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

Please join us.

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)

You're very polite.

Join us!

Suddenly I feel pressured. I'm not sure I want to join you any more.

Go on Lalit!! Mr Khajuria is one of the real gentlemen in poker and a mighty fine player to boot. WIN IT FOR LUTON!

good luck to womble and zach today. Opposite ends of the chip ladder but still both likely to go deep from here (any chance of a bubble/womble cam this aft JR??)

I hope to be able to get down and watch some of this today.   ;popcorn;

Good luck Dewi and all other Blondites still in

bit disappointed with yesterdays updates compared to the quality of day one. Snoopy has performed well for the past 18 months or so , but he appears to have lost his edge.Perhaps now would be a good time for him to step aside and let the new breed of updater take over.The fushiauture is bright , the future is Dana.

 ;danafish; ;danafish;

ps...Jen is still brill           :)up

good luck to hotdog (ian fieldhouse) ................ keep us updated thanx

 ;iagree; :goodpost:  good luck hotdog

gl dewi, hotdog and any other blondes that made it through, if i cant be bothered to get a train home ill probably be down later, lol

so harsh but tongue in cheek I would hope. All the updaters work there proverbials off and every live update is well worth following. Without snoops we wouldn't get as much norkage for a start as a permanent team of Jen and Dana wouldn't have such a keen eye for talent.

How wrong can one man be?? Dana is the queen of norkage supply. check out day one

Long live Queen Dana!!!

Snoopy pull your socks!! my work here is done i think  ;hattip;

Did someone mention norkage<perk>

Very very tired..Wish i was in Cardiff working but they won't let me coz of too much overtime so i get to stay on blonde all day and most of the night too
yippee

We're slowly considering going down to the casino in about an hour's time... ready for the field to implode in the first two levels?  We are!

Dana, wake up and show us some support ffs - you have update fans already and all you can do is go home to feed the cat and sleep all day.

I am ready to go out on a limb and pick some picks:

El Blondie
Roberto Romanello
Jim Kerrigan

 :hello:

the 3 smileys might be a clue

you are still rubbish    :D

So rigged.

In terms of norkage, I don't think anyone has ever surpassed my achievements during one day at the WSOP. I can see plenty of norkage, the question is, why should I share it with you mugs?!  ;hattip;

Oh and no more DTD girls in Dortmund then! :P

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

My 3 picks:

Dave Colclough
Nik Persaud
Roberto Romanello

Snoopy...............any chance of a piccy of Ronald Seymour, not sure if its the Ron that I know or not ta very muchly

I'm in my hotel bedroom at the moment, so unless he's under the bed, you're gonna have to wait an hour.

Leaving soon though. Jen has plans for a sausage sandwich at the casino. Yum.

Ta Snoops..............if it is him he'll probably have a big X over his face for no publicity.............just check out if hes black 6 footish and probably well dressed nearly as old as TK but could easily pass for TK's son if not grandson lol.

BTW my 3 pics/boks are:

Richard "Squelch" Redmond - If he can beat umpteen thousand on PS he can certainly go deep in this.

Michael "Beppe" Redmond - Well due a good finish in a biggie.

Roy "I'm So Bored" Brindley - If he wins this he might change his mind about being bored.

theres only one winner in my eyes
                          """ROBERTO the mouth ROMANELLO""""
i said from the off this kid i reckon is one of the top up and coming players in europe,,,his style is very similar to daniel negranau.,.,but hes ugly,.,.
i wish all good luck and cards,,,,,but my special wishes go out to
all the welsh boys.,.,including dewi,.,.,and all blonde forum members.,.,.,.,.
shuffle up and squeal.,.,gl all

 :hello:

 ;goodluck; all the Blondes still in

how about Dewi, Vickey & the East End lad as my 3 picks

comon the romanello bros

I think Roberto Romanello will win Vicky Coren will be close and Des Jonas will pick up chips early and be on final table

He is probably the best of the Walsall players left

PS..

How long before im not a newbie?

Wait till you are as old as TK..................quite a while yet then lol

would that day be the one you gave me the camera and let me go perving?

my 3 picks

simon zach
womble
sticky vicky

Well, we've arrived. No sign of the suasage sandwich just yet, which is worrying because I'm beginning to salivate, but I'm sure it'll be nicely tucked in my gob shortly. Meanwhile, they're setting up the stage for tomorrow's final, which means the cardroom has been dissected in half, but as long as there aren't too many onlookers, this shouldn't be a problem.

No signs of kick-off just yet, but when they'll do, we'll know. At Walsall there was an exit every minute, and today probably won't be much different, so bear with us during these early stages. The start of Day 2 of most of these big events is always bedlam.

Last time I gave you the camera for norkage, you came back with a picture of Burnley John!  :dontask:

how dare you!!!
I think the problem with my pics is that I was in most of them simply using the camera and atit bradley as a photgrapher to get a grip of the bodog/milwauki light/absolute girls etc.

dissected in half

There's a thing......

2 early exits of note. First up, Nik Persaud, 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. Ouch.

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

Good start from Robert Bright, betting 4k on 2d Kd Qc Tc Qs board and, albeit after the usual chit-chat, getting Karl Mahrenholz to fold.

Simon Zach has seen a few trips drif away. He raised it up to 2.8k from early position before calling Ken Wong's 6.8k re-raise. Jd-7s-Qc Flop, Simon checks and Ken moves all-in (with slightly shakey hands I might add). Simon, chin low down as is his usual posture, asks for a chip count, but I think he always planned on folding.

A bit of movement from Dave Colclough too, although similar to Simon, they've gone the wrong way too, this time to James Martin.

Board = 8d 3h Ahrt

Dave bet 6k, James moved in for 20k and Dave folded, although he did line up the chips to see how much he'd be left with, which was only several thousand.

Meanwhile, on the same table, Dusk Till Dawn's Carlo is looking steady eddie with 25k.

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.

He is due a big win and this could be it.

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.

Good luck to Chris Bruce. Hope he can further his 10th place finish at Walsall last month.

Come on the Pomroy!

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.

any chance you can wish andy miles all the best from his bro and sis and let me know how he is doing thanks

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.

"Still, guess I've got Monte Carlo next week," said a disappointed Jim.

Hi Jen Snoops please wish good luck to the Pomfish from me please. Cheers.

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

can you tell me the blind structure please

Will happily undertake all requests.

However, the chaos continues here in Cardiff, Huo Ngo being the latest victim in a day that has seen more casualties than an entire series of Holby.

Steve Jelinek was the assass in this hand.

Blinds are 600 and 1,200 with a running ante of 100, although they shall be going up very shortly.

how runners are left

Or one episode of 24.

How is Roberto is doing? Is he still holding on to his chip stack?

Here he is, nicely chipped up next to neighbour Kevin O'Leary, slightly less chipped up; has a good chance of making it pretty far, especially as he doesn't seem to have been getting involved in the early double-or-bust frenzy:

Oi, that picture is copyrighted!

Snoops, could you wish Saeed Sagatchi good luck from me please

This one?  He's doing just fine, although looked almost pained by the sheer lack of respect everyone was showing him at the table.  "Mean," is how he described them.

wombles gone 9cTc on a flop of 9dJcQc- obviously he walked into the flopped KT str8 and missed his outs.

interesting coaching tips from dubai to pommo- get yourself knocked out about 8ish so its too late for us to go home but still early enough to have a full night out. Womble considering a night out with Dubai and roland (may be cheaper to buy in for bellagio main event mate)

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

Did this for you m8, we reckon you could get a percentage now if he wins for spurring him on. Sis Lynn, Leanne is it? Can't recall now. He seems confident though.

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.

thanks snoopy its sis lynn

Will do m8, does he know who you are, lol?  ;)

Is this your friend?  Not a limelight hogger, is he...

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

snoopy: "Any movement, Dewi, except to the bar?"
Dewi: "5k up."
Richard Simmonds: "I'm 25k down," pointing to Stephen Slavin.

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

everyone knows me LOL,  He knows me as Craig, not as I KNOW IT

Peter Haslam makes it 4.2k pre-flop, Stuart Menzies calls from the small blind.

Flop = 8c 3h Ts

check check

Turn = Th

Menzies bets 4k, Haslmam, as unmovable as ever with his rigid posture and Terminator shades, dwells it up momentarily before giving it up.

Womble is OUT.

Caught him by the cash machine (those bleeps certainly are attention garnering), which was a bit of a concern.

"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."

"I'm a little worried to find you lingering around the cash machine and then heading over to the house games though Womble."

"Well, you've got to have a blast," he replies.

Hmm, didn't really set my mind at ease.

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

Morning! I just woke up. Am safely back on the sofa with a cup of coffee; cat is fed and watered after about an hour of headbutting me into consciousness.

I'm off in an hour or two to go bowling with some Greeks, but I thought I'd drop in and say hi to all my loyal fans... He he he...

Ooh, I just noticed I still have Mod status on this board! Maybe I'll go back through and add some pictures of girls or something...

Pics of Dusk Til Dawn's team still in at this point:

Michael Greco
Carlo Citrone (sat next to second-in-lead, unconventional Scandinavian Robert Forsman)
Dave Colclough

Dusk Till Dawn's Michael Greco is having trouble getting going today.

He called a pre-flop raise of 5.2k from Alwyn Powell before checking the 8c Kc 8d Flop.

Alwyn only had around 10k left, and if had Ace high I expect he'd just shovel it in swiftly, but he had a little think, glanced up at Michael and then moved it in, which gave me the feeling that he had A-K.

Either way, Michael quickly swiped away his cards, clearly a tad frustrated but, and most importantly, still in.

any cash games started yet snoops? how the welsh boys doing m8?

GL to all I know left in.

I am gutted to go out, I had struggled all day, could not string two pots together and was bouncing from 2000 to 10000 all day!

4 minutes till the end of the day, I have circa 6k and decide to push all in (without looking) into any uncalled pot. This took me to neally 10k again when I found AA.  All in!!

VC calls me with 99

J 10 7 flop

2 on the turn

and an 8 on the river to send me out.

Had a fantastic time, but a 12 hour session without getting anything going was really tough.

Great updates as usual guys.

can u please tell me who is rob and ant romanello getting on

any chance of a chip count on andy miles hoss and mukesh thanks

hi ouday u not going down later?

yeah ill be going down in 1 hr or so who is this ?

yr worst nightmare

Cheer up DC, at least Wales didn't lose in the foot...Oh they have.

lol ok

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.

Why has DC got a teatowel under his headphones ?

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

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.

One for the Welsh now. If you know Stuart Menzies and Jack Owen, then perhaps you'll be able to confirm that they are twins. If you only know, Jack, then check out the photo below of Stuart and give your verdict. Separated at birth?

That's because she was out after like the third hand (7k returning stack) but is a cool person - and hardcore - in the bar of their hotel this morning/last night drinking and playing blind Omaha until they started serving breakfast.  Don't ask me how I know that.

this chap abit better looking lol any updates on Jack m8?

can you tell me the top 9 payouts please

An annoyed with himself Chris Bruce pulls me over momentarily to share his tale of self-woe and confess, "Wanna know how I lost 20k" to which I replied, "Go on", which meant that I sort of did as a roving reporter but not as a human being who dreams of poker hands. Anyhow, Chris continued, "3 limpers and I had A-4 in the big so checked. A-7-8 flop with two diamonds and everyone checked. Another Ace on the Turn and I bet 3k. This lad (Andrew Feldman) made it 8k and I called. River was a rag and he bet 10k. I called only to see I was up against a full house, Eights."

Yes, he just joked, "F off, he's 20 stone heavier than me."

Is Lalit Khajuri still in?

Chip count please. Also is DaveCourtney alive?

Sad one for Cardiff regulars, one of their faves has fizzled out. A-6 vs. A-K, Ace hitting the Flop, left Doc Aris searching for the rail.

Now he can go back to sleep.

How about the whole lot:

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

The phrase 'Face like smacked ass' springs to mind.

Are you struggling with the technology dear?

thanks for that any chance you can let me know how the southampton boys are doing andy miles,hoss and mukesh thanks

Full counts being gathered right now in the break (15 mins)....

It's not my fault, the Insert Quote button's gone all aggressive and keeps jumping up at my finger.

Slow played my hand to try to get some chips together and ended up with Robert turning a straight out of the big blind. Could have gotten away on the river but would have been crippled

Won't catch me hanging about on the rail unless one of the other boys is still in, always need to get away pretty quickly after an exit

GL Tony...do the business!

any news on the romanello brothers plz

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

I saw this opportunity during the break, but I genuinely felt too pervy to ask, but Simon Zach was up for the challenge!

that was me , pity I could not hold on to them

We also have this lovely, although very 'come and get me boys', pose from one of poker's most popular dealers.

Convinced yet?

Twins I tell you, twins!

I said to Jack that if my doppleganger, Brad Pitt, was here, that Jack could take a similar photo of us.

What's the average stack and blinds?

Got a quick story on Roberto.

Fellow media man, Nick Wright, spotted a hand in which Roberto was giving it the gift of the gab again (would you Adam an Eve it) after a 17k bet into a flop of Td 9d 7d.

"Don't raise me, you don't want to do that" just one of the comments he came out with - and believe you me, there were quite a few.

Anyhow, he got his wish and his opponent fold, albeit after a lenghty session in the think tank.

Later I caught up with Roberto and found out that he had Pocket Fours. He said he didn't have a diamond.

average stack = total number of chips in play divided by the number of remaining players
blinds=compulsory bets to get the action started


you're welcome

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.

Anyone know anything about these two table neighbours? Locals, perhaps?

(1) Nigel Willis -- 28,800
(2) Alessio Isaia -- 72,200

It is pretty creepy...

Just checked Andy Miles's stack. He's no chip daddy, but he's still got his head well above water with 42,300.

blinds 1k/2k ante 200.  Average stack around 45k.

The names Arnie and Danddy Davito spring to mind.  :'(

Simon Zach was telling me his tales of two sets, the first being outdrawn by Elliot Bowker who moved all-in for 37k on top of Simon's 5k with a flush draw on a 6-3-9 Flop. Simon called with his set of sixes but lost out. Not long after, he found a pair of eights and got his money back against jacks when the flop came 9-8-2.

hello Jen and snoops and everyone else, can i get a DC update??

Also grabbed during the break by my pouncing Beagle paws was newfound twin Jack 'The Rack' Owen, who told me of how big double up came with Ac Qc vs. A-To on a Ten high flop with two clubs, third club coming on the Turn.

And with though, the break is over, the players are re-seated and the chip counts are on their way.

one of????

 Can anyone think of another dealer who has caused more stirrings in the nether regions of UK male players?

Don't cry! Remember, you're a tiger.

These 2 were seperated at birth:
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:SQCNWrmSNa5LZM:http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/images/weblog/misc/peterkay.jpg)        (http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:tIZIFPqC95nyiM:http://www.pokerpages.com/players/images/photos_200x250/45691.jpg)           

Is Brad also a natural blond ?

yes  they both work in my chip shop    they dont speak english as they came  in back of a lorry from  kosova

Kevs EX from Blackpool, oh sorry she a waitress, cant think of her name

I know who you mean but different league completely. D is definately champions league and thats something we all know even if you dont know it

LOL ,I was taking the piss,

so was I- could hardly say beezer homes lancashire division could I

also I wondered if you had more alternative tastes - each to their own I say ;)

craig her names fiona ,cause she looks like princess fiona ,out of shrek .

(when she changes that is).

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

Ok, I know he's very bottom of the chip count list, but can I just point out the impressive grindage going on with my friend Andrea (ahhh ha ha!)? He was on about 1000 for most of day 1.

Mukesh Morjaria -- 42,300
Tony Mackay -- 44,200

snoop  is saeed  from birmingham gone?  didnt see his chip count  he had good chips can u find out please  thanks

I think I saw him at the roulette wheel I'm afriad, so in the words of Mr Raab, "he's done his cobblers."

As womble is out leaving me with only 2 pics left I look forward to seeing simon and vicky going at it tomorrow evening when the real money is being played for. A sticky bubble heads up duel will be good to see.

Here's the seldom miserable Carlo (he's not being stuck by lightening, honest) being er... miserable, but with reason this time, because he's just sent a few chips over to Matthew Rattos-salles with Q-5 vs. Q-J on a Qd 3h 9h Flop. Carlo bet 7k, Matthew moved in for 16k and Carlo just coudn't fold, although he still dwelled, naturally.

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.

Blinds are 1.5k/3k (300)

hi jen and snoops, have you found anywhere to stay tonight yet?

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

Southampton player, Hoss Parhizkar, is on 41,200.

Meanwhile, Martin James just shook his head after folding the better hand (my guess is Queens) to neighbour (but one) Alessio   Isaia, who added another 8k to Martin's 4k pre-flop bet. Both big stacked (Martin 80k), he obviosiously didn't fancy taking the risk and mucked his hand. When Alessio showed his Jacks, Martin tutted and said, "I had better than that, can't believe you re-raised with Jacks."

I believe zach is now stacked and may even be chip daddy. Details of how much and how please

Yes, we've moved to the Novatele where they don't have bunk beds. Last night we slept on slabs in a room that had one bed in the air in order to save space. I am much happier now, we even have cushions on the bed. Yipeee.  ;sark;

wish dave smith good luck 4 me please,tell him his 2nd fav mrs.smith is railing him.
or bocking him,lol.

fran

Yes, Zach looks to have topped the 200k mark.  I took this photo yesterday, and he seemed sad that it hadn't made the cut, so it's going up now.  Just imagine a big stack of yellow 5k chips to the right of the towers and that's what he looks like now.

i stayed there snoops its like going into ikea lol

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. 

oh im good,lol.

gooooo dave.

jen,has he got his funny hat on?

Yes he has the most distinctive headwear in the room by a country mile.  But I have to say that poker might have been the loser in that particular chip-up.

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

GOOOO DAVES HAT.

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  (not as short as he was in this picture taken in the first level of the day, though)...

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.

any updates on andy miles hoss or mukesh please

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

Ronald Seymour raises to 3k, Nigel Willis makes it 13k, Ben Vinson thinks for an age before folding and Seymour passes.

Meanwhile, Des Jonas has just been eliminated. A-K vs. Jelinek's A-J. 7-T-4-J-6 board. Afterwards, Jelinek confessed to be slightly frustrated and played 'pissed off poker'. "Had an outdraw earlier, but it's evened out now."

how many is left

Mukesh Morjaria is OUT I'm afraid, spotted him standing by the roulette wheel talking on his mobile phone.

44

Andy Miles has just under 50k. Not much movement today from Andy who, himself, admitted "I've not been very active at all."

Zach won a chunk in the blinds with a pair of threes versus deuces all-in pre-flop. He said he raised from the small only for the big to move all-in with the ducks. He was going to pass, but thought he'd ask his opponent a few questions first, one of which was, "What would you do if you were me" to which his opponent replied, "If you got a big pair you should call, if you have a small one you should fold." Simon found something odd with this and correctly made the call.

Mr Zach's had a good week overall.

One man who has done very well in recent levels is Peter Gould, who, incidentally, possesses the same name as my dentist.

This one's not a dentist though, but a poker player, and a pretty successful one at this very moment, riding high with around 150k.

In about 1 minute, we'll be starting the 60 minute break, at which point myself and Jen will be doing our best Linford Christie impressions in order to reach the buffet before all those poker athletes.

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.

good luck to roberto and pete haslam

What is Elliot Bowker's chip count?  Prolific online player (rekwob, wlleiotl) is deep again after coming 14th in Walsall.

FYP

Im sorry was typing in a hurry.  i just have followed him since seeing him win the TLB in October on Pokerstars.  Please can you forgive me and pleacse could you find his chip counts?  Seems high up near the chiplead and nothing said about him.  He is my pick to win this tourney.

lol, no probs, met him yesterday on my table, know him from the good ole tribeca days, was a very good mtt player on there, hope he does well

BIG NEWS


BREAKING NEWS



GREECE  1      TURKEY3


ISRAEL 0   ENGLAND 0     HEHEHEHE

Des was on my table througout, top bloke

Elliot Bowker is in 2nd place with 195k.

Ful chip counts coming soon.

i thought it might end like this i hear isreal have a good defence

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

is andy miles out

and they ve got worse  manager ever

Turkey ?

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.

Apparantly there were 2 players missing from the chip counts, hopefully Andy was one of them. I'll confirm his presence next time I venture into the cardroom and obtain his chip count myself.

I think Jen's getting more action than me.

I did see a few raisey daisy kinda hands though, one of them involving Steve Jelinek who added to his stack by betting 11k into a 25k pot and a flop of 6h 2d 7s. Royce Law folded.

Hoss Parhizkar is very short at the moment and has entered all-in, nick the blinds and survive mode, last getting away with it when he pushed in for around 15-20k.

No, two names wrong - one of them was Andy - he was the one on 34k.  I have fixed my earlier chip list post to maintain the illusion of infallability.

My condolences, Andy was indeed missed out on the official chip count, but he is definietely out now as I just crossed his path as he exited the cardroom.

"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...

This picture of him is from yesterday, when he was sat next to the ghost of Iwan Jones.

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...).

34 of 315 remaining

92,600 average stack

Blinds = 2/4(300)

next level in 5 mins

Bowker, Elliot   190400

Coren, Vicky   104700


Nelson, Ian                   55600

My pics for the FT are above. Watch out for Ian he will defend his blinds with pretty much anything. Rekwob class. Vicky would be good for rasising profile of GUKPT further.


Keeps it up guys. Great posts as usual.

Greg

Photo 1 - Here's Ben Vinson next to the (now departed Greek Jack). 
Photo 2 - Eliott Bowker, in the process of winning yet more chips.  Totally missed the hand while trying to focus my camera.

Flop = 3h 9s 6c

Pot = 25-30k

Dave Smith bets 20k

Simon Zach looks him up and down, asks him two few probing questions (both of which Dave initially replied with a 'sorry?'), before folding.

Dave shows the 9c.

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.

MC Hammer waits with baited breath.

With three to go to the bubble, perhaps a short reminder of what the players who make the final three tables will be rewarded with:

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

And here are shots from that very moment - the double-up board and the presumed double-upper.

Just caught up after spending 3 hours to go 6 miles around the M25......thanks Jen thats him.............please wish him good luck from Lance..............top udating as per.

any news of antonio romanello hes a top guy class act.,.,.,and his bro the mouth,.,thanks guys great job updating

Can't get through the ropes during this bubble period, but I did notice that DTD representative Michael Greco is on 50k.

"Still here, Michael" I ask tongue in cheek but still maintaining my distance.

"Yeah, I've been grinding the whole day, this guys getting Aces every hand and I've only had one big pair," he complained.

Jokingly, I pretended to write on my notepad and said out loud, "Michael Greco", moaning endlessly"

Remember the Generation Game, that's what Brucey used to do? I'm emulating one of my heroes (the other being tikay, of course, who I emulate by never winning a comp)  ;hide;

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.

STOP!!!




































BUBBLE TIME!!!

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Barely enough time to get that awesome MC Hammer in there before Rob Bright 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...

we need news on bullit pete please snoops and jen

Current line-ups.

Alan Davies
Roberto Romanello
Royce Law
Ben Vinson
Elliot Bowker
Stephen Slavin
Dave Smith
Simon Zach
Kayshan Muthy

Ronald Seymour
Stefano Fiore
James Martin
Ian Nelson
Steve Jelinek
Robert Forsman
Andrew Feldman
Hoss Parhizkar
Matthew Rattos-salles

Stuart Menzies
Roy Brindley
Peter Haslam
Vicky Coren
Anthony Romanello
Tony Mackay
Nigel Willis
Michael Greco
Steve Craig

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.

Blimey just noticed that 2 of my 3 boks are still in.......bokking aint like it used to be lol

the 2 romanello brothers for 1st and 2nd.... comon boys

whats up kid, how you been???

tony mackay is there again ,but i still think simon zack is a class act.

saw him lay down QQ pre flop to the scandy yesterday .

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.

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.

;kc;

he do get these moments of maddness still.,.,.,not often but its another one of his strong points letting people  think.,.,dont come at me with nothing coz theres a good chance ill call,.,.,very dangerous.,.,and lucky lol.,.,.

Peter Haslam is OUT

Aces v Andy Mackay's Kings.

Board = 6s Td Kh 4s Th

When I joined the hand, the cards were on the back and the Aces were in front of Roy, so naturally I thought Roy was the one all-in. When the hand was over, both Pete and Roy grimaced and left the table. I thought to myself, "I won't pester Roy now because he's just had Aces cracked at a vital stage." So, instead, I went to pester Bullit Pete saying things like "Can't do much about that, tough one" and "People grind all day and then that happens, it's harsh."

Then Jonathan Rabb arrived and said hard luck to Pete, which is when I realised I had indeed been pestering a guy who'd just had his Aces cracked.

Credit for Pete for not telling me to F*** OFF!

 ;oopsy;

Instacall AQ lol - Ben must have thought he'd run into bullets!

hash luck for the bullit and not good form of snoopy to rub it in to petes face

Now for some Table Shots. Watch out David Bailey, snoopy's gonna take your job!  ::)

Anyone know how the betting went on that one?

I hear that Peter raised it up first, Tony re-raised, all-in, called.

Tell him I didn't it was him who'd be knocked out when you see him m8. Ta.

Phew, at last, just caught up with all three Day's Updates.

They should go in Best of blonde.

Well done Lady Dana, Lady Mason & Lord snoops.

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.

Thank you, Mr Kendall.  ;hattip;

Tikay you get time to read the updates every time I turn on the box your on it

I am afraid it will soon get worse. Poker 425 - renamed - returns very soon, Sky Poker have retained me for at least another month - why? - & I return to PNL next month.

Buy a radio.

any chipy counts please ?

who do you think to win it from here .,.,you never say ????only 1 pick.,.,.

Vicky ill have

roberto romanello

Thought you were a married man?

I thought you were honeymooning, or just mooning....

Elliot Bowker is the unknown class of this field.  He is a Superstar.  Gonna be the biggest star from UK when he hits the WSOP this year and moves up and up from there.  Since October has amassed over 200k dollars in tournament winnings on stars and Full tilt where his biggest buyin has been 500.  Well know throughout the online world 14th in Walsall.  With the AQ call don't fancy Roberto to win.  Elliot(Rekwob, Wlleiotl) Bowker all the way.

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.

She's still there, fewer chips, comparatively now, but still with sights firmly set on not, "Coming to Wales, playing for two days, and breaking even."  The last few levels have been card-dry, although this snap shows her still nicking Tony Mackay's big blind from the button regardless.

Steve Jelinek is in good form as is Vicky and Roy the boy is a danger too

Managed to get this picture as the Word of Law was being laid down in that Parhizkar/Romanello hand.  The whole debate lasted upwards of five minutes.

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

"It's like me, I get luckier when I play angry poker," says Jelinek.

who s elliot bawker  i dont know him can u put a picture please snoop?

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

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

Tens v Sevens, all-in pre-flop.

8-9-Q-J-9

Here's a pic from his WPTing in Bahamas

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=21822.msg442963#msg442963 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=21822.msg442963#msg442963)

bowker SO nonchalant

take it down son

My 1 against the field? Forsman, Feldman or Zach.

Anyway, it's Sunday, go away. You promised to leave today.

I read a post somewhere that said Sofa King had gone broke and wont be playing poker no more is that true ?

Elliot's a fantastic young 21 year old online poker professional.  Is one of the best know and has some of the best results on PokerStars and Full Tilt, is in the top 70 on the pocketfives leaderboard.  Is from Denbigh Originally- moved to Keele University after a year dropped out to become a poker professional and has been extremely sucsessfull. Came 2nd in the Victor Chandler Student Poker Championship in 2005 where i came 3rd. Check out his results on pokerdb for rekwob and wlleiotl. came 14th in Walsall. Hope he wins from here

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

In my guise as a magazine reporter i've caught a few hands whilst Snoopy and Jen have been busy typing up in the press room. The two of note being:

1) Jelinek limps from the SB, Forsman checks his option. Flop - 2-5-8. Jelinek bets 8k and Forsman folds. Jelinek tables Kings saying, "You're the most aggressive player i've ever seen!"
Forsman tables 7-2o and says, "Not with that i'm not."

2) I join the action at the flop of 5d-3s-Kd
The money in the pot indicates that Steve Slavin raised to 20k from the cut-off and was called by Simon Zach in the BB. Zach checks and Slavin pushes in his remaining 45k.
Zach starts the investigation firing question after question - will you show if i pass, I know you're not making a move - you have a hand.  He eventually folds and is shown Ad-10d by Slavin. Crys of, "I knew it." from Zach.

No, not broke, he's just quitting Poker to sell Shades. A huge loss to blonde, & the other cash-game players in Cardiff. Men built empires on playing cash with Sofa, God bless him.

Take a look at Page 3 of this thread, & you'll laugh yourself silly at Sofa's picture!

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=21753.0
 

A big ups to Royce Law as the sole remaining Walsall player .....Also Ian Nelson will probably win and if he does you tell him he owes me big time...If u remember Walsall week he was barred for putting his hands on me.....i was later asked if i thought he should be nationwide banned and i said no as i think he's a nice guy and the incident was totally out of character so pony up mr nelson all charitable donations greatfully recieved

Ps Better wait till after sept 1st when i can take tips

very entertaining updates guys,
gl to smithey, gotta love a man that can carry that hat off

Yeah I was only kidding about the broke bit, and good luck to him for the future

great updates guys and gals..

Here's the hat, with Smith underneath it, and Simon Zach (a good tip for a top finish, too, I reckon).

I love Julian cos he can carry off a scarf at the poker table

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.

ah, the 'scarf days'...how i miss em
xx

Please tell zach I'm rooting for him, he's definately on form!

Stuart Menzies grabs me on way back to tell me his tale and woe, and although he said, "I apologise, I bet you loads of these bad beat stories", I think it was fair to give him the benefit of the doubt this time, as anyone would want to get this one of their chest.

Battle of the blinds, Steve Craig in the small and Stuart in the big.

The action folded round to Steve who raised it up to 15k from, only for Stuart to move all-in from the big blind with K-T for another 70k.

Now, at this point, you'd predict a fold from Craig, but not this fella, he either has balls of steel or a brain of rubber, as he decided to make the call and reveal a very eye opening K-8.

6-7-9-3-5 board and we lose Stuart in the most gut wrenching of circumstances.

Are they paying Texas Hold 'Em. How DO these guys make these calls?

Any hat that can keep Dave Smith under it must be respected  ::)

Hey Karabiner how was the blind structure in Cardiff for ya ?

His extraordinary win with 55 v a flopped broadway, I calculated (with some help fom a Poker Odds Calculator...) that he was a 96.3% to 2.8% underdog on the flop!

Well unfortunately I didn't make it Foxy, but most said it was pretty good.

How did you find it ?

What time they finish, or how many do they play down to tonight, please?

The 'ol fella is tired, & the clocks do something odd tonight I believe.

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.

Yes, at 2am it suddenly becomes 3am, or something like that.  Great; one less hour of sleep.

They will almost certainly play to the final table, if it can be squeezed in to tonight.

In effect, then, they only have 90 minutes left to play.

COME ON ELL.  GET in Mate  Elliot to win.  Probably come to rail tomorrow if he is on final table, was meant to meet up with him on thursday but aunty fell and broke her hip so have been following through blonde.  Thanks for updates.  Good luck Elliot

This is Andrew Feldman, riding the adrenaline rollercoaster but still managing to make calculated decisions.

He may be young but is certainly not naive. He is an experienced cash game palyer, also an annoying little, obnoxious prick. He is well known for doing this sort of thing. Only a matter of time befor someone lamps him.
 

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

When I say naive, I mean in terms of live poker etiquette rather than poker skill. James Atkin was the same last year. Online whiz entering the uk circuit, hollering at every victory and shouting on each loss - as I said, 'real heart on the sleeve' stuff. Like Feldman, not intentionally obnoxious I'm sure, but still not nice for the other players who have just done their bollox. However, I'm sure the more he plays live, the more he'll realise that it isn't really acceptable behaviour among his fellow players, just as James did as we crept into 2007. I'm sure he's a top lad off the table, just needs to learn to take it quietly on.

Sorry Welsh fans, rumour has it that Alan Davies is out, I'm sure Jen has the details.

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.

Eek, I feel I may have bokked him somewhat as Andrew Feldman has just dissected his stack and is back down to 220k, and this time it was the equally celebratory Stefano Fiore (I do hope this whooping isn't creeping into poker permanently) 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.

Any pictures?

would need a very fast shutter speed to get that one

Elliot is Welsh,  Even tho I'm sure this is his first ever poker tournament in Wales.

what time finish tonite??

It's incredible how much drama a simple battle of the blinds can create, but if anyone's used to drama, then it's Michael Greco, and if there's anyone who can put his acting skills and composure in front of an audience to the test, then it's Roberto Romanello, and that's exactly what happened when Beppe made what initially seemed to be an inncocent 25k raise from the small blind.

Roberto called, albeit after a dwell, and the two characters saw a 3d Qh Ahrt Flop.

Instantly, Greco announced all-in and shoveled (there wasn't much finesse in this move) in his remaining chips.

As you can guess, Roberto soaked up the spotlight provided by the cameras and eagerly awaiting audience, and threw a host of questions the actor's way.

"What do you have?" "Do you have an Ace?" "How big's your kicker?"

Although most answers arrived in the form of casual shrugs, Beppe did start to reply, saying "Do you really think I'd take that risk?" when asked if he was pushing with a flush draw.

"I think I'm winning," announces Beppe, "I don't mind if you call."

And with that, Roberto mucked his cards, allowing Greco to show (as he promised earlier) his A-8.

Roberto looked a bit stoic, so there's a good chance he had an Ace with a slightly bigger kicker, otherwise I think he would have shown at least a little pleasure in himself and his good fold.

Romanello down to 100k.

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 Ad 6d.  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.

;e;

Previously  ;grr;, 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

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

In approximately five minutes.

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.

Unlucky Tony. Well played and on the back of a cash finish in Dortmund clearly a man in form and due a big result...

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 (!).

chip counts on their way in just a tick...

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

ROBERTO AND DAVE SMITH I THINK HAVE VV GOOD HANCE DAVE IS BANG IN FORM ,AS SHOWN EARLIER AND ROBERTO HAS GOT GAME. I REALLY HOPE DAVE WINS IT THO I LIKE HIM.   


SNOOPS TELL HIME IAN SAID GOOD LUCK TOMOZ AND KEEP PLAYING  THE WAY HE IS PLAYING AND DONT CHANGE BECAUSE OF THE DOE!¬!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


!!!!!

Another intriguing, informtative & witty Update, thank you Lady Mason & Lord snoops.

Good Luck with Sunday, I won't be around, but I'll catch up tomorrow.

kick on Kayshan, Ive spent some lovely hours with this guy and he has a great game. Would also be nice to see Vicky get another great result.

little personal message for Jen, remember me? you taught me to play poker at judes house...

Just wanted to get in touch, and see whether you'll still play with me, sorry to contact yu at work...

Emmanuel