Cardiff GUKPT: Day 1B - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Triple up for Paul M3Boy Garnham... (this isn't as exciting as it sounds as he only started with 1,875) - tip off from James Atkin who shares their table:

Early position limp from D. Sami, later postion Paul moves in, then another slightly less short stack called.  Totally committed, when Sami revealed his hand's true strength with the good old limp-re-raise, it was too late for either stack to get away.  On their backs:
Sami: 
M3Boy: 
Other One: 

Flop:  ("Oh no," says Sami)
Turn: 
River: 

So Paul can breathe again, while the Aces take the side pot. 

[Djinn]

Table Brindley had a confrontation between Royce Law and Vicky Coren just now - threeway to the flop of .  Royce comes out betting for 1,000, and Vicky raises to 3k.  Roy the Boy has a little dwell himself before passing and then it's back to the bettor.  He thinks for a decent while before moving in, a further 4,425 back to Vicky.  She had only 8,500 left at this time, and a call is over half her stack.  Eventually she decides to let it go - I wonder, a genuine decision, or hand in the cookie jar moment?

[Djinn]

A couple more counts:

Michael Greco      15,000
Shaf                    4,600  (still totally unrepentant about his TV table verbal onslaught at the last one; caught neighbour Greco wincing)
Richard Redmond   13,800
Neil Channing        12,150
Womble                8,350
Mick McCool          20,400
Liam Flood             7,125
Donna Morris          9,100
Roland De Wolfe    22,500
James Atkin           17,800

And now is the time for the buffet, after what Snoopy describes as the "free-for-all" may have subsided.

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[snoopy1239]

Mark Goodwin is OUT. 4-6 vs. K-Q

We did spot Dan Samson's exit hand. T-Js against Aces, but he only 50 in chips.

[Djinn]

Chip counts as they restart play:

Miles, Andy -- 54050
Grimley, Terence -- 40675
Khajuria, Lalit   -- 34100
Harris, Sid -- 28775
Brindley, Roy -- 28425
Koysor, Abdul -- 28350
Metcalfe, Craig   -- 27925
Duffy, Brendan   -- 26725
Goodall, Nick -- 25050
Colclough, Dave   -- 23400
Bright, Richard   -- 22850
Forrester, Mark   -- 22525
Rees, Glyn -- 22200
Mccool, Mike -- 21925
Duncan, Keiron   -- 21575
Dack, Paul -- 21250
Sidhu, Kuljinder -- 21125
Bowker, Elliot -- 21125
Saghtchi, Saeed   -- 20975
Ibraham, Mohammed -- 20675
Rattos-salles, Matthew -- 20375
Exley, John -- 20175
Parhizkar, Hoss   -- 19975
Hasalm, Peter -- 19325
Dionysiou, Kyriacos -- 18775
Nelson, Ian -- 18250
Gibbons, Steve -- 18175
Adderley, Tony -- 17750
Atkin, James -- 17600
Durr, Izabel -- 17400
De wolf, Roland   -- 17350
Redmond, Richard -- 16800
Morjaria, Mukesh -- 16300
Jasmin, Najim -- 16225
Kiss, Karoly -- 16225
Hayles, Ashley -- 16150
Greco, Michael -- 15725
Mckay, Anthony -- 15500
Jones, Iwan -- 15125
Craig, Steve -- 15125
Romanello, Anthony -- 14975
Blanco, Cristiano -- 14650
Martin, James -- 14325
Mclen, Alan -- 14300
Powell, Alwyn -- 13550
Penly, Dave -- 13375
Shallow, Dave -- 13300
Willis, Nigel -- 13275
Gould, Peter -- 13250
Menzies, Stuart   -- 13050
Law, Royce -- 12925
Gallagher, David -- 12850
Humphries, Evan   -- 12675
Holden, Stephen   -- 12550
Boyce, Oliver -- 12500
Simmonds, Richard -- 12400
Rutter, Alan -- 12100
Morris, Donna -- 11950
Herron, Mark -- 11750
Channing, Neil   -- 11750
Seymour, Ronald   -- 11675
Rees, Ceri -- 11575
Lott, Michael -- 11375
Stoneham, Adam   -- 11100
Shaw, Gary -- 11075
Wyre, Ray -- 10600
Oleary, Kevin -- 10450
Walmsley, Steve   -- 9875
Arees, Edward -- 9775
Oneil, Cat -- 9750
Goodwin, Marc -- 9600
Fiore, Stefano   -- 9400
Hartree, Catherine -- 9375
Lu, Bo   -- 9200
Amour, Andrew -- 9125
Vinson, Alan -- 8800
Falconer, John -- 8725
Clark, Mick -- 8500
Cowling, Brad -- 8475
Vicary, Paul -- 8425
Slavin, Stephen   -- 8375
Coren, Vicky -- 8300
Humpries, Paul   -- 8200
Flood, Liam -- 8025
Libertina, Martinio -- 7950
Mohammad,Ishmal   -- 7875
Blodwell, Wayne   -- 7875
Capper, Tony -- 7875
Wise, Phil -- 7775
Jones, Ken -- 7775
Courtney, Dave -- 7775
Pomroy, Dave -- 7700
Somaiya, Rumit   -- 7575
Chatterton, Gary -- 7550
Beaumont, Lynne   -- 7500
Woods, Alistar   -- 7450
Singleton, Peter -- 7325
Owen, Craig -- 7175
Bosley, Ian -- 7100
Xanthos, Stasia   -- 6875
Parker, Paul -- 6450
Conroy, John -- 6400
Garnham, Paul -- 6325
Trigg, Richard   -- 6200
Smith, Dave -- 6050
Yusuf, Sami -- 6050
Jelinek, Steve   -- 5725
Rao, Ganesh -- 5625
Sami, Darsham   -- 5450
Bowden, Ian -- 5225
Redmond, Lee -- 5200
Romanello, Frank -- 5050
Adejuyigbe, Richard -- 5050
Hakim, Jaffrey   -- 4900
Hickman, Darren   -- 4725
Priestley, Gavin -- 4700
Fronda, Ryan -- 4400
Slade, Nick -- 4075
Mizzi, Sorel -- 4025
Farthing, Marcus -- 1775
Orlowski, Mark -- 1675
Wernick, Micky   -- 1275

[Djinn]

Dan Samson is out - after returning post dinner break to valiantly play his 50 remaining chips all in blind under the gun.  He found an early position raiser, and a mid position caller too.  The flop was Queen-high but otherwise uneventful, but a 2k bet into the side pot saw the preflop caller move calmly in for 5k more.  A long think, then pass.  So Dan only had to beat with his .  Plus he's lost his mobile phone; just not his day.

[snoopy1239]

Nick Slade and Matt Tyler are both OUT, rumour has it that Exley took out the former with Nines v Fours.

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Recent(ish) Southampton Fessie winner, Hoss Parhizkar has just eliminated Roland De Wolfe. Didn't want to push Roland too far, but he did say this: "30k pot, coinflip, all-in on the flop."

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Gavin Priestly -- 4,450
Stuart Menzies -- 18,300
Ishmal Mohammad -- 10,075
Nick Goodall -- 21,800
Dave Smith is now up to 17k (from his break-time 7k) after winning a three way pot with a flopped set of sixes.

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Paul Vicary managed to fold his Queens, but there wasn't much Ashley Hayles could do, his Kings finding no help and sending him packing.

[Djinn]

Oliver Boyce is OUT -

I saw a flop being dealt between him (on the big blind) and Michael Greco (on the button, preflop raiser; in the middle of featured photo).  it came.  Check, check.
Turn:    Oliver bet out 1,100, and Michael min-raised him.  A pretty quick re-raise to 4k and before you know it he'd called a re-re-raise all in from the DTD player.

Michael Greco: 
Oliver Boyce:    - had successfully caught up enough to Greco's flopped trips to put the whole lot in.

[Djinn]

Meanwhile Mickey Wernick doubles from a micro to a mini-stack:  2,000 chips currently.

He's doing better than Rick 'The Claimer' Trigg, who just slowplayed Kings and got a certain Dave Colclough interested in his suited connected low club hand (sorry, can't be specific).  Two clubs on a flop and DC check-raised Rick all-in - he went for it but his chance to double disappeared with the appearance of a third board club.

[Djinn]

Mickey's newly acquired chip has gone - K-T vs. K-K.  It looked like he was heading for a double double when the flop came 9-J-Q, but the Kings flushed by the river and the field is consuming itself much more quickly in this level than we expected from the slow start.

[snoopy1239]

Wily veteran Ray Wyre is also OUT.

vs.

all-in on the flop

Stuart Menzies the assassin.

Board =

[snoopy1239]

Iwan Jones is OUT in surprising circumstances, getting it in with worst hand for once.

I joined the hand on the River with the board reading and 6k in the pot.

Irish terror Terry Grimley checked, Welsh wizard Iwan Jones bet 3k and Terry moved in for a massive 25k, although Iwan only had 10k behind.

Clearly perplexed by this, the usually stationary Iwan was rather fidgety, and almost pleaded for a clue of somesort, actually saying "speak to me" at one point. Terry, unusually for him, was suspiciously reserved, head bowed down and keeping himself to himself. Meanwhile, Iwan was still dwelling it up, clearly pained by a tricky decision.

After a while he called, only for Terry to swiflty announce full house and reveal his Q-J.

A rocked Iwan said nice hand, shook his head in temporary shock and started to get his gear together.

Later rumours suggest he had the nut flush, although I actually can't see him calling with anything less than a full house.

[Djinn]

Richard Redmond sees a flop from the big blind with Sid Harris and Shaf.  It's - I think Richard checked, Sid bet and got them both calling.  The interesting part was the turn, however, when the seemed to get everyone excited - Richard check-raised Sid's bet on the turn a hefty 8k or so, and while Shaf got out of the way he got a call from Sid (I think it's quite hard to get rid of Mr. Harris).  I am sure the river was a big relief to Richard, who bet 10k quickly, with his .
Sid called without a pause for breath with , but his two pair was good no longer and he's now contributed generously to the BadBeat player's 45k+ stack.

[snoopy1239]

Andy Miles is up to 45-50k after getting someone to call with Fours on a board. Miles had .

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Sorel Mizzi -- 5,200
Royce Law -- 13,075
Kuljinder Sidhu -- 8,925

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Glynn Rees is OUT.

I caught him standing up and legged it over, but I was too late to gather much info. Sid Harris was stacking the chips and had vs. Glynns 8-9. I did notice that there were two nines on the board and three spades, but didn't catch the order.

[Djinn]

Selected chip counts, peered at before I saw the previous big pot which distracted me:

(the first five players all at the same table)
Mick McCool        3,800
Neil Channing      12,700
Liam Flood           8,500
Womble              4,950
Burnley John        12,000
Shaf                    34,325
Roy Brindley         20,000
Cat O'Neil            16,000
Dubai                  24,000
Ryan Fronda         8,850
Richard Ade          7,500
Stasia Xanthos      10,300
Ben Vinson           21,000
Ed Arees              11,400
DPommo              15,800
Greek Jack            23,600
Mark Harris             9,200
Kevin O'Leary         36,000
Ryan Mitchel = out