Pokerstars.com London EPT: Day 1A - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Greetings my pretties from er... Brimingham. Yep, I'm still here after updating the Broadway event, but I'm on my way down to London as soon as I have finished posting this message and will be bracing myself for a (hopefully) thrilling Leg 2 of Season 4's Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour. The venue this time is the newly refurbished Grosvenor Victoria Casino, now boasting an entire floor of poker tables meaning no more running up and down the numerous levels for your intrepid, but perhaps slightly unfit update team.

Last year, The Queen Vic of the er.. Vic, was the voluptuous, male eye-luring sight of Victoria Coren who took top spot, the hometown hero proving that she was more than just a successful journalist as she toppled a tough final table to take home half a million pounds worth of bacon - and believe you me, that's a lot of pigs!

With the entry fee rising to £5,200 for this outing of the EPT, I can't quite calculate how many British players will be present. At Barcelona, the rise in price perhaps triggered a Scandinavian invasion, but this time around we have a local event that should provide a larger homegrown contingent for you to support and back. If you are one of those people taking a stab at this event or you know someone who is, then please do let us know by posting on this thread. Similarly, if you are following a non-Brit, we'd more than happy to oblige with your requests by finding hands, chip-counts and photos of the player in question.

Throughout the week, the Vic have been holding various tournaments ranging from Omaha Hi-Lo to Seven Card Stud. Here are the results:

£500 L7CS F/O, 59 runners

1st  Thomas Bihl 'Buzzer' -- £12,090
2nd  Paul Parker -- £7,380
3rd  Willie Tann -- £4,420
4th  Michael Greco -- £2,660
5th  Mehrdad Saffari -- £1,480
6th  W Colman -- £880
7th  Woody Deck -- £590

£500 PLO8 F/O, 63 runners

1st  Jeff Duvall -- £12,910
2nd  Tony Mackay -- £7,880
3rd  Loutfi Charmokly -- £4,720
4th  Tajudeen Adelaja -- £2,840     
5th  Scott Fischman -- £1,580     
6th  Alan Vinson 'Ice Cream' -- £940
7th  Julian Quance -- £630

£200 NLH R/B, 136 runners

1st  Joe Grech 'The Joker' -- £22,760
2nd  Stewart Clutterbuck -- £13,650
3rd  Robin Keston -- £8,450
4th  Soner Osman -- £5,200
5th  Dave Penly -- £2,600
6th  N Nagrecha   -- £1,950     
7th  Alex Zeligman -- £1,790     
8th  Mike Chivers -- £1,460     
9th  Jeff Swann   -- £880     
10th  James King -- £550     
11th  Garry Bush -- £550     
12th  Patrick Schuh -- £550     
13th  Kerry Taylor -- £550     
14th  Anthony Chapman -- £490     
15th  Marco Della Tommasina -- £490     
16th  Alazim Kassam -- £490     
17th  Nathan Lee -- £490     
18th  Martyn Cavanagh -- £420     
19th  Samir Patel -- £420     
20th  Javed Ghazi -- £420     
21st  Lalit Khajuria -- £420     
22nd  Wilson Chan -- £420

£300 NLH F/O, 192 runners

1st  Alan Davies -- £20,180       
2nd  Christopher Andler -- £12,100     
3rd  Jason Shellum -- £7,490       
4th  Matthew Franklin -- £4,610     
5th  Ashley Hames -- £2,300       
6th  Deborah Littlejohn -- £1,730       
7th  Robert Binelli -- £1,580       
8th  Jim Dunsford -- £1,300     
9th  Hung Nguyen -- £780     
10th  Sebastian Saffari --  £490     
11th  Mike Ellis -- £490       
12th  Andy Achillea -- £490       
13th  William Mitchell -- £490       
14th  Abhishek Khaitan -- £430       
15th  Sal Ghozali 'never give' -- £430       
16th  M Green -- £430       
17th  Marco Figuccia -- £430     
18th  Javed Ghazi -- £370     
19th  David Flusfeder -- £370       
20th  Richard Grace -- £370       
21st  Gerald Ringe -- £370       
22nd  Henning Granstad -- £370

[snoopy1239]

Oh, and before I forget, we have a mystery updater. Chili was unmasked at Broadway but can you guess who is my teammate this time around?

Answers on a postcard, but make sure you scan it and post it here.

[AdamG]

do u have a list of day 1A runners yet?? or is that coming soon ?

[CrestOfaWave]

Oh, and before I forget, we have a mystery updater. Chili was unmasked at Broadway but can you guess who is my teammate this time around?

Answers on a postcard, but make sure you scan it and post it here.

No scanner but my guess is Colchester Kev.

[technolog]

He's here, he's there, he's every ....

er, Kinboshi?

If it's televised I suppose Ed could have twisted someone's arm...

If the bar's free, The Duke, Dewi and MickeyP could be having a drink-off to decide who gets the honour.

[dakid88]

Hey snoops its dan!
If you could keep an eye on me and john'Kunkuwap'tabatabai for zim and co. it would be great!
Cheers m8ty! Great reporting on wsope!

[Chili]

I reckon its gonna be Dana for the match up we've all been waiting for.

[snoopy1239]

Hey snoops its dan!
If you could keep an eye on me and john'Kunkuwap'tabatabai for zim and co. it would be great!
Cheers m8ty! Great reporting on wsope!

Dan who? I'm so popular (cough) that I know 100 people of each name.

[danafish]

Oh, I don't know. I suspect it will be someone incredibly intelligent and attractive though.

Tikay?

[ripple11]

Looking forward to the updates Snoops and Dana....any chance of numbers and the winner before Tikays comp. closes...

[Dewi_cool]

WTG Alan Davies, nice result

[Karabiner]

Looking forward to this update muchly, especially if Dana is in charge of norkage/gurning pics 

Does anyone happen to have the result of the £1000 omaha tourney which was played on Sun/Mon ?

[action man]

GL to Flushy and Moorman. Dunno what days they are playing on, but believe you me if these guys can get chips they will be very dangerous.

I have bought a 2.5% share in moorman so ill take a moorman flushy 1/2  just got a feeling they will go deep. Flushy has been on fire this year and moorman plays that many mtts online he probably has more experience of mtt situations then any other player in the field. ONE TIME LADS.

[kinboshi]

Good luck the blondes!!!

[snoopy1239]

Yoohoo, I've arrived!

I actually arrived a good 90 minutes before the scheduled kick-off time, but in coherence with Sod's Law (if I ever meet this Sod fellow!...),  I was informed that the Casino doesn't open till Noon. Oh sweet Jesus of Nazareth, the first time I'm early for an event and I have to sit on the concrete twiddling my thumbs until the flesh is visible.

Not to worry though, I'm have hacked my way into Fort Knox and am thankfull set up in the media room and raring to go. In truth, they weren't too fussy about the dresscode and whatnot, although this may have been predominantly due to the crowd of poker degenerates who were flooding the entrance. "Er, yes, just go through." Crikey, things have certainly changed here, I think I could have bowled through in my jim jams.

Having sped up to the media room in double quick time to assure myself of the two Holy Grails of poker - a table and a plug hole - I didn't catch sight of too many faces. Off the top of my head, I only spotted Australia's Rayan Nathan, a few young, blonde Scanides (are there any other kind) and a young lad called Justin Smith who had stormed across the pond to ambush our EPTs. I'm sure there will be plenty of names turning up fashionably late (it's not cool to be as early as me don't you know), I'll keep you updated if I spot any of them.