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Title: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: GreekStein on September 18, 2009, 02:46:17 PM As some of you may have seen from 'Vegas and the Aftermath' I popped in to the Empire Casino on Leicester square this lunchtime to see my hero Anthony Kendall, otherwise known as Tikay. Here's a brief report of the goings on.
I walk down the stairs and on the first table I see is the second most famous Greek poker player in the UK, Andy Andreou, or 'GreekFish'. We exchanged a quick nod as us media types do and then I overheard talk of how Phil Hellmuth had justed busted with KK vs 105. I instantly realised why none of the railbirds had asked for my signature yet, or why any of the bloggers hadn't requested a few snaps - they were obviously trying to catch the 11 time bracelet winner before he left the building. Nevermind, I like to keep low profile but I must admit I was a little relieved. Then I was round to the front and one lad catches my eye. He's telling the management that he doesn't want a 3k stack, but that 2k was plenty for him. When the management insist 'that's not possible sir' he calmly takes his seat, places 2x 500denomination chips in his mouth, crunches down and eats them and washes them down with a bit of stella and then shouted 'geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeza'. Think the TD commented his name was David Shallow. Next room was the main poker room, where poker operates when these special events aren't taking place. I see Devilfish and after a short 'lol' moment at the small animal he keeps on his head I notice Andy Bloch sitting next to him. Andy was reading a magazine, with his headphones in and playing in the tournament. Normally I wouldn't consider disturbing him but I figured it's ok on this special day. I went up, wished him a 'shana tova', we rubbed our schnozzes quickly and agreed to go on a 'Booze Cruise for Jews Night' in town if he busted. Next up I bumped into Alan 'Lucky' McBride and we chatted briefly before he took me over to see Alex Martins table. He was going nicely on 9k thanks to one hand which me and Alan caught the end of. I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won". After a few more wonders round the place I saw fish like Roland De Wolfe, Layne Flack, Erik Seidel and Willie Tann (who looked very upset with a sort of 'if I win this tournament I'll still have to travel all the way to the Vic to play Craps as they don't accomodate it here, ffs' look on his face). All those people and not one sighting of my lifelong hero, Anthony Kendall. Sigh. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: EvilPie on September 18, 2009, 02:51:24 PM Great report mate.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Lucky on September 18, 2009, 02:59:55 PM As some of you may have seen from 'Vegas and the Aftermath' I popped in to the Empire Casino on Leicester square this lunchtime to see my hero Anthony Kendall, otherwise known as Tikay. Here's a brief report of the goings on. I walk down the stairs and on the first table I see is the second most famous Greek poker player in the UK, Andy Andreou, or 'GreekFish'. We exchanged a quick nod as us media types do and then I overheard talk of how Phil Hellmuth had justed busted with KK vs 105. I instantly realised why none of the railbirds had asked for my signature yet, or why any of the bloggers hadn't requested a few snaps - they were obviously trying to catch the 11 time bracelet winner before he left the building. Nevermind, I like to keep low profile but I must admit I was a little relieved. Then I was round to the front and one lad catches my eye. He's telling the management that he doesn't want a 3k stack, but that 2k was plenty for him. When the management insist 'that's not possible sir' he calmly takes his seat, places 2x 500denomination chips in his mouth, crunches down and eats them and washes them down with a bit of stella and then shouted 'geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeza'. Think the TD commented his name was David Shallow. Next room was the main poker room, where poker operates when these special events aren't taking place. I see Devilfish and after a short 'lol' moment at the small animal he keeps on his head I notice Andy Bloch sitting next to him. Andy was reading a magazine, with his headphones in and playing in the tournament. Normally I wouldn't consider disturbing him but I figured it's ok on this special day. I went up, wished him a 'shana tova', we rubbed our schnozzes quickly and agreed to go on a 'Booze Cruise for Jews Night' in town if he busted. Next up I bumped into Alan 'Lucky' McBride and we chatted briefly before he took me over to see Alex Martins table. He was going nicely on 9k thanks to one hand which me and Alan caught the end of. I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won". After a few more wonders round the place I saw fish like Roland De Wolfe, Layne Flack, Erik Seidel and Willie Tann (who looked very upset with a sort of 'if I win this tournament I'll still have to travel all the way to the Vic to play Craps as they don't accomodate it here, ffs' look on his face). All those people and not one sighting of my lifelong hero, Anthony Kendall. Sigh. Good to meet you again. And lol at the Alex quote! We also met Mo Muse who was moving table with a useful stack of chips. Watched a couple of interesting hands involving Mark Goodwin. In the first one as SB v BB he bluffs 3 streets and is disappointed to be called by opponent with 3rd pair on the river. The same two players were all in pre flop a few hands later. Not sure who bet first, but Mark only had A9 (tilting !) and opponent had QQ. Two aces arrive on the board and Mark doubles up, to cries of "blessed!" Willie Tann had bust out just as I was leaving. He wasn't too impressed when I said "see you in Luton this evening!" He was indeed off to The Vic for another tourney. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: kinboshi on September 18, 2009, 03:02:46 PM I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won". ;tightend; Utter genius! Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: GreekStein on September 18, 2009, 03:10:22 PM As some of you may have seen from 'Vegas and the Aftermath' I popped in to the Empire Casino on Leicester square this lunchtime to see my hero Anthony Kendall, otherwise known as Tikay. Here's a brief report of the goings on. I walk down the stairs and on the first table I see is the second most famous Greek poker player in the UK, Andy Andreou, or 'GreekFish'. We exchanged a quick nod as us media types do and then I overheard talk of how Phil Hellmuth had justed busted with KK vs 105. I instantly realised why none of the railbirds had asked for my signature yet, or why any of the bloggers hadn't requested a few snaps - they were obviously trying to catch the 11 time bracelet winner before he left the building. Nevermind, I like to keep low profile but I must admit I was a little relieved. Then I was round to the front and one lad catches my eye. He's telling the management that he doesn't want a 3k stack, but that 2k was plenty for him. When the management insist 'that's not possible sir' he calmly takes his seat, places 2x 500denomination chips in his mouth, crunches down and eats them and washes them down with a bit of stella and then shouted 'geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeza'. Think the TD commented his name was David Shallow. Next room was the main poker room, where poker operates when these special events aren't taking place. I see Devilfish and after a short 'lol' moment at the small animal he keeps on his head I notice Andy Bloch sitting next to him. Andy was reading a magazine, with his headphones in and playing in the tournament. Normally I wouldn't consider disturbing him but I figured it's ok on this special day. I went up, wished him a 'shana tova', we rubbed our schnozzes quickly and agreed to go on a 'Booze Cruise for Jews Night' in town if he busted. Next up I bumped into Alan 'Lucky' McBride and we chatted briefly before he took me over to see Alex Martins table. He was going nicely on 9k thanks to one hand which me and Alan caught the end of. I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won". After a few more wonders round the place I saw fish like Roland De Wolfe, Layne Flack, Erik Seidel and Willie Tann (who looked very upset with a sort of 'if I win this tournament I'll still have to travel all the way to the Vic to play Craps as they don't accomodate it here, ffs' look on his face). All those people and not one sighting of my lifelong hero, Anthony Kendall. Sigh. Good to meet you again. And lol at the Alex quote! We also met Mo Muse who was moving table with a useful stack of chips. Watched a couple of interesting hands involving Mark Goodwin. In the first one as SB v BB he bluffs 3 streets and is disappointed to be called by opponent with 3rd pair on the river. The same two players were all in pre flop a few hands later. Not sure who bet first, but Mark only had A9 (tilting !) and opponent had QQ. Two aces arrive on the board and Mark doubles up, to cries of "blessed!" Willie Tann had bust out just as I was leaving. He wasn't too impressed when I said "see you in Luton this evening!" He was indeed off to The Vic for another tourney. Me and Greekfish did exchange a funny glance at that hand! Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Royal Flush on September 18, 2009, 03:11:45 PM How was Dave Shallow's hair?
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: GreekStein on September 18, 2009, 03:13:49 PM How was Dave Shallow's hair? Can't remember if he had a cap on or not. Didn't strike me as anything unusual if he wasn't wearing a cap though. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 03:26:08 PM How was Dave Shallow's hair? He was wearing a cap, but looked very sheepish. Photo to follow. Paul Zimbler offered him some poker mentoring. Despite the depths of depravity to which this Forum has plunged of late, I dare not Post his reply....... Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 03:27:53 PM . Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Karabiner on September 18, 2009, 03:46:11 PM . Are you sure that isn't the notorious Dick Waver ? Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: MC on September 18, 2009, 03:49:48 PM I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won". ;tightend; Utter genius! lol Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Claw75 on September 18, 2009, 03:50:58 PM Excellent work. more please.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: GreekStein on September 18, 2009, 03:52:07 PM In the absense of the Dean & Peter Costa etc I will do my best to fill the gap from time to time.
The diary of Ireland next month will be good. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Longy on September 18, 2009, 04:02:15 PM Press Release
Cos Papertits is one of the most well known names on the UK poker circuit. He has been described as "Star of the Poker show" and many have said "The diary of Ireland next month will be good". Cos has uncovered many frauds in the poker world like Carl "The Dean" Sampson might not be as good as he claims to be and the Anthony "Tikay" Kendall is not quite as young as he claims. You can subscribe to Cos's post at www.blondepoker.com for very reasonable price of $5000 per month payable in one lump sum, to Barry "Vinni" Neville in a brown paper bag at an undisclosed location in non-Albanian South Yorkshire. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:10:26 PM This thread could become a monsta.......... Beautiful writeage by PaperTits. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:11:15 PM . Are you sure that isn't the notorious Dick Waver ? Please do not read the photo titles, you'll get me in trouble. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:22:50 PM A few random photographs, mainly without wordage, which you nerither need or want...... Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:23:56 PM Alex (Managed now by Cos) with.....?
Far left is the great David Young, looking fior a bookshop. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:24:39 PM . Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:25:15 PM Ben, sat next to a splendid sweater. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:26:10 PM I believe he won or chopped the £750 at The Vic this week, so this is Willie looking happy. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:26:28 PM Legends! Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:27:03 PM Eddie, with Mr Hellmuth's head in foreground. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:27:52 PM The best Poker commentator Britain has, by a country mile. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:28:19 PM Needs no words. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:28:54 PM Martin Green/Roy Cropper. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:30:14 PM President Pollack, with tummyache, watches Jack Effel, the man he described as the best TD in the world. Probably not wrong, but there are 3 just as good at DTD, imo.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Royal Flush on September 18, 2009, 04:31:16 PM Martin Green/Roy Cropper. LOL never tilt, guy is never not tilting! Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:31:33 PM Joe Legge. Remind me to write a Joe Legge story in my Diary. I owe a lot to Joe. Thanks, not money. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:32:15 PM Top top bloke - J T Law. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:32:43 PM Before the Q-T v JJJ jobbie. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:33:05 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:33:28 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:33:47 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Royal Flush on September 18, 2009, 04:34:55 PM . Tikay i haven't seen him on FTP in a while, any idea why? Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:35:14 PM The King gets 4 pics. Hard to dislike the guy, quite the opposite in fact, immensely likeable. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: TightEnd on September 18, 2009, 04:35:27 PM loving the picture titles lol
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:35:31 PM . Tikay i haven't seen him on FTP in a while, any idea why? Who? Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:35:51 PM Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:36:20 PM No idea who this is.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Royal Flush on September 18, 2009, 04:36:27 PM . Tikay i haven't seen him on FTP in a while, any idea why? Who? Mr Kellet.... Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:36:42 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Royal Flush on September 18, 2009, 04:37:29 PM Surely Mr Martin has been playing longer than Mr Frazer?
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:37:57 PM Clearly, this was pre the KK v T-5 affair. He was very affable in fact, even arrived on time, chatting merrily to all. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:39:26 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:40:49 PM Roberto - with mouth shut. Only on blonde. A FTP Red Pro, & co-owner of One-Way Poker. Neat juggling Mr R. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:41:56 PM LOTS of room for the players - there were 8 Tables squeezed into this alcove. God help those in the corner (out of camera) if a fire breaks out. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Pyso on September 18, 2009, 04:42:32 PM No idea who this is. Plays for Everton doesn't he? Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:43:27 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:43:51 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:44:31 PM There you go ladies. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:44:55 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:46:10 PM EPT runner-up Lord Goodwin.
It's a fashion statement. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:47:36 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:47:55 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:48:20 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:49:18 PM Steve Meehan, aka Wormster, Producer of Poker 425 & Poker Week. (Both discontinued, spot the common Co-Presenter link). He's only 3'-9" tall, but he's a pocket dynamo.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:51:18 PM Paul Zimbler was giving out TIPS flyers, & free poker advice, though it seemed an odd place to do it.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 04:53:08 PM . Tikay i haven't seen him on FTP in a while, any idea why? Who? Mr Kellet.... Oh, I see. No idea, but I heard he had connection problems on his original accounts. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Laxie on September 18, 2009, 05:29:42 PM There you go ladies. Sorry, but I wouldn't even do him with YOURS! Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: TightEnd on September 18, 2009, 05:30:35 PM There you go ladies. Sorry, but I wouldn't even do him with YOURS! you'd keep his hamster in a special cage though, no? Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Laxie on September 18, 2009, 05:35:26 PM There you go ladies. Sorry, but I wouldn't even do him with YOURS! you'd keep his hamster in a special cage though, no? LDO Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Claw75 on September 18, 2009, 05:56:05 PM There you go ladies. Sorry, but I wouldn't even do him with YOURS! +1, but at least we got some nice pics of RR :)up Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Karabiner on September 18, 2009, 06:03:01 PM Top top bloke - J T Law. Lovely man is John who endeared himself to many with his innocent question to Tikay a few years ago. "Is Julian your only son Tony?" Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Karabiner on September 18, 2009, 06:06:39 PM EPT runner-up Lord Goodwin. It's a fashion statement. Does the ticket on his hat read 10s/6d ? Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: The_nun on September 18, 2009, 06:07:41 PM EPT runner-up Lord Goodwin. It's a fashion statement. Does the ticket on his hat read 10s/6d ? This made me lol. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 06:56:30 PM Spotted in Leicester Square this afternoon, Believe It or Not. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 18, 2009, 06:58:37 PM Top top bloke - J T Law. Lovely man is John who endeared himself to many with his innocent question to Tikay a few years ago. "Is Julian your only son Tony?" Lol, I had forgotten that. We were all in Naps at Sheffield that night, I think, you, Thewy & John? Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Amatay on September 18, 2009, 08:04:22 PM Spotted in Leicester Square this afternoon, Believe It or Not. looks more like Liam Flood imo Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: NoflopsHomer on September 18, 2009, 08:15:43 PM . Tikay i haven't seen him on FTP in a while, any idea why? Who? Mr Kellet.... Oh, I see. No idea, but I heard he had connection problems on his original accounts. Sounds like grim news. :( Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: UpTheMariners on September 18, 2009, 10:39:57 PM Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Nutter5932 on September 18, 2009, 10:46:10 PM Big gratz on the vic win..
how you doing in the 1k ? Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Horneris on September 18, 2009, 10:48:05 PM Great write up by Cos and quality pictures by Tikay.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: GreekStein on September 18, 2009, 10:51:19 PM Thinkin of startin a Tikay-style diary on here.
Not sure blonde is ready though! Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Girgy85 on September 18, 2009, 10:53:44 PM Tikay watch out for Nana 2moro in the £1k. Looking fwd to some pics!
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: cambo on September 18, 2009, 11:02:18 PM Thinkin of startin a Tikay-style diary on here. Not sure blonde is ready though! na no quite ur the new boldie Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: GreekStein on September 18, 2009, 11:04:14 PM Thinkin of startin a Tikay-style diary on here. Not sure blonde is ready though! na no quite ur the new boldie fml Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: boldie on September 18, 2009, 11:09:45 PM Thinkin of startin a Tikay-style diary on here. Not sure blonde is ready though! na no quite ur the new boldie lol harsh. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Cf on September 18, 2009, 11:53:58 PM just checked the updates and play has concluded early for the day with 44 players of 329 left. gonna be interesting tomorrow...
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: GreekStein on September 18, 2009, 11:59:10 PM link to chipcounts nana?
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Cf on September 19, 2009, 12:04:18 AM http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2009-wsope/event-1/chip-counts/day1a/
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: mondatoo on September 19, 2009, 12:16:02 AM JP Kelly cl.sick man glgl and all other blondes in this
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 12:47:27 AM WSOPE Event Number 1 WSOP Gold Bracelet Number 58 Buy-In 1000 (English Pounds) Game No-Limit Hold'em Number of Entries 295 (Day 1-A) Net Prize Pool TBD First Place Prize Money TBD Total Places Paid TBD (Resistration Closes on Day 1-B) Players Remaining 41 (not including Day 1-B starters) End of Day 1-A Report (Day 1-B will be played 19 September) Last Name First Name City Country Chip Count Kelly J.P. (aka, John Paul) Aylesbury UK 98,825 Kellett Richard Chorley UK 67,225 Stucke David Henderson, NV USA 45,875 Frazer Ian London UK 43,625 Allen Richard London UK 38,375 Seden Andrew London UK 32,625 Chai Swee Fah NA Canada 30,150 Green Martin Brighton UK 30,050 Kirkwood Constance Stirling UK 29,150 De Meulder Matthias Burcht Belgium 28,975 Roux Anthony London UK 26,975 Lim Robert London UK 26,625 Ryprianou Andy London UK 24,025 Rahme Ray NA South Africa 24,000 Ngai Samuel Edmonton, Alberta Canada 23,425 Vinson Ben London UK 21,400 Matusiak Adam London UK 19,875 Paez Raul Barcelona Spain 19,800 Grech Joseph London UK 19,600 McHugh Rory London UK 19,200 Drexel Thor London UK 19,200 Johnson Andrew Birmingham UK 17,775 Rowan L. David South Lake Tahoe, CA USA 17,175 Heath Eli Banbury, Oxford UK 17,150 Freeman Alan Puerto Iguazu Argentina 15,950 Martin Alex Hertford UK 14,850 Chuzeville Cedric St. Quentin, Fallauier France 14,250 Ujarlak Bahman London UK 13,150 Huynh Toni Turku Finland 13,025 Moore Mike Caterham UK 11,375 Taylor Kerry Hayes UK 11,375 Wood James Bolton UK 11,375 Mackie Duncan Dagerham UK 11,175 Price Robert Bude, Cornwall UK 10,675 De Wolfe Roland London UK 10,000 Maker Bharminder London UK 9,800 Sidang Shen Orsett UK 8,075 Lawless Derek Sawbridgeworth UK 6,550 Buttifant John Romford UK 5,300 Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: AlexMartin on September 19, 2009, 02:27:41 AM Hi guys, firstly, nice to meet you cos, althought i havent got a fking clue what ur on about...please translate. Mariners, my shirt > yours :P. Tikay, get lost for putting me in a photoe with the handsome mr Masterman, unfair. Just want to say a big ty to one of the genuine nice guys in poker imo, KerryTaylor, who offered and just gave me a lift back to north london as a favour no problems, when he lives near heathrow, gent.
To the poker, 3k starting stack, pretty immense structure imo, the 25/25 level at the beginning giving just enough depth for it to be truly playable the whole way through. Standard was atrocious, 2 guys on my table limp call check folding 90% of hands. I chipped away ok to begin with, went form 3 to 5 to 7 to 10 then knocked out Ali to get to 12ish. Then 1st blip, tight utg (3.5k) opens 200 @25/50, i flat QQ, frazer overcalls bu. Flop 347hh, opener leads, i raise small, frazer ships. I did tank for a tadge but i think there are way too many heart combos he has, i was right, but he had 56hh and i get minor rubdown from both him and utg (who had 99) about i shoulda reraised pre (god it even tilts me to type that lol, 3b ffs) and then apparently the 99 guys woulda stop and go'd on my ass. Hmmmmmmm. No i didnt get it either. Then lost AQ v QQ of nutter, then chipped up/3b/did a couple of fun things on the flop to get to about 20k when i isolate someloose passive guy otb with 59cc, bb coldcalls, fish folds. Flop comes 5Q10ddd, he check calls and im giving up on the K turn, check check, i bink the 5 river and get a chunk; sadly and unfortunately, image was shattered and i got in a few shit spots after because i didnt adjust in time. Peaked at about 24 when i played out a big pot with JJ on an A27ssA4s board and had to check fold to some decentish old-school guy that just cannoned the river. Bit of a sigh, fold, get shown complete air, table gets a laugh, i tilt off a few k :) Get a lot of new faces including a very open yank, joe grech and an english youngster all on my right. Pretty perfect for me as im down to 7k and get to jam a lot as they are opening so wide. Have to sit back and watch as Ian Frazer gets birthday present after birthday present, although tbh, i think he played pretty well today. Given the only info i have on him is tv donkaments (AQ anyone?) i was really suprised, 100% not a mark. Oh, about the birthday presents, how about this. Internet yank opens 1500 @ 300/600, Frazer 3b to 5200 (20k eff), literally the 2nd time hes 3b all day, yank 11.8k, frazer jams, yank calls. Frazer KK, yank J8s, no miracles. HOW THE FUCK. Also, this little beauty, utg opens in 50/100, frazer, french looking tightish guy and random calls calls. Flop J87dds. EP cbets small, frazer calls, french guy calls, random folds. Turn 4s. EP bets, frazer raises, french guy calls, EP folds. River 10d. Frazer bets, frenchie dwells for eternity, then jams, frazer calls w A9 ro rivered 1 card straight after funky turn move. Frenchies hand. 44. Words out of his mouth immediately after "i thought i could make you fold the straight". I kid u not. Couple of things that were vaguely interesting/odd, huck seed comes to table (namedrop obv), So got a double up late on jamming a6 and Kj calls, i hold. Then 3b jam super wide w yanks opens with air as im carddead for last 3 levels to stay afloat. Back on day 2 with 15k, 40 out of 300 runners make the trip back, in with a shout, which is all i want. Great seeing some of the nice guys in poker (Tikay excluded :P ) and lets hope JP kelly somehow manages to fuckup a virtually anassailable (sp?) chip lead! :) not really, hes a nice guy, he can take 2nd. Any of you thinking about playing tomorrow, do it, field was super soft in general, probably tougher to play a 50fo on stars. :dd: Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: jonlundy on September 19, 2009, 10:20:11 AM . Tikay i haven't seen him on FTP in a while, any idea why? Who? Mr Kellet.... Oh, I see. No idea, but I heard he had connection problems on his original accounts. a source has told me, a life ban has been chucked at him, multi accounts i think Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: booder on September 19, 2009, 10:27:59 AM Good report Alex, best of luck in the rest of comp.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: the sicilian on September 19, 2009, 10:51:52 AM Next up I bumped into Alan 'Lucky' McBride and we chatted briefly before he took me over to see Alex Martins table. He was going nicely on 9k thanks to one hand which me and Alan caught the end of. I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won".
I'm Always grateful when someone simplifies one of Alex's hands.... Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: mondatoo on September 19, 2009, 11:11:02 AM Good report Alex, best of luck in the rest of comp. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: boldie on September 19, 2009, 11:20:30 AM Good report Alex, best of luck in the rest of comp. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: action man on September 19, 2009, 11:34:23 AM gl alex, one time m8
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: NoflopsHomer on September 19, 2009, 01:35:07 PM As hes leaving the "razer" says "did you know he just won the latest heat of late night poker on TV?", Joe Grech then pipes in "So what he won a stupid comp on TV, doesnt mean hes any fu**ing good". I did laugh a bit and it was slightly awkward :) :D Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Lucky on September 19, 2009, 01:58:12 PM Good report Alex, best of luck in the rest of comp. +1 Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: AlexMartin on September 19, 2009, 01:59:20 PM cheers for the gl wishes guys, i might use the blonde knowledge base on sunday as its a table redraw and i rarely have a clue who anyone is/ their playing style is like. 1 mofo time, gl kellster (for whatever reasons i think hes fked up a few places along the way, but he has a good heart and hes still very young, ill always have a beer/chat with him) , JP and Kerry Taylor.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Amatay on September 19, 2009, 02:16:45 PM Good report Alex, best of luck in the rest of comp. +1 funny report, gl mate Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: vinni on September 19, 2009, 02:31:22 PM kerry is one of the quite ones on the circuit ,he lives way out over the other side of the country ,he earns his money on the horses when its the jumps season ,a very likable man .a proper gent in the game .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: vinni on September 19, 2009, 02:35:00 PM i see andy johnson is still in there ,hes more than capable of going deep in this .
he won his seat at the alea in notts ,so this is a free role for him . gl both andy and kerry. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: LeKnave on September 19, 2009, 02:36:20 PM gogo mr. martin!
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 02:55:18 PM Nice report Alex. Mostly.
I've been up there today, a bunch of photos to follow. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:01:04 PM Thewy is a nit. Official. This Text just in from Lord Binker himself. "....just folded K-K pre. Barnsey showed me aces....." How's he ever gonna bink if he folds pre? Proper Old Skool now, is Thewy. Here he is doing his Julian Gardner impression. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:02:55 PM And here he is pointing at the guy who got him off Kings pre. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Tractor on September 19, 2009, 03:06:33 PM "....just folded K-K pre. Barnsey showed me aces....."
I would love to know how the betting went.... Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:21:20 PM The Brighton Massive, Flushy's Golf Partner. They are both bandits, be sure of that. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:21:39 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Rookie (Rodney) on September 19, 2009, 03:21:46 PM Is this the 3k starting stack? How long into it? If so why would you ever want to make hero folds.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:22:40 PM My all-time favourite French-Player, Anthony Lellouche. He's sharing a Table with JJ & Mr Linton. Nice. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:23:35 PM Is this the 3k starting stack? How long into it? If so why would you ever want to make hero folds. Yes, 3k starting stack, 1 hour levels, begin at 25-50. It was in Level 2. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:25:35 PM Happy fella, & no wonder, with £200K+ in his pocket. I gather a surprising range of well-wishers rung him to congratulate him. Well, not that surprising. Suddenly, he has a lot of friends. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:25:55 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:26:24 PM DC Logoing up. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Rookie (Rodney) on September 19, 2009, 03:27:26 PM Is this the 3k starting stack? How long into it? If so why would you ever want to make hero folds. Yes, 3k starting stack, 1 hour levels, begin at 25-50. It was in Level 2. Whyyyyy, I can't think of any way the betting would have gone for you to fold KK preflop in this tourney at this stage. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:27:28 PM Can't think of his name, sorry. We spoke a few weeks back in Luton, but I'm buggered if I can remember. I know he plays on SP. I think. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:28:06 PM Rob. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:28:34 PM Smiler. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Tractor on September 19, 2009, 03:29:47 PM Is this the 3k starting stack? How long into it? If so why would you ever want to make hero folds. Yes, 3k starting stack, 1 hour levels, begin at 25-50. It was in Level 2. Whyyyyy, I can't think of any way the betting would have gone for you to fold KK preflop in this tourney at this stage. obv, saw his cards :) Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:29:53 PM Now one of the game's Senior Statesman, & as honest as the days long. blonde do a bit of business with him, & he's an absolute pleasure to deal with. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:30:37 PM That's JJ, with Lellouche behind him. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:31:08 PM Miss B. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:31:55 PM My very good friend, Mother Hen. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:32:20 PM Nana. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: RED-DOG on September 19, 2009, 03:34:07 PM Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:35:02 PM We discusssed his commentary at the EPO, & it seems the "booth" & working conditions were awful, & they struggled with the equipment. I thought he & Matt did well, but I was "a little less" complimentary about Grub Smith. though Barney defended him resolutely. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:35:49 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: cambo on September 19, 2009, 03:37:52 PM Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:38:02 PM Sam, with a selection of Logos on the Table, including one from Mr Zimbler's "TIPS". I do think Paul has gone for the wrong target market, standing around at the WSOP-E all day dishing out TIPS Logos & Flyers. Hhe has a business track-record, so I guess he knows best. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:38:32 PM . Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:39:15 PM Blake, not Bleke, sorry. Toasty-life, him. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:40:09 PM snoops actually working. And Dana doing her Red-Dog impression. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:40:38 PM Freerolling! Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 03:41:41 PM That's yer lot for today, more tomorrow. Unless you want photos of Paddington Station, & views from the Heathrow Express, of which I have about 900. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Girgy85 on September 19, 2009, 03:42:18 PM Nana. Yay gogogogo nana! Lucky fish as already beat AA with KK And also got it all in pre with 7 7 vs A Q...... Q high board....7 on turn wiiiiiiiii Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: AlexMartin on September 19, 2009, 04:02:08 PM Freerolling! Like this kid, nice chap and pretty decent. VBOL to him. and of course the usual suspects. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Royal Flush on September 19, 2009, 07:23:37 PM The Brighton Massive, Flushy's Golf Partner. They are both bandits, be sure of that. Wow you must have got there early! Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 07:25:22 PM The Brighton Massive, Flushy's Golf Partner. They are both bandits, be sure of that. Wow you must have got there early! I decided to take the pic during the first Orbit of Level One. It's best to be safe, knowing Tony. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: RoyCropper on September 19, 2009, 07:27:18 PM The first level is 25-25 and starting stack 3000, 1 hour levels.
What a breath of fresh air compared to the now seemingly standard 10-15k starting chips when everyone wastes 4-5 hours of their lives just getting mentally and physically exhausted before the levels that matter. Every single player I spoke to yesterday thought the structure was perfect and moaned about the massive stack nonsense. If you play poker for enjoyment and the soul destroying slow structures please go and play play money games or a £5 `pretend wsop main event' at a local casino. I am soon to set up an organisation to preserve some sense in live tournaments `SOOS'. Save Our Old Structures. One aim is to have multiple MTT's at a casino in one night. Ie. comps going off every 3 hours and lasting 3 hours. It is almost impossible to avoid the variance for `full time' players otherwise. Ps. I don't know why anyone would 4 bet any hand early in this comp, but if you did and got 5 bet by a tight player, then 120bb's deep I would think kk is a standard fold. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: phatomch on September 19, 2009, 07:31:57 PM The first level is 25-25 and starting stack 3000, 1 hour levels. What a breath of fresh air compared to the now seemingly standard 10-15k starting chips when everyone wastes 4-5 hours of their lives just getting mentally and physically exhausted before the levels that matter. Every single player I spoke to yesterday thought the structure was perfect and moaned about the massive stack nonsense. If you play poker for enjoyment and the soul destroying slow structures please go and play play money games or a £5 `pretend wsop main event' at a local casino. I am soon to set up an organisation to preserve some sense in live tournaments `SOOS'. Save Our Old Structures. One aim is to have multiple MTT's at a casino in one night. Ie. comps going off every 3 hours and lasting 3 hours. It is almost impossible to avoid the variance for `full time' players otherwise. Ps. I don't know why anyone would 4 bet any hand early in this comp, but if you did and got 5 bet by a tight player, then 120bb's deep I would think kk is a standard fold. i used to do this i would run a£10 , £20,£50£100 freezeouts all lasting 2-3 hrs in one day it worked great Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 07:46:05 PM That's yer lot for today, more tomorrow. Unless you want photos of Paddington Station, & views from the Heathrow Express, of which I have about 900. Shall I take that as a "yes"? Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Laxie on September 19, 2009, 07:49:10 PM Go on then.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: titaniumbean on September 19, 2009, 08:39:04 PM What's the cash action at the empire like Tikay?
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 08:58:36 PM What's the cash action at the empire like Tikay? No idea BeaneH, I was only there until about 2pm, but I would not recommend even playing there whilst WSOP-E is on. The Tourney was being played in NINE different areas on two Floors, tucked away in alcoves, landings, corridors, & cubby-holes, all sorts. With due respect, it's hard to imagine a worse venue to hold such a Fessie. But Harrahs own it, so that's that really. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: titaniumbean on September 19, 2009, 09:09:06 PM Ok was just wondering as the action down in the empire is usually pretty soft. Pretty underawed about going down to the vic with how badly run it is when it's quiet for any cash whilst all the tournies are on. Cant believe the limits to the number of runners that the vic has it's terrible.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 09:11:28 PM Ok was just wondering as the action down in the empire is usually pretty soft. Pretty underawed about going down to the vic with how badly run it is when it's quiet for any cash whilst all the tournies are on. Cant believe the limits to the number of runners that the vic has it's terrible. It's a Marketing whizz. It means "GO AWAY, WE DON'T WANT YOU". Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tonysaint on September 19, 2009, 09:20:47 PM The Brighton Massive, Flushy's Golf Partner. They are both bandits, be sure of that. Wow you must have got there early! I decided to take the pic during the first Orbit of Level One. It's best to be safe, knowing Tony. You two be careful, the goat has a temper. Ever watched Uncle Buck ? Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: titaniumbean on September 19, 2009, 09:22:30 PM Ok was just wondering as the action down in the empire is usually pretty soft. Pretty underawed about going down to the vic with how badly run it is when it's quiet for any cash whilst all the tournies are on. Cant believe the limits to the number of runners that the vic has it's terrible. It's a Marketing whizz. It means "GO AWAY, WE DON'T WANT YOU". So IF I wanted to play some live non dtd cash where is best atm in london? Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 09:36:11 PM Ok was just wondering as the action down in the empire is usually pretty soft. Pretty underawed about going down to the vic with how badly run it is when it's quiet for any cash whilst all the tournies are on. Cant believe the limits to the number of runners that the vic has it's terrible. It's a Marketing whizz. It means "GO AWAY, WE DON'T WANT YOU". So IF I wanted to play some live non dtd cash where is best atm in london? The Vic. Only option. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: titaniumbean on September 19, 2009, 09:37:19 PM Ok was just wondering as the action down in the empire is usually pretty soft. Pretty underawed about going down to the vic with how badly run it is when it's quiet for any cash whilst all the tournies are on. Cant believe the limits to the number of runners that the vic has it's terrible. It's a Marketing whizz. It means "GO AWAY, WE DON'T WANT YOU". So IF I wanted to play some live non dtd cash where is best atm in london? The Vic. Only option. zanananrngggghhhffffhhgggh ;grr; ;grr; ok ta. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 19, 2009, 09:44:17 PM Ok was just wondering as the action down in the empire is usually pretty soft. Pretty underawed about going down to the vic with how badly run it is when it's quiet for any cash whilst all the tournies are on. Cant believe the limits to the number of runners that the vic has it's terrible. It's a Marketing whizz. It means "GO AWAY, WE DON'T WANT YOU". So IF I wanted to play some live non dtd cash where is best atm in london? The Vic. Only option. zanananrngggghhhffffhhgggh ;grr; ;grr; ok ta. Suppose, at a push, there's Equal Chance - you'd clean up there, for sure. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: titaniumbean on September 19, 2009, 09:46:58 PM Ok was just wondering as the action down in the empire is usually pretty soft. Pretty underawed about going down to the vic with how badly run it is when it's quiet for any cash whilst all the tournies are on. Cant believe the limits to the number of runners that the vic has it's terrible. It's a Marketing whizz. It means "GO AWAY, WE DON'T WANT YOU". So IF I wanted to play some live non dtd cash where is best atm in london? The Vic. Only option. zanananrngggghhhffffhhgggh ;grr; ;grr; ok ta. Suppose, at a push, there's Equal Chance - you'd clean up there, for sure. It's less than 10 mins from my house but not enough games whenever i've been down there. Quite enjoy playing there though pretty relaxed. Will maybe attempt to be one of the lucky few who can play at the tournies at the vic in the upcoming week. Just bustoed Sky Open too lol ;grr; Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Royal Flush on September 19, 2009, 09:50:26 PM Eh vic always has loooooads of cash action going.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Royal Flush on September 19, 2009, 09:50:54 PM The Brighton Massive, Flushy's Golf Partner. They are both bandits, be sure of that. Wow you must have got there early! I decided to take the pic during the first Orbit of Level One. It's best to be safe, knowing Tony. You two be careful, the goat has a temper. Ever watched Uncle Buck ? Sort golf for tomorrow plz, k thanls. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: titaniumbean on September 19, 2009, 09:52:47 PM Eh vic always has loooooads of cash action going. Yeh vic always has lots of lists open and 10/25 running but when they max out the tables for tournie fields they have less space for cash so the 1/2 1/3 and 2/5 games are hard to get into/started. I bloody hope they have found some dealers since they've gone 24hr and got these festival events on. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: KarmaDope on September 19, 2009, 10:58:26 PM Can't think of his name, sorry. We spoke a few weeks back in Luton, but I'm buggered if I can remember. I know he plays on SP. I think. Pretty sure that's Aaron Fisher. Northampton/Luton reg. Made a DTD £300 FT recently and ppl kept comparing him to ChipRich iirc. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: AlexMartin on September 19, 2009, 11:18:21 PM London generally caters for big cash game player very well, but a bit shit for anyone used to 1/2 or 2/4. Heard about some enormous action at the barracuda and palm beach lately, oh to be multi. Literally, u would need to be multi to be rolled for those games.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Rookie (Rodney) on September 19, 2009, 11:30:47 PM Can't think of his name, sorry. We spoke a few weeks back in Luton, but I'm buggered if I can remember. I know he plays on SP. I think. Pretty sure that's Aaron Fisher. Northampton/Luton reg. Made a DTD £300 FT recently and ppl kept comparing him to ChipRich iirc. Yeah I thought it was Chiprich. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Horneris on September 20, 2009, 01:27:19 AM Can't think of his name, sorry. We spoke a few weeks back in Luton, but I'm buggered if I can remember. I know he plays on SP. I think. Pretty sure that's Aaron Fisher. Northampton/Luton reg. Made a DTD £300 FT recently and ppl kept comparing him to ChipRich iirc. Yeah I thought it was Chiprich. I believe he is one of Richard's cousins whom hail from Luton/Northampton. The similarity is astounding. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: ChipRich on September 20, 2009, 01:28:43 AM lolol sure is
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: GreekStein on September 20, 2009, 01:41:15 AM Can't think of his name, sorry. We spoke a few weeks back in Luton, but I'm buggered if I can remember. I know he plays on SP. I think. Pretty sure that's Aaron Fisher. Northampton/Luton reg. Made a DTD £300 FT recently and ppl kept comparing him to ChipRich iirc. Yeah I thought it was Chiprich. I believe he is one of Richard's cousins whom hail from Luton/Northampton. The similarity is astounding. Was he the one who went to Marbella to be a dealer? Edit: oh no that actually was Rich. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: phatomch on September 20, 2009, 01:47:39 AM London generally caters for big cash game player very well, but a bit shit for anyone used to 1/2 or 2/4. Heard about some enormous action at the barracuda and palm beach lately, oh to be multi. Literally, u would need to be multi to be rolled for those games. this is Bambos and De wolfes cash game with a £50k min sit down, they have a curtained off table which is a lovely high end table that cost them a few grand Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: GreekStein on September 20, 2009, 01:48:37 AM London generally caters for big cash game player very well, but a bit shit for anyone used to 1/2 or 2/4. Heard about some enormous action at the barracuda and palm beach lately, oh to be multi. Literally, u would need to be multi to be rolled for those games. this is Bambos and De wolfes cash game with a £50k min sit down, they have a curtained off table which is a lovely high end table that cost them a few grand I heard there was an 800k pot in this game some months back Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Royal Flush on September 20, 2009, 03:23:51 AM Isn't it the game that Feldman got cheated out of for 1/4m?
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Ironside on September 20, 2009, 04:28:13 AM Isn't it the game that Feldman got cheated out of for 1/4m? details would be nice Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: AlrightJack on September 20, 2009, 08:49:04 AM The capacity for most of the comps at the Vic during this festival is 150. It's not about saying go away, its about balancing a decent sized tournament with an existing cash game business. If we were to up the fields to 250 there would be a significant number of cash game regulars who would think they were being told to go away.
The Vic has over 40 of the best quality full time dealers, far more than anywhere else in the uk. There is good selection of small games. Usually way more than big games. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: AlrightJack on September 20, 2009, 08:59:35 AM Despite the fact that the govt takes 50% of gross revenues and the room now runs at a significant loss, the management of the Vic are commited to keeping the room open. The wages and working conditions of the dealers are probably better than any other room in london. Despite the taxation, quality will not be compromised when it comes to dealing standards. We will only employ the best.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: AlrightJack on September 20, 2009, 09:06:03 AM The structures at the Vic's festival are excellent. Starting stacks good but not excessive - 6k to 10k for the freezeouts and mostly run with a 45 minute clock.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: AlrightJack on September 20, 2009, 09:13:09 AM The fact that so many people have chosen to play in the 1k at the empire is not because they like the idea of a 3k starting stack. It is because it is the world series. Obviously some people like it, but i'd hazard a guess that most people dont.
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: RED-DOG on September 20, 2009, 12:08:18 PM The fact that so many people have chosen to play in the 1k at the empire is not because they like the idea of a 3k starting stack. It is because it is the world series. Obviously some people like it, but i'd hazard a guess that most people dont. I would venture my agreement. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Cf on September 20, 2009, 01:27:08 PM The fact that so many people have chosen to play in the 1k at the empire is not because they like the idea of a 3k starting stack. It is because it is the world series. Obviously some people like it, but i'd hazard a guess that most people dont. the structure was ok really. Blinds started at 25/25 before going up to 25/50 an hour later so there was play in this tourney. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Royal Flush on September 20, 2009, 01:58:07 PM fwiw Jon i would love to play a GPT or Regular Vic event with the same structure, maybe worth looking into the intrest?
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 20, 2009, 10:59:11 PM A bunch of photos from Day 2 (today) of the £1,000 WSOP-E. Blurry pics but I'll refrain from blathering. 1-1. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 20, 2009, 10:59:44 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 20, 2009, 11:00:28 PM The young lady is Miss Hearn. The guy licking his chops at nicking Razor's Chips is Tim Blake, aka T8MML
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Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: the sicilian on September 20, 2009, 11:08:17 PM Alex. The guy top left in lower pic - Michael Kleiner? Marcus Golzer... Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 20, 2009, 11:08:27 PM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 20, 2009, 11:08:47 PM Alex. The guy top left in lower pic - Michael Kleiner? Marcus Golzer... I was close. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 20, 2009, 11:09:18 PM .
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Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 20, 2009, 11:11:08 PM The Man himself fancies some Chinese Poker..... Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: the sicilian on September 20, 2009, 11:11:15 PM Alex. The guy top left in lower pic - Michael Kleiner? Marcus Golzer... [ ] I was close. FYP Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 20, 2009, 11:11:45 PM ...and gets a customer.
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Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: mondatoo on September 20, 2009, 11:30:42 PM Sorry to interupt the pics tikay but is the final for this tmoro,and is alex still in ?
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: TightEnd on September 20, 2009, 11:35:21 PM 15 left
1. Fabien Dunlop 225000 2. William Martin 193000 3. JP Kelly 180000 4. Ganesh Bathmanatha... 178000 5. Said Englund 150000 6. Richard Allen 138000 7. Neil Suarez 117000 8. Thor Drexel 110000 9. Toni Huynh 107000 10. Adnan Alshamah 105000 11. Ian Frazer 96000 12. Anthony Roux 85000 13. Martin Green 70000 14. James Tomlin 28000 15. Chris Ferguson 13000 Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: mondatoo on September 20, 2009, 11:36:59 PM Cheers tighty & tikay,glgl JP
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 20, 2009, 11:58:53 PM Sorry to interupt the pics tikay but is the final for this tmoro,and is alex still in ? Tighty has answered, but to expand, Alex went out quite early today, & has been considerably tired & distressed hitherto. And yes, the plan is to play down to 9 today, & bring back the Final Table tomorrow. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: mondatoo on September 21, 2009, 12:01:18 AM Sorry to interupt the pics tikay but is the final for this tmoro,and is alex still in ? Tighty has answered, but to expand, Alex went out quite early today, & has been considerably tired & distressed hitherto. And yes, the plan is to play down to 9 today, & bring back the Final Table tomorrow. Did you enjoy my reme gaillard thread ? http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=44346.0 Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: riverdave on September 21, 2009, 01:11:32 AM Isn't it the game that Feldman got cheated out of for 1/4m? Oh the irony. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: GreekStein on September 21, 2009, 01:13:01 AM Isn't it the game that Feldman got cheated out of for 1/4m? Oh the irony. lolz Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 21, 2009, 09:41:08 AM What are the odds on the first Brit WSOP-E Bracelet? WSOPE Event Number 1 WSOP Gold Bracelet Number 58 Buy-In £1,000 (= $1,625) Game No-Limit Hold'em Number of Entries 608 Net Prize Pool £608,000 First Place Prize Money £136,803 Total Places Paid 63 Players Remaining 9 End of Day Two Report The Final Table (Players and Starting Chip Counts) Total Chips in Play 1,824,000 Average Chip Stack 202,700 Level / Time Level 18 / 2:12 Remaining Blinds / Antes 3,000-6,000 / 500 Seat 1 Fabien Dunlop London, UK 538,000 Seat 2 James Tomlin Northampton, UK 49,000 Seat 3 William Martin London, UK 122,500 Seat 4 Richard Allen London, UK 332,000 Seat 5 Anthony Roux London, UK 88,000 Seat 6 Adnan Alshamah Damascus, Syria 121,000 Seat 7 John-Paul Kelly Aylesbury, UK 317,500 Seat 8 Thor Drexel London, UK 77,000 Seat 9 Neil Suarez London, UK 217,500 Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: DaveShoelace on September 21, 2009, 09:42:15 AM What are the odds on the first Brit WSOP-E Bracelet? WSOPE Event Number 1 WSOP Gold Bracelet Number 58 Buy-In £1,000 (= $1,625) Game No-Limit Hold'em Number of Entries 608 Net Prize Pool £608,000 First Place Prize Money £136,803 Total Places Paid 63 Players Remaining 9 End of Day Two Report The Final Table (Players and Starting Chip Counts) Total Chips in Play 1,824,000 Average Chip Stack 202,700 Level / Time Level 18 / 2:12 Remaining Blinds / Antes 3,000-6,000 / 500 Seat 1 Fabien Dunlop London, UK 538,000 Seat 2 James Tomlin Northampton, UK 49,000 Seat 3 William Martin London, UK 122,500 Seat 4 Richard Allen London, UK 332,000 Seat 5 Anthony Roux London, UK 88,000 Seat 6 Adnan Alshamah Damascus, Syria 121,000 Seat 7 John-Paul Kelly Aylesbury, UK 317,500 Seat 8 Thor Drexel London, UK 77,000 Seat 9 Neil Suarez London, UK 217,500 Not quite as great as two of the brits are french and another danish in that bunch Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 21, 2009, 09:44:09 AM 10th Ganesh Bathmanathan London, UK 9,381
11th Toni Huynh Turku, Finland 9,381 12th Ian Frazer London, UK 9,381[/b ]13th Said Englund Stockholm, Sweden 6,980 14th Martin Green Brighton, UK 6,980 15th Chris "Jesus" Ferguson Pacific Palisades, CA 6,980 16th Oskar Silow Goteburg, Sweden 5,338 17th David Stucke Henderson, NV -- USA 5,338 18th Stefan Hansen London, UK 5,338 19th Kate Hearn Essex, UK 4,153 20th Stephane Reusser Grenoble, France 4,153 21st Swee Chai Canada 4,153 22nd Alexander Melby Bjuv, Sweden 4,153 23rd Mikael Andersson Osby, Sweden 4,153 24th Matthias de Meulder Burcht, Belgium 4,153 25th Raymond Rahme Johannesburg, South Africa 4,153 26th John Buttifant Romford, UK 4,153 27th Giovanni Paticchio London, UK 4,153 28th Richard Kellett Chorley, UK 3,374 29th Mike Moore Caterham, UK 3,374 30th Tim Blake Wansford, UK 3,374 31st Eli Heath Banbury, Oxford, UK 3,374 32nd Rory McHugh London, UK 3,374 33rd David Docherty Coatbridge, Scotland 3,374[/b ]34th Sylvian Perrin France 3,374 35th Alan Freeman Peurto Iguazu, Argentina 3,374 36th Declan Lenane Kettering, UK 3,374 37th Martins Adeniya London, UK 2,803 38th Charles "David" Rowan South Lake Tahoe, CA -- USA 2,803 39th James Burke London, UK 2,803 40th Trevor Saull-Hunt Bexhill, UK 2,803 41st Shen Sidana Orsett, UK 2,803 42nd Ben Vinson London, UK 2,803 43rd John Juanda Las Vegas, NV -- USA 2,803 44th Andrew Johnson Birmingham, UK 2,803 45th David Stockings London, UK 2,803 46th Aleksey Arakelov Moscow, Russia 2,359 47th Julien Hoffman Mogensen Copenhagen, Denmark 2,359 48th Markus Ristola Helsinki, Finland 2,359 49th Markus Golser Salzburg, Austria 2,359 50th Vivien Ma UK 2,359 51st Andy Kyprianou London, UK 2,359 52nd Constance Kirkwood Stirling, UK 2,359 53rd Paul Brammer Southampton, UK 2,359 54th Tim Molyneux Las Vegas, NV -- USA 2,359 55th Duncan Macrie Dagerham, UK 2,006 56th Adam Matusiak London, UK 2,006 57th Edward Keljik London, UK 2,006 58th Talal Shakerchi London, UK 2,006 59th Azzy Asghae London, UK 2,006 60th Nicolas Levi Paris, France 2,006 61st Nicholas Holbrook London, UK 2,006 62nd Stephen Bradbury Mirfield, UK 2,006 63rd Goran Gratte Kungalv, Sweden 2,006 Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 21, 2009, 09:45:34 AM What are the odds on the first Brit WSOP-E Bracelet? WSOPE Event Number 1 WSOP Gold Bracelet Number 58 Buy-In £1,000 (= $1,625) Game No-Limit Hold'em Number of Entries 608 Net Prize Pool £608,000 First Place Prize Money £136,803 Total Places Paid 63 Players Remaining 9 End of Day Two Report The Final Table (Players and Starting Chip Counts) Total Chips in Play 1,824,000 Average Chip Stack 202,700 Level / Time Level 18 / 2:12 Remaining Blinds / Antes 3,000-6,000 / 500 Seat 1 Fabien Dunlop London, UK 538,000 Seat 2 James Tomlin Northampton, UK 49,000 Seat 3 William Martin London, UK 122,500 Seat 4 Richard Allen London, UK 332,000 Seat 5 Anthony Roux London, UK 88,000 Seat 6 Adnan Alshamah Damascus, Syria 121,000 Seat 7 John-Paul Kelly Aylesbury, UK 317,500 Seat 8 Thor Drexel London, UK 77,000 Seat 9 Neil Suarez London, UK 217,500 Not quite as great as two of the brits are french and another danish in that bunch Don't be daft Dave. You trying to tell me that Thor Drexel is not an Essex boy? I'm not having that. ;) Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 21, 2009, 09:53:35 AM .
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: TightEnd on September 21, 2009, 06:07:03 PM JP Kelly heads up for the win, even in chips
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: celtic on September 21, 2009, 06:07:37 PM JP Kelly heads up for the win, even in chips glglglglglglgl Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: mondatoo on September 21, 2009, 06:11:14 PM Sick man glglgl
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 22, 2009, 11:56:37 AM Overnights in the WSOP-E £2,500 ROE.
Note that the WSOP-E peeps said this..... IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Please note that this tournament (Event #2) may conclude tomorrow, on Tuesday. If surviving players agree and time permits, play could finish on the second day. This would be to allow more players to enter the Pot-Limit Omaha tournament, which begins Wednesday. Clemencom Tristan London UK 118,400 1 4 Prescott Allie Memphis, TN USA 88,100 1 3 Gavatin Mats Stockholm Sweden 66,900 1 6 Frazer Ian London UK 44,700 1 5 Bieznick Jared New York, NY USA 26,000 1 2 Karelas Konstantinos NA NA 22,300 1 7 Lederer Howard Las Vegas, NV USA 21,800 1 8 Alioto Dario Palarmo, Sicily Italy 13,300 1 1 Suni Harri NA NA 66,500 2 3 Brivati Dino London UK 58,400 2 5 Keston Robin London UK 57,000 2 2 Lunkin Vitaly Moscow Russia 53,900 2 7 Lapponen Sampo Bangkok Thailand 41,400 2 1 Gryko Richard Essex UK 31,100 2 6 Abecassis Michel Paris France 24,300 2 4 Cajelias Erik Monstreal, Quebec Canada 144,900 3 4 Corkins Hoyt Las Vegas, NV USA 80,600 3 7 Nguyen Men "the Master" Bell Gardens, CA USA 75,800 3 1 Johnson Brian London UK 58,400 3 5 Evdakov Nikolay Moscow Russia 52,800 3 3 Kabbaj John London UK 29,300 3 6 Bjorin Chris London UK 13,900 3 2 Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 22, 2009, 12:01:39 PM Here's the overnight Chippie. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 22, 2009, 04:30:00 PM Here's the Man, being Presented with his Bracelet today. Left to right, as viewed, Nolan Dalla, Jack Effel, JP, Mr Betfair, & President/Commissioner Polllack. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Colchester Kev on September 22, 2009, 04:34:31 PM Did they play the National Anthem ?
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 22, 2009, 04:37:33 PM Did they play the National Anthem ? Err, no. "The confines of The Empire Casino make it impractical so to do" it was announced. John Kabbaj was stood next to me when they announced that...... Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: RED-DOG on September 22, 2009, 04:55:33 PM Did they play the National Anthem ? Err, no. "The confines of The Empire Casino make it impractical so to do" it was announced. John Kabbaj was standing next to me when they announced that...... FYP Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 22, 2009, 05:16:31 PM Did they play the National Anthem ? Err, no. "The confines of The Empire Casino make it impractical so to do" it was announced. John Kabbaj was standing next to me when they announced that...... FYP I was writing in Yorkshire-ish. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: tikay on September 22, 2009, 05:30:42 PM I omitted to add..... When they introduced JP as the Bracelet Winner, they announced his as "J P Kelly, from Allesbury". Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Karabiner on September 22, 2009, 05:37:30 PM I omitted to add..... When they introduced JP as the Bracelet Winner, they announced his as "J P Kelly, from Allesbury". Lucky he's not from Loughborough then, that one really stumps a lot of Yanks. Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: action man on August 16, 2010, 05:05:54 PM The first level is 25-25 and starting stack 3000, 1 hour levels. What a breath of fresh air compared to the now seemingly standard 10-15k starting chips when everyone wastes 4-5 hours of their lives just getting mentally and physically exhausted before the levels that matter. Every single player I spoke to yesterday thought the structure was perfect and moaned about the massive stack nonsense. If you play poker for enjoyment and the soul destroying slow structures please go and play play money games or a £5 `pretend wsop main event' at a local casino. I am soon to set up an organisation to preserve some sense in live tournaments `SOOS'. Save Our Old Structures. One aim is to have multiple MTT's at a casino in one night. Ie. comps going off every 3 hours and lasting 3 hours. It is almost impossible to avoid the variance for `full time' players otherwise. Ps. I don't know why anyone would 4 bet any hand early in this comp, but if you did and got 5 bet by a tight player, then 120bb's deep I would think kk is a standard fold. hows the SOOS getting on? Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: George2Loose on August 16, 2010, 06:28:07 PM OP is superb. Thx for the bump
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: GreekStein on August 16, 2010, 07:32:01 PM lol good times
Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: Amatay on August 16, 2010, 07:42:27 PM Next up I bumped into Alan 'Lucky' McBride and we chatted briefly before he took me over to see Alex Martins table. He was going nicely on 9k thanks to one hand which me and Alan caught the end of. I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won". Superb! Title: Re: Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE Post by: George2Loose on August 16, 2010, 11:13:01 PM Next up I bumped into Alan 'Lucky' McBride and we chatted briefly before he took me over to see Alex Martins table. He was going nicely on 9k thanks to one hand which me and Alan caught the end of. I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won". Superb! should have been followed by a bump into Bazza neville who had a similar stack. Woulda gone something like: Cos: How'd you get them chips Baz? Baz: I were ooop n darrrrn on da flop |