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93 players will return lead by Britain's legendary hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood Jim Peppercorn. We'll restart at 2pm. Who is your tip to victory?

Jim Peppercorn   31   8   119600
Gareth Compton   22   8   111000
Christopher Xenofontos   33   5   109300
Paul Brammer   23   6   98800
David Mundle   37   2   84600
Tom Rutter   36   2   79400
Karl Fenton   25   2   76300
Panos Panayi   22   1   75700
Joseph Byrne   22   6   75700
James Williams   21   9   75200
Luke Hallinan   26   3   67100
Kyriacos Dionysiou   33   2   65100
Ivor Frost   21   2   62900
Amer Latif   32   4   62800
Sandeep Shah   32   5   62400
Michael Millar   34   2   62300
Ken Wheatley   34   8   60800
Tom Kugelstadt   34   3   59600
Gary Melvin   25   7   59300
Andrew Beardmore   33   7   59200
Harry Dunnell   21   7   58400
Nicolas Mclellan   34   7   56700
Terence Simpson   23   2   54300
Paul Gourlay   33   4   51400
John Shaw   32   6   51200
Peter Linton   34   4   50100
Andrew Papageorgiou   22   2   48700
Peter Wigglesworth   23   3   47700
Anthony Gaughan   31   3   45100
Simon Lee   31   9   44800
Brian Evans   25   5   44100
Adam Vinson   37   3   42800
Ian Mcdonald   21   3   41200
David Barnes   26   4   41000
Philip Tomlinson   37   1   39500
Ian Gascoigne   31   5   37900
James Morris   26   7   37700
Graeme Jones   32   7   37400
Christopher Hunt   26   5   36500
Julian Thew   37   9   36500
Hiren Kanabar   33   1   36200
Michael Specht   23   9   35500
Matthew May   22   9   35100
Daniel Nutt   34   1   34800
Geoffrey Button   26   8   34300
Peter Charalamobus   25   8   34200
Anon   21   4   31800
Steve Brown   34   6   31800
Rab Bain   32   3   31600
Stuart Morrant   32   8   31400
Carroll Belfield   33   8   30500
James Bagley   37   6   30300
John Stritch   21   5   29100
Jordan Burnett   22   5   28900
Jason Wheatley   25   4   28200
Paul Lammas   25   3   28000
Christopher Bruce   23   7   27200
David Robertson   31   4   26800
Matthew Lewis   26   2   26700
Ceri Rees   36   9   25800
Julian Davies   21   6   25300
Mathew Seer   36   1   25100
Kevin Pearce   36   7   25000
Jeremy Betts   36   3   22800
Mark Mccluskey   37   4   21900
Jeffrey Hemmerman   34   5   21800
Anthony Arlott   36   4   21700
Chris Moore   33   6   21500
Stephen Brogan   32   1   21200
Richard Ellis   23   5   21100
Thomas Mccready   37   8   19800
Stephen Holloway   23   8   19400
Clive Bealing   36   8   19300
Sidicki Mohangee   23   4   19300
Andrew Yates   21   8   19000
Fraser Bain   36   6   19000
Parminder Kandola   25   1   18300
Stephen Hogg   22   3   18100
Gerald Morris   26   1   18000
Keith Armstrong   22   4   16800
David Nisbet   25   6   16600
Daniel Copeland   31   1   15800
Geoffroy Buffetrille   33   9   15100
Richard Fuller   37   5   14500
David Bielby   34   9   13300
John Simons   23   1   13200
Brendan Pedley   37   7   11600
Suzanne Gilbert   25   9   9400
Paula Agnew   36   5   8300

I'm going for Tom Rutter and Jen is going for Michael Millar... Let us know your picks.

GL to all blondes esp. Tom Rutter. Also to Jason Wheatley. Cracking turnout

Had intended to make it down this weekend, unfortunately a bad trip to the dentist and 2 days in bed put paid to that.

GL to any blondes today, especially one of our newest Anthony Gaughan.

Geo

gl to jim lamm ivor andbrendon in day 2 thanks for the updates

thanks chris and george!

my money is on mike millar too. he is my housemate and has been deep in a few fairly decent sized comps before but hasnt had the result as yet.

class player though - won one of the 100k guaranteedson pokerheaven too

Good luck all ... Rutter , Linton , Thew   final 3 imo.

ship it 1 time , james williams

Tommy Rutter and Mikey Millar for 1st and 2nd!! (with Mikey a significant favourite heads-up) x

This.

Blessing is disguise for PeteL is he never made it through as one of the massive stacks IMO.

gl nicolas mclrllan bring home the money lol

cheers hen-face

 ;cupcake; ;cheerleader; Good Luck To Brendan Pedley :) From Tegan and The Bump X

And after a few taxi based issues, we're off. Mad Turk Yucel Eminoglu is one of our earliest casualties, along with Anthony Arlott, David Bielby, Paul Brammer and Yiannis Liperis.

Current seating:

21   1   James Bagley
21   2   Ivor Frost
21   3   Ian Mcdonald
21   4   Anon
21   5   John Stritch
21   6   Julian Davies
21   7   Harry Dunnell
21   8   Andrew Yates
21   9   James Williams
22   1   Panos Panayi
22   2   Andrew Papageorgiou
22   3   Stephen Hogg
22   4   Keith Armstrong
22   5   Jordan Burnett
22   6   Joseph Byrne
22   7   Richard Fuller
22   8   Gareth Compton
22   9   Matthew May
23   1   John Simons
23   2   Terence Simpson
23   3   Peter Wigglesworth
23   4   Sidicki Mohangee
23   5   Richard Ellis
23   6   Christopher Brammer
23   7   Christopher Bruce
23   8   Stephen Holloway
23   9   Michael Specht
25   1   Parminder Kandola
25   2   Karl Fenton
25   3   Paul Lammas
25   4   Jason Wheatley
25   5   Brian Evans
25   6   David Nisbet
25   7   Gary Melvin
25   8   Peter Charalamobus
25   9   Suzanne Gilbert
26   1   Gerald Morris
26   2   Matthew Lewis
26   3   Luke Hallinan
26   4   David Barnes
26   5   Christopher Hunt
26   6   Mark Mccluskey
26   8   Geoffrey Button
26   9   Denis Ford
31   1   Daniel Copeland
31   2   Daniel Nutt
31   3   Anthony Gaughan
31   4   David Robertson
31   5   Ian Gascoigne
31   6   Philip Tomlinson
31   7   David Mundle
31   8   Jim Peppercorn
31   9   Simon Lee
32   1   Stephen Brogan
32   2   Adam Vinson
32   3   Rab Bain
32   4   Amer Latif
32   5   Sandeep Shah
32   6   John Shaw
32   7   Graeme Jones
32   8   Stuart Morrant
33   1   Hiren Kanabar
33   2   Kyriacos Dionysiou
33   3   Thomas Mccready
33   4   Paul Gourlay
33   5   Christopher Xenofontos
33   6   Chris Moore
33   7   Andrew Beardmore
33   8   Carroll Belfield
33   9   Geoffroy Buffetrille
34   1   Julian Thew
34   2   Michael Millar
34   3   Tom Kugelstadt
34   4   Peter Linton
34   5   Jeffrey Hemmerman
34   6   Steve Brown
34   7   Nicolas Mclellan
34   8   Ken Wheatley
36   1   Mathew Seer
36   2   Tom Rutter
36   3   Jeremy Betts
36   5   Paula Agnew
36   6   Fraser Bain
36   7   Kevin Pearce
36   8   Clive Bealing
36   9   Ceri Rees

Tom Rutter has lost about 20k after he set Jeremy 'Won't Fold To Your' Betts in with K-5. Betts called off his stack with Jh 7h and hit.

MBN!

Paul Gourley FTW!!

Chip count please Homer??

plz can i hav a pic ov nicolas mclellan ty and chip count 

Unlikely titled Geoffroy Buffetrille doubles through after shoving in early position for 14,500 and getting a quick call from Hiren Kanabar.  Greek Jack seriously considered calling too, but unfazed, Buffetrille just waited for everyone else to eventually pass before flipping 4h 4c.  Kanabar's Ad Qc missed; he's back in the game.

Julian Thew has doubled up with Td Tc against Mike Millar's Qh 6h, looked like Millar had been caught reraising light but put in too much to pass. Thewy up to the 60k - 70k mark.

Blondite newbie Anthony Gaughan, looks dead. Might have to poke him with a stick. And we're not going to comment on what Daniel Nutt is doing.

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Chris Bruce is upset with how slow his table is going. "We've played nearly 30 minutes and haven't managed one round yet, there's too much Hollywooding."

pleasure playing this yesterday, structure immense, standard tez and atmosphere pretty good. vbol to to rutter junior, who was a pleasure to play with and showed a very vaired and impressive style of pokes. also gl captain goldenballs. ;)

A story too, as luck would have it...

Nicolas Mclellan calls a raise to 4,200 preflop in the small blind.  Raiser Tom Kugelstadt and he see a flop of Ad 3s 4c.  Mclellan checks, and so does Kugelstadt.
Turn:  9h  Mclellan bets out 5,500, called pretty quickly.
River:  5c Now Mclellan bets 10k, and again receives a call.

He shows Ahrt 5h.  Kugelstadt rues the final card: "That's a sick river," as he shows the losing Aspades Jd...

Pictured:  Victorious rivering Mclellan c. 75k:

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ty 4 pic and update come on nic

Action on Table 22... Joseph Byrne finds himself with a tricky decision, as having invested 12,500 preflop, he now faces Gareth Compton's 25,000 bet and the surprise big blind go-for-it all in of Jordan Burnett (for a little more than the 25k).  Byrne dwells, understandably, and eventually gives either his raiser or the big blind credit for something very good and lets it go.

Compton does in fact show Ks Kd
Burnett shows Ahrt Qh

But the flop brought 6s 8h 5h... the turn a safe 8s... the river 2h for the flush.  It took Compton a minute to realise he had to pay more, while Burnett shook his fist gently and then, bizarrely, gave it a little kiss.

Pictured:  Burnett on the left, Byrne dwelling on the right.

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sorry pal i was out very last hand last night king high flop with 2 spades me have k9 of spades v jj v qq 3 way all in quenn came from nowhere on river thats all she wrote!

Hat of the Month:  As Modeled by Red-Dog, no description/eulogy necessary for those who have eyes:

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It's a furry saucepan

Pete Linton Folds Pair?

Julian Thew, looking in his comfort zone with growing towers, just min-re-raised Pete Linton out of the small blind preflop, with a call.

Flop: 2h 2d Td.  Julian instantly bets what looks like 12k.  There's some staring between them.  There's some consideration.  Eventually, faced with the blithe confidence Mr. Thew seems genetically capable of representing, Linton folded, and there was talk that it was the Th.  Thew showed Ad Kd and took the pot.

Paul Gourlay had briefly reached the giddy heights of nearly 90,000 when I took his photo, complete with ridiculous 'Vegas Royalty' hoody:

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But then this happened:  Red-Dog made a raise preflop of a standard size, immediately re-raised by neighbour Gourlay to 16k.  It passed round a few players, but Carroll Belfield wasn't worried by this at all - in went his <20k...  "Look what you two started!" chides another player, but it turns out that Paul Gourlay wasn't just messing around - he called and showed Kc Kh.

Carroll tabled Aspades Ac.

"The King's coming," said Paul, half-heartedly, and then just paid the man his money.

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Nicolas Mclellan just got a big double up. Julian Thew raised preflop from midposition with Tom Kugelstadt calling from the hijack and Mclellan calling in the big blind.

Qd 9c 5d

Check to Thewy, who bets 8.5k. Kugelstadt raises to 17k. Mclellan moves all-in. Thewy moves all-in. Kugelstadt tanks and folds.

Thewy: Ac Qh

Mclellan: The not immediately obvious, but definitely ahead Qs 5h.

4s

2h

Big double up there.

Paula Agnew busts... out of TWO tourneys!  Apologies if this was not meant for public consumption, but that's pretty good going - the £150 only just started and she's on the rail.  The first one, however, was somewhat unfortunate in that she found an open spot in late to shove her short stack with 7h 8h, but Tom Rutter woke up in the blind with Queens! 

I was just about to pry nosily into the second exit, when Simon Nowab appeared brandishing roast dinners.  Ty DTD for taking care of your lax, breakfast-skipping updaters.

Btw, DTD do the best roast potatoes ever. FACT.

how many chips is nicolas mclellan on ty

Any news on the welsh players there

any chance of chip counts for jim peppercorn aka tin westwood ivor (big un) frost paul lammas and brendon pedley please thanks for updates gl to all of them

Joseph Byrne is out. He pushed with Ac 5h and was given a spin by Andrew Papageorgiou's Qc Tc, the board running out J-7-2-A-K.

Jeffrey Hemmerman has been knocked out by Tom Kugelstadt, a blinds/button battle. Kugelstadt eventually calling the reraise all-in with 2-2 against A-J with the board running out 7-A-2-J-4.

We'll deal with all requests after the short 15 minute break the players are now on.

Jesus Phil, do you want minute by minute updates ?????
there's 64 players left.

We don't like to be proven wrong, or become boks, or in any way come across as not with fingers firmly on the pulse of the flow of the action and form of the players.  It is therefore only at this late stage, on Day Two, that I feel comfortable to announce our Climber of the Tournament, Mr. Ian Gascoigne.

600 --------> 84,000.  Good going.

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They have failed to turn up wearing a brightly coloured signifier of their Welsh status.

Pre-Break Busto!  John Simons (30k) found AK which was good enough to shove over Steve Holloway's preflop raise to 10k.  He got the call with JJ - pretty standard, but seemed faintly horrified by the way the Big Slick bit the dust.  The board came K-T-3-A-J giving him a teasing two-pair before busting him.  His eliminator also headed over to our office and they are currently engaged in friendly chat, although Holloway would like it known that "I am the best amateur in the world."

Mike Millar -- 50k
Tom McCready -- 50k (Double up with Tens against Green Jack's A-Q)
Chris Bruce -- 35k - "I'm gonna have to make a move next level."
Pete Linton -- 130k. "I raised to 5k with Queens, and that guy with the Q-5 [Nicolas Mclellan] moved all-in for 80k, obviously I think he has A-K but he had Tens, I still had to fade a 9-8-7 flop."


I think because of the hand with Pete, he would have about 15k left.

You mean a leek?

Or they just refused to come dressed a dragon?

One player who seems to be raking in a pot every time we walk by is young Sandeep Shah, pictured.  He just bust another player adding at least 20k to his stack when he picked up Ks Kh vs. 5d 5s.  I am going to tentatively tip him for a ft appearance, as as far as my personal experience of watching the tourney goes, he can't lose.

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any news on ant arlott?

Jim Peppercorn -- 58k
Ivor Frost -- 80k
Paul Lammas -- 75k (Just moved to the very tough looking corner of Julian Thew, Mike Millar and Pete Linton)
Brendan Pedley was one of the earliest casualties of the day.

Nicolas Mclellan is out, I just heard the cry of 'Seat open' with his spot vacant.

Ouch bad luck sir. :(

hey chris, how u doin? can i get a pic and an update on James Bagley pleeeaassee??
great updates as usual, thanks

Sandeep Shah Consolidates Chip Lead By Methodically Busting Everyone on his Table:

Now with over 200k Shah appears unstoppable.  He can't miss either, as demonstrated by the exit of Stuart Morrant.  I only noticed his all-in because of the sheer tension in his voice when he said, "No Jack!" - I turned to see his A-K on its back against the Ac Jh of Shah, the board lying 4s Qc 4d 7c.

River, as if on cue: Jc   

A sorely disappointed Morrant heads out, and that got Shah to 165k.  Apparently there'd been an early position raise, Shah had rr'd pre, then Morrant had moved in and with the first raiser out of the way he made the call.
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THEN

Shah gets it all in vs. Matthew Lewis (well, he wasn't all in, because he's a monster stack) on the flop: 9h 8c Tc.  Lewis has 9d Th for top two, while Shah holds 6c 5c.  Peter Charalambous said something like, "Oooh," with that relish reserved for watching other people's races.

Turn: 8s
River: 4c   And he gets another stack and adds it to his battlements.

sup edgy

Just busto, pretty hard ghey. M of 4 UTG and shipped it in with A7o. Had an M of 5 like all day so had been shoving/3bet shoving frequently.

SB picks up AQo, snaps, gg despite KK8 giving me split outs.

Great structure though, will deffo be back next month. I think I had 4 showdowns in 14 hours of play lol.

btw, Chris Brammer (dunno if you know him) is going deep, got like 92k. Fingers crossed.

thanks 4 the chip counts lamm will do well on that table hes runnihg well gl to all

Poker's Fashion Gurus. Tom Rutter, Greek Jack, Tom McCready and Paul Gourlay.

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Tom Rutter, "Greek Jack perhaps should've just stack me just now. I raised 5k more from the small blind with eights, he makes it another 5k and then shoves the 7-7-4 flop and I fold. I mean there's only one hand there he can have! If he makes a bigger raise I might have to push."

Chip counts for Table Rutter/Red

Tom Rutter - 50,600
Greek Jack - 65,000
Red-Dog - 48,000
Paul Gourlay - 60,000
Christopher Xenofontos - 75,000
Chris Moore - 38,000
Brian Evans - 65,000
Carroll Belfield - 13,100
Geoffroy Buffetrille - 40,000

ahh ul mate. i couldnt make it up this weekend but hopefull next month will be there. played it last month and gotta agree its awesome comp wiv great structure

I'm out :( after being a short stack from getting it all in with AK and losing to KK, i doubled up through having AJ against a J9 stealer. But then i get AK suited utg and raise 3xBB and get a call from "Tim Westwood" in the small blind. Everyone else folds. Flop comes  Ad 3c 5c and he checks and i check behind hoping for a brick to turn and for him to bet out, bit dangerous i know but i wanted value here. turn comes a   2h  and he bets out half my stack in a 10000 bet. i put him on AQ-A9 and shove all in. He calls with  A3 and is miles ahead, the river comes an ace which changes nothing. I really couldn't put him two pair because i don't know many good players to call late on in a tourney to a tight utg raiser with ace rag, couldn't put him on 35 or 24 either.

Could have him on 33 or 55 but yet again still quite a loose call pre flop. he could have had 44 as well to make the straight on the turn but i had him on AQ and i shoved, and that was the end of that. I thought his bet out was really weak and that he was repping a straight, but in hindsight i should have folded. Still a wee bit of a cold deck but i have enjoyed the event and have 0realised that in my eyes the standard here isn't the greatest with much of the creme rising to the top. Massive value for money if u can afford the £330 and as soon as i get a car i am making the trip up monthly from london to play it because there is money to be made in the tourney. Soz for the long winded post. Good luck to all that still remain but i do hope that Mr.Thew doesn't make the big money because he is rich enough already! Cheers.

Any news on how Karl Fenton seemed to go from chip leader at the last break to out in 57th.

Can you also say good luck to Daniel Copeland who has done a good job of building up a stack after being one of the shorties at the start of day2.

How's Thewy looking? Tell him his biggest fans are on line (like you,ve nothing else to do!!)

Bad luck there. Will check on Brammer for you.

Counts from Table Chip Leader:

32   1   Matthew Lewis - 36,500
32   2   Adam Vinson - 125,000
32   3   Michael Millar - 56,000
32   4   Peter Charalamobus - 91,000
32   5   Sandeep Shah - 240,000
32   6   Andrew Beardmore - 60,000
32   7   Mathew Seer - 47,500
32   8   Brian Evans - 8,000

Matthew Lewis is responsible for Brian Evans's life-support stack... Evans moved in on the cutoff with Ahrt 8h but was snapped by button Lewis with Ac Qh. 
"Come on baby!" pleaded Evans, and indeed the first two cards on the flop were Ad 8c... it was followed by Jh 3d and then the Qd on the river, at which a relieved Lewis said, "Yessss!" and Evans said somewhat cryptically, "See what I'm saying, Pete?  Every time."

Lewis winning
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Daniel Copeland -- 70kish, sitting next to fellow Daniel Daniel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2951) Nutt (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2951).

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Chris Brammer -- 105k and possible Rich (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2502) Hare (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2502) lookalike.

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Hello Mrs T. :hello:

After taking that big hit with A-Q vs Q-5, Mr T has been on 'possible thievery watch', given how many 100 black chips he has. He's on about 50k, which is below average but he's still in.

Mr T also 'pities the fool.'

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Bonus props to James Williams scene-stealing hoodie in that photo.

Julian Thew is out.

Pete Linton, "I raised Fives and Queen-Jack and he pushed over the top of me and both times I folded, then I raised A-Q on the button and he pushed with K-J from the blinds and I held. All very standard, I was actually going to call him with any ace!"

Nutt-Sacked!

Daniel Nutt is down to just one 500 chip after getting in with 8-8 against Jason Wheatley's T-T which held on a Q-Q-7-6-K board for a chunky monkey sized pot.

23   1   Ken Wheatley - 90,000
23   2   Terence Simpson - 60,000
23   3   Peter Wigglesworth - 80,000
23   4   Sidicki Mohangee - 28,000
23   5   Mark Mccluskey - 45,300
23   6   Christopher Brammer - 123,000
23   8   Stephen Holloway - 61,000
23   9   Luke Hallinan - 100,000

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Christopher Brammer (pictured) has steadily increased up to his top-five sort of stack right now.  Yesterday I remember him playing well, and now that he's got a chip advantage over his table, he appears undaunted and unafraid to use it.  Just now he re-raised +11k on the button over the top of Peter Wigglesworth, who dwelled for a good while.  Eventually they agreed some sort of "You show/I fold deal" and Wigglesworth passed showing the Ahrt.  Although Brammer had agreed that the deal, "Seemed fair" he then admitted, "You probably don't want to see them..." before fulfilling his end of the bargain and flipping Tc 7c. 

I am going to add him to my FT list along with Shah, Millar, Linton, Rutter, and Dog.

LOL served @ rich hall

I'm on life tilt. Anyone wanna flip live at D2D? It's times like these that I'm glad there aren't any casino games here. Might tilt on the Itbox.

nhnh w/t7 nig. lets go.

Chris Bruce is Busto - A-Q into Queens pre.  Having trundled forward without any chip leaps (I did see him call someone down for a small pot with second pair, 5 kicker though) he admitted in the last break that this sort of level would be all-in/double up/go home type time. 

james williams update please?

LOL served @ rich hall

I'm on life tilt. Anyone wanna flip live at D2D? It's times like these that I'm glad there aren't any casino games here. Might tilt on the Itbox.

nhnh w/t7 nig. lets go.
 
 
English only please.

mbsfn to be Mr Channing.



Is that dealer Abdul formerly of the gutshot in London or does he have a clone living in notts?

Tom McCready is out.

"I got nit-rolled," he said, using the ultra-hip kool kidz tinternet speak that he is accustomed to using. (In no way did I force him to make that statement).

He pushed with 8d 7h for about 16k and the small blind tanked for ages with Aspades Jh. The board started out ok but then never improved, 6h 4d 2h Js Qs.

chip counts for graeme "the mole" jones pls? thanks jon lundy

Afraid he went out earlier in 75th place, they were dropping like members of the popular punk band The Ramones flies and we couldn't get every exit.

21   1   Paul Lammas - 86,000
21   2   Ivor Frost - 91,000  ("Make sure you get my best side.")

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21   4   Denis Ford - 50,000
21   5   John Stritch - 70,000
21   6   Peter Linton - 145,000  (Appears to be staring dreamily at James Williams)

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21   7   Harry Dunnell - 85,000
21   8   Tom Kugelstadt - 40,000
21   9   James Williams - 135,000  (Appears delighted with the attention)

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Just raised from the big blind after Pete Linton and Harry Dunnell flat called the 3k preflop.  Only Dunnell on the button made the call of 13k total. 
Flop: 3d Qs Jd  Williams instantly bet out 18k, and was rewarded with a pass at which he said something like, "Sort it out," and grinningly showed Ad 4s.  Which was good anyway, apparently.

Another of the chip leaders is Amer Latif who is actually from California and very much enjoying the setup here at DTD. He has 240k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25119&g2_serialNumber=1)

I'm very proud of this action shot. Obviously it was completely unintentional.

ivor frost aint got a good side just 2 ugly ones lol how many left ? when does the money start ? thanks 4 updates gl ivor and lamm

With 38 players remaining, that means that we're pretty much at bubble time here.   

Voila the payouts:

1   -   £32,028
2   -   £18,133
3   -   £11,333
4   -   £7,884
5   -   £6,405
6   -   £4,434
7   -   £3,449
8   -   £2,463
9   -   £1,971
10   -   £1,379
11   -   £1,379
12   -   £1,379
13   -   £1,379
14   -   £985
15   -   £985
16   -   £985
17   -   £985
18   -   £985
19- 27       -      £600
28-36   -   £450

Daniel Copeland has doubled up through David Mundle.

All-in on a Ahrt Th 5s flop, Copeland's Ts Td proving too good for his opponent's Aspades 8d after running Jacks sealed the deal.

37 players left means.....Bubbletime and assorted MC Hammer goodness. :)

;mc;

Geoffroy Buffetrille was in fact 38th, so we're hand for hand now, with a vigilant Chris watching for the last unfortunate non-paid member of the tournament to hit the rail.

Jeremy 'I Will Raise Your' Betts is the unfortunate bubbler, pushing with Ad Kh for not much more than Paul Gourlay's initial raise with Aspades 3s. Gourlay duly called, albeit reluctantly and fully expectant of brutal domination, but the board ran out 6h Jd 3c 7c Th and it was like we were at a roulette wheel. No more Betts.

4 tables remain and everyone else is freerolling their hotel bills. :)

I salute you.

22   1   Paul Gourlay - 140,000
22   2   Andrew Papageorgiou - 165,000
22   3   Jeremy Betts - 55,000    (OK I know he's meant to have just gone out, but someone's sat there and I never was sure what Mr. Betts looked like and there seem to be four full tables of in-the-money players so I am not sure if he's really out now.  Will ask seat 3.)
22   4   Ken Wheatley - 160,000
22   5   Jordan Burnett - 122,000
22   6   Steve Brown - 80,000
22   7   Luke Hallinan - 33,000
22   8   Christopher Xenofontos - 140,000
22   9   David Barnes - 25,500

Oops, this is wrong. It was actually Peter Wigglesworth who got knocked out on the bubble. My apologies to all, Jeremy 'No More' Betts is still in.

wasted pun "in my opinion" (that's just for you Mr Channing).

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) has benefitted fully from the aggression of James Williams. The latter 4-bet shoved from the button with Td 8d against the reraise out of the blinds from Lammas, who quickly called with two black aces. A unhelpful 6-4-3-2-9 board later put Lammas up to about 150k and knocked Williams down to a short stack with only about 40k or so left.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25127&g2_serialNumber=1)

Stephen Holloway, Matthew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=3009) Lewis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=3009) and Chris Brammer cause a ruckus with a rather large pot. It's K-K vs A-A vs 9-9 respectively with Brammer covering, the board is Q-6-7-3-4. Lewis trebles up and Holloway wins a smaller side pot.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25125&g2_serialNumber=1)

Tom Rutter and Michael Millar are duelling regularly at the moment - both with tidy stacks (Rutter's a little tidier).  Just now Rutter reraised Millar out of the small blind preflop, and Millar instantly gave it up.  "Chip dumping!" shouts Pete Charalambous.  This is widely denied by both players, who are doing that "What did you have?  A strong hand?  You call a reraise?" verbal tango.

"Text him your hand," suggests Pete.
"I put my phone in the washing machine," admits Tom.
"You didn't have a hand," they continue badgering each other.  "I had half a hand."
"Chip dumping!" Insists Pete.
"Why would we chip dump?  We have the same stack!"  Though this is not really a valid argument, it distracted Pete long enough for the next hand to be dealt.

Michael Millar

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Tom Rutter staring at Michael Millar in yet another reraise pre confrontation (this time Millar reraising out of the big blind while Rutter is on the button):

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 YBA.

 Mark "The Thistle" McLuskey FTW (wish him luck from me).

 Also is that the legendary Mr David Barnes?

When you're a big stack you just run good don't you?

Amer Latif calls the all-in of short-stacked pusher Terence Simpson

Latif: Ahrt Kh
Simpson: Aspades Ks

Jh Th (and already Simpson is looking very depressed) 7d Jd 9h

At the same time  on the table next door Harry Dunnel pushes with James Williams pushing behind.

Dunnel: Aspades 4s
Williams: Jc Jd

5h 6d 4d 8c 7h

;kc;

Williams, "Four times I've had him in with the best hand and we've chopped..."

I'm afraid Mark Mccluskey went out about 10 spots before the money, and Dave Barnes was one of the first post bubble exits in 35th place.

 FML.

31   5   Ian Gascoigne
31   6   Panos Panayi
31   7   David Mundle
31   8   Jim Peppercorn

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Panayi, the guy in profile with his mouth open (seems fair - he's quite a continual talker as it turns out) has been moving his mountain of small denom chips in with abandon this level.  He's actually done it at least five times (raising a chunk of green 1k chips which pretty much represents stack commital).  I haven't really noticed him doing much prior to this, but I think this is an oversight of ours rather than that his style was conservative and we were unlikely to see him play a hand.  Right before the break we're on he did it again, raising to 16k, but this time Jim Peppercorn promptly made it 40k to play and he threw his hand away immediately.

jason wheatley still in?

James Williams is out. Ks Qs into John Stritch's Ahrt Qh looked bad, the 8h Qd 3h flop worse, and no Kc or Kd appeared on the turn or river.

Also gone is Luke Hallinan. I missed his hand but Andrew Papageorgiou's K-Q looked to have been victorious on a Q-high board.

Out in 34th I'm afraid.

Another player who's been sort of gathering momentum in these latter stages is Ken Wheatley, in the black shirt next to Jordan Burnett.  Edging up to the 200k mark, he's happily raising when limpers limp and benefitting accordingly.

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PS Check out John Perrin in the background who looks like he's about to Ascend bathed in heavenly light.

Chip Counts at the Break

Amer Latif   31   3   294600
Sandeep Shah   32   5   230400
Paul Gourlay   22   1   196400
Daniel Copeland   31   1   189500
Paul Lammas   21   1   171800
Ken Wheatley   22   4   161900
Panos Panayi   31   6   160800
Christopher Xenofontos   22   8   157600
Jordan Burnett   22   5   149600
Andrew Beardmore   32   6   138900
Matthew Lewis   32   1   136300
Jim Peppercorn   31   8   133600
Peter Linton   21   6   122300
Andrew Papageorgiou   22   2   110500
Tom Kugelstadt   21   8   107700
Tom Rutter   32   8   100900
Ian Gascoigne   31   5   97400
Michael Millar   31   2   94400
Adam Vinson   32   2   93800
Christopher Brammer   32   7   87600
David Mundle   31   7   83500
Jeremy Betts   22   3   75200
Peter Charalamobus   32   4   74700
Ivor Frost   21   2   71600
Steve Brown   22   6   71200
Denis Ford   21   4   69600
John Stritch   21   5   52000
James Williams   21   9   46300
Stephen Holloway   32   9   43500
Sidicki Mohangee   31   9   25400
Harry Dunnell   21   7   25300
Luke Hallinan   22   7   15800

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Next payout:  £600

Paul Lammas raises to 15k on the button but folds when Denis Ford makes an additional 20k with about 35k behind.

Stephen Holloway is out, he pushed for 30,200 total after Tom Rutter's initial 17,000 raise. Rutter making the obligatory call with Ahrt Kh against Th Ts and wining the race on the Kc 9s 8s Kd 6d board. One more player to go and then there's a jump in prize money.

Jeremy 'Makes Lots Of Inducing' Betts has doubled up with Aspades Kh against Panos (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2120) Panayi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2120)'s Ad Qh after the board came out a non-Queen producing 5c 5s 8d Td Ahrt.

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Meanwhile, Mike Millar has been moved back to his housemate Tom (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2870) Rutter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2870)'s table. And then immediate pushes on Rutter's big blind. Perhaps Tom used all of Mike's eggs from the fridge? Unless it was a food-based ploy made by Tom to tilt his housemate. Sneaky 4th level thinking imo.

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Michael Millar just doubled through in crowd-pleasing fashion after getting it in pre (I think/hope, although if they somehow saw a flop first the hand is funnier) with 2h 5d, looked up by Daniel Copeland in the big blind who had the reasonable 7s 7c.  Millar had 2h 5d.

Flop: Ac 7d 3d
Turn: Kh
River.... .... 4h.  Oh yes, that wheel ships Millar a playable c.120k (according to Simon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=400) Trumper (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=400)).  Copeland not weeping just yet as he's got at least 140k still to play with.

Jeremy 'I Won't Fold To Any Of Your Re-Raise All-in' Betts has knocked out Jordan Burnett after the latter had pushed against a late position raise, K-T vs K-5. 6-6-3-2-J and the Ten importantly plays. Meanwhile Denis Ford has doubled up his microstack with Q-9 against Pete (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=348) Linton (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=348)'s A-K, spiking a nine of the turn.

A very large pot brews threeway with Paul Gourlay, Jeremy Betts and Jordan Burnett.  They're all interested in the 3c Jc 4s flop, and still in the Ks turn.  The rivered Th, looking conspicuously red among all those black cards leads to a frustrated fold from Gourlay when Burnett moves all in.  He held 5s 6s which may have been monstrous on the turn but really wasn't going to cut it with no further drawing to be done...

Action over to Jeremy Betts, who tanks.  And tanks.  And calls.  With Kd 7d!  It's good - Burnett had been making a last-ditch stab with missed Ac 7c.  Nearly 300k ships to Mr. Betts, and Burnett has <1bb.

Christopher Xenofontos has gone out, he was all-in with Tens but against Steve Brown's Jc Jd and unable to spike on the 7c Kc 3d Ks 9d, the latter having him just covered after they did a countdown.

Money finishers so far:

23   Christopher Xenofontos   £600
24   Denis Ford   £600
25   Andrew Beardmore   £600
26   Ken Wheatley   £600
27   Jordan Burnett   £600
28   Harry Dunnell   £450
29   Stephen Holloway   £450
30   Luke Hallinan   £450
31   James Williams   £450
32   Sidicki Mohangee   £450
33   Terence Simpson   £450
34   Jason Wheatley   £450
35   David Barnes   £450
36   Keith Armstrong   £450

Excellent updates thusfar guys..thanks very much once again :)

The blinds are causing some unavoidable confrontations.

First Adam Vinson raises and Sandeep Shah sets him in with Ad Kd. Vinson duly calls with Kc Ks but Shah hits two aces. Next hand and Peter Charalamobus pushes for 70k with 9s 8s, Mike Millar calls with A-J in the big blind but Charalamobus hits a 9. Millar down to the felt.

Paul Lammas is out, apparently calling all-in with A-Q high on a 8-5-2 flop only to be shown 2-2 by Tom Kugelstadt...

please could you post a chip count for tim westwood and lamm thanks no morephotos of ivor or lamm the cats gone under the bed and wont come out

what he said

ul to lamm well done for going deep tho

Paul Lammas busts with bang not whimper - his exit pot has propelled his eliminator Tom Kugelstadt into the healthiest chip position he's had so far this tournament.  Money had already accumulated to the tune of over 50,000 by the time the flop betting went mental - the flop was 5h 2s 8c and it looks like Lammas led for 30k before being shoved on by Kugelstadt, who went into hibernation mode, hoody down, silent etc.

A long time passed - so much so that about three hands were dealt on one of the other tables while he thought - but he went for it in the end with Ac Qc for the rest of his 80k or so - but was in worse shape than he would have liked against Kugelstadt's flopped set with 2h 2c.  No help, and here he is standing pre leaving:

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And to the victor...

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Our last three bustees.

20   Michael Millar   £600
21   Adam Vinson   £600
22   Paul Lammas   £600

best of luck to ivor big un and jim then

ship it to Tom Rutter pls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jim 'Tim Westwood' Peppercorn is out in 19th place. Pete Linton raised to 20k UTG. Jim Peppercorn moved in for about 150k and it was passed around to Ian Gascoigne who moved all-in behind. Linton passed.

Peppercorn: 9c 9h

Gascoigne: Ahrt Ad

3h 4d 3d 3c Qd

We're down to just two tables and everyone now gets £985 up to 14th place.

Players are now on 20 minute break.

21   1   Peter Charalamobus
21   2   Ivor Frost
21   3   Ian Gascoigne
21   4   Sandeep Shah
21   5   John Stritch
21   6   Peter Linton
21   7   Tom Rutter
21   8   Tom Kugelstadt
21   9   Amer Latif

22   1   Paul Gourlay
22   2   Andrew Papageorgiou
22   3   Jeremy Betts
22   4   Daniel Copeland
22   5   Matthew Lewis
22   6   Steve Brown
22   7   Panos Panayi
22   8   Christopher Brammer
22   9   David Mundle

go go ivor u can do it

Play has just now recommenced after the final 18 moved to make way for the tournaments just now starting at DTD.  And here's what they're playing with:

21   1   Peter Charalamobus - 194,200
21   2   Ivor Frost - 154,000
21   3   Ian Gascoigne - 343,200
21   4   Sandeep Shah - 354,600
21   5   John Stritch - 107,800
21   6   Peter Linton - 96,900
21   7   Tom (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2870) Rutter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2870) - 111,300
21   8   Tom Kugelstadt - 287,700
21   9   Amer Latif - 146,100

22   1   Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) Gourlay (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) - 142,000
22   2   Andrew Papageorgiou - 96,000
22   3   Jeremy Betts - 283,500
22   4   Daniel Copeland - 153,000
22   5   Matthew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=3009) Lewis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=3009) - 161,000
22   6   Steve (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=412) Brown (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=412) - 145,000
22   7   Panos (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2120) Panayi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2120) - 416,000
22   8   Christopher Brammer - 287,500
22   9   David Mundle - 107,500

Just got through one and a half days of great updates..........thanks guys. ;applause;

What a fantastic monster this comp is becoming!

Jeremy 'Now Hasn't Got Enough Chips To Make Any Decent' Betts has lost a huge pot to Paul Gourlay.

Steve Brown limped, and Gourlay and Jeremy 'I Will Carry This On All Night, If You Don't Believe Me, We Can Have A Few' Betts came along for the ride with the blinds.

5c Jd Th

Somehow Gourlay ended up all-in with Jeremy 'I Like To Float Your' Betts calling and Steve Brown getting out of the way.

Gourlay: Ks Qs
Betts: Kc Jd

Ac

And now Jeremy 'Now Long Odds In This Hand And Perhaps Not Worth Any' Betts needs a Queen to split.

9h

Gourlay is up to about 300k. Jeremy 'The 4.30 And 5.15 At Uttoxeter Are Worth A Couple Of' Betts is down about 100k.

What are the fabulous prizes Jen?

Daniel Copeland busts in 18th place, winning £985...

He makes a raise to 32k (blinds now 5k/10k ante 1k), and when queried by button Christopher Brammer, makes it known he's got 135,500 behind.  Brammer goes all in.  The blinds pass.  Copeland thinks about whether now is tournament-on-line time:

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Meanwhile, Brammer confidently just sits and waits.  Eventually Copeland calls, showing Jd Jh, but Brammer's Ks Kd are in front, and stay that way, busting the first of the last two tables and increasing his stack yet again.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25143&g2_serialNumber=1)

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1   -   £32,028
2   -   £18,133
3   -   £11,333
4   -   £7,884
5   -   £6,405
6   -   £4,434
7   -   £3,449
8   -   £2,463
9   -   £1,971
10   -   £1,379
11   -   £1,379
12   -   £1,379
13   -   £1,379
14   -   £985
15   -   £985
16   -   £985
17   -   £985
18   -   £985

Pete (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=348) Linton (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=348) is not known for grinding, he's known for massive accumulation in minimal time and the occasional bouts of copious spewtardery, but today he has really played solid. He's playing about 100k at the moment and without much room to move, he's never really had a big stack, but he's avoided throwing his chips away when most people would've thought he have done so by now. And that in itself is a respectable achievement given to what he can be prone to doing...

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Just caught up with the updates, great as always.

Cheers Updaters and DTD.

Double through for Pete Linton.  He moves in preflop, now one of the shorter stacks, but is quickly called by Amer Latif.  It's not looking good:  Aspades Js for Linton - Ahrt Qc for Latif.  Little multisuited rags on the flop.... but the Jc pops out on the turn and Linton's hand leaps into the lead like a salmon on a spring.

Neither player really reacts, although Latif looks to see how much he's losing out of his stack now - it's not been a good level for him - he's down to 60k.

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Linton just says, sotto voce, "Standard?"

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And soon after that hand...Tom Kugelstadt raises to 25k and Amer Latif moves in for about 69k total. Call.

Latif: Ac Tc
Kugelstadt: Ahrt 9h

8h 6c 5d

"Seven!" shouts Kugelstadt

Th

Now there's a fun card....

9s

And Latif survives and is up to 150k.

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gl Pete Linton and Tom Rutter. 1,2 pls boys!

great updates as usual guys - thanks!

im still in 150 with 18 left and 15 get paid so thought i would bokk myself cos im bored

Pete Charalamabalamalabos raises to 30k, but is irked and has to fold when Ian Gascoigne bumps it up to 105k.

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For some reason, the poses in this photo just makes me laugh. :D

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Is Linton muttering "tight is right" under his breath? Saw him use this tactic last time I was on his table at DTD!

Tom Kugelstadt is eliminated in 17th place, wins £985

I picked up the action from when Kugelstadt had announced all-in preflop and Sandeep Shah was considering calling - I think there may have been more than one raise involved in this, rather than a straight shove from Kugelstadt, but it wasn't clear as within a minute Shah had called with 9d 9s.  Kugelstadt, who at one point had a veritable mountain of chips, was now comfortably covered, and held Jc Qc.

"Keep it low," was the murmur from Shah, or, to be more precise, the little team of railers who've appeared as if from the air itself to cheer him on.  The board emerged 2s Ahrt 5d 6h 3s which was low enough to bust Tom Kugelstadt, pictured here shaking hands with his opponents as he leaves.

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More amusingly, and less magnanimously, Shah's railer manages to sneak him a hi-five and shouts, "Massive!  It's a big call you know, bro!" clearly carried away with his bro's runaway success today.

Amer Latif must have lost a few chips while I was writing up the last hand. I saw him push UTG for about 80k and it got passed to Tom Rutter in the big blind who thought long and hard, before calling.

Latif: Jh 8c
Rutter: Kc Jc

Ks 3s 8d 6h 6d

"Good call," says Sandeep Shah.

Tom, "He took a bit of time to push so I didn't think he had A-K, the only thing I was worried by was A-J."

16   Amer Latif   £986
17   Tom Kugelstadt   £986
18   Daniel Copeland   £986
19   Jim Peppercorn   £600

gl linton, rutter and that bloke from freinds. also gl to big bearded cockney bloke, who looked reasonable yesterday.

Chip Counts At The Last Break:

Christopher Brammer   22   8   416000
Sandeep Shah   21   4   354600
Ian Gascoigne   21   3   343200
Jeremy Betts   22   3   293500
Tom Kugelstadt   21   8   287700
Peter Charalamobus   21   1   194200
Steve Brown   22   6   161000
Ivor Frost   21   2   154000
Matthew Lewis   22   5   153000
Amer Latif   21   9   146100
Panos Panayi   22   7   145000
Paul Gourlay   22   1   142000
Tom Rutter   21   7   111300
John Stritch   21   5   107800
David Mundle   22   9   107500
Peter Linton   21   6   96900
Andrew Papageorgiou   22   2   96000

I'll help

gl gl gl

Played with Shah before- decent player but a massive station. No way he was passing there

goooo oooooooooooonnnnnn tommy rutter. get the cake son.

Cmon Rutter. 1 time!

And GL to Linton!

Is Latif American by any chance,sure i recognise.

Double up for Steve Brown after a succession of tense hands where short (and not so short) stacks have been putting the pressure on by raising all in.  In his case he put his whole 81k in on the small blind over the top of Andrew Papageorgiou who'd raised to 37k in the cutoff.  "I've put too much in," he said, and made the call with Ac 7s, but stayed behind Brown's Tc Ts.

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Rough chip counts for the table:

22   1   Paul Gourlay - 520k
22   2   Andrew Papageorgiou - 130k
22   3   Jeremy Betts - 180k
22   6   Steve Brown - 180k
22   7   Panos Panayi - 270k
22   8   Christopher Brammer - 400k
22   9   David Mundle - 130k

Oh and GL to Steve Brown too!

go on steve, go deeper, see u at the festival soon.

We lose Matthew Lewis in 15th.

Then Ivor Frost pushes over Sandeep Shah's raise with Ad 8d but gets called by Ahrt Jh.

Ts 5d 9s 3d 2h board and we lose another.

great updates as usual,
hope u get to make it next month

Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) Gourlay (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) eliminates Andrew Papageorgiou in 13th place (winning £1,379)

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Having been reraised off a button raise by Jeremy Betts (with air, for which he got a round of applause), Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) Gourlay (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) picked up Ahrt Qc next hand and raised again.  Short stacked Papageorgiou moved all-in and Gourlay was in no mood to fold - he was up against 9c 9h.  Promptly spiking an Ace on the flop and a Queen on the river, he evened up the number of players on each table, bumping his stack up to even greater heights.

I would also like to publicly apologise for calling his hoody 'ridiculous' earlier.  When taken together with the ensemble as a whole it makes a kind of sense.  I guess. 

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gggooooo Dunk in the 150,any chance of the payouts for that please,much appreciated

PLACE   PLAYER   PRIZE
1   -   £7,650
2   -   £4,387
3   -   £2,700
4   -   £1,890
5   -   £1,350
6   -   £1,012
7   -   £787
8   -   £585
9   -   £427
10   -   £314
11   -   £314
12   -   £314
13   -   £314
14   -   £225
15   -   £225

It's now very much a preflop game. Not a criticism of the structure, but with so many players and two days for the tournament, at some point it's going to be a bit faster.

21   1   Peter Charalamobus
21   3   Ian Gascoigne
21   4   Sandeep Shah
21   5   John Stritch
21   6   Peter Linton
21   7   Tom Rutter

"I don't think you'll see an exit on this table first," says Pete Linton, talking about his own table (above). "Everyone is very cagey, so unless it's hand vs hand, I bet on someone going out on the other table first." As he says this, Sandeep Shah limps, John Stritch raises to 40k and Tom Rutter pushes, winning the hand when the other two fold.

22   1   Paul Gourlay
22   3   Jeremy Betts
22   6   Steve Brown
22   7   Panos Panayi
22   8   Christopher Brammer
22   9   David Mundle

Paul Gourlay is now vying with Sandeep Shah for the chip lead. And building a balla-stack. What he doesn't know is that I'm charging him 5% of whatever he wins for allowing him to charge his iPhone on my laptop.

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Cheers asa

No problem

hope they did a saver as he finished 16th :/

Not allowed at dtd,gg dunks life

Hello updaters, greetings from Casa Benito in sunny Amsterdam. Eat a roast dinner for me.

Updaters ftw.

Chips on Table Two:

21   1   Peter Charalamobus - 120k (Moving in in late position; no call as yet)
21   3   Ian Gascoigne - 260k   (Gave a few to Shah after betting out 40k on a 9h Kc Tc flop and passing to Shah's raise)
21   4   Sandeep Shah - 600k  (CL)
21   5   John Stritch - 190k
21   6   Peter Linton - 350k
21   7   Tom Rutter - 250k

indeed.. ul Dunk

Ul Dunk, your life has had a truly gr8 game.

So hard to work out who runs worse you or dunk

GG Rich's life losing 3 flips in a row

Christopher Brammer has experienced his first major setback just now, it looks like, in the shape of doubling through David Mundle.  He raised, Mundle shoved and he called, holding the dominating Ad Kc to Mundle's Ac Qc.  Straight off the top, the flop came Qs 9s Js
Turn: Jd
River: 8s

Mundle leapt out of his chair at this reprieve from death's door, while Brammer didn't look too delighted.

How he felt about that Queen saving his tournament life:

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Yay!  We did in fact manage that, it seems a long time ago.  Pleasant.  Sunny, you say?  Snowtastic in UK - stay in 'Dam is my advice.  But that's always good advice :) 

Well he did say he was bored and wanted to bok himself......

Jeremy 'No More' Betts. Truly this time.

He pushed with Ks Ts over the top of Paul Gourlay raise and Panos Panayi moved in behind with 6-6. Gourlay folded A-7.

Ac 5h 5d Ahrt 4d

As 'The Rocket Man' lameneted his pass, Panos Panayi added to his stack.

Following that Chris Brammer has gone, pushing the remainder of his stack in with Qd 8s vs Steve Brown's Ad Jc with the board running out Kd Jh 3d 2h 3h.

Final Table Bubble Time!

No, I will as always be ignoring your advice and coming back tomorrow night. I have us a Present. Clue: it has the words "Single Barrel" on the box...

Cool, you bought her a shotgun?

We've been through this, Jen is not allowed a shotgun.

A rare flop between Steve Brown and Paul Gourlay which reads 3s 4h 8d 6s and Gourlay fires 25k which gets called. On the river 5c, Gourlay bets another 25k with Brown calling again but quickly mucking when Gourlay flips Kc 7d for the rivered straight.

Still one more to lose...

http://www.maxwellshouse.co.uk/unclejack/Single_Barrel.htm

I know this, so why have you bought her one? It seems incredibly irresponsible.

Super dooper updates guys can we have some chip counts please!

I'm not going to see this through to the end need to get to bed for work, that is unless the snow comes down super heavy and i get the day off.  Wiiiiiiiiiiii!!!

fml theyve run out of dtd burgers as well i just may be the greatest   weres a roulette table when you need one

cheers for the support george/alex/henners/cos

about average going into the final

feeling a bit sick for linton though

We're down to the final table here, and the ftbubble is Pete (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=348) Linton (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=348), who finishes in 10th, winning £1,379 when the big prize money is so tantalisingly close...

Sandeep Shah raised on the button, Linton shoved on the big blind.  After a dwell, Shah made the call, only to find his 8c 8h in bad shape against Linton's Qh Qs.
Flop: 9d 8d 3s...
Turn and river: 6d 3c giving the spiking Shah an even more monstrous stack and Linton a bad taste in his mouth, probably.

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"You're blessed today!" go Shah's rail, and it is beginning to look like that.

Brutal outcome for Pete, probably played as good as I've seen him play. Mainly because he's been hamstrung by his stack size for most of the day.

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Mmm special.  Anything that comes with a stopper is classy.

Oh yes - we're on a 20 min break pre final, so when counts arrive they'll go up along with pics of your finalists etc. etc.

Top updates guys, I'm sure there'll be many more...

Unlucky Pete- he's definately changed his style- he can play quite solid cos of his rep no one believes him!

Cmon Rutter- one time!

Awesome updates as usual :)

Keep up the good work for the final table.. some of us have to be up at 6am :/

Mmm special.  Anything that comes with a stopper is classy.
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It's like that, but it's not that. I think a stopper may indeed be involved. I can't think about it too hard right this second though or I'll throw up.

ditto but serious lack of norkage during this update

Payouts Before The Final:

10   Pete Linton   £1,380
11   Christopher Brammer   £1,380
12   Jeremy Betts   £1,380
13   Andrew Papageorgiou   £1,380
14   Ivor Frost   £986
15   Matthew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=3009) Lewis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=3009)   £986
16   Amer Latif   £986
17   Tom Kugelstadt   £986
18   Daniel Copeland   £986
19   Jim (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2972) Peppercorn (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2972)   £600
20   Michael Millar   £600
21   Adam Vinson   £600
22   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)   £600
23   Christopher Xenofontos   £600
24   Denis Ford   £600
25   Andrew Beardmore   £600
26   Ken Wheatley   £600
27   Jordan Burnett   £600
28   Harry Dunnell   £450
29   Stephen Holloway   £450
30   Luke Hallinan   £450
31   James Williams   £450
32   Sidicki Mohangee   £450
33   Terence Simpson   £450
34   Jason Wheatley   £450
35   David Barnes   £450
36   Keith Armstrong   £450

Seat 1 - David Mundle - 554,000

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gr8game linton, ul.

glglglglgglgl rutter.

Seat 2 - Ian Gascoigne - 300,500

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It's like that, but it's not that. I think a stopper may indeed be involved. I can't think about it too hard right this second though or I'll throw up.
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is it a butt plug ?

Seat 3: Tom Rutter -- 369,500

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Seat 4 - John Stritch - 161,000

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Seat 5 - Sandeep Shah - 838,000

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Seat 6 - Peter Charalambous - 286,000

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Seat 7 - Panos Panayi - 359,500

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Seat 8 - Steve Brown - 220,000

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Seat 9: Paul Gourlay -- 521,000

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Seat 1 - David Mundle - 554,000
Seat 2 - Ian Gascoigne - 300,500
Seat 3 - Tom Rutter - 369,500
Seat 4 - John Stritch - 161,000
Seat 5 - Sandeep Shah - 838,000
Seat 6 - Peter Charalambous - 286,000
Seat 7 - Panos Panayi - 359,500
Seat 8 - Steve Brown - 220,000
Seat 9 - Paul Gourlay - 521,000

Paul Gourlay seems interested in possibly sorting out a deal. "It's £11k for third but if we did a chop now, everyone could get £10k..."

gl gl gl rutter!

ul to Pete - no justice sometimes.

The last lady player vanished this morning, and the valets are so busy they are just blurs.  Do you want me to put Chris in a wig or what?

YES YES YES, would be comedy!

I'll take the "or what" option ta :D

Or hand Chris the camera and we can get some more Jen shots a la Blonde bash? (anyone wanna post that pic up?)

Seems a bit early to be talking of chopping!  With Shah seeming untouchable his luck is sure to run out but I would assume only after he has taken a few players out.  The Rocket Man seems to have enough chips and  could no doubt accumulate more.

sounds like a plan tbh

Peter Charalamobus raises to 57k UTG, Steve (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=412) Brown (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=412) reraises all-in. Back to Pete. Call.

Charalamobus: Jc Js
Brown: Tc Ts

Ad 4c 5h Ad 9s

Steve (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=412) Brown (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=412) is OUT in 9th place winning £1,971

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Panos Panayi raises to 60k (blinds now 10k/20k) after a cagey period when Ian Gascoigne picked up some chips with no callers, and Tom Rutter has a look at him, then moves all in.  Despite being covered, Panayi couldn't call fast enough, as one does with Ahrt Ad.  Bad move time for Rutter with 5c 7h - the board remains undangerous to the Boots and he's now on around 500k+ while Rutter is down to 150k or so, definitely in the Danger Zone.

Incidentally, a couple of hands previous, Sandeep Shah had called a Tom Rutter raise on the button, then bet him off a 9c 2s 5h flop by raising his flop bet of 65k to 265k.  No interest any more, and no real damage done there; Shah showed Sevens.

Tom Rutter, Gourlay and Pete C. Any order please.

Unlucky Linton. Nasty exit :(

Top updates!

And after that, Panos Panayi gets a walk.

Next hand and Ian Gascoigne moves all-in from the cutoff for about 350k. Paul Gourlay complains that people aren't wanting to see a flop.

Sorry Rutter Fans! 

Tom Rutter busts in 8th place, winning £2,463

Details to follow...

boooooooooooooo. Wp Tom

Down to just over 100k, he was only waiting for a little while, before making a stand with 5h 8h.  Panos Panayi, again, gave him a spin, calling preflop with Ad Th. 
Flop:  4s Ac 2c
Turn: 2d
River: 7s

So another close-but-no-cigar finish for Tom Rutter and a sudden reversal of fortune for Panos who is now almost level with the chip leader!  Plus he's a man after my own heart when it comes to winter coats.

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very gutted,

basically made a massive mis-read and giftyed my stack away. still, went to the final hoping to play an agressive game and get going quickly, so at least i achieved that!

cheers for the support guys

paul gourlay or pete charalalalalalalambous ftw please. just hope a chop doesnt happen

Panos Panayi raises to 80k UTG. David Mundle bumps it up to 230k from two streets down, Panayi shakes his head and mucks Ac Jd face up.

Next hand, Paul Gourlay raises to 75k and get the blinds and antes, showing A-Q.

Still cagey, I manage to see one hand where Panayi limps the small blind and Paul Gourlay checks.

8h 2d 8c

Panayi has checked dark. Gourlay checks behind

5s

Panayi bets 50k, call.

Qd

Check check. Gourlay shows a pair of tens. Intriguing.

No flops that I've seen for last 15 mins... not to say no action, just few faces of cards.  Sandeep Shah has lost a couple of pots raising preflop and getting pushed off, although judging from the amount of time he dwelled over folding Ahrt Jc having bet 75k and got Pete Charalambous shoving pre for 540k, he doesn't like laying them hands down too much.  "Was that all?" asked Charalambous, implying that his reraising range must be of such rarified quality that such consideration is unnecessary...

Other action includes short-stack John Stritch moving in preflop a couple of times; no interest from the other players in taking him on.

Paul Gourlay raises to 70k. Sandeep Shah calls in the small blind.

9s 3h 6d

Check, check.

Jd

Shah bets 85k. Gourlay folds and Shah claims he had a, "Massive hand."

Shah takes the blinds in the next hand as well.

John Strick wakes up suddenly and goes all-in, everyone folds, including a few people on the final of the £150 since Strick hasn't played a hand in that long.

Paul Gourlay and David Mundle check a 4-2-6-T-5 board down to the river in a blind vs blind battle. Gourlay's J-4 off wins. It's really all a bit anti-climatic.

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David Mundle had picked up a couple of rounds of blinds with a raise pre to 70k, but the last time he tried it he found neighbour Ian Gascoigne moving all in pretty much instantly over the top.  While starting to consider his options, big blind Pete Charalambous announced, "Call."  Much to the table's surprise, a hand was going to showdown!
Mundle passed, leaving the two of them heads up, Gascoigne covered.

Charalambous:  Qh Qc
Gascoigne:  Aspades Js

Flop:  9d 2s 3c
Turn: 8s
River: 3s

And that rockets Gascoigne up to over 600k, definitely as high chipwise as he's been all tournament, the rivered flush sending Charalambous all the way back down.  A bit like snakes and ladders at the moment.

dammit ul pete. do it matey

Ian Gascoigne looks to raise to 75k, but then he doesn't. He looks at the clock. And then his stack. And decides to just push all 600k or so in the middle. The folding is faster than at an advanced origami class and he wins the blinds and antes.

Pete Charalalalalamobus moves all-in and David Mundle somehow takes pity on him, folding his big blind despite getting good odds.

Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) Gourlay (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) raises to 75k on the button and Mundle and Gascoigne call from the blinds.

Qc 8d 3d

Check to Gourlay who bets 125k. Two folds ship a 200k+ pot over to the Rocket Man.

Strange hand reconfirms Sandeep Shah as CL, King of Bink...

Sandeep Shah raises on the button to 80k.  Big blind Panos Panayi then repops him a further 160k.  A longer think than usual, and Shah makes the call.
Flop: Td 5s Ad  Both players check.
Turn: 3c  Again, two checks. 
River: Ks  Panayi quickly bets 200k, instantly called by Shah holding Kc Qc.  The earlier checking proved his undoing as Panayi's Qh Qs sail into the muck.

Shah - back on top.
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Pete Charalamobus moves all-in singing, "It's now or never..."

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Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) Gourlay (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=325) snap-calls from the blinds.

Charalamobus: 2s 2c

Gourlay: Aspades Ks

5d 4s Ts 3s Ahrt

Pete Charalambous is out in 7th place winning £3,449

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bet

the

river

gl panayi and peter!

wp pete charalambous. gutted to see him go.

paul gourlay ftw

Stop the clock!

There's deals afoot...maybe

Well, it had worked so far, but this utg shove of John Stritch was instantly reshoved-over by neighbour Sandeep Shah.  Most definitely outchipped, he flipped his hand revealing Qs 9s and hoped he was live...

...which he was - Shah held Ac Ks.

Flop:  Aspades 3h 2d
Turn: 5s  bringing the spectre of yet another spade flush up to give Stritch some hope
River: 8d

So we lose John Stritch in 6th place, winning £4,434

I snapped him as he exited, but thought I'd try to get a better, more vibrant shot, possibly with a grin or a thumbs-up or something.  Well, nearly.

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I nearly forgot - just in case the discussions now underway result in play being somewhat curtailed, I said I'd pass on a message earlier and totally failed.  Here you go now, though:

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Chip Counts:

Sandeep Shah -- 1,363,000
Paul Gourlay -- 776,500
Ian Gascoigne -- 702,500
Panos Panayi -- 409,500
David Mundle -- 359,000

Chip Counts Translate Into An Agreed Deal:

Sandeep Shah -- 1,363,000 -- £19,149
Paul Gourlay -- 776,500 -- £13,666
Ian Gascoigne -- 702,500 -- £12,972
Panos Panayi -- 409,500 -- £10,234
David Mundle -- 359,000 -- £9,762

£10,000 is being left for when there's two or three players left and they chop it up first place.

Pretty much straight away, we get Sandeep Shah removing what was left of his brakes, calling preflop and then just shoving the A-6-2 flop (with A-2 as it turns out) with no bust, but then he goes in next hand and finds Panos Panayi calling off his stack...
Panayi:  Ad Ts
Shah: Aspades 8c

Flop:  Would you believe it Ac 8s 4h      Turn and river harmless Js 9h

SO Panos Panayi finishes in 5th place, winning £10,234

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David Mundle moves all-in for 370k from the cutoff. Sandeep Shah thinks about it for about a minute before logically stating, "Oh, what the fuck. I call."

He turns over Ahrt 8h, Mundle shows Kc 7c

5s 2d Td 4d.....7h

Ooooh and the King of Bink is binked upon! Mundle up to about 750k. Shah still has 1.5 million though.

stack updates please :)

Another casualty: this time it's Ian Gascoigne, who just bust in 4th place winning £12,972

It all started threeway, when Paul Gourlay raised to 75k and the blinds, Gascoigne and Shah, both called.
Flop: 5h 5c Qs  Gascoigne checked, Shah bet 100k, both players called.
Turn: Kh  Now Gascoigne decides to bet out 150k, called by Shah, but that's enough of the hand for Gourlay who passes.
River:  Qh  Now Gascoigne moves in, but gets instacalled by Shah who holds 5h 8h for the rivered flush.  Gascoigne's bare Ahrt is no good - he leaves the tourney threehanded now...

"Binking All Over" as Johnny Kidd and the Pirates would sing. If they were 21 year-old poker addicts using LOLspeak and living in 2009.

Davind Mundle moves in over the top of a Sandeep Shah raise. Call. Again

Mundle: Kh Js

Shah: Ac 8d again

Qh Td 2c

"Come on!!!" shouts Mundle despite the fact he hasn't hit yet.

Jh

And now he takes the lead and Shah needs a King.

Tc

And from the short stack, Mundle now has about 1.5 million, equal to Shah.

Chips, roughly:

Paul Gourlay: 600k
David Mundle: 1,400,000
Sandeep Shah: 1,500,000

Thanks for the stacks!

Shah limps in. Paul Gourlay raises an extra 130k. Call

Th 9h 8s.

Shah quickly moves in, Gourlay instantly calls.

Gourlay: Ahrt Qc
Shah: Js 9d

4d

2c

Paul Gourlay is OUT in 3rd winning £13,666

As he walks past me he says, "I fucked up, I thought I had Ahrt Qh!"

Immediately after this, the remaining two players chopped the £10,000 that was still unaccounted for, but, officially, the runner up of the Largest £300 Event in Europe was David Mundle, so the Champion is Sandeep Shah!  Well done that man.

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Thanks be to all involved in these past two days of Updates, Jen and Floppy for the leg-work and great reading, DTD for putting their hands in their pockets (and providing a stonking tourney) and to all those "behind the scenes" at Blonde who brought this (hopefully not) one-off Update to our lappies.

 ;thankyou;

Now guys, hit the sack cash games.

Loving your work Flopps & Jen .... Sod the cash games, go get bevvied :)

what a tournament killer that chop proved to be. such a shame..

still, wp all, gg mr shah

cheers for the updates and support jen and chris

Well done to David, even though he did knock me out (me KK him QQ) :)

22 more and counting (not even subtle anymore)

19..

You're all welcome!  It's been a while since I dipped toes in the update waters, but this is a great one to cover and Chris and I get treated most excellently by the host club.  We are therefore in a good mood most of the time, and our excess enthusiasm can be spent funking for everyone. 

Thanks to everyone who told us they enjoyed it, and thanks lurkers too.  I am entirely unenthused by the prospect of playing poker now, so it's definitely a bar trip and then a nap before first train home (barring extreme snow).

Finally (sounds like I'm accepting an Oscar a bit now) thanks to Simon Trumper and all the dealers and floorstaff who are so accommodating with our in-the-way, camera-in-your-face kind of work, to Simon Nowab for getting us a reheated Sunday Lunch when we didn't deserve it as we turned up late, and to DTD for supporting this blonde update.

;stickaforkinme;

glgl, get there today yo.

Whos the good looking guy to his right, the one with the beard and glasses?

Oh its me!

I am famous!

Sorry I had to get that in....

Thanks for the quality updating Jen and Chris  :)up

First visit to the club and was blown away by just how well everything was run other than my cards, congrats to the winners.

As always superb updates from the team, thanks very much to all at Blonde, Rob and the team at DTD for an excellent weekend!!

It was a pleasure and a privilege to play at DTD this weekend. They just do everything so well. Thanks guys!

Fabulous comp, fabulous updates

Only 1 month to go, and we do it all again.

Yeeeehaaaa!!!

Fabulous updates floppy & jen, much appreciated  ;hattip;

hehe cheers dave. couple of days i reckon..

Just the updates as been away all weekend, nice result tom but shame you didnt go deeper.

Keep the count going ;)

Good work guys!

cheers mate! see u soon

is that one more?

keep setting them up and i'll keep knocking them down

Not much work about now Gervais has gone stateside then?

pleased I can help :)

Many thanks for the updates, just enjoyed them after the event!

Many congrats to Tommy, I'm sure the big one will come soon.

Does Tommy call you Stuey?

yes

our other brother is pauly :)

He taught us everything we know.

Congrats Tommy. Remember there are two rules for staking. 1) 300 posts minimum 2) brothers get first pick

See you at Walsall George!

only 119 posts needed before you can buy a piece!

Im not fussy- Stu you can buy a piece early if u want  ;D

no, 300 posts, he knows the rules.

weeeeeeeeeeeee hes got there :)

With the stakin rule, do u have to know the player in person? 

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