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

[NoflopsHomer]

Here's how Adam Stoneham likes his chips



board.

Adam gets it all-in with against the of Darren Blackaby which holds for a 16k pot for the Stars Million Chopper.

Praz Bansi takes one down with a 1.5k bet on a board.

Paul Fullarton bets 600 on a board, Arif Patel calls. Shaun Ward c/raises to 3k and both players pass with sighs and frowns.

[NoflopsHomer]

71 players remaining from the original 85.

Jules Adamson just grabbed my pad, wrote down an imaginary Flushy exit involving him raising with 42o betting a J-T-9 with two hearts, and then min-check/raising all-in on the Queen turn. He wanted to see if anyone wouldn't actually believe that could happen.

Alan Vinnicombe limps for 150, Praz makes it 550, both check down the board where Alan's is good versus Praz's , the latter obviously hating the texture of the flop.

Johnny Hewston has just been blessed, when a player with the nut flush bet around 3k into a 600 pot, a third player passed and then the nut-flusher threw his cards into the middle not having seen Hewston still had cards, which gave the latter the pot.

[JungleCat03]

Paul Parker is seen looking somewhat bored, but holding a stack that seems somewhat bigger than he had not so long ago...

As they announce an omaha cash game opening up, James Dempsey's head snaps round as if magnetically attracted to the valoooo. His interest in the cash game is obviously closely correlated to the diminishing size of his stack...

On his table, Barry's raise is reraised by Paul Mcnamara on the button.

"'Ow mooch yoo got left" Barry asks before getting a swift reply and passing...

Meanwhile whilst Paul had been sitting quietly, I turn round to find him involved in a raised pot. With 1600 or so in there, the flop of iis checked by himself and Thomas Dunwoodie.

On the turn of , Paul bets 900, which gets called.

The river comes the , at which point Paul ponders, before betting just under his remaining stack, 7 or 8k ....

...after a long pause, he receives a pass, before showing the Ah....

"I thought Paul never bluffs!" observes Praz.

Blinds now up to 100 200. 70 combatants remain.

[JungleCat03]

An argument develops on Barry Neville's table. Flushy raises preflop which is called in two spots before Luke Patten moves  in for 4400.

"Let's race" he announces.

Flushy sits there acting up and squirming. "You've got a small pocket pair haven't you"

Luke "Yep I've got a small pocket pair"

Bambos, one of the callers, is not happy about this. "You can't declare your hand. It's against the rules!"

Luke is equally upset though and argues his corner before a ruling is sought. The ruling being, "As long as he doesn't say his exact hand, it's fine"

Bambos "In vegas your hand would be dead"

Luke "Well we're not in **** vegas are we!"

Can't argue with that.

Meanwhile, on the same table, Barry Neville's stack has taken a big hit. Holding 55 on a 5 7 Q board, Barry was destined to lose a fair amount of chips to Mike Dao's QQ as the money flew in on the flop. Roughly 10k or so of Barry's chips have been rehoused in Mike's stack...

[NoflopsHomer]

Flushy is down to the felt after running K-Q into Luke Patten's A-Q.

Two people limp, Praz raises to 1,100. Gary Goodman makes it 2,200 from the big blind. Praz calls, the rest fold.

Flop:

.

Gary bets 4,500 with about 5,200 behind. Praz eventually passes what he says are Tens. With the way the preflop action was, I was a little surprised how long he thought. Gary showed Queens incidentally.

Rod Langton scoops a big pot when his holds against the of Darren Blackaby on a 5-7-4-9-2 board.

Sunny Chattha just knocked out Nic Szeremeta with against on a board, all the money on the flop.

[JungleCat03]

Flushy is OUT.

He shoves his dust like stack into the middle and is auto called by the big blind. Suprisingly Flushy has a hand but his 99 is not match for J8 when a J hits the flop.

I'm sure this event was completely unrelated to all the omaha cash game players simultaneously rubbing their hands together and topping up their stacks....
 

[NoflopsHomer]

*********1 hour dinner break********

[JungleCat03]

Adam Stoneham was just involved in a big pot on table 5. I joined on the river as the board read   

With one player already allin, Adam moved his 6.6k stack over the line on the river. The other active player, who I sincerely hope is Mark Tomblin, ummed and ahhed a while, as is standard, before finally passing. Adam showed a rather juicy QQ for 2nd set and eliminated the allin player, whose A6 was NO GOOD. Double up for Adam Stoneham.



Praz was seen betting 600 into a 900 pot on a T 8 x K 9 river and picking up the pot as the limper and sb both folded.

[NoflopsHomer]

Bambos is OUT. He called a Barry Neville raise of 1,100 (blinds are 150/300) with in the big blind. He then check-called the flop before check-calling all-in on the turn. Bazza held which stayed good on the river.

Questionable play from Bambos imo.

Adam Stoneham loses a chunk when his 1,500 on the river of a is raised to 4,000 by Mark Tomblin who shows when Adam calls.

Incidentally, look at how much room the stacks of seats 1, 2, 9 and 10 get compared to the middle seats.



Bizzare, huh?

Top new reporter Praz Bansi grabs my attention to point out Thomas Dunwoodie moving all-in against Matthew Rowne's bet on , Rowne passes, Dunwoodie shows them bullets. .

I suppose if Praz fails in his choice of career, he might make it as a reporter, depends if he grafts enough, I think.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip Countage thanks to those evil geniuses at Blue Square:

Langton, Rod 49300
Paez, Raul 40825
Dao, Mike 30225
Sarmias, Minos 28125
Neville, Barry 26600
Bathe, Michael 23975
Baker, Scott 22300
Bathe, Stacey 19850
Whyman, Piers 18725
Liffey, Rory 18700
Morris, Keith 18075
Hewston, Jonny 17975
Tomblin, Mark 17150
McBeath, Martin 17050
Chattha, Sunny 16000
Goodman, Gary 15900
Parsonage, Daniel 15200
Stoneham, Adam 15075
Wycherley, Mark 14925
Hall, Craig 14325
Vinnicombe, Alan 14300
Fuller, Darren 13950
Wilkinson, Adam 13725
Wyre, Ray 13200
Jackson, Paul 13150
Leseelleur, Simon 13000
Merry, Damion 12850
Rowne, Matthew 12850
Jones, Iwan 12150
Peascoe, Joe 11600
Bansi, Praz 11350
Moore, William 11100
Davies, Alan 11050
Cohen, P 11025
Penly, Dave 10800
Marenholz, Karl 9975
Parker, Paul 9875
Kallis, Andreas 9400
Mitchell, Will 9375
Knox, Kevin 9125
Wilson, Des 9100
Dawson, Carl 8650
Jonas, Des 8500
Moore, Chris 8475
White, Carl 8250
Bolt, Jody 8150
Code, Daniel 8100
Singleton, Peter 8050
Patel, Arif 7850
O’Reilly, Scott 7675
Macnamara, Paul 7650
Vinson, Ben 7600
Patten, Luke 7200
Chapman, Tony 7200
Sellitto, L 7100
Priestley, Gavin 6875
Jones, F 6775
Palanca, Manuel 6525
Mayall, Dave 6125
Macnamara, Jane 6100
Traynor, Paul 5850
Sarmias, Minos 5600
Sambrook, Tom 4775
Cavanagh, Martyn 3950
Grech, Joseph 3800
Xanthos, Bambos OUT
Dunwoodie, Thomas 3350

[NoflopsHomer]

Errrr, the good news is I got a picture of Martin Mcbeath.

The bad news is as I took the photos he busted out in two hands.

First he had on a against Luke Patten's just as Barry Neville says, "Ere, I had nine seven this 'and, was gonna play it 'n' all, there's five grand int' pot already."

Turn:



River:





Very next hand he pushes on the button, Barry Neville calls. With of course.



Board:

(!) (!) (!!!)

And he's gone, I'm sorry. I guess King Bokker has returned.

With that, blinds are now 150/300 with a 25 ante. The running antes are kicking in. Bonus prize to anyone who can find a better picture of running aunties kicking something!

[NoflopsHomer]

Raul Paez looks to be close to chip leader with around 50k.

Minos Sarmias just had the clocked called on after Barry Neville bet 2,300 on the turn of the board and then 5,200 on the river. Sarmias didn't ever look like calling to be frank, but it took til the end of the clock for him to be forced to fold.

Luke Patten who incidentally was the one to call the clock, was knocked out by Sarmias the very next hand when the latter flopped a set of Eights to take him out.

Pete Evans is also OUT.

Scott O'Reilly takes out Ray Wyre with Tens versus Sevens.

[NoflopsHomer]

Barry Neville bets just over the pot, (or just t'over pot in Barry-speak) on the river of a board, L Sellito declines the call.

On the river of a board. Rod Lang ton bets 5,000. Praz dwells and makes the call with . It's good as Langton is forced to show .

Karl Mahrenholz is out, crippled with Nines against Ace Queen, he then lost with Jacks vs A-T and K-T.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, here's a hand for you.

board.

Damion Merry checks. L Sellito bets 4k into the 3,075 pot.

Merry dwells and eventually passes . Sellito doesn't show but says he had the flush.

Rest of the table can't believe the pass.

Which is worse though, the bet (if he had the flush) or the pass?

Praz Bansi -- 38k

[JungleCat03]

Quite a sick hand just occurred on table 6.

Alan Viiddicombe pushed for 12k, he was then called by Gavin Priestley for his last 3k and Gary Goodman called Alan's push leaving himself 4k back.

The hands? Have a guess....

Alan Viddicombe AA
Gavin Priestly      AQ
Gary Goodman    KK.

Gavin Priestley had booked his ticket to a world of hurt but was rescued from oblivion by a Q 8 9 7 Q (!) flop.

Alan Viddicombe's dismay at losing the 9K main pot was no doubt softened slightly by picking up the more crucial 18k side pot, giving him some chirping chips and leaving Gary Goodman crippled on 4k life support.

What's this.....?



BLINDS UP

200 400 now with a 50 ante...