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Welcome back to Birmingham for coverage of the final day of the English Deepstack Poker Championships II

Play begins at 1pm

Overnight chip counts

Steve Ball 2,920,000
James Power 1,246,000
Jim Tierney 1,183,000
Aamir Masood 938,000
Andy King 865,000
Ash Ahmed 840,000
James Shaw 690,000
Rajesh Khanna 588,000
Johnny Zaib 565,000
Alex Mah 539,000
Vance Martin 454,000
Ron Mathissen 442,000

1      £27,850.00
2      £17,650.00
3      £13,000.00
4      £10,000.00
5      £7,500.00
6      £5,200.00
7      £4,000.00
8      £3,000.00
9      £2,400.00
10th-12th   £1,900.00

Live stream of today's action can be seen at

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=54715.0

Thank you to the organisers D 4 events for their sponsorship of this update

Universally regarded as great sturcutred events, they'll be back in the UK for the English Short Handed Championships at Luton in November

see http://www.d4events.com/europeanshorthandedpokertour/index.html

Before that there are a few seats for 1a of the European Short-handed in Dublin next week

see http://www.euroshorthandedpoker.com/English/


All events highly recommended

Who are the final twelve?

Steve Ball 2,920,000

Unknown to me before this week, a member of the "South Shropshire Poker Club"

James Power 1,246,000

Badly Drawn Boy lookalike, local, best finish 21st in the Genting Players Championship last time round

Jim Tierney 1,183,000

From Bristol, winner of a side event at the local Gala festival last month

Aamir Masood 938,000

blonde member "muckthenuts" has impressed a lot of people who have played against him this week

Andy King 865,000

From Southend, six festival cashes in his home town in the last two years

Ash Ahmed 840,000

Walsall regular, and one of the best from that casino with a prolonged record of success in medium sized festival events going back over a decade.

James Shaw 690,000

blonde member "Shawrie85" from Leeds

Rajesh Khanna 588,000

Local player. Not a single database entry

Johnny Zaib 565,000

From Blackburn, a regular in North West festival events. Best cash for £6k in 2007

Alex Mah 539,000

2nd in a Broadway £100 in 2009, winner of a Gala side event in Liverpool in 2011

Vance Martin 454,000

218th in the recent DTD Grand Prix. Best biography entry ever

Ron Mathissen 442,000

Dutch player, a regular on this tour

Thanks for some great updates Tightend. Worth every penny!

If anyone fancy's a crack at the 6 Max in Dublin next week we have had a room cancellation. 4 nights in a twin room available for €276. Hotel is sold out otherwise.

There are over 500 players prepaid or qualified. Approx 450 of them French. It is probably the best structured 6 Max event around. Re-entries are allowed on Day 1B if you bust Day 1A making it a bit better value for the travelling player.

Luton in November is capped at 180 with local satellites starting in October.

Next chance for a crack at a Deep Stack in Dublin in February. Amazingly without advertising it yet we have nearly 50 pre-registrations already. Last year was 737 players and we expect to get more this year as we have every year so far!

/Spam

I hope you enjoy the rest of the live updates here and on the live stream. As usual good to meet more blondes that I have not met before. Especially good to meet Pav the Cat again who has the unique distinction of being the only player to lose to me in a heads up match live :)

What's the exact date for the Deep Stack in Dublin next year? How & where can I pre-register? Thanks

Hi Daiva,

It is the 7th - 12th Feb 2012. Details here: http://www.europeandeepstackpoker.com/tournaments/euro_ds/

Main Event in Dublin is a 4 day event with a better structure than the normal tour.

Two events added for 2012:

€2500 High roller with same structure as main event. This takes place before the main. Good interest so far from players who would normally play this level of event.

€550 Omaha. Triple chance with 3 * 10k stacks. Now we are at such volume for this event we should get a decent sized field for this.

Last years numbers were:

737 in the main event
370 in the €300 Side
175 in the €200 Side
99 in the D4 Satellite for €1000 tour packages

Hotel deals will be available in two weeks time so don't book your hotels yet!

Online satellites already on Red Hot Poker and other sites will have them soon.

Underway

blinds 12-24k

9 handed final


Ash Ahmed has won the first pot, raise pre and c-bet on 9-7-3 taking it down

Great stuff - thank you.

Jim Tierney raises the small blind

James Shaw calls in the big

K-6-8

Tierney bets 91k, Shaw calls

2 turn

check, Shaw 240,000, Tierney passes

Martin and Matthissen get it all in

7-7 versus Matthiseen's AK

Ace on the river doubles the Dutchman up

880,000 pot

Martin down to 11,000

Martin all in, with Power and Masood calling the all in

K-J-10-4-6

A-9 for Masood wins the pot


Vance Martin out 12th

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0Rxtmr1egw8/TnXg5X3Y2DI/AAAAAAAATj4/2MgrR51pgEg/s512/003.JPG)

masood 3 bets Khanna and wins the pot

On the other table Ball 3 bets King, King passes

Andy King raises, Tierney calls in the small blind

Tierney leads on 8-6-4

King three bets

Tierney calls

10 on the turn

Tierney check folds

King shows 9-9



R Matthissen wins a 500,000 pot off Khanna with K-6 for a rivered full house

Hotel room for Dublin gone already.

good luck to jim tierney hit this today and off to the vic tomorrow

Ahmed raises, Mah all in, Ahmed fold


Matthissen raises, Masood 3 bet, Matthiseen passes showing an Ace

Just wanted to echo previous comments regarding fantastic structure etc.. Steve Ball knocked me out in a mistimed bluff  ::),but that aside
if he continues to run as well/play as well as yest he'll be hard to catch! Nice chap to boot  ;D

Good luck to the remaining players, met some great characters over the weekend and I will def be playing more D 4 events in the future.  8)

Cheers to Tighty for the updates, top job.
Gary Peniket

Raj Khanna shoves A-4 blind on blind

Amir Masood calls with K-10

10-5-3-9-4

Raj Khanna out 11th

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XOCxC-MLEdM/TnXhGvr_toI/AAAAAAAATj8/k5DW9ynhfZs/s512/001.JPG)

lol comedy scenes here as 3 minutes into a dwell, Steve Ball has a drink spilt down him, spends two minutes asking for a valet and a cloth, dwells again

and 3 bets blind on blind over a Alex Mah lead

Alex Mah is the short-stack of ten remaining and faces a decision on  9-6-4, probably committing him to the pot if he continues


He folds, and we move on

Good Luck Jim! Do it for the Bristol boys!

Alex Mah K-9 v Ball's K-J, shove and call pre

Ball holds, Alex Mah out 10th

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1D32VtB56qU/TnXhKsstNuI/AAAAAAAATkU/k3IyB79plnw/s512/008.JPG)

Simultaneously.....

Power raises the button

Matthissen 3 bets the big blind called

500k pot

9-Q-9

Matthissen all in 629k

Power folds....KQ ("ugh", "ugh", "really?" etc etc from the rail.....)

Matthisen shows...8-8




FINAL

seat 1 Ron Mattissen 1,190,000

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kDN9vsL9YkU/TnXhIvzsxUI/AAAAAAAATkI/p1K1JSTceFU/s512/005.JPG)

seat 2 James Shaw  1,022,000

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FZ_BNvjaPrk/TnXhMZfkuXI/AAAAAAAATkg/R7bKXFpA7a4/s512/011.JPG)


seat 3 Steve Ball 3,600,000

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-P6Um2mvfJFU/TnXhLJm-cfI/AAAAAAAATkY/xcjM_E65N7w/s512/009.JPG)

seat 4 Jim Tierney 540,000

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-A8K12W51lhQ/TnXhLql9lJI/AAAAAAAATkc/FVFEgIoQB-U/s512/010.JPG)

seat 5 Ash Ahmed 760,000

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-sLyLaX8V1DQ/TnXhJ7-obkI/AAAAAAAATkQ/kohObN1Q7YI/s512/007.JPG)

seat 6 Aamir Masood 1,420,000

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-MN5PRp3XUQQ/TnXhHphM9JI/AAAAAAAATkA/MgXwr8JXSqk/s512/002.JPG)

where m8?

seat 7 Andy King 930,000

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ViiLQ7St4cI/TnXhNfRLqYI/AAAAAAAATko/sBsLTk4iO-8/s512/013.JPG)


seat 8 James Power 1,145,000

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wJB8CFnwBVU/TnXhIN7dibI/AAAAAAAATkE/TxOhQdTx2kc/s512/004.JPG)


seat 9 Johnny Zaib 325,000

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-3kSW_vgnyhM/TnXhJDscblI/AAAAAAAATkM/lRPzNLc3wtM/s512/006.JPG)

first post of the thread

Ball has 3.8m of 11m in play

blinds are 15-30k

gl to jimdog (james shaw) hasnt had much luck last couple of months so this would be great for his confidence take it down son! :)

GL shawrie

James Shaw the most active at the final so far, lost the first pot to Ball but has taken down several uncontested since

No major action yet

Good luck Ash.

10-J-2-Q

Check from Power in the blinds

Ahmed bets 90,000, called

J on the river

check check

8-9 for Power wins

Power 85,000

Zaib on the button all in 235,000 total

Power passes

Andy King 80,000

Steve Ball in the big blind

thinks, thinks some more, thinks again

Ponders, cogitates, digests, thinks

Raises to 200,000 total


King thinks, think and thinks


I've answered five PMs in this time

All good, multi-tasking


He's still thinking

He has about 750,000 left


Quick check of facebook by me


Any action? No, not yet

OK then, off to twitter


Oh, King moves all in

Ball folds showing an Ace

Ron Matthissen raises 65,000

Shaw and Ball call in position

Ahmed all in in the big blind 500,000

(http://www.sweetslyrics.com/images/img_gal/13272_squeeze%20(1).jpg)

Pass, pass, pass

Shows A-3 off

Played, sir

nice read on the football yesterday phil when i asked you what your bet of the day was going to be u went with arsenal, think you might have been abit too overconfident when they were up 2-1 lol :) great commentary as always jamie

Ball raises, Zaib calls

8-10-J

check, 88,000 Ball

Zaib folds, down to 300k or 10x bb

Zaib all in

5s 4d Td

Matthissen and Masood face the bet

Matthissen folds

Masood calls  Kd Jd

Zaib  2d 5d

 3s  9h


Zaib doubles up

GLGL blondes.

Andy King is R8APK i think on blonde more of a lurker than poster
GL to him

Break coming, 15 minutes

Lots of raise fold, very few flops

Need someone to take charge, the chip leader with 4m isn't that aggressive, more of a caller/hitter than a raiser

any names top the 300 side event last night?

blinds 20-40k ra 5k

average 1.2m


we re-start

Steve Ball raises UTG

Johnny Zaib all in for 450,000 more

Here we go again. Nap time for the updater.......

Gl jim tierney an I'm sorry about the call on the 4 card flush draw but I didn't believe u had a flush :)
Rich what time is the £200 tonight ? How many played the £300 ?

Pass, so a nice recovery from Zaib from 300,000 to about 800,000 either side of the break

£200 was 2pm today

£300 got 65 or so, 10 left. Mark McCluskey the only face I can spot

Never met either of them but good luck to the 2 blonde lads.

Ball raises sb, Tierney calls bb

7-5-7

check, Tierney bets 155,000

Ball passes.

Ball raises to 90,000, Power calls

 7d 9c 9h

check, Ball 140,000

Power playing 1.2m

calls

 7c

check, Ball 220,000

Power all in!

870,000 is the count to call

CALL!

Power A-9

Ball K-K

Powell doubles up to 2nd chip leader 2.4m

revised chip counts

Power 2.9m
Ball 2.1m
Masood 1.1m
Tierney 1m
Matthissen 900,000
Zaib 750,000
Shaw 750,000
King 750,000
Ahmed 600,000

King 115,000

Zaib 3 bets 245,000

King folds



Speaking as a neutral observer, we need some action

However what a testament to this structure. Oodles of play

what are the blinds?

Shaw raises to 90,000

King in the big blind calls

 6s 3c 2s

King checks, Shaw 150,000

King all in

Shaw has 600,000 back at 20-40k

Shaw calls all in

King  7s 8s

Shaw  5d 5s

 9s on the turn

James Shaw out 9th winning £2,400

blinds are 20-40k

Average 1.4m

Masood all in 920,000 over a Ball raise of 120,000

Ball passes

 

Power raises. Matthiessen calls

240,000 in the middle

9h 8c Ts

check, Power bets 160,000

Matthiessn has 600,000 behind

He makes it 360,000

Clock put on Power

He passes

Matthissen 110,000

Ball 300,000

Tierney 855,000 all in

Matthiessen big think, passes A-Q

Ball calls

Ball  Kd Kh

Tierney  Kc Ac


 2d Td Js 9c  6d


Jim Tierney out 8th winning £3,000

blinds 25-50k

7 left

Amir Masood 3 bet shoves the big blind over a Matthiessen raise, and gets it through

Power 170,000 UTG

Ahmed all in 640,000 big blind

Powell passes

Matthiessen 120,000

Ahmed all in in the big blind

For 775,000 total

The call is counted out

If he calls/loses he is left with 400,000

He passes

Amir Masood raises the button

Power three bets the small blind

Masood shoves, insta call

Masood A-10

Power 10-10

6-A-6-4-8

Masood a big double up to 2.5m

Cannot believe the comedian on the live stream. go Aamir

Masood a big double up to 2.5m
[/quote]

Ball 85,000 UTG

Matthiessen all in

Ball folds


This, ladies and gentlemen, while it was a bit turgid for a while...is now anyone's...much flatter chip stacks

Q-3-J-9 rainbow

Masood bets 140,000  from the button

Power check raises to 370,000 from the blinds

Masood passes

Power shows a Queen

Ball 135,000

Zaib in the big blind is down to 650,000

He calls

 5c Qh Qs

Zaib leads for 160,000

Ball announces all in

Zaib passes

[/quote]

I had to give him the button too

Ball 2.8m

Masood 2.5m

King 1.5m

Matthissen 1m

Power 1m

Ahmed 900k

Zaib 300k
break soon, then 25-50k

can someone tell me how many runners last night and time of start for tonights side event

Zaib shoves A-6

Kin bb calls A-9

4-7-10-Q-A

4 spades on the board, Zaib has the  6s

He doubles up to over 700k



the ladderers at the table rejoice

65 last night

59 in today's side that started at 2pm

I had to give him the button too
[/quote]

lol

everyone on silent today ralph?  ;)

cheers

Ahmed raises

Masood re-raises to 390,000 and takes it down

Masood min raises to 100k

King 290k

Masood passes

lol

everyone on silent today ralph?  ;)
[/quote]

Yeah lol. having a bad/tetchy day commentator-wise.

Break for 15 minutes

I am off to find a bucket, fill it with cold water, and stick my head in it

15 times

 :D

just nodded off watchin live stream

Official stuff

Matthiessen 1.59m
Ball 2.63m
Ahmed 790k
Masood 2.57m
King 1.83m
Powell 1.26m
Zaib 605k

Amir Masood wins a 500,000 pot off James Power


Ash Ahmed all in, uncalled

Powell min raises, Masood 3 bet all in

all in call by Powell

Masood A-K

Power Q-10

Huge call by Power.


K-9-6-A-8


James Power out 7th winning £4,000

muckthenuts Aamir 3.5m with 6 left. Chip leader

Ball min raises UTG

Matthissen calls in the bb

8-8-4

check and Ball bets 220,000

Snap called

turn 10

Mathiessen bets 300,000 on what is now a three heart board

Ball passes

Masoodd raises, King calls

4-K-K

Masood c bets

King folds

Ahmad, Masood and Mathissen were on all the same table at the end of day 1 with myself, my moneys on Mathissen to to do well.

Masood raises the button

King all in small blind 1.6m

Zaib passes with a 5x bb stack in the bb

masood passes

Zaib all in 330,000 UTG

King in the big blind calls

Zaib A-7

King K-6

10-9-9-5-2

Zaib doubles up again

Masood min rasies

Ball in the big blind 3 bets to 330,000

Masood passes

Ball 150,000

Masood raises to 390,000

Ball calls

 Qc 2c 3s

check check

 2d

check check

 7c

check check

masood AK which wins

blinds up 40-80k

6 left

average 1.9m

Ahmed check raises Masood all in on

A-7-4

1.1m the all in

Masood states he has a pair, and folds

Zaib all in UTG again with 5xbb

King in the bb again

King passes

Zaib shows AA

He can now pass for another two orbits

is shaw - shawrie 85 or something on blonde????

Mark The Thistle McCluskey, chip leader 5handed in the 300 side. Gl to him.

Mathiessen 180,000

Ahmed calls on the button

King all in big blind 1.1m

Mathiessen passes

Ahmed passes

lols

King had Squeezed Q-9

Mathiessen passed 10-10

Ahmed passed 8-8

Mathiessen 10-10 raise calls

Masood A-A

J-5-K-A-6

Ron Mathiessen out 6th winning £5,200

Zaib all in 480,000 UTG

Masood calls

Masood A-8

Zaib Q-Q

4-10-3-Q-3

Zaib doubles again


Remarkable survival skills for the Blackburn veteran

So much for my prediction on Mathissen doing well, he should have called in the previous hand when he said he had pocket 10s and the guy showed Queen 9 when he shoved on the big blind. Masood for the win now. 

Aamir Masood shoves 9-8 in the small blind

King has a tricky decision and calls all in in the bi blind with 3-3

4-8-Q-A-7

Andy King out 5th winning £7,500

Well Played Andy...
Come on Ash....

Masood 5m

Ahmed 2.5m

Ball 2m

Zaib 1.5m

40-80k

Ahmed limp calls the small blind v Masood

A-8-Q

Check check

6

Ahmed 340,000 into 450,000

Call

9

Ahmed checks, Masood all in

Pass

A-A Zaib

A-8 Ball

all in  and a call

Zaib is blessed, hands at the right time all day

8-7-9-K-5

Zaib doubles again

Has Mark closed the 300 yet?

heads up or dealt. away from the table with 2 stacks in play

Break, back at 8.40pm

Chip Counts

Masood 6,425,000
Zaib 3,040,000
Ahmed 1,335,000
Ball 480,000

1 £27,850
2 £17,650
3 £13,000
4 £10,000

glgl Muckthenuts...seems to be crushing.

The 300 over Tighty?

Ball must be deflated having gone from 3.8m to 0.5m looking like he could go out next.

300 results:

Mark McCluskey £4330
Simon Cawleu £3300
D Sami £3300
Sadri Mokni £1600
John Mulhern £1175
Nam To £875

Simon Cawley........... hope so?

Play resuming

blinds 50-100k

Ball small blind shove J-10

Ahmed call big blind K-7

K-9-2-J-A

Steve Ball out 4th winning £10,000

Ash to win this. First rate player.

great updates Tighty.

Zaib wins a 1m pot off Masood, Qx on a Q-3-2 calling down the streets

Ahmed raise folds to Masood

At 1.2m, 12x bb

Aamir Masood running these two over, about 7m of the 11m in play

Ahmed shove Q-8

Masood call A-8

4-7-4-2-10


Ash Ahmed out 3rd for £13,000

Masood 8m plays Zaib 3m Heds Up

Zaib check calls flop and shoves turn on 3-4-6-8

Uncalled. Up to about 3.5m

Amir wins a pot with  9h x on  6h 8h Th Qh  4d, 300,000 on the river paid off

All

(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQEcEn1cOylRl8k0hjMHNlU06vxZTNDMlyb33tTZXoATNHrG8ndYUZ6wuEhsw)

so far

8.8 plays 2.2

Constant aggression versus old style passivity

Impressive stuff this from muckthenuts

relentless, and Zaib has 15xbb left

Zaib check raises all in on  2d 9d Ad 7c and gets a pass, wins 1.4m pot

6-3-9-8

Zaib check calls 600k

2.2m pot now

river 7

Zaib has 1.8m left

check, all in, call


Zaib 10-9

Zaib doubles up

Nice river check from Zaib

Masood 6m, Zaib 5m

blinds 60-120k

Masood building again, chipping away, winning about 75% of the pots

3-2-2-10-9

Zaib calls a min raise on the flop, check calls the turn, leads 1m on the river into 1.5m wins the pot

Even stevens again

9-Q-6-8-7

Masood wins a 1.5m pot with J-10 and a three heart flop, bet called, check check turn and value bet paid off on river

blinds up 80-160k

about 5-6m each

Visions of John Juanda HU at the WSOPE must disappear from my head quikcly....

chip counts at a break

Masood 7.5m

Zaib 4m

Doing a great job tighty!!!

Nothing personal to these guys, and a great event and all that...but how bad do I run with prolonged finishes?

Anyway, two dealers

Twice the hands for our money



There was a very brief break discussion about money, don't know who said what to who...

great updates tighty!!

no chop one time...

Speed dealers

good old Johnny Zaib struggling to keep up with with the pace of the dealing.


Quite comedy really.

"blinds please" as he is stacking his chips from the hand before

I must be home for the late NFL game

starts 1.20am

90 minute journey time


11.45pm finish, 5 minutes for photos, leave 11.50pm


that's my cut off


come on Aamir and Johnny, no pressure!

AAmir to grind him down for 30 mins. you get your wish when hes gets it in with aj vs at

1.2m in on

4-9-2-2

10 river

check check

7-5 for Zaib, seven high beats 5-3

900k in on 7-9-5-5

5 river, 400k from Masood, wins

Fuck it, The Tower is singing

Masood 320k

Zaib 3 bet, his first heads up, to 720k

Masood passes

7.4m plays 3.6m here, Aamir Masood in the lead at 80-160k

Zaib has certainly found the 3-bet in the blinds here, to some effect. Thats 4 times in 15 minutes now

6-2-5

400k from Zaib called

2 check check

10 check 600k call

Masood wins with K-6

Fml just found this. I won a stars package in Galway and Jonny and ali Mallu bummed in my room with me. Jonny bought 4 days worth if home cooked food that his wife had prepared for him. His wife's a great cook. Lol

7-10-6-3-3

450k called by Masood on the turn

Zaib bets 1m on the river

Masood folds

blinds up 100k-200k

Will be the last level

It just will

150 minutes into heads up......

((((hugz))))

1.6m in the middle on

Kd-7-5-4d

1m bet from Masood

all in

call

J-7dd for Masood

K-Q for Zaib

Black ten on the river

We have a winner


Amir Masood finishes 2nd for £17,650



Our winner is Jehan Zaib for £27,850



Well played both

Your winner

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BPzgx3MRXFo/TnZ6S-HZ11I/AAAAAAAATks/QiD0oXQI-w8/s512/IMG_9036.JPG)

Fantastic updates as always, thank you.

and from me here at the Broadway, goodnight!

Great updates Tighty.

ul muckthenuts, know you will be gutted to lose HU vs an older guy like this :(

weeeeeeeee on the 17 bags tho.

omg very well played johnny. am pretty sure the skullman, harry the piano, Ali and all the guys in manchester will all be going wild.
congrats on joining team hendonmob and a  100% h/u record. ;)

Congrats to Jehan - vwp! and thanks to Rich for brilliant updates! Look forward to playing in this event again.

Great updates tighty.

Less of the older guy shit Pleno lololol

Great updates Tighty! Was a little gutted i didn't win but happy all the same. Congrats to Johnny i thought he played really well, deserved winner, gl to him in the future.

Aamir

Muck the Nuts played the best game on the final table but you have to hand it to Johnny for his survival skills. He would have gone in about 8th if he hadn't binked a flush with A6 v A9.

We all had our moment of luck to be there but once MTN won with AT v TT, he ran the table. I was pleased to be there and was more than happy with £10k for 4th.

Thanks for the coverage.

Steve

Well played Steve (Ball, who finished 4th) and welcome to blonde