Darren Moore goes all in with pocket 9's vs Philip Quinn with   . Seems like a flip.

The board plays out:  

Philip's the favourite through to the turn, but gets rivered. Another one bites the dust.

Feel a bit bad reporting all these exits!

Caught the tail end of Kellie Gale's exit hand vs Tahir Ahmed.

I wandered around to the table just as both players turned over AK.

Terry Tomlinson and Gareth Watkins gave me the scoop: Tahir hit a four-flush and knocked out Kellie: two hearts on the flop and two more on the river.

Donald Jones and Abdul Khan in an all-in pre flop on table 27.

When Donald shoves, Abdul flicks it in and says "let's have a gamble, then".

The board plays out:

A pair of 9's wins against . It was a even pretty flip pre!

In other news, CHIPPYMAN has a huge stack with just about 450K chips!  

UL hand for Sam Popple vs Ross Macintyre, but she's holding on!

With Aces, Sam raises to 2900 pre. Ross calls.

 

Ross checks to Sam, who raises to 5700. Ross calls.



Ross checks again. Sam makes it 10700.



Ross makes puts in 15 000, and Sam calls.

He turns over . It should have been a sure thing, but Sam goes from over 100K to 55K.

Interesting hand at Table 37 between Trevor Greenway and Carla Goddard.

     

Turn

Trevor shoves. Carla declares "I shall give you a spin" before calling.

River 

Trevor rivers the win with QQ over Carla's J8, and has doubled up to about 100K.

In the 12pm entry of the Grand Prix, one of our big stacks is Craig Bennett. Very cool character. "Oh, just about 350K," he says. No big deal, you know. The average is 221K chips at the moment.

Big hand! It all went by so quickly, but I have the juicy details.

Up at Table 57, things don't seem to be going terribly thrilling. Ian Gascoigne demands some action: "Come on, ladies, let's play some poker!".

Give the man what he wants. Next think I know, there's a three-way all-in between John Deabill, Sarah Evans and Gerald Luders.

The board is          .

John turns over a pair of 7's, knocking out Sarah with a pair of 2's and Gerald with Ace-Jack.

Hi all!

This is BMoney, I'm lending a hand with the live updates in the Grand Prix today. Very excited to get started, and pleased to be helping out.

Just done my first walkabout, and everyone is very focused. They seem to have cut the chit chat for now, as the card room is full of the sound of riffling chips.

There are a few big stacks thus far, all of whom seem to have about 200+:

Glenn Ashworth
Ross Patman
David Ridout
James Millard
Michael Wright
Anthony Lawrence
Kayleigh Bate
Junaid.k Malik.m

Will be back with more updates!

[nudge Beth please, if she wants to help I am doing the Grand Prix saturday through Monday]

well done Sean. about time!



nudge Beth please, if she wants to help I am doing the Grand Prix saturday through Monday

I'm in!

I can do Saturday. What time should I pop in? Anything research I should do pre?

Also, congrats on the bink, Sean. I just can't give you enough props! I'm so so so happy for you.

Got halfway to Dusk in my late-as-hell cab when Sean texted to tell me that there weren't many left and it'd be best not to bother. I even had my pencil and notebook all packed up! How about I come down at a reasonable time for the next comp?

Great updates as always, Tighty. GL to the blondes still in tomorrow!

GL zerofive and all the blondes!

pop down and do a stint if you like Beth? camera is ready....

That would be awesome! I'd love to. I could maybe make it for 9? Is that too late?

GL zerofive and all the blondes!

Verndog's rail come suitably attired

Click to see full-size image.

Hat club!

Obscure reference time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuolAWA-zbM&feature=youtu.be&t=1m10s

[I like your updates and it's a shame that you are being constrained.]

Same here, not interested in watching the stream.

I like your updates and it's a shame that you are being constrained.

Seconded! I like checking the updates threads.

Also, GL to Verndog and Simon Deadman!

[Getting married a big thing surely?]

Getting married a big thing surely? Or am I being whooshed.

Hopefully you will end 2013 on a high in the DTD DS.

Have a great 2014!

Hell, I hope so!

I'm glad to see you writing in your diary again. You're a great writer, and I hope one of your New Year's resolutions is to post more often! 

Good luck in the deepstack tomorrow! xx