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It's been so long since a GUKPT with all the EPT's, DTD's and Irish Openies in between but today we return to the fantastic fun-filled frolics that we find have become a firm fixture of the GUKPT.   Last year was the famous and frenetic final between the friendly pairing of Barry Neville and El Blondie himself Dave Colclough, the latter ultimately finding a few extra gears for a favourable victory. He made another final table tonight, that of the Omaha, alongside a fair few others in a small but fun event.

So folks, let us know if there's anyone you want following and we'll do all that is feasibly possible in hunting and finding them, whether they be friends or family.

Finally, play will start at 2pm and we'll be there fighting our way through the crowds for facts for you guys.

Farewell til then!!

(My 'f' key is now bust :()

Ok, players have just been called to the seats, whilst I was chatting to a very sleepy Jen, whose craptacular car finally gave up on her last night and left her fretting. Meanwhile, with the Norwegian Poker Championships starting next week at DTD, a few of the Scandies have turned up here today, including Henning Granstad and Andreas Hoivold. Certainly makes the field more interesting...

I hear a cry of "All-in" and then more importantly, "Call!!"

I rush over, but the board reads Ad Ts 3s Qh Jh and both players show a king. Dull dull dull. Curse you flamboyant poker players for making me care!!!

Alan 'bigalhx1' Armitage was looking grumpy after an 8s 5s 4d 6s board was added by the Aspades river, and an unwelcome 1,600 bet into a 4,000 pot which he passed to.

James Akenhead, playing short-handed at the moment...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16188&g2_serialNumber=1)

Last year's winner here, and seemingly index-finger-swallower, Dave Colclough with a reflective Womble.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16191&g2_serialNumber=1)

George 'WellChief' McDonald and two guys who must be vying for least imaginative blonde name ever Chris "chrisbruce" Bruce and Rob "RobS" Sherwood

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16193&g2_serialNumber=1)

Michael "Don't call me Beppe" Greco is OUT.

He was seen leaving the poker room saying, "So f**king sick..."

Intrigued, I followed the action back to his former table where I discovered he'd raised to 500 (blinds 25/50), 12/05 who we are told is John Morris called and then bet 1,500 into the 1,000 pot on a K-9-8 board. Greco flat-called, and then again for another 2,000 on the 6 turn. Finally his opponent set him in on the 7 river, Greco called with Aces only to discover a got-there-in-the-end Q-T.

Arguments have broken in the media room whether he played the hand right. Did he raise was too much preflop, and should he have perhaps pushed or even folded the turn instead?

Morris is now (major) with chips. Note his jealous neighbour also

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16195&g2_serialNumber=1)

Deers in headlights, Jen Mason and Steve Holden.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16197&g2_serialNumber=1)

Gurinder Purewal, he of back-to-back dtd final table fame just lost most of his stack with Tens to Aarun Bernard's Aces on an Eight-high board.

(http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3089/do1kxm7zdjkz8.jpg)

Chris Bruce pulls me aside and says, this is what we're up against, "Seat 1, (indicating George McDonald) raises to 300 with A-K, Seat 2 (Richard Simmons) flat-calls  with 9-9 and then Seat 3 (who I think is Rob Ellis) decides to flat-call with Aces). The blinds come along and the Nines bet the 8-5-3 flop and the Aces raise, take it down and show, but why wouldn't you want to make a bigger pot preflop?!?"

Best dressed man in poker Paul Parker

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16201&g2_serialNumber=1)

Des Jonas and Marty Smyth

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16203&g2_serialNumber=1p)

Joey Lovelady - A big fan of having his picture taken.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16205&g2_serialNumber=1)

He just lead out for 525 in a big multiway pot pot on a 9c 4s 7d board, but Sex Pistols look-alike Alan Kenny moved all-in for another 2,025. Everyone folded back to Sam who huffed and puffed and through away his 9d. Kenny showed 4h 4d.

The Norwegians are suffering mixed fortunes, Askild Hansen just doubled up through Tuan Lee with 7s 7c on a Ts Qh 7d 2h 9h board versus Kh Kc, all-in on the flop. Peter Kvisthammer looks to be out while Petter Martinsen has lost a few with a bluff, he's wary of the 'Aggressive British Calling'.

Ketu Nathwani bets out 175 on a Qd 7s 2d flop, Dave Smith and Richeo call, Sunny Chattha raises to 875. Everyone folds.

Sunny shows 5s 3s.

10 minute break.

Ketu Nathwani bets 525 on a Kc 4h 7c board, Dave Smith does what he does best and calls, PocketLady also calls.

5c

Ketu checks, Dave Smith bets 700, PL folds, Ketu calls.

2c

Ketu check folds to a 2,500 bet.

Reyaaz Mulla raises to 525 from early position, Jen re-raises to 2,000. Everyone folds to a girl.

David Mitchell (not from Peepshow sadly :() check/calls the whole way with Eights on a 6h 8c Jh 7s Qd board and finds himself miles ahead of Andy Bradshaw's got-there-in-the-end-but-not-quite-what-I-wanted Ahrt Qh.

Giovanni Nervo has doubled up with Ac 9c on 3s 9d 2d Qs 9h board against David Rudling's Ahrt Ks. Looks like it was all on the flop.

blondeite RobS has gone in a proper cooler ...

i turned up at the table to see a flop of  Aspades 4c Qc

check

check

turn  6s

Rob bets 300

S Eeastwood calls

RIVER  6c

rob Checks, eastwood bets 1k .... Rob raises to 3k, eastwood pushes and Rob calls.

Rob  Qh 6h

Eastwood Ad Ac

pretty sick, i think Rob feared the worst when he was faced with the all in call, but how can he pass ??

Jen has doubled up, skillfully playing Aces perfectly by managing to have someone else pick up Kings and then be willing to get all-in preflop. Ok, a little more to it than that, Reyaaz Mulla raised to 550 from the CO, Jen made it 1,900 from the button and John Heath made it 6,700 from the small blind. Mulla passed, Jen pushed and Heath called all-in. Bricky board.

Askild Hansen is also swimming along nicely, like a child skipping in the park, he's just pushed his stack over 40,000 holding Aces against Ace King on an Ace High board.

Here he is, harnessing all his poker power into his eyebrows.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16213&g2_serialNumber=1)

Dealer Beard of the Day!!

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16215&g2_serialNumber=1)

right im back ...

Liv Boeree 14k
Chris Bruce 9.5k
Marc Goodwin 16k
Jen 17k
Ryan Fronda 9k
Mulla 8k
Paul Parker 15k
Dave Smith 12k
Reggie Perrin 20k
BigAl 9k
RichEO 18k
Willie Tann 10k
Jonathon Butters 8k

Full chip count to follow at next break

ElBlondie has gone ... no details.

Stephen King -- 8.5k (suffering from a supernatural possesion)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16221&g2_serialNumber=1)

Joey Lovelady -- 27k

Sam Trickett doing a mean Stevie Wonder impression.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16223&g2_serialNumber=1)

Ian Fraser is out, his short stack shove on an  Ad 7d 7h with  Ahrt Jh was called by  Aspades Ks and no miracles so he is gone.

Ray Wyre has bizarrely doubled up against previous 'cannot miss king' John Morris.

They saw a 2-4-8 flop, Morris bet out, Wyre shoved for a huge amount, (10kish we reckon), Morris called and was ahead with A-Q, as Wyre showed caught-in-the-trap-Oh-I-thought-you'd-fold T-9. That was until a straight-inducing Jack turn and vomiting-reaching 7 river for a lucky straight.

"Poker," as Rolf Slotboom would say, "It's a shkill game."

Marc Goodwin has doubled up, all-in with Aces against Ace Queen on a Queen high flop.

John Morris continues to be involved in the biggest pots, he called a flop bet on a 9-2-3 board, before being the shorter stack then c/raised all-in on the Jack turn. Morris went for it with 9-5, but was in trouble vs pocket Tens. Blank on the river and he's lost another 20k or so and is back down to 35k.

******************1-hour break for dinner*****************

Jen may be smiling in this picture, (Nik Persaud paid for her and Tony to have a massage) but she gave away a few chips earlier, betting the turn of a 9h 5d 3h 6c board and then betting again, 3.5k on the 4d river. She received a nasty surprise, though, being check/raised to 10k which is when she gave up the pot.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16229&g2_serialNumber=1)

During the dinner break she said she'd been very impressed by the gent three to her left, who'd folded the nut-flush to her on the river of a K-5-2-K-x board when he'd bet the river and she'd set him (she was holding 5-5). "Maybe I should've just min-raised..."

Askild Hansen continues to do well, he bet out 1,200 on a Kd Kc 8h flop, Terrence Owens made it 3,200, the Norwegian thought for a while before adding another 10k on top to elicit a quick fold that he probably surmised he would get.


Ac 9h 5s

Laurance Houghton bets 1,250. Dominic Kay raises to 3,500 and Houghton flat-calls. Kay then checks the Kd before folding to a 4,750 bet.

Paul Parker has been quietly going under the radar in that traditional Parkery sort of way. Though, he'll happy tell you, in full detail, any single hadnd you wish to ask about.

"I limped for 50 with Kings, and Reyaaz Mulla raises to 250, and I know his range is huge, so I decide to just call, but before I can, someone else makes it 750. Now I'm only getting action from Aces if I re-raise again here so I decide to just flat-call and Mulla folds. Now the flop comes Ten-high and he bets out 1,000, I flat-call and now surely even Aces will slow down here. The turn is an Ace and he checks, and so do I. I now think he most likely has Queens or Jacks and I can value bet the river. A Queen comes on the river and it goes check/check, but I think I played it right."

4   1   401   David Smith   10700   
4   2   402   Richard Offless   15725   
4   3   403   Danielle Allen   7800   
4   4   404   Jonothon Butters   6375   
4   5   405   Adam Aitken   4950   
4   6   406   Sunny Chattha   19275   
4   8   408   Dominic Kay   20000   
4   9   707   Nathan Tang   13200   
4   10   109   Willie Tann   10175   
5   1   501   Stephen King   6725   
5   2   106   Marc Goodwin   25700   
5   3   407   Mark Tomblin   1450   
5   4   504   Askild Hansen   35250   
5   5   505   Paul Gardener   16050   
5   7   703   Terry Owens   8425   
5   8   507   Tuan Lee   22975   
5   9   708   Stephen Sass   7300   
5   10   305   John Gardner   7500   
6   1   601   Zachary Ford   15800   
6   2   602   Bahman Aghatabay   12550   
6   3   603   Neil Rigby   4950   
6   5   605   Kevin Bloor   5115   
6   6   606   Ryan Fronda   1400   
6   7   1207   Peter Kvisthammar   14625   
6   8   608   Laurance Houghton   17500   
6   9   609   Joe Grech   26250   
6   10   301   Paul Murphy   15925   
8   1   801   Adam Clarke   8925   
8   3   803   Peter Hutton   15375   
8   4   804   David Mitchell   26775   
8   5   805   Andy Bradshaw   29300   
8   6   806   Clive Layton   2850   
8   7   807   Mike Williams   10150   
8   8   908   Mark Suddes   6025   
8   9   709   Mohammed Kazi   13025   
9   1   901   Ryan Malone   4300   
9   2   902   Mark Bointon   10600   
9   3   903   Kulkjinder Sidhu   5450   
9   5   704   Eddie Lundon   9150   
9   6   906   John Perrin   18725   
9   7   907   Alan Armitage   8075   
9   8   108   Aarun Bernard   11650   
9   9   909   Jeraint Hazan   22750   
9   10   202   Daniel Wicks   12400   
10   1   1001   George McDonald   12400   
10   2   1002   Richard Simmonds   2300   
10   3   702   Michael Ahearne   9675   
10   4   1004   David Docherty   8175   
10   5   1005   Chris Bruce   11750   
10   6   306   Sam Trickett   3900   
10   7   1007   Martino Libertini   9625   
10   8   1008   Alan Mclean   25150   
10   9   1009   Paul Brammer   13150   
10   10   206   Craig Metcalfe   19475   
11   1   1101   Martyn Robinson   12225   
11   3   1103   Jen Mason   27925   
11   4   701   Tony Phillips   9600   
11   5   1105   Stephen Holden   13275   
11   6   1106   Turgay Bagdagai   6950   
11   7   1107   Darren Roberts   8200   
11   8   1108   Simon Eastwood   48000   
11   9   1109   Michael Porter   23475   
11   10   1110   Jamil Ogunmakinawa   7800   
12   1   1201   Dennis Troake   1125   
12   2   1202   Ray Wyre   18550   
12   3   107   Jammie Hallam   37400   
12   5   1205   John Morris   39035   
12   6   1206   Jimmy Morgan   6350   
12   7   209   Liv Boeree   8200   
12   8   308   Trevor Lawson   10650   
12   9   1209   Gareth Stafford   14875   
12   10   210   Paul Parker   16925   
13   1   1301   Des Jonas   21250   
13   2   1302   Martin Smythe   14625   
13   3   1303   Anthony Cagill   13200   
13   4   1304   Clark Watson   5625   
13   6   302   Stephen Slavin   14175   
13   7   1307   Steve Walmsley   7775   
13   8   1308   Jonathan McCann   4350   
13   9   1309   Martin Petter   14000   
13   10   207   Chris Berry   10675   
14   1   1402   Barry Grimes   22850   
14   2   1508   Martin Tomes   11725   
14   3   1404   Joey Lovelady   38900   
14   4   1405   Anto Farkas   7925   
14   5   802   Steven George   13500   
14   6   1003   Rob Ellis   9550   
14   7   1408   Thomas Treacy   13500   
14   8   203   Reyaaz Mulla   6575   
14   9   1410   Amiri Maz   33925   
15   1   1501   Billy Ngo   14125   
15   2   201   Brendon Clarke   15200   
15   3   1503   David English   14950   
15   4   1504   Alex MacFarlane   15250   
15   5   1505   James Akenhead   4675   
15   6   1506   Andrea Gough   9925   
15   8   706   Alex Kong   6550   
15   9   309   Stephen Henshall   22975   
15   10   101   Michael Clarke   7700   


Chip counts from the nice people at blue square.

James Akenhead, Ketul Nathwani, Reyaaz Mulla, Chris Bruce, (Reggie) John Perrin have all been shipped off on the big train to Bustoville.

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Jen has lost 3 decent sized pots, now in push or pass mode.

Alex Kong has gone, short stack shove with  Ad 3h met resistance from Joey Lovelady's  Ahrt Jhand no surprises, we are a man down.

2 departures .... Womble is no longer in his seat, an AK v AQ coup of which Womble was at the wrong end of.

and serial GUKPT finalist Jonathan Butters is not going to add to his final table count, he has left the building

JJ Hazan ( our Ralph Malph lookalike from earlier) is on a bit of a tear, he called a short stack all in with  Ks Js because in his own words "I am only calling because im running good .. he was shown  Qs Qd but as he warned the table ... a  Kd duly arrived on the flop and he adds a few more chips to his stack

Down to 69 players and just heading towards a 15 minute break at the end of this level.

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Stuck with Tony Phillips constantly re-raising her preflop and also trying to float her on a T-T-3 board with K-Q against her 6-6 and then hitting the K turn took a chunk from her stack. She also had her K-Q rivered by K-T for more chips before knocking out Sam Trickett with 4-4 vs A-J, then finally she pushed with A-K into Michael Porter's Q-Q and missed.

One of the biggest pots though has just occured though.

Waseem Shahid was all-in preflop and a sidepot was happening between Mark Goodwin and Askild Hansen.

2h 7h 8h

Marc quickly moves in, and the crowd grows.

Askild thinks, the crowd grows more.

Askilds keeps thinking, clever locals set-up small amenity shops so that crowds have somewhere to get snacks from whilst they wait.

Askild calls. Marc flips over Aspades Ac ahead but vunerable as Askild shows Jh Jc. Waseem shows 9h 9c.

9d

Now Waseem has the lead and Askild picks up an extra 3 outs.

6c

Marc dodges all the bullets and wins the decent-sized side pot of about 30,000 whilst Waseem wins the main pot of around 10,000.

George 'Wellchief' McDonald (who still has nightmares about folding KK preflop last year to Dave Colclough last year) has been going errr, well again erm, chief. He's on about 45k having won two nice pots with Aces then knocked a player out with A-K vs A-Q. Here he is with Liv Boeree.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16231&g2_serialNumber=1)

Marty Smyth -- 27k

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16233&g2_serialNumber=1)

Askild Hansen has just been knocked out by Marc Goodwin leaving Petter Martinsen as the last Norwegian in. But evenhe's just been crippled getting it all-in with T-4 vs K-J on a T-4-K board, only to be hit by a rivered King. Astute viewers will remember that he was also the slightly tipsy guy who ended up renaming Nick Slade as 'Nick Salad' in Dortmund last year...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16235&g2_serialNumber=1)

Joey Lovelady has taken out another player Peter Hutton was the unlucky victim ... His  Ts Tc was no match for Loveladys  Qh Jd

Mind you, all the chips went in on a  Js 8d 3h flop


Lovelady now has 45k

Sunny Chattha has escaped!!!

(http://www.slipperybrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/escape-key.jpg)

Well sort of. The small blind limped and Sunny checked 9-8o in the big blind. The flop came a beautiful Q-J-T which they checked. The small blind led out on the 5 turn, and Sunny raised, the small blind flat-calling. The river paired the Queen, and the small blind checked and showed his cards before Sunny could act. Sunny said he'd have checked behind anyway, despite seeing the A-K of the small blind. He lost around 9k, though probably should've lost his whole stack on the turn. He's now short, having just been made to fold from the cut-off due to Tuan Lee's re-raise from the small blind.

Another player who was lucky to hold onto his stack was Jonathan McCann, he hadn't see Clark Watson already move-in and was forced to minimum raise from the 5k all-in short stack push to 10k. Enough to make Marty Smyth fold A-Q in the big blind. Clark showed 9-8o and was slightly relieved to see K-J, and even more delighted to see the board come out Q-7-7-8-7 in his favour. Although Marty might be rueing that decision...

Marc Goodwin looks to be the chip leader with around 80k now.

Aarun Bernard just won a nice pot, holding  Th 6h he filled up on the river, a river which also gave his oppo the nut flush

Aarun now on 40k

George "WellChief" McDonald is out, Marc Goodwin took him out with  Ad Ac v  Aspades Kh

Goodwin now close to 100k and chip daddy !

Yep, nasty one here, George raises to 2.3k, Marc makes it 10k more. George shoves and Marc snap calls. George was wondering if he could've just check/folded the flop.

Askild Hansen is smarting still from his exit, there was a raise to 1,800 and Marc Goodwin called before Hansen pushed for 16,000. The original raiser folded and Marc 'snap-called' ("Please make sure you mention he snap-called" said the Norwegian) with K-Q and won the race vs 9-9.

John Morris' rollercoaster has come to an end, from 65k and chip leader in level 2 to OUT. He called all-in 5d Qc Jc 9h board with 9s Tc only to slap bank run into Willie Tann's Kh Th.

Steve Holden Just won 2 nice pots, firstly he doubled up form 12k to 24k with  Td Tc v  8c 8d

AND THEN

Paul Parker raises pre and gets one caller in Steve, Flop comes  Ks Qs 2h Steve open shoves the flop and Paul dwelled but called .... On the backs and Paul has  Ac Kd, but Steve was holding  Ts Js

Turn  Jd

River  9s

Giving Steve a straight flush and almost 50k in chips and knocking Paul to the felt.

Ste King looks like he's out. I'll get the Joey count after the break.

Des Jonas just went out with Ad Ts vs 6d 6c.

One other exit I forgot to mention earlier was that of Sunny Chattha, who had his A-Q outdrawn by Tuan Lee's A-J after a brutal T-8-7-9-K board.

Liv Boeree is OUT.

Michael Aherne check/raised all-in for not much more on a Jc Qs Qc 9d board when Alan McLean bet 4k, which Marty Smyth called. McLean instantly folded, but Marty Smyth thought, or at least I thought he was thinking, but it turned out he thought that McLean was still thinking and it hadn't entered his thought process that McLean had thought better of it and folded.

My head hurts.


Anyway, while this was all going on Michael Ahearne already had his Qd showing to spectators in a pre-emptive, I'm feeling good about this hand sort of way. Marty then finally realised action was on him, saying, "I call, I have to." He then proceeded to turn over Tc 8c for the straight. Michael was seemingly dazed and confused when he showed Qd 3c and then suddenly understood that he was, horror of horrors, actually behind. The 7d river changed nothing and more chips went to the Irish man.

RichEO, (17.5k btw) pointed out something else that Michael said just before they turned over the cards, he said, "If you haven't got a Queen, you're behind!"

Apparently not.

Joey Lovelady -- 37k

Paul 'Got Milk?' Gardner has just knocked out Mike Williams with Kings vs Queens.

Chip counts courtesy of those blue square men, who sadly are not blue or square.

5   1   709   Mohammed Kazi   37825
5   2   106   Marc Goodwin   125425
5   3   609   Joe Grech   62575
5   4   505   Paul Gardener   24250
5   7   507   Tuan Lee   19500
5   8   807   Mike Williams   16275
5   9   708   Stephen Sass   12300
5   10   608   Laurence Houghton   61975
11   1   107   Jammie Hallam   35175
11   2   701   Tony Phillips   10525
11   3   1105   Stephen Holden   55175
11   5   601   Zachary Ford   12450
11   6   605   Kevin Bloor   41825
11   7   909   Jeraint Hazan   38425
11   8   804   David Mitchell   16025
11   9   1110   Jamil Ogunmakinawa   26000
13   2   1302   Martin Smythe   39950
13   3   108   Aarun Bernard   35550
13   4   1007   Martino Libertini   22625
13   5   402   Richard Offless   19475
13   6   302   Stephen Slavin   63875
13   9   206   Craig Metcalfe   31525
13   10   1008   Alan Mclean   17425
14   1   109   Willie Tann   45425
14   2   1402   Barry Grimes   55500
14   3   902   Mark Bointon   14550
14   4   1404   Joey Lovelady   37275
14   5   408   Dominic Kay   10500
14   6   308   Trevor Lawson   32175
14   7   1209   Gareth Stafford   36250
14   8   1408   Thomas Treacy   2625
14   9   1410   Amiri Maz   69425
15   1   805   Andy Bradshaw   42400
15   2   201   Brendon Clarke   15725
15   3   1503   David English   10025
15   4   1504   Alex MacFarlane   7050
15   5   1506   Andrea Gough   10000
15   6   908   Mark Suddes   13700
15   7   903   Kulkjinder Sidhu   20775
15   8   309   Stephen Henshall   34625
15   9   101   Michael Clarke   30800

Joey Lovelady has lost most of his stack, on a Q-2d-3d-7-T board, his opponent, Kujinder Sidhu (a friend of Garinder Purewal's) calling with Kd Td on the river.

Sidhu was at it again soon after, he lead out on the river of a 4d 4s 5h Td Jd board, Maz Amiri moved all-in and Sidhu instantly called, Maz showing the runner runner flush Ad 2d, but Sidhu already held 5s 5c for the flopped house and had caught two perfect turn and river cards.


Play has now finished for the day. We'll see you all again tomorrow at 2pm.

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