Grosvenor Southampton £1000 FINAL TABLE

[riverdave]

Sorry tikay meant the $250 this afternoon just saw you'd taken an early bath, the one i'm chip leader in  . Unlucky last night.

[tikay]

Oh, this afternoon. I got bolshy with two overs & a Q flush draw in hearts, & moved in, he would not pass his KK including the bare heart. Can't blame him, no complaints.

[riverdave]

It's not a bad little field even with the likes of Iwan and Red Dog making up the numbers. Just bokked myself anyway done 3k in the blinds with AQ against the inevitable big blinds aces.

Come on Camel get yourself in a couple of 50/50's you never lose them!

[snoopy1239]

Post break chip counts:

Nick Jenkins    68,000
Stuart Nash      41,500  (Formerly Stuart Fox until Colchester Kev pointed out this glaring error...sorry)
Sid Harris        67,000
Paul Traynor   25,000
Adrian Royle   93,000
Keith Hawkins  18,000
Chris Hall          22,000
Ian Cox           33,000

Chris Hall's 22k reflects his double up from Dangerously Low stack which he went for with in the small blind when it folded all the way round.  Big blind Ian Cox had the , but an eight popped up on the flop to keep Noflops in the game...

[Colchester Kev]

Is stuart nash pretending to be stuart fox ??

[Wardonkey]

Go Floppy!

[snoopy1239]

Keith 'The Camel' Hawkins is OUT and is our 8th place finisher winning £1,100

He found those tens that had been so cruel to him earlier on, but the trend continued.

Nash = A-J

Board = 3-4-Q-A-K

[Queen of Hearts]

Is stuart nash pretending to be stuart fox ??

What do you mean???

[snoopy1239]

Well, in the last half hour (the blind levels are 1 hour today) we've had nearly no action other than some blinds moving to a player who didn't post them... as well as a couple of walks.  Not the most fast and furious poker I've ever seen, but there's no really tiny stack and people seem unwilling to make moves which could land them in one of the littler bottom spots.  Although if just one of them started it, they'd be likely to pull away from the pack...

There was a deck change, due to a "split in a card with some fluff in it," apparently.  The boss ripped the Queen of clubs in two and gave Stuart Nash half, which he's now got propped between his stacks of purple 1,000 chips.  It looks odd.

[snoopy1239]

And Stuart Nash seems to be the one who's most steadily been building their chips - over 70k now I reckon, and playing more hands (just) than the others.  I don't think I've seen so many walks in the big blind in half an hour for a while...

Anyway, a hand was played just now where we got to see some cards - Stuart Nash flat called under the gun and big blind Nick Jenkins checked.
Flop:   Nick bets out 5k, Stuart calls.
Turn:   Nick bets 5k again, Stuart thinks, and calls.
River:    This time it's a quick check-check as Nick gave up on his and Stuart took it with his .

[snoopy1239]

Grosvenor Southampton is a pretty nice casino, but I feel I must take this opportunity to vent my frustration about one of my pet hates...

The taps in the gents are way too close to the edge of the basin.

One of life's little mysteries.

Grr

[snoopy1239]

A couple more hands for y'all -

Sid Harris raises on the button, and gets the, by now, rather customary fold-fold, then shows his ...

NoflopsHomer wins a nice pot off Stuart Nash - Stuart raised preflop and Chris called in the small blind, then bet out around 5k on the flop.  Stuart called.  They both then checked the and turn and river - and Chris' was good against Stuart's similar but not quite so big .  I wonder what would have happened if either of them had gotten aggressive after the flop...

Then the very next hand Stuart Nash gets a few chips back by taking down Nick Jenkins' 4k raise with a further 10k on top which under-the-gun Nick didn't want to call.  Back to the tableside then...

Oh, and the 425 crew are here and filming - we here that even Vegas superstar Rhowena might make an appearance!

[danafish]

Oh, and the 425 crew are here and filming - we here that even Vegas superstar Rhowena might make an appearance!

Prize for whoever sneaks into the most shots!

[snoopy1239]

After an aeon or so of passing (with the exception of some interesting re-raising of Stuart Nash coming from S. Harris) -
Ian Cox is OUT in 7th place, winning £1,400

Ian had nursed a very short stack for a while, taking only one stab at a double up in two or three rounds (which he was unlucky to split with Nick Jenkins) and found himself eventually getting the rest (10k or so) in on a flop against Sid Harris.  Harris' was good, as the turn and river brought some irrelevant Eights, and we finally are down to six.

[Jim-D]

Hows Floppy's chip stack looking?