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Hello and welcome to the first Friday flight of the £250,000 Deepstack. Play begins at 2pm

There are 20 players in at the start, on three tables. Some photos follow before the action hots up later

Here is Kelly Saxby on the left as they sit of The Flying Dutchman Marcel Luske, who is looking as urbane as ever

It’s coming up to a year since Eleanor Gudger won the WPT500 here for a cool £140,000.

Here she is again today, warming up for that big £3m WPT UK festival in a months time

On the other side of Marcel is Albert Sapiano. In a small field for this flight so far I think it will make sense for me to be in his vicinity, an action player on what should be a lively table.

Matt Harris finds himself raising into Sapianao and Luske. He’s smiling for now

Sean Belton is on the middle table. Away from table Albert and impending action, which i am now going to watch

53 runners so far

15 through

highest stack 234,000

those through to day 2 tomorrow include

Alex Goulder

John Eames

Mitch Johnson

Nick Hicks

Dale Garrard

Mark Wagstaff

I arrived to see Albert Sapiano take down a 20,000 pot getting three folds on a two heart, two diamond connected board and decided to hang around

next hand Kevin Byrne opened to 550 at 100-200

Malcolm McKinlay called, Albert called in the small blind and kelly Saxby called in the big blind

the flop comes

checked to the raiser, who leads for 1125 and Albert is the only caller

turn

check check

river

Albert leads for 1500 and Byrne folds

Next hand Byrne limps

Matt Harris makes it 1000

and the procession of callers begins. Albert on the button, Saxby on the small blind and Byne himself mean we are 4 way to another flop

checked round

checked round

checked to Albert who almost apologestically bets 2500 having seen everyone check to him lots of times

and they all pass…

Glued to his phone is actionjack, Paul Jackson

Shola Deadman has just arrived

Ali Zhini here, other side of the dealer from Shola

He went deep in the deepstack last month and Sree Vram is one of the early players this month

Sree Vam opens to 700 UTG+1 and gets three callers

the flop comes and actionjack in the blinds checks to him

He leads and gets one caller, Niren Hndocha on the button

turn

Vam bets again and is called

river

Vam checks and after a decent think Hindocha bets 6000, about 2/3 of the pot

Vam calls with a resigned air, flicking one chip into the middle and revealing for flopped broadway

Hndocha shows him for the flopped royal flush draw and rivered flush to win a 21,000 pot

and the latest entrant is Ali Mallu

just before the break small blind Richard Paul raised into his big blind

call

Paul 800, call

Paul 1400, call

Paul 2100

Mallu raises him to 6500 and Paul furrows his brow

He eventually folds and Mallu shows him

Anthony Nicholls limps as does the button and Albert Sapinao then raises to 3200 in the small blind

Nicholls in the only caller

Sapiano 3000, call

Sapiano 3000, call

Sapiano all in, a big over-bet as he has a big stack already

Nicholls exhales and thinks, and thinks

Albert begins chattering

“It’s a re-entry, what are you waiting for?”

“I thought the last card was a spade actually”

“I’ve got two pair, I’ll tell you that”

Nicholls eventually folds and Sapiano shows him for quads

Matt Harris opens to 1000

Malcolm McKinlay makes it 2000

Danish Gandhi calls

Albert Sapiano calls

Anthony Nicholls calls in the small blind

Eleanor Gudger all in for 17,000 big blind

After a couple of folds Gandhi calls and Anthony Nicholls calls all in

so a three way showdown

Gudger has J-J

Gandhi has called with 9-9

Nicholls has overcalled, covered by Gandhi with A-Qss

and it comes 9-8-8 to knock both out and send Danish Gandhi into the chip lead in level 4

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Mo Muse opens to 1100 at 250-500

David Johnson calls on the button

Jason Wood calls in the big blind

Muse c-bets and is called by both

check to Johnson in position and he bets a chunky 4800, around a pot sized bet

Wood folds, Muse check calls

Muse checks

Johnson “anyone but you i bet again, but you are capable of taking off with all sorts” and checks showing which is good

of the first flight there are 52 players so far, with registration open to 6.40pm

the next flight begins at 7pm

of the 2pm flight is Danish Gandhi with 170,000

This is Alan Picken, the last of the 52 entries into the first flight

He’s had quite a month. Won Grand Prix Poker Tour Cardiff and then on successive weekends won Caribbean Poker Party packages.

Might as well ride the wave while it lasts, and go and win this…

Just starting in the 7pm is Cat Winch-Johnson, a music teacher by day and gatherer of chips by night.

Now that’s a look that means business. Northampton’s Mo Muse, a talented active player with a stare and a half…

Shola Deadman’s stack has been see-sawing. First she called the all in from Kelly Saxby’s small stack with A-10 and found herself against Jacks. She flopped a ten and rivered an Ace to send Kelly in the direction of the 7pm flight

Next time i passed Shola’s table she was herself all in, covered by David Stonehouse and with Jacks again, this time against Ace-King

Jacks held on a 9-8-6-7-9 board to send her to an above average stack with 25 of 52 remaining in level 8 of the first flight

Albert Sapiano raised and Tom High calls

Jason Wood all in in the blinds from a short-stack

Sapiano calls and High overcalls all in

Sapiano calls for the extra

Wood A-6

Sapiano A-J

High A-K

K-8-8-J-3 to knock Wood out and virtually treble up High

Raine Hillson raised it up and Jack Allen called in position

the flop came 9-6-7 two spades

Hillson led for 16,000 and Allen raised to 45,000 setting her in

After a long think Hillson called all in with Jacks

Allen shows 6-6 for the flopped set

Turn another jack to double Hillson up

David Johnson opens to 24000 at 600-1200 and Nick Fellone three bets to 6500

Minesh Karsanji all in for 25,000 in the cut off

Johnson folds and Fellone shrug calls with A-Q

Minesh has Jacks, and is in great shape on the 7-9-9-3 board until the Ace falls on the river

there are 17 left in the first flight with three levels left to play toay

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A raise UTGis met with several callers including Albert Sapiano and, on the button Tom High

the flop comes 9-5-3 rainbow

check to Albert who shoves 45,000, over the pot, in

Tom High said afterwards “he had said before the hand he wanted to go home, my only doubt was whether someone had checked a big hand” and he called with 8-9 suited

Albert A-7o

Top pair holds and we have 15 left in the first flight

There are 18 left

blinds are 10-20k ante 3k

all are guaranteed £2800

top 15 also receive a £2200 WPT UK Main event seat

top payouts are

£50,000

£30,000

£20,000

£13,000

£10,000

and those through with chip counts are as follows:

Play begins at 2pm

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Here was the situation at the close of play

Someone is excited, that’s for sure

sebastian pawlak raises to 40,000 and gets called in three spots. rob davies, peter smith and in the big blind ravi sharda

the flop comes 2-10-5 and pawlak c-bets 60,000.

smith shoves for 325,000 and all fold

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simultaneously on the other table stuart bell doubles up, with Aces, winning a big pot off guy taylor

on a  delay, from the final 8 with a number of different commentators

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sebastian pawlak and rob davies

adam daniel and tom high

shola deadman

chi zhang and will kassouf

guy taylor, steve jelinek and mark elliott who finished 3rd last month

andy hulme and martyn frey

the first two exits todasy were guy taylor and adam daniel

since we have been playing hand for hand, 16 left with 15 x £2200 seats up for grabs for all but the next finisher

no exits since, but one double up as ravi sharda shoved A-Q over a raise from peter smith for his last 155,000 at 12-24k.

Smith called with Q-10dd, priced in, and turned four to a flush but missed to enable Sharda to double up

Sylvia is all in pre flop wioth Jacks against Mark Elliott with Kitngs. She is just covered in a battle of two average stacks around 770,000 each

the board comes 4-3-3-3-4 to take us into the top 15

just before that hand Wll Kassouf on the other table raised and Rob Davies called

they saw a flop and Kassouf led out over 100,000 with 500,000 behind

Davies pushed two stacks of 500,000 each over the line as his raise and Kassouf went into verbal overdrive, rationalising his choices and trying to fish for information

Davies remained impassive as Kassouf put him on a big combination draw and decided that he was probably ahead but hadn’t called as they were on the seat bubble

Eventally he folded, top pair he said and asked Davies to show. which he did which makes that a good read

all with 1.5m+

Zhi Chang

Shola Aindele

Rob Davies

Adam Neil

Mark Elliott

shortstacks are

Ravi Sharda

Tom High

Steve Jelinek

Will Kassouf

all with less than 20x bb

Players are now on a break.

just before they left Neil Sllick doubled through Adam Neal, shoving A-4 and getting called by A-7

the run out was a cruel/fantastic depending on who you were K-8-2-A-4

Ravi Sharda down to 120,000 at 20-40k, in the small blind folded to him

shoved “nine high like a boss” according to the watching Kassouf. 9-7 suited

Tom High in the big blind is calling with any two, and does with 7-3cc

the flop comes 9c-7c-x

and Tom spikes the ace of clubs on the turn

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Shola Deadman raises and Seb Pawlak calls in the big blind

flop comes 6-2-10

check

Shola c bets

Seb check raises all in, covered

Shola calls with K-10o

Seb is drawing thin with K-Qo, only one live overcard

the 6 turn and 4 river are now help and we are down to 13

Martyn Frey raises and Jelinek calls in the big blind

7-A-Q flop

check check

Jelinek leads the 4 turn, Frey moves in and Jelinek calls all in

Frey has been cute with A-A flop flopped top set and Jelinek has A-4 having caught the case ace on the flop

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meanwhile Will Kassouf has doubled. Peter Smith raised and Will shoved his last 8x bb in the big blind with A-2

Peter called with K-Q and Will faded two live cards on 8-6-7-9-4

in seat order

table 1

Adam Neal, now short-stacked

Stuart Bell, online qualifier comfortable stack

Neil Sillick, online qualifier big stack

Mark Elliott from Sheffield, big stack

Andrew Hulme, slightly below average

Martyn Frey now comfortable stack

table 2

Shola Deadman top 5 stack

Chi Zhang, probable chip leader

Will Kassouf, 15x bb

Tom High 25x bb

Rob Davies, top 5 stack

Peter Smith, shortstacked

Andrew Hulme raises, Adam Neal shoves and Mark Elliott re-shoves

Hulme folds

Neal A-10

Elliott A-K

Elliott flops a King to take us two away from the final table

Peter Smith doubles up

Rob Davies raises on the button and Smith all in for 325,000 in the small blind

Shola all in big blind

Davies, it turns out, has looked at an ace and raised and now slowly reveals his other card to himself….and folds

Smith 5-5

Shola A-8

3-J-Q-6-K for Smith to survive

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Kassouf is probably the short-stack of the 11, and managing to chatter his way through all the pots he is involved in

Shola raised to 85,000 and Kassouf flatted in position

J-3-6 rainbow flop

“Shola, don’t bet, have king jack”

Shola c-bets

“Shola, were you like this in school? Tell you not to do something and you do the opposite?”

Shola, with an air of someone who has heard all this stuff before, repeatedly, ignores him

“have king of spades, jack of clubs” says Will. “I reckon you have ace high, probably one over to beat me”

“you can’t call, i am all in”

and his 425,000 is over the line

Shola passes, and Will carries on grinding. The table is delighted.

Rob Davies opens to 125,000 at 25-50k

Chi Zhang calls

Will Kassouf makes it 350,000 on the button

Davies folds

“oh, you didn’t have it then. I have it” says Will

“Ihave got a big pair. if you’ve got ace high you have three outs, if you’ve got a pocket pair you have two outs. your choice” he says to Zhang

who takes this as his cue to set will in, and will insta-calls with Kings

well, he did warn him.

Zhang 10-10

J-9-8 flop to make it interesting

4 turn

8 river

Kassouf now on over 1m and getting back in it

in a flurry of action Chi Zhang finished 11th shoving A-Jinto Rob Davies A-Q

Shola Deadman then finished 10th

she raised and tom high shoved 18xbb in the blinds with A-J. Shola called with A-K but tom spiked a jack to double

left with 5x bb she button shoved A-3 And high called with J-8, and hit another jack to knock her out

the final plays nine handed before a short break to move to the live stream

on a delay you can watch

Links to watch are http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/live/ or https://www.youtube.com/user/DTDonlinepoker/featured

chip counts

Tom High 2.25m

Rob Davies 2.2m

Will Kassouf 1.795m

Neil Sillick 1.75m

Martyn Frey 1.6m

Peter Smith 1.5m

Andy Hulme 1.3m

Mark Elliott 1.6m

Stuart Bell 800k

blinds are 30-60k

i am doing first commentary stint and will catch up with exits on the blog when someone replaces me on comms!

He beat Will Kassouf heads up