Bolton GPT: Day 1 - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Flushy considers his 14k to be reasonable, seeing as he feels his table was a lucky draw, pretty rocky despite Stuart Rutter two to his right.  Both he and McCool were hanging around the computer zone in the break, and of the two of them Mick is doing better - 18k and climbing.

[snoopy1239]

Dewi James is OUT.

He held the monster draw of on a Flop.

Unfortunately, John Gale had Pocket Fives, which ultimately stood up.


Paul Child is also gone.

He ran A-J into Pocket Queens on a Jack High board.


Daffyd Elias -- 8,600
Pete Singleton -- 10,350
Andrew Bradshaw -- 14,125
Mark Hawkins -- 28,300
Dave Shallow -- 4,475

[Djinn]

More counts, before the remaining 187 start to mingle, making this harder:

Table 1

Terrence Page     13,600
Y. Shevket           13,800
Paul Child                   OUT (or moved)
Allan Vinson           7,850
Mark Eccleshare      12,425
Nigel Turner          8,500
Tony Brady           7,200
Charlie Denton      17,200
Lawrence Gosney    2,800
JP Kelly                  19,000  (paid off set earlier helped)

Table 2

Anthony Romanello  6,500
Joseph Lovlady        12,800
Michael McCool        23,000
Warren Wooldridge   7,000
Harry Zammit            4,650
James Sudworth       6,800
John Farnworth       11,300
Balvinder Nijar           6,625
B. Vinson                12,650
Jeff Duval                 6,575

[Djinn]

With the blinds at 100/200, a couple of thousand have made their way into a threeway pot on Dave Colclough's table - he's one of the players in it, along with Ian Nelson, who bet out 700 when the board read:  .  Dave called and the other player folded, making the pot around 4k.  On the river, Ian checked, and after a brief think Dave checked behind - good that he did because Ian held .  Nik Persaud muttered something about how he wished people with flushes would check to him too.

[snoopy1239]

Greg Amolis, pictured below, is now OUT.

He lost out with Kings versus Iwan Jones' Sevens on a rather discomforting 3-4-6-5-8 board.


Tony Cartwright -- 6,400
Matt Dale -- 8,275
JP Kelly -- OUT

[Djinn]

Nick 'dino' Wright is OUT - he was on a reasonable 8,500ish, when there was a preflop raise to 900 after one limper.  He called on the button with .
Flop:  .  The raiser bet out 2k, Nick raised to 5k, expecting a fold or an all-in... instead, a smooth call.
Turn:  A Club.  The raiser pushed the last 4k in, and Nick, although covered, "didn't have the mental strength to climb back from 3,000" and called.  His opponent had the and with no pair on the river it was all over.  Not a shameful way to exit his first one of these, however...

[Djinn]

JP is no more - after a smallish loss with one of those 'out-think yourself on the river' situations, his final hand involved raising with , and facing a re-raise to 1,300.  He considered that the range of hands of the other guy, considered it pretty small (AK and big pair-y type hands) and called.
Flop:    Theo Dalton bets out 2k.  Call.
Turn:  .  Theo bets out 3k, JP decides that A-K alone can't call now if he pushes.  He pushes.  A-K calls, and takes him out.  A good start, an overly complicated read, a quick exit.

[Djinn]

Greg Amoils OUT - Iwan Jones came over mulling about odds for a certain matchup - he held on a board.  He check-raised preflop raiser Greg's 1,300 by 3,000 and then faced an all-in.  He called, and found against him.  It was his day to hit, and the straight knocked out Mr. Amoils and gave Iwan a nice early stack.

[snoopy1239]

J Duke is OUT.

Queens outdrawn by J-T.


Cheryl Charnley is now on 10,700 after moving all-in on a flop of 7-4-Q against a harmless looking A-J. A Jack on the Turn threatened a miracle escape, but it never arrived.


Thomas Dunwoodie is OUT.

He smooth called a pre-flop raise with Kings, but found himself up against Aces.

Raggy Flop.

Mateyboy bet 600, Thomas made it 1,800, Mateyboy moved all-in and Thomas called the extra 3,000.


John Conroy -- 6,350
Glyn Rees -- 6,500
Praz Bansi -- 17,575
Ouday Hikary -- 8,725
Stuart Nash -- 20,800
Y Shevket -- 11,250
Matt Tyler -- 5,500
Stu Rutter -- 14,250
Matt Dale -- out
Carlo Citrone -- 9,775
Simon Nowab -- 17,425
James Dempsey -- 18,750
Bambos Xanthos -- 10,225
Mike Ellis 17,900
Mick McCool -- 32,300
tikay -- 13,500
Mick Fletcher -- 3,350
Trevor Reardon -- 10,800
James Browning -- 7,500

[snoopy1239]

Martyn Cavanagh is OUT.

Interesting hand with John Gale, who is running very well today.

Martyn flat called with Aces in second position (another slow player!) and John raised 300.

Martyn made it 1,100 and John called.

Flop = 6-5-2

John checked blind, Martyn checked.

Turn = 8

John bet 1,700, Martyn made it 3,500, John dwelt before moving in for another 5k, Martyn called.

John takes the pot with trip eights.

[snoopy1239]

Matt Cartwright is currently on 14,650 after eliminating Howard Plant with 8-8 vs Q-Q on a A-8-x-x-x board.

S Clutterbuck is OUT after seeing his Sixes outdrawn by the Q-K of Micahel Tsamis, who is now on 11,300 as a result.

Tim Blake -- 9,850
Ashley Hayles -- out
Nick Slade-- 32,225
Paul Higgins -- 14,825

[Djinn]

Chip count (extended):

Tim Flanders     7,200
John Gale        27,200
Iwan Jones      21,600
J. Ziab             26,000
Nigel Willis        17,000
T. Blake           12,500
Richard Herbert  15,800
Matt Arnott      22,800
Oliver Boyce     27,200  ("Don't tell Mike Lacey, he may get excited")
Des Jonas        12,000
Greek Jack      12,700
Paul Higgins      17,025
Karl Mahrenholz  9,700
Womble            3,600
Sid Harris           6,850
Roberto Romanello  22,600
Nick Slade         32,800  (definitely in the top few chip leaders)
tikay                 15,800
Howard Plant       OUT
Paul King            20,500
Matt Tyler          12,500
James Browning   7,575
Bambos              11,300
John Conroy        6,400
Praz Bansi            14,350
Mick McCloskey     17,000
Trevor Reardon    9,000
Neil Channing       10,675
Carlo Citrone         8,300
Stuart Nash          21,250
Ash Hussain         11,650
Michael Ellis          19,500
Stuart Rutter       16,500
Flushy                 17,000
Nik Persaud          29,500
Julian Thew         13,000
Paul Moss             14,250
A. Romanello        8,000
Ben Vinson          11,300
Michael McCool     26,600
Simon Nowab       31,000
Joe Grech            32,000
Peter Evans         16,575
Kier Fitzgibbon      11,800
Richard Trigg        11,400
Burnley John         5,400

[snoopy1239]

David Kingsley is your new chip leader with 56,150.

He just a three way pot with all-in on a Flop of

Mateyboy had , which missed, and Andrew Bradshaw had , which improved by the Turn, but wasn't good enough to beat the nut straight once the River sealed the deal.

As a result, Mateyboy is left with just 4,300, whilst Andrew Bradshaw is sent to the rail.



Members of the chasing pack include Nick Slade with 31,850, Mark Hawkins with 34,100, Nick Persaud with 36,600 and Theo Dalton with 48,100.

[snoopy1239]

Richard Ade -- 18,400
John Exley -- 5,100
Lawrence Gosney -- 34,700
Glyn Rees -- 10,600

Daniel Carter is OUT after running Q-Q into T-8 on a T-8 Flop.

[Djinn]

SO a couple of Karl Mahrenholz vs. Mickey Wernick hands now...

A 4+ limpathon including Mickey in the big blind saw a flop.  Mickey checked, Karl bet 1,000 into the 1,200 pot.  Fold back round to Mickey who raised to 4k.  Karl just pushed in for his 11k remaining.  Eventually, Mickey passes, showing the .

Karl shows the .


Then Mickey re-raised Karl preflop (1.2k to 5k) only to decide to pass for the other half or so of his stack when Karl moved in, admitting (which is rare for Mickey, who's at it more than people think) that he was on a Jack-high move.

So a healthier stack (25k) for Karl at the end of Day One, and a bit of a short one for the Legend Wernick...