Midlands Meltdown Day 2 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Welcome back to Walsall. Play restarts at 3pm.

We have 39 runners remaining and 30 minutes of the current level of 600/1200 remaining. 9 spots are paid as follows:

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

The current chip leader is Alan McLean with 132.2k

This is the 'lite' or 'no frills' thread.

[NoflopsHomer]

Phillip Green has doubled through Andy Johnson.



Johnson checked, Green bet 5k, Johnson made it 10k, Green moved in and Johnson called.

Green:



Johnson:



River:



Red Dog has lost about 7k having to fold Nines to preflop limped Queens.

[danafish]

Well, they're off! There's a lot of yawning and ordering of cups of coffee going on, but there's some action too.

Early double-up for Ian Hotdog Fieldhouse, all-in with kings on a ten-high flop against Matt Porter's QT.

Incidentally, they've decided to play the whole 600/1200 level again today, so the players will have had 90 minutes at this level. Kind of easing them into the day. Oh, I want coffee now...

[danafish]

The short stacks are wasting no time in getting involved, maybe so they can go back to bed or something.

Tim Flanders raises it up to 4k preflop; Patrick Murray, resplendent in his Johnny Texas Branded Promotional Shirt, calls, as does Mickey Wernick over on the button.

Flop - 

Tim Flanders bets 6k, and Patrick Murray immediately moves in for another 13.5k, which just about covers Tim too. This makes Tim Flanders tense and sad, and he spends about 5 minutes spinning a 100 chip and staring into some sad place inside his mind, before he calls.

Tim Flanders - 

Patrick Murray - 

It's not looking good for Tim Flanders. But

Turn -  and people are already shouting split pot, and then

River -  and split they do.

Incidentally, when people get themselves sponsored for an event in a kind of you-must-wear-my-corporate-shirt-all-the-way-through-the-comp sort of way? do they get more than one shirt? I mean, I guess a 2 day event's fine, but surely during longer events, the shirt must get gross over the course of 5 or more days of gruelling sitting around in it and sweating. Hotels do not always have quick laundry services.

[NoflopsHomer]

Mark 'Mantis01' Allden has knocked out V Madan, he'd apparently come over the top of Madan's raises a couple of times forcing the latter to fold, but this time Madan elected to call with Ace King, except Allden had Kings this time.

Mick Fletcher has doubled up with against Anthony Nicholls'

Board:


Alan Mclean has knocked out A Smith with against , Queen on the flop.

Craig Owen is OUT, his fell to J Moult's with the harmless board turning nasty with an river.

[danafish]

Lots of moderately-sized bluffing on the river followed by swift folds when somebody calls going on. Saw Mr S Walms or Walmsley, no-one's actually very sure what his name is, quietly fold when Toni Dicesare called his river bet with ace high, and I saw Andy Johnson just walk off as soon as his opponent started picking chips up to call.

Meanwhile, Alan McClean has been increasing his chip lead - he took down a pot on an x-x-K-K-x board with KJ against some unfortunate gentleman's KT.

But the real excitement is that Paul Jackson is OUT - "I took a bad beat," said he, and indeed he did. Finding himself all-in with the mighty 7-4 "Full Wilson" against John Burke's pocket kings, he somehow failed to hit, and was last seen wandering across the casino floor telling anyone who would listen about his astounding failure to win with the magic hand.

[NoflopsHomer]

Cavalcade of action for you now.

First a short-stack Shaf pushes with , only to find Simon Zach pushing behind him with , but the board comes . "Sorry kiddo," says a slightly quieter than usual Shaf.

Next Mark Allden puts Tom Nightingale all-in on a flop with his only to find himself up against

Turn:



"Eight is good."

River:



Ouch. Mantis adds to his stack.

Womble puts enough chips in the pot to put Micky Pearce all-in on a board. Micky folds his . Womble shows his boogielicious

Phillip Green bets 20k on the river of an board, getting a caller in A Rasid who mucks when he's shown .

A Psaras doubled up when he rivered a flush against a rivered straight.
   
Finally Ash Hussain makes a 20k river bet on a and gets a quick call from Mark Allden who shows his , Ash shows for the flopped nuts.

[NoflopsHomer]

Blinds are 800/1600

Simon Zach is OUT, the AK vs A8 hand crippled him and he's departed since then.

Red Dog has 60k roughly having limp-called an Andy Johnson raise with and then, then when Johnson pushed the with , Red beat him into the pot and the turn and river were blanks.

Will check on Ash's stack in a sec.


Chip leader Alan Mclean with what looks like over 200k.

This is Brian Welby who just knocked out Ash Ahmed with Jacks against A-9. A Jack, an Ace and a Nine all hitting the board.

Jim Reid, looking effortlessly cool, that's despite having his hand glued to his face.

Finally N Hanmer has doubled up with Tens against N Hosell's Sevens.

3 tables left.

[danafish]

Some more chips for Alan McClean or possibly Mclean depending on which bit of paper I look at. He raises to 3700 and Abbassi calls him. The flop is a pleasing raiser's  so they both check.

Turn -  - Abbassi bets and Mclean calls.

River -  - Abbassi bets 13k and Mclean calls - he shows his nice  full house and Abbassi mucks.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ash Hussain -- 80k

26 left. Average stack 56.5k

V Rasid is out, Andy Johnson's K-T beat his pocket Eights.

[danafish]

Red Dog bets 6.5k on a  flop, only for Jim Reid to raise to 13k. Red Dog asks how many Jim has left - it's about 35k. "I'm either passing this or I'm setting you in," he says. Eventually he opts to pass, showing  . Jim Reid shows  . Says Ash Hussain, "oh no, you both have trip tens. Dealer, check the pack."

[danafish]

Mr S Walms moves in, and it folds around to Tim Flanders. He folds too, showing T-2. "That's the third time in a row I've had T-2 and someone's raised every time." It's true as well, I'd been peeking all the while. "It was probably the winning hand," someone else pipes up.

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul Gourlay has 35k and is wearing glasses whilst keeping his Rocket Man glasses on his cap.

Ian 'hotdog' Fieldhouse and Anthony Nicholls are both OUT, they pushed with K-Q and Q-Q respectively but ran into the Aces of Andrew Psaras.

[danafish]

Double-up for Ben Callinan just before the break - all in on a  board, Matt Porter called him with  , no match for Ben's  . River irrelevantly  .

[NoflopsHomer]

Rough Chip Counts:

Table Big Stacks

Andy Louca -- 45k
Andrew Psaras -- 205k
Phillip Green -- 40k
Brian Welby -- 100k
N Hamner? -- OUT
Ramazanali Abbassi -- 50k
Alan Mclean -- 240k

Table Blondes

Mark Allden -- 90k
Red Dog -- 40k
Ash Hussain -- 93k
Andy Johnson -- 145k
Ben Callinan -- 140.5k
Jim Reid -- 62k
J Burke -- 13.5k

Table Shorties

Micky Wernick -- 44k
Seat 2 -- OUT
J Moult -- 21k
Paul Gourlay -- 27k
Tim Flanders -- 17k (Just had to chop a pot with A-J vs K-J despite flopping two aces!)
Womble -- 26k
Micky Pearce -- 18k
H Mohammed -- 32k

Off to try and find those missing names.