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Tony is the only member of blonde currently at the tournament tonight and will of course be playing.
We regret that we will not be able to bring you updates from the outset, but we do hope to be bringing you reports as the  evening wears on.
So keep your eyes open and watch this space...

Will you be doing updates from the Bellagio?

P Testud out .ko by maxwell

. Phil Ivey - $3,912,000
2. Tuan Le - $3,580,000
3. Hasan Habib - $3,528,000
4. Rob Hollink - $2,000,000
5. Sammy Arzoin - $1,300,000
6. Michael Mizrachi - $1,290,000
7. Joe Beevers - $1,210,000
8. Chris Ferguson - $1,188,000
9. Joseph Cordi - $889,000
10. John Phan - $888,000
11. Juha Helppi - $836,000
12. Jeff Shulman - $638,000
13. Paul Maxfield - $637,000
14. George Miller - $525,000
15. David Sklansky - $221,000
16. Tony Ma - $105,000

thanks simon keep us uptodate and i'll finally forgive you for dundee ;D

i am hoping the bubble is 16th after being forced to piuck a bubble boy i picked
David Sklansky whom i believe has just busted in 16th

SKLANSKY AND MILLER OUT 14 LEFT

Cmon MAXI, I know you can do it

thanks for the info

i assume the bubble would have to be either 101st (money) or 7th (before final)
Ian

are you trying to say i got it wrong again?

i am going to open a new thread for the Bellagio event to keep things neat

unfourtunatly looks like we are going to have to rely on each other for info

Could someone e-mail me the list of people who entered this tourney please, my mate was playing... wanna see how he's doing

Much obliged!

oh yeah, whoops my e-mail address is chris_swan@hotmail.co.uk... heh thanks guys and this forum rocks!!!!  ::)

sorry chris blondes own tikay is playing in the event and untill he bust we wont get any info from belfast

i dont think he will be able to get a full list of people that entry (very rare to get that info)

but he will hopefully be able to supply us chip counts etc as he event goes on

with a bit of luck for tikay though it might be very late as i think

he is planning on making a money finish

also i wouldn't print your email in an open forum as you are liable to get alot of spam and viruses

sent to you your email is in your profile and people will be able to contact you that way

I guess 'no news is good news' for Tikay in Belfast.

Hope we hear nothing until tomorrow in that case !

 ;)

reading thru last nights reports i would guess tikay is asleep on the table by now

as he only had about an hour from his last post and being at the airport

Ah, being new to the forum i didn't know. This is a quality place! Well i'll wait till the boss does his shizney. Thanks fellas!  ;D

Just spoke to Mel Lofthouse she just went out of Cavendish - She had 99 vs AK  lost the coin flip..
Julian just out also had A 7 Vs A 6 Not sure if suited or not but the guy with A 6 hit a flush.
TK on about 13k
Carlo C - on about 23k

you could ask mel if she want to text you a few details and you could up date  :D

untill tikay blinds out  ;D

Sorry just spoke to her again she is already in hotel room.
Got a cab back pritty much straight away.

No news from the Cavendish, whats happening? My god, could tikay still be in?

LOL I was just thinking the same thing ... by the way , I reckon you look like one of the chuckle brothers ... contest over  where is my prize :)

6:15 Sunday
   
18 players

1   paul jackson 95.5k
2   gerry groves 88.5k
3   paddy mccloskey 72.5
4   declan barker 65k
5   ivan donaghy 61k
6   darren baine 60k
7   mal dawson 59k
8   andy horne 44k
9   sean macklin 40k
10   paddy oconnor 40k
11   Jim Watters 35k
12   stevie 30k
13   paul leckey 27k
14   stuart mcdonald 26k
15   danny yefet 21k
16   tony cascarino 19k
17   brian lyttle 18k
18   greg lagan 10k

check www.thecavendishclub.com forums for further info

Thank you sonetti - welcome to the bonde Forum, & thank you for the Belfast news.

Rhowena is still there, & I have asked her to try & update me, if she does, I will post it here.

I will try & give you a few bits & pieces of info in a bit, to tell you a bit of news about the Belfast tourney.

Only 82 runners sat down, so with a guaranteed first prize of 100,000, there won't be much prize money to spread between the other Finalists. Smells like a big chop I'd guess.

I will post some Belfast stuff, but before I do, a big thanks to all the local lads who made us so welcome. Ivan Donaghy sorted out a nice hotel for us, the Malone Lodge, & Julian, Mel Lofthouse, Jim Reid, Rhowena, & Steve & Billy from the Poker 425 crew all stayed there.

And thanks to Sean Murphy for giving us a warm welcome.

And Mags (from The Merrion) who was TD, & bought along a smashing team of dealers.

Amongst the dealers were two young ladies from Latvia. A big hi to them both, especially Vicky. Vicky was awesome, just drop dead awesome.....

4 left apparently

Who was there?

Well the travelling contingent was headed by Carlo Citrone, William Hill's Julian Thew, Jim Reid, the in-form Micky Wernick, and Paul ActionJack Jackson, who was Ladbrokes branded. Paul had his daughter with him.

Mel Lofthouse had won a seat, and Thewy & I agreed to meet Mel at the Airport in Belfast, she was coming from London, we had come from East Midlands. Shame we never realised there were two Airports, it took an hour or more before the penny dropped that we were at different ones.....

Any idea who Rupert?

How far did you get Tikay?

The home team included Ivan Donaghy, Peter Roche, Roy The Boy Brindley, Rory Liffey, Paul Leckey, & Declan Barker, who did so well in Monte Carlo. Oh, & Mal Dawson, who I met in Dublin at The Irish Open, & who kindly drove me back to my hotel at 6am this morning, thanks Mal!

And I just remermbered, thank you to the Dooman at The Cavendish who took me & Thewy back to the Airport tonight.

The Prize structure, by the way, was.....

Winner 100,000

2nd - 7,000

3rd - 4,000

4rh, 3,000

5th, 2,000

6th, 2,000

7th, 2,000

8th 1,000

9th, 1,000

that structure looks like Danni from Walsall did it!

Well the Prize Money was a weird thing. They had GUARANTEED a 100k first prize, & only 82 turned up, so they were a bit stymied.....

The actual structure was terrific. 10,000 chips, 25-50 to start, 1 hour clock.

pity that less turned up all that way for a winner takes all event would have been good value

Me? The Rock (Malcolm) asks...... Most of the blondeites KNOW how I got on without even bothering to check.....

Usual story, chipped up early, thought I played OK with no help from the cards. 5 tables left, lost a "race", my QQ failed to hold on against AK. Cling-on jobbie after that, made Day Two as, guess what, Billy Low Stack, there's a novelty, eh? Had to gamble today, & busted out second hand with AJ suited against AQ in 26th place. Nothing changes....

Mind you, His Jammyness The Thewy was out before it got dark on Day One......

and i bet he went off and played a stupid cash game instead of informing us mere mortals sitting at home
of how the event was going

His Jammyness = jack 8) ;D ;)

Shamelessly borrowed from the cavendish club site:

last four are

Action Jack
Darren Baine
Paddy McCloskey
Mal Dawson

Finished:
5th - Stuart McDonald
6th - Ivan Donaghy
7th - Danny Yefet
8th - Gerry Groves
9th - Paul Leckey
10th - Andy Horne
11th - Sean Macklin
12th - Declan Barker
13th - Steven Davison

Do you think maybe you are putting the 'mockers' on Thewy by saying that you fancy him to 'go deep' ?

And well done Ironside in the tikay tourney.

 ::)

Oh very bloody funny Ironside.

And yes, he COULD have done the Live Update for Blonde, but I don't think he can write.

Wow, good luck to Actionjack. What a comeback, he was second lowest chip overnight, worsted only by yours truly. He's down to the last 4, & I am back home in Derbyshire.....

well he has a phone aint he

there are enough of us at home that can write for him

Good point Ironside, hammer it home. He should be ashamed.

Karabiner - what do you mean "the tikay tournament"?

it was the blue square tikay tourny claire won and i got runner up

Many congratulations to you both. So was it a typo to call it "the tikay tournament" then?

its offical title was "the blue square tikay freeroll"

sigh,
for the record it was 3AM hen i was knocked out - thats bedtime.
cash game occured this afternoon, we set it up as soon as tk was KO'd...
good luck paul!

excuses excuses

ul julian i heard you had a bad bad beat :'(

not really a bad beat, had no chips, id'a called in his shoes.

i felt like tk, 7 hours of play, chips fluctuated between 9 & 12k.

so what was that gay bar like then?

Julian this is a public forum you could have text me that question in privite :-[ , there was no where to get a drink and a mans goto do what a mans goto do ;D 

Here's maybe a clue as to why I rarely get deep-stacked in comps, this is a hand that, by general concensus, I played badly.

I limp with 3-3, little knowing that Matey Boy (nice lad from Cork) has KK. Flop is 8-6-3 rainbow, perfect. Matey Boy bets, I smooth call. Turn comes another 6, I have filled up now. He checks, so do I.

River comes another 8, so 3-6-8-6-8. Don't like the turn, there are two overpairs to my set, I am losing to any 6 or 8. Matey Boy checks, I bet 3k, he has a total of 9k, he calls, & I take the pot.

Most shrewd judges, Carlo Citrone included, who was at the table, think I should have bet the turn, & moved all-in on the end & got properly paid.

But I did not want to lose him, & could not put him on KK, (he limped pre-flop) but I guess I left a good bit of money behind & sholda busted the guy for another 6k

I guess this is one of my "leaks", not getting properly paid when I have the goods. I saw danger that was not there.

interresting hand there Tikay I would have been all in pre flop with poket threes its a monster hand in my book 8)

i cant see this mircodisney moving many chips


infact he dont look like he has any


have i missed a bad beat or a bit of bad timing?

It was the worst kind of timing, he moved in on a raggedy flop with a pair only to find matey-boy sitting with top set !

Ooops !

Good luck Paul !!

Luke & Claire....

I hear it was a four way deal 8)

Well that's Paul Jackson, Mal Dawson, Paddy McCloskey & Darren Baine. A great comeback by Paul Jackson, who was second lowest chip opvenight. And a terrific result for Mal, who was very kind in giving me a lift back to my hotel this morning. I am afraid I don't think I know the other 2 guys, but well done to all of them!

I forgot to mention earlier that our buddy & blondeite Stuart Fox was there too. Sorry Stu!

to be fair the limper was the one who played this awfully, not you....his bet on the flop didn't find out where he was, checking on the turn is no help either and he hasn't to call on the end because you had to be playing 33,66 or 88

no problem about the lift tony would have like to have seen you at the final but there's always the next time.
p.s. finished 3rd 18,000+ the richer no different had i won it.i'm happy lookin forward to the next 1

all the best mal