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Welcome one and all to the wonderful poker locale that is Dusk Till  (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)Dawn (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) as we prepare to embark on the journey to crown the latest DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) £300 tournament champion.

As numbers appear to be relatively low for the Bolton GUKPT, this bodes well for us here in Nottingham and we can no doubt expect a glut of faces, some familiar, some less familiar vying for the much coveted title.

Myself and Jen, who is fresh from donking off yet another stack at a GUKPT, are here to cover all the ins and outs, the coming and goings, shippings and hollering we expect from a poker tournament and we anticipate an exciting, closely fought contest.

Come with us now on a journey through time and space to the world of the mighty boosh Dusk Till  (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)Dawn (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)...

This is an interactive thread so as ever feel free to throw chip count requests, supportive messages or any comments you fancy at us and we will do our best to assist.

This tournament sounds great and all, but you'd be better coming and watching the even more awesome GUKPT updates from Bolton...

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=36647.0

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how many runners so far mr.cat?

Good luck to all blondes playing.

Anybody think there is going to be a massive overlay with a £25k guarentee on this tourney?

Hope so but I doubt it very much...

Wish i was in the UK! I'd be speeding down the M1 to get there for this tourney!

Mr. Cat is still struggling to figure out why giving the cab driver £1 on top of £20 helped sort out our £5.90 fare.  Rather than overburden him, I can say we now have 74 runners, making there a £900 overlay currently which might well be extinguished by the end of the buy-in period (2 levels).

THIS IS NOT A TEST (or a joke...)

Red-Dog is ALL IN within six minutes of play beginning!  Tikay rushed to his side as an opponent giving him plenty of credit folded Ad Ac face up on the flop of J-9-2... I prayed for him to show the bluff, but no cigar.  C'est la vie. 

He has £15 in notes but not many pound coins?

Steady, your intellect is in danger of blinding me.

Flippin heck!  Is he mad to get to the cash tables or something?!

;djinn;

Hi Snoops + Jen.

Lots of James "The Atkinator" Atkin updates please :)

Early action - a fair few chips drift in the direction of Leon Rovira (pictured stacking those very same chips).  It appears he had raised preflop and seen a flop of Kd 8h 2s with opponent Alan Stokes (pictured not stacking chips, in the blue cardy).  Check to the 2c turn, and the second black deuce kicked off some action at last - a bet out of 400 by Stokes, raised to 1,000 by Rovira, and instacalled.
River: 5d  Check to Rovira, who quickly bet 3k, which was called pretty quickly by Stokes, who mucked to see the fair to monstrous 8d 8s in the youngster's hand.

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Tracey Dell, giggling as per, motions me over to her table.  "See the table next to us," she says, about to let me in on something, "That guy looks like Gazza."  I peer round, but can't really see what she's talking about.  "Oh, I didn't mean Gazza, I meant David Beckham."

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I am repasting this photo, and the guy on the right, Carl Hoefkens, is the one she was talking about.  He's in the running for Hoody of the Day, but only because of the lining.  Check that baby out:

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Get Red to describe the action in that hand, will ya guys?..He must have had Quad Jacks there.

He wore the same clothes in Bolton yesterday, so it's probably Smelly Hoody of the Day...

Jen may be mocking my elementary maths skills, but what she failed to realise was I factoring in a tip. Honest.

Anyways, how about an update from that bastion of blondepoker Mr Tony Kendall himself. Finding Kings, he popped it up to 200, only to receive SIX callers.

"...which was great" he added sardonically.

The flop popped out a draw heavy 6-7-9 with two hearts and Tikay wasn't interested in betting just yet with his Kings.

"Thought I'd see the turn before putting any chips in..." he told me, which is no doubt eliciting a chuckle from Mr Rosbif, Flushy himself. The rest of the table also elected to check this.

The turn fell a rather frightening 5h completing any flush or straight draws that happened to be lurking.

Back to the man himself...

"Well with no hearts i checked and it went bet, call, call, call ,call so I folded them. Got out cheap for only 200!"

The winner of the hand was ultimately the form man of DTD, Mr. Richard Berridge. Tony was bemoaning Richard's early good fortune.

"He's had THREE straights you know!"

All I can say is despite his Kings being cracked, Tikay's looking mean!!!

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Here's your enfant terrible, just busted...

"Three hands determined my tournament life," he said.  And they were:  Starting with a Kc Jh which flopped top pair against an under the gun preflop limper, and as the board progressed raggy, he ended up losing about 3k to A-J.

Then Ah 5h hit a Qh 4h 9d board enough to get a good few chips from him as Anthony Nicholls AND another player were clearly interested - the small blind third player check-raising the flop to 1,200 and taking both others with him.  James gave up by the time the river paired with the 4c, but Tony flat called the other's final bet with Qs 9s which had been sucked out by 9s 4c...

Finally, it was a pair:  6h 6c which called a button raise preflop with a couple of others only to flop an un-get-awayable 5-7-8.  Queens weren't going anywhere, and he's eyeing up the £50 comp  :)

Can you say 'multiway'?

I think when the smoke cleared at the end of this frankly ridiculous hand the exiter was Stuart Hopkin, but I only got there towards the end as an excitable Tikay came to let us know that six limpers had all called a preflop raise to 400... The raiser was presumably Nathan Ticehurst, who, with Kh Ks was one of the two players to get his stack in on a 5c 4d 2c flop.  The other was Hopkin, whose 5s 4s had done fairly well out of the first three cards. 
Turn:  7h
River:  2s  (and while I originally thought Hopkin held Fives and was surprised to see the pot going to Ticehurst) ..."Got there in the end," he said, somewhat apologetically, with the shrug of someone counting their nice new stack regardless.

Sad to say that Dingdell is more busto than the eggshells used to make the omelette Jen is currently  stuffing her face with.

A victim of Kings versus Aces, she couldn't get away and departs at this early stage, disappointed but wearing her omnipresent beaming smile as she wended her way to the nearby cash tables.

Incidentally vis-a-vis Jen's omelette, as she was hunched over ravenously devouring her meal like a starving wolf presented with a freshly roasted chicken, I enquired gently, although somewhat foolishly if I could taste a bit.

What turned round to confront me was no longer Jen the mild mannered updater but some insane, murderous denizen of hades, charged with protecting its horde of sustinence whatever the cost.

I won't be asking again!

Here is the demonic, caticidal killer herself...

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The Layout of DTD currently, minus the early casualties:

11   1   Robert Forrest
11   2   Kevin Pearce
11   3   Ricky Smith
11   4   Tom Cairns
11   5   Frances Creed
11   6   Stuart Langford
11   7   Andrew Wilson
11   9   Matt Russell

12   1   Scott Genever
12   2   Robert Ballou
12   3   Andrew Woods
12   4   George Kennedy
12   5   Thomas Walters
12   6   Paul Pitchford
12   7   Nichiei Hicks
12   8   Joanne Hyde
12   9   Stephen Brogan

14   1   Phillip Toomer
14   2   Justin Davies
14   3   Scott Marsh
14   4   Raj Dhiri
14   5   John Maddison
14   6   Narciso Baldo
14   7   Pat Kelley
14   8   Jason Wheatley
14   9   Junood Miah

15   1   Nathan Ticehurst
15   2   Richard Berridge
15   3   Lee Rawson
15   4   David Nisbet
15   5   Christopher Moore
15   6   Paul Garnham
15   7   Anthony Kendall
15   8   John Sadler
15   9   Khalid Akram

22   1   Craig Stewart
22   2   Neil Giblin
22   3   Daniel Byrom
22   4   Peter Conduit
22   5   Waheed Ashraf
22   6   Debbie Fox
22   7   Barrie Sherbert
22   9   Te Ng Cao

23   1   Jason Bates
23   2   Dean Ellis
23   3   Sarbjit Kular
23   4   Simon Lee
23   5   David Louden
23   6   Alan Stearn
23   7   Rob Allen
23   8   Antonio Dicesare
23   9   Nicholas Watchorn

25   1   Trevor Pearson
25   2   Martin Jarvis
25   3   Nick Carter
25   4   Paul Macgregor
25   5   Ralph Shalson
25   6   Stephen Hill
25   7   Julian Lefevre
25   9   Gurpreet Nagi

32   1   Daniel Walker
32   2   Keith Swain
32   3   Chintu Pattani
32   4   John Perrin
32   5   James Moult
32   6   Maurice Nicholson
32   7   Sean Breslin
32   8   Andrew Stewart

33   1   Scott Thacker
33   2   Lee Nayler
33   3   Chris Cancelliere
33   4   Mark Stafford
33   6   Daniel Ward
33   7   Thomas Mccready
33   8   Mojid Khan
33   9   Mazhar Latif

34   2   Sadikiah Tapper
34   3   Ashley Smith
34   4   Marcus Bebb-jones
34   5   Chin Chai Koh
34   6   Neil Blatchly
34   7   David Smith
34   8   Philip Clarke
34   9   Liaquat Javed

35   1   Demetrios Nikolaidis
35   2   Leon Rovira
35   3   Carl Hoefkens
35   4   Kyriacos Dionysiou
35   5   Mark Lewis
35   6   Alan Stokes
35   8   Jack Serghi
35   9   Jason Wong

36   1   Ian King
36   2   Mark Roberts
36   3   Christopher Bruce
36   4   Yucel Eminoglu
36   7   Paul Rayner
36   8   Hiren Kanabar
36   9   Gamal Mosleh

While some tables are combusting with the usual sorts of fireworks, others seem to have a more laissez-faire attitude, with the players conserving their energy by not paying so much attention to the action, or just sort of focusing with resigned expressions on the middle distance. 

E.g.  Tom Cairns, Fran Creed, Stuart Langford

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Meanwhile on the rail but just this moment summoned to a cash game Daniel 'Kinboshi' Philips reminds us that poker players are allowed facial expressions.

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And also, presumably allowed to pose like they're in a Gap Advert.

Is that 14 year old Olympic 8th placed diver Tom Daley raking in a pot?

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Nick Hicks has got himself off to a less than auspicious start, his stack dwindling down to 7k or so, partly as a result of running into Aces twice already! Snickers, he probably thought as he spied another pair of bullets trained on his stack.

The latest hand to create a dent in his stack involved him betting out with A-J on a 7d Jh 8c flop, only to receive a flat call and now a check raise. He decided he didn't like this spot so laid it down, though when the check raiser bet out big on the turn and lost his only customer he was denied the opportunity to see if he was right.

Perhaps he got away from yet ANOTHER pair of bullets!

Here is Nick, down a few chips but still full of beans. Maybe a redbull would help sir...

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Two of the biggest names here - Kyriacos Dionysiou and Demetrios Nikolaidis clash, which attack sees Greek Jack stacked...

Jack limped for 150, as did John Perrin, and then button Jason Wong upped it to 1,250.  Interestingly, small blind Demetrios Nikolaidis as well as the two limpers called and saw a flop:  9h 7s 2s  It checked round, bringing the Ts on the turn.  Check to Greek Jack, who made it 3k to go, with only Nikolaidis calling this time.
River:  3h  Check to Greek Jack once again, who plonked in the rest of his stack - 6,500.  He was called, albeit after some deliberation, by Nikolaidis (pictured) who showed 7d 7h and picked up the big pot and emptied seat 5.

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BLUFF ALERT

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A 9k pot goes to Daniel Walker (top) after a ballsy 3,500 bet on the river with the board standing 8s 6s 9d 3c 2c.  He left himself just 2,050 behind, which sent his opponent Andrew Woods (the guy leaning forward in consternation in the bottom photo) with a clearly unpleasant decision.  He took a long time to pass, during which Walker just sat there, hoody lowered like the Evil Emperor in Star Wars, and calmly waited until Woods passed.  When he showed him the busted flush draw Aspades 4s.

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Tikay is buzzing now and I encountered a unique situation that rarely occurs when speaking to Tikay about his progress. He gave me an accurate chip count!

Wowzer. Normally Tikay will make bold and highly fallacious claims about his stack but on this occasion his pride was shining through as he showcased the glistening and very real 16,000 chips he has accumulated thusfar.

Much of this was down to a fortuitous flop where 4 people limped on his big blind, he checked his option with Ahrt 7h and the dealer laid out a splendid 5h 6h 9h flop.

Nice to flop the nuts with a redraw eh!

Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=324) Garnham (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=324) aka M3boy was one of the players to donate some chips this hand, in a spicy battle where he was unable to force Tikay off the nuts. Some players just can't fold eh?

Anyway I was buoyed by Tikay's rare show of veracity and I began to leave the table with a rnew found optimism and feeling of love for mankind before he stopped me dead in my tracks...

"Oh, but tell blonde I have 35,000 ok?"

Cynicism mode restored. Faith in humanity>>>>recycle bin.

Tikay has crushed my renewed spirit of hope like a quaver under a jack-boot. Here he is simultaneously boasting about his giant stack to red dog whilst holding in his stomach to appear more attractive.

Does it work?

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Incognito star of screen?  Note, if you will, the gent in the white hat on Red-Dog's table.  Note too, if you will, his uncanny resemblance to porn star Ron Jeremy.  Ooh-la-la.

Ron Jeremy

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Lee Nayler

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Current chip standings, courtesy of the helpful DTD staff.

Demetrios Nikolaidis   35   1   40150
Ian King   36   1   31050
David Smith   34   7   27275
Liaquat Javed   34   9   24075
Yucel Eminoglu   36   4   23950
Mark Roberts   36   2   21850
Te Ng Cao   22   9   20325
John Perrin   35   7   20075
Scott Genever   11   6   18525
Mazhar Latif   33   9   17650
Nathan Ticehurst   15   1   17625
Daniel Walker   12   1   17550
Mark Lewis   36   6   17300
Gurpreet Nagi   25   9   16775
Dean Ellis   23   2   16475
Scott Marsh   14   3   16000
Anthony Kendall   15   7   15675
George Kennedy   12   4   15300
Ricky Smith   11   3   15025
Ashley Smith   34   3   14850
Lee Rawson   15   3   14800
Craig Stewart   22   1   14225
Peter Conduit   22   4   14000
Tom Cairns   11   4   13725
Thomas Walters   12   5   13650
Neil Giblin   22   2   13525
Chintu Pattani   34   4   13475
Neil Blatchly   34   6   13425
Justin Davies   14   2   13425
Antonio Dicesare   36   5   12925
Phillip Toomer   14   1   12875
Julian Lefevre   25   7   12825
Andrew Wilson   11   7   12750
Jason Bates   23   1   12550
Scott Thacker   33   1   12325
Robert Ballou   12   2   12250
Nick Carter   25   3   11500
Paul Pitchford   12   6   11425
Paul Garnham   15   6   10850
Alan Stokes   35   6   10775
Thomas Mccready   33   7   10750
Narciso Baldo   14   6   10725
Frances Creed   11   5   10700
Jason Wheatley   14   8   10575
Martin Jarvis   25   2   10375
Robert Forrest   11   1   10350
Carl Hoefkens   35   3   10025
Trevor Pearson   25   1   10000
Ralph Shalson   25   5   10000
Leon Rovira   35   2   9875
Mark Stafford   33   4   9600
David Nisbet   15   4   9425
Jason Wong   35   9   9300
Sarbjit Kular   23   3   9200
James Moult   25   8   9000
Barrie Sherbert   22   7   8975
John Sadler   15   8   8900
Matt Russell   11   9   8850
Rob Allen   23   7   8600
Junood Miah   14   9   8500
Joanne Hyde   12   8   8275
Lee Nayler   35   4   8075
Pat Kelley   14   7   8050
Richard Berridge   34   1   8025
Christopher Moore   15   5   7925
Stephen Hill   25   6   7850
Simon Lee   23   4   7750
Christopher Bruce   36   3   7650
John Maddison   14   5   7650
Alan Stearn   23   6   7600
Hiren Kanabar   36   8   7300
Maurice Nicholson   11   8   7250
Keith Swain   33   5   7175
Chin Chai Koh   34   5   7125
Mojid Khan   33   8   6925
Nicholas Watchorn   23   9   6925
Khalid Akram   15   9   6850
Daniel Ward   33   6   6400
Kevin Pearce   11   2   6325
Sean Breslin   15   2   6325
Debbie Fox   22   6   6050
Daniel Byrom   22   3   5900
Philip Clarke   34   8   5775
Chris Cancelliere   33   3   5725
Paul Macgregor   25   4   5425
Stephen Brogan   12   9   5375
David Louden   23   5   5000
Andrew Stewart   22   8   4350
Sadikiah Tapper   34   2   4125
Andrew Woods   12   3   3500
Gamal Mosleh   36   9   3150
Jack Serghi   35   8   2975
Raj Dhiri   14   4   2125

so thats what you do with your spare time jen .

An interesting hand played out moments ago between John Sadler and a player who the table referred to lovingly as A.N Umpty.

Sadler raised to 700, only to find Mr Umpty, who is also known as Sean Breslin, re-raising all-in for a massive overshove of 7k!

Sadler made the call with A-K, probably expecting to find himself in a race or facing the same hand, only for Breslin to show how he came by his allocated nickname as he tabled the way behind and dominated A-6.

Poker is a fickle mistress though and on this occasion it was Sadler who was to be banished to the sofa with no tea or conjugal relations as the flop fell J-3-6-2-6 to give the fortunate Breslin trips and leave Sadler with a face like a bulldog chewing a lemon flavoured wasp.

Breslin allegedly did not show any humility for this outdraw though, rubbing his opponent down in unsportsmanlike fashion by thumping the table savagely several times, so hard at one point it almost threatened to wake Tikay up from his usual mid level slumber.

That's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes folks!

Less moobage imo.

GL to Neil Blatchley- on a bit of a tear at the minute

I don't know about you, but I just don't think Richard Berridge has done well enough here at DTD recently.  All I can say is he just doubled up, giving him a good shot at this one, poor lamb.

Richard Berridge raised pre, re-raised by Ashley Smith to 2,100.  Big blind Neil Blatchley had a good long dwell before passing, while early limper Liaquat Javed called quickly.  Back to Berridge who was all in faster than Flushy can say, "Tapis!" and the full 6,325 was over to Smith to call.  He eventually moved in over the top, effectively isolating with his Qs Qc - but Berridge tabled Ac Aspades.
The flop came: 4s 9c Ac at which point a bit of a "WOOO!" escaped Richard, and he launched into a fast paced ramble about something like, "The last two comps I was knocked out with Aces" etc. etc. while a glum nearly-felted Smith looked on.

Blatchley couldn't help telling everyone, "My Jacks were in bad shape then," before advising, "You should have slow played them."
Berridge's response:  "F*** off."

Berridge= seat 1, Smith= stipey sleeved seat 3.

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Dinner at the Table can be a lone, seemingly continuous, albeit happy affair...and we just don't think there are enough pictures of Red-Dog eating on here yet:

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Or it can involve a tete-a-tete, as relations thaw between the superpowers...

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Some statistical points of order. Sometimes stats of these nature can be a little tedious so I have interspersed them with some random observations.


* 1st off the confirmed number of runners was 106.

* Of these 80 combatants remain, including Tikay(20k+), M3boy (very short now) and Red Dog (15 plates of pie and chips to the good)

* Jen has spent much of the last hour using photoshop to cut pictures of herself out to paste into obscene scenes of Ron Jeremy films. A very worrying development...(**)

* We are 15 minutes into level five which is a 100 200 25 level.

* Red Dog had pocket nines early on when he flopped top set and cleverly got his opponent to pass Aces.
"'Ow did 'e pass?!?" he asked me in amazement.

* 10 places will be paid.

* 1st place will receive the grand total of £11,130.

* The DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) burger, complete with burger, steak, bacon, cheese and onion, is still awesome.

Incidentally on a tangential note, as of next month this DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) £300 will become a regular ranking event, ensuring its popularity is sure to rise.

(** May contain trace quantities of exaggeration)

That's it, I'm in the car now, me and the boys are coming to sort him out. I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE

Time for a quick table chip leader watch...

First off we have the mecurial, occasional controversial but now newly chipped up M3boy! After relating how he had suffered in the early levels and was nursing a shortstack, his fortunes have turned round in dramatic fashion such that he is now the chip daddy of his table with 23,000 of DTD's finest chips. Good work sir.

That candlit dinner with Tikay clearly worked wonders...

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The adjacent table boasts Philip Toomer as the chip leader, though this is one of the shortstacked tables as he has a mere 12,000 to his name.

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Paul Pitchford holds the honour of current table chip leader on table 12, leading the charge with a veritable abundance of chips, a whopping 38,000, which is good for the chip lead of the entire comp as things stand.

Here is our illustrious leader with his marvellous stack.

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Next up we have table 11, where a man short on syllables but long on chips heads the ravenous pack of poker players looking to relieve him of his chips. No one appears more keen to take on this task than Blonde's own Frances Creed, taking time out from munching her sandwich to eye his chips covetously.

Te Ng Gao -- 24,625

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As you will notice from Le Chat's Table Leader Watch, there are some tables with a shedload more chips on them than others.  That of Alan Stokes (featured presently in skyblue cardigan) has not only his formidable stack, but that of early leader Demetrios Nikolaidis.  Neither of those two seem afraid to get it into the middle, and just now Stokes limp-called a raise from Nikolaidis to 1,800 (blinds now 150/300).
Flop:  2h 4s 4d  Stokes bet out 2,500, and after a slow count out, found Nikolaidis raising to 5k.  Stokes considered the minraise for a while, even at one point picking up a big stack of green 1k chips and rolling them around in his hand in a way even I on the rail found intimidating.  But he passed.

I then spent about 20 minutes watching Ralph 'Karabiner' Shalson, but he seemed determined to avoid action during that time.  He still has c.8k though.

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Moving onto table 23, we find Mark Roberts, with a formidable stack of 30,500 to his name. Here he is, coiled like a cobra, ready for action, sporting a impressive cloudy sky-blue cardigan/ sweater.

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Mazhar Latif is the man in charge of his table. He may look slightly uptight from this picture but this is just a touch of camera shyness and as soon as the camera was off him, he jovially backslapped his entire table before jumping up on the felt and performing the can-can, kicking avalanches of his newly won chips all over the place.

Ok so that didn''t happen, but he is doing well nonetheless...

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Here we have Dave Smith, who has spurned his traditional dress of black suit with comedy yellow squirty flower for a red cardigan and shirt combo that have served him well thusfar as he has a bountiful stack of 34,000.

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Table 35 sees Alan Stokes as the current chip leader, who lost a bet with his wife, and was forced to turn up today in her dress. I assume. Anyway here he is, his questionable sartorial choices contrasting sharply with his impressive chip stack of 32,500.

Go go Stokie!

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Finally we have Nick Carter on table 25, with 33,000, looking ready to take on the world, or at least the small portion of it who have ponied up 300 notes to do battle today...

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We're now in the middle of the last ***************BREAK***************** of the evening so I thought I'd share with you the secret to Junglecat's success.  You know, it's a tough job commentating on other people's play - and something tells me that he's qualified to do so through many long internet-hours.  Recently, he tells me, the $10 rebuys have been falling at his feet, and what the virtual trophies don't add to his playboy lifestyle, the $$$ do. 

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=20744&g2_serialNumber=1)

Bling, man. 

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I hear he also has a Jagwar.  Show of hands - who's impressed?  Come on, feel free to Interact!

[  ] JC is 30+

I was surprised, it was that horrible moment when you realise that the two pairing means your going home! Tell evilpie he is stack is embarrassingly small! Well done u two and good night!

[ ] JC is not winning an iPoker comp whilst updating.

chip counts for neil blatchley, fran creed and nick hicks pls?

Chip Counts from the last break - NB not entirely accurate, reasons coming...

David Smith   34   7   42100
Demetrios Nikolaidis   35   1   41600
Mark Roberts   23   5   33000
Liaquat Javed   34   9   31125
Nick Carter   25   3   28875
Te Ng Cao   11   6   27850
Ian King   35   5   27600
Paul Pitchford   12   6   27300
Mazhar Latif   25   9   25850
Tom Cairns   11   4   25525
Peter Conduit   34   2   24875
Anthony Kendall   15   7   23850
Robert Ballou   12   2   21675
Jack Serghi   35   8   21625
Dean Ellis   23   2   21275
Keith Swain   34   4   21075
Alan Stokes   35   6   20725
Jason Bates   23   1   19175
Richard Berridge   34   1   19075
Scott Genever   12   7   18750
Thomas Walters   12   5   18650
Mark Lewis   14   4   18625
John Perrin   35   7   18600
Antonio Dicesare   11   1   18100
Paul Garnham   15   6   18100
Nathan Ticehurst   15   1   17500
Neil Giblin   23   6   17475
George Kennedy   12   4   17275
Pat Kelley   14   7   16950
Craig Stewart   23   8   16850
Ashley Smith   34   3   16250
Robert Forrest   12   1   16200
Kevin Pearce   12   8   15375
Barrie Sherbert   25   7   15250
Andrew Wilson   11   7   15175
Martin Jarvis   25   2   15075
Debbie Fox   12   9   14600
Mojid Khan   23   9   14050
Hiren Kanabar   15   2   13850
Jason Wong   35   9   13550
Frances Creed   11   5   13525
James Moult   25   8   13525
Lee Rawson   15   3   13500
Justin Davies   14   2   12800
Philip Clarke   34   8   12750
Ricky Smith   11   3   12600
Junood Miah   14   9   11650
Narciso Baldo   14   6   11575
Thomas Mccready   14   3   11000
Scott Marsh   25   4   10175
Stephen Hill   25   6   9725
Chris Cancelliere   15   4   9000
Phillip Toomer   14   1   8550
Leon Rovira   35   2   8525
Simon Lee   23   4   8025
Sarbjit Kular   23   3   7625
Mark Stafford   11   2   7550
Ralph Shalson   25   5   7200
Chin Chai Koh   34   5   6850
Khalid Akram   15   9   6575
Matt Russell   11   9   5900
John Sadler   15   8   5850
Yucel Eminoglu   12   3   5825
John Maddison   14   5   5425
Christopher Moore   15   5   4950
Rob Allen   23   7   4750
Trevor Pearson   25   1   4600
Lee Nayler   35   4   4550

Anthony Kendall   15   7   23850

:o

Fran Creed is OUT - having dropped to 6,375, she found a reasonable shove spot in the big blind with Th Tc - but this was after Kevin Pearce and Tom Cairns had shown interest to the tune of a raise to 2,600 from Kevin and a small blind Tom call.  Both players then called her all-in; she put on her coat.
They quickly checked all the way down until the board read:  Ad Kd Kc 8c 5s at which Fran's Tens were flipped, and both of the others kind of froze momentarily, before Tom Cairns showed some disappointing Jacks to knock her out.

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Karabiner plays hand!

Of course, I miss it, and get there to see him stacking up his new 17k stack.

Alan Stokes tries to order tea off me!

He waves me over, as often happens, and I say, "I think you want her, I am afraid," nodding towards the valet currently taking an order from someone else at the table.
"You're as good looking as she is, and she's busy.  I've got a big order."    :o
Clearly not one to be put off ordering food from anyone female, he had clearly taken hold of the wrong end of the stick.  Not one to turn down a tip, I handed him a menu, before backing slowly off, at which point the valet was ready to help him out. 

Rob Allen Made to Sweat for Double up!

Neil Giblin performed the dwell of the tournament after calling an early position raise to something like 1,800 and then finding Rob Allen behind him moving in for 4,800 total.  The original raiser passed, but he took a long time to make the call with what turned out to be Ahrt Jc, in bad shape against Allen's Js Jh.  No outdraw, and a relieved-looking Allen was saved from the felt precipice.

Sick Kular

Sarbjit Kular and Matt Russell just tangled in uncompromising fashion for a monster pot. Kular made it 3k or so UTG, only to find Russell shipping it in for his entire 17k stack over the top from UTG+1.

It was a big call that required a big hand to make but Sarbjit was in no mood to back off calling the bulk of his stack off with pocket Queens and when Matt flipped his cards it transpired he held a slim advantage over Russell's A-K.

This advantage rapidly dissipated though as a King spiked to leave Sarbjit clutching at a two-outer shaped straw, but the rest of the flop was much like the annual car parking awards ceremony - no ladies in sight.

Ok, so I'll prob get some hate posts about that so apologies for my blatant sexism. Moving swiftly on...

Here are the duo, posing in classic contrast as Russell is all smiles and laughter as he stacks up his chips whilst a glum Kular waits patiently to find a spot to double his micro-stack up into a mini stack.

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[X] JC is not winning an iPoker comp whilst updating.

Dubai? You Couldn't Be More Wong!

Yes as well as running the £300 freezeout tonight, DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) has played host to the national Dubai looky-likey awards.

Here is Mr Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=114) Shallow (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=114) himself, who was sadly unable to attend in person but had these words of support for those vying to win the much sought after trophy.

"Stick it all on red son. Gamboool!"

Thanks very much for the tip Dave, but I doubt Red Dog is in the running.

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Taking the results in reverse order, in second place we have Dom Joly of Trigger Happy TV fame. Well played sir.

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But the winner is none other than Jason Wong, whose sterling Dubai impression left Dusk Till  (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)Dawn (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) breathless, speechless and largely pie-less.

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Excellent win. We congratulate you from the bottom of our hearts.

Outdraw, re-outdraw, re-re-outdraw news now:

Scott Genever (pictured with the irrepressable small smile of the player who's come out doubling through when he could easily have been rail-propping) got his short stack all in on a flop of 3c 5s Kc.  Neighbour with a much less mirthful expression Kevin Pearce (the one on the right of the photo, I know it's hard to tell) called with a perfectly reasonable Ac 4c.
Turn: Aspades
River: Qd

Oh the rollercoaster.  Looks like they both make the last level of the day.

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Lady Luck - Still in the tournament as it heads for its 3:15am close is the weary yet still fighting Debbie Fox.  Good to see an unfamiliar female face grace the tables. 

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The Tikay Train Trundles Triumphantly Onward

Tikay has been padding his stack regularly with raises, his latest coup a raise to 1,500 which caused his table to all fold before he flipped over the pretty looking Ad Qd.

"If I keep getting hands, I've got to keep raising!" he said, with possibly just a trace of a sneaky undertone of latent intent lacing his normal dulcid tones.

Possibly a few cheeky raises might be coming from Tikay's direction in the next few levels and he may be a little more reticent in revealing his hands at that point!

Just a guess though!

Tikay Train Derailed...

Berridge raised with Q-9, and Tikay took a shot with A-J.  No good - two pair graces the board.

Literally seconds later - it must be the very next hand - and Tikay is circling the table shaking hands, and someone is saying, "Sorry."  Uh-oh.  OUT.  He says, "I thought there was no way I was not going to get to Day Two.  Then Richard Berridge has this accident against Paul Garnham, and then moves in every hand for a whole orbit."  Here comes the Q-9 story.  "I moved in blind the next hand, and got a blind call - Aspades Qs vs my Ad Td."  He took his shot, and missed.  Now looking a little shell shocked, he comes to chat with equally railbirding Red-Dog. 

A big hand just played out between Paul Garnham and Richard Berridge.

Richard had raised preflop and Paul made the call in position.

The flop fell Jh 7s 5h, Richard bet out and Paul made the call.

The turn was the 6c and Richard checked, which Paul took as a cue to bet out 6,000, only to find Richard check raising all-in. Paul didn't look happy about this and went into the tank for a while, before finally deciding he had too much invested to fold his draw-tastic Kh 8h for an open ended straight draw and flush draw.

Berridge showed down A-J for TPTK, currently ahead but needing to dodge quite a few outs.

The 7h on the river was one of those however, making Paul a flush and leaving Richard miffed about his misfortune. "Did you think I was at it!" he asked Paul with a touch of anger in his voice. M3boy quietly stacked up his chips...

Final Exit of the Day:

Supershort stacked Robert Ballou moved in for his 6,700 over the top of a raiser, who autocalled with Kd Ts.  Ballou's Ahrt Qs had a good chance...but instead sent him to the rail as the board four-flushed him out 9s 2d 7d 4d Qd.  A final painful moment before play stopped with just four tables remaining....

And with that snippet from the Jen-meister, proceedings have drawn to a close here at DTD and they are baggin' and taggin' as we speak.

We will put up the final chip counts as soon as we have them in our greedy little mitts but for now, let me thank you for joining us here at DTD as a typical feast of poker has been served up, replete with all the lovely trimmings we have come to expect.

34 of the initial 106 players are still remaining and they will re-convene to play out to a finish at 3 o clock tomorrow.

It should be a cracker and we hope you join us to witness the thrilling denouement of the tournament.

Who's your money on?

We'll see you then but for now from myself and Ron Jeremy's future co-star Jen Mason,

 ;stickaforkinme;

Bye guys :)

Ever true to our word, please find the end of day chip counts(thank you DTD for providing us with these.)


Te Ng Cao   11   6   72900
Nick Carter   12   9   55600
Mark Roberts   11   8   54400
Narciso Baldo   14   6   54200
Ian King   15   8   51100
David Smith   15   7   51100
Dean Ellis   12   1   50100
Paul Pitchford   12   6   48200
Paul Garnham   15   6   46000
Tom Cairns   11   4   38800
Peter Conduit   11   1   36400
Demetrios Nikolaidis   11   5   36000
Alan Stokes   14   3   35100
James Moult   15   9   33700
George Kennedy   12   4   31000
Matt Russell   11   9   30700
Richard Berridge   15   5   29600
Kevin Pearce   12   8   24600
Thomas Walters   12   5   24200
Philip Clarke   14   7   23200
Trevor Pearson   12   3   22300
Lee Rawson   15   3   22000
Ralph Shalson   14   1   20900
Ashley Smith   14   8   20500
Jason Wong   15   2   20200
Mark Lewis   14   4   19500
Justin Davies   14   2   16300
Junood Miah   14   9   16300
Scott Genever   12   7   14500
Chris Cancelliere   15   4   13900
Lee Nayler   11   7   12600
Liaquat Javed   11   3   10800
Hiren Kanabar   11   2   10500
John Maddison   14   5   10200