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75 remain, and today from 1pm the field plays ten levels or down to a final table


The runners remaining from both days are as follows


1a: 27

Paul Rodger 304700
Alex Martin 286100
Philip Mildon 205900
Gary Cooper 187800
Edward Thompson 187500
Andy Lyew 184100
Jason Clarke 174100
Victor Ilyukhin 165700
Peter Lody 164200
Danny Toffel 155300
Jim Reid 143700
Adam Lawler 135400
Terry Mitford 134200
Mark Hutchinson 126300
Steve Kirk 113800
Nick Crisp 83300
Mickey Morley 80400
Giovanni Ambrosio 71100
Edna Adams 68300
Dave Robinson 66500
Dave Fredericks 66000
Bharat Joshi 58500
Alex Burton 48800
Paul Romain 47000
Steven Chennells 39200
Paul Garnham 37800
Richard Baker 37700


1b 48

Amy Trodd 431,000
Ben Turnstill 321,600
Keith Miller 266,100
Paul Alterman 231,700
Lim Cheung 224,300
Coung Tran 202,000
Jimmi Lee 194,100
Nils Ladefoyed 191,100
Paul Turnstill 189,300
Peter Nicolle 188,300
Grant Mercado 181,200
Pino Valentino 170,000
Marius Lietuvnikas 141,500
Kevin Curtis 131,000
Neil Fox 132,100
Silas Meyer 119,400
Lam Trinh 117,000
JIM McBride 109,600
John Briden 109,100
Paul Fowler 106,800
James Gadd 96,600
Siamak Vakili 96,000
Chris Brider 95,100
Neil McCulloch 90,900
Hans Jacobi 88,000
Karl Mahrenholz 86,800
Jeff Rogers 85,300
Greg Garrett 84,900
Chris Cooper 76,800
Richard Horton 75,200
Craig Sweden 73,500
Jonathan Lewys 73,100
Darren Ward 53,000
Alekander Golubevs 51,300
Ben Jenkins 38,200
Dean Coomes 32,200
Drain Alien 32,100
Iain Bowden 26,500


blinds are 1200-2400/300 when we resume, average is 150,000

Of the 75 look at all these players who play Luton regularly

Paul Rodger 304700
Alex Martin 286100
Philip Mildon 205900
Andy Lyew 184100
Jason Clarke 174100
Steve Kirk 113800
Nick Crisp 83300
Edna Adams 68300
Dave Robinson 66500
Dave Fredericks 66000
Bharat Joshi 58500
Paul Romain 47000
Paul Garnham 37800

Ben Turnstill 321,600
Keith Miller 266,100
Paul Alterman 231,700
Paul Turnstill 189,300
Peter Nicolle 188,300
Pino Valentino 170,000
JIM McBride 109,600
Jeff Rogers 85,300
Chris Cooper 76,800
Alekander Golubevs 51,300
Drain Alien 32,100



All in the hunt for the £25,000 first place prize tomorrow night

There is also a D 4 events Player of the Year Race starting with this tournament

"D 4 Events annouce a prize worth over €5,000 for the Player of the Year!

As the D 4 Events poker schedule is getting larger we thought it was time we added a prize for the Player of the Year. For the purposes of the leaderboard the qualifying period will run from the English Deepstack Poker Championship in Luton to the end of the European Deepstack Poker Championship in Dublin which will take place again in February 2012.

The winner of the Player of the Year award will get a Free Entry to all of D 4 Events £550 or€550 main events the following season. This prize will be worth over €5,000 as there will be more than 10 events to play!

All of D 4 Events main events and side events will be included for ranking points. Points will be given for every euro of prize money earned in these tournaments. "

the next events are Austria in April and then in Slovenia in May

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Later in the year the tour does Hungary, Dublin and the Broadway in Birmingham


Plenty of ways to qualify online, and plenty of chances for those who run deep in this to have a crack at that Player of the year Prize

Good luck to the reg blondes and Luton players.

So, while I get my blonde chores done before popping down the road please...I need predictions


Give me two final tablers from the list above

Anyone that gets two right is in the hunt for a a tournament entry on Sky Poker. the tiebreaker being the correct entry whose finalists finish highest on aggregate (eg two finalists selected, finish 1,3 = score of 4 beats two finalists selected finishes 4,7 =11).....


So get picking!

Amy Trodd & Lim Cheung

There is also the £300 side event starting at 8pm which gives 20k chips and 40 minute levels

this!

top updates so far btw - keep it up! :)up

Paul & Ben Turnstill

Drain Alien and Norwich Ward. I've got faith.

jason clarke & lim cheung

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTN5VF1qDEc

Spot many blondes!

Looking forward to more great updating from Tighty and Caroline.

Alex Martin and Karl Marhenholz

classic updates both , thanks

Amy Trodd

Ben Turnstill


special good luck to all Luton Regs ......especially  Drainage ...

What is their out of turn rule I keep hearing about?

1 orbit penalty for anyone acting out of turn, i think.

Perhaps a tad harsh without a warning first but not exactly unfair... why the fuss?

A table warning is issued for the first offence.

p alterman and b turnstill plz

A reminder of the payouts

£94,000 Prize Pool

1st £25,000

2nd £16,000
3rd £12,000
4th £9,400
5th £7,000
6th £5,100
7th £3,700
8th £2,700
9th £2,000
10th-12th £1,500
13th-15th £1,200
16th-18th £1,000 

Oh. That seems a bit odd... I already know the rules so I don't see why if i'm the second person to act out of turn on the table I get punished instead of the first person. Don't like that actually. Should either be a case by case basis or everyone gets the penalty.

Edna Adams and Jim mcbride please :)

Today's seat draw


1

1 Erik Cox
2 Chris Cancelliere
3 Paul Garnham
4 Iain Bowden
5 Kieth Miller
6 Chris Brider
7 Darren Alien
8 Edna Adams
9 Andy Lyew


2

1 Aleksanders Golubevs
2 Huseyein Hussein
3 Pino Valentino
4 Terry Mitford
5 Grant Mercado
6 Jeff Rogers
7 Gary Cooper
8 Phil Mildon
9 Dave Fredericks

3

1 Kevin Curtis
2 Peter Lody
3 John Briden
4 Paul Alterman
5 James Gadd
6 Mark Hutchison
7 Gary Mercado
8 Jereome O'Shea
9 Nick Crisp

4

1 David Greene
2 Ben Turnstill
3 Patrick Murray
4 Paul Fowler
5 Lim Cheung
6 Paul Romain
7 Marius Lietvinukas
8 Peter Nicolle
9 Jason Clarke

Alex Martin and Jim McBride

5

1 Andros Spyros
2 Ben Jenkins
3 Fergal Cawley
4 Mickey Morley
5 Danny Toffel
6 Jim Reid
7 Paul Turnstill
8 Giovanni Ambrosio

6

1 Hanns Peter Jacobi
2 Siamak Vialik
3 Jim McBride
4 Darren Ward
5 Karl Mahrenholz
6 Paul Rodger
7 Alex Burton
8 Neil McCulloch



7


1 Craig Sweden
2 Chris Cooper
3 Richard Horton
4 Bharat Joshi
5 Steve Kirk
6 Alex Martin
7 Jimmi Lee
8 Jonathan Lewys


8


1 Neils Ladefoged
2 Cuong Tran
3 David Robinson
4 Steven Chennells
5 Lam Trinh
6  Victor Ilyukhin
7 Adam Lawler
8 Edward Thompson


9

1 Greg Garrett
2 Alexandrs Zaravins
3 Richard Baker
4 Silas Meyer
5 Amy Trodd
6 Dean Coombes
7 Les Fenton
8 Neil Fox

amy trodd and cuong tran

So those are the nine tables we are starting with

We are going to do pictures and some early action as the short stacks get busy


After that, let me know which table you'd like "a Round with Tighty" on first

. Hoping to get some time over an expected 10 levels of play today to do that


If anyone wants to be Caroline's alarm clock, by all means ring her!!

Alex Martin and Roland Turnstill.

Gl to all Luton Regulars and Blondes and special gl to Edna and Curlarge!

Some early snaps as the players settle down

Drain Alien and Edna Adams just knew they would get drawn alongside each other and dressed accordingly

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Drainy's railbirds

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Paul Alterman

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Stuck in traffic jam on m1 comin south wot a joke today of all days

Phil Mildon and Dave Fredericks. Who is not a Home Counties Greg Raymer. He told me to tell you

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I'll take Alex Zaravins and Hans Jacobi.

Jeff Rogers and Gary Cooper

Gary tells me "I spent more of day one walking round the card-room serving penalties than playing!"

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Chris Cooper and Richard Horton

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Steve Kirk and Alex Martin

The Pretty Brothers

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Jim Reid and Paul Turnstill, but no sign of Ben here yet

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Jim McBride and Darren Ward

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Richard Baker and Silas Meyer

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Cuong Tran and Dave Robinson

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Lam Trinh and Victor Ilyukhin

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Two exits so far today while I was uploading those, Ian Bowden and Richard Baker

74 left

Err .. Yeah, me too - blooming traffic   ;whistle; ;whistle;

Here now anyway....

tighty did many irish or continentals turn up. seems very local dominated

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uak-tXi5tYM

You may all recognise this chap being interviewed by Gary.

After Amy illustrious Tweets yesterday she has made new friends on Facbook. Apparently the friends of a guy she was tweeting about have all been sending her messages saying how her Tweets are being circulated around the guy's local poker club.

Somehow I got the blame.

I have pointed out to her I could never be as subtle as saying someone had a small penis. If it was me, there would have been photos to back it up.

Paul M3boy looking quite nervous in case he ends up on the receiving end of a TroddTweet.

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Ben Turnstill and Alex Martin

Hi J, there's quite a few Scandies & Danes here, as well as French, German, Latvians and Russian. It's all very cosmopolitan. Plenty of Irish as well, all staunch followers of D4.

Edna Adamas calls a raise of Andy Lyeu, flop comes two diamonds

Edna bets out, dink leads, Andy raises, Edna shoves, Andy calls.

Edna shows

Ad 8d

Andy flips two black aces.

Diamond on the tuen and Edna doubles up.

Early exits

Dean Coombs

Grant and Gary Mercado

Richard Horton


Nick Crisp doubles up through Silas Meyer when his AK holds against Silas's AQ.


Richard Horton's exit hand was AQ vs KQ, Gary Sweden held the KQ.

hey mate.  another great job being done

Ben Turnstill in his seat now, also caught in traffic on M1.

Not just me then.

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Ben Turnstill & Jason Clark

Ben Jenkins looking and feeling much better than he did yesterday.

Still hasn't lost the scarf though.

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Karl Mahasnoshoez acheived his lifetime ambition today getting into Luton G wearing trainers.

Once he explained Billy Smart had borrowed his shoes for the clowns they took pity on him and relaxed the rules.

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OK that was a frustrating 45 minutes. Booted off the internet and unable to reconnect.

Back now though, and the pre-play tournament comp is closed


Recent exits Fergal Cawley and Darren Allen

Allen flopped two pair with 10-7, Edna Adams had 8-6, 10-7-x, blind on blind

9 on the turn, money in and Edna hits her gutshot to knock him out

Odd things happening on the dress code front today as Paul Garnham managed to persuade a manager to put him on a special list, and turned up today wearing a hoody and trainers and got in, proud as punch


Special list? ..now word is out there will be all sorts of trouble!

Keith "Megaladon" Miller in monster collision news

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Caption competition T-Shirt?

Amy Trodd just been chopped right down to 130K by Keith Miller.

She raised early position with K K and got four non-believers willing to call.

Flops a set  on a board of Kd 10s 6s

Amy bet just under half the pot, called by Keith.

Turn is an 8h

Amy bets 50k, which is just under a pot sized bet which keith flat calls.

River is the Ace of clubs.

Keith takes it down with Jh Qd.



Amy's will tweet once she  stops vomiting.

Keith Miller in the black t-shirt

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Adam Lawler

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Andy Lyew, one of two victims of  a classic "Edna-ing" so far today but still battling on. He'll want to be clear in time for Chicagos to open though

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Neil Fox and Nick Crisp

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and here is the TroddTweet

  Amy_T  Amy Trodd
Lost massive hand and down to 135kish. Had kings on Ks6hTs8hAc. Guy called flop and pot sized turn bet w QhJd obv.


Describing  Keith Miller as "guy" understates the guy's potential as an unorthodox poker player. On his day a ....


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latest exits Steven Chennells and Dave Fredericks

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3McfMWwS_U

Day 2 Chip leaders at the start of the day...

The cushion has admitted defeat.

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My vote is ...... Pork pies ......

God what a bad beat ...Go Keith


any news on Drainage pls


thanks

Ben Jenkins is out

A series of small defeats before losing a chunk with QQ v 55 (fives limp called and set mined)

He then shoved Q-10, Paul Turnstill isolated on the button having thought about flatting to induce a squeeze...with

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Turnstill over 225,000

61 players left in, average 154,100, erik Cox has just gone out.

Nick Crisp knocks out Craig Sweden


Crisp raises the cut off, Sweden 3 bets the button, Crisp shoves and is snapped by KK

Crisp with AQ says "he doesn't have to have a hand there"


Sweden is ok until the river, whn an ace comes to knock him out and take Crisp to 270,000

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/TXJGxF6czJI/AAAAAAAAP5Q/UZB-Aq2IjYc/IMG_5745.JPG)

knocked out see the hand with Edna earlier

The Blues Brothers?

Peter Nicolle and Jason Clarke

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/TXJGyZ57BXI/AAAAAAAAP5Y/Q8oh0eZt0r0/IMG_5747.JPG)

Hans Peter Jacobi and Marius Lietuvnikas

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Andy Lyeu has just taken out Alexander Zavarins.

Didint see the preflop action but got there in time to see Alek's AQ beat by Andy's 7 4 on a board of 10 9 6 8

Andy said "What can i do I'm short, I have to open my game a bit"

Alek said "замолчи"

The chap with glasses is a dead ringer for Dominic Brunt form Emmerdale

Alex Martin has been having some fun


He opens  Th 7h utg and Steve Kirk three bets from the big blind. Alex calls in position

flop  3s 3h 8s

Alex calls a lead

turn  6d check check

river  7d

check check, Alex beats Ace-King and Kirk's temperament is wobbling a touch at having been called pre



Two hands later Kirk opens the button with  Aspades 4h

Alex three bets from the small blind with  Ahrt Td


Kirk calls leaving himself with less than a pot bet behind

flop  Jh Td 6d


Martin sets Kirk in and he calls. Kirk is out two cards later


Here's one for the Cougar's private collection of screensavers


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Peter Nicolle

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Paddy Kirk

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I know all update readers are huge Emmerdale fans.

Yeah Emmerdale is a must in my household ;hide;

Craig Sweden has just departed after sticking his last 2300 over the line blind. Pretty much how he played all yesterday.

Called by Alex Martin, Chris Cooper and Jimmi Lee.

Flop 3c 2s 10c

Chris checks after Alex says "That's your kind of flop that Chris isn't it, you probably have a deuce don't you?"

Alex then bets 8800 which gets a quick fold from the other two in the pot.

Alex says to Craig "I've got eight high mate so you're in pretty good shape"

Sure enough he turns over 8s 6c but in true I Run Good style the turn is a 6 followed by a 2 on the river and Craig wanders off talking about how sick the game is.

Cougar-totty?

Caroline will be back shortly. The PA has just announced that the car with her reg number is about to be towed away as it is blocking a fire exit

please can you update me on greg garret, cheers caz and t e

Marius Lietuvunkias raises the small blind and Jim McBride shoves in the big blind for 65,000

Marius calls, a good call too for about half his stack with  Aspades Th

McBride  Qh Jh

board  3d 9h 6s 7h 3h


and McBride doubles to about 140,000

Kevin Curtis the star of the Troddtweetsaga from yesterday has been kocked out by Peter Lody

Curtis wasn't too happy at being outdrawn and stood up ost exit to discuss, almost to himself the strategyt of the hand

Lody spoke up "No point mentioning any of that to me mate, its all above me. I just play what I feel like"


Lody is on the left of this picture. In the middle is John Brider. I have yet to think of a single possible reason why he is wearing his scarf as a hat indoors

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Car now moved to a legal parking space.  ;yellowcard;

Greg Garrett said to tell you he is doing badly. He has 45K at the moment going into the Big Blind.

Coming up to the first break of the day

Here's where we are at

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LOL looks like the Luton mob is handing it out in spades to the incoming hordes... Good luck all the G unit

Silas Meyer on 125K.

When I came into the casino this morning the reception staff told me someone else had tried to use my card this morning, which they seemed to find quite funny.

Silas has just told me it was him. Now I understand why they were so amused.

I actually have no idea how he had my membership card, but it did make me look like a very successful Cougar, so nice result.

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On break, will do your requests after that.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOSiVbwJ3O8

Paul Parker talks to Gary about the Deepstack format.

Greg Garrett doubled up last hand before the break and is now up to 90K.

Chip leader is Keith Miller with 600,000, Alex Martin next on 400,000.

Ben Turnstill has around 300,000.

Andros Spyrou on about 230K

"Oh don't take my picture please."

Me - no?

"Oh okay then"

He obviously knows how to fold under pressure.

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Paul Alterman first hand back after the break says Ok I need to double up" and promptly raises Greg Garrett's BB, saying he wants some of his chips back off him.

Greg says not this time and shows 4 2.

Paul " You had 2 3? I can definitely beat that hand" and shows 43.

He's on about 140K now.

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Amy T on 150K and tweeting about her "fishy" table. I must say at Level 14 on Day two it is unusual to see nine players all seeing a flop.

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Danny Toffell and Jim Reid on about 100K each.

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Pino "Soul Glo" Valentino

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Karl "possibly nicer than Thewy" strikes a pose over his 110K.

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LOL - Play with Jim down a local club in Surrey, nice guy, loads of money, and does not give a damn about how u "should" play, will send anyone over the edge, if he's hitting against you, but nice guy, just funny looooool

Alex Martin and Adam Lawler have been moved after a table break onto Table Be Turnstill. Must be the toughest table of the six left. Turnstill has just opened to 10,000 and Martin 3 bets 27,500 from the small and Ben releases. Alex gives off his bluff tell after mucking and taking down the pot. I charge if you want to know what the bluff tell is.

Ben has lost some ground, under 200,000 to Patrick Murray, 400,000, it seems


Murray

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Tough table

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glglgl - get them FISHES!!!!

What's that coming over the Luton hill?

It's a monster chip leader, that's what


Keith Miller with 800,000 (average is 188,000) and looking equally as surprised as you are about this

Andy Lyew who had been open shoving a lot tried again with A-10 off, Keith called for 60,000 in the blinds with 4-4 and held


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Paul Alterman OUT.

Paul shoves with 8h 9h

Called by Neil Fox holding Ac Qc

Flop 5c 6c Ah

Turn 6h giving Paul more outs but the river fails to deliver, with a brick.

Ed Thompson keeping up the side for cardigan lovers everywhere now that David Johnson and The Sicilian are out.

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Marius Lietuvnikas. Think he's a local.

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Danny Toffel raises to 11k, all pass.

Next hand he limps UTG for 4k.

Andros calls in the cut off.

Jimmi lee calls on the button.

Small blind Lam Trinh chooses not to make up his blind and smashes it instead with a large handful of 5k chips.

All fold.

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Chris Cooper open shoves his below average stack with  Ahrt Kh and runs into Mark Hutchinson with  Ad Aspades

We lose Cooper and have 48 left

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Paul Garnham was down to 11,000 and has ground back to about 30,000

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Lim Wei Cheung who was 4th in the big D 4 Dublin event has over 200,000 still



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Paul Turnstill has overtaken his son 220,000 versus 180,000, approximately. Average is 200,000, 50x bb


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Edna Adams 220,000. On the same table as Keith Miller. Waiting for the fireworks there, it could be any given Saturday afternoon comp in Luton


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Jeff Rogers 120,000 and chuntering in time honoured style at Hoseyi Hussein who is giving a running commentary on most hands

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Phil Mildon raises and Pino Valentino 3 bets form the small blind. Both playing over 200,000./ Mildon calls


Valentino open shoves a  Qc Qd 8d flop for about 5x the pot size

Mildon thinks, thinks some more, thinks a little bit longer and releases what I was guessing was a pocket pair. I am guessing he was winning.

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Neil Fox from Brighton is still in, one of the few from the South Coast left, with 160,000


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Jason Clarke, $muszle$, sitting quietly on table Alex Martin with 140,000 . Has position on Lawler and Martin, but raising into Ben Turnstill. It's Luton's equivalent of Amen corner.

Gregg Garrett is OUT.

Neil Fox raised UTG, Greg shoved with 2 2

Neil called with A A.

GG Greg.

The table of doom got Jason Clarke in the end

Alex Martin opens to 10,000

Jason 26,000 on the button from 116,000

Alex sets him in

Jason calls


Jason J-J

Alex 8-8

8 on the turn, and we lose Clarke



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Paul Turnstill 260,000. No great stories, just steady progress
Ben Turnstill 150,000

Silas Meyer down to 50K.

Table just broken and Karl Mahavemyblind has been moved to Silas's right, so at least he knows he's getting a walk in the blinds every round.

45 players left, average 209,900. Karl now has about 200K.

Blinds up to 2000/4000, ante 500 in 2 minutes, Dinner break after this next  level.

Amy_T Amy Trodd
150kish. Next level will be make or break @ 3k/6k. Just thought +ev if I do bust... I'll make it in home for Take me Out!



No likey no lighty

Danny Toffel and Jimmi Lee get it all in pre for 90,000, Toffel at risk

Toffel  Ad Jh

Lee  Aspades Qc


Toffel stands up after a  9d Qh  4d flop

He looks a little more interested after a  Td turn

and sits down again after the  Kd river for the runner runner double up

If it not to late ill take alex martin and keith miller, for final table.

Paul Romain and Jim McBride see a flop

 Aspades Qc 3d

checking

 4d

Romain bets, McBride calls

 9c

Romain shoves, Jim Mcbride calls


Romain  Ahrt Qh

McBride  4h 4s


McBride goes to 220,000 and knocks out Romain


43 left

after-timer!. I closed it a couple of hours ago sorry

Neil Fox asked me to take this picture for Flushy.

He said something about being the last two rent boys but I'm not sure what he meant, but here, just for you Flushy.

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How many's Alex got now guys?

Gd updates as usual.

Gogogoog Alex, Turny, Rooks, Karl, Amy and not many others.

Johnathon Lewys who was an online player only until he grew a hat in place of his eyes and had to make the transition to live games.

Missed him off the Totty radar, but thinks he makes a late entry.

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James Gadd, Welsh and plays for Paul actionjack Jackson on BRS. Despite both of these things, a really top bloke.

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Alex Martin 445,000

Just going to check on him I see him bet 25,000 into 60,000 on a  Kd Kc 4s Ts Jc board into Neil McCulloch, who has taken Jason Clarke's place at the table

Alex is UTG and has been out of position through the hand.

Neil folds after a lot of thought saying "I really don't think I can beat anything here"

Alex grants me a quick peek at his holding,  Ahrt 6h, as he mucks and take in another pot

Paul Rodger just knocked out Gary Cooper holding A K on a K high board, gary gets it allin on the flop with KJ and after Paul makes the call, Gary asks what did he have to think about.

Paul and his T shirt fronted him out and Gary exited in 39th place.

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No sooner had Jonathan Lewys been placed on the Cougar Totty radar than he was knocked out

Rumours that he started moving all in blind every hand once he heard he was within the clutches of a menopausal Scouser are as yet unconfirmed

Paul Rodgers just taken David Robinson out, David shoves after Pino raises, for less than a min raise.

Paul asks "If I call, Pino can't reraise can he?"

Pino says if you raise I go allin.

Paul flat calls and says he's checking the flop and Pino huffs a bit.

Flop K 3 7 Paul checks as promised.

Pino stands up and glares at the flop for time, then checks.

Turn 3.

Paul says allin.

Pino folds Queens face up and Paul flips over A K

No help for David's 10 10 and we are down to 36 players.

I can confirm this is partially true.

Someone told him one of the updaters had rated him as totty, and when he looked over only Tighty was sat at the press desk.

LOL, this is a bit like what Poker Monkey did in the fantasy league, only in reverse

 rotflmfao

Paul Turnstill was moved on a table break to table Miller, Troddthetweeter and Edna

When I got there his stack was 120,000, so down a lot from his earlier headier heights



Hans Peter Jacobi shoved all in utg for 80,000 20xbb

Turnstill calls on the button, Lieutvinukas having dwelt folded AQ in the cut off beforehand


Jacobi 88

Turnstill 99

Nice call sir

Q-7-5-8-2

and Jacobi receives a fortunate double up and takes Turnstill to a short stack with 10x bb remaining

Victor Ilyukhin all in with A K

Jimmi Lee has him covered and is in with A Q

I didn't see who called who.

First card out is a Q

Victor says Fk me

followed by a 4 and another Q

Someone says "I think he just did"

No help on turn or river and Victor ruski's off

Keep it up Caroline  rotflmfao

Ed Thompson raises to 25,000

Paul Rodger on the button calls

Caroline wondered if this is the Paul Rodger who fronted Queen after Freddie Mercury died. I can confirm it is not though, as I asked

flop  Jh 9h Ad

Thompson bets 30,000 called

Turn  Kd

Thompson bets 45,000 called

River  3h

Thompson insta shoves 175,000 into the 200,000 pot. A big one at this stage


Rodger goes into verbal gymnastic mode

"this really is a toss up"

"Wow this is difficult"

"Weren't Queen the highlight of Live Aid?"

Eventually he passes showing  Aspades

Thompson flicks him the  Ahrt and rakes in the pot moving to 375,000

Paul Garnham gets his extremely patiently played shortstack in with Pocket Eights, called by Hans Peter Jacobi with  Ad Kd


the flop brings excitement for both  8h 2d 4d

the turn is a blank

the river is  9d to knock Paul out


34 left



Dinner break for one hour, chip counts coming.

GL 2 James

Dinner break chip counts


1


David Greene 190,000
Lam Trinh 183,000
Giovanni Ambrosio 140,000
Danny Toffel 121,000
James Gadd 252,000
Mark Hutchison 108,000
Bharat Joshi 212,000
Neil Fox 311,000
Lim Cheung 347,000


2

Marius Lieutvnikas 237,000
Paul Turnstill 57,000
Amy Trodd 153,000
Keith Miller 573,000
Hanns Peter Jacobi 270,000
Nils Ladefoyed 505,000
Edna Adams 72,700
Cuong Tran 114,000


3

Jim McBride 279,000
Ben Turnstill 346,000
Pat Murray 448,000
Andros Spyrou 363,000
Craig Sweden 373,000
Alex Martin 493,000
Adam Lawler 222,000
Neil McCulloch 151,000


4

Paul Rodger 478,000
Peter Lody 549,000
Pino Valentino 368,000
Terry Mitford 99,000
Karl Mahrenholz 222,000
Jeff Rogers 323,000
Nick Crisp 268,000
Phil Mildon 119,000
Ed Thompson 377,000

lets gogogog turny, rooks and alex!

GL James Gadd and alex

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9SiK7V5_ls

Gary talks to Dale Hoy.

C'mmmmmon Edna!!!!

Play resumes in 5 minutes, 34 left..18 paid

It's that run down to the


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on a Saturday evening



Shout outs for your favourites please!

34 left

Average 276,500

blinds now 4,000-8,000/1000

9.4m chips in play


Another six levels tonight, or stop if we hit the final first

Lost two straight away

Terence Mitford shoves with K J called very reluctantly byPhil Mildon with QQ.

First card out a Q

followed by a 10

Phil starts to huff and puff saying he doesn't believe it.

10 on the turn gives him a full house and finally he relaxes.

Power of positive thinking hey Phil?

Paul Turnstill shoves 75,000 with  Ahrt 6h

Nils Lafegoed accomodates him with  Qd Qh in the blinds

the flop brings the  6c

the turn brings the  6s


and Turnstill rebounds up to 160,000


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Neil McCulloch also out with 99 against Adam lawler's QQ.

Adam seemed to have no problem making the call so hopefully he can pass on his little book of calm to Phil Mildon.

Keith Miller with 573000, Nils Ladefoyed on 505,000 and Pat Murray with 448,000

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gooooooooooo Edna!!!

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(She's the one in the middle)

mark Hutchinson makes it 21,000 utg from 150,000

David Greene pushes for 128,000 on the button

Hutchinson calls. An odd call really, with  2h 2c

Greene shows  9h 9s and doubles up to a comfortable stack

Cuong Tran is out 32nd. Lost a race  Aspades Js versus Paul Rodger who called the shove with  8h 8d


Rodger the chip leader with 650,000 or so ahead of Alex Martin, Keith Miller, Pat Murray

COME ON THE JACKS!!!  ;D

Wiii 6666 for the turnYyyyyy.

Gogogo

Also gogogo alex 'imsasosososopretty' martins, ben 'gltoanyonewhowantstoargue' turnstill, karl 'prettysureimstillgrowingrenholzholzholz' mahrenholz.

Can't remember if I forgot anyone but that'll do. Gogogo

If Paul Roger dont win this tournament, I'll eat the button.

He aint scared of nobody !!

Just caught a hand on Alex's table, for some reason I seem to gravitate over there accidentally.

Andros Spyros raises to 17Kpreflop, called by Jimmi Lee and Adama lawler on the button.

Flop

6s Jh 9d

Andros bets out 19k

Jimmi folds, Adam thinks and slowly calls.

Turn is the Qh

Andros bets again, 35K.


Adam announces allin and Andros makes the call before Adam has got the words out,

Andros is holding JJ for top set on the flop.


Adam is holding Kh 9h so has a flush draw and a middle pin.


Adam  says "I have outs" and manages to wish the magic river in, the 10h for a straight flush no less.

Andros is still in  but down to 110K.

ONE LAST REQUEST ....

Update please on:

Danny Toff,
Peter Jim Lody,
Foxy

Thanks

Hello and welcome to blonde


Mr Rodger just played a pot I saw


He raised unopened in the small blind to 21,000 and Peter Lody, who is a law unto his poker playing self, called in the big blind

flop  8d Qh 8d

Important to know at this point that pre flop the  8s had been exposed and become the burn card

check check

turn  2c

check, Lody bets 30,000 called

river  2h

check, Lody bets 100,000 in haphazard fashion, five 20,000 yellow chips cascading across the felt in different directions

Rodger looks and says "this is probably the worst call I am ever going to make"

and calls with  Ac Ks

Pretty good call really as Lody reveals  Jd  9c for no hand, playing the board

Please - I have a terrible hangover, no more capital letters.


It was actually Coung Tran who gave us this update. I'll go and find him where he's crying in the toilets over going out  and make his day even worse by giving him a good kicking for handing out duff information.

BAD UPDATER

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GOOD UPDATER

Alex Martin has done a lot of his stack to Ben Turnstill


Second hand this as I arrive at the table to see Alex getting up and walking away for a "clear the head" moment and a huge pile of chips in front of Ben

I am told there was action pre, a flop of  Ahrt 4s 3s, a lead from Alex, a raise from Ben, a re-raise from Alex, a shove from Ben, a call of a shove by Alex..but treat that with a little bit of caution, as I say its relayed to me rather than witnessed

Alex with A-5, Ben with A-K, and big slick held

Ben must have 550,000. Maybe more

Alex under 150,000

Toffel 150,000

Fox 135,000

Lody 300,000


30 left....

Karl Mahateragaceoz has just gone out. Raised 20K Ed Thompson 3 bet him to 70K

Karl raised it another 160 on top making it 230 to go, Ed snaps him off holding Ad 7h

Karl flips his AK

Ed flops a 7

Karl shakes his hand and leaves.

Totty count very low, the Cougar Kiss of Death has now struck Alex Martin.

Down to 150 after his hand with Ben T, he shoves his chips in with AK and runs into KK, brick board and he's now at the bar.

Down to 29, Mark Hutchinson and Lim Wai Cheung just departed.

Jim McBride just out with J 10 on a J high board, called by Bharat Joshi, the same person who took Alex Martin out. Joshi has Jacks in the hole.

Michelle Hold Or Fold is here - it's a veritable totty fest for all Blondes, whatever your sexual inclination!

Alex's exit he was quite unhappy with himself about.

Bharat Joshi raised under the gun, Ben Turnstill 3 bets and Alex in the bb with 200,000 and AK 4 bet jams

However he says he noticed a huge "strength" tell Bharat has a while back, and acted too quickly in jamming without considering this, a tell that was in place during this hand

Bharat had Kings, and after this hand and the Jim McBride exit must now be our chip leader

Table broken up, our new chip leader Bharat Joshi has now been moved to Amy's "fishy" table.

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Jimmi Lee knocks out David Greene

Greene opens, Lee 3-bets the big blind, Greene 4 bet shoves and is called

Lee Q-Q dominates greene K-Q and he leaves us in 27th

The last three tables

Edna, Joshi, Paul Trunstill, Amy Trodd, Keith Mills, Nils from Denmark, Hans Peter from Germany

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Rodger, Lody, Pino, Ben T, Jeff Rogers, Crisp, Mildon, Thompson

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Lam Trinh, Spyrou, Toffel, Gadd, Lee, Fox Murray

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Hans Peter Jacobi from germany. A retired motor racing driver in the German Touring Car Championship, 24 hour races etc. Just in case anyone is interested!

Edna Adams out. She shoved 140,000 from the button with A7. Bharat Joshi in the small blind isolated with Queens. Lieutvinkas in the big blind short stacked calls all in with 10-10

10 on the flop knocks Edna out, Joshi wins the bigger of the two pots (the side pot) and Lieutvinkas triples up

Turny Urnys, TURNY URNYS , TURNY URNYS!!!

Shame, tis interesting though as my friend has been playing online over there vs edna for the last while today, who is on the account!?!

Jimmy Gadd


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Tighter than a frog's ass.

He told me himself in the smoking area

I think his strength tell is that he puts a chip over the line

Average stack 391,700

24 left, 18 paid

blinds are 5000-10000/1,000


Paul Turnstill back over 200,000

Amy Trodd 150,000

Bharat Joshi 900,000

Marius Lieutvinkas 180,000

Neil Fox 200,000

Danny Toffel 150,000

Paul Rodger 700,000

Peter Lody 300,000

Jimmi Lee 600,000

Pat Murray 400,000

Keith Miller 450,000

Phil Mildon 200,000

Nick Crisp 350,000

Ed Thompson 400,000

James Gadd 200,000

Lam Trinh 350,000

adam Lawler 300,000

Anders Spyrou 200,000

Pino Valentino 500,000

Ben Turnstill 600,000

Jeff Rogers 350,000

Hans Peter Jacobi 270,000

Nils Ladefoed 400,000





Allow me 100k either way with the big ones, approximations only

glglgl gaddddd

Last of Flushy's Brighton batty boy massive is out...

Neil Fox lost a race earlier with AK vs JJ, shoves his last 28k in blind and is called by Danny Toffels AJ, which held and a very disappointed Neil leaves in 24th place.

Sigh anyone who knows Bharat at all, knows his rock of rocks jeez...

helo dyn hoyw cymraeg


Nice to see a bit of support from the Welsh, Dewi J has been feeling very lonely.

HoldorFold and Pizzled, the Posh and Becks of the Luton card-room decided they were peckish before playing the £300 and went to the casino restaurnat to eat

"Sorry madam" said the valet "we are full"


Somewhat eccentric this place sometimes

This was the sight HoldorIncredulous saw:

sigh, gl rooks/blondes left in. great competition, structure is wonderful.

 ;smackedbottom;

Danny Toffel missing from the table for his Big Blind of 10K.

Never one to miss an opportunity, Jimmi raises to 28K UTG +1, SB calls.

Flop K 2 3

Jimmi bets 38K

Giovanni Amaroso pussys out passes.

Oh the excitement.

funny he said that on 3 separate occasions yesterday for his tournament life... he was right every time...before sucking out in various horrific ways...

' He ain't scared of anybody '  =  pretty Tez Station

23 left and 18 paid as we approach a break at the end of Level 17, sox levels into todays play and four still to play

the £300 at outset has attracted 23 runners. Got to be a disappointment that, but then again a lot of the catchment are at DTD

Peter Lody on a one orbit ban, outside in the smoking cage.

He was in the small blind and thought Paul Rodgers had passed as "he was taking so bloody long" He thought everytone was looking at him and realised it was his turn to play so folded. The dealer said he would let it go but another player asked for a ruling and the ban stood.

He's sat with about 400k so he's in better shape still than the nameless person who asked for a ruling.

that, and it's a lot to fork out for a one day event imo.  wish michelle and gav gl from me please!

UL Alex... played brilliant by all accounts

two day event.

A pretty Tez station

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ah ok. i checked on the G website earlier and it looked like a one-dayer.

LOLZ nice one tighty ..still dont come close

Dena chip counts are coming in the break

For now, here is the chip counter herself

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Not for some.

Paul Steptoe & Son are on 280 and 500K respectively.

Amy T on 300K - every time i wander over that way she has just pinched the blinds again.

Troddtweets

  Amy_T  Amy Trodd
320k. Just got dealt jacks in bb and one flew in the air. Thankfully I was given a walk. Near Money bubble now.

Didnt fancy this one Mr Galloway?

Andros Spyros has exited after running his AQ into Hanns Jocabis QQ on the cutoff.

Hanns is the racing car driver apparently. Possibly for the German version of SAGA.

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tighty i wasnt  the button in my bust out hand alex was utg and i was 3rd to act.......

ok, well played though having a deep run in this one

Just catching up on the updates - quality stuff

Will see you tomorrow to watch the better half take this down

A reminder of the payouts

£94,000 Prize Pool

1st £25,000

2nd £16,000
3rd £12,000
4th £9,400
5th £7,000
6th £5,100
7th £3,700
8th £2,700
9th £2,000
10th-12th £1,500
13th-15th £1,200
16th-18th £1,000

Chip Counts


Adam Lawler 384,000
Lam Trinh 520,000
Giovanni Amoroso 270,000
Danny Toffel 130,000
James Gadd 187,000
Jimmi Lee 769,000
Pat Murray 615,000


Marius Lietvinkas 494,000
Paul Turnstill 318,000
Keith Miller 481,000
Hanns Jacobi 407,000
Nils Lafegod 353,000
Bharat Joshi 535,000
Amy Trodd 328,000

Paul Rodger 477,000
Peter Lody 340,000
Pino Valentino 527,000
Ben Turnstill 425,000
Jeff Rogers 480,000
Nick Crisp 320,000
Phil Mildon 151,000
Ed Thompson 594,000

22 left

Ben Turnstill.

Haven't seen any posts on here from him? Still he must be enjoying it cause every time I walk past he's got Blonde up on his Iphone.


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Giovanna Amaretto

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Well played boys now gtfo

tighty

any chance of a list of runners for the £300 tonight please

ps good luck pino and crispy

Sick rubs about the Oracle

Gogogoggo the Turnstill Two

Forgot it was Saturday night until the cabaret burst into Sweet Child Of Mine.

It was either that or Agadoo. I won't be rushing into the bar to see them.

Peter Lody makes it 50,000 in 2nd position at 6-12,000 playing 350,000

Ben Turnstill 3 bets on the button to 140,000 playing 500,000

Lody tanks

A big tank

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Eventually he passes telling neighbour Rodger he has  Ac Kc and "there's no point sitting here for two days to get nothing is there?"

Not sure I have ever heard such an overt expression of poker bubble-nomics at the table when updating.

Pretty daft thing to say really, as presumably he cannot enter a pot until the bubble bursts without being pushed off all bar Aces, Kings or maybe Queens

lol, I am a pillock

While I am writing that hand up Lody gets it all in against Ben Turnstill, probably a bit needled. Ace Ten against Ace King, and is eliminated

 ;marks;

Turnstill up to 800,000

We ordered two butties about 40 minutes ago. Still no sign.

Couldn't understand how it can take so long to slap some egg between a slice of bread til Tighty reminded me the restaurant was full.

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Jimmy Lee

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It's all go on table turnstill

I arrive after the river of a blind on blind pot between Pino Valentino and Ben Turnstill

board reads  9s 9c Qh 3h 7c

Pino has led for a derisory 20,000 into 80,000 and Ben Turnstill makes it 70,000

Pino shoves for 380,000 or so more  and Turnstill looks very surprised

He asks for a count and the verbal sparring begins


Ben "Why did you do that?"

Pino "I am fed up with you bullying 400,000 this and that"

Ben "So you'd rather go home with nothing?"

Pino "Yes"

Pino "I have extra strength see, been drinking more milk"

Just as I am entering a twilight zone of surreal conversation Ben decides to call and Pino flips  3c 3d from a height for the turned house

Ben has one word to say "Sick" and mucks

Pino becomes the chip leader and Ben does over half his stack

WE HAVE A BUBBLE!

Not literally.

We've just been taking bets with the cardroom staff as to which of the Luton regs it will be.

Lol betting over 4 X pre in previous hand just shows has no idea bet sizing.. Makes u wonder how they get so deep... Rooks must be wetting himself inside... Good luck to him and dad

Unlikely Pino will be the bubble now, just heard him ordering another glass of milk.

Still waiting to hear someone order a MILF.

I haven't you have.

I asked for my percentage of Caroline's multifarious cash game winnings this week earlier and was offered a cup of tea and a Tesco 5p off petrol voucher that expired on 2/3/11 for my trouble.

Paul Rodger is deliberately pretending to fold but keeping hold of his cards in order to get Pino to fold out of turn.

Quite funny until it works.

Keith Miller has 300,000

At 6-12k he makes it 56,000 and gets no action, flipping  Aspades Ahrt

Genuine quote

"Don't really want to get involved at this stage"

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 rotflmfao

Deano you playing in the £180 tomorrow ?

With such low numbers for the £300 i not sure it will  be worth it , I'm surprised that the 23 played in the £300 tonight , not exactly good value !!  

Rather wait till The GUKPT In The Vic from the 10Th that's what i will play in more runners in those side events

Wishful thinking won't make it happen

IAN

im prob playing tomorrow - i reckon there will be 50-60 runners

You think so , I be a Barnet V Wycombe tuesday , see you there !!

No can do Ian...too early for me...

no il be watching us getting knocked out of champions league v barca

my prediction barnet 2 wasps tenants 0

Lam Trinh raises UTG, called by Jimmi lee and BB Adam Lawler. Fairly standard every orbit on this table, same old faces.

Flop A 6 5

Lam bets 45K.

Jimmi folds, Adam calls.

Turn 7

Adam checks. Lam bets 115K, over half of his stack. The message is fairly clear.

Adam sits for a while then declares allin. Lam grimaces but makes the call, Adam has him covered.

Lam flips top pair,  A 9

Adam shows 3 4 for the botom end of the straight.

20 left 18 paid, break now coming up with three levels left to play today or down to the final table.

Bubble may take a while to burst with the play we've seeen so far.

18th is £1k

19th is zero


Blinds now 8000/16000 with a 200 ante after the break.

Yeah but Dean if you wanted a milf you're moving into Edna territory.

You could compare knitwear only she actually dresses better than you

rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

Excellent work guys GLGLGLGLGLGLGLGL

xx

Surely GILF not MILF..!!

Nope, in fact, thinking about the age gap, she would have to have given birth at about 5 to qualify as a MILF to Dean's age.

Exactly which is why i now look backwards down the age scale... its a shame im so crap as day two i had a nice blingy number for you... i was hoping dressing like Dave would enhance my skillz

[ ] it worked

I leave Caroline alone for 10 minutes and its MILF this and GILF that.

don't encourage her!!!

LOL one of us is ageing well.... but which is it ?

LOL Sorry Tighty...one of us has met their match... im gonna find it hard to insult a lady... but seeing as its Caroline I won't have to worry  ;)

Adam Lawler, straight flush hitter and player of 34. His missus had 10% of him yesterday.

When he made day 2 it went up to 20%.

He's slightly concerned if he makes Final Table tomorrow he will actually come away with nothing.

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Sigh to jumping on the back of Railtard's joke.

HEH all my own work but ur far too nice to be nasty to.... obv i dont know u that well... by the way knit wear is in...

It's taken two playing days, and finally it has happened

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the combustible temperament of Jeff Rogers is threatening to put paid to his chances here


Paul Rodgers raises UTG and Jeff Rogers passes agitatedly in late position. Rodgers takes down the pot uncontested and shows, to Rogers' quizzical plea,  Ac Qc

and it starts

"Fucking hell I had a Pair of twos I was racing"

(http://www.bonniebeardies.com/images/Racing.jpg)

"I pick up a pair and fold like a little sissy when you raise"

(http://misstressgrim.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/sissy1.jpg)


to Pino

"You've had good hands allday and youve been at it a lot. I get nothing. Nothing. Its not fair"

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He's still chuntering as I depart...


 

Big Big pot on Adam Lawler's table, where all the action seems to be taking place for the past hour.

Pat Murray flat calls preflop, Danny Toffel makes up the SB, Jimmy Gadd checks his BB.

Flop 5d Qd Qc

Checked by all.

Turn 3d

Pat checks danny bets out 18k.

Jimmy Gadd eventually calls, Pat calls.

River the Ad. Jimmy bets out 20k.

Pat Murray chews his gum for a while then announces all in.


Danny tanks for ages and shoves allin himself!

Jimmy Gadd jumps up with his head in his hand, and eventually folds face up the nut flush draw with K10 diamonds.

Danny T has the Jack high flush and Pat Murray has flopped the full house with pocket  fives!

We're now hand for hand with Danny's exit.

Several players trying to negotiate a sum off the prize pool for the bubble


Quite painful to watch actually, as I am sure a few here will and should say no


(http://janeheller.mlblogs.com/punishment.jpg)

those short stacks....

Pat and danny's chips all in the middle, Jimmy Gadd sat in the middle ready to cry.

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Hello, what's this?

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Possibly?

Marius Lietuvinkas calls an allin by Neils Lafodedge, leaving him a few chips over.

Neils 88

Mariius AK

Flop 4 10 5 4 9

Marius is down to the felt.

Still hand for hand.

Its a bubble - Bursting

Jeff Rogers. Someone has definitely lit the blue touchpaper.

He is telling both Pino and Paul Rodgers that thsi very next hand will end it tears, as he can't understand how someone (that someone being both of them) can't give someone (that being him) a walk in the big blind, when they both have millions of chips and why do they even want to get involved?

The next hand Paul and Pino both meekly fold it round to Jeff Roger's SB who then makes up the blind, bets the rag flop and takes his mate's BB.

I don't think he even saw the irony in what he did compared to what he had just said.

Gogogo Rooks, Turny and Amy.

and the bubble has burst


James Gadd pushes KQ in the cut off for his last 70,000 and big blind Pat Murray calls with A8

Raggy flop, 8 on the turn misses nothing, Gadd misses the river to and is out 19th

He leaves, with nothing

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ul james gg

FFS - ul James. Top guy and very good player.

Next time :(

Very nice guy, railed by his pleasant wife

He was unfortunate, there are five stacks sub <100k and the other four were no more likely to play a hand than the late Queen Mother until the bubble burst

Did they agree a saver for that poor bugger..?

Not that I know of.

Philip Milden, Luton Regular has gone.

He shoved his A2 into Paul Rodgers' AK GG

Here's the latest recruit to blonde, I hope

Giovanni Ambrosio is being railed on this thread by lots of friends/guests apparently

Sign up guys. We don't bite. Well Caroline does, but ignore her

come on the thread and tell us about Giovanni please....

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Good seat draw for Giovanni as they break to two tables, out of position to Jeff Rogers

Oi oi you it's me recruiting them all for Blonde.

Here comes more new recruits, none of whom are scared of me.

Much.

Giovanni gets it all in with JJ, called by ed Thompson with AQ

The luck of the newly applied Blonde Poker badge holds up and Giovanni gets a double up, Ed gets his car keys ready and sits them next to his small stack.

Sick, Ed puts his last chips in blind and  is called by Nick "the librarian" Crisp.

Cards turned over, nick has 6 high, Ed has been dealt AK

Six on the flop for Nick and Ed is at the cash desk picking up his £1k.

Nick is slightly in shock having never played a hand with a single six in it before.

New blonde recruit Jimmi Lee

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He wants to say hello to his wife Ang who is watching

Hello Ang from us too

I think your husband has a dead-ish ringer....

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Arse.

Went to get a picture of Antonio in his new Blonde patch and grabbed the camera off our press desk.

That we share.. very important point that.

Took the picture, passed the camera to Tighty as we're doing a tandem job (oo er)

Came back and he says to me, you used the wrong camera. Ive grabbed the blogger for D4's camera, taken a picture and left it to Tighty to try and decipher a completely different camera and downloading software.

I'm sat there crying laughing as he's getting more and more stressed, until I eventually asked "Any reason why I don't just go and take another picture on our camera?"

And he had the cheek to look at me like I was stupid!

Is turny still in?

Yes both Turnstills in, 16 left. Break, chip counts on the way

and they both will final table

Pat Murray

(http://www.fonejacker.tv/wp-content/uploads/terry.jpg)


Terry Tibbs

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Talk to me

Goooo onnnn the turnstiles!

Turny Urnys, TURNY URNYS , TURNY URNYS!!!

Marius Luietanant exits first hand after the break.

Pushes his stack with AQ into Neils Laftravelodge's 66 which hold, Neils is up to about 550K now.

blinds now 10-20k/3k

Here were the chip counts at the break

Marius Lieutvinkas 167000
Paul Turnstill 480000
Pat Murray 666000
Amy Trodd 467000
Keith Miller 711000
Hanns Jacobi 579000
Niels Lafegod 338000
Adam Lawler 1277000
Bharat Joshi 333000


Paul Rodger 484000
Ben Turnstill 712000
Pino Valentino 1113000
Jimmi Lee 84600
Giovanni Ambrosio 672000
Jeff Rogers 273000
Nick Crisp 337000

16th gets £1000
15th £1200 and so on

rofl at Terry Tibs

Amy T has bought me a pint of wine.

I don't think she realises the mayhem this will unleash. I was pretty much responsbile for pressing the button on a guy to getting himself a group ban last night after a glass of wine, tonight is anyone's guess.

Missed pre flop action but get to the table on the flop where Jeff Rogers is allin for 106K on a flop of A 3 K

Jimmi Lee dwells for a while..


then a while longer...

eventually makes a call with J J

saying I put you on a lower pair than that after Jeff turns over his KQ.


No shit Sherlock.

Amy raises 63K, Adam Lawler reraises to 143K.
 
Adam then says Good Fold once Amy mucks her cards, and she says "Show me then"

"Give me a nice smile and I will" says Adam


Karl. Get back here now. Them bad boys is moving in on your missus.

check that


Adam Lawler raises to 55,000 and Terry Tibbs in the small blind calls as does Amy Troddtweets in the bb

flop  3c Ts  Jh


check check and Lawler fires 80,000. Tibbs calls and Amy pushes for about 400,000

Lawler iso-shoves for 1.4m and Tibbs folds

On their backs

Troddtweets  Jd 2h

Lawler  Kh Qh

turn  Js

river  8h


Amy Trodd wins an over 1m chip pot and Lawler loses over a third of his 1.4m stack

Tell her to give him a smile

Kthxbye

There goes that image, Ms Trodd. From cast iron to molten lag in one fell swoop


I blame the Red wine she is on


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lol

This deserves all the love.

At last, someone else displaying what a great hand J2 is. gogogogogo Mrs Dry em.

Paul Turnstill raises to 55,000 and Hans Peter Jacobi calls in the big blind

flop  Aspades 6d 2h

Jacobi checks, Turnstill 80,000 about 1/3 of his stack

Jacobi c-raises and Turnstill shoves, called

Turnstill A-7

Jacobi A-10

We lose Paul Turnstill in 15th winning £1,200

Well she is sitting beside Keith after all ....its catching :)


Go on Amy

HERE COMES THE GIRLS!!!!

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unlucky Paul, wp.

unlucky turny,

Rookie heads up with Keith would be good

Go Jimbo !!

Aha! Welcome to blonde Mrs Lee

norrrrrrrrrr, ul Turnster.

gogogo Rooks!

Thanks, getting the hang of this ??

Ul turny.

Gogogo oracle.

Post of the thread won by holzrenholz.

Beat that mouthy bird

Pinoi Valentino is wielding something


(http://toolmonger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/The%20Big%20Stick.jpg)


Ben Turnstill raises pre to 44,000

Pino calls on the button, Ambrosio calls in the big blind

flop  2c 7h 9h

check to Pino he bets 120,000

Ambrosio passes, Turnstill calls

turn  8h

Turnstill check,. Pino all in covering Ben

Pass, and Pino consolidates his chip lead at over 1.5m chips

jeff Rogers give Nick Lisp a walk in the BB, saying "I have the advantage over you as I am better looking."

He looks at his cards and says "I am a woman" and folds.

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14 left, and a 9 handed final table

We have one more hour's play tonight, unless we hit that final first


I think we'll play the hour


Stick around


Six Luton regs/semi-regs, two Europeans, one lady, one card-room manager, one Terry Tibbs, One Irishman and two other Brits left

The obvious conclusion to draw from this would be that Rooks is counting his chips. Fortunately, I know Rooks pretty well and he doesn't care how many chips he has as long as he has some to keep on playing the game he loves. What he is doing here is actually having a serious word with his chips, threatening to beat the living shit out of them if they leave his stack and join somebody elses. He always does it, its fkin weird yet com.

Come to Amy's Table on the river of a board that reads K 5 4 3 8

Hans has bet 45K on the river.

Amy says " You are either massive or have nothing" which sums it up pretty well and makes the call.

Hans declares Ace high.

Amu declares Ace high.

They turn over A6 for Hans and A7 for Amy, her kicker plays and she scoops the pot in. Again.

hans goes off to buy a tighter belt.

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you talked them into paying you to update Slovenia yet?

Are they scared?

I think he may need back up.

No but i think I've talked them OUT of paying me to update Slovenia.


See you at next week's satellite :(

Pat Murray has gone out, the luck of the Irish deserted him at the final hurdle when he ran A8 into Keith Miller's AQ on an ace high flop, allin on the turn all out for Pat.

ha!

can you get me a Chip count of James " the welsh STT NIT" Gadd plz Caroline?

Sale on now at PaddedjacketsRUs.com

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Some mentor you are...

loooooool hes not im my group im MTT and you think id have welsh men in it! come on!

Adam lawler taken Bharret out in 13th place for £1200, giving the next casualty a step up the ladder to £1500.

Adam raised on the button, Bharret shoved his eight BB with A8, Adam's A10 held.

Apparently, if a player DOESN'T go out in the next ten minutes they will finish play at the end of this level. If however somneone does crash out, we will play on.


I've ordered more food. Tighty has ordered a body double so he can go home to bed.

You have plenty in common with the Welsh I hear..

okay okay, he bubbled - keep on with the rubdowns and I'll pass them on to him when we can stop him crying.

you shouldnt listen to Paul's fantasies!   is James o.k?

Lot of rogering going on

Paul Rodgers shoves, Jeff Rogers folds out of turn and gets a one round penalty.

Paul pleads for leniency saying it was his fault but Dena wields the iron rod and Jeff is sitting out for one orbit.

In the middle getting rogered was Jimmi Lee, who folded AJ.

yeah james is fine. He satellited in SPAM through Karl's site Poker Encore SPAM ENDS so had a free few days in the bright city lights with his lovely missus Wendy, he played extremely well and is definitely due a big result soon.

He's not unhappy with his exit hand, shoved with KQ and a short stack into the BB of Pat Murray who at the time was massive chip leader, Pat made the call with A7 and James didnt hit.

He is a genuinely lovely fella and should be made up with his play throughout the two days.

I can clearly see you are not his mentor or he would never have got this far ;)

Play ends in 20 minutes at 1am, 11 players left in at the moment, back at 1pm tomorrow.

Nick Crisp open shoves his short-stack of the tournament into an unopened pot on the button

Paul Rodgers finds JJ in the small blind and iso shoves

Crisp reveals a bashful Q6 off

J is the door card, then 10-9 all diamonds. Suddenly Crisp has outs, which fail to materialised on the 7-A turn and river

He leaves us in 12th winning £1,500

obv wouldnt of bubbled if i as his mentor! he would of got lucky! as luck is what i mentor in!

ul James wpwp

Play has ended for the night with the 11 left.


Play resumes at 1pm tomorrow


Chip counts coming shortly

Terrific Updating, an entertaining read, well done, & thanks.

 ;applause;

Nice job, both of yers... See u tomorrow.

Overnights

Blinds are 15-30k when they come back

Nine handed final


table 1

Giovanni Ambrosio 418,000
Amy Trodd 875,000
Keith Miller 1,371,000
Hanns Peter Jacobi 607,000
Niels Lafoged 508,000
Adam Lawler 1,535,000


table 2

Peter Rodgers 802,000
Ben Turnstill 774,000
Pino Valentino 1,500,000
Jimmi Lee 528,000
Jeff Rogers 604,000


Average is 750,000


£94,000 Prize Pool

1st £25,000

2nd £16,000
3rd £12,000
4th £9,400
5th £7,000
6th £5,100
7th £3,700
8th £2,700
9th £2,000
10th-12th £1,500


Please join Caroline from 1pm tomorrow.

You have a few hours early doors where I am on family duties tomorrow, I should be along around 4pm.

Lets hope there is a forum left once Caroline has had a few hours on her own with it!

Cheers, and thank you for watching and posting

GILF

Phrase of the day

Another highly entertaining day thanks very much   ;hattip;

Looking forward to the final day helping pass the afternoon in hospital tomorrow :D

Don't panic Tighty, I never do any danage on my own, i always need an audience to get the full result.

Oh.. wait.. oh yeah, see you ALL tomorrow morning!!

Thanks for the support everyone, I'm backing Amy T to win this one.

LuckyBlind has just asked if we are sticking around.. Tighty said "No I'm not, but obviously you don't need to ask about her"

There is a live feed for the final which we will link to on here. Caroline and I have offered to do commentary.

I think Luckyblind has just accepted this, assuming the feed is working well.


lol. Could be good.

Top updatage. Looking forward to more of the same tomorrow as the tournament eases towards the inevitable heads-up battle between Megalodon and Pino Grigio.

GL to the best Scotch Luton regular.

what odds on megladon to win?

perfect. just got into bed with my laptop

Well done for the coverage team - much appreciated - and a special thank you to Caroline for brightening up the place (as usual).

Any of you lot venturing down for the  £180 Deepstack today ?

Starts 2,00pm  I Think

thanks for the hard work and entertaiment richard and caroline.
it was very pleasing to see at first hand the proffessional working relationship that turns a event into ...the event,   clearly the special chemistery betwean the two of you that so many of the poker players were commenting on adds that special spark....you are without dout the ..sonny and cher of blogging...the ike and tinna of of fiery retort..the murdochk and some little chinese fire cracker of global media influences...the charles and cammilla of the face of poker.
so long as you share the cost of buying the ice creems and neither of you forces the other to allways have the tap end on bath nights......we the loyal poker subjects can allways know that the poker empire is in safe hands....LONG LIVE THE KING AND QUEEN  OF POKER BLOGG.....and little prince bernard when he arrives.

thanks to all for the rail over the last 2 days nice to know i still have some friends on blonde ;-)

just caught up with the updates from yesterday, very entertaining as always though distinct lack of hand action was a little disappointing.

tighty as always very intelligent and funny without overstepping the mark and then theres caroline....sigh!

maybe i didnt help my own or the oracles cause by asking caroline if the picture she took of my arse earlier in the thread was gona be matched with a picture of her face ;-) i see it wasnt.

oh well i hope lily savaged enjoyed the constant rubs and underlying insults she delivered throughout the day and it left her satisfied.

imo a good update needs a good witty writer and someone working hard getting hand information and chip counts, it seems here we had 2 people TRYING to do the same thing but with only one suceeding.

ok ready for more muck from all corners ;-)  ;hide; ;scarymoment;

mouth and caroline are like laurel and hardy.doing a  top job down there. but must say the guys at dtd are doing a first class job also. and they can take better pictures

With respect, I don't think that you could be more wrong.
Tighty and the bloke/bird are the best updating duo on this site, and compliment each other perfectly.

I don't know  many of the  people playing this event, which would normally mean I would largely swerve it, but have enjoyed the updates immensely.

+1

Oh cheers mate! ;)

with respect that was your opinion and the above was mine so lets say i dont think you could be more wrong ;-)

funny that, life is all about different opinions ;-)

least i helped caroline get the usual blonde cliche rallying round her with extra nice words of thanks after the event ;-)

by the way i think the final table coverage was excellent so maybe tighty was holding her back  ;D

Think it depends what you are after. Odd hand is interesting but without doubt Carolines and Tightys wit make the update. I doubt I would have followed it thru to the end without either of them

Sorry all I can hear is




HEEEEEEYYYYYY RAT FANS!!!!  x

i found it very fun to read but more about poker would be goodd, they do seem rather similar in a witty way (both very funny in their different ways) but someone talking more about the hands etc would be good.

Just read the few days of reporting, spot of for me. But I guess this is my personal opinion :)

Spot of?

The opposite of spot on?

I thought so, but then thought it must have been a typo, as never seen it used before. Obv why I gave up being a journo.

i enjoyed the blog. my next donations will be not venue specific but gender. mouth n joobs ftw.

Interesting opinions

I try to make it entertaining. After all there's over 35 playing hours of updating in these threads from Luton with a structure not that condusive to exciting updates especially on the early days

However that fun and games has to be balanced with hand coverage, key spots, facts and figures etc and I thought the updates did that. I consciously made sure they did, but perhaps not it seems

So if the feedback was that the hand content was too low it will have to up that next go round

That's not the feedback tighty. That's the feedback from 2 people as far as I can see (turny and pleno)

I thought the mix was spot on. Hands are boring anyway. Blah blah AK vs QQ blah blah QQ wins would do

typo :) spot on it was meant to be. If I had anything negative to say I would have pm'ed tighty about it.

I think the both updates were great.

I agree with keith. In fact I think they should both be nominated for a poker award.

All I look for is funny posts, funny puns, to see if anyone I know is doing well and most of all, the aftermath when someone signs up a new account and makes there first post to say "well done for winning but you sucked out on my kings on day 1 you c**t"

Have you worked out who came 2nd yet Barry?

Each to their own, fwiw I commented throughout both days how much I enjoyed the updates. kutgw.

They both had Italian sounding names, easy mistake to make.

There are two types of hand reports - reports of interesting hands (play through the streets, big bluffs/laydowns, clownish plays from eggs) then there's:


The second type are zzzzzzzzzzzz and I couldn't care less about the details - all I want to know is who went out and how many chips the winner of the hand now has.

As long as there's stuff like a Round with Tighty and posting photos of players looking like puppet rats then that's fine with me.

I thought it was a great update.

I thought it was a really good update. Watching poker can be very boring, any effort to keep the reader entertained when the hand you are reporting is of not huge importance should be welcomed, crucial tournament hands will have a reader hooked anyway so you only need to report those hands accurately - everything in this update seemed good to me.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

The updates are back :D

norrrrrrr why did I press refresh?!?!

so you can stop getting yer kicks out of stirring shit i imagine ;-)

Pot. Kettle.

I just like  ;popcorn;

i wouldnt call anyone black tyvm!

+1

Very much this


I read the updates rarely, and usually skim them if i am honest, but the TightyMouth combo was brilliant and I read all days from start to finish ..... will donate  for this combo if possible  ;D

Other updater I really enjoyed reading was JungleCats

agree here jungle cat was an awesome updater

Yah, but he is prob the funniest man in the world so he has a massive advanatge