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not since the days of William Wallace has a common lad had a chance to Unite the Clans of Scotland.
But tonight not only has George McDonald got that chance but he has the chance to Unite the Whole of the UK against the mighty combined Foes of USA, Canada , Israel, Germany and Italy.
Well maybe not the whole of the UK but all of Blondepoker and most of the British poker playing community.

Wellchief  a member of blondepoker since august 2005 has the opportunity tonight to move from 26/27 into the November Nine and get a chance to play for some life changing money


All the best from me, play well and run better and take this down.

Nice one Ironside. gl George :)up

throwback to the crypto days.  amazing run so far, glglgl!

All the best WellChief

best of british

you got this

Oioi!

Doubles early doors  - 88>AQ

 lovely jubbly

Would be great to see another Brit make the November nine

Good Luck Wellchief, hope you get the lot

oioi 4 bet tastic 8.5m

GL to him, great having a sweat going so deep  ;cheerleader;

oh no, is it down for everyone else?

yeah its down here. off to bed.

hope to wake up to wellchief smashing it.

back up.  Hero seems fine

Epic!
Do it, Sir!

Tribecca hero!

Good luck mate, do it for the fans :-)

What was WC's name on crypto back in the day just out of interest?  Obv the very best of luck spinning the short stack up today.

Good luck Scotlad, dont know you but closest but your british right ;) also blonde poster so all the way best if british

Stop all this British nonsense.

He's scotch.




Unless he busts. You know the rules.

Chipcounts:

1 Steinberg 115,200,000
2 Neuville      22,495,000

wp updaters

glgl

15/15 with 23bbs

one double up and right into the middle of the pack


go get them chief

Showing 12th now, mainly from others losing some.

He has been about two off the bottom all day, though, and is still there.

Looks like Negreanu has walked into one. Gone from 8th to 15th in the counts. No update yet.

Bloody updaters. Negreanu was showing 15th with 1.xm. Was obviously a mistype cos now he's 8th again with 11.7m. How hard is it to type the numbers correctly for 15 players?

George 3 bet shoves 77 into chip leaders AA and his 77 hold with a 9 high straight for a double up

what was the AA thinking?

9 ball corner pocket!

5/15

5/13

these updates are pain full you can see the chip movement for ages before the hands

george is just under 14 million 6/13

danny n just went down to 2 million then look like a treble up on just about 6 million now

grrr chips updated george has lost 8 million back to 13/13 as it look like they are going to dinner  still waiting on the hand

but george has been close to shortest stack for past 2 days so no need to panic just time to get some hands


edit panic over chip count now has him +7 million

he raise folded 500k

Just caught up.
Very best of luck to George.
Excellent work so far.

I hate that my first post ever on Blonde brings such grim news .... WellChief just busted in 12th.  Been waiting 10 mins for the WSOP updates to give the HH.  Still waiting ....

GG George

looks like our hero has bust in 12th spot

no hand update as of yet

great run george well played

A bad beat to lose.

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/update/ZMB/george-mcdonald-eliminated-in-12th-place-526778/


Very well played.

horrid way to bust

I feel sick reading that.  How WellChief must feel is beyond my comprehension.  Cruel.

UL in the extreme.

Great effort 1 sick beat

Awful way to go out, but a hell of a run.

Very well done mate.

+1

But 77>AA and half a milly tho

well done George, great effort

agonising to get so close, but be proud

Great run. Congrats. Such a brutal exit :(

+1

Pah, 500k ain't too shabby though! ;hattip;

Yuck! but good run neverless, nice score wp  ;applause;

great run wp

Thanks for all the support guys , not too disappointed as should have been out a few times but once you get there playing a 25 million pot as 80% favourite, pretty gutting!  Feel a little more bad for all my mates back home who'd lined up a Vegas trip in November.

Thought it would be good to ask in here, does anyone have any experience with cashing a big foreign cheque? Don't know the best way to go about it, obviously want to minimise the exchange costs. Cheers!

Paging Mr Galloway...


Great run, and unlucky at the end. George.

Sadly not!!

Enjoy the £££ anyway...

VWP sir.  As a fellow old school crypto user what was your old crypto name if you don't mind me asking?

I had a few different ones, Kautostar, PBear, Willywonky. Well chief was my name back in the Tribeca days!  Always been more of a cash game player though.

ok i never played cash on crypto stts only.  Thanks for replying. 

Well done.

And congrats on chopping the Newcastle tournament.

Congrats. Great effort.

Great achievement, you should be really proud of yourself, we can all understand how you feel with the 80/20 (not the exact situation obviously). Now thats its been a few days has it fully sunk in with what you have achieved? If someone said to you give us back the money but you can be in the November 9 winner takes all what would you do? Hope im not coming across as a dick asking that question  but it just really interests me on how important situations like this can be for people, i would imagine Negraneu would answer that question yes, but how does one of the lads off Blonde answer it? I hope the money brings lots of happiness to you and your family, some great memories and stories to tell for years to come. Well done.

Unlucky George and well played - you were close to having a deep run.

Well, well super well! Well done George great run

great result George well played, can you remember playing raistlin in your Tribeca days?

Thanks , its not really sunk in yet, bit of a sobering return to Scotland with the gales and the rain but it's good to get back to normality!  As regards to giving back the money to go back in November definitely not, it would have been great to make it but its all about the $ at the end of the day.  That final dinner break was the only time I actually considered or thought I would make the final table!  Myself and RobS had a strategy all mapped out for the following 2 levels which was going to make it very difficult to get knocked out, think he was a little shocked when he came back from watching the all in at the other table and saw all my chips in the middle with QQ v T8!

Engy I definitely remember playing Raistlin, we used to battle with Moorman at the cash tables back in the day right? Still the best poker software i've played on :D

Haha MintTrav it was funny reading about that Newcastle cash in every report in the last few days, it wasn't me but I think it worked in my favour all the way through the tournament up until perhaps the final hand!

Lolz, that's pretty sick. I saw that they other day and thought "Some Geordie kid going to be gutted he didn't get his flag" :P

Congrats on a huge score, and also on having the experience of going so deep in the Main.