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Afternoon all!

We are all set here, your Updaters this afternoon will be Jen, & making his debut, snoops. Look after them!

The comp begins at 6.15pm, all being well.

If you want us to follow any particular player, let us know.

Enjoy!

womble and burnley john for me please

give best wishes to junior and all other blondes please

I'm interested in the progress of Jon's new protege. Adam(?)

Good luck to the virgin sloopy   0:-)

All the best to Greg Hill (Junior)

Did you mean James Atkin?
i think Adam is Jens new bitch runner  :D

PMSL

"Yes Jen no Jen, pant pant"

do u have the results from last night plz

What was the buy in for this event please?

I500 conkers

Ta muchly

Koresh won last night, Hotdog.

It's a 6.30 scheduled start everyone.

wish Tom (the fire) Burns good luck from me please (only cost him £80).

Will do, ifm.

Also just caught sight of Jack the Greek, John Shipley, Pete Singleton, Dave Garderner, Ash 'The Cash'/Realshady Pervaiz, The Camel, Ali Mallu, Mad Marty Wilson, M Z Hussain, Matt Tyler.

And I KNOW IT is here too. Well done on his placing on Thursday.

Fari 'Bad Man' Sour, Bambos, Greg 'Junior' Hill.

Go Junior!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not biased though (cough)

Hello all - joining the far more organised Mr Snoopy finally after fighting with the good people of vodafone over the right to give them lots of money... apparently the word 'poker' doesn't look to good on their credit checks...

But the dealers are in place and ready to go.  The players are still milling disorganisedly around, though, blondes included.

Hi Jen, I learn a new word every time you come on

Rumit has been spotted. Top bloke. Good luck to him.

Is tikay still in?

Is tikay still in?

I know it doesn't start until 6.30 but it will save me asking at 6.35

Same sad sense of humour!

There are currently (not definite as registration has been somewhat stretched) 109 players but that might change in the next couple of minutes...

Tikay just had a check of the starting chips and was having a moan about how the £750 gave you 10k in chips, but this £1500 event just gave 7,500, until it was pointed out to him that it was a double chance event...

109 players so far.

It's a double chance freezout all. So Tikay has another chance when he does his chips first hand.

Other participants:

Jeff Rogers
Andy Louca
84 yr old - Alan Mclean
Derek Baxter

Hi Red Dog - I can think of a couple of choice words for you.

But Tikay is still in and intending to play "a bit silly, as you can't get knocked out."  Hmm,

I have emptied my blue square account and put the whole lot on Junior all £3.31  so aaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaarrr   junior

i have backed junior as well , so no pressure

Money well spent Dewi.

Just spotted Big Trevor Reardon.

Tikay is on Table 1 seat 6.

Goooooo Tikay!!!

is lucy playing?

Final count of players 110.

The beginning of tournament announcements are underway, and the tournament will be too, soon.  When we get the full list of runners, they can all go in, if you want a total and full overview.  Some data entry practise for Snoopy mwah hahahaha.

In strides Womble and Brunley John. They look very confident.

Junior isn't over the moon. On his table is Carlo, Mad Marty, and the young wonder kid, James Atkin.

eeeeek!

Jeff Duvall is also here.

B. Ali
M. Allden
James Atkin
Dave Barnes
R. Binelli
T. Birmingham
Barny Boatman
S. Bovis
J. Buffenbarger
Tom Burns
Ben Callinan
Matt Cartwright
Martyn Cavanagh
A. Chambi
Carlo Citrone
D. Clarke
Rob Clarke
D. Colclough
Paul Dargon
Alan Davies
K. Dionysiou
T. Dunwoodie
D. Duvall
Michael Ellis
John Falconer
Tim Falla
Dave Finney
James Fisher
Tim Flanders
Michael Fletcher
Ian Foster...

and that's just page one.

Participants:

C Parkes
I Patel
L Pattern
Ash Pervaiz
H Plant
R Rauf
T Reardon
J Rebisz
J Reid
D Ricepieris
J Rodgers
L Rokach
A Rudge
D Sami
D Samson
S Sharam
J Shipley
R Shorcott
G Simcock
N Slade
D Smith
R Somaiya
J Stamatelopoulos
M Stevens
C Thomas
P Traynor
T Paul
M Tyler
S Walmsley
M Wernick
C Wildman
S Wilsdon
M Wilson
I Woodley
Bambos
I Yousif
K Zarandi

Ian Frazer
Dave Gardner
Andrew Gomm
Joe Grech
Michael Greco
Darren Grosvenor
Harprit Gurnam
D. Guy
G. Harle
K. Hawkins
Ian Herbert
John Hewston
Greg Hill
MZ Hussain
Nazir Hussain
M. Irfan
Essy Jahanpour
A. Johnson
Don Jones
Elias Katzi
MH Kazi
Tony Kendall
I. Khan
Joe Koumi
Andy Louca
I. Mahmood
Ali Malou
D. Mayall
Alan McLean
Simon Millington
M. Mills
Z. Mirza
Barkatul Mohammed
Reyaaz Mulla
Barry Neville
A. Nicholis
Meng Ong
G. Papageorgiou

Phew that's the lot, plus Peter Evans

BREAKING NEWS

T. KENDALL STILL IN.

It's been a crazy day!

Snoop, I know it's a fate worse than death to touch jen's laptop so what are you using, did you bring your own or are you on tikays with fag ash and cat slavverings? (new word for Jen)

Can you do me a huge favour and describe J Rodgers for me please?

ok tricast time everyone pick 3 people to make it the furthest in the event
all tricast have to be in by 19:15hrs (board time)

winner gets bragging rights

my 3 are

lucy rocash
keith hawkins
bambos

Jimmy Rodgers was a country and western singer in the 50s, looks a bit like Merle Haggard

ian i thought you were going to railbird this comp

Greg Hill
Mad Marty Wilson
Michael Greco

Any three on tikays table, he's bound to double one of them up

T Reardon

Womble

R Binelli

J rodgers
http://www.alamhof.org/irodgers.jpg

JR here while Jen goes on her rounds. Snoopy has just relayed a hand to me. It goes something like this...

E Katzi raises and get callled by D Sami

Flop comes an ace and two rag diamonds. Katzi bets, Sami calls.

Turn is another diamond, Katzi bets and Sami folds, declaring he had AT.

Katzi shows a King high flush.

Not at all well mate, been in bed all day.......i didn't even have the kids.
I might go tomorrow but then i'd miss meeting Tikay :D

womble,burnley and tikay

One of the first 'second chances' goes to Shaun Sharam at the hands of the Kid James Atkin:

He held  As Js against the kid's AK, which looked tempting on a flop with two spades, but did him no good, and the "chips!" shout rang out across the room.  Thanks to Jonathan for notifying us of this early episode (how helpful is he?)

any piccy's?

Quick hand of note on table 8.

Mateyboy battle.

Seat 9 raises preflop with AK. 1 caller.

Flop = KQ3

Seat 9 bets, receives call from mateyboy.

turn 10

check check

river 2

Matey boy bets - seat 9 calls.

Mateyboy shows AJ for straight.

Dan Samson gets involved in a pretty big early pot too, which I caught on the turn when the board looked like:  2c Qd 3d Js.  The river was just appearing:  Qc.  His opponent bet 1,000 on the river which Dan just flat called holding  3c 3h!

OK, pic gathering mission underway.  I bet snoopy's a better photographer than Tikay.

i'd actually like to this "kid" fella

Stevie Wonder is a better photographer than tikay

Junior picks up a 5k or so pot calling an all-in of 1,500 on a board of  Jd Kd 8c with the nice-looking  Ad 8d.  He was up against K 10, but the  As and  3d finished the other guy off conclusively (well, his chip stack number one anyway) and gave Greg a nice start.

my choices are the baby face James Atkin, R Somaiya and of course chicken joe J Koumi

My other half Mr crddolly's choice Tom Burns, Barry Neville and M Wernick

My 3

Carlo Citrone
D. Colclough
R Somaiya

Burnley John doubles through.

Holds pocket aces versus ace 4.

Bets 150. Called.

Flop = A47

He bets 600. Mateyboy makes it 1200. John smooth calls.

john checks rag turn. Mateyboy bets 1000. John sets him all in. Mateyboy calls.

I believe he was drawing dead.

Lovely!

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ps. Doesn't Barry Neville look cheerful above.

Burnley John photo on its way.

Here he is!

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Snoopy uploading the pics with mutterings like "one more bar, you can do it!"  So please be patient while the good pics crawl on.

Looks like he's sat on a Magnum

And Shaun Sharam the official first casualty - after losing his first chips to the kid, he had KQ on a Q44 board, but he was up against Kings and the monster of A4, which scooped the lot!  (The turn and river being 3,2).

DC and Dan Samson looking pretty serious.

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AlrightJack here again.

Martyn Cavanagh, who finished 3rd in the main event at Blackpool last week has doubled up via Pete 'the bandit' Evans. He's limped with 78 off and the flop comes A78. He bets, bandit raises, Martyn makes it some more and a few raises later all the chips have gone in. Pete turns over AK and the jack and the three on the turn and river dont change the situation.  "Chips please"

Samson looks serious, DC dosn't look pretty

Did you play a Walsall this week Red?

Right, we're working on an initial FULL chip count, two tables at a time.  Giving thoroughness a shot, with the excellent and very quick chip counting of Mr. snoopy:

Robert Binelli    7,300
Ian Woodley   14,000
Kevan Simcock 5,725
Simon Millington  8,350
Tikay                6,600
Dave Finney      6,225
Darren Grosvenor  2,800
Trevor Reardon   6,000
Kevin Zarandi      22,000
John Stamatelopoulos  4,650
The Camel          11,500
D. Shearer          8,050
Michael Greco      5,600
Ash Pervaiz         8,900
Michael Fletcher   11,000
R. Rauf               8,800

The counts are still in a sort of fledgeling state as not everyone has had their second set of chips, but hopefully it's interesting anyway... They're into the second blind level now.

Yes Mate, I played the £300 but I got my QQ involved with JJ and AA and that was all she wrote

Table 8

A. Chambi     8k
Elias Katzi      9k
Lucy Rokach  8k
Don Jones     5k
D. Sami         8k
Chris Parkes   6.5k
MH Kazi         6k
R. Shorcott   11k

Table 9

I. Patel       8k
M. Irfan      12k
Carl Thomas  8.5k
Harprit Gurnam  5,300
Matt Cartwright  2k
Pascal Perrault   11k
Ali Mallu          9k
Greek Jack      11k

Snoop Doggy AlrightJack here.

Hand between Greg Hill and James Atkin. UTG flat calls, Greg makes it 500 to play. Its folded round to Atkin in the sb, who bumps it up to 1500.

Greg asks how much James has left, then calls after being told he has 8,000 or so left.

Flop Jd Jc 7c

James bets 4,000. Greg passes after a delay that could just about be called a dwell but would be lightning fast if it were Carlo (who is also on the same table) playing the hand.

Semi-Texan John Hewston is out.  But he was already wandering off when I saw his empty chair and thought better of chasing him for the story...

Snoop is getting the final few tables' counts, and gathering a little list of interesting stories for when he returns, while I assign names to stacks courtesy of the list provided by the ever-helpful cardroom staff here.

Table 11

Barry Neville    2,100
Geoff Duvall    10,500
Joe Grech      9,500
Tom Burns      8,000
D. Guy           7,000
Essy Jahanpour  8,000
Tim Flanders      7,000
Michael Ellis        7,500
Burnley John     12,700
A. Johnson       17,000
Paul Dargon      18,000
Ian Herbert       11,000
Bambos            9,000
Barkatul Mohammed  16,000
Andy Gomm        2,500
A. Nicholls          6,700

Junior just took a hit. Couldn't see his hand, but he bet about 1800 on the river of an A7AQrag board.

Opponent took the pot with A6.

Which mateyboy had the AJ ?

I'm confused

that's a big table!!

Snoops / Jen ... wish good luck to Burnley John, Womble and Bazzer "Choccy bum" Neville ......... they are the three to follow !!    Can you also ask Burnley to ring me during the break .. Cheers :)

More chip counts:

Table 2:

MZ Hussain - 8k
Ian Foster - 9k
Junior - 11.5k
Marty Wilson - 9.5k
D. Mayall - 15k
Carlo Citrone - 6k
J. Atkin - 10.5k
A McLean - 20k

Table 3:

A Louca - 11k
Dave Barnes - 12k
Womble - 12k
M Allden - 3.5k
I Khan - 7.5k
Koumi - 7.5k
T. Birmingham - 9k
A Davies - 17k
W Shervington - 10k

Need to stop for air soon. That Jen makes it all look soooooo easy.

Say cheeeeeeeeese

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i can spot Micky Wernick in the background, and is that Rumit and Dave gardner on the same table ??

Table 4 (OK ifm that other count sort of ran on a bit, there isn't an 18-seater megatable)

Reyaaz Mulla    7,100
Jeff Buffenbarger  6,900
Dan Samson   9,700
El Blondie       10,250
G. Harle          15,500
D. Clarke          7,100
L. Pattern        7,000
Howard Plant    2,550
Steve Bovis      7,325

Table 10

Z. Mirza         4,850
M. Mills          10,600
Jeffrey Rodgers  3,200
D. Ricepieris     12,400
T. Dunwoodie   7,000
Paul Traynor     16,000
Craig Wildman   4,800
Matt Tyler        8,200
? 11,000

nothing wrong with your eyesight kev

lol TY Boo  8)

Table 6:

Dave Gardner - 1.5k
N Hussain - 24k
G Papageotgiou - 5k
I Frazer - 10k
M Wernick - 9k
I Yousif - 5k
M Cavanagh - 15.5k
Rumit - 7k

Table 5:

M. Stevens (the famous snooker player) - 9k
Ong Meng - 4k
Julian Rebisz - 8.5k
A Rudge - 4k
S Wilsdon - 8.5k
B Ali - 25k
Dave Smith - 10.5k
Tim Falla 6k

someone tell m stevens that hendry is a better snooker player much better poker player and a bigger hit with the ladies on second thoughts better not he will laugh so much he will still be laughing during the final table

Just caught up with Mr. Burnley John, who I've seen having a cigarette by the bar, having a cigarette by the TV and now by the blonde workstation, but who I asked, "Have you actually been at your table long enough to play a hand?"  "I played trip Aces," he said.  Here he is talking to the gent who paid them off...

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John is actually the loosest player around!!!

Its just that he smokes so much that he is never at the table to play a hand... sorry except for trip aces!

Come on BURNLEY WOMBLE BAZZA and MARTIN CAV... and JUNIOR! Theres just too many! MICKEY I KNOW IT... anyone else i miss CAMEL CARLO BINELLI G HARLE... the list goes on and on and on and on and on... oh yes nearly forgot that TIKAY fella!

Greg Hill lost 4,500 in a hand to Alan Mclean who "must have 30,000 now, he took another guy out," according to Greg.  "Just say I played it like a nob," was the only rather blunt detail he was prepared to give away.

OFF TOPIC     ....  X FACTOR UPDATE ....  The Nolan sisters wannabees and that annoying plank Chico are the 2 acts up for the boot ... we are on a winner whichever goes ... they are both CRAP :)

According to Carlo, he's only played one hand in 2 hours.

Not a bad 1 though. 

Limps with 33 under the gun.

Matey boy in the small blind puts in a raise with pocket queens.

Carlo dwells, obviously, then calls. A Mclean also calls.

Flop is 363. - 2 clubs. Blimey! Quads.

Funnily enough, Carlo checks. Mclean checks his flush draw. Matey boy in the small blind bets his queens. Both Carlo and Mclean flatcall.

Turn comes the 6 of hearts.

Everyone checks.

River comes the ten of spades.

Carlo checks, Mclean checks his missed flush draw, Matey boy bets his queens and Carlo moves in with his quads.

Carlo is paid off and doubles his stack.

3 way action with quads. How often does that happen?

Dan Samson just lost a huge pot with  Kc Kd.  You think you might like to see this hand on the big blind, as he did, with a raise to 400 and a re-raise from the small blind to 1,400 in front of him.  But when he made it 3,400 to go, the others folded but the small blind moved all-in with  Ac Qs.  The two folders had passed Aces, so it was the Case Ace which cracked his Kings sending him down to just 2,500 total.  Never the defeatist, he says, "I can come back, you know me."

The Irish Corrs/nolans tribute act are OUT   chico the plank survives another week :)

Well, thanks Kev for that Corrs/plank update, totally lost on me as my housemates exercise their democratic right to veto the X Factor lol...

The players are retaking their seats and the blinds are up to 100 - 200.

he'll be out next week no worries   BUT.......


PHWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR what a body!

damm bang goes my dreams

Lucy Rokach is OUT

Matey boy raises preflop and receives 4 callers, including Lucy.

Flop = 893 rainbow.

Matey boy bets out. Lucy is the only caller.

Turn = 7

Matey boy checks, Lucy bets around 1.5k, matey boy flat calls.

River = 4

Matey boy checks, Lucy moves all-in for 7k.

Matey boy thinks and thinks and thinks, in true Carlo style.

He then calls with QQ. Lucy shows T7.

Matey boy takes the pot and Lucy is sent spinning down the motorway.

Not often, except in my bedroom

who is this matey boy..........seems to be in a lot of pots

Here, to start off the next photo gallery, is Greg, with his one red eye (I wish I could photoshop, for lots of reasons)  looking fairly happy inspite of giving away 5k or so before the break...

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Good bok ironside

with his packed lunch in his satchel.....

Burnley john sees his set of aces is the nuts  (old pic but it really is the double of the one from earlier)

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Michael Greco OUT. Taken out by R Rauf.

Rauf limps under the gun with  6h 9h. Barney Boatman raises with  Ac As. Greco flatcalls with  Ks Kc. Rauf also smooth calls.

Flop =  6d 6c 5d

Rauf checks. Boatman bets 500 into a 1300 pot.

Greco calls. Rauf reraises to 2000.

Boatman folds his bullets. Greco moves in and is quickly called.

He received no help on the turn and the actor is gone. Rauf rakes in a nice pot.

Good fold Barny!

A few chip counts.

Rumit - 15k
Binelli - 11k
Ash the Cash - 27k

burnley womble and grandad please?

Bad news blondeites: Tikay is OUT - I thought he was just coming over for a cigarette, but he's managed to do all of his chips (at least he outlasted Michael Greco) in the following manner:

Holding  Th Jh he saw a flop for 600 along with three other people.  The deadly flop was  Qd 9h 4h, and when Iwan Jones bet out 1200, the 4200 pot was just too tempting and he pushed all-in for 7,000 with his big old draw.  Iwan took a while before calling and knocking him out, to his credit calling Tikay's hand exactly before doing so... but our fearless leader looks a bit deflated, especially as his computer is now being used rather professionally by snoopy.

Here's a pic of Tikay and Iwan before the one disposed of the other.

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sheesh that was a quick answer. After that one dont bother looking for womble and burnley.

if you look at the times of the above posts I have managed to bok him inside 5 seconds....a record even ironside will struggle to beat. Good thing is Tikay got his hand in as favourite but the one thing I would love to know is what hand he thought he had?

Any idea what Iwan "The grandad killer" was holding?

A few more for you to get ya teeth into.

I KNOW IT - 7k
Burnley John - 9k
Greek Jack - 10k
Tom Burns - 9.5k (not on fire yet, ifm)

Look at this for a drawing hand...whatchamean I missed??

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PMSL, so cruel.

Don't tell me you believe that one Robert !

great fold by Barny if he is to be believed..................

Of course, who would lie about Aces. (I had assumed he showed)

assumption is the mother of all ****ups robert. I dont think anyone could fold aces on that board. Ask if anyone saw them and see the sniggers you get,

Womble on 15k.

At one point, he was down to the felt with 1.5k and not a happy chappy.

Great recovery though.


Also:

Rumit - 15k
Bandit - 8k

when you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME :)

Oh yes, I omitted to mention Iwan held  As Qc.  You were meant to just kind of infer that from, er, something or other (mumble as distracted by apple crumble)

Here's small prodigy James Atkin next to shy and retiring Carlo

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The 'Ol fella here.

Iwans hand was  Ac Qs.

The board came  Qd 9h 4h.

Iwan bets 1,200, I move in. Iwan dwells, puts me on EXACTLY the right hand, & makes a huge & brave call.

Turn  7s

River   Ad

I don't think I can play the hand any other way, except to pass pre-flop.

Good Luck to Iwan, no complaints from me.

I don't know what to do with myself now! But these two guys seem to be doing a quite splendid job, so I think I'll head off home, tail between legs.

I'll be online later, all jealous!

xx

Good try tikay.

raab, that lay off bet rememeber, I'mm ready to collect


SPOONY... did you see those Aces of Barny's you reported as gospel or was it something he told you?

Mickey Wernick here, who looks reluctant to stick his neck out

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Bugger off home Tone, you're redundant

Grat coverage as usual guys :respect:

about that bet robert.....eh...ah...mmm....    lol

dont beat around the bush tom , say what you mean

But, does Ponsoy have the staying power and stamina of the old man??

Evening all btw......


Kev - MMMMWWWWAAAHHHHHHHHH xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Here's a quick piccy of Barney looking all macho. I took one earlier but he said it made him look fat and banned me from uploading it.

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and whats wrong with being fat???

Counts collected by Snoopy, who's got a great photo which will get to you all some time in 2006...

Tim Flanders    4,000
Barry Neville    20,000
Pascal Perrault  22,500 (pic of him beneath)
Trevor Reardon  9,000
Carlo Citrone     16,500
Dave Colclough  21,000
John Falconer    6,500

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tell barny the truth hurts and quote red dog as the source

Barry Neville on 15k. He informed me that he was down to 6k at one point. I get the feeling that he's not the type to wait for hands.

Matthew Stevens is OUT.

Taken out by Big Dave Smith.

I'll ask Ponsoy next time I see.

from s-n-o-o-p-y  :D

Barry Neville takes a chunk out of Burnley John with a straight which John bet on the river.  Barry just flat called the final 1,500 and John is down to 6,500 while Barry is on one of those up swings.

That table has sat in a row, Burnley, Barry, Geoff Duvall and Joe Grech.

Elsewhere, Robert Binelli has been "stealing," according to Tikay, who's on his way home, but I saw him win a few thousand with  Ah Qc after calling 1,700 on a flop of  9d 2s Qs and, getting a check to him on the  2h river, he took the pot by throwing in one of those purple chips (5k).  He showed his hand, which makes my job more interesting...

Who is s-n-o-o-p-y  ?

So counts on and around Robert Binelli (28,000):

Ian Woodley    20,000
Kevan Simcock  9,800
Simon Millington  21,000
Iwan Jones       27,800
Dave Finney      17,400
Darren Grosvenor 12,100
Trevor Reardon   6,600
Keith Hawkins     11,000
Michael Fletcher      24,000
Barny Boatman   18,300

98 left. 1 table has just been split resulting in Barry Neville sitting on a table with Camel, Barney Boatman, & Ash Pervais.

Crikey! That's a tough lot to go into battle against.

Darn, forgot my pun earlier. -- Tough break for Stevens before. :-X ::) ::)

right on cue sloopy

Sorry, ifm.

Tom Burns is OUT

As a result Jeff Duval is now on 37k.

Tom raised to 1200 with 10-10.

Matey boy flatcalls.

Geoff Duval reraises with A-J.

Tom moves all-in. Matey boy folds 9-9. Duval is pot committed and calls.

Board comes 10-Q-K-rag-rag and Tom's trips lose to Duvall's straight.

Afterwards, Tom tells me that Geoff didn't realise that Tom still had a 5k chip and thought he was putting him all-in with the initial reraise. If he'd have known this, then perhaps he wouldn't have reraised. We may never know now. Unlucky Tom.

any news on andy gomm please

unlucky Tom

laptop no3 ganked up now, expect me to chirp in every now and then with the odd hand, bad beat story and overheard remark. Here's a starter for 10.

Barry Neville, overheard on his way to his umpteenth visit to the men's facilies...

"this is ridiculous, someone's put water tablets in me drink'

Howard Plant is on 16k and is drinking a pint of orange juice and red bull to stay awake.

I KNOW IT has just doubled up to 11k with pocket kings.

Jen is having trouble with her vodafone card, so bare with us.

Andy Gomm has 23.6k

Average is 18.5k, so he's in good shape.

Dani Versace has just posed a question.

You're in the middle to late stages of  big comp and have Aces in late position. You're the second biggest stack at your table and one of the chip leaders.There's a raise, a reraise and then a rereraise from the table chip leader. The raises are all big enough that all three of the other players are committed. What do you do?

go allin

Womble has 13k.

He says he's been dealt no playable hands, but still seems to be going up and down like a yoyo.

'Why?', I asked.

'Complete Muppetry,' he answers.

Oh, and he also blames Ariston for ruining his game.

fold, odds on to lose with 3 in against you

many thanks

Just pass on this message to womble please "too much information...must run plays!!" then tell him to stop messing about and get some chips.

A few more chip counts all from the same table:

Mad Marty - 6k
Junior - 7k
J. Atkin - 20k
Carlo Citrone - 14k
A. McLean - 41.5k
M.Z. Hussain - 7.5kk

That's one hell of a line-up. Good luck, Junior.

Carlo is bopping away to his i-pod. Reminds me of my dad actually. Guess he's getting old. :D

tell junior to pull his finger out..........i have got 5 quid riding on him

The Camel. He lost a hand earlier and got the hump.

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Jen's been struggling with phone calls to vodafone but I believe she's back in business now.


Rumit has trippled up to 7.5k.

Barney Boatman up to 40k and progressing very nicely indeed.

Barry Neville is on 15.2k.

Well I've been off air for a half hour or so thanks to the collective muppetry of the vodafone guys. 
"You've been barred because you have a spend limit on your card."
"Can you unbar me?"
"Yes."
"Thanks."
Still not working.
"You've been barred because you have a spend limit on your card."
"I know, I had the bar lifted."
"No you didn't."
"Yes, I did."
"It's still there."
"I know."
"Would you like it lifted?"
"Yes."     Repeat over five phone calls.  Finally get back online. 

Here's a pic of chip leader (or thereabouts) Alan Mclean, looking rather wistfully at his pile of chips.

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On a break now, Alan no longer has all of those chips. He lost almost 20k of them to Atkin with AK versus the youngster's pocket sevens! Atkin's stack now approaching 40k!

Jon, is there betting in running on this your m8 seems to be goin ok

Next blinds are 300 - 600, and a rather fatalistic Dan Samson tells us it's all likely to go in next level (he's got just over 6k)

80 players remaining.

Some counts pre-dialup freezeout:

Jeff Buffenbarger     15,000
El Blondie                25,000
George Harle                  13,000
D. Clarke                 11,300
L. Pattern               18,400
Howard Plant           18,500
Steve Bovis             30,000

The sharp rise in Steve Bovis' chips came with a set over set scenario - he held  Qd  Qs on a  Kh Qc  4c board, while Mr. Harle held the unfortunate  4d 4s.  It all got in and Steve doubled up.  Apparently that's the second time in a week.  Ouch.

TheNun here ... sitting on Jack's Lap.........





Top......Great Atmosphere ...wish you were here .....

nice updates guys. as ever your hard work is much appreciated.

and at least your keeping snoopy busy too. Always good to keep him off the streets.... ;)

I'm sooooo   jealous

So true, the local lamp posts are beginning to rust.

Mad Marty raises 3,500 from the button, it having been folded round to him. Welshman Ian Herbert goes all in for another 6k or so. Marty gives it some chat then passes. Ian shows pocket twos. Marty reels.

Just moved base for a minute to see if the dialup reception (or whatever makes these little cards work, when they're not barred) is actually better where Jonathan has set up his camp...

D Sami has just doubled up with AK versus Jeff Duvall's pocket sixes. The ace flopped and Sami now has 24k.

Jen and Snoopy in the process of decamping up to where I am, due to poor mobile card reception in their original hideout.

These welsh plaers are very good you know, they even win with  5h 6h

Second time in 24 hours you got that one in Dewi. However remember it was  5h 4h

Snoopy's (Tikay's) laptop has died. Its in perpetual 'preparing to stand by mode.' Jen is currently trying to rescue the situation.

tell em to turn off standby in control panel, it's a pain in the backside

Rob, I have to exaggerate

Mad Marty is out! He has AQ and the flop is A rag T. Carlo has pocket tens and to rub it in, an Ace falls on the river.  His seat has now been taken by a chipped up to the eyeballs Joe Grech.

Update on the Snoopy laptop situation...its either dying or very slow. He's right next to me so it can't be the reception, cos mine is great.

tony can u say good luck to Iwan and Trevor please

Thought you would be playing tonight Paul

i wanted to but i have to take my girlfriend into hospital tomorrow so i couldnt polay final if i got there.

Sorry to hear that, hope all goes well

So here is Gorgeous George, whose nickname (which Dave seems to take great delight in spreading) he took pains to avoid telling update corner, although he made the mistake of mentioning that he didn't like it, as people might think he coined it himself...

Sadly we just saw George at the bar, and he is now OUT.

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cheers they shouldnt be a problem

It appears that the closer snoopy and I sit to Jonathan Raab, the better our flagging signal, so we're all cosy here now.  Here's a picture of D. Sami looking cool, in his own words.

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Nice hand between Matey Boy and Sonny Jim.

Matey boy raises 3k preflop. Sonny Jim calls. So does Jeff Duvall.

Flop 7c 8h Qs.

Matey Boy bets about 5k. Sonny Jim goes over the top for another 8.2k

Matey Boy thinks for an eternity then passes, even though he has another 35k in the bank.

Matey Boy asks for a show and Sonny Jim holds up pocket kings.

Sonny Jim builds his stack.

Ahhh Sami (good poker), i like him a lot he has loads of "gears", very fine player.
That George fella, is he a geordie? been on his table many times

Anthony Nicholls is doing rather well - up to 46k or so in nice neatly stacked piles.

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A dejected looking Ian Herbert has been spotted heading for the cash tables. I didn't dare ask...

Great updating guys, love the pics

any news on andy gomm

And the gentleman next to Anthony - a Don 'The Thinker' Jones, we believe, who objected to just being half a picture and got his own portrait:  (he has 9,700, but the oddest hat in evidence tonight)

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how is Iwan Jones stack looking jen does he have a big one ?

any chip count for junior and el blondie please

tell Mr Shearer that Ginge says hello

John Shipley went OUT just before the break.

He raised preflop to 1000 with AK and found 1 caller in Anthony Nicholls.

Flop = KT7

Shipley bets the pot, Nicholls flat calls.

Turn = 2

Shipley bets 2000, Nicholl's reraises Shipley's final 3000. Shipley throws his 3000 in and turns over his Big Slick.

Nicholl's shows his JJ and rivers a thrid.

Shipley drowned by the river. Ouch.

Junior is pictured here at the break with just 4,000, trying to hide from the camera, but I just checked on him and he's up to 14k!  I asked "what happened here?" and he said. "I got lucky" first of all with J 10 against AQ, which hit the A and Q only for the straight to appear, and then he raced to his second double up with JJ against AQ.  Looks a bit happier now...

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr my £3.31 looking good

Go on Greg

Camel is also OUT. Was very low in chips and threw them in just before the break.

Not a great day for Keith, but he's still smiling.

He did tell me that, earlier on, he passed Kings preflop to a Rock making his first raise. I think I believe him, but not 100%.

I think Robert will believe him :D ;ifm;

Here are those counts you requested, and a couple of others:

Iwan Jones       16,000
Trevor Reardon  19,000
Womble            16,000 (just won a fairly big hand; details coming)
Dave Finney      15,000
Carlo Citrone      20,000
Joe Grech         66,000
El Blondie          26,300
Dan Samson       5,000
Steve Bovis       28,000
Howard Plant     35,000
Rumit                6,200
Barny Boatman   14,500
James Atkin        45,000

Love the Updates, especially considering the connection probs. Looks like I'm not only out of the ccomp, but out of a job too.

More of the same guys, loving it.

Say Hi to Maureen, too, please.

I decided to come home, as I'd have got in the way of Jen & snoops, & I really am glad to see them doing such a good job. Sigh......

Womble just saw a flop of  Ts Js 5s on the button, along with Junior and Joe Grech.  It checked round.  The turn brought the  8s.  Junior checked, Joe bet 1,600.  Womble thought and carefully counted out 1,600, before raising. Junior passed.  Joe put in 5k, Womble moved all-in fairly rapidly and when Joe folded we all saw why - his hand was  As 6s.

Siorry to hear ifm is unwell - get well soon buddy.

Geoff Duvall goes all in on the button with  Qd 5d (short, need I say), finds E. Katzi in the big blind with  Ad Qs. 
The board all came down:   3d Kh 6h 9h Ks so Duvall is OUT and they look like they're heading to break another table...

Aww shucks..........ta love.
How come no kisses >:(

Womble and Atkin in a hand together.

Atkin raises to 2,100 utg.

Womble, 2 positions later calls. The rest of the table folds.

flop is 3s 9h 9s

they both check.

turn is Ks, check check

river Kd

Atkin bets 3k. Womble passes showing 2 black sevens.

Hi there boss - good to see you got home OK and are enjoying the update - yes, we aren't as good with your temperamental laptop as you are, but having rested it for a little while snoopy looks to be able to get it up and running again.  He's getting the full live update experience: all the fun and excitement of the tournament, and the sometimes nail biting wrestling with technology.

Jonathan has finally snapped with it.  Just now heard to mutter, "Three bars! Surely not.  I used to think you could get away with three but once you've had 4!  I blame this wire....."  Bats.

Some chip counts courtesy of the hound.

Rumit 6.2k
Barney 14.k
Martyn Cavanagh 15k
Don Jones 12k

I Know It is out though :(

Now supping an ale with the Camel at the bar.

5 bar service has resumed :)

If my lappie has fallen over, ring me if you need any help rebooting it. You will need the Password.

E Katzi is now up to around 65k.

Junior is on 14k.

Carlo Citrone 19k.

Alan McLean just took 20k off chip leader Anthony Nicholls. No cards were shown.

It's the fag ash and cat saliva

Nice Dave is out.  He raises it up with AQ. Sonny Jim thinks for ages and reraises. Nice Dave goes all in and Sonny Jim calls showing AT. The ten hits and Sonny Jim takes down a 34k pot. Different Sonny Jim btw. There's at least 2 of them playing tonight. We're down to seven tables now.

Who told YOU my Password?

snoops - the lappie working ok mow?

Rumit is OUT - he eventually made a move with pocket tens, ran into AK and lost his small stack attempting to double it through.

Trevor Reardon's stack is looking like an unhealthy 5,000 too, while every time I pass that table Dave Finney is moving in for about 15,000 and not being called.

Lots of stuff from Jen and Snoops to report, but they are both suffering laptop problems. Much as I'd like to stay logged in, I feel I must donate my machine to the official updating team, so adios for now.....hang on, Jen is back in, Snoops monitor looks promising, so I'll put that donation on hold until we know if they're both up and running again.

Hurrah, they're both back up and running.

A 40k pot was just taken down on a  3d 4d 8s flop by James Atkin (it looked like his opponent was yet again Alan Mclean).  Almost immediately afterward, he (Alan) got involved in another monster pot, this time with newly-deposed chip leader Anthony Nicholls.  Anthony limped preflop, then called Alan's 7k raise on the button.  He bet out on the flop though, 10,000 when it came  4d 2s Ts, and couldn't keep the extra 9.100 from going in when Alan Mclean pushed his whole stack.  He showed  Ac Qs, and Alan's  6d 6c were good.  Non-stop action over there...

Laptop has caught a second wind and the sonopy snopster is back!

We have a new chip leader. Luke Patten won a 110k pot with AA v Dave Smith's QQ.

Big Dave Smith now down to 12.5k.

Just noticed some other railers. Jack the Greek & Pascal Perrault. So both are OUT.

Thats very kind of you JR.

What's the prob swith the lappies - the Vodafone card?

See, leave the kids on their own, & they mess up.

Here's Trevor Reardon looking for a chance to double up.

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Mine's OK now afer the barred/unbarred/barred again fiasco.  Yours went haywire for an hour but Snoopy is persevering and we're alright.  Calm calm, no need to rush back over and pretend you can fix it ;)

Just spoke to I KNOW IT (Craig Wildman).

He eventually went out with KQ v Ali Mallu's 89 on a Q-9-9 flop.

He had previously taken a hit with AJ v 33 on an A-J-3 flop and was struggling ever since.

Andy Gomm has 18k.

D Shearer please :)

Mickey Wernick   30,000
Ali Mallou            35,000 (down from 50,000 a few minutes ago)

And here comes James Atkin!  Somehow Carlo got all his many chips - oh, and here's how:

Carlo limps on the button, James calls with  Tc Jc, the bb then raises 2.5k with both players following him in.
Flop:  8c 4c 9d
James goes for the minimum check-raise on Carlo (who bet 10,000 and pushed in after said check-raise) and went for it with his big draw.  Carlo held  Kh Ks!

Turn and river were the irrelevant 8 3 (i.e. not clubs) and the young hellraiser is over in update corner giving us the story of how he nearly had SO many chips...
"It's hard to put him on Kings, and it's such a perfect flop for me..."  Look familiar, Tikay?

how many left?
blinds?
average stack?
when do they finish?
what time do they come back?
is there another comp tomorrow afternoon?
Come on snop, get sniffing :)

ifm:

blinds 600 - 1,200
Players left: 55
Average stack: 30k
End of day: 9 players or 3am

Don't know if there's anything tomorrow...

excellent stuff, now can we have pics of the valets?
Sam if she's working :)up

Bit of a debate on Junior's table regarding the hand that knocked James Atkin out. Carlo is confident that the kings were favourite on the flop. Greg thinks otherwise.

Alrightjack is currently running it through cardplayer.

For 'Carlo' in that hand with James Atkin, read 'Alan Mclean.'  We got the exit from the horse's mouth, but it's easy to mix those two up :)

So Alan's back up there amongst the leaders.

So - Greg Hill 13,000, having a little chat with us - "might be time to go on the tear."

And here is the knockouter come to join us and the knockoutee:  Alan Mclean has 120,000 and looks to be the chip leader.  "Long way to go yet, but I'd be happy with 120 at the end of the night."  Fair enough.

Here's Robert Binelli who said I was taking pictures for a hit list - who was going out next  Nice guy, but bit of a pessimist...

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Tikay,

Any chance of an update on the Cardiff Boys, in particular Iwan, James Fisher, Martin Cavanagh and Carl Thomas.

Many thks

That McLean - what a player!

And yes Jen, Atkin's hand DID look familiar....

In my case, I was 56% to 44% favourite - but I missed........

Well, it looks like Junior has won that debate.  Jc Tc is 56.3% fave.

Carlo won't be happy!

Some more chip counts here:

Junior - 13k
Dave Clark - 25k
Ian Foster - 25k
Luke Patten - 118k
Steve Bovis - 23.5k
Snoopy - 100000000000000000k

So what you are saying is that you don't need me any more ;reallyamsorry; ;reallyamsorry;.........

Well unless they've invaded his living room Tikay will be of absolutely no use...

Martin Cavanagh has 16,000

Iwan Jones just OUT.           

James Fisher is (I believe) out as of a long time ago. 

Iwan Jones - OUT
James Fisher - OUT
Carl Thomas - OUT

Martin Cavanagh is flying the flag for that little group with 13.6k, but he seems to be in good spirits.

OK consider bait taken:

We would collectively only benefit from your experience and calmly unflappable technological and personal expertise.  But we want you to rest and work on stuff as you've been working so hard, and couldn't possibly insist you stay and update after such an unsettlingly early exit...  It's good for us to struggle with your idiosyncratic equipment - we just appreciate you more.

There that's enough.

Put your feet up, tikay.  :cheers:

The Cardiff boys normally have a last longer wager, and it could just be that Martin C has just won it with Iwan's untimely exit, as it sounds like the rest have fallen by the wayside

Well, James is out as we know, but I think most will agree he's made a positive impression and has done very well to have consecutibe 3rd places in the £500 and £750 events. If he'd hit on the hand it may well have been a sublime three finals in a row. I'm sure there's more to come from him in the future.

I think you should do some work tikay! How come no appearence on 425 by either you or ted!

Unlucky on your exit, but these are the hands that build your stack for a final...

I may be in my living room, but I can confirm that poor James Fisher went out in the first 15 minutes. His QQ was turned over by JJ, & he lost his second tranche pretty damn quick too.

As to Jen's riposte. Well,, that's told me good & proper. "Unsettlingly". Another new word coined by Jen the wordsmith. No education, that's her problem.

Ali Mallou is OUT taking the old AK vs QQ shot, and rumour has it his opponent spiked the set of Queens to put a full stop on that one.

About an hour to go here and it looks like as per usual they're not going to get close to 18, but we're in for a long second day, commencing at 3pm tomorrow.
Here's Jonathan Raab showing no signs of flagging in his job moonlighting as an updater.

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Trevor Reardon has been short stacked all day and is starting to look slightly sour faced. A good double up should solve that. Big TR is currently on 9.2k.

Junior is also struggling - 10.6k

Binelli - 17k
M.Tyler - 13kk
M. Wernick - 55k
Don Jones - 15k
El Blondie - 24k
Andy Gomm - 8.5k

I still have 10000000000000000000000000k.

The Camel was giving no interviews. 

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48 players left.
34, 400 = average stack
Blinds = 600-1200

What was the nun doing there, was/is she playing?

I can tell his fortune, £5

But James Atkin was more than happy to wax long and lyrical about the pros and cons of his exit play.  And have a beer, which is good as I'm not sure what would happen if you gave him caffeine.

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Go on Red, what's his destiny?

He is going to lose a fantastic heads up battle in the final of a major comp to a tall dark handsome mustacheoed stranger

The nun was not playing although has that twitchy 'wish I was, though' look about her.  I'm off to see how the chips have been moving.

The Nun was railing and checking out the eye candy (me)  ::) ::) ::)

Mr Nun was also present.

Almost described you

Carlo Citrone is OUT.

No details as of yet.

At-It, With that hand, on that flop, I was happy to take my chance, I'd hit my flop, & calling was not an option. I bet you'd have done the same!

This week's 425. All I can  say is that it was definitely my week off - I get one week off every month, and this was my week off. 'Nuff said!

alright everyone...can you please tell me trevor reardons chip count and wish him good luck from his son greg cheers!

Hope he's doing alright, he's in my bragging rights tricast

Is Jackie still playing?

Hello Greg. He's on 11k and in desperate need of a double up.

Just got in good work JEN and SNOOPY.

How many for Carlo, Barry and Burnley John?

Good luck also to Mickey Wernick.

cheers m8 did one of your earlier posts say he had 19k what happend to that do you know ? robert was you asking me if jackie was still playin? im half asleep here lol

how's D shearer doing please (black dude with the odd hat/cap in the piccy earlier) and say hi from Ginge please

Robert Binelli is OUT. Never quite recovered from his aces being busted earlier on.

He was knocked out by N Hussain.

Anthony Nicholls, an early chip leader, is now back up to 55k after dropping down to 30k.

From what I can see, there are no females left, although Junior is borderline.  :D

Yes it was me, I remember that win on her first live comp, wonderful, but haven't heard of her since. Has she just stuck to the keyboard since?

ifm.

He said his name was Don Jones.

Tikay my chips would've been in faster than yours! You have to make these plays in my opinion, or else you never build the "bullying" stack! Your playing well, just a little hiccup, it would be unfair if you locked up a seat in every last 2 tables in a comp!

Just caught some of the program tonight, and saw a long and very very close up on compton... all was revealed at the end with an empty chair, not the same program without the co anchor/anaylist!

All those players are out, JP.

yeah she not played live in a big(ish) comp since...got a new car out the winnings lol she plays on ladbrokes alot now though! wow its 230  :o

Hehehe, well how do i direct you to him if you think he's called shearer?

Chip counts from the last five tables:

Womble     20,000
Greg Hill     20,000
Joe Grech  54,000
Anthony Nicholls  52,000
Micky Wernick  62,000
Alan Mclean   134,000
D Sami        37,000
Dave Colclough  21,000

More coming...

I've seen her in a couple of sats at walsall

yep thats why i put big(ish) comps lol

Goodnight everyone, I'm off to bed. I will be back on, all bright eyed and busy tailed, at the crack of 1pm

ps, Well done Snoop, (No need to congratulate Jen she knows she's good) and thanks to Mr Raab for pitching in

Well wish her well please, she was a refreshing sight, lots of smiles.

Night night Your Redness

Counts ctd...

Dave Smith     25,000
Howard Plant  55,000
Steve Bovis    15,000
Andy Louca    15,600
D. Clarke        20,000
Ash Pervaiz     17,000
Barny Boatman  13,000
T. Birmingham  23,000
N. Hussain      56,000
Darren Grosvenor  15,000

I can no longer find Trevor Reardon, sadly...

Jeff Buffenbarger and Dominic Pierce (sp!?) ?

Jeff Buffenbarger is definitely OUT, not sure about Mr. Pierce... just 15 minutes until the planned Stop time for today, after which we will post the full list of players and their stacks, if we can get hold of it.

On second thoughts, JP, there's no Dominic Pierce of any spelling on the entry list for today, sorry.

Martyn Cavanagh is OUT.

All-in preflop with  7d 7c v  Dave Smith's Ah Qc.

First card was 7h to make Martyn trips.

Followed by...

 5c 3s 2h 4c

Ouch. Dave Smith makes a straight and Cavanagh is gone.

Thx guys i thought Dominic was playing but I must've been mistaken.
No more from me will look at list later hehe.

And here is Womle picking up a pot.  I was stood there getting this pic and Mr. Johnson, who'd been on his table earlier, told me conspiratorially: "Do you know who that guy is?  I'm sure I've seen him on TV.  He's going to win the thing.  An absolute rock."  So there you go.

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At this yawningly late hour they've somehow found the energy to knock out another whole table's worth of players so they're down to 36 and counting... but I reckon the whistle is getting blown imminently and we'll hang around for those end-of-day counts for you.

Andy Gomm is on a roll. He's now climbed up to 44k after being low stacked.

1st hand:

4 limpers, no raises.

And Gomm bets 3k into a K74 flop.

Dave Smith calls and raises 5k.

Gomm moves in for the 5k and his remaining 1700.

Dave Smith calls the 1700.

Gomm shows KQ, Smith shows K6.

Turn and river were blanks, Gomm doubled up.

Second hand:

Another battle with Dave Smith.

It appears as though Gomm had JK v Smith's J9 on a JT3 flop.

Turn = T

River = 5

Gomma doubles through again with his 2 pairs Jacks and Tens, King kicker.

Come on Womble!!!

My last remaining choice of the tricast

I'll check out the counts in the morning, thanks Gen and your loyal pet, sloppy

You did a great job there. Sleep well!

We are waiting now for the END OF DAY ONE chip counts... having seen off Mr. Colclough who is still in, but only just, after an unlucky run-in with  Ac Ad ("Again.").  He got it all in with his Aces against Steve Bovis' J9 on a 10 10 9 flop, and you fill in the rest.  Never mind, he's still got 6k or thereabouts and is heading back tomorrow to give it a shot.

Great job guys

Reading your updates has kept me patient whilst playing into the wee small hours.

thanks

raab :respect: :)up :)up

Sorry for the silence, still waiting on those counts... probably no one left to read them, but they're here - snoopy's putting in the first half and then I am sending him home, for he has done enough... many thanks to him for all his help and boundless enthusiasm.  He speaks Japanese too.  Cool.

i'm still here :)up

yeah me too...
or at least till the bb catches me...lol

Overnight chip counts:

S. Millington - 50.6k
Ian Fraser - 11.2k
Greg Hill - 37.2k
Ian Woodley - 126.1k
E. Katzi - 22k
Anthony Nicholls - 101.6
Micky Wernick - 59k
R Shorcott - 44.1k
Alan Maclean - 163.8k
Andy Gomm - 47.6k
Dave Clark - 38.8k
M Alden - 73.8k
J. Rogers - 72.7k
B. Boatman - 25.2k
I. Foster - 11.4k
A. Davies - 50.6k
S. Warnsley - 14.9k

No probs.

Sayonara

Brilliant as usual.
Thanks Blonde.
WP Snoop and Jen.

is that all that's left?
what happened to DC?

thats 1st half

ahhhh, though the boss had an accident

The rest of those counts:

D. Sami      34,700
H. Gurnam  52,100
D. Colclough  6,600
N. Hussain   60,400
K. Zarandi    46,200
L. Patten    47,400
H. Plant      43,600
S. Bovis      38,800
D. Barnes    97,900
I. Patel       32,500
M. Rauf      50,000
D. Grosvenor 33,800
S. Wilsdon    29,900
M. Ellis         17,100
P. Traynor    15,900
T. Falla         26,200
MH. Kazi       19,600

So it's night night from us; see you tomorrow at 3pm for the run up to the final...

excellent stuff folks, a good read once more.
Do you know where your hotel is this time Jen?

S. Millington - 50.6k
Ian Fraser - 11.2k
Greg Hill - 37.2k
Ian Woodley - 126.1k
E. Katzi - 22k
Anthony Nicholls - 101.6
Micky Wernick - 59k
R Shorcott - 44.1k
Alan Maclean - 163.8k
Andy Gomm - 47.6k
Dave Clark - 38.8k
M Alden - 73.8k
J. Rogers - 72.7k
B. Boatman - 25.2k
I. Foster - 11.4k
A. Davies - 50.6k
S. Warnsley - 14.9k
D. Sami      34,700
H. Gurnam  52,100
D. Colclough  6,600
N. Hussain   60,400
K. Zarandi    46,200
L. Patten    47,400
H. Plant      43,600
S. Bovis      38,800
D. Barnes    97,900
I. Patel       32,500
M. Rauf      50,000
D. Grosvenor 33,800
S. Wilsdon    29,900
M. Ellis         17,100
P. Traynor    15,900
T. Falla         26,200
MH. Kazi       19,600

someone tell m stevens that hendry is a better snooker player much better poker player and a bigger hit with the ladies on second thoughts better not he will laugh so much he will still be laughing during the final table

Had both in for my wednesday night free for all #20 rebuy this week, along with M Williams, not bad, Williams def. the better

excellent updating as per usual ,  nice work snoops.................nice recovery junior.

just about to set off for the west mids polish federation of warsaw, managed 5 hours sleep after my drive home.  I gambled a lot just before the end as i didnt want to come back short stacked and it seemed to work.  I am actually in better position than i thought - assumed i would be the low stack going back but there's quite a few with less than me.

Got a belly full of shreddies and re-fuelled on tea and maryland cookies - wish me luck!

Good luck junior, i'm quite suprised at the size of the stacks going back! couple of massive stacks and everyone else is in the pack...

You can do this no probs!

Welcome to Blonde Albert! Hope you're keeping well.

Good luck to everyone involved and in particular to Paul Traynor, Simon Millington and Mark Alden, all of whom won their seats online at that little site that I work for :)

next time you see hendry tell him ironsides mum wont be happy till he wins the world championship again so give me a break and sort it out ps thats snooker not poker she doesnt watch poker