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Its a new dawn, its a new day....but before I go all Nina Simone on you, welcome to the first GUKPT of 2009 in freezing cold Brighton, but a place where hotels are super cheap at this time of year. :)

It was a long trek down from Leeds today for me, not helped by the fact that I had to sit next a small annoying child who decided he was going to poke me every few seconds while I was reading and then pull out my earphones when I was listening to music. His parents sat opposite me, smiling and laughing at the clear hilarity he was causing, until the child decided to take note of recent political activists and took off his shoe and threw it at his dad from point blank range. Suddenly, everything wasn't so funny for them, but at least this boy had finally made me laugh.

Anyway, the tournament won by Julian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) Thew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) last year and Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=115) Smith (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=115) the year before, will start tomorrow from 2pm, so leave your requests here, but remember I'll doing this update solo so it will take longer than usual for me to respond to everything.

Finally, blondepoker is now on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/blondepoker so if you're on there, please follow us for links to news stories, cardroom promotions and live updates.

Btw, this is the coolest guitar work I've ever seen.

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

Check out their Glastonbury slot on you tube ... superb.

Did it hit him in the 'bouche'?

Any news on Jonsey and brent, jones was CL going into the 2nd day of the 200 i believe

Cheers

Jones out before final

Horner still in, 6 left.

TY kev and gogogogogogo horner

+1

5 left, on break.

Horneris just ran AQ into AK and is down to  80k

blinds 6/12k

FFS :(

Photo's of Richard "Style Guru" Trigg please  Floppy

gl brent win it all

x

Any new how he finished kev?

Nope ... will fire off a few texts.

bear with me.

4th for 4k.

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ran out of kittens

WP brent.

 ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause;

+ another

yeah wp brent, ul on not scooping it all, good look in the main event as well...........

wd m8

WP sweetheart - almost makes up for the lack of emails ;)

The lads would like me to point out that he gets nothing cos he is still in make up with Flushy :)

Just checked out the boys odds.... Apparently Horneris is going up tomorrow..... Some spare spondoolies may be finding their way onto the chaps......... ;whistle; :)up ;whistle;

wp brent

+1

hahahahaha

so standard.

ship another live min cash yo.

LOL poor bugger, well played though,

GL in the GUKPT everyone :)

Congratulations to Brent for a highly credible 4k and kudos to Floppy for a second consecutive solo effort.

GL to and regular updates on James and Sunny, also Samuel Trickett and one and only RiverDave. Typls.

Just arrived. Not sure how many people are playing today yet, will check.

Last night I got to watch the bingo-y £100r PLO as Nick Gibson and Duba most have put in about £700 or £800 each...meanwhile Marc Goodwin got the no rebuy table, finished the end of the rebuy period with a 14k stack, chip leader of his table (starting stack 3k), which was of course below average when they went to the freezeout stage..I have no idea who ended up winning though.

Flops. Grosvenor Brighton doesn't have the best of reputations as far as casinos. Any change this year, or still far from delightful?

gL to all blondes playing - I've just put some dosh on almost every one (blonde) playing as well as Sam Trickett and Sunny Chatta.

Moorman win is a huge coup!

pmsl, he wishes it was 7/800.


nah hes off to australia, unless he missed the flight after being so fked last night. quality night.

Well we don't look like anywhere near starting, no-one is sitting down just yet.

thanks Knave.

fk fk fk fk fk fk. so fking gay.

last night was so com. Highlights

• alex martins bloody lip
• dubai owning the disco room in oceana
• moomin having a huge session hours before flying to australia without packed bags
• our private £1/£1 table and my final hand £1000 pot scooooooooop A7 red yo
• the music in oceana disco room, old classic cheesy pop is custom made for wednesday nights
• seeing moomin fall in love

[ X ] Most of the blondes playing have an edge on this field

[  ] Glad I backed a bunch of hungover degens

There's about 160 players or so in total at the moment.

"There's a lot more young players than last year," said John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1515) Eames (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1515). "It's probably going to be a lot tougher too."

Not many players around atm but spotted so far:

Albert (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1251) Sapiano (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1251)
Tony (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=772) Cascarino (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=772)
Dave Clarke
Stuart (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=420) Nash (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=420)

rick trigg is probs the shrewdest man in the world imo.....

how many of you are playing day 1A after last night?

rofl @ this. obv turn bk up at casino @ like 5am and get the most degen game ever going.

1/2 table behind us grinding away, everytime they look back theres 6 of us getting it in for 2-300 each.

fkin quality.  trigg the nit of the year in the final hand. every1 ships it in dark, he refuses and wants to look first and finds A7red which holds for £1.1K.  [  ] justice was served.


pmsl we'r basically all playing 1b i think. [  ] we wont be hungover degens 2moro also.

No, I meant in terms of surroundings. A lot of people say it's not the nicest of places, and I was wondering if things had improved over the last year, a la Luton.

Hmmm, it's going to be hard for me to grab a sight over the next few days. I don't mind Brighton, I certainly prefer it to Luton, but neither are really my cup of tea.

Incidentally, still no nearer to starting, blessed with a lot of DTD tournaments recently, I've forgotten how slow sometimes these take to start.

gl flops...day 1b looks like it's shaping up nicely

Lol, not the city ya plum, the casino, is it still a shit hole? (I really didn't want have to say that.)

Errr, it's not great. The tournament area is still seperated out into two areas making it awkward, but there's going to be about 100 runners today so I suspect one area should be broken quickly making everyhing easier. It's not the biggest casino tbh, but the way they've set it out this year is remarkable easier than Year 1 where they had everyone stuck in the middle and it was a nightmare.

Yay, startaments!

Not a great start for Nick Gibson, he raises a 1,000 bet on the river of a Q-5-4-6-8 board to 3,500 and is duly called. Nick flips 5-5 for a flopped set but his opponent's average hand, Q-7 has rivered a straight to become the best and Gibson is already down half his stack.

Seems like an odd raise. I guess Nick thought his opponent was a bit of a station, probably didn't have the straight and could call on that board with just top pair.

Man down!

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I missed the action but Dave Colclough filled me in with the details that Stefan John Haffner is our first exit, getting it all-in on the river of a 4-6-8-6-9 board with 9-9 but running into Trinh Lam's 6-6 for a particularly nasty cooler. Especially when you've come all the way across from Norway...

Tim for an ouch picture mi thinks.

Ouch..

[X] Flights booked
[X] Hotel booked
[X] Comp entry paid
[ ] Brighton is a lovely place to spend 4 days with nothing else to do in January !

Yes, after that hand Nick went to cool down as evidenced by this photo (that's his newspaper). Also note the official printed ID cards that all players get now which makes my job easier. :)

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Also here is Kevin O'Leary and Richard Kellett.

For those wondering what Kevin is watching while he's not folding his hand every other minute...it's the second season of Dexter. He better not spoil it for me, I've only just started watching that season. >:(

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This one is always amusing.

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another winner from notts this year? if the last 2 are anything to go by then yes.

obv i want Tony (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1339) Phillips (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1339) to win,but would love to see Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=115) Smith (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=115) do well again if he makes the trip.
he has not been well and had a stay in hospital before christmas,so best wishes to him from me.

good luck also to Kevin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=235) O'Leary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=235),all the hitsquad boys,julian and Sam (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1429) Trickett (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1429),trigg and leknave

life tilt playing tomorrow now.

Tony Phillips has had a good start, I think he has about 17k. Looks like he has benefit from Albert Sapiano's aggressive calling style as the latter is down to about 3k.

Priyan De Mel raises to 200 after a limper from the button. Andy Greekfish reraises to 1,000 from the small blind. Priyan folds Ad Td face up, Greekfish gives a load of verbals before showing Kd Kh, or King of Red, King of Blue for Tikay. He then shouts, "I soooo knew I was getting paid if he had a big hand!!!!!!"

Interesting hand for Neil Blatchley, he bets 600 on a Tc 9d 5d and is facing a raise to 2,600. Clearly with a difficult decision, his opponent then pushes the rest of his stack in on top of the 2,000 raise telling Blatchley he can't force him out of the pot. So it now seems clear he's up against a drawing hand.

But Blatchley decides to give it up and gets show the Kd Jd for his trouble.

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Albert Sapiano is OUT. Did he call or was he pushed?

The Sam Trickett, John Eames, Paul Lammas table is currently six-handed, which might please some more than others.

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Stephen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2301) Kirk (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2301) (far left, stacking chips) reraises all-in on a 8d 6h Kh 7h board, after a long think Stephen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=407) Pearce (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=407) (leather jacket) makes the call with Kc Kd. "You're ahead," says Kirk flipping Ahrt Ad.

The river is the Qh and Kirk escapes his Kobayashi Maru and is now on 24k.

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Stephen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=407) Pearce (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=407) is crippled and goes out soon after.

Jerome (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=199) Bradpiece (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=199) and then, perhaps Jerome in 10 years sitting two to his right? (Jerome subsequently loses this hand, betting 600 on the river of a 5h 2c 4d 4h Ahrt board and calling another 1,050 only to be shown Qh 3h for the rivered flush)

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Apparently he's a Brighton local so it's not so bad.

Btw, I cannot post more than 7 times consecutively on a thread otherwise my laptop explodes, so someone better post soon...

Ryan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=390) Fronda (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=390) has doubled up on a 6s Qd 6h 2s 7s board with Ahrt Qc vs the Ks Qc of Fuad Serhan, all-in on the flop. He's back up to 10k.

here u go floppy....

great updates.

Kevin O'Leary is out, Aces against Pippa Flanders' Kings. King on the river.

Surely if Stephen Kirk was in a Kobayashi Maru situation then he would have been drawing dead?

nasty, good work flops...

The lesser spotted Jim Kerrigan is absolutely thrilled to be caught on camera.

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Thankyou sir. Since I'm solo I need to riff against the forum readers rather than whoever I'd usually be working with. So....

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ouch, unlucky kev, that's twice this week he has gone out with AA.

so sick...bet he cant wait to get out of the country and back to vegas...unlucky Kevin

Originally this tournament was going to be without a fifth community card and just finish on the turn. Kirk changed the rules...

see we have a few Star Trek fans about..

wonder what one of the latest Star Trek Enterprise books was called...

Hey could you keep an eye on Darren Wright please? His hyper-aggressive brother is already out :o

Great work as always, Cheers!

Richard Kellett doubles up his short stack to about 4,600 just before the break with Jd Jh against Pippa Flanders' Tc Ts.

Sam Trickett, "I was loving playing the 6-handed, I won 2k without showing a hand, then the table became full ring and I've done all my chips, I should have passed Jacks in this one hand but paid off a turn bet..."

Players are on a 15 minute break.

I'll check straight after the break.

Nice one brent on the scoop yesterday,gl all blondes in this

played with darren & mark on monday & tuesday. great great fun, and hyper agressive is an under statement ffs!!!!

Is this him next to Neil Blatchley?

If so, he just lost a small pot on a 7-7-5-4-A board, his opponent showed A-3 on the river, he showed 5d and mucked.

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Michael Greco and Ryan Fronda limp into a pot against the big blind.

Aspades 7h 9d

Checked to Greco who bets 400, Fronda quickly calls and the big blind folds.

5c

Greco now bets 1,000. Fronda gives him a cold stares and thinks for a minute, and just as think he's going to cause some action or at least allow us to see a river, he folds.

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well well well....

yep!!!

Does anyone else see the similarity between Kevin O'Leary and Dax Shepard from Employee of The Month? I watched it last night and it was like Kevin had got a job at Costco.  

he will be getting a job at costco if he keeps losing with AA all the time!!!

Jack Powell aka 'Dr Fun' looks to be the chip leader with about 30k, here he is sitting next to Paul Zimbler.

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Meanwhile, I'm declaring Rupinder Bedi as 'Hoodie of the Day'.

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We've lost only 10 players in 2 and half hours. Is everyone waiting to get into the Tikay Comfort Zone of 7BB's? :o

mmm I'll be there in a min

if all poker was played between 7 and 10 bbs floppy life would be absolute heaven imo...

You need to play those 300 chip comps on FT...

If anyone wondered who won the PLO last night, here you go.

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Oh, hang on that's the wrong picture!

Here you go...

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James Akenhead is on 15k

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Jerome Bradpiece is OUT, all-in with a flush draw against the top two pair of Steve Littlejohn and missed.

any idea on chip denominations floppy? greens 1k? well im guessing you probably do tbh, or counting would be quite difficult....

Good work on the updates and thanks

GL to all the Leeds Boys (tomorrow) and WP Brent - nice score!

Tommy C is coming to get you!
 ;tk;

Purple = 1k
Green = 500
Grey = 100
Orange = 25

Nick Gibson is out. No recovery from that very early lost of over half his stack.

Tony Cascarino is out, pushing with Tc Td on an 8s 7s 3s flop but ran into Michael Moore's Qs 4s for the flopped flush.

Stephen Kirk is vying with Jack Powell for the chip lead, both are around 35k.

James Fuller has knocked out Peter Wood.

Wood check/raised all-in on a Kh 3h 7d and Fuller called, as you would with 7h 6h. Wood showed Ahrt 2h and began to beg the dealer, "One time dealer, ace or heart, one time please? I knew he had nothing..."

2c

"Ace, two or heart. Come on?"

6s

Fuller's two pair is good. Peter is now firewood.

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) is missing, he's been gone the last four rounds or so. Time to put his face on milk cartons people. Or is he just paying tribute to the legend that was Vinnie Vinh's chair. I may get an interview with the chair during the break...

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Enjoying the updates ??

Have a look at the banner at the bottom of Floppys posts and get involved...

League game tonight, show your support and get signed up.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=39535.0

Marc (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) Goodwin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) wins a decent pot on a 6s 2h 5h board with a 4.5k bet, he's on about 15k.

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Some people stack them in tens, some in twenties. Ballaboys do it in forties. Carlos (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=906) Mortensen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=906) builds a house with garden and garage.

Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2835) Kellett (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2835) stacks them in ones.

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**************Players are now on a 45 minute break.**************

Easy when you only have a few, but I dare him to stack a big stack in ones.

We only got back from PCA yday and his timezones are still out - I'd guess he took an early dinner break for a few zzz's

Good job flops. Will bowl along a bit later to take the piss see how you are getting on.

;)

In the absence of Jon Raab who is at the European Poker Awards (If he doesn't win the innovation award there will be no justice) Mike Butlin has just got the chip counts and is currently processing them all.

We'll restart in about 5 minutes.

Excellent updates Floppy........have these two reprobates retired from updating now?

updates on jon omara and adam vinson please pictures if you can.

thanks

Bring a coat and gloves. It is absolutely freezing in here at the moment. That goes for everyone playing tomorrow too!

That's a fun photo, but this one is funnier.

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Don't drink, kids.

 rotflmfao  At the very least, make sure there are no cameras about!

I would have got away with the trophy if that bloody cameraman hadn't snapped me in the act !!

thanks 4 the updates chip count and photos of paul lammas and martin frey if possible thanks

IS ian woodley playing today please ??

Jon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2569) Omara (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2569) -- 10kish

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Adam Vinson -- 8k

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Additional Bonus Photo: Dinh Doat Le (currently chip leader) -- 36k

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Not today.

hi can some1 pls get update on lam trinh

Paul Lammas has 11k.

John Eames and Paul Zimbler are both out.

He was on around 30k at the break.

Bit of a nasty one for Lam Trinh. Neil Fox had limped and the small blind made up.

Kh Qh Th

Trinh bets 500, Fox calls, the small blind passes.

4c

Trinh bets 1,500. Fox calls again after some thought.

8s

And now Trinh quickly bets 3,000. Fox calls a third time. Trinh turns over 8h 5h for a flopped flush, Fox turns over 9h 7h for the marginally higher flush...

Could Fox have raised at any point here?

Chip counts courtesy of Blue Sq:

1   1   Simon Randall   11925
1   2   James Browning   13175
1   3   Jon Omara   12075
1   4   Andrew Miles   19575
1   5   Willie Tann   11275
1   6   Michael Greco   15125
1   7   Fuad Serhan   8675
1   8   Andrew Shepherd   9875
1   9   Ryan Fronda   11925
1   10   #N/A   

2   1   Andrew Andreou   11650
2   2   Nathan Lee   23050
2   3   Andrew Bowden   8950
2   4   Michael Cook   6900
2   5   Kjetil Naess   12175
2   6   Michael Moore   17400
2   7   Priyan De Mel   10025
2   8   Martyn Frey   10300
2   9   #N/A   
2   10   #N/A   

3   1   Samuel Trickett   2650
3   2   John Eames   10400
3   3   Matt Perrins   25200
3   4   Paul Lammas   11550
3   5   Paul Twaddle   17075
3   6   Dean Coombes   7925
3   7   Paul Zimbler   6000
3   8   Jack Powell   22950
3   9   Gavin Ball   9250
3   10   #N/A
   
4   1   Mark Winn   6050
4   2   Kerry Kerrigan   15550
4   3   Stewart Clutterbuck   3375
4   4   Sunny Chattha   14250
4   5   Stephen Lennon   3625
4   6   David Johnson   16525
4   7   David matin Barraclough   8850
4   8   James Fuller   17625
4   9   Michael Ellis   18550
4   10   #N/A   

5   1   Antony Phillips   20175
5   2   Michael Wernick   13800
5   3   Ian Triggs   2050
5   4   Christopher Cousins   18625
5   5   #N/A   
5   6   Stephen Kirk   30400
5   7   Anthony Adderley   20025
5   8   Deborah Littlejohn   2525
5   9   David Barnes   8675
5   10   #N/A
   
6   1   Raymond Nicholas   19350
6   2   Eddie Trinh   18200
6   3   Andrew Miles   8850
6   4   Rory Campbell   9550
6   5   Leon Campbell   4275
6   6   Marc Goodwin   15775
6   7   Neil Blatchly   10550
6   8   Keir Ratcliff   11400
6   9   Johnny Johansen   9600
6   10       

7   1   Robert Winkworth   6350
7   2   Glenn Martin   11425
7   3   Stephen Basri   12125
7   4   Ian Frazer   6950
7   5   Clive Layton   8475
7   6   Peter Charalambous   8625
7   7   James Reid   28325
7   8   Timothy Flanders   3925
7   9   Jake Cody   10650
7   10   #N/A   

8   1   Neil Fox   10525
8   2   Thanh Nguyen   7525
8   3   David Clark   6850
8   4   Lam Trinh   19400
8   5   Dinh Doat Le   35025
8   6   Stephen paul Eames   4275
8   7   David Colclough   14425
8   8   #N/A   
8   9   Cuong Tran   12350
8   10   #N/A   

9   1   Dominic Kay   9150
9   2   Ramsey Ajram   14275
9   3   Richard Pain   9625
9   4   Daniel Toffel   11800
9   5   Adam Vinson   7000
9   6   #N/A   
9   7   Stephen Littlejohn   22675
9   8   Alan Mansbridge   14950
9   9   Michael Vassiliou   8825
9   10   #N/A   

10   1   James Akenhead   12000
10   2   #N/A   
10   3   Richard Kellett   11525
10   4   Stuart Nash   14000
10   5   James Williams   8200
10   6   Stephen John Okeeffe   5850
10   7   Philippa Flanders   10575
10   8   Bernard Litman   12825
10   9   Sidney Harris   14000

go Kerry! go Kerry!

1 time jono, adam vinson and tony P, all 3 are due

On a 5s Th 2h 6s board, Willie Tann sees his bet reraised all-in by Richard Kellett to the turn of 7,825 more. Tann really looks like he wants to make a hero call but relents and folds.

Its not difficult to see that James has spent the last two weeks in the Bahamas - what a tan lol

Good news for all you Ian Frazer fans.

Frazer check/calls a bet on the 7d Tc 8c flop of 1,500 before calling another 2,000 on the 4h turn before the river Ts went check-check. His opponent, Matt Perrins showed a counterfeited two pair, 8d 7h which had been rivered by the Queens belonging to Frzazer.

On the table next door, Ryan Fronda gets a cheeky value bet on the river of a 8d 4h 4c 9d 6d. On the end he bets 1,000 which is called and turns over 6h 5h which is good.

No, it's new rule, players are only allowed to call.

Richard Kellett has busted James Browning.

Dave Colclough is also out.

Alex Martin is wearing a shirt that I can only describe as 'Funeral Curtains'.

Richard Kellett claims another scalp.

Willie Tann raises on the cutoff to 4,100 with 3,000 behind. Kellett sets him in from the button. Tann calls with 4d 4s, Kellett shows 9c 9s and the board brings no surprises.

Fuad Serhan also gone. A-K vs the Tens of Simon Randall.

Glenn Martin has trebled up. He was all-in preflop against Daniel Toffel and Jim Reid.

Both checked the 7c Aspades Qd flop before Reid bet 3,800 on the 7h turn after Toffel had checked. The latter made the call though and checked the river Td to Reid who thought long and hard before checking.

"Have you got a seven Jim?" said Martin.

"Nope," replied Reid.

"Well, I guess I've won then," came the short stack's assumption as he turned over Ac Qs. Toffel then turned over Ad Th for the side pot when Reid mucked.

The last hand before the break sees a sparring match between Ian Frazer and a short-stacked Sam Trickett, the latter pushing on the turn of a Jd 6s 9d 9s. Frazer thinks long and hard but folds.

60 left. 3 levels to go.

latest chip counts on jon omara, adam vinson, tony phillips and richard kellett please if you can spare the time :)

Stuart Nash and Simon Randall are out.

Ian Frazer and Sam Trickett continue to spar. Trickett raises to 1,600 and Frazer calls in the big blind.

3c 7c 4h

Frazer checks, Trickett bets 2,300. Frazer calls.

Kh

Frazer checks again, Trickett bets 3,200, Frazer quickly announces all-in, Trickett instantly folds.

Frazer lost most of his stack soon after though, running Qd Qs into Keir Ratcliff's Ahrt Aspades for what was probably a 40k pot after they got it all-in preflop and the board ran out 8d 7s Tc 3s Kd.

Full chip counts from the break are going to be around shortly.

Mickey Wernick has trebled up and Dave Barnes has been eliminated as Tony Adderley raised preflop, Barnes and Wernick both pushed their short stacks in and Adderley called the small additional amount.

Barnes: Ac Jd

Wernick: Ad Qh

Adderley ("Oh dear"): Qc Jc

A 3c 9d 6d 5s 3h board helped no-one to almost treble the Worm up.

Alex Martin. And his shirt.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24605&g2_serialNumber=1)

can i get a chip count please of all the players who surnames start with the letter A please

It's one of those magic eye shirts.  I think I can see a kangaroo.

wow that shirts not back in fashion is it i used to have one 15 years ago

I wonder if he borrowed that off of AndrewT?

Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2835) Kellett (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2835) is out. First he lost a huge pot with Ac Js vs the 8c 8d of Dinh Doat Le for around 40,000 after all the money went in on the turn of a 8d Ad 3c 7s Kd board.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24607&g2_serialNumber=1)

A couple of hands later he pushed blind for about 7.3k from UTG. Le called behind him and everyone else folded.

Le turned over Ad Qc

Kellet, "I haven't looked!" turns over 3s....2d. "Well I'm only a 60/40..."

Of course as soon as you say that, the flop comes out Jh Tc Kd and Kellett is drawing to runner-runner tie...which invariably doesn't come with a 5h turn and 8s river instead.

Tony (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1339) Phillips (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1339) -- 30k
Jon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2569) Omara (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2569) -- 30k

I can't see Adam Vinson though, I think he's out.

Rory Campbell, Ramsey Ajram and Marc Goodwin. The former two are both doing rather well and are amongst the chip leaders. (I'm sure Campbell looks like Kris Kuykendall who finalled Monte Carlo)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24609&g2_serialNumber=1)

Not so good for the Hitsquadders. None of the three have managed to amass a big stack so far today.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24611&g2_serialNumber=1)

You can bloody well bugger off. Anyway, I'm about to get to the chip counts from Mike Butlin.

Chip Counts courtesy of BlueSq (obviously some are now out of date, if they're in here and I've said they're out, they're out):

1   1   Simon Randall   11600
1   2   Dean Coombes   10100
1   3   Jon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2569) Omara (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2569)   26875
1   4   David (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=123) Rudling (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=123)   20500
1   5   Stephen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2301) Kirk (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2301)   42100
1   6   Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2835) Kellett (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2835)   28875
1   7   Dinh Doat Le   36175
1   8   Timothy Flanders   11475
1   9   Ryan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=390) Fronda (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=390)   15000
2   1   Andrew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=25) Andreou (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=25)   19075
2   2   Nathan Lee   22850
2   3   James Williams   5150
2   4   Cuong (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2662) Tran (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2662)   24525
2   5   Kjetil Naess   18450
2   6   Michael Moore   11625
2   8   Priyan De Mel   27225
2   9   Martyn (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2855) Frey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2855)   4425
3   1   Samuel Trickett   12900
3   2   Keir Ratcliff   23825
3   3   Matt Perrins   24225
3   4   Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2240) Lammas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2240)   19600
3   5   Ian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=173) Frazer (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=173)   24700
3   6   Sidney Harris   14050
3   7   Stephen Littlejohn   5750
3   8   Jack (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2848) Powell (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2848)   21050
4   1   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)   8250
4   2   Kerry Kerrigan   9100
4   3   Bernard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=48) Litman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=48)   44050
4   4   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)   14425
4   6   David Johnson   6950
4   7   Neil Fox   11325
4   8   James Fuller   27600
4   9   Michael Ellis   31575
5   1   Antony Phillips   29925
5   2   Michael Wernick   6950
5   3   Dominic (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1510) Kay (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1510)   15825
5   4   Christopher Cousins   70225
5   5   Michael (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=279) Greco (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=279)   24475
5   6   Stephen paul Eames   8775
5   7   Anthony (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=33) Adderley (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=33)   29250
5   8   Stuart (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=420) Nash (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=420)   2675
5   9   David Barnes   4825
6   1   Raymond (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=360) Nicholas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=360)   8850
6   2   Eddie Trinh   19350
6   3   Andrew Miles   32900
6   4   Rory (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1880) Campbell (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1880)   19925
6   5   Ramsey Ajram   47425
6   6   Marc (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) Goodwin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257)   5925
6   7   Gavin Ball   19950
6   9   Johnny Johansen   5125
7   2   Glenn (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=157) Martin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=157)   7425
7   3   Stephen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1883) Basri (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1883)   7000
7   4   Michael Vassiliou   8200
7   5   Daniel Toffel   17925
7   6   Peter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1853) Charalambous (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1853)   17300
7   7   James Reid   22275
7   8   Philippa Flanders   13750
7   9   Lam (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=241) Trinh (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=241)   32500

Ah!

i've just spoke to Alex on the phone, struggled to hear him as his shirt is too fecking loud. can u let him know i will see him EARLY tomorrow floppy. cheers.

cracking updates.

Nice updates.....

Can u wish Martyn Frey (martynf1) and Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2240) Lammas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2240) (sinbad01) best of luck please

ShaneMcGrory

thats a cracking cold sore alex has got, has he been earning a few bob down the end of the pier?

 rotflmfao

Andy Greekfish who has already told everyone how unlucky he is today at races, (to be fair to him I've seen him lose two sizeable pots with coinflips) gets it all-in against Steve Littlejohn 2d 2c vs Ac Ks. Immediately Littlejohn catches best on the 4d Aspades 6s 5c 8s board.

"Just can't win a race..."

Therefore he's now OUT.

Also gone, Sunny Chattha, Sam Trickett and James Akenhead. All are now aboard the 11pm train to Bustoville.

Mike Ellis -- 42k

Jon Omara has knocked out Jake Cody (Wasn't Cody the bloke from Final Fight?) with A-K vs A-J all-in preflop.

I'm afraid that's going to count as a partial bok. Martyn Frey just exited with Q-Q vs A-T and didn't look too happy.

Paul Lammas is on about 30k, sitting next to the guy who cannot lose a single TV table ever.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24613&g2_serialNumber=1)

LMFAO

Jack Powell has managed a nice act of binkage.

After Steve Littlejohn led out for 2k on a 3h 3s Jh, Powell decided to just flat-call. The Kh appeared on the turn and Littlejohn checked, Powell bet 5k and Littlejohn moved in, after counting his chips and seeing the size of the pot Powell made the call for most of his stack with Ahrt Qc, needing an Ace, Ten or heart to win against Littlejohn's Kc Jc. The river was in fact two of the three, coming the Th to make flush and straight, eliminating Littlejohn.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24615&g2_serialNumber=1)

The miners are back celebrating a victory at the dogs...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24617&g2_serialNumber=1)

ok fair enough

any chance of getting a count of every player who has more than 6 letters in there surname?

More chips for Jack Powell, Glenn Martin moved all-in for 9.2k UTG with Ahrt KD and Powell made the call from the big blind with 7h 7s. The flip favoured the big stack coming 3d 5c 6s Jh 6d.

39 left.

I'll get players who have more than 3 Q's in their name AND whose points value in scrabble is less than seven.






And there you go. Don't say I never give you anything.

 Hi Chris,

 Any news on Tony Phillips, Mickey Wernick, Rory Campbell and Ramsey Ajram (my secret weapon)?

 Say "Hi from Oz" to them +Gibbo, DC, Parker, The Hitsqad, Jerome, Mark Mcluskey, Ryan, and anyone who owes me money.

lol

i think your secret weapon is one of the chip leaders....mbn to be in Oz

 Hi Fran. I need him to get me out of it. Meanwhile, who told RiverDave I'm awake? Intercontinental textual nip immediately followed that post.

Lol, you've just come off the phone but you want a message passed on?  :D

Odd side point. There's no out and out chip leader really at the moment. There's kind of a threeway tie between Jack Powell, Jon Omara and Bernard Litman, who all have about 55k at the moment.

ok negotiations are going well ok i will settle for every player over the age of 18 and under the age of 75 plus karabiner and tikay if they are playing

thanks

tony on 22,500 ramsey on about 60k not sure on the rest

have fun down under

So I should do a tannoy announcement?

battery died!!

Tikay doesn't play. He folds.

ok and tikay if he is folding

Michael Moore goes out with the last hand before the final break. Priyan De Mel asks him why he wants to play such a big flop when Moore makes a big push pre, Priyan calls with Ahrt Kd, Moore shows Ks Kh.

Priyan, "So that's why you wanted to play a big pot."

Ts 3s 9c 2c Ad...

"YEEEEEEEEESSS" shouts Priyan before apologising to Moore for being so loud. It was a big pot though, that puts De Mel among the chip leaders.

(Please feel free to create your own hilarious 'Less is Moore' type headlines about the above story, I really need the toilet and do not have time at the moment)

Players on a short break.

[ ] im not jealous looking at this picture - everyone drinking champagne, corona, at the seaside, just been to the dogs, probs gonna play £2 showdown later, FML, sigh.......

u know if they've got a last longer on for tomorrow, or a race to 100k?

what odds on one of them in the above picture taking it down? Neil Channing about?

Neil posted on the previous page under 'Badbeat'. Send him a PM.

The only thing going against these guys is if they party too hard tonight..

Last level begins.

you know how many of them are playing tomorrow floppy? hopefully tommy c is getting involved because he might just be the greatest imo.......

Ramsey Ajram is the chip leader with almost 80k and is coincidentally sitting next to Tony Phillips.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24619&g2_serialNumber=1)

Chip counts from BlueSq.

1   2   Ramsey Ajram   79900
1   4   Jon Omara   57525
1   5   Andrew Miles   31425
1   7   Dinh Doat Le   63175
1   8   Timothy Flanders   10100
1   9   Ryan Fronda   27500
2   2   Nathan Lee   11000
2   3   Kerry Kerrigan   10000
2   4   Cuong Tran   20475
2   5   Kjetil Naess   36725
2   7   Peter Charalambous   18600
2   8   Priyan De Mel   60650
2   9   David Rudling   15200
3   1   Philippa Flanders   21125
3   2   Rory Campbell   20500
3   3   Matt Perrins   36575
3   4   Paul Lammas   28425
3   5   Ian Frazer   14375
3   6   Daniel Toffel   16150
3   7   Jack Powell   59500
4   1   Keir Ratcliff   49925
4   2   Bernard Litman   52425
4   3   Stephen Kirk   38325
4   4   David Johnson   21900
4   5   Johnny Johansen   6850
4   6   James Fuller   32350
4   7   Michael Ellis   32200
5   1   Antony Phillips   16250
5   2   Michael Wernick   15150
5   3   Dominic Kay   10975
5   4   Marc Goodwin   10750
5   5   Michael Greco   31425
5   6   Stephen paul Eames   9175
5   7   Robert Winkworth   31525
5   8   James Reid   33050

All apart from Brent and ChipRich.

Dominic Kay is out, he pushed on a K-8-6 board with A-8 but got called by Daniel Toffel's A-K. No snowman spikage.

Mickey Wernick doubles up through Pippa Flanders.

With the board reading 7s 7h 8h Aspades Ks, Wernick moved in for his last few thousand into a largish pot. Pippa Flanders eventually made the call with Aspades Jc, Wernick turned over Ahrt 8c for the dead man's hand just pipping her with a slightly better two pair to push him over the 20k mark.

Stephen Eames is out, Kh Th in to Dinh Doat Le's Ahrt Qc.

Cuong (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2662) Tran (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2662) doubled through Jim (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=599) Reid (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=599), Jim had raised preflop to 3,600. Tran made it 10k from the small blind and Jim set him. Tran didn't really have enough to pass and called with Ks Qh. Reid showed Aspades Jc.

Ahrt 9h 3h 6h Td

Gavin Ball is out. Threes into Bernard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=48) Litman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=48)'s Tens.

Kjetil Naess has knocked out Pete Charalambous with A-3 vs Q-2. No help for either player.

Rory Campbell is OUT. No details, I'm afraid.

Ian 'The Raiser' Frazer just cut himself. He put Pippa Flanders all-in on a J-6-5 flop with 9-9 but she made the call with K-J which held to double. Frazer as a result is down to about 35k, Flanders P, as oppposed to Flanders T, is up to perhaps about 40k.

Jim Reid has gone.

Play has now finished for the day with 28 players remaining.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31TGWD1A3WL._SL500_AA229_.jpg)

I'm off to get some sleep. Lovely delicious sleep.

Day 1b will start tomorrow from 2pm, where we're expecting around 140 - 150 more players for this event. I'll be here from just before 2pm.

;stickaforkinme;

 ;applause;  Great updates many thx.

Thanks for the well wishes on page 1 + 2 guys...

Ramsey Ajram, i think hes the kid i bubbled in the £300 looking at him. (might be wrong)

He seemed very decent, solid but wasnt scared to reshove all in after my button open with his  7h Th. I had the monstorous  Td Ad tho.

well played brent and nice cash

Good work again flopps.

Appreciated

Geo