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And we're back, play will start once again at 4pm with the blinds starting at 600/1200 with a 100 ante. Expect a fair number of casualties in the opening couple of hours. A full list of remaining players, chip counts and the payout structure coming up soon.

Seating as follows...

(Table : Seat : Name : Chips)
1 1 Clark, David 16350
1 2 Nicholls, Anthony 22825
1 3 Slade, Nick 49250
1 4 Channing, Neil 23075
1 5 Denton, Charlie 21500
1 6 Dong, B 18975
1 7 Hartree, Katherine 20175
1 8 Amoils, Greg 13000
1 9 Dunwoodie, Thomas 42025
1 10 Coren, Vicky 17050
2 1 Bellamy, David 10275
2 2 Parhizkar, Hoss 30875
2 3 Fuller, Darren 11375
2 4 Reardon, Trevor 16350
2 5 Duffy, Brendan 28825
2 6 Bowker, Elliot 14525
2 7 Blodwell, Wayne 22025
2 8 Aghatabay, Ba 38775
2 9 Woodridge, Warren 21325
2 10 Dempsey, James 14525
3 1 Lee, R 14700
3 2 Arees, Tariq 22700
3 3 Aggarwal, Om 12675
3 4 Roberts, Ian 44350
3 5 Brockett, Frank 11525
3 6 Nelson, Ian 9700
3 7 Devonport, Justin 22750
3 8 Khan, Mojid 31725
3 9 Wild, Martin 20950
3 10 Kaye, Victor 19625
4 1 Sokrati, Chris 33025
4 2 Fox, Steve 15275
4 3 Armitage, Alan 16350
4 4 Lundon, Eddie 32525
4 5 Mckinlay, Matthew 25150
4 6 Fletcher, Mike 26050
4 7 Lovelady, Joey 13950
4 8 Bakewell, Gareth 40375
4 9 Cartwright, Anthony 35475
4 10 McClean, Alan 18825
5 1 Kensworthy, Guy 63775
5 2 Mahrenholz, Karl 70950
5 3 Owen, Craig 55300
5 4 McCloskey, Michael 88650
5 5 Leckey, Paul 24875
5 6 Wernick, Mickey 34550
5 7 Neville, Barry 50525
5 8 Herbert, Ian 58775
5 9 Vinnicombe, Alan 34500
5 10 Lacey, Michael 20875
6 1 Carter, Barry 27775
6 2 Tann, Willie 34275
6 3 Hoang, Son 20250
6 4 Davies, Alan 25500
6 5 Mccool, Mike 15550
6 6 Trinh, Cuong 24825
6 7 Nayyar, Pawan 31650
6 8 Hicks, Nick 28525
6 9 Laker, Steven 18200
6 10 Wilson, Paul john 20650
7 1 Heller, Adam 40800
7 2 Nguyen, Kenny 12275
7 3 King, John 11675
7 4 Somaiya, Rumit 73125
7 5 Macdonald, George 38150
7 6 Ashby, Richard 33325
7 7 Colclough, Dave 42875
7 8 Priestley, Gavin 33550
7 9 Fronda, Ryan 26800
7 10 Pullen, Grant 28875
8 1 Chatterton, Gary 40400
8 2 Clark, Ken 19775
8 3 Jones, Mark 40200
8 4 Macnair, John 49100
8 5 Eccles, Stephen 28825
8 6 Dunsford, Jim 16500
8 7 Flint, Chris 17500
8 8 Farrer, Jon 19325
8 9 Romanello, Anthony 7425
8 10 Rutter, Stuart 28050
9 1 Rigg, Paul 33275
9 2 Dionysiou, Jack 32075
9 3 Woodley, Ian 44400
9 4 Patel, Ish 42525
9 5 Nawab, Mazhar 42250
9 6 Downing, Niel 43300
9 7 Anderson, T 12750
9 8 Bruce, Chris 28625
9 9 Demetriou, Maria 19650
9 10 Amour, A 25200
10 1 Gross, David 23175
10 2 Higton, Steven 49925
10 3 Bovis, Steve 37025
10 4 Cavanagh, Martyn 43450
10 5 Rudling-smith, Richard 16300
10 6 Sambrook, Tom 22700
10 7 Manning, Mike 12175
10 8 Tyler, Matt 34150
10 9 Ayegun, Olabode 7950

Payout as follows...

285 entries.

Total prizepool it says £2,850,000 but I suspect that's a misprint and it's actually £285,000.

1st £88,320 + £10,000 added + £3,000 ticket to London Grand Final + Blue Square watch
2nd £47.020
3rd £31,350
4th £22,800
5th £17,100
6th £14,250

Pays down to 27 places with 22-27 each receiving £1,710. Further information on prizes for places 7-21 as soon as anyone tells us.

I was expecting to come back and tell you about the swathes of bloodletting that has happened so far, but we've lost just three players. Three.

One of them was Anthony Romanello, his Aspades 8s being flushed out by Chris Flint's Kd Jd on a Qd 9c 7s 4d 9d board.

Rudders has doubled up with A-J against Martyn Cavanagh's A-7, Seven on the flop but a Jack on the river.

Matt Tyler has dropped 10k, the small blind pushed with J-3 and he called with A-3. Pesky Jack came on the board.

Willie Tann just lost a chunk with Jacks against a set of 4's.

Dana is on picturewatch.

5 1 Kensworthy, Guy 63775
5 2 Mahrenholz, Karl 70950
5 3 Owen, Craig 55300
5 4 McCloskey, Michael 88650
5 5 Leckey, Paul 24875
5 6 Wernick, Mickey 34550
5 7 Neville, Barry 50525
5 8 Herbert, Ian 58775
5 9 Vinnicombe, Alan 34500
5 10 Lacey, Michael 20875

Jules Harwith has anointed this 'The Table of Death' with most of the big stacks all here.

Willie Tann has knocked out Mick McCool with K-Q against K-J

Barry Neville is chip leader with 115k he's just knocked out Mike Lacey with Nines against Ace Queen, much to Flushy's delight, winning the latter £100.

Speaking of Flushy, he was up to 25k purely from stealage, but now has just raised UTG, Warren Woolridge called from the big blind, the flop came Qc 6s Jd, Warren pushed with Qs 8s (he later said he making a stop and go, pushing any flop) Flushy called with Ks Kd and took him out.

Stuart Rutter doubled up with Aces against PI Slade's Kings, before giving it all back when Slade hit trip Queens.

Double-up news...

Martin Wild moves in for 9.3k preflop; Victor Kaye calls.

Wild -  Th Ts

Kaye -  Js Jd

Board -  9d 2h 5d 5s       wait for it         Tc

Pretty wild, man. Please someone turn my funny gland on...


Chris Sokrati also doubles up - 66 v AJ preflop, no improvement.

DC just got George 'Wellchief' to fold Kings preflop. Dave limped UTG+1, there was a late position raise and Wellchief re-raised and Dave pushed.

Dave said he had Queens...  ;hide;

Our friend Hoss tramples all over Wayne Blodwell - he bets 10k on a  2h 8s Td flop and Blodwell folds, showing his  8d in the process. His stack is Wayne-ing...

Mickey Wernick is OUT - Stu Rutter raises Wernick's BB to the tune of 7k. Wernick moves in - actually there was some kind of brief string-bet controversy - but either way he's all in and they're both on their feet before the flop.

Mickey -  Ad 9h

Stu -  Kh Kd

Board -  5s 5d 7c Qs Jd

Poof! And he's gone.

I understand that Vicky Coren is gone too, her pocket nines not good enough.

More double-up news -

Brendan Duffy has doubled up, although I didn't see the hand.

And a vomitous rivery outdraw for Steve Fox against Matthew Mckinlay - on an  Ad 8d Kh flop, Steve moves in and is insta-called by Mckinlay.

Fox -  7h 7s

Mckinlay -  Ahrt Ks

Turn -  3c

River -  7c

Amazingly, Mckinlay is all handshakes and laughing afterwards. If he didn't he'd cry, I guess.

Blinds 800/1600/100

Hiding his shame, sitting between Steve Bovis and Rudders is the new chip leader. Yep El Blondie has about 125k. I spoke to Ian Woodley and Matt Tyler who Dave has knocked out, Dave had Kd Jd on a 9-high two diamond board and hit his King against Woodley's Queens, and then Dave raised preflop with erm....J-6, Matt pushed with Kings, Dave called (pot odds I'm guessing) and the flop was J-6-J! Now you see why he's slightly embarrassed...

Ok, how about him doubling up with Aces against table chip leader's Ace King next hand. He's on 105k now, though Nick Slade wasn't too impressed with his celebrating.

George 'WellChief' McDonald is very short, he knocked out a short-stack with Jacks against Fives but then had Kings against Ryan Fronda's Ace King suited, Ace on the turn.

15 minute break and then it's 1k/2k/200

Average stack is 41,900; players are on a break.

Cuong Trinh is ever-so-slightly below average, on 40,700.

I think Joey Lovelady may be out - he was short last time he was spotted, and I couldn't find him on a brief circuit of the floor. Confirmation from Floppy via the bar on its way...

Alan 'BigALHS' Armitage is on 30k and looking to push at some point. Flushy is yo-yo-ing constantly around between 11k and 40

George 'Wellchief' McDonald is OUT, pushed his short stack in with J-9 sooted but ran into Queens.

Chris Bruce has knocked out Chilli, Queens against Kings. Queen on the flop.

DC has knocked out Steve Bovis with Jacks against Sevens, and Rudders with Ace Queen against Threes. He's close to 200k now.

Anthony Cartwright bets 5k on a spadealicious  2s 9s Aspades 5s board. Ryan Fronda raises to 20k, covering Cartwright.. Cartwright dwells for the looooongest time, initially sitting back in his seat in a we're-both-men-let's-not-play-games-with-each-other sort of way, then after a while leaning in towards Fronda a give-something-away-or-I'll-make-life-awful-for-you kind of attitude. Eventually he folds, showing  Js. Fronda shows only his  2c, naughty boy...

Mick McCloskey, previously on about 100k, has bluffed off a few chips.

Flop -  8d 5c 6d - Mick bets 3k; the gentleman on the irght in the photo, who I think may be David Gross, raises another 7k. McCloskey calls.

Turn -  3c, and they both check.

River - now concentrate, here comes the bluffing bit -  Ac and Mick bets 20k; Daveyboy calls.

Mick -  Js 7c

Daveyboy -  Ahrt 6h

Flushy just lost a chunk calling Willie Tann's A-8 all-in with A-Q. Hit his Queen but Willie four-flushed his Ace.
Rumit -- 57k
Barry Carter -- 38k

DC down to 175k, Barry Neville lost a bit too to a short stack racing A-Q against Jacks.


Another table has been broken moving Neil Channing and Nick Hicks to the left of Chris Bruce.

Blinds are up to 1500/3000/200.

54 left, average stack just over 50k.

Barry Carter's on about 55k.

Cuong Trinh's on about 32k. I saw him cheekily nick Katherine Hartree's big blind with a 3k raise...

Alan Vinnicombe tries to raise to 6k prefop but he just throws in a 1k chip and a 5k so it's taken as a call.

Flop comes  6h Qd Kc and big blind Pawan Nayyar bets 6k. Vinnicombe has to fold. "You can throw your ace away now," says Nayyar, showing  Kd. Ouch.

Richard Ashby has doubled up with Ahrt Ad against Ryan Fronda's Ac Qs. Jd Jh 6d 7c 5s board

Chris Flint has doubled through PI Nick Slade with 9h 9d vs Aspades Tc, all club flop, one of them being the 9c. But no change gave Chris the pot.

Mick Fletcher doubled up through Maz Nahwab with Ac 7c vs Ad Td hitting on a 2h Ks 7s Jd 5s board. Fletcher then knocked out Nahwab with Aces against King Jack on a King high board.

Neil Channing took out a short stack with Aspades Qs against 6h 6d, board: 7s 3s Kd 2s with 6c river to rub it in. Thanks to Nick Wright (dino1980) for that one amongst others.

Katherine Hartree has doubled up with Queens against Anthony Nichols' Jacks. Nichols went out shortly after.

55 players left.

The Psychic Updater rides again! Nick Slade is most likely on around 50k now after doubling up off of Stuart Rutter. Rutter raises preflop to 7.5k and Slade moves in for another 19k on top. Rutter thinks about it before decisively slamming the 19k over the line and announcing "I'm behind". He was in fact behind, holding  Aspades 2s against Nick's  7d 7h.

Board -  Js 9h Qh 8h 8c

Day 1 chip leader Mick McCloskey is OUT, losing his entire massive stack in two fairly unfortunate hands. I found him with a cigarette by the slots and he told me his sad story.

The first Hand Of Disaster went like this. The button raised to 10k - he had about 45k total. Mick found himself holding A9, and raised the button all-in - call. The button was holding A5, but rivered a 7-high straight. Oh, the pain. The horrible horrible pain.

Some hands later, Dave Colclough raised Mick's big blind. Apparently he'd been doing that a lot with any kind of filth, and so, finding AJ, Mick moved in. Which in retrospect was a very bad move, as Dave was that time holding AK. No sick outdraw, and Mick was gone.

Barry Neville's on about 140k.

Mick Fletcher just took out a player with Ace Jack against King Ten, hitting two pair. He has 149k, if he gets much more he'll be unplayable.

Rumit just chopped a pot with Aspades Ks against Ad Kh (2nd picture), although Rumit had a flush draw on the turn, I only mention this so I can use the (http://www.tinymeat.com/img/blog/karatechop.jpg) picture

Finally, Barry Neville has knocked out Stuart Rutter with Kings against Aces. King on the flop. Neville over 200k.

To make matters worse, Stuart didn't have a buffet ticket and got kicked out of the line.

*****75 Minute Dinner Break*****

Nick Hicks went out just before the break with 6-5 sooted to Chris Bruce's Kings.

The level 11 chip counts are here!

Neville, Barry     8     251000
Colclough, Dave    10    209400
Fletcher, Mike    10    154400
Lundon, Eddie    1    135000
Bruce, Chris    9    116200
Ashby, Richard    7    100900
Armitage, Alan    7    94500
Sambrook, Tom    10    85700
Dionysiou, Jack    9    85500
Mahrenholz, Karl    10    85300
Vinnicombe, Alan    1    84500
Hartree, Katherine    1    81400
Kaye, Victor    1    77400
Fronda, Ryan    7    75200
Duffy, Brendan    1    73700
Priestley, Gavin    7    71200
Jones, Mark    8    68200
Heller, Adam    7    66900
Rigg, Paul    9    66500
Laker, Steven    9    61300
Tann, Willie    10    59800
Somaiya, Rumit    7    58100
Flint, Chris    8    57900
Macnair, John    8    56700
Herbert, Ian    9    54900
Channing, Neil    1    53100
Trinh, Cuong    1    51600
Slade, Nick    8    51600
Blodwell, Wayne    9    44000
Leckey, Paul    7    43100
Owen, Craig    8    42200
Carter, Barry    10    42100
Khan, Mojid    10    40000
Chatterton, Gary    8    37100
Dempsey, James    10    36300
Anderson, T    9    31900
Sokrati, Chris    8    24300
Dunwoodie, Thomas    7    22900
Downing, Niel    9    16900

Blinds - 2000/4000

Antes - 300

Payout...

1) £88,300
2) £47,000
3) £31,400
4) £22,800
5) £17,100
6) £14,200
7) £11,400
8) £8,600
9) £5,700
10) £4,300
11) £2,800
12-15) £2,300
16-21) £2,000
22-27) £1,700

It's got worse, he's singing Take That. A hand from his table -

John McNair bets 20k on a  Ks Ac Tc flop. Says Barry: "I might go all in."
Says John: "I don't mind."
Says Barry: "You'd call me if I did?"
Says John: "I can't tell you that."

Barry sits back in his seat, his head thrown back and his eyes closed, completely immersed in the soothing boy band sounds in his earphones. Eventually he folds. John shows  Ahrt Th. Barry says he had A9, so lucky escape. It Only Takes A Minute to make that bad call, and John might have been Back For Good if Barry had doubled him up there.

Wayne Blodwell doubles up with Ac Ks against T Anderson's Aspades 6c

Board:

2h 9c 8h 8c Ad

T Anderson went out shortly afterwards with J-T sooted against Greek Jack's Fives.


Mick Fletcher has added another big chunk to his stack, he 3-bet a Qs 2h 5h 6h board but still found Mojid Khan pushing with 6d 2c. Mick called with Qd Td and the 5c river gave him the better two pair.

Chris 'Soxy' Sokrati is OUT. Nick Slade pushed from late position, Chris called for all his chips with Ad Jh and found himself ahead of Nick's Ks Ts.

Board: (Thanks to Dena, who is always aware when i'm writing the suits down and holds onto the cards for me, an updater's dream :))

4d Kd 9d Kc 9s

Cuong's relatively short but fighting. Saw him nick the blinds with a 7k raise utg. Then next hand Katherine Hartree raised Cuong's big blind by 9k utg, only for Cuong to move in with his 55k total. Eventually Katherine folds. He's chewing on a toothpick and looking cool.  8)

Flushy has doubled up with Ace King against DC's King Queen. On 90k now. He also asked if S007R can text or phone him.

I think Neil Downing tripled up with 99 on a ten-high board, but he still looked pretty short to me.

Flushy lost a 100k pot with Ace Jack to Willie Tann's Sevens. He then raised in early position, was re-raised virtually all-in by Eddie London and pushed.

Flushy:

Kc Ks

Eddie:

Jh Js

Board:

5d 9c Ahrt Qs.....Jc

Neil Channing has just this minute gone OUT. It folds around to him on the button and he moves in - Rumit calls him from the small blind.

Channing -  6c 9c

Rumit -  Jh Jd

Board -  4h 9d 2d 3c 7s

Karl Mahrenholz is out, he raised from the small blind but didn't have enough to fold when the big blind pushed.

Karl:

Qc Td

Big Blind:

Ad Js

5h 7h 8c 3h Ks being the board to send him home.

31 left.

Blinds are now 3k/6k with a 400 ante.

Dave Colclough has just knocked Eddie Lundon - AA against TT. He's on over 400k now.

We are also on the BUBBLE so we're not allowed in until they're in the money.

;mc;

Blinds are now 3k/6k with a 400 ante.

Adam Heller is OUT.

AK against Gavin Priestley's KK.

DC has 390k, roughly 1/7 of the chips in play.

Mick Fletcher has 125k having doubled up Barry Carter with A-9 against A-A. "He played it well and got me," said Mick generously. Barry on 115k.

An extremely short Neil Downing (in stack size not height) is OUT, his 4-5 losing to Greek Jack's A-Q.

Rumit whose stack had dwindled has doubled up with Kh 8h against Willie Tann's Jc Js, spiking the King. The WSOP bracelet winner is very short now.

Paul Rigg raises to 18k form the cutoff; Gary Chatterton (resplendent in terrifying orange Hawaiian shirt today) moves in from the small blind. Cuong (who by the way is on about 80k) folds the big blind. There is some lengthy consideration from Rigg before he calls.

Rigg -  Kc Jd

Chatterton -  Ac Qc

Board -  Qh 6c 3c 7h 4h

Chatterton does a little fists-in-the-air dance. Rigg veeeery short now, on about 30k.

Flop -  8s 4s 2c

Paul Leckey bets 25k, and Richard Ashby moves in. Leckey folds fairly quickly. Ashby checks his cards again before throwing them back to the dealer. One last loving look at his beautiful beautiful cards, or quickly gloating over the rubbish he made a move with?

They're on a short break now - I believe there are 23 left in. Brendan Duffy just went out in 24th. Official chip counts coming soon.

Dave has 536k, which is between 1/5 and 1/6 of all the chips in play. He took 40k off Greek Jack (who has 205k) pushing him off Jacks with Tens, "I should've moved-in against him preflop," said Jack.

Btw, having knocked out both Chilli and Nick Hicks, we've renamed Chris Bruce, "The Scourge of Nottinghamshire". :D

Paul Rigg is out with Ahrt Kc against Cuong Trinh's Qh Qc

Board:

Qd Aspades 5s Jh 9s


Steve Laker doubled up with 9d 8d vs Greek Jack's Kd Qc, the board being 9-6-6-A-9

Willie Tann is OUT with Kings against Gavin Priestley's Aces.

Mick Fletcher has gone, A-4 no good against Rumit's A-Q.

Victor Kay knocks out Mark Jones with A-A vs Q-J.

Victor Kaye raises to 20k (ahh ha ha, the punning potential that I will not rise to) from the cutoff. Cuong reraises another 25k from the small blind. Kaye folds. Cuong's on 158k now. He has his own fan club at the rail, too.

Dave Colclough is completely at one with the poker Tao, effortlessly nicking everyone's blinds from every position, sometimes showing an ace, sometimes showing nothing at all, always maintaining his oneness with and winningness against all he comes into contact with. It's like poetry, man.

Alan Vinnicombe is OUT, he made a push for 50k from the small blind with T-8, slight problem was that El Blondie had picked up Aces in the big blind knocking the South Westerner to the rail.

Richard Ashby -- 150k
Alan Armitage -- 165k
Rumit -- 140k
Barry Neville -- 400k+

Two tables remain.

Not a great deal to report right now, there's an awful lot of blind-nicking and cautious folding going on. Nevertheless, something must happen soon - blinds are up to 5000/10,000/800 and there are a few very short stacks, most notably Barry Carter, who folds every time Dave Colclough raises his big blind and nicks the blinds every time he's on the button. Have some photos though...

Barry Carter is OUT -  Ac 8d v Greek Jack's  Aspades Kc preflop.

Flop -  Jc 6d 3d 9d Tc

He'd been very short for a while - "I only need to double up 16 times and I'm back in the game," he said while they were reseating.

Unfortunate, but he's done very well, given how demoralised he was in the first 2 levels.  :)up

Barry Carter is 'Dave Shoelace' on blonde and a fellow updater, so well done to him. :)

Ryan Fronda pushed his short stack in with Q-9 and found Cuoung Trinh giving him a spin with 8-9, nothing hit for either and the Luton Xmas Cracker winner survives.

Rumit has doubled up Steve Laker with Aspades 6h against Ac Qd. Queen came on the flop, though Rumit had the nut-flush draw on the turn but the river was a blank.

Rumit is out in 17th winning £2,000

Having folded K-Q on the button after Steve Laker pushed from the small blind with A-Q. Rumit was short and pushed with Aspades 7s, Laker pushed with Ad Kc behind him.

Board:

7c 6s 6d Ks 4h.

Gary Chatterton is OUT in 16th place winning £2000 in probably punnable Gary v Barry scenario.

Barry Neville raised to 37k, Gary went all in; call.

Gary -  Qs Qh

Barry -  Ahrt Ad

Board -  2s 9c 5s Jc 3h

Farewell, that Hawaiian shirt. Plenty of opportunities left to lose it in the casino.  ;hide;

Short break now then 6k/12k/1k will be the blinds and antes.

Barry Neville is chip leader with about 700k. Between him and Dave, they have almost 50% of the chips in play.

Chris Bruce just doubled up with 6h 5h against Dave's Ace King. Ace and two hearts on the flop and the flush on the river.

Barry just had a big all-in too, with Ad Kd against Cuong Trinh's Aspades Ks. But no flushes were even hinted at. ;kc;

Barry Neville is indeed chip leader, with exactly 688,500.
Cuong Trinh - 99,000
Richard Ashby - 181,000
Paul Leckey - 90,000
Katherine Hartree - 73,000
Ryan Fronda - 55,000
Victor Kaye - 86,000
Tom Sambrook - 62,000
Greek Jack - 253,500
Steven Laker - 300,000
Nick Slade - 116,000
Gavin Priestley - 95,500
Chris Bruce - 98,000
Big Alan Armitage - 133,500
Dave Colclough - 549,500

With the huge blinds and the gaping chasmic chip imbalances, it's not impossible that they'll play down to final table tonight.

Cuong Trinh is OUT, he had Ace King against Richard Ashby's Kings and failed to improve.

Dave C raises to around 35k preflop, Gavin Priestley reraises for another 40 or 50k.

Dave -  Ad 5s

Gavin -   Aspades Kd

Board -  5c 5h 6s Qc 7d

Gavin Priestley is OUT in 14th place, and Dave goes from strength to proverbial strength. "I am on fire," he deadpanned.

Katherine Hartree is OUT, very short she pushed and Richard Ashby was committed to call in the big blind.

Katherine:

Qd 9d

Richard:

Qs Ts

"Make it interesting!" said Katherine.

Flop:

Td Aspades 2s

Well err... not exactly what she wanted.

Turn:

Ac

Queen for a split.

River:

6c

Nick Slade has doubled up with Th Td against the Ad Ks of Steven Laker. Board: Jc 3h Js 8c 4d.

Ryan Fronda has doubled up with A-4 against Richard Ashby's Nines. Ace on the turn.

Saw Richard Ashby pass pocket queens face up to a massive reraise form Barry Neville. Barry showed pocket tens. Kind of hand gives you indigestion just thinking about it.

Alan Armitage doubled against DC, sb vs bb

Alan:

8h 8d

Dave:

Ad Jc

Flop:

9h Jh 3d

Turn:

Th

Not Dave's favourite card.

River:

5h


However shortly afterwards, Dave raised again and Steven Laker pushed. Dave called.

Steven:

Aspades Ks

Dave:

Ac Ahrt

Board:

Jh 5s 4c 4h 3s

Quote from Dave, "I need to get it in miles ahead or miles behind, I can't win coinflips."

Dave, fellow DTD player Richard Ashby and Barry Neville are all uberstacked compared to the remaining 7 players. Why 7? Barry just called the push of very short stacked Paul Leckey with T-3 against Fours.

Board: Q-J-9-8-x leaving us with 10 remaining.

ASTOUNDING more-than-double-up for Ryan Fronda. He is on the big blind, leaving him with only 18k. Richard Ashby calls, as does Barry Neville. No raise.

Flop -  4d 7s 7d

Barry checks, Ryan checks, Richard bets 25k, Barry folds. Ryan calls, and turns over  7h  7c.

Hilarity all round, except for Richard Ashby.

And Alan "bigal" Armitage is also out, another victim of the Monstrous Dave Colclough. Details upcoming from Floppy.

Which means we have our TV table, and we are on the verge of hometime...

Alan Armitage pushed with Qd 5d on a Jd 6d 9h board. Dave called with Qs Jc

Turn:

Ahrt

River:

7h

Final Table Chip Counts:

Tom Sambrook -- 161,000
Richard Ashby -- 358,000
Barry Neville -- 795,500
Ryan Fronda -- 76,000
Victor Kaye -- 80,000
Chris Bruce -- 139,500
Nick Slade -- 216,000
Greek Jack -- 178,500
Dave Colclough -- 874,000

Yay, it's fork time!

Ahh ha ha, I stick fork in update before Floppy. See you tomorrow...

 ;stickaforkinme;

So that is everything. Final will start tomorrow at 5pm.

A quick conversation with a well-chuffed Chris 'Scourge of Nottinghamshire' Bruce, he was just happy to make the top 18 considering his chip count at the time but now finds himself on the final table and guaranteed at least £5,700.

That's your lot. Head over to the WPT updates if you can't get enough... ;)

See you tomorrow.  ;stickaforkinme;