Luton GUKPT Day 1A - At A Glance

[JungleCat03]

Julian Thew has bitten the dust sadly.

He got his chips in preflop with KK, finding a caller with KQ.

The flop came K high, but with a J. The turn A and river T sealed his fate is cruel fashion, but although i missed his exit you can be 99.9% certain that Julian took his horrible beat in his stride , with a handshake for the lucky winner and a "good luck to all" departing message.

[JungleCat03]

As the blinds have increased, so has the level of chip violence accordingly.....

James Dempsey, Dan Carter, Barry Neville have all had their stacks reduced to rubble and have been busted.

Flushy was unfortunate to run his K9 straight into a Q9 nut straight against the same man who had taken 10k off him earlier.

Barry was upset with himself at his exit. "Ah pleyed the hand diabolical, an ah mean diabolical" he told me. "I knew ee 'ad a set, 'ee put is chips in the sehm wey earlier when ee 'ad it" - his A8 proving no match for 99 on an A K 9 flop.

Dan Carter's exit was for an enormous stack. He called a raise from david martin with 78 and when the flop came 789, David bet 3000.

Dan raised to 6500, before David made it 13000.

"I knew he was overplaying his overpair" he said as he reraised allin and was called by T T. A J on the turn sealed the straight and sent an enormous 70ks worth of chips to his opponent and crashed the high flying dan out of the tournament.

Willie Tann's stack is steadily growing and although appearing lethargic whenever I visit, he is clearly not hanging around. I was told he had straight against straight before a lovely heart on the river gave him a straight flush to augment his stack. I stayed to watch another blockbuster Willie Tann hand but he clearly likes to do his chip gathering business when i am elsewhere as my patience was scantly rewarded with the sight of him just gently munching on a small biscuit. I think it was a hobnob, but this may be misreported. If it was a bourbon, don't go for my throat.

Floppy has a nice picture of him modelling some mirrored shades which the table all agreed were cool.
Quote from: JungleCat03 on Today at 10:33:47 pm
Julian Thew has bitten the dust sadly.

He got his chips in preflop with KK, finding a caller with KQ.

The flop came K high, but with a J. The turn A and river T sealed his fate is cruel fashion, but although i missed his exit you can be 99.9% certain that Julian took his horrible beat in his stride , with a handshake for the lucky winner and a "good luck to all" departing message.

 

Sorry the above does not relate to Julian's exit. I have been misinformed. I am off to hunt down those responsible and have them shot. Unless it was my fault in which case I will reward the perpetrators with a cigarette.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ram Vaswani is also out, he missed a gutshot straight-flush draw then according to Chris Bruce began to push with high regularity before he had some rags called by K-Q and failed to hit.

Jeff Rogers has also gone, he held on a board in an unraised pot, Burnley John had limped with though and took the whole stack, elevating himself to the heady heights of 40k.

[JungleCat03]

Chip counts courtesy of blue square....

These counts are slightly out of date now, known victims of the cruel fate that awaits the unlucky in tournament poker have been struck through.

Baverstock, Lee 30300
Mercado, Grant 29525
Carter, Dan 29200
Gurnam, H 28550
Iversen, Torstein 26100
Housden, Anthony 25800
McCloskey, Michael 23850
Martin, David 23675
Dempsey, James 23250
Gray, Nick 22975
Falconer, John 22700
Adderley, Tony 22500
Lee, Redmond 22425
Esposito, Fabio 21350
Cook, Micheal 21100
Vinnicombe, Alan 20200
Wooldridge, Warren 19875
King, Paul 19425
Dunsford, Jim 18725
Martin, Glenn 18650
Hiskett, Tim 18575
Vicary, Paul 18450
Campbell, Leon 18375
Georeiou, Andrew 18225
Debeaulox, Ronnie 18150
Chapman, Gary 17900
Jones, David 17525
Modha, Raj 17300
Nelson, Ian 17100
Mak, Csaba 16600
Hazan, J j 16550
Rogers, Jeffrey 16000
Arnold, M 15825
Turnstill, Ben 15725
Romanello, Roberto 15675
Ringe, Tony 15675
Bush, Garry 15600
Ashworth, Glenn 15525
vladar, Xuyen 15200
Fronda, Ryan 14675
Citrone, Carlo 14250
Taylor, Simon 14025
Murphy, John 13775
Jones, Iwan 13300
Hurley, Tom 13200
Bryne, James 13175
Conway, Anthony 13100
Colclough, David 13050
Fontana, Giuseppe 13000
Sjavik, Jan 12800
Grech, Joseph 12775
Bansi, Praz 12400
Stain, Robert 12375
Bruce, Chris 12175
Rivers, Andy 12175
Fiddian, Jaan 12100
Buffenbarger, Jeffery 11800
Priestly, Gavin 11700
Bennet, Dave 11550
Brevik, Jan magnus 11400
Ghazi, Javed 11325
Palanca, Manuel 11300
Gray, Alan 11300
Tann, Willie 11250
Samson, Daniel 11175
Myland, Thomas 11125
Neville, Barry 11000
Forde, Gabriel 10900
Fiddian, Jaan 10900
Mcbride, James 10850
clark, Dave 10750
Muldoon, Micheal 10675
Patten, Luke 10450
Martin, Alex 10250
Hawkins, Keith  Jonathon 10150
Salmon, Andrew 9875
Green, Alister 9725
Ashby, Richard 9650
Stoneham, Adam 9600
Randall, Simon 9350
Phillips, John 8925
Feldman, Jeremy 8800
Gross, D 8750
Patel, Premji 8725
Flanders, Philippa 8550
Vladar, Steven 7925
Mahrenholz, Karl 7900
Bozzard, David 7775
Kyriakides, Justin 7575
Jones, David 7500
Ellis, Michael 7500
Flanders, Tim 7450
Trimby, Michael 7450
Scurr, David 7225
Boros, Leon 7025
Lloyd, David 6850
Butters, Jonathon 6500
Goodwin, Mark 6200
Shaw, Phil 6175
Clutterbuck, Stewart 6150
Woodley, Ian 6050
Blanco, Cristiano 5750
Newman, Graeme 5725
Rokach, Lucienne 5550
Fraser, James 5300
Johnson, Guy 5250
Pearson, Trevor 5200
Mccluskey, Mark 4375
Kanwar, Vik 4025
Brady, Anthony 3725
Patel, Kalpesh 3675
Arnold, Michael 3600
Baldwin, Alfie 3425
Whyman, Piers 3250
Thew, Julian 3175
Moult, James 3125
Page, Terry 2900
Doyle, John 1140

[NoflopsHomer]

Ian Woodley doubled up a shorty with againsty ,

Board:



"Keep going!!" Shouted Woodley. "I'll hit my flush soon!"

Karl Mahrenholz is OUT, I saw him squeeze the and then call a Marc Goodwin small blind raise from the big blind. The flop was , Marc made a pretty big overbet and Karl pushed and Marc immediately called with , the blank turn and river sending the birthday boy home.

Joe Grech just doubled up with Ace King against The Camel's pocket Eights, spiking the turn. Joe then knocked out the short-stacked Jeff Buffenbarger with against , hitting his lady.

Steve Vladar is out now too. How do I know this? Well, him sitting in the cash game is probably a good enough reason for me. Michael Muldoon and his easily spottable red t-shirt are also seemingly MIA.

[NoflopsHomer]

Players are on a short break, when we return, it's the 200/400/50 level.

[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

[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....

[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.

[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...

*********BREAK IN PROGRESS**************

                 57 players remain

[NoflopsHomer]

David Lloyd ends up all in a classic standard Queens vs Ace King encounter.

David's running commentary for the cards came as follows:

"Queen first card please..."



"Queen please."



"That's good, keep it coming."



"Brick it out..."



"That's good, last card slowly please..."



Entertaining double-up to say the least.

Marc Goodwin, Ryan Fronda and Glenn Ashworth are all OUT and playing cash together.

Keith Hawkins told me of a good call he made.

He'd limped with on the button after a few other limpers, the 9-9-2 with two diamonds flop was checked to him and he bet, everyone folded to the last limper who c/raised his 1.2k bet to 4k. The turn was an offsuit 6, the limper checked again, this time check/calling Keith's 4k bet. The river was the , now the limper bet 8.5k and Keith called with his threes, ahead of the busted flush draw of the .

[NoflopsHomer]

Keith Hawkins is OUT, his failing to hit on the the Q-T-5 two hearts board against Joe Grech's Q-T which housed up on the river.

Chris Bruce has just added to his stack which looks to be around 50k, he just knocked out the superbly named Robert Stain with vs on a board.

Dave Clark c/raised all-in on the turn of a board taking it down.

Ian Woodley has pushed on a for 12,950 to take a pot down against the small blind, his opponent dwelt and Woodley said, "Slow playing your Aces son? Unlucky." After a muck from other player, Woodley showed .