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Dave jest sent me a text, he is trundling along comfortably now.

Says he was sat next to Toby Maguire (who he?) most of the day, & rated his game.

Dave had an awful scare very first hand of the game, when he flopped top two pair & was lucky to lose "only" a third of his stack But he is back up to 55k now.

Imagine starting a comp with 50k? Makes me giddy just thinking about it.

He's an actor, was Spiderman i think.

Spiderman? I thought that was a character in a comic, no?

Well the spideysense would explain his good reads, no?

Eh?

Never mind, I have some more news from Dave......

Dave is playing in the "second" Day One. After Level 3, it's.....

Devilfish 90k.

Paul Maxfield 66k

Dave Colclough 55k.

And a web upadate - Toby Maguire (groan....) 32k.

More news from our man....

Simon Aces Trumper, 34k.

Marcel Luske OUT, his AA beaten by KK

Hey Tikay dont you ever get a break ? nice reports I will see you in Belfast ;D

A break? Nah, I tried retirement, but packed it in. I wanna die in harness.

And what's wrong with "it's the journey, not the destination?". Or being "Tea-Total"?

But congrats on a terrific performance on Sunday night Stu, I was made up for ya.

Thanks for for the congrats Tikay, I like the the journey piece you wrote there was tear :'( running down my face face after reading such a master piece. But I tell you what I will buy you a beer in Belfast and maybe you will see what youve been missing all these years ;)

Missing? I packed up drinking, I fear to admit, before you were even born.

I struggled to hold my drink as a teenager, went on an almighty bender on my 21st, and thought "never again". And I ain't missed it one bit.

But on a good night, I'll partake of a Tizer even a Red Bull now & then.......but given a choice, give me a cuppa tea any day.

Now, got an update from Dave Colclough, give me 30 secs.....

Just in from Dave.....

Simon Trumper 65k

Dave Colclough 65k

Robert Wiliamson, after being down to 2,100, now 35k.

And Joe Beevers, wait for it.....130k......!

gl to El Blondie over in the states and Joe Beevers will get back to winning ways soon.

Can't believe you've made that "journey" thing your "signature". Beware, there are plenty more where THAT came from.....

Toby Maguire.... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001497/ 

He was in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Seabiscuit so he may have some form!??

for her fanclub (tikay's one anyway) isabelle  has 92k and is feeling very comfortable. I hope betfair are going to open a new market later in week to allow backing/laying before final.
ariston

Some chipcounts for those who can't be bothered to look it up!!
rank, name, chips, table and seat.

1 Scotty Nguyen 233,750 53 1       (just hate this fella)
15 Joseph Grech 149,575 36 10
25 Joe Beevers 128,400 2 5
39 David Sklansky 111,575 4 6     
55 Noel Furlong 98,500 44 9
60 Daniel Larsson 95,475 52 6
62 Noah Boeken 93,375 43 1
64 David Ulliott 92,800 3 7
65 Isabelle Mercier 92,650 43 5       
120 Simon Trumper 69,900 57 2
129 Barney Boatman 67,450 45 10
140 Tobey Maguire 65,425 55 2  **********
152 Tony Bloom 62,850 45 9
187 Dave Colclough 55,875 53 3
209 Padraig Parkinson 51,500 37 2
219 Ross Boatman 49,525 41 6
266 Donnacha O'Dea 38,775 31 10
268 Harry Demetriou 37,875 42 5
290 Surinder Sunar 33,675 31 6
298 Martin Wilson 30,950 53 7
308 Peter Costa 28,700 28 5

There are 340 left
ian

thanks ifm,
alas, i can't access cardplayer from in here!

t'would be vintage if sklansky finalled

El Blondie is on the same starting table as Scotty who was the overnight chip leader.
Scotty has the button and Dave is on the BB.  - no preasure then!

Mad Marty is also on the table

Mad Marty goes all in 2nd hand with pocket 4's and is called with JJ. But he gets very lucky and and flops quad's! He is now up to 70K.

344 players in the field.

To Dave's Left there an invisible man, he was there yesterday too, he has 30K left.

They are on the day's first break now.

Dave Colclough has 56k

simon Trumper is struggling with 6k - come on Simon!

Mad Marty has 72k, afer looking dead & buried earlier with 44 against JJ, but catching quads.

And Spioderman has 90k.

More as it comes through....

No sooner the word, than I've had this from Dave.  He's getting good at this updating lark.........

Barny 65k

Jioe Beevers 107k

Noah Boeken 90k

John Gale 20k

Noel Furlong 50k

Paul Maxfield 100k

Scotty has played 3 hands today, (very tikay-ish) & won them all (very un-tikay-ish), & has a whopping 266k.

298 runners left.

Blinds 500, 1,000, Running Ante 100.

Mad Marty has a setback. First hand back after the break he has AQ against JJ, but fails to hit - he's back down the fierld now with about 45k.

Invisible Man - 25k. This is the guy - or lady - who failed to show up either yesterday or today, & has gradually blinded away. Course, Dave is not taking adavntage of this.....

Maybe it was Paul Phillips - he became a father yesterday for the first time, to a girle thing, Ivy Phillips.

And our WPT hero John Gale is OUT......

John would not have anted away, thats for sure....

I played with John a few times, he a seriously unorthodox player, but a bugger to play against....

Joe Grech is chip leader

Mad Marty gets all-in with AK, & is up against 88.

Board comes....

A....LOVELY

A....Even Lovelier

6......Who Caares

8.......WHAT?

9.

Mad Marty Wilson is OUT.......

Dave Colclough up to 75k now.......

And on Poker 425 starting at 11pm tonight & every night for 7 days, there are interviews with Xuyen Bad Girl Pham & Smokin Steve Vladar, Greg Junior Hill, the famous Notts player who's gonna terrorise the Blackpool Boys, Paul ActionJack Jackson, plus a review of the main Event at Luton, including interviews with most of the Finalists.....

tikay get dave to wish joe all the best if poss, i see he's leading the event at moment so lets hope he can hold it up and take the cake back to british shores. thanks for the updates  ;)

Will do.

Dave is updating me direct from the table, & I have some more news for you....

John Kabbaj 70k

Barny Boatman 60k

Tony Bloom 50k

Dave Colclough 60k

Robin Keston 60k

Ross Boatman 15k

Joe Grech iis still chip leader, 270k now....

Scotty Nyugen 220k

And Dave is now gonna miss his plane home.....THAT'S GOOD!

255 runners left in.

100 places are paid - that's over 20% of the field....!

thanks tony, great job as always see you soon.             dave

That's why i included him among the europeans, he'd probably sell a couple more books if he did.
Ian

The Brits are on the move.......

Barny 100k

Tony Bloom 90k

Dave Colclough 120k

Go on lads!

But sadly, Simon Aces Trumper is OUT.

Bad luck Simon.

But how about THIS one........

Dave Colclough just trapped Scotty Nyugen a treat & doubles through to....240k!

Or to use Dave's exact word....BINGO

I sense from that he's been trying to cop him 'at it' for a while..............
Any detail?
ian

No, not yet. Dave is texting me from the table. I don't think it's fair on him to ask too many questions right now, & I know you'd agree with that. But the second I get texts from him, you will have them on here.

But I bet you ain't far wrong. Scotty maybe tried to take liberties with our man, but he's TOO GOOD........

I have a good feeling about this comp..........

What's the payout bud?
I know it's top 100, do you get any profit for finishing 100th?
Ian

The "no-show" who has been sat (or not, as the case was) to Dave's left all comp has finally ante'd away. But he outlasted half the field! Hmm, maybe I could try that.........

Prize Pool?

It's about $2,800,000 to the winner. Only US Dollars though. 2nd $1,700,000, 3rd nearly $900,000, through to $113,000 for tenth. Money goes down to an incrediible 100th place! 51st to 100th all get $30,000.

Handy enough.....

Mrs C is very happy right now.  ;D

And, I'd guess, Mr C........

Hi Tikay

I have a media pass so can get to all the tables

I will be doing chip updates during each round , they will be posted at the Mob but i told Dave you can paste them here , just give my diary a plug at www.sportinglife.com , you can read how i blew my chips tomorrow.

Weathers lovely which is a good job as i have a week to sunbathe !

Cheers

ACES

Do you get a piece Tikay?
Surely as a partner your an erm.......partner?
Hey Mrs C, i hope you ain't on Ebay spending all the hard earned already!!
ian

Thanks Simon, much appreciated.

I will put a post up now telling the blondeites that they can have a look at how the tourney went from your perspective by taking a look at your diary on www.sportinglife.com right away.

Oddly enough, I have just been the subject for an interview with Paul for the same site, & that may well be up on in the next few days. Why me? No idea!

I am dropping you a private e-mail about another matter.

Tough luck in the biggie fella, but you gave of your best. That'll do for me.

Simon Trumper has kindly given us access to a few more chip counts.....

Joe Grech 250k

Dave Colclough 250k

Paul Testud 240k

Juhha Helppi, 200k

Johan Storakers 185k

Rob Hollink 130k

Paul Maxfield 120k

Bsrny Boatman, 115k

Tony Bloom 100k

Joe Beevers 92k

Pete Costa 90k

Devilfish 80k

Noah Boaken 75k

Jan Boubli 70k

Padraig Parkinson 60k

Surindar Sunar 40k

Ross Boatman 34k

Donnacha O'Dea 22k.

So blonde have got no less than Simon Aces Trumper (UK Betting) & Dave Colclough (Bet 365 & blondepoker) updating for us. Not bad, my assistants, eh?

Update just in from Dave at the table.....

Donnacha O'Dea 30k

Pete Costa 100k

Not a patch on the Luton crew :P
Ian

Hmm, I get your drift.....

Do I have a piece of Dave? Nah, he wanteda piece of me in return, & I can't be giving out %'s to every willy nilly who asks, now can I? But he does give me a piece now & then - of his mind........

And here's a BEAUTY for ya......

Text just in from DC, word for word....

"290k now, and I'm the Boss".

Too right!

Dave's SIZZLING now....

320k....!

Sadly, Donnacha O'Dea is OUT.

And some more chip counts from my assistant.......

Barny Boatman 185k

Devilfish 90k

Tony Bloom 90k

Scotty 140k

Pete Costa 100k

More news from our main man.......

"Scotty doubles up. (so maybe 280k-ish...)

Ross, & Robin Keston, both short stacked.

Antonio magician (he of the cheesey waves) 300k

Greg Raymer 100k....."

Hows Paul Maxfield doing?

He was 70k about an hour ago, but I think he lost abot 40k to Barny. Not heard since.......

Do you ever sleep tikay?

Thanks Tikay, keep up the good work pal.

I'm a young man Camel. We can go for days, you know. Without sleep, that is.....

Now, more news in from our man.....

You might be a young man, but your typing is bloody slow.

get on with it man...

Negraunu OUT

Spiderman (Toby Maguire?) OUT

Paul Maxfield (well you did ask) 110k

Rob Hollink 250k

Barny Boatman 140k

Johan Storakers 250k

Tony Bloom 90k

Scotty 200k

Jeff Shulman 200k

Antonio The Magician 180k

190 runners still in.

Oh, & ........
 
Dave Colclough 350k

Good news is worth waiting for. And you heard it here FIRST. Now, behave.

You obviously aren't a gambler Tony.

We crave instant gratification.

It's got to be here earlier than now!

Still, you're doing a pretty good job for an old fella.

I don't need this aggro from The Ruminator........ Now, pay attention.

Devilfish OUT

Joe Grech OUT.

Hard to believe Joe is out, but that's the info from Simon Trumper.

Why aint you still there Camel

Good Question Craig. GREAT question, in fact. Now why didn't I think of asking him that?

Skint mate.

If you'd offered to put me in I might have played ;)


Seriously, alot of stuff at home I had to attend to.. recent events have proved to me there's more important things in life than a poker tournament.

Quite right too Keith. Our thoughts are with you fella.

Cheers mate.

Back to the action...

If DC offers to refund my monkey bet on the field if he wins, I might even start funking for him ;) ::)

Very true, our thoughts are with you and yours. I ask cause the last time I spoke to you (at the Vic Bar) you said you were hoping to make it. Hope to see you soon, as Im sure its your round.  ;)

So you bet against our Dave?

I didn't back against him persay.

I just backed any player apart from those listed to win.

I did think there would be alot more runners than there actually were.

I won't (too much) mind doing my dough if DC cops though.

Methinks Mr Camel means "per se". What do they teach them at schools these days, eh? Persay, good grief man.

Huh? I wrote per se! Look above! Think it's past your bedtime mate.

Look again sunshine. You have to get up early to catch the 'ol fella.

Touche?

These days??
Hmmmmmmm

OFFSIDE!!!

You can't be editing my posts and putting things unexpected in my mouth!

Ooooo Errrrr Mrs.

THINGS UNEXPECTED IN HIS MOUTH???????????????

exactly my thoughts Craig.

I just lost a huge pot and I'm on the verge of going on tilt, so I had better go to bed.

'Night chaps.

Behave, the pair of you. This is blonde, not you know where. Rhow reads this stuff you know, & I don't want that poor girl's mind polluted.

And tikay's down to the money (last 3) in a $1,000 SNG on Stars, so I need to concenmtrate. Sleep well Keith.

Good night Keith

just watched the end of that sng on stars!!
unbelievable

Dave Colclough, 300k, with 10 minutes before stumps are drawn.

Great effort DC, more of the same tomorrow!

Yeah, really weird end, my 5-4 against his 4-3, he hits his 3, & I catch the wheel!

Whatever, that's $4,500 in the fighting fund, hehe.

Off to bed now buddy, catch ya tomorrow.

Paul M  please Tikay

Sorry, the only news I got is Dave's closing chip count - a massive 380k!

If I get any news on Paul Maxfield, I'll post it.

Thanx, good nite pal

See ya Craig, take care man.

com on blondie

Good luck Dave!

As far as I can tell from assorted sites DC is third chip leader behind Alan Boston and Paul Testud, closely followed by the likes of Scotty Nguyen, Michael Mizrachi and Juha Helppi.

Towards the end of the day a short stack moved all in with KK, Blondie calls with AdKd, flop comes QQ10 with two diamonds, DC makes his flush on the turn, the river is a blank and DC's up to the $350-360K area.

Great coverage once again Tony , Thanks and........... GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO   DAVE !!!!!!!!!!!

DC is in fact chip leader

www.pokerpages.com/blog-players/poker-mike-paulle.htm

You're looking in the wrong place Richard!
Dave is chipleader!!!
A few chipcounts for folks that can't find 'em (and Julian)

Rank, table+seat no. name, chips

1 48 7 Dave Colclough 381,100
27 53 2 Greg Raymer 216,600
36 43 7 Rob Hollink 186,600
48 53 4 Surinder Sunar 163,800
70 48 2 Paul Maxfield 133,300      (for Craig)
80 45 5 Isabelle Mercier 120,300     (for Tikay)
85 45 1 Peter Costa 117,300
87 45 6 Barny Boatman 116,900
89 43 5 David Sklansky 113,500
104 54 7 Tony Bloom 100,100
117 52 1 Joe Beevers 87,600
121 41 4 Phil Hellmuth 85,200
145 51 5 Bengt Sonnert 55,300
155 40 8 Noah Boeken 36,300

164 left, top 100 paid.

Dave's table :-

48 1 Michael Bach 100,600
48 2 Paul Maxfield 133,300
48 3 Maureen Feduniak 100,900
48 4 Michael Comer 125,300
48 5 Logan Trindade 57,400
48 6 Trinity Greer 118,800
48 7 Dave Colclough 381,100
48 8 Jan Boubli 251,300
48 9 Annand Ramdin 269,500

Ian

good luck DC!
but what happened to sklansky??

Do they play again today?

If so, & provided Dave don't mind doing what he did yesterday & texting me updates from the table, we will do updates again tonight exactly as we did last night.

Hopefully, a few very late nights in prospect......

But so we don't get too carried away, & put too much pressure on Dave, he has 380,000 chips right now, & is chip leader. Average for a 10 seat Final would be about 2,2 MILLION - that's AVERAGE!

Well put Tony
I have 1.5% of the chips - even on the most optimistic side, I am at least a 40-1 shot to win the whole thing.
And I am not chip leader, there has been a mistake somewhere

A more detailed summary of the last two days...
On day 1 (the second day 1) I drew an excellent starting table with few 'names'.
Unfortunately on the third hand of the day I raised with KhQh and got three callers including Paul Testud from the big blind.
The flop came KdQd and a black 4 , followed by a black 2 and a black 5
Paul Testud had started with a 36 diamond flush draw, and gutshotted an invisible straight on me - I lost 15,000 chips.
I managed to work my way back to 75,000 with an hour to play.
Unfortunately, I was a little lose in the last hour (trying to take advantage of an excellent table) and got whittled back to 56,000 by end of play

Chip leader, chip 50th, it matters not. You have to be at the table to eat. And you have put yourself in a position where you COULD go a long way. That's all the day 1 & 2 objective is, surely.

We are all immensely proud of you, & all the other Brits. But yes, let's not get too excited yet awhle.

Sounds like you were lucky, or did well, to "only" lose 15k on that opening hand. So Testud stayed in hoping to catch his flush, & found the straight instead - damn lucky, those French!

good luck to you and all the other Europeans later on wherever you are in the chipcount

I arrived on Day 2 to find I had another excellent table with only Scotty Nyghun to fear.
Unfortunately I just couldnt get going or find any playable situations for the first half of the day and was still at 50,000
Half way thru the days third level I finally hit a bit of a rush
I limped under the gun with KK hoping to re-raise. Two other limpers didn't give me opportunity but I was rewarded with KJ6 board, and I found someone with AK - nice ! 80,000
10 minutes later I raised with AJ suited on Scotty BB and was called by him. He led out on a JJ10 flop. I called.
The turn was a scarey 9. He led out I called. The river a 4 he checked I made a small bet and he called - 115,000 !

Two hands later and it is my BB - everyone passes around to Scotty's button and he duly raises.
I have a deep stack now and am on a rush, so I call with 89
The flop is 10,J rag, and I check
He bets two thirds of the pot and I call
The turn is a Queen, bingo.
I check raise him for 30,000 and I nearly fell off my chair when he called.
The river paired the 10 and I gave him the weak dwell up.
I checked and he duly bet 60,000
As they say, no guts , no glory, so I called, and he said 'you're hand good, good call' and mucked his hand
Wow - 230,000

A while later Scotty limps under the gun, and the player inbetween us limps. I find 6,8 of hearts and join the limping party (no one is going to raise scotty withough a hand)
The flop was 669 , 2 , K and scotty did another 70,000 to me with what I can only assume was Aces
320,000 !

I hovered in this area for most of the next levels and was down to about 290k with ten mins left.

thanks for pointing that out tikay I hadnt thought of it

The final hand I got involved in I guess I played bad (I have a tendency in the last hour of the day)
I had had several run ins with Thomas 'thunder' Keller - check raising him - and scotty had beaten him up to
He was down to 75,000 and I limped under the gun with AK diamonds
He raised to 7000 (he is the most regular raiser on the table, and is steaming a little)
I re-raise to 27,000 and oops he moves all in
It is 48,000 to call and I know the best I can hope for is Queens.
Anyway I am looking at better than 2-1 so I reluctantly call, and he shows me KK
I miss the Ace but fortunatley I hit 3 diamonds !

381000 !!!

tikay.didnt see the going of joe grech.........heard he was chip leader at one stage.

He was chip leader in the middle of the day, but I have no knowledge of his exit
and he wont be crying too much after picking up over 300 thousand in the previous event

lol......u wanna bet........u dont know joe like i know him.still coming home with a bit of green stuff will soften the blow........ :D

"thanks for pointing that out tikay I hadnt thought of it"

Oops, I think I detect a hint of irony there.......I guess, on reflection, the blonde one can, at push, do without the 'ol fellas advice......

But I bet your cheeks were clenched when you called with that bottom straight on a paired board......"no guts, no glory", lovely stuff.

to be honest I really thought I had him - I was just so sure he was gonna try and bully me, I didn't look for any danger signs

Nice to hear a report from the 'horse's mouth' so to speak.

All the very best of luck today, and hopefully tomorrow !

We have started a new thread for Day Three.......