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:hello: and welcome back for the second Day 1 at the very stylish G Casino in Manchester. Once again play will begin at 4pm, people playing today include Thewy, Dewi and (fingers crossed) someone called Louie too.

This is the bare bones updating thread, to ask for players' chip counts and questions, please go to the interactive thread.

It's a random draw but todays field looks stronger since it includes:

Thewy
The Camel
'Six Levels' Rumit. (No longer 1-hand)
Thewy
Praz Bansi
Karl Marenholz
Iwan Jones
Dpommo
Dubai
Stuart Rutter
Vicky Coren
El Blondie
Chilli
Micky Wernick

The seats have been drawn and we are about to start.

155 players playing today, and they've just begun.

Camel and Karl Marenholz sitting next to each other, as are Dpommo and Vicky Coren. Dana is off getting pictures which you can only see on the interactive thread if you're a member.

Two out already.

CK Le bet 700 on a Q-T-6 board and was called, he bet again on the Jack turn and then 2.5k on the blank river, at which point his opponent, Andy Bradshaw moved all-in and Le called quickly with A-K. Bradshaw mucked but Micky Wernick said he saw a Six so I'm guessing he had trip sixes.

Also out is the fabulously named Mark Yaffe. He was holding A-A on a T-7-7 flop, must've been re-raised because there were two opponents holding K-K and T-T. The kings managed to escape but Mark's Aces couldn't get away.

Tales of Dubai Section:

First he loses a whole chunk after there's a limper on the button, Dave makes it 275 from the small blind with A-A, the limper makes it 1,275 with about 6k behind, Dave calls. J-9-7 flop and Dave runs into a set of Sevens. Shortly after, against the same guy i think, he doubles back up with a set against 2nd pair and a gutshot. Then I saw him pushing again on an 8c 5s 5c board against the same player's 2k bet, getting him to fold.

I just saw Marty Wilson pass pocket queens to a big bet on the random river of a random board, and get quite upset when the bettor showed his un-hitting pocket sevens.

An all-in on Table Colclough - Player 1505 holding AK and Player 1502 (seating plan arriving within 10 minutes says our friend Mr Raab) on an A - Q - A - Q - 8 board, for a slightly disappointing split. Only ran over there because there was lots of oooh-ing and rising from seats.

Dewi Pint Watch:

"Five."

Chilli, "Up to 14k, down to 12k."

El Blondie -- 9,975 "I'm slowly being blinded away." (Did just take down a pot betting 500 on a 2h 4s 3d board though).

Paul Rigg just won a chunk-o-rific pot. He bet 1500 on a Ahrt 5d 4s board, 3500 on the Ks turn and 4500 on the 4h river getting called on every street, his opponent mucked when Paul showed 5h 4c.

Rumit checks a flop of  7h 4d Ts. Eddie Lundon bets 300, Hoss Parhizkar calls and Rumit folds.

Turn -  Kc - Eddie bets 700 and Hoss (oh how I love that name) calls.

River -  8d and Eddie bets 1200. After some dwelling, Hoss raises to 3000 (ride 'em, cowboy!). Eddie calls, and his  Tc 8s is good against Hoss'  Jc 7c. Hoss starts to giggle like he's just got off a rollercoaster, the big loopy kind that leaves you kind of punch-drunk afterwards.

Blinds now 50/100.

Nicky Romanello is OUT, he was short with about 2.5k and lost to Vicky Coren's nut-flush.

Jon Farrer and Rumit in the blinds both check a  Ks Kd Kh flop, and then the  7c turn. River comes  Qd and Jon Farrer bets 250. Rumit folds. It's all very good-natured, there's lots of pleasant laughing camaraderie here.

Rudders -- 13k
Iwan Jones -- 10k hit a set of 4's against K-T and then had K-9 on a K-K-6 board when Q-J decided to push

Vincent Birt is comfortably above 20k, he just bet 1.7k on the river of an Ahrt Kc 6c 5s 8d board, getting his opponent to fold.

Seems a bit less good-natured on Table Karl/Camel. On a  6d 3d Qs 5h Jc board, Alex Mah bets 2000. Karoly Kiss (oh yes...) says "you missed, huh?" and calls. He then mucks to Mah's  9h 9d. He is definitely not in a good mood. In fact, the very next hand he raises to 400 utg, only for John Conroy to reraise to 1200 and Ba Aghatabay to call. Kiss (ho ho ho), finding himself horribly horribly short, has no choice but to call all-in. The  Ac 2h Jh Td 9s board is checked down.  Ba shows pocket queens, John Conroy shows pocket tens for the set and Kiss mucks and is OUT. There, there. Maybe one of the soon-to-arrive massage girls will Kiss it better.

Maria - 12.8k
Julian - 8.4k (he ran into a set in the 2nd hand)
Bo Le - 11.7k

El Blondie bets 600 on a  7d 8d 3s flop and finds a call in James Reid.

Turn -  Ad - Dave checks, James checks.

River -  Aspades - Dave bets 1300 and James calls.

Dave shows his Ahrt 8h full house and James shows his  9d Td not-a-straight-flush. El Blondie's on about 14.5k now.

Julian just lost a chunk holding Qd Jd on a Kh 3s Qs 5c Qh board, his opponents' Kc Ks scooping.

Reyaz Mulla and EPT Grand Finalist Steve Jelinek are both OUT.

Oh, so very unfortunate. The board is  3c Jc 5d Js and Mateyboy goes all-in for not very much; Maria calls instantly. Mateyboy turns over  Jh Tc; Maria turns over her superior  Jd Qc. But oh dreadful!  Td on the river and Matey doubles up. Sick. Sick, sick sick. Matey has since self-destructed and disappeared...

Slightly messy chip counts by table (thanks Jon!)...


Woodley, Ian     5     35325
Lundon, Eddie    7    26825
Ngo, Billy    14    26600
Rigg, Paul    9    24875
Mccloskey, Michael    9    24750
Mahrenholz, Karl    4    23675
Holden, Stephen    12    23025
Birt, Vincent    8    22800
Le, Ck    11    22300
Sohal, Surinder    4    21850
Mckeever, George    12    19650
Nichols, Anthony    4    18800
Demetriou, Maria    9    18400
Lowe, Mark    13    18375
Shallow, Dave    12    17600
Johnson, Brian    12    17500
Birtles, David    13    16375
Cohen, Paul    4    16050
Bovis, Steve    8    15975
Sunny, Chattha    2    15750
Liepina, Irina    6    15700
Channing, Neil    10    15600
Amour, A    15    15350
Farrer, Jon    7    15250
Tann, Willie    5    14975
Rees, Glyn    2    14950
Manning, Mike    10    14750
Bowker, Elliot    6    14675
Arees, Tariq    14    14425
Muthy, Kayfhen    10    14250
Libertini, Martino    1    14125
Wyre, Ray    15    14025
Humphries, Evan    11    13850
Markham, Harry    15    13650
Simons, John    8    13550
Wernick, Mickey    11    13375
Owen, Craig    1    13275
Nash, Stuart    11    13225
Lovelady, Joey    13    13050
Clough, Dennis    10    12775
Le, Bo    5    12725
Fronda, Ryan    8    12600
Bright, Rob    2    12575
Aghatabay, Ba    4    12525
Brockett, Frank    2    12500
Somayia, Rumit    7    12225
Howard, Gregory    11    12175
Jones, Mark    8    12125
Ayegun, Olabode    8    12075
Eccles, Stephen    13    12025
Pomroy, David    9    11800
Reid, James    15    11800
Lott, Michael    14    11775
Nayyar, Pawan    10    11700
Heller, Adam    12    11625
Arama, Jac    1    11600
Pritchard, Stephan    15    11575
Colclough, Dave    15    11500
Singleton, Pete    7    11375
Clayton, Dave    11    11300
Xanthos, Stasia    6    11100
Leckey, Paul    1    11075
Reardon, Trevor    10    11025
Damonte, Phillippe    9    10825
Rudling-smith, Richard    1    10750
Hawkins, Keith    4    10725
Mccarthy, Leo    2    10650
Hussain, Masaud    5    10600
Muse, Mohammed    5    10575
Robinson, Mark    13    10400
Aslam, Zahir    6    10100
Coren, Vicky    9    10025
Anderson, T    6    10000
Howard, G    12    9850
Kerrigan, Jim    14    9850
Jangarwala, Salim    15    9725
Pearson, Stuart    10    9700
Nguyen, Tom    6    9600
Nijjar, Balvinder    12    9450
Wilson, Martin    10    9325
Penly, Dave    8    9200
Bansi, Pramesh    12    9150
Romanello, Anthony    1    9000
Nelson, Ian    11    9000
Van le, Tien    8    8900
Johnstone, Paul    4    8800
Adejuyigbe, Richard    5    8375
Cowling, Brian    1    8350
Dunsford, Jim    2    8350
Mullah, Reyaz    12    8350
Rubenstein, Shelley    1    8250
Macay, Tony    10    8225
Herbert, Ian    5    8125
Khan, Mojid    15    8075
Vinnicombe, Alan    13    7975
Wild, Martin    14    7875
Mackay, Richard    14    7825
Thew, Julian    7    7800
Brooks, Alun    9    7800
Allen, Robert    2    7775
Conroy, John    4    7725
Tabatabai, John    7    7575
Hoang, Hai    4    7550
Armitage, Alan    1    7450
Rutter, Stuart    13    7450
Davies, Alan    14    7400
Hickman, Darren    15    7400
Dong, T    14    7325
Wan, Sam    9    7300
Arees, Edd    11    7150
Cavanagh, Martyn    13    7150
Persaud, Nick    11    7050
Woodridge, Warren    2    6525
Bakewell, Gareth    6    6500
Tyler, Joshua    6    6475
Oleary, Kevin    2    6400
Wong, Richard    8    6325
Farrelly, Tim    15    6325
Chapman, Terry    7    6200
Sokrati, Chris    7    5950
Lund, Roger    8    5875
Reyner, Allen    9    5800
Flint, Chris    14    5500
Herson, Richard    5    5425
Nouri, Nouredine    13    5350
Nguyen, Kenny    5    5175
Zaib, J    9    5100
James, Dewi    1    5025
Mah, Alex    4    4700
Slade, Nick    2    4525
Isackov, Michael    11    4300
Piper, Mike    6    4175
Jones, Iwan    14    3975
Parhizkar, Hoss    7    3500
Fletcher, Terry    6    3100
Ramos, Pedro    10    3100
Kurbanali, Kassim    7    2700
Copus, David    13    1850

It's all gone Wong for Ryan Fronda.

Fronda:

Ad Ac

Richard Wong:

Kc Ks

Kh on the river leaving Fronda with about 3k left.

Sam Wan has 13k.

Iwan Jones is OUT, runner-runner flushed by Alan Davies.

Dewi's short now, on about 4k with the blinds now 100/200. "Um, I lost a few. At least tikay was wrong about me, he said I'd only last an hour and I lasted 2."

Three-way all in on Table Chili!

On a  Td 2c 2d flop, Mateyboy already all in, David Pomray (is that dpommo? It is, isn't it?) goes all in for 11k, and Paul Rigg calls.

Mateyboy -  4d 4h

Probably Pommo -  3d Jd

Paul Rigg -  2s 4s

No diamonds or any other improvement for anyone and Mateyboy and Pomray are OUT.

On an  Ahrt Qc Aspades flop, David Copus bets 700. Mark Robinson, who I thought was a character in Neighbours but never was, raises another 2000. David Copus reraises another 8k or so, and Robinson fairly swiftly folds. He's now pretty short on around 4k. Joey Lovelady (my favourite name so far today) says to Copus, "You didn't have an ace, did you?" Copus - "Er, no."

Praz Bansi is OUT. Was very short and apparently missed a flush draw.

Slightly rounded chip counts -

Neil Channing - 15k

Vicky Coren - 21k

Ed Arees - 5.5k

Found Chili smoking a cigarette. She's doing fine on 14k, but keeps having those upsetting moments when you fold your rubbish before the flop, only to see that you would have hit spectacularly. One particularly sad hand, she called a raise with 6 - 8; Vicky Coren re-raised and she folded. The flop came 6 - 8 - 10, and the turn another 6. The chips flew in, Vicky holding pocket queens and someone else holding another overpair. Maria would have take them both out, which would have made her happy, but she didn't and she's not. "You can't call a re-re-raise [I guess there was more raising than Vicky's preflop] with 6 - 8. Oh well, back to work..."

Praz was circumspect about his exit, "Didn't hit anything really today, played my last hand pretty badly." He's now contemplating an express trip to Vegas to play the WPT  main event.

Pedro Ramos is OUT and a bit grumpy. Neil Channing folded on the river to Kayfhen Muthy's bet on a board of 4d 8d Ahrt 3d 5s. Ramos wasn't happy to see his 8c 8s outdrawn by the 7d 5d of Muthy.

Ian Nelson has doubled up with A-9 against A-J.

Dewi is OUT. With ACES. And courtesy of crosscourt. Dewi raised with his aces, crosscourt called. Flop 9 - J - K, and Dewi moved in; crosscourt called with AQ and hit his ten on the river. "I knew I was gonna lose," said Dewi. "But I'm not botherrrrrrred." He has a brand new pint of Guinness, and is looking pretty pleased with himself.

Dewi was short and there were two spades on the flop and crosscourt had Aspades Qs, so he wasn't passing.


Rudders pushes Jac Arama off Kings news now.

Having limped called a raise with T-8, Rudders check-raised Jac Arama's 1k bet to 3k before pushing on the turn of a T-9-7 board getting his opponent to fold. "I thought he had an overpair, but I knew he was good enough to lay it down."

*****75 minute Dinner Break*****


Full chip counts for all players, as soon as we get them.

Name     Table     Chips
Rigg, Paul    9    55250
Mahrenholz, Karl    4    54825
Shallow, Dave    13    46225
Woodley, Ian    5    38300
Mccloskey, Michael    9    28650
Davies, Alan    14    27100
Pritchard, Stephan    9    26700
Birt, Vincent    8    25700
Lundon, Eddie    7    24400
Heller, Adam    4    24000
Herbert, Ian    5    23825
Somayia, Rumit    7    23400
Muthy, Kayfhen    10    22500
Romanello, Anthony    1    22100
Arama, Jac    6    21875
Nayyar, Pawan    10    21825
Bovis, Steve    8    21100
Flint, Chris    14    20750
Amour, A    1    19650
Nguyen, Kenny    5    19650
Le, Bo    5    19400
Markham, Harry    13    19250
Manning, Mike    10    18875
Rudling-smith, Richard    1    18825
Tann, Willie    5    18700
Bakewell, Gareth    6    18675
Farrer, Jon    7    18575
Cavanagh, Martyn    13    18475
Lovelady, Joey    13    17900
Wernick, Mickey    11    17850
Nichols, Anthony    4    17825
McKeever, George 1    17750
Owen, Craig    1    17225
Jones, Mark    8    17225
Clayton, Dave    11    16975
Rees, Glyn    2    16650
Aghatabay, Ba    4    16575
Bowker, Elliot    6    16450
Coren, Vicky    9    15750
Nash, Stuart    11    15600
Clark, David    5    15325
Le, Ck    11    15100
Simons, John    8    14800
Parhizkar, Hoss    7    14475
Liepina, Irina    6    14450
Slade, Nick    2    14050
Cowling, Brian    4    13800
Wong, Richard    8    13575
Demetriou, Maria    9    13200
Woodridge, Warren    2    13125
Colclough, Dave    2    12875
Thew, Julian    7    12700
Robinson, Mark    9    12600
Persaud, Nick    11    12350
Mackay, Richard    14    12325
Eccles, Stephen    13    12275
Ngo, Billy    14    12275
Howard, G    1    12250
Anderson, T    6    12250
Hardwidge, Paul    9    12025
Xanthos, Stasia    6    11600
Channing, Neil    10    11425
Macay, Tony    10    11400
Bright, Rob    9    10950
Sokrati, Chris    7    10925
Brockett, Frank    2    10725
Penly, Dave    8    10600
Arees, Tariq    14    10475
Vinnicombe, Alan    13    10450
Ayegun, Olabode    5    10250
Leckey, Paul    1    10125
Mccarthy, Leo    2    10125
Reardon, Trevor    10    10000
Clough, Dennis    10    9825
Dunsford, Jim    2    9750
Sunny, Chattha    2    9725
Kerrigan, Jim    14    9700
Nijjar, Balvinder    10    9300
Allen, Robert    2    9100
Birtles, David    13    9050
Reyner, Allen    9    8750
Nguyen, Tom    6    8700
Jangarwala, Salim    1    8300
Mah, Alex    4    8175
Dong, T    14    8100
Rubenstein, Shelley    1    8025
Isackov, Michael    11    7800
Wyre, Ray    4    7375
Howard, Gregory    11    7350
Nouri, Nouredine    13    7325
Holden, Stephen    7    7050
Arees, Edd    11    7025
Rutter, Stuart    13    6650
Humphries, Evan    11    6325
Isackov, Michael    14    6300
Farrelly, Tim    10    6050
Hawkins, Keith    4    6000
Khan, Mojid    8    5800
Van le, Tien    8    5375
Nelson, Ian    11    5350
Hussain, Masaud    5    4625
Reid, James    6    4575
Herson, Richard    5    4075
Singleton, Pete    7    3700
Chapman, Terry    7    3125
Wild, Martin    14    3000
Damonte, Phillippe    9    2775
Fronda, Ryan    8    1600

Blinds are now 150/300

Paul Rigg raises to 800 and Vicky Coren calls from the button.

Flop -  7c Aspades 4c Vicky bets 1000, Paul calls.

Turn -  Qd and they both check.

River -  8h Paul checks and Vicky very briefly thinks about betting before announcing, "Nah, you've got a pair of kings." Paul duly turns over his KK and she shows her 55.

Mark Jones raises to 900; Tien Van Le and Vincent Birt call. Ryan Fronda re-raises all in for not very many chips. Mark re-re-raises all in. Tien folds pretty quickly; Vincent Birt spends some time dwelling over the  Tc Ts I accidentally may have seen over his shoulder before folding.

Ryan Fronda -  8d 8h

Mark Jones -  Jd Jc

Board -  Qc 5s Ks 8s Kc

Ryan Fronda is a very fortunate young man, and is now slightly less short than he was before.

Just taken a hit, he bet 2k on a 4c Tc 5s Kh board only to find Mark Jones check/raise all-in for 9.5k more, he seemed to dwell for a while, unnecessarily so when I saw he was holding Td Ts but soon called, Jones showed Kc Jc.

River:

2c.

Incidentally, "One Hand Rumit" is now on the way to becoming "Level Six Rumit" which makes him sound like a D&D character.

Will he gather enough experience to level up?

Nick Slade lost a 20k pot to El Blondie with Queens, he said he was convinced Dave had Aces or Kings. He did just scoop a pot with A-9 on an A-9-A-3-T board though.

Jim Reid has doubled through with 6-6 against Jac Arama's A-8 on a 2-3-4-5-K board.

It's level six which means the running antes kick in!!  ;yippee;

;ra;

150/300/25

On a board of  Qd 5d 6s 6h, Richard Mackay and Tariq Arees both check.

River -  Kd

Richard checks, and Tariq bets 2200.

Richard ponders for a moment before muttering "This is RIDICULOUS" to no-one in particular, folding, and wandering off. Tariq shows his pocket eights, and announces to the table, "I tell you, he had jacks!"

Saw Ed Arees win a small pot, but he's still a bit desperate, in the 5k proverbial ballpark.

With the flop  Th 8h Qc, Richard Wong bets 725, and Steve Bovis calls.

Turn -  Aspades and they both check

River -  Qd and Wong (I like that name and I don't know why) bets 1025 (he likes those funny-sized bets does he). Bovis calls.

Bovis -  Ad Jh

Wong -  Qh Kh

Bovis was Wong to call that last bet...  ;hide;

Stu Rutter is very very short and is on a waiting-for-a-hand foldathon. Something must happen that way, sooner or later...

Jim Reid and Dave Penley are both OUT.

Balvinder Nijjar has doubled up against Sam Wan with Th 9d against 5c 5h.

Board:

Qd 4h Qd Ac Tc


El Blondie has just busted out Leo McCarthy with Aces against Queens, Sunny Chattha, sitting in between managed to get away from his Ace King in this hand. DC now has about 29k which is about twice the average.

Julian is OUT - QQ against Nik Persaud's AA, no help on the board. It's just not ladylike...

Stu Rutter's clawed back a few - he's on about 7k now. Or maybe he had them secreted in his giant scarf before.

Another, even shorter, stack is Michael Lott - he folded to Pawan Nayyar's 2100 bet on a  7s 2s Jd Ks board, leaving himself with 4575.

...And also Paul Leckey, who moved in on an  8s Ahrt Jh flop for 5100. Mateyboy folds, so no double up for Leckey, who shows his A8.

He doubled up with errm... J-7 against A-Q, first card was a Queen, second was a Jack, but the turn and river were both Sevens.

Chilli has 10k and is "waiting for a spot."

Stuart Nash is OUT, A-4 against A-J.

"6 levels Rumit" has 45k now, he's really changed gears. Probably because Snoopy isn't around to bokk him... ::)

12.5k direct from the source.


Maria has doubled up, she had Qh Tc in the big blind against Ks 2s of the small blind. She flat-called his bet on the Ts 3h Qs flop and on the 9s turn before moving in on the Th river. Now on around 23k and not so anxious.

Players are on a 15 minute break.

Rudders - 12k
Neil Channing - 15k
Ed Arees - 3.5k, to the left of Channing and not looking very happy at all. Not that the two facts are related.
Vicky Coren - 13k
Bo Le (for whoever was asking) - 9k

82 left, blinds/antes are 200/400/50

Multiple action now:

Stuart Rutter has doubled through has doubled through Dubai with Ahrt Kd against Aspades 8s

Board: 6c 2s 3d 7d 6d

Soxy has also doubled through against Hoss Parhizkar with 2s 2c against Td Ts on a 9c 2h 6h 5d 8h board, all the money going in on the flop.

The Camel has also doubled up, his A-J holding up against Warren Woolridge's K-T.

Trevor Reardon and Nik Persaud, seated next to each other, are both a bit short. Saw Trevor move in on a queen-high, diamond-tastic flop, but there were no takers - he showed  Ahrt Kd. Nik has about 6.5k, but he also has quite a large stack of £25 cash chips on the table, presumably for threatening effect.

Dave Colclough drops a few chips.

Flop -  Ts 5s 7c - Dave bets 1200, Frank Brockett calls.

Turn -  Kd - Dave bets 3k, Brockett calls.

River -  Qs - Dave cautiously checks, and the folds to Brockett's 3k bet. Says Brockett - "I have a straight. And a flush," and turns over  Aspades Jc.

Nayyar, Pawan     14     53400
Mahrenholz, Karl    6    53075
Somaiya, Rumit    7    50725
Mccloskey, Michael    9    43750
Rigg, Paul    9    42575
Davies, Alan    14    42225
Woodley, Ian    5    36950
Aghatabay, Ba    13    34375
Cavanagh, Martyn    13    33200
Lovelady, Joey    13    31325
Shallow, Dave    13    30000
Colclough, Dave    2    29050
Tann, Willie    5    28925
Wernick, Mickey    6    28300
Bovis, Steve    8    27750
Nicholls, Anthony    5    26700
Herbert, Ian    5    26325
Nguyen, Kenny    7    24600
Heller, Adam    14    24475
Pritchard, Stephan    9    24075
Lundon, Eddie    6    23900
Parhizkar, Hoss    7    23150
Dunsford, Jim    2    22775
Manning, Mike    8    22700
Flint, Chris    14    22575
Birt, Vincent    8    22300
Owen, Craig    1    22275
Demetriou, Maria    9    22125
Bowker, Elliot    6    21825
Romanello, Anthony    1    21500
Amour, A    7    20800
Jones, Mark    8    20525
Bakewell, Gareth    6    20225
Le, Ck    1    19950
Armitage, Alan    1    17400
Slade, Nick    2    17300
Brockett, Frank    2    16650
Eccles, Stephen    13    16650
Howard, G    1    16500
Channing, Neil    5    16450
Farrer, Jon    7    16450
Vinnicombe, Alan    13    15725
Jangarwala, Salim    1    15125
Woodridge, Warren    2    14725
Anderson, T    6    14575
Hardwidge, Paul    9    13975
Macay, Tony    6    13475
Birtles, David    13    13350
Coren, Vicky    9    13175
Wong, Richard    8    12850
Arees, Tariq    13    12650
Muthy, Kayshan    9    12350
Sokrati, Chris    7    12100
Mckeever, George    1    12075
Humphries, Evan    7    11500
Ayegun, Olabode    13    11025
Rudling-smith, Richard    1    10925
Rees, Glyn    2    10750
Robinson, Mark    9    10675
Ngo, Billy    14    10475
Clark, David    5    10425
Fronda, Ryan    8    10400
Arama, Jac    6    10075
Reardon, Trevor    7    9725
Muse, Mohammed    8    9650
Van le, Tien    8    9625
Persaud, Nick    7    9450
Simons, John    8    9300
Le, Bo    5    8575
Liepina, Irina    6    8525
Xanthos, Stasia    6    8325
Rubenstein, Shelley    1    7925
Rutter, Stuart    13    6925
Hussain, Masaud    5    6875
Reyner, Allen    9    6800
Singleton, Pete    7    6700
Wild, Martin    14    6325
Howard, Gregory    8    5625
Dong, T    14    5375
Mackay, Richard    14    5325
Isackov, Michael    14    4775
Leckey, Paul    1    4325
Mccarthy, Leo    2    3700
Muse, Mohammed    5    3450
Sunny, Chattha    2    3275
Nelson, Ian    2    1425

Ryan Fronda doubled up in this manner -

After some preflop raising which I missed, Fronda moved in on a  5c 8c Qh flop, and Tien Van Le called him.

Ryan -   Kd Ks

Tien - Ac Qs

Turn -  Js

River -  Tc

Dave Shallow is OUT after moving in on a  Qd 9d 2s flop with  Qs 4d, but ran into O Ayegun's  Ad Qh.

Turn -  Ks

River -  Tc

Vicky Coren is kind of short and thus open to bullying. She raised to 3.5k preflop, only for Karl Mahrenholz on her right to reraise another 10k or so, covering her. After a minute or two of impressive nervous chiprobatics, she folded. She's now down to less than 6k.

Willie Tann is motoring on, he has around 46k now. He bet about 4.5k on the river of a 8s Ad Qs Qd 3s board getting Anthony Nicholls to call who mucked once they saw Willie's Ts 7s.

Channing has taken a very massive hit. Ian Herbert raises pre-flop to 3.5k; Channing reraises him all in - about 18k.

Channing -  Aspades Kc

Herbert -  Kh Ks

Board -  Jd 4c Js 5s 6d

Channing is very angry and wanders off. He's down to about 15k.

74 left, blinds 300/600/75.

Big Trevor Reardon has doubled with Kh Ks against Jon Farrer's Qd Qc. The board coming an unthreatening 5h 3d 2h Ts 3s.

Elsewhere, slight histrionics after Neil Channing made a small raise from the cut-off, Anthony Nicholls re-raised from the small blind. Ian Woodley in the big blind, turned to the dealer and said, "One time, one time!" He then looked at his cards and gestured, "the farm." Neil passed, and after a bit of dwelling in front of a growing crowd Nicholls passed Ahrt Jh, Woodley showed Ac Qh. After all that, I was left with a sense of disappointment that with such a crowd, bigger hands weren't shown. I haven't been this underwhelmed since I saw Clerks 2.

Short break and then we're on level 9, which will be 400/800/75 and the last level of the night.

Dave just limped utg, a tad suspicious with the blinds and antes as they are, a couple more limpers, and the blinds made up.

Flop:

Kc 6c 5c

All check, I'm now thinking Dave has Ac Kx or Ac Ax.

Turn:

Tc

Everyone checks again to Warren Woolridge who makes a stealy-esque 4k bet. Only Dave calls.

River:

7c

Now Dave bets 5k and Warren eventually mucks, Dave flashes what looked like Ad Ac to me. I think he's on between 35k and 40k now.

Channing raises to 2225; Anthony Nichols and Ian Herbert call.

Flop -  5s Js 9h

Nichols bets 6k, and Herbert moves in for about 30k. They both fold. As Ian Herbert's raking in his mountain of chips, Nichols says, "He had jacks. I folded a set of nines." Ian Woodley shouts in my general direction, "he passed a set of nines! Make sure you get thaat! He passed a set of nines." Ian Herbert is nodding most earnestly. PASSED SET OF NINES, I dutifully write down. "Not really," says Ian HERBERT. PASSED SET OF NINES Laughter all round. Hilarious.

To clarify, Ian Herbert did NOT pass a set of nines.

CK Le is OUT  he had Qd Qh against Craig Owen's Jh Jc but the Jd turned up on the flop and Le disappeared into the night littering the casino with a torrent of expletives.

The Camel is OUT, he's at the bar with Flushy. Tough break. (I mean being out, not being stuck at the bar with Flushy...Oh hang on...;))

David Clark has doubled through with Kh Qh against Ian Herbert's 8c 8s, hitting a King on the flop.

Jon Farrer has knocked out Stephen Pritchard with Ace King against Sixes. King on the flop.

Still in... Just... Saw her bet 2k on a board that read  Th Qd 9c Qh, but then fold when George McKeever (pictured) moved in for around 10k. She's juuuuust about hanging in with 7k.

Ryan Fronda doubles up again, I believe with KT against Tien Van Le's A8.

Chips are flying thick and fast now and there's only 15 minutes to go. So there isn't much point until we get the final official count. I can tell you that Rumit, Karl Mahrenholz and Mick McCloskey are the biggest stacks remaining.

Stuart Rutter has trebled up to 24k with Aces, and in the running for climber of the day, but he faces stiff competition from Ryan Fronda who had just 1,400 earlier but now sits with about 25k.

Steve Bovis just doubled up with Ac Qd against Tien Van le's Kd Kc on a 7c Ad 2c Jh 9c board. Van le exited shortly afterwards.

Vicky Coren has also just doubled up against Warren Woolridge. She pushed with Ahrt 8h and he called with 8c 8s.

Flop:

Th Jh Qc (Gazillions of outs)

Turn:

Ks (That's all she needed)

River:

4d

Finally, Rudders has doubled up back to back with Ace King twice in a row, first beating Martyn Cavanagh's 9-5 and then knocking out a short stack's 6-6. He also, whilst short, still had time to pass pocket tens in the big blind.

Dave Colclough is up a number of chips - Mateyboy betting all the way and Dave calling him down on a  Ks 9c Jh 6c Ks board.

Mateyboy -  Kc Ts

Dave -  Kd 6d

Play has now finished for the day and we are officially pooped. Play for Day 2 begins at 4pm and we'll be back then for the remaining 100 or so players, including a multitude of blondes. Best get here on time, I suspect there maybe carnage in the first two levels involving many of the shorter and medium stacks...




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