Luton GUKPT: Day 1B - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

Ross Boatman and Tim Blake, pretending to ignore one another...



Womble!!! Passing to victory!



Jerome Bradpiece and Nick Hicks



Priyan De Mel

[Queen of Hearts]

Good pictures ... which camera is that?

[NoflopsHomer]

Good pictures ... which camera is that?

It's a Canon 400D, absolute dream to use.

[KarmaDope]

Good pictures ... which camera is that?

It's a Canon 400D, absolute dream to use.

yeah, for you, not for the players. Warren Wooldridge would definitely agree with me after yesterday!

[NoflopsHomer]

Zippy Aslam and Colchester Kev



Big Trevor Reardon and Roland De Wolfe. Hard to imagine two more contrasting styles..



Tracy Dell (left) and Rolf Slotboom (right). Trace says it only took Rolf 3 hands to start irritating her.



GUKPT Newcastle Winner Maz Nawab

[NoflopsHomer]

Good pictures ... which camera is that?

It's a Canon 400D, absolute dream to use.

yeah, for you, not for the players. Warren Wooldridge would definitely agree with me after yesterday!

I understand, it must be tough to be sponsored for regular £1,000 events and have a camera flash in your eyes a couple of times over a period of 9 hours.

[JungleCat03]

Just had a pleasant chat with blondite HoldOrFold who is here for the day, and will no doubt be witnessing some action.

There's definitely a higher degree of gamble going on today. Tikay jsut had a word with me and was shaking his head at one particular hand.

"It' a 1k event so serious play obviously. There's a K 5 7 flop. Mateyboy bets surinder raises, reraise, re-reraise and the chips all go in. Now I'm thinking 2 sets. Mateyboy turns over KT, Surinder turns over K5 for 2 pair which holds. This man should be locked up, he's an animal" he says pointing at surinder who laughs.

I waited patiently by Roland De Wolfe to catch some action but he seemed more interested in tucking into his large plate of scampi, chips and peas. It did look rather tasty...

....I'm over at Kev's table and he is up to 13k "Won a few nice pots, going well" was the update so far. While I am there a family pot develops in which 5 people called a 200 preflop riase. The JJ2 one heart flop is checked round. The turn elicits a bet of 700 from one of the shorter stacked players, Ross Boatman passes quickly but he receives a call from one of the other players. The river is pushed by the shorter stacked player who says "You got the flush?" "Yes" replies mateyboy happily. "Good luck" he says as he mucks his cards and departs the table...

[AlexMartin]

Good pictures ... which camera is that?

It's a Canon 400D, absolute dream to use.

LOL, what a wolly. GL to Lalit Khajuria, my tip to win.
yeah, for you, not for the players. Warren Wooldridge would definitely agree with me after yesterday!

I understand, it must be tough to be sponsored for regular £1,000 events and have a camera flash in your eyes a couple of times over a period of 9 hours.

[Dry em]

Just when you thought Pryian couldn't possibly wear anything more ridiculous than before, he goes and pulls that gem out of the bag...

[The_nun]

So many to wish luck to, But ..Good Luck Kev and Matt Tyler. pass on these for me Jungle..to both  XX..and to you, you are fitting in well the updates are just great...Blonde have chose yet another fine addition to their team..




and Ding..

[Dewi_cool]

Please pass on my best wishes to all blondites playing, especially Colchester Kev, must remember to check the dates of these comps before booking my hols lol!!!!

nice seeing Mr Cat on the team

[NoflopsHomer]

Just when you thought Pryian couldn't possibly wear anything more ridiculous than before, he goes and pulls that gem out of the bag...

In a pot with Trevor Reardon, they both checked the turn of a board before Priyan bet 500 on the river, Trevor called, Priyan showed , sadly rivered by Trevor's .

"I don't think you'd have got too much out of me on the river anyway," offered big Trev.

[fergus8]

damon iouannou, hows he getting on, saw him in one of the photos

[JungleCat03]

It's 50-100 now.

Just been past Rolf Slotboom, I had to double check as his face is almost totally obscured behind shiny shades, GUKPT cap and enormous earphones. The large, bushy ponytail poking out of the back of his cap is the only way to identify him. Well that, and the ever present TicTac box on top of his chips.

As I skirted past Tilkay I congratulated him as his stack seemed to have increased slightly. He told me the story of his stack's growth to 12k.

"Well there's 5 limpers in front of me and i feel terrible limping, i mean i should raise shouldn't I? Anyway the flop comes JQ  x and they all check to me...ooh I'll have a little bet i think... It gets through.... Well now I've got a...well I'm pretty excited anyway....and I raise J4 and everyone folds! Next hand I get JJ, raise it and now I get 2 callers and bet the K high flop. They all fold."

Tikay is anxious to impress on me how he's been pretty laggy.

"Ask Beppe, I've been pretty busy haven't I?"

Michael Greco "Yeh, you played one hand in level one and four hands in level two"

Me: "Well he's upping the aggression then?"

Greco: "Yeh he's scandinavian-esque!"

I pull away from the enjoyable banter to find some other hands.

I see Ross Boatman raising to 400 on the button and the sb reraising to 2150. Ross passes resignedly.

As I leave his table, typically I miss the action on the table, and Ross finds himself getting it in with Aces only to find his opponent with a set. Exit Ross, leaving the tournament devoid of hendon mobsters.....

[NoflopsHomer]

Surindar Sunar has been rocking and rollin' according to Tikay, very first hand he called a raise with A-Q, called a weak bet on a Q-8-6 board, both checked the 6 turn, and then his opponent bet 500 on the blank river, Surindar made it 1,400. His opponent made it 2,500. Surindar passed, he was shown a well-played quad sixes.



Also on this table is another former GUKPT winner, Michael Greco, who looks like he's taking instructions from a little dwarf hidden under the table.



Multiway limped pot, including Kevin O'Leary, Simon Trumper and Hoss Parkhizar.

Flop:



Kevin O'Leary bets 150, Simon Trumper calls and Hoss calls. All the others fold.

Turn:



Kevin checks, Simon bets 500, Hoss calls and Kevin calls.

River:



Kevin checks, Simon checks, and Hoss now bets a big 2,000. About the size of the pot. Kevin passes after a dwell, Simon calls quickly. Hoss shows for the turned straight. Simon flashes the , so I assume he had 2-2 or perhaps A-2.

Simon, along with Kevin and Mick Fletcher.



Hoss Parkhizar