Cardiff GUKPT: Day 1A - At A Glance

[danafish]

Sorry sorry folks, it's time for another CORRECTION.

Matt Dale is in fact NOT out, he just moved table. He's clawed back a few chips, but he's still very short, with about 4000 chips.

[Djinn]

A couple of mid-level counts:

Paul Foltyn        5,650
Sunny Chattha    OUT   (actually, pre-dinner-break, one wrong spreadsheet count - we're not perfect, OK?)
Chris Bruce        33,000 
Ash Hussain       9,300
Carlo Citrone     27,050  (hot contender for Climber of the Day having been down to just three chips in the first few levels)
Matt Dale          4,300
Stuart Nash       12,300
Barney Boatman  45,500
Kunkuwap           8,950
Roberto Romanello  43,000  (interesting table, that Boatman/Romanello one)
Julian Thew           19,200
Nik Persaud           9,000
Mike Tse              13,900
Jim Kerrigan          26,200
Anthony Nicholls    25,000

[Djinn]

Trevor Reardon is OUT - his final hand being a straight short-stacked race 88 vs. AQ, but it was the previous one which did the damage:
He raised preflop with , one caller.  Flop:    He bet something like 1,500 - call.
Turn:    Not sure what happened here but I think it went bet;call again.
River:    Trevor checked, Matey (sorry, no excuse for this, but I deleted my last spreadsheet by mistake) bet - Trevor check-raised all-in and found for only-the-nuts knocking him right to the felt.

[Djinn]

No sign of Martyn Cavanagh for a little while - I heard he was pacing the car park until he deemed it safe to come back to the bar.  It folded to his small blind (blinds 150/300 ante 25), he limped with .  The big blind autoraised (he judged, correctly) and Martyn pushed in for 5k.  Even though this was 30% of his caller's stack, call he did, with .  Surprised was not the word; a Ten helped the already-ahead big blind to take the last of his chips.

[Djinn]

Scandie Push-Off News Now:

A short stack was all in preflop, with two callers (both pictured below).  The gent with the unnaturally bright hair is Robert Forsman, not short stacked for a minute today, and he got into a real aggression war with his out-of-position neighbour.  There was a bet-raise-call on the flop, another bet-raise-call on the turn, and on the river, the side pot by now absolutely dwarfing the main pot, there was another bet.  Forsman moved in.  A long think later, and his opponent passed.
Like the lid had just been taken off a highly pressurised canister of testosterone, Forsman leaped up, showed his board-irrelevant , leaving the short stack to take the couple of thousand he was entitled to, and just bullying the side pot into his possession.  "F***! I am so good!" he commentated, wandering off for a minute before regaining composure and shaking his opponent's hand in apology.

Now he's got a stack to take on the other leaders, and I have a feeling he was the guy who took on (and out) tikay too...

[danafish]

A chip-alicious hand from Table Barney. Robert Romanello raises pre-flop, and short stack James Gawen re-raises all in. Table namesake Boatman calls, as does Romanello.

Flop  two spades - check, check.

Turn  - check, check.

River

Barney bets 4000, Robert calls.


They show...

Barney -

Robert -

James Gawen -

So Gawen is out, and Robert is a happy man.

[Djinn]

Is Mark Blandford still in please?

Just inputting all the chip counts (in Leader Order) from the last break now... I think he's on the list:

Romanello, Roberto -- 74300
Forsman, Robert   -- 56950
Boatman, Barny --- 46300
Trinh, Lam -- 45225
Mackay, Richard   -- 41500
Parker, David -- 37075
Zach, Simon -- 36775
Owen, Jack -- 34550
Rich, Angela -- 33550
Claire, Mark -- 30550
Oneil, Mike -- 30125
Davies, Alan -- 30050
Mitchel, Will -- 29400
Citrone, Carlo -- 28850
Tyler, Joshua -- 28625
Wong, Ken -- 28425
Bruce, Chris -- 27575
Henson, Alan -- 27550
James, Dewi -- 27275
Kerrigan, Kerry   -- 26600
Mahrenholz, Carl -- 26025
Duval, Jeff -- 25675
Schwartz, Lukas   -- 23700
Fieldhouse, Ian   -- 23025
Blandford, Mark   -- 22700
Dean, Alan -- 22450
Oflaherty, Andy   -- 22350
Garfield, Robert -- 20975
Feldman, Andrew   -- 19500
Basri, Stephen -- 19450
Jonas, Des -- 18450
Thomas, Ben -- 17475
Bodha, R -- 16950
Valentine, Phil   -- 16825
Thew, Julien -- 16200
Hardwidge, Paul   -- 16150
Bancroft, Jonathan -- 16050
Nicholls, Anthony -- 15950
Gardener, Paul -- 15875
Price, Robert -- 15825
Muthy, Kayshan   -- 15400
Gurnham, Rana -- 15325
Johnston, Brian   -- 15075
Cordy, Steve -- 15050
Bala, Peter -- 14875
Neville, David   -- 14600
Peters, Niiamh -- 13925
Wilcox, Richard   -- 13825
Chen, T   -- 13300
Gourlay, Paul -- 13200
Badat, Miya -- 12950
Choi, Wai -- 12900
Judah, Melvyn -- 12650
Arnold, Michael   -- 12450
Gergiou, Andrew   -- 11950
Burke, Jeff -- 11900
Mohammed, Baruktal -- 11725
Jeff Kimber -- 11500
Stuart, Nicholas -- 11450
Nash, Stuart -- 11350
Hussain, Ashad   -- 11175
Biltcliffe, Robert -- 10800
Howard, Gregory   -- 10750
Bedson, Jim -- 10325
Nelson, Terrence -- 9800
Taylor, Bill -- 9550
Tabatabai, John   -- 9400
Herbert, Ian -- 9300
Ngo, Huo -- 9275
Huyton, Chris -- 9125
Dunsford, Anthony -- 9000
Marles, John -- 8400
Frazer, Ian -- 7450
Persaud, Nik -- 7400
Foltym, Paul -- 7050
Aris, Dr -- 5975
Andreou, Efstathios -- 4875
Reeve, Martyn -- 4125
Welshe, James -- 4100
Dale, Matt -- 3900
Gawen, James -- 3525
Elscombe, Aaron   -- 2850
Tommaso, Andrea   -- 2375

[danafish]

In response to Mike, who's had a lot of beer and hijacked Jen's laptop while we were slaving downstairs, Dewi is in on account of all the pots he's been a-stealing. I think. I saw him involved in a hand with a gentleman who was either Paul Foltym or Lukas Schwartz (I couldn't tell if his card said 608 or 809). Paullukas checks, and Dewi bets 5000. Fold. Dewi's on about 47k, I think.

[danafish]

Saw another fun hand involving the hairdo-tastic Rob Forsman. It folds around to him on the button and he raises. SB folds, as does our friend Andrea (ahh ha ha!) on the BB. Andrea must be the shortest stack left now with only 1700 or so. To Andrea's left, Mateyboy, a William H Macy lookalike in a BlueSquare shirt, reraises, and Forsman calls. "I have a hand," says the hair man.

Flop - 

Macyboy now bets 5000. Says Hairsman, "Have you got a good hand?"

Dwell dwell dwell, then an unsurprising FOLD.

Says Rob Hairsman, "You've got a monster hand. Is this your first time playing poker?" And then he storms off, perhaps to mull over his attitude to life in general, or maybe to check his hair in the gents.

[Djinn]

any news on pab please

Sorry, it's not good - he just busted this second.  This is the second tourney we've seen some impressive short stack grindage from Pab - and he made his move at a good time here too.  In the small blind he re-raised all-in with - the late positioner had to call a further 4,050, looked pretty committed and called with an in-trouble-looking .
Flop: 
Turn and river: no help

[Djinn]

Yes, Roberto has extended his ridiculous chip lead to over 120k.  It's hard to tell from his New York skyline of chips, but it's definitely in that region (120k, not North America).  Accumulating nonstop through the day, he shows no sign of slowing down in this, the last level of play.  I will definitely be making him one of my Day Two picks. 

His tablemates hotdog (11,350), Mike Tse (18,000) and even Barney Boatman (26,500) are finding him "a pain in the arse."

[Djinn]

Blinds are ending tonight at 400/800 ante 75.  There are currently 54 players, and we'll probably be under 50 by the end of this hour.

And, unprecedentedly, a severe voice just came over the intercom saying that "the bar is closed, you have half an hour to finish alcoholic drinks.  Then get out."  (OK, they didn't say 'Get out.'  And then 5 minutes later, the voice came back saying, "Due to popular demand, the bar will stay open until 4am."  Paul Parker's recent arrival may have something to do with it.

[Djinn]

We've just received the full counts from the last break (c.20 mins out of date, but give a good idea of how far the leaders are leading the pack...)

Romanello, Roberto -- 112875
Forsman, Robert   -- 84975
Zach, Simon -- 59725
Trinh, Lam -- 51900
Mackay, Richard   -- 47800
Parker, David -- 47375
Duval, Jeff -- 46475
Bruce, Chris -- 44300
Wong, Ken -- 43075
James, Dewi -- 42175
Feldman, Andrew   -- 38425
Rich, Angela -- 37525
Tyler, Joshua -- 36175
Owen, Jack -- 35975
Claire, Mark -- 34950
Davies, Alan -- 33100
Schwartz, Lukas   --29575
Oneil, Mike -- 28900
Boatman, Barny   -- 28875
Kerrigan, Jim -- 28425
Mahrenholz, Karl -- 25875
Thomas, Ben -- 25750
Henson, Alan -- 25325
Dean, Alan -- 25200
Citrone, Carlo   -- 24600
Muthy, Kayshan   -- 24450
Aris, Dr -- 23550
Oflaherty, Andy   -- 23125
Garfield, Robert -- 22200
Choi, Wai -- 22100
Wilcox, Richard   -- 21050
Jonas, Des -- 21025
Gurnham, Rana -- 19850
Bodha, R -- 18625
Price, Robert -- 18225
Elscombe, Aaron   -- 18200
Bancroft, Jonathan -- 17975
Persaud, Nik -- 17800
Chen, T   -- 16025
Gergiou, Andrew   -- 14875
Bala, Peter -- 14750
Welshe, James -- 13725
Bedson, Jim -- 13725
Fieldhouse, Ian   -- 13100
Judah, Melvyn -- 11950
Mohammed, Baruktal -- 11575
Andreou, Efstathios -- 11250
Nash, Stuart -- 11150
Taylor, Bill -- 11150
Hussain, Ashad   -- 10950
Arnold, Michael   -- 10850
Cordy, Steve -- 10650
Nelson, Terrence -- 10550
Ngo, Huo -- 10000
Tommaso, Andrea   -- 8425
Howard, Gregory   -- 8025
Biltcliffe, Robert -- 7650
Reeve, Martyn -- 7375
Valentine, Phil   -- 5725

[danafish]

Back to Table Barney -

Mateyboy (sorry, couldn't see the all-important ID card) raises 1500 to 2300 preflop; Barney is the sole caller.

Flop -  ; check, check.

Turn -  ; MB bets 3100, Barney calls.

River -  ; check, check.

Mateyboy shows  , Barney shows  and looks pretty pleased with himself. As the dealer is pushing the chip mountain across to Mateyboy, Barney protests, "Oi, what are you doing?" Dealer - "uh, he's got a pair of threes". Barney looks a bit confused. It must be getting towards his bedtime...

[Djinn]

Here's a relaxed Mel Judah, looking like his short stack worries him not in the slightest.  And Carlo Citrone, who has demonstrated the art of the short stack resurgence (Peace Out)...