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Play will commence at 7pm.

Your updaters today will be Djinn and Dino1980.

£750 actually!   ;nanana;  lol

argh, you're too quick for me.

I realised as soon as I saw you watching, lol.

Bah.  ;grr;

Good luck to dino though. It's his debut update today, so please be gentle.

a grand job he will do I am sure.

Will be down a bit later guys. Just the small matter of the 15k online to deal with first (so I suppose I will be down there by about 9ish).

take it down!

GL Dino

Luton is where i first ventured into this crazy world!

You were born in the casino??

 :hello: updaters

grrrrrr.

First update i did, Luton ME with Jen. I enjoyed and helped out a couple more times.

Last update i did, Monte Carlo with you. I haven't done one since.......you figure it out beagle!

The players are milling and slowly taking their seats - another smaller sellout here in Luton, which we can hopefully cover fairly substantially...

Nick was here nice and early, and we've watched a few names you'll know drift through the doors, including Joe Grech, who wants to "let the world know Joe the Joker is here!" and Stuart Rutter, the brothers Khajuria and Ali Mallu. 

Any minute now, expect actual news of play, and after a short interlude (during which I will haggle for the full seating arrangements) a list of all runners...

Nonsense.  He can take it.  Whatever it is that you may have been planning.

 :hello: from Luton.

Players are seated and we're surely only minutes away from the cards being in the air. Other notables spotted include: Willie Tann, Steve Vladar, Bad Girl, Simon Trumper, Carlo Citrone and Mickey Wernick. No sign of JP Kelly as yet though.

Alright Jack has informed us that there are 100 runners, 10 of which are on a self dealt table (it'll be the first to break). Five players are on a complete freeroll having qualified through a Poker Player Magazine promo.

self deal................£750 comp........................the words  piss the taking  spring to mind

DEAL or NO DEALER:

It seems the 10 on the self dealt table were actually reserves (the tournament had a capacity of 90) and were offered the chance to play from the beginning allbeit on a self-dealt table.

i hope the updating wont  be too hectic for you... good luck to stuart rutter!!

Apparently, word from Bhupinder Kholi (at the self deal table) is that Ali Mallu, also at said table, suggested that they all just sit there for an hour, and when they break the first table - theirs - they all just take their 10k and move.  Not that he'd be able to do that, I reckon.  Anyway, one objected, and they're off too.

Taking to mind the spring piss?  :dontask:

Hello jen, and good luck dino.

Piccy of dino's mug please.

And The List:

Adda, Ariel
Adderley, Tony
Aggarwal, Om
Alterman, Paul
Arnold, Michael
Arnott, Mathew
Aslam, Zahir
Atherton, Lee
Baines, Oscar
Best, David
Blake, Tim
Browning, James
Buffenbarger, Jeff
Bunting, Paul
Cartwright, Matt
Chattha, Sunny
Citrone, Carlo
Clements, Michael
Colton, David
Constantinou, Costas
Cooper, Wayne
D'Cruz, Damon
Dargenio, Michele
Davies, Bill
Dborin, Dany
Dell, Tracey
Demetriou, Andreas
Dionysiou, Kyraicos
Donald, Paul
Douglas, Andrew
Earnshaw, Barry
Eddleman, Chris
Ellis, Michael
Fattizzo, Tony
Fontana, Giuseppe
Fronda, Ryan
Garfield, Robert
Geddes, Alan
Goodwin, Marc
Grech, Joe
Gyesdal, Srogd
Handscombe, Colin
Harris, Mark
Harris, Sid
Haxhiaj, Driton
Hayles, Ashley
Higgins, Paul
Huyton, Chris
Khajuria, Chandra
Khajuria, Lalit
Kholi, Bhups
Kimber, Jeff
King, Paul
Kirkbride, Anthony
Knight, Dave
Libertini, Martino
Licciardi, Nicola
Lowe, Mark
Mallu, Ali
Mcbride, James
McCool, Michael
Mcshane, Jim
Miller, Keith
Morreale, Ambro
Morris, Gerald
Moss, Paul
Muskett, Malcolm
Nelson, Ian
Patel, Suketu
Pemberton, Stephen
Read, Stephen
Reardon, Trevor
Reid, Jim
Ringe, Tony
Rogers, Jeffrey
Rustad, Morten
Rutter, Stuart
Samson, Dan
Trumper, Simon
Sergio, Capel
Serhan, Fuad
Shek, Dick
Steppings, Peter
Stockdale, John
Tann, Willie
Turner, Justin
Vaccarella, Giovanni
Vladar, Steve
Vladar, Xuyen
Walmsley, Steve
Webb, Paul
Welby, Brian
Wernick, Mickey
Whittaker, Andrew
Woodley, Ian
Woods, Alistair

The problem is if they need to move a player to the self dealt table.

would rather have one of dina's arse personally but whatever floats your boat snoops.

James, they are using Tribeca rules so they wont have to

First Minute elimination News Now:

Jim Reid bites the early dust as his Aces (we think) fall to Bad Girl...one down, 96 more to go... I'll get some quotes from the doubled lady momentarily.

How comes Simon Trumper's wife isn't in the event? Or is she, but i have missed her on the list?

i do hope things improve when luton moves premesis.

they had a sattelite for this yesterday with 73 runners and in thier wisdom decided that one member of staff could cope issueing rebuys, absolute joke and you spent more time waiting for chips than actually playing.
then with less than 20 left with 10 tickets avialable they decided to go to 5 minute blinds, again imo a joke.

The first bit is mad, the second part i can understand if the comp was due to start soon.

Don't say I don't answer requests... (although I draw the line at asking to take picture of arses):

Here's the nicely-stacked Bad Girl (with new haircut):

The story, then:  She called a preflop raise from Jim Reid with Ac Tc.  Flop:  2c 3c 7c - couldn't be much better, then.  On the flop she just called Jim's 600.
Turn:  3h Now she check-raises from 700 to 1,700, and calls the subsequent re-raise (+2,500) (albeit with some hesitation)...
River:  Td  Now Jim moves in, and call - her Ace flush took it down, and Jim just mucked his hand and went off home.  She says, "I think it might be bad play/call, but I gamble..." 

yeah if u call next day soon lol

Hello to everyone! Make sure to keep some updates coming on Stu Rutter and Paul Higgins. We are watching them!

Seeing as Nick so foolishly did such a great job in Vegas, we've decided to bring full counts from all the tables, in about 15 minutes.  Just to see if we can. 

Stu Rutter got dealt Ac Aspades first hand, but the dealer declared misdeal.  Early tilt!

I say the shortest stack goes

Sid Harris is OUT -

Saw him standing up and putting his coat on so rushed over like the vulture I am:  He held Kh 9h against 6s 6d -
The board:  Aspades 6c Kc Kc and another unimportant card.

Sounds like Jim overplayed his Aces there.

If I had asked for a pic of danas arse would I have got a picture of spoony?

Can you wish good luck to BikerBill from Cheesey please.  The only Bill I can find on the list is Bill Davies, so I assume that's him.

Pic attached for reference.

http://www.cheeseypoker.co.uk/stats/profile.aspx?uid=122

He's likely to get chips or a bus home quickly, with about an equal chance of each, so be quick!

Thanks

Sheriff

Hehe, sounds like his kind of luck :D

Could you keep us updated on Tony Fattizo please. I can post a picture if needed....

He sounds like a gangster!

tony fatizzo long term member of the itb.

hes a bust early or go deep kind of player

Dont forget that tonight is the last sat for the SUNDAY SIZZLER

10pm tonight, a $5 NLHE Freezeout, last chance to qualify for the SUNDAY SIZZLER blondes weekly $50 NLHE Freezeout with 30 minute blind levels.


Dont miss the chance to get in for $5 ..... MEGA VALLOOOOOOOOOO.


Of course you could just buy in direct for the SUNDAY SIZZLER it starts tomorrow at 8.30pm.

Download blondes poker room at www.blondepoker.com

Jim loves a move in on the river.

With the awkward self-deal table now broken, here are about half the chip counts, as they stand as the blinds get their first nudge upwards:

Table Fronda

Capel Sergio      10,825
Paul Donald        8,400
Matt Cartwright  6,600
Simon Trumper   8,650
Ryan Fronda       25,400    (chip leader)
Paul Higgins       13,800
Dan Samson       9,950
Paul King           7,525
Dave Knight       9,775
David Best         9,375

Table Tracey

Andrew Whittaker  12,600
Justin Turner          10,000
Jim Mcshane           13,500
Tracey Dell              9,600
Chris Eddleman       12,200
John Stockdale        8,800
Malcolm Muskett      9,000
Jeff Kimber            21,500
Paul Moss               3,475
Ian Nelson              7,300

Table Cool

Womble             13,000
Alistair Woods      9,800
Marc Goodwin      9,475
Sunny Chattha    10,125
Wayne Cooper    11,900
Anthony Kirkbride  10,050
David Colton         8,825
Andrew Douglas   6,125
Dick Shek            10,450
Greek Jack           10,000

Table Bad Girl

Damon D'Cruz      8,300
Michael Ellis          14,200
Bad Girl               19,400
Stephen Read      12,175
James Mcbride      9,700
Giuseppe Fontana  11,400
Carlo Citrone         11,000
?
Stephen Pemberton  9,900
Paul Webb               9,850

Yes, yes you would.

they had a comp on last night too

the cardroom staff remaining at Luton try hard, its had a lot of upheaval recently with short notice staff turnover and not a lot of management support for the poker room either

Move to a new place coming and hopefully things change for the better

chip count cant be correct for womble- 13k means he must have played a hand and he assured me he wouldnt be playing one until after midnight.

For Services Performed in the Field of Making Homer Giggle, I award you this....

(http://www.problogger.net/wp-content/award.jpg)

This is the (now defunct) self-deal table, but I thought the picture should still go up as it's got more than a couple familiar faces on it.

KingBokker's picks...

Jeff 'Jaffacake' Kimber
Jim '77Dave'Mcshane
Stephen 'Card Shark' Read

womble.paul king and the mallu are my 3.

Tracey 'Ding' Dell, who has won the coveted Best Snack Provider of the Day title - so far held by Alistair for introducing me to sticky toffee pudding, and Ariston for making chips (edible) appear regularly - she brought a giant box of sinisterly-titled Cadbury Heroes, which I intend to dole out in small quantities to the updaters.  Thanks, Ms. Dell.

i never questioned the efforts of the remaining staff more a management gripe.
it doesnt take a rocket science to foresee that the last satallite before the main event would be busy and should have staffed accordingly, if that means recruiting staff from other grosvenors then this should of happened.

Tony Fattizzo?

djinn

news on tony fatizzo please when u get the chance

thanks in advance

itb, I agree...However there are bigger issues at play preventing this recruitment from elsewhere.

I can always make edible chips appear very easily jen, strange that I can only do the opposite with poker chips :(

See you all in a bit I'm getting rather low in the 15k so will be heading to luton shortly methinks.

i understand tighty i just want it made known that i wasnt criticizing the cardroom staff at luton

Russ,

When you coming down to the casino?

str8 away i get knocked out of the 15k mate. why?

No reason, just getting a bit bored on the rail, so someone to banter with would be appreciated.

Jen, Please wish Dingdell gl and give her a kiss from me.

I can't believe you have never had sticky toffie pudding before, It must be cos you're from over twater.

BTW- Whats the difference between uptown and downtown?

except without the tache

 :hello:  hi kids. wrt Luton cardroom, it is being poorly managed at the mo. Never enough staff, crappy structures etc.

 But with Tightend in the player committee and a new cardroom coming up, things can only get better.

red whats an over twater? please remember children do come onto this forum.

No Elimination Blackjack tournaments?

Odd hand, as reported by Dan Samson, involving Ryan Fronda and directly-left-neighbour Paul Higgins:

Ryan raised to 300 preflop, call from Paul.  Flop brought Td 3c 5s.  Ryan checked, Paul bet 800, call.
Turn:  Tc  Ryan checked, Paul bet 1,200, call.
River:  Jh  Ryan now bets out 1,500, gets re-raised a further 2,000 and flat calls.

Although speculation is that Paul Higgins was betting a house of Threes, the flat call on the river was pretty unfathomable, as Ryan held Th Js for the second nuts...

Some more chip counts for you:

Table Smokin:

Lajit Khajuria 5,500
Fuad Serhan 3,800
Gerald Morris 6,575
Alan Geddes 9,100
Steve Vladar 12,000
Ariel Adda 5,875
Stewart Rutter 11,300
Danny Dborin 14,200
Sukeetu Patel 11,000
Tony Ringe 11,400

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Table Mallu

Morten Rustad 19,000
Tim Blake 7,900
Tony Fattizzo 9,100
Michael Arnold 8,650
Ambro Morreale 12,000
Robert Garfield 10,700
Ali Mallu 19,200
Michael McCool 9,800
Andreas Demetriou 9,900
Empty Seat 0

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Table Legend-Wood-Burger

Jeffrey Rogers 10,100
Ian Woodley 10,525
Giovanni Vaccorella 20,800
Michael Clements ?????
Ashley Hayles 6,250
Jeffrey Buffenburger 3,100
Oscar Baines 7,600
Mickey Wernick16,075
Mark Harris 10,575
Ambro Morreale 7,675

'Uptown' means a bit posh; 'Downtown' is where the lights are much brighter, and you can forget all your troubles.

Just to highlight a few blondeites in that list...

Good luck to all of them.

Do you think Mr Seat can still make a comeback?

A drink for anyone who can name my hand the answer is in jen post

Typical these "pros" like Fronda getting lucky against the real deal, Higgins. Go TeamPaul!

That be  Kc Qc for sure

AA

Seeing as your man is so very popular:  Tony Fatizzo (I think)

Thats the fella, thanks.. If you could let us know when he gets knocked out! :D ... Gl Tony.

More chip counts - there's currently five minutes of 50-100, next level is 100-200. 87 left.

Table Grech

Joe Grech 2,775
Bill Davies 4,650
Mark Lane 10,550
Srogd Gyensland 9,625
Bhupindar Kholi 9,575
Trevor Addeley 9,075
Chris Hyton 17,250
Paul Bunting 9,325
Michele Dargenio 7,125
Om Aggarwal 10,180

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Table Tann:

Barry Earnshaw 10,000
Trevor Reardon 18,000
Paul Alterman 27,800
Zahir Aslam 8,000
Willie Tann 5,025
Chandrakant Khajuria 8,425
Colin Handscombe 8,650
Peter Steppings11,925
Brian Welby 6,300

I cede the floor to Michael McCool, who "ran this great bluff against this Scandinavian, Norwegian played against his mate the other day..."  And here it is, in abbreviated form:  Totally blanked out when the preflop action was being described.  Flop:  Qs 4s 7d.  Matey checked, he bet 300, called.
Turn:  5h.  Matey checks, McCool bets 600, call.
River:  A spade (scare card and a half).  Matey now bets out 1,600, but Michael raises another 3k and gets his opponent to lay down his set of Queens.

And then shows him 2h 3h.

"And then he totally went on tilt..."

I'm interested in that hand Jim. Did you put Bad Girl on the bare Ace, or Pocket Jacks perhaps?

Go Alty!!!

i go with the  Qc Kc clubs for jimbos hand too knowing how bad hes running unlucky m8. im not sure wots worse u doing £750 in  5 mins or me not even getting in the place with the useless mangment dealings. well i still have the players comitee to get me out of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul Alterman with chips! fearsome!

Oh, I assumed he had Aces. Yes, from the hand and the tone of Jim's post, Kc Qc doesn't sound too implausible.

we'll try, need you back in the rebuy comps pdq!!

How is it a great bluff? He has a st8.....

evening mrs a hope you r well long time no see. i take it you have left it down to the old man to bring in the house keeping for once!!!! hope too see u both soon at the sportsman perhaps. wish woodley, mr alterman, and joe g gl many thanks

A spade, not Ace I assume

Dont forget that tonight is the last sat for the SUNDAY SIZZLER

10pm tonight, a $5 NLHE Freezeout, last chance to qualify for the SUNDAY SIZZLER blondes weekly $50 NLHE Freezeout with 30 minute blind levels.


Dont miss the chance to get in for $5 ..... MEGA VALLOOOOOOOOOO.


Of course you could just buy in direct for the SUNDAY SIZZLER it starts tomorrow at 8.30pm.

Download blondes poker room at www.blondepoker.com

You misunderstand (or you're winding me up) - "a spade" is not the same as Ace of spades.  And if I were to type in Aspades, that would happen.   :)

A Fatizzmo fact for all you fans out there:

After doing a bit of digging (ok putting his name into google and hitting search) we've found out that Tony Fatizzmo is a bit handy at pool - he's a ranked pool player and represents Bedfordshire B team, unless there are two Tony Fatizzmo's in Bedford?

Tighty, how did you fare in the £200 FO. I didnt take my own advice and they sold out :(
Still room in the chase-limit £100FO  on Sunday night for anyone interested.

lol thats the one!... County match tomorrow, he wont be there if he (somehow) manages to make the 2nd day!

Sorry i misunderstood.

If i wanted to wind you up i will do a lot better than that!


Now can i please have the chip counts for everyone whose last name is 6 letters long, ty.

yes tony has played many years for bedfordshire at pool and has also played for the a team.

as for being any good thast depends on your own standard lol

Surely it's all dependent on how simple you think Flushy is? ::)

I'm sure someone just mentioned Joe Grech...and here he is, enthusiam fairly radiating off him.

 :redcard: :redcard:

interestingly and badly. lol

tony fatizzo is currently ranked 10th in the inthebelly yearly rankings.

that makes him rubbish cos im ranked above him lol


please tell him turny wishes him luck...thanks

twater is that big wet thing between America and the UK.

Ireland?

Long time no c Mr L.Hope u and family r all good.And that new baby isnt keep u awake.

Alex Zane from T4's Popworld?

 rotflmfao

James Browning is Out he ran into a big stacked Ali Mallu.

With blinds at 50-100, Browning, playing a stack of 9300 raised it up to 500 with  Ad Ks. He was promptly re-popped by Mallu (who had him covered) to 2,975.

"I thought Mallu was capable of doing this with a wide range of hands," said Browning. "But i didn't think he'd make that move with aces or kings as he's got position on me and would want to milk me for more chips."

So Browning moved all-in and was called by Mallu holding  Qh Qc and the board bricked out sending Browning to the rail.

Have done, he sad, "Tell him i'm doing alright". He's got about 14k in chips and is at the same table as Ali Mallu.

thanks dino

makes no difference to tony whose at his table for one he wont know who ali mallu is and secondlyhe cant read himself so the rest have no chance of reading him lol

Dan Samson       12,000
Stuart Rutter      8,100
Michael Arnold     18,850
Oscar Baines        7,200
David Colton        9,125
Bill Davies            16,000
Dany Dborin        11,000
Paul Donald          6,950
Ryan Fronda        29,375
Alan Geddes         8,900
Mark Harris           11,100
Ashley Hayles         8,425
Chris Huyton         11,850
Jeff Kimber           22,200
Dave Knight          7,575
Michael McCool      11,425
Keith Miller             8,625
Gerald Morris          7,375
Jeffrey Rogers       14,200
Morten Rustad       17,300
Capel Sergio          6,550
Fuad Serhan          3,200
Justin Turner        14,200
Steve Vladar         8,600
Xuyen Vladar        16,250

Wonga

1st £25,300
2nd £14,400
3rd £9,700
4th £6,800
5th £5,000
6th £3,200
7th £2,900
8th £2,500
9th £2,200

 ;kneelsucker;

 :respect:

Bad Girl's stack has shrunk a bit since her early double up she's currently playing a c.15k stack.

 :respect:

So, recently out is Malc-M - which is a shame as he seemed to be enjoying 'chatting' with tablemate Paul Moss.
Malcolm, "Ruling, please!"
Paul, "Can we have Malcolm F-off back to London?"
pause
Malcolm, "Ruling, please!  Put on blonde - Fatmarra gets his chat banned."

But Malcolm is now railing, after he made his final raise (shortstacked) on the button with the perfectly nice Th 9h.  Jeff Kimber called with his Ac 8c, and the rest went in on the Ten-high, two clubs flop, as you may expect.

We've just entered the 150/300 level. 
81 players remain, average stack is 11,900.

Buffet break in 45 mins...

Some more chip counts for you: Blinds are now 150-300

Table Smokin:

Lajit Khajuria 8,000
Mark Harris 12,300
Gerald Morris 6,600
Alan Geddes 10,300
Steve Vladar 3,100
Stewart Rutter 14,000
Danny Dborin 17,000
Sukeetu Patel 29,000
Tony Ringe 15,500

Here's Mr. Cool earlier in the evening, clearly enthralled by the cards.

Would anyone ever call a raise from this man?

From Marc?

I'd be tempted to repop him.  :D

Table Mallu

Morten Rustad 18,200
Tim Blake 4,675
Tony Fattizzo 13,200
Michael Arnold 12,450
Ambro Morreale 15,300
Robert Garfield 9,200
Ali Mallu 17,200
Michael McCool 12,000
Andreas Demetriou 8,200
Steven Read 4,000

All residents of Table Smokin' do their very best to attract the attention of the waitresses, but to no avail.

Dina must be bending over

Table Mickey's the boss:



Jeffrey Rogers 5,100
Ian Woodley 8,525
Giovanni Vaccorella 17,800
Michael Clements 8,200
Ashley Hayles 8,250
Jeffrey Buffenburger 6,100
Oscar Baines 6,600
Mickey Wernick27,000
Mark Harris 12,575
Ambro Morreale 6,175

Evening Jen.

How are the 12 BSQ qualifiers getting on?  If Lee Atherton is still in say hi from me please.

Jon spoken to you about next week yet?

Jamie.

I thought it was non-smoking at Luton now?

Theres a 150/300 level?

 ;tightend; ;tightend; ;tightend; :respect: :respect: :respect:

I arrived at table Womble to find him mid-dwell, on the river, over a board of 5d 4h Qc 2h 6h.  David Colton in the big blind had just bet into the 8k pot (either 5,000 or all-in, either way it's basically Womble's tournament on the line).  After five minutes (at least), Womble decides to pass, and is rewarded with being shown the Aspades Jh Ace-high bluff.  Which he was beating - but it must have been very marginal - he said, "I'd either look like a genius or an idiot.  Turns out it was genius..."

There seem to be quite a few still doing well - I'll try to do a quick scour of the room for their chips.  One of your guys sadly didn't make it even as far as playing a hand (and he'd come all the way from Ireland) as he arrived after the first hand had been dealt.  I've said it before and I'll say it again:  That's just silly.

Table Grech

Joe Grech 3,275
Bill Davies 19,650
Mark Lane 34,200
Srogd Gyensland 8,625
Bhupindar Kholi 18,575
Trevor Addeley 11,275
Chris Hyton 17,250
Paul Webb 14,325
Michele Dargenio OUT
Om Aggarwal 9K

I caught Michele Dargenio's exit hand, he was in the big blind with a stack of 3,200. There was a raise to 800 by Gyensland, which was called by Hyton. Dargenio then pushed all-in, Gyensland folded but Hyton made the call.

Dargenio flipped  Aspades 6d, whilst Hyton tabled  9c 9d. the board came  5c 7s 7h 2h 3s and was no help for Dargenio

Oh, and next week, sure, you're on.   Must check diary first, but in all probability nothing else going on.  :)

Here's Stuart Rutter, who just described the hand "which has thrown me the most tonight..."  He raised with Ac Qs, one caller.  Flop brought A K 9, he bet around the pot, call.  The turn brought a most likely irrelevant 4, which he bet at 1,800.  He then got just what he didn't want, a 6k re-raise all in.  He spent a while wondering if he was being bluffed (there were two clubs on board), then decided that his opponent was confident, and passed.  He was shown the victorious, if dominated A 10, which was apparently not seen as a hand which needed to bluff to win...

He's down to under 7,000 now, it looks like.

Willie Tann is out.

I arrived at the table whilst Willie (first to act) was contemplating his action on a  Js 5d Qc Qh Tc board. The pot was c.4k and Willie with a stack of c.9.5k bet out for 3.5k. Trevor Reardon after a dwell, re-raised for an additional 7k, enough to set Willie all-in. After a brief dwell and a shrug of the shoulders Willie made the call. Reardon showed  Qd Jd and Tann mucked his cards.

With 6 minutes until the break, they must have reached <70...

Cool :)

Cheers for any info with the BSQ gang.

How are the Khajuria brothers doing? Lalit is Dynamite.

Bad Girl, Simon Trumper and Carlo Citrone are now sat in adjacent seats, piccy to come courtesy of Jen soon.

Not as good as my running aunties kicking in.....

Table Dusk till Dawn:


Barry Earnshaw 1,900
Trevor Reardon 32,000
Seat 3 ??? 39k
Paul Alterman 10,800
Bad Girl 8.5k
Simon Trumper 4.1k
Carlo Citrone 15k
Colin Handscombe 7,500
Peter Steppings 14,300
Brian Welby 27,800

Has Stuart battled back from that AQ hand?

and a chipcount on Paul Higgins wud be nice too, thanks

any chance of an upto date chip count for the legend that is tony fatizzo please

does ne 1 no the results from the £500 f/o they r not on the results section

Et voila -

Break is over.  Restarting play.  I sound like the online Dealer...

as far as i know blonde slick kid won it

Could you find out the count of the guy two to the left of Bad girl, and also his name if poss. I know him, but dont know his name! lol thanks.

Legend that is Tony Fatizzo     14,300

can i not get the results from ne where or could jen do us a favour an post them plz

thanks djinn

He's the only person i know that has a straight named after him.

and  dickhead ray from star city finished 2nd i think

After watching Dino's exemplary chip counting, I have overcome my post buffet lethargy and join him...

Table It's My Turn

Alistair Woods         19,500
Marc Goodwin         12,200
Matt Cartwright       12,600
Dave Knight             8,100
Anthony Kirkbride     26,800
David Colton            13,000
Andrew Douglas        2,000
Dick Shek                22,800
Damon D'Cruz           7,400

Carlo Citrone is the guy in the cap, the guy to his left (grey hair, glasses) is called Colin Handscombe.

Jo Grech is out, Simon Trumper has just doubled up to around 9k

Sorry, not posted anywhere nicely visible; I am sure Snoops will come up with them when he receives them, or tomorrow when it's less hectic here I could badger the staff a bit.  But they're overrun, and the dealers are working pretty much nonstop and short staffed - going to just leave them alone for now.

Both of them are currently sat at a table, playing cash.

Sorry, i meant the left as we looked! Two to Bad girls right, two to her left as we look at it tho, sorry!

Chip count on Lalit Khajuria please Djinn.

Any update on Biker Bill Davies please guys?  Try not to get downwind of him though!

Tracy Dell is up to 23,000 - she moved in on a pure bluff with 5s 6s on a Td Jd 4h board, and caught runner runner 7 8....

No, that wasn't true.  It was a Qd Qs race against Ahrt Kd which held up.

Jeff Buffenbarger just took great delight in winning a 4k pot against Michael Clements. Clements folded to Buffenbarger's river bet on a  7d Th Qs 7s Ahrt. Buffenbarger flipped the mighty  7h 2h

 rotflmfao rotflmfao

He's just raked a big pot and has c.18k in chips, Jen will have the details of the hand shortly.

No worries, his name is Driton Maxihaj - or approx 59 points in scrabble.

Here's your guy (I think Dino's brought you the chip count) - he just won about 6k off Bhups Kholi holding Ad 2h... I caught it from when they both checked the turn, with the board:  3s 6h 4d 3d.  The river brought the 5s, and a bet of 1,400 (just all the smaller chips in Bill's stack, leaving him just one 5k chip behind).  He was called and showed the rivered straight, which was good.

Yep, that sounds like our Bill alright!!

Thanks guys.  If you get chance, wish him gl from me.

Sheriff

EDIT: I somehow managed to put this on the At A Glance thread originally.  Now moved to the correct place.

Thanks for updates guys, good work.

Can we please have some chippycounts on Stuart Rutter and Paul Higgins, if they still in?

Chip boss Driton Maxihaj and Ryan Fronda tangle in a pot. Fronda raises it to 1600 pre flop (blinds 200-400) and Maxiihaj smooth calls from the small blind. Flop comes  7c 4s Js - Maxiihaj (sounds like a cough remedy?) checks to Fronda who tosses three 1k pink chips into the middle. Driton thinks for a while takes a look at his cards (surely a sign he's going to fold) and mucks flashing  Ad Kd to the table, as he does and says, "I was going to re-raise you pre." Fronda, fittingly for this time of year shows  8s 8c

Paul Higgins is on a fair to middling 9,700, and is sat directly to the right of Mickey Wernick, who has the decent to upper stack of 32,000.

Steve Vladar is out and as there is a Mr Cool shaped person sitting in the seat which Stu Rutter had been occupying we must assume he is also on the rail.

We are down to six tables with blinds a 200-400 and 960,000 chips in play the average stack is 16,000. Sitting pretty with 30,000 is Lord Wernick who informed me of his chip count whilst on one of his frequent ciggerette breaks.

Simon Trumper, who is playing a stack of around 7.5k, is studiously taking notes on a piece of paper whenever anything 'interesting' occurs at the table. David Williams once did this to great effect in a WPT event, he ended up finishing 2nd to Negreanu on that occasion.

is the legendary tony fatizzo still there guys? if so how many chips?  thanks

Hi Silica,

Give me a ring.

Cheers

Cotter.

 rotflmfao hi welcome to blonde  ;welcome;

the cheek of some people  rotflmfao

 rotflmfao

please can i have update on pauls chips,thx.

Thanks. Thought I'd put my first ever post to good use, while things were quiet.

Paul Moss is a goner -

He saw a flop with Jim Mcshane - it was Qs 8d Jh... it went in on said flop (Paul only had around 5k, I think) and when Jim said, "You got Jacks?" it became apparent that Paul's Ks Kd was going to be no good... he was up against 8h 8d for the set.
Turn:  Ad  ("TEN" says Paul)
River:  2c   and we're losing players thick and fast at the moment.

lets hope you post more and are more constructive in the future  :)up

has tony fatizzo been mallued yet??

I'm sure I will.

Anyone know how Gez Morris is getting on?

Was sitting next to Monkey Harris and Lallit Kaj last time I heard.

He's no longer in his seat so sadly it seems he's been whacked out of the competition.

pls can i have paul altermans chip count,thx.

oh well thanks for the sad news.

im sure tony went out thinking he had a straight but only had 4 to it  rotflmfao

by the way you guys doing a fantastic job many thanks  ;thankyou;

Many thanks. Blinds are up to 300-600, 69 players remain, i'm off to get some chip counts.

A couple of counts - the players are now hopelessly intermingled, so we're having to do a player database swap (involving trying to read our own scrawled descriptions of players in their original seats - "Does that say 'fat, blue stripes' or 'hat and glasses?' etc.)...

Matt Cartwright      16,000
Justin Turner          10,700
Jim McShane           20,500
Tracey Dell             30,600  ** see below story
James McBride        25,400
Andreas Demetriou  8,100
Jeff Kimber               OUT (or moved)
Trevor Reardon       35,000
Jeff Buffenbarger      OUT  ("I never got out of the box...")



So - I see Tracey's moved in for 12,300 into a pot of around 15k on the flop:  8d 4d Td.  So I run over and hover.  Jim McShane, who'd checked to her, had to think about it...but he eventually passed.  She showed him (rather overgenerously, in my opinion) the nuts:  Ad Jd... And with that pot as they look set to break table 6 she has a pretty comfortable stack for the 300/600 level.

20,500 - full counts from that area of the floor coming from Nick, but seeing as you seem terribly keen, you get a preview.

Can we have a picture of Dina's arse please? Its awesome.

Table Dusk Till Dawn:

Barry Earnshaw 14.5k
Anthony Kirkbride 18.5k
Driton Haxhiaj  40k
Paul Alterman 20.5k
Bad Girl 11.7
Simon Trumper 12k
Damon D'cruz  14.4k
Dick Shek  17.5k
Pete Steppings 11.1k

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Table Billy Davies

Alastair Woods 6k
Billy Davies  18.5k
Mark Lane 9.5k
Srojd Gyensland 6.1k
B Koli - 23k
Trevor Adderley - 2.8k
Chris Hyton -  28k
Paul Webb 16.8k
Paul Donald 10.6k

  PLEASE DO TELL HER ITS FOR ME .
        PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO OUCH:

A raising war pre-flop between a shortstacked (6k) Martino Libertini and Ashely Hayleys sees it all end up in the middle pre-flop.

Libertini tables  Ac 9d whilst Hayles shows  Jd Jc the flop comes  2c Kd Qs, the turn a Kc and the river a zomg pokerstars-esque  Qh

Libertino sheepishly cancelled his taxi and sat back down.

No.  But you can have some more chip counts, of which I am sure you'll be just as appreciative. 

Ryan Fronda      31,000
Ali Mallu            38,000 (?)  Someone told me somewhere in his messy stacks there lurked a total around 50k but I can't see it...
Michael McCool   20,800
Andrew Douglas  19,200
David Colton         6,300
Dan Samson        40,000
Mark Harris          22,300
Womble             22,800
Marc Goodwin      7,200
Paul King            14,600
Andrew Whittaker  15,700

Table Wernick Chip leader. O rly?

David Knight - 4k
Ian Woodley - 8k
Giovanni Vaccorella 18.2k
Michael Clements - 15k
Ashley Hayles - 28k
Mickey Wernick - 42k
Martino Libertino - 12k

As a aside Mickey says he can finish 2nd in the European Rankings for 2006 if he wins this event and finishes ahead of Marc Goodwin. European Number 1 Ash Hussain is currently playing in a £3,000 event in Paris and Mickey says, "There's 50 left and he's got good chips.

Chip count for Driton Maxihaj if possible please. Many thanks.

Chris Eddleman is in contention for the chip leader spot too, with 42,000... but no one has really broken away from the field accumulating a ridiculous stack at this point.  And it's pretty late - this level they're just starting now, 400/800 may well be the last.

He's holding steady at around the 45k mark.

There are 48 players reamaining. Blinds have just risen to 400-800. With 960,000 chips in play that makes the average stack 20,000 and the average M (for those that like that sort of thing) 16.6.

right all off to kip again great update guys and thanks...nite

Could you update us on Paul Higgins (young Irish guy with a big cap) if you get a chance? Mainly because I want to know how he's going, but also that I need to know whether he needs a lift home yet?!

Great updates again,

Stu

Alastair Woods is out.

Martino Libertini has doubled through again his  7s 7h holding against Paul Higgins  Ad Qh - Higgins is down to the felt.

I am now going to post pictures of those in contention for Chip Leader Status - interactivity incentive:  Which one of these, if any, will end the night as leader...

1) Driton Haxhiaj
2) Mickey Wernick
3) Chris Eddleman
4) Dan Samson    or......

...Ali Mallu?

Awesome!  Unknown to legend in one evening!

That chip-stack looks to have stayed remarkably static since the earlier update.  Most unlike him!

That guy in the first pic was the one that spent close on £300 in a £25 rebuy sat - the main reason I got 17000 at add on stage, then proceeded to blow £500 in the cash game very quickly.

Super aggressive and doesnt like putting a hand down.

Dan has my vote, cool calm and collective.

Im cheering on Driton! Good Luck to him, i only know him through Rileys Pool Club - he often plays on the fruit machines down there!! lol

Two out in two hands at Mickey's table, but Lord Wernick was not involved.

On the first hand a short stacked Paul Higgins pushes in for 1k with  6c 6s, Dave Knight flat calls from the small blind and Ian Woodley pushed all-in from the big blind. Knight insta-called with  Ad Jh. Woodley was in front with  Ks Kc. However the dreaded ace appeared on the flop of  Qh Ac 3d and the  7s Qs that fell on 4th and 5th street meant that Higgins was out and Woodley was left with just 400...

which went in on the next hand as he was in the small blind.

Knight, his nemesis from the last hand, raised to 2000 from the button and the big blind folded. Kinght had  Ac 8c whilst Woodley had  2c Qd, an  Ad in the door on the flop saw Woodley walking.
 

He won his seat in yesterday's satellite. I don't think he is the most experienced of players but has told me that he play's on Laddies 5/10 cash tables alot :o

Er, Stuart, start the car...

Simon Trumper is out.

He moved in from the button with  Kd 2c and Damon D'cruz in the small blind work up with  Kd Kc

Driton will get trapped for all his chips. Wernick will come to the fore later on, Mallu will come unstuck.

Chris Eddleman will be the CL. Good player, goes all-in a bit too much though.

He must be super rich is all I am saying ;)

Laddies you say? Hmmmmm whats my Laddies username again?! More the point, whats his??? lol

Woodley unlucky again - that man has had it bad just lately. I was at the same table in Brighton main event earlier this year where he was all in preflop, with an all in nfront of him, I was next to speak with AK and passed. Woodley had AA and the initial all in had KK. The case K fell on the flop.

Hope Not

Driton is superaggressive and bets his draws hard. Good luck to him.

I have nothing against the guy, good luck to him also.

Its not only his draws he bets hard, its EVERY hand!! VERY hard to play against him when ur not hitting the board

He does regularly do his bollocks in the Luton NL cash games though.

Double up for Bad Girl courtesy of Driton...

He limped on the button, and it was heads up as she checked in the dark. 
Flop:  9c 4s 8d.  Xuyen checked, he bet a bit, she pushed in straight away for around 7k more (after the obligatory, "You made me look...").  Call.
She showed:  9h Tc
He showed:  Ad 8c  and was frowning somewhat as the turn and river came Ts Jd to take a chunk off his stack.

Yes he does, so I must know you then??

Going into the final twenty minutes of play tonight, and we're scanning the room for a candidate worthy of Climber of the Day.  Bad Girl doesn't count as she had more chips in the first level, and while Marc Goodwin's 7,900 is more like 20k now that's still nothing on his earlier performances.  We are tentatively going towards Martino Libertini, who got that dramatic double-pair thing with his Ace to stay in the tournament.  If he's still in after these 18 minutes, now, he'll most likely get it.

yeah i know you paul.

In that cash game i sat in the seat he vacated. I nicked a ciggie off you too ;)

and u nicked a couple of me too that night!!!!

In the closing minutes, Dan Samson loses a pot which could have secured him that coveted Leader spot - Matey raised to 3,500 preflop (holding around 16k) - Dan re-raised 6,000 with his Ahrt Qh, and then Matey moved in - Dan couldn't pass and found himself against 4d 4c.  Which held up.  He related this tale to me while overcoming the late night frustration in the smoking alcove.  It's probably good they're stopping soon as he'll find his 37,000 isn't as pitiful as he reckons right now when he returns tomorrow.`

Justin Turner doubles up to 14k when all-in preflop his  Qh 8h out drew Sukeeta Patel's  Ad 9d on a board of  3c 4c Th 8h 7s

Michael McCool raises to 3200 from the button and Andrew Douglas pushes all-in from the small blind for an additional 15k. McCool goes into the tank before mucking  Js Jc face-up, Douglas shows  Kh Ad. McCool mutters something along the lines of, "If i knew you had that i'd have called you in a shot!"

Pete Steppings is a late casualty his pocket  Ac Aspades cracked by Damon D'Cruz's  Ahrt Kh all-in pre-flop. The flush duly arrived on the turn.

Play has ended for the day, players are bagging and tagging their chips. Final counts will follow, shortly hopefully! 41 players will return tomorrow at 3pm with blinds at 600-1200

Hi,

Does anyone know if Gez Moris is still in please?

Need to know if the alarm needs set, as I'm picking him up tomorrow.

Cheers. 

I just heard Paul King remark: "I was down to 2,000, and now I have 20,500."  OK, Paul, YOU are climber of the day.  Congratulations.

We're going to sit in hope that the chip counts arrive promptly, then I shall deliver Nick to the luxury of the Days Inn where he can sleep off his first day's running around.

Back at 3pm for the restart....

Is Dingdell still in?

We're reckoning yes - although you'll know for sure in c. 15 mins when the final counts are ours....

Yes indeed.

Thanks! She's the in form at the moment, I think she will do well. Wish her good luck for me.  (I think you were too busy last time I asked)

Great job guys, see you tomorrow.

ok thanks. Be good to come and rail for a bit tomorrow.

Final Counts:

Dan Samson     24,800
Mark Harris       25,800
Justin Turner    14,600
Alan Geddes     10,100
Steve Walmsley 11,700
Marc Goodwin   16,800
Paul King          25,300
S. Patel           29,500
Andrew Whittaker  12,400

Morton Rustad   12,600
Tim Blake          12,400
Ryan Fronda      28,300
Tracey Dell        32,400
Ali Mallu            49,500
Michael McCool   25,000
A. Douglas         21,400
Gez Morris          34,900

D. Knight          14,500
Chris Eddleman  44,400
J. Vaccarella      19,200
Michael Clements  13,400
Jim Mcbride        53,500
Ambro Morreale  11,400
Martino Libertini  15,000

Dick Shek          13,100
Bill Davies           26,300
Trevor Reardon  32,300
Srogd Gjerdal      23,200
Bhupinder Kholi   24,300
Mickey Wernick   52,500
Chris Huyton      35,200
Paul Webb         8,300

Barry Earnshaw    18,900
Anthony Kirkbride  8,100
Driton Haxhiaj       25,300
Paul Alterman       34,800
Xuyen Pham        19,800
Damon D'Cruz       33,800
Jim Mcshane         20,700

It just remains to vehemently THANK DINO1980 aka Nick Wright for his efforts today - seeing as he has a proper job too he may not be with us all the way through tomorrow, but it's been a pleasure and I am happy to add his name to the "Possible to work with" list.  Congrats, and many thanks.

Thanks Dino!!   ;applause; ;applause; ;applause;

thanks both, sleep well.

 ;tightend;  ;tightend;

one for each updater

OK - just got home - any ideas on how to deal with Ali Mallu to my immediate left, followed by a loud irish guy who is calling me his poker bitch? I'm considering sleeping in tomorrow!  ;sleep;

good updates folks. Hope you enjoyed your wine and fridge full of food together with the early morning crap on TV.

Tell him that he is your chip bitch ;)  it may change his mind

If it is who I think it is, he is a great character - he won the £500 the day before.

Aggressive player, but knows how to play.

Thank you LPG  ::) ;bat; LOL
Paul - yes that him...

Jen too of course, I just wanted to single Dino out for a special congratulations because he actually made it onto Jens list of people it's possible to work with.

What an achvement that is!!   ;hide;