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Hello all and welcome to day 3 of the PokerStars UKIPT, here at DTD in Nottingham. I'm currently racing against time to get here for 12pm, thank you East Midlands Trains, but I should just get there in time for the start.

Yesterday we played down from 270 to the money, and we are left now with 72, all guaranteed a minimum of £850 but all hoping to take down the first prize of £80,000. In that list are some well known faces, both from Blonde and DTD, such as Chili, George2Loose, Middy and Mitch. Join me (not Tighty!) today as we duck, dive, open 50% of pots with a short stack and play down to the final 9.

Any requests for any players, just post in this thread and I'll do my best to try and find them. You may have to give me a description though!

Finally, good luck to Tighty who has been updating since Day 1a, but has left us for the sunnier (I hope) climate of Austria this weekend.

Chip counts and seat draw will appear when I arrive at DTD, so I'll see you all at 12pm. Hopefully!

GLGLGL Blondes,Middy to win the lot imo

FYP ;-)

GL GL GL the blondes!!!   ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

GLGLGL to Sharplea, hard act to follow is Tighty.

This is the day of the handsome one, I can just feel it in me bones. Video interview with Paul Ephremsen on the agenda Sharplea? To get us all swooning?

glglgl to all blondes especially Maria, George and Handsome Paul!

Good Luck to Davyd Wright, short stack with 39k. Hope the poker gods are with ya bro early doors :)

Right, I arrived. Just in time!!

Chip counts are here:

PLAYER   TABLE   SEAT   CHIP COUNT
Amandeep Atwal   0   6   386000
Paul Ephremsen   0   2   363500
Parminder Kandola   2   4   304000
Nicholas Gavriel   15   9   298500
John Eames   21   4   289500
Andrew Hulme   11   4   276000
Piotr Majewski   21   7   253000
Daniel Cochrane   21   6   235000
Graham Giles   2   3   232500
Steven Brennan   13   2   229000
Peter Abela   12   6   228500
George Kranios   15   7   221000
Oliver Schaffmann   21   9   213500
Anthony Cartwright   11   3   203000
Zahir Aslam   12   9   195000
Andros Spyrou   21   8   195000
Mark Aldridge   11   5   190000
Leon Louis   3   8   184000
Rupinder Bedi   15   3   176000
Nishar Hassam   14   4   170000
Goran Dalum   3   7   157000
Zack Chesses   14   2   151000
Ben Crellin   21   2   148500
Philippa Flanders   15   4   147000
Barkatul Mohammed   3   2   146500
Mitchell Johnson   13   7   145500
Simon Wing   3   3   144500
Gurdev (tony) Millan   12   3   143000
Peter Charalambous   3   6   140500
James Hoyes   14   5   137000
Robert Charlton   13   1   120000
Greame Swan   3   4   119500
John Burberry   15   8   119000
Shai Zurr   13   8   114000
Geoffrey Mockford   2   2   112500
Darren Oldaker   11   2   111000
Steve Ferry   14   6   111000
Kyriacos Dionysiou   15   6   111000
Karl Snow   0   7   108500
Jan Bjoersland   11   9   101000
Tomas Burgers   2   9   99500
Andrew Couldridgea   0   4   99000
Matthew Wadham   14   1   96500
Stuart Hilton   15   5   95000
Gareth Walker   14   9   95000
Thomas Middleton   11   8   92500
Kieran Appleby   11   1   86500
Richard Sherwood   2   6   83000
Harprit Singh Gurnam   12   4   82500
Keith Johnson   13   5   82500
Maria Demetriou   14   8   82500
Raymond Chan   21   5   79500
Stephen Holloway   3   1   74000
John Conner   13   4   73000
Jason Herbert   0   9   69000
Allen Mcauley   12   1   68500
Peter Seager   14   7   66500
Christopher Hepworth   3   5   65000
James Gray   2   7   58500
David Iftakhar   15   1   58500
Michael Wernick   12   2   58000
Helen Turner   0   5   49000
Stewart Brodie   2   1   45500
Owen Robinson   21   3   43500
Dale Garrad   11   7   41000
Joe Foley   14   3   38000
Dominic Kay   0   8   37500
Waheed Ashraf   2   8   32500
Davyd Wright   15   2   29000
Matt Heasman   0   3   28000
Lewis Jackson   2   5   26000
Jean Jacquot   13   6   18000

Blinds are 2.5k/5k w/500a. Shuffle up and deal!

Current seating:

0   1   Shai Zurr
0   2   Joe Foley
0   3   Gurdev (tony) Millan
0   4   Piotr Majewski
0   5   Gareth Walker
0   6   Raymond Chan
0   7   Stephen Holloway
0   8   Stewart Brodie
0   9   Zack Chesses
11   1   Keith Johnson
11   2   Amandeep Atwal
11   3   Owen Robinson
11   4   Jean Jacquot
11   5   Maria Demetriou
11   6   Andrew Hulme
11   7   Matt Heasman
11   8   Davyd Wright
11   9   Richard Sherwood
12   1   Peter Charalambous
12   2   Kieran Appleby
12   3   Helen Turner
12   4   Andros Spyrou
12   5   Peter Seager
12   6   Steve Ferry
12   7   Peter Abela
12   8   Michael Wernick
12   9   Zahir Aslam
13   1   John Eames
13   2   Tomas Burgers
13   3   Andrew Couldridgea
13   4   Nishar Hassam
13   5   Allen Mcauley
13   6   Rupinder Bedi
13   7   James Hoyes
13   8   George Kranios
13   9   Christopher Hepworth
14   1   Leon Louis
14   2   Mitchell Johnson
14   3   John Conner
14   4   Waheed Ashraf
14   5   Karl Snow
14   6   Thomas Middleton
14   7   Daniel Cochrane
14   8   Dominic Kay
14   9   Kyriacos Dionysiou
15   1   Paul Ephremsen
15   2   James Gray
15   3   Oliver Schaffmann
15   4   Matthew Wadham
15   5   Jason Herbert
15   6   Philippa Flanders
15   7   Robert Charlton
15   8   Lewis Jackson
15   9   Darren Oldaker
2   1   Mark Aldridge
2   2   Stuart Hilton
2   3   Geoffrey Mockford
2   4   Barkatul Mohammed
2   5   Nicholas Gavriel
2   6   Ben Crellin
2   7   John Burberry
2   8   Parminder Kandola
2   9   Goran Dalum
3   1   Steven Brennan
3   2   Simon Wing
3   3   David Swan
3   4   David Iftakhar
3   5   Jan Bjoersland
3   6   Anthony Cartwright
3   7   Graham Giles
3   8   Harprit Singh Gurnam
3   9   Dale Garrad

Any relation to his Nottingham Forest counter part... Radosław Majewski?

Hi

updates on James "Jambo" Gray 15/2 thanks

3 early exits already.

Shai Zurr pushed all in with Ac Jc only to find Piotr Majewski behind him with Qd  Qh. No help for Shai and he takes home £850.

Allen McAuley pushed his short stack in with Ts 3s and found a caller in Nishar Hassam, with Qc 8d. I caught this after the river, so I'm guessing it all went in on a Q-Q-4, 2 spade flop. The Q-8 held up.

Dale Garrad pushed from mid position with  Aspades 9s and David Swan flat called. Big stack Anthony Cartwright tanked for a good 3 minutes before unhappily folding  Th Ts. It was a good fold, as David opened  Jh Js, which hit a set on the 4c  2s  Jd flop. The 7d turn saw Dale head home whilst Anthony was laughing at the meaningless Tc river.

Keep an eye on Andrew "stato_1" Hulme please!!

someone knock Pippa Flanders out please

Best of luck to yourself today Adam.

Updates on Jambo James Gray where possible

Ty

Geo

Big pot - Bedi involved:

George raised it up to 12k preflop and got 2 callers in George Kranios and Andrew Couldridgea. They saw a 4h 6h Jd flop, with Andrew checking to George B. He c-bet 18.5k and Kranios raised, but he only put 31k in. Kranios was forced to min-raise to 37k and Andrew got out of the way. Bedi called.

The turn was the Ks and Bedi quickly checked. Kranios thought about betting, but decided to check behind. The river was the 8s and Bedi bet out a meaty 45.5k. This sent Kranios into the tank for a good 5 minutes before a clock was called. The T.D came over and informed Kranios he had 60 secs to act. Kranios seemed surprised, and quickly called, only to be shown Kc Jh by Bedi. Kranios mucked and Bedi raked in the 200k pot.

Rana Gurnam is out, he raced Ad Kd against Th Ts of David Swan. The Tens held and Swan now has a rather large stack.

Jambo is out       button raises James sb with JJ all in button has KK   :)


Very unlucky Jambo but very well played :)

all the best to andrew hulme fron me and stratts gl m8

UL mate, well played. Pity I missed that exit.

Chris Hepworth and Chuckles both got it all in pre with AQo, chop chop.

Leon Louis made it 12k to go, only to see Wadey push all in for about 80k. Dominic Kay, in the BB, tank-folded despite having 23k total and a BB of 5k in the pot! Louis folded to give Wadey the pot.

Next hand, it was folded to Dominic in the SB and he pushed blind. Greek Jack in the BB had to call and opened Q-2 to Dom's J-10. Neither player hit and Dom headed for the cash desk.

Chip counts:

Andrew Hulme - 200k
Chili - 95k
Big Charra - 150k
Mitch - 100k
Middy - 115k
Handsome Paul - 335k

Today's exits:

61   Dominic Kay
62   Davyd Wright
63   Jean Jacquot
64   James Gray
65   Harprit Singh Gurnam
66   Dale Garrad
67   Lewis Jackson
68   Joe Foley
69   Stewart Brodie
70   Allen Mcauley
71   Matt Heasman
72   Shai Zurr

Apologies, viewers. My camera doesn't work. :(

Trying to fix it as we speak!

come on middy lets get it done this weekend

nice start for G2L too

nice start with the updating too

hi, any updates on onewaypoker mickey wernick please

Peter Seager has lost a chunk when he doubled up Zack Chesses. Chesses made it 27k to go preflop only to see Seager push all in, covering him easily. Zack snapped, as you do when you have Ac Aspades. Peter ruefully flipped Qh Qs and the 7h 3s 5c 7d Jh was queen-less, sending a 200k pot over to Zack.

Simon Wing is now up with the chipleaders after I caught Anthony Cartwright pushing lots of stacks over with Anthony's cards mucked and Simon showing A-K on a 7-Q-J-10-10 board. Simon has approx 450k.

Will go check on Mickey now for you.

Mickey has 100k and says he needs a miracle!

Blinds up in about 4 minutes: 3k - 6k with a 500 ante.

Any update on Mark Aldridge?

58   Jason Herbert   £950
59   Kyriacos Dionysiou   £950
60   Christopher Hepworth   £950
61   Dominic Kay   £950
62   Davyd Wright   £950
63   Jean Jacquot   £950
64   James Gray   £850
65   Harprit Singh Gurnam   £850
66   Dale Garrad   £850
67   Lewis Jackson   £850
68   Joe Foley   £850
69   Stewart Brodie   £850
70   Allen Mcauley   £850
71   Matt Heasman   £850
72   Shai Zurr   £850

Good luck with the updates. Any news on Richard Sherwood please.

6 tables left after the first level. At this rate I'll be home by 5pm!

Maria has doubled up, blind on blind she saw an Ace and shoved. The BB (Andrew Hulme, I think) had 4-4 and Maria hit a straight. Hulme has since busted.

Steve Brennan has knocked out someone I don't know yet, as I didn't get his name, he's not on the seating list or the exit lists yet either! Steve had K-K after his opponent pushed with J-J, and faded the club draw on the river for the Kings to hold.

Just the shorties shoving after the bubble bursting , dont get too excited bud.

I may be uo later after work and can give you a hand.

wiiii

ul to Dom Kay

Is there a livefeed?

Mark Aldridge - 250k and now on Maria's left.
Richard Sherwood - 85k

Stuart Hilton has doubled through Zahir Aslam when he pushed for 80k with 4h 4d and was called with Zahir's Aspades Qc. The board ran out Ts 3d 7h 6d 9s to send the pot in the direction of Hilton.

George has added another 100k to his stack when he scooped a 120k pot with A-10 on a 5-10-4-2-6 board, and then scooped a 80k pot after c-betting a 10-10-4 board and getting Nishar Hassan to fold Ac Kc, with Nishar rueing his decision to not push preflop.

Wadey is down to dust after he called Leon Louis' shove for 120k on a 4h 3d 10d flop, holding Qh Qd. Leon flipped 4d 6d for the flush draw and the gin 5d turn hit to give him the flush and the straight flush re-draw. The river was the Jc and Leon scooped.

Wadey is now out, details unknown.

Not that I'm aware of, sorry!

Yeah I know mate, slowed down a bit now. Be good to see you later, you not playing the £300?

No clear chip leaders, there's a few on around 450-500k. Handsome Paul Ephremsen is up there as well.

Hi

Nah giving it a miss and heading out for a night in Notts.

Maria down to 45k :(

She doubled someone up when she bet 70k on a Js 5h 4h 6s board, only to see her opponent push all in for 80k total. Priced in, she had to call with Td 8s only to see the villain open As Jc. The river was the blankest of all blanks - 2d

 How is Black Belt's very own Owen Robinson progressing please?

There's a live feed tomorrow in the final of the £300 @ 2015 , see link below

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ukipt/2010/ukipt-nottingham-pokerstars-to-trial-new-069863.html

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO mitch maria and charrra + other blondes

Peter Abela - 150k

Owen Robinson - 165k

Tell Chili to sit on her hands or I'm ringing Gramps ffs!!!

update on Mitch please

Just snap folded to a 3 bet after opening from UTG+1.

He has about 100k I think, I'm still getting used to the chips.

Kieran Appleby has just doubled through Stuart Hilton with Th Ts vs Stuart's 8s 8c.

The K-5-6-K-Q board helped nobody, sending the pot to Kieran.

Payouts and exits:

51   John Conner   £1,100
52   Geoffrey Mockford   £1,100
53   Waheed Ashraf   £1,100
54   Jan Bjoersland   £1,100
55   Karl Snow   £950
56   Andrew Hulme   £950
57   Peter Seager   £950
58   Jason Herbert   £950
59   Kyriacos Dionysiou   £950
60   Christopher Hepworth   £950
61   Dominic Kay   £950
62   Davyd Wright   £950
63   Jean Jacquot   £950
64   James Gray   £850
65   Harprit Singh Gurnam   £850
66   Dale Garrad   £850
67   Lewis Jackson   £850
68   Joe Foley   £850
69   Stewart Brodie   £850
70   Allen Mcauley   £850
71   Matt Heasman   £850
72   Shai Zurr   £850

50 players left, blinds are 3,000-6,000 with a 500 ante.

Average chip count is 195,000.

Paul Ephremsen OUT in 750k pot.

Paul raised preflop and got one caller in Oliver Schaffman. They saw a Qc Ahrt Tc flop and Paul bet 45k. Oliver called and they saw a 5s turn. Paul fired again, 65k, only to see Oliver say "All-In". Paul insta called and opened Ac Qs only to see Oliver had flopped the nuts with Kd Jd. The river was a useless 8s and Oliver is now the chipleader as Paul heads for the cash desk.

Well played James, big one due mate

Geo

Any update on Mark Aldridge?

15 minute break.

Mitch is out. Details unknown.

Great Updates, KUTGW

Any chance u can tell me how Gareth Walker is doing?

sigh

And we're back. 5 tables left.

Down to 43 - Maria OUT.

She shipped 50k with A-7 from the hijack, and Middy called with K-J. Everyone else folded and the 2 blondes saw a 3-J-A flop. The turn was a harmless 5, but the river was a sickening K, sending Maria to the rail in 45th and giving Middy the pot and a 150k stack.

Mark Aldridge has approximately 450k and is one of the chip leaders I think.

Can you pass on my best wishes to Ollie Schaffman?  Stewart from Aberdeen G.

Gareth Walker has about 120k when I passed by his table.

Richard Sherwood is out.

Pippa Flanders has doubled through Ben Crellin with Ts Th vs Aspades Kh - the 2d Jd 2c 8h 4d no help to Ben. Ben has about 50k left.

Mickey Wernick has doubled through Stu Hilton, all in pre with Stu's Ahrt Qh in bad shape against Mickey's Kh Ks. The Qd 5d Tc 7h 8c hit Stu, but wasn't enough, the 220k pot headed Mickey's way. Stu also has 50k left and is in shoving mode.

I believe Ollie is the chip leader with about 700k.

Goran Dalum has just eliminated Middy, all I saw was Middy striding off, looking a little bit unhappy...

Sigh was hoping to rail a Bedi, Eames and Middy FT

Bedi is down to 200k and his neighbour, Piotr Majewski, has jumped to about 500k. I'm guessing something happened there recently.

Peter Chararararararararararalambos is OUT.

He raised to 20k from the button, only to see John Burberry in the BB 3-bet to 55k. They saw a 5c 6s Kh flop and John bet 55k. Charra thought about it and then moved all in for 182,500 total. John called pretty quickly and opened Ahrt Kc whilst Charra could only show Jh Th for a bluff. The 7c was enough for Charra to shake John's hand and head for the cash desk as the dealer dealt the unimportant 2d river.

Just to let you guys know, mitch got it all in pre with ak vs kq, kq rivered str8.
Unlucky ginger brother better luck next time.

sick blow up

norrrr gg Maria :(

get it done now Holey.

Chipleaders:

Mark Aldridge - 480k
Oliver Schaffmann - 650k
Goran Dalum - 500k
Piotr Majewski - 600k

38   Steve Ferry   £1,250
39   Ben Crellin   £1,250
40   Peter Charalambous   £1,250
41   George Kranios   £1,250
42   Thomas Middleton   £1,250
43   Helen Turner   £1,250
44   Richard Sherwood   £1,250
45   Maria Demetriou   £1,250
46   Tomas Burgers   £1,100
47   Gurdev (tony) Millan   £1,100
48   Barkatul Mohammed   £1,100
49   Mitchell Johnson   £1,100
50   Paul Ephremsen   £1,100
51   John Conner   £1,100
52   Geoffrey Mockford   £1,100
53   Waheed Ashraf   £1,100
54   Jan Bjoersland   £1,100
55   Karl Snow   £950
56   Andrew Hulme   £950
57   Peter Seager   £950
58   Jason Herbert   £950
59   Kyriacos Dionysiou   £950
60   Christopher Hepworth   £950
61   Dominic Kay   £950
62   Davyd Wright   £950
63   Jean Jacquot   £950
64   James Gray   £850
65   Harprit Singh Gurnam   £850
66   Dale Garrad   £850
67   Lewis Jackson   £850
68   Joe Foley   £850
69   Stewart Brodie   £850
70   Allen Mcauley   £850
71   Matt Heasman   £850
72   Shai Zurr   £850

Tbf though, that's prob the same face middy would have on if he won it all.


mega sigh tho

UPDATE AND CHIP COUNT FOR LEON LOUIS PLEASE

Leon's just eliminated Daniel Cochrane with 9s 9d against Daniel's shoved Tc 2c. The board came Kd 2s 6h 5s 8d to send Daniel home in 36th.

Ollie Schaffmann has taken a hit, he doubled up Robert Charlton when they raced Aspades Qh (Ollie) against 9s 9c (Robert). Robert needed the 9h on the flop, as it was quickly followed by Qs and Qd, but the rest of the board ran out 6d 3s to leave a relieved Robert raking in the 350k pot.

35 left, blinds are 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante.

WOW woho Go on Leon  ;sark; ;sexybanana; Chip Count please

GO OLLY From all @ Aberdeen xxxxx

Pippa Flanders out in 35th, looks like she ran into Ollie Schaffmann.

living the aberdream, imo

MKK FISH says ship me a yacht  xxx

Matt wadham update please..

whatever happened with your staking deal at the £300?

Blind on blind, David Swan shoves all in with 10-10. The BB, David Ifthakar wakes up with A-A and snaps. The flop is 8-7-4, but the turn is a cruel 10, and the river is a meaningless 6, sending the pot to Swan and leaving Ifthakar with about 20k.

Gareth Walker has just doubled up with A-A as well, he called all in after Zack Chesses shoved with A-10o. The board was a harmless 3-6-K-8-9 to leave Chesses very very short.

Adam, Good afternoon from Vienna.

The Duke is still in here.  How many Blondes have we got left at DTD please ?

He's just knocked out Zack Chesses, but is still short with 155k after that hand.

580k and one of the chip leaders.

Update and chipcount for Parminder Kandola (14, 9) please? Thanks alot

Bedi and Eames are the blondes I recognise. Gareth Walker is still in as well.

Go on Duke!

great updates btw adam sharples

250k.

Peter Abela is out, he got it all in with A-10 against Robert Charlton's A-J. The J on the flop was enough to send Peter to the rail.

WHOOP WHOOP.. Get the camara working and snappy snap a photo please :) .. Send him our GOOD LUCK wishes!

Is there any sort of one day tourney on today? Looks like there isn't but just wanted to check, obv the ladies is no good for me lol............

where did he finish /money?

time for Aldo to ship it, gl to george as well

was also going to send wishes to Zahir, but sadly, gone

Eames is out. All in with 9-9 preflop against John Burberry's A-K, which smacked the 5-K-2-5-K board in the face.

Will the final table still be tomorrow.. or will it be moved today if they get down to 10

29   John Eames   £1,450
30   Zahir Aslam   £1,450
31   David Iftakhar   £1,450
32   Matthew Wadham   £1,450
33   Peter Abela   £1,450
34   Zack Chesses   £1,450
35   Philippa Flanders   £1,450
36   Daniel Cochrane   £1,450
37   Amandeep Atwal   £1,250
38   Steve Ferry   £1,250
39   Ben Crellin   £1,250
40   Peter Charalambous   £1,250
41   George Kranios   £1,250
42   Thomas Middleton   £1,250
43   Helen Turner   £1,250
44   Richard Sherwood   £1,250
45   Maria Demetriou   £1,250
46   Tomas Burgers   £1,100
47   Gurdev (tony) Millan   £1,100
48   Barkatul Mohammed   £1,100
49   Mitchell Johnson   £1,100
50   Paul Ephremsen   £1,100
51   John Conner   £1,100
52   Geoffrey Mockford   £1,100
53   Waheed Ashraf   £1,100
54   Jan Bjoersland   £1,100
55   Karl Snow   £950
56   Andrew Hulme   £950
57   Peter Seager   £950
58   Jason Herbert   £950
59   Kyriacos Dionysiou   £950
60   Christopher Hepworth   £950
61   Dominic Kay   £950
62   Davyd Wright   £950
63   Jean Jacquot   £950
64   James Gray   £850
65   Harprit Singh Gurnam   £850
66   Dale Garrad   £850
67   Lewis Jackson   £850
68   Joe Foley   £850
69   Stewart Brodie   £850
70   Allen Mcauley   £850
71   Matt Heasman   £850
72   Shai Zurr   £850

Tomorrow.

And my camera is dead, sorry!

Nah, but Boshi is sat at the cash tables I believe...

28 left.

The 6-max is down to the final 7 with JP Kelly being the feature attraction,

COME ON POMPEY!!

Awful penalty

SIGH. Worst pen ive ever seen.

Quick break. Back in 15 minutes.

As bad as the Leicester City playoff penalty? ;)

And we're back. Blinds are 6,000/12,000 with a running ante of 1,000. 28 left.

chip count list?

Just found these updates, fantastic work.

Had a great weekend in Nottingham, busted late Day 2, got moved from a soft table to a tough one with both Tom Middy and Rupinder who were the two most active players i'd seen all weekend :(.

Crippling hand was when I picked up QQ, raised and 3-bet by Middy. I 4-bet shove and he snaps with AK. A hit flop. GG.

My first time at DTD and was v impressed.

A chip count on Swanny would be good?

Cheers and keep up the good work.

GET OUT

Matt Wadham just shot up to 575k when he found A-A against Ollie's Q-Q.

Steve Holloway bust in 28th when he tangled with Ollie Schaffmann again, this time the classic A-K vs Q-Q race. Queens held this time for Ollie and Steve headed for the cash desk.

Any chipcounts available?

Chip counts on way. Just waiting for a list.

Problem. I thought DTD had counted at the last break. They hadn't, they were just chipping up!

Anybody in particular?

Mark Aldridge has just eliminated John Burberry to move into a clear chip lead with 1.2m.

Blind on blind, Mark's A-K won the race against John's Q-Q when the board ran out 4-5-K-10-9 to send John home in 27th.

gaz walker

Rupinder please

Nishar Hassam is out in 26th. I got there as he was shaking hands with executioner David Swan, with what appeared to be a preflop race, Nishar's K-Q vs David's 8-8. The 8-8 held up on a 10 high board and Nishar headed for the rail.

Leon

160k and grinding. I've never seen him look so serious.


440k I think. They've just brought in the 25k chips and I think he has about 300k in that denomination.

andros syyriou, the loud guy with tirets (obv sp) please

(http://3nspeaks.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/chelsea.jpg)

(http://www.soccerjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/didier-drogba.jpg)

and gtfo boateng.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8684597.stm

Relax George!!!  You can do this!  Come ooooon the blondes!!! 

Ditto, cmon George TID

Rupinder's gone. :(

Blind on blind, he shoved his 160k stack with 3s 3d, and BB (and big stack) Ollie Schaffmann made the call with Kc 4c.

The flop was a safe 8c 6s 2d, but the turn was a worrying 7h, giving Ollie another 4 outs. He hit one of the 12 outs on the river, the dealer flipping the 4s to send Mr Bedi to the rail in 24th.

vul wp

ul rudi

Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.  UL

What blondes are still left and their counts when ya get a chance please and ty.

Gogogogog Mark

James Hoyes has effectively doubled up. He called a 26.5k raise preflop from Andros Spyrou along with Keith Johnson. They all checked a Th Jc Kc flop and the 7c turn led James to push all in for a 90% of the pot bet, around 83k. Both Andros and Keith folded, leaving James to rake the pot in and move up to about 170k.

14   1   Michael Wernick
14   2   Nicholas Gavriel
14   3   Goran Dalum
14   4   Keith Johnson
14   5   Darren Oldaker
14   7   James Hoyes
14   8   Andros Spyrou
14   9   Parminder Kandola
15   1   Steven Brennan
15   3   Oliver Schaffmann
15   4   Owen Robinson
15   5   Raymond Chan
15   6   Piotr Majewski
15   7   Robert Charlton
15   9   Kieran Appleby
3   1   Leon Louis
3   2   Simon Wing
3   3   David Swan
3   4   Andrew Couldridgea
3   5   Gareth Walker
3   7   Graham Giles
3   9   Mark Aldridge

About 520k.

There isn't really any. Gaz Walker is still in but George, Eames, Middy etc have all departed.

Here's to you Owen Robinson.  GLGLGL. Blackbelt FTW! :)up

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLKKKKKKKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and brennan

come on Aldo

Parminder Kandola has doubled through Goran Dalum with his A-K winning the race against Goran's 9-9, the Ks in the door enough for Kandola to double up and leave Goran with shrapnel.

Hi,can u please tell me how Olly is dong and a chip count please :)  GO OLLY xxxxxx

Nicholas Gavriel has just knocked out James Hoyes. Hoyes got his short stack in with 3-3 and walked into Nick's 7-7. No help on the board and James exited in 22nd.

Ollie - ship me the yacht.

Owen Robinson - 475k
Gareth Walker - 350k
Steven Brennan - 350k
Mark Aldridge - 1.15m
Ollie Schaffmann - 825k

chip count for Mr Wernick please

latest on onewaypoker mickey wernick?? plz.. if he still going tell him his boss nicky is wishing him luck!!!! lol

MKK - Double Martell from you please..

Red Bull and Vodka xxxx

Mickey appears to be out, as I can't find him anywhere.

Went out in 21st
21   Michael Wernick

Goran Dalum has been eliminated in 20th place by Nick Gavriel.

Shipped and Drunk in one go ;)

LOL! Thought you would be down on the rail?

Down to 2 tables - Keith Johnson eliminated in 19th.

Darren Oldaker is out in 18th after he shoved Aspades Qs UTG only to run into Mark Aldridge's Ahrt Ad next to him!

Steve Brennan went at the same time in 17th, couldn't get the hand unfortunately, will try and track him down to find out.

Any guess as to how many chips Mark might have now?

Simon Wing has been eliminated in 16th place.

Blind on blind, Leon Louis raised enough to put Simon all in, and he duly called all-in with Tc 7d. Leon opened Kd 8h and the flop came out Kh 8c 3s. The turn was the 5c, which saw Simon shaking hands and heading to the cash desk as the dealer put out the Qc river.

Chip count for Parminder 'Johnny' Kandola when u get a minute plz.

Why are you not here schooling Boshi at cash?

Mark Aldridge has 1.4m in answer to an earlier request.

Players are on a 45 minute dinner break. Chip counts soon.

whats smallest cash games plz?

Is that johnny who goes to dtd a lot?

yes

£1/£2 NLH.

£2/£2 DC.

Taken from www.pokerstarsblog.com

Mark Aldridge   United Kingdom      1400000
Oliver Schaffmann   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   1175000
Nicholas Gavriel   United Kingdom      787000
Andrew Couldridge   United Kingdom      762000
David Swan   United Kingdom      724000
Andros Spyrou   United Kingdom      716000
Leon Louis   United Kingdom      625000
Graham Giles   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   610000
Piotr Majewski   Poland   PokerStars Qualifier   579000
Parminder Kandola   United Kingdom      495000
Owen Robinson   Ireland      460000
Robert Charlton   United Kingdom      399000
Gareth Walker   United Kingdom      353000
Raymond Chan   United States      225000
Kieran Appleby   United Kingdom      97000

 ;letsparty;

Could someone tell me what the blinds/antes are at taaaa?

xx

Go raymond chan!!!
Plus johnny

Phone call from Mark Aldridge - feeling a bit nervy approaching the FT.

He's sitting on 1.4m with 2nd place just behind on over 1m.

He thinks it shouldn't be too long for the FT bubble to burst.

long time to go

Blinds are 10k/20k with a 2k ante.

14 left. Kieran Appleby was just eliminated.

David Swan is out in 14th.

Robert Charlton started the action when he opened to 80k. Mark Aldridge flatted on the button only to see David Swan push all in for 250k total. Robert quickly folded but Mark tanked and called.

Mark: Kc Tc
David: 7s 7d

The door card was the Td which was a hammer to David, and the rest of the board came out 8d 8c Kh Qh to send David to the rail in 14th, picking up £2,700.

Play has slowed down massively now. A couple of the shortstacks have doubled up and it's hard to predict who's going to be out next. 13 left. We play down to 9.

For anyone interested, JP Kelly took down the first ever 6-max tournament here at DTD.

He then immediately jumped into the £300! Sick, sick man.

As I say that, Leon Louis is eliminated when he pushed for 400k with JJ and ran into Andrew Couldridge's AA.

The 9-8-K-Q-7 board threw up a sweat for Andrew, but the Aces held and Leon exits in 13th place.

13   Leon Louis   £3,350
14   David Swan   £2,700
15   Kieran Appleby   £2,700
16   Simon Wing   £2,200
17   Darren Oldaker   £2,200
18   Steven Brennan   £2,200
19   Keith Johnson   £2,200
20   Goran Dalum   £2,200
21   Michael Wernick   £2,200
22   James Hoyes   £1,750
23   Anthony Cartwright   £1,750
24   Rupinder Bedi   £1,750
25   Stuart Hilton   £1,750
26   Nishar Hassam   £1,750
27   John Burberry   £1,750
28   Stephen Holloway   £1,450
29   John Eames   £1,450
30   Zahir Aslam   £1,450
31   David Iftakhar   £1,450
32   Matthew Wadham   £1,450
33   Peter Abela   £1,450
34   Zack Chesses   £1,450
35   Philippa Flanders   £1,450
36   Daniel Cochrane   £1,450
37   Amandeep Atwal   £1,250
38   Steve Ferry   £1,250
39   Ben Crellin   £1,250
40   Peter Charalambous   £1,250
41   George Kranios   £1,250
42   Thomas Middleton   £1,250
43   Helen Turner   £1,250
44   Richard Sherwood   £1,250
45   Maria Demetriou   £1,250
46   Tomas Burgers   £1,100
47   Gurdev (tony) Millan   £1,100
48   Barkatul Mohammed   £1,100
49   Mitchell Johnson   £1,100
50   Paul Ephremsen   £1,100
51   John Conner   £1,100
52   Geoffrey Mockford   £1,100
53   Waheed Ashraf   £1,100
54   Jan Bjoersland   £1,100
55   Karl Snow   £950
56   Andrew Hulme   £950
57   Peter Seager   £950
58   Jason Herbert   £950
59   Kyriacos Dionysiou   £950
60   Christopher Hepworth   £950
61   Dominic Kay   £950
62   Davyd Wright   £950
63   Jean Jacquot   £950
64   James Gray   £850
65   Harprit Singh Gurnam   £850
66   Dale Garrad   £850
67   Lewis Jackson   £850
68   Joe Foley   £850
69   Stewart Brodie   £850
70   Allen Mcauley   £850
71   Matt Heasman   £850
72   Shai Zurr   £850

Gareth Walker doubled up when he got it all in with Q-Q against A-J of Andy Couldridge. Queens held.

Most hands at the moment are as expected, raise-fold-fold.

Could anyone give me updates on chip leaders please?

Especially Ollie?

Cheers xx

unlucky leon :( .. well done for getting as far as you did xx

Go on Johnny you can do it Gooooooooooooooooooooo

Parminder "Johnny" Kandola is out in 12th.

He check-raised all in on a 3s 8c Kc 9s board holding the Ts 8s, and was called by Owen Robinson holding Ac 8d

Johnny missed his 12 outs as the river came the 2d and sent him to the cash desk to pick up £3,350.

Ollie has mountains in front of him...I'll get an approximate count in a few mins.

Hi SHARPLEA
Sorry It.s off topic, but any chance you could sneek a peek at my Mrs (Lynne Etches)chip stack
on the ladies final table,would be much appreciated if it's not to much trouble.  

 ;hattip;

Ollie has 1.45m approx.

Robert Charlton is out in 11th. He shoved on a 7h 6s Qc 5d and found Mark Aldridge re-shoving behind him. Mark opened 6c 5c to Robert's Qh 8c. The river was the 6h, giving Mark the full house and sending Robert to the rail, £4,100 richer.

We are now playing down to 8, not 9, tonight.

Provided I have the right lady, 25k. Ish.

Interesting.

There isn't going to be any hand-for-hand tonight.

Thoughts?

Strange, so two tables of 5 and then 5 and 4 !!! a little bit unfair surely ???

surely be a table of 9

doh ;-) blonde moment lol but why bother then with one more exit ?

They have to get the FT finished by 8pm tomorrow because of the £300 webcast final table, hence Toby (TD) decided to play to 8.

Dunno if we're gonna have one table of 9...

We are having one table of 9.

Mark Aldridge has been crippled. I joined it with 1.8m in the pot and Graham Giles all in on a flop of Q-7-K.

Mark opened K-Q for top two, only for Graham to open Q-Q for a set.

The turn was a J and the river an A to give Graham the chip lead and put Mark down as one of the shortstacks.

Cheers mate but I fear you have it wrong She's no lady.

 rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

She's just gone out third
BOOOOOOOO But then again GET IN another £500 in the poker pot.
Well played Lynne

15 minute break - complete with chip counts.

We are back, and as is tradition, we have an elimination.

Raymond Chan found himself all in and dominating Owen Robinson with A-10 vs A-2.

Sadly, the flop fell J-2-5, and the 9 turn and 8 river were no help to Ray, who exits in 10th place for £4,100.

We now have a table of 9, and play will finish when we lose one more.

Nicholas Gavriel has open shoved the last 2 hands preflop and has gone from 347k to 491k. Quite substantial, the 72k blinds and antes.

And we're done for the night.

Mark Aldridge is the unlucky man, he found Q-Q and pushed but Owen Robinson behind him had K-K and called. The board ran out 10-4-4-6-2 to send Mark home, £5,300 richer.

We are back tomorrow at 12pm for the UKIPT Nottingham final table. Please join me as we watch the final 8 fight it out for the £80,000 top prize.

I'll post the chip counts when we receive them.

Top Updates Adam!!!!!

 ;hattip; ;hattip;

Woooooo! Go Ollie!

Good Luck Tomorrow Mate

Thanks for the great updaes on behalf of all at BBP , great day from rags to riches for OWEN Robinson - TID :-)

Great job Adam

+1

Hello. Do you by any chance have the final table chip counts? Thanks.

thanks Adam!

Here ya go Snoops...courtesy of DTD:

Owen Robinson   0   5   2414000
Graham Giles   0   6   1807000
Andros Spyrou   0   9   1407000
Andrew Couldridgea   0   3   1206000
Oliver Schaffmann   0   7   1018000
Piotr Majewski   0   1   639000
Gareth Walker   0   2   506000
Nicholas Gavriel   0   8   494000

Cheers, saved me a job!

Time to finally have lunch, 17hrs after I started my fun journey today. See you all tomorrow!!

NP Adam and thanks for the updates!  Done good, done good.   :)up

+1.  Great job Ollie.  Best of luck tomorrow. Stewart B.

Welcome back to DTD for the final day, and the final table of the UKIPT Nottingham. There are 8 players left, and we have some lovely bios for you to read, along with all the pertinent information. We start here at 12pm sharp, and we are hoping that we'll be done by 8pm, as PokerStars are trialling a new webcast for the £300 final table, details of which will be in the post below.

So, without further ado, here are today's finalists. One of these men will be crowned UKIPT champion tomorrow evening!

Owen Robinson   2414000   Ireland
Graham Giles   1807000   United Kingdom
Andros Spyrou   1407000   United Kingdom
Andrew Couldridgea   1206000   United Kingdom
Oliver Schaffmann   1018000   United Kingdom
Piotr Majewski   639000   Poland
Gareth Walker   506000   United Kingdom
Nicholas Gavriel   494000   United Kingdom

UKIPT Nottingham Final Table Profiles

Seat 1: Piotr Majewski, 28, Poland, PokerStars Qualifier – 639,000
Piotr is a familiar face at PokerStars events, having blogged EPTs for a number of years. In fact, he nearly missed his flight to San Remo in 2010 while recording his biggest online win of $10,000 on PokerStars.com the previous night. A part-time player, Piotr’s main job is running a poker site owned by his brother, www.pokertexas.pl.  He nearly made it as a professional basketball player and is a qualified basketball referee. This is Piotr’s first Final Table, and he will start it 6th in chips.

Seat 2: Gareth Walker, 27, United Kingdom – 506,000
Gareth, from Newcastle, comes to the Final Table seventh in chips. He started playing online three years ago, but these days he prefers live poker. He usually tries to satellite into the bigger tournaments but he bought in directly to this event. He owns his own company, specialising in high-performance car parts. His favourite type of poker is lo-limit hold ‘em cash games and his biggest cash before this event was $2,700. Away from poker he likes watching movies, particularly comedies, and his favourite film is ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’.

Seat 3: Andrew Couldridge, 44, London – 1,206,000
Andrew is a part-time player who owns a plumbing firm in London. He started playing online 5 years ago and his biggest win to date is $9,000. He is a former football coach of Broadwalk Farm Youth Community Association, a youth club associated with Tottenham Hotspur, of which Andrew is a season ticket holder. He is looking forward to following Spurs around Europe next year, but with his Final Table appearance at this event, he could find himself travelling around Europe to play some EPTs instead.

Seat 4: Owen Robinson, 27, Ireland – 2,414,000
Owen Robinson is UKIPT Nottingham’s Final Table chip leader. He’s from Wexford and is currently on a voluntary three-year career break from his job in local government. He is planning on travelling to Asia and also to study for a Masters to add to his degree in Politics, Philosophy and Sociology. He’s been playing poker for around four years and started by playing in home games with friends. He prefers playing online to live play, and his speciality is cash games. A minimum £7,600 win tomorrow beats his previous biggest cash of $3,500.

Seat 5: Graham Giles, 31, PokerStars Qualifier – 1,807,000
Graham, from Essex, has been playing poker for six years. He describes himself as a semi-pro but generally plays four tables for five to six hours a day. He’s a man of the world and has held many jobs, but considers poker to be what he does best. He would like to go professional, but currently combines playing with a day job as a delivery driver. He plays both live and online, mainly tournaments. He won a satellite into this tournament on PokerStars and in the past he’s also won three seats to the WSOP on PokerStars. He has a partner and a baby, and away from poker he likes horse racing and is an avid fan of the Tractor Boys – Ipswich Town FC.

Seat 6: Oliver Schaffmann, 23, Berlin, Germany – 1,018,000
Originally from the German capital, Oliver Schaffmann has been living in the UK for three years and currently studies accountancy in Aberdeen. However, the Scottish weather has clearly taken its toll and Schaffmann plans to head to Australia – via the World Series in Las Vegas – once his studies are complete. He plays both live and online, relishing the social aspect of the live game, but also plays five to six days a week online, including the Sunday Million on PokerStars. A keen sportsman, Schaffmann was previously in the German national junior cycling team.

Seat 7: Nick Gavriel, 24, Birmingham, United Kingdom – 494,000
Nick Gavriel began playing poker with his family, and is still mainly a recreational player who works full-time in the family business. He is of Greek descent but lives in Birmingham, where his father is a friend of the English poker stalwart Mickey Wernick. His girlfriend, Natalie, who also plays poker, usually supports him, but is currently on holiday in Cyprus and so is missing his best live result to date. Primarily a live player, he also contests the Sunday majors on PokerStars.

Seat 8: Andros Spyrou, 27, London, United Kingdom - 1,407,000
A former road-worker from North West London, Andros Spyrou is now a full-time poker professional. He's played the game for more than 10 years – primarily live – and describes hold 'em and Omaha cash games as his ‘bread and butter’. He has also had some decent online scores, including winning $45,000 for third place in one online tournament. He'll be well-supported in Nottingham, with a contingency of friends arriving to cheer him at the Final Table.

9   Mark Aldridge   £5,300
10   Raymond Chan   £4,100
11   Robert Charlton   £4,100
12   Parminder Kandola   £3,350
13   Leon Louis   £3,350
14   David Swan   £2,700
15   Kieran Appleby   £2,700
16   Simon Wing   £2,200
17   Darren Oldaker   £2,200
18   Steven Brennan   £2,200
19   Keith Johnson   £2,200
20   Goran Dalum   £2,200
21   Michael Wernick   £2,200
22   James Hoyes   £1,750
23   Anthony Cartwright   £1,750
24   Rupinder Bedi   £1,750
25   Stuart Hilton   £1,750
26   Nishar Hassam   £1,750
27   John Burberry   £1,750
28   Stephen Holloway   £1,450
29   John Eames   £1,450
30   Zahir Aslam   £1,450
31   David Iftakhar   £1,450
32   Matthew Wadham   £1,450
33   Peter Abela   £1,450
34   Zack Chesses   £1,450
35   Philippa Flanders   £1,450
36   Daniel Cochrane   £1,450
37   Amandeep Atwal   £1,250
38   Steve Ferry   £1,250
39   Ben Crellin   £1,250
40   Peter Charalambous   £1,250
41   George Kranios   £1,250
42   Thomas Middleton   £1,250
43   Helen Turner   £1,250
44   Richard Sherwood   £1,250
45   Maria Demetriou   £1,250
46   Tomas Burgers   £1,100
47   Gurdev (tony) Millan   £1,100
48   Barkatul Mohammed   £1,100
49   Mitchell Johnson   £1,100
50   Paul Ephremsen   £1,100
51   John Conner   £1,100
52   Geoffrey Mockford   £1,100
53   Waheed Ashraf   £1,100
54   Jan Bjoersland   £1,100
55   Karl Snow   £950
56   Andrew Hulme   £950
57   Peter Seager   £950
58   Jason Herbert   £950
59   Kyriacos Dionysiou   £950
60   Christopher Hepworth   £950
61   Dominic Kay   £950
62   Davyd Wright   £950
63   Jean Jacquot   £950
64   James Gray   £850
65   Harprit Singh Gurnam   £850
66   Dale Garrad   £850
67   Lewis Jackson   £850
68   Joe Foley   £850
69   Stewart Brodie   £850
70   Allen Mcauley   £850
71   Matt Heasman   £850
72   Shai Zurr   £850

All the NPF are behind ya mate , get it taken down "Papa Walker"

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_kLjLSfBtFXk/S99MDhgZ4aI/AAAAAAAADeU/OFbBOYOggr8/s720/IMG_1599.JPG)

Two minute warning...if players are not in their seats in 2 minutes, we start without them.

And we're off. Players have unbagged, stacked, and started.

Blinds are 15k/30k with a running ante of 3k.

Also, the £56 bounty tournament is today at 1.30pm for those interested in playing. There will be 5/6 bounties, each with £300 on their head.

Early action is as expected, cagey. Owen Robinson has extended his chip lead slightly, mainly by winning the blinds and antes uncontested preflop but in one notable hand, he took 300k off Andros Spyrou after Nick Gavriel opened to 82k preflop from UTG+1. Andros flat called next to him, but they were upstaged by Owen, who 3-bet to 300k from the SB. Nick got out of the way pretty quickly but Andros dwelled up before eventually calling.

They saw a Js Kh 9c flop and Owen calmly counted out a stack of light blue chips and nudged them over the line, 500k total. This visibly pained Andros, who counted his stack 2-3 times whilst shaking his head, before eventually folding unhappily.

gl this man

gl to owen robinson too.

Blinds are now 20k/40k with a 4k running ante.

Nick Gavriel just moved all in from the cutoff after Ollie Schaffmann raised to 73k from the hijack just before the blinds went up. Ollie tanked, but decided a discretionary fold was in order.

Piotr Majewski has dribbled down to 300k, mainly from blinds and antes but he did lose 100k to Andros. I'm expecting him to move all in pretty soon with 7BB's.

Nick Gavriel has been the most active at the final table, he's now up to 1m after winning a few uncontested pots and taking a 300k pot off Ollie Schaffmann when he bet 160k on the turn of a 3c Ahrt Jd 7h board.

Piotr Majewski has been all in a couple of times, yet to receive a caller though.

Ollie Schaffmann is our biggest loser. He lost a 500k pot to Andros after Andros flopped top pair and Ollie paid him off. He has about 600k now.

And 8 became 7...

Gareth Walker exits in 8th place.

Ollie Schaffmann raised it up to 93k from UTG+1 only to find Gareth shipping in his 316k stack from the button. After the blinds got out of the way, Ollie snap-called and opened Qh Qd. Gareth sighed and opened 9s 9d, needing 2 outs to stay in the tournament.

The flop was 5h Js 3d, no help for the Newcastle man. The turn brought some "oohhhh" from the gathered crowd but it was the 8c, close but not close enough. Despite loud calls for a 9, the dealer duly burned and turned the biggest blank, the 2c, sending the 700k pot to Ollie and sending Gareth back to Newcastle with his biggest cash, £7,600.

Go Ollie!  Take it down.

As there's no blondes, suppose I'll have to go for the obvious...COME ON THE IRISH!!!

Ollie Schaffmann has just doubled through Owen Robinson.

Owen raised to 95k from the cutoff, only to see Ollie make a suspiciously small 3-bet to 220k. After BB Nick Gavriel had got out of the way, Owen flat called.

The flop was 4c Ac 4s, and Ollie checked. Owen looked torn about whether to make a bet, but decided to check behind. They saw the Ks on the turn, and it was here that Ollie decided to make another small bet, 180k. Owen decided to flat call this as well and the 2 players saw what appeared to be a harmless 9d river.

Harmless it wasn't. Ollie pretty quickly moved all in for 500k. Owen grimaced and thought for about 20 seconds before quietly saying "call". Ollie grinned and opened an unbelievable Ahrt 4h, for a flopped full house! Owen looked a bit shocked as he mucked before calmly counting out the chips and sending them Ollie's way.

Ollie now has 1.9m chips and is back up with the chipleaders. Owen has dropped to about the same.

Piotr Majewski has doubled through Andros Spyrou.

After Ollie Schaffmann opened to 90k from the hijack, Andros flat called from the button only to see Piotr move all in for 366k. Ollie got out of the way and Andros made the call.

Andros: Aspades Tc
Piotr: Ahrt Ac

The flop came Th 6s 6h, which gave Andros a small glimmer of hope, but that was extingushed on the 5d Ks turn and river. Piotr is now up to 800k and Andros is down to about 600k.

 ;iagree; although for slightly different reasons ;nipnip;

We just had an extended break to shift some tables around and chip up.

Current chip counts:

Piotr - 925k
Andrew - 1.345m
Owen - 2.49m
Graham - 1.475m
Ollie - 1.72m
Nick - 685k
Andros - 940k

The £50 bounty tournament has also started. Few notable blondes have arrived; DaveShoelace, Shogun, Holdorcannoteverfold, pizzled, zzBlizzardzz among the field. Bounties were announced as Rob Yong, Julian Thew, Nick Wealthall, Michelle Orpe, Zoe Gillings and Carl Froch.

Hi Adam.

If you get chance could you say good luck to Andrew Couldridge from me.
Tell him i was the player to his right when the bubble burst - he seemed a really nice guy.

Cheers
Matt

Andros Spyrou is up to 1.5m after a big pot with Owen Robinson. Andros raised to 130k for the second straight hand (blinds 25k/50k/5k ante) and Owen elected to flat in position. They saw a Td 5s 4h flop and both cagily checked. Andros led out for 155k on the 9h turn and Owen called rather quickly. The river was the 6h and Andros checked. Owen immediately reached for chips and put out a 260k bet. Andros then tanked and asked for the pot to be spread (680k). He decided to call and opened Ks Kh. Owen tapped the table and mucked.

7 is now 6.

Graham Giles opened to 120k from the cutoff and found short stack Nicholas Gavriel moving all in from the SB. Giles quickly called and opened Ahrt Kh which was dominating Nick's Ad 9d. The flop was 4h 4d 2h, which was no good for Gavriel. The Kc on the turn was then enough to send Nick to the rail as the dealer dealt the worthless 8c river. Nick finishes in 7th place and takes home £9,900.

Go go go Greek Andy      ......        he'll talk them to death any time soon.

Shame there's been no photos last couple days

He's being pretty quiet, happily sat there with headphones on.

Ollie Schaffmann is getting no respect preflop, last time he raised UTG to 125k and got 3 callers in Andrew Couldridge from the BTN, Owen Robinson from the SB and Graham Giles from the BB. The flop was Aspades Qh 7d and Ollie got a lot more respect post-flop, his 255k c-bet was enough to take the pot.

Ollie also took 115k off Piotr when he flatted Piotr's raise preflop, both checked the 3s 3d 7h flop and Ollie overbet the  Jd turn to the tune of 325k. Piotr folded.

Andy Couldridge just won a nice pot from Owen Robinson after check raising Owen's 155k bet on a 7h 3c 3h flop to 440k. Owen folded pretty quickly.

In the £50 bounty, Julian Thew has the "honour" of being the first bounty eliminated!

This is the one thing I'm not happy about, but it was unavoidable. The camera we normally use is owned by Tighty I believe, and he was using it in Austria at the APAT tourney. I brought my own digital camera, but despite putting in new batteries, all photos are coming out black.

It's a shame. I would have left the camera if Adam was without one,but that's life

Good job though Sharplea, and thanks

Have you taken the lens cap off? ;D

cant another blonde have brought in a camera for you? theres only 403234472 of them at dtd every night!

enjoying the updates though and like the use of the word 'open' by adam sharples.

Blinds are now 30k/60k with a 5k ante.

In what appeared to be a standard blind vs button battle preflop, things kicked off after the 7h 3d 8d flop between Graham Giles and Andros Spyrou. Andros, who had called Graham's raise of 150k preflop, bet out 150k. Graham pretty quickly made it 325k total, only to see Andros count out a 3-bet, to 580k total. Graham tanked for a couple of minutes before giving it up, and Andros takes his stack to about 2m.

I'm not you, so obv I haven't.

It's automatic!

it's tilting me so hard

liking everything else though

maybe adam could draw pictures of the players

Blind on blind, Andros Spyrou completed from the SB and BB Piotr Majewski checked. The flop was an action-inducing Ks Kh Kd and unsurprisingly, both checked. The turn was the 7s and Andros led out for 105k, only to be met by a quick all in from Piotr, 700k total. Andros looked visibly pained as he asked for a count before folding after a dwell-up.

Piotr showed one card, the 2s!

Andrew Couldridge has used aggression well in 2 consecutive hands to add 650k to his stack in blind on blind confontations.

Firstly, he called a 135k raise from Piotr in the SB and on the 7s Ahrt 5s flop, he raised Piotr's c-bet of 140k to 380k confidently. Piotr mucked pretty quickly.

On the very next hand, he limped the SB only to see Owen Robinson make it 140k. He flatted this and checked the 4d 8c Tc flop. Owen c-bet 210 k only to see Andrew check-raise confidently to 500k. Again, Owen folded quickly.

Owen is down to 800k today, whilst Andrew has approx 1.8m.

go on andros!

@Sharplea

Can we have chip updates for the final 6 please?

Ta.

There's a break in about 15 mins, I'll try and get some then for you.

Piotr Majewski has doubled through Graham Giles.

Piotr open-shoved for 705k from the cutoff and it folded round to Graham in the BB who went deep into the tank. He kept checking his cards, his chips, and staring down Piotr before making a decision and calling. Piotr turned over Qd Jh and Graham's read was correct, he was ahead with his Aspades 6c.

The flop was Td 7c 4d, which left Piotr wth 6 outs to stay in the tournament. One of those duly hit on the turn, the dealer popping out the Qc, meaning Graham had 3 cards to hit on the river to knock Piotr out. Graham did hit the river, but it was the 6h, which wasn't enough and sent the 1.5m pot over to Piotr, knocking Graham down to about 1m.

Players are now on a 30 minute break.

Chip counts to follow shortly.

I can't count chips!

The official counts at the break are:

Piotr - 1,395,000
Andrew - 1,255,000
Owen - 1,475,000
Graham - 1,805,000
Ollie - 2,210,000
Andros - 1,515,000

any talks of a deal?

None yet.

We're back.

Blinds 40k/80k/5k

6 is now 5...

Piotr Makewski raised to 180k from the button, only to see Andrew Couldridge move all in from the SB. After 3-4 minutes in the tank, Piotr folded.

On the very next hand, Piotr again raised to 180k, this time from the cutoff. And again, the SB moved all in, this time Owen Robinson. The only difference was that this time Piotr tank-called.

Piotr showed 5s 5c against Owen's Ac 6c, and we were off to the races.

Flop: Kc Jh 9c - giving Owen 15 outs on the turn and river. The turn duly delivered, the Tc, sending Piotr to the rail in 6th place, taking home £13,200.

Andrew Couldridge has moved in preflop 3 times in the last 2 rounds, taking the not so substantial 145k in blinds and antes. He then moved in for a fourth time, and chip leader Ollie Schaffmann decided he had a good enough hand, and made the call.

Andrew: 9s 9c
Ollie: Ks Js

The flop came Qc 7h 5s and Andrew was still ahead. The turn gave Ollie more outs, the Tc, but the river was the 5h, pairing the board and sending the 2m pot over to Andrew. Ollie now drops back into the pack as Andrew ascends to the chipleaders.

This is what they're playing for: (credit to Mickey May and Pokerstars for these images)

(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3231/ukiptnotmickeymayjpg213.jpg)

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Oh hi der green square chips.

You would just have to go and sit with the lot at a 1/2 table for japes if you won!

Reminder that the final table of the £300 side event will be available to view at ukipt.com , showing hole cards with added commentary from a couple of blondites. From approx 8.15pm

lol at the one £5 chip in the picture too

Lol

If you ever have one of them Ill give you a tenner for it.

5 is now 4...

Andrew Couldridge had been raising UTG every time for the last 4-5 rounds. Andros Spyrou, in the BB, was getting upset and jokingly commented about a squeeze play. Andrew grinned and raised again UTG, this time to 250k, but he found Graham Giles moving all in from the button! Andrew went into the tank and decided to call.

Andrew: Aspades Qh
Graham: Jd 9d

Graham's squeeze play hadn't worked, but the first card on the flop was the Js, to cheers from his supporters. However, they were soon sighing, as the rest of the flop was Kc Ts and Andrew had flopped the nuts! The turn, however, decided that this hand wasn't over, as it was the Td and Graham needed a Ten or a Jack to take the pot. The river was paint, but not a Jack, it was the Qd which gave Graham a straight as well but Andrew had Broadway to take the pot.

After the chips were counted, Graham had 95,000 left. He duly chucked them in next hand, and blinds Andros and Andrew called. They checked the Jh 4s Ts flop, and Andros bet 80k on the Qc turn. Andrew ruefully grinned and folded. Graham flipped Js 6s for the flush draw as Andros showed 9c 8s for the turned straight. The river was the Kc and Graham Giles was eliminated in 5th place for £16,500.

Next hand, we are down to 3!

Owen Robinson and Andrew Couldridge get 5m chips in preflop! Owen showed Ac Ks and Andrew had 6h 6s.

The flop came 2c 5s 8h, the turn was Qd and the river was 5d to send Owen home in 4th place, taking £21,400 back to Ireland.

What did the players do in that last break?

We're now heads up!

Ollie Schaffmann raised to 180k on the button, and Andros Spyrou decided now was the time and moved all in for 1.4m. Ollie counted the chips out and decided that because he had 600k back if he called and lost, he would make the call!

Ollie: Qc 8s
Andros: Aspades Td

The door card was the Qh, which sent the rail wild, and the dealer peeled back the Qd and Ts, giving Ollie trip queens. The turn was the 6c, leaving Andros drawing dead and Ollie celebrating wildly. The river was the 8d to give Ollie the full house in a little rubdown.

We're having a short break to do chip counts before the heads up.

Chip counts HU:

Andrew: 6,250,000
Ollie: 3,500,000

Calls off with Q-high because he has 7.5BB's behind? Level?

Was on his table on day 1 - he's a loose cannon.  Kept getting lucky.  But saying that, I never had a read on him, never knew what he had!

I spoke to him afterwards and he said he didnt want to grind out 200k a round and also, he knew it was a 60/40 at best.

There has been a deal. Andrew is taking £60,000 and Ollie is taking £50,000. They're playing for £14,000, a £5,300 EPT London seat and the trophy.

Ollie has taken the first 2 pots and it's now 4m vs 5.5m.

Blinds are 50k/100k with no running ante.

good read after he's seen the hands

Surely he should shove pre then and at least have fold equity?

That lasted long, it's all over!

There was a 450k raise preflop and called. I arrived to see the Kc Kh 6s flop and Ollie bet out 600k. Andrew raised to 3.5m, effectively setting Ollie all in. Ollie agreed and we had a showdown!

Ollie: 9s 9h
Andrew: Qs 4s

Andrew had decided to run a massive bluff and had been caught, he had 3 outs to win the title or Ollie would be a massive chip leader. The dealer duly delivered one of those, the Qd on the turn, and Ollie now had to spike a 9 to keep the tournament alive. The river wasn't a 9, to rub it in it was the Qc to give Andrew a full house and the UKIPT Nottingham title!

Ollie took home £50,000 for second place, and Andrew won £74,000 cash, £5,300 EPT London entry and the trophy.

Pictures to follow courtesy of Pokerstars.

Was on his table for 25 mins yesterday and thought,....................................... Luckbox

Any news on the £300 game?

Come on James, spit it out, what do you really think - lol

Geo

any link for the 300 game - not on ukipt web site

Will try and find out now.

copied from the ukipt site:

Today (May 16) PokerStars will be streaming the final table of the £300+£36 UKIPT Side Event. You can tune it at anytime from 20:15 on the UKIPT TV page (http://www.ukipt.com/tv/)

Link will appear on http://www.ukipt.com from 8pm.

cheers for the last couple of days Adam

Debrief 1000 hours blonde bash weekend, hotel lobby. Bring clipboard.

You can get a bloody train!

Cheers guys, I've had a top weekend. DTD have been their usual brilliant hospitable selves and PokerStars have bent over backwards to help me out if I've been struggling.

Many many thanks to both, it's been great.

Right, I'm off to watch England hopefully win the 20/20 cup (Australia 120/1 on betfair!) and play SCOOP. I'm just waiting for the pics of the winner to be sent to me, I'll put them up when I receive them.

Thank you, and goodnight.

gooooo Dom Kay in the £300 Side Event, take it down son

working for anyone?

not so far

its up

Not working

Worked for a little while, then rewound Benny Hill style and has not come back since

when u click on ling showing video of covntry comp

if its live and the whole cards are been shown can people not cheat?

They're putting a 15 min delay on it. Still doesn't seem to be working though.

i have been watching fir 15 mins now

mus be only working in leeds lol

Works for me if I go straight to http://www.ukipt.com/

Anyone know what 1st prize is for this?

its working for me

I've got it working now, had to run an add-on for the media player.

Thoughts, guys?

couldnt get it on watching film instead just blank screen

that nick guy sounds sooo boring.

its ok

tilting as fk watching people dwell with air

think i prefer fully live no cards like EPT

well done Andy, great result.

Well played Ollie!!! ;hattip;

Any pics?

the winner, courtesy of poker stars

more pics in here

http://blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/27307

right, i am usually not the type to care too much about unskilled strategy input but because i want to help u improve ur game so MAYBE u make it past day one the next time here some bullet points:

1. i noticed a little controversy about my call with  Qc 8s. I think someone picked it up in a reply already but everyone with a little ICM skill and some understanding of short-handed poker will understand that I am not raise folding against the short-stack. That said, the argument that I could just open shove my button with 20BB into the huge Bigstack with the shorty being an absolute nit is not just irrelevant but also plain stupid. The general idea is to built a stack that allows me some room to move heads up and not going into heads up play being outchipped 6:1 and basically being put into any two spots straight away. Worst case scenario for me is if the big stack knocks the shorty out and i am playing push fold in heads up against a complete headsup nit fish whose fav line is limp call his button and check folding boards he cant connect on.

2. I quite enjoyed the little excursion into Day one and how i luckboxed my way through 650 players. Apparently i kept getting lucky in hands that i never had to show down, and since 60:40 going to the flop, in this threat, obv means ur CRUSHED  I guess you all have a point that i happened to be able to get cheap showdowns with marginal but winning hands against weak players incapable of two barrelling a wet board with a scare card. My advice for these people is "grow a pair and start looking me up with more than the second nuts" and you might actually advance past level 8. It is quite an assumption to make that I am getting lucky every time I am involved in a pot with the same people (who have been extensively posting their two cents here). Not knowing my holdings and drawing conclusions about my hand-strength is a losing player characteristic and there is no room for this in an analytic discussion. Acknowledging that you got outplayed, outleveled and 100% owned would show u realise how u have to work on ur game

3. All that being said, I am just guna go log into my account now, check my balance start rubbing fiddies on my tiddies and think back of how I hero called my way through day 1.

you could have put that post together and come off really well.

You didn't.

taken in - as I said, I usually don't even bother with explaining myself or my plays but there had been some unqualified comments and I figured a reply in the same manner would be in order.

lol @ me telling someone to rise above it.

Good result anyway and you clearly know your game. well done on the result.

gratz on the win and gl pwning and crushing many tourneys

Dude - punctuation and paragraphs please..sheesh

 
If your going to read poker forums, your going to find people who don't agree with how you played hands. Don't take it to heart, everyone is entitled to there opinion.

Believe OJ called all in with K4 Bob when I had 3s. Didn't play too long with him but seemed to know what he was doing.

And you obv have to get lucky to get through a field of 650.

Welcome to blonde OJ.

Quick Question.

If you had AK off suited on the final table bubble at 5k10k with 500k and rised it to 27k and the other big stack (450k) re-rised to 80k. Would you make a fold? Or would you make a shove? or even make a flat call?

TIA

OJ

Quick question - did you kill her?

Hi Ollie, welcome to blonde and well done on your result

Please take a look around the forum. I hope you like what you find, including a great community spirit and an absence of antagonism. Bearing that in mind for your future posts would be helpful!

where's the fun in that?

humility?

Lol - he's the most unassuming, 'get it quietly' guy I know.

Hi, two things come to mind. Is the guy a TAG? if yes I would probably prefer 4bet/fold as a line. You will hardly ever have enough equity against his 5 bet shoving range here. Both of you are way to deep to take big flips (that might not even be one) at this stage. I noticed a tendency recently towards very small 4 bets as they seem to have the same effect. So maybe raise to about 150k and fold if you get shoved on.

If the guy is more of a LAG i think it would definitely depend on whether you have position post flop. I think OOP I would 4bet a decent amount here to get some fold equity against his marginal 3 betting range. Still fold to a shove though.

If you are IP post flop then I like flatting a lot. For one you underrep your hand strenght which might give you some value on later streets and you wouldn't want to built too big a pot if you think you can take it away post flop anyway. Factor in how often you think he is going to c-bet any board texture though. If you think he c-bets his entire range you should be prepared to float and not check fold a flop you dont connect on. I doubt he would 2 barrel a bluff here against your stack so he might just shut down on the turn. This would mean you will have to bet the turn quite substantially. Depends if your comfortable doing that.

I would never open fold to a 3bet here though. and i mean NEVER lol. ur hand is still way to strong to give up to any 3bet.

I think you can fully neglect the final table bubble argument here. This is really more a spot where you should consider stack sizes rather than trying to put yourself into a good position for the FT. 50 BB at this stage allows for a lot of play and picking up blinds and antes is way more important than big pre flop all-in races.

just a few thoughts :)

Lol who?

Hi,

thanks for the welcome. I do apologise if my post has sent the wrong message. I was aiming for a little smile on the readers face and that the whole discussion could be brushed off. :)

gtfo

3 pound rebuy player...

no problem. Clearly your time in Aberdeen has not been without some cost to your mental faculties.  ;)

In the circumstances I can only sympathise.

Lol

I'll be honest, for the past week or so I've been quite impressed that a resident of Aberdeen (as I am) did so well in placing well in a fairly large tournament on the national stage.
I recognise your face from playing in games you have been at, when playing at G. All I really want to say is, the good will I felt towards you went right out the window with your post. In my eyes class is the beholder and you my friend provided none of that with your post, and made me squirm with embarrisment at the nature of your reply. In being recognised on this forum, you will never have the backing or support of every hand that is played out on such a public stage... imo it's the way you then handle these issues, if you're going to come on here and reply. I'm afraid to say, imo as a starting point, you failed miserably and did nothing more than making yourself look a complete dick (for want of a better word)

0/10 for class I'm afraid, as I don't really believe you were joking with regards to your pop about checking the balance... to me it seemed a spoilt little outburst.

I would appreciate if we could keep this a gameorientated platform that deals with poker rather than with my obv challenged mental state. ;)

Sorry I thought you were OJ Simpson.

However, as he's obviously much more popular than you, I realise my mistake.

Lol

Give the guy a chance to redeem himself!

His first post might not have been the classiest, but then if a bunch of people I didnt know talked about how bad I am I might want to have a dig back!

Well played OJ. ;applause;

Interesting website/staking site..... good luck!

My only piece of advise would be to work on a few more testimonials  ;)

lol, maybe add one from his mum and a bloke he met at a bus stop. quality website.

[ ] Good post
[ ] Bling Blang Blaow

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/may/19/victoria-coren-poker refers to this event

fyp

meh....guess I'm the only one that thought his post was a bit tounge in cheek to be honest? a poker player with an ego isn't exactly a new thing anyway! I thought it was great to see someone from Aberdeen doing good aswell...but he has the advantage of not actually being an Aberdonian

wp Ollie...that final hand...karma ;)

meh - I think I just owned myself - check box fail lol

thought his post was com. (in a good way)

4bet folding AK ftw