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Welcome back to day 2 of the DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) deepstack. 33 left, and we're guessing this will now become a three-day event with play going down to a final table tonight. The blinds will restart at 500/1000/100. The chip counts, courtesy of DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/), are below, please pick your top three and post it in the 'Interactive thread' here: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=36229.0

Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) Gourlay (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325)   12   9   87200
Mick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=667) McCloskey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=667)   12   1   83300
David (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2102) Jones (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2102)   15   1   82900
Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1689) Berridge (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1689)   12   4   79400
Andrew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2561) Tuxworth (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2561)   12   2   75000
John Sadler   14   1   74000
Erdinc Inan   11   1   66500
Andrew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1505) Woods (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1505)   14   3   66100
Scott (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) Byron (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734)   15   4   59200
Tom Rutter   14   9   57500
Adam (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2) Goulding (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2)   11   3   56200
Przemek Rusin   15   8   50400
Shahnawaz (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2577) Randera (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2577)   14   4   45600
Adam (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=11) Wilkinson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=11)   12   7   38500
Darren Chadwick   11   8   37600
Scott Yeates   12   8   35900
Richard Trigg   14   8   35600
Kyriacos Dionysiou   11   7   30200
Frances Creed   14   6   29300
Thomas Besnier   11   6   29000
Neil Blatchly   15   3   28100
Billy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=49) Ngo (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=49)   11   4   24600
Nicolas Risdale   15   7   24000
Carl Williams   12   5   21300
Steve (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=414) Jelinek (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=414)   15   2   20600
Christopher Bruce   12   3   18000
Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1524) Hawes (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1524)   14   7   17300
Daniel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1371) Rudd (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1371)   15   9   16500
Nichiei Hicks   11   5   16200
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=332) Moyce (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=332)   15   5   15500
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1523) Murphy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1523)   11   2   15400
Irina Liepina   14   5   13500
Jonathan Spinks   14   2   12400

Early double up for short stack Jonathan Spinks, getting it in with Ks 7s and getting a spin from Shahnawaz Randera with Td 8d in the big blind. A blank board later and he's now up to 25k.

And the rich get richer!

Adam Wilkinson raises either the first or second hand of the day to 3k, called in position by chip leader Paul Gourlay.
The flop comes: Ts 5c Ahrt  "Four and a half," bets Adam, adding, "To make you laugh." 
"To make me laugh?" responds Paul, before raising to 14k.  In a split second Adam has moved in and Paul has called:
Adam:  Ad Qs
Paul: Ad Kc
Turn and river:  Th 9d

"That was quick," remarked Wilkinson.  "Glad I stayed."  He bid farewell to Mick McCloskey and headed to the rail.

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Double up now for Nick Hicks, a late position limper and Billy Ngo made up in the small blind. Nick made a raise and the limper folded but Billy must have thought Nick was 'at it' because he moved in and Nick instantly called with Kd Kc with Billy only able to show Aspades 7s. The board came out a decisive Kh Jd Td Jh 9s, Nick gets a full double up whilst Billy is crippled.

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Whilst that all was happening, Rick Trigg has been knocked by Tom Rutter. They'd seen a limped pot in the small and big blind respectively where the flop came Q-J-7, Rick lead out for 2k, Tom raised to 6k, the limper folded and after some consideration Rick jammed for about 25k. Tom called with J-7 and Rick could only show Q-T. The turn brought an extra few outs with an ace but Rick failed to get there on the river. He's still pretty sure it was the right move as Tom could easily be raising with a worse queen or a draw in that position vs Trigg's lairy rep.

Daniel 'UpTheMariners' Rudd has also been knocked out though we missed it in all the frenetic actively.

SHORTWATCH!

There are about 5 short stacks who are taking every opportunity at the moment to get it in the middle and take their chances for a double up!  It's actiontastic, as tends to be the case at the beginning of Day Twos...  Here I present to you a who's-who of the shortstacks making their bids for glory or the front of the buffet queue...

Fran "We're on the table of death here!" Creed

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Billy "Let's see how lucky I am" Ngo

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Steve "I am more interested in my paper" Jelinek

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Thomas "I haven't said anything or done anything to poke fun at" Besnier

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Richard Berridge busts Carl Williams...

They got as far as a flop of Jd 2s 8c before Richard checked, Carl moved his last 14,900 in and after Richard answered his own, "Have you got any of that?" question, made the call.

Richard:  Kh 8h
Carl: Ahrt Ks

And his outflopping hand stayed good as the board brought no redeeming Ace sending yet another to the rail...

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One-Two Big Slick Knockout!  Irina Liepina hits the rail...

One of the short stacks, she took shots in the way anyone would, finding an Ace in the small blind first off when it passed to her, and putting big blind, even shorter-stacked Richard Hawes all-in.  He said, "Let's have a look," peeled up an Ac and said, just as reasonably, "I call based on one card."  The other happened to be the Kc, which dominated her 8c.
His advantage was further pressed as he turned the nut flush on a board ending up 9c Qc Kd 7c 6s, and she was down to under 10k.

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The very next hand, it folded to her on the button, and she moved her 8,600 all in.  Small blind Hawes again reached for chips and made the call, but newly-table-moved Scott Byron in the big blind checked out his stack and moved in over the top, prompting a quick fold.  Yet again, it was a domination situation:
Irina: Aspades 3c
Scott: Ad Kh
Board: Jd 4d Ahrt 5s... Qd

And in a pretty chilly situation she exits from the last three tables.

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More exits than in the 4x100m relay events here!

Chris Bruce is the latest to go, having previously been crippled, he moved in for his last 700 chips. Richard Berridge re-raised behind before Fran Creed moved half her stack in. Berridge then set her in and Fran instantly called as well.

Fran: Aspades Ac
Richard: Ahrt Ad
Chris: Jd 8d

A Qh 3d 2c 5s 6h board helped no-one and this day is going faster than Usain Bolt at the moment.

;bp;

Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce our new chip leader:  Nik Hicks!  Quietly heading upwards in chips, it looked like Erdinc Inan was as surprised as he was to be handing over 60k to the tricksy Hicks as his Ac Ahrt scooped a huge pot.  On a board reading Aspades Qh Tc 4c, shortstack Ngo was all-in, Hicks had gone for it as well, and Inan, who covered them both (but only just) was along for the ride.  So who had what?

Nik Hicks: Aces.  I already said that.
Erdinc Inan: Ad Qc
Billy Ngo: 6c 3c

"Club one time!" failed to produce the goods, and over 150k wings its way to the behatted player.  As his stack was counted down he commented, "That's quite a lot."  Understatement award of the day is his, no doubt.  Paul Gourlay was standing over the table as all this took place, wondering if he'd been knocked from the chip leader spot.  I hated to break it to him, but...

"And Nik's quite a good player," Gourlay ruefully added. 

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Neil Blatchley -- 20k (Chris will tell you why..)

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Darren Chadwick -- 24k

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Neil Blatchley suffered a bit of a hit early on a 9-8-5-T-4 board paying off Richard Berridge who had flopped the nut straight with 7-6, Blatchley saying the ten was such a bad card for him as it made him two pair.

Nicolas Risdale has gone out in 23rd place, he raised, Steve Jelinek re-raised from the blinds and Risdale shoved with Jh Js, Steve snap-calling quicker than Michael Johnson in his prime with Ahrt Ad. A board devoid of Jacks or Aces sent Risdale to the rail.

Et Voila -

11   1   Scott Byron -- 110,000
11   2   Paul Murphy -- 15,600
11   5   Nichiei Hicks -- 150,000
11   6   Thomas Besnier -- 18,000
11   7   Przemek Rusin -- 64,500
11   8   Darren Chadwick -- 35,000
11   9   Steve Jelinek -- 38,000

12   1   Mick Mccloskey -- 92,000
12   2   Andrew Tuxworth -- 105,000
12   4   Richard Berridge -- 90,000
12   5   Adam Goulding -- 64,000
12   6   Frances Creed -- 26,600
12   7   Neil Blatchly -- 17,800
12   8   Scott Yeates -- 37,300
12   9   Paul Gourlay -- 120,000

14   1   John Sadler -- 65,000
14   2   Jonathan Spinks -- 33,000
14   3   Andrew Woods -- 45,000
14   4   Shahnawaz Randera -- 26,000
14   6   David Jones -- 95,000
14   7   Richard Hawes -- 28,100
14   9   Tom Rutter -- 98,000

LeKnave raises to 3,300 from the cut-off. John Sadler in the big blind re-raises to 8,300. LeKnave moves all-in and is quickly called.

LeKnave: Ts Tc
Sadler: Aspades Ahrt

2s Qs Jc 6s Js

Sadler wins a 100k+ pot, LeKnave down to about 27k.

With unrelenting self-destruction, the field rids itself of two more in two minutes!

A threeway all-in preflop just saw short stacked Paul Murphy shove pre with Aspades Th, called by Przemek Rusin with Qc Qd, only to find Steve Jelinek shoving behind him - as it turns out, with Js Jd.  Rusin called covering both players...
Flop:  Ac 8s 8c
Turn:  9s
River: Kh

So a bit of a reprieve for Ace-spiking Murphy (top), while Jelinek busts and leaves Rusin about where he started due to the side pot.

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THEN

Richard Berridge raises in the cutoff, and Neil Blatchley calls in the big blind.
Flop: 3d 4s 2c.  Instantly Neil pushes his remaining 15k into the middle, and waits... Richard Berridge was clearly expecting this, but Neil wasn't expecting him to call with what he had:

Richard:  Ks Js
Neil:  Aspades 8s

Turn:  4c
River: Jh

"Sorry.  I thought you were pushing the flop thinking I'd missed," said Berridge.
"You had," pointed out a disappointed Neil as he headed, frustrated, from the table.

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More chips for Sadler he raises preflop from the small blind and Jonathan Spinks calls from the big blind.

Kd 4c Js

Sadler leads out and Spinks moves in. Sadler calls and shows Ahrt Ac for the second time in 10 minutes, and Spinks shakes his head showing Kh Qc, no help on the turn 3d and river 6d and Sadler must be vying with Nick Hicks for the chip lead.

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Tom Rutter slows Sadler's run down, like so...

John Sadler raises under the gun to 5,200.  It folds to big blind Tom who makes the call.
Flop:  3d 7d 9h.  Check to Sadler who bets 10k.  Slowly and deliberately Tom calls once again.
Turn:  Ahrt.  Check to Sadler, who quickly checks behind.
River:  Th  Now Tom bets out just the one 5k chip.  Possibly smelling a rat but unable to restrain the call, Sadler throws in the 5k, only to be told that after the flop the deck "killed the action I think, there," for Tom Rutter's Ks Kc.  John Sadler shows (and mucks) Qd Qc.

I think Tom rues not check/raising that flop, he could well have got it all on the flop, and if the ace didn't come on the turn, he'd have got it all anyway.

Meanwhile, Andrew 'Woodsey' Woods is out in 19th, he moved in on the turn of a Q-8-7-6 board with 5-5 but John Sadler made the call with 9-9 which holds on the Q river.

SO we're down to just two tables.  A 20 minute break has just begun (I can't describe to you how disappointed we are that the buffet is in an hour's time.  So disappointed we've ordered chilli beef in protest).  And here they are:

12   1   Mick Mccloskey
12   2   Andrew Tuxworth
12   3   Scott Byron
12   4   Richard Berridge
12   5   Adam Goulding
12   6   Frances Creed
12   7   Darren Chadwick
12   8   Scott Yeates
12   9   Paul Gourlay

14   1   John Sadler
14   2   Paul Murphy
14   3   Thomas Besnier
14   4   Shahnawaz Randera
14   5   Nichiei Hicks
14   6   David Jones
14   7   Richard Hawes
14   8   Przemek Rusin
14   9   Tom Rutter

********* 20 minute break ************

Simon Trumper just gave tickets to the buffet.

On a completely unrelated matter, can I just say what an all-around top guy and outstanding fellow he is.

Chippity Counts thanks to Yogi.

12   1   Mick McCloskey -- 121,600
12   2   Andrew Tuxworth -- 108,100
12   3   Scott Byron -- 142,500
12   4   Richard Berridge -- 92,000
12   5   Adam Goulding -- 57,600
12   6   Frances Creed -- 29,800
12   7   Darren Chadwick -- 42,400
12   8   Scott Yeates -- 37,800
12   9   Paul Gourlay -- 99,000

14   1   John Sadler -- 153,600
14   2   Paul Murphy -- 50,600
14   3   Thomas Besnier -- 20,000
14   4   Shahnawaz Randera -- 28,100
14   5   Nichiei Hicks -- 107,200
14   6   David Jones -- 38,700
14   7   Richard Hawes -- 39,000
14   8   Przemek Rusin -- 76,200
14   9   Tom Rutter -- 118,100

Fabulous Glittering Prizes...

1st -- £15,925
2nd -- £9,555
3rd -- £6,370
4th -- £4,095
5th -- £3,185
6th -- £2,275
7th -- £1,820
8th -- £1,365
9th -- £910

Btw, the £50 comp at 8pm is now definitely running, I've just been told.

Straight off the bat we lose Shahnawaz Randera in 18th place...  He raised to 4,500 preflop, and it passed to Tom Rutter in the big blind, who made it another 8k.  Within a couple of seconds Randera had pushed and Tom instacalled, as you do with Ahrt Ac.  Randera held Aspades Jd, and it was pretty much all over after the flop of Jh 2c Ad with the following 6h Qs doing nothing.  Tom was giving himself the traditional poker-player's hard time in the break for not getting a lot more out of his Kings vs. Queens scenario just now, but will probably be in a better mood now. 

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Meanwhile Randera does the walk of sadness - at least as far as the sofa behind the table.  Oh the bitter taste of defeat.  And the lovely taste of coffee.

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Fran is out, she raised to 4,500 from mid-position and was called by Andrew Tuxworth in the big blind.

Ad Jc 4c

Check check.

Kd

Tuxworth checks, Fran moves in, and Tuxworth insta-calls with Qs Ts having caught a four-outer against Fran's Qd Qc which miss the Ahrt river. We're now down to 16 players.

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Berridge Barrage!

He's in every hand at the moment!  And they haven't exactly been going his way...

Starting with hand #1 - Scott (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) Byron (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) raises to 4k preflop, called in position by Richard and out of it by Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) Gourlay (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325).
Flop:  8h Td Kc  Paul checks, Scott makes it 7k and Richard calls.
Turn:  Qd  Scott bets out 11k; call.
River: 3h Scott bets out 25k; call.

Scott (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) Byron (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) flips Aspades Jh for only the stone cold nuts, while Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1689) Berridge (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1689) kicks himself a little, perhaps, as he shows down a losing Ahrt Kd.

Hand #2

Scott (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) Byron (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) limps in early position, and then calls a Berridge raise to 6k.
Flop:  Kh Td 2d  Check-check
Turn:  Js  Quick check-check
River: 8d  They both check so fast I missed it and Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1689) Berridge (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1689) flips some winning Qh Qs.

Hand #3

Richard raises pre to 4,500, and finds big blind Andrew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2561) Tuxworth (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2561) re-raising to 11,500.  He calls immediately.  Again, the checking it down progresses at lightning speed until the board reads Qd 5c 4c 4s 7c at which point Richard pays off Andrew's river bet of 5k, mucking when he's shown Eights.

Pictured, left to right:  Scott (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) Byron (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734), Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1689) Berridge (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1689), Snoopy.  I have to say that even after nearly two days even I have no idea what Byron's face looks like.

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Richard Hawes raises to 4,200 on the button. Tom Rutter in the big blind, asks for a count and Hawes has about 30k behind, the former takes out a big stack of purples and sets them down on the table and Hawes moves his stack in faster than Jen chasing a newspaper when she finds the crossword hasn't been done yet.

Tom gives a half-nervous, half-embarrassed giggle.

Richard: Js Jd
Tom: 7c 6s

Ad Jh 8c Td 8h

Richard Hawes up to 70k, Tom Rutter probably on around the 85k - 90k range. (he's probably reading this then will suddenly count and tell us. :D)

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Down one more - It was permashortstack Thomas Besnier who made a reasonable squeeze of three limpers preflop from the big blind for c.15k.  But limper #2, Przemek Rusin, made the call with Ad Tc and found Besnier with the admittedly live Qs 8c.  The board paired nothing but the Ten, however, and we're down to 15 players already.

Pictured:  Rusin.  Intimidating.  Likes the call button.  Thomas Besnier made an exit so hasty I literally didn't have time to lift up the camera to snap him.

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Players (and us) are on a 1 hour dinner break. They (and us) are now legging to the buffet.

************** 1 hour dinner break ***************

Odd hand between Scott Byron (UTG+1) and Richard Berridge (UTG+2). Scott raises to 5,500 and Richard calls.

Ks Kc 6s

Scott bets 7,000. Richard calls.

9s

Check, check.

3h

Scott checks, Richard bets 9,000. Scott calls, Richard shows Kh Jh, Scott giggles for a bit and shows Kd Th.

Richard moans, "Awww, if I known you'd have that I could've won so much more!"

Mick McCloskey, "Jeez, you've just won 20k from the guy and now you're giving him a rubdown!"

Richard Hawes gets involved, but is possibly regretting it after two hands don't go his way...

For starters, he made it 5,500 only to find Tom Rutter re-raising to 15,500 on the button.  Some slow and highly focused self-counting later, he passed that one, and gave it another go the next hand.  This time small blind Paul Murphy called the 5,500, and they saw a flop of Tc Th 5s.  Murphy checked, and Hawes bet 9k.  Back to Murphy, who announced all-in, and received a call.  It was close - Hawes showed 6d 6h against Murphy's 7h 7s. 

Pictured:  Paul Murphy doubling up in serious mode.

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Meanwhile Paul Gourlay took a few from Mick McCloskey, and then gave them back to Andrew Tuxworth.  At least he knew when his Qs Qh had been outflopped by Tuxworth's Ac Kd (the board had come 5s 4d Kh 6h before he could bring himself to fold, which he did, face up, in disgust).  Rather than take this excellent chance to push Paul into the Tilt Well, Andrew Tuxworth showed him, entirely voluntarily, the AK, which seems a waste of a perfectly annoying situation to me ;)

Double up for Richard Hawes, he was all-in with Ac 9s against Tom RUtter's Ad Jh in the most topsy-turvy of hands.

9c (Tom's head sinks) Qd Tc

Kc

And now he has the nut straight except...

4c

Tom, "This game is so sick."

Richard rivers the nut-flush to get a much needed double up. Tom still very comfortable with way above average.

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Scott Yeates is OUT in 15th spot after two nasty ones...

First off he managed to double up a stubborn Ks Qs who wouldn't pass to a preflop re-raise which Yeates made with Qd Qc (the King made an appearance to knock the American very short).  He got a couple of all in moves through, before giving it another go after Andrew Tuxworth limped preflop.  It was neighbour Paul Gourlay, however, who gave him the spin with Aspades 2s, well behind Yeates' Ac Jc.
Flop:  Qs Js 7s
Turn and river: 6d 5s  But I don't think Scott Yeates really saw these as he was wordlessly getting up, making his way to the cashier and what looked a lot like buying straight in to the £300!  Scott:  I salute both your calm temperament and your degenerate streak.  PS. You get a bonus lovely cashier in this photo, as Yeates didn't look like an exit photo-op was what would make him happiest.

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Tom Rutter raises to 5,200 and Paul Murphy flat-calls on the button. LeKnave moves all-in from the big blind for a total of about 35,000. Tom Rutter thinks for a moment before folding, Murphy tanks for a couple of minutes before announcing, "Call."

LeKnave: Kh Qd
Murphy: An almost slowrollerish Jd Js

Ahrt 7d 3d 3s 3h Th

LeKnave = gutted.

Tom Rutter incidentally passed fours and almost was thinking of pushing, "If he thinks that long for Jacks, I can probably get him to fold by shoving!"

Richard Berridge busts in 13th place:

After re-raises had got rid of Snoopy on the button (he was kindly shown Queens by the small blind) and Nik Hicks on the other table (Hawes the bb pusher showed him absolutely nothing), a re-raise from Richard Berridge caused a big pot which he lost to Paul Gourlay.  Gourlay had made it 7,300 under the gun, and when it came to Richard, he just made the all-in sign, called immediately, this time.
Richard:  Aspades Ks
Paul:  Kd Kh
Board:  8c 2c Jh 2s 8d and one of the main aggressors on the table gives a pretty good stack to the other.

CHIP COUNTS:

Andrew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2561) Tuxworth (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2561)   12   2   206400
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) Gourlay (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325)   12   9   158600
Nichiei Hicks   14   5   147700
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1523) Murphy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1523)   14   2   146800
Scott (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) Byron (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734)   12   3   121600
Tom Rutter   14   9   105000
Mick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=667) McCloskey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=667)   12   1   90800
John Sadler   14   1   86800
Przemek Rusin   14   8   81900
Darren Chadwick   12   7   65600
Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1524) Hawes (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1524)   14   7   61700
Adam (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2) Goulding (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2)   12   5   48700
Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1689) Berridge (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1689)   12   4   40300  (now OUT)

And here's your chip leader, fearless Andrew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2561) Tuxworth (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2561).

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A pot for Mick McCloskey.

He raises under the gun, and Paul Gourlay calls from the big blind.

Qd 8s Td

Paul check/calls Mick's 10k bet.

4s

Check check.

2c

Paul asks how much Mick has left and get the reply, "75k." Paul then bets 25k. Mick thinks for a bit before calling and Paul can only show the drawtacalur miss that was Ad Jd. Mick shows Kc Tc.

"I've done it again!" protests Paul, alluding to another hand where he bluffed the river after a missed draw. "But I thought, that you would think that I wouldn't make the same move again!"

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I am going to presume (sorry Snoops if this is wrong) that he moved in pre as his stack was now entering the Danger Zone.  It's possible he saw the flop with some money behind and realised it was good for him, but anyhoo...
Board: 2s Qs Jd 2c 5s
Snoopy: Jh 8c
Scott Byron:  Aspades Kh

Result:  nearing 100k for the first time this comp.  Has his serious face on, although he's dancing to the Holiday Rap on the inside.

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Former chip leader John Sadler has gradually lost his chips. His hands have seemingly dried up and at the moment he's in the process of calling a lot of raises before check/folding most flops. This has seen his stack, having hit the peak of almost 150k, now in a major trough, stuck with just about 50k left now and in serious danger of not making the money.

Stacks are still deep enough for manoeuvring which doesn't involve all-ins... as proven by Scott Byron calling a McCloskey big blind re-raise preflop, only to fold on the Td 6s Tc flop when Mick threw in a nonchalant 25k...

Snoopy, too, got involved, having made it 7,200 to go in mid position, Paul Gourlay made it 19k total on the button.  Snoops called, but check-folded to a 17k bet on the 6h 8h 6c board.  Paul showed him Jd Jc for his troubles.

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This is the pace of play now as we're on the brink of the cusp of the edge of the lid of the corner of the bubble. Nick Hicks is probably the most active of the remaining players though Tom Rutter has also taken a couple of pots down as well, not much, if anything is going to showdown now. Still 3 players to go...

Tom Rutter laughs in the face of the brink of the cusp of the edge of the lid of the corner of the bubble:

He saw a threeway flop on the button of Ahrt 3s Qh.  Big blind Nick Hicks checked, Przemek Rusin checked and Tom bet 8k.  Instapass from Hicks, but after a lengthy dwell, Rusin made the call.
Turn: 3c  Check once again to Tom, who bet 14k now.  A much quicker call from Rusin.
River: 6c  Check a third time.  Now Tom unflinchingly bet 24k, Rusin passed, and Rutter Jr. showed him 8s Ts...

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Paul Murphy raises to 10k from the button and Richard Hawes makes the call from the big blind.

The board is checked down to the 7d 5h 4c 9h Jc river where Murphy bets an almost pot-sized 20k. Hawes thinks for around 20 seconds before calling only discover Murphy with a 'got there in the end' Aspades Js. Hawes is now one of the shorter stacks.

Big pots have threatened, but not actually reached the on-their-backs stage recently.  Andrew Tuxworth has been using his big stack to make hard-to-call bets, like the 25k he bet out into an already sizeable pot at opponent Darren Chadwick on a Qs 5h 8c flop.  A long and pretty tortured decision affected Darren at this point, but he passed, reducing his stack in the process.

Then Tuxworth, having called Mick McCloskey's big blind preflop reraise, bet 30k when Mick checked a 4h Kd 5h flop.  Again, the dwell, and again, the think better of it pass.  Is this unconventional player going to take down the inaugural Deepstack event?  Going to have to wait and see.  As Snoopy said, there hasn't been much to watch lately apart from players' bet sizes.

Scott Byron has obviously lost a huge pot to Andrew Tuxworth, as he's now down to just about 21k or so and having to survive the all-in shove and hope no-one calls. Meanwhile Tom Rutter is admitting that seat 1 (John Sadler) is tilting him due to the latter's ability to "medium connect with the flop and overshove into the pot."

"I just really want to get top pair and snap him off," admitted Tom.

Pete Linton, playing the £300, offered his opinion. "John is a Gala player, so he's used to bad structures and not this amount of chips and probably isn't experienced at playing deep-stacked poker."

Yep, he says Hi, and that you are Australian? 

He then moved all in preflop, and it looked a lot like John Sadler was going to give him a spin - the chips were counted out in neat stacks, to the hundred...but he folded. 

Not content, soon after this Sadler called Richard Hawes'  preflop raise to 8k in the blind, and they checked all the way down a board of 6c 8d Ks 6s Jd.  Sadler then put in a minbet (3k) on the river, and with a shrug Richard paid off his Jh 6h.  They are both in the unenviable position of having shorter stacks than would be ideal now.

Mick McCloskey is out on the bubble of the bubble of the bubble. Having been re-raised constantly by Andrew Tuxworth, including a hand just previously, where McCloskey asked the dealer if he could move in position against the chip leader. McCloskey raised the button with Jacks and Tuxworth repopped him with Ace King. It predictably all went in, but fortune favoured the chip leader whose stack alone seems to dominate the table.

Snoopy even said, "He's completely tying the table in knots."

It's the bubble of the bubble time!

Przemek Rusin wasn't having a great level - and perhaps showing him that bluff earlier encouraged this situation which just near-felted Tom Rutter.  The two of them saw a flop of Ts 3h 4s.  Rusin bet 20k, and Rutter, having, in his own words, "bided his time..." moved his whole stack over the line.  Call!
Rusin:  Th 8h
Rutter:  Kd Kc

Turn: 4h
River: 5h  And a rivered flush knocked Tom down to the point where he held 100 chips more than the big blind+ ante combo he had to put in the very next hand. 

Two double through in a row which were irrelevant to the stacks which autocalled him, and he had enough to pass his button (must have been total garbage) and make it to the break... you can tell it all from his expression (just imagine the word "Sick" sotto voce too)

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Chip counts - and what a discrepancy between the haves and have nots...

Andrew Tuxworth -- 363,100
Scott Byron -- 48,500
Snooooopy -- 81,700
Darren Chadwick -- 28,600
Paul Gourlay -- 211,200

John Sadler -- 94,900
Paul Murphy -- 131,200
Nichiei Hicks -- 131,500
Richard Hawes -- 38,700
Przemek Rusin -- 210,000
Tom Rutter -- 19,300

Like the Stranger says, "Sometimes you eat the bar, and, well, sometimes the bar eats you."

It's been that sort of day for Tom Rutter, who immediately moved all-in from under the gun for his last 19k or so. Richard Hawes moved all-in from the small blind.

Tom flipped Ad 9s whilst Richard showed Qs Jd.

Przemek said jokingly to Tom, "I passed two aces..."

"That's quite hilarious," was the reply.

Js 7c 3d Th Kd was the board and Tom leaves us with just 10 players left.

Stop! Bubbletime!

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Hand for hand then... and it's predictably slow although quite gratifyingly tense, for those of us who aren't Andrew Tuxworth with his mountain of chips.  Paul Gourlay just handed him another 60k after he saw a Q-T-x flop holding Q-K...while Tuxworth found Q-T.  There's not a player on Table Leader who isn't finding him a massive headache in a threatens-whole-stack sort of way.  Snoops has an awkward stack, which he said he's probably got to commit to stop the Leader calling pre, and betting him off post...

While Andrew takes down pot after pot, and the wrinkles of concern spread across the brows of the other players, Pete Linton comes to rail.  Tuxworth spots him, points, and says, "That's the man I learned off!"   

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Darren Chadwick is a lucky bunny. He moved in for his last 12.2k and Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) Gourlay (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) flat-called before American Scott (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) Byron (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) moved all-in. Gourlay passes A-7 and Chadwick shows Ac 3d against Byron's Qs Qd.

But the board comes Ad 8c 4s 6c Ts and Gourlay is upset that he'd would've won the pot and wanted to know why Scott (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) Byron (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=734) wanted to get him off, "I wanted to win the pot," was Byron's response. Paul has since apologised to Scott afterwards and admitted he was totally wrong.

Insult to Injury for Scott Byron, who becomes our BUBBLE FINISHER (10th place)

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He might be smiling gamely but he just suffered his second 2-outer in 10 minutes to finish just outside the money.  This time it was Andrew Tuxworth who raised to 15k preflop with Qh Tc  - Scott moved all in with Aspades Qc, and call! 

It had to be two Tens popping out to cement Tuxworth's claim for Luckbox of the Day, and he probably didn't notice the difference as he added the patient American's stack to his own.

Final chip counts coming...

Final Chip Counts are being counted.  What we know for sure is that Snoopy has snuck into the money and is getting "A special lunch before the final table starts at 3:30pm." 

Here's how he feels about that:

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