Luton GUKPT Day 1A - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

all and welcome to Luton. With Jen playing the girly girl event this week and Snoopy busy, we welcome a brand new updater to the fold, this picture should give a clue as to who it is...


Please welcome...

Junglecat!!!!

[NoflopsHomer]

Roland De Wolfe is kicking off for not being allowed to buy-in at the last minute meanwhile Jeff Buffenbarger made it to his seat as his cards were dealt. Quickest. Man Ever.

Incidentally, there's a little group of Scandies here led by Torstein Iversen and Jan Sjavik, which should add to the mix. I'm off to get some more pictures.

[JungleCat03]

Hi and welcome from Luton...

 

Looking forward to today's action, doing the updates means having to fill rather large shoes (Not only do the updaters all do a cracking job  - Jen has suprisingly large feet).

Already bumped into an upbeat, if rather hungover Flushy and Rick "Actionman" Trigg lurking in the lobby of the Day's Inn, replete with humourous stories from last night, some of which I'll share during any quiet periods.

Rolf Slotboom made an appearance, looking tanned and fresh, in contrast to the somewhat pasty, hungover Flushy and Rick. I can only assume he had a quieter night than those two....

Naturally Kev was soon along, looking even thinner than the last time I saw him. He's wasting away the poor lad! RookieITB is here, and although I just spoke to him briefly, he's got a glint in his eye that either means business, or the sun was getting in his face and he was squinting. Ever the optimist, I'm going for the former. Good luck Rookie.

Anyway, we've been ushered by a jolly Jon Raab into the pressroom, via a series of doors, codes, passes and various security measures. I was hearing the mission impossible theme tune in my head, and as we approached the press room door, I was sure we were going to have to drop down through a hole in the floor and dangle down from the ceiling, hanging from a single steel thread, dodging infra-red beams to enter a password into a security console, but it turned out we just had to turn the handle. Oh well.......

I don't want to use my position as updater here as a forum to abuse Flushy but inevitably he brings these situations on himself sometimes. He has made the decision to appear at today's event dressed in a cream suit, matching jacket and trousers. Opinions are torn as to whether he looks more like the man from Del Monte, or a Ukranian arms dealer. Photos of him and the rest to follow and you can make up your own minds....

We're soon to join the throng and the action will be beginning shortly so good luck all the players!

[JungleCat03]

Some very interesting tables dotted about, blondites Rookie and Alex Martin have been paired together, there's a table with Ram Vaswani, Dave Clarke, Steve Vadar and Raj Modah, the Ladbrokes Million winner which should be entertaining...

...As I wondered through the tables , more concerned with seeing who might be paired up than expecting masses of action on level 1, Flushy's dulcid tones were heard as he told me to report Rick was about to fold his big blind to his 200 raise from early position. It had been flat called by mateyboy, (I'll be using that a lot till i get round people's names).

As Flushy mocked Rick, daring him to squeeze, Rick did indeed reraise. I missed the exact amount but it looked like it was to about 700-900 or so.

Flushy laughed and passed as did the cold caller.

More wandering round the tables, checking the match ups,The Camel and Joe Grech sharing the felt and a table with Julian Thew, Paul King and Willie Tann looked interesting.

More noise from Flushy's table.

What's the mentalist up to now? But he is not involved this time. Rick has raised to 125 on the button called by sb and BB.

The flop of Two Diamonds was checked to Rick who bets 225, which the SB duly calls and the BB duly raises to 925. Rick is having none of this and reraises to 2925.

The BB thinks for a short while and announces ALLIN, pushing his chips over the line.

You can hear Rick's breath rushing out of him and he groans audibly. He's got a hand but is it good enough?

After huffing and puffing for a minute or so, Rick decides to fold, claiming but not showing a set of deuces (  I forget his online name again.....)

....a big pot lost and a big hit to actionman's stack there, but one from which he can recover.

As I walked away from the table to write this hand up, Barry Neville wandered past and after being introduced exclaimed loudly in his burly yorkshire brogue "Ohhh so yer the big poof that shares flooshy's bed" and throws me a wink. I guess so ! Well it's hard to disagree with a 20 stone yorkshireman. Not till I've had at least 5 pints anyway........

[NoflopsHomer]

Chris Bruce just related an odd story to me. Mateyboy limps UTG for 50, Ram made it 250, and UTG made it 500, Ram called.

Flop:



MB bets 400, Ram called.

Turn:



Check check.

River:



MB bets 1200, Ram calls. Mateyboy shows Tens and says, "You must be winning." Ram mucks.

[NoflopsHomer]

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.

[JungleCat03]

Pippa Flanders was involved in a pot as I moved to her table.

I missed the preflop action but there had been a button riase from mateyboy.

Pippa led on a flop for 600 or so.

With just 2600 back mateyboy huffed and puffed before moving in for his last 2000 chips. Pippa eventually calls with AQ and mateyboy's As7s is ahead.

The and change nothing and her stack takes a dent...

James dempsey is seen betting 1k on a KQ549 board after betting 600 on the turn and being called. His opponent Ronnie Debeaulox, who knows Flushy well from Brighton, sweats making the call on the river.

"What are you thinking about Ronnie?" asks Flushy.

"It's a high flop, there's no way you have any of that?"

"What about these 2 they're not high?" says Flushy pointing at the 5 and the 4.

Ronnie calls and Flushy shows 45 for 2 pair which is good. Comedy...... He told me the decks been smacking him but he lost a big coup with A9 v A5 on a A5295 deal so is only on 12k.

Barry Neville is up to 18k after playing aces cutely, and getting away from from AQ on a Q high flop when a 3rd diamond hit....canny lad.

[NoflopsHomer]

******Dinner Break for 1 hour******

We believe Torstein Iversen is the early chip leader with 26k having eliminated a short-stacked Martyn Cavanagh with Aces against Tens, Mick McCloskey is close behind with 23k having scooped pots with A-Q vs A-J and A-9 vs 7-5 on a 9-6-3 board, eliminated an opponent in the process. Flushy has about 15k, whilst Dan Carter is on around 16.5k having raised preflop to 300, bet 300 on the board, raised to 1200 by his opponent before he made it 3,200 to take it down.

Karl Mahrenholz isn't having as much fun, he had A-Q vs 4-4 on a Q-4-Q flop and then flopped a Ten high flush against a higher flush. Could be one of those day where you just want to kick the cat... Oh, sorry Rod.

Finally Barry Neville is singing loudly after raising a bet of 600 on a to 4,500 before showing a cheeky bluff.

[JungleCat03]

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...

[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.

[NoflopsHomer]

So much to say, first Pete Linton went out after check/raising Willie Tann all-in on a bluff on a x-T-T-4-4 board, shame Willie was holding a Ten. He departed soon after.

Julian is a little short after raising a late position raise to 2,000 from 850, he passed sharpish to the all-in and was shown Kings.

Karl and Praz have finally been separated when their table was broken...they were then both moved to same table again.

News for Jan Sjavik fans now:

First he bets 5.5k on a board, his opponent dwells, perhaps a little too long, but calls with which is good. This left him short and he got the rest of his chips in with on the board and got called.

"Nines?" said Jan, perhaps a little hopefully, "You have Nines?" His opponent shows

Turn:



River:



Karl Mahrenholz has also been a river rat. He spiked a Nine with 9-9 vs K-K to double up.

[JungleCat03]

Blinds went up to 100 200 a short while ago.

Marc Goodwin is found contemplating a call on a A 3 4 9 flop from his opponent who is studying him carefully.  Eventually he folds.....

Carlo Citrone is sitting on a nice pile of chips. (My chip counting abilities clearly need some practise!) He makes it 500 from early position, and is raised to 1200. He shortly reraises another 4-5k and his opponent lays down his hand. Carlo pretends to have forgotten what he had, then checks his cards, giggles as if he has found something amusing and scurries off to have a chat with Marc Goodwin.

Keith Hawkins makes the strange decision to call a bet on a Q T 7 flop based on the outcome of a coin flip. Heads I fold, tails I call....

The tails promptly arrived and his call with 89 against his opponent's KQ  proved futile as top pair held....

Flushy has been busy, up to 25k. "I've been getting hands but not showing, the whole table thing I'm a thieving git" As flushy is passed the button for the next flop, he threatens to raise if it's passed to him. Bad girl says she'll be limp reraising him. As it turns out neither of them get to dance and you can almost feel their disappointment as a quiet guy in early position raises before everyone passes. He flashes an ace.....

Meanwhile a guy on flushy's table having suffered several bad beats in a short space of time was left with 1200 chips but rather than fight on with 6 big blinds, he simply upped sticks and left. Rumours that he left as flushy kept playing footsy with him under the table have proved unfounded.....

Rookie grabbed me as I wandered by. "I'm half way there!" he says, referring to the bargain we struck earlier where he said he would be on 25k the next time i saw him. "I was down to 3k but won a pot then had AA v AKs to double me up!"

Alex Martin's chips appear to have dwindled and as he overhears rookie's story he says "yeh you got a bloody gift there." He's laughing and joking with the table but I think Alex will be making a move very soon as he swiftly enters "get chips or get drunk" mode.

[JungleCat03]

In answer to the Rick question, sadly I think he is out. He had a pretty torrid set of cards, constantly having the 2nd best hand. I'll confirm his exit when i catch up with him.

As I passed Julian Thew 's table, he had donned his earphones but on seeing me he lifted what appeared to be a rather skinny stack into the air and crossed his fingers on both hands. When I got a chance to talk with him, he told me things weren't going well. I told him, don't worry no doubt you'll be up to 80k by the next level. With most players that would be an idle gee-up just to give them a boost, but with yo-yo, well you never know!

Rooky was looking a bit happier with a stack of 15k. "Moving the right way" he said with the smile that's been on his face all night.

Alex was away, but noflops managed to snap him so a picture will be added to this post shortly...

Flushy has lost a big pot with 2 pair vs a set. He raised from the cutoff to 900 with A6 and the button "who has played back at me a couple of times" flat called. The flop came TJ6...check....check.

The turn was an A, flushy bet out with his 2 pair and was raised an amount that he felt he couldn't pass only to find his nemesis with TT for a set.

"It was a lesson in why not to raise with A6" said flushy sagely, before raising with A7 shortly afterwards.

Bad girl is getting busier, after 2 limpers, including Flushy, on what is now 150 300, she makes it 1300 on the button, punishing the limpers, who all choose to fold. Flushy looks in admiration before folding his cards. He knows a good limper's tax sheriff when he sees one.

[NoflopsHomer]

Steve Vladar has doubled up with against on a board. He'd previously had a hard time, having a set run into a rivered straight amongst other stuff.

Jeff Buffenbarger is on life support after having his Aces cracked by Nines all-in preflop.