Midlands Meltdown Day 2 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Phillip Green decided to push with a pair of fours from the button for 75k(!) and Ben Callinan called with Ace King in the big blind hitting an Ace on the river. According to Ash Hussain, Phillip was overbetting far too much and could've easily raised and got away from the hand.

Dana has the full final table chip counts, there's a 30 minute break and then we'll restart.

[danafish]

FINAL TABLE
in seating planny order.

Andy Johnson -- 290k
Mark Allden -- 28k
Mickey Wernick -- 148.5k
Brian Welby -- 98k
Ben Callinan -- 207.5k
Andrew Psaras -- 220.5k
Ash Hussain -- 102.5k
Alan Mclean -- 364k
Jim Moult -- 61k

[danafish]

Yes to what Snoopy just said, you are so right. And Psaras is Greek, too, which makes me happy for no particular reason.

Anyways, Chris and I are attempting to get every single final table hand. Probably we won't keep it up, but here it is so far.

Fairly cagey early play here. First hand it folds around to super-shortstack Mark Allden on the small blind - he moves all in and Mickey Wernick folds. Allden shows A7.

Next hand it folds around to Mickey on the small blind; he bets and Brian Welby gives up his big blind without a fuss.

Hand Three and It folds around to Mark Allden on the cutoff and he pushes again. Ben Callinan on the big blind considers it for some time, but eventually folds. "Oh. I'd like it if you called," laments Allden.

[danafish]

Then a bit of good old-fashioned big raising.

Mclean calls the blind only for Mickey to raise to 20k. With barely a pause, Mclean reraises 100k in blue 10,000 chips.

"Bloody hell," says Mickey.

"I thought they were ones," says Mclean, pointing to the blue chips. Mickey is not fooled and folds.

Perhaps this makes Mickey aggressive, as the next hand he raises to 16k, and he takes the pot unchallenged.

[danafish]

Brian Welby, whose name I mistype as Brain each and every damn time, calls, and Mclean checks.

  and they both check.

Turn -  and they check again.

River -  and Mclean bets 10k. Welby dwells up most theatrically before raiisng to 30k. Mclean calls, and is most disappointed to see that Welby has made the flush with . He says he made the straight.

[NoflopsHomer]

Little had happened on my watch. Jim Moult raised three hands in a row, the third time showing .

Andy Johnson bet 30k in a three way pot against Micky Wernick and Jim Moult on a to take it down.

Then...

Andrew Psaras makes it 16k to go. Ash Hussain moves in for 100k next to him, more passing then in the Brazilian 70's football team. Back on to Andrew, who Ash has moved in on before before saying, "Yeah, I'll call you." and he does for the majority of his stack.

Ash:



Andrew:



Board:



Ash doubles through and Andrew is left as a shell of a stack, with only slightly more than Mark Allden.

[danafish]

Well, we've givne up on the hand-by-hand thing already, onthe grounds that virtually nothing happens for ages and then loads of stuff tends to happen at once. Not much going on right this second, though. I saw Mickey Wernick button-nick some blinds (which incidentally are now 3k/6k). Plenty of folding. Some folds-around-to-Ash-on-the-small-blind stealing, which turns out not to be a steal when Mclean gives up his blind and Ash shows AQ.

Also a fairly big pot, largely by virtue of the number of people in it. Mclean calls utg, and then Welby calls in late-ish position, Psaras calls from the SB and Ash checks the BB.

Flop -  - Ash checks, Mclean bets 10k, andWelby calls.

Turn - - Mclean checks. Welby bets 20k, and Mclean folds.

[NoflopsHomer]

Mark 'Mantis01' Allden is OUT in 9th place winning £2,450

Mark:



Brian Welby:



Board:

[danafish]

Sadly Snoopy's looky-likey is already out of date - Andrew Psaras now looks like a much sadder kind of Bob Hoskins as

Andrew Psaras is OUT in 8th place winning £2,940.

What happened, y'see, is that Jim Moult raised up a hand preflop to 16k and everyone folded. Then the next hand he raised preflop to 18k. This time, Psaras moved in for another 37k. Moult had maybe 50 or 60k left at this point. He munched on his lower lip for a bit before calling.

Jim Moult - 

Andrew Psaras -   

Board -  then oh the pain in Psaras' eyes  and 

How cruel the deck can be.

[NoflopsHomer]

Play has slowed down a little, no-one is dangerously short anymore, even with the blinds at 3k/6k.

Mickey just had his 22k raise re-raised to 60k by Ash and mucked his face up. Ash showed .

[NoflopsHomer]

Bizarreness now.

Folded round to Jim Moult on the button who min-raises to 16k. Small blind Andy Johnson re-raises another 50k. Micky Wernick folds. At this point Andy Johnson is staring at the chips like he misses them already and Jim Moult looks like he totally hates him, before announcing all-in for another 68k. Then Andy dwells so long, the final table buffet appears, it looks much nicer than the other one.

Andy Johnson says, "You've got Aces but I can outdraw you....I'm in too deep..." He looks like's he's going to throw the 68k in, but doesn't. At this point Alan Mclean is so bored he's inspecting the buffet, (which has a fruit buffet).

Jim Moult says, "You've got to let go..." Andy Johnson keeps picking up the stack of 68k and Mickey Wernick points out it's still 68k. And amazingly, given the odds, he folds.

Ash shouts, "3-1, you're getting young man!"

[NoflopsHomer]

Short Break:

Chip Counts, thanks to Chris the Dealer.

Andy Johnson -- 290k
Micky Wernick -- 39k
Brian Welby -- 169k
Ben Callinan -- 151k
Ash Hussain -- 241k
Alan Mclean -- 375k
Jim Moult -- 206k

[NoflopsHomer]

Hello, Dana here, using Chris' laptop because my connection has gone mad.

A moderately-sized pot. Mclean, Johnson, Wernick and Welby all call; Ash checks.

Flop -  - they all check.

Turn -  - and again they check.

River -  - Johnson bets 15k, but it is clear that he is trying it on. Mclean calls, and his  is miles ahead of Johnson's  .

[NoflopsHomer]

Micky Wernick has doubled up twice.

Having dwindled down to 19k, he pushed and got an automatic call from Alan Mclean in the big blind. (Blinds 4k/8k)

Micky:



Alan:



Board:

(Nice turn!)

Then he pushes again from early position and Andy Johnson calls pretty quickly considering he has only . Micky shows

Board:



Micky now up over 80k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Dana here again.

Ash makes it 38k from the button; Andy Johnson calls.

Flop - 

Andy checks, and Ash asks the dealer for Andy's chip count - Ash covers him by 7k. He announces all in, and Andy passes.

Andy seems to have dropped some more chips since his disastrous and bizarre pass a few hands back. Could be he's gonna be in some serious trouble soon...