Manchester GUKPT: Day 1A - Interactive

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Cheers

[danafish]

They're on a break now; one level left to be played tonight.

Barry Update -

Barry Carter is on 2600. Barry Neville meanwhile said that he had slipped down to 2600 at one point after losing with AK four times in a row, but is back up to 52k now after finding KK. It's almost spooky.

[NoflopsHomer]

John McNair -- 86.5k

Flushy has knocked out Paul Parker with K-Q against J-T but just had his 4.5k bet on a board check/raised to 20k by Richard Ashby and, though clearly frustrated, folded.

[NoflopsHomer]

George 'Wellchief' MacDonald -- 54k

He's lost a couple of pots and had to chop A-J with A-5 but he's still in the upper echelons in terms of stack size.

[danafish]

Elimination!

Ian Roberts calls the BB utg, only for Greg Hunt to move in for for 16050 more. Roberts eventually calls...

Greg Hunt - 

Ian Roberts - 

Board - 

And Greg Hunt is OUT.

[danafish]

There are 51 players remaining, with half an hour to go.

[danafish]

Om Aggarwal (now there's a great name) raises to 2100 - Gavin Priestley in the BB and Neil Downing both call.

Flop -  - check round.

Turn -  . Gavin checks and Neil bets 1000. Om raises to 4k - Gavin folds and Neil reluctantly calls.

River -  and Neil checks - Om goes to bet and Neil immediately folds. A disappointed Om shows his pocket jacks. He won, but is not currently at one with the universe. Which is a shame.

[danafish]

Thomas Dunwoodie raises preflop only for Wayne Blodwell (I heard someone say he was a donkey during one of the breaks, but that is only hearsay and we shall thus ignore it entirely) to move in. Dunwoodie dwells for what seems like absolutely forever, Blodwell staring down at the felt in a resolutely blank manner. I mean, he dwells FOREVER. And EVER.

No, not forever - eventually he folds his  face up. Which is very exciting. "I don't want to call for a 50/50," he says. Blodwell does not show AK, or any other hand for that matter, and I for one consider him to be a Very Lucky Boy.

[GlasgowBandit]

Great updates guys!

Just read through them all wish Well Chief all the best.

And I would advise anyone that comes up against him don't call him when he goes on tilt  - HE WILL OUTDRAW you!!

[danafish]

Oooh, there is some ANIMOSITY brewing. The flop says  , and Thomas Dunwoodie bets 4k. Wayne Blodwell calls.

Turn -  and Dunwoodie bets another 4k. Blodwell is now cowed though - he folds, and Dunwoodie throws down his  with genuine hatred in his eyes. Blodwell doesn't seem to care.

[NoflopsHomer]

Wellchief -- 38k "Lost a race with A-Q to 7-7 for a 30k pot."

Matt Tyler -- 33k "There's so much limping and then calling of big raises, it's like a £50 rebuy..."

Meanwhile here's Flushy:

Is he (a) Dwelling about a hand? or (b) Thinking of asking the dealer out?

Eventually he mucked his on a board to a raise by his opponent who said he had .

[danafish]

Eventually he mucked his on a board to a raise by his opponent who said he had .

He giggled hysterically during the hand, and then after he'd folded he spent some moments staring up at the ceiling as though praying to an unseen god.

He recovered after a bit though, saying to Ian Roberts, "That was a good flop for me. Was it better for you?"

[danafish]

Oh we are SO CLOSE to over now. In fact, they've stopped. Floppy's gone to find out how many are left in, and chip counts will magically appear overnight, so for now you can 

[NoflopsHomer]

I think there's roughly 47 players remaining, including Flushy, Matt Tyler, WellChief, Greek Jack, Mick McCool, Mick Fletcher. We got kicked out as they began the laborious process of bagging up. Chip counts will appear later tonight or early tomorrow morning and we'll be back again for 4pm for the start of Day 1B.

[tikay]

Well done & thank you floppy & Dana.

Good Luck today.