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Well, I'm in Brighton, I'm at the Grosvenor, I've given out the usual Blue Square bits and bobs, I'm not allowed to play, so heck, why not do an update.

74 players have turned out for the main event of the Brighton Summer Shaker Festival. So, who's gonna be shaking that money maker some time tomorrow?

Some of the hopefuls include:

Steve Bovis
Jeff Burke
Matt Cartwright (Blue Square qualifier)
Dave Colclough
Joe Conlan
Ronnie Debeaulox
Maria Demetriou
Joe Grech
Martin Green
Sid Harris
Tony Kendall
Chris Macleod (Blue Square qualifier)
Tom McCready
Stuart Nash
Paul Parker
Luke Patten
Nicolas Risdale (Blue Square qualifier)
Jeff Rogers
Peter Singleton
Ian Woodley

They have been playing for about 25 mins, having gotten underway 30 mins later than the 8pm advertised start time. Personally, I would prefer they got it underway on time, but some UK traditions are slow in changing.

Is Flushyfish playing?

p.s tell  ;tk; to make sure everyone bows to him before they start playing.

Flushy is a no show. Something to do with lack of sleep. 

Got some pics on the way, bear with me...

Really hoping for a good showing from DC tonight.. ;goodluck;

Dave mid hand, looking very serious

lightweight!


Good luck to all the blondes and Lutonians


Is JP there AJ?

No, JP is not here I'm afraid.

Liking DC's shirt!!

Tikay and Jeff Burke cuddle up

When he's not cuddling up to Jeff, or in a hand, this is Tikay's reading material.

There has been a rather noisy cover band playing up at the bar here. To counteract its effects, some players have donned oversized headphones.  Dave Barnes wishes he had remembered his.

Le woof woof

Maria is having a great time, playing every pot, not snoozing at all. OK, so I lied.

I went my damndest to get Tony a piccy of a " special " today that was going on the wenslydale line for the 1st time in 50 yrs.....the darn thing was due in practically as i departed ..but the thought was there tell him ..x

We are now well into level 2 (one hour clock, 10,000 chips) and we are yet to lose a player. OK, so its a double chance, but even so, usually someone has misread their hand and done thier chips in by now. Cardroom manager Elliot Jenkins has just told me that 19 of the 74 players have so far taken their double chance option.

Tony says thanks Maureen, he appreciates it greatly.

Nothing is too much for the Master..x

Well, we nearly lost one, when short stacked Robert Whybrew, holding

 3s 3h moved all in on a  5c 9d 3c board.

He was called by Daniel Teymourian who had  9h 9s

Turn  3d!

No miracle 9 on the river and mr shortstack survives to fight another pot.

I was alerted to the hand after hearing a loud shout of 'Get In There' followed by an obligatory fist in the air punch.

In other news, the cover band have returned from their break and 'Everlasting Love' is the song that is currently being murdered.

 rotflmfao

They've moved on to 'Downtown' now. Available for weddings, bar mitzvahs and such like...

If they attempt 'Murder on the dancefloor' at least I will have mitigating circumstances when I plead before the judge.

if its the usual band they use it is worth looking out for the stunning brunette lead singer


agreed about the rest of them though, complete pants

Yes, they did it 'Their way', followed by 'Grease Lightning'

Is this who you're referring to Tighty?

Dunno if she's the lead singer, but she's the only she in the band.

They've now reached the end of level two and are having their first scheduled break (the poker that is, not the band). Those who have not taken their double chance will automatically get it now.

I Pass !!!

same group...red and black costumes...different girl...she must have gone on to bigger and better things...Butlins at Bognor perhaps

When ever I follow the updates the piccies always come out dark..so from my PC she looks like a devil woman..with evil love in her eyes

one score and he gets picky!!!

 rotflmfao

Just back from Goodwood and I would be a wealthy man if it wasn't for Frankie de bloomin useless Dettori in the last race. Have fun everyone in Brighton tonight.

tikay, playing superbly, is up to 85,378.

I believe someone may have commandeered my lappie while I went on a loo break. Some serious misreading of chip counts going on in the above post, hehe.

Play has resumed and we have lost a total of three players. I spoke to Ben Battle during the break who assured me that he will only be playing for another 20 mins. He's down to 4,000 and can't be bothered any more.

"I've made one move, ran into bleeding aces..."

Too much coffee for me.. my eyes are now miss reading posts....

Two of the people we have lost are:

Freddy Secola and Mike Secola. I presume they are related.

It's a long shot.. but i wonder if these could be the Secola brothers?

We've just lost Steve Dover. He had a ferry to catch...

You've been visiting the Snoopy school of bad puns again?  ;tk;

U got any chip counts AJ???

oy

My Dad told me that Lehman made a bit of a howler by coming out for a punch and missing the ball completely, leaving Mellberg to nod Villa into the lead vs Arsenal today.

I said, "So, in Lehman's terms, you're telling me he's rubbish"

I was very proud of myself.

Bah, you made me laugh. :D

Chip counts - well, its a slow tourney with a deep stack so if I get caught up doing chip counts I'll never be able to keep it up, so no, I have taken a stance against chip counts at this early stage. I feel that at this stage of a tourney chip counts are pretty irrelevant. The key is just to know generally how people are getting on. When the field is reduced more significantly I will start doing them, but for now here's a few pointers as to how well or otherwise some of the players are doing:

Tikay - a bit below average (or 27,000 if u believe what he says)
Maria - a bit below average
Martin Green - above average
El Blondie - above average
Paul Parker - below average
Stuart Nash - about half the average stack
Peter Singleton - twice the average stack
Joe Grech - above average
Red-Dog - below average
Dave Barnes - well below average, as he is out.

The average is now 10,900 and there are 68 players remaining. I'm off for a spot of food now. Back soon...

"Maria - a bit below average"


Not in my opinion ;)

 ;iagree;

Surely there's a few blanks to fill in between some of those words...  ;ifm;  ;goodvevil; ;tk;

I've had me tea now - very nice it was too.

Tikay has just won a nice pot. Jeff Burke has raised 3,000 preflop after there were a few limpers.Tony has gone all in, reraising for another 6,700. Jeff passed showing

 Ts Tc

Tikay says he passed 9-7, but it was probably a misread.

Dave Colclough has left the building, which can only mean one thing and no, its not that he needs to feed the meter for his car.

Maria had been moved tables and has now been moved back again to her original seat!

Can you tell Chili  ;goodluck; from me please!

And me!

and me

I'd really appreciate it if you could wish Stuart Nash 'Good Luck' from me, please.

Thank you.

 Qh

All the good wishes have been passed on. Chilli and Stuart both say thanks to their respective well wishers.

Wish  ;tk; and Chilli all the best from me, they are both in good form atm. :)

They have started playing level 5 now and there are 49 players remaining. The chip leader at this stage is Paul Parker, who uncharactericically called a raise with  8d 2s and two further deuces flopped, shipping a big pot his way. Further unlikely hands followed and he is on over 50,000 chips now. The average is 15,100. Martin Green is on about 30k and running well.

Thank you for passing on the message and thank you for the updates.

 Qh

Tikay is out. More on that in a mo, here's a few other updates:

Ian Woodley - half the average stack
Maria - average stack, er as I type she has moved into the above average range on 23,500
Red Dog - well above average but not quite twice the average
Jeff Burke - twice the average stack
Dave clark - down to the felt
Chris MacLeod  (sole remaining blue square qualifier) - down to the felt
Joe Grech - down to the felt
Peter Singleton - above average
Jeff Rogers - above average
Stuart Nash - average
Ronnie De Beaulox - average, maybe a little below

Average stack = 15,100

Tikay, short stacked after another misread moved in with  Kc Jd on a

 5s 4h Jh flop

He was in for only about 2,500 and was called by someone with  Qh 3h

The turn was 6h , the irrelevant river 7c

C'est la vie, as they say in Brighton.

Joe Grech is out.

Others to fall earlier while I was eating, drinking and generally making merry included two of the three blue square qualifiers, Ben Battle and Sid Harris.

Just to clarify, Sid and Ben were not the Blue Square qualifiers. They fell in addition to them. In fact it has been brought to my attention that Nicolas Risdale was actually a Green Joker Poker qualifier, but as that is a skin of Blue Square, I guess he still counts.

More 'photos would be great but maybe that's not possible.

 Qh

Just for you QofH...

Thanks for the updates, Mr Raab

Please don't forget folks that this isn't an official update and that AlrightJack is simply doing this out of the goodness of his heart rather than being affiliated to the blonde team. He does a grand job, and for free too, so please don't expect too much out of him.

ps. full chip count please

Mr Parker, how did u get all those chips? No, don't tell me, we've already heard...

Peter Singleton is out, having donated his chips to Jeff Rogers. Here is Jeff, post donation...

Great 'photos - thank you

Sole remaining Blue Square qualifier Chris MacLeod has gone. He never really had much in the way of hands - pocket aces five hands into the tournament but got no action, then slowly bled away.  This is he.

One more photo for ya. Proof that the cover band has stopped playing, or simply that headphone chic has gone too far. His name is Grant Mecardo.

a grand job mr raab  :)up

 ;iagree;

 Qh

Nah, thats too much like hard work, but I will get some select counts for you. We are now down to 36 now, thats four tables (for those of you still working on your nine times table)

Much laughter from Parker's table. He told me that someone just had 10k in chips off him. But as I was getting the count I was interrupted by Maria, who had a much better story about a hand with Stuart Nash. He raises 1,400 (the blinds are now 300/600 btw) and she looks down to see pocket nines.

"1,400 with another 5,000" she announces as she nonchalantly throws the chips in the middle.

Stuart dwells, stares, dwells some more then finally passes, flipping over his cards and declaring "This is the third time I've passed this hand today". He had pocket jacks!

BTW Maria told this story with the intention of it getting posted, so this is not secret info I'm divulging.

Some counts for you:

Jeff Burke - 35k
Stuart Nash - 17k
Maria - 18.5k
Dave Clark - 12k, having been almost felted not long ago.

They are playing the final level of the night now and there are 33 left. Average stack 22,400.

More counts coming soon...

Is Matt still in???

Great stuff Jon.

Here's that count I promised ya...

Which Matt? If you mean Matt Cartwright, no he is out. He was not happy with his tournament, saying he got outplayed throughout.

Is it Matt Cartwright from walsall, broadway etc. ??
If so and if he's still around tell him ginge was sweating him :)

Great stuff mr raab!

Chip counts from Table Chatterbox

Sunny Chatta - 30,000 (he was runner up in the main event at the last festival here back in February)
Neil Fox - 5,100
Parker - 47,000 (would have been more but Dean Coombes just bluffed him out of a pot - Paul had flopped top pair holding K-J and Dean showed a 9, which had also flopped, but rubbed Paul's nose in it by showing him his raggy supporting card, a 5)
Red-Dog - 34,000
Ronnie De Beaulox - 16,000
Grant Mecardo - 15,300
Dean Coombes - 25,000
Nicolas Risdale - 16,000 (so there is still one qualifier left - the Green Joker Poker one - I thought he had gone but he had merely been moved)

Yes, thats him, but no, he doesn't seem to be around anymore. If I see him I will pass it on.

A couple more chip counts for you.

Jeff Rogers - circa 45k
Martin Green - circa 35k

I'm very surprised at that, he's a constant winner live.
Good player.

Other notable stacks include

Anonymous - 45k - I do know his name but he wishes to remain anonymous. He's an asian fellow.

Tom Levene - 35k

Glenn Martin - 25k

Jeff Burke is currently chatting up cardroom superviser Laura, explaining how he likes his eggs in the morning (over easy) and that his favourite Sunday lunch is roast pork, with lots of crackling.

Just seen him, he is still around. I passed ur message on and he mutterred something under his breath, which sounded distinctly like "kn**head". Hehe.

Joe Conlan still in and on 14,000.

30 left, 10 mins until the end of play.  I won't be staying until they have finished bagging up the chips, but will bring you full overnight counts tomorrow.

Is Stuart in or out, please?

 Qh

Thats it, they're done and sadly Maria went out on the last hand of the night. She had gotten short and had A-T versus Stuart Nash's A-K...

I'm off for a good sleep, see ya again tomorrow for more fun and games, recommencing at 3pm, BST.

Nice, ask him what his knickname is at walsall..........it's "the hammer" LOL LOL