Title: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 29, 2006, 06:33:10 PM The £500 Main Event is underway in Southampton, a town both big enough to be signposted a long way off from the motorway, and small enough that I could find the Casino with no directions and only half an hour of wandering.
A bigger turnout than I was expecting has turned out, leaving 68 players up for taking tomorrow off work should they make the final day. Included amongst them: Tikay (Tikay) Chili (Maria Demetriou) TightEnd (Richard Prew) Joe Grech James Dempsey (Flushy) Michael Greco This thread will get 'lite' updates whenever my Vodafone card looks like it can handle it. A trend in caving to the players' will has continued - the structure underwent a pleasing last-minute change from a 45 minute clock and 7k in chips, to a full hour clock and 10k. I think Tikay might enjoy taking credit for that, but it's no problem to them here, what with a nicely manageable field and all. Title: Re: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 29, 2006, 07:20:50 PM And here are the players who've made it down here and are showing a delightfully carefree attitude towards Mondays:
Adderley, Tony Austin, Paul Baker, Scott Batstone, Fergus Bovis, Steve Bowers, Trevor Bravery, Bruce Brown, David Chaggar, Satpal Chandarana, Harish Cole, Daniel Cox, Ian Curtis, Darren Davies, Allan De Almeida, Carlos Dean, A. Demetriou, Maria Dempsey, James Dorrington, P. Egerton, Chris Falla, Tim Fronda, Ryan Fuller, Richard Gammage, S. Giles, C. Greco, Michael Grech, Joseph Greenwood, D. Harnett, Mike Harris, Adrian Hayles, Ashley Herron, Mark Horbury, D. Hutton, Matthew Kendall, Tony Knapp, Colin Knowles, Darren Lee, Gavin Martin, A. Martin, Lee Mascarenhas, Dimitri McCombie, Marshall Mercado, Grant Miles, Andrew Mohangee, Khalick Mohangee, Sid Mole, Michael Morjaria, Mukesh Nguyen, Vu O'Mahoney, Dennis Obrian, Frederick Palestar, T. Parhizkar, Hoss Penly, David Pottiwal, Balbir Pottiwal, Gurtheerith Preu, R. Prew, Richard Reynolds, John Rogers, Joe Roome, Darryl Russell, Doreen Sandpearl, David Stacey, Calvin Tillbrook, M. Wilson, Barry Winters, Greg Title: Re: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 29, 2006, 08:53:50 PM Maria has had a shaky start, playing, as she recounts it, "lots of mediocre hands, KQ, KJ, QJ, A9, and either missing or hitting and losing..." One top pair into a set of Sevens later, and she's down to 4,100 out of the full 10k. "I haven't smoked for three weeks," she says, "And I've never wanted one more than at this moment." I might go out and get her some patches.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A break is coming up in about 15 minutes, at which point the Second Chance is awarded, ready or not, and that seems like a sensible time to go and count chips. I can say that James Dempsey already has 11,000 without his extra 5k, and looks pretty happy with himself. Jane said that he showed something even resembling discipline, when his AA saw a 4 5 7 flop, and knew to get out of the way of the 57 and 36 against him. Most of the extra chips came when his slightly odd call of the 400 raised in late position from the small blind with Ac Ts came good - the flop was Jd 5h 3c and all three (or was it four?) players checked. The turn brought a Td, James checked and called the 1,500 bet at him, and then checked-called the 2,050 bet on the 4s river too. He beat Matey's Kd Qh, remarking, "That was quite cool." Also receiving respect for his 'overpair' on a 2 2 6 flop, he got two opponents to pass, one his Six, and the other Pocket Eights. He did have 2d 3d, but how were they to know that? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SO - Chip Counts, all of them, at the first break (you may not receive these until the second break, because of our terrible non-connection here, but at least know that they were accurate, once :) ) Andrew Miles 9,100 Calvin Stacey 15,850 Ashley Hayles 12,700 Dennis O'Mahoney 15,500 James Dempsey 15,500 Dimitri Mascarenhas 15,325 Joe Grech 11,700 Bruce Bravery 10,300 M. Tillbrook 18,000 Doreen Russell OUT Marshall Mccombie 13,700 Maria Demetriou 3,825 Carlos De Almeida 3,875 C. Giles 5,950 D. Greenwood 7,350 R. Preu 16,500 ? 9,050 Darren Curtis 21,000 Allan Davies 19,700 David Brown 11,225 Tim Falla 7,500 Tony Adderley 16,025 Mike Harnett 10,800 Richard Prew 8,925 Tikay 6,600 Darren Knowles 4,400 Vu Nguyen 4,600 D. Horbury 13,075 Satpal Chaggar 10,650 Gavin Lee 8,825 John Reynolds 14,825 Mark Herron 16,000 Ryan Fronda 8,000 Grant Mercado 2,600 Ian Cox 3,400 Barry Wilson 11,100 Hoss Parhizkar 4,700 Fergus Batstone 22,000 Balbir Pottiwal 5,600 Trevor Bowers 13,075 A. Martin 10,300 Mukesh Morjaria 9,150 Michael Mole 6,450 Daniel Cole 19,000 Chris Egerton 12,825 Michael Greco 13,500 Paul Austin 4,900 Steve Bovis 25,000 Matthew Hutton 3,700 Frederick Obrien 3,450 Khalick Mohangee 5,500 Harish Chandarana 7,000 David Penly 11,000 Lee Martin 15,000 David Sandpearl 7,900 Joe Rogers 9,500 Colin Knapp 9,075 Darryl Roome 5,900 T. Palester 3,700 Scott Baker 14,500 A. Dean 11,300 Tony Brown 4,100 Gurtheerith Pottiwal 15,050 Adrian Harris 7,800 Sid Mohangee 17,000 I'm going to level with you - I don't really know that many of these guys. I must therefore apologise for any name-spelling problems, my rock-solid excuse being that this is what they looked like on the printed list from the casino, which also, for the record, had Tikay down as Tony Kendel. Title: Re: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 29, 2006, 10:12:37 PM Blinds are currently 150/300
Players left: 46 Average chips: 14,800 No. of times disconnected: 20 Probability of breaking some item of my equipment before the end of these two days: 1 in 5 Title: Re: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 29, 2006, 11:22:29 PM Selected chip counts, as the players head for the Mystery Buffet (I have taken the precaution of eating
a nice cheese baguette, just on the off chance that said buffet may not be all that I've dreamed of) - Michael Greco 14,000 Vy Nguyen 10,000 Tim Falla 5,000 Tikay 8,600 (He says, "Another misunderstanding arose," while TightEnd says "It was more like self-mutilation." Tony Adderley 25,000 (The one continually clashing with Tikay) Richard Prew 21,500 Dennis O'Mahoney 15,000 James Dempsey 56,400 (Dennis says, "I can tell you where those came from, 'cos they're mine." Dimitri Mascarenhas 29,000 Marshall McCombie 15,700 Chili 6,000 Dave Penly 13,000 Allan Davies 56,000 Title: Re: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 30, 2006, 12:11:37 AM Update Post -
So much has happened in the last level, while I have been practising my temper-control talking to the Voice of Vodafone... more on that when I feel like I've done some work, reporting to you these things: Tikay is OUT - he never got above his starting stack, really, and had one of those plays-itself hands to finish him off about 20 minutes ago. He found Ad Qh and raised to 1,200 (blinds 200/400). A little stack called all-in, and he received another call. Flop: 9d Td Jd. No options there - the rest (6k or so) went in; call from JK - no improvement, and quick re-seat in the cash game, where they appear to be playing Omaha hi-lo. Almost hoping my internet had firmly kicked the bucket so I could give that a go instead. Flushy still going very well, and distraught to think that "the one time I get chips, and keep them for a while, you can't get online." Well have a congratulatory smiley, then... ;cheerleader; ------------------------------------------------- Big hand on Table ex-Tikay - they got Aspades Ac, Kd Kc and Qh Qs dealt at the same time as (smaller chipped) Ad 3h. So - the predictable preflop raise-fest occurs, but lets the Queens know by the time it gets back to him that he really shouldn't call. That leaves the Aces, Kings and A3off to see what happens. A big shout loud enough to get my attention despite listening to Tom Waits in an effort to control my rapidly deteriorating temper got me to the table in time to find out that the Kings had four-flushed in diamonds, getting rid of the Aces, while good old A3 of course took the main pot. Title: Re: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 30, 2006, 12:34:35 AM More news:
Chili is OUT - sounded like a bit of a frustrating evening for her, after a tough start and then playing low stacked with the chip leader on her table. Blinds: 300/600 Players remaining: 35 Dennis O'Mahoney 12,000 Steve Bovis 38,000 Mukesh Morjaria 4,500 Dave Penly 27,000 Mike Harnett 14,800 Title: Re: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 30, 2006, 02:15:34 AM Blinds just going up to 600/1,200 in a couple of minutes....
24 players remaining. Bad news for the multitude of Flushy Fans out there - Chip stack has dwindled to under 15k after he limped in the small blind with Jh 9d. Check from the big blind. Flop: Jc 9d 7s Of course, opponent Matey had 7h 7c... Player quote, "Start the car." Title: Re: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 30, 2006, 02:20:57 AM That guy who comes on the loudspeaker at Grosvenors to tell you what's up with the tournament has just told everyone in that creepily calming voice, "The blinds are now 600, 1,200." It's the kind of voice you get told you are crazy and they're not all out to get you in.
Anyway, we're looking at one more level, tops before close of Day One. I'd like to apologise on behalf of Vodafone Regional Operations for the sporadic nature of the updates over here - I promise there would have been much more of the same had it all been easier. Still going to try to keep up with tomorrow - looking for a Prew 1st and Flushy 2nd (or vice versa). Title: Re: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 30, 2006, 02:28:19 AM Flushy is OUT - Finally ran AQ into Aces... but it was the previous two hands which did the real damage.
Incidentally, I know someone was asking about Alex Martin...well, he was Big Blind Sevens Matey in that other hand. Now sitting comfortably on around 40k. Title: Re: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 30, 2006, 02:36:44 AM Michael Greco is pretty short stacked (under 10k) and not in the best of moods after losing this pot:
He was in the small blind, and I saw him call the button's 4k on a board of Jh 8d Tc 5h. River: 3h check-check. The button reveals the (winning) Jc 8h, and a bit of bitter muttering follows, including the words, "lucky," and "f***." Title: Re: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 30, 2006, 02:59:26 AM A few more chip counts, now that it looks like the action may be gently grinding to a halt in preparation for the pause between days (otherwise known as the poker nap):
Steve Bovis 58,000 Michael Greco 7,500 Ryan Fronda 16,000 Vu Nguyen 12,700 Richard Prew 36,000 Tony Adderley 25,000 Jeff Rogers 58,000 Title: Re: Southern Masters Live Update - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on October 30, 2006, 04:41:11 AM As promised, the End of Day Counts, before I crawl across the parking lot to my hotel...
Barry Wilson 13,400 Tony Adderley 19,400 Daniel Cole 28,900 Richard Prew 23,400 Fredirick O'Brien 45,600 Darren Knolls 40,800 Vu Nguyen 27,100 Ryan Fronda 26,600 Marshall McCombie 8,100 Scott Baker 78,500 Chris Egerton 88,800 Jeff Rogers 31,800 Harish Chandarana 21,200 Alex Martin 30,300 Colin Knapp 14,200 Hoss Parhizkar 107,700 S. Gammage 70,200 |