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"Oh I do like to be beside the seaside..."

Welcome to the South Coast for the latest GUKPT event. There's a lot of Blondes in this weekend, so prepared to be crammed full of fastly served nuggets of delicious information served by Jen and myself. Play begins at 4pm tomorrow.

i have looked into my crystal ball and i foresee a  Pab , Flushy  1 2

Im sure you will anyway but would it be possible to get a list of all the blondites and blondettes playing in this.

 ;envious;

I managed to qualify for this  ;yippee; Playing on Friday.

Good luck fella.

Friday for me too, see you at the bar sharky 2pm sharp

GOOD LUCK BOYS..X

Have i missed something?....but Maureen my god!!! that AV  ;tightend;

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ON STITCHER.

If you speak to a Jon Stitcher tell him gl from Strak

Good luck all Blondes ;goodluck;

Looking forward to the updates Floppy and Jen :)up

Good luck to all Blondes taking part.
 :)up

GL dewi and sharky,

dewi is in the groove at the moment, expecting big things from him in brighton!!!!

Hey ladies, gentleman, members of the Dury.

I am going down to Brighton and the party begins at the world famous Honey Club Thursday night. Serious good venue with the best looking women outside of Luton. it should be a great night for all those playin Friday or out. Its right on the beach opp the casino! Tikay , your sort of venues are in the Kemptown area of the City.

Cheers

Roland

The honey club is the biz, lol, i have gone partially deaf thanks to its speakers.

P.S. Don't be dissing Kemptown, Legends is the nuts!

If he's playing, I'd love to see Paul Parker take this one down. Good luck to him.

He cracked Aces with Td 6d in the £100 FO tonight...













He was in for his last 300 in the 150/300 level though... :D

Not a patch on my 25 left on the 200-400/25 level!

See you there tomoz kids, im there in a non-playing capacity (and no i didnt take uo flushy on his housekeeping job).

Was your crystal ball aware that I am playing the Event?

Hi Roland,

Beware the new ultra-aggressive tikay. My new strategy is to get my chips in the middle early on - before I fall asleep. Be afraid sonny boy.

Last night, Flushy, Pab (who had just made a 35 hour round trip from Thailand to get here), Jen and I went to play the £100 FO. We were sitting in Flushy's flat preparing at 7pm preparing to go for the 8pm start when Matt Dale (Mango99) suddenly told us the tournament was errr... starting at 7pm, frenzied into action we managed to make it just in time. (It would've have been something tragic for Pab to have made his epic journey only to be denied entry for a £100 FO).

Anyway, whilst in the taxi, Jen was explaining how they'd been late for the start of the previous night, the £250 FO, and Jen had parked her car in a clamping zone so they could run in the casino, play the first hand, then Jen would run out and park the car in a more suitable place. This lead to a discussion as to whether you would've passed Aces the first hand so you could get back to car before it was spotted, and we all kinda agreed it would've been a +ev move to fold the bullets given that her car might have been towed away instead...

In the £100 event itself, Pab lost with a gutshot and flush draw to two pair, Jen went out to some three-outer and Flushy's limp re-raise with A8 didn't work against AT, they all went to a bar round the corner while I tried to compete against the rapidly rising blinds, I ended up raising to 3.6k in the CO (blinds 600/1200) with QJ only to find the button pushing behind me for another 4k and the the small blind also pushing (who was covered by the button), I decided I didn't want to pass as I was going to be short either way and difference was only a couple of blind steals (plus I was getting nearly 4-1). Turned out I was up against 99 (button) and AQ (small blind), the nines making a full house. As fate would have it, Pab, Jen and Flushy just arrived back in time to rail see me put my last chips in with K3, where I hit top pair against AJs only for him to hit runner runner flush.

After this we decided to head home, Pab was starting to look like he might die, so really needed just to sleep, we did spot an interesting cash game though before we left, Mick Fletcher, Thewy and Barry Neville all playing. Perhaps another time...

Barry Neville & Thewy playing cash?

Good grief. Reserve me a seat.

Good luck old man!

Good Luck to alll in Brighton, I am staying close to my roots in the Aspers Comp this weekend. My Brighton picks are

Karl Melankoz (nearly spelt right)
Allan Vinnecombe

GL ALL

Hi guys , any idea of the results from the 250 double chance please?

What a shame the Aspers & GUKPT clash! I may yet make the Aspers Main Event on Saturday, it it all goes horribly wrong for me in Brighton on Friday.

I think there was a 6-way deal. No idea who it was though.

full chip count please

Flushy -- OUT
Everyone else -- 10k
Pab -- Slightly Deaf In One Ear.

Play starts at 4pm.

FFS when was the announcement?

I miss everything these days! working that hard you see. .....what?

pmsl

my picks for day 1 are paul rigg, dubai (as he wont have been out on the razz last night I hope) and Paul King.

I also predict many players will be taken out by queens tonight ;)

And some of them will be going home .......  ;)

 Qh

floppy who won the sette at chez cat/horse?

My pick is Ben Vinson..he is playing very well at the minute..spoke to him this morning and he seemed very focused to do well here

updates on how he gets on will be greatly appreciated Jens and Snoopy!

Will do my best for you m8.  ;hattip;

Any danger of this being the 1st GUKPT tourney to start on time?

No chance! Players still sitting down filling out forms...

Well, we're only 15 minutes past the advertised time and we hear (from two floors up and two corridors across) that it's been shuffled up...

Many a player has squeezed into the unlikely double cardroom area of Brighton Grosvenor (separated by some tables, roulette etc. so during a seat change a tempted person could sneakily put a quick red-black bet on) and the press area is a good quarter of a mile from the action, so please bear with us as we gather stories in little batches and put them up every so often...

Spotted arriving late:

Neil Channing
Dave Colclough
Victoria Coren
Karl 'Blue Square Hit Squad' Mahrenholz

Spotted milling around:

One Ear Pab
Sunny Chattha
Jim Kerrigan
Nik Persaud

Early stage photo collection time now... Bear with us.  We also have no power, so after an hour there may be a short blackout as we fight the other 11 laptops for one of their power sockets.  I have been training Homer a la Rocky for just such a necessity.

Is Dubai out yet?

It's squeezier than a squeezy squeeze play in the cardroom. Just to clarify, there is like next to no room in the centre, so if a player gets knocked out in the middle, he really needs Air and Sea Rescue to winch him out to safety. There's two sections with loads of gaming tables (strategically) placed in between, either way we might have a little trouble getting chip counts and hands from those in the centre of this maelstrom.

Play has started now anyway. 156 runners counted today...

Lol  :D

Anyone fancy taking Dubai on a last longer against my horse, Paul Parker?

the only man I'd be confident of beating in a last longer

It' be a close call but, for once, backing the Ariston would be a wise move.  ;D

Good luck to all blondes, updates on Matt 'I am the poker daddy' Dale please and any other members of Team Trotter (Pete Singleton, Lucy Rokach, Dan Carter (playing friday i think). Matt has cashed twice this week so hopf he'll make the dinner break!

could someone please find out if it's possible to buy into the event tomorrow or is it full.

Thanks, CRIPPIN

Oh and please wish Rugrat - Tony Cooper good luck from me.

Have you rung up the Casino?

Walsall winner Jerome Bradpiece bets 1.1k on the river of a 4h 2h 6h Jh Qc board, gets called, and shows Ahrt Js, his opponent flashes the Kh before mucking.

Elsewhere Mad Marty Wilson gets all his chips in on a 5s 6d 9s 7d board with 7h 6h against a 3.5k bet from his opponent, who calls with Jc Jd. 2s river doubles up the Mad one.

 :hello:

And 'Good Luck' to Stuart Nash, if you can find him in that amazing crowd!

Don't get squashed .... we need you  :)up

Yep, Matt looks awake and confident, except in this exact photo moment, despite the 7am finish last night (which involved him coming 8th, and only busting after foolishly running his A-Q into K-Q)... looks like success in the £100 will keep him going when his actual sleep deprivation threatens to kick in...

Player list going to be here any moment - but just a taster of the crowd assembled (read: packed behind some ropes) today:

Stuart Nash
Steve Bovis
Joe Grech
Michael Greco
Richard Ashby
JP Kelly
Jim Reid
Barney Boatman
Jules Adamson
John Exley
Stuart Fox
Sid Harris
Martin Green
Thomas Dunwoodie
Jeff Buffenbarger

Plus all the ones you've mentioned so far - actual total 148 players.  Apparently 11 no-shows will probably be playing tomorrow - chances of still buying in look somewhat slim...

7am?!?!  ;gobsmacked;

Surely a "no-show" cannot "by right" get into the 2nd Day One? If so, many Day One-ers would deliberately "no show", & it would be an easy way to pick what Day to play, & thus over come the randomness of the "get what day you are given" buy-in Policy?......That would be randomlessnessless.

It's going to be one of those nights!

Barney Boatman bets 2k on an Aspades 2s 9c 9h Qh board. Jim Reid calls. Barney shows 9s 6s which is good.


Richard Ashby has doubled up, I gather most of the chips went in on the river of the 2s 3d Jd Aspades 9c board, his 4d 5h nut straight obviously being good against the opponent's mucked hand.

Any updates on Karl Mahrenholz, Praz Bansi, Chaz Chattha, Jim Kerrigan, James Akenhead?

Cheers :)up

Rang the casino...not a lot wiser!!!

Apparently there are some seats left but they are not being sold as there is now a waiting list - it is possible to get on the list and pay tomorrow. Seats will be sold from the top of the list down but not sure at what time a seat is deemed to be not taken!! They are not sure how many people from the list will be able to buy in tomorrow.

As I said, not a lot wiser and could get on the list, arrive and still not get a seat.

That's what I was told, the actual story may be quite different.

Blinds are now 50/100.

 Any sign of that player list yet?

Pictured are Karl and Praz, newly sponsored Blue Squarers... don't know about the other two, but I did see Mr. Kerrigan earlier.  First break chip counts coming at the, er, first break.

No.  We've had one table break, and our original paper list had 11 extra names on it who weren't actually in any seats.  Best not to copy out that one as a whole table's worth of inaccuracy is not something we want to broadcast...

If there's anyone in particular you'd like updates on, however, let us know and we'll go and find them. :)

Jeff Nathan makes a good call on the river, with the board standing:  Ahrt 6c 5d 2c 8s.  He had been check-calling down (although the turn went check-check) and he found a 3k bet at him on the river.  After a bit of a pause, he called with Js Jh - that was good.
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Meanwhile it's not been plain sailing for Flushy - after about 20 minutes of the first level I saw him lurking by Pab's table...he was saying:
"I've flopped two sets and I'm down 2k.  Explain how that happened?"
Pab replies, "It's because you play so bad."
"I even folded set over set," Flushy carries on as if he were the partially deaf one.
"On the turn?"
"No, there I called to hit quads."

James is playing tomorrow. Karl and Jim are still around their 10k stacks. Chaz is down to about 8k, Jim meanwhile was badgering me to get a picture of Vicky Coren sucking on a piece of rock...
Praz just lost a pot to his nextdoor neighbour Flushy, Praz bet 1.5k on a 7c 5c Aspades Qh board, Flushy called and another player passed. Praz checked the river 6s but then paid off a 1.5k from Flushy's Ahrt 5h. (Here's a photo of both, mwahahah, two birds, one stone, no problem.)

Anyone want a last longer between One-Hand Rumit and Dubai?

Stuart Fox re-raises Ian Woodley's initial raise to 650, and then bets 1k after Woodley checks on the 8d 6c Ac board, getting the latter to pass.

Finally, Michael Greco, Roberto Romanello, Paul Parker, Stuart Nash (going for a risky Pink shirt) and Richard Ashby are all on a table together. A table of mind-blowing nerve-jangling battles... A table of clashing personalities desperate to win at all costs...


A TABLE OF................................




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 rotflmfao rotflmfao

Ouch!!!!!!

Glad I don't play poker  ;hide;

Roberto vs Richard should be interesting!!!!

Dubai is OUT. Kings into not one set, but two...

Pab and Flushy are both on about 12k, JP is 17k, hit a set and flopped a nut-flush. (In separate hands, he's not that good!)

While Jon Raab diligently inputs the whole field's counts - a few from table ex-Dubai:

Billy Ngo    3,600
Rumit Somaiya  17,000
Barny Boatman  13,850

Hartwith in 'Disgusting' Hand Shocker:

Young Jules Adamson (sat, now, next to similarly Poker Verdict attired Neil Channing after the latter's table broke) just informed us that he'd been involved in the "sickest hand of the tournament," and that was only level two...

He got involved in a family pot (yes, all nine players limping preflop) holding 4s 4d.  The flop came 4h 2d 2c.  The small blind bet out 300, Jules flat called, and the rest of them got out of the way.
Turn:  Ks  The small blind bet 700, Jules upped it to 2,300 and found, to his delight, a raise of a further 3k (leaving his opponent 3k behind).  Wanting to assure that the rest of the stack went in, he flat called, and then in it went on the Kh river.
His hand was no good against the Kc 2s at that point, though.  Down to 5k from an early 17k...

Here's that table in full, and if you can't quite see that flash of orange... it's Paul Parker, twisting a full yogic 180 degrees to carry on a conversation with someone on the table behind him.

Aside for Christine - the Tour Manager Himself wishes you a "happy birthday... Mum"...have a neon smilie courtesy of the update team -    :birthday:

With Paul Parker and Stuart Nash together, we only need someone dressed head to toe in yellow to make a life size version of a packet of Double Dip.

(http://www.thegobstoppershop.co.uk/acatalog/SMDoubleDipM.jpg)

Just visible in the above photos featuring Roberto and Paul is the back of a stripey shirt belonging to Rupom Pal, a promising young player (first go at the GUKPT) who's not really done anything interesting so far today, apart from see an A-T-K flop with A-T when two others had the old Q-J and get off lightly.  9k, but worth keeping an eye on...

Flushy news now.

He checked called Ashley Hayles 2.5k bet on a Qc 4h 8s board, before checking the 3c and then calling, sorry 'Insta-calling' the turn push with 8h 8c, which was ahead of Hayles' Kc Kd. River was a 2c, Flushy over 20k now.


Everytime I go past Marty Wilson, he's talking about something bizarre... First it's something incomprehensible about the first lollipop lady being situated by his family home. Then it's some other entertaining guff about playing the world's biggest snakes and ladders game, then whilst betting on the turn of a 8-4-5-T board, he's talking about the start of the Shawshank Redemption whilst calling a clock on his opponent. His opponent passes Kings face up, a great pass after Marty shows Eights.

Neil Channing, who described his new table as 'Pokerverdictastic' just halved the number of players on it wearing the pictured team Red by getting himself eliminated...
Flop of 8-2-J, Neil bets, called.
Turn:  Q  Neil bets 4k, raise all in, call.  Simple as that - set of Twos for Channing, set of Eights for the winner.  Didn't see this hand personally, so that's your lot detail-wise, I'm afraid...

But I think someone got to the Grosvenor Registration Desk early on, just look at his 'official' nickname on the list...

First Break Chip Counts:

Gross     25025
Lloyd    22100
Carr    21975
Woodward  21150
Georgiou  19900
Ibrahim   19625
Buffenbarger    18400
Green    18200
Rutter    18000
Cook  18000
Duffy    17875
Ashby    17825
Dale    17400
Somaiya  16900
Kelly    16550
Adda    16475
Vinson    16225
Tock    16200
Nayyar    16025
Reid    15850
Exley    15675
Amour    15550
Persaud  15000
Heighway  14975
Cox    14900
Taylor    14825
Owston    14825
Rogers    14675
Nathan    14650
Channing  14625
Pullen    14600
Boatman   14525
Nikkhahe  14200
Parker    14175
Annan    13850
Gilchrist  13675
Tomlinson   13650
Greco    13325
Fox    13225
Dempsey  13025
Bansi    12725
Taylor    12425
Glading  12275
Lissner  12200
Colclough  12175
Coombes  12150
Nicholas   11950
Anderson  11950
Pottiwall  11825
Foltyn    11825
Mccluskey  11750
Lake    11700
Rogers    11675
Fowzi    11675
Jenkins   11625
Lee    11550
Woods    11475
Roberts  11250
Chatterton  11175
Mahrenholz  11050
Bolous    11025
Ngo  11025
Gavriel   10925
Hartree  10725
Wilfrin  10650
Choy-sing  10525
Ballou    10500
Sareen    10475
Lennon    10425
Gould    10375
Judah    10375
Hardwidge  10275
Alden    10250
Delaney   10100
Boland    10075
Nash    9925
Noble    9875
Simpson  9850
Newman    9575
Debeaulox  9550
Charnley   9425
Phago    9375
Austin    9375
Mak  9375
Coren    9225
Zanthos   9150
Rigg   9100
Woodley  9025
Ghazi    8825
Pal    8700
Charalambous 8650
Bradpiece  8400
Dunwoodie  8350
Tabatabai   8300
Frazer    8075
Davies    8075
Prime    8075
Hardy    8000
Shafiq    7925
Bovis    7875
Gibson    7600
Chattha   7400
Harris    7300
Hayles    7200
Akery    7125
Kerrigan   7025
Campbell   6775
Rees    6675
Astaniotis   6650
Barnes  6525
Jenkins   6450
Sapiano   6375
Miles    6325
Dunsford   6100
Duck   6000
Henson     5950
Alterman   5725
Bello    5650
Modha    5600
Ngo   5250
Ho   5250
Adamson   5175
Herbert  5025
Hikary  5000
Romanello   4775
Price    4325
Lund    4300
Adderley   4125
Chapman 3550
Esposito   3350
Mitchell  2875
Smithers  1975
Burke    725
Muse    500

We've got a slightly different system at the moment, so everyone just gets one name for this first count, like Madonna or Prince. 

In a Stuart battle, the Fox triumphs over the Nash, when re-raises the latter's bet from 450 to 1525.

Hi Jen

Nick Gibson updates would be great

Cheers

A x

Matt Dale is on a bit of a roll down here in Brighton... his early big stack is courtesy of some Aces, with which he raised under the gun to 250 (this is a good level ago now), getting no respect and four callers.  The flop came A-J-x rainbow - so he bet out 600 - only two callers came with him for the raggy second diamond turn card.  At this point he bet out 1,400 and got re-raised 5k.  When he pushed in for 8k total his opponent had to reluctantly put it in - with Kd Td he had the flush and gurshot draw, but no hit and a happy Dale.

can you please wish maz nowab a massive good luck from me please.

FRAN

any chips updates for Ben Vinson plz??

if hes playing today :blonde:

Table Pab: "Nothing happening here mate."

Barney Boatman, Jim Reid, Dainell Tock and Mel Judah try to see who can hold their breath the longest.

Table Disinterested.

He's just gone out I'm afraid, he had top pair against a flush draw that missed, but made a runner runner straight instead. Sorry.

Goooo Flushy and Pablo!

All you need to do is move your eyes up a notch or two...

Comedy hand from Flushy now, he had so much fun telling me about it, he didn't care about missing a couple of hands.

He, along with 5 others, limps for 200 with Qs 9s. Vicky Coren on the button makes it 600, and ALL the limpers call.

Flop:

Ahrt Ac 8c

Everyone checks.

Turn:

9c

Checked to Flushy, who bets 200 (!) into the 4k+ pot, probably trying to find out where the ace is. He gets 3 callers, whilst Vicky mucks her hand.

The river is 6d and everyone checks. Flushy's Qs 9s is good against J-T, 7-7 and what was probably the naked Kc. Vicky passed Kings apparently. :D

Jen - are they about to have a game of giant pick up sticks?

Hi Guests  ;welcome;

You are missing half the fun .... subscribe .... it's free and you get to see the pics too!  ;boltpp;


Ok, maybe that's why you haven't subscribed!

JP doubles up with 9c 9h against an LP raiser with 6d 3d, he's still a bit short though.

One-hand Rumit is threatening to become Every-Hand Rumit.

First his 1.2k river bet on a 5h Qd Ahrt Aspades 4d with Ad 8d is paid off by Richard Ashby.

Then he takes down a 4-way pot with Ks Tc against the Kh 9h of one player and the Kd 9d of Barney who must have loved the flop of the Kc Qd 7d 6s 4h board.

75 minute Dinner Break.

There's an idea - can I unsubscribe to save myself having to look at the photos?

They've obviously seen him play  :P

But gooooooo poker daddy!

But it might be of you .....

Goooo Flushy and Pablo!

HI there, I am new to this site and am really enjoying the live updates. My husband Jeff Nathan is playing in the tourn and would love to hear any updates you have - I saw the one about his good call with the jacks, it made me smile. can I get picture too? of Jeff I mean? Many thanks. A great site keep, up the good work ;)

welcome bopsy. lets hope he does well

 ;iagree;

thanks guys and gals ;)

Yep, Floppy off to get a picture for your - play is restarting in about a minute's time...

Bloody hell, looks like I've got to catch up on this thread if Jeff is playing.

Hi Priscilla.

Wish him good luck from me if you're in touch with him at all.

Before we get the full counts from the break, a few selected ones -

Jim Kerrigan    9,225
Jeff Buffenbarger  13,200
Matt Dale         15,550
Jules Adamson   4,175
Rumit Somaiya    18,100
Richard Ashby    22,000
Mel Judah          9,575
Barny Boatman   19,000
Jim Reid            8,550
Jeff Rogers       21,500
Bambos            18,500
Dave Colclough   18,075
Jerome Bradpiece  8,400
Michael Greco       7,850   (All three of those are, of course, previous winners of GUKPT events...)
Roberto Romanello   12,400
Mad Marty            22,000
Nik Persaud          14,050
Evil Elvis               6,875
Ian Woodley        12,550
Stuart Nash          14,200
Karl Mahrenholz     14,800
Stuart Fox            20,200
JP Kelly                 2,400

Take a look at this bopsy.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=23741.0

HI sheriff, how are you? thanks so much, I will let him know, I know that I keep quoting the thread above but I havent quite figured out how to post without it, you know me and computers. very sad.

Hit 'reply' if you don't want to quote, hit 'quote' if you do.

Its simple enough.  Even tikay got there after a few months.

I'm great thanks.  Missing you at Cheesey though - the other lot are too easy to beat.

 ;whistle;

Rogers Rogers takedown - Jeff Rogers finishes off Debby Rogers' short stack with Aspades Qh.  He was up against Qc Qd, but the four appearing spades saw off his opponent. 

Also out:  Rupom Pal, Chris Cousins, Joe Grech, Howard Egglishaw.

One section of the tournament (the other behind some table games behind a screen where the cash games appear to be normally)...  now apparently 118 remaining, blinds up to 150/300.

Wow, it looks a shade "cosy" there Jen!

Found this picture from earlier - the only one left out of these three starting musketeers is central Rumit, dodging the early table carnage removing Dave Shallow and Billy Ngo.

LOL the opposition at cheesey was never easy and theres the start of a marvelous poem

Is this him? If so, he's doing good so far, but has DTD player, (and Cardiff winner) Michael Greco to his left.

JP is OUT, this photo taken shortly before he pushed with Ahrt Qh against a raiser with A-4, and despite hitting a Queen and two hearts, he still lost to trip Fours.

Richard Ashby is eyeing up One-Banana Rumit's Banana.

Finally, look who is back!

We are preparing ourselves to be astounded by the feat of engineering which might be needed to get the TV table's stage up and running in here.

Yes, that's Jeff.

Absolute nightmare to play against!

I suppose I'd better make him my bok-free tip for this event!

Go Jeff!

Level Four Counts:

Martyn Wilfrin  41875
 John Exley  34800
 Jeff Nathan  28750
 James Dempsey    28225
 Ian Cox  27525
 Daniell Tock    26625
 Rumit Somaiya    26525
 Graham Cook    24375
 David Colclough  23400
 Peter Heighway 22625
 Chris Gavriel    22325
 Praz Bansi    21575
 Raymond Nicholas  21500
 Jeffrey Rogers  21250
 Micheal Greco    21200
 Stuart Fox    21025
 Jamie Price    20750
 Allan Rutter    20350
 John Tabatabai  20250
 Richard Ashby    19400
 Brendan Duffy    19125
 Mark Mccluskey  19025
 Paul Foltyn    18925
 Torvny Anderson  18475
 Ashley Alterman  18450
 Koroush Nikkhahe  18050
 Will Barnes    18000
 Katherine Hartree  17675
 Charalambous Xanthos    17600
 Ariel Adda  17375
 Andrew Amour  17325
 Bali Pottiwall  17225
 Paul Hardwidge  16750
 Martin Green    16625
 Matt Dale    16500
 Karl Mahrenholz  16275
 Barney Boatman  15900
 Ian Woodward    15500
 Nik Persaud    15150
 Glynn Rees    15100
 David Lloyd    15000
 David Gross    14750
 Stuart Nash    14175
 Bary Taylor    13700
 Alan Roberts    13550
 Jeff Buffenbarger  13350
 Fabio Esposito  12900
 Dave Pullen    12875
 Hoa Ngo    12875
 Melvyn Judah    12725
 Javed Ghazi    12625
 Robert Prime    12525
 Pawen Nayyar    12475
 Shawn Lake    11925
 Tony Choy-sing  11775
 Ian Woodley    11525
 Ian Frazer    11175
 Dan Owston    10975
 Mo Muse    10950
 Simon Taylor    10600
 Marco Jenkins    10525
 Ronnie Debeaulox  10250
 Terry Simpson    10100
 Phillip Alden    10025
 Simon Gilchrist  9825
 Bob Ballou    9500
 David Lissner    9400
 Mo Ibrahim    9275
 Stephen Lennon  9175
 Paul Rigg    9125
 Michael Bolous  9025
 Luke Davies    8900
 Mohd Shafiq    8875
 Josh Gould    8625
 Jason Ho    8500
 Andrew Georgiou  8400
 Andy Miles    8400
 Steve Bovis    8250
 Graeme Newman       8200
 Victoria Coren  8175
 Ben Vinson    8100
 Jerome Bradpiece  7700
 Paul Parker    7600
 Andrew Tomlinson  7400
 Cheryl Charnley  7350
 Trevor Carr    7275
 Jim Dunsford    7125
 Terrence Burke  7000
 Richard Glading   6850
 Paul Noble    6850
 Albert Sapiano   6800
 Liam Boland    6525
 Csaba Mak    6050
 Pol Astaniotis   6025
 Myles Phago    6025
Paul Austin    5825
 James Reid    5800
 Gary Chatterton  5450
 Baroukh Fowzi      5250
 William Delaney  5200
 Alan Henson    5025
 Peter Charalambous  4950
 Roy Smithers    4650
 David Bello    4100
 Charles Chattha  3725
 JP Kelly    Out
 Julian Adamson    2800
 Roberto Romanello    2700
 George Annan    2600
 Rob Akery    2450
 Thomas Dunwoodie    2150

Thanks for the chip counts, Jen

 ;mexicanwave;

Praz makes it 750 to play in mid position, Flushy makes it 2,000 next to him, they're both fairly deep. Everyone else passes. Praz passes Ace King face up. Flushy shows Aces.

We were speaking to Flushy at the break and he said he didn't want play pots against Praz without genuine hands.


Serious  :respect: to that fold from Praz though.

Two former champions slug it out...

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/furniture/in_depth/other_sports/2000/lewis_v_tua/slideshow/8.jpg)

No, not those two...

Cardiff Winner, Michael Greco raises it up from the cut-off. The small blind calls, Walsall Winner Jerome Bradpiece in the big blind pushes his shortened stack in. Greco dwells a little before calling, the small blind folds.

Greco:

Aspades Qc

Bradpiece:

7s 7h

Board:

8h 2s Ts Kh Kd

Greco takes a small hit and Bradpiece doubles up his previously short stack.

DC, Mad Marty and Elvis.

The 150/300 level a second time now with a 25 running ante.

YES!

The running antes have kicked in!

;ra;

Vicky Coren shoves for a big overbet after calling Praz's raise in the big blind on a Kh Ts 6s board.

Vicky: "Come on let's gamble...Or maybe not, it depends what you have."

Praz: "I have Sevens."

Vicky: "Let's gamble then."

Praz: "I can't call..."

And he mucks, Vicky flashes the Js, no doubt the other card was the Aspades, Qs or 9s.

Pab got caught bluffing on a 4c 3d 3c 5s Ad board by Aspades 7s for a 1.2k or so with Kh Jc (or it might have been Qc)


Simon Taylor is OUT, calling all-in with Queens on a 9d 7c 8d board against Shaf's Kings. 8c and Ac were the turn and river that were no help.

Shaf was his usually magnanimous self in victory. ::)

"Send it over to daddy."

Csaba Mak doubles up with the powerful Qs Qh all-in for around 4,500 on a Queen-high board against the nicely-dominated Ac Qc.  Back to 10k for the enigmatic youngster.
____________________

Elsewhere Flushy does manage to lose a few of those chips out of the towers (pictured).  Short stack Thomas Dunwoodie had managed to regenerate a decent number of chips this last level, and took James on in this pot.  They saw a flop heads up of:  2h Jc Jh.  Fluxhy, out of position, bet out 1,600.  Call.
Turn:  5c  Now he check-calls Thomas' 1,500 bet (or was it 2k?  Some green 500s got in the middle, anyway).
River ("Heart!" Says Dunwoodie before it's dealt, unexpectedly):  7d  Now Flushy checks, Thomas bets 3k instantly, and gets called almost equally instantly.

Dunwoodie has rivered a house with his 7c 7s while Flushy's Ahrt Ad is flipped in disgust.  I think there might be one person in the card room who hasn't heard about this hand, which is one more than missed his story about withdrawing his entry from the £100 PLHE on Monday and Grosvenor refunding him his money without his £10 juice...

hi was just wondering how jeff nathan is doing? really enjoying the updates, thanks!!

Paul Parker (fig.1) asking if his stack looks impressive.

Paul Parker (fig.2) revealing that it's actually six green chips either side of his magnetic stick collection which he's using as stilts to make his stack look better.  "When do you think it will be my turn to have a good stack?" he laments.

Katherine Hartree -- 20,800  "I'm always eating or looking asleep when you take photos," she remarks.  Absolutely nothing wrong with those pastimes. 

Jerome Bradpiece is OUT in pretty galling circumstances. Jeff Buffenburger and one other player limper, Jerome made it 1,700 with A-Q. Jeff re-raised to 5,000 and the other limper passed. Jerome put Jeff on a pure steal and pushed and Jeff was committed to call with his....K-3

And a 3 came on the turn...

I got a count from him before his table was broken about 15 minutes ago, he was on almost 30k which is around double average. So, good so far.

thats great news. Thanks again!!:)

While doing a bit of aimless rail staring during a quiet period, a railer asked me, "Do you want a picture of the winner?"  Well, always interested in extremely enthusiastic tips for the top (or instances of psychic powers), I was pointed at this guy - Chris Gavriel.  Up to tenth in chips after four levels, this is probably your current leader (or top three at least) with 45,500.

Hi

Just wondering how Stuart Nash is doing?

Really enjoying the updates, thanks!!

 ;hattip;

(http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=23689.0;attach=15176;image)

I didn't think Dena was still with Grosvenor??

Confirmation required please...

Correct, she's a freelance Dealer now, & has a few gigs lined up.

Something about calling a John Exeley Aces raise with 9d 2d, calling on an A-T-x board with one diamond, calling a big turn bet when a second diamond hit before pushing when he rivered his miracle flush and being called.

Praz made a small raise on Vicky Coren's big blind and she called. She bet out 500 on the T-7-3 flop with two diamonds, Praz made it 1,100. She moved in for 4,100 more and he called with Jacks. She held 7-3, the turn was a 4 giving Praz a flush draw as well as his overpair, but the river was also a 4, giving Praz Jacks and Fours, (the Group after Michael left) and sending the EPT London winner to the rail.

10 minute break.

Jen was looking for cake, but has been cruelly denied.

Good news for Mo Muse, down to 125 chips early on, he's now on 30k. That trumps my previous climber, Roberto Romanello who had gone from 2k in the first levels to 15k.

Stuart has 16,400, after, "I haven't won a hand in the last hour.  Nicked a few blinds and antes..." he trails off, but isn't too far behind the average stack.

Excellent.  ;applause;

Hi

Is the Internet connection down?

Thanks Jen

50k pot drifts the whole of Ashley Alterman's stack to Glynn Rees - his Kc Kd vs. Alterman's Ahrt Kh, preflop, I assume.  Thanks to Jeff Rogers for taking pity on me looking at the empty seat and the new big stack and explaining the coup...

Ian Woodward limped on John Exley's big blind, Exley checked, but then bet 1,000 on the Qd Td 8d, an action flop if ever I saw one... Woodward made it 4,000 and Exley pushed all-in. Woodward eventually made the call with Js 9c taking longer than he probably needed, which was vunerable but far ahead of Exley's Kd Qh.

Turn:

Kh

Extra outs...

River:

2d

Exley doubles up and Woodward is on deathwatch.

Off the Christmas Card list again huh?

Paul Foltyn          17,500  (pictured meeting and greeting on the rail, all relaxed scuba-eared confidence)
Praz Bansi            22,500
Paul Parker            6,775
Rumit Somaiya     14,600
Richard Ashby      43,000
Mel Judah            8,975
Barny Boatman     8,450
Jim Reid              5,675
Jeff Rogers           23,000
Bambos               31,000
James Dempsey    35,000

And I'm already outdated, as the Official Last Break Counts tell us the leader is none other than...

James Dempsey     40350
 Ian Cox    37475
 Jeff Nathan    36300
 Charalambous Xanthos    35625
 Andrew Amour    34900
 Albert Sapiano    34650
 Chris Gavriel     34550
 Martyn Wilfrin    33400
 Glynn Rees    29850
 Raymond Nicholas    28675
 Terrence Burke    27200
 Rob Akery    26850
 David Lloyd    26800
 Katherine Hartree    26625
 Jamie Price    26525
 Jeff Buffenbarger    26450
 Daniell Tock    26100
 Mark Mccluskey    25350
 Michael Bolous    24725
 Richard Ashby    24550
 Mohd Shafiq     23525
 Jeffrey Rogers    23400
 Mo Muse    23300
 Trevor Carr    22825
 Jim Kerrigan    22375
 David Colclough    22325
 Bali Pottiwall   20325
 Roberto Romanello    20175
 Dave Pullen    20000
 Praz Bansi    19600
 Ian Woodward    19550
 David Lissner    19375
 Allan Rutter    19250
 Martin Green    18950
 Will Barnes    18650
 Nik Persaud    18375
 Peter Heighway    18250
 Ashley Alterman    18200
 Paul Foltyn    18050
 Torvny Anderson    18000
 Koroush Nikkhahe    17975
 Stuart Fox    17475
 Micheal Greco      16375
 Stuart Nash    16325
 Graham Cook    15250
 James Reid    15025
 David Gross    14700
 Matt Dale    14475
 Rumit Somaiya    14350
 Phillip Alden      14300
 Thomas Dunwoodie    13675
 Andy Miles    13650
 Terry Simpson      13575
 Steve Bovis    12675
 John Exley    12175
 Liam Boland    11900
 Stephen Lennon    11675
 Dan Owston    11650
 Ian Frazer    11550
 Csaba Mak    11425
 Barney Boatman   11000
 Bary Taylor    9800
 Pawen Nayyar    8775
 Paul Noble    8725
 Melvyn Judah    8625
 Karl Mahrenholz    8625
 Shawn Lake    7800
 Alan Henson    7725
 Ronnie Debeaulox    7475
 Peter Charalambous    7000
 Paul Parker    6900
 William Delaney   6875
 Javed Ghazi    6875
 Fabio Esposito    6550
 Brendan Duffy    6525
 Josh Gould    6425
 Roy Smithers    6400
 Alan Roberts    6250
 Bob Ballou    6000
 Paul Hardwidge    5800
 Myles Phago    5475
 Baroukh Fowzi      5475
 Andrew Georgiou    5350
 Cheryl Charnley    5325
 Luke Davies    5200
 Ariel Adda    4650

I think, from left to right, we have Nik Persaud's nose, Dave Colclough, Mad Marty Wilson and Evil Elvis (actual name Paul Astaniotis) who kind of steals any multiperson photo.  Well, you do when your outfit involves rhinestones and you're not on stage in a Nashville nightclub. 

Elvis has, unfortunately, left the building a fair while ago now...

This is Dan Owston, (Undisputed on Blonde), he has 13.3k. And only one shoe on. (Bad leg, not crazy superstitions).

Flushy's stack. You people at home have NO IDEA how much I want to give it a little nudge...


Meanwhile, Mel Judah just c/raised all-in for about 8k in the face of a 2k bet on a Jd 5d Ts board, his opponent eventually mucking.

Elvis is OUT.

I'm not making any puns about it. I've heard about 2 million in the cardroom. Suffice to say he's not in the tournament. Happy? Good.

Actually, if I may make so bold as to dare to correct Lady Mason, the gentleman's name is "Pol" Astaniotis, & is the partner of one Sam Day. An architect by profession, he lives in north London.

Had a good run in the Paddy Power Irish Open, getting paid with quads & a House, eventually finishing 69th for €3,500. No other serious form of note, other than being a steady casher at Equal Chance, in Walthamstow, & being a Pub League Champion.

Pab is OUT.

Paul Parker makes it 3k from the cut-off with 6k back. Mo Muse shoves for 17k from the small blind. Pab goes into the tank and eventually pushes, covering Mo by just a few hundred. Paul Parker passes Aspades Qd

Muse:

9c 9d

Pab:

Jd Js

Flop:

5d 9h 9s

Turn:

Jc...

River:

3s.

A 40k pot, yikes.

Pab went out next hand with 9-8 vs K-3.

Could you wish Glynn Rees all the best please

Wish "Mad Dan" all the best from us all in Wales.  Great updates...

Greek! I like Greeks. Especially ones bearing gifts.

Richard Ashby, Bambos and Mad Marty (far right), all have fairly largish stacks.

The last two GUKPT winners, sitting next to each other.

Paul Parker talks himself out of playing the hand after Mo and Pab have both pushed.

Those Quads...

You'll never have any plates left though!

Especially if it's Uzo.  ;kev;

SOS for DTD's DC -

Small blind Dave Colclough may have, according to tablemate Karl, been thinking about raising, but big blind neighbour Josh Gould apparently talked him out of it, so they saw a limp-check flop of:  9s 3s 9d.  Dave checked, Josh bet 600 (min bet).  Dave raised another 1,000, and pretty swiftly after that got raised a further 2k.  El Blondie then performed what is technically referred to as the chunk bet, whereby you just pick up a chunk of large denom chips, such as to cover or commit your opponent, and quickly place it over the line.  But Josh was happy to go all-in with his Qh 9h - Dave could only watch as his slowplayed Kc Kh stayed behind as the turn and river emerged 4c Qc.

Still on around 20k, though, even after losing the 15k or so in this pot.

They could be bringing extra plates as a gift.

Flushy and Praz just got in a big pot. Flushy checked called a 3k bet from Praz on an A-9-2 rainbow board before check/raising a 4k bet on the Jack turn for another 7.5k. Praz passed eventually after a long dwell and the clock being called. Flushy did say he'd tell us later what he had but would prefer if it wasn't reported until after the tournament, (or he busts out).

So the guessing game begins...

Answers on a postcard please.

Roberto Romanello seems, at this late stage of the day, to have gotten going, chip-building wise and chatwise... Trying to watch a hand going on on the table next to him (Jeff Rogers taking out Fabio Esposito's short stacked 8d 8c with his Kh Kd) but all I could hear was:
"Why didn't you call me then, what did you have?"
"If you f***ing listen, I said I can't call..."
"Swearing now - I thought we were mates!  I thought we had something there..."
and then...
"But I did have Aces!  Next time I am going to show you.  I am."

I have no idea what was going on there to start these minirants but it must have been interesting.

 Aspades Ad or  9h 9c

For you!

Leaderwatch (pictured in order):

Mad Marty Wilson   80,000  (Threatening to play Win With Wilson tomorrow - Snoopy - you free?)
James 'Flushy' Dempsey  57,000
Bali Pottiwall           60,000
Jeff Nathan            62,000
Ian Cox                 58,000

Paul Parker is OUT - down to 6k he shoved with 6h 9h - could have been worse against his caller's A-J...but no hit and he's on the rail, saying, "If I had to come back on Day Two I wouldn't know what to do..."  I think he might be dangerously close to acquiring the nickname 'the Pessimist...'

Mystic Dave has extracted a few chips back after his Kings mishap, (Though he wasn't impressed that I didn't see the 505=SOS card thing). He had Aces against...2-4 to take out a short stack before extracting a 4k call from Stuart Nash on a Aspades 9h 2c 3s 6d board. Dave's hand, the classically raggy 9d 3c.

Mark McCluskey is OUT, Ace King vs Queens. Ace on the flop, Queen on the river.

Marty Wilson raised to 1,700 preflop from UTG, the big blind called. The big blind c/raised Marty's 2,200 bet on the Kc 3c 5s board to 8,200. Marty called. "Insta-called," said Flushy, "Make sure you add that." The big blind checked the 9h turn and Marty bet 9k. Big blind folded.

"Happy Birthday!" said Flushy.

At least he'll never be disappointed.

Dear departed comrades include Karl Mahrenholtz, Chaz Chattha and Jim Reid.

Snoopy wish the foxtra good luck from the bullit. Ask him how my 10% is looking.

Hows Glynn Rees doing? Chip count please

Nearly got in that Leaderwatch bit - 50k.... and only half hour of play left.

Snoopy is currently in London, but you can see your man in the last of the preceding set of photos... what you can't see is that he's one of the shortest stacks still remaining at this late hour... under the starting 10k but still holding on...

Final Level Count:

 Marty Wilson     77250
 Bali Pottiwall    62900
 Jeff Nathan    61025
 James Dempsey     56175
 Glynn Rees    51100
 Albert Sapiano    49700
 David Lloyd    48750
 Ian Cox    47300
 Roberto Romanello    42125
 Mo Muse    42000
 Charalambous Xanthos    40800
 Ian Woodward    40125
 David Colclough    38025
 Jeffrey Rogers    34350
 Richard Ashby      33750
 Katherine Hartree    32225
 Dave Pullen    30650
 Will Barnes    30075
 Micheal Greco      30025
 Raymond Nicholas    27450
 Matt Dale    27150
 Roy Smithers    27050
 Graham Cook    25975
 Praz Bansi    25650
 Barney Boatman    25625
 David Lissner    23900
 Phillip Alden      22275
 Jim Kerrigan    22250
 Dan Owston    22200
 Josh Gould    22000
 Terrence Burke    20925
 Rob Akery    20625
 Csaba Mak    19150
 Nik Persaud    18000
 John Exley    17900
 David Gross    16950
 Steve Bovis    16600
 Jamie Price    16200
 Stuart Nash    16200
 Daniell Tock    15550
 Terry Simpson    15450
 Koroush Nikkhahe    13900
 Ronnie Debeaulox    12450
 Melvyn Judah    11650
 Rumit Somaiya    11425
 Mark Mccluskey    10500
 Alan Roberts    9725
 Ian Frazer    9725
 William Delaney    9650
 Alan Henson    9025
 Peter Charalambous    8900
 Stuart Fox    8425
 Andy Miles    8125
 Allan Rutter    7100
 Paul Parker    6750
 Bob Ballou    5775

jen get some funny pics for facebook!! gl flushy big mug he is

Flushy just lost a chunk with Aspades Ks against Ahrt Kc...

The King four-flushed....

WOW , great news, TYVM

Nice bokking sir ;hattip;

Thanks Jen. I carnt see foxy wanting to wait till saturday to come back with 8k im sure he'll be pushing soon enough.

Then with literally seconds to go I saw him shove a big chunk of stack in preflop over the top of under the gun all-in mover Ronnie Debeaulox... although Marty gave it the dwell in the small blind (tense moments for James, perhaps) he got it heads up, as he wanted with his Ad Kc vs. Ron's Ahrt Qs.  No surprises from the board this time, and "I'm back in it..."

And the closing minutes of the tournament saw absolute carnage - one table losing four players in a matter of minutes as the clock ticked down.  Another eliminatee was Daniell Tock, whose Aspades Tc ran into Jh Jd... honestly we're not entirely sure who's left and who's busted - down to under 46 players and we were kicked out for the final chip count (in which we no longer participate directly). 

This count will be making its way up by 5am today, or before 4pm tomorrow, when Day 1B kicks off...

He's up to at least 14k now. Play has ended for the day.... Chips counts to come later.

We'll see you all tomorrow.

 ;stickaforkinme;

Well, this press room has emptied like a packet of quavers, so we're off - chip counts from the luxury of our hotel, or tomorrow.  It's been fun...

See you at 4pm.

;stickaforkinme;

2/7 tommorow! good work guys   fight on for flushys settee

He had nothing. Or "insta-nothing" as he'd perhaps say.

Goooo Flushy!

you the man flushy!

get back saturday and get it won!

This was the sickest pot i think i have ever played. Praz has overtaken me in chips and i have 37k, he raises to 1600 on the button and i decide after hours of play this is the coup i am going to play back in, i flat call, John Exley calls in the BB.

The flop  Ahrt 2h 9c

We both check Praz bets 3200, i float, John passes.

At this point i think Praz has pretty much any 2 and i am going to try to take this away on the turn or the river.

The turn comes the  Jd

Wahey! I have a draw, i check and Praz bets 7500, at this point i go into the tank, thinking why am i in this pot, can i still win this pot etc, after about 3 minutes Praz asks if i want to know what he has, i point out it would make my decision easier, he says "i have a set" which goes to confuse me even more! I was fairly confident if he had an A he would check behind and call the inevitable river bluff so i fancied he had the nuts (or close to it) or he is at it, eventually i decided to raise 16k more, making it 23.5k to play leaving 9k back.

Praz goes deep into the tank now, i can't exactly remember the exact speech going but his dwell is the longest i have had to endure, he is saying he thinks i am making a move with absolute air (eeek he is on me) the rail has got very big at this point given the hand has taken 12-15 minutes, Jon Raab is stood there with a video camera and i point out its probably not a good idea to get this one wrong in front of the sponsor (i felt i needed to somehow talk him out of this one as he was lining up for the push) plenty more was said and after an 8 minute dwell the clock is called on Praz by another player, he times all the way down and passes with a second to go.

It turns out he had a 2 and was seriously considering jamming for my last 9k, it would have to be a very embarrassing pass from me, happily though i lived to fight on!

Wicked stuff Chopper, very well played, & written.

It was always absolutely nailed on that you had nothing.

Bless you.

what a call that would have been with a pair of 2's!!!

Wpd flushy and as tk said nicely described aswell!

...and I've seen him make those huge calls. All the more credit to the Chopster.

If Flushy Finals, this could be the first GUKPT to be chopped 10 ways.

Chopped 10 ways,,,, and final do not go together - 9 handed tables i thought?!?

For what its worth, I actually have a sneeky feeling James will take this one down - yes it pains me to say it but thats what I think. Might even have a bet if the odds are right?

Mr Rab? What odds are u offering on James?

Agreed, but he starts to set up his Chop coups a few tables out. It's meticulously planned stuff.

End of Day 1A chip counts:

Sapiano, Albert -- 96600
Wilson, Marty -- 95350
Nathan, Jeff -- 64900
Dunwoodie, Thomas -- 57000
Shafiq, Mohamed -- 54350
Dempsey, James -- 52600
Cook, Graham   -- 51100
Xanthos, Bambos   -- 49200
Lloyd, David -- 46000
Romanello, Roberto -- 45800
Rees, Glynn -- 44275
Cox, Ian -- 43575
Pullen, Dave -- 39200
Dale, Matt -- 36375
Greco, Michael -- 35900
Nikkhahe, Koroush -- 34700
Colclough, David -- 33925
Frazer, Ian -- 32525
Kerrigan, Jim -- 31900
Rogers, Jeffrey -- 29550
Hartree,Katherine -- 28950
Ashby, Richard -- 27800
Price, Jamie -- 26950
Barnes, Will -- 26325
Bansi, Praz -- 25600
Anderson, Torvny -- 23950
Henson, Alan -- 22550
Alden, Phillip -- 22450
Pottiwall, Bali   -- 22375
Exley, John -- 21775
Rutter, Allan -- 20925
Gross, David -- 20775
Charalambous, Peter -- 20600
Lissner, David -- 19350
Muse, Mo -- 19225
Boatman, Barney   -- 18525
Gould, Josh -- 17700
Persaud, Nik -- 16450
Fox, Stuart   -- 15900
Judah, Mel -- 13125
Smithers, Roy -- 12325
Burke, Terrence -- 11975
Somaiya, Rumit -- 11700
Delaney, William -- 9200
Miles, Andy -- 8350

Cheers for the updates and good to see Mr Flushie with chips. I think he'll go deep in this one - Good luck for tomorrow chap.