Walsall GukPT: Day 1A - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Olabode Ayegun -- 5,750
Red-Dog -- 8,800
Philip Dorrington -- 24,500
Matt Tyler -- 12,800
Trevor Reardon -- 9,300
Matt Dale -- 9,200
Jamie Prices -- 7,300
Howard Plant -- 9,400
Michael Greco -- 9,150
Alan McLean -- 9,450
Mike Tse -- 16,375
Robert Bright -- 8,300
Dick Lynch -- 2,800
Benwoo -- 10,300
John Huckle -- 19,825
Nick Jenkins -- 19,000

Bright was on less but doubled up with A-K vs Mike Tse's 9-9 and a board of 3-A-3-5-2.

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Meanwhile, on another table and with 2,800, buddy love (Olabode Ayegun) sticks it in with Q-Js, but lost to A-Q.

[snoopy1239]

S Sandu is OUT. vs on a Flop. Ian Herbert hits a black Four on the River.

[Djinn]

Chip second or third Nik Persaud has been moved to Ryan Fronda's immediate left.  He's therefore the big blind RED will be attempting to steal... he's still having to explain that he's a luckbox for that early House vs. House double through, but I notice at least a few more chips have been added since then.  He said his Aces (card rack, too) nearly took a chunk off him, when someone with T-7 saw a T-7-2 flop with him...

And Dave Colclough, still pondering that (much) earlier pass of two pair re-raises an under-the-gun raiser to steal another thousand, all the time surmising that far from a dominating hand or even a nut draw, the guy he gave so much respect at the beginning was purely on the steal himself.  No one tortures players about their play like themselves.

And another table has been broken; we're down to 120.  My guess for finishing number is: 75.  Apart from, "Who's the chip leader?" the question I get asked most often on a Day One is, "How many d'you think we'll get down to tonight."  I honestly have no idea why this should be, but I always pretend to think for a while before stabbing in the dark.

[Djinn]

Roberto Romanello  12,000
Richard Wong       15,000
Ronnie Debeaulox   13,600
Chili                      13,000
Bambos                 6,300
Ian Woodley          30,000
Neil Channing         11,500
Phil Peters             13,700
Barney Boatman     50,000
Dan Carter             25,500
John Gale              14,500
ActionJack              4,400
Lucy Rokach          19,000
Greg Howard         18,200
Kunkuwap              6,300
Des Jonas              17,000
Lauren Szisak          4,500
Jac Arama              13,200
Iwan Jones             11,100
Nik Persaud            42,000
Ryan Fronda           19,000
RED-DOG                8,400
Michael Greco          11,000

Zippy Aslam -- 3,025
Racing Ronnie -- 11,750
Choy-Sing -- 21,650
Maria Demetriou -- 13,350

And a couple of new ones:

Andrew Bradshaw -- 25,425
Alan Henson (Who finalled in Bolton) -- 15,250

Blinds are at 200/400, 115 left, 15,700 av stack.

[snoopy1239]

Just saw Lucy split a pot, and this time she had her man dominated. She raised, MB called, and a chap who I believe to be Michael McLean makes a move witj K-2. Lucy calls with her A-K but the board comes 8-5-K-8-8 saving McLean.

Red-Dog -- 8,900
Michael Greco -- 13,825
Phil Dorrington -- 18,500
Charlie Denton -- 14,225
Jatinder Purewal -- 12,400
Peter Singleton -- out
Matt Tyler -- 19,800
John Huckle -- 19,650
Trevor Reardon -- 3,600
Matt Dale -- 11,525
Mickey Wernick -- 13,700
Tony Choy-Sing -- 21,050
MZ Hussain -- 18,800
Nik Persuad -- 39,900
DaMatrix -- out
Jamie Price -- 17,500
Womble -- 5,200

[Djinn]

Bambos has played almost no hands, it looks like, today, and hasn't had over 10k at any point.  Just now he raised to 3,300 after Ian Woodley limped in under the gun (which could mean almost anything).  "I can beat A-K," sighs Woodley as he releases his .
"I could beat A-K as well," remarks Bambos, stoical in his small pot "first winning hand" ...
Barney Boatman pipes up, telling Ian, "You should've played it the Jac Arama way - stop the bluff..." 

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Charlie Denton is OUT. Queens verus Kings, all-in pre-flop, 9-7-T-T-4.

Bad news for Denton, but good news for Matt Tyler who jumpst up to 35k as a result.

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Neil Channing is OUT.

[Djinn]

Bonkers Hand Crowns New Leader News Now -

I was drawn over by an excited Martyn Cavanagh to get some muttered commentary courtesy of Paul Jackson on this crazy hand - There was a standard raise, called by Edward Phipps on the button.  According to Paul, this guy has been playing 80% of hands, calling with any two and winning enough of them to have a stack of around 30k by the time this hand happened.  Anyway, the big blind then makes it 5,200 to go (a re-raise of 4k) losing the original guy, but not the tenacious Mr. Phipps.

Flop came Ten high.  Now, bear in mind that the pot gets to over 60k here - it goes, bet out, raise all in, instacall.
Big blind, Mr. Greg Howard showed
Button, Mr. Edward Phipps showed
The rest came low, and the rest of the table was speechless.  "What planet are they on, and why do I not have any chips?" grumbles ActionJack, or words to that effect, as his 8k or so looks even less powerful...

[Djinn]

A couple more counts:

Joe Grech     7,600
Ray Brown    27,000
Peter Evans  26,800 (although this might be before the raise 'controversy')
Mickey Wernick  15,500
Henning Granstad  8,100  (each check he's down to 2k, then up to 8k, then down to 2k again - like a scaled-down YoYo...)

Iwan Jones -- 11,300
John Huckle -- 20,000
Andy Bradshaw -- 30,500
Dave Penley -- 15,500
Alan Henson -- 8,825
John Gale -- 11,525
Paul Gourlay -- 22,900
Stefan Eccles -- 23,050
Stephen Auyeung -- 14,725
Chris Lipsi -- 14,600
Dick Lynch -- 23,225
Jac Arama -- 18,050
Dave Smith -- 31,325
Michael McLean -- 17,825
Lucy Rokach -- 31,850
Alan McLean -- 11,050
Dan Carter -- 15,550
Ian Woodley -- 24,800
Barny Boatman -- 47,325
James Morgan -- 17,225
Kayshan Muthy -- 26,625

Matt Tyler has got the cake after his Aces were raised by Matt Dale and then all-in by Philip Dorrington. Matt also moved all-in forcing to Matt Dale to fold, only to find out that Dorrington was making a move with . Anyhow, although the Flop came an 'I've got an out at least' 2-Q-Q Flop, the 6 on the Turn and the 2 on the River meant that a relieved Tyler was allowed to rake in the chips.

[snoopy1239]

Only a couple of outer tables remaining, one of which is made up of the following:

Maria Demetriou -- 11,350
Tony Choy-Sing -- 16,050
Mickey Wernick -- 7,350
Ouday Hickary -- 22,350
Tim Blake -- 17,150
Adam Wilkinson -- 30,550
Nick Jenkins -- 16,050

Incidentally, Wilkinson just made a smart fold with Queens to A-K on a King high flop.

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After being eliminated by Chris Gavriel in the Broadway Main Event, Tim Blake has sought revenge and defeated his opponent with Q-T vs. A-T (Gavriel was short), Queen arriving for the grateful blondeite.

[Djinn]

Ryan Fronda puts himself through the wringer over a 6k call on the river with the board standing:  .  He checked, and found this bet into the 9k or so in the pot.  Going through all the options of what he puts his opponent on, from Queens through to pure bluff, he eventually calls, only to see the in his opponent's hand...

So Ryan Fronda, after pressing the 'Time' button quite vigorously (with a real decision, to be fair) has 12,700.
Neighbour Tom McCready has just 6,125, and presumably would like the whole thing to move at a brisker pace.  But he's still awake, which is more than I can say for some of the players.

[snoopy1239]

Someone who is definitely out is one of my picks, Joe Grech, who made his swan song with Pocket Nines v the K-Q of Martino Libertini.

On the same table, Damien Evans takes out a player when his Kings hold up against Tens, all-in by the Queen high Flop.

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Matt Dale is also a gonna, finding his J-Ts in deep deep toruble against Jatinder Purewal's Pocket Tens.

gave him some outs, but even though he asked nicely for a spade or a jack, the dealer failed to oblige.

[Djinn]

After the current break, we'll be up to 400/800 ante 75, and that level will be all for today's play.

Matt Tyler -- 60,200
Paul Gourlay -- 54,975
Edward Phipps -- 49,950
Barny Boatman -- 48,550
Nik Persaud -- 41,950
Michael Bolous -- 40,800

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Zippy Aslam is OUT.

Pushed all-in from the small blind with K-J but was looked up by the A-6 of Christian Laarsen.

[Djinn]

It's short stack double up outdraw hour here!

Firstly, RED-DOG found his moment, and got it all in with J-9.  He was called by J-Q.  Eek.  First card out: 9, Turn card: Q, River card: 9.  11,000 for Tom.

Then, Chili got it all in with preflop (more of a Genuine hand this one) but was called by Mickey Wernick with the genuiner .
The board came out:  and so Chili approaches the 20k mark, while Mickey is left with around half that.  All good humoured, though, if anything, Maria was wincing - I only ran over to the table because I saw her head bowed down over her arms in an "Oh no" kind of way...

[snoopy1239]

Mick Flecther is OUT.

Moved all-in on a Flop with .

Roberto Romanello made a very good call with , which deservedly stood up.

Turn =

River =


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Paul Jackson exited earlier. His assassin was John Huckle who's A-J outdid Actionjack's Pocket Threes.

[snoopy1239]

Paul Gourlay -- 62,700
Roberto   Romanello -- 60,000
Andrew Bradshaw -- 53,300
Peter Evans -- 50,900
Reyaaz Mulla -- 49,500
Ganesh Rao -- 49,300
Matt Tyler -- 49,200
David Parker -- 47,400
Barny Boatman -- 46,100
Michael Bolous -- 46,100
Lucy Rokach -- 44,900
Damian Evans -- 44,500
Nick Persaud -- 44,500
Samuel Harrison -- 44,100
Alan Vinncombe -- 43,900
Barry Lane -- 43,400
M Arnesen -- 42,700
Kayshan   Muthy -- 42,500
Kirshan   Larsen -- 37,900
R Lynch -- 35,400
John Gale -- 34,900
Zachery Ford -- 31,200
Ben Callinan -- 31,000
John Marles -- 30,000
Richard Wong -- 30,000
Ash Pervaiz -- 29,900
Alan Mclean -- 29,000
Martino Libertini -- 28,000
Ian Herbert -- 27,700
Ouday Hikary -- 27,700
Nicholas Jenkins -- 26,500
Dave Smith -- 25,600
Iwan Jones -- 24,100
Edward Phipps -- 23,500
Adam Wilkinson -- 23,000
Chris Liperis -- 22,600
Ian Woodley -- 22,100
MZ Hussain -- 21,700
Paul Rayner -- 21,600
Des Jonas -- 21,100
Jatinder Purewal -- 20,300
Mike Moore -- 18,300
Raymond   Brown -- 18,000
Graham Cadd -- 18,000
Stefan Eccles -- 18,000
James Morgan -- 18,000
Ryan Fronda -- 16,800
Nick Slade -- 16,800
Amanda Birney -- 15,200
Mathaw Mckinlay -- 15,000
Ronnie Debealox -- 14,900
John Huckle   14,800
Giovanni Vaccarella -- 14,300
Maria Demetriou -- 13,800
Rory Mchugh -- 13,700
Stephen AuYeung -- 13,300
Dan Carter -- 13,200
T Choy-Sing -- 11,600
J Ruehle -- 11,600
Jac Arama -- 11,200
Rob Watkiss -- 11,000
Darren Baine -- 10,600
Mick Wernick -- 10,300
Tim Blake -- 9,100
Darshan   Sami -- 7,300
Paul Plimmer -- 5,400
Alan Henson -- 4,000
Ian Parry -- 3,600