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Here's your Lite Chip Count hand history etc. update from the £1,500 Main Event of the UK Open!

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.

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

Giovanni Vaccarella is OUT

Kings vs Aces

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

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
Robert Yong

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

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.

Julain Thew has almost halved his stack after locking horns with Tony Kendall.

Julian raised preflop with 7-2 of diamond and Tony called with T-9 of diamonds.

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

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

Then the River made Tony a straight flush. Another bet and another call.

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

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.

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.

If you're wondering who 'Gregory Alexius' is from the previous chip-count list, well, he's not from around this neck of the woods.

Gregory actually lives in Greece and flew all the way over to er... Luton due to qualifying online at Sporting Odds.

This comp attracts players from right around the globe!

Dixie Dean -- about 20,000

All Righty, Tighty:

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

Alan MacLean -- 11,350
JP Kelly -- 12,350
Vik Kamwar -- 4,050
Theo Dalton -- 10,450
Carlo Citrone -- 9,900
Greek Jack -- 4,750
Womble -- 8,350
Rumit S -- 8,875
Kevin Daly -- 3,875
Trevor Reardon -- 9,900

Alan MacLean -- 11,350
JP Kelly -- 12,350
Vik Kamwar -- 4,050
Theo Dalton -- 10,450
Carlo Citrone -- 9,900
Greek Jack -- 4,750
Womble -- 8,350
Rumit S -- 8,875
Kevin Daly -- 3,875
Trevor Reardon -- 9,900

Luke Patten limps on the button, Terry Fletcher bets the big blind, Patten reraises fro an extra 4k, leaving just 1 or 2k behind. Fletcher folds.

Luke Patten limps on the button, Terry Fletcher bets the big blind, Patten reraises fro an extra 4k, leaving just 1 or 2k behind. Fletcher folds.

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

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)

Eric Barker is OUT.

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

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

Eric flips A-K and Mallu shows...


8-3 off

4 clubs on the board and Maullu takes it down with the 3 of clubs.

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

Board = Ahrt Ac 6s Aspades Kh

Just under 2k in the pot.

Greenleaf bets 500.

Carlo dwells and then calls the 500.

Mateyboy next door also calls.

Greenleaf reveals the fourth Ace to take the pot.

Steve Walmsley 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.

Trevor Reardon is OUT after running a flopped set of Queens into a flopped set of Kings.

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

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

Split pot.

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.

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

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.

Barry Neville announces, "40 large."  We'll do a tie-break count in the dinner break...

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.

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.

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

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.

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 Harris -- 30,300
Paul Alterman -- 21,000

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.

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.

On the table next door, Rumit S doubles through with A-K vs A-J on a 4-5-5-2-7 board.

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

Joe Grech
Vik Kanwar
Zahir Aslam
JP Kelly
Des Jonas
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

Meanwhile...

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

Sid had a Five.

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..."

Alan Maclean is down to 64,800 after being 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

2 outed!

Mateyboy now has a healthy 40k stack and a heart bypass.

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.

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 and Fletcher is OUT.

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
Paul King -- 43,200
Paul Testud -- OUT

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 Ah 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.

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.

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.

all-in preflop

Sid Harris = Ad Kd

Mark Harris = Qh Qc

4c Ks 8d Kc 4h

Sid = 40k
Mark = 2.5k

Your two chip leaders...

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

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.

Tracey Dell doubles up Carlo Citrone

Board = 6d 8s 7h Ts

10k in the pot

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

Tracey Dell = Ad 7d

Carlo = Aspades 8c

River = 5d

Spotted a few chip counts:

S Renoldi -- 2,300
Lalit K -- 50,300
Bambos -- 18,200
Rumit S -- 22,900
Dingdell -- 20,800
Alan McLean -- 38,400
Carlo Citrone -- 21,600
Barry Neville -- 66,400
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.

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
Alan 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