Midlands Meltdown Day 2 - At A Glance

[danafish]

It's an exodus of probably not quite biblical proportions.

Matt Porter is OUT - he raised it up with AJ, Andy Johnson called with 78. Flop came 7-8-J and the chips went in. Another 7 on the turn.

N Hanmer, who said his name was Joe, is also OUT - chips went in on a  flop but his  was no match for Abbassi's  with useless  turn and river.

And also Toni Dicesare has BITTEN THE DUST -  against H Mohammed's  - board  .

19 left now.

[danafish]

Toni Dicesare was lucky to make it to that last hand - a few hands earlier, he raised to 6k, only for Tim Flanders to move in for 8.5k more, covering Dicesare. After much dwelling and some fairly restrained cussing, he announced that he knew he was behind but he had to gamble. He turned over  and he was right about the behind bit - Flanders showed  .

But the board came down  for an extremely unlikely split pot. Tim Flanders screwed up his eyes and turned his face skywards, as if to spit in God's face.

[NoflopsHomer]

Red Dog is OUT, Andy Louca limped on the cut-off, Red pushed in the small blind with and Ash Hussain woke up in the big blind with Queens.

Mark Allden just lost a big 100k pot or so, he had on a board against Phillip Green's , the river was a club.

Micky Pearce is OUT, his was no match for Alan Mclean's which hit both hole cards in a blind vs blind battle.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ben Callinan limps, Andy Louca makes up and Mark Allden checks.

Flop:



Andy bets 5k, Mark passes, and Ben raises for a whole stack of gold 5k chips. Andy passes, showing the .

[danafish]

Jim Reid is OUT. He raised to 10k under the gun only for Brian Welby to go massively over the top of him from the small blind. After some considerable dwelling, during which time I lost interest and went to look at the other table, he called, at which I scurried back.

Jim Reid - 

Brain Welby - 

Board - 

Apparently that was the first time in a couple of hours that Brian Welby had raised, so not sure about that call there, he wasn't obviously committed after the 10k bet I don't think... Anyways, he's gone now.

[danafish]

Another split pot for Tim Flanders - all in on a  board, Alan Mclean calls. They both turn over 9-T off, and the  turn and river are no help for anyone.

[NoflopsHomer]

Mohammed Hassan is OUT in 15th place, he felt he couldn't pass his to the re-raise from Andrew Psaras who was holding . And after an unthreatening board, it was handshakes and exits.

[danafish]

Is Tim Flanders from Blackpool?

I don't know, and now have no way of finding out as he went OUT a few minutes ago. Not sure exactly what happened, but he ended up all in with JT against Paul Gourlay's AJ, the board reading Q-Q-Q-A-A.

By the way, blinds are currently 1500/3000, 13 left in, average stack 113,100. Blinds will be going up to 2k/4k in around 10 minutes.

[danafish]

Andrew Psaras and Ramazanali Abbassi both check a  flop, and then the  turn. Psaras checks the  river, and Abbassi bets, but Psaras doesn't take the bait. Abbassi shows his Q-J - Psaras says he has an ace, which shows some restraint there.

Incidentally, Mickey Wernick doubled up off of Psaras a little while back - KK against T9. Psaras is nowhere near short though - he has an absolute bunch of chips.

[NoflopsHomer]

Tim Flanders screwed up his eyes and turned his face skywards, as if to spit in God's face.

Great turn of phrase Dana, but I can't help but feel that a gurntastic photo-opportunity slipped through your fingers 

It's not my fault! Jen provided me with an Update Kit consisting of a laptop with an unfamiliar operating system, a camera with dead batteries, and 3 kinds of painkiller. Chris is on gurnage duty today...

I'm sorry to hear that you are in pain (unless the painkillers are for recreational purposes )

But I hasten to add that the description was as good as a photo anyhow and in no way detracted from my enjoyment of the update 

PS Any chipcount for Jim (Bookiebasher) Moult please ?

He's just doubled through Paul Gourlay with Nines against Fives. Up to 40k.

10 minute break. Blinds then 2k/4k

[NoflopsHomer]

Jim 'BookieBasher' Moult has just doubled up again, in an unraised pot, he was small blind vs Abbassi's big blind.

He bet out 6k on a board and Abbassi moved in. Jim began to think, to the point that Micky Wernick and Paul Gourlay rushed off to outside the cardroom for a quick fag like a pair of schoolboys. I got a quick glance at Jim's cards, . He dwelt for a while. Abbassi asked him what he had and, when Jim replied, "Top pair," Abbassi went quiet, but it looked as though Jim was too deep in concentration looking at the table to notice Abbassi's reaction to him saying, "Top pair."

Jim then stood up, and said, "I think I'm going to call...I'm going to gamble."

Abbassi turned over and Jim was rewarded by his call with blanks on the turn and river, he's on about 80k now.


Andy Louca on the other table is OUT. His uber-short stack fell to Brian Welby's . Ten on the flop.

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Brian Welby raises to 14k, and Ash Hussain reraises all-in for about the rest of Welby's stack. Eventually Welby passes, saying he had AK. "I thought you didn't play AK," says Ash. "Not against you," says Welby.

Meanwhile there's some raising over on the other table, and suddenly Andy Johnson announces all-in. Then he gets up and wanders off. "Andy!" somebody shouts, "Stay at the table! Oh, it's ok, he's passed."

[danafish]

Paul Gourlay is OUT.

It folds around to his button and he pushes. Jim Moult and Engineer Abbassi fold their blinds.

Next hand it folds around to him on the cutoff and he pushes again - this time Mclean and his super-stack make the call.

Gourlay - 

Mclean - 

Board  -  ("F***!!!!" shouts Gourlay and slams his fist on the table)  ("Five! FIVE!" squeals Gourlay) 

And he is gone.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ramazanali Abbassi is OUT, pushed from the small blind with , ran into Alan Mclean's in the big blind.

Board:




Meaning!!!


STOP!



BUBBLETIME!

[danafish]

Well, no messing around here. The bubble has burst already - in fact it burst before we could get back ot the card room. All I know is that our unfortunate bubble boy was Phillip Green, and I believe he went out with a pair of fours against Ben Callinan's AK. Floppy will bring you the full story shortly.