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935 entries over 3 starting days and a £374,000 prize pool

From 1pm Day2 of GPS Nottingham

From the Online Leg

Sam Grafton 242,649
John Conroy 195,810
Neil Strike 179,449
Mohammed Sadiq 172,011
Stuart Bill 159,900
David La Ronde 154,400
Tom Middleton 153,422
James Williams 129,875
Ganesh Jayaraman 114,654
Jamie O’Connor 112,551
Stuart Fox 112,452
Susan Adams 108,808
Ben Jones 108,620
Kevin Allen 100,385
Lee Dixon 90,444
Steve Brook 89,867
Jonathan Grice 81,763
Thomas Horton 79,404
Mitch Johnson 77,536
Russell Betts 72,688
Mats Rosen 72,040
Dave Wearing 68,375
David Burraway 67,868
Mark Wagstaff 59,953
Mark Buckley 59,148
Mark Gardner 58,892
Mark Armstrong 54,125
Nathan Henry 53,552
Neil Slade 53,484
Jason Mills 52,484
Matthew Lewis 50,552
JP Kelly 46,274
Ramazanali Abbassi 46,069
Michael Kane 45,900
Martin Darnbrook 43,717
Ash Hussain 42,425
Mark Wilson 39,549
David Swan 32,868
Joe Underwood 27,732
Keith Johnson 23,221
Thomas High 23,104
Guy Johnson 16,980


From 1b

Tony Housden    36    5    326600
Simon Deadman    13    9    301200
Alan Lambert    33    10    244300
Umar Khan    13    10    241800
Kevin Whelan    35    3    225700
Cosimo Dellisola    35    1    197500
Madlena Rezk    23    5    173500
Sacha Brookes    33    6    164000
Marios Arkadiou    36    4    161700
Emrah Yildiz    33    4    159400
Chris Sly    35    5    153000
Michael Chivers    23    6    149400
Graham Pound    23    7    147300
James Bott    23    9    145000
Garwo Chu    34    5    144800
Christopher Vernon    36    2    133900
Weswell Ellis    35    4    123800
Abbas Ladak    34    8    119900
Chin Chai Koh    12    6    119900
Andrew Hulme    12    5    119700
Jason Barton    34    3    116200
Stuart Barnett    34    2    116100
Sinem Melin    33    3    114000
Kirit Patel    23    1    112800
Richard Garner    12    4    111800
Craig Holmes    36    1    109800
Mohammed Ashfaq    36    8    104000
Kenneth Billups    35    7    96700
Terence Donakey    34    10    96500
Gavin Markham    36    6    96100
Oluwashola Akindele    23    8    93200
Alan Picken    36    3    92700
Derek Baxter    23    10    92500
James Tomlin    12    2    90400
Carlo Citrone    13    5    85000
Michael Davis    12    3    76600
Iqbal Ahmed    35    9    75400
Ceri Rees    12    9    74200
Andrew Christoforou    12    10    71800
Mark Wates    33    8    70100
Oliver Caplan    35    2    67400
John O Reilly    13    1    65400
John Sadler    13    6    63200
Stacy Coore    34    4    63100
David Greene    13    8    63000
David Milligan    34    1    61800
Paul Mason    13    4    59500
Ben Jackson    33    7    59400
Andreas Olympios    13    3    59200
Alex Goulder    36    7    57700
Elaine Cockburn    13    2    50300
Hasmukh Khodiyara    23    3    48900
Basharat Mahmood    33    2    45400
Tony Crabb    34    7    43400
Paul Jenkinson    23    2    39400
Joseph Cockburn    35    8    31900
James Atkin    36    10    29500
Nigel Booth    33    1    25500
Willie Tann    34    9    16200
Paul Seaton    12    8    15300


From 1c

Tim Slater    26    2    277700
Phillip Corion    32    5    226500
Garry Hallows    36    1    184000
Andrew Hazelwood    36    4    177300
Anthony Gardner    14    9    176700
Stuart Giulian    34    7    175900
James Clarke    33    1    172200
Wahid Patel    2    4    172000
Mark Mccluskey    15    1    167100
Daniel Charlton    15    9    158700
Anonymous    23    10    158300
Julian Thew    31    4    157000
Adrian Coombes    34    9    156600
Bernard Gyimah    0    4    156500
Asif Raja    0    5    152800
James Mcnamee    11    1    152700
Nadeem Abbas    14    4    148100
Danny Toffel    35    7    147800
Renee Xie    25    5    146100
Michael Richardson    12    4    142400
Andy King    12    9    142200
Luke Cerklewicz    34    5    142100
George Dempsey    15    5    140400
Yucel Eminoglu    33    2    137400
Mick Hardy    14    6    137100
Marc Brazier    12    3    133300
Mahamed Muse    2    1    131900
John Burberry    11    5    131700
Olurotimi Rogers    2    8    130500
Sam Patel    15    6    125300
Anonymous    22    7    123200
Samuel Goodman    32    1    118200
Paul Grummitt    12    2    117200
David Williams    22    1    116700
Hamid Rowshanaei    11    8    115500
Jay Scott    36    6    114500
Richard Wong    2    3    114400
James Thomson    36    2    113900
Thomas Clack    35    5    111700
Ish Patel    12    6    111500
Niels Ladefoged    0    1    111200
Iftikhar Ali    31    1    110700
Richard Paul    21    9    110100
Ben Longstaff    2    7    109200
Steven Warburton    22    4    106100
Raj Dhiri    0    3    106000
Paul Fyson    11    7    105600
Derek Collinson    25    1    105600
Luke Hallinan    34    4    105200
Damien Rhodes    12    5    104200
Kevin Houghton    23    6    103100
Jamie Burland    21    10    102900
Dean Clay    14    5    102600
Paul Bampton    23    8    101300
Timothy Chung    32    7    99300
Grant Mercado    34    10    99100
Thomas Zhang    36    7    98000
Robin Fisher    33    10    97300
Claudio Cambianica    22    5    96600
Waheed Ashraf    0    7    95800
Michael Kossov    21    5    94000
Simon Hyde    14    3    89700
Khadir Khoshawy    25    4    88300
Danny Parry    23    3    88200
Sarbjit Kular    35    4    86900
Daniel Williams    33    6    86900
John Bonadies    23    2    86600
William Roach    2    9    86100
Nicholas Gavriel    25    10    84100
Caicai Huang    25    2    83500
Charles Akadiri    22    10    82600
Michael Wernick    23    7    82100
Francis Obadun    32    8    81300
Tina Bandyle    26    6    80100
Matt Adams    31    7    80000
Oliver White    15    2    77100
Kevin Asquith    21    2    76500
Ryan Kelly    14    7    76100
Gino Gabriel    11    3    75600
Tan Le    21    4    72800
Nicholas Banks    21    6    72700
Robert Matheson    33    5    72200
William Chattaway    26    9    71000
James Robinson    21    1    70200
Paul Brown    11    10    69800
Lee Taylor    35    3    69700
Marios Andreas    15    7    69100
David Johnson    12    1    69000
James Gardner    15    3    65900
Craig Betteridge    34    2    65700
Latif Patel    25    7    65000
Harprit Singh Gurnam    31    9    64500
Mark Nicholas    31    2    63600
Callum Smith    34    1    63100
Alan Ellis    35    1    61400
Lee Cockroft    22    6    60800
Richard Horton    11    4    60800
Jason Beazley    22    2    60000
Philip Horton    34    3    59400
Nick Hicks    33    4    58000
Shaun Herran-venables    23    4    57500
Arran Fletcher    31    8    57000
Jody Bolt    11    9    56800
David Mcconachie    0    10    55200
Charles Denton    31    10    55000
James Koumis    33    3    53900
Maurice Samuels    2    2    53700
David Chau    12    7    53600
Lee Tatters    33    9    53200
Kuljinder Sidhu    26    7    53200
Colin Gillon    33    7    52900
Steven Fitzpatrick    31    5    51200
Jamie Clossick    36    3    50600
Sam Arnold    32    10    50400
Mazalahedwa Bako    35    6    49000
Alex Zeligman    0    9    48900
Nathan Davies    31    3    48900
Dan Whittaker    35    8    48200
Derek Brook    21    8    47700
Kal Singh    22    3    47600
Michael Fletcher    26    4    46800
Johnny Kelly    25    6    46600
Joseph Mccreery    32    4    45300
Masud Prodhan    32    9    44900
Harrison Beattie    26    5    44400
Simon Webbe    12    8    43800
Fahd Bennani Smires    32    6    43000
Neil Mcculloch    22    9    42200
Jonathan Kalmar    14    2    42200
William Patterson    35    2    41700
David Newman    2    5    39800
Richard Johnson    23    5    39400
Andrew Probyn    23    9    38500
Adam Prickett    34    8    38500
Dean Beecham    21    3    37400
Dominic Smith    0    8    36700
Rajan Vaish    26    3    36000
Craig Chapman    36    9    34600
Vittorio Carratu    31    6    33200
Peter Craw    26    10    32800
Dean Czyz    33    8    32300
Willie Tann    12    10    31400
Michael Arnold    32    3    31300
David Brook    14    10    30600
Andrew Hawksby    22    8    29600
Greg Hill    32    2    29500
Ali Zihni    26    8    28700
Darren Mapley    25    8    28100
Matthew Archer    0    6    27600
Paul Delaney    23    1    27400
Neville Oates    36    5    26600
Jeffrey Hemmerman    15    8    22900
Nicholas Holbrook    35    9    22300
Chris Cancelliere    15    4    22000
Paul Zimbler    26    1    21400
Oliver Bibby    35    10    20200
Dominic Rossookh    0    2    18900
Oliver Simpson    14    1    16200
Syed Zaidi    11    6    14100

I will put up the seat draw when I get one, for the remaining 261 players

They are due to play 10 levels today but surely they will have to play more to get to a  reasonable number for a Sunday finish, but news when I get it

To many Stars, gl to all blondes and rooting for "The Dog"

Today's seat draw

Surname   Forename   table   seat

Brown   Paul   11   1
Sidhu   Kuljinder   11   2
Hazelwood   Andrew   11   3
Mccreery   Joseph   11   4
Wernick   Michael   11   5
Johnson   Guy   11   6
Coore   Stacy   11   7
Bampton   Paul   11   8
Thew   Julian   11   9

Ali   Iftikhar   12   1
Kane   Michael   12   2
Patterson   William   12   3
Matheson   Robert   12   4
Jenkinson   Paul   12   5
Armstrong   Mark   12   6
Xie   Renee    12   7
Vernon   Christopher   12   8
Darnbrook   Martin   12   9

Zihni   Ali   13   1
Jones   Ben   13   2
Tatters   Lee   13   3
Cambianica   Claudio   13   4
Le   Tan   13   5
Chung   Timothy   13   6
Scott   Jay   13   7
Oates   Neville   13   8
Ladak   Abbas   13   9

Beazley   Jason    14   1
Strike   Neil   14   2
Patel   Wahid   14   3
Newman   David   14   4
Ashraf   Waheed   14   5
Fox   Stuart   14   6
Sly   Chris   14   7
Muse   Mahamed   14   8
Wates   Mark   14   9

Abbas   Nadeem   21   1
Booth   Nigel   21   2
Clack   Thomas   21   3
Seaton   Paul   21   4
Underwood   Joe   21   5
Hulme   Andrew   21   6
Khoshawy   Khadir   21   7
Tomlin   James   21   8
Johnson   Keith   21   9

Conroy   John   22   1
Patel   Ish   22   2
Hill   Greg   22   3
Picken   Alan   22   4
Vaish   Rajan   22   5
Gurnam   Harprit Singh   22   6
Obadun   Francis   22   7
Corion   Phillip   22   8
Mcconachie   David   22   9

Jackson   Ben   23   1
Rowshanaei   Hamid   23   2
Ahmed   Iqbal   23   3
Atkin   James   23   4
Rees   Ceri   23   5
Webbe   Simon   23   6
Carratu   Vittorio   23   7
Bonadies   John   23   8
Ellis   Weswell   23   9

Bill   Stuart   25   1
Probyn   Andrew   25   2
Mason   Paul   25   3
Dellisola   Cosimo   25   4
Markham   Gavin   25   5
Chattaway   William   25   6
High   Thomas   25   7
Chivers   Michael   25   8
Greene   David   25   9

Mcnamee   James   26   1
Hardy   Mick   26   2
Crabb   Tony   26   3
Donakey   Terence   26   4
Lambert   Alan   26   5
Rezk   Madlena   26   6
Slade   Neil   26   7
King   Andy   26   8
Huang   Caicai   26   9

Jayaraman   Ganesh   27   1
Brazier   Marc   27   2
Kelly   Johnny   27   3
Akadiri   Charles   27   4
Mapley   Darren   27   5
Grafton   Sam   27   6
Gabriel   Gino   27   7
Davis   Michael   27   8
Ashfaq   Mohammed   27   9

Ellis   Alan   31   1
Goulder   Alex   31   2
Asquith   Kevin   31   3
Houghton   Kevin   31   4
Arnold   Sam   31   5
Eminoglu   Yucel   31   6
Gardner   Mark   31   7
Holmes   Craig   31   8
Warburton   Steven   31   9

Burraway   David   32   1
Horton   Richard   32   2
Cockburn   Joseph   32   3
Cockburn   Elaine   32   4
Rhodes   Damien   32   5
Allen   Kevin   32   6
Chu   Garwo   32   7
Garner   Richard   32   8
Horton   Thomas   32   9

Johnson   David   33   1
Middleton   Thomas   33   2
Patel   Sam   33   3
Pound   Graham   33   4
Caplan   Oliver   33   5
Hussain   Arshad   33   6
Hemmerman   Jeffrey   33   7
Clarke   James   33   8
Baxter   Derek   33   9

Wearing   David   34   1
Prodhan   Masud   34   2
Hyde   Simon   34   3
Davies   Nathan   34   4
Rosen   Mats   34   5
Herran-venables   Shaun   34   6
Holbrook   Nicholas   34   7
Bako   Mazalahedwa   34   8
Dixon   Lee   34   9

Paul   Richard   35   1
O Reilly   John   35   2
Chapman   Craig   35   3
Henry   Nathan   35   4
Whittaker   Dan   35   5
Mccluskey   Mark   35   6
Prickett   Adam   35   7
Grice   Jonathan   35   8
Akindele   Oluwashola   35   9

Arkadiou   Marios   36   1
Yildiz   Emrah   36   2
Hindocha   Nishid   36   3
Bennani Smires   Fahd   36   4
Cowling   Bradley   36   5
Williams   Daniel   36   6
Grummitt   Paul   36   7
Zaidi   Syed   36   8
Goodman   Samuel   36   9

Burland   Jamie   37   1
Adams   Matt   37   2
Ladefoged   Niels   37   3
Sadler   John   37   4
Williams   James   37   5
Sadiq   Mohammed Istakhar   37   6
Robinson   James   37   7
Parry   Danny   37   8
Rossookh   Dominic   37   9

Brook   David   38   1
Fitzpatrick   Steven   38   2
Betteridge   Craig   38   3
Barton   Jason   38   4
Slater   Tim   38   5
Wagstaff   Mark   38   6
Bott   James   38   7
Housden   Tony   38   8
Brookes   Sacha   38   9

Brook   Steve   41   1
Smith   Dominic   41   2
Longstaff   Ben   41   3
Collinson   Derek   41   4
Kossov   Michael   41   5
Citrone   Carlo   41   6
Burberry   John   41   7
Fletcher   Michael   41   8
Patel   Kirit   41   9

Arnold   Michael   42   1
Adams   Susan   42   2
Kelly   John-paul   42   3
Wong   Richard   42   4
Billups   Kenneth   42   5
Buckley   Mark   42   6
Tann   Willie   42   7
Williams   David   42   8
Cancelliere   Chris   42   9

Zhang   Thomas   43   1
Beecham   Dean   43   2
Whelan   Kevin   43   3
Wilson   Mark   43   4
Delaney   Paul   43   5
Simpson   Oliver   43   6
Andreas   Marios   43   7
White   Oliver   43   8
Deadman   Simon   43   9

Christoforou   Andrew   44   1
Rogers   Olurotimi   44   2
Gillon   Colin   44   3
Swan   David   44   4
Barnett   Stuart   44   5
Johnson   Richard   44   6
Betts   Russell   44   7
Taylor   Lee   44   8
Mercado   Grant   44   9

Koh   Chin Chai   45   1
Mcculloch   Neil   45   2
Hallows   Garry   45   3
Raja   Asif   45   4
Dhiri   Raj   45   5
Horton   Philip   45   6
Abbassi   Ramazanali   45   7
Milligan   David   45   8
Coombes   Adrian   45   9

Charlton   Daniel   46   1
Melin   Sinem   46   2
Gavriel   Nicholas   46   3
Nicholas   Mark   46   4
Gyimah   Bernard   46   5
Thomson   James   46   6
Toffel   Danny   46   7
Richardson   Michael   46   8
O Connor   Jamie   46   9

Mills   Jason   48   1
Mahmood   Basharat   48   2
Banks   Nicholas   48   3
Kalmar   Jonathan   48   4
Hawksby   Andrew   48   5
Zeligman   Alex   48   6
Cerklewicz   Luke   48   7
Karim   Zakirhusein   48   8
Fyson   Paul   48   9

Fletcher   Arran   56   1
Johnson   Mitchell   56   2
Bolt   Jody   56   3
Lewis   Matthew   56   4
Bandyle   Tina   56   5
Zimbler   Paul   56   6
Giulian   Stuart   56   7
Kular   Sarbjit   56   8
Cockroft   Lee   56   9

Khodiyara   Hasmukh   58   1
Bibby   Oliver   58   2
Fisher   Robin   58   3
Samuels   Maurice   58   4
Archer   Matthew   58   5
Kelly   Ryan   58   6
Chau   David   58   7
Khan   Umar   58   8
Singh   Kal   58   9

Gardner   Anthony   66   1
Hallinan   Luke   66   2
Czyz   Dean    66   3
Smith   Callum   66   4
Koumis   James   66   5
Clossick   Jamie   66   6
Olympios   Andreas   66   7
La Ronde   David   66   8
Denton   Charles   66   9

Hicks   Nick   67   1
Brook   Derek   67   2
Clay   Dean   67   3
Craw   Peter   67   4
Gardner   James   67   5
Dempsey   George   67   6
Patel   Latif   67   7
Beattie   Harrison   67   8
Roach   William   67   9

The first feature table is

Brown   Paul   11   1
Sidhu   Kuljinder   11   2
Hazelwood   Andrew   11   3
Mccreery   Joseph   11   4
Wernick   Michael   11   5
Johnson   Guy   11   6
Coore   Stacy   11   7
Bampton   Paul   11   8
Thew   Julian   11   9

that will be on your screens with a 30 minute delay from around 1.30pm


Play is just about to begin

Why has there been a redraw?

Good luck Tight Tony (Housden) TID

Looking forward to the updates :)

There was a big hand right off the bat that saw set under set on table 22, Phillip Corian with JJ knocking out Francis Obadun with 99 on J-9-3 rainbow

Pic comining of Corion who looks to have a huge stack

This.

Good luck to Greg Hill :)

standard stuff?

multi day ones including an online leg, need to merge the field into one line up, redraw

No spoilers, exit second hand on the feature table, hand including someone known to many of you

Online Day chip leader Sam Grafton arrived just in time, did an interview and went straight onto the table, all in the space of about three minutes flat

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-oJexpkDen6E/UtFDjcrBijI/AAAAAAAAjpc/fvpTLTtvtno/w448-h597-no/DSCF8540.JPG)

set over set for Phillip Corion. Gets you a big stack, towers of chips and the cheery expression of knowing a deep run is set

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XIujkyoC3Yw/UtFEHCmjArI/AAAAAAAAjqI/PWBHNSO4XiM/w448-h597-no/DSCF8545.JPG)

Ready to cause havoc on seat 9 of the feature, Man from Boden catalogue

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Gambling pays* (and keeps you ina supply of new white polos)

Kev Allen going for another biggie

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* as long as you have an account that lays you Man C first goal-scorer bets at home, I gather

Fashion icon Tim Slater, who curt a swathe through the latter part of day 1c

Tim is co-tabling with Tony Housden who pushed him off an early hand with a raise over a c-bet on 6-5-3

Slater showed A-K on passing

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Also on table Slater/Housden is Craig Betts

Craig refused to take his hat off for a photo. Therefore I will save the gag I have stored up until he finals

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Jamie Burland has an above average stack and as ever chances in this

Good player, I think to myself whenever I see him

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Chris Sly and Mo Muse

Mo is a particularly tricky customer with chips, and Chris is in for a fun day in his spot

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-m0z0b17jVa4/UtFEIZCU_aI/AAAAAAAAjqY/8IYcJjbmBvg/w796-h597-no/DSCF8547.JPG)

John Grice and Shola Akindele

In the first orbit John tells me he had Aces, a set of fives and a set of nines and is 20,000 to the good today


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I can see them still multi tabling past 9pm tomorrow night - this is one tournament that could do with a 4th day IMO!

Good luck to all Blondeites!!!

Mark Wagstaff limps in the hijack

Tony Housden 6000 on the button

David Brook all in 32000 in the big blind

Wagstaff folds

Housden calls

Housden  Ad 8d

Brook  Qh Qs


 4s Kh 7d 2d

The silence is punctuated by a gasp from the rail which lingers in the air as the river is dealt

 5d

for Tony to knock out Brook and increase his 1b leading stack further

Any clue what payouts are

Tight Tony: Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Ken Billups just trebled up to 200k ..10 10 v AK v AK..5 bricks....go Kenny.

      Looking forward to these updates. Well done Tighty.

No, no news yet

exits today

231    Derek Brook
232    Jeffrey Hemmerman
233    Vittorio Carratu
234    Jody Bolt
235    Syed Zaidi
236    Neil Slade
237    Joseph Cockburn
238    David Swan
239    William Patterson
240    David Brook
241    Matthew Lewis
242    Paul Seaton
243    Mark Gardner
244    Dean Czyz
245    Dominic Rossookh
246    Alan Picken
247    Latif Patel
248    Nicholas Holbrook
249    Michael Fletcher
250    Claudio Cambianica
251    Ali Zihni
252    James Koumis
253    Willie Tann
254    Mark Buckley
255    Michael Arnold
256    David Greene
257    Thomas High
258    Khadir Khoshawy
259    Francis Obadun
260    Matthew Archer
261    Guy Johnson

that will explain this then

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Tan Le and Tim Chung

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Andrew Hulme is making progress, knocking out Paul Seaton with AK to a shove from KQ

Meanwhile Alex Goulder got 27,000 in with 77 v JJ, turned a 7 and doubled up

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-RkaPWgrS1Sw/UtFOY_03ylI/AAAAAAAAjrU/Du15FVxB4HU/w448-h597-no/DSCF8554.JPG)

Birthday boy (I think) nursing a short-stack

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DTD's very own Black Hole

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On a table with Goulder and Steve Warburton, the Mad Turk is hoovering up chips....

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James Atkin, in mid 3 bet, alongside Ceri Rees

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  I know how busy you are Richard but any update on the Wednesday v Leeds game?

Yes, Leeds lost 6-0

They face the side who are seven points clear at the top next week

Charles Akadiri opens to 4200 at 100-2000 UTG

Folded round to Ganesh Jayaramana aka Vinodh in the big blind who calls

Vinodh check calls 4,000 on  4h Kh Aspades

Vinodh check calls 10,000 on the  2c turn

check, check on the  3h river

Vinodh nochalantly turns over  5c 5s which I am not sure from his reaction is what Akadiri was expecting to see. He mucks

Tony Hounsden from Luton.

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Vinodh in a celebratory shirt

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I can't get to the best camera angle but central is Southend's Andy King who has built up a nice stack, next to Caicau Huang

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and one of the locals doing very well, Wes Ellis

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Approaching the first break of the day two levels in we have 207 left, blinds go 1200-2400 next and average is 112,900

Is there a good camera angle for andy king?

All the fun of the fair on table Grafton

Vinodh opens to 4500

Sam Grafton calls

 4c 3c Qs

Vinodh 4,000

Grafton 11,000

Call

 Jh turn

Vinodh check

Grafton 26,000

Vinodh check raise to 110,000 with 60,000 behind

Grafton shove

Call

Grafton A-Q

Vinodh A-A

Aces hold on the 2 river to take Gafton down to 20,000

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Very next hand Vinodh opens to 4,500

Mike Brazier makes it 11,000

Call

K-10-7 rainbow flop

On the turn both stacks are in with Brazier at risk but he has K-K v 7-7 for the double to take Vinodh tumbling down the stack counts again

on the break, catching up with recent exits

206    Michael Davis
207    Terence Donakey
208    Chris Cancelliere
209    David Milligan
210    Gavin Markham
211    Hasmukh Khodiyara
212    Paul Delaney
213    Alan Lambert
214    Elaine Cockburn
215    Mark Wilson
216    Rajan Vaish
217    Simon Hyde
218    Alex Goulder
219    Nathan Henry
220    Simon Webbe
221    John Burberry
222    Dominic Smith
223    Johnny Kelly
224    Stuart Fox
225    Tony Crabb
226    Sam Arnold
227    Masud Prodhan
228    Keith Johnson
229    Oliver Simpson

Rememebr if you can get here 1b of the £150 Deepstack side event at 5pm. £50,000 Guaranteed, late reg until 11pm

Over 100 runners in 1a yesterday

I gather Sam Grafton doubled up to 50,000 last hand before the break K-8o called by K-J

flop K-8-8.

Paul Brown raises, Mickey Wernick re-raises on the button and Brown calls

They get it in on 4-7-9, Brown with 7-7 and Wernick A-A

and then....A on turn, 7 on river

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Perks of the job

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Arriving 2 hours late, they settle down to the felt

Middy and JP qualified via the Online leg

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This might be his deepest run in a tournament ever, down to the final 195. Honeybadger

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The prides of Mansfield, Frankie and Peejay

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Skalie and Zimbler

Skalie is taking the Silence of the Lambs lookalike a bit far I think

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Why aren't the payouts available yet?

Has he just eaten Zimbler's liver?

Dan Charlton raises in the cut off

Mad Turk calls in the small blind

George Dempsey calls in the big blind

 7d 4c 6c

Turk leads the flop

Dempsey, unaware that Turk has bet, bets and puts in enough to be forced to min raise

Charlton then raises to 30,000

Turk now re-raises to 56,000

Dempsey, struggling to make peace with his mistake earlier on the flop, folds frustratedly

Back to Charlton who shoves for 200,000

The decision is now back on Turk who just covers Charlton and if he calls its the biggest pot I have seen so far today


He thinks, mutters to himself

"oy oy oy oy oy"

"I might already be drawing dead"

He asks the dealer if he can phone his friend. The dealer gives a smile of a nature that clearly suggests to Turk that such a suggestion is frowned upon

Eventually Turk says "good luck my friend" to Charlton and calls flipping over  7h 4h

Charlton has  Kc 5c

Both stand. Both tense up visibly

turn  8c

river  2d

Charlton doubles to over 425,000 and close to, if not the, chip lead

because I hadn't checked my emails

1      £80,000
2      £45,000
3      £27,500
4      £16,500
5      £12,500
6      £10,500
7      £8,500
8      £7,000
9      £5,500
10      £4,000
11      £4,000
12      £3,400
13      £3,400
14      £2,800
15      £2,800
16      £2,800
17      £2,800
18      £2,800
19      £2,200
20      £2,200
21      £2,200
22      £2,200
23      £2,200
24      £2,200
25      £2,200
26      £2,200
27      £2,200
28      £1,800
29      £1,800
30      £1,800
31      £1,800
32      £1,800
33      £1,800
34      £1,800
35      £1,800
36      £1,800
37      £1,800
38      £1,800
39      £1,800
40      £1,800
41      £1,800
42      £1,800
43      £1,800
44      £1,800
45      £1,800
46      £1,800
47      £1,800
48      £1,800
49      £1,800
50      £1,800
51      £1,800
52      £1,800
53      £1,800
54      £1,800
55      £1,400
56      £1,400
57      £1,400
58      £1,400
59      £1,400
60      £1,400
61      £1,400
62      £1,400
63      £1,400
64      £1,400
65      £1,400
66      £1,400
67      £1,400
68      £1,400
69      £1,400
70      £1,400
71      £1,400
72      £1,400
73      £1,400
74      £1,400
75      £1,400
76      £1,400
77      £1,400
78      £1,400
79      £1,400
80      £1,400
81      £1,400
82      £1,000
83      £1,000
84      £1,000
85      £1,000
86      £1,000
87      £1,000
88      £1,000
89      £1,000
90      £1,000
91      £1,000
92      £1,000
93      £1,000
94      £1,000
95      £1,000
96      £1,000
97      £1,000
98      £1,000
99      £1,000
100      £1,000
101      £1,000
102      £1,000
103      £1,000
104      £1,000
105      £1,000
106      £1,000
107      £1,000
108      £1,000

Stacey Coore and Paul Brown get it all in pre flop, in a big 350,000+ pot with Coore covered

Coore the raiser and shover had  Ac Aspades

Brown in the small blind the 3 bettor and caller of the shove  Ad Kd

Flop  Ks 7d 3d to make things interesting

turn  3s

river  7h

to deliver the big pot to Coore

Chip count for Greg Hill please?

Could I get a chip count on James Mcnamee please? someone said he has over 600k??

He has 135,000 at 1500-3000

Average 136,000 so he is slacking

165 left, 108 paid

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Simon Deadman 270,000

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Stacey Coore 370,000

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Dan Charlton 290,000

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Chris Vernon 126,000

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He has between 375k and 400k currently

May have had 600k, but not now

Thank you.

catching up with exits as we move towards the second break of the day

160    Gino Gabriel
161    Thomas Horton
162    Sam Grafton
163    Damien Rhodes
164    Mark Armstrong
165    David Johnson
166    Dean Beecham
167    Chris Sly
168    Jason Mills
169    Paul Fyson
170    Emrah Yildiz
171    Olurotimi Rogers
172    Kevin Allen
173    Waheed Ashraf
174    Kuljinder Sidhu
175    Thomas Clack
176    John Sadler
177    Michael Chivers
178    Dan Whittaker
179    Anonymous
180    Garry Hallows
181    Dean Clay
182    Nicholas Banks
183    Richard Wong
184    Craig Chapman
185    Oluwashola Akindele
186    Maurice Samuels
187    Thomas Middleton
188    Jonathan Kalmar
189    Iqbal Ahmed
190    Alex Zeligman
191    Andrew Probyn
192    Adam Prickett
193    Jason Barton
194    Daniel Williams
195    Michael Wernick
196    Robert Matheson
197    Iftikhar Ali
198    Lee Tatters
199    Ben Jones
200    Charles Akadiri

will try to get the top ten stacks in the break when there is a bit more room around

Could I get a chip count for Joseph Mccreery he was table 11 seat 4 please

He has 45,000 and blinds go 2000-4000 next


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Greg Hill is up to 230,000 helped by Q-Q on a Q high board. Apparently his opponent "chose the wrong time to bluff me" and then paid him off

On the same table as Greg is John Conroy who had a fun one

Raised with Aces, called in the blind by Js 9s of Nadeem Abbas

flop Aspades 8s Td

He got it in against the combo draw

turn paired the 8, to seal the deal for him

river 7s so it was just as well

Conroy has about 300,000

James Mcnamee has 580k going break!

Sam Grafton's exit


UTG+1 6500

Mark Brazier calls KQo

Sam Grafton calls in the big blind

Q-10-3 rainbow

Sam check

UTG+1 check

Brazier 11,000

Sam calls, raiser folds


turn A

Check check

river 7

Sam shoves 34,000

Brazier called with second pair

Sam had K3

thanks Richard!

Chip counts and pics of Paul Bampton and Robin Fisher please

I had a bit of a fallow period spotting hands after the break so I went round each table - there are only 16 now so its a bit easier - to give you an impression of each

We are only 30 places off the money

Thewy appears to have struggled to make progress today and now has an under average stack. He has direct position on Coore though who has a stack and might do them, in my experience, in unlikely situations

11    1    Paul Brown
11    2    Susan Adams
11    3    Andrew Hazelwood
11    4    Joseph Mccreery
11    5    Richard Johnson
11    7    Stacy Coore
11    8    Paul Bampton
11    9    Julian Thew

Toffel, Frankie and Peejay have a tough spot here (with under average stacks) as a) Tim Slater's table broke and he moved to their left and then Renee Xie is sitting with 350,000+


12    1    Russell Betts
12    2    Michael Kane
12    3    Danny Toffel
12    4    Chin Chai Koh
12    5    Paul Jenkinson
12    6    Tim Slater
12    7    Renee Xie
12    8    Christopher

I was watching for a while hoping young bucks Deadman and Chung would clash. Both have 300,000 and in the middle Grand Prix winner Tan Le is above average too. This is now the feature table

13    1    Kal Singh
13    2    Simon Deadman
13    3    Ramazanali Abbassi
13    4    Sacha Brookes
13    5    Tan Le
13    6    Timothy Chung
13    7    Jay Scott
13    8    Neville Oates
13    9    Abbas Ladak

Mo Muse has a big stack, which is bad news for the rest of the table

14    1    Jason Beazley
14    2    Neil Strike
14    3    Wahid Patel
14    4    David Newman
14    5    Anthony Gardner
14    6    Robin Fisher
14    7    Kirit Patel
14    8    Mahamed Muse
14    9    Mark Wates

Stato looks very comfortable here. Just made a series of nice calls on a 7-7-A-8-6 board, winning with 10-10 against Charles Denton. English Poker Open winner La Ronde, and Tomlin have position on Stato but neither have the stack to mplay back too loosely

21    1    Lee Taylor
21    2    Nigel Booth
21    3    Charles Denton
21    4    James Gardner
21    5    Joe Underwood
21    6    Andrew Hulme
21    7    David La Ronde
21    8    James Tomlin
21    9    Arran Fletcher

One of the chip leaders is Corion with 600,000+ and I haven't seen him have a setback all day

22    1    John Conroy
22    2    Ish Patel
22    3    Greg Hill
22    4    Steven Fitzpatrick
22    5    Luke Cerklewicz
22    6    Harprit Singh Gurnam
22    7    Sarbjit Kular
22    8    Phillip Corion
22    9    Craig Betteridge

Not the quietest of tables and quite a tough line up. Ceri Rees has had a good day, up to 350,000 or so whereas progress for the likes of Atkin and Barnett is steadier. Wes Ellis with 500,000+ is chip leader on this table

23    1    Ben Jackson
23    3    John-paul Kelly
23    4    James Atkin
23    5    Ceri Rees
23    6    Derek Collinson
23    7    Paul Zimbler
23    8    Stuart Barnett
23    9    Weswell Ellis

Sinem has over 300,000 and, having watched her play over the last few years I genuinely think her game has come on masses and masses. Much better temperament at the table too. Ken Billups is steady over 225,000

25    1    Stuart Bill
25    2    Sinem Melin
25    3    Paul Mason
25    4    Cosimo Dellisola
25    5    Michael Richardson
25    6    Kenneth Billups
25    7    Luke Hallinan
25    8    Oliver White
25    9    Jamie Clossick

McNamee has about 450,000. I went to double check again. Good luck getting a bluff through seats 2,3,4 and 5. Lots of multiway raised posts on this table

26    1    James Mcnamee
26    2    Mohammed Istakhar Sadiq
26    3    Basharat Mahmood
26    4    Andreas Olympios
26    5    Nicholas Gavriel
26    6    Madlena Rezk
26    7    David Chau
26    8    Andy King
26    9    Caicai Huang

Vinodh in seat 1 has 300,000. Housden continues to do well, nicely over average

27    1    Ganesh Jayaraman
27    2    Marc Brazier
27    3    Raj Dhiri
27    4    Thomas Zhang
27    5    Darren Mapley
27    6    Lee Cockroft
27    7    Tony Housden
27    8    Mark Wagstaff
27    9    Matt Adams

Warburton has a good record in GPS events and he has 400,000+, steadily chipping up while the Mad Turk chip rollercoaster dips and soars to his right. Charlton has lost some ground with now about 250,000. Yet to see Carlo play a pot today, but that might just be my luck. Or then again he might not have played a pot today

31    1    Alan Ellis
31    2    Carlo Citrone
31    3    Kevin Asquith
31    4    Daniel Charlton
31    5    James Bott
31    6    Yucel Eminoglu
31    7    George Dempsey
31    8    Craig Holmes
31    9    Steven Warburton

Jamie Burland has just over 200,000 on what appears to me to be one of the quieter tables

32    1    David Burraway
32    2    Richard Horton
32    3    Umar Khan
32    4    Kevin Houghton
32    5    Steve Brook
32    6    Asif Raja
32    7    Garwo Chu
32    8    Richard Garner
32    9    Jamie Burland

Nick Hicks 175,000, Ash Hussain 225,000, Raggy Clarke 150,000

33    1    Ben Longstaff
33    2    Kevin Whelan
33    3    Sam Patel
33    4    Niels Ladefoged
33    5    Oliver Caplan
33    6    Arshad Hussain
33    7    Nick Hicks
33    8    James Clarke
33    9    Derek Baxter

Nathan Davies with just over 200,000 got those early yesterdaty and has merely held his own for about 10 levels now. Not a table with big stacks this

34    1    Adrian Coombes
34    2    Anonymous
34    3    Grant Mercado
34    4    Nathan Davies
34    5    Mats Rosen
34    6    Shaun Herran-venables
34    7    William Roach
34    8    Neil Mcculloch
34    9    Lee Dixon

Mark McCluskey has had a decent stack all day whereas Mitch has really ground a short-stack all day
35    1    Marios Andreas
35    2    John O Reilly
35    3    Bernard Gyimah
35    4    Andrew Hawksby
35    5    Peter Craw
35    6    Mark Mccluskey
35    7    Mitchell Johnson
35    8    Jonathan Grice
35    9    James Robinson

Here Paul Grummitt leads. He is wearing a Grey jacket festooned in Mod (as in mods and rockers) memorabilia. On the back is a CND peace symbol. I suppose I had better take a picture.

36    1    Marios Arkadiou
36    2    Michael Kossov
36    3    Jamie O Connor
36    4    Fahd Bennani Smires
36    5    Danny Parry
36    6    Colin Gillon
36    7    Paul Grummitt
36    8    Stuart Giulian
36    9    Samuel Goodman


the higher numbered tables are first to break

Happy to answer requests for specific chip counts. In the meantime off to find some hands

Is it possible to get a chip count for Arran Fletcher please?

Great updates Rich, especially considering the number of runners, thank you.

My best wishes to all players remaining, but most especially the 2 runners who are carrying the hopes & wishes of the Tony Kendall Pension Fund.

Paul Jenkinson has doubled twice to 240,000

He found Aces with 15x bb with a raise and a 3 bet in front of him.

Nice, especially when they held

He then made a full house against a flopped straight, his set pairing on the turn for the second double


--


JP Kelly opens to 8,000 UTG

Stuart Barnett 24,000 on the button

Tim Zhang call in the big blind

JP calls

8s 3c 2d

check to Suart who bets 30,000

Tim calls, JP folds

turn and river Jc 5c

check check check and Barnett shoves 86,000 on the river



Zhang ponders, and ponders. Ponders for most of halt time in the United match. This probably represents quite a challenge for Stuart who if he isn't holding his breath nappears to be doing a good impression of holding his breath. He doesn't move a muscle throughout the entire Zhang dwell.

Zhang eventually folds and Barnett is up to 220,000

Yup 245,000 at 2-4k and 119 left, 108 paid

Fisher 110,000

Bampton 140,000


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James McNamee 560,000

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Full Mental Jacket

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Exits approaching the bubble

118    Paul Zimbler
119    Sam Patel
120    Alan Ellis
121    Carlo Citrone
122    Jamie O Connor
123    Basharat Mahmood
124    Marios Arkadiou
125    Ben Jackson
126    Ganesh Jayaraman
127    Luke Hallinan
128    Anonymous
129    Joe Underwood
130    Charles Denton
131    Madlena Rezk
132    William Roach
133    James Robinson
134    Ramazanali Abbassi
135    Matt Adams
136    Chin Chai Koh

We're now hand for hand on the £1000 bubble 109 left 108 paid and 36 minutes to the dinner break

Hand for hand across 13 tables? COuld be a while

pre bubble exits

110    Mohammed Istakhar Sadiq
111    Colin Gillon
112    Nicholas Gavriel
113    Julian Thew
114    James Clarke
115    Robin Fisher
116    David La Ronde
117    Shaun Herran-venables



Greg Hill lost a 110,000 pot to Paul Corion betting the river into flopped top two, just now

blinds are 2500-5000 average 214,000 and I don't see many micro stacks around

Many thanks Tighty😄

It was quite a fun time the last few minutes

when there is an all in and a call the cards stay down until all the other tables are clear

In response to a raise to 11,000 and a call Neil Strike made it 75,000

Tim Slater all in for 79,000

Strike call


Strike says to Tim that he has Kings

Tim tells strike he has Aces


We then wait 8 minutes 33 seconds for the flop to be dealt

I count, because I have time, 56 people around the table waiting for this hand. Players from other tables, railers, staff...the works

So its Aces against Kings


K  Roar from the crowd

Q

J

"Ten" cry the rail


10 on the turn with the most enormous roar from part of the room and the biggest "ffs" from another

river...

A


Enormous laughter from the rail , Slater slumps to the floor, Strike looks stunned


and we carry on, as the crowd disperses the dealer chops the pot

 

then as I fight my way back to the desk (600 people in DTD, its quite a sight) the bubble did go, right before the dinner break

and it was...

109    Stuart Barnett

Oh.

I might leave it a while before enquiring.

75 minute dinner break

Now playing 11 levels today (five more)


106 left, blinds go 3000-6000 next average is 220,000


 

JP Kelly knocked out Stuart Barnett on the bubble

A-9-7-5 board with two clubs

Stuart has A-Kcc v JP flopped top two A-9

All in on the turn and two pair held

How many has JP got now mate?

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Is Housden still chipped up?

Have you got the top 10 chip counts please?

Thanks

 Any news on Mr Burland? Seems to have stopped texting. Can you lend him a quid for the charger? (do they have them?).

 Cheers Tighty...get well soon btw.

 Actually...relax...just texted 30bbs at dinner. When are they back?

back in 5, I will get chip counts and requested stuff then

106 left

3000-6000

average 220,000

The grind to the serious money starts here

(The grind to bed and a hot water bottle starts here for me lol)

Tony Housden 130,000 coming back from the break

Jamie Burland 160,000



top stacks

John McNamee 700,000
Sacha Brookes 600,000
Stuart Giulian 600,000
Samuel Goodman 600,000
Mo Muse 500,000
Arran Fletcher 500,000
Dan Charlton 500,000
JP Kelly 450,000
Ken Billups 450,000
Nils Lafoyed 400,000
Rana Gurnam 400,000

Lee Dixon opens and Grant Mercado calls

Nathan Davies 3 bets the button and both call

3c 5c 4h

Dixon 30,000

Mercado call

Davies shove 120,000

Dixon fold

Mercado is just covered and contemplates what is clearly a big decision

Eventually he calls all in with  Tc 8c

Davies  Qh Qd

turn 2d

river  Qc to take Nathan Davies down to 3,000 and double Mercado up

Dan Charlton raises and James Atkin calls in the small bind. This is on a table with JP Kelly, a lot of chips on it

8h 9h 2c

Atkin check calls 24,000

2h

Atkin check calls 48,000

5s

check check

Atkin shows down  Th Tc which is good against  9s  7h

We have a new chip leader

JP Kelly raised

Dan Charlton 3 bet

JP 4 bet

Charlton 5 bet

JP 6 bet shoved covering Charlton

All these are "click back" min raises

Charlton called all in for 250,000 with Queens

JP flipped Ace-Jack

and spiked

He now has 950,000 nearly 4x average with 89 left

Watch out rest of field

I raised an eyebrow in JP's general direction and he told me, with a shy smile

"I just didn't feel like folding"

Tim Chung is out, 3 bet shoving Jacks over an open from Abbas Ladak with A-J who called and flopped an Ace

--

Nathan Davies is out. Micro stacked after losing with Queens he was all in with junk in the blinds and was up against Aces....which never had a sweat

Paul Grummitt raises to 18,000 UTG

George Dempsey calls

Raj Dhiri in the big blind all in 90,000

Grummitt reshove all in

Dempsey folds

Dhiri 9-9

Grummitt J-J

J-3-10-k-8 knocks Dhiri out 85th

83 left as we head to 4000-8000 and average is 281,000

exits in that level

84    James Gardner
85    Steve Brook
86    Raj Dhiri
87    Caicai Huang
88    Nick Hicks
89    Andreas Olympios
90    Derek Collinson
91    Nathan Davies
92    Bernard Gyimah
93    Stuart Bill
94    Joseph Mccreery
95    James Tomlin
96    Lee Cockroft
97    Daniel Charlton
98    Andrew Hawksby
99    Arshad Hussain
100    Timothy Chung
101    Richard Garner
102    Russell Betts
103    Steven Warburton
104    Sarbjit Kular
105    Susan Adams

Mad Turk wanders past me, and I know whats coming

I gird my pen and listen

"I was patient and waiting, every card was a deuce. I get down to 5 bigs blinds and there is a raise and a call in front of me so I go with it. 9-10cc. the original raiser passes and the caller goes and calls with 8-9. He goes and hits 10-J-Q on me"

I think he's out.

He's moved onto the next person :-)

J-Q-10

Tan Le raises

Kal Singh calls

Simon Deadman all in 107,000

Le all in 185,000

Singh folds

Tan Le QQ

Deadman 77

Guess what?

2-7-K-2-A doubles Deadman up to about 225,000 at 4-8k

Grant mercado raises and Mitch Johnson shoves 40,000 in the small blind with A-J

Mercado calls with KQss

3-Q-9-10-7 to knock Mitch out c78th

Update on Jamie mcnamee please flying the flag for the Corby boys

Sinem Melin is out 77th

"I had 10 bigs and put it in with an Ace. He called me with an Ace, we both hit an Ace and he out kicked me"

I've just warned the bar staff to be ready.

go on Jamie boy!

Mark Wagstaff shoves the button for 65,000

Mo Muse calls him in the big blind with A-Q

Wagstaff is live for the double up with K-J

Q-10-3 gives him a shot

2 turn

J river

to knock him out


Mo Muse a top five stack with 800,000

Andrew Hulme has just got unlucky 10-10 v 8-8 all in pre versus Jamie Bott

8 on the flop sends Stato down to 5xbb

James Atkin has knocked out UKIPT Six Max finalist David Clifton-burraway

A-J against Q-Q all in pre

8-4-A-J-6

Atkin up to 570,000 and certainly in the top 20 of the remaining 70 players

He comes from Corby?

Home of the Steelmen and where I once turned for a football match and was chased through a car park by some very strange people. Never been back

Anyway, Jamie McNamee

700,000 still doing well.

Nice lad, by the way.


Corby though

That is the place!

It's only rough to outsiders, cheers for the update

IS  Ac Jd the new nuts????  Never seen so many players that are meant to be up there or meant to  know how to play calling off or getting it in bad and getting out of jail, games seems to be getting stupid, moan over, may some clueless idiot win it!!!!

Exits as we are hitting the break after level 18

69    Umar Khan
70    Danny Parry
71    Kevin Whelan
72    Paul Mason
73    Fahd Bennani Smires
74    Andrew Hulme
75    David Clifton-burraway
76    Mark Wagstaff
77    Sinem Melin
78    Mitchell Johnson
79    Michael Kane
80    Paul Grummitt
81    Oliver White
82    Yucel Eminoglu

next 5000-1000 average 343,000


getting the top ten stacks for you shortly

3 levels left to paly today

John MPower Grice up to 420,000

5-5 v A-7cc of Jamie McNamee

Grice raises to 24,000 in the small blind, McNamee calls with A-7

7-3-4 flop

Grice bets, call

7

check, bet, call

5 on the river...lovely for John

all in Grice, call with trip sevens

Grice doubles up

McNamee down to 400,000

Er, he shoved for 9.5 bbs in my hand.

Leading chip counts at the break


JP Kelly 950,000
Mo Muse 800,000
Renee Xie 750,000
Grant Mercado 750,000
James Atkin 650,000
Ken Billups 620,000
Arran Fletcher 600,000
Philip Corion 600,000
Mark McCluskey 600,000

I know man, seems like this Atkin kid is a massive punter willing to gamble all of his chips with just Ace high.

Before even seeing a flop!  :dontask:

Ignore it James.

Good luck man, you are going along nicely.

Good luck to Arran Fletcher & Ken Billups, who are both fantastic blokes, love to see both make the final table. Good luck them.

JP Kelly, James Atkin, punkfloyd amongst those going on the genting feature table now

with you in about 30 minutes on the delayed feed

I'm sure the clueless idiot that is JP Kelly (is his full name a secret?) fully agrees!

Tan Le raises to 32,000

Lee Taylor all in on the button for 140,000 at 5-10k

Call

Le Q-Q

Lee A-2

7-3-8-10-2 and Lee Taylor is out 67th

Ultra bad play rewarded lol

Gooooooooo on MC and JP, do not for the clueless idiots who've won two bracelets and bought a family up playing the game ;)

FYP

p.s. shame on you Mr.Atkin

Gl james you sicko

Tony Housden raises and Danny Toffel calls, small versus big blind

Ts 7d 9s

Housden leads, Toffel shoves, call

250,000 pot with Tony just covering Danny

Tony Ks Js

Danny Tc 6c

Td turn

3c river

to double Toffel up and leave Housden very short

Jamie Burland 160,000 at 5-10k, BadBeat

65 left

 Thanks Rich. He was down to 5bbs so that is pretty good. Lost twice with KK to AQ today so hanging in there quite well.

some more chip counts from guys you might br railing

Deadman 230,000

Peejay 400,000

Verndog 480,000

Stacy Coore 300,000

Greg Hill 270,000

Ceri Rees is on the feature with 400,000

Paul Bampton opens to 27,000

Arran Fletcher 3 bet to 61,000

Call

3h Td 8s

Fletcher leads 125,000

Bampton all in 150,000

call

Fletcher Aspades Js

Bampton 8h 8d

turn 8c for Quads to double Bampton up

Tan Le the Grand Prix winner up to 850,000 after knocking out Abbas Ladak with AQ v a three bet shove from J10, Calling it, flopping top two and holding

62 left

How long left for today Tighty?

two and a quarter hours play

added a level on, presumably to try and help tomorrow which could be a long day with 23m chips in play!

Chris Vernon knocks out Craig Holmes to take us down below 60 players

Holmes shoved 130,000, Vernon called on the button with 66, was up against A-J and held on 5-8-8-4-7

Vernon up over 600,000 with average 385,000 at the end of 5-10k

The GPS day 2s are normally cut short when there are 27 players left!!! I hope this tournament gets the same amount of participants later on in the year.

1m chip pot

All in pre

Chris Vernon Aces in the big blind to a raise from Marc Brazier with...KK

4-7-A-9-5 takes Vernon to the chip lead and the frist stack over 1m

blinds up to 6000-12000 with 58 left

average 403000

exits in the last level

59    Lee Dixon
60    Craig Holmes
61    Paul Brown
62    Jamie Clossick
63    Jamie Burland
64    Abbas Ladak
65    Ish Patel
66    Thomas Zhang
67    Lee Taylor
68    Weswell Ellis
69    Umar Khan

This

Be great to see them both make final all thou I believe ken took a big hit down to avg chips

Get it won Chris Vernon

Is Jason Beasley still in tighty?

Good luck paul bampton TID

Yes with 54 left and an above average stack

Thanks. Will him good luck from me, next time you pass by him.

George Dempsey raises to 24,000

Simon Deadman flats

Richard Johnson all in 224,000

Dempsey folds

Deadman calls


Deadman KK

Johnson KJ

3-10-8-2-Q

To double Deadman to around 500,000

Could you wish John Conroy gl from me, Tighty.

TIA

Jamie mcnamee's chip count please if you can

Chris Vernon raises to 25,000 UTG

there is a caller and Paul Jenkinson flats in the big blind too

 Th 9h 7c

Jenkinson bets 35,000

Vernon 90,000

Jenkinson shoves and call

Jenkinson 6-8 for the flopped straight

Vernon 9-9 for middle set

Ten on the turn to pair the board, house Vernon up and knock Jenkinson out

320,000 near the end of 6-12k and 50 left

Cool, good luck to Jamie  Ad Ac

One level to play tonight and 50 left

blinds 8000-16000

average 477,000

exits that last level

51    Kal Singh
52    Paul Jenkinson
53    Harprit Singh Gurnam
54    Richard Johnson
55    Neville Oates
56    Mark Wates
57    Richard Horton
58    Tony Housden

chip counts for the welsh wizard Ceri Rees and rana please?

cancel rana I can see he out 53rd. lol

Ceri is on the feature table with position on JP Kelly and James Atkin and c500k

Anyone been watching it?

I will switch on now. thanks rich!

ceri got a double up through JP with 88 v Kx on a 8555k board

Watching it Rich, and reading updates,Sterling effort as usual

Monster pot on the feature in about half an hours time, just happened real time

People crowding round the table to get a look....

I won't spoil on here but remind me to post it a bit later!

JP ftw ken and aaron 2nd and 3rd

exits in the final level

41    Neil Mcculloch
42    Kenneth Billups
43    John Conroy
44    Mark Mccluskey
45    David Chau
46    Ceri Rees
47    Oliver Caplan
48    Paul Bampton
49    Marc Brazier
50    Andy King

Billups and Conroy ran QQ and KK respectively into Stuart Giulian's AA on the same hand, and Giulian went to 1.7m


Greg Hill is just out 40th A-10 into Andrew Hazlewood's QQ all in pre

We are on the last couple of hands of the day

These will be the final 39 back tomorrow, probably with a re-draw

11    2    Arran Fletcher
11    3    Andrew Hazelwood
11    4    Simon Deadman
11    5    Phillip Corion
11    6    George Dempsey
11    7    Stacy Coore
11    8    Samuel Goodman

12    1    Derek Baxter
12    2    James Mcnamee
12    4    Kevin Houghton
12    5    Michael Richardson
12    6    Peter Craw
12    7    Renee Xie
12    8    Christopher Vernon
12    9    Darren Mapley

13    1    Cosimo Dellisola
13    2    Marios Andreas
13    3    Luke Cerklewicz
13    4    John O Reilly
13    5    Tan Le
13    7    Jay Scott
13    8    Mats Rosen
13    9    David Newman

14    1    Jason Beazley
14    2    Neil Strike
14    3    Grant Mercado
14    4    Danny Toffel
14    5    Asif Raja
14    7    Kirit Patel
14    8    Mahamed Muse
14    9    Tim Slater

23    2    Ben Longstaff
23    3    John-paul Kelly
23    4    James Atkin
23    5    Niels Ladefoged
23    6    Jonathan Grice
23    7    Stuart Giulian
23    8    James Bott
23    9    Garwo Chu

Feel free to put the chip counts up if they appear on fb overnight. They are a while coming to me rather than soon after play so I head off

shaun conning 0k

Richard Trigg 0k and obv a few tinnies and "take me out" auditions

And good luck to JP ftw...and of course Simon D and Rene (in before Trigg)

John Grice is Out.

Our table broke.

Got moved and picked no hands up at all. Then with 35 Minutes to go got moved to the Video table.

Last 3 hands called of the day had 180kish coming back to 10/20k on Sunday. Penultimate hand
pushed my chips in NO LOOK and was called with KQ and the mighty  36os failed to get lucky.

Really enjoyed turning £15 online into £1800. Sat next to Mitch J. Mitch played poker like Beckham kicks a ball. #amazing

Great updates.

Tighty took my picture. I asked him how do I  look? "I've not got a lot to work with" #charming

Regards

M  


  

 
 
  

im only - £440 tho

And we have a winner.

Night boys

<3

gonna need some blonde run good today!

Stuart Giulian   2276000
Michael Richardson      1428000
Grant Mercado   1170000
Renee Xie   1154000
Andrew Hazelwood   1060000
Asif Raja   1027000
James Atkin   867000
Simon Deadman   846000
Christopher Vernon   792000
John-paul Kelly   781000
John O Reilly   706000
David Newman   678000
Danny Toffel   636000
Neil Strike   626000
Tan Le   588000
Phillip Corion   577000
Samuel Goodman   553000
James Mcnamee   521000
Mahamed Muse   519000
Luke Cerklewicz   518000
Jason Beazley      500000
George Dempsey   470000
Mats Rosen   463000
James Bott   427000
Jay Scott   396000
Ben Longstaff   371000
Darren Mapley      351000
Tim Slater   340000
Derek Baxter   331000
Cosimo Dellisola   329000
Niels Ladefoged   307000
Stacy Coore   303000
Arran Fletcher     296000
Garwo Chu   248000
Kirit Patel      244000
Marios Andreas   207000
Peter Craw   206000
Kevin Houghton   204000

Morning Chris :)

VBOL buddy.

Renee Xie   1154000
Asif Raja   1027000
James Atkin   867000
Simon Deadman   846000
Christopher Vernon   792000
John-paul Kelly   781000
John O Reilly   706000
Danny Toffel   636000
Mahamed Muse   519000
Marios Andreas   207000

Gl to these heroes too

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