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Hello and welcome once again to DTD, where over the next four days I will bring you coverage of....

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Day1a starts at 2pm

Nine One hour levels with 30,000 starting chips and the DTD Festival structure

Late registration until 10.15pm

Day1b tomorrow, as above, with the option for those playing today of a re-entry into tomorrow if they need it

Day 2 Saturday

Day 3 and Final Sunday

 

If you want to qualfity into tomorrow, for either the £500 or the £150 that forms part of this Double Deepstack festival:

£500 satellites

10 seats GTD LIVE TONIGHT  £50 + 2 Reloads

5 seats GTD ONLINE tonight - €3 RB feeders and €10 FO feeders into €50 + 1R + 1A

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/500-ds-new
 

£150 satellites

€6 re-buy – 5 seats GTE tonight

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/150-deepstack

Will be interesting to see numbers today, and of course it should be busier tomorrow

Plenty of opportunity for me to do some rounds of action, and some detailed reports.

£100,000 GTD of course, so 200 runners is the first target....


Please join me at 2p for the start of today's play

GL all blondes, may get down for this myself, will know later...  ;)

Initial seat draw

A bijou 24 contestants for 2pm on a Thursday afternoon

11    1    Guy Barron
11    2    Stephen Wilsdon
11    3    Jamie O Connor
11    4    Martyn Frey
11    5    Tim Blake
11    6    James Atkin

12    1    Mohammed Shoahebe
12    2    Paul Garnham
12    3    Kurt Goodwin
12    4    Asif Raja
12    5    Harish Sahnan
12    6    Sarbjit Kular

13    1    Gary Robertson
13    2    Ray Mackintosh
13    3    Rahim Tadj-saadat
13    4    Edward Thomson
13    5    Christopher Thomson
13    6    Kyriacos Dionysiou

14    1    Garry Hallows
14    2    Robert Smith
14    3    Mark Mccluskey
14    4    Lee Mcmillan
14    5    Paul Grummitt

Is there any Brs players as they have been targeting the on line site and there have been quite a few in the club the last couple of comps I played?

Not so far.

Spot the difference

My favourite non-pro rec reg am

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A floundering non-pro rec reg am

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Fresh from his GUKPT London final table, Simon Deadman

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glglgl to Boba Fatt, who is playing today, I think.

It's a long way from Glasgow for 30 runners

GPS Edinburgh winner, Paul "BobaFett" McTaggart is here

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Final table of the £500 Hi-Roller here a fortnight ago

James "MC" Atkin going for the double

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Shola Akindele, always a threat in Deepstacks here...

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Tim Blake. Here to provide the value.

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Greek Jack responds to news that the price of potatoes has gone up

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Paul Grummitt takes a half day off from his Magic Circle training course

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Dealer of the day (don't tell him I only have four to choose from), JK

His mates are in Latvia, he's in Lenton. Run better, Jamie

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great Alister James waist coat. Well jel

We have an early chip leader

Martyn Frey, the GUKPT Coventry winner and Tim Blake clash blind on blind

In an interesting sub-plot, Martyn gave his good friend Tim a lift here today...

Frey opens to 250

Blake 650 in the big blind

Frey calls

Q-J-7

Frey checks

Blake 800

Frey 2,200

Blake 4,000

call

Blake 4,000 is check called on the turn

Blake 6,000 is check called on the river

Blake's flopped top set of Queens beat's Frey's flopped top two Q-J

Penny waits to deal the next table to open...

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Martyn Frey ponders being short-stacked already....

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Jack Allen. While the boss cat is away, the Fruitbat will play....

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;kev;

Basketball top to go with his basketball head.

gogogogo Paul.

Kurt Goodwin

I was going to take the mick, but he's very big, and I don't know him well enough yet  :D

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Terry Mitford, aka Gemini Kings on here

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Boz O'Connor. This is a photographic first. Never before has he been snapped without his hoodie up

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A round with some rec regs on the way...

A Round with Some Rec Non-Pro Reg Ams (and Atkin and Boz)

11    1    Guy Barron 30,000
11    2    Stephen Wilsdon 25,000
11    3    Jamie O Connor 35,000
11    4    Martyn Frey 15,000
11    5    Tim Blake 55,000
11    6    James Atkin 25,000
11    7    Ian Gascoigne 30,000
11    8    Terence Mitford 30,000
11    9    Gary Phillips 30,000

In Level 1

50-100 blinds


Hand 1 button seat 3

Mitford raises to 300

Blake in the big blind calls

 2s 3s 5h

Blake check folds to a 400 continuation bet


Hand 2 button seat 4

Phillips opens to 350

O'Connor calls

 Ks 6c 5d

Phillips check calls 525 from O'Connor

 8c

check check

 2h

Phillips 1,125

O'Connor folds


Hand 3 button seat 5

Blake opens to 275 on the button

Atkin 800 in the small blind

Blake 2,350 4-bet

Atkin folds


Hand 4 button seat 6

Phillips to 350

Mitford in the  big blind calls

 4d 7h 3d

check check

 Aspades

Mitford check calls 600

 6c

Mitford 1,200

Phillips 3,000

Mitford calls

Phillips  Ahrt 5c for the winning straight


Hand 5 button seat 7

O'Connor to 275

Blake calls

Mitford in the small blind calls

 9s Ac 4s

checked round

 2c

checked round

 Jh

Mitford leads for 500

Both pass


Hand 6 button seat 8

O'Connor to 275

Atkin and Mitford call

 Ts 9s 9d

checked round

 Jc

O'Connor 600

Both call

 3c

check check Mitford 1,500

Atkin the caller with  Aspades Jh which is good


Hand 7 button seat 9

Phillips 250

Barron in the small blind to 675

Phillips calls

 6s Ac Ahrt

Barron 1,200 called

 7h

Barron 2,125

Phillips folds


Hand 8 button seat 1

blinds up 100-200

Mitford to 450

Barron to 1,125

Mitford calls

 Kh 5s 5c

Barron 1,600

Mitford calls

 5c

check check

 Ac

check check

Mitford  Ks Jh beats Barron  Qc Qd


Hand 9 button seat 2

Atkin to 525 UTG+1

All fold

Gascoigne not playing a hand?!

Tell him he'd be running better over here if he'd came...

Someone has come straight from

a) court

b) an interview

c) work

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Mark McCluskey hasn't been in the best of health recently, so its good to see him back playing

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I arrive to see a board reading 8-5-3-8-6

Garry Hallows has led for 3,500 into about 5,000

McCluskey makes it 8,000

called

McCluskey shows 3-3 to win the pot

On the newly opened table, alongside "Rest" Bedi

Pete Linton

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Winner of the £150 here last weekend

Peter Wigglesworth

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Terry Fletcher a new arrival. Not sure, but he seems to be pining with the absnece of those who provide his wages in Latvia...

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Garry "smokynuts" Hallows down from Sheffield

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Up to 40 runners

We have lost one, Kurt Goodwin

Here are the others

11    2    Stephen Wilsdon
11    3    Jamie O Connor
11    4    Martyn Frey
11    5    Tim Blake
11    6    James Atkin
11    7    Ian Gascoigne
11    8    Terence Mitford
11    9    Gary Phillips

12    2    Paul Garnham
12    4    Asif Raja
12    5    Harish Sahnan
12    6    Sarbjit Kular
12    7    Carl Taylor
12    8    Mark Wates
12    9    Fangzhou Liu

13    1    Gary Robertson
13    2    Scott Margereson
13    3    Rahim Tadj-saadat
13    5    Christopher Thomson
13    6    Kyriacos Dionysiou
13    7    Simon Deadman
13    8    Jack Allen
13    9    Sandeep Shah

14    1    Garry Hallows
14    2    Robert Smith
14    3    Mark Mccluskey
14    4    Lee Mcmillan
14    5    Paul Grummitt
14    6    Oluwashola Akindele
14    7    Paul Mctaggart
14    8    Terry Fletcher

23    1    Anonymous
23    2    Peter Wigglesworth
23    3    Ray Mackintosh
23    4    Mohammed Shoahebe
23    5    Guy Barron
23    6    Rupinder Bedi
23    7    Edward Thomson
23    8    Warren Wooldridge


I think I will take a look at table Deadman next.....

Table Allen imo.

As I was watching Deadman, a big hand played out behind me..


McTaggart opens to 550 and gets two callers, Fletcher and McCluskey

 3c 7c 2h

McTaggart 550, McCluskey the only caller

 3d

McTaggart checks, McCluskey 1,500

McTaggart check raises to 3,500

call

 4d

McTaggart leads for 8,400

Long dwell, puzzled look, quizzical raise of an eyebrow, furrowed brow and a call

McTaggart  7h 7d

McCluskey flashes the  3h

Meanwhile

Deadman asks me "Is this a round with Tighty?"

I replye that it is not, as we are coming to the first break

"Come back after the break, let me know its a round with Tighty and I'll get busy for you" says Simon


Simon Deadman, bloggers friend.

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So two levels through

Wondering what I will write about for the next seven levels.

Level 3 150-300 next

41 in, 40 left......

Break.

Deadman loses a hand.

Shock news coming up in the next Round with Tighty....

A Round with Jack Allen.

13    1    Gary Robertson
13    2    Scott Margereson
13    3    Rahim Tadj-saadat
13    4    Prassanna Suryanarayanan
13    5    Christopher Thomson
13    6    Kyriacos Dionysiou
13    7    Simon Deadman
13    8    Jack Allen
13    9    Sandeep Shah

All 25-40,000


blinds are 150-300


hand 1 button seat 3

Grek Jack limps UTG

Seats 1,3,4,5 call as un pot en famillle is created

 6s 4s Qh

Thomson in the big blind leads for 700

Saadat the only caller

 7h

check, Thomson 1,200

Saadat folds


Hand 2 button seat 4

Margereson 750

Greek Jack in the big blind 2,300 3 bet

Margereson calls

 2c 3c 7c

Greek Jack 3,000

Margereson folds


Hand 3 button seat 5

Thomson limps on the button for 300

Greek Jack and Deadman complete and check

 5h 3c 9h

checked round

 Kd

check check Thomson 500 and the blinds fold


Hand 4 button seat 6

Robertson raises to 700

Thomson 3,300 3 bet

Robertson calls 

 Qs Kc 7d

checked to Thomson

Thomson 5,000

Robertson folds


Hand 5 button seat 7

Robertson and Thomson limp

Greek Jack limps

Allen and Shah in the blinds complete and check

 3c Qc 9c

check to Greek Jack, who bets 1,000 and wins the pot


Hand 6 button seat 8

Prasanna S opens to 750

Robertson calls in the big blind

 Qh 6h 5s

check check

 Qd

Robertson 600

Prasanna calls

 Kd

check check

Robertson shows  Aspades 5h which is good


Hand 7 button seat 9

Greek Jack limps and RObertson/Margereson complete and check in the blinds

 Td Tc Jd

checked to Greek Jack who bets 1,000 and wins the pot 


Hand 8 button seat 1

Deadman opens for 650

Folded to Saadat who calls in the big blind

 3c 5c 9d

check check

 Kc

Saadat check calls 800

 2c

check check

Saadat declares two pair, and shows  Kh 3h which is good


Hand 9 button seat 2

Sandeep Shah opens to 725

All fold

Strangely e nuff he was doing the same at the pub game last night ,getting to become a habit gl timbo

Doesn't he look smart!

Sandeep Shah opens, Jack Allen 3 bets and Shah 4 bets

Allen flats the four bet. With Kings

It comes Queen high, rainbow

Allen check calls

rag turn, off-suit

Allen check calls a shove, and is good against A-Q for a full double to over 50,000



Left with 7,000 Shah shoves A-7.

Gary Robertson calls with Q-Q

flop A-7-4

blank turn

Q river to knock Shah out

WP JACK

Meanwhile on table Dapper, Mister Byrite Bedi is below starting stack

Mohammed Shoahebe opened to 800 at 150,000

Mister Byrite made it 2,000

Edward Thomson 4 bet to 6,000

Shoahebe folds

BediByrite calls

 7s 4c 3s

BediBy checks

Thomson 8,200

Bedi folds



Also on this table Linton, and whilst I watched the table for ten minute she didn't play a hand. Most unusual

Warren Wooldridge of BlackBelt Poker

Peter Wigglesworth


Wigglesworth down to 15,000 after losing to Guy Barron, KK against 77 on a 7 high flop....

Did u or frankie teach him that move ?

Pete Linton opens to 700

Wigglesworth flats with AKcc

Guy Barron makes it 2800

Linton flats

Wigglesworth jams his 15,000

Barron folds

Linton calls with QQ

QQ v AKcc then, a flip in Level 3 for the lot

10 high flop, brick turn and river and Linton knocks out Wigglesworth

Missed the 50k pot between Linton and terry

Mad Turk, the latest into the field

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details then, not as if you are doing anything....

Guy Barron, one of  the top three stacks as we enter level 4

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Folds to terry who shoves 50k all in. Peter calls off with J6 terry has 74 somehow j high holds

;gobsmacked;

Bedi to bust next

Warren Wooldrigde has just asked Pete Linton, about an orbit after that hand

"Have you got somewhere to go?"

and received the reply that Pete is feeling a bit frisky

 OI!

Meanwhile as Linton's stack moves into the middle with wanton regularity, new to the field is Mr Consistency Nick Hicks

Not a man for feeling too frisky at the poker table, I think

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Scott Margereson

I know Scott from somewhere. Used to be a dealer here?

Anyone help?

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Meanwhile, in Level 4, Ian Gascoigne is still in.

Todays exits

Place    Player Name

42    Peter Wigglesworth
43    Sandeep Shah
44    Martyn Frey
45    Harish Sahnan
46    Kurt Goodwin

Reckon three of those will re-enter tomorrow

Frey has to hang around for Tim Blake.

Is Bedi still in?

Only just. 11k

Plays cash, used to be Sheffield regular. From chesterfield I think.

Garry Hallows opens to 650

Like a pack of dominos cascading into each other, the staccato sound of call call call echoes out as in turn...

Robert Smith, Lee McMillan and Paul Grummitt all call

Paul McTaggert in the small blind calls, pretty clearly from the expression on his face for value

Billy N'Go in the big blind calls

Six way to a flop of  Qc 2c 5h

Hallows leads for 2,225

Everyone folds, except last to act Ngo who calls

turn  Jc

Ngo check

Hallows 4,325

Ngo after a good think, c-raise to 20,000

Hallows calls all in with  Ac Qh

Ngo  Tc Td "oh you've got me" before turning his cards over

river  Kd

Hallows doubles to over 45,000

How much has lintonanon now?

About 55,000

Fun table to deal on, JK....

Wish I was still there! Mrs had a wisdom tooth out and in a lot of pain so had to go home

End of Level 4

45 minute break

40 of 47 left

Average 35,250

blinds go 200-400 ra 50

Chip leader Guy Barron 85,000

If you want to qualify into tomorrow, for either the £500 or the £150 that forms part of this Double Deepstack festival, and with overlay thoughts around....

£500 satellites

10 seats GTD LIVE TONIGHT  £50 + 2 Reloads

5 seats GTD ONLINE tonight - €3 RB feeders and €10 FO feeders into €50 + 1R + 1A

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/500-ds-new
 

£150 satellites

€6 re-buy – 5 seats GTE tonight

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/150-deepstack

Scott is a lad from chesterfield, online sn 'Aggro Santos', plays semi-reg at DTD, and most of the higher buy in events, do you have cc please?

Mad Turk raises to 1200 in the cut off at 200-400 ra 50

The button calls

Tim Blake makes it 3,500 in the big blind playing 20,000

Turk ships it in, covering both

The button folds

Blake calls with Q-Q

Turk has A-3hh

flop A-3-5

Tim gets up and proclaims "I am off down the Gala to play Bingo"

Mad Turk "I hoped you would fold. Sorry"

Tim "Dont say sorry"

Tim is out.

A round with Linton and Bedi coming...

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A Round with the Regs and Recs

23    1    Peter Lintanonymous 55,000
23    3    Ray Mackintosh 17,000
23    4    Mohammed Shoahebe 31,000
23    5    Guy Barron 90,000
23    6    Rupinder Bedi 11,000
23    7    Edward Thomson 46,000
23    8    Warren Wooldridge 35,000
23    9    Terry Fletcher 23,000

blinds are 200-400 ra 50


Hand 1 button seat 5

Shoahebe opens to 900

Called by Thomson in the big blind

 2d 5d Aspades

check

Shoahebe 1,000

Thomson folds


Hand 2 button seat 6

Barron opens to 1,100

Wooldridge in the big blind calls

 Jh Jd 5s

check

Barron 2,300

Wooldridge calls

 Tc

check check

 8d

Wooldridge leads for 3,000

Barron snaps him off with  Kh Jc which beats  Th 5h


Hand 3 button seat 7

Linton opens to 900

Wooldridge calls

 7h 2s 5s

check

Linton 1,100

Wooldridge fold


Hand 4 button seat 8

Woodridge limps on the button

Fltecher and Linton complete and check

 7s 8s 9s

Linton 700

Fletcher c-raise to 1,750 and that takes it down


Hand 5 button seat 9

Mackintosh gets a walk in the big blind


Hand 6 button seat 1

Barron raises to 1,200

Thomson calls

 Th 4h 3c

Barron 2,300 Thomson calls

 4s

Barron 5,500 Thomson calls

 2h

Barron a whopping 17,000 Thomson calls

Thomson shows  5c 4c which is good


Hand 7 button seat 3

Thomson limps

Shoahebe completes

Barron checks

 2s Kc Jh

checked round

 9s

Shoahebe check calls 1,100 from Thomson

 Ahrt

check check

On showdown Shoahebe  Kd 6d is good


Hand 8 button seat 4

Wooldridge limps

Barron completes

Bedi checks

 2c 8d 5h

check check

Wooldridge 1,000 and that wins


Guy Barron, having one of those knights, first player over 100,000 as I am writing this...

31,000 so a few thousand under average.

Into today's field on Boba Fett's left, Tommy Bingham in the brown cap

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Warren Wooldridge of BlackBelt Poker

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Nottingham poker vet Bash Mahmood has just entered, taking us over 50 runners today

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Wadey Ashraf turns up, straight onto table Nick Hicks

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Fangzhou Liu 2nd chip leader with over 100,000

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Guy Barron, having one of those knights, first player over 100,000 as I am writing this...

Just so you know it was not completely wasted.

Too good.

PS - Mr Bedi looks resplendent. Almost as if he was celebrating a decent bink today. Well done Shelley.

Boba Fett opens to 900 and Lee McMillan calls on the button

 9h 6h 3d

Fett continuation bet, called

 4s

Fett 2,200

McMillan raises to 5,000

Fett ponder calls

 Ts

check check

Showdown. Or it would be if either want to show their cards, and instead they mentally circle like a couple of mating flamingo in an Oasis, mating flamingos with cards almost exposed and being twirled in their fingers. If flamingos had fingers.

Fett "You have to showdown"

McMillan "one pair"

Fett "I have one pair too"

I am beginning to lose the will to live

McMillan eventually declares "Nines" and shows  9d 7d

Fett tells him "pair of fives" and mucks

Back up to over 30k

Wes Ellis opens to 1,400 at 200-400

Rahim Tadj-saadat 4,900

Ellis 12,000

Saadat  all in 35,000

call

Ellis K-K

Saadat A-Qss

5-Q-9-9-J eliminates Saadat and takes local regular Ellis near the head of affairs

James Atkins opens to 850

Terry Mitford calls

Mad Turk 3,050 on the button

Jamie O'Connor 7,200 in the big blind

folded round to Turk again, who flats in position

 9c 8c 7h

O'Connor check calls 6,000

 Tc, which is a veryinteresting/scary card

O'Connor 10,250 with 30,000 behind

Turk not happy, makes the fold

Turk opens

Atkin calls

J-8-4 flop

check check

3 turn

Atkin leads 950

Turk 3500

Atkin calls

3 river

Atkin checks

Turk 6000

Atkin 12500 with 16,000 behind

Turk jams for over 70,000

Atkin folds, "Queen high" he declares with a sigh

Turk shows 10-7, ten high, having flopped a gutshot and missed


Great stuff from both!

The Bedi/Linton tables breaks and Linton is moved to have direct position on Boba Fett and Bingham

As he sits down Linton calls over to Lee McMillan across the table

"Shall we go all in blind Stretch?"

"Yes" says McMillan

Both have over 60,000 at 300-600......


to be continued....

So, Linton raises to 900

Bash Mahmood calls

Mark McCluskey calls

McMillan calls in the small blind

Grummit calls in the big blind


McMillan chuckles at Linton

Linton checkles at McMillan


 6s Tc Td

checked to Linton who leads for 2,200

Both McMillan and Grummitt call in the blinds

 2s


All check


 9d

McMillan checks

Grummitt 6,000

Linton folds

McMillan check raises to 30,000

Grummitt all in, beating the 30,000 into the pot

Call says McMillan as chips fly in from seats 4 and 5

McMillan shows  9c 9h

Grummitt half laughs and half slumps onto the table

He shows  8d 7c, his rivered gutshot to pieces by the rivered full house


McMillan over 120,000 now, and stretching away....

Update on Prasanna Suryanarayanan please????

34,000

We are just coming to the break after 6 Levels

33 of 51 left

Average 46,000

blinds going 300-600 ra 75

Ian Gascoigne down to 10,000

He calls a raise from Jack Allen, in hte big blind

Ian leads for 1,600 on A-7-2 rainbow

Leads for 3,000 on the 9 turn

Ian checks on the A river

Jack sets him in, Ian folds

Jack Allen 65,000

exits today

33    Weswell Ellis
34    Paul Grummitt
35    Ray Mackintosh
36    Mohammed Shoahebe
37    Kyriacos Dionysiou
38    Rahim Tadj-saadat
39    Anonymous
40    Tim Blake
41    Asif Raja
42    Robert Smith
43    Anonymous
44    Sarbjit Kular
45    Francis Jones
46    Stephen Wilsdon
47    Peter Wigglesworth
48    Sandeep Shah
49    Martyn Frey
50    Harish Sahnan
51    Kurt Goodwin

Chip Counts

11    1    Yucel Eminoglu 100000
11    2    Jack Allen 65000
11    3    Jamie O Connor 75000
11    4    Rupinder Bedi 30000
11    6    James Atkin 15000
11    7    Ian Gascoigne 10000
11    8    Terence Mitford 40000
11    9    Gary Phillips 45000

12    1    Waheed Ashraf 65000
12    2    Guy Barron 160000
12    3    Garry Hallows 80000
12    4    Farooq Lone 25000
12    5    Nick Hicks 60000
12    6    Terry Fletcher 40000
12    7    Carl Taylor 25000
12    8    Mark Wates 45000

13    1    Gary Robertson 75000
13    2    Scott Margereson 110000
13    3    Fangzhou Liu 120000
13    4    Prassanna Suryanarayanan 34000
13    5    Christopher Thomson 26000
13    6    Warren Wooldridge 41000
13    7    Simon Deadman 32000
13    9    Paul Garnham 45000

14    1    Basharat Mahmood 37000
14    2    Edward Thomson 80000
14    3    Mark Mccluskey 55000
14    4    Lee Mcmillan 130000
14    6    Oluwashola Akindele 30000
14    7    Paul Mctaggart 65000
14    8    Tommy Bingham 25000
14    9    Peter Lintanonymous 55000


Three more levels to play today

Shortly after the break

Jamie O'Connor raises to 1,500

George Bedi all in for 13,000

Terry Mitford flats with 25,000 behind

Jamie shoves, setting Mitford in

Mitford thinks and thinks and calls all in

O'Connor A-A with the Ace of hearts

Bedi A-Qo

Mitford 10-10

flop 4-5-10 all hearts

turn 8

river Q

Mitford more than doubles up, Bedi out and on the way to the M1

Short-stacked Ian Gascoigne and James Atkin out this level

Nick Hicks has knocked out Edward Thomson Aces v Queens all in pre, Hicks now over 100,000

Boba Fett raises and is called by Linton in the small blind

They both check  Jc 2c Ac

Linton 8,000 on the  5c turn

called

Linton 18,000 on the  8h river

Fett folds


---------


Garry Hallows 1,800, one caller

Wadey Ashraf then 3 bet to 5,000 in the big blind

Hallows the only caller

 5d 9d Qd

Wadey 6,000

Hallows folds

Both Wadey and Ashraf around 90,000


52 started, with late reg til 10.15pm

27 left

Stuart Fox has just bought in

those recent exits

28    Edward Thomson
29    Terry Fletcher
30    James Atkin
31    Rupinder Bedi
32    Ian Gascoigne
33    Mark Wates
34    Weswell Ellis
35    Paul Grummitt
36    Ray Mackintosh
37    Mohammed Shoahebe
38    Kyriacos Dionysiou
39    Rahim Tadj-saadat

Tighty, you got your crystal ball with you?

How many runners do you think that....

A) The £500 will get?

B) The £150 will get?

Just curious, no sinister reasoning behind the questions.

£500 around about 200 so 150 tomorrow, perhaps 220 total. I don't detect much concern about the guarantee, but we'll see

£150 I have less conviction on but one of the Day Ones is a Saturday. I think 250. Finger in the air stuff though


I wish it wasn't so, but DTD seems quiet to me, for a Thursday night. 40 or so in the £500 satellite, a couple of tables of small cash, 6 or 7 tables for the £25

Farooq Lone min raises UTG to 1,200

Nick Hicks calls

Wadey Ashraf calls on the button

Garry Hallows omes along in the big blind

 Th 7d 5d

Checked to Hicks who bets 2,250

Wadey the only caller

 9s

Hicks checks, Wadey 7,000. Hicks calls

river  Th

Hicks checks Wadey checks

Wadey chuckles the chuckle of a man chuckling to an old adversary

"straight" he says "I have a straight"

and shows  8d 6c

Hicks smiles the shy smile of someone who has seen such stuff from Wadey before, and mucks

Well Team Eureka are away, or most of them, & it is just generally a quiet day today - even the Update thread, splendid though it is, is sparsely populated this evening. I'm sure that DTD & the Update will liven up tomorrow, & over the weekend.

Meanwhile, having succeeded in getting his stack all in blind in level 1 against Terry Fletcher, a willing accomplice, Linton is now six levels into a quest to do the same in the hope of a double up to a leading stack

Good news for him, a table is broken and Mad Turk comes onto his table

Bad news for him, several players between him and Turk

Linton turns to Paul Garnham, newly installed on his left and asks him if he is up fro a gamble

Paul replies that he isn't (never a truer word.... :kiss:)

Linton then tells the table

"I would do it, but I don't like to give nits the action before it gets to the gamblers"

"I wouldn't mind but I am outplaying the whole table and they just call and win"

A few eyebrows raise....


Linton then min raises 10-4 UTG+1 (delcared after the hand by him, and seen by me during)

Mad Turk calls on the button

Shola Akindele who has played a very patient short-stack game all day, shoves 30,000 from the small blind

both fold


Linton chunters light-heartedly on....

Level 8, 400-800

25 of 52 remain, now on three tables

12    1    Waheed Ashraf
12    2    Guy Barron
12    3    Garry Hallows
12    4    Farooq Lone
12    5    Nick Hicks
12    7    Carl Taylor
12    8    Jack Allen
12    9    Stuart Fox

13    1    Gary Robertson
13    2    Scott Margereson
13    3    Fangzhou Liu
13    4    Prassanna Suryanarayanan
13    5    Christopher Thomson
13    6    Warren Wooldridge
13    7    Simon Deadman
13    8    Jamie O Connor
13    9    Terence Mitford

14    1    Umar Khan
14    2    Paul Garnham
14    3    Mark Mccluskey
14    4    Lee Mcmillan
14    5    Yucel Eminoglu
14    6    Oluwashola Akindele
14    7    Paul Mctaggart
14    8    Tommy Bingham
14    9    Peter LintAnonymous



Top 5 stacks at 150,000+ are Nick Hicks, Wadey Ashraf, Lee McMillan, Guy Barron, Jamie O'connor

Scott Margereson and Mad Turk not far behind

gl Jamie"boz" !!!

Simon Deadman has doubled through Scott Margereson

Margerson opened in mid position

Deadman shoved 15x bb in the big blind with....Aces

Maergerson called with K-Jo

Aces held to take Deadman to the heady heights of 25,000 at 400-800

Boba Fett opens to 2,200 playing over 90,000

Paul Garnham 3 bet in the big to 7,200 playing 35,000

Fett 16,500 4 bet

Garnham a long think then shove

Insta call

Fett K-K

Garnham A-K

9-10-6-9-10 knocks Garnahm out

Jamie O'Connor opens to 1,600

Scott Margerison 4,300 in the small blind

O'Connor calls

 7h 6s 5h

Margereson checks

O'Connor 5,200

Margereson folds

O'Connor shows him  Kc 2c

Mad Turk opens to 2050

Tommy Bingham calls in the cut off

Pete Linton 6,200 on the button with about 30,000 behind

Turk 15,200 4 bet

Bingham 5 bet shove for 35,000 total

Linton pass

Turk calls with  Aspades 9s

Bingham  Ad Ks

 Tc Th Kh 3d Qs

more than doubles Bingham up to 75,000

21 left with about 75 minutes left to play today

recent exits are

22    Paul Garnham
23    Mark Mccluskey
24    Carl Taylor
25    Terence Mitford
26    Warren Wooldridge
27    Basharat Mahmood
28    Gary Phillips

Has tim n martyn left the building ? Or ate they awaking guys finish / exit
Lolz at Pete lint ons comment about gamblers n nits ,I had a good chat with him in Vegas this year top bloke

Tim is in the sat for tomorrow. Martyn is waiting for him, I think

Guy Barron knocks out Stuart Fox, finding A-K in the big blind to a button shove from A-7 shortstacked


Mad Turk has knocked out Pete Linton

Turk called an all in on the turn from Linton, with two overs and a flush draw. Turk thought he needed to hit to win, but he was actually already ahead with Ace high

As Pete said to me afterwards "I went out bluffing", with a big smile

Break after 8 levels

1 level to play

19 left

going to 500-1000

12    1    Waheed Ashraf 140,000
12    2    Guy Barron 160,000
12    3    Garry Hallows 95,000
12    4    Farooq Lone 30,000
12    5    Nick Hicks 150,000
12    8    Jack Allen 23,000

13    1    Gary Robertson 80,000
13    2    Scott Margereson 200,000
13    3    Fangzhou Liu 75,000
13    4    Prassanna Suryanarayanan 80,000
13    5    Christopher Thomson 55,000
13    7    Simon Deadman 30,000
13    8    Jamie O Connor 170,000

14    1    Umar Khan 30,000
14    4    Lee Mcmillan 160,000
14    5    Yucel Eminoglu 150,000
14    6    Oluwashola Akindele 40,000
14    7    Paul Mctaggart 140,000
14    8    Tommy Bingham 85,000

Ty I think they all travelled up together even after a 410 am fin in our pub game last night ,must be hanging gl guy

Wadey Ashraf raises in the cut off

Guy Barron flats on the button

Garry Hallows 3 bets the small blind

both call

Flop is raggy, two clubs

Hallows leads for 20,000

Wadey passes

Barron shoves 100,000 with K-Jcc, two overs and the second nut flush draw

Hallows calls with Aces

Aces hold, Barron out 19th, Hallows chip leader 240,000

Scott Margereson opens and Simon Deadman calls in the big blind

Deadman check calls 3400 on  9c 4s 3h

Deadman check calls 4900 on  Ts, leaving himself about 16,000

Deadman checks the  Ac river, and Margereson sets him in

Simon a long think, in which he tries to talk to Margereson, convincing himself that Martgereson is turning a pair of sevens into a bluff....

He almost check calls all in, but folds

Anyone who can really should make the effort to get down to DTD tomorrow.Great comp and structure.

Simon Deadman shoves the button, unopened for that final 16,000

Jamie O'Connor calls in the small blind

Deadman  Ad Qh

O'Connor  Jc Jd

 6d 3s Ahrt 7c 2c

doubles Deadman up from a saucer to a bowl.

Scott Margereson opens to 2100

Simon Deadman calls

Jamie O'Connor 6500 on the button

Mad Turk 22,000 in the small blind

Margereson passes

Deadman shoves 40,000 total

O'Connor passes

Turk calls

Deadman A-Q

Turk 10-10

6-9-4-A-3 takes Deadman to around 85,000

As someone close to the table said "The most futile occupation in poker, flipping against Deadman"

that someone was me.

sterling shift as ever, still on board over here
glgl Deadman, Jack Allen and obv Binkham!

Wadey Ashraf opens, Garry Hallows flats

in the big blind and with an under averae stack Jack Allen takes a stand shoves A8cc

Wadey calls with 77

Hallows passes

Allen bricks the flop apart from a solitary back-door club, things get interesting when he turns a club flush draw with two overs as well to the sevens

Misses the river, out 18th

oh sigh, instant curse

Sigh.

Lolled at the flipping vs Deadman comment. Genious

16 have made it through

chip counts shortly


Play1b at 2pm tomorrow, doors open 1.30pm

Hoping its busy....

Overnight chip counts

Scott Margereson    13    2    227700
Garry Hallows    12    3    206200
Paul Mctaggart    13    6    136600
Waheed Ashraf    12    1    135200
Jamie O Connor    13    8    127700
Nick Hicks    12    5    124100
Gary Robertson    13    1    95500
Lee Mcmillan    12    2    90300
Yucel Eminoglu    13    9    83000
Simon Deadman    13    7    69800
Farooq Lone    12    4    62900
Tommy Bingham    12    6    53600
Umar Khan    12    9    51400
Prassanna Suryanarayanan    13    4    44400
Oluwashola Akindele    12    7    41600
Fangzhou Liu    13    3    39900


they return to Level 10 600-1200 on Saturday at 2pm


Goodnight

Very best of luck to strech and gary barlow (boz)