Walsall GukPT: Day 1A - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Dave Penley -- 18,225
Richard Prew -- 3,100
Dick Lynch -- 9,900
Zahir Aslam -- 6,425

Blinds are currently 100/200, 164 players, 11k av stack.

[Djinn]

Nieve Peters (so sry if the spelling is wrong) has doubled up after getting all-in with Queens vs the Nines of Richard Herbet.

Board = 6-8-7-J-3

Whilst Richard is down to the cloth, Nieve Peters was probably touching cloth after that flop.

Niamh (odd spelling, but the truth) is now, suddenly and unequivocally OUT - down to 100 chips after moving all in on a 9-3-2 flop with her , and finding in the hand of Richard Wong.

Yes, Richard Wong is now the owner of a near 38k stack, and not out, as previously thought.  There is another Wong playing, and he's the casualty, as it turns out.

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Meanwhile, it looks like Nik Persaud might be the level-before-dinner-break leader with something like 42k.  And here's how it happened...

Sunny Chattha raised preflop with , called by Nik on the button, as is to be expected...
Flop:    Sunny bets out the pot, gets called.
Turn:    Sunny checks, Nik bets 2,500, gets called.
River:    Now Sunny checks his house (sneaky, or so he thinks), gets the expected 5k bet and moves in for 12,000.  He's instacalled by Nik holding ... Down to just 1,000 but laughing about it.

Now with his table monster lead, Nik is being a self-confessed wuss.  He raised on the button, and got re-raised 3,500 out of the blinds (THIS is the guy who had the T-6 under the gun limp trips earlier, not Paul as I couldn't bring myself to believe...)  Anyway, Nik thinks out loud, "He's got the A-K for sure.  Maybe A-Q suited."  He throws his face-up anyway, and is shown a smirky . 

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John Tabatabai -- 18,225
Johnny Hudson -- 16,600
Russ Cawley -- 4,300
Stefan Eccles -- 13,925
Jac Arama -- 11,650
Phil Peters -- 19,100
James Morgan -- 10,450
Neil Channing -- 19,300
Lauren Szisak -- 15,425
Ian Woodley -- 9,600
Giovanni Vaccarella -- 10,375
Bambos -- 7,300
Stephen Au Yeung -- 4,125
E Phipps -- 9,950
John Gale -- 20,650
Paul Jackson -- 4,325
Lucy Rokach -- 21,100
Dave Smith -- 13,725
S Sandhu -- 14,450
Paul Goulay -- 9,450
Des Jonas -- 10,875
Ray Brown -- 18,400
Ash Pervais -- 8,100
Richard Herbert -- 24,600
Mick Herron -- 2,700
Martini Libertini -- 9,275
Brendan Walls -- 9,200
DaMatrix -- 5,750
Reyaaz Mulla -- 8,750
Tony Cartwright -- 1,850
Henning Granstad -- 6,425
Iwan Jones -- 12,450
John Shipley -- 12,375
Tina Jordan -- 13,200
Paul Parker -- 3,450
Racing Ronnie -- 10,150
Tony Choy-Sing -- 18,400

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Barny Boatman is chip leader after winning a massive 4 way pot. Bit of an odd one really, retold by Tighty.

Sunny Chattha had moved in under the gun with As-Qh, and Nik (-7s), Barny (sb, -xs) and Sid Harris (bb, -Qh) all called.

Flop =

Sid bet and both players called.

Turn =

Sid all-in, Barny made the call (must have been pot odds or a chance for the chip lead) and Nik folded.

River came another spade and Barny took a massive pot.

[Djinn]

Howard Plant and Ryan Fronda have been clashing in small but frequent battles.  They check it all the way down on a board which comes:  (here Howard announces, "I have a full house") and finally .  Ryan shows , and Howard throws his hand, saying, "I thought I had a full house..."

Then, Howard Plant early min raises and gets called by Michael Greco and Ryan Fronda (and perhaps another, couldn't tell, not relevant). 
The flop comes , Howard checks, Michael bets and gets one caller in Mr. VC.
Turn:    check-check
River:    check, and Ryan shows which is good enough.  Slowly but surely Mr. Fronda is building a stack with which to terrorise his table by calling with high-kickered Aces.

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As the players drift into their 75 min dinner break, a mini saga from RED-DOG - he's on a slightly low but not desperate 8k.  For starters he ran JJ into Howard Plant's KK - a low flop got a call from RED, and even a Queen following, but after the check on the river he found that he'd actually done well not to lose any more than half his stack.  Then he raced a short-stack's JJ with overs and won that one - so instead of severely shortened he's still breathing fairly easily.

Not so Mick McCool, whose bowl of rice 2k was all in with against , but a two pair on the board kept him in over the break.  "I wish you'd had Sevens, now," he said (the double pair was Nines and something Overs)...

[Djinn]

Is tomorrow sold out .....if so do you have a prize structure

Most definitely sold out, with a waiting list of vultures waiting for the traffic-stuck to fail to show...

I think the prize structure is listed here (percentage wise):  http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/events_prize.shtml

[snoopy1239]

Andy Donn -- 11,000
Nick Slade -- 8,300
Matt Dale -- 10,275
James Dempsey -- 10,000
Dan Carter -- 13,225
Pete Singleton -- 2,700
Ben Vinson -- 5,200
Michael Muldoon -- out
Brian Little -- 9,900
Dick Lynch -- 16,575
Dave Penley -- 16,550
Ryan Fronda -- 19,375
Trevor Reardon -- 7,875
T Choy Sing -- 19,400
Greg Howard -- 7,925
Mick Fletcher -- 13,900
Racing Ronnie -- 8,400
Maria Demetriou -- 19,725
Nick Jenkins -- 24,300

Russell Cawley is OUT. Down to 1,600, made his move with 9-7 but was taken out by K-Q.
Zippy Aslam -- 4,300
Henning Granstad -- 5,850
Barny Boatman -- 35,475
Michael Greco -- 5,400

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Richard 'Strummer' Herbert is OUT. Fives vs A-K.
Ian Woodley -- 25k
Ash Pervais -- 13k
Scott O'Reilley -- 6.7k
Mick McCool - 4.5k

The following players have all exited stage left:

Alan Vinicombe
Gordon McArthur
Karl Mahrenholz
Ben King
Tom Hudson
Terry Fletcher
Tony Cartright
Surinder Sunar
Jonny Hudson
Tony Blood
M Isackov
Andrew Booth
Brian Donnelly
Terry Fletcher

[Djinn]

The end of the Requests:

Dave Colclough     10,600
TightEnd              NIS  (not in seat - OUT)
Paul Parker            OUT  (having dwindled too far)
John Gale             27,500
Des Jonas             14,000
Maria Demetriou    18,000
Mickey Wernick     14,000

Richard Redmond is also out, after losing with his to - but from the consolation frowning of his table mates, I reckon something more sinister than a straight preflop race happened to him (just caught the very end).

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Ben Vinson is OUT. K-K vs A-Q, Ace first card.

[Djinn]

Two hot contenders for Climber of the Day:

Will it be Mick McCool (top), down to just 800 chips at one point, who's clawed his way back to 4k?  In the process he avoided losing his hard-won gains in a hand against Ray Brown (also pictured).  He held 9-T, and flopped 5-8-9, betting from the button, and getting called.  The turn brought an Ace, and now Ray bet out 800, called by Mick.  The rivered Ten brought both the McCool two pair, and a 2,300 bet out from Ray, which he avoided calling (it would have left him back under 1,000) and was shown A-5 for his laydown.

Or will it be his table mate Henning Granstad?  The smiling Norwegian has pulled 1,400 back to 8,000 over three long levels.  Let's see who's in at the end of the day, and whose stack has grown the most.  That's how I usually determine Climber of the Day, for anyone technically minded out there...

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Andy Miles is OUT. Called a re-raise v Slade with J-K on a 6-J-3 Flop. Up against Aces, Turn A, River J.

Some chip counts for Slade's table.

Miles -- out
Nick Slade -- 14k
Andy Donn -- 11.1k
Racing Ronnie -- 10.6k
Ashley Hayles -- 13.8k
Scott O'Reilley -- 8.1k

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Chris Lipris -- 6,100
Dave Smith -- 15,600
Stefan Eccles -- 22,450
Phil Peters -- 8,275
James Morgan -- 14,200
Neil Channing -- 10,225
Stephen AuYeung -- 5,475
Bambos -- 8,500
Ian Woodley -- 21,800
Greg Howard -- 12,300
John Gale -- 30,025
Dan Carter -- 12,100
Paul Jackson -- 9,425
Lucy Rokach -- 27,650
Mark Orlowski -- 2,350
Kayshan Muthy -- 17,200
Jac Arama -- 9,425
Giovanni Vaccorella -- 16,700
Des Jonas -- 14,200
John Tabatabai -- 9,425
Paul Goulay -- 17,125
Ray Brown -- 16,375
Ash Pervais -- 18,700
Darshan Sami -- 6,050
Peter Evans -- 16,275
Henning Granstad -- 7,650
Martino Libertini -- 12,700
DaMatrix -- 10,450
Mick Fletcher -- 13,450
Martin Folkes -- 6,125
John Shipley -- 11,000
Iwan Jones -- 11,500
Tina Jordan -- 11,225
Reyaaz Mulla -- 16,250
Ian Herbert -- 20,100

Chris Lipris has doubled up. Gale limped, Lipris raised and Howard and Gale both called. Flop = Lipris bets 2k, Howard folds and Gale calls. Lipris then moves in on the Turn and, after a lenghty dwell, Gale calls with the speculative holding of . The set holds up and Lipris is up to 15k.

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Also, Henning Granstad got up to that figure by doubling up with Aces vs. K-Q.

[Djinn]

Well, it's not Mick McCool's day to be Climber - he eventually got into that AK vs QQ race and lost the lot.  So ruthlessly quick, this game, sometimes.  But Michael Greco is finding it slow - "Pair of fives my best hand all day."  His boredom threshold might be in danger of being crossed soon, although he assures us he will be, "Grinding to the end..."

Elsewhere, serial caller Matt Dale has pulled his socks up and regained some chips (11k) while RED-DOG gets a narrow escape:

He'd raised in mid position with , receiving two callers.  The flop brought a bet out from the blinds caller of 2,500.  Awkward, considering Red's stack only totalled around 9,000... so he decided to push, but found against him... luckily he was saved by the running 2-5 for the split-creating straight, and admits that he's been given a reprieve from the cards.  Currently trying to forget about the problems that hand caused him ("Should I have pushed?  Could I ever fold? etc.) and building up a more playable stack before the larger antes kick in.