CHRISTMAS CRACKER: £750 F/O (At A Glance)

[Djinn]

Table Smokin:

Lajit Khajuria 8,000
Mark Harris 12,300
Gerald Morris 6,600
Alan Geddes 10,300
Steve Vladar 3,100
Stewart Rutter 14,000
Danny Dborin 17,000
Sukeetu Patel 29,000
Tony Ringe 15,500

Courtesy of Dino...

[Djinn]

Dino again...

Table Mallu

Morten Rustad 18,200
Tim Blake 4,675
Tony Fattizzo 13,200
Michael Arnold 12,450
Ambro Morreale 15,300
Robert Garfield 9,200
Ali Mallu 17,200
Michael McCool 12,000
Andreas Demetriou 8,200
Steven Read 4,000

[Djinn]

I arrived at table Womble to find him mid-dwell, on the river, over a board of .  David Colton in the big blind had just bet into the 8k pot (either 5,000 or all-in, either way it's basically Womble's tournament on the line).  After five minutes (at least), Womble decides to pass, and is rewarded with being shown the Ace-high bluff.  Which he was beating - but it must have been very marginal - he said, "I'd either look like a genius or an idiot.  Turns out it was genius..."

[Djinn]

Here's Stuart Rutter, who just described the hand "which has thrown me the most tonight..."  He raised with , one caller.  Flop brought A K 9, he bet around the pot, call.  The turn brought a most likely irrelevant 4, which he bet at 1,800.  He then got just what he didn't want, a 6k re-raise all in.  He spent a while wondering if he was being bluffed (there were two clubs on board), then decided that his opponent was confident, and passed.  He was shown the victorious, if dominated A 10, which was apparently not seen as a hand which needed to bluff to win...

He's down to under 7,000 now, it looks like.

[dino1980]

Willie Tann is out.

I arrived at the table whilst Willie (first to act) was contemplating his action on a        board. The pot was c.4k and Willie with a stack of c.9.5k bet out for 3.5k. Trevor Reardon after a dwell, re-raised for an additional 7k, enough to set Willie all-in. After a brief dwell and a shrug of the shoulders Willie made the call. Reardon showed      and Tann mucked his cards.

[dino1980]

Table Dusk till Dawn:


Barry Earnshaw 1,900
Trevor Reardon 32,000
Seat 3  39k
Paul Alterman 10,800
Bad Girl 8.5k
Simon Trumper 4.1k
Carlo Citrone 15k
Colin Handscombe 7,500
Peter Steppings 14,300
Brian Welby 27,800

[Djinn]

After watching Dino's exemplary chip counting, I have overcome my post buffet lethargy and join him...

Table It's My Turn

Alistair Woods         19,500
Marc Goodwin         12,200
Matt Cartwright       12,600
Dave Knight             8,100
Anthony Kirkbride     26,800
David Colton            13,000
Andrew Douglas        2,000
Dick Shek                22,800
Damon D'Cruz           7,400

[dino1980]

Jo Grech is out, Simon Trumper has just doubled up to around 9k

[Djinn]

Any update on Biker Bill Davies please guys?  Try not to get downwind of him though!

Here's your guy (I think Dino's brought you the chip count) - he just won about 6k off Bhups Kholi holding ... I caught it from when they both checked the turn, with the board:  .  The river brought the , and a bet of 1,400 (just all the smaller chips in Bill's stack, leaving him just one 5k chip behind).  He was called and showed the rivered straight, which was good.

[Djinn]

Paul Moss is a goner -

He saw a flop with Jim Mcshane - it was ... it went in on said flop (Paul only had around 5k, I think) and when Jim said, "You got Jacks?" it became apparent that Paul's was going to be no good... he was up against for the set.
Turn:    ("TEN" says Paul)
River:     and we're losing players thick and fast at the moment.

[Djinn]

A couple of counts - the players are now hopelessly intermingled, so we're having to do a player database swap (involving trying to read our own scrawled descriptions of players in their original seats - "Does that say 'fat, blue stripes' or 'hat and glasses?' etc.)...

Matt Cartwright      16,000
Justin Turner          10,700
Jim McShane           20,500
Tracey Dell             30,600  ** see below story
James McBride        25,400
Andreas Demetriou  8,100
Jeff Kimber               OUT (or moved)
Trevor Reardon       35,000
Jeff Buffenbarger      OUT  ("I never got out of the box...")



So - I see Tracey's moved in for 12,300 into a pot of around 15k on the flop:  .  So I run over and hover.  Jim McShane, who'd checked to her, had to think about it...but he eventually passed.  She showed him (rather overgenerously, in my opinion) the nuts:  ... And with that pot as they look set to break table 6 she has a pretty comfortable stack for the 300/600 level.

[dino1980]

Table Dusk Till Dawn:

Barry Earnshaw 14.5k
Anthony Kirkbride 18.5k
Driton Haxhiaj  40k
Paul Alterman 20.5k
Bad Girl 11.7
Simon Trumper 12k
Damon D'cruz  14.4k
Dick Shek  17.5k
Pete Steppings 11.1k

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Table Billy Davies

Alastair Woods 6k
Billy Davies  18.5k
Mark Lane 9.5k
Srojd Gyensland 6.1k
B Koli - 23k
Trevor Adderley - 2.8k
Chris Hyton -  28k
Paul Webb 16.8k
Paul Donald 10.6k

[Djinn]

No.  But you can have some more chip counts, of which I am sure you'll be just as appreciative. 

Ryan Fronda      31,000
Ali Mallu            38,000 (?)  Someone told me somewhere in his messy stacks there lurked a total around 50k but I can't see it...
Michael McCool   20,800
Andrew Douglas  19,200
David Colton         6,300
Dan Samson        40,000
Mark Harris          22,300
Womble             22,800
Marc Goodwin      7,200
Paul King            14,600
Andrew Whittaker  15,700

[Djinn]

Chris Eddleman is in contention for the chip leader spot too, with 42,000... but no one has really broken away from the field accumulating a ridiculous stack at this point.  And it's pretty late - this level they're just starting now, 400/800 may well be the last.

[dino1980]

Table Wernick Chip leader. O rly?

David Knight - 4k
Ian Woodley - 8k
Giovanni Vaccorella 18.2k
Michael Clements - 15k
Ashley Hayles - 28k
Mickey Wernick - 42k
Martino Libertino - 12k