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Hi all,

UKIPT Edinburgh is fast approaching at the the swanky Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh. I thought it was important to clarify in advance buy-in options for this event as there has been confusion at previous UKIPT events held outside of a casino.

As with previous UKIPT Edinburgh events due to license restrictions this event is CASHLESS which means we will not be able to accept cash under any circumstances on site at the venue.

We are offering the following buy-in options:

PokerStars Online - Buy-ins for ALL events are now available by using your PokerStars account. All events are listed under 'Events > More > UKIPT'

PokerStars Onsite - We will have a registration team on-site who will be able to register you for events using your PS account funds should you wish.

Dusk Till Dawn - Dusk Till Dawn are accepting buy-ins at their Cash Desk and via their Online Shop for the Main Event, High Roller and £330 2 day Event

http://www.dtdshop.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=17&vmcchk=1

PLEASE NOTE IF YOU NEED TO BUY-IN USING CASH THEN DUSK TILL DAWN IS CURRENTLY THE ONLY OPTION

The full schedule is now available on the website:

http://www.ukipt.com/tournaments/edinburgh/

As per usual Day 1B will be extremely busy and the venue only has a limited capacity so choose your starting day early if this is particularly important to you.

Any questions feel free to ask.

Jamie

How are the sats with add ons going to work? Everyone gonna have to log in to their account to take the add on?

You will be able to buy however many 'UKIPT Edinburgh £50 Re-Buy Cards' you think you may require at the registration desk before/during the event using funds from your PS account.

If you do not use all the cards you bought then simply exchange them at any point during UKIPT Edinburgh and your account will be re-credited with the relevant amount.

Each card will be individually numbered and can only be used by the player who purchased the re-buy.


A little complicated but seemed to be the only way around it and we felt it was important to have local satellites before the event to the ME and HR.

Didn't this used to be in August, same times as the fringe festival? If so, shame its not anymore.

Old timers trip organised for this - Me, Kev O'Connell, Marcel Luske and Devilfish making the short trip to Scotland.

How far from city centre is the location?

It is slap bang in the city centre.

Smack next to - in fact part of - Edinburgh Waverley, which is the UK's 2nd largest railway station.

The Balmoral is utterly splendid, too. You can take Afternoon Tea in the Gentleman's Lounge whilst a harpist struts their stuff, on a real harp. Don't get that in a Days Inn.

thank you

What's the parking like for the Hotel.

Yes it was and it is a shame.

Feedback from players indicated that the majority would much prefer a city centre location plus a time of year when alternative accommodation wasn't sky high. We think Edinburgh still has a lot to offer any time of year and The Balmoral is situated in a stunning location.

There is no on-site parking as the hotel is central (they have secure parking for £27 but that is crazy), I believe there is an NCP close and there is also a large car park at Waverley Station (2 min walk to the hotel). Mon-Fri these car parks are expensive however but the station car park does £4.50 per day at the weekend. However, the best option remains public transport if this is at all possible.

Further info on Edinburgh parking:

http://edinburgh.cdmf.info/public/carparks/list.htm

 

That previous venue was the pits on all levels. - except parking.

Is there going to be any special online sats on the run up? or just the usual 1-2 seat guaranteed?

Hi,

All the remaining UKIPT Edinburgh satellites are available to view in the PokerStars client - there is a 3 Seat Guaranteed £44 Freezeout tomorrow at 20:02 but we have not planned any mega satellites as such (we also have two live £50 rebuy satellites at The Balmoral on 16th at 20:00 and 17th at 18:00).

We have well in excess of 370 pre-registered players the event at the moment and Day 1B availability is now extremely limited. As no one has every held a poker event at The Balmoral before we are not 100% certain on the maximum number of tables the venue can accommodate and will therefore cap each start day at a number we absolutely know we can accommodate before hopefully releasing extra seats should the venue size allow although this is not guaranteed by any means.

Jamie

gonna crawl out of my pit to play this one!

Is it daily online sats for seat only until the start day of day 1a online? or is it ending tomorrow?

Hi,

Sorry, to clarify, the last online satellite for Edinburgh is on Sunday at 16:02.

Tomorrow's satellite is likely to be the largest one in terms of seat generated a has 3 Seats Gtd which is why I highlighted it to OverTheBoarder

Jamie

Thanks Jamie, could you confirm what the Cap (based on your estimate of size) will be?

So would I have to register for the main event and the high roller if I bust the ME and decided to play the HR? I I chose not to play the HR would my account be refunded intime for sunday?

We will cap at 270 for Day 1A and Day 1B until next Tuesday when we can set the area up and are hoping to be able to extend this to over 300 plus alternates.

You can register for the high roller until 3 hours before in the PS client, after this time you will need to register using our onsite registration team at The Balmoral. If you decide to register in advance for the HR and are still in the ME then our onsite registration team at The Balmoral will be able to process a refund immediately, same goes for any side event if you bought in via PS.

N.B. I will need to clarify with DTD what the procedure would be if you bought in for the high roller with them and then required a refund. Should be able to confirm tomorrow.

So does cashless mean you can't buy in with debit card at the venue?

 Have enquired about this further and any refunds for Dusk Till Dawn buy-ins would have to be processed back via Dusk Till Dawn and therefore would not be processed until reconciliation the following week. We would not be able to transfer this credit to your PokerStars account.

You can buy-in with a Debit Card via your PokerStars account at the venue (deposit via PokerStars and register).

We will have an online PS employee from our security department who will be on hand to increase deposit limits and ID new accounts etc if required.

Can't wait for our next chat on a break at DTD learnt more in that 20mins about old cars planes
and engines then the whole of my last 30 years. Having a tea with you here next year 100%.

Going for b2b final tables in edinburgh and up for drinks and dancing if bust early!

Hi all,

We have now SOLD OUT Day 1B.

It is possible that we will be able to accept some more registrations from Tuesday onwards once we have set up the room and have a better idea of table capacity. We will also be accepting alternates on the day for the first 3 levels.

We still have around 80 seats left for Day 1A

Cheers,

Jamie

Hi Jamie, how can I buy into day 1B now its sold out? Reg online now and then be an alternate?

I know you havent been yet and set up the room but is the tournament room at the Balmoral bigger than the corn exchange?

At present we have 4 seats available if you would like to register via the PS client due to movement between days.

Once these go and if we do not manage to open more seats on Tuesday then we will take alternates on the day but cannot reserve spots in advance unfortunately.

No, the corn exchange was significantly bigger. I seem to remember us havng a lot of tables up there and there still being space to spare.

Lovely venue.Wonderful City.Wish I was not working.

Any more on the reasons for the move?

Its now at a smaller place, 1b is almost full already and with the parking expenses it makes driving really diifficult as we either have to flick in £15 for a days parking or use lol-public transport and then that creates problems for people playing the sides that run a bit later.  At corn exchange it was a good location for people commuting and it had tons of free parking.

Oh and the hotel doesnt have free wifi int he tourney room, £12 for 24 hours.

We had nothing but complaints about the Corn Exchange, it's out of town location, facilities and atmosphere and have simply acted on player feedback from the vast majority of players. The Balmoral is a beautiful venue and we felt would provide a much better all round player experience especially having the player hotel in the same venue and lots of alternative accommodation close by.

We do realise that the parking situation is not ideal but on the flip side at the last two UKIPT Edinburghs everyone who was not driving (the majority) had to pay £10 in taxi each way every day to the venue as there was no nearby accommodation.

I would argue that the move has already been popular - we have around 480 players already registered with the last UKIPT Edinburgh attracting 519 entries at a smaller buy-in level, a number we should comfortably surpass.

Hopefully it all works out now otherwise we will have egg on our faces :)

Hi all,

We have released a limited amount of seats for Day 1B as we have managed to secure some extra space. These are available via the PokerStars software or Dusk Till Dawn.

We have almost 500 players pre-registered for the event so are expecting our largest ever field in Scotland. Alternates will be available on the day should these seats sell out.

Any questions feel free to contact ukipt@pokerstars.com

Jamie

I find it hilarious that poker players worry about things like £15 to park a car for a day.

Lol...thinly veiled I just had a bink on a rival tour

Fwiw I think venue switch is very cool, the reality is most field will bust either Friday / Sat and Edinburgh is a great night out and bieng nearr the city must be a good thing.  Balmoral is a lovely hotel as well for those fortunate to win a package - I am in Jurys obv lol

If I wanted to pay a bunch for parking Id just park outside the door and take the parking ticket

I did that when I parked outside the Gutshot many years ago, the traffic warden's reaction when he came in and I told him to crack on was pretty good too, but nevertheless £15 is still much cheaper than a ticket  :D

In the mid 2000's when i worked in Antigua the guy that owned the company (imagine an Italian American that was, in every way, just like Joe Pesci's character in Goodfellas) used to park in front of the building every day and every day he would get a ticket and send his secretary to pay it.  After about 4 or 5 months the traffic warden lady was obviously a bit sick of this so she came up to the office and asked whose was the Mercedes Jeep that she gave a ticket to everyday.  He said that it was his and she shook her head exasperrated and said to him "every day you park out front and every day i give you a ticket.  Do you not realise that you shouldn't park there and it is costing you a small fortune" to which he responded "You keep writing the tickets honey, you'll run out of paper before I run out of money"

More diary posts please :)

We have had to cap the 6-max side event at 18:00 tonight at 150 Please note that this is a hard cap and will not be accepting further entries or alternates past this number due to license restrictions on the time gaming must finish.

We currently have 100 entries for this event and will be able to accept further entries online via PS first thing tomorrow.

Main event update: Having set up the tournament area we are now able to accommodate more players for both start days and registration is still available for Day 1A and Day 1B. We have already exceeded the UKIPT Season 2 Edinburgh record of 519 so it is shaping up to be an interesting week :)

Any idea the time this will be opening at?

Registration has be re-opened on first come first serve basis

After a brief hiatus over the festive season it's back to business on the PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) with the £700+£70 Edinburgh Main Event starting today.

The first of two opening flights starts at noon with a second following at the same time tomorrow. The latest leg in the Scottish capital is shaping up to be massive with PokerStars confirming that over 500 players had registered in advance.

Fintan Gavin won the UKIPT's last visit to Edinburgh, pocketing £61,500 after outlasting a 519-runner field in August 2011.


If you play, please post on this thread how you get on, and I'll put up the PS blog chip counts every day

For anyone playing Circus are offering free taxis from venue to the casino, if you want to play cash.  Call Capital Cars on 0131 777 7777 and quote UKIPT.  You could probably park around there and its a free lift back!  Hopefully this is not spam, just thought it would be good for players as no cash on site.

Thanks to the Tighty poker school this morning, day 1 chip leader oii oii :)

Boss. Enjoy day two.

GL in Day Two tomorrow Liam.

Good luck Liam.Run well.

114 of 254 made it through 1a

top ten

Liam Batey   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   115400
David Vamplew   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   106200
Greig Cushnie   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   94300
Eldon Orr   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   78800
Brett Angell   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   73400
Kuljinder Singh   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   71800
Mikel Villaescusa   Spain   PokerStars Qualifier   71000
Jason Barton   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   68900
John Wallace   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   66100
Johan Lendenius   Sweden   PokerStars Qualifier   65100

selected others

Niall Farrell   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   53000
Leon Louis   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   38500
Thomas Hall   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   28800
Andrew Teng   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   20100
Peter Wigglesworth   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   19300
Paul McTaggart   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   16400
Nicholas Wealthall   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   13600
Jamie Burland   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   11000


updates are at www.pokerstarsblog.com, day1b from midday

Good luck Saturday

Great news...flight cancelled, so £770 refund if stars sort as I'm sure they will plus £170 flexible booking Jury's plus £15 and £100 flight plus £200 night out when I busted means return of £1255 and a ROI over 50% - I'm good lol

Do a win fella :)up

Stars are just absolute quality - all unregged, money back in account - email response inside 20 mins - they just do everything so well.

Gl everyone who made it especially Eso and 4thwhistle

Really enjoying the UKIPT Edinburgh, ran into Liam and pleased to see he is chip leader, one of my mates was chip leader in Newcastle, Tim Timotheou, and it all went wrong day 2 for him and didn't even cash, but knowing Liam a little I'm sure that he will use this strong position wisely. I went up to 32.5k and was building steadily up until level 6, then had a few car crashes dropped backed to my starting stack and had a mini recovery last few hands to finish on 19k, with blinds 400/800 this is still workable. Played 3 sides so far having landed on Weds night... £110 6 max Weds busto mid way thru KQ suited vs A5 suited to a serial raiser, but chopped the £55 turbo that night. Ran deep last night in the £110 turbo out 16th from 113 with 12 paid lost another 60/40, but another friend Greg Barbour (from Fyfe - blue blooder) won the £55 turbo on chip count for £1k, I backed a few players in the ME and will be watching Dominic Kats progress today, then playing the £110 win the button event at 8pm tonight. Good to see all the regular dealers including Dena Hassan up here and some of the DTD TDs as well as Rob and Alex!

Yong,Kimber and Dom Kay flying.

Yong played like a man without a care in the world today and had the very clear intention of having a big stack or no stack. He managed the former, just missing out on the chip lead. He terrorised his table getting opponents off big hands and also donated at times, he said. Kimber's stack rose steadily today. He busted short stacks and managed to flop a set to win a bigger pot off the table "live wire" as he described him. Williams managed to win a flip to bust the talented Ben Jenkins and cracked aces with a flush draw. Kay managed to crack kings with queen-jack and was also helped when he flopped a full house and watched an opponent donate to him with queen-high.

Stolen from ps blog.

A total of 358 players turned up to play Day 1B of the UKIPT Edinburgh in the Balmoral Hotel, making the final number a record breaking 612, beating last year's 519

First prize is £101,000

267 through to the weekend

the combined top 10 are

Liam Horgan,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,119,800
Robert Yong,United Kingdom,119,100
Liam Batey,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,115,400
Luan Beciri,Belgium,PokerStars Qualifier,106,200
David Vamplew,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,106,200
Chris Derrick,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,104,000
Stephen Woodhead,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,97,000
Greig Cushnie,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,94,300
Christopher Mann,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,80,300
Eldon Orr,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,78,800

full list at http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ukipt3-edinburgh-start-of-day-2-chips.html

updates on www.pokerstarsblog.com tomorrow

blonde poster survivors

Dominic Kay,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,77,900
Jeff Kimber,United Kingdom,72,300
Niall Farrell,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,53,000
James Rann,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,47,000
Charles Chattha,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,46,800
David Blacklaw,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,41,700
Sunny Chattha,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,41,000
Thomas Hall,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,28,800
Peter Wigglesworth,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,19,300
Paul McTaggart,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,16,400
Jake Cody,United Kingdom,Team PokerStars Pro,15,500
Richard Charles Blacklock,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,14,600
Jonathon Prested,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,14,600

Gl all blondes shooting at the £100k.

Thanks very much to Jamie and Kirsty who sorted out a problem for a friend of mine yesterday. Thanks a lot.

Day 2 seat draw can be found at http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ukipt3-edinburgh-day-2-seat-draw.html

Come on Cush!

Latest

Liam Horgan, 210,000
David Vamplew, 180,000
Luan Beciri, 175,000
Liam Batey, 170,000
Gary Whipp, 168,000
Rob Yong, 155,000
Manig Loeser, 150,000
Dominic Kay, 140,000
Christopher Ahrens, 130,000
John Wallace, 115,000
Richard Charles Blacklock, 115,000
Jakub Kyrian, 110,000
William Champion, 105,000
Andreas Schmitt, 105,000
Grant Kinnear, 100,000
Meenakshi Sundaram Subramaniam, 100,000
Kevin Williams, 100,000
Richard Sinclair, 100,000
Paweł Boruta, 100,000
Mikel Villaescusa,100,000

Updates: http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ukipt/2013/ukipt-edinburgh-day-2-level-9-updates-bl-126061.html

Liam Horgan, 210,000
David Vamplew, 180,000
Luan Beciri, 175,000
Liam Batey, 170,000
Gary Whipp, 168,000
Rob Yong, 155,000
Manig Loeser, 150,000
Dominic Kay, 140,000
Christopher Ahrens, 130,000
John Wallace, 115,000
Richard Charles Blacklock, 115,000
Jakub Kyrian, 110,000
William Champion, 105,000
Andreas Schmitt, 105,000
Grant Kinnear, 100,000
Meenakshi Sundaram Subramaniam, 100,000
Kevin Williams, 100,000
Richard Sinclair, 100,000
Paweł Boruta, 100,000
Mikel Villaescusa,100,000


He's trying to grim us!

Lol wow, what a typo. That has got to hurt a little extra.

Funk for Rob thread please Tighty.

too early

Funk threads for final days, and hopefully a few of them for Liam, Dom Kay, Rob etc etc

Sigh :(

Vamplew leads with 114 left

these were the counts at the last break

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/ukipt/season-3-4/edinburgh-2/chipcount.html

Skyes has 300k

Liam Batey posted this

400k all in pre, him with Aces

Down to 80,000

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/484879_10151205045596884_1013552651_n.jpg)

Pokerstars blog posted this too

6.03pm: Nice river trick from Batey
Liam Batey found a much needed river card to save a lot of chips in a hand versus Vladislav Donchev.
There was a raise to 4,900 and two calls before Batey squeezed to 11,300 from the big blind. Donchev was the only caller from the button. The flop came down 5♣4♣2♥ and Batey continued for 16,000. Call.
Batey fired again, for 24,700, on the 5♠ turn and was called once again before both players checked the 3♠ river. Batey had made a BMW wheel with A♣T♦. His Bulgarian PokerStars qualifier opponent shook his head and open mucked 8♠8♥. Batey was stacking his mess of chips but seemed to have around 180,000. Donchev dropped to 65,000. -- MC

49 left overnight

Start of Day 3 chips

Chris Derrick,United Kingdom ,PokerStars Qualifier,554,500
Mikel Villaescusa,Spain,PokerStars Qualifier,431,500
Przemysław Dajer,Poland,PokerStars Player,368,000
Nicolau Villa-Lobos,Brazil,353,500
James Sykes,United Kingdom ,PokerStars Player,343,500
David Vamplew,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,316,000
Brett Angell,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,286,500
Andrew Laurie,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,260,000
Thomas Ward,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,259,500
Liam Horgan,United Kingdom ,PokerStars Qualifier,258,000

notable others

Stephen Eames,United Kingdom ,PokerStars Player,256,500
Jamie Burland,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,255,000
Jason Barton,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,233,500
Robert Boon,United Kingdom ,161,500
Kevin Williams,United Kingdom ,PokerStars Player,160,000
Greig Cushnie,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,152,000
Lewis Hunter,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,93,500
Liam Batey,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,83,000


There were 612 players joining the fray over two starting days in Edinburgh each parting with £700+£70.

They generated a total prize pool of £415,548.

1st. £101,000
2nd. £61,000
3rd. £37,400
4th. £27,350
5th. £21,150
6th. £17,000
7th. £12,850
8th. £9,750
9th. £6,850
10th-11th . £4,770
12th-13th. £4,200
14th-15th. £3,509
16th-21st. £2,900
22nd-27th. £2,280
28th-36th. £1,860
37th-45th. £1,650
46th-49th. £1,440

62nd, David Blacklaw, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player - £1,240


updates as they play to a final tomorrow at http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/ukipt/season-3-4/

Feeling pretty sick to lose with AA v AQ on the penultimate hand of day 2 for the chip lead again. 16 bigs need a spin up please!!

you are the slingshot. Pull back and catapult into the lead.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2YcthLkQV4Y

Awesome skills

Pokerstars blog



12.15pm: From a potential second in chips, to second out
Liam Batey had high hopes for today minutes before the end of play last night. He had even higher hopes on the last hand of the night when he got pocket aces in against Mikel Villaescusa's A♠Q♥. The latter made a flush and Batey came back third from bottom in the counts.
Things got worse for him today. We caught up with him at the payout desk and he told us he three-bet jammed K♦9♦ over the top of an open with ace-jack. He was called and soon out the door. You could tell from his face that hand last night was still playing on his mind. The fine line in poker that sees goes go from a potential second place in chips to second out the door the next day.
He was only beat to the payout desk by Dennis Henkes who was the first player put today. -- MC

Ul Liam a good run tho

Thanks guys. Wasnt meant to be.

gl to bear4rms

WP Liam. Sick bud

GL Sykes and Vamplew

Hi, just for future tourney reference, if you had entered UKIPT Edinburgh paying at the DTD cashdesk instead of via Pokerstars, how would you be paid if you cashed (i.e. given it's held in a hotel, not a casino)?

Best of luck to Jamie Sykes "Nit Tendencies" on blonde tomorrow in the UKIPT final

Seat 1. Nicolau Villa-Lobos - 313,000
Seat 2. David Vamplew - 1,127,000
Seat 3. Przemysław Dajer - 2,083,000
Seat 4. Christian Bergstrom - 517,000
Seat 5. Jamie Sykes - 1,029,000
Seat 6. Guido Braye - 775,000
Seat 7. Vladislav Donchev - 1,700,000
Seat 8. Chris Derrick - 1,497,000

(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/UKIPT_Edin_2013_MickeyMay_39432.jpg)

image from Mickey May, PS blog

reports at http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ukipt/2013/ukipt-edinburgh-dajer-leads-sykes-and-va-126117.html


payouts

1st. £101,000
2nd. £61,000
3rd. £37,400
4th. £27,350
5th. £21,150
6th. £17,000
7th. £12,850
8th. £9,750

Best of luck to Jamie Sykes "Nit Tendencies" on blonde tomorrow in the UKIPT final

Seat 1. Nicolau Villa-Lobos - 313,000
Seat 2. David Vamplew - 1,127,000
Seat 3. Przemysław Dajer - 2,083,000
Seat 4. Christian Bergstrom - 517,000
Seat 5. Jamie Sykes - 1,029,000
Seat 6. Guido Braye - 775,000
Seat 7. Vladislav Donchev - 1,700,000
Seat 8. Chris Derrick - 1,497,000

(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/UKIPT_Edin_2013_MickeyMay_39432.jpg)

image from Mickey May, PS blog

reports at http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ukipt/2013/ukipt-edinburgh-dajer-leads-sykes-and-va-126117.html


payouts

1st. £101,000
2nd. £61,000
3rd. £37,400
4th. £27,350
5th. £21,150
6th. £17,000
7th. £12,850
8th. £9,750

Loving the beard

marv, we took a bunch of people on for online staking and almost everybody else has a 10% retainer clause for live cashes for us and jamie is gonna bink.

great lad though. glglgl mate.

GLGLGL Sykes.

Thanks lads, I'll do my best, need a bit of a speeeen mind.

Bank transfer

Massive gl to Jamie 'Bear4rms' Sykes. Top player and top lad. Would love it if he took it down!

Gl !

are you saying Jamie is now staked by you or that you missed the chance to buy a piece again ?

As Pleno so publicly stated, he's got my action for some online cash games atm helping me tweak some stuff and just generally helping with the transition from HSMTTs to cash games.

Sat with Jamie at breakfast on Sunday...nice guy...wish you all the luck today sir

Go get em fella!

good luckt today Jamie

 ;applause;

Gl today

come on sykessssss!!!

Oh fkn sigh:

12.55pm: Jamie Sykes eliminated in 6th place (£17,000)
This is fast becoming the David Vamplew show. He just got somewhat lucky to eliminated the dangerous Jamie Sykes is a cold hand.
Sykes opened the pot with an under the gun raise to 85,000 and Vamplew three-bet to 183,000. The action was back on Sykes who four-bet to 325,000 then called all in for around 1,200,000 chips when Vamplew shoved.
Sykes: K♦K♣
Vamplew: A♠K♥
The 5♦T♠7♠ was safe for Sykes.
The J♠ turn opened up half the deck for Vamplew's hand now and prompted Sykes to say. "You have far too many outs, you have to miss!"
The river fell as A♥ to send a spike through Syke's house. He took the loss well and wished everyone luck. As he walked off we heard him say, "Yawn" to his railing buddy, Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody.
Vamplew is up to 3,600,000 chips now and on fire. -- MC

From pokerstarsblog.com

So fucking sigh!

fuck sake any chance? no justice

absolute slags. rich get richer.



you floored me with that Mr Tumnus post though Triggg. VERY WP  ;applause; ;applause;

noooo jamie noooo such sighs :(

Nicolau Villa-Lobos wins UKIPT Edinburgh(£101,000); Vladislav Donchev eliminated in 2nd place (£61,000)

1st. Nicolau Villa-Lobos, Brazil, £101,000
2nd. Vladislav Donchev, Bulgaria, PokerStars Qualifier, £61,000
3rd. Przemysław Dajer, Poland, PokerStars Player, £37,400
4th. David Vamplew, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier - £27,350
5th. Chris Derrick, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier - £21,150
6th. James Sykes, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player - £17,000
7th. Guido Braye, Netherlands, PokerStars Qualifier - £12,850
8th. Christian Bergstrom, Sweden, PokerStars Player - £9,750

Thanks for the support lads, I ran pretty good to get there, just couldn't hold on long enough I guess! The brazlilian lad that won is an absolute gent. I played with him on day 2 and day 3 and he was pretty solid but mostly just really polite and a good sport re: the banter. Well deserved win.

Was on both the winners and Jamie's table on day 2. Both great sports and well deserved.

Also had the Pleasure of doubling Jamie up when it was push or shove. And AQ getting there v 10's. Was a pleasure to share a table with him and had a few drinks on Saturday Night. Total legend and genuine Hero.

Do you reveal information about your deals with all your players, or do they have to opt in for you to post their bushiness dealings on fora?

Oh snap.

Yeah agree with jamie, the guy who won was a super cool guy. He had a pretty cool napoleon dynomyte pedro mustashe going on and we were joking about that. He seemed almost apologetic when he bust me.
His 3 Herbie mob flags ain't half bad either.