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well here we are at the main event of the week at the Vic. It started about 30 mins ago, and pulled 191 runners.
1st prize is 110,000 with 18 paid places.

They will be playing until 3am

Some names you might know here today are:
Peter Roche
Willie Tann
Brund Fituoissi from France
Joe Grech
Dave Penly
Dave Colclough
Tony Kenadall
Racing Ronnie
John Dutwie? not sure about that surname, Tony's writting a bit hard to read.
R Binelli
Isabelle Mercier
Tony did have a table with:
Tony G
Willie Tann
Liam flood
But has been moved and now has Carlo Citrone, and simon Trumper on his table

Liam Flood is making a habit at these days, ist out again! He'll be getting a new nick name soon.

Martin Farragher just knocked out james Vogl with Poket 2's!
James had A7 of diamonds and was on for a flush draw when two diamonds came in a flop of AQ2.
Martin now has 19K

Very nice.

Some other players who are here are Jeff Duval, Neil Channing, the william hill trio -  Julian Thew, Smokin' Steve, and Bad Girl. Richard Grico, The Camel, Garry Jones, Ram, Philip M, Gary Bush, Tim Flanders and wife who has lost 6 stone!! Well done to Mrs Flanders.

In a three way pot with simon Trumper, and Graham Pound were both bluffed off thier AK's by Ali Mallu who steals a 3K pot. Sneaky.

Bad news for the Blonde team, Dave Colclough is out!  :'(

Blondie v's Brian Johsa, blondie has KK and Johsa has AK. It's an all in job on the flop creating a 18K pot.
The flopn read Q,5,2 - A - Q

And then just to twist the knife and finish Blondie off, was Blondies poket 9's met Peter Roche with AA.

john's surname is duthie (bloke behind the EPT and winner of the first poker million)

mrs flanders is known as pippa, very nice friendly lady and a good poker player to boot

looks a top class field glad i am at home and not losing more of my bankroll

Thanks Ironside. Nice to see our faithfull follower here.

Afternoon Mr Ironside.  Any famous predictions?

Good afternoon Mrs.C, top reporting as per usual.

I must say that I thought that you looked particularly 'hot' on channel 425 this week !

 :P

predictions

hum

1) it will take 2 days to finish
2) more than 30 people will come back for 2nd day
3) 1 or more of the final 10 will be female
4) the winner of the event will not have won a ranking event in europe before
5) there will be over 200 posts in the lvie update threads at end of play tomorrow

btw reevio why aint you playing this afternoon?
or are you already out?

Say hi to Tim and Pippa Flanders for me please. Also Tikay and Julian. With Dave out make sure he treats you to a good night out in town....let me know and I will book somewhere really expensive for you to cheer him up.

Denis

Very nice of you to mention IrishDenis, but I'm a working girl. Dedicated to reporting and interviewing poker players for the poker425 show.
I'll just have to be extra nice to him when I finish up here. ;)

Isabelle now has a healthy 14K.

MRSC dont worry the resturant in the vic is very nice just dont let him fob you off with the 10 buffet.

any news on how willie's doing please...?

Unfortunately I am working rather than playing. I was going to play the 300 tomorrow but now have other plans. Gutshot next week though.

Regards to Peter Leeper if you spot him about Mrs C (hello by the way :) ) and any updates appreciated.

Also someone called Andrew Fields who along with his mates has managed to back himself off the boards to win the event!

being a bit of a mug punter does that mean if he wins the bookies lose a bt of money??

if so i got to support andrew as bookies losing money can only be a good thing

lol. That's about right.

I heard he'd lost about 1/3 of his chips fairly early on

Any new's at all?

but early on is early on the fact he only lost 1/3 of his chips is good as a double means he has 50% more chips that he started with


come on andy

i would guess this early in the tourny no news on carlo is good news as if he was to bust we would hear about it

thank you Ironside  ;)

How's Isabelle doing ?

Was on his table for ages on Wednesday.  Was raising with all sorts but was most aggreived when a couple of us beat his AQ to split a pot with 9 rag each.....  ;)

Only messing, he wasn't bothered.  Had quite a good table really played in good spirits.

After correctly giving the s/f at dublin my 5 to watch are the blackpool raiding party- Burnley john, Big simon nowab, simon the bubble zacharius, steve womble walmsley and the final one isnt from blackpool (but if Tikay carries on trying to steal our players for notts she will be)- Isabelle no mercy mercier.
Any updates on the above would be appreciated Mrs C.
ariston

Any news concerning Bruno Fitoussi ?

i would predict a 3 to follow but after watching rumit beg on bended knees for me not to predict him i decieded my 3 to follow predictions have ceased and i didn't want further embrasing moments in the middle of a casino

i would like to say congrats to kevin o'connel for his fine 3rd in the PLO yesterday though i have been predicting a good result for kevin for the last few weeks it was due but there is a 1st coming soon

Players are off on dinner break. Back in a little over an hour.

Hope the Fish doesn't grab the mike again.

nice job you do on this site for the poker players and very interesting to know if our local players from walsall have got anywhere this week  ??? thanks carry on the good work
                                                                                                       
                                                              newcomer kevin.

it wouldn't have been so bad but that greek bird that was doing the singing was very good and we ended up losing out on time that she was meant to be singing for while the fish played

Sorry I haven't been able to give much report on things, I had to do some work for the tv crowd.
i will however get some chip counts for you when folks return.
I do know that Devil Fish is low stacked and struggling a bit at the mo.

Got a nice wee interview with him for 425.

Greg Hill has 13K

and Greg has just told me that Wiliie busted out, Bad Girl sent him packing.

your doing fine MRS C it must be hard to keep upto date with teh event being spread over 3 rooms and 2 floors

if you get a chance to count how many tables are left in it would be great for us armchair punters

You providing the half-time entertainment Ironside ?

 ;D

Good news for womble he is still in with about 8k- bad news one af my other tips is on his right and is putting the pressure on. She has just lost a big pot to "a mad frenchman" (quote) and is down to 6k. Simon "bubble" zach is on about 11k but nice dave is down to 3k.
ariston

A couple of chip counts, Julian Thew has 15K, Bad Girl has 20K, Tikay 13K

I just heard from Julian that tikay went for a Thia meal!! :o
I have no idea what he could possibly have eaten off the menu. We all know tikay to be a strictly meat and tatties man.

The player on his right is obviously isabelle and the quote of mad frenchman was not hers.
ariston

I imagine Tikay would be oredering egg fried rice (without the fired rice) and chips. ;D

Isabella has 6K,

carlo 8K

Ali Malu 15k
Graham P 14K
Simon Trumper 8K
Garry Jones 7K
Garry Bush short stacked

There are 18 tables left.

tell tikay that both the marriot and the vic casino do wonderfull steak and chips
as a fellow meat and tatties man (anything green on my plate it gets sent back)
its all i eat when i am down there since the marriot stopped doing it's lovely sausage
selction.

little bit pricey when you think i can get a filet steak and chips here for the price of the
steak sandwidth in the vic but worth every penny

143 players left. Official anouncment,

Blue Sqaure who are sponcering this event are having a $50 freezeout with $5000 garaunteed prize. starts at 9pm
http://www.bluesquare.com

any chip counts for joe gresch and the camel please

I'll be sure to fill him in.

Lucky jim Moult 8K
Bruno 8K,
Julian Thew 10K
Bad Girl 24K
Tony Bloom 4K
Anthony Nichols 40K hope there are some nottingham fans on here, he is doing you all proud

Richard Downing is a prize draw winner of Blue Square. This is his first real live game and he is playing solid and up to 28K.

the event starts at 8pm BST and with 35 minutes to kick off only 14 entries seems like great value to me

Mrs C

Thanks for the update on Anthony Nichols and the other Nottingham players - good luck lads. Please keep posting tiheir progress. Tell Ant that me and Sam wish him all the best.

Thanks
Chris

Ive heard a lot about this caramel guy. How good is he?

the camel is a night mare to play against and a top class player

first time i played in the vic i had the camel on my right and
scotty n on my left the camel sorted out scotty n too the point that
scotty wanted a new table as quick as possible without the camel
needing to show a single card

keith also monied in the 750 and the 200rebuy this week
in the 750 he could have easierly gone on to win it till
he got messed up in a coin flip with a huge chip leader on
the final table


off the table keith is one of the nicer blokes in poker

only 32 players started in the sponsors 5K tourny

meaning they are adding 68% of the prize pool with
6 places paying surely a tourny to watch for the future

Hi Mrs C
Nice to meet you todaY,would u be sop kind as to keep me informed as to how mike magee is doing


Jim

Apologies for interruption to service guys, but we are back now........

Julian Thew OUT

Simon Trumper OUT. Tikay limps with AA, Simon picks up K flush draw on flop, flush misses, tikay catches the wheel for good measure. Unlucky Simon.

over the last few weeks you seem to have outed alot of men Mrs C i am starting to worry about if this is a trend start playing poker and you will be outed.

Junior posing as Mrs C here.  Got it all in (15k) pre flop with KK only to be called by loud mouthed Jac Arama with QQ.  He hit his Q first card and showed absolutely no class whatsoever in jumping up and down when it hit (need i say more?! - what a +++++!) - gutted - off home

GREG HILL OUT AND SUITABLY ANNOYED

Keith the Camel is out too. tikay has shot up to 25K but is not feeling too well after his Thia meal.  :(

Graham Pound 25K
Carlo is down to 4Kbut doubles up against KK with poket 10's. Then doubled up again! against Simon Trumper, before he went out, who had JJ with AK which 4 flushes. Carlo moves up to 14K.

Bruno Doubled up to 38K with JJ against AA, hits a J on the flop.

Carlo now out his AA ran into Ali Mallu's 9,10 which gave him a straight. Unlucky Carlo.

Richarde Downing is dping extremely well with over 60K in chips. Is it just beginners luck or is he the next top pro??

88 players left

can you ask the dealers to slow down please i have predicted there will be 30+ left when they finish at 4 am

so what happened to the caramel?

Ali Mallu takes a HUGE loss. his K,9 runs into AA. Leaving him with a rather depleated stack of 4K and no longer bossing the table about.
Graham Pound is sitting pretty with 44K
Nick Whitan 20K

I'll try to find out what happend to the Camel

How is Alan Vinson doing?

S.Fox doing well with 33K

Report on the Nottingham lads:
Rob yong - OUT
Anthon M OUT
Julian Thew OUT
Greg Hill OUT
Nick Whitan 20K
tikay 35K

Appologies on all the outs......

Isabelle down to 6K after having built up to 15K. It's been a bit of a bumpy ride for her.

an ews on mike magee

Jim

CORRECTION, & GOOD NEWS.

Isabelle is UP to 15k after being down to 6k. The previous post was WRONG.

Hi Rhowena,

Please thank Tikay for all his help today. I hope he carries a big stack over to tomorrow. :)

Any idea how Rich Gryko is getting along in the Tourney?

Thanks a lot,
Mike

Bad Girl......1k!

She re-raised with AQ suited in hearts. Flop came 2-7-J, two hearts. Xuyen Bet, Matey boy moved all-inv UTG, Xuyen called. Matey Boy showed T-7 off.....! Blank, then, just to rub it in, another 7....! Matey Boy claims a great play.....

But she not dead yet.

Come on Xuyen!

Smokin Steve Vladar 16k.

Re the Nottingham lads - what about Anthony Nichols? How is he doing (chips and approx position)?

Thanks
Chris

Sorry to report, Mike Magee suffered a heart attack some two weeks ago.
Apparantly he over exerted himself at a gym.

This was told to me by Sonny Osman at last weeks brighton festival.

No further news to date.

Yes I know ,mike and I are good friends ,It was almost a month ago now ,he is playing today ,I ust wonderd how he was doing in the tourney

Jim

Simon Nowab 40k

Jeff Duval 20k.

Bambos 15k

Neil Channing "not very many".....

Most unlike Ali Mallu to lose with K9 v AA !

Ironside how do I upload a pic from a folder on my desktop ?

 ???

Sent you a message Ironside

Anthony Nicholls (Notts)  is OUT!

give me 5 minutes to reinstall msn and i'll be right with you

Willie Tann OUT

Tikay 43k. Nosebleed.

Gary Bush OUT.....

Blinds 500-1,000, Running Ante 50

Martin Farragher OUT

more outings than a hidden camera at a "shy gays r us" convention

Les Dangerous is on tikay's table, & is low stacked, maybe 4k. He is moving all-in every hand, but has got away with it so far.....

Les Dangerous just doubled up again! J's against 10's. Unbelievable

Jack Oramer just pick up a pot of 60K, 68 of spades, op had AA and moved all in. Jack made a flush.

Sorry for not paying much attention lately but 4 of us left for 3 ws(new orleans) packages on bf- will be with you soon mrs c.

Graham Pound who had 39K, has taken a fall to 9K! he overplayed AQ running into AA

Last weeks winner of the Paddy Power Irish Open main event, Burnley John, has 16.5K

Isabelle down to 4K after an ugly outdraw.She had a pretty hand of AK, and Matey Boy had A4, you know what happens next don't you....

yes that's right, the 4 comes on the river.

Well done Ariston.

Sandy

any news on racing ronnie please

That matey boy is getting around this week. Hope I can avoid him in New Orleans  ;D. Thanks for all the support from the rail at the end there.
ariston

tikay knocked out Ali Mallu!

Les Dangerous is now up to 20Kafter being 4K 20 mins ago.

Isabelle fought back to 9K after 3 all in's that never got called - go get 'em girl.

just 7 tables left

Average stack 27K

tikay is knocked down 45K after his AK is turned over by Les Dangerous's AJ

Home now.
140 miles in 1hr 45 mins. - is that legal?! - its what i call a tilt drive!!

will be on pokerstars in 10 minutes if anyone fancies some easy money from a wounded titler!

Foxy just made an all in move and won doubling his stack.

Mike MaGee and Racing Ronnie are both out.

Vicky Corren 30K
Alan Vinson 40K
Burnley John 15K
Jack Arama 50K
David Mermhand 50K
Devil Fish 20K
Bruno 80K
Mel Judah 13K
Sonny Minjan 15K
Prince Charles's brother 30K
Richard Ashby 40K
Brian Johnstone 88K
Foxy 15K

bleeding Jac A bloody rama again gets lucky with his 6-8 vs AA - not surprising!

Bloody hell! what you drivin'? a batmobile?

Now now bitterness won't get you anywhere. You'll get him next time.

we'll see.
i just hate beats like that - especially in the biggies! - and he showed no class when the Queen hit - yelping like some kid

gotta go - traffic police at the door - woops! :-)

David Meramand is OUT
he got involved in a HUGE pot, his AK up against QQ. He never hit.

And how about THIS, Devil Fish has 4's against Matey Boy's AA flop comes A,4,2,7,4
Quad 4's!!

Smokin' Steve has been on a rollercoaster ride tonight, sitting at 15K now, he's peeked at 20K and dipped at 2K!

Simon Nowab 40K

congrats on the new orleans win ariston  ;)

Burnley John Doubles up with pocket 7's v's Alan Vinson's KK. 7 comes on the turn.

Isabelle has rocketed back to and incredible 32K!

54 runners left on 6 tables.

any news on the blackpool lot? if they are still in / chip counts?

nicedave/howard/nugget?

Well the ride has come to an end for smokin' steve, AQ suited against AK.

dave early bath dont know about the other 2. zach went just after dinner but womble is still in.

and thanks ruru. will you email me this week, we need to talk about arrangements etc and you may be able to help me ;)

i might just ariston  ;) I won't be going unfortunately - the start clashes with the end of Heads Up  :'(

howard and nugget weren't here.
Nice Dave is out

Simon nowab is doing very well with 70K
Burnley John has 26K
Womble has 17K

ariston please check your private messages

just fixed Karabiner's photo i am feeling on a roll

Womble his the only man who makes Tikay, burnley john and gary bush look like ali mallu. 17k is plenty for him- top 3 beckons.

How many left in now Mrs. C ?

John Duthie sitting very comfortable with 50K

MSN me ironside.russellcawley@hotmail.com- send me an invite

still got six tables

Ariston, Ironside is top-drawer, even with a techno-dunce like me !

Only took two hours  ;)

it would of been quicker if i didn need to teach you how to cut and paste lol

vicky C just knocked Isabelle out!

ok how the poker going

how many ladies are left in ?

Ironside techno god. ;D

tikay just had a major fall. pocket Q's black against AJ with  diamond.
The flop produced four diamonds and gave the opo a flush.
Poor tikay is down to 4K. He looks sick as a dog.

I thought that was confidential about my cutting and pasting skills (or lack of)

 :-[

Burnley John just knocked tikay out. tikay moved in with his short stack and John had a small pair which stood up.

you forgot to tell me sorry mate

Viki is the only female left

52 players left

OK, I have taken over from Rhow, she has had a hard day.

My exit hand was two black Queens, against an all-in merchant, who I thought I had trapped a treat. But the board came ALL Diamonds, & he had the J Diamonds. Pot was 76k.

Next case!

OK, will sort out some chip counts for you now.......

final table for vicki then

ty mrs thought they was goin down must of come back before the biggie,

love the coverage i learnt alot from watching this :)

thanks!! keep up the good work

The Isabelle Mercier clash was, Isabelle 66, Vicky QQ. All the chips went in pre-flop. Vicky is well stacked now.

UL Tikay- can you keep your eyes on the blackpool lot for me? Burnley, womble and big simon still going ok? whos the handsome bastard on the left by my name by the way?

tony any word on how pippa went out?

ariston it  looks like ming the merciless to me :D

Hard Luck Tikay!! Great Effort. As you know I was unable to play the Main Event today. I have to say that the coverage has been great. Keep up the good work everyone!

Got a heap of chip counts for you, but before that......

Rumit - thanks. I told them you could not play, but they would not give me the money back. My thoughts are with you at this difficult time for you & your family.

Ironside - who is pippa?

Did Padraig play in this?

John Duthie OUT, in a big pot, he had 88, V QQ, and a Q hit the turn.....

I sat with Vicki earlier - and you are right!! - she really is WELL STACKED!! :-)

pippa flanders (tims better half)

you never played ????

admit it cube it was just cause you were scared i was going to predict  you would win it

Reading between the lines ironside rumit obviously has problems away from the table.
back to the poker how is the blackpool to nottingham ratio looking tikay?

Les Dangerous 30k - he said - in French - "please say Hi to my wife".......

Vicky Coren 90k

Womble 20k

Nik Whiten, the sole Notts survivor, 50k

Stuart Fox 33k

Simon Nowab 85k

Chris Singh 45k

Devilfish 45k

More to follow......

I am FAR too busy too answer silly questions like that Ariston......

bad kuck tikay good effort ,keep up the good work

CelticTiger (Da Puss)

come on stuart and Nick.
Vicki done well, she was down to 5k at first break.

that means blackpool is winning i would imagine ? :)

means its 5-1 blackpool

good lads where i play 3 times a week!

tikay just incase you missed my early predictions i'll restate them

1) it will take 2 days to finish
2) more than 30 people will come back for 2nd day
3) 1 or more of the final 10 will be female
4) the winner of the event will not have won a ranking event in europe before
5) there will be over 200 posts in the lvie update threads at end of play tomorrow


i think i could be onto a winner here

Prince Charles Brother - I can NEVER remember his name, nice chap though, 70k

Brian Johnstone 70k (down from 100k)

Trever Reardon 33k

Richard Ashby 120k

Burnley John 30k

Jac Arama - who has put 3 ugly outdraws on guys tonight, followed by "KARUMBA", which is pretty galling for the loser, 41k.

MESSAGE FOR ARISTON, M IRONSIDE & S WOOD.

Any more pro Blackpool remarks & you will all BE BANNED. So there.......

Interesting predictions there Ironside. Course, you have to get ALL five corect......

Look if blackpool get 3 players through ;D to day 2 to nottinghams 1 :'(it doesnt mean we are better. It would however give a good indication to any firm wating to price up the match. Whats the film where the line " we are have giventhem one helluva beating" ?This is already ringing in my ears in preperation for next month  ;).

Well Ironside, at least this is one weekend where I have not had pocket aa cracked in a main event! I think people tipping me to win a main event is a thing of the past!! Might even help with the pressure off! Thanks for asking about the refunds Tikay. Looks like a day trip to London sometime soon.

I was already typing this before the ban threat but my point still stands ;D ;D ;D ;D

5-1 to Blackpool? You seem to be forgetting there are other Notts players still in. Devilfish, Richard Ashby, Les Dangerous, & Simon Nowab, who played at Noltts this week, & is thus cup-tied.

wait a minute i am neutral here

i am just stating that the notts players are running as cold as ironside

while the blackpool players are hotter than isabelle

impossible ironside. nothing is hoter than isabelle ::)

not sure about that hear alot of good things about you

lucky for me havent had to face you over the felt

anyway nice chatting on thursday morning

No, Padraig did NOT play today, so far as I know.

Kevin O'Connell was entered, but did not wake up until 5.30pm. The comp began at 3pm........

ok nearly as hot as isabelle then

Isabelle close up aint all that you know!
Love is blind when you get to Tikay's age :-)

arrm well i aint a blackpool lot i started in salford so thats where me roots are even though i dont offten go there now and im allways in blackpool,  so im just sporting my sorta locals,

um does this mean the ban threat is lifted?

off to bed now- the single malt has all gone and the celebrating feeling has worn off to be replaced by tiredness. will leave forum on for next 10 mins as i am expecting a text from womble but then im off

excuse me tikay introduced her to me on thursday morning around 4 am and she looked pretty damm hot close up to me

Ironside, Ariston, even Junior. SHUT IT. Right? Right.

shouldve gone to specsavers..spent a bit of time with nomercy in monte carlo and she is lovely if you are not staring at her over the table that is.

see junior look what you have done now

We are not going to get a keeganess rant from Tikay are we? I WOULD LOVE IF IT WE BEAT THEM, REALLY LOVE IT!!! >:(

Ironside & Ariston are BOTH reprieved, because they are rfight about Isabelle.

woops! - upset him now.

ok, i take it back isabelle is 7/10

phew i thought i was on my last legs there

Tikay on a 5 minute break now, quick drink with Dave C & Mrs C.

Back in 5 mins boys.......

Rory Liffey?

i would love to meet an 8/9 or 10

infact i would love to date a 7/6/5 or 4 if isabelle is only a 7

LOl at ironside. If id said that i wouldve been crucified. Some of the best oneliners were on pheonix nights - to use a quote If you carry on tikay will" let your bloody tyres down"

Night all and thanks for the support tonight from any of the forumites on here.

Is there anyone left in this tournament who ISNT from Blackpol  or Nottingham?

No, not seen Rory Liffey tonight........

how many left in tony?

Wish I had not had that 5 minute break, I started thinking about how that guy could move in on me with AJ off.......Still, I had GREAT value. 5 diamonds? Pah! POO!

Rory played. he was sat behind me early on.  he went down to 5k quickly and never recovered.

Just gonna have a "table walk" Ironside, & will find out for you, then some more chip counts.

Ahh, thanks Junior. These Notts boys know everything.

make it quick tikay 15 minutes then bed for me still trying to recover from the flight home

33 left Ironside, 3 tables of 8, 1 of 9. How many did you predict would return for Day two?..........

Chip counts next.....

more than 30 guess it will be nearer 22 those dealers at getting better dealing nearly 2 hands an hour more than this time last year thats my excuse and i am sticking to it

Right, chip counts.......

Les Dangerous 35k

Nik Whiten (Notts) 55k

Chris Singh 50k

Devilfish 120k

Bruno Fituoissi 125k

Mark Banin's Brother 95k

Trevor Reardon 64k

Stuart Fox 28k

Simon Nowab 110k

Womble 20k

Jac Arama 30k

Vicky Coren 85k

Devilfish has had mixed luck tonight, but he is moving ominously through the field now.

He had 44 against AA, & the AA hit a set, & Dave caught Quads.....

Next hand, against the same fella, Devilfish had KK, & Matey Boy had A-T, & caught his A.

What comes round, goes round.......

Devilfish looks set to make a play to win this now......

he won this last year when it was called the british open

Well he may well repeat the trick this year Irinside. Has he ever won a Ranking Event in Europe, I wonder.....? ;)

i am off to my bed everyone you can all slagg me off now


good luck to everyone still playing

I missed Richard Ashby in the last round of chip counts I think, he has 100k-ish.

There are 29 players left.......

I may have put the mockers on Devilfish, word is he's just lost a monster pot. He had TT, Chris Singh had 99, & a 9 hit the turn.

Not sure if he is out or not, gimme 30 secs.......

Yes, Devilfish is OUT. Pot was 200k+, & it went to Chris Singh. Chris had 99, Dave had TT. Trust me to tip The Devilfish to win this 2 minutes ago......

Jac's extraordinary luck this evening seems to be running out, he is down to 13,900.

and i thought i was the worlds worst tipster

and you had all the info where i only get half the facts

think you should quit making these wild predictions


ok now i am off to bed

26 runners left....

More chip counts now......

Philip Marmostein 55k

Horace ? (he Finalled in the 750 earlier this week, don't know his surname), 100k.

Stuart Fox crippled, he went in with AT v AK, & is down to about 2 or 3k.......

Stuart Nash is on FIRE, he has about 140k......

Play finishes in about 10 mins......

Pah! Stuart Fox is OUT.

Unlucky Stuart, but your day will come soon enough.....

Jan Boubli, France, has about 100k. This was the gentleman who I thought I had trapped with my QQ, he had AJ, including the J of diamonds, & the board came all diamonds. I was told by a well respected face tonight that many consider Jan to be one of the finest players in Europe. Well, there you go.

Ok, the last hand is being dealt right now......

We will see if we can get the Overnight Chip counts for you.......

Nik Whiten of Notts has 70k ish.......

Proper counts will take a while........

Les Dangeroux has 38,200.......

And he sends his love to his beautiful wife.........

Les Dangeroux sends this message to his lady wife....

"Bizou Silviane"

xxxxx XXXXXX XXXXXX

and I send it back to you Tony xx.

Great work, unlucky with those queens.

Thanks Bobby. Thought tonight was gonna be my big one, but there you go..........

Me too Tony, I had a good feeling.

See you later m8.

Well, I went in well ahead, so I ain't upset. That's poker, the breaks go both ways.

Right, got the Chip counts......

Table 1, in seat order.....

Stuart Nash, 164,200

Ian Woodley 44,000

Jac Arama 5,600

Vicky Coren 74,800

Jan Boubli 93,900

W Woolridge, 26,100

J Willis 37,500

King Richard Ashby, 128,200

Table 2, in seat order.....

Trever Reardon, 88,500

R Donning, 44,500

C Alp, 60,400

C Banin, 85,000

Bruno Fitousi, 155,300

Simon Nowab, 107,900

C Gabriele, 45,800

P Murrell, 76,300

And lastly, table 3, in seat order......

D Santilli, 53,900

Nik Whiten, 76,900

Philip Marmostein 41,000

Andy Church, 65,100

Horace Harvey 87,900

T Tanchel, 45,300

R Cohen (Les Dangeroux) 38,200

Johnson (think this should be Brian Johnstone) 18,100

Play resumes at 2.30 pm Sunday afternoon. blonde will be there. Join us!

The final word this morning is a big up to the Management at The Victoria Casino. Poker 425 have been filming today (and will be again tomorrow, including the Final) & The Management have been incredibly helpful & co-operative. Likewise, the help extended to blondepoker by The Vic is much appeciated. Thanks guys!

Goodnight all.

And good luck to all those who return for Day Two.

Updates will resume today on a new thread  entitled "The Vic Biggie -  Day Two".

And tikay managed to miss the chip Leader, Chris Singh, with 265,000!