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Last week was pure quality, a cracking hand between Dan Carter and Jerome Bradpiece. Lets hope this week is as good.

is it 12:45 am or pm?

And which one is it?

Nice to see it is on at a convinent time, going for the ratings.  ::)

lol slowrollaments

sick slowroll

wtf was billy doing there???? He claimed to have the 2nd nuts????? how can he make the f table of a comp without knowing the basics like hand rankings lol

"I cant fold i've got the 2nd nuts"  ;carlocitrone;

only time i have second thoughts about quiting is when i watch that show.....

Shocking slowroll, show was nowhere near as good as last week.

Des Jonas laydown gd/bad?

I dont mind this pass by Des ok he is winning but doesnt know it and he isnt that far in front. Any 9 Ace or King on the river.
I wasnt impressed by Mr Goodwin's commentry  comments like i could pass thiis hand didnt impress me  and repeatedly saying des had made mistakes and the same for the Dan Carter hand which he got slowrolled on.

Good poker Jerome is a quality player and came over very well.

very easy to say when you can see all the cards

Are you afreeing or disagreeing with me?

missed the hand with des so cant comment.

sat next to jerome at a comp in luton in april and then had a chat with him about poker after he got knocked out for about ten mins without realising who he was and he was a great bloke, even gave me advise and complimented me on a couple of hands i played!!

 Re. Jonas hand. I think it was a great pass tbh, how often is he winning there?

 Incidentally Marc Goodwin is a prime example of a well-known poker player that consistently doesnt perform. How many major events does this guy play a year? tonnes. What has he won? not a lot lately.

 I didnt like the way Vicky Coren kinda asked Marc about hands where she knew very well what was going on. She's got far more credentials than goodwin and id rather hear HER opinions on the hands than Marc's " i could pass 1010 3-handed for 1/2 my chips". LOL PMSL.

espescially against super agg raiser, i'm falling over the table to get my money in with 10 10 there. you have to give it a bit of a dwell so that you can roll your eyes and say "i knew it" if he flips jj+ but your NOT folding.

I think it's the best poker show on TV. These are local guys that we play with week in, week out. Compulsive viewing imho.

Is this show on t'internet anywhere?

I don't think i have sworn so much watching a poker show in ages.  :D

There are torrents about, try mininova...

You can go to the channel 4 website and download the 4OD software then watch the show on a streaming basis or download it in full then you get 48 hours to watch it from when you start to view.

Happy viewing

Perhaps Jerome was thinking whether he felt he could actually find a better spot than a coinflip against Shaf, possible, given the way Shaf plays, but I'd agree that Tens is too big a hand to pass. And for some of the times that Shaf has an overpair, there will be occasions where he has 66 to 99 too.

Ageed and like the insight interviews .

great show,

my impressions.

Dan HAS to flat call this bet, he has to think of a hand that billy can call which he is beating, i can only think of 22, which would have probably raised dans limp preflop.
This wasnt a slowroll.
Shafs range for his push was any pair + prob AT AJ AQ AK and maybe KQ or JQsooted so it is a must call,
shaf's big overbets while on draws will be good info for players who may face him in the future.
Jerome for my money was one of the best mtt'ers on tribeca under the alias jehovah and played the best of the finalists. Althougth he did have the CL throughout.
really enjoyed this show, but would prefer brindley to coren's commentating.

I don't have a problem with the commentators.  It's the presenter that annoys me.

ITS ON TONIGHT!!

Aye live and learn.

I think Des made a fine laydown when he had bottom two. He just made a massive mistake just calling jeromes bet...it made him very vulnerable  ;ifm;

yeah mate, i didnt mention how good that play of yours was, to me you represented a slowplayed flopped set, was hard to put you on two pair as you surely bet the flop when it is checked to you. Dessy's flat call was very weak and not a trap at all. He was weary of you for sure and you confirmed his thoughts when you pushed. If he raises jerome's bet you fold im sure. Wp

Are you in this one rick?

Tis Cardiff, the Greco/Romanello/Parkhizar battle.

Classic line from Vicky: "At the start of this tournament, Michael Greco was a shortstack."

Awesome.

The huge c/raise all-in with Aces on the K-Q-J board is just as terrible as I remember it.

keep an eye out for me, im in the audience there soewhere, most likely sat next to the dolly birds

anyone else been unimpressed with the standard of play so far?

Vintage play all round

The check raise all in with AA was soo bad, what did he think the guy would call with, unless he had a set or str8 that is. AK was a no no as he would of re raised preflop.

A pure moment of madness imo.

Was nice to see Roberto's hole cards, I have played with him a few times and watched him a few more, but without the benefit of his hole cards. My thoughts were confirmed tonight, that he is not as loose as his mouth - Lovely bloke though and very entertaining - his speech play is one of the best I have seen for a while now. He uses (on purpose me thinks) his "cocky/arrogant" mannerism (which is on the poker table only though) to get people to pay him off when he hits hands

Spoilt it for me was VC kept talking about she got nocked out, LIKE I CARE!!!! SHE hit runner runner with 99 vs my AA to put me out 4 minutes left of day 1 (just as no one else cares about that lol)

I think Greco could of got a few xtra chips when that guy let him hit runner runner str8, instead of moving all in.

But what do I know? Ive not made the TV table,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, yet!!

played with steve craig and hoss a few times now and tonight highlighted my view that they are the biggest two stations on the circuit. Can't believe hoss didnt fire on the 788 flop, or better still CR. Murthy made a huge error of judement on the worse flop possible for AA, and paid the price. The rest of the play was standard.
Really disappointed of the amount of hands they are showing per show. Too many commercial breaks (12 minutes in total) too much dougie anderson, forget the bad-beat box, and please ditch the grounbreaking technology (see gukpt trailer) pokerscope, which is, to all intents and purposes a fkin bar chart.

Apart from that i really enjoyed it.

Despite his lack of chips i fancy greco to win this ;)

rofl, coming from the father of bad beat running bad stories  rotflmfao

Have to disagree, it's not the way it's displayed on screen that is supposed to be "revoltuiionary" it's the fact that they log every single hand at the final and can use the data in a variety of ways. I think the snippets that are shown are very interesting and certainly add something to the coverage

Anyone else surprised at how Elliott didn't smell a rat at all from Roberto's "have you got AK" talk?

Due to the editing the pokerscope stats dont come across powerfully enough.
For example when it went 5 handed in GUKPT 1 it said I had strongest pre flop hand 6 out of 15 hands
and I only won 3 out of 6 of those hands whilst trapped between the big stacks of  Karl and Praz.

What it doesnt take into consideration is position, avoiding confrontation with a big stack and how
strong that actual hand is. eg If A9 was strongest hand as in one of the hands shown its not one
to bully the table with as it cant stand a re-raise so the stats on their own dont carry much weight
without position and actual real preflop strength of the card.

tbh i wasnt that comfortable with it, but i was totally committed once i bet that flop, and if hes made a bad call pre and hit the perfect flop then its not my day

i liked how i was supposed to stack off in one of the first hands with 66 when we were both above average, commentary would have made it out to be an easy fold if hoss had TT im sure

Yeah i wondered why you were supposed to go broke there.

I was really surprised by Roberto's call of the re-raise with Ace Queen, I thought he should raise or fold. Hoss should be firing on any flop as well.

Yep

Romanello honestly thought he was trapping with AQ i think. I agree with you flops, standard play is to 3bet there, i want it over there.

But they both had approx 1m in chips at that point, the 2 big stacks. It woulda been pretty horrible to find yourself commited to an all in pre with AQ

Fair enough....yeh I did find it quite funny when they made out that all the chips were obviously going in...meanwhile you had already passed your hand lol

I don't think any of the options are particulary great. But I think calling is the worst of the three, independent of the opponent, unless he is very passive.

I think for a high volume internet mtt'er the AQ is a standard 3 bet but roberto probably thought he could outplay hoss in position, using his table talk. They were both deep and i don't think the flat call is too bad. The check on the flop by hoss is far worse a play imo.

Yep...I was shouting at the telly....NOOOOO!!.....lol.

Passing has to be the worst...

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yeah i thought some of the commentary was a bit blinkered, that 66 hand for sure & the one where they thought zach as the 2nd low man should virtually call all-in w AJ when low man smithey pushed from EP

when are u updating your blog Julian

i keep checking it to here about your win in plymouth and the ept

thx in advance jim

hey jim,
yeah i've kinda lost interest in updating the blog...not saying i won't update in the future but for now it's pretty dormant.
i write a short piece for hills after most big comps, so there are a few recent excursions mentioned on there.
cu at the vic in a fortnight i hope!

On again now......

strange 1st hand, QQ v 10 10 raise by michael, flat call with qq by hoss????? re raise surely 5 handed, missed opportunity to take michael out.

Agreed. I think Michael's verbals had him thinking and he just flat called, then the flop casued them both to slow down.