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The Cardiff Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, in association with Blue Square Poker, is due to commence at 4pm.

Your blonde/DTD live updaters will be Jen and a special guest updater...

 SNOOPY>latest news........there has been some very early news in, from cardiff.,.,.,.,.,.
             james fisher is the winner,.,.as everyone else has bottled out,.,apparently nobody wanted to get  outplayed by the cardiff maniac.,,.this is a first for the GUKPT never seen before,im sure you would all like to congratulate mr fisher on his walkover at cardiff.,.,.we interviewed him and this is what he had to say...........

snoopy>james did you know it would ave been as easy as this ?
james>well to be honest yes,i put a post on BLONDE last week saying i was confident....

snoopy>are you now thinking about the WSOP  this year ?
james>yes ive been in touch with them and since ive put my name down 38,000 players has droped out.

snoopy>whats your next move ?
james>im going over there to the bar to get p1553d.

snoopy>well thats all from us at cardiff "STICK A FORK IN ME"

Is the Cardiff Grov the former Park Casino?

 ;goodluck; to all Blondites playing in Cardiff.

.....looking forward to Jens special guest!??....... Pitt ? ....Cruise?.....Depp?.....

no mate its down the cardiff bay,pretty newish 3-4 years

On my way over to join the fun. Not playing though, just railing/getting drunk with our online qualifiers.

That is is my flight ever leaves the airport.....

on a serious note guys.,.,.,.gl to all in this im sure it will be a great comp,and a worthy winner should avail,
my top 3
martyn cavanagh>>>>>sooooooooo overdue
jack the rack owen>>>>>tighter than my jeans
paul jackson>>>>>sheer class

i couldnt say me coz it would have looked biased .,.,.,.,,.

 :hello:

Jen and mystery updater can I please have updates on the members of Team Value/Trotter playing today. I believe Matt Dale and Dan Carter are both down to play day 1a

my 3 picks
  sofa king
   sofa king
    sofaking

  1st out eighter me or jonny euston   lol

Ahem.....You seem to have forgotten someone.....

See you today Big Man.

lol.,.,your not as MAD as i thought mate .,.,

Goodluck all  :)up

dfont talk silly turk u goot good chance.c u l8er turko

Good luck everyone.
 :)up

Just arrived at the hotel. my main objective for today is to have  a pint with James sofa-King, and possibly still be in at the end of the day :cheers:

i will pay lol.,.,.,.,.,see you there mate

I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,I can pay,you can pay,go home ;shame;

My 3 picks...................

Dr Aris..... the one and only

Roberto ' wheres my watch'  Romanello.

And......... The LEGG END himself James 'the FISH' Fisher....... ( if he can last past the first level ! ! !! ! )
And i will be supporting............. THE BAR ! ! ! !

C y'all there!  ! ! !

Im playing today, feeling in good form after the £100 shootout last night,

My reads were spot on, moved in on the river with nothing and the bloke called me with his full house

Could you wish Jonny " TEXAS " Hewston good luck please

Standard.


Good luck Pab.

Red Bull for Jen and co-updater please!!!

 rotflmfao

You're a funny guy!

(http://www.filmwise.com/contests/contest_15/image_03a.jpg)

Oh go on then, I pick James Fisher to take this one down. Easy peasey.

you know it makes sence mate lol.,.,.,.,.,..,

Delboy, is that you?

Ouday Hikary is going to bulldoze everyone.

I've watched him grow from a loose-aggresive maniac into... Oh, hang on...

My three picks/boks are: Dan 'the unstoppable poker machine' Carter, Lucy Rokach and Matt Dale (mainly cos he's surely got to reach day 2 in one of these?)

Good luck Jen and Snoops.......just a little advice for Wales 

Jen cutlery is not needed as it is seen as posh. Snoops the ones without the stubble are the girls......Sound advice for Wales I think....have fun

Despite SofaKing's admittedly imaginative update, we are in fact scheduled for the full four day marathon, with all attending play... Arrived in Cardiff Central, took a train to Cardiff Queen Street, another to Cardiff Bay, then walked back into town several miles just to be different.  I hate to think what Danafish, guest updater has to say about that...

But we're here now, and there are a lot of people thronging Grosvenor Cardiff - among them tikay himself, who can throng with the best of them, The Claimer, Pab, JP, Sunny Chattha, Lucy Rokach, Ian Herbert, Nick 'Vodkaredbull' Hicks, Chris Bruce, Jim Kerrigan, Paul King (playing tomorrow), Jeff Rogers, Trevor Reardon, Michael Greco, Carlo Citrone...

The list, as ever, goes on.  And will go up as soon as we receive the printout.

Start potentially in 20 mins - I bet between 15 and 20 minutes post that.

Hi! I won't drag out the suspense any longer, today's mystery updater is none other than I! You're all so very lucky. Yes, I have accidentally found myself in Cardiff, at the very so-far pleasant Grosvenor Casino, in a little room up some stairs, previously the Staff Smoking Room but for the purposes of the next few days the designated blonde nerve centre.

We had a lovely trip up here, taking no fewer than 3 different trains - one to Cardiff Central, then one to Queen St, then one to Cardiff Bay. The walk from Cardiff Bay to the hotel was suspiciously lengthy, and when we got there, I noticed out of the window that it is in fact considerably closer to Cardiff Central, the station we originally came in at, than Cardiff Bay, the station that Jen insisted we had to get to. We could have been napping all that time. But as it is, we're here now, caffeined up to the eyeballs and raring to update.

Wish me luck! Constructive criticism welcome, but don't say anything too mean or I might cry.

Oh. Jen spoiled the suspense before I did.

Great start.

Thanks  ;hattip;

Will do my best.

It's hard to identify stubble when the sheep's face is black.

I thought it made me look less of an idiot if I admitted I had no idea where we were going first.

And it was a great start - I wupped her at Chinese on the train here.

RUBBISH

If you're going to be wrong, be wrong 100%! :D

Dana is undertaking live update duties for Day 1A to give her some practice for a 4-day slog with Floppy in Manchester when Jen and I will be in Vegas for the WPT Final (what a week of updates that will be for blonde!). This is her first update, and whilst she may not know every Tom, Dick and Harry in the cardroom, she is a keen poker entusiast (a winning one too!) and a quite wonderful writer, so please be nice to her. Also, she comes very cheap.  ;hide;

Anybody caught being mean will have the guns to deal with.  ;snoopy'sguns;

Hi Dana and good luck

Do you have pink trainers on?

Good luck Dana! Enjoy!

Pablito to win!

Dana!!!! Woooohooooo!!!!! My favourite Hampsteadonian.

Have fun, break a leg and all that.

PS- Are you wearing anything pink that we can photograph and discuss for weeks?

Hi Danafish + Snoops, gl with this.

Big shout out to all the Luton luckies going to this one, Rob Garfield, Damon D'Cruz, Rookie,  bloke who i talk to a lot but cant remember your name.
Also lets hope the variance fairy has saved some luckbox luck for actionman, flushy and any other lag's who make it deep.

Special mention to my Luton partner in crime, Mr Garnham, who surely has to win this puppy after his recent showing of form.

Im off to stick fivers on Rookie, M3boy, Claimer and Flushy.

SHIP IT BLONDEWARDS.

p.s. blone moment here, where can i go to back players in this? I cant find it in the sportsbook on BluSQ.

Thx, m8. Here to serve.  ;hattip;

Is Jen a good second?  ;hide;

The best thing for updaters since the pen has happened - I was talking to Jon Raab about my ideal world in which players would be tagged with individual numbers, therefore making it possible to make full, accurate chip counts all the time. 

He has made it so.

A thousand thanks, and we'll be accurate like never before.  Goodbye MATEY!

They're taking their seats, and it looks like a fairly timely start - more people spotted while we were staring with joy at the numbered tables:

Paul Jackson
Roberto Romanello
Dr. Aris
James Browning
Karl Mahrenholz

Apparently we're getting a wonderful spreadsheet (not my words, Mr. Raab's) within half an hour...

Hello everyone, thanks for the nicenesses. Yes, like Jen said, Mr Raab has implemented a kind of player-numbering-plus-identifying-spreadsheet combo, which means that it doesn't really matter that I don't know that many people here, so I'm feeling recklessly confident.

Here is a picture of my shoes, they're a darker shade of fuschia than Snoopy's but still good. I am also wearing an aggressively PINK dress, but Jen's camera has chosen just this moment to run out of batteries, so that photo's going to have to wait for just a little while.

Good luck Dana, I'm sure you'll do great.

Good luck to Jen & Dana !

nice shoes! this is fun this postnig malarky i may have to try it more often. Good luck with the reporting....as arnie would say "detailed files".
Tony

Good luck you two.

I am setting off at around 7is, and will pop in the Casino when I get there.

(Playing tomorrow)

Have a good one Jen and Dana.

Good luck to all Blondes running today.

,,,,,,,,,,,;,,,,,,,, goooooooooooooo,,,,,,..,,,,sofffffffffffaa

Here are your players (Dana just bringing you the other half) - in table order:

Table 9

1 - Andrew Feldman
2 - Alan Vinnicombe
3 - Mel Judah
4 - Jon Rathbone
5 - Robert Garfield
6 - Alan Davies
7 - Terrence Nelson
8 - Wai Choi
9 - Mike Downey
10 - Richard Rudling-Smith

Table 10

1 - Stuart Nash
2 - Huo Ngo
3 - Angela Rich
4 - Nick Hicks
5 - David Neville
6 - Steve Cordy
7 - Baruktal Mohammed
8 - Jim Reid
9 - Richard Cowley

Table 11

1 - Julian Thew
2 - Paul Jackson
3 - Jon Kalmar
4 - Jerome Bradpiece
5 - Gregory Howard
6 - Adrian Walshe
7 - Dewi James
8 - Ken Wong
9 - Des Jonas
10 - Daniel Bevan

Table 12

1 - Mike Lacey
2 - Michael Muldoon
3 - Richard Wilcox
4 - Will Mitchell
5 - Jac Arama
6 - Andrea Tommaso
7 - Bill Taylor
8 - Priyan De Mel
9 - Tony Kendall
10 - Glen Martin

Table 13

1 - Barney Boatman
2 - Simon Paul-James
3 - Efstathios Andreou
4 - Roy Brindley
5 - Andrew Georgiou
6 - Joshua Tyler
7 - Paul Hardwidge
8 - Andy O'Flaherty
9 - Mike Ellis

Table 14

1 - James Fisher
2 - Craig Williams
3 - Zahir Aslam
4 - Brian Johnston
5 - Mazhar Nawab
6 - Glenn Ashworth
7 - Yucel Eminoglu
8 - Robert Price
9 - Royce Law

Table 15

1 - T. Chen
2 - Trevor Reardon
3 - Tom Ridgewell
4 - David Mobbs
5 - Ian Frazer
6 - Albin Bankuti
7 - Jeff Duval
8 - Rana Gurnham
9 - Dan Carter

Table 16

1 - Jamie Gubb
2 - Martyn Reeve
3 - Alan Henson
4 - Van Le
5 - Albert Sapiano
6 - Robert Forsman
7 - Chris Bruce
8 - Dylan Herbert
9 - Thomas Craven

Greetings lurking one!  We'll be here nonstop for for days...


I need your boots, and your motorcycle.

Table 1

1 - Miya Badat
2 - Ben Turnstill
3 - J McBride
4 - JP Kelly
5 - Mick Fletcher
6 - Lam Trinh
7 - Ian Fieldhouse
8 - Stephen Eccles
9 - Sunny Chattha
10 - Ouday Hikary


Table 2

1 - Michael Arnold
2 - Anthony Dunsford
3 - David Parker
4 - Ian Herbert
5 - Nicholas Stuart
6 - Carl Mahrenholz
7 - Dinh Le
8 - Matthew Mckinlay
9 - Graeme Warren
10 - Tom Ault


Table 3

1 - Fabio Loducca
2 - Paul Gardener
3 - R Bodha
4 - Alex Irving
5 - Kayshan Muthy
6 - Ashad Hussain
7 - Carlo Citrone
8 - Jeffery Rogers
9 - Ben Thomas
10 - Peter Bala


Table 4

1 - Matt Dale
2 - Stuart Rutter
3 - James Browning (who claims on the seating list that his nickname is "Hollywood")
4 - Daniel Mazzia
5 - Ben Callaghan
6 - John Hewston
7 - Stephen Basri
8 - Dr Aris
9 - John Tabatabai
10 - Mark Claire


Table 5

1 - James Gawen
2 - Grant Mercado
3 - James Welshe
4 - John Marles
5 - Roberto Romanello
6 - Stuart Fox
7 - Robert Biltcliffe
8 - Phillip Peters
9 - Martyn Wilson
10 - Billy Ngo


Table 6

1 - Jonathan Bancroft
2 - Peter Evans
3 - Andrea Buzzigoli
4 - Robert Taylor
5 - Nick Romanello
6 - Mike O'Neil
7 - Vinny Campbell
8 - Paul Foltym
9 - Paul Gourlay
10 - Jim Kerrigan


Table 7

1 - Richard Mackay
2 - Praz Bansi
3 - Nik Persaud
4 - Jim Bedson
5 - Martin Cavanagh
6 - Chris Huyton
7 - Alan Dean
8 - Daniel Oliver
9 - Phil Valentine
10 - Anthony Nicholls


Table 8

1 - Jeff Burke
2 - Simon Zach
3 - Niamh Peters
4 - Lucy Rokach
5 - Mark Blandford
6 - Paul Webb
7 - Barry Neville
8 - Aaron Elscombe
9 - Lukas Schwartz
10 - Damon D'Cruz

Praz Bansi managed to get it all in preflop in the first level.  I think it was a case of raise, re-raise, dwell-re-re-raise, pretend frown re-re-re-raise...

Anyway it was Ad Ac against Aspades Ahrt... chop chop.  And to think, so much drama and no one's out.  Actually, I don't know if anyone's out.  Better go down and check (we suffer from far-away-press-room-lag a bit here).

Table 11 looks like it could be action packed

after the 3rd reraise even Olivier would struggle to make out he had anything but AA.....there really should be an award made for best poker acting.

3 boks/picks for today:

John Tabatabai
Stuart Fox
Brian Johnston

& Good Luck to all blondes playing both today & tomorrow.

I was told this story by a railer.  I in no way attribute terrible acting to either player.  Off to see something for myself, this time.

You've spent too much time hanging around with me.

(http://www.foxhome.com/schwarzenegger/images/photorunning1.jpg)

"Here is your Sub-Zero, now...plain zero."

Shhh!!  Jen and I are secret lovers.

Here is a nice picture of Jen apparently hard at work, with Mr Rick "The Claimer" Trigg, who's playing tomorrow and mainly drinking today. Aren't they bathed in a nice fuschia light? It's like the spirit of Snoopy looking down on them...

MY PICKS

nick"vodkaredbull"hicks
anthony nichols
barry neville

FRAN

could you tell barry i said"HIYYYYYYAAAAAAA"please.
much thanks

This saw is a part of me...and im gonna make it part of YOU!

If you like it so much...KEEP EEET *buzzzzzzzzz*

Who would have thought we'd ever see the governors of California and Minnesota engaged in violent one-on-one combat? I love America.

tikay tikay! So good I've named him twice.

They should use it more in modern politics i feel, then again it wouldnt matter.... who wouldnt vote for a man who uses the phrase " I call dem Gurly men "

my 3 to follow for the day are

jp
rob garfield
damon d'cruz

Early Leaders; Early Losers News Now -

Lucy Rokach was apparently the first to be eliminated, followed hotly by James Browning.  She had chips 15 minutes ago, so all of this is hot off the press...

Meanwhile, Mike Lacey (GO IRISH UPDATERS) "got away lightly, lost the minimum" with Qd Qc against Priyan's Aspades Ahrt.  The lowish board ended up with a river check, all in all Mike didn't get the chance to do the lot.
Mike:  7,650  ("I won a few before that")
Priyan:  18,000

Taking a coffee break at the bar (oh so easily confused for being out) was Brian Johnston, who wanted it noted that he, too, has 18k ("before it's gone.").

He won a tidy pot with Aspades Qd, seeing an Ahrt Qh 7h flop.  Any inhibitions he may have had about continuing to bet disappeared on the Qc turn, and he even managed to prise out another 1,600 on the river (his opponent had an Ace).

Then he got into a battle with the Mad Turk, with Kh Qh.  This time a more promising flop:  heart heart Kc.  The turn was the Aspades, however, and when he bet, Turk called sharpish.  The river brought an offsuit Ten, Brian checked and faced a 2,100 bet.  A long think which he said ended when he just considered to himself, "Well, it's him," and called with his King, which was good.  Turk showed a Nine, apparently, and mucked...

any news on how james browning went out??

On a flop of  6d Jc 9h, Angela Rich, whose name I like very much, bets 600; she finds a caller in Steve Cordy. A random 8s on the turn and she bets 1500; Cordy folds. Too Rich for him...  ;hide;

Sorry, none as yet - he may well be hanging round the bar, though, so if he doesn't look too unhappy I'll quiz him.

Arnie for president:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXWBJ34gXrw

Good news for Nick Hicks fans - just saw him bet out 500 on a 8c 3c 2h flop, called.  Double check on the Jh turn; Aspades on the river and Nick took down a pot of over 2,000 with another 500 bet.

Meanwhile table tikay's action has all being raging without any actual participation from Mr. Kendall himself.  He told me he hadn't played a hand, but that Jac Arama had only sat out of two so that kind of evens things out.

Perhaps a few selected counts - before the veritable chip census which will happen in the break (bless the seat cards, what a clever idea that was ;whistle; )

HELLO BLONDIES

MY PICS R

ASH HUSSAIN
 ZIPPY ASLAM
PRAZ BANSI  

GUD LUCK LADS ALL THE BEST

Here's a very chip-ful hand. The board is  Kd 6c 2c 9c, with about 10,000 in the pot. Turn comes  4d; Fabio Loducca checks, Ash Hussain bets 2000 and is called by both Carlo Citrone and Loducca. Loducca shows aces, but Ash has  7c 8c for a very nearly but not quite straight flush. Still, it's good, as Citrone mucks. Ashad Hussain now has considerably more chips than previously.

 IS THAT Y ASH IS SO FAT BECAUSE HE MUNCHES ON OTHER PLAYERS CHIPS  LOL.

Snoops you may be out of a job soon mate!

Top stuff Dana.

Hi Jen and Dana, having read the first couple of pages of this update, I'm sure that everything will be seamless.

 ;goodluck;

Here are Paul King and Michael Greco, both playing tomorrow and currently Hanging Out. Paul's staying at our hotel and very kindly offered us his car to get ourselves here earlier. Jen politely and inexplicably declined and we got a cab instead, but apparently it's some kind of enormous 4x4/ Monster Truck, so maybe he'll let us drive it round the car park for fun later.  ;yippee;

Barry Neville is down to just 3k or so after getting involved with Mark Blandford, who raised preflop and called a re-raise (I think it was that way round).  Anyway, a 6-high flop came, and Mark bet out, was re-raised heavily, and pushed in for his whole stack of nearly 10k.  Barry called, showing Ad 6s, but he was up against Aspades Ad, which stayed good.

Check out this photo, you can just imagine him saying, "Cardrack," which he did.

My Picks:

Nick "VodkaRedBull" Hicks
Ben Turnstill
Dewi


Good Luck youse three.

Other counts pre first break (in 15 mins).

Tikay              9,200
JP Kelly           4,500
Sunny Chattha  8,600
Ian Fieldhouse   13,850
Karl Mahrenholz  10,300
Billy Ngo           1,520
Ash Hussain      17,100
Carlo Citrone     2,475
Jonny Hewston   16,000
Matt Dale           9,300  ("I've been up to 12, down to 8, back to 10...")
Stuart Rutter     7,100  ("I've been down to 9, down to 8, down to 7...")
Jim Reid            14,000
Nick Hicks          6,575
Stuart Nash       8,450
Angela Rich        10,100
Des Jonas           8,100
Jerome Bradpiece  6,300
Jon 'Skalie' Kalmar  12,000
Paul Jackson          5,650
Julian Thew          9,500
Nik Persaud           7,000
Praz Bansi             7,500  (Up from 4k after a marvellous laydown after a K-T-T board with K-T: he was shown Kings...)
Martyn Cavanagh   9,600
Dewi                   16,175

Even if Praz is a runhotlagtard at the moment, he really is different gravy.

good luck stu rutter! nice work on the updates kiddies :)

Julian Thew has found an extra 2000 chips since Jen's count; he is currently on 11,500. Here he is with someone I was too polite to ask to get out of the photo.

A couple of pictures as we slide into the first break:  Dewi looking Cool; Mike Lacey and Michael Muldoon.

This hand looked moderately juicy when I caught it towards the end. On a  2h Js 2d Td 6h board, Karl Mahrenholz checks and Graeme Warren bets 1600. Mahrenholz wells, and dwells, then he thinks about it for a while, and dwells some more. Finally he calls. Mahrenholz shows  2c 5c; Warren shows  2s 3s. Somehow the split pot seems a bit disappointing after all that impressive dwelling.

Whats the nicest hotel within a 20 minute drive of the casino please?

Praz really is something special. K10 on a K1010 board. Sick.

Dave there is nothing that suits your budget im afraid mate. :)

With the flop  5c 3h 9c, Dinh Le bets 600 and gets himself called by the delightfully beardy Tom Ault, incidentally also another vague Vigo-lookalike contender. Turn comes  6d; Dinh bets 1100, and Tom calls again. River comes  5d and Dinh goes all in for about 5000. Our beardy friend quietly folds. If he'd been like Vigo he would have eaten Dinh's soul. But he didn't.

Probably not the Etap (I kid you not) where we're staying. Our room is a bit like a student dorm room, only the bed has the kind of mattresses you get in prison. We are, however, very close to Cardiff Central station. Grrr.

Nick Hicks re-raises from the big blind - to 1,500 over a 400 early position bet.  Call.  Flop:  4d Js 9h.  Nick bets out 1,500; dwell; call.
Turn:  Kc  quick check-check
River:  Aspades  Nick checks, faces a 2,600 bet and passes. 

He's pictured here mid-dwell with neighbour Angela Rich (Dana didn't make her up). 

Chris Bruce comfortably doubled up first level, we hear, with pocket Kings vs. pocket Aces - all the way to the river it looked like the deck was coolish for him, but a King on the river came and it was the other guy wincing his way to the exit.

I think those hovering around this level (18-20k are the current chip leaders).  Full counts on their way after the 15 minute break.

Could you wish Jonny " TEXAS " Hewston good luck please

Queens into A-J?

Just caught up with the updates.

Good luck to all Blondites playing.

Can you keep an eye on Dylan Herbert and Richard Cowley.  They are both local lads who have a very good game.

Dana how do you know what prison mattresses are like

Ohhh  i dont know ......... you can have alot of fun in them beds  ;) i would visit the Etap again  ;D

a lot of poker players know

Slight elaboration on this story - apparently the flop came K-T-A, with the second Ten, and the pass, happening on the turn.  Not that that really detracts from the interest of the hand at all.

St. David's Hotel in the Bay. 5 Star hotel, probably a 20 minute walk to the casino.

Seeing as I've been so helpful :), could someone tell me if there are any cash games running yet and if so what blinds, short handed or full?

Thanks!

If you'd have gone to boarding school you'd have been able to sleep on those standing on your head  ::)

Mike Lacey has fallen....and landed at the bar next to an impressively-early-intoxicated Claimer.  He was playing 7-8, and "made a move with a lot of outs."
What this boils down to is that the board came 2-5-6-7 noflush, and he got it checked to him on the turn, bet, then was min-re-raised.  "I don't like minimum raises," asserted Lacey, as a prelude to the story of him pushing in and being called by two pair (5-6).  "I hate min raises," he said again, while drinking beer.

Ummm

Ummm

 rotflmfao

Bad luck Mike.

Meanwhile Stuart Rutter is on around 2,000 after he got it all in with a flush vs. a set of Jacks.  Despite his neighbour having gotten out of the way with two pair (thus removing a few house outs), the board did pair, and he doubled up John Tabatabai (kunkuwap) - we think.

Jac Arama is in even worse shape however, having been almost continually involved since the tournament began.  Tikay tells us he's on less than a grand; at least he can see in 3D.

unlucky stu :( keep going x

Give my best wishes to John Tabatabai ( kunkuwap) just say its from WARNING WARNING WARNING ..... he will understand.

Nice random hand for your reading pleasure.

Richard Cowley raises 700 on top of his big blind, Terrence Nelson calls from the button.

Flop comes  2s 3h Kd. They check.

Turn  3c. Cowley bets 1000 and Nelson calls.

River  7c - Cowley bets 1300, but it's all too much for Terrence Nelson, who folds. I can't tell if Richard Cowley is casting a folding spell on him in the photo.

 

  GO DEWI !!.......expecting good things with home advantage :)up

Could someone find out if Ben Vinson is playing today or tommorow?

Top job guys.

So, courtesy of Jon Raab's magic spreadsheet - full counts of all remaining players at the first break.  If they're not on the list they're not coming in they've been knocked out.

Badat, Miya -- 9050
Turnstill, Ben   -- 8875
Mcbride, J -- 3750
Kelly, Jp --   OUT just now, we think flush draw which missed
Fletcher, Mick   -- 7075
Trinh, Lam -- 25200
Fieldhouse, Ian   -- 2775   
Chattha, Sunny   -- 11225
Hikary, Ouday -- 7050
Arnold, Michael   -- 10700
Dunsford, Anthony -- 5575
Parker, David   -- 26850
Herbert, Ian -- 19150
Stuart, Nicholas -- 12725
Mahrenholz, Carl -- 15325
Le, Dinh -- 6800   
Price, Robert -- 10775
Ault, Tom -- 4550   
Gardener, Paul    -- 14200
Bodha, R -- 10575
Irving, Alex -- 8125
Muthy, Kayshan   -- 14850
Hussain, Ashad   -- 22500
Citrone, Carlo   -- 7350
Rogers, Jeffery   -- 7100
Thomas, Ben -- 7750
Bala, Peter -- 10000
Dale, Matt -- 11050
Rutter, Stuart   -- 2350
Aslam, Zahir -- 3850
Mazzia, Daniel   -- 12600
Callaghan, Ben   -- 7575
Hewston, John -- 17900
Basri, Stephen   -- 13600
Aris, Dr -- 9325
Tabatabai, John   -- 8450
Claire, Mark -- 14900
Gawen, James -- 9450
Boatman, Barny   -- 16900
Welshe, James   -- 5975
Marles, John   -- 11825
Romanello, Roberto -- 18875
Biltcliffe, Robert -- 11250
Peters, Phillip   -- 11650
Wilson, Martyn   -- 31425
Mobbs, David -- 9275
Bancroft, Jonathan -- 8450
Evans, Peter -- 13250
Buzzigoli, Andrea -- 3925
Taylor, Robert   -- 4750
Ashworth, Glenn   -- 7175
Oneil, Mike -- 14000
Campbell, Vinny   -- 7150
Foltym, Paul -- 13225
Gourlay, Paul -- 11650
Kerrigan, Kerry   -- 15600
Mackay, Richard   -- 11000
Bansi, Praz -- 3600
Persaud, Nik -- 4325
Bedson, Jim -- 9325
Cavanagh, Martin -- 11000
Huyton, Chris -- 6275
Dean, Alan -- 17425
Nawab, Mazhar -- 15250
Valentine, Phil   -- 10325
Nicholls, Anthony -- 10975
Burke, Jeff -- 17600
Zach, Simon -- 17500
Peters, Niiamh   -- 9425
Johnston, Brian   -- 16900
Blandford, Mark   -- 18050
Webb, Paul -- 7400
Neville, Barry   -- 6375
Elscombe, Aaron   -- 2775
Schwartz, Lukas   -- 12950
D cruz, Damon   -- 8300
Feldman, Andrew   -- 8600
Vinniconbe, Alan -- 13775
Judah, Melvyn   -- 13300
Rathbone, Jon   -- 4450
Garfield, Robert -- 7725
Davies, Alan -- 16225
Nelson, Terrence -- 8325
Choi, Wai -- 10225
Downey, Mike -- 8725
Rudling-Smith, Richard   -- 8650
Nash, Stuart -- 9650
Ngo, Huo -- 8825
Rich, Angela -- 11200
Hicks, Nick -- 6300
Neville, David   -- 9400
Cordy, Steve -- 8650
Mohammed, Baruktal -- 8500
Reid, Jim -- 13225
Cowley, Richard   -- 9275
Owen, Jack -- 15000
Thew, Julien -- 12200
Jackson, Paul -- 5775
Kalamar, Jon -- 17325
Bradpiece, Jerome -- 11350
Howard, Gregory   -- 13650
Walshe, Adrian   -- 4650
James, Dewi -- 16025
Wong, Ken -- 11275
Jonas, Des -- 7375
Muldoon, Michael -- 8150
Wilcox, Richard   -- 20150
Mitchel, Will -- 11400
Arama, Jac -- 875
Tommaso, Andrea   -- 10075
Taylor, Bill -- 11225
Denel, Triyam   -- 11550
Kendall, Tony -- 10075
Martin, Glen -- 16475
Paul-james, Simon -- 12725
Andreou, Efstathios -- 4425
Jeff Kimber -- 8250
Gergiou, Andrew   -- 11975
Tyler, Joshua   -- 3950
Hardwidge, Paul   -- 9625
Oflaherty, Andy   -- 15750
Ellis, Mike -- 5150
Eminoglu, Yucel   -- 13775
Chen, T   -- 15225
Reardon, Trevor   -- 13675
Ridgewell, Tom   -- 10575
Frazer, Ian -- 7100
Bankuti, Albin   -- 4200
Duval, Jeff -- 12475
Gurnham, Rana   -- 8200
Carter, Dan -- 8500
Williams, Craig   -- 10275
Romanello, Nick   -- 13425
Gubb, Jamie -- 10825
Reeve, Martyn -- 9450
Henson, Alan -- 8350
Le, Van   -- 6050
Sapiano, Albert   -- 7675
Forsman, Robert   -- 12175
Bruce, Chris -- 19575
Herbert, Dylan   -- 13500
Craven, Thomas   -- 950
Fisher, James   -- 8125

Tomorrow, Friday the 23rd of March.

Nice to see the casino's looking after their customers with this convenient self help guide, available free of charge at the door.

Oh, and Kev, look what I found.

Whoops.

Here's DTD's Carlo, up to 7k or so, next to Ash Hussain.  The shade provided by his hat makes it sometimes harder to identify him, and don't be misled by the smaller-seeming stack... that's him before his double up, and in fact mid hand, where he'd raised out of the big blind and pushed in on the Ac 8d Qd 8s 2c river for 2k after a check down all the way heads up.  That won him the first 900 of his comeback.

I don't like your juxtapositon insinuation, sunshine.  Or your shoes.

Do us a favour, if you see him, tell him Gareth says he's way out of his depth in the poker capital of the world.

Cheers my dears.

Sack Snoppy and Jen .... DANA FOR UPDATE BOSS.   Good spot Dana meet Dena .....she is luvvvvvvvvvvvvvly :)

That's my missus....

Beige and dull, like your prose style. WAR!!!

Tikay is in the press room.  This means one of two things - he's lost, or he's lost.  It's the former - he had a Scandinavian gent from BadBeat moved to his table, a certain Robert Forsman, who ran a series of effective bluffs on the table, and was generally pretty active.  So then, someone raises to 500, Mr. Forsman, muttering something like "I told you not to raise me.." etc. etc. made it 2,000 more, and tikay saw a golden opportunity to pick up 3k right there, with a dive all-in with his Ac Ks.

Actually, the opportunity was for Robert to catch him with Ahrt Aspades - and we have a press railbird, an odd hybrid of journalist and player.

Hi Jen, can u wish kunkuwap and the truck driver, rob forsman gl please. ty :)

Poor old tikay. Jen's having a lovely time though.

On a flop of  6h 6d 4h, there was fine checking action between Paul Hardwidge and the splendidly be-hoodied Mike Ellis. Hardwidge bet a big chunk of his stack on the random river, but Ellis was having none of it. Good thing too, Hardwidge showed a VAST  6c 4c.

thats not mike ellis, its kunkuwap (john tabatabai)!

Can you pass on a message to tikay please ...


YOU DAFT MUG !!!



Message ends.

With a moderate but not obscene amount of pre-flop raising, the flop comes  2d Qd Qs. Nick Romanello bets 500, only for Jonathan Bancroft to move all in from the button. There follows some lengthy and uneventful dwelling, before Romanello calls.

Bancroft - J Q

Romanello - K Q

Consider it done! I'm referring him to you if I get in trouble though.

I think that's Glenn Ashworth.

any 1 no how hotdog ian fieldhouse is doing thnx

Some action at Table Dena! No getting excited though, she wasn't really involved...

With 1700 already in the pot, the flop comes  Th 4d 8h. Lou-off-of-Neighbours lookalikey John Marles bets 1600. James Welshe very calmly pushes all his chips into the middle. Instacall!

Marles -  Ahrt Kh

Welshe -  8d 8c

Turn -  9d

River -  Ac

Welshe doubles up, and Marles doesn't look very happy.

Quite possibly. I shall quietly delete the photo and perhaps no-one will notice.

By way of an apology for my occasional errors, please accept this photo of the beautiful ladies sitting and not doing very much in the bar.

Jerome Bradpiece performs the double knockout against two other short(er) stacks:

Paul 'ActionJack' Jackson moved in first, for his 2k or so, found neighbour Jon Kalmar on the cutoff pushing in over the top for around 6k, while button Jerome went into the tank for a good while before eventually calling (pretty much all-in himself) with 9d 9c.
Paul showed 8c 8s  (saying, "I have two outs" before he saw anyone's cards)
Skalie showed  Aspades Tc

The board came down Q-J-x giving a King as an extra out or four for Jon, but no further developments mean that Jerome now has a playable stack and the others are at the front of the queue for the buffet.

 any news on               OUDAY THE GAY BOY HICKERY........also sofa king HIS BEND OVER MATE ..

JUST TELL HIM THE BEST IN SWANSEA IS ASKING .......CHEERS

Are these the PWAGS (Pokerwags)?

******************* 75 minute dinner break *******************

You'll be instantly posted with all remaining players' chip counts when they've been done during the break, so seeing as play is on pause at the moment, I think now would be the time to try to nip to the front and eat something. 

Oh, too late.  Never mind, Dana can create a distraction while I run and grab some of those ubiquitous chicken-on-a-stick things.

La la la

You're, er, doing very well, from what I saw - heading towards 20k.  Very impressive astral projection back to your computer, too.

Did tikay get his message ??

Patience, all in good buffet, I mean, time.

He exited the building fairly quickly, but don't worry, the entire press room, and several dealers all gave him the rubdown independently.



Back in a bit.

im out lalalallalalalalalla,
had a great able to start, me and turk hammer and tongs lol,,,,
got allin with q7 dimonds on a 227 flop young man had kk he was gonna pass to lol,,,,,,,then just fizzled away into the moonlight,never mind lol,,,its only a grand....................on my table firstly zippy was sooooooooo unlucky on about 4 hands on the trott set v house aaa,set v flush on river,,,,top 2 v set  and another big one cant remember hes been vvvvvvvvul but anyone else would have been out by now......ahhhh well thats it for me....

ians brov online keep us posted how ian fieldhouse(hotdog) cheers

any news on jonny texas?

Unlucky my son.  Keep em entertained with your magic.   NO WHEEL!!!!

Can we have some norkage pictures pls, preferably 50% of the updaters (100% of the fish).

I WILL PLAY THE WHEEL FOREVER but the pokers finished mate.,.,.,.yaaaa git you in playing tomorrow mate?

Yup tomorrow, without MY DTD cap.. can you pinch me one :)

I WILL PLAY THE WHEEL FOREVER but the pokers finished mate
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  ;izimbra; ;danafish;  Sigh!

A delicious plate of assorted buffet items later, and play has just now recommenced. Jen is off finding you you some tasty morsels (I'm on a Theme here) of juicy Part 2 play and will be back shortly, apparently also with updated chip counts.

Developments in this half include the appearance of the MASSAGE GIRLS. You remember the Beautiful Ladies at the bar? Well, they're back, and they seem to have changed into some very fetching corsets.

Bear with me...

wish ida played properly now,.,.,i could have done with a rub down

Full chip counts have been collected by a ruthlessly efficient Jon Raab and will be with you in mere minutes. 

Tales from the rail during the dinner break:

Pab has found his table "bizarre," with two players on it who are both totally unreadable and liable at any time to limp, call any raise, and then min-bet and min-raise their opponents into submission.  It's worked - Pab says, "at no time do I have any idea what they have.  And I can't raise them off preflop.  Or on the flop for that matter."  Bemused but persistent, I'm sure he'll work out some kind of strategy.

Meanwhile Stuart Rutter is out (did I already say that?) - after his flush was housed out, he got it all in with some kind of made hand against a flush draw and that didn't work either.  But he should share the secret of knocked-out good humour with the crowd - I've never seen someone rebound so fast.

****Breaking news****
Giant threeway coup gives Barney Boatman the chip lead, while taking a lot from early leader Marty Wilson...

A couple of pictures while Dana gets the ones you really want...

Behatted Jerome next to Skalie (now out) smiling in a devilish fashion and the contrastingly angelic visage of Nik Persaud.  Would that man really raise your blind with filth?

roberto the mouth romanellos just rang me to say hes around the 40k mark.,.,.i tell you guys this kid will definateley win a bracelet at the wsop this year.,.,.hes got so many gears.,.,outplayed a guy into talking him getting him to bet into him,., when he was holding quad 7777.,.,i allways found that if you got quads you either get a little in the pot or nothing.... not the guys whole stack.,.,.honest he will be there in the final or close hes playing some fantastic poker.,.,.,

Full counts as of start of dinner break, in table and seat order:

Badat, Miya -- 9625
Mackay, Richard   -- 11075
Henson, Alan -- 22725
Bruce, Chris -- 28125
Fletcher, Mick   -- 6150
Trinh, Lam -- 34125
Fieldhouse, Ian   -- 16050
Gubb, Jamie -- 8875
Thew, Julien -- 18250
Hikary, Ouday -- 4900

Arnold, Michael   -- 12950
Dunsford, Anthony -- 3525
Parker, David -- 30700
Herbert, Ian -- 8700
Stuart, Nicholas -- 12950
Le, Dinh -- 1250
Le, Van   -- 5050
Price, Robert -- 17700
Ault, Tom -- 3850

Dean, Alan -- 24175
Gardener, Paul   -- 13575
Bodha, R -- 5525
Irving, Alex -- 21975
Muthy, Kayshan   -- 11775
Hussain, Ashad   -- 20025
Citrone, Carlo   -- 13875
Nicholls, Anthony -- 26025
Thomas, Ben -- 11300
Bala, Peter -- 10200

Dale, Matt -- 1400
Andreou, Efstathios -- 9800
Aslam, Zahir -- 5500
Mazzia, Daniel   -- 16775
Callaghan, Ben   -- 9775
Bedson, Jim -- 10925
Basri, Stephen   -- 17600
Aris, Dr -- 7750
Tabatabai, John   -- 11200
Claire, Mark -- 24950

Gawen, James -- 16550
Boatman, Barny -- 12625  (not any more...more like triple that - update coming)
Welshe, James -- 26250
Marles, John -- 3475
Romanello, Roberto -- 33875
Eminoglu, Yucel   -- 14050
Biltcliffe, Robert -- 9775
Peters, Phillip   -- 11175
Wilson, Martyn   -- 20850
Huyton, Chris   -- 5150

Chattha, Sunny   -- 10875
Gurnham, Rana   -- 14625
Persaud, Nik -- 10925
Ashworth, Glenn   -- 6500
Oneil, Mike -- 27075
Campbell, Vinny   -- 725
Foltyn, Paul -- 11125
Gourlay, Paul -- 18250
Kerrigan, Jim   -- 19275

Burke, Jeff -- 7100
Zach, Simon -- 22300
Peters, Niiamh   -- 9250
Johnston, Brian   -- 29325
Blandford, Mark   -- 26050
Webb, Paul -- 3800
Ellis, Mike -- 4275
Elscombe, Aaron   -- 7675
Schwartz, Lukas   -- 8575
D cruz, Damon -- 3100

Feldman, Andrew   -- 12925
Vinniconbe, Alan -- 8225
Judah, Melvyn -- 9125
Valentine, Phil   -- 4400
Garfield, Robert -- 16575
Davies, Alan -- 25450
Nelson, Terrence -- 13100
Choi, Wai -- 21725
Gergiou, Andrew   -- 12350   

Nash, Stuart -- 11550
Ngo, Huo -- 13100
Oflaherty, Andy   -- 12625
Reeve, Martyn -- 2675
Neville, David   -- 12075
Cordy, Steve -- 9650
Mohammed, Baruktal -- 13925
Reid, Jim -- 10725
Cavanagh, Martin -- 8875
Owen, Jack -- 24875

Tyler, Joshua -- 16650
Mahrenholz, Carl -- 21975
Hardwidge, Paul   -- 12150
Bradpiece, Jerome -- 15650
Howard, Gregory   -- 15700
James, Dewi -- 13125
Wong, Ken -- 24500
Jonas, Des -- 4650
Craven, Thomas   -- 2700

Jeff Kimber -- 13125
Wilcox, Richard   -- 15675
Mitchel, Will -- 11950
Forsman, Robert   -- 28100
Tommaso, Andrea   -- 10575
Taylor, Bill -- 16675
Rich, Angela -- 27425
Martin, Glen -- 16500

Chen, T   -- 10400
Reardon, Trevor   -- 18900
Ridgewell, Tom   -- 9700
Frazer, Ian -- 9400
Paul-james, Simon -- 8800
Duval, Jeff -- 19675
Carter, Dan -- 1200
Williams, Craig   -- 8900
Romanello, Nick   -- 4450

I'm afraid that my searching has come to nothing; John Hewston is nowhere to be seen, and therefore either he has some quite severe bowel problems or he is OUT.

ok thanks anyway

I saw the very end of the Barney Boatman Triples Up hand - board was  4h Kd Ac Jd 9d. Barney was holding AK, Marty Wilson had AQ. Not sure who the other guy was or what he had, I'm afraid, but it wasn't as lovely looking as AK. Marty Wilson is sad now. Looks like Barney's on around 58,000 now.

With the flop  7s Aspades 7c, Andrea Tommaso bets 350 and Glenn Martyn calls.

Turn -  6h, and here it gets exciting. Tommaso bets 2500; Martyn raises to 7000. Actually let's call Tommaso Andrea because that's a girl's name and at this stage of the evening, I think that's funny.

So, then follows some considerable dwelling (pictured), before Andrea (ha!) reraises him all in for a few thousand more and is quickly called.

Andrea shows  Ac Kc, Glenn Martyn shows  5h 7h.

River  4h, which is no help to anyone, and Glenn has doubled up.

And here is Glenn Martyn celebrating his double up, also subtley incorporating one of the massage ladies.

danafish on her debut

Isn't she clever?  ;topofclass;

Des Jonas evens his stack with Karl Mahrenholz's by getting it all in preflop with Qd Qh.  Karl goes for it, asking, "Aces?" which he was probably relieved not to see with his Ad Kd.  However the board came down 5c 6c 5s Js 3s - and they are both on around 18k.

I just so happened to get this picture right at that exact moment, too (and I greatly apologise to the decapitated lady)-

And after helping stack up Boatman, Marty Wilson makes his last stand with about 1,500 with Ad Kd - he gets a call from pocket Sixes and despite praying to the dealer very vocally for help, she calmly deals the straight cards around the Six, knocking him out to take his wine to the bar.

Here he was, next to Matt Dale...

Yes, she always reminded me of the Brain from Pinky and the Brain.  Not that I'm calling her a squat bulgey-eyed megalomaniacal rodent, by any means.  No, I meant that she is highly intelligent and creative too, at times. 

any news how ian fieldhouse is doing brov speaking cheers

He's still doing OK - got a picture of him, and his left hand side neighbour+1 (i.e. the blind he's going for): none other than Julian Thew who just won't let me take a picture of him looking like a serious player.

Slander! I see absolutely no resemblance.

Matt Dale is nowhere to be seen - he was previously nicking blinds on Table Barney, but he was painfully short, only had about 2000 chips last I saw of him. Next time I passed by the table, poof! he was gone. I'm assuming he's OUT rather than actually vapourised or in another dimension. Here he is in the last throes of it All Going Wrong.

I think we should have a poll for Best Photo Of The Night

ok thanks keep us updated go on e

And while Matt is off, I spotted Dan Carter hiding in a very dark corner, whose short stack hadn't disappeared as of ten minutes ago.  I hear he's had a pretty good run lately and may be in better shape to whip a tiny stack into a more useful one.

looks like a winner to me :)

You see that expression on her face as she pummels Mateyboy's knotted sweaty shoulders? She dreamed of a better life...

Incidentally, I ran into Pete Evans at the bar. Apparently he is embroiled in some kind of dispute with the casino staff regarding a glass of wine. He's very angry and they're very adamant, actually going so far as to check the CCTV to confirm their suspicions. The phrase, "Do you know who I am?" may even have passed his lips at one point. Oops...

What was the problem? Had he ordered lager?

Sorry sorry folks, it's time for another CORRECTION.

Matt Dale is in fact NOT out, he just moved table. He's clawed back a few chips, but he's still very short, with about 4000 chips.

No, I think it's ok, he was just wine-ing.

A couple of mid-level counts:

Paul Foltyn        5,650
Sunny Chattha    OUT   (actually, pre-dinner-break, one wrong spreadsheet count - we're not perfect, OK?)
Chris Bruce        33,000  (pictured)
Ash Hussain       9,300
Carlo Citrone     27,050  (hot contender for Climber of the Day having been down to just three chips in the first few levels)
Matt Dale          4,300
Stuart Nash       12,300
Barney Boatman  45,500
Kunkuwap           8,950
Roberto Romanello  43,000  (interesting table, that Boatman/Romanello one)
Julian Thew           19,200
Nik Persaud           9,000
Mike Tse              13,900
Jim Kerrigan          26,200
Anthony Nicholls    25,000

Trevor Reardon is OUT - his final hand being a straight short-stacked race 88 vs. AQ, but it was the previous one which did the damage:
He raised preflop with Ad Ahrt, one caller.  Flop:  Aspades Kd 5h  He bet something like 1,500 - call.
Turn:  Ts  Not sure what happened here but I think it went bet;call again.
River:  7c  Trevor checked, Matey (sorry, no excuse for this, but I deleted my last spreadsheet by mistake) bet - Trevor check-raised all-in and found Jc Qd for only-the-nuts knocking him right to the felt.

No sign of Martyn Cavanagh for a little while - I heard he was pacing the car park until he deemed it safe to come back to the bar.  It folded to his small blind (blinds 150/300 ante 25), he limped with 7h 8h.  The big blind autoraised (he judged, correctly) and Martyn pushed in for 5k.  Even though this was 30% of his caller's stack, call he did, with Th 4h.  Surprised was not the word; a Ten helped the already-ahead big blind to take the last of his chips.

Players are on a break now. I fear for Roberto Romanello's beautiful stacks of chips while the players are gone - just a brush against the table from a careless passer-by and disaster!

The trio of Nash, Ngo and O'Flaherty, and that of Foltyn, Gourlay and Kerrigan, and that of Crosby, Stills and Nash (the other one).

No Young ?

All right then..

Where's the Funboy Three?

any news on ian fieldhouse (hotdog)

Two girls doing the update.

pft

shouldn't you to be knitting or something?

Is Mark Blandford still in please?

We're not girls, we are all-powerful warriors!

Scandie Push-Off News Now:

A short stack was all in preflop, with two callers (both pictured below).  The gent with the unnaturally bright hair is Robert Forsman, not short stacked for a minute today, and he got into a real aggression war with his out-of-position neighbour.  There was a bet-raise-call on the 3h 9c Ac flop, another bet-raise-call on the 9d turn, and on the Jd river, the side pot by now absolutely dwarfing the main pot, there was another bet.  Forsman moved in.  A long think later, and his opponent passed.
Like the lid had just been taken off a highly pressurised canister of testosterone, Forsman leaped up, showed his board-irrelevant 8d Th, leaving the short stack to take the couple of thousand he was entitled to, and just bullying the side pot into his possession.  "F***! I am so good!" he commentated, wandering off for a minute before regaining composure and shaking his opponent's hand in apology.

Now he's got a stack to take on the other leaders, and I have a feeling he was the guy who took on (and out) tikay too...

A chip-alicious hand from Table Barney. Robert Romanello raises pre-flop, and short stack James Gawen re-raises all in. Table namesake Boatman calls, as does Romanello.

Flop  2s 9s Qs - check, check.

Turn  Kd - check, check.

River  Td

Barney bets 4000, Robert calls.


They show...

Barney -  Jc 9c

Robert -  Ad Js

James Gawen -  Jh Kh

So Gawen is out, and Robert is a happy man.

Just inputting all the chip counts (in Leader Order) from the last break now... I think he's on the list:

Romanello, Roberto -- 74300
Forsman, Robert   -- 56950
Boatman, Barny --- 46300
Trinh, Lam -- 45225
Mackay, Richard   -- 41500
Parker, David -- 37075
Zach, Simon -- 36775
Owen, Jack -- 34550
Rich, Angela -- 33550
Claire, Mark -- 30550
Oneil, Mike -- 30125
Davies, Alan -- 30050
Mitchel, Will -- 29400
Citrone, Carlo -- 28850
Tyler, Joshua -- 28625
Wong, Ken -- 28425
Bruce, Chris -- 27575
Henson, Alan -- 27550
James, Dewi -- 27275
Kerrigan, Kerry   -- 26600
Mahrenholz, Carl -- 26025
Duval, Jeff -- 25675
Schwartz, Lukas   -- 23700
Fieldhouse, Ian   -- 23025
Blandford, Mark   -- 22700
Dean, Alan -- 22450
Oflaherty, Andy   -- 22350
Garfield, Robert -- 20975
Feldman, Andrew   -- 19500
Basri, Stephen -- 19450
Jonas, Des -- 18450
Thomas, Ben -- 17475
Bodha, R -- 16950
Valentine, Phil   -- 16825
Thew, Julien -- 16200
Hardwidge, Paul   -- 16150
Bancroft, Jonathan -- 16050
Nicholls, Anthony -- 15950
Gardener, Paul -- 15875
Price, Robert -- 15825
Muthy, Kayshan   -- 15400
Gurnham, Rana -- 15325
Johnston, Brian   -- 15075
Cordy, Steve -- 15050
Bala, Peter -- 14875
Neville, David   -- 14600
Peters, Niiamh -- 13925
Wilcox, Richard   -- 13825
Chen, T   -- 13300
Gourlay, Paul -- 13200
Badat, Miya -- 12950
Choi, Wai -- 12900
Judah, Melvyn -- 12650
Arnold, Michael   -- 12450
Gergiou, Andrew   -- 11950
Burke, Jeff -- 11900
Mohammed, Baruktal -- 11725
Jeff Kimber -- 11500
Stuart, Nicholas -- 11450
Nash, Stuart -- 11350
Hussain, Ashad   -- 11175
Biltcliffe, Robert -- 10800
Howard, Gregory   -- 10750
Bedson, Jim -- 10325
Nelson, Terrence -- 9800
Taylor, Bill -- 9550
Tabatabai, John   -- 9400
Herbert, Ian -- 9300
Ngo, Huo -- 9275
Huyton, Chris -- 9125
Dunsford, Anthony -- 9000
Marles, John -- 8400
Frazer, Ian -- 7450
Persaud, Nik -- 7400
Foltym, Paul -- 7050
Aris, Dr -- 5975
Andreou, Efstathios -- 4875
Reeve, Martyn -- 4125
Welshe, James -- 4100
Dale, Matt -- 3900
Gawen, James -- 3525
Elscombe, Aaron   -- 2850
Tommaso, Andrea   -- 2375

I went out just before dinner break- had loads of hands- just ran into bigger better or got no action

jj v kk on 9 high flop- got off lightly

jj reraised on 965 board- guy told me after i went out he flopped set of 9s

aa- no action
2 pair on turn- lose to rivered fl

TT-  fold to ace on flop

88,TT,99, ak, aj all folded to heat on crap flops

oh i won with aq on 3rd hand of day

went out limp reraising allin with Tt had 3.8k- called by jj- j on flop

was a great table enjoyed the game- looks like being another great tourny

Any non-egotistic scandies playing today or tomorrow? ;)

ye the pictured scandi playing for badbeat is swedish truck driver, rob forsman, an eccentric character to say the least :)

Luckyblind here - Blind drunk, great tournie for the 1hr 57mins I saw of it :)

Pab hanging on in there at the same table as yoyo. How is Dewi still in?

All the real action was next door on the 10pin bowling, pool, air hockey and ridge racer.

TheClaimer is a fish in all these games.

Jen & Dana will be back soon with real updates.

Mike, what do you think of min-raises and re-raises?

Indeed harwith is right and he did take out Tikay with his Aces against Tikays' AK i think. Apprently he had shown about 3/4 bluffs within short space of time, and the time Tikay takes him on, Rob has the goods.

He hasn't not even paided to enter it, a couple of his mates have sponsored him and according to reports, he is scaring his table to death!

Kev

Hi all
Just got in from a boring day shift at Walsall. I cant be there coz Zak is thee ( tell him i said hi an hes bald and ugly)also tell Sean the Cardiff cardroom manager he still owes me £30 frm Bolton gukpt

In response to Mike, who's had a lot of beer and hijacked Jen's laptop while we were slaving downstairs, Dewi is still in on account of all the pots he's been a-stealing. I think. I saw him involved in a hand with a gentleman who was either Paul Foltym or Lukas Schwartz (I couldn't tell if his card said 608 or 809). Paullukas checks, and Dewi bets 5000. Fold. Dewi's on about 47k, I think.

Dewi's a great tourney player- gonna go deep!
GL ace and just a quick question

Is there another first day tomorrow as i might come down. When is the final day sunday?

Doing a great job dana and jen- keep it up!   :)up ;applause;

Gooooo Welshy!!!

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Here's the last possible picture of Julian Thew, who has just bitten the dust.  In a tough spot, shortstacked behind Barney and Roberto Romanello, he made a late position raise to 2,450.  When Roberto in the big blind just said, "all in" for his million or so, Julian figured he was too short to pass, and hoped he was live with his Kc Jd.  Unfortunately for him, Roberto held the Ahrt Kd and a King on the river was no help whatsoever.

Saw another fun hand involving the hairdo-tastic Rob Forsman. It folds around to him on the button and he raises. SB folds, as does our friend Andrea (ahh ha ha!) on the BB. Andrea must be the shortest stack left now with only 1700 or so. To Andrea's left, Mateyboy, a William H Macy lookalike in a BlueSquare shirt, reraises, and Forsman calls. "I have a hand," says the hair man.

Flop -  Kh 8d 3d

Macyboy now bets 5000. Says Hairsman, "Have you got a good hand?"

Dwell dwell dwell, then an unsurprising FOLD.

Says Rob Hairsman, "You've got a monster hand. Is this your first time playing poker?" And then he storms off, perhaps to mull over his attitude to life in general, or maybe to check his hair in the gents.

any news on pab please

Macyboy :D

And here he is, looking like a man with way more chips than at the dinner break...

Go Dewi!!  ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

Does tikay play on ladbrokes?

Im playing in Graveyard special and there is a guy by the name of tikay on one of the tables

Sorry, it's not good - he just busted this second.  This is the second tourney we've seen some impressive short stack grindage from Pab - and he made his move at a good time here too.  In the small blind he re-raised all-in with 8s 8d - the late positioner had to call a further 4,050, looked pretty committed and called with an in-trouble-looking Ac 6s.
Flop:  6d 7c 6c
Turn and river: no help

And here are the final photos of Paul, pre move, and waiting for the pretty inevitable (but desired, in the end) call:

It would not surprise me at all if tikay went home to 'rest' and ended up playing online all night... I bet in favour of it being the man himself.

From Table Hairsman -

Shortstack Niamh Peters makes it 3000, only for Hairsman to re-raise 4500. She looks like she doesn't really want to, but Peters re-raises all in for another 2300. Hairsman calls.

Peters -  Kc Qc

Hairsman -  Ahrt Qh

Board -  8h Td 9c Ts 8c

Oh, the humanity! Niamh Peters is OUT and Hairsman has an absolute bunch of chips, to use the scientific term. At least this time he's a gentleman about it.

The players are now on a short break so they can powder their noses.

Yeh he plays on laddies alot i believe

What time is it going on til?

Wish dewi my best if you pop by the man himself!

A caption comp contender if ever I saw one. Snoopy!

And what about that simply majestic chip stacking? Bravo.

Pictured:  Dana powdering her nose

That lady wouldn't make it as a masseuse...

That lady barely makes it as a lady

Are there any male masseurs for the ladies???????

Just playing with Roberto at the APAT and all his table talk, you could tell he was a class above everyone else. Hope he wins this whole thing!

Yes, Roberto has extended his ridiculous chip lead to over 120k.  It's hard to tell from his New York skyline of chips, but it's definitely in that region (120k, not North America).  Accumulating nonstop through the day, he shows no sign of slowing down in this, the last level of play.  I will definitely be making him one of my Day Two picks. 

His tablemates hotdog (11,350), Mike Tse (18,000) and even Barney Boatman (26,500) are finding him "a pain in the arse."

Has he been going

"All in"

"All in"

"All in"

Pre-flop? 8)

Blinds are ending tonight at 400/800 ante 75.  There are currently 54 players, and we'll probably be under 50 by the end of this hour.

And, unprecedentedly, a severe voice just came over the intercom saying that "the bar is closed, you have half an hour to finish alcoholic drinks.  Then get out."  (OK, they didn't say 'Get out.'  And then 5 minutes later, the voice came back saying, "Due to popular demand, the bar will stay open until 4am."  Paul Parker's recent arrival may have something to do with it.

We've just received the full counts from the last break (c.20 mins out of date, but give a good idea of how far the leaders are leading the pack...)

Romanello, Roberto -- 112875
Forsman, Robert   -- 84975
Zach, Simon -- 59725
Trinh, Lam -- 51900
Mackay, Richard   -- 47800
Parker, David -- 47375
Duval, Jeff -- 46475
Bruce, Chris -- 44300
Wong, Ken -- 43075
James, Dewi -- 42175
Feldman, Andrew   -- 38425
Rich, Angela -- 37525
Tyler, Joshua -- 36175
Owen, Jack -- 35975
Claire, Mark -- 34950
Davies, Alan -- 33100
Schwartz, Lukas   --29575
Oneil, Mike -- 28900
Boatman, Barny   -- 28875
Kerrigan, Jim -- 28425
Mahrenholz, Karl -- 25875
Thomas, Ben -- 25750
Henson, Alan -- 25325
Dean, Alan -- 25200
Citrone, Carlo   -- 24600
Muthy, Kayshan   -- 24450
Aris, Dr -- 23550
Oflaherty, Andy   -- 23125
Garfield, Robert -- 22200
Choi, Wai -- 22100
Wilcox, Richard   -- 21050
Jonas, Des -- 21025
Gurnham, Rana -- 19850
Bodha, R -- 18625
Price, Robert -- 18225
Elscombe, Aaron   -- 18200
Bancroft, Jonathan -- 17975
Persaud, Nik -- 17800
Chen, T   -- 16025
Gergiou, Andrew   -- 14875
Bala, Peter -- 14750
Welshe, James -- 13725
Bedson, Jim -- 13725
Fieldhouse, Ian   -- 13100
Judah, Melvyn -- 11950
Mohammed, Baruktal -- 11575
Andreou, Efstathios -- 11250
Nash, Stuart -- 11150
Taylor, Bill -- 11150
Hussain, Ashad   -- 10950
Arnold, Michael   -- 10850
Cordy, Steve -- 10650
Nelson, Terrence -- 10550
Ngo, Huo -- 10000
Tommaso, Andrea   -- 8425
Howard, Gregory   -- 8025
Biltcliffe, Robert -- 7650
Reeve, Martyn -- 7375
Valentine, Phil   -- 5725

Good luck, Dewi.  ;sexybanana;

Back to Table Barney -

Mateyboy (sorry, couldn't see the all-important ID card) raises 1500 to 2300 preflop; Barney is the sole caller.

Flop -  Qh 9s 9d; check, check.

Turn -  3s; MB bets 3100, Barney calls.

River -  7s; check, check.

Mateyboy shows  Ac 3c, Barney shows  2h 2c and looks pretty pleased with himself. As the dealer is pushing the chip mountain across to Mateyboy, Barney protests, "Oi, what are you doing?" Dealer - "uh, he's got a pair of threes". Barney looks a bit confused. It must be getting towards his bedtime...

Ok this is the hand Praz had early doors when hes passed a fullhouse, see what you guys think...

Praz limps in for 50 chips with  Kc Td some guy on button makes it 150 mateyboy in BB calls praz calls

Flop  Kd Tc  4d  Praz leads for 300 Preflop raiser calls, mateyboy passes

Turn Aspades Praz bets 400 button makes it 1k praz calls

River  Ts  Praz bets 3k guy dwells and makes it 6k....Praz tells him he thinks he has kings full, asks him loads of questions trying to get a read off him and eventually folds   Kc Td face up....

Button shows his hand and has Kings Full of tens

So hes not just the station we all thought he was....comments???

Here's someone else who's feeling the strain. I think his name is Andrew Feldman. I saw him apparently napping just as I was heading back up to the press room, so I got the camera and headed straight back down, and yes! He was still asleep! No-one at his table seems to have noticed.

Tough fold, but I can see how you could lay it down. Only real he could make that raise with is A-K, but event then he might just call and raise the Flop prior.

Class fold still.

Ash Hussain is OUT - not sure what happened exactly as I only caught the tail end of it, but somehow he got involved with  Jh 5c against pocket tens and failed to improve.

Disciplined fold but the 'villain' certainly didnt play it very well - min raise on the river?!

And a very silly hand to end the night, that involved everyone limping and shouting in a we-want-to-go-to-the-bar, or possibly a we-have-already-been-to-the-bar, kind of way.

Board -  Aspades Ks Kd Tc 3d

Dewi -  Jd 9c
Dr Aris -  8d 3h
Gregory Howard -  Ad Jc
MB -  Kc 2d
MB -  Qh 3c
MB -  6h 5c

... and so on. Totally ridiculous. The  Kc 2d won. But honestly.

Ding Ding!  End of Day...

Meanwhile back on table Romanello he ended the day as he started it, raising non-stop, including under the gun, blind.  Two players on his table have managed to increase their stacks, however:  Ian 'hotdog' Fieldhouse (now on 37k or so) and Mike Tse (now on 42k).

We are going to be long gone by the time the final full counts come out (eta 6am) so I can just promise that they'll be sellotaped to the end of this update (and the beginning of the next one) tomorrow afternoon before start of Day 1B.

We have exactly 10 minutes left to buy beer, so I have to type fast, but I thought I should gushingly tell you all how much fun I've had as your pretend updater. Thank-you and goodnight.

Oh no, hang on, I forgot something.

:-)

Great updates, thanks for the support all, finished the day(or is it night) with 36.600 around 50 left from 155 in day 1, see you saturday :)up


Ps only had 6 pints all day

Keep going Dewi - well done  ;D ;yippee;

Excellent. Good luck Dewi.  ;applause;

well done mate hope you go deep.,.,.,fair doos to dewi as i walked into the casino yesterday he went straight to the bar and got me a drink without even asking me.,.,.,a pint of guiness.,.,i know he knows i dont like it so he could have the 2 of them lol ty mate.,.,.top man.,.,.when i was speaking to him there was all commas and full stops coming out of my mouth lol.,.,.,.,.

i just looked back at the last 2 gukpt events and i dont think anyone has had a chip lead like roberto romanello after day one,lets hope he keeps it growing hes a real class act.,.,..,.one for the future.,.,.,.,definate wsop contender this year,.,#

and class act praz tbh i didnt rate him much but,great laydown yesterday kk101010
i wouldnt have passed,mind you i would have called with a set lol.,.and now my opinion has changed,.,gl mate.,.,

1 more plodder to watch jack the rack owen.,.,dont call him hes allways got it,.,gl m8.,.,

I implore anyone reading to get their money on Ken Wong. 140-1 on Betfair. The guys one of the best tournament players there is in the UK, but his missus doesn't let him hardly travel!

You thought Rommanello could steam-roller...

"No bruff, no win!"

Just caught up the last few pages of this truly fantastic update, I really enjoyed day one and look forward to today's.


Jen and Dana, I take my hat off to you.   ;hattip;


Great play Dewi, all the best of luck for day two.

 Great updates....Dana is a natural!

 Very nice start Dewi ;applause;


 

Hi Jen and Dana,

any chance of a pic of Gregory Howard. I want to see what my name sake looks like. At the first 2 events it caused all types of confusion and at Walsall I even got 2 starting stacks and 2 seat positions until I pointed out the problem.

Thanks Greg

ps Keep going Dewi gl gl gl

rotflmfao rotflmfao Quip of the night!

 :hello:

ended the day on  36000 had realy good start then everything started to gp wron i.e gettin rr on flops and shrunk to 9k managed to get lucky when barny moved in from my button raise with  Kc Kh he had  Jc 4c.c u sat gd luck to mickey wernick to day

Good Luck Dewi.

And here are the chip counts after Day 1A:

136,025 Romanello, Roberto
121,800 Forsman, Robert
80,325 Zach, Simon
63,000 Duval, Jeff
62,850 Kerrigan, Kerry
62,100 Davies, Alan
52,825 Trinh, Lam
52,125 Bruce, Chris
49,125 Feldman, Andrew
43,475 Chen, T
42,325 Mackay, Richard
40,825 Tyler, Joshua
36,600 James, Dewi
36,475 Wong, Ken
36,050 Fieldhouse, Ian
31,650 Thomas, Ben
30,300 Mahrenholz, Carl
29,350 Dean, Alan
27,775 Citrone, Carlo
27,575 Rich, Angela
27,550 Parker, David
26,725 Schwartz, Lukas
26,600 Gurnham, Rana
24,250 Garfield, Robert
21,925 Persaud, Nik
21,625 Cordy, Steve
21,475 Choi, Wai
21,475 Oflaherty, Andy
21,400 Aris, Dr
21,400 Henson, Alan
21,275 Muthy, Kayshan
20,950 Nash, Stuart
18,825 Jonas, Des
17,475 Bodha, R
16,900 Owen, Jack
16,700 Oneil, Mike
16,525 Bancroft, Jonathan
16,050 Elscombe, Aaron
15,300 Wilcox, Richard
14,250 Biltcliffe, Robert
14,050 Howard, Gregory
12,200 Tommaso, Andrea
11,575 Georgiou, Andrew
10,950 Ngo, Huo
10,250 Nelson, Terrence
10,075 Bedson, Jim

GREAT Update, thank you.

And as for that Dana woman, well,from now on, she is Lady Dana. Top bloke her.