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

[NoflopsHomer]

***************1 hour Dinner Break*****************

[JungleCat03]

Maria Demetriou has told me her stack has vacillated between 3.5k and 6k but keeps homing in on the 4k figure and just as she was at the end of level 2, Maria remains on 4200. She has told me if anyone asks for her stack just to tell them she's on 4k, where she feels destined to stay. Some gee-up words over a hamburger and we've set her off to get a stack though so things could change rapidly...

Apparently Ben Turnstill, aka RookieITB is OUT!

Details of the hand are sketchy, but it appears he ran top 2 into a set. Bad luck Rookie, you run bad...

I watched Flushy going for Oscar nomination after being set allin on a turn of , Flushy said "I don't think I can pass this" and chip fiddling, looking into space, mumbling, counting fingers as if workiing out pot odds and taking a quick time out to order the beef option off the dinner menu before ultimately passing his absolute FILTH with a sigh.

He fooled no one...

[NoflopsHomer]

Play is just about to restart.

Maria has 4.2k, Flushy is on 12.5k. Meanwhile, man of the hour, Julian Thew has just turned up and straight away was flocked by a few people at the bar, congratulating him and hoping for a little good luck to rub off on them too.

[JungleCat03]

End of Level Four Chip Counts, courtesy of those popular people at blue square...

5   2   502   Bader, Martin   63300
9   6   906   Demel, Priyan   51425
9   9   909   Kam, Leo   34500
8   8   808   Allen, richie   30675
4   1   401   Poast, Kevin   30000
3   7   307   Randall, Simon   28450
10   4   1004   Eriksson, Jens   28350
5   7   1206   Lawrence, Paul   27975
11   9   1109   Holloway, Craig   27575
9   2   902   Ghozali, Sal   26500
1   8   1301   Gelencser, Peter   26100
7   9   709   Trotman, Luke   26025
1   2   102   Clarke, Jason   24650
7   4   704   Ettedgi, Joel   24500
9   3   1205   Dean, David   24050
1   5   1507   Whyman, Piers   22050
1   6   106   Woodman, Terry   21825
1   4   104   Osman, Soner   21575
6   3   603   Owston, Dan   20850
1   7   107   Mcgrane, J   20000
6   2   602   Secola, F   19950
11   5   1105   Lloyd, David J   18725
14   4   1404   Citrone, Carlo   18250
7   6   706   Nutt, Daniel   17900
6   7   607   Bansi, Pramesh   17500
5   5   505   Chan, Wilson   17400
3   8   308   Cook, Mick   17325
14   8   1408   Landi, F   17250
2   7   1607   David jnr, Clarke   17150
4   5   1207   Boland, Liam   16850
2   2   202   Banin, Mark   16400
8   6   806   Samson, Daniel   16400
11   3   1103   Vicary, Paul   16100
11   4   1104   Vinson, Ben   16000
1   9   109   Adelaja, Tajudeen   15725
5   8   505   Chan, Wilson   15650
3   9   309   Bluemle, Frank   15325
8   2   802   Arees, Edward   15300
8   3   803   Martin, William   14825
10   5   1006   Bell, Matthew   14525
4   4   404   Moore, Chris   14400
2   5   205   Goodall, Nick   14150
8   1   801   Dean, Alan   13850
3   5   1202   Ballou, Bob   13750
6   6   606   Chattha, Sunny   13725
14   2   1402   Wyre, Ray   13575
3   2   302   Panteli, Mike   13150
4   7   407   Yusuf, Sami   12900
2   3   203   Dempsey, James   12725
10   6   1005   Herron, Mark   12275
8   7   1504   Glading, Richard   12225
11   1   1307   Palser, Gary   11700
4   6   406   Lotter, Andrew   11375
14   5   1405   Myford, Matt   11200
8   4   804   Parker, John   11050
4   3   403   Nash, Stuart   11025
4   2   402   Campbell, Vinnie   10950
9   8   1007   Jenkins, Nicholas   10900
10   8   1008   Wheatley, Richard   10900
5   6   1604   Brown, Stephen   10800
1   1   207   Wong, Ken   10725
2   9   209   Ridgewell, Sonny   10725
11   8   1108   Armbruster, Elesha   10275
11   2   1509   Gavriel, Chris   10150
10   3   1302   Mendes, Paul   10025
14   7   1407   Selin, Patrik   9500
5   9   1502   Channing, Neil   9450
7   5   705   Conroy, John   9400
3   1   301   Campbell, Duncan   9300
2   6   206   Palser, Richard   9050
14   1   1308   Littlejohn, Steve   8800
5   1   1304   Oleary, Kevin   8650
14   6   1406   Buzzigoli, Andrew   8450
11   6   1106   Panayi, Ronnie   8325
9   1   1602   Mahrenholz, Karl   8075
9   5   1605   Clark, David   7950
9   4   1508   Houghton, Laurence   7875
10   1   1001   Mehrmand, Davood   7600
14   3   1403   Yousefian, Antony   7600
8   9   507   Smith, Chris   7225
5   4   601   Zihni, Ali   7200
3   6   306   Littlejohn, Debbie   7125
7   7   707   Katz, Nicky   7075
4   9   409   Rezakia, R   6925
6   1   1608   Pini, Frank   6900
6   9   609   Fowler, Melvyn   6700
14   9   1409   Housden, Anthony   6500
10   2   1002   Roberts, Benjamin   6400
4   8   408   Garfield, Robert   6325
3   3   303   Sunar, Surinder   5550
6   5   605   Muthy, Kayshan   5425
9   7   907   Grundy, Thomas   5400
6   4   1503   Jones, Paul   4975
2   1   1309   Garbacz, David   4900
2   4   204   Cahill, Edward   4900
7   8   1609   Chattha, Charles   4575
7   2   702   Ghani, M   4525
6   8   608   Sadler, James   4325
11   7   1203   Demetriou, Maria   4275
7   3   703   Singleton, Peter   4000
5   3   503   Tann, Willie   3800
10   7   1208   Adderley, Anthony   3500
10   9   210   Ahmed, Waseem   3275
3   4   304   Dyer, David   2900
7   1   701   Blodwell, Wayne   1750
2   8   208   Arnold, Micheal   300

[NoflopsHomer]

Nick 'Ripple11' Jenkins has lost half his stack running Queens into Kings. He's just been moved to the left on Priyan De Mel who, during the break, was telling the rest of the rest of the Hitsquad, plus myself, Junglecat, Chili and Sharplea whilst we were all in McDonalds, (No buffet ) about the tough work he had flopping sets, straight flushes and the like...

Going passed Flushy's stack, I noticed a slight increase in chips, I inquired what had happened, I got a curt and undetailed response.

"I raised with a gutshot. Hit it on the river."

Javed Abrahams, who cashed in both EPT Barcelona and London (I think) is missing and presumed OUT.

Mark Herron on around 17k



Probable chip leader Martin Bader, roughly 55k, (looks as though I photo-shopped a hat on there but I didn't)

[JungleCat03]

As I wander by his seat flushy is gabbling away and grabs my arm before i can sneak off. "I'm such a donkey!" he says proudly pointing at his much increased stack...

"I know...ok I'll bite, how did it happen?"

"I raised 9T suited on the button, the BB calls. Flop comes 7 3 J, he bets 1100 I raise to 2500 he calls. Turn is a 7 check check. River 8 to give me the straight, he checks and i bet 2550 which he calls. HEHEHEHHEHEHE!"

Meanwhile Ben Vinson was seen putting in a 4.5k bet into roughly a 5k pot on the river of an A25A8 board, which convinced his mateyboy neighbour to lay down and keeping him in the region of 17k-18k...

As I walk back I have a quick chat with Maria as she is moved table to join Neil Channing, Kevin "lovejoy" O'leary and some others...

"You're just hanging around like vultures because you know I'll be knocked out soon aren't you?" Maria admonishes me.

"Not at all, we all want you to treble up" I say as I flap my wings and scour the tables for any players with shortstacks about to implode...

"Good Luck Maria!"....but I remain in the vicinity, just in case...

[JungleCat03]

Hi any chance you can keep me updated on Richie Allen hes my younger brother good little player, has a nice stack about 30k hes on table 8 seat 8 thankyou.

Just heading up so I'll have a look for you...

Meanwhile, Surinder Sunar has trebled up. A three way allin preflop coup with 99 against AK and KK and he plucks the 9 out of the deck to treble up...

[NoflopsHomer]

Mark Herron has doubled up. Having previously re-raised (and shown 9-3) against an aggressive young player, Herron raised on the turn of an A-7-2-6 board with pocket 7's, only to be set all-in by his opponent's drawing dead A-Q. He's up to 34k.

He also says to Dom, "Thanks Tiltbag."

Chili has doubled through her 'spawny' (her words) spiking against . She has about 7.5k now.

[NoflopsHomer]

Our internet is again playing up. Please bear with us.

[JungleCat03]

At the start of level 6, 92 players remained, the average was 15,900 and the blinds were 150 300 with a 25 ante...

...there have been one or two casualties since though

[NoflopsHomer]

Maria is OUT. The small blind raised, she pushed with K-J but lost the race against Nines.

Richie Allen, in the chip leading group.



Rob Garfield, has about 9k after pushing on a board getting his opponent to fold.



Antony Yousefian adopting a formerly unseen form of sitting for a comp, I'm christening this one 'the percher'.



Stuart Nash has knocked out a shorty with AA vs JJ, Jack came on the river, but the board was already reading T-x-K-Q.

Carlo Citrone is OUT, A-K vs Danny Sampson's K-K.

Kayshan Muthy has gone too, the less than stellar Q-4 into Aces.

[JungleCat03]

Flushy is out. Guy raises from UTG to 1900(!) on 150 300, Flushy calls with AA. Flop comes T 8 3 with 2 clubs. Guy checks, Flushy bets, he checkraises him allin, Flushy calls.

20k pot and Flushy finds himself up against a flush draw which hits on the turn, leaving him out of outs and out of the comp. "What can you do" sighs Flushy...

Maria is also out I beleive as she has vacated her seat but I couldn't find her to confirm this...

Praz looks very short with 6k or so, Neil Channing is OUT after shoving in EP with a short stack and being looked up by Kevin O'leary's AQ. His J6 didn't hit and out he went at the expense of LOVEJOY.

We are now on a break and will resume in 15 minutes with 200 400 with a 50 ante where things will really kick off...

[NoflopsHomer]

We're now on the 200/400/50 level. It always seems to be the one where big stacks are suddenly created and many people seem to exit.

Bumped into Ian Cox during the break. With Thewy winning those two big comps in quick succession, perhaps Ian's performances of hitting back to back final tables have been overlooked, combined with the fact he's made 6 finals this year. Certainly, he's in a big purple patch, and I wouldn't be surprised if he goes deep again this week.

[JungleCat03]

Praz looked to have jsut doubled up as he swept in a pot that consisted of lots of little chips but seemed to have around 13k or so in it...

It's 200 400 with a 50 ante right now with 40 minutes or so left in this level...

Ken Wong has succumbed. His AJ with a shortstack was shoved into the middle, but he found an AQ caller and couldn't make his 30%er count so finds himself on the rail.

No Wong jokes from me. That wouldn't be right.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ed Arees is OUT, no details I'm afraid.

Stuart Nash -- 26,175
John McCrane -- 17,000 (Having just doubled up with KK vs AQ)
Dan Owston -- 28,275

Karl Mahrenholz has doubled through Ben Vinson with A-Q vs A-J on an A-Q-J board.