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Final chip counts at the end of day 1:

Mark Wates   55   3   191600
Nicholas Humphris   57   3   157300
Phil Laws   57   4   143700
Peter Evans   52   4   142200
Christopher Murtagh   57   7   140700
James Glossop   46   10   136000
Steve Jelinek   66   9   135400
Tommy Bingham   54   1   132400
Tom Hall   55   2   129000
Billy Ngo   53   2   122700
Rodrigo Hernandez   57   2   110200
Stuart Hopkin   46   1   106000
Ritesh Chauhan   67   6   103500
James Ellison   52   10   98500
Chris Filus   66   7   92600
David Shaw   66   6   85800
Joseph Awome   55   6   85600
Nicholas Counsell   54   2   82400
James Morris   48   5   81000
Lloyd Watts   58   6   78100
Romans Mihailovs   48   7   76500
Stephen John   47   8   74700
Nick Singh   67   4   74600
David Hide   56   6   72000
Dennis Cavanagh   46   2   69000
Marino Mura   56   10   67500
Daniel Lowton   56   8   67200
Joe Hewer   48   10   66600
Kev Smith   52   8   66200
Gary Morris   52   9   66100
Brett Leek   47   1   66100
Luke Tennant   67   2   65700
Alli Mallu   55   10   65600
Dean Watson   67   10   63900
Greg Hill   55   4   59800
Dipesh Mistry   57   9   58800
Alan Linford   47   6   58100
Victor Crespin   66   4   57900
Paul Ho   57   5   55800
Mohammed Ashfaq   56   5   55300
Zhi Yang   47   9   55200
Vaidas Siriunas   54   6   54900
Adrian Mcgreevy   56   2   54200
David Nisbet   55   1   53400
David Griffiths   54   10   52900
Ian Turner   53   8   52600
Hasmukh Khodiyara   46   6   52400
Gary North   58   7   52300
Gerald Morris   57   6   51400
Lee Williamson   57   1   51300
Marios Arkadiou   54   4   50800
Ky Hutchinson   47   10   48700
Richard Simmonds   53   7   48200
Ganesh Jayaraman   47   5   47800
Majid Damavandi   47   2   47100
Darren Scanlon   56   7   44200
Lynne Etches   46   9   43800
Manjeet Sandhu   47   7   43800
Michelle Bennett   53   6   43600
Ray Ryder   66   5   42600
Hugh Black   52   3   41600
Mohamed Diab   54   7   41300
John Stritch   52   6   41000
Chris Gordon   66   2   40500
Tim Wright   67   8   40400
Stephen Walton   56   3   38300
Nick Smith   58   10   38200
Guy Collins   48   3   38000
David Burn   55   7   37300
John Cairns   58   8   37300
Glen Frost   46   5   36900
Kay Bushby   55   8   36600
Paula Cowling   56   9   36500
Steve Vladar   48   4   36400
Derek Rowland   58   3   35800
Keith Johnson   55   9   35400
Peter Winter   53   3   34700
Alan Armitage   66   1   34600
Matt Russell   57   10   34500
Tristan Chaplin   67   5   34300
Mark James   53   5   33400
Nigel Hill   58   5   33100
Michael Daryl Haney   67   1   32800
Jose Pena   67   3   32800
Roger Collinson   66   10   32500
Robert Cannon   54   5   32300
Karl Prescott   48   1   31700
Chris Tidmarsh   52   2   31600
Tom Hart   54   3   30400
Maria Demetriou   48   9   30200
Jose Garcia   53   4   27900
Nicholas Mc Evoy   67   7   27600
Thomas Piccirilli   48   2   25400
Mark Howard   58   1   23700
Simon Higgins   46   8   23300
Andrew Shaw   58   4   23100
Richard Horton   46   3   23100
Tony Salmon   47   3   22200
William Roach   48   8   21500
Saifon Lambe   52   1   21400
Richard Gilby   48   6   17500
Christopher Bruce   54   9   17400
Geoff Harris   53   1   17400
Kevin Lee   47   4   15200

Welcome back to DTD for the FINAL day of the massive Grand Prix 4.

By the end of the evening one person will have turned their original €60 buyin into €45,000+ and will walk away as the newest DTD Grand Prix champion!

Chip counts for day 2 are above. Who do you want to win? Be interactive!

Thank you to DTD for hosting us yesterday and today.

Good luck to all and we'll see you at 12pm for the start of today's play.

GL TID Mark!

gl too all blondes left in.. You got to settle for second tho... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
 ;karabiner;

Good luck to all blondes, esp chili, she's prettier than most of the others. Yep. shallow as ever.

Get it done Hopkin you uncle fkr!

Magnificent job you two yesterday. All the best for today


Good luck to all the blondes you have highlighted. Run well!

Good luck to popkins, tittyhead x2 evilpie & leethefish (please don't call me a mackem ;) )
Chilli and paulho.

   

GoGoBopkin!

Can we have a picture of Tim Wright before he gets knocked out if possible? Need one of his playing poker for a website, im worried he'll bust first hand!

We've just arrived thanks to traffic. I hate roadworks.

Dealers have just been instructed to shuffle up and deal!

Good luck to all blondes! Special run good vibes to all the slap heads who sail this ship and ofc Paul mcfkin HO.

Seating at the start of today's play:

11    1    Saifon Lambe
11    2    Chris Tidmarsh
11    3    Hugh Black
11    4    Peter Evans
11    5    Tony Salmon
11    6    John Stritch
11    7    Kev Smith
11    8    Gary Morris
11    9    James Ellison

12    1    Geoff Harris
12    2    Billy Ngo
12    3    Peter Winter
12    4    Jose Garcia
12    5    Mark James
12    6    Michelle Bennett
12    7    Richard Simmonds
12    8    Ian Turner

13    1    Tommy Bingham
13    2    Nicholas Counsell
13    3    Tom Hart
13    4    Marios Arkadiou
13    5    Robert Cannon
13    6    Vaidas Siriunas
13    7    Mohamed Diab
13    8    Christopher Bruce
13    9    David Griffiths

14    1    Mark Howard
14    2    Steve Vladar
14    3    Derek Rowland
14    4    Andrew Shaw
14    5    Nigel Hill
14    6    Lloyd Watts
14    7    Gary North
14    8    John Cairns
14    9    Nick Smith

21    1    David Nisbet
21    2    Tom Hall
21    3    Mark Wates
21    4    Greg Hill
21    5    Joseph Awome
21    6    David Burn
21    7    Kay Bushby
21    8    Keith Johnson
21    9    Alli Mallu

22    2    Adrian Mcgreevy
22    3    Stephen Walton
22    4    Mohammed Ashfaq
22    5    David Hide
22    6    Darren Scanlon
22    7    Daniel Lowton
22    8    Paula Cowling
22    9    Marino Mura

23    1    Michael Daryl Haney
23    2    Luke Tennant
23    3    Jose Pena
23    4    Nick Singh
23    5    Tristan Chaplin
23    6    Ritesh Chauhan
23    7    Nicholas Mc Evoy
23    8    Tim Wright
23    9    Dean Watson

31    1    Stuart Hopkin
31    2    Dennis Cavanagh
31    3    Richard Horton
31    5    Glen Frost
31    6    Hasmukh Khodiyara
31    7    Simon Higgins
31    8    Lynne Etches
31    9    James Glossop

32    1    Alan Armitage
32    2    Chris Gordon
32    4    Victor Crespin
32    5    Ray Ryder
32    6    David Shaw
32    7    Chris Filus
32    8    Steve Jelinek
32    9    Roger Collinson

33    1    Lee Williamson
33    2    Rodrigo Hernandez
33    3    Nicholas Humphris
33    4    Phil Laws
33    5    Paul Ho
33    6    Gerald Morris
33    7    Christopher Murtagh
33    8    Dipesh Mistry
33    9    Matt Russell

34    1    Brett Leek
34    2    Majid Damavandi
34    4    Kevin Lee
34    5    Ganesh Jayaraman
34    6    Alan Linford
34    7    Manjeet Sandhu
34    8    Stephen John
34    9    Zhi Yang
34    10    Ky Hutchinson

35    1    Karl Prescott
35    2    Thomas Piccirilli
35    3    Guy Collins
35    4    James Morris
35    5    Richard Gilby
35    6    Romans Mihailovs
35    7    William Roach
35    8    Maria Demetriou
35    9    Joe Hewer

Jose Garcia is the first exit of the day.

Here's that pic - as Tim doubles through Ritesh Chauhan with K-J vs 8-8, door card King.

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vBHEom-B9vg/TlDmjJNnB9I/AAAAAAAAAbQ/0FbsKocStEI/s640/DSC00060.JPG)

Forget that, he's the third.

102    Jose Garcia
103    Kevin Lee
104    Nicholas Mc Evoy

Hi Evry1, thx for updates joobes etc u doin well, Tighty they after ur job :0P lol. GL 2 every1 today but especially to Michelle Bennett, Ian Turner, Deano Waston ( v ul Mrs Watson) Billy Ngo, S teve Jelinek, Ali Mallu, Gary North, Lee the FISH!!! Peter Evans, Dave Nisbet, Dave Griffiths, Pete Winters,Lynne Etches, Matt Russell, CHILLI, Rich Horton, Chris Bruce & last but not least Tony Salmon. 1 of u please TID lol. Railing u all ;0)

Bad start to the day my shorts aren't smart enough sigh

sorry my typing shyte lol & forgot Nige Hill GL :0)

Players have barely had a chance to get their chips out their bags before shoving them in the middle!

todays exits so far:


96   John Stritch
97   Tom Hart
98   Tristan Chaplin
99   James Glossop
100   Saifon Lambe
101   Tony Salmon
102   Jose Garcia
103   Kevin Lee
104   Nicholas Mc Evoy

GL Michelle, Rich Gilby and Ky Huchinson.

What blinds are we at? and whats the level length..could not see it anywhere.

Great updates as always

Picture of Phil Laws please with his enormous stack!!!!

the current blinds are 1200/2400 ante 300

91 players remain

Average chip stack is 65,769

each level is 40mins

GL to everyone I know. You know who you are.

Esp to Kev Smith and Lee Williamson

Can we have a pic of Kev please? First time he's not spazzed out on day 2

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-sEFDnKvH99s/TlDrZzCwIjI/AAAAAAAAAbg/d5OwxXZImg0/s640/DSC00063.JPG)

He just 3-bet folded to the guy on the left of the photo and doesn't seem happy.

GL today to Kev Smith, Lee Williamson and Nigel Hill run well guys.

Kev you should get George to take the over with me on you making the final, he runs that good you would be guaranteed to make it!!

seat 21    9   is it Alli Mallu or Dave Maudlin please

Don't forget the fiver mate- u playing super 50?

Doubled, 8's v A9  70k  ;danafish;

The atmosphere today at 12.30pm:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Yu6kw_PKWh4/TlDrYIqXrRI/AAAAAAAAAbY/18nsui5zkRA/s640/DSC00061.JPG)

Mr Maudlin.

There are 9 Golden Chips left out of the 38 players that started.

Vbol to all blondes left, especially Hopkin, Ho, Maria, Leatherman, Lee and Evilpie.

Gl Adam and Joobs too, hope this is as impressive a spectacle as the last one you updated.

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Tim Wright was just knocked out by Michael Daryl Haney.

Derek "oldkingcole" Rowland has also just been eliminated, along with Greg "Junior" Hill.

James Morris just exited as well when he 4-bet shoved over a raise from Dennis Cavanagh and a 3-bet to 20k from Zhi Yang. Cavanagh iso-shoved and Yang agonisingly tank-folded 9c 9s. A good fold it was as Cavanagh had Ad Ac against Morris' Aspades Ks, which easily held on the sweatless 7s Td 4h 6c 3c board.

Richard Simmonds has also just gone.

Payouts:

1 - €46,369
2 - €26,252
3 - €16,408
4 - €11,414
5 - €9,274
6 - €6,420
7 - €4,994
8 - €3,567
9 - €2,854
10 - 13 - €1,997
14 - 18 - €1,427
19 - 36 - €525
37 - 54 - €500
55 - 72 - €475
73 - 90 - €450

Today's payputs, with a few of these registering for the Super50 at 2pm.

72    Phil Laws    €475
73    Peter Winter    €450
74    Mark Howard    €450
75    Daniel Lowton    €450
76    Lee Williamson    €450
77    Richard Simmonds    €450
78    Lynne Etches    €450
79    Andrew Shaw    €450
80    Greg Hill    €450
81    James Morris    €450
82    Tim Wright    €450
83    Marino Mura    €450
84    Paul Ho    €450
85    Mark James    €450
86    Kay Bushby    €450
87    Geoff Harris    €450
88    Derek Rowland    €450
89    Gerald Morris    €450
90    Joseph Awome    €450
91    Jose Pena    €425
92    Glen Frost    €425
93    Christopher Bruce    €425
94    Thomas Piccirilli    €425
95    Richard Horton    €425
96    John Stritch    €425
97    Tom Hart    €425
98    Tristan Chaplin    €425
99    James Glossop    €425
100    Saifon Lambe    €425
101    Tony Salmon    €425
102    Jose Garcia    €425
103    Kevin Lee    €425
104    Nicholas Mc Evoy    €425

Current seating:

11    1    Ganesh Jayaraman
11    2    Chris Tidmarsh
11    3    Hugh Black
11    4    Peter Evans
11    5    Majid Damavandi
11    6    Karl Prescott
11    7    Kev Smith
11    8    Gary Morris
11    9    James Ellison

12    1    Rodrigo Hernandez
12    2    Billy Ngo
12    3    Michael Daryl Haney
12    4    William Roach
12    5    Christopher Murtagh
12    6    Michelle Bennett
12    7    Stephen John
12    8    Ian Turner
12    9    Alan Linford

13    1    Tommy Bingham
13    2    Nicholas Counsell
13    3    Joe Hewer
13    4    Marios Arkadiou
13    5    Robert Cannon
13    6    Vaidas Siriunas
13    7    Mohamed Diab
13    8    Manjeet Sandhu
13    9    David Griffiths

14    1    Dean Watson
14    2    Steve Vladar
14    3    Guy Collins
14    4    Nick Singh
14    5    Nigel Hill
14    6    Lloyd Watts
14    7    Gary North
14    9    Nick Smith

21    1    David Nisbet
21    2    Tom Hall
21    3    Mark Wates
21    4    Dipesh Mistry
21    6    David Burn
21    7    Nicholas Humphris
21    8    Keith Johnson
21    9    Alli Mallu

22    1    Romans Mihailovs
22    2    Adrian Mcgreevy
22    3    Stephen Walton
22    4    Mohammed Ashfaq
22    5    David Hide
22    6    Darren Scanlon
22    7    Matt Russell
22    8    Paula Cowling
22    9    Luke Tennant

31    1    Stuart Hopkin
31    2    Dennis Cavanagh
31    3    Zhi Yang
31    4    Ritesh Chauhan
31    5    Ky Hutchinson
31    6    Hasmukh Khodiyara
31    7    Simon Higgins
31    8    Richard Gilby
31    9    Maria Demetriou

32    1    Alan Armitage
32    2    Chris Gordon
32    3    Brett Leek
32    4    Victor Crespin
32    5    Ray Ryder
32    6    David Shaw
32    7    Chris Filus
32    8    Steve Jelinek
32    9    Roger Collinson

Good Luck to Kev Smith. Update pls

Sadly guys, I will be leaving you all at 1.45pm (which I was going to do anyway) as I have to be in work tonight so am booked back on a train to Chester at 2.10pm. Joobs will be carrying you through until the final hand no matter what time it takes place.

60k and chatting to leethefish who bust when he called all in after his opponent shoved As Js UTG. Lee had Kc Kd but his opponent hit the flush.

Nice pot for David Burn on table 21

David and seat 2 Tom Hall get all the chips in the middle on a flop of 9d 4d 5c

David turns over Ts 9s

Tom has outs with 2c 3c

Turn 7h

River Jh

and Tom Hall leaves us in 69th

David who started the day on 38k now has around 170k

 

Majid Damavandi just doubled through James Ellison after shoving 17k total over Ellison's 8k flop bet on Ts Kh 6c. Ellison was priced in to call and did with Ad 7d, miles behind the Ahrt Th of Damavandi which held on the Qs turn and 6h river.

Steve Vladar has just been seen heading to the cash desk.

Exits in the last 20 minutes:

62    Steve Vladar
63    William Roach
64    Chris Gordon
65    Joe Hewer
66    Hasmukh Khodiyara
67    Alli Mallu David Maudlin
68    Ray Ryder
69    Tom Hall
70    Stephen John
71    John Cairns
72    Phil Laws

2 exits at the same time (on different tables)

Table 32 Ray Ryder shoves for 27k with J 10, Alan Armitage re shoves with AQ. no more callers.

Board comes out 5 K 6 4 4

and we lose Ray Ryder in 68th


meanwhile on table 31

Ky hutchinson and Hasmukh Khodiyara are all in pre flop

Ky has 8's

Hashmukh A J

Board 6 T K 3 8

And Hasmukh Khodiyara leaves in 66th

could you tell me who the chip leader is m8ey please?

Can you tell me who the chip leader is please?

just looked on DTD website my money hasn't even gone in yet .
hows peter evens doing please .

Evil pie is out in 58th

his 9's were no match for David Burns 10's

and the board of 5h Qd Ahrt 5c Kc was no help at all

 

Be tomorrow probably Barry

I've got mine paid in.

He's on about 50k

Sigh @ Matt - Ul buddy

you might get it today Barry

Big hand on Table 21


I turn up as the cards are being turned over

the flop is Qs 3c 2s

keith johnson in seat 8 has K 4

Nicholas Humphris in seat 7 has 3 2

the turn and river are 4d 6c

and Keith Johnson exits in 56th

he's not looking as hungover as I expected, I'll get a chip count after the break

BTW

we're on a 20min break

Motion seconded

Recent exits and payouts:

54   Luke Tennant   €500
55   Victor Crespin   €475
56   Keith Johnson   €475
57   Michelle Bennett   €475
58   Matt Russell   €475
59   Adrian Mcgreevy   €475
60   Richard Gilby   €475
61   Chris Tidmarsh   €475
62   Steve Vladar   €475
63   William Roach   €475

We're Back!!!

Blinds are now 3,000/6,000 ante 600

53 players remaining

average stack is 112,924

phil laws ko? he had 200k stack?

after playing this yesterday i must say u need plenty of luck against some of these players .
one man raises under the gun blinds 50 /100 by mistake he says and puts 4 chips in 2 100 chips a 50 and a 5000 underneath  angle shooting ,but i awake with AA and get him to put the rest of his chips in .
fuckin joke some of the play .

he has QQ the mug.

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-nXMwOhYsXUs/TlEJsb8t32I/AAAAAAAAAcA/LJK0l1tNtZs/s640/DSC00066.JPG)

Stuarthopkin's happy face!

he's on about 105k

can u find out what happened to phil laws pls

Karl Prescott is out in 49th

He shoved with Kd Ts and was called by Mohammed Ashfaq with Ac 8d the board was Ahrt 9c 6h 8s Th

 

I'll try my best but it was quite a while ago

tyty ask the surfer dude from devon he had a stack so he should know

Can we just have non-stop reporting of stu hopkin pls and no-one else other than those who try to out-flopkin the hopkin.

Round with Hopkin pls.

sadly Alan Armitage is out he took a gamble calling David Shaw's all in with Aspades Js but he was up against the mighty 3h 3d, and the dealer didn't help him out with a board of 5d 2h Th 9c 6s.

So Alan finishes in 41st for €500

Cf car update please.

pocket 3's strike again, this time the victim is Manjeet Sandhu he was up against David griffiths and his A Q, the flop was Ac 8c 5s and the turn and river of 7s Ks were even less help to Manjeet who leaves the tournament in 40th

Could you please try your best to get a picture of michael daryl haney please thankyou :)

Next hand he had AA cracked by surfer kid in a  380k pot.
He then bust AK < 55 shoving 13bbs

Good luck to Dave Griffiths can you give a stack update please

lost another one

Dipesh Mistry shoved short for 17k with K 7 he gets a call from Romans Mihailovs with J J. the board brings no king and Dipesh Mistry is out in 35th

UPDATES/PICTURES (MICHAEL DARYL) HANEY PLEASE

Table 11 seat 8 David Burn has to be the chip leader with approx 550k in chips. Pretty impressive seeing as he started the day on 38k

is peter evens still in plz if so how many has he got thx.

Wow go Dave. Probably the best player that entered this and a massive legend. Gogogo! Hoover those chips up ;)

oh no!!

Hopkin is out!

he shoved all in for 68k was called by Mohamed Diab  Stu was in trouble with his K 3 but he did have outs against Mohamed's A Q but the board of 2d 2h 7d Qd 6s sent him to the bar in 33rd with €525 of Guiness money

Yea I agree whats he ever won two wsop braclet winners in the comp and you make a statement like that LOL

he is grinding away with 65k

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-8RJXaaINhvk/TlEZrUE2xLI/AAAAAAAAAco/128kivupzmA/s512/DSC00067.JPG)

Pic and count for Gary north please? Thank you :D

he's on around 450k

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uRHYiYUPb6c/TlEZrzXmLvI/AAAAAAAAAcw/LvkOOZ0B43Q/s512/DSC00068.JPG)

last time i saw he had about 100k

Unlucky dean watson

he will shake if he gets to many chips ,he is the best grinder in the business.

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-qp9JKW34NlM/TlEbuotAaUI/AAAAAAAAAdE/Qem8jBa9hTY/s512/DSC00069.JPG)

Hopkins sad face :(

bad luck dean

recent exits and payouts:

31   Dean Watson   €525
32   Nigel Hill   €525
33   Stuart Hopkin   €525
34   Dennis Cavanagh   €525
35   Dipesh Mistry   €525
36   Zhi Yang   €525
37   Guy Collins   €500
38   Ritesh Chauhan   €500
39   Paula Cowling   €500
40   Manjeet Sandhu   €500
41   Alan Armitage   €500
42   Simon Higgins   €500
43   Kev Smith   €500
44   Roger Collinson   €500
45   Stephen Walton   €500
46   Ky Hutchinson   €500
47   Ganesh Jayaraman   €500
48   Robert Cannon   €500
49   Karl Prescott   €500

Any news on Mark Wates, started as Chip Leader today??

I thought I was the best player that entered this.

Who? Gosney? (lol if that's who you mean)

Lol@People knocking Dave down because theyve never heard of him + he hasnt got a bracelet.

Moorman hasnt got a bracelet? So by this theory, Jerry Yang is a much better player than him

Please refer to my above post. Thank you please

He plays cash online.

He's on about 75k

Now now, no need to get offensive. I kindly pointed out to you that


Or do you have selective blindness? :)

o Ok Alex that i did not know that makes a big difference a good online player makes a great live player thanks for the useful info

sorry but i asked a simple question whats he won as people state the opinion that he is the best player that entered

Whats Moorman won live? You dont have to have won something to be a good player mate. Incase you didnt notice, bad players win things all the time (Alex for example ldo). However, if you want to be narrow minded, thats fine by me.

ON WITH THE UPDATES!

He's out

All in Pre flop against Tommy Bingham in seat 1, David was behind with Qs 8h against Tommy's Ac Th

the board of Ahrt 3h 9c 6s 6h sent David home in 30th

I dont care what hes won, ive got 5% so...

GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!!!

Lol @ arguing on behalf of people who couldn't give a fuck probably

Best player is currently at the bar with a guiness (I imagine)

Gone.. (heres my 50ps worth)

Folded round to me on button shove with K Q and Steve Jelinek (not sure how its spelt) looks my up in small blind with 99.. Average stack is 180K we both have around 100K blinds at 4-8K..
Need to win dem races i guess..
Gl to Steve whos a nice chap and good player also all the best to the remaining blondes esp Chilli..
Next time.. weeeeeeeeeeee

Gary North is out in 27th, he got it in pre flop with 6's against Nick Singh with A Q, board came 7 8 4 Q 9 to seal the deal.

Not really arguing on his behalf Guy, Im just making a point. Laughing pretty hard at the replies.

Always agression when Alex is about...

If I wasn't in such a ruddy good mood, or if I hadn't been on a deep and meaningful personal journey in the last few years - I'd have a few things to say about that. But what's the point? I'll just wish whoever you're sweating good luck and yes, on with the updates!

the idiot has been banned

Lets not respond next time please


thanks to Joobs again, keep it coming

Wp Tighty. I laughed pretty hard at the comment that got deleted

We're getting close to the next big money jump

1   -   €46,369
2   -   €26,252
3   -   €16,408
4   -   €11,414
5   -   €9,274
6   -   €6,420
7   -   €4,994
8   -   €3,567
9   -   €2,854
10   -   €1,997
11   -   €1,997
12   -   €1,997
13   -   €1,997
14   -   €1,427
15   -   €1,427
16   -   €1,427
17   -   €1,427
18   -   €1,427
19   -   €525
20   -   €525
21   -   €525
22   -   €525
23   -   €525
24   -   €525
25   Majid Damavandi   €525
26   David Hide   €525
27   Gary North   €525
28   Vaidas Siriunas   €525
29   David Shaw   €525
30   David Griffiths   €525

we're on a 15min break

And we're back

the blinds are 6000/12000 ante 1000

we have 24 players left

average stack 249,375

Current seating plan

11   1   Nicholas Humphris
11   2   Mohammed Ashfaq
11   3   Hugh Black
11   4   Peter Evans
11   5   Ian Turner
11   6   Mohamed Diab
11   8   David Burn
11   9   James Ellison

12   1   Marios Arkadiou
12   2   Billy Ngo
12   3   Michael Daryl Haney
12   4   Mark Wates
12   5   Christopher Murtagh
12   6   Gary Morris
12   7   Nicholas Counsell
12   9   Alan Linford

14   1   Romans Mihailovs
14   2   Steve Jelinek
14   3   Darren Scanlon
14   4   Nick Singh
14   5   Tommy Bingham
14   6   Lloyd Watts
14   8   Chris Filus
14   9   Maria Demetriou

Go Dave and Maria!

Any Golden Chip holders left? And if so, who are they please. TY

Good luck to Pete, Maria and grumpy Mario.

gogogogo maria

(strange name for a boy)

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MARIA!

this is the most painful bit coming 19th will be pretty painfullllllll

had a pretty funny hand when david burns was down to 16k utg he shoves all in blinds 1,200 2,400 folds round to me in seat 2 playing 110k i flat with  Ahrt Qd in the cutoff, folds round to the bb who is playing 65k and he immediately puts in the 16k playing 70k total.. 3 to the flop with dave all in..... flop  Kh Qs Th, guy in bb leads out 20k with 35kish back lol sigh acts really strong so i go into the tank and fold my aq, and he flips k9 lol.. dave has aj and the board runs out  5h 7h so i would have knocked out david burn if the bb hadnt been in the hand................. anyway david is running AMAZING! but is also a great player, all the best to him.

oh and good luck to maria, reallly hope she T.I.D :)

table 12 has been busy

firstly Alan Linford knocks out Gary Morris with AJ against gary's 8 7

then Marios Arkadiou takes out Nicholas Counsell , nicholas's 6's didn't stand a chance against Marios and his K J

Hugh "H" Black has just come over to see me, players making their way over here is never a good sign...

he shoved with an Ace got called and lost, maybe next time!! :(

We have 2 golden chip holders left, and sorry not allowed to say who they are.

TY Joobs for updates (good job) Special GL to Ian turner, Chilli, Peter Evans, Billy Ngo & Steve Jelinek. 1 of you please TID ;0)

Chris Filus - as requested earlier "please take a pic while i've still got chips" :)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7nTEPE_1j9w/TlEt5L7AjkI/AAAAAAAAAdc/8gCAkA_Lm34/s512/DSC00071.JPG)

GL to all.

Finally home after train delays, got time to sit down for 20 mins before back to work!

glgl to Dave Burn - massive holdem fish but runs the best :P

#RUNSLIKEDB gogogo!

Maria is out, will try and get the details.

David Burn has a mahooosive stack about 1.2million

currently 19 players remaining, next player out gets €525, everyone after that will get at least €1,427

Apparently she shoved on button with 7c 8c with around 120k  the small blind woke up with A J  the flop came down 2 clubs but alas no 3rd club.


she has just mentioned that she now has to go to a wedding and is currently getting changed into a dress in the toilets....  will try and get a photo

MICHAEL DARYL HANEY - (CHIP COUNT/UPDATE/PIC) ?

exciting stuff on Table 14

Lloyd Watts in seat 6 shoves with 6 9 in the small blind  he is called by Alan Linford in the big blind for most of his stack with A 9

the flop comes down 3s 4s 6s  Alan has the 9s the turn and river are both blanks  and Alan is left fighting for his tournament life.

the big money jump bubble has burst

Seat 4 Peter Evans shoved 101k with 8's  he was called by seat 5 Ian Turner with A Q, flop came down 6d Jh Th Ian now has the gutshot and 2 over cards. the crushing Qd arrived on the turn leaving Peter "the bandit" Evans drawing thin. the brick 4c on the river sealed his fate.

Peter exits the tournament in 19th place.

We're now down to 2 tables

Current seating:

12   1   Marios Arkadiou
12   2   Billy Ngo
12   3   Michael Daryl Haney
12   4   Mark Wates
12   5   Christopher Murtagh
12   6   Mohamed Diab
12   7   Darren Scanlon
12   8   Nicholas Humphris
12   9   Ian Turner

14   1   Romans Mihailovs
14   2   Steve Jelinek
14   3   David Burn
14   4   James Ellison
14   5   Tommy Bingham
14   6   Lloyd Watts
14   7   Alan Linford
14   8   Chris Filus
14   9   Mohammed Ashfaq

Whats the average now Joobs?

Hows michael daryl haney doing ?

take picture of clock pls

pics please

hows michael daryl haney doing ?
and pics plz

David burns opened to 35k from late position with 9c 9h Lloyd Watts in the small blind shoved with A 3 the short stacked big blind Alan Linford called with Kc 8c David tank called.

flop Tc 2c 7d giving the short stacked Alan hope Club on the turn keeps him in and a brick on the river means David Burns takes down the substantial side pot and eliminatins lloyd watts in 18th 

chris filus=foggy on blonde

very best of luck to him.

Payouts

1   -   €46,369
2   -   €26,252
3   -   €16,408
4   -   €11,414
5   -   €9,274
6   -   €6,420
7   -   €4,994
8   -   €3,567
9   -   €2,854
10   -   €1,997
11   -   €1,997
12   -   €1,997
13   -   €1,997
14   -   €1,427
15   -   €1,427
16   -   €1,427
17   -   €1,427

we still have 2 golden chips in play, but I am unable to tell you who.

GOOD LUCK MICHAEL DARYL HANEY

hOWS MICHAEL DARYL HANEY DOING ?

Alan Linford is out

he open shoved for about 250k with Ac Qd  he walked into the pocket K's of  Mohammed Ashfaq flop comes down Q high which gives Alan some hope and a few more outs. turn is a brick and out of spite a K comes down on the river.

we have 15 players left the average stack is 399,000

hOW MANY CHIPS DOES MICHAEL DARYL HANEY HAVE JOOBS

ok ok ok  i'm going to find out now

LOL thankyou

Top work Joobs xx

Chip count for ian turner please

Really good luck to Ian Turner!  TID pal.

wow it's getting busy here

Steve Jelinek is out he got into a battle with Tommy Bingham 2's vs A 10 suited.  not sure what happened on the flop but Tommy now has a about 900k.

Table 12

Mohamed Diab is all in with 4's  for 150k,  he is called by Marios Arkadiou who wakes up in the BB with K's the flop comes down 4 5 6 turn blank and of course the K arrives on the River to send Mohamed to the rail.

Table 14

we lose another :(

Chris "foggy" Filus shoves for 150k in the SB with 6c 7c Mohammed Ashfaq in the BB calls with A K we see a King high flop which leaves Chris needing some serious luck, unfortunately he misses everything and leaves the tournament in 13th

Recent exits and payouts

12   Darren Scanlon   €1,997
13   Chris Filus   €1,997
14   Mohamed Diab   €1,427
15   Steve Jelinek   €1,427
16   Alan Linford   €1,427
17   Billy Ngo   €1,427
18   Lloyd Watts   €1,427

WP foggy
good effort

   Michael Daryl Haney when I checked he had about 160k, but all hell has broken loose since then, his stack doesn't look like it's changed much tbh.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-hTFUGxZJi7I/TlFBusJylwI/AAAAAAAAAeA/cO57AvcYnTw/s512/DSC00072.JPG)

ok we have some approximate chip counts

12     1      Marios Arkadiou - 500k
12   3   Michael Daryl Haney - 150k
12   4   Mark Wates - 250k
12   8   Nicholas Humphris - 900k
12   9   Ian Turner - 750k

14   1   Romans Mihailovs - 300k
14   2   Christopher Murtagh - 250k
14   3   David Burn - 800k
14   4   James Ellison - 350k
14   5   Tommy Bingham 1.1m
14   9   Mohammed Ashfaq 530k

And we're on a 15min break

Comon Ian Turner GGGGGGLLLLLLLL Bud

GL to Mario, Dave and Ian!

And we're back

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-EFI-JzKjQkY/TlFHPVtS3QI/AAAAAAAAAeI/Pb-rDHlsYVE/s640/DSC00075.JPG)

GOOD LUCK MICHAEL DARYL HANEY :))
TAKE IT DOWN

Keep up the good work Joobs. Awesome as always

Action on table 14

Seat 4 Tommy Bingham opens for 64k Seat 1Romans Mihailovs  shoves for 261k

Tommy calls showing 10's

Romans Flips over A K

a board of J K Q J 4 means a nice double up for Romans and Tommy Bingham is now down to around 600k.

Best of luck to Christy (Git) Murtagh..... tid pal


Any photo's of Gitzer?

getting close to the final table and we still have 2 golden chips in play.

Any chance of some photos of the remaining players?  And some accurate chip counts?

Table 14 is the action table

Seat 1 Romans Mihailovs raises, seat 2 Christopher Murtagh shioves

Romans 6h 6c

Christopher kh Qd

board 4d Kc Kd Jd 8h

and Christopher is now on about 450k

Romans is down to 300k

mihael daryl haney chip count plz?

Again on 14

seat 3 David Burn raises to 50k

Seat 4 James Ellison Shoves for 150k

David calls with 6's

James shows K Q

Flop is king high, no 6 on the turn or river. nice double up to 350k for james


few hands later....


James Ellison raises to 60k on the button. Tommy Bingham raises to 130k, James shoves 265k

James - K's

Tommy - A 5


Ace high flop turn and river blanks and we lose James in 11th

we're down to 10 players, we will be moving to 1 table at 9 players BUT the final table is officially 8 players

Since we started 10 handed shouldent it go to 1 table?

Any golden chips left?

good point dan

2 i think

i know who has one not the other though

Mahooosive Hand!!!!!


Table 14


David Burn in the SB raises to 75k, Tommy Bingham in the BB made it 200k  David shoves all in, tommy calls flipping over Qs Qd David shows Ahrts 5h

the board is dealt  9s 6h 2d Js 7s

David is crippled down to 59k

Tommy is on a MAHOOOOSIVE stack of 1.9mill

Hmmm...  As its played 10 handed all tournament, its my opinion that it should be 10 handed final table.  Always.  If I was a golden chip, I think I would not be happy if it was made 9 or 8 also.

very next hand David shoves his v.short stack from the button, with Kh 5h  against A 6  the board was no help to him and he exits the tournament in 10th position.


we are now moving to 1 table but the official final table will be 8 players and yes we still have 2 golden chips remaining!!!

we're on a break while the chips are moved to the [  ] final table

M power getting giddy

Think DTD have stipulated all along that the golden chip applies to the final 8. And seeing as it's money for nothing I don't see why people would be unhappy with this?

Ian Turner TID Bud UR due a nice Comon!!!!!!

CASH!!!!

This!

WILL THE FINAL TABLE BE ON TELLY ?

Agree that although unfair they stated golden chips were final 8 all along, more questioning why they hadnt gone 10 handed when 10 remain!

IAN IAN BABY Ha Ha TID BUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will ask again!  Please could we have accurate chip counts and photos of the remaining 9 players?

Does 2 chips = 2 prizes? Or last chip standing

Ok [  ] final table chip counts and pictures

Seat 1 Ian Turner - 602k
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-oAe0gGo4ePM/TlFXLBHclXI/AAAAAAAAAfw/PIcDticME24/s512/DSC00084.JPG)

Seat 2 Nicholas Humphris - 1.7m
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5HKnZcDyH-M/TlFXL7Go6qI/AAAAAAAAAf4/SPBbkzPkwLI/s512/DSC00085.JPG)

Seat 3 Mohammed Ashfaq - 541k
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fb7ipxPA7sw/TlFXMZTYFFI/AAAAAAAAAf8/YgU2iI4BzMA/s512/DSC00086.JPG)

Didn't realise who Mohammed ashfaq was till now. Gogo him!

Seat 4 mark Wates - 272k
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-muVx1jhSvTc/TlFXMzJ8gGI/AAAAAAAAAgA/tS_0xMzjVA4/s512/DSC00087.JPG)

Seat 5 Romans Mihailovs - 566k
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FMrn9WREfaA/TlFXNvnvciI/AAAAAAAAAgE/vgibCfhBvbE/s512/DSC00088.JPG)

Seat 6 Marios Arkadiou - 421k
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-57oNA3qv4H0/TlFXOAMJJLI/AAAAAAAAAgI/PQwxHm6Snn4/s512/DSC00089.JPG)

Both get 15k ;)

Seat 7 Tommy Bingham - 1.9m
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Y5CoyE7VcmY/TlFXO6dENlI/AAAAAAAAAgM/nc0G1h32lkA/s512/DSC00090.JPG)

Seat 8 Christopher Murtagh - 310k
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yWFX88BS5M0/TlFXPh5zFOI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/kZOB2aOKoOA/s512/DSC00091.JPG)

Seat 9 Michael Daryl Haney - 234k
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VZsqLnqH0kg/TlFXQOsl-fI/AAAAAAAAAgU/QRqfl2r0bHs/s512/DSC00092.JPG)

MY DAD IS ONE OF THE GOLDEN CHIP WINNERS ANY PICS
MICHAEL DARYL HANEY
:)

or a mini

YEAH THEY BOTH GET 15K MICHAEL DARYL HANEYS MY DAD

not won yet

9th has gone.  Both Golden Chippers have made it to the top 8 and £15k!!!  Well done both!

nice well done both

HE HAS THERES 8 LEFT

yes well done him and ian

nick humpries to win nice guy and seems ok at poker

wow!! just wow!!

Seat 8 Christopher Murtagh raises to 70k seat 2 Nicholas Humphris stuck a stack of 25k chips in the middle totalling 450k Christopher called all in.

Chris shows Ahrt Qd Nicholas turns over Aspades Kc

Flop 8c Th 2c

Turn 7d

River 6d

We lose Christopher Murtagh in 9th place for €2850 and we now have an official final table!!

I have not seen that it specified final 8, but, its not actually money for nothing.  It is a bonus award advertised to encourage early online play and also reward making the final table.  Some people played specifically to get one of them.

Tommy Bingham also a really nice guy. Shipped the daily dollar on FtP twice in a week once. Gl to him

Dtd done chunks this weekend, grats to the golden chip winners, top effort

Well done to Ian Turner for cashing in his Golden Chip for £15k.  Well proud of you mate!  Now go and win this thing!!!!!

golden chippers are pretty much freerolling - time to push teh boundaries and risk it a little more - should in theory change the dynamic significantly

Yep we have 2 golden chip winners! the room errupted as soon as Christopher was knocked out Michael Slamming his chip on the table and jumping up and down not often you see grown men jump up and down like that! but he has a good excuse ;)

our 2 winners
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pdP2sZ4Is80/TlFcsAx9v7I/AAAAAAAAAgY/70gu0hiDscE/s640/DSC00093.JPG)

Disagree!  One of them is short, the other isn't and has no need to panic at all.  Still £40k up top to play for!  Fancy turning your £15k into £55k?

wow nice life big congratz on getting to the ft

um ok!

a deal has been suggested, the 2 chip leaders have almost 60% of the chips in play. there is €124,694 to play for.

thoughts?

its always been ft of 8
all previous ones and this

i had one did not get there
congrats to the two that did

It is still money for nothing. Advert or not. And is bloody generous

discussions are breaking down, chipleaders want 60k between them and everyone is suggesting that the players with the golden chips should get less than everyone else, can't see this deal happening

LOL - nice try guys.

abs lol

Half of lager and he's anyone's.

Well done Ian. Pleased for you.

And gl to Nic. He was on my table in Edinburgh. Funny guy

blinds are up 20k / 40k  4k ante


thought play had started again.....

we're still talking deal

ridic

OMG cant believe that the players are trying to negotiate some of the golden chip prize money off them..!!!  Yer havin a laffffffff

A deal has been done!!

details to follow

I suspect this is going to be good.

omds

JASON "HERBIE" HERBERT SAYS A HUGE CONGRATZ TO IAN TURNER AND THAT IAN AND HIS GF SAM ARE A LOVELY COUPLE!

no deals should be done imo

Dealers gonna deal

If you have a golden chip here just go Mental - no deals

yeah but it obv wont change the dynamic thou   ;dingdell;

(see earlier posts for ref)

any one think this will be the end of the golden chips cost dtd too much this time ?

this deal will be shit - just play on ffs.

Cmon Joobs! Suspense it killing us!!!

It won't be shit for all of them.

shit in general - hate multi way deals

All got 4th place money minimum.

ANY PICS

For the more experienced players?

If YOU had a Golden Chip what sort of deal would you accept here?

GC irrelevant - you got 15k locked up indepentantly of the main pot.

ok deal stands

Nicholas Humphris €30,000
approx chip count 1.1m

Tommy Bingham €27,900
Approx chip count 1.9m

Romans Mihailovs €11,500
approx chips 560k

Marios Arkadiou €11,500
approx chips 470k

Mohammed Ashfaq €11,500
approx chips 397k

Ian Turner €10,700
approx chips 450k

Mark Wates €10,700
approx chips 285k

Michael Daryl Haney €10,700
approx chips 161k

Golden chip is irrelevant now - it's like you'd won £15k on a horse.

Typo, surely?

Nicholas Humphris €30,000
approx chip count 1.1m

Tommy Bingham €27,900
Approx chip count 1.9m



LOL

wow at deal

Nicholas had 2.1m not 1.1m

that deal surely isnt right

whats the blinds?

what a hero!

nope chip counts are right!

i was told by one of the players that the 2 chip leaders had agreed 30k each.  but some of the other players wanted more than the 10.7k that they were going to get, so to make the deal happen Tommy "gave" some of his winnings to them.

oh my!

he nearly had 2x 2nd place chips!

are you you saying i'm an idiot, if so you are correct ;D

Oh well. Well done to Nic for a great deal. Disappointed for the shorties tho. Would have liked Ian to have given it a shot with 15k locked up

no someone said that the golden chip payouts wouldnt change teh dynamic

I thought dtd only allowed chipcount deals?

Looking at the payouts and the deal with the 20k/40k Blinds and current chip counts, plus 2 GC Winners @ £15k a pop

I think there will be some folk wishing they had gone out to win this after a couple of days of reflection.


Place   Player   Prize
1   -   €46,369
2   -   €26,252
3   -   €16,408
4   -   €11,414
5   -   €9,274
6   -   €6,420
7   -   €4,994
8   -   €3,567

Nicholas Humphris €30,000
approx chip count 1.1m

Tommy Bingham €27,900
Approx chip count 1.9m

Romans Mihailovs €11,500
approx chips 560k

Marios Arkadiou €11,500
approx chips 470k

Mohammed Ashfaq €11,500
approx chips 397k

Ian Turner €10,700
approx chips 450k

Mark Wates €10,700
approx chips 285k

Michael Daryl Haney €10,700
approx chips 161k

Regards

M

congrats to tommy bingham didnt realise he was still in,, always seems like a real nice guy whenever i spoke to him,, and i believe he's from peterborough, up the POSH !

oh my bad, it obviously didn't but should have.

that was like in the early days

If you want him slapping let me know, Evilpie is a mate of mine.

What I meant was that one of the Golden Chippers didn't need to get busy too early.  There were 2 v big stacks and 3 stacks much shorter than him at the time (just after they went down to 8 ) and was still a fair bit of play in it for him.  I agree that the short Golden Chipper had nothing to lose, but Ian could afford to carry on playing his game.  Him forcing the dynamic at that point with 3 much shorter stacks would have been a classic mistake imo.

cheers Ralph, will keep it in mind :)up

 ;D

Hi Michelle nice to meet you other day.

Hey Dewi, you too!

well one daryl. I would be very happy with the deal if i had a low stack. Nice guy of tommy to give his share away, although i wouldnt of if i had his chips lol. Sadly it was a long shot for me :(

4 big's to effectively lock up 4th place?! nice one lads, well played :D
...although giving away that much with 800k in front of second place is just a tad stupid...but oh well

surely this isnt a fair deal chip leader getting less then the 2nd chip leader.......

i'm at dtd and asked the chip leader why he agreed to such a (quite frankly s**t deal) his answer was........"it's coz i'm nice"................the guy with 4 bigs locking up 4th place was cartwheeling round DTD :)

4 big's to effectively lock up 4th place?! nice one lads, well played
...although giving away that much with 800k in front of second place is just a tad stupid...but oh well

I agree GG 4BB's locking 4th place money

Cartwheels indeed

Regards

M

I'd pay good money to see you perform a few cartwheels.

Regards

K

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surely this isnt a fair deal chip leader getting less then the 2nd chip leader.......

stupid ,,   a m,an wit 4 bb gets 10k  ,,joke and   DUSKTILLDAWN LETTING DEALS LIKE DAT HAPPEN   NOT NICE LADS WAT BOUT 9TH 10TH 11TH AND 12 PLACE ,,,,, VERY UNFAIR SHOULD B MADED PLAY 4 IT ,,,, NOT NICE BOYS

cartwheels indeed for darly mbn lukbox but well done lol!!

Why should they?

It's the players' money, not DTD's. The tournament entry was €60. Maybe, for some of these people, the money means a hell of a lot.

.


pretty sure u get told this by the td when u final

so its not so unfair

I don't think they do. DTD used to say that all deals could only be done by chipcount, but when the tournaments got bigger and bigger they soon realised that this policy was unfair.

I see deal making as a pretty important part of tournament poker these days high-stakes. It wouldn't surprise me if nearly all the big tourneys were chopped these days - the only difference here is that we report the deal.

romans and marios should probably go google icm. what a farce. superb negotiation from the guy with 4bigs though! and the chippies obv.

I was table side during the deal discussion. Mr. 4bb negotiations were keeping his gob shut and praying the other 7 agreed. Then did a triple axel, double somersault with a twist when the other 7 said yes. Wp that man.

Once again an update thread turns in to a load of poker players berating people for the deal they made.

When will you guys start to realise that for a recreational player ICM has no meaning whatsoever but ten thousand pounds does?

You'll say that we've been denied an update of the final table which I understand.

Unfortunately whenever they play on you all just whinge about them folding too much.

As far as I can see if they're all happy they just deserve congratulations. Well played everybody!!

+1

ICM?

OMG I just had to register after being a long time lurker to say HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA @ that deal.

The best explanation you'll ever read imo.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=46848.0

Matt

Although you have a point, this is surely about simple comprehension and less than basic maths

For example, the guy with a redic chip lead, he must see that he can fold for 5 orbits, still be CL, be 5 handed and then get more money. This is by folding. Obv he prob doesn't understand how he can exploit his stack, but pretty sure he could have negotiated 1st place money off that stack

Anyway, well done everyone, I didn't even make day 2 so what the fk do I know

I agree completely and in his position I wouldn't have even entered in to deal discussions that didn't involve me getting the lot.

The thing that bothers me is the people who just come on the thread and say 'lol what a fuckin ridic deal!' or other stupid comments.

I'm just having a whinge at the whingers I suppose.

Guess so, I did try to go the other way and celebrate mr 4bbs! What a guy!

tis the most redic deal ever but people can do what they want with their money

Regarding the most ridic. deal ever:

I remember a certain Mr. Abdullah negotiating more than first prize for himself in a deal some years back.

Well, got home safely finally! Although my M6 junction being closed was rather annoying!!!!

Thank you to DTD for hosting us this weekend, top class as usual. Thanks also to everyone for their support as this was my first time flying solo (well, most of it anyway!).

Hope you all enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to the next Grand Prix...have DTD announced it yet??

About the final table: I've never seen 8 poker players look so happy, especially the two Golden Chip winners. Being female, I had to ask what they were going to spend it on and the list included a lot of things that weren't poker.

Can't wait for another chance to update again, right I'm gonna make the most of this early finish, goodnight!!

Guys can I just correct something please, these chip counts are slightly out. There was 5,985,000 in chips. N Humphris actually had 1,700,000.
What actually happened was, the chip leader was the player pushing for a deal, he wanted both himself and the other cl to take 25k and split the rest equally. Humphris simply said, 30k or carry on, CL said he wanted the same as Humphris as he had more chips. 4 times they were told to carry on. Mario, Romans and Mohammed wanted a little more, T Bingham then said he would take it off his because he wanted a deal and ensured he got more that 2nd place without any risk for an outlay of £50.

D Haney never said a word and obviously benefited from the deal, I could obviously see the ICM was way out and asked the question numerous times if everyone was happy, all insisted they were. In my personal opinion the person who got shafted was Ian Turner but again he said he was happy with the deal (maybe already elated at his golden chip fortune but this shouldnt have made a difference in the deal). Everyones happy at the way their money was split ..... why the haters?

IMO Yes Mario and Romans (possibly Ian) should understand ICM better but they were not forced to deal and were happy with their lot.

The fairest and most simple way is by chip count but this was never requested.

want to thank DTD for great tourny , £15k golden chip in my pocket kept secret till end and how could i turn a deal down like that with my 4bb unreal happy days !! D Haney

V. Well played

Amazing deal for u

Great deal, and a Golden chip too. Nice work.

Sure would have been any deals if I had got there ;-)

€50k or we play on

Well done pal and welcome to Blonde..
[ ] sure am glad i turned down your offer of swapping 10%.. gg me

lol...

Rich, doesn't the deal have to be fair as well as everyone being happy with it?

Alex

Absolutely not

You pay your money, you takes your choice. Everyone is within their right to say "no deals" and it plays on on. If having this ability makes your opponent fear you and strike a poor deal which they are satisfied with so be it.

Deals by their nature just need to satisfy the individual. If tehy do that, be it technically good or bad, then so be it

Just read this all through and would like to thank Joobie for a fantastic job

These aren't easy events to update. Masses of runners, many of whom will not be known the updater

Simply a superb job.

Sharplea, you are sacked.  :D

Actually at DTD they say to you when you reach a final (shameless brag I know) that deals have to be considered fair.

Simon was amazed by the deal and said had he been aware it wouldn't of happened..??

It is a TD's job to make sure nobody is pressured or railroaded into a deal that they dont want.
The one stipulation that a TD has is that in a deal 1st place in a deal can never be more than 1st place prize money (there are exceptions).
It is not for anyone else to judge what makes a player happy, or what financial situation they are in. Even if the chip leader of any comp had a huge chip lead, but 3rd place money gets him/her out of personal shit and he/she wants to lock it up then so be it, even if that means conceding money to a shorty that doesn't want a deal to make them except.

Congratulations to ALL the prize winners in being in the biggest ever overlaid 50 euro comp!

Sigh such a good comp, really enjoyed it

No way was the guy who knocked me out called Mohamed! Lol

Mario who I think made the final raped me in the face or I might have got there myself lol

ok boys and girls pls allow me to make a comment on the final deal.
also i have to mention i was one of the final 8.
gg for all the players regardless of the money they received for their effort. now as for the deal good or not good for some of the players, that is their own business and no-one else.blinds 20-40k at the time of the deal with mid stacks at 500k (12bb) and big stacks 1.6m (35bb) it does not take long for them to be knocked out in two hands. So good deal for all, for some better, for some little worst and a big thks to tommy who is a smashing bloke and good luck to him in the future. As for the ICM comments hello!!!! 50eur buy-in, 250-1 return or 550-1 for the top 2. No comment and as a reminder greediness is one of the seven sins thnx. But did I wake up this morning with regrets...yes I did!!! Such a hard slog, at the end it was difficult to make a decision with a clear head. Faced with a choice of a large sum guaranteed or the (tiny) risk of getting a lot less, at the time it seemed like the best thing to do. I would probably do things differently next time.....which I hope will be very soon lol. :) gg everyone

great game hopkin and sorry for the rape:) hope it didn't hurt that much have a good recovery and see you soon!

So instead of making a nice sum of money that they're happy with they're railroaded in to playing on by Simon when they really would prefer to take the money and go home?

Is Simon honestly saying that even if all the players being fully aware of the facts still want the deal he won't allow it because in his opinion it's not fair?

Why should a deal be fair anyway? Lot's of things aren't fair but if you're happy with it then where's the problem?

Nobody is forced to do anything.

Yeh understand what ya saying and simon is the best person to answer your questions.. Maybe he will?
Didn't mean to make it sound that Simon would of made them play on, but he might of been able to advise people concerned about the payouts and percentages and so on.. E.g 8th place was £3.566 and 8th in chips had 160K in chips and he worked out on the spot to be around 5K.. But i'd had a few beers so can't remember what else he said.. Hasn't aetsos just posted that now he thinks he's probably made a small mistake in taking the deal offered.. Anyway cracking comp and brill updates, bring on GP5.. 

mr 4bb here what can i say guys , nothing like i did.nt with the negosiations wtf not my fault if they cant work it out happy days !! lol

td/simon should never be making comment on whether a deal is fair surely. mr 4xbb got himself a fantastic deal by sitting there quietly, why should he suffer by having someone point this out to the others? deal making is a part of tournament poker and the decision should be with the players and only the players

the only involvement staff should have is to check that everyone is happy with the deal, not to give an opinion on it

Absolutely true Gatso. The only comment I did actually make was to ask the players to disregard the fact that 2 players had already won £15k as that was not part of the prizepool.

Simon did have a word with me and was under the impression that 2nd CL got more than 1st place money as somebody had told him. That 2nd CL had more than 1st place (I presume the person telling simon this meant "chips")

So when you say to players the start of a final "you can do deals providing everybody is happy and that it is fair" (I forget the exact wording you use), what exactly does that "fair" bit mean?

I have never said that Alex, I say "as long as everyone agrees". There is 1 TD who uses those words and we have argued about this.

In fact, if you believe you heard those words from me at your Final Table, I will wager the amount of money you won at that final. As I have very strong opinions about a TD getting involved in a deal.

Chipcount wise you are <100 euros away so pretty much bang on.

ICM roughly is as follows:

27.9k Tommy 27400 based on approx 1,950,000
30k Nick 25700 based on approx 1,700,000
11.5k Romans  14700 based on approx 560k
11.5k Mario 13450 based on approx 470k
10.7k Ian 13150 based on approx 450k
11.5k Mohammed 12300 based on approx 397k
10.7k Mark 10300 based on approx 285k
10.7k Daryl 7600 based on approx 161k

btw who the hell is Mr tony lol

First of all congrats to all on ft and thank you to dtd for a fantastic comp
i dont have strong opions either way on deals but do think those involved if all agree should be able to do what suits them
i hope there is another Grand Prix and liked the day one on line format

so question if i every make a ft at dtd

can i ask for for dtd to do a ICM  chip count analysis as the basis of negotiation ?

DTD wont do an ICM but I am sure if you have a smartphone and have an ICM app the figures can be put to the rest of the table for consideration by the other players.

"DTD wont do an ICM "
Why  not present this info if asked for might speed up the negotations ?

Sorry h but if someone asks for a chipcount deal, we deal with actual figures. ICM is a complex formula that takes into consideration a number of variables. On request I will give the chip counts to the players, and give their chip value that they have if requested.

doh
chip count does not equal ICM i misunderstood
thanks for reply

np sir

sorry got that wrong, wrong identity lol

That Icm is hugely skewed by the fact you have allowed a min Payment of 10.7k, whereas it should be whatever the next payout is 3k

Try it on those numbers and I'm sure you will see a different result

it is based on the correct payout structure, the actual payout is the left column

Ah, proper misread, ignore me

I have a question about deals in general. If one player refuses to do a deal and the other seven want a deal, would it put that player at a disadvantage when the play continues? Are there tactics that the seven could use to try and eliminate the one player?

What you would hope is that any of the seven players who attempted to collude to eliminate the non dealer would be instantly disqualified and banned from the casino/cardroom.

Fortunately DTD elected not to let them in in the first place.

Non dealer will auto get 1st place, the rest would be equally split between remaining players. If it was openly said that that was what they were going to do. Non Dealer auto gets first place the players who colluded would be DQd and the prizes distributed on a ladder basis to 9th downward and the colluders would receive nothing. That's what I hope would happen, only done it once at DTD so far.

? you have done this at dtd ?

you want to explain what happened and amounts involved rich? an interesting story I'm sure!

+1 do tell....

Blimey, was a while ago. 3 players left in a low turnout £50 comp I think. CL didn't want to do a deal. When they were called back from a break CL sat down the other 2 kept chatting to each other. I told them if they were discussing a deal CL had to be there. Was told that CL didn't want to discuss a deal so they were talking about chopping the prize money they win between themselves, I told them it was out of order and they carried on for a couple of sentences. So I stopped the comp and awarded first place to CL. They were both players I hadn't seen before and believed that both players involved didn't think they were doing anything wrong. 2nd and 3rd place was split equally between them. After they asked if I could do that, I told them yes and why, they accepted it without any fuss after I said it was either that or they would both be DQd for collusion and receive nothing.

In a situation like this where the CL doesn't want to deal would the guys in 2nd and 3rd position splitting the money between those two spots to flatten the payout structure rather than sharing "whatever they won" also be considered collusion?

If I understand you correctly Ralph, no it wouldn't be considered as collusion if they agree CL gets 1st spot and they are happy to split 2nd and 3rd. No one has been colluded against in this situation.

I mean if they then play on after that...

There is not any need to continue after that.

I am not sure what you are asking sir lol

In the old days the prize money was often 60%, 30%, 10%.

If the chip leader had a good lead and didn't want to deal 2nd and 3rd might agree to flatten the structure to 20% each and carry on playing, in effect a deal between themselves, a saver, and not really affecting the CL other than money pressure.

They might also agree to save 25% of whatever they win "in running", is that allowed these days?

thanks debs was brill tourney still hard to take in , cant believe the deal .. mr 4 bigs now lol

Ah, understand now (I think). I never allowed that in the cardrooms I worked in.
If the Chip leader has locked it up, why would he consider playing on (unless friends with 2nd or 3rd if you get my drift). If it is not locked up then it effects everything if CL has a meltdown.
It may not be considered collusion but actually is for the 2nd and 3rd to have a 25% saver, because it may well lead to collusion indirectly so would not be allowed.

The whole question of "in running" or even pre tourney savers, also staking in a comp that the staker plays, although rife can be seen as collusion and can lead to many complications.

Just ask yourself if you would be happy 3 handed, if you "knew" CL has staked 2nd CL for a big %. Policing this is extremely hard and realistically cannot be done, but it does open a can of worms.

Any private deal between players whilst the tourney is running that doesn't include everyone is at best unethical and at worst down right dirty and cheating.

Happened in Gala Nottingham at the £500 GCBPT last year (one player refusing a deal and then the other players making a deal between themselves). Pretty sure the TD knew all about it. I agree that everyone involved in the deal should be DQ-ed.