Cardiff GUKPT: Day 1A - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

The Cardiff Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, in association with Blue Square Poker, is due to commence at 4pm.

Join our blonde/DTD live update team then.

[Djinn]

Arrived in Cardiff Central, took a train to Cardiff Queen Street, another to Cardiff Bay, then walked back into town several miles just to be different.  I hate to think what Danafish, guest updater has to say about that...

But we're here now, and there are a lot of people thronging Grosvenor Cardiff - among them tikay himself, who can throng with the best of them, The Claimer, Pab, JP, Sunny Chattha, Lucy Rokach, Ian Herbert, Nick 'Vodkaredbull' Hicks, Chris Bruce, Jim Kerrigan, Paul King (playing tomorrow), Jeff Rogers, Trevor Reardon, Michael Greco, Carlo Citrone...

The list, as ever, goes on.  And will go up as soon as we receive the printout.

Start potentially in 20 mins - I bet between 15 and 20 minutes post that.

[Djinn]

They're taking their seats, and it looks like a fairly timely start - more people spotted while we were staring with joy at the numbered tables:

Paul Jackson
Roberto Romanello
Dr. Aris
James Browning
Karl Mahrenholz

Apparently we're getting a wonderful spreadsheet (not my words, Mr. Raab's) within half an hour...

[Djinn]

Table 9

1 - Andrew Feldman
2 - Alan Vinnicombe
3 - Mel Judah
4 - Jon Rathbone
5 - Robert Garfield
6 - Alan Davies
7 - Terrence Nelson
8 - Wai Choi
9 - Mike Downey
10 - Richard Rudling-Smith

Table 10

1 - Stuart Nash
2 - Huo Ngo
3 - Angela Rich
4 - Nick Hicks
5 - David Neville
6 - Steve Cordy
7 - Baruktal Mohammed
8 - Jim Reid
9 - Richard Cowley

Table 11

1 - Julian Thew
2 - Paul Jackson
3 - Jon Kalmar
4 - Jerome Bradpiece
5 - Gregory Howard
6 - Adrian Walshe
7 - Dewi James
8 - Ken Wong
9 - Des Jonas
10 - Daniel Bevan

Table 12

1 - Mike Lacey
2 - Michael Muldoon
3 - Richard Wilcox
4 - Will Mitchell
5 - Jac Arama
6 - Andrea Tommaso
7 - Bill Taylor
8 - Priyan De Mel
9 - Tony Kendall
10 - Glen Martin

Table 13

1 - Barney Boatman
2 - Simon Paul-James
3 - Efstathios Andreou
4 - Roy Brindley
5 - Andrew Georgiou
6 - Joshua Tyler
7 - Paul Hardwidge
8 - Andy O'Flaherty
9 - Mike Ellis

Table 14

1 - James Fisher
2 - Craig Williams
3 - Zahir Aslam
4 - Brian Johnston
5 - Mazhar Nawab
6 - Glenn Ashworth
7 - Yucel Eminoglu
8 - Robert Price
9 - Royce Law

Table 15

1 - T. Chen
2 - Trevor Reardon
3 - Tom Ridgewell
4 - David Mobbs
5 - Ian Frazer
6 - Albin Bankuti
7 - Jeff Duval
8 - Rana Gurnham
9 - Dan Carter

Table 16

1 - Jamie Gubb
2 - Martyn Reeve
3 - Alan Henson
4 - Van Le
5 - Albert Sapiano
6 - Robert Forsman
7 - Chris Bruce
8 - Dylan Herbert
9 - Thomas Craven

[danafish]

Table 1

1 - Miya Badat
2 - Ben Turnstill
3 - J McBride
4 - JP Kelly
5 - Mick Fletcher
6 - Lam Trinh
7 - Ian Fieldhouse
8 - Stephen Eccles
9 - Sunny Chattha
10 - Ouday Hikary


Table 2

1 - Michael Arnold
2 - Anthony Dunsford
3 - David Parker
4 - Ian Herbert
5 - Nicholas Stuart
6 - Carl Mahrenholz
7 - Dinh Le
8 - Matthew Mckinlay
9 - Graeme Warren
10 - Tom Ault


Table 3

1 - Fabio Loducca
2 - Paul Gardener
3 - R Bodha
4 - Alex Irving
5 - Kayshan Muthy
6 - Ashad Hussain
7 - Carlo Citrone
8 - Jeffery Rogers
9 - Ben Thomas
10 - Peter Bala


Table 4

1 - Matt Dale
2 - Stuart Rutter
3 - James Browning (who claims on the seating list that his nickname is "Hollywood")
4 - Daniel Mazzia
5 - Ben Callaghan
6 - John Hewston
7 - Stephen Basri
8 - Dr Aris
9 - John Tabatabai
10 - Mark Claire


Table 5

1 - James Gawen
2 - Grant Mercado
3 - James Welshe
4 - John Marles
5 - Roberto Romanello
6 - Stuart Fox
7 - Robert Biltcliffe
8 - Phillip Peters
9 - Martyn Wilson
10 - Billy Ngo


Table 6

1 - Jonathan Bancroft
2 - Peter Evans
3 - Andrea Buzzigoli
4 - Robert Taylor
5 - Nick Romanello
6 - Mike O'Neil
7 - Vinny Campbell
8 - Paul Foltym
9 - Paul Gourlay
10 - Jim Kerrigan


Table 7

1 - Richard Mackay
2 - Praz Bansi
3 - Nik Persaud
4 - Jim Bedson
5 - Martin Cavanagh
6 - Chris Huyton
7 - Alan Dean
8 - Daniel Oliver
9 - Phil Valentine
10 - Anthony Nicholls


Table 8

1 - Jeff Burke
2 - Simon Zach
3 - Niamh Peters
4 - Lucy Rokach
5 - Mark Blandford
6 - Paul Webb
7 - Barry Neville
8 - Aaron Elscombe
9 - Lukas Schwartz
10 - Damon D'Cruz

[Djinn]

Praz Bansi managed to get it all in preflop in the first level.  I think it was a case of raise, re-raise, dwell-re-re-raise, pretend frown re-re-re-raise...

Anyway it was against ... chop chop.  And to think, so much drama and no one's out.  Actually, I don't know if anyone's out.  Better go down and check (we suffer from far-away-press-room-lag a bit here).

[Djinn]

Early Leaders; Early Losers News Now -

Lucy Rokach was apparently the first to be eliminated, followed hotly by James Browning.  She had chips 15 minutes ago, so all of this is hot off the press...

Meanwhile, Mike Lacey (GO IRISH UPDATERS) "got away lightly, lost the minimum" with against Priyan's .  The lowish board ended up with a river check, all in all Mike didn't get the chance to do the lot.
Mike:  7,650  ("I won a few before that")
Priyan:  18,000

[Djinn]

Taking a coffee break at the bar (oh so easily confused for being out) was Brian Johnston, who wanted it noted that he, too, has 18k ("before it's gone.").

He won a tidy pot with , seeing an flop.  Any inhibitions he may have had about continuing to bet disappeared on the turn, and he even managed to prise out another 1,600 on the river (his opponent had an Ace).

Then he got into a battle with the Mad Turk, with .  This time a more promising flop:  heart heart .  The turn was the , however, and when he bet, Turk called sharpish.  The river brought an offsuit Ten, Brian checked and faced a 2,100 bet.  A long think which he said ended when he just considered to himself, "Well, it's him," and called with his King, which was good.  Turk showed a Nine, apparently, and mucked...

[Djinn]

Good news for Nick Hicks fans - just saw him bet out 500 on a flop, called.  Double check on the turn; on the river and Nick took down a pot of over 2,000 with another 500 bet.

Meanwhile table tikay's action has all being raging without any actual participation from Mr. Kendall himself.  He told me he hadn't played a hand, but that Jac Arama had only sat out of two so that kind of evens things out.

Perhaps a few selected counts - before the veritable chip census which will happen in the break (bless the seat cards, what a clever idea that was )

[danafish]

On a flop of  , Angela Rich, whose name I like very much, bets 600; she finds a caller in Steve Cordy. A random on the turn and she bets 1500; Cordy folds. Too Rich for him... 

[danafish]

Here's a very chip-ful hand. The board is  , with about 10,000 in the pot. Turn comes  ; Fabio Loducca checks, Ash Hussain bets 2000 and is called by both Carlo Citrone and Loducca. Loducca shows aces, but Ash has  for a very nearly but not quite straight flush. Still, it's good, as Citrone mucks. Ashad Hussain now has considerably more chips than previously.

[Djinn]

Barry Neville is down to just 3k or so after getting involved with Mark Blandford, who raised preflop and called a re-raise (I think it was that way round).  Anyway, a 6-high flop came, and Mark bet out, was re-raised heavily, and pushed in for his whole stack of nearly 10k.  Barry called, showing , but he was up against , which stayed good.

Check out this photo, you can just imagine him saying, "Cardrack," which he did.
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=21722.msg440254#msg440254

[Djinn]

Other counts pre first break (in 15 mins).

Tikay              9,200
JP Kelly           4,500
Sunny Chattha  8,600
Ian Fieldhouse   13,850
Karl Mahrenholz  10,300
Billy Ngo           1,520
Ash Hussain      17,100
Carlo Citrone     2,475
Jonny Hewston   16,000
Matt Dale           9,300  ("I've been up to 12, down to 8, back to 10...")
Stuart Rutter     7,100  ("I've been down to 9, down to 8, down to 7...")
Jim Reid            14,000
Nick Hicks          6,575
Stuart Nash       8,450
Angela Rich        10,100
Des Jonas           8,100
Jerome Bradpiece  6,300
Jon 'Skalie' Kalmar  12,000
Paul Jackson          5,650
Julian Thew          9,500
Nik Persaud           7,000
Praz Bansi             7,500  (Up from 4k after a marvellous laydown after a K-T-T board with K-T: he was shown Kings...)
Martyn Cavanagh   9,600
Dewi                   16,175

[danafish]

This hand looked moderately juicy when I caught it towards the end. On a  board, Karl Mahrenholz checks and Graeme Warren bets 1600. Mahrenholz wells, and dwells, then he thinks about it for a while, and dwells some more. Finally he calls. Mahrenholz shows  ; Warren shows  . Somehow the split pot seems a bit disappointing after all that impressive dwelling.

[Djinn]

Nick Hicks re-raises from the big blind - to 1,500 over a 400 early position bet.  Call.  Flop:  .  Nick bets out 1,500; dwell; call.
Turn:    quick check-check
River:    Nick checks, faces a 2,600 bet and passes.