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It's penultimate GUKPT time and this time we're in Blackpool with just a couple of weeks before the Grand Final back in the Vic. Blackpool traditionally is a poker hotbed, but has dried up a little since this event last year, however it still seems to draw in the crowds these last few days and we wouldn't be surprised by a sellout here despite pretty much going toe-to-toe with Amsterdam and Warsaw.

In fact, I'll stick my neck out and guess we'll be going to get at least 250, perhaps close to 300 mark despite the pressures from other competitions.

Jen will be joining me as my Partner in Kryme for the first couple of days before Snoops and I will be doing the last couple days as Jen has a prior engagement.

Day 1A starts at 2pm, well it's scheduled to, but will it?

Let us know if there's anyone you wish coverage of.

Of course Blackpool is famous for some of it's seaside rollercoasters. Here's some brave volunteers from earlier, especially for Kev. ;)

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It's been hours since the last kitten. Update please.

""MARTYN CAVANAGH ONE TIME""

Good luck blonde playing this :)

Good luck bigalhx Alan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=14) Armitage (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=14)  ;flushy;  due a big result , dont know which day the  ;flushy; is playing though

wot will be will be  ;laxie;

122 players regged today. Around 260 total so far, will we hit the 300 mark by tomorrow?

best of luck to all Notts players pete Linton,Sam Trickett,dave smith,Julian and anyone else I've missed

Picks ftw praz or tom Middleton if he plays

The last of these is here today, as are the following:

Neil Channing
Mick McBag/McCool
Nik Persaud
Marc Goodwin
Dave Colclough
Daniel Rudd
Tom McCready aka Red Dog

We've got no wi-fi at the moment and the dongle is going slowly, so please bear with us...

Welcome to the tournament: the slightly less populated, but no less enthusiastic Day 1A here at the Blackpool G Casino, which is surrounded by a fog currently of which old London Town would have been proud.

No word from me yet due to internet problems, but a Musical Chairs game later, and we've ended up right next to the action on the casino floor itself, which commenced at around 2:25pm and has been slowly progressing since then. 

Prior to the start (people have, as is usual these days, been drifting slowly in wanting last minute entry or alternate status) it looked for a little while like there would be just 80 players on the first flight, leaving nearly double that for the second.  Red-dog (playing right now, in fact) was mulling over which start day was preferable, and pondering the difficult question of What To Do if Hardly Anyone Shows for One of the Days, and also pondering not playing 1A if there was going to be a huge discrepancy in the number of runners.  Anyone have an opinion on this other than that it's better to have the larger field?  Maybe you don't agree with this and relish the possibility of long hours of surprise short-handed-ish play? 

Mick McBag has been McBagged.

Apparently he called a 250 bet on a Ac-Xc-Xd flop with Jd 2d and another 800 on the 4d turn before getting it all-in on the Qd river...unfortunately Chris Wright, his opponent, had bet the whole way with Ad 7d and quickly called.

Thanks to BlueSquare and Grosvenor as ever for the tagging system of players which guarantees a pretty much Matey-free update: 

Table 1 Seat 1 Sean Allen
Table 1 Seat 2 Martin Knibb
Table 1 Seat 3 Peter Linton
Table 1 Seat 4 John Carey
Table 1 Seat 5 Charles Harman
Table 1 Seat 6 Phil Mead
Table 1 Seat 7 Mickeyx Wernick
Table 1 Seat 8 Paula Agnew
Table 1 Seat 9 Gregory Howard
Table 2 Seat 1 Brian Sharrock
Table 2 Seat 2 Kevin Parkes
Table 2 Seat 3 Stephen Montgomery
Table 2 Seat 4 Robin Gray
Table 2 Seat 5 Dale Ennis
Table 2 Seat 6 Ewan Hardie
Table 2 Seat 7 Daniel Rudd
Table 2 Seat 8 Robert Gillon
Table 2 Seat 9 Thomas Saint
Table 3 Seat 1 Darren Hickman
Table 3 Seat 2 Ian Frazer
Table 3 Seat 3 Colin Wu
Table 3 Seat 4 Ben Carpenter
Table 3 Seat 5 Jason Herbert
Table 3 Seat 6 William Haughey
Table 3 Seat 7 Norman Levitt
Table 3 Seat 8 David Penly
Table 3 Seat 9 R Whitmore
Table 4 Seat 1 Mark Goodwin
Table 4 Seat 2 Dave Colclough
Table 4 Seat 3 Alan Trueick
Table 4 Seat 4 Mark Kelly
Table 4 Seat 5 Paul Rigg
Table 4 Seat 6 Martin Sanderson
Table 4 Seat 7 Mohammed Shoahebe
Table 4 Seat 8 Nick Gibson
Table 4 Seat 9 John Kay
Table 5 Seat 1 Anthony Thurbon
Table 5 Seat 2 Alan Jennings
Table 5 Seat 3 Paulx Mcintyre
Table 5 Seat 4 Gary Shaw
Table 5 Seat 5 Andreas Hoivold
Table 5 Seat 6 Lee Bidulph
Table 5 Seat 7 Bryan Clarke
Table 5 Seat 8 Dennis Troake
Table 5 Seat 9 Darren Marshall
Table 6 Seat 1 Gareth Cash
Table 6 Seat 2 Krzysztof Klorek
Table 6 Seat 3 Simon Zach
Table 6 Seat 4 Adrian Trickett
Table 6 Seat 5 Malcolm Rutter
Table 6 Seat 6 Darren Grosvenor
Table 6 Seat 7 Jason Medley
Table 6 Seat 8 Richard Herbert
Table 6 Seat 9 Chris Ferguson
Table 7 Seat 1 Ben Callinan
Table 7 Seat 2 Malcolm Mckinlay
Table 7 Seat 3 Des Jonas
Table 7 Seat 4 Anthony Caygill
Table 7 Seat 5 Sunny Chattha
Table 7 Seat 6 Chuck Sellers
Table 7 Seat 7 Rana Gurnham
Table 7 Seat 8 Mick Cook
Table 7 Seat 9 Rune Nikolaisen
Table 8 Seat 1 Andy Johnson
Table 8 Seat 2 Glen Williams
Table 8 Seat 3 Anthony Cartwright
Table 8 Seat 4 Simon Wolf
Table 8 Seat 5 Mark Ridlay
Table 8 Seat 6 John Hopkins
Table 8 Seat 7 Moyra Davies
Table 8 Seat 8 Lane Newport
Table 8 Seat 9 Lawerance Gosney
Table 9 Seat 1 Andrew Fry
Table 9 Seat 2 Charliex Denton
Table 9 Seat 3 Mike Fisher
Table 9 Seat 4 Michael Mccool
Table 9 Seat 5 Neil Channing
Table 9 Seat 6 Chris Wright
Table 9 Seat 7 Philip Gruissem
Table 9 Seat 8 Josh Lewis
Table 9 Seat 9 Gary Mcgaffney
Table 10 Seat 1 R Simmons
Table 10 Seat 2 Zachary Ford
Table 10 Seat 3 Knud erik Petersen
Table 10 Seat 4 Chris Mcnicholls
Table 10 Seat 5 C.t Law
Table 10 Seat 6 Peter Kvisthammar
Table 10 Seat 7 Johnathon Butters
Table 10 Seat 8 Willam Martins
Table 10 Seat 9 Scott Chaudhry
Table 11 Seat 1 Barry Grime
Table 11 Seat 2 Alan Mclean
Table 11 Seat 3 Alan Vinnicombe
Table 11 Seat 4 David Jones
Table 11 Seat 5 James Ramsay
Table 11 Seat 6 Joan Lawley
Table 11 Seat 7 Ron Lawton
Table 11 Seat 8 Oysten Lund
Table 12 Seat 1 Henning Granstad
Table 12 Seat 2 Hamid Khayat
Table 12 Seat 3 Mark Robinson
Table 12 Seat 4 Tom Mccready
Table 12 Seat 5 Michael Duxberry
Table 12 Seat 6 Sue Oconnor
Table 12 Seat 7 Lee Atherton
Table 12 Seat 8 Adam Clark
Table 13 Seat 1 Reyaaz Mulla
Table 13 Seat 2 Trevor Lawson
Table 13 Seat 3 Alan Nesbitt
Table 13 Seat 4 Gary Cargill
Table 13 Seat 5 Ann Scambler
Table 13 Seat 6 Trevor Reardon
Table 13 Seat 7 Joe Grech
Table 13 Seat 8 James Morgan
Table 14 Seat 1 David Young
Table 14 Seat 2 Matt Eiler-gadsden
Table 14 Seat 3 Dave Buckland
Table 14 Seat 4 Scott Murdoch
Table 14 Seat 5 Albert Sapiano
Table 14 Seat 6 Sally Smerdon
Table 14 Seat 7 Antony Kennedy
Table 14 Seat 8 Chao Li

glglg Middy, Linton and Danny Rudd.

Dominic Rossookh, who went very deep in Bolton, raises to 225, Lawrence Gosney makes the call, as does Neil Channing from the small blind.

4c 9s Qc

Here-in follows a sequence of events that don't take longer than a minute for all of them together. Channing checks, Rossokh bets 625, Gosney calls and Channing raises to 1,625. Now Rossokh calls, but then Gosney moves all-in and Channing instantly calls him. Rossokh passes, slightly glumly.

Gosney: Qs Qh
Channing: 9c 9d

One card in the deck is needed, or running clubs.

Th

Ks

And the Irish Open Champion is gone.

"Four cases of set over set this week is probably a little too many," he observes.

+ any other Blondes playing.

Any chance you no if Middy has got in or not, or on the alternate list?

A picture is worth a thousand words, so they say.  But here's Angle One from the G Casino, which was originally taken to show the empty places dotted here and there for the alternates, but in actual fact makes it look like the GUKPT is an STT.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22718&g2_serialNumber=1)

Oh the power of the press...fairly drunk on it, Homer was encouraging me to, "Make it up!  Make it all up!"* but I don't have the energy, quite frankly.  Here's the view from the populated end of the poker room, featuring Trevor Reardon and Joe Grech:

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*Not true

Joe Grech has also gone. Looks like he was all-in with 9c 9h on a 9s 7h 5h flop against Charles Denton's Kh Kd which spiked the Ks turn. No 9d on the river and another name gone.

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Ian Woodley.  Couldn't be more of a difference between resigned, "Wish I'd stayed in bed through the first two levels like I'd originally planned.  It was a fire alarm that got me out of bed" Neil Channing and perma-grinning Woodley, moved to a new table already (or an alternate) and trying with middling results to get them chatting.

Here he is addressing this lady, Moyra Davies, who took down a pot without showdown despite his saying, "Show and take!" She was having none of it, though, and he complained, "I thought this was a friendly table."

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Sunny (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=423) Chattha (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=423), sporting a beard, told me of Lynne (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2360) Beaumont (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2360)'s exit. After a few limpers, she made it 800 with around 6,000 behind. Sunny (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=423) Chattha (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=423) passed 8-8 and Rana Gurnham, who had limped UTG made the call before the two of them got it all-in on a T-8-4 flop. Gurnham had flopped 4-4 against Lynne's A-A which held.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22727&g2_serialNumber=1)

Middy has been in from the start, I've also given him LeKnave's iPod.

tytytyty.

"Sometimes things go right in poker," announces a chuffed Mickey Wernick, having seen off Pete Linton - he came over to let us know in our corner...  Apparently lairy from the get-go, Linton was irritating the table in his usual fashion, doubling through AK vs. 77 at one point and announcing that he would be trouble... But apparently it was easy come, easy go, as Linton dropped a few thousand here and there, before raising on the button, when Wernick was holding Jd Jc.  A J-3-2 flop couldn't have hit him any better, and he checked, along with the other couple of preflop callers, and along with Button Linton. 

The turn brought a Six, and now Mickey bet out 600, only to find Linton moving all in on the button for c.4,000 - called immediately, his cards were in the muck almost as immediately.  Oops.

Wernick - pictured staring into middle distance in between playing the three hands he admits to having played:

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Roberto Romanello is out, looks like he was down to 4k. And he then check/raised all-in on a 3d Th 9h and was called by Lee Bidulph's Kh Ks. The Qh put Roberto ahead and also meant the 8h was no good for Bidulph now, but the 4h appeared on the river to knock the Welshman out.

Before he was out he was sitting next to the always chirpy Andreas Hoivold, who is on 16k already.

Marc Goodwin has knocked out Martin Sanderson, apparently someone he staked into the competition. Most of the damage coming on  a 7c 8c 9c Tc x board. Sanderson has the 6c, Goodwin obviously had the Jc...

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Way out in front as we approach the first break is Lawrence (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) Gosney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243).  All other stacks appear even or low compared to his 35,000+ towers.  He seems to be involved in pretty much every hand, and there's no one on his table at least he can't take on, take out, or feel the loss of it like the sting of a gnat.  Currently.  I seem to be experiencing some deja vu here and will be interested to see if those chips stay piled up so threateningly in front of Gosney through the three days (minus two levels) still left to play.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22731&g2_serialNumber=1)

Daniel 'UpTheMariners' Rudd had a slow start but has regained some chips.

First he check/calls 1,100 on a 6h 3s 2d before check/raising a 3,000 bet all-in for another 3,200 on the 8d turn. His opponent quickly folds, Rudd back over 10k.

Does Lawrence have a slower gear in these? time after time he gets big stacks and doesn't final almost as if he lacks the patience for them.

Professional hazard for a LAGgy chip amasser I suppose.

Red Dog is 8.5k after losing around 2k with A-A vs A-K on a Q-J-T-x-x board.

Players on a short break.

Set over set this early is a bigger benefit to him that most I would guess, he'll crush the weaker players for sure, but if he gets a couple of good players on his table who pick up a couple of hands against his relentless aggression, he might have some trouble.

gl Spinksy Middy

A lil something to kill time between hands...........

Table of Looky-Likeys Discovered in the Far Right of Room:  Sadly they're only likeys of other poker players so less amusing to the world at large.  Still, I double took on Table 10:

1) Peter Kvisthammar

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Thomas Bihl

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2) Zachary Ford

(http://blondepoker.com/blondepedia/images/photos/photo_6708.jpg)

Bo Sehlstedt

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Interesting Ruling Time:

On the river of a Tc 7c Ks 8c Th Marc Goodwin says, "I bet the pot." The dealer tells him she can't count the pot for him so he bets 1,300 instead. They get a ruling where TD Ian declares if someone says "I bet the pot" the dealer can count it but no-one can ask specifically for a count of the pot.

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Jen absolutely hates this ruling, because people should be able to keep track of their bets and there's no maximum you can bet other than all your chips.

In the hand itself, Goodwin is forced to bet the pot anyway, which is 1,050. He gets called, but shows Ts 8s to win.

Adam 'Clarkatroid' Clarke and John 'Johnes147' Eames, on the same table as Red Dog.

Both thrilled to be in Blackpool.

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Alan Nesbitt limped preflop (blinds 75/150) and Ann Scambler made it 650 to go.  Trevor Reardon called, and it passed over to big blind Ken Wong, who moved all-in for 5,900.  Over to Nesbitt (pictured here with hands behind head).  Surprisingly, he was the one who took the longest to pass, counting down his chips, looking at his watch (bizarrely) and folding after a while, followed quickly by the others. 

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Tia Maria and Baileys?

Ahhh.  That was most refreshing.  Ty.

i agreee with the ruling to certain extent as saying "I bet the pot" is a specific declaration of a bet size.

what about if a player says "I bet 60% of the pot" or " half the pot" though? does the dealer have to count the pot and do the math (as some would struggle I reckon).

pic of tom middleton plz, preferably with 1 arm in the air and index finger pointing upwards.

Anthony (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=788) Romanello (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=788) is out, raising all-in with Qc Jc on a Ac 2c 8d board but being looked up by David (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2102) Jones (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2102)' 8s 2s which held on as another Romanello bit the dust.

Lawrence (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) Gosney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) continues be involved in the big pots, first Ian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=176) Woodley (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=176) pays him off for 2,000 on a 7c 6c Qc 3h 7s with A-Q, Gosney flips Kc 9c. A short while later Gosney bets 2,500 on the river on a 9s 7h Qc Ts Jh board, Dominic Rossookh makes the call and Gosney flashes the Jd, Rossookh also shows a Jack, the Jc, but his is with the 8h which is good enough when the current chip leader mucks his hand.

ship. il pretend that was me.

LOL this plz.

Also is Tom Cunningham playing the ME?

Double through for Antony Kennedy, whose Ahrt Aspades couldn't have been more in the nick of time as his stack had become most definitely short.  He'd got it all in against Des Jonas' 9s 9d, and the cameras hovered as a wound-up Kennedy rose from his seat, exhorting the deck to hold as the board came out Kd 3d Kh 3h Ks which unlikely combination left his full house higher and gave him a new lease of life.  It was the conversation between previous pot entrant Rana Gurnham and Des Jonas, however, which kept me at the side of the table - somewhere along the line Des had made a play which wasn't to Rana's liking.

"Desi...Desi..." he was saying, trying to get the attention of his erstwhile opponent... "Desi!  You are now the worst player on the table."
"That's because you don't understand maths," rejoindered Des, "If you could count to three..."

The TD came over with a seat card for Rana then - moving him away.  A final dig from Des, "That's why you always get Eighth.  And 28th..."
"Don't move me, I love it on here," lied Rana, before wishing everyone luck and saying, "Hope to see you later, Des."

Des Jonas:  Worst Player on the Table, Allegedly

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Rana Gurnham:  Can't Count, Allegedly

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Lawrence Gosney has dropped to around 14,000 after losing a couple of big pots. Hoisted by his own petard spewtard? Well not quite, it seems that in one of the big pots, Mike Fisher apparently rivered two pair, Kings and Queens, to take a hefty amount of chips from the WSOP bracelet winner.

Not on today's list of players.  Homer bringing you an au natural pose of Mr. Middleton for starters.

9-year old Tom Middleton, absolutely ecstatic about having his picture taken.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22747&g2_serialNumber=1)

And as a bonus, Daniel 'UpThe Mariners' Rudd, who has just doubled up after convicing someone to put about 12k in with A-J vs his T-9 on a J-9-9 board, he's also become very affectionate for his right wrist, as you can see here.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22749&g2_serialNumber=1)

gg middy

Flops, you should know that man cannot show enough affection to his right wrist !!

That was the joke!

Ohhhhhhhhhhh you made a joke ??   It wasnt accompanied by a pic of a kitten so i wasnt aware.

Right so if I make a subtle joke, you're going to miss it and make it silly and obvious, but if it's something silly and obvious (like a cat picture) you're going to complain about it. :D

Des Jonas is out, he bet 2,800 on the river of a Qc Jc 6c Ahrt Jd, only for Sunny Chattha to set him in. Jonas really thought about it before putting his remaining 4,000 in and flipping 6s 6h. Chattha had pipped on the river though, turning over Qs Jh for the bigger boat, that Robert Shaw and Roy Schneider really could've done with in Jaws.

Selected chip counts, as there's still a level to go before the Official Ones, and players seem to keep busting out all over the place...

Andreas Hoivold - 12,000
Trevor Reardon - 6,450
Rana Gurnham - 12,150
Mickey Wernick - 18,600
Dave Penly - 19,400
Robert Gillon - 26,800
Scott Murdoch - 28,000
Thomas Middleton - 12,500
Howard Plant - OUT
Red-Dog Tom McCready - 10,250
Martin Cavanagh - 17,500
Ian Woodley - 21,000
Des Jonas - OUT
Lawrence Gosney - 19,000
Dave Colclough - 9,600
Marc Goodwin - 20,000
Nick Gibson - 5,400

Also Sally Smerdon just busted Nik Persaud...  Sally had seen a Qs 2s Jd flop with Nik, raised to 3k holding Qd Kd when Nik bet 600, and then called his all-in, which she covered.  He showed the Js 9s but he hit nothing but the felt.

Sally Smerdon - 27,700

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22751&g2_serialNumber=1)

Nik Persaud - 00,000

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I can edit a small one into his posts every time I think he's joking, if it makes it easier for our readership.  Honestly, it's no bother.

Jen, please dont try and work out floppys mind when it comes to humour, I like you too much to see you put yourself through that task, and would hate to see you end up a gibbering, dribbling wreck :)

Keep going flops, gags withouts cats is the way forward ;)

What about videos instead? A Hitchcockian stalking cat?

YouTube: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NbwpgyRUv5g

Jen is way more obsessed than I am with cats.

Who's this Fully Tilted Player?

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Spot Prize= possibly not a cat.

I watched 7 seconds of the vid and self harmed ... thanks.

Well worth it then.   rotflmfao

ElBlondie himself .... Can my spot prize be "NO PICS,VIDS OR MENTION OF CATS UNTIL SUNDAY AT MIDNIGHT" please

good luck to rana and any remaining wellsh/brum lads from dylan

CONGRATULATIONS!  I'll see what I can do.

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 rotflmfao   I got that one

I actually loved the cat hitchcock clip- more please jenn

Dominic Rossookh has stubbed his toe, he checked Qh 7c to Lawrence Gosney on a Qc 5h 7s flop but the latter checked behind. The innocuous 4c appeared on the turn but now Rossookh got it all-in only to find he let his opponent catch a two-outer with 4d 4s. No Queen or Seven on the river and Gosney doubles back up.

I got that, you bugger!

Albert Sapiano is out, but he's now in a sizeable cash game with Neil Channing, Ben Vinson and Sam Trickett...

The waiting list to play begins to form.

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any news rana , martyn cavanagh, dan owston playing?cheers

Check previous counts for Rana and Cavanagh - it's Dinner Break in 5 minutes when full counts will be done.

No Owston today - try tomorrow...

He was reading the updates earlier, so erm...wot Jen said.

ok no worries,thanks a lot .great updates as usual

Players about to go on break for dinner. As are we.

Back after a quick catnap.

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Nick Gibson in the cutoff makes it 600 to go.  Small blind Mark Robinson makes the call, and then bets out 1,200 on the Ad 5h 3h board.  Nick promptly puts in a stack of chips which more than covers his short-stacked opponent.  Robinson thinks, frowns, passes 9c 9h.

"Well if I'd known that," mutters Nick, collecting the pot and flashing Ahrt Jh for a monstrous flopped hand.

Marc Goodwin then wakes up, saying, "Where'd you get those chips?" clearly having missed Gibson's rise from short to just-under-average.
"I've won a few here and there."
"If I'd have known you had those I would've called with 4-6.  I could've won."
"I don't fancy my AJ of hearts on that flop against your 4-6," laughs Nick.

Ah, i knew i should have popped up to Blackpool! What was her name dewi, help me out?
Lorna?

 ;kev;

Hi Everyone!
Can someone please tell me how darren hickman is getting on?

Players are just getting ready to restart, though there's a lot more interest in the big cash game than anything else.

Here's lesser spotted blonde and possible Kinboshi lookalike Gregior.

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Rumours that the German Pornstar Sohard Es Hertz, who, of course, played the 70's 'plumber' Lemme Plunger in Buff My Pipes 1,2 and 3, is playing in the tournament today have yet to be substantiated.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22759&g2_serialNumber=1)

The cash game tables are the centre of attention.

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hi can i have updates for robert gillon and willie haughey please

Rune Nikolaisen busts in eye watering fashion...  I caught the hand from where 9,675 was out in front of the behatted player, who I am guessing may be a resident of a Scandinavian nation of some sort.  Nikolaisen on the button was contemplating Ben Callinan on the big blind, who was contemplating calling.  It appeared that a few green 500 chips were in front of Callinan, and if I were to put this scene back together forensics-style I would say Nikolaisen raised on the button, got repopped from the blind, and pushed.  Some frowning, but eventually the call was made, which was interesting...

Callinan: Th 6h
Nikolaisen: Tc Kc

Not an expression flitted across either players' face as the flop came down 7d 5h 7s... the turn Aspades, or the river 6d spiking the 3-outer and sending the shorter player out.  In fact, it was like the volume had been turned off on the table - not a word, not an eyebrow lift, nothing from either player. 

Two minutes later, "Would Rune Nikolaisen please come to the poker room cash desk, please." 

Here spotted in the background of an earlier photo is the ex-player himself.

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Sure thing - if Chris isn't hovering over table three taking almost in focus pictures of your man, I will in a minute...

First of all there's always time for a quick third raise pre...if you're Thomas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2366) Middleton (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2366)...  The cutoff makes it 900, the button reraises to 3,900, and Middleton calmly puts in enough chips to commit either of his potential opponents from the small blind (10,150).  The original raiser passes quickly, but the button takes quite a while and a couple of head shakes to pass his Qh Qs face up...

Dinner-break based counts from the Raabmeister himself...erm...Jon Raab:

5   10   Thomas Middleton   37400
2   10   Zachary Ford   35500
4   1   Marc Goodwin   33550
3   6   William Haughey   30800
1   3   Scott Murdoch   30600
2   5   Dave Buckland   30275
5   3   Paul Mcintyre   28050
7   5   Sunny Chattha   27600
9   3   Mike Fisher   25900
3   1   Darren Hickman   24950
11   4   Gary Cargill   24050
5   1   Robert Gillon   23700
2   2   C.t Law   22450
2   7   Daniel Rudd   22325
3   8   David Penly   22225
2   4   Phil Mead   22200
9   5   Daniel Fearon   20625
3   5   Simon Zach   20425
11   1   Barry Grime   20400
6   5   Malcolm Rutter   20375
11   2   Alan Mclean   19450
4   9   John Kay   19375
9   9   Gary Mcgaffney   18925
7   1   Ben Callinan   18850
8   1   Ann Scambler   18775
1   5   Willam Martin   18700
7   4   Ken Wong   17850
1   4   John Carey   17300
1   7   Mickeyx Wernick   16975
9   7   Philip Gruissem   16950
9   1   Lawrence Gosney   16450
2   8   Charles Harman   16250
11   5   James Ramsay   16200
8   3   Sue Oconnor   15925
1   6   Michael Duxberry   15575
5   6   Lee Bidulph   15375
9   8   Charlie Denton   14800
7   3   Peter Rodgers   14650
8   4   Simon Wolf   13875
8   7   Martyn Cavanagh   13700
8   6   John Hopkins   13000
6   2   Daniel Fearon   12975
11   9   Alan Davies   12850
7   9   Rune Nikolaisen   12700
1   9   Gregory Howard   12675
8   5   Mark Ridlay   12475
6   6   Darren Grosvenor   12175
7   7   Jason Herbert   12050
5   7   Bryan Clarke   11900
8   2   Glen Williams   11875
6   4   John Eames   11825
4   7   Mohammed Shoahebe   11775
8   8   Lane Newport   11675
3   9   Matt Eiler-gadsden   11525
7   6   Chuck Sellers   11475
2   9   Thomas Saint   11400
6   3   Dave Buckland   11300
8   10   Johnathon Butters   11275
9   6   Tom Mccready   11125
3   7   Norman Levitt   10950
4   4   Mark Kelly   10900
11   8   Oysten Lund   10300
5   9   Darren Marshall   9925
11   7   Ron Lawton   9900
1   8   Rana Gurnham   9600
2   3   Scott Chaudhry   9525
3   2   Chris Mcnicholls   9375
9   4   Alan Jennings   9350
4   5   Paul Rigg   8850
11   3   Lee Atherton   8825
1   10   Trevor Reardon   8700
6   1   Gareth Cash   8525
8   9   Andrew Fry   8350
7   10   Hamid Khayat   8125
6   10   Stephen Knight   7975
2   6   Adam Clark   7300
3   3   Colin Wu   6975
1   1   Sean Allen   6825
3   4   Ben Carpenter   6500
4   10   Reyaaz Mulla   6400
2   1   Brian Sharrock   6370
9   2   James Morgan   6175
11   10   Anthony Cartwright   5975
4   8   Nick Gibson   5675
7   8   Mick Cook   5550
5   8   Dennis Troake   5475
4   2   Dave Colclough   5350
6   8   Richard Herbert   4500
7   2   Malcolm Mckinlay   4475
6   7   Trevor Lawson   4375
5   5   Andreas Hoivold   3650
9   10   Dominic Rossookh   3600
5   2   Dale Ennis   3575
4   6   Andrew Steel   2550
11   6   Joan Lawley   1900
6   9   Chris Ferguson (Not that one!)   1625

We were told of Mr Middletons rise to 37 diiimes.










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mbsft

Robert Gillon - 20,500

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Willie Haughey(the one in the middle, I think, who looks like he's being hypnotised) - 34,000

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BONUS REQUEST - Darren Hickman

22,000.  Pictured as taken by surprise; if I'd waited 20 seconds you'd have got a great two-finger gesture one instead.

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Tom Middleton is on about 40k now after knocking out Darren Marshall in an unforgettable 57-43 encounter with Q-Q against A-K. Marshall had pushed for a couple of thousand and Middleton repopped to 5k scaring everyone else off.

But could the queens hold? Would the short stack hit? Is this a mundane attempt to liven up a straightforward hand?

The board came Ts 9s 5d 3h 3d, as exciting as a Tikay Train Story.

Message for Ironside from an admirer, you raise 6-3s utg and the flop comes 2-4-5, do you bet out or check?

No, I have no idea what that means either... ???

hope you read this middy, gl sir tid



























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Daniel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1371) Rudd (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1371) is down to the dying embers of his once fiery stack after losing most of it to Charles Harman.

All the money went in on the turn of a Aspades Jd 4h 6s board, Rudd held Ad Jh but Harman flipped Js Jc. The river was the Ts, Rudd was left with just about 2.5k, shrugging his shoulders while Harman has about 35k.

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Tom said he wouldn't have minded losing this hand so he could save his 'flip tokens' for more important hands.

not seen any kittens for a while.

its very important to save flip tokens for more important spots than when you cover ppl by a lot. very poor middy get it together.

emm thats not robert....nice pic of willie tho lol

does anyone know where i can find the results for the side events?

That's because Kev hasn't posted in a while. But in case he does...

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womble agrees the hitchcock stalking cat was genius. More clips please when not much is going on in the card room.

Why do people do this, it tilts the hell out of me and isn't very smart. What do they want a sodding round of applause.

End rant.

Are you sure he hasn't got the wrong name? ;)

He's not in his seat which is probably a bad thing at this moment.

Def not Robert if you're in the 1st pic, pretty sure that's a guy who I used to know called Charlie Harman.

they do it mainly to let the aggresive players on the table thay they have very small testicles and they can be pushed around. I am sure the other players wont be reraising him much later on ;)

This Game is Rigged...

Paul Rigg just doubled up DC, after Colclough had bet 3,000 on the turn with the board standing 4h Qh Jh Ts.  He'd moved all in, and with not a lot behind, Colclough called as he looked like he was always going to should this situation arise.

DC: Kd 9h for the straight
Rigg: Js 9s for a pair and the same unlikely straight draw...

River: 6h completing the flush for El Blondie and giving him a stack to play with, finally.

Rigg survived one supershort autoallin with A-T vs. Q-6 and then hovered around until this hand:

Threeway to the flop of 3c 3d 7c, Rigg bet out 600, called by Mohammed Shoahebe, raised to 2,600 by John Kay.  Rigg moved in, so did Shoahebe (9,050), which gave Kay pause, but in the end not enough anxiety to justify in his mind the fold of his Ad Ahrt.  Rigg showed Tc Jc, but Shoahebe had it: 3s 4s.  Nice double-through plus some for the 3-4 sooted and Rigg is OUT, Kay nearly so.

Pictured: black hatted Shoahebe, nothing-to-do-with-this-story Gwibbo, John Kay in stripes.

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Scandie meets the Scousers in poker's version of Jan Molby going to Liverpool.

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Oysten Lund

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David Caruso. (Dave Colclough clearly realises also)

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Scott Chaudhry doubles through Zachary Ford, after raising him by 3k on a Th Kc Js board, leaving less than half of that behind.  That's an "I'm not folding" bet - but it was less than 5.5k overall to make the all-in suggestion with a stack move forward - it was accepted.  Chaudhry had flopped two pair with Kd Jd and dodged Ford's Qs Jh straight draw to double up.

Oysten 'David Caruso' Lund has picked up chips in a bizarrely contested hand.

James Ramsay check/raises Lund's 2k bet to 5k on a 8s 6d 3s. Call.

8c

(Pause) Check....check

7s

Now Ramsay bets 5k again and Lund grimaces before calling, and flipping 9c 9h. Ramsay mucks.

Sometimes, the whole world's your Oysten.

(Sorry)*






*Not really.

True. Mainly because he'll probably be out.

More Chip Counts:

Martyn Cavanagh - 28,000
Ian Woodley - 30,000 (just moved table; when I remarked how a pocket of noise follows him around he replied, "Well, I gotta let 'em have it, 'aven't I?"  Who could argue.
Dave Colclough - 23,000
Nick Gibson - 32,000
Marc Goodwin - 35,000
Oysten Lund - 42,000
Thomas Middleton - 42,000
Darren Grosvenor - 19,000
Chuck Sellers - 15,300
Lane Newport - 60,000 (probable leader)
Philip Gruissem - 20,500
John Eames - 13,875
Red-Dog - 14,800
Ken Wong - 31,400
Simon Zach - OUT
Malcolm Rutter - OUT

In the top photo, does anyone know the name of the one on the left (I know he's a scouser)?

Paul McIntyre - Finalled Thanet last month.

thanks

can we get a message to redfox and tell him just raise with Ne2 utg and dont let them steal his UTG

Raise from the hijack and Ian Woodley reraises from the cutoff. Tom Middleton moves all-in from the blinds and the original raiser folds. Woodley instantly calls for his 20k or so.

Woodley: Kh Kd
Middleton Th Ts

Aspades 7s 9h Tc 9c

Middleton, "Sorry I thought you we're restealing."

Woodley walks away muttering, "Facking 'ell, it's a facking joke!"

Afterward Woodley has left Middleton says, "Tens are always good on the internet!"

One suspects that young Master Middleton has just used up all his flip tokens for the night.

Gwibbo Makes Bid For Comeback of the Day...

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Never exactly rolling in chips, the beginning of level Seven saw him with just a couple of thousand left which found their own way into the middle after it folded to him on the button.  The big blind was none other than chip leader Lane Newport (pictured below) who made the call with a spare chip or two with 2h 3h.  Gibson flipped Jh 8s.

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The flop: Td 2s Ts  And the last of Gibson's chips looked about to be absorbed into the giant stack of his opponent...
Turn: Qh
River: Qc  And that counterfeiting second pair made Gibson's Jack play and kept him in the tournament.

Barely five minutes later, and Gibson was aip once more, this time armed with a whole 8,500, enough to get rid of an original raiser!  "That's a good comeback," remarked his neighbour.  Still two and a half levels left to get through, though...

Boom with essence of bink

Darren Grosvenor (on the left of this picture next to Red-Dog) just won quite a few chips with the check-call method thusly:  Calling a preflop utg raise to 2k in the big blind, he checked the 7d 5c 4c flop, and the raiser checked behind.  The turn brought the Ahrt, check once more.  UTG bet 2,200.  A slow call.  The river came 4h, check a third time.  The aggressor bet 3,500, a good chunk of his remaining chips, but when Grosvenor eventually made the call, turning Ad Js, he was rewarded with a table-tap and "Nice call," and a muck. 

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Um, that's some specific advice there... we'll see if we can locate him.  If you really think that will help.  :)

These have just popped into the inbox - now woefully out of date, the speed at which chips are changing stacks here, but a lot of work went into compiling them, and for the most part the chipped-up are still chipped up so:

End of Level Six Counts:

Lane Newport   59250
Charles Harman   49350
Willam Martin   46775
Norman Levitt   46225
Mike Fisher   44600
Darren Hickman   41775
Thomas Middleton 41325
Oysten Lund   39375
Marc Goodwin   32500
Paul Mcintyre   29025
Sunny Chattha   28975
Daniel Fearon   28775
Ken Wong   28550
Martyn Cavanagh   28500
Alan Mclean   25025
Mohammed Shoahebe   24925
Sally Smerdon   24850
Philip Gruissem   23050
Scott Chaudhry   22175
Rana Gurnham   21800
Gary Mcgaffney   21800
Dave Colclough   20700
Andreas Hoivold   19525
C.t Law   19350
Ann Scambler   19325
Darren Grosvenor   18600
Michael Duxberry   18225
Chuck Sellers   17950
Ben Callinan   17075
Lee Bidulph   16975
Gregory Howard   16325
Dominic Rossookh   15700
Colin Wu   15375
Tom Mccready   14425
William Haughey   14275
Sue Oconnor   14200
R Whitmore   14025
Dave Buckland   13950
Robert Gillon   13575
Alan Davies   13375
Darren Marshall   12825
Stephen Knight   12375
Scott Murdoch   12100
Johnathon Butters   11575
John Carey   11525
Matt Eiler-gadsden   11250
Charlie Denton   10850
Malcolm Mckinlay   10175
John Hopkins   9950
Peter Rodgers   9950
Daniel Fearon   9850
Thomas Saint   8825
Gareth Cash   8800
Adam Clark   7925
John Eames   7750
Lee Atherton   7400
Trevor Reardon   7150
Mickeyx Wernick   7125
Mark Kelly   6650
Dennis Troake   6625
Bryan Clarke   5950
Simon Wolf   5875
Antoni Romanello   4600
Nick Gibson   4450
Hamid Khayat   4300
David Penly   3925
Dale Ennis   3025
Chris Ferguson   1950
Jason Herbert   600

he'll be the one runing back and forward to the roulette wheel with a bagfull of chips between hands

Before Homer brings you sad news about El Blondie, I must share a tender moment between him and neighbour Marc Goodwin, snapped while both of them were comfortably stacked, in a rare moment of pro-on-pro affection (not at all one-sided due to one's having noticed the camera)...

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For added comedy value, note Oysten Lund's Terminator-like impassivity in the face of the surprise affection.

Hoivold challenges Gwibbo for comeback of the day...

Andreas Hoivold had about 3k at the dinner break. He now has almost 50k after winning the big Q-Q vs A-K battle after a decisive 7d 3d 3s Qc 6h board.

Lawrence Gosney is out after pushing with T-9 on a K-6-6-9 board, unfortunately he was snapped by 7-6.

Trevor Reardon is also gone, his Ahrt Kh no match for Thanet finalist William Martin's Td Ts on J-7-6-4-Q board.

El Blondie is out. Gwibbo raised to 2,000 from late position, Marc Goodwin reraised to 8,000 and Colclough moved in for 16,000. Gwibbo passed Jacks and Goodwin called with Ad Ks only to see El Blondie's Kd Kh, but a bullet-ridden board later of Ac Qs Aspades 6c 6s meant that it was Goodwin who gotten one over his friend.

"What can you do?" said a slightly abject Dave.

Down to 55 players from 138 with two levels still to play, I can't remember so many people going out so quickly in GUKPT for quite a while.

You don't usually get a lot of time to snap someone on their way from their seat to the rail, so this is a slightly blurry photo of Mark Kelly.  He'd moved in (for around 6,500) over the top of an Oysten Lund pre-flop raise to 2k, only to find his lhs neighbour keen as mustard to reshove his whole 25k in over the top.  He knew it wasn't good for his Ahrt Kd, and yes, he'd run smack into Aspades Ac (Lund was long gone by now).  One King on the flop must have been momentarily intriguing, but nothing else happened and he headed off smiling happily.  "Not bad for a freeroll," he remarked, displaying an attitude rarely observed among the busted.

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Addendum:  Mr. Kelly himself just came over and added that it was a 700 runner freeroll from Poker Player Magazine which he won to propel himself straight into the GUKPT ME.  "Next time," he says.  Best of luck, sir.

Extended Leaderwatch...

Besides Hoivold, Middleton, Newport, here are a couple more players vying for the top spot on the chip leaderboard currently:

Zachary Ford - 65,000

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Mike Fisher - 50,000 Plus a green on green cardy/scarf combo of which Snoopy would be proud

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William Martin - 75,000

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Plus the guy we thought was someone's mate earlier has 58k, whoever he is. 

Red Dog Tom McCready is out.

"He [John Eames] had been pushing every hand and I've only got 10BB's so I took my shot with Qc Jc, but he had Ahrt Qd..."

Accidentally Atmospheric Photo of the Day

I would like to draw your attention to this photo I took flashless by holding still of Barry Grime, who nearly qualified for Extended Leaderwatch by virtue of having 38,000.  Please note the amazing natural spotlight effect, and the eerieness reminiscent of David Lynch...

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I expect him to start talking backwards and dancing to music only he can hear at any moment.

John Eames has knocked Lee Biddulph down to just 600 chips. Biddulph check/raised all-in on a Td 9s 5c board but Eames made the call with Js Jh which was ahead of the Ad Ks of his opponent. No help on the turn Biddulph was knocked out in the next hand by Tom Middleton's A-Q.

43 left.

Oooh.  Nasty. 

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) had managed to boost his stack all the way from under 2k to 25,500, and was chatting away to his table.  "Being behind is only a temporary issue," he commented, to many a wry smile.  Literally the next hand, however, demonstrated how true that is, to his cost...

Pass to Gibson on the button, who made it 2,325.  Over to big blind Lane Newport, who unexpectedly announced, "All in."  He still has around 60k, and this was most definitely a large bet, immediately called by Gwibbo!  Oops.  On their backs.

Newport:  Ad 2c
Gibson: Qd Qs

I didn't see the flop until Gibson had stood up and removed an ipod earphone.  That couldn't be good news for the Queens - no - the first card out was the Aspades, followed by 3h 3d 4s 6h.  A clearly frustrated Nick having just demonstrated how six hours of grinding can be undone by one all in coup when one is covered silently and quickly made his way out of the tournament area, no photo, no comment.

"I was tired of him raising all the time," defended Newport, but the truth was he made a big stab at the wrong time, got caught and is now chip leader.

Marc Goodwin tells William Martin about Nick Gibson's exit at the other end of the table...

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Last break and then last level.

In the cash game, Sam Trickett has apparently lost a £9k pot to James Akenhead...The big game is now 3-handed between Akenhead, Channing and 'The Mole'.

Last hand before the break and Martyn Cavanagh knocks out Chuck Sellers the old A-A vs K-K helping out the Welshman.

;bp;

Pot of the night here propels Zachary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2249) Ford (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2249) to the chip leader's enviable position - and it's a big one...  It appears that Ford raised from the cutoff with the nontraditional Qd 3d, getting some interest from small blind, and erstwhile chip leader Lane Newport (below).  A flop of 8d 5d Aspades got the attention of them both, but it all really kicked off when the turn brought the 4d.  Feeling comfortable that the preflop raiser was betting "Something like an Ace," Newport called his all-in bet with 9d Td for the lower flush!

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It was over 110k which made its way to Ford when the smoke cleared. 

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It's all very friendly on table 5. Lots of medium stacks going along taking it in turn to steal then show that they weren't stealing by showing thereafter. This friendly atmosphere has become contagious and now even Andreas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=467) Hoivold (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=467) is showing the odd hand, in my view though, a scandie should never show his cards, for one thing, they never have anything or ever make a legitimate hand as everyone knows.

Fight the friendliness Andreas!!!

Lee Atherton just busted, getting it all in as the blinds hit the 500/1k mark with Ks 9h, called quickly by the cutoff who'd picked up Qh Qs and quickly crushed his hopes of an outdraw by spiking a third queen on the flop.

Lane Newport raises to 18k, or 'Everything but 3k of my stack'. Ken Wong moves all-in behind him. Everyone else folds.

Ken Wong: Js Jh
Lane Newport (having called): Ad Qs

Jc...(Wong start for Newport)...Ahrt Th....("Queen!" shouts Newport)...Qc....Kd

Newport screams, "YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!"

It's then pointed out it's a split pot.

Newport, "Oh."

any news on redfox?

Hello everybody!

Any chance of an update on Colin Wu.  Please.

Marc Goodwin has knocked out John Eames in a monster pot on a K-9-9-x-x board after it all went in on the turn. Both had a 9 but Marc's Q-9 was better than John's T-9 to give him a monster 130k pot and eliminating the young Internet pro.

Zach Ford has busted Willie Haughey, 6-8-9 flop, Haughey had A-9 except Ford had T-7...

Paul McIntyre has lost much of his stack. He and Andreas Hoivold saw a Ks 7s 6h flop, the young Scouser raising Hoivold's 5.1k bet to 13.7k, Hoivold moved all-in for another 30k or so, covering his opponent before rattling off all the possible hands he could have. McIntyre passed and Hoivold showed him 7-6.

I think he's out because he just came to say goodbye, I'm afraid.

Another potentially big pot (but honestly, despite the drama factor being x10, about a fifth of the size of the Newport one a minute ago) just played out... Thomas Saint moved all in preflop into two players who couldn't pass to what he put on top of the initial raise.  It looked like it was actually an underraise, so they couldn't muscle each other out of the pot either. 

Flop: Ac Ts Jc  Check from Charles Harman (I think) to Barry Grime who bet 8k into a pot of around 20k.  This gave Harman some kind of apoplectic reaction, as he moved his chair out of the way, the better to loom over the table, count down his chips for a while, ask, "Do you have big slick?" to which his opponent said, "What?" and generally look very annoyed.  "I'm going to see what you've got anyway," he said, before adding, "F**king hell this is painful!"  I wondered what he could be throwing at this juncture, but was surprised that this level of angst had come from his now out-flopped Queens, which he mucked instructing the dealer/poker gods, "Don't you dare put a King or a Nine down there!"

Instead, Grime's flopped two pair with Aspades Tc was outdrawn by the all in Ahrt Kd when a Queen popped out on the turn to give him a straight.  "YES!" he said, tripling up and leaving a generally overwrought feel to the table.  Lucky play will soon end in approx. 5 mins...

I'm afraid it's going to have to wait until the final chip count... not sure if your man is still in or not at this point, but we'll have his chip count if he's survived/moved when they're bagged and tagged which is happening in a moment.

Agony for Alan Mclean in the last minute, all-in with Tc Ts against Mike Fisher's 9d 9c. 9h was the first card out, and that was that...

Play has finished for the day. Full wrap up and chip counts to trundle along when the Raabmeister has them. Over 303 have already paid in meaning this will probably be one of the biggest GUKPT's of the year, other than the Grand Final.

Jen and I will be back from 2pm tomorrow. Toodlepip and all that jazz.

;stickaforkinme;

 ;applause;  For some great updating.

Many thanks.

okay no worries, great updating

Yep ;stickaforkinme;

I have beer now.  Beer and nachos.

marv......riverd..lol

mbst to me tom middleton AKA hitthehole AKA i just win big scores AKA i play crystal maze end game with BULLEYS. SO tosty.

GL TO MIDDY and Gregior

Indeed

go on martyn all the way now.

googogogogogo Middy win it all again, scoopscoopthel0000000t.

thankyou for the usual excellence.chip counts please thought.well done martyn cavanagh.

hahahah so funny when woodley gets badbeat. I would probably cheer if i was at the table. Gl all.

lol at used his flip tokens for the night.

he won  Ad 2d vs  8h 8c all in pre on next hand