Broadway Festival of Poker: Day 2 - At A Glance

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Table Captain Thew

1 - Julian Thew  130k
2 - Rob Sherwood  54k
3 - Dennis Troake  110k
4 - Des Jonas  (OUT)
5 - Ash Hussain  42k
6 - Stu Rutter  40k
7 - Richard Simmonds  Hand to follow
8 - Glynn Rees  26k
9 - Adam Wilkinson  78k


Table Captiain  Tyler

1 -
2 - Michael  Artemis  80k
3 - Joe Pilade   
4 - Tony Cartwright  47.5k
5 - Matt Tyler   104k
6 - Trev Reardon  33.6k
7 - Ram Lakha  78.5k
8 - Michael Millas  39.6k
9 - John Falconer  78.8k

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Another exit this time at the hands of Adam Wilkinson.  Not sure of the preflop action but there was a raise and a call and both players see a flop looking exactly like:

    

Adam bets out 10k and Richard Simmonds goes all in for a total of 18, 800.  Adam took a while to think but call he did and turned over    .  Richard showed    and with a  turn and a  river Adam's call was a gud un, although the poor Richard had to be called back because he had 800 chips left, Adam finished off business the very next hand and Simmonds finishes in 15th place.

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Bad news for Rob Sherwood fans, his forest of chips sinking to less than 10k after an inevitable all-in affair with Stuart Rutter. The condom-hat-wearing Rutter raised from mid position with , and would have been delighted to see Rob stumble upon in the big  blind. A rather clinical later and it was all over, Rob's stack crushed whilst Rutter enjoys a most welcome double through.

Rob Sherwood, who's boredom is forcing him to play with the utmost discipline, later added to his yoyo neighbour, "That's the best hand I've seen all day."

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Adam Wilkinson just pulled off a marvelous steal on the normally very astute Ash Hussain, the Monte Carlo runner upper raising pre-flop and being called in the blind by Adam.

A Flop saw Wilkinson's bet of 8k smooth called by Ash before the Midlander popped out 12k on the Turn. Again, Ash called.

With approximately 45k left, Adam then fired one more bullet, this time 17k on the River.

Ash mulled and mulled. Meanwhile, Adam went through an array of postures, from counting out his chips to staring his opponent down to quietly resting his chin on his hand.

"Will you show if I fold?"

Adam nodded, and on that note, Ash mucked his cards.

Adam showed .

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Here are the chipus countus for Table Golden Yoyo Balls:

Julian Thew -- 140k
Rob Sherwood -- 47.5k
Dennis Troake -- 87k
Ash Hussain -- 58k
Stuart Rutter -- 78k
Adam Wilkinson -- 85k

Michael  Artemis  134,000
Tony Cartwright  37,000
Matt Tyler   108,500
Trev Reardon   20,000
Ram Lakha   75,000
Michael Millas   36,000
John Falconer  55,000

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Dennis Troake raises UTG and is faced with an "all in" for 21k from Glynn Rees.  All passed round to Troake who insta calls and turns over his  .  Rees turns over  but no ACE for Glynn and he is out in 14th.

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Being the pro that he is, the ever-consistent Ash Hussain is fighting back after being shown up by Adam Wilkinson earlier, making a standard pre-flop raise before flat-calling Julian's 15k extra re-raise from the big blind.

Both players then proceeded to cagily check down the board before Ash bet circa 20k on the river, a sum that was reluctantly called by Julian, even more so when Ash turned over Pocket Eights.

"I reckon he had Queens," mused Rutter.

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At table Thew, Julian makes a 9k raise preflop and his neighbour Rob Sherwood goes all in for an extra 25k.  Julian DID dwell, but makes the half reluctant call with  .  Rob shows  for a race and the poker gods dealt out a cruel board of :

         and Julians King high flush is good for the pot.

Rob out in 12th for £1,000

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Its blind on blind action with Adam Wilkinson & Julian Thew.  Adam makes it another 8k from the small blind and Julian calls.  The flop comes:

    

Adam immediately moves all in for a big 55,500 and Julian has to go in the think tank again, alot of decisions today for the Thewster!! But again he makes the call and their holdings are:

Adam    
Julian     

Turn 
River 

So thats it, Julian gets back a big chunk of what he lost to Hussain, Adam Wilkinson gets knocked out in 11th place for £1,000 and we have a Final to begin soon with Pics & Counts to follow.

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Final table chip counts:

Seat 1: Stuart Rutter -- 103,000
Seat 2: Ram Lakha -- 60,000
Seat 3: Julian Thew -- 131,000
Seat 4: Matt Tyler -- 92,500
Seat 5: John Falconer -- 57,500
Seat 6: Ash Hussain -- 208,000
Seat 7: Tony Cartwright -- 68,500
Seat 8: Michael Millas -- 62,000
Seat 9: Michael Artemis -- 128,000
Seat 10: Dennis Troake -- 58,500

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Humungous Julian / Rutter encounter.  Action is a 12k from Stuart Rutter, reraised a further 35k from Julian.  Rutter pushes all in to make it another 55k to Thew.  Again Julian has a tough decision, but also knows Stuarts capabilities.  He makes the call and:

Rutter 
Thew   

Board
    

ohhhhhhhhhh poker is sooooo cruel.  Ship it to the Thew once again adding another 100k to his stack.

Stuart Rutter is OUT and becomes the 10th place finisher winning £1,540

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John Faulkner finds himslef with only 31,500 and goes all in from middle position.  Unlucky for John, Michael Artemis in the small bind wakes up with  and his    doesn't look that great.  An ultra boring board brings no joy for John and he is out.

John Falconer finishes in 9th place for £1,925

Seat 1:
Seat 2: Ram Lakha -- 78,000
Seat 3: Julian Thew -- 195,000
Seat 4: Matt Tyler -- 86,500
Seat 5:
Seat 6: Ash Hussain -- 226,500
Seat 7: Tony Cartwright -- 89,000
Seat 8: Michael Millas -- 79,500
Seat 9: Michael Artemis -- 108,000
Seat 10: Dennis Troake -- 96,500

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The Great Wall of Travolta has taken a slight bump, Ash Hussain getting it in with best of it and having his opponent, Ram Lakha, metaphorically replicating a scene from Deliverance.

Ram =
Ash =

However, as we all know, poker can be a topsy turvy game at times, and after a board and a few restrained cheers from the local crowd, Ram was breathing a thanful sigh of relief and stacking up his new found column of chips.

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Seat 1:
Seat 2: Ram Lakha -- 74,000
Seat 3: Julian Thew -- 175,000
Seat 4: Matt Tyler -- 136,000
Seat 5:
Seat 6: Ash Hussain -- 184,000
Seat 7: Tony Cartwright -- 44,500
Seat 8: Michael Millas -- 57,500
Seat 9: Michael Artemis -- 156,000
Seat 10: Dennis Troake -- 118,500

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Michael Artemis is very busy now on the table, there is not a lot of action again.  Just a raise and then the flash of an Ace and then muck. 

But Millas was getting impatient with his short 44,000 and pushed all in late posiition, the busy boy Artemis Called.  Millas spent most of the tournament without a stack to mess with though.

Millas   
Artemis   

Board came

          

Michael Millas finsished in 8th position taking home £2,310