Broadway Festival of Poker: Day 1 - At A Glance

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Play for the £1,000 Main Event commences at 6pm.

The full list of players:

A Abbasi
I Ahmed
Micheal Artemis
Marcus BEbb-Jones
William Berry
N Blatchey
Ken Broad
P Brown
Roger Brush
Ben Callinan
C Cambianica
Dan Carter
Tony Cartwright
K Choudhury
Dave Colclough
C Constantinou
Con Cronin
J Deeley
K Dionysiou
Yucel Eminoglu
Pete Evans
John Falconer
N Fellone
Wayne Fitzpatrick
Stu Fox
G Gabriel
Chris Gavriel
George Geary
Ceaser Giagnotti
Pete Haslam
Mohammed Hassan
John Hopkins
Ash Hussain
Steve Jelinek
Essy Jahanpour
Des Jonas
Mojid Khan
Frankie Knight
Ronny Kotecha
J Koumi
Ram Lakkha
Alex Mah
Ali Mallu
Jen Mason
Ian McDonald
Mark Mcgill
M Millas
Dean Mitchell
G Morris
J Morris
Barry Neville
Panos Panayi
A Pearce
Trevor Pearson
G Pilade
A Psaras
Trevor Reardon
Glynn Rees
R Reynolds
D Ruparellia
Stu Rutter
S Saghatchi
Michelle Shiels
Rob Sherwood
R Simmonds
Nick Slade
A Stearn
Keith Swain
Julian Thew
D Troake
Matt Tyler
K Vasiiliou
Mickey Wernick
A Wilkinson
J Zaib
K Zarandi

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There has been an exit and double up already,  An unfortunate Panos Panayi raised it up with  and was called by Matt Tylers  .  I didn't see the hand board itself but am informed that Panos turned a nut flush draw, whilst Matt was going nowhere with trip queens.  I assume all the chips went in then and there and Matts trips improved to a house on the river.   Great stack already for Mr Tyler.

Panos just a few minutes later said to Snoops "I had a massive hand and I couldn't get away from it!"  A few of us may have had to have our £1,000 stretch a little longer.

Also a late arrival is a local and very happy Stuart Fox, joining a table with Alli Mallu, Ash Hussain and Barry Neville, actually named "Table large boy"  Pic to follow.

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Crikey O'Reilly, we've had anothr exit, it's as if no one wants to play today! This time, the victim is D Ruparellia, the latest to crumble under the magnifying glass of PI Dick Slade. In full investigative mode, poker's favourite detective looked his opponent up and down like a piece of raw meat as he mulled over a 3,125 all-in on a  board. Ruparellia looked calm under the Slade spotlight, but the Prestonian wasn't convinced, calling, and correctly so, a third of his stack with . Ruparellia sheepishly revealed an inferior and one harless river later and it was all over for Ruparellia, Slade left to bask in the glory of all the "good call" compliments from his neighbours. Watch this space for updates on the size of Slade's head.

[Chili]

Jen says, "slow, slow slow so far" and Julian is about 5k up after hitting i believe, a house, a flush and a straight - 2 of those against the same guy.  Also, drumm rolllllllllllllllll please, there has a been another exit.  On a board looking like this:

    

A Abbassi makes a 1k bet against Stuart Fox, who things for a few seconds before pushing his entire 12.5k ish stack ALL IN.  Abbassi shockingly instantly calls with    .  With a blank turn and  for a nasty river, Mr Abbassi is out and Stuart Fox may aswell go and stand for a couple of hours at the bar - in fact he might 

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Good Lord, is that the bizarre sound of a 4th elimination I hear? Yes, my ears do not decieve me, as incredibly, we've lost yet another. This time around it's local boy Chris Gavriel, who finalled in the February festival here. No luck this time around, table neighbour Dean Mitchell snipering him off with A-T versus A-9 on an Ace high Flop.

In fact, Mitchell was slightly surprised about the turn of events: "I couldn't believe it," he retold. "I called his raise and bet out on an A-T-rag flop. He moved all-in with A-9 and I called."

The Hewston/Mallu style of play not quite working for Chris this time around, but I'm sure we'll see him back in the fray soon.

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Unfortunately for our Liverpudlian followers, Sir George Geary of Grindsville has suffered a shock early exit at the devilish hands of our favourite Super Mario lookalikey Essy Jahanpour, a well known player around these parts.

With Essy raising it up pre-flop with A-Q, a raising war of epic proportions entailed between the two players on a Q-Q-3 ranbow flop: Essy to 300, Geroge to 2,000, Essy to 6,000 and George all-in before Essy called quicker than a hare riding a cheetah on a Japanese bullet train (surreal image, I know, but let's go with it).

George showed Q-9, and two rags later he was a gonna.

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I was lucky enough to hear a few half-time stories, one from the ever-consistent Marcus Bebb-Jones who is bouncing up and down like a spring on a trampoline. He first neared the felt when his set of queens was bust on the river by a K-T which made a... ahem, Broadway straight before trebling back up to 8k with 7-5 versus two sets of A-J on a tasty A-5-5 Flop.

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The only thing dazzling about dazzlin Tom Smethwick today will be the dazzle of the sun in his eyes as he exits the casino, the veteran exiting at the hands of fellow midlander and "I'm on a good run. Wooooo! Wooooo!" Dave Colclough.

I didn't catch the hand, so I had to rely on the sometimes shaky versions of the rest of the table. With Essy Jahanpour claiming Dave had and Burnly John throwing into the hat, it wasn't until Julian confirmed it was that we finally got some genuine answers. Thinking Mr Thewy was the way forward, I asked what the flop was... ugh, big mistake, the subsequent dialogue exchange between the three feeling more like a group of OAP's trying to remember what film they watched in the nursing home. After a lenghty wait, it was concluded that Con had T-9 and made a straight against Dave's turned flush on a 6-7-x-8 board, all the money going in on the river.

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Updater/poker player extra-ordinaire has just been boshed (new word there!) out of today's comp, raising it up pre-flop with A-T pre-flop and being called in three places. The flop doesn't appear to be a bad one for Jen, , and she understandably bets out 1k. However, Seat 9 on the button seems to like it even more, and makes it 3k to play, more than enough to get the other players to fold... but not Jen, who after mulling it over for a while and, in her own words, concluding that he "wouldn't have Aces or Kings after smooth calling pre-flop" pushes all-in for her remaining 6k.

Unfortunately for the Hampsteadonian, her opponent was indeed being cute with Kings, and, after a few seconds dwell, did indeed make the call. Jen turned a flush draw, but to no avail as the river came a rag.

"I thought there were many hands he could be making that play with," said a dejected Mason, "the only one I was worried about was Jacks."

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A few chippy chip counts for you to feast you eyes on:

Essy Jahanpour -- 30.2k
Des Jonas -- 11.5k
John Falconer -- 21k
Ian McDonald -- 6k
Neil Blatchey -- 24.7k
Michelle Shiels -- 4,6k
Ram Lattha -- 13.2k
Ben Callinan -- 12.5k
Tony Cartwright -- 6.6k
Yucel Eminoglu -- 31k
Stu Rutter -- 8.2k
Peter Evans -- 24.5k
Julian Thew -- 26k
Greek Jack -- 15.3k
Glynn Rees -- 15.7k
Joseph Koumi -- out

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I'm doing my utmost to resist the Basil Brush gags here, but I'm not sure I've got it in me, the amusingly named Roger Brush crashing out at the hands of Sir Barry Neville of Sheffieldness.

All the money went in on a J-7-6 flop, Barry sweeping up is opponent with J-7 versus K-J. No King on the turn and river and Barry had outfoxed Mr Basil and sent him plummeting to the rail with a thud. Boom Boom.

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Meanwhile, steamroller on testicles time as Ash Hussain re-raises Stuart Fox's button raise all-in with A-Q, only to find Mr Fox sitting pretty with the Big Slick. A 7-8-9-T-J board and several gasps later and 13k was sent sliding over to the sweaty palms of an overjoyed Ash... who, incidetnally, has been nicknamed Trovolta Hussain as a result of his overly slick white jacket.

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Keith Swain is also a gonna, his K-2 no match for Mateyboy's Q-T on a K-A-J-2 board.

"I can't believe he called," added a flabbergasted Nick Slade, "There was only a thousand or two in the pot and the guy overbet it by shoving in over 5k. There's only one hand he can have."

[Chili]

Comeback of the evening goes to Michael Artemis who 2 hours ago had 600 chips and is now sitting on a glorious 24k.

We have a couple of sly exits, one being KK held by Nick Slade against the AQ of Andrew Psaras.  It was raise, reraise, all in preflop and Nicks Kings stood the test.

Also no details but Ken Broad is also out.

Matt Tyler is now our chip leader with 45k.

58 players left average is just over 16k.

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Eek, scratch that, Mickey Wenick's just been bashed down to the felt by the foreboding fist of Trevor Reardon. A downhearted Worm retold the story himself, reporting of how he went in on a board with , ran into Big TR's set of Jacks and failed to improve.

The very next hand, he shoved all-in for what looked like 1,725, Trevor, fittingly, being the one to fold the big blind and allow the Legend to fight another day.

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John Deeley could have been in Martin Scorsese's recent Oscar winning flick, not because he's a double-crossing murderer, but because he's just Departed.

John Deeley =

Dean Mitchell =

all-in on turn of...

River =

And another one bites the dust at the hands of Dean Mitchell. "Those bloody Mitchells!" as they used to say in Eastenders.

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Also out is William Berry, who qualified for this even via last night's £50 rebuy satellite.