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Greetings one and all and welcome to the Interactive live update of the London GUKPT at the Grosvenor Victoria in London. If you're as excited as me (about 11 on the woohoo scale), then you'll be pleased to hear that we kick off at the poker-player-heart-sinking time of 2pm. As always, your blonde poker update team will be present, this time boasting a team of three comprising of a dog, a cat, and a fish... and we all know who's at the top of that food chain.  ;indestructable;

Of course, that motley crew is myself, Junglecat and the-I'd-better-say-she's-lovely-or-else-I'm-in-the-dog-house-...again Dana 'banjo, banjo, I love banjos!' Immanuel. I don't currently have a player list at hand, but I fully expect the usual suspects to be there - Dave 'shaky eyeballs' Colclough, Julian 'golden yoyo balls' Thew, Mickey 'the immovable object' Wernick, and co. Also gracing the felt with her presence is Ms Jen Mason, currently warming up for her week of poker by er... sitting on the couch drinking wine (they're like Rocky these poker pro's, always training).

Anyhow, enough of my waffling, let the games begin. Oh, no, hold on, not yet, play doesn't start till tomorrow, so I shall see you then! As always, feel free to throw any requests our way. This is an open forum, so we're more than happy to grab a chip count, photo and whatnot of any participant (even the scary looking ones), but make sure you let us know.

Bonjour, as Del Boy would say.

Ah. Just spotted. An early (but possibly not 100% accurate) list of players, accompanied by betting odds. Click the link below to view the book:

Cooee, I'm a link, click me, I shall show you ways for you to spend money (http://www.bluesq.com/bet?action=go_events&type_id=3716)

Anyone spot a good bet there? Surely reigning champion Leo Kam is a steal at 250-1...

(http://www.redkid.net/generator/snoopy/woodstock.php?line1=Thanks+for+starting&line2=the+thread%2C+Snoops.&line3=Yay+update%21&Peanuts=Peanuts)

lol.

Only valoooo i see there is Rumit and Parker @ 250; Lovejoy, Surinder, Dan Sampson, and Soxy @ 200

If you're looking hard for the value Flushy, here's my foolproof, step by step guide on how to find it.

1) Walk into the bathroom.
2) Stand in front of the sink.
3) Slowly....look up...

Glub...

I agree with Snoops, Kam is a good bet here. The young Canadian chef ( though after his fine double GUKPT final table performance last season, he may conceivably have changed career to poker pro by now) was very impressive last year in the race for the title and it looked for all the world like he, or the (I hesitate to use the word "shiny") accomplished Nick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=305) Gibson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=305) would take the chequered flag from around 40 players out. Indeed both made the last 3 before Kam accelerated majestically through the final few laps to take down the trophy and plaudits.

Whatever, it should prove an exciting four days of poker, especially with the rare sight of the one and only poker legend that is "The Devilfish" at a GUKPT event.

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On a side note, I am currently in the midst of renovating a flat. I spent yesterday single handedly carrying 3/4 of a ton (no exaggeration!) of wooden flooring up three excruciating flights of stairs, meaning my body has been left battered and bruised, feeling like it has been run over by a tractor (possibly on the M25).

However all my aches and pains melt away at the prospect of teaming up FOR THE FIRST TIME with that canine gargantuan of the poker updating scene....SNOOPY!

I'm having puppies at the prospect of seeing my doggy colleague in action for the first time, although if he is still sporting that dead rodent on his chin, then the claws might fly! I am obviously no less excited at re-joining the multi talented Dana, whose comical , yet cultivated style always keeps everyone entertained.

She doesn't just flaunt advanced literary skills though, oh no. You may not be aware of this but she has recently been nominated for a music award.

She's far too modest to tell you about this herself (on this thread at least!) but feel free to click the link below to register your support for her. She's really a quite excellent musician.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=31655.0

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Enough from me for now...Good luck all taking part, a mouth wateringly momentous day beckons.

;goodluck; to the blondes!!

Leo Kam warmed up for this by somehow managing to get knocked out of the Saturday night comp at the Empire before I did, and I never even made the first break.

Leaving a minute gang, having to drive to the Vic as i cant justify the expenses. Not the hotel bills, just the drinking sessions that accompany this tour.

Remember the congestion charge

I see Im not up on the bluesquare odds list, I presume that means they stopped taking bets? Is that a 'winner w/out Barry Carter' line?

Best of luck matey. I hate to say it, but one fricking TIME!

my hot picks to final table this one are AlexMartin (don't ask - i do love those underdog 350-1 shots ;), dan carterfish and Chris moorman

good luck to Julian,dave colclough also pete linton and Sam trickett if they play

dont need it if you stay on the edgeware road and park in the right place

good luck to all blondes esp Alex Martin and Graham "Chompy" Wheldon (you are forgiven!)

run well lads

Good luck stout yeoman's of Blonde.

the people ive backed for this are

Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=113) Penly (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=113)
Mick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=281) McCool (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=281)
pryian de mel
James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=183) Akenhead (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=183)
a random scandie
jerome bradpiece
and flushy


although i may have missed the value which is undoubtably surinder @ 200/1. when you see some of the 150/1 shots and surinder at 200/1 its pretty funny.

Yes, most unreasonable of the Vic to put their car park about 20 yards inside the congestion charge zone - at £8/day, that's (brief discussion among the updaters regarding the complicated mathematics of this) 40p a yard...

Jen's not on it either! I really wanted to spend money. :(

As a famous cartoon excretion once said, howdy ho! (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/customavatars/avatar104260_2.gif)

We've arrived bright and early, well, bright, well, actually, it's pretty gloomy down here today. Anyhow, we're here, and that's all that matters. On our way in, I can honestly say that I didn't spot any of the players, which either means they're still in bed or, and perhaps the most likely option, they're trapped in the William Hill betting shop down the road.

As previously stated, your updaters today are myself, danafish and Junglecat. We like to keep our live updates amicable and friendly, and in doing so, I though it would be cool if you just caught a glimpse of what you updaters look like:

Here's Junglecat munching on his brekkie this morning:

(http://www.ukbigcats.co.uk/images/bigcats/junglecat.jpg)

And of course Dana, pre-coffee first thing this morning:

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And finally, my good self, relaxed in my living room with the latest copy of Empire whilst those fools battle it out in the wild. Hmm. Might see that Daniel Day Lewis film.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10660&g2_serialNumber=1)

And just to prove that we made it down to the casino, here am I (post-coffee now and feeling slightly better):

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Hello guys and gals

Have a look at the description of the updaters above on the tournament clock and have a little wager on who's been updating it...

Quite the conundrum eh?

Anyway, the naughty mischief making beagle has been banished to the depths of the card room to snap some fantastic footage so he'll be returning shortly.

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I encountered Alex Martin as I entered the casino. He was in the process of negotiating his way round the busy Edgeware road close in his motor to one of the many middle eastern cafes  so our chat was necessarily brief.

"Alright Alex! Nice Motor..." I know next to nothing about cars, but I know a dirty one when I see it.

"They call it the mean machine!" Alex yelled across a group of people eating pitta bread and houmous enthusiastically (the group not alex)

They, presumably, are the collection of crazed, escaped lunatics Alex refers to when he is seeking an opinion on his vehicle...

"Could do with a wash mate" At this point Alex pretended not to hear me and waved goodbye as the car jam ahead started to ease.

My early impression is that Alex is full of beans, confident, and clinically insane. I'd still bet on him but then I think this picture is the funniest thing in the world...

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Would love to stay and watch but to work I must venture. Hope all runs smoothly and Goodluck to the usuals....

It's all hustle and bustle down there in the cardroom at the moment, but it looks as though we're mighty close to kick off. Spotted mingling with their potential foes were the likes of Marc Goodwin, Ian Cox, Dave Smith, Barny Boatman, Dan Samson, Brian Johnson, Ian Woodley, Alex Martin, John Conroy and many more... well, many many more in fact as Dave Smith was informed that he was the last entry (number 200) when he rolled up last minute and that any others would have to go on the waiting list.

Meanwhile, I ran into (not literally, that would hurt) Barry Neville, who was keen to pass on his best wishes to the Mrs regarding their recent 25th (yes, you heard right, 25th!!!) wedding anniversary. Whether he was in the casino or enjoying a romantic meal with his loved one that monumental night, however, is probably a coinflip.

Finally, Barny Boatman didn't seem too impressed when I told him that I first mistook his 'Got Tilt?' T-shirt for 'Got Tit?' and, subsequently, mistakenly deemed him to be a pervert. Anyhow, he's in high spirits, although determined not to leave his seat and coffee to see what table he's on. I think he conceded in the end.

And they're off!

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ps. I have no idea why this Butcher has a gun. Worrying times...

Thanks for the updates, now I know what to do with my time at the office.  ;hide;

Before we give you the early action from the felt, here is some thrilling action from the rail, Sid Harris warming up for the event with a quick nap before kick-off. Athletes I tell you, athletes!

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10665&g2_serialNumber=1)

At least you're not living up to a 'Lazy Frenchman' stereotype...

In a more concious state is Barny Boatman, subtlety (ahem) displaying his sponsor's name whilst holding his phone to his ear and pretending to be popular... or maybe he just didn't want to talk to me. Hmm!

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10667&g2_serialNumber=1)

Like a Internet dating service, we have something for everyone here at blonde poker, and here's a little drop of pleasure for all the Luton (and, more recently, Vic) fans out there, Londoner Paul Alterman.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10669&g2_serialNumber=1)

Greetings my French ami. In honour of your dedicated interest throughout the day, here's a quick snap of one of your men, Mr Nicolas Levi. "I forgot the hat today," he confesses, "If I win, I'll probably go all superstitious and never wear it again."

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10671&g2_serialNumber=1)

Good luck to the hatpimp!

The true professional she is, here's our Jen juggling both coke and hoody, yet still managing to reveal her sponsor for the event.

"I feel rough," she admits on entrance.

Not something you want to hear when you have a percentage.  :D ;nemesis;

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10673&g2_serialNumber=1)

Crumbs, it's like a Triple threat wrestling match. My money's on the big fella on the left.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10675&g2_serialNumber=1)

I was born in the year of the cock (watch it!), but last year was the year of the Cox, the unshaven earring-ed honoury Bad Beater fan final tabling almost everything in sight including two occasions here at the Vic. Must be something in the water down there in Poole.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10677&g2_serialNumber=1)

Following on from Paul Alterman, here's another Londoner/local in the form of Dan Samson. The likes of Tighty will know more about him, but he's been missing from the scene of late, so it's good to see him making an appearance here today.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10679&g2_serialNumber=1)

Don't worry, folks, we haven't accidetnally trundled into the Grosvenor UK Fishing Tour. This is indeed last year's League winner, Dave Smith, looking happier in this photo than he did when he won the Brighton leg.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10681&g2_serialNumber=1)

This may appear to be a strange mating call at first glance, but it is in fact Alex Martin running away from the camera like a big girl's blouse. Still got him though, nobody escapes the flash of the blonde poker camera. Mohahahahaha! Ahem...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10683&g2_serialNumber=1)

Finally, and before I crawl into the cardroom to grab some early Level 1 hands, here's a photo of the cardroom as a whole, with a cheeky Brian Gilbert, who, incidentally, finalled in this very event last year, sneaking into view.

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Yes, it's true! The starter gun has fired, the familiar sounds of chip riffling and clicking are resonating throughout the Vic and the crazy kids who stumped up a cool grand are doing battle as the GUKPT London commences.

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As I meandered round the tables in the early stages, I didn't manage to spot any early carnage, other the sight of a danish pastry that had been mauled by Barry Neville. It wasn't a pretty sight...

Barry seems happy after his wedding anniversary celebrations last night. "Spen t'night in Vic!" he told me proudly. I bet you this was just machismo talking and he actually had some soppy arrangement of flowers and chocolates to give to the wife though.

He told me to say he sends his love to blonde. See I told you he was soppy!

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We are just typing up a full player list which will follow shortly but from an early glance round the table configurations it looks like table 7 could prove interesting...with Barney Boatman, Willie Tann and Luke Patten sharing the felt there are likely to be heartbeats racing and chips flying aplenty on this table.

Photos of the updaters in their new blonde/willy hill gear would be good.

Send the best of luck to Alex Martin and Barry Neville..

IS it really 200 runners? Has it sold out both days?

Table 1:
Eoin Kennedy
Nick Riseley
Martin Bader
Andy Achillea
Colin Kennedy
John Flanagan
Azzy Asgher
Richie Allen
Barry Neville
Brian Johnson

Table 2:
Arkady Kielman
Demetris Theophanous
Michael Arnold
Terry Simpson
Joshua Tyler
Ian Cox
Bernd Alexander
David Johnson
Richard Ashby
Daniel Samson

Table 3:
Raymond Nicholas
Nathan Lee
David Laronde
Niall Charlton
Jack Powell
Leon Campbell
Julian Thew
Jaan Fiddian
Nick Holbrook
Francis Rohan

Table 4:
Thomas Dunwoodie
Vegard Nygaard
Marcus Bebb-Jones
Neil Mcculloch
Louise Duffy
Richard Stanley
James King
Maz Nawab
Jamil Ogunmakinwa
S Wan

Table 5:
Anthony Roux
Bardi Rajah
John Gale
Devilfish Ulliott
Mark Segal
Tim Flanders
Victor Foster
Ian Woodley
Stephen Bovis
Helge Stjernvang

Table 6:
Steve Robson
J Wray
Alex Martin
Kai Paulsen
Kerry Taylor
Dave Smith
Darren Pearce
Peter Charalambous
Jeffrey Rogers
Nicolas Levy

Table 7:
Chung Hoang
Joel Ettedgi
Kevin Allen
Paul Alterman
Andy Slater
Barny Boatman
Willie Tann
Talal Shakerchi
Jerome Oshea
Sonny Ridgwell

Table 8:
Julien Leonard
Charalambous Xanthos
Andy Greekfish
Ram Vaswani
Michael Mcgee
Ian Fraser
James Akenhead
Kevin O'Leary
S Nikkhah
Ashley Gorman

Table 9
Fowzi Baroukh
James Keys
Stephen Holden
John Duthie
Andy Ward
Knut Russtad
Priyan De Mel
Marius Arnesen
Paul Mendes
Surinder Sunar

Table 10:
John Eames
Bran Lenton
Matt Novak
Anthony Quinn
Thomas Roe
Richard Grace
Kevin Chandler
Nik Persaud
William Martin
Inil Abraham

Table 11:
Manuel Palanca
John Falconer
Jennifer Mason
Sami Yusuf
Justin Kean
Andrew Cruickshank
Jonathan Gotts
James Honeybone
Pol Astaniotis
Leo Kam

Table 12:
Mike Chivers
Torstein Iversen
D Anderson
Jason Shellum
John Gale (hmm, also on table 5. Anyone know if there are two John Gales?)
Wilson Chan
Tony Ringe
Michael Ellis
C Chapman
David Barnes

Table 13:
Darren FUller
Paul Cohen
Edward Cahill
Malek Naser
Zack Chesses
Ashley Hayles
Alec Foster
M Patel
Yaqub Alsami
Graeme Newman

Table 14:
Howard Smith
Dave Gregory
Steve Townsend
Lucy Rokach
Rahim Tadjsaadat
John Kabbaj
Jim Dunsford
Dan Furnival
Jeremy Longley
Ben Grundy

Table 15:
Ben Vinson
Paul Kerr
Jan Magnus Brevik
Zaheer Zeb
Josh Gould
Stuart Prior
Alexander Salabaschew
P Christodolou
Richard Gryko
Karim Vegas

Table 16:
J Bach
Piers Whyman
Michael Bale
John Gardner
Rory Campbell
Christer Bjorin
Ariel Adda
Marc Goodwin
Mickey Wernick
Au Jebali

Table 17:
Graham Wheldon
James Sudworth
John Conroy
Paul Farr
Fraser Dunphy
Najam Qureshi
Peter Gould
Mike Fisher
Stephen Vincent
Paul Murrell

Table 18:
Chen Tse
Nick Gibson
Peter Maier
Lee Clarke
Dervis Ozkarapinar
Leslie Kerrigan
Lee Squire
Rory Liffey
Scott Chaudhry
D Lee

Table 19:
Alex Clark
Alan Dean
Joe Grech
Mohammed Zahour
C Ninh
Jeff Buffenbarger
Alex Vandeweyer
Sid Harris
Dominic Ricepierse
A Khaitan

Table 20:
Jarl Klaebo
Idris Ambraisse
Louis Schwartz
Dominic Kay
Gino Desiena
James Kazal
Adam Vinson
David Evans
Panicos Ellinas
Robert Sherman

Three are already OUT - C Ninh, Stephen Bovis and another one as to be reported right now by Junglecat. Alternates are being taken until the end of the hour...

"Monkey to the cardroom, Monkey to the cardroom," demands the tannoy.

So, the rumours are true!

Well, definitely 200 today, with a waiting list too! And with one level almost completed, we're still without an exit... according to the board.

Hehe you really should read your beloved's posts Snoops.  Have a great day you guys.

Meanwhile, other things that have been happening include my-drummer-Timur-lookalikey Dervis Ozkarapinar getting himself down to around 6k, calling all the way down and mucking on the river to Chen Tse's flopped full house.

Also, I bring you the new blonde award category of Unusual Call Of The Hour - Rahim Tadjsaadat is it this hour, for calling an 1100 bet from Dan Furnival on a 2s 8s Kc Qs Ks board. Dan showed Ad Ac and Rahim mucked, giggling. Wonder what happened earlier on in that hand...

Friends, owing to the addition of alternates at random intervals we're going to wait until we have definite numbers (the official ones will be coming by dinner break) to update the runners on the clock, if that's all right with everyone (shush, Barry). So know that we currently probably have 203 total runners with 200 left in. Probably.

Can you wish Karim Vegas on table 15 good luck from me. Tony

Barry Neville told me "Listen oop kid, Ahm not pleyin many 'ands today"

His yorkshire brogue-delivered prophecy proved accurate, although perhaps not for the reasons he thought...

I saw him walking around lilke a bulldog chewing a wasp in the cardroom and I approached him with no small measure of trepidation...

"How's things?" I venture daringly...

"Ah told thee ah'd not pley meny 'ands terdehhh. Same kid teks all me chips!"

(Most likely candidate is Richie Allen who is circa 17/18k at the moment)

"First off ah've got eeeessses." (Ok I must admit at this point I was defeated by Barry's accent and was unsure whether he had 8s or Aces)

Anyway turns out his conqueror had 9s and had flopped quads, causing Barry to lose much of his stack...

Next up Barry had T-J and committed all his chips on the turn of a 7 - 9 - T - 9 flop, only to find his opponent, (Richie again!) had another big hand in 7-7 for a flopped set.

One disgruntled yorkshireman was sent crashing to the rail with a menacing big black cloud hovering over his head. I consoled Barry as best I could before rushing off in case he decided to wreak veangeance on those standing nearby. "Woon thousand pounds for 2 hands!" he shouts at me as I depart.

"bout £500 a hand Barry I reckon", providing mathematical, if not actual assistance as i leave.

Admiral Dog is looking forward to a weekend of fine updates from his canine friend and his feline and piscine associates.

(http://www.dogsrunfree.com/funny_dog_pics/oldsalt.jpg)

Surely shall do, will report back if he says anything funny.

Table 12:
Mike Chivers
Torstein Iversen
D Anderson
Jason Shellum
John Gale (hmm, also on table 5. Anyone know if there are two John Gales?)
Wilson Chan
Tony Ringe
Michael Ellis
C Chapman
David Barnes


Now if you replaced John Gale with a certain Snapper Telscher............. so multi accounting goes on live too

According to the board Demetriou! Anymore from you sunshine, and you'll be in hot hot water. Boiling hot!  ;hide;

Update on and proxy best wishes to Marius Arnesen please.

Unbelievable! Harry's back in Chelsea! I just can't believe it. This is the biggest news I've heard for years!

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Well, they have been dating for a while...

Beard of the day goes to this chap for the furry ferret hanging from his chin.

More importantly, however, can anyone name the player behind him that has just been eliminated from the tournament?

Gold stars available.

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Feast your eyes on these pics of the early action from the floor. Even from the photos it looks exciting!

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Surinder is out early

Surinder or Lallit?

With the board reading Tc Aspades 7d 3h 8h, Peter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=344) Gould (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=344) bets out 1,625. Neighbour Mike Fisher, meanwhile, dwells up what we all thought would be a pass or call, before counting out his chips and making it a meaty 5,625 in total. Gould passed quicker than a Benny Hill on forward wind. "Aces," claimed Fisher, and I'm inclined to believe him.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10695&g2_serialNumber=1)

Barry?

:dontask:

 ;applause; Golly, forget the gold stars, I may have to reward you with norkage.

Now you are talking  ;)

hi snoops,hope your well mate?
is martyn cavanagh in tomorrow mate??

IF SO HE IS MY PICK  TO GET THE LOOT..................SO,SO,SO OVERDUE
HE ONLY NEEDS A FEW HANDS...AND NO BAD LUCK.,.,.,.,
you cant right off roberto the mouth either.,.,.,good luck the welsh boys.,.,and blonde players .,.,.,

Julian Thew

(http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Kris/fighting.png)

Hey Cat good stuff, I could almost taste it. MORE

"How've you been getting on?" I ask Gutshotter Mike (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=290) Tse (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=290), actually referring to his poker career. "I was up to 15k at one point," replies Mike, obviously poised to discuss his early action in this particular comp.

"Don't tell him the hand," exclaims neighbour Nick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=305) Gibson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=305) frantically. "I don't want people thinking I'm a (insert alternative name for a cat here)."

Ignoring his foe's wishes, Mike continues: "I was in the big blind and, along with the small blind, called Nick's under-the-gun re-raise. I checked to Nick, and he bet 500 on a 6 high rainbow Flop. The small blind called, and I raised to 2k. Nick folded, and the small blind called. It then got checked to the end with a Jack slowing me down on the River. Nick folded Queens apparently."

Heading off on a tangent, Nick observes my hair and its recent development. "Crikey, Snoops, you've got more hair on your chops than I have on my entire head." On closer inspection of the following photo, I think it's hard to disagree.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10693&g2_serialNumber=1)

Rory Liffey, the flame haired young Irishman is OUT!

Details of his exit are scarcer than razors around Snoopy's chin, but if I can flesh out the bare bones of this description people, beleive me I will........using real flesh, muahahahah!

No, not really, I'll use words. I'm not a psycho cat, honest. This is a psycho cat...

(http://www.funnycatpix.com/_pics/psycho_cat.jpg)

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Word has filtered through of some other early eliminations, those being the players occupying seats 406 and 106, aka Richard Stanley and John Flanagan.

Good game fellas

Hi, mate. Not sure if Martyn's pencilled in for tomorrow, but I'll ask one of the Welsh lads next time I'm downstairs. Hope all is well over their in the lovely, hot, baking sun. Lucky git!

If it's ol yoyo golden balls, he's certainly tanned those pale white raising paws of his.  :D

No, don't adjust your sets folks, this jacket really is as bright and sparkling as it appears and yes, that really is Elvis. He lives... although has adopted the pseudonym of Pol Astaniotis.

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Pointless question of the day time (well not to me). 

Have the baize's (is that the plural for baize??) always been a beige colour or is this a recent occurrence??  I was last there in December and can't recall them being of light tone....

Lol ok then Ian Woodley

I join the action with the highly rated John Eames dipping into the think tank, the 15k in front of him and the 5k before Kevin Chandler making me thinking the latter has announced all-in. With the board reading 6d Jd 4c 5s, John Eames ums and ahs before finally making the call and revealing 6s 6c. Chandler, meanwhile, can only muster a pair of Pocket Ladies. A non-Queen River was then followed by the usual, but ultimately non-hostile "What took you so long?" remarks and a flurry of raised eyebrows. With Chandler looking rather disgruntled, neighbour Nik Persaud then joked, "If you're thinking that long with a set, I'm going to be bluffing you loads later on." He's a cheeky monkey that, one.

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LOL Sorry but what a prat

We could probably check a few piccies in the database, but aren't the GUKPT tables normally blue. I think it's the EPT that tend to go for beige.

Perchance new colour scheme for 2008???

PS Either gimme them gold stars or let the masses have some norkage but get a move on lol

that is surinder sunar 100%

Ben Grundy?

Especially for Tony, your buddy the awesomely-monikered Karim Vegas:

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He didn't say anything funny, sorry, he just sort of said, "Oh right, thanks, ok". Most disappointing.

I had the pleasure of being on telly on Sky Poker with him.

I couldn't engage his attention whilst "trundling by"(phrase stolen from snoopy) his table but he has 9,300.

EDIT: ARGHHHH no no no. I'm so sorry. I went to get a chip count from Marius Arnsesan, sat at table 9 seat 8, but somehow managed to transpose these two numbers and pick up the count from table 8, seat 9, who is S Nikkhah or Snicker, as he has recently been nick-named (by me if you find it funny, by Dana if this is Mr Nikkhah reading)

Anyway in case you are following our peanut and caramel coated hero, he has 9,300 at the moment.

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Other random counts as we approach the first break...

Ian Cox has taken a hit, and is down to roughly 8 or 8.5k.

Josh Tyler is possibly the man who releived Ian of his chips. He is in typical boisterous form, heard telling the table in no uncertain terms that he wants to be the chip leader at the end of the day. He is going well on around 13-14k at the moment.

Devilfish has been quiet so far, but this has not impinged on his ability to accumulate chips and he is up to a healthy 14k or so.

John Kabbaj looks to be in a spot of bother, having lost roughly half of his initial stack, sitting on 5k at the moment.

Custodian currently of an uncharacteristically above-average stack, Mr Mickey Wernick, wishing he had hair like mine:

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I take back my guess.  I think you're right!  Unless it's Jen.... ;carlocitrone;

Obviously Dubai thought it was Dress Down Thursday.

And here is our new friend Mr Snicker, sat next to Kevin O'Leary:

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Don't you step on my Blue Square shoes!

(sorry)

"Stop the clock," as they used to say on Big Break. Play resumes in 15.

And seeing as Legume is watching, here is Ms Jen Mason, sat next to Burnley John. Says she, "I'm ok. I've won a few, lost a few." Says Burnley John, "Yeah, she's won a few small ones and lost a few big ones!"

Eek, my one percent!

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Karim is currently sharing a table with the likes of Ben Vinson, Richard Gryko, Jan Magnus Brevik and Josh Gould, but is struggling with 5,275.

I've always found Burnley John to a caring, considerate and fun table companion. He is such a wit.  ;joestrummer;

how is pryian de mel and akenhead going on please, ive put my monies on them

Hat Of The Day, Mr Paul Mendes:

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Excessively Corporate-Logoed Person Of The Day, Mr John Duthie:

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Totally Not Paying Attention (Of The Day), Mr Willie Tann:

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"Is he sponsored by Snickers," I inquire to the bemusement of my colleagues.

Then follows an array of chocolate based names, including Toby Lerone, Bo Ounty, Mal Teser, T Wix. Genius!

If you know of any more, then please let us know, although if they're as bad as our, they may be removed so we don't lose viewers.

According to the horse's mouth (aka, Jonathan Raab), Ram Vaswani is a non-runner.

John Gale B (the one on table 12) has won a 5k-or-so pot largely off of Michael Ellis. The board read 5h Ahrt Jh 4s Ac and Gale showed  Ahrt 5d before Ellis mucked.

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Meanwhile Dervis Ozkarapinar managed to get himself virtually all in with about 150 chips behind on the river of a Kc 5h Th 2s 4d board, but his opponent (I believe an as yet unnamed alternate) passed. Looks like he's on 5 or 6k here, and incredibly unhappy.

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Harry Bo?

Any chance of an update on Kevin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=235) O'Leary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=235) please?  Thanks guys, great work :)

On Table Devilfish, Bardi Rajah (owner of Inexplicable Cap Of The Day, incidentally) has won a pretty hefty pot. The flop is Jc 8d Tc - it Tim Flanders bets 800, and Victor Foster and Rajah call. Devilfish and Mark Segal, who had limped in/checked blinds, get out of the way.

Turn - Qc and they all check.

River - Kc - and it checks to Karim, who bets a conservative-given-the-circumstances 1200; Flanders and Foster pass. Bardi Rajah shows 9d 9c for the straight flush. "I was worried one of you had the Ace..."

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A minor correction from before, it was Brian Johnson who demolished poor old Barry Neville with Quads. As a result, Brian is now on 23k and one of today's early pace setters.

Er... Kit Kat?

Still on Table Devilfish, in fact the very next hand, Devilfish limps in utg. Anthony Roux raises from the button; Blinds Bardi Rajah and John Gale A call, as does Devilfish.

Flop - 8s 4s 2s - Devilfish bets 600, and everyone calls. Everyone at the table seems to be refusing to respect everyone else's bets currently. I do not know why.

Turn - 3h - now it checks to Roux, who bets an almost-pot-sized 2400. This is now too big a bet for everyone to disrespect. Rajah and Gale A fold; Devilfish calls.

River - 7c - Devifish checks, and Roux bets again. Devilfish calls.

Devilfish - 6d 8d
Anthony Roux - 4c 4d to take the pot.

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With all the updates I do and all the subsequent faces I see, the updating brain can sometimes turn to mush and the old brain cells (many of which have been killed off during my teenage years) tend to forget a few of those players that I have witnessed on previous occasions. So, when this chap pictured below said hello, I couldn't help but say hello back and pretend I remembered him. As is the usual response, I asked him how he'd been and hesitated awkwardly before he finally spotted my discomfort and reminded me that he was one of my foes in this very same comp in December. In fact, like me, he's also a local(ish), residing in Edgware just north of my humble abode, the last stop on the underground incidentally. If I ever fall asleep on the tube back to Hampstead, I'll be sure to pay him a visit. Anyhow, he's a very pleasant fellow who's currently steady eddie (whoever this mysterious Eddie guy might be) with 9,500.

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La Frenchwatch, for Benjo in the office  ;slavedriver;


Mr Nicolas Levy/Levi (please confirm). He's on 6.4k. "I'm warming up. Losing chips. You know."

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If one of you gets a chance to wander back past the correct table, an update on the afore-mentioned work, rest and playing MARiuS duoMARace'S stack would be peachy.

He seems a bit fatigued today, but you can never count out Julian Thew, the William Hill man currently just below sea level with 9,025. Also notice a rather bemused Leon Campbell looking on in the background.

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Patrick "Kinder" Bueno.

Okay, okay, don't milk(y way) it.

And luridly-behoodied, William Hill-sponsored, cheesily-grinning Julian Thew:

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Oh. Snoopy just posted that. >:(

Y.N Gum

Correct spelling is Levi.

Thanks for the personalised update, altough I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to follow the progress of such a gentle and talented player.

David Chiu-Wit

Kevin O'Leary and Marius Arnesen updates coming shortly. In the meantime, there's been an exit, and it's Mike Tse who is the man heading to the rail. It was an all-in pre-flop jobby and Luton Grand Challenge finalist Dervis Ozkarapiner who was the assassin, his Kings under-the-gun holding up with ease against Mike Tse A-Qs on a 7-2-T-9-5 board.

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I wonder if I can get a Pokerstars wank glove with my FPP

Ian Cox, pictured here next to Bernd Alexander is back up to 9k after dropping to 3k. "I ran Nines into Queens, but I played it terribly," he confesses.

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WTF HAVE HE DONE TO HIS HAIR?????????????????????????????????????????????????
WIG/TRANSPLANTS OR DYE??????????????????????????/

update on Toby Le Rony please

"Why did you move in on the Flop?" asks a disgruntled Dan Samson, his 1.5k bet on a 2h 6c 4c Flop being first smooth called by Bernd Alexander before check-raised all-in by Mr Chufty Richard Ashby. With the rest of the table departing for the break, Dan Samson, with Richard standing fro his seat and casting a foreboding shadow over the table, was left to mull up what appeared to be a tricky and torturous decision. "You've got a flush draw, haven't you?" he inquires, to which Richard gives no answer either way. In the end, Samson reluctantly passes, clearly smelling a rat but not being willing to commit so many chips to the pot. As Richard takes another quick glimpse at his cards, I pretend to look and later admit to seeing them (a slight porkie) only for Richard to show the rest of the table Kh 4h. "Did you fold a set?" he asks Samson. "Course I didn't have a set," he replies. "I had you beat though."

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Melted I'm afraid.

After betting 1.2k into a 3h-Qd-Kh Flop, Zaheer Zab pushes all-in and takes the pot. This leaves Gryko with 10,325.

Other chip counts on that table:

Jan Magnus (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1216) Brevik (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1216) -- 7,800
Ben (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=47) Vinson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=47) -- 19,500
Karim Vegas -- 6,175

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I always wondered what became of Liberace's wardrobe....

what you think??

The second man pictured, Rahim Tadjsaadat, is now OUT. He raised Steve Townsend all-in with Ac 3d on a 5s 4c Aspades 5h board but was called by Ahrt Qs. Rahim didn't realise that he'd lost the hand when the 6c fell on the River, so sat patiently waiting for some chips to be pushed his way, but a quick flurry of finger pointing from dealer and players and he was soon watching from the rail.

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Good news for you fella.

James Akenhead has made slow but positive progress in the early stages and is up to 12,000.

Priyan however has leapfrogged ahead of his fellow Hit Squadder in imperious fashion and is sitting on a stack of 16,500 as things stand.

It took me a while to relate thsi information as there have been some suprising developments in the cardroom, news of which I will be relating shortly...

Jon Raab has shared with us the names of the nine lucky alternates who got in today, they are
Asi Mayo - 2101
Cicelli Necmettin - 2102
Mark Russel - 2103
G Wilson - 2104
F Meoni - 2105
Matteo - 2106
R Lee - 2107
Ed Giddens - 2108
Cristian Ciurea - 2109

Also Ram Vaswani and David La Ronde didn't play, so 200 minus those two plus the nine alternates makes 207 total runners, of which 180 remain.

Shocking developments! Julian has a leak! Well, not through his poker play, although he is down from his initial starting stack but more excitingly, there was a mysterious jet of water that began raining down on his head a few moments ago.

Julian running like he does, you may have expected the fluid pouring down to be a decadent cocktail of Dom Perignon and Asses Milk, lightly interspersed with croutons of manna from heaven. In fact it turned out it was merely manky old condense from a leaking air conditioning unit...


Meanwhile as fears for the players safety grew in the face of this ominous flood of water, the table was evacuated, the tournament was temporarily stopped and efforts were made to contact Jack Bauer at CTU to come in for assistance. Sadly he was unavailable due to the writer's strike in the US, meaning it was left to the brave intervention of the Grosvenor staff to save the day.

Here we have Zach, with little thought for his own safety, fearlessly stepping in to catch the offending tsunami in a glass...

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Julian was genuinely upset by the whole incident, commenting "It was the worst thing to happen to me since my dog died!"

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Kevin O'Leary is down to 5,650 and was keen to inform his fanbase that he ran Aces into Fours, the latter of which made a flush on the Turn.

Jen has been on a bit of a rollercoaster ride, which must be uncomfortable as she also seems to be getting stuck into the free wine...

Apparently Sami Yusuf, directly to her left, check-raised a J-6-5 flop - apparently the third time he'd tried it on, so Jen put him in and he never came out again. She then promptly lost all her profit from that hand, mis-timed-ly bluffing Justin Kean, but then made it all flopping a set of Threes a hand or two later. She's currently on an almost-exactly average 11-point-some k.

Surprised:

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Full of wine!

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Nicolas Levi seems to have doubled up his mid-stack to around the average level, possibly owing to the loving ministrations of the massage lady.

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What you mean move onto another topic  ;hide;
That wouldn't be very smart(ies)

Meanwhile, Dana and Snoopy were blissfully unaware of me having to backstroke my way from table to table upstairs and were busy beavering away in the pressroom, sporting their spanking new, sparkly and thoroughly DRY William Hill / Blondepoker accessories. Don't they look fetching...

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Another shot. I captured the exact moment Dana was sadly experiencing a severe brain haemorrhage. Ever the fighter though, she is going down battling, managing to offer a 2 finger salute to the camera before collapsing. What spirit!

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Quick dealer norkage for you!

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Ian Woodley bets an x-Q-A-A-x board, and Devilfish passes. Says Woodley to the Fish, "At it again?"

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For those viewers with eagle eyes, you may have noticed that although most of the tables here boast beige felts, there is one that remains a traditional blue. This ugly duckling of the table world currently holds the following crop of misfits:

Anthony Roux -- 6375
Bardi Rajah -- 18,100
John Gale -- 12,000
Dave Ulliott -- 19,950
Mark Segal -- 13,550
Ned Flanders -- 11,500
Ian Woodley -- 10,525
Mark Russell -- 4,100
Helge Stjernvang -- 23,325

John Eames has doubled up to 16,000 with Tens v A-K.

Ariel Adda is OUT. John Duthie is also using his Pokerstars glove to help him lift wine to his face in the bar, suggesting that he is also OUT.

Marius Arnesen is on 9,325. Interestingly, his entire belonging seem to be on the felt in front of him, almost resembling a table from a hardcore version of Knightmare. Items include cigarettes, lighter, ipod, phone, and so on, but what the heck is Shruf? Answers on a postcard (or, alternatively, just post on the thread) if you know.

Tony Ringe has dropped down to 4k somehow. Doesn't seem terribly sad about it though. More gently disapproving.

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 ;whistle;

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Marcus Bebb-Jones has eliminated Newcastle Champ Maz Nawab in a Sheffield versus Birmingham encounter (hostile reaction for Steve Bruce). Marcus raised it up under the gun with Jacks and was called in four places, one of whom was Maz. Marcus led out for 1,875 on a Ten high Flop with two spades, only for Maz to push all-in for an extra 2,900. Marcus duly called and was relieved to see Maz holding T-5, which subsequently failed to improve come the raggy Turn and River. Back up tut motorway for Maz.

Why has Snoopy been writing a list of his qualifications on the whiteboard in the background?



Red-Dog in ten years time.

Priyan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=354) De Mel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=354) is looking strong (chip wise, not biceps), but I suppose it helps when you Flop a flush. Betting out 150 on a 9c-4c-7c Flop, Priyan will have been delighted to see not only a raise behind him, but also a re-raise with Marius Arnesen making it 1,250 and Mateyboy, who I believe to be Fowzi Baroukh, sticking in 3k. Priyan made a deep reach to put them to the test, but both players folded, leaving Priyan to flip over Kc 5c and ask Fowzi "Did you have the Ace of Clubs." "No," was the abrupt response.

As mentioned previously, Josh Tyler is currently doing well at, or about, the heady heights of 14-15k.

I slyly snapped him whilst he wasn't paying attention to which he spun round and gave me a minor dressing down.


"Hey, you can't do that! Don't take pictures of me like that, you're making me look stupid!"

"What do you mean Josh?"

"Well you're taking a picture of me with my mouth open!"

Not sure I had a choice there fella!

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Very hard to get a picture with his mouth shut... :D

Just a gentle nudge to our watching throngs of as-yet-unregistered viewers.

Please, please, please consider the following.

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Do you want that on your conscience?

Lol, yup.

To be fair, his hoody today is relatively tasteful, showing only minor paint splatter effect. Normally he goes for the full on Picasso-holding-bucket-of-paint-sitting-on-crazed-rodeo-bull design.

Great updates Guys.

If he is still in can you say hi and good luck to James Honeybone please.

I met James at the Manila leg of the APPT where he won the pre main event tournament the Manila Cup.

Really nice lad from New Zealand, can get quite vocal at times, but only because he is passionate about his game.

Thank You.

 :hello: JC, Dana, and Sloppy.

Do you have a chip count for Colin Kennedy please, and could you wish him all the best from me as well.

Mike Ellis was hovering around the rail, so it would appear we have lost last year's Grand Final Champion.

Alex (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1198) Martin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1198) is now biting the dust of the rail, his tournament life on the line when he moved all-in for 4,075. He looked as guilty as a pig in the queue of a hotdog stand, but when he turned over his cards, he had the goods in Ad Kh. Unfortunately, Kai Paulsen had better goods, his Aspades Ac leaving Alex in all sorts of bother. An Ace on the Flop pretty much sealed the deal, and Alex was left to exit stage left.

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For those interested in the cash action, the biggest game on the go at the moment seems to involve John Duthie, Jeff Duval, Ben Roberts, Dean Sanders, Dave Barnes and a few affluent looking Mediterranean chaps. Cripes!

Leon Campbell has just used up his first lifeline, his all-in with Sixes for 3,200 being snap-called by Kings, before a Q-6-4-3-7 board gave the former a much needed double up. Coat back off, apology made, game on!

Indeed the rail is alive with the sound of bad beat stories. Among the no-longer-runnings is Mr Jerome Oshea, who called all in on an 8d 5s 8c 7s with Js Ks ; however sole apparent backward chair sitter Joel Ettedgi had 8s 6s and went on to make a full house with the 8h river.

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They're dropping like flies....well dead flies anyway. Live flies would surely be...well flying? Never really understood that expression.

OH SORRY, I'm waffling again.

On with the poker.

Luke (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=252) Patten (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=252) has bitten the dust....being relatively short he found it easy to get his remaining chips in the middle with A-K and found himself called and flipping against the 7-7 of Kevin Allen. A flop of 4-9-5 was of little use and the decisive 7 on the turn sealed the pot in Allen's favour, meaning despite all his "nitting", patten is out. Ok contrived pun I agree. NEXT.

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Some random counts...

Jen Mason - 10k
Leo Kam - 18k
Willie (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=450) Tann (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=450) 10k
Barney Boatman 14k
Manuel Palanca 7.5k
Josh Tyler -18k

Another player to experience a spot of bad fortune is Kevin Allen, his Qc Qd failing to survive an all-in against Paul Alterman's Ad Jh on a 7d Kd 2d Flop. 8d Turn, followed by an academic Ts River left Kevin with a face as sour as a bag of old grapes. Consequently, Kevin is down to just 3 or 4k.

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Nicolas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=675) Levi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=675) is back down to 6.5k, although he claims to have at one point he reached the heady heights of 24k. I understand they mainly went the way of Peter Charalambous - I don't really know what he was saying to me, sounded like he was saying something about cheese, but he was grinning and making the universal sign of sweeping other people's chips into one's stack, so I'm guessing that's what happened.

Also looking a bit shorter than formerly is Julian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) Thew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225), down to less than 4k, yikes.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10817&g2_serialNumber=1)


Marc (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) Goodwin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) - 10k
Mickey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=283) Wernick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=283) - 20k

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10818&g2_serialNumber=1)

Marcus Bebb-Jones - 15k

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10828&g2_serialNumber=1)

Richard Gryko is sliding down hill quicker than a lubricated bobsleigh, his chip stack dropping to circa 3.5k after calling an all-in from Zaheer Zeb (5k into 10k pot) on a board of 6h 5s 2c Aspades 2s. Zeb proudly fronted his Qs 9s to lap up the pot.

Can you wish Graham 'chompy' wheldon good luck please?

and chip count for him & mark harris please.

picture of chompy too, he text me to tell me he looks 'stunning' today, i very much doubt it but need proof. thanks.

vince

Word on the poker grapevine is that the players are now on a 40 minute break. When they return, we hope to have the full chip counts courtesy of Mr Raab. We'll also be sure to reply to those requests for James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=584) Honeybone (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=584), Graham Weldon, Mark Harris and, if we can locate the fella, Colin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=79) Kennedy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=79). Don't touch that remote!

Martin Bader has doubled up. Eoin Kennedy bet 3k on a Jd Ac 4h flop and Bader shoved for another 6.5k. Kennedy called with I think QJ. Bader - Ad Js - which tuens into a house on the Jc turn, 6h river.

Righteo, my tummy is rumbling like a volcano, so I believe a quick trip to MacDonalds is in order. Back soon! Be sure to post any requests you might have for when the players return to the felt.

In the meantime, he's a completely irrelevant, but highly amusing picture of a llama to keep you entertained whilst I munch on a Quarter Pounder. Hmm, looks like a girl I once went out with. Dated worse though, present partner excluded, of course.

(http://cdn.davesdaily.com/pictures/655-funny-lama.jpg)

Counts for Jeff Buffenbarger and Paul Alterman pls guys

Richard Gryko is OUT, suspicions aroused by seeing him walking down the stairs in the direction of OUT, and confirmed by John Raab saying, "By the way, Richrd Gryko is OUT."

Hello everybody,

Just arrived and read all before...

Good Luck to Jen and to the other blondes here !!!

Snoop and Dana... Could you find a hat for Mr Nicolas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=675) Levi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=675)... He seems to have forgoten his luck with it at home ;hattip;

Are they doing that thing where the players get served dinner at the table and the press get nothing? That sucked last time. If you have time go to that Thai restaurant round the corner. Jon Raab knows which one.

Chip counts at the end of level 4, courtesy of those fine people at Blue Square:

Richie Allen   40825
Torstein Iversen   33350
Knut Russtad   32425
Joseph Grech   31175
Adam Vinson   30625
Nick Holbrook   30450
Steve Townsend   30325
M Patel   27775
Nick Gibson   27350
Leo Kam   26750
John Gardner   26500
Tim Flanders   24300
Jeremy Longley   23025
F Meoni   22000
Kevin Chandler   21400
Wilson Chan   21350
Priyan De Mel   21250
Joshua Tyler   21125
James Sudworth   20450
Mickey Wernick   20275
Stuart Prior   20100
Bran Lenton   19900
Charalambous Xanthos   19825
Jeff Buffenbarger   19775
Chris Bjorin   19575
Talal Shakerchi   19525
John Conroy   19450
Justin Kean   19250
Graham Wheldon   18975
John Eames   18800
David Ulliott   18625
John Falconer   18575
Jarl Klaebo   18550
Mark Segal   18425
Edward Cahill   18400
Josh Gould   18150
Rory Liffey   18025
Darren Pearce   17900
Jamil Ogunmakinwa   17750
Matteo   17625
John Gale   17625
Andy Greekfish   17250
Scott Chaudhry   16950
Cicelli Necmettin   16925
Vegard Nygaard   16350
Andy Slater   16300
D Anderson   16125
Jeffrey Rogers   15925
Bernd Alexander   15900
Marcus Bebb-Jones   15900
Joel Ettedgi   15850
Mike Fisher   15800
Thomas Dunwoodie   15800
Louis Schwartz   15500
Ian Woodley   15350
David Smith   15350
Howard Smith   15250
Kai Paulsen   15200
G Wilson   15200
Lee Squire   15100
Alex Clark   14900
Barney Boatman   14850
Julien Leonard   14700
Peter Maier   14500
C Chapman   14125
William Martin   14000
Raymond Nicholas   13975
Alec Foster   13850
Mike Chivers   13825
Terry Simpson   13725
Jaan Fiddian   13450
Peter Charalambous   13275
Dave Gregory   13250
Ashley Gorman   13100
Jonathan Gotts   13100
Anthony Quinn   13000
Brian Johnson   12825
Arkady Kielman   12800
Kevin Oleary   12500
Bardi Rajah   12450
Leslie Kerrigan   12200
Piers Whyman   12175
Lee Clarke   12100
S Wan   12050
Manuel Palanca   11775
Fraser Dunphy   11500
Neil Mcculloch   11430
Eoin Kennedy   11400
James Keys   11350
Jenifer Mason   11225
Malek Naser   11100
Inil Abraham   11000
Helge Stjernvang   10925
Zaheer Zeb   10800
Ian Cox   10725
Dominic Kay   10250
J Wray   10125
Nick Persaud   10000
Nathan Lee   9850
R Lee   9800
James Honeybone   9800
Colin Kennedy   9775
Willie Tann   9700
Paul Mendes   9500
Najam Qureshi   9425
Niall Charlton   9375
David Evans   9250
D Lee   9050
Jim Dunsford   9050
Stephen Holden   9025
Darren Fuller   8800
James Akenhead   8650
Michael Bale   8600
Marius Arnesen   8575
Peter Gould   8475
Andy Achillea   8300
Jack Powell   7975
Zack Chesses   7950
Marc Goodwin   7875
Richard Gryko   7800
Rory Campbell   7800
Martin Bader   7650
Paul Alterman   7550
S Nikkhah   7550
Nicolas Levy   7475
A Khaitan   7375
Daniel Samson   7225
James King   7200
Paul Cohen   7150
Chung Hoang   7125
Jason Shellum   6925
Anthony Roux   6650
Chen Tse   6500
John Kabbaj   6325
Paul Farr   6175
Kevin Allen   5975
Fowzi Baroukh   5850
James Kazal   5075
Louise Duffy   5030
Paul Murrell   4950
Kerry Taylor   4850
Mark Russell   4625
Graeme Newman   4425
Ed Giddens   4350
Leon Campbell   4250
Michael Arnold   4150
Karim Vegas   3800
Julian Thew   3750
Jan Brevik   2600

It's not that he's forgotten his luck at home, it's just that his luck is all over the place. He's currently up to 7k. "That's improvement!" say I. "Yeah, I won't die easily," says he...

On alternate Frenchwatch, Anthony Roux is down to around 6k.

Good luck to Torstein, he played just one of these last year. And bubbled.

Ooooh, will definitely be making an effort to find that one day this week, or maybe one of the many fine Lebanese restaurants serving assorted grilled animals, mmm...

Yes, the players got dinner at the tables and most reported it to be very nice, although Barny Boatman was complaining about the lack of chili in the Thai chili chicken, and Jen told me with horror that she ate a bit of tofu by mistake. Have to say though we've been treated extremely well up in the press room, with big plates of sandwiches and danish pastries appearing at regular intervals, plus we greedily ate McDonalds hamburgers in the break. Full of grease. :) Here is Snoopy, ready to get back in the fray:

(http://www.benettontalk.com/obese-kids.jpg)

James Honeybone will be making the short trip back to New Zealand, he was a post-dinner victim of Burnley John Falconer, who is now up to the vertigo inducing heights of 29,700. John raised it up pre-flop with Aces, before betting every street of a K-J-3-J board, all the chips eventually going in on the Turn. James revealed K-Q and failed to hit one of his two outs.

Certainly, my dear Karabiner. Mr Kennedy (Kennnnneeeeeedddddy - that gag's for a very niche audience) is currently on 7,500 and sandwiched between these two chaps.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10838&g2_serialNumber=1)

;tightend; i must be a niche,lol

please could you give the lovely dave smith my best regards

thanx

Jen Update.

Jen is drunk. 2 glasses of wine has done for her and she spent the short dinner break with myself, Dana and Snoopy in Macdonald's, alternating between violent outbursts, sleeping for a few moments then suddenly waking up and threatening to bite people. If she starts foaming at the mouth, whichever government department that deals with infection control are surely going to swoop in, tranquillise her and take her away to be quarantined in their rabies section.

Nonetheless she has 11k and at 150 300, she knows this is a crucial level and she told us her aim is to acquire 20k by the end of the level.

Good luck to the sozzled sausage I say.

---

Some more random counts.

Trigg, perk up, your boy Priyan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=354) De Mel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=354), who I agree has a great game is on 17k.

Sadly, your other pick is doing less well. James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=183) Akenhead (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=183), the former train driver and current hitsquadder falling behind with only 7k to his name...

Knut Russtard, is going along in similar vein to the legendary ruler as a steady tide of chips keeps moving in his direction although he obviously differs from his historical namesake in that he is not trying to keep them at bay.

King Knut marches on with 23k, his regal background only slightly undermined by Dana's decision to rhyme his surname Russtard with custard.

Nik Persaud is a little off the pace, sitting on a slightly lowly 8,500.

Micky Wernick is doing just dandy at the moment with 16,500.


 

He's in a bit of a tough spot for good luck messages, but I did manage to flash the camera in his face and grab his chip count. He's on 18,125.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10840&g2_serialNumber=1)

I suppose that there are some tables "destroyed"...

Could we have the distribution after the break ?

in fact, who does seat with Jen, Devilfish, and the frenchies ?

Devilfish has taken possession of a sizeable percentage of Bardi Rajah's remaining chips (not sure how he found himself short, but he's on a crazy table).

Rajah limped from one off the cut-off, and Devilfish raised to 1100 from the button. The blinds got out of the way, and Bardi called to see a flop, which was Ac Ks 8c - they both checked it. They also checked the Kh turn, and Bardi checked the 6h river before Devilfish put in a cheeky 1500 bet. Rajah folded. "I flopped a pair..." said Devilfish, turning over  Aspades 7s. He's on around 20k now; Rajah's down to just over 3k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10733&g2_serialNumber=1)

Yes yes, this was the seating plan at the start of the level, from the beautiful Jon Raab and his chipcounting/seat-planning elves:

Table   Seat   ID   Player   End of Level 4
1   1   101   Eoin Kennedy   11400
1   2   203   Michael Arnold   4150
1   3   103   Martin Bader   7650
1   4   104   Andy Achillea   8300
1   5   105   Colin Kennedy   9775
1   6   1903   Joseph Grech   31175
1   7   2007   Adam Vinson   30625
1   8   108   Richie Allen   40825
1   9   409   Jamil Ogunmakinwa   17750
1   10   110   Brian Johnson   12825
2   1   201   Arkady Kielman   12800
2   2   1708   Mike Fisher   15800
2   3   2102   Cicelli Necmettin   16925
2   4   204   Terry Simpson   13725
2   5   205   Joshua Tyler   21125
2   6   206   Ian Cox   10725
2   7   207   Bernd Alexander   15900
2   8   2006   James Kazal   5075
2   9   1810   D Lee   9050
2   10   210   Daniel Samson   7225
3   1   301   Raymond Nicholas   13975
3   2   302   Nathan Lee   9850
3   3   1803   Peter Maier   14500
3   4   304   Niall Charlton   9375
3   5   305   Jack Powell   7975
3   6   306   Leon Campbell   4250
3   7   307   Julian Thew   3750
3   8   308   Jaan Fiddian   13450
3   9   309   Nick Holbrook   30450
3   10   1706   Najam Qureshi   9425
4   1   401   Thomas Dunwoodie   15800
4   2   402   Vegard Nygaard   16350
4   3   403   Marcus Bebb-Jones   15900
4   4   404   Neil Mcculloch   11430
4   5   405   Louise Duffy   5030
4   6   2108   Ed Giddens   4350
4   7   407   James King   7200
4   8   1705   Fraser Dunphy   11500
4   9   1703   John Conroy   19450
4   10   1809   Scott Chaudhry   16950
5   1   501   Anthony Roux   6650
5   2   502   Bardi Rajah   12450
5   3   1702   James Sudworth   20450
5   4   504   David Ulliott   18625
5   5   505   Mark Segal   18425
5   6   506   Tim Flanders   24300
5   7      #N/A!   
5   8   508   Ian Woodley   15350
5   9   2103   Mark Russell   4625
5   10   510   Helge Stjernvang   10925
6   1   410   S Wan   12050
6   2   602   J Wray   10125
6   3   1802   Nick Gibson   27350
6   4   604   Kai Paulsen   15200
6   5   605   Kerry Taylor   4850
6   6   606   David Smith   15350
6   7   607   Darren Pearce   17900
6   8   608   Peter Charalambous   13275
6   9   609   Jeffrey Rogers   15925
6   10   610   Nicolas Levy   7475
7   1   701   Chung Hoang   7125
7   2   702   Joel Ettedgi   15850
7   3   703   Kevin Allen   5975
7   4   704   Paul Alterman   7550
7   5   705   Andy Slater   16300
7   6   706   Barney Boatman   14850
7   7   707   Willie Tann   9700
7   8   708   Talal Shakerchi   19525
7   9   1707   Peter Gould   8475
7   10      #N/A!   
8   1   801   Julien Leonard   14700
8   2   802   Charalambous Xanthos   19825
8   3   803   Andy Greekfish   17250
8   4   2004   Dominic Kay   10250
8   5   1906   Jeff Buffenbarger   19775
8   6      #N/A!   
8   7   807   James Akenhead   8650
8   8   808   Kevin Oleary   12500
8   9   809   S Nikkhah   7550
8   10   810   Ashley Gorman   13100
9   1   901   Fowzi Baroukh   5850
9   2   902   James Keys   11350
9   3   903   Stephen Holden   9025
9   4   2003   Louis Schwartz   15500
9   5      #N/A!   
9   6   906   Knut Russtad   32425
9   7   907   Priyan De Mel   21250
9   8   908   Marius Arnesen   8575
9   9   909   Paul Mendes   9500
9   10   2106   Matteo   17625
10   1   1001   John Eames   18800
10   2   1002   Bran Lenton   19900
10   3   2107   R Lee   9800
10   4   1004   Anthony Quinn   13000
10   5   2105   F Meoni   22000
10   6      #N/A!   
10   7   1007   Kevin Chandler   21400
10   8   1008   Nick Persaud   10000
10   9   1009   William Martin   14000
10   10   1010   Inil Abraham   11000
11   1   1101   Manuel Palanca   11775
11   2   1102   John Falconer   18575
11   3   1103   Jenifer Mason   11225
11   4   1701   Graham Wheldon   18975
11   5   1105   Justin Kean   19250
11   6      #N/A!   
11   7   1107   Jonathan Gotts   13100
11   8   1108   James Honeybone   9800
11   9   1503   Jan Brevik   2600
11   10   1110   Leo Kam   26750
12   1   1201   Mike Chivers   13825
12   2   1202   Torstein Iversen   33350
12   3   1203   D Anderson   16125
12   4   1204   Jason Shellum   6925
12   5   1205   John Gale   17625
12   6   1206   Wilson Chan   21350
12   7      #N/A!   
12   8   1301   Darren Fuller   8800
12   9   1209   C Chapman   14125
12   10   1804   Lee Clarke   12100
13   1   1910   A Khaitan   7375
13   2   1302   Paul Cohen   7150
13   3   1303   Edward Cahill   18400
13   4   1304   Malek Naser   11100
13   5   1305   Zack Chesses   7950
13   6      #N/A!   
13   7   1307   Alec Foster   13850
13   8   1308   M Patel   27775
13   9   1807   Lee Squire   15100
13   10   1310   Graeme Newman   4425
14   1   1401   Howard Smith   15250
14   2   1402   Dave Gregory   13250
14   3   1403   Steve Townsend   30325
14   4      #N/A!   
14   5   2008   David Evans   9250
14   6   1406   John Kabbaj   6325
14   7   1407   Jim Dunsford   9050
14   8      #N/A!   
14   9   1409   Jeremy Longley   23025
14   10   2104   G Wilson   15200
15   1   1801   Chen Tse   6500
15   2   2001   Jarl Klaebo   18550
15   3      #N/A!   
15   4   1504   Zaheer Zeb   10800
15   5   1505   Josh Gould   18150
15   6   1506   Stuart Prior   20100
15   7   1710   Paul Murrell   4950
15   8   1808   Rory Liffey   18025
15   9   1509   Richard Gryko   7800
15   10   1510   Karim Vegas   3800
16   1   1806   Leslie Kerrigan   12200
16   2   1602   Piers Whyman   12175
16   3   1603   Michael Bale   8600
16   4   1604   John Gardner   26500
16   5   1605   Rory Campbell   7800
16   6   1606   Chris Bjorin   19575
16   7   1704   Paul Farr   6175
16   8   1608   Marc Goodwin   7875
16   9   1609   Mickey Wernick   20275
16   10   1901   Alex Clark   14900

Julian Thew was just ALLIN!

Shortstacked he moved his final 3k into the middle on a 6h 9d 3c board which brought a quizzical interrogation from the other player in the hand.

"Have you got a dodgy 2 pair?"

Julian remained quiet.

His opponent eventually passed and Julian shrugged, showing 7h 8d for an open ended straight draw, as if to say "with my stack, what could I do?"

Currently on 5.5k and still on a bit of life support but hanging in there...

Jeff (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=593) Buffenbarger (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=593) is on 19,375, although I may swipe his chips into the air after he commented, "Are you growing your hair like Triple H, Snoops, in preparation for Wrestlemania?"

Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=946) Alterman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=946), meanwhile, is on 6,525, the latest hand I witnessed being an uncontested all-in against Barny (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=41) Boatman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=41) on a 3d-2h-8c-7d board.

backed some random scandie called lars aswell, is he on the list today plz?

By the way I have just edited the clock to say there were 206 runners - Jason Shellum apparently didn't show, and somehow made it as far as the level 4 chipcounts before anyone noticed he wasn't here.

I'm afraid I can't seem to locate Mark Harris and he doesn't appear to be on the player list.

Marc Goodwin has moved to table Burnley-Jen (you see what I did there?  ;topofclass; ) and immediately started asserting himself.

He bets 2k into a 3k-or-so pot on a J-3-9-Q board, and takes it down.

Next hand, he and Jonathan Gotts see a flop - it is Kc Jh 2c - and Goodwin bets 1k; Gotts calls.

Turn - Ad and Goodwin bets 1.5k. Gotts artlessly twiddles chips for a little while before folding. "There's a new bully on the table," says Burnley John. "Cardrack," says Marc Goodwin.

By the way, a sad loss to table Burnley-Jen is Elvis, OUT before dinner after running his pocket Kings into Leo Kam's Aces preflop. I hope he's got conversation, because there will be no more action for that Elvis in this GUKPT.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10822&g2_serialNumber=1)

Bedlam on the nearest table as Ben (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=47) Vinson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=47) pushes over the top of Josh Gould for what looks to be a total of 6.3k only to be called by Arkady Kielman and Josh Gould.

With the two players seeing a Js Jc 8s Flop, Ben rises from his seat, perhaps conceding before the board is dealt and sighs dejectedly as play continues. Josh and Arkady, meanwhile, go snooker loopey, Josh deep-reaching for a column of greens and purples only for Arkady to swiftly call all-in.

Arkady = Kd Kh

Josh = Qh Qd

Ben = Ahrt 4h

Turn = 8s

drum roll please, mr yellow face man...

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River = Ad

So, Ben survives to take a very sumptuous main pot whilst Arkady is forced to settle for the still meaty side pot. Josh Gould, however, is left to count up the shrapnel before him and rue ever being dealt those blasted Ladies in the first place.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10852&g2_serialNumber=2)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10850&g2_serialNumber=1)

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Hey guys, just logged on for frenchwatch - Nicolas Levi and Anthony Roux - how they doin? I would come and bring Nick his hat but my sofa's way too comfy  ;D

cheers snoops, thought i saw picture of him earlier.

text from graham 'chompy' wheldon......"i am sat next to jen mason. top norkage imo" he'll kill me but i dont care!!!!!!!

James Eames is flying high. He just bet 4,700 on a 5c-Qc-2d-5d-8c board before ducking his head in silent and adopting a statuesque posture. Redmond Lee, who'd checked the River, mulled it over for a good couple of minutes, probed his non-responsive opponent with a few questions before calling. Eames showed Qs-Jc and Redmond mucked, leaving himself with just a few thousand in chips.

Hmm. You'll have to tell me which photo because he didn't make it onto the official chip counts either. Maybe he's playing the cash games.

By the way, where does that 'chompy' moniker originate? Does our Graham like his tucker?

I walk by table Thewy and Jack Powell has a hefty 3k or so on the table, and Niall Charlton has re-raised himself all in. Eventually Powell calls.

Powell - Jc Jh
Charlton - Ks Kd

Board - 2d 5c 8s (Powell is standing already) 3h (he's putting on his coat) Qs (he's trying to leave)

But he has almost 2k change and sits back down, most probably to start shoving every hand and praying to God for a miracle...

By the way Thewy has around 7k in a single, incredibly tall stack of low-denomination chips. "Feels like 70k!" he says, slightly hysterical expression on face.

something to do with the fast show he tells me?????

C'mon James! Jd 5s

Julian has nursed his micro-stack back up to a more healthy if still quite vulnerable 14k.

"Some top notch grinding" was the phrase he used to explain his recovery. Boy's got gears!

Richie Allen ( who incidentally was NOT Barry Neville's executioner earlier) is nonetheless not far off the chip lead with 30k+, looking relaxed and focused, wearing his large earphones.

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His tablemate and indeed next door neighbour "Berndt" Alexander is not far behind, holding a meaty 25k+ stack himself. Hopefully he won't set fire to his stack and score an own coal.

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Actionman and hitsquad fans attention!

Priyan De Mel just found himself in an enormous pot in the region of 45 or 50k. He was up against Louis Schwartz and it was a coldeck-tastic AA v KK coup.

Sadly for you guys, Priyan found himself with the wrong end of this situation, his cowboys no match for Schwartz's pocket rockets and a board devoid of fate-altering Kings or other combinations of cards means Priyan is banished to the rail by Schwatz, who now nurses an awesome 60k stack which is likely to be good for the chip lead as we stand.

Bad luck to Priyan, K-K v A-A always a harsh way to find yourself dumped out. I'm sure his time will come eventually though...

meh, £5 down the swanee, hope akenhead can pul it around

The good news is you receive a gold award for services to bokking. The bad news I'm afraid is James is OUT. He was relatively short and so I guess made a move to get himself back in. Details rather sketchy I'm afraid. If I get any more info I'll let you know. For now I offer my sympathies.

Some more random counts to cheer you up I hope.

K O'Leary 7k
Bambos 25k

I'm afraid James Akenhead has been eliminated. He found himself all-in against Andrew Andreou with 8-8 v A-K. King on the Flop led to one tablemate commenting, "Do you hit every thing?" I guess Andrew is in good form.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10860&g2_serialNumber=1)

Announcement Overheard From The Toilets By Me, Of The Day:

"Monkey to the poker room, please, monkey to the poker room."

please dont let my hopes ride on the chopper tommorow!

that is mark 'monkey' harris, best poker player in err his family. playing cash today tourney 2moro.

good luck!!

You'd be better off betting on your own chopper mate.

OH FFS, Sorry Jaymee  ;shame;

Any news on Min ''The Spin'' Patel?

Say Hi from me, tytyty....

last seen arguing with a pot plant over who had the better hand pre-flop, why all the rulings were against him and how wonderful Steven Gerrard is

the pot plant was obv escorted from the premises for arguingwith him?

By the looks of the rail and the nearby cash games, it would appear as though Jan Magnus Brevik, Dave Smith, Trevor Reardon, John Kabbaj, Ashley Hayles and John Gale have all fallen by the wayside.

Mateyboy raises, and both Jen and Graham Wheldon both call.

Flop - 8h 5s 6h - Jen checks and Graham Wheldon bets 2k. Mateyboy raises to 5k. Jen at this point gets out of the way, and Wheldon raises to put Mateyboy in, which is not as it happens very much. Call, obviously.

Wheldon instantly flips 9s 7s with the unmistakable flipping-tone (real) of one who knows he has the nuts. With a look of barely surpressed nausea, Matey turns over the Ad Ahrt and walks off. I ask Ariston (lurking near tables, playing tomorrow, drinking since 2pm) what Matey's name is. He pretends he knows for a moment, then asks Burnley John - "What's that guy's name?" he bellows across the table. Says Burnley John, "Unlucky." Indeed.

Actually I waited 10 minutes while Mr Matey spat out his bitterness into his mobile phone, and then discovered from him that his name is Mike Chivers. Unlucky, Mr Chivers, gg and all that.

What goes down apparently must come up again - Julian has yo-yoed himself back up to 18k, grinding for a bit and then running his Aces all over some unfortunate person's Queens.

If anyone can, Tann can, and Willie just proved that by taking out both Paul Alterman and Kevin Allen in one foul swoop. The hand actually left Kevin steaming on the rail, and rightly so. With Willie raising from late position with Pocket Tens, Kevin smooth-called from the cut-off with Aces only for Paul Alterman to shove behind with Pocket Jacks. Willie snap-called, as did Kevin, but as a Ten fell on the Flop, both Kevin and Paul found themselves in desperate need of a similar outdraw, their respective two outers failing to appear on the raggy Turn and River. As Kevin chewed a nettle on the rail, he informed that another player had confessed of folding a ten, meaning that Willie was actually drawing to just the one out. Ouch! Here's a picture of pain and suffering to express how that must have felt...

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Hilarious Decision Of The Day:

Nik Persaud is shouting and gesticulating wildly. He says that one of alternate F Meoni's cards was at some point flipped and he THINKS he saw a low card, either a Deuce, Three or Four. The floor is called over, the situation explained, the decision made - it's a misdeal. "Go on, flip your top card," says Nik to Meoni. He flips it - a King. He flips the other one - a Queen. Maybe Nik should get those gigantic glasses back...


Nik then:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=8086&g2_serialNumber=2)


Nik today:

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The common consensus in the pressroom is that Jeremy Longley is the current chip leader.

A small crowd forms around Table Devilfish as the Fishy One and Ian Woodley are involved in a hand with a lot of chips in the middle. I catch the hand just in time to see them not-very-interestingly check the turn and river of a Qs 6c Aspades Kh 7h board, and the crowd is already dispersing as Woodley shows  Ahrt Ts and Devilfish mucks.

He may look like Kenny Rogers, but he didn't know when to fold'em today, Jeff Rogers' A-Q losing out to A-J on a Jack high Flop and sending him packing.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10867&g2_serialNumber=1)

Paul Cohen is OUT. He pushed his last 2k in with K-J but ran into A-9 and failed to improve. His biggest hit came when his Aces were outdone by 7-2suited. I don't know the exact details but something tells me that it wasn't pretty.

The players are currently enjoyed a much deserved break (dinner at the table, remember). Whilst we await for them to return, check out another photo of Dana and I posing in our brand spanking new hoodies courtesy of our good friends at William Hill. My modelling days with Kays Catalogue are behind me now, but I think I can still strike a pose.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10770&g2_serialNumber=1)

Some titbits of info to keep you going till we receive the official chip counts from the end of the last level.

Nick Gibson, who came 3rd in last year's London GUKPT, is in a spot of bother at 8k, which at 300 600 75 will NOT last long. Expect a double or bust shortly...

Ian Cox is on 15 or 16k, which again is a tad below average but he's not quite in desperate territory just yet...

Josh Tyler seems to be slowing down, perhaps giving his hardworking jaw a rest. He's going well though on 22k which is above average at the mo...

Leo Kam's early work has been partially undone, although at 14k he has a short amount of time to garner the chips he needs to repeat his feat in winning the corresponding GUKPT last year.

Jen Mason has achieved her aim of getting to 20k, possibly with a little bit to spare as she looks to have just a shade over that at the moment. A good comeback after a shaky start, which seems to be Jen's general modus operandi in these GUKPTs.

She has just been re-located to Devilfish's table, who is sporting position over her and a good stack of 20k+ which she admitted to being a tad disappointed by.

Some chippy counts that you might be interested in:

Julian Thew -- 16,875
Jen Mason -- 29,750
Nicolas Levi -- 9,875
Jeff Buffenbarger -- 33,125
Graham Wheldon -- 48,850
Colin Kennedy -- 7,050

As I'm once again not there :( can I have updates on the following please?

Mickey Wernick
Lovejoy
Julian
Nik Persaud

Cheers guys!

This sooted and booted chap is Mr Faton Prokupla, and he was very keen indeed to inform me of his victory in Monday's £500er and, subsequently, request a photo of him good self. Being a gent, or perhaps too scared to deny him the honour, I happily obliged.

So, here he is... well done this man, 17k to the good.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10861&g2_serialNumber=1)

good luck to graham wheldon and jeff buff. two good guys and both blondes!!!!

I believe Junglecat reported earlier that Mickey was OUT.
Julian Thew has around 16k.

In other news, it would appear as though Ben Vinson and Manuel Palanca are both out (ie. playing the cash games), as is Mark Harris, although I'm uncertain as to whather he was even in the Main Event in the first place.

Marius Arnesen is OUT, James Keys the assassin. Ac-Ah vs. Kc-J, Jh-2d-2c-9h-Tc board.

Last thing anyone wrote was that Mickey had about 18k...be crap if he's out, £10 down the drain.

End of Level 6 chip counts courtesy of those marvellous mongooses at bluesquare...

D Anderson   59000
Brian Johnson   56525
Jeremy Longley   54050
F Meoni   53475
Louis Schwartz   50100
Graham Wheldon   46500
Darren Pearce   44175
Richie Allen   43825
Willie Tann   43450
Terry Simpson   39300
James Sudworth   36925
Jeff Buffenbarger   34225
Torstein Iversen   33950
John Eames   33825
Niall Charlton   32425
Mike Fisher   32275
Charalambous Xanthos   31750
Joel Ettedgi   31600
Talal Shakerchi   31450
Peter Maier   31250
James King   29725
David Ulliott   28025
Jenifer Mason   28000
Lee Squire   27275
Julien Leonard   27000
Steve Townsend   26750
Andy Greekfish   25900
John Gardner   25250
G Wilson   24925
John Falconer   24875
Anthony Quinn   24475
Inil Abraham   24450
Knut Russtad   24100
John Conroy   23050
Matteo   22400
Thomas Dunwoodie   21425
Julian Thew   21050
Josh Gould   21025
Edward Cahill   20350
John Gale   20175
Helge Stjernvang   19925
Kai Paulsen   19900
Karim Vegas   19050
Joseph Grech   19025
Peter Charalambous   19000
Wilson Chan   18925
Tim Flanders   18625
Alec Foster   18575
Mark Segal   18525
Adam Vinson   18200
Kerry Taylor   18050
Leo Kam   17825
James Kazal   17350
Ian Cox   17075
Andy Slater   17000
Stuart Prior   17000
Joshua Tyler   16800
Paul Farr   16225
Piers Whyman   15725
James Keys   15050
Howard Smith   15050
Zack Chesses   14775
Vegard Nygaard   14750
Ashley Gorman   14675
Barney Boatman   14425
Ian Woodley   14200
Paul Mendes   14200
Justin Kean   14125
J Wray   14100
Gino Desiena   12975
Paul Murrell   12750
Kevin Chandler   12725
Nicolas Levy   11525
Panny Christodolou   11475
Marcus Bebb-Jones   11450
Michael Arnold   11375
Nick Holbrook   11325
Lee Clarke   11050
Arkady Kielman   11000
Zaheer Zeb   10600
Stephen Holden   10100
Kevin Oleary   9750
Nick Gibson   9475
Marc Goodwin   9250
Jim Dunsford   9100
Nathan Lee   9025
Colin Kennedy   8800
Neil Mcculloch   8650
Dave Gregory   8625
M Patel   8100
Rory Campbell   7800
Marius Arnesen   7200
Jonathan Gotts   7025
S Wan   6775
Andy Achillea   6600
Bran Lenton   6000
Daniel Samson   4400
Mark Russell   4300
Fowzi Baroukh   4150

Good news and bad news.

The bad news is Micky IS out I'm afraid.

The good news is the drain is £10 richer! Go the drain! I mean unlucky Adam  ;angel;

Indeed...go the drain.

As Joe Grech raises from early position to 1,600 (blinds 300/600), Adam Vinson quickly makes it 7k to play. The action returns to Grech who asks how much Adam is playing (the reply was 12k) before opting to flat call. After Joe checks the 8-J-3 rainbow Flop, Adam swiftly pushes his remaining stack across the line. "How much is it?" inquires Joe searching for a more accurate account. "Vinson lied!" I think to myself as the dealer counts out 12,350. Upon hearing the answer, Joe takes a deep inhale, sizes up his opponent briefly and counts out 12,350. Realising that he would be down to just the bare minimum (grays and oranges only), Joe gives it one last mull, including a semi feign of a call to gauge a reaction, before making a very brave call with Pocket Tens. Vinson shows A-K, and prays for aid, but it doesn't come, the dealer popping out a harmless 4 of hearts and 4 of spades on the Turn and River respectively. "Well done," says Vinson as he exits.

Our temporary cameraman has been missing out on the "look look, we have new clothes (aka free merchandise)" celebrations, so, in order to please his fans, here is Junglecat joining the party. Why he is pouting, however, I'm not sure.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10876&g2_serialNumber=1)

Seeing as Anthony Roux bit the Devilfishy dust a little while back, here is probably sole remaining Frenchman Nicolas Levi, sans hat owing to keenness of Croque Madame to remain on the sofa. Probably he's texting you, Madame, asking for his hat. Or something.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10882&g2_serialNumber=1)

Kevin O'Leary raises to 1.5k from the button and receives two calls from the blinds, one of whom is Ashley Gorman. Ashley bets out on the 6h Kc 9d and shows Ks 6s after Kevin and the small blind folds. He doesn't seem too happy about it.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10891&g2_serialNumber=2)

A Selection Of Our Larger Stacks, In Pictorial Form:


Bambos Xanthos:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10885&g2_serialNumber=1)


Willie Tann:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10888&g2_serialNumber=1)


Devilfish, with incredibly patient girlfriend seated I think on the floor behind him. I'm told she's 28 years old...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10894&g2_serialNumber=1)


Jeremy Longley:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10897&g2_serialNumber=1)


Darren Pearce:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10900&g2_serialNumber=1)


Richie Allen:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10906&g2_serialNumber=1)


Louis Schwartz:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10909&g2_serialNumber=1)

Also I have a picture of Mr John Gardner -

FAO Mr Gardner

I'm afraid I can't post the photo up here because there are roulette machines in the background and I'll get in all sorts of trouble, but if you PM me I will happily forward it you for your own personal use.

Helge Stjernvang limps and Jen raises from the button; Stjernvang (I just love the sound of that name - Stjernvannnggggg) calls.

They both check the 6c 4h 9d flop, and then Stjernvng bets out 2100 on the 5d turn. Jen folds. Looks irked.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10903&g2_serialNumber=1)

Forget my pout.

Check out Dana. Not content with spending her updating time shamelessly stealing my puns, she has now taken to stealing my poses too.  The pose she is pulling here is quite clearly a pirate-cat original.

The case for the prosecution presents the following evidence...

Original...

(http://blondepoker.com/blondepedia/images/photos/photo_4346.jpg)

Shameless fake...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10913&g2_serialNumber=1)

Damning evidence ladies and gents I'm sure you'll agree...

Looks like a stoned Marc (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=645) Karam (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=645)...

(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/images/ept/season4/marc_karam_d3.jpg)

P.S

Any more drain updates plz?

By the way, not sure if Snoops caught it and posted it up (I am now no longer reading any of his posts, as a matter of principle), but Marcus Bebb-Jones, himself on 10k which is beginning to look a little scant, filled me in on the hand where Jeremy Longley got most of his chips. Apparently Longley had re-raised S Wan, and they had thrown all their chips in as the culmination of a raising war on the 5c 6c Qx flop. S Wan was holding pocket Sixes for a set, Longley was holding, er, Qc 7c. Club on the river, obviously.

Lies! That pose is an oft-used classic. Witness:

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(http://haystack.freeshell.org/renard-kokiteno-haystack.jpg)

(http://www.brookston.org/img/buddy-christ-2.jpg)

Slander! Nothing short of libelous libelous slander! Mods!

Howard Smith is OUT, moving in preflop with Ac Kh and finding a caller in F Meoni holding Ts Th.

Board - 3d 6c 9s 2c 9d and Howard couldn't duck out of this one. He's headed for the bar.

I don't know who this gentleman is, his English was a little sketchy and I think he may have had one or two ales, but he was very firm about having his picture taken, and seeing as it came out so nice, I thought I might as well post it up. I give you:

Random Man.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10875&g2_serialNumber=1)

nice to see devil fish in the running.,.,i know hes bonkers,but if it wasnt for him and players like him where would the game be now.,.,.,.,gooooone the fish im on your back.,.,.,.,(not in a gay way mind).,.,.
(what have he done to his hair???????????)

James Keys, heavily supported by a now departed Dominic Kay, has just doubled up. I didn't see the action, but I did witness the following situation:

(1) Lots of chips in the middle
(2) A rainbow 8-Q-3-J-7 board
(3) T-9 in front of James Keys
(4) An elated James Keys scooping in loads of chips
(5) A devastated Louis Schwartz weeping into his now paltry stack

i think she forgot her glasses.,.,so i lent her olives

A handful of your current chip daddies:

(1) Jeremy Longley -- 76.5k
(2) F Meoni -- 67k
(3) Brian Johnson -- 61.5k
(4) Willie Tann -- 59k
(5) Anthony Quinn -- 47k

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10921&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10925&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10927&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10919&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10923&g2_serialNumber=1)

Also in the running is Graham Wheldon with 46,500. Don't aks me what blogger Phil is doing in the background though. Can't take him anywhere that lad.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10917&g2_serialNumber=1)

Whoever said poker was easy? Kevin Chandler endures a double bypass as his all-in with Nines versus Ritchie Allen's A-K sees an Ace hit the 8-A-3-7 board before a third nine gives Chandler a second lifeline. Richie, meanwhile, drops to 30-35k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10915&g2_serialNumber=1)

"Great call," shouts an onlooker. "You're amazing," compliments 'The Rockstar' John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=608) Conroy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=608).

With the board reading Td 5d Ac Ts 3s, I arrive just in time to see Thomas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1134) Dunwoodie (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1134) call a mammoth all-in River bluff from Terry Simpson, the latter mucking (although a Seven did flip over) and allowing the Geodie to proudly reveal his Ad 4d.

Don't forget, chaps and chapettes, this is an interactive update, so feel free to interrupt the blog with cheers or good wishes for whoever you may be supporting. I know for a fact that many of the players read the updates, and are always delighted to see that they had a fan club. And that goes for all the naughty guests who haven't signed up. Get registering pronto or else I shall roll my sleeves up and release the guns.

ok,

some Jen's updates ?

some Devilfish's and Nicolas Levi's too ?

Hello,

Any updates on Mark Russell Please?  He will be the hop a long with a broken leg :0)

Thank you!!! x x

I think Terry Simpson is Tornado on Blue sq......Got a mad/aggressive game to say the least.....

And to add to that list of Chip Daddies, we have one monstrous Chip Mummy. Not sure what happened preflop, but the chips went in on the flop, with that classic Aces versus 5-2 offsuit all-in combo.

Actually it was a coinflip, the flop read 3h 4d 8d and said Aces - Ad Ahrt were in the hands of Jen Mason; her opponent, known only as Matteo on the player list, had the 5-2.

Turn - 4s
River - 8c

And Jen is not looking quite as jubilant as she should but her inner monologue is probably going something along the lines of, "Go me, I'm so awesome, I've got I reckon 44k now and wouldn't it just be fantastic if for once I could give Dana something back on her 1% investment."

Matteo is virtually out, with barely a k to his name...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10940&g2_serialNumber=1)

Meanwhile Aces were not so standy-uppy for unfortunate D Anderson. He got them in against the pocket Kings of Steve Townsend, only for another King to come on the turn. He takes it well, considering, with handshaking and similar niceties. Will not attempt to guess at his inner monologue, it's probably not blonde-compliant.

Here is the lucky lucky man who doubled up there:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10937&g2_serialNumber=1)

Also newly doubled up is Mr Kevin O'Leary, all in pre with 7c 7h against Andy Greekfish's Ac Ks.

Board an unbelievable (imagine accompanying oohs and ahhhhs) Qh Ahrt Th 6h Jc.

Says Mr Greekfish, "You sick ****er!" And who can blame him. Much giggling.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10934&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10931&g2_serialNumber=1)

A notable OUTage who was making noise in the bar is Nik Persaud.

Not sure about Devilfish or Nicholas, I'll be back with those counts in a bit, but Jen herself has pulled well into the reckoning with a handsome stack that is around the 54k mark I believe.

I was sure that the cumulative avalanche of chips gravitating with almost inevitable accuracy toward Jen's stack would result in her delivering me a soundbite that was full of poise, confidence and verve.

This was her grandiloquent statement.

"Biscuits, like bring me biscuits man. I need biscuits, seriously, like just give me some biscuits. Please!!!"

There we have it. Jen employing all the literary, imaginative skills at her disposal to ask for some bloody digestives. The cat is happy to turn waiter though, if it increases Jen's chances.

"Ok Jen, they're on their way."

Other assorted counts from the midst of the arena.

Kevin O'Leary 37k
Bambos 33k
Marc Goodwin 16k, although he seemed more interesting in Pietersen smashing a kiwi spinner for 6, the nearby TV showing footage of the current England New Zealand game. ;slavedriver; Marc!
Anthony Quinn 49k
Nick Gibson 8.5k
Ian Cox 11.5k
Richie Allen 27k

There are moments left before the end of level 9, where there will be a short hiatus where the players can rest their weary limbs (and stuff their faces with biscuits).

Other requests will be followed up shortly!

Some quick chippy chip counts:

Dan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=996) Samson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=996) -- 29.7k
Leo Kam -- 23.8k
John Eames -- 34.7k
Ian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=171) Cox (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=171) -- 14.4k
Stephen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=804) Holden (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=804) -- 14.2k
Brian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489) Johnson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489) -- 61.7k
Ritchie Allen -- 31.3k
Joe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=205) Grech (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=205) -- 58.3k
Marcus Bebb-Jones -- 8.2k
Charalambos (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=62) Xanthos (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=62) -- 49k
Graham Wheldon -- 40.9k
Julian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) Thew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) -- 38.8k
John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=608) Conroy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=608) -- 27k
Thomas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1134) Dunwoodie (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1134) -- 55.2k
Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=107) Gregory (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=107) -- 12.8k
Barny (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=41) Boatman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=41) -- 24.7k
Marc (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) Goodwin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) -- 18.4k
Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=116) Ulliott (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=116) -- 50k
Paul Mendes -- 29.5k
Kerry Taylor -- 10.2k

Coincidentally, I just took a random shot of Terry Simpson, unaware that he had a fan on the sidelines. Anyhow, here he is, slowly but surely recovering from that bluff gone wrong against Dunwoodie.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10943&g2_serialNumber=1)

After that, She "dare" righting here "I'm much bigger in real life" ;whistle;

LOOOOOOLLLLLL

GO Jen !!

The Rise and Fall of Bambos

After eliminating Andrew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=25) Andreou (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=25) with A-T versus A-J on a 9-T-3-A-2 board, Bambos' near 50k stack then went hurtling towards the now chip leader Brian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489) Johnson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489). I didn't personally catch the hand in question, but according to my source, it was a Big Slick versus Queens affair with all the chips flying in on a Jack high Flop. As a result, a stunned Bambos is on his way home (well, the cash game) whilst Brian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489) Johnson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489) jumps into the lead with well over 100k in chips.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10945&g2_serialNumber=1)

It's not often a serious conversation with John Duthie is interrupted with a rugby tackle from an intoxicated Alex Martin, but that's what happened just moments ago, my legs being whipped from underneath and my head going hurtling towards the roof. "We're on the piss," declares a wobbly Alex. No shit, Sherlock!

did he not sy he was driving to aoid getting pissed ;smackedbottom;

Those requested updates and current chip counts -

Devilfish has around 50k, although it looks like more because they're largely in low-denomination chips. Young girlfriend is nowhere to be seen, although he keeps nipping off somewhere so she may be in the bar or similar.

Nicolas Levi, I'm afraid, is nowhere to be seen, presumed for the moment busted.

Terry Simpson - around 35k.


Official chip counts just in, from the end of level 8:

Brian Johnson   110875
F Meoni   98575
Talal Shakerchi   98500
Willie Tann   78350
James Sudworth   68075
Joseph Grech   63850
James Keys   57350
Jenifer Mason   55550
Anthony Quinn   51325
Jeremy Longley   49725
Thomas Dunwoodie   49200
Peter Maier   47650
David Ulliott   47550
Niall Charlton   46800
Steve Townsend   46700
Inil Abraham   43425
Richie Allen   41600
Julian Thew   40650
Jeff Buffenbarger   40200
Graham Wheldon   39200
Mike Fisher   36200
John Eames   35200
Kai Paulsen   31575
Ian Cox   31300
Paul Farr   31225
Paul Mendes   30500
Daniel Samson   29950
John Conroy   29900
Terry Simpson   29775
Julien Leonard   29025
Edward Cahill   28025
Darren Pearce   27850
John Falconer   27000
S Wan   26950
John Gardner   26100
Helge Stjernvang   26000
G Wilson   25050
Karim Vegas   25000
Barney Boatman   21875
Marc Goodwin   20200
Nick Gibson   19775
Leo Kam   18300
D Anderson   16750
Mark Segal   16575
Lee Squire   16475
Wilson Chan   15850
Ashley Gorman   15275
James Kazal   14950
James King   14550
Piers Whyman   14475
Joshua Tyler   13800
John Gale   12300
Stephen Holden   12100
Kerry Taylor   10925
Dave Gregory   10675
Kevin Oleary   10050
J Wray   8225
Knut Russtad   7900
Arkady Kielman   5700
Colin Kennedy   5175
Joel Ettedgi   4875
Tim Flanders   2125 - oh no, he's actually OUT

Kevin O'Leary has dropped a few since those counts as well - he's down to 7k or so and not long for this tournament, barring double-ups and things, which can obviously happen. Lord it's late. More press sandwiches!

Kevin O'Leary is OUT.

"I'll give you the simple story. Sevens v Queens. Gone."

"In the immortal words of Shakespeare," he continues. "F*** poker."

That Shakespeare was a right potty mouth!

Jen has been adding to her hefty stack with probably alarming regularity. She took a 6k pot out of the mouths of the children of Ashley Gorman, betting 4.5k on an 8s Jd Ac flop.


A few hands later she took a similar-sized pile of chips away from the elderly ailing parents of Jeremy Longley, calling his 4k utg raise, and then, after checking down the 3c 6h 6c 2h 3h board, delightedly discovering that that her Ac Qc was good.

is there a photo of his mountain of chips ?? ;popcorn;

Speaking to Mickey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=283) Wernick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=283) on the sidelines, he was keen to pick the brains of the blonde poker audience and grab a few opinions on his exit hand.

So...

Blinds = 150/300

Mateyboy = 10k
Barny (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=41) Boatman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=41) = 12k
Mickey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=283) Wernick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=283) = 15k

Mickey finds Ac 9c in early position and raises to 700. Barny and Mateyboy both call.

Flop = 2c 9s 3c

Barny checks, Mickey makes it 1.2k and Mateyboy re-raises to 2.6k.

Barny re-re-raises to 6k, Mickey moves all-in, Mateyboy and Barny both call.

Barny = 9d 3d

Mateyboy = 2h 2d

The set of Deuces hold up.

"Ask them what they think of my play, Snoops. Should I have got away from it or was I right to push all-in?"

Over to you guys, all opinions appreciated, even Flushy's.

Jpean, you are probably my favourite poster on blonde.

Having said that, I don't have a clue what you are talking about here...

I am not one to give up a linguistic puzzle easily though, so I had a brainwave(with some assistance from Dana). Perhaps what you wrote makes perfect sense in French! AHA!

How about if I run your confusing prose through babelfish from english to french and back to english again. A plan that can't fail.

Here were the results...

", as bring the biscuit man to me. I need biscuits, seriously, as just gives me some biscuits. Please! !!"

JPEAN: After that, it "dare" to rectify me here "am much larger in true life" LOOOOOOLLLLLL DISAPPEAR Jen! !

Wow, Jpean, that's a bit harsh but it did make me laugh lol

Anyway to prove she is just crazy about biscuits, here she is going nuts over a couple of custard creams. (Note the deranged eyes and ever so slightly TOO wide smile!)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10953&g2_serialNumber=1)

Mark Russell is down on the alternates list as being number 2103, but I couldn't find a 2103 and there was a pair of crutches peeking from out form underneath the table between these two gents, which I obviously very nearly fell over and I think I said something embarrassing...

Anyway, is either of these boys your Mark Russell? I can tell you that Gentleman Left (down on the list as F Meoni) has around 100k, and Gentleman Right (down as a G Wilson) has around 20k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10961&g2_serialNumber=1)

Gentleman Right has been having a pretty poor time of it, it looks like. I saw him lay his hand down when Terry Simpson bet 3k on an 8c 5s Jd Th board. Not much room for manoeuvre, with 20k...

As his stack was half the average one, I probably have push all-in without re-raising, because against all the others possible hands (KK, QQ, ...) he would have been a little favorite (maybe 52/48)

Whatever he does it, I think that he had to push all in here after one or no re raise...

here you go Snoops

help asked for!

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=31809.msg658409#msg658409

lots of updates on james keys pleaaaase!  great stuff as usual guys!

Here are some photos of the action.

Brian "I' have mountains of chips" Johnston

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10955&g2_serialNumber=1)

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Leo "I HAD mountains of chips" Kam

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10957&g2_serialNumber=1)

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Ian "Neat stacks" Cox (recently doubled up from 16k to 32k. Ahharrr maties!)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10959&g2_serialNumber=1)

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In fact, I tried (failed  ;hide;) to make a joke between Jen asking for biscuits and the little sentence under her photo on her blonde profile : "I'm much bigger in real life"

Updates on gibbo pls, tell him if he donks them again we're gonna have words. See yall tomorrow...great updates snoops

great updates guys thanks

please give my best wishes to julian, jeff buffenberg and of course jen there my 3 from here (hope i haven't just bokked them!)

With just five minutes left on the clock, James Keys has just eliminated Kerry Taylor, the youngster finding his Sevens in water hotter than the sun against Taylor's Pocket Snowman. However, Keys hit a third Seven on the 9s-Qc-5s-7c-2h board to take down what must have been a near 50k pot.

Speaking of these two, F Meoni just eliminated the chap on his immediate left with A-K. I didn't see the other hand, but there were celebrations on the river of a 7-Q-8-4-A, so I'm assuming the spiked Ace defeated a pocket pair.

Jeremy Longley, who seems to be a very loose player indeed, has both lost and won small(ish) pots in quick successions. Firstly, he limp-called Jen Mason's pre-flop raise before insta-check-folding to a 6.5k bet on the 9c 5s 3h Flop.

Soon after, he called, along with James Kazal (who later folded), a pre-flop raise of 4,500 from the Devilifish. All checked the Ahrt 6s 7s Flop before Jeremy check-called 9k on the Turn before checking down the River. Devilfish showed Pocket Jacks, but lost out to A-9. Devilfish shook his head in dismay as I departed.

Ian 'Mr Invincible' Cox has been in the thick of it during these very late stages. He just shot down Wilson Chan, A-T versus 8-8 followed by a thrilling J-Q-K-8 board...

River was a blank.

After being down to just 3k early doors, Coxy has now sprung up to the dizzy heights of 30k.

James Keys just made a big re-raise of Kerry Taylor's initial raise. After some thought Taylor called...

He flipped over 8-8 and the look of horror written across James' face told the story before his cards were even turned over...

"7-7" someone asked, and indeed James turned over 7-7. The pot was in the region of 50k, a biggie at this late stage of the day...

5-Q-9 came the harmless looking flop.

BUT a 7 on the turn drew a sharp intake of breath from the watching rail, before a solitary blank 2 on the river concluded the hand and gifted the pot to James.

James raised his hand as a gesture of apology to Kerry, who just raised his eyebrows, shook his head, picked up his coat and left the arena 2 minutes before play was due to terminate.

"Sick hand...SICK" commented one of his tablemates rather obviously and James did his best maintain an outward visage of embarrassment at his good fortune whereas in fact his head was filled with this...

(http://www.streetswing.com/films/video/gif/f2_hallelujah.jpg)

Fair enough. All of us who play poker have been both sides of this metaphorical fence. We've been sucked out on royally for a crucial pot and felt like the damned, or have won a crucial pot at a crucial stage and felt like we were blessed and if we cut ourselves, liquid gold, bejeweled with fine cut diamonds would pour out.

It's why we play the game surely!

is that break the end of the day or if it doesn't , how long does it continue ???

That Coxy is at it again! This time the unfortunate victim was Stephen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=804) Holden (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=804), the Brummie pushing over the top of Ian's initial 1.2k raise for 5.9k more. "I'm gonna take a shot," announces Ian, semi-reluctantly calling with 7s 7c. Perhaps knowing his fate, Holden flipped Aspades Kh and promptly left after the dealer dealt out a Cox-friendly 8c 8h Js 7h 9s board. This Coxy's so greedy, always hitting the near nuts in these races. Isn't one pair good enough?! "You've been winning all the races," adds Dan Samson. "Better lucky than good," replies Ian.

Play has now finished for the day.

The mere mention of alcohol has sent Dana into a frenzy.

At the very death, we lost blondeite Graham Wheldon who found himself all-in on a Flop of 4c 4c 5d against the 100k+ stack of Talal Shakerchi.

Talal = Ac 9c

Graham = 3s 2d

Turn = Ks

River = Tc

When you're hot, you're hot, but whilst Talal finds himself in the top two, that's all she wrote for Grahama who finishes the day on a downer.

Yes that is it for now. Thanks very much for following today guys, it's been a lot of fun and we hope to have similar quantities of joyful reporting for you tomorrow as the race to the title continues...

We will post up the final day's chip counts as soon as they are received but for now toodle-ooohh and see you soon.

Much love and

 ;stickaforkinme;

great updates guys thank you  ;thankyou;

in his reletively short period hes been an updater junglecat is a legend imo ! ;tightend;

;thankyou;
thanks  for the coverage !

Top stuff, enjoyed it immensely ... setting a high bench mark there ... and not a gummy bear in sight (thank god ;) )

Thanks for the nice comments guys. Much appreciated by the team :)

Here are the end of day chip counts, brought to you via the virulent virtuosos at blue square.

Talal Shakerchi   134100
James Keys   117325
Joseph Grech   107450
Brian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489) Johnson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=489)   94675
Inil Abraham   89875
Alessandro Meoni   85750
Willie (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=450) Tann (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=450)   69900
Jeremy Longley   67400
David Ulliott   64725
Colin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=79) Kennedy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=79)   64350
John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=608) Conroy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=608)   64150
Jennifer (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=198) Mason (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=198)   57800
Niall Charlton   55475
Anthony Quinn   51700
Steve Townsend   50650
D Anderson   47225
Terry Simpson   46750
Ian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=171) Cox (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=171)   46525
S Wan   45000
Thomas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1134) Dunwoodie (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1134)   44425
Nick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=305) Gibson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=305)   44000
Jeff (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=593) Buffenbarger (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=593)   38950
Julien Leonard   38600
James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=189) Sudworth (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=189)   37150
Richie Allen   35500
Peter Maier   35325
Helge Stjernvang   34925
Ashley Gorman   32975
Edward Cahill   29725
Andy Slater   29375
Kai Paulsen   27675
James Kazal   26275
Darren Pearce   26125
Julian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) Thew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225)   23150
Leo Kam   20800
Mike Fisher   20225
Daniel Samson   18700
John Gardner   18675
Barney Boatman   18625

Lee Squires 17650
Piers Whyman   17200
[url=http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=211]John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=305) Falconer (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=211)   16950
Mark Segal   14950
Paul Mendes   14875
John Eames   12600
Arkady Kielman   8925

What a terrific Update! - thanks Guys, & Dana person.

Keep them there pics coming too, they are excellent.

Great update guys, thanks a lot.

My man ColinK must have had some final hour; he's gone from circa 5k to circa 65k.

Crapper's doing it again....

Is case anyone is pondring Mikey's story I'll tell it as it was, so it makes sense:
I was on the bb with 13k, (blinds 150/300)  Mickey has min raised to 700 and one or two have called before me. I call the extra 400 with  9h  3h .
On a flop of  9s  3c  2c I check, mickey bets 1,200  matey bets 4,200 and I pick up up my 1k chips and make it 11k to go. Now Mikey shoves for 17k and Matey calls 11k all in. I call my last 2k for a  4k side pot with Mikey.

To me, every play by all three of us was a no-brainer. I just wish Mikey had made a bigger raise pre-flop!

Hi Mr Boatman

I'm much impress... I knew that some known professsionals went to Blonde Forums, but now !!!

1 time Mr Sampson!