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Next month DTD will be holding it's £1,000 Anniversary Cup Event, meaning this weekend's £300 event will be the last 'official' one of the year. It'll be interesting to see how numbers will fair vs the Grosvenor Grand Prix which everyone will agree didn't do so well this year and also against the £500 event at Star City in Birmingham. Play starts at 8pm, though I'll be heading over to DTD in the next half hour or so.

Who is coming? Who do you want reports on? And most importantly of all, how many breakfasts will Red Dog manage during the tournament?

Hey man,

I'm setting off in the next 20 mins, so see you down there :)

GL to all blondes, can you list all blondes playing please Chris.

Geo

not for me this month im afraid

best of luck to leknave,pete linton,jay wong,and any other buds that play

RedDog is here at Star City. I'll be over there soon if I don't recover some chips!

Interesting piece of news for anyone who knows him. Will Fry, online player from Nottingham, has won the EPT in Budapest. I admit I've never heard of him, but have any of you Notts locals?

[  ] Kinboshi just turned up and was definitely, DEFINITELY not swearing about football.

Yes I know Will.  Sometimes seen playing cash at DTD and the odd comp.  He wears a black lip ring and talks quit slowly lol.  Definately not a prediction any of us in Nottingham wou
ld have made I reckon but well played Will, must have done something right.

I'm not playing tonight but gl those that are.

As the clock counts down (13:16 to go) the number of runners counts up (58 and counting).  So many different poker things are happening this weekend that this probably isn't going to be the busiest £300 freezeout of the year, but it's always a good comp and we're up for watching those we know and love to watch bust out one at a time (apart from the winner).

good luck also to the absolutly lovely "uncle"dave nesbit..i love him dearly,and carl hoefkens(think thats spelt right)who plays for football team west brom but is also a good poker player too.oh and hes quite easy on the eye for the ladies,lol

************************Shuffle Up and Deal!***************************

About 50 seconds ago, almost drowned out by the crowd gathered around the one-hand-turnover satellite occurring on a nearby table ("OOOH! He's got a FLUSH DRAW!") which I think may have been won by Richard Berridge, the tournament started.  Off go the usual mix of regulars and players drawn by the allure of Nottingham, pictures and stories on their way.

Here is your yet-to-be-completed seating list:

11   1   Mark Roberts
11   2   Greg Hill
11   3   Gurpreet Nagi
11   4   Peter Wilkerson
11   5   Marios Charalambous
11   6   Dylan Herbert
12   1   Marcus Bebb-jones
12   2   Neil Blatchly
12   3   Stephen Jakes
12   4   Ibrahim Ullah
12   5   Stephen Thomson
12   6   Andrew Murphy
14   1   Richard Fuller
14   2   Christopher Bruce
14   3   Neil Giblin
14   4   Narciso Baldo
14   5   John Sadler
14   6   Kyriacos Dionysiou
15   1   James Buckley
15   2   Waheed Ashraf
15   3   Peter Conduit
15   4   Robert Bostock
15   5   Mark Gogerty
15   6   Abdul Qadoos
22   1   Robert Ballou
22   2   David Louden
22   3   Danny Toffel
22   4   Tasos Grigoriou
22   5   Richard Rudling-smith
23   1   Christopher Bushell
23   2   Mazhar Latif
23   3   Harprit Singh Gurnam
23   4   Daniel Ward
23   5   Ricky Smith
23   6   Thomas Jones
25   1   Sam Trickett
25   2   Kevin Smith
25   3   Mark Stafford
25   4   Lee Nayler
25   5   Richard Cowley
25   6   James Morris
33   1   Richard Berridge
33   2   Shaun Williams
33   3   Jeff Sharpe
33   4   Trevor Pearson
33   5   John Perrin
34   1   Peter Singleton
34   2   Henry Griffiths
34   3   Paul Garnham
34   4   Habib Chatoo
34   5   David Statham
34   6   David Nisbet
35   1   Carl Hoefkens
35   2   Michael Millar
35   3   Geoffrey Hill
35   4   Keith Jones
35   5   Jef Copeland
35   6   Steve Critchley

Players just keep streaming in...

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table 26,lol

trigg,leknave,Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=115) Smith (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=115),middy and chiprich

LeKnave, "We really shouldn't have all bought all at the same time..."

He's already lost a few chips in what seemed a reraised pot after Nicholas Marshall and Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=115) Smith (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=115) both checked the Jc 7s 6h flop. Dave bet 1,100, Marshall raised to 3,100 and both Daves' passed quickly.

also on table 26 nick marshall and sam savielle-barton are best buds and live together..i thought it was a random draw even for late entrys,lol

definatly an interesting table

Uncle Carl Hoefkens:

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Footballer Dave Nesbit (pondering bet)

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Yeah the boy band aren't  best pleased either...  ::)

26   1   David Smith
26   2   David Jones
26   3   Richard Trigg
26   4   Sam Savile-barton
26   5   Thomas Middleton
26   6   Richard Hare
26   7   Nicholas Marshall

well, The football team I work gets smashed, the team I support gets beaten by spurs, and on the down to DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) somethin inside the wheel goes 'pop, crunch, bang', so here I am posting from the iPhone inside the recovery truck!!

Happy days!!

PS. Thanks Simon for sorting me out...

James Mitchell, also on table 26 is out. Set over set against Thomas Middleton, Mitchell left with just 125 chips which went in with Jc Tc against lost out to Sam Savile-Barton's Q-7 on a 7-5-3-3-6 board.

weeeee Go Middy/Spinsky!

Pictures of table 26 plz guys.

how many runners so far guys?

looks like a fine turnout considering the number of events this weekend

Also gracing the tables with their presence:

Chris Bruce - DTD permawinner toasts you, yes, you! (apologies for the slightly hallucinatory coloration on this photo - I couldn't repeat this if I wanted to):

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Richard Rudling-Smith Knows Something You Don't Know:

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It could be that he knows that on his immediate left lurks Pete Linton, already pictured hoovering up some early chips with an expression of mild disdain for their lovely smooth round forms.  Don't be offended, chips.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22592&g2_serialNumber=1)

ul.  I recommend securing the broken piece with that brown packing tape and 'dealing with it later'.  Works for me.

108; guarantee met; I see at least three players here who were in Birmingham this morning, though... Perfect timing to sweep up the mid-level busters - only an hour on the train :)

Don't borrow Jen's car imo.

Has Sam Trickett's ban been lifted?

Table 26.

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None are going to win hoodie of the day though.

Rudders, "I've had a deuce in every hand, but once...once it was suited..."

Meanwhile Pete Linton is already up to nearly 17k/18k, deuces don't seem to stop him, "I had Jd 2d suited and raised it up and the flop came with 2 diamonds, I bet, he raises me, I call. The turn is another diamond so I make a really big bet because I think he has a set or straight, he calls but the river is another diamond so I make a small bet but this time he folds."

Pete then promptly dashed off for a cig because he'd "stopped hitting cards."

What has Rick come as?

I would presume so, but it hasn't been a happy return so far, he's dropped half his stack and has just 5k.

Wow, you can tell winter is upon us (and I haven't, despite a good amount of wandering, seen any hands which are interesting enough to commit to virtual paper) by the fact that this picture is pretty much monochrome - black sweaters, black T-shirts, white shirts.  Table 34 looks like it's in mourning for the entry fee:

34   1   Peter Singleton
34   2   Henry Griffiths
34   3   Paul Garnham
34   4   Habib Chatoo
34   5   David Statham
34   6   David Nisbet
34   7   Antonio Dicesare

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22596&g2_serialNumber=1)

But this might only be because all the colours within a five-mile radius have been hijacked by this highwayman (Tom Rutter):

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22602&g2_serialNumber=1)

And given as tribute to this man, NoflopsHomer:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22598&g2_serialNumber=1)

Just in case you can't make it out, and you might want to adjust your sets, here's the detail in all is horrifying clashing made-by-a-five-year-old-out-of-felt, mortality themed glory:

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Double upish for Ralph Shalson.

Multiway pot featuring several other players including Greg Hill.

8s Ad 6s

It's checked to Mark Roberts who bets 500 into a 600 or so pot. Passed back around to Karabiner who check/raises to 1,500. Call.

7c

Karabiner bets 2,500. Roberts thinks for a moment before moving all-in. Karabiner instantly calls and shows 8c 8h leaving his opponent drawing dead with Ahrt Js.

8d makes quaaaaaaaaaadss for Karabiner, he's close to 20k.

wow, its jesus and his amazing technicoloured non-blonde poker updater compliant dreamcoat hoodie!

(http://lewandopix.com/files/buddy_christ2.jpg)

just been looking at the players list are there no women playing???

makes me want to get off my butt and come down there(if only i could magic a babysitter)

Women? Playing poker? You'll be wanting the vote next... ;scarymoment;

Floppys hoody scared them all off

I've got the seal of approval from at least two female members of staff here, so :P

Thomson's Directory Tells Bebb-Jones Where to Get His Kings Cracked:

Well, I've sort of given it away, but this hand was already interesting by the flop, when a raise hand been re-raised, it looked like, by Marcus Bebb-Jones and called by Stephen Thomson.  The board stood 8d Ks 6c and I really started paying attention only when Marcus made a call here which elevated the pot to just over 3,000. 
The turn: Aspades.  Both players check.
River: Ts  Marcus Bebb-Jones bets out 1,500 now, and Stephen Thomson raised a further 3,500.  Instantly Marcus announces all-in, and even though 5k has already gone in on the river alone from each player, Thomson now thinks long and hard about calling off the rest of his stack (he's covered).  Both hands do that simple chip-flip trick with an intense sort of speed; he stares, gets stared at, and eventually throws the rest of his stack in with a shrug.

Bebb-Jones: Kc Kd, yes, a flopped set of Kings
Thomson: 7s 9h, yes, a rivered straight. 

Bebb-Jones almost felted, probably wishing he had actually had the flush/higher straight which presumably was causing his opponent the angst.

As predicted, another exit, bringing the total down to 99, which fit nicely on 11 tables.  Here are those unlucky few who've already busted and are probably in one of the cash games or the simultaneous £50 tournament running behind us:

100   Keith Jones
101   Marcus Bebb-jones
102   Edward Roger
103   John Deeley
104   Joe Whittaker
105   Habib Chatoo
106   Mark Roberts
107   Basharat Mahmood
108   John Perrin
109   Richard Kellett
110   James Mitchell

Rudders is on about 14k after getting into a favourable spot with A-K against a serial preflop overbettor's A-Q, flopping the nut flush.

It looks as though Thomas Middleton has lost a fair number of his early set over set chips to Nick Marshall and as I type that, their table is now breaking.

Marcus Bebb-Jones is out. He was all-in preflop with Neil Blatchly and Paul Rayner calling

Th 5s 2c

Blatchly bets a suspiciously small 1k into a pot approaching 6k. Rayner calls.

4d

Blatchly moves all-in, Rayner calls quickly flipping 5c 4c, Blatchly shows Ac Aspades. Bebb-Jones shows 9s 9d.

Blatchly asks for a ten....

Td

Ask and ye shall receive... Rayner is very short now, Blatchly has about 20k.

Sam Trickett Nearly Checks the Winning Hand

Out of position on the river.  Slowing to a check on the turn with the board 9s 6s 6c Ks 5s, he fires 1,300 on the river which gets a reluctant-looking call from Simon Lee who mutters something like, "Queen," before mucking to Sam's Aspades 4s.  "I nearly checked on the river," he gets told, as a bonus.  "You get checked to twice, do you bet?"  Maybe we'll never know.

Was it along the lines of "we approve you to be our new gay best friend"

James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=184) Atkin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=184) is out, A-4 vs A-5 on an A-3-5 board when short. "I donk out of these so quick..."

Sam Trickett and Richard Berridge are also gone.

Trick-outt

It did not go according to plan tonight for young Sam.  Just now a reasonably-sized pot went to Anthony Nicholls, who bet 1,500 on the turn with the board reading 2h Ks 9h Kd.  Sam called immediately, and then faced another bet on the bricky 5d river.  Trickett literally kissed his 2k goodbye, threw it in, and mucked when Nicholls showed Kh Jc.

Anthony Nicholls - 30k - Don't Mess with Him

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Sam mentioned that Nicholls had managed to outdraw him in several big pots which had cost him. "When I saw my table draw I really thought I could get a big stack."

Thomas Middleton has also been busted, failing to capitalise on his earlier good fortune.

Noticed wife is watchin... sorry I didn't phone at half 9 dear... left my phone on the hall table..  :D

Running like a dog but hangin in there.

He Shal Not Be Moved

Ralph 'Karabiner' Shalson just got out of jail on the river, avoiding doubling through Kevin Pearce in the process.  Blind on blind, Karabiner raised with the Aspades Ks and got a reasonable looking flop: Qd Tc Ad.  Small blind Pearce bet out 1,200, Shalson made it 3,200, Pearce was all in for just under 12k, and called.  He'd only flopped the nuts with Kh Jh, but the Jc popped out on the river to chop the pot leaving him still on 12k, Ralph still on 28k.

Here are both of them, sorry only half of Kevin Pearce:

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I was going to do a "Whose Manbag?" competition, but I've now used my photo of him and might as well post it, could possibly do a kind of Family Fortunes Quiz of what's in it...: 

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Thomas Middleton's exit was down to two hands really. A-A vs 5-4 on a 9-4-4-x-x board. Then K-K vs 8-7 on a 9-7-5-7-5 board. About the latter he said, "I should've folded on the river, he isn't bluffing."

Dave "Riverdave" Penly with a look that says, "I've played 3 tournaments in the last 24 hours."

Which he has. (Budapest, Birmingham and here).

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Is Mr Penly a badbeat player now?

Chip counts at the end of the first break:

Anthony Nicholls   25   7   34400
Ralph Shalson   11   8   27525
Tony Salmon   36   3   26875
Nicholas Marshall   35   4   26025
Stephen Thomson   12   5   24225
Peter Linton   22   6   23900
Jeff Sharpe   33   3   23750
Kevin Smith   33   5   22475
Harprit Singh Gurnam   23   3   21975
Matt Russell   23   8   21675
Nicholas Fellone   35   7   20675
Keith Littlewood   36   5   20075
Sam Savile-barton   15   4   19525
Mark Stafford   25   3   18775
Thomas Gibson   25   9   17750
David Nisbet   34   6   16375
Daniel Platten   14   8   16225
Alan Wilson   22   8   16125
Peter Singleton   34   1   15925
Christopher Bushell   23   1   15875
Robert Bostock   34   9   15750
John Burke   25   1   15725
David Smith   12   1   15625
Garinder Purewal   34   8   15450
Mark Lewis   25   2   14975
Andrew Murphy   12   6   14900
Kyriacos Dionysiou   14   6   14900
Richard Rudling-smith   22   5   14850
Shaun Williams   33   2   14575
Richard Trigg   11   1   14450
Adrian Swingler   36   8   14350
Shane Fyffe   36   6   13675
Narciso Baldo   14   4   13525
Tom Rutter   36   2   13500
Waheed Ashraf   15   2   13325
Tasos Grigoriou   22   4   12825
Geoffrey Hill   35   3   12400
Paul Rayner   12   8   12300
Thomas Jones   23   6   11825
Carl Hoefkens   35   1   11250
Kevin Pearce   11   7   11225
Michael Millar   35   2   11225
Robert Ballou   22   1   11200
Neil Blatchly   12   2   11150
Neil Giblin   14   3   10700
Christopher Bruce   14   2   10525
Antonio Dicesare   34   7   10400
Carl Walker   15   8   10250
Steve Critchley   35   6   10075
Greg Hill   11   2   9975
Ashique Miah   36   1   9750
Te Ng Cao   15   7   9750
Andrew Booth   23   7   9700
Mazhar Latif   23   2   9625
Peter Conduit   15   3   9100
Paul Garnham   34   3   9025
Alan Stokes   15   6   8400
Henry Griffiths   34   2   8150
Stephen Jakes   12   3   7875
Marios Charalambous   11   5   7800
Dylan Herbert   11   6   7775
Ibrahim Ullah   12   4   7540
James Morris   25   6   7500
Peter Wilkerson   11   4   7275
David Louden   22   2   6975
Gurpreet Nagi   11   3   6800
Danny Toffel   22   3   6775
Richard Fuller   14   1   6750
Ricky Smith   23   5   6625
David Jones   35   9   6525
Lee Nayler   25   4   6125
John Sadler   14   5   6075
Nick Carter   22   7   5950
Mark Gogerty   15   5   5475
Gerald Mcinally   36   4   5300
Jef Copeland   35   5   4725
James Buckley   15   1   4350
David Statham   34   5   4125
Richard Hare   12   9   3600
Simon Lee   25   8   3150
Rupinder Bedi   12   7   2650
Daniel Ward   23   4   2250
Abdul Qadoos   11   9   370

C Thomas Howell in Red Dawn.

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Tom Rutter. (Wolverines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

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Of course even though the 100/200 level is still in its infancy, those counts are no longer correct entirely.  Sam Savile-Barton now has just under 30,000 after I saw a large pot being shipped to him and someone's back as they headed for the exit.  SSB's hand was definitely the 9h 4h, of that I am certain, and I am also certain that the river brought him a heart flush.  I am about 50% that he'd hit a pair on the flop too - but either way, some gambling before the river was definitely involved, and it paid off handsomely.

Please pass on this message to Karabiner "C'mon Ralph, Stoke it up a bit"

And a message please to Greeki Jack!
Tell him he's a fish and not to play JJ ever again!!!
Malc M

(http://www.cowboythings.com/store/media/badge.us.marshall.jpg)

Marshall Whips Linton in Line

A 10,000 chip pot just went from one comfortable yet active stack (Pete Linton's) to another (Nicholas Marshall's), after a very convincing dwell-laydown combo.

The board: Th 9c Kc...Ts
The dwell was already occurring when I noticed the size of the pot, as Marshall had either bet out, or, as I think is more likely, check-raised Pete 8,000.  The hood came down, the hood went up, head in hands, hands through hair - the whole dwell system before eventually Linton gave up the pot.  Immediately what can only be described as a chortle from an unrepentant Marshall.

"7-2 is goood!" he rubs it in.  They both grin (neither is on the felt).  "What could you call with on the flop that you can't call with there?..." he muses getting the expected eye-roll from his vanquished - but in-position - opponent.  "You didn't pass A-10 did you?" he concludes, before they continue giggling like schoolboys and I expect them to start passing notes any time soon.

Double up for Chip Rich to about 8k with his A-K holding vs Stephen Thomson's A-Q on a 8-2-2-J-K board.

Not going so good are GBT winner Rupinder Bedi and GUKPT finalist Paul McIntyre, both are out.

I can feel the smugness and satisfaction from here :D

Wanna guess how many times Kinboshi swore when he arrived here?

Homer, you know how I hate to talk to you on the forum when you're literally two feet away from me, but I have to clarify this for our readers.  I am fairly sure that we are the only two people to have seen this movie in the room, if not on blonde (hands up if you have, though, please).

(http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/reddawn.jpg)

I'm not recommending it, just showing you that he's not just using words at random (the Wolverines are some sort of school sports outfit; my memory grows dim, but I remember saying "What the *£&£?" a lot during it).

United States gets invaded by Russia, only Two And A Half Men, Caroline In The City, The couple from Dirty Dancing and the bloke who kills The Hitcher can save us from the pesky Russian/Mexican/Cuban army.

It's a hilariously OTT campy 80's Reganite wet dream.

Geoffrey Hill and Nicholas Marshall see a Jh 7c 5c flop with about 3k in the pot. Hill bets just 600 and that's too tempting for Marshall who raises another 2,600. Hill instantly folds, and not has his bet proved to be enticing for Marshall, it's also too much for Pete Linton to resist...

"Why did you even bet 600?"

His elder replies curtly, "You play your game, and I'll play mine."

I'm sure ive seen Paul Macintyre in the old Liverpool Grosvenor before, umm...

ooooooh be carefull pete geoff will put you further up the list,lol

chip count for jason wong and te ng please

While the camera gets some recharging time, here are some hands:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22614&g2_serialNumber=1)  Here's one I took earlier though of Rudling-Smith, which is appropriate because he just won a pot from Alan Stearn.  OK it wasn't huge and just involved a preflop Rudders raise and a Stearn call, a flop of Jc 8h Kd, a bet out of 2k and a fold from Stearn who showed 9c 9d.  But still.  There you go.

Elsewhere, Sam Savile-Barton is down to 3,600 after playing this hand with rhs neighbour Peter Conduit.  He'd re-raised preflop, only to check the Jc 9d Ad flop, which brought a free 8h turn.  Conduit then bet out 2,000, called immediately by Savile-Barton.  The river brought the 6s, and immediately Conduit plonked 7k in the middle, more than enough to cover his neighbour, who mucked his hand quickly.

Elsewhere, Robert Bostock, who doesn't sound like he's from Nottingham, just made a nice call on the river with A-Q high (the board disconnected but with a face card on it) when Matey bet 1,200, and then show/mucked a lower Ace.  No one likes to hear, "I just didn't believe you," do they?

Karabiner raises to 650 UTG. Wick Twigg wewaises two won thousand and nwine hundwed. Rick Trigg, UTG+3 reraises to 1,900. Tom Rutter gives him a hard stare before passing.

"No cold 4-bet Tom?" asks Rick with a smile.

It's back to Karabiner who has a 30 second dwell before reraising to 4,500. Trigg moves all-in for about 21,700 and it's back over to Karabiner, who, by the virtue that his chips aren't already in the middle, hasn't got aces. After a couple of minutes he says, "I'm probably going to regret this..." He calls, turning over Ac Kc. Trigg turns over Ks Kd.

Jd 4c 7h 7c 9d

Big double up, puts Rick Trigg on to over 42k and amongst the chip leaders. Ralph 'Karabiner' Shalson is down to just a few k left.

Pete Linton is OUT, having said, among other things.

"I don't think I folded Ace high once today."
"I'm a spewmonkey."
"The weather's just depressing."
"I just called off all my chips with AQ"

The last one spelled his exit, although we didn't realise that at first and mocked him for a bit before we realised he wasn't just taking a break to cool off.  His opponent had Jacks, apparently, "And I knew it, and called anyway."  That was that.

Mark Lewis is looking like the chip leader after getting two people to put their stacks in on a Tc Th 2h 4h board. He was holding 2d 2c against Ad Aspades and Ahrt 8h, dead in the water. A 2s sealed quads for Lewis and sent the others to the rail.

Tom Rutter is out. T-T vs 4-5 on a 2-3-3 which spiked an Ace on the turn.

Tasos Grigoriou busts, Christopher Bushell down to 1/3 his stack, but Mazhar Latif doubles up! 

Oh yeah this is a ;bp;

Bushell limped, Latif raised, short stack Grigoriou shoved in the blinds (1,525) called by Bushell.  That's when it got interesting - Latif now shoved his whole stack over the line. 8,975 represented comfortably over half Bushell's remaining chips, and he agonised for a while over whether or not to call the extra bet. "I don't want to be 50/50 at best!" he wisely commented, but as so often happens, still couldn't bring himself to let go of his hand.

Eventually he pulled out a coin:  "Heads I call, tails I pass," it fell heads, he called.
Bushell: 7d 7c
Grigoriou: 5c 5d
Latif: Qh Qd

A third Queen on the flop sealed the deal, as the board brought him a house and a healthy new stack while Bushell is down to 5,500.

Recent exits.

67   Simon Lee
68   Hiren Kanabar
69   Vinh Ly
70   Tom Rutter
71   Tasos Grigoriou
72   Peter Conduit
73   Nicholas Fellone
74   Shane Fyffe
75   Ashique Miah
76   Lee Nayler
77   Peter Linton
78   Robert Ballou
79   John Burke
80   Marios Charalambous
81   Richard Fuller
82   Gerald Mcinally
83   Peter Wilkerson
84   Abdul Qadoos
85   David Louden
86   Alan Stokes
87   Trevor Pearson
88   Carl Walker
89   Rupinder Bedi
90   David Statham

David Nisbet just managed to get Billy Ngo to fold what he said was "A pair and a flush draw."  This was especially surprising considering Ngo is on a very healthy 30k+ stack and his neighbour, well, isn't.

The board was 5h Qd 9d 2h and there had already been fairly vigorous betting as the pot was 5,600.  Nisbet bet out 5,000 on the turn and had to wait while his neighbour ummed and ah'd before eventually announcing his hand (although not showing) saying, "I know I'm behind," and regretfully laying it down.  Nisbet rather unnecessarily kind showed him the 5s 5d for the flopped set which would indeed have been vulnerable to just such a draw, but was certainly ahead as Ngo suspected...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22616&g2_serialNumber=1)

Dhiri Me

Raj Dhiri has been dicing with death and surviving recently.  Holding valiantly on to what by anyone's reckoning is a short stack, he just managed to avoid the felt against Dave Smith.  Seeing a heads up flop of 4c 9d 3h after calling a min raise preflop from Smith, he considered whether to get the rest of his 3,000 chips over the line or not.

"It's a good flop for me," he sighed, before passing 5d 5s.
"Just ask me and I'll show you," said Dave, who then did as he promised, flipping Kc Kd.
There then followed a little tongue-in-cheek argument as Neil Blatchly rolls his metaphorical eyes, saying, "What d'you think he's gayraising with?" 
"Oh, it's only Kings, is it?" rejoinders Dhiri, "Not anything else?  I didn't know."
"Neither did I," adds Dave Smith, mysteriously.
"It's cause Dave's a good player," adds Blatchly, apparently not willing to let it go.
"Who told you that?" laughs Dhiri and the table can finally move on...

His shortstack laydown is paid off the very next hand, however, when he made it 1,100 to go and got raised all in by a gent with 9h 9s while it was Raj Dhiri who got the Kc Kd.

More trickery from Billy Ngo.

In a limped pot, he's in the big blind and after a Th 4h 2h flop is checked around, he fires 1,200 on the 2c turn. He gets one caller and on the Qc river, Billy fires again, this time a valuey 1,600 and his opponent folds Ahrt 4c face up for the missed draw. Ngo shows 9d 8d.

Ooh, he's a cheeky chappie.

Other People Who Look To Be Kings Of Thievery Due To Copious Amounts Of Yellow 25 Chips:

Rick Trigg
Garinder Purewal (who has chopped this event twice)
Tony Salmon

Chris Bruce is out. Sounds like 2-2 into Q-Q.

Salmon Vies for Chip Lead...

57,000 is a pretty good stack for this stage, anyway.  Salmon just added a few more courtesy of Nicholas Marshall, whose stack has now dropped to just 8,000 (but it looks like more because it's mainly small denom).

I caught this only from the river raise - Salmon bets out 2,500 on a board of 4d Ts 5c 3d Aspades, and is raised to 7,000 by Marshall on the button.  He thinks for a little while, but makes the call, and gets that head drop, sotto voce, "One pair," while he says, "Straight," showing his 2s 2c and scooping in the pot.  Marshall mucks, takes a little walk of irritation, and play continues...

This just in...

(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:UoNNpxwLeS97AM:http://www.lostwackys.com/images/tickers/edward2.jpg)

Free soft drinks now while playing DTD cash games!  Nice.  Kinboshi is beaming like he just won the tournament (which he didn't play).

Interesting hand.

Alan Stearn raises preflop and Keith Littlejohn reraises from the button. Call. (About 8k in the pot).

6s 9d 4d

Stearn open-shoves for about 27k. Littlejohn calls.

"Oh shit," says Stearn showing Kd Td, Littlejohn flips Jh Js.

3s

Ad

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!" yells Stearn, he begins to laugh, "I really thought the big bet would scare him off!"

Raj Dhiri says, "If you report this hand, people won't believe you..."

Like Horneris nick, "RHareisbusto". Rich Hare really is busto. He shoved for 9 big blinds with Q-T and ran into K-K.

51   Mazhar Latif
52   Richard Hare
53   James Morris
54   Nicholas Marshall
55   Geoffrey Hill
56   Andrew Murphy
57   Te Ng Cao
58   Ricky Smith
59   Christopher Bruce
60   James Buckley
61   John Sadler
62   Henry Griffiths
63   Kevin Pearce
64   Stephen Jakes
65   Anthony Nicholls
66   Kyriacos Dionysiou

Chip Counts from the break.

Alan Stearn   14   9   64600
Richard Trigg   23   8   60050
Garinder Purewal   25   5   54000
Adrian Swingler   35   4   49050
Tony Salmon   23   9   47675
Keith Littlewood   14   3   46825
David Smith   12   1   38875
Thomas Jones   23   6   38775
Mark Lewis   25   2   35600
Thomas Gibson   25   9   31900
Paul Rayner   25   7   30025
Mark Stafford   25   3   29825
Sam Savile-barton   14   6   29750
Michael Millar   35   2   27025
Harprit Singh Gurnam   25   4   26975
Daniel Ward   23   4   26025
Shaun Williams   34   8   24875
Paul Garnham   34   3   24850
Andrew Booth   23   7   23575
Carl Hoefkens   35   1   23475
Waheed Ashraf   12   8   21300
Stephen Thomson   12   5   20325
David Penly   12   6   20175
Robert Bostock   34   9   19325
Neil Giblin   12   3   19100
Billy Ngo   34   7   18425
Mark Gogerty   34   1   18225
David Nisbet   34   6   17650
Jeff Sharpe   35   5   17450
Greg Hill   25   8   14600
Dylan Herbert   12   7   14500
Kevin Smith   25   1   13750
Danny Toffel   35   8   12950
Jason Wong   35   7   12750
Neil Blatchly   12   2   11275
Richard Rudling-smith   14   7   11200
Alan Wilson   34   5   10475
Antonio Dicesare   35   6   9850
Nick Carter   34   4   9125
Peter Singleton   34   2   8350
Christopher Bushell   23   1   8100
Ibrahim Ullah   12   4   7875
Gurpreet Nagi   14   5   7825
Ian Gascoigne   14   1   7300
David Jones   35   9   6600
Raj Dhiri           14   2   6200
Ralph Shalson   35   3   6125
Steve Critchley   23   5   5850
Narciso Baldo   14   4   4200
Richard Hare   12   9   3775
Mazhar Latif   23   2   3750

Karabiner is OUT -

Having made a valiant bid for Climber of the Day, he abruptly fell off the rock face of Daniel Ward's Kings, with only Jacks to cling to for support.  There wasn't much getting away from it - he raised preflop, was re-raised to 5,500, pushed all in for just 1k more, got the autocall and a raggy unhelpful flop.  He'd built it back slowly, but this game can bust you in just one hand...

Apology

Editorial (I mean me) would like to issue an apology to Sam Savile-Barton.  You are not who I thought you were.  Please imagine, instead of him, a slightly older gent in a suit when you read stories which feature this name up to this point.  I was going to go back and change all instances of mentioning him to the correct name, but the guy I thought was Savile-Barton is now OUT and any further detective work is beyond me at this point.  I have not had much sleep.  Forgive me, SSB.

LeKnave is out, he pushed A-5 from the cut-off for 5,700 and the big blind woke up with A-J.

Im considering selling all my assets to back LeKnave into any live tournament he wants, he is certainly the greatest of all time.

this also applies to Horneris







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Yesterday Knave and Rich were saying they're the value in live tournaments.


I dont think they are.







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Curious hand between Harpit Gurnham and Paul Rayner.

Rayner raises preflop and Gurnham along with a couple of others, makes the call.

3s 7d 3h

Checked to Rayner who bets 2k. Gurnham is the only caller.

3c

Gurnham bets 3k, Rayner calls.

5s

Gurnham bets 3k again. Rayner raises 7k, Gurnham makes the call and I'm expecting Rayner to turn over Kings or Queens, but no, he shows Ahrt Qh, no good vs Gurnham's Th 7h.

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Thomas Jones just got away lightly, as did Pete Singleton, in this potentially explosive but not quite hand... you'll see what I mean...

Pete limped in with AK, he tells me, only for a raise to come on his immediate left from Adrian Swingler, called by Thomas Jones.  Here are Pete and Adrian looking intense just like when this hand was playing out:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22620&g2_serialNumber=1)

Anyway, they got to the turn cagily enough - the board read Qh 4s Kc Qc - and Adrian check-called a 2k bet.
The river: 3s  Now Adrian bet out 3k, raised quickly to 6k by Thomas...  back to Adrian who then pushed out a 20k stack of green chips - not quite enough to cover his opponent, but enough to make it very unlikely for Jones to make a comeback should he call and lose...
"Kings?" asked Thomas.  "How much more?"  "Fourteen."  "Kings?  Show me Kings," he said, as he folded Aspades Qs face-up.

Adrian Swingler flipped the Kd Ks for a raised eyebrow from happy-to-be-out-of-it Singleton and a bit of satisfaction for Thomas (pictured below):

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This is the real Sam Savile-Barton.

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gogogo trigg, so sick Trigg ships this Nicky scoops Brum!

Will the real Sam Savile-Barton please stand up?

Yes - because he's OUT

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That's a bit harsh, actually, considering his exit hand (he wasn't short stacked by any means).  What happened was this: a little went in preflop against an out of position but very large stacked Keith Littlewood.  But the fireworks came on a flop of 6c 9c xsmallnotaclub.  Check to Savile-Barton, who bet 3,500.  Back to Littlewood who promptly check-raised a Stack of Reds (=20k)  Savile-Barton moved all-in and was called in the blink of an eye, and they were on their backs:

Savile-Barton: 6s 6h
Littlewood: 4c 5c

Turn: Qd
River: Ac bringing the flush and sending Sam Savile-Barton to the rail, and possibly on slight tilt judging from the insta-leave-the-premises.

Littlewood raking in even more chips:

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4 or 5 players limp before big blind Mark Stafford shoves for what looks to be over 20k. Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1393) Rayner (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1393) calls off his stack of 10k-12k. Everyone else passes.

Stafford: Kc 7c
Rayner: Qs Tc

6h 2h Qc Ahrt Ks...(On the river Stafford yells, "Get the fuck in there")

Greg Hill has just also busted from this table.

gogogo mike millar, get into them son

and GL trigg

He looks 9 years old.

Garinder Purewall has lost a big chunk of his chips on a T-7-3 flop jamming with 9-8 but Jason Wong committed himself with J-T which held.

On the same table, Alan Wilson has been playing poker snakes'n'ladders without the ladders.  This is not the expression of a happy man:

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To be fair, his Qs Qh had just been outdrawn by the aip 9c 9s of this guy, Jeff Sharpe:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22632&g2_serialNumber=1)

"Every f**ing time!" he said as he handed over the 11k in chips, displaying what we've all felt at one point or another.  "Yeahyeahyeah take em."

"Nice hand," he said, lying.

He got asked for i.d. going bowling on friday night :)

Big double up for Rick Trigg. Raise to 1,600 playing a 55k and the small blind called, the only player who had him covered.

The flop was 9-6-2 and his opponent led out for 3k, Rick raised to 10k and his opponent shoved. Rick called with Aces, as you would, and his opponent showed A-9. No more nines on board and the Twiggster is on 110k and the chip leader.

Meanwhile Billy Ngo raises all-in on the turn of a Td 3h Kd Kh getting Mike Millar to fold, Ngo shows the big drawing Ad Jd.

And here's what you look like when you've just shot into Comfortable Chip Leader Position:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22636&g2_serialNumber=1)

And here's what the biggest stack around looks like (I think Trigg was on a cigarette calm-down break at the time), along with Paul Garnham who doesn't have quite so many despite an earlier double through off Billy Ngo...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22634&g2_serialNumber=1)

And here are the only other two contenders I can really see for the final level leadership:

Dave Penly
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22638&g2_serialNumber=1)

Alan Stearn
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As we head into the last level of play for the day, here's a requested player from earlier: Jason (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2729) Wong (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2729).  He's on thirtysomething in chips and just squeezed an utg limper (Billy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=49) Ngo (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=49)) and and utg+1 limper (Thomas Gibson) with an utg+2 raise to 4,200.  Walking the wire, and doing well.  He seems to be well respected player - a couple of railers were liking his chances even with others with a lot more chips. 

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22642&g2_serialNumber=1)

Latest Casualties.

35   Shaun Williams
36   David Smith
37   Alan Wilson
38   Greg Hill
39   Sam Savile-barton
40   Danny Toffel
41   Paul Rayner
42   Ian Gascoigne
43   Carl Hoefkens
44   Raj Dhiri
45   Narciso Baldo
46   Nick Carter
47   Kevin Smith
48   Ralph Shalson
49   Daniel Platten

update on Neil Blatchley please?

Rick Trigg raises to 2k from UTG. Paul Garnham calls in the big blind.

Th 9d 5d

Check check.

Ts

Check check.

3d

Check, 1,100 from Rick. Call.

Rick quickly mucks, Paul shows a very slowly played J-T.

Next table down and we've lost Neil Blatchly, Aspades 8s into Ibrahim Ullah's Ahrt Qc, the Qs on the flop sealing the deal.

Perhaps you should order one of these! ;)

(http://www.soaresantiques.com/images/beer%20bottles/8484a.jpg)

gogogogo trigger, top 2 to get me out plzzzzzzzzz.

gogogogo, mbsfn to be Rick 'infront' Trigg

[  ] we did very well

Jason Wong's table move just paid off handsomely... shifted over, pretty much the first hand he plays sees him double to a cool 50k.

Ibrahim Ullah (who was originally reticent to come all the way up here from London having won a seat online but isn't so sad about it now he's heading deep) raised preflop early position to 2,400.  Over to Dave Penly, who repopped him, but it was Jason's 24,200 all in shove over them both which gave the other two something to think about.  After some unhappy dwelling, Ullah folded, but Penly really thought about it.  His raise had been to 8,200, and he spent the next few minutes doing a combination of mental arithmetic, counting his own stack out (50k) and staring at Wong.  Eventually something snapped and he just came to a decision - call.

Penly: Kd Jd
Wong: Ahrt Ks

The board came out 9d 7h 2c 4h Qs and the only person who actually looked unhappy at the end of it was Ibrahim Ullah who apparently had folded AK too.

They say timing is everything!

Dave Penly has taken a big chunk of Ibrahim Ullah's stack, betting 7k into what seemed a 25k pot on the river of a Ahrt 2c 4d 9h Qh board, Ullah never looked like folding but quickly mucked when Penly showed Aspades Qc.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22644&g2_serialNumber=1)

Pete Singleton has doubled up with Kings against Adrian Swingler, whatever the latter's hand was, it wasn't good enough on the 7-J-9-4-7 board.

COME ON TRIGGER.....and i think RiverDave!

What's 1st pay in this shindig?

11th hour double through for M3boy...

Raising preflop and getting interest only from big blind Daniel Ward, Paul Garnham got a pretty good flop for his Ks 9s... Kh 8s 6s.  Ward wasn't to know this however, and he bet out 9,500 - when Garnham put the rest of his stack in, the 4,600 more wasn't enough to make him fold (not that he wanted him to) and he got a call with Ahrt Qh.  The turn and river bricked and so Garnham now has about 28,000.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22646&g2_serialNumber=1)

have the rest of the payouts for free, too:

1   -   £11,550
2   -   £6,765
3   -   £4,455
4   -   £2,970
5   -   £2,145
6   -   £1,485
7   -   £1,155
8   -   £825
9   -   £660
10   -   £495
11   -   £495

Keith Littlewood has gone from one of the bigger stacks to out.

He called 3k on a 3h 2c 2s flop before raising all-in on the 6h turn against Alan Stearn. Stearn snap calls with Kings and Littlewood's Ac 5d is in deep trouble. 8d on the river and Stearn must rival Rick Trigg for chip leader...

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Rudders' Range Widens On the Button

Richard Rudling-Smith may have a short stack (20k) but he's not afraid to use it...on the button... he makes it 3,200 and gets a serious looking dwell from the small blind.  He eventually passes and Richard shows the mighty Ac Jc, saying:  "You see?!  My range does widen a bit on the button!"

*******************************PLAY HAS STOPPED FOR THE NIGHT*********************************

That's all, folks - chips are being bagged and tagged...

Last hand and Mark Stafford's last hand also, he ran A-K into Waheed (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1690) Ashraf (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1690)'s A-A.

Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=113) Penly (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=113), "Must be nice."

We'll back tomorrow from 3pm.

Chip counts:

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)   14   9   123100
Waheed (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1690) Ashraf (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1690)   12   8   80300
Richard Trigg   23   8   79600
David Penly   12   6   75200
Gurpreet Nagi   14   5   70800
Harprit Singh Gurnam   23   5   62500
Garinder (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1682) Purewal (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1682)   23   3   61400
Thomas Jones   23   6   49200
Jason (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2729) Wong (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2729)   12   1   47800
Billy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=49) Ngo (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=49)   14   4   46900
Mark Lewis   12   5   45700
Antonio Dicesare   14   2   43400
Thomas Gibson   12   4   33700
Christopher Bushell   23   1   32300
Peter Singleton   23   2   32100
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)   23   7   28300
Andrew Booth   14   1   28300
Adrian Swingler   12   2   24700
Michael Millar   14   3   24400
Neil (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2489) Giblin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2489)   12   3   22000
David Nisbet   14   6   16400
Mark Gogerty   12   9   15400
Richard Rudling-smith   14   7   14100
Daniel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2259) Ward (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2259)   23   4   11400
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)   14   8   10200

;stickaforkinme;

BYEEEEE!!!!!!


XXXXXX


PS- Kisses are for Jen not you Floppy

 :'(

 ;D ;stickaforkinme;

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rofl. ul guys.

Sounds like you both played tournaments full of skill, guile, poise, grit, determination and an overall never say die attitude.









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Good updates guys, cheers...

good luck rudders hang in there