Gala Poker Tour Grand Final: Day 1B - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Matt Tyler just won a huge 24k pot, mostly off Paul Gourlay after hitting a backdraw flush on a Q-9-8-K-8 board with the . Paul Gourlay has roughly 10k left.

[JungleCat03]

Priyan De Mel just limped in from the small blind on Johnothon (yes that's THREE 'O's) Butter's blind. Butters checked.

FLOP:

Priyan bets 1k, Butters calls.

TURN: Priyan bets 2k, Butters calls.

RIVER: Priyan bets 2k and Butters again calls.

Cards on their back, Priyan shows K-4 and Johnothon K-6.

No kicker advantage so guess what folks, it's a ...



Next hand there is some severe limpage with Albert Sapiano and one other limper, before Nicholas Bower, sitting on a short stack decides the time is right to push. He does so for about 5k or so.

Albert breaks all the principles he holds dear to his heart and calls whilst everyone else gets out of the way.

The cards appear, both players have suited aces, though Bower has the slim advantage with versus Albert's As .

A 7 on the turn was sufficient to give Bower a much needed double-and-a-bit up, and Albert's stack mvoes slightly in the wrong direction.

I think Albert may be slightly on tilt though...

Earlier Priyan asked one of the lovely waitresses if they were serving any fresh mint tea...

"I'll see what I can do" she replied.

...."I'll have some of that with some honey too" said Albert.

"Oh I know we've definitely got no honey"

This sent Albert into a strange rant about it being "unbeleivable" that there was no honey available and calling the imaginary people he felt had precipitated this disastrous situation an abusive term beginning with "T" and ending with "ossers."

Bizarre I know!

[NoflopsHomer]

Samuel Wan is OUT, courtesy of Michael Clees

Queens against Aces. Uninteresting board apart from the 'Barry Greenstein' special.

Tim Blake got crippled losing with Aces against Q-T. He since doubled up, and just added another 3k or so, firing out on a flop against Surindar Sunar's button raise. Surindar mucked and Tim showed the . He's back over 10k now.

[JungleCat03]

Updates/chip count for Chaz Chattha please

He's quiet at the moment but is sitting on a roughly average stack of 26/27k...

Most of the noise on his table is coming from Matt Tyler, who has an ever increasing stack it looks like.

Ian Woodley wanders over to ask his mate David LLoyd how it's going...

..."got some oxygen mate" he tells him, referring to his earlier double up.

Ian discusses a hand he was involved in the other day on TV, but Matt seizes the opportunity to stick the knife in.

"You been on TV again Ian"

"Yep"

"Oh that reminds me, I must set a filter on it, so my kids don't have to watch your ugly mug"

Ian laughs it off. It must be said the banter today has been of good standard with ribbing and mockery prevalent amongst the chatter that has been free-flowing between the players.

Keep it up chaps.

[NoflopsHomer]

The cash game is still quite crazy, though I'm starting wonder if they're re-raising with cash or actually just with egos...

Chaz Chattha raises from utg+1 to 2,100 (We're in the last level for the day, blinds 300/600/50) Andrew Feldman calls next to him, everyone else folds.

Flop:



Check check.

Turn:



Chaz checks, Andrew bets 3,800. Chaz passes face up, Andrew shows .

[NoflopsHomer]

Matt Tyler just lost a big pot. He called a re-raise with nines, hoping to hit a set against a big overpair, but instead he hit the not-quite-as-good-but-still-a-pretty-darn-nice-flop of 8-7-6, check/raising all-in was the plan but his opponent made the call with Aces and Matt missed his 10 outs, and instead down to about 20k.

[JungleCat03]

Jennifer Tilley is running over her table at the moment and must be amongst the chip leaders.

Now on 300 600 Albert Sapiano limps in EP and when Jennifer pops it up to 3k, he folds...nonono he CALLS of course.

The flop comes , Jennifer bets out 4k, Albert passes...

Next few hands Jennifer was seen in another raised pot, this time betting out 3k on another Ace high board and being rewarded with a pass.

If she keeps this up no one will be able to stop her.

[JungleCat03]

We have an elimination.

Nicholas Bower was shown with his chips allin with on a flop, called by Ash Abdullah's pocket . The Turn and River did nothing to change matters and ash scooped up the pot to eliminate Bower.

He seemed pleased with himself, telling Albert Sapiano "I read it right!"

I'm fairly shocked when Albert doesn't respond with "call..."

[NoflopsHomer]

Yep and those Jennifer Tilly hands are followed by another one where she bets 8k on the turn of the board into a 15k pot, which is too much for Jim Reid.



33 are left, average stack is 25.9k. 15 minutes left.

[JungleCat03]

There are1 8 minutes left in the 300-600-50 level before we finish for the evening.

At present there are 33 players left i beleive, although one of them is a dead stack. Or a very small/ invisible player who is playing incredibly tightly.

Average is 25,900.

Play is understandably quite cagey at this point.

I did just see Matt Tyler involved in a fairly large pot. Raised preflop, the flop came down K-T-x and Matt was seen betting out 5k or so.

His opponent Andrew Feldman, asked a few questions of Matt before reluctantly passing his A-Q.

Matt showed him A-A as he scooped up the pot...

[NoflopsHomer]

And as we get to the end of the night. Paul Gourlay gets pushed off a K-T-8-A-8 board when his opponent moves in on the river, then agrees to show when Paul mucks his A-J. Matey shows J-9 for a good bluff.

Speaking off being pushed off a bet, Antonio Esfandiari gets Neil Channing to pass on a board against his . He's even more delighted when they rabbit-hunted and he finds out that he'd have missed. This 'good news' is then shouted across the cardroom in a foghorn voice to make sure Phil Laak, still involved in the barmy cash game, knows he is still in.

Play is now over for the day.

[JungleCat03]

Ok, play has finished for the day.

Here are the final chip stacks for those players who will be returning to join the fortunate few who survived day one...

Stan Essen                                        53,400
Daniel Wilmer-Brown                           16,375
Antonio Esfandiari                               30,075
Jani Johansen
(the absentee/ small invisible tight player)  500
Neil Channing                                     42,625
Danny Dodds                                      19,825
Tony Carrola                                       20,400
Joshua Taylor                                      10,700
Paul Gardner                                       40,450
Tim Blake                                           21,675
Mark Mcgill                                          17,775
Michael Clees                                       27,625
Manuel Palanca                                    53,900
Trevor Pearson                                    26,775
Surinder Sunar                                      6,250
Stuart Rutter                                       16,650

Floppy will be posting the other two tables right after this butright now, from me its sianara, adios and goodbye.

Thanks for joining us today

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip counts:

Jim Reid -- 12,600
Albert Sapiano -- 46,350
Jennifer Tilly -- 74,100
Ash Abdullah -- 26,575
Carl Wahlberg -- 10,850
Jeffrey Flewitt -- 33,200
Priyan De Mel -- 17,925
Jonothon Butters -- 47,575

Andrew Feldman -- 14,975
David Harris -- 25,050
Matt Tyler -- 21,700
Paul Gourlay -- 21,300
Jim Tierney -- 54,500
David Lloyd -- 12,000
Rakesh Gupta -- 8,600
Chaz Chattha -- 22,725


Play restarts tomorrow at 2pm...

See you there.