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Bluesq.com GUKPT Brighton Day 1a: At-A-Glance
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Good morning, friends! It is yet early, and I am over at Casa Junglecat eating bacon sandwiches, but come apparently 2pm we will be down at the Grosvenor Casino By The Sea to update you on all the action on the first GUKPT of 2008.
In the meantime you might be interested to know that the media comp last night ended up an all-blonde affair, with me and Junglecat playing heads-up in an only slightly boozy manner for the first prize of a free GUKPT main event ticket. In a most gentlemanly of conclusions, we decided to split the prize somehow. But I won. Is the important thing. Yay me and Junglecat!
People spotted in the casino last night, and therefore most likely playing today, include Red-Dog, tikay (God help us if he's playing today though), Mickey Wernick, William Hill's own Julian Thew, Paul Parker, and Jen Mason (wandered in around 1am to drink whisky). Should be a good one...
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January 17, 2008, 01:52:23 PM »
We are here! And everyone in the pressroom is having trouble connecting to the internet except for me! Ahh ha ha ha ha! I love my Mac.
Spotted milling so far are Ian Woodley, Willie Tann, Ian Cox, and a bunch of other people. We have a bag of jelly babies, and we're ready to roll...
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January 17, 2008, 02:24:46 PM »
Well, blonde have sent me to all the far flung corners of the land, from Plymouth to Walsall and my exotic journey now comes full circle as I return to my town of residence, the "sunny" and idyllic locale of Brighton as the TD just referred to it.
Actually, he was being slightly economical with the truth as it is in fact a grey, wet, windy and somewhat drab day weather-wise, but that is unimportant as an abundance of excited, happy, optimistic and talented poker players have assembled to do battle on Day 1 and will be filling the grosvenor casino with enough poker sunshine to tan a marshmallow.
As a quick aside, I realise Dana has already done an official chirp regarding the press tournament last night but I would like to add my congratulations to Dana who played very well to bring home the seat. Well done you banjo-playing badass! (Jen took some interesting and most probably humiliating shots of us in celebratory poses which we will post up during any lull for your general amusement and because we are shameless punks)
The players have just about started and Dana has plunged into the midst of things to get the early news. The tournament clock will be posted up shortly but a quick reminder that the event starts with 10k chips and 25 50 for the first level. Level increases will be hourly.
There is lots of interest for blondites in the form of Ian Cox, Julian Thew, Red-Dog and many others who we will be following closely. There is a nice blend of strong experienced players as well as the usual smattering of "less gifted"* participators.
In addition of course there is the fearsome and well supported Jen Mason, who seems to run deep in every live tournament she plays these days and will no doubt make anyone sharing the felt with her ever so slightly uncomfortable. My confidence in Jen is such that it was only slightly shaken by her comment as we travelled to the casino that "mmmmm, my hair smells of bacon."
I have wittered on for far too long so I will join Dana to catch as much of the opening drama as possible.
Good luck everyone. May the force be with you!
*(Pretentious euphemism for donk)
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January 17, 2008, 02:58:38 PM »
I am currently typing up a full and frank listing of the table seating configuration for your perusal and general enjoyment. This will follow shortly...
Meanwhile I have news of the aforementioned Ms Mason and her crazy antics.
She was seen raising a bet from her table partner and neighbour Chris Cousins from 600 to 1200 on the turn of a Q-T-8-T board.
He flat called and on the
river, he checked, and Jen also checked behind. Chris tabled T-8 for a spiffing full house whilst Jen mucked, looking slightly crestfallen and drawing on her reserves of pork-scented hair for comfort.
"I should have bet the river!" said Chris somewhat chirpily, as he stacked up his new chips.
"You played it well betting out with the house" offered Jen generously.
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Re: Bluesq.com GUKPT Brighton Day 1a: At-A-Glance
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January 17, 2008, 02:58:47 PM »
Well, we've been having some interesting times with the internet connection (my Mac is apparently not Blessed By God, as I previously assumed), but that's ok as it has been a fairly typical early-stages sort of thing so far. The board was claiming 10 minutes in that there had been nine exits already, but I think that was a lie, unless they all went in the first minute and shamefully slunk off, so let's assume for the moment that the board was fraudulent.
Things that have been happening are that Red Dog is being bullied. First hand he called a raise with J-9 and bet out 500 on the Jack-high flop, but then laid it down to a 1200 raise. Down 1000 chips on the first hand; ouch. "I'm building my image," says he.
Meanwhile Jen has also lost a fairly sizeable pot (Rod has details) which doesn't bode well for my 1%. Come on my 1%!
Obviously many other hands have been played but I've yet to see a big one happen among the largely-random-but-dotted-with-familiar-faces field. We have a player list in paper format, so we'll be laboriously typing that up any day now.
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January 17, 2008, 03:42:08 PM »
Here is the full player list and seat numbers. Some interesting tables out there I'm sure you'll agree! (the two players whose names have been struck though, Tony Ringe (pronounced to rhyme with singe and...er other things and J Macnair are not playing today but tomorrow)
Carl Limbert 101
Robert Boon 102
Richard Haile 103
Terry Simpson 104
Robert Rees 105
Terry Plumber 106
Julian Thew 107
John Earnes 108
Willie Tann 109
James Harrison 110
Phil Gregg 201
Dominic Kay 202
Richard Grace 203
Gregory Howard 204
M Hill 205
Kevin Williams 206
Ryan Fronda 207
Mark Russell 208
Nik Persaud 209
Peter Singelton 210
Darren Fuller 301
Brendan Hartnett 302
Chris Mason 303
Graham Burt 304
James Atkin 305
David Lloyd 306
Anthony Adderley 307
Alin J Rapoport 308
K Taylor 309
Andy Achillea 310
High Kirton 401
Cunningham-Brown 402
Michael Bale 403
Victoria Coren 404
Mazhar Nawab 405
Peter Wood 406
Tony RInge
407
Kevin Poast 408
Javed Abrahams 409
Dave Clarke 410
Stephen Eames 501
David "Porno" Monckton 502
Jerome Bradpiece 503
Sunny Chattha 504
Ian Cox 505
Anna Goldsmith 506
Stephen Basri 507
Paul "The Lemon" Murrell 508
Andy Miles 509
Ian Holman 510
Paul Bracken 601
Anthony Cascarino 602
S Cllutterbuck 603
Dan Furnival 604
Calvin Stacey 605
Charles Sanderson 606
Sidney Harris 607
Thomas Mcready 608
James Reid 609
Timothy Hiskett 610
Deborah "DebbieFish" Rogers 701
Michael Denton 702
Ashley Hayes 703
Duncan Meyer 704
Paul Garrad 705
D Nutt 706
William Martin 707
C Ellis 708
Chris Cousins 709
Jen Mason 710
Jack Power 801
P Gardener 802
John Fletcher 803
Stephen Spencer 804
J MacNair
805
Ian "BUPA" Woodley 806
Mark Wycherly 807
Mark Bointon 808
Scott Chaudhry 809
James Sudworth 810
Dave Herman 901
David gregory 902
Jeff Buffenbarger 903
Yilfer Shevket 904
Mick Chivers 905
Mickey "Leg-end" Wernick 906
Dave Felton 907
Tom "Macker" Macleod 908
Balbir Pottiwal 909
David J Lloyd 910
C Xanthos 1001
Richard "Captin" Collier 1002
Andrew Teng 1003
Craig McCorkell 1004
Michael Clarke 1005
Josef Grech 1006
Neil "Bad Beat" Channing 1007
Peter Abela 1008
Simon Taylor 1009
Stephen Zudithipunpare 1110
Adam Stoneham 1101
Dan Carter 1102
Anthony Hardy 1103
Neil Fox 1104
Ray Wyre 1105
Michael Mccool 1106
Praz Bansi 1107
Alex Martin 1108
Wayne Rideout 1109
laurence Houghton 1110
Lee Redmond 1201
James Browning 1202
C Buntyn 1203
D Kis 1204
Nathan Lee 1205
Sal "Never Give" Ghozali 1206
Terrence Owens 1207
Daniellle "PocketLady" Allen 1208
Bob Ballou 1209
A Phillips 1210
Marcu Bebb-jones 1301
James TYler 1302
James Moult 1303
Sasha Rosewood 1304
D Ozkarapinar 1305
Mike Moore 1306
Conan Bailey 1307
Spencer Lawrence 1308
Glenn "The Mutz" Martin 1309
Leon Campbell 1310
Niall Charlton 1401
Simon Randall 1402
Adam Wilkinson 1403
Owen Lock 1404
Steven Khoo 1405
Ross Campbell 1406
David Moule 1407
Mehrdad Saffari 1408
Alan "Ice Cream" Vinson 1409
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January 17, 2008, 03:51:42 PM »
Some strong tables out there, but this one in particular looks like a cracker. Alex Martin will likely be playing in a firestorm with this list of players out there....
They include World Heads Up runner up, the baby faced Dan Carter, Adam Stoneham, who has posted lots of consistent results, the fiery Irishman and blondite Mick McCool, the braceleted Hit Squadder Praz Bansi, Laurence Houghton and of course...the one and only long standing cheesy capital radio
"DR" Neil Fox.
Actually I am not 100% sure that Neil Fox is the infamous capital radio
, or just someone sharing his name but I am off to investigate right now...
Adam Stoneham 1101
Dan Carter 1102
Anthony Hardy 1103
Neil Fox 1104
Ray Wyre 1105
Michael Mccool 1106
Praz Bansi 1107
Alex Martin 1108
Wayne Rideout 1109
laurence Houghton 1110
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January 17, 2008, 03:55:43 PM »
I checked on Conan Bailey and he's doing ok on about 9k - not much change so far.
While I was lurking at his table, I accidentally chanced upon, I mean, I employed my massive updating skill and sought out a rare early exit - a preflop raising war between Noah-Boeken-style-horror-hoodie-wearing Joshua Tyler (down on the list as James for some reason) and tablemate Lawrence Spencer. On their backs, Joshuames had
and Lawrence was holding
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Board -
("here we go..." says Lawrence)
"I warned him at the very beginning of the tournament not to get involved with me," says Joshuames, which seems a little unfair, but he is now table chip leader.
Lawrence took it well and is now drinking beer. Good man.
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January 17, 2008, 04:09:13 PM »
I had a quick chat with Julian, who is always very amiable and he was quick to congratulate me on the result from the press tournament. "Thanks very much" said I before inquiring as to his progress...
"It's a slow start for me, managed to donk off a quarter of my stack, well maybe not donk off...[he quickly corrected himself].... I'm plodding away though, plodding's under-rated!" (I sense he may have been hanging around with Paul Jackson a bit too much recently perhaps...)
Jen is not looking too happy and in need of a pep talk during the upcoming break which she shall duly receive. She is sitting on about 6 and a half thousand. "It's slow progress but not in the right direction..." she mused slightly morosely. I may have to lecture her later on misuse onf the word progress but for now I will concentrate my energies during the break on raising her spirits.
The blind structure still gives her plenty of room to manoeuvre (I can never spell that word) out of her current sticky predicament...
Tom Mcready told me that Jim Reid had just provided a choice quote for him. "He says I'm playing too loose, playing too many hands!"
"Yes" agreed Jim, seemingly shocked at the brazenly aggressive style of Red Dog today...
"He's played 5 hands in the first 2 levels!"
That's it for 10 minutes folks. We're on a break. Back very soon....
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January 17, 2008, 04:28:31 PM »
Had a quick chat with Hitsquadder Sunny Chattha during the break.
"How's it going Sunny?"
"Yeah, not bad, up to 11,000...slow and steady progress, that's how I'm playing it"
Meanwhile I have been informed of a significant elimination.
Winner of last year's Walsall GUKPT, Jerome Bradpiece has met his match. He called a raise with Q-Q, slowplaying his big pair for value and once the flop came 6 high the chips flew in.
Unfortunately, he found his (currently unknown) assailant holding the dominating K-K and was unable to spike a required lady, meaning he joins the crowded rail with the rest of us...
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January 17, 2008, 04:41:23 PM »
Tales from the break and beyond:
Neil Channing is OUT - apparently he somehow got himself all in massively behind, on a one-outer, I believe. Oops.
Ericstoner was down to 6.9k but is now back up to 11k. He saw a Nine-high flop with Jacks and bet out, but come the river there ere four hearts on the board and he checked to his opponent's check. His opponent was holding a Nine with no hearts, and Brendan seemed to be torturing himself a bit about checking the river, but fair enough, say I.
Red Dog is up to 20k. After, in his words, "pissing about in a load of pots" and showing terrible hands at the end, he called a 400 preflop raise with pocket Tens. The flop came A-T-T and he got himself in a raising war with the original raiser. Eventually on their backs, the other guy was holding A-K and Red Dog's full house held up, taking him up to about 14k. He has since been abusing his new chipped-up position to bully everyone else, and is up to 20k.
Greg Howard is on around 7k, for those enquiring. Alex Martin is down to around 5.5k - I'm afraid I don't know what happened.
By the way Mr Moorman, we have a Stephen Eames on the list - is he the same as your John Eames? We do have a few mistakes on the list. No other Eames apparent...
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Mike Ellis is OUT, with A-J I am told.
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January 17, 2008, 05:12:01 PM »
We're down to 116 runners. Among those now OUT are
Ashley
Hayles
who moved in over the top of Jen Mason's A-J with A-7. The beginnings of a comeback for my 1%! Go my 1%! Also Terry Plumber is gone, holding
against
William
Hill
starlet
Julian
Thew
's Pocket Rockets. There was a Ten on the board, and two spades somewhere along the line, but actually I have no idea at what point the chips went in nor how many spades were out then. Also lurking around the cash desk, presumed OUT, is
Willie
Tann
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January 17, 2008, 05:17:17 PM »
Also OUT is Scott Chaudhry, who moved all in on an
flop. Ross Campbell dwells up, doing a funny clicky thing with his jaw, and he seems to be in real pain. Eventually he calls.
Scott Chaudhry -
Ross Campbell -
Turn -
River - oooohhhhh -
"'Orrible," says Chaudhry and leaves.
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Chip counts, end of level 2, courtesy of that fine figure of a man, Mr Jon Raab:
Table Seat ID Player End of Level 2
1 2 102 Robert Boon 13875
1 3 103 Richard Haile 1750
1 4 104 Terry Simpson 8600
1 5 105 Robert Rees 14975
1 6 106 Terry Plumber 14550
1 7 107 Julian Thew 7700
1 8 108 John Eames 21200
1 9 109 Willie Tann 2600
1 10 110 James Harrison 7950
2 2 202 Dominic Kay 6625
2 3 203 Richard Grace 11200
2 4 204 Gregory Howard 6850
2 5 205 M Hill 19500
2 6 206 Kevin Williams 11550
2 7 207 Ryan Fronda 8625
2 8 208 Mark Russell 10300
2 9 209 Nik Persaud 12100
2 10 210 Peter Singleton 13250
3 1 301 Darren Fuller 10100
3 2 302 Brendan Hartnett 9725
3 3 303 Chris Mason 9500
3 4 304 Graham Burt 4625
3 5 305 James Atkin 18125
3 6 306 David Lloyd 12575
3 7 307 Anthony Adderley 7700
3 9 309 K Taylor 10475
3 10 310 Andy Achillea 8075
4 1 401 Hugh Kirton 11200
4 2 402 Andrew Cunningham-brown 10025
4 3 403 Michael Bale 4725
4 4 404 Victoria Coren 5825
4 5 405 Mazhar Nawab 2250
4 6 502 David Monckton 10450
4 8 408 Kevin Poast 18450
4 9 409 Javed Abrahams 10750
4 10 410 Dave Clark 26375
5 1 501 Stephen Eames 4525
5 4 504 Sunny Chattha 11050
5 5 505 Ian Cox 10450
5 6 506 Anna Goldsmith 10575
5 7 507 Stephen Basri 11725
5 8 508 Paul Murrell 17900
5 9 509 Andy Miles 16275
5 10 510 Ian Holman 7650
6 1 601 Paul Bracken 10275
6 2 602 Anthony Cascarino 15200
6 3 603 S Clutterbuck 7925
6 4 101 Carl Limbert 6650
6 5 605 Calvin Stacey 9600
6 6 606 Charles Sanderson 9325
6 8 608 Thomas Mccready 22750
6 9 609 James Reid 15725
6 10 610 Timothy Hiskett 9350
7 1 701 Deborah Rogers 9100
7 2 702 Michael Denton 3850
7 3 703 Ashley Hayles 6200
7 4 704 Duncan Meyer 6775
7 5 705 Paul Garrad 19775
7 6 706 D Nutt 13350
7 7 707 William Martin 22250
7 8 708 Michael Ellis 500
7 9 709 Chris Cousins 14500
7 10 710 Jen Mason 5700
8 1 801 Jack Power 10375
8 2 802 P Gardener 8400
8 3 803 John Fletcher 17150
8 4 804 Stephen Spencer 7200
8 6 806 Ian Woodley 11325
8 7 807 Mark Wycherly 12300
8 8 808 Mark Bointon 6050
8 9 809 Scott Chaudhry 9250
8 10 810 James Sudworth 8400
9 2 902 David Gregory 14850
9 3 903 Jeff Buffenbarger 13150
9 4 904 Yilfer Shevket 11100
9 5 905 Mick Chivers 10275
9 7 906 Micky Wernick 15325
9 8 908 Tom Macleod 10850
9 9 909 Balbir Pottiwal 4800
9 10 910 David J Lloyd 10175
10 1 1001 C Xanthos 7175
10 2 1002 Richard Collier 5575
10 3 1003 Andrew Teng 14700
10 4 1004 Craig Mccorkell 16875
10 6 1006 Josef Grech 15100
10 8 1008 Peter Abela 14075
10 9 1009 Simon Taylor 5000
10 10 1010 Steven Zudithipunpare 12250
11 1 1101 Adam Stoneham 7200
11 2 1102 Dan Carter 8075
11 3 1103 Anthony Hardy 6350
11 4 1104 Neil Fox 8975
11 5 1105 Ray Wyre 8275
11 6 1106 Michael Mccool 18975
11 7 1107 Praz Bansi 10975
11 8 1108 Alex Martin 5275
11 9 1109 Wayne Rideout 13900
12 1 1201 Redmond Lee 5325
12 3 1203 C Buntyn 10825
12 4 1204 D Kis 10350
12 5 1205 Nathan Lee 24850
12 7 1207 Terrence Owens 16525
12 8 1208 Danielle Allen 6900
12 9 1209 Bob Ballou 2500
12 10 1210 A Phillips 2975
13 1 1301 Marcus Bebb-jones 10450
13 2 1302 James Tyler 27500
13 3 1303 James Moult 13300
13 4 1304 Sasha Rosewood 8675
13 5 1305 D Ozkarapinar 5850
13 6 1306 Mike Moore 5250
13 7 1307 Conan Bailey 4900
13 9 1309 Glenn Martin 14575
13 10 1310 Leon Campbell 9500
14 1 1401 Niall Charlton 8250
14 2 1402 Simon Randall 10950
14 3 1403 Adam Wilkinson 7400
14 4 1404 Owen Lock 11775
14 5 1110 Laurence Houghton 8350
14 6 1406 Ross Campbell 19300
14 7 1206 Sal Ghozali 5600
14 8 1408 Mehrdad Saffari 29900
14 9 1409 Alan Vinson 7750
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