Luton GUKPT: Day 1A - Interactive

[Dingdell]

Great updates - I'm playing tomorrow.

Has the play been loose or tight on average today so far? Are people gambling or are they candid?

Thanks

[snoopy1239]

I didn't know there were so many different ways you could use your hand to prop up your head...

Is that Bad Girl Xuyen Vladar on the right? If so, wish her good luck from me, would be good to see her take this one down.

I think that's Adam Stoneman on the left.

[Ironside]

I didn't know there were so many different ways you could use your hand to prop up your head...

Is that Bad Girl Xuyen Vladar on the right? If so, wish her good luck from me, would be good to see her take this one down.

I think that's Adam Stoneman on the left.

what happened to mateyboy?

[Ironside]

Good news everyone. The tagging system has now been implemented, basically anytime anyone's name is typed out, it's automatically linked to the blondepedia where you can see bios and photos of said person.

it seems to be broke as there was no link for mateyboy

Forget Mateyboy, get qualifying so we can get you in there.

i cant get to a live sat so will never get my head round quailfying

but you never know if there are any mugs out there will to buy me in for 95% of my winnings i might one day play a main event

[gasman]

great new camera and name tag system

gl adam, praz, karl and anyone else playing today....

[fergus8]

is table 6 seat 7  damon?

it says n. iouannou but is that a typo?

[Tonji]

well done JC, a fine addition to the updaters, have fun 

the photos are looking great 

[NoflopsHomer]

Breaking News!

Just heard Chilli won her Women's heat! Hurrah!

[JungleCat03]

Sorry, didn't press post for this...so it's slightly late but i promised a silly story so here you go......

As the dinner break has arrived, casualties are few and far between - 3 so far by all accounts.

The players are tucking into the buffet as we speak. To fill the time before the poker re-commences, one of the stories from last night....

....After returning from the casino late on Rick, James and a few others bowled into the hotel bar for a drink or two. They had an idea that the barman wasn't the sharpest idea in the drawer after getting  a few drink orders wrong. Rick said, "I'll get some orange juice - at least he can't mess that up" .....

...."Can i take you order sir?"
...."Yeah fresh orange please...."

The barman disappeared before returning with a single fresh orange on a plate!

One of the welsh contigent in the hotel piped in with "Lucky you didn't order a bacon sandwich - he'd have come in with a pig on a piece of string!"

We await the restart of the poker with baited breath...

......but we are back on now.

One of the casualties pre-buffet was the current world heads up champion Jeff Kimber. His exit hand was somewhat unavoidable. Torstein Iversen had been raising frequently preflop in true aggressive scandinavian style. Jeff found AK in early position and raised to 300, which was reraised on the button to 750 by Iversen.

He flat called and checked the A 7 3 flop.

Iversen checks behind.

The turn was a K. Jeff led for 1500 which Iversen raised and all the chips found their way into the middle as Jeff committed himself to the pot.

He was somewhat miffed to find Iversen with KK, his one out on the turn good enough to win the monster pot and eliminate Jeff at the same time when no miracle A hit the river.......

......Meanwhile Jeff's fellow WHU finalist, Dan Carter is going well, currently 3rd with 22k in chips.

[Djinn]

Congrats to Chili, and to the new updater, in spite of that comment about my shoes. 

Excellent photos - sharp shooting - I am sure it's not just the shiny new camera.... plus JC, you are clearly a natural at this; I look forward to watching this one from the comfort of my sofa office.

[littlemissC]

Breaking News!

Just heard Chilli won her Women's heat! Hurrah!

whooooo hoooooooo
well done that bird.

good luck to all blondes playing today..especially Alix Martin,Woodsey,Rookie,Elblondie,Chris Bruse and Barry Neville.and trigg,oops
not sure what day they play but good luck to my favourite lanky boy Pete Linton and also Nick Hicks and Maz Nowab.phew

[JungleCat03]

Great updates - I'm playing tomorrow.

Has the play been loose or tight on average today so far? Are people gambling or are they candid?

Thanks

Most of the play I've witnessed has been pretty decent. The field is strong, there's many good players out there and silly loose mistakes have been few and far between, with the odd exception.

Best pass of the day has been Richard Trigg 's laydown of bottom set on the flop when the fourth raise just felt too strong and his opponent's middle set failed to get paid off.

[littlemissC]

just got text from Pete Linton,hes on 12k,can you find out whos on his table please...good job so far guys

FRAN

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip counts at the end of level 1 thanks to Blue Square

Torstein Iversen 26,750
Mick McCloskey 23,600
Dan Carter 22,050
Warren Wooldrige 21,700
Alan Gray 20,300
Alan Vinnicombe 19,975
Michael Cook, 19,650
Lee Baverstock 18,700
David Martin 17,025
Fabio Esposito 16,850
Stephen Read 16,850
Gary Chapman 16,650
Adam Stoneham 16,350
James Dempsey 16,125
Harpit Gurnham 16,125
Andrew Georgiou 16,100
Dave Colclough 16,025
Ram Vaswani 15,500
Lee Redmond 15,250
Glenn Martin 15,075
J J Hazan 15,000
Garry Bush 14,875
John Falconer 14,775
Ryan Fronda 14,725
Paul Vicary 14,475
James Bryne 14,475
David Gross 14,100
Carlo Citrone 13,950
M Arnold 13,900
Gavin Priestly 13,800
John Murphy 13,750
Stewart Clutterbuck 13,725
Graeme Newman 13,725
Simon Taylor 13,550
Tom Hurley 13,075
Piers Whyman 12,925
N Ioannou 12,875
Pete Linton 12,875
Jan Sjarvik 12,775
Michael Ellis 12,425
Leon Campbell 12,150
Glenn Ashworth 11,900
Michael Muldoon 11,875
Tim Hiskett 11,825
Steve Vladar 11,825
Vik Kanwar, 11,800
Jeff Burke 11,750
Simon Randall 11,625
Xuyen Vladar 11,525
Richard Ashby 11,450
Barry Neville 11,350
Chris Bruce 11,275
Praz Bansi 11,275
Roberto Romanello 11,275
Giuseppe Fontana 11,250
Dave Jones 11,250
Mak Csaba 11,200
? 11,125
Jeremy Feldman 11,050
Raj Modha 10,975
Anthony Conway 10,975
Terry Page 10,950
Alfie Baldwin 10,950
Jonathon Butters 10,900
Jeff Rogers 10,875
Mike Moore 10,875
Raymond McKenna 10,775
Andy Rivers 10,575
Julian Thew 10,525
John Doyle 10,450
Andrew Salmon 10,350
Iwan Jones 10,275
Jim Dunsford 10,200
Pippa Flanders 10,150
James Fraser 10,100
Manuel Palanca 10,025
Robert Stain 9,850
Alex Martin 9,800
Nick Risdale 9,800
Grant Mercado 9,700
Joe Grech 9,675
Jeff Buffenbarger 9,650
Allister Green 9,525
Paul King 9,500
Nick Gray 9,175
Thomas Myland 9,175
James McBride 8,900
Ariel Adda 8,900
Ben Turnstill 8,875
Justin Kyriakides 8,875
David Scurr 8,850
Ian Woodley 8,775
Leon Boros 8,650
Tim Flanders 8,375
Ian Nelson 8,350
Anthony Housden 8,350
Reyaaz Mulla 8,225
Neil Chudasama 8,225
Kalpesh Patel 8,225
Tony Adderley 7,950
John Phillips 7,900
Anthony Brady 7875
Raymond Nicholas 7,800
Daniel Samson 7,750
Javed Ghazi 7,750
Jan Magnus Brevik 7,700
Adrian Lambe 7,575
Premji Patel 7,525
Mark McCluskey 7,200
Luke Patten 7,200
Mike Magee 6,900
Phil Shaw 6,850
Mark Goodwin 6,625
David Lloyd 6,400
Yilfer Shevket 6,350
David Bright 6,250
Willie Tann 6,175
Lucy Rokach 6,150
David Bozzard 6,050
Andrew Georgiou 6,000
Michael Arnold 5,875
Neil Channing 5,875
Jaan Fiddian 5,625
Dave Bennet 5,375
Dave Courtney 5,175
Keith Hawkins 5,150
Gabriel Forde 5,100
Trevor Pearson 4,850
Ewan Hardie 4,625
Theodoros Aidonopoulos 4,550
James Moult 4,550
Cristiano Blanco 4,350
Karl Mahrenholz 4,175
Rick Trigg 4,100
Guy Johnson 3,825
Sorin Baciu 3,750
?? 3,225
Paul Bracken 3,150
Dave Clark 3,025
Andros Spyrou 2,875
Tony Fellone 2,700
Tony Ringe 1,760

[JungleCat03]

Just had a word with rookie and with alex martin who are sharing a table.

How's it going Alex?

"Pretty *poorly* (word may have been replaced for the purposes of good taste). All the other boys are getting all the cards"

As he had a neatly interwoven stack of chips i asked him for a chip count.

"Oh about 13k i reckon" he said, with a sly glance at the table and whistling innocently. A laugh or two was heard from several members of the table before he reconsidered.

"well maybe around 9k then, guess i miscounted" was the mischeivous reply.

Rookie wasn't looking like a picture of confidence.

"How's it going Rooks?"

"Ha not so great!" he said jovially. We struck a deal that the next time I returned he would have 25k though so things should improve when i next visit him.