laronde, David   9125
Guy, David   9125
Trimby, Michael   9100
Parker, Paul   8825
Martin, Jonathan   8800
Welch, David   8600
Macit, Ergun   8525
Lock, Owen   8450
Koumi, Joseph   8400
Lalvani, Nirbhay   8200
Mcdowell, Owen   7900
Waresh, Michael   7775
Altynbaev, Olzhas   7650
Hogg, S   7650
Zeb, Zaheer   7600
Arnesen, Marius   7575
Oreilly, Scott   7500
Butters, Jonathan   7350
Moore, William   7250
Exley, John   7225
Mccloskey, Michael   7200
Nowab, Simon   7050
Abery, T   7025
Moodie, Andrew   6925
Trickett, Sam   6900
Talkington, Keith   6600
Ell hoss, Ghassan   6550
Smith, David   6525
Trigg, Rick   6475
Gabriele, Carlo   6450
Shantra, Mark   6425
Arnold, Micheal   6425
Taylor, Robert   6425
Harris, Mark   6350
Johansson, Mikael   6325
Campbell, Leon   6250
Whitehead, Glen   6200
King, John   6150
Ogunmakinwa, Jamil   6075
Tatupu, Shem   5750
Louis, K   5575
Allen, Danielle   5550
Davies, David   5475
Schwartz, Lucas   5025
Wan, S   4075
Flood, William   3900
Baldwin, Alfie   3650
Milbey, David   3225
Zach, Simon   3000
Cascarino, Anthony   2300
Donnelly, Andrew   1575
Chandler, Steven   1425
Renoldi, Simon   1400
Thomson, Neville   900

[Djinn]

any news on James Atkin ??
thanks for updates

Slightly above starting stack, it looks like, maybe 13,000 or so.  I also seem to remember a 7-2 off being shown a few minutes or so ago after he took down a battle of the blinds.  I think it was shown by him.

[kinboshi]

Great updates as usual Jen, JC and Snoops.  Good work

[snoopy1239]

Great updates as usual Jen, JC and Snoops.  Good work

Thx, kinboshi, just doing my job.

Can we have a better photo of Amy please... because she is good looking. 

[Mango99]

Good luck to Lucy Rokach (playing a stormer at the moment it looks like!) and James Atkin, who are the last two of my sponsored players taking part this week...

Top updates as usual Team Blonde

edit: I hope it's not possible to double-bok in one post!!

[Djinn]

Someone a while ago asked if the big red hoody in the background of one of the pictures was Jerome Bradpiece.  The answer is, no - Jerome is currently hoodyless and fluctuating in chips dramatically.  Saw him double up with ... apparently he re-raised a preflop raise of 625 to 1,675.  He was called, and saw a 6-high flop.  His opponent bet out 2k - Jerome just called.  The board paired the Six on the turn and Jerome now pushed all-in over the top of the next bet of 2k.  The extra 4.5k made its way in and he was shown which stayed behind on the river.

But just now news has travelled up to the press room of another big confrontation which has sent him near the felt again... more soon.

[Mango99]

Good luck to Lucy Rokach (playing a stormer at the moment it looks like!) and James Atkin, who are the last two of my sponsored players taking part this week...

Top updates as usual Team Blonde

edit: I hope it's not possible to double-bok in one post!!

Arghghghg and lol. Looks like I achieved a single-bok

Just got text from James Atkin who is out in a 'harsh pot' holding 88 on a 567 board...

[Chili]

Good luck to Lucy Rokach (playing a stormer at the moment it looks like!) and James Atkin, who are the last two of my sponsored players taking part this week...

Top updates as usual Team Blonde

edit: I hope it's not possible to double-bok in one post!!

Arghghghg and lol. Looks like I achieved a single-bok

Just got text from James Atkin who is out in a 'harsh pot' holding 88 on a 567 board...

    Priceless Mr Dale,  and it only took 7 mins for your boking skills do their work!


p.s not laughing at the exit of James Atkin

[AlexMartin]

Cmon Trigger, tell him to slow down when he hits 100k please updaters. GL son.

[dalzini]

Someone a while ago asked if the big red hoody in the background of one of the pictures was Jerome Bradpiece.  The answer is, no - Jerome is currently hoodyless and fluctuating in chips dramatically.  Saw him double up with ... apparently he re-raised a preflop raise of 625 to 1,675.  He was called, and saw a 6-high flop.  His opponent bet out 2k - Jerome just called.  The board paired the Six on the turn and Jerome now pushed all-in over the top of the next bet of 2k.  The extra 4.5k made its way in and he was shown which stayed behind on the river.

But just now news has travelled up to the press room of another big confrontation which has sent him near the felt again... more soon.

Yes that was me.

So who is the mystery man in the crazy red hoody?

[JungleCat03]

I havent seen the face but is that Jerome Bradpiece in the background with the red hoody on?

Yes indeed you can make out Jerome jsut above Michael Muldoon's head

Someone a while ago asked if the big red hoody in the background of one of the pictures was Jerome Bradpiece.  The answer is, no - Jerome is currently hoodyless and fluctuating in chips dramatically.  Saw him double up with ... apparently he re-raised a preflop raise of 625 to 1,675.  He was called, and saw a 6-high flop.  His opponent bet out 2k - Jerome just called.  The board paired the Six on the turn and Jerome now pushed all-in over the top of the next bet of 2k.  The extra 4.5k made its way in and he was shown which stayed behind on the river.

But just now news has travelled up to the press room of another big confrontation which has sent him near the felt again... more soon.

OOPS! Got my angles a bit wrong there. All I can say is that you are very lucky to have the sharp-eyed, swift witted Jen poised and ready or you'd be left with my moronic ramblings and comical feline misreads all day...

Moving swiftly onwards, Rick's stack was decimated as I came over to check on his table. He related the hand to me. He had A9h and the flop came Q hi with two hearts. Rick played his draw very aggressively but was unable to get Kings to fold and unable to hit his draw either and a 30k ish pot went the wrong way. He's down to dust but won a few chips after raising to 600 utg and receiving a call from the BB. The flop came ATT, BB bet out 1k and rick moved allin for another 1.4k to which the BB passed....

Pete Linton has circa 15k and Simon Nowab has been busily beavering away successfully and is up to 23k.

Paul Jackson has just busted out, no doubt due to some "flair play" on his opponent's behalf. The players are about to break for an hour to gather their thoughts and relate their tales of glory and woe. We'll be back soon,,,

[chrisbruce]

Good luck to the Nottingham mob

Nick hicks, Pete Linton, Mr THEW, and James Moult who played yesterday.

I am soo green with envy not to be there......

[Djinn]

One Hour Dinner Break has Just Begun...

Before heading towards food somewhere that isn't here (players in these events now seem to be served at the table, complete with wine and then get an hour break afterwards, for some reason) here's a list of a few selected players counted before the full count comes in (it will probably be here at the end of the break)...

Alan Smurfit -- 8,050
Joe Grech -- 23,500
Lucy Rokach -- 50,000+
John Kabbaj -- 32,000
Rick Trigg -- 3,450
Jerome Bradpiece -- 3,600
Nick Hicks -- 27,000
Julian Thew -- 18,000
Chris Mitchell -- 3,275
Rob Taylor -- 11,100
Simon Nowab -- 26,500
Paul Parker -- 5,400
Tariq Arees -- OUT (or disappeared)
Andy Donnelly -- 4,950
Martin Cavanagh -- OUT
Michael Trimby -- 21,400
George Hepburn 'slim99slim' -- 17,300   (League winner - so here's where your percentages are, blonde players - he's holding up well....)