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Welcome to a cold, wet, & windy Dublin.

The blonde office is being constructed as we speak, & Jen will be here in 5 minutes. Play is due to start at 3pm. Ish.

I hope you get a splendid blonde orifice

Now now, no orifices & sphincters today please.

Our office? It's a tent - a TENT! And the wind is howling, the rain is gusting in, lovely.

Welcome to Dublin.

Just chatted with M3Boy - Paul - & he sends his xxx's to Charmaine. His sister is here, too.

SO no mentions of your windy orifice, OK

Nice girl that sister, is she the same sister who was at the Gutshot, I get confused, he has so many.

A TENT?  LMAO, tell us more, and add some pics please

Afternoon everybody, had a guiness yet Tikay   :ironside: :cheers:

My moneys on an Irish winner

You mean you havent got out of bed yet Tikay..Tut Tut playing tents at this hour of the day .. i ask ya...

Last time i was there the tent was the smoke room 8)

Loitering within tent...Ill get me coat :D

He's just popping out for a moment, he wont be long........

Nice one Tikay  ;) kisses to paul and his girlie xxxxxxxxxx and of course you xxxxxxxxx

Scott here, I forgot my car keys......

Correction, not A tent, THREE tents. Photos in a mo.......

ONLY in Dublin!

Hi to Charmaine, Red-Dog, RedSimon, Dewi, Robert, Celtic, etc.

OK, pics on the way.

Can someone PM Iron for me please, & ask him to make sure I have enough File Space for plenty of Pics. Thanks.

Will do, I'll text him as well to be sure

Scott, tent, cold, windy...... I've heard this one

Do they all live happily ever after?

I could tell you who wins, but I don't want to spoil it

OK I'll wait, my breath is bated

What's round and blue?

One of your blood cells?

 A blue round thing?

A frozen Hedgehog, of course! ::)

A whales blowhole?

My eyes

Afternoon all, gl to the Dublin reps, do'nt get a chill.
And big up to the Nun.....that was soooooooooo quick. :blonde:

Your all wrong so far, however Ginger, you have the sickest answer.

Keep going, Round and blue.

The Luxurious Smoking Tent, with Skalie foreground, & Joe Grech at the back. I understand the Tent's next appearance is in Nottingham. Don't fret, play has NOT commenced yet. But LOADS of pics for you.

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What do you call the light fitting in the middle of the picture.......

SEAN D'LEAR ;D

Two rookie Newbies spotted in the Press Headquarters.

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This stranger walked in off the street asking for a job, so we gave him the task of no. 4 Updater. Welcome Mr Ariston.

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For the Ladbrokes blokes, skalie is talking to FATMARRA I think

Who can name THIS International Superstar?

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look at the background in that pic, Ariston checking out the blonde, lol

Hope you got references from him, you never know nowadays. I notice the very next pic shows him in the beer tent with a pint, tut you just can't get good help can you?

FATMARRA, is, I believe, Paul Moss?

OK, here's the a le carte Noshery.

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Hi guys

You started without me - tut!!!

Tikay please tell Ari  8) he looks ruff, but give him a big kiss from me anyhows.  lol  (And I want pics!!!)

Good luck to all Blondes playing.

T
 :-*

Another newbie. William Hill's Mr Julian YoYo Thew.

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Yep, that's him. Mate of Malc_M

They are about to shuffle up & deal, but until they do, a few more pics.

Especially for Trace, here's her belovedAriston. We said "no more pics showing the Betfair Logo", so he got all diplomatic with his Embassy. And NO, I am NOT kissing him.

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Did he dress to match the tent ?

looks like he needs to iron his collar

I am sat in my fourth floor corner reserved for me by Rolf... it looks like the wireless is a little shaky so I am sacrificing speed in order to be sat literally inches from the players, in this room at least.  I think the multi-storey problem has been resolved by a cunning system of area allotment, so we should (fingers crossed) be able to keep an eye on all those just pictured, and a few others.

Someone mentioned Malc-M - this is he, in the Press HQ.

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We have just had a minutes silence for the legendary Irish poker player Pat Crowe, who passed away last week.

Tikay - he is not my beloved Ariston - he's my nemesis  lol

I was gonna say we were both cut from the same cloth, but after looking at those pics, I think he was cut from the tent!!  pmsl

And he still looks rough even with a half-hearted smile! lol

I bet if he'd had a shave you'd be all over him Tikay lol

The very same Malc M just brought news that on another floor far far away Ram Vaswani is sat next to Dave Colclough... should be interesting.

My area involves the Attic, wherein is Xuyen, but I have some instant news from the Ram Vaswani table:

First hand, Ram picked up QQ someone raised preflop (holding, as it turns out, KK), but the flop came Q-high and with around 18,000 Ram has to be the insta-chip leader!

So they've stated then?  lol

OK, here's the set-up. The comp is on 4 or 5 "floors", which Jwn will name shortly. But there's a Basement Dungeon - stone floor, the lot, used to be the Betfair Lounge, they have 4 or 5 tables in there. Ground Floor, "front room", 5 tables in there I think, first floor, 4 tables, next floor 5 tables, attic, 6 tables spread between two "attics".

Jen is on, I think, the 2nd floor, & I am in the Press HQ on th Ground Floor, so no doubt I'll get allocated the top two floors......

We have Malcolm Muskett - Malc-M, & Ariston, to help us, as we just can't manage all these different rooms.

Jen will spend the first hour identifying everyone, & that will pay dividends later in the comp. There are a LOT of Scandies here.

Got some more pics, too. 

MalcM updating!! He couldn't manage 1 table at Rob's house!!!

And tell him i said so...

My God, you're all gonna be absolutely cream crakered by the end of the day.

Which shoes is Jen wearing?

Good luck all - I don't envy you one bit with this one.

Oops, sorry, I forgot to announce - they are OFF!

PMSL  really? 

Ah I thought that little fact might have been mentioned... (hi Trace) yes, after that initial excitement it's all gone a bit quiet, as you might expect with the little-blinds-huge-stacks and all.  Yes, there are a lot of Scandies, from the instantly recognisable Sverre (go Sverre!) to a good proportion of the Norsemen, Juha Helppi, Kjersti Grini, and quite apart from them, I have Vik Kanwar sat right behind me, next to Greek Jack. 

Please please please tell me when he makes it to 100k

Hiya Jen

Who is keeping an eye on the Ram/DC table?  That I am sure would be VERY interesting to watch.

Apologies if Jen & I get any "cross-over" or report some stuff twice, but we are 4 floors apart. In many ways.

Eoin O'Dea, Donnacha's son, is OUT. He flopped a set, but got rivered by a straight.

Hi Guys- Malc-M here..
El Blondie makes an UNG raise called by BB.
Flop  9h  9s Jc
Dave bets--BB calls
Turn  3d
Dave bets--BB calls
River 6

Dave checks-- BB makes pot size raise.... Dave calls to win the
pot with his
 8c  6d
BB shows  Ah Qs..!

how does he check to the BB if he is UTG? Is this supposed to be the other way around?

I can't imagine dave raising 96 UTG

So, we agreed that Ariston would work for blonde today, to help out. 3 minutes after the EPT started, I walked into the cash-game room, & look who was sat there enjoying himself.

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I hope you issued him with a red card!

Just spoken with Ariston who is on his way down to the dungeon with some chip counts..
Apparently Isabelle Mercier is crrently a no show and is slowly being blinded away..

PMFSL  I just text him saying "You naughty boy!"  he prob has absolutely no idea why!  lol

I love the pics, better than the telly!

Hello all and welcome to MY wet city. I hope to say hello and thanks for all the great reports over the last year in person.
but tomorrow, for this evening i must get plastered elsewhere.
Eoin is one of the best and also tightest players of his age group. I'm amazed that he's out.

don't get a drenching.

ok i'm off to the pub.

any idea how my protege Len 'The Hitman' Collins is doing? he will be wearing a paddy power tshirt. big bald guy with sci-fi mp3 sungalsses?

tx, des

WHAT a play by El Blondie. Never mind where he was sitting, WHAT a play!


OK, THIS is the world-famous Merrion Casino - of the two doors, it's the "open door" to the right, as we look.


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Hi can u let us know how the boys from www.bad-beat.net are getting on please, this includes skalie, punkfloyd,squelch,pocket72 and strummer9.

Ariston, contrary to popular opinion, is actually rushing about with a bit of paper, making what I think is a list of notable chip counts.  Game must've broken.  Hooray for him - they'll be up as soon as he gets to Tikay or back up to me...

Players you may know in my room:
Abel Meijberg (remember him from the final in Baden?)
Bad Girl Xuyen Pham
Torstein Iversen
Joe Beevers
Noah Boeken
Simon Trumper
Juha Helppi
Paul Moss
Frode Fagerli
Milkybar Kid Ben Grundy, who is on the same table as Joe Grech and Surinder Sunar
Anders Berg

Going up to the attic now

Gota say it again, updates with pics are the bees knees and the Bogs doccocks

I'm here for the duration, great job guys

Hi Doc, look forward to meeting you.

Our Chip Leader, with 21k, is none other than ......wait for it - Dubai Millenium!

Isabelle Mercier has not arrived yet, she has, literally, just landed at Dublin Airport, so she'll another 45 minutes yet.

The door below is "next door". Never knew they played football.

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Scratch that - I'm off to hunt down this wonderful list of players and seats so I can keep an eye on your requests -

meds - can I have real names?  Going to struggle with a couple of these otherwise.

On the lookout for Len Collins.

let me know how dubai, pommo and kp are getting on please...

We don't, there is some team that wears green that pretends to tho!

Welcome to Dublin guys great coverage!

put that blonde on ice for me!

thats dave shallow, dave pomroy and ken powell

Len Collins is OK - he has 11k.

The bad-beat boys, I know them, & will see what I can do.

The Rookie, having promised me he'd sit quiet for the first 2 hours, got involved with Barny, who took a bunch of chips off Brian, who was holding.......  7c 4d. THEN he has the gall to say "this table is ******* mad"......

Here's Sverre Sundbo, with a young lady who appears to have had some trouble with her skirt.

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Hows Andy Black doing?

Zelda, we already posted that we think Dubai is Chip Leader with 21k.

Andy Black has 9k. I am SOOOOO jealous of these guys, I wish I was playing, but hey-ho.

Here's Mr Thomas Kremser, dandy as ever - shame about the tie - with Kev O'Connell's Leona.

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You not playing in the 10k at Walsall Tom?

Please pass on my regards and wish the best of luck to Paul Moss and Jim Kerrigan, both od whom qualified via Blue Square.

As I was just leaving the Master Suite (floor 4) I saw a bit of a hand developing with Frode Fagerli, one of team Norsemen, so I watched.  He'd raised to 600 preflop and received three callers (the blinds are now 50 - 100).  The flop came  Jh Td Ad, and he bet out 1,500.  Matey raised to 5,000 - all-in - call (meanwhile the other two guys got out of the way).

Frode showed  Tc Th vs  Ah Js and with the rest of the cards coming  9s 8d he doubles up, and the other guy is nearly out.

Leona will shout at me if I don't put a better pic up, so here she is again.

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Andy Black is my new poker hero

Hi Jen

Please pass best wishes to Joe Beevers from Robert The_Brief.

hi all

any news on how george white is doing   

its his b'day so he decided what better present than to buy himself in for his home ept event

Kev O'Connell is up to 21k.

Isabelle Mercier has just arived.

Here's a happy couple, Mathilde & Simon "Aces" Trumper

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I can't stand the excitement, i have to come down for an hour.

anybody want anything in the shops? you have ten minutes to decide.

seriously, i'll be leaving in ten mins and i'll be there 5 mins after that.
tikay? anybody else?

I admire your taste! :D

Yes please Doc, some ciggies  for me please, & some sweets for Jen - or is that the other way round?

Here's THE BOSS, Megs, who runs The Merrion as far as I can see.

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I hate posting requests  coz i dont want to jinx Paul (Garnham ) , but if you happen to see him can you let me know how he's doing please ? 8)

Ok, we will go & see if we can find Paul "M3Boy" Garnham, & George White too, though I don't know what the latter looks like.

Heres blondeite "oi-oi saveloy", the "unknown" Iwan Jones.

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Go on Dubai my son.

no problem.
but what do you smoke?

i'm gonna bring u a cigar from my extensive humidor of cheapo internet cigars as a welcome pressie to our sunny city
smoke it at your peril!

seriously, what cigs?

Embassy, Benson & Hedges, anything really. They are not for me.......

may aswell go for marlboro lights then eh? :)

DUBAI IS YOUR SON PQ???   




GO ON DUBES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOOOOOOOOO ON DUBAIIIIIIIIIII

Didn't you know Shaa? How can you miss the family resemblence.


Goooo for it KP, Pommers and Dubai!

News of a quite extraotrdinary hand coming in. Joe Grech was holding  Qs Qh, & Ben Milky Bar Kid Grundy had the whopper  8d 4s

The board came  Qc 6d 7c - Joe LOVED that, the turn was  9h and the River  5c, giving Ben a gutshot & a 15k pot, & leaving poor Joe non-plussed.

Des you could do me a favour and give us a report on that parking situation around the merrion :D :D

Alas no Craig, I'm in the Laddies big money and I think I have caught tikay's man flu

Some early counts from my immediate vicinity:

Josh Darby         19,000
Greek Jack           5,625
Abel Meijberg       8,500
Bad Girl                8,600
Torstein Iversen  16,000
Joe Beevers        10,800
Noah Boeken      15,000
Simon Trumper    11,000
Paul Moss            9,000
Frode Fagerli        23,500
Vik Kanwar          8,100

I think Paul Garnham has around 8k

You lot really should stop snogging each other!   ;)

Here's our Rhow. The fella muscling in is Billy Foley, the Poker 425 Cameraman.

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Thanks for great updates, but where can i see the pictures?

thks for the updates and welcome to dublin tikay and gang

muscling in .. is that what they call it in Ireland..

Just saw Paul Moss clash with Simon Trumper in an interesting sort of hand:

The board was  Jh Qc As Qd.  Paul bet 600 which Simon called.  The river brought a  9c.  This time Simon bet out 1200, and after a long think got raised to 2,600.  Simon called showing  Jc Qs and it turns out the river got Paul into trouble with his  9h Qh.

So now the counts are as posted, with about 3,500 changed hands between those two.

The rumours of the full seating list are still just that, though.  We journalist types are taking turns gently badgering whoever's at the desk every 15 minutes.

Nr12, new blondeite, once you log in, the pictures should become, as if by magic, visible. Nr12 is one of a dozen or so new Members who have joined in the last hour. But you MUST be a Member, & Logged in, to see the pics.

Here's Roy-The-Boy Brindley, who's apparently waiting.

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How is Dubai getting on?

Really enjoying the updates :) thanks alot.

The blinds are now 75 - 150.  There's a break after this level. 

57 losing news now - two players as yet unintroduced to me got it all-in on the turn with a board of  Ah 8c 4s 6h.  Their hands: As Ac and.... 5c 7d!  It was all looking so promising until the river brought the case  Ad.  And another one's down.

aye agreed, this is making ma saturday afternoon quite exciting! lol :blonde: <---hmmmm.

I'm one of those new members Tikay - long time lurker first time poster. Congrats on the top quality coverage and I hope Mags and the gang look after you guys in the Merrion.

Keep up the good work.

Afternoon all. Big ty always for the excellent updates. Go Dubai , Pommo and KP :D

Any updates on Pomroy or Powell? :p

Many thanks to Doc Farrell who has bought in a little goodire bag for Jen & I - ciggies & a 2 big cigars (for Jen) & sweeties for me.

Ariston is off to the pub, apparently.

Skalie - we had a request for him - was in trouble with 6k, but he's on 13k now, having caught a set of Jacks.

Here's a rather dark pic of blondeite Stuart Fox - "Foxy".

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Hi ollyk1, welcome.

John Parado (?) is OUT after his AA was turned over by a flopped flush held by Lenny Barlow, from Derry. Derry is in Ireland, or somewhere, I thnk.

Here's a happy trio. The Rookie, Brian Wilson & USA Poker team-mate Marc Goodwin, flanking our Thewy.

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I'm gonna see ikf I can get a count for Dubai, give me a few minutes.

Joe Grech is OUT.

Nr.12 - can you see the pics now?

Here's the magnificent Press Room, eveyone busy. Can't see Ariston.



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It is Londonderry TK ;)

Yes Tikay. Just had to login. Thanks.

Any chance of a picture of Dubai please!!!!!   I heard he looked like a young chubby Elvis?? O0

Dubai is  down to 9k.

Shaa

Ever seen dubai play cricket?

HO HO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :blonde:

Grr :( Dubai ..... KpNuts and Dpommo news?

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG 8)

Is this the Dubai fan club forum or something??

Thanks for the Dubai updates Tikay :)

I LOVE TIKAY

YOU HAVE YOUR FAMILY WE HAVE OURS

well said boomer

Horrible sitting at home waiting for news  :(  just glad the blonde team are there giving reguler updates on how everyone is doing  :)

Just had a text from Paul ( M3boy ) he is now on 12k .

No , its the Dubai , Pommo and KP fan Club , Oi Oi :D

SHAABOOM T Shirts are also available gatsby m8

Nice to be somewhere where i can use the Ukgatsby name rather than that horrid USAracing ;)

Is there any truth in the rumour that the Blonde update team borrowed one and are now using it as their tent ;)

Charmaine, Jen & Ari & Malc don't know Paul, I do, but I'm stuck in the press Tent, I'll ty & get some more news of him for you.

Here's Ram Vaswani, but who's the comedian behind him?

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Thanks Tikay , much appreciated xxx

Not sure, but I think I've seen him on the Simpsons

This is Bepe, I'm told, from Crossroads. Think his name is Michael Greco.

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TK Can you please get me an update on Davis Pommroy please......    or Ken Powell   -----   KP Nuts..............

Many thanks....



SHAABOOM

any news on badbeat boys, strummer9, punkfloyd, skalie, pocket72, ijsj and squelch?

Here are a list of chip counts, working up from the basement, until everyone got up to go on break (bear with us for the rest):

Brian Wilson     3,500
Barny Boatman 36,000
Roy Brindley     9,400
Luca Pagano    9,200
Dave Shallow   10,300
Iwan Jones     11,000
Ross Boatman  11,000
Torstein Iversen 9,000
Martin Vallo       6,500
Jonas Helness   11,800
Andreas Hurtig  10,100
Jan Heikman     11,000
Ben Grundy      16,000
Surinder Sunar  6,200
Tomas Brandt   11,500
Dave Colclough  10,000
Xuyen Pham     5,000
Anders Berg     8,500

By the sounds of it most of the players are enjoying a well earned fag  , well i know M3 is  :)

Ariston now going on strike and heading for the pub-too many stairs in this place.

Sverre out to andy black. Allin preflop with tens v andy's KT the king finishes sverre off who is swearing alot in norweigan.

Sverreing

Here is the other set of counts, courtesy, I have to admit, of PunkFloyd himself (who has 14k-ish)

Squelch  30,000
Kevin Daley  13,000
Skalie          12,000
Ken Powell (kpnuts)  13,000
Strummer    6,000
Martin         10,000

I heard that Barny Boatman insisted on Brian Wilson showing a hand he wanted to muck. Isn't that considered a bit rude?

Go Pommo!
Go Dubs!!!
GO NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Rookie, Brian Wilson,  is OUT. Nothing went rigjht for him today. He's gone back to the hotel in a strop.

Here's, arguably, the least flattering pic ever seen of Isabelle. Ariston took it, I hasten to add.

Dave Colclough is in good hearty, he has 11k. He's given me his "Merrion Casino Final Table" Jacket, I'm freezing down here, it's cold & wet & windy.

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Oh, and found Len Collins who was surprised I knew his name (thanks for that description lol) he had 14,000

 

Byron, the thing between Barny & Brian was the result of a pre-comp bet between them. Brian offered Barny 10/1 that Barny could not name Brian's hole cards in any given hand.

Here's The Rookie, before his demise.

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sorry if this is a stupid question...but what's the average stack?

Obviously giving Ariston "the eye"  ;)

Kevin O'Connell, after the break, was seen wandering up & down the stairs looking bemused. I asked him if he'd forgotten his  table - "no, I've forgotten what floor I'm on".

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Ariston sniffing around Miss Mercier now theres a surprise :D

what chips did they start with? 10k?

Tikay / Jen.. have i missed something or is Simon T gone out ?

Answering a few questions.

Simon Trumper is still in, we weiull get his count shortly.

Starting stacks were 10k.

Average - don't know  yet, but I'd guess, maybe 12k or 13k max.

Here is Simon, with a less than enthralled looking Mathilde, who is his constant companion & railbird. Some railbird.,

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Cheers..x

Here's a man with a few headaches right nowe, Mr Derek Kelly, who's "Mr Gutshot". He's done his homework, & we wish him well.

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Is that Don Fagan sitting next to Mr Trumper?

Don is without doubt the most aggressive player I've ever faced. He is a bona fide maniac!

This man needs no introduction. He had his critics when he & The Hendon Mob signed that huge sponsorship deal, but there was a "wave effect" & all sorts of sponsorsahip deals for all sorts of peeps have arisen as a result. Top Bloke, too.

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Can you get any pics of that hunk M3 for me Tikay ??? me and Katie would love to see " dadadada "

Hi Keith, yes, that IS Don Fagan sat next to Simon Trumper. Fiull-blooded maniac, eh? Well you'd know. How's Jake, did QPR win today, & did how many did Brentford win by?

Simon Trumper news, then - down to 8,000 after doubling up Juha Helppi's  Ac Ah with  Jh 5h on a Jack-high board.  So Juha has 12,000 now.

Noah Boeken has 26,000 at last count and has been joined at his table by his friend the hoody-sporting Jeffrey Bensinger, on 11,500.

Go Joe. Joe gave away 1% of himself for this comp as a bubbel prize last week, no warning, just did it mid comp. Hope the lass who got the bubble gets some cash. Say Hi please

Joe has 10,000, but looks pretty relaxed.  Tikay has introduced me to him on no fewer than five separate occasions. 

Sverre Sundbo - OUT
Paul Testud - OUT

Talking of "hoodys", Jen is wearing her new super-cool blondepoker hoody today. She looks well cool. Wait till I get mine, girls.

Talking of male heart-throbs, here's Noah Boaken, apparently asleep. It's the tea that does it.



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Jake is having a whinge as I type. A bit like you after your aces get cracked.

QPR stunningly won 2-1 after having a player sent off.

Brentford lost 2-0 at home to Bournemouth.

So it's been a good day all round!

Guess I do tend to "over-introduce" Jen to the names on the circuit, but I'm very proud of her, & what she's achieved. And there's another female blonde Update starlette coming along nicely,too, watch this space.

Here's Iwan Jones again.

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The blinds are being elevated - 150 - 300 in a sec.

Counts we just made (Rolf tells me the names of the people I point at, sometimes accurately ;)

Steve Vladar  6,150
Bad Girl   10,000 (after being given the rubdown by Rolf that everytime he counts her chips, any tournament, she has 5,000)
Frode Fagerli   20,000
Vik Kanwar      7,000
Anders Berg    8,500
Kevin O'Connell 23,000
CT Law          8,000
Ram Vaswani  21,000
Isabelle Mercier  12,000
Julian Thew      7,000
Brigitta Johanssen  7,000
Peter Eichhardt    5,000
Joep Durkstra      3,000
Andy Black          26,000
Padraig Parkinson  17,000
Patrik Antonius     7,000
John Kabbaj        5,000
Edgar Skjervold   10,500
Cecilia Nordenstam 7,500
Ken Lennard         17,000
Kjersti Grini            3,000

I spot Dubai!!!!! Lol

Dubai is OUT!

dpommo is up to 26k, though.

Here's The MilkyBarKid, Ben Grundy, who, by all accounts, got a bit lucky against Joe Grech this afternoon.That's poker!

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Damn...how did Dubai go out?

Any pics of Pommo or Kp?

Oops just texted Dubai commenting on his tshirt...prob not the best time...

Dubai's exit. I gather he had  Ac Kd UTG & limped, with a view to going over the top to a Raiser. He found his Raiser, Dubai sprung the trap, & the Raiser called, flipping over  As Ah. Oops.

Ahh man that sucks :( No miracle crypto flops of 2 King's then I take it....tss this live stuff ain't all it's cracked up to be :-P

Has Ironside been giving lessons 8)

Can you wish john "CT" law good luck please!!!

He wpn't be hanging about, chip leader soon...

Would someone please pass a message on to Ariston for me and tell him I said he's an ignorant soandso!   

Thank you very much.

xx

How are Dc and Iwan getting on Tikay, great updates as always 



 :respect:

ITS ALL FIXED  :D     Glad to hear Dpommo is going well Tikay...........    mostly a big cash player but is imo a bloody good tourney player and nice fella.............



GO ON POM POM

I'm up & about trying to get those pics you have requested, give me 5 minutes. And we have a small technical problem, Jen & I have just had a ciggie break......

Here Here and thanks for the count Tikay

Gamblor.. are you going to the mini Festival next week?

Well today was on of the toughest for me in  a big comp, nothing went right. I watched Barney Boatman play well and go to 30k in 2nd level. I can say that I always try to learn something when I play, today all I learned is that losing so fast sucks! I would rather play bad than suffer today again, Oh wel I will just have some fun and get ready for the 888.com on Monday.

I think the first prise of $500,000 will make me feel better once I win It!!!!!! Watch out Gary Jones, the ROOKIE is coming to claim the prize.

Good luck to evryone still in, thanks to evryone for the input on the 2c 2h hand , it really is great to have a community like Blonde for support and information.

Rookie
2005 WSOP PLH World Champion

I think you need to work on your confidence Brian

you have to be dumb enough to know you can, this is an original rookie saying, how else could I win a bracelet???????????

Behave Red......

Here's Jen in her blonde hoody, she says she looks "psychotic" in it. Wait till I get mine........

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Yes i think i should be there nun... Hope to see you again!

Brian is one of the most infectious men you'll meet, no way you can't be confident around him lol!

Jen has toddled off to  get chip counts for El Blondie & Iwan Jones, & pass At-It's message on to John Law.

This is Mike Lacey, aka blondeite "Lucky Blind", who runs an Irish website. Dead helpful peeps.

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That's a lovely cheesey grin by Jen..

Here's Bad Girl, latterly Mrs Vladar.

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...and the Boy Thewy, who's having a torrid afternoon, but never count him out.

We are just starting a 15 minute break. The first 7 levels are 45 minutes, then they go to 1 hour levels.

Break times here are chaotic. I'm on the ground floor, there is jjust one flight of stairs in the entire building - it's a house jobbie - so everyone dsahes downstairs at once for their fag break. Ireland, if you did not know, bans smoking in all public places.

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As for those specific counts - just in the nick of time found Iwan Jones on 25,000

And El Blondie has been moved to the table right next to my tiny little workstation, so it will be easy to update on his progress, if I can squeeze back in the room.  He has 9,000.

Any Reports on Dave Pomroy, Mark Hawkins and Ken Powell much appreciated thanks Jen and Tikay

much love

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Yes, just like Tikay says, when there's a break a hundred people come down the stairs, which makes going up them rather tough going.  I think they should be one way (up), with a fireman's pole for descending.

If Ken Powell hasn't been moved, the chips in the seat he was occupying previously register at 15,000, Sunday.

Withnthe guys on break, I'll try & grab some fresh pics.

I cant see WHO this is, my "thumbnails" are too small to tell, but I do know the guy nextb to him sappears to be wearing a shower cap.

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Other counts you might be interested in:

Luca Pagano                7,000
Roy 'the boy' Brindley  13,000
Barny Boatman           35,000
Ben Grundy               25,000 (he's now on Barny's right)
Ken Lennard             14,000

Kp's out :( KK ran into nut flush...and as far as I'm aware Hawko ain't playing Ben..

Looks like its Pommo flying the flag. Hows he doing :)

Oh i thought he was playing PQ. Ok thanks for updates Jen now we need the rundown on PommoFish aka David Pomroy.

Some pics and/or updates wouild be much appreciated

regards

Ben

apologies - been in the dungeon room (where there are still five tables) for a while...

According to Malc there are about 170 players remaining.  So 80 players have dropped - my estimate was pretty far off the mark.  I should go and see if there's any nook filled with tables that I've missed :)

Ahh, the guy I failed to reciognize was Mark Wililams,the World Snooker champion. Oops.....

Blimey, don't tell Shaun Murphy

Roy The Boy Brindley, with Tim Flanders in the background, in a pic taken 5 minutes ago.. In answer to a question, nope, we've no idea what the antes or blinds are, or how long is left on this level.

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Classic  :blonde:

Oops again, the EX world champion snookerist.

Here's Ram Vaswani, a proud father these last 3 weeks. Note the logo on the shirt. YOU can play it - $25k is the entry.......

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any chance of an update on the badbeat boys?

More Joe Beevers news now - it folded to his small blind, and he raised the shorter-stacked big blind with  As Js.  The big blind had  Ah Qh, however, and with no improvement from the board after it was all-in, Joe is down to 4,000.

I'll tell you what tk.

I'll do you a favour.

You can put me in the Monte Carlo Millions and I'll play for only 60%.

You can't say fairer than that.

Jen will perhaps do the update on the badbeat boys, she is sat almost next to PunkFloyd & Squelch.


Here's Iwan Jones, looking away, & at the far end of the table, Jim Read, who lists his home town as Dublin. But he lives in Bedford, or somewhere equally awful.


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Take it down Pommersssssss

Mr. Punkfloyd has 14,000 - will work on the others...

From this room:  Steve Vladar (7,500) was just moved up here where it errs on the side of swelter rather than shiver, sat kind of back to back with Bad Girl, who didn't notice as she was fighting a brave fight for the waiter to bring her some food.  In fact, just at this minute Dave suggested a rather savvy business plan of heading to Burger King, buying 30 burgers and selling them for a tenner, or something.  I wish I knew where the fast food outlets were, actually...that's not a bad plan and it doesn't look like we press are getting any preferential service treatment...

Camel, you are TOO generous........ Tell you what, how wonderful it would be to play the Monte Carlo Millions, eh? Ahh well, dreams are free. We'll update it, anyway.

OK, sorry it's a bit dark, but this is the "dungeon", the basement cellar which was formerly the betfair betting "lounge".

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Hello TiKay
Any news on Isabelle ?
How is she doing so far ?

POKER Q And Sunday I am now selling pom poms and a SHAABOOM Tshirt for half price..... :D 8) 8)

Lol....bargain.

Hi "surprise", I will find out for you - or djinn will - how your beautiful daughter, Isabelle Mercier, is  getting on. I LOVE her new super-cool hair-do. Here's a pic of her taken at the break. The cardy is because it's jolly cold here.

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Before I go in search of Isabelle (she's in the attic, only the one flight of stairs from here)  - some more chips from people who have been asked about previously:

Paul Moss 17,000 (the BlueSquare qualifier looks very comfortable, and is one of the few that hasn't been moved round the houses)
Simon Trumper  16,000
Vik Kanwar        20,000
Frode Fagerli     16,000
Bad Girl             23,000

what colour are they ;)

For Jen and Tikay's viewing....

Red is last 14 in the ladbrokes $1000 Freezeout, he has 32k av is 27k. (2nd in chips, runaway leader on 100k)

$45k for first.

The Rookie, wondering whwere it all went wrong today. "How COULD he call" he's saying to stablemate Marc Goodwin.

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Wow, way to go Red!

Here's two of THE most famous Poker Players in Europe.

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And here's ANOTHER geezer trying to get us to cough up $25k.

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Just quickly - big dwelling talk-tastic moment from Noah Boeken (on 30,000 prior to losing 6ish on this hand):

He faced a huge all-in bet on a board of  6s Tc Ac 7c and talked at the confident-looking opponent long enough for the cameras to start hovering:

"You don't want me to call."
"I want you to call."
"Why bet so big... I should call but I won't," he said, showing  Ah Qh.  His opponent kindly showed the  As 7d which would have nearly taken him out if he'd called.  Which I kind of thought would never happen. 

Anyway, there followed some animated discussion with Jeffrey Bensinger, who has 15,000.

Here's the lovely Willsam Hill Bad Girl.

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skalie, strummer and squelch still in?

Skalie? Here he is, 10 minutes ago, with ex ace footie chappie Tony Cascarino. Tony played for all the really big teams except Brentford.

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Luca Pagano. He's Italian.

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For those waiting on Isabelle's progress, she's still in the attic (although they've broken one of the tables up there and she looks likely to be moving soon) and has 14,000 or so (the camera guy's back was kind of blocking the door).  It looks like she's calmed down after that stressful late arrival - if your plane's delayed, it's delayed and there's not a lot you can do about it except show up and play with the rest of your chips.

Do you have a pic of Ray Coburn? Hes an American with green hair lol, known as Exitonly.

Hey Tikay/Jen,

Any chance of an update on American kid called Chad, he's Scott Gray's nephew over from Florida having won his ticket online in a freeroll. I think that was him sitting beside Jim Read.

He normally plays $10 mtt online so this is a big step up for him but he has the pedigree.. :)

Thanks.

does any1 have any word on Red in the Ladbrokes 1k ?

OH, that's who Green Hair Guy is.. we can get one (Tikay, er, that's your department)... He's still in.  Unless it's some other guy with green hair.  You never know.

Red is on the final


45k
30k
18.75k
14.25k
12k
9.75k
7.5k
6k
45k
2.25k


Thats the payouts, we have live updates in the linternet poker forum

Red is currently in 5th place and on the final table :D

Wow, GO RED!!!

9th should read 4.5k not 45k

One of the waitresses just came up and said something mysterious which sounded like, "the food pizza are on their way."  That sounds good.  As insurance I seem to have had a burger ordered by a certain blondeite playing in the comp, and therefore allowed to order burgers with authority...

....and in Other News, Julian YoYo Thew is still on 7,000.  When I say "still" I mean that he's probably been up to 30k and down to 1k and back to 7k in the time it's taken me to visit the upstairs twice.

No, I spoke too soon - Julian just OUT.  He held  Jh Js, and when facing a serial raiser, pushed for the lot, only to find  Ad Ac against him.  No escape, really.

Great reporting team

Really enjoyed the read Hope your having a great time.

I am using my Pro Railbird skills for RED DOG in the Biggie.

Regards

M

If my connection allowed it, I'd do that too, M.

The guy sat on Dave's left has 58,000 chips which must put him near the top of the leaderboard.  I am reliably informed that this is Squelchy aka Richard.

Red is 6th out of 9 in chips average is 43 he has 26, 600-1200 blinds

And whilst the Mob are promoting the MCM last years winner, Jani Sointula, is sat 2 seat to Red's right.

Oh and to his right is Tino L, the Australian who finalled in a WPT event, played the VC poker cup last year but i have no chance of spelling his name

Late arrivee-ess Isabelle Mercier has suddenly shot up to 25k.

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And here, especially for Charmaine, is her Paul, aka M3Boy. His sister asked to be left out of the picture. "You doing ok Paul?" I enquired. "No, shite". Ahh, I see.

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Thanks for updating (among others) those of us on the other side of the Atlantic. I don't envy the reporting situation there, with players on multiple floors, and only one staircase.

Go Isabelle!  :)

Here's Mr Burns, with Squelch behind him.

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Ooooooo ,, young Harry got so excited at seeing Daddy , but not as much as Mummy  ;) ;sex;

N

Byn the way, Mr Burns is wearing the new blondepoker logo. The one we've just got rid of........ Thats another x hundred quids worth of apparel down the drain.

Now, here's Squelch, aka Richard Redmond, with a chip leading 58k in front of him. Dave reckons 12k of those are his. Or were.

Hi Czardplayer. The Venues this side of the Atlantic are, it's fair to say, just a tad behind those which you guys get to play & report in. But we are delighted that someone from Cardplayer takes a look at blonde now & then. One day we will be big boys, like you. Maybe.

Right, here's a view into the Health Farm - sorry, smoking tent, with Mr Boatman, Kevin O'Connell, & Skalie (backgroind) all having a puff.

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With only 137 players left, it's not quite looking like the 7am-er that we were reckoning earlier.  I am going to guess at a 3am finish.  Just to give myself a goal - to receive ordered hamburger before that time.

Red's new hero, Andy Black.

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Mr Burns LOL. Tikay you have that Michael Palin wit, keep it up!.
Im new here and signed up because im from Dublin and am especially interested in the goings on here. Im finding the reporting good and i'd say you both are getting tired at this stage but take yer break later keep shovelling the coal with more chip counts!!

Padraig Parkinson. He moved as I took the picture......

He don't look too happy, & he's not. He said he'd been given a table of miserable gits.

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Here's another of the "bad-beat" team. Can anyone name him?

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El Blondie OUT - following a raise to 2k from mid position (the blinds are 300 - 600 ante 75) he pushed all-in from the small blind with  Tc Th.  He got a pretty quick call from  Ah Kd, which hit both pairs on the flop to send him (graciously) from the tournament.  As a helpful observer on the table observed, "you've got to win those races to win tournaments." 

Normally helpful to say to someone....."You might want to go to casualty to get that broken nose seen too...." ;)

Hi Jen and Tk     


Any news on DPOMMO please??

Cheers

SHAABOOM

Welcome Maharajah, glad you are enjoying it. We WILL keep going til the end, though I need to go & register at oir Hotel, or else we will get locked oit. It's in Ballsbridge, which I'm told is not too far, so sometime soon, I'll pop across there & leave Jen here solo. She'll cope OK, no worries.

Here's yet ANOTHER "bad-beat" team member, there are 5 or 6 here, this is John Conroy, aka PunkFloyd. He's a Livetpool supporter.

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Tikay -- What the European venues lack in space they more than make up with class and character. The major American tourneys are becoming so big they can only be held in ballrooms -- and where's the fun in that? (The biggest exception is Bellagio in Las Vegas, which hosts tournaments in their gorgeous Fontana Lounge overlooking the famous water fountains.)

I'm the lead tournament reporter for Card Player, but I've been following your coverage of the big European events recently. Tournament poker reporting is still growing, and it's interesting to see how others tackle the same problems that all poker journalists are faced with. Plus, I'm trying to improve my knowledge/recognition of the best European players, who often play in WPT and WSOP events over here. It's only fair that Europeans should be able to follow our coverage of big American events and hear how their home-grown players are doing, right?

Right now I've got American football on TV (Georgia v. Florida), and EPT Dublin coverage on the computer. Not bad for a Saturday afternoon in Las Vegas!

Besides, it's always fun to root for Isabelle. And don't let her late arrival fool you -- I have it on good authority that she is focused and ready to win! :)

(FYI, I only signed up as a member after you said it was necessary to view photos -- I was wondering why I couldn't see anything! I think you should mention that at the beginning of each tourney, just in case there are others like me.)

Yeah Ballsbridge is only 5 mins away in a jo maxi(taxi). Glad to see Doc Farrel was looking after you earlier with a bit of Irish hospitality, He likes giving gifts but not as much as he likes drinking!.
GL for the duration

"It's only fair that Europeans should be able to follow our coverage of big American events and hear how their home-grown players are doing, right? "

Got to respect that attitude. Have a gr8 saturday chap.

sorry guys, got involved in the Laddies biggie but I'm back now, did you miss me?

stef mclean still intks

Of course we missed you, you moved out of range  :D

How did you do Mr Red ?

Red you got $12k i can borrow?

Very nice Mr Red  :)up :cheers: :)up :cheers: :)up :cheers:

What, with all that in the bank?  :D

btw, Blonde has the best railbirds in the world, thanks guys

any update on andy black?

Did we miss who? (Well DONE Red, great result).

OK, we were asked to take a pic of this young man, "Exitonly" I think his name is. I managed to recognize him. He's American.......

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WD Red. Nice result.

Counts from floor #1 -

Richard Redman     70,000 (I think a fairly comfortable leader, although the way the pace has picked up it might not stay that way long)
Andy Black            58,000 ("or something like that")
Brigitta Johanssen  20,000
Simon Trumper     11,000
Josh Darby            22,000
Isabelle Mercier      27,000
Noah Boeken        42,000
Padraig Parkinson    4,500 (after a nice move with no cards which didn't turn out quite as planned when the guy called)
Jeffrey Bensinger   24,000 (The American seems to think going out partying in between 12 hour tournament days is a good plan)
Paul Moss             35,000
Joep Durkstra        50,000

Cool thanks Tikay, hes a well known player on the 2+2 forums, he qualified through Pokerstars so was hoping to see what he looked like...... blimey! lol.

This is, I think, Lenny Colins from Derry, who busted out a short while back, after a promising start. He says he's had a lovely day, & he wanted his pic taken with Mr Burns.

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My 17 yr old son has just had a very spikey mohican  , they must be a good 4/5 inches long but i think it looks great  O0

Here's one of the pioneers of Hold 'Em in Europe, Mr Liam Flood.

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Sorry the above was totally off topic but its keeping me awake  :blonde:

Don't know if I've already mentioned this but the pic's are FANTASTIC!!!!!!!

stef mclean in out ? pleaseeeeee.

Cardplayer - yes, the venues over here are much more intimate & friendly, none more so than the Merrion. And The Rio for WSOP was just awful, horrible. There must be a happy medium, surely? Anyway, I hope, when i'm less busy, we can chat some more.

Here's Jim Reid, who's doing good.

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siucra,

You asked after Stef McLean - can you give us a clue? Man? Woman? Tall, short, bald, green hair, red hair, young, old?

If you mean STEVE Mclean, well that's different. He's got 25k.

RED Nice Result buddy..........



SHAABOOM

Here's a pic taken in  the "attic".

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tks tk.; yr the man;women etc .tks man

Anyone heard from Iron today? - not like him to absent himself all day. Hope he's OK.

Well done Red - very nice result

Hey Tikay

Any news on Iwan?

Cheers

Anna

xx

Thanks Trace/Shaa, I deserve it

Wondered if Rob Mc Guirk still in? Link with a picture is below.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=3798

Anytime, Tikay. My email address is in my profile. But I won't expect anything too soon -- Keep up the great work in Dublin!

Iwan Jones - OUT

Having raised with AK he found a re-raise from what turned out to be 88.  He pushed for a further 15,000 after the raise, and, in his own words (or thereabout) "the f****** muppet called."

I don't know if this already made the headlines, but Simon Trumper and Padraig Parkinson are also both OUT.

Is Peter Roche playing?

If so, is he still in?

If so, has he got many chips?

Cheers Jen... thanks for the speedy updates bloody muppets!

Where are blonde off to next

Just spoke to Iron, He's feeling a bit rough but he's ok

As always great updates here!

Any news on the danes participating?

As long as it's not a bit of rough he's feeling ..

typical  :hello:

Hi TK. thanks for the reports, Rob.

Is there a technical hitch?

I think they've all bugered off to the pub

any news on pommo?

Ben Grundy is out,, so another site says

Wow!.........Just finished trawling through the updates,( had to work tonight :-[)   Excellent stuff as always and the pics are a lot better this time.  Well done to Red as well!  Sorry couldn't cheer you on.  

I keep going back to page 17 just to see what my husband looks like  :(

Down to 88

Here are some more counts, slightly delayed due to our change of scenery (corner, sat on coffee table, to emptied table, sat on chair, oh the comfort!)

Luca Pagano    25,000
Surinder Sunar 13,000
Greg Amoils     14,500
Ray 'Green Hair' Exitonly  31,000
Andreas Hagen  42,000
Noah Boeken    68,000

Yes that silence was a technical moment as I attempted to switch to the speedier wireless which other people seem to be having no problem with.  Typically, my computer connects, but won't go anywhere, if you get what I mean.  So back to the simcard, please bear with me.

Go Surinder! He's a popular European player here in the States, particularly among the poker media. He plays a lot of our big events, and he's just an all-around nice guy.

(I just thought I'd add a bit of support for him since he's short stacked.)

Also -- I can completely sympathize with wireless problems while covering a tournament. Nothing worse than having information to update to the Web, but having no Net access to do it!

Funny you should say that Charmaine..

lol nun , i vaguely remember him but its getting a bit fuzzy

Can somebody tell me about Isabelle ?

Short canadian lady, good player

I've had some tech problems too, sorry for the delay.

Isabelle has about 15k, I believe. Malc Muskett has gone off to take a look.

Camel, your 3 Peter Roche Questions.

1). No.

2). Not applicable.

3). Not applicable.

How's the Hendon Mob doing?  I'm hoping to spend a week in Vegas with those guys in December  ;)

Alright, my support is completely behind Isabelle once again. Go Isa!  :)

Charmaine, there you go - one for YOU.......

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Awwww , thank you soooooooo much Tikay.
Amasing how much i miss him when his not here , wheather it be 1 hour or 1 day  :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

And now, for The Nun, one for YOU.......

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 ;D ;D ;D

Is it true all the hendon mob is out?

Hows the tent next to the smokers. The best players always smoke.

Can u tell me how paul lecky and andy black are doing? I backed them both midweek

Ty Tk .. sssshh ..lets hope charmaine has gone to bed ...

I dont mind sharing Nun... long as his here for babysitting now and again  ::)

Andy Blsack? He's in OK shape, 55k.

Paul Leckey - he was a non-runner.

OK, this pic was taken 3 minutes ago.

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Stephen MacLean OUT - after a couple of valiant short-stacked all-ins he found  Ah Td, which would have been nice had not Jeffrey Bensinger on his immediate left not re-raised all in for a lot more with  As Kd.  A few minutes of controversy while they decided where the flop should come from (the dealer hadn't heard the re-raise and had dumped the cards down thinking the hand was over) and no improvement sent him out finally in what looks like 67th place or so.

paul lecky was on my table in citywest last night and he made it to the 2nd day (today!)

And this was taken, oh, I dunno, aboit 43 seconds later. Jen wonders why I posted these 2 pics..........More info there than you've had from me all night.

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I haven't told anyone yet

Young Damien Memercier took out two players at once with his AK - a very short stacked raggy small blind and a QK.  With six players on a table up here they need to have a little breakette as players come from the dungeon to replace them. 

New counts: 

Richard Redman    72,000
Andy Black           55,000
Brigitta Johanssen 21,000
Jeffrey Bensinger  60,000
Paul Moss            55,000
Joep Durkstra      32,000
Damien Memercier 30,000

The Money goes  down to 27, I believe, for which €6,000 is paid.

Well done to Red-Dog

watching another Blondite doing well in a tourney is almost

as good as playing in it yourself, I can honestly say I get a proper

Buzz out of other Blondies doing well in tournies.

Even RobertHm, doing well, now gives me a strange feeling of well being!!

what a wonderful place this is.

Andy Black takes a big hit as a young man in a hat with KK got a full double-up from Andy's AK on a King-high flop.  It looks like he's down to under 20,000, but still not out...

BlueSquare qualifier Paul Moss is chatting away - relaxed as can be, just now leaning back with his hands behind his head discussing strategy with someone he just pushed off a hand.

These folks just popped in to say Hi. That's The Boy Thewy, his younger bro Graham Thew, & Graham's missus, Min, or Nin, or Nim, I can never remember. They have two lovely girls, both with names that I can't remember. Min (Nim/Nin) is a herbal chemist, or acupuncturist, or something like that, I don't remember exactly. She's a mean poker player though.

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Thanks mate, the Blonde support is a great help, esp when it lasts 7 hours

When did Robert HM ever do well?

7 hours .. thats a long time for tinternet poker..129 players right?

Pauls just text to say his out  :(  
42k pot
Paul jj
Other person 99
All in preflop
9 hits the board  :(
Bless him  ;sex;

Yes but 30 min clock

I bloody hate j's.. get me every time ..

Errrr I was using Poetic license, and I have had a drink or two  8)

I think he would probably agree with you right at this moment

Still Red.. worth every second of every hour to get where you ot ...x

i watched it from the start give or take a food break here and there and really enjoyed it till the killjoy at the end made me miss the final few hands.
Actually spoilt it.

Yes, Paul "M3Boy"  Garnham is down in the Smokers Tent, with a can of beer, looking very glum. The pot was about 46,000, he'd have been in good shape if his JJ held up.

Therre is 30 minutes left on Level 11, then a 5 minute break, (it's a 1 hour clock), & we finish for the night after Level 12.

59 runners left according to the plasma screens, blinds currently 800-1,600, ante 200.

Can you let Paul know the MMM say unlcuky.

Also, what the hell you doing getting it all in with JJ for!! It isn't luton!!

Counts from the dungeon:

Isabelle Mercier   14,000
Surinder Sunar    45,000 (somehow this has spun up from nearer 10k last time I checked on him)
Greg Amoils        50,000
Stuart Forsyth    44,000
Ray 'Exitonly'      40,000
Andreas Hagen   55,000
Noah Boeken      73,000
Donnacha O'Dea 60,000
Joe Rafferty       90,000 (having just performed a double knockout)

It's gone very quiet in here. Andy Black likes not just to be Table Captain, but lead the verbals too. Nothing nasty, just lots & lots  of chat, designed, I think, to put the other players at a disadvantage. But since his big setback, he's not said a word - all very sombre. Mind you, he had no way olff the hand. He had AK, Matey Boy had KK, & a K fell on the flop.

Here he is earlier. His goaty seems to have overgrown somewhat recently.

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A really strong show from blondeite Greg Amoils tonight. Had no chips all evening, but suddenly he's up there in good shape. Here's Greg a lot earlier.

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Special Delivery Update:  David Pomroy (DPOMMO) is up to 95,000 and may be the chip leader....

Okay, my brief support of Surinder seems to have done wonders for his chip count. But now that he is relatively safe from the blinds, I once again affirm that my FULL support is 100% behind Isabelle. I hope to see her at 45,000 soon. :)

Hi Tikay,

I was at an event in London this week when a well known player gave a fellow player a terrible slow roll. After player A had pushed all in the well known player stands up and asks is that a ten high flop. He then ponders. When he finally sees that it is he calls and shows his pocket pair 10, 10 for trips..hmmmm

A few minutes later he calls another player and again after player A shows his cards the well known player shows his kicker first before saying oops and then showing his winning card.  His excuse for all this was his poor eyesight.

Do you think such a player should be publically named. Or should the player fall on his own sword.. you have ten minutes to reply...tick, tick, tick.

GOOOOOO POMMOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Yes CardPlayer you seem to be the anti-bok...

I think the actual chip leader (according to the better-informed Rolf) is Michael O'Sullivan (the KK doubler-up off Andy Black) who was last spotted with over 110,000

Here's a recent visitor to the blonde office, Richard Ashby. He lasted 10 minutes in the comp, before his QQ got done by KK. He's been playing cash ever since, & looks cheerful enough, & I imagine he's molre than recouped his entry fee. A fearless and fearsome cash player is our Richard.

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And we head gently into what is probably the final break of the night.  When they come back it's 1k 2k blinds with a 200 ante, and there will be 54 left.

IrishDenis -  :redcard: :redcard:

I deny your outrageous allegations strenously. Well, a bit strenously.

woohoo go pommo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Zelda !  :o

I missed out Michael Greco - he has 85,000.  Tom Murphy googled his name with 'Eastenders' just to prove to Rolf that he was whom we said he was.

hi owner  :) 

Oi Oi go Pommo :D

For those of you that are out of the event then try a pub called John Gogarthy's in temple bar. A short cab ride. Good music both upstairs and down. Well done all

Here's yet another visitor to blonde HQ - Martin Farragher, with Gutshot Supremo Derek Kelly in tow. Martin did not play today, he owns a horse which ran at Naas this afternoon. Jen is also in pic, looking happy, with a cup of coffee in hand.

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how about a pic of pommo? ;) - pretty please  ;) ;)

Hey, you guys cant finish yet, we just gained an hour, we're back to 1am

Correct Red. But we play ONE more hour, & that's that. 50 runners left, blinds 1k-2k, ante 200. Play will recommence on Sunday at 1pm - yes, that 1pm! We start off on Sunday here, at the Merrion, then we trot off to see the Final at the RDS - that's the Royal Dublin Society.

is the final table being played in the RDS?

Hi Tikay,

Good to meet you a few weeks back.

Just catching up on the coverage (great job as usual).

Any news on Smokin' and Badgirl?

Still, there is only an hour left of play here, it looks like, with 50 players still in.  To put that another way, that's 200 out.  The restart time tomorrow is 1pm.

Sorry Chris -  both are in fact out, a little while ago. 

Michael Greco, aka  Bepe of Emmerdale, has just won another tidy pot, & must be up amongst the leaders now.

We are off to see if we can get a pic of pommo. And maybe have a ciggie break.

jonner - yes, that's correct, we play the Final at the RDS at 7.30pm, & everyone who attends gets a goodie bag, containng a baseball cap & t-shirt, & it's free food & drink, too. All very exciting.

great stuff,cya there guys

ty tikay  :-*

Allo Zelda x :)

hello paul  :)

Heylooooo

bellaboo  :hello:

Hmm methinkag ehis phone is offage

Allo PQ :)

Tikay.......Jen ..... Whats Happening !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
:D

Right, got a few nice pics for you, just give me a mo to upload them. Or download them.

Zeld sign in to me

Andy Black fights Back news now - after a middle position raise to 4k and a call on the button, Andy moved all in on the big blind.  Lengthy dwells and passes resulted in his having built his small stack to somewhere nearing 40,000.

There is just one table remaining in the upstairs room (in which resides our updating stragglers) - and Michael Greco got involved immediately in a pretty big pot after sitting down.  He raised on the button and got a big blind call, and then a big blind check raise all-in on the  Tc 4h 9s flop.  After a long time he passed, saying it was K10 he was folding, and was shown a monstrous set of 4s for doing so.

*whistles* woooweee, nice pass


we ain't in the 4k gtd anymore toto ;)

Here's the Michael Greco v Man in a Shower Cap hand, the latter about to push all-in with his set of 4's, against Mr Greco's alleged & eventusally passed K-T.

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Some counts, just before The End:

Brigitta Johanssen   22,000
Jeffrey Bensinger    65,000
Joe Rafferty           110,000
Noah Boeken          80,000
David Pomroy        126,000
Andreas Hagen       45,000

By popular request, here's dpommo. The yellows are 1k, in stacks of 20. The purply's  are 500's, & the blacks 100's.

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omg look at the size of pommo's stack...  :P

oi oi pommo STACK ATTACK !!

Shower cap looks very similar to the guy that played the lead in ,,..The Fly>>

Hedre's another popular request jobbie - Paul Moss seen moving tables.

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This was a HUGE three way pot, maybe 80k.  The best hand stood up.

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Thanks to all at blonde for the updates throughout the night which kept me very entertained. I hope to meet some of you tomorrow at the RDS.

I hope you enjoy the "extra" hour tonight however you choose to spend it.

Good night and good luck all! :)

And this is Mr JJ stacking his sizeable pot. A scandie, I bedlieve.

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Aye aye that reminds me of my stack at the BFWCOP ;) LOL

This is, I believe, an Irish gentleman. Those blues are 5k each, in stacks of 10, of which there are 3.

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Noah Boeken, who is Marcel Luske's protege.

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According to my calculations, play should have ended for the day. I like the time difference, as it's only 7:15 pm here in Las Vegas, and I can still go out tonight. :)

More importantly, are there any last level reports on Isabelle?

Full end of day counts for all still in coming soon - I got the long straw of writing them down upstairs (where there is one table) and poor old Rolf went to the dungeon (where everyone else is) so bear with us til we have accumulated...

Yes, Mr Cardplayer, play HAS finished for the day. Jen & Rolf are just getting the chip counts for the remaining 40 players. Won't be long, 10 minutes max.

Here's Luca Pagano. Something seems to be going on with his hair, here.

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Ahh ... the organized chaos of end-of-day chip counts! Good luck!  :)

These two Scandies, both wearing 2Puma" headgear, got well involved in a pot. The guy to the left, as we look, eventually passed & showed his AQ suited, saying "I put you on Kings". KK man never showed.

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The AQ man is Norwegian Andreas "MAHONY" Hagen, Tikay. The other guy is Swedish...

Thank you Granis. Andreas has some mean stare going down there. I assumed Norweigan & Swedish was the same thing.

Here's a very smart looking John Duthie, pretending to talk business with a young lady.



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that's a bad dose of dandruff he's got there!! :D

well done folks, good stuff as per

Here's Mags, who worked her socks off tonight. She's such a nice lady.

I won't pre-empt too many of the Chip-Counts, which are almost complete now, but I'm sorry to say I can't see Isabelle Mercier's name amongst them.

Here they are - the final standings after the end of Day One:
     Jared Davis 49,400
     Raymond Coburn 45,200
     Patric Mortensson 50,400
     Andreas Hagen 106,800
     Baic Novica 27,300
     P. Haslam 64,900
     T. Kerrigan 13,800
     Roman O'Malley 33,900
     Jim Red 60,100
     Jon Kalmar 61,200
     Andrew Black 40,700
     Stuart Forsyth 57,600
     Thierry Cazals 23,700
     Surinder Sunar 39,900
     Marcus Elfvring 43,800
     Luca Pagano 68,500
     Ahmet Melin 43,000
     Mats Gauatin 142,800
     Joe Rafferty 129,400
     Paul Moss 35,600
     Patrick McFadden 68,200
     Greg Amolis 25,000
     Noah Boeken 72,900
     Henric Olander 159,200
     Michael O'Sullivan 168,200 (chipleader)
     Jonas Molander 135,900
     David Pomroy 175,400
     Joep Durkstra 36,100
     Donnacha O'Dea 49,400
     John Parr 17,800
     Michael Slevin 25,800
     Magnus Eklund 54,500
     Jon Kalmar 61,200
     Michael Greco 115,700
     Birgitta Johansson 22,400
     Jeffrey Bensinger 77,200
     Christoph Bannach 49,600
  George McKeever 22,400
 Thomas Brandt 58,200

is there a typo on David Pomroy's chip count?
cuz he's got more than the chip leader

Hmmm hopefully a miscount on the Michael dude!

Yeah, leave Jen to do the chip counts ifm, & she gets it wrong. Mr Sullivan is in fact chip second.

Right, we haved been here for about 14 hours straight, so it's time for some brekkie. You don't often see "boiled egg & soldiers" on a Menu!

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stars have pommo as chip leader

4.95!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG, are they ostrich eggs?
enjoy folks

But ... there's no ... I don't ... where is ... Isabelle? :(

Don't worry. I can read between the lines. It appears that she bookended the day by arriving an hour late and departing an hour early. Better luck next tourney, Isabelle!

Tikay & Jen -- Thanks for all the updates, and good luck tomorrow!

Yes, pommo IS chip leader, & we do have the correct chip count for him, but we mistakenly put "chip leader" against Mr O'Sullivan.

Here's young Robert, from The Hendon Mob. That's a website.

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Is it 38 or 39 left

Jon Kalmar 61,200
is listed twice

Morning tk and Jen,  just got back from strange fancy dress party.  Want some pictures?  I miss you guys.  Wish sooooo much i was there!!  I want some cards?  Oops too much  vodka again.   ;D

And here's the last pic of the day. This is Jen, & Rold Slotboom, who writes for PokerPages - that's a website too - messing up the Chip Counts.

Big thanks to both olf them, they have been real heroes today, up & down these stairs.

Thanks for tuning in. Play starts at 1pm on Sunday.

Night all!

xx

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wooohoooo go pommo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

superb reports !!!!!!!!!

Yes and I can have the last word because I've already finished my breakfast.  Nighty night chili and see you all in the morning.

It's nice to see the poker media types working together for the common good. We do that over here too, with competing Web sites helping each other to get the best, most accurate information out to the public. ESPECIALLY on those end-of-day chip counts ...  :)

Mr CardPlayer - Rolf says Hi and Bye, about the level of eloquence to which we are reduced after a day climbing stairs (since when do poker players need to be fit, I ask you?)

Yes please Chilli - pics from the Fancy Dress Party.

CardplayerBJ - Rolf,the Mad Dutchman, says Hi. We have been teaching him to Update.

Here's my Charlie - she watches the Live Updates from home, she's a whizz on the Compyuter. So it's goodnight Charlie, & goodnight Chilli.

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Excellent reporting , night all :)

Jane would like soldier and eggs and i will got the full Irish, cheers Tikay.

Hi BJ....did you get my PM?

Cheers...Des.

I'm going to bed which i suggest you hard working peeps do! I will try and fit in some weird ass pics tomorrow!  Great job guys from what i read in the current state that i am in at present ie not too c00perativvvvve!  xxx  

p.s you lucky sods

If its not beer its soldiers!

Just like to say a big thank you to all the updaters , without you my lengthy time alone while Pauls playing poker would be very frustrating  >:?
The pics were great Tikay , many thanks for those  :-* :-*
Paul has Slovenia the end of November , so hopefully the Poker Gods will be a little kinder to him .
I really enjoy reading the forum and its kept me amused  :) thank you all for keeping me this side of sane  :)up

If anyone happens to see my husband and his girlfreind today , could you say hello from me please  :D

May not see Paul, but I'll see the sister. There was a shortage of Hotel rooms in Dublin this weekend, & after she fell out with Paul - something about going too far, though Dublin, it seems to me, is not THAT far - I did the gentlemanly thing & offered her my spare bed.

Good to know there are still gentlemen out there , if i ever need a bed i'll be sure to ask you first  ;)

Go Pommo.

Seems like it has been an excellent week and build up for him.

For those of you that don't read his blog it is here:

http://www.dpommo.blogspot.com

How is DPOMMO doing lads??    SHAABOOM ---------  8)

GL pompom all the b fair boys (and some on here i hope) are all rooting for you - bring home them yo yo`s

We are running the Day Two Live Update on a new thread - see you there!

IS IT ME OR DOES PONTE LOOK LIKE THE SPIT OF ARISTON IN HIS PIC

GO POM

hoped to make it down to dublin to cheer on dpommo but not be ....
ill cheer from here
GOOOOOOOOOOO POMMO 8)