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Yay, we're still in Blackpool!!! Everything here is seemingly shut!!! Yay!!! Jen and I went past a McDonalds and a Pizza Hut at lunchtime and they hadn't even opened!!! Yay!!!!

We're expecting it to be busy today. 165 have already bought in, could we break the 200 mark? It's certainly possible. We'll be back from 2pm tomorrow, get on here and let us know who you're supporting, or if you're playing, or, if you're Kev, what kind of cat pictures you'd like to see today.

Chip counts from Day 1A to follow.

Day 1 Chip Counts from Blue Square.

Player   Chips
Zachary Ford   143900
Marc Goodwin   115275
Norman Levitt   89950
Andreas Hoivold   81125
Mike Fisher   74000
Mohammed Shoahebe   69325
Willam Martins   62350
Darren Hickman   61175
Thomas Middleton   58500
Charles Harman   55500
Martin Cavanagh   50500
Sunny Chattha   45125
Colin Wu   43525
Darren Grosvenor   38975
Ken Wong   36550
Gary Mcgaffney   35025
Rana Gurnham   34525
Paul Mcintyre   32075
Barry Grime   31025
Charliex Denton   27625
Sally Smerdon   24050
Thomas Saint   21675
Lane Newport   21025
Matt Eiler-Gadsden   18675
Alan Davies   18500
Bryan Clarke   18225
Robert Gillon   17275
Gregory Howard   15550
Peter Rodgers   11275

Good luck to Neil Blatchley- TID sicko!

best wishes to sinbad big taff martin frey and shane mcg

chipleader end of day 1b is womble with 145k (ok he did have aces 29 times during the day ;) )

Full today, with alternatives. 196 at the moment...

So busy they've brought in reserve dealers...

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sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

gl today to glen ashworth,sam trickett and praz bansi(1 of my picks for winner along with middy)

please keep your eye on womble today for me and the colchester kitty

It does look like the card room is going to be operating at capacity today, with players cooperatively taking their seats for an earlier start than yesterday.  Any minute now they'll shuffle up and deal to a more boisterous full house.

Among others we've got:

Katharine Hartree
John Conroy
Henning Granstad
Ali Mallu
Pete Singleton
Nick Slade
Julian Thew
Sam Trickett
Praz Bansi

my five picks for the day.

womble salad punk goldenbollox mallu

Julian Thew is still listed in the chip counts for the 2,500 event at the master classics in amsterdam.

well jules is definately in blackpool as he left the dam a couple of days back- dont beleive everything an updater tells you ;) (they never have killed that kitten even though they have theatened it for months)

Don't panic......it's been rumoured that norkage will once again appear on the live updates!!

whos punk? ive guessed who the rest are,lol

good luck to nick slade and womble from me too

Pete Singleton has lost a couple of thousand, folding to a bet on the river of a 3s Qc Ts Js 4s board, Rob Cowen trying to show me, but not the table the Aspades Qs that he had in his hand.

John Conroy. He's PunkFloyd on blonde.

list of runners plz

Won't be complete until all the alternatives are sorted.

who's salad?

One of these two could have been in contention for First Exit just now - on the left Nathan Lee, the right Jason Trey.  With 2,275 in the pot, first to act Lee had bet 2,200 on a flop of Kc 2c 7d only to find bespectacled Trey moving all in.  A dwell ensued, pictured here, with traditional Consideration Poses being struck with aplomb.  Finally Lee passed, with the rest of the table unsurprisingly calling for Trey to "show the bluff."  He declined.

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ok thanks and 4 all the updates too

Good Luck & best wishes to bigalhx, big  ;flushy;  and all blondites thanks

Here he is on the left of Stu Rutter, who is fairly happy with his table, which is displaying a fair number of slightly strange hands - like when a backdoor flush hit a raggy paired board and the three players in for the river all checked - the guy with the flush, trips and the small FH! 

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nick slade

thanks for the updates guys. Best of luck to Mary Martin in this today.

Mike

Yes, here he is, looking as fresh as a triathlete who's rested for a week and fully warmed up and not just played the Amsterdam Masterclassics...

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good luck Javed (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1258) Abrahams (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1258), Praz (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=353) Bansi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=353), Karl (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=227) Mahrenholz (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=227), James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=183) Akenhead (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=183), Henning Granstad, Jeff (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=195) Kimber (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=195) plus many many more

It never seems to be too early in the day for Mad Marty (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=978) Wilson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=978) to chat.  His table might be somewhat unresponsive, but the irrepressible MMW is already on a roll.  Here's just a snapshot of what I overheard on the first pass - like tuning in to a weird radio station for a minute or so...

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"...honey comes from bees.  You can ask me what I had for tea on a Wednesday in 1973 and I'll tell you."  [pause for breath]
Jon Raab interjects, laughing, "Cause you always have the same thing on a Wednesday."

"The Finnish are the greatest nation for eating meat in the world."
"Tell them the polar bear story!" asks John Conroy (from the relative safety of the next table along)...

A lot slower than yesterday, only a couple of exits so far. Javed Abrahams apparently eliminating Om Aggarwal and Peter Seager in the same hand to make him the early chip leader with 30k.

Slight hilarity as it goes check/check after on the river between Paul Moss and Ben Middleton on a T-9-3-6-4 board. Moss shows 7-4off and wins, Middleton looks perplexed. The table giggles.

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Paul Bracken, last year's winner here wouldn't mind a repeat performance.

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Henning Granstad and John Conroy.

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Mad Marty, "You know Finland eats more meat per person than any other country in the world?"

His table are now taking bets on what is the smallest county in the UK...

Updates on Stephen Boyd and Brian Martin please?


tytyty

Mary Martin and Tim Magnus updates please .tyvm

Rutland, iirc.

A-T vs A-9 vs Q-J on an A-T-9 board.

No, it's the Isle of Wight. You lose.

Polar bear story?

IoW is in Hampshire init?

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Here we have pictured Melanie Bowden, about to eliminate one of the two players in the hand with her (I'll leave out which one until the end to create suspense...).  A standard raised pot preflop became a monster after the 5h 7c 6h flop.  Small blind Melanie checked, Chris (whose nickname appears on our list as 'Spuddy D' for some reason) Flint bet 600.  Button Mark (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=259) Blandford (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=259) raised to a chunky 2,400.  Melanie then reraised to 4,800. 

Flint went into the tank.  What amounts to a check-min-re-raise must be the strongest move in the book.  Whatever he folded, he didn't want to do it very much.  But Blandford quickly moved all in, called just as fast by Bowden.

She showed:  8d 9c
He showed: 3c 4c

He was drawing dead in a heartbeat and left the tournament mid level two.

That's in Hampshire.

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This moodily-lit chap is Alex Regler.  I don't know why one in about 20 photos I take ends up looking like a film noir soliloquy.  Whatever, he just won a nice pot off Andrew Chambi like so...

Regler on the button must have raised preflop, and been repopped by early position Chambi - when I arrived at the table he was in the process of throwing in 2,500 as a call.

Flop:  7s Jc 8h.  Chambi bet out 2,000.  Call.
Turn: Ahrt  Now Chambi checked, Regler fired 2,500.  With only the most cursory of annoyed dwells, Chambi threw away his hand - Kc Kd - face up.
Regler turned the knife, showing him Qc Qh but Chambi just tapped the table.

Stephen Boyd aka "The Mole"

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Bryan Martin next to Mick Fletcher, the latter wearing the poker player's new 'must-have' item, a New York Yankees Hat.

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Tim Magnus

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No, it is a seperate entity now.

Here's Mary Martin (I think) surprised into looking up and therefore a little blurry, sorry.  She seems pretty cheerful as yet...

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Also, sharing the same table - Again - are Hit Squadders Praz Bansi and Karl Mahrenholz, looking not so much cheerful as unconscious and drowsy respectively.  Someone bring these boys some red bull!

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Just about to leave the warmth of my flat in order to join in with the poker festivities up north.

Do they make you wear shoes at the G Casino, Blackpool?

Stuart (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=421) Rutter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=421),John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=608) Conroy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=608) and dan owston to lead the way today if theyre all playing.good luck to the welsh lads and well done to rana gurnham and Martyn (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=270) Cavanagh (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=270) for yesterday.

TYTY can you tell them that they both look like they have been told their families have been shot.. and that i assume last night was a good evening :)

 

So do you, it's Blackpool.

Yes.  No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service, like they say above the counter in lots of fast food outlets in Southern California...


But trainers are OK. ;)

Jeff Kimber agreed to write a few interesting hands from his table at the start of the day and has just handed me the paper.

"How to valuetown yourself...

Pass to button, limps for 50, sb 150, me (K-J) in bb call 150, button call.

Flop K-4-2, sb bets 350, I call, button fold.

Turn 2. sb check, I bet 500, he calls.

River J, so now sure I win, sb check, I bet 600, he calls, I flip 'em, I expect him to show A-K, K-Q or maybe Q-Q type hand, he shows A-A, I sigh and muck."

Gah.

So do you it's Blackpool and Fylde :)

How about fuchsia ones? Do they discriminate against colour?

More from Jeff (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=195) Kimber (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=195),

"How to trap...

Pass to button in seat 9, raise to 150, me sb, J-T call, seat 1 call. Flop J-T-9, 2 hearts, check, check check.

Turn offsuit 6, I bet 300, call, call.

River, small heart. I check, seat 1, 600, button call, me pass. Seat 1 floppped it, K-Q. Must be nice in the blinds...

Welsh guy in seat 5 had queens about 5 times, calls my UTG raise (300) when I have Q-Q. Flop 9-8-3, I bet 450, he calls.

Turn 10, I bet 750, he calls.

River K, I check, he checks.

His hand? K-J off obv, lovely flop you mug.

Seat 9 has just check called an 800 river bet from Rob (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=382) Sherwood (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=382) with 3-3 on a A-9-7-6-2 board.

Welsh guy in seat 5 just had 7-6 on a 7-7-9-T-A board, I'd raised his blind with A-T.

I'm going for a walk..."

Jeff's table

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Henning Granstad, "I have 3,000. I played a hand perhaps as badly as I could play a hand, I got all the information I needed...And then I moved all-in."

update on Neil Blatchly pls- and see if u can succeed where others have failed miserably and take a good photo of him! :D

By 'eck, it's grim up t'North.

Doesn't make much sense to me. You can wear trainers at Blackpool, but the same casino in Luton is black tie and they check the polish on your shoes before you go in.

any chip  counts or news other than that of trainers being allowed lol?



But trainers are OK. ;)
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Doesn't make much sense to me. You can wear trainers at Blackpool, but the same casino in Luton is black tie and they check the polish on your shoes before you go in.
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By 'eck, it's grim up t'North.
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Doesn't make much sense to me. You can wear trainers at Blackpool, but the same casino in Luton is black tie and they check the polish on your shoes before you go in.
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[ ] sweepstr has a very good understanding of how to use the quote option.

Feeling very kindly towards Stu Rutter for heading to the bar on our behalf during this first break, I wasn't going to post a looky-likey of him and Roger the alien from American Dad in a tea-cosy hat.  I just thought I'd put the image in your minds instead.

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chip counts for paul lammas aka sinbad andy bacon aka big taff martin frey aka martyn f1 robert boon good luck to them too

Cheers - Good to see she's enjoying herself. Also nice to see the Mole and Brian Martin both looking as cheery as ever. Good Luck to the 3 of them.

chip count 4 shane mcgee please gl to all

Chips - Who's Got 'Em?

Rob Taylor - 12,000
Rob Sherwood - 5,125
Jeff Kimber - 7,150
James Browning - 8,300
Tim Blake - 7,750
Shane McGrory - 24,000
Chris Sokrati - 11,000
Paul Moss - 6,150
Mick McCloskey - 19,000
Katharine Hartree - 9,700
Sid Harris - 4,000
Jerome Bradpiece - 11,000
Womble - 9,000
Iwan Jones - 14,200
Praz Bansi - 11,600
Karl Mahrenholz - 8,000
Mary Martin - 5,350
Stu Rutter - 20,000
Pete Singleton - 12,000
Paul Garnham - 18,300
Sam Trickett - 11,400
Julian Thew - 8,900
James Akenhead - 15,000
David Young - 10,600
Jason Medley - 9,200
Paul Parker - 6,050
Paul Bracken - 9,700
Ali Mallu - 26,000
John Conroy - 24,000
Mad Marty Wilson - 12,500
Henning Granstad - 2,500

Double through for Jake Cody just now courtesy of Paul Moss... it occurred mainly on the river, with the pot just over the 4,050 which Cody had bet (all in) at this point.

The board stood 6d 5h 9h Ts Jc.  "You got me beat?" queried Moss as he considered calling the final bet.  That's the sort of question where the only true answer is: "Well, I hope I do, and you call.  And if I don't fold fold fold fold...."

Eventually he made the call.  He was shown Td Th, and mucked, nodding.

Not suprised she's cheerful, as the dealer has stopped talking. He dealt out table yesterday for a bit.
He had more table banter than Roberto Romenello and Barry Neville combined.

Nice lad though

Stuart Rutter has doubled up through Robert Boon. Rutter raised to 550 in the hijack, Boon reraised to 1,650. Rutter bumped it another 3,000 and Boon moved in. Rutter snapped with Aspades Ad, Boon flipped Qd Qs.

6c 4s 2h 5h 4c

Rutter up to 20k.

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Mark Wilson is out, the old K-K into Stuart Long's A-A.

Neil Blatchley

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Early chip leader Javed (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1258) Abrahams (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1258).

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good luck to neil blatchley and gl to mr rutter.due to win one of these.i see also the excellent iwan jones is playing any news apprecaited

This could have been a giant pot, had anyone in it had over 10k to start with... a cold-decker of sizeable proportions, with a result which opened even my jaded eye somewhat...

Threeway all-in pre:

Sid Harris: Qh Qd
E. Lundun: Kc Kd
Katharine Hartree: Aspades Ac

Flop: Qs 9h Kh  Not looking good for the black Aces...
Turn: 2h
River: Th

Sid scoops the lot (but as the shortest stack busts no one) with the flush:

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Lundun's (young guy in white) Kings take the side:

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Hartree shrugs and carries on with the game:

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Jeff Kimber writes...

"Sam [trickett] knocked Rob Sherwood out pretty horribly. Sam raises UTG to 400, guy with 2,000 totall calls. Button call, Rob in BB makes it 1,700. (Looks squeezy but can't be as short stack can't pass if folded back to him). Sam reraises again to 3,500, shorty thinks, eventually folds his small pair (he says), Rob all-in, Sam has to call.

Rob has Q-Q, Sam (says we have history and he never noticed shorty) A-J...turn ace..."

Here's Iwan, intense-looking and comfortably above-average in chips at last check.

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Would you be as good as to give me a chip count on Ian Holman and James Mitchell

Thanks in advance

Disco

The happy-looking guy in white (Mark Jones) next to a beardy Jerome Bradpiece just doubled up from a very short stack to a short-ish stack, with some weird river betting to finish it off.

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The board had a pair of Eights on it, and some cards there or thereabouts which could be straightened.  The pot had reached the giddy heights of 11k, but when Harry Zammit checked to Jones he threw in a minbet - 300.  I quickly doublechecked the pot size, while Zammit check-raised to 1,000.  Curiouser and curiouser - this made a lot more sense when I moved round the table a little bit and saw that Jones only had 1k behind for the final betting round anyway. 

"It's now or never," he said, quite rightly, and was rewarded with his Aspades 8s for trips still being good.

Not too much to report for Praz Bansi or Julian Thew.

Praz has a meagre 2,700. "I have them right where I want them," he warns, "They'll never see it coming..." He then admitted he 'value-owned myself with a straight vs a flush.'

Julian is steadier on 10,000. "I'm just grinding, a whole new level of weak-tightness."

James Mitchell - 11,500
Holman - Been moved off his table and my short term memory for faces searched on blondepedia not working sorry

ALSO REQUESTED EARLIER....

Robert Boon - OUT (pictured while IN)

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Mary Milton - 4,975

Jorgen Kjerkol busts to Rob Cowen... having reached the turn button vs. bb (Cowen) the board read 6c 4h Qc 3s.  Cowen bet out around 2,000, and Kjerkol moved all in for a further 5,600.  Not a chunk which would be negligible to Cowen.  He queried himself, "Flopped a set?" before clearly deciding this wasn't the case and calling with Kd Qh.  Kjerkol only had 7c 7h and no hit later we're down another player.

Stu Rutter has written down a few hands, the most interesting involving Rob Cowen,

"A late position limps, SB completes, aggressive kid in the 2 seat, makes it 425, both call. Board A-8-6, check check, 8-seat bets 1,600. Rob Cowen in the 2 seat calls. Turn A-8-6-3, check check.

River A-8-6-3-A. The kid bets 1,500. 8-seat counts chips to raise, dwells nad eventually passes. Cowen shows 9-7o.

Cown raises to 600, 7-seat calls, flop 8-4-3. Cown bets 1,100. Reraise to 3,200. All-in for 5,500 more from Cowen. 7-seat calls with T-T, Cowen has K-K. Board runs out 8-4-3-6-J

Rob Cowen over 20k, 7-seat out..."

Right, Jen has to leave now but Snoopy will be here to take over after the break, but I'll be flying solo for the next 20 minutes or so.

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update  on bigalhx  ;flushy; please

Go xxMAIRxx

please pass on best wishes to my wee cousin and tell her I'll be watching all weekend.

Geo.

Javed Abrahams just knocked out another player. He's over the 40k mark now, we're about to be going on a dinner break so all other requests I'll do as soon as we get back.

********************1 hour dinner break***********************

GL to Mary, The Mole and all other Scots.

hello stranger, how's things

Geo

ah... so this is the new headgear now that I've stolen his scarf.

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Players are now restarting.

Rob Taylor has had an up and down day, first losing a 10k pot K-K to Nicky Romanello's A-K. Ace on the flop and on the turn.

He then had Queens vs Sam Trickett's K-9 to double back up to 6k.

GUKPT former winners update:

Praz Bansi -- OUT, check/raised all-in with Ac 2c on a J-7-4 two club board. Snap-called by Lorna Lancaster's 5-5.

Julian Thew -- OUT, pushed with 8h 7h, ran into Queens. Couldn't win the (for him) coinflip.

Jeff Kimber -- Shortish, struggling along with about 4k.

Sam Trickett -- Equally short, these two are on the same table and will be making moves soon.

Paul Bracken -- Going solidly along with about 16k.

Looks to be on about 20k.

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LOL at Happy Pete the poker player

Flopps get one of him smiling and you may post 3 cat pics :)

diolch :)up

you wouldnt be smiling if you were that bad either lol

Jeff Kimber, Karl Mahrenholz and Henning Granstad all look to be out.

Can I post these three then?

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Just grand Mate. I'v PM'd u some chat.

The curse of the former GUKPT champion continues...

Jerome Bradpiece, Ketul Nathwani and Sam Trickett have all vacated the tournament.

Garinder Purewal is out, he held Aspades Qs on a Ac 9s Jc board against Nathan Lee's Royal Flush drawing Kc Qc. No club, but the Td on the turn left the DTD £300 chopper from last month needing a King to survive. Another Th on the river he was gone.


Matthew Buckland bets 3k on the turn of a 2h Th 3c 2d board.  Rob Cowen slaps down a stack of 20 500 chips before telling his opponent, I think you have enough to pass, you have something like Eights or Nines. Buckland thinks for about 30 seconds before calling, Cowen frowns and flips over Qd Tc, but then says, "Jeez, you're slowrolling me!" when Buckland turns over Kh Kd. No Ten on the river and Buckland doubles up to about 20k.

Chip Counts courtesy of Jon Raab. Please bear in mind they are an hour old though.

6   8   Javed Abrahams   51375
11   10   Ian Whalley   31225
11   2   Rob Cowen   30925
14   3   Jon Heath   29975
2   6   Michael Denton   29825
10   4   Neil Blatchly   26800
15   5   Suzanne Pyefinch   26675
9   7   Damian Evans   26475
11   9   Greg Hunt   25975
1   5   John Marles   25025
8   3   Paul Lammas   24750
5   3   Tim Magnus   24525
3   10   Guy Johnson   23750
12   4   Kuljinder Sidhu   23350
5   5   Leon Campbell   23125
1   3   Shane Mcgrory   23050
11   5   Mark Bointon   23025
6   10   Mick McCloskey   22225
7   3   John Conroy   22000
4   5   Gareth Jones   21875
4   10   Nicholas Holbrook   21300
17   1   Ali Mallu   21200
13   6   Stephen Morris   21125
14   7   Matthew Keightley   21000
17   8   Martin Wilson   20650
1   9   Paul Vicary   19775
1   8   Gerald David   19175
3   9   Alan Vinson   19050
8   2   Andy Warnes   18550
16   6   Wayne Strutt   18550
12   3   Pippa Flanders   18400
9   10   Jake Cody   18325
12   6   Eddie Lundon   18300
4   9   Stephen Basri   18225
10   5   Martino Libertini   18075
1   4   Luke Abolins   18025
6   3   Arshad Hussain   17800
5   6   Adam Vinson   17700
7   2   Harry Zammit   17650
10   2   Alan Dean   17100
13   9   Alex Mcelhatton   17075
1   2   Nick Romanello   16875
7   5   James Mitchell   16800
5   1   Stuart Long   16575
14   1   Simon Wickenden   16250
17   10   Paul Bracken   16250
15   7   Stephen Slavin   15875
13   4   Waseem Shahid   15850
7   6   Zahir Aslam   15725
16   5   Nabil Salim   15325
3   3   Przemyslaw Rusin   15025
4   1   Alan Armitage   14975
12   9   Adam Wilkinson   14950
7   4   Chris Elliott   14800
8   7   Mark James   14500
16   1   Mark Redshaw   14500
17   7   David Durber   14500
8   9   Steve Walmsley   14400
10   6   Ken Clark   14300
7   9   Fionn Macnamara   14150
4   7   Glenn Ashworth   13875
17   5   John Garside   13675
9   5   Alex Conroy   13625
8   1   Chris Quirijnen   13600
4   8   Jammie Hallam   13525
3   5   Salim Jangarwala   13450
15   3   Tim Hughes   13400
3   6   Petter Jidne   13375
11   4   Stuart Rutter   13250
11   8   Matthew Buckland   12925
17   6   Ky Hutchinson   12900
10   7   Iwan Jones   12650
6   6   S Price   12475
16   8   David Young   12375
4   6   Alan Trueick   12350
16   10   Les Pierce   12350
14   9   Gary Fisher   12325
2   5   Waldemar Essig   12225
10   3   Damian Glavin   12225
14   6   Paul Garnham   12000
13   8   Neil Sillick   11700
13   5   Matt Perrins   11575
12   10   Ted Smith   11550
5   10   Sami Yusuf   11275
5   2   Kevin Mcnally   11250
11   1   Mary Martin   11250
16   3   Steve Read   11225
14   5   Gary Knights   11075
16   7   Steve Boyd   10650
17   4   Tim Flanders   10575
9   9   Mike Hill   10450
2   2   Richard Hinds   10400
13   10   Lorna Lancaster   10400
1   7   Jason Shellum   10375
2   9   John Fletcher   10350
3   1   Anthony Peoples   9525
8   8   John Collins   9450
7   8   Ben Scott   9400
8   5   Dan Hook   9375
8   4   Zubair Nazir   9300
12   7   Brian Martin   9300
10   10   C Williams   9250
2   8   Neil Saunders   9125
13   1   Richard Buck   9125
2   3   Peter Wigglesworth   8850
15   1   Wayne Evans   8775
12   1   Richard Wheatley   8700
2   1   Gurinder Purewal   8575
9   8   Herbert Kasbauer   8475
9   3   Chris Sokrati   8450
3   7   Dan Ainsworth   8325
6   4   Sidney Harris   8175
15   9   Linton Holling   8150
11   3   Pete Singleton   8100
4   3   Richard Ellis   7925
15   2   Bjorn Sanne   7650
4   4   Jimmy Ruehle   7625
12   5   Paul Parker   7625
15   4   Alex Regler   7525
2   10   Eric Mcintyre   7500
9   4   Terrence Nelson   7450
11   7   N Greenhalgh   7425
17   3   Jason Trey   7425
9   1   Andrew Clarke   7275
3   4   James Browning   7125
17   9   Leiv Johannessn   7050
6   9   Mike Lucas   7025
8   6   Martyn Bebb   7000
5   7   Costas Kkola   6975
10   1   Henning Granstad   6875
14   2   D Wilmott   6825
14   8   Derek Miller   6825
14   4   Peder Hersleb   6650
2   4   Martyn Frey   6375
16   4   Geoffrey Sharpe   6350
1   1   Rob Taylor   6300
16   2   James Akenhead   6300
5   9   Mark Keightley   6125
7   7   Jerome Bradpiece   6125
6   5   Graham Pound   5925
13   3   Paul Murphy   5900
1   6   Sam Trickett   5075
15   6   Craig Bickerton   5075
6   7   Robert Brogan   5000
16   9   Jason Medley   4775
1   10   Jeff Kimber   4675
8   10   Kenny Burke   4600
13   2   Praz Bansi   4550
12   8   Mick Fletcher   4475
9   6   Paul Moss   4400
9   2   Garyx Chatterton   4100
15   8   Andrew Chambi   3800
3   8   Tim Blake   3650
13   7   Karl Mahrenholz   3625
7   1   Robin Maharaj   3400
15   10   Julian Thew   3075
12   2   Nick Slade   2775
17   2   Nathan Lee   2525
6   1   Andreas Mihail   1775
4   2   Gary Shaw   1675
3   2   Michael Mcqueen   1650
5   4   Robert Bright   1500
10   8   Chris Flint   1250

i preferred the scarf, though stu looks pretty happy with the new hat.

go stu!

(hi o'donk)

James Akenhead has a had a mini-rush, he knocked out one player with Kings vs Ace Queen before now just eliminating Geoffrey Sharpe whose A-T was blunted by Akenhead's K-Q when the latter caught a Queen on the river.

Here's James, utterly enthralled by how it's gone over the last half hour.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22861&g2_serialNumber=1)

Petter Jidne, who if you saw and didn't know his name, you'd still assume he was a Scandie as he's the blondest person in the room, has just doubled up with that old chesnut Q-Q vs Salim Jangarwala's A-K. I've got to say, I've seen about nine or ten Q-Q vs A-K races yesterday and today, and I've yet to see A-K win a single one. I have seen A-K vs K-K twice and Kings lost both times.

I'm afraid Mary Martin is out, she came over and said her set of sixes got beaten by a straight. :(

Another £10/£25 cash game has been started by Neil (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=302) Channing (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=302) and Martyn (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=270) Cavanagh (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=270), it's only four-handed at the moment but already drawing a crowd.

Earlier Channing was chatting briefly about all the people he backs and jokingly referred to them all as 'his children' which made me think he was like 'The Big Lebowski' from "The Big Lebowski". He just needs the t-shirts...

Brand new game for you which I'm calling "Scandielous"

How many of the following are real life actual non-fake Scandies, and which ones are they?

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Zahir Aslam, former Grosvenor Grand Prix winner has won a big pot from James Mitchell. After some considerable raising, reraising, all-in-ing and calling all-in-ing, the cards were on their backs with 'Zippy' holding Aces to Mitchell's Queens. A blank board later helps out neither and Aslam scoops a 37k pot.

£15k pot in the cash game just won by Richard Wheatley apparently.

Stuart Rutter, "I'm not playing very well, but everyone else is playing worse! I bet every street of an A-K-K-Q-3 board where the 3rd club came on the river with A-K and he still called me with A-J!"

is sam trickett still in?

No he went out a while ago I'm afraid. He's in the big cash game with Channing, Praz and Henning Granstad.

Richard Buck is pursing his lips for a very good reason, he was just all-in in a decent pot against Mark Redshaw with Aspades Ac against Jc Ts, the board coming 6h Td Th 4d........Ahrt

Redshaw let out a rueful smile as though he knew what the river was going to be. Buck actually had Redshaw covered and the latter was eliminated.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22873&g2_serialNumber=1)

Paul Moss has been knocked out by Paul Garnham with 5-5 vs K-T, a board of Q-J-4-5-9 more helpful to the latter.

Chipcount for kuljinder sidhu please cheers

Jon Heath has just doubled up with Kings against Nabil Salim's Queens for a 60k pot...

Snoopy has just arrived...

Already he looked at the 'Scandielous quiz' and said about this picture:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22865&g2_serialNumber=1)

"If he didn't have his shirt on, I'd go for him..."

 ;ashamed;

Alex Conroy, son of John 'PunkFloyd' Conroy, (I guess Alex is EmoFloyd then?) is out. 8-8 vs K-K.

Alan Dean is causing problems for Javed Abrahams, first check/raising his 1,500 bet to 4,500 on a 9c 9h 2h board making him fold, then just now he bets about 6k on the river of a 9-3-2-T-J board and again Abrahams is forced to muck. The former chip leader down to about 30k.

After a turbulent journey north, I've finally arrived in sunny Blackpool, home of the Pleasure Beach, Blackpool Tower and Steve 'Womble' Walsmley. The former of those three will be even more pleasurable today as my Glaswegian taxi driver proudly informed me: "There's a lot of lesbians here tonight, I think there's a convention on or something." Sadly, I am currently typing this from the warmth of the G Casino, begrudging the company of large, sweaty, beer guzzling men. Ah well, can't win them all.

Seems a long time since we heard about that lovely guy in the hat.
Is he still playing less badly than the players around him,  please?

mother. sister, grandmother? gl stu

Stu has about 34k, he isn't too worried about his table at the moment, and it isn't going to be breaking just yet...

Thanks for the update.

Keeping the brain warm is clearly a good strategy, then.

A quick trundle through the cardroom, and plenty of familiar sights and sounds quickly come to light. The first thing I hear are the endless witterings of 'Mad' Marty (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=978) Wilson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=978) as he regales the table with various tales, many of which I can only assume are fabricated. A few tables down is Stuart (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=421) Rutter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=421), as eager as usual to bend my ear, as is Pete (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=346) Singleton (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=346), who asked, "Would I be invited if Jen was getting married?" when informed that Jen was escaping to a wedding this weekend. "Of course you would," I replied. "You'd be the groom." And finally, Mr Mallu, looking rather menacing as I passed, which is often a sign of a recent beat and that a storm is abrewing.

There sure are a large batch of unfamiliar faces, but some circuit regulars too. 'Zippy' Zahar Aslam is doing well with 32,000, as is Pippa (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=352) Flanders (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=352) with 50,000. The current chip daddy, however, appears to be a youthful John Heath with 74,000, whilst Jason (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1513) Shellum (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1513) is perhaps his closest contender with 52,000.

He has just lost 7k when the hijack raised to 1,500 (300/600/25) playing a 7.2k stack and Stu set him from the big blind with T-T. The hijack called with A-9 and spiked. He's just suffered another beat...His table just broke after a spate of exits have left us with 100 players left.

Marty Wilson has knocked out a couple of players, including a short-stacked Iwan Jones, as well as one of the Scouse gang which left his friends scratching their heads as their man produced Q-J on the 8-Q-5-2-7 board only for the truly Mad Marty to turn over 9h 6h for the rivered straight.

Adam Wilkinson has been knocked out by Pippa Flanders, Wilkinson came back an hour ago with only 2k and managed to build it up before getting in with Ad Jd against Mrs Flanders Qs Qh.

Ac Ks 3s Js 2s, a truly teasing board that ended in tragedy.

"I passed Aspades Ts" said a rueful Neil Blatchley.

It doesn't take long for me to adjust from the calm of a sleepy 4 hour journey to the frantic pace of a GUKPT, and within moments of entering the battlefield, I stumble upon a fierce battle that left one dead, and the other raising his sword aloft in triumph. The man to hit the deck was Nabid Salim. All in with  Ahrt Td, Salim locked horns with Adam Vinson's 4s 4c, which ultimately held up on a queen high board.

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Meanwhile, on a neighbouring table, Martino (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=652) Libertini (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=652) (who sounds like an Italian footballer of the 'mama mia!' ilk) and David Durbler (who sounds like a porn star of the Dirk Diggler ilk) were clashing on a Kd Ts Th Kc board. After Durbler had smooth-called Libertini's turn bet of 2,700, Libertini checked the 5h river, and Durbler tanked. Although he only had 6,000 behind (which perhaps made his flat-call on the turn appear somewhat suspicious), Durbler huffed and puffed and leaned back in his seat, before announcing "two thousand eight hundred" and chucking the chips nonchalantly onto the felt. Libertini insta-mucked, and Durbler showed Td Tc. I think he was ahead.

Chip Counts at the end of level 6 from BlueSquare. Apologies if it's a bit out of date.

Table   Seat   Player   End of Level 6
8   2   Andy Warnes   48900
16   5   Nabil Salim   44850
12   3   Pippa Flanders   42625
6   8   Javed Abrahams   42525
1   3   Shane Mcgrory   39720
12   10   Neil Blatchly   38050
13   4   Waseem Shahid   38025
12   4   Kuljinder Sidhu   37300
1   10   Jon Heath   37150
1   7   Jason Shellum   36900
7   6   Zahir Aslam   36750
9   10   Jake Cody   34925
5   1   Stuart Long   34425
11   1   Suzanne Pyefinch   32850
1   1   Nick Romanello   32575
11   4   Stuart Rutter   32100
3   9   Alan Vinson   29875
8   1   Chris Quirijnen   29225
2   10   Eric Mcintyre   27600
3   10   Guy Johnson   26850
16   2   James Akenhead   26575
7   7   Damian Glavin   26150
5   9   Ali Mallu   25200
11   10   Ian Whalley   24950
12   2   Ken Clark   24675
12   6   Eddie Lundon   24575
16   10   Alex Mcelhatton   24200
6   2   Alan Dean   23650
6   10   Mick McCloskey   23200
4   5   Gareth Jones   23125
5   4   Martino Libertini   22950
8   3   Paul Lammas   22900
11   7   N Greenhalgh   22850
13   10   Lorna Lancaster   22800
16   6   Wayne Strutt   22100
5   2   Kevin Mcnally   22050
4   1   Alan Armitage   21550
4   10   Nicholas Holbrook   21375
16   1   Paul Bracken   21100
13   8   Neil Sillick   20050
4   6   Alan Trueick   19950
7   2   Harry Zammit   19650
3   2   Leiv Johannessn   19650
8   5   Dan Hook   19525
6   1   Stephen Slavin   18950
5   3   Tim Magnus   18550
7   8   Ben Scott   18250
9   3   Chris Sokrati   18125
1   5   John Marles   17800
5   10   Sami Yusuf   17050
3   6   Petter Jidne   16575
11   6   Jason Trey   16500
9   8   Herbert Kasbauer   16050
16   9   Nathan Lee   15900
13   6   Stephen Morris   15775
7   9   Fionn Macnamara   15650
11   8   Matthew Buckland   14800
4   9   Stephen Basri   14050
1   9   Chris Masterson   13900
2   1   Tim Hughes   13725
2   7   Tim Flanders   13425
11   5   Mark Bointon   13325
2   6   Michael Denton   13200
13   5   Matt Perrins   13175
16   7   Steve Boyd   13050
5   8   David Durber   12950
8   6   Martin Wilson   12875
13   1   Richard Buck   12825
2   5   Waldemar Essig   12500
9   7   Damian Evans   12375
6   3   Arshad Hussain   12350
3   7   Dan Ainsworth   12275
8   8   John Collins   12200
7   3   John Conroy   12200
7   10   Ky Hutchinson   12075
6   5   Gary Knights   11525
9   4   Paul Garnham   11175
2   3   Peter Wigglesworth   10975
11   3   Pete Singleton   10950
6   9   Mike Lucas   10750
16   3   Steve Read   10700
4   7   Glenn Ashworth   10475
6   4   Sidney Harris   10100
3   1   Gary Fisher   10075
8   7   Terrence Nelson   9725
7   5   James Mitchell   9550
5   7   Costas Kkola   9350
4   4   Linton Holling   8600
4   8   Jammie Hallam   8600
3   3   Przemyslaw Rusin   8350
2   4   Martyn Frey   7900
5   6   Adam Vinson   7850
6   7   Robert Brogan   7825
2   8   Neil Saunders   7825
6   6   S Price   7725
7   4   Chris Elliott   7700
11   9   Greg Hunt   7625
3   8   Andrew Chambi   7325
7   1   Robin Maharaj   7275
9   5   Alex Conroy   7100
2   9   John Fletcher   7075
4   3   Richard Ellis   6850
8   10   Iwan Jones   6800
1   6   Craig Bickerton   6775
13   3   Simon Wickenden   6750
3   4   James Browning   6725
5   5   Leon Campbell   6700
9   9   Mike Hill   6550
13   2   Mark Redshaw   6225
16   8   David Young   5650
4   2   Gary Shaw   5600
12   8   Mick Fletcher   5400
12   1   Peder Hersleb   5350
11   2   Rob Cowen   4850
9   2   Garyx Chatterton   4850
9   6   Paul Moss   4675
12   7   Brian Martin   4650
8   9   Bjorn Sanne   4475
12   5   Paul Parker   4425
1   1   Rob Taylor   4350
8   4   Zubair Nazir   3700
12   9   Adam Wilkinson   2025
13   7   Alex Regler   1500

Kitten update please.

Poor old Soxy, he's drawn the one seat beneath an invisbile beam meaning he has to permanently be hunched beneath it.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22875&g2_serialNumber=1)

How to make the chip lead according to Jon Heath

[X] Have Queens six times
[X] Five of those times flop a set or turn a set.
[X] Get all-in preflop one of those times against aces and hit runner runner Quads

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=22877&g2_serialNumber=1)

Incidentally he also has a £50 bet on himself at 200-1 against Neil Channing...

Before I'd had time to meet and greet, 'The Rockstar' John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=608) Conroy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=608) was making his way to the door, his swan song coming with 7d 7c against James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=183) Akenhead (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=183)'s Aspades 9s. A 6h 4d 9c 4s Jh board was of no use to Floydy, allowing Akenhead to scoop up the pot and amass a now 40,000 plus stack. As he collected his chips, you could sense the fear in the eyes of his opponents, as they know how dangerous the Hit Squadder can be when he's flourishing.

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Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=73) Sokrati (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=73) (currently munching on a cheese and tomatoe sarnie like there's no tomorrow) -- 14,000
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) (looking grumpier than Victor Meldrew on a rainy Sunday) -- 7,500
Neil (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1335) Blatchley (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1335) (it's wierd seeing him the flesh, rather than in a magazine) -- 18,500
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=334) Parker (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=334) (tinkering with a raise, but ultimately opting for a fold) -- 11,000
Javed (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1258) Abrahams (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1258) (seemingly frustrated) -- 43,500
Pete (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=346) Singleton (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=346) ("Still in the shit") -- 5,000
Greg Hunt (recently pushing on a 6-6-2 flop to pick up the pot) -- 8,500

Glenn Ashworth looks a bit fed up, a couple of hours ago he said he'd been grinding for five hours without a hand. It's now been eight hours, "I've had one hand," he admitted, "I pushed in blind and it turned out I had kings..."

A clap and a "come on" signify victory for one jubilant Liverpudlian, bubbly Gary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=150) Jones (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=150) with pocket kings, Ks Kh, with a spot of dead money thanks to Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2806) Buck (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2806) who relinquished his Ad Jd. Thomas Holbrook was the recipient of the cowboy's gunshots, his Aspades Qs failing to hit on a Ts 3s 5c 2c 6c board. He's still in though, although touching felt with just 825, whilst Jones jumps up to 35,000.

Shane McGrory, simply titled Shane McG on his shirt, is now done and dusted. His demise occurred in a bizarre hand that saw more raised eyebrows than a Rock montage. With the board reading 7d 8c 7c, John Marles led out for 6,700 and McGrory tanked. In fact, he spent so long in the tank that I almost became the first blogger to call the clock, but after much fingering of his column, he made the call, leaving himself just a few thousand behind. A 9d turn led to an all-in from both players, McGrory making the final call with Jc Td. His straight wasn't safe though as his opponent revealed Ad Kd for the nut fush draw, and by the 4d river, John was Marles ahead and McG was McOut.

?

Its a man thing ;)

Glenn Ashworth is out. A-K vs Q-Q. Queens win again, I make that QQ 10 - AK 0 for the last two days from the flip matchups I've seen.

Like Ross and Rachael, we're now on a break.

Paul Garnham is out. Details are musky, but I believe Floppy is brushing the dust of his Columbo coat and will be undertaking a full investigation when they return.

If there's one thing that winds my colleague up a treat it's when people accidentally congratulate me for the updates when I'm not even here. Whilst I must admit that I have often begged people to post disingenuous compliments when I'm not present if only to further enrage our hapless victim (he cottoned on, eventually), I did receive an private email this morning bigging up my work in Blackpool and asking if I could keep an eye on a couple of players. I just thought I'd share that with our Floppy friend, because it's amusing, he's like Angry Dad from the Simpsons every time someone posts "great updates, snoops".

Play is just about to resume.

Great updates snoops

Is Tim Magnus still in?

Pete Singleton was all-in preflop versus two callers who then checked down the Q-9-7-6-9 board. One of them declared two pair but threw the cards in the muck when Singleton turned over A-9 for trips and a much needed treble up. He look up in the air and thanked whoever was watching him from above. Since we're in a casino, I'm going to assume he's thanking the security staff.

FML

He ran into Kings. FACT!

That's according to Chris Sokrati.

All quiet on the Blackpool front as we enter the final level of the day. Amid the gentle sound of last minute grindage, I did manage to grab the following chip counts:

Stephen Boyd -- 13,000
Al Armitage -- 27,000
Martino Libertini -- 35,000
Alan Trueick -- 16,000
Greg Hunt -- 14,500
Zahir Aslam -- 63,500
Ken Clark -- 12,500
Andy Warnes -- 55,000
Chris Sokrati -- 12,000
Ali Mallu -- 68,000
Mick McCloskey -- 32,000
Lorna Lancaster -- 20,500
Dan Hook -- 31,000
Alan Dean -- 26,000
Brian Martin -- 10,000
Alan Vinson -- 30,000

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As I was collating random chip counts, there was an all-in on the central table, big blind Jamie Hallam moving in over the top of Gareth (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1277) Jones (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1277)' button raise for 11,075 more. It's serious business though, Jones removing his glasses and mulling over his option, fully aware that the removal of glasses always enables correct decisions to be made. Meanwhile, Hallam is as still as water, statuesque as he awaits his opponent's decision. After a brief pause, The Nugget opts for the fold, and Hallam survives. Jones down to 12,000.

Ken Clark is a recent elimination, but all the drama was occurring on the neighbouring table. Details on their way.

Stu Rutter has added another 25k or so to his stack with a nice piece of A-A vs A-K. 67 players left.

Great updates snoops

Close but no cigar?

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give flops a break you evil ppl.

A++++++++ updates Homer.

Tim Magnus appears to be out.

Alan Armitage is up to 50k after betting 5k on an 8-7-4 board only to have Ali Mallu set him in for 20k. But Mallu's reputation of being more aggressive than the randy gorilla from Trading Places didn't help him out on this occasion as Armitage called all-in with A-J and had Mallu's J-9 completely dominated. Bricks on the turn and river secured the double up, though Mallu still has a sizeable stacl.

As I lurked around the near table watching the clock tick down, little did I know of the drama that was about to ensue. With Lorna Lancaster making it 3,500 preflop from mid-position, Terry Nelson pushed from the cut-off and Gary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=147) Chatterton (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=147) shoved from the button. After Libertini had returned an exchange of words with Chatterton and folded what we were led to believe was a big hand, initial raiser Lancaster made the fold and we had our showdown... except one player didn't want to show.

With Chatterton's Ks Kh lying patiently on the felt, Nelson turned to his neighbour and said, "You told him [libertini] your hand." "No I didn't," replied Chatterton. "No he didn't," concurred Libertini. "No, I want a ruling," demanded Nelson.

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As the tournament director was summoned, the argument continued.

"Look mate, I heard you say you had kings and you made him put his hand down."

"Nope, I didn't say that," replied Chatterton.

"He didn't say that, he said 'you haven't got kings have you?'" claimed Libertini. "I folded queens."

"You said 'have you got aces?', and he said 'I've got kings'," accused Nelson.

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"I'm not happy about this," continued Libertini. "You're putting words into my mouth. "Look, I've told you what I heard," continued Nelson. "You're calling me a cheat, I'm not a cheat," said Libertini.

With the dealer retracing steps, the tournament director ruled that play would continue and asked Nelson to turn over his hand. Nelson showed Jh Jd. A board of 7s 2c 7h 9c 9h was rather less eventful than the quarrel itself. As Nelson left mumbling under his breath, Libertini said, "Don't call me a cheat, I've never cheated in my life."

In what was a rather heated debate which even involved suggestions of "taking it outside", I simply couldn't resist a cheery face amid all the doom and gloom.

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photography courtesy of the Floppster

So that's what happened to Sam Alladyce...

Stuart Rutter got away with a Tikay-esque misread right at the end of the day. Tim Flanders had limped and it was passed to Rutter in the blinds who looked down at Jacks. Unsure what would be exactly the best strategy, he decided to set his opponent in for his remaining 25k. Flanders passed and Rutter flipped his Jacks, saying "What am I supposed to do?"

Only now his Jacks had turned into J-3...

"I gave him an accidental rubdown, oops!

Play has now finished for the day with 65 remaining. Chip counts to follow, we'll restart tomorrow at 2pm.

;stickaforkinme;

 :)up Great updates as always.

Many thx.

Great updates snoops

hi any chip counts for remaining players please guys.thankyou.

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mother :) hi mum!

thats just a class meta-bluff. stu, you are my hero

Keep up the good work, chaps. Homer's stellar photography work on the controversial hand makes me feel as though I'm right in the scrap. And that background pic of Snoopy is gold. Pure gold.