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Of necessity, I spoke to Dave Colclough today & asked him not to bother updating us too much tonight, we want him to focus on the task in hand, which is a two-parter - 1), reach the Final, & 2), Win the bloody thing.

But news is filtering through from him already, & the latest I have - bear in mind that 18 returned today, & they play down to 9, is......

Casey Castle OUT 18th, $11,565.

More in a moment - two more texts just in from Dave. Fat lot of notice he takes of me then.

good luck mr blondie

cant stay up tonight i am supposed to be bouncer on the door of an information fair at 8am tomorrow morning

Here's the first......

"...John Juanda OUT. drawing to QQ with a Q flush draw, Awada had KK with K flush draw. 16 left, me 48,000..."

I am afraid I don't know who Awada is, I geuss it's a a typo. We'll excuse The Blonde One on this occasion....

And another.....

"......won my first pot of the day - with Quad Kings! Unfortunately, nobody could have anything. Up to 68,000 though.

16 left, blinds going up to 1,500-3,000......".

Good luck Mr C. I hope there arent too many hands with aces tonight ...my brain hurts ;)

See Kev, you must use 2 cards from your hand - not 3, not 1 -  & combine therm with......

Ok so here is a serious QQQ then .... what is considered the best hole cards in Omaha then ? 4 aces I spose ?

NO. Only 2 count so you have a pair of aces with no straight or flush or trip chances.

AAKK with double suits.

Sandy

ahhhhh yes i see ....  having all the aces limits your hands..with double suited AK's you maximise your outs...There ya go ...i can play it now :)

Up late on a school night sweating the blonde one and trying to get knocked out of the $11 rebuy stars tournament, unsuccessfully so far...good luck DC

Try this site if you are looking for live updates...

http://taopoker.blogspot.com/

Thanks Div.

Heres another just in from Dave....

"Joe Beevers OUT in 16th place......."

Hard to bear losing Joe, but at least or Dave is still present and correct.

"......Joe had a set of 9's against a flush, & the board failed to pair...."

Fingers crossed for the blonde one.

I'm messing about with STT on Party as I have a heat for Light Night Poker tomorrow.

So by my reckoning, Dave can look forward to a minumum payday of $13,875. Methinks he has his eye on a lot more.

Thanks Robert. Good Luck tomorrow, & let us know how you get on. Not just the comp - ypu gonna WIN that - but the whole day.

Tikay, im in for the duration, but at 12.40 on CH 5 i gotta watch burnley johns epic effort at the Vic ...118,000 for coming second ...Niceeeeeeeee !!!

"I have 56k....."

Hope I haven't mislead you, it's an online heat. Got to get through two of them before I see a studio.

Ahh, gotcha Robert. Well still tell us how you get on.

Kev - yeah, me too, but I can multi task. Laptop, telly, mobile, two cats, life is good.

iS PLO much more popular in Europe than the US? Should DC have an edge?

I will answer that after I have done the latest in from Dave, which was....

"...Lost a couple of quick ones, including The Grinder, down to 13...."

When I first read that, I thought he meant he had lost a couple of pots, and had 13k, but on re-reading it - & I have reproduced his text word for word - it don't mean that.

13 left then!

To TightEnd's question now.

I have never played in America, so I don't really know, but my guess would be that the Americans probably consider themselves Omaha players, & the Europeans believe they are better Pot Limit players. What happens when you mix the two, I have no idea.

Should or does DC have an edge? Those that know DC will readily acknowledge that he is a modest guy, not given to trumpeting his abilities. But I can tell you he DOES consider he has an edge when playing Omaga against ANY player in the world. No need for false modesty, that's just the way he sees it. There you go.

thanks, but what is his edge even against the very best...it puzzles me

Another one gone.

Sandy

Prize structure to set the scene:

1. $389,435
2. $214,775
3. $118,010
4. $94,405
5. $70,805
6. $59,005
7. $47,205
8. $35,400
9. $23,600
10. $16,520
11. $16,520
12. $16,520

In pot limit omaha he is the very best tight end.

SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE SAID THIS TO ME, JUST DELVING INTO WHAT MAKES HIM SO GOOD, THAT'S ALL!

errrrrr you seem to have forgotten me ariston ;)

It puzzles all of us, especially his opponents. But he thinks he has that edge.

In Hold Em, he thinks he has less of a edge, but an edge nonetheless. His results back that up, he has won a small fortune in Hold Em down the years, 2 big comps evey year, Player of the Year 2003 & on the way to repeat (he hopes) in 2005, plus whaever he has won in big cash games, of which he plays plenty.

I don't know about you, but I look and look at players like him & try to fathom what they do different to the rest of us. And I just dont know, excpet they clearly DO do it better. Guess if we all knew, we'd all be as good.

But he considers himself a better Omaha player than hold 'Em player
.
Now, another text in from the man himself......

My dog could beat you at omaha kev and he only normally plays stud games. ;D

No need to shout !

Even young-ish folk like myself and Tikay have excellent hearing.

 ;)

".......Carnage here, we are down to 11 players. I have lost a pot too, and am down to 27k....."

CAPS LOCK + brain fade + multi tabling = shouting, sorry

So thanks to Robert who posted the Prize Structure for us, we can see Dave is now guaranteed a minimum $16,250.

But he needs to win the next pot he plays, it will be an all-in jobbie for sure, he is guaranted at least one caller, maybe 2 or 3. Still, that could be a treble or even quadruple up......

From cardplayer :-

David Colclough Doubles Up
Jim Bechtel raised, and David Colclough decided to move all in. Bechtel called and showed A-K-Q-J, while Colclough held A-A-9-2. The board brought no help for Bechtel and Colclough doubled up.


Sandy

Bingo !!

Glad to see you are there Karabiner, I was beginning to worry.

can i just add to the best starting hand debate

its questionable to the best starting hand some say AAKK ds others AAJT ds it all depands on your style of play i suppose

other good starting hands are KQJT ds where when you hit a flop you hit it hard

Great!

Dave aint texted that one through, maybe he's too busy counting and stacking all those chips.

Thanks Sandy. I love you.

can i just add to the best starting hand debate
No

its questionable to the best starting hand some say AAKK ds others AAJT ds it all depands on your style of play i suppose

other good starting hands are KQJT ds where when you hit a flop you hit it hard

 :P

Sandy

But here it is now....


"just doubled up with the Aces, I got 42k..."

somebody hold me back i might not be responable for my actions

Ooh-er Sandy - that's clever, how do you do that?

And don't be arguing with Ironside, he's the Scottish Irish Champion don't you know.

And Ironside - I thought you were going to bed?

Must be a new form of online caber-tossing.

 :-\

caber tosser? when you said he was a tosser earlier I misunderstood you ;)

just heard of a rule change anyone using a phone as the FIRST card is dealt will have the hand declared dead, beofer today it was as the LAST card was dealt. not sure if this is just in the event starting today or in the PLO aswell

Mr Ironside, I'm interested why AAJT ds? what particular style of play?

Looks like it, they are probably going at it hammer & tong (or even, perish the thought, hammer and thong - yuk, think about that) now in some glen.

I need to learn how to do that "quote" jiobbie too.

tikay i am on my way to bed these f***wits will have to wait till tomorrow night

Back to business......

"....10 left, me 55k...."

Gooooooooo Dave!

Just use the buttons above the smilies

Sandy

tikay and please give me my correct title its the

"international irish champion"

goodnight ironside. no tossing the caber eh

Sleep well Ironside, tomorrow you are going to be a tosser, of the caber variety.

sweat dreams

This is a rebuy job isn't it?
Do you know how many DC bought?

10 left.

Break time.

Good night grumpy.

Sandy

Spent $8000 so i assume double rebuy and double add on perhaps ?

Sandy

AAKK ds is looking to make 1 of 2 sets or a flush

AAJTds has straightening chances as well as the flush JT rather than the KQ because it has more straight chances

AAKK ds is the prefered hand of the preflop players AAJT ds is a hand that players with post flop skill prefer

i am going to be tossing some people over the cliff if they aint carefull

So it won't be just Dover with .....

Oh forget it.

SAndy

Thanks Sandy, and almost correct.

Entry $2,000

Immediate Rebuy before first hand is dealt - as all the others on the table did, he felt compelled to, $2,000

Double Add-on at Freeze, strategically compulsory, $4,000.

so the $8k is spot on.

Shar's going well in the plhe too.

Doubled up and only 6 laft.

He didn't get free entry then ?  ;)

Sandy

goooooooo onnnnnnn Davvvvvvvvvvvvvve!!!!!!!!!!!

You gotta ask yoursef though, how does he do it? I mean, how DOES he do it? no, really, how does he do it ???

ok you plonkers and tikay i am off to bed

How does he do it? Give in ... how does he do it??

Heres another from Dave, which raises a point I had not thought of, and am surprised wise old owl Karabiner did not bring to my attention......

"........10 minute break, to enable us to switch to a 10 handed table, blinds will go to 2k-4k....."

So thinking about it, as a semi short stack, he was struggling on a table of 5 or 6, whatever it was. But now they are 10 handed, I'd say that's a great advantage -or, rather, less of a disadvantage - to the short stacks.

Have forgotten the maths, but I think average is around 112k now.

Good news from Karabiner about Shar in the Hold 'Em - in the excitement, I had quite forgotten about that. Thanks Ralph.

Shall I ask Dave to keep popping across to the Hold 'En Final to keep an eye on Shar?

"wise old owl" just slightly younger-ish than Tikay !

But yes good point, big advantage for Dave to pay less in blinds.

Bet Mr. Arieh objected !

Don't be silly Ralph. You are younger than me? Who's gonna believe that?

Ironside has promised us he is going to bed at least three times. If he pops up here again tonight, he's on a Red Card.

move to 10 seat table an advantage, thought that was a no brainer, Im not usually very sharp, am I missing something?

Well I'm definitely off to bed.

I need my beauty sleep after your last comment !

Make sure you get Dave through.

just noticed robyong is logged on to the forum currently - does that mean he is out of the $5000?

wohooooooooooooooo been trying to get red for last few months

night all

Red, agree it's a no-brainer, but in the excitement, I had not given thought to the fact he was operating as a Bily Low Stack on a 5 or 6 handed table, & thus "move in time" was nearer than I realised. Knife edge, in fact.

RED CARD for Ironside, our first ever. 12 hour ban, 6 of which is suspended on account of his previous good conduct.

Oh ok sry, I miss the obvous so often, I thought Id done it again

"Rob Yong" has been logged on all night. I suspect it's actually his, err, au pair girl, or valet......

damm that means i will have to phone you in the morning to find out the results as i am leaving the house before the ban is lifted

You can look but you can't talk.

This is how the final 10 are seated, and their chip counts.

1. Erik Seidel     - $99,000
2. Josh Arieh     - $276,000
3. Max Pescatori   - $85,000
4. Tony Sevnsom  - $65,000
5. Jim Bechtel     - $47,000
6. Ron Graham    - $136,000
7. Chris Ferguson  - $100,000
8. Doug Lee      - $132,000
9. Arturo Diaz     - $220,000
10.David Colclough - $54,000

From cardplayer again.



Looks like he could do with a double up and he'd be in with a shout.

Sandy

gl dave did he not final in this last year ?

Damn you Ironside, I was working my way towards the first red card

that josh arieh is a dick! - he behaved like such an idiot in the main event last year - hope DC gets him!

4th.   http://www.thegoodgamblingguide.co.uk/spotlight/wsop2004/wsop2004_2904.htm

Sandy

Correct Foxy, he got $45,000 fior 4th. And the year before he made TWO WSOP Omaha Finals. He's moneyed in WSOP Omaha comps pretty much every year.
 
It's that edge we were dicussing earlier.....

And thanks for those smack up to the minute updates Sandy.

Shar gets knocked out 6th to a runner runner flush. :(

But the bad news is that Junior's hunch about Rob Yong looks like it was correct.

Rob Yong has just sent me an e-mail, attaching some pics from Vegas. I doubt if the au pair girl sent them....

does this mean we can slag him off and he cant answer back, or shall we start start a lap dancing conversation?

i'll be back

Yup Red. You got 6 hours of freedom to say what you like about Ironside.

perhaps not!!

i am trying too but keep forgetting something so keep coming abck to pc

(gonna have to learn to turn it off then i cant just turn on the monitor and read crap)

Back to the Omaha. They play down to 9 tonight, TV Final tomorrow, so we just want one bustee, & we can get outa here and have an early night..

ok gone to bed

remember red dog anything you say will be logged and used to slap you round the head with in a court of law

Jeez, the silence from Vegas is deafening. It's doing my heart no good at all.

Hey Robert, when are we going to get a pic of your fizzog on here, why should you escape the ridicule?

I fear for the well being of children and small animals if I were to show my face. There's one on this site who has seen me.

It seems the game in Vegas has gone super tight, it's the bubble from the TV table thing.

And as DC is a short stack, he dare not move exept in very late position, or else he's llikely to get a table full of callers.

Maybe he knows what he's doing.......

please dont take the micheal out of red dog like that its a tash not a small animal

More than one Robert. Red Dog was there, Julian, Penly, enfant terrible Gryko, Simon Trumper, loads more too.

And you aint that bad - no worse than Burnley John.

Cheeky s*d RED-DOG, just remembered you've met me as well.... and survived without being turned into a pillar of salt.
I'll ask the man of iron tomorrow for his assistance

Gosh that is true tikay.
Just been watching Burnley John on the box

A face like a rivet catchers glove

or an arc welders vice

Imagine him without make-up!

Splutter's coffee

Vegas news.

Fellow low stack Tony Sevnsom has doubled up - boo. At the expense of Chris Ferguson who now joins the low stack club. Yesssss.

great info again people. just wanted to say good luck to dave and all those heading out there. enjoy.

wearing just a thong.....NO! I've gone to far

Thanks Happy Steve.

But it's not happy Dave, he's down to the felt with 30k. Something has to give soon. I cant believe he's locked up & trying to ladder, that aint his game. Guess just cant find a place to move.

only takes one hand tk !!!!

True, but that one hand needs to be soonish......

am i right we down to 10 players?

And former kow stack Svensom Gets The Aces again, & doubles up again, this time off the chip leader. It aint going well for our man, the wrong guys are winning the pots.

Correct Steve. It's a 9 man TV Final, & they finish for the day  - and so do I - as soon as one guy busts out.

And wins more with aces for a third time.

Ever get the feeling someone is going to get aces busted to go home ?

 :(

Sandy

And Svensom gets Aces AGAIN - the second time in successive hands, & 3rd time in 1 round. Held up every time too.

well im glad i aint the only person sitting up at 2.20 sweating on an englishman!! be lucky dave

I got that feeling too Sandy.....

But Dave likes to move with middley straightey sort of cards, so maybe he will bust Aces.

I heard somewhere that aces sometimes lose to other aces at omaha :)

Ditto... match sticks at work here

Sadly Steve, Dave is Welsh. Makes it even worse!

well Im not going to just sit here, Im going to make a sacrafice to the poker gods (two rashers of home cured bacon should do it)

Fellow Celt  :)

Hope you put hp sauce on it and none of that red rubbish.

Sandy

I just watched burnley John's EPT event from the vic on telly.... didnt Mr Shipley get some hands !!! excellent coverage though.

No naked virgins left in the fridge then??

That did the trick Red Dog - Dave just doubled up with kings!

David Colclough Doubles Up

David Colclough just doubled up. Colclough was the only real short stack at the table and thanks to Arturo Diaz, he is not that short anymore. Diaz had a pair of eights, but Colclough had Kings, and was able to double through. Now, no player is in real danger anymore.


Woohoo.

Sandy

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

want me to bring you up a sausage red dog ??

AND NICE ONE mr C.:)

You better make 6 bacon sarnies Red Dog - Dave will be chip leader then!

On no! It took me ages to forget the sausage

you'll all be doing it in vegas now

welll for once we cheer the celts on on lol. go Dave

Pescatori has doubled up now.

This could take ages so i'm wimping out.

Night all.

Sandy

Dont blame ya Sandy, what with the time difference in scotland, you must be well tired :)

Going to Paris for a tax efficient jolly soon, got an reply email from Aviation Club when I asked for some info. It includes the following line:

"Please note that you will need to present your passport at the entrance desk, fill in a form and have a correct dress"

Correct dress?? Can I borrow that nice floral, off the shoulder, number of yours RED DOG?

im here for the duration. already decided to blow work out!!

i have a nice pink floral outfit. damn should i really be saying thet!!!!

ROFLMAO ;D ;D

When you called yourself happy steve, did you in fact mean gay ? :)

Yeah me too happy, didn't get in from the casino till 4.30 yesterday, blinked and woke up at 2pm!! so i gotta have today off to make it look good :P
Come on Dave!!

Damn you worked it out lol

well its all those hours watching petrocelli on uk gold ;)

kev, colchester, essex????

Britains oldest recorded town...yep :)
apparently they excavated by the army barracks recently and found ancient roman coins and artefacts, and a picture of Tikay in a toga ;)

DAVE HAS FINALLED

... but a fashoinable toga for the period that is?

Yippeee!!

Who crashed?

He has 50k. Not much, but he's stll there. Wow!

Also famous for being Army's Glass House. Not far down road, Hornchurch

fantastic news .... look forward tol updates from the final table tomorrow :)

good lad I can go to bed now.

Did it have "bubble boy" written underneath?
go Dave!!

Dunno yet, his text just said "Final at last, 50k". That'll do nicely Mr Colclough. WE are well proud of you - WHAT a battle that was.

way to go dave. tikay , you said he would final

I did - but I was wobbling near the end. And we are 8,000 miles away - think what it's like for those guys at the table!

Thanks to everyone who sweated Dave again tonight.

It was emotional, as that famous guy on TV says.

think Ill have a sarnie to celebrate

kev, u there??

OK, I'm not there, but feels good.

Feels mega. And he's on a MINIMUM $23,600. And the maximum? About two wheelbarrows full.

does $15 grand profit cover your buy in tony??

Good night folks

Hehe, I wish it worked like that Steve!

Yes Dave! Good luck for today mate! We've all got faith in ya.  ;D

I'm absolutely gutted I'm gonna miss the blondites' blow by blow report.  :-[

Good luck Dave. Bring it home.

Well done and Good Luck in the Final Dave

Eugene, Mel and Declan

Dave passes on his thanks to all you guys who have sweated him the last 2 days. I thanked him for texting us those updates, it's not every Pro that would do that, but he's not every pro, eh?

But we have a little problem tonight, in that as it's being recorded for television, Dave is not allowed to have his 'phone at the table.

So I have sent a text to a few mates in Vegas, asking if they can help us.

But if any of "our" guys read this, please ask around & see if you can find someone who is sweating Dave, & can send me texts.

We got Rob Yong, Nottingham Niick, Irish Denis, WSOPin05, and many others out there, so lets keep our fingers crossed.

Good luck Dave, I'll be following tonight and i'm sure if all else fails you'll bring a lot of entertainment to the TV table (as last year).

What time GMT does the final start... ?

gl dave,
tikay assures me HE WILL go blonde WHEN YOU get the bracelet

i echo the good luck, but on the tikay front you sure it is not grey hey meant oops he already is

What time they starting ?  must be soon

2 pm vegas time which is 10pm  our time.

Sandy