Luton GUKPT: Day 1B - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Zippy is OUT, Q-T on a Q-high board vs Aces he said with a sigh.

Andy Miles is really short, so short he had to fold Sevens to an UTG limp by Nick Slade which followed by a early position raise. The flop came and Nick check/folded to the raiser who showed Aces. Not Mr Miles' day I'm afraid.

Simon Trumper passes to a 3k bet on the turn of a board, his opponent showed King Jack.

[NoflopsHomer]

damon iouannou table please

Alan Vinson please...think he is table 12

Hi Guys

How's Stuart doing?

 

Players are on a short break but I can reveal these chip counts thanks to friendly dealers. Pics to follow later.

Damon Ionnau -- 8,475
Stuart Nash -- 19,850
Alan Vinson -- 17,650

Blinds will be 150/300 when we restart in about 5 minutes.

[JungleCat03]

Photos to follow once I get Chris to show me how to get pictures off the camera. Later on he will be giving me advanced lessons in how to tie my shoelaces and do joined up writing too.

Despite my technological incompetence, I did manage to speak to Andy Miles.

"How's it going Andy"
"Hahaha terribly"
"Shall I say you are cautiously optimistic?"
More laughter "If you like!"

Andy is cautiously optmistic....


As I go to see James Akenhead, he is deep in conversation with Nick Persaud, so I don't disturb him, other than flashing a bulb in his face briefly. He seems to be holding a stack of about 17k or so and looking very confident. One of the older players is telling James he gave him " a lot of respect there" after James has just picked up a pot. Chips and respect, the man is flying...



Dickie Jones is looking slightly bored, but is involved in an interesting hand in the BB as I arrive.

Both blinds check to mateyboy on the button who bets 225, which is raised by the sb and reraised by Dickie . Button and SB pass. A nice addition to his stack  but the face resting on fist pose remains. I snap a quick and terrible picture of him before a fire alarm causes chaos and I run to the press room to post these pictures before my charred corpse is dragged out of the casino....such is my dedication to the job.

Turns out it was a false alarm anyway but here they are. Please go easy on me, I'm not the world's greatest photographer I must concede!

[NoflopsHomer]

can u tell deirdre persaud that whoever he has playing his account just knocked me out on stars and they run even better than him (AQ v my AK).

updates on ActionJack, Tim T8MML Blake and Milesy please, and congratuate them on all being below starting stack at the dinner break

Gramps says, "Isn't it past your bedtime?"

Tim -- 9,500
Actionjack -- 15,600
Andy -- 2,000

Tim just told me of a huge pot Chris Gavriel won off Jon Wong, 50k at least. Jon raised up with aces, two hearts came on the flop, but Gavriel waited til the turn to re-raise all-in and then river the heart, which must make him the chip leader now.

Jerome Bradpiece is OUT, card dead for two hours, then Queens into Kings. He has gone to the cash game now.

[NoflopsHomer]

Billy Ngo is OUT. He held on a board vs Nik Persaud's , the turn was the and the river was to send the Walsall runner-up home.

Andrew Feldman just had one of those, "why why why do I get so much action when I have such a good hand dammit" looks on his face. With the board reading , D Tanna checked, Mateyboy bet 1,500. Andrew raised to 3,000. D Tanna pushed  for 7,275 total and so did Mateyboy for much less causing Andrew incredible exasperation. He had to call with his and was up against and . The set holding, eliminating matey and knocking Andrew down to around 4,500.

Ian Herbet -- 27.7k

111 left, 14.9k average stack.

[JungleCat03]

As I walk past Micky Wernick, I ask how he's going, secretly knowing the answer won't be great as I glance at his micro stack.

"Not so bad, got at least an ante" he says comically.

He obviously has more than this though as his cut off push is passed round to the big blind who also passes after a long think.

Micky shows AT and increases his stack to just under 2000.....

Simon Trumper is spotted doing a crossword with his neighbour and solving one of the clues to his neighbours delight.....I wonder if that will stop him stealing his blinds later...

James Akenhead looks to have taken a big hit to his stack. Facing a large bet on the river, he eventually folds and appears to be under 10k now....

Kevin O'Leary aka Lovejoy raises a limper to about 850 which is called by the big blind.

The flop comes .

Check. Lovejoy bets 1100 or so which is called.

The turn is the . Check Check.

River a low blank. Check. Lovejoy moves in for his remaining stack of about 6k or so. BB folds.... and kevin adds the 4k pot to his collection of chips.......

Meanwhile the much followed and "cautiously optimistic" Andy Miles pushes his stack in preflop, the other player ums and arrs before saying "I've got to call" and wishes he hadn't as Andy shows AA, his opponent A6 and no shocks happen Andy doubles up to 6k or so.....

Blinds up to 150/300 ante 25

Micky Wernick has reportedly just doubled up to 7k. The whiskered magician never knows when to quit.....

[JungleCat03]

Chip counts start of level 5
Courtesy of those fine people at blue square

Wilkinson, Adam 45425
Earnshaw, Barry 38775
Cartwright, Matt 35250
Davies, Brett 30475
D Cruz, Damon 29675
Wong, Jonathon 28450
Dionysiou, Kyriacos 28075
Jones, Michael 27125
Jackson, Paul Henry 27025
Boon, Robert 25575
Green, Martin 25475
Chattha, Sunny 25200
Yusuf, Sami 24975
Kemp, Paul 24675
Kirk, Steve 24200
Khajuria, Lalit 24150
Nikkahe, K 23750
Hewston, John 23150
Sunar, Surinder 22800
Gavriel, Chris 21725
Demel, Priyan 21625
Mills, G 21600
Mcever, G 21550
Herbert, Ian 21450
Nawab, Mazhar 21175
Persaud, Nikhil 20700
Kelly, Adam 20425
Nash, Stuart 19850
Martin, William 19300
Wheatley, Richard 18900
Reardon, Trevor 18050
Hicks, Nichiei 17900
Vinson, Alan 17650
Holguin, Santiago 17375
Bayliff, Steven 16125
Sapiano, A 16075
Jones, Richard 16050
Wilson, Gary 15975
Feldman, Andrew 15650
Shepherd, Kevin 15650
Satiano, Albert 15300
Harris, Richard 15150
Altham, Glenn 14950
Garfield, Robert 14725
Dunwoodie, Thomas 14650
Marles, J 13900
Parhizkar, Hossein 13850
Shelley, David 13700
Leckey, Paul 13450
Halling, Paul 13225
Gale, Jonathan 13075
O’Leary, Kevin 13000
Akenhead, James 12850
Chapman, Anthony 12750
Windish, L 12725
Leu, David 12650
Durr, Issebella 12275
Tyler, M 12225
Soloman, P 12175
Johnson, Ross 12100
Greco, Michael 11550
Palser, G 11375
Nirmalananthan, S 11375
Geary, George 11325
Benton, Richard James 11300
Parry, Matt 11200
Amour, Andrew Roberts 10900
Gould, Josh 10875
Myford, Matt 10750
Holden, Steven 10675
Susi, Sabrizii 10550
Khajuria, Chandrakant 10500
Jolowicz, Daniel 10300
Kendall, Tony 10300
Simpson, Terence 10225
Defraitas, Jason 10050
Harris, Sidney 9725
Garden, Ken 9675
Burke, Kenny 9650
Houghton, Laurence 9250
Blake, Tim 9175
Jarvis, Martin 9150
Heller, Adam 9100
Maudlin, David 8950
Walmsley, Stephen 8950
Styles, Barry 8950
Ioannou, Damianos 8475
Capon, David 8425
O’keeffe, Steve 8300
Ridgewell, Sonny 8000
Gregory, David 7950
Aslam, Zaffar 7950
Buzzigoli, Andrew 7950
Kohli, Bhupinder 7850
Priestley, Jason 7800
Omara, Jon 7625
Nagrecha, Neel 7400
Morris, James 6950
Bolouf, M 6875
Tanna, D 6600
Slade, Nick 6200
Scobie - Trumper, Simon 5750
Gavrieil, Magus 5675
Palser, G 5025
Holguinlopez, Santiago 5000
Ephremsen, Paul 4900
Fox, Neil 4875
Graham, Des 4725
Chapman, Terry 3850
Ngo, Billy   Quang 3650
Wernick, Mickey 3600
Miles, Andrew 3425
Kyriacou, Chris 3175
Meelhimmey, Maten 3125
Bowden, Iain 3100
Dicesare, Antonio 2725
Hussain, Arshad 2250
Holt, Peter 1575

[NoflopsHomer]

Nick Hicks is MIA.

Ian Herbert raises the button, Andy Miles flat-calls, and then Sonny Ridgewell moves all-in. Herbert calls, and now Andy Miles moves all-in and Herbert hates it, but has to call as it's so little more.

Herbert: 8-8

Miles: T-T

Ridgewell: A-J

Board: A-K-x-8-x

And that, was the case Eight for Ian Herbert, knocking the other two out. The general consensus from the rest of the table is that Andy Miles should've have made the initial push and the Sonny Ridgewell would still be in since Herbert wouldn't have called.

Tikay has won a couple of pots, calling a raise with and hitting a flop quite hard, he then called a small raise with , hit a T-7-6 flop and then manage to extract a few chips from a guy with x-6 when the 6 paired on the turn.

[JungleCat03]

down to 95 possibly 94 players now...

[NoflopsHomer]

Maz Nawab -- 24,000

He just knocked out a short stack with against on a board, turn , river .

Jon Hewston -- 27,000 (now sitting next to Paul Testud)

Damon D'Cruz is up to around 50k having knocked out Matt Tyler, holding , he took a stab at a flop, Matt called. The turn was the gloriously helpful . Now Matt bet and Damon called the river was the , Matt pushed and Damon called. Matt is now  in one of the cash games.

Tikay is OUT, he lost a chunky pot to a guy who made a big call on a dangerous board, (I'm sure Tikay will elaborate more in his blog/thread), he then had Jacks vs Aces and couldn't improve.

[JungleCat03]

78 players left, average just over 20,000.

Chris Gavriel, who was sitting on a big stack after earlier on getting a flush draw in on the turn against his opponent's aces and rivering his heart has just lost his 50k stack by getting it in on the turn of a paired board with an open ended straight draw vs kings.

James Akenhead is OUT. No details as to how just yet....

Kevin Shepherd known to some as Salad Man, has just let me know he has 13,250. He didn't look particularly happy about this but cheered up immensely when he was delivered two toffee lollipops. I hope all this chip counting doesn't mean you've stopped calorie counting now kev......

As I spoke to Kev on his table, the evil bond villain was involved in a pot (Barry Styles is the name he used to register for this comp though)

Stuart Nash made it 900 to go and was called by Blofeld, and both blinds. On a two hearts flop, Nash bet 2200 and was called by Scaramanga but both blinds folded.

The turn was a 9. Check by Nash, check by Jaws.

River 7 and Stuart Nash bet out 3.5k. Goldfinger paused a moment before folding and showing Nash an Ace. Not wanting to be outdone, Nash flashed his opponent an ace too....

1-0 to the good guys

[NoflopsHomer]

Jon Wong check/raises Bond villain on a board, shows .

Tim T88ML Blake is OUT, Queens vs Ten. Ten on the river.

[NoflopsHomer]

Blinds are now 200/400/50 btw.

[JungleCat03]

Damianos Ioannou is sitting on under 10k but seems happy enough...

Micky Wernick looks to have increased his stack to just shy of 20k which is pretty good going considering how short he was before. Can never write that man off.

Chip counts at start of level 7 courtesy of those heroic figures at blue square....

Jarvis, Martin 74150
Kemp, Paul 55075
Davies, Brett 54475
Nash, Stuart 52400
Chattha, Sunny 45700
Wilkinson, Adam 41225
D Cruz, Damon 39025
Herbert, Ian 37875
Vinson, Alan 36550
Green, Martin 33900
Khajuria, Lalit 33850
Kirk, Steve 33500
Boon, Robert 33000
Earnshaw, Barry 31200
Dionysiou, Kyriacos 31200
Parhizkar, Hossein 30625
Jones, Michael 30400
Reardon, Trevor 29350
Sapiano, A 29250
Aslam, Zaffar 28700
Dunwoodie, Thomas 28675
Persaud, Nikhil 28600
Hewston, John 28225
Jackson, Paul Henry 27400
Altham, Glenn 27175
Cartwright, Matt 26925
Capon, David 26075
Sunar, Surinder 25825
Nawab, Mazhar 24350
Nikkahe, K 24275
Chapman, Anthony 23475
Durr, Issebella 23450
Wong, Jonahon 22725
Soloman, P 21950
Wernick, Mickey 21750
Garfield, Robert 21525
Yusuf, Sami 20750
Shelley, David 19950
Bayliff, Steven 18525
Johnson, Ross 18000
Styles, Barry 17650
Tanna, D 17225
Demel, Priyan 17075
Myford, Matt 16475
Kelly, Adam 16300
Leckey, Paul 15350
Palser, G 14625
Shepherd, Kevin 14525
Booth, A 14125
Mcever, G 13850
Marles, J 13725
O’Leary, Kevin 13425
Omara, Jon 13125
Greco, Michael 13100
Amour, Andrew Roberts 12775
Ioannou, Damianos 12000
Windish, L 11725
Parry, Matt 9825
Satiano, Albert 9550
Slade, Nick 9400
Feldman, Andrew 9250
Rudling, David 9175
O’keeffe, Steve 8425
Blake, Tim 8300
Benton, Richard James 7375
Nagrecha, Neel 6550
Jolowicz, Daniel 5725
Susi, Sabrizii 5375
Buzzigoli, Andrew 5000
Kohli, Bhupinder 3800
Walmsley, Stephen 3800
Halling, Paul 3400
Harris, Sidney 950

[NoflopsHomer]

Two more levels to go and Micky Wernick got short again.

On a board, Micky checked, Andrew Feldman bet 1.8k, Martin Green called and Micky moved in.

Feldman passed, Martin made the call.

Micky:



Martin:



Turn:

for a few extra outs.

River:



And the legend is OUT.

Greek Jack has also gone too.