blonde poker forum

So, whos going? will be getting there wed for some drinks wed and thurs night then the main on friday. Stick ur ept up ur ass!!!!!!

I'm there friday but will be travelling from leeds on the day

thinking of going up tuesday with railtard1

I will be down on friday and staying til monday!

sound, gonna get the locals to organise wed night out.

yeh were flying up tuesday afternoon, prob play the side tuesday night if there in time.

flying?

playd the 150 lngt 95 runners managd 2 cash came 4th playing tues comp gl all blonde players

yeh i live in cornwall, and nigdawg is at mine.
Train is like 5-6 hours, or fly from plymouth to manchester which takes like an hour.

probs having a heavy night on wednesday, gonna book birdcage i think, then take it easy b4 main on fri. pm me if u want seat @ table.

the crossdressing place??

believe on certain nights its a gay bar yer, but TRUST ME, its a pretty damn good place to go when ur smashed (on a regular straight night), lots of women on the dark side that need converting and nice ladies that dont want the aggro from a conventional club.

Will anyone be there today?

Anyone no if the afternoon rebuy sats to the ME will be running, i think they're meant too start at 3pm?

Translation- Alex Martin is Alexis Martin at night

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yeh were flying up tuesday afternoon, prob play the side tuesday night if there in time.
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Flying ? Good luck with that . Volcanoes kicking off again

yeh i kno, not flying today now... says we can  tomo... but i guess its all volcano dependant

cant see it buddy - hence my original  comment

international>>>>internal   and given todays false start im not sure that flight will get too much priority

GL thou - be good to meet you

seriously mate, book the train now. you'll be very lucky if you manage to get a flight.

Any thoughts on how many runners in tonights £300?

Press release

Poker Players United for Leg 4 of GUKPT in Manchester City


It's that time of the month once again, the time when poker player of the UK will gather with one shared purpose: to become the next GUKPT main event champion. This time the action moves north to the G Casino Bury New Rd in Manchester for the 4th leg of the 2010 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour. Last year novice player Simon Moorman took down this main event in only his second live tournament ever. He was bought into the 298 runner £1,000 NL Hold'em event by his son Chris and walked away with the first prize of £88,630. Will he return this year to defend his title? Other previous winners of the Manchester leg were David Colclough, who defeated Barry Neville heads up to win in 2007 and Marc Goodwin in 2008, who dominated from start to finish.

The www.gcasino.com festival has been under way since Saturday 17th April and the main event starts on Thursday 22nd, with two starting days. Several side events are also running throughout the remainder of the festival with buy-ins as low as £100. The winners of all events will not only take away trophies, but will also claim seats into the £150,000 GUKPT Champion of Champions tournament in December.

Live updates throughout the main event can be followed on the GUKPT blog:

http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/

Live video streaming of the event starts on Thursday at 2.00pm on A World of Poker's nutz.tv:

http://www.thenutz.tv/live.php

For the full schedule of tournaments taking place at Leg 4, please visit the tour's official website at http://www.gukpt.com

If you are playing the main event, please keep us updated on here and I will do chip counts from the GUKPT blog at the end of the day

GTFO DOUBTERS!

me and nigdawg sitting in plymouth airport at the moment, waiting on a flight to manchester. Due to leave in like 40 mins, so unless something erupts in iceland, then we will be in manchester very soon.

drinks tonight ?

+1

Toasty life, but that's 1 flip token used

lol you think they only have a few?

go team "tard" hopefully see you there tomoz.

GL all - keep us posted!  ;goodluck; ;goodluck; ;goodluck;

Reg'd for friday

are blonde updating this?

drunkeeeeeeeeeen in manchesterrrrrrrrrrrr


think nigdawg pulled a man tinight .... wpwpwpwpwp

lol.

coming up 2mo

Would be there but stuck in Miami on an all inclusive trip thanks to British Airways, sigh

urghh... feels like gg playing today..

Sure isn't like railtard to go to bed early on a night out

last night was good, James Corden even made a guest appearance lololol. Obv deny railtards childish rumour.

However apparently he left the club early because he is a lightweight

No. Until we make some money, then we can't afford to

Festival results so far

Venue   G Casino Bury New Rd, Manchester   
Date   17/04/2010   
Event   £150 NL Hold'em Freezeout   
Length   1 day   
Runners   95   
Total Prize Pool   £14,250   

Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Ciaran Farrell   £4,410
2nd   Reyaaz Mulla   £3,140
3rd   Sean Jein   £2,000
4th   Andrew Wright   £1,210
5th   Erik Hansen   £1,000
6th   Anna Astley   £710
7th   Fereidoon Zarandi   £570
8th   Jamie Luke   £430
9th   Daniel Bracey   £380
10th   Jonathan Herstritt   £390

Venue   G Casino Bury New Rd, Manchester   
Date   18/04/2010   
Event   £100 NL Hold'em Rebuy   
Length   2 days   
Runners   40   
Rebuys & Add Ons   40   
Total Prize Pool   £8,000   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Allan McLean   £2,800
2nd   Simon cawley   £1,920
3rd   Kourash   £1,280
4th   Peter Hynter   £880
5th   Andrew Jones   £640
6th   Alli Mallu   £480

Venue   G Casino Bury New Rd, Manchester   
Date   19/04/2010   
Event   £200 NL Hold'em Freezeout   
Length   2 days   
Runners   130   
Total Prize Pool   £26,000   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Anutr Amranand   
2nd   Mick Fletcher   
3rd   Jamie Luke   
4th   Steven Warburton   
5th   Alan Bretten   
6th   Christopher Martin   
7th   Justin Devonport   
8th   Christopher Flint   
9th   Terence Magee   
10th   Faisal Hafizullah   
11th   Adrian Burns   
12th   Michael Hersritt   
13th   Michael Bell   

Venue   G Casino Bury New Rd, Manchester   
Date   20/03/2010   
Event   £300 NL Hold'em Freezeout   
Length   2 days   
Runners   110   
Total Prize Pool   £33,000   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Paul parker   £10,070
2nd   Reyaaz Mulla   £7,100
3rd   Simon Hemsworth   £4,460
4th   Jehan Zaib   £2,800
5th   Christopher Martin   £2,310
6th   Dennis Troake   £1,650
7th   David Maudlin   £1,320
8th   Stephen Lovatt   £990
9th   Adam Goulding   £820
10th   Simon Cawley   £820
11th   George Douse   £660

Venue   G Casino Bury New Rd, Manchester   
Date   21/04/2010   
Event   £100 PL Omaha Rebuy   
Length   1 day   
Runners   49   
Rebuys/Add Ons   89   
Total Prize Pool   £13,800   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Jim Reid   £4,830
2nd   Patrick Stanley   £3,310
3rd   Christopher Walker   £2,210
4th   Paul Wilson   £1,520
5th   Andrew Norman   £1,100
6th   Kenneth Clark   £830

gl to Justin Wright in the main event

Only 96 players registered over 2 days?!?!

Dunno why but i thought there wouold be more than that!

200 was the hope


still time for a big Friday turn out though

10th did well there

Is Alan Mclean a blonde ? Name rings a bell from someone I shared a table with at DTD 300,canny bloke.If it's who I'm thinking he's a friend of Dewi's ?

really surprised by this - 65 so far today - thats really bad

lets hope we get a good showing 2mo then!

I thought manchester was always one of the most popular GUKPT's?

Heading up tonight, playing day 1b with the Deadman.

Thought this would have been much busier tho!

UKIPT making a bit of a hit? Was one a couple of weeks ago and the Nottingham one in a couple of weeks. They're both cheaper so I guess a few people who played the GUKPTs but found it a bit expensive will now be playing the UKIPTs?

Yeh I reckon the UIKPT will effect runners. Plus people stuck in Remo for the week may not want to bother to play Manchester

U playing George?

Monte Carlo will take 20 runners out i assume too

Nah bud. Got work :(

i guess with ukipt tour and gala tour starting players are saving money 4 them, there is so much choice with dtd gtd every month gkupt will suffer 1000 2 much , just my opion

maybe its because its the mosted rigged mfckin casino in the world and the staff couldn't organise an orgy in a brothel?....I dunno just a maybe

PS die G Manchester!!!

see you ike sitting on the fence!!!!

67 in the end today, which is low and the reasons given already in this thread are undoubtedly all factors, but the drop off in numbers actually started in the last half of 2009, by which time the effects of the recession had made their impact. This event last year had 298 players, but it was the first event in the northwest since Blackpool '08 and this time round there has already been a Bolton leg in January and the UKIPT here in February. However, since the drop off in numbers started for the main events, the side events have continued to do well and tonight's £100er is packed, having attracted over 130 players. There are currently about 60 registered for tomorrow and we expect to get 120+, which should bring the final number closer to 200. Some of these would probably work better now with just one starting day and would probably sell out with a max capacity of circa 200. I still think there is a market for £1,000 events, but perhaps some of the venues would be better suited to smaller buy ins. These are all things we will consider before deciding what to do with the tour in 2011.

Oh and btw, Isildur is due to play tomorrow. He texted me to say he would be coming...unless he has travel problems.

lol...

Should see the no's boosted a bit now...

made day 2 with 104,125 chips.

peaked at 125k but still happy with my stack since i was down to 8k after 10 minutes and after building a big stack all afternoon dropped back down to 8k with blinds 300/600/50 so pretty swingy lol

disappointed at the turnout altho this was probably the softest gukpt table i've ever had. like wow i don't know where these guys get their money from but please don't die gukpt

I am setting off in 10 mins from Middlesbrough, anyone gets Stuart Ward on their table say hello to me!

Day1a survivors

layer  - Chipcount
Steven King  - 145,500
Timothy Flanders  - 122,725
Chrtopher Brammer  - 104,125
Nicholas Katovsky  - 73,950
Samuel Grafton  - 73,050
Richard Milne  - 65,275
Loic Bernede  - 52,300
Mickey Wernick  - 48,825
David Jones  - 45,900
Andrew Moseley  - 44,275
Waseem Ahmed  - 37,900
Kenneth Spence  - 35,875
Max Proctor  - 31,700
Neil Banks  - 29,200
Ronald Lawton  - 29,200
Jen Mason  - 27,250
Kenneth Clark  - 23,050
Kevin Holdstock  - 17,225

gukpt blog said middy had 70k late on

did he "unload another clip"?

u playing today Guy or was it yday?

today mate

i will post my chip counts and any signif pots during breaks on my staking thread so as to not clog this thread

You(as an organisation) really need to take a look around at competitors and start from scratch with a proper satellite system,because without one,your tour is only going to continue dripping blood and die a slow and very ugly,unnecessary and unwanted death.

be more dramatic pls

Post more.

MURPH VS GREEKSTEIN HU4ROLLZ

$4 sng......

I also should have mentioned yesterday, we will be increasing the number of super satellites. Online we can't compete with the numbers that sites like Stars can produce, but we have started doing network satellites on iPoker as well as the ones which are exclusive to Blue Square/G Casino and their skins. We aim to increase the overall number of online qualifiers from 20-30 per event to over 40 by the second half of this year. Live, we introduced two bumper satellites at every host venue from the start of this year (10-seats guaranteed ones the day before each festival begins and a freezeout one the night before the main event). Some, but not all venues also organise other satellites in the weeks before their festivals, but this did not happen for this leg in Manchester (it did for the the first 3 legs of the year though). The plan is not finalised yet, but it will likely include a further two bumper satellites at each venue circa 2 weeks before the festival begins, plus satellites in other casinos within the same region. There will also be flexibility for players to swap seats won to events at other venues. Our target initially will be to increase the number of qualifiers from the current 50-70 per event to over 100.

well said sir

[ ] die Raab

Just one more thing I want to add to this discussion now. The tone of Murph's comment suggests we are just sitting about, not doing anything about it. This is far from the case. We are continually looking at what is happenning elsewhere in the UK live poker market, thinking about ways in which the tour can adapt, survive and improve and we will act or react to current situations to keep it viable. We have no laurels and if we did, we would not rest on them.

GL to Alex in the main today

Yep, GL Alexander.

glgl

Just giving a bit of feedback regarding the Blue Square GUKPT sats. I would love to satellite into a GUKPT event. The big turn off for me is that most of the satellites are rebuy / add-on events where the winners then get a ticket to a re-buy add-on final. So people trying to qualify on a low budget, such as myself, are severely handicapped unless willing to take the expensive add-on. This, to me, kind of defeats the whole point of having satellites in the first place.
 How about something like £10 and £20 deepstack freeze-out sats, with the winners having the option to use their £110 or £220 tokens towards  buying into GUKPT live side events, or to buy into live or on-line GUKPT main event freeze-out satellites.
 I just think that reasonably deep stacked, ie-5K-12 min clock, freeze-outs would be a real winner for Blue Square and their customers.

  PS-I don't know most of you,but, Good Luck in the final to any Blondites, Awoppers and Blackbelters who have made it. May the best man, or woman, win. :)

for some reason, murph feels the need to be controversial in every post he makes.
I play all GUKPT's, and despite the numbers for the main event decreasing, (which for me personally is disapointing as i only play the main event) the rest of the tour is thriving.
The sides (especially the £100 sides) have had good numbers and there have been a decent number of cash games running around the clock.
This leads me to believe that the economy is as much a factor as anythign else. Which i guess means that the only route is the satelitte route. But i have sympathy with jon raab and his team, and feel like they are working hard !

as for today GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO BRAMMDOGG / PEARLBRAMMER / AJKBRAMMER  .... you get the idea !

lol don't worry jon no one was really giving his post any credibility

What exactly is controversial about saying GUKPT online sats system is poor and in need of improvement? Ok I used some descriptive wording but I seriously doubt you would find many who would disagree with the sentiment.Railtard you haven't even had the common decency to respond via pm to explain where you got me mixed up with someone else that led you to previously send me an abusive pm and also be abusive in a thread here,maybe you should get around to that before trying to talk me down further.

The sats thing is self-explanatory,there's really no reason for any tour not to have a decent sats system in place to get upwards of 25% of the field being online qualifiers.It is of course very easy to point to the economic situation and that obviously has played a part in the dwindling numbers,but during times of econimic struggles it only means there should be even more emphasis placed on online satellites.

I have no real desire to get involved with you lot any further,so i'll leave it there.

o murph.. go out, have a few beers, go to a strip club, then get yourself layed !!!!

now back to the real issueeeeeeeeeeee!

GOGOGOGOGOGOGO BRAMDOGG

Murph, I'm not saying you were being controversial, just that the tone of what you said suggested to me that you think we are sitting back and letting it get worse, giving no thought to what to do about it. We are looking into what we can do to improve matters, both for live and online satellites.

the rage - thanks for your very helpful feedback. We currently run three weekly satellites, two of which are rebuys. There is also a network satellite, which is also a rebuy, but we are in the process of requesting that this be changed to a freezeout.

can u pls use ur power to make sure chris brammer wins this pls...
k thanks, marc

sorry this is late.


Prize Payouts have beeen announced

1st £54850
2nd £37900
3rd £23500
4th £14400
5th £11050
6th £9100
7th £7200
8th £5300
9th £3850
10th £3350
11th £2900
12th £2400
13th £2400
14th £2400
15th £1900
16th £1900
17th £1900
18th £1900
19th £1900
20th £1900

the overnights


blondes in bold


please check http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/index.php?paged=2 for more through the day

Combined Chip Counts from Both Starting Days

Steven King  - 145,500
Joseph Grech  - 143,000
Stuart Green  - 132,800
Timothy Flanders  - 122,725
Kirit Patel  - 114,000
Christopher Brammer  - 104,125
John Eames  - 99,700
Om Aggarwal  - 99,175
Kuljinder Sidhu  - 89,950
Mark Keightley  - 86,000
Jack Ellwood  - 85,675
Tony Constantinides  - 85,225
Nicholas Katovsky  - 73,950
Samuel Grafton  - 73,050
Gregory Booth  - 69,500
Matthew Hopkins  - 69,000
Alexander Martin  - 66,900
Richard Milne  - 65,275
Michael Greco  - 61,000
Colin Burgess  - 60,300
Richard Connolly  - 57,675
Loic Bernede  - 52,300
Micky Wernick  - 48,825
Charles Denton  - 46,100
David Jones  - 45,900
Andrew O’Flaherty  - 45,850
Stuart Ward  - 45,500
Andrew Moseley  - 44,275
Mark Trett  - 41,750
Waseem Ahmed  - 37,900
Kenneth Spence  - 35,875
Christopher Martin  - 34,200
Richard Swerling  - 31,925
Max Proctor  - 31,700
Daniel Fletcher  - 31,500
Andrew Georgiou  - 31,275
Michael McCool  - 30,425
David Maudlin  - 29,950
Priyan Demel  - 29,675
Neil Banks  - 29,200
Ronald Lawton  - 29,200
Jennifer Mason  - 27,250
Neil Greenhalgh  - 24,475
Marc Goodwin  - 23,850
Kenneth Clark  - 23,050
Christopher Keen  - 22,300
Paul Gardner  - 21,450
Paul Murphy  - 20,500
Kevin Holdstock  - 17,225
Nigel Willis  - 16,875
Adam Wilkinson  - 14,800
Anutr Amranand  - 14,200

sigh, alex busto AQ<<<<<<<<<<44 aipf

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE BRAMMMMMMMMMMMMERRRRRRDOGGGGGGGGGGG

Do you have an interest in Bramdog Marc? :-)

Hi Jon,

I've just had a quick glance in the GUKPT tab on Blue Square and noticed that there are two re-buy feeders to Sunday's £150 freezeout tonight (an £8 and a £10 one) but absolutely none on Sunday. This strikes me as a little odd and perhaps adding two or three super satellites Sunday afternoon (perhaps at 3pm, 4.30pm and 6pm) might boost numbers in the Sunday £150. Something like a £10r a £25 f/o and a £40 f/o turbo? I'll be honest, I haven't tried to satellite into a GUKPT recently so have no idea if there used to be qualifiers such as this and they didn't get runners or if you're resticted by the network on a sunday as they want people to statellite into the ipoker sunday major.

GO NIGDAWG GO !!  1 MIRRIONNNNNNNNNNN CHIPS ! no blow ups plzzzzzzzzzz   :birthday:

GL nigdawg played a few times with you and your dad  at DTD cash and tournies! about time you won a big one! i take it treefella is your dad and not a gay stalker !!! glglgl TID

gl chris

i have the world in this

maybe we shouldnt of been out drinking all night, but still.... pls win ffs

ur promosted to number 1 horse btw

gogogogogogogogo bram and sam.

U stake Chris live too? Sick

winnnnnnnnnnnnnn

GLGL Nigdawg

good luck to our lad

and to the ex-Chancellor taking time off from Canvassing to play the final

The Final Ten Chip Counts
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Player  - Chips
Chris Brammer  - 1,003,000
Sam Grafton  - 625,500
Kuljinder Sidhu  - 299,000
Anutr Amranand  - 251,500
Loic Bernede  - 247,000
Ken Clarke  - 146,500
Tony Constantinides  - 121,000
Tim Flanders  - 85,500
Joe Grech  - 67,000
Andrew Georgiou  - 35,000

http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/ for coverage this afternoon

hope you own them all like you owned me at DTD that time Mr Christopher Brammer Sir!

Thanks alot guys really appreciate support! Time to do thisssssss!

Go on the Dawwwwwwwggggggg, one time n all that

GL man, take it dowwwwwnnnn!

Gooooooooowan!!!!!

gl to joethejoker

another GUK FT

TID this time

gl chris. tid. gl joe 2

last 4 now. chris still cl

HU,win the lot glglglgl

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGOGOGOOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOOG

It don’t take long for these two to get all the chips in the middle.

Chris Brammer AQ and Kuljinder pocket 66’s.

The 66’s have it and a HUGE cheer from the rail (the Kuljinder side, that is).  Great support here for the both of them.

Chris left with 200k
 sigh

Second. Not a bad payday. UNlucky Christopher

2nd,vvwp mate enjoy

ul not to win but great result nonetheless

wp Chris.

+1

Sigh.. sigh...  so unlucky    
              

also, marc's volume may have got unbearable if u'd won.

VWP Chris!  :)up :)up

Sidhu Scores at Manchester GUKPT

Kuljinder Sidhu from Birmingham has won the fourth leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour in the G Casino Bury New Rd in Manchester. The 29-year-old professional gambler outlasted a field of 192 players to scoop the first prize of £54,850. He also secures his seat in the tour's £150,000 Champion of Champions tournament, which takes place in December. He defeated Winchester's Chris Brammer after a lightning fast heads up encounter, which lasted just two hands. After 21-year-old Brammer had knocked out Manchester's Ken Clark in third place the two went heads up, with Sidhu holding a narrow chip advantage. On the very first hand all the chips found their way into the middle preflop with Brammer holding A-Q of hearts to Sidhu's pocket sixes. The sixes held up, leaving Brammer with around 200,000 of the 2.9m chips in play and it was all over on the very next hand. In the final hand Sidhu's K-7 dominated Brammer's J-7.


It was the second time that Sidhu, known to his friends as Kully had cashed in a GUKPT main event, having previously finished 20th in this same event two years ago. During the post-tournament interview he commented

“I thought that if I were to win anywhere, it would be here, as it's the only one I have cashed in before”

He went on to say

“I've never played so calmly before and was fully focused on the job in hand. I'm usually constantly on my phone, but this time I put it to one side.”

Only one player of the last ten had previously been on a GUKPT main event final table. That player was Joe Grech, who now has the enviable record of being the only player to make four GUKPT main event final tables. He is also the only player to have final tabled every year since the tour began. His first was in the inaugural GUKPT event in Bolton 2007 (9th), his second was Brighton 2008 (5th) and last year he finished runner to Sunny Chattha at the Walsall leg of the tour. This time he exited in 6th place. Fourth place went to London's Sam Grafton, while local Anutr Amranand claimed 5th. Andrew Georgiou, who had been short stacked throughout the entire tournament clung on for 7th place and Frenchman Loic Bernede from Strasbourg, who qualified online, was 8th. Tony Constantinides from London and Preston's Tim Flanders completed the final table line up, finishing 9th and 10th respectively.
Sidhu's next target will be the main event at leg five of the GUKPT, which takes place at the G Casino in Coventry from 21st -23rd May. The festival at the casino, which is situated at Coventry City's Ricoh Arena begins on Monday 17th May and features a week of warm up side events before the main event begins. Before then, the tour continues online in the poker room of gcasino.com on Monday 26th April, when the 10% Series event takes place at 8pm. GUKPT ranking points and a seat in the Champion of Champions tournament are also awarded in this £100 online freezeout.

The Result


Place Player Prize GUKPT Ranking Points
1st Kuljinder Sidhu £54,850 100
2nd Christopher Brammer £37,900 80
3rd Kenneth Clark £23,500 64
4th Samuel Grafton £14,400 52
5th Anutr Amranand £11,050 44
6th Joe Grech £9,100 36
7th Andrew Georgiou £7,200 28
8th Loic Bernede £5,300 20
9th Tony Constantinides £3,850 16
10th Tim Flanders £3,350 12


 

congrats dude

Well Done Chris,

Big Shout to Sam Grafton too, met up with him in the international club on Wednesday, the night before he went up to play in this event.

Really pleased for him, great guy, and a great player too.  Big things await, no doubt.

wpwpwp...

winner was awful btw!

bravo Mr Brammer  ;applause; ;applause;

sighhhhhh at not binking but still obv pleased

thanks for the support guys, appreciate it muchoooooooooooo

Chris just read awop. What did the winner say about you in his interview?

 
he said he found chris's style was  very  easy to play against and that chris was the only player he wanted to get heads up with most of all cos he knew he would beat him !
probably why he went all in wiv over 75bbs pre flop in the 2nd hand with 66 ! and why he makes it 200k after chris opens for 25k when the blinds were 6k/12k when four handed. that way he outplays chris .. ye  right .............

Well played to the winner though, no sour grapes honest... just didnt like his commments at the end .. not very nice to put down the runner up in an interview after just winning a coinflip for the tourney.

I thought what he said was very disrespectful and agree with the 66 comment above

Hopefully he'll agree to play heads up every day online with Chris.

But lets not make too much of a hoo har, we need dead money like this guy binking a tournament now and again.

agree with the greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek man

should of asked him for a 1000bb hu cash game with all the monies.

we would of paiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid him to play

Ther festival closing £100 bounty tournament had 80 runners and was won by Alli Mallu, who now extends his lead further at the top of the GUKPT rankings leaderboard. It was the third trophy that he has won on the tour in 2010 and he becomes the first player to achieve maximum starting chips of 25,000 for December's £150,000 Champion of Champions tournament.

lol. i would of driven up from southampton with fresh made bread,duvets & cushions for him. could of also offered to massage his feet just to keep him comfy at the table for as long as it took for him to donate . :)

On a serious note if Chris's edge was so huge against him why did he committ all his chips pre flop with AQ? Surely should have small balled his ass to death (like Sunny did against Joe grech)

 only chris can answer that one !

i figured the edge AQs had vs his range there was much bigger than my edge in a HU game

really crush so many of his hands he feels are big hands HU and jams with. if he knew i had no plans to 3b/fold any hands because of the history then his shove with 66 is tez

Personally I think he did the right thing against you tho Chris. Obv it's a huge flip at this stage but against the better player he obv want it to come down to a race rather than small pots. Agree that AQ suited is huge cos he probably spazzes out with most aces but even so probably this deep perhaps flat against this guy.

yeh see ur point but doesnt apply here since 66 is not a flip vs my range here, its like a 2/1 dog. but obv he isnt going to know that

I remember the Brighton GUKPT in 2008 when Julian Thew was HU vs Karim Louis. Approx 3 million in play and they both get it in A-Q vs 5-5. I remember that because Tikay highlighted it in his diary, the climax to 4 days worth of play. So this HU situation really isn't anything unusual and it doesn't suggest anything about skill level at all. All this who's the worst player after such a terrific result for both guys is a bit petty imo.

I have no idea how good/bad the eventual winner was. I just know NigDawg is v v v good and I think the best strat for him was to keep pots small. Not a criticism as such just more of an after thought. If anyone watched Sunny Chattha heads up against Joe grech he demolished him playing small pots. Took about 3 hours plus if I remember correctly

I remember hellmuth saying how impressed he was that Moon got himself in a 50/50 race for all the chips at wsop with jqv99.

i think you have made a very fair point here george. has to be better than the 'gambling scenario ' when flipping . especially if you know you can outplay your opponent over a period of time .

dont agree with people who say flat the AQ.

as bramm says the edge AQ plays against his range is greater than the hu edge.

We flat, we win/lose the pot, 4 hands later we get JJ v QQ, we wish we would have got the AQ in.

Hindsight for the win.

yep

well said!!

opponent was impossible to small ball ! IMPOSSIBLE !

he might look like a vagrant but he talks good shit!  ;)

He looks more like a farmer than a vagrant, especially with that flat cap. ;)