Luton GUKPT: Day 1A - Interactive

[Ironside]

can we get a chip count for johnathon "the camel" hawkins please

[snoopy1239]

hows Steve Read doing? Say hello from his wife

Do you mean Stephen Read?

[Card_Shark]

yes stephen read

[NoflopsHomer]

I think I spotted another Notts Blonde - Woodsey in the bottom photo of the 1st page. He's got a pink shirt on and is on the nearest table to the camera. Any news on how's he's going? He came 7th in the £500 yesterday for £3k so looks to be on form.

Chip count for Damon Iannou please? 

hows Steve Read doing? Say hello from his wife

Will check for these during this level.

 Of these, I only know the fate of Woodsey, who was sitting next to Thewy in the cash game. He explained he re-raised the serial button raiser with AJ and didn't believe his opponent had a bigger ace when one of the two remaining aces came post flop. Sadly his opponent had it this time, holding Ace Queen. The other two, I've not been able to spot the other two, they're not on the latest chip list so I'm assuming they're out.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ben Turnstill aka "RookieITB" has knocked out fellow blonde Alex Martin. Ben raised A-Q preflop and Alex pushed with calls, Ben was debating the call until Alex said, "You've taken this long, now I know I'm ahead," which made Ben think he was in a race. He duly called and then rivered the Queen.

Jan Sjavik bet 2k on a and was called, they both checked the turn, before his opponent bet 2k on the river. Jan, shaking his head, in a "I know I'm beat but I can't fold for this little because I want to see what crappy filth you sucked out on me, you fishy bugger," kind of way. At least that's what it looked like to me.

His opponent showed and Jan flashed still shaking his head.

Chris Bruce has 30k, buoyed by raising with Aces and having a short-stack push with Kings behind him.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip counts, thanks to those cool cats at Blue Square

Martin, David 84475
Mercado, Grant 44875
Vinnicombe, Alan 44025
Iversen, Torstein 37250
Falconer, John 37000
Hawkins, Keith  Jonathon 35700
Esposito, Fabio 30550
Stoneham, Adam 29850
Mcbride, James 28925
Wooldridge, Warren 27675
Ringe, Tony 27600
Hiskett, Tim 26925
Lee, Redmond 26000
Taylor, Simon 25600
Muldoon, Micheal 24200
Trimby, Michael 24125
Goodwin, Mark 23975
Gray, Alan 23575
Moult, James 23450
Baverstock, Lee 23450
Conway, Anthony 23375
Housden, Anthony 23000
Tann, Willie 22975
Jones, Iwan 21950
Bruce, Chris 21925
Gray, Nick 21600
Modha, Raj 21475
Feldman, Jeremy 20450
Brevik, Jan magnus 19950
Martin, Glenn 19925
Brady, Anthony 19475
Vicary, Paul 19175
Stain, Robert 18400
Cook, Micheal 18000
Georeiou, Andrew 17275
King, Paul 17175
Campbell, Leon 17075
Palanca, Manuel 16425
Turnstill, Ben 15450
Gurnam, H 14850
Bryne, James 14775
Ashby, Richard 14500
Nelson, Ian 14475
Grech, Joseph 14200
Chapman, Gary 14050
Green, Alister 13425
Romanello, Roberto 13325
Patel, Premji 12950
Baldwin, Alfie 12650
Bush, Garry 12300
Butters, Jonathon 12250
vladar, Xuyen 12125
Ghazi, Javed 11825
Debeaulox, Ronnie 11750
Arnold, M 11675
Mak, Csaba 11625
Dunsford, Jim 11125
Stevens, Robert 11050
Kyriakides, Justin 10950
Sjavik, Jan 10825
Lloyd, David 10300
Risdale, Nick 10275
Fontana, Giuseppe 10100
Ellis, Michael 9625
Jones, David 9100
Ashworth, Glenn 8875
clark, Dave 8875
Salmon, Andrew 8725
Pearson, Trevor 8100
Arnold, Michael 7925
Martin, Alex 7575
Woodley, Ian 7525
Boros, Leon 7375
Hurley, Tom 7050
Rivers, Andy 6850
Myland, Thomas 6800
Flanders, Philippa 6700
Bennet, Dave 6675
Fronda, Ryan 6675
Gross, D 5625
Fraser, James 5300
Samson, Daniel 5200
Kanwar, Vik 4875
Priestly, Gavin 4350
Murphy, John 3775
McCloskey, Michael 3575
Adderley, Tony 2700

[NoflopsHomer]

can we get a chip count for johnathon "the camel" hawkins please

*In a Mark and Lard stylee*

"Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo?"

[Ironside]

come on johnathon

[JungleCat03]

Apologies for the lack of updates from my end, blonde has been running a little slowly for me, although the tables have not been filled with action.

79 players remain, the average is a shade under 20,000 and the blinds 200 400.

Plenty of play in theory although players definitely seem to be in "consolidation" mode at the moment, with many pots uncontested preflop, either being passed round or a single raise taking it down.

Pots of note include Ian Woodley raising to 1200 from early position, announcing "I'm not passing." A re-raise from Burnley John Falconer (sorry couldnt see how much but a decent amount) made a liar of him as he passed after a bit of banter with John , showing pocket 77. John showed KK. Poker players don't alf tell some porkies sometimes...

Also Roberto was seen punching the air as he hit a T on the river to win a pot with his AT, announcing well that call ad valyoooo you knoooo. I assume he was behind although his opponent's cards were mucked by the time i arrived....

Comical moments in the cardroom include Barry Neville being video interviewed for one of the online sites, and having a lollipop accurately thrown at his head by a brave bystander during the interview....

....Flushy loudly requesting someone to stake him in the cash "crash" game he is currently involved in with Paul Jackson. For the first time all evening perhaps, a deathly hush befell the cardroom......

....Roberto told his table a joke which I would like to repeat although it is almost certainly non - blonde compliant. I will say it involves a bald man, his doctor, a supermarket, an unusual cure for baldness and a lady. You'll have to fill in the msising pieces yourself

[JungleCat03]

Roberto Romanello is OUT.

After good showings in previous GUKPTs he has been eliminated in 75th (or thereabouts) place out of today's competitors, in a 99 v TT coup. The exact details of the hand are not available to me just yet but I'll try to garner more useful information when I'm in the cardroom....

[KarmaDope]

Comical moments in the cardroom include Barry Neville being video interviewed for one of the online sites, and having a lollipop accurately thrown at his head by a brave bystander during the interview....

Most of the comical moments today have revolved around Barry Neville, but nothing was funnier than the "joke" told by Skunk on why he has that nickname. I'll leave it to Colchester Kev to spill the beans (so he doesn't have to edit my post again!)

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[JungleCat03]

Mick McCluskey is out....Tony Ringe's AT holding versus Mick's KQ, I'm guessing as it went in preflop there was some sort of  buttonage/blindage action, but again I'll see I can flesh out this skeletal description with the skin, tissue and vital organs of the hand, when I get down to the cardroom. 

[NoflopsHomer]

Blinds are 300/600/75

Ronnie Debeaulox just shoved with when ubershort, called by , he was rewarded with a flop to double him up.

Xuyen Vladar just bet 4k on the river of a board and was called, she showed to take down a 20k pot.

Jan Sjavik is out, pushed on a board, his opponent eventually made a very good call with , as he was ahead of Jan's , who failed to hit set or gutshot.

Warren Wooldrige raises in EP to 2.2k, Ian Woodley calls.

Flop:



Woolridge checks, Woodley bets 3.1k, Woolridge calls.

Turn:



Both players check.

River:



Now Woolridge bets 5.5k and Woodley mucks.

Incidentally I spotted Michael Muldoon, not out apparently and actually quite healthy, he claimed Willie Tann was destroying his table earlier. Michael had been moved and was now, "doing a Carlos" with his stack. IMHO, the bottom here shows great and original promise but the top is just slack frankly. B+ for originality but only a C+ for effort.



Chris Bruce and RookieITB have been moved to the same table, which also has this gentleman, Alan Vinnicombe, one of the chip leaders on it.



Quote from Barry Neville, "If they brought int' chef from Newcastle, I tell ya, everyone would be as fat as me."

[JungleCat03]

An interesting and unfortunate hand developed between Brian Johnson and mateyboy. Involved in a pot to the river, mateyboy bet the river and instead of calling, Brian Johnson turned his pocket kings face up without pushing his chips over the line.

Ruling his cards were mucked.

Brian Johnson shook his head sadly at his error of protocol. He wanted to call, he meant to call but he did it wrong and the rules are the rules so he was left nursing a microstack, shaking his head and sitting gloomily with an almost visible cloud of despair hanging over his head. No surprise when 5 -10 minutes later he busted out...

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