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So welcome to the Easter edition of the DTD Monthly where the only thing anyone wants to win is eggs-actly first prize. We might be clashing with the Irish Open and festivals down south but fear not as today sees the long awaited return of Junglecat to the blonde updates. Somehow we managed to tear him away from the $10 rebuys he keeps smashing up on iPoker to make the long journey 'oop norf'.

So tonight the tournament starts at 7pm and since I have written this introduction on the train down here I have no idea of runners but I'll edit this bit here later to make it seem as though I know exactly what I'm talking about.

I'm running a book on how long it'll take me to pass out, if anyone wants to do odds for that then let me know...

In the meantime, until we start. Please enjoy this very funky video.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXcad_Qx7aM

congrats on your result last night floppy....regular updates for Jon OMara please...now get to work!

Junglecat here! Temporary connection issues mean I've hijacked Chris' computer temporarily.

With the roar of thousands of clinking pints of guiness and lusty bellows of laughter echoing distantly in nthe background as the Irish Open goes into full swing, some may be asking "Why Dusk Till (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) Dawn (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)?"

Well let me tell you!

Firstly the slightly more affordable buyin may suit the more modest budget of many poker players.

The player over in Dublin may be having a great time, but come the final reckoning, the vast majority will find themselves nursing hefty hangovers, scratching around to come up with the funds for a packet of Nurofen as the ugly, granite face of fiscal reality (picture Gordon Brown's menacing visage if Tony had turned round and said "Actually Gordion, I think I'll go for another term!") stares them unerringly in the eye.

Bankroll Management FTW!

Second, DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)'s excellent Nottingham location, nestled attractively within reach of both the northern and southern extremities of the country, make its catchment area large and travel arrangements convenient.

Who wants to sit munching on a stale packet of Ryan Air peanuts when alternatively, within moments of arrival here, you can be presented with the world famous Dusk Till (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) Dawn (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) burger, which I rank as one of the best burgers ever created.

It has a steak in it FFS! SHHIIIIIIIPPPPPPP!

There's another great reason for the players to be here today, which I will reveal once I get my laptop working.

Meanwhile, there's already some excited shouts coming from the tournament. Sounds like the carnage has begun!

Floppy has the details....

Disaster early on for Con Cronin, he held Aspades Ac on an Ad Jc Tc board against James Morris' Ahrt Jh but Sunil Mistry had also come into the hand, holding the nutrageous Kh Qc and the board didn't pair off coming with a 7d turn and 5c river.

Mistry is on almost 30k already and using my incredibly deductive powers, I would surmise that he could well be our early chip leader.

Rod is still having some logging on problems, but some of the other blondes playing are:

Chili, Red Dog and Stuart Hopkin, all sharing a table.

Jim 'Bookiebasher' Moult sharing a table with Chunkymick.

Chris Bruce.

James 'AgentChip109' Edgington sitting next to WSOPE finalist James Keys.

Wandering around the poker room, I bumped into Paul King who hasn't been on the circuit for a couple of months as Alan Vinnicombe took down a decent pot with A-T vs A-7 on a 2-3-8-A-A board, the size slightly hampered due to both player's cautiousness over the 3 diamonds which had come on the flop.

Other players spotted include UpTheMariners aka Daniel Rudd, Nick Hicks in his standard headphones/deep concentration look and Matt 'EvilPie'.

Good luck to my kid brother ( Gavin Colclough ) also Pitchy and Taxi ( Paul Putchford and Scott Marsh ) :)


Thanks in advance for the updates folks

gl gl gl to all Blondes

vwd Floppy too :)

As Rod struggles on manfully with his laptop unable to connect to the internet, Barry Neville bellows from the middle tier, "Floppeh, get over 'ere."

I oblige to a medium sized pot with a couple of thousand in between Marcus Bebb-Jones and another player. The board reads Th 5d 2s Qd Ts and the other player bets a small 500 on the river and Marcus just calls. The other player turns Qh Jh and Marcus flips Kd Td for the winning hand.

" 'ow can you just call there on t' river?" asks Barry, "fookin' 'ell, I be raisin' there every time!"

As I scribble this all down, Barry says, "By the way Floppeh, can you send that Junglecat guy to me in a bit, I want 'im to 'elp write me memoirs..."

best of luck to james keys, keep us updated on him please!!!

Red Dog trying desperately not to sneeze as Maria looks on. (Also note Stuart Hopkin clearly toking on some reefer there...)

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Sam Trickett didn't make it to the Irish Open and is here instead, "I just had pocket 4's on a K-T-8 board and I'm trying to look at my cards but I'm actually unable to pick them off the felt, I managed to flick them up so the whole table sees and of course afterwards the turn is a 4..."

JC again :

The allure of the Irish Open hasn't culled all the big names from the roster of players today.

Looking round the room there are plenty of characters lurking in the heavy throng of players, ensuring we are bound to see some interesting action as the tournament progresses.

Will Fry, this season's EPT Budapest winner, is looking fresh as a daisy, appearing relaxed as he casually browsed a magazine at his table. He told us moments ago that he had had a pretty bad patch online, losing $35k in a relatively short space of time, only to win it all back again.

"It's hard to go out and have fun with your mates when you've just lost $5k online!" he told us.

Things have picked up for Will though and he seems confident of a good finish here...

JC:

Also in attendance is The Legend - a man whose exploits throughout UK poker history have earned him a capitalized nickname - Micky Wernick.

Should Mickey succumb today in painful fashion to a bad beat, he will no doubt be disappointed he won't receive the sympathetic shoulder of the man they call "Flushy" who consoled him so effectively the last time these two shared the felt.

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Speaking of James Keys he's just taken down a decent pot with a 1.4k bet on the river of a 5c Aspades 9d Jd Kd board.

Pete Linton is out, putting his stack in with Tens vs Ahrt 3h on a 5h 4h 5c board. Another four on the turn but the ace on the river killed him.

Daniel Rudd (UpTheMariners) has secured an early double up with the help of a set-over-set encounter.

Also spotted, Johnny Hewston, Tracey Dell, Greek Jack, Des Jonas.

Paul King looks to be out.

Haha, we have beaten the system!

Well not really but at least we've sidestepped round the connection issues, courtesy of Chris' vodaphone card.

I'm a tad behind so excuse me not bringing you directly into the action but I just wanted to finish off what I was saying earlier.

A big reason why people might have bowled along to DTD tonight is to pay tribute to the man, the myth, Chris Hall.

Mainly renowned for sporting hoodies whose pattern looks much like what I would expect to see if someone ate one of Noah Boeken's garish hoodies and then vomited it out, his reputation has just experienced a quantum leap forward.

I watched on last night as Chris threatened to take down the $500 SCOOP OMaha Hi/Lo event. It was a rollercoaster ride and ultimately Chris fell just short of the title, but still managed a highly impressive third place for $33,000 or so.

Hearty congratulations to my updating colleague. I have seen him play Omaha hi/lo for some time now and his achievement is made even more impressive as my observations led me to believe that he is largely clueless about the game.

His win serves as a sobering reminder that over the short-term, poker is mostly a luck-based game where lack of skill is no obstacle to winning large quantities of cash!

Well done to Chris, the new Moneymaker imo!

(Only joking congrats mate - I'm just jealous ;) )

Back to the action!

On a 4h Aspades Qc 2s Kd board, the small blind bets out 225 and gets a middle position caller before Chris Bruce bumps it up to 1,000 from the button. The small blind now makes it 2,725 and the caller folds.

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We get some Hollywooding as Bruce asks the small blind if he thinks his two pair are good. Of course they both get the rest of the chips in. Both holding J-T.

;kc;

Table Trickett/Wernick

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'Just Happy To Be Here' James' Edgington and Keys.

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"I bet that's another terrible photo of me..." says Daniel Rudd.

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On the river of a 4c 7s Aspades 7d 8d, Mad Turk bets 2,500 causing his opponent to tank...

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He asks the Maddish one, "Do you want me to call?"

Turk, "Yes, I do." (pause) "No...no I don't."

Causing enough curiosity he gets the call and Turk shows Ts 7h beating the Ahrt Jc that his opponent held.

Rana Gurnham bets 1,200 on the river of an A-Q-A-5-2 board but folds with a frown when his opponent in the small blind makes it a suspiciously looking 2,500 with a small river check/raise.

Exits so far:

269   John Perrin
270   Mark Hayes
271   John Marles
272   Barry Neville
273   Sandeep Shah
274   John Pearson
275   Baoli Zhao
276   Dost Mohammad Ghrabie
277   Donovan Burton
278   Satnam Sandhu
279   Ladan Lundon
280   Paul King
281   Kevin Smith
282   Geoffrey Button
283   Alli Mallu
284   Chris Ellinas
285   Abdul Razaq
286   Martin Spearing
287   Peter Linton
288   Chris Gavriel
289   Lorenc Boci
290   Cornelius Cronin
291   Surjit Badial
292   Jon Page
293   Andrew Tuxworth
294   James Morris

gogogo evilpie,chilli stu hopkin

It's nearly impossible to update an event containing the larger than lilfe character 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) without picking up some choice quotes.

A moment ago the burly Yorkshireman bellowed over "Eh Joonglecat coom 'ere!"

I was in the midst of a chat with M3boy (15,000 and happy with his progress so far) when Barry chewed my ear off in his unique profane manner.

"Eh Joongle, I can't believe the silly c***s I 'ave to put up with. Wost pley ah've ever seen! Silly c***s!(*)"

(*) (Due to its repeated usage over the next few lines, this will be abbreviated to SC for brevity's sake.)

The action that initiated this angry, if amusing, outburst from Barry came with our man opening UTG with pocket kings to 400.

"Lad in t'seat next t'me only guz and flat curls with pocket queens, SC, meaning everywon else on't table bloody calls too! Flop cooms 7-5-blank, ah bet out 1,400, now 'ee flat calls and woman in't position gers all-in! She's only got bloody 7-5!
What's the SC doing flat curling with queens, letting them all-in! Ah'm steaming Joongle!"

With one more yell of "SCs!", Neville retired, his face like the proverbial bulldog chewing a lemon-flavoured wasp. He was left with a pittance after that hand which soon became even less than that as his nemesis with the queens polished off his queen-nine.

If you see him around for the next hour, I would advise not getting in his way!

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Good start for Gurpreet Nagi (recently signed up on blonde as Free Rollin) he called bets on the flop and turn of an Qs Aspades Ad 7h Tc board building a 10k pot before it went check check on the river with his opponent Richard Robinson only able to show 5s 5d to Nagi's Qh Js for the pot.

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Going past the Red Dog/Chilli/Stuart Hopkins table I saw Red Dog salivating over Maria's rhubarb crumble (that is NOT an analogy). It looked like he was a food railbird although he might just be slowplaying his appetite...

Sam Trickett does his Gumbie flower arranging...

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Players are on 15 minute break.

updates for Sam Trickett Jon Omara and Alfie Balwin please

Jim (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1380) Moult (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1380) just played out a hand with Sam (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1429) Trickett (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1429) he described as "sick!"

He wasn't wrong!

It began with a couple of limps, which Sam raised up to 700 on the button. Jim winced as he recalled flat calling with tens from the blinds...

"I should have re-raised" he recalled sadly.

The flop fell Kh 6s 4h, Jim checked and called Sam's c-bet.

The turn was the 2c and Jim checked again only to face another bet from Sam.

"I thought I was ahead there" he said, though he dwelt for some time before calling Sam's second bullet.

The river was one of the ultimate action cards, the 5h and Jim immediately moved all-in. Sam iinstantly announced "I've got the nuts!" and called, showing down a less than nutty, though good for the pot, got there on the river 7s 8s whilst a saddened Jim showed his outdrawn tens as he hit the rail.

Stonking updates fellas. Definitely the best I've read today.

;goodluck; to all blondes

welcome back JC!

 :D

Full counts coming up.

250 remain of the 294 who started here tonight and level four is just about to recommence following the break.

Here are the chip counts as we stand...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) and Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=65) Bruce (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=65) two of the more familiar names at the top of the leaderboard.

George Georgiou   34   8   32400
Kirk Moyce   27   2   28975
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)   25   8   25775
Richard Ackroyd   67   4   25275
Daniel Brown   32   6   23350
Nichiei Hicks   13   2   23175
Tasos (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2482) Grigoriou (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2482)   23   1   22450
David Milligan   34   2   21975
Christopher Bruce   27   7   20900
Jason Lam   32   5   19575
Scott Phillips   25   5   19175
Phillip (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2738) Toomer (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2738)   25   2   18525
Hassan Abbas   35   1   17525
Scott Reid   66   8   16500
Edward Gascoigne   13   5   16375
Sven Hoffelner   35   7   15575
Michael Jones   27   6   15350
Billy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=49) Ngo (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=49)   23   3   15000
Tommy Bingham   66   1   14800
Scott Gledhill   67   9   14800
Joe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2108) Stevenson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2108)   14   8   14275
Brian Hunter   66   4   14150
Raj (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2480) Dhiri (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2480)   13   6   13600
Richard Haile   14   3   13250
Stephen Davies   66   9   12575
Tony (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2638) Salmon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2638)   67   6   12575
James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1809) Keys (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1809)   35   9   12075
Gary (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2891) Fisher (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2891)   35   6   12000
Justin Devonport   66   6   12000
Imran Mckenzie   34   9   11900
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   4   11700
Paula Cowling   23   8   11700
Shayne Tregale   27   5   11475
Keith (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1517) Littlewood (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1517)   32   7   11450
Shamil Patel   14   4   10825
Karl Fenton   35   2   10800
Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1689) Berridge (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1689)   27   9   10550
Paul David Frampton   25   1   10550
Kevin Sullivan   35   3   10500
Gavin Colclough   32   3   10450
Daniel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=83) Dodet (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=83)   14   6   10400
James Harcourt   67   3   10375
Robin Peebles   27   1   10050
Philip Tomlinson   14   1   9875
Frazer Beattie   27   3   9850
Jason Wheatley   66   7   9650
Paul Halling   32   1   9600
Richard Mckenzie   14   2   9550
Waseem (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2814) Shahid (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2814)   66   5   9425
Vaidas Siriunas   23   4   9400
Mathew Seer   23   5   9075
Fraser (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2993) Bain (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2993)   34   3   9000
Daniel Ball   25   4   8850
Mark Docherty   67   2   8700
James (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2971) Edgington (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2971)   35   8   8400
Craig (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1023) Edwards (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1023)   14   5   8150
Rab Bain   27   8   8100
Anon   34   1   8075
Tina Bandyle   35   5   8025
Toby Lewis   13   3   7650
Jamie Mcintyre   23   2   7225
Paul Regan   34   5   7200
Peter Smith   13   9   7075
Michael Mcloughlin   13   7   7075
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)   14   9   7025
Panayiotis Kekkou   23   9   6900
Mark Pickering   34   6   6800
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)   14   7   6650
Paul Watkins   27   4   6475
David Brown   32   2   5950
Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1470) Robinson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1470)   25   6   5775
James Williams   25   7   5650
Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2628) Kearney (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2628)   35   4   5600
Tracey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=444) Dell (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=444)   67   8   5400
Ricky Farbrother   25   3   4875
Hai Thow Phen   34   7   4800
Paul Grummitt   13   1   4125
Liaquat (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=3006) Javed (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=3006)   67   1   3875
David Cadman   32   8   3775
William Fry   66   3   3175
Lee Connett   23   6   3100
Neil Blatchly   23   7   3000
Matt (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2115) Russell (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2115)   13   8   2600
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2703) Kemp (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2703)   67   7   2075
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)   67   5   1875
John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=211) Falconer (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=211)   25   9   1750
Jonathan Hewston   34   4   1375
Harprit Singh Gurnam   13   4   1225

From a man who gives out praise much, that means a lot.





























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u r so lucky that ur in nottingham JC...

girlfriend moving in + 3 guys living in a house for 6 months = alot of cleaning to satisfy there requirments!

armed with a hoover and a duster im heading back to war. :(

great result flops and great updates guys.

Matt 'Evil Pie' is out, he bluffed into Nick Hicks' full house.

Nick made it 425, Matt called with Q-9 after another caller.

8-6-4

Nick makes a 550 cbet after checks. The other guy folds, Matt calls.

6

Matt bets 2,500 and Nick calls.

A

Matt bets 3,500 and Nick made the call with 4-4 for the house.

Matt went out soon after with K-9 vs A-K on a 9-x-x-K-A, all the money in on the turn.

Rod's real reason for doing the update is revealed...

Complaining about being surrounded by women on a saturday night.

Hmmm, JC ANALYSIS: You've been hanging around with Flushy too much mate!

Top updates as per usual guys, sorry I'm too tied up with The Masters (gogogo Cabrera) to attend.

Great Scoop Floppy, the next round is on you :)

 ;flushy;

As Matt related the Nick Hicks story with an amused grin on his face, Floppy went into full-on analysis mode.

"No wonder he didn't raise, what worse hand calls on the river?"

"Well not bl**dy queen-nine!" Matt said fighting back the laughter.

Cheers for all the good wishes...if there's ever a next time, I'll try not to blow it 3-handed! Flushy, although he had no % was a real help in the chopping, which was much appreciated.

James 'AgentChip109' bets 1,000 on the river of a Jd Ad Kd 5d 8c board but finds himself raised to the tune of an additional 1,700. He makes the call but mucks his hand when he sees a hand that should have the label "Caution: May Contain Nuts" which his opponent turns over Kh Qd.

I'm not  goin for bigalhx1  ;flushy; but i am goin for free rollin  ;flushy; & the Hopkins fella & Nick Hicks  ;flushy; ;flushy; ;flushy; ;flushy;  gl and good night from Dublin

Recent exits:

229   Ricky Farbrother
230   Paul Grummitt
231   Keith Darlison
232   Tina Bandyle
233   James Williams
234   Alan Armitage
235   Shayne Tregale
236   Kevin Greathead
237   Narciso Baldo
238   Paul Kemp
239   Richard Berridge
240   Paul Rayner
241   Stephen Jakes
242   Anon
243   Richard Robinson
244   Panos Panayi
245   Paul Brammer
246   Christopher O'donnell
247   Matt Russell
248   Amandeep Atwal
249   Alan Kane
250   William Fry

Just to prove that he's not always got the hump, here's Barry Neville enjoying the Dusk Till Dawn atmosphere despite his misfortune tonight.

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What an atmosphere it is too!

The buzz on nights like this at DTD is second to none. Some cardrooms are souless and quiet, whilst here the banter amongst the players means there is always something interesting going on, some tale of debauchery or hideous misfortune being related with a dry grin or volley of expletives or other less salubrious behaviour going on.

As follows...

I'm afraid Alan Armitage is one of the early casualties.

Barry's clearly chasing Kev's job as chief of norkage. He said "ere's one for the boys!" and snatched the camera off me to grab this shot.

I was suprised he managed to take a pretty good shot of Tania, one of the attractive dealers adorning DTD!

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Enjoy lads - the fella to her left seems to like the view - ahem...

cheers chris  well done on your win :)up  ( always knew he was a fish)

Chris Bruce is doing his usual quietly efficient job of accumulating, up to 13,500 so far.

Dave Smith appears to be down from his starting stack, though he has piled all of his chips up in a huge thin tower to convince the less observant that he is doing better than the stats suggest...

One man prospering is Micky Wernick, who has close to double his starting stack having just had his set of queens paid off a few moments ago...

With about 5k in the pot, Jon Omara is facing an all-in bet from Chris Cancelliere on Qh 7s 9c 3d, he shakes his head and passes. Cancelliere shows Ac Kc.

Daniel Rudd calls a 3k bet on a 5c Ad 6h 8s board before snap/calling another 4k on the Th river. His opponent mucked as quickly as he had bet the river and Rudd showed Aspades Qs to win the pot and boost his stack over the 20k.

One man who seems to be in very good shape thusfar is Philip Clarke, who looks to have 30,000 or so at the moment and every time I pass his table he is sweeping up another pot.

He even showboated on one hand, winning a pot with 7-4 when he made a house on an 8-2-4-8-4 board, managing to elicit a bluff from his tablemate's counterfeited 5-2.

Early days but he might be eyeing up the £27k or so in first place the way things are going so far...

 

Billy Ngo is out.

'Chunky' Mick Jones is apparently walking on water next to Chris Bruce. He's had Eights vs Queens all in preflop and hit a rather helpful 8-5-5 flop to bust one stack before having A-Q vs A-T on a A-T-5 board before duly catching his queen on the river.

Brucey too has bonused his way up and is comfortably over 20k.

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Nick 'I vont to suck your blood' Hicks approaching the 40k mark.

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Sam Trickett ended up not going to the Irish Open but is here instead, he just raised preflop to 525 while the blinds were 100/200/25 and picked up two callers, one of which was Micky Wernick. The flop came down Qc Tc 6s and Sam continued, betting 1,525 with Wernick the solitary caller. On the possible action inducing 8c turn, Trickett bet again, this time to the tune of 3,150 which elicited a swift fold from the Worm who was a believer to Trickett's agression.

The latest exits:

190   Christina Orth
191   Sidicki Mohangee
192   Michael Mcloughlin
193   James Edgington
194   William Berry
195   Ricky Hutchinson
196   Liaquat Javed
197   Matthew James
198   Lidng Wang
199   Jonathan Pudney
200   Brian Hunter
201   Alistair Carins
202   Terry Tomlinson
203   Trevor Pearson
204   Alan Stearn
205   Billy Ngo
206   Nick Ktori
207   Nathan Tang
208   George Georgiou
209   Paul Watkins
210   Janghir Khan
211   Rab Bain
212   Peter Smith
213   Stacy Coore
214   Mojid Khan
215   David Cadman
216   Neil Blatchly
217   James Mcintyre
218   Jason Lam
219   Gavin Colclough
220   Jason Wong
221   Geoff Jarvis
222   Yuk-sang Lee
223   Mohammed Khalid
224   Christopher Brammer
225   Rob Clarke
226   Alfie Baldwin
227   Paul Pitchford
228   Hai Thow Phen
229   Ricky Farbrother
230   Paul Grummitt

Hi everyone!  I would like to wish good luck to Mark Byrne and also Nick Hicks, Sam and Phil Clarke. Thanks!

M3boy has just taken a hit to his stack. Calling a button raise to 900 from the big blind, he checked the 4h 2h 4c board, only for his opponent to fire out a bet of 1k.

M3boy called before checking the 7c on the turn.

His opponent dwelt before also checking.

The river was the 3h and after a short period of shuffling and dwelling in absolute silence, M3boy led for 2,200, only for his opponent to make a somewhat reluctant call with J-7 for top pair...

His twitching lips began beaming though as M3boy could only table Qh Td for the bluff, reducing his stack to just over its starting point, having been caught "bluffin' with his muffin."

Ooops...

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Paul Hailing The Chip Leader!

Haha, do you see what I did there? Chortle.

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Tracey Dell is down to the almost felt after running A-K into A-A.

"I'm going home in a strop," she says. I think that's a Swedish car...

Des Jonas is out, he was all-in with the 5h against Ahrt 3h but hadn't turned his other card over until the Jc 9h Js 6c 3c board got dealt out. Then he flipped the card...The Aspades of course for a bad beat that never was.

Nick Hicks raises preflop and Rana Gurnham calls in middle position.

5s 3h 3d

Hicks bets about 1,875. Call.

Js

Check....and check.

Ts

Hicks now bets 3,750. Rana Gurnham gives him evils but then almost looks like he's going to raise the river bet, but in the end he decides to just muck his cards.

Simon Nawab isn't in the best of shape, seen limping around with a bad leg. He suffered further injury at the felt, managing to fall into a £1,700 hole at a laggy 1/2 cash table.

He told us about his misfortune but had one more ace up his sleeve we didn't see coming.

"But I won it all back! I needed to get lucky though, made a straight flush versus the nutflush." He limped off giggling.

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In other news, blonde's AgentChip109 is out, his shortshack shove with J-8 running into Q-9 and A-Q. Temporarily ahead having flopped a jack, his luck ran out as a bullet spiked to leave him battered, bruised and pot-less on the rail.

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169 players remain at the moment as level six draws to a close.

Gupreet Nagi has dropped to about 7k having checked called three streets with 5-5 on a 6-6-J-6-7 board against Ghassan Chehbi who managed to get there on the river with T-7 (who stated he was actually bluffing hoping to get a fold but it turned into a valuebet). Soon after Chehbi won another pot from him, Nagi holding a set of fives on an all diamond board but a fourth diamond on the turn slowed the action and Chehbi's 6d 6h took it on the river once more.

We are now on a break following the end of level 6.

Just before the break Tracey Dell dinged her last dong (I didn't think that statement through did I?)

Facing a raise from M3boy, she shipped her last 4 big blinds with ace-four, only for M3boy to make an obligatory call with a dominating ace-queen.

It was still dominating by the river meaning she is out.

"Are you off home now?" I ask.

"I might head down to Luton actually. Just got to go and nip flopsy-wopsy first!"

[Mental note: Chris has a new nickname.]

"I think flopsy-wopsy has a little bit of the...what's that guy from 4 weddings called? "

"Forrest Gump?" I answer innocently.

"No, no...I mean.... Hugh Grant."

"er...."

Not sure I see that to be perfectly honest...

Anyone?

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Frampton Comes Alive!

Neil Wyatt has been knocked out in a multiway raised pot, as Daniel Ball raised preflop and bet the Ahrt 5s 2s flop, Wyatt raised his 1,200 to 3,600 with about the same behind before Frampton moved in behind. Ball folded and Wyatt ummmed and ahhhhhhhhed for a while before calling with Aspades Jc, Frampton showing the unlikely but winning 5h 2d which saw a scary 3s hit the turn but survive on the 9c river.

Recent exits:

146   Lee Connett
147   Chris Cancelliere
148   Darren Cull
149   Neil Wyatt
150   Alan Vinnicombe
151   John Stritch
152   Stephen Webster
153   Chin Chai Koh
154   Tasos Grigoriou
155   Kyriacos Dionysiou
156   Craig Edwards
157   Andrew Baxter
158   Jon Omara
159   Trevor Turton
160   Dean Pearson
161   Jonathan Baylis
162   Peter Howard
163   Tracey Dell
164   Richard Mckenzie
165   Carroll Belfield
166   Leigh Smith
167   Keith Littlewood
168   Panayiotis Kekkou
169   Martins Adeniya
170   Stephen Davies
171   Richard Kellett
172   Luke Hallinan
173   Chris Kearney
174   Bryn Cropper
175   Ian Gascoigne
176   Mohammed Istakhar Sadiq
177   Thomas Mccready
178   Daniel Heald
179   Desmond Jonas
180   Asy Ho
181   Sean Farrar
182   Sujjad Ashraf
183   Jonathan Hewston
184   Peter Renkel
185   Roger Wright
186   Gary Orme
187   Steven Smith
188   Fraser Bain
189   Kevin Sullivan

Maybe it's not his looks

Does he hang round in laybys with ladies of dubious virtue ?  ;)

Counts at the end of the second break, thanks to the sterling work of DTD's staff.

Good job guys.

Tasos Grigoriou   23   1   79775
Justin Devonport   34   1   71000
Aaron Fisher   33   3   59450
Basharat Mahmood   26   6   58225
Yucel Eminoglu   22   1   49475
Nichiei Hicks   13   2   45350
Peter Howard   37   8   42500
Kirk Moyce   27   2   39700
Stephen Hogg   38   9   39375
Wright Peter   21   8   38950
Kassim Kurbanali   11   2   37800
Michael Jones   27   6   37600
Daniel Carter   12   7   36900
Bryan Anglim   25   7   36050
John Simons   11   9   36025
Philip Clarke   48   7   35550
Mohammed Ashfaq   32   5   34950
Gurdeu Millan   37   7   34150
Scott Reid   11   1   33400
Te Ng Cao   36   2   33025
Ghassan Chehbi   25   3   32975
Arjanit Kondaj   26   4   32525
Stephen Holloway   27   8   32300
Ian Smith   37   4   32250
Daniel Rudd   36   3   32150
Hiren Kanabar   37   2   30825
Paul Halling   32   1   30250
Daniel Brown   32   6   30050
Sam Trickett   38   1   29825
Daryl Moore   12   8   29350
Paul Regan   34   5   29175
Waheed Ashraf   12   4   29100
Anon   22   2   29075
Paul King   48   8   28700
Toby Lewis   13   3   28375
Colin Young   38   7   27675
Keith Armstrong   27   5   27450
Scott Gledhill   23   7   26700
Sebastian Powell   32   3   26575
Shamil Patel   14   4   26275
Sunil Mistri   22   8   26250
Trevor Turton   37   3   26225
Stephen Holden   32   4   25925
David Brown   32   2   25900
Hassan Abbas   35   1   25625
John Falconer   36   5   24925
Carl G Williams   22   4   24600
Harprit Singh Gurnam   13   4   24125
David Smith   48   1   23975
Gary Christopher   13   1   23875
Phillip Toomer   25   2   23775
Adrian Swingler   38   8   23025
James Bagley   14   9   22525
Jamie Mcintyre   23   2   22125
Jamie Purdon   12   3   22050
Andrew Wayman   36   8   21450
Simon Higgins   26   1   21175
Mathew Seer   23   5   21025
Tommy Bingham   37   6   21000
Angharad Hyde   26   2   20650
Liam Bullock   26   7   20075
Jonathan Garrett   31   8   19950
David Oakton   38   5   19650
Robin Peebles   27   1   19475
David Tighe   21   4   19175
Benjamin Boulden   31   6   19175
Karl Fenton   35   2   18925
Daniel Ball   25   4   18850
Paula Cowling   23   8   18500
Scott Marsh   37   5   18275
Craig Owen   22   9   17625
David Goldthorpe   26   5   17275
Sven Hoffelner   35   7   17250
Jeremy Betts   36   4   17100
Joe Stevenson   14   8   17025
James Keys   35   9   17000
Robert Cowen   26   8   16950
Gary Fisher   35   6   16700
Michael Wernick   37   1   16675
David Nisbet   31   4   16450
Richard Young   33   2   16075
Andrea Gough   48   3   15800
Maria Demetriou   36   1   15725
Mark Byrne   34   7   15625
James Tomlin   12   5   15475
Matthew Eiler-gadsden   33   9   14950
Stuart Hopkin   34   4   14800
Vaidas Siriunas   23   4   14575
Frazer Beattie   27   3   14525
John Exley   35   5   14450
Jonathan Spinks   22   7   14425
Marcus Bebb-jones   26   3   14000
Mario Andreou   12   2   13750
Richard Haile   14   3   13450
Daniel Dodet   14   6   13425
Paul David Frampton   25   1   12875
Christopher Bruce   27   7   12000
Andy Cradock   48   6   11950
Adrian Pound   22   3   11775
Stuart Rolfe   33   6   11650
Guy Rolfe   33   7   11600
Terry Brown   31   9   11600
Elliott Marais   21   5   11525
Mark Dodge   38   3   11400
Martin Kearney   38   6   11225
Paul Garnham   21   6   11150
Scott Phillips   25   5   11100
David Milligan   34   2   11100
Craig Betteridge   21   9   11050
Imran Mckenzie   34   9   10950
Daniel Ward   22   5   10875
Rob Allen   48   2   10675
Neil Wyatt   25   9   10500
Martin Malone   11   4   10450
Tony Salmon   13   9   10325
Eddie Lundon   21   7   10275
Qifeng Liang   33   1   10100
Kai Foo Lee   31   5   10000
Andrew Baxter   36   6   9975
Ghalib Hussain   11   8   9750
Waseem Shahid   11   7   9550
Gurpreet Nagi   25   8   9100
Roy Carroll   11   3   8425
Mark Docherty   27   9   8100
Jason Wheatley   34   3   8000
Edward Gascoigne   13   5   7875
Alan Vinnicombe   48   5   7825
James Harcourt   34   8   7450
Jonathan Wragg   32   9   7450
Raj Dhiri   13   6   7250
John Stritch   35   3   7125
Kevin Pearce   14   7   6875
Wendy Parry   23   3   6775
David Wall   35   8   6700
Daniel Kallenbach   36   7   6500
Frank Flanagan   38   4   6400
Terry Fletcher   32   8   6300
David Clayton   11   5   6050
Darren Cull   21   2   6000
John Sadler   35   4   6000
Lee Randell   21   3   5725
Matthew Lewis   33   8   5550
George Brown   48   4   5425
Allen Rayner   38   2   5400
Michael Saban   13   7   5025
Steven Munnings   31   7   4400
Chris Cancelliere   31   3   4250
Rubin Phan   36   9   4125
Nasir Ahmed   12   9   3725
Gareth Rees   22   6   3300
Philip Tomlinson   14   1   3175
Jon Omara   31   2   3025
Mark Pickering   34   6   2625
Lee Connett   23   6   2575
Nicholas Fellone   48   9   1875
Stephen Webster   33   4   1350

Ban plz.

Interesting hand...

Colin Young limps for 400 UTG. Adrian Swingler raises to 3,500 next to him. Sam Trickett's right eyebrow shoots up, like it's being pulled by a marionette puppeteer as he folds. No-one but Young wants to play and they see a flop.

Kc 5d 9s

Check, check.

2d

Young quickly fires out 5k. Call from Swingler.

5h

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Young now bets 11k. Swingler looks like he's going to put in his chips in but then pulls his stack back, and folds Js Jc face up. Young shows a Kd. Extraordinary.

oops, was posed as a question

honest guvnor :o

Tears for Gazza

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Not Paul this time, but Edward is the one left mopping up his salty excretions with a tissue. (Really must start vetting my words before I type them out.)

His A-3 turned into a straight by the river of a 6-2-7-5-4 board but it's called the idiot end for a reason and the genius end was held by Harprit Singh Gurnam whose 8-8 didn't suffer a beat and he sends the young player to the rail, moving him to over 30,000.

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Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=115) Smith (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=115) has turned his fortunes round, no longer needing to stack his chips in one huge babel tower to impress the rail. He has shifted his chips up to an above-average 27,000 at this point, working his chip accumulation skills to good effect through the last few levels.

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Back to the bench Gazza!

;)

can we get some lovely pics of martin malone, toby lewis, james bagly and sebastian powell pleeeeaaaasssssseeeeeeee. oh, and the rudddddstttteeerrrrrr!!!

Geeza

btw my AQ hand wasnt as bad as it prob reads in the update

We've just lost Matthew Lewis, racing his Aspades Qh vs Matthew Eiler-gadsden's 9h 9c which came off best on the Jd 4d 3c 2h Kc board.

Phillip Tomlinson has knocked out Lee Randell, the latter trying to make a move with 8s 4d but quickly being called with A-K which held on the T-7-3-A-9 board.

125 players remaining.

Chilli is out losing a 50k flip, she raised to 2k on the button and Te Ng (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2741) Cao (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=2741) reraised to 6k from the small blind. Maria shoved for 22k with A-K and Cao eventually made the call with Nines with the board coming J-T-T-9-x a flop of hope crushed by the turn card.

Here's a photo of the two with Daniel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1371) Rudd (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1371) just before the clash.

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Some excellent backdoor action has saved Chris Bruce from elimination, he check/raised all-in on a Qd 6d 3s and John Falconer made the call with Qc Js, finding himself up against the drawtastic 4d 3d. There was no help on the 2s turn and but the 5s provided to be a Brucey bonus, the straight making card winning the hand.

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Here's Martin Malone (I hope!) with a sub-average but still in the mix 20,500...

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Toby Lewis - Face shot proved impossible due to his baseball cap angle. That's like so 80s dude...

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James Bagly - short on chips but long on dapper.

Smith Smelted

Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=115) Smith (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=115) has just been sent to the felt.

I'm assuming he had lost some chips prior to this hand as he raised with Ahrt Jh and was re-raised all-in making the call.

His opponent's pocket queens were good on the flop, good on the turn and good on the river, meaning the former GUKPT winner joins the rail, ready to spray more unsuspecting passerbys with his comical yellow flower. (He wasn't wearing it today but I still like it.)

Good Game Dave!

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Dingdell here - last hand before break and one more level before stopping until tomorrow.

Table Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=65) Bruce (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=65)/Burnley John......

Blinds 300/600 button raises to 1800.
SB dwells and then reraises to approx 16000
Chris Bruce in BB has his head in his hands as he mulls over a major decision and eventually reraises to put the SB all in. Button SB calls his entire stack with  3h 3d

Chris reveals  Ahrt Qc, board comes  Kh Qd 8h 2s 6d and like my favourite ipod poker song another one bites the dust and Chris spends the first few moments of this break stacking a pot worth 28000.

Dingdell here - Nick Hicks must be close to chip leader with around 70,000 at the break - he's got that 'comfortable' feel about him - you just know he's going to cash in this one.....just waiting for the instabok to come into play now.....

Dingdell here - last level of the day starting with 114 players, Mother hen has just announced he expects 90 to return tomorrow. ....and what Simon wants Simon gets to expect some dodgy dealing from our lovely dealers, with ohhs, ahhs, bad beats and sweats until the river as the DTD team try and meat Simons taget of 90 players.

Average stack 25700, blinds 400/800 with an ante of 100 - and they're off

Dingdell here - Paul King just sauntered past. "How you doing?" I asked.
"I know how to take the pain out of a tourney" he replied "Play like a pratt like me and get knocked out early, it takes the pain away".

Personally I would try a paracetemol, but each to their own...

The last level has just kicked into effect.

Level nine - with blinds at 400/800/100 will be the final of the day and with a host of stacks in the danger territory of 15 BBs and lower, we can expect some blood and heavy action in this final level.

Hold tight for the action!

112 and counting...

Hassan Abbas has knocked out an unfortunate opponent, holding Jh Th against the drawtacular Ac 9c on the Kc Js Tc flop. But the turn dried up the draw to one card as it was the Jc, but the Royal Flush missed on the 9h river.

Daniel Kallenbach has been virtually felted raising with Aspades Ac and quickly calling Daniel Rudd's shove. Rudd held Js Jd but flopped better as the board ran out 4c Tc Jh 5d Td.

"About time!" whispered Rudd to me as he's back over the 30k mark.

Chris Bruce moved all-in on a 9d Td Jd with Q-J but was called by the shorter stack's A-J which held on the 9s turn and 3s river losing the Brucester around 22k.

Thanks to Dingdell for that.

[  ] I'm not about to collapse.

Mike Saban is out after having grinded all day, finally getting it in good with A-J against J-T but luck just wasn't with him today.

Dingdell here - table M3boy - Very very tight player who was on my table most of the night raises under the gun to 2600.

2 non believers flat call. Flop comes  5s Td Ks and all three check it round.

Turn comes  5h. Original raiser bets 3400 and next player flat calls again, with the other folding so it's the tight player against one of the only remaining women players....

River comes  8d and it goes check check. Original raiser shows  2s 2h and our brave girl shows...... Jc Js....... and scoops the pot obviously scared of the one overcard on theboard or a possible higher pair. I'd like to see this one of the HA board. 

Hassan Abbas has knocked out an unfortunate opponent, holding Jh Th against the drawtacular Ac 9c on the Kc Js Tc flop. But the turn dried up the draw to one card as it was the Jc, but the Royal Flush missed on the 9h river.

Daniel Kallenbach has been virtually felted raising with Aspades Ac and quickly calling Daniel Rudd's shove. Rudd held Js Jd but flopped better as the board ran out 4c Tc Jh 5d Td.

"About time!" whispered Rudd to me as he's back over the 30k mark.

The aptly named Johnathan Wragg has just been sent to busto-ville, courtesy of Daniel Brown.

Brown' raise with a flat call behind saw Wragg make his move with Td 8d, shipping his stack into the middle, but he was never going to shift Mr Brown out of the pot as he held Kh Ks.

The flop of 3h Th Qh offered the merest glimmer of salvation, though all hope was extinguished as the board ran out 5s 4c, leaving Wragg tapping the table generously as he departed the felt, reducing numbers yet further.

Just 94 remain now as the last fifteen minutes of the level play out.

Still in there are Paul Garnham, partly as a result of having kings three times in close succession, mbn, and Mickey Wernick, using all the power of his mighty grey beard to guide him through these latter stages.

Stuart Hopkin is out. "Ace King vs Queens," he said simply. The Queens belonging to Andy Cradock.

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Wind Of Change for Frampton

Paul Frampton has been virtually felted losing with Ahrt 9h to the Kh Jc of Phillip Toomer on a Kd 2s Jh 9s 4h board. Toomer has the facial expression known as "Well chuffed".

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Dan Carter (No, a different one) raises to 2k but folds to the reraise to 6k from Daryl Moore.

[   ] This wasn't an excuse to get a photo of the dealer for AgentChip109.

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And what better way to finish the night with the classic Aces vs Kings? Tony Salmon caught good while Allen Rayner is quickly downing his drink before the inevitable (in his eyes) as the Aspades Ad held despite a turn scare vs Kc Kh on the 2c 7c 9h Tc 3d board.

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Hassan Abbas has just taken down a humungous pot and in dramatic circumstances.

There was always likely to be some sort of action when a 2,500 raise saw 4 people go to the flop!

With 10k in the pot pre, the Jh 8s 4h was checked to the original raiser who led out for 6,000 and Abbas made the call with 20k or so back...

The turn was the 9s, Abbas checked and his opponent now shipped the rest of his stack into the middle.

After some thought Abbas made the call with the draw-tastic 6h 7h. He no doubt thought his flush draw and straight draw were live, but when his opponent flipped up a surprising pair of fives, it turned out a six or seven was also good!

And the river was the six!

A single pair of sixes was good enough for Abbas to sweep up a 50k pot, which will put him in the higher echelons of the leaderboard going into day two.

And with that last slice of the drama pie being served up, we have reached the end of the day.

The field has been reduced to 87 and we will post up the final chip counts as they reach us.

It's been a great start to the DTD £300, proving that there's some exciting poker being played outside of Dublin at the moment. Myself and Hugh Grant, Forrest Gump Flopsy-Wopsy have had a ball bringing you all the action but we are going to call a temporary halt to proceedings as we go off to get some rest after a long day.

We'll be back refreshed and re-invigorated tomorrow for the resumption so join us then as the action continues apace!

Thanks to part time updaters Barry Neville and Dingdell for their contributions today.

We'll see you tomorrow but for now ;stickaforkinme;

Cheers for funking! Lets hope I win the inevitable key flip this time. :)

Excellent updates Ding :)