Cardiff GUKPT: Day 1B - At A Glance

[Djinn]

As one day ends, another begins - players for the second start day in this thrilling leg of the Bluesquare GUKPT will convene at 4pm today (Friday).

Here are the chip counts after Day 1A:

136,025 Romanello, Roberto
121,800 Forsman, Robert
80,325 Zach, Simon
63,000 Duval, Jeff
62,850 Kerrigan, Kerry
62,100 Davies, Alan
52,825 Trinh, Lam
52,125 Bruce, Chris
49,125 Feldman, Andrew
43,475 Chen, T
42,325 Mackay, Richard
40,825 Tyler, Joshua
36,600 James, Dewi
36,475 Wong, Ken
36,050 Fieldhouse, Ian
31,650 Thomas, Ben
30,300 Mahrenholz, Carl
29,350 Dean, Alan
27,775 Citrone, Carlo
27,575 Rich, Angela
27,550 Parker, David
26,725 Schwartz, Lukas
26,600 Gurnham, Rana
24,250 Garfield, Robert
21,925 Persaud, Nik
21,625 Cordy, Steve
21,475 Choi, Wai
21,475 Oflaherty, Andy
21,400 Aris, Dr
21,400 Henson, Alan
21,275 Muthy, Kayshan
20,950 Nash, Stuart
18,825 Jonas, Des
17,475 Bodha, R
16,900 Owen, Jack
16,700 Oneil, Mike
16,525 Bancroft, Jonathan
16,050 Elscombe, Aaron
15,300 Wilcox, Richard
14,250 Biltcliffe, Robert
14,050 Howard, Gregory
12,200 Tommaso, Andrea
11,575 Georgiou, Andrew
10,950 Ngo, Huo
10,250 Nelson, Terrence
10,075 Bedson, Jim

[snoopy1239]

Sid Harris had virtually doubled up with Pocket Kings vs. Pocket Eights on a board, his 4k River all-in called by his unfortunate neighbour.

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Bizarrely, and this is truly odd, Wasim Shaid (sp?) has become the first exit of the day, losing with a set of Eights to a set of Kings. The board reading K-7-8-7-5.

[Djinn]

So - here is your full list of Day 1B players, in table and seat order:

1   1   King, Paul   
1   2   Smith, Dave   
1   3   Romanello, Frank   
1   4   Blanco, Cristiano   
1   5   Goodwin, Marc   
1   6   Shahid, Waseem   
1   7   Thi-dong, Binh   
1   8   Rutter, Alan   
1   9   Vicary, Paul   
1   10   Miles, Andy   
2   1   Mitchell, Ryan   
2   2   Oneil, Cat   
2   3   Orlowski, Mark   
2   4   Simmonds, Richard   
2   5   Grimley, Terence   
2   6   Durr, Izabel   
2   7   Hasalm, Peter   
2   8   Jones, Iwan   LLO
2   9   Arees, Tariq   
2   10   Sunar, Surrinder   
3   1   Redmond, Lee   
3   2   Stevens, Robert   
3   3   Colclough, Dave   
3   4   Fronda, Ryan   
3   5   Humphries, Evan   
3   6   Priestley, Gavin   
3   7   Adderley, Tony   
3   8   Wise, Phil   
3   9   Mclen, Alan   
3   10   Adejuyigbe, Richard   
4   1   Seymour, Ronald   
4   2   Romanello, Anthony   
4   3   Cowling, Brad   
4   4   Tann, Willy   
4   5      
4   6   Amour, Andrew   
4   7   Akenhead, James   
4   8   Arees, Edward   
4   9   Pomroy, Dave   
4   10   Herron, Mark   
5   1   Jasmin, Najim   
5   2   Shaw, Gary   
5   3   Lee, Tuan   
5   4   Rees, Ceri   
5   5   Xanthos, Stasia   
5   6   Vinson, Alan   
5   7   Shallow, Dave   
5   8   Somaiya, Rumit   
5   9   Duffy, Brendan   
5   10   Yaffe, Mark   
6   1   Stoneham, Adam   
6   2   Beaumont, Lynne   
6   3   Mccool, Mike   
6   4   Channing, Neil   
6   5   Bright, Richard   
6   6   Nelson, Ian   
6   7   Xanthos, Bambos   
6   8   Walmsley, Steve   
6   9   Kennedy, George   
6   10   Tyler, Matt   
7   1   Saghtchi, Saeed   
7   2   Samson, Daniel   
7   3   Duncan, Keiron   
7   4   Clutterbuck, James   
7   5   Boulous, Michael   
7   6   Jones, Ken   A
7   7   Falconer, John   
7   8   Morris, Donna   
7   9   Metcalfe, Craig   
7   10   Courtney, Dave   
8   1   Jelinek, Steve   
8   2   Macintrye, Fraser   
8   3   Slavin, Stephen   
8   4   Khajuria, Lalit   
8   5   Sidhu, Kuljinder   
8   6   Fiore, Stefano   
8   7   Garnham, Paul   
8   8   Callow, Kim   
8   9      
8   10   Atkin, James   
9   1   Nightingale, Thomas   
9   2   Mckay, Anthony   
9   3   Slade, Nick   
9   4   Hakim, Jaffrey   
9   5   Craig, Steve   
9   6   Goodall, Nick   
9   7   Rudling, Doig   
9   8   Moore, Mike   
9   9   Bosley, Ian   
9   10   Exley, John   
10   1   Owen, Craig   
10   2   Harris, Sid   
10   3   Maloney, Paul   
10   4   Greco, Michael   
10   5   Shafiq, Mohammed   
10   6   Boyce, Oliver   
10   7   Mizzi, Sorel   
10   8   Redmond, Richard   
10   9   Abbassi, Ramanzanali   
10   10   Paul-james, Simon   
11   1   Harding, Miles   
11   2   Martin, James   
11   3   Gibbons, Steve   
11   4   John, Simon   
11   5   Jones, Gareth   
11   6   Clarke, Ken   
11   7   De wolf, Roland   
11   8   Holden, Stephen   
11   9   Penly, Dave   
11   10   Mohammad,Ishmal   
12   1   Law, Royce   
12   2   Chatterton, Gary   
12   3   Davies, Ian   
12   4   Wernick, Micky   
12   5   Dack, Paul   
12   6   Hickman, Darren   
12   7   Hartree, Catherine   
12   8   Coren, Vicky   
12   9   Humpries, Paul   
12   10   Brindley, Roy   
13   1   Morjaria, Mukesh   
13   2   Trigg, Richard   
13   3   Farthing, Marcus   
13   4   Blodwell, Wayne   
13   5   Koysor, Abdul   
13   6   Bowker, Elliot   
13   7   Dunwoodie, Thomas   
13   8   Libertina, Martinio   
13   9   Smolinski, Gary   
14   1   Owston, David   
14   2   Willis, Nigel   
14   3   Ibraham, Mohammed   
14   4   Yusuf, Sami   
14   5   Oleary, Kevin   
14   6   Gould, Peter   
14   7   Woods, Alistar   
14   8   Menzies, Stuart   
14   9   Singleton, Peter   
15   1   Dionysiou, Kyriacos   
15   2   Lu, Bo   
15   3   Capper, Tony   
15   4   Lott, Michael   
15   5   Parhizkar, Hoss   
15   6   Sami, Darsham   
15   7   Bates, Adrian   
15   8   Isaia, Alessio   
15   9   Conroy, John   
16   1   Boynton, David   
16   2   Rattos-salles, Matthew   
16   3      
16   4   Wyre, Ray   
16   5   Powell, Alwyn   
16   6   Rees, Glyn   
16   7   Bowden, Ian   
16   8   Forrester, Mark   
16   9   Clark, Mick   
17   1   Parker, Paul   
17   2   Flood, Liam   
17   3   Hayles, Ashley   
17   4   Gallagher, David   J
17   5   Vincent, Ben   
17   6   Rao, Ganesh   
17   7   Strutt, Emma   
17   8   Kiss, Karoly   
17   9   Heller, Adam   

[snoopy1239]

I didn't quite catch who raised it up, but somehow 6 players managed to spend 1.2k to see an Flop.

Lynne Beaumont (Ace King) checked, Michael McCool (Queens) checked, Neil Channing (Tens) checked, Ian Nelson (??) checked, Bambos (??) checked and Womble (Jacks) bet 1,250.

Lynne was the only caller and both players checked the Turn.

River =

Lynne checked, Womble bet 2,500 and Lynne called to take down a nice pot.

[snoopy1239]

Terry Grimley just won a nice pot off Tariq Arees, the latter re-raising the Irishman's 2k Turn bet on a board.

Terry called instantly for all his chips and proudly revealed his for flopped straight and a small flush draw to boot. But although he was ahead, the flush draw was useless as Arees held the for the bigger flush draw. However, none of his outs arrived and Terry was left to take the pot, albeit with a clap of the hands and a slight "Yes" exclaim.

[snoopy1239]

The chap who ran trip eights into the trip kings of Sid Harris earlier on was in fact Frank Romanello, and he's just been faced with another potentially taxing decision courtesy of Richard Redmond.

With a Flop of , Romanello bet 1.5k only to be re-raised by Redmond to 3.6k.

Two contrasting postures, an uptight Romanello leans forward over the table, desperately tying to work out if he should put his tournament life on the line. Meanwhile, a relaxed laid-back 'I've been here, got the t'shirt' Redmond offers me a rye smile as we wait what seems like a lifetime for a decision.

I wonder around the other tables, return, only to see that nothing has changed. Redmond is looking into the distance, nonchalently fiddling with his i-pod headphones, making no attempt whatsoever to set a poker face. Meanwhile, Romanello is still deep in thought, but that thought finally translates into a good call, although many were surprised it wasn't made quicker, with . Romanello showed , and with a Turn, it was chop chop.

[snoopy1239]

Paul King is OUT.

"I raised it up pre-flop with Tens and hit top set, but it was an all spade board. I bet because I didn't want a flush to hit and Alan Rutter flat called. Turn came a rag, and I doubled my bet to 2,400. Alan raised and I shoved it in, but he had flopped the flush with and I failed to hit. It's hard to get away from flopped top set though, even on all suited board."

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Meanwhile...

Some heavy pre-flop action which led to Michael Greco folding Queens, but Shaf and Craig Owen saw a Flop of . Craig bet 5k, only for Shaf to move all-in, but the eye-opening thing about this hand is that Craig then mucked his cards, leaving just 2k behind.

Shaf showed Aces. What Craig Owen had, I have no idea.

[Djinn]

We've just finished typing up the full chip counts - they just need to be sent to me from the hub of all press activity which is Jon Raab's laptop... actually I am going to lean over and give you a couple of counts while-u-wait:

Pete Singleton    8,175
Shaf                 20,200
Nick Slade           7,875
Michael Greco     14,350
Craig Metcalfe     21,325
Matt Tyler           3,000
Womble             8,875
Neil Channing      13,025

Those were at the break - lots of action has already been mixing it all up.  20k or so is leader status, still, however.

[snoopy1239]

Dusk Till Dawn update:

Just the two of them here today...

Dave Colclough -- 13,925
Michael Greco -- 12,025

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Willie Tann is OUT.

[Djinn]

R. Abbassi, with whom I was having a breaktime chat, is on just over 2,000 - and that's after having been all-in and survived.  He pushed preflop with what turned out to be - I heard Shaf saying, "I'll gamble" so I turned to watch his table.  Shaf gambled with , as it turned out, to none of our collective surprise.
Anyway - Flop: 
Turn: 
River: 

And although the dealer was already gently pushing the chips towards Abbassi, Shaf was there to set everything straight...

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Moments later...

Ramanzanali Abbassi has doubled up. All the chips going in on a Flop, Abassi flopping the nuts with and being paid off by Shaf's .

"I was gambling," he says, perhaps defending a pre-flop call.

[Djinn]

These were the full counts from the end of the last break - a lot has altered the top spots since then, I will try to add a note if someone's now a chip monster, or out, but thought they might be good to have even if it took a lot of time to get them and write them up (rules are rules; we weren't allowed to help with the count and Jon has been running around like crazy)

Shallow, Dave   25825     (down to 8,650)
Miles, Andy   21600
Metcalfe, Craig   21325
Rattos-salles, Matthew   21250
Shafiq, Mohammed   20200
Jones, Gareth   19850
Atkin, James   19750
Mccool, Mike   18925        (25,000 easily, and climbing)
Stoneham, Adam   18875
Grimley, Terence   18650
Cowling, Brad   17700
Rutter, Alan   17650
Fronda, Ryan   16675
Ibraham, Mohammed   16375
Bowker, Elliot   16025
Sidhu, Kuljinder   14950
Colclough, Dave   14900
Humphries, Evan   14575
Smith, Dave   14475
Khajuria, Lalit   14450
Goodall, Nick   14375
Greco, Michael   14350
Hakim, Jaffrey   14175
Vincent, Ben   13875
Brindley, Roy   13700
Heller, Adam   13675
Durr, Izabel   13625
Duffy, Brendan   13625   (35k+ now)
Harris, Sid   13575
Hartree, Catherine   13475
Mckay, Anthony   13400
Arees, Edward   13150
Abbassi, Ramanzanali   13150
Channing, Neil   13025
Gould, Peter   13025
Duncan, Keiron   12950
Amour, Andrew   12725
Herron, Mark   12675
Powell, Alwyn   12675
Coren, Vicky   12650
Kiss, Karoly   12575
Bright, Richard   12525
Penly, Dave   12425
Wernick, Micky   12400
Willis, Nigel   12375
Morjaria, Mukesh   12300
Bates, Adrian   12200
Redmond, Richard   12175
Redmond, Lee   12075
Beaumont, Lynne   12075
Samson, Daniel   12075
Hasalm, Peter   12025
Adejuyigbe, Richard   11875
Seymour, Ronald   11775
Mohammad,Ishmal   11775
Rees, Glyn   11625
Oneil, Cat   11550
Morris, Donna   11550
Craig, Steve   11400
Shaw, Gary   11375
Vicary, Paul   11300
Oleary, Kevin   11300
Capper, Tony   11200
Trigg, Richard   11025
Boulous, Michael   10925
Blanco, Cristiano   10875
Slavin, Stephen   10650
Woods, Alistar   10650
Blodwell, Wayne   10575
Exley, John   10350
Thi-dong, Binh   10250
Libertina, Martinio   10250
Strutt, Emma   10200
Macintrye, Fraser   10150
Bowden, Ian   10150
Flood, Liam   10150
Yaffe, Mark   10100
Simmonds, Richard   10000
Farthing, Marcus   10000
Somaiya, Rumit   9950
Holden, Stephen   9925
Harding, Miles   9875
Gibbons, Steve   9800
Chatterton, Gary   9775
Courtney, Dave   9700
Martin, James   9650
Sami, Darsham   9475
Rao, Ganesh   9475
Dack, Paul   9375
Yusuf, Sami   9300
Clark, Mick   9175
Humpries, Paul   9150
Jones, Ken   9000
Nightingale, Thomas   8925
Orlowski, Mark   8900
Walmsley, Steve   8875
Isaia, Alessio   8775
Akenhead, James   8750
Parker, Paul   8750
Romanello, Frank   8700
Law, Royce   8675
Boynton, David   8650
Mitchell, Ryan   8600
Jones, Iwan   8600
De wolf, Roland   8575
Wyre, Ray   8500
Vinson, Alan   8425
Bosley, Ian   8325
Mizzi, Sorel   8175
Singleton, Peter   8175
Priestley, Gavin   8150
Jelinek, Steve   8150
Goodwin, Marc   8050
Wise, Phil   8025
Hayles, Ashley   8025
Smolinski, Gary   8000
Garnham, Paul   7875
Slade, Nick   7875
Romanello, Anthony   7700
Boyce, Oliver   7650
Xanthos, Stasia   7600
Pomroy, Dave   7550
Lott, Michael   7550
Koysor, Abdul   7500
Nelson, Ian   7275
Adderley, Tony   7200
Dionysiou, Kyriacos   7025
Sunar, Surrinder   7000
Conroy, John   6875
Clarke, Ken   6600
Menzies, Stuart   6575
Mclen, Alan   6525
John, Simon   6500
Falconer, John   6475
Paul-james, Simon   6425
Fiore, Stefano   6225
Rudling, Doig   6175
Kennedy, George   6125
Saghtchi, Saeed   6050
Davies, Ian   5775
Dunwoodie, Thomas   5625
Jasmin, Najim   5350
Gallagher, David   5100
Moore, Mike   5000
Hickman, Darren   4925
Owen, Craig   4400
Callow, Kim   3900
Tyler, Matt   3000
Lee, Tuan   2125
Arees, Tariq   1050
Maloney, Paul   900
Rees, Ceri   550
King, Paul   OUT
Shahid, Waseem   OUT
Stevens, Robert   OUT
Tann, Willy   OUT
Xanthos, Bambos   OUT
Clutterbuck, James   OUT
Owston, David   OUT
Lu, Bo   OUT
Parhizkar, Hoss   OUT
Forrester, Mark   OUT

[snoopy1239]

Tony Mackay has doubled up off Nick Slade.

9-7-4 flop, Tony bet 1.4k, Nick called.

K Turn, Nick bet 1.9k, Tony called.

6 River, Tony bets 2.4k all-in, Nick calls.

Nick's J-9 loses to Tony's 7-6.

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Roland De Wolfe has doubled up, betting Aces pre-flop and receiving two callers, before betting 1.5k on the Flop (1 caller) and then 2.5k on the Turn (1 caller again).

River and Mateyboy sticks in 4k, to which Roland responds by moving all-in for 4,125.

So 125 more for the guy to call, and somehow, he manages to pass.

[Djinn]

Perhaps a good idea to add some detail as to how the chip lead's swung round on this thread too - Big threeway all in: AA (winner - Brendan Duffy, new Chip Leader) vs. KK (Dubai) vs. QQ (Rumit).  Dubai went from Chip leader to below 8k in 30 seconds, Brendan shot upwards.

[snoopy1239]

Blackpool regular (I think), Gareth 'The Nugget' Jones, is OUT.

Flop =

9k pot

Saeed Saghtchi had his best poker face on following a 6,425 all-in, which must have worked as Gareth offered his hand and said good luck before pushing in his remaining 5 (approx) thousand chips.

Saeed showed Queens, to which Gareth replied, "Nice hand", subsequently revealing his troubled Nines.

No help and Gareth was out, although he was a gentleman in defeat.

[snoopy1239]

A quick glance at the room and the collection of a few aprrox chip counts informs me that the following players are up there with the chip leaders:

Lalit Khajuria -- 29,5k
And Miles -- 28.5k
Sid Harris -- 26.5k
Craig Metcalfe (I hope) -- 22.5k
Brendan Duffy -- 22.5k
Roy Brindley -- 21k