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109 players commence battle again at 3pm for the finale of the Grosvenor Grand Prix 2006

Play is about to recommence. Chilli has been doing a mini-marathon typing session for the chip counts.  ;tightend;

Here is the last 109 players.  Sorry they are in no order, either alphabetical or chip counts but its the best list available.

Glen Ashworth             43,500
Bahrim Nazaripoyour      18,500
Roberto Romanelo        33,900
Coling Gerrard              30,600
Anthony Hughes           28,300
Jim Reid                       26,100
Paul Austin                   22,600
Vu Nygen                    15,600
Dave Smith                  4,700
Martino Libertini            12,400
Nick Gibson                  20,800
PG Smith                     17,000
Paul King (swansea)      4,800
K Abbassi                    41,400
John Doyle                  21,100
Martin Fogg                 23,900
Gareth Jones               20,700
Alan Dean                   17,500
Matt Cartwright           25,000
Antony Conway           23,100
Steve Bovis                 24,900
M Raynor                    26,100
Colin Knapp                 23,300
Martyn Cavanagh         10,000
Chris Sokrati                11,800
Charlie Benton             19,800
Hayley Jones               12,900
Richard Gray                19,600
Steve Macallister          15,000
Barry Neville                26,600
Walid Khalil                  48,900
Jamie Gubb                 31,000
Marshall McCombie        18,500
Jason Imps                  27,800
James Todd                 8,900
Sir Anthony of Kendallness   11,000
Maurice Nicholson           33,600
Zahir Aslam                    26,900
Richard Owen                22,200
Mo Muse                       25,700
Clare Byrne                    9,600
Derek Malone                 22,000
Mick Fletcher                 47,000
Andy Lyen                     14,800
H Zammit                       28,200
Darshan Sami                  14,600
S Townsend                   14,900
Michelle Sheilds              12,200
Mike Arnold                    9,800
Ambro Morreale              9,300
Richard Rudling-Smith     10,900
Ken Clarke                     14,600
Steve Nash                     7,200
Tom McCready                 19,800
Piers Whyman                  25,800
Peter Smyth                    22,600
Stuart Brown                   13,200
G McArthur                      40,400
B Wilson                          8,700
P Seager                         25,200
E Strutt                          18,900
J Sims                             16,400
E Bailey                           7,600
T Palester                       18,200
A Horrison                       23,800
M Lieu                            7,200
Paul Parker                      8,600
Y Umarji                          18,800
S Javadi                          18,000
S Jelinek                         12,800
Mark Forrester                  21,700
Kevin O'Leary                   19,800
S Whitaker                       59,800
L Yedmans                       15,600
Steve Read                      9,300
N Willis                            5,800
Nick Porter                       18,800
Ronnie Debealox               9,400
Martyn Reeve                   33,000
John Eadie                       40,300
Daniel Rudd                      28,000
Rumit Somaiya                   23,600
M Gillingham                      8,700
A Miles                             30,600
Anthony Lever                  16,200
L Birchall                           14,600
Om Aggarwal                    16,200
Rob Cook                         10,900
Premji Patel                       62,900
John Exley                         66,600
Michael  Quill                     29,100
Ewat Campbell                   17,600
David Lloyd                       23,600
Surindar Sunar                   41,300
Tom Sambrook                 10,900
Grant Mason                    15,400
Shafqat Mirza                   21,700
S Baker                           9,300
Garry Wilson                    20,000
Ghassan El-Hoss               33,000
Hassan Abbas                  29,400
Gary Smolinski                 28,200
Antony Adderley             39,600
George Annan                20,000
P Wise                          28,100
Frankie Knight                8,900
Satnam Sandu               30,000
Cos Charalambos             29,300
Peter Astley                  28,200

Emma Strutt is OUT, Crippled first hand by nines when holding kings on a  Tc 3h 4h Qd 9d board. She then lost the rest to Mykim Lieu with Ad 2d to  Jc Jd  on a  3c 3h 3d 4c 4s board.

RED-DOG is OUT.   Ahrt Qd v   Ts Js

Maurice Nicholson called Tom's all in after the flop with a flush draw and hit the flush on the turn.

Ed Baly (the kid)  is OUT.  He was low with 7,500 and decided to make his push with Q 10 pre-flop.  He got called by AQ.  No help for ED.

Rudders is out, he didn't see an UTG raise to 5.5k and announced raise with A6 on the meaning he had to put a minimum of another 5.5k in, which would leave with only 5k back so he had to push despite knowing he was most likely dominated. He was against AK and failed to hit.

Players are dropping like the cast of a bad horror movie.  The following are now OUT:

Hayley Jones
Emma Strutt
Tom McCreedy
Frankie Knight
P Smith
M McCombie
C Byrne
S Bovis
M Arnold
A Morreale
L Yeomans
Barry Neville
Y Umarji
R Smith
E Campbell
Ed Baly
K Clarke
R Cook
M Lieu
P Astley
S McAllister
Jim Reid

We have 87 left, average is 27,600.   The new level is now starting at 1,000 / 2,000

Roberto Romanello is the new chip leader with around 80k. He won a huge pot with Tens vs Aces.

Steve Jelinek is OUT.  He was low stacked and after some raise, re-raise all in action, they were on their backs. 

STeve  7d 5d
Mo Nicholson   Ahrt Ac

No help for jellybean.

Lost a few more.  Now down to 75.  OUT are:

A Lever
S Baker
J Todd
DM Aggaanwal
S Nash
S Sandhu
R Debealox
S Townsend
M Fogg
S Jelinek
Tikay (details to come)

Afraid you've bokked him Dave, Tikay has just gone out in a small blind big blind confrontation, the small blind raised with fives, tikay pushed with KQ and hit a queen on the flop but a pesky five came on the river.

Nick Gibson is OUT, he ran TT into KK on a A-Q-Q-6-3 board. All-in preflop.

Got some counts for you.

Roberto Romanelo  120,500
M Nicholson           74,000
Mike Fletcher         93,000
Glen Ashworth       45,000
Zippy Aslam           24,500
Steve Read           25,000
Charly                  115,000
Surindar Sunar       69,000
Soxy                    10,000
Martin Cav             29,000
Tom Sambrook      39,000
Rumit                   46,000

Roberto is table talking his opponenets into submission.  They are calling with lesser hands just to shut him up.  Its not working and his stack keeps growing.

It does seam to be shove them in and hope at the moment.  We are down to 51 players already.  THe following are OUT:

Kev O'Leary
M Muse
S Brown
J Doyle
G Wilson
N Willis
Paul King
L Birchall
D Malone
D Rudd
P Patel
P Singleton
Michelle Sheils
M Forresster
P Parker
N Gibson 
G Annan

The new level with soon be 2,000 / 4,000 and the average stack is 47,100.

We're on a 10 minute break and then the blinds will be 2k and 4k with a 49k average stack. The money goes up to £250 from 45th...

Zahir Aslam and Surindar Sunar have both added to their stacks knocking out short stacks.

Zippy's A-2 took out a K-J on a 8-Q-7-6-3 board.

Whilst Surindar made a small bet on a Qs 4c Js board and matey moved all-in with Kc Td and Surindar called with Aspade Ac which held.

Kev's pick is Mick Fletcher, and I'm going for Surindar.

Shift change here - I am taking over from Chili.

45 players left, half an hour left at 2k-4k, ave stack is some 53,300. (thats 13 x BB).

Gareth The Magician Jones - 80,000

Dr Tom Sambrook - 36,000

Zippy Hussain 74,000

Rumit - 42,000

Mick Fletcher - 120,000

Peter Smyth - 88,000

Roberto - 120,000

Martyn Cavanagh - 30,000

Soxy - 14,000

43 left, & 20 minutes at 2k-4k.

According to Dani, levels may be lengthened from 45 minutes to 1hr soon dependent on the number of players left.

OUT are.....

Steve Read

Mr Abbass

V Nguyen

P Aviston

B Wilson

Khalil

Mick Fletcher took a 45k pot against Glen Ashworth who is now down to 28k.

The Board came thus.....

 Jh 5h 2h 6c 7d

Fletch put Glen all-in on the end & Glen gives a goodly dwell before calling, & showing the J - he never showed his other card.

Fletch had flopped the stone cold nuts -  Ahrt 8h......

Blinds are now 3k/6k and there are 35 left.

Tom Sambrook is OUT.

Ramazanali Abbassi who is a bigger name than Roberto (17 letters!) is OUT, he held a 4 on a Q-4-4-Q-K board but his opponent had a Queen.

The 3 Chip Daddies appear to be Zippy, Mick Fletcher & Roberto.

Chip counts soonest.

Martyn Cavanagh is OUT

27 are left, meaning everyone gets £750 now.
15th to 18th gets £1,000
13th and 14th get £1,500
12th gets £2,000
11th gets £2,500

Shahla Javadi, the remaining lady in the comp, is OUT in 21st place. She got it all-in with Td Ts against Tony Adderley's  Ac Kh the board came with a  Jc Td rag but the Qd reared it's ugly head on the river. The rest of her chips went in with Tens again, this time she was up against Aces and no help came.

Elsewhere Rummit has pushed off Romanello a hand moving all-in preflop, Roberto passed after convincing Rumit to show pocket tens if the former would fold, Roberto flashed a Jack.

We are now on a half hour break after which the blinds will be 5k/10k.

MrAlex2u -- 72k
Zippy -- 39k
Rumit -- 85k
20 players left, 120k is the average. Blinds are now 5k/10k

Play is about to re-commence.

20 players are remaining. Blinds are 5k-10k. The Average Stack is 120,000, equal to 12 x Big Blinds.

The Clock will stay at 45 minutes for the next 2 Levels for sure, but they will review it after that & MAY increase it to 60 minutes thereafter.

The Blind increases AFTER this 5k-10k Level are very slow - the Big Blind only increases by 2k per level.

Rumit has gone in 19th. He pushed to Roberto Romanello's raised from the button with  Aspades 9s, Roberto called with  Ad Js and the board came  Ahrt 9h Jc 7d 7h


Shortly after another short stack went out with  9c 9h to a  Ad 7d raise from another player.

Flop:

 Kc 3d 5c

Turn:

 4d (No better turn surely?)

River:

6c

John Exley is OUT.

All the chips went in Pre-Flop. John showing the sexy looking  Kd Qd, whilst Matey Boy had him dominated with  Ahrt Qh.

The  Js Tc Ks flop was just what Matey Boy ordered, & running Nines on the Turn & River changed nothing.

17 left.

Roberto Romanello and Matt Cartwright are joint chip leaders with about 230k each

A raise from Michael Quayle was met a Romanello re-raise but Quayle pushed all-in and Romanello had to call. Quayle had the bullets  ;snoopy'sguns;  while Roberto had the less stellar  Ks 8h. And althought Romanello flopped the nut flush draw, Quayle's trip aces held up in what was close to a 200k pot.

Zippy has about 80k, he just got all-in against Alex Harrison (blondite MrAlex2u), both showed AQ. Choppity Chop.

16 players left and 8 more minutes at this level.

JJ vs A8 takes out a player on the left hand table whilst 66 holds up vs AK on the right.

I must say that the comp is being played in a very good spirit despite the oodles of cash on the line with lots of handshakes and good luck wishes passed on by those who have busted out.

Peter Smyth just doubled up against Jamie Gubb's Pocket Ladies with Pocket Tens, board 9-T-2-2-K.

On the other table Anthony Hughes doubled through Tony Adderley with A-Q against Tony's Pocket Kings, A queen on the flop and another on the river.

Tony then pushed with Ac Jc and doubled up himself against Mick Fletcher who held Kc Tc on a 4h 2s 6d Qc Ad board.

20 minutes leftat 6k-12k, then it goes 7k-14k.

13 players left, average is 184,600.

The Final is at last in sight. Been a great comp, but I'm wrecked.

Full Chip Count:

Tony Adderley -- 218k
Mick Fletcher -- 295k
Darshan Sami -- 150k
Anthony Hughes -- 170k
Allen Dean -- 200k
Andy Miles -- 220k

Alex Harrison -- 76k
Peter Smyth -- 212k
Mike Quayle -- 235k
Matt Cartwright -- 189k
Roberto Romanello -- 152k
Jamie Gubb -- 140k
Zahir 'Zippy' Aslam -- 139k

Blinds are 6k/12k for the next 10 minutes.

The remaining prizes are.....

13th & 14th - £1,500 each

12th £2,000

11th £2,500

10th £3,000

9th £4,000

8th £5,200

7th £7,000

6th £10,000

5th £14,000

4th £22,000

3rd £37,500

2nd £56,000

WINNER - £100,000

With 13 players left, we have DEAL TALK.

It's been suggested that 13th to 4th ALL lock up £10,000 now.

I don't think that kite will fly, but I think some sort of redistribution of Prize Money looks likely. Or maybe not.

...and now play has been suspended - for the last 10 minutes - while the players discuss a redistribution of the Prize Money.

The proposal was tabled, 13th to 7th ALL get £10,000.

Then, 5th gets £14,000

4th £18,700

3rd £32,000

2nd £45,000

WINNER £75,00

This looks like it may just get accepted - they are still talking, & the clock is still "PAUSED".

I believe that the Deal has been tabled & accepted. Play has resumed.

Alex Harrison has gone with Q-J vs T-T in 13th

Mike Quayle was crippled with T-T vs Q-Q and departed shortly after in 12th.

Both will get £10,000.

Roberto has gone from a shorty 60k to 250k without showing a hand. Rather impressive.

Jamie Gubb has gone in 11th place, he got short and hoped that his  6h 3h was live against the button raise of Matt Cartwright. It was but they failed to improve against the  Kc Qs that Matt held.


Shortly afterwards, Andy Miles, who hasn't picked up a hand in the last hour or so, pushed in blind to Roberto's button raise, but his Ad 2s was dominated by Roberto's Aspades 7s. And the Ts 2d 7c 7d 4c board finished him off.

There is now a redraw and a break for the final table. I'll get seating arrangements, chip counts and pictures shortly.

Ok here's the final table:

Seat 1: Anthony Hughes -- 139k
Seat 2: Matt Cartwright -- 406k
Seat 3: Roberto Romanello -- 369k
Seat 4: Mick Fletcher -- 494k
Seat 5: Peter Smyth -- 287k
Seat 6: Zahir 'Zippy' Aslam -- 140k
Seat 7: Alan Dean -- 159k
Seat 8: Darshan Sami -- 73k
Seat 9: Tony Adderley -- 328k

So Roberto will carry on torturing [with his speech play] Peter Smyth, whilst watching Mick, Matt and Roberto clash with super-aggressive styles which make it interesting.

There's a 15 minute break now and I'll try and get photos when they restart. (Maybe in the meantime I'll infiltrate the finalist area and steal from the buffet, mwahahahahaha.)

And Darshan Sami is our first casualty and goes out in 9th place winning £10,000

He was short and made his stand with  8d 8h, Mick Fletcher called him with  Kc Jc.


Board:

 Kd Kh 6d Ahrt 7c

As I was typing that there was another all-in called.

Anthony Hughes moved the last of his stack on the river of a  Jh Jc 6d 3c 7c board and Matt Cartwright called. I believe most of the chips had already gone in on the turn.

Anthony:

 Kh Jd

Matt:

 5s 5d

So Anthony doubles up and Matt takes a hit.

Roberto just had Tony Adderley all-in but Roberto had  Aspades Kd and Tony had Ahrt Kh and no flush potential was even hinted at on the T-T-4-6-Q board.

Next Roberto min-raises to 32k one off the cut-off. Peter Smyth pots to 120k from the button. Roberto folds

Then Anthony Hughes pots UTG to 56k and Peter re-pots to 236k (I think) and Hughes mucks.

Alan Dean is OUT in 8th place winning £10,000

Peter Smyth raised from the cut-off, Zippy re-raised from the button and Alan moved in from the small blind. Peter got out of the way and Zippy called.

Alan:

 Qc Qd

Zippy:

 Ad Aspades

Board:

 8h Ac Kd Ahrt 2d 2d

And Quads for Zippy has put him up to into contention with over 300k now.

In a 3-way raised pot between Peter Smyth, Tony Adderley and Roberto Romanello see a  7h Js 9h board.

Peter bets 96k, Tony folds and Roberto moves all-in for 143k more.


Peter calls with  Kh Qh which is ahead of Roberto's  Qs Th

Turn:

 4d

River:

 3h

Giving Peter the flush and the chip lead and meaning Roberto Romanello is OUT in 7th place winning £10,000

Matt Cartwright has suggest another deal with payouts of £50k (Mick Fletcher) £45k (Peter Smyth) £38k, £30k and £30k. But that's yet to come to fruition. As they were talking, Anthony Hughes, the shortstack, raised UTG and Zippy put him all-in.

Anthony:

Qd Qh


Zippy:

As Qc

Board:

Tc 2c 6d 2d 4h

Will another deal be done? It's certainly possible...and they're still talking about it.

Anthony Hughes is OUT and is our 6th placed finisher winning £10,000

He raised from the button with 9h 9d, Matt Cartwright re-potted from the small blind and Anthony pushed with Matt covering him by just 5k. Matt showed them cowboys Ks Kd and the board came:

2d 6d Kh Js 3c


5 players remain, blinds are 9k/18k.

Chip Counts.

Matt Cartwright -- 522k
Mick Fletcher -- 356k
Peter Smyth -- 572k
Zahir 'Zippy' Aslam -- 436k
Tony Adderley -- 529k



Mick's dip comes mainly having to call a Tony Adderley all-in with Ac Tc against Tony's pocket 4's which held up. We're now on a short break during which they are discussing a second deal.

Ok, revised structure for remaining five places has been agreed.

1st  £67,000
2nd £45,000
3rd £32,000
4th £20,000
5th £20,000

Matt Cartwright takes down a big pot, a raise preflop is called by Peter Smyth, with 100k in the pot board comes:

9s 5h 8s

Peter checks, Matt bets 40k, Peter raises to 80k, Matt re-raises to 350k and Peter quickly mucks.

Roberto behind me says, "Matt had Aces, and he was drawing."

Mick Fletcher is OUT and is our 5th placed finisher winning £20,000

He was getting short and moved in against Tony Adderley's preflop raise. Tony calls.

Mick:

 Aspades Kh

Tony:

 Kc Ts

Board:

 Tc 9h 7d 4d 2s


And then there were four....

Correction. Tony called Mick's preflop raise and his all-in on the T-9-7 flop

Meanwhile in Chippy Count Land (approx):

Matt Cartwright -- 745k
Peter Smyth -- 600k
Zippy -- 570k
Tony Adderley -- 500k


Blinds have actually gone to 12k/24k. They've just change it on the clock.

Another deal has been done. £40,000 each with the remaining £4,700 and the trophy to the winner.

HUGE pot.

Matt raises to 84k from UTG, Peter passes, Zippy re-raises to 192k, Tony moves all-in. Matt passes, Zippy calls and is all in himself.

Tony:

Ahrt Kd

Zippy:

Qd Qc

Board:

2h 9h 5c 7s 3h


Zippy is the chippy leader and Tony was down to 25k but managed to get up to 100k after his Jc Th was good vs the other three players on a Js 3c 8d Ks 5c board.

Tony just doubles up again with Ks 4d against Zippy's Ahrt 7s. The board came 2-3-5-6-x

Tony Adderley is OUT and is our 4th place finisher winning £40,000

Zippy raised from the small blind with Ahrt Js and Tony moved in with Jd Ts, Zippy immediately called.

Board:

2c 7d 3h 7s 6h

Peter Smyth is OUT in 3rd place winning £40,000

Short, he raised from the small blind and Zippy put him all-in.

Zippy:

Ac Js

Peter:

As 7c

Board:

4c 8h 5c 8c Ad


Zippy and Matt Cartwright are now heads-up, Zippy has a huge chip lead.

Matt Cartwright is our 2nd placed finisher winning £40,000

In a brief heads-up battle all the chips went in preflop...

Zippy:

Ad 9c

Matt:

Ac 7h

Board:

Tc 3d 8s Jh 7c

Which gave Matt a pair but Zippy the straight which means...

The Winner of the Grovsenor Grand Prix 2006 is Zahir 'Zippy' Aslam collecting £44,700 in prize money


Congratulations to Zippy who played incredibly well, had his big hands hold up and was even able to come back from just 39k when the blinds were 5k/10k.

A worthy winner you must agree.

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