Midlands Meltdown Day 1 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, we're back. 67 players left. Average stack 21,900 and the blinds are now 200/400.

Red Dog -- 9,000
El Blondie -- 6,400 ("The standard is woeful")
Tim 'T8MML' Blake -- 16,000
Tikay -- 18k

Andy Johnson and Peter Evans are still the big stacks with over 40k each.

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul King went before the break too. He wasn't able to recover after running Queens into Aces.

Add Mick Fletcher's name to the chip leader grouping. He's on about 42k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Those Glittering Cash Prizes:

1st -- £39,200
2nd -- £20,580
3rd -- £11,270
4th -- £8,330
5th -- £5,390
6th -- £4,410
7th -- £3,430
8th -- £2,940
9th -- £2,450

[danafish]

66 players left, blinds 200/400, average chips 22,300.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ash Hussain has doubled up through Pippa Flanders, Ash bet heavily with A-K on the K-5-4 flop and Pippa put him all-in. Thinking she had a set, Ash almost folded but ended up calling only to find Pippa on a complete bluff with A-Q.

Roberto Romanello is OUT. Not sure how.

Tikay is also OUT. He tried to bluff Albert Saipiano, the man who errr... doesn't like to fold. And then the rest of his chips went with against Jim Reid's huge overbet on the river with Kings on a A-J-6-K-6 board.

[danafish]

Some classic cussing from Shaf. More of that sort of thing!

Flop -  - Shaf bets 1000, Tim Blake calls.

Turn -  - Shaf bets 1500 and Tim calls.

River is another jack! Now Shaf checks, and so does Tim.

"C***!!!" he screams, turning over pocket eights. "This is a bastard of a game. What the hell am I gonna beat now?" Tim mucks, apparently amused.

[danafish]

I have spoken to Creepyboy who, it turns out, is not that creepy, and is in fact Ramazanali Abbassi. He had to write it down for me, and I had to really quickly flick through my notebook to a page where i had not obviously referred to him as Creepyboy.

He just now took out a super-short young Matey - Mr Abbassi called utg, and Young Matey checked his big blind, but then moved in for 4700 on the  flop.

Young Matey turns over  , Mr Abbassi turns over  . No club and the Young Mateyboy is sent on his way.

[NoflopsHomer]

59 left. Avg stack is 24.9k

Stuart Nash is OUT, A-J on a J-T-T board no good against Mateyboy's T-8.

El Blondie is also OUT, no details I'm afraid.

[danafish]

57 left in now, that's an average of 25,800 off the top of my head. Blinds still at 300/600 for a bit.

[danafish]

On a  flop, Mateyboy - a black guy in a slightly-Village-People-but-I-wouldn't-say-that-to-his-face black leather cap, if anyone can tell me his name from that - anyway, he bets, and Tim Blake calls.

Turn -  - YMCBoy bets again, and Tim calls again. Cap Man now has just 2800 left in front of him.

River -  - Cap Man now checks and Tim bets 3500 to cover him. And the pain in Cap Man's eyes as he quietly folds, lovingly cradling his last few chips in his hand. Heartbreaking.

[NoflopsHomer]

Sometimes it's really difficult to know who the chip leader is. The ever changing stack sizes as the chips spin everywhere on this merry-go-round game. But here it's easy.

Bloody easy.

Andy Johnson has roughly 150k.

Translation: 10% of the chips in play, and average for the final table despite the fact there are still nearly 60 people left.

He just raised K8 on the small blind and Peter Evans just flat called with Queens in the big. The flop came King high and all the chips went in.

Dana speculates that because of it's size, it most likely has a gravitational pull on all the other chips drawing them closer.

[NoflopsHomer]

Jim Reid has doubled through Matt Tyler.

Jim pushed his short stack in on a board. Matt pushed behind him, as he would when holding . Jim was holding though...

Turn:



River:

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[danafish]

is dan carter still in? if so how many chips he got? any updates appreciated. ta muchly.

Yup, he has almost exactly the average with 29,100. Although bearing in mind how many chips Andy Johnson has, that's considerably above average out of the non-chip-leader players.

Other counts I happened to notice include Paul Jackson on around 18k, and Pippa Flanders on just 8k - eek.

Short break right now, blinds up to 400/800 when they come back. 50 left, average (including Andy Johnson) 29,400.

[NoflopsHomer]

Matt Tyler is OUT, pushed with Tens. Andy Johnson had Kings(!).

Crazy pot time.

Guy UTG wants to min-raise but it's counted as a string bet so he can only flat-call. Now guy UTG+1 makes it 3k to go (300/600). Red Dog is next and ends up flat-calling. Now passed round to Andy Johnson and he moves in(!) Blinds fold, the UTG passes (bet he was glad!). UTG+1 senses he might be beat, but ends up pushing his chips in. Now on Red Dog, he umm's and aaahhh, before flicking his cards away like you'd push away a really nice piece of cake you wanted but knew was bad for you. He passed Queens.

UTG+1 shows:

Andy Johnson shows:

Board:



And UTG+1 scoops, what looks to be a 50k pot. Who is this person you might ask?

It's Mark 'Mantis01' Allden, who'll writes quite often (and thoughtfully) on the PHA boards.

[danafish]

Dan Carter is OUT. Holding  , he moved in on a flop that gave him a flush draw and a straight draw. Andy Johnson called with A-Q off. Turn - non-diamond queen. River - non-diamond ace. Ohhh sick sick sick. Johnson is on fire!

Actually now I read that last it sounds painful.