Bluesquare.com Plymouth GUKPT: Day 1A - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Welcome to Plymouth y'all. In a casino very reminiscent of the Brighton Grosvenor, we are here for the very latest Blue Square/Grosvenor event. Despite being tucked away in the corner of the UK, a fair number of top players have made it here. Oh and Flushy is here too.

Play starts at 4pm.

[JungleCat03]

Hi all

I've been invited back to report on behalf of blonde and I'm very glad to be here. The journey to plymouth is long( 8.5 hrs door to door) but will be worth it for the fine display of poker we are about to see I imagine.

The press room is ever so slightly cramped today, although the fridgeful of butter that is taking up half the space means we are very unlikely to be short of supplies of toast and butter should we get hungry. Except for the toast.

We're 40 mins away from kick off, so i'm off to the fridgeful of butter to filll my boots (they are chafing slightly)....

[JungleCat03]

Chips are clicking, cards are being dealt, all the anticipation is over and we are underway!

Still surveying the lay of the land, but I can tell you that John Hewston, James Dempsey and Barry Neville are occupying the same felt. There's likely to be a bit of chip movement, not to mention banter, on that table I imagine...

Jon Raab suggested there were 90 or so runners today, which is likely to be whittled down to 30 by the end of the day. It's hard to say whether this will be a quick or slow process. I would say on the surface of things this looks like a slightly weaker field than in Luton so the cat's forecast for early casualties is "Medium to heavy."

Noflops is out prowling like an animal, looking for a prime vantage point to snap some vintage shots for you so I'll join him and see if we can find ourselves some action....

[NoflopsHomer]

With the change in gaming laws, players now don't have to be in their seat for the first hand, and alternates can join up to the end of the second level. So with that, you can now tell who were the kids who were always late for class in school, examples 1 and 2 being Praz and Karl, swanning in late...

[NoflopsHomer]

Yes, the back window glare is annoying, hopefully they'll shut that soon.

[JungleCat03]

Not masses to report on so far, only 45 minutes in i guess!

Paul Parker is sharing the felt with Praz, and not suprisingly was found to be happy, smiling and chatty when I arrived, well I never!

Praz seems relaxed and prepared for the long haul, still with his starting stack as yet unaltered....

Des Jonas, whose arms are only slightly smaller than Flushy's mouth, was reportedly unhappy early on when he bet and an opponent threw in a 1k chip announcing call. Des apparently didn't hear the call and assumed it was a raise. It got a bit hairy for a few moments with Des "nearly swinging for the guy" apparently.

Click on the link through to some pictures of him from blondepedia and you'll see why this COULD have been a slight problem for his opponent! Luckily the language of diplomacy held sway, although there could be fireworks on this table later.....

[NoflopsHomer]

Since we are short on runners today perhaps now is a good chance to test the newish camera on the local norkage or else we might have to start a petition to get the beagle back behind the camera.

I disagree.

On a completely unrelated matter, here are Karl Mahrenholz's and Iwan Jones' tables.





Over on table 3, Rod Langton limps under the gun, Andreas Kallis min-raises, five people, including Langton call.

The flop comes . Check to Kallis who bets er...50. Ben Vinson makes it 250, Langton calls, Kallis and everyone else fold. Both players check the turn before Vinson takes it down with a 750 bet on the river.

Don't ask me what Kallis was doing, I just work here.

Simon Leseelleur (more E's than at a rave) raises the button, Iwan Jones calls in the big blind for 100 more.

The board comes and is checked down til a 300 bet from Iwan takes it on the river.

[JungleCat03]

Here's the player list with layout. There may be a name or two missing, but I'll update as soon as I can...

[JungleCat03]

Ok, should be ok, but you do need excel i think to run it, so I'll post up a jpeg of the image for those who haven't invested in the full microsoft office suite - shame on you!

Click to see full-size image.

[NoflopsHomer]

board



Douglas Champie, checks, Barry Neville bets 3.3k, Champie moves all-in for around 3k more. Neville calls.

Champie:



Neville:



And here's a picture of their chip stacks, (along with Martyn Cavanagh) after the river came



As Rolf Harris use to say, "Can you guess what it is yet?"

Meanwhile tucked away in the corner, is the other table which couldn't fit in the cardroom. Jeff Kimber and Peter Evans are on here.





Ben Vinson bets 1,725, Andreas Kallis calls after a long dwell, longer than you'd think considering he had , which easily won when Ben mucked.

[NoflopsHomer]

Jules Adamson is down to around 3k after, in his own words, he played a hand "f**king terribly."

[NoflopsHomer]

so he hit his 8 did he, its just on next picture he wasn't there

He'd gone for a ciggy after winning the pot. His big stack and the lack of stack of his opponent (and his opponent not being there at all) was the evidence.

Neil Channing is OUT, lost half his stack then tried to squeeze out a Paul Jackson raise with Threes, Actionjack had the boots though, and said he, "Somehow found the call."

Jules Adamson has doubled back up to 6k, not looking so grumpy now.

[JungleCat03]

Flushy's stack has taken a dent and he is down to about 8k.

"I knew he had Jacks, so I fired the KQ flop, and fired the turn but checked the river and sure enough he called me down with Jacks."

Flushy obviously left his third bullet at home....

Only slightly upset, Flushy offers some advice to Paul Parker, whose stack is also under 8k.  "Get in a pot with Praz, and call him on every street. You'll be alright..."

"Behave Flushy, I've hardly played a hand", says Praz, whose stack appears to have grown suspiciously, despite not having played a hand. Hmmmmm.....

[NoflopsHomer]

Yotesh Shah is OUT,

He got his stack in with on an board against Darren Blackaby's

Turn:



River:



Shah stood there thinking his two pair had won until it was pointed out that Blackaby already had the higher two pair.

I'm going to have to use my "Don't ask me, I just work here" line again.

[JungleCat03]

Courtesy of those illustrious folk at blue square, here are the end of level 2 chip counts.....

Neville, Barry   32425
Paez, Raul   28275
Sarmias, Minos   23400
Hunter, Jim   21300
Langton, Rod   20900
Goodman, Gary   18525
Bansi, Praz   17800
Baker, Scott   17225
Fullarton, Paul   16075
Wilkinson, Adam   15950
Dborin, Danny   15875
O'Reilly, Scott   15825
Dao, Mike   15500
Rowne, Matthew   15150
Hewston, Jonny   14925
White, Carl   14750
Bathe, Michelle   14250
Wilson, Des   14250
Evan, Peter   14050
Kallis, Andreas   13975
Jackson, Paul   13225
Marenholz, Karl   12975
Jonas, Des   12800
Jones, Iwan   12775
Spyrou, Andros   12725
Penly, Dave   11675
Leseelleur, Simon   11500
Moore, Chris   11375
Merry, Damion   11225
McBeath, Martin   11175
Peascoe, Joe   11000
Fuller, Darren   10975
Tabatabai, John   10850
Davies, Alan   10700
Moore, William   10650
Morris, Keith   10625
Sambrook, Tom   10500
Wyre, Ray   10200
Liffey, Rory   10025
Whyman, Piers   10025
Bathe, Stacey   9775
Palanca, Manuel   9575
Macnamara, Paul   9000
Szeremeta, Nic   8975
Wycherley, Mark   8850
Cohen, P   8750
Blackaby, Darren   8575
Mayall, Dave   8350
Chattha, Sunny   8300
Code, Daniel   8300
Cambianica, C   8250
Jones, F   8250
Stoneham, Adam   8225
Dempsey, James   8075
Traynor, Paul   8000
Singleton, Peter   7900
Sellitto, L   7875
Parker, Paul   7850
Vinnicombe, Alan   7500
Knox, Kevin   7275
Chapman, Tony   7175
Vinson, Ben   7150
Holden, Steve   6600
Grech, Joseph   6575
Parsonage, Daniel   6575
Patten, Luke   6500
Xanthos, Bambos   6275
Priestley, Gavin   6000
Patel, Arif   5675
Macnamara, Jane   5300
Dawson, Carl   5025
Bolt, Jody   4400
Cavanagh, Martyn   4225
Mitchell, Will   3925
Dunwoodie, Thomas   3900
Tomblin, Mark   3575
Hall, Craig   3000
Kimber, Jeff   1550