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We'll try & cover this properly from tomorrow, when the cavalry, in the form of His Tightness, arrives, but I'm doing a little Live Update Next Door tonight, so I'll copy a few posts across.

Any questions, hit me up & I'll try to answer, if not, it'll go on Tighty's pile to get tomorrow off to a flyer.

Just over 2 levels in, & needing 50 to cover the £100,000 Guarantee, we are at 46+ already.

One Re-Entry per day is permitted, & late Reg continues until Level 2 tomorrow, so the Guarantee is gonna take a beating.

Decent field, very happy so far.

25 1 Stephen Bantick
25 2 Andrey Veselov
25 3 Richard Trigg
25 4 Alex Goulder
25 5 Gang Wang
25 6 Louis Scriven
25 7 John Haigh
25 8 Simon Higgins
35 1 Chi Zhang
35 2 Alex Zeligman
35 3 Neil Channing
35 4 Frank Williams
35 5 Kuljinder Sidhu
35 6 Darrell Goh
35 7 Chin Chai Koh
35 8 Callum Mccuaig
36 1 Daniel Stanway
36 2 Nick Hicks
36 3 Enzo Del Piero
36 4 Mian Wei
36 5 Paul Dando
36 6 Ben Winsor
36 7 Jamie O'connor
36 8 Nicolas Le Floch
37 1 David Lloyd
37 2 Edmund Yeung
37 3 Jonathan Clark
37 4 Tom Hall
37 5 Steven Warburton
37 6 Anthony Kennedy
37 7 Daniel Charlton
37 8 Thomas Middleton
38 1 Phillip Mighall
38 2 Graham Carter
38 3 Christopher Kyriacou
38 4 Jack O'neill
38 5 Christopher Brammer
38 6 Stuart Rutter
38 7 Richard Pearson
38 8 Keith Johnson
45 1 Anthony Nicholls
46 1 Philippe Souki
46 2 Richard Kellett
46 3 Ben Farrell
46 4 Elias Christodoulou
46 5 Matthew Davenport
46 6 Antoine Saout
46 7 Aleksandrs Golubevs
46 8 Darren Taylor

All questions gratefully received, if not answered.

great turn-out.

didnt expect 46 at this stage.

56 now, with Level 3 still in progress.

Very surprised indeed at that number.

The lure of Tikay hosting has bought the names out to attend. Any early chipcounts?

They are on break at the mo, & I have Messrs Channing & Rutter bending my ear, bit once play resumes, I'll try & get some chip counts.

Ryan Spittles, & last year's UKPC High Roller winner Richard Gryko are both now seated.

They probably thought he was playing.

Marv.

Chip counts to follow shortly.

60 entrants so far, including one Re-Entry, Richard Gryko. He had taken an early hit or two, then he had K-J on the J-9-4-7-3 board, 3 diamonds, & was called all the way by Q-Q. 

Halfway through Level 5.....


Graham Carter 51,000

Chris Brammer 90,000

Stu Rutter 70,000

Keith Johnson 55,000

Tom Hall 70,000

Steve Warburton 55,000

Nick Hicks 36,000

Neil Channing 37,000

Chinese Frankie 32,000

Rick Trigg 50,000

Anthony Nicholls 53,000

Richard Gryko - just taken Bullet # 2

Neil Strike 48,000

Tom "Middy" Middleton 120,000

Alex Goulder 40,000

Ryan Spittles 50,000

Ben Vinson 50,000

Russia 100,000

Middy 120,000 ❤️

Give him a kiss from me please teeks.

Thanks for the updates.

Cheers Teeks

65 entries now, being 59 Uniques, & 6 re-entries

Kiss Middy? Are you kidding me? Alex, maybe, love that boy, but Middy, nah. Like him, like him a lot, but we are not on tongue terms yet.

Love an update.

Good luck to Middy and Trigg. Are they classed as old skool now?

Deffo Old Skool.

Just seen Mitch Johnson, who has had to swerve playing the High Roller as he is due to become a Mum in the next day or so.

2nd break of the evening, so 3 more levels still to play. Gonna be a long day, I started at 5am today, yikes.


Chris Brammer 75,000

Stu Rutter 80,000

Keith Johnson 50,000

Tom Hall 55,000

Nick Hicks 25,000

Neil Channing (feeling somewhat unwell) 24,000

Chinese Frankie 40,000

Rick Trigg 30,000

Anthony Nicholls 135,000

Richard Gryko 35,000

Neil Strike 40,000

Tom Middleton 25,000

Alex Goulder 40,000

Ryan Spittles 45,000

Richard Kellett 85,000

A few counts from 30 minutes ago, I got a bit waylaid by things.....


Chris Brammer - 180,000 (rampant)_

Stu Rutter 87,000

Keith Johnson 90,000

Richard Gryko 100,000

Joesman 40,000

Neil Channing 55,000

Tom Middleton - BUSTO

Ryan Spittles 50,000

Alex Goulder 100,000 (rampant on a nice way)

Kiss was mentioned....you seem to be the dirty minded one talking about tongues!

Closing chip counts from Day 1 of the Sky Poker UKPC High Roller.


Christopher Brammer 38 5 212900
Alex Zeligman 35 2 161700
Frank Williams 37 2 153800
Gang Wang 37 5 150100
Terry Jordon 45 3 147000
Aleksandrs Golubevs 46 7 141600
Ben Farrell 46 3 138000
Alex Goulder 44 6 118200
Alex Lindop 45 4 115000
Ben Vinson 45 8 112800
Anthony Nicholls 45 1 112300
Daniel Charlton 37 7 111900
Jack O'neill 38 4 109100
Jonathan Clark 38 2 108300
Richard Gryko 38 7 101300
Ben Winsor 35 8 86900
Padraig O Neill 44 1 83300
Chris Sly 38 1 80200
Paul Dando 36 5 78600
Daniel Stanway 44 5 77000
Stuart Rutter 36 6 76700
Adrien Allain 37 6 75600
Louis Scriven 36 2 75300
Elias Christodoulou 46 4 74400
Edmund Yeung 38 6 70100
Stephen Woodhead 45 2 58800
Callum Mccuaig 44 4 57900
Jamie O'connor 36 7 57600
John Haigh 35 6 57100
Darrell Goh 45 5 55900
Steven Warburton 36 1 55400
Neil Channing 35 3 52900
Neil Strike 35 4 51200
Ryan Spittles 44 7 50400
Kuljinder Sidhu 35 5 48500
Andrey Veselov 46 6 46200
David Lloyd 37 1 39300
Enzo Del Piero 36 3 38900
Matthew Davenport 46 5 38100
Tom Hall 37 4 29400
Antoine Saout 36 8 24000
Keith Johnson 38 8 24000
Stephen Bantick 44 2 23900
Philippe Souki 46 1 23300
Nick Hicks 37 8 21200
Mian Wei 45 6 15500
Darren Taylor 46 8 14000

Best of luck to all the Blondes today!

day 2 of the high roller is juss starting with 50 remaining and registration open for 2 levels

Alex Goulder continues his good run

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he will be button to Middy's big blind

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tom "jabracada" hall finalled the ukpc main last time, and is in the high roller day 2

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sky poker ambassador Jurgen Klopp next to neil strike

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Anthony Nicholls decided to spoil my picture

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so who is sitting where?

25    1    Padraig O Neill
25    2    Stephen Bantick
25    3    Martyn Frey
25    4    Callum Mccuaig
25    5    Daniel Stanway
25    6    Alex Goulder
25    7    Ryan Spittles
25    8    Thomas Middleton

26    1    Anthony Nicholls
26    2    Stephen Woodhead
26    3    Terry Jordon
26    4    Alex Lindop
26    5    Darrell Goh
26    6    Mian Wei
26    7    Christopher Kyriacou
26    8    Ben Vinson

27    1    Philippe Souki
27    2    Anonymous
27    3    Ben Farrell
27    4    Elias Christodoulou
27    5    Matthew Davenport
27    6    Andrey Veselov
27    7    Aleksandrs Golubevs

35    1    Richard Pearson
35    2    Alex Zeligman
35    3    Neil Channing
35    4    Neil Strike
35    5    Kuljinder Sidhu
35    6    John Haigh
35    8    Ben Winsor

36    1    Steven Warburton
36    2    Louis Scriven
36    3    Enzo Del Piero
36    4    Chi Zhang
36    5    Paul Dando
36    6    Stuart Rutter
36    7    Jamie O'connor
36    8    Antoine Saout

37    1    David Lloyd
37    2    Frank Williams
37    3    Paul-fran�ois Tedeschi
37    4    Tom Hall
37    5    Gang Wang
37    6    Adrien Allain
37    7    Daniel Charlton
37    8    Nick Hicks

38    1    Chris Sly
38    2    Jonathan Clark
38    3    Artan Dedusha
38    4    Jack O'neill
38    5    Christopher Brammer
38    6    Edmund Yeung
38    7    Richard Gryko
38    8    Keith Johnson



if you wanted me to follow a round of the action, which table would you choose? i will check back when i return to the laptop and pick a table

Table 25

Table 26 please. Love watching old school "rock" poker!


 rotflmfao rotflmfao

Neil Channing has had a busy day

Having apparently only played about six hands yesterday he found himself with a tough decision in the first hand

playing 50,000 at 500-1000

kully sidhu fresh off his EPT Dublin 3rd raised to 2,000, a caller and Richard Pearson makes in 11,000 on the button

Neil looks down at 10-10

your move is?

A round with Goldilocks and the three Bears

25    1    Padraig O Neill
25    2    Stephen Bantick
25    3    Martyn "daddy bear" Frey
25    4    Callum Mccuaig
25    5    Daniel Stanway
25    6    Alex "goldilocks" Goulder
25    7    Ryan "mummy bear" Spittles
25    8    Thomas "middy bear" Middleton

blinds are 600-1200

hand 1

Spittles on the button makes it 2,000

O'Neill calls

 Ks 4c 4d

O'Neill check calls 1,500

8d

check check

7d

O'Neill 4,000 Spittles passes


hand 2 button on middy bear

Goldilocks opens to 2,500

all pass  


hand 3 button seat 1

Stanway opens to 2,500

all pass

hand 4 button Daddy Bear

mccaig limps the small blind
stanway checks

 5h  Ks Jh

mccaig checks
stanway 1,200

fold

hand 5 button mccaig

Stanway limps
Goldilocks raises 4,000 more
call

5s 3c  Kd

check
Goldilocks 6,000
fold

hand 6 button stanway

O'Neill opens to 3,000
Spittles defends his big blind

Kd 3s Qc

check check

 Ac

check check

6d

check check

A masterclass in power poker

Spittles shows  Th Ts and is good


hand 7 button goulder

O'Neill opens to 3,000
McCaig calls

s 2h 6d

O'Neill 2,500
McCaig 6,100
fold

hand 8 button Spittles

McCaig opens to 2,600
O'Neill calls

6c 7c 8d

O'Neill check calls 4,000

Qc

O'Neill check

McCaig 6,000

fold

so Neil folded

He then played 3 hands in a row, winning the last with Aces and is on 60,000

the table thinks he's busy

He raises Ad Td UTG+1 to 2,000

Richard Pearson makes it 5,600 in the big blind

Neil calls

Th 6c 3d

Neil calls 6,000

4d

Pearson sets him in

Neil has is playing 44,000 at 600-1200

i think he has 15 outs? 9 diamonds, 3 aces and the last two Tens

about a 30% shot and he's getting about 2-1 off the top of my head, so not qute the odds perhaps (?) but a big old stack if he hits

but he calls, misses and is out

Pearson had Jacks, no diamonds

tikay's blog from day 1 of the UKPC yesterday

 https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby/ukpc-news/sky-poker-ukpc-off-to-a-flyer

Registration closed for the High Roller wth 67 entries and 19 re-entries and therefore 86 total entries and a £172,000 prize pool

chris sly, kully sidhu and richard pearson in the high roller

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last year's wnner Richard Gryko next to one of the fnest OAP's in live poker, Keith Johnson

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They are on the same table as Chris Brammer who s chip leader wth 40 left and just played a 5 bet pot pre wth Jack O'Neill

7-8-4 saw more action, Brammer led, O'Neill raised, Brammer set him in and nsta called

Both had Aces

wth 32 left, blnds 1200-2400 and average 135,000

chip leaders are

Chris "you again" Brammer 450,000+
Enzo Del Piero 300,000+
Alex Zeligman 300,000+

also still in and in ok shape Alex Goulder, Ben Vnson, Ben Winsor, Dan Charlton etc

shaping up to be a good one later on

I recognised someone at table Brammer, but couldn't place him

i watched a hand he played anyway

raised to 5,200

Gryko made it 10,600

mystery man shoves...

Gryko, well spoken and urbane, scraf wrapped around his neck even though we are indooras so why are you wearing a scarf?, askes for a count

Looks like its around 100,000 about 40% of Richard's stack. Calls

Mystery man A-Ko

Gryko 10-10

under starters orders, we are off

Q-9-6 flop

Ace on the turn for man of mystery

J river and Gryko takes a hit


Back to the media centre*

and  look up mystery man

Antoine Saout.

I know that name

off to give a company who paid an exorbitant £130m to HMRC for its tradng activities over here a bit more revenue to look

Oh

3rd in the 2009 main event

For $3.5m, finished behind Darvin Moon and Joe Cada

He now has 250,000+ here

He's delighted too

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* its not a media centre

Chris "had his annual shave" Brammer, going gangbusters in the HR

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Didn't realise how much I missed your updates Rich.

Different gravy.

You are in fine form today, Mr Prew.

Looking forward to catching up properly when I've finished pottering about with that bit of nuisance called work...

the high roller s on a break with 29 of 86 remaining

average is 148,000

blinds go 2-4k


watching the fun Brammer/Saout/Gryko/K Johnson table just before the break

Saout 3,000 UTG

Gryko 8,500 UTG+1

Back to Saout who pulls out the old UTG limp-shove from the 1989 poker textbook, and gets through


--

next hand

Gryko 7,500 UTG

Richard Pearson calls in positionj

Saout comes along in the big blind

all three check down Ts Qd Kd 9s

Saout leads 30,000 on the 8s

and gives it the gallic quizzical look as both fold on the river

Alex Zeligman and Boz O'Connor

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Enzo Del Piero

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Welcome back Tighty and his amazing updates. I haven't visited DtD for a long time. I just kinda realised one of the reasons why I don't visit. These updates always used to get my juices flowing and in turn I used to travel the 60 odd miles about once a month to play there. These updates should be a permanent once a month thing.

Exactly this.

There are 23 left in the high roller

On a perambulation of the four remaining tables I saw Alex Goulder eliminated by the wonderfully named Gang Wang, A-2 against Kings all in pre when short. A superfluous King on the flop for good measure

Antoine Saout Eliminated by Richard Gryko. Gryko raised Jacks UTG and a short-stacked Saout shoved fives in the big blind, called and no hlep

Brammer appears to have lost chips, possibly to Keith Johnson who has chipped up substantially before Jack O'Neill limped the small blind playing 70,000 at 2,000-4,000

Brammer set him in from the big blind, instant called by 7-7

Brammer flipped 2-2

Sevens held on a paint heavy board and Brammer's stack is now back in the pack

Me too, and I live 20 minutes away.

PS

Fancy Alex getting gang-wanged  :o

the last 18 in the high roller at 2500-5000

25    1    Aleksandrs Golubevs 325,000
25    2    Gang Wang 350,000
25    3    Paul Dando 125,000
25    5    Daniel Stanway 150,000
25    7    Jack O'neill 100,000
25    8    Anonymous 150,000

26    2    Alex Zeligman 190,000
26    3    Jamie O'connor 275,000
26    4    Jonathan Clark 325,000
26    5    Keith Johnson 450,000
26    6    Oliver Price 400,000
26    7    Christopher Brammer 300,000

27    1    Enzo Del Piero 175,000
27    2    Frank Williams 80,000
27    4    Elias Christodoulou 90,000
27    5    Richard Gryko 250,000
27    6    David Lloyd 50,000
27    7    Nick Hicks 110,000

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25    1    Aleksandrs Golubevs
25    2    Gang Wang
25    3    Paul Dando
25    4    Alex Zeligman
25    6    Keith Johnson
25    7    Jack O'neill
25    8    Anonymous

27    1    Enzo Del Piero
27    2    Frank Williams
27    3    Oliver Price
27    4    Christopher Brammer
27    5    Richard Gryko
27    6    David Lloyd
27    7    Nick Hicks

Oliver Price opens to 22,000 playing 322,000

Chris Brammer makes it 77,000 playing 250,000

Price shoves

this is UTG and UTG+1

Brammer calls all in with 10-10

Price has Aces, knocks Brammer out and goes chip leader with 600,000

--

Nick Hicks opens and Enzo Del Piero flats in position

Hicks bet bet bet all three streets on 6-A-3-10-7 board, two spades on the turn

Del Piero shoves the river for 150,000 more into a 500,000 pot

Hicks peers at the board, stares at Ezo and after a few minutes contemplation of the futility of a poker player's existence in such spots folds

Del Piero shows A-10

Hicks tells him he had A-K of spades

Del Piero now chip leader


12 left   

so approaching the final table and short-handed Oliver Price was in a nice spot

three shorter stacks on his left and looking to apply pressure

He shoves in the cut off, 9-10 suited covering everyone still to act

On the button Rchard Gryko finds Ace-Kng suited and calls all in

Price spikes an undercard to go to 900,000 and take us to 10 left and the final table bubble

here is oliver, wsop and EPT (3rd in deauville a couple of years back), WPT finalist, GUKPT winner etc

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So you are stealing 5 handed on the final table bubble with Q-5

That's what Jack O'Neill, 24yo from Nottingham was doing

Keith Johnson called him in the big blind

flop 5-5-5

Yes.

check check. what else is he going to do?

turn Ace

Yes, it got better for Jack

Two stacks go in, Keith has A-x, i didnt see the x in the hubbub,  and is knocked out 10th

Jack goes to the final as a 1.2m chip leader

25    1    David Lloyd 300,000
26    1    Oliver Price 750,000
26    2    Nick Hicks 300,000
26    3    Jack O'neill 1,200,000
26    4    Gang Wang 550,000
26    5    Enzo Del Piero 280,000
26    6    Aleksandrs Golubevs 190,000
26    7    Frank Williams 300,000
26    8    Alex Zeligman 200,000

6-12k blinds

Been watching the early stage of the final

David Lloyd doubled through Price aipf 5-5 v 10-10, 5 on the turn

Nick Hicks chopped an aipf against ONeill A-K v A-K

Then Wllams shoved J-J over a Del Piero raise, he caled with A-J

Ace first card out and we are down to 8


This is likely to go on til 4-5am

Im old and its not the main event so we will go til the main finishes then pop the result up in the morning unless by some miracle it looks like ending imminently

with 8 left the average is 40x bb

and while i was writing that we lost David Lloyd in 8th

Totally agree. I used to look forward to the monthly updates as it helped me keep upto date on how some of my friends were doing as I only get to see them on my rare visits to the uk .
Also they definately increased the traffic to the site and it appears to DTD too by the comments .

Thanks Rich for doing the updates very much appreciated and hopefully they will return in the not too distant future .

The eventual result.........

1 Jack O'neill £55,000.00
2 Nick Hicks £32,500.00
3 Aleksandrs Golubevs £22,500.00
4 Enzo Del Piero £17,500.00
5 Oliver Price £13,500.00
6 Alex Zeligman £11,000.00
7 Gang Wang £8,500.00
8 David Lloyd £6,500.00
9 Frank Williams £5,000.00

Super comeback Nick , well done.

Indeed. Great playing Nick.

Aleks Golubevs has an amazing hit rate considering how few tournaments he plays.

Well done to him