Midlands Meltdown Day 1 - Interactive

[Karabiner]

  Dana and Floppy.

Any gurners about ?

Sorry to hear about Womble's bollards, I'm sure Ariston massaged them back to life 

[ariston]

If dana or floppsy would refer to him as bollards and get a picture of his reaction that would be great

[danafish]

Here's a fun one. Roberto Romanello moves in on a  board with about 5k already in the pot. After much staring into space while gently gnawing at her knuckles, Pippa Flanders calls. He turns over A-6, but she turns over the two-pairalicious K-6.

Just to make it even more fun, tikay informed me that before the flop, Roberto announced, "Dealer, bring me a 6-9". Ahhh ha ha, it works on so many levels.

[danafish]

Dana and Floppy.

Any gurners about ?

Sorry to hear about Womble's bollards, I'm sure Ariston massaged them back to life 

Hello Karabiner, there has indeed been some excellent gurning going down here, but after some failed attempts to upload photos with my limited Windows-ing skills (I've borrowed Jen's laptop for the weekend) and the super-slow internet connection that's maaaaaaakiiiing eeeeeeverythiiiiing feeeeeel aaaaa biiiiiit liiiiiiike thiiiiiiiiiissssssssss, I've decided to leave all that complicated photo stuff to Floppy.

And I'm not going anywhere near Womble's bollards, or Bollards' wombles, or anything like that. Just wanted to make that clear.

[ariston]

He's a really good tipper dana

[NoflopsHomer]

Andy Johnson could very well be chip leader, he has way over 40k now, he just knocked out Wernick the Younger, with A-Q against 2-2. Sadly, he just got up and walked away as I was taking a picture. I'll get one later

Lawrence Gosney is OUT, he moved in on the river with on a 7-5-3-9-J board but Ben Callinan made the call with pocket Kings.

We've had our first table breakage, leading Mr McCready, sitting next to Mr Tikay next to Mr Hewston. Oooooh look at the tension as they avoid eye-contact.

[NoflopsHomer]

El Scoopie mini-scoop now: He limped under gun with Aces in a pot with Stephen Holden (holding Fours) and Dave Smith, (holding J-T)

Q-9-4 flop, it all goes in. Turn 7, River K.

Dave Smith makes the straight to go to 13k. DC is on 9k and Stephen Holden is also on 9k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ash Hussain has roughly 25k, not mainly yellows but a whole stack of purples (1k) and greens (500).

[danafish]

A gentleman on Table Rokach who may or may not be Howard Plant (portly gent, pink shirt, granny glasses - can anyone confirm?) has Run Into Some Unfortunate Trouble. With the flop  , Mr Possibly Plant moves in; another gentleman who may or may not be Andy Winkett calls fairly quickly.

Probably Plant - 

Could Be Winkett - 

But oh disaster, the turn is  and the river the inconsequential  , leaving Mr Plant with only 600 chips. I saw him wandering off to the bar shortly afterwards.

[NoflopsHomer]

Mad Turk is OUT. The Half Wilson failed him when he pushed on a board, Dave Smith calling with A-T to win an 18k pot. And the Brighton winner has just won another, Martyn Cavanagh betting 2,400 on a board. Dave moved in, and Martyn passed.

Paul Gourlay raises to 1,000 on the button after three limp for 200. Shaf makes it almost 5k total, everyone passes, Paul dwells, but decides to just call. Flop is A-K-3 and both check, turn is 6, Shaf checks, Paul bets 3k and Shaf insta-mucks.

[danafish]

Mickey Wernick bets 1400 on a  flop; a young Mateyboy in a red-sock-sneaks-into-whites-wash-pink shirt calls. The turn comes the  - Laundryboy bets 3k and Mickey folds.

His restraint is rewarded a few hands later - having checked down a  board against another young Mateyboy, Mickey bets 4k right at the end. Mateyboy calls, and mucks when Mickey shows his  .

[danafish]

Tikay claims he has 33k.

This is a lie, but he won't let me see how many chips he actually has. Sigh. There's always one...

[The_nun]

Tell him " T " has just walked in , he'll be off the the loo to powder his face like a flash. You can then photo the evidence..

[danafish]

79 players left in, blinds 150/300, curiously, even though they didn't have a 75/150 level, and the dude who came into the Blonde Office (Grosvenor staff training room, with free Tango and biscuits!) before said there wasn't going to be a 150/300 level. That's what it says on the board though.

[NoflopsHomer]

Womble just won a 12k pot and is up to 21k after he had his set of Fours paid off by A-K on a K-9-4-J-A board.

Here's DC, slight gurnage visible. He wasn't impressed when I only gave him one new piece of paper to write stuff down on. "I'm not going to be the next out you know!"

Andy Johnson in a 'no paparazzi' shot.


Big pot with Peter Evans all-in for 23k on a board, Chicken Joe calls and Andy Johnson eventually passes what he later admits is the flush draw.

Evans:



Joe:



Turn:



River:

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Peter Evans into the 50k zone.