My first post on here for ages, so hi to the regs ... oh and well done flushy too, since I've only just also found out about that!

I won't comment directly on the situation at such a sensitive time, but I have met Neil a few times and always found him to be a really decent guy, so I'm incredibly shocked at all of this.

Obviously those of you who have invested have my sympathy and the right to be angry, but for the rest of you perhaps now isn't the time to judge. If his IVA was through gambling then like any other drug addict, he saw an angle and went for it. Unless you're there (and trust me it's not nice)  where you will basically do anything you can to get a bet, then it's difficult to understand. My guess would be that this wasn't an attempt to grim although obviously false intentions from the start but to gamble and went horribly wrong then lied and skimmed trying to cover as the lies, bets and cover-ups got bigger (more Nick Leeson than Ronnie Biggs). I realise this is criminal and I'm not trying to justify or excuse Neil's actions but offering a possible, likely explanation that many of us may understand.

I hope that this does prove to have been reported sincerely exagerated and that some of you who have invested large sums get some return.

Good luck all - probably post again in six months lol - Rob

Oh, and also just wondered what u all think about this.

I turn up towards the end of level 2 and buy in (as a late reg, not somebody who is just late) and am given a seat card. Get to my seat and theres another persons name and player card there with the stack that has been sitting there since the start.

I ask if i get a fresh stack and am told i have to use this guy who is not turning up!? how can that be right? what if my table has been 3 handed and hes been through the blinds 20 times before i get there. Somebody asks what would have happened if i bought in and there were non of these 'un used stacks'

Apparently they have a way to work out how many chips you start with.  Course you do.

Dont know whats wrong with just taking a big and small blind from each level.... surely the only fair way to do it!?!?

FWIW I lost 625 chips instead of 225.

Hi Mitch

I actually don't think this is an awful ruling (sorry). What should have happened as a late reg at that stage is that you should have been an alternate and only been able to enter when someone was knocked out (with as you say a bb and sb for each level passed removed from your stack). However, as played, I think it's right to pay bb and sb from the stack at the table however long the game has been running for te other players at the table. Whether you should have been allowed to take that stack over is another question entirely.

Fwiw I'm playing this afternoon, but going straight from work, although  only losing 625 for two hours and still remaining with a 14k+ stack and blinds still low at 4pm, I'm tempted to go home and get some rest in first.

Also, whoever it was that said it was sold out at 4pm yesterday has been wrongly advised too as I went along at 7.30 and paid in directly at the cash desk.

Good luck to all still in from yesterday and those of you playing today.

Payouts on day 1 thread Russ.

Its £60k first down to £2k for 18th

Will Fry on my left for first 5 hours yesterday going well. Steve Jelinek on my left for second 5 hours yesterday going well. I think I may have been the tournament value

David Jones to take down the £1k and chiprich for the £300 who will give me some odds?

How much you want on? Chip counts please and £300 start tonight?

"Dunkers" an alternative?

Good to see Newark in there...my favourite anagramatical town!

My second favourite behind Scunthorpe ... its what we all are on Saturday nights ... hopers

Richard Whiteley is out.

I can get a 7 .... Wan*ers ... ah yes WanDers that's it!

Booooom!!!! How did David Jones pick up his chips? Thanks bud

With a packet of sweets and a cheeky smile ....

Er hang on that's the wrong Dave Jones

Richard Whiteley is out.

I can't let this go without a Countdown reference. It's a bit of a conundrum why Floppy chose not to include one.

Conundrums are only 9 letters Eliminated is 10

Ben down to 22k is that right? Saw where he lost about 40k to PC but started with 115 so assumed 70k+ left. What else happened?

Do you have a count for Jim Buckley too please?

Go Mayhew 10% Good luck also to my mate Jim Buckley (Splash on here). I'm unlikely to head down later but get to FT and I'll come and rail you both!

Sorry Tom that was me with the A9 yesterday. Table was serial limpers of which I was guilty too due to the guy on my right that was unbluffable pre and I wanted to see flops with. Tom will know who I mean. I was convinced you were just raising out limpers pre from late so you were ul and left with a tough TT decision.

My report copied from Betfair below. I'll post it here too just because Snoops and NFH were reporting. I've never met them before and although I still read these boards I've not posted for ages. The guys do a fantastic job reporting so more power to them and good luck today guys.

back now and feeling sorry for myself. Not at any horific beats but at the quantity of them. I've had enough misfortune for more than one tournament and yet played real well for long spells today.

I was down early with KK getting beat on 9 high flop I was ch called. A on turn was checked to me and after action I didnt think this was a bad card so fired again and was called, he then fired 6k on brick river. I passed he didnt show but pretty certain was set of . Lev 2 I get AA one limper in before I raise passed to limper who calls again. Flop 632 he checks I bet, he checks the turn poss fl draw but I fire again slightly bigger more of a blocker and he calls. he checks river and I check behind him and he shows 54 for the straight. Down to 9k but still ok with structure.

I nurse it for about 2 hurs then get on a rush with A9 on bb and a flop of 998. I check shove against Red Dog who dwells and puts me on a drawing hand which is exactly what I wanted it to look like and he calls with TT. Pretty soon after get KK flop K high I lead out and get raised. I shove and pick up a decent pot then a few small ones and get to 32k.

Shortly after 2nd break I get a table move and first hand was TT on bb and flop a set. I win decent pot leading into button raiser and play close to 40k.

Next orbit was the hand listed higher up but not quite accurate. Ep raiser was active and was about third pot in four hands he made 725 (150/300) so I three bet in late with 44 to 2275 and all pass to him who calls. Flop T84 he checks I fire 3k and he calls. Turn was third club he checks I fire 3k hoping for ch-raise as I'm sure its not the flush he calls. River 6 and he leads for 8k. I dwell and call saying if its flush I have to pay him off but it was 97 for the most unlikely straight.

Still comfortable with around 19k I lose a few small pots passing JJ twice n ivercard flops amd then shut down for a while before making a tough call with AJ on KQJK4 board and being good v 99.

I then made one very bad mistake. I didnt play a hand for about two orbits and then raise in late with 43. Flop JTT and the ep player (same 97 man) checks I lead for 1300 he makes it 3400 and I make it 7200. He shoves and I cant call. I had bet out expecting to be ch-raised with the intention of three betting but I guess he felt he could push me off and was right.

I then nurse stack for next 2 and a half hours and dwindle to 5k. With my bb in and 4600 behind I look down to AA. An utg raiser to 1200 and two callers I shove two of the three complete and check it to river but my AA is good for a treble and I'm on 16500.

Very next hand I get QQ in sb and utg limps utg+1 makes it 1400 passed to me. Theres only 40 mins left in day and I decide just to shove. I'm sure they wont believe I have a hand straight after last one and on a bit of a rush. Iif I run into AA or KK then so be it as a chance I'm prepared to take hoping for a loose call from JJ/TT but happy even to collect the 3k+ in the middle and start again tomorrow with 20k. Passed to raiser and he dwells which is good so I think I'm in front or its getting passed. He eventually calls with AK playing about 35000 which tbh I think is a bad call but some may disagree. Flop 88A and thats me gone.

Excellent tournament and Iwas fortunate to see a lot of cards but I just couldnt make them work for me. Biggest comp I've played in this country and really annoying not to run even average for once.

At least I have 10% of Ben so gl to him and Wonky for tomorrow.

Hard to imagine, but for my game I find its the worst thing in the world!

Everytime I have a big stack early, I blow out early because I am unable to find the 'change down gear'. If I am on a gamble mindset, then I start to believe that I am invincible. I would say that nearly all of my decent cashes have come when I have been average stack at best throughout and come up on the rails.

In fact some of the winning positions I have thrown away would be laughable to an observer.

Who was the "well known Irish player?" Are we allowed to name and shame on here?

LAG

Any manager that likes good quality attacking football, with flair and panache

TAG

Steve McClaren

You are only way behind if someone holds aces. We will crack Kings one in three and if someone has aces we are very unlucky since we hold one of them.

Muha; we should be thinking in terms of winning the tournament and not cashing, but you can't win it here, you can only lose it. Ok maybe you are more likely to lose by placing our entire stack in the middle, but we could go broke post-flop anyhow. What I don't want to do is put 2-3000 out and then pass. You say it looks like you want a call - too bloody right I don't. I rarely do want a call. In fact if I could plod through a tournament where the only time my hand is on its back is the last hand of heads up, then it would make me immensly happy, reality suggests different. What I do know though, is that if I am called (and all in means most hands should find it difficult to call our medium stack) that I am likely about 50% of the time to double through. The blinds and antes are worth collecting and I am never disappointed to do so.

You could fire a 2/3 pot bet at the turn, but by calling a lot of cards on the turn can be scary or may even actually put us behind. One over on the flop, if I am betting any more into this pot, I want it now, so rer-raise ... but UI still prefer a psss.

The pot is 150 (2+4+16+16+56+56) if called flop and therefore firing 100 at it means now 172 invested from a stack of 284.26. It wuld make laying it down more difficult with that much invested.