Grovsenor Grand Challenge 2007 Final Day - At a Glance

[TightEnd]

£1,000 saver done for 19th off the top

[NoflopsHomer]

Ray Iley doubles up with against Nik Perssaud's .

Board:



Mehmet passed the other two fives...

Rookie over 100k.

[TightEnd]

Mehmet Cinar is chip leader with 140,000 or so

Meanwhile Damon D'Cruz is OUT

Raises to 7,000 on the button with    

Glenn Ashworh reraises all in from the Small blind to 52,000

DDC has to think and eventually calls for all his chips

Ashworth has   


the nine's hold up

   

[NoflopsHomer]

Ronnie DeBeaulox is OUT, he pushed with a short-stacked T-5 and was called blind by Ray Brown who had 2-2 which held.

Steve Jelinek is also OUT, previously crippled, he pushed his last 3k in with but the big blind had which hit an Ace.

[TightEnd]

16 left


Chip Counts


Table 1


Steve Templeman 30,000
Sunny Chatta 40,000
Steve Bolton 35,000
Billy Quang Ngo 60,000
Tina Jordan 120,000
Glenn Ashworth 150,000
Ariel Adda 135,000
Andrew Giorgiou 40,000


Table 2

Mehmet Cinar 160,000
Robert Iley 27,000
Ben Turnstill 100,000
Jeff Volcano Rogers 31,000
Ray Brown 50,000
Peter Cooper <10,000
Mark Lowe 90,000
Nick Persaud 30,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Rooks raises to 8k (blinds 1.5k/3k)

Big blind Mehmet Cinar re-raises to 16k, Rookie calls.

Flop

.

Mehmet bets 10k, Rookie calls

Turn



Mehmet bets 15k, Rookie passes Jacks. Mehmet shows Kings.

[NoflopsHomer]

14 left, latest casualty is Nik Perssaud, a min-raise by Ray Brown, called by Sunny Chattha on the button and Nik in the BB.

Flop:



Nik pushed in his chips, Ray passed and Sunny called with which was ahead of Nik's .

Turn:



River:

[NoflopsHomer]

Steve Bolton is OUT, he pushed in a sb/bb encounter on the turn against Steve Templeton with J-5 which had a flush draw, but Templeton had been slowplaying Aces and the flush never materialized.

[NoflopsHomer]

Billy Quang Ngo (Tightend's favourite player for puns) is OUT, A-J against Ariel Adda's A-K all-in preflop.

[TightEnd]

Jeff Rogers is OUT, 12th

lost a race AJ versus 88, all-in pre-flop versus Ray Brown

[NoflopsHomer]

Rookie raises to 11k from the Cut-off, he only has around 45k at this point, Sunny Chattha calls in the small blind.

Flop:



Sunny Chattha moves all-in and has Rookie covered. Rookie dwells for a minute before calling.

Sunny:



Rookie:



Turn:



River:



Rookie up to around 90k, Sunny is now fairly short.

[NoflopsHomer]

Sunny Chattha is OUT in 11th place, having been crippled previously he pushed with against Mehmet Cinirs

Board:



Evil rivers...

[TightEnd]

Its 10 left, hand for hand and very cagey

Steve Templeman is the man in trouble and was down to his last 11k, blinds 2-4k when Mark Lowe raised to 11k in the cut-off and Steve looks down at     in the small blind

He calls all in and is up against   

board   

   uh oh

turn 



river 


and Templeman lives to fight another bubble

[NoflopsHomer]

Ariel Adda raises and Mehmet Cinar calls in the BB

Flop:



Checkity check.

Turn:



Mehmet checks, Ariel bets 20k, Mehmet calls.

River:



Both check.

Mehmet shows which has been rivered by Ariel's . Chunky 64k pot heads to Ariel.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ben 'RookieITB' Turnstill is OUT in 10th place.

He raised preflop and was called by Mehmet Cinar in the big blind.

Mehmet bet out 10k on the flop, Rookie raised him 38k leaving just 5k behind. Mehmet put him all-in on the turn. Rookie calls with only to see Mehmet's . River wasn't an Eight and we now are down to the final table.