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Hello from sunny, nay, VERY sunny Walsall, it's so warm I'm actually glad to be inside. We are going to be kicking this 'old skool stylee' this weekend. Since it's not a GUKPT event, we are actually in the casino this time, but without Blue Square's team of helpers. So chip counts are going to be coming manually and with 15k (7,500+7,500) chips there's going to a lot of play. But no running antes I don't think...  :'(

Play starts at 6.30pm.

This is the 'lite' thread.

Full Seat Plan. (Thankyou Walsall Staff!)

Table 1:

Paul Gourlay
Peter Evans
Dev Shearer
M Shafiq
Tony Fellone
Paul King
Tim Blake
Abdul Rashid
Keith Littlewood
Alan Mclean

Table 2:

D Wernick
Meng Ong
Adam Wilkinson
Tom Nightingale
Steve Craig
Andy Johnson
N Chudasama
Barry Neville
Mojid Khan
Matt Tyler

Table 3:

Satnam Sandhu
Toni Dicesare
J Moult
Samras Ragonesi
Eamon O'Neil
Ian Herbert
Patrick Murray
Simon Zach
Mark Orlowski
Paul Jackson

Table 4:

Michael Artemis
Ian Fieldhouse
Martyn Cavanagh
Stephen Holden
Neil Hosell
Dan Carter
Anthony Nicholls
Dave Smith
Dave Colclough
Mad Turk

Table 5:

Lucy Rokach
Phillip Green
Andy Winkett
Brian Welby
Howard Plant
Matt Porter
John Burke
Mick Fletcher
Ved Madan
Ramazanali Abbassi (big name snoops?)

Oh yes, by the way there are 98 runners, top place a-paying 39,200 delicious English pounds.

Table 6:

Lawrence Gosney
Maz Nawab
N Hanmer
Ben Callinan
Micky Wernick
Craig Cadman
Ash Hussain
Essy Jahanpour
Simon Eccleshall
Adam Smith - Father of Economics.

Table 7:

K Graham
Pete Haslam
Barkatul Mohammed
Andrew Psaras
Des Jonas
Ash Pervaiz
James Atkin - Printed in big letters to scare me.
Efstathios Andreou
Chris Gavriel
Tim 'Okaliy Dokaly' Flanders

Table 8:

Jeff Buffenburger
Craig Owen
Pippa Flanders
Ram Lakha
Martino Libertini
Tony Kendall
John Hewston
MZ Hussain
Roberto Romanello
Greek Jack

Table 9:

Darren Hickman
Chris Wright
Alberto Sapiano
Stuart Nash
Mark Allden
Marcus Bebb-Jones
Richard Simmonds
Michael Arnold
Jerard Barclay

Table 10

S Walmsley
Andy Louca
James Reid
Ashfag Ahmed
Tom McCready
Dave Knowles
William Shervington
Joseph Koumi
Chris Liperis

Early double-up for Barry Neville off of one N Chudasama -  Ad Kd v  Qs Qh and a  Kc on the flop.

Mad Turk had 3d 3s on an Aspades 2c 3c board and was called in two spots who all got it in on the 4c turn. One held 7c 5c but the other's 9c 8c stayed ahead after the Qs river. He's on his 2nd chance.

Barry Neville has lost a chunk betting 675 on a Qs 2c 4h flop, 750 on the 8h turn and finding his 1,550 bet on the river Qh being check/raised all-in.

Des Jonas is getting everyone to do a £100 last longer. So far he's got over a quarter of the field in on it.

Johnny Hewston has done his first set of chips. According to Tikay, a raise to 200 was called 5 ways and Hewston made it 700 before betting 5,000 on a T-9-9 flop, Craig Owen beating him into the pot with J-9 and taking all the chips after blanks on the turn and river.

Paul 'Rocket Man' Gourlay calls a 1.2k bet on a Kc 6d Jd Qc board along with one other player. They all checked the Qd river where Mateyboy's Td 7d monster draw was ahead of Paul's Tc 2c monster miss.

Ash Hussain has doubled up through Craig Cadman with Ac Aspades against Jc Js on a 8h 9c 8d board, the Ad turn was overkill

Lucy Rokach and Mick Fletcher are sharing a table.

It's going to be like Thunderdome, Two men enter, one man leaves...

We have been moved from our lovely comfortable smoking-section coffee table on the gaming floor to a training room in the bowels of the casino, largely because Floppy unnecessarily drew the staff's attention to himself. Thanks, man.

Anyway, blinds are up to 50/100.

N Chuadasama is our first casualty, something about pushing with Aces on a Q-J-T board, Mojid Khan calling him with K-5 and spiking a Nine.

Here's a picture of Chuadasama shouting 'Khaaaaaaan!' as he was busted.

(http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/7/71/Kirk_scream.jpg)

Anyways, in the meantime some poker has been played.

Barry Neville has found himself down to 3k after all his other chips found their way into Mojid Khan's stack. Oh, the wrath of Khan!  ;hide;

I spotted Red Dog thieving a medium-sized pot.

Stuart Nash has a monstrous stack of green 500 chips now - on a  4c 4s 8h Kc  board, Stuart bet two of those green chips into an already 2k+ pot, and Alberto Sapiano called. I must confess the river somewhat passed me by, but Stu Nash can't have seen it as a threat as he bet another 3 greens. Sapiano called, but mucked when Stuart turned over  Jd 4d.

Tikay, "I had Q5, Jeff Buffenburger had T7, the flop was TT7 and I won." - Yup he hit running Queens though there was no major action on flop or turn.

A couple of hands later Jeff has Johnny Hewston all-in on a 4h 4s 3c 3d board with 8h 3h against Hewston's Js Jd. River: 4c.

Jeff on his 2nd chance. "I'm going to the movies for a couple of hours."

I believe this is how he felt:

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


Red Dog had built up to 10k but just ran Kings into Aces.

El Scoopie's scoops. And they are good. :D

Quote: "The table 4 testosterone can be smelt in the carpark. I predict we lose half the table before the end of level 4. (maybe 3)."

Anthony Nicholls doubles through Dave Smith with Sevens against K-Q on a Q-8-7 board. Dave loses 1st stack.

Stephen Holden gets his second stack all-in with A-K against Mad Turk's K-J, board 3-3-K-8-K. ;kc;

Quote: "Martyn Cavanagh whinges it is impossible to see a flop for less than 600, and that's the minimum."

Dave Smith gets it all in with Ad Qd against El Blondie's Jacks. Board: Qc Qs Td 9d 4d to take 4k off the Blonde One.

Turk all-in for second stack with A-Q. Michael Artemis all-in with 9-9. Stephen Holden all-in with J-T! <--big exclamation mark there. :D
Q and a Ten on the flop and Turk has 13.5k

Finally, Michael Artemis is OUT, he held 4h 3h on an Ahrt 6h Kd board against Martyn Cavanagh's Ac 6c which held.


Thanks to Dave for all of this.

Craig Cadman is OUT. His last 700 went the way of Ash Hussain. Q-J no good against A-K.

Barry Neville is OUT - got it all in on a 5-7-8 flop with 9-J and got called by Mateyboy holding 9-T, but a jack on the river finished him off. "Sick'" said Barry, shortly before going home. He said some other things too but they're probably not blonde-compliant. Anyway, he was amazingly the fourth player lost from his table in the craziness that seems to be this main event. Apparently the £500 freezeout was the same - 7 players lost from his table in the first level, according to Barry. Must be the heat. Or Barry.  ;scarymoment;

Chip counts from El Blondie's table (i've added the names on the end to ones Dave doesn't know):

Seat 1 - departed to Broadway cash game where he belongs. Michael Artemis

Seat 2 - (youngster playing remarkably tight for his age) - 24k. Ian 'hotdog' Fieldhouse

Seat 3 - Martin Cavanagh - 24k

Seat 4 - (Amazingly still here) - 15k. Stephen Holden.

Seat 5 - (After some very inventive play) - 21k. Neil Hosell.

Seat 6 - Dan Carter - 5.3k.

Seat 7 - 35k. Anthony Nicholls, probably chip leader.

Seat 8 - Dave Smith - 5k.

Seat 9 - The Blonde One - 10.4k.

Seat 10 - Mad Turk - 12k.

Andrew Psaras raises preflop to 500; Des Jonas and James Atkin both call.

Flop -  4d 2s 4h

Andrew Psaras bets 1000, Des Jonas folds and James Atkin moves in for another 2k or so. Andrew folds, and James is still in, although still pretty short.

Saw a curious hand from Table Colclough involving Stephen "Amazingly Still Here" Holden and Ian "Remarkably Tight Hotdog For His Age" Fieldhouse.

The flop comes  9d 6h 7d - Dave Colclough, Mad Turk and Hotdog all check. Stillhere Holden bets 250; Hotdog raises to 1000 and Holden calls.

They both check the  Kh turn.

The river comes the  Aspades and Hotdog checks; Stillhere Holden bets 2000 and Hotdog calls.

Stillhere Holden -  Jc 6c

Iandog Fieldhouse -  Ac Tc

Here's a fun one. Roberto Romanello moves in on a  5d 9s 6d Ks 8s board with about 5k already in the pot. After much staring into space while gently gnawing at her knuckles, Pippa Flanders calls. He turns over A-6, but she turns over the two-pairalicious K-6.

Just to make it even more fun, tikay informed me that before the flop, Roberto announced, "Dealer, bring me a 6-9". Ahhh ha ha, it works on so many levels.

Andy Johnson could very well be chip leader, he has way over 40k now, he just knocked out Wernick the Younger, with A-Q against 2-2. Sadly, he just got up and walked away as I was taking a picture. I'll get one later

Lawrence Gosney is OUT, he moved in on the river with 8s 7s on a 7-5-3-9-J board but Ben Callinan made the call with pocket Kings.

El Scoopie mini-scoop now: He limped under gun with Aces in a pot with Stephen Holden (holding Fours) and Dave Smith, (holding J-T)

Q-9-4 flop, it all goes in. Turn 7, River K.

Dave Smith makes the straight to go to 13k. DC is on 9k and Stephen Holden is also on 9k.

A gentleman on Table Rokach who may or may not be Howard Plant (portly gent, pink shirt, granny glasses - can anyone confirm?) has Run Into Some Unfortunate Trouble. With the flop  Jd 3s 7c, Mr Possibly Plant moves in; another gentleman who may or may not be Andy Winkett calls fairly quickly.

Probably Plant -  Jc 7s

Could Be Winkett -  Js 8c

But oh disaster, the turn is  8h and the river the inconsequential  4d, leaving Mr Plant with only 600 chips. I saw him wandering off to the bar shortly afterwards.

Mad Turk is OUT. The Half Wilson 7c 4c failed him when he pushed on a Ac Qd 8c board, Dave Smith calling with A-T to win an 18k pot. And the Brighton winner has just won another, Martyn Cavanagh betting 2,400 on a 6s 2c 5h 3c 2s board. Dave moved in, and Martyn passed.

Paul Gourlay raises to 1,000 on the button after three limp for 200. Shaf makes it almost 5k total, everyone passes, Paul dwells, but decides to just call. Flop is A-K-3 and both check, turn is 6, Shaf checks, Paul bets 3k and Shaf insta-mucks.

Mickey Wernick bets 1400 on a  Tc Qd 3s flop; a young Mateyboy in a red-sock-sneaks-into-whites-wash-pink shirt calls. The turn comes the  Ad - Laundryboy bets 3k and Mickey folds.

His restraint is rewarded a few hands later - having checked down a  2s Ad 6c 6d 8h board against another young Mateyboy, Mickey bets 4k right at the end. Mateyboy calls, and mucks when Mickey shows his  Ac Aspades.

Big pot with Peter Evans all-in for 23k on a Jc Td 4c board, Chicken Joe calls and Andy Johnson eventually passes what he later admits is the flush draw.

Evans:

Jd Ts

Joe:

Kc Qs

Turn:

3d

River:

Ks.

Peter Evans into the 50k zone.

Womble just won a 12k pot and is up to 21k after he had his set of Fours paid off by A-K on a K-9-4-J-A board.

79 players left in, blinds 150/300, curiously, even though they didn't have a 75/150 level, and the dude who came into the Blonde Office (Grosvenor staff training room, with free Tango and biscuits!) before said there wasn't going to be a 150/300 level. That's what it says on the board though.

Johnny Hewston is OUT. 4-4 into Roberto Romanello's Kings.

Lucy Rokach is also OUT. 6-6 against Kings.

A big old pot for Mick Fletcher.

;bp;

Mateyboy on the button, an Asian gentleman who keeps staring at me creepily, although I think he has been staring creepily at others too so perhaps it is just his way, bets 1200 on a  9s Ad Aspades flop. Mateyboy 2 quickly raises to 5000. After a prolonged period of mumbling to himself, during which time I am trying really hard not to look at Staring Creepy Mateyboy, Mick Fletcher calls. Creepyboy asks how many chips Mateyboy 2 has, is told 19,100, folds, and stands up for the rest of the hand for no reason.

Turn -  2h and they both check.

River -  9c - Mateyboy 2 bets 8000 and Mick Fletcher calls.

Mateyboy 2 -  Js 9h

Mick Fletcher -  Ahrt Ts

ACTUAL TIKAY CHIPCOUNT - about 19k. That's about average I reckon.

Incidentally I saw Matt Tyler taking down a small pot on a  Jd Th 8c Qh board. Hard to say how many chips he has, his stack is deceptively large. He must have about half the orange 25 chips in play. A veritable fruitbowl.

And also incidentally 77 players left in last time I checked.

El Blondie raised it to 1,125 with Queens, got 4(!) callers and then pushed the 4-5-6 flop with two spades, getting called by 9s 8s which missed. That put him up to 19k but he's dropped a fair whack since then and is now shortish.

He wrote this though:

"8h 3c 6h 6c

Dan Carter bets 1,700. Seat 10 makes it 4,700, Dan has 4,600 left, dwells and moves in. Seat 10 passes 12k pot for just 1,600 more...."

Ok, we're back. 67 players left. Average stack 21,900 and the blinds are now 200/400.

Red Dog -- 9,000
El Blondie -- 6,400 ("The standard is woeful")
Tim 'T8MML' Blake -- 16,000
Tikay -- 18k

Andy Johnson and Peter Evans are still the big stacks with over 40k each.

Paul King went before the break too. He wasn't able to recover after running Queens into Aces.

Add Mick Fletcher's name to the chip leader grouping. He's on about 42k.

Those Glittering Cash Prizes:

1st -- £39,200
2nd -- £20,580
3rd -- £11,270
4th -- £8,330
5th -- £5,390
6th -- £4,410
7th -- £3,430
8th -- £2,940
9th -- £2,450

66 players left, blinds 200/400, average chips 22,300.

Ash Hussain has doubled up through Pippa Flanders, Ash bet heavily with A-K on the K-5-4 flop and Pippa put him all-in. Thinking she had a set, Ash almost folded but ended up calling only to find Pippa on a complete bluff with A-Q.

Roberto Romanello is OUT. Not sure how.

Tikay is also OUT. He tried to bluff Albert Saipiano, the man who errr... doesn't like to fold. And then the rest of his chips went with Ac 7c against Jim Reid's huge overbet on the river with Kings on a A-J-6-K-6 board.

Some classic cussing from Shaf. More of that sort of thing!

Flop -  8s Jc Jd - Shaf bets 1000, Tim Blake calls.

Turn -  5d - Shaf bets 1500 and Tim calls.

River is another jack! Now Shaf checks, and so does Tim.

"C***!!!" he screams, turning over pocket eights. "This is a bastard of a game. What the hell am I gonna beat now?" Tim mucks, apparently amused.

I have spoken to Creepyboy who, it turns out, is not that creepy, and is in fact Ramazanali Abbassi. He had to write it down for me, and I had to really quickly flick through my notebook to a page where i had not obviously referred to him as Creepyboy.

He just now took out a super-short young Matey - Mr Abbassi called utg, and Young Matey checked his big blind, but then moved in for 4700 on the  6c 4s 4c flop.

Young Matey turns over  8c 9c, Mr Abbassi turns over  Tc Ts. No club and the Young Mateyboy is sent on his way.

59 left. Avg stack is 24.9k

Stuart Nash is OUT, A-J on a J-T-T board no good against Mateyboy's T-8.

El Blondie is also OUT, no details I'm afraid.

57 left in now, that's an average of 25,800 off the top of my head. Blinds still at 300/600 for a bit.

On a  Qh 9d 9c flop, Mateyboy - a black guy in a slightly-Village-People-but-I-wouldn't-say-that-to-his-face black leather cap, if anyone can tell me his name from that - anyway, he bets, and Tim Blake calls.

Turn -  Th - YMCBoy bets again, and Tim calls again. Cap Man now has just 2800 left in front of him.

River -  Tc - Cap Man now checks and Tim bets 3500 to cover him. And the pain in Cap Man's eyes as he quietly folds, lovingly cradling his last few chips in his hand. Heartbreaking.

Sometimes it's really difficult to know who the chip leader is. The ever changing stack sizes as the chips spin everywhere on this merry-go-round game. But here it's easy.

Bloody easy.

Andy Johnson has roughly 150k.

Translation: 10% of the chips in play, and average for the final table despite the fact there are still nearly 60 people left.

He just raised K8 on the small blind and Peter Evans just flat called with Queens in the big. The flop came King high and all the chips went in.

Dana speculates that because of it's size, it most likely has a gravitational pull on all the other chips drawing them closer.

Jim Reid has doubled through Matt Tyler.

Jim pushed his short stack in on a 9s 8c 6s board. Matt pushed behind him, as he would when holding 9h 8h. Jim was holding Tc 7h though...

Turn:

Jd

River:

3d.

Yup, he has almost exactly the average with 29,100. Although bearing in mind how many chips Andy Johnson has, that's considerably above average out of the non-chip-leader players.

Other counts I happened to notice include Paul Jackson on around 18k, and Pippa Flanders on just 8k - eek.

Short break right now, blinds up to 400/800 when they come back. 50 left, average (including Andy Johnson) 29,400.

Matt Tyler is OUT, pushed with Tens. Andy Johnson had Kings(!).

Crazy pot time.

Guy UTG wants to min-raise but it's counted as a string bet so he can only flat-call. Now guy UTG+1 makes it 3k to go (300/600). Red Dog is next and ends up flat-calling. Now passed round to Andy Johnson and he moves in(!) Blinds fold, the UTG passes (bet he was glad!). UTG+1 senses he might be beat, but ends up pushing his chips in. Now on Red Dog, he umm's and aaahhh, before flicking his cards away like you'd push away a really nice piece of cake you wanted but knew was bad for you. He passed Queens.

UTG+1 shows: Kc Kh

Andy Johnson shows: Ad Ac

Board:

5s Tc Kd 9s 2h

And UTG+1 scoops, what looks to be a 50k pot. Who is this person you might ask?

It's Mark 'Mantis01' Allden, who'll writes quite often (and thoughtfully) on the PHA boards.

Dan Carter is OUT. Holding  6d 7d, he moved in on a flop that gave him a flush draw and a straight draw. Andy Johnson called with A-Q off. Turn - non-diamond queen. River - non-diamond ace. Ohhh sick sick sick. Johnson is on fire!

Actually now I read that last it sounds painful.

Pippa Flanders still ludicrously short. She moved in for her last 9500 from the small blind but got herself called by a guy who reminds me a bit of Tom Waits.

Pippa Flanders -  Ahrt Kh

Waitsyboy -  Ac Ks

Board -  2s 8d Qc 8h 9s

;kc;

Pippa Flanders is OUT, she made a good call with Qs Js on a Kd 2s Qd board after a mid position limper put her in on the flop after she had lead out, he held Jd Tc but a 9c turn meant it was all over.

Womblewatch -- 32k

Red Dog has doubled through to 24k, he had 2s 5s on a 9s 2d 6s board and pushed and got a call from trip 9's but hit his spade.

Jeff Buffenbarger is OUT.

Flop  6d Tc 5h and Jef bets 1300; Mateyboy on the small blind calls him.

Turn -  6s - Jeff bets 1300 again, but this time SB MB raises to 13,000 to cover him.  Eventually Jeff calls.

Jeff -  Ad Ac

SBMB -  6h  Kd

Oh the perils of slow-playing those aces.

Quadruple-up for Dave Smith!

All-in for a rather sad 4100 preflop, he found 3 callers.

The checked-down board read  7d Th 8c 6d Jh and no-one had anything to beat Dave's pocket kings. He's still pretty short, mind.

Some chip counts:

Andy Louca -- 35k
Shaf -- 52.7k. "Are you putting up good reviews or bad reviews about me?" "I'm putting up reviews," I replied.
Alan Mclean -- 110k (More on this in a moment).
Mark 'Mantis01' Allden -- 45k
Red Dog -- 50k+ (And this)
Jim Reid -- 27k
Paul Gourlay -- 15.8k
Micky Wernick -- 29k
Micky Pearce -- 26k
Simon Zach -- 18k
Paul Jackson -- 23k
Mick Fletcher -- 21k
Anthony Nicholls -- 25k
Ash Pervaiz -- 12k
Ian 'Hotdog' Fieldhouse -- 14k
Ben Callinan -- 40k

Double-up for John Burke with aces, but he's still only got about 10k.

Also Kenny Graham has gone, 99 against an AK that hit.

Mateyboy in the pink shirt (I don't know the name. Of the player, not the make of shirt. Not that I know that either. Oh heck, this a long bracket, I'd better stop.) just lost a 110k+ to Alan McLean with 9d 9s against Ad Kd

Flop:

9h 4h 3h

(No recovery shurely?)

Turn:

2d

(Shurely not?)

River:

5h

(Shurely shum mishtake?)

Red Dog has also doubled up. The cut-off raised and Red Dog called in the small blind, and Ash Hussain called in the big blind.

Flop:

Jd 3c 6c

Red checked, Ash checked, the original raiser moved in. Insta-called from Red, Insta-fold from Ash.

OR:

9d 7d

Red:

Js Jh


Turn:

6d

River:

Qd

Red Dog is over 50k now.

Dave Smith is OUT. Tried to squeeze a raise and a call with 9c 8h but the caller called with Kc Qc

Board:

7s Td 7h Qh 2c

Ash Pervaiz is OUT.

He raised preflop only for Anthony Nicholls to go over the top of him. More or less committed, Ash called.

Anthony Nicholls -  Ac Qd

Ash Pervaiz - er,  9d 2h

Board -  4s then a promising  9c but swiftly followed by  Qs Kd Ahrt

Ash Hussain just knocked out a short stack with Aspades Qc against 5s 5c

Board:

Ac 4c Jc 7h Tc

Paul Gourlay took a hit for a big chunk of his stack against a shorty. His A-7 no good against A-Q.

Play is now over for the day. We'll recommence at 3pm tomorrow.

Chips counts:

Table 2

Mark 'Mantis01' Allden -- 49.8k
Tom 'Red Dog' McCready -- 47.7k
Ash Hussain -- 55.5k
Tom Nightingale -- 41.1k
Andy Johnson -- 129.9k
Phillip Green -- 29.6k
V Madan -- 29.4k
Jim Reid -- 46.4k
A Rasid -- 30.2k

Dana has the rest.

Table 1

A Louca -- 37.3k
A Psaras -- 26.4k
M Shafiq -- 56.9k
R Simmonds -- 31.1k
P Haslam -- 23.3k
N Hanmer -- 34.9k
A Smith -- 19.4k
R Abbassi -- 51.1k
A McClean -- 132.2k


Table 3

M Wernick -- 15.7k
T Dicesare -- 12.4k
J Moult -- 31.8k
P Gourlay -- 18.2k
T Flanders -- 23.1k
S Walms -- 27.9k
P Murray -- 24.1k
S Zach -- 29.6k
H Mohammed -- 37.1k
C Owen -- 14.4k


Table 4

A Ahmed -- 29.3k
I Fieldhouse -- 11.6k
M Fletcher -- 12.5k
M Porter -- 93.4k
N Hosell -- 59.9k
B Callinan -- 33k
A Nicholls -- 49.3k
P Jackson -- 18.6k
J Burke -- 18.8k
B Welby -- 33.2k

Friends, I need a whisky and 10 hours' sleep. See you tomorrow!

 ;stickaforkinme;