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Howdy ho folks.

Thank the dear Lord, we have a connection. Still only 1 bar on the 3G Vodafone, but it's movement. Yipee!

We've settled down just outside the cardroom. Standing beside me is Arsiton, not to mention Rob Yong, tikay, Jen, and Mr Raab.

Also spotted are:

Womble
RED-DOG
Karabiner
Martin Callaghan
Jeff Buffenbarger
Rumit
Simon Nowab

Watch this space for more names as they trundle through the doors.

So it's back to work for the Team (Snoops and myself - tikay is playing) in our regular corner in the Grosvenor Walsall.  Comfy chairs, an adaptor, serviceable internet and I think there is steak over there.  People are flooding in but they'll be hard pressed to beat the fields earlier in the week - players galore for all the previous events.

Meant to be starting in 15 minutes or so, with 7,500 chips (X2 - it's double chance) and the usual nice-and-slow structure, Ariston says "Not sure how I'll manage to lose 15,000 chips in the first level...."

More names and faces:

Woody Deck
Bandit Evans
Carlo Citrone
Darren Grosvenor
Iwan Jones
Nick Gibson
Dave Smith
Mad Turk
Pete Singleton
M Z Hussain
Julian Thew

Michael McCool (aka. recent Blondeite Slick Kid) is also present and will be playing this event.

Good luck that man.

Just so you know...

£1,500 buy-in

Double chance freezout

Blinds start at 25/50

45 minute clock

125 entires so far with 187,500 with 187,500 chips in play.

160 were predicted earlier on, not sure if they'll quite reach that number.

are you and Jen in different areas?
There seems to be 2 threads.

Look at these cool dudes! Cowabunga

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No no - we are right next to each other, literally inches from the players.

They did that "You'd better all sit down RIGHT NOW or else" set of announcements just now, and Bad Girl was sat in the restaurant area just as relaxed as can be.  I think she said something like "I'm in no rush for poker."

And here are the contestants:

P Abela
Ashfag Ahmed
Aslam Zahir
James Atikin
F Badiemansour
Darren Baine
T Birmingham
S Bladar
X Bladar
R Brindley
J Buffenbarger
Martyn Cavanagh
Carlo Citrone
Dave Colclough
T Cook
R Corley
Paul Crompton
Cronin Cornelius
M Daley
Paul Dargan
Alan Davies
R Debealox
Woody Deck
K Dionysiou
Ivan Donaghy
T Dunwoodie
Michael Ellis
Yecel Eminglu
Ian Fieldhouse
Tim Flanders
Ian Foster
S Fowle
Stuart Fox
R Gardner-Brown
George Geary
N Gibson
E Giddons
E Goddard
Andrew Gomm
Marc Goodwin
L Gosney
J Grech
M Greco
N Greenhalgh
Darren Grosvenor
Steve Hardwick
M Herron
John Hewston
Gary Holden
MZ Hussain
Pavlo Iacovou
M Imran
N Irfan
P Jackson
Andy Johnson
Don Jones
I Jones
Mark Jones
Michael Jones
J Kabbaj
MH Kazi
JP Kelly
Tony Kendall
Kkola Costas
Joseph Koumi
Shah Koumi
Ali Mallu
Rory Mathews
D Mayall
P McClosky

Phew. My poor hands I have cramp  ;tk;

Some early news for you.

M H Kazi has doubled up already courtesy of Mad Turk who has been forced to take an early rebuy. (well, a double chance one anyhow)

Aces versus Ace Queen on a queen high board.

Totally Comprehensive Player List Continued....

M. MCCluskey
Michael McCool
Tom McCready
Alan McClean
J. Mcneill
Zafar Mirza
Barkatul Mohammed
Gez Morris
Reyaaz Mulla
O. Mustanoglu
Stuart Nash
S. Ness
A. Nicholls
Maurice Nicholson
Simon Nowab
Andrew Nunn
A. Omara
Eamon Oneil
Meng Ong
Ash Pervaiz
Niamh Peters
Phil Peters
Barry Phipps
Howard Plant
J. Ponte
J. Potter
M. Rauf
Trevor Reardon
Richard Redmond
Martin Reeve
Jim Reid
M Saleem
Darshan Sami
Neil Saunders
Ralph Shalson
John Shipley
Peter Singleton
Nick Slade
Paul Smart
Dave Smith
PG Smith
Rumit Somaiya
Surinder Sunar
Willie Tann
Julian Thew
Matt Tyler
Yunus Umarji
Steve Walmsley
Daniel Watson
Mickey Wernick
Ian Woodley
Bambos
Rob Yong
M. Zack

Another cool dude. This guy poses like a pro. hehe.  ;goodvevil;

Oh, this is the Giddons by the way. Mr Edward Giddons.



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Looking forward to some top updates as usual Jen & Snoopy

Good luck to the boys  :-* .........Nick 'Gwibbo' Gibson, Iwan 'Welsh Wizard' Jones, Action Jack, Big Trev, Stuart 'Foxy' Fox & to all blondeites..... especially Tikay 'GLC' Kendall (that's Goldie Lookin' Chain Tikay :-) - just your kind of music ?!?

I'll be glued to the updates - wish I could be there to cheer you on  ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

LOL

Anna xoxoxo

Here's Matt Tyler (B4Matt) pretending (yes, seriously) to be working away.

Won 13k yesterday don't you know.

Big up to that man. What a result.  ;applause;

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Not surprisingly, the banter table seems to be table 12 where Chubbs, Yongsta, and Yoyo are located.

Id like to be around to hear that tables conversations

even money....one of the three takes their double chance in the first hour

My three against the field:

Kabbaj, Citrone and Badiemansour.

Anyone else gonna stick their necks out?

Bit of a kafuffle on table 7 where Woody Deck, Mad Turk, MH Kazi, Ali Mallu and cardroom supervisor Dani Versace are involved in a debate about mucking cards on the river. Woody wants cards shown, Dani says they can be mucked, Mad Turk mentions chip passing, etc, etc, etc

A familiar ugly head being reared. Not yours Dani, don't worry. hehe

We've just been off on that "Write down what the people you don't know look like before they bust out or move around" trip.  No rush, though, as the blinds are still a teeny-weeny 25 - 50 and it would be a tremendous effort to knock out enough people early on to start moving players around.

Noticed in passing:  Woody Deck has managed to do his first lot of chips already, with what sounded like a combination of actually decent starting hands

El Blondie is wearing a blonde shirt with a bit of misinformation on it (pic coming)

my 3 picks.........

nick gibson
trevor reardon
rumit somaiya

Me and Dubai have a bet.

I have Thewy, Nowab and P Jackson

Wish i was playing

Nick Slade (who we have nicknamed Leery Nick) has eliminated Andy Johnson. Andy ran into trips twice with two pair, first to RED-DOG, then second to Slade who had trip 3s v Andy's 8-6.

Correction. The fella eliminated was M Rauf, who was moved to Table 14 because Andy Johnson failed to turn turn up.

So, I guess Andy Johnson can be considered... STILL IN.

I've revived him.

My three against the field are:

Ian Woodley
Trevor Reardon
Allan McClean


Good luck to all the Blondeites....

You may need to be seated for this one.

Here's a piccy of tikay winning a hand. I know, shocking. I think he might have a stroke if he wins another.

According to tikay, 'I've had no hands, except pocket jacks, aces, ace jack, and two ace kings. Completely Card-dead.'



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ill stick it all on the tann man,spoke to him on the phone just b4 start he sounded right up 4 it

I was poised, braced to take a snap of Simon Nowab, when Rob asked me to catch his best side... so I took this.



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Ariston is not a happy chappy. He's already dipped into his second rebuy courtesy of a rather forunate Howard Plant.

Howard limped with aces, Ariston checked KT on the big blind.

Flop comes K-T-rag.

Ariston checks, Howard bets 150, Artison raises to 500, Howard moves all-in for 7-8k, Arsiton calls.

River = Ace

Ouch

I feel Ariston's pain.

grr

Mick Jones is sat on tikay's right, and has apparently had KK three times already.  Not that they've done him much good - the first time an all-diamond flop found his Kings both black and someone with the nuts getting a lot of chips as he rivered the top straight and paid off the flush.  The other times, action there was none.  And they look so nice when they're in your hand...

Chubbs is bigger than me and I don't want to get decked, so here's a lovely frontal of Mr Nowab...



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And here's cheeky monkey, Rob Yong.



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I was passing Lawrence Gosney's table (on which the lovely Crddolly is dealing) when I noticed there appeared to be a 6,000 preflop raise on the table.  It turned out that after five limpers, P. McCloskey had decided to raise but thrown the wrong colour chips in.  Even more worrying was the fact that Lawrence then dwelled over re-raising the gentleman all-in before passing and being shown  Ad Ks.

I've just been infomed by ChunkyMick's better half that his nickname at school was 'Chunky'.

Aaaaaaah

Double up for Mick Jones in rather dramatic fashion (got a wave over from tikay for this one):

On a flop of  4s 9h 9s he moved in (with a fairly low stack, 3k or so) with the nut flush draw  Aspades 6s.  He was called by  Tc Td.
Turn: 9c (at which point he wasn't too optimistic)
River: 9d and the Ace came through for him!

Accurate chip counts are tricky at this stage due to the double chance and the difficulty in telling whether or not someone has rebought.

So how many runners was it at the end snoopy?

Who is your beagle £ on?

Keep an eye on Michigan Jeff Buffenbeefbarger for me please......

Here's Badbeat-er Kevin Daly, whom I managed to snap almost smiling (although he rather self-deprecatingly described his grin as 'inane').  After some poor luck in Deauville he looks pretty relaxed over here in sunny(?) Walsall.

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Hi guys


Good luck to all Blondites.


Congratulations Jen on yer Unusual Suspects win.

T
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Jus caught a hand... for once!!! Jen seems to get all the best coops, I walk around for ages and no1 moves a muscle.

Anyhow, Woody Deck was all-in with Ad Qd v MH Kazi (Grand Challenge Champ) and his Ac Ks

Board = Tc Ts 6d Jc Js

Chop it up!

I reckon Nottingham Nick's a good bet.

Here are the men in charge, suited and booted.

When Dani glanced at the photo, he commented that he looked like a film star.

I asked, 'What film?'

The name 'Elephant Man' cropped up.

I won't mention who said that. (ahem)

Gotta run, Dani's coming over...



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Here's Ian Woodley, with what looks like George Geary's Industrial Strength Fan on his arm.  Next to him is T. Cook, with hotdog in profile stage right.

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Level 2
Blinds = 50/100
11 mins left
124 entires.
122 remaining.
186,000 squid confirmed.

Z Aslam and M Rauf OUT

Double up for  ;tk; news now -

Against adjacent Mick Jones - all-in on a 3d 5d 3s flop.
tikay:  Tc Ts
Mick:   9c 9s

Turn and river were  6d Ac and it's time for Mick's double chance while tikay gave a cheeky smile.

According to the sheets, we have an X Bladar and a S Bladar.

My spider senses tell me that this duo may be Steve and Xuyen. Hmm  :D

I'll try and get a piccy of the Bladars before the night's out.

before they are Bladared perhaps?

any news early doors on our satellite heroes Karabiner and Mr Dog?

Ok, im with Thewwy, one of the Vladars(i know thats cheating) and Nick Gibson.

Here's Blondeite Slick Kid, who has named himself after one of the greyhounds he trains.

When I arrived earlier in the week, I spotted Michael in the carpark being hounded by 2 dogs, which I thought were stray. But they were actually his! He keeps them in the van while he plays. I wonder if they have Sky TV in there.

I reckon he should bring them into the casino. Dogs are quite good at poker aren't they. I've seen those paintings.

-- hmm, missing picture here. I'll fix that on the morrow --

Mr. Ian Bradley is visiting Update Corner and brings news from the Julian - Simon - Rob table...

a  4d 4h 4s flop got some action from Rob holding 9d 3d (but of course).  Julian re-raised all-in, forcing Simon to pass his pocket Jacks, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, Rob to pass his load of rubbish.  Julian had the Aces, of course.

Ask and you shall receive.

Karabiner -- 8.1k
RED-DOG -- 15k

Neither have had their rebuy.

Here's half of the Bladar team - looking all serious in her William Hill gear.

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any word on the tann man ;tk;

Matt Tyler (B4Matt) has doubled through via Alan McLean.

Oddly, Leery Nick was standing on his chair during this hand. Not sure why. Slightly nutty.

Ad Ks versus 9h 9s

Ac 7s Qc Kd 8c

 rotflmfao

Mick Jones (Chunkymick) is OUT

He's been dealt pocket kings four times.

On the 4th occasion, he hit a flush, but was defeated by a mighty Ac 2d


Who wants big cards eh?

************************* BREAK****************************

A bit of a rest and some final top-ups for those who haven't needed them yet.  Not among them is Roland de Wolfe, who lost most of his first lot in a rather unlucky pot a few minutes ago.  Holding 6-5 (I think) he saw a Ks 5d 5h flop.  Ahead of the pre-flop raiser, there was another player in too (presumably at least one King floating around).  The turn was irrelevant, and the river brought the Qc.  It all still looked fairly safe, so he bet, but pre-flop raiser guy moved in and turned over pocket Queens which he'd been unable to release earlier.  Good timing for the break then - an anti-tilt mechanism...

I'm going for Thewy, JP and the mighty Red Dog. Good luck all.

It looks like the blondes are in good shape at this break, with tikay on 28k (actually; no exaggeration this time) and RED-DOG on 22,500.  Hi to Mrs. Red, from him, by the way :)

RED-DOG is on 22k. If you look closely, you'll spot the arm of Leery Nick standing to his right.

Quote from RED-DOG... 'How do you always manage to get a photo of me when I'm looking like a moron?'

My reply? 'It's easy, Tom, you just press the button'

Gotta run again, making a few enemies tonight.






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Top form Beagle.

Willie Tann -- 18.3k

My 3 picks are Julian Thew, Paul Jackson & Willie Tann

make sure he stays off the dice at the break ;tk;

Say hello to Mr Karabiner. I have 5% with Ralph, which equates to a £75 investment.

Not peanuts. So...

WAKE UP RALPH!!!



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ps. Is it just me, or does Simon have two heads in this piccy?



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One's his serious poker head, the other's for the table talk he usually dishes out!

Orange poker

What is the misinformation on old blondies t shirt then?

Here it is.... CAPTION COMPETITION FOR THE CAMEL....

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Holy poop - how bright is that shirt?

gotta get me one of them shirts. 

Some chippy counts for you:

Matt Tyler -- 15k
The Sheep -- 16.5k
James Atkins -- 12k
Foxy -- 19k
Greek Jack -- 14k
Martyn Cavanagh -- 25k
Ed Giddons -- 6.7k
Michael Greco -- 14k
Alan McLean -- 7.2k
John Cabbage -- 20k
Actionjack -- 22.2k
Stuart Nash -- 9.5k
Yoyo - 12k
Smokin Steve Bladar -- 13k
Rob Yong -- 21k
Chubbs -- 16k
De Wolf -- 8.2k
Dave Smith -- 19k

Slick Kid is on 5k after folding Qh Jd to Maurice Nicholson's 3k turn bet.

Board = 4d Qc 7d 6d

Chip Counts from the Lower Card Area...

Karabiner       15,100
Ariston            OUT   
Joe Koumi      13,200
Lawrence Gosney  7,100 (after a particularly harsh outdraw of his set by a rag-tastic two-pair)
George Gearey   15,400
Mark Jones        14,000
Jim Reid             4,500
Howard Plant     22,500
Bad Girl              9,000
tikay                 27,200
Marc Goodwin    12,700
El Blondie          23,600
JP Kelly             25,600
Mickey Wernick  11,400
Rumit                23,000
Nick Gibson       25,800
Roy the Boy      9,600
Texas John        7,800
Woody Deck      2,200
Trevor Reardon  20,100
Joe Grech         10,500
D Sami             13,000

Woody Deck is OUT.

AJ v AK

Woody Deck is OUT.

AJ v AK

Woody Deck is OUT.

AJ v AK

Simon Nowab is OUT.

Taken down by Yoyo.

Julian raised preflop with A-K, Tim Flanders flat called, Simon moved all-in for 7.5k.

Julian calls to see pocket nines.

Nine on the flop, but Yoyo four flushes and is now up to around 25k.

The yoyo stikes. Prepare for some hardcore yoyoing.

That's one post for each of his double chances, Jim.

How is Woody Deck doing?

Is Woody out?

 :)up

Until we hear any different I think we should assume Woody is still punching away...

I heard he just raised with AJ.

Hopefully it held up

Well, I've got my funking boots on... flop KQT I hope...

"proof that tikay lost his shirt to elblondie"

Is Malcom Muskett playing? I think you posted his pic at the beginning of the thread

Snoopy is treating me to a cheese toasty (don't let anyone tell you he's not a gentleman) so I will entertain you with a couple of pictures, starting with my nemesis Texas Jonny, who's got the Eye On the Gold Chain too.  Been looking at tikay, no doubt...

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It's 21:21 Snoops.

No, Malcolm is not playing today but he's here having chopped a satellite and decided to pocket the cash and just hang around.  Which is quite fun, actually.

BREAKING NEWS

Woody Deck has quadrupled up and is now chip leader.

Please pass on best wishes to Malc_M

Thats my boy,   keep playing AJ

I do know for a FACT that Woody is an excellent an patient short stack player, so there's hope yet.

Mr Cool Marc Goodwin demostrating his online mouse position to a captivated table...

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How are the local's getting on?

Darren, Fari, Shah, Joe and "the dazzling from Smethwick"?

 :hello: Snoops, Jen (congrats Jen by the way)

Say hello back, to my little Red for me will you?  Blow him a big kiss from me!  :-*

I have to agree Snoops, that pic doesn't do him any favours, he is much more hansome than that!   ;D

Keep up the good work!

And please give Malc big kisses from me.

Thank you


T
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Kick on Woody!!

Here's Woody Deck's current stack.



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Any news on a young American player based in London, had some HU success last year? answers to the name of Wendy Dock or something?

thanks

that looks like a paul jackson jumper,

Woody must of borrowed it

Here's Birmingham champ Joe Grech who apparently ran into Aces two hands in a row.  "But I'm still here!"

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and a Broadway casino table too......

Look at this for a table. Eek.

Mad Turk
D Sami
Trevor Reardon
Ali Mallu
MH Kazi
Joe Grech

and...

On the right in the foreground...

WOODY DECK!

Goooooooooooooo Woody!



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So Woody's playing on his ownsome at the Broadway?  Reckon he'll put himself all-in next hand!

Rory Mathews is OUT

Say hello to tikay's future replacement on Poker 425.





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Shah Koumi   26,400
F. Badiemansour  OUT  (after a bit of bad luck with AQ vs A10)
Darren Grosvenor  20,500
Joe Koumi          19,000

Jeff Buffenbarger pls Jen or snoops.......

And that is where the big stack in front of Shah came from, we hear...

Ian Foster (The Sheep) is OUT

Doesn't look like he's in the mood for a chin wag.

Jeff Buffenbarger -- 15k



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Joe Grech is OUT.

Eliminated by Trevor Reardon.

Big TR = 6h 7s

Joe = 6c 8d

Board = Jh 3c 6s 7d 6d

All the chips went in on the river.

Here's Hotdog. This chap absolutely loves having his piccy taken, as you can see from the cheery expression on his face.



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Before I forget, a special thanks to Grosvenor employee Caroline who has done a stirling job this week.

atit looks like a male model, hes lost some weight ,ask him if hes had his hair cut , thats probably were hes lost it. rotflmfao

must be about time for some chip counts :D

hows mr gosney ,doing .wish him well will you .
thats usually  the kiss of death.

There is steam officially coming out of Bambos' ears.

Michael McCool (Slick Kid) just bluffed Bambos off a flop of 9d Kd Ad and showed Tc 7c

'I'll tell my grandkids about that one,' he gleamed.

Greek Jack - OUT

He moved his short stack all-in with 7s 7d, but found a caller with 9h 9s.  They both tripped up on the flop, but the bigger set's eventual house knocked out Mr. Jack.

Lawrence Gosney -- 7.5k

Roland de Wolfe's table has been broken, and he immediately doubled up with AQ against the monstrous A2... and he wasn't THAT short, to be honest.  Looks happy enough now- been moved about two feet to my left and looks to be intent on shaking up Bad Girl's table.

I was just about to put the prize structure up, when it was whisked out of my hands and quietly returned for 'updating.'  I think this photo should say all that's necessary...

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Simon Zach's attack builds stack (try saying that five times fast) up to a leaderish 33,000!

Hotdog is OUT

AK v JJ

Ace on the flop, jack on the river.

D Sami is also OUT

His pocket sixes failed to hold up against mateyboy's AK.

This mateyboy is a hell of a player. Seems to be involved in a lot of pots though.  ::)

Rumit has doubled up to around 26k when his AK held up against AQ.

Prize structure:

(1st) £69,000
(2nd) £36,000
(3rd) £19,500
(4th) £14,500
(5th) £9,500
(6th) £7,800
(7th) £6,500
(8th) £5,300
(9th) £4,400
(10th -18th) £1,500

I think we may see 'business' again.

Stuart Fox is OUT

Entered into a raising war with N Greenhalgh in seat 7.

Fox held Ace rag and bluffed it right up to the river, where he found Greenhalgh sitting on pocket kings.

Ah well, he was accepting of his error in judgement.

Bigger fish to fry in Vienna though next week.

Hi Jen , cxongrats and good luck in monaco!!! Any updates on BadBeat traders in the main event?

How's Rob Yong doing? He seems to have been quiet tonight!

Willi Tann's chip count = lots

... and then some more lots

whats the latest on Team Blonde please? elblondie/tikay/red/karabiner etc

It's Break Two Time!

And the main news, before one of those long chip count lists:  Willie Tann is getting the Lot!

The newish chip leader has nearly hit 70,000, a cool 20k over his nearest rival.  He is responsible for taking out Shah Koumi just moments earlier, rumoured to be a set over set thing.  In any case he's the only one brave enough on his table to look me in the eye... quite intimidating actually.

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I'm afraid Rob's OUT Lou.

Semi bluffed an open ended straight draw and failed to hit.

Quote from RED-DOG... 'For about 13-14k against N Peters'

bl rob.

*waves at louise anyhow*

Here's an 'action shot' of Mr Kelly, who was really keen to have his snap taken.

In fact, he threatened to never speak to me again, so, Jen and I have come up with a comprimise.



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i warned u all about the tann man tonight, he'll most likely decimate the field now with that kind of lead

'I look 7!' cries Jen.

7 and going to Monte Carlo. wooo  ;cheerleader;



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Here are some counts to further illustrate the chip discrepancy between Willie and everybody else (not everyone - back out for more counting when they're back in their seats)

Willie Tann         70,000
Karabiner            12,000
Joe Koumi          17,300
Lawrence Gosney  9,500
Mark Jones          34,500
Bad Girl               22,000 (she took out J. Ponte with A7 vs AJ, which had hit two pair on the flop when the $$ went in)
tikay                  28,600 (he was dwindling until a tasty set of nines fell his way)
Marc Goodwin     10,000
Dave Colclough    26,000
JP Kelly               29,000 (oh what a bluff he ran on a certain European Number One...)
Mickey Wernick    7,000
Rumit                  32,600
Nick Gibson          46,000
Darren Grosvenor  23,000
Jeff Buffenbarger  12,800
Roland de Wolfe   14,000  ("I have the starting chips!  Never thought I'd get there...down to 5k a minute ago...")
The Thinker         14,200
Womble               20,000
Paul Dargon         29,000
Ian Woodley        15,000
Iwan Jones          22,500
Kevin Daly           30,000
Julian Thew         20,000
RED-DOG             17,000
Bambos                21,000
Stuart Nash          21,700
Michael Greco         8,500

Roll on Vienna then. Glad to see Mr Miagi is still doing well. Lovely man. Would be nice to see him win.

As promised...

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Keep up the good work, peeps!

womble ,the tory boy on 20k never been known this early.

Hi Snoops, Hi Jen,

I cannot see Mr Jackson in the recent list of chip counts, please don't give me bad news, I have 10% of him for the tourney.

Cheers,
Mike

Thats news too mee jen i have been sat on reception logging you all in all day at home now catching up on the updates LOl

snoops here

my lappie is disagreeing with me

grr

Lawrence Gosney is OUT

and as I write this...

so is S Ness

AlrightJack here

Michael Greco has doubled up. He made an all in move with  Ahrt 8h and was called by Kc Kd. The first card out was the  Aspades...

Pavlo Iacovou says hi to hi son Peter, who is following the thread...

Nick Gibson has lost a chunk of chips to J Potter.

Aces v AK

Board = 3s 9h 2d 9d Kh

Remarkably, Gwibbo still has around 30k.

You are of course, quite right.  I am often confused.  But it is true - while we have been staring at people staring at cards you've been working hard! 

Ok finaly caught up

Is there any news on a young guy by the name of Andrew Nunn?

Bad Girl's other half...

Bokin' Beve Bladar



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Paul Jackson is OUT.

Eliminated by Willie Tann's set of aces.

Tann is big chip leader.

Query Response Time Now -

Andrew Nunn - 20,800

And, Paul Jackson is OUT, I'm afraid.  He said, "I thought Willie Tann was bluffing when he wasn't."  "I never bluff," responded Willie.

Here's ActionJack pre-exit, and Shah, both of whom were victims of Tann, who's quietly terrorising his table.

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Here's 'The Thinker' (sometimes called Don Jones) doing some hardcore thinking.



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And here's the always-cheerful young high-roller MCEpitome (James Atkin), who looks like he may have made his own outfit.

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how many do they play down to tonight?

Paul Dargon is up to 55,000 (he apparently got hold of KK at just the right time - when JP had AK and raised in front of him...) After that raising war, JP is down to under 15,000 but still playing...

Just kidding. Don was actually watching the boxing on the box.

Here's 'The Thinker' doing some genuine thinking.

Wonder if he's thinking about his 22k stack.



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El Blondie doubles up against Andy Gomm with  Kd Td.  He limped in preflop and hit the King-high flop.  But Andy had hit it too, with  Ac Kh and check-raised Dave all-in.  He called, but spiked the Turning Ten to get a healthier stack...

John Hewston is OUT

His KJ ran into Nottingham Nick's AK on a king high flop.

Nick is now on 72k. Wow.

jen snoops give us some chip counts if poss

JP is OUT, yes, OUT.  With pocket Sixes, and 7,500 chips remaining, he got in cheaply to see a flop of  7s 4h 3d.  When Dave bet out 2,200 he (correctly) came to the conclusion that he was ahead, and 4 5 was the type of hand he was up against.  Actually, it was exactly 4 5 which promptly hit another four to knock him out.  "I played well, so not unhappy," was the verdict.

Counts on their way, vinni et al.... Here's a photo of my sandwich to keep you going.  Imagine cheese, with the texture of cement.  Odd, but satisfying.

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why is there a snow ball on the other plate??

Some chippy counts:

Tim Flanders -- 52k
tikay -- 33k
Ed Giddons -- 13.4k
Ralph -- 18k
RED-DOG -- 17k
Bad Girl -- 24k
Jeff Buffenbarger -- 8.5k
Darrenn Grosvenor -- 40k
Ash Pervais -- 8.5k
Micky Wernick -- 4.2k
Steve Vladar -- 9k
Womble -- 19k
Iwan Jones -- 14.3k
Trevor Reardon -- 12.1k
George Geary -- 11.5k
Michael Greco -- 16.7k

jen theres no wonder youre putting wieght on,eating that rubbish.

Here's Julian executing that sinking neck maneouvre again.



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Wish Tikay all the best from me please......would love to see the fella carry on his recent online form.

 :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

looks like wombles made a lot of moves.

micky @ george for the final even though low in chips ,the 2 best small stack players .

Eddie G looks kinda spaced out here.  ;goodvevil;



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Hello there, Dafydd Elias here , was just wondering if there is any news on James Atkin??

Give my best wishes to all the blonds still playing tell them I hope to see them all bright and early tomorrow for the final

Great updates both see you both tomorrow have fun

Off too bed now.  I need to get some sleep I finished work at 6am yesterday and was back on shift at 1pm  

Night all  ;sleep;

I have 5% invested in Ralph, so don't be suprised if his chip count crops up frequently.

Convestation with Karabiner.

Me: How we getting on?
Ralph: I think I'm below average. I was on 27k. What's average?
Me: 26k
Ralph: Ah, I used to be average then.
Me: What are you on now?
Ralph: 16k
Me: Don't worry, we can be average later on.

Maybe one day, if we're lucky, we can be above average.

hopefully on the final...

Here's a rather serious-looking Pavlo Iacovou - who apparently has a bit of a quiet following on here - say Hi now if you're still around - any messages??

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James Atkin -- 62k

How about that?

Woody Deck is struggling.

Hi guys

any news on Nick Gibson before bedtime?

Cheers

Anna xoxo

any updates on trevor reardon?

Not suprisingly, Julian has yoyoed up to 50k.

GO! GO! RED-DOG!!!! ;cheerleader;

im struggling to, with my lamb curry ,and garlic nans4 ,3 bhajes , 8 popadoms ,12 rhiteys ,followed by a nice indian ice cream low fat obviously.

 ;iagree; ;iagree;

Time for a Woody Deck update I feel.

Also, how are Carlo Citrone and John Kabbaj doing? (I know Fari, my other pick, has busted out)

According to RED, 'I've lost my wheels'

He's on 9.6k

Carlo is on 15k and standing right next to me with a fag (cigarette) in his mouth.

Regarding Woody Deck, he's finding it tough, but seems to be in good spirits. As was mentioned earlier, he's a top notch short stack specialist, so I reckon he's in for the long haul.

Good luck Woody ol' son, blonde are behind you.  ;cheerleader;

Roland de Wolfe is OUT (sorry, WPT Champion Roland de Wolfe is OUT) making a bold all-in move on a board of Ts Kc 2h 9s Jd.  He really piled the pressure on young James Atkin, who dwelled for a long time (beyond the point where he'd decided to call, in our opinion here in Update Corner) and called with the set made by his 9c 9d.  Lots of relief when Roland said, "good call" and he's got a pretty good stack now.

hi, jus registered, hows pavlo doing now, does any1 know how many people are left?

Smokin' Steve Bladar is OUT

Hi All,

Have just returned from a day out watching the celts / Scots beat England in the 6 nations. I was wondering how Tikay, Yoyo, Rumit, I Woodley, J Reid and my new friend Matt Tyler who finished in the deal last night. A good man and a pleasure to play poker with. Please pass on my best to the above....  and any late updates !!!

OK going to get your chip queries answered right now... we're down to 65 players here and it's not even 1am.  I don't know if that's par for the course or not, actually.

Breaking News - El Blondie is OUT after finding an under the gun flat caller with KK who presumably didn't have a lot to consider before calling Dave's all-in push on the button with AQ.

Here he is eating a sandwich a little prior to his elimination.

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no news of willies monster lead for awhile ,where do the leaders stand now?

Jock Cabbage eliminates George Geary. AK v AQ.

More importantly, Ariston has defeated the Yongster in a 2 hour heads up battle.

 ;bigglesdog;

Mickey Wernick OUT -

He pushed for his last 4,000 with  Js Jh (as you do) but found Queens against him.  As it turned out, a Queen on the river would have given him the straight, but it was not to be.

He gets touchy if you call him that Sloopy.

It's "Kabbaj" not "Cabbage"

Steve Bladar's exit:

He moved in with pocket threes after Karabiner limped.

Ralph called with K-Q and hit.

Steve seems to be having a bad run on the ol' coin flips.

Saucyscots - the chip leader remains definitely Willie Tann, who is just short of a massive 100,000

Other requests:

Pavlo Iacovou     23,000
Trevor Reardon    5,000
tikay                 26,800
Iwan Jones        15,000
Paul Dargon       50,000
Nick Gibson        49,000
Rumit Somaiya    28,000

every one i mention goes out , please give ian woodley my best please.

         chips update pls jen.   ;slavedriver;

I have just noticed the camel is online at the moment. Hi mate and hope you and family are doing fine. I assume you will want to say well done for the fine win Leeds had over QPR. Let me think how else can I wind you up. Curry and a dozen beers perhaps. If your in London for the Vic then give me a call. Your missed on the circuit mate. Not for being a pain on the table but for your after game clinics....beerrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I may be in trouble.

After convincing Malcolm Harewood that Steve Vladar's real name was Steve Bladar, a man Malcolm's known for years, I've been threatened with revenge.

Quote from Malcolm, 'They don't call me the rock because I'm tight, it's because I throw rocks at people.'

eeeeek!

ps. Malcolm even reported Steve Vladar's exit on his site as Steve Bladar. hehe

Karabiner is now on 26k.

wooooo

Hi Denis,

I thought you might want to congratulate the R's on their fine win at Bramall Lane today, giving your sorry bunch a glimmer of hope wfor automatic promotion.

50:50 for the Vic. Will call you if I make it.

Jason Kabbaj -- 32k

Red here, almost kettle time Zell, love you xx

Hi Thakur - they are on a BREAK at the moment, but I will add to the little chip count selection below when they return.

Also - in keeping with our Mis-Naming Weekend, I have been informed that Paul Dargan's name is Dargan.  With an 'a.'  Not an 'o' as previously reported.  But I can't guarantee that Snoopy won't continue misspelling it on purpose.  He's just like that.

59 players remaining.

average = 31,600

Blinds = 600/1200

60 minute clock by the way

Oh no!!! never mind, I hope you enjoyed yourself anyway  ;fish;  :D  :D

Safe journey home, love you too xxxx

I wouldn't count RED out quite yet - with 9,000 that's just a double up away from 18,000.  Which is a double up away from 36,000 which is MORE than average.  I hope that is comforting...

All right, back on the floor.  I attach a photo of Julian, who has quietly built up a nice stack.  JP should learn from this man how to take photography in a gracious manner ;)

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During the break I couldn't resist weirding up this profile pic of RED-DOG.  I am just beginning to wonder at the marvels hidden in my computer....

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Great reporting as ever.

Any idea how long they are playing for tonight?

Table 2 (as seen below)

(1) Andy Gomm -- 23.7k
(2) Pete Singleton -- 14k
(3) Mateyboy -- 49.3k
(4) Womble -- 26k
(5) Darren Grosvenor -- 26k
(6) Ash Pervais -- 18k
(7) Nick Gibson -- 45k
(8) Paul Dargen -- 55k
(9) Woody Deck -- 1k

Come on Woody! Hang in there mi ol' mucker.




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thanks for the update on willie jen, ive known this man for over 25 years now and even though i live on the other side of the atlantic now we still talk every day, his resilience and stamina for the game leave guys 40 years his juniour in his wake. I spoke to him 5 mins b4 the start of this tourney and and to say he was up for it was an understatement.Sorry for all the rest of u guys but all the arms in iraq wont get those chips back from willie now.


ps. please steer him away from the dice table at the end of the night    ;goodvevil;

ill congratulate you keith ,what a win against the pigs of the north.
hows the baby going ,learnt him to play yet.

They aren't playing down to a specific number, just until close - 0330 hours is our best guess.

here here, if only wednesday hadnt been licked my the saints

just unlucky

Martin Cavanagh is OUT after two reasonably bad beats in a row...

Firstly a rather unexpected call of his re-raise (holding Ks Qh) from John Shipley (or "Shipley, who's a fish.  And you can put that online") with Jd Qc.  A Jack emerged to get him nearly down to the felt, and then it was his second KQ which fell to Q 10 (and a folder had shown one of the precious Tens).  He doesn't look delighted...

Cheers Barry. I was going to go. BUt it was so bloody cold and I thought we would get hammered. Oh well, becoming an armchair supporter in my old age.

Jake has learned how to go allin and how to borrow money. What other skills does he need?

none

Ralph 'Karabiner' goes to preflop war with James Atkin, and wins the skirmish without seeing any board cards.  But we did see James'  Jc Js which he passed.

Thanks Jen, for the vote of confidence, I'm sure Red will appreciate it!

I better switch this kettle off then  :D

Love the picture by the way, a great improvement on the one dear snoopy took!!!!   ;D

Here's Roland De Wolfe.

Funnily enough, this piccy was taken before his exit where his bluff went very south.



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Jen sporting her new, and ooh eck blimey isn't it bright in here, blondepoker gear.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek...

I think that's a 'don't ever take another photo without telling me' look.

ps. she wasn't too chuffed when RED-DOG mentioned 'Cousin It'.  ;tk;



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GO RED!!!! you can do it!!!!  ;slavedriver;

Here's our local techie, Proffessor McCready, reprogramming the RAM on our Flux Capaciter.



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Is Ash the Cash still in

Yes - he's on 22k

Some Julian Thew Stories Now (and he's been saving them up for you)

Story 1 -

Another hand where KK failed to do its job - after Ian Woodley raised, Julian re-raised him all-in with the Kings, but Ian's 99 spiked a nine to take a 15,000 bite from YoYo's stack.

Story 2 -

 Ahrt Kh for Julian;  Aspades Kc for Stuart Nash.  Julian hits the flush - Stuart is OUT.

Story 3 -

Ian Woodley clashes with him one more time - this time with  Jh Js against Julian's  Ad Kh.  He spiked the Ace and his chips are growing into towers - around 65,000 now.

is trevor reardon still in? and has he got more than 5k now?

Table 5 (as shown below):

(1) Mateyboy -- 77k
(2) Xuyem Pham -- 30k
(3) Alan Davies -- 23k
(4) Maurice Nicholson -- 35.2k
(5) John Shipley -- 16k
(6) Don Jones -- 35k
(7) Con Cronin -- 65k
(8) Carlo Citrone -- 10k
(9) Trevor Reardon -- 11k
(10) Woody Deck -- 100k



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And as I post those chip counts, Carlo doubles up and is now on 25k.

Battle of the blinds.

Con Cronin raises with Ac 6h, Carlo moves all-in with 9s 9h, Con calls.

Board = Tc 3d Jh 8c Qs

Blinds = 600/1200
Level 7 - 5 minutes left
35,800 average stack
52 players remaining

A little more - 11,800, but still in the chip Danger Zone

In other big hands just now - Bad Girl is OUT after what looked like a blinds battle where she woke up with Jacks, but found Aces against her.

Ronnie De Beaulox just took down a 70k pot with a pre-flop all-in move against three other players who reluctantly passed.

And James Atkin loses a 50k pot against satellite qualifier Steve Hardwick, all-in preflop.
James: Ks Kc
Steve: Ts Td

Steve was standing up and putting on his coat, when James remarked, "A ten can still come, don't put your jacket on yet..." Oh, prophetic words - first card out was a ten and there was a bit of a head-shaking wall-banging moment for young Atkin who was clearly disappointed with how the fate of the game can sometimes kick you... In his own words, "That sucks."

Action from tikay's table.

Darren Baine has doubled thorugh via Michael McCool.

Michael raises, Darren reraises all-in, Michael calls. (after a lenghty dwell)

Ad Kc v Ks Kh

Board = 2s Td 3d 4c 7d

Here's where Julian got moved, and proceeded to eliminate his neighbours... not Kevin Daly though (on the right) who's still in.

One more hour and play will be paused until tomorrow afternoon (they are hoping, I would imagine, for around 40 to come back, but they don't seem in a hurry to knock each other out).

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Michael McCool (Slick Kid) is OUT

MZ Hussain raises from early position, Michael moves all-in, so does Nick Slade.

MZ Hussain folds.

Michael shows Qh Ahrt

Nick flips Aspades Kd

Board is not a good one for the Blondeite...

Ks 6d 4d 2h

and to rub salt in wounds...

Qd

Here's Andrew Nunn looking a tad demonic but still in at this late stage.  I can't remember who was asking after him, but here he is in his nice and visible white hoody.

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snoops here

Lucy goosey Ali Mallu has doubled up courtesy of J Mcneill

Ali = Kd Aspades

Mcneill = Ad Jh

Board = Tc Kc 8c Js 6s

Almost a bad beat.

Is it cruel that I was willing a jack on the river for the purpose of entertainment?

Michael Greco is OUT.

Greco = 6d 6s
Kkola Costas = Jd Jc

Board = 4c Qs Aspades 3d 3c

And to prove that Big TR is still in...



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Ash Pervais is OUT.

Trevor Reardon is OUT.

He made his move with pocket nines, but ran into the bullets (pow pow)

No help arrived, and Big TR was sent packing.

Final lot of random chip counts found a-wandering (as play will cease in less than half an hour and you'll get the full accurate set)

tikay                19,600
Pavlo               35,000
Paul DargAn      48,000
Nick Gibson       39,000  (though he's been up to 70k three times and swung back down)
RED-DOG         17,600   (these three are sat in a row - Paul, Nick, Red)
Darren Grosvenor  37,000
Womble            41,000
Rumit               42,000
Willie Tann        74,000
Iwan Jones       18,000
Kevin Daly         18,000
Simon Zach        38,000
The Thinker       32,000

Womble -- 40k
Rumit -- 44k
Edward Giddons -- 14k
Mr McCready -- 14.2k
drum roll please... Sir Anthony Kendall -- 19k
Woody Deck -- 99k

They've broken another table as we're down to 45 players here now - and it looks like that 40-person Day Two may well be attainable...

tikay keeps standing up which is creating a bit of confusion as I think he's all in and start weaving my way between the tables to watch.  But he isn't.

Hi guys, I've just got in from work. Great updates as ever.

Hi Homer - wow you work the same hours as us!

I regret to inform you that RED-DOG has been eliminated at this late stage, making a move with the perfectly reasonable pocket Tens, but finding the bullets behind him. 
"I finally found Aces, but they weren't in my hand....."

Ashfag Ahmed is OUT

Aces v Queens

Queen on the turn.

Gotta hurt.

Mr Raab was discussing his Vodafone problems.

Quote from Raab:

'According to Vodafone, blondepoker is porn.'

Bugger!!!!  Never mind, safe journey home love

Thanks Jen and Snoops for all the hard work you have put into this tournament   ;applause;

Tom drive safely

love Zelleyxxxxx

Blinds = 800/1600
45 remaining
41,300 average stack
5 tables

From what I understand, we're finishing in 5 mintues.

Congrats on your win Jen, bet you're dead chuffed. How is Karabiner doing? The beagle's % looks good.

the porn on blonde ,its when tk kissed meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. rotflmfao

sheesh, talk about bokking homer.

Karabiner is OUT.

Julian raises 3k preflop with K-9

Karabiner moves all-in for another 17k with Q-Q

Julian calls

First card out is a king.

Oops. Sorry Snoops. Bad luck Karabiner.  ;hide; ;scarymoment; ;hide; ;scarymoment;

OK it is the END OF PLAY!!!

Here's a photo of Malclom Hrawod to tide you over until we can get you those thrilling final counts... and I only misspelled his name because he called me a witch for potentially masterminding Snoopy's misleading of him in that Bladar incident.  Which wasn't true.

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Ed Giddons is OUT

Ak v 99

Ace on the flop, 9 on the river.

The Blondeites are dropping like flies here.

An action shot for you now.

Here's Nottingham Nick in the process of folding.



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how many left for tomorrow .
and chip countplz.

Actually, to show there's no hard feelings - we like Malcolm!!!  THIS MUCH!

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A pre-exit Ed.

He looks genuinely gutted as he leans against the wall beside me.

A broken man. We've all been there.

It's a cruel game sometimes.



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baz you comeing down tommorow to play the 100

cant john ,got to sort this thing out with the pub.

I wish I was on a final table with this guy (saphire) so I could ask him, 'Deal or no deal?'



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call me mate

Chip counts coming shortly...

any second now

dum di dum

Table 4:

Julian Thew -- 91,900
S Hardwick -- 21,200
J McNeill -- 41,200
R Debeaulox -- 66,900
Iwan Jones -- 26,000
D Watson -- 80,400
J Atkin -- 97,000

Table 5:

Mark Jones -- 77,000
Alan Davies -- 22,700
M Nicholson -- 67,900
John Shipley -- 23,300
Don Jones -- 52,600
Con Cronin -- 32,800
Andy Gomm -- 51,600
K Daly -- 112,700

Here they are! We've shared the burden so Snoops is inputting the other half.  Then we can go to sleep.

Table 1

N. Peters   30,000
A. Nunn    17,900
S. Zach     34,900
P. Peters   80,000
M. Herron  15,200
W. Tann    53,400
J. Potter    43,300
C. Khola     35,500

Table 2

R. Mulla     35,600
P. Singleton  23,200
P. Smart     57,100
NH. Kazi      58,800
S. Walmsley 34,800
D. Grosvenor  33,000
N. Gibson     40,400
P. Dargan     53,000

Table 3

D. Baine     69,600
T. Flanders  57,300
P. Iaconou  17,700
MZ. Hussain  13,100
P. McCluskey 47,600
I. Donaghy   27,700
N. Greenhalgh  46,000
N. Slade        54,100
T. Kendall      16,400    (last but not least, eh?)

So back tomorrow 3pm for the conclusion - good luck to all remaining and well played today.

nighty night folks

Time to hit my basket...

 ;sleep;

nite nite
pass on my good luck wishes to womble, kazi n mulla xx

thanks for doing updates, you guys work hard. Cheers Rob

Well done Jen and Snoops, The undisputed heavy weight champion updaters

;iagree;

Thanks

Great Stuff

Just read this start to finish sorry to here Snoops Jockey fell at the last, unlucky Ralph
no mean feat to get so far in such a quality field.

Good luck to Tony and Julian for day two 

just read through... good luck to julian and tikay today

Please pass on my best wishes to "Golden B****x" and Grandad  :D

Me to please  :) Great updates as usual  :)

Wow, a good read folks.
Good luck to Julian and Tikay from me, also can you tell Con "dazzling from smethwick" that i'm chuffed for him on his big win in the £500 and tell him to stay off the bloody roulette!!, tell him ginge said that.
Cheers