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This week's Live Update is from Bolton, Shuffle Up & Deal is at 7pm.

We have the A-Team back, Jen & sloppy, so give them your support tonight & tomorrow please!

Good luck guys!

Good Luck Blondies :) 

Is RED playing today?

He mentioned he'd play if he won $2000 in yesterdays Laddies $30K (but wonly $350+) has he decided that with julian and pab in the field that theres too much value to pass up the opportunity :D

EDIT;  Just read that this MTT marvel won over $14000 last night.... :respect:

I'm on my way............that witch isn't playing though is she ?

Harry.

Who are you refering to by witch?..

nt

If she is a Witch  would be, as they said in days gone by,    .. a White Witch, as she only does good.

C'mon guys, stick it up em.

keep us updated on brian medley, strummer 9 and jon huckle please guys and jen, esp mr medley

Would b ogliged if you would keep me up to date with Derek Malones progress Tikay, if you see him pass on my best. TU

 :hello: to the Super Duo.. Mr & Mrs Updaters...xx Looking forward to this evening..x

They're heading towards the poker pit here in the sprawling, moodily lit Bolton Grosvenor, and after some tweaking the blind levels have stabilised at 1 hour (started at half hour, and were gently bumped up by 15 minutes twice through gentle player pressure).  Good for them for changing the structure for the better before they get underway.

Please wish Red-Dog and Pab all the best from me please.

Yes, the Marvel that is RED is here!  And as you rightly surmised, so are Julian, Pab, and Dave, with several others lurking around the hall when we entered:
DC
Marc Goodwin
Stephen Pearce
ActionJack

Oh hang on there's a full list just made its way over (I will be typing this now, so talk amongst yourselves...)

Snoopy's Vodafone card is yet to start up, but he's here and raring to go, as ever.  He'll be with us soon.

And here's your lot, all alphabetical like:

Om Aggarwal
Wasim Akhtar
Glenn Ashworth
Z. Aslam
Olabode Ayegun
Miya Badat
Martin Bailey
Alan Barnacle
Paul Campbell
Simon Cawley
Gary Chatterton
Sammy Cheung
Dave Colclough
John Conroy
Gary David
Alan Davies
K. Dionysiou
Andy Douglas
Mark Dyson
Lee Edwards
John Exley
Michael Fletcher
Paul Foltyn
Marc Goodwin
Neil Greenhalgh
Paul Hatton
Richard Herbert
John Hewston
Nichiei Hicks
Leonard Hodgkinson
John Huckley
Arshad Hussain
Chris Huyton
Paul Jackson
David Gent (spelt as Jent on my list, but I reckon this is correct)
Andrew Johnson
Iwan Jones
Hanif Kazi
Tikay
Paul King
Tuan Le
Martino Libertini
Bernard Litman
Nadim Lodhi
Derek Malone
Harry Markham
Michael Mccool
Tom RED-DOG McCready
Alan Mclean
S. Mcneill
Brian Medley
Reyaaz Mulla
Barry Neville
Andreas Olympios
Iqbal Patel
Stephen Pearce
Niamh Peters
Phil Peters
Colin Porter
Mark Rayner
Steve Read
Jim Reid
Robert Rice
Lee Rich
Ian Roberts
Mark Robinson
Stuart Rutter
P. Schuhl
Edward Smith
Peter Smyth
Douglas Stainton
Julian Thew
Matt Tyler
Yunus Umarji
Steve Walmsley
Mickey Wernick
Richard Wong
Jehan Zaib

Wish Iwan Jones the Welsh Wizard all the best from his Mrs and baby girl xxx

 :hello:          good luck the blondes

They're off, by the way.  25/50, and a long night ahead of them... A nice sized field, however, at 80 runners.  Snoopy is off taking a look while I am in danger of becoming hypnotised by the lighting concept of the update arena - We are in UV-like purplish near-dark with the light of our laptop screens glowing like little beacons...  Try to bring you photos (of the players, mainly, of course) soon.

Will do!  Your name looks familiar.... :)

snoops, can you tell barry neville that he is a mug .     then RUN !!

 ;goodluck; Dave n Pab 

So many i wish to say GL to From Tikay to Red to Matt Tyler ..Paul King.. but I know that would be asking too much.. but as one person i have not seen in a while.. can you please say Hello to Barry Nevill for me..and GL..x

Good luck to all blondes , and hello snoopy and jen  :hello: :hello:

I'm afraid that, according to the list, the Welsh Wizard is known as Ewan Jones.

Before I jot down any hands, I've a quick conversation to retell:

Paul King: You alright snoops? Like the hair.
Me: Need my roots doing though.
Paul: Me too.
Me: You need your roots gowing.
Matt Tyler: We need ours planting, Paul.

Oh the wit!

I think you had to be there...

Hi Jen and Slops, good luck to all the blondes and DC  ;)

And it appears as though the fearless Alan McLean is OUT.

All the chips flew in on a flop of 9-3-5

McLean held A-K, and so did his opponent, Umarij Yunas. Unfortunately, the latter had two spades to go with the two spades on the flop.

Another on the Turn and that's all she wrote for McLean.

Fast and Furious at the start here in Grey Rainy Bolton - sheltered from the elements the players are certainly not shy about getting involved early on with their 10k stacks and 25/50 blinds...

H. Kazi is knocked to the felt holding 4c 6h on a 7d 5c 8c 8s 7c board.  His opponent Bernard Litman held the rather more powerful 6d 9d, and there'll be some coming back from 700 chips.

But he's not doing as badly as Peter Smyth, who's OUT, after he called with a set of sevens on a turn which brought three hearts on the board, and also the nut flush for his opponent Neil Greenhalgh.

John Hewston has his mad hat on (in stores now!)

John called Arshad Hussain's preflop raise with Q-9, and so did next door neighbour Mark Robinson.

On a flop of T-8-6, John swiftly called a 600 hundred bet before moving all-in for 7k on the River when the next two cards brought blanks.

Both Arshad and Hussain, who had checked in front of Hewston, passed without thinking.

I think John's been watching that Mallu fella.

Paul King, who tells me that unfortunately he's had, to put it mildly, some car trouble recently, is off the mark with over 20k already(!) which puts him near the top of the early leaders, which is all as well because he's "got to win it to replace the car."

He's "slowplayed pocket Tens" spiking a set on the flop, and turning a house, while his opponent seemed intent on re-raising his check-raise with AQ... Then another set, this time the apt Kings, and he's raced ahead.

Some big names playing today:

Michael Fletcher, Leonard Hodgkinson, Martino Libertini

All 15 letters or above!

For the first pic of the night:  A picture says a thousand words...well, nine will do...

 rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao


did you manage to say xx and hello from me ?

Sitting here and getting very tempted to pop over and watch it live...

Hi guys, the B team is here too, in the shape of me. I'm here representing Blue Square but will pipe up every now and again with a few updates.

Anyway, here's an update of my nightmare getting here today. Last night I went to the local car hire place to pick up a car that had been ordered and pre-paid by Blue Square. There was a horrific queue and there were 26 people ahead of me. I settled down to wait, reading the evening paper. About an hour later, there were still 10 people ahead of me when I realised that my driving license was not in my wallet, as it should be. So, I hurried home, hoping to find it and rejoin the queue before my number was called. An hour later, having ripped my flat apart I still had not found it. By now they would have closed. Another hour later and I'm still none the wiser as to the wheareabouts of my licencse. I also now realise that a few other important bits of paper are also missing (no, not rizlas) and that maybe I was a bit hasty in doing a clear out of the flat a few days earlier. Anyway, I resigned myself to not finding it and having to get the train instead. Ordinarily I don't mind going by train, but not when I've got loads of merchandise with me.

So, this morning I'm about to leave to get the train and as I opened the front pocket of my suitcase to put something in, there, staring me in the face, was my driving license. It must have been the only place in my whole flat I had not checked. A quick call to the car hire place and yes, they can still rent me the car. So, I think my problems are over - not so - when I get to the car hire place I discover another horrific queue. An hour later I'm getting served, only to be told that the car hire was not fully paid for and they will have to swipe £550 off my credit card before they let me drive off with a car. Oops, this is why I had it pre-paid - as I am not (by choice) the owner of a credit card. Anyway, 20 mins of arguing, phonecalls and a contact lense popping out of my eye later and its all sorted. Now all I had left to contend with was a 220 mile drive. There were 5 hours left before the tournament got underway. I made it, just.

And mighty glad you made too so say all of us..you need to find yourself a good woman to get you organised..

Do it!  You can hang out in the shadowy corner, if you're lucky... and you can wish Barry Good Luck in a more personal, direct sort of way...

hmm maybe i will stay home ... 8)

RED-DOG just encountered one of those 'I thought the bet was only this much, how do I ask if I have to keep that in without looking weak'

His opponent at the time was Nadhim Lodhi and the bet was 2.4k into a board of 7s 9c 2c Js

Tom didn't spot the cheeky purple chip, and chucked in 1.4k, only then to be informed by the dealer that it's 2.4k to call.

There was a pause for a while, before Tom decided to ask if he was obliged to call, clearly not fancying paying out the extra thousand.

Knowing that his opponent might spot his weakness and push him off the winning hand on the River with a big bet, Tom, IMO, wisely decided to fold a strong, but very beatable 9-2.

The 1.4k was returned to his stack.

Messrs Medley and Hicks; a chipped up Paul King; the ultrablonde (or is it brown?) corner of RED DOG and Pab...

Just been informed that Nadhim held 9-7 for a bigger two pair.

Good fold!

Here's the lineup for table One, pretty fun to watch, but wouldn't want to have drawn it:

Marc Goodwin
Mickey Wernick
Richard Herbert
Wasim Akhtar
Derek Malone
Andrew Johnson
Julian Thew
Simon Cawley
Lee Rich
John Exley

has julian got his thumb bandaged up ?

Barry Neville is OUT

Pocket Queens vs Pocket Deueces

all-in on a 2-x-x flop

he has a plaster on it

we'll keep you informed of any future change

HELLO ALL HOW IS Z ASLAM GETTING ON

Andreas Olympios, who had halved his stack, is now back up to the 10k after being doubled up by renowned chatterbox, Stephen Pearce.

Flop = 4h 3c 3s

Pearce = 6d 3d

Olympios = Aspades 3s

Turn = Jh, River = 9d

Zafar Aslam?

YES ZAFAR ASLAM DO U NO HOW MANY CHIPZ HES GOT

Er.... none, I'm afraid - his seat is empty!  Sorry - will be in touch pronto if we find he's just moved...

Tuan Le eliminates an opponent with 6-6 vs Pocket Cowboys (yeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaa)

All the chips moved in on a 6-5-T flop.

HOW MANY PLAYERS ENTERED THE TOURNEY

hi guys will you please wish nick a.k.a vodkaredbull massive good luck from me.and tell barry  he looks like he needs a massage.lol

Is  ;tk; still in? 8)

I've got one, but she's away on an extended holoday in Kenya, visiting her family, hence the disorganisation...

ahhh !!!   well that explains it..

Pab -- 11,050
RED-DOG -- 6,759
John Hewston -- 10,875
tikay -- 10,850
Stu Rutter -- 8,100
Paul Jackson -- 5,450
Dave Colclough -- 6,125
Iwan Jones -- 8,600

jen, can u tell my dad, mr 'cresta' medley im watching

Tom 'RED-DOG' McCready is OUT

Q-Q v Ash Hussain's A-A

T-A-2 flop was a teaser.

No miracle arrived...

thank you snoops..............hope it is not hindering his raising

COME ON ASH  DO ACCRINGTON PROUD

Unlucky Tom.. but you have still had a fabulous result today already.. can not win them all..xx

Possible confusion...there is a player in the correct seat, with 7,500 or so - wish I could be clearer about this - he's either out, or has 7,500.  Will get a picture at the end of this level!

TY THAT WOULD BE NICE

Red-Dog is OUT -

Having drawn a pretty hectic table, he found himself taking on the perpetual raiser preflop with Qc Qd - a raise from him, re-raise, and decision to put the rest of the 5k in too - unfortunately, "I ran into Aspades Ac."  Hard luck the Dog - see you on blonde later, if you're not getting the cake online!

Mickey Wernick -- 16,950
Julian Thew -- 3,025
Paul King -- 17,100
Steve Read -- 12,500
Greek Jack -- 8,150

Niamh Peters just knocked over her stack with her boobies

A first for me

Hi Guys, I noticed a picture of Nick from Nottingham who is Vodka RedBull on blonde.  Would appreciate updates on him, a VERY tiday player indeed.

Thank you muchly.

 :blonde: what was the buy in?

have you wished vodkaredbull(nick hicks)good luck for me?

Here are pictures of Womble, once with now-eliminated Stephen Pearce, and once showing off his early tower of chips.  Ariston said I'd "better get a photo of Womble with chips early in a comp, it's only level one and he's played at least two hands.  But I think one of them was Aces."

great minds maria.lol

Yes darling lol

As the blinds raise to 100/200, a corker from the last level which doubled up Mickey Wernick at the expense of Julian:

A flop came Diamond Diamond Diamond.  Little happened there, but on the 9(not diamond) turn, Mickey made it 400, Julian made it 1,400, Mickey made it 5,400, and Julian moved in with his top two.  Mickey was happy with that, as he'd flopped the nut flush and got fully paid... Julian's still in it though.

when is break

Time for some table counting, and a couple of stories which just so happened to be happening as I approached:

Table Hewston Calls Mccool with Ace High on Double Paired Board and Wins

Michael McCool      23,400
Ash Hussain          14,400
Nadim Lodhi          8,075
John Huckley        11,150
Paul Rayner          10,800
Colin Porter          18,000
Paul Foltyn            3,000  ("What happened?" I ask.  "I missed," he replied.)
Mark Robinson       8,400
John Hewston       16,000

Table Marc 'Golden' Goodwin

Paul Campbell        10,800
Martin Bailey          18,550
Zafar Aslam            9,000  (Definitely IN)
David Gent             8,200
Tikay                    10,100
Marc Goodwin       35,000  (not a misprint)
Martino Libertini      15,000
Sammy Cheung       6,800
Edward Smith         8,800
Chris Huyton           OUT - in rather dramatic circumstances - holding the Ac Ad, he moved in when Marc checked the 3 5 6 board.  Marc "thought for about a second," then called with his 67.... 9 on the turn, 7 on the river.  Another one bites the dust...

ewwww...

And for the Nick Hicks Fanclub:

He eliminates Lee Edwards thusly - Lee checks and calls the 3c Ts 5c flop, leaving himself just under 4,000, it looked like.
Turn:  8c.  He checks again, Nick moves in enough to put him all in, and it must have looked like a fairly good idea to call with his Kc Th.
Mr. Hicks held 3d 3s though, and with the draw missing on the Js, it's a stack of 17,000 for Nick, and the rail for Lee.

Nice one Nick - Thanks Jen.

snoops here

having some real lappie problems, must be a few gremlins in the system

if there were windows here I'd throw the laptop out of one of them

Meanwhile, Pab has doubled up to 5.5k after going short.

Bit of a brave call from his neighbour, who called with Aspades 4s, announcing "Let's gamble!"

Pab's Pocket Tens held up.

Tayo Ayegun is OUT

hows mr medley, strummer9, john conroy, jon huckle doing?

well done nick.keep that form going for the heads up at bb3 ;)

what r the antes and how many palyers left

snoops again

Thewy's just exited stage left

was down to 3k before moving it in with A-K.

He hit an Ace but his opponent's Pocket Fives flushed on the river.

Bah, humbug!

Table Towers of Womble:

Greek Jack    13,800
Andy Douglas  9,775
Mark Dyson     9,300
Paul King         19,000
Richard Wong   10,300
Niamh Peters    13,000
Womble          16,500
Paul Hatton     14,600

Good to see pops is still in, but can you tell him to dump his chips, he has to play the freeroll for the blondebash tomorrow at 9pm.

we cant have him getting to the final and missing it !!!


I hope everyone has registered ;)

strummer     23,000
John Conroy  12,400

Working on the others (a table has broken) but while you're waiting:

Paul Jackson  8,500
Dave Colclough  14,500
Matt Tyler       9,500
Iwan Jones      6,700

150/300, approx. 65 players remaining...

beagle here with some chippy counts for you:

buddy -- 8,100
Pab -- 6,275
Steve Read -- 23,800
vodkaredbull -- 13,950
tikay -- 7,700
geeforce -- 10,400
el blondie -- 11,900

Hold that blind raising for a second - 10 minute break while the 25s are retired for the night.  Will then be 150/300

David 'geeforce' Gent made a slight faux pas when he accidentally threw out a yellow 5k chip instead of a green 500.

Mateyboy stuck in a big all-jn reraise with A-Q and geeforce called with A-K.

No Queen arrived and David doubled his stack.

keep up the good work people with the updates, can u wish Ash Hussain and Little Zafar Aslam the best of luck thanks

Huge hand took place that doubled Iwan Jones up.

Three hands locked horns preflop - A-Q, K-K, J-J

Jim Reid threw in a couple of thousand on the raggy flop with the Kings and Mateyboy called with A-Q

No Ace arrived, but Jim was left with just 5,050 when the Jack arrived on the River to give the Welshman a set thereby keeping him in the tourney.

Owooga!

el blondie, Ash Hussain, Mickey the Worm, and Stu Rutter of the Bummie Bandits

Just so you know, that last post wasn't me, but the Snoopy.  I would hope that the word 'Owooga' might have tipped you off...

Anyway, they're back and playing, with the golden fried carrot of the buffet still two hour levels away.

This is blondeite and Nottingham regular, Nick (aka vodkaredbull).

Top lad, so worthy of our support.

Don't be fooled by those cheeky yellow chips, they're worth 5k.  ;cheerleader;

It's quality, not quantity, as Dana keeps telling me.  >:(

Good work on the updates guys.
Do you have a prize structure yet? and do you know what time or how many the indend to play to tonight?

Julian realises mid-hand that he really shouldn't have eaten that curry earlier on.

Easy caption!

Oooooooooooooooh matron

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c176/chrisagitate/_38079040_carryon_ken150.jpg)

brian medley still in?

"Hmm. Where did I park my car??"

okay, our efforts are ruuuuuuuubish. Over to you guys, you must be able to come up with a better one than us, so let's hear 'em.

Hi there!

Prize structure is scrolling across the board - looks like top prize is 28,300... they'll play to a final or a set number of levels, which will probably be of a number to end it by 4am, when I reckon is closing time...

never mind the caption...since when did matt take up smoking.. :o

Yes - moved but holding on to 10,300 or thereabouts.

i say that from my heart      POKER GOD PLEASE DONT BE SO NASTY ON DAVE COLC  as he needs to break his bad luck this year  pleaseeeeeeeeeee
  he s a nice gentelmen as we all know and he deserves to win

In honour of Mr Raab's gag in Brighton...

here are those counts I promised you:

(http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/computer/image/sesame/count.gif)

(http://www.wga.hu/art/r/rigaud/sinzendo.jpg)

Only joking, here is the proper count:

hamsterboy -- 25,200
Mickey Wernick -- 2,100
Greek Jack -- 12,650
David Gent -- 15,050
Paul Jackson -- 2,725
Ash Hussain -- 11,075
Steve Read -- 22,875
Paul King -- 18,325
John Hewston -- 13,875
Iwan Jones -- 19,625
Jim Reid -- 4,500
Womble -- 12,750
Matt Tyler -- 8,700
R Mulla -- 14,175
Brian Medley -- 10,725

Can i have some of whatever you've got.

"Why the Fk did i give Colchester Kev some responsibility"

ps is he wearing nail varnish ??

is zafar aslam still in n how many chips has he got

 :hello:         mr mad

Zafar Aslam is OUT

He minimum raised with Aces preflop, allowing Marc Goodwin to see a cheapish flop with K-J of diamonds.

Flop = 9s 7d Th

Zafar bet 5k on the flop and Marc reraised, only about 1k more for Aslam though.

Turn = Qd

River = 5h

After a slight reshuffle, blondeites Pab, vodkaredbull, Steve 'Card Shark' Read, Stu 'Easy Pickings' Rutter and Michael 'Slick Kid' McCool have all ended up on the same table.

Following some preflop action, three players see a flop of 5c 5d Ks

MB checks, McCool bets 1.5k and Pab makes it 3.5k. McCool folds.

Womble Plays a Hand (Briefly) News Now -

He raised in late position, but found another 1,200 raised at him by Ash Hussain on the button.  A fairly short dwell before the face-up pass of 6h 6s - Ash showed him Ts Tc in return.

Mickey Wernick is OUT

He moved his shortstack all-in with Pocket Eights but was outdrawn by 9-7 on a 7-A-7-x-9 board.

Richard Herbert saw a threeway flop of the dangerous-looking Ahrt 5h 7h.  It was slow, at this point. 
The turn, still threeway - 5d.  Check-check...
The river: Qh   Now, with big blind Colin Porter getting out of the way, it goes nuts - bet from Richard (1,600), raise from the button to 5,500, all-in, call!
I am sure someone was expecting the Kh to have donated some chips, but it was actually the unfortunate turned (and slowplayed) house of 7d 7s which lost that big pot to Richard's Qd Qs!

Shortstacker Paul 'Actionjack' Jackson survives an all-in and is now up to the still paltry figure of 1,775

He showed K-8 off by the way.

Alan Barnacle has also bitten the dust.

With the blinds rising to 200/400, here are a few piccies to keep you occupied:

Steve 'Womble' Walmsey
Michael 'Slick Kid' McCool
John 'Not sure if this guy has a monicker' Conroy
Greek Jack

I am currently removing my camera from my exit hole.

The Jackson stare says it all.

Hewston nearly chokes on his mints as he spots one of his yellow chips begin to mysteriously elevate.

Paul Campbell makes a raise to 1,200 in late position, which Marc Goodwin calls from the small blind, saying, "I'm only calling because I've got position..."  The Ace-high two-spades flop wasn't to his liking, however, as he promptly check-folded to the 1,500 bet on the flop.

Tikay has been moaning (in a gentle way, of course) about Marc's persistent calling (and outplaying him on the flop).  A high flop which Tikay bet anyway with his pocket Eights, got an auto-raise from Marc, who happily showed 22 when Tikay got out of the way.... ;)

Iwan can't resist taking a peek at neighbour Jim Reid's clevage.

i belive he is better known as punk floyd

Hey guys,

For those of  you who have not yet won a seat to the blondebash, come and have a free go at it in tomorrow's freeroll on blondepokerleague at 9PM. First prize will also include an extra $100 to cover expenses.

It's free, so why not?

Hopefully I'll see you there!

Snoops/Jen, if you see Pab please be sure to tell him he's a fish. That is all.

Thanks!

Paul Jackson is OUT

3-3 vs elblondie's A-J

Ace hit the board

Jim Reid is OUT -

There was a raise and re-raise preflop (sorry, missed that bit) which ended up with Om Aggarwal on the button, and Jim Reid in the big blind waiting to see if John Hewston in mid position would come in too... he thought (out loud) for a while, and looked on the verge of passing, but put in the call to see the flop eventually.  This, incidentally, prompted Iwan Jones to remark dryly, "I wonder what you'd be like if you had an audience..."

Audience or not, Hewston checked the 9c Kh 8s flop after Jim, as did the button, and on the 4h turn Jim's last 4,825 positively flew in straight away.  A slow call from Hewston, which was probably intended to lure in a potential third player, as he'd flopped a set of Eights.  It was not to be - Jim showed Ahrt Qc and is out just before the dinner break.  I am sure it made him feel much better to hear John say, "I almost folded preflop..." as he headed for the door.

aah, a disloxic Pink Floyd tribute band.

Please let Pab know that to get back into it he should play the 'unsuited gappers'. It's the future of poker.

With the blinds raised to 200/400 a good while ago, the players are rather looking forward to the dinner break... Brian Medley especially laments his card-dead last few hours, and even though he's got over 6k, he has that "all-in" look about him.  If he can put up with it for half an hour, it's at least a half hour's break, and we all know the reinvigorating power of food! 

Speaking of which, I can't help adding here a plug for the Krispy Kreme corporation, who have set up a stand just outside Euston train station.  Nothing like four original glazed donuts to perk you up at breakfast time.  I am loyal for life.

5 tables left...

Iwan Jones -- 20,800
Matt Tyler -- 9,450
Greek JAck -- 18,625
Dave Colclough -- 27,200
Olabode Ayegun -- 7,925
Michael Fletcher -- 25,400
Bernard Litman -- 39,800
Jon Exley -- 12,225
Paul King -- 22,200
Nick 'vodkakingbull' Hicks -- 25,300
Michael 'Slick Kid' McCool -- 11,625

Mark Dyson is down to 4.2k after moving in on Arshad Hussain.

The flop was Q-T-2 and, after a very lenghty dwell indeed, Ash called the 4k raise (plus another couple of k on top) with K-Q.

Dyson called the extra shrapnel but couldn't improve on his Pocket Sevens.

Andreas Olympios, Nadim Lodhi, Lee Edwards, Mark Dyson, Colin Porter and Richard Wong are all OUT.

Well I'm home, safe and sound. I've had my early bath, I've registered for the deep stacks on Stars, and I have settled down in my comfy chair to follow the best updates to be found either side of the pennines.

Jen and Sno0py rock! They kick ass! They are, in a word, BITCHIN'!!!!


 ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;slavedriver;

can you wish Mr McCool the best of luck please, i think we must be related

I'm having trouble with these Northern accents.

Brian Medley, who is on 7.7k, just said, "Tell my lad that I'm going to have to hit t'bar soon cos t'poker is goin bad. I'm close to goin on t'ilt."

Not sure what an 'ilt' is though.

Oh yeah, and Meds, bad news on Mrs Medley, she's just gone out of the Women's Event in Brum.

why do you say that?

Can I move now Mr. Rodin ?

must be a welsh - scottish thing   ::)

BUFFET!!!

bugger ul mum, go dad

So is dinner break really dinner break or is it more like run down the kebab shop break.

Dinner break seems to be in good working order this time. Buffet looks top notch. I'll give it the taste test first.

When I return, which won't be too long, I shall pass on tikay's life story that he just gave me.

Careful you don't fall off the edge of your seat...

Don't give away the ending.

did u wish mr McCool best wishes?

Okay, here we go, brace yourselves.

Introducing...

the rise of Anthony 'tikay' Kendall

Hand 1:

our hero has 7k in chips
he calls a 1,200 preflop bet with T-T
out plucky hero check-raises his enemy all-in, mateyboy folds

Hand 2:

limps with k-t of spades
flop is a rather inviting rag-j-q (2 spades)
chips fly in
mateyboy says 'you must have 2 pair' before calling with Q-8. er...
tikay rivers a cheeky king

Hand 3:

tikay limps with K-J (king of hearts)
Flop comes rag-jack-queen all hearts
mateyboy bets out, everyone calls
turn comes a black king
mateyboy bets out, everybody calls
river comes the seven of hearts
tikay punches the air with delight before betting 5k
mb moves all-in for another 2k with q-t of hearts
he is not a happy bunny

Hand 4:

tikay limps with 3-3
the a-q-2-q-q board is checked down to the river
tikay makes a cheeky 400 bet, which recieves one caller, and still wins
opponent had a 2

phew, we're done

I like the way you're thinking on that one, Ralph

play will recommence in 5 mins

Paul Campbell -- 23,000
Mark Raymer -- 23,800
Ian Roberts -- 21,300
Bernard Litman -- 38,500
Jehan Zaib -- OUT (6-6 vs K-K)
Olabode Ayegun -- 9,400
Michael Fletcher -- 36,400
Dave Colclough -- 25,000
Paul 'Pab' Foltyn -- 13,200
Glenn Ashworth -- 17,600

Stuart Rutter in Shock Threes Out-ing News Now -

After a raise, we think from Hamsterboy and a call from a rather perpetual caller, Stuart on the big blind decided now was the time to pick up 3,000 with a steal-y type all-in re-raise (7,500 more).  He held 3d 3c.  After a while, the original raiser to 1,500 passed, and Stuart was ready to pick up the pot, but no - the guy called, for a good proportion of his stack, with 4s 5s!  A five on the river, and a shocked Rutter comes to tell us what happened...

Go Dave GO Pab

The announcement has been made - they're playing this level, then one more, and that's your lot for tonight.  The remaining players (whom I reckoned would be two tables, while Jon speculated they'd make the final) will come back tomorrow afternoon.

McCool pushes Greek Jack, who had raised to 2.6 preflop, off A-Q with an all-in. He said he was going to show out of respect, but then didn't, and when questioned about it claimed, "Aah, it's all part of the game".

Anyhow, the chips on that table are now...

Ash Hussain -- 12,800
Greek Jack -- 15,900
Andy Douglas -- 6,100
Sammy Cheung -- 16,300
Paul King -- 20,600
Michael McCool -- 28,800
Jon Exley -- 10,500
Gary David -- hands in the way
R Mulla -- 3,700
Paul Hatton -- 12,400

Table tikay:

Mateyboy -- 25,200
Steve Read -- 10,900
Texas Hewston -- 32,000
Brian Medley -- 6,400
Phil Peters -- 8,400
hamsterboy -- 19,600
Iwan Jones -- 16,400
tikay -- 49,500
Marc Goodwin -- 41,300

Woo tikay

John Huckly eliminates Read with a set of sevens vs A-Q

Steve Read pushed for 7k on a 7-K-x flop after raising it up preflop.

Iqbal Patel -- 45,200
Mateyboy -- 6,900
Richard Herbert -- 21,900
David Gent -- 10,500
Mateyboy -- 13,600
vodkaredbull -- 16,100
Womble -- 14,400
Richard Lee - hands in the way
N Peters -- 11,700

David Gent regrets messing around with superglue whilst at the table.

Greek Jack is OUT

He moved his shortstack all-in only to be part of a three way pot with Mulla and King.

It was checked all the way down with Mulla taking the pot with J-Ts on a 7-T-7-3-Q board

The blinds are now 400/800
4 tables left

Mystic Pab just said he sensed some action coming up, and, just as he said the 'p' bit of 'up', we had action on two adjacent tables.

First up was John Hewston reraising Phil Peters all-in for a pretty chunky pot. The board read 8s 4h Jc 6c 7h, Peters foled.

And then el blondie was in the thick of the action. Roberts bet 1.1k on a Ks 9s 5d flop, Fletcher and Dave smooth called. Then Dave bet out 3k (small blind) on the 3c flop, this time it was Roberts who called. Dave checked the Td River and Roberts bet out 6k. Dave called and Roberts revealed a missed straight draw 7d 6d, leaving el blondie to take down the pot with Ts 3s

Having left my camera's memory card stuck in my laptop while happily snapping the last four tables, I've only just now managed to get the pics off the damn thing and up here for your viewing entertainment.  I hope they're entertaining :)

Firstly, an overview of the final four tables:

Now, in case the full import of Tikay's stack went over anyone's head - here's the stack in all its glory:

New neighbours Pab and El Blondie

And neighbours Nick and Womble.  But they're not as close.

does mr slick kid McCool know hes being wished uopn

Paul  'Pab' Foltyn is OUT.

He flopped top pair was up against an open ended straight flush draw, which hit a straight on the turn.

To say Pab's hand was slightly vulnerable would be an understatement.

customer service is terrible, did I not sy that hot dog vendors were a bunch of W*****

tikay's stack has taken a dent from Phil Peters, who has doubled up as a result.

A-Q v J-J

All-in on a King high flop, but Peters spiked the Ace on the River. Sounds bad, but Peters did have the Queen of spades on an suited flop.

have u been drinking??

Gary David doubles up though John Hewston

3-3 vs A-Q

Q-4-5-6-7

cheeky

Paul Campbell is OUT

Ran Queens into Kings

G Ashworth was the assassin

Is that a trick question for Dewi  >:?

Play for the day will for the day at the end of this level.

sounds like you are tired snoop LOL

67 registered for the freeroll by the way .... tell grandad to make sure he is out by 9pm tomorrow night !!!

Have you been drinking?  :)up

I passed Paul King 10 minutes ago, and he was down to two chips (both 5k though).  Then, just now, the button raised to 4,700, leaving a rather committed-looking 5,000 behind.  Small blind Paul re-raised all in, and after a think, big blind Mr. McCool went for it.  So, with all three on their backs, the big blind's Aspades Jd was in bad shape against Ac Ahrt and Kc Kd!  The Aces belonged to Paul King, and the board appeared Td 8c 6c 7d 3d, knocking the button out and denting Michael McCool.  All very good sportsmanship though, hand shaking and the like, although I can only imagine how pleasing it is to get the KK on the button, only to find the one bigger hand preflop in the old blinds...

I have been drinking and would recommend it.  ;goodvevil;

Jon Exley is up to just under 30k after eliminating Mateyboy.

A-K va J-T

Jack hit the flop, but justice was done when the King arrived on the Turn.

Perfectly good English.

Apparently there was a little steamage as this unfortunate river resulted in Hewston verbally stating "I call," and then expressing surprise when the pot was slid towards Gary... I imagine it wasn't terribly easy to put him on Threes.

After raising preflop, Paul King reraises Medley's 1k bet on a 5-J-6 (two hearts) flop to 4k, forcing Medley to fold. King showed a Jack.

It must be Brummie dialect or something.

Just to confirm some exits:

Zafar Aslam
Tayo Ayegun
Alan Barnacle
Paul Campbell
Gary Chatterton
Greek Jack
Mark Dyson
Lee Edwards
Pab
Paul Jackson
Hanif Kazi
Nadim Lodhi
RED-DOG
Barry Neville
Andreas Olympios
Stephen Pearce
Colin Porter
Steve Read
Jim Reid
Stu Rutter
Peter Smyth
Julian Thew
Mickey Wernick
Jehan Zaib

all OUT

And in a moment (the last hand of the night is currently underway) we'll tell you who's still IN, in the form of final counts!  Give us the requisite 15 mins....

It does look like they're not going to be very forthcoming with the old printouts/photocopies, so instead of arguing, we're going to concede and go home (well, to the Premier Travel Inn).  I'm sleepy and Snoopy is going to do what I say...

SO we'll be back with the up to date info at 3pm (for the start) - in fact we're going to try to make breakfast at 2pm.  Thanks for watching, and stick those forks in.

No sign of the chip counts and I'll need my beauty sleep.

We'll stick em asap tomorrow

toodle pip

Thanks guys.

Thanks for the good wishes! I've scraped through to day 2 with 15,400. In need of a double up as I've half the average. Now off to sleep!  ;sleep;

32,900 here, & an evening I won't forget in  hurry. Marc Goodwin, (he was almost unplayable, certainly for me) sat to my immediate left almost the entire night, took my pants down big time, but I got in a few pots when he was AWOL from the table & got lucky. No big hands, but big pots with TT, K-J, K-T, & AK, when my oppo rivered his set of 9's only to give me the nut flush. Lucky boy! Luck evened out when Phil Peters rivered an A on me with AQ v my JJ, so no complaints.

Night all.

PS - I see I have a whole shed-load of PM's, my apologies, I will deal with them post-exit on Sunday.

PPs - Marvellous Updates again from the A-Team.