Cardiff GUKPT: Day 1B - At A Glance

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A shortstacked Adam Stoneman has doubled up to a still relatively paltry 3.7k.

A-Q vs A-J (belonging to, I think, Liam Flood)

Q-Q-6-8-A board.

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A quick glance at Table Parker and it becomes clear that we're missing 2 familiar faces in Rumit and Dubai. A quick (is it ever quick?) chat with Paul Parker informs me that Dubai fell to his next door neighbour in what was an intriguing pot. Dubai raised it up pre-flop, only for his opponent to minimum raise by error when he meant to call. The dealer didn't notice and play continued with Dave asking his neighbour if he did indeed mean to raise. The player confessed that he meant to call and Dubai grabbed the attention of the dealer. One other caller was allowed to take his call back, but the initial minimum raise had to stand. When it got back round to Dubai, he moved all-in with A-J, but was still called by Sevens, the chap possibly thinking Dubai was making a move and pouncing on the confession of not intending to re-raise. Anyhow, the sevens stood up and Dubai was left looking for the exit.

Now sitting in his seat is David Pomroy. They're certainly not tag-teaming though, as Jen suggests.

Paul Parker, who is becoming extremely useful these days, also informed me of how Rumit departed.

"He was a bit unlucky really. Mrs Bambos stuck in 6k pre-flop and Rumit made a good call with A-Q vs. K-Q. Unfortunately, Mrs Bambos made a flush and knocked him out."

For anyone who knows Paul, that was the shorter version, and to prove it, an entire hand played out during that description in which Mrs Bambos was actually eliminated herself, running A-T into A-K, Kuljinder Sidhu placing the blow with a 6-J-3-9-5 Board.

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Here are you current chip leaders:

Andy Miles -- 57,100
Saeed Saghtchi -- 52,850
Kevin O'Leary -- 50,200
Hoss Parhizkar -- 36,100
Richard Simmonds -- 35,000

With Richard Redmond not too far behind.

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Mick McCool is OUT. A-2 vs. Q-6. No further details.

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Pete Singleton is also OUT. His sniper was Michael Greco, who put Pete all-in on a board of . Pete called for his last 2.5-3k with but found himself up against . River was academic.

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Lynne Beaumont -- 8,075
David Pomroy -- 19,500
Stephen Walmsley -- 9,450
Ben Vinson -- 30,000
Paul Garnham -- 3,375

Mark Herron is OUT. Aces v Queens of James Martin. 9-T-J-Q-x

[Djinn]

Here were the full counts of all players remaining at the last break:

Saghtchi, Saeed   -- 66100
Miles, Andy -- 63550
Oleary, Kevin -- 50475
Grimley, Terence -- 43925
Redmond, Richard -- 41200
Blanco, Cristiano -- 41175
Metcalfe, Craig   -- 40700
Goodall, Nick -- 36750
Simmonds, Richard -- 35700
Parhizkar, Hoss   -- 35650
Bowker, Elliot -- 34525
Vinson, Ben -- 32200
Duffy, Brendan -- 31875
Seymour, Ronald   -- 28375
Atkin, James -- 27375
Dionysiou, Kyriacos -- 26850
Coren, Vicky -- 26025
Menzies, Stuart   -- 26000
Mckay, Anthony   -- 25100
Holden, Stephen   -- 24875
Gould, Peter -- 24225
Nelson, Ian -- 23525
Slavin, Stephen   -- 23000
Fiore, Stefano -- 22675
Smith, Dave -- 22450
Koysor, Abdul   -- 22175
Martin, James -- 22000
Bright, Richard   -- 21350
Rees, Ceri -- 21300
Jelinek, Steve   -- 21275
Morjaria, Mukesh -- 21025
Durr, Izabel -- 20950
Humphries, Evan   -- 20875
Craig, Steve -- 20500
Law, Royce -- 20475
Khajuria, Lalit   -- 20175
Hasalm, Peter -- 19850
Pomroy, Dave -- 19525
Sidhu, Kuljinder -- 18250
Falconer, John   -- 18050
Forrester, Mark   -- 17200
Adderley, Tony -- 17025
Brindley, Roy -- 17000
Hakim, Jaffrey   -- 16600
Conroy, John -- 16375
Oneil, Cat -- 16200
Mclen, Alan -- 16200
Dack, Paul -- 13625
Colclough, Dave   -- 13400
Willis, Nigel -- 13175
Owen, Craig -- 13050
Shaw, Gary -- 12750
Jones, Ken -- 12750
Sami, Darsham -- 12625
Hartree, Catherine -- 12200
Duncan, Keiron   -- 11700
Arees, Edward -- 11450
Rattos-salles, Matthew -- 11450
Woods, Alistar   -- 11425
Libertina, Martinio -- 10900
Romanello, Anthony -- 10800
Gibbons, Steve   -- 10650
Powell, Alwyn   -- 10100
Harris, Sid -- 10075
Greco, Michael   -- 9800
Walmsley, Steve   -- 9750
Morris, Donna   -- 9700
Jasmin, Najim   -- 9275
Beaumont, Lynne   -- 9125
Exley, John -- 8950
Humpries, Paul   -- 8900
Wise, Phil -- 8125
Herron, Mark -- 7800
Channing, Neil   -- 6975
Hickman, Darren   -- 6000
Rutter, Alan -- 5625
Ibraham, Mohammed -- 5275
Adejuyigbe, Richard -- 4950
Priestley, Gavin -- 4500
Flood, Liam --     OUT
Garnham, Paul -- 3650
Rao, Ganesh -- 3350
Parker, Paul -- 3250

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Recovery from Paul Garnham. First he went in blind from early position to take the blinds, and then was allowed to see a cheap (well, free in fact) Flop and Turn from the small blind with and a board . M3boy pushed and found a caller. Academic River. Now on 9,800.

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Izabel Durr, is OUT.

Stuart Menzies raised it up with 8-4o, Izabel called from the blind with A-J. J-8-8 Flop, rest is history.

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Paul Parker is OUT.

Tens v A-J. No help.

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Dusk Till Dawn update for you now.

Just the two started, but they're both still in, Michael Greco doing particulalry well with around the 35-40k mark.

Dave Colclough, meanwhile, is a slightlier less formidable presence, but still a potential threat with 15,200.

Opposite Dave is a certain EPT London victor in Vicky Coren, who is a similar menace in this event with 27k.

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Stephen Walmsley -- 9,225
Stephen Slavin -- 37,350
Mukesh Morjariav -- 12,375
Michael Greco -- 32,675
Craig Metcalfe -- 23,000
Saeed Saghtchi -- 57,025
Ed Arees -- 8,450
Richard Redmond -- 51,425
Anthony Romanello -- 15,325
Elliott Bowker -- 38,400
Steve Craig -- 49,425
John Exley -- 7,250
Simon John -- 22,500
Peter Gould -- 22,700
Roy Brindley -- 25,200
Stephen Holden -- 18,350
Cat O'Neil -- 11,750
Dave Smith -- 20,925

Missing presumed lost: Ganesh Rao, Neil Channing & Alan McLean

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Gary Shaw -- 6,000
Cat O'Neil -- 14,300
Alwyn Powell -- 19,350
Evan Humphries -- 12,500

[Djinn]

Probable chip leader contention for Vicky Coren - a full double through of her just-under-30k stack with KK vs. QQ, and then she has begun, according to tablemate Dave Colclough (hovering on 20k) to dominate the table.  She's knocked two shorter stacks out in the last 15 minutes alone, one of them being John 'Rockstar' Conroy.  DC says he's been "mesmerised" while Vicky looks like she's enjoying bully status.  And enjoying the Paul Parker approach to tournament play, with glass of wine in hand.

[Djinn]

The blinds are now 400/800 ante 75.  54 players remaining...

[Djinn]

Neil Channing is indeed on the rail, after a spectacularly inconsistent tournament performance.  Starting off with a slowish build up to 13k, he found a double through around the dinner break involving a button raise with 4-4, housing and collecting enough chips to "play well for the next level before losing the plot" (I paraphrase to make his quote blonde compliant).  So, nosebleed over - knocked to 4k, he was forced to play well again until after working it up to 10k he found QQ vs. his AQ in a situation of no-escape, and now there is only the prospect of several rather alcoholic cash games to keep him entertained.

As ever, his eye seems to be half on the cards and half on the tournament management, dealing and general consistency of the tour in general.  He has a phenomenal memory for situations and recounted some odd ones where awkward card-flipping accidents were met with a kind of 'let's vote on it' attitude from the dealer, and some really strange behaviour from players.

One example (I have the break in which to recount it):  A player with J-J raised preflop, got both blinds calling.  The flop came 9-9-6, the small blind checked, big blind bet 600, Mr. Jacks called, the s.b. got out of the way and then for some reason the big blind flipped his cards (to show he wasn't 'bluffing' having somehow missed that he'd been called).  He held a 9 and play froze.  Instead of calling the floor, there was a bit of a tense moment as Mr. Jacks was kind of queried as to what he would mind happening at this point, at which time, if I understood Channing correctly, he just conceded the pot, instead of getting the other guy's ability to bet revoked for the hand and, more importantly, getting the turn card he'd already paid for.

This is just plain odd, and there is a convincing argument that although the dealers are improving, and working extremely hard, too, standardisation of rules and instruction to recourse to floor managers could make the world a better place.  And Neil Channing indulge in less would-be-constructive moaning.

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Just saw a massive pot go Steve Jelinek's way after an inexplicable call from Steve Craig.

Jelinek raised it up from the button to 2,400 with Queens, Craig made it 6,400 from the big blind, Jelinek pushed all-in for an extra 22,500 and Craig called, shockingly turning over (!!)

Board =

... and although he was fully expecting a Ten to hit the River, he dodged that potentially gut-wrenching bullet to see all the chips flie his way, but everyone, especially Jelinek and Mackay (pictured in depsair) were flabbergasted by the call.

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Flop =

Dave Smith bets 4k, Stephen Slavin moves all-in for around 30k and Dave calls for his remaining 15k saying, "I can't pass".

Dave =
Stephen =

Turn =

River =

Dave doubles up and Slavin is left with 14k.

[Djinn]

Vicky's stack takes a little dent, courtesy of Eliott Bowker, a short stack raising to 2,775 under the gun.  With only 9k behind, big blind Vicky thinks for a minute and puts him all in - call.
Eliott: 
Vicky: 
The board comes and she hands him a double up, remarking with wry surprise, "I lost one?"

[Djinn]

James Atkin has been playing with unexpected steadiness (and is threatening to make Day Two), but just lost a bit, doubling Steve Craig up in the process.  He raised in early-mid position and found Steve pushing in on the cutoff for a further 7,400.  He eventually made the call, with his rather dodgy-looking , but Steve had so at least he had two overs...
Flop:    (Steve, presumably, draws breath and holds it)
Turn: 
River: 

So down to 23,600 for James, up to 20k for Steve.

James counts out the chips with the face-saving, "Why is it always the worst hand you raise with that gets seen?"