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Play of the Walsall Grosvenor UK Poker Tour in association with Blue Square Poker is due to commence at 4pm.

Gl to all blondes on Day 1A

Good luck to any blondeites playing!

Aggarwal, Om
Aslam, Zahir
Arama, Jac
Arees, Tariq
Arnold, Michael
Ashby, Richard
Ayeglin, Olabode
Baine, Darren
Bates, A
Bebb, S
Beevers, Joe
Blake, Tim
Blood, T
Bolous, Michael
Bond, Kevin
Booth, Andrew
Bradshaw, Andy
Bright, Robert
Brown, Ray
Burberry, John
Burke, Geoff
Cadd, Graham
Callinan, Ben
Carter, Dan
Cartwright, Anthony
Cawley, Russ
Channing, Neil
Chapman, T
Chattha, Sunny
Cheetah, S
Choy-Sing, T
Clark, K
Colclough, Dave
Conroy, John
Craven, Thomas    
Dale, M
Davies, A
Davies, Alan
Debealox, Ronnie
Demaine, Paul
Demetriou, Maria
Denton, C
Donn, A
Donnelly, Brian
Donoghy, Ivan
Eastwood, S
Eccles, Stephan
Enley, D
Evans, Damien
Evans, P
Fletcher, Michael
Fletcher, T
Folkes, M
Ford, Zachary
Fronda, Ryan
Gale, John
Glanville, Chris
Gourley, Paul
Granstad, Henning
Grech, Joe
Greco, Micharl
Green, Stephen
Hales, A
Harris, Sidney
Harrison, S
Heath, M
Henson, Alan
Herbert, I
Herron, M
Hervert, R
Hibbert, J
Hikary, Ouday
Hilton, G
Howard, Greg
Howard, S
Huckle, Jon
Hudson, J
Hudson, Tom
Hussain, M Z
Huyton, C
Isackou, M
Iverson, Tor
Jackson, Paul
Jenkins, Nick
Johnson, A
Jonas, Des
Jones, D
Jones, Iwan
Jordan, Athena
Kalmar, Jonathan
Khayat, H
King, Ben
Lane, Barry
Larse, K
Law, Royce
Libertini, H
Little, Brian
Lynch, R
Mackay, A
Mah, A    Thursday
Mahrenholz, Karl
Marles, John
Mason, G
McArthur, Gordon
McCloskey, Mick
McCool, Mick
McCready, Tom
McHugh, R
McKenna, Brendan
Mckinley, M
McLean, Alan
McLean, M
Miles, A
Millar, J
Mobbs, David
Moore, M
Morgan, J
Muldoon, Michael
Mulla, Reyaaz
Mustanglu, Osman
Muthy, Kaysham    
Nelson, Ian    
O'Reilly, S    
Orlowski, M
Page, T
Parker, D
Parker, Paul
Passantino, B
Perry, Ian
Persuad, Nick
Peters, Niamh
Peters, Phil
Plant, Howard
Plummer, Paul
Prew, Richard
Probyn andrew
Purewal, J
Rao, G    Thursday
Rayner, Paul
Reardon, Trevor
Rokach, Lucy
Romanello, Roberto
Ruehle, J
Sami, Darshan
Sandhu, Satnam
Schwartz, Luke
Shaw, G
Shipley, John
Singleton, Peter
Slade, Nick
Smith, D
Somaiya, Rumit
Stevens, M
Suckling, G
Szisak, L
Tabatabzi, John
Tann, Willie
Taylor, Kerry
Thew, Julian
Tse, C
Tyler, Matt
Vaccarella, G
Vinncombe, A
Vinson, Ben
Walls, Brendon    
Walmsley, Steve
Watkiss, Rob
Wernick, Mickey
Wilkinson, Adam
Wong, K
Wong, R
Woodley, Ian
Workman, A        
Wyre, Ray         
Xanthos, Charalambous         
Yusif, Sami         
Zarandi, F

Okay peeps, top 3 chip leaders from Day 1A?

I'm going for:

Joe Grech
Matt Tyler
Des Jonas

ps. Well done last week to tikay for picking Praz as the winner and Ariston for his late in the day but still impressive top 3 predictions.

Ronnie Debealox
Tom McCreedy
Paul Parker

 ::)

What price please bookie.....

Mick Flether
Richard Prew
Julian Thew

GL to all of you lucky sons of bitches playing this puppy!!!!

Prew and Thew? They could live in Trumpton Town.

Why not make them all rhyme? Where's Ali Mallu when you need him?

How far from Birmingham is Walsall please lads?

Ariston for chip lead please

About 20 mintues down the M6.

And don't be silly!

Cheers and

"every dog has his day"

Gooo on Chili!

my top 3 for this .,.,.not just coz 2 of them are welsh but they really are in form .,.,.,,.,

1.martyn "the rock" cavanagh
2.iwan "cod eyed"jones
3.jullian"dont let me look at you or i will make you pregnant"thew
4.jhon "if hes in it"gale       i been following him of late this guy it truly a world class player.,.,.,,,

My 3 boks/choices are all John's:

John Conroy
Jonathan Kalmar
John Gale


Good luck to all the blondeites playing today.

 ;goodluck;

in chip lead order

1. lucy rokash
2. julian thew
3. maria"CHILI'demetriou

come on bird,spank them boys  ;smackedbottom;

Russ crawley
Wuss crowlay
Russ carwley

 8)

It's McCready, not McCreedy.

I always thought it was Selleck

Thanks. Looking forward to it.

havnt bokpicked anybody lately so today i will mostly be supporting........

zippy aslam
john conroy
phil peters




good luck to the blondies

Only need one pick..the man on form Mr Thew to win it for me.

My picks...
Lucy Rokach (always gets chips)
Paul Jackson (Class)
Julian Thew (1 For the buds)

And my guess for first out ........ Roberto Romanello :-)

I'll go for Russ!

I cant discount Nick Slade from the 1st out competition he is an A class donk lol

Good luck to all Blondes starting today. Especially Thewster and Chili Pep.

Right, I'm just about to leave for sunny Walsall and might I add that there better be plenty of toilets along the motorway!!!!! 

I might as well add my three picks of today too:

Julian Thew (but not if on my table)
Zippy Aslam (but not if on my table)
Sunny Chattha (you get the drift)

and good luck to me!!

Good Luck to all players, a proper "whos who" of poker players, great quality field.

Thank you to Blonde for covering these events and bringing into the homes of MANY people "as it happens"

Thanks in advance to Snoopy and Jen for great coverage ( it's the ONE SAFE BET of the day);

Top3 Paul Jackson
 
       John Gale

      Richard Herbert

Is M. Herron, mark or micky? I'm assuming it will be Mark

2) Ayeglin, Olabode
2) howard plant
3) richard wong

Alot of northern irish lads over i'll go for...

Brian Little,Michael Muldoon and Brendan Walls

My 3 to follow on Day 1 are...

Tim Blake (due a bit of luck on the key hands)

Mick Fletcher ( aggressive chip gatherer, and if he gets an early march will be very dangerous)

Big Trev Reardon (again an early chip gatherer with gear changes)

a special mention to Ryan "GRANITE" Fronda (he played a hand in the first 5 levels at Brighton .... they had to call a nurse !! ) ;)

Good luck to all the blondeites in Day 1.

PS ... first out.... Ariston, its a knocking bet ;)

my outsider : mulla if he gets the ammo early can be very dangerous all depends if he changes his gears at the right moment

I expect to see Ariston and Tony Cartwright be 1st and 2nd......


























....... in the buffet queue

Seeing as i am not there ... GOOD SHOUT ;)

Russ Cawley   (surely)   it has to be !!!! 

u all wrong!  me 1st   1  out   and  i pick praz to make it again he impress me so much rest of the guys you mentioned r  lucky boys lol thats all  gl all anyway

hello mad..........where you from ?

Hello mad ...... what you on ?

on something soft   lol   u agree me  1st or not?  my form is so bad i have to be fav  to be out   u playing bodder? 

Ok guys thewy

            john gale this guy is awsome

            andy johnson this guy is dangerous with chips, he won two of the belagio cup events whils the world series was on and pocketed a tidy sum.

gl to all blondes

no mate,not playing very well at the moment.      good luck to you. at least if you bust out you can get your buy in back from the cash table.

My top 3 are team trotter!

Dan C
Pete S
Matt (donkey) D

Well, we're here. Due to the latest Grosvenor rules in which we're not allowed to bring our laptops onto the casino floor or into the cardroom, we are currently working in a designated press room out back (bit like a backstage pass at a concert).

Unfortunately, the wifi isn't working for anyone in the press room, which is highly annoying, so we're back to our vodafone mobile cards. Bah.

Anyhow, the player list is on page 1, and most of them have arrived on time, with some early arrivals being:

Tighty
Benwoo
Ryan Fronda
Howard Plant
Racing Ronnie
Mickey Wernick
Ashley Hayles
Mukesh M
Red-Dog
Sid Harris
Henning Granstad
Martino Libertino
Nick Slade
Matt Tyler
Chili Pepper
S Chattha
Womble
Ariston
Hawko

Apparantly, due to heavy traffic on the motorway, it looks like a 30 minute delay is on the cards, if you'll excuse the pun.

I didn't recognise him without his cap, but this is New Zealander Greg Howard, who finalled in the Bolton GukPT.

Some of you may recognise his online alias, crosscourtbh, which has been popping up regularly across the blonde forum. I think he owes 50p for the tin, so I'll nab that off him at some point tonight.

can you explain the reasoning behind this snoops?     are they getting so many customers that they do not need additional publicity ?

20 minutes UP the M6....! Come back Dubai! (he'll in Northampton by now......)

crosscourtbh asked, "Are there many blondeites here today?"

Yep, there are loads tonight, and one of them is this chap, Matt Dale. I think his moniker on blonde is 'mango' or something similar.

I have emerged from the traffic, which is as bad as the players harassing reception say it is, and joined Snoopy in the Press Area which is actually pleasingly close to the tourney room, and comes with a fridge, although no wifi, as yet.

Looking forward to covering the second of these events, good structure, attracting the interesting players, yatta yatta yatta.

Going for a wander and a cup of coffee.

That's not the way it is Boo. We CAN take ouor Lappies into the building, but NOT into the Cardroom or Casino floor, basically, not in the Public Areas. "Security" is the reason.

And thery have given us Wifi now, so that's the bizz, though it seems to have fallen over at Walsall right now.

And you know these two!

"Gawd, look at the belly on that," say Red-Dog.

I assume he was referring to himself.

My player to to be in the top 10 with chips T Chapman.

plus how many players do you think will come back (70 to 80)

can you tell Tom that he hasnt stuck his tache on straight

My top 3 picks from today's field are.....

Thewy

El Blondie

Zippy

Richard Ashby

Maria Demetriou

John Gale

Karl Mahrenholz (sp?)

Nick Persaud

Tighty

Lucy

Lord Werrnick

Tony can i have £5 to win on all 3 of them, thats £15 I owe you ?

"Will you get a photo with me and Greco, snoops?" asks Chili.

"Sure, no worries," I reply.

Skipping up to Greco, "Michael, snoopy demanded a photo of us two," fibs Chili.

I then go on to say to Greco, "I bet you get all the time, don't you, people wanting photos?"

"Not as much as I used to, but yeah,"

"Is it annoying?"

"Nah, I don't mind, sometimes I get people asking me when I'm out with the girlfriend though. A guy asked me at a bar once to have a piccy with some girl, but the place was really busy and she was right over the side, I was with the Mrs and just wanted a quick drink, but I eventually caved in. When I went over there, which took a bloomin age because of the crowd, I said 'Hi' and she said 'What?'. 'You want a picture right?' and she just replies 'No'. Sigh!"

At that exact moment, a random woman in the casino comes up and asks, "Excuse me, please could I take a photo of you with my friend."  :D

Bah, it never happens to me!

Greco assures me that he's never said the line, "Do you know who I am?"

Do you believe him tikay?

If Snoppy has got his pink trainers on, it makes perfect sense to lock him away in a cupboard .... kudos to Grosvenor for protecting poker players from such a sight :)

We've encountered our first exit of the day, and it's NOT Ariston.

"Why does it always happen to me?" cries Rumit Somaiya.

"Aces?" I ask.

"No, Kings. I flopped a set, Lucy (Rokach) moved in with a flush draw and hit. She called my pre-flop raise with A-6."

Im shocked Lucy hit that flush

And here's what Ariston had to say to the blondeites who had him down for the first exit of the day.  ;D

He don't bloody need to!

Whereas I stuill bump into peeps who don't know who I am, sigh.

I really wish I was there in Walsall, but work calls, retirement is a temporary thing of the past, so it's not to be, but I'll be in Crdiff.

Good Luck all.

has Ariston borrowed Kevs eyes ?

You've not seen the odds I am quoting yet.....

No, but that shirt has had more outings than Flushy FFS !!

looking forward to this one ,a bit gutted i left it to late to buy in as i was down there this week .
anyway good luck to all my m8s ,(is there any playing today) lol,have i got any .
my three
            iwan jones

           mick flecher
 
           julian ,hes hit massive form.

 rotflmfao         i was going to comment on that but thought a more humouress remark might be forthcoming

Another early exit, this time Welshman Alan Davies.

He was unlucky though, Sofa, bit of a nasty one.

With a Flop of Qh Kh 8d, Philip Dorington called a 1.5k bet from Alan before re-raising the 2.5k bet on the Td Turn to 6.5k.

Alan moved all-in with his seemingly formidable Qc Qd and Philip made what was, by then, an obligatory call with Ad Kd.

Dorrington sighed and shrugged his shoulders before holding his hands up when the River dealt a cruel blow to the Welshman with a nasty 3d.

Ouch

Here's a small list of those not even making it to the at-table stage due to the traffic:

S. Howard
Antony Mackay
Osman Mustanoglu
Giovanni Vaccarella

Reserves are now in in their place, according to Jon Raab - And Jules Adamson got in there just at the last possible second, along with Phil Dorrington and, er, two other guys.

Speak of the devil... (but don't tell portfolio)

:hello:

I'm bokking picking...

Zippy Aslam
Willie Tann
John Gale

poor zippy ..........he has NO chance after being picked by the Colonel AND the Duke

Quiz - back of head recognition test - who are these chatty neighbours?

I was just surprised you didn't pick Sid Harris. ::)

is it Tony Bloom and Woody Deck ?

does ginger know flushys brought his boyfriend.

Sid is first reserve     :D

Er, close.... Paul Parker and Nik Persaud.

hang on....i will just nip upstairs and ask her      ;D

thats who i meant............i have a cold

Word on the grapevine is that another Welshman has departed, this time a celeb in Matthew Stevens.

Ryan Fronda has doubled up with Aces, all the chips going in on a 3d 2c Qd 9c board (last bet was 3.7k by Ryan) with Mateyboy (I think it's Sudling)  holding A-Q. Blank on the River leaves Sudling down to the felt.

fyp snoops

Paul "999" Parker & Nick Persaud.

What's my prize?

Before even making one circuit of the packed cardroom, I already had more information from players to pass on than my cold-infused brain can really cope with (see how I subtly encourage sympathy for my mundane illness). 

One early catch was Ray Brown (pictured) who's made a decent-sounding handful of recent finals, and would like to say a big hello to Snatiramas. 

I KNOW IT and ifm will have to confirm this one for me, but even though this chipy chap is a Liverpudlian, I often see him around these shores so he might well be a Scouser living in Brum. Nice guy though.

Is this not the "Bushwhackers" from the old World Wide Wrestling federation.

Good luck to all Blondites

Geo.

None other than the World 7 Card Stud Champion a year or two back, I believe?

"nice guy, Scouser". That's a rare sentence.

Snoops

Isnt that Jimmy Morgan, who you said lost earlier with A Q to Ryan Frondas AA ?

He doesn't look too happy, but Welsh lad (often tipped by sofaking) has doubled through Richard Ashby after catching a nice Turn.

All the spondoolies went in on a 6d Qd 7h 8s with Ouday's 4-5 crushing Richard's Pocket Queens, no Full House arriving on the River.

As a result, Ashby is down to approximately 2k.

Where did you hear that, he tends to keep it prett quiet?

thats jimmy morgan nice lad.lloks like a escaped convict tho lol

No mistaking this guy, Ash 'The Cash' Pervais, described by Langboy as a 'credit to Midlands poker'.

They don't come much more disciplined than Ash, you rarely see him make a mistake and I wouldn't be at all surprised if he ran well this week.

The Liverpudlian? Can you confirm that hotdog?

I think the sheet must have him and his neighbour the wrong way around.

his name is defintly jimmy and i am pretty sure his second name is morgan

snoops tell mickey bring home the bacon.and tell ash the cash gl

is ariston out yet?.

Board = 3h Jc 9s 3s

Ashley Hayles bets 1k and Maria calls.

River = 5c

A shifty looking Hayles then sticks in 2.1k (pot was around 3k) and Maria calls with Q-9.

"I've got nothing," confesses the Bear Hugger as he mucks.

Nice play from Maria 'Chili Pepper' Demetriou, bet she was glad I was watching.

ps. Can anyone tell me anything more about Hayles, I'm seeing him around quite a lot at the moment?

Cheers hotdog. Yep, the sheet says James Morgan in seat 3 and Grahama Sudling in seat 2, so they must have them the wrong way around. Jimmy still has a decent stack.

It looks very like him, placed in the £500 @ Blckpool in November
And got his seat fo the £1000 same time I did.

Early eliminations are few and far between - but action is definitely taking place on Lucy Rokach's table.  That first hand double upping flush draw hit hasn't stayed put in her stack, and she's back down to a smallish 6,900.  There is now someone else with a big early stack there, going to find his name if the trend continues.

Other stacks looking healthy:  Ray Brown  16,000 (glad he introduced himself right at the start)
Maria 'Chili' Demetriou  15,800

On Chili's table we have a certain Mick McCool, whom I didn't notice on first pass because he's totally quiet.  He's got one of those mini-movie players and appears to be engrossed in some kind of sword-fighting thing with Templars in it (I had a brief over-the-shoulder peek).  He's on 11k so must have played a hand, however.

Hello Snoops hows Ariston doing please?

hows lord w doin snoops

I just know it to be so. I don't know how I know though. It'll be on the Databases I imagine.

Some seat neighbours, adding interest to a few tough tables:

Paul Jackson + Willie Tann
Joe Grech + Mick McCloskey  (Julian and Mr. Burke on there too)
Dave Colclough + Roberto Romanello  (Torstein Iversen and Karl Mahrenholz on there too)
Ryan Fronda + John Gale  (Paul Vicary and Iwan Jones there too).  I arrived at that table when Ryan was saying something like, "Next time I'll be raising with that," to Iwan.  Looks like that could be interesting.

any updates on nick slade and zippy plz

And after losing that big pot to Ouday Hickary, Richard Ashby has now bitten the dust.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm still in!" says Ariston ashamed that I have to keep checking.

About several k.

Nick was apparently down to just 4,800 after the first few hands but is now back to a safer 9k.  No detail yet as to what inspired this quick loss and recovery, although heard something about his betting (with some spanners) on an A-A-8-8-x board and getting called by "the nuts," which I think wasn't actually the nuts, but an Ace wary of the often-present Quads....

Couldn't miss an opportunity to take a piccy of Stephen Seagal (real name Mark Orlwoski). He keeps going on at me about this new romance film he's written. Even chased me around the car park in a golf buggy!

Tales from the Rail.

Here's Micky Herron and Martyn Cavanagh (both playing tomorrow I believe) watching from the sidelines, booze in hand.

"I don't want my piccy taken," pleads the Welshman.

I think I just about got him though.

martin is looking at the other kids bum ,as he is the only gay in the village.lol

Willie Tann (with Actionjack next door) is his usual cheery self, first taking a pot down with a 900 bet on a 3s-Jd-4h (neighbour had A-Q). Up to his usual tricks perhaps?

I overhear someone telling Nik Persaud off for "calling off 500 on the river with King high," and am all prepared to report that he's started the tournament without his, er, characteristic focus...but no, he gets a chance to explain himself:  He's in the big blind with Ks 2d.  Under the gun flat calls preflop, and it folds round, including the small blind.  So, flop 3s 6s 5s.  Nik bets out 100; call.
Turn:  Ad  Check-check
River:  6c  Nik checks, limper bets 500.  Call.  Nik mucks (but tells everyone he had King high) when the limper shows the mighty Ts 6h.

Two things about this story - firstly, surely he should just show that King high to discourage later, more pricey bluff attempts (especially if he's going to tell everyone anyway)?

Secondly, I don't know about the sole preflop limper with T-6 being Under the Gun, for that would make it Paul Parker, legendary "I might play a hand when it gets heads up" player.  If it's true, we're going to have to start to disregard his own highly successful mythology...

:D

Hi Jen and Snoops,

Would you kindly wish good luck to Maria for me and tell her that I am watching - wish I was there, miss the old place

I'm sure Snoopy is checking on his chips, but here's a picture of said lord to keep you going...

Zippy = 6.5k
Nick Slade = 12k

I'll get more chip counts at the end of Level 2 in 25 mins.

No worries, young Peter.  :)up

More good-humoured neighbours, Jac Arama and Lauren Szisak, whom I recognise from the Gutshot and as I recall has a distinctly American twang to her voice.

This won't surprise the locals, but Andy Johnson is at it his old tricks, involved in virtually every pot.

It's working out for him, first eliminating Ray Wyre with A-T vs J-J (a rather unfortunate four Fives hit the board) before winning a big pot off Michael Bolous, his 4k bet into a pot of 3k and a board of 4d 5c 5s Kd 8h being enough to force the youngster into a reluctant fold.

How are Ray Brown and Richard Prew doing kids?
Bring the title back to Luton i say!!

Dave Penley is also playing today, recently taking a pot of Willie Tann with a 1.6k bet on a board of 9c Qs Th 2h 3s. Willie took a while to fold what appeared to be Jacks (I had a sneaky peek - sry). I also think I caught sight of an Ace as Riverdave chucked em in - sry again.

Sami Yusif is OUT. All-in preflop against Edwad Phipps, K-Q vs A-K, 2-6-J-A-Q board.

Dan Carter takes a big pot of Peter Evans. The Flop was 5d Jh 7d and The Bandit had called a bet by Dan Carter before folding to the all-in (5,075) on the 8d Turn. Pot must have been around the 10-15k mark.

Guys

Could you please do me a favour if you get the chance and give me an occasional update on John Tabatabai, King muff.
Regards Nick

And this is the chap that Mark Herron is railing, daddy Herron Michal's.

7,650 in the Herron's nest at the moment.

Has Ariston won this yet?    You know he has a bad beat team event tonight?

Lukas Schwarz is also a gonna.

Big hand for Dave Colclough (although it could have been bigger, in a good or bad way) -

Torstein Iversen raises to 225 (something tells me this is not a rare occurrence) and he gets four callers, including Adam Wilkinson in the cutoff, small blind Roberto Romanello and big blind El Blondie.

Flop:  Kh Jh 3c.  Check to Adam, who bets around 1k (I was momentarily distracted by a story from Karl which I will also relate momentarily).  Back around, passed by Roberto who said, "I should bet this," when he found himself first to act but didn't like it any more by this point, while Dave check-raised a substantial 3k when it got back to him.
Now heads up, and Adam thinks about it for a while, before pushing all-in, for around 8k more, a stack which just about covers Mr. C.  He understandably takes his time thinking about this one, and after a long couple of minutes of that, frankly, intimidating staring thing he does, he passes face up Kc Jc.

Big fold for Ariston.

Flop = 6s 2c Qc

Ariston bets 2k, leaving next door neighbour Stefan Eccles to move all-in for 10k (although Ariston only had 4.3k left).

Ariston somehow manages to fold Kings only for Eccles to reveal Sixes.

"I wouldn't normally fold but he went to Hollywood before he moved all-in," added Mr Cawley.

ARISTON LIVES!!!

Started with 0, his survival factor is now up to 3.

Don Jones is OUT.

Also on Ariston's table:

Neil Channing
Ian Woodley
Bambos
Chris Huyton
Jordan King
Stephen Auyeung
Tina Jordan

Interesting line-up.

Ray Brown (for whoever asked) is on 15,550

The cash game is up and running - Alan Davies, Osman Mustanoglu (sp? - he was one of the late arrivals I believe), Martyn Cavanagh and Mukesh M among the early starters.

Another Kings fold, if you can believe what poker players say... this time from equally lairy Romanello.  He raised pre-flop and got the standard re-raise from Karl Mahrenholz.  The flop came Ten-high and Roberto bet out something like 1,600.  Raise from Karl to 4,000, and a reluctant pass.  No-one showed anything, and even when directly asked, by me, a respectable member of the press with a watertight secret-keeping record, Karl wouldn't say if he had Aces. 

 ;yellowcard;

Noted. Can you give a description to ensure we get the right guy. People have already started moving around.

Extra player update - here are the other last-minute sneakers-in:
Surinder Sunar
Chris Gavriel
James Price

Ariston does seem to run into monsters in these tourneys

Gotta love Jen's wordy bits....

and even when directly asked, by me, a respectable member of the press with a watertight secret-keeping record,

Save me an embarrassing confrontation with a doorman tomorrow please...

Can you wear trainers at Walsall?

the Liverpudlian is jimmy Morgan he did a 3 way split at blackpool in northern lights  in the £500. was sat next to him in the main event and he was a top lad

yes you can and ripped jeans and no top lol

Almost anything goes in walsall  i spent the week there in trainers jeans  hoodie and sports tops

They let the itb boys in at blondebash 3

did u not pong dave?

Only if they're salmon pink.

Not the best piccy of him, but it's Stephen AuYeung (10,675) nonetheless. Frequenters to Broadway and, in particular, Walsall will definitely recognise him. Been playing for quite a while and was even the guy who named the Devilfish. There's one for the trivia part of your brains.

Are you running here?

Hi
Can you tell me how Ken Wong is doing? He's the slightly mad chinese player, always smiling. Half of the staff form the Vic have got their months wages riding on him.

Here's the non-fire-putter-outer half of the Boatman crew.

Look at the cheeky chappy gently thrusting his bozom forward to display his Full Tilt badge.  :)

Ah, the guy who Parker folded the second nuts to in Bolton.

He's famous!

turk his name is jimmy your on about jonhnny morgan with the moustache.

That's Jimmy Morgan and he is from Liverpool, just goes down to Walsall to bring some money back up to Liverpool!!!

I'm sure I recall someone asking for this lad. Anyway, here is and his name is Brendan Halls, currently running around average with 13,325.

Does he live in Liverpool or Birmingham?

Ken " No bluff, No win!!!" Wong

He lives in Liverpool, moving up the buy in ladder at the moment. Good player

Michale McCool has climbed back up to 8k after winning a around 3,000 off Chris Glanville.

Board was Ks Td 6s 5h Ahrt, Glanville made a very small 1k bet on the River with A-J which Mickey called saying, "I thought you hit trip Aces or something."

What are you trying to say Tank? lol.

so wat did mick mccool have??? :dontask: :dontask:

any news on zippy

Could you wish Iwan Jones all the best from his Mrs-by the way how is he doing?He wont reply to my texts!!Cheers

I tried searching for Grant 'Longines' Mason but his seat his empty. He may have moved seat, but because I don't know what he looks like, I can only wait for him to confirm his exit (if that is the case) on blonde later.

I did find Ken 'No bluff, no win" Wong though, and here is the cheeky chappy, struggling a little though with just 3,900.

Uh-Oh, Ken Wong is now OUT.

He made the wong move at the wong time... ahem.  ;ashamed;

T-6 sry

 :hello: Sionzy, Croeso i blonde

OK, there's been a break, and a restart, and a scour for some Level Three Counts (this isn't everybody, but it's a start)...

Mickey Wernick      7,800
Peter Evans           9,300
Womble               12,100
Dan Carter            13,400
Mick McCool           8,900
Maria Demetriou     14,000
Des Jonas             10,600
Jules Adamson       5,500  (Saying he's played worse than Phil Peters so far, but wins Chancer of the Day award for showing up tonight and sneaking in)
John Gale             22,000
Ryan Fronda          11,300
Skalie                    5,000
John Shipley          19,000
Matt Dale               5,000  (Said, at the bar, "I'm a calling station.  I can't stop calling.  I call every hand."  Rigorous self-analysis there...)
Trevor Reardon       8,500
Henning Granstad   4,050
Laura Szisak           13,600
Kunkuwap             18,000
Jac Arama               2,000
Lucy Rokach           21,000  (The chips are back, all of them)
Paul Jackson           5,200
Bambos                 2,300
Woodley               14,000
Neil Channing         15,800
Ariston                  3,125
Nick Slade              10,200
Niamh Peters          5,050
Scott O'Reilly         15,000   (Blonde watcher, will have to post if I get a picture of him up here in the next half hour)
Richard Redmond    10,000
Ronnie Debeaulox    8,275
Richard Prew          10,500
Paul Parker              4,350
Nik Persaud            17,200
Barney Boatman      14,200  (who's preflop re-raise of Nik's 475 to 1,325 prompted an instafold faceup of Ac Tc)
Sid Harris                7,525
Geoff Burke            6,000  (Having a time of the 'torrid' variety, as described by Shelley)
Mick McCloskey        6,525
Joe Grech               8,150
Julian Thew            5,125
Torstein Iversen      9,400
Karl Mahrenholz       10,500
Dave Colclough        7,000
Adam Wilkinson       16,000
Roberto Romanello   8,900

This is S Sandhu and his 16k stack, also another Walsall regular - I'm sure hotdog will recognise him.

"I had a feeling this morning, told me I was going to win this one, I've seen it."

"Any deals?" I asked.

"Not sure yet, but if I get offered a good one I'll take it."

Can't have been that precise a vision!

diolch Dewi-yda ni yn cael sgwennu petha yn Gymraeg ar hwn?Hehehe!!

gwneud rhywbeth, maen dangos i bawb bod iaith i gael  ;)

Willie Tann is OUT, which means that this is about the last time I can put this photo up with any relevance...

yh thats sandu tell him dnt donk off his chips and he could be a dark horse 4 this 1

Digon gwir..er ma na rywun siwr o ddechrau cega a neud hwyl am ein penau!!

A slow trickle of Scandinavians look to have discovered the GUKPT - above with what looks like a halo is Torstein Iversen, part of the successful Team Norsemen who are always mixing it up in the EPTs, but rarely get to the UK.  Below is Henning Granstad, DTD Pro (as in Ask The) who looks like he might be telling me that his is actually superman.  Really, I have no idea what was going on there.

Richard Prew          10,500                     has he had aces?

English only !!!! ;)

Chip counts for Mick Fletch & Tim Blake please xxx

COME ON MARIA,my picks seem to be going well

This is what I'd call the emergency table. It's also the smallest table in the room, Jonathan Rabb has confirmed that they try to put the shortest players on here so they can fit them all in.

For goodness sake you two.. Get a sheep.. ;popcorn;

After accruing 20k in chips early doors, Andy Johnson is now out after betting Tens vs Jacks on every street of a raggy board.

That is not true at all.  I am delighted to say that these faithful shoes got past the front door, which makes them feel better after having been excluded from the Vic and several large clubs in London.  I'm just not comfortable without them.

BREAKING NEWS

ARISTON IS STILL IN!!!

3,950... "Haven't played a hand, am getting anted away."

20 walks in the first level.

TELL HIM TO GAMBLE PLEASE!!!

Opps, looks im going hungry this month

John Tabatabai just won a nice pot off Michael Muldoon. His 3k bet on a 6h 8s Ahrt Jh board was called by the popular Irishman, before he took the pot down with a 10.5k bet on the 7c River for pretty much his entire stack. As Muldoon was folding, Jac Arama complained that the dealer had counted out the chips when he wasn't asked. "Shouldn't you wait to be asked? Sometimes chips look more than they are." This was confirmed by the superisor who said that the dealer shouldn't count up the bet until asked by the player. I wasn't sure to be honest.

great job guys   

counts for dave penly  richard prew and richard(dick) lynch please

In the Dublin EPT last year Marcel Luske went mad at the dealer for the same thing. He wanted the bet to look intimidating and discourage play, when the dealer started counting he was very unhappy.  

Great reporting everyone - Bern playing tomorrow so I'll be railing hopefully Friday evening onwards (bok if ever I've heard one!)

Nieve Peters (so sry if the spelling is wrong) has doubled up after getting all-in with Queens vs the Nines of Richard Herbet.

Board = 6-8-7-J-3

Whilst Richard is down to the cloth, Nieve Peters was probably touching cloth after that flop.

LOL

Give regards to the Blue Sq crew up there, Johnny, Mike and co, also tell Woolfy Baptista is useless

how many chips has zippy got

Ian Herbert is up to 22,300.

Ian, Paul Gourlay ad Mick Heron all saw a cheap A-5-7 Flop. Mick checked, so did Ian only for Paul to bet 1k.

With both players smooth calling, all players then checked the rag Turn.

3 on the River and Mick came out betting, 900. Ian made it 2.5k, Paul pushed all-in, Mick folded and Ian called.

Mick had 7-5, Paul had A-3 and Ian had A-5, leaving everybody with two pair, but it was the Welshman who picked up the pot.

Mick Fletcher is on 11.5k.

On another table, Matt Tyler has doubled up to 10k with Queens vs. Deuces, all-in preflop.

TO BE HONEST I BRING THAT UP EVERYTABLE I HAVE PLAYED THEY  STILL  DO COUNT THE CHIPS! I DONT KNOW WHEN WILL IT END I WENT OUT ONES COUSE OF ALL IN COUNT

anyone got a link where i can get current chip counts of all remaining players?

Dave Penley -- 18,225
Richard Prew -- 3,100
Dick Lynch -- 9,900
Zippy -- 6,425

Blinds are currently 100/200, 164 players, 11k av stack.

Niamh (odd spelling, but the truth) is now, suddenly and unequivocally OUT - down to 100 chips after moving all in on a 9-3-2 flop with her Ts Td, and finding Ad Ac in the hand of Richard Wong.

Yes, Richard Wong is now the owner of a near 38k stack, and not out, as previously thought.  There is another Wong playing, and he's the casualty, as it turns out.

 :hello: Mr Wellprayed :)up

thanks mate and hi dewi

you tearing up the 12k as usual?

any chip count for BEN VINSON???

what happened to all tightys chips?

chip count for Sid Harris please

Meanwhile, it looks like Nik Persaud might be the level-before-dinner-break leader with something like 42k.  And here's how it happened...

Sunny Chattha raised preflop with Qc Js, called by Nik on the button, as is to be expected...
Flop:  Qh Qs Kh  Sunny bets out the pot, gets called.
Turn:  2c  Sunny checks, Nik bets 2,500, gets called.
River:  Jh  Now Sunny checks his house (sneaky, or so he thinks), gets the expected 5k bet and moves in for 12,000.  He's instacalled by Nik holding Qd Kd... Down to just 1,000 but laughing about it.

Now with his table monster lead, Nik is being a self-confessed wuss.  He raised on the button, and got re-raised 3,500 out of the blinds (THIS is the guy who had the T-6 under the gun limp trips earlier, not Paul as I couldn't bring myself to believe...)  Anyway, Nik thinks out loud, "He's got the A-K for sure.  Maybe A-Q suited."  He throws his 8d 8c face-up anyway, and is shown a smirky Kh 6c. 

hi booder

i seem to have lost that post with the chip count link

John Tabatabai -- 18,225
Johnny Hudson -- 16,600
Russ Cawley -- 4,300
Stefan Eccles -- 13,925
Jac Arama -- 11,650
Phil Peters -- 19,100
James Morgan -- 10,450
Neil Channing -- 19,300
Lauren Szisak -- 15,425
Ian Woodley -- 9,600
Giovanni Vaccarella -- 10,375
Bambos -- 7,300
Stephen Au Yeung -- 4,125
E Phipps -- 9,950
John Gale -- 20,650
Paul Jackson -- 4,325
Lucy Rokach -- 21,100
Dave Smith -- 13,725

if you post the names of anyone you are following, i am sure jen and snoopy will do their best to get you a count for them

I'm posting chip counts now.

He got all the way down to around 2,000 and then "Limper's tax went into effect."  That seems to mean that he moved in one time with a proudly shown T-4 and then a second time with "worse" but got a double fold round and picked up enough to propel him back to just under 4k.  Ask again after the dinner break, which is in about half an hour.

Sod the chips counts where is the norkage

is there a site where i can follow it myself please cos i have a whole host of people i am following from my stable

1 things for sure you wont beat the coverage on Blonde anywhere.............and you might if we are lucky get some norkage soon too  ;)

anyone got the counts for the following

paul parker
ron de bollox
tony choy-sing

thanks

S Sandhu -- 14,450
Paul Goulay -- 9,450
Des Jonas -- 10,875
Ray Brown -- 18,400
Ash Pervais -- 8,100
Richard Herbert -- 24,600
Mick Herron -- 2,700
Martini Libertini -- 9,275
Brendan Walls -- 9,200
DaMatrix -- 5,750
Reyaaz Mulla -- 8,750
Tony Cartwright -- 1,850
Henning Granstad -- 6,425
Iwan Jones -- 12,450
John Shipley -- 12,375
Tina Jordan -- 13,200

LOL why not pop into Tesco and ask them how much the beans are in Sainsburys.

It looks like you got the wrong Wong Jen....oops      And for the guy looking for chip counts no other site gives updates in Europe better than Blonde

I'll go and take a look now. Is there anyone else?

Barny Boatman is chip leader after winning a massive 4 way pot. Bit of an odd one really, retold by Tighty.

Sunny Chattha had moved in under the gun with As-Qh, and Nik (9s-7s), Barny (sb, Js-xs) and Sid Harris (bb, Ks-Qh) all called.

Flop = Tc Qs 4d

Sid bet and both players called.

Turn = 6s

Sid all-in, Barny made the call (must have been pot odds or a chance for the chip lead) and Nik folded.

River came another spade and Barny took a massive pot.

Howard Plant and Ryan Fronda have been clashing in small but frequent battles.  They check it all the way down on a board which comes:  6s Qs Qd Qh (here Howard announces, "I have a full house") and finally Tc.  Ryan shows Ad Jc, and Howard throws his hand, saying, "I thought I had a full house..."

Then, Howard Plant early min raises and gets called by Michael Greco and Ryan Fronda (and perhaps another, couldn't tell, not relevant). 
The flop comes Qh 4c 3s, Howard checks, Michael bets and gets one caller in Mr. VC.
Turn:  5d  check-check
River:  Tc  check, and Ryan shows Ahrt Qd which is good enough.  Slowly but surely Mr. Fronda is building a stack with which to terrorise his table by calling with high-kickered Aces.

they are the main ones thanks

ok guys i get the message...im a newbie blogger ill get the hang of it hopefully... bear with me

No idea Kev  but i bet you know how much pies cost in both places

Joe Beevers
Joe Beevers
Joe Beevers

 rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

don't worry my friend..stick around and you'll find you can't beat the blonde updates (and you won't get chip counts of people you are following faster anywhere else)

Paul Parker -- 3,450
Racing Ronnie -- 10,150
Tony Choy-Sing -- 18,400

It's not a problem m8, hope the above is what you were after.

BEN VINSON chip count please

You win your bet .... i have got ginsters deep fill steak pie for tea, 2 for £3.00 at tesco ;)

I think people should just leave earlier, there is always a delay and its always due to traffic!


Hello Snoopy and Jen,


Best of luck to Greg Howard, nice guy, I'm sure there others, I'm too lazy to read the full list.

Any rough idea how the following are getting on please?:

Matt Dale
Dan Carter
Pete 'the prof' Singleton

thanks snoopy

i have just texted ron and tony with a description of what they are wearing.  that should do their heads in a bit hehe

Ben Vinson -- 7,625

Either side of him, a boyant J Ruehle won a big pot off a rather pissed off Paul Plimmer with J-T vs K-K on a 2-Q-T-J-T board.

15 guests? come on guys..sign up..I'm sure Snoop will post Norkage soon (even if it is in the form of Simon Nowab in the DtD catsuit)

Is tomorrow sold out .....if so do you have a prize structure

Ian Woodley has won doubled up off Phil Peters in what was clearly and unavoidable all-in situation. T-T vs 7-7 on a T-7-rag Flop. Don't think he's escaping that one.

I'm on my way...

As the players drift into their 75 min dinner break, a mini saga from RED-DOG - he's on a slightly low but not desperate 8k.  For starters he ran JJ into Howard Plant's KK - a low flop got a call from RED, and even a Queen following, but after the check on the river he found that he'd actually done well not to lose any more than half his stack.  Then he raced a short-stack's JJ with overs and won that one - so instead of severely shortened he's still breathing fairly easily.

Not so Mick McCool, whose bowl of rice 2k was all in with Ac 4c against Aspades Ks, but a two pair on the board kept him in over the break.  "I wish you'd had Sevens, now," he said (the double pair was Nines and something Overs)...

The players have just gone on what I believe is a 75 minute break.

I'll get the chip counts of those players when they return.

Any1 want a Dena pic?

Most definitely sold out, with a waiting list of vultures waiting for the traffic-stuck to fail to show... :)

I think the prize structure is listed here (percentage wise):  http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/events_prize.shtml (http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/events_prize.shtml)

Is this the first DTD aided updates if so thanks to Rob and Crew

Great job as always Jen and Snoopy  hope you both were front of the queue for the buffet

Thanks Snoopy. Nice work as always

I HAVE  a question
 any 1 witnessed or heard any time any tourny and any stage that paul parker was a chip leader? the guy s unbeleivable  lol  always hanging

As promised...

although she does look rather intoxicated here.

Still so damn sexy.. :kiss:

Dena (not Dina!) says she had a bone to pick with me. Apparantly she was braced to hand over her phone number until she saw me taking piccies of the DTD girls in Copenhagen. To be honest, I think Dana will have bone to pick with Dena now.

any news on zippy n how many chips hes got

She is probably drowning her sorrows after finding out Tikay isn't there :)

I was winding Dani up earlier saying that people also pm asking for norkage pictures of him, but then pm-ing again saying that it was a typo and they meant Dena.  :D

He didn't find it amusing...

Dinner break at the moment m8.

I can report that he has grown a beard since the start of the comp.

He's like the Anti-Turk!  ;D

By the way its Dena's Birthday today

Thanks, we had a bit of tucker at the wrong time so not too hungry now.

DTD aid us financially for EPTs, WPT and WSOP, rather than the Grosvenor events. However, they are still the forum sponsors so we'll do our best to keep an eye out for their players. Michael Greco is in one of those middle tables and not quite as easy to get to, but I'll have a butchers after the break and get a chippy count.

I HAVE  a question
any 1 witnessed or heard any time any tourny and any stage that paul parker was a chip leader? the guy s unbeleivable  lol  always hanging

i have a question too...has anyone seen paul parker take a breath?

and still doesn't look a day over a gorgeous 23

Yes, I saw him take one before he drank his last glass of wine.

Chip count for michael muldoon and brian little if u get a chance

Sure, any others while we're on a break?

Micko, do you have a describtion of Little so I can make sure it's him at the seat and hasn't moved.

dick lynch   dave penly     ryan fronda   and richard prew  please snoopy

Tim Blake
Big Trev
Mick Fletcher

noted

No worries, any others while I'm still here - I can grab them all at once then.

y dnt u get him a shave while hes free he may play better n fresher

I can't, he's busy eating. I daren't interrupt.  :)

He was on my table with Iwan, Gale, Fronda etc.

During the first level, Gale bets 175 (1 x grey + 3 x orange) on AAK board. Jules attempts to call with 3 x green + 1 x orange. So it's now 1525 to go.

The turn A was quite nice for mateyboy who was 3rd to act with AJ....

Karl Mifrjfnjrnf   DC   henning  and tony chapman

Hi Longines, are you Grant Mason, I looked for you a while back but the seat was empty, what happened?

He was in the earlier photo of persuad and parker he was on there right just poppin his head in

Don't think it was possible for me to play the hand any worse. My only consolation was if I played it much, much better, I'd still have been going home....

QQ vs Mr Gale's 9h6h - flop was rainbow T87.

Snoops,

You took a picture of my table when Gale, Fronda, Jones etc. were still there.

Any chance you could post it so I can convince my missus that I did actually attend  ;D

update on team trotter!!

Matt Dale 12K  obviously called his way to that!!

Dan C 10K

Pete S 3K

During this lull in proceedings, I would just like to let everyone know that we have launched a new LOYALTY SCHEME on blondes poker room.

Please PM me for details.


Anyone who opens a blonde poker room account is eligible DONT MISS IT !!!

I took a picture of one player I'm afraid. You should have prodded me!!  :)

Still on the din din break folks.

do u hav a chip count on nick slade and zippy plz snoops

Any more chip counts required before play resumes?

Not yet, they're on the dinner break. Chip counts of all the requests when they return.

Did 7-2o feature in Matts progress somewhere along the line Walty?  ;whistle;

wat time do they finish tonite

After level 9 I believe, so around 3am.

Scheduled for 3am. Will be closer to 4 with the delays.

Great update guys, many thanks.

Dont know mate.  I was going to get up there for some cash games but cant be arsed now

snoops can iu have a count on lord w/des jonas/ben calian/ash the cash/thewy/john gale plzzzz

Chip count for John Gale please snoops.

Cheers

Snoppy,Whats the prize structure please?Not 1st place top heavy?

WHY IS THER 13 GUESTS LOL THEY MUST THINK THEY ARE GOING TO GET BOMBARDED WITH EMAILS OFF BLONDE OR SUMMAT GUYS ITS FREE OF CHARGE SIGN UP LADIES AND GENTS.THEY YOU CAN SEEE THE WONDERFULL PHOTOGRAPHY THAT THE TEAM DO  ;thankyou;

Prize structure:

http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/events_prize.shtml (http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/events_prize.shtml)

First is larger, because of the £10,000 added prize money courtesy of blue square, and a seat to the £3k London Grand Final thrown in.  And a £1,500 watch, according to J.R....

Many thanks

Is Julian Thew out?

snoops how s big ash doing m8  havent heard much of him

Andy Donn -- 11,000
Nick Slade -- 8,300
Matt Dale -- 10,275
James Dempsey -- 10,000
Dan Carter -- 13,225
Pete Singleton -- 2,700
Ben Vinson -- 5,200
Michael Muldoon -- out
Brian Little -- 9,900
Dick Lynch -- 16,575
Dave Penley -- 16,550
Ryan Fronda -- 19,375
Trevor Reardon -- 7,875
T Choy Sing -- 19,400
Greg Howard -- 7,925
Mick Fletcher -- 13,900
Racing Ronnie -- 8,400
Maria Demetriou -- 19,725
Nick Jenkins -- 24,300
Zippy Aslam -- 4,300
Henning Granstad -- 5,850
Barny Boatman -- 35,475
Michael Greco -- 5,400

Ariston is OUT. Down to 1,600, made his move with 9-7 but was taken out by K-Q.

Just heading down now for the last straggler counts - we're no longer actually allowed to write right next to where the action's happening (Security measures in all Grosvenor) so there may be a lag of some extra minutes as we get out of the warren of service corridors and secret back rooms we're based in nowadays...

is that just in case your pen is a cunningly disguised rocket launcher ?

 rotflmfao

any luck with these snoops

Scott O'Reiley -- 6,675

Did well in the WSOP, I think he came around 50th or something but someone will need to confirm for me. Either way, nice payday.

Jen's on the case. I did see Ash folding Nines pre-flop to Mick McCool's 4k pre-flop all-in. Mick showed A-K when the blinds folded. Ash was definitely considering making the call though.

He's on 13,150.

Neil Channing and Ian Woodley seem to be crossing swords on a frequent basis tonight. The latest, Woodley took a nice pot down with a 3.5k bet on a 3h-Kh-4c-7s. Channing still has 18k though, although Woodley is up to 25.

Richard 'Strummer' Herbert is OUT.

Fives vs A-K.

tell ash to stop being a rock haha

The end of the Requests:

Dave Colclough     10,600
TightEnd              NIS  (not in seat - OUT)
Paul Parker            OUT  (having dwindled too far)
John Gale             27,500
Des Jonas              OUT

Richard Redmond is also out, after losing with his 5c 5s to Ad Kd - but from the consolation frowning of his table mates, I reckon something more sinister than a straight preflop race happened to him (just caught the very end).

Sloopy,

Can you please wish Adrian Bates all the best, and how many chips please?  If he is out dont wish him luck

Ta

lord wernick plz jen las 1 now pwomise

Best wishes to Tom, Maria and Flushy please.

The following players have all exited stage left:

Alan Vinicombe
Gordon McArthur
Karl Mahrenholz
Ben King
Tom Hudson
Terry Fletcher
Tony Cartright
Surinder Sunar
Jonny Hudson
Tony Blood
M Isackov
Andrew Booth
Brian Donnelly
Terry Fletcher

**********Correction************

Des Jonas is still in, just relocated with his 14k or so in chips.  Here's a picture to prove it.  When I told him he'd been reported out, he told me to tell you he's not.  So I am.

barney or gale to go deep in this i predicted gale earlier on btw.chip count for mickey wen ur ready guys.no rush jus dnt forget plz

go desy

any news about Ben Vinson???????????

This is Robert Bright (who ran well in Bolton) giving Penley the staredown. The Board reads 9d 9c 3s Jh 4c. Robert had bet 1.5k on the Turn and been called, before his 1.6k bet on the River was re-raised to 5k. He eventually called Dave but found his Pocket Fives to be way behind his opponents Cowboys.

Thanks Jen *g

This cool dude is Benedetto Passantino (neat name, huh?), also know as 'DaMatrix' online. He's currently on 6,425. I think I recall him finalling in one of the APAT events.

Two in one for you - Mickey Wernick (14,000) and Maria 'Chili' Demetriou (18,000) and the mischievous hand of Martyn Cavanagh (0k):

how about ben calliain big fellow is usually seen with des jonas.he is playing today

Ben Vinson is OUT. Taken out by Kayshan Muthy who said, "Ben made a move on me with Kings and I took him out with A-Q, first card Ace. Actually, I take that back, I fluked it."

dewi, adrain has moved, do you have a piccy?

I hope not in the urinals.

Two hot contenders for Climber of the Day:

Will it be Mick McCool (top), down to just 800 chips at one point, who's clawed his way back to 4k?  In the process he avoided losing his hard-won gains in a hand against Ray Brown (also pictured).  He held 9-T, and flopped 5-8-9, betting from the button, and getting called.  The turn brought an Ace, and now Ray bet out 800, called by Mick.  The rivered Ten brought both the McCool two pair, and a 2,300 bet out from Ray, which he avoided calling (it would have left him back under 1,000) and was shown A-5 for his laydown.

Or will it be his table mate Henning Granstad?  The smiling Norwegian has pulled 1,400 back to 8,000 over three long levels.  Let's see who's in at the end of the day, and whose stack has grown the most.  That's how I usually determine Climber of the Day, for anyone technically minded out there...

No snoops, he plays broadway and walsall, dont worry about it, cheers

"And they call it Puppy Loooooove," sings Flushy.

"What's wrong with you?" I inquire.

"I'm drunk," he replies.

Sigh, he's only had a shandy.

Finally, two pics from table Leaders - Barney Boatman and Nik Persaud, both near the top of the pile in chips.  They've drawn the lighting short straw, however, so Barney's been artificially lightened with my econophotoshop, while I had to resort to the fiendishly uncontrollable flash for Nik, which makes him look possessed.  Never mind.

Blinds are still 150 and 300, 130 left with the av stack at 13.8k

Yes, it does appear that brave Flushy is refusing to go to bed, in case, "I get up early."  He tells me he still has 10,000 chips.  Which, strictly speaking, is true.

PI Dick Slade is up to 14k.

Moving over the top of Andy Mile's Flop bet (6-J-3), the Northerner comments, "Come on, it's only a game, don't be a (naughty bodily part that resembles a cat), stick em in," to which Andy replies, "I call".

K-J vs. A-A isn't good enough though, especially with an Ace on the Turn. And how about a Jack on the River to rub it in?

Miles OUT.

Some chip counts for Slade's table.

Miles -- out
Nick Slade -- 14k
Andy Donn -- 11.1k
Racing Ronnie -- 10.6k
Ashley Hayles -- 13.8k
Scott O'Reilley -- 8.1k

Great updates guys, just caught up, can you let me know how Tina Jordans getting on, and wish her the best of luck from ruthless x

thanks forgreat updates any chance of chip counts on these mate ?when you get a min,,.,.,.,no rush.,.,.,

lmao

Chris Lipris -- 6,100
Dave Smith -- 15,600
Stefan Eccles -- 22,450
Phil Peters -- 8,275
James Morgan -- 14,200
Neil Channing -- 10,225
Stephen AuYeung -- 5,475
Bambos -- 8,500
Ian Woodley -- 21,800
Greg Howard -- 12,300
John Gale -- 30,025
Dan Carter -- 12,100
Paul Jackson -- 9,425
Lucy Rokach -- 27,650
Mark Orlowski -- 2,350
Kayshan Muthy -- 17,200
Jac Arama -- 9,425
Giovanni Vaccorella -- 16,700
Des Jonas -- 14,200
John Tabatabai -- 9,425

I know him but haven't found him yet, doesn't look good but I'll have another gander next time I go out.

Just after those chip counts...

Local boy and twin (boy, that can be confusing) Chris Lipris has doubled up.

In fact, I accidentally caught sight of his Aces as I was passing. I'm sure he glanced slighty over his shoulder to see if anyone was there, so I decided to watch from a distance.

Anyhow, Gale limped, Lipris raised and Howard and Gale both called.

Flop = Kh Jd Ahrt

Lipris bets 2k, Howard folds and Gale calls.

Lipris then moves in on the 3d Turn and, after a lenghty dwell, Gale calls with the speculative holding of Jh 6h.

The set holds up and Lipris is up to 15k.

Gives you an insight into how Gale plays though, not afraid to gamble when he has chips.

Good night guys...

Thanks for the updates...

I hope John Gale is chip leader when I awaken.

any news on zippy

snoops i hope you are tracking ben callian down for me and ash the cash plz

opps sorry to late thanks snoops

great updates as usual guys- wish i was there............. :(  got counts for iwan roberto and ouday please?

yeah bungle just asked him.,.,.,is it  time for a story.,.,.,.,


sorry m8 im bored,bored,,bored.,.,.,bored.,.,.
thinking of having a game of heads up on my own.,.,..,just to see whod win.,.,.,

hows your knee operation m8.,.,.,sorry about making them bang together when i set you all in .,.,.,lol

 whats zippys chip count m8

Paul Goulay -- 17,125
Ray Brown -- 16,375
Ash Pervais -- 18,700
Darshan Sami -- 6,050
Peter Evans -- 16,275
Henning Granstad -- 7,650
Martino Libertini -- 12,700
DaMatrix -- 10,450
Mick Fletcher -- 13,450
Martin Folkes -- 6,125
John Shipley -- 11,000
Iwan Jones -- 11,500
Tina Jordan -- 11,225
Reyaaz Mulla -- 16,250
Ian Herbert -- 20,100

How can you be bored with these thrilling updates to read? Shame on you!

The booby prize has never looked so good!

Well, it's not Mick McCool's day to be Climber - he eventually got into that AK vs QQ race and lost the lot.  So ruthlessly quick, this game, sometimes.  But Michael Greco is finding it slow - "Pair of fives my best hand all day."  His boredom threshold might be in danger of being crossed soon, although he assures us he will be, "Grinding to the end..."

Elsewhere, serial caller Matt Dale has pulled his socks up and regained some chips (11k) while RED-DOG gets a narrow escape:

He'd raised in mid position with Ad Kc, receiving two callers.  The Ahrt 3h 4s flop brought a bet out from the blinds caller of 2,500.  Awkward, considering Red's stack only totalled around 9,000... so he decided to push, but found 4h 4c against him... luckily he was saved by the running 2-5 for the split-creating straight, and admits that he's been given a reprieve from the cards.  Currently trying to forget about the problems that hand caused him ("Should I have pushed?  Could I ever fold? etc.) and building up a more playable stack before the larger antes kick in.

This is Martin Folkes, folks, one of the 'originals' according to Ash Pervais.

"Has he played with Wild Bill Hickock?" I asked.

"Nah, but Mickey Wernick has, went to school with him."  :D

On the chip count, Henning Granstad got up to that figure by doubling up with Aces vs. K-Q.

whats zippy chip count please

ash has run ok this week cashing dnt be suprised if he gets a well over due big cash.tell him i said gl snoop

12,200

Found Ben for you hotdog, he's on 10,300.

wdone snoops thanks

Working my way around, give me a sec.

Before I check, some more chip counts:

Olabode Ayegun -- 5,750
Red-Dog -- 8,800
Philip Dorrington -- 24,500
Matt Tyler -- 12,800
Trevor Reardon -- 9,300
Matt Dale -- 9,200
Jamie Prices -- 7,300
Howard Plant -- 9,400
Michael Greco -- 9,150
Alan McLean -- 9,450
Mike Tse -- 16,375
Robert Bright -- 8,300
Dick Lynch -- 2,800
Benwoo -- 10,300
John Huckle -- 19,825
Nick Jenkins -- 19,000

Bright was on less but doubled up with A-K vs Mike Tse's 9-9 and a board of 3-A-3-5-2.

HI Jen, Snoopy

ITs Paul here from the Rendezvous hows flushy and Ron debeaulox getting on

Zippy Aslam -- 5,600

Shrugged his shoulders, didn't look too chuffed I'm afraid, so obviously not going his way today.

go ZIPPY go  Ahrt of poker

Blinds are 150 and 300 with a running ante of 25 and will be so for the next 10 minutes.

Hows Chili doing please?

With 2,800, buddy love (Olabode Ayegun) sticks it in with Q-Js, but lost to A-Q.

how is sandhu doing??? has he bluffed his chips away yet???

How is Joe Beevers doing?

How is his banter??

Meanwhile... Neighbours John Gale (24k) and Paul Jackson get pushed off their respective button raise and s.b. call by a 3k re-raise from the big blind...that's how to get rid of the top guys.  Everyone will be doing it soon...

And another table has been broken; we're down to 120.  My guess for finishing number is: 75.  Apart from, "Who's the chip leader?" the question I get asked most often on a Day One is, "How many d'you think we'll get down to tonight."  I honestly have no idea why this should be, but I always pretend to think for a while before stabbing in the dark.

He was on the initial list as being in, but he wasn't.  So I'm in no position to comment on his banter.

HERBIE GOES BANANAS!

Funny one for you here...

Flop = Kh Jh 6c

Ian Herbert bets, Sandu moves all-in for an extra 500 to which Ian responds, "Crap, I didn't realise he was so short, I can'f fold."

"Just a draw (5h 2h)," says a desperate Sandu, oblivious to the fact that he is ahead, as proven when Ian reveals his 4d 2d.

Turn = Kd

River = 4c

Ian takes it, you gotta laugh.

well that is marginal...

Cheers Jen! :-)

His opponent just plays it well in my opinion.

Chip second or third Nik Persaud has been moved to Ryan Fronda's immediate left.  He's therefore the big blind RED will be attempting to steal... he's still having to explain that he's a luckbox for that early House vs. House double through, but I notice at least a few more chips have been added since then.  He said his Aces (card rack, too) nearly took a chunk off him, when someone with T-7 saw a T-7-2 flop with him...

And Dave Colclough, still pondering that (much) earlier pass of two pair re-raises an under-the-gun raiser to steal another thousand, all the time surmising that far from a dominating hand or even a nut draw, the guy he gave so much respect at the beginning was purely on the steal himself.  No one tortures players about their play like themselves.

The players are currently on a short break. Meanwhile, I got the chance to have a chat with Greg 'crosscoutbh' Howard, who is running well but not too keen on his table, where he is sandwhiched between Paul Jackson, Lucy Rokach and John Gale.

Golly gosh!  ;gobsmacked;

hows flushy doing  ;izimbra;

if ever he was gona name drop lol

Hi there - Flushy is intoxicated and playing tomorrow.
Ron Debeaulox is still in, going to see how his stack's looking.

P.S. I really like the new Rendezvous.  So well lit.  (I sound like my Grandpa).

and ouday and roberto please. say hi to flushie for me too.

hows richard wong doin plz?

have u any player chip counts

If I remember correctly, one of Dave's diary posts from last years WSOP, was about an A-8-4 rainbow flop after he called a raise with A-8 and so did an early position limper, the limper checked, the raiser bet out, Dave raised and the limper pushed. Raiser folded and Dave called only to see a set of 4's. Anyway Dave chastised himself in the diary for not folding because it was obvious (to Dave) what he could only have. Perhaps this had an effect on Dave been more wary with future strong but not lock hands?

Any counts for the Irish please?

Ivan Donaghy
Mick McCloskey
Brendan Walls
Brendan McKenna

Ash Pervais has dropped down to 14k. He didn't too happy either, apprantly he called down Ray Brown's bluff with Pocket Jacks only for Brown to make a gutshot with one card to come.

I beleive Mick McCloskey is OUT I'm afraid.

any chance of a count on richard wong, when u get a tic,

tks stu

racing ron tony choy sing and paul parker if any of these are still in please snoopy

chip count on zippy please

This is local player Ben Callinan (sp?), also known as Benwoo on various online sites. Pretty solid player, on 9,750 at the moment.

realy good lad dnt see him make mistsake v often god knows why he doesnt ccash more often could be another dark horse

I believe this is blondeite member ripple, more commonly know to his parents as Nick Jenkins. Finalled in the South of England Championships in Southamption last year if my memory serves me correct.

No particular reason for posting this photo except to show you the amount of glassage at the table. I've had a word with Jonathan Raab and neither of us can ever recall seeing 4 pairs of glasses in a row.

4 eyes as Jen hilariously observed.  ;djinn;

Roberto Romanello  12,000
Richard Wong       15,000
Ronnie Debeaulox   13,600
Chili                      13,000
Bambos                 6,300
Ian Woodley          30,000
Neil Channing         11,500
Phil Peters             13,700
Barney Boatman     50,000
Dan Carter             25,500
John Gale              14,500
ActionJack              4,400
Lucy Rokach          19,000
Greg Howard         18,200
Kunkuwap              6,300
Des Jonas              17,000
Lauren Szisak          4,500
Jac Arama              13,200
Iwan Jones             11,100
Nik Persaud            42,000
Ryan Fronda           19,000
RED-DOG                8,400
Michael Greco          11,000

Paul Parker went before the dinner break, and Snoops is looking for your others...

lord wernick plz

Any stories?

Zippy -- 3,025
Racing Ronnie -- 11,750
Choy-Sing -- no sign, prob out
Maria Demetriou -- 13,350

And a couple of new ones:

Andrew Bradshaw -- 25,425
Alan Henson (Who finalled in Bolton) -- 15,250

Blinds are at 200/400, 115 left, 15,700 av stack.

Just saw Lucy split a pot, and this time she had her man dominated. She raised, MB called, and a chap who I believe to be Michael McLean makes a move witj K-2. Lucy calls with her A-K but the board comes 8-5-K-8-8 saving McLean.

Bambos has played almost no hands, it looks like, today, and hasn't had over 10k at any point.  Just now he raised to 3,300 after Ian Woodley limped in under the gun (which could mean almost anything).  "I can beat A-K," sighs Woodley as he releases his 2s 2c.
"I could beat A-K as well," remarks Bambos, stoical in his small pot "first winning hand" Ad Aspades...
Barney Boatman pipes up, telling Ian, "You should've played it the Jac Arama way - stop the bluff..." 

Just spotted Choy-Sing in a dark corner, he's still in! Doing well too with 21,650

Jatinder Purewal has virtually doubled up, although Phil Dorrington made a good fold with Queens.

Flop was 3c 9c Ahrt, Phil made it 2.5k and Jatinder went all-in for what looked like just 1,150 more, but Phil realised he was in trouble (A-Q in fact) and clicked the fold button at the right time. Bet he was glad Jatinder didn't reveal the flush draw.

lord wernick plz

Red-Dog -- 8,900
Michael Greco -- 13,825
Phil Dorrington -- 18,500
Charlie Denton -- 14,225
Jatinder Purewal -- 12,400
Peter Singleton -- out
Matt Tyler -- 19,800
John Huckle -- 19,650
Trevor Reardon -- 3,600
Matt Dale -- 11,525
Mickey Wernick -- 13,700
Tony Choy-Sing -- 21,050
MZ Hussain -- 18,800
Nik Persuad -- 39,900
DaMatrix -- out
Jamie Price -- 17,500
Womble -- 5,200

wow have you seen the news off robs club ,dtd ,its on the forum .
 
brilliant news.

Sorry folks. I asked this question hours ago and had to go out.....John is also known as kunkuwap, he is young guy, dark hair and I can guarantee he will be well known by now to the room!!  :) :)

sorry guys i know this is the live update got a bit excited.

any disqualifications yet?

Charlie Denton is OUT. Queens verus Kings, all-in pre-flop, 9-7-T-T-4.

Bad news for Denton, but good news for Matt Tyler who jumpst up to 35k as a result.

Yes, I've been including him in chip counts.

Hi All

Is Jaggers still going?

If he is wish him well from Stu & Trace

Bonkers Hand Crowns New Leader News Now -

I was drawn over by an excited Martyn Cavanagh to get some muttered commentary courtesy of Paul Jackson on this crazy hand - There was a standard raise, called by Edward Phipps on the button.  According to Paul, this guy has been playing 80% of hands, calling with any two and winning enough of them to have a stack of around 30k by the time this hand happened.  Anyway, the big blind then makes it 5,200 to go (a re-raise of 4k) losing the original guy, but not the tenacious Mr. Phipps.

Flop came Ten high.  Now, bear in mind that the pot gets to over 60k here - it goes, bet out, raise all in, instacall.
Big blind, Mr. Greg Howard showed Aspades Kd
Button, Mr. Edward Phipps showed Ts Jh
The rest came low, and the rest of the table was speechless.  "What planet are they on, and why do I not have any chips?" grumbles ActionJack, or words to that effect, as his 8k or so looks even less powerful...

Pictured - the new chip leader, in process of stacking.

We've come close. In fact there was a bit of kafuffle on Table Granstad, the Norwegian becoming rather irritated at being forced to wait.

Basically, what happened is that with the Flop showing 3c 2c 7s, Mick Fletcher bet 2,750 only for Peter 'The Bandit' Evans to make it 5,450. As you may have noticed, this is 50 short, and before anything could be said, Mick Fletcher had raised again for the rest of his chips.

Clearly beat, Peter tries to convince everyone that it should be a smooth call and his chips should be returned, but following a bit of a seemingly endless debate with supervisor Zak, he conceded, splashed the chips in and folded.

"It was obvious he was raising," rants Granstad, "this is ridiculous."

In the meantime, Bandit has a right cob on.

He's just this minute gone.  Sandy from badbeat had sent Hartwith to go keep an eye on the short stack (as he was likely to double or bust at any second) but his chips weren't there when we got down and it turned out that he'd gone with T-J vs. T-K, both hitting trips and being outkicked.

how many has mick flecher got plz.

Niel Channing has been eliminated by Late Night Poker veteran, Barny Boatman.

Is it just me, or do Ian Woodley and Barny Boatman look like twins?

Anyhow, I mistakenly made the suggestion to them, to which Barny replied, "Oh thank you very much."

"But you do, two peas in a pod."

"You'll look like us soon if you keep that up," moans an irate Barny clenching his fist.  :D

To which Ian Woodley responded, "Hold on, I'm the one that should be moaning, not you!"

ians new name is quissi

A couple more counts:

Joe Grech     7,600
Ray Brown    27,000
Peter Evans  26,800 (although this might be before the raise 'controversy')
Mickey Wernick  15,500
Henning Granstad  8,100  (each check he's down to 2k, then up to 8k, then down to 2k again - like a scaled-down YoYo...)

Chip Tower Award Ceremony:

Bronze: Matt Tyler, making the most of his smallish stack
Silver:  Nik Persaud's stack with ipod garnish
Gold:  Nick Slade taunting gravity
Platinum:  Simon Mycock (OK that was in Copenhagen but he still wins)

What my hubby2b said please Jen and/or Snoops?

TYVM Dahlings

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

sod that,wheres the heads up report  et al?

Iwan Jones -- 11,300
John Huckle -- 20,000
Andy Bradshaw -- 30,500
Dave Penley -- 15,500
Alan Henson -- 8,825
John Gale -- 11,525
Paul Gourlay -- 22,900
Stefan Eccles -- 23,050
Stephen Auyeung -- 14,725
Chris Lipsi -- 14,600
Dick Lynch -- 23,225
Jac Arama -- 18,050
Dave Smith -- 31,325
Michael McLean -- 17,825
Lucy Rokach -- 31,850
Alan McLean -- 11,050
Dan Carter -- 15,550
Ian Woodley -- 24,800
Barny Boatman -- 47,325
James Morgan -- 17,225
Kayshan Muthy -- 26,625

TUT!  Now that would be telling.....     ;tracet;

All is goooooooooooooooooooooooood tho....   ;bumwiggle;

Matt Tyler has got the cake after his Aces were raised by Matt Dale and then all-in by Philip Dorrington. Matt also moved all-in forcing to Matt Dale to fold, only to find out that Dorrington was making a move with 4c 2c. Anyhow, although the Flop came an 'I've got an out at least' 2-Q-Q Flop, the 6 on the Turn and the 2 on the River meant that a relieved Tyler was allowed to rake in the chips.

Jen has been entertained by the three consecutive pics she posted of E Phipps on this page. Apparantly, if you use the page up and down buttons to flick between the photos you can make Phipps dance and Rokach clap like a monkey.  ;sark;

i think he would of lost if phillip had trey 2s  ;hide;

Just arrived at my hotel..

I skimmed through all the pages... but I didn't see if Mssrs Thew and Shipley were in/out or shaking it all about...?

Any news please?

surely even in walsall  2 s full beats aces up???

Out, and Out.  Early, and middling respectively.

Only a couple of outer tables remaining, one of which is made up of the following:

Maria Demetriou -- 11,350
Tony Choy-Sing -- 16,050
Mickey Wernick -- 7,350
Ouday Hickary -- 22,350
Tim Blake -- 17,150
Adam Wilkinson -- 30,550
Nick Jenkins -- 16,050
Roberto Romanello -- out

Incidentally, Wilkinson just made a smart fold with Queens to A-K on a King high flop.

Doesn't Chili look thrilled!

Sry, he had 6c 4c and the Board 6-Q-Q-2-2. Typo.

Good luck messages have been passed on to Dick Lynch (pictured below) who thanks you for the support.

 ;sleep; ;sleep; ;sleep; ;sleep; ;sleep; ;sleep; ;sleep; ;sleep; ;sleep; ;sleep;

After being eliminated by Chris Gavriel in the Broadway Main Event, Tim Blake has sought revenge and defeated his opponent with Q-T vs. A-T (Gavriel was short), Queen arriving for the grateful blondeite.

Ryan Fronda puts himself through the wringer over a 6k call on the river with the board standing:  4s 4h 5d Qs 5c.  He checked, and found this bet into the 9k or so in the pot.  Going through all the options of what he puts his opponent on, from Queens through to pure bluff, he eventually calls, only to see the 4c 4d in his opponent's hand...

So Ryan Fronda, after pressing the 'Time' button quite vigorously (with a real decision, to be fair) has 12,700.
Neighbour Tom McCready has just 6,125, and presumably would like the whole thing to move at a brisker pace.  But he's still awake, which is more than I can say for some of the players who look like they're already half asleep.  Pictures coming.

Those Phipps brothers are hell to play against!

i see dave smith is still in with plenty of chips ,wish him luck plz it would be no suprise if he won this ,

very good player ,not frightened to get them in .

Recent eliminations:

Dave Colclough
Lauren Szisak
Henning Granstad

Anyone fancy giving me a chip count on Iwan Jones?

purple = 1,00
green = 500
grey = 100
orange = 25

Phipps has chips!!

Correction, Romanello is still in, moved table. He has now been located.

What did Ryan have ?

Someone who is definitely out is one of my picks, Joe Grech, who made his swan song with Pocket Nines v the K-Q of Martino Libertini.

On the same table, Damien Evans takes out a player when his Kings hold up against Tens, all-in by the Queen high Flop.

Yes, I'm not the biggest fan of updater-taunting Iwan Jones, who was all, "Bet you can't do this one," and tired old me guessed 3k short, an unheard-of margin of error, making him giggle in a "not so smart now, are we?" sort of way.  Well, it's less than 20k, that's all I'm prepared to say.  Clever stacking, well done.

Zippy Aslam looks a lot happier now, although he's still struggling with just 8,300. He's capable of cominng back from that though, no probs.

Meanwhile, his facial hair has grown an inch in the last hour.

He didn't show, just did that annoyed card-wave-and-muck.  But I think I saw the Aspades, and somehow think there's more likely to have been a Queen with it than it standing alone with the two pair.  I might just ask him.

After the current break, we'll be up to 400/800 ante 75, and that level will be all for today's play.

Matt Dale is also a gonna, finding his J-Ts in deep deep toruble against Jatinder Purewal's Pocket Tens.

4c 9c 4s Aspades gave him some outs, but even though he asked nicely for a spade or a jack, the dealer failed to oblige.

I notice Greg 'crosscoutbh' Howard's seat is empty.

He's also logged into blonde.

What happened?  :dontask:

Hi Jen,

 Great updates as usual , Can you please get a chip count on A very good friend of mine Kashan Muthy and pass on  ;goodluck;.


ooh, can you refrain from using the word Cupcake !.

Many thanks xx

I think that was that giganto hand against Mr. Phipps...

Just had a quick chat with RED-DOG in the break - he's "clinging on to the wreckage" and looking for any open spot to push his last chips in with.  But there's been a raise in front of him every time, and he can't bring himself to take the plunge with any two in a situation in which he's pretty much bound to be called.  That's a rubbish position to be in, I hope the way becomes clear for him before Day Two...

Hey Snoopy -

Had started to get cards and was building stack up to around 30k chips. The 'bonkers' hand was a misread by me. I sensed weakness when he called all in after the pot was up to around 15k chips or so with J high on the board. I put him on AQ and was prepared to race. (I made the call similar to one you make in an online sit and go, and in retrospect made the wrong play.... doh

I got a flush draw on the turn so had 15 outs and was praying for 1 of them - but cest la vie it never happened.
If it had of happened would have been in the top 5.

I hadnt made too many friends with my play that hour as I had played 4 -5 hands very aggressively and grown my stack from 12k -30k with strong raising. Including KK vs Lucy who didnt like me pushing her around and doing a ballsy 4 times raise on 3 raised limpers holding a mid range PP in the big blind.

What was amazing was that Jackson was on life support below 5k chips and John Gale had whittled to sub 10k and Lucy sub 13k so in the space of 1 hour i had jumped to 2nd in stack size on the table. Just played 1 too may aggressive plays on a misread.

Wont be playing Cardiff but will see you at Monte carlo and Mancester for Leg 4.

Great updates.

Good luck to all blondietes still in

greg

Chip leaders...

Matt Tyler -- 60,200
Paul Gourlay -- 54,975
Edward Phipps -- 49,950
Barny Boatman -- 48,550
Nik Persaud -- 41,950
Michael Bolous -- 40,800

Zippy Aslam is OUT.

Pushed all-in from the small blind with K-J but was looked up by the A-6 of Christian Laarsen.

I don't know if it was, but I can't resist saying that it was a rainbow flop (cough).

He bungled into the A-6?

It's short stack double up outdraw hour here!

Firstly, RED-DOG found his moment, and got it all in with J-9.  He was called by J-Q.  Eek.  First card out: 9, Turn card: Q, River card: 9.  11,000 for Tom.

Then, Chili got it all in with Qs Qc preflop (more of a Genuine hand this one) but was called by Mickey Wernick with the genuiner Ad Ahrt.
The board came out:  Qh 9d 5s 9s Ts and so Chili approaches the 20k mark, while Mickey is left with around half that.  All good humoured, though, if anything, Maria was wincing - I only ran over to the table because I saw her head bowed down over her arms in an "Oh no" kind of way...

By George you called with that

I speak too soon - Tom decided to go for it again with 5-7, but ran into the Jacks of Alan Mclean.  I can't believe the hand of hands didn't hold up...

Snoops knows your man and has been including him in the chip counts...I believe he's still in with 31k, but Snoopy's the expert here and will be able to confirm.

And here are two of those chip leaders...

Blinds are currently at 400 and 800 with a running ante of 75.

There are 71 of the original 180 remaining with an everage stack of 25,400.

Play will end in 30 minutes.

Great stuff guys as per usual:  ;thankyou; ;hattip;

Many thanks guys ............xx

Here is Kayshan Muthy ofr you cupcake, Jen was right, he's on around 30k, he's not a quiet lad is he?

Ian Woodley has a face like a stinging nettle being chewed by a bulldog (if stinging nettles do indeed have faces), due to being bluffed by Norwegian M Arnesen who revealed K-Q after betting Ian off an 8-A-6-4 board.

Just 15 minutes left, we'll try and get those end of day chip counts to you once they're bagged.

Mick Flecther is OUT.

Moved all-in on a 9c Ahrt 2c Flop with Kc 8c.

Roberto Romanello made a very good call with Ad 3d, which deservedly stood up.

Turn = 8d

River = Js

Racing Ronnie is surviving, but onyl just, it's taking him a bfew bluffs to stay in the game, his latest being a nice move on Ash Pervais, forcing the latter to fold an 8 on a 7h 5d 8h Flop. Ronnie revealed Kd 8c.

Paul Jackson exited earlier. His assassin was John Huckle who's A-J outdid Actionjack's Pocket Threes.

This is MZ Hussain, an absolute nightmare to get rid of, and he's so quiet too, so he always slips under the radar without so much as a murmur. Good, solid player, he has as good a chance as any of being present during the latter stages of this event. If not, then it's going to take a big hand to get rid of him.

Action in the slowly draining last seconds -
Maria gets a caller preflop and a 7s Qc 9c flop.  She bets what looks like 4k; call.
Turn:  2h  She checks, and Matey pushes in for around 14k.  Clearly not happy with this turn of events, she eventually lets it go, and is shown Jd 9d which may or may not have been ahead (but probably was)...

Then the chip counts were underway even as the final dwells were being dwelled, and we're getting emailed the list so's we can pack up and go to sleep in the quickest possible time...

According to Mr Raab, chip counts will be emailed to us in about 90 minutes time, so I might as well head off home and upload them from my bedroom.

So, with the breathless anticipation of the final counts keeping us awake, we're driving home.

;stickaforkinme;

Back tomorrow 4pm for the same thing with different Day One players...

Nighty night, peeps.

We'll see you tomorrow. Same bat-time, same bat-channel.

ZONK! (http://www.comixtreme.com/forums/images/smilies/batman.gif)

Cheers guys. ;applause;

Tada.

Paul Gourlay -- 62,700
Roberto   Romanello -- 60,000
Andrew Bradshaw -- 53,300
Peter Evans -- 50,900
Reyaaz Mulla -- 49,500
Ganesh Rao -- 49,300
Matt Tyler -- 49,200
David Parker -- 47,400
Barny Boatman -- 46,100
Michael Bolous -- 46,100
Lucy Rokach -- 44,900
Damian Evans -- 44,500
Nick Persaud -- 44,500
Samuel Harrison -- 44,100
Alan Vinncombe -- 43,900
Barry Lane -- 43,400
M Arnesen -- 42,700
Kayshan   Muthy -- 42,500
Kirshan   Larsen -- 37,900
R Lynch -- 35,400
John Gale -- 34,900
Zachery Ford -- 31,200
Ben Callinan -- 31,000
John Marles -- 30,000
Richard Wong -- 30,000
Ash Pervaiz -- 29,900
Alan Mclean -- 29,000
Martino Libertini -- 28,000
Ian Herbert -- 27,700
Ouday Hikary -- 27,700
Nicholas Jenkins -- 26,500
Dave Smith -- 25,600
Iwan Jones -- 24,100
Edward Phipps -- 23,500
Adam Wilkinson -- 23,000
Chris Liperis -- 22,600
Ian Woodley -- 22,100
MZ Hussain -- 21,700
Paul Rayner -- 21,600
Des Jonas -- 21,100
Jatinder Purewal -- 20,300
Mike Moore -- 18,300
Raymond   Brown -- 18,000
Graham Cadd -- 18,000
Stefan Eccles -- 18,000
James Morgan -- 18,000
Ryan Fronda -- 16,800
Nick Slade -- 16,800
Amanda Birney -- 15,200
Mathaw Mckinlay -- 15,000
Ronnie Debealox -- 14,900
John Huckle   14,800
Giovanni Vaccarella -- 14,300
Maria Demetriou -- 13,800
Rory Mchugh -- 13,700
Stephen AuYeung -- 13,300
Dan Carter -- 13,200
T Choy-Sing -- 11,600
J Ruehle -- 11,600
Jac Arama -- 11,200
Rob Watkiss -- 11,000
Darren Baine -- 10,600
Mick Wernick -- 10,300
Tim Blake -- 9,100
Darshan   Sami -- 7,300
Paul Plimmer -- 5,400
Alan Henson -- 4,000
Ian Parry -- 3,600

great updates guys................much appreciated

Yep - hope you slept well. Excellent stuff. Great service.I had logged on at the motorway services to see the updates.
Now back home - can at least play the Sunday Events on PS and FT now. (could it be an omen)

Say gidday to Alan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=18) Henson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=18) from me on Saturday.
He is on life support but stranger things have happened.

roberto awesome.ouday,ian and iwan all still doing good.good luck lads for tomorrow

good luck michael bolous from dylan and simon john down in cardiff.didnt know u had even entered and see ur right up there.go on m8