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Day2a yesterday saw 317 runners of whom 170 got through

Today from midday Day 2b


Lets hope DTD get a pack load of runners, its certainly an important day

Late registration until 10pm, and playing nine one hour levels

Day 2a chip counts

Alban JUEN    22    5    367500
Leigh Wiltshire    31    3    326900
LAUNAIS BRUNO    17    7    305300
Andrew Probyn    14    6    262700
Paul Theodore    13    6    250600
Franck Delmas    33    1    246800
jean miguel lacerda    34    6    231000
Nicolas Cardyn    25    6    227200
Anonymous    6    1    224600
Rhys Jones    17    3    222600
Daniel Morgan    12    1    213300
Johannes Toebbe    6    2    210100
Fabian STACHE    21    5    210000
Jerome Brion    4    8    197400
Anthony Wright    17    9    193500
Ben Middleton    5    6    183200
Sergio Aido    24    5    176000
Martin Toennesen    22    2    174600
Andrew Olssen    7    5    173900
Adil IDDIR    24    1    167900
LARBI Ait-Taleb    33    9    167100
Jamie Burland    31    4    164800
Leon Campbell    30    2    163600
Mark Gardner    31    1    160300
Michal Polchlopek    5    4    158300
Giuseppe Zarbo    22    7    156200
Nikhil Persaud    25    2    154100
Thomas Middleton    22    1    153000
James Douglas    26    8    151300
Mathew Frankland    31    9    150400
Rony HALIMI    25    5    147500
Christopher Frank    32    8    147100
Clement TRIPODi    16    6    146200
Kamal Choraria    30    8    142000
Mateos Diaz    5    7    141900
Richard Trigg    14    1    141400
Christophe Lefebvre    21    1    141200
david benyamine    15    3    139900
Johnny Nguyen    15    2    139400
Simon Mattsson    26    1    137000
francisco da costa santos    12    3    136300
James Rann    32    4    134800
Ross Boatman    14    8    134700
Sam Trickett    7    9    132600
Sylvain SOLFRINI    7    4    131600
Matt Dale    4    5    130000
daniel erlandsson    7    2    129900
NOUAR SIDI MOHAMED    32    5    128600
OTIN RAPHAEL    13    3    128600
Jakub Michalak    7    3    126500
Peter Evans    34    5    122900
Florian Schultz    4    6    121300
Jason Chamberlain    24    7    119700
Herve Santais    7    6    119600
Najib Kamand    26    2    118700
SEBASTIEN GUERLINZE    33    5    118400
Matthew Heap    16    9    118100
Yung Hon Ngan    16    7    116500
Thomas Laumer    26    9    116000
Florian Hoeller    32    2    115600
Stefan RODRIGUES    5    9    115100
Alexandre Henry    15    7    114300
Mark Mccluskey    23    6    112500
Yucel Eminoglu    17    8    111300
Marius Pospiech    6    4    110800
Paul Mctaggart    14    4    110100
David Lhonore    16    3    108600
Christopher Spinks    6    8    105000
Stephane Allard    23    1    101700
Brian Benhamou    5    2    100900
Richard Chamberlain    31    2    100200
Barny Boatman    15    8    100100
Laurent BROSIA    21    6    98800
Adrian Passfield    22    8    98200
Sander Lylloff    16    8    97500
Angelo D'onofrio    21    4    97400
sebastian Muller    24    8    96300
Remi Le Meur    16    4    93800
Carl Williams    14    5    93300
Myriam BARRY    23    2    92000
Vishal Pundjabi    17    6    91800
Julien Pascal Monfort    23    3    91700
Ramzi Jelassi    5    3    91500
MICKAEL RIVETTE    34    7    90300
yoann gautier    12    6    89000
filip gustavsson    30    9    87700
Domas Rutkevlis    21    8    86500
Jonas Busch Klausen    30    4    84800
Bassam Elia    4    7    84400
Ognjen Sekularac    12    4    84200
Jean Gianotti    14    2    84000
Matthew Davenport    15    9    83100
Brett Pinder    32    7    82700
Neil Mcfayden    4    3    82500
Ramey Shaio    32    3    80400
STEPHANE ZOPPI    22    3    79400
Paul-fran�ois Tedeschi    30    1    78800
Ian Frazer    16    1    75000
Pawel Zawadowicz    14    7    73200
Gregor Reichhardt    13    8    72200
Mads Wissing    24    6    71700
James Mitchell    22    6    67600
Adrian Veghinas    31    5    67300
Emrah Yildiz    30    7    67100
margo solnik    23    8    63400
AYAZ DANIEL    6    7    63000
tony Blanchandin    12    9    61200
Jonathan Weekes    26    6    60900
Priyan De Mel    13    9    60500
GWENDOLINE Janot    6    9    60200
Najib Tahiri    34    1    59000
Amy Trodd    24    2    58100
Steven Csepreghi    4    9    57800
Oliver Prior    12    5    57100
Yury Parad    33    8    55600
SURENDRA NAIDOO    26    7    55300
Paul Zimbler    21    3    54700
Gary Jones    24    9    54000
Pieter De Korver    6    5    53400
Robert Hendry    16    2    53000
FREDERIC CASALTA    15    6    53000
Kassem Deeb    4    4    52400
Morten Andersson    17    2    52200
John-paul Kelly    25    3    51300
Bettouche Abdel-wahid    25    8    51200
Steven Munnings    23    7    50500
BAS DAMIEN    17    4    50300
Richard Chiverton    25    4    50200
Madhavan Kasthuri    6    6    49200
Florent Louis    15    5    48300
Yvon Aouizerate    12    2    47900
Rumit Somaiya    25    9    47800
Surinder Sunar    26    5    47500
Neil Benardout    21    9    47000
John Man    21    7    46900
Mick Hardy    23    5    46000
Andoni Larrabe    15    4    44000
Jonathan Prince    31    8    43200
Alain Fustin    31    6    42300
Nicolas Richard    17    1    40300
Jose Philippe Afonso Bamba    6    3    40200
Thijs Huijgers    12    7    40000
Yngve Steen    5    8    38900
Denis SULAK    34    3    38600
TONY NICOLAS MARMOLLE    13    2    38600
Guy Bowles    32    1    38600
Richard Blacklock    22    9    36400
Rupinder Bedi    33    6    36200
Marcellin Gery    23    4    36200
Yann Guenoun    32    9    36100
Boris Becker    5    5    35500
Baptiste Carteau    26    3    33700
Laurent Riu    25    7    33300
Thi Phan    34    8    33200
Alan Benamar    5    1    31300
Dmitry Slaykovski    33    2    31100
John Askey    13    4    29100
Gaetan Balleur    24    4    28200
Stephane EDEL    16    5    28200
Andrew Abernethy    33    4    27200
Samia TORKI    34    2    27100
John Moetwil    34    4    27000
Darren Fuller    13    1    26900
Christophe Lesage    21    2    25800
Darren Wheldon    33    3    23600
Vikas Sabharwal    30    6    23100
Pablo Fernandez    4    2    19800
Jose Garcia    7    7    18500
Jan-Friedrich B�umer    14    9    17300
Nazim Guillaud    7    8    13900
Richard Turner    13    7    4600 

Today we are being helped by freshprinceofbetair, Glenn Townsend who has begun to do some work by DTD, recent journalism graduate

Please welcome him,new to blonde. In for a baptism of fun....

Hi guys, long time lurker of blonde, recreational player and just finishing off my journalism degree. Hope to provide you with some good stuff today and looking forward to working with the team. Good Luck to everyone playing.
Glenn

More overcast today. This is good!

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blondes gather before the start...

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Pete Linton qualified last night and I gahter has a huge chip stack of 270,000+ and is Online chip leader coming into today

Errrrrrrrrrr

What an atmosphere!!! Loving it..... gl all....

Hiya and welcome to blonde.  Good luck running up and down those stairs today!  :)

367 in at the start as follows

1    Paul Hardwidge
2    Andrew Gough
3    Stephen Holden
4    Jean-michel Ploch
5    gael le pen
6    Terry Cameron
Table 10
Seat    Player
1    Allan Peers
2    Adrian Copping
3    Tom Hall
4    David Lloyd
5    Dorin Rauta
6    Carlo Cantone
Table 11
Seat    Player
1    Scott Long
2    Peter Eastgate
3    Alexander ZAJA
4    Wayne Hopkin
5    Alan Vinson
6    Paul Coughlan
Table 12
Seat    Player
1    Patrick Guintrand
2    Eirimas Livonas
3    Benjamin Jenkins
4    Zigmantas Jockus
5    Richard Hoadley
6    Darren Rice
Table 13
Seat    Player
1    James Clutton
2    Alain Medesan
3    Marc Plaiter
4    Abhishek Khaitan
5    Mark Hutchison
6    Gordon Huntly
Table 14
Seat    Player
1    Patrick sacrispeyre
2    Marc G�schel
3    Steve Brown
4    Lee Connett
5    Alex Varga
6    Colin Marks
Table 15
Seat    Player
1    Ganesh Jayaraman
2    Guy Barron
3    Dominic Kay
4    Will Blanche
5    James Clarke
6    Philippe narboni
Table 16
Seat    Player
1    Michael Maruna
2    Morgan Karlsson
3    Brijesh Das
4    Christopher Wicher
5    Jean-Bernard bot
6    Neil Raine
Table 17
Seat    Player
1    Gareth Ludlow
2    Reyaaz Mulla
3    Timothy Chung
4    Kyriacos Dionysiou
5    Leon Louis
6    Peter Barrable
Table 18
Seat    Player
1    Daniel Lenham
2    Lucien Cohen
3    martin dobson
4    Neil Mcculloch
5    Anton Abela
6    Nicolas Lemaire
Table 19
Seat    Player
1    Krzysztof Jaromin
2    Seun Oluwole
3    James Sullivan
4    Guillaume Lefebvre
5    Christophe PEREIRA
6    Erich Kollmann
Table 2
Seat    Player
1    Pierluigi Palmaricciotti
2    Saifon Lambe
3    Oanh BUI
4    Nick Hicks
5    Pasquale Puma
6    Stephen Millar
Table 20
Seat    Player
1    Pascal BALASTERE
2    Thomas Horton
3    Constant Tanganelli
4    Marc Uzan
5    Stephen Hay
6    benoit albiges
Table 21
Seat    Player
1    Eugen Fritzler
2    Thien Chung Wu
3    Gareth Holt
4    Mark Wagstaff
5    Troy Rutherford
6    David TAVERNIER
Table 22
Seat    Player
1    Debjani Duncan
2    Luke Hallinan
3    Liz Lieu
4    Nuno miguel Campos antunes
5    Hugh Black
6    jean christophe choffray
Table 23
Seat    Player
1    Mario Vojvoda
2    Patryk Slusarek
3    Basharat Mahmood
4    Alex Goulder
5    Gavin Mills
6    CHRISTOPHE CABRAS
Table 24
Seat    Player
1    John Murray
2    S�bastien Bouvron
3    Luigi Cocita
4    Ka-Wing Njouw
5    Steve Krosby
6    Don Roberts
Table 25
Seat    Player
1    Lydia Cugudda
2    Kane Thomason
3    Age Spets
4    Simon Deadman
5    Manuel Garcia Gonzalez
6    Thomas High
Table 26
Seat    Player
1    NOUSSE PIERRE
2    David Burn
3    Paul Bampton
4    Patricia Anne Baggott
5    Patricia Almeras
6    Anthony Woolley
Table 27
Seat    Player
1    Yiannis Liperis
2    Vincent Sanchez
3    Richard Garner
4    Ola Brandborn
5    Richard Whitmore
6    Gerard Mc Clure
Table 28
Seat    Player
1    David DRAI
2    Neil Giblin
3    Alistair Carins
4    Azziz Echihi
5    Philip Ashton
6    Joseph Lovelady
Table 29
Seat    Player
1    Ning Li
2    alain roy
3    Adrian Ko
4    Dean Bloomfield
5    giuseppe stagno
6    Mahamed Muse
Table 3
Seat    Player
1    John Patten
2    Barbara MARTINEZ
3    Craig Goldsmith
4    carl croucher
5    Michael Quigley
6    Gaurav Kumar
Table 30
Seat    Player
1    Martin Cheese
2    Andreas Constantinou
3    Murtagh Mulholland
4    Stephen Rawle
5    Darren Hill
6    Fadhil Farag
Table 31
Seat    Player
1    Guy Johnson
2    Barkatul Mohammed
3    Wai Kok Yu
4    Andr� Andrade
5    Paul Brown
6    Thomas Busst
Table 32
Seat    Player
1    Arran Fletcher
2    Nick Jenkins
3    david gough
4    Jaynarain Sookoo
5    Romain Vandebogarde
6    Khalil Youssafi
Table 33
Seat    Player
1    Vincent BIGEON
2    Szczepan Chrzanowski
3    Nils Jarefjall
4    Florent MARQUES
5    Tom Kugelstadt
6    Maurice Samuels
Table 34
Seat    Player
1    thomas scordo
2    Ferhad Seyadi
3    Gary Bryan
4    Mitchell Johnson
5    Jasper Meijer van Putten
6    Balint Pusztai
Table 35
Seat    Player
1    Martin Hansen
2    Bj�rn Eriksson
3    Sylvia Hewitt
4    Fraser Macintyre
5    Nilufer Gunay
6    Raj Dhiri
Table 36
Seat    Player
1    Alan Storey
2    Angelo Vietti
3    Thomas Ambler
4    Matt Harris
5    Sorin Contentinescu
6    Nick Jamieson
Table 37
Seat    Player
1    Pawel Brzeski
2    paolo morris
3    Stuart ODELL
4    Anonymous
5    Alison Awome
6    Carmelo Indorato
Table 38
Seat    Player
1    Matt Russell
2    David Harris
3    Glyn Rees
4    Samuel Holden
5    Paul Garden
6    Daniel Platten
Table 39
Seat    Player
1    Tom Langley
2    Darren Stribling
3    Chin Chai Koh
4    David Burghardt
5    Andrew Peters
6    Daryl Haney
Table 4
Seat    Player
1    Ross Patman
2    Stephen Nash
3    Tracey Lockwood
4    Daniel Johansson
5    Georgeta Pistol
6    Tomasz Gluszko
Table 40
Seat    Player
1    Gary Fisher
2    Giovanni Raffa
3    Michael Wernick
4    Jen-yue Chiang
5    JAN-FRIEDRICH BAEUMER
6    Mikolaj Zawadzki
Table 41
Seat    Player
1    Farhad Afshin
2    Stephen Jennison
3    Chris Hatton
4    jorma nuutinen
5    Lee Walker
6    Adebayo Odetoyinbo
Table 42
Seat    Player
1    Sunil Mistri
2    Jack Ellwood
3    James Tomlin
4    Aurelien Cattet
5    Mario Sfameni
6    Mark Roberts
Table 43
Seat    Player
1    Chris Dowling
2    BISMUTH LAURIE
3    Joffrey LHOTE
4    Mark Warnock
5    Vincent Wagner
6    Milan Rabsz
Table 44
Seat    Player
1    Paul Bell
2    Duncan Mclellan
3    John Engledow
4    alexandre amiel
5    Daniel georgescu
Table 45
Seat    Player
1    Frederic FUENTES BUSSOT
2    Eric Meissonnier
3    Robert GIORDANO
4    Peter ROCHE
5    Carlos Hernandez
Table 5
Seat    Player
1    Simon Higgins
2    Christopher Forde
3    Gary Hulks
4    Derek Murray
5    Guy Collins
6    Dale Garrad
Table 6
Seat    Player
1    David Gent
2    Alan Mansbridge
3    Pramesh Bansi
4    Sean Randall
5    Albert Sapiano
6    Nicholas Berry
Table 7
Seat    Player
1    enrico mosca
2    Andrew Phouli
3    Giuseppe Grimaldi
4    Min Ji
5    Bradley Gibbs
6    Zeik Tuit
Table 8
Seat    Player
1    Louis Manson
2    Ryan Mc Elhinney
3    Emlyn Long
4    Adrian Latka
5    Kevin Lee
6    Rob Day
Table 9
Seat    Player
1    Fabrizio Pascarella
2    Xavier el fassy
3    Peter Bala
4    Ryan Passey
5    Giulian0 Bendinelli
6    Chris Smith

Pie time...............GL GL Matt.

Tom Langley

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Laurence "rivermanl" Houghton qualified online with a short stack, arrived yesterday at 3.15pm lost AJ v Q9, then bought in direct today and is out already....

Runaway winner of the "Hat/blouse combo of the day" award

Liz Lieu

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Early action has seen blonde's own Ray "Mondatoo" Norton dodge a massive bullet!

Firstly, as I popped over to say hi, Ray was calling an 800 flop bet from Jean-Bernard Bot on a 4h Jh 5d flop. They both then checked the 7c turn and Qd river, with Ray's Ac 5c enough to take the 3k pot.

As he was stacking the chips, Ray was in the SB and called a late position 450 raise from Chris Wicher. They went heads up to the Qh Ad 8h flop and Ray then check-raised Wicher's 750 c-bet to 1775. Wicher thought for a bit and then just called.

The turn was the Qd and Ray quickly bet 2700. Wicher again called and it was on the 9s river where things went mental. Ray went to bet again and counted out 4 chips. One was black, 2 were yellow and one was blue orange.

Orange? Oops...

Ray visibly started as he knew straight away he had put the wrong denomination chip in. It was therefore 27,100 to call and Wicher, weirdly, looked visibly pained! It appeared that he hadn't seen Ray's reaction to the bet and was wondering why mondatoo had made a massive overbet on the river. Thankfully for our hero (and his backers), Wicher passed and tapped the table.

Mondatoo? He just raked the chips in with a grimace on his face and a quick conversation between us saw him admit "yeah, it should have been 7100!!"

Little did he know that his trip to London would get him to sit next to Justin bieber

Michael Mizrachi Wembiebers

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Some very, very early exits:

368   Dorin Rauta
369   Allan Peers
370   Sunil Mistri
371   Thomas Mcmanus
372   Prapatsorn Srinamueang
373   Domonic Cugudda
374   Gautam Sabharwal
375   Laurence Houghton

He once scored in an FA Cup final for West Ham, now Paul Konchesky gets a chance to play at Wembley,a  chance he had thought had gone forever..

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Alex Goulder riffles his chips with a Gentle Touch

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No, I don't know who this is. I need a helpful clue from somewhere...

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Cruella Da Ville

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Guy Johnson set for another deep run..

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He is on the same table as James Atkin

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prob the best lookalikey yet?

Yeahman, possibly THE keenest player to be here today, Ross Patman

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Alex Goulder takes down a pot. After some dispute over a pre flop raise (I'm not quite sure what happened) in the SB he is 3 bet to 1700.
He check calls 1500 on a 7h 5h 4d flop. Same move on the turn of  Tc . The River card comes  Kh. After a sigh his opponent folds to Alex's river bet. Discussion between the two ensues.

British Gas

British is actually standing up, saving the ISPT the cost of hire of at least one chair

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The face of a man who doesn't see midday too often...

Mondatoo

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Winner of the best dressed man in the tournament for the 346th Live MTT in succession, Marcel Luske

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Mistri, Jack Ellwood and James Tomlin

Mistri is out already, and now has to wait to drive Tomlin home.....

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he had the third largest stack of all the online qualifiers

The one, the only (thank god) Adebayo Odetoyinbo

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Hs8_c9CVwto/UancHbUCSDI/AAAAAAAAg2o/Z4TuwvthIg8/w400-h597-no/DSC03281.JPG)

Simon Deadman

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on the same table as mateyboy. I forget who

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Rob Yong interviewed yesterday by Laura Cornelius of Poker News

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGx4LcRQzoM

Well on his way to a min cash

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Good luck to John Patten representing GNF today!!

Pic please tighty

Thx

good luck all! place looks tremendous!

They've spent six years being drawn on the same table in APATs...and here again they are

Mint Trav and Hammerite, John Murray and Don Roberts

Don the Hammer, this is what Wembley looks like....

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'They are still queuing look.' A passer by comments on the cash desk queues. Still plenty of players coming through the doors.

GL to all Blondes today especially Frankie.

The ubiquitous Dale Garrard representing, no, I'll leave you to guess..

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Hugh Black, aka "H" on blonde

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Stephen "broonie" Brown

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Pls someone get rob 1000 players pls

Had reports of a big pot aces v kings v queens ?? Full treble up from 48 k ish for Sarah hart if its not a wind up ??ace on flop all in pre ??

Mitch dyed his barnet ginger?

Boy next to Mitch has a bit of the Howard Lederer's about him, not a good look at the poker table lol

Not sure of the action but I'm confident I just saw Frankie show a Full house 9's full of Jacks. His opponent flips over quad Jacks and declares 'You have 9's I go all in with 9's.' Frankie lets out a small smile and responds with 'You check, I bet, then call an all in.'

Lots of small pots so far and lots of chatter...

No, this isn't the entirety of the Beckham room, this is just Frankie's table. He spots me as he is in a hand and calls me over:

"Write this down, yes, you, the English *points at one of our Spanish colleagues* and make sure you write this down as well! I want this in Portuguese as well". Naturally, I did, and the flop was 6h Td Kd and Frankie has checked to a player whose name has not yet appeared on our player list. Mateyboy bets 600 and Frankie calls.

The turn is the 3d and Frankie is relentless with the speech play, but checks again. His wary opponent checks behind and the river is the 7d. Frankie again checks and his opponent checks behind. Neither have a diamond and Frankie's Jh Ts is good, but there has to be one last comment as he tells Mateyboy "If you bet I fold". Mateyboy just grins ruefully and says "yeah, I know!"

Pete Linton qualified last night with a ridiculous 190k stack. Today he's found himself on the same table as Liz Lieu and is already up over 230k after "I called a raise with QT and the flop was QT3 all spades. I got paid off when I rivered a Ten and somehow the guy over there (Nuno Miguel Campos Antunes) flats me with AK spades".

Some early twitter updates:

Jamie Sykes @gotdeuces Ok, after an hour of queueing I'm finally sat down. Table looks good too, so hopefully I'll be able to give this thing a decent spin. #ISPT

Tom Langley @MtSpewmore Managed to get the A4 v A9 on A49A3ccc and somehow not go broke. 30k #ISPT

Nick Jenkins @nickjenkins01 started on 52k now on 72k with the help of a set of jacks #ISPT

Ben Jenkins @TFPbenj Re-entered, made a set, up to 70k and a much better table today #ispt

Guy Johnson @outragous76 Flop a set from sb  vs mr active! River quads and he somehow finds ck ck for the first time today! Sigh #ISPT #blondepoker

A prophecy comes true!!

Two/three years ago I said at DTD

"if you were at Wembley stadium you would be able to hear Frankie if he was there"

Approaching the first break of the day and 408 in so far, 727 total

We are over-spilling 10 tables into the Pele Room too..

Here are the exits so far

398    Matthew Rosenberg
399    Carlo Cantone
400    Steve Krosby
401    Hugh Black
402    Patricia Almeras
403    Dorin Rauta
404    Allan Peers
405    Sunil Mistri
406    Thomas Mcmanus
407    Prapatsorn Srinamueang
408    Domonic Cugudda

All the names you'd expect to direct buy in are here, except those in Vegas.

All the DTD regs you'd expect to see are here.

Problem is, and accounting for the vast majority of the numbers shortfall compared to what is required, is that the "grass roots" of poker pubs, poker clubs, home games etc have very little presence here, and indeed didn't in the Online satellites/feeders either.

Afternoon Tighty....Any chance of a photo & chip count for Murtagh Mulholland(tbl 33 s 3) DTD Poker League Freeroll  to Wembley..not bad for an Irishman from Retford.thank you and good luck for the day ahead.

CHECK....TABLE 30 SEAT 3..MURTAGH MULHOLLAND.APOLOGIES

So currently

729 entries at €2700+300

€1.968m prize pool

20% for 1st is €393,000, added money to take that to €1m is

€607,000


Late entry til the end of Level 8

SNGs running all day here for £260 a pop


Doubt you'll see anything like this anywhere again in the UK (event or overlay!). If you want to get here, and either DBI or SNG, we'd all be delighted to see you!!

'Frankies Back.'
After his 9's cooler Frankie and Tom Langley chop a big pot. The pot is opened for 1175 on  9s 7h Jh Frankie 3 bets to 2800 which Tom flats. Seat two (sat between TL and Frankie) 4 bets to 7700. Frankie shoves for 36K as does Tom with 31. After much thought seat two calls and shows a set of Jacks, Frankie shows  8d Ts and Tom likewise with  8c Tc . The turn and river play out  Kc  4d. Tom rakes his pot quietly, while Frankie declares that he indeed is back.

Is terr a 1c tomorrow? May as well get a flight I guess...

Tom ambler updates?

No, buy ins end at 10pm tonight

will get on my next trip down

Praz is here, next to Sean Randall

Praz heads to Vegas in mid June, but not before a trip to macau for a big MTT (Trickett won it last year iirc, Champions Cup maybe?)

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To Praz's right is the superb David Geeforce Gent

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Just before the break I saw John Murray call a raise from Mateyboy on the button, and the blinds followed along. It was checked to Mateyboy on the 5h Kd Jh and he bet 1400. Murray and the BB Luigi Cocita called and we went 3-way to the 3d turn. Mateyboy bet 4500 and Murray folded, flashing me his cards. Cocita called and the river was the Aspades. Mateyboy bet 11,900 and Cocita passed.

Murray's hand? Guesses? (I will check that he is happy for me to post it first)

Claypole Conning taking time off from his day job as a childrens party entertainer

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Any news on Craig Goldsmith please

Good luck all blondes especially Monda, Atkins, Ambler also Dayrl Haney..

Chip counts on these four plz gents

Tell them too  ;slavedriver;

Giddy Up ;)

What will the blinds be both then and if I buy in at 10 but get there tomorrow?

Sry if complicated im 50/50

Play has just continued after the break.

Tim Chung, Greek Jack and Leon Louis

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That's got to one of the best lookalikes

Pete Linton remains today's chip leader

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-RzdXjFEUPXs/Uanw37tdyfI/AAAAAAAAg30/hjUvdzx_oGo/w400-h597-no/DSC03288.JPG)

If you buy in at the end of level 8 then theoretically you would have 52,700 in play at 600/1200-200 for an hour.

First blind level tomorrow is 800/1600-200 I believe, and we're checking if people can buy in very very late tonight if they are not here but can get here for tomorrow.

Ok great and how far would we be off the money (about) could come and play a couple of side events too I guess.

Nick Hicks looking happy with his lot

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170 of 319 made it through yesterday

410 so far today

so currently 729, and 365 would be paid (50% of field paid)

So that 729 will rise, lets say it ends the day at 750 (800?)

375 paid at 750

roughly 240+170 would be through making 410 through so quite close


allow for guessowrk on my part please

The Pele room with the late entrants is a whos who of Biritish Poker, a real smorgasboard of talent and star names...

James Akenhead for example..

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-DpMw0lo89PQ/Uanw8xe_eeI/AAAAAAAAg4s/0wRjWLBBplQ/w400-h597-no/DSC03296.JPG)

Roberto Romanello on table Claypole

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Matt Perrins here next to former Kettering Town Chairman Imraan Ladak

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Skalie and Devilfish

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 Great event. Great venue. Most importantly, great updates.

I'm gutted I couldn't be in for this.

Photo and chip count of Kane Thomason please Rich, Table 25 seat 2 I think. Gingerness will be apparent on arrival. Many a lookalike!

Jerome Bradpiece

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To get a realistic Jerome you need to mix 50% of each of the following

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(http://cdn3.whatculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ming.jpg)

Steve Watts, being helped by today's masseuse of the day....

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Murray has  Kd Td

Simon Higgins who qualified last night on his sixth day one bullet. A relieved man..

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Spot the difference

Bashful

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Jakally

(http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/25600000/Bashful-bashful-25678471-357-450.jpg)

Vinodh

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If he had that we need a new deck :)

He has 51,000 at 150-300

Average is 57,000

I am a bit behind with other requests


Heading down to find


Tom Ambler, Kane Thomason, John Patten, Craig Goldsmith......

Can you get a mondatoo count Tighty whilst you're down there. Ty

45k when I saw him 10 mins ago.

All exits so far today:

394   Duncan Mclellan
395   Eirimas Livonas
396   Georgeta Pistol
397   Colin Marks
398   Lee Connett
399   Nuno miguel Campos antunes
400   Marc Plaiter
401   Nicolas Lemaire
402   Christopher Forde
403   Peter Barrable
404   Matthew Rosenberg
405   Steve Krosby
406   Hugh Black
407   Patricia Almeras
408   Dorin Rauta
409   Allan Peers
410   Sunil Mistri
411   Thomas Mcmanus
412   Prapatsorn Srinamueang
413   Domonic Cugudda

James Atkin/MC chips please?

Thanks Adam

Dominic Kay called a raise on the button from Philippe Narboni preflop and James "Raggy" Clarke also joined in from the BB.

The 3 of them saw a 4s 7s Th flop and it was checked to Dom who bet 825. Raggy called and Narboni passed.

The turn was the 8s and both players checked. The river brought the 2c and Raggy bet out 1550. Dom counted out the chips and looked like he was going to call, but folded with a wry smile.

44k.

Whenever I walk past table 25 Mitch Johnson is involved in a pot with seat 6. Mitch calls a river bet on  8d 3d 7c  6s  Jd and shows  7s 8s and is good.
At the same time Simon Deadman, check calls 1200 on  Ac 8s  5h against Thomas High (? apologies if names are wrong I'm going from the seat chart) Simon then check calls 2800 on  Ad turn. The river is  4s and Simon checks again, this time a bet of 7100 see's Simon fold after some time tanking.

More twitter updates:

Tom Langley @MtSpewmore QJss < K4ss on 765sss first hand after the break for 20k a piece. Getting brutalised with @MR_CHIPPYMAN #ISPT

Alan Brown @fizix87 81k from 53k starting at the first break, table is a dream #ISPT

William Powell @WilliamPowell14 No veggie food at the #ISPT at the moment. @RealKidPoker would not be impressed.

Jamie Sykes @gotdeuces Obviously me and @Benwa1 are the only people losing on a table where they are talking about how much they hate jacks... #fuckourlives #ISPT

Ben Jenkins @TFPbenj Moved table with 85k. I'm in the running to be the youngest here which is new to me #ispt

Derrick Andrews @DelAndrews After 1st level, down to 12000 chips #ispt #apatpoker

These updates are so good!

Just saw on Rich's FB about the SnG sats. Gonna try one last shot so will be there @ 5ish.

Assume they are super turbos?!  Are they running regular?

As soon as 10 players turn up a SNG starts.

They were taking about 90 mins yesterday.

David Burn and Ben Martin updates please

Tighty...Murtagh Mulholland just doubled up to 100k ...sick..AA V AA he hit 4 clubs to flush out opponent..pic if poss please.

Good luck to Raymond and Matt Russell.
Any updates/counts appreciated.

Frankie has informed everyone the gentleman pictured in sunglasses is a softcore porn model, mixed reactions...

I think so

when they get 10 players they start.

just turn up, see a TD and go from there

turbo.

Ben has 76,000

David will be on my next list

Mondatoo 60,000

Matt 35,000

on my last wobble past


Now in Level 4 395 of 420 remain

blinds go 200-400

average 53,000

Those chips are towering up. Hopefully they aren't going to fall.

Steady on 100 k ish last time he text won a pot with a set 33 s v tens , lost em back with 9 s v 34 sooted flop 25x king turn ace river then raised or called with 22 flop ajj bet 2 callers turn 2 weee , check mateyboy bet 12 k  Craig call , river x Craig check matey 4 k Craig flat 30 k pot to go back to 100 k
Guy Barron out Kk v 55 5 on river

Ask and ye shall receive...well, on mondatoo anyway.

He called me over to tell me that he called a raise on the button from his old foe Chris Wicher holding Kh Qs. Wicher then proceeded to party like it was 1999 bet, bet, bet - firstly for 1150 on the Qd Th 5c flop, then 1850 on the Qh turn, and finally 6200 on the 2s river. Mondatoo was not to be denied, however, and just called, called, called and now has 60k.

Albert Sapiano raises to 1100 UTG at 150-300

David Gent calls

On the button Alan Mansbridge calls

In the small blind Praz Banzi makes it 3,600

Sapiano passes

Gent passes

Sapiano "this bloody squeezer, bullying the table all over the place"

Mansbridge passes

Banzi peaks at the corners of his cards, so I can see

"Is it ok to post that Praz?"

"Yeah"

Sapiano "I knew you had Aces!"

Praz?

Qh 3h

Mickey Wernick chips please?

Craig Goldsmith about 85,000

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OxAuHC6LMwg/UaoFY6KfuxI/AAAAAAAAg6A/N30-ua1eBto/w400-h597-no/DSC03305.JPG)

Liz lieu pics pls


More the better <3 liz

Jamie Sykes just knocked out one of his table opponents who hate Jacks.

Despite hating Jacks, the gentleman liked his 9-9 enough to shove over the top of a Sykes raise. Sykes called with A-Khh and was good on the 6-T-2-A-6 board, despite commenting "I never win these" when he missed the flop!

Peter Linton is back over 200k after he played a hand with Luke Hallinan where Linton check-raised Luke's 900 bet to 220 on a 2s 9c 4c flop, then led for 5000 on the 3s turn and 12000 on the 5h river. Hallinan called down and was dismayed to be shown Ahrt 6h for the second nut straight before he mucked what this roving reporter thinks was probably the wheel.

John Patten 42,000

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Kane Thomason 54,000

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-MWwgbyOWL3I/UaoFaX0W1_I/AAAAAAAAg6Q/_7vb5R-onc8/w400-h597-no/DSC03307.JPG)

(http://www.pajiba.com/assets_c/2011/05/-beaker-thumb-450x337-24685.jpg)


To be fair, I only had 50-60 possible lookalikes to choose from for Kane

Tom Ambler has 140,000. Here next to Matt "Rexas" Harris on his one man quest to spent the tournament overlay on massages

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40,000 in small denoms mostly

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Not Liz, but stunning nonetheless

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Wadey, Marcel and Devilfish

About 200 years of combined poker experience

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How many runners today?

Thankyou may you keep on wobbling.
Top work from you all

420 so far making 739 total

Late reg til 10pm

SNGs running on demand

Around a €580,000 overlay currently..the like of which I think (and sincerely hope) the UK poker scene and DTD especially will never see again. A one off event that DTD have done wonders with, but nonetheless a nasty overlay.

Am on the hunt for David Burn.

Today's dealer of the day

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Joey Lovelady and David La Ronde who won the English Poker Open at DTD a couple of years back

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gp2lp7xS68g/UaoFfHjzJRI/AAAAAAAAg7E/UtoJpucoKSE/w892-h597-no/DSC03314.JPG)

Steve Holden

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Updates on

Mitch
Thigh
Goulder
Deadman
Plinton
Evil one
PJ

Pls tyty

Who is this?  :o

I've got 92k

So sad I can't make it, 100% of my run good to Thomas ambler pls and ty.
Best event in uk ever?

Wiiiii 2nd on the list. This is exciting. Ul PJ. I've got ~60k.

Ben Jenkins
Just went 8 way to the flop over here in ispt France. Je te flouppe fli, oh de fuff!

Ben Jenkins
Gonna limp behind like its 1999 #ispt

Alex Goulder
going very badly. Got 8800 which is 22bbs and about 1/6 average lol. Massive uphill climb from here. iwembelieve..ish

James Atkin
63k. Won a nice pot with Aces. Moaned it in!

Nick Jenkins
ouch AA no good against Dan Hardys KK for 112k pot .Down to 30K
 
Tom High
Not a great start. Down to 60k from 79. Soft table though. Even got SIMONDEADMAN two to my right. Time to go to work after the break!

James Akenhead
Pretty annoyed I got here on time but on table with late regs-still feeling good and buzzing bout playing on Wembley football pitch!

Up date on British Gas pls

Mitch has 92K
Deadman says you guys can have the choice of 2million or 20K
And am now off to hunt the others.

cheers tonytats

Alex Goulder ‏@cambridgealex:

#ISPT going very badly. Got 8800 which is 22bbs and about 1/6 average lol. Massive uphill climb from here. #iwembelieve ish...

He's still four foot nine.

Oanh Bui.

Dutch, sponsored by Poker770

Very clever post grad Economist who plays poker on the side

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=151355

Drool very drool. Is he still in and if what's his stack like

See Lil D? They DO drool it off!

He has chips...

He flatted a raise from Michael Maruna preflop holding Ahrt Qh and they saw Neil Raine flat from the button, mateyboy flat the small blind and mondatoo was obliged to flick it in from the bb.

The flop was perfect for the man from Luton - Kh 5h 4h. Maruna led for 3k and Das just called. Everyone else got out of the way pretty quickly!

The turn wasn't the best though, the 8h putting 4 hearts on the board. Maruna then checked, and Das bet out 4k. Maruna just called.

The river was the blank of all blanks for this board, the Qc. Maruna then led for 6k. Das, with a flopped nut flush, naturally made it 16k. You have to believe he is ahead? Well, Maruna then moves all in for 38k!! Das snapped his hand off, insta-calling.

Oops. Maruna had 7h 6h for the straight flush!

Das is down to 20k.

There's surely gong to be a deal on this FT unless some complete sicko gets there.

Stacks for Frankie and Steve Holden please guys.

I have:
Linton at 310K
Tom High at 60K
Paul Jenkinson 40K.

is he still trying to sell that Johnny chan jacket!! fml! Last time I saw him Roberto said he wouldnt give him £20 for it!

Tyty.

We are on the second break of the day. Back at 4.40pm.

Nick Jenkins with the blondepoker last longest trophy...

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Can confirm TonyG is back in the Stadium.

The only way there might not be is if you get a Trickett or a Benjamine finalling, where the money is comparatively unimportant and they might think the dynamics of the situation could see them bully the heck out of recreational players who have made it that far

I think deals can only be discussed once final table is hit? Otherwise I suspect it might be earlier than that even.

As has been said Simon Trumper has undertaken to oversee any deal discussions and ensure fairness.

We'll find out on Wednesday.

surely if linton, alex etc etc get to the final with 3x average they wont deal till they absolutely need to.

Think they'd get a sick deal anyway if that were the case

Thats so weird, just spun up to 13k so I was thinking about what my deal strategy is gonna be.

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Great updates,chip counts for Murtagh Mulholland(pic pretty please) Yeahman & Daryl Haney...THANK YOU.

When you get a mo, can you get a photo / chip count of Tracey Lockwood please. Table 4 Seat 3. she went with about 63k

    Great updates Rich and team. Sorry I cannot be there. Good luck to all Blondes.

Guys bust out was brutal to say the least. Table whale calls an open and then Guy's subsequent large 3b squeeze from 25k. Opener folds, whale calls. They get it in on rainbow 883. Guy has QQ and whale has A8s.

on the latest walk through

Pete Linton,     290000
Gordon Huntly,     165000
Michael Mizrachi,     145000
Leon Louis,     115000
Jon Spinks,     107600
Anton Wigg,     88000
Dominic Kay,     83000
Roberto Romanello,     79000
Jeff Sarwar,     78300
Praz Bansi,     76000
Mitchell Johnson,     75000
Peter Eastgate,     72000
Liz Lieu,     71000
Dave Ulliott,     69000
Marcin Milde,     68000
Antoine Saout,     65200
Waheed Ashraf,     63000
Martins Adeniya,     62800
Jamie Sykes,     60800
Chris Sly,     59300
Roger Hariabedian,     58500
Jerome Bradpiece,     57200
Mickey Wernick,     57150
Toby Lewis,     52800
Marcel Luske,     51400
Alex Goulder,     50000
James Atkin,     46150
James Akenhead,     45700
Ben Vinson,     44500
Alain Roy,     42400
David Gent,     35000
Kevin Stani,     30000
Simon Deadman,     28000

Alex is now up to 50,000. Nop one double, but progress....

matt Russell is out QQ into KK pre

He says he had a really tough German on his table..Daniel Platten, and after playing with him for a while he thought "I am going to have to hit some cards here" whereas normally in any comp he feels competitive, here he felt inferior

Well he hit Queens...

50k? Is this some kind of sick joke!?

Simon Deadman 1100 at 250-500

Manuel Garcia Gonzalez 2525

Deadman 6050

Gonzalez 11500 5 bet...Deadman passes

No. Less, I presume?

Wadey Ashraf opens to 1100 and Pavel Brzewski  makes it 2500, Wadey calls

 Ad Kd 8d

Wadey check calls 2175

 8s

check check

 Qc

check check

Wadey shows  Jd  Js

Pavel can only show a single card  Jh and the pot goes to Wadey

Yeh, just gone from 17 to 30 though with a nicely timed turned set...

I feel rich 8)

James Akenhead is chugging away over on Table 47.

He just took down a small pot after 3-betting S Sandhu's raise of 1600 UTG to 3800. Terry Cameron then called from the big blind and Sandhu passed.

Cameron then inexplicably checked blind before the dealer dealt the Aspades Jd 2s flop. James casually bet 4k and Cameron snap-folded.

Akenhead is up over 50k I believe...

We can do our own counts

purple 5000

yellow 1000

red 500

blue 100

green 25

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teach me to take a list of chip counts without checking won't it?

Just before this, I saw Alex get it all in on a Qs Ts Aspades Ahrt board holding Ad Ks.

His opponent, Carlo Cantone, called with Ac Kh and faded the flush draw for a chopped pot.

The media centre has multiple uses...

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This is genius

Right. Derby done!

How is David Harris getting on? Is he sober? He was Beckham 38/2.

Any info would be great. Cheers Tighty.

Al

Caption competition?

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Renee Xie dressed for the heat

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BallymoreChris, Chris Dowling in mid hand eyeing up an opponent

Chris, Jude Ainsworth and Ronan Gilligan are the only "name" Irish players I have seen across for this which is both surprising and disappointing

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Did not see the hand but Simon Deadman has bust.

The fearsomely aggressive Mo Muse

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Tom Kugelstadt going well

The orange chips are 25,000 each...

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Chip count and photo for thomas hall if you could tighty?
 
Taaaa

Great updates!

Tom Langley doubles up. Raises 5k utg. 1 caller A K ? Flop. His remaining 3800 is called off and he shows A K. His opponent misses the turn and river with his 10's.

Is claypole still in?

How's Tom Ambler doing?

How exciting.

Yes going well

160,000 at 300-600

354 of 433 left

average is 61,000

yes short at 26,000 at 300-600 (half average) but still grindable

Guess who?

Thanks Richard.

Sam Tricket?

Tougher quiz for you today. Name the EPT London and EPT Copenhagen finalist and 15 WSOP cashes...

American...

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Murtagh Mulholland request earlier now on 80,000

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Dominic"Nico29" Kay

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Big Roger, Roger Hairbedian the French Live Pro, big winner, bracelet winner, Aviation cash game player

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Every f**ker seems to be chipping up. This tournament is like a big orgy of free money and happiness for the chosen ones.

Played him in UKIPT...is it Kevin Ifanico or something?

Tom Hall was requested, 65,000...

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Tracey Lockwood was requested, 60,000

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Hows Tim I turn up late for every tournament Chung doing tighty? Thanks :)

chip stack art with Roberto Romanello

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Toby second bullet Lewis

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ty sir

WSOP Main runner up Julian Gardner

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Gary "The Choirboy" Jones, a fixture on the London scene for 15 years or so now...

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Sam Trickett was the man lounging in the seats

Kevin iacofano the double EPT finalist


Tim Chung 65,000.

TODAY'S EXITS

344    Jerome Bradpiece
345    gael le pen
346    Vincent Wagner
347    michael kraus
348    Nick Jenkins
349    thomas scordo
350    Alex Goulder
351    Luis Rodriguez Cruz
352    Fabrizio Pascarella
353    Gautam Sabharwal
354    Lydia Cugudda
355    Christopher Wicher
356    Pratik Ghatge
357    Talet Mahmood
358    Troy Rutherford
359    Kim Mortensen
360    Steven Watts
361    Marco GEMMA
362    Niels Ladefoged
363    Alan Storey
364    Jeff Sarwer
365    Mateusz Moolhuizen
366    Michael Tureniec
367    martin dobson
368    Adrian Ko
369    Wai Kok Yu
370    Simon Deadman
371    Alex ferrand
372    Jaynarain Sookoo
373    Jude Ainsworth
374    David GUILLAUME
375    Carlos Hernandez
376    Szczepan Chrzanowski
377    Wayne Hopkin
378    charlie combes
379    Ola Brandborn
380    carl croucher
381    David TAVERNIER
382    hatib janneh
383    Gareth Ludlow
384    BISMUTH LAURIE
385    Luigi Cocita
386    Guy Johnson
387    Brijesh Das
388    Matt Harris
389    Manuel LEAL BORGES
390    Stuart Fox
391    Gary Hulks
392    Samuel Holden
393    Pietro D'ONOFRIO
394    Kristian Johnsen
395    James Clarke
396    Ben William Warrington
397    Matt Russell
398    Stephen Nash
399    Graeme Hibbert
400    Shane Brotherwood
401    Sean Randall
402    igal botbol
403    Nicholas Berry
404    Alan Vinson
405    Thien Chung Wu
406    Don Roberts
407    Pasquale Puma
408    Kacper Pyzara
409    Simon Brooks
410    Ha tran
411    Guy Barron
412    Thor-erik Hoftaniska
413    Peter Bala
414    Mario Vojvoda
415    Sorin Contentinescu
416    Barbara MARTINEZ
417    Eirimas Livonas
418    Georgeta Pistol
419    Colin Marks
420    Lee Connett
421    Nuno miguel Campos antunes
422    Marc Plaiter
423    Nicolas Lemaire
424    Christopher Forde
425    Matthew Rosenberg
426    Steve Krosby
427    Hugh Black
428    Patricia Almeras
429    Dorin Rauta
430    Allan Peers
431    Sunil Mistri
432    Thomas Mcmanus
433    Prapatsorn Srinamueang
434    Domonic Cugudda

Ray Norton and James Atkin chip counts please?

As we hit the hour long dinner break


James Atkin
3b squeeze AKs in SB. Opener folds, btn calls. K9x, 2 spades. I bet, he clicks, I jam. He calls with KQcc &amp; I hold! 80k

From yesterday..

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHkESI2xvmc

Dinner break of 1 hour.

If you wish, you could always click the DTD banners and play some quick cash whilst you wait...

Thank you Tighty...one of Dave Alsops DTD Poker League Warriors going well......

Before the break though, Toby Lewis raised it to 1500 preflop and was called by Georgios Doumas in the BB. They saw a flop of 8d Th 2d and Doumas check-called a bet of 2,000. Both players then checked the Tc turn and Doumas fired out a chunky 3600 bet on the 3c river. Lewis sigh-called and Doumas didn't want to show, but was forced to show first and resignedly turned over Kc Jd.

Which was good as Lewis flashed Kd 9d before mucking!

Slowly grinding as it seems everyone wanted to make the break without busting. Paul Jenkinson looks short but his 1300 C bet on  2c 6c Kc gets through.

Slighlty larger pot from Mitch Johnson where he raises to 1500, is 3 bet to 3K. He 4 bets to 7100 and thats the end of that.

Didn't see any decent pots in the 20 minute build up to the dinner break.

Recent exits:

334   Louis Manson
335   Carmelo Indorato
336   Martin Hansen
337   Thomas Horton
338   Sebastien Cadenel
339   David La Ronde
340   Imraan Ladak
341   Julian Adamson
342   Tom Langley
343   John Engledow
344   Jerome Bradpiece
345   gael le pen
346   Vincent Wagner
347   michael kraus
348   Nick Jenkins
349   thomas scordo

Did someone say dinner?

This is the table of song.

Marcel seems to have his shades on upside-down.

Must be nice to be Linton, accrue such a ridiculously large stack on the very last 1.

Zeer goed

Does he still play poker for a living? Haven't heard anything about him for years.

Just before the break Adebayo Otetyinbo raised to 1800 and got 3 callers. All 4 players checked the Jh 6h 4h flop and when Adebayo bet the 8h turn, he got 2 callers in Farhad Afshin and Chris Hatten. The river was the 7d and all players checked.

A pretty disastrous board for Adebayo it turns out, as he had 8d 8c for a set of 8's. Afshin mucked and Chris actually held 4d 4c for a set of 4's! Both players were left shaking their heads, but for entirely different reasons.

I believe he's a bit of a Greeny and won't travel far esp by plane because of his carbon footprint.

Mickey Wernick chips please? (If still in)

Didn't Gary Jones effectively invent the min-raise pre in NLHE?

Dinner break twitter update:

Jon Spinks @JonSpinks 150k at dinner, going back to 400/800 #ISPT

Gary Fisher ‏@butterfish60 Dinner break at #ISPT. Now up to 78K (100BBs) playing a smallball strategy. Avg is 63K. Table chip leader http://ow.ly/i/2fVKq

alan brown ‏@fizix87 75k at dinner break, pretty #withered couple of levels #ISPT table a bit tougher now

Jamie Sykes ‏@gotdeuces Couldn't have gone worse in the last level. Ran head first into the deck, and now I'm outa there. Fu Wembley. #dreamover #ispt

Generally hovering around the 40k mark last I saw (granted, this was at the beginning of Level 6)

And we are back.

Blinds are 400/800-100. There are 322 players left and the average chips is 65k.

Can you say hello to Mickey Wernick from Karl...cheers

Sylvia Hewitt & Arran Fletcher please Rich

Great updates congrats all

Update and a pic pls for Gary Brian is still in? Tell him Kev says good luck!

He has 50,000 in the current level 300-600

Mondatoo has 34,000 after the break

Jon Spinks on today's entry is having better fortune than yestersay, up over 130,000

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Fraser MacIntyre who finished 2nd in EPT Madrid

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Sean Oluwole

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Just been slapped in the face after 8 hours of grinding poker, KK into AA and I don't think there way anyway I was getting away from it either. Thks for support and much love to friends still in! Still really enjoyed today even though I suffered some nasty rivers , and Eso rich called me the riverman the other week ;) lol

Oh that's big roger on my right! Story checks out. Just does what he wants

Pete Linton is still the chip leader with around 300,000

Say hello to Pete everyone, he is voraciously reading the updates

He says that he had a dream table earlier, but the alst couple of levels he has become shorter of cards and the line up has become tougher. For example James Akenhead is now on his table

He tells me that seat draw is pretty crucial in this, with such a wide disparity in players, nationalities and buy-in expertise

Crucial, he says, is the Day three seat draw as we look like starting tomorrow only 20-30 places off the money and the opportunity to chip up there is very important....


As we finished chatting, Akenhead raised, the button called and Linton called in the big blind

6s 4d Ts

Linton checks

Akenhead 3,000 into 6,000

the button 7,000

Linton check raise to 15,000 and gets two folds

So he now has over 330,000 again....

And gone....great fun, very enjoyable except for just enduring worst sigh, shaking head nitroll by  Kd Ad making me think my  Jd Jc was miles clear. Good luck all left in - especially Bedi, Trigg and Monda

Easy game. On a board of  8d 5c 9h 4c 4d Michael Mizrachi is heads up. His opponents move on the river? Open fold. Dealer asks Mizrachi to 'show his hand' to win the pot. Michael smiles and responds: 'What happens if I don't show?' As he shows his hand the general chit chat seems to point towards calling the floor should the hand not be shown.

Martins Adeniya was in an interesting hand just before his table broke.

I joined the hand with the board showing 8c 8s Th and Mo Muse had bet 5400. Martins and Mo were heads up and Martins casually chucked in the call. They went to the 9s turn and Mo checked. Martins bet 9700 and Mo grimaced but called.

It was on the river that things got nasty. An innocuous 3h saw Mo check again. Martins had 32k back and this was about the size of the pot, so he moved all in. Mo went into the tank for what seriously only felt like 90 seconds to me, and during this one of the floormen came over to break the table. Suddenly, Martial Blangenwitsch in seat 7 called for the clock! Mo was visibly upset and glared at him before rolling his cards over to flash 2 paint cards which were black suits, and folded face down. As the dealer went to take the cards into the muck, Martial flew up and made the dealer show Mo's hand (Qs Qc) to the table, claiming the "show one, show all" rule!

Thankfully the table broke after that hand otherwise tempers may have boiled over!

What time does day2b end please.And is it a 12noon start tomorrow,thank you.GREAT UPDATES.

Roberto Romanello is having fun over on table 21. He just called a late position raise to 1600 from mateyboy and Eugen Fritzler joined them to give us 3 way action on a flop of Kd 2h Ts. The action wilted from then on as all 3 players checked before the blood got pumping again on the Ks turn. Roberto checked and Eugen bet 2200. Mateyboy called and Roberto check-raised to 5200. This was enough for both opponents to give up their claim on the pot and Roberto raked in the chips.

11pm if all goes well and we do start at 12pm tomorrow for another 9 levels.

He dyed his hair bright green when he finalled a WSOPE event years ago, presumably to advertise this very fact Kev.

Thank you...early train down in time for side events.

Would it be possible to have a chip count for John Murray please. Sorry but not a very exciting virgin post.

No worries Don - on it :)

After the discussions in the press room at dinner...I can confirm TonyG is having another crack and is in the corner...literally.

Sylvia 95,000

Fletcher 51,000

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105,000

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Tracey Lockwood had the Aces....

How's Craig goldsmith doing please ? Text half hour ago aces v kings all in pre down to 50 k Ffs  obv king on turn

Tom Ambler 210,000

Mitch Johnson 105,000

Tom High 65,000

Paul Jenkinson 45,000

Roberto Romanello 120,000

James Akenhead 125,000

Neil Giblin 55,000

Yiannis Liperis 60,000

Rob Woodcock 70,000

Matt Perrins 60,000

Devilfish 140,000

Jack Ellwood 85,000

James Atkin 60,000

Toby Leiws 65,000

James Akenhead raises

Luke Hallinan 3 bets

Liz Lieu 4 bets

At the far end of the table Linton beckons me over

Akenhead passes

Hallinan shoves for about 50,000 over the 8,000 4 bet

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Lieu tanks

Linton whispers to me "Kings"

I arch an eyebrow and reply sotto voce "Queens"

After all, she is tanking

Linton then lowers his voice another octave "nah, she's nitty. Kings"

Five minutes later Lieu calls


Hallinan Queens

Lieu Kings

the board

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sends Hallinan to the rails

This is Liz's expression when Linton sits down and asks her

"Why did you take so long?"

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the reply was "oh come on!"

great updates as always

A happy, yet quiet, Tony G in the corner of the Main Event room.

So is that Tony g's third attempt?

Two, yesterday and today

There were some exitees who wanted to re-enter today, but not permitted. re-entry into 1b from 1a only

Craig Goldsmith is on 77k.

Michael Mizrachi is down to about 15xbb after in the last couple of levels, he keeps losing all ins to shortstacks.

His most recent one saw Paul Jenkinson get back up to 35k when Paul's A-J was good on a 5-6-8-8-K board which we assume was all in preflop.

John has 32,700.

If you want to be Tighty's protégé, you're going to need to tell us what he looks like, what he's wearing, whether he reminds you of a minor celebrity and would it kill you to add a bit of Latin?!

He is has brown hair, I can't tell how tall he is as he is sat down...He is wearing a musty coloured hoodie and is sporting what looks like an Ipod shuffle on the table. He resembles no minor celebrity (which is probably a good thing) et tua est Latine. (and there is your Latin)  :)up

Exits as of now:

276   Michael mizrachi
277   Alexander Schechter
278   falfoul mourad
279   Daniel Marquis
280   Matt Perrins
281   Vincent BIGEON
282   Marc Göschel
283   Ofer Stern
284   Mario Sfameni
285   Alain Bauer
286   Mark Dillon
287   James Sullivan
288   Alexander ZAJA
289   David Harris
290   Mikael Johansson
291   Guillaume Lefebvre
292   Krzysztof Jaromin
293   Ghassan El-hoss
294   Nick Jamieson
295   Robert Woodcock
296   Richard Whitmore
297   David Burghardt
298   PAUL PHAM
299   Jean-Bernard bot
300   Guido PIERACCINI
301   Kane Thomason
302   Stephen Hay
303   Constant Tanganelli
304   alexandre amiel
305   Jose Quintas
306   Luke Hallinan
307   Patryk Slusarek
308   Ryan Mc Elhinney
309   Chris Hatton
310   ilan boujenah
311   Kyriacos Dionysiou
312   Alexander Salabaschew
313   Sergi Reixach
314   Martins Adeniya
315   Roger Hairabedian
316   massou cohen
317   Debjani Duncan
318   Shaun Conning
319   Darren Rice
320   NOUSSE PIERRE
321   Ross Patman
322   Rob Day
323   Adrian Latka
324   Anthony Nicholls
325   Terry Cameron
326   James Sykes
327   Mark Warnock
328   Pawel Brzeski
329   Daniel Charlton
330   Alan Mansbridge
331   Peter Barrable
332   David Bridoux
333   Asif Raja
334   Scott Long
335   Stephen Wilsdon
336   Louis Manson
337   Carmelo Indorato
338   Martin Hansen
339   Thomas Horton
340   Sebastien Cadenel
341   David La Ronde
342   Imraan Ladak
343   Julian Adamson
344   Tom Langley
345   John Engledow
346   Jerome Bradpiece

We've just been told that Mizrachi was Kings into Aces for 40k.

Ty he had tens v ace king for 80/90 k pot all in pre I believe back in it now

It's time for another twitter update - don't forget, #ispt for us to see it :)

Tom High ‏@Tom_High Got a nice little 5b bluff through. Up to dizzy new heights of 85k. People on my table are rofling hard. Stack building time. #ISPT

Gary Fisher ‏@butterfish60 http://tl.gd/lutfke Wow. Massive let off in. #ISPT. I raise to 2600 w/AK. He calls w/ 45K behind. Flop A97 2 spades. He check. I bet 3K. He raises to 14K. I tank then shove all in. He tank folds 97 2 pair. PHEW! I then win another 10K off him next hand with 88 on a straighty flushy board with all overcards. He's on tilt. I'm on 90K

Luke Hallinan ‏@LukeHallinan So she tanks for 8 minutes.... Then calls with KK (pre) and says 'omg I don't wana look' when I show my QQ thinking I'm good #ISPT #slowroll

Phil TC Tompkinson ‏@Phil_TC Level 9 upto 39k at 400/800/100 #apatpoker #apatmasters #ispt

James Atkin ‏@epitomised Sigh, down to 44k, things not going my way at the moment #ispt #blondepoker

An he used to play professional football for Peterborough utd  then Carlisle in the 80s ? But never made it to wembley until today , so he was highly delighted to do so today

Last break of the night

266 of 436 left going into 600-1200

average is 81950

Buy in is until 10pm, ie the end of the break


I will then tally up the overlay, where the cash positions start tomorrow, how far we are likelyto be away from the cash etc in 20 minutes

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Exits at the break:

267   Paul Jenkinson
268   Robin Keston
269   enrico mosca
270   Marco Ruggeri
271   adrian koy
272   Jasper Meijer van Putten
273   Barkatul Mohammed
274   Lee Walker
275   Chris Sly
276   IDRIS AMBRAISSE
277   Michael mizrachi

One more twitter post:

Jon Kalmar ‏@skalie I enquired wether there is a redraw at the end of the day. A play says "why? Don't you like me?""No mate, no! Quite the opposite!" I reply

Much better.

We've worked out that we are 80 metres above the pitch

We reckon total trips per day to amount to 1800, up only

So thats 5400 metres to day 4, when I think the tournament moves inside to the same level as us

So in summary, we are each climbing Mount Chacaltaya in the Andes, Bolivia to be exact, over days 2a,2b and 3

Cool, but the calves are burning a bit

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103 Nelson's Columns (the official measurement for height)

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Plus one Christ the Redeemer

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And one David thrown in for good measure:

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So, this is all subject to official confirmation


442 entries today

319 yesterday

761 entries total at €2700 for a prize pool of €2054700


20% for first is €410940


€1000000 is GTD for first place so €589060 will be added


Half the 761 entries will be paid so 381

170 of 319 made it through yesterday

Around 240 will make it through this final level

So c410 will come back, 381 paid a minimum of €540, so the bubble will break early tomorrow afternoon


I will put the full payout up when received, probably tomorrow      

The scene in the last break

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Well I for one am sad to see the demise of Vincent Bigone.:(

Well I for one am sad to see the demise of Vincent Bigone.:(
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he was knocked out by Rob Woodcock I think!

Late entry for the lookalike competition. Marcel Luske...next to James Caan of Dragon's Den.

Freshprinceofbetair

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Never let it be said he looks like a juggler off bgt

(http://static.whatsontv.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/media/bgt-week-4-thomas-bounce.jpg)



Many thanks for his help today. Boy done good. He's coming back on Monday too...

I was chatting to a short stacked Damon Hill John Murray when I noticed a hand developing on his table. Mateyboy had raised it up to 2600 at 600/1200-200 and Ben Vinson had called, along with Sebastien Bouvron from the BB. They saw a Ad 4s 3c flop and Bouvron checked. Mateyboy bet 3700 and Ben was the only caller. Heads-up, the dealer burned and turned the 8d and Mateyboy led for 6700. Again, Ben called.

The river was the 6d and Mateyboy fired the 3rd barrel - 11700. Ben went into the tank but eventually decided just to call. Both men showed the same hand. A-Q.

(http://www.tombrowntracker.com/images/chop1.jpg)

Mondatoo open-shoved 16xbb preflop with 9-9. A player who shall remain nameless had a stack of 150k and found A-K.

What would you do? Answer to follow at the end of the day (in 20 minutes)

played with him for a season in Peterborough prem such a skilful player, with him we won the league

lol did they fold?

errr re-shove

Yes, they did. *shakes head* Even Ray was shocked by it!

too early to gamble innit.

anyone know how much it costs to park at wembley for a full day?

too much

Green Cark park, mention ISPT and should be free.

I mentioned ISPT at the Green Car Park but they told me it was £30 for the day.

I sure parked there!

Jack Ellwood is up to 140,000

Oanh Bui shoved 10-10

Ellwood reshoved A-K

A third player re-re-shoved Q-Q

A fourth player folds A-K

Jack spikes a King to knock Bui out, and more than double

ok

email nicola@dusktilldawnpoker.com and ask for one of the free spaces then. I thought people were just giving the name ISPT

Where did you park Mark?

Is James Aktin still there?

yes, short-stacked

Play is ending shortly and the two lads are prowling the floor as I speak for some final stories


Full chips will be posted in the morning and hopefully full payout too, depending on both being received from the organisers.

oh, and a seat draw too.

All being well.

the exits in the last hour are as follows

246    Gordon Huntly
247    Balint Pusztai
248    Romain Vandebogarde
249    Nic Markou
250    Marcus Van Opzeeland
251    Scott Margereson
252    Mikolaj Zawadzki
253    Gary Jones
254    Joffrey LHOTE
255    Oanh BUI
256    Pascal BALASTERE
257    Renato Da Silva Almeida
258    Sara Hart
259    Nick Jamieson
260    JAN-FRIEDRICH BAEUMER
261    Danny Blair
262    Stuart Parrish
263    Fraser Macintyre
264    Arran Fletcher
265    andy efstathiou
266    Tom Hall
267    Rick Advani
268    Andrew Phouli
269    Ramsey Ajram
270    Lucien Cohen
271    Ofer Stern
272    paolo morris
273    Anonymous
274    Paul Spillane
275    John Patten

The £250 Turbo side attracted 59 runners and the final table result was as follows

1    Mario Vojvoda
2    Martin Comitti
3    david herbez
4    Guy Johnson
5    martin dobson
6    Johannes Toebbe
7    Gilles Haddad
8    Vikrum Mehta

Loving the updates - but sad that Rob/DTD have had to make up so much for the first prize guarantee.

On Wembley Park Drive - Just about here......

Some last minute chip counts (official ones to come later)

Wadey Ashraf - 36k
Steve Holden - 52k
Nick Hicks - 70k
James Tomlin - 65k
Mitch Johnson - 80k
Peter Eastgate - 160k
Ray Norton - 25k
Devilfish Ulliott - 140k
Praz Bansi - 110k
Albert Sapiano - 95k
Dominic Kay - 75k
John Murray - 30k
Ben Vinson - 70k
Adebayo - 250k
Bash Mahmood - 100k
Tony G - 80k
Marcel Luske - 70k
Jon Kalmar - 80k
Peter Linton - 310k and we think he is the chipleader
Liz Lieu - 70k
James Akenhead - 40k
Toby Lewis - 150k
Mickey Wernick - 90k

*Disclaimer: These were taken 5 minutes before the end so some people might have busted trying to get it or go home!*

Exits:

246   Gordon Huntly
247   Balint Pusztai
248   Romain Vandebogarde
249   Nic Markou
250   Marcus Van Opzeeland
251   Scott Margereson
252   Mikolaj Zawadzki
253   Gary Jones
254   Joffrey LHOTE
255   Oanh BUI
256   Pascal BALASTERE
257   Renato Da Silva Almeida
258   Sara Hart
259   Nick Jamieson
260   JAN-FRIEDRICH BAEUMER
261   Danny Blair
262   Stuart Parrish
263   Fraser Macintyre
264   Arran Fletcher
265   andy efstathiou
266   Tom Hall
267   Rick Advani
268   Andrew Phouli
269   Ramsey Ajram
270   Lucien Cohen
271   Ofer Stern
272   paolo morris
273   Anonymous
274   Paul Spillane
275   John Patten
276   Paul Jenkinson
277   Robin Keston
278   enrico mosca
279   Marco Ruggeri
280   adrian koy
281   Jasper Meijer van Putten
282   Barkatul Mohammed
283   Lee Walker
284   Chris Sly
285   IDRIS AMBRAISSE
286   Michael mizrachi
287   Alexander Schechter
288   falfoul mourad
289   Daniel Marquis
290   Matt Perrins
291   Vincent BIGEON
292   Marc Göschel
293   Mario Sfameni
294   Alain Bauer
295   James Sullivan
296   Alexander ZAJA
297   David Harris
298   Mikael Johansson
299   Guillaume Lefebvre
300   Krzysztof Jaromin
301   Ghassan El-hoss
302   Robert Woodcock
303   Richard Whitmore
304   David Burghardt
305   PAUL PHAM
306   Jean-Bernard bot
307   Guido PIERACCINI
308   Kane Thomason
309   Stephen Hay
310   Constant Tanganelli
311   alexandre amiel
312   Jose Quintas
313   Luke Hallinan
314   Patryk Slusarek

245 made it through

171 from yesterday

416 total with 381 paid

blinds 800-1600 on resumption for midday tomorrow and the bubble and all that jazz


Thank you very much for reading and interacting today.

Feel for DTD with an overlay of this scale, despite their herculean logistical efforts (which succeeded) to put on a genuinely innovative event, which has been run pretty much flawlessly and been a huge success with all those who have played it.


Goodnight

One final twitter update:

Ben Jones ‏@jen_bizzle Last level we played 6-max... got 230,300 for day 3 #ISPTWEMBLEY #ISPT

Julian Gardner ‏@JULES10JQKA Finished for the day 69k #ispt

Ben Jenkins ‏@TFPbenj Ended day on 61,300 day didn't go ideally, trod water waiting for spots that never came :( #ispt

And that's it from me as well. See you all tomorrow for the climb to the top of the mountain Day 3!

Trebled up last hand of the night to 95k. AKcc>JJ>KQhh 642AA

Didnt somebody say they counted 90 steps between the pitch and the press room? Can just envision you hauling yourself up ~1m steps all day long tighty!

Yes thigh! Lets do this

At least you don't have   to s hit in a crevasse or sleep  in a tent in minus 25+ *c    .?? Or do u ?

Good up dates tho thanks all goodnight

Excellent updates Rich & team. Shame about the overlay, but agree with you that had they had longer to promote it, honestly think it would make the gtd 1st prize.

Fantastic effort nonetheless, wp to Rob, Simon, Nicola & team.

Best of luck to all the blondes. Also best of luck to Dale Garrad?(not sure if he's still in), & James and Praz gogogo

Tim Chung ?

Couldnt see  the updates until now!!!! Excellent Tighty and Sharplea! Grinded away to 128k !! GL everyone!!

87K

       Gutted for Rob and Simon if they have to pick up this overlay. No one could have done so much so quick to achieve what they did. I am on a friggin cruise ship in the Adriatic and so wanted to be there. :-)
         Part of me thinks an event like this is a ' build" thing with it probably taking several years before it becomes a ' must attend' on the circuit.Whether that will ever happen is probably unlikely now I guess. Clashing with Vegas has not helped obviously.
       Good luck to the Tall One from Nottingham and all the other Blondes.


          Much love from Slovakia.

   Christ I don't even know where I am. Much love from Slovenia. Free booze on the ship.

Gutted too for DTD.......given 6 months lead time, no doubt they would have got there with time to spare.

Fantastic unique experience yesterday and,had a fun table mix, including Germans, French and a very loose South African  :)

 Brilliant organisation of course....shame it wasn't to be for me, but the very best of luck to all blondes going back today.

nice one vinod....good luck today

unlucky yeahman...there's always the next DTD tounry

Any idea roughly how many blondes are still in for the LLB ?

Been a long time since I posted on here, but made it through to day 3, and as I've not been playing poker at all I'm pretty chuffed.(won seat through the facebook freeroll, so...BONUS)

Day 2B Chip Counts:

Anonymous   22   7   306000
Paul Bampton   26   3   276000
Van Tuan Phan   21   5   266600
Adebayo Odetoyinbo   41   6   250200
Age Spets   25   3   248000
James Clutton   13   1   238700
Tomi-Ville Hytti   15   2   236900
Martial blangenwitsch   44   4   234000
Ben Jones   36   4   230300
Manuel Garcia Gonzalez   25   5   229300
Ben Martin   14   6   215000
Ross Loggie   7   7   214500
Mahamed Muse   42   9   212600
Soren Hansen   31   3   212400
Nils Jarefjall   33   3   207600
Mitchell Johnson   34   4   204200
Daniel Hardy   32   7   202200
Andrew Gough   6   6   200200
ole schemion   33   2   196700
giovanni di persio   7   9   196200
Christopher O'donnell   13   3   193600
Giulian0 Bendinelli   35   9   184500
Gareth Holt   21   3   183600
Thomas Ambler   17   8   181800
Satnam Sandhu   4   2   181300
Yiannis Liperis   44   7   180200
Derek Murray   5   4   179300
Chris Smith   6   8   178900
Daniel Johansson   35   7   178600
Michael Maruna   16   1   178300
Jen-yue Chiang   40   4   176800
maxime conte   44   2   175700
S�bastien Bouvron   24   2   168800
Mark Dillon   34   1   167200
giuseppe stagno   17   6   166400
Bj�rn Eriksson   35   2   165200
Tom Kugelstadt   33   5   163600
Daryl Haney   39   6   163000
David Burn   26   2   162700
Peter Eastgate   17   7   155700
Narcis Cristian Olaru   22   4   153600
Jack Ellwood   42   2   152100
antoine saout   23   8   151500
Oliver Price   13   7   149400
Marcin Wydrowski   43   8   149200
Farhad Afshin   41   1   148000
Neil Raine   16   6   146500
Dave Ulliott   16   5   145000
Toby Lewis   31   1   144300
hauke Heseding   43   5   142600
Georgios Doumas   31   7   141400
Reyaaz Mulla   17   2   141300
Ferhad Seyadi   34   2   140200
Jonathan Spinks   23   7   138800
Ning Li   7   1   136900
Xavier el fassy   31   2   136000
Andrej Kuttruf   41   3   135500
Matt Adams   5   8   133900
Robert GIORDANO   23   2   132800
Andre Moreira   39   8   132800
Steve Brown   14   3   132100
Andreas Constantinou   30   2   131200
Jorge Ufano   43   2   129100
Ganesh Jayaraman   15   1   128800
Abhishek Khaitan   13   4   128200
Roberto Romanello   21   9   125000
Stephen Jennison   41   2   123500
Simon Higgins   5   1   122400
Andr� Andrade   31   4   121000
Eric Meissonnier   14   4   121000
Dany Parlafes   7   8   120700
Pramesh Bansi   6   3   120100
Leon Louis   17   5   117700
paolo morris   30   6   117000
Jonathan Concepcion   6   7   113400
Edward Roger   22   8   111100
Paul Senter   21   8   110800
Tom Hall   16   7   109800
jorma nuutinen   41   4   109100
David Stonehouse   41   7   108900
Murtagh Mulholland   30   3   108400
Tracey Lockwood   4   3   105500
Glyn Rees   6   2   103400
Peter ROCHE   36   8   103400
Duncan Mclellan   41   8   102900
Michael Quigley   43   9   101200
Sylvia Hewitt   35   3   100000
Sebastian Gohr   33   7   99500
Paul Hardwidge   24   3   98500
Antanas Guoga   14   7   97300
Seun Oluwole   26   1   97100
Mathew Perry   24   7   95000
Basharat Mahmood   23   3   94100
Dale Garrad   5   6   93600
philippe barouk   32   4   93000
martin quack   5   3   92000
Chris Dowling   43   1   90400
Christopher Tilbury   14   9   90300
Bradley Gibbs   7   5   90200
Nick Hicks   42   7   90000
Daniel Platten   42   5   89700
Eugen Fritzler   21   1   89600
Craig Goldsmith   39   9   89600
Joel Ettedgi   21   7   89500
Patrick Guintrand   16   9   88800
Timothy Chung   17   3   87600
Neil Mcculloch   22   2   87600
Albert Sapiano   6   5   86700
Paul Bell   44   1   86200
Anthony Davies   4   7   82800
Aurelien Cattet   42   4   82600
Christophe PEREIRA   14   2   82400
Paul Garden   26   8   82400
Gary Bryan   34   3   82100
Angelo Vietti   36   2   82100
Chin Chai Koh   39   3   79900
Rory Campbell   32   8   79300
James Fisher   23   9   79000
Erich Kollmann   36   3   77700
Marcel Luske   4   1   77600
Ka-Wing Njouw   24   4   77000
benoit albiges   39   7   76700
Michael Wernick   40   3   76300
Nilufer Gunay   35   5   75700
Kevin Lee   32   9   75400
Richard Hawes   13   8   75300
James Tomlin   42   3   74700
Carlo Cantone   23   1   74700
Maurice Samuels   33   6   74600
Khalil Youssafi   32   6   74200
Mark Wagstaff   21   4   73800
Jonathan Kalmar   4   5   73600
Dominic Kay   15   3   73500
Philip Ashton   33   1   73300
Anonymous   24   9   72900
Min Ji   7   4   71800
antonino leotta   24   8   71600
David DRAI   25   1   71000
Mark Hutchison   13   5   70400
Liz Lieu   22   3   70200
Julian Gardner   43   3   68900
Ben Vinson   24   5   67500
Jamie Brown   42   8   66300
Stephen Holden   43   4   66200
Anton Abela   40   5   65800
Vincent Sanchez   15   7   65800
Thomas Busst   31   6   65700
Frederic FUENTES BUSSOT   17   1   65600
Laurence Houghton   25   9   65600
flavien Guenan   15   5   65600
Patrick sacrispeyre   14   1   65500
Long Sui   23   4   65300
Milan Rabsz   43   6   64900
Florent MARQUES   33   4   64800
Mark Roberts   42   6   64700
Richard Hoadley   6   9   64500
Darren Hill   30   5   64300
Kevin Iacofano   39   1   64100
Darren Stribling   39   2   62800
Benjamin Jenkins   15   8   61300
Emlyn Long   6   4   61300
Giovanni Raffa   40   2   61200
Morgan Karlsson   16   2   60800
Alistair Carins   39   4   60300
Harprit Singh Gurnam   36   5   60200
Azziz Echihi   30   1   59700
Stephen Rawle   30   4   59500
Rinaldo Aquino   4   8   59400
Daniel georgescu   44   5   59100
Rasmus Agerskov   34   5   59100
Daniel Lenham   40   8   57300
jean christophe choffray   22   6   56000
david gough   32   3   54900
Thomas High   25   6   54800
Patricia Anne Baggott   26   4   53500
alain roy   32   2   52900
Bao Trung Tieu   15   4   52700
Jean-michel Ploch   16   4   51500
Guy Collins   5   5   50400
Morten Varbaek Mortensen   22   9   50300
Zeik Tuit   7   6   49000
Saifon Lambe   36   9   48800
Tomasz Gluszko   4   6   47900
Anonymous   41   9   47600
Richard Garner   44   3   46800
Kevin Stani   30   7   46400
Adrian Copping   24   6   46100
David Gent   6   1   45900
Jakub Dobias   43   7   45300
James Akenhead   22   1   44700
Alexander Jilek   36   7   44700
Gary Fisher   40   1   44400
said sadallah   35   1   43600
Michal Vojtisek   26   9   43600
Martin Kabrhel   40   7   43100
Alan Brown   40   6   42900
Paul Coughlan   31   9   42800
Thomas Tranpota   34   9   42700
Ivan Tikhov   17   4   42400
Alex Millar   33   8   41300
Gerard Mc Clure   42   1   41200
ryan bell   41   5   40800
Martin Cheese   32   1   40600
James Atkin   31   8   40200
Alison Awome   25   2   39200
Zigmantas Jockus   17   9   39100
Renee Xie   26   7   38100
Dean Bloomfield   22   5   38000
Marc Uzan   4   4   37600
Anthony Woolley   26   6   36100
Alain Medesan   13   2   35900
Waheed Ashraf   13   9   35800
Ryan Passey   21   2   35200
Carlo Citrone   7   2   35000
CHRISTOPHE CABRAS   23   6   34700
Ugnius Simelionis   30   8   34400
Gerald Karlic   26   5   34200
Gaurav Kumar   44   9   33200
Oliver Breese   25   4   32900
Gavin Mills   23   5   31900
Anonymous   25   7   31700
Joseph Lovelady   35   4   31000
Neil Giblin   44   8   30800
Stephen Millar   15   9   30500
Anthony Hardy   14   8   29600
Stuart ODELL   5   2   29400
Erik Wigg   16   3   29400
John Murray   24   1   29300
Julian Herold   35   8   29200
Jono Beck   34   7   28900
James Sullivan   21   6   28800
Pierluigi Palmaricciotti   4   9   28400
Will Blanche   40   9   25600
Raymond Norton   16   8   23900
Alan Gold   34   8   23800
Giuseppe Grimaldi   7   3   23700
Paul Brown   31   5   23100
Lasse Frost   5   7   18800
David Lloyd   30   9   14800
Philippe narboni   15   6   12400
Alex Varga   14   5   11500

Don't suppose there is any chance of the players agreeing to reduce the payouts to reduce DTDs overlay? No didn't think so (0);

I thought this last night - if I had been in a position to be affected by it, I just couldn't accept €500k straight out of Rob's pocket. There are probably many other UK players who feel the same. Obv, random foreigners could probably care less.

Plenty of time for post mortems. I'd be amazed if yesterday's numbers hadn't been anticipated long in advance.

Terrific shame but I'm sure, when the dust has settled, DTD will come out of this favourably.

It is with some regret that I start this piece. It is Sunday 2nd June and poker may have climbed into its death bed in the UK. Tragically over the weekend DTD, have apparently, lost almost 600,000 Euros on the ISPT poker event. Two years in the planning “the ISPT” is a great idea but perhaps a little ambitious in its conception and the clash with the WSOP is very difficult.

I want to question the DTD losses 589,060€, none of my business I know, but how can they carry on making these sort of losses? With almost 250K towards paying for the event perhaps the ISPT losses will be reduced so they can carry on with further events? I think, despite the reduced turnout for the event, that London Wembley was the right choice for the kick off event. Perhaps when the final figures are analysed and the online returns dissected losses can be put more into perspective.

There is no doubt that DTD is an incredibly brave organisation and 100% committed to poker in the UK, I for one will certainly be trying to support them even more through 2013 and beyond, they have rapidly become the true heart of poker in Europe.

Watching the event live there is an amazing echo / atmosphere in the Igloo / tents. Tighty looks like he’s feeling the heat but getting on with an admirable job as usual.

DtD didn't have to get involved in this venture; they chose to get involved and they chose to embrace the risks that came with it: a never-before-tried stadium tournament with huge overheads, no major online site offering satellites, a clash with the start of the WSOP etc. Sorry if this sounds callous, but I can't feel too much sympathy for them. They knew what they were getting in to and they didn't have to go anywhere near it if they didn't want to. They obviously had deep enough pockets to be able to cover the losses if and when the tournament didn't reach it's guarantee.
I do however wonder if  this year's loss is part of a long term genius business plan where the tournament becomes an annual, must-play event for the biggest names and biggest field in world poker and where the ongoing  annual profit for DtD eclipses this year's loss.