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Play is due to commence at 6.30pm.

137 players:

Anthony Adderley
R Adejuyigbe
Ashfag Ahmed
D Ainsworth
Zahir Aslam
James Atkin
Farid Badimansour
Tim Blake
Mark Blandford
Steph Boyd
Andrew Bradshaw
Jeff Buffenbarger
Ben Callinan
Dan Carter
Martyn Cavanagh
Nick Clarke
Robert Cowling
Matt Dale
Alan Davies
Richard Davies
Peter Davis
Ed Dawson
Toni Dicesare
Kyriacos Dionysiou
Thanh Don
Thomas Dunwoodie
Peter Evans
James Fisher
Tim Flanders
Michael Fletcher
Brian French
Ryan Fronda
Robert Garfield
Chris Gavriel
Tim Gillig
Joe Grech
Phillip Green
Sid HArris
Malcolm Harwood
Kieth Hawkins
Ian Herbert
Nichiei Hicks
O Hickary
Alex Hinchcliffe
Stephen Holden
John Huckle
Anthony Hughes
Ash Hussain
MZ Hussain
Chris Huyton
M Ifzal
Essy Jahanpour
Shahla Javadi
Steve Jelinek
Richard Jenking
Des Jonas
Don Jones
Iwan Jones
JP Kelly
Tony Kendall
Jeff Kimber
Paul King
Costas Kkola
Bhupinder Kohli
Royce Law
John Lea
Pete Linton
James Lister
Stephen Lovatt
Mrk Lowe
Ali Mallu
Shaun Mason
Alastar May
D Mayall
Micahel Mccool
Alan McLean
Grant Mercado
David Mobbs
Barkatul Mohammed
Reyaaz Mulla
R Musood
Mazhar Nawab
Korosh
Nejad
Ian Nelson
Terry Nelson
Tony Nicholls
Maurice Nicholson
Eamon Oneil
Meng Ong
S Orelly
Amrat Patel
Raj Patel
Ash Pervais
Niamh Peters
Phil Peters
Gurinder Purewal
Trevor Reardon
Rob Reece
Paul Rigg
Lucy Rokach
Roberto Romanello
Stuart Rutter
Darshan Sami
Lisa Scotney
M Shafiq
G Shaw
Laith Sheena
William Shervington
John Shipley
Geoarge Simcock
Nick Slade
Dave Smith
Peter Smythe
Scott Spiers
Julian Thew
Raymond Thomas
Nigel Turver
Giovanni Vaccarella
D Vandyke
Steve Walmsley
Sam Wardlaw
Brian Welby
Dave Welch
D Wernick
Mickey Wernick
A Wilkinson
Ian Woodley
A Woods
Charalambous Xanthos
S Xanthos
MArk Yaffe
Waikwan Yuen
Gehan Zahib
Simon Zach

Steve Jelinek is the current chip leader with 22k.

His latest scoop being Q-9 vs J-T on a 6-8-T-J board.

Roberto Romanello is OUT.

Raised with K-J to 600 before calling all-in for his last 3.6k.

Up against Aces, he received no help.

Dave Mayall is up to 10k after busting Aces twice.

First vs Mick Fletcher (A-A) and Nick Slade (7-7) with 2-2 on a 2-4-6 Flop and then vs Simon Zach (A-A) with J-J on a K-K-x-J board.

Steve Walmsley doubled up during the first level with 2-4 on a 2-4-T Flop.

He then took another nice pot with 4c 6c on an all club flop.

As a result, he is now on over 20k.


Meanwhile, Julian Thew has flopped a straight and then quads (with Aces). He is on around 10.5k.

Ali Mallu is OUT, so not Malluing today.

The first lot went to Martyn Cavanagh when Ali raised it up with the speculative hand of J-5. The flop came 5-5-3, but the Welsh lad was sitting pretty with Pocket Threes.

Finally, Ali Mallu exited the comp when he grew too attached to a flush draw. Mark Lowe (A-K) raised it up and received three callers, two of whom were Sid Harris (Ad-9d) and Ali (5d-2d). Flop came Kd-Jd-Qc, Sid bet, Alli called, Mark re-raised and both players called. All the money then went in on the raggy Turn, but Ali was drawing dead.

Just having a quick glance around the arena, the following seem to be doing very nicely indeed.

Zippy Aslam -- 12,000 (+ticket)
JP Kelly -- 24k (-ticket)
Ash Pervais -- 20k (+ticket)
Stu Rutter -- 27k (-ticket)
Julian Thew -- 21k (+ticket)

Julian Thew destroyed Ian Herbert when he flopped yet another monster, this time a full house with 5-3 on a Flop of 5-3-3. Of course, the Welshman only had A-3 and was virtually obliterated.

Soon after, Herbert shoved his remaining few thousand in with Q-Q, but was outdrawn by A-Q - Ace on Flop.





The blinds are currently at 50-100, and are due to rise to 100/200 in 8 minutes. There is no 75/150 level, but I guess that is to be expected when you can start with 13k in chips.

According to the board, there are 131 players remaining with an average stack of 13,600/

The total prize pool is 137,000, which will make first place somewhere around the 50-55k mark.

Players that are definitely out though are:

Mazhar Nawab
Grant Mercado
Ali Mallu
Ian Herbert
Roberto Ramanello
Siney Harris

Fari Badiemansour and Mick Fletcher exited just moments ago.

Mick lost out to Nick Slade, who flopped quad sixes.



Chip leader Chris Gavriel has just doubled up Thomas Raymond.

Thomas had A-6 against Chris's T-T on an 9-6-6 Flop. No Ten arrived and Chris has taken a small dent

It's amazing how quickly the tide can turn. During the break, Mickey was commenting that he'd had absolutely nothing to go on, but just like that he trebles up and is now on 15k.

Paul King and Bambos were his opponents, the former Turning a straight, but it wasn't good enough as The Legend hit a flush on the River.

Table 10:

Stephen Walmsley -- 26.6k
Richard Davies -- 16.2k
Marc Bollig -- 6.3k
Tom McCready -- 9.8k
Ash Hussain -- 27,1k
Ben Callinan -- 16.4k
Essy Jahanpour -- 14.2k
John Huckle -- 21.8k
D Wernick -- 6.7k
D Ainsworth -- 8.2k

Table 11:

Sam Wardlaw -- 15.7k
MZ Hussain -- 10.4k
Peter Evans -- 5.2k
Ian Woodley -- 21.7k
Reyaaz Mulla -- 12k
Mohammed Hassan -- 12.4k
Thomas Dunwoody -- 7.3k
Mateyboy -- 14.7k
Mrs Bambos -- 15k
Olabode Ayegun -- 20.8k

Table 12:

Julian Thew -- 25k
Meng Ong -- 14.4k
Chris Gavriel -- 7.5k
Stephen Holden -- 20.3k
Thomas Raymond -- 24.1k
Phil Peters -- 6.7k
Mateyboy -- 4.5k
Mark Blandford -- 28.3k
John Shipley -- 16.4k
Dave Smith -- 18.4k

Table 1:

Simon Zach -- 11.5k
R Musood -- 20.8k
Chris Huyton -- 9.8k
Nick Slade -- 43.2k
Scott Spiers -- 12.6k
Joe Grech -- 7.2k
Dave Mayall -- 9k
Raj Patel -- 10.3k
Malcolm Haerwood -- 14.2k
Brian French -- 14.5k

Table 2:

Eamon O'Neil -- 10.2k
Bhupinder Kholi -- 7.7k
Anthony Hughes -- 22.3k
Steve Jelinek -- 31.2k
Andrew Bradshaw -- 12.2k
Toni Dicesare -- 16.5k
Ryan Fronda -- 7.4k
Tony Kendall -- 11.7k
Ouday Hikary -- 15.1k
Waikwan Yuen -- 13.6k

Table: 6:

Iwan Jones -- 11.7k
Stu Rutter -- 18.1k
Thomas Dunwoodie -- 9.6k
Peter Linton -- 7.9k
Peter Smythe -- 24.7k
James Lister -- 25.1k
Terry Nelson -- 6.5k
A Wilkinson -- 14k
S O'Reilly -- 5.2k
Richard Jenking -- 14.2k

Jamie Fisher is OUT.

T-5 vs T-Q on a T-T-x Flop.

Meanwhile, Ryan Fronda has doubled up courtesy of Eamon O'Neil. A-Q vs K-J of clubs on an Ace high Flop (2 clubs).

Chris Huyton has also doubled up, this time to 20k. A raising war with Simon Zach, the two ultimately revealing Aces v Kings.

Philip Green doubles up: I raced over just in time to see a board of A-A-x-x-3 with Phillip Green's A-3 rivering Stephen Lovatt's A-Q for a decent pot that kept Green in the comp.

So is Niamh Peters. She made a move on Koresh with K-Q, but unfortunately although Koresh passed like lightning, someone was sitting pretty with Queens.

Recent casualties:

Bambos Xanthos
Peter Evans
Costas Kkohla
David Mobbs
Brian Welby

M Ifzal failed to turn up.

Grant Mecardo was the first exit of the day.

Tom McCready up to 36k.

It all went crazy on the 7d 5d Ahrt Flop.

Womble bet 600, Tom made it 2,000, re-raised to 10,600, all-in for 18,500, which, of course, Womble had to call.

Womble = 6d 4d

RED-DOG = 7h 7c

Turn = 6s

River = 2s

Trevor Reardon is OUT.

"Can't win a race," complained a disgruntled (but still smiling) Reardon.

Queens versus Marty Cavanagh's Big Slick and he was a gonna.



Zahir 'Zippy' Aslam is also OUT after running Ace King into Thanh Don's American Airlines.

Don raised to 800 pre-flop, 2 limpers, so Zippy thought he'd push.

Martyn Cavanagh is on a massive 68k after finding back to back quads.

First he hit Quad Sevens for a monster pot and then Quad Fives for a smaller one.


Meanwhile, Simon Zach's fortunes have turned as he has now built his stack up from 700 to 9,400. First doubling up with Queens, and then with Jacks vs two Ace Kings.


Matt Dale is OUT, but Dan Carter is on 36k.

Pete Linton is OUT.

50-50 with Nigel Turver for a 20k+ pot, Ace King vs Jacks, no help.

A few chippy counts for you...

James Atkin -- 19.6k
Lucy Rokach -- 25.6k
Des Jonas -- 4.5k
John Huckle -- 19.8k
Nick Hicks -- 11.6k
Mickey Wernick -- 2.4k
Tony Kendall -- 17.2k
Julian Thew -- 39.8k
Tim Blake -- 25.4k
Iwan Jones -- 3.7k
Ash 'Hussain -- 18.5k
Jeff Kimber -- 48.8k

Update... Wernick has just gone.

Also appears as though Tony Nicholls and Dave Mayall are gone too.

Ouday Hikary and Ashfag Hussain are OUT. The latter exited at the hands of Thanh Don whose Pocket Sixes held up against Ash's Ace Queen.

Thanh Don -- 22.2k
Reyaaz Mulla -- 23k
Ben Callinhan -- 19.2k
Steve Jelinek -- 20.5k
Joe Grech -- 38k
Maurice Nicholson -- 23.7k
Tim Blake -- 18.4k
Lucy Rokach -- 12.3k
Lisa Scotney -- 18.2k
MZ Hussain -- 8.5k
buddy -- 22.5k
D Wernick -- 20.1k
Dave Smith -- 30.3k
Ash Pervais -- 29.9k
tikay -- 17.2k

Ash Hussain is OUT.

First he lost a chunk with A-J versus James Atkin's A-K, and then, in a battle of the blinds, lost a 50-50 with Rob Garfield, Pocket Sevens versus A-9, all-in preflop.

Looks like Stu Rutter, Julian Thew and Ed Dawson are OUT.

Paul King has also been eliminated. He turned a two pair and a flush draw, but John Huckle was sitting on a flopped set of Fours which held up. Huckle is now on 64k.

RED-DOG is down to 12k after losing two thirds of his stack with Aces versus Eights.

Missing, presumed lost:

Scott Spiers
Dave Welch
Jeff Buffenbarger
Iwan Jones
Alan Davies
Tim Flanders
Chris Huyton
JP Kelly
Michael McCool
Korosh Nejad

Darshan Sami has jumped up to 33k after surviving the following pot:

Mateyboy raises, Sami (and two others) called.

Flop = 4d 5d 7s

The original raiser bets out, Sami and one other player call.

Turn = 9c

The original raiser checks, Sami moves all-in and the other player goes into the think tank.

Thinking he has a flush draw, Sami says "Don't call, you're behind!" and so he does indeed fold.

The original raiser also goes into the think tank and once again Sami exclaims, "Don't call, you're behind!", but this time, the player called, flipping 6-7 in the process.

Sami turned over his Pocket Sevens and took the pot once the River drew a blank.

Phil Peters is OUT.

Kings v A-Q

Eliminated by Maurice Nicholson who four flushed to his Ace.


And so is Nick Hicks.

"Managed to bluff off half my chips when I had 12k, and that killed me off really."

James Atkin is OUT.

Although he survived a Q-8 all-in steal that ran into A-K, James couldn't get away from this Flop.

With the board reading, 2d 7c 8c, James shoved it in with 9c 6c, but couldn't outdraw the Ac Jc of Lucy Rokach who is now chipped up.


Meanwhile, we've lost two blondeites as both John 'Saphire' Shipley and Tim 'T8mml' Blake are gone, the latter losing a coinflip with A-Q vs J-J.

Table 1:

Essy Jahanpour -- 32.2k
R Musood -- 14.6k
Anthony Hughes -- 13.5k
Nick Slade -- 36.2k
Mark Blandford -- 14.4k
Joe Grech -- 29.7k
Mrs Bambos -- 14.9k
D Ainsworth -- 38.5k
Dan Carter -- 36.1k
Brian French -- 68k

Table 3:

John Huckle -- 60.3k
Maurice Nicholson -- 90k
Keith Hawkins -- 11.2k
Phillip Green -- 18.3k
Sam Wardlow -- 16.5k
Mateyboy -- 20k
Jeff Kimber -- 85k

Table: 6:

Don Jones -- 70k
Toni Dicesare -- 23.3k
Thomas Dunwoodie -- 13.1k
M Ong -- 5.9k
Peter Smythe -- 44.8k
James Lister -- 14.7k
Tom McCready -- 10.1k
Richard Davies -- 20k
S O'Reilly -- 8.8k
Richard Jenking -- 23.2k

Thomas Dunwoodie has doubled through with Kings versus the Sixes of M Ong.

Whilst Ong is down to just several k, Dunwoodie climbs up to 13k.

All the chips went in pre-flop with M Ong holding 4-4, Toni Dicesare with A-K and Tom McCready's A-J.

Board = J-9-J-K-2

Ong is therefore OUT.

Matyn Cavanagh -- 94k
Rob Garfield -- 87k
Lisa Scotney -- 25.3k
Mohammed Hassan -- 32.3k
Ash Pervais -- 43.4k
D Wernick -- 25.2k
Andrew Bradshaw -- 52k
Des Jonas -- 25.4k
Tom McCready -- 25.6k

Alex Hinchcliffe doubles through with Queens versus Jacks. It wasn't easy though, he had to four flush on the Turn as his opponent had flopped a set.

R Musood is OUT, all-in with Q-Ts versus Essy Jahanpour's Aces. Ten on Turn wasn't quite good enough.

Keith Hawkins is OUT.

Shortstacked he found A-K, but ran into the Kings of Kimber who adds yet even more chips to his massive stack.

Gurinder Purewal is OUT.

His King Queen was no match for Don Jones' Ace Queen which stood up on a raggy board.



Missing, presumed lost...

Eamon O'Neil
Thomas Raymond
Steve Walmsley
D VanDyke
Sam Wardlaw
Wakwan Yuen
Simon Zach
Ben Callinan
Richard Davies
Malcolm Harewood

Make that 40, Alex Hinchcliffe is now on the rail after O'Reilly called his all-in on a King high Flop with Queens.

Hinchcliffe was making a move with A-Q.

Board = 4-T-K-6-T

Nigel Turver has been eliminated from the comp by Lucy Rokach who is now your new chip leader with 142k.

Leading the chasing pack is Jeff Kimber who is only several thousand behind with 135k.

And just as I finish writing that report, Lucy Rokach takes out yet another wounded soldier, and this time it's Northerner Andrew Bradshaw.

On a board of 6s Qc Qs 7c 8c, Lucy bet 6k only for Bradshaw to move over the top all-in.

Funnily enough, Lucy deemed her two red Queens to be good enough for a call.

Mrs Bambos takes her last dance with just 5 minutes left on the clock.

She moved in with Kh Th, but ran into the Pocket Knaves of Ainsworth.

No help and she's left to join her husband on the rail.


Meanwhile, Joe Grech has doubled up with a set of Sevens against Peter Smythe's stonecalled bluff on a board of 2h 7h 5s Kh.

9c on the River was academic.

Just as they announce the last hand, we lose two at once on the one table.

And it's previous shortstacker, Joe Grech, who has sent them all packing.

Grech = A-K, Thomas Dunwoodie = T-T, Peter Smythe = T-9

Board = 8-7-9-A-3

And just like that, here they are...

Table 1:

(1) Essy Jahanpour -- 31,000
(2) Tom McCready -- 26,500
(3) MZ Hussain -- 20,000
(4) Nick Slade -- 47,600
(5) Mark Blandford -- 37,300
(6) Toni Dicesare -- 16,200
(8) Dan Ainsworth -- 39,200
(9) Dan Carter -- 57,000
(1) Brian French -- 59,000

Table 2:

(1) Ian Woodley -- 49,900
(2) D Sami -- 20,700
(4) D Wernick -- 17,600
(5) Joe Grech -- 95,400
(7) Ryan Fronda -- 49,300
(8) Tony Kendall -- 12,500
(9) John Vaccarella -- 50,200
(10) A Wilkinson -- 26,400

Table 3:

(1) John Huckle -- 70,700
(2) D Jones -- 73,000
(3) Maurice Nicholson -- 84,500
(4) Ash Pervais -- 68,100
(5) Des Jonas -- 27,200
(6) Dave Smith -- 23,600
(7) Steve Jelinek -- 22,600
(8) S O'Reilly -- 33,100
(9) Jeff Kimber -- 133,300

Table 4:

(1) Buddy Ayegun -- 12,400
(2) Martyn Cavanagh -- 73,900
(3) Reyaaz Mulla -- 32,600
(4) Rob Garfield -- 139,400
(5) J Zaib -- 22,700
(6) Richard Jenking -- 25,200
(7) Lisa Scotney -- 26,600
(8) Lucy Rokach -- 222,100
(9) M Yaffe -- 21,700

So, 35 players will return tomorrow.

The blinds will start at 800 and 1,600.

Your current chip leader is Lucy Rokach who has 221,100.

Play will resume at 3pm.

Prize Breakdown

1st = £51,100
2nd = £26,850
3rd = £14,700
4th = £10,855
5th = £7,020
6th = £5,750
7th = £4,470
8th = £3,830
9th = £3,200
10th-18th = £1,025