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From Vegas to Nottingham, the location may be different, but some of the faces the same: Pete Linton, Sam Trickett, Nick Hicks, Tony Nicholls and co all swapping the soaring heat of the desert for the murky gray skies of the East Midlands. But fear not, as we're in Dusk Till Dawn, a venue that defies the English cardroom stereotype by offering poker enthusiasts a service that could match anything they'd find across the pond. And by Jove, they've been at it again.

After the unchallenged success of the Norwegian Poker Championships, that motley crew at DTD have fired another bullet from their festival gun to bring us the 'Dusk Till Dawn Mini Festival', a series of events exclusive to midgets, dwarfs and pixies. Don't fear though, as although towering giants Karl Mahrenholz, Vik Kanwar and Richard Prew won't be eligible to play, I did just spot Jennifer Harman and Freddy Deeb rolling up, so this should be a competetive tournament indeed.

After entering, and losing, last night's starter for 50, today's main event will be a slightly more wallet thinning £750 no limit Hold'em freezeout. As always, and as soon as I have awoken Dana from her seemingly endless slumber, your intrepid team of tanned reporters shall be pitching up tent at ringside to bring you all the action as it happens. We'll do our very best to shower you with as much information as possible, but we're not superheroes (well, accept Dana, she's Sleeping Woman), so if we miss someone out, please feel free to post your demands and request for individual chip counts.

See you on the other side! ;snoopy;

1time Rick Trigg + my 10% plz.

updates on that kid all day.

Balls! I knew I forgot something, oh well, looks like I'm not playing in this now, updates on Trigg please I guess.

+1. Updates on Fran and Richard Hawes too (local Leeds guy).

gogogogogogo.

Updates for Alan Vinson and Ben Vinson please!!!

Trigger, Flushy, Fran, "Marmite" Berridge, Chris Bruce, "Spherical Head" Tyler ... please.

And a separate thread solely devoted to Pete Lintons hands please :D

valet count to exceed kitten count please, tyvm

Agreed, please tell Maggie I miss her already .... And please console Donna, she will be so upset when she realises I wont be there.

Kev, they'll all be sad we're not there.  I'm sure they're strong enough to cope until next time though.

Well, after crawling out of bed in Room 101 at the Holiday Inn (I kid you not), we are down at DTD and all set up, except for Snoopy who has broken the internet. Nevertheless Snoopy has a fried breakfast and I have a ludicrously spicy Jamaican curry of some sort, and we're looking at a field of 60 currently, although numbers are expected to swell to 80 or 100 in the next hour or so. So far in evidence are the Trigg perm, the Flushy beergut and the extremely round head of Matt Tyler, not to mention such luminaries as the Vinsons, Tony Phillips, Joe Grech, of course Mr Simon Trumper, and a dealer with an awesome afro of which photos will follow later.

Regular afro updates please.

Good luck Flushy..............and all other blondes   ;popcorn;

How about Jewfros? Dana's disappointed that you're excluding her barnet in your requests.

Lights, camera, action...

And they're off.

If only I had a genuinely embarrassing photo to symbolise the start of today's event...

ahem

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14357&g2_serialNumber=1)

Afro dealer, or one of them, is Caucasian I beleive. Quite an arresting sight

Normally you highlight the 'big names', but I've decided to bold my favourite sounding ones. Feel free to dispute my choices.

Table 11...

Seat 1: Tony Phillips
Seat 2: Ashton Philip
Seat 3: James Dempsey
Seat 4: John Eames
Seat 5: Ian Gwynne
Seat 6: Jonas Desmond
Seat 7: Michael Mincher

Table 14...

Seat 1: Jeff Rogers
Seat 2: Sid Harris
Seat 3: Bernard Gabriel
Seat 4: Kyriacos Dionysiou
Seat 5: Daniel Longden
Seat 6: Fran Creed
Seat 7: Al Sapiano

Table 34...

Seat 1: Gary Teatum
Seat 2: Pete Linton
Seat 3: Richard Stanley
Seat 4: Rick Trigg
Seat 5: Jeff Sharpe
Seat 6: Chris Bruce
Seat 7: Michael Lee

Rachael has the proper Afro.  She's one of my favourite dealers, and her Afro really suits her.  (http://www.tiberiumweb.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/afro.gif)

The fella with the huge hair I think is related to Trigg... :dontask:

Table 12...

Seat 1: Ian McDonald
Seat 2: Adam Wilkinson
Seat 3: Paul Lammas
Seat 4: Matthew Buckland
Seat 5: Nicky Evans
Seat 6: Richard Sherwood
Seat 7: Bjorn Andre Hovden

Table 22...

Seat 1: Andy Johnson
Seat 2: Laurence Houghton
Seat 3: Alan Vinson
Seat 4: Shaffiq Mohammed
Seat 5: Ali Mallu
Seat 6: Dave Smith

Smith wins for simplicity reasons.

Table 26...

Seat 1: James Bishop
Seat 2: Tony Nicholls
Seat 3: Stian Johnsrud
Seat 4: Darren Foster
Seat 5: Jon Omara
Seat 6: Martino Libertino

Table 15...

Seat 1: Karl Johnson
Seat 2: Benjamin Carpenter
Seat 3: Josh Gould
Seat 4: Tom Nightingale
Seat 5: Richard Hawes
Seat 6: Asy Ho
Seat 7: Steve Jelinek

Chris BRUCE and Michael LEE  that's surely bold-worthy

Table 25...

Seat 1: Ben Callinan
Seat 2: Richard Berridge
Seat 3: Conor Smyth
Seat 4: Jon Lundy
Seat 5: Andrew Andreou
Seat 6: Neil Giblin

Table 35...

Seat 1: Joe Grech
Seat 2: Trevor Reardon
Seat 3: Trevor Pearson
Seat 4: Alan Stearn
Seat 5: Peter Charalambous
Seat 6: Mathew Wadham
Seat 7: Paul Jackson

Table 23...

Seat 1: He who can't be named (HWCBN)
Seat 2: Matt Tyler
Seat 3: Ben Vinson
Seat 4: Rory Campbell
Seat 5: Thomas Carpenter
Seat 6: Andrew Tuxworth
Seat 7: Keith Johnson

And relax...

By the way, we're not playing 6-handed here, Simon [trumper] has left a few seats vacant on each table for those still on the M1.

Damn, I didn't spot that one. Nice work, grasshopper. (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/7/7_5_135.gif)

chip count for HWCBN please

I think Asy Ho is my favourtie, and surely the shortest name in poker.

I may have to verify with the powers that be, but HWCBN may also be known as HWCCCBN too.

Wow, that's a quality field - not much value -there - but a bundle of fun.

Neil Giblin, by the way, is "jakally". I think.

You are correct.  Neil is our very own jakally. 

As promised, AFROWATCH:

Awesome:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18825&g2_serialNumber=1)


Also, in its own very special way, awesome:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18816&g2_serialNumber=1)


The state of my Jewfro will remain a mystery to anyone not in this room. Sorry.

Updates on the female dealer known as Kevin also please.

This be her: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=34951.msg751150#msg751150

A few other bits of photographic evidence that I'm not just making this up from home.

Jon "Superstar" Lundy and Andrew Andreou. Ahhh.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18809&g2_serialNumber=1)


Paul Jackson, brain possibly not quite yet engaging with surroundings:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18812&g2_serialNumber=1)


Pete Linton, Richard Stanley and Rick "One Hair Product Away From An Afro" Trigg:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18817&g2_serialNumber=1)

Ali Mallu and Dave "Simplicity" Smith:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18819&g2_serialNumber=1)


Ms Fran Creed about to do irreparable damage to her ipod:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18821&g2_serialNumber=1)


Tony Phillips and one Mr James Flushy hiding his face in shame or some such:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18826&g2_serialNumber=1)

Potential chip-fest firwork displays there:

Ali Mallu & Dave Smith

Tony Philips & Flushy.

Pete Linton & Wick Twigg.

We're a man down, but sadly he will have to remain anonymous as he appears to have slipped out of the backdoor. Not even the eagle eyes of Simon Trumper caught sight of our masked man.

73 remain, but I believe a few loose stragglers are still taking their seats.

If it helps I can probably shed some light on Paul's vacant expression. The poor lad took his seat upstairs on the flight home from Vegas to find himself sat next to a certain author of a couple of recent poker books. Not wishing to name names but the titles include the words Ghosts and a certain Devilfish. Must have been the longest journey for the poor chap and his current expression says it all!

74th Adam Wilkinson
73rd Anthony Nicholls

Ol Brucie's at it again, this time more than matching the sharp tongue of his game-show hosting namesake. With the board reading 2d 3c Qs Ad 6s, Chris Bruce popped out a bet of 700 only for neighbour Michael Lee to make it a total of 2,700 play. Exhaling deeply and leaning back on his seat, a seemingly perplexed Bruce then fired out a sequence of verbal missiles that would have made the most stoic of opponents tap out and plead "No more!"

"This could be a total bluff"

"The tables dying for me to call"

"You don't talk much, do you?"

"It's not 4-5 is it?"

"Threes, twos?"

"Is that a bluff?"

"I hate being bluffed."

After talking the table into a deep slumber, Bruce eventually made the fold and showed the  Aspades. "Making a big laydown there."

Tapping the table... "Well played, whatever you had."

Another one down, and another one in late by the looks of it, as the official on-the-board runners number briefly dropped down to 72 before going back up to 73.

Our early exit was in the exact shape of Tony Nicholls. A gentleman raised to 225 in late position, called by the button. Marc Goodwin made it 1,000 from the small blind, and Nicholls in mid position made it All In for 6,175; the original raiser and the button immediately got out of the way. "Do you want me to call?" enquired Goodwin. "It's up to you, mate," replied Nicholls with an awesome show of absolute nonchalance. Nevertheless, call Goodwin did, and his Ahrt Kc was painfully ahead of Nicholls' Ks Tc. "I didn't think you'd call," said Nicholls, unnecessarily. I understand he'd slow-played Queens a few hands earlier...

Board: a roundly unsurprising 6c 4s 4c 9c 2h, meaning that Nicholls is no more and Goodwin is running, er, well. Table Goodwin broke after that hand.


Excellent updater forethought taking this photo earlier today:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18837&g2_serialNumber=1)


With extra value added valet:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18841&g2_serialNumber=1)

And now for something completely different. Here a are a few players that you may not have come across before, a long with the odd early chip count thrown in for good measure. As always, if you know anything about these players, let us know.

First up, young Tom Nightingale, currently on 9,600.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18850&g2_serialNumber=1)

Matthew Wadham, 11,000, obviously enthralled by the witterings of former GUKPT runner upper Peter Charalambous.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18852&g2_serialNumber=1)

A resplendent Daniel Longden, chip buttied by Fran Creed and Greek Jack.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18848&g2_serialNumber=1)

Pinker than Mr Blobby, this chap we believe is Richard Sherwood, although there has been a changing of the guards at that table. Whoever it is, he's enjoyed a lucrative start with 17,000 in chips.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18846&g2_serialNumber=1)

Cool Afros aplenty...please use some of your photoshop skills Snoops & Dana

Here's Phil Spector with the finest afro

Two seats along are Matthew Buckland and a rather mardy mustardy Nicky Evans, the latter of whom has 9,800 on the felt.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18844&g2_serialNumber=1)

Finally, for now, we have Ashton Philips, who I believe attended last month's £300er. He's currently on 9,500 and sharing a table with messieurs Jonas and Dempsey.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18842&g2_serialNumber=1)

Setbackaments for Flushy.

With the board reading 3d 8c Qd Ks 9h, he checked over to Steve "cardshark on blonde" Read, who bet a whopping 3.5k. "What the hell?" said Flushy. "Come on James," said Read, "You know you want some." After a short pause for thought, it turned out that Read was right and Flushy did indeed 'want some'. "I'm just curious," said he.  :o

Flushy called, and just mucked when Read turned over Tc Jc. There was some eye-rolling shortly afterwards.

Photo to follow because Snoopy walked off with the camera, sorry.

Fran Creed is off to a rather good start - she's up to 15.7k after playing just two hands, one of them Aces. Lucky Fran. That's the best hand you can have, you know.

By the way, after knocking out Tony Nicholls, Mr Marc Goodwin moved to my current Table Of Doom. Table also currently features Joe Grech, Trevor Reardon, Alan Stern, Peter Charalambous and Paul Jackson, among others.

Adam Wilkinson was indeed that first exit, and it was Richard Sherwood opening the door and walking him to his car. On what was either the third or fourth hand of the day, Adam and Richard both saw a a flop of 2-4-5, only for Adam to push all in on the ten turn. Holding A-3 for the flopped straight, Richard called quicker than a hiccup and simply had to avoid a house-filling river against the flopped set of Adam's 4-4. A blank on the river, and Adam was gone.

(http://www.tongs.org.uk/files/bizarre-james1.jpg)

James Harries, also a dealer - although of antiques I think rather than cards - now Lauren Harris.

Albert Sapiano is OUT. He was all in with T-8 against Sid Harris' K-K on a 2-8-3 flop. 4 turn and 3 river was of no use.

Of course, Albert made a sharp exit for the door to rejoin his wife back home, and NOT join the latest cash table as these fraudulent photos suggest.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18856&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18854&g2_serialNumber=1)

74 of 78 players remain.
£58,500 total prize pool
Leve 2: 50/100
Average stack = 10,540
1st prize = £20,475

On a 9s 2c Ks 8h board and with 1,100 in the pot, Rick Trigg took a pot off Gareth Teatum with a bet of 600. This bumped Rick's stack up to 11,000, whilst Gareth's continues to drop and is now down to a platry 2,700. I can only assume that the rest of his stack went to Michael Lee (pictured), who is easily the chip leader on that table whilst everyone else seems to be hovering around their starting stack.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18860&g2_serialNumber=1)

Tales from Table Andreou...

The garrulous, so-good-they-named-him-twice Andrew Andreou called me over to complain that Snoops and I must be doing no work at all owing to us having missed two hands on his table. He filled me in.

Jon Lundy is a bit short after getting half his chips in preflop - there was a raise utg and a re-raise, which Lundy flat-called with pocket Kings. The flop came down Q-7-2 or Q-7-9 depending on who you talk to, and the gent in seat 7 whose name I do not know led out for 2,000 into a 4,500 pot. Lundy insta-folded. ???

I like this photo a lot:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18809&g2_serialNumber=1)

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Further tales of the unexpected. Mr Andreou informs me that the reason he has over 20k currently is that he and Ben Callinan saw a Qs Ts Kx flop - Andreou was holding 9-J, Callinan was holding Ks 9s, and no more spades appeared. This may explain the ludicrously good mood that Mr Andreou is in. He drew a happy face on my notepad and ordered me to emulate it for the rest of the day.

Mr Callinan:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18833&g2_serialNumber=1)

Another Linton classic. "Don't report that hand," said Pete. In the interests of journalistic integrity, though, here it is.

Linton raises to a reasonable sort of 225. Two seats down on the cutoff, Rick Trigg calls.

Flop: 2h Qs 3h - Pete bets 325. Trigg calls.

Turn: 8c - check, check.

River: Th

Now Pete bets 1,000. "Oh no," says Trigg, "You're not value betting a ten, are you?" He calls. Pete turns over Ts 8d. Laughs Chris Bruce cross the table, "You're such a fish." "How am I a fish?" replies Pete, "What am I fishing for?" Good question...

you can't argue with that logic!

gl to all the blondes! 

Surely something is wrong here???  Did he forget to raise?!

Richard Sherwood is your current chip leader with around 30k. He just eliminated another opponent with jacks versus queens, all in preflop, jack on the flop.

A fun hand from the Table Of Doom.

One of Trevor Reardon, Paul Jackson and Joe Grech raised to 225 preflop, and the pother two called (missed that bit, sorry).

Flop: Tc 7h Ad - Reardon checked, Jackson bet 600 and and Grech folded and wandered off somewhere. "I'll value call," said Reardon.

He then proceeded to bet out 1,100 on the Qc turn, which Jackson called, and they both checked the the 4h river. Reardon turned over Td 7d for a flopped two pair, and Jackson mucked. I would tell you their chip counts after this hand but for the fact that we are getting FULL BREAKTIME CHIP COUNTS any minute! This is great.

By the way, it has been agreed by general consensus (Mr Trumper announcing it into the mic and everyone else sort of mumbling assent) that there is no reason for this to be a 3 day event, and thus it is now officially a 2 day event, meaning that I will be getting paid less for covering it. >:(

Those of you tuning in on Sunday to watch the final table live will be sorely disappointed.

Here's our one and only masseuse karate chopping Richard Berridge into submission. Notice the 'AGE' on her back which is the tail end of 'NORKAGE'.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18874&g2_serialNumber=1)

As I was perving over the local talent (that's the masseuse, by the way, not Richard), Ben Callinan found himself all in. He had Kc Th against Qd 8d on a flop of Qh 5s 3s and survive a Kd turn and 4c river. He's still short stacked though.

I couldn't possibly rob you of a full frontal of our kung fu masseuse.

Berridge has 13k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18872&g2_serialNumber=1)

Current chip counts:

Richard Sherwood   12   6   24600
Michael Mccool   23   1   23800
Andrew Andreou   25   5   20125
Michael Lee   34   7   18175
Conor Smyth   25   3   18000
Laurence Houghton   22   2   17725
Andrew Johnson   22   1   16950
Matthew Wadham   35   6   16150
Richard Berridge   25   2   15625
Michael Wernick   14   8   15475
Alli Mallu   22   5   15050
Marc Goodwin   35   8   15050
Frances Creed   14   6   15025
Jef Rogers   14   1   14200
Josh Gould   15   3   13750
Matthew Buckland   12   4   13000
Alan Vinson   22   3   12700
Anthony Phillips   11   1   12525
James Bishop   12   9   12000
Thomas Carpenter   23   5   11950
Andrew Tuxworth   23   6   11950
Daniel Jolowicz   14   9   11875
Ian Gwynne   11   5   11775
Alan Stearn   35   4   11650
Michael Mincher   23   7   11625
Peter Linton   34   2   11500
Zaheer Zeb   15   9   11475
Thomas Nightingale   25   7   11450
Richard Stanley   34   3   11400
Benjamin Carpenter   15   2   11275
Daniel Longden   14   5   11225
Steve Read   11   8   11075
Nicky Evans   12   5   11000
Christopher Bruce   34   6   10875
Daniel Rudd   11   9   10675
Bernard Gabriel   22   9   10625
Paul Jackson   35   7   10525
Karl Johnson   15   1   10400
Paul Rayner   11   4   10125
Ben Vinson   23   3   9925
Peter Charalamobus   35   5   9925
Trevor Reardon   35   2   9850
Tuan Le   12   2   9775
James Dempsey   11   3   9750
James Akenhead   15   5   9525
Paul Lammas   12   3   9500
James Reid   22   7   9500
Sidney Harris   14   2   9425
Joseph Grech   35   1   9275
Neil Giblin   25   6   8750
Jon Omara   23   8   8700
Martino Libertini   34   8   8550
Darren Foster   25   8   8450
Ian Mcdonald   12   1   8275
Jeff Sharpe   34   5   8150
Ben Callinan   25   1   7975
Shahnawaz Randera   15   8   7975
Rory Campbell   23   4   7925
Richard Hawes   14   7   7925
Desmond Jonas   11   6   7725
Asy Ho   15   6   7500
Steve Jelinek   15   7   7350
Trevor Pearson   35   3   7150
Gary Teatum   34   1   6925
Philip Ashton   11   2   6900
Jonathan Lundy   25   4   6075
Bjørn Andre Hovden   12   7   6000
Matt Tyler   23   2   5550
Stian Johnsrud   22   8   4575
Richard Trigg   34   4   4450
David Smith   22   6   2750
Kyriacos Dionysiou   14   4   2250

You fool - you should have kept quiet and dripfed your update over three days - posting the last day from the comfort of Dana Towers. No one would ever have known, probably.

I would have known. FACT. end of.

Never quite recovering from that short-stacked-ness, Ben Callinan is now OUT - he raised and then three-bet all in with A-K to an enormous reraise from Neil Giblin. Giblin was holding pocket queens, which held up. I know all of this because the whole time Andrew Andreou was mouthing something at me across the room which I thought at the time was "boring" but actually turned out to be "all in". By the time I realised my mistake and got there, it was of course all over, and I will thus be resigning my post and today's updates will be provided by Mr Andreou and the beagle.

UPDATE

Mr Dave Smith has joined the Table Of Doom, which now has a full complement of nine doom-mongers.

Andrew Tuxworth makes it 275 to go from late position, Mateyboy calls on the button and Matt Tyler makes it 1,000 to play from the blind. Tuxworth calls, Mateyboy steps out the way.

Flop = 5h Kd 7s

Check, check.

Turn = Jh

Check, check.

River = Ts

Matt bets 1,100, Tuxworth makes it 4,000.

"How not to play my hand," confesses Matt as his faces turns sour.

"Nice hand, buddy," he continues.

Meanwhile, Tuxworth remains silent, arms folded, face motionless.

"Will you show if I fold?" asks Matt.

"No," announces Tuxworth abruptly.

"How about that notepad you've been writing on?" probes Matt.

"Definitely not that," replies Tuxwroth smirking.

Soon after, Matt releases hand, only for Tuxworth to go back on his word and reveals Aspades Jd.

"He's an unconventional player," commented Matt later, clearly ruing folding what was probably the best hand.

Matt Tyler = 6,400
Andrew Tuxworth = 10,100

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18866&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18868&g2_serialNumber=1)

Andrew Tuxworth makes it 275 to go from late position, Mateyboy calls on the button and Matt Tyler makes it 1,000 to play from the blind. Tuxworth calls, Mateyboy steps out the way.

Flop = 5h Kd 7s

Check, check.

Turn = Jh

Check, check.

River = Ts

Matt bets 1,100, Tuxworth makes it 4,000.

"How not to play my hand," confesses Matt as his faces turns sour.

"Nice hand, buddy," he continues.

Meanwhile, Tuxworth remains silent, arms folded, face motionless.

"Will you show if I fold?" asks Matt.

"No," announces Tuxworth abruptly.

"How about that notepad you've been writing on?" probes Matt.

"Definitely not that," replies Tuxwroth smirking.

Soon after, Matt releases hand, only for Tuxworth to go back on his word and reveals Aspades Jd.

"He's an unconventional player," commented Matt later, clearly ruing folding what was probably the best hand.

Matt Tyler = 6,400
Andrew Tuxworth = 10,100

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18866&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18868&g2_serialNumber=1)

UPDATE

Mr Dave Smith has joined the Table Of Doom, which now has a full complement of nine doom-mongers.

Can anyone guess who's filthy stack this is? Prize to the first correct answer.

I bet his mom was always asking him to clean his room.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18870&g2_serialNumber=1)

Linton

Petel

Still on Table Andreou, Alan Vinson has picked up a rather nice pot.

I believe there was a small raise preflop and Vinson reraised; I suspect he was surprised to get three callers. Nevertheless, the flop came down 8h 8c Qh and they checked around, to see a 3d turn. Andreou bet 750, and the gent in seat 8 called, as did Vinson. Jon Lundy folded. The river was the 5s, and it checked around to Vinson, who bet 2.5k. It was enough, and he took down the pot without me getting to see anyone's cards, disappointingly.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18887&g2_serialNumber=1)

Some People Who Have Appeared That I Didn't Notice Earlier:


Mickey Wernick:

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Steve Jelinek:

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James Akenhead:

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Blimey, that was quick. And here is the raising rascal now, looking distinctly bronzed after his trip to Vegas.

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As I wandered passed the far table, little did I know that there was a big three way pot developing between Josh Gould, Andy Johnson and Zeb Zaheer, the latter of those betting 3,000 onto a 8s Kc 7h Td 9s board with almost 10,000 already in the pot. After Gould had checked his cards and ducked out the way, Johnson asked for a count before min-raising to 6,000. Believing it was too cheap to fold, Zaheer made the call and showed Kd Jd. Johnson could only muster Ad 8h to give Zaheer the pot.

As a result, Johnson is down to 6,000.

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Moustache Of The Day Martino Libertini bets 1k on on an Ad Qh Kh flop, and all but the young gent to his right fold. Young Gent calls.

The turn is the Qs and Young Gent checks to Libertini, who now bets 2k. With a very small disgusted sort of noise, Young Gent folds.

NEWS FLASH


Ali Mallu (13,000) is the first to order food here today. He has opted for the DTD Burger.

But will he run onion rings around his opponents today?

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Continued bully-age from Alan Vinson.

Says Andrew Andreou, "Have oyu got your notepad?" I have. "Get ready to write!" But after four or five players including Andreou and Vinson checked a 3d 3h 2d flop, Vinson bet out 500 on the 2c turn from the small blind, and everyone else passed. Andreou waved his 5-6 offsuit at me as he folded.

Frustration for GUKPT London runner upper Tony Phillips as his river bet of 2,000 on a board of Jd Th Ts 5h Ad is reraised virtually all in by Paul Rayner. Tony folds his A-Q in disgust only for Paul to tease with an 8... eventually followed by a cheeky 10.

Phillips down to 2,800.

It would appear, much to my sorrow as I was hoping to get a photo of his awesome dice-patterned trousers, that Des Jonas has kicked the tournament bucket, and is nowhere to be seen.

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A few miscellaneous chip counts:

Steve Jelinek -- 2,950
Josh Gould -- 7,700
Sid Harris -- 14,925
Paul Lammas -- 7,800
Daniel Rudd -- 12,475
Mike McDonald -- 7,850
Alan Stearn -- 13,175
Martino Libertini -- 9,850
Ben Vinson -- 13,000
Chris Bruce -- 13,300
Laurence Houghton -- 15,200
James Dempsey -- 11,900
Dave Smith -- 3,750
Paul Jackson -- 3,725
Richard Hawes -- 7,000

Ms Fran Creed, who by her own admission is running like a cheetah on a cocktail of banned substances at the moment, is on around 17k. Most recently, the gent in seat 3 raised to 1100, but laid it down when Fran made it another 3.5k. She showed pocket Queens.

James Dempsey's stack has been bisected in half courtesy of Bernard Garbriel. On a Td Ts 7h flop, James bet of 1,600 led to all the chips flying in with Bernard well ahead with 7d 7s versus Jh Jd. No change on the 6d turn and 9d river and Bernard doubled through.

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Meanwhile, Tony Phillips has been eliminated from today's event after a frustrating day.

Wow, bisected in half?

Ooh, this is exciting.

I wandered over to the Table Of Doom to see Alan Stearn betting 2k on an 8c 8s 9c flop, and Dave Smith apparently calling all in.

Alan Stearn: Ac 9s
Dave Smith: oh dear, 4d 4s

But turn: 4h bang!

River: 5d

Stearn: "Bloody hell!"

Smith: around 5.5k now.

Can anyone name this cheerful chappy? I believe he's from the London area as he can sometimes be found playing at the Gutshot Club in Barbican. Anyhow, he just crossed swords with Gareth Teatum, whose reach for chips on the river of a 4s Jh Kd Ts Ks board was interrupted by his opponent who pleaded, "Ooh, you're going to need to bet big" "How much should I make it?" asked Teatum. "Well, if you bet 2,000, I can reraise then," was the reply. "Okay, let's go for 1,600 then." After a moment's pause, mateyboy made the call and showed Aspades Jc, which was good enough against Teatum's inferior 8h 8s.

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No, quarters.

Tautology?

At risk of angering the kitten-hating among our viewers, I feel that the number of guests reading the updates warrants this message. Be warned!

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That's Richard Stanley. I think. I'll give you a fiver if you go ask him. *



*May not be true.

There have been some developments on the culinary scene. Whilst Richard Berridge is tucking into some highly recommended fish fingers, "Put these on blonde, they're great fish fingers", Steve Jelinek, who is always eating when I cross his face-filling path, is munching on what used to be a breast of chicken.

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By the way, did you know the chef here has one of those Michigan star thingies?

Is that why he's not been allowed brown sauce with his fish fingers?

I wandered over to Mr Ali Mallu's table to see him betting 600 on a 4c 2h 7s Aspades board, and his opponent, Mr Mate E. Boy, calling. Mr Boy proceeded to check to Mr Mallu on the 3s river, who promptly went Virtually All In for around 5k, leaving himself a single 25 chip as a card protector. Mr Boy folded, and was rewarded by Mr Mallu flashing the Ad. "What a turn..." muttered Mr Boy.

I have to say, I am most disappointed that DTD seems to have changed the menu overnight. Yesterday they were offering a Caribbean spicy chicken wrap with pineapples and yam puree, but today said chicken is only available in curry form. It was pretty good, though. Mmm, no breakfast is complete without some chillies in it somewhere.

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60 of 79 remain
£59250 total prizepool
£20,737 to winner
Average Stack = 13,389
Binds = 100/200

I disagree.  For example:

Grapefruits
Yoghurt and banana
Pancakes
Toast


All need no such spicing.  You have just been brainwashed by the hot sauce corporations after too much extended use.

Another smattering of chip counts for you to feast your eyes on:

Marc Goodwin -- 17,500
Tom Nightingale -- 17,225
Andrew Andreou -- 14,850
Peter Charalambous -- 18,150
Fran Creed -- 18,500
Trevor Reardon -- 6,350
Mickey Wernick -- 18,100
Pete Linton -- 16,525
Jim Reid -- 16,175
Steve Jelinek -- 22,000
Richard Stanley -- 19,675
Steve Read -- 17,000
Rory Campbell -- 13,475
Matthew Wadham -- 7,125

Michigan Star thingies???  rotflmfao rotflmfao


so named because the best chefs come from Detroit?

Exits so far:

59   Trevor Reardon
60   Michael Mincher
61   Michael Lee
62   Andrew Johnson
63   Paul Jackson
64   Stian Johnsrud
65   Asy Ho
66   Nicky Evans
67   Anthony Phillips
68   Jonathan Lundy
69   Desmond Jonas
70   Andrew Tuxworth
71   Ben Callinan
72   Kyriacos Dionysiou
73   John Eames
74   Dean Sanders
75   Mohammed Shafiq
76   Keith Johnson
77   Albert Sapiano
78   Anthony Nicholls
79   Adam Wilkinson

I tell you what, for someone who has a Michigan star, he don't half flip a lot of burgers.

By the way, I didn't know Detroit was well know for its food.

Put your hands up for Detroit, I love this city!

I contend that all these breakfast substances may be improved by the addition of the right kind of hot sauce and fresh chillies as a garnish. I have chilli jam in the cupboard to go on toast, I urge you to try it.

With the board reading 9s Tc Th 4c 6s, Benjamin Carpenter was all in against James Akenhead for what looked to be around the 5,350 mark. After a long dwell, Akenhead made the fold, only to be shown 9h 6h. I could tell by James' expression whether he was happy with that or not.

Was difficult to count his chips as he raked them in, but Carpenter is surely back over the starting stack.

Mr Gareth Teatum has been making his presence felt on The New Table Of Doom (since the old one broke). He induced an uncomfortable looking 1,200 call from Ali Mallu on the 4s Kh Kc Qc 7s board, and Mallu even more uncomfortably mucked when Teatum turned over Aspades Qh.

Not, contrary to his hoodie's claims, all in:

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By the way we're on a 30 minute break here to enable the Michelin-starred chef to flip an optimal number of hamburgers.

Matt Tyler is down to 3,400 and currently suffering from "being everyone's bitch" syndrome. It's a nasty disease that Colchester Kev has been in the shadow of ever since he hooked up with Ginger.

Just before that burger-flipping pause, a very disgusted Rick Trigg laid down his on-the-button Ahrt Kh to a 2k bet from Chris Bruce on a 4h 8c 5c 6c board. He was rewarded by Brucie showing him pocket sevens for the straight.

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Mr Trigg wearing one half of a playboy bunny outfit, and Dave Smith looking seductive:

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There are 15 minutes remaining of the dinner break.

Can we have have some updates  for Karl Johnson (card room manager from the Isle in Cov)  and pass on my best wishes.

Latest chip counts:

Zaheer Zeb   15   9   31300
Michael Mccool   23   1   26600
Richard Berridge   25   2   24250
Michael Wernick   14   8   23950
Daniel Rudd   11   9   23125
Marc Goodwin   11   1   22750
Steve Jelinek   15   7   21800
Alan Vinson   25   9   20300
Richard Stanley   34   3   19900
Conor Smyth   25   3   19600
Matthew Buckland   12   4   19525
Jef Rogers   14   1   19300
Christopher Bruce   34   6   19150
Thomas Carpenter   23   5   18775
Ben Vinson   23   3   18700
Frances Creed   14   6   18550
Peter Linton   34   2   17475
Richard Sherwood   12   6   17250
James Reid   12   8   16675
Thomas Nightingale   25   7   16600
Neil Giblin   25   6   16100
James Bishop   34   7   14950
Steve Read   11   8   14725
Andrew Andreou   25   5   14700
Alli Mallu   34   9   14700
Daniel Jolowicz   14   9   14450
Laurence Houghton   23   9   14425
Paul Lammas   12   3   14300
Shahnawaz Randera   15   8   14075
Sidney Harris   14   2   13850
Ian Gwynne   11   5   13650
Tuan Le   12   2   13550
Karl Johnson   15   1   12750
Gary Teatum   34   1   12400
James Dempsey   11   3   12300
Rory Campbell   23   4   12175
Joseph Grech   25   4   12000
Ian Mcdonald   11   6   11550
Peter Charalamobus   14   4   10025
Alan Stearn   15   6   9825
Jon Omara   23   8   9675
Martino Libertini   34   8   8900
Paul Rayner   11   4   8475
Philip Ashton   11   2   8375
Matthew Wadham   12   5   7800
David Smith   34   5   7675
Benjamin Carpenter   15   2   7100
Daniel Longden   14   5   5625
Bjørn Andre Hovden   12   7   5550
James Akenhead   15   5   5475
Richard Hawes   14   7   4850
Trevor Pearson   23   6   4675
Josh Gould   15   3   4600
Darren Foster   25   8   4550
Jeff Sharpe   12   1   3325
Matt Tyler   23   2   3275

All those who wanted burgers now have them, and it's shuffle up and deal...

Can you wish Fran all the best from me please, Sorry i couldn't make it x

On the very first hand back, Ashton Philips bet 3,000 on a 6c Js 4d flop, only for Paul Rayner to push all in for a total of 8,050. After the usual "do you want a call" interrogation, Ashton opted for the fold and Rayner survived.

Mickey Wernick has taken down a 2k-or-thereabouts pot with a cheeky 500 bet in position on the river of a rag-rag-rag-rag-jack board. Both Mateyboy and Fran folded, and Mr Wernick showed them K-J as a kind of folding reward.

Shortly before his table broke, Neil Giblin raised utg and received a grand total of no callers. Blinds for him.

Mr Matt Tyler is winking at me every time I walk past his table, but he has not that much to be cheerful about as he is down to just 3k or so. He might make it to Nando's before closing time...

Karl's stack has been dented to 8,000 after coin-flipping with neighbour Ben Carpenter. I joined the drama as the hands were being mucked, but it was Jh Js versus Ad Kc on a Qs 4s 8s 7s Ks board, so I would imagine all the action occurred preflop. Double up for Carpenter.

Johnson
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Carpenter
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Joe Grech has wrested a sizeable pot from perennial update favourite Mateyboy thus:

They saw a Qd 2s 5c flop and Mateyboy bet 1k. Grech called.

They saw a 3h turn and Mateyboy bet 2.5k. Grech called.

They saw a 9h turn and actually at this point I was distracted by a lady enquiring after the £20 rebuy, so I am reconstructing the likely action in this manner: Mateyboy now checked, Grech bet and Mateyboy folded. Either way, Grech was raking in the chips when I turned back to the hand in progress.

went out before break with 88 v AJ. one of those days nothing went right. GOGOGO 5% man flushy

ffs.

[  ] wp

so sick

ul Trigg.

[X] least u can get smashed

Speaking of the little tinker, Fran now has her head above 20,000 after successfully locking horns with wily veteran Joe Grech. After snapping up the blinds with A-K the hand prior, Fran raised it up with pocket kings and received one caller in the Grechster. On an 8d Qd 8c flop, Grech bet out and Fran called, only for both players to slow down on the 2d turn. A king on the river led to Joe calling a bet from Fran, announcing "I need some information" in the process, before swiftly mucking his hand.

More action than a night at the Beagle's love palace now as the frantic pace continues on Table Gould. With the board reading 9d 8h 2h Ts, Zeb Zaheer and Steve Jelinek both checked to the As river where Zaheer led out for 3,000. As Jelinek targeted his opponent with a piercing stare, Zaheed remained cool under pressure as he leaned over to his plate, picked up a bun and munched down on his burger. "Will you show if I fold?" asked the Jelly man. "Yeah," replied Zaheer as he wiped the grease from his lips.

In the end, Jelinek did indeed fold, Kc Kh face-up, and Zaheer stayed true to his word, showing pocket ducks for the flopped set.

Bad news for loafer fans, the Flushter's gone.

54   James Dempsey
55   Philip Ashton
56   Peter Charalamobus
57   Bernard Gabriel
58   Richard Trigg
59   Trevor Reardon
60   Michael Mincher
61   Michael Lee
62   Andrew Johnson
63   Paul Jackson
64   Stian Johnsrud
65   Asy Ho
66   Nicky Evans
67   Anthony Phillips
68   Jonathan Lundy
69   Desmond Jonas
70   Andrew Tuxworth
71   Ben Callinan
72   Kyriacos Dionysiou
73   John Eames
74   Dean Sanders
75   Mohammed Shafiq
76   Keith Johnson
77   Albert Sapiano
78   Anthony Nicholls
79   Adam Wilkinson

But good news for the bar!

For our gentleman viewers, and Llevan, I give you a slightly flustered but nonetheless lovely valet:

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Also the earlier-requested dealer. I believe her shift just started. She appears to possess the extraordinary skill of dealing poker with her eyes closed.

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Kev!

It's underestimated skill, that's how Kev plays.

For those wondering how we go about updating, I think it's not unreasonable to describe it as being like a lithe, cunning animal hunting its prey in the untamed savannah.

Watch Snoopy at work, for instance.

Here he is, scanning the horizon for update fodder, simultaneously flagrantly flouting the DTD footwear rules:

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Seeing a likely snack, he moves in on his prey:

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Helpless, his prey gives in and tells him a hand. Update achieved! The blogger lives to fight another day in the cutthroat, beagle-eat-beagle world of the live poker update.

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A day of turmoil and misery has ended for Pete Linton as he crashes out at the affluent hands of table menace Chris Bruce. In a limped pot and with the flop reading Q-8-5, Chris led out for 600, Ali Mallu called and Pete made it 2,500 to play with A-Q. Chris raised again to 8,000, Mallu stepped out of the way and Pete called, later confessing it, "I didn't particularly like it at the time, but he'd been pissing me off." Although Chris had been aggressive throughout the day, Pete had pushed at the wrong time as Brucie had the goods on this occasion, his eights in dominant shape against a now paltry top pair. Blanks on the later streets and Pete was gone.

"There was a hand from earlier where I think I should have made my move. The flop was A-8-3, under the gun bet, I smooth called with A-K and Chris reraised. I let it go, but maybe I should have shoved it in then."

I caught the very end of a hand between Ali Mallu and Richard Stanley. The board read 7-A-6-Q-K and the two of them were eyeing each other with indescribable suspicion. Very slowly, Mallu turned over an Ace. Very slowly, so did Stanley. Then veeerrry sloowwwly, Mallu turned over a three to go with it. Not breaking eye contact, Stanley turned over a five. Split. Not sure what all the eyeing was about. Very dramatic, though.

This is incorrect. Fran was actually asking me for my phone number. The next photo was me telling her that I was already taken, followed by one of her pouncing on me like a rabid wolverine. I think it's the guns you know.

Jim-D

Fran thanked you for your support. She does have an iphone but confessed, "I can't be bothered to post."

Some of your current chip leaders:

Mickey Wernick -- 35,000
Chris Bruce -- 40,000
HWCBN -- 27,000
Joe Grech -- 25,000

I'm not that important eh?

Still i wont hold a grudge xx

A few more chip counts for you to go crazy with:

Gareth Teatum -- 10,800
Martino Libertini -- 12,400
Tom Nightingale -- 11,400
Richard Stanley -- 15,500
Ian McDonald -- 22,400
Thomas Carpenter -- 25,000
Matt Tyler -- 5,000
Trevor Pearson -- 5,100
Alan Vinson -- 26,900

She was distracted by some serious pipes at the time.  ;snoopy'sguns;

Mickey Wernick is down to a very-roughly-estimated 25k after doubling up Richard Berridge to an equally-roughly-estimated 30k. Not sure what Mr Wernick was holding but Mr Berridge was holding 7s 9s for a turned flush.

Dave Smith is OUT. He was drawing dead with Ad Th versus the 6h 6c of Gareth Teatum on a 6s 9s Kd 7s board. Academic Td on the river.

Aaaah i see, understandable

Fran told me that you told her that your "guns" could "crack walnuts".

 rotflmfao

gg flushy.

gogogo Fran 1 time etc. How many she got?

Also gone is James Akenhead, who departed in more testicle crunching circumstances, his pocket kings losing out to Karl Johnson's big Slick river when a flush arrived on the turn.

Must have been a spite call from PeteL :)

Also no longer on his last published chip count, Mr Gareth Teatum. With around 7k in the pot, and a full board reading 6s Jh Jc 9c Ks dealt, Richard Stanley bet 2.5k. After a good long dwell, announced Teatum, "F***. Me." He folded, and is now on around 8.5k.

Yes, I could feed an army with squirrels with these bad boys.

If squirrels liked the taste of beagle flesh you could...

Ben Vinson -- 37,800
Karl Johnson -- 10,400
Conor Smyth -- 15,100
Richard Berridge -- 25,100
Chris Bruce -- 43,200
Marc Goodwin -- 16,200

All in preflop.

Matthew Buckland = Ahrt Kc
Jim Reid = Qd Qs

Board = 8s 8c Th 2h 6c

As Red-Dog once sang in his slimmer vest-wearing days, "another one bites the dust."

More Tales From Table Andreou. "Ooh, you missed a good one..."

It folded around to Mr Andreou on the button, who found 3-5 offsuit. "A monster." He raised. He found himself called by a mysterious gentleman who insists on being identified only as "The Chinese Guy". The flop came an unappetizing Q-J-4 and The Chinese Guy came out betting the pot, 1.5k. Mr Andreou considered his options, and did the decent thing - he raised to 4k. The Chinese Guy folded, and Mr Andreou gleefully showed him the bluff.

gogogogogogogogo Fran!!!

Did Vegas supastar Sam Trickett play?

No joy for Matt Tyler either. After grinding like a champion skateboarder, blonde's resident roundhead eventually succumbed to the might of Thomas Carpenter (pictured) and his accompanying bullets. "I had a king high flush draw and a gutshot on the flop so called off my chips. I knew what he had, I just wanted to gamble."

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Er... he may not have made it today.

FYP

After building a mammoth stack, Ben Vinson has taken a step backwards and double up neighbour Marc Goodwin. I didn't catch the preflop action, but all the monies flew in on a 6h 4c Qd 8d board with Ben's Ah Qs drawing dead against MrCool's 7h 5s. Looks like Marc has rocket up to around the 30-35k mark.

Mr Steve "Cardshark" Read is up to the heady heights of 25k. He bet out 1.2k on a 9h 6h 8d flop, and his Mateyboy opponent called. He bet out another 2.5k on the 7d turn, appearing rather irked. This time his Mate-opponent made it 5k. Can't have been too irked underneath, as with barely a thought, Read moved all in, and Mate-opponent folded even faster.

Steve Jelinek -- 31,800
Joe Grech -- 23,500
Jeff Rogers -- 27,300
Richard Hawes -- 16,200
Jeff Sharpe -- 2,100
Paul Lammas -- 17,700

A short-stacked Daniel Longden has enjoyed a rather lucky double up. He checked the Th 8s Ad flop, and the only other gent in the hand, Richard Berridge, put him in. Insta-call from Longden.

Berridge: Kh Qh
Longden: Kc 8c

Absolute blanks on the turn and river, and all in stays in, as they say.

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Players are now on a 15 minute break, and your updaters will shortly be dining. This time it is Snoopy who has opted for the spice-tastic Caribbean chicken curry, while I will be munching on a chicken Caesar salad with gratuitous bacon.

Bjorn Andre Hovden (pictured) has been eliminated by Richard Sherwood in what was a classic queens v A-K coinflip. "Well, that makes it interesting," observed Andrew Andreou as the flop came 8d Qh Ts to give Sherwood a set of ladies, but his foe the Broadway straight draw. However, even though Sherwood bizarrely requested a "jack" for his opponent, it failed to emerge on the 3d turn and 5h river and Hovden was gone.

"You know you're not meant to call out your opponent's card don't you?" asked Jim Reid. "Reverse psychology," was the reply.

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Sounds intriguing..... censorship of some sort???

Eliminated so far...

38   Tuan Le
39   Bjørn Andre Hovden
40   Ian Mcdonald
41   Matt Tyler
42   Sidney Harris
43   Matthew Buckland
44   Alan Stearn
45   Trevor Pearson
46   Rory Campbell
47   David Smith
48   Paul Rayner
49   Matthew Wadham
50   Darren Foster
51   Josh Gould
52   James Akenhead
53   Peter Linton
54   James Dempsey
55   Philip Ashton
56   Peter Charalamobus
57   Bernard Gabriel
58   Richard Trigg
59   Trevor Reardon
60   Michael Mincher
61   Michael Lee
62   Andrew Johnson
63   Paul Jackson
64   Stian Johnsrud
65   Asy Ho
66   Nicky Evans
67   Anthony Phillips
68   Jonathan Lundy
69   Desmond Jonas
70   Andrew Tuxworth
71   Ben Callinan
72   Kyriacos Dionysiou
73   John Eames
74   Dean Sanders
75   Mohammed Shafiq
76   Keith Johnson
77   Albert Sapiano
78   Anthony Nicholls
79   Adam Wilkinson

I couldn't possibly speculate, unless bribed of course.

Latest chip counts:

Christopher Bruce   12   5   44900
Michael Mccool   23   1   36000
Thomas Carpenter   23   5   35075
Ben Vinson   23   2   33225
Jef Rogers   14   1   29000
Conor Smyth   15   4   28375
Michael Wernick   14   8   28150
Richard Berridge   14   3   28075
Richard Sherwood   12   6   24800
Richard Hawes   14   7   21100
Zaheer Zeb   15   9   20525
Andrew Andreou   12   9   18250
Jon Omara   23   8   17600
Benjamin Carpenter   15   2   17450
Frances Creed   14   6   17200
Paul Lammas   12   3   16275
Joseph Grech   15   3   15375
Alli Mallu   23   4   14475
James Bishop   14   4   11700
Neil Giblin   23   7   11450
Martino Libertini   23   3   11400
Laurence Houghton   23   9   11375
Karl Johnson   15   1   8275
Gary Teatum   15   5   7000
Daniel Longden   14   5   4900
Steve Jelinek   15   7   2975
Shahnawaz Randera   15   8   2200
Jeff Sharpe   12   1   2175

Any chance of getting a pic of Richard Hawes? Used to go school with a Richard Hawes- it could be him! (although admittedly there probably is more than 1)

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Alan Vinson has a lot of chips. Most recently witnessed, he bet out on a Td 3h Aspades flop and Marc Goodwin, with a look of regret, folded.

Daniel Longden is OUT. He tangled with Richard Berridge again, holding Ahrt 7s to Berridge's Jd Jc. A distinct lack of aces on the raggy board, and he was gone.

i good evening snoops and dana ,brill updates as ussual .
was supposed to have played this gutted ,some one did a mooonlight flit 2 days ago .
left the place in a right  mess .
,and i had no keys so iv only just finished ,any how wish micky all the best plz .
oh and big steve read .
btw i dont think sam tricket will be playing at dtd anymore after last nights performance .
  
                                gl guys.

Another one bites the tournament dust, this time rather more unfortunately. Laurence Houghton moved in preflop with the Ahrt Ad and found himself pleasingly called by Marc Goodwin's 7h 7d, but a wincingly unfavourable Qd 7s Kh 6d Qh board later and Mr Houghton was wandering around the cardroom in that all too familiar "I just busted out with aces" daze.

Sam had a fall out with the doorman last nite and it ended with a scuff,many regrets and is sorry..........back 2 gala for sam..!

Look on the bright side Sam- it got you onto blonde! :D

It looks like Alan Vinson may have budged passed Chris Bruce to snap up the chip lead. He currently has 49,000.

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Yes indeed, Mr Vinson Sr is on fire - it looked like nearer 60k when I strolled past. He was in the process of calling Marc Goodwin's small position bet on a Qc Kc Ad flop - they both then checked the Kd turn and Goodwin tried it on again for 2k on the 7h flop but Vinson was having none of it and swiftly called. Goodwin mucked before Vinson even turned over his Aspades 3h.

Goodwin however is not doing too badly either though - on around 40k, he's easily the second biggest stack on Table Vinson.

alli malu grinding didnt think he knew how to lol ,top player.

Mr Vinson Jr is also still in and doing well, although not in this particular hand. He raised in early position to 1.5k and received absolutely no respect from Fran Creed who called and Richard Hawes who also called. Martino Libertini, however, moved all in from the small blind for a whisker short of 10k in total, and a veritable tsunami of folding followed. Libertini showed Aspades Ac, to some ooh-ing from the table.

Moustache of the Day in Red Dog's absence:

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Daniel Jolowicz is gone. His stack was decimated like a tower of cards in the wind, pocket kings being outgunned by the pocket nines of James Bishop on an ensuing 2-3-9-8-4 board. To say he was dismayed would be like calling a hamster in a snake pit slightly disgruntled.

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32 of 79 remain
790,000 chips in play
average stack = 24,687
blinds = 200/400 (50)

can you say hello to the the vinson clan for me pls .....mike

Oh dear my father and brother and smashing them up haha...pics please if thats ok!!

I join the action with the relentless Ali Mallu all in from the blind after Jim Reid's opening raise from mid position. Mallu's reputation has obviously made an impact, Jim claiming, "You could be making this move with any two cards," before adding, "you're a good player to take up, but not to double up." Mallu, meanwhile, could only shrug his shoulders and declare, "I need a double up."

After a brief pause, Jim announced, "You know what, I'm going to gamble," before making the call. With a couple of raised eyebrows, Jim showed Jh Tc, but he was going to need help as Mallu revealed Ahrt 3c. Sadly for Reid, it didn't arrive on the 6s 8h 3h 4s board allowing Mallu to scoop what must have been a circa 20k pot.

"Go easy now," advised Jim.

"You've created a monster," commented Chris Bruce.

alright adam hows it going?
  

After a bit of a raising war on the 8c 8d Ts flop, Jeff Rogers bet out an enormous 11k on the apparently harmless 4s turn. His on-the-flop raising opponent Richard Berridge folded so fast it looked like his cards just disappeared into thin air.

I made that last bit up.

Im good mate...and yourself? u got msn?

I only caught the latter stages of this bizarreness so I'm not massively sure how it came to this, but I witnessed He Who Cannot Be Named bet a fairly sizeable quantity of chips on the turn of the 6d Th 8d 7s board and Mr Wernick raising him an equally sizeable quantity of chips. Mr Cannot Be Named called. Mr Wernick had maybe 5.5k remaining behind at this time. The river was the Ad and Mr Wernick checked to Mr Cannot Be Named, who bet 4.5k. Mr Wernick got his chips in, Mr Cannot Be Named called the difference, and they were on their backs.

Mr Cannot Be Named: 3d 3c
Mr Wernick: 5s 5d

Double up for Mr Wernick, disgruntlement for Mr Cannot Be Named. Extraordinary.

it keeps crashing everytime i start it up mate, but yeah not doing to bad , to much work

any chip counts plz.
                          thx.

neville you big poofter hows it going ?

Now accompanying Alan Vinson in the race for the chip lead is son Ben with around 55,000 in chips. It required a touch of fortune in the end though, his Ac Kd in need of a little assistance against the Ks Kc of Irishman and former Irish Open finalist Conor Smyth. However, the Poker Gods are a mischievous lot, and after a Qh 7c Ts flop and a 7s turn, out popped the Jc on the river for the Broadway straight. Oooh, nasty, as Knightmare's Tregar would say.

hows it hanging fat boy .

Like a donkey thanks.

fair enough mate....hows things??

not to bad ive got to do half the work now for twice the money, not quite as much fun as the tours to be honest, I do miss winding up woodley

lol ,your to fat snoops ,isnt it obvious it wasnt you.

I had a full English today.

stewards inquiry!!!!!!!

as for hung like a donkey ,is your nose growing .

Fran Creed is down to just 3,000 after doubling up neighbour James Bishop (pictured). With Richard Berridge making a small raise from the button, James and Fran (J-T) both called leading to a three way flop of J-Q-6 rainbow. James checked, Fran bet, Richard folded and James called. The turn came a nine ("I'm not passing now," Fran later commented), to which James check-raised Fran's bet all in for little more. Fran made the call, but was met by a K-T for the straight.

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I didn't say how big the donkey was...

I have conferred with the steward and he has agreed that Ben has balls made of gold.

Update on Rich Hawes please? Got nice little stake riding on that little hawesy.

Could you wish him luck from matty and bass saffari

I have heard different from his misses!!

Now that we have established the true value of Mr Vinson Jr's metaphorical scrotal contents, I must tell you that something utterly dreadful seems to have happened to Vinson Sr. First I noticed that he had rather fewer chips than he had a little while ago, but thought nothing of it. But the next time I passed his seat, there was neither any Vinson nor any stack of chips in evidence - just a sad, lonely leather jacket draped over the back of Mr Vinson's former seat. The next time I passed his table after that, he jacket was gone too. Either mysterious government experiments are being carried out, or Mr Vinson Sr is OUT. Sorry, assorted family members and supporters.

What did the steward say regarding 2x K s in the pack.

Fran Creed is still hanging in there - just. She shoved for her last 2,675 and found a caller in Richard Hawes holding Ad 6s. "I've got connected cards," said Fran apparently by way of some kind of apology for the filth she was about to turn over - the filth was exactly 8h 9c.

Board: Jd Jc 4c 8s 8c making Ms Creed a rather unlikely full house.

She moved in again the very next hand, but this time her table gave her rather more credit for some reason, all folding including big blind and big stack Richard Berridge, who showed her A-8.

GG WP

Yes, it's true, most of his stack went to Tom Nightingale who is now on over 40,000 as a result. I didn't see the hand myself, but apparently Alan had T-8 and an open ended straight flush draw which failed to hit.

Oh dear, we have a joker in the pack.





 ;scarymoment;

any chip counts on micky and steve read plz .

blondeite Neil 'jakally' Giblin has doubled up courtesy of Danny Rudd, kings holding up against K-Q on a nonthreatening A-3-3-7-9 board.

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GooooooGoooooo Fran..

Exits so far...

29   Benjamin Carpenter
30   Alan Vinson
31   Conor Smyth
32   Alli Mallu
33   Daniel Jolowicz
34   Laurence Houghton
35   Daniel Longden
36   Ian Gwynne
37   Jeff Sharpe
38   Tuan Le
39   Bjørn Andre Hovden
40   Ian Mcdonald
41   Matt Tyler
42   Sidney Harris
43   Matthew Buckland
44   Alan Stearn
45   Trevor Pearson
46   Rory Campbell
47   David Smith
48   Paul Rayner
49   Matthew Wadham
50   Darren Foster
51   Josh Gould
52   James Akenhead
53   Peter Linton
54   James Dempsey
55   Philip Ashton
56   Peter Charalamobus
57   Bernard Gabriel
58   Richard Trigg
59   Trevor Reardon
60   Michael Mincher
61   Michael Lee
62   Andrew Johnson
63   Paul Jackson
64   Stian Johnsrud
65   Asy Ho
66   Nicky Evans
67   Anthony Phillips
68   Jonathan Lundy
69   Desmond Jonas
70   Andrew Tuxworth
71   Ben Callinan
72   Kyriacos Dionysiou
73   John Eames
74   Dean Sanders
75   Mohammed Shafiq
76   Keith Johnson
77   Albert Sapiano
78   Anthony Nicholls
79   Adam Wilkinson

Mr James Bishop continues to enjoy good fortune while the fortunes of the Vinson clan sink lower still.

Mr Bishop bet out 4k on the Js Ts 9h flop, and Mr Vinson Jr called. Mr Bishop bet a further 6k on the 8s turn and after some short deliberation, Vinson Jr raised to cover him. Bishop called, and they were on their proverbial backs, like so -

Ben Vinson: Qs Jh
James Bishop: Qd Ks

River: a not very Vinson-friendly in the circumstances Jc

Benjamin Carpenter is out after making a move with K-8. He was picked off by Joe Grech's A-K, which stood up on a raggy board.

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Really enjoy your updates, but have to hit the sack.

Thanks go to you and Good luck to remaining Blondes.

Just to confirm, HWCBN raised preflop, Mickey called. Mickey smooth called a bet on the flop, 7,000 on the turn, and then an all in on the river. "I thought he'd check the overpair on the turn," said Mickey. "By then, I already knew I was going to see the hand through, whatever the river was, especially when he dwelt before making his final bet. Gotta say, wasn't too keen on that ace though."

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As requested...

Richard Hawes -- 39,500
Steve Read -- 11,000
Mickey Wernick -- 23,000

yeh micky wins whats his chip count .

sorry

Chip counts on Paul Lammas plz.

Table 14...

Seat 1: Jeff Rogers -- 27,500
Seat 2: Ben Vinson -- 25,500
Seat 3: Richard Berridge -- 30,000
Seat 4: James Bishop -- 54,000
Seat 5: Shahnawaz Randera -- 14,000
Seat 6: Richard Hawes -- 41,000
Seat 7: Martino Libertini -- 10,000
Seat 8: Steve Jelinek -- 44,000

Table 12...

Seat 1: Jon Omara -- 39,500
Seat 2: Mickey Wernick -- 22,500
Seat 3: Paul Lammas -- 16,000
Seat 4: Karl Johnson -- 21,000
Seat 5: Chris Bruce -- 50,500
Seat 6: Mick McCool -- 15,000
Seat 7: Jim Reid -- 51,500
Seat 8: Andrew Andreou -- 25,000

Chunky three way pot. Flop = Kh Aspades 6d, HWCBN bets 4,000, Andrew Andreou makes it 10,000, Chris Bruce folds, as does HWCBN.

Andreou shows Ad Qd

McCool down to 15,000.

Count for Fran please

Um, 0.

tx snoop

Players are now on a 15 minute poopy break.

Oooops

Some good old-fashioned aggression from Jim Reid before the break. Thomas Carpenter made it 1.8k from the button and small blind He Who Cannot Be Named Or Have His Face Shown In the Slightly Creepy Photo Below called. Jim however made it around 5k from the big blind, and they both folded.

The next hand it went a little bit less well for him, though. It folded around to him and he raised up his small blind. Big blind Andrew Andreou called and they checked down the 6-7-3-3-A, three-heart board - at which point Reid mucked to Andreou's T-2.

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Players remaining and current seating arrangement:

11   1   Marc Goodwin
11   2   Neil Giblin
11   3   Richard Stanley
11   4   Thomas Nightingale
11   5   Richard Sherwood
11   6   Gary Teatum
11   7   Joseph Grech
11   8   Steve Read
11   9   Daniel Rudd
12   1   Jon Omara
12   2   Michael Wernick
12   3   Paul Lammas
12   4   Karl Johnson
12   5   Christopher Bruce
12   6   Thomas Carpenter
12   7   HWCBN
12   8   James Reid
12   9   Andrew Greekfish
14   1   Jef Rogers
14   2   Ben Vinson
14   3   Richard Berridge
14   4   James Bishop
14   5   Shahnawaz Randera
14   7   Richard Hawes
14   8   Martino Libertini
14   9   Steve Jelinek

Joy, I have apple crumble coming my way and I fully intend to supplement it with some of Snoopy's banana split when he's not looking.

 ;kev;

Rich Hawes for the win.. please

Current chip counts:

Marc Goodwin   11   1   79750
Christopher Bruce   12   5   70700
James Bishop   14   4   61500
James Reid   12   8   56400
Jon Omara   12   1   55800
Richard Hawes   14   7   45700
Daniel Rudd   11   9   45000
Thomas Carpenter   12   6   42000
Thomas Nightingale   11   4   38600
Jef Rogers   14   1   36100
Steve Jelinek   14   9   34900
Richard Berridge   14   3   33100
Andrew Greekfish   12   9   31500
Richard Stanley   11   3   28800
Ben Vinson   14   2   21900
Karl Johnson   12   4   14100
Joseph Grech   11   7   13800
Paul Lammas   12   3   13800
Richard Sherwood   11   5   13300
Michael Mccool   12   7   13200
Shahnawaz Randera   14   5   12200
Neil Giblin   11   2   11900
Gary Teatum   11   6   10100
Martino Libertini   14   8   8500
Steve Read   11   8   7500
Michael Wernick   12   2   5400

Some Other People I Photographed On My Travels.

Mr Chris Bruce about to strangle an innocent bystander:

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No evidence of anything golden on show, but admirable daring with the neckline for Ben Vinson:

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The unimpressed trio of Richard Hawes, Martino Libertini and Steve Jelinek:

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Double elimination, not in the same hand, but different tables at roughly the same time. First up was the exit of Steve Read. He fell at the hands of Tom Nightingale, the youngster holding As-Ks against Steve's Kc-Qc and surviving a raggy flop. Simultaneously, we lost Karl Johnson on the nieghbouring table. With the board reading As-4d-7c-Ts-Qs, he bet and called a raise from Chris Bruce only to be shown pocket sevens. Meanwhile, Jon Omara did well to escape cheaply with A-K.

Seconded!

matty how much u make it hawes wins?

well... i turned down a 100 of him as knew the field wud be tough but bass has £200 of him at a decent %....

i know i'm going to regret that decision.... still will mean i'll take it off bass.

As they were announcing the chip counts during the break, Simon Trumper highlighted Mickey Wernick's paltry stack, adding, "Mickey's more than capable of quadrupling that up a few times and making it through to day two." Well, those words of wisdom may well be justified as the Worm has just doubled up courtesy of Andrew Andreou with queens versus jacks, all in preflop.

CRAZINESS ALERT

Not entirely sure how this happened, but come the 5h 8h 7c flop, He Who Cannot Be Named is all in for 10k, there is considerably more than 10k in front of Tomas Carpenter in a kind of that's-what-he's-betting sort of way, and Andy Mr Greekfish is announcing, "I have queens, I'm all in."

They flip 'em, in the parlance.

HWCBN: 4h 6h
Carpenter: 6c 6s
Andreou: indeed he speaks the truth, he has Qs Qd

Turn: Ad
River: Ahrt

Thus Mr Cannot Be Named triples up to 30k or so, Mr Andreoufish wins the side pot and makes around 10k on the hand, which bumps up his stack to 40k, and Mr Carpenter is down to the proverbial felt. May not be long before Mr Carpenter bites the tournament (saw)dust.

Mr Richard Hawes is OUT. Finding his stack somewhat depleted after "Ben Vinson owned my soul" (apparently Vinson called him on the river with queen-high and it was good), he called an 1800 raise from James Bishop with 7d 9d. When James bet 4k on the jack-rag-rag, two-diamond flop, Hawes shoved for another 20k or so, and after some considerable dwellage, James called with Jd 4d. No miracles, and Hawes is no more.

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Mr Thomas Carpenter is similarly a goner. He shoved from the button for his last 6k with Jc 7h and found himself called by Jim Reid holding Qh Kh in the small blind.

Board: a jack-free, not-making-Carpenter-a-straight-or-similar Kc Aspades 5h 9c Tc.

Three consecutive hands from table 11...

(1) Tom Nightingale received a walk in the big blind.

(2) Joe Grech limps under the gun and Richard Sherwood checks his option on the big blind. 7d Jh Jc flop. Sherwood bets, Grech reraises, Sherwood pushes all in, Grech insta-folds. Sherwood shows Ad Jd

(3) Tom Nightingale limps on the button, Richard Sherwood makes up the small blind and Joe Grech checks the big. All three check the 7s 7h Ac flop, before Joe takes it down with a bet of 800 on the Qd turn.

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There has been a lot of blind-stealing, some of it more honest than most.

It folds to Andrew Andreou on the button. "Whose big blind is it? Oh, it's Mickey Wernick's, ok, I respect that. I'm all in." Mickay folds K-5, and Greekfish shows the ahead-but-not-by-much A-2.

Three consecutive hands from table 12...

(1) Jim Reid makes it 1,600 from the button and Jon Omara calls in the big blind. Jim Reid reaches for chips on a Qh 6d 7s flop, Jon insta folds.

(2) Chris Bruce raises to 2,600 preflop, Mickey pushes all in for around 15,000 more and Chris folds. Mickey shows pocket nines.

(3) Andrew Andreou pushes all in from the button. The blinds fold. Andrew shows pocket ducks.

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Three consecutive hands from table 14...

(1) Richard Hawes exit.

(2) Ben Vinson makes it 2,400 to play, Shahnawaz Randera raises all in for a total of 6,000. Vinson folds.

(3) James Bishop raises it up to 2,700, Steve Jelinek repops to 6,000. James folds 7d 7s face up, Steve reveals the pocket rockets.

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18 remain on two tables:

19   Ben Vinson
20   Joseph Grech
21   Thomas Carpenter
22   Richard Hawes
23   Gary Teatum
24   Karl Johnson
25   Martino Libertini
26   Steve Read
27   Zaheer Zeb
28   Frances Creed
29   Benjamin Carpenter
30   Alan Vinson
31   Conor Smyth
32   Alli Mallu
33   Daniel Jolowicz
34   Laurence Houghton
35   Daniel Longden
36   Ian Gwynne
37   Jeff Sharpe
38   Tuan Le
39   Bjørn Andre Hovden
40   Ian Mcdonald
41   Matt Tyler
42   Sidney Harris
43   Matthew Buckland
44   Alan Stearn
45   Trevor Pearson
46   Rory Campbell
47   David Smith
48   Paul Rayner
49   Matthew Wadham
50   Darren Foster
51   Josh Gould
52   James Akenhead
53   Peter Linton
54   James Dempsey
55   Philip Ashton
56   Peter Charalamobus
57   Bernard Gabriel
58   Richard Trigg
59   Trevor Reardon
60   Michael Mincher
61   Michael Lee
62   Andrew Johnson
63   Paul Jackson
64   Stian Johnsrud
65   Asy Ho
66   Nicky Evans
67   Anthony Phillips
68   Jonathan Lundy
69   Desmond Jonas
70   Andrew Tuxworth
71   Ben Callinan
72   Kyriacos Dionysiou
73   John Eames
74   Dean Sanders
75   Mohammed Shafiq
76   Keith Johnson
77   Albert Sapiano
78   Anthony Nicholls
79   Adam Wilkinson

It folds around to short stack Paul Lammas in the small blind, who limps in. Big Blind Brucie raises. There is some dwelling.

I decide to take a break from watching Mr Lammas dwell to go over to the other table and watch Richard Stanley double through Marc Goodwin. The board reads 4-6-7-8-9, Mr Goodwin is holding 8-9, and Mr Stanley is holding 5-7. Mr Goodwin doesn't look massively happy about this.

When I come back to Table Lammas, the table namesake is all in with Ac 7c, the board reads 7h 7d 2h 8c 9c and Mr Bruce's cards are gone, presumed mucked. I therefore surmise that Mr Lammas has doubled up.

Please wish tom nightingale all the best from pab n moorman please,

also tell him to stop being a nit all his life, thanks

On the very last hand of the night, Mickey Wernick pushed in on a 9s Qc 4c flop.

"Call me for fuck's sake," begged the Worm. "I can't come back to this stack."

The action passed round to the penultimate player, Andrew Andreou.

"Come on, it's only 5,200," continued Mickey as the clock ticked its final seconds.

Perplexed by his decision, Andrew reached for chips momentarily, only for Mickey to abruptly change his plea... "You're behind."

Andrew paused again, sighed, and folded a 9d face up.

Mickey showed 8s 4s, much to the delight of the rest of the table.

Yes yes indeed, while I was taking a break because I thought Snoops was putting up the chip counts, it seems that Snoopy was taking a break because he thought that I was putting up the chip counts.

Here they are:

Christopher Bruce   88500
James Bishop   78300
Marc Goodwin   71100
Daniel Rudd   63300
James Reid   54700
Richard Stanley   50800
Richard Berridge   48300
He Who Cannot Be Named   47700
Jon Omara   45000
Jef Rogers   41500
Thomas Nightingale   41100
Steve Jelinek   39400
Andrew Greekfish   29200
Shahnawaz Randera   25200
Richard Sherwood   23400
Paul Lammas   21500
Michael Wernick    11700
Neil Giblin   9000

We will reconvene at 3pm to continue all of this until we have a winner, and by the by to sample some more of the DTD dessert menu. See you then!

 ;stickaforkinme;

the same guy that folded a set of 3's on a J83 board last gukpt. Absolute legend and phenom poker player.

oooooh, go on UpTheMariners, 1time Dan, shipit!!!!!!!

+1.

gg Fran And Rich Hawes also. Ul.

gl Rudd. TIIIIIDDDDDDD.