Blackpool £1000 Main Event Live Update - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Hello and welcome to Blackpool, where I'll be bringing some action from the near sell-out £1,000 Main Event over here.  From the comfort of the bar area (as suspected, we have no space until a table breaks, and things like power sockets and mobile connection are as infuriating as ever).  And when I say comfort, I mean a slightly scowly resignation.

But never mind!  This festival has been undeniably popular (this is the biggest turnout for a Blackpool main event ever), with the card room reaching capacity for all events leading up to this one...no doubt the 170 or so players (full list coming shortly) will enjoy their decently-structured main event.  Tikay's lost his glasses, so that's a decent reason why he's not won one yet.

[Djinn]

How about a full player list, then?  Here goes:

163 Runners:

Anthony Adderley
Richard Ade
Om Aggarwal
James Akenhead
Wasim Akhtar
Andy Andreou
John Angioy
Alan Armitage
Ed Arees
Derec Asher
Amjid Aslam
Zafar Aslam
Zahir Aslam
David Baker
Alan Barnacle
Emma Beattie
David Birtles
John Bousfield
Robert Bright
Kenny Burke
David Burton
Garry Bush
David Buttle
Andrew Camp
Martin Cavanagh
Andrew Chambi
Gary Chatterton
Charles Chattha
Sunny Chattha
Carlo Citrone
Adam Clark
Graham Clarkson
Dennis Clough
Bradley Cowling
Steve Craig
Lee Danaher
Alan Davies
Mal Dawson
Charlie Denton
Kyriacos Dionysiou
Phil Dorrington
J. Doyle
Thomas Dunwoodie
Lee Edwards
Michael Ellis
Peter Evans
John Falconer
Dave Felton
Tim Flanders
Mick Fletcher
Hugh Frew
Ryan Fronda
Paul Gardner
Richard Gilby
Ian Girdwood
Andy Gomm
Lawrence Gosney
Joe Grech
Michael Greco
Mark Greenwood
Norma Gutteridge      (although I have been reliably informed that she is already OUT)
Steve Hamilton
Sid Harris
Kathryn Hartree
Keith Hawkins
Ashley Hayles
John Hewston
O. Hikary
Gez Hilton
Gary Holden
Ash Hussain
Chris Huyton
M. Javed                            (also OUT - and all this in the mere seconds it's taken to write up this list!)
William Jenkins
Chris Johnson
Paul Johnstone
Gareth Jones
Iwan Jones
Jon Kalmar
John Kay
Nicholas Kay
Hanif Kazi
Les Kearney
JP Kelly
Tony Kendall
Iqbal Khan
Simon Kinnard
Kevin Kirtlan
Costas Kkola
R. Korecha
CT Law
Joan Lawley
T.V. Le                            (OUT too)
Peter Leonard
Martino Libertini
Jimmy Lister
Brian Little
Keith Littlewood
Michael Loft
Paul Longworth
Steve Lovett
Mark Lowe
Eddie Lundon
Ali Mallu
Dave Mayall
Mick McCloskey
Tom McCready
Alan Mclean
Andy Mcnair
John Meakin
Grant Mercado
Craig Metcalf
Andy Miles
David Mitchell
James Morgan
Paul Moss
Mazhar Nawab
Ian Nelson
Barry Neville
B. Ngo
Simon Nowab
Kevin O'Leary
Hoss Parhizkar
Paul Parker
Sal Patel
Stuart Pearson
Niamh Peters
Phil Peters
Howard Plant
Allen Rayner
Paul Rayner
Trevor Reardon
Martyn Reeve
Norman Reynolds
Paul Rigg
Nicholas Risdale
Mark Robinson
Jeffrey Rogers
Roberto Romanello
Neil Rutter
Stuart Rutter
Maurice Samuels
Nick Slade
Peter Smythe
John Stamatelopoulos
Matt Tyler
Dave Ulliott
Joe Wade
Steve Walmsley
Elizabeth Webster
Mickey Wernick
Bill White
Craig Wildman
Martin Wilson
Paul Wilson
Steve Wilson
Richard Wong
Ian Woodley
Bambos Xanthos
Stasia Xanthos
Manolis Xipolitas
Simon Zach
Jehan Zaib

[Djinn]

Tales From The Rail (sponsored by Ariston):

Gareth Jones was the recipient of Norma's entire stack on the second hand - she raised all in on an A J 10 rainbow board (into a pot of 400)... as he says, "Tricky call with the KQ; Norma's 10 J was just behind..."

Simon Zach's down 500 with his nut flush, after Burnley John's set of Queens hit the housing pair on the river.  He passed the ex-nuts face up.

Des Jonas loses half his stack with KQ to an AA which milked it all the way on a King-high board...

Just deciphering the rest of it...

[Djinn]

Seeing as Ariston is being so helpful, he gets to name the Table of Death - and here it is:

Ian Woodley
Matt Tyler
Joe Grech
Beppe
Mad Marty    (who's already talking stuff like, "Let's spice it up a bit..."

[Djinn]

It has been pointed out by someone with a better memory than I have that Mad Marty is in fact the defending champ for this event...

[Djinn]

More ramblings insight from Ariston:  Headline, "Chubbs Refuses Glass of Wine Shocker"

Mad Marty makes it 325 under the gun.  Called by a Matey and Beppe (in the blinds).  Flop 9 5 J, three checks.  The turn brings a Seven and now Beppe bets out 800 and gets it passed by the others.  "Who said he's tight?  He's played more pots than anyone on the table.  Oh, and Mad Marty 'had' AK, apparently."

Footnote, "I a lot of the action (Ariston's reporting) seems to involve the same players it's because I'm next to the rail and sat on my arese with a bottle of win and an ashtray.  Wine report:  crap.  No Chablis left after we had 17 bottles on Thursday."

Well, there you go.

[Djinn]

Wow Ariston is quite a worker, pre-multiple drinks - here are some chip counts, left in original style for authenticity:

Booder      8,000
Womble     9,000
Big Barry    14,000
Legend      12,000
Tikay         9,000
Ash Hussain   9,000

Red raises, two callers.  Flop 10 high, check-check, so Red bets 600, Matey makes it 1,500; call.  Ten on the turn, he bets 2k, Red decides to call.
River is a rag, he moves in, Red calls, and finds to Red-Dog's - giving him a nice early stack of 19,000.  "But I might need to go back to the hotel for a change of underwear."

[Djinn]

Good News and Bad News Balance the Ever-Turning Wheel of Fortune News Now -

Mr. X reports that Mickey Wernick took down a juicy 4k pot with on a K Q Q x x board, no show from the defeated opponent.

Meanwhile Mad Marty gets all in for 6,000 on a board of .  Matt Tyler gives him a spin, and gets shown Marty's two pair (Threes and Threes).  Trying to put a brave face on it, but he's been quadded and is down to just 4k while Marty's up to 17k.

[Djinn]

The devilfish is no more - Mr. X saw him at the bar, and he didn't look like he'd appreciate a post-knockout interrogation...

JP:  "I'm on tilt.  I made a good call with Ace-high on the river, and the guy who'd been bluffing for 2,300 there said, "Good call," and tapped the table." 
Now JP shows his with which he'd instacalled what he knew was a bluff; unfortunately the guy got to see JP's hand and his 10 2 had made a pair of deuces - could possibly have been about to be mucked, but as it was, good call or not, his deuces won the pot.

[Djinn]

We find another interesting table lurking on the other side of the room - it holds Tikay, James Akenhead, Booder, Ash Hussain, er, my memory really could be better.  But that's not a bad lineup actionwise.  Tikay just had one of his famous card-related 'accidents' with 10 5.  I don't know if that story deserves elaboration...

From Ariston:

Flop of 4 6 8, Big Trevor Reardon bets, and Burnley John calls.
Turn:  A   Bet-call, much the same as on the flop.
River:  8  Trevor bets, and 'station John' (his words, not mine) calls with 77, which is good against K6.

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JP's tiltmeter has gone down after hitting a set with on a flop of .  He bet out (applause; the rest of the table thinks he's on tilt, which he may or may not have been) - gets a raise and just pushes in quickly.  Call from the hand he doesn't really want to see - , but no hit and he's back to 8,400.

[Djinn]

Chip counts, not comprehensive (without Snoopy I feel like I'm down an arm.  Oh, OK, a toe), but as accurate as you like.  And that's very accurate.

Alan Armitage       10,500
Ouday Hickary         3,000
Ian Woodley           8,700
Matt Tyler              6,000
Joe Grech              8,600
Michael Greco        13,700
Mad Marty             11,500
Paul Moss              12,600
Stuart Rutter         11,000
Peter Evans           14,000
Sid Harris                2,600
Red-Dog               16,500
Keith Hawkins        14,000
Howard Plant         13,800
Ryan Fronda            5,900
Michael Ellis             5,800
Burnley John          13,800
Roberto Romanello   8,900
Craig Wildman          8,400
Kevin O'Leary          8,500
Niamh Peters          9,600
Iwan Jones             17,200  (says "The Cardiff Two are running over the table.")
Martyn Cavanagh     16,600   (The other half of the Cardiff Two)
Trevor Reardon        4,200
Paul Parker             10,000   (What a surprise)
Garry Bush               9,200
Jon Kalmar              24,200
Simon Nowab           6,300
Jon Hewston           9,700
Mick McCloskey        16,800
Andy Gomm             7,500
Bambos                   9,900
Ash Hussain             15,800
Tikay                      5,600
James Akenhead      7,800
Mickey Wernick        12,400
Barry Neville             11,700
Womble                  15,500
Booder                     9,900    (bold indicates they are all tablemates)
Chris Johnson            31,000
Simon Zach              29,000

[Djinn]

Aside - I must thank Ariston for his energetic note-taking, and the large bowl of fries and onion rings which just appeared in front of me.  I would buy him a glass of wine if he hadn't drunk it all yesterday.

He notes:  Sal Patel loses most of his stack with AA vs. KK, down to an out-in-a-second 275.  "It never happens on the internet."

Skalie doubled up thusly:  Three limpers, Skalie charges limpers' tax of 500 on the button, under the gun makes it 1,000.  He calls.
Flop:     Matey bets out 3k, Skalie smooth calls...
Turn:  Blank   Matey moves in for 7k, and Jon's chips beat him in the pot, seeing as he had the .  The river was a blank, but Matey had K2 off...

[Djinn]

Nick Slade is OUT - a combination of into on an Eight-high board, then a series of Two QQ into AAs - the first one saw an Ace on the flop, so he got away, but the second one he, er, didn't.

Jon Kalmar is chip leader, on 45,000 - most recently accumulating a stack from a guy with pocket Tens on a J J 9 flop, when he held the AA and was clearly not believed.

[Djinn]

can i have updates on richard ade / richard wong / lee edwards plz ty jen

But of course:

No sign of Richard Ade
Richard Wong         15,400
Lee Edwards           31,800