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Welcome, welcome, we returning with a wonderful wild bunch of players today. Julian Thew, Dan Carter, Chris Moorman, Pete Linton, Henning Granstad, Andreas Hoivold, Gregior, Crosscourtbh, Wick Twigg, Jeff Kimber, John Conroy, Jeff Burke, Dewi Cool just to name a few of the ones playing today...

Action-packed surely to say the least?

Find out from 2pm.

And let us know who you're supporting over on the interactive thread: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=33201.0

Yesterdays final counts.

Marc Goodwin   149950
Barry Grime   89775
Kulkjinder Sidhu   84125
Paul Gardener   55950
Aarun Bernard   55500
Laurence Houghton   53925
Kevin Bloor   52825
Stephen Slavin   52600
Joe Grech   47925
Michael Clarke   47775
Martin Smythe   45725
Mohammed Kazi   45250
Stephen Holden   45050
Willie Tann   42900
Stephen Henshall   41225
Zachary Ford   39175
Jeraint Hazan   37275
Joey Lovelady   35525
Martino Libertini   34600
Craig Metcalfe   32325
Gareth Stafford   27550
Jamil Ogunmakinwa   25250
Andy Bradshaw   24725
Maz Amiri   23975
Brendon Clarke   23450
Mark Bointon   18525
Stephen Sass   18325
Thomas Treacy   15550
David English   15100
David Mitchell   14050
Adam Aiken   13825
Mark Suddes   11375
Jamie Hallam   6750

Spotted

Dewi, Ariston, Danny Samson and Thewy on a table together, Ariston is winning the talking battle, but just did 3k in a hand ...

Roberto Romanelli sat next to Tony Cascarino

Alex Martin and Jeff Burke same table

Pete Linton & Crosscourt are sat together

Rob Taylor is sharing atable with Jeff "JaffaCake" Kimber

Dave Clarke Last years Luton GUKPT winner is sat on the same table as Pete Singleton

On this table, we have the run-goods, (Dewi), the run-greats (Julian)...and Ariston.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16239&g2_serialNumber=1)

Moorman has John 'Johnes147' Amis (spelling? Still waiting for a player list) 3 to his left on his table. Unconfirmed reports saying he tried to use a mouse to click and fold his cards the first time around...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16241&g2_serialNumber=1)

Irish Open Runner-Up Donal Norton and Rob 'Deer in Headlights' Taylor.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16243&g2_serialNumber=1)

Wick's haircut. You be the judge.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16245&g2_serialNumber=1)

Early bust-out.

Greek Jack raises to 125, Dharminder Buttar (3rd in Walsall?) re-raises to 725, then seat 1/04 (no list yet) re-re-raises to 2,225. Greek Jack folds, Buttar calls.

7h Qd 8c

1/04 bets 2k, Buttar calls.

Qs

1/04 checks, Buttar bets 2k, 1/04 moves all-in Buttar calls and flips Qh Qc for Quads whilst 1/04 shows Kings and is drawing dead.

Steve Jelinek was pretty sure the Queens shouldn't be calling preflop which seems a reasonable assumption. Should the Kings also be able to get away post flop?

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16249&g2_serialNumber=1)

Greg 'Crosscourtbh' Howard, a woman who looks like that lady from Shameless, Ben Vinson and Pete Linton.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16247&g2_serialNumber=1)

Thewy, Dewi and Dan Sampson Louie.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16253&g2_serialNumber=1)

Henning Granstad has doubled up through Dharminder Buttar, raising his 1k flop bet to 2.3k on a 3d 8s 6h flop and calling the push quickly with 8h 8c against the Aces of the former Walsall finalist. No Ace on board and Henning is on 16k I think.

Dean Sanders, his first GUKPT surprisingly.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16275&g2_serialNumber=1)

Priyan De Mel and Gregior (for those who always wondered what the latter looked like). The former has just lost about 2k to Alex Martin, Alex c/raising the Kc 6h 5h flop from 325 to 1100, before c/raising all-in on the Jh turn. Priyan folded. Alex showed Ac 9c.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16277&g2_serialNumber=1)

Roberto 'Maverick' Romanello and Irina Liepina.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16269&g2_serialNumber=1)

The new Thewy Fan. It's no George Geary Fan though...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16273&g2_serialNumber=1)

A studious looking Andrew Teng hiding behind Sean Fagan and the Spherical Wonder that is Matt Tyler

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16271&g2_serialNumber=1)

Player list, thanks to those squarey bluey fellows of Blue Square. (Last two are alternates I believe)

1   1    Steve Jelinek
1   2    Dharminder Buttar
1   3    Steven Davey
1   4    Aaron Barry
1   5    Nick Gibson
1   6    William White
1   7    Kyle MacPherson
1   8    Henning Grandstad
1   9    Paul McKeown
1   10    Kyriacos Dionysiou
2   1    Mal Dawson
2   2    Ian Holman
2   3    Conor Smyth
2   4    K Louis
2   5    Dan Owston
2   6    Yilfer Shevket
2   7    Mick Wernick
2   8    Harry Zammit
2   9    K Nikkhahe
2   10    Peter Murphy
3   1    Pete Linton
3   2    Hongji Liu
3   3    Andrew Brisland
3   4    Andrew Booth
3   5    Brain Little
3   6    Phil Benton
3   7    Yousef Salimian
3   8    Greg Howard
3   9    Joan Lawley
3   10    Ben Vinson
4   1    John Boyd
4   2    Michelle Orpe
4   3    Jacob Meima
4   4    Mark Jones
4   5    Albert Sapiano
4   6    Ross Tavakoli
4   7    Ivan Donaghy
4   8    Alexander Gomes
4   9    David Wickham
4   10    Justin Devonport
5   1    W Aktar
5   2    Mark Mccluckskey
5   3    Carl Hughes
5   4    Fran Egan
5   5    Steve Littlejohn
5   6    Chris Moorman
5   7    Luiz Andrade
5   8    Glenn Ashworth
5   9    John Eames
5   10    Sammy Cheung
6   1    Charles Denton
6   2    David Allan
6   3    Iwan Jones
6   4    Brain Donnelly
6   5    Richard Stanley
6   6    David Tighe
6   7    Chris Moore
6   8    Terry Chapman
6   9    Jason Shellum
6   10    Nik Persaud
7   1    Robert Boon
7   2    David Clark
7   3    Nick Honey
7   4    P Gourlay
7   5    Peter Singleton
7   6    Patrick Dolan
7   7    David Birtles
7   8    Craig Stokes
7   9    Kieran Small
7   10    Johnel Bracey
8   1    John Hughes
8   2    Jim Cotter
8   3    Peter Charalambous
8   4    Andreas Hoivold
8   5    Paul Lammas
8   6    Lee Atherton
8   7    Simon Turton
8   8    Javed Ghazi
8   9    Frank Romanello
8   10    Zafar Aslam
9   1    Matthew Rowne
9   2    Mark Armstrong
9   3    Martyn Bebb
9   4    John Murphy
9   5    Phil Roddy
9   6    Adam Vinson
9   7    Tony Cascarino
9   8    Roberto Romanello
9   9    Irina Liepina
9   10    Michael Williams
10   1    Dean Sanders
10   2    T Lukashaugen
10   3    Long Hoang
10   4    Jimmy Gallagher
10   5    Sami Yusuf
10   6    Robert Bright
10   7    Brian Martin
10   8    Matt Stevens
10   9    J Zaib     
10   10    Kenny Burke
11   1    Simon Wickenden
11   2    Wai Choi
11   3    Nick Slade
11   4    Jim Dunsford
11   5    John Fletcher
11   6    Leo Kam
11   7    Richard Wong
11   8    Robert Garfield
11   9    Nad Nad
11   10    Michael Fletcher
12   1    Dewi James
12   2    Daniel Samson
12   3    Ved Madan
12   4    Gary Mcgaffney
12   5    Julian Thew
12   6    Ben Reynolds
12   7    Adam Lawler
12   8    Javed Akhtar
12   9    James Keys
12   10    Russ Cawley
13   1    John Conroy
13   2    Richard Scott
13   3    Tom Nightingale
13   4    Andrew Teng
13   5    Sean Gregory
13   6    Matt Tyler
13   7    Dara Okearney
13   8    Jamie Gubb
13   9    Giovanni Nervo
13   10    Mark Yaffe
14   1    Donal Norton
14   2    Rob Taylor
14   3    Stewart Wood
14   4    Carlo Holmes
14   5    Stephen Craig
14   6    Simon Mairs
14   7    Chieu Nguyen
14   8    Debbie Littlejohn
14   9    Jeff Kimber
14   10    James Browning
15   1    Kay Harvey
15   2    Andrew Donn
15   3    Lorenzo Rambaldi
15   4    Paul Kershaw
15   5    Craig Holloway
15   6    Vincent Mather
15   7    Rick Trigg
15   8    David Laronde
15   9    Morris Mcarthy
15   10    Lynne Beaumont
16   1    Charles Ihle
16   2    Kevin Poole
16   3    Greg Hunt
16   4    Chris Brammer
16   5    Jack Powell
16   6    Matt Eiler-gadsden
16   7    Matt Myford
16   8    Osman Mustanoglu
16   9    Gez Hilton
16   10    Mazhar Nawab
17   1    Priyan Demel
17   2    Gregory Howard
17   3    Tahir Akran
17   4    Gary Chatterton
17   5    Finbar Tracey
17   6    Chris Huyton
17   7    Alex Martin
17   8    Jeff Burke
17   9    Alan Stearn
17   10    Ghassan Chehbi
18   1    Jason Defreitas
18   2    Micheal Bolger

Moomin just told of us of a situation where he re-raised an initial raise of 150 to 500, before accidentally betting 3,500 on the possibly dangerous flop of J-T-4 two spades. He held his tail and prayed.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16284&g2_serialNumber=1)

Fortunately his opponent passed.

Ariston down to 2100 after another failed bluff....

Dewi 12k
Thewy 11k
Trigg 16k
Moorman 11k

Just heard Mick Fletcher is out ... no details.

Roberto 13k
Dan Owston 19k
John Hughes 10k
Paul Lammas 12k

(http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/8830/cnddg0ynhruu0.jpg)

Crosscourt 7.5k
Alex Martin 13k
Trigg 15k
Dewi 12k
Matt Tyler 8k
Rob Taylor 12k
Greek Jack 10k
Steve Jelinek 7k
Henning Granstad 12k
Micky Wernick 14k
Nick Gibson 13k

Connor Smyth has doubled up his shortish 3.5k stack with a set of Twos on a Qh 2c 8h board against Kh Qs.

Albert Sapiano's unique tactic of calling on the flop to hit a gutshot on the turn has backfired so far today, he's down to only 3,000 chips or so.

Alex Martin c/raised Jeff Duvall and one other player on the turn of a 4d 7s Ks Th board, Jeff passed by the other player called. Alex checked the 4h river and was then faced by an all-in push of about 3,925. Alex thought for a moment before calling with a river counter-feited Tc 7d, but any fears he had went unfounded as the other player mucked and then left to head to the bar presumably.

Henning Granstad now claims he's freerolling after raising pocket Tens after Nick Slade limped under the gun. Both checked the Q-J-T flop, fearful that the other had A-K. Slade bet out on the 7 turn and Henning just called. On the river Slade bet nearly twice the pot and Henning again just called, somehow having not gone broke against Nick Slade's Q-Q.

Alex Martin's 3-barrel bluff went wrong, min-raising 5-4o from the button and firing 600, 1,200 and 3,600 on the flop, turn and river but being check/called the whole way by the 6c 4c of his opponent on the Kh 9c 8c 7d 5d board.

Steve Jelinek and Jeff Duvall are both OUT, the latter being all-in with a  flush draw but running into the nut-flush draw.

We're just about to go on a break, so the Tien Le/Binh Dong will have to come after our...

****1 HOUR DINNER BREAK****

Ok, lots of stories now.

Julian Thew has knocked out Ben Reynolds with Jacks vs King Queen on a K-Q-J board.

Here he is, once more stacking chips, which must be second nature these days.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16306&g2_serialNumber=1)

Also on this table, dinner break leader Dan Samson. (As in he lead in the poker tournament, not as in lead everyone to where they could have dinner)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16308&g2_serialNumber=1)

Dan Owston -- 30k ish ("only four pints, I am driving after all.")

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16310&g2_serialNumber=1)

Alex Martin has just taken a huge hit moving all-in on a Qs 8s Tc board and being called by Tahir Akran's Ahrt Qh, Alex showed the drawtastic Js Ts, blanks 5c and 8h on the turn and river shipped the pot to Akran.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16312&g2_serialNumber=1)

And who is Tahir Akran? Why he's blondeite 'Maldini32'

Here he is, though facial expression seems to suggest he's wearing Rick Trigg's skintight silver shorts, and they're a little too tight...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16314&g2_serialNumber=1)

After the break Nick Slade button raised and Yilfer Shevket moved in, Nick made the call with A-3 and was shown A-5. That one ended up as a split pot, literally a couple of hands later, they're at it again, this time Yilfer shows Ad 6c, marginally ahead of Nick's Ac 5s. A 4c Jd 9s Ts 3h board later and Yilfer somehow doubled up.

Chips counts courtesy of Blue Square:

4   1    John Boyd   13675
4   2    Michelle Orpe   6875
4   3    Jacob Meima   6925
4   4    Mark Jones   4425
4   5    Patrick Dolan   14775
4   6    Ross Tavakoli   9550
4   7    Ivan Donaghy   11275
4   8    Alexander Gomes   22925
4   9    David Wickham   7625
4   10    Justin Devonport   16625
5   1    W Aktar   10775
5   2    Mark Mccluckskey   6600
5   3    John Murphy   3075
5   4    Fran Egan   10325
5   5    Steve Littlejohn   13800
5   6    Chris Moorman   9250
5   7    Luiz Andrade   8175
5   8    Glenn Ashworth   5900
5   9    John Eames   17225
5   10    Sammy Cheung   11325
6   1    Charles Denton   16775
6   2    David Allan   8050
6   3    Iwan Jones   9825
6   4    Brain Donnelly   5825
6   5    Richard Stanley   16700
6   7    Chris Moore   10975
6   8    Mick Wernick   24475
6   9    Jason Shellum   11150
6   10    Nik Persaud   19350
8   1    Karl Mahrenholz   10300
8   2    Craig Stokes   10175
8   3    Kyle MacPherson   21525
8   4    Andreas Hoivold   23450
8   5    Paul Lammas   22550
8   6    Lee Atherton   15900
8   7    Simon Turton   12100
8   8    Javed Ghazi   9450
8   9    Frank Romanello   26375
9   1    Matthew Rowne   11300
9   2    Mark Armstrong   10750
9   3    Martyn Bebb   9225
9   4    David Birtles   15500
9   5    Phil Roddy   8275
9   6    Adam Vinson   10650
9   7    Tony Cascarino   3500
9   8    Roberto Romanello   14675
9   9    Irina Liepina   14375
9   10    Jason Defreitas   10275
10   1    Dean Sanders   23275
10   2    T Lukashaugen   25650
10   3    K Nikkhahe   8300
10   4    Jimmy Gallagher   13525
10   6    Robert Bright   13100
10   7    Brian Martin   5575
10   8    Matt Stevens   9100
10   9    J Zaib         7250
10   10    Dan Owston   32955
11   1    Simon Wickenden   9550
11   2    Wai Choi   19775
11   3    Nick Slade   22300
11   4    Jim Dunsford   9125
11   5    Yilfer Shevket   6750
11   6    Leo Kam   17100
11   7    Richard Wong   19100
11   9    Taj Jugpal   15825
11   10    Henning Grandstad   16050
12   1    Dewi James   15475
12   2    Daniel Samson   41875
12   3    Ved Madan   9275
12   4    Gary Mcgaffney   5975
12   5    Julian Thew   15625
12   6    Ben Reynolds   11375
12   7    Adam Lawler   4050
12   8    Nick Honey   15725
12   9    James Keys   12000
13   1    John Conroy   31125
13   2    Richard Scott   5925
13   3    Tom Nightingale   5350
13   4    Andrew Teng   10975
13   5    Sean Gregory   4950
13   6    Matt Tyler   7125
13   7    Dara Okearney   9100
13   8    Jamie Gubb   11100
13   9    Giovanni Nervo   23750
13   10    Ian Holman   4275
14   1    Donal Norton   7525
14   2    Rob Taylor   12500
14   3    Stewart Wood   11025
14   4    Carlo Holmes   16500
14   5    Stephen Craig   21625
14   6    Tien Le   25350
14   7    Chieu Nguyen   7100
14   8    Debbie Littlejohn   3375
14   9    Paul Gourlay   25700
14   10    James Browning   13900
15   1    Mal Dawson   7075
15   2    Andrew Donn   8275
15   3    Conor Smyth   6575
15   4    Paul Kershaw   11050
15   5    Craig Holloway   6850
15   6    Vincent Mather   5575
15   7    Rick Trigg   20500
15   8    David Laronde   11250
15   9    Morris Mcarthy   21350
15   10    Lynne Beaumont   14150
16   1    Charles Ihle   16175
16   2    Kevin Poole   10025
16   3    Greg Hunt   10800
16   4    Chris Brammer   16475
16   5    Steven Davey   18975
16   6    Matt Eiler-gadsden   9925
16   7    Michael Williams   6175
16   8    Osman Mustanoglu   10700
16   9    Gez Hilton   13100
16   10    Mazhar Nawab   19650
17   1    Priyan Demel   5625
17   2    Gregory Howard   5700
17   3    Tahir Akran   20350
17   5    Finbar Tracey   9725
17   6    Chris Huyton   12675
17   7    Alex Martin   29625
17   8    Karim Louis   10700
17   9    William White   9800
17   10    Ghassan Chehbi   19375


No chip counts for table 3, they lost the book. (That's the Greg Howard, Pete Linton, Ben Vinson table).

Micky "The Legend" Wernick is on a nose bleed inducing 21k .... other players will need crowbars to get them off him.

Hmmm, some of these counts are wrong as I know Andrew Teng was out before the dinner break. Will check with Jon.

Is this Tien Le? If so, he's on almost 30k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16322&g2_serialNumber=1)

Moomin is OUT. 20 BB's and ran Queens into Aces.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16328&g2_serialNumber=2)

Judge for yourself...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16324&g2_serialNumber=1)

Andreas Hoivold is OUT. A re-raised pot between small and big blind with A-Q. A Q-5-3 flop, and an opponent holding Q-Q were his downfall.

Paul Gourlay -- 28k

With Pete Linton now in his seat, we think Vince Mather is out.

Glenn Ashworth raises to 1,600 from the cut-off, John Eames calls from the button.

Ashworth bets out 2,200 on the 9d 5c 7h flop and Eames raises him another 4,500. After a minute or so quiet contemplation, Glenn moves in and Eames calls. Glenn shows 8h 8d, slightly pipped by Ashworth's Js Jh. The Td gives Eames two more outs and loses him two outs at the same time, but the Qs river is not one of them. Glenn Ashworth up to around 18k.

Iwan Jones and Connor Smyth are both OUT.

Jason Shellum meanwhile was very happy about managing to fold Kings preflop earlier after, there was a raise to 500, he made it 1,500, then the player behind him made it 3,000. The original raiser pushed, he folds Kings and the re-re-raiser folds Queens. Aces should flat the 4-bet there and let the Kings push?

Paul Gourlay, "I've lost about 20k, first with T-9 on a T-9-6 board (two diamonds) vs 7d 6d to lose 15k, then next I raised K-T and hit a Ten-high board, only to bump into A-T for another 5k."

Alex Martin is OUT. "I've decided I'm going out on the piss instead."

John Conroy is now seemingly the man to beat, he's just knocked out Sean Fagan, with A-K vs 3-3, the flop proving pretty decisive when it came A-A-K.

Shortly afterwards, Conroy was at it again, re-raising to isolate Dharminder Buttar's A-K push, again Conroy was racing, and again it went in his favour as his Nines triumphed on the 6-6-7-6-3 board.

Conroy is now chip leader with 65k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16343&g2_serialNumber=1)

Also going very well is Nik Persaud, the inform player of the GUKPT, 3-betting most of his stack on a 8h Ad Qd board to scoop a 30k pot or so against Adam Lawler.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=16345&g2_serialNumber=1)

John Eames has just gone, pushing with J-9 into A-Q, he rivered a pair, but unfortunately it made a straight for his opponent.

Chip Counts at the end of Level Six. Thanks to those mad monks of BlueSq.

4   1    John Boyd   27125
4   2    Michelle Orpe   5500
4   3    Kyle MacPherson   23900
4   4    Mark Jones   15200
4   5    Patrick Dolan   20975
4   6    Ross Tavakoli   10525
4   7    Glenn Ashworth   25050
4   8    Alexander Gomes   28600
4   9    Finbar Tracey   22400
4   10    Nick Gibson   5800
5   1    Henning Grandstad   12900
5   2    Mark Mccluckskey   9775
5   3    John Murphy   15100
5   4    Fran Egan   39950
5   5    Steve Littlejohn   17125
5   6    Justin Devonport   21050
5   8    Taj Jugpal   18925
5   9    John Eames   6025
5   10    Sammy Cheung   21925
6   1    Charles Denton   25200
6   2    Peter Singleton   24800
6   3    Karim Louis   2730
6   4    Chris Huyton   7575
6   5    Richard Stanley   6375
6   6    Adam Lawler   37725
6   7    Osman Mustanoglu   20750
6   8    Mick Wernick   17300
6   9    Jason Shellum   32025
6   10    Nik Persaud   32050
9   1    Mark Armstrong   6375
9   2    Martyn Bebb   7875
9   3    David Birtles   7250
9   4    Phil Roddy   28650
9   5    Adam Vinson   12375
9   6    Yilfer Shevket   11000
9   7    Roberto Romanello   24350
9   8    Irina Liepina   21100
9   9    Leo Kam   13075
10   1    Dean Sanders   11925
10   2    Phil Benton   17375
10   3    K Nikkhahe   17875
10   4    Jimmy Gallagher   18300
10   5    Greg Howard   15550
10   6    Robert Bright   8375
10   7    Brian Martin   6775
10   8    Matt Stevens   6375
10   9    Tahir Akran   36700
10   10    Dan Owston   38925
12   1    Andrew Brisland   8975
12   2    Daniel Samson   37875
12   3    Ved Madan   13000
12   4    Gary Mcgaffney   11450
12   5    Julian Thew   17150
12   6    Simon Turton   18700
12   7    Paul Lammas   23050
12   8    Nick Honey   31675
12   9    James Keys   10550
12   10    Stewart Wood   2700
13   1    John Conroy   54550
13   2    Wai Choi   24900
13   3    Tom Nightingale   8950
13   4    Dharminder Buttar   2800
13   5    Sean Gregory   9450
13   6    Matt Tyler   8575
13   7    Dara Okearney   8025
13   8    Jamie Gubb   9750
13   9    Giovanni Nervo   45700
13   10    Jim Dunsford   9175
14   1    William White   12550
14   2    Rob Taylor   21850
14   3    T Lukashaugen   31650
14   4    Carlo Holmes   28625
14   5    Stephen Craig   3925
14   6    Tien Le   41375
14   7    Chieu Nguyen   14225
14   8    Brain Little   8575
14   9    Paul Gourlay   5900
14   10    James Browning   18675
15   1    Mal Dawson   16675
15   2    Andrew Donn   5400
15   3    Simon Wickenden   9825
15   4    Paul Kershaw   9100
15   5    Ghassan Chehbi   15425
15   6    Pete Linton   38025
15   7    Rick Trigg   27425
15   8    Lee Atherton   34450
15   9    Morris Mcarthy   24275
15   10    Lynne Beaumont   11950
16   1    Charles Ihle   9350
16   2    Kevin Poole   2525
16   3    Greg Hunt   6475
16   4    Chris Brammer   19075
16   5    Steven Davey   17375
16   6    Matt Eiler-gadsden   13875
16   7    Michael Williams   3775
16   8    Nick Slade   52525
16   9    Gez Hilton   20700
16   10    Mazhar Nawab   11675

James Kay is OUT. He shoved with 9-8 and got called by Andrew Brisland's T-T.

The flop came T-3-3.

"Running Threes!" shouts James maybe a little optimistically...Sadly this was a live game and not online though.

Maz Nawab's Kd 7d has outdrawn Jack Powell's 9c 9d on a 9c 5d 6d board, the 4h providing 3 extra outs, the Jd being the killer river to cause Powell's exit.

Nick Gibson's exit was with Aspades 6s to Steve Littlejohn's Ad Qd.

Pete Linton knocked Lynne Beautmont out, A-T vs A-J, hitting two pair and then rivering a flush.

"We've created a monster," says Henning Granstad.


Leo Kam is OUT, as is Mickey Wernick.

BIG POT involving Nik Persaud and Karim Louis

I get there as the flop reads  6s 3d Qh

Nick Fires 5k at the pot and is re-raised by Karim another 10k

Nick Dwells but eventually makes the call and the turn comes ...   Ac

Check from Nick,

Check from Karim

River is  2d ...

Nick now bets 12k, Karims turn to dwell ... he eventually and rather reluctantly makes the call ... nick turns  Ahrt Qd and Karim mucks.

Nick Persaud now has a healthy stack must be around the 60k mark

Dan Owston has crippled Robert Romanello (who subsequently went OUT), Dan re-raising Roberto preflop, Roberto called then open pushed the 8-5-4 flop, Dan called though as he would done, seeing as he'd been holding 5-5, which now puts the Welshman on around 63k.

Double blow for the Irish, both Donal Norton and Rob Taylor are both OUT.

John Conroy has knocked another player with A-K vs 9-8.

Nik Persaud and Dan Owston after winning their big pots.

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We're now on a short break before the last level.

Julian Thew is OUT. Crippled with Jacks against Dan Sampson's Fours, he then had Ace Queen into Andrew Brisland's Kings.

Dean Sanders meanwhile is on ubertilt. Lots of people limped including Kareem Louis (2nd in Brighton), a short stack pushed for 4k and Dean Sanders pushed behind with Aces, a couple folded and then, apparently Kareem called all-in for 15k with Kc 4c and hit a flush on the river...

Sanders however just got a double up pushing over the top of Dan Sampson's button push with A-Q and finding himself up against J-9, though after the flop he was rolling his eyes up in the air when it came down 8-7-6, another 8 on the turn followed by a Q on the river has put him back in the game with about 22k.

Dean was telling me that after the hand in Monte Carlo last year, (He held 8-7 on a T-9-6 board vs Marc Karam's T-9 which hit running 6's for the chip lead with about 20 left) and then having the nuts rivered in the WSOP ME, he took a lot of time off tournaments and didn't play one until January this year, and that this is only his second, preferring just to play cash back in the Vic.

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Dan Sampson has since gone OUT.

Roberto -- 0
Frank -- 0 (Apparently went out misreading the board much earlier, holding the nut straight but didn't see there was 3 d

Nick Slade has lost a huge 40k pot or so with trip Kings against Aspades 9s that made a flush.

Maldini32 has managed a double-up with J-T. Against J-9. On a K-9-3 board. Queen on the turn. No more short sentences. Promise.

By some strange coincidence, all the big stacks have somehow ended on the same table, looks like maybe 1/3 of the chips in play on this one table.

Table All The Chips

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Table Stars Turbo SNG

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Dan Owston, ready for the school disco.

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Pete Singleton doubles up on the last hand of the night with K-T vs A-Q.

Nick Honey is feeling sweeter after a last minute hand double up with Eights against Simon Turton's Jacks.

John Conroy and Nick Slade chopped a 40k pot when they got it all-in preflop with A-K vs A-K.

;kc;

Play has now finished for the day. Chip counts to follow.

Tomorrow we'll restart at 2pm, but for now we're making a mad dash for the taxi rack before everyone else...

;stickaforkinme;