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Join us today for the second start day of the Brighton GUKPT £1,000 Main Event... 4pm, litorally inches from the seashore.

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

hello jen, gl to dewi, nightingale, and the bullit

my picks for today

womble (is carrying extra weight being the boks jockey)
Paul King- due
Bubble - always runs well at these if he cleans the cash game out night one
sir lawrence of gosneyshire- bought in with bubbles lucky money and coming off the back of an aspers result

 :hello: jen and floppy...

Updates on Dan Carter, Pete Singleton and Lucy Rokach appreciated.

My 3 picks/boks are:


Jaime "Festival" Ponte
Richard "Squelch" Redmond
Jeff "Jaffa Cake" Kimber

Good luck to the above and to all blondes.

:hello:

Later start today - lots of milling around downstairs as the (presumably larger number of) runners sign their TV release forms and take their seats.  No, wait, any second now.... Shuffle Up and Deal!

Spotted:

Lucy Rokach
Tikay    (Who presented me with the totally unexpected gift of a cake with a picture of him asleep in Notts Gala printed on the icing)
Julian Thew
Paul Alterman
James Akenhead
Les Kerrigan
Dan Carter
Womble
Simon Zach
Roy Brindley

157 starting today.

And that was just as we got to the stairs at the back of the room, leading to the lift leading to the corridor leading to the airlock leading to the press room.

Lol, yeah. Please get a pic of Alex 'spam king' Ross Jen or Floppy as i've got no idea what he looks like and need to know!

Just got chucked off the Wifi, battling computer while Chris scouts the floor - Leon Leukides is OUT after his Ad Jd flush draw runs into the AA of Alan Dean, however, meaning we are down, semi-officially, from 159 runners to 158 after just a few minutes...

Lucy Rokach uses the half-wilson 7s 4s to get Barry Neville to pay her off for a 1.5k bet on the river of a 2h 6s 8s 9c Ks board.

Jac Arama finds his 500 river bet on a 4h 8c 2h 4c Qc board raised to 2k. He eventually makes the call with Ahrt Qc, which is good.

Ryan Fronda hasn't had a great start, he's had Jacks against Ace King lose, something else against Rudders' Queens lose too, and then having to pass Ace King on a Queen high board.

Save some cake, will be there in about 20 mins (via chemist for rudders, forget guess the hand its guess what he wants!)

gl to Tom Nightingale.... sorry I couldn't make it mate at least you can take it down now! lol

send my best wishes to yoyo as well please jen. Surely its only a matter of time before he takes a big one down, too many 40/50k cashes without the big 6 figure one.

Please pass on a  ;goodluck; ;slavedriver; message to my neighbours Thewy and Chris Bruce. Lets see a West Bridgford domination :)

Also good luck to Tony "The Snoozer" Kendall, Stu "The Nutter" Rutter, and all other Blondes playing.

Worse now, he's OUT, he made a big overbet push on a Ks Td 8d board in the face of an 850 bet, which made me think he had a big draw, he got a call from the original raiser who was holding Ad Qd, which was in fact ahead of Ryan's Js 9s.

Turn:

Ts....

River:

2c

Ace high scoops.

Ash Hussain is also OUT, Ace King with the nut flush draw against Jacks, and then Jacks against Ace King.

BREAKING NEWS!!!!


Stuart Rutter is NOT wearing the scarf...

What will his friends say...?

hey jen and floppy.

good luck to Stu Rutter!

and unlucky to Redbull who just had a massive bad beat.. no more days off work to play poker for the whole year. gutted.

he's not wearing the scarf? i cancel my good luck

Speedier exit for Kevin Daly - at the bar asking if I wanted to "hear a sad story..."  It wasn't that bad, as it turned out - here's what happened:
Kevin was in the small blind holding Ts Td.  A preflop raise to 300 was called in a couple of spots, and he flat called too.
Flop:  3c Tc Qc  He checks.  The big blind makes it 700, raised in late position to 1,900.  Then the button pushes all-in for around 3k more.  Back to Kevin, who dwells for many a minute before deciding to push all-in over the top.  The big blind then surprises him by calling - so he was in for a 26k pot with middle set against:

The big blind's 6c 7c and the button's Ac 9c.

No pair-up and he was probably third out.  "At least I'm out early in Brighton..." he remarks optimistically.

Sorry, we've had a look at the printed player list (going to try to copy it in before it's all obsolete, but there's only one and 12 press people want it) - and there is no Alex Ross listed, spam king or otherwise. 

Ram Vaswani also planned on playing, but turning up half an hour late doesn't work over here, yet.  Chips off the table - next!

Yes it's a sick beat Tom. I've got 3.5 days left. My missus says I better use them wisely or else. I think she means pick my Tourney's very carefully, don't you? Hmmm.

Triplet of early snoozers:  Brian Johnson, Dan Carter and Gareth Acreman.

Can one of you get a message to Dewwi.......

Tell him I can't make it as I felt unwell when I set off, and even a coffee and sleep didn't hepl.

Tell him don't worry about me and concentrate on the game.

I'm gonna rail him online!!!

Brendan.

Tony 'TV' 'Tikay' Kendall -

Wouldn't you know it, the cake with a picture of his head on remains untouched in the press room...

 Looking perkier than most of the field, behatted Keir Fitzgibbon who might not have gone clubbing last night.  Plus neighbours on the left Luke Patten and Franky Brockett, and rhs Johnel Bracey.

No problem, will let him know he's being virtually railed.

that must be it pal. i guess maybe she means dont go over your allowance. if you enter a 4 day tourney make sure u get day 1B!

Simon Zach is OUT.

Jac Arama made it 350 with Tens, Simon Zach called and then a late position raiser made it 2k. Jac Arama passed and Simon called.

Flop:

Jc 7h 4c

Simon checks, LP re-raiser (who had Aces) bets 3k and Simon pushed for 4,850 more.  LP called with Aces, only to find Zach holding Ac Qc instead. The case ace came on the turn and no club on the river. Stuart Rutter said, "I was convinced Simon had Jacks, the problem was he didn't have enough to make the other guy pass but it was still a good call with the aces. If he (Simon) had had 5k more or so, then perhaps that would've been enough."

Richard Redmond knocks out Aida Airs. Q-Q against 9-9, all-in on the turn on of an A-2-9-Q-A board.

Wesley Lopez is OUT, J-J against Big Dave Smith's K-K.

OK I have my own list now, so going to type it up, as it was at the start, with as many eliminations updated as possible:

Table 1

Yilfer Shevket
Alan McBride
Hazan Jeraimt
Mark Briggs
Neil Carr
Iwan Jones
Manuel Palenca
Brian Johnson
Dan Carter
Gareth Acreman

Table 2

Mark Johnstone
Darren Woods
Antony Romanello
Leon Loukaides   -- OUT
Ray Wyre
Roland de Wolfe
Alan Rudge
Alan Dean
David Courtney
Paul Zimbler

Table 3

Ed Arees
Ian Bowden
John Stitcher
Richard Gardner-Brown
Roy Brindley
Jim Kemp
Dr. Aris
Wesley Lopez
David Smith
Kiri Patel

Table 4

Steve Read
Steven Hill
Kayshan Muthy
Mike Moore
Joshua Tyler
Adrian Creagh
Craig Owen
Michael Ellis
Paul Alterman
Trevor Reardon

Table 5

Sandy Jackson-Palin
Luke Patten
Franky Brockett
Keir Fitzgibbon
Johnel Bracey
Pete Singleton
Daniel Jolowicz
Paul King
David Young
Vik Kanwar

Table 6

M. Shalabi
Chandra Khajuria
Albert Chandra
Andrius Tapinas
Rod Macdonell
Dimps Maker
Hoss Parhizkar
Guy Kenworthy
Adam Wilkinson
Mick Fletcher

Table 7

James Akenhead
Edward Macleod
Timothy Hiskett
Taner Hasan
Ali Zihni
Les Kerrigan
Raymond Miller
Sheikh Faizur Rahman
Damian Evans
Lac Hoang

Table 8

Phillip Green
Stephen Holden
Chris Bruce
Greek Jack
Mazhar Nawab
Michael Tucknott
Paul Jackson
Peter Garrett
Jeremy Longley
Nick Ioannou

Table 9

Karoly Kiss
Kevin Daly -- OUT
Nick Goodall
Tina Avery
Mick Clark
Ibrahim Ullah
Barry Neville
Lucy Rokach
Martino Libertini

Table 10

David Clark
Kwan Wai Yuen
T. Cooper
Marshall Mccombie
Mostyn Beechy
Ewan Le Marquand
Ronald Seymour
Gary Abraham
Willie Tann

Table 11

Warren Wooldridge
Pete Evans
Abdul Koysor
Stuart Clutterbuck
Darren Pound
Jonathan Gale
Ross Stovold
Barry Earnshaw
David Clark
Ian Davies

Table 12

Stuart Rutter
Jac Arama
Kevin Bond
Paul Webb
Simon Zach -- OUT
David Johnson
Suad Serhan
Craig Stokes
Derek Malone
Dewi James

Table 13

David Gregory
Tony Kendall
Rajesh Modha
Aida Airs
Richard Rudling Smith
Darren Ground
Richard Redmond
Damon D'Cruz
Ryan Fronda -- OUT
Kevin O'Leary

Table 14

Steve Jelinek
Zahir Aslam
Nick Evans
Osman Mustanoglu
John Duthie
Dennis Clough
Julian Thew
James Atkin
Simon Bashford
Jason Defreitas

Table 15

Chen Tse
Steve Walmsley
Beu Monroedavies
Darren Judges
James Hipwell
Kalpesh Patel
Karim Louis
David Barraclough
Ian Herbert
Niall O'Gribin

Table 16

Benjamin Bowles
Sami Yusuf
Lawrence Gosney
Jaime Ponte
Marc Goodwin
Jeff Kimber
Tom Hurley
Stasia Xanthos
Ash Hussain -- OUT
Dale Greenleaf

Neighbours Marc Goodwin and Jeff Kimber in serious discussion.  I know it might look like they're playing with the lights off, but it's just how photos come out taken down there (with blindingly bright flash and everything...)

Thats because Dino is stupid and does not know that Aleross's real name is Niall O'Gribin!!

Come on the spam king!!

Pah Raiser beat me to it

Right, that makes it a lot easier to keep an eye on him...

 ;D  Good luck to "doc" Dr Aris and all the lads from wales.

from

Blondebomb!

Hi Jen

Could you let us know how Roy Brindley gets on please.

Thank you

The first break approaches - chip counts will follow.  I was just about to get a couple of the requests counted first, when I had the horrible realisation that I hadn't put my contact lenses in and couldn't count any chips, or see the board cards with anything resembling clarity.  I am going back to the hotel in the break to regain the power of sight.

I got as far as asking Homer to count Womble's stack - 15k the answer.   He's pictured below, in striking stripey knitwear.

I did come here with the intent of offering my support for Stuart 'The Nutter' Rutter.

 ;karabiner;
File Photo: Stuart Rutter

However in light of the scarf update, it is withdrawn.

Good luck to everyone else.

Sadly he's at the bar, he got crippled in a multiway pot holding a flush against a full house, he then had A-5 on an A-3-5 board only for Jac Arama to be holding 2-4 in the big blind, all the chips going in by the river. Stu Rutter also got just caught, betting 4.5k into an 8k pot on a 3h 9d Js 2c 3d board, his opponent eventually calling with Jc 9c Rutter forced to show Ts 2s.

John Duthie taking a break from running a tour, to play in one.

Niall O'Gribin.

That's Paul Zimbler in the background, the picture is being swallowed up by Roland's shirt...

Greek Jack, (with Chris Bruce left and Peter Gould far right) bets 2.8k on a 6s Jc Ts 3c board getting his opponent to muck.

No problem - restart in a few minutes...

more photos of rolands shirt please. You never know when we may need to blackmail him in future (who did he lose the bet with btw? dubai would be my guess)

That might not be happening, he's only got about 2.3k left, but that's still 2k more than Paul Zimbler, who is preparing for his last stand...

Tikay, is UP from his starting stack. 25 chips up exactly...
(http://www.ongoing-tales.com/SERIALS/oldtime/FAIRYTALES/tortoisehare.jpg)

He has roughly 6k at the moment.

Good luck to jon stitcher.

Can we please get a picture of the legend.

Paul Zimbler just doubled his micro-stack up with Kd Qc all-in against Jd Js.  The board... 6s 6d Ahrt Aspades... river Qc.  Next door Paul King looks over to see Zimbler with nearly 1,000 chips and asks, "How did you get through that round?"

And cheerful short stack Roland is now out too - the room as a whole becoming 10% more conservatively-dressed in consequence.

Is this the legend?  I was pointed in his direction by Zimbler - he's playing through his involvement in the Dusk Til Dawn trader scheme...

Selected counts from a couple of early requests:

Womble        14,000
Lucy Rokach   14,125
Alex Ross aka Niall O'Griblin  11,000
Richard Redmond   19,000
Jeff Kimber            14,500
Marc Goodwin        9,000    ("I played AK badly on a King-high board..." he was muttering)
Roy Brindley           6,300

Dan Carter - OUT

just noticed maz nowab sat next to greek jack,please wish him good luck from me please.top bloke

FRAN

Interesting hand.

Nick Evans raises preflop and Dennis Clough calls.

Flop:

8c 8s 5c

Dennis checks, Nick bets 600, Dennis c/raises to 2.2k. Nick calls after a dwell.

Turn:

Tc

Now Dennis bets out 4k with about 6k behind. Nick dwells for ages, so long that I hear a scream from Joshua Tyler who rivers the nut straight on another table to win a big pot. Meanwhile Nick eventually moves all-in and Dennis mucks quickly...Nick shows Qs Jc.

Paul Webb is OUT with A-A vs the J-J of Suad Serhan, all-in preflop. Board: T-Q-K-J-Q!

David Young (pictured next to a narcoleptic-looking Paul King) went out literally seconds after this picture was taken.  He exited the card room, saying, "Out...top set...out," which he later elaborated on - he'd called an under the gun raise to 500 (blinds now 75/150) in the big blind with Jc Jd.  On a flop of J-T-8, he check-raised a bet of 800 to 3,000, only to find his heads up opponent pushing his whole stack in.  Apparently this person (identity unknown at time of posting) had been playing tight, and so David was surprised to see his top set all-in against 9c 9s.  The Queen completed that up and down straight draw however, and he found himself suddenly on the rail.

how is antoni romanello doing please

Willie Tann is enjoying his rubdown.

Any news on James Akenhead/Daniel Jolowicz??

hi jen-can i have chip counts for damon luton bulldozer d'cruz and dave johnson-and wish them good luck from me.......ty

CONGRATS TO JEN ON HER 10000TH POST

Congrates there jen.. you busy girl..x

Hi Jen and hoamer, hope you managed to stay in same hotel to avoid moving.... again

Im on my way hoome now, just boarded train to doncaster, hearing is about 90% atm so on the mend, had about 4 hours sleep last night to take my running total to 12 hours in 4 days i believe, :-)

PLease can you wish good luck to rudders, the hobbling mug, and keep me posted on his stack please, thanks

pab

I rather foolishly decided to re-set-out the preceding break's chip counts which took ages and might not be that interesting.  But at least this is an accurate picture of who's sitting with whom...

Table 1

Yilfer Shevket    4,325
Alan McBride      6,650
Hazan Jeraimt    18,650
Mark Briggs        8,800
Neil Carr             12,725
Iwan Jones         12,325
Manuel Palenca   9,650
Brian Johnson     8,220
Dan Carter           OUT
Gareth Acreman   11,825

Table 2

Mark Johnstone    31,875
Darren Woods      9,700
Antony Romanello  13,325
Barry Earnshaw       10,425
Ray Wyre               11,175
Roland de Wolfe     OUT
Alan Rudge            8,325
Alan Dean              22,050
David Courtney       OUT/moved
Paul Zimbler           1,650

Table 3

Ed Arees           10,525
Ian Bowden        14,100
John Stitcher       12,025
Warren Wooldridge   2,500
Roy Brindley          7,450
Jim Kemp             8,075
Dr. Aris                 8,300
Wesley Lopez        OUT
David Smith         34,950    (chip leader)
Trevor Reardon     17,300

Table 4

Steve Read        10,175
Steven Hill          5,725
Kayshan Muthy    9,925
Mike Moore         7,850
Joshua Tyler        21,275
Adrian Creagh       9,850
Craig Owen          6,325
Michael Ellis          10,100
Paul Alterman       6,475
Ross Stovold        14,800

Table 5

Sandy Jackson-Palin   9,275
Luke Patten           7,025
Franky Brockett      15,400
Keir Fitzgibbon         9,350
Johnel Bracey          6,925
Pete Singleton        13,825
Daniel Jolowicz          8,075
Paul King                11,775
David Young            OUT
Vik Kanwar              10,050
 
Table 6

M. Shalabi              4,250
Chandra Khajuria     7,775
Albert Chandra       10,725
Andrius Tapinas        8,850
Rod Macdonell         15,150
Dimps Maker           2,200
Hoss Parhizkar        10,600
Guy Kenworthy       12,625
Adam Wilkinson       12,200
Mick Fletcher           15,600

Table 7

James Akenhead     18,125
Edward Macleod      11,100
Timothy Hiskett        7,900
Taner Hasan            15,525
Ali Zihni                  6,550
Les Kerrigan             8,975
Raymond Miller         OUT
Sheikh Faizur Rahman  11,425
Damian Evans             11,900
Lac Hoang                 8,500
       
Table 8

Phillip Green          5,400
Stephen Holden     9,375
Chris Bruce            13,050
Greek Jack             18,375
Mazhar Nawab         10,700
Michael Tucknott     12,450
Darren Pound          18,425
Peter Garrett           8,850
Jeremy Longley        2,775
Nick Ioannou           8,700

Table 9

Karoly Kiss             10,750
Stuart Clutterbuck   10,075
Nick Goodall            22,900
Tina Avery               11,625
Paul Jackson            8,350
Ibrahim Ullah          3,200
Barry Neville           17,250
Lucy Rokach           14,900
Martino Libertini        3,650
 
Table 10

David Clark            12,975
Kwan Wai Yuen     5,400
T. Cooper             12,500
Marshall Mccombie    10,150
Mostyn Beechy         7,450
Ewan Le Marquand    10,850
Ronald Seymour        4,425
Gary Abraham           11,050
Willie Tann               23,875



Table 12

Stuart Rutter            12,400
Jac Arama              10,875
Kevin Bond             14,775
Paul Webb              4,850
David Johnson         22,675
Suad Serhan           12,650
Craig Stokes            21,275
Derek Malone          1,900

Table 13

David Gregory         13,325
Tony Kendall            9,775
Rajesh Modha          11,775
Pete Evans               12,675
Richard Rudling Smith   8,250
Darren Ground           13,125
Richard Redmond        21,225
Damon D'Cruz            11,000
Abdul Koysor              6,275
Kevin O'Leary             10,925
 
Table 14

Steve Jelinek       13,500
Zahir Aslam          OUT
Nick Evans            13,050
Osman Mustanoglu  7,725
John Duthie           10,925
Dennis Clough        15,375
Julian Thew            7,950
James Atkin              OUT
Simon Bashford        8,900
Jason Defreitas          10,625

Table 15

Mike Tse               OUT
Steve Walmsley      13,350
Beu Monroedavies   7,525
Darren Judges        11,700
James Hipwell          7,275
Kalpesh Patel           11,550
Karim Louis              8,750
David Barraclough     12,975
Ian Herbert              16,825
Niall O'Gribin             11,000
 
Table 16

Benjamin Bowles      11,250
Sami Yusuf               14,100
Jaime Ponte             7,475
Marc Goodwin          10,675
Jeff Kimber              12,800
Tom Hurley               14,650
Stasia Xanthos       10,150
David Clark              15,275
Dale Greenleaf           18,100

He's got about 15.5k, which is good, with the average being 13.3k at the moment.

Meanwhile Damian Evans pushed his last 4.7k in with 8s 8h on the board of 4c 9h 4h 5d after James Akenhead's 3.1k bet. It took James a little bit more time than it should to call with Qs Tc, 1.6k, with around 13k in the pot already. The river 4d giving Evans the double up.

Chip count in the list above - here's a grainy photoshop-lightened pic as he's in probably the darkest corner of a poorly lit card area.

James is sharing his shadowy table with these two - Les Kerrigan and Greek Jack...

Warren Woolrdige has doubled through, he held Qh Qs against Johnel Bracey's Ahrt Kh

Board:

Ks....At this point Warren gets up, 4d....He picks up his water bottle, Qd...water bottle back down, 9d...Warren sits back down, 9h...Warren rakes the chips.

John 'EPT' Duthie (pictured) is now OUT - only with the cracked Aces... against the 8-9 of Steve Jelinek.  Flop 8-T-J where the majority went in (what is it with these nines as straightening cards?  Tired and starting to see sinister patterns everywhere like that guy in Pi) and Jelinek hit and knocked him out.

How happy does he look?  Going to check on the stack now, but it can't be all bad with a grin like that.

Many thanks!  I will remember that post about David Young's exit from the 2007 Brighton GUKPT event with a happier sort of reminiscence than he will, in all likelihood.

thanks jen

I see tikay lurking in the background of that photo, please also pass on a gl message to him as well please. also remind rudders that we swapped 10% just before i bust yesterday, i think we struck a gentelemans agreement before the flop was dealt when i turned over JJ vs 99, im sure he will honour this agreement, many thanks..

An OUCH moment for Paul Jackson...

(http://ouch.distilleryrecords.com/ouch2.jpg)

Jen has details...

Paul Jackson pictured with neighbours Ibrahim Ullah and Barry Neville goes out, with the Ace-high flush, to a straight flush.  Ouch.

any chip counts for maz?thanks,top job as usuall.

6 limpers in a pot and it got big and complex and became a....

;bp;

Flop:

8c 5c 4d

Tikay checks, Peter Evans bets 900, Darren Ground flat-calls, Richard Redmond, raises to 3,000. Tikay moves all-in for his 2,500. Peter Evans calls, Darren Ground pushes all-in for what can only be described as a lot. Peter Evans calls, Richard Redmonds folds.

Tikay:

6d 2d

Peter Evans:

Ac 4c

Darren Ground:

5h 5d

Turn:

Ahrt

River:

9h

Tikay is OUT, Peter Evans has 1.1k and Darren Ground has close to 40k now.

Hiya-great updates as usual!!How's Iwan Jones doing?Cant believe he's not wearing his lucky pink top!!!

Managed a quick word with Julian.

"How's it going?" I ventured.

"Slow, very slow."

Sidetracked on the last information-gathering foray by a cheerful Steve Read who says hello to his mysterious Watchers.  Here's a photo of him, and his stack: 12k.

Other pics:  Jac Arama, Vik Kanwar, Sandy Jackson-Palin.

They're all about to go on dinner break (probably 65 minutes again) and we'll have full counts for you after that. 

I am afraid we've entered the Dinner Zone - back in an hour with all this information and much much more. 

Will see if we can get to him in the buffet queue...

Keep an eye on Rod MacDonell, TABLE 6, unknown, bit of a dark horse.

Good luck to Steve Read, Greek Jack and Maz Nowab too! Keep up up the good work Jen and Flops.

Blinds 150/300 and we are restarting.

He said, "No." But perhaps in slightly less polite terms. :D

Rudders is OUT -

With a stack of the hovering-around-average, he found himself in the big blind with Jh 7h, calling a raise to 800 along with a couple of others.  The flop came Jd 7d 3s and he checked - the initial raiser made it 1,500 to go.  "Ace-Jack," thought Rudders, correctly.
Then another player moved in over the top.  "Flush draw," thought Rudders, incorrectly, as he moved the rest of his stack in and found he was up against not only the AJ but a flopped set of Threes which stayed good all the way.

He seemed pretty cheerful, unwilling to grind his way into day Two with a small stack, having previously said something about Pab's agreement which sounded like, "Blow me," but couldn't possibly have been anything so rude.

A couple of chip counts, during the post-dinner full-count input lag (thanks to Jon Raab and team for collecting those numbers five times a day...):

Rod MacDonell - his seat is empty, with another person's seat card in it, which leads me to believe he is OUT
Maz Nawab     12,625  (Sitting next to Thewy who now has 15,000)
Steve Read     12,000
Greek Jack      14,600
Iwan Jones     11,600
JJ Hazan         13,250
Stuart Rutter   15,250  (We discovered in the break that Red Bull during tournaments is a no-no for him as, and I quote, "It makes me go crazy.  Not only will I be raising every hand, but I'll be jumping around..."  Tempted to spike him with caffeine just to watch the consequences.)

Barry Neville is OUT, A-Q against A-K.

Greek Jack has knocked out Timothy Hiskett, Kings versus Aces. King on the flop.

forgot my picks are maz,julian and barry.sorry if i bok any of them

Here he is, with about 16k.

Womble is OUT. "I made a play!" Though when he talked about it, it seemed a completely rational move.

He raised preflop with Ahrt 5h, got 4 callers, bet a 9h 2h 5c board, got raised, and 3-bet all-in and was looked up by a hopeful, (considering Womble's style) A-9.


Also presumed to have bitten the dust are Paul King and Peter Gould.

Chip Counts from the last Break, with a couple of amendments for people being out or having doubled up by the time I got them...

Smith, David   56425
Rokach, Lucy   40,000
Tann, Willie   33400
Herbert, Ian   31275
Dean, Alan   30550
Tyler, Joshua   30400
O'Leary, Kevin  30,000
Johnstone, Mark   29650
Ground, Darren   25950
Reardon, Trevor   25700
Kanwar, Vik   23375
Greenleaf, Dale   23175
Serhan, Suad   23150
Wyre, Ray   22950
Jolowicz, Daniel  22875
Dionysiou, K   22450
Akenhead, James   22250
Carr, Neil   21975
Clutterbuck, Stuart   21650
Hasan, Taner   21125
Tapinas, Andrius   19950
Evans, Nick   19625
Woods, Darren   19550
Bond, Kevin   19500
Goodall, Nick   19350
Bruce, Chris   19000
Vasquez-Ponte, Jaine   18625
Gregory, David   18275
Aslam, Zahir   17925
Barraclough, David   17875
Creagh, Adrian   17850
Clark, David   17825
Jelinek, Steve   17775
Muthy, Kayshan   17000
Johnson, David   16975
Stokes, Craig   16850
Holden, Stephen   16725
Stovold, Ross   16675
Thew, Julian   16175
Rutter, Stuart   16050
Wilkinson, Adam   15750
Parhizkar, Hoss   15350
Hill, Steven   14975
Ioannou, Nick   14925
Le Marquand, Ewan   14850
Kimber, Jeff   14700
Patel, Kalpesh   14600
Goodwin, Marc   14600
Avery, Tina   14475
Clough, Dennis   14450
Cooper, T   14325
Jeraimt, Hazan   14200
Earnshaw, Barry   14175
Abraham, Gary   14100
Briggs, Mark   13725
Romanello, Antonio   13675
Evans, Damian   13550
Green, Phillip   13500
Acreman, Gareth   13350
Nawab, Mazhar   13300
Rudling-Smith, Richard   OUT
Monroedavies, Beu   12850
Bashford, Simon   12200
Bowden, I   12175
Brindly, Roy   12100
Shevket, Yilfer   11750
Bowles, Benjamin   11650
Arama, Jac   11550
Read, Steve   11425
Palenca, Manuel   11225
Jackson-palin, Alexandra   10200
Jones, Iwan   10175
Walmsley, Steve   9800
Kenworthy, Guy   9750
Singleton, Peter   9650
Moore, Mike   9475
Neville, Barry   9375
Mccombie, Marshall   9300
Macleod, Andy   8900
D cruz, Damon   8900
Rahman, Sheikh faizur   8825
Khajuria, Chandra   8800
Wai Yuen, Kwan   8650
Ellis, Micheal   8550
Webb, Paul   8225
Kerrigan, Leslie   7175
Aris, Dr   7150
Fletcher, Mick   7125
Louis, Karim   6900
Redmond, Richard   OUT
Zihni, Ali   6725
McBride, Alan   6700
Wooldrigde, Warren   6650
Arees, Edward   6125
Owen, Craig   5725
Beechy, Mostyn   5550
Seymor, Ronald   5500
Judges, Darren   5500
Chandra, Albert   5475
Hipwell, James    OUT
King, Paul   5300
Fitzgibbon, K   5275
Mustanoglu, Osman   5250
Yusuf, Sami   5150
Monroedavies, Beu   4925
Avery, Tina   4625
Kiss, Karoly   4575
Ullah, Ibrahim   4400
Pound, Darrren   3725
Libertini, Martino   1500

;ra;

The running antes have kicked in.

150/300/25

James Akenhead is OUT, A-9 vs Q-9 which hit a straight.

Er, only Barry's gone, so far... Maz and Julian are table neighbours with mid-stacks...

 :hello:, Jen

Ah good evening, sir (or is it mid-afternoon where you are?) Just resting gently after the triple staircase run which is involved in getting to the Press Room.  I am going to be in much better shape for this year's WSOP since the Grosvenors booted the press from the tournament areas. 

Hope all is well stateside, will write email when all this chaos is over...

Chunky Stack Watch:

Lucy Rokach, up to nearly 40k
Kevin O'Leary (the one who performed the double takedown of Rudders and, as it turs out, Richard Redmond in that set vs. top pair vs. two pair hand earlier): 37k+
Dave Smith   84,000  Chip leader by a good margin and already over all but the top two of yesterday's finishers.

Hoped you spotted Lucy Rokach using the half-wilson here: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=23764.msg483555#msg483555

Speak of Lucy, EPT Grand Finalist Steve Jelinek is having a tough time getting going due to Lucy's well chipped up stack three to his left. But on the plus side, he has finished that book he's always bringing to tournaments.

Damon D'Cruz as the Speak No Evil Brass Monkey.

Guess whose stack this is. A well-respected UK pro, who scares people with his constant raising, and he's going well so far here. Who is he?

Chris Bruce  20,000 or thereabouts, and neighbours Trevor Reardon (21,400) and Willie Tann (31,500):

replacing baz for my usuall pick mr.smith.(im so fickle)

dave is hoestly one of the nicest men you could meet,not a bad word to say about anyone.hope he makes the final again the hat deserves its time to shine.

eveyone likes to wear the hat,lol

Blind vs. Blind War News Now -

Small blind Chandra Khajuria and big blind Andrius Tapinas - small blind Chandra raised 600, Andrius re-raised, raise again (now there's over 14k in the middle) and then Andrius Tapinas got the final raise in by moving in for around another 12-13k.  The decision on the Helsinki-favouring genial player, he eventually passed giving his opponent what amounted to a flop-free double up.

Thanks to Jeff Kimber (pictured third, leaning out of shot, next to Dave Smith) for filling in the detail - I just saw the all-in and hovered until Khajuria gave it up.  Jeff says wistfully, "That pot's more than my chip stack in any Grosvenor Tour event so far."

I won't suggest a guess-the-stack for this one - the Hand Rankings propping it up might be a clue.  Yes, it's Mr. Cool Marc Goodwin, who, after a slow start has climbed to a respectable 25,000.

I actually lost to it on stars the other day, I had  3h 5h, 4 way limped pot, flop came  3s 5d 6h, the reset was history

Julian is OUT.

He pushed from the button and both blinds called.

Flop:

9h 5h Qd

Now a sidepot emerges as the small blind check-calls the big blind 2k bet and Julian isn't looking thrilled.

Turn:

8h

The small blind now pushes, and Julian is looking even more worried, but the big blind passes. The Small Blind flips Ahrt 5s and suddenly Julian's Qh Js on for a triple up until the...

River:

2h

can we have a chip count for dave johnson and damon d'cruz plse

come on rutttttterrrrrrrr

scarf or no scarf, gotta support him.

 ;flushy;

We're on a short break now, chip counts coming in about 15 minutes or so.

Just before the break Lucy Rokach (big blind) and Steve Jelinek saw a flop of Ahrt 9s 5c with a couple of others.  Short stack Steve bet 500 on the flop, only Lucy called.
Turn:  Qd Lucy checked, Steve bet 800; call.
River: 3c  Lucy checked, Steve bet 1,250 (leaving himself just 3k behind) and she called once more.
Steve, chagrined, showed Kd Th for a risky shortstack triple bluff, Lucy's Tc Td took the pot.

But then he doubled up off her a few hands after the break, so back to around 7k for the Monte Carlo finalist.

Any updates on Daniel Jolowicz??

Chip Count Lucky Dip from the Break (to whet the appetite for the long list just coming):

Yilfer Shevket    9,325
Alan McBride      16,000
Mark Briggs        9,800
Iwan Jones       27,000
Dave Smith       94,000
Joshua Tyler      27,350
Steven Hill         16,300
Daniel Jolowicz    35,000
Taner Hasan       32,000
Willie Tann          35,000
Lucy Rokach        41,000
Stuart Rutter       16,425
Jac Arama            5,875

Mick Fletcher, now having been moved to Willie Tann's left. (The dealer is in between to prevent an explosion that could destroy half of Brighton). Anyway Mick just knocked out a short stack with 7s 3d on a 7h 4s 2h 6d 3c against Qh 3h. (Pic1)


Iwan Jones raises, another player pushes, Iwan dwells, clocked called, Iwan calls with Nines, and finds himself against Tens, he flops a Nine on an all diamond board, (neither has a diamond), the turn is a diamond, as is the river.

;kc;


Elsewhere, Anthony Romanello has his cut-off raise of 1,500 re-raised to 4,200 by Marc Goodwin. He asked Mr Cool for a count, and seeing the stack, decided not to press the issue. (Pic2)

Chip counts, thanks to BlueSq.

Smith, David 94050
O’Leary, Kevin 52100
Dionysiou, K 50125
Rokach, Lucy 43575
Hasan, Taner 36550
Romanello, Antonio 35800
Tann, Willie 35450
Jolowicz, Daniel 35275
Tapinas, Andrius 34700
Ground, Darren 34250
Patel, Kalpesh 33350
Carr, Neil 32450
Johnstone, Mark 31850
Earnshaw, Barry 30850
Clark, David 30375
Wai Yuen, Kwan 30100
Johnson, David 29750
Dean, Alan 26500
Tyler, Joshua 26350
Nawab, Mazhar 26300
Jones, Iwan 26100
Evans, Damian 25600
Stovold, Ross 24900
Fletcher, Mick 24650
Brindly, Roy 24375
Reardon, Trevor 24125
Goodwin, Marc 23525
Goodall, Nick 23425
Bowden, I 23125
Clark, David 22975
Vasquez-Ponte, Jaine 22250
Muthy, Kayshan 22225
Greenleaf, Dale 22075
Bruce, Chris 20650
Herbert, Ian 20075
Wyre, Ray 19250
Rutter, Stuart 18525
Louis, Karim 18525
Serhan, Suad 17825
Ioannou, Nick 17375
Hill, Steven 16925
Bond, Kevin 16750
Kimber, Jeff 16625
Evans, Nick 16525
Le Marquand, Ewan 16175
Green, Phillip 15975
McBride, Alan 15475
Cooper, T 15125
Brockett, Franky 14175
Jackson-palin, Alexandra 14100
Ellis, Micheal 13625
Clutterbuck, Stuart 13175
Owen, Craig 13000
Stokes, Craig 12825
Bowles, Benjamin 12150
Fitzgibbon, K 11300
Holden, Stephen 11300
Moore, Mike 10525
Singleton, Peter 10325
D cruz, Damon 10250
Macleod, Andy 10025
Briggs, Mark 9775
Palenca, Manuel 9525
Aris, Dr 9425
Shevket, Yilfer 9325
Woods, Darren 9075
Khajuria, Chandra 7775
Yusuf, Sami 7775
Ullah, Ibrahim 7625
Avery, Tina 7600
Modha, Rajesh 7150
Arama, Jac 5850
Wooldrigde, Warren 4525
Mccombie, Marshall 3525
Zihni, Ali 3325
Jelinek, Steve 3000
Webb, Paul 2275
Beechy, Mostyn 1925

300/600 with a 75 ante.

Climber of the Day looks like it may well be heading towards Steve Jelinek - pictured here raking in what must be his third double up in the last level.  The chip counts Homer just put up have him at just 3,000 - what he was left with at the last break, but he's now on over 30,000!

Just now his most recent double saw him calling a 6k raise in position (leaving him with just under 10k behind) and then pushing in on the 4s Qh 8c flop when it was checked to him.  He got pretty much instacalled but with his opponent's Qs Ks no match for his Ahrt Qd, the harmless turn and river came out boosting him to his present comfortable chip position.   

Willie Tann vs. Kwan Wai-Yuen (I think) pictured below, both in weary looking 'freeze' positions as they regard the river on a board of: 4s Td 4d 7c Jh.
Willie bets out 6k into a pot of around 10k... they sit still as statues for about a minute before Kwan calls, about a third of her stack.
The wily Tann shows 7d 7h...it's good.

Quote from Steve, "It was a lot of good luck, and a couple of good moves. And I had a bad beat put on me too."

He did add, "Am I climber of the day?" :D

Someone was asking about Daniel Jolowicz - this is him, right?  Next to Antonio Romanello (now - his table's just broken as they're under 70 runners now).
He just lost a chunk doubling up Ian Herbert after raising from the small blind, getting called, and then auto-betting the Kc 9c 8d flop (a smallish chunk of his remaining stack but enough to put his opponent all in).  Daniel's Aspades Qs had fallen behind the unexpected Jh 8h of Herbert though, and so he's down to around 30k.

Kevin O'Leary adds to his stack, raising Ad Ac, and getting Andrius Tapinas to push behind him with 9h 9c

Board:

Ahrt 4h Th 6d Td

Michael Ellis is OUT holding Kings on a Jh 3c 5s Qd board, but Mark Johnstone was holding Aces and the river was the Jd.

Marc Goodwin is OUT. Ace King against Dave Courtney's Ace Jack. Knave on the river.

Chris Bruce has gone, his Nines failed to hold for a 32k pot against Ace Queen. Ace first card out.

And how about this for an odd hand...

Taner Hasan raises to 2,600 in early position, Ross Stovold makes it 6,600 from the cut-off with 12k back. Hasan calls.

Flop:

Jc 2c 9s

Check check.

Turn:

Qc

Hasan goes to bet then decides to check. Stovold shoves and Hasan insta-calls.

Stovold:

Kc Qs

Hasan:

Ac 9d

River:

8d


Any thoughts on this hand? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Selected counts as we move into the final 15 minute break...

Daniel Jolowicz     17,100
Antony Romanello  37,000
Dave Smith           120,000
Lucy Rokach          55,000
Steve Jelinek         37,500
Damon D'Cruz        19,000
Chandra Khajuria     36,000
Sandy Jackson-Palin  45,000
Greek Jack             28,000
Kevin O'Leary         64,500
Jeff Kimber            34,000
Stuart Rutter         13,000
Steve Read           42,000
Ray Wyre              17,000

Neighbours Damon D'Cruz (short stack) and Chandra Khajuria (whom I always catch in the middle of losing a pot but always seems to have increased his stack on each check  :dontask:  ) see a raised-called (by Khajuria) flop of Aspades Ahrt Js.  I don't know whether Damon just pushed straight away for his 10k or so or whether he check-called all-in but Chandra's Ad Qd had found the perfect flop to pay off Damon's now miles-ahead Ac Jh.
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Meanwhile Kevin O'Leary finds himself in a strange pot with Darren Ground - on a Qd Ks 6d flop, with 17k already in the pot, it looked like Lovejoy had bet out only for his opponent to shove for his whole stack - a (over)bet of 37k total.  Kevin thinks for an age before passing, what he said was A-K...

Meanwhile Lucy Rokach is continuing to bully herself over 50k, towards 60k... she did seem instrumental in, if not tilting, then at least nudging Marc Goodwing pre exit.  One time he raised her big blind and she just shoved an enormous chunk of chips in as a re-raise, pretty much committing Marc if he wanted to play.  He passed, but you can still hear him telling Matt Dale in the bar about what kind of play he thought that was... in any case she's been raking in many a small pot, and coming out on the right side of the big ones she's been in.  Willie Tann, watching her during a previous break, said to me, "She's a demon!"  How about a Tann/Rokach heads up match on the final table....

Kevin Bond and Dave Clark are OUT, whilst Darren Ground is developing a huge stack...

Elsewhere Stuart Rutter raises to 2.4k preflop before betting 5k on the 7h 4c 4s board, getting the big blind to pass. Rutter shows Pocket Tens. (Not the Wilson, I was mildly disappointed with the non-scarf wearing man).

Go lucyyyyy!

Play has finished for the day, and we've managed to grab all the chip counts, straight off the floor. Mwahahahaha.


By the way, best story from today came from Jim Kerrigan, who, when he opened his BlueSq goodie bag, only to find a stick of rock and a mug in there, thought they were questioning his poker ability... :D

Exclusive!  Play has now ended...we apologise for the gap in transmission, as we were doing that following the pre-bag'n'tag dealer count.  This means that by looking over the cardroom managers' shoulders (which they graciously allowed, many thanks) we can present full chip counts for the Day 1B survivors.  One more brief pause, please, as we input the numbers and round off the day...

D D'Cruz -- 21,750
C Khajuria -- 35,025
K Muthy -- 16,400
D Smith -- 102,250
S Jelinek -- 48,800
A McBride -- 14,225
S Yusuf -- 47,875
L Rokach -- 58,050
D Greenleaf -- 23,750

D Jolowicz -- 17,000
R Modha -- 18,900
M Palenca -- 14,500
A Romanello -- 30,975
M Nawab -- 42,775
M Johnstone -- 76,275
D Clark -- 25,325
J Vazquez-Ponte -- 35,975
A Jackson-Palin -- 55,850
J Tyler -- 19,625

End of Day Survivors by table ctd...

Alan Dean -- 55,525
E. Macleod -- 9,000
Darren Ground -- 75,425
Jeff Kimber -- 21,400
Dr. Aris -- 14,825
Kevin O'Leary -- 47,525
Greek Jack -- 33,625
Barry Earnshaw -- 27,875
Iwan Jones -- 42,575
Ian Herbert -- 24,325

Stuart Rutter -- 29,575
K. Patel -- 19,650
D. Evans -- 71,825
Tina Avery -- 32,250
F. Serhan -- 14,025
Steve Read -- 36,000
Nick Evans -- 12,425
Craig Owen -- 18,650

Mick Fletcher -- 19,575
Karim Louis -- 17,300
T. Cooper -- 31,750
Ross Stovold -- 38,475
Stuart Hill -- 17,150
Neil Carr -- 41,825
Ben Bowles -- 31,450
Hasan Taner -- 35,600
Willie Tann -- 65,500

Seeing as we keep getting kicked out of one hotel around 11am and have to do some lobby snoozing before being allowed to get back to sleep in the next one (who would have thought an entire town would be full) we really ought to be off.