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Hi-de-hi all, and welcome to the DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde) Monthly £300-er! I must confess that I am currently curled up on my sofa with the TV on, but come 8pm tomorrow Snoops and I will be up in Nottingham, hopefully full of some kind of delicious DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde) dinner and all ready to bring you a veritable cornucopia of updating treats.

Feel free in the meantime to bok yourself if you're playing, or your friends if they're playing, and we'll keep our eagle eyes (http://thumbs.photo.net/photo/2230387-sm.jpg) out come tomorrow night.

Greetings, peeps, and welcome to the 3 in the DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde)'s 3-2-1, a completely unique name that we can only credit to DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde)  ;whistle;  Oh, okay, hands up, it is of course a tribute to the wonderfully tacky and bizarrely perplexing 3-2-1 TV quiz show involving Ted Rogers and the true star of the show, Dusty Bin. But unlike 3-2-1, there's poker involved in this show, with the first of the three digit sequence being tomorrow's £300 No Limit Hold'Em Freezeout.

With a spectacular 170 showing on its last outing, the 3-2-1 is already proving to be a huge success and further proof of how far ahead DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde) are of the rest of the field. This month, I expect nothing less, with the esteemed likes of Mickey Wernick, Dave Colclough and Lucy Rokach crossing swords with the many local players who have made this fantastic venue their new local jaunt.

As Dana said, be sure to give a shout out to anyone you want us to follow, and we'll do our very best to keep you inundated with photos, hands, chip counts and, especially in Red-Dog's case, what they've gone for in their all-day breakfast. Inevitably, we haven't been able to get our greasy mitts on a player list yet, so if you are playing, or no someone who is, then please let us know by posting below.

In the meantime, all that we can do is brace ourselves for the poker festivities ahead, pray for flowing traffic on those blasted M1 roadworks, and pray silence as we commend two of the people responsible for this cracking 3-2-1 invention, Messieurs Trumper and Yong.

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Self-Bokked. To save you the trouble.

GL to all the blondes playing, especially leknave, sledge and maybe horneris

Oh great, Dana is updating.  PLEAAAAAAAASE don't let me forget to give you some money!!  Phil Quayle asked me to pass on some dosh for your cd a couple of weeks ago - oops.

Gl all blondes imo.

Especially LeKnave, Sledge, Fran and Chilli. And maybe Horneris if he decides to go. (too busto to play it myself, fk my life)

gogogogo gl 1 time ppl.

Cheers Rich, don't worry luv, Fran and myself already talked about a heads up chop tonight....It's in the bag IOO (in our opinion, just in case). x

But yeh, you two HU would be a good result!

 rotflmfao nice editing.

Is Horneris still in?

:dontask:

UTM FTW SHIB IT

Obviously no bias due to having a %age in Sledge but GL m8 take it down. GL to all Blondes and on behalf of the NAS I'm sure we can rely on Snoopy to ensure the high quality of norkage achieved by Kev at the last 321 weekend will be topped this weekend.

i had a dream.........

%%% Yay  ;D Hopefully im still in it tomorrow Llevan!

which one of you was on top at the time?





































(CHIP WISE!!!!!!)

;whistle;

So this weekend we are trialling a new feature for the live updates, "Text and Play" whereby players playing the event can text their progress direct to the live update..only during breaks or when away from the table of course!


If you are playing, would be great if you help us test this, and lets see how it goes


All you need to do is text  "blonde" followed by your message to 07786 202 610

Mr and Mrs Beagle will filter out any naughty stuff, and the rest will appear in front of the update viewers' eyes for details of your progress straight from the horses mouth. Or donkey's mouth depending how its going.

Give it a go!

So you want us to step away from the table and send a text message for sponoy12341231 who will be probably be sat at a table 10 feet away?

that beagle is getting lazy in his old age!! :D

send a message for your adoring public, stuck at home following your every move with baited breath and a bunch of bananas semi-peeled in your honour.

not much point if sponoy deletes four fifths of it

;angel;

...but PLEASE REMEMBER. If you use your phone at the Table at DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde), you will be liable to a Time Penalty. You do not have to be in a hand - you still get penalised. You cannot even PLACE your phone on the table. Thems the Rules.

Mother Hen will get you.

Good luck to blonde comp winner SLEDGE ... I hope he is wearing his blonde shirt, PICS PLEASE.

Im sure Llevan and Ripple will be cheering him on, as they have 20% and 10% of his action http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=31315.msg651883#msg651883


Good luck everyone ... but especially Sledge :)

Ty! the pressures on...shirt ironed and ready, get that heating on Dtd!

I shall be there (for a short while anyhow), most likely extending my record of not troubling the scorers at DTD.

gl to fran, chilli and grandad.

NAS is present today and is sure snoops and dana (greatinthesackaccordingtoAQA) wont let us down. Is my next xwife the valet still there?

What time does DTD open on a saturday please anyone?

I think it's 7pm, you could check their website to be sure.

Can't wait for this one, should be a cracker!

Good luck to all Blondes (unless you're on my table obv.)

Thanks Ralph, i did and it says 7. I thought it was earlier.

What a wicked idea - bring on the festivities!

 Hello, i'm the text and play updater!

What a great idea!  I'm on my way!

Was gona play, but cant face jus playing 1 tournament when i can play online and play at least 30.

GO SLEDGE AND LEKNAVE

Blimey, forgot all about my 10% :P .........................GO SLEDGEY GO  !!!!

 just testing B-)

 Junglecat and Floppy say hello from San Remo!

good luck to all the blondes playing, 'specially monkey boy!  You can send the unedited texts direct to your adoring public ;)

me and horner could do with a player list as soonas you can plz,weve got some props to bet on, thx

Hello!  Or :hello: as Mclovin might say.

We are well and truly here, although currently it's really only me, Snoops, Tightend and some people who work here seeing as they don't actually open until 7. This is what that looks like:

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Nevertheless we understand that within the hour the cavernous cardroom will be literally heaving with poker players of every variety. There are currently 65 players registered and we expect an absolute bunch (technical term) more to sign themselves up for the "3" in the "3-2-1" thingy before 8pm.

In the meantime, we have of course checked into our hotel for the night, and look which room they gave us! Here is Snoops modeling that awesome room number plaque, and simultaneously totally failing to look suave or, indeed, sophisticated:

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See you at 8pm!

Player List at 8pm then pls???

Good luck to me

I have to wish myself luck because I'm still new to blonde so nobody cares  :'(

I assure you, we will post it the very second we receive it. Like I said, only 65 registered so far, and of those, only one Des Jonas currently evident in the cardroom. Soon, my pretties, soooooon...

Good luck you! Tell us your table/seat when you know and we'll provide you with updates on you, or feel free of course to use the new texting service...

 ;reallyamsorry;

;whistle;

see you at final table

Yay a friend  ;D

Just finishing work so in a mad rush to get there for 8. Pre registered so not a major problem.

By the way if anyone ends up on a table with some bald bloke called Matt Russell then say hello..... That's me  :hello:

EvilPie ftw!   ;goodluck;

Any news on Evil Pie please .

Chip counts for all blondes please :):):)

Good luck guys!

 :)

Lookeylikey:

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Can I have the chip counts for all the odd numbered seats on the even numbered tables, and also the chip counts of any player who when you add their seat number and table number together, it makes a prime number.

Thanks.

No. Behave yourselves over there in sunny San Remo.

 ;smackedbottom;

Reasonable requests, anyone?

norkage- special kudos if you can get te valet blowing a kiss ;)

norkage of the male variety please.

can't leave you alone for two minutes!! ;)

Just a regular update on ones mentioned b4 will be ok!

Dave Jones(LeKnave), Marc Hodge(Sledge13), and Fran and Maria plzzzzzzz. ;D

And all other Blondeesssssss. gogogogogo

10k.

All of 'em.

oh, erm......you're not supposed to be at a computer!  I meant pics of you, obviously! (and any other hotties you happen to notice around the place Dana)

Picture of Alex please . . . . ummmmm

GL to the Blondes.

what he said!

ok NAS comp. Snoops has to get the hottest females and dana the hottest males and blonde can decide who wins.

Snoops wins.

Plenty of norkage at DtD I would think :)

That's not fair, Snoops will obviously win because the men on blonde outnumber the women by an arbitrary but relatively large number-to-one.  >:(

That's not a fair comp! Dana can just take a pic of me and win in a second.

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???

We have a winner. Congratulations to Dana!  ;applause;

phwoar  ;kev;

Damn skippy.

Oh okay, I don't want to kip on the floor (or, like last time, the bath) tonight, so here's my winning entry into that norkage comp.

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LOL Great updates already!

EvilPie FTW ;goodluck; blondes :)

Ignoring the dreadfulness that has just been posted (ie. me gnawing on sausage etc), please enjoy these few snaps taken shortly prior to the cardroom filling up with approximately one million poker players:

Ms Fran Creed:

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Ms Fran Creed with the lovely addition of Ms Maria Demetriou:

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Titans Of Poker - Messrs Tikay, Matt Tyler, Tightend:

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Well the pie-eaters just beat Leeds in the rugby league - EvilPie FTW!!

(...and the other blondes of course)

We're just moments away from kick off, and already I have spotted a number of familiar faces. To name just a few...

Peter Charalambous
Matt Tyler
tikay
Redsimon
Pete Linton
Ali Mallu
Chris Bruce
Greek Jack
Lam Trinh
Matt Doyle
Davy Jones
Tony Nicholls
Rana Gurnham

And they're off!!!

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Good Luck to all involved.

Nice room No  ;)

Me and Rick wana do a Last longer bet with 3 players each

But i dont know whos in

Fulll Player List plssssssssssssssssss.

A quick meander around the cardroom and I stumble it to this rather bamboozled lass, Chili's drink surely embedded with multiple shots of vodka rather than pure cranberry juice.

Anyhow, after taking this shot, I was momentarily plagued with who she reminded me, and then it hit me, it's my last girlfriend Barbara. Take a look, it's uncanny.

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The lower half of Barabara's body has been concealed in the interest of blonde compliancy. She often went commando did our Babs, bit of a naturist too.

He's been avoiding our paparazzi paws for far too long, but veteran forum user Redsimon isn't just a blonde, but a local around these parts and was part of the wallpaper when I was a regular down the Notts Gala. Good too see him at the tables, especially since he's increased his 10k starting stack to a monster 10,025. If he increases his count by that every level he'll be... well, still around his starting stack.

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When Take That lost Robbie Williams, they called this man. When Weslife lost Brian, they called this man. When the leads singer of the Monkees wanted his name back, he called this man. Interesting Mr Boyband himself, Davy 'Le Knave' Jones, a bit of Sleepy Jean with his starting stack still in tact.

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Also gracing us with his presence is DTD's own Nick Whiten, gurning like a child at the dentist and cupping in a way that reminds me of those fearsome trips to the school doctors.

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For those viewers who haven't yet been lucky enough to make it to DTD, feat your eyes on these two wide snaps that would surely make even the most talented of landscape photographers weep into their lens and cry "Why can't we create such spectacular, ground-breaking shots as snoopy and Dana?!"

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thanks for the pic, any chance of pics of marc hodge aka sledge 13 please

Ok, the lady at the desk said no player list for an hour, but as I trudged back to my laptop, a gent appeared waving the ludicrous piece of paper below appeared. It is amazingly a kind of player list - we're missing at least half a table, but it should give you a decent idea for the time being. Enjoy!

What our player list looks like:

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What it means:

Table Unknown
Seat 1 - unknown
Seat 2 - unknown
Seat 3 - unknown
Seat 4 - unknown
Seat 5 - Aarun Somebody
Garinder Purewal
Gjung Hoang
Sam Savile-Barton

Table 33
Martin Reeve
Panos Panayi
Andrew Johnson
Kyriacos Dionysiou
John Cann
Lynne Beaumont
Nick Hicks
Gerald Mcinally

Table 23
Yucel Eminoglu
Mark Lewis
Andy Bacon
Barrie Sherbert
Rob Allen
Joe Stevenson
Trevor Turton
Pat Kelley

Table 45
Matt Tyler
Greg Reardon
Julian Thew
Des Jonas
Tony Bedford
Glad Trygve Holm
Gino Gabriel
Shaun King

Table 56
Binh Dong
Robert Woodcock
Xie Zhenru
Neil Henshaw
David Lerner
Nasser Patel
Michael Parikos

Table 38
Glenn Henderson
Mohammed Amar
Rupinder Bedi
Richard Hawes
Chris Bruce
Andrew Woods
Simon Eggleton
Sean Scott

Table 35
Nigel Hill
Alex Hamilton
Alan Vinson
Ginikachukwu Izuogu (my current Name Of The Day, closely followed by...)
Karl Bullock
Younes Sayad
Nick Whiten
Ramazanali Abbassi

Table 25
Shaun Cook
Ralph Shalson
Kevin Lund
Paul Thompson
Amit Chopra
Ben Callinan
Jayant Mistry
Andreas Olympios

Tabke 32
Oliver Stone
Dave Smith
Paul Lyons
Matt Russell
Chai Koh Chin
Robert Berridge
Petter Haere
Alex Williamson

Table 22
Alan Davies
Lucy Rokach
Sabeer Hamid
Trevor Reardon
Alan Garratt
Richard Berridge
Keith Johnson
Nigel Turver

Table 12
Ng Cao Te
Hongji Liu
Chintu Pattani
Dominic Kay
Cornelius Cronin (have now changed my mind; this is my new Name Of The Day)
John Burke
Andrew Wilson
Sam Trickett

Table 47
Simon Lawlor
John Sinons
Philip Hughes
Anthony White
Niclas Halvorsen
Peter Charalambous
Matthew Cox

Table 37
Lam Trinh
Abdul Rashid
Danielle Allen
tikay
Shane Bunyan
Michael Cook
Kevin Noble
Agy Costanti

Table 27
Billy Ngo
Gamal Mosleh
David Stratton
Dharminder Buttar
Hiren Kanabar
Mark Clare
Darren Hodson
George Kennedy

Table 34
Raj Dhiri
Imran Mckenzie
Mark Hayes
Daniel Platten
Anthony Nicholls
Andrew Tuxworth
Adam Vinson
Mick McCool

Table 14
Waheed Ashraf
Paul Smart
Mukesh Kanabar
Andrew Piper
Lawrence Gosney
Gareth Nelson
Maurice Nicholson
John Perrin

Table 31
Carl Walker
Michael Miller
Michael Jones
Erwan Goasdoue
Fan Cao
Harpit Gurnam
Marc Hodge
John Marles

Table 21
Mark Yaffe
Maria Demetriou
John Deeley
James Hoyes
Peter Davis
David Carter
David Barnett
Jim Reid

Table 11
Le Tuan
Daniel Rudd
Jim Moult
Terry Arnold
Alan Stearn
James McBride
Stephen Holden
Steven Mills

Table 46
Daniel Byrom
Juston Sheppard
Trevor Pearson
Matt Doyle
Alwyn Powell
Tasos Grigoriou
Paul Lammas

Table 36
Alex Hinchcliffe
Ali Mallu
Pete Linton
Steven Frew
Hamid Rowshanaei
Keith Littlewood
Chase Wilson
David Jones

Happy as usual...

Sharing a table with HWMNBN (He Who Must Not Be Named) are localboys Tony Nicholls and Raj Dhiri. Raj in particular likes his poker, and has even made it onto the current DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde) board. Even though I remember him from my final Gala days just weeks before I departed the Nottingham area, I must confess that I momentarily forgot Raj's name and was forced to ask him with a slight blush of red in my cheeks. As I refused to believe his initial reply of 'Bob', he diverted my attention to the leader board and announced that he was currently sitting pretty in 2nd. I looked at the board to see that he was indeed just one place behind leader Shariffe (more commonly known as Javed). I'm first, piped up Tony Nicholls with a mischievous smile. I'm not sure what's less believable, that Tony would be called Shariffe, or that he would be top of that list.

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Was just about to say!

How many runners did we done got honey chile?

Snoops can ya tell em to let 6 more runners in so the number of runners = 172 ty in advance............oops before I forget where the norkage?

Oh yeah and GooooooooooooooooooGooooooooooooooooooooooo Sledgey with our %

Don't be fooled, folks. Red-Dog isn't sat at home, he's here at DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde) with his usual all0day breakfast in front of him. I don't think there's ever been a DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde) live update that hasn't involved a picture of Red-Dog munching on a sausage or fried egg, and today is no different. Just look at how much he's ordered! Greed, pure greed.

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Ladies and gentleman, we've had a confession from Simon Trumper that he is now claiming to be a joke.

"Did you catch our Dust Bin picture, Simon?"

"Yes, yes, I liked it."

"Can you do the 3-2-1 hand gesture."

Simon confidently raises his right hand and proceeds to perform the famous hand motion.

"I've been practising in front of the mirror."

I'm afraid that in a spectacular example of early bokkage, Ms Allen is OUT. Tikay called me over to the table while Danielle was mid-dwell - the flop was 6d 3h 6h and the dwell so long that I had ample time to scurry over. She had, I believe, raised preflop and had been called by Mr Agy Costanti; he had bet the flop, she had raised and he shoved.

So after that mammoth dwell, she called.

Danielle Allen - Jh Jc
Agy Costanti - 6c 9s

Turn - the decisive 9d
River - the probably unneccesary 9c

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Umm... Official clock in the cardroom is now saying 172. Fix!

Security to the doors and make it snappy ta muchly.

Also OUT, though in circumstances unknown, is Mr Billy Ngo, formerly of Table 27.

Damn.

Thanks Dana!

Hi All

I am currently sat at home on my own cos my hubby is playing in this.

Can anyone tell me how he is doing? He is called Neil Henshaw and is on table 56 i think??

Thanks
Sarah

I see the text and play is going well.   :dontask:

I'll check up on him in just a minute...

Id never let my wife know they have life updates on the net, other wise she would know how much i won lost ;)
BTW  ;welcome; to Blonde Sarah :)

address plz  :-*

Chip count for EvilPie pls.

Good news for Barbara fans, Chili is now up to 21k after triumphing in a monster three way pot. My source was Simon Trumper, but Chili also echoed his report. I wasn't blessed with tales of betting action, but I do know that Chili had Q-9 versus the A-9 of David Barnett (pictured below) on a 9-9-x-Q-x board. Another player also dipped his toes into hot water with a flush draw, but to no avail, to leave a restrained and not yet excitable Chili to conclude, "I start comps well, it's just my end game that's rubbish."

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Fear not NAS, norkage shots will arrive. All good things come to those who wait.

Hi Tractor

Even though he is an unknown I trust his capabilities as he keep me in the manner I am accustomed to LOL. I would love him to do well in a tournament like this it would make his year !!

Sarah x

Take That imo. 2 Band Members dont look so happy.

1 is Robbie WIlliams, you have to guess the other...

;kev;

Meet blondeite Sledge, also known as Marc Hodge. I don't know if it's just me, but he's got one of those innocent 'butter doesn't melt in my mouth' faces. I bet it does though!

Anyhow, Marc's a man of few words, four in fact...

"Not won a hand."

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Tell him patience is a virtue and GL GL and god knows what else but just wait till he's on the same table as TJ then he can easily nick someone's BB.

Extremo-shortstack Mr Dharminder Buttar of Table 27 has doubled up in some wise holding Jacks against Mr Gamal Mosleh's Sevens. He is still short though.

Ms Fran Creed would like it to be known that her table features last month's winner Mr Nick Marshall and also last month's official second-placer ("that guy over there," according to Fran). She has yet to really make any moves.

Meanwhile Lucy Rokach has her aggression dial turned up to 11 already. Her 350 preflop raise is called by Trevor Reardon, but he backs off when she fires out another 725 on the 3c 2d 3h flop. Rokach - slightly over 10k. Reardon - slightly under 10k.

Im sure they will keep you updated on his progress, your in good hands here :)

If you want table talk, then look no further than chief waffler and former Gala boy Richard Berridge, who would waltz into a national talking team if the UK had such a thing. As I joined his table, I heard him muttering the following comments... "I had A-T suited. It's the best hand I've had so far. I didn't raise with it. A-Q used to be my bogey hand, but now it's A-K  Can't seem to win with it down here. Because of that I don't put much value on it. I'd rather have A-T suited." At this point, he incredibly went for the rarely seen exhale maneuvre before continuing.

On a more serious note, for those that know him, he sure likes to move those chips, so a definite dangerman in any a comp.

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He's like peter pan. He never gets old

Sledge Benoit is all power imo.

Producing a gap that is reminiscent of the 'V' shaped gap in Da Vinci's Last supper, Ali Mallu and Pete Linton look deadly serious as they contemplate how they're going to clean the other out in what is sure to be an inevitable confrontation. But before they reach that rags vs. rags in a monster pot encounter, Pete had his sights set on a smaller pot as he bet 2,875 into a Js 8d 7h 8h Ah board. With 4k into the pot, his opponent obviously deemed this to be a milker bet, and opted for the fold.

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Srsly though, gogogogo Sledge, and the rest!

updates on my 3 last longerpicks plz

Rana
Matt Tyler
and Monkey Matt

I think tikay has that. Oh no, hold on, he has the other one.

A big hand on Table Karabiner (the table numbering system here is entirely alien to me, so I shall largely be just making it up from here on in).

With a considerable bunch of chips in the middle and the board reading 6h 2d 3h 6c 2c, Paul Thompson bets out 1875, only for a gentleman I believe is Andreas Olympios to min-raise. Actually at first he tries to raise to 3k before the dealer corrects him. I also, I should add, at this point feel pretty bad for Paul Thompson - his right arm is in a sling and it took him such a long time to count out 1875 with his left hand, and then the other guy goes and raises him. Most inconsiderate. Anyway, Thompson passes pretty sharpish. "I was beating you until that last Two," says he. Ben Callinan is asking Mr Probably Olympios if he had quad Deuces. It turns out not - he had a Six for the full house, indeed miles ahead on the river of Mr Thompson's straight...

& mine pls:

Daniel Rudd (Up The Mariners)
Sam Trickett
Richard Hawes (Neptune04, plays in Leeds) :).

Rana -- 9,450 and half asleep
Matt Tyler -- 6,200 and a chewit on his stack  :dontask:
Monkey Matt -- 9,775 and looking deadly serious with shades, glass monkey and chin resting steadily on monkey paws.

Do monkey's have paws or hands? Confirmation required please.

Monkeys have hands

http://w2.yorkdispatch.com/jd/archives/20060523/jd03.html

it's official

Ali Mallu is OUT, but it wasn't the predicted Linton/Mallu clash, and it wasn't even rags vs. rags. "He was actually a bit unlucky," reported former neighbour Linton. "First he flopped a King flush versus an Ace flush, and then lost with Aces vs. Kings when a King hit the board."

Snoopy

I would say Hands LOL. God I hate the wait to know how he is doing !!

I wished i could be there !!

Sarah x x

Hopefully he lost them all to LeKnave.

Well, okay then, but here's another poser (and no, it's not a picture of Le Knave), are there any other animals except primates that have hands?

humans?

Looking around this room, I think they fall into 'primates'.

 rotflmfao

yep definitely hands....and very good they are with them too :)


....I mean peeling bananas and the like, obviously.

Please keep this information on a need to know basis...I didn't need to know that!!

lol - see edited post above :)

Just to save me scrolling back..................did Snoops mention norkage pics a while back?

lol, ok then,

Chip counts for the usual suspects please?

Any news on Evil Pie?

Mr Neil Henshaw, currently on around 7.5k:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13955&g2_serialNumber=1)


He's been moved to Inexplicably Numbered Table 11, on the bottom tier of this Grand Ole Opry Theatre-Style Arrangement of poker. He's sharing a table with Jim Moult, who's on around his 10k starting stack.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13957&g2_serialNumber=1)


I should really add here that inexplicable though I find it, the staff know exactly what they're doing with the awesome computer system thingy they have set up - in fact the only reason I could find Mr Henshaw at all was because their computer system thingy is so awesome. Awesome work, whoever thunk that up.

yeah but he also said we had to wait (meaning he's given the camera to Dana who will by now be trying to convince TJ to pose as OAP norkage)

OMG now that would be a sight for sore eyes.

Yes! Here he is, indeed looking pretty damn evil:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13947&g2_serialNumber=1)

Just as soon as I can be bothered, I will photoshop an actual pie on to his head or some such. He's on an extremely comfortable 18k, and sharing a table with Dave Smith, himself on 16.5k, and resplendent in new hat, like so:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13949&g2_serialNumber=1)

Thanks Dana

Feel better now. Although thats not too good LOL

Sarah x

Dave's hat is actually very cool. He got that new so he did. Lovely fella as well.

FAO NAS

Ok, I admit that the following are a little lacklustre:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13945&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13963&g2_serialNumber=1)


But to put my work into perspective, please note Snoopy's last effort, which he left on the camera for me to enjoy:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13943&g2_serialNumber=1)


I understand that he has since been using his beagley charm to ingratiate himself with the valets, though... God help us all...

any news on any swansea lads

I don't know if someone's passed away since we started (I prodded tikay, and he's definitely still with us), but all your requests seems to have their heads bowed down as if in mourning.

Daniel Rudd -- 11,000
Sam Trickett -- 8,750
Richard Hawes (definitely him?) -- circa 15k

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13964&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13966&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13968&g2_serialNumber=1)

Lookie Likey?
(http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/images/players/england/parrott03ewc1.jpg)

I think it should be added that the only reason my attempt crumbled in my hands was because Dana turned the flash. I think she should be sentenced by the NAS for inhibiting the norking process.

ROFL tractor

That is so true LOL You made my night !!

Sarah x

Yeah thats him Snoopy, and thanks a lot.

Appreciated. Ill probs ask again in a couple of hours :)

Back to the LeKnave & Sledge rail now.

Lol, yes out and now home too.  A spectacularly bad call from me.  I had been very active on the table, picking up a few hands early on.  I thought he was trying to have a go to be honest (or thought I was at it), if I had had a tighter image on the table I know I would have chucked it...I was slightly mistaken....Ah well.

Things That Have Happened Recently While I Have Been Uploading Photos

Mad Turk is down to just 800 - "I had an accident." Said accident seems to have involved representing the nut straight to a gentleman who was actually holding the nut straight.

A possible contender for Name Of The Day, Fan Cao, is OUT in circumstances unknown.

Pete Linton has doubled up with some predictably raggy cards - this time 8h 9h for a flopped flush and possible straight flush draw that didn't come in. I'm afraid I'm not sure whose chips they were at the beginning of the hand as I only arrived as Pete was raking them in, but judging by the number of chips in front of them/expressions one their faces, I suspect it was either David "Le Knave-id" Jones, or perhaps Chase Wilson to his right.

Mr Lam Trinh has won a HUUUGE pot, but I'm afraid  got there a little too late to get any more details than that. A HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE pot.

Also Ms Fran Creed is OUT to a gentleman not on our player list (must have been on one of those pesky missing tables - I'm getting us a complete list but for the time being he will be known as Mario C) - Mario raised pre and she called with A-Q. Flop came down Q-9-x and they wasted no time in getting in all in. An Ace on the turn, but a blank on the river and she's gone.

so we aren't geting any norkage then? Loads of bloke pictures and some of the best looking staff at any venue and you cant even muster up a single worthy shot- shame on you snoops and dana wins the norkage contest.

What did Mario have?

as much as it pains me to say this..................Bring back Kev as chief photographer, all is forgiven

Ul Fran!

 But what did Mario have?!

99?

QQ or 99

or aces

AA?
xx?

He lost like 2K to me early with AQ>AJ on AXXXX board.

Was up to 13k, but spewed like 5K running QQ into AA on a 7 high board, killmeplz.

I have like 7.8K, Sledge has 7.2K. (he says Llevan and Ripple, what is 10% of £0? soz lol)

Run me good plzzzzzz.

Gogogo douche

Anything above £0 is a bonus and like money found so gooooooooooooooooooo Sledgeyyyyyyyyyyyyy

primate update.  Monkey boy on 12.5k at 1st break.

GoGo. Good Luck Kid.

Did you appreciate my Sledge Benoit photoshop?

don't feel defeated yet Sledge - still plenty of play with a 7k stack at this stage.  GL all!

Just to prove that not all members of your update team have cowardice blood running through their veins and can only muster shots of norkage as it passes by, unaware that the camera is on them, may I present to you two of the lovely valets here at DTD. Whilst the first was most compliant, the second rather timid but equally voluptuous lass was more of a challenge and only cooperated when I said, "How about if I took the picture with tikay?" She, for some unknown reason, jumped at the chance, leaving tikay with a Cheshire grin as wide a five lane motorway, wondering eyes that couldn't escape the gaze of the camera and a glint in his eye as he claimed, "It's because I'm famous." Sigh.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13970&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13972&g2_serialNumber=1)

Yes yes, sorry, Mario had 99, meant to say that...

Players are back from a short break now.

A couple of players who just before the break had not really moved from their starting stacks:

Julian Thew

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13951&g2_serialNumber=1)


Jim Moult

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13957&g2_serialNumber=1)

Just where are Tikay's eyes aimed at??

don't worry he just dozed of for a second.

he is obviously trying to read her badge. He does have a history of this although I'm not certain why he would need to check dena for a badge???

The lovely valet below rushed over complaining that I had posted a picture of her with which she was most displeased (my sneaky voyeuristic style of photography does not always flatter, I will readily admit). So apologies, and please enjoy this much better photo:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13976&g2_serialNumber=1)

As I trundled past tikay's table, I knew there was something familiar about the set up, and then it struck me.

DTD 2008...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13977&g2_serialNumber=1)

Cardiff 2006...

(http://blondepoker.com/images/the_new_era/caption_comp/lawrence_gosney&tikay.jpg)

For those that have their wits about them, you may recall that the latter of those images was once a caption comp, and somehow I think AndrewT's winning entry of "Two hours into a classic Tikay anecdote and Lawrence's soul finally leaves his body" still applies two years on.

Jim McBride chip count please.

At least 80 years old, grey suit, dapper. Incredibly lucky.

there, that will narrow it down!

Btw Mr Simon Trumper was reading the updates and took pity on my total incomprehension of DTD's actually very ingenious table-numbering system. The tables are numerically arranged in rows, from the front of the room to the back, which gives us the first digit of the table number, and the second digit is determined by counting along the row from left to right. Apparently they previously had letters of the alphabet for the rows, but the little handheld computer malarkeys that the valets are using don't have any letters on, so they arrived at this system. Still confused? He most helpfully drew me a little plan of the room to illustrate:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13985&g2_serialNumber=1)

Ahhhh, never understood it myself either, do now! ty.

How are the text updates going?
 ;scarymoment;

"That Kev sure likes to talk," reports Ralph 'karabiner' Shalson speaking of neighbour and former Gala regular Kevin Lund. "I put on my head phones to concentrate, and he just moved closer."

But judging by the chip counts, Kev has good reason to feel talkative, as he's riding high with a near 20k stack. Karabiner, meanwhile, has just this second departed, raising to 800 with A-Q, being re-raised to 2,700 by a limper before calling and pushing all-in on the raggy Flop. His opponent inevitably called and showed Aces. "I stopped and go into Aces," he concluded with a grimace.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13979&g2_serialNumber=1)

So it's the same as a hotel, if you imagine each row is a different floor.

Jim McBride chip count please.
At least 80 years old, grey suit, dapper. Incredibly lucky.
there, that will narrow it down!

Close, he's nearer 85 and sometimes wears a pinstripe jacket these days, picked up with the proceeds from his latest Tuesday night cash.
News of the noisy Dominic Kay if it's going too please?

Another local is this fellow, Mazhar Latif, more familiar as Latif around these parts. A veteran of the Nottingham felt and a friendly face around many of the East Midland venues, Latif is currently on 22k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13981&g2_serialNumber=1)

marvellously thanks

just need an updater to check the inbox now lol!


(real answer: slowly, but we will fight them on the beaches, and perservere to see if its an idea worth pursuing)

 

Waheed Ashraf, or Wade (does anyone go by their birth name in poker these days?) is struggling with just 4k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13983&g2_serialNumber=1)

Good idea for the biiger tournies i reckon where its hard for the updaters to get round.

The inbox has been checked, as it was five minutes ago, and low and behold, we do have a text...

Bongo
test123

Serial chip go getter Pete Linton is up to 31k. He flopped a flush with 9-8s on a Jack high board and was, much to his surprise, paid off by Chase Wilson's J-4. I think Pete reputation worked in his favour there, but then again, I would have called the tea-leaf with bottom pair if it were me.

We could have a good game of Countdown with some of the names on the list.

see my real answer above!

I agree with Tractor, suitable for huge unwieldy comps with 400 runners....but we need to test it out first

Apparently there are some kind of technical difficulties with the system at the desk as well - I went back to ask if I could have a full player list, but the gentleman there told me that something in the system has changed since last month and they are no longer able to print or email us a player list, unless we are prepared to wait a few days for him to call the IT engineer-types and for them to get back to him. :( Alas, no full player list for us today - sorry, Horneris. Hopefully full player lists will be back next month...

How many of the players know about the txt system?

Maybe an idea to make up some small flyers for the tables for next time you try this, definitely a good idea.

agreed, ty. From small acorns.....

Payout structure and actual number of starters if available please.

Meanwhile I can say with relative confidence that our current chip leader is Chili, with around 40k. She tells me she had 32k at the break, and has since knocked out a player. Said player raised her blind, and Chili re-raised with A-K; Mr Player called. The flop came down a not-very-good-if-you-have-A-K 9-T-J, but Chili put him in anyway, figuring it was worth a gamble - Mr Player called with pocket Eights for a pair and a straight draw, but no straight and a King on the river sent him packing.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13953&g2_serialNumber=1)


Incidentally as we were chatting, Chili's dinner arrived. She claims it is an omelette-pizza, which does not sound like a real dish to me. I feel very strongly that it should be one or the other. So, what do we reckon? Omelette or pizza? I stole a french fry. :)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13991&g2_serialNumber=1)

Actual number of starters currently displayed on the board = 173

Payout structure = to be located

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh who was the peskey extra man

Assorted chip counts, photos etc.

Matt Tyler - not actually 37k as he claims, but in reality 3.7k and a single Maoam candy atop his stack. Looks to be either strawberry or cherry flavour.

(Has not actually spilled red wine down his front as my photo makes it appear)
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13987&g2_serialNumber=1)


Nick Hicks - 7.5k

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13989&g2_serialNumber=1)


Lucy Rokach - around 15k
Alan Vinson - around 25k
Chris Bruce - 8k
tikay - 6k

Probably tikay, to avoid paying you your £50.

Some approximate chip counts:

Mazhar Latif -- 26.5k
Pete Linton -- 22k
Des Jonas -- 9k
Maurice Nicholson -- 6k
Andrea Gough -- 5.2k
Raj D -- 17k
tikay -- 7.2k
Davy Jones -- 8.4k
Chris Bruce -- 8.5k
Matt Doyle -- 16.7k
Nick Whiten -- 18.5k
Ramazanali Abbasi -- 13k
Alan Vinson -- 28.5k
Tony Nicholls -- 45k
Abdul Rashid -- 7k
Ben Callinan -- 27.5k
Maz Charalambous -- 28.5k
Simon Lawlor -- 6.1k
Wade Ashraf -- 7k

Sam Trickett isn't in his original seat, so could be out.

Payout Copied Off Of Board

1) £17,127
2) £9,601
3) £5,968
4) £4,359
5) £3,373
6) £2,335
7) £1,816
8 ) £1,297
9) £1,038
10-17) Currently not on board, therefore unknown, but they'll be more than £300 and less than £1,038.

17 places paid, £51,900 total prize pool.

As it happens Karabiner predicted 173 so wp that man.

Chip count for Sledgey please..............my last hope after the bouncers let an extra player in.

623.25 maybe

My apologies if Dana reported this earlier on (I couldn't spot anything), but a big scoop that we may have missed was the exit untimely exit of Simon Nowab. It wasn't the most fortunate of hands, and it certainly didn't come particularly late in the day as the opening line reveals...

The blinds were 25 50 and with five limpers in front of him, Simon made it 450 to play with A-K. They all folded round to one chap who dwelled before calling. The Flop came A-A-8. Mateyboy bet out 1k, Chubbs made it 3k and Mateyboy pushed all-in. Chubbs, perhaps semi-reluctantly, made the call, only to be shown A-8.

Personally, I think it was a bit of a cooler, but is there an argument there to say Simon could have folded. Would any of you guys have let it go?

"A-Q or A-J, I think I could have got away from it," added Chubbs.

Here's Bash becoming the 50th (he raised his bat to the crowd) player to hear Chubbs' tale of woe.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13993&g2_serialNumber=1)

These things take time. Word will spread the more comps we do.

In the meantime, we have received a text. Drum roll please...

Ariston
Any chance of any norks?

Holy shit batman ... Have a word with Chubbs and tell him he didnt have to shave his head cos he had nits, they do lotion for it these days !!

Aaaaaaaah, that's it, I thought he looked shorter. Couldn't put my finger on it.

Ben Callinan has tripled up! He found himself all-in with Td-Th vs. 9c-9s vs. As-7s on a 2s-3c-7c Flop. Kc and Qs Turn and River now means he's shot up to 27k.

Here he is raking in his chips as cool as cucumber or any other such vegetable. A carrot perhaps? I've also thought a courgette was pretty cool, and it looks very much like a cucumber too so perhaps should be categorised in the same manner. Oh, what the heck... here's Ben raking in his chips as cool as a courgette. Go the courgettes!

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13995&g2_serialNumber=1)

Here's a chirptastic Maz Charalambous after eliminating Fran Creed earlier on. Maz now on 28.5k after generously counting his stack for me.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13997&g2_serialNumber=1)

Pete Linton, who is yoyo-ing like Julian Thew on a bungee, is back down to 22k after (1) trying to push a straight through and being looked up by 2nd pair, (2) seeing a flopped set out-flushed and (3) "generally just playing a lot of hands".

I direct you to that timeless blonde classic, the Giant Courgette thread:

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=13735.0

The ever-talkative Raj Dhiri has doubled up and eliminated a Mateyboy. Raj limp called a pre-flop raise of 700, before checking a Q-T-3 rainbow Flop and hitting a loverly jubberly Four on the Turn. Raj bet 1.7k, Mateyboy made it 3.4k and Mateyboy pushed all-in. Raj called quicker than a cheetah on roller-skates only to find his dejected opponent drawing dead with A-T. Raj now on 17k.

"I've been Thewed (Mallued is so last season)," weeps 'Rana' Harpit Gurnham. "I had Aces, Kings and Queens three times and lost with all of them. The last one I raised it up with Queens and Julian called. The Flop came Nine high with two diamonds, Julian bet out, I raised, he re-raised and I pushed all-in. He asked how much it was and announced that he couldn't really fold before calling and flipping A-9 of diamonds. Blank turn was followed by a black Nine on the River, and that was that, the nasty way of losing the hand."

The below gentleman, sitting in the seat designated for Ginikachukwu Izuogu but looking probably a bit too Caucasian to have a name like that, calls a 1500 bet from Mr Ramazanali Abbassi on a Th 4h 3c Qh board. The river come the 8d and he moves in. "Have you got a flush?" sighs Abbassi and calls; indeed he does, and it's the best kind he could possibly have on that board, it's the Ahrt Jh nut flush. Mr Probably Not Izuogu doubles up to 11k and Mr Abbassi mucks.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13999&g2_serialNumber=1)

the 0.25/50c NL blonde cash table is open, come and get me !!!

2 of us there so far

Pictures & Chip Counts for Dave "LeKnave" Jones & Marc "Sledge" Hodge.

Would be Good  :)up

Sledge looks good in his blonde shirt ... did he used to be a model before his looks went ?

Chili has now moved to Table 33, where she seems to be getting some respect. Mr Seat 8, probably Gerald McInally (in the stripy sweater below - can anyone confirm?) bets 1000 on a 6s 3c 2c flop - both Mr Seat 1, probably Martin Reeve (in the red below) and Chili call.

Turn - 8s and Mr Probably McInally in seat 8 bets 2k; Mr Probably Reeve makes it All In. Chili passes but Mr McInally calls.

Mr Probably McInally in Seat 8 - Ac 7c
Mr Probably Reeve in Seat 1 - 6d 6c

Chili is muttering that she also had a Six. Mr Seat 8 is telling the table that he wouldn't have dreamed of calling Chili had she made the move instead of Mr Probably Reeve (there's the respect, right there!) but this is how it turned out...

River - Ahrt which obviously does not give Mr Probably McInally a flush, and Mr Probably Reeve doubles up.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14001&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14003&g2_serialNumber=1)

I stroll by Pete Linton's table to see him bet out 3-point-some k on a K-Q-4-5 board. His opponent sighs and passes an Ace face up. Pete shows him a Three. I believe he had raised this hand preflop. Possibly it was K-3. Possibly it was not. "I saw that," say I. "I'm reporting that."

He tells me there's been a measure of Irish Open-stylee sucking out too - apparently he moved in with middle pair against Keith Littlewood's two pair, obviously got himself called, and made good like a very lucky boy. Apparently Keith smacked him over the head a bit for it, but it sounds like he sort of deserved it so there's no hard feelings. On his part, anyway.

I may need a picture or a more concise description to locate Jim McBride, but I have managed to unearth Dominic Kay from the depths of the battlefield. Sharing a table with Greek Jack and Julian Thew, Dominic is currently on 18k and his usual chatty, confident self.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14005&g2_serialNumber=1)

It's rumoured that cardroom supervisor Danny 'Yogi' Bell isn't here tonight, but not so. I found him near the cashier desk talking to Kate Langshaw. Look, it's clearly him, he's got the green hat and everything.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13803&g2_serialNumber=1)

Are Des Jonas and Con Cronin still in ?

If so chip counts please.

Call him a rock no more, because in the space of just seven levels (yes, you heard me right, just seven levels), Marc Hodge has gone from 10k to 5k to 14k and boasting a day of yoyo-ing that even the Thewster himself would be proud of. Well, okay, he's played two hands, the latest of which saw his Pocket Queens survive a flopped flush draw to shoot him up to 14k. What have they done?! They've created a monster!

ps. feel free to photoshop Marc's head onto a monster of your choosing.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14009&g2_serialNumber=1)

Agy Constanti -- 33k
Marc Hodge -- 14k
Dominic Kay -- 18k
Julian Thew -- 10.5k
Keir Fitzgibbon -- 5.3k
Danny Rudd -- 9.5k
Jim Moult -- 28.5k
Alan Stearne -- 8.8k
Martyn Reeve -- 4.8k
Trevor Reardon -- 13.5k
Alan Davies -- 20.9k
Mick Jones -- 18k
Nick Hicks -- 5.9k
Matt Tyler -- 11.5k
Maria Demetriou -- 36.5k
Richard Hawes -- 17.5k

Another local lad, Agy Constanti, currently going great guns with 33k.  ;snoopy'sguns;

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14007&g2_serialNumber=1)

Lol Thanks Snoops.

Excellent Chip Counts, just 1 more tho, what about LeKnave? :)

"Good game! Good game!" thought Chris Bruce as he found himself all-in with A-9 versus Kevin Lund's A-K. But a nine on the Flop was a Brucie bonus, and a Kingless Turn and River was nice to see, to see, nice. As a result, Bruce doubles up to 8k. Woweeeeee.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14011&g2_serialNumber=1)

Hodge Ness Monster

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Waheed Ashraf races over with the jubilance of a small child on Christmas Day to report of a recent double up. He was down to 2k, but after climbing back up to 7k, can now boast a meaty-in-comparison 15k stack. Calling a pre-flop raise of 700 with Qc Jc, Wade, as he is more commonly known, pushed all-in to the aggressor's 2k bet on a drawtastic 9c Td 4c Flop. Mateyboy (who may have been Maurice Nicholson) called with Kings, but was unable to survive as the dealer popped out an Eight on the Turn to give Wade the straight.

On a side note, you don't hear of too many Wades. The only one I know is this duck from the Garfield cartoons. It's definitely not him though, he hasn't got the rubber lifesaver on.

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19,825 atm.

1timeplz.

grinding harder than life atm, can't w8 to bust and get a DTD deluxe burger imo.

ohhhhhh my heaven, wish id done you in my last longer bet, not Richard Hawes, altho i hear hes on 17.5k

What were your big hands?

19700 at 2nd break, blinds 300/150 - big hand on penultimate hand. get 4 limpers on my sb, look down to find AA so i make it 1000 to go. 3 callers

Flop  3s 9s 6c

i bet 1500, seat 4 reraises all im to 3700 - everyone else passes and i call. He turns over  Ac 9c

Turn  Qd

River  5h

sitting on average stack :)

Only had 1 showdown, when tight utg made it 800 @ 100/200, MP flatted it, and i flatted in the sb with 9s 9d.

Flop came 9c 8c 2d

I checked, utg bet 1100, mp made it 3100, i thought then shoved for 7575 (as u do with the nuts). Utg folded and mp dwell called with QQ.

And it held ldo.

Then i've been popping in LP whenever Linton folds lol.

As we all know, there are many poker see-saws in this wonderful game, and as one man reaches for the sky, another drops down to the ground. Although Julian Thew often seems to be at the top of that see-saw, he was forced to sit disgruntled at the bottom as Mick Jones waved his arms joyfully at the top. On an A-7-J all heart Flop, Julian called a 600 bet with A-7 (two blacks) before being faced with an all-in of 13k from Mick. Believing he was ahead, and willing to gamble, Julian made the call to find Mick with his fingers semi-trapped in the cookie jar with Kh-Th. Although it was the heart that Julian inevitably feared, the card that killed him was a Queen to give Mick the straight and see him go shooting up towards the sky. In the meantime, Julian is now back down to 10.5k and looking rather peeved, as his expression in this photo shows.

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And here is Bruce celebrating his double up during the break.

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WEATHER UPDATE FROM MY CIGARETTE BREAK:

Bitterly cold and snowing heavily, even though it was sunny before.


TIKAY UPDATE FROM BEFORE MY CIGARETTE BREAK:

I thought I was taking a heartless photo of the Great Man busting out, but he was merely moving tables. Might not be long, though - he's on 4.5k, with the blinds going up to 200/400. Having a lovely time, though, as not evident from this photo.

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Can someone tell Mr Boldie that he needs to log off when he's used a PC at DTD.

PS. This is EvilPie. I'm very evil and very pie like and am currently on 14.5k chips. Dave Smith hitting plenty of hands, playing them really well (as you'd expect) and probably on 35k.

I will now log off on Mr Boldie's behalf.

 ;D

Simon Lawlor, Redsimon on blonde, has just above his starting stack. He was down to the felt at one point, but tripled up with A-J vs. K-Q vs. K-Q.

Do you want the good news or the bad news first?

Hmm, I always think it's good to get the bad news out the way first and finish on a high.

Bad news: Somone else is now sitting in Con Cronin's seat and the Dazzler is no where to be seen.

Good news: Des Jonas is still in.

Crap, sorry, forgot that there was two lots of bad news, meaning that we're forced to finish on a low.

Bad News: Des only has 9k.

Indeed, I didn't notice before how you got your name, but all is clear now. I have finally got to the crust of the matter, as Junglecat would probably think was funny.

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Did you get a picture of Con Cronin?  I'm pretty sure I met him at Birmingham Broadway the other day and he borrowed my hat.  A picture would confirm.  If it was him he is a legend.

Alan Davies is OUT - he found Kings but the Matey-gent two to his left found Aces. No help from the board, which read exactly 5d 7s 8h 9h 7d.

Looking sad - Chris Bruce on 4.5k

Looking just massively pleased with himself - Pete Linton on a whopping probably-the-chip-leader 68k

Looking absolutely impassive - LeKnave, on around 15k

Danny Rudd is OUT. According to my secret source, Jim Moult called from the small blind and Mateyboy re-raised from the big. The Ruddster pushed with Eights, only to be snap-called by Kings, and that was all she wrote, although I don't know who 'she' is or what the eck she was writing when that phrase was coined.

Bio and pictures of Dazzling Con Cronin can be found here...

http://blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=511 (http://blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=511)

Ha ha, thanks snoops, that's the guy - he was brilliant banter, and as your blondepedia article mentions his table talk had me in hysterics.  Wish he was still in!

They are despised by many, like by few, and the victims of many a jealous comment. Introducing the Chip Leaders, a motley crew of greedy bears who aren't content with having the same amount of chips as everyone else.

5th = Joe Stevenson -- 44.5k

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4th = Dave Smith -- 45k

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3rd = Bing Donh = 46k

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2nd = Tony Nicholls -- 47k

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And the greediest bear of them all....

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meh, i suck.

spewed a tonne after opening in EP with AJo and stacking off like 10K on a JTX board vs TT.

Then....

mp limps, pete makes it 1500, sb flats it, i look @ Ac Qc in bb and shove in for like 7200.

limper folds pete dwell calls and sb folds.

He has 9To and despite it coming club club i decide to loseeeeeee.

I SUCKK KILL ME etc.

This dtd deluxe burger will be ok tho.

No, just kidding, it's that cheeky rascal Pete Linton with an eye-popping 62k.  :o :o :o

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Alas, like all good train journeys, there must be a terminus, and tikay's station was Level 7. All-in with A-Q versus the A-9 of Kanabar Hiren (pictured here waving hysterically), the dealer switched off the ol fella's life support machine by laying a 2-4-5-9-4 board onto the felt.

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Goody gum drops, my full English breakfast has arrived! I was so hungry that the valet took my order this was what I saw. I think I'm turning into Red-Dog!

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I know it's possibly 7 pages too late, but, as you can imagine, it's tricky to work out which players are from Swansea just by looking at them. However, just out of pure luck, I stumbled upon Swansea's own Martyn Reeve who retold his recent tale of departure. Unable to find a hand all day, Martyn raised from the button with a 6k stack, only to be the re-raised all-in by the big blind. Martyn believed he was against a overcards, so took a shot, but was unable to earn that much needed double through as he failed to survive a coinflip against A-J.

Sigh...was down to 9k, 88 no good against Woodseys 70k+ stack with j10....out in 68th  ;grr;

good luck to maria,dave smith,wadey,and Des jonas
And Julian if he's still in..not been through the updates yet oops

I am crawling into bed and pretending this day never happened:-(

Grrrrrrr

Also dust biting is Wade Ashraf. He ran A-Q into Queens and is now in search of a fruity cash game.

Nooooooooooooooo UL.

But, either your exaggerating about your finish, or the updates clock is like 20 people slow.

Pete Linton is suddenly most upset - he'd got himself up to the heady heights of a definitely-chip-leading 75k, and then he done gone and lost a 50k pot, most unfortunately. Apparently the gentleman next to him, whom Pete does not right now think is a gentleman, called for a gutshot and hit - I believe Pete had A-Q and his neighbour J-T, all in on an A-Q-rag flop.

Pete still on a moderately-chip-leading 50k though.

That's sort of how I think of you.

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Hi Guys,

Any chance before i go to bed i could try and get counts on:

Monkey Matt
Matt Doyle
Richard Hawes
& Sam Trickett (if hes still in)

Thanks a lot.

I'm now hungry!

Is Agy still in?

The slightly blurry gentleman below is OUT to the rather more in focus, possibly as befits the guy who has won the hand, Maz Charalambous. Mr Blurry raises and Mr Charalambous announces all in - after some dwellage, Mr Blurry calls.

Mr Charalambous -  Aspades Ks
Mr Blurry -  Jh Ts

Board - a decisive 4c 4s 9s Kc Ahrt

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An interesting hand from Table Chili -

Chili makes it 1200 utg, and quite possibly she has been doing this sort of thing a lot because the gentlemen in seats 6 and 9 both call her. Matt Tyler in the big blind, however, decides to go all in. One by one they all pass. Matt shows Ac Kh. As I wander off, he and Chili are debating it - I believe (only so much info you can get eavesdropping in a big loud room, that might be something I just made up) that Chili had pocket Sixes. Matt now up to a totally-more-than-he-started-with 12.5k.

Blimey, Swansea lads are like buses.

Currently going steady eddie (who in the blue hell is eddie?) is John Simons with 20k, also known as John The Driver to his fellow Swanseans, which is great news for pun fans. John is currently driving towards victory with just 62 left, but I have noticed that he does tend to overplay those small pairs (I was made to say that, please don't hurt me!)

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Also spotted is Welshman Ouday Hikary, looking courgette cool with 18k.

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No, Agy was spotted milling around the cash tables, which either means he's a gonna, or has a stack so big that he has time to go and watch tikay play the ring games.

No sign of Sam Trickett, unless he's duped me by removing his hat.

I can see Matt Doyle standing from his seat, but he's just stretching. Appears to have around the 15-20k mark.

I'l have to double check Richard Hawes.

ps. Isn't Matt Doyle and Monkey Matt one and the same?

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Mmm. The hamburger masquerading as Snoopy's head was in fact the actual, genuine, stuff-of-legend DTD burger that I just demolished for my dinner. Pretty damn good, imo. And also tidied away for me afterwards by none other than Mr Simon Trumper - with the cardroom even busier than they thought it would be, Mr Trumper is giving the lovely valets a hand. As it were.

Andrew Woods has gone phallic on our asses with two ginormous towers of greens and yellows. His latest scalp was neighbour Paul Thompson who pushed in from the big blind with Fives only to find that Woodsey had found Jacks under the gun. A T-7-2-4-K board was no good, and Thompson was given his marching orders.

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Is that blonde-compliant?  :o

It must be Matt Doyle & Matt Tyler then.

Pls double check on Richard Hawes when you can. Thanks mate.

Recently spotted pushing like a Salt N Pepper fanatic was blondeite Nirvana, known by his mother as Glen Henderson. Glen moved over the top of Ramazanali Abbassi's initial raise for a total of 6,675, meaning it was just 3,475 more for Ramazanali to see a showdown. Of course, he did indeed make the near obligatory call, only to find that his Jh Th was in hot water against Glen's dominating Qd Qh. The 3c Ks 9d Flop brought a potentially painful gutshot draw ("it's never easy," claimed Glen) only for the Turn and River to bring blanks and give Glen a much needed double through.

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Mick Jones has lost a big pot courtesy of Lucy Rokach and is now back down to his starting stack, maybe slighty less. I leapt over like a panther on a trampoline just in time to catch Mick call a chunky river bet on a 6d 9c 8c Jd Tc board. Mick showed 7c 5c for the flush, but Lucy's Kc 3c lapped up the the pot. "I flopped the straight," sighed a disgruntled Mick.

Sam Trickett is definitely out. He still had his hat on, but was wearing it over by the cash games.

Matt Doyle has doubled up and is now on 34.5k, although his facial expression and body language is still exactly the same.

Richard Hawes is still plugging away, but struggling somewhat woth 17k.

Matt 'Roundhead' Tyler delighted me when he announced 34k, which is exactly what I had written on my pad. Yay, clever me!

OK thanks

But not looking good for my $100 last longer bet with Rick.

I was gona go for PeteL aswell then thought his form hhas to run out soon, fk my life.

Hang on in there Hawes.

Omg, a bizarre-o rollercoaster ride for Pete Linton.

First he storms over, fuming. "I just lost a 100k pot," fumes he. In between fumes, I discover that he had got himself involved with a raggy Ace of some sort and then misread the situation when he hit. His opponent was also holding a raggy Ace, but had made two pair. "I had a pair of Aces, that's all I knew," Pete continues to fume, fumingly. Down to 40k.

Then a few minutes later I see Pete betting out small on a Ks Kd 7c 7s board, and Andrew Woods raising HUGE - Pete is insta-all-in, although he then points out that possibly Woods' raise actually covered him. Anyway, Pete is all in. Says Woods, possibly unnecessarily, "I have to call." Says Pete, "You don't, I have quads." Anyway, Pete is still all in, and now Woods has decided that he definitely in some wise matching that bet.

Pete Linton - another classic Linton hand - Kc 6c for the full house

The turn is dealt and is the meaningless 8c at which point Pete pipes up, "Hey, doesn't he have to show his hand?" "No, noooo I don't," says Woods, or something to that effect, and he quickly puts his cards in the muck and messes all the cards around so no-one can recover them. Pete demands a warning for Woods, which I think he gets, although I am taking photos at this point so I'm not massively paying attention to what is going on. I believe Woods had Aces. That's what he's saying as I leave.

Some minutes later Pete bounds over, suddenly full of youthful joie de vivre. "Look, I just knew that K-6 was ahead there. Please don't report it so I look like a donkey." Back up to a probably-chip-leader 80k.

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Amazingly still in, I give you Grinder Of The Day:

Mr Chris Bruce, still hanging in there with 7.5k.

Sad news for all evilpie fans, our plucky hero is now no more after running Queens into Aces. Maz Charalambous was the man firing the bullets, all the chips flying in on a 3-4-9 Flop.

And here is Mr Pie during his final moments, perhaps enduring one of those embarrassing moments where you stand up only to realise that you've still got your ipod on.

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The young gentleman to Matt Tyler's right (anyone know who he is??) makes it 3k, and Matt makes it all his green and red chips, or Mostly All In. Our young Matey sighs and folds A-Q offsuit - at least he is rewarded with knowing he did the right thing when Matt shows Ad Kd.


Whether Young Matey's expression is due to having to fold his A-Q or whether someone farted is unclear.

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Jacket Of The Day/Trousers Of The Day/General Outfit Of The Day:

Mr Des Jonas.

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------SHORT BREAK-----

Where have all our viewers gone? Come back!  :'(

Ah, the first of those hands might explain why Pete and Kevin are now bickering like an old married couple. As I joined the argument, a steaming Pete was blowing smoke out of his ears and bellowing...

"Well of course I'm going to be slightly pissed off, I just lost a 100k pot!"

"It wasn't a rub down," replies Kevin.

"Look, I'll play my game, and you play yours," continues Pete.

After a quick flurry of back and forth comments, the two agree to shake hands.

"He's like a yoyo this bloke," claims Kevin.

The hand in question, involving what I believe was an A-6 and an A-5 then crops up and the quarrel continues.

"We just shook hands," says Kevin. "Let's just forget about it. I'll take my chips and we'll get on with the game."

At this point I decided to make tracks, but something tells me that when I'll return, they'll still be at it hammer and tongs.

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Mazhar Latif has now joined the cash game. He was out-flipped by Robert Woodcock whose A-Q Flopped not just an Ace, but also a Queen to see off Latif's Jacks.

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3rd break and another big hand to finish before the break. blinds 800/400 and utg makes it 2k to play, i look down in mid position and find  Kc Kh - reraise to 10k.

He ponders for a while and says "ok, i know i'm behind but i'll gamble with you" and turns over  Kd Qd

Flop  2s 4c  5h

turn  Ac

river  Ad

sat with 58k at break :)

Good luck, Matt.

Not sure why I just wrote that, seeing that you're in the same room and everything.

According to fellow Swansea Jack Martyn Reeve, Ouday Hikary is now the likely chip leader with 125k after doubling up to 50k, and the finding Jacks v K-Q on a K-J-x Flop.

According to the powers that be, this is going to be the final level of the day.

Yay updaters!  Still watching... how many do you reckon will return tomorrow?  Last time 3 or 4 tables.  I like Snoopy with a food head - suits him.

I like him that way too, I am looking into the possibility of arranging his ample locks to look like a roast chicken. Mmm.

I reckon it'll be 4 tables tomorrow - the atmosphere has turned a little sleepy in the cardroom, but people are nevertheless sleepily shoving their chips in all over the place and in that sense it's not slowing down any. 47 left currently, which may or may not include the couple of exits I just saw (one of them comprising Mateyboy A taking out Mateyboy B with the nut straight against something that was mucked - I do not feel obliged to report on that one any further).

having been crippled with the QQ vs KK i'm down to 15k and looking to double up - we are only playing one more level and with no hotel booked and the weather conditions outside i decide to find a hand to gamble with.

Lucy Rokash has lost a couple of big pots and has started getting aggresive to recoup her losses. Two flat caller so I limp with also with 9s Ts blinds 1200/600. lucy makes it 8k to go - i reraise all in to just over 15k and am glad when she says call and turns over  7s 5s

As the dealer deals the flop the first card out is  Td - great, with over 34k in pot this hand puts me back to an average stack, next card  2c but then  5d

Turn  7c

River  Aspades

:'(

good luck to all blondeites left

Even more chips for Pete Linton.

He bets 6.5k on a Jc Js 7d flop, and Simon Lawler moves in 16.6k total. Pete thinks about it for a bit, wondering out loud whether he is committed. He eventully calls. "i'm working on the proviso that I've got ten outs," says he. But barring interesting runner-runner possibilities, he has just six (I think; too late in the evening for brain to be working at full capacity).

Simon Lawler - 8d 8s
Pete Linton - 9d Td

Turn - Aspades ("an Ace!" says Pete, totally unnecessarily and inexplicably)
River - 9c

"Nice one, Pete," sighs Simon, and heads for the door.

Seeing that Jen is the only person watching at this late hour (except for our 4 loyal guests - please sign up and talk to us  ;pokergods;), I've decided not to undertake the thorough chip count I'd planned, and instead wander amid the tables in search of interesting hands. One that I stumbled upon involved the uber-aggressive mess-with-her-at-your-peril Lucy Rokach and recently acquired neighbour Kevin Lund. I joined the action at the very end with the board reading 5-J-Q-5-T and Kevin showing Pocket Tens to take down a nice pot. Clearly enraged by the River, which I can only assume was Lucy's undoing, Lucy furiously stacked a small column of chips together and banged them onto the felt. She repeated this motion a couple of times as she let off steam in silence. I've never seen Lucy express her frustration so intensely before, so it's clearly been a trying final level for her. Lucy now down to 30k.

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I was just about to report this sad demise and post the picture of the initial assassin, Garinder Purewall. 5th last month I believe, and looking good again this time around with 85k.

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Nigel Turver -- 31k

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Frustrating times for Nick Whiten, who is desperate need of a double up before the end of day's play. After Dave Smith had limped in early position for 1.2k, Nick made it 5k only for Dave to re-raise all-in. Nick looked his vulnerable stack up and down as if contemplating a call, but I think he was always going to fold, however reluctantly, and that's exactly what happened.

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Chris Bruce was awarded grinder of the day not too long ago, but I feel my colleague may have jumped the gun there, as Tasos Grigoriou is clearly the king of that throne. After struggling for most of the day, Tasos pushed all-in for just one big blind (worth 1,200) with Q-J and survived an obligatory encounter with Pete Linton's J-6 on a 9-7-K-K-9 board.

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Boktastic. Tasos is now out.

Mr "Oi've got pots of chips!" Pete Linton, pictured in a recent commercial for one-outers filmed at the Irish Open:

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Last minute craziness for Tony Nicholls - he somehow finds himself up against the young all-in Mateyboy below, Tony holding Ahrt 3h and Matey holding 8h 8c.

Board - 6s 5c 4d Kd 7s and Tony's down to the felt.

So last hand of the night he shoves with J-Q and is called by Richard Hawes holding the massively-dominatey A-J, but Tony rivers the straight, obviously. He's still short, but he'll be back with us tomorrow.

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Perhaps it was the promise of a Sunday lunch at 1pm, but few people seemed to be searching for that last minute "I wanna come back with something decent" all or nothing push, most people seemingly content to return tomorrow. During the last several hands, I spotted Lam Trinh surviving a shortstack all-in push from the small blind after Nigel Turver had limped on the button. I also overheard a slight mumble over on the near table, a hand being replayed after the dealer accidentally swiped up some cards. Initial raiser Ramazanali Abbassi didn't seem to chuffed as he revealed Queens, but it may have been a blessing in disguise.

On the very last hand of the night, there was three way action on one of the far tables with a Ts Qd Jh 2d 9c board provoking a 4.5k bet from Chin Koh, a smooth call from Kevin Lund and a re-raise to 10k from Mateyboy. Koh stepped out of the way, but after squirming in his seat momentarily, Kevin announced that he was giving his opponent chips for nothing before calling with 8h 5h. Mateyboy showed Kh 4d. "I should have just folded," Kevin later confessed.

A few last photos before I hit the bar/my hotel bed -

Interesting stacking techniques for the larger stack, modelled by Pete Linton and Garinder Purewal:

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Mr Simon Trumper, relieved of his cleaning duties and back on the mic:

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Totally needless photo of the lady who has taken over Mr Trumper's table-wiping duties (could probably construct some sort of pun there if I weren't so tired):

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One thing that I had to find out before the end of play was whether or not Messieurs  Lund and Linton were behaving themselves after their earlier fracas.

"He tried to progress it," stated Kevin, "but I wouldn't let him."

"He gave me a rub down after I lost a 100k pot to him," claimed Pete.

"You've been calling people donkeys. If I'm a donkey, you're a giraffe."

"See you later, Eeyore," added Pete.

I think I can conclude that that quarrel is still in full flight. Either that or I simply sparked it off again. Oops.

End of day chip counts:

Table 11:

Toni Le -- 30,800
Ben Dons -- 21,200
James Moult -- 25,800
Terry Arnord -- 53,300
Phil Hughes -- 15,000
Nigel Hill -- 26,500
Sam Saville-Barton -- 43,600
Steven Mills -- 18,300
Neil Henshaw -- 13,600

Table 12:

Chin Koh -- 40,300
John Cann -- 29,400
Kevin Lund -- 81,900
Chung Hoang -- 34,000
Ouday Hikary -- 119,600
Petter Haere -- 85,500
Daniel Platter -- 32,700
Zhenru Xie -- 78,700

Table 14:

Lam Trinh -- 44,300
George Kennedy -- 24,000
Goasdowe Erwan -- 27,100
Rob Woodcock -- 21,600
Lucy Rokach -- 51,000
Gareth Melson -- 41,400
Daniel Byrom -- 64,500
David Stratton -- 23,000

Table 23:

Richard Hawes -- 24,100
John Simons -- 19,200
Matt Tyler -- 42,800
Karl Bullock -- 37,800
Rob Allen -- 11,100
Joe Stevenson -- 35,200
Chris Bruce -- 31,100
Anthony Nicholls -- 6,100
Dave Smith -- 31,200

Table 25:

Maz Charalambous -- 35,400
Pete Linton -- 144,200
Garinder Purewal -- 129,600
John Burke -- 26,800
Alan Stearn -- 81,900
Nick Whiten -- 18,800
Ramazanali Abbassi -- 27,400

 ;stickaforkinme;

Ty for updates, only just caught up with them again.

Everyone i was railing = out.

So gogogo Richard Hawes(local leeds guy) and PeteL 2mo.

glglglgl

Great reports guys and superb pics.

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Supa dupa updates as we come to expect on Blonde............btw please can you ask them to recount the entries cos I'm sure Karabiner was playing 2 seats to increase the numbers.
Unlucky to Sledgey who couldn't quite make it through to day 2.
Looking forward to today's updates and expect with less runners that the norkage will be free flowing.

Quite probably possibly the best updates I've ever seen. At all. Anywhere. Ever.

i got matt tyler in our last longer (42k) horner has richard hawes (24k)  $100 last longer $50 extra for final table and $100 xtra ftw ONE TIME MATT

What hapened to Maria, she was chip daddy when i went to bed.

She came to our table (25) with about 20K just before I busted. I presume she tried to get a hand past Purewal who didn't seem able to pass 3rd pair on earlier evidence :)

Wondered that myself.

ul maria however you busted.

:iagree:

Good work

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Er yes. Thank you ??

What happened to me? Went from an awesome start to going horrendously card dead and frustratingly bluffing off about 20k in 2 hands.  It was about 20 mins before the end of the night and with only 25k left (and having Pete Linton raising my blind EVERY round). I decided to make a stand for chips for day 2.  I looked down at pocket 4's to another Linton raise and shove a shove shoved.  Just my luck Pete woke up with Q's.

Second card was a heart warming 4 and a grimace from Pete, which was proceded  by blank, blank QUEEN river and a silent "fukn justice" from Pete's brain - although all he did was nod!  Ce la vie or whatever it is.  Great comp again DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/index.php?affiliate=blonde).