Cardiff GUKPT: Day 1A - At A Glance

[danafish]

With the flop  , Dinh Le bets 600 and gets himself called by the delightfully beardy Tom Ault, incidentally also another vague Vigo-lookalike contender. Turn comes  ; Dinh bets 1100, and Tom calls again. River comes  and Dinh goes all in for about 5000. Our beardy friend quietly folds. If he'd been like Vigo he would have eaten Dinh's soul. But he didn't.

[Djinn]

Chris Bruce comfortably doubled up first level, we hear, with pocket Kings vs. pocket Aces - all the way to the river it looked like the deck was coolish for him, but a King on the river came and it was the other guy wincing his way to the exit.

I think those hovering around this level (18-20k are the current chip leaders).  Full counts on their way after the 15 minute break.

[Djinn]

Mike Lacey has fallen....and landed at the bar next to an impressively-early-intoxicated Claimer.  He was playing 7-8, and "made a move with a lot of outs."
What this boils down to is that the board came 2-5-6-7 noflush, and he got it checked to him on the turn, bet, then was min-re-raised.  "I don't like minimum raises," asserted Lacey, as a prelude to the story of him pushing in and being called by two pair (5-6).  "I hate min raises," he said again, while drinking beer.

[Djinn]

Meanwhile Stuart Rutter is on around 2,000 after he got it all in with a flush vs. a set of Jacks.  Despite his neighbour having gotten out of the way with two pair (thus removing a few house outs), the board did pair, and he doubled up John Tabatabai (kunkuwap) - we think.

[Djinn]

So, courtesy of Jon Raab's magic spreadsheet - full counts of all remaining players at the first break.  If they're not on the list they're not coming in they've been knocked out.

Badat, Miya -- 9050
Turnstill, Ben   -- 8875
Mcbride, J -- 3750
Kelly, Jp --   OUT just now, we think flush draw which missed
Fletcher, Mick   -- 7075
Trinh, Lam -- 25200
Fieldhouse, Ian   -- 2775   
Chattha, Sunny   -- 11225
Hikary, Ouday -- 7050
Arnold, Michael   -- 10700
Dunsford, Anthony -- 5575
Parker, David   -- 26850
Herbert, Ian -- 19150
Stuart, Nicholas -- 12725
Mahrenholz, Carl -- 15325
Le, Dinh -- 6800   
Price, Robert -- 10775
Ault, Tom -- 4550   
Gardener, Paul    -- 14200
Bodha, R -- 10575
Irving, Alex -- 8125
Muthy, Kayshan   -- 14850
Hussain, Ashad   -- 22500
Citrone, Carlo   -- 7350
Rogers, Jeffery   -- 7100
Thomas, Ben -- 7750
Bala, Peter -- 10000
Dale, Matt -- 11050
Rutter, Stuart   -- 2350
Aslam, Zahir -- 3850
Mazzia, Daniel   -- 12600
Callaghan, Ben   -- 7575
Hewston, John -- 17900
Basri, Stephen   -- 13600
Aris, Dr -- 9325
Tabatabai, John   -- 8450
Claire, Mark -- 14900
Gawen, James -- 9450
Boatman, Barny   -- 16900
Welshe, James   -- 5975
Marles, John   -- 11825
Romanello, Roberto -- 18875
Biltcliffe, Robert -- 11250
Peters, Phillip   -- 11650
Wilson, Martyn   -- 31425
Mobbs, David -- 9275
Bancroft, Jonathan -- 8450
Evans, Peter -- 13250
Buzzigoli, Andrea -- 3925
Taylor, Robert   -- 4750
Ashworth, Glenn   -- 7175
Oneil, Mike -- 14000
Campbell, Vinny   -- 7150
Foltym, Paul -- 13225
Gourlay, Paul -- 11650
Kerrigan, Kerry   -- 15600
Mackay, Richard   -- 11000
Bansi, Praz -- 3600
Persaud, Nik -- 4325
Bedson, Jim -- 9325
Cavanagh, Martin -- 11000
Huyton, Chris -- 6275
Dean, Alan -- 17425
Nawab, Mazhar -- 15250
Valentine, Phil   -- 10325
Nicholls, Anthony -- 10975
Burke, Jeff -- 17600
Zach, Simon -- 17500
Peters, Niiamh   -- 9425
Johnston, Brian   -- 16900
Blandford, Mark   -- 18050
Webb, Paul -- 7400
Neville, Barry   -- 6375
Elscombe, Aaron   -- 2775
Schwartz, Lukas   -- 12950
D cruz, Damon   -- 8300
Feldman, Andrew   -- 8600
Vinniconbe, Alan -- 13775
Judah, Melvyn   -- 13300
Rathbone, Jon   -- 4450
Garfield, Robert -- 7725
Davies, Alan -- 16225
Nelson, Terrence -- 8325
Choi, Wai -- 10225
Downey, Mike -- 8725
Rudling-Smith, Richard   -- 8650
Nash, Stuart -- 9650
Ngo, Huo -- 8825
Rich, Angela -- 11200
Hicks, Nick -- 6300
Neville, David   -- 9400
Cordy, Steve -- 8650
Mohammed, Baruktal -- 8500
Reid, Jim -- 13225
Cowley, Richard   -- 9275
Owen, Jack -- 15000
Thew, Julien -- 12200
Jackson, Paul -- 5775
Kalamar, Jon -- 17325
Bradpiece, Jerome -- 11350
Howard, Gregory   -- 13650
Walshe, Adrian   -- 4650
James, Dewi -- 16025
Wong, Ken -- 11275
Jonas, Des -- 7375
Muldoon, Michael -- 8150
Wilcox, Richard   -- 20150
Mitchel, Will -- 11400
Arama, Jac -- 875
Tommaso, Andrea   -- 10075
Taylor, Bill -- 11225
Denel, Triyam   -- 11550
Kendall, Tony -- 10075
Martin, Glen -- 16475
Paul-james, Simon -- 12725
Andreou, Efstathios -- 4425
Jeff Kimber -- 8250
Gergiou, Andrew   -- 11975
Tyler, Joshua   -- 3950
Hardwidge, Paul   -- 9625
Oflaherty, Andy   -- 15750
Ellis, Mike -- 5150
Eminoglu, Yucel   -- 13775
Chen, T   -- 15225
Reardon, Trevor   -- 13675
Ridgewell, Tom   -- 10575
Frazer, Ian -- 7100
Bankuti, Albin   -- 4200
Duval, Jeff -- 12475
Gurnham, Rana   -- 8200
Carter, Dan -- 8500
Williams, Craig   -- 10275
Romanello, Nick   -- 13425
Gubb, Jamie -- 10825
Reeve, Martyn -- 9450
Henson, Alan -- 8350
Le, Van   -- 6050
Sapiano, Albert   -- 7675
Forsman, Robert   -- 12175
Bruce, Chris -- 19575
Herbert, Dylan   -- 13500
Craven, Thomas   -- 950
Fisher, James   -- 8125

[Djinn]

Tikay is in the press room.  This means one of two things - he's lost, or he's lost.  It's the former - he had a Scandinavian gent from BadBeat moved to his table, a certain Robert Forsman, who ran a series of effective bluffs on the table, and was generally pretty active.  So then, someone raises to 500, Mr. Forsman, muttering something like "I told you not to raise me.." etc. etc. made it 2,000 more, and tikay saw a golden opportunity to pick up 3k right there, with a dive all-in with his .

Actually, the opportunity was for Robert to catch him with - and we have a press railbird, an odd hybrid of journalist and player.

[danafish]

On a flop of  , there was fine checking action between Paul Hardwidge and the splendidly be-hoodied Mike Ellis. Hardwidge bet a big chunk of his stack on the random river, but Ellis was having none of it. Good thing too, Hardwidge showed a VAST  .

[danafish]

With a moderate but not obscene amount of pre-flop raising, the flop comes  . Nick Romanello bets 500, only for Jonathan Bancroft to move all in from the button. There follows some lengthy and uneventful dwelling, before Romanello calls.

Bancroft - J Q

Romanello - K Q

[Djinn]

Jerome Bradpiece performs the double knockout against two other short(er) stacks:

Paul 'ActionJack' Jackson moved in first, for his 2k or so, found neighbour Jon Kalmar on the cutoff pushing in over the top for around 6k, while button Jerome went into the tank for a good while before eventually calling (pretty much all-in himself) with .
Paul showed   (saying, "I have two outs" before he saw anyone's cards)
Skalie showed 

The board came down Q-J-x giving a King as an extra out or four for Jon, but no further developments mean that Jerome now has a playable stack and the others are at the front of the queue for the buffet.

[Djinn]

******************* 75 minute dinner break *******************

You'll be instantly posted with all remaining players' chip counts when they've been done during the break, so seeing as play is on pause at the moment, I think now would be the time to try to nip to the front and eat something. 

Oh, too late.  Never mind, Dana can create a distraction while I run and grab some of those ubiquitous chicken-on-a-stick things.

[Djinn]

Full chip counts have been collected by a ruthlessly efficient Jon Raab and will be with you in mere minutes. 

Tales from the rail during the dinner break:

Pab has found his table "bizarre," with two players on it who are both totally unreadable and liable at any time to limp, call any raise, and then min-bet and min-raise their opponents into submission.  It's worked - Pab says, "at no time do I have any idea what they have.  And I can't raise them off preflop.  Or on the flop for that matter."  Bemused but persistent, I'm sure he'll work out some kind of strategy.

Meanwhile Stuart Rutter is out (did I already say that?) - after his flush was housed out, he got it all in with some kind of made hand against a flush draw and that didn't work either.  But he should share the secret of knocked-out good humour with the crowd - I've never seen someone rebound so fast.

****Breaking news****
Giant threeway coup gives Barney Boatman the chip lead, while taking a lot from early leader Marty Wilson...

[Djinn]

Full counts as of start of dinner break, in table and seat order:

Badat, Miya -- 9625
Mackay, Richard   -- 11075
Henson, Alan -- 22725
Bruce, Chris -- 28125
Fletcher, Mick   -- 6150
Trinh, Lam -- 34125
Fieldhouse, Ian   -- 16050
Gubb, Jamie -- 8875
Thew, Julien -- 18250
Hikary, Ouday -- 4900

Arnold, Michael   -- 12950
Dunsford, Anthony -- 3525
Parker, David -- 30700
Herbert, Ian -- 8700
Stuart, Nicholas -- 12950
Le, Dinh -- 1250
Le, Van   -- 5050
Price, Robert -- 17700
Ault, Tom -- 3850

Dean, Alan -- 24175
Gardener, Paul   -- 13575
Bodha, R -- 5525
Irving, Alex -- 21975
Muthy, Kayshan   -- 11775
Hussain, Ashad   -- 20025
Citrone, Carlo   -- 13875
Nicholls, Anthony -- 26025
Thomas, Ben -- 11300
Bala, Peter -- 10200

Dale, Matt -- 1400
Andreou, Efstathios -- 9800
Aslam, Zahir -- 5500
Mazzia, Daniel   -- 16775
Callaghan, Ben   -- 9775
Bedson, Jim -- 10925
Basri, Stephen   -- 17600
Aris, Dr -- 7750
Tabatabai, John   -- 11200
Claire, Mark -- 24950

Gawen, James -- 16550
Boatman, Barny -- 12625  (not any more...more like triple that - update coming)
Welshe, James -- 26250
Marles, John -- 3475
Romanello, Roberto -- 33875
Eminoglu, Yucel   -- 14050
Biltcliffe, Robert -- 9775
Peters, Phillip   -- 11175
Wilson, Martyn   -- 20850
Huyton, Chris   -- 5150

Chattha, Sunny   -- 10875
Gurnham, Rana   -- 14625
Persaud, Nik -- 10925
Ashworth, Glenn   -- 6500
Oneil, Mike -- 27075
Campbell, Vinny   -- 725
Foltyn, Paul -- 11125
Gourlay, Paul -- 18250
Kerrigan, Jim   -- 19275

Burke, Jeff -- 7100
Zach, Simon -- 22300
Peters, Niiamh   -- 9250
Johnston, Brian   -- 29325
Blandford, Mark   -- 26050
Webb, Paul -- 3800
Ellis, Mike -- 4275
Elscombe, Aaron   -- 7675
Schwartz, Lukas   -- 8575
D cruz, Damon -- 3100

Feldman, Andrew   -- 12925
Vinniconbe, Alan -- 8225
Judah, Melvyn -- 9125
Valentine, Phil   -- 4400
Garfield, Robert -- 16575
Davies, Alan -- 25450
Nelson, Terrence -- 13100
Choi, Wai -- 21725
Gergiou, Andrew   -- 12350   

Nash, Stuart -- 11550
Ngo, Huo -- 13100
Oflaherty, Andy   -- 12625
Reeve, Martyn -- 2675
Neville, David   -- 12075
Cordy, Steve -- 9650
Mohammed, Baruktal -- 13925
Reid, Jim -- 10725
Cavanagh, Martin -- 8875
Owen, Jack -- 24875

Tyler, Joshua -- 16650
Mahrenholz, Carl -- 21975
Hardwidge, Paul   -- 12150
Bradpiece, Jerome -- 15650
Howard, Gregory   -- 15700
James, Dewi -- 13125
Wong, Ken -- 24500
Jonas, Des -- 4650
Craven, Thomas   -- 2700

Jeff Kimber -- 13125
Wilcox, Richard   -- 15675
Mitchel, Will -- 11950
Forsman, Robert   -- 28100
Tommaso, Andrea   -- 10575
Taylor, Bill -- 16675
Rich, Angela -- 27425
Martin, Glen -- 16500

Chen, T   -- 10400
Reardon, Trevor   -- 18900
Ridgewell, Tom   -- 9700
Frazer, Ian -- 9400
Paul-james, Simon -- 8800
Duval, Jeff -- 19675
Carter, Dan -- 1200
Williams, Craig   -- 8900
Romanello, Nick   -- 4450

[danafish]

I saw the very end of the Barney Boatman Triples Up hand - board was  . Barney was holding AK, Marty Wilson had AQ. Not sure who the other guy was or what he had, I'm afraid, but it wasn't as lovely looking as AK. Marty Wilson is sad now. Looks like Barney's on around 58,000 now.

[danafish]

With the flop  , Andrea Tommaso bets 350 and Glenn Martyn calls.

Turn -  , and here it gets exciting. Tommaso bets 2500; Martyn raises to 7000. Actually let's call Tommaso Andrea because that's a girl's name and at this stage of the evening, I think that's funny.

So, then follows some considerable dwelling (pictured), before Andrea (ha!) reraises him all in for a few thousand more and is quickly called.

Andrea shows  , Glenn Martyn shows  .

River  , which is no help to anyone, and Glenn has doubled up.

[Djinn]

Des Jonas evens his stack with Karl Mahrenholz's by getting it all in preflop with .  Karl goes for it, asking, "Aces?" which he was probably relieved not to see with his .  However the board came down - and they are both on around 18k.
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And after helping stack up Boatman, Marty Wilson makes his last stand with about 1,500 with - he gets a call from pocket Sixes and despite praying to the dealer very vocally for help, she calmly deals the straight cards around the Six, knocking him out to take his wine to the bar.