Live & Interactive Update - Blue Square Poker 6 from Bolton, Day One

[RED-DOG]

Quick question for any1 that's watching. (yep, both of you!)

Who's legs are these?

And no, it's not tikay (although he's clearly street enough to pull it off). This fellow's playing today, Pool 2 in fact.

Guess away....

.............. please................

Yosemite Sam?

[snoopy1239]

Steve Walmsey is OUT, leaving just 3 players on the table, 2 of whom are recognisable; John 'Texas' Hewston and successful online player salmolnoyster (how the hell do you spell salmoln??)

[snoopy1239]

And the first player to win his table is blondeite Steve 'Card Shark' Read.

His opponent was highly successful player Kevin Moore, a chap who has won a rather impressive 5 WSOP seats for this year's Main Event.

Steve raises from the button (and small blind for that matter) with K-8 off. Kevin Moore calls.

Flop =

Kevin checks, Steve bets 600, Kevin calls.

Turn =

Kevin bets out 600 this time, Steve raises, and Kevin flatcalls.

All the chips went in on the river, with Steve taking the pot, and the whole table, with his full house against Kevin's flush (6-7 of diamonds)

[snoopy1239]

Quick question for any1 that's watching. (yep, both of you!)

Who's legs are these?

And no, it's not tikay (although he's clearly street enough to pull it off). This fellow's playing today, Pool 2 in fact.

Guess away....

.............. please................

Yosemite Sam?

oh so close

I'll give you a clue...

He's Turkish and rather mad looking.

[snoopy1239]

This is Mark from Sporting Odds, one of tikay's many many maaaaaaaaaaaany superiors (including me).





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[snoopy1239]

Mad Turk is OUT

[RED-DOG]

Quick question for any1 that's watching. (yep, both of you!)

Who's legs are these?

And no, it's not tikay (although he's clearly street enough to pull it off). This fellow's playing today, Pool 2 in fact.

Guess away....

.............. please................

Yosemite Sam?

oh so close

I'll give you a clue...

He's Turkish and rather mad looking.

Yosemite Ozlem Uzuner?

[tikay]

Before I anwser Tighty's "format" question, I must tell you this story.

Ariston & Lord Wernick are at it hammer & tongs (verbal-wise) after a huge Pot that has severely weakened Ariston.

I never saw how it played out, but THIS was the board, & all the chips were in the middle when I arrived.....

 

Ariston's hand was  , & Micky's was  . (Ignore the suits, I have guessed them & I don't think they were relevant).

Ariston was steaming big time, suggesting that Micky played it badly, & Micky was, well, lets just say "defending himself vigorously".

But if you look at the hands, & the flop, it pretty much was bound to end in tears. Thems the breaks in poker, & I'm buggered if I know which of them got the luckiest. But I know that each of them are having just a tinsy winsy struggle to see the others point of view. All good stuff, proper poker, poker at it's best. Those 52 cards have so many ways of laughing at us.

I guess that one of the reasons that I'll never be much good at this game is that hands like that, whatever end I'm on, never bother me, they just make me smile. It's poker!

[snoopy1239]

POOL 2

Table 3:

(1) R Romanelo -- 14,500
(2) Reyaaz Mulla -- OUT
(3) John Exley -- OUT
(4) David Poole -- 3,500
(5) John Hewston -- 18,000
(6) Stephen Walmsey -- OUT

[tikay]

You said earlier that each table winner advances to day 2...that's 16 people then (96/6)


How does it work tomorrow then? still shorthanded? how do the 16 survivors play it out? down to a final table of 6 presumably but I am intrigued as to how the 16 start out....

Well the answer is a bit of a shock actually.

I just spoke to the very nice CardRoom Manager, & he told me that the 14 players who return omorrow will play the rest of the comp out as a "normal comp"......! (So they will begin as 2 tables of 7, & end up as a 9 or 10 man Final Table).

Which has, I confess, taken me aback a little.

[littlemissC]

tikay,how did dave smith get on?hes been playing quite a few of these bigger comps.

[TightEnd]

How the heck can it be right that you play day 1 shorthanded and then go to a full table format when the field thins out?

Presumably the players that reach day 2 have done so by being the best players shorthanded...why then remove that advantage?

I think the attraction of what is clearly an innovative comp is somewhat lessened.

complete madness surely/half arsed thinking surely?

[snoopy1239]

Table 5:

(1) Paul Parker -- 13,500
(2) John Byrne -- 5,500
(3) Ali Mallu -- 6,000
(4) Robert Rice -- 3,000
(5) John Farnworth -- 8,000
(6) Y Eminoglu -- OUT

[snoopy1239]

One table coming to an end is Luke 'Doc12345' Smith versus Nick Slade.

Nick is one of the few remaining inverted seat sitters left in the comp.

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[snoopy1239]

Sai Lee has just won table 4, beating Mike 'Micky147' Herron heads up.

Micky was short-stacked right from the off, and almost pulled off a great recovery, but eventually fell foul to Lee.