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

[NoflopsHomer]

Welcome back. Play begins once again at 4pm. We're looking at another 80 to 90 runners once more. People playing today include Ian Woodley and Julian Thew. More names to follow as we spot 'em.

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And we've started..



Fun table 1: Chaz Chattha, Priyan De Mel, Alan McLean, James Akenhead and Ash Hussain



Fun table 2: Ian Woodley, Dan Carter, Dave Smith and Mickey Wernick

[JungleCat03]

Hi guys, back for day 2 and a cracking day's poker is on the horizon, with a pretty strong field assembled in the cardroom.

There are some interesting tables scattered about. There are two tables seperated from the main throng of 8 tables which look like they could be interesting.

Table 9 is home to Raj Modah, the ladbrokes million winner, Julian Thew, of course, who will no doubt be applying his yoyo tactics to good effect and John Falconer, who is wearing an interesting T Shirt, with a logo which is most certainly non-blonde compliant. I'll give you a clue for fun though

"What part of *SOMETHING* off don't you understand?"

Call me the cryptic cat....

Anyway this table should provide some entertainment.

Indeed as I watch Julian is involved in a pot already. Having raised a preflop limper, the limpers bet out of 400 on a flop is raised to 1150 or so by Julian. The limper calls.

The turn is quite the action card, or as it turns out the action-killing card... the .

Both players check quickly.

The river 9, the limper bets out 800 which Julian quickly passes to. He flashed his cards but sadly I wasn't well positioned to see. I'll ask him about it later.

The limper showed J9 for the full house.....

SHOCK HORROR. We have an elimination already! Possibly a record for a gukpt, the legend that is Albert Sapiano, 4th in the Brighton GUKPT, IS OUT in less than 30 minutes!

Details of the hand are that in a raised pot, himself and Sid Harris saw a 678 flop with 2 clubs. Albert's bet of 1k was raised to 3k by Sid.

The turn was bet to the tune of 2 or 3k by Sid and again Albert called.

The river As was shoved by Sid and Albert obviously viewed the A as a safe card for his QQ, making the call, and finding, somewhat unsurprisingly that Sid's 78 full house was ever so far ahead.

RIP Albert's chips, gone but not forgotten....

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Irish Denis has joined the tables as an alternate, along with Ouday Hikary and Hoss Parhizkar and will no doubt be spicing up affairs.

I've just received the full player list, with table positionings, so I'll stick that up shortly for all you guys and gals out there...

[NoflopsHomer]

Alan McLean takes a small pot from James Akenhead with on a board.

Priyan De Mel, on the same table scoops a 3k pot with errr 3-2. Off-suit. Against Mclean and Akenhead when the board comes out 8-3-2-4-7. His reasoning being, "threes and deuces always come out when I have 3-2, so I have to call." I suspect it was a little tongue in cheek.

Mickey Wernick wins around 3k too when his opponent hangs himself a little on the 8-6-T-Q-7 board. for Wernick giving him a rivered straight.

Finally, Martino Libertini calls 2.2k on the river of a board, his opponent taps the table when he shows .

Irish Denis has slipped in as an alternative.



Alan Vinson and Mark Lowe



Colchester Kev, either flexing his muscles or doing a rendition of "I'm a little teapot"

[JungleCat03]

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Here's the table layout, hope it is clear. If not Ill redo and repost.

Anyways, Sid Harris has claimed yet another victim, catapulting him clear into the lead at this early point.  He became involved in a raised pot preflop with Paul Kemp.

On a A 9 8 flop, Harris bet 600 which Kemp raised to 1200 and was reraised by Harris to 3700, Kemp now pushed. Didn't take Sid long to call with 99 before Kemp showed  down AK. Er....

An Ace on the turn, gave Kemp some hope, but an effectively blank T on the river consigned him to the casualty list and gave Harris a nice chunky amount of chips to play with....

Mmmmm chunky chips.....

[NoflopsHomer]

Thewy lost a chunk after his raise with Aces met with a J-9-8 two suits board, the turn made the flush which both checked. Thewy folded on the river when a second Jack turned up.

Ryan Fronda holding an imaginary remote control, Rob Garfield "sleep-riffling" and Roberto Romanello is...errm not really doing anything that I can make fun of.



Ian Cox and Billy Quang Ngo

[JungleCat03]

Thanks Sharplea.

Yes Ian Herbert has bitten the dust. After limping UTG, Danni Allen raised to 700 from the BB which Ian called.

On the KJ6 flop Danni led for 800 which Ian responded to by pushing allin.

His KQ however was no match for Danni's flopped set with JJ, which duly held sending Ian to the rail...

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul King bets 1.5k on a board, Marc Coupe check calls, but puts his breaks on once more on the river and checks to King, who asks how much he has left, "around 7k" is the answer.

Paul bets a suspicous 4.5k and gets the pass that I think his bluff wanted.

[NoflopsHomer]

Breaking news!!!!


John Wong has Notorious BIG playing on his iPod.

[NoflopsHomer]

Breaking news!!!!


John Wong has Notorious BIG playing on his iPod.

Whereas Warren Wooldridge is a fan of "The Feeling"

Meanwhile Chris Bruce is having to deal with some serious overbetting from some of the locals. He's had Queens three times, passed one to a 3-bet from a particularly crazy woman who showed Aces. The other times he got bluffed off an ace high board by J-9 and finally winning the other.

He just bet 500 from the big blind on the turn of a T-6-5-5 board with A-5, crazy woman calls, river is a 9. Chris bets 500, she makes it 1,500. He calls, and she shows 8-7 for the rivered straight.

Reyaaz Mulla has doubled with vs on an board against Ouday Hikary.

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Raj Modha (finally spelt his name right!) and Julian Thew were battling in a few pots as I joined their table.

The first hand was in progress as I joined and had been raised preflop.

On a flop, Julian had bet roughly 1200 after Raj checked, which Raj then check raised to 3000. Julian thought long and hard before passing....

Raj was then seen calling a Julian raise.

The Q 4 6 flop was checked, and on the 2 turn, Raj's check was swiftly followed by a bet of 5 or 600 by Julian, which was good enough to make Raj pass...

Looks like these two will be going at it till one of them is knocked out

Here are the protagonists as a thoughtful looking Julian collects this pot....

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[NoflopsHomer]

Danni Allen is OUT, Kings against Alan Mower's Aces.

Stuart Rutter told me of a slightly crazy hand. 3-way pot with 300 in. Board is T-8-7-6. Stuart checks his 9. Mateyboy 1 bets 500. Mateboy 2 raises to 2,500. Stuart passes. Mateyboy 1 shoves for 6,000 with his 9. Mateyboy 2 calls with J-9.

[NoflopsHomer]

Lucy Rokach just seen leaving the building.

Also gone is Priyan De Mel, something about Aces being cracked.

Rob Garfield out with Sevens against Aces.

Roberto Romanello exited too when he had K-8 against K-K on a King high board.

[JungleCat03]

Start of level 3 chip counts courtesy of those magnanimous magnates at blue square..

Harris, Sidney 29200
Fronda, Ryan 22600
Hooper, Chris 21075
Mourant, Joseph 20750
Mclean, Alan 20000
McFarlane, Mark 19200
Jones, Mick 18125
Garner, Paul 17750
Ngo, Billy 17275
Wernick, Mickey 16675
Morris, Adrian 14975
Allen, Danielle 14925
Gourlay, Paul 14825
Page, Terence 14200
Cvetanovic, Nebojsa 14025
King, Paul 13975
Wong, M 13925
Lowe, Mark 13650
Hatfield, Elaine 13350
Lavis, Ty 13350
Farthing, M 13225
Mower, Alan 13075
Frost, Richard 13075
Hardie, Ewan 12775
Hussain, Arshad 12750
Bruce, Chris 12475
Palser, Gary 12475
Mulla, Reyaaz 12325
Libertini, Martino 12275
Sokrati, Chris 11875
Altynbaev, Olzhas 11875
Armbruster, Elesha 11525
Mustanoglu, Osman 11450
Gibson, B 11300
Falconer, John 11250
Ayegun, Olabode 11200
Milby, David 11175
Kazi, Hanis 11100
Shepperson, Biers 11100
Brannan, David 11075
Pennington, Derek 10975
Houghton, Laurance 10925
Philips, Anthony 10925
Cox, Ian 10725
Smith, John 10575
Parhizkar, Hoss 10500
Matthews, Alan 10475
Wong, Ken 10250
Smith, Dave 10100
O’Mahony, Dennis 10025
Butters, Jonothon 9800
Tehrani, Darius 9500
Memory, Sean 9400
Vinson, Alan 9300
Cummings, Michael 9100
Twiggs, Scott 9100
Tighe, David 9100
Arees, Ed 8950
Goodall, N 8850
Tann, Willie 8700
Moreschi, Steve 8450
Rutter, Stuart 8350
Modha, Raj 7750
Pace, Bev 7675
Ruddling, Dave 7625
Basri, Stephen 7600
Chattha, Chaz 7550
Woodley, Ian 7525
Garfield, Robert 7400
Coupe, Marc 7250
Feldman, A 7250
Thew, Julian 7175
Gavriel, Chris 6725
Ghazi, Javed 6275
Nelson, Ian 6200
Griffiths, S 6025
Chapman, Terry 6000
Greenleaf, Dale 5675
Hikary, Ouday 5400
Rokach, Lucy 5275
Carter, Dan 5000
Akenhead, James 4825
Romanello, Roberto 4500
Wooldridge, Warren 4250
Marles, John 3250
Wahlqvist, Daniel 2200
Venus, Fred 575