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NoFlops and I are just settling in for our coverage of the secnd day's action here....

 :hello:  did I win the comp?

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

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 ) -- 22.2k
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

44 runners remain


Breakfast time!!

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

yes, as the only entry you win. As a Welsh entry though we withhold the prize til next time so that someone else gets it.

 :hello: coooooeeeeee

Thanks  :dontask: I think >:?

can you say a big hello to tina jordan for me, shes a good friend of mine and want to wish her all the best xxx
was coming up for the game tonight but not feeling to good today.

Bad idea? Yes/No?

All Luton festival comps that attract 100 runners plus, they pay 18

however if you get 102, why not be flexible and pay say 12?

Play is about to recommence.

to remind you, as we commence play, blinds are 600-1200 for an hour. Average stack is 23,800

Paul King's wife Kanga has been eliminated on the first hand

Shortest stack remaining she pushed all-in in an unopened pot on the button with  Ac 8c

Driton "Scrabble" Haxhiaj called her in the SB with  Kd Qs

board

 Ad 8h Td Jh 6s

 ;goodluck; yo those still in today.

 Have to say my first visit to this Casino (and last,so to speak!), was very enjoyable,...well organised, very friendy.....and great peach crumble!

 The structure was fantastic....plenty of time to play proper poker.

 Great updating as usual boys....keep up the good work.

 

Tony Chapman has been eliminated against Mehmet Cinar  9h 9s vs  Ad Ks,  Aspades on the flop. All-in pre-flop

Here are our remaining tables prior to Mrs King's exit.

1) Ariel Adda - From the Brian Wilson school of poker shirts.

2) Jeff Rogers, (in the top right) smelt who dealt it.

3) Neil Channing is waiting for someone to unglue his hands.

4) Paul Alterman loses a game of rock, paper, scissors to the dealer.

5) This table refuses to give anything resembling a comedy picture.

Steve Jelinek doubled through Paul Child, the latter pushed with Qd 7d and Jelinek called all-in with Kh Qh (they both had around 14k)

Board:

2c 3h Td Kc 7s

Child had 100 chips left and departed next hand.

RookieITB progess news


Down to 18k he makes it 3600 to go in MP with  Js Jh

Stweart Clutterbuck flat calls in the Small blind

flop 

 2h 3h 6d

Clutterbuck bets 7,000, Rookie pushes his 14,000 in

Clutterbuck calls with   Ac Qs

turn and river blank and Rookie is up to 36,000

AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!!!!

Mick McCool is OUT, he called a raise with 6-4 sooted, flop came 6-4-3. His opponent bet out, Mick moved in and got a call from pocket Queens, turn and river came 7-7 to counterfeit his two pair.

#come on rookie ;) 

Wish Rookie all the best please.


Good luck sir. :)up

my top three finishers:

tony nicholls
joe grech
steve jellinek

Driton "Scrabbleman" Haxiheja has run out of letters...I mean chips.

In a huge pot preflop, around 60k, he got it all in with the less than stellar  Th 8d against Sunny Chattha's  9d 9h which held on a  Ahrt Jd 8s 6d 4s board.

rob garfield coming in a close 4th

36 left, 4 tables.

8 players departing in the first half an hour of play, average chips now 28,300


Joe Grech is amongst those making progress to around the 40k mark

Sunny Chattha now vying for the chip lead

come on Rookie!

Dave Clark is OUT, having lost a big pot with nines against Pete Cooper's A-K, his last remaining chips went to Steve Jelinek, whose Q-T defeated the former 60's beat combo man's holding of K-5.

Jeff Rogers has knocked shortstacked Boots Kohli out with  Ac Qs versus  Aspades 6h, a rather emphatic  Qc Qd Js flop

Elsewere prolific serial festival winner Mick Fletcher from Blackpool is looking threatening with a stack over 40,000 and in good shape

Tina Jordan has doubled through Joe Grech with  Aspades 9s against  Kc Qc on a 3-6-T-J-6 board. Joe is quite short now. Tina on around 27k.

Three way pot between Stewart Clutterbuck, Mick Fletcher and Rookie. 11k in preflop,

Board:

6h 9d Jd

Stewart and Mick check, Rookie bets 5k

Stewart calls, Mick folds:

Turn:

3h

Stewart bets 7.5k. Rookie folds.


Elsewhere Mark Lowe has doubled up Andrew "Scarfman" Georgiou, with A-Q against A-J on a T-T-6-T-J board.

Mark Lowe is still doing well. He is from Sheffield and is predominantly an online player..and frequents £10-20/£25-50 on Crypto as Lowe14. He did though finish in the top 18 of a Luton main event last year

Currently on 65,000 chips and has a very commanding table presence. Nothing fazes him.


Elsewhere Anthony Nicholls, Paul Alterman and Neil Channing are holding steady amidst the fireworks around them, whilst Damon D'Cruz is struggling to progress.

R Iley has almost tripled up and Andrew Buzzagoli is OUT, Ariel Adda raised preflop, Andrew moved in, but it was an under-raise, so R Iley was able to call too with Adda unable to re-raise.

Flop:

Ac 9s 9h

Iley pushes with A-K, Adda folds his pocket Kings, and Buzzagoli gets no help for his queens.

Ray Brown has won a huge 65,000 pot off mick Fletcher

Flop

 Ts 8s 7s

all the chips fly in on this flop, with Ray all-in

Ray shows   Ks Js

Mick has  Aspades 5c

Mick having raised Pre-flop and Ray calls in the blinds


no further spades come and Ray shoots up the charts.

Meanwhile, Sunny Chattha has just take all but 5k of L Trinh's chips with 9c 5c on a 2-9-Q-Q-9 board. Trinh insta-mucked when Sunny called his river bet.

Blinds are now 800/1600. 31 players left Avg stack is 32.9k

Rookie doubles up again with Aces against Stewart Clutterbuck's Jacks all-in preflop. Scary K-Q-T-8-2 board. Rooks on about 40k

Mick Fletcher, after the nut flush draw against second nut flush hand, has just been eliminated at the hands of Terry Mason


I really must stop saying that Mr X is looking dangerous as I did with Fletcher and Grech...instant bokking by a part-time updater!

Ray Brown and Stewart Clutterbuck get it all preflop

Stewart:

Js Jc

Ray Brown:

Ad Kd


Board:

7c 7h 6h 5h Ahrt

So Stewart Clutterbuck is OUT and Ray Brown has a HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE stack.

rich any news on damon -has he played a hand????? :dontask:

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Damon has 25,000 or so

Looks to have been very quiet. Mind you it has all being going off around him, so much so that we have lost 16 players in 80 playing minutes

28 left now, average 36,400

Well.... Tighty has just performed a reverse-bokk here, Damon has just doubled up with Aces against the Cowboys of Thomas Myland.

 ;letsparty;

woo hoo

damon to go 3 better than last week and win!!!

goooooooooooooo  Rookieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Last night there was a 27 entrant last longer competition for £200 each organised by Neil " there's two flies climbing that wall, I'll have £5 on the one on the left" Channing

Channing, with a quarter of the average stack, has just negotiated a five way chop of this for £1,200 each with the four remaining players apart from himself!  :D

lol nice!

Terry Mason limps utg, Rookie raises to 4.6k from the button, the blinds pass, Mason calls.

Flop:

6c 7d 8h

Mason bets 3.5k (certainly an odd amount for a 12k pot) Rookie raises to 10k. Mason passes.

Rookie tells me he had T-7.

We're now down to 3 tables. Chip counts and photos to follow.

hope Tony Nicholls wins this,hes a lovely guy.came to notts p****d the other sat night and tore up the cash game,lol.

Rob Garfield is OUT

Makes it 4,000 to play pre-flop

Mehmet Cinar calls in the blinds


flop

 Ks 4h Td

Rob makes it 4,000, Mehmet raises to 8,000, Rob pushes in, Mehmet calls


on their backs


Rob  Ad Kd

Mehmet  Kh 9s

Turn  9c

River Rob was too busy spinning to notice!


27 left, 3 tables. Full chip counts to follow

Rookie going strong..nice!...shows you that folding pocket Q's preflop twice on day one isn't always a bad thing...keep it up Jnr.

word bro

Thomas Myland is OUT curtosy of Anthony Nicholls, it all went in on a Jc Jd 3c board. Myland's Ad Qh was no good against Nicholl's 3h 3s.

Andrew Georgiou has doubled through Neil Channing with Ks Qs against Channign's Ah 5c, he flopped a Queen and turned a flush.

24 left, here are chip counts


Table 1

Steve Templeman 36,000
Sunny Chattha 47,000
Steve Bolton 55,000
Ronnie DeBeaulox 11,000
Damon D'Cruz 42,000
Glenn Ashworth 46,000
Ariel Adda 70,000
Anthony Nicholls 66,000

Table 2

Mehmet Cinar 87,000
Robert Iley 26,000
Ben Turnstill 55,000
Jeff Rogers 47,000
Ray Brown 100,000
Terry Mason 50,000
Tino Libertini 13,000
Nick Persaud 20,000

Table 3

Warren Wooldridge 8,000
Andrew Giorgiou 26,000
Tina Jordan 58,000
Peter Cooper 36,000
Mark Lowe 63,000
Steve Jelinek 36,000
Joe Grech 28,000
Billy Quang Ngo 46,000

James Browning and Neil Channing are both OUT. They both pushed (on seperate tables) with A8 and ran into a pair of Queens and Deuces respectively.

Here are our remaining tables prior to some of the exits.

WarrenWoolridge pushed with  Ad Ac, short-stacked so facing auto-calls from bigger stacks

Steve Jelinek has a call in the blinds with  5c 5d

first card out is the  5s

Warren is OUT

23 Left

We are now on a break, Joe Grech raised from the small blind, but was set all-in by the big blind and passed his A-J face up and was shown Tens.

Top 3 picks from you all please.

1 sunny chatta
2 joe grech
3 ben turnstill

1- Rookie

2- Mehmet Cinar

3- Mark Lowe

Is this Ray Brown the one-time 7 Card Stud World Champion?

Damon D'Cruz, Rookie, & Quango for me, in any order.

Rookie has 74k from picking off two bluffs from Terry Mason.

Rookie raises preflop, Mason calls.

Flop:

 Qd Qc Th

Both check.

Turn:

 2s

Rookie checks, Mason bets 4.5k, Rookie calls.

River:

 Qs

Rookie checks, Mason bets 6k. Rookie raises. Mason passes.


What did Rookie have?

Only Kd Kh

1...   damon
2....templeman
3.....joe grech

Yes Ray Brown from Stamford in Lincs who won the 7CS World Champs at Baden in 2003ish


A luton regular.

Terry Mason is OUT. A-9 vs A-Q on an A-7-6 board. His assassin, Mehmet Cinar, who is now a big chip leader with over 120k.

Mehmet Cinar, who is very very aggressive raises UTG to 6k, Rogers makes it 20k in the cut off and Cinar then pushes all in

Rogers folds  Ac Qd face up

Cinar shows  Aspades Ts


Rogers left with 20k, pushes all in next hand. No action


subsequent scenes at the table as Rogers curses and mutters....


(http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:shN8jFkwKx2_sM:http://mcauliffe.greeleyschools.org/images/Volcano%2520erupting.jpg)

Rookie raises Ray Brown's BB from the button for the fourth time in a row. Ray calls the 6k,

Flop:

Qs Th 8h

Ray bets 6k, Rookie makes it 21k, Ray folds, Rookie shows  Ahrt Aspades.

"I thought he was nicking!" protests Ray.

"How can you steal blinds with Aces?!" says Nik Perssaud, "Why would you think he's stealing? He's raised your blind four times and only shown Ace King and Aces!!!"

Martino Libertini is OUT. Jacks no good against Ray Iley's A-T.

lol

Billy Quango Ngo is a tough opponent. Sitting in between Grech and Jelinek its difficult for Joe to raise through him and Jelinek is getting a rough ride in the blinds


Here in Luton with his friends John Food Standards Agency and Chris Milk Marketing Board, he is clearly a young player to watch 

The Luton Bulldozer doesn't do hands.

Joe Grech is OUT

Becoming short-stacked he pushed UTG with  Kh Qh but found Tina Jordan lying in wait with  Ks Kc

the flop

 Qs 9h 8h gave Joe a lot of hope but the fire was extinguished on rag turn/river


that means its.......................

STOP!


Bubbletime!

(http://jonescollegeprep.org/ourpages/auto/2006/1/31/1138729345621/mc-hammer.jpg)

Go damon
Go Rookie
Go Damon
Go Rookie

£1,000 saver done for 19th off the top

Scrap that picture, bubble has burst!

Players are now asking why they should carry on playing hand for hand now that a saver has been done. ::)

Now Rookie has to get into the final table, and ..... win it.

Thanks guys for great updates...

Nice

 *g *g *g *g *g

Mehmet Cinar is chip leader with 140,000 or so

Meanwhile Damon D'Cruz is OUT

Raises to 7,000 on the button with  7d 7c

Glenn Ashworh reraises all in from the Small blind to 52,000

DDC has to think and eventually calls for all his chips

Ashworth has  9d 9h


board..

 6d Ad Ks Js 6h

and

therefore he is........

(http://www.johnottman.com/projects/features/bubbleboy/cover.jpg)

Ray Iley doubles up with 5s 5h against Nik Perssaud's Ac Qc.

Board:

4s 6h Ts Aspades 7s

Mehmet passed the other two fives...

Rookie over 100k.

Aaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

nice!

Sunny to win this eassyyyyyyyyy

I feel a repeat of blackpool coming on...

Go on the gasman!!!! Put another flag down for the hitsquad.....

Ronnie DeBeaulox is OUT, he pushed with a short-stacked T-5 and was called blind by Ray Brown who had 2-2 which held.

Steve Jelinek is also OUT, previously crippled, he pushed his last 3k in with 7s 3s but the big blind had Ac Kc which hit an Ace.

The ITB crew are here and wondering what is the ruling if siamese twins are playing, do they always have to sit next to each other? Will one always have position on the other?

that depends on how cute they are and what position you would like them to be in...or atleast the movies suggest that

16 left


Chip Counts


Table 1


Steve Templeman 30,000
Sunny Chatta 40,000
Steve Bolton 35,000
Billy Quang Ngo 60,000
Tina Jordan 120,000
Glenn Ashworth 150,000
Ariel Adda 135,000
Andrew Giorgiou 40,000


Table 2

Mehmet Cinar 160,000
Robert Iley 27,000
Ben Turnstill 100,000
Jeff Volcano Rogers 31,000
Ray Brown 50,000
Peter Cooper <10,000
Mark Lowe 90,000
Nick Persaud 30,000

Do the Hitsquad do ensemble dancing pieces like the Sharks and Jets?

(http://media.outnow.ch/Movies/Images/1961/WestSideStory/movie.fs/01.jpg)

come on the rookster

what happened to tony nicholls?

Rooks raises to 8k (blinds 1.5k/3k)

Big blind Mehmet Cinar re-raises to 16k, Rookie calls.

Flop

8s 5d 4d.

Mehmet bets 10k, Rookie calls

Turn

Th

Mehmet bets 15k, Rookie passes Jacks. Mehmet shows Kings.

15 still left, blinds are at 1,500-3000 for another 17mins average chips are 68,000

sorry fran, Anthony took  6h 6s against Adda's  Ac Ahrt on a  Kh 8c 2h board, thinking Adda was pushing him around. He exited as they broke to two tables

I think we both thought the other updater posted it...doh!

thanks,hope that wasnt just after i said i wanted him to win  ;scarymoment;

14 left, latest casualty is Nik Perssaud, a min-raise by Ray Brown, called by Sunny Chattha on the button and Nik in the BB.

Flop:

Kc 2s 3h

Nik pushed in his chips, Ray passed and Sunny called with Kh Jh which was ahead of Nik's Qc 9c.

Turn:

Ahrt

River:

9s

GO ROOKIE GO

Steve Bolton is OUT, he pushed in a sb/bb encounter on the turn against Steve Templeton with J-5 which had a flush draw, but Templeton had been slowplaying Aces and the flush never materialized.

Billy Quang Ngo (Tightend's favourite player for puns) is OUT, A-J against Ariel Adda's A-K all-in preflop.

12 left, blinds now 2,000-4,000..average stack 85,000, chip leaders in region of 180,000.

play quite slow as we approach the final table, understandably enough

hows tina doing? tell her to get it won lol xxx

Jeff Rogers is OUT, 12th

lost a race AJ versus 88, all-in pre-flop versus Ray Brown

The Volcano is now, for this tournament at least, extinct.

Tina is amongst the chip leaders and is being railed by husband Danny


full chip counts when we hit the final

Thats my girl, say ello to Danny for me too plz x

Rookie raises to 11k from the Cut-off, he only has around 45k at this point, Sunny Chattha calls in the small blind.

Flop:

Ad 6d 3d

Sunny Chattha moves all-in and has Rookie covered. Rookie dwells for a minute before calling.

Sunny:

Ks Qd

Rookie:

Ac Jh

Turn:

6h

River:

4s

Rookie up to around 90k, Sunny is now fairly short.

Goodluck Rookie  :)

Sunny Chattha is OUT in 11th place, having been crippled previously he pushed with Ac Qh against Mehmet Cinirs 7d 7h

Board:

4s Ac 8c Jh 7c

Evil rivers...

.

Its 10 left, hand for hand and very cagey

Steve Templeman is the man in trouble and was down to his last 11k, blinds 2-4k when Mark Lowe raised to 11k in the cut-off and Steve looks down at  2d 2c in the small blind

He calls all in and is up against  Ad Js

board

 9s 3d Jc uh oh

turn

 Qs

river
 2s

and Templeman lives to fight another bubble!

Ariel Adda raises and Mehmet Cinar calls in the BB

Flop:

6s Jd Kd

Checkity check.

Turn:

8d

Mehmet checks, Ariel bets 20k, Mehmet calls.

River:

Qs

Both check.

Mehmet shows Ac Jc which has been rivered by Ariel's Ahrt Qh. Chunky 64k pot heads to Ariel.

Rookie Here... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ben 'RookieITB' Turnstill is OUT in 10th place.

He raised preflop and was called by Mehmet Cinar in the big blind.

Mehmet bet out 10k on the 9d 6c 5h flop, Rookie raised him 38k leaving just 5k behind. Mehmet put him all-in on the 7h turn. Rookie calls with Ahrt Jc only to see Mehmet's 7d 6d. River wasn't an Eight and we now are down to the final table.

BOLLOX UL mate.

Terrific effort Rookie. blonde are proud of you.

Without a doubt, one day, you'll be a man.

welldone rookie great effort my son xxx

Seat 1: Steve Templeman -- 24k

Seat 2: Ray Brown -- 66k

Seat 3: Glenn Ashworth -- 139k

well done rookie




ps membership of rookie society now half price

 ;applause; well played Rookie

Damn got here too late clearly, well done m8

well done Rookie, hard luck

how many were they paying?

Seat 4: Mehmet Cinar -- 367k (He seems to have a Sid Harris-esque aura about him)

Seat 5: Mark Lowe -- 88k

Seat 6: Ariel Adda -- 179k

Well done rookie

well played rookie.

WP boss..

Cracking effort.

Seat 7: R Iley -- 82k

Seat 8: Tina Jordan -- 124k

Seat 9: Andrew Georgiou -- 51k

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

This looks like the oldest final table in history.

Please could one of you find out the average age for me.

42 years 3 months and 4 days

Of the nine finalists 3 are Aries, 1 is Capricorn, 2 are Gemini, 1 is Taurus, 1 is Sagittarian and 1 is Piscean

Furthermore the average distance away from their homes is 125.4 miles


Anything else?

 I'll take Mark Lowe to win it...impressed with his play yesterday.

Rock on Tommy!

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puttin g you really to the test tighty  any news on runners and riders in the £100 plh

Mehmet Cinar is from Sweden.

What is the temperature and wind speed when standing on the forecourt of the garage across the road please?

Also known as "A Quarter of a Tikay".

38 runners, £3,800 in the pot


disappointing I feel


Poppet is playing as are a whole bunch of regulars

Slow-going on the final table. First Steve Templeman moves in from the cut-off and gets no callers, then Mehmet gets a walk in the big blind.

Next Tina raises to 24k in EP and gets the blinds.


Finally Mehmet min-raises (he does this a lot) on the button, Ariel Adda calls in the small blind and calls a 10k bet on the Jc 4h 6s flop from Mehmet before check/raising Mehmet's 10k bet on the Qd turn to 45k getting the chip leader to pass,


Just been speaking to one of the Luton dealers and they'll most likely be introducing a running ante in their next festival in April. Hurrah!

Twice the mean distance from Saturn to it's forth moon minus two thirds of a yay.

Fucking cold and fucking windy.....

hello im a newbie, and also john randall`s partner. First time on blonde and would like to know the runners for the £100 plh,also could you let me know later how john is doing. many thanks :hello:

Only 38 runners, will try and find out later.

Also, what DO women want?

The final table (in)action.

4,400. Started with 5,000

The final table is SLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW


Just sat notepad and bic in hand for twenty minutes waiting for a flop

No joy.

The moon on a stick.

(http://www.doering.co.uk/doering/photos/moon_on_a_stick.jpg)

Steve Templeman is OUT in 9th winning £2,790

 Ac 8d versus Adda's  Aspades Qd

no help on board to either

thanks tightend

Christ, the answer to all my problems, where did you find that?!?!? Tell me, tell me, tell me...

Good to see the red pen making an outing.  ;hattip;

With the blinds 3k/6k Andrew Georgiou moves all-in from early position for 29k (he's rockier than Red, in fact he's Crimson). Mehmet Cinar looks him up from the BB with Qd Jc, and finds he's way behind the Ks Kh of Georgiou.

Board:

Jh 4s 6h Kc Ts

Georgiou up to 62k. Mehmet still has over 300k though.

Play at the moment is going slower than a 28.8k modem....


Or a child cleaning the room

Great updates guys, i have just had a quick look through the "at a glance" thread as i have been out all day. Has tighty lost his cards or something as none of the cards are showing on his posts.

Is it just me?

They're not there for me either.

No Longy, it just me making mistakes. Apologies


Mark Lowe has doubled up through Glenn Ashworth in a SB/BB battle with  Ahrt 7d versus  Ac 3c, all-in pre-flop

Mehmet, who seems to be bleeding chips at the moment, gets into a big pot with Mark Lowe, 50k in preflop. Lowe check/raises Mehmet's 20k bet to 55k on a 2h Kh 8h board and Mehmet folds pretty sharpishly.

Ray Brown (former 7cs champion from 2003) moves all-in for 51k. Mehmet calls from the button.

Ray:

Th Tc

Mehmet:

9s 9c

Board:

4s 2c Ks Ad 5c

Ray on 110k. Mehmet takes another knock.

Andrew Georgiou moves all-in against for 40k after Mehmet's preflop raise to 15k, Mehmet calls with Ad Js against the Th Tc of Georgiou.

Flop:

Td Ts 8s Qd Qc

Pretty conclusive huh?

Next hand Georgiou moves all-in after Tina Jordan's EP raise to 24k, everyone passes, he shows Aces.


I think Mehmet has lost about 200k of his 367k final table starting stack.

Keep going Ray Brown...........this guy is a real gentleman....anf you can tell him I said so

Glenn Ashworth finishes 8th winning £3,260


Cinar raised to 30k in second position with the blinds now at 4-8k

Ashworth in the BB with  3d 3h said afterwards "I just did not put him on a big hand, he'd been losing a lot of chips and I didn't think he would call"

Sadly for him Cinar had  Qs Qd, which held up without any dramas when Cinar called for the remaining 60k

Ariel raises to 25k in EP, Mark Lowe re-raises it by 38k more. Ariel dwells for a couple of minutes before moving in, Mark insta-calls with Kd Kc. Ariel shows 9h 9s.

Board:

Ks Js 7s Jh 4c

Massive pot, over 300k goes to Lowe who is now chip leader, and has been insensitive by ruining my chips counts. Ariel has around 30k left.

Adda then moves all-in for 29k UTG and Lowe calls him in the SB with  3c 3d

Adda has  Qh Qs, which holds to give him a lifeline


Current chip counts


Mark Lowe 340,000
Andrew Georgiou 200,000
Mehmet Cinar 200,000
R Iley 120,000
Ray Brown 100,000
Tina Jordan 90,000
Areil Adda 64,000

Mark Lowe raises to 28k under the gun. Big Blind Ray Brown moves in for 41k more. Mark is forced to call with Ac 4c. Ray shows Ks Kh.

Board:

 Aspades  Ad 5s Td 9h


Meaning Ray Brown is OUT in 7th place winning £3,720


Tough beat, but he took it very well.

Mark Lowe now has around half the chips in play and must be the favourite to take this down.

Great updates.

If anyone wants to know what happened in Copenhagen, then please click the link below...

http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/7110 (http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/7110)

Anyone still here? HoLLa if you are!

(http://hometown.aol.co.uk/tgonsoulin5190/images/holla.gif)

 ;mrslime;

hhhhhhhhhoooooooooooolllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaa

still with ya guys - good work

Geo

We're on a break, expecting a deal at some point though.

hoLLa

Ray Iley raises to 30k with 45k back in early position called by Mehmet from the blind.

Flop:

Ahrt 4c 3d

Mehmet checks, Ray moves in, Mehmet calls.

Ray:

Kd Td

Mehmet:

Ad 7d

Turn:

5d

River:

2d

So the backdoor King flush isn't good enough and Ray Iley is OUT in 6th place winning £4,180

Andrew Georgiou has doubled through Mehmet Cinar

Mehmet makes it 25k in EP, Georgiou pushes to 95k total

Mark Lowe passes reluctantly  Ac Jh

Mehmet calls the extra 70k  8c 8d

Georgiou has  Ks Kh and hits a  Kd on the turn to win convincingly

Ariel Adda is OUT in 5th place winning £6,510

Short stacked Adda pushed from the small blind with 4c 4d. Tina Jordan insta-calls with Qc Qs in the big blind.

No help on the board for either.

Approx Chip Counts:

Mark Lowe -- 475k
Mehmet Cinar -- 220k
Andrew Georgiou -- 200k
Tina Jordan -- 150k

Ok, this final table is a bit of a grind at the moment, very little raising, lots of walks and occasionally, if no-one's looking, the small blind does make up and we get to see...A flop! Which is usually checked slowly down to the river.

I'm using all the powers of my mind to force aggression from the players.

(http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/talks/dea/mind_control.gif)


Come on everyone! Think Positive Thoughts!!

Great Up dates guys, Glad to see Tina is still there, give her my best and say Marsharla x

Holla!!

Ok, I said think positive...someone obviously has a sense of humour... I want to explain this next hand.... but I can't. Really.

Blinds are 6k/12k

Mehmet raises to 37k on the button. Tina Jordan moves all-in for 194k, she has him covered by 6k. He calls all-in with......Ahrt 8h. She has Ks Kh.

Board:

Jh Qc Ad 8s Js

Tina's last 6k goes in next hand in a checked down pot between Mehmet and Mark. Memhet's Qd 4d is good enough against the Ac 2h of Tina to scoop.

Tina Jordan is OUT in 4th place winning £8,830

Alrite guys!

Hows it going lads!

What a crazy hand the last one, suppose its can happen if your getting desperate but your tourney life with Ah 8h?!

Crazy!!

Did we ever find out the answer about siamese twins?!

Absolutely no talk of a deal yet

On my stint on duty up at the table for 20 minutes I have the following to report.




















Thank you, back to Floppy

any news from the 100


mu money  is on andrew  or woody deck

Mark raises to 35k in the small blind, Mehmet calls in the big blind.

Flop:

7h 3d Js

Mark checks, Mehmet bets 30k, Mark check/raises to 60k. Mehmet folds.

Now I know what you're thinking? Mehmet is a bit lucky...well....er Tighty has some news.

so here's a biggie

Mark in the SB makes up with  Jd 6s

Mehmet checks with  Jc 8c

blinds are 6000-12000

flop

 7c Jh 9c

which is a huge hit for both players

Mark bets 20k, Mehmet calls

Turn

 5s

Mark bets 30k, Mehmet raises 30k, Mark Calls..both have top pair and a straight draw, Mehmet has clubs for back-up


the river is interesting

 Js

giving both trips

Mark checks (I suspect knowing Mehmet will bet, so he is trapping)

Mehmet bets 45k

Mark check raises all-in

Mehmet calls

and becomes monster chip leader with trip Jacks and the 8 kicker playing


Mark has under 200,000 left

finalists include

alan geddes
laurence Kushner
Malcolm Gee
Gavin Kan
Pete Linton

Mark is kicking himself, he knows he should've just flat-called the river.

It's become a walking game now. There's a very unloved small blind being pushed around the table.

Hi All,

Had fun dealing the comps this week, but it sounds like someone needs to give the dealer some pro-plus.... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Dina dealing for our last 3 players.

Poor old Dina... been in since 2pm and now dealing a paint drying final table... the only action we'll get is if someone turns off the heating then Andrew may wake up... if only to wrap a scarf round his head

Mark is gradually building up his stack by stealing lots of little pots and the others playing very passively.

Tighty is currently punishing himself by watching this close up.

Dena normally gets these things finished pretty quick with either sick outdraws or amazing cold decks

always good to see you around the place ross

Ross and Flops are gonna be in trouble   Dena hates it when her name gets spelt incorrectly

SOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYY DENA!

The cash game on the table in front of me is a little more interesting.

There's a ludicrously drunk gentleman that's very loud and very obnoxious who just won a £3k pot having re-raise preflop to £475 with K-Jo and flopped the nuts. He's not particularly pleasant, but it might be fun to watch him 'play...


Oh blinds are now 8k/16k on the final table. No sign of a deal.

HaHa  im sure she will let you make it up to her Ross

Richard tell Dena hi and I said its about time she finished it off

Good Luck to Alan Geddes in the 100 p/l comp

Andrew proposed a deal in which they took £15k and played to the finish for the rest

Mehmet's response "I play on. Play. Play"


Floppy's turn up top....

Thanks for the support guys. Am gutted to finish 10th but v pleased with how i played and how i handled myself throughout the tournie - even after a couple of beats!!!

Cheers for the good luck messages, much appreciated! :) Next time..

well played  rookie   great laydown  to john hewston  with QQ v AA  99% of people put there chips in there against him  amazing pass   and great comeback from being shortstacked in get so deep

u owe him some money or something??  :)

Credit were credit is due snooppy

he got to play some great poker  you got to sleep with 4 models in Denmark  who is the real winner

I'm not sure which is the more seldom occurance for me...  :'(

Tighty and I are now doing 5 minute stints in turns at the final table, it was 15 minutes, but we think staying out there longer than ten would cause a lethal dosage, and we daren't take that risk...


So in my 5 minutes....

Number of times Mark steals from the button: 2
Number of times Mehmet is given a walk: 1
Number of times Mehmet picks up pocket 8's: 2
Number of times Mark raises and Andrew wakes up and moves in: 1
Number of times  I overhear someone talking about the final and the words 'paint' and 'drying' crop up: 3

Andrew Georgiou has doubled up from Mark Lowe

Mark raised on the button with  Jd Kd

Andrew pushed for his last 38k over the top "hoping I had live cards" with  Th 9d

 Tc on the flop seals the deal for him

In my four minutes remaining before I don my oven gloves and venture into the final table zone again, someone amuse me...

give me a trivia question please...please...QUICK!!


My utmost admiration for Snoops, Jen, NoFlops who do this all the time. I am shattered!

Trivia Question no.1   what odds are the New Orleans Saints  to win the Super Bowl       Go Bears


Tell Dena to pull her finger out!!!!

P.S what are the odds on a chip-count at 6am?

Part of the problem here is that Mehmet's English is not great. He doesn't really understand what the other two would like to persuade him to do...i.e at least do a partial deal.

Guys, does anyone know much about the remaining players?

If you need to finished   just ask for a ruling


Trivia Question no.2   How many wives did Henry XIII have?

What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?

you can't wash your face in a Buffalo

Buffalo have wings      Tastes like chicken

Tighty has gone back up top. What a brave man.

Incidentally during my time at the final table I noticed something. The casino has 29 blue-tinted lights on it's walls.


I don't much about Mehmet Cinar, but Mark Lowe is a big online player on Crypto at the 10/20 and 25/50 NL tables under the name Lowe14. Andrew Georgiou is, according to JP and Tighty a rocky big cash game player who plays regularly at the Vic.

Buffalo  live in africa and asia   bison live in northern europe and north america

You're doing a grand job, keep those updates coming.

I challenge anyone to do Amsterdam on their tod and live to tell the tale.

Has this Mehmet guy just come from the middle of nowhere? No1 knows him, he doesn't speak English, he doesn't really know what he's doing?

Poker Gods must be on his side.

Has Tighty ever seen him down Luton before?

I assume the Bears won Jim. Well done to them

Henry Xiii wives? 6?


I know nothing about Mehmet Cinar, but will endeavour to do so at close of play


Results of my expedition:


Mark walks in BB: 2
mehmet walks in BB:2
Mehmet raises on buton uncontested:2
Mark raises in SB uncontested: 2
Mark raises on button uncontested:2
Flops seen: None

well as a turkish player playing in uk theres not many and i never heard of him  eighter   but good luck to him  i  d say

To be honest Turk, it sounds like he's trying to take your nickname away from you...

A 3-way pot blinds 8k/16k. Andrew limps the button, Mark makes up and Mehmet checks.

Flop:

5d 6d 9d

Mark bets out 16k into a 48k pot, Mehmet calls and Andrew passes.

Turn:

Th

Mark checks. Mehmet bets 20k. Mark calls.

River:

Ad

They both check.

Mark shows 9c 8s, Mehmet has Qc Jd for the flush.  :dontask:

Alan Geddes is in the final three of the £100

"My form has been bad all week. Out second hand one comp and third in another and now it is even worse"

"Why Alan, you might win this one?" I enquired

"I know" he says "and that means a winners photo with Helen!"


 rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

is mehmet playing as mad as me snopps?lol

Revised chip counts:

Andrew Georgiou -- 250k
Mark Lowe -- 250k
Mehmet Cinar -- The rest, about 500k

Almost, I think he folded a hand on a level 2 though.  ;)

mehmet said he was turkish but lives in sweden, came here to visit family apparantly
 
not suprised he was from sweden

Do you think his family are still waiting for him to arrive?

His dinner will be ruined!

Mark Lowe is OUT in 3rd winning £12,560


He raised to 75k on the button with  Ad Td

Mehmet back raises in the SB for 100k more with  Ac Aspades

Mark dwells and decides to go for it

Flop

 Qc Js 9s gave Mark hope

turn

 4s

river

 Ahrt

Is Mark a member of blonde?

See Turk!

He's a nutter...  ;sark; ;sark; ;sark;

no, but he knows all about us now. Has been railed by his wife for two days solid

"not the most interesting of spectator sports is it?" was her rather wistful refrain of an hour ago

One thing I did notice from all three of finalists is that when any of the other players went to bet, they all tended to look at either their chips if they planned to call or raise or went straight to touching their cards (if to muck). Not sure it was noticed by players though.



Here the trophy looks on as it wonders where it is ending up....

Alan Geddes has won the £100 and in a potentially stunning double triumph, is angling for a presentation photo with Dena.

Big hand now, raised preflop to 60k by Georgiou has about 210k back, with Mehmet having the rest.

Flop:

7s Kc Jc

Georgiou check calls Mehmet's 50k bet on the flow

Turn:

5d

Again Georgiou check calls another 50k bet.

River:

9c

They both check, Mehmet shows Jh Tc whilst Georgiou mucks his Aspades Qs.

This left Georgiou with just 110k with 10k/20k blinds which he duly put in the next hand with Td 8d and was duly called by Mehmet's Ahrt 7c...

Board:

6h 4s 3s Jh Qc

So Andrew Georgiou is our 2nd place finisher winning £18,600

Which means....

Somehow....

Mehmet tells me he has only played before in the Casino Cosmopol in Stockholm. Turkish by descent he has been living in Sweden for most of his adult life.

Whilst he is over in the UK visiting he decided to play a comp or two and alighted on this festival. He wanted to try poker in a different country because he " always plays against the same players and I wanted to see what it was like to play others"

He has never played online.

His quest to expand his poker horizons has clearly produced successful results!

This was the last fessie in the old casino, the end of an era. congrats to the winner, respect to the updaters.

Well done guys!!

Well that's all folks

I want to sincerely thank NoFlops for helping me find my feet this weekend and to Jen for allowing her beloved updates into my strange hands for a couple of days. It's been a pleasure!

Congratulations to Mehmet, in what proved to be a final table quite different to many others..and thank you all for your contributions


and with that.... ;stickaforkinme; ;dewi; ;thankyou;

Well, this has been a surreal weekend, but congratulations to Mehmet in a final that surprisingly didn't end in a deal. Also the average age of the final table was also quite high just to prove that it isn't just young whippersnappers like Rookie, JP and Tikay that can play the game.

Anyway we are all finished now, so I'd just like to say thanks to Tighty for helping me out this weekend. Somehow I'm still wide awake, but I think I'll avoid the crazy cash game.

 ;stickaforkinme;

Well done Flops and Tighty, extreme patience shown tonight.

Great job, thanks

Geo

Fine job with the updates guys. ty

ONE FINAL THING   ;)

Alan didn't get his wish then, lol...

Top job guys, as the blonde one himself says...

Thanks for the Luton updates - TightEnd you are dangerously close to losing all your weekends, you're that good at it.  Ask Homer how we lured him in...

Well done and see you soon.

just read all the updates in one go, great work guys  ;hattip;

Certainly makes better reading than the Philippine Star!!!!  rotflmfa rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfaoo

Has to be said, Floppy, Tighty, GREAT UPDATES, how blessed are blonde? Not only Jen & snoops, but strength in depth, too.

I love it when we have to read between the lines, as in Tighty's.....

Congratulations to Mehmet, in what proved to be a final table quite different to many others

Being Tighty-speak for, well, what an interesting Final.

Thanks Guys. Truth to tell, not the most spectacular of Finals, but you two still made it compelling reading by telling it how it was. Sorry I missed the last 4 or 5 hours, I took to my bed, a lttle under the weather, but this morning I'm like a spring lamb.

great updates guys just read right through.

gutted for the boy, out in 10th to the biggest fish in the comp but i suppose at least the fish went on to win the comp!



rookie done himself, the itb and blonde proud and proved that he can hold his own in these big competitions.

theres not many players around that can be beat with QQ 4 times and AA all on the first day and still make the final 10.

well done rooks next time you'll go all the way! :respect: 

Too right!

Well played Rookie, shame about the fish but you'll win next time :)

Excellent updates guys, I often read the site as it's a great read.
I had to bribe the girlfriend to rail me with the offer to introduce her to TK, as she's a fan apparently. She wants to know when he's back on TV.

Thanks for the kind words, good luck all Blondes.

All the best
Mark

 Welcome to Blonde Mark  :hello:

 Well played at the weekend.

 

get the poor girl to the hospital shes obviously sick!

welcome to blonde mark and well played the weekend.

Well done to Rookie....your time will come

A BIG UP to the updating team. Fine work

But you never introduced me! But I did see the young Ldy - very beautiful indeed, and she seared an impression upon my heart which shall remain forever.

Luckily (for her) & sadly for everyone else, I shall be gracing (is that the correct adjective?) your TV screens again very soon. And if you are at Brighton this weekend, please say Hi.

Well done in the comp, great effort Sir.

Are you involved in the trials this weekend?

lol..Tikay is a bit old for showjumping and dressage :)

*Pictures Tikay in jodhpurs and riding boots*

*shivers*

Naw big fella was refering to the below which I assume the young man has some kind of involvement in.

Sky is launching Sky Poker, a new interactive entertainment channel and website, dedicated to the ever-popular card game of poker. Sky customers will have the chance to play live online or via interactive TV while taking part in televised tournaments against celebrities and poker pundits as well as each other.

Every night on Sky Poker we showcase The Open -- a live televised online tournament in which players at home will play against live studio guests. Hosts for the Open will include poker champion and Soccer AM presenter Helen Chamberlain, ex Big Breakfast host Richard Orford and At The Races presenter Sean Boyce.

In preparation for launch and to help get the team fully operational, Sky Poker is planning to run five free-to-play tournaments exclusively for people who work at Sky. Sky Poker needs your help to play in the tournaments as part of live rehearsals. There is no real money involved, it's just for fun, plus you get the chance to win a Sky HD box, and every day the top six players will win a bottle of champagne!

There will be five daily tournaments, between Friday 26 and Tuesday 30 January, all starting at 9pm.


I will probably play in a couple but certainly not all 5, so if anyone is after an HD box they can have a bash on the nights i'm not in if they like.

Sounds like inside information to me......

These "trials" have in fact already commenced. Or so I'm told.

Well i have played in 2 0f these trials now, the first one i could hardly play a hand due to it timing me out and not accepting anything i did. The second i have just came third (to a complete luckbox called Zeb?) in winning a bottle of champagne (hate the stuff).


But what do i find when i'm playing Chilli is in the studio a certain rookie and a byron in the chat box.

Best is yet to come tomorrow's guests are a paul and ben tunstill.  This a feckin blonde love in or something?   rotflmfao

Hehe! I believe the shows can now be watched from the website? If so, i hope you enjoy tomorrows! :P

was only when got near last few tables when i realised it was on t'internet. then seen Chilli in the studio, she was on my table last night but the website is mince and i couldn't play a hand or type in the chat bow.

I am in the sunday one i believe so i'm after ye young fella!!  ;snoopy'sguns; ;snoopy'sguns; ;snoopy'sguns;

Lol, see you online tomorrow then! GL