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The WSOP main event starts tomorrow (I think!) and both Eck and MickeyP have luckboxed skillfully qualified for this trip of a lifetime. Good luck guys, keep us up to date with progress and do it for Blonde!!!

and gl to everyone else whos playing from here too!

 ;goodluck; ;goodluck; ;goodluck; ;goodluck; ;goodluck;

As I said on APAT, best of luck to two of my favourite Jocks.

I expect at least one of you to cash.  Micky, you just enjoy the experience.

rotflmfao

Goodluck guys.

Take it down Eck, that way you don't have to work for the Dark Side anymore!

gl boys, win it all.

The very best of luck fellas! Safe journey.

And if you get heads up in main event, dont be a pair of wimps and chop it ... play ftw :)

 ;goodluck;

good luck fellas  gte it won

pob lwc i'r ddau albanwr :)up

Good luck to you both x

Good luck lads xxx

Go for it Eck, Mickey !

Hope you've got a last longer on LOL

My money's on Eck. Go for it !

Good luck guys

These are two highly skilled APAT MTT gurus .....so who is running the last shortest book?  :D

Best of luck boys and above all else - make sure you enjoy it.

[  ] desd's posts dont always say APAT in them


[X] gl both of you.

Guilty...erm, APAT.

LOL

Good luck guys, have a great time :)

 ;cheerleader; Good luck guys!  ;cheerleader;

+1

I think

Good luck Eck - I hope we never meet in the work's canteen again (meant in the nicest possible way!)

Just think, he might actually buy someone lunch if he wins the thing....oh what am I saying, no he won't...he'll still be a cheap B*stard ;)

So's mine. :)up

Good luck guys...

And make sure you let us know how your getting on. Another diary thread.. Wiiiiii

 :)up

All the very best of luck guys  :)up

Good luck both,get it done boys. Ahrt Aspades Ac Ad

gl both, shib it.

Go deep and enjoy the experience

Wise words.

maybe if they were auditioning for a porn film !

...as the actress said to the bishop....

GL guys. Will keep a look out for you.

Good luck guys, not that you'll need it with your skills :)

Have a great time too.

GL chaps

Blonde T shirt for the Final Table!!!!

Right people apologies for the lack of updates but i figured if i am going to do some they better start now before i forget what the hell happened.

Disclaimer: Details may be blurry due to what will become obvious.....

Day 1:

Standard flight delayed at gatwick we arrive in vegas staying at the Luxor get checked in and head over to the Rio to register. I forget to lift my passport so will have to come back next day to go through the process (sigh). By now we have been on the go for best part of 30 hours and it is about 9pm vegas time. So we decide to have a beer or two in the Rio. Meet Morlspin, DaMatrix and GamblingGaz (only knowing people by forum names seems a strange world). Anyway a couple of crap lagers later Brian (MCFC on various forums) suggests if i fancy a Guiness we go to O'Sheas so it would be rude not to.

We have a few drinks of the black stuff in O'Sheas and we are down to about 4 guys left. Myself a young lad called Ollie Crawford who won a seat on Virgi (http://travis.bosscasinos.com/re.asp?name=POK&camp=REF5111_0&go=http%3a%2f%2fwww.virginpoker.com)n (http://travis.bosscasinos.com/re.asp?name=POK&camp=REF5111_0&go=http%3a%2f%2fwww.virginpoker.com), Brian who has came out for 5 days to Rail his mate who he travels to lots of festivals with. His friend is called Stephen Boyd some may know him as the "the Mole" on Virgi (http://travis.bosscasinos.com/re.asp?name=POK&camp=REF5111_0&go=http%3a%2f%2fwww.virginpoker.com)n (http://travis.bosscasinos.com/re.asp?name=POK&camp=REF5111_0&go=http%3a%2f%2fwww.virginpoker.com) poker where he plays cash up to the 300/600 euro blind level.

This is Steph:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITSubDtX9Gk



So this is steph's first time in Vegas (amazingly he has only been playing a few years) so i decide that on his frst night seeing the Rio (which is pretty tacky even for vegas) and O'sheas (which is a bit of a dump) wasn't giving him a good idea of the place. I suggest we head over the road to Caeser's and have a look at the card room etc which are pretty impressive. Arriving at caesers about 10pm (remember how long we have been up here and well on the sauce) some idiot suggests we play the 11pm tourney (ok it was my idea) young Ollie thinks this is a great idea and registers i have second thoughts and decide to sit down at a 1/3 cash game and steph decides to play some 5/10 cash.

At about 2.30am Steph and I are sttod outside the poker room having a ciggie i have ran my $300 up to about $650 and he has increased his $1000 to about $6500. we couldn't see ollie and figure he has busted so decide to play for about another 1/2 hour and head as we are absolutely shattered and pretty drunk (trust me there is a theme developing here) Can't remember much about the hands apart from annoying a guy from luton by calling his flop bet with the stupid intention of making a play at him later but actually hitting my gutshot for broadway and he couldn't lay dowb his 2 pair   

Just at that point Ollie appears he has been out of sight at his table and is well chipped up with about 3 tables left. Well it would be rude to leave the guy i mean we have known him for about 8 hours now so we decide we are there till he bursts. We leave Caesers after 5am (gets rather vague here) Ollie has chopped the tourney ($120 buy in btw) for $1k. I cash out over $1k from the 1/3 game and we realise Steph, who was last seen tipping a wee chinese woman $50 at a time to stack his chips when he went for a smoke, wasn't about. we figure he has gone back to hotel as he was well gone earlier so we head back and find most of them in the bar at the luxor. Steph soon joins us and it turns out a couple of yanks he was playing with took him to a bar but he got a bit wary and left fairly soon. so after more drinks we head to kip after 6am ish   

Steph is in the room net to mine and i ask him how he finished up? he is that drunk he pulls out a bundle of notes and asks me to count it. i made it at least $9k so a cool $8k profit first night in vegas..net morning he said he found another grand in another pocket 

Right that was day 1

Day 2:

pretty knackered up about 11am Steph and i went to the rio to get me registered. Steph managed to leave his i-phone in the taxi so not a good start. Got registered had no real enthusiasm to play so we had a chilled out day we went to binions as we thought some guys we knew were playing a comp there but couldn't find them so proceeded to have a few beers and slowly made our way back up to the luxor stopping off at the Wynn for more beers. met the team from virgin in the luxor (and the missus, yes she did actually come too, have only seen her for a couple of hours a day until now, but she is having a lovely chilled out time)

further drinking in bar and we dicide to go to MGM for some cash. Pretty bad idea as everyone isn't admitting they are knackered so nothing to report think i dropped $40 B we met brian there he made a nice profit and steph came out slightly up. so we head back to hotel and Steph and Brian do there best to initiate me into the newest poker team on the circuit. "You have heard of the Hendon Mob and the Hit Squad, well meet the Glenfiddich Gang!!! Now get that down you!!!" don't even like whisky but im not rude as you know.

Think we made bed for 6am.

Day 3

this is getting tough here...old memory cells are fading.

Basically we got up, fed and hit the bar tbh. Steph and Brian were due to meet a team from Punter's Lounge in Blondie's bar at PH. We waited for MivkyP who was at the Manadalay Bay watching the darts and headed down. it was $10 for a wristband and they gave you a plastic drinking vessel which you coiuld refill for your pleasure for 2 hours at no more cost. They probably didn't do too well on the profit side of things that day......

This finished about 6pm and we deicided to play the 7pm at PH was a $70 freezout. Chopped it 3 ways with Morlspin who kindly offered the 3 way chop whenit got down to 3 and we went on a break. I gladly accepted as Graeme had a large chip advantage blinds were huge and the missus ahd joined the team who looked like they were having a riot at the paino bar behind the poker room. the other guy who looked like a younger, fatter Paul simon thought for a minute and accepted. They need to have a 1st 2nd 3rd for there records so it was all in next hand and Paul simons AK held even though my Q4 turned a flush draw. Reason for the details there is in case Morlspin tries to tell anyone he won a comp in vegas...

Proceeded to bar, copious amounts of corona then headed back to Luxor and instead of doing the sensible thing and going to bed (I am playing the ME next day) I get a drambuie and head of to the 1/2 game in the Luxor. I proceed to play the most Uber aggressive poker of my life and put most of the table in fear of their life..   ( been spending to much time talking to the mole who plays short handed cash) anyway think i lifted a $300 profit in a couple of hours and headed to bed at 3.30 well slaughtered to get some sleep..

I start the Main event at 12 am so perhaps not the best preparation.

OK day 4 this is going to be short as i haven't had a drink yet today and it nearly 3pm ffs.

main event: get up feeling like crap, absolutely no idea why reckon it must be something viral...

My table is in the Brasilia room which is dissapointing as it doesn't have the same feel as the amazon room. My table had to my right some young american who i subsequently found out was 3rd in the short handed comp Minieri won. He got his aces busted by AK 3 handed but seemed only slightly annoying which was a bonus. I was in seat 9 (9 handed)

Seat:

1 - Cecilia Nordenstam
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:jpsSOqEOznHy3M:http://www.pokerspel.org/poker-bilder/spelarprofiler/cecilia-nordenstam1.jpg)
 

2 - random yank
3 - Random turkish guy
4 - American guy who professes to play in WPT. Must have made his money in Software or something as he pretty much stinks a poker.
5 - 21 year old in the full tilt gear called "chad". Spoke in that lazy american drawl and kept talking to Norman Chad and Lon Mcwhateverisnameis as if he knew them when they walked by. Said he read cardplayer a lot and mainly played omaha online but had no idea who the guy sat in seat 6 was.
6- Rolf Slotboom

(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:LNzzFBqFcSW1eM:http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1096/701305152_bdd5e340cc.jpg%3Fv%3D0)

7 - old American guy who just wanted to survive
8 Justin Flitz
(http://media.cardplayer.com/image/e/EV31_Justin_Filtz_Large_.jpg)


9 - Some ridiculously hungover Scotsman.

First hand of day Chad limps folded to BB (Random Yank) who raises to 300 (50/100)
fop comes   4h 4s 5c   RY bets Chad calls, Turn  Qc , RY bets Chad calls, River  Qd  RY bets Chad reraises (forget all bet sizes but reraise was i think 5k on top of RY 2k bet) RY calls he has the Full house with a Queen, Chad flips   4c 4d   ;gobsmacked;   


First 3 levels (2 hour levels) had very little cards and felt like kack so played not much nursed stack up to heady heights of about 24k. Had cultivated a rock like image so any action i made was given respect except by random yank who called a few raises but passed to the c-bet and "chad", who was putting me slowly on life tilt with his drawl and general Americanness, who called a raise from and led into me on a jack high board for a bet of about 800 in 2nd level but soon disappeared when i repopped to 3k. i figured finding out if my tens were good and what my image was like. Chad then went up in my estimation by informing the table i had only played like 5 hands in 4 hours cementing my rock like image with those not paying attention. This helped immensely in allowing increased nicking.

Was fairly dry on the card relied on reraising Justin when i had any reasonable holding. Justin was raising pretty much most pots folded to him. Then in the 3rd level (i think - was a long day and i was struggling by on one egg benedict that i had managed to eat at breakfast) I looked down to see  Kh Ks  and as i go to lift some chips to raise i hear the dealer say "oops Misdeal" (was the first of the day). sigh.......

Level 4 (5 levels per day)

Chad limps UTG folds al way round to BB (Clifford something the incredibly bad poker pro) Clifford checks Chad bets takes the pot and show queens. This induced Rolf to ask why he limps utg with queens and chad slurrs out that he expected one of us guys to come over the top and he was going to repop. which made us then question him about the possibility of commiting his stack to a raiser who may have him beat in a deep stacked tourney with a pair of queens. Think he thought we were crazy tbh but chad does read a lot of the updates so perhaps...

anyway midway through level 4 Random Turkish Guy Limps utg and it folds to me on the button and would you believe it  Ad Ahrt  . i raise to 1200 (150/300 25 ante). RTG reraises me to over 6k (can't remeber exact amount but felt it was enough to commit him to pot as he was on about 20k too. So in they go and he calls with  Qc Qd   Aces hold and i am over 40k - sweet.

Continue to play day out with fairly solid values as i absolutely done in and happy with 40k to go into day 2. Eventually nurse it up to 49475 winning the last hand of the day and will return on wednesday hopefully in better condition...


Right that is enough for now as i am now suffering withdrawels will try to do another update soon...

awesome report.. hope it continues!!

Quality so far Eck, sounds like an awesome vegas trip

Brilliant!

Wondered why I'd not seen you. Never realised you were a drinker.....

That Mole is something else - we first got involved back in my Sporting Odds days. Some game, him.

ECK, TAKE THIS DOWN!!!

gogogogogo JimmyEck. & Friend.

 ;hattip; ;goodluck;

you drink and play poker :)up :respect: ;gobsmacked; pob lwc

Good read, carry on with the good news.

Hell yeah  ;sark;

Excellent updates Eck.  That $10 pass thing sounds like fun, must get myself one of those :)

Get it won Eck.

GL Wednesday.

Good luck Eck!!!!  Great reports - keep it up!

Indeed!..Great updates Eck!...get it won mate.

Great read Eck.  Sounds like you're enjoying yourself.

Now get it won!!

Mr E,

Fantastic report and some nice results.

GL for the rest of your stay.

All at OP rooting for you.

Say hi to Mrs E

Geo

What a report ;D

Keep it going Eck!!

Hello to Mrs Eck!

Great Report. . . .

Keep it up, and sounds like you are having a great time...  :)up

Excellent stuff Eck, good luck for the rest of the comp and look forward to reading some more updates.

Great reporting.........good luck to you both  :)up

Well done Eck - keep it going buster!

JimmyEck is my hero. gogogogogogo son. live the dream.

Any news on Mickey?

Micky exited late on his day one after a few out-draws.

doh, UL Mick

Right here we go for day 2

Table is:

James Maltz 61,350 R03 01
Oskar Silow 66,525 R03 02
James Eccles 49,475 R03 03
Matthew Parvis 8,550 R03 04
David Sklansky 6,350 R03 05
Franklin Fox 4,450 R03 06
Greg Hopkins 47,000 R03 07
David Baker 163,450 R03 08
Henning Granstad 242,950 R03 09


looks fairly basic imo  :D

GL Jim ... just play your game and bitch slap the table.

raise 64o utg ftw pob lwc

Good luck squire :)up

dont forget to ask sklansky how his love life is going............. ;whistle;

Easy mate..you can piss this Eck :)

booder playing too?

I saw that as well!

Does he know it's not a freeroll?

good luck eck get it won

Best of luck mate, enjoy it and run deep.

Geo

Good luck Eck!

glglgl

90k for eck at the moment .I'm railing.

Nice, gogo Eck.

Thanks for the good wishes..

Finished day 2 with 85,000 average should be around 100k.

Knackered and off to sleep start again in 9 hours.

Awesome, well done and gl gl gl for 2moro!!

Eck is a legend.  Get it won.

;tightend;

Nice one Eck, get it done!

How many left for day 3?

how did booder get on?

 ;mexicanwave; gl  :)up $$$$$$$

+1

+3... I'm a big lad

eck eck he is our man if he cant win it no one can

+5 excellent effort, gl for day 3

Eck 1 time!!!

All the best out there, get it won :)

Did you not make it booder?

Just bumped into Eck heading out of the Amazon Room.....
But wait, he was only going to call someone to tell them he's shot up from 30,000 to 220,000!
 ;gobsmacked;

 ;applause;

 ;letsparty;

gl Eck!!

gogogogogo Eck

 ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;hattip;

sennnnnnnnnnnd, gogogo Eck

GL Eck

Bring home the bacon..

glglglglglgl Jimmy.  Win it all.

(http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/europe/uk/scotland/images/flag-of-scotland.jpg)

gl gl gl gl gl gl gl Jimmy!!

come on jim!!!!!!

Just had a text from MickyP saying that Eck is still in AND HAS MADE THE MONEY!!!!!


 ;letsparty; ;mexicanwave; ;kneelsucker;


Hoping to get chip count but, unbelievably, Micky says he (Micky) is drunk!

 rotflmfao

Go on Eccles!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)up

wow, GO ECK!!!!

In brief........

Jimmy was down to 30k, but in the space of 7 minutes, somehow ran that up to 220k.

He sat quietly the next few hours - often at the Bar - but just before the dreaded bubble he had a big accident, & ran Kings into Aces, dropping him to about 100k.

He re-grouped - at the Bar again, where he sat for much of the "hand-for-hand" period, which lasted an hour or so, & then returned to the table, still in the H4H period.

He then picked up Queens, but, disastrously, ran them into slow-played Aces.

And hit his queen.

He's in the money now, they are playing one more 2 Hour Level as we speak, but he's guaranteed $21,000.

He has a flight booked tomorrow (Friday), & I think he plans to move his chips in & generally get very busy, so he can fly home, or return with a montainous stack. Sounds good to me.

He's being railed by The Mole, & MickyP. At the bar.

go get em eck

there are more flights in a fortnight

gl Eck.

Sorry, omitted to say - he has about 230,000, or did 10 minutes ago when I left the Cardroom. That's about average.

Just after b ubblle Eck pushes with  Qh Qs,runs into  Ahrt Aspades.Turn  Qd .Ya FCKIN BEAUTY<

SHIB IT!!  Nice going Eck, take it down mate

Go Eck!!

whats all this shove it and get chips or make his flight .... he qualified on Virgin didnt he ... they will look after him flight wise surely.

Good luck Jim.

Yup. Told me it cost him €25 to qualify.....

Best of luck TID

what he said!  Well done on making the money, now let's get that bracelet!!!

OMG!!!

Go Eck,

Pure gentleman and a helluva player (pity you do that working thing though.)

Fingers crossed here that you keep advancing.

Geo

Can't believe my thoughts where the same as kev uh oh.Surely anyone who was playing in the ME had cashed already and was sitting at around average chips would be happy to play it out than shove just to catch a flight when it would be no more than £500 (i'm guessing) to book another flight ????

PS GOOD LUCK

WP Eck !

Get it won for the Scots !

According to the WSOP site there are 527 left, Eck is now guaranteed $25,090 from his initial €25 (though I still can't find anywhere that'll give us a current chipcount on Eck  >:()

GO ECK

Great showing Jimmy, keep it going please and ffs don't even think about flights...

His "death or glory" comment was prob tongue-in-cheek, but he definitely said he'd start dancing & "playing a little mad" post-Bubble.

I'm upstairs now, Blogging, but will try & get his final count before beddy-bies.

Where's Jeeves when you need him to tell master to haul ass and give us the chip count / news LOL

Get it won Eck my man - Get it won.

516th, vwp

Where's that from?

Pokernews.com

516   $ 25,090   James Eccles

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2008-world-series-of-poker/main-event/payouts/

nice result - well played!!! ;applause;

fantastic work eck !  :cheers:

throughly deserved by a talented player and one of the niciest guys ive met on blonde

On behalf of scotland I give you a

nh wp gg :D

+1

VWP Eck.... U did us proud

+2, vwp Eck, well deserved ;applause;

Yep nice ome Jimbo ... I hope you took advantage of the clothes shopping out there and bought some shorts that fit you ;)

+3 very well done mate!..You'll still have to work for the Dark Side though.

+34598433

Well done Eck, brilliant result.

+34598434

lol those shorts are legendary!!!!

Just read this,great result,but sick eh..............bet you began to dream the dream ul m8.

holiday in vegas, playing wsop and winning $25k all for 25euro layout sounds like living the dream to me :D

He's certainly living the dream.  Whilst I still have nightmares about his shorts...

Well done James..!!  Top man..

Thanks for all the kind words guys very much appreciated  :cheers:

As for the flights etc, I had lost about 140k when i ran the kings into aces and was down to about 100k. We played 2000/4000 with a 500 ante for the last level of the day and i decided i wanted to have min 250k to come back tommorrow. iI haven't seen my daughter in nearly 2 weeks and the thought of coming back to be sat at a table with some mega stacks with an 'M' of around 10 wasn't appealing. Yes virgin would have organised and taken care of the extended stay but i'm quite happy and want to get home. Some may not agree but tbh so what.

I nearly achieved the goal after the bubble burst i was on 90k got that up to c160k with 20 minutes left and decided to have a gamble with Jacks he had aces so gg.

What an experience would recommend to all to give it a bash if a donkey like me can do it there's no reason etc...got to go pack thanks again

Sounds like you had a superb time mate, and came back with a fair wedge so fair play





I'm not jealous... :)

Nice one Eck.

Only so much Vegas can take of us Brits, we have to come back sometime.

Well played. That's a great result.

Well done Eck!  ;hattip;

+1

 ;applause;

wp mate lovely result

Absolutely fantastic Eck! Words fail me - Kin?

 ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; :respect:

I'm speechless.

Vwp Eck.

Congrats Eck, wp gg

 ;hattip; ;hattip; ;hattip; ;hattip;

Great effort Eck and MickeyP

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Very well done!!!

+ 1  ;hattip;

+ (http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc43/kinboshi/eck-shorts.png)

+2

+8

nice sideboob btw

 ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;hattip;


What a fantastic time for 25 Euros


Poker FTW.

 ;tightend; ;tightend; ;tightend; ;hattip; ;hattip; ;tightend; ;tightend; ;applause; ;applause;