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

[NoflopsHomer]

Rod and I have managed our mazy journey from Villa del Jendanasnoops.

Play recommences at 1.30pm for the second of the three start days.

Off to see who is playing today.

This is the 'lite, no frills' update.

[JungleCat03]

Welcome back to The Vic for Day Two's GUKPT action.

There are plenty of interesting names to follow today.

Chris Moorman will be looking to build on his blossoming reputation as one of the top online MTT'ers with a strong live performance.

Blonde's own Maria Demetriou is appearing today and will no doubt be trying to emulate the success of her fellow intrepid updater Snoopy yesterday.

James Dempsey has also turned up to play today. "I like my table" he says. He is sharing it, amongst others, with Ken Wong, who put in a credible performance at the Plymouth GUKPT, and Mark Banin aka Prince Charles who is best known for his 2nd place in the World Heads Up Championships in 2004.

As I speak to him, play gets underway and Flushy is involved in the first pot.

Edward Cahill raises to 200 UTG and Flushy calls in the BB.

Flushy checks the flop, and Cahill bets 500. Flushy passes AK face up. "Surprised you didn't go broke there" I remark....... "Rigged" is flushy's response.

Stuart Nash, Surindar Sunar, Willie Tann, Sunny Chattha, Barry Neville, Kevin O'Leary, Carlo Citrone, Neil Channing, Laurence Houghton, Micky Wernick and Karl Mahrenholz are some of the other recognisable faces playing today. I'm off to join the action and see what juicy action is being thrown up.

[JungleCat03]

Barry Neville is one of the day's early casualties and not happy about it either...

"Ah'm sick bou tit. Pleyhed three 'ands.. Ehhces - ran inta set 'a fours. Tens - did 1500 chips and didn't get t'see river and finally i get JQ, it goes limp, limp, limp, I riase(with JQ) cos ah'm not 'avin all these little cards in mah pot....Flop comes 55 J. I bet, ee raises, I think e's at it so I go allin and he calls with 35 off. Wouldya credit it!" (I don't bring up that his raise to get rid of the little cards didn't seem to work - he looks like he's in a punch first, ask questions later mood)

Barry storms off in a huff "Seeya in blackpool"

Flushy is happy with his start, he called a riase with 56, flopped trips and made a little so is up to 1150 at the moment....As I catch up with him, an interesting hand is playing out on his table. with 3-4k or so in the pot Ken Wong pushes allin on the turn of a

two spades board for 6k or so. He is called by Sonny Ridgewell in seat nine who is holding a pair and gutshot with 9c7c. The river blanks though and Ken Wong takes the big pot down with his Aces...

"We're in the twilight zone!" says Flushy.

[NoflopsHomer]

The Scooby Gang Blondes.

L to R:

Fred, Shaggy, Daphne and errr...Thelma.



Flushy has just played Kings 'the worst way ever', "no significant chips went in til the river, when I was behind."

Chilli is fairing not great, down to around 6,600 after turning two pair but finidng her opponent had already flopped a set.

Praz Bansi is crying "Fix!" as he found out he was sitting next to Sunny Chattha



Nick Jenkins and Chris Moorman. Looks like they're both ready for bed. Bless.

[NoflopsHomer]

Rookieitb has just knocked out the guy to his immediate left,

He min/checkraised the flop from 400 to 800, fired 1,500 on the turn, before checking the river at which point his opponent moved all-in fopr his last 2,200. With so much in the pot, Rooks made the call, his opponent flipping , which was always behind to the that Shaggy Rookie was holding.



Karl Mahrenholz has turned up, complaining about traffic. He made it 200 to play in mid position, called by the button and the small blind.

Flop:



SB checks, Karl bets 350, the button makes to 1,350. The small blind moves all-in. Karl passes, and the button passes face up.

Good/Bad Pass?

Finally, here's the Stuart Nash/Rob Garfield table, in all its' glory.

[JungleCat03]

Some chip counts from players as requested..

Jeff Duval looks like he has had an accident and is down to 4-5k or so...

Ben Vinson looked a little down on his starting stack with 8-9k.

Chris Moorman shrugs when I ask him how he's doing "Pretty much the same" indicating he hasn't got involved yet.

I notice Chris looks a little tired and sleepy...."Were you up all night playing again Chris?" I admonish and he sheepishly nods his head and laughs.

Tom Grundy looks to be on 8k or so...

Dan Owston has made some inroads into his tablemates' stacks already and is on 14k or thereabouts.

Mark Banin has been crippled relatively early on. Raising to 250, he flat called the reraise to 1100 and check raised allin on a J Q rag board.

His trappy play with Aces cost him though as his opponent had flopped a set with QQ, leaving him moping about in danger on 2k or so....

[NoflopsHomer]

Table   Seat   Player
1   1   Khaitan, Abhishek
1   2   Clarke, Jason
1   3   Abrahams, Javed
1   4   Osman, Soner
1   5   Gallagher, David
1   6   Woodman, Terry
1   7   Mcgrane, J
1   8   Forsman, Robert
1   9   Adelaja, Tajudeen
1   10   Hayles, Ashley
2   1   Jomeen, Karim
2   2   Banin, Mark
2   3   Dempsey, James
2   4   Cahill, Edward
2   5   Goodall, Nick
2   6   Palser, Richard
2   7   Wong, Ken
2   8   Arnold, Micheal
2   9   Ridgewell, Sonny
2   10   Ahmed, Waseem
3   1   Campbell, Duncan
3   2   Panteli, Mike
3   3   Sunar, Surinder
3   4   Dyer, David
3   5   Daly, Kevin
3   6   Littlejohn, Debbie
3   7   Randall, Simon
3   8   Cook, Mick
3   9   Bluemle, Frank
4   1   Poast, Kevin
4   2   Campbell, Vinnie
4   3   Nash, Stuart
4   4   Moore, Chris
4   5   Mcbride, James
4   6   Lotter, Andrew
4   7   Yusuf, Sami
4   8   Garfield, Robert
4   9   Rezakia, R
5   1   Reid, Jim
5   2   Bader, Martin
5   3   Tann, Willie
5   4   Gould, Peter
5   5   Chan, Wilson
5   6   Crossan, John
5   7   Smith, Chris
5   8   Phillips, Antony
5   9   Singh, Christopher
6   1   Zihni, Ali
6   2   Secola, F
6   3   Owston, Dan
6   4   Ratcliffe, Andreas
6   5   Muthy, Kayshan
6   6   Chattha, Sunny
6   7   Bansi, Pramesh
6   8   Sadler, James
6   9   Fowler, Melvyn
7   1   Blodwell, Wayne
7   2   Ghani, M
7   3   Singleton, Peter
7   4   Ettedgi, Joel
7   5   Conroy, John
7   6   Nutt, Daniel
7   7   Katz, Nicky
7   8   Ho, Jason
7   9   Trotman, Luke
8   1   Dean, Alan
8   2   Arees, Edward
8   3   Martin, William
8   4   Parker, John
8   5   Zeligman, Alex
8   6   Samson, Daniel
8   7   Adam, Miles
8   8   Allen, richie
8   9   Wong, John
9   1   Teng, Andrew
9   2   Ghozali, Sal
9   3   Neville, Barry
9   4   Ellinas, Panicos
9   5   Spyrou, Andros
9   6   Demel, Priyan
9   7   Grundy, Thomas
9   8   Sarkeshik, Ali
9   9   Kam, Leo
10   1   Mehrmand, Davood
10   2   Roberts, Benjamin
10   3   Abbassi, Ramazanali
10   4   Eriksson, Jens
10   5   Bell, Matthew
10   6   Herron, Mark
10   7   Jenkins, Nicholas
10   8   Wheatley, Richard
10   9   Moorman, Chris
11   1   Toal, Alan
11   2   Duvall, Jeffrey
11   3   Vicary, Paul
11   4   Vinson, Ben
11   5   Lloyd, David J
11   6   Panayi, Ronnie
11   7   Binstock, Dave
11   8   Armbruster, Elesha
11   9   Holloway, Craig
12   1   Tsourou, S
12   2   Ballou, Bob
12   3   Demetriou, Maria
12   4   Nguyen, Thanh
12   5   Dean, David
12   6   Lawrence, Paul
12   7   Boland, Liam
12   8   Adderley, Anthony
12   9   Le, Doat
13   1   Gelencser, Peter
13   2   Mendes, Paul
13   3   Moriali, A
13   4   Oleary, Kevin
13   5   Turnstill, Ben
13   6   Ogunmakinwa, Jamil
13   7   Palser, Gary
13   8   Littlejohn, Steve
13   9   Garbacz, David
14   1   Zhang, Long
14   2   Wyre, Ray
14   3   Yousefian, Antony
14   4   Citrone, Carlo
14   5   Myford, Matt
14   6   Buzzigoli, Andrew
14   7   Selin, Patrik
14   8   Landi, F
14   9   Housden, Anthony
15   1   Liu, Wenfeng
15   2   Channing, Neil
15   3   Jones, Paul
15   4   Glading, Richard
15   5   Longley, Jeremy
15   6   Wernick, Michael
15   7   Whyman, Piers
15   8   Houghton, Laurence
15   9   Gavriel, Chris
16   1   Gould, Josh
16   2   Mahrenholz, Karl
16   3   Wright, Andy
16   4   Brown, Stephen
16   5   Clark, David
16   6   Ghazi, Javed
16   7   David jnr, Clarke
16   8   Pini, Frank
16   9   Chattha, Charles

[NoflopsHomer]

Priyan De Mel and Thomas Grundy



Same table, Andrew Teng, who can't sit in his seat for more than five seconds.



Ed Arees and William Martin



Jim Reid, Martin Bader and Willie Tann

[NoflopsHomer]

Blinds are now 75/150.

[NoflopsHomer]

flop

Neil Channing checks, Jeremy Longley bets 800, Micky Wernick makes it 2,800 with around 1,500 back. Neil Channing moves all-in, Longley passes and somehow Wernick finds a fold too.



I didn't realise Surinder Sunar was playing, haven't seen him play a hand, but according to his iPod, he's a big fan of Kanye West and Gorillaz. Who'd have thought?



Mark Banin and Flushy



Kayshan Muthy and Cupcake



Rob Garfield takes a pot, betting the whole way of a board and being called down to the river where his opponent mucked to his last bet, showing a missed .

[JungleCat03]

Chris Moorman has bitten the dust. He was down to 4k when he was dealt KK, he decided to flat call.

When the flop came Q hi with 2 diamonds and his opponent bet out, chris moved allin only to find his opponent instacalling with QQ, and the king-less floppery and turnery resulted in an early bath for Chris.

"It's KK isn't it, when I got dealt it, I was thinking, oh oh here we go then, that's me out!"

I spoke to Maria, who has picked up a few chips since dropping ot 4k or so..."I'm not getting any cards so I'm trying to do something with the ones I'm being dealt" She proudly shows off her stack which has now risen to the heady heights of 5.8k...

She's in good humour though and has a big smile on her face as always so all is not lost yet.

End of level 2 chip counts to follow shortly...

[JungleCat03]

End of Level 2 chip counts.....these will be slightly behind the current action, for instance Chris Moorman is out now, but will give you a flavour of relative stacks.

Leo Kam   27100
Willie Tann   25225
Nicholas Jenkins   23675
Antony Phillips   21650
Piers Wyman   21490
Andrew Teng   20600
Terry Woodman   20575
Javed Abrahams   20375
Paul Lawrence   20100
Frank Bluemle   19775
Ken Wong   19600
Thomas Grundy   19550
David Dean   19000
Nicky Katz   18675
Chris Gavriel   18300
A Moriali   17125
Edward Arees   16300
J Mcgrane   16275
Mick Cook   15875
William Martin   15675
Wilson Chan   15525
Carlo Citrone   15475
Dan Owston   15425
Craig Holloway   15300
Ray Wyre   15100
Karim Jomeer   14975
Joel Ettedgi   14175
Kevin O'Leary   13950
Ben Turnstill   13900
Wayne Blodwell   13650
Nick Goodhall   13625
Richie Allen   13575
Josh Gould   13500
Kevin Poast   13325
F Secola   13300
Priyan Demel   13175
Jim Reid   12875
David J Lloyd   12775
Alan Toal   12750
Jens Eriksson    12725
Karl Mahrenholz   12675
Jeremy Longley   12600
Andrew Lotter   12425
Andrew Buzzigoli   12400
F Landi   12375
Elesha Armbruster   12150
Mike Panteli   12125
Peter Gelencser   12125
Sami Yusuf   12075
Matt Myford   11975
Edward Arees   11850
Ali Zinhi   11800
James Dempsey   11725
Jason Clarke   11475
Daniel Nutt   11400
Mark Herron   11325
David Clark   11250
Richard Glading   11175
S Tsourou   10975
Sunny Chattha   10925
Soner Osman   10900
Ptere GOuld   10650
Tajudeen Adelaja   10600
David Clarke jnr   10550
Bob Ballou   10550
Paul Mendes   10500
Paul Jones   10375
Paul Vicary   10350
Robert Garfield   10250
Davood Mehrmand   10175
John Parker   10100
Melvyn Fowler   10000
Simon Randall   9975
R Rezakia   9600
Kayshan Muthy   9575
Charles Chattha   9500
Daniel Samson   9425
Alan Dean   9250
Frank Pini   9250
Chris Smith   9200
Stephen Brown   9175
Chris Moore   9025
David Dyer   8925
Dave Binstock   8925
Patrick Selin   8725
Benjamin Roberst   8675
Richard Wheatley   8675
Luke Trotman   8650
Surinder Sunar   8625
Duncan Cambell   8525
Steve Littlejohn   8525
Michael Arnold   8325
Sonny Ridgewell   8300
M Ghani   8250
Matthew Bell   8250
Peter SIngleton   8150
David Garbacz    8075
Miles Adam   8025
Anthony Housden   7925
Neil Channing   7875
Ronnie Panayi   7825
Anthony Adderley   7825
Gary Palser   7825
Waseem Ahmed   7800
ALex Zeligman   7750
Pramesh Bansi   7700
Stuart Nash   7575
James Sadler   7400
John Conroy   7300
Laurence Houghton   7150
Christopher Singh   6750
Chris Moorman   6500
Debbie Littlejohn   6175
Martin Bader   6050
Ben Vinson   5875
Javed Ghazi   5850
Edward Cahill   5825
Vinnie Campbell   5075
Antony Yousefian   5025
Thanh Nguyen   4600
Andy Wright   4575
Maria Demetriou   4200
Mark Bainn   4100
Richard Palser   4075
Jeffrey Duvall   4050
Ali Sarkeshik   3975
Andreas Ratcliff   3875
Michael Wernick   3550
Ashley Hayes   1400
Long Zhang   1000
Liam Boland   925

[NoflopsHomer]

An 'Ouch' moment over on table 3.



Kevin Daly and Frank Bluemle get it all-in on flop

Daly:



Bluemle:



The half-Wilson succumbs.



Jim Reid has just been crippled by Antony Phillips, with Queens vs Ace King. The Barry Greenstein special, an ace on the river, clinching the pot.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ed Arees is now up to about 18k, whilst Dan Owston is over 21k since those chip counts were given.

[NoflopsHomer]

Willie Tann has dropped the ball, like a certain goalkeeper.

Previously, one of the chip leaders, he's now down to just a few bits of change, most of his chips seemingly gone to nextdoor neighbour Martin Bader.

Elsewhere, Micky Wernick is MIA.

Karl Mahrenholz just stubbed his toe, he bets 875 on the , and was flat-called in one spot by Laurence Houghton. Pushing the blank turn with he was instantly called by the , and doubled up the short stack.

Yellow perils, Ben Vinson and David Lloyd, the latter just having knocked a short stack out with vs .