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Welcome back to Day 2 of the DTD Monthly event. We had a fair few casualties at the very end of the day and have 'just' 103 players remaining, playing to a winner. Here are a few of the exits in the last level.

104   Christopher Karanikki
105   Scott Reid
106   Byron Greenhow
107   Alan Picken
108   Thomas Mccready
109   Mark Robinson
110   John Falconer
111   Chris Cancelliere
112   Abdul Qadoos
113   Paul Gourlay
114   Dasos Gonnella
115   Moshe Ash
116   Michaela Kalmer
117   Assaf Hussain
118   Charles Nelson
119   Waseem Shahid
120   Mark Wilson
121   Dsominic Mahoney
122   Peter Wigglesworth
123   Constantine Paparestis
124   Guy Johnson
125   Glenn Henderson
126   Glen Altham
127   Julian Lefevre
128   Stephen Winter
129   James Ballantyne

Play restarts at 2pm, here are our remaining players and tables. (Top 10 chips in bold)

Lawrence (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) Gosney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243)   11   1   65700
George (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=154) Geary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=154)   11   2   9700
Christopher Brammer   11   3   33800
Dewi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=130) James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=130)   11   4   30000
Adrian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2865) Swingler (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2865)   11   5   60600
Jeremy Betts   11   6   32400
Eddie (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2887) Lundon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2887)   11   7   11800
Terence Tochel   11   8   8400
Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) Neville (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42)   11   9   25100

John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=210) Exley (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=210)   12   1   36100
Steven Frew   12   2   41000
Jesper Persson   12   3   124700
Gary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2630) Orme (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2630)   12   4   18600
Daniel Brown   12   5   11000
Patrick Tochel   12   6   29200
Sean Blom   12   7   20700
Vasileios (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841) Kontogiannis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841)   12   8   70300
Andrew Kent   12   9   62000

Terry Brown   13   1   11400
Gerald (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2787) David (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2787)   13   2   54800
Adam (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2232) Lawler (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2232)   13   3   18000
Lee Clarke   13   4   17200
David Welch   13   5   20900
Joan Hadley   13   6   27500
Daniel Shelemy   13   7   33000
Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1793) Rhodes (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1793)   13   8   30300
Morteza Assadi   13   9   19800

Colin Young   14   1   22900
Peter Attridge   14   2   25300
David Lea   14   3   46300
Steve Vine   14   4   63100
Allan Mclean   14   5   64500
Leigh Smith   14   7   20400
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)   14   8   30600
Dean (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2990) Pearson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2990)   14   9   8700

Gary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=148) Fox (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=148)   15   1   40800
Tania Narine   15   2   15800
David (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=118) Baker (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=118)   15   3   30500
Ole Christian Olsen   15   4   20500
Filip Manneby   15   5   31900
Mathew Frankland   15   6   64000
Ben (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=47) Vinson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=47)   15   8   72700
Khadam Hussain   15   9   14800

Andrea (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1432) Gough (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1432)   2   1   11300
John Dick   2   2   28000
Hassan Irfan   2   3   41600
Saifon Lambe   2   4   24100
Christopher Bruce   2   5   36700
David (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2103) Stratton (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2103)   2   6   36800
Nichiei Hicks   2   7   59200
Stuart Brown   2   8   21100
Michael Mcloughlin   2   9   23700

Linden Rowland   22   1   15500
Nicholas Crisp   22   2   21200
Basharat (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2097) Mahmood (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2097)   22   3   65300
Darren (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2665) Shallis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2665)   22   4   50700
Charles Flynn   22   5   16200
Caroline Button   22   6   14700
David Nisbet   22   7   27000
Matthew Tandy   22   8   81600
Gurpreet (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2868) Nagi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2868)   22   9   81600

Peter Renkel   23   1   17500
Alan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=897) Vinnicombe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=897)   23   2   18700
Joseph Byrne   23   4   26400
Stephen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=804) Holden (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=804)   23   5   40100
Erik Naslund   23   6   18000
Paul Lyons   23   7   9500
Alistair (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1454) Carins (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1454)   23   8   97000
Andreas Kipriyanou   23   9   20300

Nikolaos Sforos   3   1   27400
Gary Wong    3   2   40600
Ben Dobson   3   3   53600
Ken Wheatley   3   4   31400
Barrie Cooper   3   5   17900
Kate (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1684) Langshaw (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1684)   3   6   17400
David Mundle   3   7   43000
Jonathon Campbell   3   8   16000
Mustafa Kubilay   3   9   13600

Richard Turner   32   1   30200
Ghalib Hussain   32   2   18400
Steve (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=414) Jelinek (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=414)   32   3   53300
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2966) Newman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2966)   32   4   75900
Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2825) Ellinas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2825)   32   6   49500
Alan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=14) Armitage (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=14)   32   7   16200
Robin Peebles   32   8   26600
Dipak Makawana   32   9   36600

Nicolas Mclellan   33   1   65300
Kevin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2732) Pearce (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2732)   33   2   8900
Ralph (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=357) Shalson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=357)   33   3   12600
James Patrick Hayden   33   4   35200
Harprit Singh Gurnam   33   5   41500
Mark Prescott   33   6   15000
Lloyd Griffiths   33   8   25600
Michael Osborne   33   9   76100

Michael (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=279) Greco (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=279)   34   1   34700
Jonathan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2647) Spinks (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2647)   34   2   35400
Frazer Beattie   34   3   16200
Mathew Seer   34   4   25000
Ben Tiffney   34   5   37000
Rab Bain   34   6   17800
Giovanni Pentangelo   34   7   34300
David Robertson   34   8   21400
Andrew Murphy   34   9   11000

And no poker tournament is complete without glittering cash prizes...

1   -   £30,761
2   -   £17,983
3   -   £10,790
4   -   £7,572
5   -   £5,679
6   -   £4,259
7   -   £3,312
8   -   £2,366
9   -   £1,893
10 - 13   -   £1,325
14 - 18   -   £946
19 - 27   -   £600
28 - 36   -   £450

Good luck to Dewi, Ralph Shalson and Chris Bruce today.

Going to have to catch up with this Monday as off to South Wales later.

This is Nick Hicks' tourney, he has this won imo. glglgl

GL to Nick Hicks, Dewi and Darren Shallis and of course all other blondes!

GO BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODER

any seats left in the £150? - reckon it will sell out?  I hear it is capped field?

Regular updates on Charles Flynn and Chris Rhodes please guys!!

One time plz CF!!

gl to Gerald 'The skullman' David and Paul Lammas

GL to Ben Vinson with a 72k not the 7700 that u have him down for lol!

Good luck Rhodes, Flynn, Gosney and Lundon. Bring the wonga back to Leeds!!!!!!!!!
GL to the blondes that are left.

This

Flynn FTW tho plz!!

GL to Nick Hicks, hope he takes it down

Laz's brother Terrence has doubled up with Kc Jd against Christopher Brammer's 9s 7s.

Guprit Nagi has knocked out Linden Rowland with Ahrt Qh vs Ac Tc

Ben Vinson is on 72k

One early unfortunate heading for the door is Karabiner. Wrongly reported OUT last night by both DTD and us (turns out someone mistook him for Red Dog ???), he took a chance early doors and got it in with pocket sixes against A-J. Ace first card out. Ul, wp Karabiner.

It'll sell out but you best call now to see if you can get in.

Another early casualty is, we believe, one Matthew Seer -- he shoved with Ac 9c but couldn't see the call from Nikolaos Sforos coming. Sforos had Ad Qh and a total absence of suckouts on the 3s Aspades 4c 3d 8c board sent the Seer home.

Current chip leader Jesper Persson, we're not sure if he's Swedish, Danish or Norwegian...Here he is though, in mid-zombie regression.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25600&g2_serialNumber=1)

"Braaiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnsssssss"

Lets gogogo Dewi, Booder + Hicks.

glglglgl.

We're down to just 90 players already, still rather too many for my liking if I'm going to be driving home tonight, but definitely an improvement on our 107 starters.

Latest to go is the curious Caroline Button. Somehow down to mere pocket change after starting the day with an admittedly not-great 14k, she got it in with 7-8 offsuit against the A-Q of the youthful Charles Flynn and the, er, A-Q of moderately youthful Gurpreet Nagi. An ace on the board, a split pot for the gents, and a nice Sunday afternoon off for Button.

Alan Vinnicombe is up to 45k after getting it all-in with Kings vs K-2 on a King-high board. (Incidentally K-K vs K-2 is the biggest advantage you can have in poker preflop).

Big Laz is out, "Played 2 hands, ran into Aces twice."

His Brother Terrence is also out with A-Q against Barry Neville's 5-5.

Could you get a picture & updates of Dave Lea and Nick Mclellan please guys?

Face
Arms
Speech
Time to call 999

Unlike Button, plenty of short stacks are still hanging in by the merest thread, and don't seem to be afraid of sacrificing a significant chunk of their meagre chip reserves to the bluffy gods.

An interesting battle developed between relative short stacks Barrie Cooper (SB), Kate Langshaw (BB) and Ken Wheatley (B).

All three players checked a 9d 4h 4c flop and Cooper checked the 8d turn too. Langshaw tried it on for 2.5k, but the bet was so good it got called twice. Come the 4d river, it checked around to Wheatley, who bet 4.5k. Cooper called, Langshaw folded and Wheatley just mucked before Cooper had turned over the 9c for a full house.

Current Wee Stack Standings:

Ken Wheatley: 18k
Barrie Cooper: 25k or so
Kate Langshaw: 20k

Dewi James raises to 4,600. Adrian Swingler reraises all-in for 70k. Alastair Carins pushes all-in behind. Dewi folds Nines.

Swingler: Th Tc

Carins: Kc Ks

Kd 5h 9d Jd 7c

Carins is now the big chip leader with around 170k.

Barry Neville, "Now, I wouldn't ever give anyone a rubdown but that guy is an absolute fookin' donkey. It's personal wit' me an' 'im."

LOLOLOL

could we have a chip count and any pictures if there is some please on barry neville thank u

how is paul lammas and david stratton running gl to them

No pics of Bazzer ffs ... some people are eating their dinner !!

Nick Hicks -- 100k (Just got paid on an Ac Jd Aspades Qh 2s board betting 8k on the river with A-5)

Darren Shallis -- 80k

Go Go Newportlad!! ;karabiner;

Hurrah, down to just 78 now. Early night looking promising.

Latest to go is Andrea Gough who got it all in with Q-J against the delightfully named John Dick's A-K. Not sure when it went in although I suspect it was preflop. Nevertheless, the T-2-5-9-5 board offered a glimmer of hope before spitting that glimmer back in Gough's face and sending her hurtling to the proverbial rail.

Mr Dick on around 45k now.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25602&g2_serialNumber=1)

David Lea -- 27k
Nicolas Mclellan -- 50k

Inexplicable Jacket Of The Day

Mr Sean Blom:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25606&g2_serialNumber=1)

Mr Dick plays in Glasgow. Good luck John!

Card Protector Of The Day

The unlikely property of Mr Gary Wong, it's good but it's not wight...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25607&g2_serialNumber=1)

Exits today:

76   Filip Manneby
77   Mathew Frankland
78   Jonathan Spinks
79   Andreas Kipriyanou
80   John Exley
81   Terry Brown
82   Nicholas Crisp
83   Andrea Gough
84   Stuart Brown
85   James Patrick Hayden
86   Adrian Swingler
87   Mark Prescott
88   Patrick Tochel
89   Ghalib Hussain
90   Christopher Brammer
91   Caroline Button
92   Mathew Seer
93   Adam Lawler
94   Michael Mcloughlin
95   Paul Lyons
96   Alan Armitage
97   Terence Tochel
98   Mustafa Kubilay
99   Ralph Shalson
100   Linden Rowland
101   David Welch
102   Khadam Hussain
103   Daniel Brown

So err...you'd like him to go deep?

;goodluck; blondes

Got to fancy Mr Bruce or Mr Hicks to win this - as it's what they do at DTD.

Dewi Does A Brave Thing

...or not, depending on what his cards were.


With the board reading 9s 5s Qd, Eddie Lundon in the big blind bet out around 8k. Dewi made a face for a bit, before somewhat resignedly announcing that he was all in . An insta-fold later and Dewi was up to 35k or thereabouts, while Lundon was down to a mere 15k.

Very happy with this result:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25609&g2_serialNumber=1)

Flynn and Rhodes chip counts please guys??

could we have a chip count on lawrence gosney please

With around 17k in the pot by the 8c Qs 6h flop, a faceless Paul Lammas bet 7.2k from the button. Mr Steve Vine dwelled, huffed and puffed a bit, and then folded before wandering off for a minute to refocus or something. A grape move for Lammas against the Vine, and he's up to 40k.

Still no face:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25611&g2_serialNumber=1)

The hand before she raised UTG and I stuck my stack in with AK. She turned over KK. 345 flop, 2 turn.

It's always good to see a nice man making the final table ;)

     

Phew. On myy way down to rail him and he almost went out b4 I hit the m1

Casualties of war:

72   Kevin Pearce
73   Lee Clarke
74   Charles Flynn
75   John Dick (Not deep enough)
76   Filip Manneby
77   Mathew Frankland
78   Jonathan Spinks

Booder update please

This please!  ;)

Mr Dick managed to just squeeze into the £150 freezeout. :)

David Lea, 20k - "It's hard to look happy when you've just lost half your stack."

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25613&g2_serialNumber=1)



Nicky Mclellan, 50k:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25615&g2_serialNumber=1)



Chris Rhodes, not sure because he'd just won a fairly big pot and the chips were all splatted around in front of him, will check chip count on next tour of the cardroom:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25617&g2_serialNumber=1)

Chris 'How many' Rhodes 'must a man walk down' -- 67k
Lawrence Gosney -- 110k

Gurprit Nagi raised to 4,100 and received one caller before Darren 'Newportlad' Shallis bumped it up to 14k from the button to win the pot. Shallis on almost 100k now.

Kate Langshaw has doubled up with A-Q against J-J.

68   Alan Vinnicombe
69   Basharat Mahmood
70   Gary 'It all went' Wong
71   Eddie Lundon

Shame you're going to have to look for another gimmick now....

Thats not Chris Rhodes..... or not the one from Leeds anyway!!

UPDATE

David Lea spotted at the bar, therefore presumed OUT.

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Barry Neville, 43k and standing up for no reason I can see:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25619&g2_serialNumber=1)



Lawrence Gosney, what Floppy said a post or two back re. his chip count:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25621&g2_serialNumber=1)



Enormo-stack Alistair Cairns, previously on 170k but now on a still very large 130k we reckon:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25623&g2_serialNumber=1)

I disagree, I think we can beat out a few more jokes.

Brilliant Newportlad!! Take it down  ;karabiner;

Not sure about the Mr Rhodes then, I'm going by the official DTD seating thingy. Will check again...

Yeh, you probably can .....

But you are right, Mr Dick going out has kinda screwed us a bit.

Hehe :D

BOODER ??

Has 40k.

Cheers

Dewi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=130) James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=130) just lost a big pot flipping (well 43-57ing) his A-K vs Matthew Tandy's Q-Q for a huge pot. No cards above a Jack and Dewi almost felted.

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) reraised all-in against Jesper Persson on a 5c 4c 3s flop, Persson eventually making the call with 6s 6d and sees the best hand he could've hoped for when Lammas turned over 2h 2s. Running 8c and 8h came on the turn and river and the Swede eliminates another player.

Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) Neville (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) has doubled up with Aces against the Kings of Alastair Carins.

"Don't worry," says Simon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=399) Nowab (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=399) to the table, "we'll get Lawrence to take him out."

Barry, "Shut up Simon No-job!"

Darren Shallis -- 140k and looking more miserable than LeKnave ever could.

concentrating or in the zone?

Go go Darren!!

Gogogogogogogo Darren. 

Another from the LeKnave school of 'I must look like I'm really enjoying myself when I play poker'.

A double up for Mr Steve Jelinek with pocket kings versus the pocket jacks of a disgruntled opponent whose name I can't possibly hope to guess. Not sure whether the chips went in before or after the flop, but the texture of the board was more or less one king and a bunch of rags, and Mr Jelinek was saying, "Well, you had to call..."

Not at all surprised at his masterful doubling-up skills:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25627&g2_serialNumber=1)

Go Boo!

Gonna finish these STT's and watchin the rather interesting 'Donkey Punch' and i may have to come and rail!

Hat/Scarf Combo Of The Day

Mr Gary Fox, bringing a bit of the country and a bit of I think some sort of weird 1980s jazz bar to DTD:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25630&g2_serialNumber=1)

vvv good

Any chance of a quick update on Ben Vinson please...ty!

Dewi James is out, couldn't recover from the A-K vs Q-Q hand.

Steve Jelinek -- 95k
Chris Bruce -- 23k ("I'm playing like a c***, Nick [Hicks] is playing like an absolute star though.")
Nick Hicks -- 110k

All are way behind the chip leader Jesper Persson though, who is over the 200k mark by some way.

Has he knocked one out in the £150 yet?

Oh dear, a bit of a bluffy disaster for Ben Vinson. He became Involved in rather a large pot with Mr Steve Vine, and came off maybe 40 or 50k worse for it.

Vine raised from the button, and I believe Vinson reraised from the big blind. Call.

Flop: Js 6s 2h

Not sure who bet first, but VInson either check-raised or bet then re-raised. Call from Mr Vine.

Turn: Qc

Vine bet 9k, and Vinson raised to 40k, enough to cover Vine. Some considerable dwelling followed, largely involving Mr Vine staring vacantly at the board, and then Mr Vine called.

Vine: Ac Jc for second pair
Vinson: Kh 9c for a lame gutshot

River: Qs which did not ring Vinson his straight

Vine doubles up to well over 80k, while Vinson is down to 50k or so.


Stephen King:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25633&g2_serialNumber=1)


Mr Steve Vine:

(http://writemuse.com/blog/media/stephen-king-picture-3.jpg)

Good lord, this Mr Jesper Persson, who is clearly our chip leader on perhaps 270k; he seems like actually quite an attractive sort of chap when you see him in real life, with that Young Scandie kind of look, but he doesn't half take a bad photo.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25636&g2_serialNumber=1)

Like Ross and Rachel, we're on a break.

Oh deary me, not a good day for Steven Frew. With most of the chips in preflop, he found himself faced with Vasileios (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841) Kontogiannis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841) (henceforth to be known as Ctrl V) moving all in for his last 29k on the 3c Aspades 6c flop. Frew called all in with his Kh Kc but Vasileios (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841) Kontogiannis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841) turned over Ad Ks, and with no help from the 8h turn or 5h river, he frew in the towel and headed for the rail.

Is he frewrious?

No.

Shame.

Identity theft! I'm still in and sitting next to the chip leader!

Oh, that's awkward, seeing as we've already made a bunch of jokes out of your name. I'm beginning to suspect that the DTD seating plan is unreliable...

Ahhh, it was the guy to your right who busted out. Don't suppose you found out his name...?

You've made him Frewrious!

Booder -- 28k with aggros Ben (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=47) Vinson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=47) and Guprit Nagi to his right.

+1 nhwp.

Barry Neville on the way he gets quoted on blonde, "Floppeh, I don't fookin' talk like tha'!"

Erik Naslund saw a flop with Gurpreet Nagi; it was 2d 7d 2x. Naslund bet out, and Nagi called. Onwards to the turn.

Turn: another 7

Both players checked, and they proceeded to the river.

River: 8d, putting a flush out there for the less observant.

Naslund checked, and Nagi bet (more or less) a stack - enough that it would leave Naslund with only 35k if he were to call. He passed, and Nagi is on 115k currently.

A most unlikely disaster for Nicky Mclellan.

He raised to 8.5k in early position only for Tania Narine to shove for 35k or so to his immediate left. A call, and it looked like a split pot...

Mclellan: Ad Kh
Narine: Ac Kc

Flop: Jc 4d 3c (some oohing at the table)

Turn: Ts (the sound of everyone holding their breath)

River: 8c (everyone makes a face like someone farted)

Ouch.

Narine: up to 80k
Mclellan: down to just 20k

Gurpreet Nagi and Booder check down a board of Th 5c Ad Qd Qh where Nagi bets 5k on the river. Booder calls after much thought.

Nagi shows Jc 5h. Booder mucks.

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Chip count for boo please, cant decide whether to come say hello yet or not!

The one-man wrecking crew that is Jesper Persson just eliminated another player who raised all-in on a Q-6-5 flop with A-J but found Persson quickly calling with K-K which held.

Steven Frew is out now, and no doubt frewrious.

Morteza Assadi has doubled through Daniel Shelemy with A-Q vs K-K, spiking an Ace on the flop.

any update on Michael Osbourne

I arrived at the table to see Gurpreet Nagi bet 10.2k on a 2d Ts Qd flop, and Ben Vinson move all in on his ass, as it were, for another 17.9k. Call.

Nagi: Tc 8c
Vinson: Ad Th

Turn: Jd
River: Kh

Vinson's winning hand only got winninger, and he enjoyed a much-needed double up to 75k. Nagi on 91k after that.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25637&g2_serialNumber=1)

Mr Chris Bruce found himself all in against his neighbour Mr Steve Jelinek.

Jelinek: 4h 4d
Brucey: Ahrt 6h

Board: 8s 7h 3d 6s Qc

Brucey doubles up to 65k, Jelinek, er, doubles down to 60k.

Says it all really:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25639&g2_serialNumber=1)

Michael Greco is up to about 70k having knocked out another player with K-Q vs A-8 on a K-Q-8 flop.

Hassan Irfan raiseds to 8.5k from the cutoff and Jesper Persson makes it 20.1k from the button. Call

Ac 7d 2h

Irfan checks and then folds after Persson bets 23.3k. Persson can't resist showing him Kh Ts.

28k, rather precarious.

G-g-g-g-game.  Nothing for a pair, not in this game.

WarB might not say much but when he does he really makes it count.

WP fella.

Prizes?

Barry Neville -- 88k

3rd post, page 1.

1   -   £30,761
2   -   £17,983
3   -   £10,790
4   -   £7,572
5   -   £5,679
6   -   £4,259
7   -   £3,312
8   -   £2,366
9   -   £1,893
10 - 13   -   £1,325
14 - 18   -   £946
19 - 27   -   £600
28 - 36   -   £450

Michael Osborne, looking precarious on 35k:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25644&g2_serialNumber=1)

How is Darren Shallis doing?

is Paul Newman from walsall still in? ty

Yes there are prizes.

Booder Disaster

Steve Vine limped in early position, and an aggressive and possibly tilty Erik Naslund shoved behind him. Booder woke up with pocket queens, and reshoved. Back to Vine...

...and a call. Oh no...

Booder: Qs Qd
Naslund: Td 7d
Vine: Ks Kd

Board: 3c 4s Js Ac 2d with not the merest glimmer of hope for Booder. Both Booder and Naslund are out, and with that we're down to 5 tables. "WHat can you do, you play for a day and a half..." Ul Booder, wp, gg etc.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25643&g2_serialNumber=1)

Michael Greco is out. A-Q vs A-K on an A-3-5 flop

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25593&g2_serialNumber=2)

Very unlucky Booder.

Yes, we'll just check the colour of his money in a a second.

great. wish him luck from Baz from walsall thanks

Chip counts on Lawrence Gosney & Gary Fox please.

Also wish them luck from Craig

Is Dave Welch still in, if so chip count please. Good work BTW.

115k

good lad!

No, he welched out very early.

Lol ok thx.

Darren Shallis: 130k

"No movement here."

Were you checking his bowels or something?

steady as she goes..

chip count for 'uncle'Dave Nesbit and Nick Hicks please

gl to ben vinson to

Unluckiness for Joseph Byrne, as he gets most of his stack in with Ac Kd against Colin Young's Aspades Qs.

Board: Ahrt 7s 4s 8d 5s

Yuck.


All in two hands later from the cutoff for his meagre 6.5k, he got himself called by Daniel Shelemy on the button. Mad Turk-alike Morteza Assadi reshoved, and again Shelemy called.

Shelemy: Ahrt Qh
Assadi: Aspades Qc
Byrne: Kd 9c

All three players agreed that they were actually very happy with their respective hands, and the board was dealt.

Board: 5d 6s Jd 7c Qs

Thus Mr Byrne is a goner and the other two gents make a slight profit by splitting the pot, and the bubble draws ever closer as we get down to 41 players.

Come on, hometime!

Hey ho, good job!

I was wondering if Ben Dobson was still in and if so how is he faring?

Nope, I'm afraid he went out 51st.

Skullman updates coming shortly...

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how many left now please.how many has darren shallis got? Ahrt Ac

Nick Hicks raises to 8k but folds when Darren Shallis makes it 25k from the big blind.

Michael Osbourne check/raises all-in on a Ad 3c Kc against last month's 2nd placed finisher David Mundle who folds.

Lawrence Gosney raises to 9k, but folds when Matthew Tandy reraises to a whopping 50k with 70k back.

Go Go Newportlad  ;technolog;

Is John Dick still in?

How much is average chips now?... How many players left?... and could I get a chip count on Gurpreet 'Sunny' Nagi please?... Go Sunny!!

Dick went deep but ended up out early, bit of an anti-climax.

Errr... the clock at the top tells you that stuff.

Doesnt seem to be working... Maybe it's just my computer... Hmmmm...

Entrants: 347

Starting Chips: 10,000
Players Left: 39

Average Chips: 88,974
00:31:24

level: 15 - 2,000/4,000/400

SKULLMAN: 55k and covered in skulls

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25648&g2_serialNumber=1)

gogogogogo Gerald, be there for the man

Gurpreet Nagi -- 110k
Steve Holden -- 100k
Nick Hicks -- 130k
Darren Shallis -- 135k

Hassan Irfan and Jesper Persson having been having a few pissing contests. Irfan raises the button to 12k and Persson quickly makes it 37.6k, Irfan reraises all-in and Persson gets a count but folds when it's nearly another 120k or so.

One of Irfan's friends cheers from the rail but as Irfan can't resist turning over the 3s, his friend shouts, "No, no NO! Don't show him, you dick!"

Irfan, "I had to, he's been pushing me about all day."

Massive Pot Alert

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With Nikolaos Sforos already all in before the 7d 7c 2h flop, Rana/Harpit Gurnam moved all in to a bet from David Mundle. Some dwelling, some squinting, and eventually some calling.

On their backs.

Sforos: Jh Qc
Mundle: 8s 8d
Rana: 2c 2d

Yikes.

Turn: 6d
River: 6s

Thus Sforos is OUT, Mundle is down to 37k and yesterday's big stack Rana has somewhere around the 130k mark.

My, don't I take a flattering photograph.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25651&g2_serialNumber=1)

Update on Dave Stratton plzzzzzzz ty

Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) Neville (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) has more to rant about now, after taking down an enormous and bizarre pot.

Steven King Vine raised, and Neville reraised. Flat call. "That's not a problem, sir," lied Neville.

The flop: 7h Jh 5s

Vine checked, Neville bet a sizeable 20k, and Vine called so fast I barely saw his hand move.

Turn: 4h, and both players checked.

River: 3h and again, both players checked it.

"Flush," announced Neville, turning over the very feeble 3s 5h. Vine showed him Qc Qs, and promptly wandered off to calm himself down. Neville remained sanguine for a moment, before starting, "'E played thaht ahbsolutely 'orrendous..."

Neviile: 130k
Vine: 90k

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25654&g2_serialNumber=1)

I believe Ben Vinson is a near-the-bubble casualty; perhaps Floppy has the details...

Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2825) Ellinas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2825) is our bubble boy. He pushed for 20k after Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) Neville (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) raised to to 12k.

Neville was forced to call with Js 9s but was in as good shape as he could hope when Ellinas turned over 8s 8h.

A 2h Jd 7d 5h 9h board later and everyone else is in the money.

1   2   Harprit Singh Gurnam
1   3   Tania Narine
1   4   Michael Osborne
1   6   Kate (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1684) Langshaw (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1684)
1   7   David Mundle
1   8   Rab Bain
1   9   Stephen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=804) Holden (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=804)

11   1   Lawrence (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) Gosney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243)
11   3   Ole Christian Olsen
11   5   Matthew Tandy
11   6   Steve Vine
11   7   Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2966) Newman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2966)
11   8   Alistair (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1454) Carins (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1454)
11   9   Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) Neville (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42)

12   1   Dipak Makawana
12   2   Hassan Irfan
12   3   Jesper Persson
12   4   Gary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2630) Orme (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2630)
12   5   Frazer Beattie
12   8   Vasileios (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841) Kontogiannis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841)
12   9   Andrew Kent

13   1   Allan Mclean
13   2   Gerald (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2787) David (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2787)
13   3   Peter Renkel
13   4   Colin Young
13   5   Lloyd Griffiths
13   6   Gurpreet (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2868) Nagi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2868)
13   7   Daniel Shelemy
13   9   Morteza Assadi

2   3   Darren (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2665) Shallis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2665)
2   4   Steve (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=414) Jelinek (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=414)
2   5   Christopher Bruce
2   6   David (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2103) Stratton (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2103)
2   7   Nichiei Hicks
2   8   Andrew Murphy
2   9   Nicolas Mclellan

Looks like Garys out then. any chance of Lawrences' chip count

best wishes to dave stratton any chnce of a chip count and photo please for his mrs he told her he was going out 4 a paper yesterday and she hasnt seen him since

Hi guys, great updates as usual (apart from odd dodgy piccy ;))

Can you keep an eye out for Kate Langshaw please? Tar x

Mr Dave Stratton, 95k.

Once again, my ability to bring out the best in everyone through the medium of photography is unsurpassed.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25657&g2_serialNumber=1)

With a board of 8c 7s 4s 9s 4c and Js Ts in front of Gurpreet Nagi and 9h 9c residing next to Peter Renkel, you'd be forgiven for thinking this might have gone in on the flop, turn or river. Not so, "I made a move and it was all-in preflop" confessed Nagi, who is now down to just about 20k or so while Renkel is over the 100k mark.

Players on a short break. Chip counts for all remaining players to come.

People in the cash so far:

32   Gary Orme   £450
33   Andrew Murphy   £450
34   Christopher Bruce   £450
35   Ole Christian Olsen   £450
36   Andrew Kent   £450

Oh deary deary me, a very unhappy Chris Bruce is OUT. Steve Jelinek shoved with K-4 most unreasonably, Brucey called with a very reasonable Q-Q, the board came down with two highly unreasonable kings on it.

Brucey: "FFS, I'm f***ing so sick of this s***..."

Jelinek: 140k, and, "I should have told him it was a bad call..."

Nicky Mclellan found himself all in with A-K against Darren Shallis' A-K, and with no surprises from the deck, they split the pot.

A few hands later, Mclellan raised and it folded around, and he showed A-K again, to guffawing from the table. Steve Jelinek tells me that maybe 12 of the previous 20 hands, Mclellan had found A-K...

thanks dana

Kate Langshaw picked up a few chips, raising preflop and getting herself called by Alistair Cairns in the big blind. Come the 2c Ts 5d flop, he checked to her, and she shoved for her last 50k. Some squirming, but a fold resulted in Langshaw taking the pot.

Andrew Murphy is also gone.

Down to the very felt, he called all on from the small blind to a standard button raise from Nick Hicks, and was in trouble.

Murphy: Ad 2h
Hicks: Aspades 7c

Board: Td 4d 8c 3s Jc

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25658&g2_serialNumber=1)

Gary Orme is similarly no more for this tournament, after moving all in to a raise from Hassan Irfan.

Irfan: Td Ts
Orme: 7c 7d

No help, and we move on to the break.

good luck to harpit singh gurnam( or rana to us lot).good luck to darren shallis too.chip counts please.thankyou as usual. Ahrt Ac

Nick giving it the fist pump?

Chip O'counts courtesy of the very lovely people at DTD:

Jesper Persson   12   3   389700
Stephen Holden   11   2   206000
Hassan Irfan   12   2   199700
Alistair Carins   11   8   174000
Barry Neville   11   9   173500
Steve Jelinek   2   4   172900
Dipak Makawana   12   1   171700
Daniel Shelemy   13   7   160000
Matthew Tandy   11   5   151000
Lawrence Gosney   11   1   145000
Nichiei Hicks   2   7   141300
Vasileios Kontogiannis   12   8   135600
Rab Bain   2   1   129000
Darren Shallis   2   3   122100
Steve Vine   11   6   102000
Nicolas Mclellan   2   9   97600
Harprit Singh Gurnam   13   8   96200
Gerald David   13   2   77700
Frazer Beattie   12   5   76200
David Stratton   2   6   75800
Colin Young   13   4   74200
Allan Mclean   13   1   71100
Peter Renkel   13   3   69000
Paul Newman   11   7   68000
Kate Langshaw   11   4   66000
David Mundle   2   2   50000
Tania Narine   12   7   39400
Gurpreet Nagi   13   6   32200
Morteza Assadi   13   9   26200
Lloyd Griffiths   13   5   18900

gogogogogogo SKULLMAN

Go go Newportlad!  ;technolog;

Nick fkin Hicks FTW

Lloyd Griffiths heads for the door as his Aspades Qd goes in behind Colin Young's Ac Kc and stays behind all the way down the 4d Kd 4c 9s 9h board.

The Young one:

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Nick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=306) Hicks (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=306) has knocked out David Mundle with 9-9 vs A-J. A nine on the flop helping to whiff away the flush draw.

Darren (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2665) Shallis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2665) raised preflop from UTG+1 and Lawrence (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) Gosney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) made the call in midposition

Js 5h Tc

Shallis bet 30k and Gosney moved all-in. Shallis folded what he later revealed to be A-Q. Gosney actually showed A-K. Shallis is on about 75k, Gosney near 200k.

And bless your hearts, Stratton fans - no sooner had I taken a dreadful photo of him than Dave Stratton busted. Looked to be pocket sevens against some sort of paint in Steve Jelinek's hand; a bunch of paint on the board and a sad Stratton putting his coat on.

Jelinek has around 230k.

Just made it home after a very very frustrating day 2 when  83, 72, 83 95 was all i could find

scraped into the cash and then  find a hand in the BB -  QQ was no good  though against the mighty K 4

WP GG

Good luck to Nick hicks who is playing well

Woo Woo, Massive Pot Alert

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Ctrl V Vasileios (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841) Kontogiannis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841) moved in on a Th 6h 8d flop. He was in for around 100k total.

Uber-stack Jesper Persson called.

Vasileios (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841) Kontogiannis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841): Tc 9c
Persson: Ahrt 2h

Turn: 4s
River: Kh

Vasileios (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841) Kontogiannis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2841) = OUT
Persson = giganto-chip leader, on somewhere around 500k.

Finally took a photo where he doesn't look like he's having a stroke:

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C'mon Shallis for the double up!

gl newportlad

Go on Gosney

Darren Shallis is back up to 140k.

"It wasn't pretty..."

"He fookin' made a fookin' donkey move!" said the familiar voice of Barry Neville. "Ah raise it up wit' Ace-Queen int' small blind and he moved in wit' King Ten and 'it. Ah got 'bout 70k left now."

26   Morteza Assadi   £600
27   David Mundle   £600
28   Vasileios Kontogiannis   £450
29   David Stratton   £450
30   Lloyd Griffiths   £450
31   Michael Osborne   £450
32   Gary Orme   £450
33   Andrew Murphy   £450
34   Christopher Bruce   £450
35   Ole Christian Olsen   £450
36   Andrew Kent   £450

Our remaining players:

12   1   Dipak Makawana
12   2   Hassan Irfan
12   3   Jesper Persson
12   4   Peter Renkel
12   5   Frazer Beattie
12   6   Kate Langshaw
12   7   Tania Narine
12   8   Stephen Holden

13   1   Allan Mclean
13   2   Gerald David
13   4   Colin Young
13   5   Matthew Tandy
13   6   Gurpreet Nagi
13   7   Daniel Shelemy
13   8   Harprit Singh Gurnam
13   9   Paul Newman

2   1   Rab Bain
2   2   Barry Neville
2   3   Darren Shallis
2   4   Steve Jelinek
2   5   Alistair Carins
2   6   Lawrence Gosney
2   7   Nick Hicks
2   8   Steve Vine
2   9   Nicolas Mclellan

Lovely! Nice one Darren.

good luck to barry Neville and of course Rana the cardrack

can u give me a chip count on barry neville

GL Darren!!

Oh Iwan...why are you such a bok? ...and not just a bok, a...
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Literally at the same time Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) Neville (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=42) pushes over the top of Rab Bain's late position raise with A-J and eventually gets called by 6-6. Ace on the flop immediately followed by a 6. Bazza down and out.

Then as that's happening, Rana Gurnam raises to 14.1k UTG, and gets called by Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2966) Newman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2966) in UTG+1. Gurpreet (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2868) Nagi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2868) moves all-in from the blinds and Gurnam pushes behind with Newman quickly folding...

Nagi: Th Tc
Gurnham: Ac Ad

Ks Qh 7h Ahrt.....3h

Nagi has Gurnam just covered and the latter is out.

Our two Last Ladies Standing are, er, seated next to each other, most improbably.

Tania Narine (on the right): just 45k, yikes

Kate Langshaw (on the left): was going to say a mere 38k, but she has just now doubled up to 80k or so shoving with Kd Js and getting herself called by Jesper Persson holding Ks 9d.

Board: no surprises

Persson: barely a dent in his monstrous stack

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OMG any chance you can delete my post? vvul to both and I won't wish anyone else luck!!!!!!

Mr Darren Shallis is up to 210k after knocking out somebody I suspect may have been Nicky Mclellan with Q-Q versus J-Q.

Hurrah, Shallis fans! Woe, Mclellan fans. Some kind of emotional quandary for those who like both players.

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Woo Hoo, go Shallis!!! ;technolog;

SKULLMAN has been reduced to mere bones; in fact, he's busted out completely, getting his Ahrt Qd involved with Paul Newman's Ac Kd.

"There's queens coming," said a hopeful SKULLMAN, but he was entirely wrong, as the board came down 7h 8d 2d 9h Js and off he went, while his chips became Newman's Own.

Newman may have broken a nail in his haste to call SKULLMAN's all in:

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well done darren shallis keep going now. Ahrt Ac.good luck to rana too but with the cards he gets im sure he will be fine lol

go stevie holden

Nick Hicks raises to 22k from early position, Steve Jelinek makes it 80k from the big blind. Nick quickly announces all-in for about 130k more on top, Steve calls. Biggest pot of the tournament.

Jelinek: Ts Td
Hicks: Ac Kh

5h 5c 7c 8s Jc

Steve's total count is 212,700 which is slightly more than Nick has and the EPT Grand finalist picks up a pot worth over 400k. Hicks is out and no doubt a little gutted about losing a flip which would be for a final table stack.

I think the photo sums it up.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25674&g2_serialNumber=1)

Clearly Newman is Nobody's Fool.

Colin Young is down to a meagre 32k after raising from the cutoff and then laying it down to reraise from Gurpreet Nagi in the small blind that would have put him in. "I'm not sure that was the right thing to do," he muttered as he watched his chips slide across the table to Nagi, but whether he was referring to the raising or the folding is unknown.

oh my!

I can feel a Jelenik/Gosney expolsion coming!

Jelink is gonna flop a set (obv) and lawrence a back door flush and back door straight hand with 75 (obv never folding with all those back doors possibilities and his 'god pass')

and the winner of the hand will ship the tourney!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 ;tk;

Kate Langshaw is OUT, getting her chips in with Ac 9d and getting called by Dipak Makawana (I believe the only player left in who's wearing a suit) holding Ad Kc. Langshaw had a few more outs on the turn, but nothing came in and out she goes, the last player in the £600 bracket.

Board: 4s Ts 6h 7s Th

We're down to two tables, and everyone is now guaranteed £946.

Current Seating

12   1   Dipak Makawana
12   2   Hassan Irfan
12   3   Jesper Persson
12   4   Peter Renkel
12   5   Frazer Beattie
12   6   Lawrence Gosney
12   7   Alistair Carins
12   8   Rab Bain
12   9   Steve Vine

13   1   Allan Mclean
13   2   Stephen Holden
13   3   Darren Shallis
13   4   Colin Young
13   5   Matthew Tandy
13   6   Gurpreet Nagi
13   7   Daniel Shelemy
13   8   Steve Jelinek
13   9   Paul Newman

Gl to steve holden

Superb updates guys btw- really enjoying them

Thank you very much, the little yellow man tips his hat to you.

 ;hattip;

Couldn't be more true! Thanks guys... Awesome updates...

He's just taken a small hit, doubling up Colin Young with Ad 9h vs Ac Kc all-in preflop on a Ts Kh 8s 5c Ahrt board.

Also, some serious props to Gurpreet Nagi who was almost felted earlier with that Js Ts hand and has since come back and is over the 100k mark by a fair distance.

Complete Cashees so far:

19   Kate Langshaw   £600
20   Nichiei Hicks   £600
21   Tania Narine   £600
22   Harprit Singh Gurnam   £600
23   Barry Neville   £600
24   Gerald David   £600
25   Nicolas Mclellan   £600
26   Morteza Assadi   £600
27   David Mundle   £600
28   Vasileios Kontogiannis   £450
29   David Stratton   £450
30   Lloyd Griffiths   £450
31   Michael Osborne   £450
32   Gary Orme   £450
33   Andrew Murphy   £450
34   Christopher Bruce   £450
35   Ole Christian Olsen   £450
36   Andrew Kent   £450

We'll be getting full chip counts from DTD at the end of this level during which there will be a 15 minute break.

Thanks, but a lot of this is down to all the helpful people at DTD who are pretty much always up to date with players/exits and counts which make our lives a lot easier.

Come on Sunny! U can win this!

go go go Darren S

gl ste holden u deserve this 1. dont let gosney bully

--------15 Minute Break--------

I'm off to retrieve the Maltesers I've got stashed in the car, and absolutely not smoke any cigarettes. Wish me luck.

gl darren take it down

Should be some full chip counts coming our way any minute from the very excellent DTD people.

Play restarts in around a minute.

UL Nick WP.

darren shallis for the win now Ahrt Ac

Go on Darren TID!

Steve Jelinek is the chip leader with around 430k. Full counts to come shortly.

Other counts I know...

Lawrence Gosney: around 370k
Dipak Makawana: 307k

Promise the rest are coming soon.

Ooh, here's one more chip count I know.

Alan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=19) McLean (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=19): 0

He shoved in late-ish position with Aspades 5c, and was most unfortunate to smack right into Colin Young's Ac Ad on the button.

Board: a fiveless 8d Kd 8s 4s Ks and we're down to 17 runners.

Another big shout of GL to Darren Shallis

Chip Counts:

Steve Jelinek   13   8   438500
Jesper Persson   12   3   392000
Dipak Makawana   12   1   307500
Darren Shallis   13   3   266000
Lawrence Gosney   12   6   247500
Hassan Irfan   12   2   243000
Gurpreet Nagi   13   6   219000
Matthew Tandy   13   5   194500
Rab Bain   12   8   170000
Alistair Carins   12   7   154000
Colin Young   13   4   140500
Paul Newman   13   9   137000
Peter Renkel   12   4   117000
Stephen Holden   13   2   115000
Daniel Shelemy   13   7   88500
Frazer Beattie   12   5   62500
Steve Vine   12   9   61500
Allan Mclean   13   1   50500

Misfortune for Darren 'Newportlad' Shallis. Raising to 40k from the cutoff, he saw Colin Young move all-in for an additional 82.5k and made the call with 8h 8d only to run into Jd Jh. He's down to about 130k now, whilst Young is over the quarter million mark.

Tables just before the Alan Mclean exit.

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Go on Newportlad! Get it won!

Matthew Tandy raised to 27k from the cutoff, and Steve Jelinek called from the big blind. A flop followed.

Flop: 3h Ks 7c

Check, check.

A turn: Jd

Jelinek checked, Tandy bet 45k, and Jelinek called.

River: 3s

Both players checked, and Jelinek's Ahrt Jh elicited a simple muck from Tandy.

Lawrence Gosney has done himself a bit of harm.

With 120k or so in the pot by the river of the 9d Jh 7s Ahrt 3d board, he bet 80k. Jesper Persson disappeared into the tank for a long time, during which someone unrelatedly knocked over a chair. Eventually he called.

"You win," said Gosney and mucked even before Persson had a chance to show him Kd Kh. Persson looked smug, and Gosney is down to 115k.

More Persson Action

Indeed he is a Persson non grata as far as Steve Vine is concerned. Probably. Vine shoved with Ks Jd, and Persson called him from the big blind with Ac 7s.

Board: an excitement-free 3s 2c Qh 6h 5c and we're down a Vine in 17th place.

great updates, gl to steve and.......steve

Persson Getting Jiggy Again

The very next hand, Persson raised to 25.5k from the button, and Frazer Beattie shoved for a total of 117.5k from the big blind.

Beattie: 7d 7s
Persson: Qs Qc

Board: SMACK 7h Tc Ahrt 9h 8s

Double up for Beattie.

Gurpreet Nagi and Daniel Shelemy have a tussle in the blinds, raised preflop I believe.

7d 7h 3d

Check check.

Ahrt

Nagi bets 30k and Shelemy moves all-in for 63.5k more.

Nagi stares at his opponent for about a minute and says, "Something is telling me to call this." He does and flips over Kh 2s but before anyone can react, Shelemy is only able to show Qd 5s. The river is the 9d. King high is good enough...

"Call of the tournament," says Steve Jelinek.

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Dipak Makawana has just won a huge pot from Jesper Persson. All-in preflop with Aspades Ks against the Swede's Tc Td, Makawana ended up victorious after the board came out 7c 6h Ahrt 5d 7d. Persson is down to just about 200k, Makawana has about 600k now and is the new chip leader.

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great poker by both- someone put this on hero call thread

People Who Have in the Past 15 Minutes Shoved Preflop and Taken the Blinds Uncontested

- or, the Not Much Has Happened Just Lately Post.


- Lawrence Gosney
- Alistair Cairns, twice
- Paul Newman (showed pocket jacks)
- Jesper Persson (from the small blind; Peter Renkel in the big blind showed 3-T as he folded)
- Stephen Holden

Amazing call - preflop though if one of them raised, the other called with Q5 or K2???? hmmmmmmm

Great call!!!!!!
SINGH IS KING!!!!

Gurpreet (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2868) Nagi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2868) raised to 27k from midposition and Steve Holden moved all-in for 81k more from the small blind. (While Darren (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2665) Shallis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2665) does his best LeKnave impression in the background)

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Asking for a count, Nagi was told it was 81k more back to him.

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"Ok, I call," he said. Turning over 9d 9s. Holden flipped Aspades Qd

7h 5d 8d 7s 6c

A straight for Nagi and he's looking like a contender, while Steve Holden gets one of those frustrating cashes that are close but not close enough.

top coverage what time do u think it will finish, or will a deal be done

Well, I think we're going to get to the final by about 11pm and having a deal during the final table. That way 5 or 6 players can guarantee themselves £10k each.

u cant blame them, is good pay 4 2 days work

IMPORTANT UPDATE

I've caught Floppy's cold. Ill me. :(

Meanwhile back in Pokerland, Steve Jelinek made it 30k from the cutoff, only for Colin Young to reraise to an intriguing 105k, leaving himself just 80k behind. Jelinek made a face, and eventually folded, showing pocket sixes.

Alistair Cairns moved all in utg (apparently his favourite move), and Peter Renkel, shorter-stacked still than Cairns, called all in from the small blind - I believe for a total of 57k.

Cairns: Kc Jh
Renkel: Aspades Qh

Board: 5h 5c Ts Td 3d

Double up for Renkel, woe and perhaps 90k remaining to Cairns.

Monstrous Pot

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Jesper Persson raised to 29k from the cutoff, and Lawrence Gosney called in the small blind. Our short-stacked Alistair Cairns, unable at this time to shove utg, shoved from the big blind instead for a total of 91.5k, and sat there clapping for a bit. Persson asked how much Gosney had left, and was met with the answer, "All you can see," = 95k or so. After a brief dwell, he passed.

Back to Gosney, and some more dwelling. And eventually, a call.

Cairns: Ahrt Qh
Gosney: Kc Td

Board: 5d 6d 8d 6c 2d

Meaning that Gosney had a flush at the end of that, and Cairns had a ticket out of the tournament in 14th place.

Steve Jelinek calls a raise in the big blind from Matthew Tandy who button raises.

Ad Qc Jh

Jelinek checks, Tandy moves all-in. Jelinek calls, mainly because he flopped the nuts with Kd Td. Tandy has err...Jd 6d and can't quite manage a runner-runner house.

12 left.

TOTALLY UNEXPECTED SCANDIE EXIT

Jesper Persson raised to 30k utg and it folded around to Hassan Irfan on the big blind. He reraised, to perhaps 100k. Persson made it All In, and Irfan called in about a millisecond.

Persson: Js Jh
Irfan: Ac Aspades

Board: 6h 2h Qh 7c 2d

Irfan is now the proud owner of precisely one s***load of chips, while Persson is down to, umm, 1k. Which is all in on his ante/big blind the next hand. Lawrence Gosney and small blind assassin Irfan limp in and check down the Ahrt 6d Qs Ac 8s board; Persson mucks and goes home and Gosney shows a queen to win it.

11 left; making it home to a cup of cocoa and bed by 3am is looking like a real possibility. Sniff.

11 left and quite a few short stacks holding on.

One of these, Peter Renkel just annoyed me with one of my own personal pet hates while Persson was still in. Dipak Makawana raised preflop and Persson was still deciding what to do when Renkel (next to act) just got up and left the table to go to the toilet/for a smoke. It really bugs me when people do this as it gives an unfair advantage. He got a warning afterwards, but I'd like to see things like this be treated as harshly as other action out of turn.

/gets off soapbox

dont think that there will be deals whilst lawrence gosney is at the table and running like god!

think you could see 5am

 :'(

Any idea of rough chipcount pls, moreso Darren Shallis.

Cheers

Mr Rab Bain, my heretofore largely unmentioned Name Of The Day That Isn't John Dick, stuck in his sad little 55k stack with Qs 9s and got himself called by Hassan Irfan holding Qd 5h.

Board: Kd 2h 6h 2d 5s

(Mc)Bain will not be back, and we are hand for hand while we wait for the final table bubble to burst.

gl to Darren.

any chance of chip counts and payout structure.

Hey Stuart, Payout structure on page 1 of this thread :)

Chip count for Gurpreet 'Sunny' Nagi please?... Thank you... :)

 Newportlad for the triple up! GL Darren.

Die commie nazi!

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Hi hun, thanks.

Chip Countaments (approx):

Colin Young -- 290k
Gurpreet (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2868) Nagi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2868) -- 310k
Frazer Beattie -- 130k
Steve (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=414) Jelinek (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=414) -- 550k
Paul 'The Sting' Newman -- 350k

Dipak Makawana -- 650k
Hassan Irfan -- 500k
Darren (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2665) Shallis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2665) -- 155k
Peter Renkel -- 85k
Lawrence (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) Gosney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) -- 400k

go go go Darren S

+1

+ another

+ 1 more

one here too!

GOGOGOGO

pob lwc Darren

good luck to darren shallis. Ahrt Ac

Dipak Dipak Dipak  ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

Gogogo my old mate Dipak (Doc) Makawana

In what can only be described as 'possible-update-killingness', Darren (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2665) Shallis (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2665) is out in 10th place.

He pushed for 103k with Aspades Jh and found Dipak Makawana reraise to 207k behind in the small blind. Hassan Irfan STOOD UP because he had A BIG DECISION, before meekly folding later saying he had Jacks.

Dipak Makawana showed Qs Qh

3d Ks 5d 8s 7c

Newportlad just pipped at the final hurdle.

Chip counts and final table photos to come shortly.

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Sooo very UL Darren vvvwp hun!

gg wp

unlucky darren well played mate. Ahrt Ac

Why will nobody listen to me - never play AJ.     aarrgghhhh

105k left was short.aj not a great hand but he didnt call he moved all in.0 wrong with that.well played again darren.

Newportlad just pipped at the final hurdle.

Chip counts and final table photos to come shortly.

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Why will nobody listen to me - never play AJ.     aarrgghhhh
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Iiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnn Seat 1: Steve Jelinek

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Seat 2: Colin Young

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Seat 3: Frazer Beattie

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Seat 4: Dipak Makanawa

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Seat 5: Paul Newman

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Seat 6: Gurpreet "Sunny" Nagi

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Seat 7: Lawrence Gosney

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Seat 8: Peter Renkel

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Seat 9: Hassan Irfan and his Calvin Kleins

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I'm routing for Nagi, played on a table with him at Broadway festival, he seemed like a top chap and a good player...

well im putting my money on anyone who can keep their eyes open lol. Ahrt Ac

Me not ftw.  ;sleep;

Steve (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=414) Jelinek (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=414) -- 498,000
Colin Young -- 233,000
Frazer Beattie -- 192,500
Dipak Makawana -- 741,500
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2966) Newman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2966) -- 230,500
Gurpreet (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2868) Nagi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2868) -- 436,500
Lawrence (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) Gosney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) -- 324,000
Peter Renkel -- 56,000
Hassan Irfan -- 649,000

lol.thaks to you and the rest of the team for the excellent updates.good luck to all left in Ahrt Ac

Yeah, one hand I didn't have time to post before the final was when he called Steve Jelinek's 40k raise preflop from the big blind and then check/called a 45k bet on an Aspades 7s 4d flop before leading for 75k on the 6d. Jelinek looked puzzled but folded. Nagi showed Tc 9c.

gogogogogoggogo lawrence - ship it all to Leeds

"no deals no deals no deals" ;spam;

Please deals, for the updaters' sakes.  ;pokergods;

Either way, should be an interesting final.

Ooh, players are on their way back to the table, scuppering Floppy's plan to get ice cream.

Please stand by.

Good luck all, most of all the updaters.

gogogo Gosney, win it all sir.

gogogogogogo Lawrence mfkin Gosney.

Oh and a random brag.


Time of 10th place exit...

I have cheesecake, who is the big winner now?*

*People on the final don't count.

Well, play is underway, and has largely been characterized by gentle caginess thus far.

Sunny nicked some blinds with a moderate raise.

Colin Young raised to an ambitious 66k from the cutoff, but folded when Dipak Makanawa (henceforth to be known as Doc) reraised him all in from the small blind. Doc's chip lead gets bigger, and Young is left with 150k or so.

I would like to applaud DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) for increasing the size of their chicken Caesar salad roughly threefold since the last time I ate one. Value for money now imo.

then i can already feel players wanting to make a deal.dont do it,for the love of cheesecake dont do it. Ahrt Ac

If they did a deal now, they'd get around £9k apiece. Not bad for a weekend's work. Go go go the deal!

Paul newman for the win, top guy excellent player, deserves the touch!  cum on " sting meister " you can do iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit :)

Gladiator

THIS!!

vtrue but mr gosney wont be doing that.glad to hear you got more chicken.:) Ahrt Ac

interesting hand!

Lawrence Gosney bets 27k on a Kc Jd 9d flop but gives up when Paul Newman gives it the big Kahuna and moves all-in for about 300k.

Gosney then calls a raise from Frazier Beattie but folds the Qc 6d 2d flop before Beattie even bets.

Peter Renkel moves all-in for his last 35k or so. Auto-call from Hassan Irfan in the big blind.

Renkel: Tc 4h

Irfan: Kd 9h

Ahrt 2c 4s 6h Ts

Renkel doubles up.

Next hand and Renkel pushes over the top of Nagi's 45k raise. Call.

Nagi: Ahrt Tc

Renkel: Js Jc

Qd 6s 3d 4c 7c

Renkel now gone from a nano-stack to a micro-stack, can he reach short stack status?

+1 good player nice bloke

go on my son, mr newman sounds as if he aint gunna let n e 1 bully him, esp mr gosney.... Paul newman for the win AGAIN!!!  i'll lay 5/2  n e takers.....

at 5/2 um no thanks lol Ahrt Ac

Mr Lawrence Gosney made it 55k to go, and after a moment's rather excellent play-acting, Colin Young in the small blind announced that he was all in for 122k total. Call, and oops...

Gosney: 3c 3s
Young: Ac Aspades

Board: 6c 9c Js 5s Kc

The more perceptive of you will have noticed the absence of threes, straights, flushes etc on that board, and will thus have come to the correct conclusion; namely that Mr Young doubled up to around 250k. Gosney meanwhile down to 170k. We are still nine, and I'd like a nap.

Probably happier than he looks:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25719&g2_serialNumber=1)

An interesting hand.

Paul Newman made it a min-raise 40k utg and there was a Mexican wave of suspicious folds all the way around to Doc in the big blind, who called.

The flop came down 5h 8d 7d and Doc checked it; Newman swiftly announced all in for over 300k. Doc looked as though he was really thinking about it, but passed. "Show it, show it," chanted Hassan Irfan. "What do you want me to show?" asked Newman. "Kings," was the very confident reply. Not 100% on this, but I'm pretty sure that Newman flashed the 2d...

Nothing really happening on my watch...raise/fold etc etc... Lawrence (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) Gosney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) looks to be the shorty now. Hassan Irfan seems to be more interested in chatting to his mates on the rail. Everyone else seems doped up on thorozene.

More excitingly, Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1524) Hawes (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1524) is chip leader in the £150 with 5 left.

Come on Newman, the players at Walsall are right behind you son

Woohoo ship it, Rich xx

Doc makes it 56k from the cutoff and Lawrence Gosney calls in the big blind.

Barry Neville commentary: "'E's a rock what's raised that oop."

They see a Js 2s Jd flop and check it; in fact they both check the Qc turn and the 6d river until Doc shows A-K and Gosney mucks.

This could take a while.

hopefully some action soon players out and a deal?any cheesecake left?im starving:) Ahrt Ac

Gurpreet Nagi raises to 50k with about 200k behind from the cut-off. Hassan Irfan sets him in from the big blind. Nagi sighs and calls.

Nagi: Ac 6h
Irfan: 5s 5d

7s 5c...("Yes!" shouts Irfan, "Fives, baby!!!")...4c

He's tempted fate with this flop though, but blanks on the 9s and Jh river means that Gurpreet Nagi is OUT in 9th place winning £1,893. He played impressively well during the tournament, we'll probably see more of him. Irfan is close to chip leader with Doc, but there's still 6 other dwarves still in...

What ya reakon shaun, you fancy a punt on paul  newman at 5/2  i no ya like a gamble lol

Come on Newman, you can do it - you dont need aces lol, although theyll do a few times

Gogogogo Hawes!!

Actually, weirdly, no. The kitchen has announced that they are out of, not only cheesecake, but also chocolate fudge cake. Ice cream only for dessert, I'm afraid.

It folds around to Steve Jelinek in the small blind, who shoves to cover big blind Colin Young. After a mere moment's face-pulling, Young calls all in.

Jelinek: Ad 8s
Young: Qh Qs

Board: an ace-free Jc 4s 5h 8c 6c

Young up to 400k, Jelinek down to 240k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25720&g2_serialNumber=1)

5/2 are you crackers, he hasnt got a chance imo

Lawrence (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) Gosney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) moves all-in from UTG+1, everyone folds. He shows Qh 3h.

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), "You've been waiting all this time for that monster?"

Soon after, he pushes again on the button and Hassan Irfan calls in the big blind.

Irfan: Ac 8c
Gosney: Kc Qd

Jd 8s 6s Ahrt......Tc

Gutshot for Gosney means another short stack doubles up. We may have to start drinking soon.

Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1524) Hawes (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1524) (who Dana thinks is secretly an Elf) has 2/3 of the chips in the £150 with 3 left.

young mr Kellett paul is a soooooopa player, hes due sumat big and i'm highly confident its cumin tonight...... for the 3rd time Paul newman 4 the win no imo lmfao hehe

Yesssssssss gogogo Rich

Win it all Rich!!

Gosney .................. golden................. you think?

binked 3 rivers today! - ship the money now - save the late night everyone!

is he 5/2 to win the wsop?lol only joking.still dont think newman willl win though.thanks again for the updates .good luck to those of you that manage to not fall asleep:) Ahrt Ac

every time i have played against/watched gosney play, he always gets lucky more than an average player..... some pple neva change! he will come un stuck soon, newman the man will take him out :)

Well played Sunny! Next month... :)

where is he taking him?to the lap dancing ? or for a bite to eat over the road (they will be serving breakfast by the time this finishes lol).good luck all players left. Ahrt Ac

Hurrah, short stack triple up! What could the updaters possibly enjoy more at 1am with 8 players still left in?

No, no, bitterness aside, Mr Peter Renkel has just now tripled up his micro-microstack.

All in with a sigh for just 39.5k (not even a min-raise) in mid position, he got himself called by both Hassan Irfan and Frazer Beattie, who proceeded to check down the board.

Board: Kc Kd Jd 3c 2s

Irfan: Aspades 4d
Beattie: 5c 5s (suits the product of my imagination as I didn't see them)
Renkel: Jc Qs

Onwards we go 8-handed...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25722&g2_serialNumber=1)

Incidentally, this is what they're playing for.

Shiny shiny, shiny bits of plastic...

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Whats the chip situation in the £150 plz Dana or Floppy?

Frazier Beattie moves all-in from the button.

He's called by the blinds.

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They check a Kc Qd 7h Qc 4h board down, where Doc shows Kc 4c and Newman shows Kh 3h. It doesn't matter though, Beattie has Qh Td to treble up.

This table is beginning to seriously damage my calm...

Hassan Irfan spends a minute putting on his shades before raising to 100k. Steve Jelinek moves all-in next to him. Call.

Irfan: Ad Ks
Jelinek: Kh Kd

Kc 3c Td 9h 4d

Another short stack doubles up.

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Richard Hawes is HU with the chip lead against Trevor Pearson.

Peter Renkel moves all-in for about 114k from the small blind. Call from Hassan Irfan.

Renkel: 5d 5s
Irfan: Qc Jc

Qh 9h 3c 2c Kh

Peter Renkel is OUT in 8th place winning £2,366

Might make myself a little unpopular but GL Trev!

have they started to hand out duvets and pillows yet lol.great updates and banter as usual. Ahrt Ac

Why don't they start earlier on a saturday? When I got back for day 2 today I was knackered, glad i didn't get deeper in that sense :)

Who was 9th ?   

I must have missed that post.

Ooh ooooh, it looks like action to me!

Frazer Beattie moves in from the button for 167.5k, and with the minimum of fuss he is called by Doc in the small blind.

Oooohh, the big stack's well ahead!

Beattie: Ac 3s
Doc: 7h 7d

Flop: Qs Qh 8h

Doc's ahead.

Turn: 8s

Wah, suddenly Beattie's ahead!

River: 8d

An improbable chop, and we continue.

Incidentally, during my time final tableside in the past half hour so, I have discovered that someone on or near the final table is suffering from really bad gas. Too many DTD burgers?

Sunny. We posted it. Maybe it got moderated. :)

forget that ... found it.

We only had 6 hours' sleep as it was, what with the email that Floppy got telling us to go to the wrong hotel and all. 3 day event ftw!

i think when this 321 began,they never envisaged more than 200 runners playing in it.when they guaranteed it at 50k the first time it was crazy with players dealing and there being a very very long queue.i guess it just shows how great the tourney is with regard to its structure, but i think they may have to revise start times as people may have to miss work etc.but then on the flip side they are all in the money.im just waiting for some action.the blinds surely mean it cant be far away or maybe just maybe there will be a deal. Ahrt Ac

Oh, I only just saw that you wrote Saturday and not Sunday. Actually what day is it now? Does anyone have any Pro Plus?

Get a hotel next time u cheapskate!! And u shud be wanting to get deeper!!

an earlier start on a saturday would be cool i reckon as most players travel up either on the friday or early saturday anyway.it would also be a lot fairer to the updaters:) Ahrt Ac

WP Richard Hawes in shipping the £150!!

MBSFN

On the final table aka Table Neverending Story, the story is well, neverending. Still 7 players but the average stack is now 16 and a bit big blinds, I simply can't see us not losing a player but somehow Renkel and Beattie in particular have managed to stay in forever. At the moment, it's more like no-one wants to lose rather than someone wanting to win. The value of still being in when one or two more players go out could make the difference between a low four-figure score and pocketing almost £10k.

 i hope those of us watching from our laptops and computers are going to be given 500 quid each as part of the deal.i feel our dedication to staying awake merits a healthy return lol:) Ahrt

any action? (apart from a book opening on who can drink the most coffee and stay awake) Ahrt Ac

Has Anything Interesting Happened?

Well, not really. I thought a hand would get interesting when Paul Newman just limped in in mid position and saw a 2c Jd Jc with blinds Steve Jelinek and Colin Young, but as it turned out they all checked and Young took the pot with a 100k bet on the Js turn.

The rather talkative Hassan Irfan has I think not quite been given a warning but gently upbraided by the TD for, I believe, trying to hurry someone into calling an all-in raise (the person in question folded in the end).

At one point Lawrence Gosney piped up, "We're all pals, why don't we take 11 grand each and go home?" which elicited some laughter at the rail but I believe he was very serious about it. Bit my tongue not to express my approval of this plan. Said Hassan, "If it'll shut you up, I'll do it." Gosney fell silent, but it's No Deal and the game continues.

guys

amazing updates you deserve medals! Chris with his cold as well.

God like updaters status achieved IMO  ;topman;

any wer we can watch this live online gents???

supporting my boy gozza!!!

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NO DEAL!!!!!
Take it Down champ!!!

finding that difficult to believe unless he is super short and fancies making a killer deal!

LOL classic Gosney!!

I cant stand it no further im gonna have to retire to my nice warm fartsack :-)

Good updates and il be looking forward to catching up with them in the morning!

GL to Lawrence Gosney. Hope he takes it down!!

what time can they play till?lol. Ahrt Ac do you get paid overtime?

Paul Newman, playing about 260k, limps for 30k UTG. Lawrence Gosney folds, muttering to someone behind him about being dealt a deuce every other hand. Hassan Irfan waits about 10 seconds, before slowly putting on his shades to look at his cards for about a minute. He eventually folds and uses another half a minute to take his shades off again.

Steve Jelinek folds sharpish. Colin Young thinks about limping for a minute, he then asks for a count of Newman's chips which is about 230k back. He then thinks for another minute and then folds. Beattie limps in the small blind and then instantly Doc moves all-in from the big blind. Newman folds, and so does Beattie.

Five minutes of my life I'm not getting back.

dear me i might have to go to the watching paint dry exhibition in the morning to  compensate for all the action here lol:)

Frazier Beattie moves all-in and Doc moves in behind.

Beattie: Kc Jh
Doc: Ac Qs

Ahrt 9h 5c (Irfan calls for a deuce bizarrely) 8d 8c

Frazier Beattie is OUT in 7th winning £3,313

unlucky to the player out but glad we have seen some action rather than the sit and hope to get 9 or 10k.great updates.

Has Anything Interesting Happened?



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Yes!


Paul Newman shoved from the button and small blind Lawrence Gosney folded. Said Hassan Irfan in the big blind, "You're playing with FIRE! Actually I don't know what I've got. Hope it's something good."

He looked at his cards.

"I call."

Newman: Kc Qs
Irfan: Ahrt Qc

Board: 9h 3c 5h 3s 2s

Thus Paul Newman is our 6th place finisher winning £4,259!

Hometime creeps ever closer! Commiserations, Newman fans, it was a cool hand but not cool enough. That was some dance, kid.


Not sure what's up with Colin. Or the railers.

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Players are on a short break. A nice valet is bringing me coffee. All is well.

what more action?lol.newman 5/2 not looking too good now.hopefully this will be the start of an all in fest which will end in a deal with 1k each for all updaters. Ahrt Ac

well played paul, fantastic performance son...... :)

yes well played sir.is quality to make last few in this.good luck to remaining players. Ahrt Ac

anyone got a idiea of the chip counts at this point?

Chip Count and their current worth:

Steve Jelinek -- 389k worth £10,713
Colin Young -- 621k worth £13,716
Dipak Makawana -- 1.209 million worth £21,326
Lawrence Gosney -- 128k worth £7,336
Hassan Irfan -- 1.083 million worth £19,695

Gosney flatly refused to deal despite having 3BB's, so like Pete Tong we continue...

makes no sense - one double thru doubles his equity!


ship it all to leeds imo

yeh man NO DEAL!!!

come on SOULJHA!!!!

Reppin Leeds!!!

...And as though the players have suddenly realised that they have homes to go to, suddenly the chips are flying into the middle like little round lemmings over a cliff of prudence.

Hurrah!

Hassan Irfan raised to 180k utg, and big blind Lawrence (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) Gosney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) possibly raised all in or possibly called, depending on how many chips Gosney had. It's a weird one. In fact, I'm suddenly unsure that I got the right end of the stick on this, but Gosney was definitely the big blind... Anyway...

Irfan: Kh Qh
Gosney: 4c 7c

Board: 2c 6s Ad 5c - oh, the many Gosney outs! - Jd

The Jd wasn't one of them, and Lawrence (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) Gosney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=243) is OUT in 5th place, winning £5,679.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25728&g2_serialNumber=1)

completely agree,no deal sir though i think if hes out the others may well deal. Ahrt Ac

deal?????????????????????????????????? Ahrt Ac

Mr Hassan Irfan. Largely took the photo so my mum can see how much he looks like my little brother.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25730&g2_serialNumber=1)

And following hand Steve Jelinek moves all-in, Dipak Makawana calls.

Jelinek: Ac Jd
Makawana: Ad Qs

Th 2d 4c 7d Kd

Steve Jelinek is OUT in 4th place winning £7,572

Dana's hopes of a deal 3handed get shot up instantly.

Hassan, "I'm not a fan of deals..."

Colin, "Let's just play it out..."

Gemma the valet is standing next to me when Hassan raises Colin's blind and whispers about the latter, "He's going to push here, you watch, his eyes really liked his cards..."

And I'm thinking, you can't just tell that straight away, I mean I've updated this countless tournaments and this one for over 12 hours and I can't predict that sort of stuff just by people's eyes...

Colin shoves, Hassan instantly folds.

Gemma is right and I clearly know absolutely bugger all.

Double up for Colin Young, shoving with 4s 4h and Doc calls with Aspades Ts. Hassan folds K-4 face up.

Kd 8s Kh 6c 4c

Much more balanced now...

im predicting 4am finish and not being awake in time for bargain hunt at 1215pm lol :)  Ahrt Ac

Doc limps in on the small blind, not the first time he's done this, and Hassan raises in the big blind - not the first time he's done this either.

However, while Doc folded to a raise previously, this time he calls Hassan's all-in raise, and they're on their backs.

Doc: Aspades 2d
Hassan: well ahead with Ahrt Th

Board: 5d 5s 8c Ks 8d

Unbelievable. Split pot.

i think its a plan just to make you stay there forever.thankyou for the updates.matchsticks work well in keeping your eyes open.  Ahrt Ac

Oooh oooooh, but looky at this!

Doc raises it up to 130k from the button and Hassan passes. Big blind Colin Young, however, examines his cards, and announces, "I'm not passing this time. I'm all in." A nod from Doc and the chips go in.

Doc: Ks Jh
Young: Ahrt 6d

Board: Qs 3h 5s 6c Td

Thus Doc Dipak Makawana finishes in 3rd place, winning £10,790. Well done, that man.

We continue heads up in this entirely deal-free tournament, Colin Young with a 2:1 chip lead over Hassan Irfan.


Doc:

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Colin Young:

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Thanks! It's ok, though, I have coffee, and there's a vague rumour circulating the less reputable parts of the card room that it might, just might, be all over...

lol not before time.right bed for me ,im shattered.cheers for the updates and well done to the players.safe journey home all till it all starts again next month :)  Ahrt Ac

Hassan, "I feel  this might be the final hand."

Colin looks at his cards and says, "Could be...all-in."

Hassan looks, "Fuck it...I call."

He flops Ks Qc, Colin shows Ad Js

4s 8c Tc 3c...................Td

And with that sudden flurry of action Hassan Irfan is out in 2nd place winning £17,984

And....

Colin Young is the DTD Deepstack Champion For March winning £30,761!!!!

Cheers for the good wishes. Gotta win those key flips to win the thing :(

Quality updates Flops and Dana.



And for the record, no I was moving my hand (althought the pic looked like it). I've never fist-pumped when knocking someone out.

well played colin and cheers for all the updates  Ahrt Ac

Nice flip for 13k

Ty ty ty to all at DTD for encouraging our updating with monies, delicious foods, general kindness etc, and many congratulations to all those lucky people walking away tonight with more money than they came in with. I'm legging it back to London right now, so I leave you just with these delightful winners' photos. Over and out.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25738&g2_serialNumber=1)

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 ;stickaforkinme;

Whoooo. Great fun to read guys!

 ;dewi; ;first;

Great updates guys!

+1

Yeah !

was a great set of updates people and i hope you finally managed to get some sleep.i hope to be in long enough to have to try and stay awake on the sunday.il make sure they have plenty of cheesecakes. :)  Ahrt Ac

Great updates folks, admitedly I didnt follow it live.
Made a long boring train journey (Sorry Tikay!) much more tolerable this morning though for which I thankyou.

Great update Snoops!

You shouldn't talk with your mouth full.

:)

Thanks for the support James, Dewi, Rubin and everyone else!

Like you guys read, busted out 9th ... lack of final table experience imo!! Twice been on the £300 final, twice busted out early on...

There's always next month :)

Cheers for the props, definitely appreciated!

Now that I have Mr Noflops approval, where's that staking board? ;)

Many thanks for the support from both the forum and those at the event.  It really does mean a lot to me.

I have to say that Chris and Dana did a fantastic job with the updates. Long may Live Updates continue.     ;tightend;

It was the first time that i've played this event, as its out of my normal buyin range.  What a great tournament. My only minor gripe with it is the 7pm start on a Saturday. With it selling out, surely an earlier start could mean an extra level or two on the Saturday evening. This would mean less people coming back on the Sunday, and therefore an earlier finish on the Sunday night/Monday morning.  Still, it was a magnificently run event.

I might post a report on here, as so much happened over the two days.

PS: Barry, sorry about that outdraw.  I made a lot of goods reads over the 2 days, but that wasn't one of them!