Midlands Meltdown Day 1 - Interactive

[danafish]

Anyways, in the meantime some poker has been played.

Barry Neville has found himself down to 3k after all his other chips found their way into Mojid Khan's stack. Oh, the wrath of Khan! 

I spotted Red Dog thieving a medium-sized pot.

Stuart Nash has a monstrous stack of green 500 chips now - on a    board, Stuart bet two of those green chips into an already 2k+ pot, and Alberto Sapiano called. I must confess the river somewhat passed me by, but Stu Nash can't have seen it as a threat as he bet another 3 greens. Sapiano called, but mucked when Stuart turned over  .

[JaffaCake]

good work floopy and fishy....updates on actionjack and tim t8mml blake....good luck old timers

[NoflopsHomer]

Tikay, "I had Q5, Jeff Buffenburger had T7, the flop was TT7 and I won." - Yup he hit running Queens though there was no major action on flop or turn.

A couple of hands later Jeff has Johnny Hewston all-in on a board with against Hewston's . River: .

Jeff on his 2nd chance. "I'm going to the movies for a couple of hours."

I believe this is how he felt:

Click to see full-size image.

Red Dog had built up to 10k but just ran Kings into Aces.

[NoflopsHomer]

El Scoopie's scoops. And they are good.

Quote: "The table 4 testosterone can be smelt in the carpark. I predict we lose half the table before the end of level 4. (maybe 3)."

Anthony Nicholls doubles through Dave Smith with Sevens against K-Q on a Q-8-7 board. Dave loses 1st stack.

Stephen Holden gets his second stack all-in with A-K against Mad Turk's K-J, board 3-3-K-8-K.

Quote: "Martyn Cavanagh whinges it is impossible to see a flop for less than 600, and that's the minimum."

Dave Smith gets it all in with against El Blondie's Jacks. Board: to take 4k off the Blonde One.

Turk all-in for second stack with A-Q. Michael Artemis all-in with 9-9. Stephen Holden all-in with J-T! <--big exclamation mark there.
Q and a Ten on the flop and Turk has 13.5k

Finally, Michael Artemis is OUT, he held on an board against Martyn Cavanagh's which held.


Thanks to Dave for all of this.

[NoflopsHomer]

Craig Cadman is OUT. His last 700 went the way of Ash Hussain. Q-J no good against A-K.

[Djinn]

Lucy Rokach and Mick Fletcher are sharing a table.

It's going to be like Thunderdome, Two men enter, one man leaves...

Lucy Rokach's back yard

[danafish]

Barry Neville is OUT - got it all in on a 5-7-8 flop with 9-J and got called by Mateyboy holding 9-T, but a jack on the river finished him off. "Sick'" said Barry, shortly before going home. He said some other things too but they're probably not blonde-compliant. Anyway, he was amazingly the fourth player lost from his table in the craziness that seems to be this main event. Apparently the £500 freezeout was the same - 7 players lost from his table in the first level, according to Barry. Must be the heat. Or Barry. 

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip counts from El Blondie's table (i've added the names on the end to ones Dave doesn't know):

Seat 1 - departed to Broadway cash game where he belongs. Michael Artemis

Seat 2 - (youngster playing remarkably tight for his age) - 24k. Ian 'hotdog' Fieldhouse

Seat 3 - Martin Cavanagh - 24k

Seat 4 - (Amazingly still here) - 15k. Stephen Holden.

Seat 5 - (After some very inventive play) - 21k. Neil Hosell.

Seat 6 - Dan Carter - 5.3k.

Seat 7 - 35k. Anthony Nicholls, probably chip leader.

Seat 8 - Dave Smith - 5k.

Seat 9 - The Blonde One - 10.4k.

Seat 10 - Mad Turk - 12k.

[danafish]

Andrew Psaras raises preflop to 500; Des Jonas and James Atkin both call.

Flop - 

Andrew Psaras bets 1000, Des Jonas folds and James Atkin moves in for another 2k or so. Andrew folds, and James is still in, although still pretty short.

[ariston]

Lucy joined us in cork at the end of a meal and unfortuantely had a bread roll (you break bread you in the spoof lucy). She took it like a man and spoofed for an 8way bill which womble managed to lose (which part of hes going for none so you chose 3 coins and pick 3 dont u understand sir??- womble goes for 3 as instructed then promptly announces 4 meaning the other guy had a nice easy job of choosing 3).

hows steve " bollards" walmsley getting on btw (ask him why we now refer to him as bollards and see if it still brings a tear to his eye)

[jpean]

Hi All,

Has somebody some news about Ash Hussein please?

[ifm]

Barry Neville is OUT - got it all in on a 5-7-8 flop with 9-J and got called by Mateyboy holding 9-T, but a jack on the river finished him off. "Sick'" said Barry, shortly before going home. He said some other things too but they're probably not blonde-compliant. Anyway, he was amazingly the fourth player lost from his table in the craziness that seems to be this main event. Apparently the £500 freezeout was the same - 7 players lost from his table in the first level, according to Barry. Must be the heat. Or Barry. 

Table of death?
How many has Andy Johnson got?

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul King just about to crack Kings with Queens. (There's probably a joke in there, work it out amongst yourselves). Tim 'T8MML' Blake is next to him with 15k.

Paul Jackson, right in the very far corner, but no huge stories yet.

Des Jonas, Ash Pervaiz and James Atkin.

Dan Carter, just having lost a chunky pot to 3-5 on a K-3-3-4-K board, Dan mucked. Sitting next to him is Anthony Nicholls.

[ariston]

I can't resist so will have to spill the beans.

Picture the scene, me womble and kev "lovejoy" decide to go into cork for dinner and walk round for ever trying to find this restaraunt Kev went to last year. After 3 laps we find it at 3.30 and enter to be told they stop serving the carvery at 3.30 and only start serving the bar menue at 4. Now if any of you have ever been on tour with womble you will realise that being refused food is not his favourite thing. He storms out of the restaurant in a real huff and straight into a bollard which was in the middle of the road to make it a pedestrian zone. The bollard was at a very fortunate hight for steve and he walked into it so hard he almost touched his toes as he doubled over it. Outside the restaurant are all the tables for the smokers (no smoking inside in ireland) who were all cheering and clapping and me and kev had tears in our eyes. Our poor womble limped quite sheepishly away from the cheering crowd but couldn't really go any pace as he had clearly done his bollox literally for once. An hour later in another restaurant he was still in pain and when we returned to the casino he was regulary reminded by both kev and myself to not forget to post and to stop being testy whenever he had a beat.

steve "bollards" walmsley it is

[danafish]

Saw a curious hand from Table Colclough involving Stephen "Amazingly Still Here" Holden and Ian "Remarkably Tight Hotdog For His Age" Fieldhouse.

The flop comes  - Dave Colclough, Mad Turk and Hotdog all check. Stillhere Holden bets 250; Hotdog raises to 1000 and Holden calls.

They both check the  turn.

The river comes the  and Hotdog checks; Stillhere Holden bets 2000 and Hotdog calls.

Stillhere Holden - 

Iandog Fieldhouse -