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London's Grosvenor Victoria Casino is the venue for the latest GUKPT festival and the £1,500 main event next blonde Poker Live Update.

The Main Event action kicks off today with the first of two Day One flights starting at noon.

Another bumper field is expected (says the blurb) and will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Cuong Tran who defeated a final table that included Laurence Houghton, Vicky Coren, Leon Bui and Neil Channing to take the £127,800 first prize in last year's Main Event.

Thanks to member donations, I will be there for all four days to bring coverage


Please join me from midday

OK, so 40 miles south and an hour through North London and here I am at the Vic

Half an hour til kick off

The Plasma screen is showing 125 entries over both days so far.

Remember this is a £1,500 buy in, 15,000 chip, 1 hour clock NLHE, the second GUKPT of the year. The first in Manchester won by Peter McAdam

TD's Dena and Tom

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"Claw75 wants a photo mate. OK?"

Richard Orford of Sky Poker looks rightly suspicious

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78 registered for today so far....

Updates/pics of Mark Chantler and Simon Hemsworth please.

+1 glllll lads

Neither in the field so far today

Player list on its way

Yeh they prob smashing up 7 gram rocks before late regging because thats how they rollllllllllll

Some of the runners today include


Amy Trodd, the English Deepstack winner recently

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Spanish Poker Stars Pro Leo Margets

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Ian Woodley on the left of Heroes character Hiro

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G Casino's own Jeff Kimber

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Michael "Wazz" Piper of 2+2 and Jimmy Carr stage show fame

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Mo "No news is good" Muse

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Name unknown yet, but already a cast iron winner of Cardigan of the day

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Ben Jenkins and his amazing collection of scarves.

Ben playing today for www.thefirmpoker.com

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EPT Winner, Full Tilt's Roberto Romanello

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Jamie Roberts, son of UK Poker legend Ben

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GUKPT Winner Jerome Bradpiece

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Allan McLean and Steve Watts

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Pretty sure its Daniel 'dappadan' moosah

The Firm's Mark McCluskey

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Dealers of the day


Former Luton dealer Ashley

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Coventry dealer Anthony, or so the name badge says

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Another Coventry dealer, name forgotten but will be rediscovered!

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Table One

Seat One - Brian Prescott

Seat Two - Christopher Keifert

Seat Three - Dan Rudd

Seat Four - Max Winberg

Seat Five - Michael Piper

Seat Six - Darco Sich

Seat Seven - Romit Somaiya

Seat Eight - Abhishek Khaitan

Table Two

Seat One - Dave McConachie

Seat Two - Paul Dargan

Seat Three - David Harvey

Seat Four - Naresh Advani

Seat Five - Dan Moosah

Seat Six - Christopher Kyriacou

Seat Seven - Tom MacDonald

Table Three

Seat One - Mehdi Senhaji

Seat Two - Michael Panteli

Seat Three - Matthew Nieberg

Seat Four - Alan Stearn

Seat Five - Romano Pizzo

Seat Six - Sebastian Powell

Seat Seven - Martin Malone


Table Four

Seat One - George Hassabis

Seat Two - Tamer Kamel

Seat Three - Paul Mendes

Seat Four - Karl Mahrenholz

Seat Five - Mark Brockwell

Seat Six - Mohammed Muse

Seat Seven - Chuck Clark

Table Five

Seat One - Dean Swift

Seat Two - Leonor Margets

Seat Three - Rahim Tadjsaadat

Seat Four - Katie O'Connor

Seat Five - Ben Jenkins

Seat Six - Kevin Williams

Seat Seven - Tony Fayad


Table Six

Seat One - JP Kelly

Seat Two - Ramey Shaio

Seat Three - Praz Bansi

Seat Four - Jamie Roberts

Seat Five - Carlo Andreini

Seat Six - Brian Parker

Seat Seven - Nicolau Marques



Table Seven

Seat One - Trevor Tanchel

Seat Two - Robin Fisher

Seat Three - Jerome Bradpiece

Seat Four - Jeff Kimber

Seat Five - Danny Toffel

Seat Six - Peter James Lody

Seat Seven - Harpit Singh


Table Eight

Seat One - Paul Scipioni

Seat Two - Leon Louis

Seat Three - Mark McCluskey

Seat Four - Robert Angood

Seat Five - John Gale

Seat Six - Roberto Romanello

Seat Seven - Krzyszztof Jaromin

Table Nine

Seat One - Danny Dborin

Seat Two - Allan McLean

Seat Three - Steve Watts

Seat Four - Talal Shakerchi

Seat Five - Sean Sullivan

Seat Six - Arkady Kielman

Seat Seven - Paul Rodger

Table Ten

Seat One - Christopher O'Donnell

Seat Two - Aleksander Uzunov

Seat Three - Victor Ilyukhin

Seat Four - Derek Power

Seat Five - John Rigoli

Seat Six - Javier Martinez

Seat Seven - Jonathan Prested

Table Eleven

Seat One - Anthony Hughes

Seat Two - Amy Trodd

Seat Three - John Eames

Seat Four - Matthew Frankland

Seat Five - David Rudling

Seat Six - Yongfu Cu

Seat Seven - Ian Woodley

wow pretty sick field.

Italian loose cannon Romano Pizzo is first out after 35 miutes


Now as you've seen am on my own, so no problem if anyone hears news from friends or live streams etc then post it on here to let the update flow


Please credit any other site if you take content from there

Up to 87 players today, and we are playing 9 levels

Not in their seats yet: Eames, JP, Banzi etc


Steve Watts, the ex Pro footballer with a penchant for flat caps just took me aside to tell me he is absolutely certain he is going to win this. So that's recorded for posterity then

Legendary Vic cash game player and Omaha Specialist Jeff Duvall auditioning for the new series of Downton Abbey

Are flat caps back in fashion?

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Honeymonster no more, a now babyfaced Chris Brammer takes his seat

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Seb Powell, Danny Rudd and Martin Malone in conflab

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Shirt of the day

This is David "Hitman RV" Harvey, last seen by me playing the Sky Poker tour last weekend

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Doing the Unabomber impression is UKIPT Manchester finalist Robert Angood, alongside Bracelet winner and another UK Poker legend John Gale

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Matthew Franland

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Leon Louis

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Jonathan Prested

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Peter Mendes

Peter tells me "Jon MW has long been a hero of mine since his 13th place finish in the 2008 WSOP Razz event. The least I could do was show my support for the British Cowboy by wearing a bigger hat than even has got, here in London"

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Rumit Somaiya

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Christopher Kyriacou and Karen Frank

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That's the same shirt he had on saturday hope its been through the wash!

Wish him all the best
Daiboot

OK am off in search of some hands

With tomorrow's advance entries already included this is currently a £223,500 tournament

A nice one to start us off

Abhi Khaitan raises in early position to 325 at 20-100

Max Winberg flats on the button

Darco Sich ups it to 850 in the big blind

Khaitan folds

Winberg 4 bets to 3,500

Sich calls

Winberg 14,000 at the start of the hand, Sich 16,000


flop  Jc 9d 4d

Sich leads for 3,000 and is met with an instant shove from Winberg for 9,200 more

Sich thinks and eventually folds  Kc Ks face up

Winberg shows  Ad Ahrt

First exit Pizzo managed to call a 5 bet shove pre with 9-9 and found himself up against Aces

Sean Sullivan was the second exit


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Steve Watts raises to 275,

Paul Rodger the London Scrap metal dealer from the English deepstack 3 bets to 700,

Steve makes the call

The flop comes 6--4--5

Steve checks, Paul bets 2,000, Steve makes the call.....

The turn comes a 7.

Steve again checks, Paul bets 3100, leaving himself 5100 behind.

Steve Watts instantly announces all in. Paul reluctantly folds his hand.

Steve shows J-3 for the straight and takes the pot.

Lol I don't think paul rodger deals scrap metal.

told me he does!

My bad was thinking of mark rodger!

One of these is the latest alternate


EMO

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EMU

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A studious looking Karl Mahrenholz

If Mr Hitman insists on striking a boxing pose each time I am in his vicinity we will soon fall out

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pmsl. are you sure you are on your own. thats a caroline type post. good to see you learnt something off her

Another alternate Keir Radcliffe

Keir was late as he needed to be picked up from school, and for his mum to give him a clean top and a comb of his hair before dropping him off

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Danny Toffel is out, lost most of his stack to Brian Parker, who rejoices in the nickname "Caravan" according to the card-room system

then he ran  Ks Ts into Jerome Bradpiece's  Ahrt Ad on a King high flop to exit

Here is Katie O'Connor. Would like to take a nice picture of Ms O'Connor but not much to go on beneath the cap, D and G sunglasses and high neck top

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Steve Watts was chip leader with 30,000 but just ran Kings into Aces pre to double Paul Rodger up to 12,300

He then asked me if he should have passed Kings. I cogitated and whilst I did so he asked four passers by the same question. One was a valet, one was Dena and one was Romanello. One I didn't know, sorry.

We are in a break after 2 levels, 85 of 90 left

Sights in the break


Michelle Orpe, on being told Cos might be giving up his job

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and on being told he might change his mind

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Meanwhile Cos' diary biggest fan, Mr Dave Shoelace is here

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wow did she brush his hair with a plumbers wire brush?

Amongst the chip leaders here in level 3 are David Rudling, from Colchester way, who just doubled through Amy Trodd

twitter tells it all

Amy_T  Amy Trodd
Down to 12k. Guy called my 4bet with AJ. Then called my allin on a 33J flop. Kings no good with jack turn.



and Michael Piper, who bet all three streets of  7c 2d 8c 3c 7d against pre-flop raiser Gavin Cochrane and got a fold on the end

Both with 30,000

John Eames and Praz Banzi have had their chips taken off the table and are both now playing tomorrow

updates on roberto, and martin malone please

Chris Brammer raises to 400 utg and Keir Ratcliffe calls utg+1

Kevin Williams, a Black Belt player I believe makes it 11000 in the small blind

Brammer folds, Ratcliffe now makes it 2,750 and Williams calls

flop  Kd 7h 2h

Williams check calls 3600

turn  Qd

Williams checks, Ratcliffe all in for 10,500 covering Williams

Williams calls off with....

 9s 7d

and loses to  Ac Kh

No value in poker these days

Joining the action after a flop of  6h 8s 3d

Mark McCluskey, The Firm Poker, leads for 2,000 into 1,500

The pre-flop raiser Robert Angood makes it 5,025 UTG

McCluskey has 12,000 behind and eventually with a resigned chuckle is shown  Ahrt Kc by Angood when he passes

Channing will love that

A quick scoot rouind for some chip stacks


David Rudling 30,000

Michael Piper 30,000

Karl Mahrenholz 22,000

John Gale 20,000

Jamie Roberts 26,000

Jeff Duval 18,000

Steve Watts 25,000

Martin Malone 14,000

Jeff Kimber 18,000

Romanello 17,000

max Winberg 24,000

Mo Muse 23,000

Leo margets 13,000

Chris Brammer 14,000

rana Gurnam 22,000

Jake Cody 19,000

Keir Radcliffe 25,000



JP Kelly and Tom McDonald currently blinding away

JP Kelly and Tom McDonald currently blinding away??
but eames n praz have had their stacks removed. bit strange

YIKES !!  Not Luton Danny... did he win a satty ?

Yeah this different guy and the words... depth out his of ... spring to mind... played with him in ds4...shocking...

lol

Rana Gurnam from Cardiff eliminates Christopher Keifer with J-10 v A-K on J high flop to becomes one of the chip leaders

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Matteo Fratelli, who might be Italian, has felted Jerome Bradpeice

Bradpiece raised utg, Fratelli 3 bet the button and Bradpiece called


My attention was distracted by a valet in fishnets serving chicken satay to the players which is a fatal combination of food and legs for my concentration I am afraid

I turn round again to see both all in on the river of

 Ahrt 5d Aspades Qc Kh

with Fratelli revealing  Ks Kc to take it down with Kings fuill of Aces

Bradpiece mucks, I assume, a decent Ace

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A thorn between two roses

Rahim Tadjsaadat

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and Brian "Caravan" Parker

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bradpiece had A3 according to tower @nutz tv

must read that book that talks about flatting 3 bets op with a3

Max Winberg  raise, Yongfu Cao moves all in for 6000 and Max makes the call

Yongfu.Q-Q
Max.10-10

The flop comes 7--10--A

Turn....8

River....3.

Max hits a two outer and takes the pot.

Ciao for Cao

GUKPT and WSOP Bracelet winner Mike Ellis also out

In level 4 now 81 of 91 left in today

blionds 100-200

I cant express how much I like Mark McCluskey! What a throughly nice bloke, couldnt say enough about him - lovely guy, I mean the type of chap that would do anything for anyone - really a throughly nice chap

he aint felted. he is on 10k and feature table.

Keir Radcliffe knocks out Rahim Tadjsaadat


Keir rr on the turn of a J-7-5-5 board. Rahim has committed most of his stack with 9-9 already, calls the rest off

Keir  77

River J

Keir Radcliffe chip leader with 40,000 approximately

Great updates, cheery Tighty.

What was the reason for the Eames/Praz change of day?

Not sure. I gather JP Kelly has switched to tomorrow too

Full list of today's exits from Dena

Yongfu Cao

Christopher Keifert

Mike Ellis

Paul Rodger

Anthony Hughes

Kevin Williams

Javier Martinez

Ramano Pizzo

Sean Sullivan

George Hassabis

Trevor Tanchel

Danny Toffel

Oh... thats ok then..the A 3 play perfectly acceptable in that case...  ;D ;D

what time does play start friday please?

Tom McDonald raises to 500 in mid position at 100-200/25

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Chris Brammer pops it to 1275 on the button

Keir Radcliffe calls in the small blind, McDonald folds

flop  3h 9d 2d

Radcliffe check calls 2025

turn  Aspades

Radcliffe check calls 2400

river  2s

Radcliffe checks and Brammer pushes his last 7725


Radcliffe thinks

Asks for the pot to be spread. Turns his IPod off, and thinks some more. He knocks over the Brammer stack to count it

He thinks, on the right of picture

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and calls.

Brammer says "do you have an Ace?"

"No" says Radcliffe who mucks as Brammer revelas  Kh Ks to win a 25,000 pot
 

Midday

thanks is there a live feed anywhere?

the usual, stick with me though, I'm funny and I don't have a Blackpool accent

Ace-7 according to Jerome's Twitter.

Great updates Tighty more pics of the Emu please and definitely more of Steve Watts, as if Luton was anything to go by, he won't be there by the end of the day.

Karl Mahrenholz chip leader with over 50,000

I didn't see the hand so repeat verbatim his description of the hand

"three way against him (Leon Louis) and him (Krzysztof Jaromin)"

"I had  9d 7d and flopped a flush draw and a gutshot. I check raised Louis, who called. I hit my gutshot on the turn, so did he. We got it in and I redraw the flush on the river"

and if Krzysztof Jaromin goes deep in this over 4 days, I warn you now his name is being shortened on the updates to Chris.

lol. i aint  defending him. tbf tho he bet the flop turn and river.

Great updates tighty, apart from the expect analysis from Sicilian. He must be playing 1b as didn't see his name on the player list....

Wish Mark mccluskey all the best from me please.

ok m8 thanks

Sick valoo from the brammdog

Chris Jaromin elinimated John Gale last hand before the break

AA on a King high flop all in on the river, Gale mucked

David Rudling and Jake Emu

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Steve Watts

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Karl Mahrenholz's chip leading stack

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Awesome line

Chuck Clark. He might be American

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James Morris

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70 left after 4 levels today


Rana Gurnam knocks out Peter Lody and is up in the top few of the chip counts

Jonathan Prested knocks out John Rogoletti with Kings Full against Ace-Queen



Am promised official chip counts this break. My updating career is bereft on the past promises of such, so hold your horses with your excitement.

Level 5, 150-300/25

The GUKPT Blog updater is asleep. Keep it here folks.

can I have a pic of Jonathan Prested making the antes!!!! tell him I said grats

Matthew Nieberg opens

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He is peeled by Seb Powell, Martin Malone, Mike Piper on the button and this chap in the small blind

(http://www.hauntedyarns.com/images/tinky.jpg)

sorry this chap Mehdi Senhaji

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flop

 2h 3h 4h

checked to Malone who leads, Piper calls

turn  Ahrt

malone shoves his last 8,000, Piper calls

Malone  Kh Qh

Piper  Th 9h

Nieberg tells the table he passed the  5h

Malone goes to 20,000

In the house, Mr David LilDave SuuPRLim Nicholson

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Ben Jenkins makes it 750,

Chris Brammer calls, Leo Margets then raises to 2500.

Action comes back to Ben who makes it 4750,

Chris folds, Leo moves all in and Ben makes the call....

Leo QQ
Ben kk

Kings hold for Ben as he doubles to 48,000

Leo is down to just 600 chips.

I get confused with all these small boys, is this the Dave who lost some of his fingers? Or is this one still counting with a full set?

More pics of Medhi whatever his name was and his tight tshirt please. Moobs FTW!

topsy turvy day for Martin Malone who gets it in against shorter stack Marco Pantelli, an Equal Chance regular with 9-9 v A-Q. Queen on the flop doubles Pantelli (below)

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Whollyflush makes the antes. A surprise all round

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and he is sitting next to Sam Razvazi, who finished 6th in the Aussie Millions Main for BlackBelt behind Skolsuper and the blonde stakers

Jumper bought from Chompy.

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/TYI_h5jfpNI/AAAAAAAAQMs/h7IFSqioOP8/IMG_5892.JPG)

chip counts at the last break

Player End of Level 4

karl marenholz 63200

Jeffrey Duvall 45775

Jamie Roberts 43875

Mehdi Senhaji 43100

Keir Ratcliff 43025

Harprit Singh 38500

James Morris 36450

Steven Watts 33900

Jeff Kimber 33100

Victor Victorovich Ilyukhin 32175

Jonathon Prested 31550

Krzysztof Jaromin 30450

Simon Randall 29275

Max Winberg 28775

Talal Shakerchi 28375

Christopher Brammer 27325

Robin Fisher 27050

Naresh Advani 25975

Jonathon Prested 25925

Michael Piper 25200

chuck clark 23275

Leonor Margets 22275

Ben Jenkins 21500

Tamer Kamel 20950

David Rudling 20925

Sebastian Powell 19850

Ian Woodley 19550

Karen Frank 19525

Mark Brockwell 18300

Arkady Kielman 17950

Christopher Odonnell 17775

Matthew Nieberg 17125

Paul Mendes 16875

Mark Mccluskey 16400

Danny Dborin 16100

Christopher Kyriacou 15925

Jake Cody 15100

Amy Trodd 15025

Mohamed Muse 14275

Michael Kossov 13325

Roberto Romanello 13275

Mathew Frankland 12900

Daniel Rudd 12875

Leon Campbell 12375

katie oconnor 12300

Tony Fayad 12200

David Harvey 12000

Gavin robert Cochrane 11800

Martin Malone 11350

Derek Power 11275

Dean Swift 11100

Dave Mcconachie 10775

Samad Razavi 10750

Aleksander Uzunov 10175

Rumit Somaiya 10125

Daniel Moosah 10050

Abhishek Khaitan 9975

Alan Stearn 9750

Nicolau Marques 9275

Carlo Andreini 9000

Jerome Bradpiece 8800

Ramey Shaio 8325

leon louis 7975

Thomas Mcdonald 7375

Michael Panteli 5650

Brian Parker 3650

James Sullivan 3500

I had to look at this pic for about 15 secs, to realise that lil Dave wasn't sporting a West Indies cricket cap. Thought it might be the new thing up north.

Lil Dave looking remarkably like Sid vicious

Roberto Romanello, now next to Alan Stearn, about 90 minutes into a massage

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Max Winberg, delighted to see me

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Krzysztof Jaromin

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Martin Brockwell

(http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_03/LeeHughesPA_468x385.jpg)

Footballer Lee Hughes

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/TYJE7HtoFfI/AAAAAAAAQNM/Jr7z3CScMZY/IMG_5897.JPG)

Arkady Kielman

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/TYJE9h8jXwI/AAAAAAAAQNU/Ugwc-_DSTwY/IMG_5899.JPG)


There is an obvious lookalike here, but I can't place it. Anyone?

Not to be rude but the guy below looks like a fat Karl M

passing the long hours with a Kindle

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/TYJGlVi_TwI/AAAAAAAAQNo/tCvBGXZVJMY/IMG_5900-1.JPG)

A chap frightened about flying, a stewardess and the Danube.

I will be offline from now, but wanted to say great Updates Tighty, you da man, & big thanks to all those blondes who contributed to help make it possible. The Donation Thread for future Live Updates remains open for business......   

For now, I shall leave you, & enjoin with Barry Carter & James Hartigan for the evening, & then tomorrow, I will be at The Vic all day, with Team Sky Poker, Mother, & your goodself.

Living the dream, me.

Could i get a chip count for Jeff Duvall please?

+1 really nice guy, pleasure to share a table with

sorry about the delay, network problems


Here was the state of play 15 mins ago

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Jeff Kimber's stack approaching 50,000

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Danny D'Boring in the sunglasses

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Jeff Duvall still 45-50,000



Interesting hand


Rana Gurnam raises utg and is called by Mehdi Senjali, Jeff Kimber on the button and Pantelli in the blinds

flop  Qs Jc 4c

checked to Snejali who leads, Gurnam calls

turn  8s

Gurnam checks and Senjali asks how much Rana has left. "14,000" comes the reply

Senjali bets 4,000 less than half the pot and is called

river  Tc completing most hands you would think

Gurnam checks and Senjali checks

Senjali says "straight" and reveals  9s 8h for the rivered gutshot, bet it all the way on the come and then checked the made hand on the river

Gurnam looks in disbelief, and mucks

Amy Trodd treads the boards

All in with AJ versus today's Nemesis David Rudling with KJ on a Jack high flop, King on the river

Jake Cody out, pushed his last 2,350 from the button with K2o, called in the big blind by K8o, no help

Michael Piper doubles through Karl Mahrenholz KK v KQ all in pre. Piper back to 18,000

lil dave

(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/outragous76/sid_vicious-.jpg)


sid vicious

(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/outragous76/IMG_5889.jpg)

Matteo Fratelli sticks his dagger into earlier big stack Rana Gurnam AQ v 88 all in pre, and he wins the race to knock him out blind on blind

We're just coming up to a 45 minute break. Not sure why we have a 45 minute break as the players have been served nibbles, fish and chips or lamb rogan josh and a choice of three ice creams and red or white wine through the afternoon, so there is no dinner as such now. All very civilised though.

However a 45 minute break it is. The key table here I am going to watch after the break is Chris Brammer/Ben Jenkins/Keir Ratcliff where Jenkins is a chip leader and a lot of pots are 3 and 4 bet pre. Mainly by these three.

Another lively table has Mahrenholz/Romanello/Clark on.

Elsewhere Kimber is battling assorted Continental Europeans on a third table. Doing well too.


Chip counts will be on their way when I receive them

take your 45 mins. you doing a sterling job on ya own.

Hate the "eat at the table" and then have a 45 min break!,... always at the Vic/GUKPT.
I'm sure they could do a buffet in the Restaurant if they do it pre 7pm.

10 Minutes left of the break


from AWOP

There were 4 limpers to Chris Brammers big blind so he made it 2500 to play. He found one caller in Mark Brockwell....

The flop came 6--9--J

Chris fired out 2500, Mark called.

The turn came a three.

Chris fired again, this time 5200, Mark again made the call.

The river came another Jack.

Chris checked his option, Mark quickly bet 10,000.....Chris went into the tank only having 17,000 left himself....

Chris decided to call, Mark says good call!! Chris shows 7-7.

Mark mucks his hand.

Mark is down to 8,000 chips.

Chris is up to nearly 50,000!!

Blinds are 300 - 600 with a running ante of 50.

54 players remaining.

Average stack is 24,400.




First exit after the break is Mark Brockwell


Matteo Fratelli raises, Senhaji calls and Brockwell calls for 2,000 of his 8,000 in the big blind

He stop and goes on  Kd Jd 7h with  4d 3d, Fratelli calls him with  Qd Qc and holds

Chris Jaromin has knocked out Roberto Romanello


Getting short Romanello opened for over half his stacK with 6-6

Jaromin set him in with J-J

Roberto called


Flop J-J-6!

Tom McDonald doubles to 26,000

All in pre with Kings against Aces blind on blind

King on the river

Player End of Level 6

Jeff Kimber 88475

karl marenholz 57250

Christopher Brammer 52675

Krzysztof Jaromin 50550

Ben Jenkins 46600

Matteo Fratello 46250

James Morris 39725

Christopher Kyriacou 39225

Talal Shakerchi 36850

Jeffrey Duvall 36150

Max Winberg 33600

Jamie Roberts 33550

Simon Randall 33200

Mehdi Senhaji 32650

Daniel Moosah 30175

chuck clark 29950

Keir Ratcliff 29300

David Rudling 29100

Matthew Nieberg 29050

Paul Mendes 28200

Victor Victorovich Ilyukhin 28150

Danny Dborin 27775

Jonathon Prested 27200

Martin Malone 26500

Steven Watts 25775

Nicolau Marques 24800

Tamer Kamel 20725

Karen Frank 20625

Abhishek Khaitan 20150

Naresh Advani 20075

Dave Mcconachie 19950

Mathew Frankland 19200

Derek Power 17350

Michael Piper 17000

Tony Fayad 15750

Ian Woodley 14925

Sebastian Powell 14500

Thomas Mcdonald 13000

Rumit Somaiya 12900

Mark Mccluskey 12225

David Harvey 12150

Arkady Kielman 12100

Brian Parker 11875

katie oconnor 11750

Christopher Odonnell 11125

Roberto Romanello 10525

Michael Kossov 9350

James Sullivan 9175

Daniel Rudd 8825

Mohamed Muse 8725

Michael Panteli 7600

Mark Brockwell 7300

Aleksander Uzunov 7150

Gavin robert Cochrane 7100

Talal Shakerchi makes it 1850 utg

Ben Jenkins calls utg+1

Tamer Kemal cals on the button

Steve Watts squeeze shoves 18,000 from the big blind

Shakerchi iso-shoves 30,000

Jenkins gives it serious thought but releases, as does Kemal

Shakerchi flips  Aspades Kc

Watts "damn I am drawing to a three" and shows  Kh 3d

a railbird says plaintively "Jeez Stevo, what have you done?"

the question hangs in the air, no answer readily apparent byanybody watching,  as the board runs out

 7s 5h 4h 2d Qc for Watts to depart

Martin Malone making progress over 30,000

Bets 6,000 into 9,000 on the river of a 6-A-7-Q-9 board and gets called by Tamer Kemal who mucks when Malone shows A-9


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Michael "Wazz" Piper found himself in a tough spot versus Chris Jaromin


I joined the action to see Piper check call 5,000 from an 18,000 stack on  Kc 4h 6h Ad from the big blind

Piper checks the  3d river, Jaromin fires 6,500 and Piper makes a good call, after a monster dwell with  7d 7c to win the pot when Jaromin mucks

As we head to level 8 with 40 left the recent exits are Mo Muse, Tamer Kemal and Katie O'Connor

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Chip leader still Jeff Kimber ahead of Karl Mahrenholz, Talal Shakerchi, Ben Jenkins and David Rudling

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Also well up there was Matteo Fratelli...then he raised pre and was called by Chris Kyriacou and both blinds


flop  Ad 9d 6s

Fratelli leads, Kyriacou raises, Fratelli 4 bets and Kyriacou 5 bet shoves. It appears as if Fratelli has to call. Its about 12,000 more into an over 40,000 pot

He says, instead "You must have hit your set" and passes handing the nice pot to Kyriacou

fantastic updates!

the top ten stacks

Jeff Kimber

Karl Mahrenholz

Talal Shakerchi

 Ben Jenkins

David Rudling

Keir Radcliffe

Daniel Moosah

James Morris

Chris Jaronim


Kimber over 100,000 the rest well over 50,000 at 400-800/75



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Mahrenholz and Ratcliff play out a board of  Ac Kh Qs Tc Jc

after pre flop raise-age from Karl and call-age in position from Keir

Ratcliff leads after the flop with  Ad 7d

Mahrenholz seesaws into the lead with  Ts Td on the turn

and the chop after the river

Mahrenholz says to Ratcliff

"three years ago we'd have got the lot in on the river but we can't be bothered these days, can we?"

Karl Mahrenholz knocks out Mark McCluskey, K7 versus a short stacked shoving A6

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I gather Jeff Kimber is playing for thefirmpoker this week

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Chris Brammer loses a big pot to Max Winberg

I only arrive with the cards on their backs on the river

Brammer AQcc on the button, Winberg Aces in the small blind

Aces hold up on a King High board to take Winberg right up there and leave Brammer short


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Jamie Roberts opens for 1650 in mid position and Talel Shakerchi calls in the cut off

Roberts leads for 2,200 on  5c Qc Th, called

He continues for 5,000 on the  Kd turn called

He value bets 5,000 on the  Ad river, called

and Roberts flips  Jd Td to take a 27,000 pot from a rueful Shakerchi who has been done all ends up on the river, presumably

Very much this.

The hand details are great.

Is flat calling on the river with the nuts a penalty in the GUKPT?

Other exits, to catch up

Sebastian Powell, Tom MacDonald, Simon Randall


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Here is Talal Shakerchi

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Chris Kyriacou. Talks ten to the dozen. Mostly guff, but charming with it


(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/TYJ1DJ7CZbI/AAAAAAAAQOQ/7lWqsNPLNco/IMG_5904.JPG)

I am sure it would be but Roberts led all three streets, didn't call with the nuts

Probably, why you ask ?

Alexander Uzunov, Viktor Ilyukin and making it a triumvirate of russians, possibly, Derek Power

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Poker Encore's Clark Kent

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rzdB5a4kLAo/Sk4z2Ck718I/AAAAAAAAO5I/zLY3oyNECP0/s320/clark_kent.jpg)


The  Daily Bugle's Karl Mahrenholz

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/TYJ1HO5NeyI/AAAAAAAAQOY/RQ6QBuiwKMY/IMG_5906.JPG)



can he become the GUKPT London.......

(http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Superman-Clark-Kent-superman-546265_576_432.jpg)

Martin Malone raises utg, Jamie Roberts 3 bets utg+1

Malone 4 bets, Roberts 5 bets all in called

Malone A-K

Roberts A-A

Aces hold and Roberts now has over 100,000, challenging Kimber for the chip lead

Break after 8 levels

34 left, average 38,800

blinds 5000-1000/100 in the last level of the day coming up

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Jamie Roberts raises the button to 2,5000 and Ben Jenkins calls

flop  Kd Th Qh

Jenkins check calls 2,200

check check on the  5c turn

river  Ac

Jenkins leads for 3500 and is paid off by Roberts, Jenkins shows  Kc Jd to claim the pot


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chip counts for the remaining 34 being done now

Chris Brammer was last out before the break, knocked out by David Rudling

Bramme lost two big pots today 65,000 and 75,000 both times against Aces

ok we're off, last level of the day

Jamie Roberts raises to 2,100 in 2nd position

Jeff Duvall shoves for 17,000 on the button

Roberts calls


Roberts J-J

Duvall 9-9

Jacks hold, and I nthink we have a new chip leader

Table Nine

Chris O Donnell - 21,900

Aleksander Uzunov - 8,100

Victor Ilyuken - 40,600

Derek Power - 19,500

Matthew nieberg - 30,400

Karen Frank - 23,600

Jon Prested - 29,700

James Morris - 30,100

Naresh Advani - 27,500


Table Seven

Mehdi Senhaji.......27,200

Rumit Somaiya.........19,000

Matthew Frankland...19,800

Jeff Kimber.........80,600

Michael Panteli.....14,000

Paul Mendes.........24,600

Max Winberg.........85,400

Matteo Fratelo......88,400

Chris Kyriacou......62,000


Table Eight

Chuck Clark..........31,300

David Rudling........56,700

Talal Shakerchi......57,800

Michael Piper........60,500

Keir Ratcliff........52,500

Daniel Moosah........60,700

Kyzysztof Jaromin....41,800

Karl Mahrenholz......45,800


Table Ten

Danny Dborin - 25,500

Ian Woodley - 29,600

Jamie Roberts - 89,200

Ben Jenkins - 45,000

Daniel Rudd - 31,100

David Harvey - 10,300

Jeff Duvall - 26,800

Tony Fayad -35,800

Max Winberg raises UTG, Jeff Kimber calls from the button, from the bb Michael Panteli moves all in for 10k more and both Max and Jeff call

Flop K-5-3 with two spades

Max checks
Jeff bets 14,000
Max passes

Michael Q-Q
Jeff 5-5

Turn 3

River 7

Full house for Jeff as we lose Michael


good time to get wifi problems so that is from AWOP


Matthew Frankland is also out

Karen Frank is out 9-9 into Victor Ilyukhin's 10-10 all in pre

Tighty can u say hi to danny rudd and tell the fkr we need him on blonde again. Hero call thread not the same without him

Danny D'Borin gets it all in pre 9-9 versus Matthew Nieberg's Jacks

Level stacks, the flop comes an exhilarating or cruel 9-9-3 depending on who you are!

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James Morris knocked out by Chris O'Donnell


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Kyriacou knocked out Frankland, he is challenging Kimber and Roberts for the chip lead as we approach the close

yup did that. He smiled a shy smile and said "too many people started posting trash on there, not hero calls but bad beats, so I stopped"

He will reconsider, if we ask him nicely. Or you give him £5,000 to blow on strippers Cos. (this last bit may not be real)

Sigh. I don't need to give danny rudd money, he gets the cake!

Tell him to start fkin posting again or he's getting nosebutted the next time I see him.

Rumit Somaiya out. 3 bet shoved 10 10 over Max Winberg's raise, he calls with A Q

flop  7c 8c Ac is interesting as Rumit has  Tc

turn  Js also gives Rumit a gutshot draw

river  3s


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Alexander Uzhnov out

Tony Farad shjoved utg

Woodley shoves

Uzhnov calls all in in the big blind

Uzhnov  8c 8d

Farad  Ac Kh

Woodley  Ad Ks

how's your luck Alex?  Kd on the flop and the other two chop the pot

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last few hands of the night, 3 hands drawn out just as Martin Green arrives in the room, face like thunder at this draw lol

ok we are just about done

25 have made it through to Saturday's Day Two


Overnight chip counts coming asap

ty 4 updates tighty have a beer on my account m8

Overnights


David Rudling 121,000
Jamie Roberts 119,700
Marco Fratelli 103,100
Chris Kyriacou 101,900
Jeff Kimber 101,300
Karl Mahrenholz 81,900
Max Winberg 71,500
Michael Piper 63,000
Talal Shakerchi 56,00
Naresh Avani 50,500
Ben Jenkins 49,700
Danny Rudd 49,600
Keir Ratcliff 39,800
Danny DBorin 38,300
Jon Prested 37,500
Chris O'Donnell 36,500
Chris Jaromin 36,000
Victor Ilyukhin 33,800
Paul Mendes 32,300
Chuck Clark 27,00
Tony Fayad 25,700
Ian Woodley 25,100
David Harvey 15,900


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OK

Day 1b here from midday Friday

In the field Toby Lewis, Praz, JP, Eames and many more


Please join me then

thank you and goodnight

Good work going solo Rich

Thanks

Geo

A terrific stint of solo Updating, Rich, well done you.

See you there later.