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

[JungleCat03]

Chris Gavriel is amassing what appears to be an ever larger stack of chips.

I joined a hand he was in with Anthony Horn on the river of a board.

Anthony bet 2.5k into the pot which seemed to contain 3-4k. Chris raised another 5k on top which convinced Anthony to pass. The stack swells again.....

I hoped to have a word with Soxy but he had vacated his seat temporarily. A glance at his stack seemed to suggest it was reduced somewhat though.

[NoflopsHomer]

Break time for 10 minutes.

Ed Arees has doubled up his short stack with against Ryan Fronda's on a board.

Thewy didn't actually get a full double up with his quads (I think he stuck a third raise in but not all his stack), though he is rueing the fact he didn't push the river as AA to TT is bound to call.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, in Barcelona I managed to get a scandie who looked like someone from the Phillip Marlowe influenced show 'Veronica Mars'

Here's another

Paul King



And Enrico Colantoni from Veronica Mars. (And also "Just Shoot Me" too)





Meanwhile back to the serious action Reyaaz Mulla doubles up short stack Scott Twiggs with against on a board.

Mark Lowe bets every street of a board until Terence Page finally folds on the river to a 7k bet.

Blind on blind action.

Osman Mustanoglu bets 1.5k on a board. Thewy raises to 4.5k



Osman flashes the and passes.

[JungleCat03]

Incidentally, just in case you aren't aware it's 200 400 now.

Chris Gavriel appears to have circa 50k in his stack now...

Sitting next to him, chatting to him about a previous hand is Anthony Horn with roughly 30k...

Elaine Hatfield has been getting busy....

Here is a hand that will appeal to blondites.

 Raising Derek Pennington's big blind to roughly 1200 which is called by Derek, the A A 3 flop is checked by both players. On the 7 turn, Derek bets out 1.5k which Elaine calls.

The river 5 is checked by Derek at which point Elaine bets 7k(!)

Derek shuffles and twitches and thinks and studies and ultimately finds a call of this rather large bet with the mighty (aka the panther)

Elaine taps the table, her K3 no match for Derek.

A fine call though, leaving Elaine somewhat short. Soon after she appears to lose it somewhat as she gets involved in a preflop allin with AK (fair enough) vs an opponent's and loses the race. What was strange though was her berating the table for "forcing her to call..."

She's certainly been full entertainment value, we hope to see Elaine again but for now, she's hittin' the rail...

[JungleCat03]

Meanwhile Alan Vinson has doubled up, his AK shove called by Warren Wooldridge's 77.

A King on the river sealed the deal, pushing Alan's stack up but putting a possibly crucial dent in Warren's stack....

[NoflopsHomer]

Warren Wooldridge is OUT.

A-8 vs Chris Bruce's Kings. (The latter having a fairly eventful day going up and down, having Queens 4 times early on and losing 3 of those times.)

Osman Mustanoglu is OUT.

Flopped the nut-flush draw with , failed to hit against John Falconer's .

[NoflopsHomer]

Raj Modha has doubled up with K-J against K-T on a J-J-T board, crippling Olzhas Altynbaez in the process.

Meanwhile, next door, James Akenhead (still sitting next to Chaz Chattha) has just doubled through Burnley John with Kings against Ace King.

[JungleCat03]

Scott Twiggs has been ELIMINATED. No details on his exit hand but he has vacated the table..

Chris Sokrati is looking quite short now . With blinds of 300 600, his 8 or 9k stack is looking under threat.

Alan Vinson looks to have around 12-13k. Raj Modha is sitting on roughly 16k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chris Bruce is OUT.

He'd just lost a coinflip with K-J against 7-7. He pushed from the big blind against a Chris Gavriel utg raise and an Alan Vinson call.

Chris Bruce whispered to me, "I've got them both on small pairs."

Gavriel called and Vinson folded.

Bruce flipped , Gavriel showed .

Ah. (I guess Ones are a small pair though?)

No help from the board, and Chris Bruce is off to enjoy the WSOPE main event instead.

[NoflopsHomer]

Interesting ways of chip stacking...

The Wong Forest



Thewy Towers



The Akenhead Skyscraper



The Lowe Clump



The Mower Hedge



Great Wall of Wernick

[JungleCat03]

Two hands to report.

I don't have the full details of this one, but David Ruddling is OUT.

Chris Gavriel increases his stack yet further as the chips were fired in on a turn card that made David a flush but which also made Chris Gavriel a full house...

Wong is involved in a monster pot shoving the river on a TJK44 board against Reyazz Mulla. Unfortunately for Wong Mulla turned over KK for the nut full house and made a huge dent in Wong's stack.

No time for Wong puns, just an apology from me for bokking him so successfully.

Paul King is OUT. The chips went in on a QJ8 flop but his opponent, Terrance Page's JQ was ahead. The 9 turn and 9 river were no help and Paul King departed.

[NoflopsHomer]

Short break before the last level. 33 remain at the moment.

Julian Thew just check/raised James Akenhead's 2,375 bet on a to 7,475 to take down the pot. He's up to around 23k now after losing a bit doubling up Chaz Chattha with A-8 against A-K.

Paul Garner is out after he was crippled with Queens against Burnley John's Ace King. He departed shortly after.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip counts from those errr... people at Blue Square.

Hooper, Chris 76575
Mulla, Reyaaz 72775
Wong, John 64600
Gavriel, Chris 57975
Pace, Bev 47200
Pennington, Derek 45675
Wernick, Mickey 41050
Mower, Alan 40400
Page, Terence 36025
Lowe, Mark 34275
Houghton, Laurance 30975
Thew, Julian 29225
Gibson, B 26875
Falconer, John 26150
Chattha, Chaz 24775
Horn, Antony 24600
Frost, Richard 22375
Milby, David 22125
Cox, Ian 21025
Mourant, Joseph 20800
Akenhead, James 18650
Modha, Raj 17550
Butters, Jonothon 17275
Arees, Ed 13975
Tighe, David 13875
Altynbaev, Olzhas 13475
Morris, Adrian 12150
Jones, Mick 12000
Mclean, Alan 11175
Vinson, Alan 10850
Basri, Stephen 10575
Hardie, Ewan 10500
Fronda, Ryan 8275

Ryan Fronda is OUT, 8-8 vs 7-7. The latter flopped a full house. And turned Quads.

Ryan was left bemoaning, "I never get lucky, never ever..."

[JungleCat03]

At 400 800 the blinds are like this fellow.

Click to see full-size image.

They're biting hard...

Alan Vinson is OUT.

Pushing for just over 10k under the gun with 99, he ran into AA and couldn't spike the card he needed, so bit the dust.

Chris Gavriel was also involved in a big pot.

Raising from the cut off to 2800, he was reraised another 5k by Laurence Houghton from the small blind, which Chris called.

Laurence bet 6500 out at the and Chris immediately moved allin.

After a long time , and finally having the clock called on him, Laurence passed and Chris augmented his already massive stack..

[NoflopsHomer]

Terence Page check/raises all-in for 25k more on a board after John Wong bets 5k. Wong dwells for a while then makes the call.

"Good call." Page flips

Wong shows .

Turn:



River:



One in the gonads. Terence Page up to almost 70k now. Wong down to around 20k.