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As one day ends, another begins - players for the second start day in this thrilling leg of the Bluesquare GUKPT will convene at 4pm today (Friday). 

Full counts from yesterday will be posted before play commences.

Feel free to post your comments, requests and comments here...

Good luck to all the blondeites playing tomorrow.  ;cheerleader;

Tell Ben Vinson all the boys at The Vic are rooting for him.

can you try keep updates on : mark yaffe / richard ade / ken clark / ben dong ? plz

Good Luck to all the players, & especially to our Guest Updater, Dana, & to Jen.

I'm still sulking from yesterday, I need to do something about my self-destruct button.

can i say that roberto has the chips and he has the game  i wish him best luck to win   i sat next to him last night and i found him very nice player   shame i couldnt play longer but it will be hard for him not to make final, boy s good  and i like him  gl m8

Goodluck sweetheart  :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*                             

good luck to the blondes playing today.

thanks for yesterdays updates.absolutely superb.
sack snoopy and make Dana a full time updater.

I played against Roberto at the Apat a few weeks ago and he's clearly a very talented player and hoovers up chips like nobodies business.  The only question is whether he reigns in his aggression if he goes deep.  At apat he made a somewhat rash play on the ft  pushing with KQ UTG and got called by the only player who could bust him (the eventual winner Lee Mulligan) with AK. 

He seemed like a nice guy though and maybe he can keep the trophy in Wales!

chip counts please / one of the advantages of playing second day should be CHIP COUNT INFO. Thanks.

GL to Nick Hicks bout time he wont one of these... Tell him to re steal his way to victory

D'ont panic, they're on the poker ball !.....Jen last night :
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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.

 ;karabiner; ;karabiner; Good Luck to Emma "BLONDE BOMB" Strutt, C'mon you know you can do it! luv ya!!! ;karabiner; ;karabiner;

bubble, how u get that dance going  very nice i like it a lot

coooooeeeeee  :hello:

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeres snoopy.

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

Will do m8  :)up

I bet bet gets a lot of attention from the ladies.  ;carlocitrone;

Thanks honey bunny.  :-*

Oi!  ;grr;

No warnings, straight red!

:redcard:

Wishing a lot of luck to the blondies playing today. Also big shoutouts to my % swaps @ Luton, Paul M3boy and Lalit "helsinki hellhound" Khajuria.
Im backing claimer, rookie and flushy to go deep in this too.


p.s. tell paul he's missed out on £240 from me so far this week  rotflmfao

I like her already.  ;D

Well, I'm here, and thankfully I didn't lock my keys in the car this time, as I did at the Welsh Championships when two giggling mechanics saved my bacon. However, that's probably due to the fact that I took the train, hopped into a taxi straight to the casino which meant I bundled in with everything but the kitchen sink. Spotted Roland De Wolfe and the colourful as ever Peter Gould in the car park. Both were in good spirits and grinning like Cheshire cats.

Also spotted by my eager eyes was Dan (Dan/Dave, which is it?) Owston, a cheery Welsh lad who was similarly brimming with confidence, although, as a local, that may have been alcohol induced.

blonde emma is one of the nicest girls you could meet and her other half is a top man.,.,.,she will be feared on the tables she is the biggest rock in the universe maybee bigger than the earth.,.,.,if she gets cards look out NO FEAR emma we call here.,.,i wish her all the luck in the world.,.,shes a bit nervous as i was the first time i did it.,,.but she shouldnt worry coz we are all behind her.,.,gl luv,.,that last comment looked a bit rude it wasnt meant to lolololologooooooooooone emmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bring home the bacon

MESSAGE FOR SNOOPY - Jen's on her way, she's just been distracted by the shower. We will be jumping into a cab very shortly. Go get 'em, sniger!

Great updates yesterday jen and dana.

Ive only recently woke up after playing in the very amusing cash game until the casino closed last night, decided its too late to travel home today so will be coming along to the casino with rudders later to say hello.

Gl to claimer, the mug

That must be some shower...

No sign of a kick-off just yet, but it shouldn't be too long now.

Are you as excited as me?  ;sark;

Yep, just a bunch of milling around the bar - spotted quite a few who played yesterday and are just hanging out today - and why not, I say. 
Breakfast is due Dana for such a great job yesterday, and now we have Snoopy who's already on the case with photos.

Erm, nope, im going to bed.

And here's the jovial and enigmatc PI Dick Slade, who has requested that we stop calling him PI Dick Slade.  ;hattip;

"I look a tad gay there," commeted Dick after unwittingly adopting a male catalgoue pose.

Word on the Lacey grape vine is that we have four Green Joker Poker qualifiers.

Terry Grimley, Rick 'The Claimer' Trigg, Ollie Boyce and Cat O'Neil.

Speaking of Dana, here is the mynx. Mad as a box of monkeys this one, as I'm sure you'll agree from reading some of her updates yesterday.

Bit round of applause fro the young lass who dealt up a fine job on her debut performance.  ;applause;

 ;hattip; to Dana......hope she's signed an exclusive contract with Blonde, a natural.

Good Luck all Blondes today.

Look at these two scallies, Matt 'B4Matt' Tyler and John 'The Rockstar' Conroy, the latter fresh off his highly commendable 3rd place finish in Poland. Well, I say fresh, but he won't have looked particulalry fresh the morning after, especially after celebrating his cash and St Paddy's day by drinking er... EVERYTHING!

According to Matt and Nick, there was a newspaper headline today that said the most shoplifted item in Wales was a leg of lamb (!!). Whilst the Northerners thought it was quite apt for our Welsh friends, John and I thought they were pulling our leg, but apparantly it's true!

Finally, before I pop back out for a selection of early hands (and hopefully mega action), here's a random picture of a Tapir I took a couple of weeks ago at London zoo. I'd never been to a zoo before, so I was like a kid in a candy store, especially when I saw some of these creatures. A tapir?? Never heard of it, I'm sure they make them up sometimes.

You should pass the 20,000 post mark today Snopps.

How many players started yesterday and today??

Cheers

Yogi

WE HAVE ACTION!

;as;

Very early doors, but we already have our first all-in and call, Sid Harris being the assassin.

I joined the action right on the river, the former London EPT finalist, Sid, having made a 4k bet on a board of 3h 9s 8d 7c Kd.

Sid had Pocket Kings, whilst the unfortunate fellow to his left (just a number at the moment until we receive the player list) held the Snowmen, 8c 8s

Player 1003 now down to 2.6k.

Bizarrely, and this is truly odd, Wasim Shaid (sp?) has become the first exit of the day, losing with a set of Eights to a set of Kings. The board reading K-7-8-7-5.

dododododododdodo

(http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/372282/2/istockphoto_372282_twilight_zone.jpg)

Sat 2 seats down from the newly chipped up Sid Harris, is this man, former Eastender (don't call him Beppe whateveryou do!) and Dusk Till Dawn's Michael Greco. No change in his stack, but he's in the zone by the looks of this photo.

My dream, apart from having MC Hammer making a guest appearance, is for them to play the Eastenders duff duff duffduff over the tannoy when he gets knocked out.

162 turned up today.

One of the few celebrating (I jest) the first exit of the day is this chap, 'One Hand' Rumit.

"I've not played a hand yet,"

Aaaah, that explains it.

Someone else who has yet to play a hand is Mr Matt Tyler, but I'm not surprised when you look at the fearsome line-up on his table:

Bambos
Womble
Mick McCool
Ian Nelson
Adam Stoneman
Neil Channing

This must be small fry for Roland, as by the looks of things, he's as bored as a guest at a tikay dinner party.

Having said that, he has won a pot, betting 600 on a board of 3d 3s Js to rake in a few chips.

Bit blurred this one, my apologies, but I thought it best to capture photographic evidence of Dave 'Dubai' Shallow duing these early stages.

Who'd win a last longer bet out of these two? Tough choice.  ;carlocitrone;

lmao! Awesome :D

Top work yesterday from Jen and Dana (apart from one post where she exaggerated my demise ;)).

Can you wish Pete "The Professor" Singleton good luck from me. I hope to be following the blonde updates on my mobile tonight.

p.s. I'm on "The Real Hustle" on Thursday 29th March, 10.30pm, BBC3 :D

One for Charmaine and any other M3boy fans. No change in his chip stack, but he looks deep in thought.

And before I nip back down into the battlefield, a quick obligatory, yet ultimately very tedious shot of the cardroom.

Good luck to Rumit too :)

My top 4 tips (which should be on the money as I was lucky enough to back 2 winners so far this festival - chopped 1st in the £250 and chopped 1st in the £100 shooutout ;)):

Flushie (if he's playing)
Rumit
Pete the Prof

Dark horse: Beppe

Thank you Snoops  :)

how is m3's head today? lol

wish him gl from me please, will be down to the casino later

If you can get any news on Craig "Sneaks" Metcalfe it would be much appreciated, my dark horse tip to go deep in this, cheers

So - here is your full list of Day 1B players, in table and seat order:

1   1   King, Paul   
1   2   Smith, Dave   
1   3   Romanello, Frank   
1   4   Blanco, Cristiano   
1   5   Goodwin, Marc   
1   6   Shahid, Waseem   
1   7   Thi-dong, Binh   
1   8   Rutter, Alan   
1   9   Vicary, Paul   
1   10   Miles, Andy   
2   1   Mitchell, Ryan   
2   2   Oneil, Cat   
2   3   Orlowski, Mark   
2   4   Simmonds, Richard   
2   5   Grimley, Terence   
2   6   Durr, Izabel   
2   7   Hasalm, Peter   
2   8   Jones, Iwan   LLO
2   9   Arees, Tariq   
2   10   Sunar, Surrinder   
3   1   Redmond, Lee   
3   2   Stevens, Robert   
3   3   Colclough, Dave   
3   4   Fronda, Ryan   
3   5   Humphries, Evan   
3   6   Priestley, Gavin   
3   7   Adderley, Tony   
3   8   Wise, Phil   
3   9   Mclen, Alan   
3   10   Adejuyigbe, Richard   
4   1   Seymour, Ronald   
4   2   Romanello, Anthony   
4   3   Cowling, Brad   
4   4   Tann, Willy   
4   5      
4   6   Amour, Andrew   
4   7   Akenhead, James   
4   8   Arees, Edward   
4   9   Pomroy, Dave   
4   10   Herron, Mark   
5   1   Jasmin, Najim   
5   2   Shaw, Gary   
5   3   Lee, Tuan   
5   4   Rees, Ceri   
5   5   Xanthos, Stasia   
5   6   Vinson, Alan   
5   7   Shallow, Dave   
5   8   Somaiya, Rumit   
5   9   Duffy, Brendan   
5   10   Yaffe, Mark   
6   1   Stoneham, Adam   
6   2   Beaumont, Lynne   
6   3   Mccool, Mike   
6   4   Channing, Neil   
6   5   Bright, Richard   
6   6   Nelson, Ian   
6   7   Xanthos, Bambos   
6   8   Walmsley, Steve   
6   9   Kennedy, George   
6   10   Tyler, Matt   
7   1   Saghtchi, Saeed   
7   2   Samson, Daniel   
7   3   Duncan, Keiron   
7   4   Clutterbuck, James   
7   5   Boulous, Michael   
7   6   Jones, Ken   A
7   7   Falconer, John   
7   8   Morris, Donna   
7   9   Metcalfe, Craig   
7   10   Courtney, Dave   
8   1   Jelinek, Steve   
8   2   Macintrye, Fraser   
8   3   Slavin, Stephen   
8   4   Khajuria, Lalit   
8   5   Sidhu, Kuljinder   
8   6   Fiore, Stefano   
8   7   Garnham, Paul   
8   8   Callow, Kim   
8   9      
8   10   Atkin, James   
9   1   Nightingale, Thomas   
9   2   Mckay, Anthony   
9   3   Slade, Nick   
9   4   Hakim, Jaffrey   
9   5   Craig, Steve   
9   6   Goodall, Nick   
9   7   Rudling, Doig   
9   8   Moore, Mike   
9   9   Bosley, Ian   
9   10   Exley, John   
10   1   Owen, Craig   
10   2   Harris, Sid   
10   3   Maloney, Paul   
10   4   Greco, Michael   
10   5   Shafiq, Mohammed   
10   6   Boyce, Oliver   
10   7   Mizzi, Sorel   
10   8   Redmond, Richard   
10   9   Abbassi, Ramanzanali   
10   10   Paul-james, Simon   
11   1   Harding, Miles   
11   2   Martin, James   
11   3   Gibbons, Steve   
11   4   John, Simon   
11   5   Jones, Gareth   
11   6   Clarke, Ken   
11   7   De wolf, Roland   
11   8   Holden, Stephen   
11   9   Penly, Dave   
11   10   Mohammad,Ishmal   
12   1   Law, Royce   
12   2   Chatterton, Gary   
12   3   Davies, Ian   
12   4   Wernick, Micky   
12   5   Dack, Paul   
12   6   Hickman, Darren   
12   7   Hartree, Catherine   
12   8   Coren, Vicky   
12   9   Humpries, Paul   
12   10   Brindley, Roy   
13   1   Morjaria, Mukesh   
13   2   Trigg, Richard   
13   3   Farthing, Marcus   
13   4   Blodwell, Wayne   
13   5   Koysor, Abdul   
13   6   Bowker, Elliot   
13   7   Dunwoodie, Thomas   
13   8   Libertina, Martinio   
13   9   Smolinski, Gary   
14   1   Owston, David   
14   2   Willis, Nigel   
14   3   Ibraham, Mohammed   
14   4   Yusuf, Sami   
14   5   Oleary, Kevin   
14   6   Gould, Peter   
14   7   Woods, Alistar   
14   8   Menzies, Stuart   
14   9   Singleton, Peter   
15   1   Dionysiou, Kyriacos   
15   2   Lu, Bo   
15   3   Capper, Tony   
15   4   Lott, Michael   
15   5   Parhizkar, Hoss   
15   6   Sami, Darsham   
15   7   Bates, Adrian   
15   8   Isaia, Alessio   
15   9   Conroy, John   
16   1   Boynton, David   
16   2   Rattos-salles, Matthew   
16   3      
16   4   Wyre, Ray   
16   5   Powell, Alwyn   
16   6   Rees, Glyn   
16   7   Bowden, Ian   
16   8   Forrester, Mark   
16   9   Clark, Mick   
17   1   Parker, Paul   
17   2   Flood, Liam   
17   3   Hayles, Ashley   
17   4   Gallagher, David   J
17   5   Vincent, Ben   
17   6   Rao, Ganesh   
17   7   Strutt, Emma   
17   8   Kiss, Karoly   
17   9   Heller, Adam   

only xs alcohol cud account for his hoodie!!!!!!!!

gl tho,

Hi Snoops/Jen

Can you keep us regularly upated on the progress of Mr Akenhead please?

thx

Donna Morris has had a good start to her first level - saw her taking a stroll in the bar area and asked if she was enjoying herself, to which she replied, "Yes, it's easy when you get paid off with quads.  Flush on board, pair, the lot, got called by a straight..."

Roland was in the bar too, but he was just a bit bored.
Mike Lacey and Dewi Cool were in the bar, too, but that's just standard.

Can you wish Glynn Rees good luck from me please.
ps ask him for his blusq username  LOL

Now we have player list, I'll check out the progress of those players mentioned in the first two pages.

For now, check out this hand from the 'Table of Dooooooooooooooooooom.'

I didn't quite catch who raised it up, but somehow 6 players managed to spend 1.2k to see an Aspades Kc 3d Flop.

Lynne Beaumont (Ace King) checked, Michael McCool (Queens) checked, Neil Channing (Tens) checked, Ian Nelson (??) checked, Bambos (??) checked and Womble (Jacks) bet 1,250.

Lynne was the only caller and both players checked the 4c Turn.

River = 9c

Lynne checked, Womble bet 2,500 and Lynne called to take down a nice pot.

However, could it have been bigger, did she miss out on an opportunity and did they play their hands well? What do you think.

Quite an incredible hand really when you consider the hands out there! If this had been Level 10 instead of Level 1, we would have had carnage.

No worries.

Nick Slade's stack has halved.

He re-raised an opponent pre-flop and bluffed an 8-5-5 Flop, but Mateyboy called. Turn was another rag, but it gave Nick a nut flush draw with his Ace, but his bet was called once again. A 1.8k bet on the rag non-flush-filling River didn't work either, but what was most eyebrow raising was the hand that his opponent revealed - Kings!

"Couldn't believe he had that hand," added Nick.

This is the biggest hand of Level 1, and it belongs to a reluctant photographee, Dewi James, who made it through to Day 2 yesterday.

Firmly clutching onto his early beer, Dewi commented, "I've just come in for the 6 pints today and then I'll be off."

Who said poker players weren't athletes! Mad as a box of monkeys, the lot of em.

Yep the cash game was quality. At one point I could barely read the board I'd had so many Double VRB's! LOL. How I made a nice little profit is still a mystery. :) Was good to have a game with you Pab.

Good luck to Matt Tyler who was very entertaining on the cash game too. Great Banter.

Brill updates as usual and good luck to all Blondes playing today.

As with yesterday's play, they're not dropping like Flemmings, only 1 player exiting the comp thus far.

Meanwhile, Jen has hurtled on down into the cardroom to meet some requests, so hold those breaths.

nice one, gl if you are playing the monte carlo qualifier mate, I skipped it in favour of a proper drinking session as I feel I missed out yesterday, lol

Your dark horse is pictured here next to quads-paid off Donna, framed by Burnley John (left) and Dave Courtney (right). 

Nah, I still feel a bit hungover lol - will be taking it easy with a DVD and the other half tonight. Was that M3boy on the cash last night?

yeah m3boy, Ill see if he wants a beer when i go to the casino later, he might not take it without £50 in the bottom, LOL

"What you watching?" I asked.

"Cinderella, man, he replied.

Genuinely confused, I peered at the screen with a look of bamboozlement. "Cinderalla?" I said bemused. "Where are the ugly sisters?"

"No, Cinderalla Man. Russell Crowe."

Oops.  ;djinn;

LOL. I didn't realise that was M3! Wish him good luck when you see him.

Right...  I'm off to recover, will have to catch up with the updates later.

Another photo run - before we nip off to help with the chip counting - the dealers are on break in 15 mins en masse which means that we're all going to help count the lot.  It works out well for us all in the end...

1) Richard Ade (you'll have to trust me; I stood there for five minutes and he didn't look up once)
2) James Akenhead
3) Mark Yaffe (I think)

Good showing from the Irish this week, Terry Grimley (pictured) joining the likes of Rob Edwards and Mike Lacey in their mini invasion.

In fact, Terry just won a nice pot off Tariq Arees, the latter re-raising the Irishman's 2k Turn bet on a 5h Ahrt 3s 7d board.

Terry called instantly for all his chips and proudly revealed his 2h 4h for flopped straight and a small flush draw to boot. But although he was ahead, the flush draw was useless as Arees held the Kh Jh for the bigger flush draw. However, none of his outs arrived and Terry was left to take the pot, albeit with a clap of the hands and a slight "Yes" exclaim.

He's doubled up again ("Snoopy asking me a really obvious question when he came over - 'Did you take a hit, then?' - seems to have worked some magic and I'm back up").  He does also spend a higher proportion of time standing near his chair rather than in it than most other players.

Dusk Till Dawn's Dave Colclough has his head above water with 12,050. "That's enough to see me through to Day 2," jokes an upbeat Dave.

Willie Tann just called a 2k bet from neighbour (in poker, not residence) Brad Cowling on a Ts 3s 6c 7c 4s board, only to be chargined as his opponent revealed 8s 6s for the rivered flush.

any chance somebody can let me know how andy miles is doing thanks

The chap who ran trip eights into the trip kings of Sid Harris earlier on was in fact Frank Romanello, and he's just been faced with another potentially taxing decision courtesy of Richard Redmond.

With a Flop of 9h Qh Jd, Romanello bet 1.5k only to be re-raised by Redmond to 3.6k.

Two contrasting postures, an uptight Romanello leans forward over the table, desperately tying to work out if he should put his tournament life on the line. Meanwhile, a relaxed laid-back 'I've been here, got the t'shirt' Redmond offers me a rye smile as we wait what seems like a lifetime for a decision.

I wonder around the other tables, return, only to see that nothing has changed. Redmond is looking into the distance, nonchalently fiddling with his i-pod headphones, making no attempt whatsoever to set a poker face. Meanwhile, Romanello is still deep in thought, but that thought finally translates into a good call, although many were surprised it wasn't made quicker, with Ad Qd. Romanello showed Ac Qc, and with a Tc Turn, it was chop chop.

;kc;

chip counts coming up soon as we creep towards the end of level 2.

Can someone check the deck on that table, it has two queen of diamonds in it!!

9h Qh Jd Flop

As I pass 'One Hand' Rumit's table, I notice that he is still in, but carrying the same chip count. "You know you don't lose the nickname if you don't play any hands," I inform him, to which he worries me deeply by calling the next hand. Flop comes Kd-Qh-Qd and Rumit calls a 225 bet from Tuan Lee. Tuan then moves all-in for what looked like just several hundred on the raggy Turn, but it was enough to make Rumit fold.

"Look what you made him do, snoops," complained Dubai.

Ben Vinson is on 14k.

Just spotted Paul King on the rail (although everyone's on the rail because it's the break), but Paul looking considerably more sorrowful than others, and soon confirmed his departure.

"I raised it up pre-flop with Tens and hit top set, but it was an all spade board. I bet because I didn't want a flush to hit and Alan Rutter flat called. Turn came a rag, and I doubled my bet to 2,400. Alan raised and I shoved it in, but he had flopped the flush with Aspades 9s and I failed to hit. It's hard to get away from flopped top set though, even on all suited board."

Odd one now involving Shaf, who looks like he's jumped up to around 18k.

Some heavy pre-flop action which led to Michael Greco folding Queens, but Shaf and Craig Owen saw a Flop of 9h 3h 3s. Craig bet 5k, only for Shaf to move all-in, but the eye-opening thing about this hand is that Craig then mucked his cards, leaving just 2k behind.

Shaf showed Aces. What Craig Owen had, I have no idea.

It's not a great photo, but can anyone work out who this chap is?

First correct answer wins a big wet sloppy kiss from tikay.  :kiss:

benny hill ? lol

It's definitely someone Irish:
Mick McCool ?
Liam Flood ?

I think Snoopy mentioned that someone was following this chap - Binh Thi-Dong - here pictured chip twiddling, with a stack currently of 10,150.

 ;iagree; but you can have the prize...

Andy Miles, pictured here next to Paul Vicary, is on 16,075.

Dismay for Akenhead fans as he's dropped down to 4,725, his latest loss being against Andrew Amour (below), folding to a 2.4k to 5k Turn re-raise on a board of 2s Qd 5d Ks.

Bit of action on table Redmond, Ollie Boyce and a 'short sleeved showing of those guns'  Sorel Mizzi.

Flop = Qc 4h 5h

Ollie raised it up, Sorel made it 2,525 and Ollie upped it to 5k.

Sorel thought and thought before a final think led to a fold.

Updates on Dubai, D Pomroy and Roland please :)

We've just finished typing up the full chip counts - they just need to be sent to me from the hub of all press activity which is Jon Raab's laptop... actually I am going to lean over and give you a couple of counts while-u-wait:

Pete Singleton    8,175
Shaf                 20,200
Nick Slade           7,875
Michael Greco     14,350
Craig Metcalfe     21,325
Matt Tyler           3,000
Womble             8,875
Neil Channing      13,025

Those were at the break - lots of action has already been mixing it all up.  20k or so is leader status, still, however.

Dusk Till Dawn update:

Just the two of them here today...

Dave Colclough -- 13,925
Michael Greco -- 12,025

Ceri Rees takes a few k off Rumit, betting around 2k on an Ad 7c 7s Qd 3c board and winning with Ahrt 4h.

Willie Tann is OUT. No hand details, but he's worryingly close to the roulette wheel.

Remember where you heard it first guys, Craig Metcalfe

Andrew Amour has passed those chips he won off James Akenhead over to neighbour, Greek Jack.

Board read 5h Qd Qs 7h 9h with Andrew facing a 3k bet. You could tell by his expression that something wasn't right, and he seemed very reluctant to call, but made that "I'll do it quickly so I can't change my mind" type of call, and was justified in his early and instinctive fears with Jack revealing Qh 9c.

Andrew tutted and threw down Qc Jh face-up, clearly fruious with not only himself, but the cruel ways of the poker gods.

Please tell Pete Singleton to get his finger out  ;slavedriver;

how is mickey wernick doing??

Well, he's got slightly more facial hair.

Recognise him now?

Introducing a 42-year old Mickey The Worm.

(http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=21764.0;attach=12520;image)

Hey Hotdog, nice playing yesterday and good luck tomorrow !

Dubai - down to 8,650 from "nearing thirty" after the threeway all-in-er AA (winner - Brendan Duffy, new Chip Leader) vs. KK (Dubai) vs. QQ (Rumit). 

Here's dpommo next to Ed Arees, looks like he has 7,800 currently.

that pics funny lol

thats why they called him the kid then lol

hows he doing snoops

hi ralph cheers hope i can keep it going and bring the spondiolies bk to the midlands

R. Abbassi, with whom I was having a breaktime chat, is on just over 2,000 - and that's after having been all-in and survived.  He pushed preflop with what turned out to be Ad 8d - I heard Shaf saying, "I'll gamble" so I turned to watch his table.  Shaf gambled with 6c 8c, as it turned out, to none of our collective surprise.
Anyway - Flop:  5s 5h 5c
Turn:  9d
River:  8h

And although the dealer was already gently pushing the chips towards Abbassi, Shaf was there to set everything straight...

Ramanzanali Abbassi has doubled up. All the chips going in on a Jd 7c 8d Flop, Abassi flopping the nuts with Th 9c and being paid off by Shaf's Ac Aspades.

"I was gambling," he says, perhaps defending a pre-flop call.

Flop = Aspades Qh Jc

Ryan Mitchel bets 900 only for Richard Simmonds (pictured) to move all-in for a massive seven or eight k.

Ryan gives it the ol 'I have a hand, but I'm still going to fold because that bet's too expensive' kinda routine, before indeed release A-J face-up.

Eager to see his opponent's hand and find out that he made a 'super fold', which is obviously why he showed his cards, his wishes are met when Simmonds reveals A-Q.

These were the full counts from the end of the last break - a lot has altered the top spots since then, I will try to add a note if someone's now a chip monster, or out, but thought they might be good to have even if it took a lot of time to get them and write them up (rules are rules; we weren't allowed to help with the count and Jon has been running around like crazy)

Shallow, Dave   25825     (down to 8,650)
Miles, Andy   21600
Metcalfe, Craig   21325
Rattos-salles, Matthew   21250
Shafiq, Mohammed   20200
Jones, Gareth   19850
Atkin, James   19750
Mccool, Mike   18925        (25,000 easily, and climbing)
Stoneham, Adam   18875
Grimley, Terence   18650
Cowling, Brad   17700
Rutter, Alan   17650
Fronda, Ryan   16675
Ibraham, Mohammed   16375
Bowker, Elliot   16025
Sidhu, Kuljinder   14950
Colclough, Dave   14900
Humphries, Evan   14575
Smith, Dave   14475
Khajuria, Lalit   14450
Goodall, Nick   14375
Greco, Michael   14350
Hakim, Jaffrey   14175
Vincent, Ben   13875
Brindley, Roy   13700
Heller, Adam   13675
Durr, Izabel   13625
Duffy, Brendan   13625   (35k+ now)
Harris, Sid   13575
Hartree, Catherine   13475
Mckay, Anthony   13400
Arees, Edward   13150
Abbassi, Ramanzanali   13150
Channing, Neil   13025
Gould, Peter   13025
Duncan, Keiron   12950
Amour, Andrew   12725
Herron, Mark   12675
Powell, Alwyn   12675
Coren, Vicky   12650
Kiss, Karoly   12575
Bright, Richard   12525
Penly, Dave   12425
Wernick, Micky   12400
Willis, Nigel   12375
Morjaria, Mukesh   12300
Bates, Adrian   12200
Redmond, Richard   12175
Redmond, Lee   12075
Beaumont, Lynne   12075
Samson, Daniel   12075
Hasalm, Peter   12025
Adejuyigbe, Richard   11875
Seymour, Ronald   11775
Mohammad,Ishmal   11775
Rees, Glyn   11625
Oneil, Cat   11550
Morris, Donna   11550
Craig, Steve   11400
Shaw, Gary   11375
Vicary, Paul   11300
Oleary, Kevin   11300
Capper, Tony   11200
Trigg, Richard   11025
Boulous, Michael   10925
Blanco, Cristiano   10875
Slavin, Stephen   10650
Woods, Alistar   10650
Blodwell, Wayne   10575
Exley, John   10350
Thi-dong, Binh   10250
Libertina, Martinio   10250
Strutt, Emma   10200
Macintrye, Fraser   10150
Bowden, Ian   10150
Flood, Liam   10150
Yaffe, Mark   10100
Simmonds, Richard   10000
Farthing, Marcus   10000
Somaiya, Rumit   9950
Holden, Stephen   9925
Harding, Miles   9875
Gibbons, Steve   9800
Chatterton, Gary   9775
Courtney, Dave   9700
Martin, James   9650
Sami, Darsham   9475
Rao, Ganesh   9475
Dack, Paul   9375
Yusuf, Sami   9300
Clark, Mick   9175
Humpries, Paul   9150
Jones, Ken   9000
Nightingale, Thomas   8925
Orlowski, Mark   8900
Walmsley, Steve   8875
Isaia, Alessio   8775
Akenhead, James   8750
Parker, Paul   8750
Romanello, Frank   8700
Law, Royce   8675
Boynton, David   8650
Mitchell, Ryan   8600
Jones, Iwan   8600
De wolf, Roland   8575
Wyre, Ray   8500
Vinson, Alan   8425
Bosley, Ian   8325
Mizzi, Sorel   8175
Singleton, Peter   8175
Priestley, Gavin   8150
Jelinek, Steve   8150
Goodwin, Marc   8050
Wise, Phil   8025
Hayles, Ashley   8025
Smolinski, Gary   8000
Garnham, Paul   7875
Slade, Nick   7875
Romanello, Anthony   7700
Boyce, Oliver   7650
Xanthos, Stasia   7600
Pomroy, Dave   7550
Lott, Michael   7550
Koysor, Abdul   7500
Nelson, Ian   7275
Adderley, Tony   7200
Dionysiou, Kyriacos   7025
Sunar, Surrinder   7000
Conroy, John   6875
Clarke, Ken   6600
Menzies, Stuart   6575
Mclen, Alan   6525
John, Simon   6500
Falconer, John   6475
Paul-james, Simon   6425
Fiore, Stefano   6225
Rudling, Doig   6175
Kennedy, George   6125
Saghtchi, Saeed   6050
Davies, Ian   5775
Dunwoodie, Thomas   5625
Jasmin, Najim   5350
Gallagher, David   5100
Moore, Mike   5000
Hickman, Darren   4925
Owen, Craig   4400
Callow, Kim   3900
Tyler, Matt   3000
Lee, Tuan   2125
Arees, Tariq   1050
Maloney, Paul   900
Rees, Ceri   550
King, Paul   OUT
Shahid, Waseem   OUT
Stevens, Robert   OUT
Tann, Willy   OUT
Xanthos, Bambos   OUT
Clutterbuck, James   OUT
Owston, David   OUT
Lu, Bo   OUT
Parhizkar, Hoss   OUT
Forrester, Mark   OUT

You wouldn't let it lie

As I meander on over to the back end of the cardroom and over towards the wheel of death, Nick Slade who seems to spend more time standing than seated, grabs me and says, "You wanna hear an incredible hand" to which I inevitably reply, being the roving reporter (I hope) that I am, "Yep, go for it."

And with a huff and a puff (it's at this point I know he lost the pot), Nick begins, "5 limpers, I called from the button with 9-J and the flop came 9s-4s-7. Tony Mackay bet 1.4k and I called. He then checked the King Turn, I bet 1,900 and he called again. River came the 6 of diamonds and he moved all-in for 2.4k, which I called because the pot was so big. To my shock, he turned over 7-6o, which means he called for almost half his stack on the turn with third pair. He said he was 'gambling' when questioned, but, and you can tell praz on blonde this, if that's the standard of play from his lads, then he should be ashamed."

The last comment was tongue in cheek. "Praz will find it funny," he added.

Paul Parker is here, tucked, unfortunately, into a murky corner of the separate cash game area over by the bar.  He's got Liam Flood on his left, and shares his table with Emma Strutt, Ashley Hayles and Ben Vinson among others. 

Behind him is the only available cash table (and the scene of last night's drunken hold'em starring VodkaRedBull, Pab and M3 etc.) which is currently stocked with recognisable players, busted ones from yesterday (and today e.g. Bambos) and lurkers that find themselves with a day off in Cardiff and are just irresistably drawn back to the Casino like little moths to a halogen bulb.

Who recognises the player on phone-distracted Channing's right?  I didn't on first wander - had to hear his unique voice to be able to place Mick McCool, in disguise as cross-country skier.  He had a very healthy 26,500 at last check.

You won't be surprised that he's not chip leader, but you may be disappointed that he's only gor 2,325.

I just saw him pass to a check-raise (Mickey bet 1.1k initially) on a 2s 8c 3d Flop, Gary Chatterton the man causing the veteran a headache.

We're on Level 4 at the moment with the blinds at 100/200. There are 144 players with the average stack of 11,400.

We have been informed that the buffet will be available at the end of this level, which really perked young Jennifer up.

thats no probs for mick hes a grinder lol come on mickey

Is he a Crossroads lookalikie?  ;scarymoment;

Roland De Wolfe has doubled up, betting Aces pre-flop and receiving two callers, before betting 1.5k on the 8h 6h 2c Flop (1 caller) and then 2.5k on the Ks Turn (1 caller again).

Td River and Mateyboy sticks in 4k, to which Roland responds by moving all-in for 4,125.

So 125 more for the guy to call, and somehow, he manages to pass.

Discussion here in the pressroom suggests that he can't possibly pass, even if he has 9 high due to the information that can be required and the potential for human error.

Funny fold though.

Blackpool regular (I think), Gareth 'The Nugget' Jones, is OUT.

Flop = 8d 4d 6h

9k pot

Saeed Saghtchi had his best poker face on following a 6,425 all-in, which must have worked as Gareth offered his hand and said good luck before pushing in his remaining 5 (approx) thousand chips.

Saeed showed Queens, to which Gareth replied, "Nice hand", subsequently revealing his troubled Nines.

No help and Gareth was out, although he was a gentleman in defeat.

can you tell andy miles his brother says good luck please

A quick glance at the room and the collection of a few aprrox chip counts informs me that the following players are up there with the chip leaders:

Lalit Khajuria -- 29,5k
And Miles -- 28.5k
Sid Harris -- 26.5k
Craig Metcalfe (I hope) -- 22.5k
Brendan Duffy -- 22.5k
Roy Brindley -- 21k

Shall I tell him you said good luck too?

3 minutes to the 75 minute break, which is my cue to nip to the front of the buffet queue.

Back soon!

Triple up for Paul M3Boy Garnham... (this isn't as exciting as it sounds as he only started with 1,875) - tip off from James Atkin who shares their table:

Early position limp from D. Sami, later postion Paul moves in, then another slightly less short stack called.  Totally committed, when Sami revealed his hand's true strength with the good old limp-re-raise, it was too late for either stack to get away.  On their backs:
Sami:  Ahrt Aspades
M3Boy:  Ad Kd
Other One:  Ac 9c

Flop:  Qd 4d ("Oh no," says Sami) Jd
Turn:  Jh
River:  9h

So Paul can breathe again, while the Aces take the side pot. 

Table Brindley had a confrontation between Royce Law and Vicky Coren just now - threeway to the flop of 2s 2d Kh.  Royce comes out betting for 1,000, and Vicky raises to 3k.  Roy the Boy has a little dwell himself before passing and then it's back to the bettor.  He thinks for a decent while before moving in, a further 4,425 back to Vicky.  She had only 8,500 left at this time, and a call is over half her stack.  Eventually she decides to let it go - I wonder, a genuine decision, or hand in the cookie jar moment?

A couple more counts:

Michael Greco      15,000
Shaf                    4,600  (still totally unrepentant about his TV table verbal onslaught at the last one; caught neighbour Greco wincing)
Richard Redmond   13,800
Neil Channing        12,150
Womble                8,350
Mick McCool          20,400
Liam Flood             7,125
Donna Morris          9,100
Roland De Wolfe    22,500
James Atkin           17,800

And now is the time for the buffet, after what Snoopy describes as the "free-for-all" may have subsided.

planes arrived so will be home by about 11.30ish and will check updates then- tell womble to pull his finger out in the meantime.

As I write, Mr Raab is diligently typing in the chip counts (which all the dealers are asked to note during the break) and will hopefully email them through shortly.

snoops,when you see jon rab ask him if his flags are still there lol.,.,.,tell him ive ordered 2 today £190 each lol.,.,

and give him this for an idea.,.,when playing yesterday everyone was getting confussed with the spare id card that you were given to follow you round for chip updating .,.,great idea but i seen a few people think that players still had cards infront of them .,.when really they had passed.,.,.,
my idea this.,.,.card markers liker the blue square ones but on the one side have your i-d number.,.,and to keep the puntters to keep them on the table at all times offer a free draw for something at the end of the year or something.,.,.like wsop seat.,.,loljust a thought.,.,makes it easier for you guys

Several minutes before we hit the felt again. In the meantime, I've been busy scurrying away in the cardroom scouring for stories, one of which comes from DTD's Dave Colclough, who somehow turned a usually sturdy rock into a loosey gooesey er... goose.

When requesting a scoop, Dave responded, "Shall I tell you about how I got up to 23k?" I nodded. "I raised it up with 6h 5h and Ryan Fronda called with Th 2h. Flop came Ac Kh 4h, I checked, he bet and I called. Turn was 6c, I checked, he bet 2k and I moved all-in for around 8.5k. Ryan folded, which was a good job for him, because he only had three outs."

Dave continued, "He commented, 'you've got Ace King' when he passed his T-2 and also added, 'I played to take you off the pot'."

Hmm, that didn't quite work out.

Thanks sofa, I'll pass that one when I get the chance. He's running around like a headless chicken at the mo though.

Another story comes from Darshan 'Magic' Sami, who says he had his busted Aces.

"I limped under the gun for 200, one fella moved all-in for 3.5k and then another pushed behind him."

"Did you call?" I asked jokingly.

"Cause I called," replied an unaware Sami. "One had A-K of diamonds, the other A-9 of spade. Flop came three diamonds, and I'm down to 8k now because of that. What's amazing is that the guy with A-9 was the second player to move in!"

Also came across the pairing of Dave Penley and JP Kelly hanging around the bar. JP's here to booze and leer at the ladies, but Dave's playing, doing okay with 13.5k. Not too much in the way of hands (just a pair of queens), but he's winning the prop bet with Roland. Apparently they agreed to pick a card (Dave - 8, Roland - 2) and play £20 a point everytime one hits the flop. If two hit the flop, they get 3 points and if three hit the flop they get 5 points. Sound fun? Well, not to Roland who tore up the scoresheet when he went 6-0 down and announced that he wasn't playing anymore. He didn't cry though.

One for fellow Anal Mob member, Craig 'I KNOW IT' Wildman.

Gynn Rees is on 20k. His biggest hand was Tens, calling a pre-flop raise and calling bets on every street of a 9 high Flop. Mateyboy had T-9.

Meanwhile, Rumit was up to 17k at one point but dropped back down to 9k, mainly due to an accident with A-K, raising it up pre-flop but running into a flopped flush (A-8s) on a King high all suited Flop.

Chip counts as they restart play:

Miles, Andy -- 54050
Grimley, Terence -- 40675
Khajuria, Lalit   -- 34100
Harris, Sid -- 28775
Brindley, Roy -- 28425
Koysor, Abdul -- 28350
Metcalfe, Craig   -- 27925
Duffy, Brendan   -- 26725
Goodall, Nick -- 25050
Colclough, Dave   -- 23400
Bright, Richard   -- 22850
Forrester, Mark   -- 22525
Rees, Glyn -- 22200
Mccool, Mike -- 21925
Duncan, Keiron   -- 21575
Dack, Paul -- 21250
Sidhu, Kuljinder -- 21125
Bowker, Elliot -- 21125
Saghtchi, Saeed   -- 20975
Ibraham, Mohammed -- 20675
Rattos-salles, Matthew -- 20375
Exley, John -- 20175
Parhizkar, Hoss   -- 19975
Hasalm, Peter -- 19325
Dionysiou, Kyriacos -- 18775
Nelson, Ian -- 18250
Gibbons, Steve -- 18175
Adderley, Tony -- 17750
Atkin, James -- 17600
Durr, Izabel -- 17400
De wolf, Roland   -- 17350
Redmond, Richard -- 16800
Morjaria, Mukesh -- 16300
Jasmin, Najim -- 16225
Kiss, Karoly -- 16225
Hayles, Ashley -- 16150
Greco, Michael -- 15725
Mckay, Anthony -- 15500
Jones, Iwan -- 15125
Craig, Steve -- 15125
Romanello, Anthony -- 14975
Blanco, Cristiano -- 14650
Martin, James -- 14325
Mclen, Alan -- 14300
Powell, Alwyn -- 13550
Penly, Dave -- 13375
Shallow, Dave -- 13300
Willis, Nigel -- 13275
Gould, Peter -- 13250
Menzies, Stuart   -- 13050
Law, Royce -- 12925
Gallagher, David -- 12850
Humphries, Evan   -- 12675
Holden, Stephen   -- 12550
Boyce, Oliver -- 12500
Simmonds, Richard -- 12400
Rutter, Alan -- 12100
Morris, Donna -- 11950
Herron, Mark -- 11750
Channing, Neil   -- 11750
Seymour, Ronald   -- 11675
Rees, Ceri -- 11575
Lott, Michael -- 11375
Stoneham, Adam   -- 11100
Shaw, Gary -- 11075
Wyre, Ray -- 10600
Oleary, Kevin -- 10450
Walmsley, Steve   -- 9875
Arees, Edward -- 9775
Oneil, Cat -- 9750
Goodwin, Marc -- 9600
Fiore, Stefano   -- 9400
Hartree, Catherine -- 9375
Lu, Bo   -- 9200
Amour, Andrew -- 9125
Vinson, Alan -- 8800
Falconer, John -- 8725
Clark, Mick -- 8500
Cowling, Brad -- 8475
Vicary, Paul -- 8425
Slavin, Stephen   -- 8375
Coren, Vicky -- 8300
Humpries, Paul   -- 8200
Flood, Liam -- 8025
Libertina, Martinio -- 7950
Mohammad,Ishmal   -- 7875
Blodwell, Wayne   -- 7875
Capper, Tony -- 7875
Wise, Phil -- 7775
Jones, Ken -- 7775
Courtney, Dave -- 7775
Pomroy, Dave -- 7700
Somaiya, Rumit   -- 7575
Chatterton, Gary -- 7550
Beaumont, Lynne   -- 7500
Woods, Alistar   -- 7450
Singleton, Peter -- 7325
Owen, Craig -- 7175
Bosley, Ian -- 7100
Xanthos, Stasia   -- 6875
Parker, Paul -- 6450
Conroy, John -- 6400
Garnham, Paul -- 6325
Trigg, Richard   -- 6200
Smith, Dave -- 6050
Yusuf, Sami -- 6050
Jelinek, Steve   -- 5725
Rao, Ganesh -- 5625
Sami, Darsham   -- 5450
Bowden, Ian -- 5225
Redmond, Lee -- 5200
Romanello, Frank -- 5050
Adejuyigbe, Richard -- 5050
Hakim, Jaffrey   -- 4900
Hickman, Darren   -- 4725
Priestley, Gavin -- 4700
Fronda, Ryan -- 4400
Slade, Nick -- 4075
Mizzi, Sorel -- 4025
Farthing, Marcus -- 1775
Orlowski, Mark -- 1675
Wernick, Micky   -- 1275

Mark Goodwin is OUT. 4-6 vs. K-Q

He was pretty short anyhow.

Dan Samson is out - after returning post dinner break to valiantly play his 50 remaining chips all in blind under the gun.  He found an early position raiser, and a mid position caller too.  The flop was Queen-high but otherwise uneventful, but a 2k bet into the side pot saw the preflop caller move calmly in for 5k more.  A long think, then pass.  So Dan only had to beat Aspades Ad with his Th Jh.  Plus he's lost his mobile phone; just not his day.

Nick Slade and Matt Tyler are both OUT, rumour has it that Exley took out the former with Nines v Fours.

Recent(ish) Southampton Fessie winner, Hoss Parhizkar has just eliminated Roland De Wolfe. Didn't want to push Roland too far, but he did say this: "30k pot, coinflip, all-in on the flop."

jen  snoopy   do u recall any player  on line name luckbox who won ept  or made final recently?

Now that we have the luxury of player tags, let's put a few names to unfamiliar faces. I'm not sure if these chaps are locas, but either way, if you recognise them, feel free to interrupt and let us know a little more about them.

(1) Gavin Priestly -- 4,450
(2) Stuart Menzies -- 18,300
(3) Ishmal Mohammad -- 10,075
(4) Nick Goodall -- 21,800

John Luckbox?

Sebastian Ruthenberg who finished 3rd in Dortmund, is known as 'Luckbox'. Well in Germany anyway.

Dave Smith is now up to 17k (from his break-time 7k) after winning a three way pot with a flopped set of sixes.

Jen
How is walsall regular Steve Holden doing?

Tell him i said hi

;bp;

Big pot time, folks, as the hotly touted Elliot Bowker scoops in a monster with Aces vs. Queens vs. Kings.

Paul Vicary managed to fold his Queens, but there wasn't much Ashley Hayles could do, his Kings finding no help and sending him packing.

ok thanks

Oliver Boyce is OUT -

I saw a flop being dealt between him (on the big blind) and Michael Greco (on the button; preflop raiser; in the middle of featured photo).  3s 3d Qc it came.  Check, check.
Turn:  Kd  Oliver bet out 1,100, and Michael min-raised him.  A pretty quick re-raise to 4k and before you know it he'd called a re-re-raise all in from the DTD player.

Michael Greco:  8d 3c
Oliver Boyce:  Ks Qh  - had successfully caught up enough to Greco's flopped trips to put the whole lot in.

Snoopy knows your man and is downstairs looking...

No sign of Stephen Holden (although I'll need to double check this in case he nipped to the loo), but I did manage to find this cheeky chappy. When I told him Liz requested a photo, he said, "Which girlfriend again?" Okay, I made that bit up.

Meanwhile Mickey Wernick doubles from a micro to a mini-stack:  2,000 chips currently.

He's doing better than Rick 'The Claimer' Trigg, who just slowplayed Kings and got a certain Dave Colclough interested in his suited connected low club hand (sorry, can't be specific).  Two clubs on a flop and DC check-raised Rick all-in - he went for it but his chance to double disappeared with the appearance of a third board club.

Paul Garnham is currently on 6,400, which isn't bad considering he was down to 1,700 at one point.

Mickey's newly acquired chip has gone - K-T vs. K-K.  It looked like he was heading for a double double when the flop came 9-J-Q, but the Kings flushed by the river and the field is consuming itself much more quickly in this level than we expected from the slow start.

Wily veteran Ray Wyre is also OUT.

Qc 2c vs. 5s 2s

all-in on the flop

Stuart Menzies the assassin.

Board = 3s Ac 4c 6s 7d

well i see Zak is still ugly as hell...........nice tie though

any chance you can let know how andy miles is doing thanks

Iwan Jones is OUT in surprising circumstances, getting it in with worst hand for once.

I joined the hand on the River with the board reading 2c Qd Jc Kc Jh and 6k in the pot.

Irish terror Terry Grimley checked, Welsh wizard Iwan Jones bet 3k and Terry moved in for a massive 25k, although Iwan only had 10k behind.

Clearly perplexed by this, the usually stationary Iwan was rather fidgety, and almost pleaded for a clue of somesort, actually saying "speak to me" at one point. Terry, unusually for him, was suspiciously reserved, head bowed down and keeping himself to himself. Meanwhile, Iwan was still dwelling it up, clearly pained by a tricky decision.

After a while he called, only for Terry to swiflty announce full house and reveal his Q-J.

A rocked Iwan said nice hand, shook his head in temporary shock and started to get his gear together.

Later rumours suggest he had the nut flush, although I actually can't see him calling with anything less than a full house.

the supper sat in bluesq tonight 37 runners they have set the blind at 8mins 4 levels of rebuy so they have got in $4600 and are giving 4 seats away at $2750 ($11000) wot a cock up it has just finnished

The board was:  3c Jc Qc Kd Jh so Iwan was rivered  ul m8 :(

I think he almost folded, he took quite a while to decide. From my experience, Iwan's reads are normally spot on, but not this time - must have seen the overbet as a sign of weakness.

I agree - pass on good luck to Marky when you see him please m8

The only worse full house is J3 so he must have had the flush.

or 3s full

 ;noflopshomer;

i hope u dont play for real noflops lol

He's still in, just knocked a shorter stack out, so not doing badly - don't know his exact count just at the minute, however.

thank you can you keep me posted

Milesy's brother.... gimme a ring 07752 726629

Think I've found Stephen Holden, who, if I remember correctly, someone asked about earlier.

He was a little hard to recognise because of the cap and shades, but I'm pretty sure this is him, happily chugging along with his 17,175.

tell mickey snoops i will giv it best shot for  the firm and he cant go deep eveytime haha

Richard Redmond sees a flop from the big blind with Sid Harris and Shaf.  It's Ad Td 9c - I think Richard checked, Sid bet and got them both calling.  The interesting part was the turn, however, when the 4s seemed to get everyone excited - Richard check-raised Sid's bet on the turn a hefty 8k or so, and while Shaf got out of the way he got a call from Sid (I think it's quite hard to get rid of Mr. Harris).  I am sure the 2d river was a big relief to Richard, who bet 10k quickly, with his 7d 4d.
Sid called without a pause for breath with Aspades 9h, but his two pair was good no longer and he's now contributed generously to the BadBeat player's 45k+ stack.

I just saw him win a pretty chunky pot that shot him up to just under 50k as one of the chip leaders, somehow getting his opponent to call with Pocket Fours on a 2c 7s Th 8s board. Miles had Qs Ts and hit another Queen on the River, but that's someone lucy goosey reputation he's got if people are calling with fourth pair.

Yeah, that's what I put Iwan on.

Spoke to Iwan - he had nut flush but just didn't believe Terry

and me but if he calls with 3s full he might aswell call with the nut flush because if the irish man has f house its going to be bigger than 3sfull lol.so the way i see it the flush is as good as the full house so he could of easily had tyhe flush.
settle it snoop ask him what he had??

Three more perhaps unfamiliar names/faces.

(1) Sorel Mizzi -- 5,200
(2) Royce Law -- 13,075
(3) Kuljinder Sidhu -- 8,925

Yeah, that's true, I agree.

Selected chip counts, peered at before I saw the previous big pot which distracted me:

(the first five players all at the same table)
Mick McCool        3,800
Neil Channing      12,700
Liam Flood           8,500
Womble              4,950
Burnley John        12,000
Shaf                    34,325
Roy Brindley         20,000
Cat O'Neil            16,000
Dubai                  24,000
Ryan Fronda         8,850
Richard Ade          7,500
Stasia Xanthos      10,300
Ben Vinson           21,000
Ed Arees              11,400
DPommo              15,800
Greek Jack            23,600
Mark Harris             9,200
Kevin O'Leary         36,000

hotdog... how you doing?  missed you at walsall last month.. I had an early bath on day 1 courtesy of 'K8 utg - nh sir - wp' - lol so came home early

Glynn Rees is OUT.

I caught him standing up and legged it over, but I was too late to gather much info. Sid Harris was stacking the chips and had As Ts vs. Glynns 8-9. I did notice that there were two nines on the board and three spades, but didn't catch the order.

A shortstacked Adam Stoneman has doubled up to a still relatively paltry 3.7k.

A-Q vs A-J (belonging to, I think, Liam Flood)

Q-Q-6-8-A board.

ime ok m8 did u not play this event??

bk in tomoz for the crazy day 36k which is okish would like 60k though haha

tell mick mcool i was head hunting hime yesterday for a last longer with him.

tell him i said i think he was runnig scared ;hide;

Sid always seems to get chips. Don't you think he's an under-rated player, Jen and Snoops?

Vicky Coren and Catherine Hartree (Catherine mid-hand).  After letting go of that earlier pot, Vicky has built back to over 18,000 in the last level. 

89 players left

18,200 average stack

Blinds = 150-300 with...

oh go on then, floppy.

25 ante, which means the running antes are kicking in.

;ra;

Gen

It's Katherine with a K  ;)

Caught Ryan Mitchel on the rail, which either means he's out or has adopted a better position to perv on the masseuse (is the plural masseuses or masseurs?)

It's a J in Jen, Nicky.

Neil Channing is down to 5k after running into a straight on an 8-8-2-3-5 board. John Falconer had 4-6.

Couldn't make this one..... My boy's up there although i don't think the fantastic blonde crew are aware of it   ;)   GL tomorrow m8

just want to give a shout out to dave mobs he came to cardiff yesterdy with me and dez but busted early but got a nice consalation prize just hes just won a seat for montecalro on stars...
 

cheers m8

Ta - I only have the player list from the start of day to go on - any corrections welcome

A quick glance at Table Parker and it becomes clear that we're missing 2 familiar faces in Rumit and Dubai. A quick (is it ever quick?) chat with Paul Parker informs me that Dubai fell to his next door neighbour in what was an intriguing pot. Dubai raised it up pre-flop, only for his opponent to minimum raise by error when he meant to call. The dealer didn't notice and play continued with Dave asking his neighbour if he did indeed mean to raise. The player confessed that he meant to call and Dubai grabbed the attention of the dealer. One other caller was allowed to take his call back, but the initial minimum raise had to stand. When it got back round to Dubai, he moved all-in with A-J, but was still called by Sevens, the chap possibly thinking Dubai was making a move and pouncing on the confession of not intending to re-raise. Anyhow, the sevens stood up and Dubai was left looking for the exit.

Now sitting in his seat is David Pomroy. They're certainly not tag-teaming though, as Jen suggests.

Thanks for that sloopy

Paul Parker, who is becoming extremely useful these days, also informed me of how Rumit departed.

"He was a bit unlucky really. Mrs Bambos stuck in 6k pre-flop and Rumit made a good call with A-Q vs. K-Q. Unfortunately, Mrs Bambos made a flush and knocked him out."

For anyone who knows Paul, that was the shorter version, and to prove it, an entire hand played out during that description in which Mrs Bambos was actually eliminated herself, running A-T into A-K, Kuljinder Sidhu placing the blow with a 6-J-3-9-5 Board.

 ;grr; It's smoopy!

People always spell my name wrong.  >:(

And here he is, accurately portrayed mid-anecdote.

hows womble getting on and has dubai still got a shedload?

Thanks for the fantastic updates as always Jen and Snoops....and well done to Dana for yesterday.

ok my last post was half answered while I typed the question (quick by even blonde standards). Hows about a womble chipcount

Here are Stuart Menzies and James Atkin - they seem to have stolen the perkiness from the rest of the room.  Or it could be that their table is the best lit of the bunch; I might start a study on the brightness/drowsiness ratio with regard to poker players.

snoop

Ask Zak if he managed to get my money off Sean.

Big hi to all Walsall players

what time is the next break

 :hello: updaters!

Cracking job as usual. Any news on the chip stacks or lack of - of Pete Singleton, Brendan Duffy and Lynne Beaumont please. Team Value expectantly awaits!

Here are you current chip leaders:

Andy Miles -- 57,100
Saeed Saghtchi -- 52,850
Kevin O'Leary -- 50,200
Hoss Parhizkar -- 36,100
Richard Simmonds -- 35,000

With Richard Redmond not too far behind.

According to Mr Raab seated next to me, he's on 9,875. Does that surprise you Ariston?

They just completed one, so there will be one more break in a couple of hours.

Any idea how Pauls doing Snoopy ?  :)

Mick McCool is OUT. A-2 vs. Q-6. No further details.

Is Marky still in snoops?

can you check on Craig "SNeaks" Metcalfe, last i heard he had 40k but isnt showing on your top 5 so I am now worried!

who r u AIDENSON???

Craig metcalf has he got 40k in chips ???

It's closer to 7,350 now - here's a picture, though, of him napping using the tried-and-tested head-prop (as opposed to the Willie Tann nod or the ever popular elbow-lean).

A few of those requests for you now, the first of which concerns Pete Singleton, who was seen rising from his seat as soon as I returned to the cardroom. His sniper was Michael Greco, who put Pete all-in on a board of 6s 8c 6h 5h. Pete called for his last 2.5-3k with Jc 8s but found himself up against 9s 7h. Duff Duff Duff. Kc River was academic.

Give us a moment and I'll have a look.

Lynne Beaumont -- 8,075
David Pomroy -- 19,500
Stephen Walmsley -- 9,450

While you're looking snoopy ;o)

Paul Garnham is back down to 3,375 after being outdrawn by someone Paul described as a "tilter".

Apparently, the titler limped under-the gun, and then pushed all-in when Paul raised it up with A-K.

Paul called instantly, realising that his opponent was steaming, and found himself up against 9-6.

But 9 on the Flop and 9 on the River dealt a crushing blow to Paul who has struggled all day.

Ben Vinson, who I believe someone mentioned earlier, is running well with around the 30k mark. Seems like quite a threat at the poker table this lad, his last scoop being after a 3.1k bet on a 5d 4d Ks Flop.

Here were the full counts of all players remaining at the last break:

Saghtchi, Saeed   -- 66100
Miles, Andy -- 63550
Oleary, Kevin -- 50475
Grimley, Terence -- 43925
Redmond, Richard -- 41200
Blanco, Cristiano -- 41175
Metcalfe, Craig   -- 40700
Goodall, Nick -- 36750
Simmonds, Richard -- 35700
Parhizkar, Hoss   -- 35650
Bowker, Elliot -- 34525
Vinson, Ben -- 32200
Duffy, Brendan -- 31875
Seymour, Ronald   -- 28375
Atkin, James -- 27375
Dionysiou, Kyriacos -- 26850
Coren, Vicky -- 26025
Menzies, Stuart   -- 26000
Mckay, Anthony   -- 25100
Holden, Stephen   -- 24875
Gould, Peter -- 24225
Nelson, Ian -- 23525
Slavin, Stephen   -- 23000
Fiore, Stefano -- 22675
Smith, Dave -- 22450
Koysor, Abdul   -- 22175
Martin, James -- 22000
Bright, Richard   -- 21350
Rees, Ceri -- 21300
Jelinek, Steve   -- 21275
Morjaria, Mukesh -- 21025
Durr, Izabel -- 20950
Humphries, Evan   -- 20875
Craig, Steve -- 20500
Law, Royce -- 20475
Khajuria, Lalit   -- 20175
Hasalm, Peter -- 19850
Pomroy, Dave -- 19525
Sidhu, Kuljinder -- 18250
Falconer, John   -- 18050
Forrester, Mark   -- 17200
Adderley, Tony -- 17025
Brindley, Roy -- 17000
Hakim, Jaffrey   -- 16600
Conroy, John -- 16375
Oneil, Cat -- 16200
Mclen, Alan -- 16200
Dack, Paul -- 13625
Colclough, Dave   -- 13400
Willis, Nigel -- 13175
Owen, Craig -- 13050
Shaw, Gary -- 12750
Jones, Ken -- 12750
Sami, Darsham -- 12625
Hartree, Catherine -- 12200
Duncan, Keiron   -- 11700
Arees, Edward -- 11450
Rattos-salles, Matthew -- 11450
Woods, Alistar   -- 11425
Libertina, Martinio -- 10900
Romanello, Anthony -- 10800
Gibbons, Steve   -- 10650
Powell, Alwyn   -- 10100
Harris, Sid -- 10075
Greco, Michael   -- 9800
Walmsley, Steve   -- 9750
Morris, Donna   -- 9700
Jasmin, Najim   -- 9275
Beaumont, Lynne   -- 9125
Exley, John -- 8950
Humpries, Paul   -- 8900
Wise, Phil -- 8125
Herron, Mark -- 7800
Channing, Neil   -- 6975
Hickman, Darren   -- 6000
Rutter, Alan -- 5625
Ibraham, Mohammed -- 5275
Adejuyigbe, Richard -- 4950
Priestley, Gavin -- 4500
Flood, Liam --     OUT
Garnham, Paul -- 3650
Rao, Ganesh -- 3350
Parker, Paul -- 3250

 :( , but thanks for letting me know  :)

Cheers for the update Snoops. I'll be in Cardiff tomorrow to cover the last two days, i'll see you at the bar media area

Cheers snoopy good work fella

I'm afraid Herron the younger has departed, and in rather eye watering cirumstances too - which, unsurprisingly in these 'kick in the testicles' situations, involved those darn Aces getting bust.

All-in versus the Pocket Queens of James Martin, the first four cards came 9-T-J-Q. Ouch.

Craig Metcalfe has been located, although he doesn't quite have the 40k you suggest, but he's not far off, chugging away nicely with around 37k.

He recognised the name too. If the good luck message spurs him on to victory, then be sure to grab a percentage.

This is Stephen Slavin - pointed out to us by his friend on the rail who's just kind of hanging out watching what's going on, and asked that, "What exactly are you guys doing?" question.  Like the Terminator, I always run through a couple of potential answers ("I am taking pretend drink orders," "I am perfecting a bot by means of studying the moves of the nation's best") before pointing people in the direction of blonde...hello if you've made it online...

Anyway, Stephen's qualified for three of these on BlueSquare already, apparently, and was comfortably around 30k at the time of shooting.

Charmaine, erase those sad faces pronto because mi laddo has just doubled those chips up again.  ;sark;

First he went in blind from early position to take the blinds, and then was allowed to see a cheap (well, free in fact) Flop and Turn from the small blind with 6c 8c and a board 7c Ts 2h 9c. M3boy pushed and found a caller. Academic River.

Now on 9,800.

John 'The Rockstar' Conroy was, it seems, having a bit of trouble getting into this tournament (in the sense of feeling involved while it was in the slow period) after the dizzy heights of third in the Warsaw WPT last week.  But he has more chips than in the picture (about 15,800 currently) despite playing "lots of pots early  because suddenly I think I can play properly."  Self-deprecatingly continually referring to himself as a tedious ladderer, I wouldn't be surprised to find him on another final table, having lulled the opposition into a false sense of security.

I am Danny cardroom supervisor at Walsall

Izabel Durr, is OUT.

As I joined the play, Izabel was standing up, clearly forseeing defeat, with A-J in front of her.

Not bad with a Flop of J-8-8 on the board.

However, with the K Turn, the 7 River and opponent Stuart Menzies holding 8-4, it's not looking peachy, and the disappointed Bad Beat player was sent on her way.

A quick look at the button highlights that it is nowhere near Menzies. A swift glance back at Stuart sees him mouth the words 'don't ask'. Peering down and chatting briefly with Paul Garnham, now on 11.5k incidentally, informs me that it was a cheeky pre-flop raise that hit a loverly jubberly Flop.

Snoop

I now have finalized Grosvenor Walsall April cardroom program wheres the best place to post it?

David Pomroy has just scoopped a pot with Kings v Eights and is now on 25-27k.

NO!

I'm Spartacus.

(http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/spartacus.jpg)

Paul Parker is OUT.

Tens v A-J. No help.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?board=5.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?board=5.0)

OK i have posted it
Thanx

Dusk Till Dawn update for you now.

Just the two started, but they're both still in, Michael Greco doing particulalry well with around the 35-40k mark.

Dave Colclough, meanwhile, is a slightlier less formidable presence, but still a potential threat with 15,200.

Opposite Dave is a certain EPT London victor in Vicky Coren, who is a similar menace in this event with 27k.

If u r Spartacus i must be

300/600 (75)
63 players
25,700 average stack

NO! IM SPARTACUS!!

(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:EEsgKJ0UmEw2OM:http://www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/films/spartacus/images/spartacus.jpg)

Stephen Walmsley -- 9,225
Stephen Slavin -- 37,350
Mukesh Morjariav -- 12,375
Michael Greco -- 32,675
Craig Metcalfe -- 23,000
Saeed Saghtchi -- 57,025
Ed Arees -- 8,450
Richard Redmond -- 51,425
Anthony Romanello -- 15,325

Elliott Bowker -- 38,400
Steve Craig -- 49,425
John Exley -- 7,250
Simon John -- 22,500
Peter Gould -- 22,700
Roy Brindley -- 25,200
Stephen Holden -- 18,350
Cat O'Neil -- 11,750
Dave Smith -- 20,925

And i my friend........





am BATMAN

I was speaking to Roy 'The Boy' Brindley during the break, and it was interested listening to him speak about how he finds these comps a grind. Basically he was saying that he'd much rather stick a few thousand in on an online table rather than play a live tournament. "A few days of hard slogging, only to go out to a probable beat. Not really my cup of tea." "But don't you enjoy it," I asked. "Not really, I get bored easily" was the short reply.

No, I'm Spartacus!!!

(http://www.nndb.com/films/661/000032565/spartacus-sized.jpg)

Missing presumed lost:

Ganesh Rao
Neil Channing
Alan McLean

Phil of awop was saying Neil looked like Brian Connelly. After 5 minutes of confusion, I suddenly realised (well, when Phil said 'It's a puuuuuuuuuuuppet!) that I was mixing Brian Connelly up with Billy Connelly. He said, "Look at the mouth and the accent" to which I replied, "But he's not Scottish". It was also very bizarre.

Even so, he doesn't look like either.  :dontask:

no im

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Gary Shaw has one of those bulldog & wasp faces after his A-T failed to beat Andy Miles' A-4. Nevermind, it was chopped up due to the 3-K-A-T-K, so it could have been worse.

That's just too good Sofa.  ;tightend; rotflmfao

tytytytyt im available for hire.,.,wedding birthdays.,.,funerals ;sexybanana;

Come on M3boy!!!!!!

Quite a few Mateyboys (and girls) here today, but hopefully we can start eradiciting that moniker now that we have Mr Raab has put this new tagging system in place. Here's four faces we may not have previously known for starters...

(1) Gary Shaw -- 6,000
(2) Cat O'Neil -- 14,300
(3) Alwyn Powell -- 19,350
(4) Evan Humphries -- 12,500

 

Probable chip leader contention for Vicky Coren - a full double through of her just-under-30k stack with KK vs. QQ, and then she has begun, according to tablemate Dave Colclough (hovering on 20k) to dominate the table.  She's knocked two shorter stacks out in the last 15 minutes alone, one of them being John 'Rockstar' Conroy.  DC says he's been "mesmerised" while Vicky looks like she's enjoying bully status.  And enjoying the Paul Parker approach to tournament play, with glass of wine in hand.

The blinds are now 400/800 ante 75.  54 players remaining...

Some scoopylicous reports now from your roving 15 minute break time reporter, Snoopy Kent (Super Snoopy when someone is in danger).

(http://www.chrisreevehomepage.com/images/superman/i-ck.jpg)

Paul 'M3boy' Garnham is on 8k and is disappointed to have moved table, because that means he's no longer seated next to EPT Dortmund finalist, Cristiano Blanco, who Paul described as his 'meal ticket'. "I kept re-raising him because he was raising a lot and he continually folded Ace-rag hands because I'd shown so many strong hands, so he was keeping me going really."

According to Steve Jelinek, he's on 30k after getting pissed off and playing crap poker. "I was really stuggling and just got frustrated, first check-raising with 7-3 of hearts on a Q-6-2 all diamond flop (that could have been embarrassing), and then calling a pre-flop raiser with 8-6 of hearts and then re-raising his 4.5k bet all-in on the 8-J-Q Flop. Both times they folded, but it was rubbish play by me really. I should get pissed off more often, it seems to work."

When I asked Dusk Till Dawn's Dave Colclough for a scoop, he answered, "I haven't done anything as usual." Great scoop Dave! In all fairness though, he did go on to tell me that earlier on he won a nice pot with Tens v Deuces all-in pre-flop, but then finished with a gloomy "It's the only hand I've had in the last 2 hours."

Vicky has 83k and a lovely pair of Norks (not my words  ;ashamed;).

Where are the massage girls??  ;slavedriver;

Any news of Steve Holden/Darshan Sami and pics of "norks" (just kidding)

Yes send them round i'm home allnight

Crikey!

(http://www.twrc.rowing.org.uk/slug/penfold.gif)

It's all kicking off here and the poo is truly hitting the fan.  ;shitfanhit;

First up is Table Mackay, which just saw a massive pot go Steve Jelinek's way after an inexplicable call from Steve Craig.

Jelinek raised it up from the button to 2,400 with Queens, Craig made it 6,400 from the big blind, Jelinek pushed all-in for an extra 22,500 and Craig called, shockingly turning over Kh Qh (!!)

Board = Ac 5d Jd 4s 9c

... and although he was fully expecting a Ten to hit the River, he dodged that potentially gut-wrenching bullet to see all the chips flie his way, but everyone, especially Jelinek and Mackay (pictured in depsair) were flabbergasted by the call.

Lynne Beaumont raises it up pre-flop to 4k from second position, Kevin O'Leary adds another 15,400 and Lynne folds, leaving herself with 12k.

Andy Miles bets 16k into a board of 5c 6s Kh Td. Nick Goodall passes.

Vicky's stack takes a little dent, courtesy of Eliott Bowker, a short stack raising to 2,775 under the gun.  With only 9k behind, big blind Vicky thinks for a minute and puts him all in - call.
Eliott:  Ad Ts
Vicky:  Jc Tc
The board comes Th 5d 5s Ac 8d and she hands him a double up, remarking with wry surprise, "I lost one?"

Another brave (or silly depending on your viewpoint), this time from Dave Smith.

Flop = Td Qd 8s

Dave bets 4k, Stephen Slavin moves all-in (as pictured) for around 30k and Dave calls for his remaining 16k saying, "I can't pass".

Dave = Aspades Jd
Stephen = Ac Kd

Turn = Ks

River = 3d

As the Turn hits, Slavin looks disgusted and can't help but mutter his detest for Dave's call. "How could he call that?" he says shocked.

Dave doubles up and Slavin is left with 14k.

James Atkin has been playing with unexpected steadiness (and is threatening to make Day Two), but just lost a bit, doubling Steve Craig up in the process.  He raised in early-mid position and found Steve pushing in on the cutoff for a further 7,400.  He eventually made the call, with his rather dodgy-looking Jh 9h, but Steve had 6c 6s so at least he had two overs...
Flop:  Qh Qd 4h  (Steve, presumably, draws breath and holds it)
Turn:  8s
River:  Ac

So down to 23,600 for James, up to 20k for Steve.

James counts out the chips with the face-saving, "Why is it always the worst hand you raise with that gets seen?"

In the final two minutes of the day's play, I spot Dave Colclough with all his chips neatly stacked over the line, patiently waiting for Pete Haslam to make a decision.  From the positions of the chips, I deduce that Dave raised preflop, Pete made it another 10k to go on the button, and DC moved in for 27,700.  The ebbing seconds of Day1B tick away, and Pete passes, meaning that El Blondie will finish the day with a tidy 42,000 chips.

Only a few minutes left, and just in case we don't get the chip counts up until late, here are some chip counts from the remaining 51 players:

Lynne Beaumont -- 22.5k
Lalit Khajuria -- 21k
Kevin O'Leary -- 35.5k
Steve Jelinek -- 55.5k
James Atkin -- 14.5k
Stuart Menzies -- 52k
Vicky Coren -- 78k
Peter Gould -- 16.5k
Gary Shaw -- 14.5k
Andy Miles -- 53.5k
David Pomroy -- 36.5k
Kat O'Neil -- 6.5k
Elliott Bowker -- 22k
Royce Law -- 21.5k
Tony Mackay -- 38.5k
Mukesh Morjaria -- 10k
Ian Nelson -- 29k
Evan Humphries -- 6k
Alistair Woods -- 15.5k
Peter Haslam -- 39.5k
Martino Libertini -- 10k
Craig Metcalfe -- 19k
Dave Smith -- 36.5k
Michael Greco -- 26k
John Falconer -- 31.5k
Richard Redmond -- 71k
Greek Jack -- 62k
Stephen Slavin -- 14.5k
Stephen Walmsley -- 8.5k
Roy Brindley -- 25k

Play has ended for the day.

good job guys as always

Bit zapped here, so I'll leave you with the fork jobby and post the chip counts as soon as I can. Not sure when that'll be, but they'll definitely be on the site before the start of Day 2.

Toodle pip, peeps.

 ;stickaforkinme;

Coren, Vicky -- 93,550
Craig, Steve -- 87,550
Saghtchi, Saeed -- 78,150
Redmond, Richard -- 71,025
Jelinek, Steve -- 64,000
Brindley, Roy -- 61,450
Menzies, Stuart -- 54,500
Simmonds, Richard -- 53,350
Miles, Andy -- 51,025
Dionysiou, Kyriacos -- 48,925
Willis, Nigel -- 47,575
Pomroy, Dave -- 44,100
Colclough, Dave -- 43,350
Greco, Michael -- 41,700
Mckay, Anthony -- 40,925
Nelson, Ian -- 37,375
Oleary, Kevin -- 36,375
Smith, Dave -- 36,325
Seymour, Ronald -- 34,275
Martin, James -- 31,875
Bright, Richard -- 31,300
Hasalm, Peter -- 30,100
Falconer, John -- 29,850
Vincent, Ben -- 29,300
Beaumont, Lynne -- 28,750
Khajuria, Lalit -- 28,075
Rattos-salles, Matthew -- 25,850
Isaia, Alessio -- 25,725
Parhizkar, Hoss -- 25,200
Duffy, Brendan -- 24,300
Bowker, Elliot -- 24,125
Law, Royce -- 23,675
Goodall, Nick -- 23,375
Metcalfe, Craig -- 21,275
Sidhu, Kuljinder -- 21,050
Gould, Peter -- 20,775
Slavin, Stephen -- 18,450
Shaw, Gary -- 16,900
Powell, Alwyn -- 16,450
Atkin, James -- 15,250
Woods, Alistar -- 15,175
Rutter, Alan -- 13,550
Libertina, Martinio -- 12,150
Morjaria, Mukesh -- 9,300
Fiore, Stefano -- 9,250
Romanello, Anthony -- 8,700
Walmsley, Steve -- 7,600
Oneil, Cat -- 7,175