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Before play starts, how about a big "thank you" to Jen & sloppy for their heroic efforts in Vegas?

What WOULD we have done without them?

Thank you, Lord Sloppy & Lady Merton.

 Ah Yes..........about time.Real  updates from the real team.Welcome back Jen & Snoops, now as pictures say 1000 words....... :cheers: and  ;slavedriver;

Oh and Dewi.........What do all those jumbbled letters left over from the world scrabble championship actually mean?

welcome back snoops and jen.................hope to see plenty of norkage shots as per vegas

Great updates guys but why did it end early?

welcome back folks.  thanks for your  Vegas work  :)up

Welcome back Dame Jen and Sir Poonsy, both DFC and bar.

I hope that Grosvenor have not issued press passes to CP  ::),

Welcome home you two.

And A great big THANKYOU for your updating..xxx

WELCOME HOME  and THANK YOU

you are both *g *g

iWSOP looked crazy but fun - it was very hard work but I hope you enjoyed it - we certainly appreciated your updates.

Again, 'Thank You'.

Congratulations tikay, younger than no-one, certainly older than everyone, on superb effort. must have been on the viagra to concentrate for so long. I'm on my way to luton now where you can give me a talking to for not behaving. Any ideas on numbers expected today, tis a little close to the world series for a £1500 event.

Jules

Welcome back you dynamic duo.....sure your both tanned & raring to go!!

Looking forward to some proper updates tonight. Welcome home Jen n Snoopy and once again thanks for a great job in Vegas and whilst I'm at it well done TK in the tourney earlier this week.....noooooooooo not Luton but the World series OAP event hehe.

Thanks guys, much appreciated.  :)up

It'll be nice not having to pussy foot around CardPlayer this time.

Good luck to all the blondeites involved and well done to tikay for his performance in the £750 Event.

WELL DONE BOTH OF YOU, GREAT UPDATES

Many an hour entertained from your updates state side, thanks alot :)

Thanks for your welcoming words - it's actually some kind of relief to find ourselves once again in the Luton card room, where the 7pm start time has been reached, with one hand turnovers being dealt for the last ditchers amongst us.

If the Rio was the Poker Factory, then Luton is the Poker Newsagent, and I for one am delighted that I'll know a reasonable percentage of the field and can bring more comprehensive updates from this more Local of Main Events.

The players are actually seating at this time - a little huddle of the more myopic amongst them is gathered around the green screens with the seat draw displayed upon them... Tikay's found his table... "I have a corker...Julian Thew, Ali Mallou, Eric Barker, Trevor Reardon."  Should be interesting to watch them, especially as Tikay describes Mr. Barker as 'Ali Mallou with turbocharge.'

Let's see them take on the £750 champion, then.

Howdy, folks  :hello:

There's been a bit of discrepancy over the start time, an early leaflet said 6.30, the grapevine shouted 8pm, and then others were claiming 6.

In fact, it's meant to be starting at 7pm, but alas, there has been a slight delay due to some STTs and a Super Sat over-running.

lol this table will be mental!

come on tikay show em whose the daddy (i mean grandaddy) :D

Victims Players spotted so far:

Des 'bling bling' Jonas (who said, "I'll be on that site soon as chip leader. Just say the black guy's winning")
Jim Reid
Paul King
Rob Yong
tikay (fresh off his victory)
Phil Cooklin (fresh off a Vegas trip)
Julian 'Yoyo' Thew (donning a neat tank top)
Colchester Kev (in full railing mode)
Burnley John
Barry Neville (in good spirits)
Womble
Two Sporting Odds qualifiers (one of whom is Greek and doesn't speak a word of the Queen's, and t'other has made the long trek from the Outer Hebredes)
Julian Adamson (still bleached to the max - mini-tikay as I like to call him)

In fact, we've just received a player list, so hold your horses for a moment whilst I take a deep breath...

Julian Adamson
George Alexakis
Paul Alterman
Matthew Ansell
Richard Ashby
Zahir Aslam
Eric Barker
Steve Bovis
David Bozzard
Bruce Bravery
Jeffery Buffenbarger
Sunny Chattha
Carlo Citrone
Dave Clark
Dave Clark
Luke Conlan
Phil Cooklin
David Courtney
Brad Cowling
Theo Dalton
Kevin Daly
Michael Davis
Alan Dean
David Dean
Tracey Dell
Kyriacos Dionysiou
Phil Dorrington
Keiron Duncan
John Dwyer
John Falconer
Terry Fletcher
Ian Frazer
Ryan Fronda

Peter Gould
Joseph Grech
Dale Greenleaf
Lloyd Greensite
David Gregory
Mark Harris
Sidney Harris
Stuart Hill
Arshad Hussain
Paul JAckson
Andy Johnson
Brian Johnson
Des Jonas
Iwan Jones
Peter Jowett
Vik Kamwar
Peter Karall
John Paul Kelly
Tony Kendall
Lalit Khajuria
Jeff Kimber
Jason King
Paul King
Joseph Koumi
Dinh He
Bernard Litman
Hayden Lossock
Edward Macleod
Mike Magee
Alli Mallu
Michael McCool
Allan McClean
Charlie Molloy
Barry Neville
Simon Nowab
James O'Connor
Richard Owen
Luke Patten
Ken Pitchford

blondeite Giovanni 'notgus' Vaccarella is OUT

Kings vs Aces

Dave Clark (Dave Clark A as there are two of them) was the assassin.

And Rob Yong has got it all in, already.  With K7.  According to Kev, he was up against KQ on a K 10 6 flop... not so great, until there came 6, A to split the thing.

Kevin Quinlan
Trevor Reardon
Jim Reid
Simon Renoldi
Jeffrey Rogers
Scott Sadler
Simon Sharman
Jason Simpson
Nick Slade
David Smith
Rumit Somaiya
Dave Taylor
Paul Testud
Julian Thew
Thomas Townley
Lam Trinh
Stephen Walmsley
Brian Welby
Mickey Wernick
Bambos Xanthos
Stasia Xanthos

and last but not least... Robert Yong

and exhale

lol lucky mr yong

it's erik "not gus" hansen who chopped Luton in January

John Vaccarella, who was runner up to tikay in the 750, is a Luton cash game specialist.

This might not be Vegas, but some real big names have turned up today:

Edward Maclkeod = 15 letters
Kyriacos Dionysiou = 17 letters
Charalambos Xanthos = 18 letters

We've also got a few smaller names here tonight, most notably Dinh Le, just 6 letters, quite remarkable!

my mistake, do they look similar?

Give Rumit a kiss and say Mel says more redbull ;)

is woody deck not playing ?

You know, it's nice to be looking across 10 tables rather than 200. Phew

Rob Yong has lost a few chips after having to fold A-K on an A-8-3 flop. Mateyboy showed Pocket Threes.

Mr Thew has almost halved his stack after locking horns with Sir Kendall.

Yoyo raised preflop with 7-2 of diamond (ahem, cough), and tikay called with T-9 of diamonds.

Of course, the flop brought a flush draw. Julian made a small bet, tikay called.

The diamond hit the Turn and tikay bet, Julian called.

Then the River made the Tv celeb a straight flush (!). Another bet and another call.

Must be the ol' fellas week!

Jim Reid Quads Shocker -

(got your attention):  Up against Bernard Litman's Ks Kc, Jim Reid holding Aspades Js must have liked the flop however this particular board came out (just saw them on their backs at the river):  Jh 4d Jc 7h Jd.

A good start for Jim and Bernard is down to just 575.  Oh, Kev informs me that Simon Nowab just finished him off.  Hard early luck...but at least KFC's still open.

I'll re-post this on thr right thread


Hi guys!

Please wish tikay good luck for me, and remind him of some advice he once gave me

"You can either win at the game, or you can't"

A few blonde mugs for you...

vinni
Julain
Jaffacake
Jim Reid

Here's the exciting lineup of Table Tikay in full:

1.  Sir Kendall
2.  Joe Grech
3.  Dinh Le
4.  Julian YoYo Thew
5.  Ali Mallu
6.  David Courtney
7.  Trevor Reardon
8.  Jason King
9.  Alan Mclean

And this is what they're all playing for...

1st -- £50,400
2nd -- £28,800
3rd -- £19,400
4th -- £13,700
5th -- £10,100
6th -- £6,500
7th -- £5,800
8th -- £5,000
9th -- £4,300

Wise words, Red-Dog-san.

How about Tikay's taking 2k early on from Joe Grech with a rivered broadway straight against Joe's trips (Tikay's hand, er, J2 I believe)... looks like he falls in the 'Can' category.

not many unraised pots there  !!!!!!!!!

crikey moses!

about 8/10ths of the table are usually "at it"

dave courtney from North London is a huge bluffer. Totally fearless

Almost a Mateyboy squared moment

Battle of the blinds.

Flop = 6d 6c 9s

Mayeyboy checks, Dale Greenleaf in Seat 5 bets 500, MB calls.

Turn = 3c

MB checks, Greenleaf bets 800, MB calls.

River = Ad

MB checks, Greenleaf bets again, this time 5,800!

And this time MB gives it up.

Quote conversation from Simon Nowab to tablemate Womble:

"How long are the blinds?"
"One hour."
"Then you've got one minute to play a hand at the first level."
"I limped on JP's blind..."

Blinds up to 50/100, then.

Barry Neville has risen up to 12k after receiving Aces and Kings in close proximity. The latter hit trips on the flop.

Updates on the various Luton blondites such as Phil Cooklin (snatiramas), dingdell and jp please

Sure I've forgotten a few too

10 minutes into Level 2, here are a few chippy counts for you to get your teeth into:

Zahir Aslam -- 9,575
Sidney Harriss -- 15,425
Iwan Jones -- 11,900
Gregory Alexius -- 14,050
Mickey Wernick -- 3,375
Julian Adamson -- 11,375
Luke Patten -- 8,850
Steve Bovis -- 11,975

Mini Elimination List:

We've lost Ken Pritchard, Brian Welby and Andrew Johnson.  Some minor table reshuffling, but we're on for a full count in 45 minutes, at first break.

All Righty, Tighty:

Phil Cooklin:  8,000
Dingdell:     11,675
JP:             14,550

Please let me know when womble manages to see his first flop and also what time chubbs and rob hit the bar

thanks for the updates guys

any news on jeff buffenbarger, richard ashby and paul alterman

Stuart Hill loses just under 3k by calling serial bluffing Ash Hussain down with A3 - The flop was 2 4 10, the turn a 3 and the river an eight.  Believing his pair was probably ahead as his Ace had been on the flop, he called Ash right to the end.  He was shown the actual winner, 68, for his efforts...

Jeff Buff    6,125
Richard Ashby  7,700
Paul Alterman  16,700

Dixie Dean (not the ex-Everton footballer), who is currently sharing a table with Lord Wernick and Mike Magee is on  18,425.

We're having a spot of bother with our photos, but we should have it sorted soon.

When we do, I'll upload this piccie of Mr Dean I just took. He looks very jolly.

And here Gregory Alexius who I mentioned earlier.

Can't speak a word of the Queen's, but is accompanied by his Candian/Greek (??) spouse who shall act as translator... unless of course she has to talk to Barry from tut Sheffield.

Just had a rather surreal rant-ette from Tikay - surreal because it was delivered in the same semi-bemused tone I get bad beat stories in, but because the gist of it was, "I am hitting EVERYTHING.  I have QK, the flop comes A 10 J.  I hit a set of Twos, a straight flush against a flush, AND I cracked Joe Grech's Kings twice."

Could be in for another photo op like this one then:

And here's Dixie Dean (real name David, I think). Doesn't he look happy - well, I 'm not surprised considering he's nearly doubled his starting stack.

Remember folks, if you want to see the pictures, you need to register, which truly is simple, no catch either.

All you have to do is click 'register' from the menu near the top of the screen and select an alias and password.

Then, and only then, will you be able to see how happy Mr Dean actually is.

Um, it appears JP is OUT - he is talking to Womble and Simon, and I caught, "I'm glad you're gone, now I can raise the guy on your left."

is there no red  dog tonight is he ok

Trevor Reardon's Ladies Let Him Down:

Preflop, it limped to him, and a little raise got it heads up between him and Ali Mallu.
Flop:  Kd Qh 4h  A little bet from Ali must have seemed like a good opportunity for Trevor, who held Qc Qs.  But the flop had hit Ali's Kh Kd even harder, and it all, unsurprisingly, went in, knocking Trevor out and making Ali even more dangerous.

JP is retelling his tales of woe.

The hand that crippled him went as follows:

Queen high flop with two hearts.

JP has the flush draw and MB holds the Queen.

MB bets, JP calls.

Ten turn brings JP a pair, but no flush. MB makes two pair though with his Q-T

JP checks, MB bets, and JP raised. MB dwells before flat calling.

River came a King, still no heart, but JP moves all-in, trying to represent a staight (J-9), but MB is having none of it and calls (although he did dwell for a good five minutes before finally making the call)

oops, a few gremlins in the system.

The voice from above announces "Last 3 hands for buy-ins"

 Update on Hayden Lossock please.

gl to blondites x  i'm off to bed with a stinking cold prob from lutons air conditioning earlier in the week, lets hope i didn't pass it on

Night Mel.. try sweating it out.. 8)

Well done dad keep up the good work we're all rooting for you here, Your Ad

uh-oh, Eric Barker is OUT after being officially Mallued, big time!

Eric raises to 600, tikay calls with his Pocket Sixes, and Mallu makes it 3,600.

Eric moves all-in for another 4k, tikay folds, and Mallu calls.

Eric flips A-K and Mallu shows...

drum roll please...

8-3 off

And of course, 4 clubs on the board and Maullu takes it down with the mighty 3 of clubs.

OUCH!

I'm fine thanks, just jealous.

shown him that, he's right behind me in fact.

He was dead chuffed and is gratefuk if the support.  :)up

Matthew Ansell and Dixie Dean see a flop of 3s 3c 3h

1.5k in the pot.

Dean bets 850 and Ansell folds, showing the Ace of Clubs in the process.

OK Here come full chip counts!  Almost possible in a room you can see to the end of!

Table 9

Michael Davis    12,575
Matthew Ansell  23,000  (just took out Joe Koumi set over set)
Mickey Wernick  1,550
George Alexakis  10,650
Mike Magee        17,525
David Dean         18,000
Kevin Daly           6,500
David Gregory     10,625

Table 8

Paul King           24,000
Richard Ashby     7,300
David Bozzard      6,225
Burnley John       6,000
Ian Frazer           5,325
Stasia Xanthos   12,500
Tracey Dell        11,400
Paul Jackson      17,825
Dave Clark          5,595

Table 7

Brian Johnson     13,900
Greek Jack         11,725
Phil Cooklin          7,950
Rob Yong           3,550
Sunny Chattha    14,325
James O'Connor   3,850
Lalit Khajuria        11,775
Bambos              12,200
Scott Sadler        11,000

Table 6

Dave Smith         15,200
Des Jonas           13,100
Edward Mcleod    11,775
?                       6,650
Dale Greenleaf     11,100
Carlo Citrone        9,250
Dave Clark (the other one)  4,250
Lloyd Greensite    21,200
Jeffrey Rogers      11,700

Table 5

Womble             10,925
Jason Simpson     3,350
?                        7,475
Hayden Lassock    5,325
Simon Nowab      13,900
Alan Dean            9,150
Jim Reid             31,000 
Peter Jowett      15,000
Vik Kanwar          9,000

Table 4

Simon Sharman   9,100
Luke Patten        9,150
Ash Hussain        28,500
Terry Fletcher     4,225
Ryan Fronda        11,200
Stuart Hill            14,550
Keiron Duncan     15,650
?                       10,300
Peter Gould         4,600

Table 3

Barry Neville       15,500
Luke Conlan       8,400
Thomas Townley  8,325
Phil Dorrington      8,850
Jeff Buffenbarger   10,100
Steve Bovis           4,000
Charlie Molloy        3,600
Jules Adamson       6,000 (down from 21,000, according to Snoopy's notes..."Nightmare," he whispered as table changing

Table 2

Paul Alterman     16,450
Rumit Somaiya    7,225
Bradley Cowling    11,400
Lam Trinh           5,675
Theodore Dalton  7,300
Jeff Kimber          13,100
Richard Owen      15,700
Mark Harris           23,425
Simon Renoldi       13,550

Table 1

Tikay              16,500
Joe Grech        4,575
Dinh Le            19,575
Julian Thew      6,775
Ali Mallu            21,500
David Courtney    3,950
Jason King          8,150
Alan Mclean        11,275

Barry Neville is up to 30k after Julian Adamson doubled him through.

Flop = Kh 5s 8s

Barry bet the Ts turn and Julian moved all-in. Barry makes an instant call.

Barry = Js 7s

Julian = Kd Qc


Barry seems somewhat different these days, slighty more mellow I reckon. Anyhow, he's smiling and in good spirits, so good luck to him. Deserves some luck!

Some of you may have noticed that there are two Dave Clarks playing today.

Not sure what happened to the other three.

no kanoodling then  8)

Give Dingdell a kiss for me and tell her to forget she's a woman

(Tell her I'll remind her later)

Board = Ahrt Ac 6s Aspades Kh

Just under 2k in the pot.

Greenleaf bets 500.

Not surprsingly, Carlo dwells and then calls the 500.

Mateyboy next door also calls.

Greenleaf reveals the fourth Ace to take the pot.

You can kiss the screen if that's easier.

Just recharging Greek Jack's ipod for him in my lappie.

Top of his playlist are Smack My Bitch Up by The Prodigy, Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson, and Slipknot's latest hit.

Womble is up to 18k.

"The table has freed up now JP's left," he claimed. "I couldn't make any moves with JP and Chubbs behind me"

Womble then went on to eliminate Mateyboy with A-K v A-Q on an Ace high flop.

A few well timed steals later and he's up to the healthy figure of 18k.

Not bad considering the average is still only 13,500

They're breaking the second table of the night, which must mean more knockouts (and it's not even dinner yet.  Mmmm, dinner)

I know at least a couple of those:  Jules 'Hartwith' Adamson just left with a shrug and a resigned "Shocker."  I think that was more to do with a big pot he lost right before being moved the final time, though.

Also eliminated:  Stuart Hill, Jeff Kimber, Jason Simpson - who left saying, "I wasted £3 on this tourney...." apparently having qualified via a $5 satellite on bluesquare.

This has to be the biggest hand of the night.

Richard Ashby and John Falconer have just been eliminated by Paul King who is now on 34 thousand.

Flop = 7-rag-rag (2 hearts)

All the chips fly in.

Ashby has the nut flush draw, Burnely John has Pocket Queens and King is sitting on a set of Sevens.

The Sevens hold up and Paul King scoops a massive pot.

WP

Trevor Reardon is OUT after flopping a set of Queens.

What do you reckon he lost to? Flush? Straight?

Nope, a higher set.

Flop was K-Q-rag, and MB held Pocket Kings.

Ouch

Barry Neville flops a set of Kings on a King high flop. Iwan Jones holds A-K.

Fireworks set to fly, surely!

Just one problem, Barry's not at the table.

Bah, what a time to go to the loo.

It's time for a mini gallery of chip leaders, dontcha reckon...

Firstly, the Harrises - Mark (above) and moodily lit Sid (below) who are both in the top ten currently.  Just saw Sid take 2k out of Julian Thew's remaining 5k after calling his preflop raise with 78o and flopping two sevens... can't miss, according to Tikay.  Who also can't miss.

Dingdell -- 16,750
Paul Jackson -- 12,025
Des Jonas -- 11,850
Carlo Citrone -- 11,525
Dave Smith -- 4,225
Jim Reid -- 34,700
Vic Kamwar -- 4,800

Just seen an eye-opening hand from table Reid.

Flop = Aspades Ks Qc

1.5k in the pot, just Jim Reid and Vik Kanwar remaining, the latter with just 4.1k in front of him.

Jim Reid (button) bets 4.1k, effectively putting Vik (Big Blind) all-in.

After the lenghiest of Citrone-esque dwells, Vik makes the call with Kh 4s.

Jim Reid shows Kc Qs and it's all doom and gloom for Vik, or so he thought...

Turn = Ad

River = 9h

chop chop

lucky rascal!

Also decently stacked at the start of the 150/300 level:  Lloyd Greensite (I believe) and Stasia Xanthos

Of course Jim Reid probably still at the top of the chip leaders, after his quick trebling of stack which puts him in a powerful position in these early stages.

The blinds have just gone up to 150/300 with an average stack of 14,500

There're 66 players remaining, which suggests that they're dropping pretty rapidly. That's almost a third of the field gone already.

If I'd said that in Vegas we'd still have 3000 left.

And I think Dale Greenleaf wanted to be included too.  :)

yes that's Lloyd Greensite, Luton stalwart over many years

He is "PinkFloyd Fan" on blonde and assorted other fora

It appears as though we may have lost David Dean.

His table split up not too long ago, so he will have moved seats.

I'll have another quick look around for him before confirming an exit.

I just thought of something.  If both Sid and Tikay can't miss, and they play against each other, is that one of those "Unstoppable force/immoveable object" type scenarios, or would it always be split pot?

These blondeites sure get around. Here's 'Jack', more commonly known as Richard Owen.

He's from Wales, but please don't hold that against him.

Eek, I feel like Anne Robinson now.

He's on 9,200 by the way.

Kojak in the foreground is also running well.

oi    :redcard:  wish him all the best please  (whoever he is)

It looks like Arshad 'mad m3' is our chip leader with just over 40k.

Kev has renicknamed him Frankenstein. I can't remember the reasoning, but I'm sure it was hilarious.

Phil Cooklin takes a crushing blow with Kc Kd against Terry Fletcher's Aspades Ahrt - 7k changes hands and doubles the latter up while taking the former down to a precariously short stack.

Sorry David Dean fans, but I can't see him anywhere which means that he has been eliminated from today's comp.

Barry Neville announces, "40 large."  Challenging the chip leader, if not metamorphosing into him.  Here he is, with a close-up of his stack pre-the last additions.  The golf tee he found under Snoopy's table, and proceeded to adopt it as some kind of card marker, which seems, if you believe in such things, to have brought him luck.

Stand back Arshad, there's a new man on campus, and he's just broken the 50k mark.

Play folds round to the Sid Harris who makes up the small blind.

Matthew Ansell, in the big blind, bets out, and Sid calls.

Flop = Kc 9h 2c

Sid bets, Ansell raises, Sid calls.

Turn = 7h

All the chips go hurtling in.

Ansell reveals Ac Ahrt

Sid turns over 7c 4c

River = Qc

All the chips go to Sid Harris who is taking an age to stack up what looks like a massive 52k.

Meanwhile, Ansell has a right cob on and Alli Mallu turns over an Ace from the burn cards, which probably didn't make Ansell feel too much better.

He's still in though, but struggling slighty with 1,850.

Ansell is the young fellow in the foreground, although you'd be forgiven for assuming that it's the ifm looklike at the back. He wasn't even in the hand and he's distressed.

Missing, presumed OUT:

Burnley John
Richard Ashby
Ian Frazer

and that's all off the same table..

Ash Hussain is yoyoing a bit today, but still managing to hover around the 35-40k mark.

He's just taken down a several k pot with Pocket Rockets against Jim Reid's K-Q off on a 5-6-K-T-K board.

Barry Neville has taken a hit, losing 7.5k in the process.

He flopped a staight (J-9) on an 8-T-Q all clubs flop, but Mateyboy rivered a King High flush (K-Q) to take the pot away from Barry.

"He's gone tut t'other table now!" rants our vinni

In about 10 minutes we'll be running for a dinner-sized snack, so just to keep you up to date with the chip leader's table:

Tikay       8,100
Alan Mclean  13,700
Dinh Le      27,000
Julian Thew   5,000
Ali Mallu         24,050
David Courtney  13,425
Sid Harris          49,000
Matthew Ansell  5,350
Luke Patten      22,600

Had a tantastic conversation with Carlo earlier.

I was saying that I thought I'd come back from Vegas paler skinned.

He said he had too!

I looked at his bronzed complection and asked, "HOW?!"

"I was black before I went," he claimed.

Tikay's stack has dwindled somewhat since the start, and he took on Sid Harris just now, calling him with Td Jh on the button.
The flop came Jack-high with two clubs, and when Sid bet out, Tikay raised to 3,000 which looked pretty committed.  Sid passed (no small club flush draw this time then) and Tikay breathed a sigh of relief: "That's the first pot he's lost in nine years!"

Matthew Ansell has doubled up to 4,750 after losing that massive 52k pot to Sid Harris.

On the same table, Julian is similarly finding life difficult with just 4,375.

After a promising start, tikay off the tele is down to 9,500.

2 minutes til the dinner break.

Jen and I are off for a Chinese.

We're going to leave our laptops here, could you lot keep an eye on it for us?

Right, see you after the dinner break - we're guessing 1hr, but we may well be back before that.  Depends how fast we can eat. :)

OOps, they're being a bit stingy with the break - half hour!

Just wanted to hand out a great big thanks for your updates from vegas, i missed the latter few due to holiday...but thoroughly enjoyed reading them, especially the HORSE event.

Hope you had a lot of fun and enjoyed your trip!

 :respect: ;applause; :respect: ;applause; :respect:

Now get back to the grind in luton  ;)

great updating so far guys, enjoy your food :D

We're back and so are the player.

Food was ace, my second Chinese meal of the day!

careful snoops u might get fat  rotflmfao

Mark Harris has seen off two blondeites

The first was Jaffacake when his Pocket Aces were outdrawn by Sevens.

And then Richard 'Jack' Owen, who exited only moments ago, couldn't win the J-J v A-K coin toss. A King on the turn sealed his fate.

Simon Nowab -- 13,200
Carlo Citrone -- 8,300
Paul King -- 18,900
Mike Magee -- 21,900
Ding Dell -- 15,900
Bambos Xanthos -- 25,300
Des Jonas -- 5,800
Matthew Ansell -- 4,100
Tony Kendall -- 9,500
Mark Harriss -- 30,300

any news on womble snoops?

Can't believe this fella was considering taking on the guns (!)

Can anyone name him by the way, he's currently on 14,400.

I think he's a Geordie. Way aye man!

ps. It's not Paul Gascoigne

Here's Womble doing his Tekwin Wittock impression.

Tikay knocks out Simon Nowab News Now:

"It was so cruel," he said, recounting how his Qh 8d had found the board coming 4s 9s Tc 7h with a fateful Jc on the river.
Simon had Th 8s for the smaller straight, and with a smaller stack on top there was no escape, while Tikay is breathing easy with 18,000.

hi, can someone tell me is my lovely husband, paul alterman still in and if so how many chips does he have

Hi, welcome to blonde.

Yes, he's still in, and he's got 21,000

He said hello too.

Rumit S doubles through with A-K vs A-J on a 4-5-5-2-7 board.

Barry Neville has taken a knock whilst Luke Patten surpasses the 30k mark.

Luke forces Barry to fold Pocket Nines on a 2-5-3-4 board.

Barry is not a happy chappy.

It's all happening here!

Des Jonas is the latest victim exit.

"Never found a hand, never found a hand," he commented in the post mortem.

thank you for letting me know.how many people are left and whats the average chips.sorry to drive you all mad but am not in the country.come on paul, you can do it..

Just to confirm, the following have all bitten the dust:

Joe Grech
Vik Kanwar
Zahir Aslam
JP Kelly
Trevor Reardon
John Falconer
Richard Owen
David Dean
Gregory Alexius
Simon Nowab
Julian Adamson
Richard Ashby
Giovanni Vaccarella
Mickey Wernick
Julian Thew

44 left
blinds about to go up to 300/600
Average Stack = 21,800
£144,000 Prize Pool

It's gone quite quickly tonight for some reason, we're expecting an early finish.

Well, praying for one...  ;pokergods; ;pokergods; ;pokergods;

Is ding still in, and have we kissed yet?

Your chip leader by a kilometre or so:  Mr. Alan Mclean.  95,000, and counting.  Sat two to Tikay's left, Mr. Kendall is finding it hard to get past him.  He's been raised off pocket tens and nines, and generally "having my head messed with."  So what kind of aggressive game is Alan playing?  "He's playing his normal game.  It's too good for me..."

Occasionally, while updating, one comes across these wallflower type players, reluctant to take the limelight.  One such player - Terry Fletcher.  I let him know that if I took too many pictures of his guns then Snoopy would get jealous. 

His last stand was with Aspades 9h which found Ryan Fronda with Ac Qc.  A Queen on the flop just sealed the deal.  Never one for moaning, Des looks perpetually undamaged by defeat.

tikay suspects that he's just been Mallued.

tikay held A-K, missed the flop but found a four-to-the flush draw on the turn.

Unfortunately, he didn't get to see if he would have hit that flush as Mallu bet him off the hand.

Ali then showed tikay the 2c

I kid you not, Alli just grabbed me and asked me to say...

"Alli Mallu took tikay's pants down, had a feel, but could only find a small pair."

The mind boggles, it truly does....

Sid Harris has lost his chip lead after paying off quads on a 9-9-5-5-9 board.

Sid had a Five.

Alan Maclean is down (yes, that's down) to 64,800 after being outdrawn (yes, that's outdrawn)

Flop = 7s 5s 3h

All the chips go in, Maclean making an instant call.

Mateyboy = Qd Td

Alan Maclean = Aspades Ts

Turn = Kh

River = Qc

Mateyboy has a healthy 40k stack.

Too much chat on the "At a Glance" Snoops. They're not worthy.

Action For ActionJack...

He gets preflop re-raised by Bradley Cowling (they've both got 20-somethingK) and pushes in saying, "I've never passed this hand preflop, and I'm not going to start now."  It's the Aspades Ahrt he flips, against Bradley's Tc Th.

Flop:  Ks Kc Ad (in case you were worried there might be tension)
Turn and river:  6c 7h

Paul up to 43,000 now, at the expense of nearly all his opponent's stack.

Please send my good luck wishes to Carlo, Jim '77dave' Mcshane if he is playing and Jeff Buffenbarger, first and last both in pretty good form but i don't want to bokk them by making any predictions.

They've split a table up. Here you can see Paul Alterman, Womble, Mr and Mrs Bambos (I think the plural is Bambi), and Terry Fletcher...

although the latter of those has just departed after reraising Mrs Bambos's initial preflop raise.

Xanthos's other half called after a slight dwell and then exposed her A-J, which was an error because Terry Fletcher had kept 500 back.

No worries though, Terry through in his last 500 and meekly revealed his inferior A-T off.

Q-A-9-5-7 was of no assistance.

I think out of them 3, Carlo is the only one still left in.

Barry Neville has swung down to just 12k and back up to 25.  The down part came when his 6s 9s hit a 6 7 9 flop, but not as well as Iwan Jones' 7h 7s...

Paul Testud, who won the French-player-Last-Longer the minute he bought in...

Tikay, who won the Poker 425 Presenters Last Longer in similarly immediate fashion

 ;goodluck;  ;tk;

Sid Harris -- 26,100
Dingdell -- 21,300
Paul Jackson -- 27,300
Paul Alterman -- 17,400
Steve Bovis -- 15,500
Luke Patten -- 49,300
Iwan Jones -- 16,500
Barry Neville -- 24,500
Mike Magee -- 9,100
tikay -- 12,000
Edward McCloud -- 25,000

Great updates as ever. Thanks, and welcome back!

Paul King has doubled up to 43,200

A-K vs 9-9

Ace on the flop

cheers man  :)up

More counts from about 10 minutes ago before I got sidetracked on a quest for tea...

Table Alterman

Paul Alterman    25,500
Womble            18,000
David Courtney   24,000
Stasia Xanthos    17,400
Terry Fletcher     OUT
Lalit Khajuria       32,300
Bambos             39,000
Scott Sadler       24,500

Table Alternative Therapy

Paul King           25,500
Bradley Cowling    OUT
David Bozzard       7,000
Sid Harris             20,000
Mark Harris          21,200
Tracey Dell         28,300
Paul Jackson        43,000
Dave Clark            5,000

Barry Neville, who had shrunk to a short stack of 10k, re-raised Mike Magee's preflop raise to 2,500 (I think) all in from the button.  Mike called, and not as fast as one might expect with a small stack and Ahrt Kh here...
Barry showed  Ad Jh

Flop:  Qh 7s 8s
Turn:  Kd
River:  Th

And Barry said, "thankyou" as he moves up to 20k and moves Mike down to just 7,000.

Jim Reid adds to his stack with a 2k bet (2.6k in the pot) on a 6-J-9-K-6 ranibow board. Mallu folds.

go alty, half awake and still watching.

And here's Mike, pre-Barrying.   Neville says that Mike's been raising his blind rather a lot (being, it must be said, in the position to do so) including in the comp yesterday.

Iwan Jones has passed under the radar somewhat today, but yet again, here is, grinding away as we approach the latter stages.

He's currently on 18,200 and looking like an immovable force.

Must be a caption in this picture somewhere.

"tikay's how old?"

I just wanted to isolate and preserve that statement

Board = 6d Ahrt Ac 2c

7-8k pot

MB checks, Sid Harris bets 2.5k

MB dwells it up, then calls.

River = Kc

MB checks, and so does Sid.

Sid = 9d Th

MB = 6h 6s

"I had to try he claimed"

Also notice tikay's pacemaker in the background.

Tikay.  "I was Mallu-ed."

He (Ali) limped utg.  Tkay raised, as you well might, with JJ to 3,500.  He made it 28,000. "Is that a raise?"  Called, obviously.  Ace 10 up against him in Ali's hand, but the first card out was an Ace and that was that.

Paul Testud is OUT

Damn, you beat me to it.  I was going to say it was his biggest fan.

unlucky tk

how many left guys and how many they playing down to tonight?

Bambos Xanthos survives a an all-in

Ahrt Tc vs Aspades Td

4d Qh Qc 8c 2d

Both Bambi still in!

37

Just 39 minutes left

cheers snoops :)up

Another one who's kept fairly quiet while developing his stack is Lalit 'Terror of Helsinki' Khajuria.  Approaching the 40k mark he's another one like Iwan Jones who just always seems to be there as Day One wraps up.

Barry Neville raises to 2,800 from under the gun.

Mike Magee is the only caller in the big blind (blinds at 400/800)

Flop = 9c 8h Kd

Magee checks, Neville bets 3,500, Magee folds.

"Good fold," announces Neville whilst simultaneously revealing a King.

can u please tell me how paul a is doing?thx

Top Harris news for you now...

Harris squared in fact.

Sid Harris = Ad Kd

Mark Harris = Qh Qc

4c Ks 8d Kc 4h

Harris was well and truly Harrised

Sid = 40k
Mark = 2.5k

Steve Bovis is eliminated by Luke Patten with Ac Qs against Patten's Aspades Ks.  All in preflop (Steve had under 16k) and the nut spade flush on the turn knocked Steve out leaving the Iwan Jones/Barry Neville etc. table playing 6-handed.

Not much movement really, still on around 17k.

Actually, just saw him take down a nice pot (pocket Threes which hit a set on the flop and rivered a house).  It looks like he's been pretty busy in just the last few hands in fact - I reckon he's got closer to 30,000.

Your two chip leaders...

Luke Patten -- 80k
Alan McLean -- 67k

thx jen 4 info.

Here's the second of the Sporting Odds qualifiers. This time he hasn't come quite as far as Greece, but still, he doesn't live around the corner.

The Outer Hebrides of all places!

Anyhows, his name is Edward McCleod and he's on 14,200

Doesn't sound like much, but with blinds at 400/800, he still has plenty of room to manoevre.

With just 15 minutes left on the clock for today, play is winding down for the final four tables.

A few counts:

Paul King      23,000
Carlo Citrone  10,500
DingDell         28,700
Paul Jackson   14,600
Lalit Khajuria    50,000
Womble         13,600
Dale Greenleaf  27,000
Iwan Jones      13,200
Ali Mallu           89,000  (and your pipping chip leader)
Ash Hussain     58,000
Rumit Somaiya  15,300

Board = Jc Qd Kd 2s

Mallu bets 8k, Luke Patten moves all-in, Mallu folds.

Patten adds even more to his chip-lead.

OK OK now he's the chip leader; with another big stack on the table it's clear that he's not scared to put it all at risk, still - it must be noted that Luke Patten's results have been pretty good this year, and it will be interesting to see if he's to make yet another final table.

Dingdell doubles up Carlo Citrone

Board = 6d 8s 7h Ts

10k in the pot

Dingdell checks, Carlo moves all-in for 4.5k, Dingdell calls reluctantly (leaving around 20k behind)

Dingdell = Ad 7d

Carlo = Aspades 8c

River = 5d


More interesting however was the vocal addition of Paul Jackson who was lambasted by Carlo for saying to Dingdell, "What do you think he's got?" whilst the hand was still in play.

"You can't say that," claims Carlo.
"Why not," replies Paul
"I can't believe we're having this conversation, you know you can't"

Paul wanted to know the ruling so he doesn't do it again.

A supervisor was called over and said, although under his breath slightly, that there wouldn't be a penalty for such an act.

Spotted a few chip counts:

S Renoldi -- 2,300
Lalit K -- 50,300
Bambos -- 18,200
Rumit S -- 22,900
Alan McLean -- 38,400
Barry Neville -- 66,400
Carlo Citrone -- 21,600
Dingdell -- 20,800
Ash Hussain -- 55,000
D Taylor -- 46,000
P Dorrington -- 13,100

Barry Neville took a big pot on the very last hand with Aces vs Kings. Both players made full houses.

We've decided that the bagging and photocopying is being done with unusual alacrity, so we're hanging out until we can bring you the final result.  All done and dusted until tomorrow at 2:30pm after that.

And the lovely Dina (who has gained my eternal loyalty for sneaking me some M&Ms a little while ago) has brought the counts post haste:

Table Mallu

P. Dorrington    13,100
Ash Hussain      55,000
A. McLean        38,400
D. Taylor            46,000
Rumit Somaiya    22,900
Luke Patten       87,100
Dave Clark          23,800
Ali Mallu             99,400

Table Neville     

E. MacLeod         17,200
S. Renoldi           2,300
Iwan Jones         12,000
K. Quinlan           5,100
Barry Neville        66,400
Lloyd Greensite    32,400
Ryan Fronda        28,100

Table Khajuria     

Paul Alterman      33,200
Steve Walmsley   14,600
Dave Courtney     49,700
Stasia Xanthos     21,000
Dave Bozzard       15,100
Mike Magee         12,100
Lalit Khajuria        50,300
Bambos Xanthos   18,200

Table Dean

Paul King           22,200
Carlo Citrone      21,600
T. Townley       13,500
B. Bravery         14,400
Sid Harris           32,700
Mark Harris         19,200
Tracey Dell         20,800
Paul Jackson        8,700
A. Dean             41,100

g'night all - we leave you to get some rest, Tikay to clean out the cash game and the players to meet us back here tomorrow afternoon.

tikay told me someone from poker pages finished an article with 'stick a fork in me'

Maybe I should have copyrighted it.

She then added "I'm done" - no finesse.

see you tomorrow, folks  ;sleep;

I really need to come over for an easy win!!!

After my main event blow up it may be a while before i play again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How do you go from 170K and then out before the $$$$???


I guess that could be the pole ????  for everyone!!

Great updates as usual kids, be carefull and have fun!

Poker help always welcome, just post as I have a lot of time on my hands now???????????????????????????????????

congrats  ;tk; on another chop, if he would only listen to the young guns :blonde:

Just to say there is another site updating (How dare they) but they are very funny as they don't seem to have any poker know how........ updater watches a hand being played out on my table - and asked me why Paul got the chips. He had the flush I explained - but the other player had a pair of kings she says...........You can't make this up - it was terrible.

She then asks the player who came second in the Worlds Heads up comp in Barcelona for his name and how he spells it - even after having asked Jen for the info before - but she did recognise Tikay so I guess they go to the same day centre.  8)

Its who was updating for them on the day.  Their heart is in the right place but they'll never be as good as Jen and Snoops but I'm biased but it doesn't stop me from posting on both forums just blonde is a bit more special to me

I don't know who they were updating for and I didn't ask I! Blonde is always my first choice.  8)

Well good for you!

thanks jen & snoops fantastic job again

In the absence of a jet-lagged Mr Raab I will be heading over to Luton this afternoon for some hard-core railing and the distribution of the usual varied BSQ bits and bobs.

Looks like it could be a long night!

See y'all later.

Jamie.

Help!  is it a 2pm or 3pm start today?

And how do we get to see all the photos that Jen took?

Thanks very much
Lloyd

looks like 2.30

2.30 i think!


you should be able to see the photos, including one of your mug Lloyd!

I just rang and they said 3pm....

hallo, anybody reporting on luton??

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