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Greetings GUKPTians and welcome to the G Casino in Luton. Well, I tell a lie, I'm safely tucked up under my nice, warm duvet in Hampstead, but at 2pm tomorrow, Rod and yours truly (that's me, by the way) will be braced and raring to go for the £1,000 Main Event. In fact, believe it or not, this is the first time blonde readers will be treated to the combined wit and good looks of a Dog/Cat combo, so it'll be an experimental update of sorts with your intrepid team vying to prove that dogs are better than cats or vice versa (blatantly the former, surely?).

Meanwhile, the battlefield down at the felt will be equally ferocious with the likes of Surinder (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=422) Sunar (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=422), Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=95) Colclough (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=95) Julian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) Thew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225), Joe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=204) Beevers (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=204), Neil (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=302) Channing (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=302) and serial finalist Nik Persuad (intentional typo for Bluff readers there) all locking horns. Simultaneously, we'll also be treated to some proud blonde flag flying in the shape of the tikayster, the vinnster, the Prewster, the Hickster and the er... Rutterster among many other blondeites, perhaps most notably fellow updaters Jen 'bring on more doors!' Mason and Dana 'I shall donate all my winnings to the Beagle' Immanuel.

For a look at the proposed line up, and their respective odds, check out the Blue Square book by clicking the link below:

http://www.bluesq.com/bet?action=go_events&type_id=3716 (http://www.bluesq.com/bet?action=go_events&type_id=3716)

Play commences at 2pm sharp(ish), so make sure you join Rod and I for all that poker action. We're expecting to see some sexy poker!

glgl Maldini, Flushy, Moor, Pab etc.

No Hickster unfortunately. The better half tells me my Birthday celebrations this weekend are more important. Pah, I disagreed. DTD deepstack it is then.

 ;goodluck; all Blondes!

Cant sleep, going gym now, too excited. GL all, 1 million time!

tikayster, the vinnster, the Prewster, the Hickster and the er... Rutterster

You can add the dogster.

Smoke m a kipperster.....

And the Shoelacester

Anyone wanna go for a pint? Im usually busto by level 4

and er..... me !

The Sillier?

Myself and the moomin will set off shortly equipped with Laptop, in car charger and a vodafone card, gotta keep the moo in action

GL Alex, Tighty and all the other blondes playing

GL all blondes playing

GO ON THE BLONDES!!!!   ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

really looking forward to these updates.  good luck to all the usual suspects.................and Flushy.

Me too, in fact I really wish that I was playing  ;envious;

Good luck to Jen, Dana, Snatty, Red, tikay et al.

MARTYN CAVANAGH FOR THE WIN

i cant believe he hasnt hit the jackpot yet,,,,hes a great player but always gets the bad beats,,,,gl mate...

GL Flushy, Tighty and all other Blondes playing

Can I suggest, er, me? A snip at 250/1, and I've been in training all of yesterday. Provided I get back from Yorkshire in one piece, given my recent form in motorway driving.

  Any news from last night's PLO tournament?

http://blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/20645

Check the results section.

 

 Sorry, didn't expect it to be there so quick. 96 runners was a good number, Frazer starting to look very "good in this format". Team Channing appear to be unsighted. Marvellous.

Does team Channing require another horse ?

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=35065.0

 I'm looking to offload 'em!

 rotflmfao

Good luck to Dana, Jen, Pab, Moomin, Flushy, Geeforce, Alex etc...

hes fat, ginger and welsh




but a nice bloke

Has anyone else noticed that Carmel at luton looks like Roy Chubby Brown in a skirt?

Hey Snoops/Rod, special request, can you keep tabs on a 'Martins Adeniya' pls. Thx, James.

Good afternoon, peeps. A diversion sent us tortling around Luton checking out the sights (of which, there are many), but with the combined navigational skills of Rod, myself and our chauffeur Jen, we finally pulled in to Luton car park with 30 minutes. It's a minefield out there though, and it took us half an hour to reach the media room with every man and his dog greeting us upon the way. One man proudly showcasing his dog was Anthony Kendall, accompanied by resident Magnum PI Thomas 'Red-Dog' McCready. In fact here's Red Dog now with the chef after being told they've run out of eggs.

(http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/r/rickrude/27.jpg)

No player list as yet. Can you give us a brief description of what he looks like? If he has two heads, or is eight foot or something, that would be handy.

Updates on Alan Vinson and Jeff Duvall would be greatly appreciated cheers!

Other notables (and some unnotables) spotted on route to press room:

Andrew Andreou
Joe Grech
Ian Cox
James Dempsey
Justin O'Shaughnessy
Ian Frazer
Phil Cooklin
Dan Samson
Paul Bellamy
John McGrane
Jeff Rogers

... and oh so many more.

No problem. Both still in!

Hi guys - we're back for more GUKPT fun and frolics.

The usual suspects are here and the 'internet kids' - you know who I mean, the pabs, moomins and flushys, of the world have turned up in force to show that they can play a bit of live poker too.

With not just one but two blonde updaters in the form of Dana and Jen laying down their pens and notepads and picking up chips, this GUKPT has all the ingredients for a classic. Especially good luck to Dana who I have a 50% share with, though of course I will behave in a professional dispassionate manner, with no bias whatsoever toward the banjo playing goddess who can feel the hand of destiny on her shoulder.

As Snoopy astutely observed this is the first coupling of cat and dog yet seen, so I'll be looking to learn off the master and also educate him on the superiority of cats over dogs.

It might all go Pete Tong though...

(http://shanx.com/av/dog-cat.jpg)

The cards are just in the air, so myself and the dogmeister are off to catch the early action. Good luck all!

And they're off!

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It's a slight jaunt to the cardroom, and we haven't been supplied with a special pass to waltz through the electronic doors, so bear with us while we grab a few gems from the early action.

Updates on Kevin O'Leary would be muchos appreciated :) Thanks, and good luck to the blondes!

good luck to all the blondes playing!

And can you make it upto team NAS for the lack of norkage at DTD last week! cheers!!

Alex for the win.

GL all Blondes.

Have a good update boys . . . . .

I have extreme faith in the Beagle.....................please don't let us down Snoops

Sorry snoops, he has only one head. Black guy around 5 10.

 Shouldn't you be on holiday? (no bloody work ethic these young people. I suppose I'll have to go to Luton and play the thing myself now).

put a picture up ffs. donk.

Oh excellent. That narrows it down. I'll go check out his early progress next time I head down.

Some of the regulars (no, I don't mean tikay's bowel movements).

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what the hell is in that bottle?

Just looking after team Akenhead. You worry about yourself Mr Channing..

Barry is eager to make his debut in the blonde caption comp, so threatened to do something wacky. However, when I served up his opportunity, he froze and this was the best he could come up with - a rather startled expression that reminds me of the tortoise from the Creature Comfort clips.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19505&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38044000/jpg/_38044730_comfort300.jpg)

Team Akenhead hey...........hmmmmmmm

It's an energy drink. She claimed she got it from work, which did scare me, especially with Phil 'Snatiramas' Cooklin looking so deflated these days.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19515&g2_serialNumber=1)

 Marvellous. You pick them up from the gutter, you feed them, clothe them, offer advice and this is all the thanks that you get (well this and $260k).

There's some interesting tables out there as you would expect but one with a lot of potential for trouble sees Marc (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) Goodwin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257), who won the Manchester GUKPT sitting just to the right of online titan Paul "Pab" Foltyn, fresh back from Vegas after making three cashes, who himself is seated just to the right of our very own Miss Mason.

Three aggressive personalities in a row. Watch the fireworks commence!


Snoopy's promised lots of norkage, given Luton's reputation for beautiful ladies Llevan, so don't worry he's on the case.

For now here is a shot of the dashing Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=323) Foltyn (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=323) and marvellous Miss Mason for you to feast your eyes over.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19509&g2_serialNumber=1)

177 players are listed, but I think there are a some alternates waiting in the wings. Two lurking patiently by the rail are late comers Pete Charalambous and Russ Cawley.

"There's a spare table there, surely they can let us play," observed Pete.

"If you asked the players, I'm sure they wouldn't mind squeezing me in," joked Ariston.

At this point, a gap on every table formed like the parting of the seas.

 ;indestructable; ;indestructable; ;indestructable;

Yeah, 'bout time you thanked me. You were nothing until you met me.

Alex Martin is currently sharing a table with a slim, trim Phil Cooklin. Alex just took down a small pot with a 250 bet on 6h Kc Th 6s board. Cash it in!!!

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19513&g2_serialNumber=1)

MBN

No change to Kevin O'Learly's stack, but he is boasting the tallest ever card protector. Is he having a giraffe?

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19517&g2_serialNumber=1)

Two more fishes for you to gawk at: messieurs Gibson and Kimber.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19507&g2_serialNumber=1)

good luck wishes from sunny florida to sam trickett,pete linton,paul jackson and flushy

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No brag posts please.

:D

This is the face of a man unable to withhold his joy after doubling up with aces versus the kings of Richard Lynch.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19511&g2_serialNumber=1)

The action was pretty straight forward. Richard raised, Chris reraised, then it went rereraise, rerereraise, rererereraise, rerererereraise, then Richard raised, before raising another raise from Chris. Finally it went raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise, raise... all-in... call.

Board = 7d Qd Jh 3s 9s

LOL :D

That giraffe is magic.  It changes colour when you are sat playing poker.  Bet it's a different colour when you go back later :P

Did spot a couple of other deep hands, but sadly no showdowns.

More clocks than a Salvodor Dali painting today, as the clock was called on both occasions. On one table, Ian Woodley was mulling over a 2,000 bet from Jim Reid on a Jd Ahrt 3s 9s board while on a neighbouring table, Mateyboy was given a one minute warning against Tony Ringe's 3,500 bet on a 6c 4h Qc Tc 6h.

Both passed.

The poker grapevine rarely lets me down, and so I think we can safely say that the first exit of the day is one Gary Mills.

tikay can go home a happy man.

Snoops wish john mcgrane good luck from me please.. When I saw there was 1 out already I thought it was probably him.

Ariston just called a preflop raise from the small blind and after checking the Js 9h 4s flop, he called his opponent's 600 bet.

THe turn was a flush completing 2s which resulted in an avalanche of action as it went check...........check.

On the 6c river Ariston threw out three yellows or 1,500 chips, leading his opponent to fold sharpish.

"You were just stealing off me on the flop then?" inquired a semi outraged Ariston as he swept up the chips, whilst table partner Tikay bemoaned his age-induced myopia.

"I thought I had Aces, turned out I had A-4!" he said squinting at me.

Here he is in his crisp white skypoker shirt listening intently to Ariston's incessant stream of chatter.

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Is that lady a nurse?  They do hell of job don't they.  Imagine having to carry round Tikay's colostomy bottle all day. I wouldn't be smiling.

If have the right dude, he's on table 4 with around 9,000 in chips.

More love for this! :D

Martyn Cavanagh has 11,100.

I think the Raabster emails through chip counts at the end of level four, so I'll grab a few chip counts of my own at some point during the next level.

I have all my disclaimers set up for any false information:

Word has it...
Word on the grapevine is...
Rumour has it...

but I think this should work too:

Alex Martin says... "Dominic Kay is out, I think he check-raised a flush draw."

ariston always comes accross as a right **** going by the look on tikays face it looks like hed rather be elsewhere

snoopy any chance of a full list? just to see if anyone went down from glasgow/scotland

is Flushy still in ?

On a board of 8s 4d 4s 4h 7c, Nick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=305) Gibson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=305) calls a 1,500 river bet from David Evans only to be shown 6c 4c.

At the far end of the room Steven Kirk (table captain, surely?) felt the wrath of Steve (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1502) Devlin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1502). Kirk bet 3,000 on an 8c 3d 2h 4d Qc board but was looked up by the Irishman's 3c 3h. Kirk could only muster 8h 5h. Devlin now on 17,000.

Yes, just trying to get hold of one now and will write it up.

tyty

check that pack, ffs too late

More action than a Die Hard boxset on one table as Olaf Zeeuw's leading bet of 1,200 on an 5d 8s 6d flop is followed by a smooth call from Mateyboy in the neighbouring seat only for Raymond Nicholas to push all in the next seat down. After a good minute in the think tank, Olaf and Mateyboy both folded, showing 6d 5c and Ad Td respectively. Raymond revealed 8h 8d, much to the relief of his opponents.

can u keep eyes on rickie vedhara ,please? best luck to him from lee

Table 1:

Dave Penly
Philip Mildon
Tony (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1235) Ringe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1235)
David Amos
Martin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1224) Jarvis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1224)
Colin Bord
Ricky Vedhara
Pete (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=348) Linton (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=348)
Dan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=996) Samson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=996)

More mischief from Ariston.

I spoke to Brad Shaw, whilst encaged in the zoo-like smoking facilities here in Luton. He was bemoaning his luck, losing a decent pot on an ace high flop when a six fell on the river and his opponent made aces up to his A-Q.

"I knew exactly where I was throughout the hand. I knew the guy was fishing with a rag ace! Rivered again."

As I re-entered the card-room, Tikay told me about a hand Ariston had played beautifully..."So he had A-6..."

...........hmmmm sounds familiar!

Ariston had done a rather ungentlemanly hit and run after mugging Brad for half his stack and is now causing carnage with his blossoming $20,000 on a different table. This wasn't an end to the drama on table Tikay though as suddenly we had an all-in!

Two players, Neil Bethune and an unnamed opponent saw a 2s Ad 3c flop. On the 2d turn Neil bet out and was check-raised, only to move all-in!

He was called and he turned over pocket threes for a full house, only for mateyboy to sadly flip over 4-5 for the nut straight. He stared morosely at the board hoping for some outs to appear but none did, meaning he was left short and nearly out, whilst Neil doubled up with a smile.

 

Table 2:

Olaf Zeeuw
Mohammed Zahour
Raymond Nicholas
Lawrence Windish
Richard Scott
Ali Masterman
Richard Pain
Pippa Flanders
Graham Rogers

Table 3:

Mark Dalimore
Pete Singleton
Paul Crowson
Morits Schmejkal
Phil Cooklin
Paul Bellamy
Justin O'Shaughnessy
Karl Mahrenholz
Matthias Willsch

Table 4:

Tony Chapman
Matthew Waddington
Julian Peschel
Leon Campbell
Aaron Cooke
Hugh Frew
Edna Adams
Gits Francesco
Graham Whedlon

Table 5:

Kevin O'Leary
Richard Gryko
Mohammed Ali
William Davies
Andrew Bradshaw
David Sargeant
David Lloyd
Dave Colclough
Clevedon Buntyn

Table 6:

Glen Altham
K Allen
Jerome O'Shea
Nick Gibson
Nathan Lee
Ken Lam
Priyan de Mel
Adam Stoneham
David Evans

Table 7:

Tony Hardy
David La Ronde
Tom McCready
Daniel Stoate
Jim Reid
Craig Bickerton
Danny Livett
Joe Grech
Ian Woodley

Table 8:

Nick Slade
Trevor Pearson
James Dempsey
Alan Davis
Gary Adjemian
Dave Anderson
Peter Wood
Jeff Duvall

Table 9:

Reyaaz Mulla
Martins Adeniya
Gareth Teatum
Kuljinder Sidhu
Andreas Mihail
David Seear
Robert Boon
Ian Bowden

Table 10:

Paul Leckey
Steve Jelinek
Richard Ashby
Daniel Wicks
Paul Mendes
Gary Wilson
Dara O'Kearney
Michael Greco
Mick McCloskey

Table 11:

Jen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=198) Mason (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=198)
Howard Whittingham
Steve (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=806) Craig (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=806)
Ian Farrel
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=337) Vicary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=337)
Paul Hassan Mehmet
Andy Warnes
Sam (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1429) Trickett (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1429)
Marc (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) Goodwin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257)
Paul Foltyn

Table 12:

Michael Vassiliou
Paul Noury
Stephen Basri
Alan Mansbridge
Stephen Kirk
Mark Abraham
Jon Brown
Graham Pound
Barry Carter

Table 13:

David Binstock
Richard Furse
Trevor Reardon
Karim Louis
Scott Chaudhry
Sami Yusef
Des Jonas
Lalit Khajuria
Rob Ellis

Table 14: 

Tony Mackay
Jeff Rogers
Dominic Kay
Iwan Jones
Gary Mills
Martyn Cavanagh
Ian Cox
Patrick Kelly

Table 15:

Kevin Bloor
Torstein Iversen
Steve Read
Steve Tucker
Franics Scilio
Mark Friedman
Nik Persaud
Ergun Macit
John McGrane

Jen grabbed me as I walked past to relate an intesting exit hand from her table.

Paul Hassan Mehmet raised to 600 preflop, only to pick up no less than FIVE calls! Crikey!

The flop came T-6-7 and Paul led for 2,000, receiving a sole caller in Andy Warnes.

The turn was a blank and the chips now went in, Andy calling Paul's shove with A-T, which you might have thought was a bit light, until Paul turned over Q-T for just top pair with a worse kicker!

"He didn't even have a redraw!" exclaimed Jen, perhaps suggesting she would have stacked off herself if she had a gutshot or something.

No Q on the river meaning a Mehmet shaped hole appeared in the table and Paul receives a healthy boost to his stack.

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In other news we are a Red Dog down!

Victim of one of the last hands of level two before the break, he called a small raise with pocket sixes, only for the board to come 6-7-8 with two clubs.

"That's what got me in't troooble!" he told me in his classic brogue as when the board paired with an 8c on the turn, and a blank river fell, he found himself all-in with his full house, only to have been cold decked in unfortunate fashion as his opponent flipped pocket sevens for a slightly bigger house.

"Mebbe i coulda sehved meself 1,200 on the river", he lamented sadly, briefly stopping on his way out of the pressroom to admire the size of Snoopy's dongle. "It flashes and everything!!" Snoopy commented enthusiastically.

So should you be interested in looking at pictures of Snoopy flashing his massive dongle, please let me know and I'll post some up.

Table 16:

Simon Galloway
Terry Farmer
Nik Stylianou
Martin Robinson
Mickey Wernick
Daniel Edgington
Andre Wagner
Maurice McCarthy
Tim Flanders

A melting pot of miscellaneous chip counts:

Priyan de Mel -- 9,550
Jen Mason -- 10,050
Paul Foltyn -- 10,200
tikay -- 11,500
Graham Wheldon -- 9,050
byronkincaid -- 7,925
Alex Martin -- 9,550
Phil Cooklin -- 9,350
Pete Linton -- 17,500
Dave Colclough -- 13,100
Kevin O'Leary -- 9,500
geeforce -- 9,500

Table 17:

Anthony "On the 'ead son" Cascarino
Alan Stearn
Alan Gray
James McBride
David Gregory
L Windish
Francisco Gargallo
Scott "O RLY?" O'Reilly
Ian "The Raiser" Frazer

Table 18:

Raymond "Hammertime" Hammer
Connor Smyth
Tracey Dell
Christopher Kyracou
Brad Shaw
Tony "NightNurse / Tikay" Kendall
Praz Bansi
Neil Bethune

When I asked tikay what happened to Ariston, he just shrugged his shoulders and said, "We had a vote."

Maurice McCarthy is OUT. He gambled on a flush draw with Kc Tc, but ran into the diddly pocket queens of Tim Flanders. No improvement.

And here is Flanders after winning that hand...

(http://blondepoker.com/blondepedia/images/photos/photo_6333.jpg)

Table 19:

Terence Owens
Gurinder Purewal
Richard Lynch
Chris Moorman
Richard Prew
K Dionysiou
N Tang
Panicos Ellinas

Table 20:

Jeff "Jaffacake" Kimber
Jeff Sharpe
Andy Andreou
Nicholas Crisp
Mick Fletcher
Martin William
Michael Piper
Alex Martin

sigh is inNR no bet at bsq? had£5 on you nick!!

Red-Dog's assassin was Bernard Litman, pictured below just moments after winning the hand.

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Ouch, UL Red.

In the absence of Dana, a few 'of the days' for you...

Bouffant of the day

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19531&g2_serialNumber=1)

Hat of the day

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19527&g2_serialNumber=1)

Robert De Niro impression of the day

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19537&g2_serialNumber=1)

Colonic Irrigator of the day

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19529&g2_serialNumber=1)

Yep no runner, no bet. £5 saved imo. You run good!

can u keep a specialeye on these fish for me

Had bets on

Tony phillips
Pete Linton
Sam Trickett
James Demsey
Pryian de mel
mick mcool

and

pab
moomin
geeforce
john eames
gregory howard


thanks

A flushy update is due.

Table 7,is very interesting......good mix ov fast players......also couple ov rocks...and with woodley and hardy its gonna be load !!!!

38,725....

That can't be good...

Some random chip counts noted on my travels:

Alan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1197) Vinson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1197) -- 3,500
Andrew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=25) Andreou (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=25) -- 20,000
Simon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2591) Galloway (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2591) -- 13,500
Tony (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=772) Cascarino (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=772) -- 5,550
David Amos -- 12,300
Ian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=171) Cox (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=171) -- 13,250
Joe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=205) Grech (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=205) -- 6,975
Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=368) Gryko (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=368) -- 9,250
Russell Cawley -- 19,775
Karl (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=227) Mahrenholz (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=227) -- 12,250

looooooool  updating from the table James?

Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=92) Clark (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=92) has been spotted at the cash tables, which either means he's multitasking or is out.

Meanwhile, Jen Mason is struggling with just 3,825.

If you beleive James, his stack is due to "getting full value out of hands." This is flushy babble for "running like god."

I popped along to grab a snap of him, but he started fiddling with his stack. "Hang on a minute, all my chips are messed up, let me arrange them"

I stood around waiting for flushy to stack his chips in a more attractive formation, so as punishment for holding me up, I took this shot of his always intelligent looking face with his now neatly stacked 40k ish stack...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19539&g2_serialNumber=1)

fk me its true!

GOOOOOO FLUSHY

Weeeeeeeeeeeee, £12 e/w at 200/1 on flushy, one time mate, pS if you final ill nip down sunday for the RAIL  ;nipnip;

On an 8h 7s 2s 3s board, Mateyboy led out for 1,500, Graham (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1803) Wheldon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1803) called, as did Jeff (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2568) Sharpe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2568) one seat along.

River = Tc

Mateyboy came out firing for a second time, again to the tune of 1,500. Both players called, albeit Sharpe hesitantly.

Mateyboy = 8d 4d
Wheldon = 2c 2h
Sharpe = Qs 6s

Sharpe takes the pot, although Wheldon was disappointed not to scoop and expressed his surprise that Sharpe had taken so long to call.

Pete Linton was fuming a few moments ago.

Greekfish was the man who caused his consternation by cracking his Aces. Pete had re-raised him preflop and Greekfish called.

The flop fell 7-5-2 and Pete made a small lead only for Greekfish to push all-in. Insta-call from Pete and Greekfish flipped over pocket eights, in big trouble.

A 6 on the turn followed by a cruel 9 on the river however gave Andy a winning straight, meaning the 30k ish pot was shipped away from the young gun, which he was NOT happy about!

News has filtered through to the pressroom that Pete hasn't recoverered from this set back and is now OUT!

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Quick norkage shot. Here is Mr Burns having his back massaged by one of the pretty massage girls. Excellent...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19541&g2_serialNumber=1)

Luton isn't a hotspot for norkage, so I can only apologise whole-heatedly to the NAS for our lack of norkalicious content.

I too has a bet and will be there to rail final

It's not going to be a good win for Goodwin this time around, as he's just been eliminated by Nik Persaud. "I meant to limp for 150, but threw in 1,050 by mistake. I only had two thousand left, so it was going in whatever."

And go in it did, Nik reraising with pocket fives and finding himself in dominant shape against Marc's 6s-3s.

Nik would have to survive a frightful flop though, the board coming 4s-7s-x-9-T before eventually giving the Lodononer the pot.

Two all ins without showdowns saw Lalit Khajuria fold to Sami Yusef's 3,250 shove on a Kc Td Kd Qs Tc (Des Jonas claimed to have folded K-J), whilst on another table, Raymond Nicholas took down a 2,200 pot when he pushed for 5,350 on a 7d Jc 5c 5h board.

Any updates on John Mcgrane?

Jen has expired.

Not in the sense of having major organ failure, but she has had a major stack failure unfortunately. Nothing went right for her today, losing a lot of stack when she felt she had to pass Kings on a semi dangerous board versus what she felt was a set and finally getting her last chips in with K-Q, only to run into both Aces AND Kings.

No miracle and Jen Mason with her newly acquired bloodshot red eye (Accident with door) have departed the tournament.

"I'm going to play the £100 freezeout and make my money back!" she stated confidently before falling into a temporary malaise. "I'm such a donk" she wailed, but we all know the popular Miss Mason will be back on track before long.

"He's been raising 80% of the hands," claimed Greekfish in his defence, later adding, "This is the first time I've ever got lucky in my entire life." Linton now short, not in stature, obviously.

Has Tighty played a hand yet?

Faces like thunder abound at the moment with outdraws all over the place, causing the poker room to almost erupt into rioting.

Ian Frazer is the latest to feel the wrath of the poker gods, his AK no good versus J-J on a Q-Q-T-K-A board, which has left him with sub 10k...not quite life support territory but not too impressive.

Here he is, his dour, glum expression starkly contrasting with his impressively flowery shirt.

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Flushy proudly announced he bluffed Moomin off a hand recently, He called Chris' raise to 600 from teh big blind with 7-8.

The flop fell A - 9 - T and Flushy check called Chris' 800 bet.

The turn was a ten and the action went check, check.

On the river a 4 fell and Flushy (who felt Moorman probably had Queens or Kings) now bet out 1,200 into the 2,900 ish pot to make it look like a milking bet and Moorman passed.

It transpired though that Chris thought Flushy had bet the full pot which is why he passed otherwise he would have called. It's tough trying to keep up with all these live hands sometimes huh?

"In my eye" announced Chris, accepting Flushy had donk-owned him in this hand, even if it was by accident!

No.

he passed  Qh Qs pre flop when utg

Proberly folded QQ a couple of times...

Graham Whedlon has doubled up to an amount that I can't count because he's currently stacking chips after stumbling upon pocket rockets. Reraising his opponent's 2,500 bet all in for an extra 6,000 on a 5c 2h 8c flop, Graham seemed pretty comfortable, and especially so when he was called by pocket queens. A 4d turn and Tc river made no difference, and Graham was left to rake in the chips.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19565&g2_serialNumber=1)

John McGrane (blondeite cupcake) was first spotted in the car park on route to the casino when he called out my name, my birth name would you believe. Shocked that someone beyond my parents were aware of my non-Beagle roots, I quickly swivelled on the spot to be met by the shiny, but familiar bonce of our resident Phil Mitchell. Of course, it's always a delight to converse with the WSOP 2005 18th place finisher, and today was no different. Bubbly, amicable and enthusiastic as ever, cupcake was making a rare appearance at the felt after resisting the temptation to spend his $350,000 of WSOP winnings on the poker circuit and maintaining his job as a London cabbie.

At time of writing, that infectious smile has diminished somewhat, perhaps due to a lack of cards, or maybe as a result of being sat opposite table menace and serial GUKPT finalist Nik Persaud. Nevertheless, he's still running steady with 8,500 and could be a dark horse for going deep in this event.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19545&g2_serialNumber=1)

I was absolutely thrilled when i heard the news that greekfish had knocked out Pete Linton, but imagine my disapointment to hear he had merely taken his chips. Ahhh well Andy maybe in Bolton.

ask her how the barbecue went?

Classic!

How's Iwan Jones and Martyn Cavanagh doing?Cheers

Disclaimer at the ready.

Rumour has it... that Alan Mansbridge has been eliminated by Ian Cox. A number of things point to this conclusion. (1) Ian Cox is wearing a Cheshire Cat grin. (2) Alan's seat is empty and (3) I'm really skilled at guessing.

DONT FORGET THE NEW BLONDE POKER LEAGUE WHICH STARTS TONIGHT !!

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=35682.0

meow, care to ellaborate on your dislike for lord linton?

I believe Jonathan Raab is in the process of accruing dinner break chip counts. I think Iwan's doing okay, he looked tickled pink before the break.

DONT FORGET THE NEW BLONDE POKER LEAGUE WHICH STARTS TONIGHT !!

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=35682.0

Another recent exit is that of Alan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=897) Vinnicombe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=897). He pointed a menacing finger towards current chip daddy David La Ronde adding, "It was that guy who knocked me out. It was fair enough, I had A-J versus A-K, jack on flop, king on turn, but he's been hitting everything."

And the Vinnicombster wasn't lying, as a quick glance at La Ronde's stack confirms that he's boasting a monster monster stack and the overall chip lead with 69,000 in chips. Even Iwan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=180) Jones (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=180) is in awe of La Ronde's ever-increasing stack.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19557&g2_serialNumber=1)

Also spotted lurking about in the cash games is Partypoker.com World Open III champion Anthony Hardy.

It's our turn to pick up the scraps from the buffet, so join us in around 15 minutes when we return for Part Deux of today's opening day.

I wonder if there is anything happening online tonight for us non GUKPT'ers?

Do we get a chip count during the breakage?

Is tighty there ???

Updates plz. . .

pab and geeforce pls

Alex Martin update too please

As I trundled over to the far end of the room, I spotted TightEnd nurturing an 11,000 stack, thus implying that he had played a hand. Startling by this revelation, I raced over, notepad in hand, ready to consume all the drama.

"Have you played a hand?" I asked amazed.

"Yes, I've been up and down, up to 13,000, down to 9,000, and have now settled on around 11,000," replied the Tightster.

"Wow, there was a vicious rumour that you folded queens under the gun."

As you can see from Tighty's monster fluctuations, he has been a busy boy, although is still searching for a run of good cards that will allow to play more liberally.

"If I could just get one of those early double ups people talk about, then I can start beating the table up."

Russell (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=391) Cawley (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=391) (Ariston) has been launched onto the rail after failing to out-flip Richard Pain. All in with Ahrt Kh against Jd Jc, the 5c Ac Ks flop was a welcome one, but the Js turn about as accommodating as Faulty Towers, and Ariston was gone.

Could you please pass on my best wishes to Cupcake and ask him how he got on with the Chateauneuf-du-pape.

I'm serious  ;D :cheers:

As Ariston was enduring the dust-biting process, Kevin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=235) O'Leary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=235) was being left hanging by Andrew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=26) Bradshaw (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=26) who was mulling over a 1,600 bet on a 3d Kc 2d 2d 4d board.

"I've got a small flush," confessed Andrew as he counted out the call, perhaps fearful of being met by a full house or bigger flush. "I call," he announced finally as he trickled his chips over the line.

O'Leary folded quicker than a hiccup, leaving Andrew to collect the pot with 9d 7d.

chip counts??

I think blonde is going to have to supply a bok smilie in the near future (perhaps we can call it Karabiner), as John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=216) McGrane (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=216) has just been eliminated from today's event at the hands of Steve Tucker. Coming over the top with Ahrt Qd, cupcake was looked up by Ad Ks, the latter holding up on a 4s 4c 6h Jc 3h board.

On their way. Am whipping Rod as I write.

I would have demanded a recount :)

Local boy Simon Galloway is currently bobbing his head just above water with 11,200. He chirpily reported an earlier bluff where he called with 4-5, check called a K-6-3 flop, checked the ace turn and bet the king river. "He folded, and I showed," smirked Simon.

Following on from the curry themed buffet, there's been some spicy goings on at the poker table with confrontations aplenty. Cumen have a go if you think you're hard enough!


Yes, we're just about to be sent one by Sir Raab. We'll post it asap.

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A quick aside, for those of you who think Tikay lets Jen off too easily. When he inquired as to how she was doing and we told him she was out, he was quick to "trundle over" (to use Snoopy vernacular) and offer his condolences.

"So how many chips have you got Jen?"

Tikay was being a bit cheeky as he doesn't have many himself despite his constant claims to be twice the average stack.

Here he is as Jen cheekily pretends to Tikay they're serving free Bovril at the bar.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19575&g2_serialNumber=1)

Ha ha. Gotcha!

Another new recruit of the cash table is Joe Grech, who I believe ran well in the Empire festival last week.

check the pack part 2

As promised here are the current chip leaders. Perennial GUKPT superstar Nik Persuad going great guns atm, and some other familiar faces near the top of the tree.

7   2   702   La Ronde, David   67750
6   1   1407   Cavanagh, Martyn   50500
15   7   1507   Persaud, Nikhil   49925
8   4   804   Dempsey, James   43350
16   9   1609   Flanders, Tim   33825
6   4   604   Gibson, Nick   29850
15   8   1508   Macit, Ergun   29775
8   9   1904   Moorman, Chris   29225
9   3   1910   Litman, Bernard   28350
6   10   610   Piper, Michael   27850
18   7   103   Ringe, Tony   27100
7   3   1404   Jones, Iwan   26850
9   6   906   Mihail, Andreas   26525
13   2   1302   Furse, Richard   25400
9   4   2007   Eminoglu, Yucel   24125
8   5   805   Davis, Alan   23800
11   8   1108   Trickett, Sam   23650
10   2   1002   Jelinek, Steve   23575
17   5   1705   Gregory, David   23250
4   9   409   Wheldon, Graham   22000
12   10   1210   Devlin, Stephen   21450
17   10   1710   Moore, Mike   21250
9   10   910   Gale, John   20875
6   3   603   O'Shea, Jerome   20850
16   4   1604   Robinson, Martin   20600
4   6   406   Frew, Hugh   20475
11   4   1104   Farrel, Ian   18700
16   7   2003   Koschland, Johna   18275
15   2   1502   Iversen, Torstein   18100
11   7   1107   Warnes, Andy   18050
9   7   907   Seear, David   17900
7   4   301   Dalimore, Mark   17550
10   7   1007   O'Kearney, Dara   17250
13   7   1307   Jonas, Desmond   17175
12   1   1201   Vassiliou, Michae   17000
5   8   508   Colclough, Dave   16950
16   2   110   Andreou, Andy   16900
15   4   1504   Tucker, Steve   16775
11   6   1410   Green, M   16775
13   8   1308   Khajuria, Lalit   16750
4   1   401   Chapman, Anthony   16725
12   3   1203   Basri, Stephen   16550
4   10   410   Sharpe, Jeff   16500
4   8   408   Francesco, Gits   15800
11   5   1105   Vicary, Paul   15700
6   7   2001   Cawley, Russ   15375
13   1   1301   Binstock, David   15175
18   8   1808   Bethune, Neil   15100
16   3   206   Masterman, Alexa   15100
17   2   1702   Stearn, Alan   14950
8   8   2004   Clark, David   14875
15   5   202   Zahour, Mohammed   14825
18   5   1805   Shaw, Brad   14700
11   9   1909   Martin, William   14700
16   5   1605   Wernick, Mickey   14125
17   8   1708   Oreilly, Scott   14000
7   1   208   Flanders, Phillipa   13950
12   6   1408   Cox, Ian   13925
9   2   308   Mahrenholz, Karl   13775
10   8   1902   Purewal, Gurinde   13725
12   5   102   Mildon, Philip   13225
7   6   706   Bickerton, Craig   13175
4   3   403   Peschel, Julian   13050
5   9   509   Buntyn, Clevedon   12925
17   9   1709   Frazer, Ian   12525
18   9   1208   Pound, Graham   12300
18   4   1804   Kyriacou, Christo   12200
5   10   510   Fletcher, Mick   12075
10   6   1006   Wilson, Gary   11625
12   4   1905   Prew, Richard   11575
5   2   502   Gryko, Richard   11550
9   8   908   Boon, Robert   11500
15   10   1510   Vinson, Alan   11450
17   6   1402   Rogers, Jeffery   11375
18   10   209   Rogers, Graham   11250
5   5   505   Bradshaw, Andy   11250
6   6   309   Willsch, Matthia   11225
17   7   104   Amos, David   11075
6   5   207   Pain, Richard   10675
6   8   608   Stoneham, A   10425
12   2   1908   Ellinas, Panicos   10325
10   9   201   Zeeuw, Olaf   10275
15   3   303   Crowson, Paul   10200
5   6   506   Sargeant, David   9875
10   10   1010   Jackson, Paul   9800
10   3   1003   Ashby, Richard   9725
17   3   1703   Gray, Alan   9550
7   5   705   Reid, James   9550
11   10   1110   Foltyn, Paul   9325
13   10   1310   Gent, David   9150
9   5   205   Scott, Richard   9100
16   8   2002   Charalambous, Pe   9075
12   9   1209   Carter, Barry   8550
7   7   704   Stoate, Daniel   8250
10   4   1004   Wicks, Daniel   8225
11   1   305   Cooklin, Phil   7975
8   3   2008   Taylor, Anthony   7975
15   9   1509   Mcgrane, John   7925
4   7   407   Adams, Edna   7875
8   7   807   Anderson, Dave   7825
12   7   1207   Brown, Jon   7650
16   6   1606   Edgington, Daniel   7550
9   9   909   Bowden, Iain   7425
18   3   1803   Dell, Tracey   7325
15   6   2006   Kanwar, Vik   7250
17   1   306   Bellamy, Paul   7150
13   6   1306   Yusuf, Sami   6850
10   1   1001   Leckey, Paul   6825
5   1   501   O'Leary, Kevin   6825
5   3   503   Ali, Mohammed   6825
18   6   1806   Kendall, Tony   6775
6   2   105   Jarvis, Martin   6725
18   1   1801   Hammer, Raymond   6575
11   3   1103   Craig, Steve   6575
5   4   504   Davies, William   6575
17   4   1704   Mcbride, James   6425
16   1   1601   Galloway, Simon   6275
8   2   802   Pearson, Trevor   6200
10   5   1005   Mendes, Paul   6175
15   1   1501   Bloor, Kevin   5825
18   2   1802   Smyth, Connor   5450
11   2   1102   Whittingham, Howa   5450
13   9   1309   Ellis, Rob   5400
13   3   1303   Reardon, Trevor   5150
5   7   507   Lloyd, David   5150
8   10   810   Noonan, Paul   4775
6   9   609   Evans, David   4575
8   6   806   Adjemian, Gary   4250
13   5   1305   Chaudhry, Scott   4200
7   9   709   Woodley, Ian   4075
12   8   203   Nicholas, Ray   4050
9   1   901   Mulla, Reyaaz   4025
4   2   402   Waddington, Matth   3925
7   10   307   O'Shaughnessy, Justin   3800
16   10   1610   Panteli, Mario   2475
8   1   801   Slade, Nick   1375

To tie up some of the requests:

Pab -- 14,000
geeforce -- 6,000
Alex Martin -- 20,000

I think Martins Adeniya might be out, as his seat has been replaced by Mr Mahrenholz while Ricky Vedhara's table broke a while ago.

If I could swear on here I would ;grr;

Paul Jackson aka Actionjack has made his last raise of the tournament.

Finding himself shortstacked he pushed on the button, only to find Pippa Flanders re-raising confidently.

Iwan Jones made a tough pass with what he later said were pocket tens and it transpired it was a good pass as Pippa showed down pocket Kings.

Paul was in a world of trouble, meekly showing down 8-2 and needing a spot of help.

An eight popped out on the flop drawing a few hushed and slightly unenthusiastic ooohs from the watching crowd as the possibility of an outdraw beckoned but it was not to be as the turn and river flowed by eightlessly and twolessly, leaving his tournament in tatters and propelling the upwardly mobile Pippa to over 20,000.

"Well played me" critiqued Iwan modestly for his pass of tens there.

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Flushy has won a big pot off John Gale and is now sitting on a lofty stack of 64,225.

After raising with A-4 preflop, as you do, Flushy saw an A-J-8 flop and check called John's bet of 2,200.

The turn was an 8 and both players checked.

The river came a T and flushy bet out 3k, only to be virtually min raised to 7,500.

He called the extra 4.5k ("I can't see what he could have there?") and despite the small raise, John couldn't table a hand and mucked.

His tablemate Chris Moorman is also going rather well, as he can boast an impressive 30,000 stack at this point. About time for Moorman to run good in a live event perhaps?

Here is Chris celebrating the good shape he is currently in.

(http://finnfancies.googlepages.com/MoomiArt.JPG/MoomiArt-full.jpg)

It's bedlam at Table Tighty as the big man himself raises under-the-gun (yes, you heard correctly) for 1,200. Play folds round quicker than Dwayne Chambers after a visit to the chemists, leaving Tighty to scoop the blinds uncontested with his aces (he didn't show). "I folded quads," commented Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1143) Carter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1143) in the aftermath. I think a guy folded kings on the neighbouring table too.

But if an under the gun raise wasn't enough to get your blood pumping, Tighty was bumping and grinding again just a few rounds later when he pushed all in for 7,000 on a K-7-Q flop. Perhaps unaware of his reputation (although the light is bad in here, so maybe he mistook Tighty was Ali (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=23) Mallu (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=23)), Panicos (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1558) Ellinas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1558) made the call with a paltry J-T, but will have been delighted to see he had overcards to the Prewster's 7-6, as well as the open ended straight draw.

Running nines, and Tighty was done, although he left in a blaze of glory knowing that he got it in with bottom pair, and was still ahead!

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19589&g2_serialNumber=1)

Seeing that you guys are so skilled in spotting dealer talent, why not try my new quiz show...

Name that Norkage

hosted by Snoopy Forsyth. Good game, good game!

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19587&g2_serialNumber=1)

Has Tighty been on the beer?

Flattering photo though. It's some consolation.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19589&g2_serialNumber=1)

How's Lorna?

Martin Jarvis has doubled through after being left hanging by Nick Gibson for a good minute or two. I think someone called the clock on Nick, much to the dismay of Martyn Cavanagh who believed it hadn't been long enough and thus contested the request. Back on the felt, the board read Jd 4c 4d and Martin had pushed all in for circa 8,000. With Adam Stoneman waiting behind, Nick ummed and aahed before eventually calling with 9c 9d. After Adam had sidestepped out of the way, Martin showed Kd Kc and duly increased his stack two fold as the turn and river came 7s and 8d respectively.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19577&g2_serialNumber=1)

And this is the face Nick mistakenly thought was weak...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19579&g2_serialNumber=1)

Gibson back down to 25,000.

A bit disappointed that I'm sharing a room with Rod rather than her. Can't win em all tho.

Does that question originate from the photo or the action at the felt... or both?

I'm not 100% of the names in this hand, but I believe Peter Wood (below) has just snipered Dave Anderson out of the comp. Anderson was all with Ad Ks on a flop of Js 8s Kc, but was snap-called (as you would) by Peter and his 8h 8d. No miracles graced the G Casino in Luton and Anderson was gone.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19583&g2_serialNumber=1)

Any news on Karl Mahrenholz and Adam Stoneham?

We've witnessed more doubles than a night on the town with Dana today, the latest encounter seeing Jim (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=599) Reid (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=599) double up Craig Bickerton with Ac Qc versus Jh Jc and failing to hit on a harmless 4s Th Ks 2c 8c board. Jim now down to 8.5k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19593&g2_serialNumber=1)

how is mick fletcher, nick slade, morris (the mouth) mcarthey and shrewdy doin. Ask fletch which one he is.

Any news on Lorna?

Any chance of getting an update on Alex Martin please.

Karl Mahrenholz is treading water with 9,000. "Every time I've raised, this guy [Bernard Litman] has reraised me. A-K, jacks, nines, I've layed them all down, and each time he's show me a better hand." Karl peaked at 13,000, but has spent most of the day folding. "It's been an exciting day," he added sarcastically.

Adam Stoneman, meanwhile, is flying high with 50-55,000.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19603&g2_serialNumber=1)

Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=95) Colclough (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=95) was up to 24,000 although he was just seen having to lay down on an Ahrt Td 2s 5s board after seeing his 6,000 turn bet check raised all-in by his opponent. Down to 14,000 now...

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Random chip count of the day. Steve (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=414) Jelinek (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=414) - 16,000.

Chip counts from the end of level 6 approaching shortly.

Current chip counts courtesy of Monsieur Raab. Look who's chip leader. Oh dear...


8   4   804   Dempsey, James   76800
13   2   1404   Jones, Iwan   54725
15   7   1507   Persaud, Nikhil   50500
12   4   608   Stoneham, A   48875
18   8   1808   Bethune, Neil   43525
17   4   1709   Frazer, Ian   40625
10   3   702   La Ronde, David   40525
9   1   401   Chapman, Anthony   40325
15   8   1508   Macit, Ergun   40000
16   8   408   Francesco, Gits   37625
18   9   706   Bickerton, Craig   37150
13   5   604   Gibson, Nick   37025
15   4   1504   Tucker, Steve   37000
8   9   1904   Moorman, Chris   35500
15   9   1108   Trickett, Sam   35250
11   6   1410   Green, M   34250
16   10   610   Piper, Michael   34075
9   3   1910   Litman, Bernard   32975
10   8   1902   Purewal, Gurinde   32200
11   5   1407   Cavanagh, Martyn   31250
16   9   1609   Flanders, Tim   30525
9   10   508   Colclough, Dave   29750
12   2   1908   Ellinas, Panicos   28200
16   4   1604   Robinson, Martin   28200
9   6   906   Mihail, Andreas   27175
8   5   805   Davis, Alan   27075
11   4   1104   Farrel, Ian   27050
12   1   1302   Furse, Richard   26675
10   4   1004   Wicks, Daniel   26650
12   6   1408   Cox, Ian   24975
10   10   409   Wheldon, Graham   23300
11   9   1909   Martin, William   23150
10   2   1002   Jelinek, Steve   23000
12   9   1209   Carter, Barry   21900
18   4   1804   Kyriacou, Christo   21775
16   2   110   Andreou, Andy   21725
17   5   1705   Gregory, David   21575
9   7   907   Seear, David   21050
15   10   1710   Moore, Mike   20000
18   7   103   Ringe, Tony   19700
15   6   202   Zahour, Mohammed   19500
9   8   507   Lloyd, David   19325
13   7   1307   Jonas, Desmond   18250
16   7   2003   Koschland, Johna   17325
15   1   503   Ali, Mohammed   16850
11   8   509   Buntyn, Clevedon   16750
17   6   1402   Rogers, Jeffery   16450
11   10   1110   Foltyn, Paul   15375
17   8   1708   Oreilly, Scott   15300
13   4   406   Frew, Hugh   15275
13   8   1308   Khajuria, Lalit   14825
13   1   1301   Binstock, David   14700
12   7   1207   Brown, Jon   14475
18   2   1802   Smyth, Connor   14475
8   2   802   Pearson, Trevor   14050
17   10   603   O'Shea, Jerome   14050
18   6   105   Jarvis, Martin   13400
16   1   505   Bradshaw, Andy   13175
12   3   1203   Basri, Stephen   12675
11   7   1107   Warnes, Andy   12100
13   9   1309   Ellis, Rob   12050
11   2   1102   Whittingham, Howa   11825
18   1   1801   Hammer, Raymond   11725
9   2   308   Mahrenholz, Karl   11300
12   10   1210   Devlin, Stephen   11300
10   7   1007   O'Kearney, Dara   11225
17   7   104   Amos, David   10725
8   1   506   Sargeant, David   9400
18   10   209   Rogers, Graham   9150
13   10   1310   Gent, David   9075
17   1   306   Bellamy, Paul   8950
18   3   1803   Dell, Tracey   8850
16   5   1605   Wernick, Mickey   8800
12   5   102   Mildon, Philip   8500
8   8   2004   Clark, David   8200
17   3   1703   Gray, Alan   8200
10   1   1001   Leckey, Paul   8150
17   9   709   Woodley, Ian   7600
9   9   909   Bowden, Iain   7500
17   2   1702   Stearn, Alan   7375
15   2   208   Flanders, Phillipa   7150
18   5   501   O'Leary, Kevin   7025
10   5   1005   Mendes, Paul   6875
10   6   1006   Wilson, Gary   6875
12   8   203   Nicholas, Ray   6575
16   6   1502   Iversen, Torstein   6575
16   3   206   Masterman, Alexa   6425
8   6   910   Gale, John   6275
9   5   205   Scott, Richard   6125
10   9   201   Zeeuw, Olaf   6050
13   6   1306   Yusuf, Sami   5775
9   4   2007   Eminoglu, Yucel   5525
8   3   1601   Galloway, Simon   3950
11   3   1501   Bloor, Kevin   3450
13   3   1303   Reardon, Trevor   2850
8   7   807   Anderson, Dave   1550

As the night grows older, we're starting to see more and more all-in encounters. The last one I witnessed involved blondeite Graham 'Chompy' Wheldon. With both players in early position, Paul Leckey found himself all in for his tournament life with Ac Kc against the Ahrt Qc of Wheldon. The 8d 8h 6h Th flop and turn was looking good for Leckey, but he was teased devilishly on the river as the dealer fumbled continuously with the final card. Eventually he scooped it up to reveal a Ks, although the wait, and the momentary sight of paint caused Leckey to palm his chest as if to calm his rapidly beating heart. Leckey up to 11,000.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19605&g2_serialNumber=1)

Not since the Gore/Bush vote have I witnessed such a fix.

when does tonights play finnish?

End of Level 9...approximately 1am I think.

Mohammed Zahour has also been busy of late. He just ran Qc Qd into the Aspades Ahrt of Ergun Macit (pictured). No help on a 6d Ts 4h 9s 9h board and he's back down to 20,000.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19601&g2_serialNumber=1)

Nine levels.

Alex Martin (complete with cigarette behind ear - all the cool cats are doing it!) -- 25,000

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19615&g2_serialNumber=1)

Flushy for the win IMO.

I'm sorry to be the harbinger of doom, but all of the aforementioned players have since hit the deck. Is there anyone else you like?

As we approach the final level of the night, one man who won't be returning in two days time is Jerome O'Shea. His assassin was Jeff Rogers, his A-K out-gunning O'Shea's pocket nines when a second king hit the turn. I wish I could report some Hellmuth-esque rants or Matusow like blow-ups, but everyone here today has been thoroughly well behaved, which is sometimes less entertaining than a good old fashioned tantrum or over-celebration. As with most exits today, O'Shea didn't begrudge his lack of coin-flippage and simply wished his opponents good luck before quietly exiting the table.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19617&g2_serialNumber=1)

If you want to be really cool, you pop it all the way in....

"I can't believe he just called that," commented a bemused Martyn Cavanagh rising from his seat abruptly.

Martin Green raised it up, Garinder Purewal flat called and Sami Yusef pushed all in. Martin folded, but Garinder called with 7s 6s. Yusef tabled Aspades Qs.

Board = 9h 3s 3h 5h 3d

Yusef doubles up.

Also heading towards the door (or the roulette table) is Stephen Basri. I only caught the aftermath of the hand, but he exited with kings versus the A-K of Jon Brown with a second bullet hitting the turn.

Flushy, not entirely surprisingly, has managed to wang a little bit of his stack.

"Ran into aces" he said, showing a surprising degree of restraint in not adding "aments" to any of the words. He didn't tell me what filth he had run into them with though...

He was more keen in telling me about a hand where he bluffed Chris Moorman preflop, re-popping his initial bet with T-4 and being rewarded with a fold. "One in the eye" he told me triumphantly, in the parlance of the young kids these days.

He's still on 60 odd thousand though which is likely to be good, or at least very close, to the chip lead.

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Dave Colclough has not had the best of days and once he was reduced to 150 chips, it looked all over and indeed shortly afterwards, it was.

Bye bye Elblondie.

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We're approaching the final level of the evening now which should herald a plethora of allins and attempts to double through by the shorties as they won't want to be hanging around for two days to come back with 5 big blinds.

Expect nothing less than unadulterated, brutal carnage.

can you check if richard scott is still in for me please, wish him luck from morls if he is

ta in advance

better picture would be good :)

This is a family forum  ;kev;

she is lovely..hair up is better imo

gl trickett, persaud and blonde hand analysis master flushy.

did skalie give linton a rubdown? didnt quite get that comment cos it seemed like a joke on the back of a genuine dislike for pete? maybe im wrong

great updates as usual, thanks guys

A few last level chip counts for you to feast your beady eyes on:

Adam (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=10) Stoneham (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=10) -- 72,500
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=323) Foltyn (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=323) -- 50,000
Graham (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1803) Wheldon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1803) -- 16,650
Chris Moorman -- 56,000
Alex (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1198) Martin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1198) -- 32,000
Iwan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=180) Jones (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=180) -- 60,150
Martin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=269) Green (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=269) -- 35,500
Tracey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=444) Dell (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=444) -- 11,250
James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=186) Dempsey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=186) -- 58,000
Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=92) Clark (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=92) -- 17,900
Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1143) Carter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1143) -- 2,500
Ian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=171) Cox (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=171) -- 60,200
Martyn (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=270) Cavanagh (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=270) -- 11,000

Barry Carter is the first victim of the final level and thus won't be returning for day two. Although I only caught the very end of the hand, he was initially crippled by neighbour and fellow short-stacker Nick Gibson when the latter's 7c 5c from the cut-off rivered a pair on a 3h 3d 6h Th 7d board to topple Barry's Kd Qd in the small blind. Judging by the hands, I can only assume it went in preflop.

A few hands later, and Barry was out.

Left with jsut 2.2 k after that hand he managed to double up with 4d 5d versus Adam Stoneham's K-J flopping trips but his luck couldn't hold as he pushed to double again with A-3, but his opponent's A-T was in no mood to be outdone and a Ten on the turn sealed Mr Carter's fate.

Here are the counts from the end of level 8, delivered to us via that most Raaby of the Jon population, Mr Jon Raab. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.


12   4   608   Stoneham, A   71200
16   7   1002   Jelinek, Steve   69300
18   1   804   Dempsey, James   66200
16   8   1404   Jones, Iwan   64025
12   6   1408   Cox, Ian   61900
15   6   707   Livett, Danny   56300
18   8   1808   Bethune, Neil   55950
17   5   1402   Rogers, Jeffery   53300
17   4   1705   Gregory, David   50850
18   9   706   Bickerton, Craig   48325
12   1   1302   Furse, Richard   47100
9   6   906   Mihail, Andreas   45450
17   2   1110   Foltyn, Paul   42100
11   10   1902   Purewal, Gurinde   41450
15   7   1507   Persaud, Nikhil   40200
17   3   1709   Frazer, Ian   39100
16   4   1604   Robinson, Martin   37600
15   9   1108   Trickett, Sam   35450
11   6   1401   Mackay, Anthony   35000
16   9   1609   Flanders, Tim   34225
15   1   1904   Moorman, Chris   32850
9   9   1605   Wernick, Mickey   32600
17   1   1307   Jonas, Desmond   31600
15   5   202   Zahour, Mohammed   31100
9   4   2007   Eminoglu, Yucel   31025
18   5   205   Scott, Richard   29150
16   10   610   Piper, Michael   28125
11   4   1104   Farrel, Ian   27750
12   2   1908   Ellinas, Panicos   26625
16   5   805   Davis, Alan   26425
9   1   401   Chapman, Anthony   25200
15   2   208   Flanders, Phillipa   25150
15   4   1504   Tucker, Steve   23475
15   8   1508   Macit, Ergun   23350
9   3   1910   Litman, Bernard   22700
11   1   1306   Yusuf, Sami   22700
11   7   1107   Warnes, Andy   22525
11   9   1909   Martin, William   22500
18   10   209   Rogers, Graham   21125
16   2   110   Andreou, Andy   20850
12   7   1207   Brown, Jon   19300
17   6   409   Wheldon, Graham   19275
16   3   1301   Binstock, David   18900
18   7   103   Ringe, Tony   18600
17   9   506   Sargeant, David   18525
16   1   505   Bradshaw, Andy   17700
11   3   406   Frew, Hugh   16475
9   8   502   Gryko, Richard   14875
17   8   909   Bowden, Iain   14850
9   7   907   Seear, David   14775
18   4   1804   Kyriacou, Christo   14200
18   3   1803   Dell, Tracey   13400
15   10   1710   Moore, Mike   13225
9   2   802   Pearson, Trevor   12950
12   3   807   Anderson, Dave   12950
12   10   1407   Cavanagh, Martyn   12275
9   5   1007   O'Kearney, Dara   12225
17   7   503   Ali, Mohammed   12125
12   9   1209   Carter, Barry   11575
11   8   509   Buntyn, Clevedon   11550
12   5   102   Mildon, Philip   11450
18   6   105   Jarvis, Martin   10650
11   2   1102   Whittingham, Howa   10025
16   6   1601   Galloway, Simon   9525
12   8   604   Gibson, Nick   9200
18   2   2004   Clark, David   8000
11   5   1309   Ellis, Rob   7675
15   3   306   Bellamy, Paul   5675

Quality updates

Thanks guys!!

Flushy's stack has moved a little further in the wrong direction. Raising with T-8 off to 2.5k, a shortstack pushed behind for an amount Flushy couldn't pass to so he made the call.

The flop fell out a surprisingly pretty Q-J-9 giving Flushy a close to unassailable 2nd nut straight but by the river his shortstacked opponent had made a flush. None of the table appeared to notice this, a chorus of "bad lucks" and "good games" almost sending him to the door, but a reluctant Flushy felt it encumbent on him to point out the error of their ways and the player returned to the felt buoyed by a double up and having taken a nibble out of Flushy's stack, reduced to a still respectable 55,000.

Flushy was most annoyed by the fact he was forced to call with his T-8.

"There goes my image" he said with a sigh and a surprising lack of sarcasm in his voice.

My response was predictable.

(http://www.hjo3.net/orly/gal2/orly_white_cat.jpg)

As Alan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1315) Stearn (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1315) makes his exit, he is closely followed by Mike (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1468) Moore (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1468) who fell at the hands of 'sicko' Nik (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=314) Persaud (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=314). I suppose you have to win your coin-flips to final these events, and Nik (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=314) Persaud (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=314) found his coin buttered on the right side as his pocket tens survived a blank board against Moore's inferior K-Q.

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As I trundled over to the far end of the room, I was lured to one particular table by an array of ooh and aahs. The recipient of these sounds was Tracey Dingdell, who, although initially locked in a classic 50-50 battle, departed in rather more gut-wrenching form. All in against A-K, she needed her pocket queens to hold on, and although a flopped ace was followed by a dramatic queen on the turn, a cruel ten hit the river to give her opponent a straight on a J-A-x-Q-T board.

More last level drama now as Tim (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=433) Flanders (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=433) finds himself all in against Iwan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=180) Jones (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=180). Although Iwan momentarily contemplated a fold to the final push with his Ac Kc, he eventually made the call only to be shown Ahrt Ad.

Tim looked understandably confident until the flop came a nerve-jangling 4c 6s 7c...

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But Flanders had obviously been saying his prayers as the turn and river came a non-club 5h and Kd.

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"You made me sweat there," commented Tim.

Paul Bellamy has also been eliminated from today's event.

On a Jc Tc 8s flop, Bernard Litman pushed all in with Kd Qs, but was picked off by Dara O'Kearney's Ac Aspades. 8d turn and 3s river was of no aid and Litman was gone. Yucel Eminoglu (pictured sandwiched between the two players) apparently folded A-J on the flop.

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And just as Rod and I trundle back into the cardroom, the final whistle is blown and the chips are counted out. We've been assured by the Raabster that the chip counts will magically appear over night, but until then, you're just going to have to amuse yourselves (nothing grubby, please) and wait patiently until 2pm tomorrow when it will all... start... over... again.

"Forkage," as Junglecat said.

 ;stickaforkinme;

As Snoopy said, the chip counts should be transferred across the ether shortly for us to excite you with, but as we sign off temporarily here's a last bit of titillation for your delectation.

Given Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=69) Moorman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=69)'s good performance today, rising steadily up through the chip ranks, here is a bit of norkage dedicated to the man, the myth, the moorman.

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 ;stickaforkinme;

Great Updates, well done, & get it won, Flushy.

Trickett,  pab and flushy count please. One of these will def final.

Hi, m8

I went to Luton to see Tikay (SKYPOKER) play but he went out early on Level 4

The GUKPT had 368 entrants so far, with another days play tomorrow

The prize money so far was £368,000

So I stayed to watch the action and chatted to a woman in black from

Badbeat.com. She was interviewing players who were well known and had gone out early. She had not spoken to Tikay,she said "Who?"

I started watching Dave Colclough's table (El Blondie) and he was joined by Mickie Werner who has been on Sky recently.

they played OK, but one short stack pushed with 5 6 and was called by 2 other players with A K and A Q.
All 3 turned over their cards before the flop and the short stack got up and started to walk away,... but the flop went 3 5 5 Q 7

so he had won with trip fives. They had to call him back to tell him he had won.

About 11.30pm Dave Colclough went all in with Ace King and after a long think was called by another player with pocket Queens.

The flop went 7 2 4 4 2 and Dave was out.queens and fours winning.

I had a nice chat with Dave and he let me take a picture of us together

Heres a picture of me an Dave

Ok heres some more photos

End of day chip counts:

La Ronde, David   100425
Stoneham, Adam   67300
Dempsey, James   65025
Jelinek, Steve   63225
Gregory, David   59625
Foltyn, Paul   58800
Frazer, Ian   55650
Bethune, Neil   55575
Flanders, Tim   53100
Purewal, Gurinde   52050
Cox, Ian   50975
Furse, Richard   43600
Flanders, Phillipa   43250
Green, Martin   41775
Chapman, Anthony   41725
Farrel, Ian   39450
Rogers, Jeffery   39175
Kyriacou, Christo   37250
Persaud, Nikhil   37100
Robinson, Martin   37025
Warnes, Andy   35425
Gibson, Nick   35225
Bickerton, Craig   34525
Zahour, Mohammed   33950
Bradshaw, Andy   32500
Davis, Alan   32475
Trickett, Sam   32275
Brown, Jon   31725
Moorman, Chris   31725
Jones, Iwan   31100
Martin, William   30925
Wheldon, Graham   30250
Jonas, Desmond   28550
Yusuf, Sami   28375
Wernick, Mickey   27000
Clark, David   26975
Martin, Alex   26450
Mihail, Andreas   25875
O'Kearney, Dara   25450
Scott, Richard   25100
Jarvis, Martin   24550
Tucker, Steve   24500
Litman, Bernard   23525
Gryko, Richard   22775
Bowden, Iain   22025
Ringe, Tony   21425
Sargeant, David   18675
Seear, David   18350
Pearson, Trevor   17900
Mildon, Philip   17300
Ellinas, Panicos   14150
Rogers, Graham   11250
Frew, Hugh   9900
Binstock, David   8325
Eminoglu, Yucel   8125
Whittingham, Howard   3225

you changed into that white blue sq top pretty sharpish

lol

Ok,

Mickey Wernick is my stunt double

But I'm the real Crow

I can't believe i actually ran bad and still got chips, i don't think i ever made a real hand!

plz win me £3k steeeeeerling,  NO business at that final. or if you do dont let bsq find out

Mickys brother lmfao.

The valets aren't half bad either. Not trying hard enough.

Just read the whole thread from start to finish and the photos at the end was pure gold.

Go Flushy / Moomin/ Alex and co...

nothing new there then.

GL mate, get it won.

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Snoopy needs to learn which way the board comes out...lolz

flushy are u gonna get this won or wat?

Can someone check and see if Im still in please?  I had this recurring dream that someone pulled a smelly 4-flush on me right at the end to wipe me out, but hopefully it was a trick of the mind and Im coming back Saturday with average chips...

How did moorman lose 25k of his stack?

dear me this ariston has no manners and if he wins it il eat my curtains

Also, where have u all been betting? Are odds available on blue square?

Just a few hands that never got anywhere, nothing major