Walsall GukPT: Day 1B - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

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Play for Day 1B of the Walsall Grosvenor UK Poker Tour in association with Blue Square Poker will commence at 4pm.

Provisional list:

Adderley, Anthony
Alterman, Paul
Alula, R    
Aris, Ed
Atherton, Lee    
Atkin, James
Badimansour, Fari
Bansi, Praz
Bates, John    
Bayliff, Steven    
Blake, Gary    
Boatman, Ross    
Bowden, I
Bowker, E    
Bradpiece, Jerome    
Brown, Steve    
Browning, James    
Bruce, Chris    
Buffenbarger, Jeff
Burke, Ciaran
Burke, John    
Burke, K    
Butles, D    
Butters, Jonathan    
Byrne, J    
Cartwright, Matt
Cavangh, Martyn
Chatterton, Gary    
Cheese, M    
Citrone, Carlo    
Clark, Adam    
Clark, D    
Clark, Michael    
Clifford, M    
Constantinou, C    
Cook, Rob    
Coombes, Dean    
Cotter, J    
Craig, S    
Cronin, Cornelius    
Dean, Alan    
Demeh, P    
Dempsey, James    
Dicesare, Toni   
Dionysiou, K    
Dixon, S    
Dobson, P    
Duffy, Brandon    
Duncan, David    
Dunwoodie, Thomas   
Duvall, J    
Ellis, Mike    
Eminoglu, Yucil    
Exley, John    
Farrer, Jonathon    
Feridooni, B    
Flood, Liam    
Forster, M    
Fox, Gary
Fox, Neil    
Gardner-Brown, R    
Garfield, Robert    
Gerrard, Colin
Gibbons, S    
Giddins, Ed   
Goodwin, Marc
Gregory, David
Grey, T    
Grundy, Tom    
Gurnam, Harpit    
Harman, Tony    
Harpa, N
Harvin, P    
Hawkins, Keith
Hawkins, Mark   
Haxhiaj, Driton   
Herron, Mark
Herron, Paul    
Hewston, Jon    
Hicks, Nick
Holden, Stephen    
Hosell, N    
Hoss, G E L    
Hughes, Andrew    
Hussain, Arshad    
Hutinson, K    
Ioannou, P    
Jahanapour, Essy    
Jelinek, Steve    
Johnson, D    
Kabbaj, John    
Kelly, JP    
LKenworthy, G    
Keown, John    
Kerrigan, Jim    
Kildalen, BA   
Knapp, C    
Koumi, Joe    
Lakha, R
Lea, Jon    
Lecky, Paul    
Lennon, Stephen    
Liepina, Irina
Linton, Pete    
Lithman, Bernard   
Littlewood, keith    
Lundberg, Jan    
Macintyre, F    
McCloskey, Paddy    
McKeever, George    
Michael, M    
Millar, Stephen    
Mohammed, B    
Moronpochen, M
Morris, Jamie    
Moss, Paul    
Nash, Stephen    
Nash, Stuart    
Neilson, R    
Nelson, T    
Newman, G    
Ngo, B    
Nicholls, Anthony    
Nielson, S    
Nijjar, B    
O'Connell, Kevin
O'Donnell, H    
Owen, Craig    
Owen, Richard    
Owston, David    
Parhizkar, H
Patel, R    
Piddock, Steven    
Ponte, Jamie    
Powell, Ken
Rayner, Allen    
Redmond, Richard    
Rees, Glyn    
Reeves, S    
Reid, Jim    
Rogers, Debbie    
Rogers, G    
Romanello, Anthony    
Sapiano, A    
Shafiq, Mohammed   
Shallow, Dave    
Shelley, D    
Shevket, Y    
Smith, Chris
Smith, Daniel    
Smyth, Peter    
Sokrati, Chris
Stoneham, Adam   
Stuart, Nick    
Tarmey, A    
Topp, Rob    
Turner, Justin    
Tutty, David    
Ung, N    
Vicary, Paul    
Vladar, Steve    
Vladar, Xuyen    
Welby, Brian   
Woodridge, W
Woods, A    
Woods, Andrew    
Wright, Andy    
Wright, C    
Yuen, Waikwan    
Zach, S    


A few interesting match-ups:

Table 3: Praz Bansi, Jim Reid, Keith Hawkins, Peter Smyth & Liam Flood
Table 5: Dave Gregory, Thomas Dunwoodie, JP Kelly & Greek Jack
Table 6: Dave Shallow, Rob Garfield, Mark Hawkins, Pete Linton
Table 8: Ash Hussain, Mark Herron, Martyn Cavanagh & John Exley
Table 9: Con Cronin, Joe Beevers, James Atkin & Fari Badimansour
Table 14: Xuyen Vladar, Jim Kerrigan, Mad Turk, Mohammed Shaffiq
Table 18: Ken Powell, James Dempsey, Mike Ellis, Simon Zach

[Djinn]

Saw Flushy earlier looking at the TV screens, where they have the players listed as 171 but the blinds haven't been reset from their 600/1,200 level from yesterday.  He was rubbing his hands together, saying, "Grosvenor have finally listened to my points for improvement - starting the blinds at 6/12 so you skip all that deepstack rubbish and go straight to the pushing bit.  I love it."

We'll have a final number on entries when they do eventually start, but it looks like the whole Bluesquare GUKPT tour is already a sell-out monster (4 days now at each location).

[Djinn]

First hand elimination news now (just like yesterday) with a flush draw which didn't hit against Kings (the reverse of yesterday).  The OUT player is Chris Wright, and the early leader is Toni Dicesare...

[Djinn]

Three the number of eliminations early in level One - one was Jim Reid, falling to the Camel after he (Keith) raised blind preflop, resulting, somehow, in all the chips getting in.  That would be a much better story if I had the details.

So far a handful of players listed on the GUKPT website have been replaced by alternates who were actually here at the start -

Osman Mustanoglu
Stasia Xanthos
? Rausbav
? Peykar
Brynn Lacey
Anthony Mackay
Brian Johnson
? Wood

Osman and Anthony were traffic latecomers yesterday, who've gotten to play after all. 

[snoopy1239]

 M Moronpachon has just doubled up leaving Nigel Ung with a paltry 500 chips.

I joined the action with the board reading . Nigel made a smallish bet of 2k, only for Moronpachon to move all-in for an extra 2k. Nigel called, showed an Ace, but quickly mucked when his opponent revealed Pocket Sixes, to the surprise of no one.

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Dubai is OUT.

Dave Shallow made "his standard raise" (according to Pete Linton), Dave Clark raised to 1k, Mark Hawkins called and Dubai moved all-in for another 2.8k. Dave Clark flat-called, Hawko moved all-in and Clark called again.

The hands?

Dubai = A-Q

Hawko = J-J

Clark (Oh how I wish he had Fives so I could say Dave Clarke's Fives) = A-K

No problemo for Hawko as the board came rag, rag, rag, rag, Jack for an emphatic victory and a newly obtained 20k+ stack.

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Some early pace setters:

Toni Decesari -- 21,350
Yucil Eminoglu -- 20,450
Mark Hawkins -- 20k+
Marc Goodwin -- 19,100
Paul Vicary -- 18,700
Neil Hosell -- 17,200
Alan Dean -- 14,625

[Djinn]

Early chip counts from a table with so much blonde interest on it it may as well be the Feature Table (for this half-hour period at least):

Martin Cheese           9,800
Simon Zach              9,700
Ken Powell               10,350
Michael Ellis               10,800
David Mobbs             13,100
Paul Dobson             10,000  (Having just taken a 3k pot on the river from Zach)
Steven Piddock         10,925
James Dempsey         9,450
Neil Fox                     4,250
Osman Mustanoglu      8,200

Pictured:  Flushy and Neil Fox showing through mime what they think of one another...

[snoopy1239]

More of those chip counts that were requested:

Jeff Buffenbarger -- 9,700
Paul Alterman -- 10,350
Jon Hewston -- 9,350
Ken Powell -- 7,525
James Dempsey -- 10,225
Justin Turner -- 9,900
Ed Arees -- 10,900
Dave Shelley -- 6,750
JP Kelly -- 18,300
Rob Garfield -- 8,325


Harpit Gurnham is OUT.

Lots of limpers, so Harpit decides to raise it up with A-Q, a move that neighbour A Sapiano calls with A-7.

The Flop comes A-A-x, Sapiano bets 1.8k, Gurnham understandably moves all-in, only for Sapiano to call.

7 on the Turn and that's all she wrote for the Welshman

[Djinn]

JP Kelly just raced his against an all-in preflop (for 7k) holding , spiking the King on the river and bumping him into the probable chip lead, on around 27,000.

Couple of other counts:
Richard Redmond    11,800
David Shelley           7,700
Paul Moss                3,275  (these three on same table)
James Atkin             4,100
Joe Beevers            10,100
Carlo Citrone            9,300
Jerome Bradpiece     12,500
Chris Sokrati            23,000

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The following players have all bitten the dust:

Terry Nelson
Nigel Ong
Greek Jack
Paul Morrow
Andy Wright
Jaime Ponte

Chip leaders:

Alistair Woods -- 30,350
Chris Sokrati -- 30,325
Mark Herron -- 27,250
Mark Hawkins -- 24,400
Ky Hutchinson -- 22,425
Neil Hossell -- 20,725

[Djinn]

The chip lead has a surprise new tenant - Ed Giddens, who's had "three big hands" in quick succession to reach the 30k mark first...

1)  He held T-Q and went for a call of 600 on a 4-8-9 flop, which brought, on the turn, a flush draw, and on the river, a Queen-high flush, which he was paid to the tune of 1,500.  This story was prefaced with, "I called with a gutshot," and I was fully expecting that to be hit at the end of the story and consider a flush, though higher-ranking, to be a poor substitute.

2)  His spiked a set on the flop, eventually getting the whole stack of the who was against him.

3)  He saw a 7-handed limp flop(!) on the Button with 6-8.  Extraordinarily, the A-6-3 flop was checked round.  The turn brought another Six, and Ed Giddens faced a tight player betting out 600, another rock* raising to 1,500, and a call from Burnley John.  So what seemed like the best plan?  Min raise- of course!  This resulted, somehow, in three passes, including a Six in Burnley's hand. 

*I would just like to add that all player categorisation is Ed Giddens' own. 

[Djinn]

Ash Hussain      3,100  ("Only so I can win Climber of the Day.")
Martyn Cavanagh   6,400
Steve Jelinek        8,900
David Shelley        8,700
G. Kenworthy      13,000
Paul Lecky            6,400
Paul Moss             4,650
James Atkin         11,700  (no longer hiding his stack)
Joe Beevers         12,800
Carlo Citrone         3,600  (hiding his stack a little bit)
Jerome Bradpiece   16,500
Mark Herron          25,000 (story about this coming soon)
Stevie Reeves       12,200
Steve Vladar          5,950
Ross Boatman        12,000
Anthony Romanello  5,000
Jon Hewston          10,500
Mick Clarke              7,400
Bernard Litman       9,100
Deborah Rogers      12,300
Praz Bansi               16,075
Bad Girl                  5,350
Jeff Buffenbarger    12,100
Liam Flood             14,500
Camel                   14,850
Richard Redmond    8,400
JP Kelly                  26,500
Peter Linton           2,700
Irina Liepina            9,525
Nick Hicks               6,250
Stuart Nash            8,750
BA Kildalen             12,700  (although not in seat, so could be out)
Mad Turk               20,100

[Djinn]

The Mark Herron Story:

He's decided to call under the gun with , so the raise to 500 is obviously following when it happens (blinds were 50/100 at the time).
Flop:    Looking good!  His opponent, Jonathan Farrer (I think) bets 800 when it's checked to him, and Mark raises then to 2,600.  Flat call.
Turn:    Now Mark has to keep up the story, right?  Bets out 2,600.  Flat call.  (Strange and Stranger.) It's about now that I can imagine a certain resignation descending on Mr. Herron, as he realises he only has 2,300 left.
River:  (Hallelujah - Probably) In any case, the last bit goes in and is called, and the Gutshot straight (which was the winning hand, as it turned out) pushed him up to the top of the field in chips while Jonathan has just a couple of thousand left.

[snoopy1239]

Peter Smyth has near doubled up to 17k.

Flop was

Smyth bets 2.5k, Hossell makes it 5k and Smyth, after a slight huff (although I believe it was genuine) moved all-in for an extra 2.8k.

17k pot, 2.8k more, can you fold?

Bad Girl was adamant that you can't, and she might be right with that flush draw on board. Anyhow, Hossell did fold after being given stick for some 'trapped in the cookie jarness' by his fellow tablemates.

And here is that table...

Neil Hossell -- 10,725
Raj Patel -- 17,850
Praz Bansi -- 14,200
A Sapiano -- missing
Xuyen Pham -- 9,225
Mallissa Clifford -- 7,850
Jeff Buffenbarger -- 7,150
Keith Hawkins -- 14,900
Peter Smyth -- 17,650
Liam Flood -- 17,350

[Djinn]

good evening snoops and jen ,great updates as usuall ,if you can see this mesage could you give me the chip counts ov
 
burnley john and john exley plz ,thx.

Burnley John has around 15,000.  He just picked up a few more doing this:

Alistair Woods bets out on the flop of:  - John calls.
Turn:  .  Alistair checks, now Burnley bets 1,100.  Call.
River:  .  Check again, now John makes it 1,600.  Eventually Alistair calls and gets to see the with which John called, hit, and in the end took the pot. 

John Exley is OUT.

[Djinn]

Add these to the list of players who are not playing any more because they don't have any chips left:

Tony Adderley
Mick Clarke
A. Sapiano
Harprit Gurnam
Glyn Rees
Fraser MacIntyre
Stephen Millar
Pete Linton
Mark Hawkins
Matt Cartwright
Brandon Duffy
Justin Turner
John Keown
Paul Mervin
Andy Wright
Lee Atherton
Terry Nelson
Andrew Goode

And, just now, Jim Kerrigan, with which you'd think would be delighted with an A-A-3 flop.  But no, opponent with A-3 and he's on his way out.

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Ken Powell -- 16,275
Simon Zach -- 12,950
Stevie Reeves -- 5,350
Jim Kerrigan -- out
Jon Hewston -- 11,550
Colin Gerrard -- 23,125

[snoopy1239]

Jim Kerrigan's OUT.

3-3 vs A-3 on a 3-A-A-J-Q board. All-in on River.