Cardiff GUKPT: Day 2 - At A Glance

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Somewhere in the chaotic last half level, we realised that Dave Colclough was no longer in his original seat, or any other seat, in fact.  His exit, especially after being short for a while, was swift  - and a low diamondy flop against , on which his all-in was called.  The Tens, however, four-flushed on the turn, with a third Ten on the river; Dave was just not meant to win that hand.

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Rob Bright just got the Audience Clap for Being the Bubble.  That's obviously not as good as getting money instead, but it does mean that we might be allowed back within the rope to get some stories for you...

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After some shrewd detective work (oh, okay, Nick Wright told me), Rob Bright shoved in his last 21k with A-4 but ran into Queens. K-9-J-3-5 board being of no use.

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Alan Davies -- 80k
Roberto Romanello -- 150k
Royce Law -- 140k
Ben Vinson -- 180k
Elliot Bowker -- 205k
Stephen Slavin -- 80k
Dave Smith -- 185k
Simon Zach -- 100k
Kayshan Muthy -- 70k

Ronald Seymour -- out
Stefano Fiore -- 80k
James Martin -- 90k
Ian Nelson -- 125k
Steve Jelinek -- 90k
Robert Forsman -- 210k
Andrew Feldman -- 210k
Hoss Parhizkar -- 105k
Matthew Rattos-Salles -- out

Stuart Menzies -- 90k
Roy Brindley -- 90k
Peter Haslam -- 100k
Vicky Coren -- 125k
Anthony Romanello -- 30k
Tony Mackay -- 95k
Nigel Willis -- 45k
Michael Greco -- 35k
Steve Craig -- 260k

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27th and 26th places fall simultaneously to Andrew Feldman (whose supporters had to be repeatedly restrained from running in to peer at what was going on) - he raised preflop (I get the feeling he was doing this quite a bit), and Matthew Rattos-Salles moved in over the top.  Desirous of value, perhaps, or just too short to do much, Ronald Seymour went in for his tiny 20k too. 
Ronald showed: 
Matthew showed: 
Andrew showed: 

The board came a non-threatening , although Andrew was scoring about an 8 on the Agitated Scale, muttering something about an Ace and generally looking worked up - he survived and busted them both, with a clap and clear adrenaline rush shouty moment.

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Peter Haslam is OUT

Aces v Andy Mackay's Kings.

Board =

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Ben Vinson raises to 16k preflop under the gun...it goes round to Roberto, who re-raises to 48k.  Ben pushes for 100k+ on top; instacall!

Ben has A-K, Roberto A-Q, therefore it was highly likely that a huge pot would be drifting to one of two dangerous players (one more likely than the other, of course).

8-5-3-2...(you know what's coming)...4

Chop-chop.

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DTDer Michael Greco is up to 100k after knocking out table nighbour Nigel Willis.

Willis made his inevitable shortstack moves (probably blind, but he had 6-7 anyhow) only to be swiftly called by the Ace King of Beppe.

A few Eastenders duff duff duffs on the scary K-5-8 Flop, but a rag Turn and a 6 River meant that Greco was safe.

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Hoss Parhizkar and Antony Romanello in Blind vs. Blind Controversy:

Hoss managed to create ambiguity over whether he was raising when it folded to him on the small blind, or calling, by using the word, "bet" while putting chips in equal to a call.  The whole table had an opinion on this, but the floor was called (as was definitely a good idea) and the ruling eventually made that he had called.  Romanello hadn't even looked at his hand yet, but he was insistent that the matter be cleared up, and it was, but only after Parhizkar had managed, clearly, to climb the ladder towards Tilt.  The call was made, and he checked.

Flop:    In a second Hoss announced, "all in," and in less than a second Antony had called.
Hoss showed: 
Antony showed: 

All hell, expectedly, broke loose as Hoss was knocked to the felt and Romanello doubled up.  His insistence, it seems, on being allowed to raise with his 8-4 off successfully pushed him over the edge on any flop, it just so happened that that one had smacked Anthony in the face.

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Hoss Parhizkar has doubled up with vs. James Martin's Pocket Sevens.

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Moments later, shortstacked Martin was checked out by Ian Nelson and Steve Jelinek in the blinds.

Martin =

Nelson =

Jelinek =

Board =

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Michael Greco has doubled up to 200k courtesy of Roy Brindley.

Tens v Sevens, all-in pre-flop.

8-9-Q-J-9

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Chip Counts, with Recent Developments

Feldman, Andrew   -- 314400
Craig, Steve -- 251900
Bowker, Elliot -- 222700
Mackay, Anthony   -- 216400
Romanello, Roberto -- 202500
Zach, Simon -- 160000
Smith, Dave -- 156200
Nelson, Ian -- 142900
Brindley, Roy -- 142100              Now OUT 22nd place (£1,890)
Law, Royce -- 135700
Forsman, Robert   -- 131600
Jelinek, Steve -- 123700
Vinson, Ben -- 110300
Fiore, Stefano   -- 109900
Coren, Vicky -- 108100
Greco, Michael   -- 100000
Slavin, Stephen   -- 95400
Menzies, Stuart   -- 90300
Martin, James -- 81100                 Now OUT  23rd place (£1,890)
Parhizkar, Hoss   -- 80800            Now on about 50k
Muthy, Kayshan   -- 69300
Davies, Alan -- 69200
Romanello, Anthony -- 62600     Now double that

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Law Royce is OUT, running Jacks into Simon Zach's Aces.

He shouted "Jack" on every street as if commanding the poker gods to deliver him one of his two outs, but his demands fell on stoney ground as the board came an unrewarding .

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Stuart Menzies is also OUT. Steve Craig raised to 15k from the small blind with K-8, Menzies made it 85k all-in from the big with K-T and Craig called.

6-7-9-3-5 board.

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As Simon Zach's Aces hold up, a rather less brisk affair is occuring on the neighbouring table, Steve Jelinek and Andrew Feldmen the men involved.

With a flop of Qd-9h-3s on the felt, Steve Jelinek is being asked for his stack size, to which Steve replies with an approximate answer. On hearing the response, Andrew confidently slides in 32k into a 45k pot, only for an equally confident Jelinek to swiftly announce all-in and shovel in the rest of his chips.

Clearly pained by the decision ahead, Feldman, who, incidentally, is a true 'heart on his sleeve' type of young player, asks for a chip count. As the dealer fumbles around, coming up with incorrect sums, Feldman becomes gradually more and more irritable, and eventually asks the supervisor to count, an action which results in Big Mike from Southampton announcing a Jelinek all-in of 106k more.

Still struggling with his decision and balancing up the pros and cons of calling, he starts to probe his more experienced opponent with a few questions, one of which was the inevitable posers, "Do you have a Queen?" and "What do you have?" to which Steve amusingly answers, "2-4 off."

Finally, and I mean finally, he did indeed make a call to show his Tens, and although Steve lied about the 2-4, he was still behind with J-9. Slightly disappointed, Steve congratulated his opponent and admitted, "Good call" as the Turn and River brought blanks.

Feldman inevitably shouted "Yes", in a way that reminded me of a 2006 young gun of similar ilk in James Atkin, and even high fived a friend on the rail. Slightly off if you ask me, but I guess he's young and a tad naive, so I'd forgiven him this time - plus, it was a jolly good call.

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Ben Vinson finishes in 18th place for £2,200

Alan Davis raised preflop, and Ben found a push in the small blind (probably correctly reading that Alan wouldn't want to call what was a shorter but not insignificant stack).  But Eliott Bowker in the big blind found and took him on (Alan passing).
Ben showed
Flop: 
Turn:   
River: 

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Just as I was walking away after this a big shout from the spectators on Vicky's table signalled a hand which was bad for her, good for all-in Stefano Fiore, whose A-Q spiked a rivered Queen to beat her pocket Eights.

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Here are some very very approx chip counts for you. I have to whiz through these because it's as mad as a box of monkeys down there at the moment with everything changing in a matter of minutes.

Michael Greco -- 140k
Roberto Romanello -- 220k
Steve Cragi -- 260k
Elliot Bowker -- 315k
Stepehn Slavin -- 85k
Dave Smith -- 45k
Simon Zach -- 220k
Alan Davies -- 40k

Tony Mackay -- 155k
Stefano Fiore -- 90k
Kayshan Muthy -- 95k
Ian Nelson -- 180k
Vicky Coren -- 90k
Robert Forsman -- 85k
Andrew Feldman -- 380k
Hoss Parhizkar -- 250k
Anthony Romanello -- 110k

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Alan Davis finishes in 17th place - £2,200

Severely short stacked now with less than 50k, Steve Craig could afford to call his all in raise with , finding Alan with .
Flop: 
Turn: 
River:    and a groan goes up from the local supporters, as he calmly gets up, necessitating table balance, which could be interesting for Simon Zach, dependent on who they put to his left.

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Andrew Feldman has just dissected his stack and is back down to 220k, and this time it was the equally celebratory Stefano Fiore who took the monster pot down with a big "YES!!!" and clenched fist come the Turn.

All-in with , Stefano found himself behind, but still in a coinflip situation, against Andrew's .

Flop wasn't a great one though, as the dealer left Andrew with just the one out on a board.

The Turn was decisive, the River academic and we're now left with a very subdued Feldman sitting in complete silence, 2 columns of his stack being taken by the dealer and sent the way of the Italian.