Walsall GukPT: Final Day - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Peter raises to 30k, he gets some more blinds.  Then John Conroy makes it 45k... "How much you playing, John?" asks Billy Ngo.  He counts some chips out, then re-raises - 80k more, giving John a beaming smile.  But John really lets him stew for a while, and the smile fades after a good couple minutes of waiting to see if Conroy will go for it.  "You don't get so much time on the computer," says Billy.
"One time," says John, passing something good - A-K while Billy showed Q-Q.  "Queens have been good to me," he says.

[Djinn]

Cutoff Bandit raises to 35k, Shaf re-raises on the button to 85k.  That's enough to win it.
Next hand, Joe Beevers moves in on other short stack Ganesh Rao's big blind.  Ganesh looks like he has around 240k or so... someone pipes up saying, "Is there any rule about two small stacks going against each other?"  If there is, Ganesh hasn't heard of it... Call!

Joe Showes
Ganesh shows: 

Flop: 
Turn: 
River: 

So we have a double through for cool as cucumber Joe, and a really short stack in Ganesh Rao.

[Djinn]

John Conroy gets it all in preflop, instacalled by Jerome Bradpiece, who showed .  John had .
The flop brought two clubs, a third on the turn but a red Ten river left them with half the pot each.  I bet that one gets on TV.

[Djinn]

Ganesh knows he's got to do it, and now moves in on the cutoff.  It looks like Joe Beevers is going to call, and he does.

Joe shows: 
Ganesh shows: 

Flop: 
Turn: 
River: 

A flush, eventually, is what eliminates Ganesh Rao in 9th place, for £7,200

[Djinn]

This hand gets to the flop before the chips are all in!

Flop: 
Joe bets 60k, Shaf says, "I'm all in," pretty fast, and it's enough to get rid of Mr. Beevers.

The next hand, Shaf gives it another go, raising to 55k preflop, but instantly releases when Billy the Kid moves in.

[Djinn]

After the break, blinds will be raised to 8k/16k ante 1k.  Even the comfortable stacks must surely be intending to do something - I am waiting for The Bandit and Dan Carter to wake up (the latter is surprising us with his quietness, even though he can't be loving Shaf on the button when he's on the big blind, or the fact that it's Billy's big blind he's in position to nick).

Joe Beevers -- 105,000
Des Jonas -- 456,000
Peter Evans -- 415,000
Mohammed Shaffiq -- 284,000
John Conroy -- 441,000
Dan Carter -- 381,000
Billy Ngo -- 679,000
Jerome Bradpiece -- 875,000

[Djinn]

Jerome gets Shaf's small blind, with the minimum of abuse, but he does ask him, "Is it like the tinternet [sic]?"
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Shaf raises (so many pots seem to start like that) and says, "I've got exactly 180,500," before anyone can ask him.  Dan Carter thinks about it, before calling the 40k raise.  Billy says, "Tempting..." but was wary of the lack of raise from Dan  - saw him call a raise with KK yesterday which trapped two players with smaller pairs into getting all in against him - and leaves the two of them to see the flop.

Flop:    Dan checks, Shaf bets 30k, Dan passes.

[Djinn]

Dan gets one with a preflop raise.
Even when passing, Shaf has to commentate.  "Shaf passes." 

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Jerome calls on the button, and Joe does too on the small blind.  Check from Des on the big blind.
Flop:    Check, Des Jonas bets something smallish and that's good enough.

[snoopy1239]

Joe Beevers doubles up in style.

Jerome limps, shortstacked Joe moves all-in and Jerome decides to take a gamble with .

Joe Turns over , but is chagrined by the .

His sorrow, however, translates into joy when the Turn brings the and then amusement on the River.

[Djinn]

Dan raises to 46k, pass round to Des Jonas on the button, who's acted fairly fast up to this point, deliberately re-raises to 160k.  Dan gives it up, and the crowd gives it up for the very popular local.

[Djinn]

Small blind Jerome re-raises 120k preflop over the top of Billy Ngo (on the button).  He doesn't look like he's enjoying it that much, asking, "Show me if I fold?"
"I guess..." says Jerome.  Then "Don't fold," in a plaintive voice. 
Billy loses his nerve, passes and gets shown , just like he asked.

[snoopy1239]

Billy Ngo has been put down to the felt by Peter Evans.

Billy raised pre-flop to 70k, only for The Bandit to make it 160k a few seats down.

Billy spent a decent amount of time in the think tanks before calling the extra 90k, and then moving in on the Flop.

Peter called instantly and showed Eights, way ahead of Billy's Fives.

Turn =

River =

[Djinn]

******************DINNER BREAK  1HR**********************

[Djinn]

Updated Chip Counts:

Joe Beevers     202,000
Des Jonas        496,000
Pete Evans      676,000
Shaf               341,000
John Conroy    379,000
Dan Carter       382,000
Billy Ngo          220,000
Jerome Bradpiece  940,000

[Djinn]

The inscrutable John Conroy raised preflop another 30k.  Big blind Joe Beevers moves in over the top, prompting a long think from John.  It's a call, and he says as he makes it, "This is a terrible call."  Well, he said it.

Joe: 
John: 

Flop: 
Turn:     (bringing the second set of televised quads for Joe in two hours!)
River: 

Double through for Joe, who's comfortable for probably the first time today with over 420k...