Bolton Extravaganza - Interactive Live Update, Day One

[Djinn]

And here's your lot, all alphabetical like:

Om Aggarwal
Wasim Akhtar
Glenn Ashworth
Z. Aslam
Olabode Ayegun
Miya Badat
Martin Bailey
Alan Barnacle
Paul Campbell
Simon Cawley
Gary Chatterton
Sammy Cheung
Dave Colclough
John Conroy
Gary David
Alan Davies
K. Dionysiou
Andy Douglas
Mark Dyson
Lee Edwards
John Exley
Michael Fletcher
Paul Foltyn
Marc Goodwin
Neil Greenhalgh
Paul Hatton
Richard Herbert
John Hewston
Nichiei Hicks
Leonard Hodgkinson
John Huckley
Arshad Hussain
Chris Huyton
Paul Jackson
David Gent (spelt as Jent on my list, but I reckon this is correct)
Andrew Johnson
Iwan Jones
Hanif Kazi
Tikay
Paul King
Tuan Le
Martino Libertini
Bernard Litman
Nadim Lodhi
Derek Malone
Harry Markham
Michael Mccool
Tom RED-DOG McCready
Alan Mclean
S. Mcneill
Brian Medley
Reyaaz Mulla
Barry Neville
Andreas Olympios
Iqbal Patel
Stephen Pearce
Niamh Peters
Phil Peters
Colin Porter
Mark Rayner
Steve Read
Jim Reid
Robert Rice
Lee Rich
Ian Roberts
Mark Robinson
Stuart Rutter
P. Schuhl
Edward Smith
Peter Smyth
Douglas Stainton
Julian Thew
Matt Tyler
Yunus Umarji
Steve Walmsley
Mickey Wernick
Richard Wong
Jehan Zaib

[oioisavaloy]

Wish Iwan Jones the Welsh Wizard all the best from his Mrs and baby girl xxx

[booder]

           good luck the blondes

[Djinn]

They're off, by the way.  25/50, and a long night ahead of them... A nice sized field, however, at 80 runners.  Snoopy is off taking a look while I am in danger of becoming hypnotised by the lighting concept of the update arena - We are in UV-like purplish near-dark with the light of our laptop screens glowing like little beacons...  Try to bring you photos (of the players, mainly, of course) soon.

[Djinn]

Wish Iwan Jones the Welsh Wizard all the best from his Mrs and baby girl xxx

Will do!  Your name looks familiar....

[Colchester Kev]

snoops, can you tell barry neville that he is a mug .     then RUN !!

[stephanadam]

  Dave n Pab 

[The_nun]

So many i wish to say GL to From Tikay to Red to Matt Tyler ..Paul King.. but I know that would be asking too much.. but as one person i have not seen in a while.. can you please say Hello to Barry Nevill for me..and GL..x

[charmaine]

Good luck to all blondes , and hello snoopy and jen 

[snoopy1239]

Wish Iwan Jones the WWelsh Wizard all the best from his Mrs and baby girl xxx

I'm afraid that, according to the list, the Welsh Wizard is known as Ewan Jones.

[snoopy1239]

Before I jot down any hands, I've a quick conversation to retell:

Paul King: You alright snoops? Like the hair.
Me: Need my roots doing though.
Paul: Me too.
Me: You need your roots gowing.
Matt Tyler: We need ours planting, Paul.

Oh the wit!

I think you had to be there...

[Karabiner]

Hi Jen and Slops, good luck to all the blondes and DC 

[snoopy1239]

And it appears as though the fearless Alan McLean is OUT.

All the chips flew in on a flop of 9-3-5

McLean held A-K, and so did his opponent, Umarij Yunas. Unfortunately, the latter had two spades to go with the two spades on the flop.

Another on the Turn and that's all she wrote for McLean.

[Djinn]

Fast and Furious at the start here in Grey Rainy Bolton - sheltered from the elements the players are certainly not shy about getting involved early on with their 10k stacks and 25/50 blinds...

H. Kazi is knocked to the felt holding on a board.  His opponent Bernard Litman held the rather more powerful , and there'll be some coming back from 700 chips.

But he's not doing as badly as Peter Smyth, who's OUT, after he called with a set of sevens on a turn which brought three hearts on the board, and also the nut flush for his opponent Neil Greenhalgh.

[snoopy1239]

John Hewston has his mad hat on (in stores now!)

John called Arshad Hussain's preflop raise with Q-9, and so did next door neighbour Mark Robinson.

On a flop of T-8-6, John swiftly called a 600 hundred bet before moving all-in for 7k on the River when the next two cards brought blanks.

Both Arshad and Hussain, who had checked in front of Hewston, passed without thinking.

I think John's been watching that Mallu fella.