Luton 750 Thursday Overnight Chip Counts

[tikay]

135 runners took part in Thursdays 750 NLH Freezeout at the Grosvenor Luton UK Open Festival. At close of play, 0515 Friday morning, 35 runners remained, who return at 2.30pm on Friday to finish the job. Average chips right now are approx 38,500. Blinds are about to go to 1,500  3,000, on a 45 minute clock. In table & seat order then

Table 7.

Neil Bad Beat Channing, 16,000

Brian Johnson, 37,000

Kevin Lovejoy OLeary, 20,000

Viktor Kawlor, 47,500

D Shearer, 18,000

Dave Shallow, 26,000

P Cooklin, 30,000

M Pescatori, 24,000

Table 8.

Stuart Nash, 52,000

K Taylor, 59,500

D Jones, 24,500

S Thornton, 65,000

Justin Turner, 57,500

Adrian Swingler, 68,500

D Klangefeldt, 25,000

S Riviere, 60,000

Table 9

Dave Clark, 45,500

Iwan Jones, 59,000

A Hussain, 80,000

Norman Gold, 16,000

C Ledger, 21,000

J Burberrry, 55,000

S Pertolla, 19,000

B White, 28,000

Willie Miyagi Tann, 103,500

Tikay, 25,500

Table 10

Phil Stein, 37,800

K Twigg, 19,000

Racing Ronnie Debeaulox, 29,500

P Martensson, 40,000

T Strawbridge, 23,000

A Bolton, 4,500

G Warle (?), 25,500

J McShane, 85,000

M Betner, 14,000.

Prize Money.

10th to 18th, 750

9th 2,840

8th, 3,310

7th, 3,780

6th, 4,250

5th, 6,600

4th, 8,980

3rd, 12,760

2nd, 18,900

WINNER, 33,080

Good Luck to every one of them!

[TightEnd]

Good luck Tikay and Sheriff Fatman, and to the many luton locals left in.

[The Truth]

gl tikay.

[Sheriff Fatman]

Good luck Tikay and Sheriff Fatman, and to the many luton locals left in.

Cheers Richard

Managed to grind (and I do mean grind!) my way through last night.  Spent the best part of it sharing a table with Tikay once again, which is always fun.  Amazingly, it took him the best part of 4 hours before he started on his Sweden/Norway routine!

Unfortunately the 5.30am finish makes my 8.30am start at work a pretty gruesome ordeal.  Wonder if anyone will notice if I spend the next 3 hours with my nose on the space bar!

Sheriff

PS: Forgot to mention that I also managed to introduce myself to a few Blondites for the first time - nice to meet you Burnley John, Red-Dog and Jen (who it turns out I've briefly shared table time with before!)

[yt]

Good luck Sheriff! Hope the lack of sleep doesnt hinder you too much.
Am I alone in not liking the way the big tourneys almost exclude anyone with a real job with the late finishes and the daytime returns to finish the game?
It's the main reason I've never played one! I will have to book some holiday I guess and have a stab.
gl all who remain esp anyone with a 'real' job!

[winkie]

Anyone know the latest from Luton...

[AdamM]

Good luck Sheriff! Hope the lack of sleep doesnt hinder you too much.
Am I alone in not liking the way the big tourneys almost exclude anyone with a real job with the late finishes and the daytime returns to finish the game?
It's the main reason I've never played one! I will have to book some holiday I guess and have a stab.
gl all who remain esp anyone with a 'real' job!

I'd go a step further and say the whole industry is set up for people who don't have a real job. One of my main motivations for setting up my own business is more table time. now if I could just earn enough money to pay for my first couple of buy ins...

[RED-DOG]

Good luck Sheriff! Hope the lack of sleep doesnt hinder you too much.
Am I alone in not liking the way the big tourneys almost exclude anyone with a real job with the late finishes and the daytime returns to finish the game?
It's the main reason I've never played one! I will have to book some holiday I guess and have a stab.
gl all who remain esp anyone with a 'real' job!

I'd go a step further and say the whole industry is set up for people who don't have a real job. One of my main motivations for setting up my own business is more table time. now if I could just earn enough money to pay for my first couple of buy ins...

Isnt that true of any major sporting event, the only difference is that with poker any Joe Shmoe can have a shot at the big time

We want better structures, longer clocks, more time to play proper poker, what can they do? you cant have a festival on a Sunday afternoon

[AdamM]

but two day events could be sat lunch time and sunday lunchtime
three day events friday 8pm start, sat day, sun day.

normal games could start 7pm / 7.30

[RED-DOG]

but two day events could be sat lunch time and sunday lunchtime
three day events friday 8pm start, sat day, sun day.

normal games could start 7pm / 7.30

Then the people who work all week would complain that they didnt have time to do any shopping

[redsimon]

another plus point for internet trnys

[tikay]

Hi Guys, we do not have permissionto do proper Updates today, & as the Manager at Luton has kindly allowed me the use of his office so I can catch up on a backlog of Forum viewing, it woyld be wrong to take liberties.

But I can tell you that it took 3 hours to get down from 35 to 18 - "in the money", &n I ducked & dived the whole way, without ever getting a double up. I did find KK, & Phil Stein moved in on me with a RR, & showed....KK....!

Eventually, with blinds at 3k 6k, & a 36k Stack, I fell in love with TT, & Racing Ronnie fell in love with QQ in the BB. 18th, 750.

Sheriff Fatman played great. Blinds at 2k-4k, he somehow LIMPED into a FOUR WAY POT - amazing - with TT. I think he liked the T-4-4 Flop..... But he busted out whn he moved with AJ & walked into AK AND QQ... 16th, 750.

As things stand, there are 11 left, & Justin Turner & Stuart Nash both have 200k+. Stuart was down to 3k last night, what a comeback. Justin was involved in THE most remarkable pot with Adrian Swingler. 160k pot - PRE-FLOP - with Justin's A-J v Adrian's Q-T. WHAT??!!

Still in are Racing Ronnie, Des Mr Bling Jonas, Viktor Kanwar, Stu, Justin, & Phil Stein.

Willie Tann was chip leader almost from the start, & he returned today with over 100k, but he exited in another huge pot, I think it was AK v QQ v Willie's AJ..

[tikay]

Oh, I forgot to mention, one of thioe still in is a nice guy called Hussain - M Hussain maybe - a real nice guy.  He has GAME. He duped Iwan Jones - no fool, with 750k in his Lucy from last week, to call a huge overbet with AK. Mr Hussain , already deep-stacked, had the Aces.

[ariston]

If it is ash Hussain he is one of our lot Tikay. He travels to many of the overseas festivals and is one of those online satelitte specialists- he was in st maarten, deauville,barcelona and of course vegas this year. If it is ash he has plenty dealings with Iwan- they split a couple of comps last year in blackpool.

[winkie]

anyone know the results of the 750...