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Play for Day 2 of this Cardiff GUKP in association with Blue Squre will commence at 4pm.

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Day 1B chip counts can be found here:

http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/8354 (http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/8354)

Start of Day 2 chip counts:

Romanello, Roberto -- 136,025
Forsman, Robert -- 121,800
Coren, Vicky -- 93,550
Craig, Steve -- 87,550
Zach, Simon -- 80,325
Saghtchi, Saeed -- 78,150
Redmond, Richard -- 71,025
Jelinek, Steve -- 64,000
Duval, Jeff -- 63,000
Kerrigan, Kerry -- 62,850
Davies, Alan -- 62,100
Brindley, Roy -- 61,450
Menzies, Stuart -- 54,500
Simmonds, Richard -- 53,350
Trinh, Lam -- 52,825
Bruce, Chris -- 52,125
Miles, Andy -- 51,025
Feldman, Andrew -- 49,125
Dionysiou, Kyriacos -- 48,925
Willis, Nigel -- 47,575
Pomroy, Dave -- 44,100
Chen, T -- 43,475
Colclough, Dave -- 43,350
Mackay, Richard -- 42,325
Greco, Michael -- 41,700
Mckay, Anthony -- 40,925
Tyler, Joshua -- 40,825
Nelson, Ian -- 37,375
James, Dewi -- 36,600
Wong, Ken -- 36,475
Oleary, Kevin -- 36,375
Smith, Dave -- 36,325
Fieldhouse, Ian -- 36,050
Seymour, Ronald -- 34,275
Martin, James -- 31,875
Thomas, Ben -- 31,650
Bright, Richard -- 31,300
Mahrenholz, Carl -- 30,300
Hasalm, Peter -- 30,100
Falconer, John -- 29,850
Dean, Alan -- 29,350
Vincent, Ben -- 29,300
Beaumont, Lynne -- 28,750
Khajuria, Lalit -- 28,075
Citrone, Carlo -- 27,775
Rich, Angela -- 27,575
Parker, David -- 27,550
Schwartz, Lukas -- 26,725
Gurnham, Rana -- 26,600
Rattos-salles, Matthew -- 25,850
Isaia, Alessio -- 25,725
Parhizkar, Hoss -- 25,200
Duffy, Brendan -- 24,300
Garfield, Robert -- 24,250
Bowker, Elliot -- 24,125
Law, Royce -- 23,675
Goodall, Nick -- 23,375
Persaud, Nik -- 21,925
Cordy, Steve -- 21,625
Oflaherty, Andy -- 21,475
Choi, Wai -- 21,475
Henson, Alan -- 21,400
Aris, Dr -- 21,400
Muthy, Kayshan -- 21,275
Metcalfe, Craig   -- 21,275
Sidhu, Kuljinder -- 21,050
Nash, Stuart -- 20,950
Gould, Peter -- 20,775
Jonas, Des -- 18,825
Slavin, Stephen -- 18,450
Bodha, R -- 17,425
Shaw, Gary -- 16,900
Owen, Jack -- 16,900
Oneil, Mike -- 16,700
Bancroft, Jonathan -- 16,525
Powell, Alwyn -- 16,450
Elscombe, Aaron -- 16050
Wilcox, Richard -- 15,300
Atkin, James -- 15,250
Woods, Alistar -- 15,175
Biltcliffe, Robert -- 14,250
Howard, Gregory -- 14,050
Rutter, Alan -- 13,550
Tommaso, Andrea -- 12,200
Libertina, Martinio -- 12,150
Gergiou, Andrew -- 11,575
Ngo, Huo -- 10,950
Nelson, Terrence -- 10,250
Bedson, Jim -- 10,075
Morjaria, Mukesh -- 9,300
Fiore, Stefano -- 9,250
Romanello, Anthony -- 8,700
Walmsley, Steve -- 7,600
Oneil, Cat -- 7,175

Nik Persaud is OUT, calling a pre-flop raise with Q-Ts and then again on the Ten high Flop. Opponent had an explicable K-9 and Turned a King.

Also on the chooping block was Stuart Nash, losing with Fives vs. A-4 on an A-A-K-Q-K board.

Rumour has it that Roy Brindley is down to the felt after clashing with Richard Redmond. I assume there was a raise re-raise call pre-flop, before they got it all-in on a Q-A-6 Flop, no help for Roy's Q-T which was dominated by his opponent's A-T and he's on the verge of departing.

Aha well Nik Persaud down, Snoopy only has the two of my picks he copied left... (I recommend you support Dpommo now, not to bok him of course, but because he's had a speedily good start to the day and is close to 80k).

Gone within the first few minutes' play:

Cat O'Neil - Final Green Joker Poker player remaining, and last chance for Mike Lacey to win his my-qualifiers-against-yours bet with Jon Raab.  She only had 7k, Aspades 9c plenty good, Ac Jd next to her.  Kuljinder Sidhu her assassin.

Also Terrence Nelson, moving in on the small blind over the 3k button raise with Kh Th - fair enough - but the big blind R. Bodha found Ad Kd.  Just covered; out.
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And a rarity - a hand which didn't involve seeing all five board cards come out at once - Stefano Fiore raised on the cutoff to 3,500; button Joshua Tyler pushed him off it with a 7k re-raise.  Just worth reporting for the lack of all-in.

Ian Fieldhouse is OUT.

Raised with A-K, pushed all-in by Alessio Isaia and called by Ian.

"Not f***ing Aces against," commented a devestated Ian as Alessio revealed his Aces.

"Aces, Aces and Jacks," he's had in a row, added Andy Miles.

Flop = 6h Qd Qh

"Jack!" demanded Ian.

But the miracle wasn't to be and Ian is sent packing, his final words being to friend and fellow Walsall player, Des Jonas, who was obliged to listen to the tale.

Robert Garfield is OUT and so is Jim Kerrigan, the latter of those two just this second biting the dust when his Kings were outdone by Tens. There was betting pre-flop and on the Flop, and then it all went in on the cruel Ten Turn. Jim did have a flush draw, but the fifth spade failed to hit the River.

Alistair Woods and Huo Ngo are also OUT.

Alistair Woods and Karl Mahrenholz have also failed to jump these early hurdles and are now watching the action from the rail.

Steve Jelinek (pictured) is apparently on tilt, currently.  He's taken quite a few hits in between knocking out Jim Kerrigan.  One was to double up Roy Brindley after his big knockback - Roy was all-in against with Aspades Qc against Steve's Ad Ac.
Flop:  3d Js 8s
Turn:  Qs
River:  9s

Then another 20k pot went the wrong way, and we're wondering how tight a grip he has on the rest of his stack...

Des Jonas doubles up in pretty straight forward cicumstances.

Aspades Kc vs. Steve Cordy's Kc Js.

Board = 9c Tc 6d Ts 9d

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Judging by the empty seats, it looks like Lukas Schwartz and Lam Trinh are out.

Seat 1 on table 9 is empty. Assigned to Richard Cox. Make of that what you will, but he's most likely a gonna.

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Womble is OUT.

"I had a big draw," he tells. "T-9 of clubs with a T-J-Q board, 2 clubs. Third pair with an open ended straight flush draw, I don't care who you are or how many chips you've got, you're not getting away from that."

His opponent had K-T by the way and Womble failed to improve.

Cautionary attention-paying tale in the form of Angela Rich's exit - she didn't see that a player between the first raiser and herself had moved in over the top of a regular preflop raise.  She said, "Call," intending to take a flop with the first guy (she held A-Q) but ended up calling all in and losing her whole stack to all-in Matey's better hand...

James Atkin is also OUT - a short stack, he found himself on the button with K-4 and then found his chips in the middle - and a caller for a chunk of his stack in the blinds with A-T.  "It was a good call," Atkin shrugged on the rail.

64 players left, one of whom is this chap, Stefano Fiore, who just check-raised Ian Nelson all-in on a board of 9s 9c Ks 4h 9h.

Ian Nelson rose from his seat and looked perplexed, but he simply couldn't fold his King and had to pay off his opponent's 7-9.

Nice check raise though that has left Ian with around 40k.

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Meanwhile Kat O'Neil has been spotted on the rail with fellow Green Joker Pokerer, Mike Lacey.

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Doc Aris is OUT. A-6 vs. A-K.

Dewi is OUT - Saw him with a pint, wandering down between bars.  With a smile, I might add - he said he'd enjoyed the whole thing, and gave me the short version of the Final Hand: "I had pocket Tens, he had pocket Jacks."  Dewi re-raised all-in preflop, not thinking he'd be called (it was a 25k raise) but the Jacks went for it, and were right.

Payout Structure:

1  £97,680
2  £51,980
3  £34,650
4  £25,200
5  £18,900
6  £15,750
7  £12,600
8   £9,450
9   £6,300
10 £4,720
11 £3,150
12-15  £2,520
16-21  £2,200
22-27  £1,890

Tough one for Gregory Howard who was just dealt a harsh blow by youngster Aaron Elscombe.

All-in pre-flop.

Gregory = Aspades Kh
Aaron = Ac Td

Board = 9h Tc Qh Ts 4c

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Nigel Willis -- 28,800
Alessio Isaia -- 72,200
Andy Miles -- 42,300

While there's the inevitable delay for the inputting of chip information, here are the counts from Table Eight I was getting for hotdog, who was railing Des Jonas, who'd just doubled up for the second time today, apparently.

Jim Bedson            56,000
Mukesh Morjaria      59,000
Vicky Coren         108,000
Stephen Slavin        70,000
Richard Simmonds   36,000
David Parker           42,500

Dave Pomroy is OUT - moving in against Richard Redmond with Kh Ts, he was called by Redmond's Ac Jc (I wonder just how much more it was to call - last time I checked Dpommo had over 60k)... anyway the flop brought lots of hope:  4h 8h 5h, but the 7c 7s on the turn and river got rid of it again.

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Saeed is also OUT.

Chip counts taken at the last break:

Romanello, Roberto -- 148000
Vinson, Ben -- 128000
Redmond, Richard -- 117500
Zach, Simon -- 112500
Coren, Vicky -- 105900
Feldman, Andrew   -- 103200
Craig, Steve -- 100600
Nelson, Ian -- 92600
Jelinek, Steve   -- 86700
Bowker, Elliot   -- 79500
Isaia, Alessio   -- 77700
Davies, Alan -- 76900
Haslam, Peter -- 71800
Slavin, Stephen   -- 71500
Brindley, Roy -- 70000
Muthy, Kayshan   -- 67000
Fiore, Stefano   -- 65400
Seymour, Ronald   -- 62100
Oflaherty, Andy   -- 61200
Martin, James -- 60900
Romanello, Anthony -- 60100
Morjaria, Mukesh -- 56900
Owen, Jack -- 56100
Greco, Michael   -- 55400
Law, Royce -- 55000
Forsman, Robert   -- 53200
Elscombe, Aaron   -- 52700
Citrone, Carlo   -- 52200
Wong, Ken -- 49900
Oleary, Kevin -- 48500
Rattos-salles, Matthew -- 45800
Parker, David -- 44600
Miles, Andy -- 42700
Bruce, Chris -- 42600
Choi, Wai -- 41000
Goodall, Nick -- 40200
Jonas, Des -- 40200
Bedson, Jim -- 40000
Menzies, Stuart   -- 39800
Henson, Alan -- 39500
Bright, Richard   -- 39000
Rutter, Alan -- 38900
Parhizkar, Hoss   -- 38300
Mckay, Anthony -- 37200
Simmonds, Richard -- 36100
Bodha, R -- 35300
Gould, Peter -- 35100
Smith, Dave -- 35000
Duffy, Brendan   -- 32400
Willis, Nigel -- 29900
Powell, Alwyn -- 26600
Falconer, John   -- 22700
Pomroy, Dave -- 22100
Libertina, Martinio -- 22000
Thomas, Ben -- 19600
Shaw, Gary -- 14000
Colclough, Dave   -- 13500
Tommaso, Andrea   -- 13400

Matthew Rattos-salles doubles up off Carlo Citrone with Q-J vs. Q-5 on a Queen high Flop.

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Liverpudlian Gary Shaw is OUT.

"Tell them I was ahead though," requested Shaw. "I won't tell you the hands, but I was ahead.

He soon cracked though, as expected, and went on to say, "I had 9-3 on a J-9-rag Flop. Betting on the flop and then the chip went in on the rag turn. He called with Q-T, but he had a flush draw as well with four hearts on board. I'm not sure I was favourite, but I was definitely ahead."

He didn't tell me what came on the River, but something tells me that it wasn't a blank - so either an Eight, Ten, Queen, King or any heart. So that's 19 outs I think. Gulp.

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Ben Thomas is OUT. Didn't catch his hand, but I did spot Steve Craig stacking his chips with a pair of eights.

My good lord, he's just hit the luck jackpot right now, and how:

He and Alessio Isaia saw a flop of Jd Tc Qh (judging from positions I reason Dave must have raised preflop and been called, or perhaps called a re-raise from Alessio).  In any case it was carnage on the flop - Dave Smith made a move, getting it all in (his stack started at over 50,000) with 5d 5h. 
Alessio called, as one does with Ahrt Kh for the, er, stone-cold nuts.

Turn:  5c
River:  Qd

And did he get his runner-runner house quietly?  Not in the very least.  The full stand-up, double fist pump, "YEAH!!! BABY YEAHH" for long enough for every head in the room to turn his way as he scooped the six-figure pot. 

A quick scurry through the cardroom and it looks like these are your chip leaders:

Simon Zach -- 185k
Steve Craig -- 156k
Vicky Coren -- 149k
Roy Brindley -- 149k
Roberto Romanello -- 124k

Meanwhile, I've been on Shortwatch -

Dave Colclough describes his stack's descent as a "smooth path" downwards - hopefully he'll find an escalator at the bottom to get him up from his 26,700.
Alan Henson     21,000
Burnley John    26,600

You might be wondering how Roy Brindley got so many chips...well, a lot of them are Richard Redmond's... I saw a crowd gathering on their table and a hefty pot was already in the centre (120k+) while Richard was thinking about calling the final, all-in raise from Roy (only about 20k more). 
The flop: 3s Th 9h  Richard was clearly not liking the fact that his flop check-raise had been met with confidence, but he felt he had to call with 2d 2s.
Roy showed:  9c 9d
"I think you're in pretty good shape there, Roy," said a tablemate, encouragingly.  The turn and river were the 5h Ac and the whole juicy pot made its way one seat left.

Looks like five tables will make it to the dinner break in half an hour's time.

How about this for a close shave?

Hoss Parhizkar = 7c 7h

Alywn Powell = Kd Qd

Flop = Td Ad Tc

Turn = 9h

River = 5h

Double up for Hoss

Des Jonas has just been eliminated. A-K vs. Jelinek's A-J. 7-T-4-J-6 board.

Mukesh Morjaria is also OUT.

Some rough chip counts, as they head into the dinner break:

Robert Forsman      43k   (Bad Beat's Scandie maverick hasn't had such a great Day Two, but still in there and presumably dangerousish)
Andrew Feldman     100k
Robert Bright          40k
Chris Bruce             110k
Carlo Citrone            54k
Pete Haslam            58k
Michael Greco          50k
Anthony Romanello   33k
Roberto Romanello   170k
Ben Vinson              95k
Steve Jelinek           131k  ("I've been up to 140, down to 40, back to 130.  I'm trying to dispel my 'steady player' image.  They call me the new Ali Mallu. (pause)  No they don't."

The last hands I saw involved a short-stacked Anthony Romanello pushing all-in over Ben Vinson's preflop raise (Ben passed), and Antony Mackay winning a 15k pot from Vicky (in the blinds) by betting 15k on a 2s Qs 2d flop.  No fireworks, just regular poker, still happening even though the blinds are about to be raised to 1,500/3,000 ante 200.

Chip Counts from Dinner break (No longer accurate as the first ten minutes' play have seen absolute carnage - will try to correct):

Craig, Steve   199000
Bowker, Elliot   190400
Zach, Simon   173600
Jelinek, Steve   150500
Romanello, Roberto   148200
Brindley, Roy   146200
Smith, Dave   143500
Feldman, Andrew   142600
O'Flaherty, Andy   118200
Vinson, Ben   107600
Coren, Vicky   104700
Bruce, Chris   104400
Mackay, Anthony   81600
Rattos-salles, Matthew   81400
Gould, Peter   73200
Martin, James   71900
Willis, Nigel   71000
Menzies, Stuart   68000
Muthy, Kayshan   64500
Seymour, Ronald   62100
Fiore, Stefano   60400
Haslam, Peter   58600
Citrone, Carlo   55800          no, OUT: his final hand A-8 vs. 99, but I don't think that's where the damage was done
Nelson, Ian   55600
Davies, Alan   54500
Slavin, Stephen   53200
Law, Royce   51800
Greco, Michael   51000
Forsman, Robert   50500
Goodall, Nick   42500
Bright, Robert   39200
Simmonds, Richard   36400
Powell, Alwyn   35300
Andy Miles    34300
Parhizkar, Hoss   30800
Choi, Wai   28600
Owen, Jack   25500       OUT his A-K of clubs vs. Robert Forsman's J-Q of diamonds - Queen came after preflop all-in
Romanello, Anthony   23200    DOUBLED THROUGH to c.45k
Duffy, Brendan   21800
Isaia, Alessio   21800
Bodha, R   15900

Alan Davies has doubled up. He waited for a hand for ages, and it eventually came in the form of Ace King off, which was re-raised all-in by Alwyn Power's A-Q. Alan Davies called, albeit after a surprising dwell (Simon and I said A-J, Eights, etc), but it worked out for him, no Queen hitting the J-9-J-7-6 board.

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Andy Miles is OUT.

"Gone," announce Miles still smiling.

"What happened," I asked.

"Made a move with 8-3 and ran into Aces. Oops."

Meanwhile, I also spotted Frenchamn (I think), Alessio Isaia, hovering around the house games, although not playing - perhaps just considering.

Four tables left and they're still falling left, right and centre - Kayshan Muthy snaps off a 45k stack preflop push (holding 3d 8h) with his Aces - don't think that call was too strenuous...

Meanwhile Nick Wright told me about a very interesting hand involving Pete Haslam and Roy the Boy, in which a much tougher call was made on the river.  The board was Jc 5h 3h 2d 3d and Roy had bet 20k into a 27k pot.  Pete, says Nick, eventually made the call with Aspades Qc, snapping off a bust draw bluff from Roy holding Th 6h with Ace high.

Chris Bruce has been knocked back to the awkward just-over-ten-big-blinds stack size after an interesting blind vs. blind situation on his last table.  With the blinds at 2k/4k he called the button's raise to 10k in the big blind with 8-9.  The flop came A-J-T, he checked, button checked.  The turn brought the 7 he was waiting for, and when his 12k bet was raised all-in for 30k, he called and found the button had only flopped the nut straight, and the Seven had just brought him the double through he wanted (and it must have seemed like such a friendly card, too...).

Having looked like he may dwindle out of the tournament somehow, extrovert Swede Robert Forsman is back in it.  Attracted to the table by his shouting, "Hold...Hold! HOLD!" I saw his stack all in the middle (all 80k+ of it) and his hand, Jd Jc, in the process of holding against Andrew Feldman's Aspades Qc.  At the river, he clapped his hands and shouted, prompting someone on the table to murmur, "Did it hold?" 

Although I didn't see any reaction from Feldman, I assume it was him who lost the pot, as he used to have 160k, and now he doesn't have anything like that.

A fellow media man informs me that Wai Choi is OUT, moving in with Pocket Threes on a K-K-5 Flop, but running into the Pocket Nines of Steve Craig.

And with Ken Wong also on the sidelines, we're down to 30 with 27 getting paid.

Somewhere in the chaotic last half level, we realised that Dave Colclough was no longer in his original seat, or any other seat, in fact.  His exit, especially after being short for a while, was swift  - Aspades Ahrt and a low diamondy flop against Td Tc, on which his all-in was called.  The Tens, however, four-flushed on the turn, with a third Ten on the river; Dave was just not meant to win that hand.

Rob Bright just got the Audience Clap for Being the Bubble.  That's obviously not as good as getting money instead, but it does mean that we might be allowed back within the rope to get some stories for you...

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After some shrewd detective work (oh, okay, Nick Wright told me), Rob Bright shoved in his last 21k with A-4 but ran into Queens. K-9-J-3-5 board being of no use.

Alan Davies -- 80k
Roberto Romanello -- 150k
Royce Law -- 140k
Ben Vinson -- 180k
Elliot Bowker -- 205k
Stephen Slavin -- 80k
Dave Smith -- 185k
Simon Zach -- 100k
Kayshan Muthy -- 70k

Ronald Seymour -- out
Stefano Fiore -- 80k
James Martin -- 90k
Ian Nelson -- 125k
Steve Jelinek -- 90k
Robert Forsman -- 210k
Andrew Feldman -- 210k
Hoss Parhizkar -- 105k
Matthew Rattos-Salles -- out

Stuart Menzies -- 90k
Roy Brindley -- 90k
Peter Haslam -- 100k
Vicky Coren -- 125k
Anthony Romanello -- 30k
Tony Mackay -- 95k
Nigel Willis -- 45k
Michael Greco -- 35k
Steve Craig -- 260k

27th and 26th places fall simultaneously to Andrew Feldman (whose supporters had to be repeatedly restrained from running in to peer at what was going on) - he raised preflop (I get the feeling he was doing this quite a bit), and Matthew Rattos-Salles moved in over the top.  Desirous of value, perhaps, or just too short to do much, Ronald Seymour went in for his tiny 20k too. 
Ronald showed:  Ks Js
Matthew showed:  8h 8s
Andrew showed:  Kd Kc

The board came a non-threatening Tc 7c 3h Jd 2h, although Andrew was scoring about an 8 on the Agitated Scale, muttering something about an Ace and generally looking worked up - he survived and busted them both, with a clap and clear adrenaline rush shouty moment.

Peter Haslam is OUT

Aces v Andy Mackay's Kings.

Board = 6s Td Kh 4s Th

Ben Vinson raises to 16k preflop under the gun...it goes round to Roberto, who re-raises to 48k.  Ben pushes for 100k+ on top; instacall!

Ben has A-K, Roberto A-Q, therefore it was highly likely that a huge pot would be drifting to one of two dangerous players (one more likely than the other, of course).

8-5-3-2...(you know what's coming)...4

Chop-chop.

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DTDer Michael Greco is up to 100k after knocking out table nighbour Nigel Willis.

Willis made his inevitable shortstack moves (probably blind, but he had 6-7 anyhow) only to be swiftly called by the Ace King of Beppe.

A few Eastenders duff duff duffs on the scary K-5-8 Flop, but a rag Turn and a 6 River meant that Greco was safe.

Hoss Parhizkar and Antony Romanello in Blind vs. Blind Controversy:

Hoss managed to create ambiguity over whether he was raising when it folded to him on the small blind, or calling, by using the word, "bet" while putting chips in equal to a call.  The whole table had an opinion on this, but the floor was called (as was definitely a good idea) and the ruling eventually made that he had called.  Romanello hadn't even looked at his hand yet, but he was insistent that the matter be cleared up, and it was, but only after Parhizkar had managed, clearly, to climb the ladder towards Tilt.  The call was made, and he checked.

Flop:  7s 9d 9c  In a second Hoss announced, "all in," and in less than a second Antony had called.
Hoss showed:  4d 8s
Antony showed:  9h Tc

All hell, expectedly, broke loose as Hoss was knocked to the felt and Romanello doubled up.  His insistence, it seems, on being allowed to raise with his 8-4 off successfully pushed him over the edge on any flop, it just so happened that that one had smacked Anthony in the face.

Hoss Parhizkar has doubled up with Kd Jd vs. James Martin's Pocket Sevens.

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Moments later, shortstacked Martin was checked out by Ian Nelson and Steve Jelinek in the blinds.

Martin = Js 3s

Nelson = Qs 7c

Jelinek = Td 5c

Board = Ac 8c 8h 6h 2c

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Michael Greco has doubled up to 200k courtesy of Roy Brindley.

Tens v Sevens, all-in pre-flop.

8-9-Q-J-9

Chip Counts, with Recent Developments

Feldman, Andrew   -- 314400
Craig, Steve -- 251900
Bowker, Elliot -- 222700
Mackay, Anthony   -- 216400
Romanello, Roberto -- 202500
Zach, Simon -- 160000
Smith, Dave -- 156200
Nelson, Ian -- 142900
Brindley, Roy -- 142100              Now OUT 22nd place (£1,890)
Law, Royce -- 135700
Forsman, Robert   -- 131600
Jelinek, Steve -- 123700
Vinson, Ben -- 110300
Fiore, Stefano   -- 109900
Coren, Vicky -- 108100
Greco, Michael   -- 100000
Slavin, Stephen   -- 95400
Menzies, Stuart   -- 90300
Martin, James -- 81100                 Now OUT  23rd place (£1,890)
Parhizkar, Hoss   -- 80800            Now on about 50k
Muthy, Kayshan   -- 69300
Davies, Alan -- 69200
Romanello, Anthony -- 62600     Now double that

Law Royce is OUT, running Jacks into Simon Zach's Aces.

He shouted "Jack" on every street as if commanding the poker gods to deliver him one of his two outs, but his demands fell on stoney ground as the board came an unrewarding Kh Kd Qh 3h 8s.

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Stuart Menzies is also OUT. Steve Craig raised to 15k from the small blind with K-8, Menzies made it 85k all-in from the big with K-T and Craig called.

6-7-9-3-5 board.

As Simon Zach's Aces hold up, a rather less brisk affair is occuring on the neighbouring table, Steve Jelinek and Andrew Feldmen the men involved.

With a flop of Qd-9h-3s on the felt, Steve Jelinek is being asked for his stack size, to which Steve replies with an approximate answer. On hearing the response, Andrew confidently slides in 32k into a 45k pot, only for an equally confident Jelinek to swiftly announce all-in and shovel in the rest of his chips.

Clearly pained by the decision ahead, Feldman, who, incidentally, is a true 'heart on his sleeve' type of young player, asks for a chip count. As the dealer fumbles around, coming up with incorrect sums, Feldman becomes gradually more and more irritable, and eventually asks the supervisor to count, an action which results in Big Mike from Southampton announcing a Jelinek all-in of 106k more.

Still struggling with his decision and balancing up the pros and cons of calling, he starts to probe his more experienced opponent with a few questions, one of which was the inevitable posers, "Do you have a Queen?" and "What do you have?" to which Steve amusingly answers, "2-4 off."

Finally, and I mean finally, he did indeed make a call to show his Tens, and although Steve lied about the 2-4, he was still behind with J-9. Slightly disappointed, Steve congratulated his opponent and admitted, "Good call" as the Turn and River brought blanks.

Feldman inevitably shouted "Yes", in a way that reminded me of a 2006 young gun of similar ilk in James Atkin, and even high fived a friend on the rail. Slightly off if you ask me, but I guess he's young and a tad naive, so I'd forgiven him this time - plus, it was a jolly good call.

Ben Vinson finishes in 18th place for £2,200

Alan Davis raised preflop, and Ben found a push in the small blind (probably correctly reading that Alan wouldn't want to call what was a shorter but not insignificant stack).  But Eliott Bowker in the big blind found Jc Js and took him on (Alan passing).
Ben showed 7d 8c
Flop:  Kc Td 8h
Turn:  9h 
River:  Ahrt

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Just as I was walking away after this a big shout from the spectators on Vicky's table signalled a hand which was bad for her, good for all-in Stefano Fiore, whose A-Q spiked a rivered Queen to beat her pocket Eights.

Here are some very very approx chip counts for you. I have to whiz through these because it's as mad as a box of monkeys down there at the moment with everything changing in a matter of minutes.

Michael Greco -- 140k
Roberto Romanello -- 220k
Steve Cragi -- 260k
Elliot Bowker -- 315k
Stepehn Slavin -- 85k
Dave Smith -- 45k
Simon Zach -- 220k
Alan Davies -- 40k

Tony Mackay -- 155k
Stefano Fiore -- 90k
Kayshan Muthy -- 95k
Ian Nelson -- 180k
Vicky Coren -- 90k
Robert Forsman -- 85k
Andrew Feldman -- 380k
Hoss Parhizkar -- 250k
Anthony Romanello -- 110k

Alan Davis finishes in 17th place - £2,200

Severely short stacked now with less than 50k, Steve Craig could afford to call his all in raise with Jd Qh, finding Alan with Ad Kd.
Flop:  Td Ts 8c
Turn:  Tc
River:  Qc  and a groan goes up from the local supporters, as he calmly gets up, necessitating table balance, which could be interesting for Simon Zach, dependent on who they put to his left.

Andrew Feldman has just dissected his stack and is back down to 220k, and this time it was the equally celebratory Stefano Fiore who took the monster pot down with a big "YES!!!" and clenched fist come the Turn.

All-in with Ahrt Qc, Stefano found himself behind, but still in a coinflip situation, against Andrew's Jd Js.

Flop wasn't a great one though, as the dealer left Andrew with just the one out on a Kh Qh 5h board.

The 5h Turn was decisive, the River academic and we're now left with a very subdued Feldman sitting in complete silence, 2 columns of his stack being taken by the dealer and sent the way of the Italian.

Robert Forsman finished in 16th place (£2,200) after he'd raised in early position, found Vicky Coren in the big blind re-raising all in, and calling with A-6 suited .  Her A-Q held up; we don't know how much the call was in relation to the pot/his stack, but it turned out that he was covered and he's now on the rail.

Stephen Slavin finishes in 15th place, winning £2,520

Thank you Andy for this one (we thought we'd hit a lull and went to get food.  Of course as soon as they weren't being observed it was Action time):

Roberto Romanello raised preflop to 30k, and when Slavin moved in for 60,600 total, he was told, "It would be rude to pass now," and his A-K was promptly outdrawn by Roberto's Th 3h.  Oh the peril of the short stack. 

Tony Mackay is OUT in 14th.

He moved all-in (virtually) from seat 1 for around 160k, only for Stefano Fiore to give it more acting than an Italian striker in seat 2, eventually provoking Ian Nelson to call for the clock and Vicky Coren to say, "Come on, we know you're going to fold" - so there's obviously some time eating history there with the Italian.

Anyhow, when the clock was put on him by Zak, he immediately, and although Mackay probably exhaled a slight sigh of relief, I bet he didn't expect Kayshan Muthy to call instantly (no clock need here) with Pocket Jacks.

With Mackay holding A-T suited, it wasn't looking good, and the 9-K-3-7-7 provided nothing but a push towards the exit door.


Previously, the chip stacks on that table were:

Tony Mackay -- 165k (now out)
Stefano Fiore -- 315k
Kayshan Muthy -- 195k (now with Tony's stack)
Ian Nelson -- 45k
Vicky Coren -- 240k
Andrew Feldman -- 130k
Hoss Parhizkar -- 315k

Previously  , the chip stacks on that table were (courtesy of Snoops):

Tony Mackay -- 165k (now out)
Stefano Fiore -- 315k
Kayshan Muthy -- 195k (now with Tony's stack)
Ian Nelson -- 45k
Vicky Coren -- 240k
Andrew Feldman -- 130k
Hoss Parhizkar -- 315k

And the other table (roughly):

Michael Greco      190k
Roberto Romanello  220k
Steve Craig            280k
Eliott Bowker         330k
Dave Smith             71k
Simon Zach            300k
Anthony Romanello  160k

Mama Mia! Italian player Stefiano Fiore has departed in 13th.

Hoss raised it up pre-flop, Stefano pushed and Hoss called.

Hoss = 8s 8h

Stefano = Kh Qd

Flop = Jc 3c Tc

Hoss needs to dodge a few bullets.

Turn = 7d

River = 2h

... which he does indeed do leaving the Italian to turn to his buddies on the rail and gesticulating despair with outstretched arms.

Well - with twelve left, play has stopped for the night, and Snoopy is just getting the final counts fresh from the clipboards downstairs - so no tense waiting until 6am tonight!  That's just as well, as we're scheduled to start again at 2:30pm (!).

Oh, actually, thanks AWOP for looking over the shoulders of the staff for our collective benefit - here are the end of day counts:

Kayshan Muthy     374,200
Ian Nelson             79,000
Victoria Coren       202,200
Roberto Romanello  331,100
Andrew Feldman     138,000
Hoss Parhazkar        488,500

Michael Greco         164,000
Steve Craig            420,400
Eliott Bowker         392,700
Dave Smith            134,850
Simon Zach            322,400
Anthony Romanello  141,000

They're just about to throw us out, so it's time to go folks, but please join us tomorrow for the 2.30pm kick off, but be sure to get in earlier to build the atmosphere that can sometimes make these updates so much more fun.

And don't forget those picks - ONE only, tikay!  :)

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