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Well -we kicked off a bit late because of the terrible traffic problems that held several players up. We eventually started nearly an hour late with 60 runners who had all paid £1500 to sit down and play giving a prize pool of £90000.
The clock was an hour, the chips 15000 and the blinds 25-50 so everybody could have the opportunity to play poker.

Johnny Chan was applauded into the room to the sound of Bonnie Tylers song "Holding Out for a Hero" and the room was buzzing with anticipation. To all of you in Barcelona, Ireland or Sheffield you missed out on a special night. Each player had an orange at his seat to level out the Johnny Chan effect. Johnny himself loved the atmosphere of a London card room and looked extremely relaxed.

The first level finished and last nights winner Stuart Nash crashes out -probably due to the fact that he had been playing all last night, all this afternoon and he aint getting any younger. With a field that included Jim Reid, Euan Jones,Simon Trumper,Bambos,Willie Tan, Jonny Wong, Ian Dobson, Derek Baxter, Philip Marmorstein,Greekfish,Jeff Duval, Alan Vinson,Brian Johnson,Steve Bovis there were not many fish on offer.

The main event is now WITHOUT Johnny Chan. First he ran into Ian Dobson who hit a straight on the river and then he got knocked out by Luke Patten in seat 1 on a table that also had Willie Tan and Simon Trumper.

Well it was great while it lasted!!

Update

24 players left in the Main Event

Chip Counts as follows:-

Trevor Reardon 27100
Alan Vinson 21900
Ian Woodley 21800
Dave Mobbs 30900
Paul Murrell 23800
Matt Dale 50500
D.Rudling 60800
Luke Patten 84900
Ash Hussein 21400
David Lloyd 37800
J.Kerrigan 52300
Willie Tann 14700
R.Fronda 37200
H.Lossock 26300
Dave Binstock 26000
Des Jonas 23400
S.Reihill 63700
Jeff Rogers 41200
Alex Nyezi 43600
Theo Dalton 11000
J.Abrahams 9700
J.Adamson 73500

Well thats the last 24 and still plenty to play for -including 2 tickets to the Johnny Chan Turks & Caicos trip worth $8500 each.
At the moment because Alex Nyezi (a regular Western Club Member) is top of the current leaderboard he would only have to reach the final table to get his ticket. Dave Binstock -another Western regular (we love you Dave) also has a great chance if he reaches the top 9.
This has been an interesting Festival week and we have learnt a great deal. We hope everyone who has attended has enjoyed the surroundings, the structure and the service. If anybody has any queries, criticisms or anything to say, we will listen!
Please email me geoff@thewesternclub.com
Today I should have the chance to report regularly, apologies for the rest of the week but with the satellites running every aftern

Thanks Geoff.

I'm so jealous, I just could not get down there in time. I did not finish in Sheffild (working, not playing!) until 9pm, so it was a no-no in the end.

Keep the Reports coming.

Theo Dalton goes out in 24th but after an hour and a half we still have all the others playing. This is real poker with the blind structure and the clock -nobody can complain that they couldnt play poker in this event.

23rd Alan Vinson goes out with AQ against AK with 2 kings hitting the table.
22nd Dave Rudling crashes
21st The leader of the points for Turks & Caicos tickets Alex Nyezi goes out after 2 bad calls

Now Alex is hoping that he can hold on to the ticket.

Those that affect him are Dave "Lord" Binstock , Dangerous Des Jonas, Paul "Muzzy" Murrell and Ian Woodley (the first person to win a £1million on a quiz show)

So it is 7pm and we still have 20 left.

Cash games running if anyone is interested?


Nearly 8pm, the players and spectators enjoyed a complimentary Roast Sunday Dinner and we went back to the tables.

Dave Mobbs went out in 19th
Muzzy Murrell went out in 18th.

Dave Binstock raised with KK and Jeff Rogers went all in with AA, Ian Woodley had already passed 99,
Dave looked at Jeff and said "I think you beat me -I cant call" and passed KK - not many players could do that but Lord Binstock was correct and although he is down to 18k he is still in the comp.

For all Matt Dale fans -he has 125000 chips -SHURELY NOT!!!!

Wish him luck from me and all the rest of the group......and dont call me shirley! :D

Geoff, please tell Matt that if he wins I will give him £10 for that Jacket :D


And please wish "Apple Pie" Woodley all the best from me :)

Out - Haydn Lossock
Out Ash Hussein
Out Ian Woodley

Des Jonas moves all in with A10 against Trevor Reardons AQ and the AQ holds up.

Down to 14 and they are;-

Luke Patten 60k
Matt Dale 138k
Dave Lloyd 60k
PJ Scheiner 25k
Jim Kerrigan 20k
Willie Tan 70k
Greekfish 70k
Ryan Frondu 22k
Dave Binstock 30k
Sean Reihill 30k
Jeff Rogers 90k
Trevor Reardon 70k
J.Abrahams 48k
Jules Adamson 150k


Later...............

bokking again I see

LOL I'm getting good at this  ..... you playing anything Dewi ??  GOOD LUCK in them ;)

Gooo Matt man. Get it round them.

That jacket would easily go round ALL of them :D

missing you already Geoff :)

Anyone got any updates on morrisey opps i mean mr flax jacket dale

Dave Binstock went out in the most cruel way to David (J) Lloyd.
Dave called all in with A9 and Dave Lloyd showed A9 as well.
rag club rag DL has Ace Clubs
Runner Runner club and Dave "Lord" Binstock is out.
Very cruel because he needed a top 9 finish for the $8500 package to Turks & Caicos Islands.
Our own man Alex Nyezi is now guaranteed to be there now but even he was sad to see Dave go out in such a way.

PJ Scheiner goes out and now there are 12 left

David J Lloyd 105k
S.Reihill 95k
Jeff Rogers 88k
Trevor reardon 5k
Javeed Abrahams 24k
Jules Adamson 150k
Luke Patten 210k
Matt Dale 29k
Jim Kerrigan 80k
Willie Tan 30k
Greekfish 35k
Ryan Frondu 28k


10.30pm

I'm out, and absolutely and utterly gutted lol :D

I had 150k chips and chip leader by at least 30k chips. There are 14 runners left, and the average stack is around 65k.

Then comes the fateful hand...

I get dealt AK of clubs in early positon. First to act (Luke Patten) raises to 9k. I count his chips and estimate them at 65k or so, so raise another 30k. Everyone else folds, and he goes all-in.

Turns out he has another 65k+ and once everyone else has folded round to him, he chucks em all in.

I think he has one of a range of hands - in order of likeliness: AK, AQ, AJ, Pair QQ>99, absolute bluff.

Weighing up all the options, I decide I have to call, leaving me with a minnow stack of 15k or so.

Luke flips AK of hearts... The assembled crowd say "After all that!! A split pot!!!?!"

Flop comes 2 hearts and a black card.

Turn comes a diamond, and Luke says "ah split pot".

Then, in a moment of genious I decide to Bokk myself big-stylee saying "actually, no. A heart on the river would win it for you."

I don't need to write the rest lol :(

Still, a great event, and loads of fun. Just wished I'd held on when I had 150k. There was no reason to get involved in any pot for 2 hours or more, and I'd have made the final table with 100k easily.

Look forward to the next festival at The Western. Congratulations to Geoff, Philip, all the dealers, catering and all the rest of the Western crew for an incredible event.

Tonights winner will recieve £35,000 plus an added value ticket of $8,500 for the Jonny Chan Invitational in The Turks & Caicos Islands. Lucky bastard! :)

unlucky Matt, played well though ;)

lol except for those satellites  hehe

I am sat right next to the final table drowning my sorrows, so can provide a blondepoker Live Update special if anyone is interested?... (I just have to get everyone's names first :) )

Down to 10 players, everyone agreed a £1500 consolation prize to the 10th place. Greekfish busted out in 10th, and as the two minnows on the table previously, we agreed a 10% cut in each other. £150 then.. Ker-ching :)

Unlucky Matt. wp

Willie Tan 52k
Jeff Rogers 130k
Shane Reihill 133k
Javed Abrahams 100k
Jules Adamson 70k
Ryan Frondu 122k
David J Lloyd 63k
Jim Kerrigan 35k
Luke Patten 205k

Greekfish went out in 10th

Probably handing over to Herman for the remainder of the night, tired zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Yes please Jacket Man, we will take you up on that Live Update offer!

Here we go then :)

Jim Kerrigan is out in 9th place, but he's on the phone, so I don't know how he went out lol :)

Edit: Just asked the tourney director.

All in pre-flop Jim has AQ, David J Lloyd has 66.

Flop comes 3 diamonds, (Jim has a diamond). Turn comes 6. River comes 3 to match the 3 on the flop and give David a Full House.

Jim gets £2,700 and has been on the phone ever since :)

Willie Tann is out!

And Luke Patten is making good use of my chips by going from strength to strength!

Luke raises to 25k with QJo, Willie goes all in for 40k with  Qd Kd.

Luke calls and flops the Jack. Turn and river are no help to Wille and he's out in 8th place for £3,600.

Very next hand and Jules Adamson (my tip for the title) doubles up off David Lloyd.

Jules raises to 24k with AQ. David puts Jules all-in (70k), and Jules calls feeling committed.

An Ace falls, doubling Jules up to 140k, and leaving David with less than 20k.

Chip stack updates to follow... Jeez, this is hard work!! Very tricky to keep asking people how the hand happened when they are in the middle of the next hand - hence the sketchy detail with regards to where the Ace fell ;)

Thanx matt -this leaves me free to do other forums.

Your a star but you give your chips away

Worlds Worst Poker Player

Jules does it again! He calls an all-in preflop for 63k from Shane Reihill with 55. Shane flips AK.

Jules hits quads!! Knocking Shane out in 7th for £4,500.

Will get the chip counts in 9 mins at the break...

Quick update on my AKs vs Luke P's AKs 200k pot. The flop was actually a rainbow, and Luke hit runner, runners to fill up his flush!! Even more of a bad beat than I thought ;)

I tried to talk him in to a Vincent Mellin act of genorousity, but he was having none of it lol ;)

Here's the chip updates for you:

Jeff Rogers 160k
Javed Abrahams 130k
Jules Adamson 66k (uh oh, I appear to have bokked him!)
Ryan Frondu 110k
David J Lloyd 64k
Luke Patten 380k !!!

Other forums, OTHER F***ING FORUMS??
What do you friggin mean??
THERE ARE NO OTHER FORUMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SHAME ON YOU

Javed Abrahams goes all in with JJ against Luke Patten. Luke calls and Javed is dismayed to find Luke has QQ.

The flop comes 9s 4h 6c

Turn 6h

River 9c

More money for Luke, up to about 500k and steamrollering the table.

Javed takes £5,400 for 6th.

Lol, Geoff has bleedin well roped me in to updating all the other forums now too!! Rest assured though, as a blonde fan I'm posting on this one first, then copying and pasting to the others... Plus, reports here will be in more detail :)

HUUUGE HAND!!!

Jules moves all in for 55k.

Luke Patten calls. David Lloyd calls.

Jules has AQ. David has AJ. Luke has TT. What a hand!!! :D

Flop come 3s Kd 8d

Turn: Ah

River: Qh

David Lloyd goes out. Jules trebles, and Luke's pile diminishes, but only slightly...

We bow to the mighty ifm!

I think he intended to say "leaves me free to do the ordinary forums"......

Ryan is out in 4th for £7,200.

Geoff raises with a pair of 3's all-in. Ryan calls with AKo.

Flop comes K72.

Turn 3

River 4.

Ryan is understandbly gutted.

Rough chip stacks:

Jeff Rogers 250k
Jules Adamson 190k
Luke Patten 460k

Unlucky Matt.  I think you left me a voicemail earlier, of a phone rustling in a jacket pocket! At least I think it was you. It certainly sounded like a big jacket!  :D   Had I been able to get back from the coast before you got...erm...flushed, I'd have come in to sweat you.  Not to worry, great effort anyway, and a decent update too.

Des.

Strangely enough, I've had 4 people today say I've left rustling noises on their phone! Surely I couldn't have made that many bum calls! :)

Down to 2 players. Jeff had previously lost a huge pot to Luke Patten when he pushed over the top for 286k with a flush draw post-flop when Luke had A5. Board was Ad Qd rag.
Turn rag, River rag.

Lucky Luke Patten, who is actually 34, but looks about 12, takes down the pot.

The final hand with Luke vs Jeff was A5 (Luke) vs JQ (Jeff). Luke's hand holds up, and takes him to 680k chips vs Jules with 220k.

Heads up just begging.

£36k + and an added value ticket to the Jonny Chan Invitational (worth $6,800) to the winner. 2nd place is £16k.

The event is over, and Lucky Luke has taken the £36k and will be going to the Jonny Chan Invitational.

Final hand, Luke raised to 30k. Jules went over the top to 150k with 89o. Luke called straight away and flipped AKo.

No help for Jules, and Luke hits the other 3 Kings in the deck for:

 Kc Kd Kh Ks  !!

That's it from me! :)

Thabnks Matt, & well done Luke, & very unlucky Jules. (He's a blonde in every sense, by the way).

So thats 2 main event titles and a main event chop for Luke this year, not to shabby.

Cheers for the updates Matt, unlucky nae to be amongst the final swaray yourself.

prob cos his fav dealer had to go back up north ;) 

...and a 2nd to J P Kelly in that amazing Final at Luton.

A Colchester lad. Good job someone from Colchester can play.

That's true :(

If you'd have dealt the AKs vs AKs, I know I'd have hit the flush!! :)

I just got back from london. Geoff i have to say that was the best event i've played in the uk get this blondes-

15k starting stack
1 hour clock
Every level conceivable-
2 added tickets= added money

Just a shame i can't play poker :D :D

Seriously well done to the western, all the dealers were great, and a truly great comp played and organised to a very high standard.

Make sure you put the next one on here early as i'm deffo coming and want to plan it in. Ps i ate johhny chan's orange  :D :D

so what happened then, cos i seemed to be dealing u good cards ;)
very good structure, thought it was gonna finish on weds though hehe

ColchesterKev, What's all this about a cock waving contest? :redcard: >:( ;) :)

Its the next big thing, its gonna surpass "Western Roll"  .... You will be Team Captain :D :D :D :D :D

LOL  :D

Yeah that was the chop i was talking about....

He is obviously doing something right!

Bet your hoping for a head start Kev..