Blackpool £1000 Main Event Live Update - At A Glance

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Booder Busts Barry:

Mr. Neville called Booder's preflop raise with , and hit the flop pretty hard.  All the money went in, as you may suspect when the initial raiser held , and a spadeless turn and river ended Barry's tournament.

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Red-Dog Loses 36k pot -

With Kings into Aces.  Down to under 2,000 - looking a bit downhearted, but we'll see if he can turn it around, or if Tim Flanders' Aces have ended the run...

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Blinds 200/400

But Fortune is smiling upon Simon 'set' Zach - First he has on a Ten-high flop and with a King on the river gets a flat call from a guy with .  Ariston has noted, "Loads of needle" concerning this, and it must have convinced the same guy to play with Simon again on the very next hand -
He put in 600 (a raise?  not a raise?  Ruling!  Yes, he must make it 800).  Simon calls in the big blind with .
Flop is a nice 2 7 9.  Simon minimum check-raises 1,200 + 1,200.  Matey moves in, and gets the instacall.
Turn:  9, but the river is a blank and Zach has 35,000.

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A quick note about the blinds:  There is no 75/150 level, nor 150/300... for a £1,000 tourney this seems a bit steep to me, but players aren't voting (against it) with their feet - the place is packed and it looks like no one but Tikay is prepared to whinge about it.  Personally I wouldn't be so keen on this, especially as elsewhere recently cardrooms have been modifying their structures to be more player-friendly, but everyone seems to be accepting of the inconsistencies from festival to festival.

Having said that, the new cardroom manager Steve has organised the dealers with a pre-comp pep talk into all acting in the same way, all very nice and professional.

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Alan Armitage          OUT
Ouday Hickary           OUT
Ian Woodley           16,600
Matt Tyler             17,000
Joe Grech              11,100
Michael Greco        12,100
Mad Marty             4,100
Paul Moss              9,900
Stuart Rutter         36,000
Peter Evans           14,000
Sid Harris                19,300
Red-Dog                 OUT
Keith Hawkins        20,000
Howard Plant         9,700
Ryan Fronda            16,600
Michael Ellis             6,100
Burnley John          8,400
Roberto Romanello   14,000
Craig Wildman          4,000
Kevin O'Leary          2,500
Niamh Peters          12,600
Iwan Jones             13,000 
Martyn Cavanagh     11,000
Trevor Reardon        18,500
Paul Parker             16,300
Garry Bush               Missing, presumed OUT
Jon Kalmar              44,000
Simon Nowab           7,600
Jon Hewston           17,000
Mick McCloskey        Missing, presumed OUT
Andy Gomm             3,600
Bambos                   10,100
Ash Hussain             11,700
Tikay                      3,300
James Akenhead           OUT
Mickey Wernick        9,500
Barry Neville             OUT
Womble                  14,600
Booder                    18,400   
Simon Zach              19,500
Richard Wong            12,200
Stasia Xanthos          24,800

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Clarification of a couple of things -

Garry Bush is indeed out - he flopped what he thought was the nut flush, but no, a straight flush outflopped him by a country mile and there was no escape...

JP just value bet Q 10 on a rivered Queen (the rest of the board rags with a paired six) and got a reluctant caller for 3k-ish.  Going very well, going to Pick him, along with Skalie and Paul Parker.  Whom I'd love to see make the final with 10,000.

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Mad Marty, down to the felt, moves in from the small blind against Ian Woodley's big blind.  Ian calls after looking at one card - it ends up being .  Marty has .  And with the first card out the , it's a seven-high four-flush which wins it for the Mad one.

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I must now report the exit of Tikay - as is traditional he pushed his last 2.5k in on the button when it folded round to him with .  Unfortunately, that was not such  a good time, as Booder in the big blind woke up with .  Bye, then...(unless I can rope him into updating, which I know from experience is the last thing one wants to do when newly busted).

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The Blinds are now 300/600
Players remaining:  87
Chip leader:  Jon Kalmar, 82,000

And the hand which bumped him up by 30k...

Threeway action, flop   First guy bets 1,200, call in the middle, Skalie calls.
Turn:   and on that nice rainbow-completing card the first guy bets out 5k, call in the middle, Skalie makes it 15k and middle guy takes him on to the tune of 30k-odd with a set of Fours.

No pair on the river, and Jon's good form continues...

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Roberto Romanello is OUT - he ran Kings into Aces, just calling down on all the streets, until he was out of chips.  Ariston said, "he knew..."  Hard to pass, though.

Martin Cavanagh - 17,000

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anychance of richard wong/lee edwards again plz jen, the manchester 2

Richard Wong    14,200
Lee Edwards      10,000

Lee's now on JP's table (Pab - he says Thanks, and he's missing you).  Sat with 27,000 right now.

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Chip leader Jon Kalmar has consolidated his lead, by increasing his stack to 108,000.  Details escape me, but he's looking to clash with the Camel at some point soon...

Meanwhile Ian Woodley doubles up to 26,000, all in preflop with against . 

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Mad Marty is OUT  -

He limped in on the small blind, along with Woodley on the big blind and an under the gun limper.  Holding just 2k back, he bet out 800 on the flop.  Ian thought for a little while, and Marty was talking about putting him on the clock.  "Mad Marty's back in the Party!" was another example of the in-hand commentary we all got.  Ian called after a while, and the utg limper passed. 
Turn:  , and Marty moved in for his last 1,200.  Call from Ian.  Marty says, showing , "I've got a pair of Sevens.  And a flush draw..."  To which Ian replied, "I thought you had a pair of Sevens, and you don't have a flush draw," as he showed .
River:    And we're down to 78 players.

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Right, back to work - if I start thinking about sleep, then that is what I inevitably do...

Chip Counts:

Carlo Citrone            24,000
Mark Greenwood         19,300
Mick Fletcher         20,500
Ian Woodley           16,500
Matt Tyler             42,000
Joe Grech              15,600
Michael Greco        9,800
Mad Marty               OUT
Paul Moss               OUT
Stuart Rutter         36,000
Peter Evans           43,000
Sid Harris                35,000
Keith Hawkins        34,000
Howard Plant         OUT
Ryan Fronda            6,300
Michael Ellis            OUT
Burnley John          4,600
Roberto Romanello      OUT
Craig Wildman          OUT
Kevin O'Leary          OUT
Niamh Peters          15,300
Iwan Jones             31,500 
Martyn Cavanagh       OUT
Trevor Reardon        13,000
Paul Parker             10,700
Chaz Chattha            43,400
Jon Kalmar              108,000
Simon Nowab           17,000
Jon Hewston           OUT
Bambos                   22,000  (just took out Martyn Cavanagh)
Ash Hussain             22,000
Tikay                     OUT
Mickey Wernick        23,200
Womble                  13,100
Booder                    14,200   
Simon Zach              16,000
Richard Wong            9,800

[Djinn]

And Climber of The Day I think it's safe to award to Matt Tyler - down to just 3k right near the beginning, he's now sat with 42k which he's used to build a Rolf-Slotboomesque tower on a flower.  Is this the beginning of the end for counting his stack?