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Play will commence at 7pm.

Your updaters today will be Djinn and dino1980.

The players are milling and slowly taking their seats - another smaller sellout here in Luton, which we can hopefully cover fairly substantially...

Nick was here nice and early, and we've watched a few names you'll know drift through the doors, including Joe Grech, who wants to "let the world know Joe the Joker is here!" and Stuart Rutter, the brothers Khajuria and Ali Mallu. 

Any minute now, expect actual news of play, and after a short interlude (during which I will haggle for the full seating arrangements) a list of all runners...

And The List:

Adda, Ariel
Adderley, Tony
Aggarwal, Om
Alterman, Paul
Arnold, Michael
Arnott, Mathew
Aslam, Zahir
Atherton, Lee
Baines, Oscar
Best, David
Blake, Tim
Browning, James
Buffenbarger, Jeff
Bunting, Paul
Cartwright, Matt
Chattha, Sunny
Citrone, Carlo
Clements, Michael
Colton, David
Constantinou, Costas
Cooper, Wayne
D'Cruz, Damon
Dargenio, Michele
Davies, Bill
Dborin, Dany
Dell, Tracey
Demetriou, Andreas
Dionysiou, Kyraicos
Donald, Paul
Douglas, Andrew
Earnshaw, Barry
Eddleman, Chris
Ellis, Michael
Fattizzo, Tony
Fontana, Giuseppe
Fronda, Ryan
Garfield, Robert
Geddes, Alan
Goodwin, Marc
Grech, Joe
Gyesdal, Srogd
Handscombe, Colin
Harris, Mark
Harris, Sid
Haxhiaj, Driton
Hayles, Ashley
Higgins, Paul
Huyton, Chris
Khajuria, Chandra
Khajuria, Lalit
Kholi, Bhups
Kimber, Jeff
King, Paul
Kirkbride, Anthony
Knight, Dave
Libertini, Martino
Licciardi, Nicola
Lowe, Mark
Mallu, Ali
Mcbride, James
McCool, Michael
Mcshane, Jim
Miller, Keith
Morreale, Ambro
Morris, Gerald
Moss, Paul
Muskett, Malcolm
Nelson, Ian
Patel, Suketu
Pemberton, Stephen
Read, Stephen
Reardon, Trevor
Reid, Jim
Ringe, Tony
Rogers, Jeffrey
Rustad, Morten
Rutter, Stuart
Samson, Dan
Trumper, Simon
Sergio, Capel
Serhan, Fuad
Shek, Dick
Steppings, Peter
Stockdale, John
Tann, Willie
Turner, Justin
Vaccarella, Giovanni
Vladar, Steve
Vladar, Xuyen
Walmsley, Steve
Webb, Paul
Welby, Brian
Wernick, Mickey
Whittaker, Andrew
Woodley, Ian
Woods, Alistair

First Minute elimination News Now:

Jim Reid bites the early dust as his Aces (we think) fall to Bad Girl...one down, 96 more to go... I'll get some quotes from the doubled lady momentarily.

The Bad Girl story, then:  She called a preflop raise from Jim Reid with Ac Tc.  Flop:  2c 3c 7c - couldn't be much better, then.  On the flop she just called Jim's 600.
Turn:  3h Now she check-raises from 700 to 1,700, and calls the subsequent re-raise (+2,500) (albeit with some hesitation)...
River:  Td  Now Jim moves in, and call - her Ace flush took it down, and Jim just mucked his hand and went off home.  She says, "I think it might be bad play/call, but I gamble..." 

Sid Harris is OUT -

Saw him standing up and putting his coat on so rushed over like the vulture I am:  He held Kh 9h against 6s 6d -
The board:  Aspades 6c Kc Kc and another unimportant card.

With the awkward self-deal table now broken, here are about half the chip counts, as they stand as the blinds get their first nudge upwards:

Table Fronda

Capel Sergio      10,825
Paul Donald        8,400
Matt Cartwright  6,600
Simon Trumper   8,650
Ryan Fronda       25,400    (chip leader)
Paul Higgins       13,800
Dan Samson       9,950
Paul King           7,525
Dave Knight       9,775
David Best         9,375

Table Tracey

Andrew Whittaker  12,600
Justin Turner          10,000
Jim Mcshane           13,500
Tracey Dell              9,600
Chris Eddleman       12,200
John Stockdale        8,800
Malcolm Muskett      9,000
Jeff Kimber            21,500
Paul Moss               3,475
Ian Nelson              7,300

Table Cool

Womble             13,000
Alistair Woods      9,800
Marc Goodwin      9,475
Sunny Chattha    10,125
Wayne Cooper    11,900
Anthony Kirkbride  10,050
David Colton         8,825
Andrew Douglas   6,125
Dick Shek            10,450
Greek Jack           10,000

Table Bad Girl

Damon D'Cruz      8,300
Michael Ellis          14,200
Bad Girl               19,400
Stephen Read      12,175
James Mcbride      9,700
Giuseppe Fontana  11,400
Carlo Citrone         11,000
?
Stephen Pemberton  9,900
Paul Webb               9,850

Odd hand, as reported by Dan Samson, involving Ryan Fronda and directly-left-neighbour Paul Higgins:

Ryan raised to 300 preflop, call from Paul.  Flop brought Td 3c 5s.  Ryan checked, Paul bet 800, call.
Turn:  Tc  Ryan checked, Paul bet 1,200, call.
River:  Jh  Ryan now bets out 1,500, gets re-raised a further 2,000 and flat calls.

Although speculation is that Paul Higgins was betting a house of Threes, the flat call on the river was pretty unfathomable, as Ryan held Th Js for the second nuts...

I cede the floor to Michael McCool, who "ran this great bluff against this Scandinavian, Norwegian played against his mate the other day..."  And here it is, in abbreviated form:  Totally blanked out when the preflop action was being described.  Flop:  Qs 4s 7d.  Matey checked, he bet 300, called.
Turn:  5h.  Matey checks, McCool bets 600, call.
River:  A spade (scare card and a half).  Matey now bets out 1,600, but Michael raises another 3k and gets his opponent to lay down his set of Queens.

And then shows him 2h 3h.

"And then he totally went on tilt..."

Some more chip counts for you:

Table Smokin:

Lajit Khajuria 5,500
Fuad Serhan 3,800
Gerald Morris 6,575
Alan Geddes 9,100
Steve Vladar 12,000
Ariel Adda 5,875
Stewart Rutter 11,300
Danny Dborin 14,200
Sukeetu Patel 11,000
Tony Ringe 11,400

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Table Mallu

Morten Rustad 19,000
Tim Blake 7,900
Tony Fattizzo 9,100
Michael Arnold 8,650
Ambro Morreale 12,000
Robert Garfield 10,700
Ali Mallu 19,200
Michael McCool 9,800
Andreas Demetriou 9,900
Empty Seat 0

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Table Legend-Wood-Burger

Jeffrey Rogers 10,100
Ian Woodley 10,525
Giovanni Vaccorella 20,800
Michael Clements ??
Ashley Hayles 6,250
Jeffrey Buffenburger 3,100
Oscar Baines 7,600
Mickey Wernick16,075
Mark Harris 10,575
Ambro Morreale 7,675
 
 
 

More chip counts - there's currently five minutes of 50-100, next level is 100-200. 87 left.

Table Grech

Joe Grech 2,775
Bill Davies 4,650
Mark Lane 10,550
Srogd Gyensland 9,625
Bhupindar Kholi 9,575
Trevor Addeley 9,075
Chris Hyton 17,250
Paul Bunting 9,325
Michele Dargenio 7,125
Om Aggarwal 10,180

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Table Tann:

Barry Earnshaw 10,000
Trevor Reardon 18,000
Paul Alterman 27,800
Zahir Aslam 8,000
Willie Tann 5,025
Chandrakant Khajuria 8,425
Colin Handscombe 8,650
Peter Steppings11,925
Brian Welby 6,300

Dan Samson       12,000
Stuart Rutter      8,100
Michael Arnold     18,850
Oscar Baines        7,200
David Colton        9,125
Bill Davies            16,000
Dany Dborin        11,000
Paul Donald          6,950
Ryan Fronda        29,375
Alan Geddes         8,900
Mark Harris           11,100
Ashley Hayles         8,425
Chris Huyton         11,850
Jeff Kimber           22,200
Dave Knight          7,575
Michael McCool      11,425
Keith Miller             8,625
Gerald Morris          7,375
Jeffrey Rogers       14,200
Morten Rustad       17,300
Capel Sergio          6,550
Fuad Serhan          3,200
Justin Turner        14,200
Steve Vladar         8,600
Xuyen Vladar        16,250

Wonga

1st £25,300
2nd £14,400
3rd £9,700
4th £6,800
5th £5,000
6th £3,200
7th £2,900
8th £2,500
9th £2,200

Courtesy of Jon Raab

So, recently out is Malc-M - which is a shame as he seemed to be enjoying 'chatting' with tablemate Paul Moss.
Malcolm, "Ruling, please!"
Paul, "Can we have Malcolm F-off back to London?"
pause
Malcolm, "Ruling, please!  Put on blonde - Fatmarra gets his chat banned."

But Malcolm is now railing, after he made his final raise (shortstacked) on the button with the perfectly nice Th 9h.  Jeff Kimber called with his Ac 8c, and the rest went in on the Ten-high, two clubs flop, as you may expect.

We've just entered the 150/300 level. 
81 players remain, average stack is 11,900.

Buffet break in 45 mins...

Table Smokin:

Lajit Khajuria 8,000
Mark Harris 12,300
Gerald Morris 6,600
Alan Geddes 10,300
Steve Vladar 3,100
Stewart Rutter 14,000
Danny Dborin 17,000
Sukeetu Patel 29,000
Tony Ringe 15,500

Courtesy of Dino...

Dino again...

Table Mallu

Morten Rustad 18,200
Tim Blake 4,675
Tony Fattizzo 13,200
Michael Arnold 12,450
Ambro Morreale 15,300
Robert Garfield 9,200
Ali Mallu 17,200
Michael McCool 12,000
Andreas Demetriou 8,200
Steven Read 4,000

I arrived at table Womble to find him mid-dwell, on the river, over a board of 5d 4h Qc 2h 6h.  David Colton in the big blind had just bet into the 8k pot (either 5,000 or all-in, either way it's basically Womble's tournament on the line).  After five minutes (at least), Womble decides to pass, and is rewarded with being shown the Aspades Jh Ace-high bluff.  Which he was beating - but it must have been very marginal - he said, "I'd either look like a genius or an idiot.  Turns out it was genius..."

Here's Stuart Rutter, who just described the hand "which has thrown me the most tonight..."  He raised with Ac Qs, one caller.  Flop brought A K 9, he bet around the pot, call.  The turn brought a most likely irrelevant 4, which he bet at 1,800.  He then got just what he didn't want, a 6k re-raise all in.  He spent a while wondering if he was being bluffed (there were two clubs on board), then decided that his opponent was confident, and passed.  He was shown the victorious, if dominated A 10, which was apparently not seen as a hand which needed to bluff to win...

He's down to under 7,000 now, it looks like.

Willie Tann is out.

I arrived at the table whilst Willie (first to act) was contemplating his action on a  Js 5d Qc Qh Tc      board. The pot was c.4k and Willie with a stack of c.9.5k bet out for 3.5k. Trevor Reardon after a dwell, re-raised for an additional 7k, enough to set Willie all-in. After a brief dwell and a shrug of the shoulders Willie made the call. Reardon showed   Jd Qd  and Tann mucked his cards.

Table Dusk till Dawn:


Barry Earnshaw 1,900
Trevor Reardon 32,000
Seat 3  39k
Paul Alterman 10,800
Bad Girl 8.5k
Simon Trumper 4.1k
Carlo Citrone 15k
Colin Handscombe 7,500
Peter Steppings 14,300
Brian Welby 27,800

After watching Dino's exemplary chip counting, I have overcome my post buffet lethargy and join him...

Table It's My Turn

Alistair Woods         19,500
Marc Goodwin         12,200
Matt Cartwright       12,600
Dave Knight             8,100
Anthony Kirkbride     26,800
David Colton            13,000
Andrew Douglas        2,000
Dick Shek                22,800
Damon D'Cruz           7,400

Jo Grech is out, Simon Trumper has just doubled up to around 9k

Here's your guy (I think Dino's brought you the chip count) - he just won about 6k off Bhups Kholi holding Ad 2h... I caught it from when they both checked the turn, with the board:  3s 6h 4d 3d.  The river brought the 5s, and a bet of 1,400 (just all the smaller chips in Bill's stack, leaving him just one 5k chip behind).  He was called and showed the rivered straight, which was good.

Paul Moss is a goner -

He saw a flop with Jim Mcshane - it was Qs 8d Jh... it went in on said flop (Paul only had around 5k, I think) and when Jim said, "You got Jacks?" it became apparent that Paul's Ks Kd was going to be no good... he was up against 8h 8d for the set.
Turn:  Ad  ("TEN" says Paul)
River:  2c   and we're losing players thick and fast at the moment.

A couple of counts - the players are now hopelessly intermingled, so we're having to do a player database swap (involving trying to read our own scrawled descriptions of players in their original seats - "Does that say 'fat, blue stripes' or 'hat and glasses?' etc.)...

Matt Cartwright      16,000
Justin Turner          10,700
Jim McShane           20,500
Tracey Dell             30,600  ** see below story
James McBride        25,400
Andreas Demetriou  8,100
Jeff Kimber               OUT (or moved)
Trevor Reardon       35,000
Jeff Buffenbarger      OUT  ("I never got out of the box...")



So - I see Tracey's moved in for 12,300 into a pot of around 15k on the flop:  8d 4d Td.  So I run over and hover.  Jim McShane, who'd checked to her, had to think about it...but he eventually passed.  She showed him (rather overgenerously, in my opinion) the nuts:  Ad Jd... And with that pot as they look set to break table 6 she has a pretty comfortable stack for the 300/600 level.

Table Dusk Till Dawn:

Barry Earnshaw 14.5k
Anthony Kirkbride 18.5k
Driton Haxhiaj  40k
Paul Alterman 20.5k
Bad Girl 11.7
Simon Trumper 12k
Damon D'cruz  14.4k
Dick Shek  17.5k
Pete Steppings 11.1k

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Table Billy Davies

Alastair Woods 6k
Billy Davies  18.5k
Mark Lane 9.5k
Srojd Gyensland 6.1k
B Koli - 23k
Trevor Adderley - 2.8k
Chris Hyton -  28k
Paul Webb 16.8k
Paul Donald 10.6k

No.  But you can have some more chip counts, of which I am sure you'll be just as appreciative. 

Ryan Fronda      31,000
Ali Mallu            38,000 (?)  Someone told me somewhere in his messy stacks there lurked a total around 50k but I can't see it...
Michael McCool   20,800
Andrew Douglas  19,200
David Colton         6,300
Dan Samson        40,000
Mark Harris          22,300
Womble             22,800
Marc Goodwin      7,200
Paul King            14,600
Andrew Whittaker  15,700

Chris Eddleman is in contention for the chip leader spot too, with 42,000... but no one has really broken away from the field accumulating a ridiculous stack at this point.  And it's pretty late - this level they're just starting now, 400/800 may well be the last.

Table Wernick Chip leader. O rly?

David Knight - 4k
Ian Woodley - 8k
Giovanni Vaccorella 18.2k
Michael Clements - 15k
Ashley Hayles - 28k
Mickey Wernick - 42k
Martino Libertino - 12k

Two out in two hands at Mickey's table, but Lord Wernick was not involved.

On the first hand a short stacked Paul Higgins pushes in for 1k with  6c 6s, Dave Knight flat calls from the small blind and Ian Woodley pushed all-in from the big blind. Knight insta-called with  Ad Jh. Woodley was in front with  Ks Kc. However the dreaded ace appeared on the flop of  Qh Ac 3d and the  7s Qs that fell on 4th and 5th street meant that Higgins was out and Woodley was left with just 400...

which went in on the next hand as he was in the small blind.

Knight, his nemesis from the last hand, raised to 2000 from the button and the big blind folded. Kinght had  Ac 8c whilst Woodley had  2c Qd, an  Ad in the door on the flop saw Woodley walking.
 

Simon Trumper is out.

He moved in from the button with  Kd 2c and Damon D'cruz in the small blind work up with  Kd Kc

Double up for Bad Girl courtesy of Driton...

He limped on the button, and it was heads up as she checked in the dark. 
Flop:  9c 4s 8d.  Xuyen checked, he bet a bit, she pushed in straight away for around 7k more (after the obligatory, "You made me look...").  Call.
She showed:  9h Tc
He showed:  Ad 8c  and was frowning somewhat as the turn and river came Ts Jd to take a chunk off his stack.

In the closing minutes, Dan Samson loses a pot which could have secured him that coveted Leader spot - Matey raised to 3,500 preflop (holding around 16k) - Dan re-raised 6,000 with his Ahrt Qh, and then Matey moved in - Dan couldn't pass and found himself against 4d 4c.  Which held up.  He related this tale to me while overcoming the late night frustration in the smoking alcove.  It's probably good they're stopping soon as he'll find his 37,000 isn't as pitiful as he reckons right now when he returns tomorrow.

I just heard Paul King remark: "I was down to 2,000, and now I have 20,500."  OK, Paul, YOU are climber of the day.  Congratulations.

We're going to sit in hope that the chip counts arrive promptly, then I shall deliver Nick to the luxury of the Days Inn where he can sleep off his first day's running around.

Back at 3pm for the restart....

Final Counts:

Dan Samson     24,800
Mark Harris       25,800
Justin Turner    14,600
Alan Geddes     10,100
Steve Walmsley 11,700
Marc Goodwin   16,800
Paul King          25,300
S. Patel           29,500
Andrew Whittaker  12,400

Morton Rustad   12,600
Tim Blake          12,400
Ryan Fronda      28,300
Tracey Dell        32,400
Ali Mallu            49,500
Michael McCool   25,000
A. Douglas         21,400
Gez Morris          34,900

D. Knight          14,500
Chris Eddleman  44,400
J. Vaccarella      19,200
Michael Clements  13,400
Jim Mcbride        53,500
Ambro Morreale  11,400
Martino Libertini  15,000

Dick Shek          13,100
Bill Davies           26,300
Trevor Reardon  32,300
Srogd Gjerdal      23,200
Bhupinder Kholi   24,300
Mickey Wernick   52,500
Chris Huyton      35,200
Paul Webb         8,300

Barry Earnshaw    18,900
Anthony Kirkbride  8,100
Driton Haxhiaj       25,300
Paul Alterman       34,800
Xuyen Pham        19,800
Damon D'Cruz       33,800
Jim Mcshane         20,700