Luton Main Event Live Update - At a Glance

[Djinn]

In about 10 minutes we'll be running for a dinner-sized snack, so just to keep you up to date with the chip leader's table:

Tikay       8,100
Alan Mclean  13,700
Dinh Le      27,000
Julian Thew   5,000
Ali Mallu         24,050
David Courtney  13,425
Sid Harris          49,000
Matthew Ansell  5,350
Luke Patten      22,600

[Djinn]

Tikay's stack has dwindled somewhat since the start, and he took on Sid Harris just now, calling him with on the button.
The flop came Jack-high with two clubs, and when Sid bet out, Tikay raised to 3,000 which looked pretty committed.  Sid passed (no small club flush draw this time then) and Tikay breathed a sigh of relief: "That's the first pot he's lost in nine years!"

[snoopy1239]

Matthew Ansell has doubled up to 4,750 after losing that massive 52k pot to Sid Harris.

On the same table, Julian is similarly finding life difficult with just 4,375.

After a promising start, tikay off the tele is down to 9,500.

[snoopy1239]

Mark Harris has seen off two blondeites

The first was Jaffacake when his Pocket Aces were outdrawn by Sevens.

And then Richard 'Jack' Owen, who exited only moments ago, couldn't win the J-J v A-K coin toss. A King on the turn sealed his fate.

[snoopy1239]

Simon Nowab -- 13,200
Carlo Citrone -- 8,300
Paul King -- 18,900
Mike Magee -- 21,900
Ding Dell -- 15,900
Bambos Xanthos -- 25,300
Des Jonas -- 5,800
Matthew Ansell -- 4,100
Tony Kendall -- 9,500
Mark Harris -- 30,300
Paul Alterman -- 21,000

[Djinn]

Tikay knocks out Simon Nowab News Now:

"It was so cruel," he said, recounting how his had found the board coming with a fateful on the river.
Simon had for the smaller straight, and with a smaller stack on top there was no escape, while Tikay is breathing easy with 18,000.

[snoopy1239]

Barry Neville has taken a knock whilst Luke Patten surpasses the 30k mark.

Luke forces Barry to fold Pocket Nines on a 2-5-3-4 board.

On the table next door, Rumit S doubles through with A-K vs A-J on a 4-5-5-2-7 board.

[snoopy1239]

Just to confirm, the following have all bitten the dust:

Joe Grech
Vik Kanwar
Zahir Aslam
JP Kelly
Des Jonas
Trevor Reardon
John Falconer
Richard Owen
David Dean
Gregory Alexius
Simon Nowab
Julian Adamson
Richard Ashby
Giovanni Vaccarella
Mickey Wernick
Julian Thew

[snoopy1239]

44 left
blinds about to go up to 300/600
Average Stack = 21,800
£144,000 Prize Pool

Meanwhile...

Sid Harris has lost his chip lead after paying off quads on a 9-9-5-5-9 board.

Sid had a Five.

[Djinn]

Your chip leader by a kilometre or so:  Mr. Alan Mclean.  95,000, and counting.  Sat two to Tikay's left, Mr. Kendall is finding it hard to get past him.  He's been raised off pocket tens and nines, and generally "having my head messed with."  So what kind of aggressive game is Alan playing?  "He's playing his normal game.  It's too good for me..."

[snoopy1239]

Alan Maclean is down to 64,800 after being outdrawn.

Flop =

All the chips go in, Maclean making an instant call.

Mateyboy =

Alan Maclean =

Turn =

River =

2 outed!

Mateyboy now has a healthy 40k stack and a heart bypass.

[Djinn]

Action For ActionJack...

He gets preflop re-raised by Bradley Cowling (they've both got 20-somethingK) and pushes in saying, "I've never passed this hand preflop, and I'm not going to start now."  It's the he flips, against Bradley's .

Flop:  (in case you were worried there might be tension)
Turn and river: 

Paul up to 43,000 now, at the expense of nearly all his opponent's stack.

[snoopy1239]

Xanthos's other half called after a slight dwell and then exposed her A-J, which was an error because Terry Fletcher had kept 500 back.

No worries though, Terry through in his last 500 and meekly revealed his inferior A-T off.

Q-A-9-5-7 was of no assistance and Fletcher is OUT.

[snoopy1239]

Sid Harris -- 26,100
Dingdell -- 21,300
Paul Jackson -- 27,300
Paul Alterman -- 17,400
Steve Bovis -- 15,500
Luke Patten -- 49,300
Iwan Jones -- 16,500
Barry Neville -- 24,500
Mike Magee -- 9,100
tikay -- 12,000
Edward McCloud -- 25,000
Paul King -- 43,200
Paul Testud -- OUT

[Djinn]

More counts from about 10 minutes ago before I got sidetracked on a quest for tea...

Table Alterman

Paul Alterman    25,500
Womble            18,000
David Courtney   24,000
Stasia Xanthos    17,400
Terry Fletcher     OUT
Lalit Khajuria       32,300
Bambos             39,000
Scott Sadler       24,500

Table Alternative Therapy

Paul King           25,500
Bradley Cowling    OUT
David Bozzard       7,000
Sid Harris             20,000
Mark Harris          21,200
Tracey Dell         28,300
Paul Jackson        43,000
Dave Clark            5,000