Midlands Meltdown Day 2 - Interactive

[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.

[b4matt]

Great call snoops. lol0ol0l0l0ol0l

[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.

[b4matt]

Ayarrrrr gooo on Ash!!!!

[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:

[MadTurk]

guys i have a story,brian welby i think his name    was talking to me about fate,he said friday night he had a bad beat oncash game or shootout i m  ot too sure  and he left casino to go home i ager as he went to the entrance of motorway it was very busy and he the decided to tur back to casino and played stt and wo his seat now he s on the final  is that saying something to you all? maybe he s the winner?

[snoopy1239]

guys i have a story,brian welby i think his name    was talking to me about fate,he said friday night he had a bad beat oncash game or shootout i m  ot too sure  and he left casino to go home i ager as he went to the entrance of motorway it was very busy and he the decided to tur back to casino and played stt and wo his seat now he s on the final  is that saying something to you all? maybe he s the winner?

Yes, says he's an addict.

[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.

[elblondie]

This is quite a line-up actually, we all know about Mickey, Ash and the great Alan McLean... Jim and Ben have been making there fair share of finals of late... but look out for Andy Johnston as well. If memory serves me correctly he knocked off 2 tourneys at the Bellagio during last years WSOP and knows how to finish....
so one of the others will undoubtably win 

[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]

This is quite a line-up actually, we all know about Mickey, Ash and the great Alan McLean... Jim and Ben have been making there fair share of finals of late... but look out for Andy Johnston as well. If memory serves me correctly he knocked off 2 tourneys at the Bellagio during last years WSOP and knows how to finish....
so one of the others will undoubtably win 

From what I've seen, Andy Johnson seems to spend almost as much time on the rail chatting to people as he does playing. He's been away from the table a number of times, so much so that's he must've missed at least ten or more hands on the final so far. Though, it's not a total surprise, he's often gone off for 5-10 minute periods throughout the comp over the last two days. Perhaps he has the runs?

[aidenson]

This is quite a line-up actually, we all know about Mickey, Ash and the great Alan McLean... Jim and Ben have been making there fair share of finals of late... but look out for Andy Johnston as well. If memory serves me correctly he knocked off 2 tourneys at the Bellagio during last years WSOP and knows how to finish....
so one of the others will undoubtably win 

From what I've seen, Andy Johnson seems to spend almost as much time on the rail chatting to people as he does playing. He's been away from the table a number of times, so much so that's he must've missed at least ten or more hands on the final so far. Though, it's not a total surprise, he's often gone off for 5-10 minute periods throughout the comp over the last two days. Perhaps he has the runs?

Nah he just smokes alot and apparently passses a lot of winners so he needs to regroup or talk to himself
lol