Luton Main Event Live Update - At a Glance

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Here's your Lite Chip Count hand history etc. update from the £1,500 Main Event of the UK Open!

Thanks for your welcoming words - it's actually some kind of relief to find ourselves once again in the Luton card room, where the 7pm start time has been reached, with one hand turnovers being dealt for the last ditchers amongst us.

If the Rio was the Poker Factory, then Luton is the Poker Newsagent, and I for one am delighted that I'll know a reasonable percentage of the field and can bring more comprehensive updates from this more Local of Main Events.

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The players are actually seating at this time - a little huddle of the more myopic amongst them is gathered around the green screens with the seat draw displayed upon them... Tikay's found his table... "I have a corker...Julian Thew, Ali Mallou, Eric Barker, Trevor Reardon."  Should be interesting to watch them, especially as Tikay describes Mr. Barker as 'Ali Mallou with turbocharge.'

Let's see them take on the £750 champion, then.

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Julian Adamson
George Alexakis
Paul Alterman
Matthew Ansell
Richard Ashby
Zahir Aslam
Eric Barker
Steve Bovis
David Bozzard
Bruce Bravery
Jeffery Buffenbarger
Sunny Chattha
Carlo Citrone
Dave Clark
Dave Clark
Luke Conlan
Phil Cooklin
David Courtney
Brad Cowling
Theo Dalton
Kevin Daly
Michael Davis
Alan Dean
David Dean
Tracey Dell
Kyriacos Dionysiou
Phil Dorrington
Keiron Duncan
John Dwyer
John Falconer
Terry Fletcher
Ian Frazer
Ryan Fronda

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Peter Gould
Joseph Grech
Dale Greenleaf
Lloyd Greensite
David Gregory
Mark Harris
Sidney Harris
Stuart Hill
Arshad Hussain
Paul JAckson
Andy Johnson
Brian Johnson
Des Jonas
Iwan Jones
Peter Jowett
Vik Kamwar
Peter Karall
John Paul Kelly
Tony Kendall
Lalit Khajuria
Jeff Kimber
Jason King
Paul King
Joseph Koumi
Dinh He
Bernard Litman
Hayden Lossock
Edward Macleod
Mike Magee
Alli Mallu
Michael McCool
Allan McClean
Charlie Molloy
Barry Neville
Simon Nowab
James O'Connor
Richard Owen
Luke Patten
Ken Pitchford

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Giovanni Vaccarella is OUT

Kings vs Aces

Dave Clark (Dave Clark A as there are two of them) was the assassin.

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Kevin Quinlan
Trevor Reardon
Jim Reid
Simon Renoldi
Jeffrey Rogers
Scott Sadler
Simon Sharman
Jason Simpson
Nick Slade
David Smith
Rumit Somaiya
Dave Taylor
Paul Testud
Julian Thew
Thomas Townley
Lam Trinh
Stephen Walmsley
Brian Welby
Mickey Wernick
Bambos Xanthos
Stasia Xanthos
Robert Yong

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Rob Yong has lost a few chips after having to fold A-K on an A-8-3 flop. Mateyboy showed Pocket Threes.

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Jim Reid Quads Shocker -

(got your attention):  Up against Bernard Litman's , Jim Reid holding must have liked the flop however this particular board came out (just saw them on their backs at the river):  .

A good start for Jim and Bernard is down to just 575.  Oh, Kev informs me that Simon Nowab just finished him off.  Hard early luck...but at least KFC's still open.

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Julain Thew has almost halved his stack after locking horns with Tony Kendall.

Julian raised preflop with 7-2 of diamond and Tony called with T-9 of diamonds.

Of course, the flop brought a flush draw. Julian made a small bet, Tony called.

The diamond hit the Turn and Tony bet, Julian called.

Then the River made Tony a straight flush. Another bet and another call.

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Here's the exciting lineup of Table Tikay in full:

1.  Sir Kendall
2.  Joe Grech
3.  Dinh Le
4.  Julian YoYo Thew
5.  Ali Mallu
6.  David Courtney
7.  Trevor Reardon
8.  Jason King
9.  Alan Mclean

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And this is what they're all playing for...

1st -- £50,400
2nd -- £28,800
3rd -- £19,400
4th -- £13,700
5th -- £10,100
6th -- £6,500
7th -- £5,800
8th -- £5,000
9th -- £4,300

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Almost a Mateyboy squared moment

Battle of the blinds.

Flop =

Mayeyboy checks, Dale Greenleaf in Seat 5 bets 500, MB calls.

Turn =

MB checks, Greenleaf bets 800, MB calls.

River =

MB checks, Greenleaf bets again, this time 5,800!

And this time MB gives it up.

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Quote conversation from Simon Nowab to tablemate Womble:

"How long are the blinds?"
"One hour."
"Then you've got one minute to play a hand at the first level."
"I limped on JP's blind..."

Blinds up to 50/100, then.

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Zahir Aslam -- 9,575
Sidney Harriss -- 15,425
Iwan Jones -- 11,900
Gregory Alexius -- 14,050
Mickey Wernick -- 3,375
Julian Adamson -- 11,375
Luke Patten -- 8,850
Steve Bovis -- 11,975

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Mini Elimination List:

We've lost Ken Pritchard, Brian Welby and Andrew Johnson.  Some minor table reshuffling, but we're on for a full count in 45 minutes, at first break.