Bolton GPT: Day 2 - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Blinds now 300/600 ante 75.
Players remaining:  100

[Djinn]

gasman:  Karl Mahrenholz   40,000
             Praz Bansi           31,000

And beat for Badbeat - two wearing their shirt (Sandy Jackson-Palin and Richard Herbert) have been eliminated in one hand by Tim Flanders... with some added drama.

Threeway all-in Sandy: 
Tim: 
Richard: 

Flop:    and shortest stack (I think) Sandy is happy with that.
Turn:    - Wait - no it isn't!  The dealer dealt the burn card so back down it went and with it went the straight and Richard's hope for victory and instead: 
River: 

And Tim scoops a big pot when the drama simmers down.

[snoopy1239]

According to the dealer, Mateyboy raised pre-flop and Praz and Mick Fletcher called.

Flop =

Mick bet out and Praz called.

Turn =

Mick bet out again, and, just as before, Praz flat called.

River =

Mick checks and Praz moves all-in (21k pot) for just under 20k.

Mick thinks and thinks, and then thinks some more before slowly making a meek pass.

Praz shows

[snoopy1239]

By the looks of the cash game table, Bambos Xanthos, Roberto Romanello, Neil Channing and Caroline Cove are all OUT. Either that or they the utmost confidence in their tournament play.

Meanwhile...

Rick 'Action Man Trigg is OUT.

He made an all-in pre-flop move with 10h , and although he managed to get Praz Bansi to fold (after a session in the think tank), it wasn't enough to scare of the Pocket Kings of local player Wayne Dutton, who was quietly and patiently awating his moment to act with Pocket Kings in the small blind.

The Flop gave Rick plenty of outs, and even more once the Turn brought a , but with it wasn't to be as the final card to hit the felt was the .

[snoopy1239]

Paul Moss -- 7,500
Richard Ade -- 11,800
James Browning -- 15,575
Jonny Hudson -- 28,650
Keir Fitzgibbon -- 27,475
Ray Wye -- 26,600
Paul Webb -- 17,250
Vincent Birt -- 64,850

[Djinn]

Selected Counts (trying to get all the previous requests covered...)

Nick Slade     31,000
Simon Nowab  35,100
James Dempsey  35,000  (Chubbs says that he has about one chip more than Flushy, and can still take him out)
Paul Parker        12,000
Joe Grech          70,000
Paul King           12,300
Iwan Jones         24,500
Ken Wong          33,800
Lawrence Gosney  22,000
Tikay                 36,000
Praz Bansi           40,000 (after successful 8-high river all-in bluff against Mick Fletcher)
Mick Fletcher       14,600
Rick Trigg            9,700
Stuart Nash         38,000
Matthias Samuelsson  19,800
Paul Higgins          45,500
James Browning    18,300
Paul Moss              7,600
John Conroy         9,000
Des Jonas             26,000
B. Vinson              68,000
Nik Persaud          25,000
Ash Hussain          25,500
Keir Fitzgibbon      34,500
Trevor Reardon     11,300
Karl Mahrenholz     33,000
Oliver Boyce         32,000
Greek Jack           15,200
Michael Ellis           14,400
Mick McCloskey      27,000  (just eliminated Carlo Citrone with JJ aganst TT)
Carlo Citrone          OUT

[Djinn]

There's a 60 minute dinner break starting now....

But before I head for the end of the buffet (the front end) - a good hand for Oliver Boyce against similarly-stacked Sammy Chung.  The board read when the dwell of today's dwells began.  Sammy had checked, Oliver had bet 7,000 into a pot of around that, and been raised to 13,000.  This was a good chunk of his remaining chips, and an all-in+call situation would basically bust one of them and double the other up.  He thought for the full time, finally got the clock announced, just when he said, "Raise," decisively.  It was enough; Sammy showed the (presumably with a club hidden underneath it) and won it without the showdown.  He was clearly pleased with this outcome.

[Djinn]

Double up for Karl Mahrenholz:

I caught this hand as cutoff Oliver Boyce, having committed a good amount preflop (over 12k) (blinds now 400/800 ante 75) was thinking about calling Karl's small blind push for what sounded like around 6,000 more.  It looked pretty compulsory now...Karl, incidentally, goes, "Jen bring me some luck," which puts him on Aces or Kings, in my head.  Oliver calls with and Karl shows .
Flop:    "Keep them low," instructs Karl
Turn:    "Hold one time"
River: "Deuce..."    and he's now on 56k.  I had a modem like that once.

[snoopy1239]

J Ghazi is OUT.

He got it all-in preflop for 11k with Kings, only to be called in the small blind by Nick Persuad (who had A-K) and Eileen Patterson, whoe held .

Eileen pushes in for around 6k on the and Nick feels obliged to call.

Turn = and it's all over for Ghazi. Patterson doubles up and leaves Nick down to just 12k.

[Djinn]

kinghawko is OUT and in the process makes Joe Grech a monster chip leader (and Climber of the Day):

Two players call Hawkins' under the gun raise, Joe and the small blind.  Flop: 
hawko bets out 2,000, called by both players.
Turn:    Now it goes bananas - hawko checks, Joe bets 6k, call from the s.b. and hawko raises 22k all-in.  Joe moves in over the top for a stack which dwarfs the rest of the table and gets rid of the small blind...
Joe shows: 
kinghawko shows: 

The river comes a big brick and Joe Grech has over 94,000 and is "playing for first."

[Djinn]

Elsewhere the short stacks are making stands, especially Mick Fletcher, who's stolen back a few thousand, including with the all in on the big blind move when the small blind alone limped in (don't need binoculars to see that coming), and Pete Singleton, who chopped the pot he was hoping would double him up with Mick McCloskey (they both had rag Aces).

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Nick Slade bluffed off c.15k on a dangerous looking board:  .  He bet out 9,000 into a 12k pot, and was called with , being made to show first - the ...

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Tim Flanders ekes out a bit of profit from his , checking a flop, calling 2k on the (perfect) turn, but failing to convince the which was betting there to call his 5k bet on the river.  He showed it, which is why I know what he had.

[snoopy1239]

Y Shevket is OUT.

Meanwhile , Joe Grech has shot up to around the 100k mark and is the current chip leader.

[Djinn]

Hi Mike...  your guys have an eye on them... possibly two if Snoopy's looking as well, but here are their stacks:

Ollie Boyce   13,525 precisely
Paul Higgins   32,250 precisely  (they both have stacked in a countable manner)

Other requests:

Lawrence Gosney  23,000 (but who knows, really, he's clearly been on the ante-gathering warpath as he has huge grey and orange stacks)
John Exley            26,000
Paul Parker              OUT

[Djinn]

*******************Correction********************

Paul Parker isn't out.  He's just got a small stack.


Lawrence Gosney knocks out someone, growing his ridiculous towers to over 46k, says Ariston, who brought the full story:
Lawrence made a standard raise under the gun, called by the big blind.  Flop:  Q-4-5.
Big blind checks, Lawrence bets 2,000, and then, says Ariston "the big blind gives it the full Hollywood, before moving in.  Lawrence called with A-Q and was shown K-K.  The turn card was a Queen and he knocks out the Kings.  Deserved it, for the Hollywood, in my opinion."

More straight-talking railbird reportage from Russ soon, no doubt.

[Djinn]

Flushy updates please?

Flushy gets pushed around by a "busy little...." once too many - he raises in the cutoff to 2,500, passes to a big blind re-raise.  He does the 2,500 again, and this time calls the big blind re-raise to 6,000.  Flop:  9-6-2 rainbow.
The bb (John Kay) bets out 7k, and Flushy just pushes in pretty fast.  He's given the dwell, and then A-Q is released. 
Flushy shows the ... and apparently action round the other end of the table has now quietened a little bit.

Oh, and Paul Parker is now OUT.