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Here we are guys, all set up & ready, information about the set-up here at the Vic today - which is very unusual, by the way - will follow shortly.

Hello and Good Afternoon :)

I'm here between trying to look like I am writing a very important piece of work and jollying about on here :)

Have we got some controversy?

Heid
xx

Hi Tikay, I'm with you.

GL

Just heard from "Thee from Thine"  HE HAS DRAWN DAY 2 .... Burnley and Chubbs are still in the queue

Who are most famous participants?

Unfortunately Maruxz, i couldnt play this year... filming the final scenes of my latest movie today, and then i have numerous TV and Radio appearances booked for tomorrow morning, my agent has managed to keep my schedule free for Saturday evening and sunday though, so I may make an appearance to cheer on a few friends then.  I can normally be found at the bar area on the first floor...  you wont miss me, just follow the hoards of excited women clamouring for an autograph  :)

Chubbs and kev O'connell play today ... Burnley and "thee" play tomorrow

by the way tikay...Robert and Heid have "offered" to do a live update from Gutshot tomorrow night....it will be good to have parallel updates running


good luck to all blondeites who draw this pm

and to tikay at gutshot tonight

Jen is here, but struggling with her new Vodafone Thingy, she can't seem to get the Adult Content Bar lifted - Vodafone apparently deem blonde as"Adult Content".

I gather that of the 256 seats offered for sale, 234 have been sold.

Come on Jen, I NEED her to get up & running, I can't recall being so strressed since I retired.

I loved you in " CRACKER ",Kev, any chance of a new series ;D

Colch, are you at the Vic at the moment, or just the weekend?

Maruxz,

Hi.

Most famous players here?

Well, of those I have actually SEEN so far, I'd say Greg Raymer, Dave Colclough, Tony G, Joe Beevers, Barny (or was it Ross) Boatman, Sverre Sundbo, Henning Gradstad.

Jen seems to be "connected" now, so I'm off on patrol, try to calm myself down, I am wound up like a spring.

Welcome Maruxz to your first blonde Live Update. It's gonna be fun.

TE. Prob get there tomorrow.

I know it ....  GFY ;)

Hello - finally Vodaphone have deemed adult content to be appropriate reading material for yours truly.  And as a fringe benefit, I can help with the update.

Looks like it wil be pretty frenetic, as there are a couple of sim cards short of a...well, enough.  So the lovely people from Antes Up as well as the maverick Update King Rolf Slotboom will be hanging around in our corner.  Nothing like a bit of extra technology to make one look popular.

shoes comfy today?

I better not ask what the deleted thread was about then Eh Tikay. ;)

Any of the Walsall, B Ham guys there Tikay,and keep up the good work we are relying on you pal.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Good to have you back Djinn... are you going to spoil us later  ...with piccies ?

hello jen and tikay, will be watching when i can, actually working today, nice to see you are back jen, i hope tikay makes it through the day ;D

Very comfy, thank you.  We hear that Eddy (web designer and masterer) has another good digital camera and he may (if we ask nicely) bring us far better quality snaps than we are capable of taking ourselves.

There has just been an announcement regarding the Start Day Draw - any player found swapping his start day will be disqualified... We don't know everyone's day yet but when they get it they'd better keep hold of it.

About half an hour til anything resembling poker starts to happen

Any info on the omaha tourny, or list of finalists please

Further "bumped into's.......

Luca Pagano - complete size 27 shoes, or "canoes".

Lawrence Gosney

Dina, THE World's most hunky dealer just gave me a hug and a kiss. i feel MUCH better now......

I'm pretty sure girls don't like being referred as hunky...

she's not hunky....tikay say hello to dina from me...please  :-*

Ohh Mr K ..Say hello to Mr Gosney for me ... he was on my table when he was witness to my very poor play at sheffield Wednesday night ...JJ V AA...I actually put myself out of the tourny .. :-[

Hi Tikay Jen,

Just made a long post and it disapeared when i hit the post button,

Dave Clayton is playin today and has drawn F2 can you keep an eye on him please.Hope your finger are warmed up n ready to rock n roll. G L to all blondites

 Cheers Bubble

Hello all watching - Yes, consider F2 covered...

I am still waiting on the full lists of who's drawn which day, but spotted taking their seats are:

Simon Nowab
Pascal Perrault
Barny Boatman
Ram Vaswani
Mike Lacey (of Antesup fame - qualified so cannot update - I'm sure he's gutted)
Bad Girl
Dave C
Julian Thew (although not sure if he's playing today yet)

All the Norwegians will also be covered thanks to a combination of my notepad and Woody's knowledge of their names and what they look like.  Due to the connection shortage, we've all banded together to help each other cover the counts etc.

Hi,

Any sign of the legend Mr Willie Tann at the Vic today...?

he's just nipped out for a quick fag

I have yet to see the inimitable Mr. Tann, but this doesn't mean anything conclusive - the players are taking their seats and Rolf and I will do our first full scout as soon as it kicks off.

Omaha results please

What is Eddy doing? Is he taking pictures of players?

I'm sure all the players will be relieved you're updating and not playing against them Jen.  ;)

More hugs, from Isabelle (playing tomorrow) and Bad Giirl (playing today).

I get stressed out about the UK Poker stuff, then they calm me down with a hug, then I get stressed again, more hugs......

Julian Thew is playing today.

Jen, working as a team with Woody from Norway and Rolf Slotboom from Holland, is compiling a Master List of every player that the 3 of them, collectively, know or recognize, & we'll post it as soon as it's done.

maruxz - Yes, Eddy is taking pics for bolnde right now,.

I know it - yes, we will get the Omaha results as soon as we can, it's just a wee bit busy here right now.

I believe one of the Chandra brothers won, but I'll confirm that as soon as I can.

Here Tikay, this should make you laugh, it's called: "A History of Boats."



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Do you mean the Khajuria brothers? Chandra and Lalit.

Gl blondes, and gl blonde updaters!!!

See you all tomorrow!

Hello folks,

long time Irish lurker here and big fan since last year.

Can you please tell Tom Murphy of Antes Up that his site is down? I'm sure he knows but it will add to his stress! And will you tell him that his arch-nemesis informed you and wishes Mike Lacey good luck too.

Thank you!

btw, it's none of my business why you are having a problem with UK Poker but if you are refering to a certain portly gentleman with the initials MS then I wouldn't allow it to happen. I shall take him down in a 5 euro rebuy game here in Dublin as retribution.

Des  :)up

After a little delay, we are starting - with two players having been eliminated for swapping start day cards.  They're not messing about.

Somehow despite having been allowed an extra half hour, about a quarter of the players weren't in their seats when we did the first recce, but here's who we spotted (Thanks to Rolf for spelling their names)

Table D deserves a special mention - it has upon it Dave Colclough, Stuart Nash, Simon Trumper and Mike Lacey.  Going to stand near that one; pity it's in one of the downstairs sections and we're on some chairs upstairs...

Also Playing:
Willie Tann
Sverre Sundbo (go!)
Jan Boubli
Ben 'MilkybarKid' Grundy
Sven Polarski
Michel Abecassis

Who got kicked out??

Tell us all.

Yogi

Hi Doc, welcome to non-lurker status!

Tom is sitting right next to me and from the look of concentration on his furrowed brow, he knows all about it, but thanks you for your concern...

helllooooooooo   jen  and all

shame u can't be at the palace tonight :(

Thanks No Flops. THAT made me smile.

AJ - yes!

any news of dave shallow (dubai millenium) would be appreciated - he`s on table K , hopefully drawn next to simon trumper

Now that I would pay good money to watch  :)

It appears that the delay might have had something to do with the wrong chips (EPT satellite ones) being given out instead of EPT proper ones.  That has been remedied.  It's an easy mistake to make - Rolf and I just stood getting the names of six players playing cash before we noticed that the chip colours looked a bit odd.

Afternoon all - quick question...

Is there an auto update type function/setting on here that would do away with the need to constantly refresh the page in order to keep up with the latest posts (I'm lazy) ?

Keep up the good work

just hit the F5 button on your ketboard mate

Now that they're playing and in their seats, we've spotted some more people we recognise:

Vicky Coren
Mikael Thuritz
John Gale
Lawrence Gosney
Richard Gryko
Michiel Brunnelhuijs
Kirill Gerasimov
Kevin O'Connell
Peter Eichhart
Pete Gunnarsson
Jan Sjavik
Paul Roper (he's Irish, assures Mike Lacey, sat two to his right)

Any news about our european champion Tony G?

any tips? i fancy the crazy horse to go deep in this one

The TV Table is behind a giant Pokerstars.com screen type thing, and takes up as much room as any of the other mini-tournament-areas... There are a couple of rows of benches for spectators, and I think I can hear continual hand announcement coming from in there.  Should make my job easier - just listen for "All-in."  I only know one person on it by name, and that's Greg Raymer.

tell raymer action man says you are a leg end

I was introduced to Greg Raymer on wednesday, had a 5 min chat with him, and then on thursday he spotted me and greeted me like a long lost friend and remembered my name ... Im always impressed when people take the time to actually do that, a sign of class IMO .

Guess that kilt and wig made an impression then !

 ;)

Yes, Greg Raymer seems a very classy guy.

Thanks

Jen here - due to the computer shuffle with our updater friends, we may have a little of this name-stealing...

So here's my full chip count for you:

Paul Roper 11,500
Stuart Nash 6,850
Simon Trumper 12,000
Sven Polarski 13,200
Ben Grundy 10,700
Julian Thew 13,000
Kirill Gerasimov 14,700
Michiel Brunnelhuijs 8,775 (he's Dutch - thank Rolf for the correct spelling)
Jan Sjavik 9,100
Vicky Coren 10,600
Mikael Thuritz 11,400
Kevin O'Connell 7,400
John Gale 12,000
Martin Knaape 16,000
Lawrence Gosney 9,000
Richard Gryko 9,250
Dave Colclough 10,300
Pascal Perrault 14,800
Barny Boatman 14,000
Ram Vaswani 10,300
Mike Lacey 10,000
Simon Nowab 9,400
Bad Girl 11,000
Dave Clayton 11,000
Sverre Sundbo 6,000
Jonas Helstokkjr 13,500
Anders Berg 10,250
Kjersti Grini 10,450
Willie Tann 8,700

Hi guys, I'm playing the Gutshot tomorrow but will try to set off early so that I can call into the Vic and see you all

Smoke me a kipper!

can u tell me if m wernick is there

Micky Wernick? Not seen him.

RED, do you know what time kick off is at the Gutshot tomorrow and the Day 1 Part 2 at the Vic, anybody?

I know Gutshot is 8pm, and I'm hoping to follow someone to there from the Vic cos I don't know the way

You didn't really think I was coming just to see that rabble did you?

Robert - 3pm here at the Vic; 8pm at Gutshot.

We have also been warned that we're looking at a 5am finish so get comfy.  Blinds currently at 50 - 100.  Full structure when I can nab one of the sheets.

Early casualty in the form of Gavin Simms, whose AA was repeatedly called by the 5 5 of someone of the Scandinavian persuasion... one of the fives four-flushed to knock him out.  I sympathise.  One for the Swedes.

By the way, Ironside is not too well, hence his absence. He says "it's just a bug", but, whatever, I hope he's soon feels better. A Live Update without him around lacks something, especially as we have so many Norweigans here with us today.

Richard Ashby has found himself on the TV table with Mr. Raymer.  He describes it as "a bit slow."  I think there's a lot of folding which I am sure makes for riveting viewing.

The booklet from the Vic actually says they're playing down to 16, or 4am, so there's a slight reprieve.

Structure looks like this (one hour blinds):
50 -100 (currently)
100 - 200
200 - 400
300 - 600
400 - 800 ante 25
600 - 1,200 ante 50
800 - 1,600 ante 100
1,000 - 2,000 ante 100
2,000 - 4,000 ante 200
3,000 - 6,000 ante 300
4,000 - 8,000 ante 500
5,000 - 10,000 ante 1,000

This is bad news - John Gale is OUT.

And Simon Trumper just took a big hit. Board was.....

 ah 7h 7s qh 2c

Simon had  kh 9h for the Nut Flush, but Matey Boy had  qd qc for the boat.

Nasty, of course, I could have got away from it

Hi Tikay and Jen,

thanks for the updates. Any news on Barny and Ram would be great.

Cheers,

Joe
PS get well soon Ironside  8)

Ever popular Sverre Sundbo news now - down to 4,000 very early on (QQ JJ 10 10 9 9 and QQ again did him no favours), he's rocketed back to 16,000 in a matter of minutes, crippling the other Norwegian on his table in the process.  Something about both flopping trip Jacks, but a higher kicker belonging to Sverre.

Bad Girl has been taking a few hits, but her early chip lead meant that it's all sustainable (20k t0 9k to 25k to 8k at present).  Just recently I saw a bet and call on the turn with the board like this:
 5d td jh 8h.  When the  ad hit on the river, she had to call another bet only to see QK for the straight in the other guy's hand.... She describes her afternoon as "Up down, win loss" - so like a poker game then.

tikay, jen...I was introduced to vicky coren the other night

I tried to persuade her to post on blonde and after a bit of badgering she agreed


tell her tight end says hello...she'll remember the name because she wondered if the name referred to, er, the subject of her film she once made ;)

Here's Bad Beat Channing chatting to a proper poker player.

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Well, is she hunky, or is she hunky?

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Joe,

Hi,

Bad news I'm afraid, Barny is OUT, he just walked into a nut flush, and was a non-believer, calling on the end. Pah!

Ram's chips: 13,200 at last count

Two tables have been broken so I am going to do a search for all the players previously on them momentarily.

Other counts from last wander:
Pascal Perrault 18,600
Bad Girl            8,500
Sverre Sundbo 17,500
Anders Berg     6,700
Mike Lacey       9,800 (whose play of the day so far is calling Simon Trumper with A high on a paired board with a flush possible, and winning)
Balrog             9,900
Bvdahl            7,500
Greg Raymer   16,000 (hard to tell, though, as we're not allowed on the little stage thing)
Willie Tann       6,400
Vicky Coren     11,000
Mikael Thuritz   10,000
Peter Eichhart  14,000
Lawrence Gosney 6,600

Here's Luca Pagano's shoes, which are ex-canoes.

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Thanks for that and the update, keep smiling and get some of those steak sandwiches down you  :D

We have been notified by the ever-watchful Joe that the dinner break (a full hour) is coming up in about 9 minutes' time.

Hi Team

Would love to watch the reports  however last day of the Quarter I'm on a Sales Team night out.
Fully expensed. So Come midnight when I get in i'll catch up then. Good luck to Julian and all the good guys.

P.S Sorry in advance for all the S*** I'm going to post when I get in feeling very ~:

Regards

M    

 

Good luck to the blondes!

hope all goes well...

Hi Jen and Tikay,

Is an American player called John Caldwell playing today?

Give him my regards and tell him I'll see him on Monday after he wins this one  ;)

Thanks.

Hi Joe

Yes get well ironside, get back to bugging us we miss yer

Phil Quayle asked a question yesterday, & the Gent on the right is thinking aboiut his reply.......

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Hi Jen and Tikay, been out all afternoon- did I miss anything  :-[ Will be glued to the updates and please keep your eyes on chubbs,Kev Oconnel and Dave Clayton for me.
Do I get away with the public bollocking considering you got a hug from isa and the nice dealer lady?

Don't REMIND me Russ, I'm just calming down..........

xx

Jan Boubli, Barcelona winner, is OUT - just as the dinner break announcement comes on.  They're restarting at 8pm sharp, so so will I.  In the mean time, the hour approacheth wherein Tikay must be sent to win the Gutshot rebuy event.  Looks like the queues for the internet access may die down some, then.

Hi Jen & TK

Another fine job yr doing
Good luck to Chubby Nowab
and YO YO

any news on dave shallow please?

Thanks alot for the updates!

Sorry to hijack a thread but when I was patiently waiting to draw my seat I noticed:

Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, Kathy Liebert, El Blondie, Tony G, Jan Slavic, Pascal Perrault, Henrik Gwinner, Tony Bloom, John Shipley and Paul Testud.

No doubt there were several others that I've forgotten to include.

Located table K, in response to question about Dave Shallow, but there was a pot in progress and they get a bit shirty if you ask for a full name list while they're playing... please give me a description, and I'll try to get to him before they start again after the dinner break.  Sorry for lack of information to this point..

shortish elvis impersonator with a pineapple on his head jen. You cant miss dubaii

His blog is quite amusing too (dubai),well the bit about his chat ban ;D

Kathy Liebert? thought she'd be in Aruba

Hi Tikay,

looks like a very strong field then. Good choice by me to use my diminishing bankroll for the £100 re-buy at Notts on Sunday, mind you, I had 9 re-buys last time, maybe catch up with you if you make it, wouldn't mind having 15 mins with you, need a bit of advice from an old wise man. Cheers Rob

Also met on my travels some lost North Americans - personable Patrick Powers on Vicky Coren's table (10,100) and Canadian Doug Lee (11,900) who is fresh from success in Las Vegas, as his friend on the side told me.

I think Kathy Liebert is in the country - there was some talk on Wednesday of my interviewing her at some point, but she didn't show up on the night.

shortish elvis impersonator with a pineapple on his head jen. You cant miss dubaii

as always ariston spot on , however just to help a bit more , started on table K early twentys with black spikey hair or may have baseball cap on

John Caldwell is here - Rolf has just returned and said he had a bit of a chat with him earlier.  If he's playing today, he's still in.  If he's not, he's hanging round.  I will try to have him pointed out to me and let you know which one of those is accurate.  Also thanks for the descriptions of Mr. Shallow; I'll do my best.

Ten minutes left of dinner break, or thereabouts.

hello, the lurker her again,

can i ask you to tell Tom Murphy that his site is up again and ask him if he's gonna do any work over there or just smoke somebody else's bensons?

ty, des :)up

Dubaii is a character jenn and if he can focus he could be chipleader by the end of the day. He has a great nl game and if he can hold it together he will go deep.

or be in stringfellows by nine

Hi all  :)

What's hangin peeps?  8)

shizzle mi nipples and all that street malarchy.

shizzle wha..  ???

Thanks Jen.  Be nice to hear how he is getting on.

Found him - Dave Shallow has 9,300 at present

John Gale and Lawrence Gosney's table is short on John Gale and Lawrence Gosney - have to conclude OUT and OUT

Bad Girl also OUT - she put her last 3kish in with QQ, found 44 against her, but Other Guy hit a 4 and she headed from the bar area looking surprisingly cheerful.

Some more post-dinner counts (thanks to Rolf for dividing the table areas for ease of counts):

Vicky Coren      8,300
Mikael Thuritz   9,475
Kevin O'Connell 9,400
Peter Eichhart  21,500
Martin Knape   18,000
Sven Polarski    28,000
Sverre Sundbo  16,900
Stuart Nash        6,200  (he says he "Got damaged before the dinner break - flopped top and bottom pair and had to put it down."
Dave 'El Blondie' 10,400
Richard Gryko     12,200
Simon Trumper   4,900
Simon Nowab    12,900
Kjirsti Grini         16,500
Pascal Perrault    2,500
Ram Vaswani     10,000
Anders Berg       5,200
Balrog              14,900
Bjarne Martinusson 16,000
BVDahl              6,700
Willie Tann        5,700 (after some kind of run in his Aces had with a 2 on a 2 5 2 flop)
George McKeever 17,500

Hey Jen

Any news on Dave Clayton i spoke to him on break he was back up to 9k after being down to the felt.

Thanks

That was my upstairs roundup - will track down Dave Clayton in a few moments.

Just enough time to tell you that they have started that "Hold up for the TV guy" thing when a player is called all-in.  Only a bit of grumbling from an AQ vs 88 race a minute ago: at the same time Simon Trumper was all in facing two potential callers, original raiser DC and Richard Gryko - so while they dwelled and passed the other guys had to be patient.  Simon ended up near the 10,000 mark after picking up the pre-flop raise and call.

Julian just came to tell me an exciting couple of stories, although not for Nameless guy he was up against..
1) Guy meant to raise, but did that One Oversize Chip throw.  Therefore he got four callers, including Mr. Thew in the big blind with 45.  The flop came down 2 3 5, he bet 2k, Julian raised all-in for 6k and Guy passed showing Aces!

2) Same guy all-in on button with the old Aces gets a call with AQ - two Queens on the flop knock him out.  Not the best of days.

Just found out that Norwegian Lady player Kjersti Grini (who's in good shape chipwise right now) is actually a world champion Handball player.  According to reliable informant Woody all Norwegian poker players are also masters of at least one other sport.  Extraordinary.

Another table has broken; blinds are currently 200 -400.

Mike Lacey just snuck out (OUT) without giving details of his post-dinner quickish exit.  "A rush of blood to the head... it's a bit embarrassing."  I left the man be, but Tom is back and I'm sure they're both delighted their site is up and running.  Better let him have a go online then.

With the blinds at 300 - 600, Simon Nowab pushed all-in on the button for 8,875 after some limping around the table had made the pot there and then 2,700.  All the limpers and blinds eventually passed to this strong move, including Kjersti who took the longest and counted down her considerable 26,000 chips.

Back with Yo-Yo - there had clearly been some sort of preflop action as there was over 2500 in the pot.  It was between him (S.B.) and the B.B. on a flop of  4c ad 3h.  He bet out 1,200 and the big blind passed; he has around 10,300 now.

Sverre just doubled up Tom Murphy's mate Dave O'Callaghan with  qc qd vs Dave's  kc kd.  So Sverre down to 9,000ish and Dave up to 14,000, and off for a smoke with Tom.  What a bad influence, eh?

Incidentally, the AQ holder featuring a few posts earlier is Mr. Rene Peterson, sitting two to Julian's left (not too comfortable a position I'd imagine).  He has 20,800.

******15 minute break*******

Julian Brings Another Interesting Hand:  Chris Bjorin holds  js jc on the big blind.  UTG, Kiril raises w/  ad ac.   
The next player along calls with  6c 6d.

Flop brings  3c 4h 6d (unsuited, at any rate - I just love using the little cards)

Chris checks, Kiril Bets.  The 66 goes all-in rather happily I presume, for 8,000.  Chris passes rather easily, considering how long most people would take over this kind of decision, but Kiril calls and doubles the set up.  Interesting, eh?  Especially considering 4th street was  jh.  Annoying when worse play would have been rewarded rather largely...ah well.

Can you guys keep an eye out for me on this guy, really really nice guy and he has game!! I saw him sat to the left of that Luton dealer Tikay took a snap of.

Cheers and keep up the good work!

Ladies and Gents, we have a new TV table and it's That Table.  Yes, Simon Trumper, El Blondie et al are all moving into the limelight.  It looks like they're giving Greg Raymer a break - he's been demolishing the table and is up to 40k or thereabouts.  Players went in, players came back out.  At least that's what it looked like over here in Laptop Corner.  Anyway, a little while after they moved Chandra Khajuria (22,000 at that time) to Greg's left, and he'd knocked out his sixth player or so, they all filed out for this break and are giving other people the mics.

It also appears that Vicky Coren is OUT from the vehement gesticulation in the cash game area, and with the blinds going up to 400 - 800 with an ante others will soon follow.

jen, tikay, please tell DC to "just win baby, just win".    also tell Rhow I said hello! ;D

hope all is well, flying to the Bahamas to talk to them about being the "poker ambassador" (spelling?)

how silly is life , just have fun>:D

Tkay, is your heart ok? plaese holdout until I can get back to London and "kill" you w 4c 7h

still love ya baby

Hows chubbs and julian doing please?

Great work again jen...

My Dutch buddy Sven Polarski has been moved to the TV table and was still sitting behind 27.000 chips when they moved him...

Wonder how long they last, with a table that tough!

Jen, could you:

a) Get Greg to write down his Top Tips To Tournament Success

b) Tell Vicky C that I love her

Really looking forward to the TV table now.

Hello there wsop - Dave is clinging on to around 5,000 but it's hard to tell from the sidelines... No - hold that - Dave moved all-in for 4,850 on a flop of
 7c 8s 3s

Call from Sven Polarski with  ad 7s

Dave held    tc  9h

The turn came  5c, the river  ts!  He doubles up to over 10k.

Other TV table counts:

Gusten Sjaberg 17,500
Richard Gryko    38,000
Simon Trumper  7,000
Sven Polarski     22,000

Other Yo-Yo count - 23,000 after making, according to Phil Quayle, a huge call for all his chips.

That's your lot Andrew.. no more wine

uh oh, i'm predicting that the tilt-sensitive polarski will be out within the next 30 minutes now...

So - Greg Raymer moved from the TV table with over 45,000 in chips.  I just so happened to see him call a guy all-in just now with  jd jc vs.  ks  kh.  The Kings did their job and doubled the guy up to 42,000, which means he just lost about 20k in that one hand.  Ouch.  To his left Chandra Khajuria has 25,000.

Kiril Gerasimov (To Mr. Thew's right) has just taken out Michiel Brunnelhuijs taking his stack in two big hands. 
I caught the second one where on a board of  qc qs 3c he moved all-in with  kd tc and was called by Kiril's  ad 6d.  No help came and the Dutch player is eliminated (Rolf looked briefly saddened)

OK, The_nun has spoken.

BTW, our paths have crossed before. At an SNG at the Betfair forum night at the Gutshot, I was the guy whose eyes you spent a wonderful ten seconds looking into whilst deciding whether your pair of nines were good in the face of my limp/reraise all-in.

I Enjoyed that weekend very much....

So Julian's table now looks like this (after Julian made a brave move with pocket eights on a 7 Q 9 board, betting 10k against his opponent (the button) who called with Q K and took 13k off him)...

Julian Thew   6,500
Kiril Gerasimov  36,000
Kevin O'Connell 13,000
Dave Shallow    35,000 (I didn't notice the little stack of blue 5,000 chips for a minute)

Also, I just saw Raymer call KK all-in preflop with his 88... and spike an 8 on the river, sending him back to what must be around the chip lead.

Quote from Greg Raymer about his surprise success for over 20k:  "I thought you had a baby pair, you bet so much.  You got me good; I got lucky."  Hands were shaken, feelings not hard.

Aha theNun, you've been rumbled - he'll be telling the blonde world how you play any second now...

Stop him .. Now...pleaseeeeeee ~:

So that makes 2 of us after Sven's chjp count!

Also i spoke to a swede on the phone about 1hr ago, Viet is his name Vietnamese-Swede, he was on Sven's left but is now out, he is planning on checking out the gutshot tomorrow he has no idea how to get there so i told him to "ask the old guy with dyed blonde hair"

Has he narrowed it down to Tikay yet?

While distracted by the excitement upstairs, the lone table remaining downstairs seems to have given Ram Vaswani 40,000 chips, and Anders Berg 30,000.  They are getting rid of the green 25 chips at present, so there's enough time to grab a red bull and try to get the camera to work...

I have to say that despite the new batteries, the Battery Warning Light is still ominously glowing and it won't let me take any more bad pictures.  You might have to wait for the return of Tikay to get the goodness from the camera.  I never said I was any good with technology...

send all the best to dave shallow from the betfair forum please jen if you get the chance

Jen and The_nun - I would never reveal a lady's secrets...

Pontecarlo - the revelation of 'the real' Dubai was the highlight of the BFWCOP for me - it's superb to see you wishing him well. Dave is a top bloke and an almost limitless fountain of entertainment - go Dave!!

agreed andy - and as much as i rib him - he is a good friend and a future star , btw what name do i know you as

Just before the colourup break, short stacked Simon Trumper moved all-in with  ah 9h, and got a re-raise all-in from Kjersti Grini with  kd 8d . 

With no help from the flop, Simon goes back to 10k and the TV table lineup remains the same.

Hi Jen,
Just back home and catching up , any news on Nowab and YO YO Please.

Also i had same problems with digital camera although the batteries are new they may not  be of good quality and fail to work the camera Nikons are good for that.

Cheers
 

1 Manou 8,200 (he is French, from what I gather
2 Simon Trumper 8,200
3 Paul 'Hangman' Roper 21,000
4 Dave Colclough 25,000
5 Richard Gryko 32,200
6 Gusten Sjoeberg 20,600
7 Sven Polarski 10,100
8 Kjersti Grini 9,200

That's the TV table, in all its glory.  Chip counts thanks to Rolf Slotboom.

Pontecarlo - I post on BF as Creme, and play on BF as Marbles. We only met very briefly at the Gutshot when you flogged me a raffle ticket. No amount of kudos could be forthcoming to signify the effort you put in to making that weekend so fun for everyone.

Jen, Gryko chip leader at the TV table?  Some people will never hear the end of this...

the rookie has missed all, DC doing well  9 (not to be rude, he is onthe top of the list)  Raymer++++++ my hero, cant wait to br in London >:D

im going on hill to kill some ducke, all fired up

Kiril Gerasimov  a good friend of mine is ready to go blonde. He is one of the best players in the world online and live, this month he said that he has won over 100k in the partypoker pot limit omaha game.
Hope he makes it to the final day. I played Kirill a few years back in the world heads up semi final in Vienna, and he outplayed me (next year I did level the series 1-1). The mob had me 200-1 to win that event on a betting exchnage that they set the odds for, i did back myslef. Now me and Kirill are best friends and I will be able to release the heads up story very soon (as soon as KIrill agrees). It was a very controversioal game, and a huge story to be realesed one day on blondepoker.

Julian 'Yo-Yo' Thew is OUT

Having decided that going through another round of blinds just wasn't for him, he moved in with  8h th.  He got a call from  ah qh.
The board came  5d qd asp 6c 4s, and he headed out... It was just the time to make a move, and with the usual rollercoaster of chips it was break, rather than make, unfortunately.  Well played, though - we've been keeping an eye on him all evening.  There is also a great photo of him stuck in Tikay's dead camera - hope to get it to you today or tomorrow.

I played him in estonia, nice guy, very smart

he was very quiet when i played him in montecarlo, but ohmy god, agressive little bugger :)

kiril that is, vert scary (i know, rookie never scared)  he playes like John Juanda, you never really know,

I played him in Nottingham Gala lol

Wow TonyG, consider curiosity totally piqued... Kiril has been moved to Raymer's table and made a wavy hand motion over his chips presumably signifying swings.. he's on about 24,000 now, I'd reckon.  Without a doubt been playing well today.

Greg Raymer has to be the chip leader with nearly 90,000.  He was having a chat with Chandra Khajuria who's down to 12,000 (his brother sweating him all the way).

Also been advised to keep an eye on B. Kohli who's up to 50,000, and is having a rather good week having won the £200 Pot Limit already.

Phew, just got back, did I miss anything, has it started yet?

lol Red.. twice then i take it

Every single thing I ever hear about Greg Raymer leads me to believe that he is an absolute diamond for the poker business. Wins the World Series - gets high in the money next year - seems to continue to cash well in tournaments (as far as I can see) - conducts himself with nothing less than unadulterated aplomb.

What an absolute star.

With the sole table downstairs about to break any minute, we have lost half the field at least.  The blinds are now 800 - 1,600 with a 100 ante.

Chandra Khajuria OUT -
Short-stacked all-in on the button with  ad 8s, he found Kiril in the small blind with  ac kd, who, after pushing off the big blind, knocked him out.

Still 4 min left....

Other counts from the vicinity of the all-in action:

Kevin O'Connell 22,500
Dave Shallow    50,000
Anders Berg     33,000

No Red, you haven't missed much... you get the juicy bit where the blinds are rising and the little stacks make stabs at doubling-up.  It's all go here I assure you...

Raymer is no star, just the best guy ever, you would want him to ba an ass, just not that way

jen, whers the love, see you in 2 weeks >:D

Night all... Tx for the updates Djinn..xx

Is George McKeever still in?

El Blondie doubles up in dramatic style -

In a threeway flop with Richard Gryko and Sven Polarski seeing  3c 4h qc, it was checked to Dave on the button who made it 5,000.  Raised by Richard to 23,000, it folded back to him and he eventually made the decision to move all his chips in.
He held  qd 8s, vs Gryko's  tc kc.

The turn brought a disastrous-looking  ks (or other suit - my eyes are hazy)

But the river the  qh giving Dave a double-up to 37,000.

when u list the big boys you should always say

"the rookie would be here but its a long flight" to play
 4s 7c

DC, just win baby, just win

How the f...  does Dave move all in here?

Kudos

Sorry posters, been in the TV room where everything takes an aeon...

vantheman:  George McKeever moved next to Greg Raymer, just doubled up to 30k ish

wsopin06:  Was that poetry of some kind?  Hoorah for visiting England, btw. 

I hear that horrible alarm-clock noise which must mean the blinds are going up. 1,000 - 2,000 with a 100 ante now.  Oh, after a break, which is now now.

SIMON NOWAB please...

cheers

This is what top class poker is all about.

El Blondie has top pair, crap kicker and yet goes over the top of a check/reraise from someone trying it on, and is proved right. Why do we never see this sort of thing on the telly?

Simon Nowab is OUT, I am afraid

Big table change-around as they break the TV table, apparently for the night.  It seems counterintuitive to film the slow bit at the beginning and miss all those 'on their backs' moments now, but there you go.

well, its called poker at its best , DC had a reason, we need to ask him why later, u go 2 play sometimes

Kevin O'Connell OUT

His A 10 was called (all-in preflop) by a fairly optimistic big blind with A 5.  The board came:

 5d 8h ks asp 9d

I don't think he was best pleased, and who can blame him...

hows tk doing

Tikay is here at gutshot, doing ok i think :)

GOOD LUCK DAVE SHALLOW AKA DUBAI MILLENIUM O0, ps hows he doing?

With 28 players left, here are some chip counts:

Ram Vaswani   30,000
Anders Berg    40,000
Greg Raymer   75,000
Dave Shallow   80,000
Kiril Gerasimov  39,000
El Blondie        34,000
Richard Gryko  47,000
Simon Trumper 28,000
George McKeever 17,000

B. Kohli OUT
Can't see Paul Roper either...

Simon Trumper's stack shortened dramatically after his KK was cracked by 77.  Seeing as I am relying on informants' informing for this one, I don't know when the money went in, but he's seriously short now...

I am sure Tikay is doing well at Gutshot, as silence means only one (of two) things - he's still in the comp and will probably win it, or he's fallen asleep under a table.

Yes, Simon Trumper now OUT.  Apparently, it was one of those preflop all-ins with a hoorah and then a groan as the underpair hit the set.

Hiya all , great job at the updates. Good luck DM

Dave Clayton OUT - lost the important pot with AQ vs JJ, and it's always tough to get back from a tiny stack.  It's all speeding up here - three tables before you know it.

DC go geeettteeemmmm, looks like a soft field >:D 4s 7c

Did I mention Sven Polarski OUT - All-in early but rivering a little flush while Hungarian Novak Istvan made a larger one.  Odd.

And hello UKGatsby, pleased to have you on blonde.  Anything you want to know, I can try to find out for you.  Except where the waitresses have gone; I want tea.

tikay sitting low in the gutshot £100 rebuy, hes got 6k

They must be down to the last few tables, eh Sunday?  I am sure he'll double up with Queens that turn into 2 4 any minute now...

keep it going dubai - we are all behind you

Come on dubai keep it up mate!!

down to 3 tables i think jen, tikay still holding on. JUST

UL to Sven.

Refering to Kiril earlier, he is the player i am most proud to have scalped. He was re-raising the hell out of me in the €500 PL comp in Barca at the WHU this year and i finally found a hand to get him with, i check called him all the way to the river, he pushed in, i called he mucked!

Sorry i made an error, he is 2nd, after the great Tikay...of course.

Ty Djinn , nothing more at the moment other than the updates you providing ty :)

djinn could you please find out if a guy called Rory Mathews actually entered this tourney?

tall scottish guy known as 'mafews'

George McKeever is OUT after pushing on the button with KJ and being called by the big blind's KK (as one generally is).

I have the full counts for El Blondie's table, but still struggling with a few names on the others:

Rene Peterson  67,000
Ram Vaswani     42,000
Dave Shallow    40,000
Anders Berg     41,000
Dave Colclough 18,800
Richard Gryko   66,000
Novak Istvan    64,000

22 players remain.  Playing down to 12, or 4am, at last information.

Djinn, Any idea how many players started todays heat and how many are now left?

Today started with 118 runners, tomorrow the same.  Now left: 22

Thanks!

By the way, my heat of last weeks speed poker is on the poker Channel (265) on Tuesday at 10PM. I Think Dave C's heat is on Wedsnesday at 10PM

Look at that information at the tips of her fingers.

Don't be too impressed with my recall, I am sat next to information goldmine Rolf Slotboom...

I wish I had cable - I could watch someone I know play online almost every day.

Jen

Can you give me an update on dave clayton please

Greg Raymer OUT -

One of those classic QQ (him) vs AK (other guy) hands; the overcard came on the river and knocked the early leader out.  Gracious in defeat, as one would imagine, he came by the update-station for a chat with Rolf.  Clearly having considered his move carefully, his early play amassed a stack of chips, but as he knows, easy come, easy go.

John - Dave Clayton I believe went out somewhere in the last blind level...

Good night All.

Off to bed as I want to b e fresh for tomorrow!

Djinn - thanks for the updates

Simon/John  see you tomorrow..... tell "Thee" to keep my bed warm, and not to eat all the comp biscuits :)

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBAI !!



JUST DO IT!!!! :d :d :d :d

[OOPS I MEANTY


 :D :D :D :D :D

remember to drink the water before bed :p

Was their a match bet available Dubai vs Greg ;)

El Blondie Doubles Up -

Re-raising Dave Shallow's initial bet of 8,500 all-in for 27,000 holding  9c 9h, Rene Peterson found  ad ac in the middle and called.

The board ended up after all five came down (after a fold from the initial raiser): 8 5 7 9 5 giving Dave the full house and taking him back up to 55,000.  Whew.

The rest of his table now:
Rene Peterson 31,000
Ram Vaswani   70,000
Dave Shallow   88,000
Novak Istvan   50,000

Go on Dave .... about time you had a bit of luck :)

Come on His Blonde Highness!  ;D

Large drink for you tomorrow Robert ....  IF you change last line of your sig.. to    "Colchester Kev is a sex machine"

im to bed, go dc go dc

******break*****

I'm off in search of tea.  Rolf has cracked and is going to ask the guy who busted Raymer what his name is.

G & T

Back for the final two tables - 16 players left, with the blinds at 2,000 - 4,000 ante 200.

Ian Woodley doubles up to 50,000
Mark Teltscher (whose AK busted Greg Raymer) has to have over 150,000 now. 

lol Robert you weren't kidding when you said your tag line was for rent.... and all for a G & T.  Bargain.

I will give him the money, but there is no way i am going to the bar and asking for a G&T ..... FFS  thats is such a typical lawyers drink ;)

Hooked on the updates Djinn , almost as tense for us lot reading them as it for you guys there at the venue.

As 12 go through is there any chance of a chip count of the bottom 4 or 5 plus where Dubai is

Ty  :)

3 Players out in as many minutes!

Ian Woodley was taken out by the unstoppable Mark Teltscher, making him chip leader by a mile (over 200k)

Rene Peterson's JQ ran into Dubai's AQ and with no help on the board the Ace was enough to knock him out.

Then very short-stacked Asher Hussein moved in on the button with K2 and ran into the small blind's JJ.  So one more player down, and everyone goes home and comes back Sunday.

Willing to put up a similar recommendation for you if you so wish, no reasonable offer refused

tell pineapple head (dave shallow) not to blow it , get through today and we will all be down on sunday

Ice and Lemon please  ;D

Hello Djinn, in case you get a text message from me, just ignore it. The cat says hello. I've drunk a lot of beer. Hope you're having a nice time in the casino.

Are you looking after the shoe collection danafish?

Yes, I've culled the most inappropriate pairs and put cornflakes in Jen's slippers. Keep her on her toes...

Disastrous bubble for Dave Colclough - OUT in 13th place...

The flop of  6c 8c 6s looked good to him sitting with  6d ad, and called by Kiril's Jack-high flush draw there was a quiet moment as the turn came  kd

And the river the  2c!  Unlucky finish for him after a long day here. 


Chip counts of everyone left coming before I head home too.

Sorry DC  :-\

btw Jen, another great job, thanks

Unlucky DC... he is soooo close yet soooo far in every event he plays at the mo!!!

Good luck in Austria

well done dubai - bring it home mate

Final Counts:

R Gryko       29,800
J Ponte       23,500
A Girasoli     47,800
J Helness    190,200
M Teltscher 232,200
D Burke      116,000
R Vaswani    89,800
I Novak       66,800
K Gerasimov 175,100
G Clarkson     52,800
D Shallow     124,700
F Callaghan    21,900

There we are ladies and gents, I'm off home - see you around midnight tomorrow when I will pick up the action at the Vic.

Thanks Jen, see ya tomorrow.

Unlucky for Dave on the bubble . Thanks for a great update job Djinn

No alcohol on Saturday Dubai and an early night Sat night and bring it home

Just in from the Fitzwilliam... delighted to see Dave Shallow on course for victory!!!!

Smash em, Dubai!!!!!!!  ;D

You LUCKY people to have such a great updater in Jen - she has such a wonderfully quirky way with words. She's a genius, & utterly mad.

Saddened to see Dave C's demise on the bubble - when WILL his luck change?

I will try & extract any pics Jen has taken in the battery-dead camera before play begins tomorrow.

I will be Updating (sorry folks!) from start of play on Saturday at 3pm, but I have to disappear at around 7pm. Jen is missing on Saturday until around Midnight. We will find a way of bringing you updates during the joint absence of Jen & myself between 7pm & midnight.

Been an interestring day - & it's only 0500.

Night all.

Last words for today - In promise!

There is no Wi-Fi here at The Vic, & no hard-wired internet access either. So the only internet access to the outside world is via a vodafone (or similar) Data Connect Card jobbie. blonde have 2 lappies here - Jen's & mine - each equipped with a Vodafone DCC. Almost nobody else seems to have any access, so we cut a deal with Norwayer Rolf Woods ("Woody on blonde, aka "The Norseman") of WSOP.NO, & Ace Updater Rolf Slotboom, to pool our data collection resources, share the blonde lappies with them, & generally work as a team. All very civilised. Here's a pic of Woody with oir Jen. I'll try & bring you a pic of the handsome & pony-tailed Rolf Slotboom on Saturday.

And a big up to Scott Campbell cowan, the new Zealander who runs The Vic (so far as I can tell) & his  Team of Jeff, Jo & Brian. They could not POSSIBLY have been more helpful to blonde. Whatever we asked for, we got. What we needed, they gave us. Thanks to these Guys, who are great ambassadors for Grosvenor, & parent company The Rank Group.

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another superb update jen , many thanks   ,   unlucky  dc

Good luck Dubai you legend, bring the bacon home :)up


Total Poker

Good Luck Dubai I'm nearly as confident as you. ;)

Welcome Total Poker and BoyBand, is this a mass influx the youngster, are there more being the door? ;D

Hi,

Quick Q's... how many runners were there??

How many survived day 1???

How many are still around tonight

thanks