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:hello: all and welcome to Luton. With Jen playing the girly girl event this week and Snoopy busy, we welcome a brand new updater to the fold, this picture should give a clue as to who it is...
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Please welcome...

Junglecat!!!!

Roland De Wolfe is kicking off for not being allowed to buy-in at the last minute meanwhile Jeff Buffenbarger made it to his seat as his cards were dealt. Quickest. Man Ever.

Incidentally, there's a little group of Scandies here led by Torstein Iversen and Jan Sjavik, which should add to the mix. I'm off to get some more pictures.

Hi and welcome from Luton...

 

Looking forward to today's action, doing the updates means having to fill rather large shoes (Not only do the updaters all do a cracking job  - Jen has suprisingly large feet).

Already bumped into an upbeat, if rather hungover Flushy and Rick "Actionman" Trigg lurking in the lobby of the Day's Inn, replete with humourous stories from last night, some of which I'll share during any quiet periods.

Rolf Slotboom made an appearance, looking tanned and fresh, in contrast to the somewhat pasty, hungover Flushy and Rick. I can only assume he had a quieter night than those two....

Naturally Kev was soon along, looking even thinner than the last time I saw him. He's wasting away the poor lad! RookieITB is here, and although I just spoke to him briefly, he's got a glint in his eye that either means business, or the sun was getting in his face and he was squinting. Ever the optimist, I'm going for the former. Good luck Rookie.

Anyway, we've been ushered by a jolly Jon Raab into the pressroom, via a series of doors, codes, passes and various security measures. I was hearing the mission impossible theme tune in my head, and as we approached the press room door, I was sure we were going to have to drop down through a hole in the floor and dangle down from the ceiling, hanging from a single steel thread, dodging infra-red beams to enter a password into a security console, but it turned out we just had to turn the handle. Oh well.......

I don't want to use my position as updater here as a forum to abuse Flushy but inevitably he brings these situations on himself sometimes. He has made the decision to appear at today's event dressed in a cream suit, matching jacket and trousers. Opinions are torn as to whether he looks more like the man from Del Monte, or a Ukranian arms dealer. Photos of him and the rest to follow and you can make up your own minds....

We're soon to join the throng and the action will be beginning shortly so good luck all the players!

Some very interesting tables dotted about, blondites Rookie and Alex Martin have been paired together, there's a table with Ram (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=359) Vaswani (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=359), Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=92) Clarke (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=92), Steve Vadar and Raj Modah, the Ladbrokes Million winner which should be entertaining...

...As I wondered through the tables , more concerned with seeing who might be paired up than expecting masses of action on level 1, Flushy's dulcid tones were heard as he told me to report Rick was about to fold his big blind to his 200 raise from early position. It had been flat called by mateyboy, (I'll be using that a lot till i get round people's names).

As Flushy mocked Rick, daring him to squeeze, Rick did indeed reraise. I missed the exact amount but it looked like it was to about 700-900 or so.

Flushy laughed and passed as did the cold caller.

More wandering round the tables, checking the match ups,The Camel and Joe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=205) Grech (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=205) sharing the felt and a table with Julian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) Thew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225), Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=328) King (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=328) and Willie (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=450) Tann (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=450) looked interesting.

More noise from Flushy's table.

What's the mentalist up to now? But he is not involved this time. Rick has raised to 125 on the button called by sb and BB.

The flop of Two Diamonds was checked to Rick who bets 225, which the SB duly calls and the BB duly raises to 925. Rick is having none of this and reraises to 2925.

The BB thinks for a short while and announces ALLIN, pushing his chips over the line.

You can hear Rick's breath rushing out of him and he groans audibly. He's got a hand but is it good enough?

After huffing and puffing for a minute or so, Rick decides to fold, claiming but not showing a set of deuces (  I forget his online name again.....)

....a big pot lost and a big hit to actionman's stack there, but one from which he can recover.

As I walked away from the table to write this hand up, Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) Neville (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) wandered past and after being introduced exclaimed loudly in his burly yorkshire brogue "Ohhh so yer the big poof that shares flooshy's bed" and throws me a wink. I guess so ! Well it's hard to disagree with a 20 stone yorkshireman. Not till I've had at least 5 pints anyway........

Chris Bruce just related an odd story to me. Mateyboy limps UTG for 50, Ram made it 250, and UTG made it 500, Ram called.

Flop:

Ks Js 2h

MB bets 400, Ram called.

Turn:

6c

Check check.

River:

5s

MB bets 1200, Ram calls. Mateyboy shows Tens and says, "You must be winning." Ram mucks. ???

Good news everyone. The tagging system has now been implemented, basically anytime anyone's name is typed out, it's automatically linked to the blondepedia where you can see bios and photos of said person.

Pippa Flanders was involved in a pot as I moved to her table.

I missed the preflop action but there had been a button riase from mateyboy.

Pippa led on a Ks 7d 5h flop for 600 or so.

With just 2600 back mateyboy huffed and puffed before moving in for his last 2000 chips. Pippa eventually calls with AQ and mateyboy's As7s is ahead.

The Jh and 2d change nothing and her stack takes a dent...

James dempsey is seen betting 1k on a KQ549 board after betting 600 on the turn and being called. His opponent Ronnie Debeaulox, who knows Flushy well from Brighton, sweats making the call on the river.

"What are you thinking about Ronnie?" asks Flushy.

"It's a high flop, there's no way you have any of that?"

"What about these 2 they're not high?" says Flushy pointing at the 5 and the 4.

Ronnie calls and Flushy shows 45 for 2 pair which is good. Comedy...... He told me the decks been smacking him but he lost a big coup with A9 v A5 on a A5295 deal so is only on 12k.

Barry Neville is up to 18k after playing aces cutely, and getting away from from AQ on a Q high flop when a 3rd diamond hit....canny lad.

******Dinner Break for 1 hour******

We believe Torstein Iversen is the early chip leader with 26k having eliminated a short-stacked Martyn Cavanagh with Aces against Tens, Mick McCloskey is close behind with 23k having scooped pots with A-Q vs A-J and A-9 vs 7-5 on a 9-6-3 board, eliminated an opponent in the process. Flushy has about 15k, whilst Dan Carter is on around 16.5k having raised preflop to 300, bet 300 on the Ad Jh 2h board, raised to 1200 by his opponent before he made it 3,200 to take it down.

Karl Mahrenholz isn't having as much fun, he had A-Q vs 4-4 on a Q-4-Q flop and then flopped a Ten high flush against a higher flush. Could be one of those day where you just want to kick the cat... Oh, sorry Rod.

Finally Barry Neville is singing loudly after raising a bet of 600 on a Qs 8d 7d Th to 4,500 before showing a cheeky Ad 8h bluff.

As the dinner break has arrived, casualties are few and far between - 3 so far by all accounts.

The players are tucking into the buffet as we speak. To fill the time before the poker re-commences, one of the stories from last night....

....After returning from the casino late on Rick, James and a few others bowled into the hotel bar for a drink or two. They had an idea that the barman wasn't the sharpest idea in the drawer after getting  a few drink orders wrong. Rick said, "I'll get some orange juice - at least he can't mess that up" .....

...."Can i take you order sir?"
...."Yeah fresh orange please...."

The barman disappeared before returning with a single fresh orange on a plate!

One of the welsh contigent in the hotel piped in with "Lucky you didn't order a bacon sandwich - he'd have come in with a pig on a piece of string!"

We await the restart of the poker with baited breath...

Chip counts at the end of level 1 thanks to Blue Square:

Torstein (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=775) Iversen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=775) 26,750
Mick McCloskey 23,600
Dan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=86) Carter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=86) 22,050
Warren Wooldrige 21,700
Alan Gray 20,300
Alan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=897) Vinnicombe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=897) 19,975
Michael Cook, 19,650
Lee Baverstock 18,700
David Martin 17,025
Fabio Esposito 16,850
Stephen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=408) Read (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=408) 16,850
Gary Chapman 16,650
Adam Stoneham 16,350
James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=186) Dempsey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=186) 16,125
Harpit Gurnham 16,125
Andrew Georgiou 16,100
Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=95) Colclough (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=95) 16,025
Ram (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=359) Vaswani (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=359) 15,500
Lee (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1087) Redmond (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1087) 15,250
Glenn Martin 15,075
J J Hazan 15,000
Garry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=146) Bush (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=146) 14,875
John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=211) Falconer (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=211) 14,775
Ryan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=390) Fronda (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=390) 14,725
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=337) Vicary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=337) 14,475
James Bryne 14,475
David Gross 14,100
Carlo (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=60) Citrone (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=60) 13,950
M Arnold 13,900
Gavin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=792) Priestly (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=792) 13,800
John Murphy 13,750
Stewart Clutterbuck 13,725
Graeme Newman 13,725
Simon Taylor 13,550
Tom Hurley 13,075
Piers Whyman 12,925
N Ioannou 12,875
Pete (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=348) Linton (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=348) 12,875
Jan Sjarvik 12,775
Michael Ellis 12,425
Leon Campbell 12,150
Glenn (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=156) Ashworth (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=156) 11,900
Michael (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=665) Muldoon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=665) 11,875
Tim Hiskett 11,825
Steve (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=417) Vladar (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=417) 11,825
Vik (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=446) Kanwar (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=446), 11,800
Jeff (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=194) Burke (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=194) 11,750
Simon Randall 11,625
Xuyen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=451) Vladar (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=451) 11,525
Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=367) Ashby (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=367) 11,450
Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) Neville (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) 11,350
Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=65) Bruce (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=65) 11,275
Praz (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=353) Bansi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=353) 11,275
Roberto (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=376) Romanello (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=376) 11,275
Giuseppe Fontana 11,250
Dave Jones 11,250
Mak Csaba 11,200
? 11,125
Jeremy Feldman 11,050
Raj Modha 10,975
Anthony Conway 10,975
Terry Page 10,950
Alfie Baldwin 10,950
Jonathon Butters 10,900
Jeff (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=196) Rogers (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=196) 10,875
Mike Moore 10,875
Raymond McKenna 10,775
Andy Rivers 10,575
Julian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) Thew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) 10,525
John Doyle 10,450
Andrew Salmon 10,350
Iwan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=180) Jones (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=180) 10,275
Jim Dunsford 10,200
Pippa (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=352) Flanders (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=352) 10,150
James Fraser 10,100
Manuel Palanca 10,025
Robert Stain 9,850
Alex Martin 9,800
Nick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=308) Risdale (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=308) 9,800
Grant Mercado 9,700
Joe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=205) Grech (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=205) 9,675
Jeff (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=593) Buffenbarger (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=593) 9,650
Allister Green 9,525
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=328) King (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=328) 9,500
Nick Gray 9,175
Thomas Myland 9,175
James McBride 8,900
Ariel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=37) Adda (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=37) 8,900
Ben (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=46) Turnstill (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=46) 8,875
Justin Kyriakides 8,875
David Scurr 8,850
Ian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=176) Woodley (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=176) 8,775
Leon Boros 8,650
Tim (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=433) Flanders (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=433) 8,375
Ian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=175) Nelson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=175) 8,350
Anthony Housden 8,350
Reyaaz (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=365) Mulla (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=365) 8,225
Neil Chudasama 8,225
Kalpesh Patel 8,225
Tony Adderley 7,950
John Phillips 7,900
Anthony Brady 7875
Raymond (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=360) Nicholas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=360) 7,800
Daniel Samson 7,750
Javed Ghazi 7,750
Jan Magnus Brevik 7,700
Adrian Lambe 7,575
Premji Patel 7,525
Mark McCluskey 7,200
Luke (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=252) Patten (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=252) 7,200
Mike (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=288) Magee (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=288) 6,900
Phil Shaw 6,850
Mark Goodwin 6,625
David (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=120) Lloyd (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=120) 6,400
Yilfer (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=783) Shevket (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=783) 6,350
David Bright 6,250
Willie (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=450) Tann (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=450) 6,175
Lucy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=251) Rokach (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=251) 6,150
David Bozzard 6,050
Andrew Georgiou 6,000
Michael Arnold 5,875
Neil (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=302) Channing (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=302) 5,875
Jaan Fiddian 5,625
Dave Bennet 5,375
Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=96) Courtney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=96) 5,175
Keith (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=229) Hawkins (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=229) 5,150
Gabriel Forde 5,100
Trevor Pearson 4,850
Ewan Hardie 4,625
Theodoros Aidonopoulos 4,550
James Moult 4,550
Cristiano (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=512) Blanco (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=512) 4,350
Karl (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=227) Mahrenholz (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=227) 4,175
Rick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=375) Trigg (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=375) 4,100
Guy Johnson 3,825
Sorin Baciu 3,750
?? 3,225
Paul Bracken 3,150
Dave Clark 3,025
Andros Spyrou 2,875
Tony Fellone 2,700
Tony Ringe 1,760

Just had a word with rookie and with alex martin who are sharing a table.

How's it going Alex?

"Pretty *poorly* (word may have been replaced for the purposes of good taste). All the other boys are getting all the cards"

As he had a neatly interwoven stack of chips i asked him for a chip count.

"Oh about 13k i reckon" he said, with a sly glance at the table and whistling innocently. A laugh or two was heard from several members of the table before he reconsidered.

"well maybe around 9k then, guess i miscounted" was the mischeivous reply.

Rookie wasn't looking like a picture of confidence.

"How's it going Rooks?"

"Ha not so great!" he said jovially. We struck a deal that the next time I returned he would have 25k though so things should improve when i next visit him.

So much to say, first Pete (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=348) Linton (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=348) went out after check/raising Willie (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=450) Tann (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=450) all-in on a bluff on a x-T-T-4-4 board, shame Willie was holding a Ten. He departed soon after.

Julian is a little short after raising a late position raise to 2,000 from 850, he passed sharpish to the all-in and was shown Kings.

Karl and Praz have finally been separated when their table was broken...they were then both moved to same table again.

News for Jan Sjavik fans now:

First he bets 5.5k on a 8c Qs 3d 7h Qd board, his opponent dwells, perhaps a little too long, but calls with Ad Qh which is good. This left him short and he got the rest of his chips in with Th 8d on the Ts 7h 3d board and got called.

"Nines?" said Jan, perhaps a little hopefully, "You have Nines?" His opponent shows Aspades Tc

Turn:

Td

River:

8h

Karl (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=227) Mahrenholz (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=227) has also been a river rat. He spiked a Nine with 9-9 vs K-K to double up.

Blinds went up to 100 200 a short while ago.

Marc (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) Goodwin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) is found contemplating a call on a A 3 4 9 flop from his opponent who is studying him carefully.  Eventually he folds.....

Carlo (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=60) Citrone (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=60) is sitting on a nice pile of chips. (My chip counting abilities clearly need some practise!) He makes it 500 from early position, and is raised to 1200. He shortly reraises another 4-5k and his opponent lays down his hand. Carlo pretends to have forgotten what he had, then checks his cards, giggles as if he has found something amusing and scurries off to have a chat with Marc (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) Goodwin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257).

Keith (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=229) Hawkins (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=229) makes the strange decision to call a bet on a Q T 7 flop based on the outcome of a coin flip. Heads I fold, tails I call....

The tails promptly arrived and his call with 89 against his opponent's KQ  proved futile as top pair held....

Flushy has been busy, up to 25k. "I've been getting hands but not showing, the whole table thing I'm a thieving git" As flushy is passed the button for the next flop, he threatens to raise if it's passed to him. Bad girl says she'll be limp reraising him. As it turns out neither of them get to dance and you can almost feel their disappointment as a quiet guy in early position raises before everyone passes. He flashes an ace.....

Meanwhile a guy on flushy's table having suffered several bad beats in a short space of time was left with 1200 chips but rather than fight on with 6 big blinds, he simply upped sticks and left. Rumours that he left as flushy kept playing footsy with him under the table have proved unfounded.....

Rookie grabbed me as I wandered by. "I'm half way there!" he says, referring to the bargain we struck earlier where he said he would be on 25k the next time i saw him. "I was down to 3k but won a pot then had AA v AKs to double me up!"

Alex Martin's chips appear to have dwindled and as he overhears rookie's story he says "yeh you got a bloody gift there." He's laughing and joking with the table but I think Alex will be making a move very soon as he swiftly enters "get chips or get drunk" mode.

In answer to the Rick question, sadly I think he is out. He had a pretty torrid set of cards, constantly having the 2nd best hand. I'll confirm his exit when i catch up with him.

As I passed Julian Thew 's table, he had donned his earphones but on seeing me he lifted what appeared to be a rather skinny stack into the air and crossed his fingers on both hands. When I got a chance to talk with him, he told me things weren't going well. I told him, don't worry no doubt you'll be up to 80k by the next level. With most players that would be an idle gee-up just to give them a boost, but with yo-yo, well you never know!

Rooky was looking a bit happier with a stack of 15k. "Moving the right way" he said with the smile that's been on his face all night.

Alex was away, but noflops managed to snap him so a picture will be added to this post shortly...

Flushy has lost a big pot with 2 pair vs a set. He raised from the cutoff to 900 with A6 and the button "who has played back at me a couple of times" flat called. The flop came TJ6...check....check.

The turn was an A, flushy bet out with his 2 pair and was raised an amount that he felt he couldn't pass only to find his nemesis with TT for a set.

"It was a lesson in why not to raise with A6" said flushy sagely, before raising with A7 shortly afterwards.

Bad girl is getting busier, after 2 limpers, including Flushy, on what is now 150 300, she makes it 1300 on the button, punishing the limpers, who all choose to fold. Flushy looks in admiration before folding his cards. He knows a good limper's tax sheriff when he sees one.

Steve Vladar has doubled up with 6c 6s against 4s 4d on a 9d 5h 8h Kd 7s board. He'd previously had a hard time, having a set run into a rivered straight amongst other stuff.

Jeff Buffenbarger is on life support after having his Aces cracked by Nines all-in preflop.

Julian Thew has bitten the dust sadly.

He got his chips in preflop with KK, finding a caller with KQ.

The flop came K high, but with a J. The turn A and river T sealed his fate is cruel fashion, but although i missed his exit you can be 99.9% certain that Julian took his horrible beat in his stride , with a handshake for the lucky winner and a "good luck to all" departing message.

As the blinds have increased, so has the level of chip violence accordingly.....

James Dempsey, Dan Carter, Barry Neville have all had their stacks reduced to rubble and have been busted.

Flushy was unfortunate to run his K9 straight into a Q9 nut straight against the same man who had taken 10k off him earlier.

Barry was upset with himself at his exit. "Ah pleyed the hand diabolical, an ah mean diabolical" he told me. "I knew ee 'ad a set, 'ee put is chips in the sehm wey earlier when ee 'ad it" - his A8 proving no match for 99 on an A K 9 flop.

Dan Carter's exit was for an enormous stack. He called a raise from david martin with 78 and when the flop came 789, David bet 3000.

Dan raised to 6500, before David made it 13000.

"I knew he was overplaying his overpair" he said as he reraised allin and was called by T T. A J on the turn sealed the straight and sent an enormous 70ks worth of chips to his opponent and crashed the high flying dan out of the tournament.

Willie Tann's stack is steadily growing and although appearing lethargic whenever I visit, he is clearly not hanging around. I was told he had straight against straight before a lovely heart on the river gave him a straight flush to augment his stack. I stayed to watch another blockbuster Willie Tann hand but he clearly likes to do his chip gathering business when i am elsewhere as my patience was scantly rewarded with the sight of him just gently munching on a small biscuit. I think it was a hobnob, but this may be misreported. If it was a bourbon, don't go for my throat.

Floppy has a nice picture of him modelling some mirrored shades which the table all agreed were cool.
Quote from: JungleCat03 on Today at 10:33:47 pm
Julian Thew has bitten the dust sadly.

He got his chips in preflop with KK, finding a caller with KQ.

The flop came K high, but with a J. The turn A and river T sealed his fate is cruel fashion, but although i missed his exit you can be 99.9% certain that Julian took his horrible beat in his stride , with a handshake for the lucky winner and a "good luck to all" departing message.

 

Sorry the above does not relate to Julian's exit. I have been misinformed. I am off to hunt down those responsible and have them shot. Unless it was my fault in which case I will reward the perpetrators with a cigarette.

Ram Vaswani is also out, he missed a gutshot straight-flush draw then according to Chris Bruce began to push with high regularity before he had some rags called by K-Q and failed to hit.

Jeff Rogers has also gone, he held 4h 4d on a Ahrt 4s Ks board in an unraised pot, Burnley John had limped with Ad Ac though and took the whole stack, elevating himself to the heady heights of 40k.

Chip counts courtesy of blue square....

These counts are slightly out of date now, known victims of the cruel fate that awaits the unlucky in tournament poker have been struck through.

Baverstock, Lee 30300
Mercado, Grant 29525
Carter, Dan 29200
Gurnam, H 28550
Iversen, Torstein 26100
Housden, Anthony 25800
McCloskey, Michael 23850
Martin, David 23675
Dempsey, James 23250
Gray, Nick 22975
Falconer, John 22700
Adderley, Tony 22500
Lee, Redmond 22425
Esposito, Fabio 21350
Cook, Micheal 21100
Vinnicombe, Alan 20200
Wooldridge, Warren 19875
King, Paul 19425
Dunsford, Jim 18725
Martin, Glenn 18650
Hiskett, Tim 18575
Vicary, Paul 18450
Campbell, Leon 18375
Georeiou, Andrew 18225
Debeaulox, Ronnie 18150
Chapman, Gary 17900
Jones, David 17525
Modha, Raj 17300
Nelson, Ian 17100
Mak, Csaba 16600
Hazan, J j 16550
Rogers, Jeffrey 16000
Arnold, M 15825
Turnstill, Ben 15725
Romanello, Roberto 15675
Ringe, Tony 15675
Bush, Garry 15600
Ashworth, Glenn 15525
vladar, Xuyen 15200
Fronda, Ryan 14675
Citrone, Carlo 14250
Taylor, Simon 14025
Murphy, John 13775
Jones, Iwan 13300
Hurley, Tom 13200
Bryne, James 13175
Conway, Anthony 13100
Colclough, David 13050
Fontana, Giuseppe 13000
Sjavik, Jan 12800
Grech, Joseph 12775
Bansi, Praz 12400
Stain, Robert 12375
Bruce, Chris 12175
Rivers, Andy 12175
Fiddian, Jaan 12100
Buffenbarger, Jeffery 11800
Priestly, Gavin 11700
Bennet, Dave 11550
Brevik, Jan magnus 11400
Ghazi, Javed 11325
Palanca, Manuel 11300
Gray, Alan 11300
Tann, Willie 11250
Samson, Daniel 11175
Myland, Thomas 11125
Neville, Barry 11000
Forde, Gabriel 10900
Fiddian, Jaan 10900
Mcbride, James 10850
clark, Dave 10750
Muldoon, Micheal 10675
Patten, Luke 10450
Martin, Alex 10250
Hawkins, Keith  Jonathon 10150
Salmon, Andrew 9875
Green, Alister 9725
Ashby, Richard 9650
Stoneham, Adam 9600
Randall, Simon 9350
Phillips, John 8925
Feldman, Jeremy 8800
Gross, D 8750
Patel, Premji 8725
Flanders, Philippa 8550
Vladar, Steven 7925
Mahrenholz, Karl 7900
Bozzard, David 7775
Kyriakides, Justin 7575
Jones, David 7500
Ellis, Michael 7500
Flanders, Tim 7450
Trimby, Michael 7450
Scurr, David 7225
Boros, Leon 7025
Lloyd, David 6850
Butters, Jonathon 6500
Goodwin, Mark 6200
Shaw, Phil 6175
Clutterbuck, Stewart 6150
Woodley, Ian 6050
Blanco, Cristiano 5750
Newman, Graeme 5725
Rokach, Lucienne 5550
Fraser, James 5300
Johnson, Guy 5250
Pearson, Trevor 5200
Mccluskey, Mark 4375
Kanwar, Vik 4025
Brady, Anthony 3725
Patel, Kalpesh 3675
Arnold, Michael 3600
Baldwin, Alfie 3425
Whyman, Piers 3250
Thew, Julian 3175
Moult, James 3125
Page, Terry 2900
Doyle, John 1140

Ian Woodley doubled up a shorty with Kc Jc againsty Ahrt Ts,

Board:

3h Ac Qd Jh 3c

"Keep going!!" Shouted Woodley. "I'll hit my flush soon!"

Karl Mahrenholz is OUT, I saw him squeeze the Kc Th and then call a Marc Goodwin small blind raise from the big blind. The flop was Td 4s 7d, Marc made a pretty big overbet and Karl pushed and Marc immediately called with Aspades Ahrt, the blank turn and river sending the birthday boy home.

Joe Grech just doubled up with Ace King against The Camel's pocket Eights, spiking the turn. Joe then knocked out the short-stacked Jeff Buffenbarger with Qc 2c against 9c 7c, hitting his lady.

Steve Vladar is out now too. How do I know this? Well, him sitting in the cash game is probably a good enough reason for me. Michael Muldoon and his easily spottable red t-shirt are also seemingly MIA.

Players are on a short break, when we return, it's the 200/400/50 level.

Ben Turnstill aka "RookieITB" has knocked out fellow blonde Alex Martin. Ben raised A-Q preflop and Alex pushed with calls, Ben was debating the call until Alex said, "You've taken this long, now I know I'm ahead," which made Ben think he was in a race. He duly called and then rivered the Queen.

Jan Sjavik bet 2k on a Qs 7s 2s and was called, they both checked the Ts turn, before his opponent bet 2k on the 7d river. Jan, shaking his head, in a "I know I'm beat but I can't fold for this little because I want to see what crappy filth you sucked out on me, you fishy bugger," kind of way. At least that's what it looked like to me.

His opponent showed Aspades 4s and Jan flashed Ac Ahrt still shaking his head.

Chris Bruce has 30k, buoyed by raising with Aces and having a short-stack push with Kings behind him.

Chip counts, thanks to those cool cats at Blue Square

Martin, David 84475
Mercado, Grant 44875
Vinnicombe, Alan 44025
Iversen, Torstein 37250
Falconer, John 37000
Hawkins, Keith  Jonathon 35700
Esposito, Fabio 30550
Stoneham, Adam 29850
Mcbride, James 28925
Wooldridge, Warren 27675
Ringe, Tony 27600
Hiskett, Tim 26925
Lee, Redmond 26000
Taylor, Simon 25600
Muldoon, Micheal 24200
Trimby, Michael 24125
Goodwin, Mark 23975
Gray, Alan 23575
Moult, James 23450
Baverstock, Lee 23450
Conway, Anthony 23375
Housden, Anthony 23000
Tann, Willie 22975
Jones, Iwan 21950
Bruce, Chris 21925
Gray, Nick 21600
Modha, Raj 21475
Feldman, Jeremy 20450
Brevik, Jan magnus 19950
Martin, Glenn 19925
Brady, Anthony 19475
Vicary, Paul 19175
Stain, Robert 18400
Cook, Micheal 18000
Georeiou, Andrew 17275
King, Paul 17175
Campbell, Leon 17075
Palanca, Manuel 16425
Turnstill, Ben 15450
Gurnam, H 14850
Bryne, James 14775
Ashby, Richard 14500
Nelson, Ian 14475
Grech, Joseph 14200
Chapman, Gary 14050
Green, Alister 13425
Romanello, Roberto 13325
Patel, Premji 12950
Baldwin, Alfie 12650
Bush, Garry 12300
Butters, Jonathon 12250
vladar, Xuyen 12125
Ghazi, Javed 11825
Debeaulox, Ronnie 11750
Arnold, M 11675
Mak, Csaba 11625
Dunsford, Jim 11125
Stevens, Robert 11050
Kyriakides, Justin 10950
Sjavik, Jan 10825
Lloyd, David 10300
Risdale, Nick 10275
Fontana, Giuseppe 10100
Ellis, Michael 9625
Jones, David 9100
Ashworth, Glenn 8875
clark, Dave 8875
Salmon, Andrew 8725
Pearson, Trevor 8100
Arnold, Michael 7925
Martin, Alex 7575
Woodley, Ian 7525
Boros, Leon 7375
Hurley, Tom 7050
Rivers, Andy 6850
Myland, Thomas 6800
Flanders, Philippa 6700
Bennet, Dave 6675
Fronda, Ryan 6675
Gross, D 5625
Fraser, James 5300
Samson, Daniel 5200
Kanwar, Vik 4875
Priestly, Gavin 4350
Murphy, John 3775
McCloskey, Michael 3575
Adderley, Tony 2700

Apologies for the lack of updates from my end, blonde has been running a little slowly for me, although the tables have not been filled with action.

79 players remain, the average is a shade under 20,000 and the blinds 200 400.

Plenty of play in theory although players definitely seem to be in "consolidation" mode at the moment, with many pots uncontested preflop, either being passed round or a single raise taking it down.

Pots of note include Ian Woodley raising to 1200 from early position, announcing "I'm not passing." A re-raise from Burnley John Falconer (sorry couldnt see how much but a decent amount) made a liar of him as he passed after a bit of banter with John , showing pocket 77. John showed KK. Poker players don't alf tell some porkies sometimes...

Also Roberto was seen punching the air as he hit a T on the river to win a pot with his AT, announcing well that call ad valyoooo you knoooo. I assume he was behind although his opponent's cards were mucked by the time i arrived....

Comical moments in the cardroom include Barry Neville being video interviewed for one of the online sites, and having a lollipop accurately thrown at his head by a brave bystander during the interview....

....Flushy loudly requesting someone to stake him in the cash "crash" game he is currently involved in with Paul Jackson. For the first time all evening perhaps, a deathly hush befell the cardroom......

....Roberto told his table a joke which I would like to repeat although it is almost certainly non - blonde compliant. I will say it involves a bald man, his doctor, a supermarket, an unusual cure for baldness and a lady. You'll have to fill in the msising pieces yourself

Roberto Romanello is OUT.

After good showings in previous GUKPTs he has been eliminated in 75th (or thereabouts) place out of today's competitors, in a 99 v TT coup. The exact details of the hand are not available to me just yet but I'll try to garner more useful information when I'm in the cardroom....

Mick McCluskey is out....Tony Ringe's AT holding versus Mick's KQ, I'm guessing as it went in preflop there was some sort of  buttonage/blindage action, but again I'll see I can flesh out this skeletal description with the skin, tissue and vital organs of the hand, when I get down to the cardroom.

Blinds are 300/600/75

Ronnie Debeaulox just shoved with 7d 4d when ubershort, called by Td 8h, he was rewarded with a 7c 7s 4s flop to double him up.

Xuyen Vladar just bet 4k on the river of a 7c Aspades 6s 5c 8d board and was called, she showed Kc 9c to take down a 20k pot.

Jan Sjavik is out, pushed on a Ad 5h 4d board, his opponent eventually made a very good call with 6c 6s, as he was ahead of Jan's 3c 3h, who failed to hit set or gutshot.

Warren Wooldrige raises in EP to 2.2k, Ian Woodley calls.

Flop:

Ad Qc 5h

Woolridge checks, Woodley bets 3.1k, Woolridge calls.

Turn:

Ac

Both players check.

River:

3d

Now Woolridge bets 5.5k and Woodley mucks.

An interesting and unfortunate hand developed between Brian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489) Johnson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489) and mateyboy. Involved in a pot to the river, mateyboy bet the river and instead of calling, Brian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489) Johnson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489) turned his pocket kings face up without pushing his chips over the line.

Ruling his cards were mucked.

Brian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489) Johnson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489) shook his head sadly at his error of protocol. He wanted to call, he meant to call but he did it wrong and the rules are the rules so he was left nursing a microstack, shaking his head and sitting gloomily with an almost visible cloud of despair hanging over his head. No surprise when 5 -10 minutes later he busted out...

*********BREAK IN PROGRESS**************

                 57 players remain

David Lloyd ends up all in a classic standard Queens vs Ace King encounter.

David's running commentary for the cards came as follows:

"Queen first card please..."

9h

"Queen please."

Jc

"That's good, keep it coming."

2s

"Brick it out..."

8s

"That's good, last card slowly please..."

6s

Entertaining double-up to say the least.

Marc Goodwin, Ryan Fronda and Glenn Ashworth are all OUT and playing cash together.

Keith Hawkins told me of a good call he made.

He'd limped with 3c 3s on the button after a few other limpers, the 9-9-2 with two diamonds flop was checked to him and he bet, everyone folded to the last limper who c/raised his 1.2k bet to 4k. The turn was an offsuit 6, the limper checked again, this time check/calling Keith's 4k bet. The river was the Jh, now the limper bet 8.5k and Keith called with his threes, ahead of the busted flush draw of the Kd 8d.

Keith (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=229) Hawkins (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=229) is OUT, his Ahrt 7h failing to hit on the the Q-T-5 two hearts board against Joe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=205) Grech (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=205)'s Q-T which housed up on the river.

Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=65) Bruce (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=65) has just added to his stack which looks to be around 50k, he just knocked out the superbly named Robert Stain with Aspades Ks vs 5s 5c on a Qd 4c Ad 9c 9s board.

Dave Clark c/raised all-in on the turn of a 2h Qh Kc Js board taking it down.

Ian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=176) Woodley (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=176) has pushed on a 8d Qd 8s for 12,950 to take a pot down against the small blind, his opponent dwelt and Woodley said, "Slow playing your Aces son? Unlucky." After a muck from other player, Woodley showed Jd Td.

Play has now finished for the day. Junglecat has the last few scraps of info for you all.

Raj modah has just been eliminated in the last hand of the night pushing K8 off suit on the button with his 7k stack into pocket tens in the big blind.

Rookie has nursed his stack earlier back up to the 30k mark, as per our deal earlier. Well done Rookie.

He just won a nice pot off Willie Tann. Limping from the sb, Willie raised another 2.5k which after some chip fiddling, rookie called. The AQ7 flop was chekced by rookie and willie tann fired another 3.3k at the pot.

Rookie made the call. The turn brought a king which both players checked at. A low river was also checked by both players and Rookie showed down his A4 which was good enough to take down the 14k pot.

That's it folks. There's no fat ladies but Barry Neville might be just about to break into song. A great day's poker concluded. Bring on day two.....

 ;stickaforkinme;

Chip Counts of Day 1A, look at Chris Bruce, Bad Girl and RookieITB go!

Here are the chip counts of the remaining players from Day 1A:

Martin, David 81150
Ringe, Tony 67225
Bruce, Chris 66800
Mercado, Grant 54400
Vladar, Xuyen 52925
Woodley, Ian 52250
Grech, Joseph 48650
Lloyd, David 48475
Gray, Alan 46875
Vinnicombe, Alan 45425
Turnstill, Ben 43275
Ellis, Michael 42600
Tann, Willie 37750
Stoneham, Adam   37450
Nelson, Ian 37450
Muldoon, Micheal 37275
Mcbride, James 35525
Wooldridge, Warren 35025
Martin, Glenn 33825
Iversen, Torstein 33025
Ashby, Richard 32325
Bryne, James 31975
Kyriakides, Justin 31075
Housden, Anthony 31000
Cook, Micheal 29575
Butters, Jonathon 29025
Georeiou, Andrew 28625
Doyle, John 27725
clark, Dave 26750
Brevik, Jan magnus 26575
Hiskett, Tim    25400
Esposito, Fabio 24525
Green, Alister    24150
Samson, Daniel    24050
Chapman, Gary    23750
Feldman, Jeremy 22550
Moult, James    22325
Bush, Garry    21050
Jones, Iwan    20450
Taylor, Simon    20300
Falconer, John    18850
Priestly, Gavin 12775
Phillips, John    8225