Bolton GPT: Day 1 - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Welcome to the live updates for the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour's first stop - Bolton.

Play will commence at 9pm.

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http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=19014.0


Online Qualifiers:

Michael Fletcher
Simon Zach
Matt Tyler
Dewi James
Charles Denton
Paul Vicary
Anthony Brady
Alfie Baldwin
Stanley James
Trevor Bowers
Paul Moss
Johnny Hudson
Nick Wright
Gregory Howard
Mark Eccleshare
John Exley
Adrain Bates
Reyaaz Mulla
Matthew Cartwright
Alan Henson
James Atkin
David Parker
Gary Chatterton
Jonathan Farrer
Alistair Woods
Stephen Holden
Peter Daniels
Paul Gary Warburton
Gordon McArthur
Andrew Cunningham-B
James Dempsey
Andrew Stratford

[Djinn]

Play should commence within ten minutes - the initial announcements are being made, among them the idea that seeing as this is all televised and "going to make you stars" there's a kind of filmed 'Bad Beat Box' which you can go over to and presumably tell your tales of woe to a camera which doesn't get bored.


Blind Levels

25/50
50/100
100/200
75/150
150/300
150/300 (25)
200/400 (50)
300/600 (75)
400/800 (75)
600/1,200 (100)
800/1,600 (100)
1,000/2,000 (200)
1,500/3,000 (300)
2,000/4,000 (400)
3,000/6,000 (600)

And here is the prize structure for this inagural event.

1st -- £65,601 (33.3%)
2nd -- £35,460 (18%)
3rd -- £23,640 (12%)
4th -- £17,730 (9%)
5th -- £13,790 (7%)
6th -- £10,835 (5.5%)
7th -- £7,880 (4%)
8th -- £5,910 (3%)
9th -- £4,925 (2.5%)
10th -- £2,955 (1.5%)
11th -- £1,970 (1%)
12th -- £1,576 (0.8%)
13th -- £1,576 (0.8%)
14th -- £1,576 (0.8%)
15th -- £1,576 (0.8%)

[snoopy1239]

197 players...

Tony Adderely
Richard Ade
Paula Agnew
Greg Amolis
Matt Arnott
Simon Aspinall
Lee Atherton
James Atkin
Olabode Ayegun
Alfie Baldwin
Praz Bansi
Alan Barnacle
Adrian Bates
Ronnie DeBaulox
Vincent Birt
David Birtles
Tim Blake
Trevor Bowers
Oliver Boyce
Andy Bradshaw
Tony Brady
Robert Bright
James Browning
Chris Burke
Kenny Burke
A Buzzigoli
James Byrne
Vincent Campbell
Dan Carter
Matt Cartwright
Martyn Cavanagh
Russell Cawley
Neil Channing
Cheryl Charnley
Gary Chatterton
Paul Child
Sammy Chung
Carlo Citrone
Michael Clark
S Clutterbuck
Dave Colclough
John Conroy
Terry Cook
Caroline Cove
Steven Craig
Andrew Cunningham
Matt Dale
Theo Dalton
Peter Daniels
Alan Davies
Damon Dcruz
James Dempsey
Charlie Denton
Kat Dibbits
K Dionysiou
Bob Dolan
Phil Dorrington
Steven Dougherty
Mick Downey
Brendan Duffy
J Duke
Thomas Dunwoodie
Wayne Dutton
Jeff Duval
Mark Eccleshare
Daffyd Elias
Michael Ellis
Peter Evans
John Exley
John Falconer
John Farnworth
Jonathan Farrer
Keir Fitzgibbon
Tim Flanders
Michael Fletcher
Gary Fox
Ryan Fronda
John Gale
Paul Gardener
J Ghazi
Lawrence Gosney
Johnny Gould
Joe Grech
Daivd Gregory
Bruce Hardman
Sid Harris
J Hartwell
Mark Hawkins
Ashley Hayles
Alan Henson
Richard Herbert
Michael Herstritt
Paul Higgins
Ouday Hikary
Stephen Holden
Greg Howard
Gregory Howard
Paul Howley
John Huckley
Jonny Hudson
Stephen Hunt
Ash Hussain
Chris Huyton
Alexandra Jackson
Dewi James
Stan James
Des Jonas
Iwan Jones
Jon Kalmar
John Kay
JP Kelly
Tony Kendall
John Keown
Paul King
David Kingsley
Martino Libertini
Keith Littlewood
Michael Lott
Joseph Lovlady
Peter Lucraft
Karl Mahrenholz
Andrew Marshall
Gordon McArthur
Morris McCarthur
Mick McCloskey
Marshall McCombie
Mick McCool
Neil McGrath
Allan McLean
Andy Miles
Jamie Millar
David Mitchell
Paul Moss
Reyaaz Mulla
Stuart Nash
Ian Nelson
Terry Nelson
Balvinder Nijar
Simon Nowab
Barry O'Callaghan
J Owen
Terrence Page
Daivd Parker
Paul Parker
Luke Patten
Eileen Patterson
N Persava
Anthony Phillips
Howard Plant
Jaime Pont
Jamie Price
Trevor Reardon
Glyn Rees
James Robinson
Anthony Romanello
Roberto Romanello
Stuart Rutter
Mathias Samuelsson
Dave Shallow
Gary Shaw
Y Shevket
Pete Singleton
Nick Slade
Stephen Slavin
Andrew Stratford
Nick Stuart
James Sudworth
Jonathan Tarr
Julian Thew
B Travers
R Trigg
Michael Tsamis
Nigel Turver
Matt Tyler
Paul Vicary
Alan Vinnicombe
Allan Vinson
B. Vinson
Steve Walmsley
Paul Warburton
Paul Webb
Brian Welby
Mickey Wernick
Craig Williams
Matt Williams
Nigel Willis
Ken Wong
Alistair Woods
Warren Wooldridge
Nick Wright
Ray Wyre
C. Xanthos
Simon Zach
Harry Zammit
J. Ziab

[snoopy1239]

With the end of level 1 approaching, we have somehow only managed to lose 2 players, one of whom is James 'MC' Atkin.

James called a small pre-flop raise with , only to Flop a flush draw.

The original raiser bet out, Mateyboy called and James re-raised. Both opponents smooth called.

The Turn brought the , the worst card, not only because it made the initial raiser his bigger flush, but also because it elevated James' hand to second nuts, which makes it so much harder to fold.

Anyhow, all the spondoolies flew in and James was drawing dead.

[Djinn]

Ariston, of whom I have an extraordinary photo being massaged by one of the be-corseted ladies (which I cannot currently put up due to lack of connector to tikay's laptop - see what a mess one piece of electrical equipment makes), hasn't had a good first level.  As the blinds are raised to 50/100, he's down to the tune of 3k, having laid down   on an all-rag board to Iwan Jones, who showed him .  And some other things happened, none of them moving his chips in the upwards direction.

[Djinn]

Nik Persaud  has been taking looks at raised flops with little pairs and suited connectors, with no result other than a gradual downslide in chips.  He's not keen on "going down to 5k and getting the double back to 10k" so if he can it's going to be a more rockily played level two...

[snoopy1239]

Another 'name' gone. This time it's Ryan Fronda who won the December Christmas Cracker in Luton.

Sid Harris -- 13,700
Dave Shallow -- 3,875
Dewi -- 7,900
Jon Exley -- 4,700
Des Jonas -- 7,100
Tim Flanders -- 7,225
Mickey Wernick -- 13,125
Trevor Reardon -- 11,550

[Djinn]

Chip counts from table Bandit - and an interesting pre-start fuss from Peter Evans, who apparently originally refused to sign his TV release form, but no paper no tournament so he capitulated. 

Michael Clark      10,100
Karl Mahrenholz   11,100
Terry Nelson       11,000
Adrian Bates       13,900
David Gregory      8,450
Peter Evans        12,225
Richard Herbert    7,200
Theo Dalton        17,400
Paul Vicary          10,500

and I think, judging by emptiness of his seat, Chris Huyton may be OUT....

[Djinn]

TV celebrity Matt Dale raises from late postion and gets three callers, including both blinds Simon Zach and Ariston. 
Flop:    checkcheckcheckcheck
Turn:    Simon bets out 225, Matt calls
River:    I was distracted by a double preflop re-raise on the next table so I don't know what happened here although I would guess that both players checked

Simon shows for the straight against Matt's .

[snoopy1239]

Table 17:

(1) Olabode Ayegun -- 10,475
(2) Alan Vinnicombe --  9,500
(3) Daivd Parker -- 10,650
(4) Pete Singleton -- 7,500
(5) Nick Wright -- 10,550
(6) Martino Libertini -- 7,750
(7) Julian Thew -- 7,975
(8) Greg Howard -- 10,425
(9) Gary Shaw -- 11,725
(10) Paul Moss -- 10,200

Table 18...

(1) Morris McCarthur -- 8,250
(2) Kat Dibbits -- 7,425
(3) Gary Fox -- 5,550
(4) Michael Fletcher -- 12,950
(5) Nick Slade --  14,650
(6) Alan Barnacle -- 10,975
(7) Carlo Citrone -- 9,725
(8) James Robinson -- 8,200
(9) Daffyd Elias -- 8,875
(10) Jonathan Farrer -- 7,800

Table 13...

(1) Jon Kalmar -- 3,825
(2) Mickey Wernick -- 11,300
(3) Vincent Campbell12,250
(4) Andy Miles -- 22,350
(5) Paul Higgins -- 17,225
(6) Johnny Gould -- 2,325
(7) Stephen Walmsley -- 7,225
(8) Bruce Hardman -- 10,225
(9) Steven Dougherty -- 8,725
(10) Robert Bright -- 7,350

[snoopy1239]

Reyaaz Mulla is down to the felt with just 950 in chips after he run his A-K into the T-T of Sid Harris (biggest stack) and A-A of Caroline Cove, who seems understandably delighted.

Board = 5-J-K-J-6

[Djinn]

*****20 minute secondary buffet break*****

Before I go and worm my way to the front, two more tables' counts:

Table tikay

Richard Ade    10,325
Richard Trigg    8,250
Niel Mcgrath     8,800
tikay               9,700
Howard Plant   9,300
Gordon Mcarthur  10,100
Paul King          10,700
Simon Aspinall    6,950
Matt Cartwright  12,000

Table Talk

Craig Williams      9,950
Jonny Hudson    11,050
Michael Herstitt   11,175
Thomas Dunwoodie  5,300
Paul Parker          8,500   "I long to have ten thousand."
Andrew Cunningham  700
Dan Carter            11,700
Ken Wong            12,600
Sammy Chung       13,050
Peter Daniels        12,500

[snoopy1239]

Russell 'Ariston' Cawley is OUT.

He was down to just 3k when his raise with Bullet was met by 2 callers, one of whom held A-4, which went on to Flop a straight on a 2-3-5 board.

[Djinn]

Ariston has bitten the early dust.  "I'm not usually in long enough to see Aces.  But I just ran Aces into A-4."  Yes, his Aces got some in preflop, and the rest on a 2-3-5 two clubs flop.  His opponent was all too happy to call with the flopped straight.

[snoopy1239]

Managed to grab a quick word with Des Jonas. He reported of two early exits on his table, both in the same hand!

Mateyboy eliminated them with Jacks vs. Q-9 and T-9 on a J-9-9 board.