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Welcome to the DTD Monthly £300 event, actually sponsored this time by DTD. Hurrah!

Last month, there was nearly 300 people playing this event, with the club running pretty much at full capacity. In preparation for this month though, DTD have got some more dilithium crystals to power everything made precautions by opening up the club at 5pm and capping the event at 270 players, so get there early if you want to play, or buy-in online on DTD's card room by clicking the banner on the right hand side ---------------------------------->

Also for people reading the update, please support it by playing the "Read 'n' Reap" £10 + £1 freezeout on DTD poker, with £100 added, at 8pm. If people want monthly updates to continue then it kinda is a simple fact that people need to support our sponsors, and I'm not a salesman but DTD have been very generous in this regard. So please come and play this tournament, it has FREE money added ffs.

Also, make sure you're playing on blonde too as well, emotional blackmail has never been my strong point, but it would really suck if someone from the blonde poker community makes a final somewhere and there's no updates to cover it And if you disagree with that, then I'll point you to Thewy's Baden victory 18 months ago or much more recently Pab's win at the GUKPT Grand Final, then see if you change your mind.

Usually amongst the updaters, we'd always keep pretty quiet about people choosing to play or not play on the cardroom, but I'll just call it as it is. If people don't play on the blonde cardroom or the DTD cardroom, there's no more updates. That's it. It's pretty much that simple. I can wax lyrically if I want, but the truth is that these updates don't pay for themselves, and it's unfair to rely on DTD's good graces, they've put their money where their mouth is more times than most. It just comes down to you reading these updates, if you like what you read and want to help then you know how you can. If you don't then you needn't worry, because pages like this won't be around much longer.

Remember, the £300 tournament starts at 7pm and the DTD online £10 + £1 is at 8pm.

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Has it started yet?

No, starts at 7pm.  Just setting off from Huddersfield now!

Michelle

Travel safe everyone and best of luck to all the blondes!!!

june it starts @ 8 doesnt it?

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=30479.1035

gl all see u there

good luck to all blondes especially rooks.

To save another click:

Looking forward to the updates as usual Snoops................a big TY to all at DTD for the sponsorship of the update.

Big thank you to everybody involved in getting this update to those of us that really do appreciate them.

Good luck to ALL blondes taking part.

Looking forward to the updates ... GL Floppy & Jen

And gl to all the blondes.

Yeah keep up the good work. What time do you expect them to wrap up this evening?

best of luck to big taff paul lammas martin frey alan brendon strats ivor the diver muff u 4 a fiver and all from pborothanks for updates

GL to all blondes playing this!!

+1

Yep GL blondes. Looking forward to this as been awhile since I followed an update.


Also downloaded the DTD software form the clicking the banner above and signed up for the read and reep game at 8pm.

good luck to the bloke sitting in seat 3 on the last table near the left, i dont know who that is yet but he/she is my tip to win it, pass on my best to that person please.

He says thanks.

It's utterly heaving in here. The cap has been raised to 315 and is sold out (they're now taking alternates), and we don't even think there's a table for us to sit at for the moment.

You'd better all be playing the £10+£1 comp with £100 added on DTD otherwise you'll make Jen cry.

Is George Dickson (geo the sarge on blonde) playing ?Seem to recall a drunken conversation last weekend ,when he said he was playing

It's Ranking.  It's excellently-run.  It's got a good guarantee.  And it's sold out and accepting alternates...

Yes, the DTD Monthly seems to just get more popular, and the queue for the cash-desk shows no signs of diminishing just yet, even though every single table is marked for use (in the £300 or the £50) and we're already playing musical chairs with our computers as enthusiastic players take to our their seats. 

Play commences in just under 10 minutes, and it's going to be another monster of a two-dayer. gl all...

So here are the early birds (the preliminary list) which caught the -£300 worm in the hopes of chasing what is going to be a very juicy prizepool indeed: 

21   1   Andrew Woods
21   2   Robert Taylor
21   3   Wil Wallis
21   4   Vinh Ly
21   5   John Stritch
21   6   Jed Tribe
21   7   Waheed Ashraf

22   1   Chris Saleh
22   2   Andrew Papageorgiou
22   3   Stephen Hogg
22   4   John Hammond
22   5   Marshall Mccombie
22   6   Neil Giblin
22   7   Shaun King

23   1   Carl Williams
23   2   Terence Simpson
23   3   James Glossop
23   4   Sidicki Mohangee
23   5   Mike Hill
23   6   George Kyriacou
23   7   Robert Cowen

25   1   Jason Lam
25   2   Karl Fenton
25   3   Tom Nearney
25   4   Jason Wheatley
25   5   Robert Clague
25   6   Raj Shina
25   7   Jonathan Spinks

26   1   Gerald Morris
26   2   Philip Mccall
26   3   Luke Hallinan
26   4   Robert Spencer
26   5   Michael Molloy
26   6   Thomas Mccready
26   7   James Morris

27   1   Geoffrey Button
27   2   Nigel Griffiths
27   3   James Hart
27   4   Clive Bealing
27   5   Christopher Hunt
27   6   Darren Bartlett
27   7   Colin Young

31   1   Richard Berridge
31   2   Chin Chai Koh
31   3   Anthony Gaughan
31   4   David Robertson
31   5   Raj Dhiri
31   6   Michael Herron
31   7   Richard Mckay

(deep breath, ctd...)

32   1   Alistair Carins
32   2   Christopher Bell
32   3   Marcus Bebb-jones
32   4   Robin Peebles
32   5   Sandeep Shah
32   6   Daniel Brown
32   7   Graeme Jones

33   1   James Mitchell
33   2   Nadim Sarwar
33   3   Steven West
33   4   Craig Waddington
33   5   Stephen Holden
33   6   Yon Wah Lee
33   7   Andrew Beardmore

34   1   Sean Farrar
34   2   Shamil Patel
34   3   Nichiei Hicks
34   4   Peter Linton
34   5   Jeffrey Hemmerman
34   6   Tommy Bingham
34   7   Karen Hough

35   1   Richard Ellis
35   2   Suzanne Gilbert
35   3   Steve Vine
35   4   Anthony Arlott
35   5   Kim Bain
35   6   Andrew Miles
35   7   Peter Conduit

36   1   Julian Lefevre
36   2   Neil Pickering
36   3   Jeremy Betts
36   4   Colin Mccreadie
36   5   Marios Charalambous
36   6   Fraser Bain
36   7   Frances Creed

37   1   James Hoyes
37   2   John Phillipson
37   3   Simon Higgins
37   4   Adrian Lambe
37   5   Nicolas Mclellan
37   6   Habib Chatoo
37   7   Connachie Jordan

38   1   Jason Herbert
38   2   Adam Vinson
38   3   Steve Denham
38   4   Denis Ford
38   5   Richard Hare
38   6   Laurence Houghton
38   7   Peter Charalamobus

45   1   Anon
45   2   Narciso Baldo
45   3   Gareth Compton
45   4   Ben Martin
45   5   Will Mitchell
45   6   Rab Bain
45   7   Trevor Pearson

46   1   Alan Stearn
46   2   Will Barnes
46   3   John Simons
46   4   Robert Patrick
46   5   Mark Mccluskey
46   6   Jack Stokes
46   7   Adrian Swingler

47   1   Joseph Byrne
47   2   Stephen Eames
47   3   Mathew Miners
47   4   Duncan Meyer
47   5   Lloyd Griffiths
47   6   David Louden
47   7   Paula Kenny

48   1   Richard Fuller
48   2   Ben Vinson
48   3   Tom Kugelstadt
48   4   Anthony Phillips
48   5   Christopher Bruce
48   6   David Wall
48   7   David Anderson

AND

55   1   Ben Dobson
55   2   Brendan Pedley
55   3   Shirley Lacey
55   4   Peter Haigh
55   5   Brian Reid
55   6   Georgios Frangeskou
55   7   Michael Chambers

56   1   Raymond Norton
56   2   Dave Duncan
56   3   Steve Jelinek
56   4   Carl Williams
56   5   Martyn Reeve
56   6   Glyn Cooke
56   7   Steve Brown

57   1   Ian Gascoigne
57   2   Julian Thew
57   3   Daniel Carter
57   4   Benjamin Boulden
57   5   Sean Hart
57   6   Brian Sheppard
57   7   Yiannis Liperis

58   1   Matthew May
58   2   John Perrin
58   3   Edward Gascoigne
58   4   Hassan Irfan
58   5   David Oakton
58   6   Michelle Bennett
58   7   Andrew Murphy

64   1   John Shaw
64   2   Simon Lee
64   3   Chris Baylis
64   4   Alan Wilson
64   5   Ralph Shalson
64   6   Kevin Pearce

65   1   Hiren Kanabar
65   2   John Sadler
65   3   David Whitehouse
65   4   Sam Arnold
65   5   Peter Singleton
65   6   David Jones
65   7   Tina Ainsworth

66   1   Andrew Oflaherty
66   2   Tom Rutter
66   3   Imran Mckenzie
66   4   John Deeley
66   5   Gurpreet Nagi
66   6   Maria Demetriou
66   7   Lawrence Gosney

67   1   Amer Latif
67   2   Leigh Smith
67   3   Peter Wigglesworth
67   4   Peter Wilson
67   5   Sohrab Tavakkolee Tazehabadi
67   6   Anthony Nicholls
67   7   Tony Salmon

68   1   Jonathan Pudney
68   2   Michael Stuart
68   3   Te Ng Cao
68   4   James Keys
68   5   Matthew Smith
68   6   Dean Pearson
68   7   Marvin Lee

Got to say, it's a rarity that I'm at DTD and Newcastle United haven't actually lost today due to the fact they played a team even worse than themselves they played really well.

Surely one of the biggest names in poker, 26 letters!

That isn't everyone!  More will appear as the first two levels whiz by, allowing alternates to take their last-minute place in the tournament.  You'd be surprised how many people think that 6:50pm is cutting it fine for registration but 6:45 should still be OK.  Online preregistration - the wave of the future.  Ride the forward planning surfboard into DTD on it next time you plan on attending this event...

Play hasn't started yet, hold your horses.

(http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news/live/slideshows/061006_horses/r_01.jpg)

On the plus side, it's going to a be a £100k plus prizepool. :)

OK, I' m here, in my seat on table 26. Feel free to inform my fans and the media.

Play has just started, we could be playing 10 or 11 levels tonight unless donks bust themselves out quickly like they usually do there's a lot of cold deckage.

ok can i get a chip count and pic of all the female players please

There's only 7 people in the Read 'n' Reap, I will be posting constant cat pictures until this improves. I'm sure this will be music to some people's ears.

(http://api.ning.com/files/EFpb3daa5i8PSUTN0ulnXh2OxRUi6HbamRi7SeTcX1XKIMTGtK5jUBo2I3s4iJDNRWfmWHAwIuF9co3rtl5WPj9esl-8CBcG/a_microphone_and_cat_singing.jpg)

can we have norkage pics please not boring twats with hats and i pods as usual mix it up a bit thanks

ok any more cat pics and i will turn off

+1

In honour of his shameless-self promotion, and also his winning mustachioed smile and equally shameless camera hogging, your first pic of the comp has to be Red Dog.  No hat, no ipod, not boring!

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24962&g2_serialNumber=1)

There are at least six ladies in tonight's tournament, and we will be bringing you pictures of them all.  Sadly our attention is trained to be caught by the sound of large numbers of chips hitting the centre of the table, too, and with a max capacity tournament expect some reportage of that too. 

Sooooo tempting........ ;)

Makes it even more tempting...

is red dog sponsored by the village people ? does he have leather trousers on? or is he freddy mercury reincarnated?hardly norkage is he ? or is he ? answers on a stamp to doigiveafook.com

A couple of females to show our intent to please all requests, no matter how slighted the ipod-wearing behatted youngsters may feel by your insensitivity...

1)  Mysteriana Anonymous  (not her real name)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24967&g2_serialNumber=1)

2) Fran 'LittlemissC' Creed (looking more engaged with the tournament as it had started when I snapped her and she'd just won an early pot)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24965&g2_serialNumber=1)

they will do send em round later

send em to me

Having not been to a live poker venue in over a month, it's sort of reassuring to see a lot of the same faces, as well as a good deal of new ones.  I also appreciate a man that can multitask:

Chris Bruce, Focused on the Game:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24969&g2_serialNumber=1)

Chris Bruce, Focused on another Game hidden behind his chair (and quite a nice happy pic of Tony Phillips whom I intended to crop out but can't bring myself to do it)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24971&g2_serialNumber=1)

Chris Bruce told me a little story that Ben Vinson has started off tonight with a well timed bluff. Vinson called a raise preflop from the small blind and then check/raised a c-bet from 500 to 1,100 on a K-T-4 board, before firing 3,000 on the 6 turn and moving in on the board pairing Ten river. His opponent passed K-Q at the end, Ben showing a missed Q-J but increasing his stack by almost 50% straight from the off.

DTD in full swing.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24973&g2_serialNumber=1)

Downloaded and reg'd for that read em and reap trny

only 15 in this

Yeah it's a pity

On a Kd Tc 9c flop, Rick Trigg calls a 700 bet from the button that the big blind makes, the small blind also makes the call. The turn is the Ts and it's checked to Trigg who bets 1,600. The small blind calls and the big blind folds. The river is the 7d after a third check from the small blind, Trigg throws out 3,200 and elicits a fold from his opponent.

Next to this table is a rather tough looking one with Tom Rutter, Lawrence Gosney, Alex Martin, Andrew O'Flaherty and Maria Demetriou. The last of these forced to fold to a 1,100 bet on the river of a Ts Ahrt Qc 9c 3d board.

Aces Good/Aces Bad...

(http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:KVL6BoohaZsx7M:http://api.ning.com/files/12GDjl-qwtWTsnimHhG4dpwxMa*1NJlJLoB0ECZvof5BmfyparNOE6DSzCSxmZS8ikwdxEStVU5lfkshisyyvOvEGaGzhzCK/ThumbUpDown.jpg)

Another alternate gets a seat thanks to Robert Spencer's Aspades Ad busting some preflop Kings: (here's Spencer with the glasses), but again, it's the player on the left who's maxing the accidental photo op (Luke Hallinan?) looking like he's dressed for wandering soulfully through the snow in a music video.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24975&g2_serialNumber=1)

Elsewhere, my attention is caught by Neil Pickering (pictured top) throwing in a very odd-looking bet of 625 into a pot of over 5,000 on the river with the board reading 6s 7h 9c 8s 2d.  This sent his opponent (no name yet, sorry) into the tank.  A puzzled-looking half minute later and he simply threw in the call, having initially checked the river... Pickering showed Ad Aspades, but his opponent's 6d 9d took the pot, after it actually looked shaky for a brief moment! 

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24979&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24977&g2_serialNumber=1)

Pete Linton has already doubled up, managing to find a person willing to stack off with A-J on a J-7-3 board against his 7-7.

"How does he do it?" I asked Nick Hicks.

Nick shrugged, "I'm already on tilt."

Pete, "Did I tell you about the sick move I made last month with 7-2o, where I floated a reraise on the flop?"

Me, "Did it work?"

Pete, "No."

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24981&g2_serialNumber=1)

Early exits.

316   Dominic Rossookh
317   Robert Woodcock
318   Harish Chandarana
319   Shamil Patel
320   Shaun King
321   Colin Young
322   Brendan Pedley
323   Charalambos Raouna
324   Julian Lefevre
325   Richard Berridge
326   John Deeley
327   Andrew Oflaherty
328   Eddie Lundon
329   Karen Hough
330   Harprit Singh Gurnam
331   Anthony White
332   Jon Hewston

Alex Martin is finding he can't bluff here at DTD.

He flatted a 225 bet from the big blind on a 2s 2h 8s flop in a 4 way limped pot, while the other players in the pot, Tom Rutter and Maria Demetriou both passed. On the Qh turn he called again, to the tune of 400 before firing out 1,200 on the Ac river after it was checked to him. 

But he grimaced with all the chagrin of a man caught molesting a donkey when this river bet was called by the big blind's Kc 8c, forced to tap the table in submission.

Old McDonald flopped a set...
Ai Ai; NO!

On a board of Jc 7c 8s Ahrt, the money went in as Thomas McDonald (top) bet 2k, raised all-in by his shorter-stacked opponent David Bielby.  "Ace-Jack?"  "Yes," was the only chat they had time for as McDonald's 8c 8h saw the crucial final card come the Jh, giving Bielby's Aspades Jd the winning hand, and the table something to raise their eyebrows about, in that way that poker players do when something grim happens to someone else... 

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24985&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24983&g2_serialNumber=1)

He maybe Simon 'Aces' Trumper but he's a 'Jack' of all trades...aha aha aha. Ahem.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24987&g2_serialNumber=1)

DTD with every table being used.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24989&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24991&g2_serialNumber=1)

The all-ins, once started, just keep coming.  Some are more dramatic than others -

Just now Anthony Nicholls got Tony Salmon all in on a Td Kd 9s board in dominating shape with Kh Qc to Salmon's Ks Js.  The 7c turn was uneventful, but one of two Queens, the only help left available to him, popped out on the river.  Nicholls jumped like he'd been administered an electric shock, and briefly avoided the paparazzi's ever-watchful eye.  Briefly.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24993&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24995&g2_serialNumber=1)

49 tables full - we never expected this. I'm sitting here at home following the updates until things die down a bit! Wish more people had bought in online - we might have been able to arrange more table and dealers if we knew in advance that so many people wanted to play. I hope most of the 65 alternates get in, as I know some people will have travelled a long way.

can you wish Red Dog gl for me please? (He's my favorite)

Gl gl gl all Blondes playing!!

Hey you've already had a picture of him, Fanboy!  Have to cycle throug 314 others first ;)

But how about one of Maria and Lawrence Gosney?  She's done something nice to her hair, and he's asleep.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24999&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24997&g2_serialNumber=1)

Interesting Dwell...

 If that's not an oxymoron, it just happened when James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1809) Keys (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1809) bet 2k when Te Ng (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2741) Cao (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2741) checked to him on the turn.  The board read Jh 7h 6s 5s and the table went all quiet like it tends to in expectation of someone maybe going bust this hand... they were disappointed as Cao just sort of sat there deliberating for a good long time, but when you see the hand he eventually passed and showed, it's understandable:  Js 9s.

can you give red dog a kiss from me hes so sexy i want to b just like him when i grow up

Hi guys down at DTD newbie to the site and im well impressed on your updates could you let me know how david louden is getting on. Table 47 seat 6. Thanx

I am afraid I accidentally deleted Llevan's sage advice which was along the lines of "Stop asking for norkage and look at your cards!"  So here it is again.  Sorry.

Rich Hare, Laurence Houghton and Pete Charalalalalalaambolous.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25001&g2_serialNumber=1)

Neil Wyatt and David Nisbet

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25003&g2_serialNumber=1)

DTD Schedule for Fri/Sat/Sun:  Ben 'RookieITB' Turnstill.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25005&g2_serialNumber=1)

Homer is mid-room and will be delighted to bring you your man's progress very shortly.  I suggest you imagine some relaxing music until he returns.

Is this him? If so, he has about 7.5k at the moment.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25007&g2_serialNumber=1)

ye thats him he looks deep in thought thank you

Julian Thew, caught here in the middle of coversation, almost with a look that says, "Bluffing? What's that?"

(The busyness of the player is directly proportional to the number of 25 chips in their stack ;) )

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25009&g2_serialNumber=1)

Montadoo, looks like a young Rodney Bewes here. He'll certainly be hoping he's the likeliest lad to win here. Chortle.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25011&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1325000/images/_1329362_rodney_bewes150.jpg)

Ash Hussain sneaks in just before the last registration. 1st prize is over £30k!!!

can you give me updates on Brian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2505) Reid (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2505) and Nicolas Mclellan please ????

tis impossible to be as young as mondatoo (gl btw)

Tony Phillips and Ben Vinson are casualties before the break. It looks like the total number of runners is 356 players. An earlier start next month methinks?

Gl to all blondes playing, i assume there are enough of them to sweat for at least one of them to get somewhere.

Paul Gourlay fires 3,500 on the river of a Ac 5h 3c Jc 9s board, getting his opponent to muck Ad 3d face up.

A familiar face looks to be amongst the chip leaders, Pete Linton has around 45k.

"I don't know how he does it," said Nick Hicks, nursing a 5k stack, "People just gift him 10k every hand when they hit top pair."

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25013&g2_serialNumber=1)

Remember though folks. Every chip counts.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25015&g2_serialNumber=1)

Exits updated:

316   Kevin Parkes
317   Daniel Brown
318   Anthony Phillips
319   Byron J Sugars
320   Steven Pearce
321   Jack Desborough
322   James Hart
323   Robert Cowen
324   Jed Tribe
325   Kendra Agnew
326   Marvin Lee
327   Tom Nearney
328   Andy Bacon
329   George Georgiou
330   Ben Martin
331   Mathew Miners
332   Shirley Lacey
333   Joe Whittaker
334   Ben Vinson
335   Carl Williams
336   Piotr Koplin
337   Nadim Sarwar
338   Ghassan Chehbi
339   Orlando Anderson
340   Michael Stuart
341   Panayiotes Tsiolas
342   Craig Waddington
343   Joe Stevenson
344   Harry Dunnell
345   Dominic Rossookh
346   Robert Woodcock
347   Harish Chandarana
348   Shamil Patel
349   Shaun King
350   Colin Young
351   Charalambos Raouna
352   Julian Lefevre
353   Richard Berridge
354   John Deeley
355   Andrew Oflaherty
356   Eddie Lundon
357   Karen Hough
358   Harprit Singh Gurnam
359   Anthony White
360   Jon Hewston

Just finished 2nd in the read and reap comp.Thanks to DtD for the added cash.Pity more players didnt enter.
Good Luck to all Blondes playing.
Any news on Geo the Sarge? Is he playing ,if so chip count please.

What price him having a blow up and doing them all?

I found another lady, pictured in a multiway hand which sort of fizzled out so I didn't write down who won it...

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She is, according to the list, Josefine Forssberg, sat next to Shafqat Mirza.  Except her neighbour is, I reckon, now OUT, as I overheard some language that would make a sailor blush coming from near the cashdesk... he was grinning though so perhaps it's too early to report his demise.  It would be a shame; not enough pink shirt/white shades combos in the house tonight.

He's not on the list of starters or of er... 'currenters'

hi could you please update us on how brian reid & nicolas mclellan are doin? thanks

Close  ;)

sounds like tom red-dog m'creedy,has a new phone to me.....?

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While getting this pic of Denis O'Mahoney ("Make sure you get the stack - the stack!" It's 12,800) a hand developed between Matthew Lewis and Mark Wilson at the table.  The board had reached the river with a medium-sized pot of a few thousand - Ks 7h 2d Kc 2h.  Now Wilson bet out 2,500 and was faced with a quick raise to 5,000.  This caused him some consternation, and his deliberation over whether Lewis did or didn't have a King took all the way up into the break (which is just drawing to a close).  He clearly decided in the negative, as he called, but mucked when Lewis flipped A-K...

Incidentally, don't you reckon Lewis kind of has a Ilari Sahamies sort of aesthetic going on?

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Great coverage folks, thanks to DTD for supporting this too. I have got to make it down there again next month!

Can we still buyin with DTD points? I know they expire soon but cant remeber when. Apologies as I know it is on here but cant find the post for the life of me.

You are correct that is Joesfine who is a friend of mine, if you go past her table again please wish her luck from Zabeen.

Julian Thew makes it 525 preflop gets a call from Benjamin Boulden in midposition and the big blind Brian Evans.

Ts 3d Th

Thewy bets 700, Boulden calls and Evans folds.

Ac

Thewy now bets 1,050. Boulden raises to 2,500. Thewy sets him in for another 4,000 or so and is duly called.

Thewy: Jd Td

Boulden: Ahrt Ad

8d on the river changes nothing and Boulden doubles up to about 15k, I still think Thewy has about 30k though.

Can you wish the bloke in seat 7 who keeps re raising my bets gl please?

Richard Kellett is in hysterics. No, he hasn't eaten too much orange sherbet. I'll let him explain:

"There's this guy, the player in seat 1 (Yousaf Jamal Quereshi) and you ask him anything about his hand and he just shows! There was a 9-2-5 flop and he bet 2k and showed a nine and then both players folded. Ask him if he has an Ace in a hand and he'll just tell the truth straight away, you can ask him anything about his hand and he'll tell you!"

GL to James Morris.

Lol more updates on this please.

G/L to seat 7 on table Tom!  ;goodluck;

Nicolas Mclellan - 12,800, interrupted changing into marathon runner's T-shirt

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Brian Reid - 10,700.

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thanks for the updates you doing a great job

The board reads 8-8-7-K-K and Steve Jelinek puts out a small bet but everyone folds. He sighs, "Couldn't one of you bitches have a king???" He flips 8-8.

Tony Salmon has been smoked. He limped behind a couple of others but then pushed with 9h 9s after Rick Trigg raised behind him. Trigg made the obligatory call with Ad Kd and we went off to the races which Trigg won at a canter after he caught the best of a Jc 8h 8s Ahrt 3c board.

Richard Kellett has doubled up. A-A vs A-K.

MBN is what the kool kidz would say.

Pictured on the left is the eyecatching barnet of Christopher Brammer.  Come to think of it, Michael Selzer's isn't bad... on the right.  Anyway, forget about Selzer for a minute, because the last interesting hand I saw develop ended up with Brammer looking unhappy about a bet from Ghalib Hussein on the river.  The board was Qc Qs Tc 5h 3h, and Hussein had bet out 4k at the end, causing some dwelling from Brammer.

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"Did you turn a full house?" was the only thing Brammer said during his cogitation period, but when he made the call finally, it was only to see that he'd been spot on.  5c 5d for Hussein, and everyone else seems to believe that he had A-Q, although he just mucked.

Both clearly just got out of a tumble dryer.

A Few Chip Counts:

Paul Gourlay - 24,000
Maria Demetriou - 15,000
Lawrence Gosney - 5,300
Chris Bruce - 15,500
Rick Trigg - 17,400
LeKnave - 12,200
Te Ng Cao - 11,300
James Keys - 20,000

Hey guys, great updates and huge thanks to DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) for coming up tops...


Now, there's already been one (slightly dodgy pic) but could you give us an update on Rook's stack? Mucho appreciated - and can you tell him if I'm unconscious upon his return bally is to blame.

cheers chaps

A xx


P.S Does Michael Selzer have a brother named Andy?

I KNEW IT.,.,you got a new .,.,internet mobile phone thingy.,.,havent you.,.,.,
do you know how to turn it on??

This hand actually happened right before the break but I think it's worth a write-up as it saw Tuan Le become the final alternate as Daniel Brown busted...

The clock was called on Sandeep Shah (on the left sitting down) after he'd bet out 2,200 on the turn on a board of Kc 6h 4c 8h only to be re-raised all in by Daniel Brown.  As his final allowed seconds drifted by, Shah eventually announced, "Call!" flipping Ks Jh.  It was good - Brown had given it a go with 8c 9c but missed the river and stood up, as he is pictured in the photo:

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As he did the Walk of Shame, his table expressed wonderment at the sequence of hands the now-busted Brown had been involved in early on.  "He had trip Kings, Quad Aces," remarked a not-jealous-at-all tablemate, "And now he's out!" 

DUNK619 is out. "22 vs A-T"

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) also gone.

James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2681) Mitchell (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2681) got all-in with Ks 8s against Nicholas Myers' A-T and Steve Holden's J-T on a Aspades Ts Jc board but failed to hit, with Myers scooping after a couple of blanks. Thus Mitchell is now out.

'Almost interesting coinflip' for Edward Gascoigne vs Hassan Irfan

Ts Tc vs Ad Kd

Flop: Qd Td 3h

Then it got boring and nothing happened because two complete blanks hit the board. Hence Irfan is out.

Rich Hare is down to 3k, "I ran my set into his (Laurence Houghton's) straight."

Good luck to all blondes playing as well as the updaters - this one could be a marathon!

Special good luck wishes to Pete 'do you like my suntan' Linton, Nick 'Samurai' Hicks, and Fran and Maria who both look lovely btw.

Apologies to any of the buds Ive missed - I couldnt be bothered to scroll through the massive list of players!

chip counts for graeme "the mole" jones please. also tell kellett hes a sicko from jon lundy

Nick Hicks and Lawrence Gosney are out.

More numbers!  Those chips don't count themselves, you know.   Until the later levels ;)  Ty in advance, DTD...

Mad Turk - 13,800
Dave Colclough - 5,725
Greek Jack - 7,000
Denis O'Mahoney - 14,000
Mickey Wernick - 5,300
Jim Reid - 16,050
Fran Creed - 12,500
Red-Dog - 13,000
Andrew Yates - 25,500
Jason Wong - 11,500

Looking around for bigger stacks than Linton's atm is tough, but how about at the end of the next level we do Leaderwatch to give you some idea of the movers and stackers?  Yes, that's a plan.

gl to alex , trig, rich jones et all

can u give me a chip count on andy oflaherty please

Shucks.  I was planning on posting this pick of Nick and Pete both action-folding (a rarity in itself) at some point.  Gotta be now I guess.

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Dave Colclough is out, "It was quite imaginative, I raised K-Q and it's come Q-9-6 and he's led into me for 2,000 so I moved in for 6,000 more and he's quickly called me, I assumed with A-Q, but no, he turned over Q-4. He must have known the 4 was coming."

Steve Holden is also out.

If he moved his hands, I think it was around 20k, but I could be wrong!

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If you're not playing on them already and if you're really enjoying the updates, please sign up and play on blonde and DTD and you'll will be delivered more updatey goodness in the future.

Can you give me a chip count for Brendan Pedley pls ?

Andrew O'Flaherty -- 8k-ish next to Tom Rutter

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Something for the Luton posse

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Unnoticed until, oddly, right when this wince-inducing hand was played lay none other than Ali Mallu.  As soon as I got ready to snap the ubiquitous and dangerous living poker randomiser, his chips were over the line in the small blind after Fran Creed had raised and been called by the button.  She called pretty fast, and the button got out of the way:

Fran: Ac Kc
Ali Mallu: Ad 2d

Flop: Td 7s Jh
Turn: 4d   "Don't do it to me," murmurs MissC as the possibility of the flush draw pops out...
River: Qd

A sad Fran is just covered in chips, and walks away from the table, back to the table and away more permanently having suffered what many before her have.  Mallu's feathers aren't even slightly ruffled, though, pulse barely risen at the prospect of busting, nor at accomplishing the outdraw.  Peaceful.

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About 15k when I checked.

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Thank's :)

Just got in from a day at the rugby. Can you tell me how Jack Stokes is doing if you get chance please?

Table 27 appears to be busting its members more frequently than many of the others - in just five minutes of rail hovering in its vicinity two players hit the felt and made way for new faces (who don't look delighted by some of the stacks growing on there).  Latest casualty - Con Cronin, pictured in red kit next to James Williams (who's one of the decent stacks >25k). 

Garish Hat of Day:

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He - Cronin - had apparently been involved in a bit of banter with boisterous Sadikia Tapper, whose chips are even healthier on around 36,000.  "He's easy to get going," confides Tapper, before sharing some blow-up stories and pausing to call after Con Cronin, "Tell me what the weather's like on the way back to Brum!"

Jovial Wind-up Merchant:

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Rich Hare is out.

Tom Rutter is on a nice 45k stack or so. A double with sixes vs A-K before he got it all-in with A-A against Alex Martin's A-K. The table has got a bit more interesting now though with Sam Trickett and Dave Jones moving in to his left.

Rick Trigg has lost about 7k to Peter Baird after the latter rivered a Queen in an A-K/A-Q battle. He's still on around 30k.

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[  ] I didn't nick the idea of this photo from Maria.

30 Min Break

It looks, amazingly, like Pete Linton has made it to another dinner (or snack, tea, whatever) break as CL with 55k.  His table, though, isn't all that far behind - there are big stacks on all corners and more chips on Table 34 than probably two average tables tonight.  Earlier it looked like Michael Millar would be the one treading on Linton's toes, but with only a few thousand above average at the end of level 10 (c.25k) he's behind Darren Hodson (43,000) and Ken Wheatley (38,000) both also on his table (pictured). 

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Maria is out. A-K vs 3-3 then A-9 vs Tom Rutter's K-Q. Quick and brutal.

Tom Rutter -- 50k
LeKnave -- 25k
Montadoo -- 32k
Julian Thew -- 16k

Flight 815 Bound to Bustoville.

212   Maria Demetriou
213   Victor Corbett
214   David Welch
215   James Moult
216   Chris Strickland
217   Lloyd Griffiths
218   Christopher Pye-smith
219   Richard Hare
220   Zafar Aslam
221   Alan Gray
222   Athanasios Venizelos
223   Liaquat Javed
224   Carl Williams
225   Connachie Jordan
226   David Gunter
227   David Oakton
228   Shojun Miah
229   Andrew Miles
230   James Hoyes
231   Chris Saleh
232   Paul Newman
233   Ben Turnstill
234   Jason Brown
235   Imran Mckenzie
236   Michael Wernick
237   Frances Creed
238   Brian Reid
239   Sean Farrar
240   Anthony Kennedy
241   Gareth Rees
242   Marcus Bebb-jones
243   Andy Cradock
244   Anon
245   Cornelius Cronin
246   Michael Panayiotou
247   Denis O Mahoney
248   Sean Hart
249   Ladan Lundon
250   Chris Baylis
251   Raj Dhiri
252   Raj Shina
253   Stephen Holden
254   David Colclough
255   Chin Chai Koh
256   Alistair Carins
257   Steven Watts
258   Ismail Yusuf
259   Lawrence Gosney
260   Paul Kelly
261   Edward Roger
262   Alan Wilson
263   Steven Mahony
264   Nichiei Hicks
265   Darshan Sami
266   Richard Mckay
267   Kuljinder Sidhu
268   Will Mitchell
269   Te Ng Cao
270   Sohrab Tavakkolee Tazehabadi
271   Paul Rayner
272   Tina Ainsworth
273   Peter Singleton
274   James Mitchell
275   Josefine Forssberg
276   Peter Evans
277   Stephen Davies
278   Colin Mccreadie
279   Hassan Irfan
280   Tuan Le
281   Martyn Frey
282   Stephen Eames
283   Peter Wilson
284   Kevin Noble
285   Richard Horton
286   Jason Lam
287   Tony Salmon
288   Nigel Griffiths
289   Philip Mccall
290   Terry Fletcher
291   Dave Duncan
292   Georgios Frangeskou
293   John Hammond
294   Waheed Ashraf
295   John Exley
296   Glyn Cooke
297   Keiran O Leary
298   Yuxin Li
299   Robert Patrick
300   Tony Harman
301   Darren Sprengers
302   Dominic Cullen
303   Vinh Ly
304   Tommy Bingham
305   Mark Herron
306   John Phillipson
307   John Conroy
308   Steve Vine
309   Andrew Woods
310   David Lloyd
311   James Brunskill
312   David Whitehouse
313   David Louden
314   Steve Denham
315   Simon Deadman
316   Neil Wyatt
317   Kevin Parkes
318   Daniel Brown
319   Anthony Phillips
320   Byron J Sugars
321   Steven Pearce
322   Jack Desborough
323   James Hart
324   Robert Cowen
325   Jed Tribe
326   Kendra Agnew
327   Marvin Lee
328   Tom Nearney
329   Andy Bacon
330   George Georgiou
331   Ben Martin
332   Mathew Miners
333   Shirley Lacey
334   Joe Whittaker
335   Ben Vinson
336   Carl Williams
337   Piotr Koplin
338   Nadim Sarwar
339   Ghassan Chehbi
340   Orlando Anderson
341   Michael Stuart
342   Panayiotes Tsiolas
343   Craig Waddington
344   Joe Stevenson
345   Harry Dunnell
346   Dominic Rossookh
347   Robert Woodcock
348   Harish Chandarana
349   Shamil Patel
350   Shaun King
351   Colin Young
352   Charalambos Raouna
353   Julian Lefevre
354   Richard Berridge
355   John Deeley
356   Andrew Oflaherty
357   Eddie Lundon
358   Karen Hough
359   Harprit Singh Gurnam
360   Anthony White
361   Jon Hewston

Is this your man?  If so he's on a perfectly respectable 14,500.

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great job floppy & jen  :)up

gl to the blondes still in

hi can you please let me know how nicolas mclellan is doing? thanks

Short break. Saw Tim Blake who simply rolled his eyes as I noted his 6k stack or so, looks like it's been a tough and grindy day.

These people are still in too:

Steve Jelinek - 13,700
Ali Mallu - 27,000
Jonathan Spinks - 28,350
Raymond Norton - 26,000

Also sat on the same table are now three of the probably fewer-than-six ladies still in the tournament.  Suzanne Gilbert (seat 2; hat; 9,000), Paula Agnew (seat 3; excellent spur-of-moment grinning; 10,175) and Kim Bain (seat 5; designer-wallpaperesque shirt and cool glasses; 8,200).  I only recognise from previous updates about a quarter of the female contingent of the field, and I take this as an excellent sign for the growing numbers of female players.  Women lurkers - get to DTD for the next one- it's fun.

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Me to Mad Turk, "Are you still in?"

Mad Turk, "Yes."

Me, "How?"

Mad Turk, "I have no idea. Me and Colchester Kev are the two best players in the world, but I am, I think, slightly better than him."

[X] This conversation happened.

RESTART IN 2 MINS. 

In the next level, requests will be answered, chips will be counted and compared, stories will be told and a large number of people will be eliminated.  We've power napped and are going to fortify ourselves against the formidable airconditioning with tea.

Red-Dog, on the other hand, just couldn't shake the shivers.  Until...

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Check out the reaction in the background.  This was quickly followed by, "It's a girl's coat.  I am disturbed by the fact that I am slightly aroused by you.  I think I'm looking for a girl with a moustache."  To which Red replies, "I am comfortable with my sexuality."

He's currently retaking his seat still in my coat.

Two precarious looking chip towers equal about 28,000.  I have to mention how handy it is that your friend Mclellan is wearing such an, er, idiosyncratic hat.  It means we'll be able to track him pretty much at a glance through the room.  Thank him for making our lives easy through his penchant for tartan-y baseball caps.

Mark McCloskey imo

Bit of a turn up for the books.

After the last half hour break, Jonathan Pudney who is seat 1 on table 68, came back only to find his stack completely missing. Yes, that's right he had no chips! Fortunately there was a chip count at the break so they've been able to replace his 6k or 7k and they're now reviewing security camera footage as to how Pudney's chips went missing. Tim (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=431) Blake (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=431) pointed to his 4k and said, "Obvious culprit here!"

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More news as we get it.

Laurence Houghton is out.

Jonathan Pudney is now out, as is Paul Cochrane. Both falling with Sevens and Queens to Chris Gavriel's Aces.

Gavriel has carried on his destruction of the table, knocking out James Keys with K-Q vs K-T on a K high board.

(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:FUFI5vqH4MNG4M:http://www.1ie-main.com/film-az/images/take_one.gif)   ACTION!

While Chris' Corner Courts Controversy - Everyone else is gambling it up with abandon as those who've struggled to top their initial 10k stack are really starting to feel pressure with the blinds at 200/400/50.  Here's a taster:

Benjamin Boulden moves all in on the river for 5,900 after 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) bet out 2k.  The board read 6h Ks 2s 2d 9d and the pot up until now was not spectacularly large.  Thew thought for a while, called, but mucked when Boulden showed 6s 6c...
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Christopher Brammer eliminates Mojid (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1334) Khan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1334) after the latter moved the rest of his stack - 5,300 - in on a Qs Qh 7s flop.  Brammer asked for a count before quickly deciding to make the call with 9h 9c.  It more than held against 7h 8h, spiking a third Nine on the turn, so another one joins equally busted Bashir Ahmed in pretty much the same 90 seconds...

Here's the probable chip leader Gavriel after causing carnage on his table in the last level.  As Keys exited a railer could be heard behind me saying, "He's tearing up the field!" which might be somewhat premature but definitely seems to hold true for his table at least.

Gavriel:  "Who, Me?"
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Mad 'I'm slightly better than Colchester Kev' Turk and his new friend Stuart Morrant who is appparently destroying the table.

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Recent exits, taking that long escalator to the big busto tent in the sky.

182   Mohammed Javed
183   Neil Walker
184   Thomas Mccready
185   Andreas Kipriyanou
186   Mark Hayes
187   Habib Chatoo
188   Narciso Baldo
189   Barry Hearn
190   Martyn Reeve
191   William Peters
192   Paul Brammer
193   Yon Wah Lee
194   Robert Taylor
195   Peter Haigh
196   James Keys
197   Michael Chambers
198   Mojid Khan
199   Alan Hunter
200   Mark Wilson
201   Bashir Ahmed
202   Paul Cochrane
203   Jonathan Pudney
204   Laurence Houghton
205   James Glossop
206   Robin Peebles
207   Neil Giblin
208   Alex Hamilton
209   Duncan Meyer
210   Brian Sheppard
211   Neil Pickering
212   Richard Kellett
213   Le Tien

James Glossop finds his Td Tc crucially pipped by Michael Specht's Jc Js on a 7h 4h 8d flop just now, crucial because he was all-in and called by Specht pretty sharpish.  The turn and river blanked and he hit the rail. 

A delighted Specht rakes in the pot.  We're totally feeling the straw cowboy hat/gold skull decor thing too. 

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Paul Garnham and Tim Westwood Jim Peppercorn, the latter is one of the choppee's from last month.

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And here's Jim when he's breaking some beats, and perhaps pimping a car or two. Maybe with one or two hos'. Coming at you. West side. A'ight.

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A message from Simon Trumper regarding tonights play.

"We'll run 10 levels until 4.15am and then review the situation."

Selzer Refreshing...

Mike Selzer's stack was looking in need of replenishment, and it all worked out in time for him to get back in the game.  A raise in early middle position brought a re-raise all in from John Perrin out of the small blind.  Perrin wasn't liking it when Selzer snapcalled with Jh Jd, in good shape against his Qc 9c...  The flop brought every high combination apart from what was needed to help that out, and even a flush draw picked up on the turn didn't do the trick.  Double up to 25k for Selzer, down to >6k for Perrin.

Another player doubling up late in the day is the pseudonym-sounding Ivor Frost - his 7d 7c were in perfect shape after the board came 3d 3s Jd 7s 5s and his opponent showed Ad 3c.  Still, he didn't have all that many chips to start with - hands like that could be spectacular if two big stacks picked them up around now.

cracking updates, thanks guys 'n girls...

Tom Rutter has a small 7k dent in his stack after calling a reraise all-in with Jh 9d against the Aspades 7d of Jeremy Betts.

Tim Blakes is out. A-J no good versus the limp/call of Q-9.

Tim (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=431) Blake (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=431) has a theory on what happened here. He said that Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=66) Gavriel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=66) knocking out two players with A-A vs Q-Q vs 7-7 was the last hand before the break and what may have happened is that the dealer has accidentally raked across Pudney's chips at the same time over to Gavriel's stack. Pudney was in Seat 1, while the two players who went out were in Seats 2 and 3. The area of the table is actually in a bit of a blind spot so it's hard to see on camera. Although Tim's idea is speculation, it seems to fit as probably being the most reasonable explanation to me. It's pretty doubtful that anyone would ever risk trying to do something underhand here with cameras everywhere.

Triple all-in! 

John Stritch gets the Ahrt Ac in position on a short stack who'd shoved with 3d 3s and with a stack who covers both of them in the blinds only too happy to oblige with a call with Qs Qh.  Nothing straighty/flushy/over a Ten (or, er, between Deuce and Four) to scare Stritch and he claps his hands (just once, reservedly almost) and near-triples up, busting one player and putting Queens-caller Denison Ranson on life support with 4k.

Also OUT are Jed Tribe and Daniel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2985) Cochrane (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2985).  The latter moved all in for 3,425 after his neighbour had raised to 2,000.  There was no question of a fold - the only unknown turned out to be the small blind who really looked like he was on the verge of repopping it to isolate the all-in Cochrane... but didn't.  The big blind thought about it, but also passed, leaving the autocall for what turned out to be A-J.  Cochrane made that eye-rolling, half laugh half cry face as he flipped his A-T and that was all she wrote.

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************************************* break and chip race ********************************************

Red Dog nicked my hoodie.

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Mad Turk says, "I am calling you!"

But he says that after he's moved in on a Qd 5d 2s flop; what he's referring to is preflop, when opponent Rab Bain says he should have re-raised.  "I am calling you!  I am gonna show you," he offers, while his opponent deliberates calling what looks like is going to be all-in himself or close. 

Finally, Bain passes.  He shows Jc Jd.  Mad Turk shows the Aspades Ks, clearly not lying about being happy to call preflop, but having taken the shove initiative and run with it.

Yucel Eminoglu: Mad

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Rab Bain:  Even-tempered

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Incidentally, the trend for sort of half-woolly-hat-half-cap type headwear both baffles and intrigues me.  The part of me that likes my glow-in-the-dark gloves and Chris' hoody kind of wants one.

Just now someone left this important-looking piece of technology on the side of my office.  It was only for a matter of seconds, but the temptation to 'bust' a few choice players, give some ridiculous middle names and reorder the chip leaders with Chris at the top was almost too much for me to bear.  DTD.  I bet everyone has an iphone and a blackberry and one of those mini projectors that fit on your keyring too. 

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Chris gets Moore.

Chris Moore pushed all-in over the top of Ben Dobson's button raised, but was irked when he was quickly called.

Moore: Ts 7s

Dobson: Jc Jd

Tc 4s 5c

A little ray of light...

Ks

Removal of cloud cover?

9s

Radiant sunbeams.

"They'll probably put that on blonde," says someone at the table.

Dammit, I need to work on my stealth technique. Perhaps I should get a cloaking device.

Now, no-one would find that funny, because it would be completely believable to everyone.

Great updates as usual but off to bed now. Hope tomorrow not to  early a start for you.

If there 2 levels left then can see the field drop off a lot in the next hour or so.

Tom Rutter raises preflop from UTG and Ali Mallu calls in the big blind.

Ahrt 8c 5d

Check from Mallu, Tom bets 3k. Ali makes it 11k and Tom thinks before calling.

Before the dealer even puts out the Qd turn, Ali moves all-in and Tom calls fairly sharpish.

Ali: Ad 7h

Tom: Ac Kd

Ks on the river, and Ali Mallu is out, whereas Tom Rutter is up to 80k.

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Gareth Compton just propelled himself into undoubtedly the chip leader spot after squaring off against hitherto unstoppable Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=66) Gavriel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=66)!

I noticed a 35k+ pot already brewed, the board all out and looking like:  2h 4s 8h 8d Jd.  Both players were chipped up, the leaders on the table, and although Gavriel covered everyone, he could be seriously dented by Compton.  "All in," he announces.  The table hushes as eventually an unhappy looking but not-going-anywhere Compton made the call for his tournament life with his 2d 2c for the maisonette (small house).  Gavriel mucks and that adrenaline comedown ends with Compton just sort of babbling about the hand a bit, "Even if I'm beat, I have to call.. didn't like it...Have to call."  You know how you do.

When he calms down, he'll find that his 120k+ stack is definitely at the top of the pack now in level 9.

This has been confirmed as what happened. Good to know that it was a honest mistake and nothing more. :)

Sidicki Mohangee races his Jd Jc aip against Aspades Ks... and wins with a satisfying straight flush after the board comes Qd Td 9d 2d Kd.  Overkill on the river, but it looks nice :)  He's up to 20k now.

Chris Bruce came by to ask if we knew anyone on his new table, but we didn't have a scooby doo. "I have 30k, just above average, but I'm the shortest stack on my table."

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Dave Jones is out. He reraised preflop with A-K and shoved a Qc 8c 6c but was drawing dead against Ac Jc. Perhaps he needs to switch to his alter-ego Hiro Nakamura and control time and space.

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You know when a succession of moves happen like they've been sped up on film, or two players have already decided, "If A then B, If B then C"?  A raising skirmish just occurred between small blind James Bagley and big blind Brendan Pedley which seemed to fit that bill: 

Bagley raised to 2,400, Pedley reraised to 6,000, Bagley instantly moved forward his tower of high denom chips which covered his opponent.  Briefest of pauses.  Pass.

Troops regrouped for later battles.

"Is my hoodie working for you, Tom?"

"Well, I'm still here! And I'm warm."

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Rick Trigg is out. No details, but according to a still-in Alex Martin, he didn't look very happy as he left. Blondes on the ground are starting to look few and far between I'm afraid.

mvls have i got any action left?

Interesting fact: DTD registered 147 new players today.

Unless you've a percentage of Alex Martin, I'd say probably not. Ben Turnstill went out ages ago (the field was so big, I didn't see him all day!). Rich Hare and Rick Trigg are gone. Any others?

As the final level sort of chugs along (the pace of the last two doesn't seem to be able to be maintained somehow - it is 3:40am now after all) I thought it might be a good idea to introduce a couple of new names who've made some stacks for themselves out of the earlier carnage.  Just so there won't be too many Day Two surprises...

Tom Rutter - 74k
Denis Ford - 59k
Amer Latif - 73k
Harry Dunnell - 85k
Michael Millar - 70k
Ken Wheatley - 56k
Terence Simpson - 60k
Paul Brammer - 54k
Simon Lee - 50k
Gary Melvin - 50k

There are a few unmentioned as yet big stacks in there - if my camera battery hadn't this moment decided it needed an electrical vacation I would put faces to the names.  As it is, will hijack Chris' or snap them tomorrow as they're almost sure to return as we've only got 18 minutes left to play today.

Anthony Nicholls is out, he had A-Q vs A-K then 8c 5c vs 9h 9c.

Jim Reid is OUT - all in with 6d 5d (I think on the flop) of 6h 3h 3d, looked up immediately by Andrew Beardmore with his Qh Qs.  With a five now no good for 2pr, he was drawing thin, and then busted.
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Elsewhere people continue to play as if there's no tomorrow (which there is).  James Williams bets 9k on the turn when Harry Dunnell checks to him on a Ahrt 6c 3h Tc board.  Long think; Dunnell calls.  The river is the 3s, check to Williams once more - he immediately announces all-in.  The signs are bad for a call - head shake, puff cheek, eyes close... pass.

"You had a flush draw."
"No you had a flush draw."  The postmortem continues for a few moments but so does the game.  Dunnell had a very large stack indeed at the beginning of the level and it just hasn't gone his way at all during the 11th hour.

Brendan Pedley minraises from the button to 2,400 and the big blind calls.

Aspades 7c 5h

Check, Pedley bets 2,400. Call.

5d

Check, check.

6h

The big blind bets 5,000. Pedley thinks for a moment before making a call with Kc Kd...The big blind shows 4h 3h for the double gutshotter that hit the river.

The lucky blighter who cracked kings with 4-high? A Mr J Thew. Now, I've never heard of him myself, but friends and colleagues have indicated he may have form in cracking big hands with junk.  ::)

Alex Martin is an apparent late casualty, a major bluff picked off by third pair according to another player on the table.

Players have now finished for the day.

Bag 'em and tag 'em.

;stickaforkinme;

It's all over!  They decided against further levels tonight, and are releasing our 93 remaining players for a better night's sleep... and welcoming them back with Sunday Lunch.

We like the sound of that and consider the Lunch bandwagon something we'll be jumping on.  Seeing as that is 12pm, and it's 4:10 now, we'd better get a move on and have a nap before coming back here, so ;stickaforkinme;  Back tomorrow for 2pm start (chip counts coming up later when we get them).

Just to let you know i am new to blonde poker and registered about 5 days ago now i think, because i knew dewicool posts on here so it had to be good. My name is Anthony Gaughan and my piccy is affixed for ya. Just wanna be known as an out and out blondy :) Got 45100 atm with the average at around 38000 and blinds to recommence tomoz at 800/1600, so ok atm. Good luck to everyone who is still in and heads up to those who aren't. Thanks.

blooming heck didn't realise the pic would appear so big. Apologies to any disgruntled viewers.

No need for a brag post on this thread.  Sigh ;) well done mate.

Ohhh and I meant to say super updates guys.

I think next month the powers that be at DtD are going to have to start a little earlier or employ robots as dealers.

Superior name me thinks but very inferior play.

Cracking read and appreciated.