Grosvenor Grand Challenge Day 1 - At A Glance

[TightEnd]

Damon D'Cruz has doubled up to nearly 30,000

  versus   , all in on a     flop

[TightEnd]

Anthony Nicholls has just picked up a big pot, raising with    and being re-raised by a young mateyboy who set himself in


Anthony had a tough decision, and eventually called for half his remaining stack

Good call, as MB had    (which was to be fair a decent move, as Anthony nearly passed)

 on the river sealed the deal for Anthony who rises to over 40,000 in chips

[NoflopsHomer]

Rookie steals a pot in a sb/bb showdown

Flop:



Both check.

Turn:



Rooks bets 2k, call.

River:



Rooks bets 3.5k, BB dwells for ages before passing. What did Rookie have?

[NoflopsHomer]

Rookie steals a pot in a sb/bb showdown

Flop:



Both check.

Turn:



Rooks bets 2k, call.

River:



Rooks bets 3.5k, BB dwells for ages before passing. What did Rookie have?

Ok, he didn't steal he had a set of 3's.

There's just been another pot where a raise, was followed by a re-raise and Rookie pushed with A-K and the re-raiser folded Q-Q to him. Rookie over 30k, I think the fact that 11th to 18th all pay £1,000 has something to do with that push.

Also, having spoken to JP, (who lost a race when matey had 44 against JP's AQ), Karl Marenholz (couldn't get a guy to fold 88 on a K-K-J-9-x board), Rooks and a couple of the other players, all of them would've liked to have seen running antes in the tournament, as would Tighty and myself, (just so I can use the puntastic running antes kicking in picture). After the successful structure of the Bolton GUKPT event, hopefully more big buy-in tournaments will introduce it.

[NoflopsHomer]

Nick Ripple11 Jenkins is OUT, not wanting to have to come  back tomorrow with 10 BB's Nick pushed with KQ for 12k and found a surprising caller from the BB who called all-in with AT sooted. He flopped a Queen but a rivered Ace put him down to 1 BB which went all-in next hand in with   in a 3-way pot with Irish Dennis's and Matey's .

Board:



Irish Dennis, who had made good decisions all-day went next hand with an Ace-rag to the same Matey's Q-Q again next hand.

Rookieitb -- 23.4k
Mick "Slick Kid" McCool -- 21.6k

Play is now over for the night.

[NoflopsHomer]

Table 4

L Trinh -- 14k
S Chattha -- 23.8k
S Bolton -- 32.3k
K King -- 9.6k
Driton Haijexu (even he's just put 'Driton' on the sheet ) -d- 22.2kn
A Nichoalls -- 50k
T Myland -- 12.4k

Table 5

Steve Jelinek -- 20.5k
Ronnie Debeaulox -- 15.4k
David Clark -- 28.6k
James Browning -- 12.2k
Neil Channing -- 14.5k
Glenn Ashworth -- 24.8k
Paul Child -- 22.7k
Mick Fletcher -- 28.9k
Warren Woolridge -- 17.1k

[TightEnd]

Overnight Chip Counts


Table 1

Seat

1 Steve Templeman 37,400
2 Ariel Adda 52,600
3 Damon D'Cruz 24,800
4 Andrew Buzzigoli 22,000
5 Martino Libertini 14,300
6 Billy Quang Ngo 46,500
7
8 Nick Persuad 17,100
9 R Iley 21,600


Table 2

Seat

1 Boots Kohli 14,400
2 Andrew Giorgiou 16,300
3 Jeff Rogers 33,800
4 Mark Lowe 60,700
5 Tina Jordan 15,200
6 Peter Cooper 15,200
7 Joe Grech 22,400
8 Mick McCool 21,600
9 David Cleeve 14,400


Table 3

Seat

1 Mehmet Cinar 32,800
2
3 Ben Turnstill 23,800
4 Paul Alterman 17,500
5 Ray Brown 17,600
6 Terry Mason 37,200
7 Stewart Cluterbuck 42,300
8 Rob Garfield 37,900
9 Tony Chapman 12,000