Brighton GUKPT: Day 2 - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Ian Herbert rides the rollercoaster, along with Ponte and Persaud -

He shoves preflop over the top of under the gun Jaime Ponte's push all-in.  It folds round to big blind, and with two players all in in front, Nik looks down: "I've seen a Six so I'm not going to look at the other one," he says, leaving Jaime's to face the of Ian...
out first card, and the Welshman is nearly felted. 

He pushes the next hand with the monster that is , finding small blind Nik calling with J.  The board comes:  and a second to double Herbert's microstack and bring Nik down to 30k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Matt Dale is OUT. Ace King against Barney Boatman's Sevens.

[NoflopsHomer]

Rumit is OUT. into

Willie Tann has also gone, pushing into the of Anthony Romanello on a board, turn and river being and .

Flushy is down to around 60k now, which is about average.

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Graham Cook is OUT -

He re-raised all in over the top of Katherine Hartree's preflop 6k raise (blinds are currently 1,500/3k ante 2k).  With under 10k for her to call, she did so only after a bit of a dwell, but found to her apparent surprise that her was well in front of his .  The flop brought so a bit of a breath-holding moment, but no straight appeared and she's up to over 80k.
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Also OUT is Sami Yusuf racing A-Q against Jacks with the losing result.

[NoflopsHomer]

please could i have an update on stu rutter?

and please tell him that one day i will buy him a phone charger and wrap it round his neck.

thanks

Sure, he just re-raised a 10k button raise to 35k getting his opponent to fold, before showing . I believe he's on around 60k.

Damian Evans, who knocked out Praz, is OUT, he pushed with from the button, and Richard Ashby gave him a spin from the big blind with

Board:



Shaf has doubled through Roberto Romanello, putting him up to about 50k.

Shaf:



Roberto:



Board:

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Daniel Jolowicz is OUT - He pushed in all but one card-protecting 100 chip preflop on the button when it passed to him, and small blind Karim Louis gave him a spin.  Before they were on their backs, Daniel pointed out, as if slightly surprised himself, that he still had one chip remaining, "There's still action..."  The dealer, however, dealt the board out in one go:
  Karim showed , ahead all the way of Daniel's move-making (nothing wrong with a button push with that hand there, with a short stack, of course - better than A-2 etc. etc.).

As for the spare 100 - it was kind of decided that "All in," had been announced by one of them at some point, and Daniel didn't argue the point - he just handed his last chip over and left the card room.  Strange one though, considering he'd even remarked before the flop was dealt that he'd be able to bet again on the flop, comedy autobet or not...

[NoflopsHomer]

No, bigger.




Flushy limps. Greek Jack pushes behind him. Another player pushes behind him. Passed to Flushy who insta-calls.

Flushy:



Greek Jack:



Other Player:



Board:



Flushy up around 150k we think.

[NoflopsHomer]

Jen and I have just had dinner with Flushy and Stu, both looking forward to raising on the bubble methinks.

37 left, 27 get paid.

Michael Greco also going well and appearing very relaxed during the break.

Blinds 2k/4k with a 300 ante.

Average stack is about 86k

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Smith, David     195000
Ashby, Richard    187900
Sapiano, Albert    187500
Dempsey, James    173100
Nikkhahe, Koroush    147800
Wilson, Marty    108400
Rogers, Jeffrey    107100
Romanello, Roberto    106800
Greco, Micheal    106800
Shafiq, Mohd    106000
Colclough, David   105700
Jelinek, Steven    104500
Exley, John    102800
Carr, Neil    95600
Alden, Phillip    95100
Hasan, Taner    93500
Ground, Darren    89600
Louis, Karim    86200
Romanello, Antonio    81900
Herbert, Ian    79900
Boatman, Barney    77100
Yusuf, Sami    75700
Palenca, Manuel    67500
Rutter, Stuart    60700
Hartree, Katherine    60000
Nawab, Mazhar    54200
Miles, Andy    49100
Pullen, Dave    47900
Dean, Alan    37800
Vasquez-Ponte, Jaime    37800
Cox, Ian    36900
Anderson, Torvny    32300
Bowles, Benjamin    32000
Persaud, Nik    31600
Burke, Terrence    26400
Modha, Rajesh    25800
Clark, David    18000

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Despite the best efforts of the TD to make 37 divisible by 9 (involving breaking a table, then re-forming it - "I'll be here all week," says Mike...) they've only just broken the fifth table after:

Andy Miles is eliminated, moving in on an board with but finding giving him a spin.  The turn and river: 

and

Jeff Rogers is eliminated (in two stages):  Stage one was the most damaging, as his had two pair with all five board cards out: , but so did chip monster Dave Smith with his . 
Stage two (shown below) saw him pushing in preflop from the small blind next hand over the top of a button raise to 12k.  Big blind Dave Smith considered for a while, confirmed that this was an underraise (Jeff had just 17k left) and called, as did the button.
They checked down the whole lot:  - Jeff Rogers showed the genuine , but after a brief pause Dave revealed , enough to win that pot of nearly 60k and take out the pink shirted player.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ladbrokes Poker Million winner Raj Modha doubles through Darren Ground.

Raj:



Darren:



Board:



Karim Louis is OUT, his got no help on the board against Jaine Vasquez-Ponte's .

Robert Romanello lost a chunk to Richard Ashby:

They both checked a flop, before Roberto check/called an 11.8k bet on the turn and then a 16k bet on the river only to have the DTD player show him . Roberto mucked, what I'm guessing was most likely an Ace.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ian Cox is OUT. Ace King against Threes. "I wanted the call, nevermind."

Stuart Rutter is OUT in 30th place. He re-raised Barney Boatman with Aces leaving himself with only 22k behind. Barney called and the flop came an unpleasant 9-8-7. "I was praying Barney would bet because then I'm most likely ahead..." Sadly Barney was holding Sevens (again!) to knock him out.

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And 29th place finisher is Dave Pullen...short stacked, he moved in with , called sharpish by Dave Smith who had .  The hearts flushed and you know what time that makes it......


















                                                                                      ........BUBBLE TIME     

[NoflopsHomer]

Roberto Romanello is shortish, he lost most of his stack to Darren Ground before doubling up against DC with vs . He's survived people looking up his pushes so far. The clock has been stopped for the moment.

Flushy just won a big pot, he re-raised Neil Carr's 20k preflop bet to 46k, before betting 56k on a board, Neil passed after a while.

Elsewhere Alan Dean calls a 6k bet from Shaf on a board, a 12k on the turn and a 20k bet on the river.

Shaf:



Alan:

[Djinn]

Any updates on chip counts, and who the shorties are trying to avoid the bubble?

All but eight chip stacks here estimated - we're not allowed really into the central area until the bubble bursts, but seeing as it's already been 61 minutes now, and counting, I can take a peek...

Katherine Hartree   104k
Nik Persaud           130k
Dave Smith            260k
Raj Modha              70k
Albert Sapiano       162k
John Exley            126k
Richard Ashby       180k
Roberto Romanello   25k
Dave Colclough      128k
Ian Herbert            85k
Mad Marty              72k
Taner Hasan          128k
Antony Romanello   55k
Koroush Nikkhahe   211k
Steve Jelinek          58k
James Dempsey     218k
Torvny Anderson    150k
Michael Greco          86k
Barny Boatman        63k
Manuel Palenca        51k