Luton GUKPT: Day 1B - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Welcome back to the second half of the opening day where another 150 or so players will try to make Day 2. The runners today include Roland de Wolfe, Jerome Bradpiece and blonde's very own Colchester Kev playing thanks to the excellent blonde/virgin deal.

If you want us to follow anyone in particular, then please let us know.

Here are the chip counts of the remaining players from Day 1A :

Martin, David 81150
Ringe, Tony 67225
Bruce, Chris 66800
Mercado, Grant 54400
Vladar, Xuyen 52925
Woodley, Ian 52250
Grech, Joseph 48650
Lloyd, David 48475
Gray, Alan 46875
Vinnicombe, Alan 45425
Turnstill, Ben 43275
Ellis, Michael 42600
Tann, Willie 37750
Stoneham, Adam   37450
Nelson, Ian 37450
Muldoon, Micheal 37275
Mcbride, James 35525
Wooldridge, Warren 35025
Martin, Glenn 33825
Iversen, Torstein 33025
Ashby, Richard 32325
Bryne, James 31975
Kyriakides, Justin 31075
Housden, Anthony 31000
Cook, Micheal 29575
Butters, Jonathon 29025
Georeiou, Andrew 28625
Doyle, John 27725
clark, Dave 26750
Brevik, Jan magnus 26575
Hiskett, Tim    25400
Esposito, Fabio 24525
Green, Alister    24150
Samson, Daniel    24050
Chapman, Gary    23750
Feldman, Jeremy 22550
Moult, James    22325
Bush, Garry    21050
Jones, Iwan    20450
Taylor, Simon    20300
Falconer, John    18850
Priestly, Gavin 12775
Phillips, John    8225

Play begins at 4pm.

[NoflopsHomer]

Lots of people playing today.

Tikay aka Tony Kendall
Rob Garfield
Michael Greco
Rolf Slotboom
Paul Testud (over from France)
Trevor Reardon
Ash Hussain
Micky Wernick
Andy Miles
Matt Tyler

and the legend that is.... Colchester Kev!!!

[JungleCat03]

Hello everyone.

Cards are being dealt, chips are being twiddled and singlasses being donned. Play is underway!

Kev has Ross Boatman on his table so will be cracking a joke or two at Ross's expense no doubt once he gets into the swing of things. Ross loses a pot...."dunno about london's burning but your stack's on bloody fire mate...." something like that, but I'm sure Kev can do better.

For now he is wearing his sunglasses and baseball cap and looking focused. Go Kev...

It was hard to find a table with lots of good players on it, unlike yesterday. Scattered around I saw Simon Trumper looking relaxed and Dave Smith the winner of the brighton GUKPT wearing his trademark "fisherman's" hat and looking for all the world like he is just about to pull out a rod and hook himself a few trout. Maybe he is.......

Haven't managed to locate Roland De Wolfe yet but no doubt his table will prove interesting.

Unlike yesterday where only 3 people had fallen before the break I predicted more casualties today. There seem to be a few more mateyboys lurking about amongst the scattered pros, and so far it looks like they will be smashing the pre-break record of three with ease as two people have departed already.

One of those is Bambos Charalambos Xanthos.

Details of the hand are soemwhat sketchy but it seems that bambos had T8, his opponent AJ and after a J 9 x flop, all the chips found their way into the middle! AJ managed to hold and his opponent doubles up. I'm guessing those chips will be moving and shaking about a fair bit.....

[NoflopsHomer]

We've already lost our first player, Queens against Kings after a re-raised pot and a raggy flop all the money went in.

Nick Slade lost a 4k pot already, when his opponent made a large bet on the river of a board, Nick showed the .

Jim Reid has also lost a couple of pots, first paying of the nut-flush of his opponent to his right, then shortly afterwards, losing another pot to on a board.

Sunny Chattha calls a 175 bet on a board before raising the 400 bet on the turn to 1,100. Both players checked the scaryish river and Sunny revealed for a winning straight.

[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...

[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.

[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.

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.

[NoflopsHomer]

Roland De Wolfe is OUT. Kings vs Queens. Queen on the turn.

[NoflopsHomer]

************Dinner Break - Back in 1 Hour*****************

[NoflopsHomer]

Full Player List from Blue Square:

1   1    G   Palser
1   2    Kevin   Miller
1   3    Kenny   Burke
1   4    Richard   Wheatley
1   5    William   Martin
1   6    Antonio   Dicesare
1   7    Josh   Gould
1   9    Brett   Davies
1   10    Simon   Cowie
2   1    Anthony   Chapman
2   2    James   Reid
2   3    Jason   Defraitas
2   4    Des   Graham
2   5    Matt   Parry
2   6    K   Nikkahe
2   7    Steve   Kirk
2   8    Steve   Jelinek
2   9    David   Rudling
2   10    James   Morris
3   1    Mazhar   Nawab
3   2    Richard   Jones
3   3    Alan   Dunn
3   4    Ross   Johnson
3   5    Lalit   Khajuria
3   6    Damianos   Ioannou
3   7    Peter   Holt
3   8    David   Shelley
3   9    David   Gregory
4   1    Tracey   Dell
4   2    Bhupinder   Kohli
4   3    P   Soloman
4   4    Rolf   Slotboom
4   5    Michael   Jones
4   6    Peter   Charalambous
4   8    Yeshayow S   Shamash
4   9    Robert   Garfield
4   10    George   Geary
5   1    John   Maddison
5   2    Clive   Padden
5   3    Kc   Lewis
5   4    Magus   Gavrieil
5   5    Martin   Green
5   6    Terence   Simpson
5   7    Mickey   Wernick
5   8    Jonathan   Gale
5   9    Matt   Cartwright
5   10    David   Capon
6   1    Michael   Greco
6   2    Avi   Darvish
6   3    Neil   Fox
6   4    James   Woodruff
6   5    Thomas   Dunwoodie
6   6    David   Leu
6   7    Surinder   Sunar
6   8    Tony   Kendall
6   9    Zaffar   Aslam
6   10    Matt   Myford
7   1    Sonny   Ridgewell
7   3    Marlis   Rodio
7   4    Nick   Slade
7   5    Andrew   Buzzigoli
7   6    Richard   Harris
7   7    Charalambos   Xanthos
7   8    Paul   Kemp
7   9    Ian   Herbert
7   10    Andrew   Miles
8   1    Andrew Roberts   Amour
8   2    Martino   Libertini
8   3    Kevin   O'Leary
8   4    Simon   Scobie - Trumper
8   6    Richard James   Benton
8   7    Hossein   Parhizkar
8   8    A   Sapiano
8   9    J   Marles
8   10    Andrew   Ward
9   2    Paul   Leckey
9   4    Barry   Earnshaw
9   5    Steve   O'keeffe
9   6    Ken   Garden
9   7    Michael   Fletcher
9   8    Ouday   Hikary
9   9    David   Maudlin
9   10    Steven   Holden
10   1    Stuart   Nash
10   2    Adam   Kelly
10   3    G   Mills
10   4    Terry   Woodman
10   5    Daniel   Jolowicz
10   6    S   Nirmalananthan
10   7    Paul Henry   Jackson
10   8    Terry   Chapman
10   9    Paul   Ephremsen
10   10    M   Bolouf
11   1    Hamid   Hafezi
11   2    Iain   Bowden
11   3    Stephen   Walmsley
11   4    A   Booth
11   5    Jason   Ho
11   6    Martin   Jarvis
11   7    Kyriacos   Dionysiou
11   8    Chandrakant   Khajuria
11   9    Sami   Yusuf
11   10    Steven   Mann
12   1    Elesha   Armbruster
12   2    Charles   Denton
12   3    Alan   Vinson
12   4    M   Tyler
12   5    Damon   D Cruz
12   6    Jason   Priestley
12   7    Santiago   Holguin
12   8    John   Dwyer
12   9    L   Windish
12   10    Gary   Wilson
13   1    Fabrizio   Fusi
13   2    Barry   Styles
13   3    Jerome   Bradpiece
13   5    Nichiei   Hicks
13   6    Jon   Omara
13   7    Paul   Halling
13   8    Billy   Quang   Ngo
13   9    Steven   Bayliff
13   10    Laurence   Houghton
14   1    D   Tanna
14   2    Carl   Williams
14   3    Albert   Satiano
14   4    David   Wicks
14   5    David   Smith
14   6    Andrew   Feldman
14   7    Robert   Boon
14   8    Ray   Wyre
14   10    G   Mcever
15   1    Santiago   Holguinlopez
15   2    Adam   Wilkinson
15   3    Priyan   Demel
15   4    Alan   Dean
15   5    Glenn   Altham
15   6    Trevor   Reardon
15   7    Roland   De wolfe
15   8   Ken   Wong
15   9    Maten   Meelhimmey
16   1    John   Hewston
16   2    Chris   Kyriacou
16   3    Sunny   Chattha
16   5    Gavin   Manley
16   6    James   Akenhead
16   7    Nikhil   Persaud
16   8    Sabrizii   Susi
16   9    Patrick   Mccloskey
16   10    Paul   Testud
17   1    Royce   Law
17   2    Zahir   Aslam
17   3    Kevin   Shepherd
17   4    Jonahon   Wong
17   5    Abhishek   Khaitan
17   6    Chris   Gavriel
17   7    Ross   Boatman
17   8    Tim   Blake
17   9    Michael   Oneil
18   1    Graham   Wellman
18   2    Adam   Heller
18   4    Sidney   Harris
18   6    Issebella Durr
18   7    Arshad   Hussain
18   8    Neel   Nagrecha
18   9    Lee   White

[JungleCat03]

It looks like 10 casualties at the dinner break exactly matching my prediction for today. Thank thank you autographs later etc.

Anyway self congratulation aside, we don't have the chip counts available just yet although they will be up shortly.

Had dinner with Blondite Redbull, who ihas gently increased his stack to 13k or so. "I like these levels as they play like the deepstacked cash games I'm used to..." He was looking relaxed and composed as he sipped on his glass of red wine and I have a feeling he could do well. I'll keep you updated.

Had a conversation with Tikay and Kev over a cigarette. Kev is on 13,800. "How many have you got Tikay?" asked Kev.

"26k" replied Tikay confidently.

"Like **** you do, you've never seen that many chips in your life!" countered Kev. "I saw your stack you've got about 14k"

"I've got some yellows!" replied Tikay.

"you've got 14k haven't you?"

Long pause..........

"No" said Tikay finally to a chorus of laughter.

"Gotta bluff faster Tikay...." I tell him.

Meanwhile, I ask womble how he was faring..

 "My stacks up 43%!" he exclaims proudly. "That's like final tabling for me...."

Nick Persaud was heard explaining how a nice run of cards ( AK on a JQT flop), on a 9 high flop and the odd steal has given him a decent stack.

[JungleCat03]

Rolf Slotboom has swapped his baseball cap for a wooly ski hat now, and was heard urging his neighbour to "show the bluff show the bluff" after his 3k bet wasn't called by the other players in the pot.

On Table 17 there was some allin action. An unraised pot on 75 150 was seen by 4 people.

On a flop of , mateyboy 1 who might well be Chris Gavriel, bet 600 into the pot. Mateyboy 2 who might well be Royce Law (He sounds like a streetfighting character) min raised to 1200 at which point Chris immediately reraised to 8000, enough to set Royce in for his last 5.5k or so.

He lifts his glasses and examines the flop again before calling with the mighty and being shown KQ for the nut straight.

The turn of gives him hope of a backdoor flush but the river bricks and Royce Law departs to tell his friends Zangief, Ken and M Bison about his "unfortunate" departure.

[NoflopsHomer]

Matt Tyler has added to his stack, re-raising a 600 initial bet to put a short stack all-in, who duly called with his against Matt's , spiking a King on the J-6-K-9-3 board. Matt has roughly 6k more than the chip counts I'm about to put up!

Kev has lost chips, first he had 8-8 on a 8-6-5 board after 9-7 didn't raise on the flop on the J turn and also decided to just call on the 3 river that put 3 clubs out there. Kev would've done his whole stack, if a raise had come on the flop or turn. Kev then had on an A-A-2-5 board against the same guy only to have another 5 hit the river and Kev's opponent moved all-in. Kev still has 10k though.

That's 10k more that Rolf Slotboom has. Dingdell had said, "It was the most erotic thing she'd even seen," (I only half suspect she was joking) when Rolf kissed his chips before putting them into a pot, which he went on to win. At the break, Rolf had said, "Chrish, I've playedsh two potsh in two hoursh. Whatsh is that like? Shixty hands? I've played two handsh, and I played them both terrible."

After the break, Rolf was all-in on a board with against . "Come now dealer, concentrate. Loadsh of kingsh in the deck, loadsh of kingsh."

Turn:



"Loadsh of kingsh and tensh..."

River:



And we're down one dutchman.

If you're calling a re-raise with , then isn't a bad flop to hit, especially against . This is what Greek Jack did, and not content with that, once all the chips were in the middle, Jack then hit the on the turn to overkill the hand.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chips Counts thanks to Blue Square:

Wilkinson, Adam 26775
Earnshaw, Barry 25200
Wong, Jonahon 22900
Gale, Jonathan 22400
Wheatley, Richard 20775
Boon, Robert 20500
Marles, J 20500
Herbert, Ian 20450
Hewston, John 20250
Greco, Michael 19875
Persaud, Nikhil 19825
Mcever, G 19025
Kelly, Adam 18900
Nikkahe, K 18400
Sapiano, A 18375
Green, Martin 17850
Yusuf, Sami 17825
Chattha, Sunny 17350
Nawab, Mazhar 17225
Davies, Brett 17050
Kirk, Steve 17000
Bayliff, Steven 16500
Gould, Josh 16250
Ioannou, Damianos 15975
Shamash, Yeshayow S 15875
Demel, Priyan 15450
Feldman, Andrew 15225
Leu, David 14950
Dionysiou, Kyriacos 14875
Leckey, Paul 14800
O’Leary, Kevin 14375
Walmsley, Stephen 14200
Shelley, David 14125
Slade, Nick 14100
Parry, Matt 13950
Gavriel, Chris 13850
Jones, Michael 13825
Shepherd, Kevin 13800
Styles, Barry 13550
Chapman, Anthony 13500
White, Lee 13475
Holguin, Santiago 13425
Garden, Ken 13300
Simpson, Terence 13275
Holden, Steven 13225
Altham, Glenn 13225
Parhizkar, Hossein 13050
Akenhead, James 13000
Hafezi, Hamid 12975
Palser, G 12950
Wheatley, Richard 12800
Sunar, Surinder 12800
Denton, Charles 12675
Reardon, Trevor 12625
Myford, Matt 12575
Hicks, Nichiei 12500
Nirmalananthan, S 12475
Khajuria, Chandrakant 12425
Vinson, Alan 12250
Ephremsen, Paul 12175
Durr, Issebella 12075
Rodio, Marlis 12050
Kendall, Tony 12000
D Cruz, Damon 12000
Cartwright, Matt 11900
Padden, Clive 11650
Priestley, Jason 11550
Harris, Richard 11475
Johnson, Ross 11350
O’keeffe, Steve 11300
Hussain, Arshad 11225
Bowden, Iain 11200
Khajuria, Lalit 11150
Dunwoodie, Thomas 11050
Amour, Andrew Roberts 11025
Susi, Sabrizii 10925
Defraitas, Jason 10875
Windish, L 10875
Harris, Sidney 10875
Mills, G 10625
Nagrecha, Neel 10350
Scobie - Trumper, Simon 10200
Nash, Stuart 10200
Martin, William 10075
Wilson, Gary 10075
Heller, Adam 9900
Ridgewell, Sonny 9775
Morris, James 9700
Holguinlopez, Santiago 9550
Jackson, Paul Henry 9475
Garfield, Robert 9375
Graham, Des 9300
Dwyer, John 9250
Law, Royce 9250
Soloman, P 9100
Woodman, Terry 8975
Aslam, Zaffar 8925
Charalambous, Peter 8800
Tyler, M 8800
Omara, Jon 8625
Jones, Richard 8600
Gregory, David 8275
Kemp, Paul 8100
Fusi, Fabrizio 8100
Dell, Tracey 7925
Wellman, Graham 7925
Meelhimmey, Maten 7850
Libertini, Martino 7825
Jarvis, Martin 7650
Buzzigoli, Andrew 7600
Tanna, D 7550
Kohli, Bhupinder 7500
Dicesare, Antonio 7400
Manley, Gavin 7350
Dean, Alan 7300
Blake, Tim 7275
Fox, Neil 7250
Maddison, John 7125
Maudlin, David 7125
Shelley, David 7075
Benton, Richard James 6900
Chapman, Terry 6750
Slotboom, Rolf 6675
Halling, Paul 6350
Cowie, Simon 6075
Rudling, David 5975
Satiano, Albert 5950
Bradpiece, Jerome 5650
Bolouf, M 5300
Miles, Andrew 5100
Ward, Andrew 5000
Oneil, Michael 5000
Wernick, Mickey 4950
Jolowicz, Daniel 4950
Gavrieil, Magus 4600
Capon, David 4250
Darvish, Avi 4175
Burke, Kenny 4025
Fletcher, Michael 3950
Houghton, Laurence 3400
Miller, Kevin 3150
Kyriacou, Chris 2750
Dunn, Alan 2175
Wong, ken 2125
Holt, Peter 1100