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:hello: and welcome to Luton for the Grand Challenge Event. This update will be running in tandem with the one in Copenhagen so hopefully we will be "The Colbert Report" to Jen and Snoopys "Daily Show".

A veritable minefield of single tables satellites with a 5 minute clock are raging around me as I type.

Pics and a few people I've just spotted to follow.

People spotted so far:

Joe Grech
Paul King
The Camel
Micky Wernick
Johnny Hewston
Neil Channing
Rob Garfield
Tikay
Rumit
Stuart Nash


And Singapore Kev is here on railing duty.

Also here are:

Carlo Citrone
Paul King
JP


Players aren't sitting down yet, might be a slight delay.

Table 6.

Mark Lowe
Karl Mahrenholz (forgotten his blonde name)
John Howarth
Thomas Myland
Garry Bush
Nicholas Jenkins (Ripple11)
Chris Huyton
Pete Linton (PeteL?)
B Johnson

Table 7

Kanda King
Paul Alterman
Peter Cooper
Trevor Reardon (Big TR?)
Athena Jordan
Rumit Somaiya
Kerry Taylor
Daniel Samson

Table 8

Kenny Burke
Mehmet Cinar
Chandrakant Khajuria
Paul King (fishfrier)
S Bolton
P Underwood
Stewart Clutterbuck
Michael McCool (Slick Kid)

Table 9

Oliver Stone (No not that one)
Ariel Adda
Chris Alexander
Nikhil Persaud
Ronnie Debeaulox
Pete Clark
Matthew Arnott
Peter Jowett

Payout Structure

1 £32,550
2 £18,600
3 £12,560
4 £8,830
5 £6,510
6 £4,180
7 £3,720
8 £3,260
9 £2,790
10-18 £1,000 each

Table 10

Driton Haxhiaj
Micky Wernick
Jac Arama
Brian Welby
Jun Lau
Keith Hawkins (The Camel)
Warren Wooldridge
Steve Jelinek (Jellyfish I think?)

Table 11

R Iley
Lam Trinh
Paul Child
Jayesh Patel
Sunny Chattha
Vik Kanwar
Richard Lynch
Lalit Khajuria

Table 12:

JP Kelly
D Gross
Mick Fletcher
Andrew Georgiou
Jonathan Romero
O Quivell
Stuart Nash
Anthony Chapman

Ashley Hayles is OUT, no info as such yet, but hopefully with a full list of players and photos, we may have very well caused the death of Mateyboy.

Table 1

1 Steve Templeman
2 Ambro Morreale
3 Damon D'Cruz
4 David Johnson
5 Andrew Buzzigioli..Mr Scrabble 1
6 Martino Libertini
7 Ken Wong
8 Derswin Sylwan
9 Theo Dalton


Table 2

1 Bhupinder Kohli
2 David Courtney
3 Jeff Rogers
4 Len Hayward
5 Imran Ladak
6 Peter Gould
7 Joe Grech
8 Ryan Fronda
9 David Cleeve

Table 3

1 Billy Quang Ngo
2 David Muller
3 Mazhar Nawab
4 Carlo Citrone
5 Ray Brown
6 Terry Mason
7 Ian Woodley
8 Rob Garfield
9 Janit Park

Table 4

1 Kyriacos Dionysiou
2 Pepe Fontana
3 Jim Reid
4 Tony Kendall
5 Ben "rookieitb" Turnstill
6 Denis O'Mahoney
7 John Hewston
8 Anthony Nicholls
9 Thanh Nguyen

Table 5

1 Mo "news is good" Muse
2 Praz Banzi
3 Dave Clark five
4 James Browning
5 Neil "Bad Beat" Channing
6 Glenn Ashworth
7 Ding Le
8 Ashley Hayles
9 Mike Magee

early chip leaders are as follows

Dave Clark five 26,000
Paul King 23,000 (looks to have taken a chunk off Chandra Khajuria who is down to 5,000)
Jim Reid 21,000
Andrew Buzzigioli 16,000

Greek Jack is OUT. 3-3 vs A-A

Rumit is OUT, Kanda King, Paul's wife was the assassin with Jacks against Rumit's A-Q.

Blinds about to go up to 100/200. 97 left

Peter Gould calls all-in on a Th 9s Qh board with Ks Kc against Dave Courtney's Td Tc

Turn:

3h

River:

Jc


Dave Courtney is down to his last 3k or so.

Janit Park is OUT.

Following that nasty outdraw on the river, it appears as though Dave Courtney is OUT.

JP has 24k, he limped-called a raise with 35 soooted and flopped a straight to bust Mateyboy's Kings.

So, suited gappers, the way of the future?


Tikay -- 12k
Stuart Nash -- 5.5k

Mickey Wernick passes Qs Ts on a Q-2-2-A-K board saying, "I was ahead on the flop..." Opponent flips over K-K.... "Ok I wasn't ahead."

Terry Mason 23,000
Lalit Khajuria 9,100


Other notables

Billy Quang Ngo, which is not a government agency but a poker player, 27,000
Dave Johnson 17,000
Warren Wooldrdge 24,000

Carlo Citrone is OUT whilst Bolton runner-up Karl Marenholtz is down to the felt with just 2k.

Karl actually had a bit more than 2k left, but he's back up to 9.5k now, first with A-A against A-Q, then he picked up another decent pot without having to show his pocket Jacks.

The Camel is OUT, I know this because he's on the cash tables.

Denis O'Mahoney double up news


Raising in late position, semi short stacked, with    he is called in the BB by Jim Reid


flop   

Jim bets, Denis pushes in

Jim shows the rather heart-breaking   

turn 

river 

back up to 8,000 on his rollercoaster ride of emotions.

Nick "Ripple" Jenkins knocked out Garry Bush. The latter pushed his short stack in with K-9 against Jenkins pocket Tens, hitting a king on the flop. Ten came on the turn though.

David Johnson appears to be OUT, or he's become Praz Banzi since that who occupies his seat.

chip leaders as follows


Mark Lowe 42,000
Steve Templeman 40,000
Driton Haxhiaj 35,000
Dave Clark 30,000
Warren Woolridge 30,000
Terry Mason 25,000
Paul King 20,000


Steve Templeman, who doesn't play the circuit much these days due to both family commitments and his work running the Jack Kings Poker Clubs in the home counties, got his chips as follows


Dave Johnson raises in MP
Steve flat calls in blinds


flop   

all the chips fly in, Dave has   , Steve has   . No flush comes and Steve moves near the top of the pack with Dave Johnson OUT


81 left, average chips 13,100 blinds just gone 150-300
 
 

Ryan Fronda raises in EP to 1k (Blinds are 150/300 for 20 more minutes). Mark Lowe in the small blind calls as does Peter Gould (High finishing Brit from EPT Baden) in the BB.

Flop:

6h 2s 3h

Mark bets 1k, Peter raises to 4k, Ryan passes with a big sigh, as does Mark.

Micky Wernick is OUT. All-in on a Q-9-3 board with A-A. Matey had Nines.


Meanwhile, Jonny Hewston raises to 1k and gets 3 callers including Mick Fletcher. Flop comes Kh Th 3h, checked to Mick Fletcher, 2nd to last to act, he moves in for around 6k, everyone folds. Fletcher shows 6s 5s.

We are just finishing a break, blinds will be 200/400 when we return.

Ian Woodley is OUT. Nines against Terry Mason's Aces.

Ryan Fronda is OUT. Queens no good against Andrew Georgiou's Kings.

PeteL is OUT. The players on his table told me that Nik Persaud raised the button to 1,100 playing a 17k stack or so. Pete made it 20k with A-Q from the big blind "I f**ked up, I made a s**t move," Nik called with A-K and doubled up. He then lost the rest with Eights to Tens. Joe Grech has 17k, "I keep bluffing them away" as he has a crafty fag break.

Table 1 has Steve Templeman in seat 1, Ambro Morreale in 2, and Damon D'Cruz in 3


All have in excess of 30,000 and if anything Steve appears to have given chips to the other two

the remainder of the table including Tino Libertini are shortstacked, clinging on
 
 

Pepe Fontana is OUT, AK versus A8 of Mateyboy


A8 raised, AK pushed in. 88 passes

A8 calls all-in, as you would  . Rivers the case 8!

Triple Double-up news now:

First, Mick McCool (Slick Kid) doubles through Big Trevor Reardon with J-J against A-K.

Mick Fletcher wins his race with A-K against Neil Channing's T-T

and Nick "Ripple11" has around 20k now when Paul King didn't believe he had an ace on an A-A-9-x-x board.


Blinds about to be 300/600, avg stack is 16.2k and there are 63 players left.

Vik Kanwar is OUT


Pushes his last two thousand in from the cut off with   

Ariel Adda re-raises on the button to 6,000 to isolate with   

but Nick Persaud re-reraises in the BB to 15,000 with, as it turns out,   

Adda passes

the flop gives Vik some hope

 

but the river and turn blank with    to knock him out

Adda would have hit the house.

Trevor Reardon is OUT, his last 3k went in on a Ac 2h Td board, Matey behind him pushed, and Mick McCool was forced to muck pocket Kings.

Trevor:

Ad Jc

Matey:

Ahrt Qh

Turn:

Kh !

River:

7s.

Ariel Adda just won a huge pot from Nik Persaud.

4.6k in preflop,

Flop:

Qd 6c 6s

Ariel raises Nik's intial 1.8k bet to 4k which Nik calls.

Turn:

Ac

Both check

River:

Jd

Nik bets 8k which is insta-called by Ariel's Q-9 which is good as Nik quickly mucks.

Uh oh. Prepare yourselves

Driton Haxhiaj Scrabbleman pushes in mid position for his last 5,000.

RookieITB re-raises all in in the SB, 12,000

Dennis O'Mahoney eventually lays down QQ in the BB for all his chips if he calls

On their backs


Scrabbleman   

RookieITB   

BOARD

   


river.....





Rookie down to 7,000


Keep fighting my son.

That table, although tikay has now been moved off it now, has been a story of carnage avoidance with big laydowns and a carnage inducing series of outdraws all night

Paul King is OUT, 3 spades came in on the flop and his opponent, Steve Jelinek checked to him, holding the Ks he pushed, unfortunately Jelinek had 2s 3s in his hand which held.

RookieITB's rollercoaster ride continues


all in with AQ (raise pre-flop, push on flop) versus KQ on a J 10 7 flop with 14,000 in the middle the turn and river come 10 5 to put him back in the hunt

Tikay has gone. Short stack Paul Child pushed with  Aspades Ts, slightly shorter stack Tikay beat him in the pot with Qd Qh only to find Dave Smith calling both with Ks Kd.

Board:

Tc Th 9c 7h 3c


Child on about 17k now.

Damon D'Cruz has doubled up to nearly 30,000

  versus   , all in on a     flop

Anthony Nicholls has just picked up a big pot, raising with    and being re-raised by a young mateyboy who set himself in


Anthony had a tough decision, and eventually called for half his remaining stack

Good call, as MB had    (which was to be fair a decent move, as Anthony nearly passed)

 on the river sealed the deal for Anthony who rises to over 40,000 in chips

Rookie steals a pot in a sb/bb showdown

Flop:

3d 4d 7s

Both check.

Turn:

2c

Rooks bets 2k, call.

River:

Td

Rooks bets 3.5k, BB dwells for ages before passing. What did Rookie have?

Ok, he didn't steal he had a set of 3's.

There's just been another pot where a raise, was followed by a re-raise and Rookie pushed with A-K and the re-raiser folded Q-Q to him. Rookie over 30k, I think the fact that 11th to 18th all pay £1,000 has something to do with that push.

Also, having spoken to JP, (who lost a race when matey had 44 against JP's AQ), Karl Marenholz (couldn't get a guy to fold 88 on a K-K-J-9-x board), Rooks and a couple of the other players, all of them would've liked to have seen running antes in the tournament, as would Tighty and myself, (just so I can use the puntastic running antes kicking in picture). After the successful structure of the Bolton GUKPT event, hopefully more big buy-in tournaments will introduce it.

Nick Ripple11 Jenkins is OUT, not wanting to have to come  back tomorrow with 10 BB's Nick pushed with KQ for 12k and found a surprising caller from the BB who called all-in with AT sooted. He flopped a Queen but a rivered Ace put him down to 1 BB which went all-in next hand in with Ad 3s  in a 3-way pot with Irish Dennis's Ac Qc and Matey's Qs Qd.

Board:

Jc 4d 9d Kd Qh

Irish Dennis, who had made good decisions all-day went next hand with an Ace-rag to the same Matey's Q-Q again next hand.

Rookieitb -- 23.4k
Mick "Slick Kid" McCool -- 21.6k

Play is now over for the night.

Table 4

L Trinh -- 14k
S Chattha -- 23.8k
S Bolton -- 32.3k
K King -- 9.6k
Driton Haijexu (even he's just put 'Driton' on the sheet :D) -d- 22.2kn
A Nichoalls -- 50k
T Myland -- 12.4k

Table 5

Steve Jelinek -- 20.5k
Ronnie Debeaulox -- 15.4k
David Clark -- 28.6k
James Browning -- 12.2k
Neil Channing -- 14.5k
Glenn Ashworth -- 24.8k
Paul Child -- 22.7k
Mick Fletcher -- 28.9k
Warren Woolridge -- 17.1k

Overnight Chip Counts


Table 1

Seat

1 Steve Templeman 37,400
2 Ariel Adda 52,600
3 Damon D'Cruz 24,800
4 Andrew Buzzigoli 22,000
5 Martino Libertini 14,300
6 Billy Quang Ngo 46,500
7
8 Nick Persuad 17,100
9 R Iley 21,600


Table 2

Seat

1 Boots Kohli 14,400
2 Andrew Giorgiou 16,300
3 Jeff Rogers 33,800
4 Mark Lowe 60,700
5 Tina Jordan 15,200
6 Peter Cooper 15,200
7 Joe Grech 22,400
8 Mick McCool 21,600
9 David Cleeve 14,400


Table 3

Seat

1 Mehmet Cinar 32,800
2
3 Ben Turnstill 23,800
4 Paul Alterman 17,500
5 Ray Brown 17,600
6 Terry Mason 37,200
7 Stewart Cluterbuck 42,300
8 Rob Garfield 37,900
9 Tony Chapman 12,000