Cardiff GUKPT: FINAL DAY - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Here's the lesser known but equally cheeky of the Romanello brothers, Anthony. A little quieter than brother Roberto, but still lethal at the table. Could be a dark horse perhaps?...

[Djinn]

I picked Roberto Romanello at the start of play yesterday, and reckon you're also onto a winner with this Eliott guy, plus Simon Zach has been steadily progressing - on the basis of the lack of totally hairy moments faced, I'll go with these three to place.

[snoopy1239]

Another youngster, this time Andrew Feldman. After speaking to him at the end of last night, my take is that he's a pretty decent lad off the table, just doesn't know how to act on it. No malice, just lack of experience on the live scene in terms of holding back the celebrations.

[Bubble]

Good Luck to the Romanello's, Just like to remind everyone that Anthony started yesterday as thee 3rd lowest stacked with 8700.  C'mon mate head's up with Roberto would make great TV. Good luck also to Ian also.

[Djinn]

The Start-of-Day Redraw is as follows:

Dave Smith       134,800
Steve Craig       420,100
Vicky Coren       202,200
Anthony Romanello  141,000
Hoss Parhizkar    488,500
Kayshan Muthy   374,200

Elliot Bowker      392,700
Roberto Romanello  331,100
Andrew Feldman     138,000
Ian Nelson               79,000
Simon Zach           322,400
Michael Greco        164,000

[bigalhx1]

had a bet i am getting stuck into Vicky

[LLevan]

What are the starting blinds & antes please.

[Djinn]

In the very first seconds of play, we lose our first player - Andrew Feldman, who raised preflop with A-J, and found Roberto Romanello moving in over the top.  Correctly surmising that the lairy Welsh player didn't need to have that much, he called, and was up against A-9.  A spiked Nine, however, and Romanello nearly doubles up while making Day Three very short for Andrew, who finishes 12th, winning £2,520.

[Djinn]

What are the starting blinds & antes please.

6k/12k ante 1k.

[snoopy1239]

Vicy Coren is OUT in11th

Vicky raised pre-flop with and Hoss called from late position with .

Flop =

Not a bad flop for Mr Parhazkar - second nut flush with an open ended straight flush if need be.

The chips flew in, as you'd expect, and although Vicky had outs for a full house, they didn't arrive, leaving her to join her friend and fellow Vic fanatic, Neil 'Bad Beat' Channing, on the rail.

[ariston]

for gawds sake tell them to slow down a bit, my flight doesnt land till 8pm. I do hope JR will have sorted out a suitably long dinner break before the final so I can at least see some action.

[snoopy1239]

For those of you who don't know him, this is Hoss Parhazkar, who I believe won a big event last year at his local Grosvenor in Southampton.

If you read the thread last night, you may recall an interesting situation where Hoss said 'bet' pre-flop before under-raising. The supervisors were called over, and Hoss was made to call, which he was furious about. "It was obvious I wanted to raise," he said to me last night. But, alas, they didn't let him, concluding that 'bet' was an ambiguous term. If it was me, I would have let him raise, even though he's not actually betting (due to the blinds) simply because it's clear to everyone what he's trying to do. However, technically speaking, he doesn't have a leg to stand on because not only did he under-raise, but he also incorrectly announced his action.

Common sense should prevail for me in these situations though.

[snoopy1239]

Vicy Coren is OUT in11th

Vicky raised pre-flop with and Hoss called from late position with .

Flop =

Not a bad flop for Mr Parhazkar - second nut flush with an open ended straight flush if need be.

The chips flew in, as you'd expect, and although Vicky had outs for a full house, they didn't arrive, leaving her to join her friend and fellow Vic fanatic, Neil 'Bad Beat' Channing, on the rail.

Apologies, it appears as though neighbour Kayshan Muthy was the assassin here, not Hoss.

[Djinn]

Ian Nelson triples up - short-stackedly all in, he gets a double call and check-down from Michael Greco and Roberto.
The board:     and while Greco announces "Pair of Nines," Ian had a Jack and is still in it....




...on the final table...

[Djinn]

Anthony Romanello exits in 10th place, winning £4,720

I suppose he was short enough now just to push on the button with , which is what he did, called in the blinds by Hoss Parhizkar with .
The board:  - which halved the number of Romanellos in the final.