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« on: May 16, 2007, 06:48:34 PM »

"Oh I do like to be beside the seaside..."

Welcome to the South Coast for the latest GUKPT event. There's a lot of Blondes in this weekend, so prepared to be crammed full of fastly served nuggets of delicious information served by Jen and myself. Play begins at 4pm tomorrow. This is the 'lite' updater thread.

For the interactive thread (complete with photos):  http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=23689.0
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« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2007, 04:25:06 PM »

Well, we're only 15 minutes past the advertised time and we hear (from two floors up and two corridors across) that it's been shuffled up...

Many a player has squeezed into the unlikely double cardroom area of Brighton Grosvenor (separated by some tables, roulette etc. so during a seat change a tempted person could sneakily put a quick red-black bet on) and the press area is a good quarter of a mile from the action, so please bear with us as we gather stories in little batches and put them up every so often...

Spotted arriving late:

Neil Channing
Dave Colclough
Victoria Coren
Karl 'Blue Square Hit Squad' Mahrenholz

Spotted milling around:

One Ear Pab
Sunny Chattha
Jim Kerrigan
Nik Persaud

Early stage photo collection time now... Bear with us.  We also have no power, so after an hour there may be a short blackout as we fight the other 11 laptops for one of their power sockets.  I have been training Homer a la Rocky for just such a necessity.
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« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2007, 04:34:16 PM »

It's squeezier than a squeezy squeeze play in the cardroom. Just to clarify, there is like next to no room in the centre, so if a player gets knocked out in the middle, he really needs Air and Sea Rescue to winch him out to safety. There's two sections with loads of gaming tables (strategically) placed in between, either way we might have a little trouble getting chip counts and hands from those in the centre of this maelstrom.

Play has started now anyway. 156 runners counted today...
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« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2007, 04:58:21 PM »

Walsall winner Jerome Bradpiece bets 1.1k on the river of a two hearts board, gets called, and shows , his opponent flashes the before mucking.

Elsewhere Mad Marty Wilson gets all his chips in on a board with against a 3.5k bet from his opponent, who calls with . two spades river doubles up the Mad one.
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« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2007, 05:10:10 PM »

Player list going to be here any moment - but just a taster of the crowd assembled (read: packed behind some ropes) today:

Stuart Nash
Steve Bovis
Joe Grech
Michael Greco
Richard Ashby
JP Kelly
Jim Reid
Barney Boatman
Jules Adamson
John Exley
Stuart Fox
Sid Harris
Martin Green
Thomas Dunwoodie
Jeff Buffenbarger

Actual total 148 players.  Apparently 11 no-shows will probably be playing tomorrow - chances of still buying in look somewhat slim...
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« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2007, 05:32:07 PM »

Barney Boatman bets 2k on an two spades board. Jim Reid calls. Barney shows which is good.


Richard Ashby has doubled up, I gather most of the chips went in on the river of the two spades three diamonds board, his nut straight obviously being good against the opponent's mucked hand.
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« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2007, 05:37:20 PM »

Blinds are now 50/100.
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« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2007, 06:07:07 PM »

Jeff Nathan makes a good call on the river, with the board standing:  Two Clubs .  He had been check-calling down (although the turn went check-check) and he found a 3k bet at him on the river.  After a bit of a pause, he called with - that was good.
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Meanwhile it's not been plain sailing for Flushy - after about 20 minutes of the first level I saw him lurking by Pab's table...he was saying:
"I've flopped two sets and I'm down 2k.  Explain how that happened?"
Pab replies, "It's because you play so bad."
"I even folded set over set," Flushy carries on as if he were the partially deaf one.
"On the turn?"
"No, there I called to hit quads."
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« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2007, 06:10:48 PM »


James is playing tomorrow. Karl and Jim are still around their 10k stacks. Chaz is down to about 8k, Jim meanwhile was badgering me to get a picture of Vicky Coren sucking on a piece of rock...
Praz just lost a pot to his nextdoor neighbour Flushy, Praz bet 1.5k on a board, Flushy called and another player passed. Praz checked the river but then paid off a 1.5k from Flushy's .

Stuart Fox re-raises Ian Woodley's initial raise to 650, and then bets 1k after Woodley checks on the board, getting the latter to pass.
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« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2007, 06:40:37 PM »

Dubai is OUT. Kings into not one set, but two...

While Jon Raab diligently inputs the whole field's counts - a few from table ex-Dubai:

Billy Ngo    3,600
Rumit Somaiya  17,000
Barny Boatman  13,850
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« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2007, 06:52:14 PM »

Hartwith in 'Disgusting' Hand Shocker:

Young Jules Adamson (sat, now, next to similarly Poker Verdict attired Neil Channing after the latter's table broke) just informed us that he'd been involved in the "sickest hand of the tournament," and that was only level two...

He got involved in a family pot (yes, all nine players limping preflop) holding .  The flop came Two Diamonds Two Clubs.  The small blind bet out 300, Jules flat called, and the rest of them got out of the way.
Turn:    The small blind bet 700, Jules upped it to 2,300 and found, to his delight, a raise of a further 3k (leaving his opponent 3k behind).  Wanting to assure that the rest of the stack went in, he flat called, and then in it went on the river.
His hand was no good against the two spades at that point, though.  Down to 5k from an early 17k...
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« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2007, 07:12:10 PM »

Flushy news now.

He checked called Ashley Hayles 2.5k bet on a board, before checking the three clubs and then calling, sorry 'Insta-calling' the turn push with , which was ahead of Hayles' . River was a Two Clubs, Flushy over 20k now.


Everytime I go past Marty Wilson, he's talking about something bizarre... First it's something incomprehensible about the first lollipop lady being situated by his family home. Then it's some other entertaining guff about playing the world's biggest snakes and ladders game, then whilst betting on the turn of a 8-4-5-T board, he's talking about the start of the Shawshank Redemption whilst calling a clock on his opponent. His opponent passes Kings face up, a great pass after Marty shows Eights.
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« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2007, 07:15:11 PM »

Neil Channing, who described his new table as 'Pokerverdictastic' just halved the number of players on it wearing the pictured team Red by getting himself eliminated...
Flop of 8-2-J, Neil bets, called.
Turn:  Q  Neil bets 4k, raise all in, call.  Simple as that - set of Twos for Channing, set of Eights for the winner.  Didn't see this hand personally, so that's your lot detail-wise, I'm afraid...
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« Reply #13 on: May 17, 2007, 07:32:01 PM »

First Break Chip Counts:

Gross     25025
Lloyd    22100
Carr    21975
Woodward  21150
Georgiou  19900
Ibrahim   19625
Buffenbarger    18400
Green    18200
Rutter    18000
Cook  18000
Duffy    17875
Ashby    17825
Dale    17400
Somaiya  16900
Kelly    16550
Adda    16475
Vinson    16225
Tock    16200
Nayyar    16025
Reid    15850
Exley    15675
Amour    15550
Persaud  15000
Heighway  14975
Cox    14900
Taylor    14825
Owston    14825
Rogers    14675
Nathan    14650
Channing  14625
Pullen    14600
Boatman   14525
Nikkhahe  14200
Parker    14175
Annan    13850
Gilchrist  13675
Tomlinson   13650
Greco    13325
Fox    13225
Dempsey  13025
Bansi    12725
Taylor    12425
Glading  12275
Lissner  12200
Colclough  12175
Coombes  12150
Nicholas   11950
Anderson  11950
Pottiwall  11825
Foltyn    11825
Mccluskey  11750
Lake    11700
Rogers    11675
Fowzi    11675
Jenkins   11625
Lee    11550
Woods    11475
Roberts  11250
Chatterton  11175
Mahrenholz  11050
Bolous    11025
Ngo  11025
Gavriel   10925
Hartree  10725
Wilfrin  10650
Choy-sing  10525
Ballou    10500
Sareen    10475
Lennon    10425
Gould    10375
Judah    10375
Hardwidge  10275
Alden    10250
Delaney   10100
Boland    10075
Nash    9925
Noble    9875
Simpson  9850
Newman    9575
Debeaulox  9550
Charnley   9425
Phago    9375
Austin    9375
Mak  9375
Coren    9225
Zanthos   9150
Rigg   9100
Woodley  9025
Ghazi    8825
Pal    8700
Charalambous 8650
Bradpiece  8400
Dunwoodie  8350
Tabatabai   8300
Frazer    8075
Davies    8075
Prime    8075
Hardy    8000
Shafiq    7925
Bovis    7875
Gibson    7600
Chattha   7400
Harris    7300
Hayles    7200
Akery    7125
Kerrigan   7025
Campbell   6775
Rees    6675
Astaniotis   6650
Barnes  6525
Jenkins   6450
Sapiano   6375
Miles    6325
Dunsford   6100
Duck   6000
Henson     5950
Alterman   5725
Bello    5650
Modha    5600
Ngo   5250
Ho   5250
Adamson   5175
Herbert  5025
Hikary  5000
Romanello   4775
Price    4325
Lund    4300
Adderley   4125
Chapman 3550
Esposito   3350
Mitchell  2875
Smithers  1975
Burke    725
Muse    500

We've got a slightly different system at the moment, so everyone just gets one name for this first count, like Madonna or Prince. 
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« Reply #14 on: May 17, 2007, 07:42:00 PM »

Matt Dale is on a bit of a roll down here in Brighton... his early big stack is courtesy of some Aces, with which he raised under the gun to 250 (this is a good level ago now), getting no respect and four callers.  The flop came A-J-x rainbow - so he bet out 600 - only two callers came with him for the raggy second diamond turn card.  At this point he bet out 1,400 and got re-raised 5k.  When he pushed in for 8k total his opponent had to reluctantly put it in - with he had the flush and gurshot draw, but no hit and a happy Dale.
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