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Welcome back to our At a Glance Coverage of the Final Day of Luton's 2007 Grand Challenge

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 ) -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

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

Play is about to recommence.

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 Qh

board

 Ad 8h Ts Js 3c
   

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    Jh Jd

Stweart Clutterbuck flat calls in the Small blind

 flop  Tc 4h 3d

 

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

Clutterbuck calls with     Aspades Qc

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

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.

Driton Haxieja 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.

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
 
 

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Rob Garfield is OUT

Makes it 4,000 to play pre-flop

Mehmet Cinar calls in the blinds


flop   Kh Ts 4d

 

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


on their backs


Rob    Aspades Kd

Mehmet    Ks 9h

Turn   9d

River Rob was too busy spinning to notice!


27 left, 3 tables. Full chip counts to follow
 

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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  9h 8h Qc

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

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

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.

Mehmet Cinar is chip leader with 140,000 or so

Meanwhile Damon D'Cruz is OUT

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

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    9c 9h


the nine's hold up

   

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Jeff Rogers is OUT, 12th

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

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.

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   2h 2c  in the small blind

He calls all in and is up against    Aspades Jh

board   7d 9c Js

   uh oh

turn  8d



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.

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.

Final Table Chip Counts


1 Steve Templeman 24,000

2 Ray Brown 66,000

3 Glenn Ashworth 139,000

4 Mehmet Cinar 367,000

5 Mark Lowe 88,000

6 Ariel Adda  179,000

7 Robert Iley 82,000

8  Tina Jordan 124,000

9 Andrew Giorgiou 51,000

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!

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

 Ac 8d versus Adda's  Aspades Qd

no help on board to either

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.

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 up to 110k

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.

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 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

We are on a short break.

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, 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. Where 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

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.

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

No sign of a deal, blinds 8k/16k

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"

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

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:

Revised chip counts:

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

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

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....

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!