Midlands Meltdown Day 1 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Hello from sunny, nay, VERY sunny Walsall, it's so warm I'm actually glad to be inside. We are going to be kicking this 'old skool stylee' this weekend. Since it's not a GUKPT event, we are actually in the casino this time, but without Blue Square's team of helpers. So chip counts are going to be coming manually and with 15k (7,500+7,500) chips there's going to a lot of play. But no running antes I don't think... 

Play starts at 6.30pm.

This is the 'lite' thread.

[NoflopsHomer]

Full Seat Plan. (Thankyou Walsall Staff!)

Table 1:

Paul Gourlay
Peter Evans
Dev Shearer
M Shafiq
Tony Fellone
Paul King
Tim Blake
Abdul Rashid
Keith Littlewood
Alan Mclean

Table 2:

D Wernick
Meng Ong
Adam Wilkinson
Tom Nightingale
Steve Craig
Andy Johnson
N Chudasama
Barry Neville
Mojid Khan
Matt Tyler

Table 3:

Satnam Sandhu
Toni Dicesare
J Moult
Samras Ragonesi
Eamon O'Neil
Ian Herbert
Patrick Murray
Simon Zach
Mark Orlowski
Paul Jackson

Table 4:

Michael Artemis
Ian Fieldhouse
Martyn Cavanagh
Stephen Holden
Neil Hosell
Dan Carter
Anthony Nicholls
Dave Smith
Dave Colclough
Mad Turk

Table 5:

Lucy Rokach
Phillip Green
Andy Winkett
Brian Welby
Howard Plant
Matt Porter
John Burke
Mick Fletcher
Ved Madan
Ramazanali Abbassi (big name snoops?)

[danafish]

Oh yes, by the way there are 98 runners, top place a-paying 39,200 delicious English pounds.

[NoflopsHomer]

Table 6:

Lawrence Gosney
Maz Nawab
N Hanmer
Ben Callinan
Micky Wernick
Craig Cadman
Ash Hussain
Essy Jahanpour
Simon Eccleshall
Adam Smith - Father of Economics.

Table 7:

K Graham
Pete Haslam
Barkatul Mohammed
Andrew Psaras
Des Jonas
Ash Pervaiz
James Atkin - Printed in big letters to scare me.
Efstathios Andreou
Chris Gavriel
Tim 'Okaliy Dokaly' Flanders

Table 8:

Jeff Buffenburger
Craig Owen
Pippa Flanders
Ram Lakha
Martino Libertini
Tony Kendall
John Hewston
MZ Hussain
Roberto Romanello
Greek Jack

Table 9:

Darren Hickman
Chris Wright
Alberto Sapiano
Stuart Nash
Mark Allden
Marcus Bebb-Jones
Richard Simmonds
Michael Arnold
Jerard Barclay

Table 10

S Walmsley
Andy Louca
James Reid
Ashfag Ahmed
Tom McCready
Dave Knowles
William Shervington
Joseph Koumi
Chris Liperis

[danafish]

Early double-up for Barry Neville off of one N Chudasama -  v  and a  on the flop.

[NoflopsHomer]

Mad Turk had on an board and was called in two spots who all got it in on the turn. One held but the other's stayed ahead after the river. He's on his 2nd chance.

Barry Neville has lost a chunk betting 675 on a flop, 750 on the turn and finding his 1,550 bet on the river being check/raised all-in.

Des Jonas is getting everyone to do a £100 last longer. So far he's got over a quarter of the field in on it.

[NoflopsHomer]

Johnny Hewston has done his first set of chips. According to Tikay, a raise to 200 was called 5 ways and Hewston made it 700 before betting 5,000 on a T-9-9 flop, Craig Owen beating him into the pot with J-9 and taking all the chips after blanks on the turn and river.

Paul 'Rocket Man' Gourlay calls a 1.2k bet on a board along with one other player. They all checked the river where Mateyboy's monster draw was ahead of Paul's monster miss.

Ash Hussain has doubled up through Craig Cadman with against on a board, the turn was overkill

[NoflopsHomer]

Lucy Rokach and Mick Fletcher are sharing a table.

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

[danafish]

We have been moved from our lovely comfortable smoking-section coffee table on the gaming floor to a training room in the bowels of the casino, largely because Floppy unnecessarily drew the staff's attention to himself. Thanks, man.

Anyway, blinds are up to 50/100.

[NoflopsHomer]

N Chuadasama is our first casualty, something about pushing with Aces on a Q-J-T board, Mojid Khan calling him with K-5 and spiking a Nine.

Here's a picture of Chuadasama shouting 'Khaaaaaaan!' as he was busted.

[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  .

[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.

[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.