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The blonde Updaters will be at Luton for the Luton Springfest Main Event, a £1,500 Freezeout, which starts at 7pm today, & 3pm tomorrow (Sunday).

This is always a cracker of a event. The 2005 Final saw Steve Bovis win it from Alan McLean, Micky Wernick (the start of his phenonomal run) & Denis O'Mahoney. The 2005 Event had 121 runners at £1,000, & the 2004 renewal had a mere 80 - mirroring the boom in Live Poker. It's a £1,500 Event this year, but I imagine 100+ will take their seats.

Updater-in-Chief-ess today will be blonde heroine djinn, aka EPT starlet & Unusual Suspects Winner Jen Mason. Her assistant will be yours truly, standing in for another blonde Hero - of sorts - , who has won a seat for this, his first ever Main Event.

We will bring you the usual stuff, quotes from the players, pics, a bit of banter, maybe a Caption Comp or two, news of some little SNG's on blonde to help pass the time, & a $50 blonde Tourney on Sunday night.

425 will be there on Sunday, too.

See you later!

 

yep, good luck snoppy, I wont be there to cheer you on, im saving my pennies for Ireland .. Good luck to all Blondeites.

All the Best young Snoopy & all Blondeites playing.

Three "go sonopy" Posts already - typical blonde spirit.

The blondes were just superb in Railing Jen during her Unusual Suspects,  &, later, EPT Exploits, and I am sure they will do the same for sloppy today & tomorrow.

blonde does, from time to time, cause me the occasional headache, but it's all worth it to see the way the Members rally behind thier own. spoony has worked his socks off for blonde, especilly recently, during the Site Re-Launch, & it's so heartening to see you folks appreciate him for it.

I forgot to announce earlier - the "Home Railbirding Department" will today be led by none other than Couch-ester Kev.

This is gonna be good.

Question is, how long will the snoopster last?

Suggestions please......

And lets hear it for sopony!

good luck to all blondites but particularly my number 1 customer, snoopy. think of all the shirts you can buy if you win it. baby will have a new hat :)up

Which other blondes are playing?

Good luck to Snoyop and all other Blondites.
Im going down to Grosvenor Cardiff for the Saturday afternoon lottery (£5 rebuy), but will catch up later with events.

Good luck Snoops!

I predict that he will last until he tries to steal my blinds once too often

Don't know yet Homer, but we will let you know as soon as we can.

For sure, Team blonde will include ynoops, Red-Dog, & Monty Burns, hopefully (tyhough I'm not certain) Tighty too.

blondeites likely to be there are too many to mention or remember, but I expect to see Thewy, Camel, Smokin Steve, Bad Girl, JP, Lord Wernick, Nottingham Nick Gibson, Danny Samson, Dave Lloyd, Paul Jackson maybe, Iwan Jones, Roland De Wolfe - look, I tell you what, as soon as I get there, I will start "logging" them in, so give me a couple of hours & we will be up & running.

I am soon to set off Southbound on the M1, be in Luton around 4pm I guess, & will get set up right away.

Knew I'd forget some - add The Yongsta & Chubby Nowab, probably Burnley John too.

i won my seat on monday for the main event, Im just about to set off from Lincoln if anyone wants a lift down call me quick.

Good luck Adem.........If he has as much stamina as he had pushing me down to cincinn's for the bash,he could last two days easy.

Go ;bigglesdog;

Also all the best of luck to Booder who won his seat in the super sat. 

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Good luck to all the participating Blondes, especially Oopnys, Red-dog and Booder.

 ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

 :blonde: And Thewy and the Yongsta too.

 ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

Many thx for the prematch rah rahs.  ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

All highly appreciated.

Although I'm looking forward to tonight's poker festivities, I must confess to excreting the proverbial bricks. I haven't been nervous about a comp for a long long time, but those twisted stomach knots that I experienced on my first outing 4 years back seem to have made an unexpected return. I've put on 5 pounds over the last few days via an eating binge, but today I'm suffering a set-back as my appetite has gone out of the window and I find myself chewing on toast, not a sensible move for someone trying to gain weight. I think I'll just have to force something down me later on, I'm sure we've all been there.

Also, I'm definitely fighting off all those 'Don't go out early' fears which the big comps can bring, especially with tikay sacrificing his spot in the tourney to cover my updating duties. However, I realise that I have to block these concerns out. If I go out, I go out, simple as that. As long as I play well, then that's the important thing to me. If I play a stinker, then I'll be pretty pissed off with myself, mainly because these opportunities don't crop up too often for me.

Anyhow, just thought I'd say thank you for the support, it makes a big difference.  :)up

Good luck to all the other blondeites playing, card shark, booder, monty, Bad Girl, julian, b4matt, and RED-DOG in particular.  :dd:

Good Luck all...Hope you get  Ahrt Ad

Best of luck Snoops

Good Luck Ya'll

Good luck to all playing today. Cant be there but I'm sure Jen & Tikay will keep us updated with the usual high standard of reports and hopefully the odd bit of norkage pics too  :)up

Good luck to all playing today  :)up :)up

Thank you for all those comments, especially from the sloppy Army.

I am at Luton, all set up, so the Posts will start flowing shortly.

Jen is still at home - in the shower would you believe! - but she is only a 30 minute drive away.

Before we start, a big Thank You to all at Rank, & Grosvenor Luton, especially Carmel & Gary, who have, as always, been ultra-helpful to blonde.

OK, who is here so far?.......

Just found this thread; good luck to everyone!

Right, with 2 hours to go, I have seen.....

Danny Samson (DannyPoker)

John Hewston (Jonny Texas)

Booder (Boodereham) who won hs seat yesterday. He'll be followed tonight by many, as one of the blonde's faves

Paul King (FishFrier)

Steve Read (Card Shark)

Ash Hussain (forgot blonde name) - the EPT Monte Carlo hero.

Mad Tiurk

Burnley John

Sheriff Fatman

Mark Bartlog, "Demian" on PokerStars, playing his first ever British Tourney, he Finalled in the Vienna E-WSOP jobbie a few weeks back, & is a long-time buddy.

Stephen Pearce, who is sitting quietly at the moment.........

More to follow....

Have a great feeling about this one.

I'm hoping for a blonde covered final table!

Big Dave Smith, the Gala Notts regular, has just arrived.

Jeff Rogers

Ian "Haircut" Woodley.

Steve Bovis - Steve won this Event last year - well, they did Business, & he took most money.

There was an astonishing Grosvenor Super Sat on Blue Square last night Baron - blondes finished 1-2-3-4-5! Packages valued at $1,750 went to FishFrier, Wardonkey, No Flops Homer, a young good-looking dude (hehe...) & the $950 went to Charmaine's other half, M3Boy.

More arrivals.....

Bambos

Red-Dog

Matt Tyler (b4Matt)

could you do me a favour and say hi to the lovely receptionist who I flew back from australia with (Kev O'leary's missus). I promised Kev I would look after her then managed to get myself an upgrade and she was stuck back in cattle class. She was looked after with champagne and chocolates and things though after some sweet talking to the stewardess lol.

Ai ai ai! Bit gutted I missed the railing opportunity. Great stuff guys.

So we have some form horses coming into the blonde inaugral $50 event on Sunday then? Should be a good'un!

i predict the winner of this event will have a membership to www.blondepoker.com

if they dont i will send the boys round and make sure they soon have one

anyone trying to take my chips in tomorrows $50 blondepokerleage comp better make sure they have a hand cause i am aiming to win my 2nd blonde comp

Ariston, the perfect Gent, eh? Ok Russ, I'll pass it on to Siobann, who is downstairs on Duty right now, beautiful as always.

And the banter begins....

Cant wait for this comp personally. Been waiting to mix it up with some of the big boys for a while now. Blonde has some VERY in form players right now.

I hear over 100 seats sold so far, with various Single Table Sats on the go right now.

Young Kieran, the Irish guy who won the biggie in Ireland in January, has just arrived too. He's SOME player, you will hear a lot more of this young man, believe me. I  can never remember his surname though.

Phil Peters & Brian Johnson just seen, Brian is in a Single Table Sat.

Stuart Nash here, too. Hotting up nicely!

Could you wish Jonny " TEXAS " Hewston good luck in todays Main Event and hope he follows up last nights win with another victory.

GOOOOOOO TEAM TEXAS

also good luck to the other Blondites

Consider it done Craig.

And entering Stage Left, is our Hero, poonsy!

He's given me a pressie - a Shuffle-Up-Shirt with "AnteCool - so Cool I'm Uncool" on the front! (Ante? Anti, surely!).

The snoopster has piut on some weight this week by the look of him.

4st 10lbs and 2 ounces now?  gained 2 ounces over the week

Evening tikay, please tell everyone that you know that I wish them luck, especially oopsy, oodber and DER GOD.


Cheers

i aint playing sorry dewi but thanks for your wishes

lol, right ..

Good luck little bro.

My words of advice, for what they are worth, from playing the event last year:

* There's a lotta play in these games, get comfy, get rid of the nerves and don't feel the need to do anything wild from the off. Its ok to loosen up early doors. so don't feel pressured. Sit back, and relax into it like you would normally.

* Your game is better than a lot of the people who'll be playing. Don't outthink yourself by being overawed. Its hardly gonna be much different to £300/£500 games.

*Make sure you grab a bit of food at the break to stock up on your energy - toast ain't gonna be enough sunshine ;) Red bull never does any harm either later on to keep that concentration going.

* Play your normal game, and play strong especially once you get a few chips.

I'll keep my eye on the updates from here - at joelle's brother's in bristol at the mo. Everyone wishes you all best, so go bring a bit of glory for blonde ;)

Fingers crossed for the snoop! I've got a damn good feeling about this one :cheers:

Jamie.

you might have done the lottery though, so you can use my wishes for that   :)up

Here's the days first pic - includes Booder, Sheriff Fatman, Paul King, Phil Peters, Mad Turk, Matt Tyler, Red-Dog, spoony, & a young cool dude. Pic was taken by Ben Grundy, aka blondeite MilkyBarKid.

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hi tony , i was in my shell a bit yesterday .

i think its about time i got back to my old self .

here goes come on the blllooooooooooooooooooooonddddddddddeeeeeeeeeeeeees

good luck boys and girls :) 

More arrivals.....

Barny Boatman

Willie Tann

J P Kelly

Jen!

Kick-off time is scheduled for 7pm, but that looks optimistic at the mo. Sikngle Table Sats are still going, there are no chips or dealers, so maybe a little late starting.

And now The Camel has arrived!

Good luck to all the Blondes...looks like we have half the field!

Special best wishes to snoopy who I know would love to do well in this and Sheriff who when he learnt I couldn't play this for personal reasons promptly went and won a supersat seat himself.... ;tk; :D

Evening all - I have yet to corner the Snoopy and wish him all the good luck you guys are pouring forth, but it will happen.

First stop was to the bar to get one of those Indeterminate Fish Platters so tikay keeps his energy up...  I think all this playing has softened him up a bit, so it's back to some proper work for the Updater Original ;)

It's not as busy as you might think seeing as they're meant to be starting in 15 minutes, but there's a buzz around the satellite table at least.

New arrival - Tim Flanders
Mad Turk

Just to clarify - all the noise that I thought was coming from the satellite table is actually a one-hand-turnover table for £50 a pop.  RED-DOG informed me that the original idea was to do it for seats, but it caught people's imagination (that special imagination which only gamblers seem to have) and now they're just doing it, "for fun.  And £500."

Hi Jen, you mean they do special meals for fish ?

Yes, Karabiner.  They call it the tikay special.

And here being congratulated by a recently arrived El Blondie is Lalit Khajuria, the £750 champion and all round nice guy.

The closed M1 Junction 10 is being blamed for the late start, but I just drove down it (albeit at the required 40mph) and it was OK.  Then again, I'm not one to talk about timeliness.  In fact, I'll just leave that one.

Hi snoops here.

Just leaving the house now.

What time does the comp start?

Whats Tikay doin in your house he was in Luton 5 mins ago????

Why thanks Baron. :D

We have the full list of Runners & Riders, Jen is inputting them right now.

Chubby Nowab, Rob Yong, Mike Magee, Joe Grech are all  here.

The players are taking their seats right now.

More late arrivals, Smokin Steve, Bad Girl, & Greek Jack.

Willie Tann too - he tells me his wife, who has been in Hossie for a while, is much better. So that's nice.

What's the starting stack/blinds/clock?

And it's SHUFFLE UP & DEAL!

Opening Blinds are 25-50, the clock is 1 hour, the stareting points are 10,000.

tikay, jen

when you have the list of runners and riders if you need biographical info on any of the locals just holler.....I have some stories to tell!!!


loads of Luton players qualified in the sats that have been running for six weeks now....good luck to them too, would be nice for some money to be kept local for when the regulars return  8)

Pino Valentino, the local favourite, Hair Salon & Health-Farm owner, is here too. He offered to do my hair for free.  Top bloke!

Seeing as they've been so kind as to hand me an alphabetical list of runners, it's only fair that I exercise the fingers and tell you who all 107 are...

Farhad Alaaldin
Richard Ashby
Lee Atherton
David Baker
Jeanette Baker
Dave Barnes
Mark Bartlog
Tim Blake
Barny Boatman
Steve Bovis
Vincent Calenti
Andrew Callaghan
Dan Carter
Laurent Charvet
Dave Clarke
Dave Colclough
Terry Cook
Phil Cooklin
David Courtney
Steven Craig
Jomas Dahlbom
Matt Dale
Theodore Dalton
Dany Dborin
Kyriacos Dionysiou
Michael Ellis
Yucel Eminoglu
John Falconer
Tim Flanders
Lionel Flaum
Michael Fletcher
Marc Foggin
William Fox
R. Gardner-Brown
Robert Garfield
Alan Geddes
Tim Gillig
Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding
Joe Grech
Ben Grundy
Mark Harris
John Hassan
Keith Hawkins
John Hewston
Ash Hussain
Stavros Ioannou
Brian Johnson
Roger Jones
M. Kazi
JP Kelly
Chandra Khajuria
Lalit Khajuria
Jeff Kimber
Paul King
Bhupinder Kholi
Curtis Ledger
David Lloyd
Mark Luwe
Andrew Lyew
Mike Magee
Paul Malone
David Maudlin
Tom McCready
Ambro Morreale
Andrew Muir
John Murphy
Stuart Nash
Nour Nouri
Simon Nowab
Denis O'Mahoney
Luke Patten
Stephen Pearce
Niamh Peters
Philip Peters
Stephen Read
James Reid
Jeffrey Rogers
Hamid Rowshanaei
Allan Rudge
Brian Sadler
Dan Samson
Chris Sandercombe
Jason Simpson
David Smith
Peter Smyth
Rumit Somaiya
Chris Stavri
Willie Tann
Julian Thew
Hamid Toghyan
Justin Turner
Matt Tyler
Pino Valentino
Paul Vicary
Ben Vinson
Steve Vladar
Xuyen Pham
Keiran Walsh
Sam Wardlaw
Mickey Wernick
George White
Melissa White
Nick Whiten
Ian Woodley
Ian Woodward
Bambos Xanthos
Rob Yong

And two late entries, making it 109, whose names are:  R. Fronda and M. Morjaria.

They're sat, and the cards are in the air!

Alan Geddes is Tony Blair's tennis coach

I kid you not.

don't try asking him anything important though, he had to sign the official secretS act.

Thanks Tighty, keep that sort of stuff coming please, it's most useful.

Now, we have BIG action already........

News from RED-DOG - Dave just lost half his stack at this oh-so-early stage after turning a straight, but he was up against a house... still plenty of time for recovery and then some, however. 

I arrive at Table 3 to see Jim Reid ALL-IN, with Simon Nowab dwelling - then passing, & Richard Gardner-Brown having a HUGE dilemma.

This is the Flop & Turn, Jim moved in on the turn......

 6c 9s 7c 2d

Mr Gardner-Brown, incredibly, eventually passed pocket sixes, & Chubby Nowab tells me he passed the nut straight draw! And Jim, word has it, had  Th 8d for the nut straight. Phew!

Oops, I've been instructed by the Boss-ess - Jen - to go & take some pics. So I had better do as I'm told..... She's a MEAN woman.

Dave Colclough loses half his stack with a straight, when Brian Johnson, with 2-2 in the hole, made the full-house!

But amazingly, we have an exit, too....

...and it's bad news for blondeite Steve Read (Card-Shark) when he squares up to local Paul Vicery. Steve had the Aces, Paul had sixes, & the board, cruelly, did this.......

 3h 5s 4s Js...

and...inevitably.....

 2d

Hard for either player to get off that bugger! Steve Read OUT

Say good luck to snoopy for me.

And good luck any other blondes.

Jen has gone on Table Patrol, while I manfully struggle to Upload some pics.

Who this then?

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Is that a spot the difference comp?

Good luck to Snoops, b4matt and all the other blondes!

oops, told you I was struggling.

"snoops in Stereo"?

Big hand for Stephen Pearce:  at least 8k in the pot when I saw him deliberating a call of Denis O'Mahoney's check-raise to 3,500 on the board:
4c 3c Tc 9h.  He eventually called.
The river: 7c. 

Denis bet out 2,500.  Stephen Pearce started talking.  "I have the second nuts... if you've got it, good luck to you" and called, showing a good  Aspades Kc.  Denis down to 2k.

Speaking of the Snoopster - been a bit of a changing of the guards on his left - Now he's got Stuart Nash.  They just clashed on an A J x board where both of them turned out to be holding AJ!  Big old "go away" bet not enough to send Adam packing, though.

Here we can see, amongst others, Hamid, back to wall, Mark Bartlog (beard thing), Ash Hussain, Okily Dokily Flanders - sadly, sans Mrs Pippa Flanders tonight, &, wearing earphones in foreground, Matt Tyler.

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Photo of Snoops and Stuart, please.

Thank you

And here is Mr Ben Grundy, with the Dreaded Mad Turk to his right (our left, as we look).

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Stuart whom, please? You got snoops already - in stereo! Stu Smith, do you mean?

pictures of dena would be greatfully recieved and a massive lift to ones health

An old, & very special, friend of blonde, and indeed, a blondeite - Mr Willie Tann.

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Hi

Stu Nash, next to Snoops!

Pls, Thx

Piccies of Red Dog and Kev, two of my Poker heroes please.  8)

Blinds just gone 50-100.

BIG hand news coming through - Jen has the gory details of an exit & a double-up.

Dina - I'm afraid she is not here - she is in Saudi Arabia. Sorry Iron!

JP eliminates Mike Magee - -

5 8 5 the fatal board.

JP bet, Mike raised to 2k, JP all-in, call.
JP:  9d 9h
Mike Magee:  Jh Js

But the Nine on the river took out the third player of the tournament, and gave JP a worryingly healthy stack.  I don't envy the others on his table now... a hard rain's a gonna fall, as my old grandma in CA used to say...

Dany Dbonin is another early exiter - also with Jacks, but he pushed in preflop for 6k or so, and raced an AK in a gambling mood.

I do believe in the background of the Willie Tann photo we see snoops sandwiched, position wise between Bambos and Nash with Sheriff Fatman on his table too


How are snoops and Sheriff doing in such exalted company?

Here is Monty Burns, Red, & Steve Bovis.........

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i feel a relapse coming on

You ask, & we give - here is snoppy & Stuart Nash. This is sloppy when he's happy.

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Thank you.

 Qh

Gone are the days when you give people a nice big chip stack and they take it easy for a few levels; things have changed, as demonstrated by Andrew Callaghan and Stavros Ioannou.  Preflop it all took off when Stavros found himself heftily re-raised all-in by Andrew.  Having left himself with just a few thousand, he made that face which always means, "Oh, I don't care any more.  Go on then," and called with his Qd Jd!
Andrew flipped the equally surprising 3d 3s
The flop: 3h Js Tc (not sure why Stavros calling for a Jack at this point)
Turn: 9s
River:  Ad

And now Andrew's comfy on 16,000.

Now we see Dave Lloyd, Sheriff Fatman, and Paul Vicery, who pretty much destroyed Steve Read.

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Mad Turk is OUT - and before we could snap his photo...  He had Th 4h against Ben Grundy's Qh 6h.  With three hearts showing, you can't really blame all the money for flying in on the river.  According to Jon Raab, The Turk got up "mouthing obscenities" a little disgruntled, as you might imagine.

Hi Jen,

Great stuff so far. Tell Snoops I said KIR IDH.

Dave Colclough, as low as 3,800 early on, is on the march now, very busy, & up to a well, whopping 7,750. I said "7,700 Dave?", he said NO, 7,750!". OK, OK......

Tikay, when you have a free moment, could ask Mr Raab to PM/Email me about the Blue Square package when he's not too busy.

Much appreciated. ;tightend;

Hi Baron - I'll pass on your cryptic greeting, no worries.  Don't want to accidentally tilt him or anything... :)

Forgot to mention the rather lively table with Mickey Wernick, Julian, Dan Samson, Burnley John, and Lalit Khajuria on it.  That's the one Stuart Nash escaped from early on...

We are down to 103 players, average stack is 10,600, & the blinds are 50-100 for the next 32 minutes & 11 seconds.

Thanks Jen.

It wont tilt him though it'll inspire him! :)

No!

you show in order George White, David Lloyd, Sheriff and Bhupinder "Boots" Kohli


Shall I get a babysitter and pop down?!??!  :D

Any update/pics on vince calenti (Celtic) please?

Pardon?

Just in case you didn't know Mr End. :)

He's the only one in so far!!! :D

I'm heads up with myself at the moment.

I'll settle for second then.

hello jen any chance of any chip counts plz

Think you had better Tighty! It was, in fact, Bhupinder "Boots" Kohli then, who busted Steve Read with that AA v 66 hand. My apologies to all. I blame Jen's "list" for misleading me. I mean, can't be my fault........

where and when?

Far too late at night

Sadly, after I bigged him up pre-comp, young HotShot Kieran Walsh is OUT. He says he played a hand really badly against Ben Grundy, who must have a monster pile now!

And Bad Girl is OUT, too.

Now, news comes through abot the snoopster, and it's NOT GOOD.......

my tip for top 3

micky worneck

johnny hewston

paul king

It's at midnight so that it doesn't clash with the other big Sunday comps.

We're just testing the waters so to speak. If it is a success we'll do it again.

The update will be here tomorrow going way past midnight so why not play it and read eh?

and there is a cheaper comp at 8pm Monday night for those unable to do a late nighter....

Ok enough hijacking of tikay and Jen's good work.

I can be found at the heads up STTs on blonde if anyone fancies some free money....

great coverage jen, cud i have a chip count on ash hussain plz as well any other chip counts thanks

Good evening Tikay and Jen

Wish Red-Dog oodles of luck from me please

Regards Muzelley

Tikay, you could write scripts for 24 the way you suddenly stop posts right when they get interesting!!!!!

Baron, I'll give a quick $5 game, but I've gotta go to work at 9.30pm

As I was saying, it's not good news for snoops.....OPPONENT.

His oppo had  9d 6d, sloppy limps in the SB with  8d 4c - as you would - and the flop came......

 6h 7c  9s

sloppy checks, Oppo bets 200, synops calls.

Turn is  Tc

snoopster bets 400 with his straight, his opponent then, err.......moves in for 5k........!

Snoopy, being the lovely kind soul he is, decides to accomodate the massive 5k bet......

River is another Ten, & snoops is in Poker Heaven.

chip count on Jonny Texas please

Very interesting hand for El Blondie, and an exit for Jeanette Baker.  With a sixway pot and 2,700 in the middle when it came round to the small blind (Jeanette), she thought for a while before putting in her 500ish remaining chips.  Two calls before it got to D.C. who then re-raised all-in for 5k or so.  Trying to get it heads up, there was a succession of dwells before he was successful (lots of thought from Steve Bovis and Brian Johnson, whom Dave put on "AQ suited").
Dave showed: 8s 8h
Jeanette showed: 3d 3c

When the flop brought the Th first card, Brian lamented passing his A 10, but then fell the 8c like a rolling stone, and the 3h on the river couldn't save Jeanette. 

The raise there was a good move, but Dave was heard to remark: "I did myself out of chips!" 

Full counts in the break in 10 minutes.  Just a little too much stuff going on right now to go one by one.  And if not for you, not for anyone!  Humph (says tikay).

When the field shrinks a bit we'll be delighted to get individual information, though.  Call back in about two hours.

I'll be on there floppy

GO SNOOPY

I already spoke to Jonathan, Homer, it's cool. Send him a PM & it will be OK. His blonde name is Alright Jack.

Hi Muzelley - I told him. He said, rather convincingly as it happens, that he loves you. Ahhhh......

Hey tikay,

just got back to d hotel. So ODD over how i played that hand!!! Ah well, it's a good £1,500 lesson for the Irish Open next week!!!!!

See you there,

Kieran Walsh

$5 Blonde Special STT @9.30, anyone???

Many thanks TK. Cheers

Once again, the non-stop chattering Stephen Pearce finds himself embroiled in controversy.

Duelling - almost personally it seemed to me - with blondeite Denis O'Mahoney, he actually said, mid-hand, "I have the straight". Ruling! But it's OK, & his hand is not voided. Denis is not best pleased.......

What did u do Kieran.

$quote]5 Blonde Special STT @9.30, anyone???[[/quote]

We have 3...c'mon blondes!

But chat apart, Stephen Pearce has a whopping 33,000. He openly admitted at the break that he is deliberately winding folks up wwith Speech Play, & they are "throwing chips at me" he gleefully adds. They'll throw summat at him if he ain't careful, at this rate......

I believe Stephen runs a Golf Course in Portugal.

Well done to Baron whose TT held against my AJ in our little HU game. Great fun though!

 ;goodluck; blondes. I'm off to work unfortunately.

GG flopster....

Any more takers?

Ahhh  bless his little cotton socks.....
The feeling is mutual
Thanks Tikay

Ahhhh its good to see there is still life in the old DOG..

J P Kelly, caked up already, relates this tale to me.

He had Raised with  5c 7d - naturally, & got a caller from an "internet player", as he described him.

The flop was......

 Ac Tc 2c

Internet Man makes it 500, JP bets, Internet Man calls.

Turn......

 5s

Oppo bets, JP sets Internet Man all-in.

Internet Man passes - FACE UP -  Aspades Th, for top two pair.

Now, JP has his I-pod on, & does not hear IM say "PASS", & seeing the cards face up, assumes he's been called. So now JP has to bashfully turn over the hand he'd Raised pre-flop with - officially called "a bag of spanners" & seeing top two pair, he has TWO problems - getting out of trouble, & more to the point, as he has been Raising non-stop, justifying his Raising Criteria......

But as the guy had Passed, he only has one problem now, that "image". He'll be alright, as they say.

Just woke up, so can you tell me if this is the one with snoopy and matt in, and if so how are they doing.....cheers

Tikay,
Please tell RED DOG that I love him also, thanks

Hi bundle, YES, this is the one with snopps & Matt Tyler in.

We - well, Jen - have chip counts, taken during the break, for EVERY player. Give her a few mins to Input them please - she will do them in two batches.
God Bless Jen.

Stephen Pearce is having a ball - he proudly announced during the Break that he had already had THREE Rulings called because of him. I think he's aiming for 10!

Takes all sorts......

Sorry I'm late boss, I've got a note from my mum though.

Hows the tattoed man (Booder) getting on ??   

And can you have a word with Jonny Raab about my Job :D

Any Chip Counts Jen........Please.

Snoopy count please!

Hokey Dokey - while I've been quiet I've been scurrying after the mid-break FULL COUNTS which I shall now laboriously input for your delectation.  And I've fetched tikay some tea.  If you gotta serve somebody, might as well be the blonde-update-boss of yestermonth...

Table 1 - - BROKEN (that's the easy one :)   )

Table 2

Willie Tann   8,800
Robert Garfield  15,000
Paul Vicary        4,625
Jason Simpson   14,000
Steven Craig     5,500
Kieran Walsh     6,675
Chris Sandercombe  5,850
John Hassan          5,850

Table 3

Matt Dale       3,800
R. Gardner-Brown  7,100
Dave Clark           10,825
James Reid          20,000
Phil Cooklin           8,800
Simon Nowab       7,000
Andrew Lyew       14,000
Ambro Morreale    17,000
M. Kazi                10,400

Table 4

John Hewston     5,100
Laurent Charvet   8,500
Ian Woodward    11,300
Brian Sadler          8,300
Justin Turner       14,000
Jomas Dahlbom    11,425
Chandra Khajuria  22,000
Anon      3,850
Roger Jones        7,500

Table 5

Sam Wardlaw     8,850
Stephen Pearce  27,000
Niamh Peters      11,100
Luke Patten        7,800
Tim Blake           10,500
Curtis Ledger (Sheriff)  11,000
Michael Fletcher   8,000
Paul King            13,825

Table 6

Andrew Callaghan   8,000
Lionel Flaum          18,800
Dan Carter            15,000
Barney Boatman    10,400
Philip Peters          11,000
Michael Ellis           15,500
Rob Yong             25,000
Stavros Ioannou     5,650
Snoopy                 18,000

Table 7

Lee Atherton       10,825
Alan Geddes          4,600
Hamid Rowshanaei  15,000
Bambos                 9,500
Mark Bartlog           9,400
Ash Hussain           11,000
Tim Flanders          19,000
David Courtney       3,100
Matt Tyler             14,000

Table 8

Melissa White        7,400
Mark Harris           9,000
Rumit                  12,500
Nouri                   14,000
Peter Smyth         4,825
Hamid Toghyan     14,400
William Fox            7,525
Alan Rudge           6,200
David Baker          11,400

Table 9

Tim Gillig            16,150
Vincent Calenti   14,500  ('celtic' on blonde)
Brian Johnson      2,750
Richard Ashby     5,400
El Blondie           7,200
RED-DOG            7,800
Steve Bovis        11,000
Ben Vinson         17,300

Table 10

Ian Woodley      15,900
Pino Valentino    10,375
David Maudlin       6,150
Dave Barnes       11,500
Jeff Kimber        11,000
Mark Luwe         8,000
David Smith       12,200
Chris Stavri         3,450
Camel                11,300

Table 11

JP Kelly            16,000
Joe Grech         9,100
Nick Whiten      9,775
Terry Cook        13,500
Paul Malone       9,425
Steve Vladar      7,050
Greek Jack        8,000
John Murphy     15,000
Bhupinder Kholi  10,600

Table 12

Lalit Khajuria     5,250
Burnley John    13,925
Theodore Dalton  10,200
Dan Samson       12,000
Andrew Muir       6,300
Julian Thew        9,075
Mickey Wernick   7,000
R. Fronda           11,000
M. Morjaria          12,000

I think there's only 1 snoopy there flushy.

i counted 2

can we have a recount

Monty Burns, whittled back down to 3k or so, finds KK just as Richard Ashby finds QQ, & with no dramas, he's back in it again.

So good we mention him twice....18,000 for the Snoopy!

has he swapped his name with thewy?

So time for the Lionel Flaum story last told at the Luton January main event

Lionel's a lovely old man, a retired tax inspector.

In the 1950s, he being a man of a certain age, his premium bond came up. For a sum worth millions in today's money

Next month, well wouldn't you know it came up again. He gave the whole of the second lot to charity, the first win having already set himself up for life

Now lives in Hertfordshire with a lake at the bottom of the garden reputed to be the size of Lake Geneva.

Booder is David Baker  Table 8, 11.4k   AYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Also, Rob Yong 25k  ... there must be a story there , Jen send your "boy" to find out please :)



PS. for "Boy" read "Old Codger"

Here you are jammer - your little bro, looking too cool for school.  He says "Hi," by the way.  No more detail than that though...

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That top Snoops is wearing is smart...............HINT  HINT    Newnanseye

GREAT story Tighty!

Now, here's one of Thewy for his adoring fans. I tried to find a worse photo, but failed. Caption Comp?

To his right is "Muirspud" - winner of a nice Online Comp on Laddies earlier this  week, & a good guy, & to his right, is Danny Samson.


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And here he is, with an "it ain't me, baby" look on his face. 

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Can someone wish evreyone gl for me. Just grab the mic or something

Could you say good luck to Sheriff from me please

Talking of "laid-back guys" here's another - The Camel. Another Beer, Keith? To the other side of the Dealer is Haircut Woodley, & the Dealer is blondeite English Rose.

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have you introduced her to tikay? ooops she is proberly too young

Let Keith know if Johnny Bax turns up i will be there to rail!

Tony, on the other side of the dealer from Camel... Look at Ian Woodleys shirt :D :D :D :D   please give him plenty of grief , and tell him its from me ;)

Here's Luton Heart-throb Schoolboy & blondeite J  P Kelly. Smokin Steve in the background.

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the dealer tween Camel and Woodley is Nina, blondeite English Rose......

Top updates!
Please could someone say hi and GL to Matt from me?
Ta v much!!

Chip count for Stu Nash, please.

Think he's still in but he's not on yr list.

Thx

Thanks Tighty, I remembered & Edited in the nick of time (not....).

You Must get a picture of Ambro Morreale, restauranteur, bon viveur and finalist in the £750

Sicilian, and someone whose game has come on a ton,was playing solely rookie nights only a few months ago


What's more he's the spitting image of a hungover Father Christmas.

11,200 for Stuart.  He is sitting where I reported Jomas Dahlbom, whom I must consider now to be OUT

Also eliminated (for sure, at this point):

Denis O'Mahoney
Jeffrey Rogers
Bad Girl
Mike Magee
Mad Turk
Marc Foggin
Brian Johnson

I'm sure you already knew a few of those, but best to be sure.

They've broken Table 10, so I'm just going to find the stragglers and make sure I know where they're located.

Thewy the heart-breaker.........

Holding  Kd Jd, he gets stubborn against Lalit Khajuria who had two beautiful Aces, & trapped our Hero a treat. Or so he thought......

Suffice to say, poor Lalit has gone OUT, in the mannner of so many folks who think they can beat Thewy with big starting hands.

He's a little tinker, he really is.

And here's the original Jokerman - Joe Grech.  Whatever he's saying right now, Nick Whiten is Not Amused, however...

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That's cool.

Thanks Jen.

I bet thats not what his opponents call him.

He is truly blessed that thewy fella !!!

Hamming it up here is Barny Boatman, with great young prospect Dan Carter to his right.

Phil Peters is to Barny's left, & Okily Dokily Flanders can be seen on the table behind.

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can u give me some updates on andrew muir please, cheers

Here's a caked up Ben Grundy, he's Bellagio-Bound on Tuesday I believe.

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8,325, but he has the Dreaded Thewy to his left........

he was at sheffield on thursday night for a £30 nl holdem rebuy fishfest, bit different tonight eh! i believe he was in luton on monday and tuesday though, wish him luck please, u can always gather his chip count when u get thewy's. thanks alot

Our first look tonight at Lord Wernick, in a tough seat, with Thewy, Andrew Muir & Danny Samson all lined up to his right. He can cope with 'em all. Well, except maybe Heart-Break Thewy.......

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Anyone else think Nick looks like he has come direct from the early 90's?

Good to see you back on the updating team Tikay , we missed you  :) ;) :)

and can u also ask andrew if his dad has realised his old squash shirt is missing, ta

Yup, I had one of those jackets back in 1994!  I had binned it by 1995

Here, when he was pre - "you KNOW when you've been Thewy'd" is Lalit Khajuria, in Seat 1, & Burnley John in Seat 2.

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He describes his run of cards as "unbelievable" - apparently pocket pair after pocket pair which hit those precious early sets, and then Aces three times in one orbit, all of which he slowplayed, all of which won him yet more chips.  The towers have grown since this photo - you're looking at the chip leader.  But he's all too aware of his potential to get rid of them too.  Jon Raab reminds me of one of those 'return as chip leader, out in half an hour' stunts he pulled here a while ago...

Im still laughing at woodleys shirt :D

And the bloke behind Joe Grech who looks like he is threatning to punch the photographer :)

Could be worse, he could be wearing a wooly hat, while plaing poker.

Well thank YOU Charmaine! I'm having a ball, though I do find it a bit stressful now, with so many peeps coming up to chat, I'm just not that good a multi-tasker.

Has to be said, Jen & sloppy must have great mental fortitude to Update week after week. Lucky blonde, eh!

Bambos is OUT after losing the majority with trip Kings when somebody holding 2c 3s flopped an invisible straight!  Then the rest followed and he went out after complaining about his wedged-in uncomfortable seat... "Well, at least I shall be released..."

Monty Burns is back in really deep poo again, after he eventually, but only after investing a lot with QQ, realised that Red-Dog had AA.

Red is up in the 25k-ish bracket now!

Totally agree.

You guys are great.

 Qh

This picture of Simon Nowab sums up how he's feeling now, except he's no longer at the table...

The hurricane-like force of JP is once again responsible.  After losing some chips for a while, JP's pocket Fives hit a set on the 4c 5c Td flop.
But Simon held Tc Jc (five-way limping preflop) and there was no way he was letting that go.  No help, and JP gets a refill.

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I have to say it's rather enjoyable watching tikay flap about with his laptop, after the streamlined, bossy Snoopster... and it reminds me of all the fun we had in Paris and the like, early days.  But we don't want Snoopy's help - he just has to concentrate on his game. ;cheerleader; ;bigglesdog; ;cheerleader;

The dinner break, complete with Mystery Buffet, is approaching in a little under half an hour.  So maybe it's a good idea to get a few counts from your Favourites before they all stampede in the direction of the little metal trays.  Back in a tick.

so is Phil Cooklin who is Sgt Bilko lookalike blondite snaitiramas still in?

Sheriff update please?

also how is John Murphy doing? (Luton satellite winner)

Jen, send tikay please...you put your feet up

OK, Entry # 1 in "Worst Shirt of the Night" Comp, especially for Couch Kev.

This is the favourite, Ian Haircut Woodley. Avert your eyes....NOW

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can you tell me how celtic (vince calenti) is getting on please? Cheers.

muir has to be in the running with daddy's squash shirt!!!!!!!!

Competition over ... woodley wins by a country mile ....  there cant be a worse shirt on display anywhere in the country, never mind the Luton card room LOL

Entry # 2......

Dave Lloyd. Another shocker. Who dresses these guys?

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i quite like that 1

theres always some bad shoes on display with massive shiny buckles, forget poker the fashion police are here

Is that big dave clark behind david lloyd wearing his "Bedford Prison" shirt ??

OMG must remember to wear my best bib and tucker if I ever make one of these events.

You lot are worse the women

Oh Dear, I musta Bokked Dave Lloyd - he's just moved in with KQ, & the ever-obliging snoopy accommodated him with AK.

Dave Lloyd OUT, snoops up with the Leaders now on 32k.

These blonde rising Stars are storming the Poker World - Jen, Chili, Matt Tyler, snoopster. Not forgetting me........

Get in there snoopy...AAAYYYYYAAAAARRRRR

Go Schnoopsie!

Heres the mischievoius Stephen "I'm gonna tilt these boys with Speech Play" Pearce. Word of advice Stephen - don't bother trying it on the Dude to your right, he's Mr Untiltable, & he's been round the block once or twice.

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Jen has gone to do a full Chip Count, bear with us while she gets the job done please.

But up with the leaders must be sonopy, Ben Grundy, Thewy, J P Kelly, Matt Tyler, Red-Dog, blondeites all.....

any ideas what i should get from the local takeaway bored of a 9" margeritta

scaey movie 2 on bbc1, quality

Glad i'm not there - i'd probably win (or is that lose) the shirt contest  ;tk;

In a simple twist of fate, Julian's special light shone on Dan Samson right now - who luckily doubled up.  Here's the lowdown:

Theodore Dalton raised to 1,400, flat called by Dan Samson.  Julian on the button pondered for a while before re-raising, shaking off the original raiser, but Dan's short stack left him pot committed and he called all-in with  Ahrt Jh.
Julian showed:  Kd Ks

The board, however, came: 8h 9h 4h 8d 7h, sending Dan back to not-yet-desperate in chips.  And a slight blow for YoYo.

but u might win best dressed hair :)

"...tikay flap about with his Laptop..."

What? WHAT? I'm the coolest dude in this place, & I gotta t-shirt that says so, I'm so cool I'm Uncool.

Jen - come HERE.  NOW!

You would walk the hair contest, though there is a reg at Luton with the dodgiest syrup you have ever seen :D

My hair is sensible now compared to what it used to be...

MESSAGE FOR ALL GUESTS .... register an account on Blonde to see all the pics.

Its free & easy, and will only take a minute.

Sounds just like some of the members ;)

Its free & easy, and will only take a minute



bit like you I heard Kiv  rotflmfao

Chubby Nowab borrowed the camera for 30 seconds, & this is the result. What IS it with these lads?

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keep the updates comming please great job, go the blondies all the way ;applause;

So, before they rush for the nosh:

John Hewston    7,000 (after pushing Chandra Khajuria off his preflop raise by moving in)
Steve Vladar      OUT
Dan Carter         32,000  (the youngster tipped for the top by JP himself)
Barny Boatman   14,600
Philip Peters       9,400
Rob Yong         19,200
Ian Woodley      15,000
Nick Whiten       13,000
Ash Hussain       10,700  ("about where I started")
Tim Flanders      17,400
Nouri                 5,900
Matt Tyler         24,000  (and rather interested to see if he had more chips than Snoops)
Mark Harris         3,800
Rumit               12,400
David Baker       8,500  (that's Booder, that is)
Vincent Calenti   7,200  ('celtic' as a blondeite)
El Blondie          2,500  (wincing ever so slightly as he looks at RED's new chips)
RED-DOG           26,000
Steve Bovis        3,150
Ben Vinson        30,500
Chris Stavri        22,000
Burnley John      20,000
Theodore Dalton  5,000
Dan Samson        7,000
Andrew Muir       5,600
Julian Thew        13,600
Mickey Wernick   11,600
R. Fronda            5,575
M. Morjaria          10,350
The Camel          8,500
Robert Garfield    24,250
Paul Vicary          8,700
Ben Grundy        40,000
Jason Simpson     10,350
Chris Sandercombe  18,000
Matt Dale             2,500
JP Kelly                37,000
Dave Clark            13,000
Jim Reid              11,200
Phil Cooklin          9,950
Andrew Lyew      11,400
Ambro Morreale    7,150
Paul King             26,000

And a certain Adam Goulding: 31,000

nice camera action Si

good work from chubby. I was starting to get worried, 16 pages into an updaye and no mention of Woody Deck, no pics of banjos and no norkage. At least we've got 1 out of 3 now

woodley @ dave ring each other up to see what the others wearing ,

its a known fact ,i thought everyone knew this

Half-Hour (at least...) Buffet Break now.

Oh yeah, gatso.  It's good to get my priorities straight.

I just want to add that that was not a completely comprehensive list - if your guy isn't mentioned, I'll find him after the break.  Prepare for 30 slowish minutes as I try to sneak into the buffet queue.

Great reporting guys,

Just to clarify my hand with STEVE Pearce.. We were involved in a hand earlier where on a flush draw he declared he had the second nut flush before he called. I had no problem with that as I had made my action and he was trying to get a read....However when we get to the river on a hand where I have two pair and the best hand possible is for him to have a nine for a gut straight he bets the river and then declares he has a straight. I ask for a ruling because while I understand moodies go I thought you could not tell your hand. The ruling was that the hand stood as he did not tell his cards. I explained that he had because to have a straight he must have a nine. I then had a situation where it was then said that he could be making it up and how could it be proved. My answer was that if i call and he has a nine then you have your answer. If he has not then i am happy because i should win with two pair.  The ruling was then given that if he does not say i have the nine of diamonds clubs etc then he is not declaring his hand.

The end result was that i passed as either way i could not win. Two hands later Mr King who i really like declares to  show how stupid this rule is that he has a red jack. Now the jack of diamonds is on the flop so we know that he is saying he has the jack of hearts. Know problem says the dealer you never said you had the jack of hearts. My god what is happening. With this rule in place we can now happily go to final tables knowing that if we have shares with any other player on the table we can tell them we have an overpair or that we have flopped trips and do a bit of chip passing. As long as we don't say which two cards...The door is now open for all the sharp practice merchants and cheaters to be rewarded for their talents....Mr Pearce should do well !!! the sharpist practicioner it has ever been my displeasure to meet.  thanks for allowing me to rant ..and continue the good work

I'm free & easy, but i can only aspire to a minute ;)


PS. Top work with the camera Chubbs, you boys are in for a treat when the tour hits Ireland next week, IM IN CHARGE OF THE NORKAGE CAMERA !!!  

AYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

i pick JP, chubbs , reddog, rummit, thewy, rob yong, MAtt tyler,Dave C, Phillip the nutcase phillips and Wernick to final in that order.

steven pearce seems to cause a lot of contravacy where ever he goes

Personally, I agree wholly with you - one's actual hole cards shouldn't be revealed for the reasons you touched on and the broader one that colluders will find this an invaluable tool.

However, Mr. Pearce did exactly the same thing at the Vic at the last festival, and the confused table asked for a ruling and were told that by opening the Moody door, they've effectively taken any and every bar off what you can say about your hand.  So he happily declared whatever he liked until his elimination, which players had to accept, whether they liked it or not.

I agree a minute is far too long

The annoying ranting, not the elimination ;)

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

 ;iagree;

 ;tk; ;tk; ;tk; ;tk; ;tk; ;tk; ;tk; ;tk; :D

hum i want to learn that trick

hi ironside are you any better m8

 ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

GO Red-Dog and Snoops

 ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

still a little sore but apart from that ok

thanks for asking

Forgot about the snoopster gl young man

Message from Big Dave Clark to the Lady he says is the most beautiful in the world (well, he never used THOSE words) - Hi Kelsey Darling!

Hey ironside is that picture realy you ? When I met you were were quite good looking ;D

is this mr fox , you not playing tonight

But never mind him Kelsey - Hi from me, too.......

        

    GO BEN GO BEN GO BEN GO BEN GO BEN GO BEN GO BEN GO BEN GO BEN GO BEN GO BEN GO BEN GO BEN

    MILKYBAR KID GO MILKYBARKID GO GO MILKYBARKID GO GO GO GO MILKYBARKID GO GO GO MILKYBARKID

No I got man flu from Tikay I think  >:(

How is "Celtic" (Vince Calenti) getting on, we are asked.

Apparently, he's running his table ragged - he somehow got Dave Colclough off AA, & when Red-Dog bet out with TT on a 9 high flop, Vince Re-Raised, forcing Red to let go. Vince then showed Bus Tickets.......

i got man flu from tk in barcelona ,through kissing him for the camara

Hello Ben's Dad  :)up

lol vinni, its take a few beers for me to kiss Tikay

Cannot be dodgier than the reg in Sheffield  :o

Blinds 200 - 400 "Let play commence."  I always preferred, "Shuffle up and deal," myself, but there you go.

77 players remaining (I think - my short term memory fails me as I walk from the screen to the computer).

Snoopy says I underestimated his chip count - it's actually 31,800.  Sorry, sir.

i dont drink ,how do you think i felt afterwards

whats that karabiner

ok i know this is the wrong thread

but anyone up for the next blonde special    15 mins to go  ;D ;D ;D

$5 STT on blonde ... come and get the dead money, me and RFC are in, starts in 15 mins... its in the multi tables section !!!

Just in - What have I missed ??

Just to get you started, a recent, but not quite up-to-the-minute photo of Bambos, Mark Bartlog (the one with the hair in the middle - remember him from Vienna?) and Ash Hussain.  But the times they are a-changing: no. 1 is OUT, no. 2 has 14k and no. 3 still struggling to get off the starting blocks.  But he's probably just biding his time.

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did spoony eat anything? he's gonna need his strength
and are they still serving that bizzarre fruit and chocolate crumble?

It's becoming quite a night for the blondeites......

Now Rob Yong doubles through against young Dan Carter, Rob looks like he is in the 45k bracket now. He had gone to war with J-9, I gather.......

foxy i photograph badly

i am still a good looking 22 year pld that looks no more than 19


and with that

night all i need my bed if i am playing the $50 game on blonde tomorrow at midnight

robs hit plenty of form ,must have been playing a few heads up with simon @ nick

 rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

We were talking dodgy syrups Vinni, and there's none dodgier than the old boy that plays in Sheff

 :hello: Jen working hard as always. lol Ironside

Wow, I can hardly walk past a table without hearing "seat here!" at the moment...

Steve Bovis - OUT after racing  Ahrt Kc against Alan Rudge's  7d 7s
Nouri - OUT
Hamid Rowshanaei - OUT
M. Kazi - OUT
Snoopy - NOT OUT

lol ,ken you meen ,hes a multi multi millionair .

but doesnt want to go bold

Here's our boy, bless him.

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is snoopy getting a back rub from a bloke ?

that will be 24/7 then !!!!!!!!!! ;tk;

And, at Kev's behest, here's another Dodgy Shirt - Dave Clark with his H M Prison (Brixton) number. I told Dave we wanted a pic of his shirt - just that - & he said "tell Colchester Kev to **** off".... oooooooooo!

That's Jim Reid next door, always referred to as "Jim Reid (Dublin)". Lives in Bedford. Naturally.

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any chip counts for burnley john

                          paul king

                          jonny tex

                          micky w

Yeah that's him but he also don't want to spend any dosh on a decent syrup  :D

Please

another fantastic job by the blonde updaters, keep up the good work and best of luck to all the blondites that are still in..can u wish Ash Hussain the best of luck from the Accrington Lads and a chip update on Mad M3 will be great...thanks

Hi all , Great work on the Event, Hows Justin turner and brian Sadler going, Are they still in , wish i qualified for tonight, miss it real bad , been playing on line as punishment, Regards to Tight End,

karabiner, kens also not a bad player to sit next to because he holds his cards up that hight they come back down with snow on

LOL LOL tell him i love him too xxx

Burnley John 15,500

Paul King 25,000

John Hewston 12,000

Micky Wernick 12,100.

With the high elimination factor at the moment, the dynamic of the tables is changing somewhat - going to try to provide the tables with accurate player and chip arrangement so you can see how it's been mixed up:

Starting with Table Blondie:

Andrew Muir     7,800
Vincent Calenti  8,200
Mark Luwe        10,400
Alan Rudge       25,000
Bhupinder Kholi  24,200
Dave Colclough  2,900
RED-DOG          24,300
R. Fronda         3,900
Ben Vinson       35,300  (and he has a yellow chip - 5k.  Ooooooh)

Dave C still in?

How is Snoops fairing up?

I tried reading through all the posts but I'm playing a tourneya s well and my game keeps getting interrupted.

yeah what we playing for tony you missed that out

bring back snoopy all is forgiven

wait snoopys still in that means he is a better player and updater

tikay we are need to look for a new role for you

i was thinking maybe 2nd in command to kiv and the railbird squad

Hi all,

If you get a chance can you tell me how my horses are getting on.......Joe Grech,D Lloyd, Ian Woodley and Rumit..  thanks for the support on earlier post

Mr Red Dog is doing well enough keep up the good work sir!

denis if your horses are still running they are as bad as mine but i think number26 number6valverde won

guess what the blonde tipster team gave me another duff tip thats 3 out of 3 losers they have given this week

thx tk are you nackered yet

Snoopy just took out Barny Boatman!  He's over 40k at a guess and his AK was the winner (not sure of exactly how this happened, but it was a giant pot) - probably thought to himself, "Don't think twice, it's alright" and went for it.  No point wussing out now, Adam.

Thx mucho jen.

Please tell him we're all rooting for him here (including joelle's family), and now I'm back indoors, I'm gonna be keeping an eye on the updates, so keep those chip counts coming if you can ;)

keep up the good work Adam!  

;bigglesdog;

CMMMMMMMMMMMMONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who;s Adam???

go on snoops

i taught him well

PRIZE STRUCTURE

1  £52,500
2  £30,000
3  £20,250
4  £14,250
5  £10,500
6   £6,750
7   £6,000
8   £5,250
9   £4,500
10 - 18  £1,500

The Prize Structure - that's Jen's Department - it will be Uploaded within 5 minutes.

Joe Grech 5,000

Ian Woodley 31,000

Rumit 10,000

Dave Lloyd OUT

Support you Denis - absolutely. There's great sympathy for your view right around the cardroom here.

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

mrs red in cheerleader outfit i think we need to arrange that for bb3

did nick gibson play ?

I didn’t want to bring it up when I read Dennis’s post, but it’s back to the topic of having universal rules again. I think it was well out of order.

Moving on to Table Woodley:

Chris Stavri     36,000
Ian Woodley  33,000
Nick Whiten   13,000
Mark Bartlog   28,000
Ash Hussain     9,400  (says, "I've run into Aces twice, but I'm still here!")
Tim Flanders  30,000
Rob Yong      37,500
Matt Tyler     20,000

Irishdenis:  Rumit has 11,000 and I think your other horses have fallen.

So Jen says "tikay is flapping about with his Laptop" eh?

Sorry Jen, but don't mess with tikay. Here's my revenge.

Would YOU dare cross this Woman?

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Go Jen!

she is looking lovely as usual which is more than can be said for her fellow updater

Roughly how many runners left?

Nope Stu, I believe he is having a weekend at home before heading off to Bellagio.

Just want to say COME ON ROB. And Nick (Whiten) too if he's still left in? I'm sure Chubbs is getting reacquainted with Jack Daniels right now.

Chip count for Booder please pops

Speaking of Rumit - here he is in profile, with some kind of Pokerstars Star which looks to be made out of stressball material.  Resisting grabbing it to find out.

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Being one of the chip leaders and all he's in a good mood (asked after you) :)

Hello Lou, Chubbs is cutting back on his JD intake, its his Cristal habit that worries me :)

71; 15k average chips.

Ahhahahah you've made my day.  Well, at least my hour.

Golf update,

Play stopped due to bad light.

Chad Cambell -6
!!!                -5
R Mediate     -4
Woods         -3
Harrington    -3
Singh , Mickleson -2

Pops? Karabiner is not here.

Booder - 15,100.

Quite right too.  And I think you should try to instil in your rogue brother the same respect.  He listens to you.  I think.

Is Justin Turner still in and Brian Sadler, and hows JP the Legend getting on ??

Ahem !

Did Paul Jackson play and if so is he still in ?

Burnley John is OUT - his  Ahrt Qh found John Hewston with  Kc Ks.
When the first card out was an Ace, he was probably relieved, but the King followed shortly, boosting Texas up to the highest level of chips he's had all night.  No wonder he's looking happy.

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Cheers Jen

Nope, and, therefore, nope.

Stephen Pearce continues to deliberately wind-up his table, & he's doing a mighty fine job of it.

He just gave the full speech-play, then moved in, his Oppo looked deeply pained before eventually, grudgingly, passing without comment.

Stephen, on a pure bluff, then slammed his two hopeless cards down in front of the guy, & gleefully raked in the pot. He's probably a lovely chap - I dunno for sure, as he never speaks to me - but he sure does a good job of tilting up his opponents.

Well if he wins this that won't last...

Is he bossing the table with his now infamous super-aggressive, speech-playing, and almsot abusive in your face style?

or does he have his ipod on. ;)

So he's been developing a taste for the finer things in life now that he's got a job? You wait, he'll be going for facials next.  :D

Make sure you tell Snoops to KIR IDH please. :)

Go on son...

I can explain Karabiner. Thing is, I was on Table Patrol, & that Jen used my lappie........It was her, I tell you, it was Jen. Honest!

Justin Turner    10,600
Brian Sadler      5,400    (they are side by side)

JP  42,000.  Pic of his chips coming.

OK... I've just been up and sorted out all my shirts for Dublin!!

Hang in there Dave!

Hi Guys, how many does it play down to to tonight? Will I need more coffee

But first - while we're on Unflattering Pics of Updaters - spot the grouchy technology-tampering...

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Is Chunkymick playing this guys ?

unfortunately in that last picture tikay was trying to find bbc2....

More like radio 2...

Tonji - it does not play down to any pre-determined number tonight. Casinos close at, I think, 0400 on a  Saturday night/Sunday morning, (how bizarre is the Gaming Commission!) so I guess we will play until about 0330 come what may.

More from the "Spot the dodgy shirt Squad"......(as compiled by Jen).


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he'd heard they were using a wireless and is trying to find the shipping reports....

Thanks Jen , send them my best wishes, xpressman, They are true Gentlemen of poker!!!!javascript:void(0);
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Groan.....

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.......

And if Karabiner wants to get wise with me, I would point out that it was called "The Light Programme" in my day. And Radio 4, in those wonderful days of The Billy Cotton Band Show, , was known as The Home Service.

lol rotflmfao rotflmfao

Hi Guys

How's Stu Nash doing?

No - I believe he went to The Broadway, though I'm not 100% sure. Shame really, I like to see Mick & Nicola at these Events. But he has "donated" his Luton Hotel Room to any worthy blondeite, for which someone will be most thankful. Top Bloke.

Wow, I didnt know John Major was doing a stint at updating !!



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nice one   :respect:

Tikay ....you may be right about Mr Pearce but how can anyone live like that. we all have moves and no one has a problem with that. But to to take pleasure in setting a terrible atmosphere on a table and to know that almost everyone you have dealings with ends up wanting you to get beat cannot be worth it.  Look at Yoyo he makes more moves than almost anyone I know and no one has a bad word to say about him even when he busts their aces. The difference is class. We cannot have a situation where their is no control. The game has moved on and while we need individuals we also need to have some standards. Look at yourself ..when i first met you you were a retired early seventies, dark haired individual with an ABC game.  Now you look like a man in need of a good seeing to with blonde hair, three stone lighter and more moves than the average stripper.

Lord Wernick is OUT, his JJ running into QQ. Bad Luck Micky.

Stuat Nash has doubled up to around 12-14k.

Thanks Tikay, I reckon I got an hour before  ;sleep;. Good work as always.

BIG ISSUE SIR?

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Update on b4matt pleeeease!

And can you ask him if he has to pay to listen to his voicemail?

And another - Table  ;bigglesdog;:

Dan Samson    9,700
??                 8,000
Dan Carter     12,000
Luke Patten   22,500
Philip Peters    8,100
Michael Ellis    22,200
Rob Yong      40,000
John Murphy  10,000
Snoopy          52,000

 :D

Hello tony can you tell me how Rumit is doing

<applauds/>

Has Snoopy got his Table Captain Hat on?

Well, I agree Denis, you know my views on table behaviour. But it's each to their own, & as long as he stays inside the rules - whatever they are this week - technically, he is entitled so to do.

But the parallel you draw with Thewy is excellent - Thewy busts everyone, usually with junk, but he's not got an enemy on the circuit.

And Table ShortStack:

Joe Grech           9,500
Stephen Pearce  11,500
Niamh Peters       15,000
Nick Whiten        11,000
Tim Blake            8,000
Jeff Kimber          7,600
Curtis Ledger       8,000
Michael Fletcher    5,800

Hi Rob, Rumit has 9,600.

tikay just went to check on B4Matt for you - he's got 20,100 (100 more than on my last count). 

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  ;cheerleader;  ;applause; GO  ;bigglesdog; GO  ;applause;  ;cheerleader;




Thankyou, steady progress then!

I'm not standing for that Couch, nor is Edwina.

52k? very nice!!  ;applause; ;applause;

evening tikay

can u wish all the blondites left in good luck especially thewy snoopy and jp

was hopeing to get down but wasnt possible

come on guys bring it home ;goodluck; ;goodluck;

How about a red dog update - is he still in or have i missed something

your rubbish

hehehe only kidding mate  ;goodvevil;

Any news on Monty Burns?

Here is (most of) Red's table......

Andrew Muir 10,000

Celtic 30,000

Mr Kohli 30,000

Dave Colclough - grinding away like a good one - 6k.

Red-Dog - 12,000

Mark Bartlog (Demian on PokerStars) 55,000....!

On another table.......

Danny Samson - 2,100

And finally,

snoops........ 49,800.

Remember The Vic....

59 players left, blinds 300-600, ave stack 18,900 roughly.

With play scheduled to end at around 0315, the spread on players returning is, imo,  39-42.

Everything is broken down for The Milkybarkid.  Ben says, "Julian's tilted me."  Another bad beat at the hands of the YoYo?  Surely not...

But yes - he's down to under 30k after retaining the chip lead for a nice long while.  He raised under the gun with  Aspades Ac and got a caller - Julian.  The flop came 2c 4h 7d and he bet out 3,000, and called when Julian pushed for 15k or so.  Julian had a rather dominated 6h 6s (although you can't blame him for trying it) - but the 6s popped out on the turn and doubled him up. 

Round 17. How do you like THIS, Miss?

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I completely agree.  I love that about DC's game - never lets up on the concentration, knowing full well that a short stack is still a stack and I would love him to make a full comeback.  Go Captain Blondie!!

Extraordinary. He must be the World "Beating Aces" Champ.

I'm doing my Rainy Day Woman face, which is similar, but not identical, to my "I'm going to get a REALLY bad picture of tikay soon" face.  Watch out.

Agreed. Seems to only have one level of concentration. 100%. It applies to any stack or situation.

And, would you believe it, after grinding away for hours, & refusing to give up, a certain blondeite doubles up with A-Q against 5-5, & now has an almost average 16k.

Go on Monty!

Jen... can you wish Andy Muir.. Jeff Kimber and Tim Blake gl from me please  ty hun

any news on paul king or jonny hewsten

Bad timing I'm afraid - Andy Muir has just gone OUT. But I'll pass on the other messages, assuming you have not bokked them, too...

may have missed it as wizzed through the first 20 pages....is pil cooklin still in if so chip count please

How is Ben Vinson Getting on?????????????

John Hewston - 26,900.

Paul King Update, with Pic, imminent from Mrs Merton.

Danny Samson - OUT.

I completely forgot - we haven't had our regular blonde update smiley picture of Paul King yet!  Here he is, with 18,100 in chips, next to Lee Atherton, I believe.

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would somebody kindly lean over to mr burns and tell him belly thinks "your rubbish"

it may bring him luck ;goodvevil; ;goodluck;

It was two short stacks vs. Snoopy - Dan made his stand with the perfectly reasonable  Ac 5c, Rob Yong followed him in with  Qh Jd, and Snoopy went for it too with, er,  Ks 3s.  It was only 2k, fair enough... but a Queen hit so Rob nearly doubled up while Dan shook hands and wandered off.

Nick Whiten 17,000

Mrs Peters 19,000

Sheriff Fatman 6,000

Stuart Nash 12,000

Rob Yong "I had an accident" - has  12,000, after (just now) doubling up with QQ v TT.

Booder 12,000

Rumit 10,000

If it's the young chap with the spiky hair, he's sat with a nice stack of 50k plus.

any news on phil cooklin?

quick chip count and pat on the back from jammer for snoops plz.

Also good luck to the likely lads - rob, nick and simon.

And of course give jules a long distance rail cheer for me....

Never one to hang around & wait for cards, Rob Yong, sadly, is OUT.

Thank you, is his hair natural?

Thanks Tkay - please let Stu know that I wish him 'Good Luck'

Many thanks

oh well, in that case if someone could tell just jules and nick good luck from me as they flounce past ;)

Any chance of how many people get paid and what the prizes are?

brill updates, thx keep em coming how many left

does this finish tonight or carry on tomorrow ?

Gooooooooo on JONNY.
he rang earlier saying he was down to 3k. great comeback.

finishes tomorrow afternoon

From jen's earlier post....

Damn just resd the top DAY 1

 :(

********************5 minute break******************

They're going to play 400 - 800 next and then c'est finis - play will continue tomorrow at 3pm.

I leave you with this smiling image of the Sheriff - who's won in the last level, apparently, boosting his chips to 7,700.  He said, "Is it possible to be card dead for a whole night?  I'm smiling in that photo, you couldn't have taken it today..."

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how many left and can i have a chip count on Ash Hussain Plz, much appreciated

god bless u jammer

How many left in?

keep your chins up sheriff premuim hands on the way!

 ;goodluck;

Early chip leader Ben Grundy is back down to his starting chips, after being on Tilt, just like he said.  Tim Flanders seems untouched by the storm raging next to him, while the Milkybarkid is nearly knocking on Heaven's door... hopefully the short break will have done him good.  It was hailing when I arrived - five minutes out there would cool anyone off.

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just a tech question for you guys. My system does not automatically update with new mails. I have to go back a page and then forward again to get latest posts. As I own an IT company this may seem stupid but what can i say.

The wonderful Plasma tells us.....

53 left.

Average Stack 20,600

Blinds 400-800.

58 minutes play left at this level, & then we draw stumps.

Yes! Just what the doctor ordered!!!

He's gonna do it again I can just feel it!

51 players remaining.  Ash Hussain on around 14,000, but he's never really been chipped up all day and it doesn't seem to be getting to him.

Well, NOBODY knows less than me about these things Denis, but I just press "Refresh". Is that not the best way? We do not have the "Auto-Update" function enabled.

looks to me like theres some blondes in some very good positions at the moment.


keep going guys!

Try the refresh button at the top of your page. Or alternatively press CTRL + R.

thanks jen.....great work with the updates...

great updates guys but please please please any news on phil cooklin???? :D

This cool customer is Laurent Charvet (at least I'm pretty sure it is).  I seem to remember playing with him in one of those European type comps at some point... anyway, he's French and there's a distinct lack of French Updates so we're wishing him luck with his short stack.

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F5 refreshes too.

Or various mouse gestures if your browser supports that.

How's the Snoop Doggy Dog doin?

Yes, and I'm an IT Consultant and I find the only way is to press the refresh button!!

If you find another way, do let me know!!!

 Qh

May not work for all PCs. Will for most though.

Phil Cooklin is nowhere to be seen.. he was last sat in the space currently occupied by Mark Bartlog. 

thanks djinn he must be out as youd certainly here him hes not the quietist of guys  :D

BAD BEAT OF THE NIGHT!

John Hewston -  Ks Kh

Ben Vinson -  Jd Js

Board......

 Kd Ts 9d 7d 5d

John Hewston OUT. Ouch! Ugly ugly ugly. But that's Poker.

Here his neighbour is asking for a ruling: "Is he allowed to be so anticool?"  and Snoops (40,000+) is saying, "Who, me?"

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youch....

wow ,how unlucky .

it wont be the last bad beat we here about

Mr Khajuria (the surviving one) - 12,000

Big Dave Smith 33,000

Phil Peters 6,000

Rumit - OUT

well done ben keep going!ben has had more bad beats than hot dinners in his short poker career,about time he got his own back!!

djinn do me a favour.......snoopy 40k? tell him hes "rubbish" from mehe should have at least 60k by now!



no seriously tell him hes the man and to keep up the good work!  go snoopy  :respect:

Any idea how Chris stavri is doing Jen

Is Booder still in ??

is that the fat kid from colchester

Tony wish Big Dave Smith luck from me mate as no one is rooting for him...........there will be no deals done if he makes the choosen few.

Yes, ... Is that the fat OLD bloke from Sheffield ??

have less of fat ,its a droped chest

Chip count for Ben 'Spikey' Vinson now please if thats no trouble

He's more than comfortable with around 38,000.  His friend, pictured here in the break with Chris, said he qualified online... has never been in trouble chipwise tonight.

PS Welcome to blonde :)

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What chest size are your trousers bazzer ??

36 ins

now now guys he's in great shape for the shape he's in

chears dennis ,fit as a fiddle

fab updates ang Chris actually qualified at luton same as me I was to the right of ben milkybar when my AJ ran into Rob Garfields AA  still great fun though

circa 82,000....!

And to his right, J P Kelly has 64,000.

I foresee a clash between these two before very long.....

Dave Clark is OUT - after Andrew Lyew raised to 900, JP called on the button, and there was some confusion as to whether Dave meant to call or min raise from the small blind as he threw in two 500 chips, they all saw a flop along with big blind Ben Vinson.

The flop: Jh Td 6c

Immediately, Dave pushed in for about 12k.  Ben passed, and so did Andrew (after a dwell) but I had a feeling JP might call, and call he did - with Qc Kd!
Dave showed:   Ad 9d

Turn: Th
River: Kc and another battlement is added all along the watchtower of JP's ever-increasing stack.

Note:  He did say in the break that he was playing tight, having sort of just noticed that he had a tendency to throw back chips at points.  This has definitely paid off as a couple of hands earlier Dave passed AJ in the small blind to JP's suspicious button bet...

Is Booder still in ??

aye, c'mon the bood if he is. Wanna see more than a few blonde faces at that final table....

were did you get to stumpy

El Blondie eliminated -

After doubling through again with  4c 4d against  9c 9d by hitting the set, the luck reversed, and his  Kc Qh hit the pair of Kings against someone with AQ - the Ace came on the turn to end his remarkable run back up in chips.  "Unlucky, then lucky than unlucky again."  I expected him to finish with, "That's poker!"

And here he was pre-exit - he was actually in a pretty good mood even after his comeback was cut short.  Now a short rest and then it's off to storm America at the Bellagio.  Good luck over there :cheers:

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Is Booder still in ??

Is Booder still in ??

Great work updaters (as ever ;)). But if someone could answer kev - I'm starting to worry about his repeating stutter....

Is Booder still in ??

Booder - you Bokked hiim Couch.

I went across to check him out for you, just in time to see him invest his last 12,000 with....


 Ts Th

Oppo had...

 Ac Jc

Board.....


 5c 7c 8c 9c 3h

Boo, after a count, was found to have more chips than his oppo - 400 more......

And Booder is now OUT, & blamimg Couch for his demise. Quite right too.

oooops ... Is booder out yet ??

If someone good just let snoops know i'm starting to flag here - caffeine's wearing off, and the effects of the alcohol are starting to show again....

So if he could just knock everyone out and take first prize in the next 15mins I'd be much obliged.

Thank you. J.

More bad blonde news - I just caught sight of Thewy making a quick escape via the exit stairs. Never one to hang around after busting, I imagine he's on his way home. Prob had his Aces bust........

Unlucky Thewy, but as ever, you entertained us regally.

Is that pearce fella still in ??


Lets see if i really have the power of the bokk :D

How's Stu Nash doing?

Hi Tikay,

Been watching very quietly at home with the children.
Wish all the luck to the remaining blondites, especially Red dog, JP, Snoops and Matt

Wish I was there !

i want to join that bokk  club Kev

Jammer - not long to go now - 11 minutes, then the obligatory half hour for final counts.

But before we start to wind down, a little taste of who's near the top of the table at the moment:

Snoopy          55,000
Luke Patten   56,500
Robert Garfield  75,000
JP Kelly            80,000
Ben Vinson     125,000

And there's another chap on JP's table with nearly 90k.  In fact, a large proportion of the chips have ended up on that table - any big pots between those guys will be REALLY big... but they've only got five minutes to bully the table with their chip-related license to kill...

Here's another interesting exit, Stuart Nash is OUT after clashing big-time with Mick Fletcher.

Stuart had the magnificent  Aspades Ahrt

Mick  Ac Ks

So, Mick was totally dominated. Or so you'd think! Board......

 Kc Qc 6c 8c 5c

Oucharoonee!

Stephen Pearce is OUT indeed.  As are Pino Valentino, Melissa White, Alan Geddes, Nouri, Richard Ashby, and lots more. Just can't keep up...

wow. the true power of the bokk.

And with that, they've broken a last minute table.  Literally seconds to go, and we'll start the hunt to see how the blondeites fare in the Day Two standings....

WOW that Kiv fella is good... rotflmfao  could you not have bokked him hours ago Mate..

Hi (Chunky) Mick. Missed you mate.

Meanwhile, play ceases for the night in 2 minutes. A rash of exits in the last half-hour sees the survivors numbering, at a guess, 35.

Although Julian has exited, I can't resist giving you this picture of him, in a vain attempt to remove from your minds the rather awful one of him posted by tikay earlier.  Doesn't he look sweet?

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Big thanks, to be serious for once, to Jen. She's just the business at these Updates. I tried bossing her about - some hope, she just ignores me. Don't really blame her.

Me? I'm wrecked, totally. Out of training at this lark, really.

Play starts at 3pm Sunday, so I'm gonna stop overnight in Luton, I just can't face that drive up the M1 only to drive back home & then set off to return midday Sunday. I left Angell plenty of food, so he'll be fine.

Come back snoops, all is forgiven! But WHAT a performance by him - & I nrever doubted he would do this in what his his first Main Event. I tell ya,there are hidden depths to Team blonde, just you wait & see.

Nooooooooo!

On the very last hand of the night, we have lost Red-Dog - Damn! Details awaited, but I'm sure he will Post them when he gets home. Unlucky Tom.

man, ul red. thats a cruel one.

Paul King was another late exit, his trip 7's helping to give Barry Vinson his 8 high straight. If Paul misses his set, he wins!

Unlucky RED-DOG! :(


Thanks for the updating guys, I've just read through the whole thing and I'm off to bed now. Good Luck to all the blondeites, especially Snoops, for tomorrow! Goodnight xxx

JESUS, unlucky RED..... >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

Here they come, slowly but surely, the End Of Day Counts...

Table 4

M. Morjaria    20,900
C. Laurent     7,000
Ian Woodward  15,300
B. Sadler          4,200
Justin Turner   11,300
Phil Peters       14,100
Chandra Khajuria  4,900
Dave Smith       28,900
C. Stavri           39,100

Table 5

Joe Grech       20,600
A. Rudge        42,700
David Maudlin   31,500
Nick Whiten     26,800
Curtis Ledger   15,300
B. Kholi           23,000
Mick Fletcher    18,600
Ben Grundy      34,500

Table 6

J. Dahlbom        12,700
JP Kelly             64,800
T. Gillig             53,400
Ben Vinson      123,000
Mark Bartlog      26,700
Mark Harris       37,800
A. Lyew          33,600
Tim Flanders     20,200
P. Garfield          71,900

Table 3

P. Smyth          18,300
M. Lowe           28,000
H. Toghyan       23,300
L. Patten          54,100
Matt Tyler         29,000
M. Ellis              37,900
T. Cook            10,900
J. Murphy          47,200
Snoopy             40,800

Well Done Ben, keep going son!

Well, that's it from Jen & I at Luton.

Night all.

Play starts on Sunday at 3pm. I plan to get set up at around 2.15pm, all being well. See you then.

xx

So I am off to make the decision over whether or not to attempt the drive to London or just hang about in scenic Luton, but we'll be back all fresh and ready to go tomorrow at three.

Just got back in and I see Kiv has taken my bokking crown! Loved the updates. Gooooo Snippy!!


Btw, Laurent Charvet is a former footballer. (When I say that, he use to play in defence for Newcastle, that should give astute people a guess as to how good he is!)

Hi guys, apologies for making this my first ever post on your board, but I just wanted to express my thanks for your updates on this game last night, what an awesome effort! I spent a while looking around for updates and yours were by far the best I could find... I had two mates playing from my corner of the country (Bristol/Cheltenham), Matt Dale and Dan Carter, looks like they crashed during the crazy 2am(ish) section when players were falling for fun.

Anyway, top job, and good luck to Snoop and the other blondies left in for today...

On the back of finding this forum last night, I'll be sticking around. It seems like you have a large, friendly poker community here... Great! :)

Cheers
Sloggs

Just like to back up what Sloggs has said. Matt and Dan are in our Bristol and Southwest Poker Group. Matt runs it. Your updates last night were superb. You could feel the tension. Thanks guys Aspades

 :hello: ;welcome; Guy's.

Hope you enjoy it here...

 :hello: Sloggs and Matty H

Your llives will not be the same now.  You had pre-blonde and now post blonde - Enjoy!

Thanks Sloggs & Marty H, "what Chili said". It was not our best Update - snoops is FAR better than me at this lark, he & Jen (djinn) fit like a glove - but he was "otherwise  detained", but thank you for those kind words.

Dan Carter is a young man whose game & demeanour impresses me greatly, he has a big future in Tournament Poker if he chooses to go that route. I have mentioned him several times on Poker 425, & on blonde. I don't know Matt Dale, so I can't comment on him.

We look forward to yoiu guys becoming part of the blonde Community. It's a little different to most Poker Forums - "poker with a smile, no flaming or spamming, & lets be civil to each other" sums it up. Thank you for joining, & Enjoy!

Slioggs & Marty H - see......

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=8926.0

Some details on the locals left in


Rob Garfield is a property man from North London...fearless, friend of Lord Teddykins and Max Wilfred

Justin Tuner from MK, nice guy...good friend of JP and Xpressman.....a blondiete too...Ju5tin

Brian Sadler, top by miles of the current Luton League.....

Chris Stavri, early 20s, Mediterranean...too young to have any fear at all.....

Andy Lyew....formerly exclusively a blackjack player...can be found every day late afternoon at Luton

Mark "Monkey" Harris from North London, connected with the Matchroom lot and used to bein the Snooker world

John Murphy is a really nice bloke....he's a carpet fitter from Hitchin who plays the small Luton games and qualified by satellite


and thats the locals covered


finally...go on snoopy, Sheriff and Matt

JP too.....

Good Luck for today Snoops , J, Sherrif , and Matt.

Good luck today Snoopy.

I sat next to "Monkey" Harris in the £100 freezout at Luton 4 weeks ago - only my 3rd visit (2 cashes lol).  A thoroughly nice chap and really good company - he made me laugh lots. Wish him luck Tighty if you go up later!!

Tighty - thanks for those potted Bios - they help a lot. When I get the Day Two Thread up & running, I will copy them across.

Nick Whiten has sneaked into day 2 without a mention , 26,800 is plenty for Nick ... good luck mate.

Also Snopoy , Matt , JP , Ben (milky Bar Kid) Good luck


When Day 2 starts I will be available for Bokking duties ;)

Yes - Nick Whiten is sat next to me in the Reception Area of Days Hotel, in Luton. He's wearing a WHITE hoodie. White, ffs. Warned him not to walk to the Casino wearing THAT.......

My Tricast for the sharpend of the cash

The Shrew
Milkybar
oopsny

Any order will be fine

GOOD LUCK TO THE BLONDES   ;goodluck;

Regards

M

aye nick's a sound bloke. Best of luck to him today.

Hi all. Just reading through the updates. I remember this hand vividly as I was sitting straight to Steve's left. It's one of those hands where you think, 'Wouldn't it be ghastly if the other guy had the bigger straight?'

Anyhow, Steve limped under the gun (or trap 2 - one or the other) with his pocket aces. This Kholi fella raised, Steve reraised, and Kholi called.

Flop is pretty much as tikay reported. Steve bet out, and Kholi called. (not instantly, he definitely wasn't too keen)

The straight actually came on the turn, and that's where all the money flew in. Steve bet, Kholi reraised, etc, etc.

Hard to put his opponent on sixes after calling the flop bet, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

This was a really odd hand.

The board was 6-7-T-9-T

The other fella overbet the flop with his second pair, and I called with my doublebelly buster thinking that if I hit I could clean him out. He seemed like a tight player so I thought he had trips or something. Anyhow, when I bet the turn, he made a bizarre all-in move for 4 or 5k (only about 1.5k in the pot) with his 2 pair and I obviously called.

I thought Barny made a strange play here, especially with me still to act.

I raised preflop with A-K, Dan Carter (aka Sideshow Bob) reraises (A-Q apparantly... if we believe him), Barny flatcalled, I rereraised, Dan folded, and Barny called. (although by this time he didn't have too many chips left).

Barny -- T-9 suited

I flopped a King, Barny turned a flush draw, but hit a second ten of the wrong suit on the river.