MIDLAND MASTERS: £1,000 F/O - DAY 2 (Interactive)

[Ironside]

in the later stages of a comp the value of AK increases its much better to call or a raise a person ALL IN with AK than 88 even though 88 is a slight favourite via AK

because 88 is only a big favourite via bluffs and is a big dog via any pair bigger than and coin flipping with any other hand than the person could be playing

wheras AK is only a huge dog via AA 2-1 against KK coin flipping v any pair and a favourite via any other hand

without knowing my oppos hand i would much rather put it in with AK than any pair lower than queens, jacks is 50/50 if i would risk my poistion in the comp with them or not (assmuming we are still on a fullsih table)

[snoopy1239]

Table 2:

Ian Woodley -- 103,000
Jeff Kimber -- 216,000
Martyn Cavanagh -- 81,000
Joe Grech -- 75,000
J Zaid -- 109,000
Dan Carter -- 221,000

[ariston]

GL to Mark Blanford. He has a fantastic game and I would also say is the best looking player left in the field by a mile- anybody know what he does for a living by any chance  

[AlrightJack]

GL to Mark Blanford. He has a fantastic game and I would also say is the best looking player left in the field by a mile- anybody know what he does for a living by any chance  

a post exit bok?

[snoopy1239]

Table 3:

John Huckle -- 153,000
Brian French -- 28,000
Lucy Rokach -- 280,000
Des Jonas -- 66,000
Rob Garfield -- 165,000
Lisa Scotney -- 72,000

[snoopy1239]

Brian French is OUT.

He was Rokached.

First he lost out with a Jack high flush to a King high flush on a board with 4 clubs, one of which was the Ace.

He then made his move with K-2 from the button, but Lucy Rokach found K-J in the small blind, which stood up an 8-8-5-A-4 board.

As Des Jonas noticed, "You just can't beat Lucy today."

[wbjallen]

Any chance of an update on Dan Carter?

[byronkincaid]

Hi Snoops

I think C the sporting odds qualifier.  I reckon you have to be tight as a duck's thingy to become a millionaire so he went for the qualification route!!

Chili is right, but for the wrong reasons.

Contestant C, Mark Blandford, is indeed the millionaire, but not for the reasons Chili stated.

Yes, he's wearing a Sporting Odds shirt, but that's because he's owns the company, not because he's an online qualifier. From what I understand, he also owns Paradise Poker and is one of the pioneers of the explosion of online gaming. Apparantly, he's worth hundreds of millions.

One second, I'm just going to nip off to er.. well, nip him.

Paradise used to be the biggest online poker site, now they're one of the smallest with an average of just over 300 cash game players playing at any one time. I can't see how it would be possible to have made a worse job of it???

[TightEnd]

Mark was a sportsbettor, set up sporting odds many years ago, bought Paradise and then made gazillions from floating the combined company sportingbet plc

The US legislation affected paradise heavily, but make no mistake he was a visionary businessman in the sportsbetting arena long before Paradise came along.

[snoopy1239]

Joe Grech isn't going to like me reporting this one, but it's a cracker.

Joe raised from the button to 18k, J Zaid made it 48k from the small blind and Joe called.

Flop =

Zaid moved all-in for 63k and Joe went into the think tank.

The clock was put on him and he eventually folded A-K face up.

Zaid cheekily revealed his A-Q.

Ouch.

[snoopy1239]

Apparantly, there is no need to call the clock here as every decision has a maximum time limit of 2 minutes.

Whether the dealers lay down the law on that one and time every deicision is another thing however,

[snoopy1239]

With the bubble looming, I understand that AlrightJack has a cracking little bubble time pic waiting in the wings.

Are you as excited as I am?

Evem Jeff Kimber was thrilled, suggesting that he may even whip out the ipod and have a listen to the Hammer man himself. 

[snoopy1239]

snoopy: "What do we do with Mr Hammer if two people get eliminated simultaneously"

AlrightJack: "I don't even want to think about that, the premise alone is too painful."

But hold on, folks, I don't think that's going to be a problem as...

[wbjallen]

I thought the tourney played 18 places any chance of a chip count and how many people are left?

[byronkincaid]

Mark was a sportsbettor, set up sporting odds many years ago, bought Paradise and then made gazillions from floating the combined company sportingbet plc

The US legislation affected paradise heavily, but make no mistake he was a visionary businessman in the sportsbetting arena long before Paradise came along.

So he bought Paradise made a fortune out of it and if it goes busto he's alright jack? I don't get how all these multi zillionaires couldn't have got together and used some of their money to stop the legislation from going through in the first place.