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Hello and welcome back to Walsall for the final of Leg 3 of the GUKPT event

Play begins at 2pm and these are your finalists


Simon Deadman 666,900

Danny Toffel 453,000

Ryan Spittles 421,100

Ben Jenkins 333,000

Martin Holmes 240,300

Adrian Eley 161,000

Craig Brugess 122,700

Nick Hicks 101,900

Alan Mansbridge 87,900

This is what they are playing for

Entries..... 172

1st .....£49,880

2nd .....£34,830
3rd .....£21,930
4th .....£13,330
5th .....£10,320
6th .....£8,170
7th .....£6,450
8th .....£4,730
9th .....£3,440
10th .....£3,010.....Dale Harper

11th .....£2,580....Rob Lacey
12th .....£2,580.....Rob Boon

13th .....£2,150.....Richard Horton
14th .....£2,150.....Fariborz Badiemansour
15th .....£2,150.....Praz Bansi
16th .....£2,150.....John Miller
17th .....£2,150.....Paul Humphries

before I continue, thanks again to www.thefirmpoker.com for helping with the cost of these updates. Thrillingly for them one of their staked players, Ben Jenkins has made the final

Over on www.thefirmpoker.com you can see my updates following Ben's progress over the past two days. Good player, nice guy and one of several I am rooting for today.


Also, before I continue, special thanks to Supernova and Dan Morgan who have helped out, entirely voluntary, over the last two days on these updates. Very appreciated.


Now then, on with the show....

So who are our finalists


Our chip leader is Simon Deadman

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/Tbx47_AoRVI/AAAAAAAARaw/087C_Fy00F8/IMG_6928.JPG)


Simon broke through when he won the DTD Deepstack a few months ago having threatened to do so for several months previous, having struggled for many years since his work as a Macauley Culkin personal appearance substitute dried up.

A prolific chip getter in the early stages of tournaments he ran so well in the last two levels of yesterday (winning every flip and showndown) that he is being co-opted onto the 2012 British Olympic relay team.

Over and above that though he was already chip leader before then, and never looked like relinquishing his position. Has to be favourite today with his stack and front-running game

Second in chips is Danny Toffel

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/Tbx42zUGYdI/AAAAAAAARao/XmUVZ0Z4M_c/IMG_6926.JPG)


Toffster on blonde, Danny from Surrey is an avuncular presence on tables at events I cover, and has had several deep runs in GUKPTs and DTD major events recently. Moved through to a high chip count yesterday in two key pots, the second of which accounted for day one chip leader Steve Warburton.

In a black mark against his name Danny told me that these updates are not as funny as the DTD Monte Carlo Updates.

For that reason, and no other, I hope he has at least one bad beat today, but not one so severe as to ruin his chances as he would like to sponsor some updates. Go Danny!
 

Third in chips is Ryan Spittles

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/TbwMpz6cp8I/AAAAAAAARWg/auYmtx_Xt8Y/IMG_6883.JPG)

Ryan is the newest, and probably plumpest, member of Team Sky Poker.

 "Scotty77" on blonde and a much respected member of the Sky Poker Community.Ryan has quite a game, modelled on his hero who he does not know, David Johnson.

Many moves, much bluffage and a seriously at it image. Only has one gear, he's stuck in sixth. However to my reasonably untutored eye he looks a real one to watch, a natural talent that now has his breakthrough

Fourth in chips is Ben Jenkins

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/Tb0urtRjxwI/AAAAAAAARa8/RObFA_pMkmw/IMG_6889-1.JPG)


Staked by www.thefirmpoker.com, Ben is from the North East and shares a house with Jack Ellwood. Was the short-stack of 65 returning yesterday and with infitie patience and much skill negotiated his way through to a run good period in the late stages. the Firm have identified another tremendous talent, much respected by his peers. Poor taste in scarves and suits though

Fifth in chips is Martin Holmes

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/TbtC9u08fHI/AAAAAAAARVE/cKC-yqOEMcc/IMG_6864.JPG)


Finally I have a lookalike for the teutonic Martin, which i will reveal later. It's ben bothering me for two days and came to me at 4am when I woke up with a start, wrote down the name and then settled back to a deep and far more contented sleep.

What of Martin then? Martin is from the South Coast and has a string of final tables i n places as exotic as Brighton, Thanet and Luton in festivals over the past eighteen months.

Martin has never been seen without raybans, which are attached to his face by thanks to an unfortunate experience with Evostik in 2003, when slightly worse for wear.

Sixth in chips is Adrian Eley

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/Tbx1a4N2BCI/AAAAAAAARbE/ARZDYnSobvk/s576/IMG_6918.JPG)


Adrian is from Shrewsbury. Er, that's it. So a story. Shrewsbury used to play at Gay Meadow a very picturesque ground at the side of a river. As assorted players in the lower divisions had a penchant for hoofing the ball over the side stand they lost a lot of balls, and money, to the water. So, about twenty five years ago they began to employ a little man on match days to sit in a coracle on the middle of the river and every time the ball got hoofed out he would row, collect the ball and save the club a fortune.

 Sadly Shrewsbury moved grounds in 2009. The coracle is now preserved at the National Football Museum in Preston. It is unknownwhat became of the man

Seventh in chips is Craig Burgess

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/TbwblHHgAhI/AAAAAAAARX0/3ujbRe5kllo/IMG_6898.JPG)

A shortstack around the bubble, Craig negotiated that period and now makes his first ranking event final. Craig is from Worcester, the town in the UK most exposed to flooding. The relevance of that to the GUKPT final will only become clear later.

For the third day running, GL to Simon Deadman. (as if he needs it!)

Excellent bio's tighty!!

cheers everyone for all the updates.  surely there is at least one better pic out there ty ty ty!!!!

Eighth in chips is Nick Hicks

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/Tbx1epm88CI/AAAAAAAARac/3pEjPloPHjg/s512/IMG_6919.JPG)

In controversial circumstances "Redbull" on blonde recently usurped Julian Thew for the title of "The nicest Man in Poker". Nick is a gent. From Nottingham and a DTD regular and past DTD Deepstack winner. Very very good game too, and will be a right menace where he to accumulate some chips from here.

Shortstack is Alan Mansbridge

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/Tbx1l9ES6iI/AAAAAAAARbA/Yb7yW4NfQHA/IMG_6923.JPG)

Alan recently concluded a lucrative career as Peter Cushing's stunt double at which he appeared at Hammer House of Horror fairs worldwide.

Alan is another nice chap, polite and patient and will be looking for that double up to get him in the hunt for the big money here. My research tells me that this is Alan's first festival cash since 2007.

His crypt was locked for three years, I gather

An artist can only work with what appears on the cnavas before him. Good luck today.

Is Danny Toffel the love child of Jack Nicholson ?

Also, pffft at Nick taking Julian's nice guy crown, I once saw him spill red wine all over some guy with a white shirt on then laugh in the guys face and walk off, part off that story may or may not be true.



PS Someone teach me how to do little writing please.

Good luck Craig. 

Doobs

There is a font size button at the top

manually adjust size in the square brackets

My favorite two films are Home Alone 2 and The Last Samurai.




....just saying.

Gogogogogogogo Jenkinss

also gogogogogogogo Simon and Nick!!

I would like to add, Gl to Ben Jenkins and Nick Hicks... Obv you are playing for 2nd after the Deadpan!!

The fold of Jenkins on Day 1 is diff gravy!!!!! Hicks = Thew, there must be love, love......

Gl to Simon, Danny and Nick. Would love to see these three top 3.

Simon should just keep getting it in. As long as he has outs, he'll get there. GET IT IN PREEEEEEEE

Surely toffell = Andy black?

Good luck Craig Burgess - 15 big blinds is pl-henty ;-)

HE'S ONLY 25!!!

The red wine bit is almost certainly true. He always has a glass whilst playing. How can he be 25?!

gl to Ben Jenkins, Simon Deadman and Nick Hicks

123 would be awesome

Oh, and btw



Its ON. Hang on your blackberry Toffel

Tighty, the cavalry is on its way!

Simon Deadman 666,900  11/4

Danny Toffel 453,000   9/2

Ryan Spittles 421,100  9/2

Ben Jenkins 333,000    9/2

Martin Holmes 240,300  7/1

Adrian Eley 161,000    8/1

Craig Brugess 122,700  12/1

Nick Hicks 101,900     12/1

Alan Mansbridge 87,900 16/1

ah sick i was hoping someone would do this

£20 on Nick for the sweat. Will ship on ftp

FYP

Martin Holmes

(http://media.cardplayer.com/image/5/52watch_luske.jpg)


Marcel Luske

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/TbtC9u08fHI/AAAAAAAARVE/cKC-yqOEMcc/IMG_6864.JPG)

Simon Deadman 666,900  5/2

Danny Toffel 453,000   9/2

Ryan Spittles 421,100  5/1

Ben Jenkins 333,000    9/2

Martin Holmes 240,300  7/1

Adrian Eley 161,000    8/1

Craig Brugess 122,700  12/1

Nick Hicks 101,900     11/1

Alan Mansbridge 87,900 18/1

£10 on nick @ 12/1?

been tucked into 11/1 bank xfer only tho, dont think moorman would like me having my book on MU

Seat Draw


1 Danny Toffel
2 Adrian Eley
3 Craig Burgess
4 Nick Hicks
5 Alan Mansbridge
6 Martin Holmes
7 Ben Jenkins
8 Simon Deadman
9 Ryan Spittles


First prize now £50,000

Money added by GUKPT for that, well played

Simon Deadman 666,900  5/2

Danny Toffel 453,000   9/2

Ryan Spittles 421,100  5/1

Ben Jenkins 333,000    9/2

Martin Holmes 240,300  7/1

Adrian Eley 161,000    17/2

Craig Brugess 122,700  14/1

Nick Hicks 101,900     9/1

Alan Mansbridge 87,900 18/1

kk pm me details

Good afternoon all, looking forward to this, hopefully as everything will be more compact today any requests should be faster slicker and dare I say tighter.

ive sent them

hicks into 9/1 others are freindless in the market, rollup rollup

Good luck to Nick, Simon & Ryan.

lol @ Nick only being 25.

£10 Nick Hicks pls.

can you PM me bank a/c details pls.

I'm a first time punter with triggs trading

you aint getting 11/1 son, check latest prices

sigh 5 mins too late

Glglglgl plumpy77

Simon Deadman 666,900  5/2

Danny Toffel 453,000   5/1

Ryan Spittles 421,100  5/1

Ben Jenkins 333,000    11/2

Martin Holmes 240,300  8/1

Adrian Eley 161,000    10/1

Craig Brugess 122,700  14/1

Nick Hicks 101,900     8/1

Alan Mansbridge 87,900 18/1

$20 on Simon Deadman, $10 on Nick Hicks please Trigg? If I can xfer on Full Tilt

£100 for me and £100 for mark McClusky on Jenkins  please. Will ship on stars tonight or cash in walsall if you're there

Call them 100 dollars if you don't wanna potentially be on the hook for £1k

£200 at 5/1?

just took a bit on jenks via pm

but bank xfer only, as stated, PM for details

Yeah me and McClusky will chop £200 at 5/1

k booked see pm for bank details new prices in 1 minute

Bank is fine but we're on the way to the casino now so can't ship till tonight

Simon Deadman 666,900  3/1

Danny Toffel 453,000   6/1

Ryan Spittles 421,100  6/1

Ben Jenkins 333,000    4/1

Martin Holmes 240,300  9/1

Adrian Eley 161,000    10/1

Craig Brugess 122,700  14/1

Nick Hicks 101,900     8/1

Alan Mansbridge 87,900 18/1



your booked dan

Whoever lifts the trophy is the winner btw

the force of money for jenkins has made deadman a nice price and the next 3 in chips crazy prices imo

how else would you do it?

How much are you giving blonde for this trigg?

ill donate 10% of any winnings i make to blonde cos

Come on Spittles and Toffel  ;)

FYP

Simon Deadman 666,900  3/1

Danny Toffel 453,000   13/2

Ryan Spittles 421,100  6/1

Ben Jenkins 333,000    4/1

Martin Holmes 240,300  9/1

Adrian Eley 161,000    10/1

Craig Brugess 122,700  14/1

Nick Hicks 101,900     8/1

Alan Mansbridge 87,900 18/1

10 more mins

 /:-|  on the case

6 mins

stop it all the excitement is making me want to get involved again

will be doing some in running stuff

Play is about to get underway

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GL Nick and Simon.

;mexicanwave;

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(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/Tb1ZKI6n-cI/AAAAAAAARcY/YiYhPA-ZkEg/IMG_6931.JPG)

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Ryan Spittles takes down the first hand uncontested


6/1 sigh.

wiiii - thats my guy!

blinds are 4000-8000/500 by the way

solid!

Danny Toffel to 16,000, burgess to 50,000, called

 Jh 7h Qc

Toffel leads for 31,000, Burgess passes

Jenkins 17,000 utg

takes it down uncontested


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Nick Hicks moves all in, takes the next pot uncontested


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I have Bolton accent commentator's tilt.

Toffel 16,500

Mansbridge all in

Toffel asks for a count

72,400 is the total

55,900 more

Toffel calls

Toffel 7d 7h

Mansbridge Ts Th

flop

 Td 5c Jc 4h 9h


Alan Mansbridge doubles up

too good, simply brilliant

Ryan Spittles 16,500

Toffel calls

blind on blind

 Jh 7h Kh

Spittles 22,000. Toffel passes


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Jenkins  to 17,000

Toffel calls

 Ks 3s Kh

Toffel checks

Jenkins 19,500

called

 Ad

checked

Jenkins 37,500

Toffel calls

 Qh

Toffel checks

Jenkins checks


Toffel  Aspades Th wins as Jenkins mucks

Holmes opens

Burgess all in

42700 more

Burgess 9-9

Holmes Q-Q

3-A-7-2-6


Craig Burgess is out 9th winning £3,430

Deadman opens to 17,000

Nick Hicks all in

Deadman raises one eyebrow

CALLS

Hicks Q-Q

Deadman 10-10


J-3-8-Q-2


Hicks doubles up to 210,000


Deadman loses a pot. I say again, Deadman loses a pot

...How? He had outs and everything...

I ain't doin dat nice guy sh1t anymore, bout time someone else stepped up, wp redbull

Hicks 16,800

uncontested, flips  Ad Kd


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Spittles 18,500

Mansbridge 42,000

Jenkins all in

Spittles passes

Mansbridge looks at the Jenkins stack, looks slightly ill

Hand goes to his chin, and he leans forward and passes

Oh no Tighty - don't say the commentating has made you go all Fred Elliott?

Holmes 18,000

Deadman 54,200 3 bet

Holmes who I am told by an unreliable judge of lookalikes looks like Larry David....

Passes

controversial!

Lol, looks more like Craig David

Spittles raises to 17,500

Toffel calls

blind on blind

 6s Kd 4s

check check

 Qh

check check

 9h

check check


Spittle shows a four to take it down

Power Poker, pure and simple

always knew you were a bad un ;-)

Gogogo Ben and Nick.

I expect to see Ben play really agressively, but then tighten up around the all-important top three bubble, leaving me as the onyl clown in a suit.

Hey listen - I just put Richard Prew into Google Images and it came up with this...wtf?  Admittedly second page but even so.....

Toffel completes the sb

Eley checks

 4d Ac 3s

check

Eley all in

Toffel passes

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Mansbridge 17,000

Toffel calls

 9c 7c Kc

check, Toffel 16,500

called

 5s

check by Mansbridge, Toffel 25,000

Called

 Ks

Mansbridge leads for 42,000 called

Mansbridge Kd  Ac

Toffel  Qh Qc


Cagey stuff

All todo with his love of all things pink

Spittles 18,000

Mansbridge calls

 3d Qc Ts

Mansbridge checks

Spittles 21,500

called

 Kc

Mansbridge checks

Spittles checks

 Ks


Mansbridge checks

Spittles checks

Mansbridge   8h Th takes it down

Mansbridge calls

Jenkins 3 bet to 47,000 calls

flop

 4h 6c Jd

check, bet, call


 2c

Mansbridge leads 32,000

Jenkins passes

blinds going up to 5-10k

In the first level we have lost Craig Burgess and seen Alan Mansbridge and Nick Hicks double up

Deadman still the chip leader but by a narrower magin

Generally extremely cagey..have seen 1 4-bet and 3 3 bets in an hour

Holmes 23,000

Toffel calls

Eley calls

both callers in the blinds

 4c Qc Tc


check, Eley all in

Holmes passes

Toffel passes


A Eley good all in that

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Deadman 22,000

uncontested

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Toffel 22,000 in the cut off

Mansbridge calls in the big blind

 Qs 5h Ts

Both check

 7c

check, check

 Td

check check

Toffel takes it with  Ks 4s

I had high hopes for this final, too

Jenkins 21,500

Mansbridge calls

Holmes calls big blind

 Qh 9d 7s

check check, Jenkins checks

 2d

check Holmes 26,000, Ben passes, Mansbridge passes


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Toffel 25,000

Uncontested, shows  Qd Qc

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Spittles 22,000

Holmes all in


Spittles passes

this final so far

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Eley 22,000

Holmes calls

Deadman calls

 6c Tc 6d

Deadman checks, Eley checks, Holmes checks

 9c

Check, Eley announces all in

this ends the bout of

(http://www.maniacworld.com/Checkers/checkers.jpg)

Holmes asks for a count

175,000 is the shove

Holmes, besuited and in raybans, passes

Deadman passes

Mansbridge peeling every flop running pretty godlike

(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRy9qfjCtTBWVG1lcKHYWUJwUvvrYyWJh4SqAMrLJI7CcsPhF57g)

Deadman 22,000 button

Spittles puts his smurf hood up, a sure sign that he has a hand.

Spittles 58,000. small blind

Toffel passes big blind

Deadman cogitates and digests, he looks at Spittles and all he sees is a blue hoody, Spittles is covered on his top half, face not visible

Deadman 4 bets 134,000

Spitles sinks a bit lower into his chair, hand on hoody hood,

Peeking from table height you can see he looks glum

Spittles passes

Deadman takes the smurf down

Deadman ftw. glglgl to rebull too.

this!

Deadman 22,000

Mansbridge calls in the blinds

 Aspades Qs 4c

check, Deadman checks

 Jd

check, Deadman checks

 8c

Mansbridge 24,000

called

Mansbridge shows  Js 8h to win with rivered two pair

Hicks 20,800

Uncontested

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Deadman 22,000

Uncontested


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Deadman 22,000


Uncontested



These Uncontested flops are probasbly cheaper than this

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Eley 24,000

Guess what, uncontested

He shows  Ac, which is something for the blogger trying to enthuse his audience

Deadman 22,000

Uncontested

(it's ok, I have the word uncontested saved so I can simply paste it in to every post)

Quick competition

Railbirds versus Bloggers

Which are there more of, and how many in total (combined)?..you have to get both parts right

closest wins, gets a blonde badge, worth £0

More bloggers and I'm going with 15 total.

Ninth uncontested pot on the trot, Deadman 22,000 again and takes it down

Keep raising til you meet resistance Simon, you'll be up overall by the time you have to pass to a 3 bet.......

11 Bloggers and 9 railbirds

more railers going with 20

12 bloggers

16 railbirds

Go deadman

Prediction, station will call from the blinds, flop 2 pair get it in and get counterfeited by the openers over pair!

Hicks 22,800

Mansbridge calls in position

 Qc Td 3d

Hick checks, Mansbridge 12,000 and called

 7s

check, Mansbridge 30,000. called

 Th

Nick checks, Mansbridge 40,000


Nick leans back, looks slightly frustrated

Nick leans forward, hand on chin and ponders

Nick looks down at his cards

Nick leans back again

calls

Mansbridge   Qh 3h for flopped two pair

Hicks mucks

 

Mansbridge must be blessed, min 2 pr every flop!

He will be going home in tears

Mansbridge =

esp calling with q3!!

Hicks all in

71,500

Holmes asks for the count from the big blind

Passes


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Toffel 25,000

Uncontested

5 blogers 10 railbirds

Deadman absolutely killing it pre, no resistance from Jenkins or Hicks as yet, probably more a sign of the both of them being ridic card dead. Pitch the tents folks we could be here for some time

Heres an inspirational message, it's been pretty mundane so far but stick with it!
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9 railbirds

11 bloggers! 11. (10+tikay)

20 total

who wins?

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Take 15 minutes folks, and come back to more excitement!

how tilting is the commentary?!

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Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii  ;yippee; lol

12 plug sockets....meh

me

final Table Chip Counts

Seat 1.... Danny Toffel - 254,000

Seat 2... Adrian Eley - 270,500

Seat 4.... Nick Hicks - 90,500

Seat 5.... Alan Mansbridge - 570,500

Seat 6.... Martin Holmes - 276,500

Seat 7.... Ben Jenkins - 171,000

Seat 8.... Simon Deadman - 661,500

Seat 9.... Ryan Spittles - 293,500

ok we're back

blinds 6-12k and blinds small enough for more limp call passive hitting of flops

Ben Jenkins all in, and gets it through

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Ben Jenkins all in again, Eley in the small blind ponders and passes, and Ben gets two through

Nick Hicks all in

Nick gets it through




Slight change of tactics here. The oldies can't hit flops if they don't get the chance to see them, I suppose

Nick Hicks all in again

Martin Holmes asks for a count

94,500 is the bet

A long think, staring at Nick's chips

CALL

Nick J-8

Holmes Q-10

2-3-2-A-8


Nick Hicks doubles up!

Mansbridge limps the button.

Jenkins all in big blind. Good lad.

Jenkins takes it down

Wooooo go nick.

Good call from Holmes with the QT, one that I wouldn't have expected him to make so props for that, wp

Lol!

Wp nick, get there!

stop saying "minraise for the win" ffs!

I'm not

p.s I should be commentating

Excellent work team

COME ON SBOTTY

xx

Ryan Spittles and Nick Hicks win the last two hands with pre-flop raises

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Holmes raises, Eley in the big blind asks how much Holmes has behind, and flats it

flop  2c 3s Th

Eley checks

Holmes checks

turn Qh

check, checks

 Jh

check, Holmes bets 34,000 called

Holmes  4c 7d no pair

Eley  Js Kc


Only another eight hours to go

Toffel raises

Mansbridge in the big blind calls

 4s 7d Aspades

check, Toffel 37,000.

Called. Surprise!

turn  Td

check, check

river  3d

check check

Toffel  Jh Tc to win the pot

Spittles 26,500

Holmes in the big blind calls


flop  7s 9c 2s

Check check

turn  Kd

check check

river  3d

check Spittles 15,000 and Holmes passes

sounds like a thriller....

Hicks 26,500 cut off

Uncontested

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Spittles 26,500 under the gun

Uncontested

Spittles shows  Aspades Jh

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Jenkins  Ad Qd

Holmes  6s 9s

Holmes shoved and Jenkins iso-shoved  cut off v button


Here we go

board  3s 9c  8d  2d 3c

Holmes doubles up

slkjsf;jhsdtgljkdl;kgrxklgyilkrj'hkmkl;djtgrkldjgycyltfh

Spot the difference

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Yes, quite

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Your updater

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lol

Back to some hands then

Deadman the most active, though he lost a decent pot to Toffel's 9-9

Many of the others not doing too much


We press on.....

Hicks 26,500

Mansbridge calls in the blinds, Yippee

Holmes in the big blind calls. Hurrah

flop  Ac Th 3h

check

check

Hicks 32,500

Both fold

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Chip count for Jenkins Tighty?

Jenkins the short stack of 8 with under 100,000

blinds up to 8-16k

Shovesville ahoy



Deadman the chip leader ahead of Mansbridge and Toffel

All in and a call

Eley raises, flat call by Deadman

flop A-7-3

Deadman checks

Eley KJ bets

Deadman turns

turn Q

Check, Eley shove

Deadman call with 7-7 flopped set


Adrian Eley out in 8th winning £4,730

Nice work Tighty.

Good luck Simon, Nick and Danny.

Any of these 3 to win please.

stream down, this will catch tighty out if hes gone home and just following the stream

Mmmmmmm flopping a set...one of my all time favourites ;)

xx

Simon Deadman 859,000 in this short hiatus

Ben Jenkins short stack 159,000

chips to jenkins pls.

if only

How's your book looking Victor Chandler?

Thats gotta be good for it

Ben Jenkins shoves  Ac Qs

Ryan Spittles calls  Qd Qc

flop  Qh 4c Ahrt

 6h 8c


Ben Jenkins is out 7th winning £6,450

Goooooooooooooo Jenkins and Deadman. Both sound lads.

Oh dear, really should have read the last post. FSEFKMRVMETVBBRB.

absolutely rigged this game

Sigh trigg has done me for 10GBP

The exit hand

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Simon's girlfriend Shola enthralled on a packed rail

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is that blue top deadmans lucky jumper?

Yessir. Lucky blue jumper ftw

I remember all my life
Raining down as cold as ice
A shadow of a man
A face through a window
Crying in the night
The night goes into

Morning, just another day
Happy people pass my way
Looking in their eyes
I see a memory
I never realized
you made me so happy, oh Mandy

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they don't make em like that anymore, Mr Manilow

Deadman raise

Mansbridge 3 bets

Deadman 4 bets

(its picking up here, action wise, as we are shorterhanded)

Mansbridge 5 bet shoves

Deadman snap folds

Nice try.

For good reason ;)

xx

We have a 45 minute break at the end of this level

We're just estimating current chip counts for all six


Deadman 780,000

Mansbridge 670,000

Spittles 470,000

Toffel 400,000

Holmes 300,000

Hicks 250,000


is my stab at it from a few feet away

wowsers

Spittles raises, Mansbridge calls in the blinds

 Kd 2h 3c

Mansbridge checks, Spittles 42,000.

Mansbridge calls

Turn  Ahrt

Mansbridge checks, Spittles 63,000

Mansbridge calls

River  3s

Mansbridge checks

Spittles all in

Can he check call the third bullet, for most of his stack? 250,000 is the all in

Mansbridge leans far back, both hands on his face

CALL

Spittles  7c 9c

Mansbridge  Kc 8c

what a humungous call

Ryan Spittles is out 6th winning £8,170

Now that was quite a hand

Spittles picked the wrong player to bluff, but what heart to fire the third shell all in on a stone cold bluff

Mansbridge now a big chip leader

[ ] mansbridge ftw

Good Luck to both Simon and Nick...Bring the money back to DTD guys   :)up

Nick Hicks all in 152,000

CALL

Hicks  Ts Th

Deadman  Qc 8c calls

3d 5d Ad  6s 2h


Hicks doubles to over 300,000

...

Why?

Spittles has played great the whole tournament. Such a waste on the nut worst river to barrel it off and the nut worst player to do it against

If people keep doing this he's gunna stumble blindly into 50k!!

What are the blinds plz tightamous maximus.

8-16k Spikus Millius

Deadman raises

Holmes re-raises

Deadman 4 bet shoves and wins the pot

With the remaining field this was pretty much Simons or dannys to lose with Nick so short

Now that nick has doubled through Simon this has the potential to be an epic. Complete turnaround to how it was an hour ago!

Spanks. think Q8 is on the lower end of my range here. Glad the action has hotted up to keep the updates going. Keep up the good work.

Why did he make this play ? are you serious?  ...turns out the guy made the correct call...but in my opinion he will lay this down 80% of the time so nothing wrong with the river jam ...far from it..great play...but everybody has there own viewpoint... mine doest agree with yours in this instant

Peace x

From doing the updates for the best part of 2 days he's definitely not a guy to try and bluff. He makes the hero call every time. He peels this flop with some ace highs as well and he might not 3bet AK pre, he definitely doesn't 3bet AQ.

On a break and back at 7.20pm


Alan Mansbridge 841,000


Simon Deadman 634,500


Martin Holmes 505,000


Danny Toffel 340,500


Nick Hicks 265,5000


blinds go 10,000-20,000 next


1 £48,880
2 £34,830
3 £ 21,930
4 £13,330
5 £10,320

Just spoke to Nick Hicks who has found the final a real struggle, with the "peelers on my left"

Still he's in with a shot. £10k already and a chance of more

Back shortly

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hows the food tighty?

no buffet today


I treated myself to steak and chips

Average

Am now waiting on Chocolate delice with a caramel centre

Expecting above average



Half the bloggers have gone home. Pfft. I'm here for the long haul though.

Gold :D

Play resumes at 7,30pm


Chocolate delice melted in the mouth. I tried some shortbread ice cream too. Yummy

The 79 is the worst possible river to shove! It makes any K a chop, is less likely you have a 3 and ergo rep a full house or random trips

Ok ballsy shove and nice call, but the decision looks like it was made on the turn and not reassessed

yup spazzy move, sounds like the old man was always calling so not gonna work very often at all.

obv meta game from bellamy, never heard of him bluff jamming in y life

So here we are, no flops since the play resumed

Nick Hicks has shoved once uncalled

Deadman 42,000

Mansbridge calls in the big blind

flop  8d 5d Qd

Mansbridge checks

Deadman checks

turn  Qc

check, Check

river  Kd

check, check

Deadman wins with Ace high

Holmes to 45,000 button

Deadman 128,000 small blind

Holmes passes showing an Ace

Good evening Tighty!

just as an aside (blatant thread hijack) who won the Newcastle reverse quiz thingy?

Sharplea

Qs 5s Jc 4s

Alan 20,000

Toffel calls

 3c

Alan 20,000

Toffel calls

Alan shows  Ahrt 4h to win

Mansbridge 46,000

Toffel calls in the bb

 6c Tc 4c

check, Mansbridge 46,000

called

 2d

check, Mansbridge 96,000

Toffel passes

As you can tell things are quiet, no really big confrontations

140x bb in play between the five of them, but Mansbridge and Holmes the type to grind it out, big time

Holmes 40,000

Mansbridge to 100,000

Holmes passes


Holmes is the short stack here. The more active Nick Hicks is shoving to maintain his stack

and in charge pre is Deadman, raising 2 of every 5 hands per orbit, not meeting any resistance

Holmes limps the small, Deadman checks

Deadman is checked to twice and fires on 10-10-6-8 and takes down the pot

Come on NICK!

Nick Hicks shoves under the gun

Holmes asks for a count

It is 196,000 so just under 10x bb

Holmes calls after a big think.

Hicks  Ad Qh

Holmes  Js Jh

 2d 4s 9h  2h  8h

Nick Hicks is out 5th winning £10,320

SIGHHH vwp Nick ul.

Clearly only Deadman ftw now.

Deadman 42,000

Toffel all in

Deadman calls

177,000 total


Deadman 5d 6d

Toffel Kc 9c


 9s 7d 9h Kd 8d


Toffel doubles up

FFS how does deadman not win there?! So rigged!

blind on blind, raised pot pre

 5d Qs 9s

Martin and Simon check

 2h

Martin 35,000 called

 4s

check by Martin Holmes, Deadman 76,000

calls

Deadman beats AQ with 45 for rivered two pair

Keep going Rich... great job.

What are approx chip counts?

Mansbridge 1,100,000

Deadman 800,000

Holmes 500,000

Toffel 300,000 and change

Sigh, UL Nick.

GL Simon!

not much hair between the final four eh?

Toffel all in small blind

Mansbridge asks for a count big blind 154,000 more (sorry, must have had a miscount on the update just now)

called

Toffel Kd 5h

Mansbridge Aspades 2h

8d Qd 3h 8s 4c



Danny Toffel out 4th winning £13,330


Well played toffster

Unlucky Danny. Played good mate, another deep run!

Gogogo Simon!

Deadman opens, Holmes raises, Deadman all in

CALL

Deadman  Ac Tc

Holmes Ad 5h

 8d 5d 3s Kh Kc


Holmes doubles through Deadman to 1,000,000

Deadman 370,000 left blinds go 15-30k soon

was a 4bet shove from deadman. what an awful call with the A5. no justice

deadman all in Ad Qs

Holmes calls Ahrt Th

Qh 2c Kc 2s 4d

Deadman doubles to over 700,000

Simon Deadman motoring again last three hands won uncontested with 45k in the middle pre each time, as blinds have gone up to 12-24k

chipcounts plz rich

 2c 2s Kd

3 way pot, all check

 Ts

Mansbridge 52,000

Holmes passes

Deadman raises 116,000

Mansbridge calls

 Tc


Mansbridge checks

Deadman checks

Mansbridge wins with Kings and tens, Deadman mucks

very rough

Mansbridge 1.2m

Holmes 900k

Deadman 700k

gogogo Deadman

UL Ben, cmon Simon

Deadman 52,000 button

Holmes in the big blind raises to 154,000 total

Deadman passes

Deadman and Mansbridge blind on blind

 Jd 5c 9d

Deadman checks, Mansbridge 52,000

Deadman check raises to 114,000

Mansbridge calls

 Qh

Deadman 142,000

Mansbridge passes

Mansbridge

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Carrott

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Cushing

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Lee

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Good, I can die happy. A quadruple lookalike

Alan Mansbridge
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Jasper Carrott
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DMorgan needs to be quicker

Break coming in 10 minutes

It is fair to say Deadman is having a lot of trouble here, tricky to make much progress

the guys are happy to play small pre and call light post. Not really suiting Deadman's style of betting hard post  with not a lot

Richard I tip my hat sir, beaten by a whisker

Deadman 42,000

Holmes 106,000

Deadman all in

Holmes passes

It should be known that I'm doing this from an iphone not a laptop, hardly a fair fight!
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 Ks Ahrt 3d

Deadman checks

Mansbridge checks

 Kh

Deadman checks

Mansbridge checks

 Kd


Deadman 54,000

Mansbridge passes

Mansbridge 1.1m

Deadman 1m

Holmes 600k

very rough ahead of the actual counts at the break

oh my its taken off!

cmon simon ffs take this down

Playing like a sicko. Literally crushing. GOGOGO

gl Simon = D

Holmes 60,000

Deadman 172,000

All in from Holmes

Call


Deadman 8-8

Holmes A-3


K-A-A-3-Q

Holmes doubles up


Deadman running bad when it really matters

F
F
S

sighs

Holmes had 451k, so 900k+ now

Tower ur a fucking hero obvs but A3 vs 88 isnt a flip :(

Alan Mansbridge 1,053,000

Martin Holmes 997,000

Simon Deadman 518,000


blinds going 15,000-30,000


Simon, in the break, is frustrated. Keeps chipping up, then loses from ahead...the other two not really playing each other


I gave him a pep talk, he listened and digested, I looked him in the eye. He sought solace and comfort in my soothing tones

And they say you get all your luck when you're young

yeh thats a good point, havent seen the old men play against each other at all. they're just taking it to turns to bend over infront of deadman

Go on Deadman.  Nice playing with you and a top guy.  See you soon on another final table hopefully!

he's a tool! why does he keep sayin its a flip!

and when he tries to claim a read on deadman "when he holds his cards like that he always passes". then deadman shoves. LOL.

Redic

Come on simon

Here we go then

Funks down the live stream, funks on the thread please

Lets get him home from here blondes!

Mansbridge raises to 66,000

Holmes passes

Deadman all in

Mansbridge passes

gogogo Simon!!!

Deadman shoves the small blind, Mansbridge passes

that's 100k added to his stack then.....

Already locked up a pretty sweet score, now go for all the goooooooooooold

Gl mate ship it for the young guns!!

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oi! no anti-tower comments in my presence pls.

Holmes wins a 250,000 pot versus Deadman with a King high flush

Sorry I couldn't get to the table to get the cards, a load of railers turned up and plonked themselves in my way!

classy performance throughout mate. wp ul

Lol @ this commentator. "Wheres Praz when you need him?". Asif Simon isnt tearing these guys a new one already

Gogogo Simon!

I can sense a LOL-CALL coming along with liek QTo or something

he clearly stopped thinking about anything sensible about 5minutes ago....

rigged

Deadman all in on the button, both opponents fold

----------------------------------------------------------

Mansbridge 66,000 on the button

Deadman all in big blind

Mansbridge asks for a count

483,000 total

Monster think

Inordinate think

CALL

Mansbridge Ad 9c

Deadman Kd Qd

 7c  Ts Js  5s 3d


Simon Deadman out 3rd winning £21,930

So fucking rigged

Short break before Heads up

Mansbridge 1.5m plays Holmes 1.2m heads up

sigh

Sigh

Run worse simon!

Another great score thou wpwp

Sigh, Wp Mr Deadman. Run better next time. Getting a title is 100% just around the corner.

grouuuuuuuuuuuuundskinner

good news for blonde update fund £28.50 on its way

bs. ill take the under on 10minutes b4 they chop it.

at least i only wasted 20minutes waiting for him to click the call btn with A9 lol

Unlucky Deadman. No justice.

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimon Deadman, wp sir! How good is his game??

Deal

£39,000 each playing for £6,000 and the trophy

Looking forward to this heads up

lolllll snap deal obv

Shows over, pack it up

ul simon, you did yourself proud, everyone in Walsall and everyone sweating the updates knows what the result should have been.

Complete/ check
Ck/ck
Ck/ ck
Bet/ tank call 2nd nuts

Glgl tighty, you got a hotel

Martin has taken the chip lead when raising with 10-8 on 7-8-9, getting a call with K-J and checking down 4 turn 5 river

sigh only one person played wtf


wpwp simon


edit ftw

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and the man on the mike is commentating in estuary english

"flop is ten of 'earts, jack of 'earts, six of spades"

Dropped "aitches" tilt me.

Still I must buckle up and regain my professionalism

Once more into the breach....

check check check check bet tank tank tank tank call zzzzzzzzzz


wp tighty for doing this

AA vs AA and someone make a flush for all our sakes

I was gonna root for AA vs KK but that might not be enough

yaya I bokked it

On a board of K-10-J-K

Holmes leads for 150

Mansbridge 450

Holmes shove, call

Holmes K-4

Mansbridge Q-9


Mansbridge doubles to 2.3m out of 2.8m in play

Sorry, I missed this earlier. 25????

all in and a call

 Holmes Ac Js

 Mansbridge Kc 7s

 Ts 8d 5d 7c 3h



We have a winner!



Martin Holmes finishes second winning £39,000

Sigh...I was sure I'd get home at least before heads up..wp Mr Tighty, I enjoyed the experience tremendously and learned alot, for one I am rubbish at chip counts...I will probably now sleep for 24 hours..gg everyone.

Very well done Tighty and Co. and Ul Simon...you was robbed.

Alan Mansbridge is a London cabbie, from Essex. He has his cab parked outside!

He bought in direct

He asked me about some of the comments on here, and said he was disappointed at what he had heard from friends on texts.

I explained to him that some of the other final tablers had big supporters on here, and that he shouldn't take support for them or any comments towards him personally. I apologised for any offence caused, though.

He told me "I am just trying to get better, and improve"

No matter what anyone may think, a GUKPT win is a tremendous achievement, and £45,000 for a london cabbie who plays recreationally..wow!

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Great updates TightEnd.

DIAGF trigg.

thanks for another good 1 tighty nice result for us older ones 2011 may be the year of the comeback watch out you young whipper snappers

Right I am off down the M6 and M1

Thank yous....................

www.thefirmpoker.com for helping out

Supernova and DMorgan for helping with updating

Everyone for viewing and posting


Next blonde live update is next weekend at DTD for the Monthly Deepstack with Sharplea

Please join him then


Goodnight!

Like you said Tighty, we don't mean offence by our comments, it's because we're passionate about supporting our friends. Sounds like a humble guy who's made a great achievement. I'm very sure people like Simon, Nick and Bens time will come, it just wasn't today

Congrats to Mansbridge. Wp!

shut up and paiiiiiiiiiiii mug

Run better IMO. Almost had a cheeky 5 spot on these 2 so you couldn't sweep lol

Trigg, you never replied to my pm about £100 on Mansbridge.  Was that booked?  :D

Ahhhhhhh bless!!!!!

WP Mansbridge

xx

TYTYTYTYTYTYTYTYTY Everyone who contributed this weekend...Superduper, Dandaman, the firm, all of the Blonde donators and Tighty obv.

T'was the most sterling of updates & very enjoyable

xx

yeh it was booked but you had to send before KO, unlucky

Sigh, my bank takes 3-5 business days.  Nice fade

Great updates today, much funnier!!

Struggled today, got smashed up for 5 hours by the eventual champion, who was just golden today.

The action was so ridiculously slow it was hard work.

A 4th to go with the 2nd in Coventry last year so hopefully a trophy has to come sooner rather than later and I thought I had a great spot today but the cards never came and could do nothing with the cards I was dealt!!!

Tournament was a joy to play as usual and see you in Luton.

I'll be in touch to sort something out for a future live update probably Luton maybe a plan.

Cheers all

Well Played to everyone on the final table, and congratulations to Alan Mansbridge for winning what many seasoned pro's would love to have on their mantlepiece, a GUKPT trophy.

Whereas I really wanted simon to win from 3way (and my friends Nick and Ben - one of whom i had a decent financial interest in would have like to see them do well as well) I thought simon prolly played the best poker of the field and is well deserving of a title imo.

But I have a huge amount of respect for the "nonprofessional" recreational player, who ponies up the £1,000 or binks a satellite and sits down with players like Ben and Simon and takes them on, very few other activities would see an amateur take on very talented professionals and this is one of the things that makes poker such a great sport IMO

Fair to say he prolly hit a few cards along the way but he handled himself very well from what I saw, and as disappointed as I am that Simon couldn't take the title, I am very pleased for him, and we should all be congratulating him as it's a fantastic achievement, one of which I am jealous off.

Excellent post.
+1 to the congrats for the winner..... awesome achievement and from Tighty's post seems like a really genuine guy.

Felt a bit sick for Simon, but at the end of the day reputation and bankroll both well bolstered, so all's good.
WP to Nick and Scotty too.

Absolutely fantastic updates guys, it's an amazing effort over the three long days.

To be honest, my general observation sometimes on Blonde is that it's easy to belittle someone who people feel hasn't played "techincally" well. Whilst noone would mean it in a negative way at all, it would be understandable for the player in question to feel a bit offended. It’s sometimes difficult to see the thin line between people simply observing that they thought some of  the plays were bad, and people acting with disdain towards the actual person. In short, it's easy to see why he might take it personally.

To be honest, I felt this far more strongly in the DTD update where the guy was criticised for folding AK face up. However, I think we all on Blonde would hope that anyone at the final table might read the comments, and should probably act assuming that they will.

I don't mean it at all as a criticism of Blonde, as I'm absolutely sure this would be the case on any forum, and definitely way more so on something like two plus two. In fact, I’m sure it would happen on a forum built around any shared interest at all, not just poker. I just think this is such a positive and friendly forum, that we can extend it to everyone.

I think what makes poker so much fun is that people will come to it from all different angles, and with different levels of experience. Many many congrats to him, it's a great achievement. He must have got lucky to win the torunament, but only because anyone who wins a tournament does, but he must also have played with a fair amount of skill along the way.

Poker is made by its stories. To be honest, I think us young 'uns (I'll knock off a few years and include myself!) should realise that we actually have a very boring story. We have not worked many hours in a proper job in our lives; we have got lucky along the way; we have put in hundreds of hours of playing  online, so much that it would be tough for us not to be at least decent at the game; we probably don't realise how lucky we are, and the amounts of money involved don’t make much of an interesting difference in our lives.

This guy will have played a tiny fraction of the bank of hands that we’ve played; he’s driven the cab he works in during the week to Walsall, had the balls to put down a grand of his money, held his nerve, played well, albeit unconventionally sometimes, and scooped the lot. That’s a great story, hats off to him.

Not all that humble if he bought in direct for 1K. But yes, congrats :) Ofc Blonde members and friends/contemporaries of members will always be railed and supported more than relative unknowns. I'm sure he got much more support than Ben did on the London Cabbies Chat Board, swings and roundabouts.

Ah Stu, you should have been a politician.

I just want to add my agreement when you all note the sheer hours put in here by Tighty and Supernova - I was sub-ing for Peter Leeper and haven't covered a GUKPT in ages - now that there's a double flight groundhog Day 1 it's pretty intense. 

Also DMorgan is a gent, probably the only player who's said they're going to help all day, and actually did. 

PS He's still in the £100 Bounty Tournament at time of posting, with 5 left.  Let's just say there's reason to be hopeful.

Congrats all finalists I spoke to today, a pleasure meeting you all.

+1

Big +1

I was told that he was actually really upset about it and I feel pretty bad. I probably come across as one of the worst in this thread but anyone that knows me understands that I'd never actually wish any ill will on the guy and it was all mainly just poking fun

With Ben as a Firm player and knowing Simon and Nick for a while I obv really wanted one of them to win it and the other guys were kinda caught in the firing line

Congrats to him and he definitely gets the last laugh sitting on his mountain of money!!

Taxi driver wins DTD £300 after sattying in and driving down in his cab. Well if mansbridge can....

cue the staking post

+10000000000000

Thank you Stuart you saved me a lot of time and effort by posting this and you have been a shade more diplomatic than I would have been.

It appalls and saddens me sometimes when I read a bad critique of a persons play by another person when that person is clearly doing it to try and make himself look good.  The criticiser is also missing a ton of information, we dont know what he has locked in from 3 days of playing these same guys etc etc he just wades in and slags him because he makes a play he doesn't like but wtf has it to do with them he's paid his money he can play however he likes.   I also get sick of this theory that if you have grey hair and dont wear a hoody you cannot play poker (say all the young guns booing from the rail after busting early day 1 when getting looked up 6 bet shoving with J3).  Maybe with the poker coaching these sites should add humility and manners on to the syllabus.  

Having played with the winner and chatted with him at breaks etc I found him to be a fairly decent player, very analytical, quite composed but most of all a very nice guy and when I saw he made the final I obvioulsy put a monkey on him to win with Trigg.  He did something we all failed at and won a GUK title so hats off to him and I hope he sticks it in the doubters eye by winning another title soon.

wp to the winner ul simon and nick

it makes me laugh when some of the people that make these comments have never played a £1k comp in there life,this guy works hard(do you realise how many hours london cabbies put in?)put his own money in and deserves to win as much as the next guy.

nice post mr.rutter

Press release

London cabbie Andy Mansbridge has beaten a field of 172 players to take the title at GUKPT Walsall, along with top prize of £50,000!

Having been the lowest stack in the tournament the night before, he staged the most dramatic comeback ever seen on the tour to climb from the very bottom of the chip counts to end up as the last man standing.

“I hadn’t booked a hotel – I wasn’t expecting to make it,” admitted the soft-spoken poker enthusiast, as he was waiting to collect his winnings.  Happy to be improving and taking on the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour in the future, he posed for photos in his cab before driving it back to London where he plans to play the very next day.  He beat Martin Holmes heads up after nearly six hours on the final table, which also featured Nick Hicks, Simon Deadman and Ryan Spittles.




FULL REPORT: Mansbridge the Cabbie Comeback King Beats 127-Strong Field (and Two Suited Jokers)

The £1,000 GUKPT Walsall Main Event started twice on Friday 29th April.  The first flight took their seats to the incongruous strains of the Royal Wedding music. There were 97 runners in all playing at midday, including Dave Colclough, Mike Hill, Paul Jackson, Sunny Chattha, Allan Mclean and GUKPT sponsored pro Stuart Rutter.  Rutter’s friend Ben Jenkins was also playing Day 1a, and they were noticeably more sharply dressed than normal.  It turns out that side action is underway on the circuit revolving around which of the two will make the top three in a £100+ buy-in tournament first (and only when one has done it can they retire the suits and ties).  While Rutter narrowly failed to cash, Jenkins made it all the way to the final table, winning £6,450 for his 7th place finish, and nearly winning his bet too.

The second flight starting at 6pm on the same day attracted 75 players, including many previous GUKPT champions.  Among them were Jerome Bradpiece, Mike Ellis and Praz Bansi who all made deep runs into Day 2.  The latter especially was responsible for some of the most spectacular pots (and outdraws) and came close to making back-to-back final tables, finishing 15th winning £2,150.

Eight levels were played by each starting group, and when the dust had settled a total of 65 players remained.  The biggest stacks emerging from the two flights belonged to Daniel Stanway and Steven Warburton, both just shy of 100,000.

Day 2 combined the field and quickly dispersed it – the eliminations came thick and fast until the three-table stage; with the prize money in sight play slowed for a level or so.  The leaders at the end of the first day did not make the final table - however four of the eventual finalists started the day in the top ten and never looked back.

Once he’d reached the giddy heights of the chip lead, Simon Deadman proved difficult to knock back down.  He was responsible for many an elimination late on Day 2, wielding his stack like a sledgehammer, taking on short stacks without fear of a real dent.  Picking up a good number of hands didn’t hurt – in his own words, “I’m just a card rack.”

Card rack or not, the accomplished Deadman was firmly in control after the bubble burst (Sen Man Ung finishing in unpaid 18th spot) and ended up leading the final table when Day 3 started with a 666,900 stack.   Just prior to this, Greg Hunt had busted out in 19th place, disappointed to have just missed out on a cash, but having won the GUKPT Online Shoal Survivor contest by being the last online qualifier standing in the tournament.  He won a £1,500 GUKPT tournament prize package to spend playing at other stops on the Tour.

The final table began at a sprint, with Nick Hicks enjoying the first of what were to be multiple double-ups while Craig Burgess ran nines into Martin Holmes’ queens preflop to finish 9th.  Thereafter, however, it ran like London buses: quickly, efficiently and with regular progression.  Just kidding – three whole levels passed before Adrian Eley, Ben Jenkins and Ryan Spittles exited in quick succession.  Eley and Jenkins were shorter stacks, losing preflop confrontations (Jenkins actually to Spittles), but Spittles himself ran one of the boldest bluffs of the final table – called by an equally fearless Alan Mansbridge.

Mansbridge called all three streets with Kc-8c (top pair on the flop) and although the turn brought an ace and the river paired threes, he found the call for over 200,000 when Spittles gave it his last shot all-in with 9c-7c – no pair, nine-high.  This postflop tenacity characterised Mansbridge’s rise from the short stack at the start of the day to the chip lead five-handed.

Fighting through several all-ins and hairy moments as the aggressive short-stack, Nick Hicks finally exited in 5th place (£10,320) when he lost a race with AQ vs. the JJ of Martin Holmes.  Danny Toffel, who’d once built ramparts of chips, finally exited, forced to move all in by his shortness of stack.  He won £13,330 for his efforts and 4th place finish.

Three handed, the final table reverted to doubling the all in short stack each time he was at risk.  While Alan Mansbridge sat on his million chips, Simon Deadman and Martin Holmes passed a half-million chunk of chips back and forth no fewer than three times.  In each instance Deadman had the best hand when the money went in preflop (two dominating aces and on 88 vs. A3) but only won when he was all in.

In his final hand, Deadman threebet all in over the top of Alan Mansbridge who took a long, hard thought time to make the call with A9.  Deadman’s KQ suited failed to get there after an intriguing 7-J-T flop, and he finished 3rd, taking home £21,930.

Heads up, Mansbridge had the chip advantage, and one hand turned it into an insurmountable one for his opponent Martin Holmes.  The bare minimum of chips had gone in until the turn of a Kh-Th-Jd-Kc board, when Holmes’ check-raise prompted a threebet, shove and call, Holmes’ Ks-4d failing to improve beyond the flopped straight (Qs-9d) of Mansbridge.

Now with a 4:1 lead, Mansbridge picked off Holmes with K-7 vs. A-J, spiking a seven which ended the tournament, awarding the £34,830 runner-up prize to Holmes and £50,000 to the London cabbie who came back the day before without bothering to extend his hotel booking, so low was his stack.

Making the final, he still felt no pressure. “I wasn’t nervous – I hadn’t got enough chips to be nervous!”  By the time he’d gone from ten big blind short stack to second place, momentum carried him calmly onwards to the win.

Expect to see a newly-confident Alan  Mansbridge gracing the London clubs in which he cut his teeth, and perhaps at the next GUKPT event – the Brighton and Dundee Summer Series running from the 11th-15th of May.

just read this and think there is a lot of hypocrits on here dan. i post a tongue in cheek " get the updates right" to a guy i know and who i know 100% know he knew i was joking. i thought it was banter and hoped you did just like the facebook stuff. people will have to get used to the  "technically best guy " not winning because this is poker and dreams get shattered. i would have loved nick to win because he deserves it  or simon because he is playing awesome these last few months but it was not to be. i felt bad for the guy  who has had the best result of his life and all this site did was take the piss out of his style of play to a point were his mates were texting him whislt he was playing to inform him. he felt badly enough about it to bring it up with tighty afterwards and for him to actually take down the event with all that shit going on just shows how good a result it was for him. so pleased i aint in the clique and never want to be.

no offence at all but I get a bit tilted by this side of the argument cos I think its irrelevant persoanlly

My point is he works hard decides he wants to put that hard earned money in a comp and has as much right ad anyone else to win it regardless of how he plays.don't think he deserved some of the comments esp from people that don't put their money where there mouth is lol.

No offence taken just my opinion :-)

agree 100% with this. its the amount of money that he's put up that is irrelevant imo

a very civilized little debate we had here - you see blonde it can be like this!

:@)

Whilst I agree with Stu's post, I have re-read the thread and I dont think "in forum terms" its that bad, this isnt the BBC

I obv looked my own comments, 1 of which was particularly negative against  the guy, but then another which was balanced too. I also tried to see it from this guys point of view to see how I would feel, and I have to admit it would probably have got to me a little.

But, this is an update thread for a community, and there is always going to be people taking sides for people within or close to that community, and cheer along their friends, of which at this time, the GUKPT Wasall champion isnt (but hopefully will be). That is a simple fact of life. I hate John Terry, cant stand the guy when he pulls on that Chelsea shirt, and I often sing songs against him and his team, but you will never see me boo him in an England shirt! Thats the way life is at times. OK this is poker, not football, and there is no need for the "football comparison", or is there.....................

The updater is there to do a job, to set the scene, build up a picture with his words for us the followers to join in. There is inevitably going to be a "hero" and a "villain", and even when the hero 6 bet jams J3o into the villains AA, and gets there, he will never be called a donkey, it will always be "brave", and the bravado about "calling all in with 1 pair" will also go on against the "villain".

So is Tighty to blame for setting a platform for us to rail with interest? I mean, you could argue he creates the villains and hero's, to a degree, maybe they self select but then get reported that way. The answer of course id ABSOLUTELY NOT! This is what makes it for entertainment. We need the glossy sheen to the HH's otherwise we might as well all just follow our buddies chip counts on twitter.

I agree with Stu, but I also think people need to take a slightly wider view about the updates, how they are set up, how people are likely to react to their Hero's getting beat, and also the virtual world which it sits upon! When the railer said "DIAGF" to the villain that knocked out his mate, I dont think he jumped straight in his car to drive to the nearest chipshop wholesalers! OK, so the actual literal translation of those words is pretty horrific taken out of context, but so are many things in life, so put those words back into context, understand what that means to a 22 year old and move on.

Finally, if I was our champ today, reflecting on this, Id be thinking who should I be more annoyed with, a forum full of people I dont know nor care about anti-railing me and my game, or my mates, distracting me with negativity when I am playing the biggest game of my life for a years salary? And if I was in that spot, I know who id be more frustrated with, and I would have turned off my phone and got on with winning.

And I am also sure that on reflection, as he wakes up this morning to his fry up and mug of tea (or coffee and croissant - who knows his preference), as he sits there rubbing his money on his titties, calling his drug dealer and perusing the local hookers on the internet, he wont give a f+@k what blonde poker thinks, but will be planning how big his celebration will be (the last sentence is only for people under 25!)

Hopefully, our champ will open a blonde account, like many have before, and become a part of this community, but you know what, if he doesnt, im not sure it'll ruin his day, and if he does, we as a community will welcome him too!

happy to help out here alan if needs be.

pretty sure it says hooker..not rent boy ;)
the whole point is this is now the 2nd time in a couple of months that i know of (shaun king  was the last one) where people have been upset by the members of this forum having a go at them. it always happens deep in the tourney and no matter if they are the hero or villan you have either played well or run well to get there. its a massive achievement and someones does not deserve to have there big day ruined by peolpe who dont even now him giving him abuse. this is even more disrespectfull than the idiots from this forum going on the mums net site and abusing young mums.

Wwho cares what ppl think when u win fiddy large???


Gratz btw


Makes me wonder if Cody didn't win the 10-4 hand will ppl berate his play then?

this is a different situation completely to the shaun king thread for two reasons...

1) the shaun thread was about 1 specific hand which even he admitted he played badly, and the thread was started by him, thus inviting scrutiny about the hand /his play on his own accord - this guy has prolly hardly visited blonde less than 10times in his life, so If I were him id feel pretty within my rights to ask, why is a forum full of people who dont know me, and I dont really know anything about giving me stick?? (as it turns out he just happened to be the "villain" of the pantomime)

2) shaun handled himself with about as much class as a drunk beetle, was berating/belittling people himself showed no humility and was just generally a bit of a cock imo. whereas from what i saw in walsall and the impression conveyed by the updates Alan Mansbridge handled himself with perfect class and was a gentleman. I dont care about poker ability i'd like to see the latter person win at anything in life

lol he has had PLENTY of stick for that hand. PLENTY, even he knows it was a hella spew

but luckily 5 of a row beat a one pair kings :)

luckily for him what happened after was an epic final table performance, and because he handles himself so well (and played sick) people are focusing on that rather than one "marginal" hand he played previous to it.

Had jake come on the forums and been saying "well I was miles better than this guy and outpayed this guy with this hand, and stfu you never even played a 5k" he would have come into a lot more stick imo.

Shaun King could have just posted in that thread "yeah AK hand was bad I froze up a bit cos of the money/lost my head and made a bad shout." and no ridiculous 70page thread would have followed

Jase this is quite ironic when you're one of the biggest trolls on updates/threads etc. Those who know you know you're joking but a casual passer by like Mr Mansbridge would not.

Nice to see at least ONE taxi driver can play poker. Well played Sir.

Looks like rent on the moral high ground is going through the roof

As updaters/reporters on the event our job is to tell the story, convey the feeling in the room and remember that its live

The content in this thread pretty accurately conveys the feeling in the room at the time imo, else I wouldn't have posted it

When you are a Simon Deadman for example or one of his supporters when this final table transpires I guarantee you that nobody on this forum is thinking at that moment "I'm happy that the guy won it/knocked me out on the biggest final table of my career because its a great story". Not a single one of you. A little later once the dust has settled that tends to be the feeling that surfaces. C'est la vie, you accept that you were unlucky and you wish the guy good luck because showing a bit of humility costs nothing.

I think that people would do well to remember that these updates are done by one guy and an assortment of volunteers. We don't have time or the man power to do all of the background checks on people. He came into the final as the short stack by a fair way so he didn't get much coverage and thats how it'll always be. As far as we knew he was just a middle of the road guy that probably won a satellite to get there and had the run of his life to win and deny our friends their shot at winning a UK major. Thats the way it was reported because in most cases that'll be what happened.

We only got a chance to talk to him afterwards and it turns out that against the odds he's an extraordinarily humble guy with a very unusual story which naturally endeers people to him and then the reporters get the flack. As Guy posted, there are heroes and there are villains. It just so happened that for Alan Mansbridge he landed on a table full of heroes that had a lot of support on blonde (Deadman, Hicks, Jenkins, Toffel, Spittles) so he was always destined to be the villain. As Guy also pointed out, this is not the BBC. We're not hired by Grosvenor to be impartial. There is no attempt to sugar coat the fact that the updates will be skewed in favour of the players that the most vocal/active Blonde members are supporting. This is not a £10FO at your local, this is a UK major and you have to accept that when you enter these tournaments and make deep runs there will be media scrutiny.

I'm sure Alan Mansbridge is old enough and wise enough (in before omg why are you bashing the old guys) to see once Richard explained to him that the comments that might cause offence are not born out of any hatred for him, maybe just a little over-enthusiastic support for the other players. If he's a london cabbie then he cetainly doesn't need wrapping up in cotton wool (or £50 notes as would be the case now).

george yo know me as well. i still aint sure what trolling actually means  but assume it means taking the piss in a way that aint funny to others.  if thats it then i  am happy to be the troll but  this is a forum for everybody just not a select few. am pretty sure i'm heading for a ban but imo they only ever ban intresting people like pleno n colchester kev. i was on a self exclusion yesterday but for sure will have been  showing support for the under dog even tho  the blondes involved were better players and friends of the community. as for shaun king starting the mud slinging and acting unclassy then thats a fair point so will stand corrected.
you know when people on here start saying "wait a minute. the nits are winning everything" you know i'm  gonna jump ship and start fighting for titaniumbeans cause. sorry for thinking its all a big joke but this site keeps me off facebook. ;)
i hope guys like Mr. Mansbridge keep taking down tourneys so i can keep poking it in peoples  eye. simons day will come again and again and again because he plays so well. anyone who said ul the big one is just round the corner or a title will be yours soon needs to look at simons hendonmob. dtd deepstack was an awesome performance by him but he has been doing it month in month out for some time. wish i knew what the opposite of varience was because all i can think to use for it at the moment is "plays well"

Jason, you've been less than complimentary in the past about people running good against you at crucial points in big tournaments, especially the irish open sole survivor

You've not done anything to upset me, always been a gent when I've met you at live events just a bit of a keyboard warrior.

But it really doesn't suit you to be pretending to fight the good fight all the time because if we're honest if all of these "great stories" were repeated over and over again all of us that play professionally would be pretty broke pretty quick

dan i've never once slagged rob sherwood off for the QQ v AQ hand as i get on with rob and am privey to the way paddy power messed him about over the deal. not really sure i've ever posted about beats either coz my attitude is always if i was a head when the dough goes in i cant have done much wrong. if you can post a couple of instances were i've slagged people off i will gladly pay for tightys next blog again. 1 condition is you cant use the miss nutt example coz she never beat me in a hand and i only had a pop coz she left the table using the c and f word when some guy got lucky. she is now a close friend and often tells me she loves my posts on blonde. and it had nothing to do with me putting her in the following deepstack to say sorry.
the whole point dan is you me and the likes of simon will keep winning/cashing as that is what we do. but it must surely be good for poker that the average guy wins sometimes (look at the moneymaker effect) and encourages others to take a shot. the worst thing in the world would be for everyone to want to learn to play perfect poker so they dont get slagged on this site.
well done last night and luke too. ;)

this

awww. thanks my best mate lol ;)

You pays your money, you takes your chance.
Big congratulations to Alan Mansbridge.
Reigning GUKPT Champion.

All I'm saying is Jase you can't now turnaround and say "not fair everyone's having a go at this guy" when you're the first to make a comment/take the piss in jest

I completely agree that for the longevity of the game we could probably do with more Alan Mansbridges winning majors but depending on who is saying it, this can mean completely different things

When inexperienced/recreational players say that its 'good for the game' they mean that it creates good stories and sees his family well and shines a positive light on the game in the eyes of those outside poker.

When professional players say that its 'good for the game' that Alan wins and not Simon the statment tends to be out of self interest because the game becomes ever so slightly more lucrative because

(a) More inexperienced players are likekly to play these tournaments because they think they have a shot
(b) The pros are more likely to see at least some of that £50k again if Alan wins than if Simon does (unless some wedding cake gets donated to Blonde of course ;))

I dunno, maybe you and lildave are different creatures but I can safely say that for the vast majority of pros they are more happy to see Alan win for reasons of self interest than because its a feel-good story and I don't deny that I'm one of them.

yes for sure george. if you give it you gotta be able to take it. but i thought we should have been impartial as bloggers ( members can say what they like) and the comments seemed to offend alan (who i dont know from adam) and i am sure that was not intended

If Gukpt Walsall is a "major", how many majors are in poker? 20+ in UK? 50+ in europe? 100+ in world? Its just another bog standard ( edited from mickey mouse cos perhaps unfair) event and gl to the winner, at the end of the day in a months time no-one will even remember who won. Yes he is probably terrible but luckily terrible players win tournaments all the time otherwise we wouldnt have a livelyhood! But he is probably a nicer bloke than us poor poker players that are bitter hateful individuals after years of it

Yes I'd agree with that completely Dan.

dan i see simon regular and know he is a top man in the same mould as george2loose nick hicks etc (there will only ever be one julian tho) so want him to  win the thing. no matter if him ben nick or bin laden won i dont think they should be left with a sour taste due to this blog.

I've not seen you do it on blonde and tbh I can't remember specific incidents well enough to post them here but the point that I'm trying to illustrate is that everyone slags off other players. Minus the 2-3% of the field that are playing purely for fun and are well aware they have very little shot at going deep in the tournament, everyone thinks that they are better than average against the field and that they have a good shot to make some money in live tournaments otherwise they wouldn't play.

Even when you're just on a tournament break and you tell people about hands (not you specifically i'm talking poker players in general) its perfectly natural to accuse people of making bad plays and  it doesn't make me or anyone else a bad person for doing it, but saying that you never do is just looking at yourself through rose tinted glasses imo


Cheers :)

I eagerly await the addition on my hendon mob page so you'll acknowledge my existence next time I see you :P

By 'major' I just mean that its big enough to get media attention and have peoples play scrutinised on public forums



I'd like to compliment you on illustrating your own point pretty well ;)

lol i do admit to saying 90% of the field are idiots which obv is tongue in cheek (a bit). i always say hi when i see you but if i've ever blanked you i'm sorry. i would much rather talk about hockey and goal tending than hand histories tho

lol too soon for bin laden references? I guess not

Its obviously a shame that his day was tainted a bit by this thread but personally I'm a believer that freedom of speech is far greater than censorship for the sake of one party that might be upset. These are the blond poker updates whose target audience is blonde forum members, otherwise they wouldn't be done!

I think its also worth remembering that if Alan comes fifth, nobody cares about this thread and the potential upset because nobody interviews him and nobody finds out what a nice guy he is and how he was misrepresented in this thread. That is purely a symptom of man power and resources. Richard does an excellent job of providing these updates completely free of charge to the viewing public.

If you want interviews with all of the players, background stories etc so that nobody is misrepresented in these updates ever again then pull out your cheque books folks

Not sure if its been said or not, but all the poker pro's are criticised and it makes them better for it, (if they adapt or take note of it) he himself said he is trying to improve, and what better way than being told by people much better than him he is playing bad? agreed nobody likes to be told their an idiot, and especially without the ability to defend themselves like im assuming he has, but if he wants to improve or wants to take poker more seriously, he is going to have to deal with a lot of people telling him he is an idiot when he has outdrawn them or made a hero call with third pair cos he had a feeling. im not saying that he should be criticised, and its probably wrong in doing so, but if he wants to enter the poker world, he needs thicker skin! i hope this comes out the way im thinking it as i dont want to offend anyone!

See now I'm getting to understand what Jason Herbert is all about. Now I know that you take everything anyone says 100% literally we can communicate so much better!

My reference wasn't because you've blanked me before, just an observation that you put a lot of weight on hendon mob results when deciding how good someone is :P



Its a date

Dmorgan crushing itt

^^^^^^
see like this coz its funny. you know i love both you guys and just one of those old gits. god for sake we start to agree on anything coz thats the day my world implodes

rofl

I think thats probably the perfect note to end on so gg well played by all

goodnight god bless

Hi Daniel...just wanted to say following on from my comment yesterday that I wasnt having a go at you ,I just though the guy desreved a bit more credit for his 3rd bullet river jam....However !  After reading your very well balanced thread and updates Im not too proud to concede that I didnt factor in "The other guys mindest into my thought process, which obviously  you did hence your post...so a bit of a veiled apology from me

Once again... great updates/posts and no hard feelings

good luck on the green felt


Fraser

I agree it's only natural for a blonde thread paid for by blonde members to funk for blonde players. Being bias is normal in such a situation. But we need to appreciate no one player "deserves" it more than any other. A lot of people say that a player deserves to win and so when the "villain" gets lucky or whatever there seems to be some injustice taking place. The randomness of a tournament and the variance in poker don't recognise who deserves to win most because nobody deserves to win most. If you pay your 1k and sit down to play you deserve it as much as the next guy. So rankles me when some random is demonised for the crime of hitting flops. On this occasion some old cabbie has driven up to the event and paid his dollar to sit down and play some cards on his day off. He hot-stepped through the whole field and used his puncher's chance to take it down against much better players. I think he deserves it.

Thought the updates were of a good standard as usual.

hehe with so many break ups and make ups on the last few pages I think all this needs now is a link to the Blondenders thread and we're done

But yeah no hard feelings obv, stimulating discussion just helps everyone improve anyway so its a good thing!

Are you still playing all the stuff in Sheffield fraser? Havent played at the G for ages, I don't even know what they run regularly is seems to change so often

ye. I agree

+1

Very well done to Alan and all the other people who ran deep in this tournie.  If you're reading this Alan, good call and hope you sign upto Blonde and become an active member of the community!  Its a great place to be.

Yet again, thanks to all the updaters.  Also to Jen Mason, Rich Prew and Sharon who all cheered me up for a bit after my exit hand!

I think Jason is actually a really funny guy, I thought he was a twat with what he said about me initially, but I understand when I get beat in a comp, I do not think about who is around, and if you didn't know me, you would think I was an absolosolute evil person....However, I am not, I know this, my friends this, Jason is not a bad person he knows this, his friends know this, he is 100% drivenby the hendonmob stats tho, and when your feeling a bit down, you can always rely on his banter to cheer you up, honestly think he is a decent guy.

Wd to The winner, seems a real nice chap, I'm sure I have played with him b4 :-)

I have just read all the 3 different day update threads on here and would just like to say thanks to all the up daters.

I was contemplating in volunteering, if needed, for future ones but after seeing the aftermath of this one, might have to reconsider.

Shame really.

Once again, CHEERS ALL for the up dates.

why not?

Good to hear...As regards Sheffield theres a £50 re buy every Sunday(8k guarantee) at G and a £20 re buy (that I dont play as I have my children) that makes between 11- 15k every weds that are both good value...other than that...not much happening in The Steel City...not even Steel anyomore  :)..although on  friday the 13th/14th May G are having a £200 comp in conjunction with Newcastle..1st night at the toon second night back in Sheffield though their promotion/advertising is dreadful so nobody truly knows unless you ask or through word of mouth

Got to go now but catch you at DTD next Saturday

Peace x

 times move quick fraser. wednesday game now at naps due to mass walk out from G one wednesday when we turned up and they removed the gtd prize without telling anyone. naps now gets over 100 runners which aint bad for a school night. the £200 is a 2 day affair were you play day 1 in sheff (or newcastle if you are from there) and go to newcastle to play day 2. had one a few month back and got 130 runners. 30 newcastle 100 sheff but the final  day was in sheff so probably represented the split in numbers. not sure it will get any where near 100 from sheff this time due to locals present feeling towards  the place and the fact day 2 is in newcastle plus a clash with another tourney. jess in the G cardroom does a good job but G management stifle her creativity at times

lol ty dreenie. are you up to dtd this wekend for the deepstack. if so and i can get a quickie divorce do you fancy sharing a room. you've never played with me before but lets keep somethings private on here

Why not indeed, these event's are also about teamwork IMO. The updater's important roles are to get the info on the hands, the pictures, the blind levels, the chip counts etc onto the forum, to do this this some people like for example me at this event just run around to get as much of this as they can and don't have time to sit down and post much anyway especially on day 1 which is quite frantic when the day1b players begin and day 1a are still playing.

Hand analysis/discussion can be done by those reading the threads, the above can't so please reconsider, likewise anyone else who is thinking of volunteering, all help would be welcome I'm sure to make Tighty's job easier, even down to grabbing the rest of the team the occasional tea, coffee, water, headache tablets etc and of course the news that there is some of the buffet left if anyone wants seconds.  ;)

Every little helps, so please reconsider!

Havnt posted on here for a while but now an then you will get someone posting something  worthy of a comment an in this case stu you are a legend....

the update threads should be locked after the result.  Every thread has a few pages of the same dross, about how bad the winner was yawwwwwwwwwwwn

pure jealousy trigg. i have to deal with it all the time

and the biggest winner was you..£2k for shortening bens odds coz the steamy stuff was trickling down you leg when all along you knew the score. took two minutes to post that. peolpe feel grimmed. ;)

i wish it was £2k i made, didnt pay out a bean though this time

sorry mate. assumption is the brother of all fuck ups. saw you would donate 10% to blonde then saw £260 donation so assumed? not one for getting things right very often

Surely if you want to see something different on the updates then the best way to do that is to have a go yourself!

Tighty give everyone licence to present the updates pretty much however you want, I just included some hand analysis cos I thought they were interesting hands

If you look through some of the other update threads there are loads of different styles of doing the updates

I'd definitely reccommend giving it a go anyway, it was good fun

 ;indestructable; ;indestructable;    Lol

Meh, I think it's natural to think the person/people who play the best deserve to win.

People who play well increase their equity slightly in a tournament. But the equity figure doesn't have any compassion towards the most deserving players in the field. It is what it is. Anybody who wins a tournament will win flips etc so I don't think any 53%-47% coup has a rightful and just winner. You can certainly have a personal opinion about who you would like to win but the nature of the game is clinical and mathematical not romantic. At the weekend I had a big bet on a horse. It lead all the way round. It really deserved to win. It didn't.

Please don't get me wrong here folks. I have said on this thread and elsewhere how well and hard the up daters work and I was actually at Walsall at the w-end to witness this! (railing, not playing). My point was that it was a shame to see ANY critiscm of their work, whether it was 'tongue in cheek' or not. Then the aftermath on this thread regarding the winner's merits were IMO uncalled for on THIS thread. Perhaps another debate thread could of been started for this. Perhaps I am not tuned into how this forum operates yet. Anyway, I will consider helping out at future events if need be......even if it is just the drinks carrier! lol.

Cheers,

Alan 'maxxy'

+1

It's not the most romantic way of looking at it, but actually there will never have been a tournament that anyone has ever deserved to win.

Simon Deadman may well have played the best poker of anyone over the weekend- he's obviously a incredibly talented player, and really impressed me in the short space of time I played with him before I donated my chips to him.

However, he did not get less than he deserved, but far more. Why? Because however well he played, no one could play so well in a poker tournament to deserve a 2600% ROI.

Whenever people have an opinion as to whether the person lifting the trophy deserves it or not, it really makes no sense. If Phil Ivey had flown into Birmingham airport for the weekend, made the short journey up the M6, played at the top of his game, and ultimately lifted the trophy, even he would not have deserved it.

A far more boring way of looking at it I know, but a true story.

Cliffs:


Stu Rutter >>>>>> Life :D