Bolton Extravaganza - At A Glance

[Djinn]

And this will be your info-only thread, just the nuggets of semi-fact hiding beneath the stories, rumours, spin and interactivity of the full fat update....

Play looks to be commencing within 10 minutes.

[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

[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.

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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.

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Paul King, who tells me that unfortunately he's had, to put it mildlly, some car trouble recently, is off the mark with over 20k already(!) which puts him near the top of the early leaders, which is all as well because he's "got to win it to replace the car."

He's "slowplayed pocket Tens" spiking a set on the flop, and turning a house, while his opponent seemed intent on re-raising his check-raise with AQ... Then another set, this time the apt Kings, and he's raced ahead.

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Barry Neville is OUT

Pocket Queens vs Pocket Deueces

all-in on a 2-x-x flop

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Andreas Olympios, who had halved his stack, is now back up to the 10k after being doubled up by renowned chatterbox, Stephen Pearce.

Flop =

Pearce =

Olympios =

Turn = , River =

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http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=14172.msg294504#msg294504

A sneaky link to the early pics.... and here's the lineup for table One, pretty fun to watch, but wouldn't want to have drawn it:

Marc Goodwin
Mickey Wernick
Richard Herbert
Wasim Akhtar
Derek Malone
Andrew Johnson
Julian Thew
Simon Cawley
Lee Rich
John Exley

[snoopy1239]

Tuan Le eliminates an opponent with 6-6 vs K-K

All the chips moved in on a 6-5-T flop.

[snoopy1239]

Pab -- 11,050
RED-DOG -- 6,759
John Hewston -- 10,875
tikay -- 10,850
Stu Rutter -- 8,100
Paul Jackson -- 5,450
Dave Colclough -- 6,125
Iwan Jones -- 8,600

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Tom 'RED-DOG' McCready is OUT

Q-Q v Ash Hussain's A-A

T-A-2 flop was a teaser.

No miracle arrived...

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Red-Dog is OUT -

Having drawn a pretty hectic table, he found himself taking on the perpetual raiser preflop with - a raise from him, re-raise, and decision to put the rest of the 5k in too - unfortunately, "I ran into ."  Hard luck the Dog - see you on blonde later, if you're not getting the cake online!

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Mickey Wernick -- 16,950
Julian Thew -- 3,025
Paul King -- 17,100
Steve Read -- 12,500
Greek Jack -- 8,150

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As the blinds raise to 100/200, a corker from the last level which doubled up Mickey Wernick at the expense of Julian:

A flop came Diamond Diamond Diamond.  Little happened there, but on the 9(not diamond) turn, Mickey made it 400, Julian made it 1,400, Mickey made it 5,400, and Julian moved in with his top two.  Mickey was happy with that, as he'd flopped the nut flush and got fully paid... Julian's still in it though.

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Time for some table counting, and a couple of stories which just so happened to be happening as I approached:

Table Hewston Calls Mccool with Ace High on Double Paired Board and Wins

Michael McCool      23,400
Ash Hussain          14,400
Nadim Lodhi          8,075
John Huckley        11,150
Paul Rayner          10,800
Colin Porter          18,000
Paul Foltyn            3,000  ("What happened?" I ask.  "I missed," he replied.)
Mark Robinson       8,400
John Hewston       16,000

Table Marc 'Golden' Goodwin

Paul Campbell        10,800
Martin Bailey          18,550
Zafar Aslam            9,000  (Definitely IN)
David Gent             8,200
Tikay                    10,100
Marc Goodwin       35,000  (not a misprint)
Martino Libertini      15,000
Sammy Cheung       6,800
Edward Smith         8,800
Chris Huyton           OUT - in rather dramatic circumstances - holding the , he moved in when Marc checked the 3 5 6 board.  Marc "thought for about a second," then called with his 67.... 9 on the turn, 7 on the river.  Another one bites the dust...