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910 began over three starting days and 22 remain as follows

Lee Taylor    14    5    5660000
Kieran Plater    13    1    4250000
Danish Gandhi    13    6    3505000
Marius Lietuvninkas    12    7    3430000
David Williams    14    3    3400000
Sean Randall    12    4    2930000
Cina Farazdaghi    12    2    2310000
Giedrius Mockunas    14    2    2290000
Glen Mccabe    14    4    2255000
Darren Copus    12    3    2235000
Marios Andreas    13    4    2085000
Charles Akadiri    12    5    1855000
James Browning    14    8    1345000
Matt Perrins    13    5    1220000
Tin Yau Li    13    8    1085000
Sean Belton    12    6    1015000
Gary Jones    13    7    970000
Senh Man Ung    14    6    830000
Nick Jamieson    14    1    830000
Thomas Myland    13    3    805000
Anthony Mackay    13    2    750000
Stuart Fox    12    8    485000

1. £110,000.00
2. £65,000.00
3. £43,000.00
4. £30,000.00
5. £22,000.00
6. £17,000.00
7. £12,000.00
8. £8,500.00
9. £6,500.00
10. £5,000.00
11. £4,500.00
12. £4,500.00
13. £3,750.00
14. £3,750.00
15. £3,300.00
16. £3,300.00
17-24. £2,800.00

Once again many thanks to Jonathan for his hard work over the weekend

One more day


Alongside the updates this afternoon the whole of the final day's play will be live streamed

Play moves 8 handed, and there will be a feature table throughout

The link for that commentary and chatbox is at http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/live.php

I will be in the commentary booth with Paul Zimbler


Please post on the updates as you watch

Interesting.

Very best of luck today Tighty and I echo your sentiments re: Jon's efforts, wp both of you.

Looking forward to the final. Special well wishes to Mr Belton though fear he's playing for second place behind Marius...

So, some information about some of your final 22....I don't know all of the guys, but I know most...

The runners and riders and the form guide


Lee Taylor

Lee, from Newcastle overcame an unpromising start. Two Lee Taylors in the field, both wanted to sit in the same seat, and this Lee was asked to move.....on such fine margins are tournaments won and lost. Lee is from Newcastle, best result is a 4th in a GUKPT £500 at Coventry and whatever happens this is already his highest live cash

Kieran Plater

Kieran looks about 14. Son of DTD regular Ian, he posts on blonde as donkieplayer. With his shock of Ginger hair, the one thing you notice about Kie when you walk the tables is his real enthusiasm for the game. Bounces around like a card-playing tigger, simply loves it. This is his first live festival cash, a terrific achievement already. Good news really, as the school term starts this week, and there's new uniform to buy

Marius Lietuvninkas 

Tough player, a regular on the UK circuit since 2009. Best result 6th in a UKIPT for over £8,000. Based in London with a string of minor festival cashes to his name. Dark horse for this, not a lot of update profile, but a real threat

David Williams

If its the David I am aware of, a Les Croups regular in Cardiff, only festival cashes so far at his local casino

Sean Randall 

DTD regular at the big events, indeed he won the DTD Deepstack in its £300 buy in days for over £12,000.

Cina Farazdaghi   

No database entries. Guessing a bit here but judging from who was railing him online, a Northampton player with that good crop of young players (and John Black)? Someone can confirm....

Glen McCabe 

Irishman Glen with a string of festival results in the Republic, including an outright win in Kildare. Best ever DTD result 10th in a monthly Deepstack

Marios Andreas   

Marios is from London, with a few results in festivals in places like Big Bluff, where he scooped £14,500 in a £200 buy in event for finishing 2nd! I remember him on Day1a, drawn next to Chilli and giving her problems most of the day

James Browning

The veteran of the field. Effusive and erudite, loquacious and pragmatic. TV veteran from Poker Night Live, Sky Poker. Many poker involvements over many years. Very steady and consistent player. According to THM, has never had a five figure tournament cash, which surprised me

Matt Perrins

$750,000 of live database cashes including a WSOP bracelet, winner of IPT Venice, 2nd in a DTD Monte Carlo etc etc. Has never had leading chips in this, but in many ways is the class of the field. Hostelries in Leeds await another big cash with baited breath

Sean Belton

Former DTD Dealer, website entrepreneur, blonde diarist, Shaggy from Scooby-Doo lookalike, we thought there was no beginning to this man's talents. Today he can rpove us wrong. Going to be one of the best supported players on here, zerofive has a big chance today. Already his biggest live cash, I'd love him to hit it big today.

Senh Man Ung

West Midlands based tournament reg, highest cash £8,000 in a GUKPT. Looks hard as nails, plays hard as nails.


Nick Jamieson

5th in a UKIPT Galway side event, won into and cashed in the PCA for $30,000

Thomas Myland

The best builder in St Albans. Strangest diarist on blonde. A Luton regular for 67 years, with his own unique style on and off the table. Seeing his hole cards on the live stream will, for me, solve one of my ancient poker riddles. How does he do it?

Anthony Mackay

Anthony is a high stakes London cash game and tournament regular, at places like the Vic. Really strong game, database entries consistently since 2006, primarily in London and not often seen at DTD. Take him lightly at your peril

Stuart Fox

Coming into today as the short-stack Stuart from Birmingham is an extremely likeable and successful tournament pro with $1.4m in career winnings including a three WSOP final tables, two EPT finals and a WPT final. Took a break from the game a while ago with the arrival of his son, but came back last year as good as he ever was. I hope he gets chips today, would love to watch him go deep here


Others

Danish Gandhi
Giedrius Mockunas 
Darren Copus
Charles Akadiri 
Gary Jones (not "the choirboy" i don't think)
Tin Yau Li

Information on these guys gratefully received, thanks!

Just woke up and mr Taylor's chip leader think I'll be letting the wife know I am off to rail him and most probley have to explain what rail means then I'll be to start the 2hr trip..... COME ON LEE TAYLOR :)

Gl to 21 of the runners     .....

Chortle

Glglgl Bernard. No longer a builder though, now St Albans' answer to Ted Moult.

Cina Farazdaghi I'm sure is a member of the www.Pokertube.com team. Online reg. From Belgium. Really good player. One to watch Tighty.

Bets of luck to Sean today. Ship the lot mate.

could it be cinarocket

good luck to all.
Especially Tom Myland

Great summary tighty. I've never met that ginger kid before but seen him bouncing around like Tigger on a sunny D drip so be good if he ships it

......GO ON PEZ, get the lot.  Best of luck to to Foxy, who is a top bloke and the guy from Luton Tom although I havent got a clue who he is

A reminder:
Out of the 22 remaining, we still have 3 Golden Chips remaining hoping to win a CPP Package on top of the £110,000 for 1st place
These are:

Sean Randall
Stuart Fox
Lee Taylor

Hey guys, I can confirm that I'm not from Northanmpton but from Belgium and I don't know John Black directly but am good friend with Tom Langley who is JB's friend.

What was said above (pokertube member) is true.

Good luck guys.

Should be a great final day to a great comp. Fantastic achievement to get 910 this time of year sure they will break the 1000 if they do it again.
Love the description of James Browning !! As for a winner well loads and loads of talent, Matt Perrins bound to go well but needs a good start to chip up. James Browning sure to ladder up considerably. But for me its Marius have known him since the UKIPT 1 leaderboard battle and ran in to him a few times since. Have expected him to win something big for a while sure he will go close today.
       Looking forward to the livestream and commentary wish I was doing a bit myself should be a great finale.

Danish Gandhi plies his trade at gala Leicester. Would certainly make the cash games even juicier if he could book a win!

fyp

on top of the above, a MASSIVE thank you to the updaters, commentators, dealers, TD's and of course the DTD back room staff....
Sucks to have missed this event but by all accounts its been run superbly with a great structure and DTD's usual top notch service all round.

#ukpokerpredtd?


Thanks to Rob and everyone else involved!

From what Langley says, its my shame we don't know each other.. best of luck sir... take Key's chips and make it happen!

#confirmedtl900connection

Best of luck to all still involved

Had a thoroughly enjoyable time over the two days and my only regret is not going for a smoke and a loo break after the  8d 3d hand. That way I wouldn't have been at the table for the KKvAA

Will tune in later for the stream.

I really don't want to bok anyone but love for 2 guys especially.  HopE to see a massive smile on the degenerate's face and reading about it in his diary gl.

But my fav has to be the guy on the back row of the grid driving the seatibiza and if anyone can come through this field to top the podium then this guy can. Gl

BEST OF LUCK To Marius Lietuvninkas, - nice guy, amazing player and so due a big score!

(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS3xZavsm8CAAUyWDjMtEbp0bahFhoe9fPdtCJggcu7CfWxAUtt)

Go Team Lithuania!:)

Good luck all Blondes

Paul Zimbler now in attendance, already contemplating going to the CPP

Gary Jones plays at Luton. Went deep in the dtd 500 in January. Nice guy, semi retired and now plays poker full time I thibk. Good luck him.

Table draw please?

Thanks in advance

Table draw remains the same as yesterday:

12   2   Cina Fara
12   3   Darren Copus
12   4   Sean Randall
12   5   Charles Akadiri
12   6   Sean Belton
12   7   Marius Lietuvninkas
12   8   Stuart Fox

13   1   Kieran Plater
13   2   Anthony Mackay
13   3   Thomas Myland
13   4   Marios Andreas
13   5   Matt Perrins
13   6   Danish Gandhi
13   7   Gary Jones
13   8   Tin Yau Li

14   1   Nick Jamieson
14   2   Giedrius Mockunas
14   3   David Williams
14   4   Glen Mccabe
14   5   Lee Taylor
14   6   Senh Man Ung
14   8   James Browning

I suspect table 12 will be the live streaming table, this is yet to be confirmed however

John, can you slap the chip counts next to those names pls?

tyty

Can we get a picture of David Williams when possible please to confirm Tighty's thoughts that he's a Croups reg. Thanks in advance and VBOL to all still in.

Table draw again, this time with chip counts:

Cina Farazdaghi   12   2   2310000
Darren Copus   12   3   2235000
Sean Randall   12   4   2930000
Charles Akadiri   12   5   1855000
Sean Belton   12   6   1015000
Marius Lietuvninkas   12   7   3430000
Stuart Fox           12   8   485000

Kieran Plater   13   1   4250000
Anthony Mackay   13   2   750000
Thomas Myland   13   3   805000
Marios Andreas   13   4   2085000
Matt Perrins   13   5   1220000
Danish Gandhi   13   6   3505000
Gary Jones           13   7   970000
Tin Yau Li           13   8   1085000

Nick Jamieson   14   1   830000
Giedrius Mockunas   14   2   2290000
David Williams   14   3   3400000
Glen Mccabe   14   4   2255000
Lee Taylor           14   5   5660000
Senh Man Ung   14   6   830000
James Browning   14   8   1345000

Kie Plater has just called in, talked to TD Ryan as he is running a little late

Kie: "I'm stuck in traffic"
Ryan: "OK.... we start at 2"
Kie: "you can't start at 2... the best player isn't here"

thanks jon.

:D

bol today.. you'll need it im sure.

Vinni,

Is this lad the youngster, bit of a (poker) nutcase, something is going on with his hair, mid-twenties?

I've got a horrible feeling I've got the wrong chap.....

Table 12 is the feature table


Cina Farazdaghi   12   2   2310000
Darren Copus   12   3   2235000
Sean Randall   12   4   2930000
Charles Akadiri   12   5   1855000
Sean Belton   12   6   1015000
Marius Lietuvninkas   12   7   3430000
Stuart Fox           12   8   485000

http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/live.php from 2pm

Check out the chat box during the day, competition questions with prizes of CPP satellite seats

and remember to keep posting on here, the stream and the update can then work together


blinds 30-60k on resumption, average 2m, 45m in play

Thats Gary "the hair" Banks your thinking of

Lol, God bless you Adrian, that is exactly who I had in mind. I clearly described him well. ;)

Apologies to Gary Jones......

Kie was a scream to deal to yesterday. Really nice kid and a good player too. Marius is also a very nice guy.

I dont care how nice anybody is though, I cannot want anyone to win this more than Sean fking Belton.

Gave him a team talk this morning, now ready for him to get the lot! Gowan son!

COME ON PEZZZZZZZZZZ

gl foxy also

Don't forget with the prizepool at £500k, there are no deals permitted, playing this one out to the death

Darren Copus on the feature, known as Dave Copus

Luton regular through to about 2009, played Stanmore a lot since, Vic, Borehamwood type games

Many on here will recognise him

Think the words semi retired might have given away he wasnt young...cant miss oppos like this to skool gramps :)

Never thought i'd say this...

But good luck Tom Myland.... please start telling jokes on the live stream..the world has waited long enough...

Not sure that "semi-retired" has to mean "old".....

Chompy never even started work before retiring.

David Williams, early 20s from Harrogate. Only ever reached one live final table, at his local Gala in Leeds. Nervous as hell

Giedrus Mockunas, Lithuanian...now lives in Lincoln.

Tin Yau Li from Brighton. Biggest ever live cash already, he tells me

Good luck all the blondes!!!   ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;  Win the lot, you lot! 

The start will be delayed due to a serious accident, meaning only about 2/3 of the field is in attendance at the moment

What time is the revised start time?

Not sure as of yet, dependant on arrival times
I doubt it will be too long however before play begins, as players who have been caught up in the traffic are steadily arriving now

Fair enough. I have to post lots on this today or your post count will > mine Jon. Sorry for the spam in advance :)

Cards are now in the air
Blinds at 30k/60k/10k
The stream on a 15 minute delay, so should be starting in 15 minutes time

First hand of the day a sick one on table 14
Nick Jamieson all in for 700k with  Jh Jd
Called by Glen Mccabe with  Aspades Qd
Flop -  Tc Td Th
Turn....  Ts
No Ace on the river means Mccabe with the pot, Quads with an Ace kicker
Jamieson finishes 22nd

The game gets sicker...
Gary Jones alll in
folds to the big blind of Myland, he picks up the first card -  Ahrt
He slowly peels the second one -  Qh
This would put him at risk, call
Jones -  Ac Jd
Flop -  4s Qs 3s
Turn -  Jh
River -  Js
Myland eliminated in 21st position for £2,800

this, nothing to do with john black, i promise.

confirmed rocket

Williams added about 600k to his stack without showdown
Up to about 4mil

Kie to 135k, Perrins to 310k
Kie finally announces all in, quick fold from Perrins

Some serious 4betting going on at our feature table
wont be posting any spoilers however

Without wanting to bok....the stream is working great.

Dan Williams really commanding the action at table 14
now up to 5million, seeming to take chunk after chunk out of Giedrius Mockunas

as I say this, Giedrius Mockunas busts
gets it in for 800k with  Qd Qh
Mccabe wakes up with  Kd Kh though
 Kc on the turn, Giedrius Mockunas out in 20th

Yeh enjoying Tighty's commentary.

Kie to 135k, Danish in the big blind calls, they exchange smiles from across the table
Flop -  Ts 5c 2h
Danish checks, Kie bets 115k. Danish to 230k, Kie quickly to 415k, Danish calls.
Turn -  4s
Danish check/calls 420k
River -  7d
Danish bets 500k, Kie quick call
Danish -  7h Th
Sick river as Kie shows  Ad Ac

Just a thought Have you considered delaying all updates for 15 minutes to align it to the live feed delay?

is pez on the feature?

danish's favourite hand 10 7 suited! never fails!

A mix up at table 14
Anthony Mackay and James Browning cards get mixed up, both hands called dead
Lee Taylor shows his  Kh Jh but only Browning and Mackay's hands are dead
folds to Taylor in the small blind
Puts Senh Man Ung all in for 1million, quick call with  Aspades 3s
 Ac on the flop doubles Senh up
The hand would have played out the same regardless

Tighty >>>>> Zimbler

Perrins on about 950k

Nah

Danish is gonna Danish

Perrins out in 19th
3bet jams  2c 2s
called by the  Ad Kc of Sean Randall
Perrins looks safe, until the  Ac river

Williams to 125k, Ung to 230k.
Williams makes it 350k, call from Ung.
Flop -  7h Jd 2d
Check/check
Turn -  4s
Ung bets 380k, fold from Williams

Unlucky Tom... been a lot of horrific beats late in this comp... all skill obv

Great shove from Sean. GOGOGO THE BELTON!

Tighty doing a great job.

Agreed !

Anyone post a link for the live feed to watch on iPad? Thanks in advance.... And this Taylor's bringing this home to Newcastle come on Taylor

Is Sean folding A6o there correct? 15bbs in Cutoff?

EDIT: Not me being critical at all, just trying to learn ;)

It would be a profitable shove without further info ;)

http://m.awestream.net:1935/live/dtd/playlist.m3u8

Working for me

Biggest pot of the tournament
Taylor to 125k, Ung to 375k, Taylor flats.
Flop -  3s 4d Ks
Checked to Ung making it 380k, Taylor to 800k.
Ung dwells, then jams for 2.7mil total. Taylor finds the call
Ung -  Kc Qc
Taylor -  9s 7s
Ung drawing dead on the 2s turn

Ung 18th for £2,800, Taylor huge chiplead now

Moving to 2 tables
One 9 handed, the feature is 8 handed

*note
Apologies for calling David Williams Dan Williams
He just looks more like a Dan than a David, apologies

Now into Level 28
Blinds 40k/80k/10k
Average at 2.6mil
Clock is currently paused whilst chip counts are being calculated for the feature table

Thanks working

COME ON TALYOR SON BRING IT HOME..... BOOM BOOM BOOM

Tin Yau Li all in for 500k UTG with  Ks Js
Danish in the small blind calls with  Ad Th
 Aspades on the flop
Li eliminated 16th for £3,300 as the pay jumps

Danish to 185k
Marius to 335k, Danish flats.
flop -  Qs 9c 3d
Danish checks, Marius jams for 1.6million
Huge shove, about 750k in the middle
Danish tanks then folds a  Qd face up

uhuh...

Gary Jones

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-JOWYRJynucE/UETAHv49qyI/AAAAAAAAbrk/aTpxxPSPDyA/s640/P1000512.JPG)

Danish Gandhi

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-wrwredL0zUQ/UETAIoUbJMI/AAAAAAAAbrs/I63P3VU_CUA/s640/P1000513.JPG)

Glen Mccabe

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-AeCbB36QrBg/UETAIAgVocI/AAAAAAAAbro/5-ImUcQOk4E/s640/P1000514.JPG)

Sean Randall, still with his Golden Chip in play

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B_Jy67XITi4/UETAOwf_WQI/AAAAAAAAbr8/Xrp_ucOmY5Y/s640/P1000515.JPG)

Elimination coming up shortly on the feature table....

Anthony Mackay

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5yzmAaIqPTs/UETAQJMZksI/AAAAAAAAbsI/GokyWsKpTIA/s640/P1000516.JPG)

Marius Lietuvninkas

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kiKMRpcMA8I/UETAQr9xmtI/AAAAAAAAbsQ/91oG6lTLx6A/s640/P1000517.JPG)

Kieran Plater

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-c33i1jKzBvE/UETASxSBc-I/AAAAAAAAbsY/5uZ0nHUOSe8/s640/P1000518.JPG)

If Zimbler plays as he suggests in commentary he must have a terrific repertoire of timing tells.

thats not him

he is the guy with the moobs

Cinaaaa got chips?

Updates on perrins please.

Sorry to say, but he is out, I believe - see page 5.

Apologies
this is in fact Marios Andreas

Huge pot coming on the stream where Sean gets his stack in and gets a hold on the feature
stay tuned....

Belton? WAN TIME

Marius opens, Danish flats
Flop -  Jh 7s 9d
Fireworks go off, Marius manages to get his stack over the line (2mil) and is called
Marius -  Td 8d
Danish -  9s 7c
Not over yet...
River -  9c
Boat for Danish who seems to be two pair master at the moment

Marius out in 14th for £3,750 as the pay jumps up

he did exact same thing when commentating on the genting final tables at stoke and then proceeded to tell every one how he can teach anyone to win a 100$ a day . maybe he can , maybe he can read players and is great at looking for tells. i however would prefer it if we just had commentary on the hands we are seeing rather than him going on about himself. gl to those left in.

Danish takes the chiplead, up to over 8mil

should of got feldman and zimbler in together

Ul Marius :(

Danish ftw!

Tighty fantastic as ever.

Zimbler: yawn!

Cmonnnn The Belster!!!!!!!

Andreas opens, call from Mccabe
Flop -  2h 9c Kd
Mccabe check raises, Andreas to 1.2mil
Mccabe puts Andreas all in for 3.3mil, quickly called
Mccabe -  Kc Qc
Andreas -  Ad Ahrt
Aces hold
Andreas up to about 7.5mil, Mccabe down to 400k

keeps defending his mate Dave as well, but everyone else is rubbish obv

wtf spoiler :(

Tighty is very impartial on the live feed despite him obv having have his favourite players.  Paul is obv funking hardest for Dave because they are related. Either that or he smells a  ;nipnip;

Did Sean sell any? Only time I haven't bought! Gogogogogo

completely agree . did same stoke . gl those left in been some super sick hands today ie 108 v 97 etc . gl players left and thanks again for the great updates.

Hooollllldddd

What happened?! Had to nip out

Players now on a 15 minute break, which will be with you in 15 minutes time on the stream
Mccabe still alive at the outer table

Yeah Gill. Sort it out

Seriously what's the point in the delay and timing the feed with the updates if you're going to tell us "Belton allin and doubles in a minute!"???

Hells yes, Sean!  ;yippee;

KK > JJ for sean, prob got like 15bigs now

Wish there was an option to have one commentator on mute.

Or just anyone in there with Tighty instead! Alex can you get in there and be impartial?

Jon could have been referring to Sean's jam with A2 where technically he got his stack in and held (all passed)

;)

Tighty here.

Got another 6-8 hours of learning about live tells and how I'd have to pass QQ to a 3 bet shove

wish me luck

I mean really, who hired him? I know he's busto but I can think of a list of busto sorts who would be more enjoyable in the commentary box...

Wait a minute. What's with all the spoiler...... Please don't tell me in the 15 min delay of the stream and now he has actually been knocked out and got home in time to pleasure you......Beltons a man with skills :)

I gave such great hand reading skills, I can tell oppo has KK here without even knowing the betting.

I offered mate but they already had Zimbler lined up.

Chip counts from table 13 on the break:

13   1   Kieran Plater - 3.7mil
13   3   Anthony Mackay - 1mil
13   4   Marios Andreas - 8mil
13   5   Glen Mccabe - 400k
13   6   Danish Gandhi - 4.7mil
13   7   Gary Jones - 2.5mil

GET Frankie in there . at least hes entertaining . or what about mr bingham he has a great outlook on the game and would talk about the hands properly

i'll do it for $5 #whiparound

How did Danish go from 8 mill to 5?

Get someone in the box who won't be so patronising.

Guys keep this thread to tournament or stream content comment please. Let Jon do his stuff, and leaveall the other stuff off the updates please

Missed the hands but I believe he lost some to Marios, and doubled up Gary Jones

In for $5 lol

Fair. Apologies.

Will refocus efforts on willing on the Beltonator.

OMG!

"Yeah I can fold AQ here to a small raise for sure. In fact I did it recently"

You hero Zimbler, you absolute hero

Just turned stream on.

AK is the same as KQ on T62hh

I wanted to come on say lets not turn this into a Zimbler bashing thread and try and get some balance by throwing a bit of abuse tightends way. Then again sod It <3 tighty

KQ and AK prolly are the same hand on T64hh yh

Total love for Tighty

Can u post the payout again? How many left? Ave stack and blinds etc pls

You were correct Bedi, got Danish's stack wrong, apologies
he's now up to 6mil, eliminates Mccabe with  Ac Qd against  Ad Ts

Glen Mccabe 13th for £3,750

Next player eliminated wins £4,500

Payouts:

1. £110,000.00
2. £65,000.00
3. £43,000.00
4. £30,000.00
5. £22,000.00
6. £17,000.00
7. £12,000.00
8. £8,500.00
9. £6,500.00
10. £5,000.00
11. £4,500.00
12. £4,500.00

Blinds now at 50k/100k/10k
Average at 3.8mil

Go Lee taylor keep up the good play matey and let be having that £110k

he did it recently ON A FINAL TABLE!!!

All in on it's way from Sean, and a call, with a bit of Rastafish shouting in the background thrown in for good measure
No spoilers please!

Great laddering from Belton here  :D

 It's coming to Newcastle ha.......

Where though?

Tighty, if not here, where are comments about the commentary supposed to go? Doing a great job btw.

GOGO SEAN.

I don't understand. Zimbler plays every hand exactly perfect, yet he's still broke. Why's this? He had a big downswing?

Variance these days...

Comments about commentary fine. Court case stuff, let's leave for another day please. Ok?

All the best to Sean Belton. Go on lad.

Oh ok, yeh obviously.

Copus opens, Kie calls
flop -  7c 5s 4h
Kie bets 215k, called
Turn -  8s
Kie check/calls the 350k from Copus
River -  Jh
Kie check calls 575k just to be shown  Ad 6d
Deep sigh and a muck from Kie

then get someone in the box who will talk about the game in play and doesnt just support his mates play whilst going on about his reading skills. noone cares. we want commentary on the hands in play and for those to be impartial . gl to those left in.

Again, not meaning to bok anything but....with the stream functioning as well as it is.....

Surely it's time for "Live at DTD" a la "Live at the Bike"??

I know its the closing stages of a big comp, but with 235 users currently viewing the stream there clearly is interest there.

Looks like the infrastructure is there.

And if I know poker players and their egos (myself not exempt, obv) many would love the chance to play on a stream.*


*Though obv not all but as long as it's opt-in....

good luck to Mario (Big Bluff) & Dave Copus (original Luton reg). PaulZimbler is fun to listen to & he's giving his opinion, he has a quirky way of playing, so right or wrong he's giving his opinion & if ur gonna shoot every commentator, start with every player in the premier league who comments on hands that u think they can't see the players hole cards when they suggest a strategy & the player at the table does exactly the opposite.

Kie to 210k, Mackay alll in for 630k
Kie calls
Mackay -  Kc Qs
Kie -  Ad 3s
Flop -  Js Kd Jh
Turn -  9d
River -  Aspades

Big hold for Kie

Mackay 12th for £4,500

Would choose Tighty over Kravchenko any day.... maybe not Selbst though, I actually thought she was decent, contrary to popular opinion.

A real shame DTD came in under the guarantee, I still think getting 900+ unique entries is a great achievement in today's current climate and I really hope the support for the club continues in this manor and DTD will continue to pave the way for the big GTE's on home soil.

Well done to Rob and the DTD staff and best of luck to those still involved.

Ricky.

Gogogogo Sean B! Do a bit man. Run good and get. Good luck!

Puts Kie on about 3.2mil
Average at 4.1mil

big diff between a quirky style and blatantly supporting one player whilst going on about his own play and skills . il listen to anyone talking impartially about hands with their opinion about them . that isnt happening here . gl to players left .

Tighty putting in a few digs to Zimbler's ribs.

Get in there Tighty!!

KING

KING !!

Ship it

KINGBALL CORNER POCKET

OOOP THERE IT IS

Was that a bit of a sarcastic comment from Tighty about Zimblers 'reads' I heard there?

YESSS!

Loving that turn
Go on the belton

OH HI DER

225k from Danish, a 3 minute tank for Gary Jones to make it 625k.
Danish to 1.7mil, Jones all in for 2.2mil, call
Danish -  8h 8d
Jones -  Ac Ad
Aces hold, another full double for Jones up to 4.6mil
Danish loses the chiplead but still above average

Spoilers?

BOOM! I KNOW I LIKE KINGBALLS BUT I DONT KNOW WHY

Thinking about Vegas, the Mirage and the MGM Grand, obv.

Anyone else struggling to view stream on ipad?

Kie to 210k, Copus flats
Flop -  4c 7d Aspades
Check/check
Turn -  8h
Kie bets 175k, Copus to 375k. Kie sighs then makes it 575k, call from Copus
River -  3h
Kie bets 785k, fold from Copus

My celebration for the Kingball normally reserved for winning goals.
Loving Belton giq. Great work in the box tighty/zimb imo.

Get.

works fine just click the HERE text when it comes up

Kie and Danish battling yesterday, battling yet again today
Danish to 200k, Kie to 375k, called.
Flop -  Kc Qs Jc
Kie bets 375k, Danish folds
Kie shows  6c

Yea had to put laptop on mate

Still not working but thanks Nick. Do i need to log in to view?

Assume the video is Flash - therefore won't work on an iPad.

Q3 technically a shove for 10bbs SB into BB I'd have thought?

NB. Much easier from here than at the table obv!!

WIN WITH THE ACES!!

Sounds like kie is playing really well

Yeah shove the Q3 i reckon. Watched the lot tho and I think it's the only mistake so far

I love how Tight End is just PWNING Zimbler in the commentary. How can you be around poker for as long as Zimbler has and be THIS clueless.

Obv love Sean just seems a decent opportunity for me to learn a few things :)

Any hand is a +EV shove with under 12bbs SB to BB (i think)... especially live when people dont call it off correctly

Limp from Copus for 3rd consecutive hand, Jones completes.
Kie from the big blind to 295k, both call
Flop -  Js 3h 5d
Jones with his signature tank before betting 280k
Kie to 750k
Before the dealer can count the bet, both players pass

Kie running the table at the moment

A9 14bb in the CO? lolcano

lolcano!

ZIMBLER SHUT UP!

OOOOOHHHHH doesnt like to see aces.

Understandable Paul.

Kie to 215k, Danish and Jones call from the blinds
Flop -  Kc 8s 6c
Checks to Kie, bets 235k, Danish calls, Jones folds
Turn -  Qh
Check/call from Danish for a 310k bet
River - 2s
Danish checks, Kie 560k
Danish dwell calls with  Kh 7h which is good

ROFL tighty abs incred in the box.

Zimbler: I like pocket sevens, one of my favourite pairs.

Tighty: So do you still teach poker Paul?

Danish on 7.5mil
Kie on 3.7mil after those exchanges

not watching the stream but if true just incred on so many levels.

love tighty tho.  a true master.

how far behind is the live stream?

Not even slightly true.

You're not taking into consideration how soft the tournament is. If you shove 92o bvb for 12bbs, first of all it's not even + chip EV 6 handed (because there are fewer antes, less in the pot to win) but it's hugely - $ EV because you're burning your edge on the field. And of course the pay jumps play a part in how profitable a shove is; laddering is quite important when you're this short as that's where most of the value in your stack lies.

Come on

(http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r600/leeethefish/eb699e45d2d9afa028023044871bfca4.jpg) (http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r600/leeethefish/d208b899184eaa8b82119d76d5091122.jpg)

Blinds up to 60k/120k/20k
10 remain as we are about to lose one from the feature! no spoilers...
Average at 4.5mil

<3

Working through Chrome on iPad.

And Safari

Nothing has changed from the outer table
Kie now up to 4.6mil, just saw him 3bet pre, bet a  Ad Ks Qc flop then show  9s 4d
Continues to run the show

Jones likes to tank for 2mins+ when hes in a pot

Danish slowed down a little, the 2nd most active

Andreas playing fairly tight, haven't seen him get involved in many pots at all

Copus seems to enjoy the limp/fold game

A Sean Belton hand on its way in 20 minutes time...

Yeah me mate. Real problems. I don't own an iPad





Edit ..... Pmsl. Tighty just said "he is not so good on legal things". Yeah coz Paul is the nuts at em

I still can't get stream up on the I pad !

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Wish I could listen to this from here
just reading his quotes are cracking me up

As you have now seen,

Cina out in 11th position for £4,500

Reminder of the payouts from here:

1. £110,000.00
2. £65,000.00
3. £43,000.00
4. £30,000.00
5. £22,000.00
6. £17,000.00
7. £12,000.00
8. £8,500.00
9. £6,500.00
10. £5,000.00

Loving the impartial tightend views ....

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absolutely pwnt. <3

Kie to 250k, Copus.... calls.
Flop -  8d 4d Th
Kie bets 280k, call from Copus
Turn -  Qs
Kie bets 340k, Copus alll in for 2million
A long dwell from Kie, for a good 3/4 minutes
Eventually finds the fold

WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!
hahah, Tighty celebrating. Absolutely brilliant.

8 BALL!

Tighty nailing the impartiality card!

This just in, A8 favourite vs AK. As per day 1.

Sean Belton - what a life.

Yessssssss the (http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r600/leeethefish/7d9f8fa4d7ea698bde4a4027fcc347b3.jpg)

8 BALL

"What a man, Sean Belton".  ;applause; Yessssss.

(http://nyarth.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/magic8ball.jpg%3Fw%3D640)

Come on Sean.

BMoney you coming down to rail in a bit? We're about to set off

what a life Mr Belton!

Tighty just owning the commentry

I am! When are you guys leaving? I think I'm gonna call Creasey soon to pick me up.

Big rail needed for Mr Belton!!!

Bring it home ZeroFive

I can't get the live stream up, which is a shame as I'd like to hear the commentary to see exactly what Paul Zimbler is doing to deserve this much love.

Seem to remember a few other guest commentators being slated before on update threads. Piece of piss sat at home on your iPad or laptop though isn't it?

Can't help thinking if Paul hadn't have had so much recent coverage this year RE Feldman, he wouldn't be getting quite so bashed about.  I'm not a good player but can still write good updates. Often the best players don't come across well in commentary boxes, a great deal of it is about personality. Just my thoughts that's all.

Players went on a 40 minute lunch break, will hit your screen soon enough
Rich however has not been allowed to join the break
Rastafish has tracked him down, to give him hand histories of his entire life, he's currently looking at me for help

http://m.awestream.net:1935/live/dtd/playlist.m3u8

try this one

Instant ....thanks nick

WHAT A BOSS! Ship it Belton. Gl gl!

As you may have seen
Akadiri all in from the button with an 8bb shove, with  7h 4h
Belton calls with  Ac 7s
Big hold from Ace 7
Down to an unofficial final table of 9 players
Our feature table is 8 handed, so I'm afraid you are stuck with my updates for the duration of this
then once we lose a player, we will move to the feature

Akadiri 10th for £5,000

Updates coming to you in 20 minutes time

Just when people open raise and if the guy is winning, its a shove/call/go mental, if he is losing, its the exact opposite. Really frustrating to watch someone say a guy should fold Ace Queen, just because we've seen another has Kings behind!

Seat draw for the final table:

0   1   Kieran Plater
0   2   Danish Gandhi
0   3   Lee Taylor
0   4   Darren Copus
0   5   Sean Randall
0   6   Sean Belton
0   7   David Williams
0   8   Marios Andreas
0   9   Gary Jones

There will be no redraw when down to 8

Chip counts for the FT of 9 players:

0   1   Kieran Plater - 4.3mil
0   2   Danish Gandhi - 8.5mil
0   3   Lee Taylor - 5.9mil
0   4   Darren Copus - 3.8mil
0   5   Sean Randall - 3.8mil
0   6   Sean Belton - 3.3mil
0   7   David Williams - 6mil
0   8   Marios Andreas - 6.5mil
0   9   Gary Jones - 2mil

Exact counts to come when we get to 9 players
Blinds still 60k/120k/20k when we return

Good Luck to ALL of the remaining players.

Good luck to everyone playing but want the GEORDIE to bring the 110k all the way home come on lee Taylor dig deep and bring it home......... :)

Our 9 handed final table is now back in action!

I understand what youre saying here Caroline, but talking from experience (I did 3 hours or so in the booth with PJ on a £150 final), its not THAT hard to be impartial. Gary North who came 3rd is one of my oldest friends and I still managed to be a neutral observer that was doing what I was supposed to.

That amongst other things.

Anyway, lets forget about the commentary (Tighty is doing more than a good enough job to make up for it).

BELTON ALL THE WAY. Will be down soon, me and mrs just getting ready

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Belton to 245k
Jones all in for 1.9mil
Belton.... folds

good luck all, have to agree with Zimbler when he says Williams is playing very well, though Plater sounds like an unstoppable force!

Kie opens to 250k
Taylor to 600k encourages the fold from Kie

Open to 250k from Kie
Copus, Williams and Andreas call
Flop -  Aspades Jc 9c
Williams and Andreas check, Kie bets 360k.
Copus folds, Williams calls, Andreas folds.
Turn -  Jd
check/check
River -  Qd
check/check
Kie's  Ac Ks is good enough to take the pot

Is it just me or has the streaming not started again yet? All I can see is the cards spread out. Same for everyone or problem with my PC?

They are rofling about 9 handed somewhere, back when down to 8 i guess.

30 min delay. You should pick up table view at 7.15

Oh I see... makes sense.

Plenty of Heads Up flops, followed by a c-bet getting through

Can I have chip count update on kie please
stupid iPad lol

Belton to 240k, Kie to 435k.
Belton makes it 1.015 mil
Kie Plater finds a fold
Could be some interesting battles on this Final

Welcome to Blonde!
4.5mil

Thanx I will posting on here more then just looking at it lol
Good website I like

Blinds up to 80k/160k/20k
Average at 5mil, 9 still remain

Mmmmm - FT, and picture quality's suddenly got worse - and no commentary!

350k from Lee Taylor, Williams flats
flop -  Qh 9c 7s
check/check
turn -  Aspades
Williams bets 425k, Taylor to 900k. Williams flats
River - 4c
Williams checks, Taylor bets 1.6mil
Williams shows  Ac and folds

Commentary and hole cards when we lose a player. Feature table is eight handed

that's because it's a different camera, on a different table
only temporary until we lose a player, where we move back to our feature table
no commentary due to no hole cards and it's too difficult to see the flop/players hands at showdown

TightEnd, one minute of your time, sent you a PM. Sorry to interupt.

this link still the current choice? http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/live.php cant get it going for some reason.

scratch that, all good.

Kie to 330k from the button, Taylor calls.
Flop -  4c Td 7d
check/check
turn -  5s
check/check
River -  Kd
Taylor bets 375k, Kie calls
Taylor shows  8d 9s, good call from Kie with  Ac Js

Following hand Kie 3 bets Williams to 710k who calls
check/check on the flop, Kie takes it down on the turn with a bet

can someone get kie a fork keeps picking his food up in his hands and wiping em in sleeve lol

Do you know taylor's chip count ?

330k from Kie, Danish calls
Taylor on the button to 975k, eventual fold from Kie, Danish snap calls
Flop -  7d 8s 9s
Check from Danish, Taylor bets 1.125mil, snapped by Danish
Turn -  6d
Danish bets 1.7mil, Taylor folds
Danish shows  Kh Qc as Kie tells us he was so close to 4bet jamming  Qd Td

Welcome to Blonde!
5.1mil

Kie you bawwwsassssssss

Shortstack is Taylor
on 1.5mil, just shy of 10bigs

come on some one ship it let get to the f/t

Blind vs blind
Williams makes it 330k, Andreas to 750k
Williams all in for about 3mil, snapped off
Williams -  Ad 4d
Andreas -  Kd Kc
King's hold

David Williams 9th for £6,500

Players now moving to the feature table
Chipcounts coming soon

Full chipcounts:

0   1   Kieran Plater - 6,435,000
0   2   Danish Gandhi - 11,970,000
0   3   Lee Taylor - 5,175,000 (Golden Chip in play)
0   4   Darren Copus - 4,775,000
0   5   Sean Randall - 2,805,000 (Golden Chip in play)
0   6   Sean Belton - 2,450,000
0   7   Marios Andreas - 9,610,000
0   8   Gary Jones - 1,535,000

VBOL Sean.

Play to start in 5 minutes, meaning live streaming to commence in about 25 minutes over on the live feed:

http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/live.php

folded it preflop

i was reading wrong...ty

I now have the tough task of Tighty's 20 minutes later report on hands
Will deliver you the biggest hands and such, but not until the live stream has shown them

what time will the feed start plese

In about 15 minutes or so I believe
tighty and Zimbler remain in the booth
more tighty quotes to keep me sane please

Zimbler just trying to nip his mate for a bag if that helps with timing Jonathan.

thanks
I've managed to find a way to view the stream
will be watching and reporting key hands here as of when I see them

Blinds at 80k/160k/20k as we still have half an hour on the clock
8 remain, average a 5.6mil

Simon Trumper currently introducing players

Randall to 350k with  5c 5s
Gandhi peels with  Js Ts
Flop -  8h Qh Ks
Gandhi check calls the 350k from Randall
Turn -  6d
Check/check
River -  8d
Gandhi bets 1mil
Randall looks close to making the inspired call, dwells and dwells but passes

Danish will just bet bet bet whether he has it or not. Difficult style to play against

Love the comment from Tighty " Unfortunately they have taken the Burger away from me !!!!"
ROFL!!!!

The geezer eating a burger behind the FT is making me hungry  ;kev;

3 stacks now likely to be on 10 big blinds or less going into the next level
Sean Belton, Sean Randall and Gary Jones between 2mil and 1.6mil as the blinds are about to move to 100k/200k/30k

Plater raises to 410k, called in 3 spots
Flop -  Ac Qd Td
checks to Plater who bets 335k.
Gandhi raises to 1.1mil, folds back round to Plater who also folds.

Plater with a rough couple of hands
makes it 410k, Gandhi calls behind
Taylor rejams for 4 mil with  Th Ts
Plater agonises for a long time before passing  7d 7h, Gandhi folds behind

Randall all in for 1.7mil with  Ac Jh
Plater finds a call with  Ad 7c
goes from bad to worse for Plater as Ace Jack holds

Seems the truth gets deleted on blonde ok i will rephrase my previous comment. Paul zimbler has got no clue about mtt strategy everything he is saying is terrible. Sorry if my previous comment was offensive to a mod this is a adult forum isnt it?

Copus to 420k
Belton all in for 1.8mil
Copus tanks, and eventually finds the fold button

What did he pass? I missed it

Go on Danish!

the phrase you used was completely inappropriate.

Plater all in with  AK
Randall all in with.. AK

chop it up

 Kd Qc
Belton somehow woke up with dem aces

Gandhi now dominating, up to 15mil, no other stack in the 10's, Average at 6mil

lol Stu you've been around live poker enough, how does this still tilt you?!

:)

Tighty:    " As you can hear, Rastafish in the background"
Zimbler: " Is that his online name?"
Tighty:    " No, I don't think he has ever heard of a computer"

Tighty is brilliant. Fantastic job by him, Jonathan and the team all weekend.

Jones alll in for 950k with  7c 7h
Gandhi calls with  Aspades 2s
 7d on the flop means no sweat for Gandhi

just done a quick search of the threads on blonde 8 pages of threads using this so called completly inappropriate term any reason why they havent been deleted and mine have? maybe cos i havent got 10k posts.

Forget it anyway spose its good if people listen to his ridic reasoning and actually impliment it.

Whats taylors chips ? please

Lol... I don't know! I must just be in a bitchy grumpy old man mood. Sometimes I get like that. I'm not proud of it.

5.3 million.

not the time to spoiln the update really. I know theguy is controversial but this is about the tournament not abusing him

ouch

Taylor to 400k, Copus peels
Flop -  5d 4h 9s
Taylor to 550k, Copus to 1.2mil
Taylor puts him in for about 3mil, Copus calls
Taylor -  5c 6c
Copus -  Aspades 9h
Turn -  3h
River -  2d
Sick runner runner eliminates Copus

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Darren Copus 8th position for £8,500

You're right. I'm going to stop with the comments. I'm sure it's getting tedious now anyway. Plus I hate being a bitch.

Glad he lost tbh easiest reshove pre ever.

Now that is bitchy!!!

Yeh tbf he's been asked to do a job and he's doing it to the best of his ability

Oioiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Bellllllllllllllton!!!!!!!!

(unlucky Danish)

Gandhi to 500k, Taylor calls behind.
Belton shoves for 2.7mil total
Gandhi tanks and tanks, finds the call, Taylor folds
Gandhi -  Kd Qh
Belton -  Jc Jh

Big hold for Belton, giving him a full double.

Sean "RUN GOOD" Belton!!

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

right bed time great work your lot at dtd and gud luck to all

Hmm not bitchy just saying the guy played terrible and lost. bit painfull watching terrible players win these comps all time when really good players do nothing wrong and always run sub par. Really fancy belton or the young kid to win now. Both seem way above the rest of the field ability wise.

Dude... your comment is pretty much the definition of bitchy!! I can't talk though, cos I've been bitching a bit myself tonight (as you've seen cos you've been agreeing with me lol). No problem though, peace etc xxx

More importantly though.... GO GO GO GO SEAN BELTON!!!!!

Players are now on a 15 minute break
Full chip counts to come shortly

Hey guys Cina here,

disapointed with the finish but it's all good. Does anyone know if theres a way to watch a replay or something of the stream? (only interested in the part when i was playing (finished 11th) ) ?

Thanks for the updates were pretty good

lol

even though the guy played terrible hes on the FT and we all railling...
i will b quiet and just watch or turn off the live stream.
:-)

Good going but Unlucky to David Copus.. One of the nicest guys in poker....

Could we get the payouts or direct me to where they are...

Zerofive FTW....

Yes the full video will be uploaded within the next week

I will post it on Dusk Till Dawn's facebook page, as well as on this thread as soon as it is uploaded

Gl to Sean belton. Gona rail this 1 tonight. Can seans rail make bait more noise though. Thought the dtd boys would be abit louder. Maybe a belton chant we he gets back....

That's probably why it was deleted.........

Tilted that I'm so busy at work I've missed most of of this, but what I've caught has been great as always guys!

About 20 posts in the time I wrote that out :D

Did Dave Copus play as Fishermin on Laddies back along?

Sat next to Sean belton for a few hours a couple months back in one of the deepstacks and seemed like a pretty solid player and nice guy. GL and ship.

Sean who?!!?

Back in from the pub.. some friends from out of town.

So Glad Belton is still in and got some chippies! keep it up mate...

:D :D :D

GETTTTTTTTT!

0   1   Kieran Plater - 4.4mil
0   2   Danish Gandhi - 11.9mil
0   3   Lee Taylor - 7.4mil
0   5   Sean Randall - 3.3mil
0   6   Sean Belton - 7.5mil
0   7   Marios Andreas - 8.6mil
0   8   Gary Jones - 1.5mil

Blinds going up to 120k/240k/30k, 7 remain, 6.5mil average

payouts:

1. £110,000.00
2. £65,000.00
3. £43,000.00
4. £30,000.00
5. £22,000.00
6. £17,000.00
7. £12,000.00

Ooh. Seans got the guns out now. Tough guy hey lol

50/60 tourneys per night?

Play money

Sorry.... couldn't resist

"now the big blind has to call with KQ soooted, and he's not a raising player..."

lolz.. 30 seconds and im with you Honeybadger...


"in the old days I snap call this  4d 7d vs a 6bb UTG shove..."
#omgseriously...

Jones with  Qc Qd, 5 bigs
takes him 2 minutes to move in
Folds to Andreas, tank calls with  4d 7d
Andreas flops a pair, turns a flush draw but is unable to get there

No value in flatting?

Belton to 480k ont he button with  Aspades 9s
Jones to 1.1mil with  Kc Kd
Belton finds the fold

oh god, been on 5 mins, zimbler killing it. in a bad way.

Flatting better than 3 betting small

Marios to win xxxx

Sick, belton got chips. glglgl

"is the bahamas a ept" lol

It is

PLEASE can someone get Rob to remove Zimbler and get Tighty in there with Marcel.

This has gone on too long and its now embarrassing for DTD.

Wonder why Zimbler doesn't wanna go in 2013.....

Guys enough pLease. It's embarrassing me. Talk the final, please

Andreas to 505k, Taylor to 1.1mil.
Randall cold 4bets All in for 4.3mil.
Andreas calls, Taylor folds
Andreas -  Ac Kd
Randall -  Kc Ks
King's hold, huge double for Randall

Thanks to Marcel, sounds like a smashing fella...

"thank you to Marcel for relieving me for half hour"

Didn't know he could multi task

So close now!!! This is the flatter payout structure right?

Lead out here he will fold A10 !!  Zimbler please shhhhhh

Leeds Howard ..... Just saying

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=230040

What exactly are you just showing? 

I could show you a list of 100 Hendon Mobs of guys who have mega cashes all over the place and I'd bet they are losing players. 

Hendon Mob means nuffin, nobody cares. 

here for the zimbler bashings only

 :hello:

Plater to 500k
Huge jam for 4.5mil from Taylor with  Ac 8c
Plater finally folds  Ahrt Jh

Tighty trying to father young Kie..... touching scenes :)

 ;goodvevil;

 :redcard: ;djinn; ;tracet; ;grr; ;nemesis; ;fold;

Tighty won't like this...... :D :D




 ;reallyamsorry;

Lol sorry it's a joke that regs only get. Wife's birthday so only following in spurts.
I did see his post that was removed and using words like that are not acceptable in modem society.

Who's possessed Danish? Least active on the table?!?!

Very close chipcounts at the moment
Gandhi chipleader on 10mil with average only at 6.5mil
Andreas short stack on 2.6mil, just above 10 big blinds

Get you avatar photoshopped to ussain Belton :)

herbert sherbert  you make me piss !! :) hows it going mate long time no see , hows rick too !!!!

Playing nothing like he was before the final table

Am I the only one thinking this is the perfect time for the stronger players to really start ramping up the aggression?  Thought Kie was on it but he seems to have cooled off a bit.

Tight is right I guess but cmon lads...

no

Same shit just a different day Mark. Keep those speedway tips coming for Tikays thread mate. You must be due a winner. They like Rugby League bets too so if you here any inside stuff at rovers or hull post it up :)

How many railers in the club for Belton Jon? Assume team eureka and most of the dealers

Blinds now up to 150k/300k/40k
7 still remain
My psychic abilities tell me we may lose 2 players in the next half an hour...

ICM JB. Also, 110 bags tend to freeze people up also

Love Tighty <3

No dealers, due to dealing and if theyve dealt today already they aren't allowed to come back in I believe
plenty of team eureka though, biggest rail without doubt, about 20

Hows about some rail photos?

Randall to 625k, Plater all in for 5,8million. Call.
Randall -  Qh Qs
Plater -  Ad Ks
Sick flop of  3d 6d Td
brick...brick

Unlucky for Kieran Plater, played incredibly well all day today and yesterday

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--2aBcBmpTGU/UEUGrKhTzyI/AAAAAAAAbt8/76wKeLHnXWM/s640/P1000519.JPG)

Kieran Plater 7th for £12,000

great comms from tighty, also good play allround.
why do people who havent got within a million miles of a final table like this always think they know best.

Why aren't people allowed to express their opinion?

Go Danish! Wish I had a %!!!

Updated chipcounts:

Randall - 17mil
Belton - 7.5mil
Gandhi - 7.4mil
Jones - 5mil
Taylor - 3.9mil
Andreas - 3.2mil

Blinds 150k/300k/40k

they are i think, but why also not just let people play their game.

Cf is doing the quiz this week and if you fancy a freeroll at a decent prize have a go at it. The last guy gave the winner a shot at a potential £5k and Charles has promised that this weeks prize is better than that.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=58888.0

why not guys? I appreciate the money is massive... from two tables down would be my biggest cash, but don't they want to exploit the table being very tight?

how much does icm affect what you could or should be doing???

Belton puts Andreas in from the small blind with  Kc 4c
Andreas calls with  Ad Td
The Ace holds, pushing Sean back down to a short stack on 4million

Nobody is stopping them? JB just said, it even had a question mark at the end.

Gratz to Kie, came across well in the interview from what I heard, not liking Tighty putting him on the spot with the, "where did you learn to play?" Coulda been issues if he went, lol stars. Had an awkward email to send to Stars myself a few years back.

please no AQ here, gary is lolbad
surprise surprise...

WP Sean.  UL man

Sean Belton all in from the cutoff for 4mil with  Ts Tc
Jones in the small blind takes, eventually finds the call with  Aspades Qh
Plenty of noise on the rail for this one...
 Ad on the flop
no 10 to be seen

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-RB-uuUmFg3E/UEUE4gbKsLI/AAAAAAAAbtU/Z7aVkcpPQQo/s640/P1000524.JPG)

Sean Belton 6th for £17,000

Great score Sean, congrats.

Cash games should be fun this week! :)

17 bags will last him a few downswings and a lot of graphs...

wp mate.

wp sean great result

Well done to Sean. You played great, and that is a fantastic result. You should be very, very proud of yourself.

i have been watching the feed for the last few hours and i can not believe how tight they r playing!!!! i understand the stakes are huge to prob all the players but playing this tight has not got them this far through a huge field. someone take advantage and take control of this god dam table lol

sigh, no justice.

#whatwouldstatodo???

Lol how did zimbler get away with charging people for coaching

Randall now with the dominant chiplead on 17mil
Jones short, as he has been all day on 3.4mil

Wp Sean really looking forward to the diary in the next few days.

Any local ish or Dtd regs left. This looks like possibly being the first major Dtd comp where the winner may have travelled from afar

He mostly took cash :)

Sean Randall is in fairly regularly, the one reg remaining
Won the £300 Deepstack at the end of October for over £12k, this his biggest cash

Im not watching the stream but I would imagine people are tight because most of the stacks have a very low number of big blinds so the things you can do is very limited. Also the hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ICM complications of the payjumps being so big. Every decision is magnified in this situation and I for one would not be splashing about trying to own the table even if i had the chip lead. Also, making it to heads up play is a huge thing, anyone can win heads up even from massive deficits along with the fact of getting a ladder out for 65 bags is a pretty decent weekend.

GG sean, nice run.

Sean has a golden chip too right?

All in from Taylor for 3.3million with  5c 5s
Randall makes the call with  Kh Js
 Jd on the flop

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-63fqEwZOgQk/UEUEx1sAxMI/AAAAAAAAbs4/7pITWN4As20/s640/P1000521.JPG)

Lee Taylor 5th for £22,000

OMG Zimbler and Danish at gala tomoz?

Sean to 20mil, and that is correct, the one man with a Golden Chip hoping to bag himself a CPP Package as well as the £110k top prize

appreciate this... so HOW much does it affect your play?

where would the most sensible adjustments be?
Just start opening every btn, or every CO?

Excellent. good reason to funk him then

Im gutted Lee is out, well played anyways bro

<3 John Black. Crippled Plenos roll playing $10 nl and already makeing sure that when the day comes to final a £500k he is gonna steam roller everyone with his aggression.

came 11th last time i tried...

but thanks mett.... not like there's anyone reading this thread or anything.. (even pat)

3 ways to a flop...
 Qh 3h 7d
Randall bets 550k, Andreas flats, so does Gandhi
Turn -  5h
Randall bets 1.2mil, both call again
River -  Tc
Randall bets 1.25mil
Andreas calls, Gandhi ever so bemused, makes a call
Randall shows  4h 7h for the win
both Gandhi and Andreas had Q 5

Players now on a 7 minute break
These are current chip counts:

Gandhi - 5.2million
Randall - 26.7million
Andreas - 7.2million
Jones - 5.6million

Gandhi on the button all in for 4.2mil
Randall finds  Ac 7s
Ace holds, Randall's stack continues to grow

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Hn56oe-dpYI/UEUExxgMDlI/AAAAAAAAbs8/vTq0_Sjq04M/s640/P1000520.JPG)

Danish Gandhi 4th for £30,000

It all flies in on a  Js 5h Qh board between jones and Randall
Jones -  6h 7h
Randall -  Qs 2h
turn -  Jd
river -  9h
Full double for Jones, back from the shortstack yet again

Stacks:

Randall - 32mil
Jones - 13mil
Andreas - 5mil

Really enjoyed the rail. Was a good fun one. Had me, lilD, Alex, PJ, Thigh, Jupp, Creasey, BMoney and a bunch of others. Lots of noise. Feel like the atmosphere was completely drained when Sean busted, but still a massive final.

Best of luck to those who are left. Im pretty drunk so going to bed lol

Andreas from the small blind with  Kd 9h makes it 1mil.
Jones flats with  Js 5s
Flop -  Jh Td 4h
All in from Andreas for 3.5mil
Jones dwells and calls
 5d on the turn, no Queen for Andreas

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B_Jy67XITi4/UETAOwf_WQI/AAAAAAAAbr8/Xrp_ucOmY5Y/s640/P1000515.JPG)

Marios Andreas 3rd for £43,000

Players now setting up to play Heads Up

Sean Randall - 28.5mil, still with his Golden Chip intact hoping to add a £8k package on top of first prize
Gary Jones - 16.2mil, seemingly the short stack since the start of Day  3 but is still here, in with a chance to win the event

Play to begin again in 10 minutes or so
blinds remain at 200k/400k, with no running ante in Heads Up play

Anyone else still expecting Rastafish to win?

LOL. Amazing

:D

Just too good Tal.

What's the average age H/U Gilly?

I'd take a stab at 42 for Sean, & 51 for Gary

no more updates?

hahahaha

Apologies, been rushing around taking winners photos and such meaning...
A winner will be crowned very shortly!

Randall grinding Jones down, without any real big pots emerging between the two players
Randall on 32 mil, Jones 12 mil

Has Zimbler been calling Gary Jones Guy the whole time?

Jones to 1.2mil, Randall 3.5mil.
Jones all in for 13mil, Randall calls
Jones -  Ad 8d
Randall -  Jh Jc
Board runs out 10 high,

Gary Jones 2nd for £65,000

Sean Randall wins the £500 Deepstack for £110,000 and a CPP Package!

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-NJJ8BtN0Trw/UEVN7UepS2I/AAAAAAAAbug/AMbcVuyxoW4/s640/P1000530.JPG)

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Great work tighty and JGill ty

Thankyou to all who followed the updates, hope you enjoyed

& thankyou for all the kind words, really makes a difference, helps me keep sanity, of course thanks to Tighty for allowing me to cover this event for 3 whole days!

The next Blonde update will be the Chipleader in two weeks time, I believe the Cougar will be all over this one

excellent as always from both Jonathan and Tighty.

got to say that Tighty really impressed in the commentary.  solid poker strategy plus he kept it fresh and accessible to all as well as a lot of random/light banter.

Yeah this. Great updates mate, must've been a knackering 3 days. Tightys commentary was impressive on so many levels. Never really even seen him play but clearly knows what hes talking about on the strategy front. Did a great job of keeping it accessible for both the poker enthusiast and family supporter, and dealt well with Mr. Zimbler, including some pretty hilarious lines!

All of this, spoke a lot of sense very enjoyable to watch/listen to as a member of blond and a first time watcher too i'm sure.

Updates very good also.

Well done team

Well done to all, looking forward to the next one already!

we're looking forward to yr £560 too mate

Terrific 5 days of Updates, well done & thanks to DTD for providing the Live Stream & facilitating the Live Update, to Jonathon, & to Tighty.

Hope to see some of you this coming weekend for the £75,000 Guaranteed Sky Poker Tour Grand Final.

Oioi wp Randell he is from Lincoln btw not notts

Loving the updates from Jonathan and Tighty, well played both.

Congrats to Sean Randall, seems like he played very well, and deserved the win.
Was rooting for Mr Belton obv, and would have loved to see him take top spot, but am made up for him binking a decent score.

Watched the stream for a couple of hours yesterday, when down to 3 & 2 tables, and really enjoyed it.
Was very watchable, the quality is good, and Tighty and Zimbler flowed well together.
Tighty is a natural, and, although it is easy to disagree with some of the lines Zimbler suggests, it didn't affect my viewing experience at all.

The negative noise that reaches a crescendo during most of the DTD live streams, is extremely embarrassing, and, IMO, reflects more on the people making those comments, than on the commentators themselves.

It's highly likely that you are missing out on some competent potential commentators, who will be dissuaded from contributing due to the probable response.

Very well played to all finalists, especially Mr Belton. Great run mate.

Also a huge thank you to Jonathan in what was, I believe, his last live update pre returning to uni or similar? Tighty in the box was the stuff of absolute legend. As well as a dry, quick sense of humour I didn't disagree with a single poker related suggestion he made. Also a very endearing/genuine quality of, when not knowing the 'correct'/optimum play in any given spot, not bullsh1tting.

Re: the Zimbler point....its true that almost every live stream someone gets shot at for their commentary. Until now I had always found this a bit ott.

Wp all who made the final!!!!!

Absolutely awesome job by Tighty and Jonathan for the past 5 days!!!
Well played Mr. Sean Randall and especially to Gary Jones , man - What a Grinder!!! with just 4 BB at one point, got that crucial double up with 7 and worked his way up, pure determination!!! Classic competition !!!  Kudos to DTD once again for organisigsuch a superb tournament !!! cant wait for the next one!!!

Wow what a torn, 'coming out' now from a semi lurking blonde; getting more into the game/blogs after 3 busy years grinding away live and running a busy business/3 kids, etc. Guess Iv got my torn play somewhere near where I want it, although the kk helped somewhat. (Am I alone in having WON 3 tournaments inside a week at DTD, 2 > 100 runners?? !!! excuse the brag)
 
Will be interesting to see the live feed and some of the comments. Whatever, was abs shattered after 3 long days and half sleeps (amazing how many friends think its ok to ring at all hours when youve been grinding for 13).
So thanks in no order to: Dtd, rob, simon, dealers, ryan, valets, all friends and railers; yoz, shakey, baz, ian, jay, adam and fam, Blonde/tighty, Gill, Paul Ho (mate these are NOT moobs they are PECS, and wheres MY trophy) all the regs that made the shouts; charlie, raggy, gordon i think i heard, and of course my competitors, especially the generous ones along the way that shoved into my set/straight. Nice having Belton with position on me, smashing guy, all the best in future to you. So now im gonna load my dtd account and get more of those chips so I can bully the lot of you in the Chipleader final (xxwinxx)

See you all in St Kitts!

Sean (Randall)

ps am I a 'Blonde' now?
 

Sean=blueace?

I never knew(you should have said!). Bugger!

Very well done Sean. Great performance

Always been a bit of a private person Tighty, but feel the time is right to come out!

Echoed

Well done Sean. Thought you played really well , picked your spots and you were one of

the more active players shall we say ;). Congratulations.

Have to say Tightys commentry was 95% spot on. Coulden't fathom out a lot of what Paul was

saying , especially when he was suggesting his mate was thinking of "raising for value" against the

tightest player on the table on a 56j 10 j board holding 10 k.

No problem

Now is most certainly the time to sing from the rooftops!

Thinking about it....maybe he had a live telll..... ;D

Correct, got one year remaining at Uni since working at DTD was a placement year, tyty

GL with your studies. Enjoy the last year of your life where you don't bemoan the slipping standards of education in this country, how nothing is like it was in your day and how students are the bane of your life.

Tal you are too funny...

GL for your final year ....

And very well played Sean aka Blueace ...

I don't really agree with this Neil. I see what you're saying about other potential good commentators being put off, but personally, it'd make me think "I could do a better job than that" and make me more likely to want to try it out and test myself against a tough crowd.

People saying that everyone gets slated in there - that's not true, I never did, nor did PJ, or Tighty or JP Kelly, or Mitch and Keys when they did it. Even you didn't get lynched for your Sky Poker appearance.

It is possible and sorry if this sounds arrogant, I think it's easy to
a) be balanced and neutral even if you have a close mate on the table
b) offer good analysis without over complicating things, and still appeal to the masses
c) make it funny and entertaining for those not so interested in the technical side of things.

Congratulations Sean (Randall) on the win, and other Sean on coming 6th - great results for the local boys, keeping it in the neighbourhood ftw! :)

not enough love for this


rotflmfao

But why do we have to say anything at all?
We have a free live stream, with the commentators usually giving their time for free, trying to do their best, and almost always not saying anything intentionally offensive.

In the middle of this happening, we get a bunch of haters who stick the knife into one, or both, of the people delivering the commentary.
We then get a unintelligent-mob mentality, which wades in and adds a few extra kicks.
Doesn't seem like an adult way of dealing with the situation to me.

If you don't think the commentators are very good, either see Rob or Simon after the event, or start a thread on here, with some constructive comments on who you would like to see on the mike.

As to your point of some of the other people who have 'performed' without criticism.
Most of those named have almost certainly done a decent job, but even if they hadn't, the fact that they are 'friends' of Blonde would mean they will be given much more leeway than others.
Zimbler was almost certain to get criticism if he wasn't very, very good, given some of his press on here recently.

The commentators are always judged, on here, by their poker analysis.
As you know, there is much more to commentary than that - delivery, flow, giving background information, filling in when the action is slow, humour etc...
Whilst Zimbler has some flaws in terms of MTT strat, he ticks some of the other boxes, to the point that it certainly wasn't unwatchable.

Would I pick Zimbler if I was given a choice of commentators for the next event - no.
However, I don't think it's right, or fair, that he gets a kicking whilst he is doing his shift.

Jakally, sat in the sun, 32 degrees, with a beer, signing off. :)

I remember telling Rob that I thought Paul and Mad Marty were a good combination on the stream I had watched.

Must be Tighty's fault then :)

I personally didn't make any negative comments about the commentary, I was just disagreeing with the notion that those that had criticisms should not be made to shut up and "start a thread elsewhere". The update thread is the natural place for such comments, just like it's the natural place for people to say "Great structure, really enjoyed it, Thanks DTD" or to say "I'd prefer a 60 minute clock on day 1" for example or other such comments.

The commentary is a huge part of the the live stream experience so people should be free to comment on it. I'm not saying that all the comments were helpful and constructive, and I agree it did turn into a bit of a "mob mentality" like you said, but people making negative comments does not = "bunch of haters who are sticking the knife in".

I also disagree (this is odd - I rarely disagree with you Neil, making me think I'm probably wrong!) with you saying that his recent bad press meant he was always going to get a bad reception. Most people don't know about it for one. Especially since the thread with all the details is called Andrew Feldman. And he got a similar reception after the Stoke GPS commentary which was before all this came out.

PS. If he was giving his time for free like you say to do this commentary, then it'd be slightly different, but he wasn't.

100% agree with Jakally's points about the commentary, I was trying to say something similar but he managed to put it across in a way that seemed fair and impartial.

Jon: Great updates, I for one will definitely miss you and your input when I'm updating at DTD. GL at Uni! Can't believe you missed the chance of a "switched a birth", for Kie Plater as a ginger Postman Pat.

Great updates as per, GL with the Bigg Market Jon :P

Not a bad place to end up on a placement year :)

I also agree with Jakally's comments. Thorroughly enjoyed the live stream and thought PZ was pretty entertaining. He sounded passionate about the FT and a personable guy.

There maybe optimal plays and lines in poker but that isn't to say other opinions/lines are wrong. His opinions & commentary wasn't bad enough to warrant the criticism he was receiving on the update thread. His game can't be all that bad judging by a pretty decent Hendon Mob. Regardless, the stream isn't supposed to be a tutorial and the differing views on the plays between Tighty and Zimbler added to the stream IMO, would have been boring if they sat there agreeing with each other for two hours.

Great comp, great stream, great updates. Well done DTD, Blonde and all the final tablers.

Well done to Danish
Great score!

Apparently he swapped 5% with Sandeep shar
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=106003

Who then elected not to play the tourney but still turned up yesterday to collect his 5 %!!

Lol really?

Yep seems there are scumbag grimmer/blatchers all over the poker scene at the min!!

Amateur scammers. Eskimo would shudder at it

Obv famous Eskimo Clark story

Him and Sam Grizzle see each other in the toilets at the break of a wsop event- say hello, how u getting on, both declare about average, Sam then asks if Eskimo wants to swap 10%, Eskimo agrees. Kid comes up to him after and says did u just swap with Sam cos he already busted- Eskimo replies "Dont worry kid i didnt even enter"

Lol. Need more stories like this. <3 Sam Grizzle

forum/ˈfôrəm/
A place, meeting, or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.

If I'm not mistaken, this is a forum, and the particular issue is poker. Therefore it's perfectly legitimate for people to share their opinions on paul Zimbler's POKER commentary and frankly I wish i could be surprised that this turned into a redundant debate, but I'm not.

It also baffles me that you consider what we were doing "mob mentality" but when a group of people from a similar generation all sharing similar opinions jump on a small group of people from a different generation with differing opinions, that's now fine.

Paul Zimblers comments hindered the experience of the live feed and not only made it unwatchable for anybody that doesn't hero worship him, but also ran the risk of making an incredible poker venue look a little foolish.

It's not a coincidence that the shows with the most ignorant commentators get way less viewers than the shows with the concise, thought provoking commentators (ie the Big Game).

I never like to openly criticize people, but the reason Zimbler has been getting a load of stick for the commentary is because his commentary was god-awful it was basically just blithering nonsense from start to finish. DTD spent a lot of money on the television equipment etc and want feedback, feedback is what they are getting here.

In before someone shows me Zimbler's hendon mob.

You two little trolls are both sat in the bedroom next to each other giggling away to each other. Just wait you chumps have only got another 2 years max before you are considered past it and start getting stick from dem young kids.
There is only one Peter pan and that's Dubai :)

I did a commentary once.

It is very very difficult, and mine wasn't live, I could go back and rerecord stuff that was tez.

Cut the geezer some slack, especially if he did the job for no pay.

He did get paid Keith.

How much?

None of your business lee!

+1




I think Goulder, Keys, Keith, goodness me - even Langley could have crushed it.  I understand that PZ has been doing other commentary on other tours, but in this instance it wasn't a good 'poker' choice.  

Tighty was a phenominal talent in the booth and really excelled yesterday, with his spoken word being even better than his written with the tone and the quick wit with which it was delivered.  (Fast becomming one of my poker favourites.. - ill try to not tell you any nories sir)


imo - it needs to be

Tighty and guest.. with a variety ranging from The RastaFish to Keith to Dubai to Dom Kay to Cody and even guest stars when the Americans/ Europeans turn up.

I was one of the ones on the 'anti-rail' of PZ and I tried to be constructive with my criticism and as I'd had a few beers I'd like to apologize if anyone thought I wasn't.
However I will not be removing my comment of him being a poor choice, and for me much of my watching experience was interrupted by Skype chatter with 'poker-friends' (like football-friends but more degen) discussion about just how horrendous much of his strategy was and how results orientated his entire commentary was.  I was 'lucky' enough to miss the time where his mate 'Dave' was about but from the reports on here, it should have been curbed after the first comment.  Even the most relaxed poker amateur who doesn't care about any strategy and just enjoys his poker is going to get wound up with the commentators favoritism.

All in all, a great tournament, well run, everyone clearly worked their socks off... but its not completely perfect yet.
9/10 dtd - nice hand sir

I'll pm you it

none of your business either, and I very much doubt you know the facts.

Tighty is the nuts. Tighty and guest would be the best outcome. I heard Tom Langley on the Rivals stream and thought he was very good but I could not listen to him all the time. There are very few Jesse Mays out there but I definatly think Tighty is a great anchorman. It's all about balance for me and love the jokers in there having fun but also appreciate that the more technically gifted and analytical thinkers deserve the airtime too.




Oh yeah I have abso no idea how much he got paid but would assume he got offered more than me :)

Sorry tighty just being me :)

Fair one!

How much !?....fml

Lynch him then :)

Lol Lee & Keith

My experience as a comm:

It was a pre recorded GUKPT from season 1 when the whole tour was on Ch4.

I was the "expert" lol alongside Vicky Coren who did the main commentary.

She made it really easy. Teeing me up with lots of easy points to make and punchlines to deliver.

Having said that it was so difficult to say fresh stuff about each hand.

Took about 4 hours to record the whole show.

And just for Lee.. I was paid a monkey.

I'd be surprised if you'd get more than half for that for a live stream.

Thanks Kieth I really couldn't put any kind of figure on it !

Congrats to ratsa again and george for another great run and cash

you'll be surprised then

*facepalm*

Patrick has written to Rob and asked to sort out stuff off forum

He's happy for us to take it all down, just to keep everyone in the loop

Action from the Final Table available here, under the heading Previous Streams:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G7dH-4zsYQ&feature=player_embedded

Have now reviewed the feed of the final table, and of course makes very interesting viewing, this being the first time I’ve been able to look back on plays in such detail. Thought it might be of interest for the winner to give some views on it. My victory speech if you will.

Going to lay comments out in headed format so:

Commentary
A difficult job no doubt, they are never going to be able to please all. Some comical statements at times, but in general I thought the dynamic worked, with both a dry and more cheery style apparent. I agree that those wanting some in depth analysis were perhaps missing out, but it’s probably the case that a lot of viewers were family and friends, and those that weren’t could form their own professional opinions on the more intricate elements of the game. I think referring to players in certain ways (so tight etc) as though that is their natural style ignores completely the fact that a final table with so much money up for grabs is going to change peoples strategy/style completely.
And of course I couldn’t understand how some spots I was in were so transparent to the commentators minds yet had me baffled at the time – O wait, they could see the cards!

Table Dynamics

Obviously don’t wish to come across the wrong way, but at no time did I feel uncomfortable or feel that any of the players had a better game than me. I played particularly cautiously against certain players raises (yes I would normally jam all in or 3 bet A10 suited in that spot! Not in my nature to fold tho)

In view of the situation we were in and the money involved I felt there was very little in the way of raising light, and of course there was hardly any three betting. Most of the three betting and real action took place on day two when the blinds allowed it. When your looking at a raise to .6m and your three bet commits half your stack its really not going to happen unless your holding the goods, (or you feel someone is raising light). This factor meant that in general a very cautious tight feel was apparent and at no time did I feel comfortable committing some chips to a raise unless I had something worthwhile. I am of course aware that had there been an aggressive professional on the table I would have had to adapt my style but all in all the optimum strategy was sit and wait.

Players

Well played to all. Seat one showed a good game and I think his strength was in his relative bravery in relation to age and situation. Although its fair to say on review he never got out of line or made any really tricky plays. Wp.
How I wish I was seat two coming on to the final table. For sure those chips would have been put to good use. I’m sure he will improve somewhat as he clearly has the gamble in him which of course you need, to make final tables. I will always remember the 55 hand and really wish I had it in me to make the call, wp.
Seat 3 was a bit of a mystery at times, although my overriding feeling was that he was relatively tight. Again perhaps he should have made more plays when holding the chips, but I got lucky when making the relatively easy call holding KJ v 55. Wp.
Seat 4, Never saw much from this seat, wp on making the final.
Seat 6 was the one player I had played before, unsurprisingly. Having a short stack for most of the time, I could tell the game he was forced to play, and I was ‘out of there’ to any 3 bet or all in from Mr Belton. Wp.
Seat 7, Probably falls into the category of seat 2 and 3 in that could have made more plays. Never put me in any spots nor did I ever feel uncomfortable against him. Wp reaching the bigger money.
Seat 8, Without wanting to sound amateurish this guy was a bit of a nemesis to me on day two, clearly hitting some nice cards when I made plays. However it did become clear that he was tight and was nitting up completely. Wp.

Hands

Hands that have been talked about since include the 74 flush hand. Those seeing the hand have commented that the 10m that I acquired in the hand missed some value. I beg to differ. Taking into account the tightness on the table, the fact that I bet each street and was flatted by two players, I’m putting both players on a single queen or pocket pair. If I check the river I’m convinced it comes back check, check, so 1.2m for value is a must bet to me by the river (2.5 would have been better). Having kept it cheapish over the two streets perhaps I missed the opportunity to investigate further as to their holdings (a bigger bet on the turn) but all in all when you have a massive hand in that spot, you want to extract maximum value, at the time I felt I was doing that.

Heads up play

Friends have commented that it was not me on the final table. Agreed. I played like a pussycat. Partly because of my state, but also I like to think I had adapted my play to the player. I could with hindsight have grinded him down with constant raises, but I felt I would at some point run my crappy hands into slightly bigger and lose a chunk. So I opted for at times playing a reverse strategy of playing strong hands weak and weaker hands strong. This paid off. I genuinely think he would not have shoved with an average ace but for the play up til then. And of course whatever I had played by that stage I felt very comfortable but still anxious that I would get the ultimate prize/kudos and holiday.



Overall

Have never played to 3 days in a tournament. And on the spin too! Coupled with strong medication and an impending operation I was pretty shafted towards the last 4 hours; the hand propping the big head up was a necessity! When it went heads up I was absolutely shattered, a completely different type of shattered to one I have felt before. A gamut of human emotion all mixed up and playing havoc with my relatively worn out and unfit body/mind! Only those that have been there can relate I guess.
Anyway, a final thanks to those that have come up to congratulate including the man himself Mr Yong. I very much look forward to mixing it up in that sort of spot again. Who knows I may even make a re-appearance on the 1-2 cash games! ;kev; ;kev;

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tl;dr. giq, wp, mbn etc

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Help me out here with some cliffnotes of who you are and what tourn please? Very well done by the sounds of it!

Hi, did try and post this in the DTD 500gtd live updates thread but its locked. Recent winner of said torn, name sean.r ty,.