Bluesquare.com London GUKPT: Day 1C - Interactive

[Djinn]

You may be right about the combination of players playing today - the stacks are already uneven and some are looking downright precarious already, after just 20 minutes or so.  One of these is Roberto 'The Mouth' Romanello, pictured here after just winning a hand by calling on the river with after a fourth diamond appeared on the river (the board Ace high) and his opponent bet a few hundred with a now no longer good .  "I can't resist the call for value," said Roberto as he happily threw in the call.  Moments later and he was slightly less happily check-calling with two pair on the river against another tablemate, only to find said opponent on a higher two pair.  Down to just 2,600 - but bewilderingly cheerful, as always. 

[EdA]

Didn't work out so well for me yesterday, but I wanted to wish goodluck to all the welsh boys playing today, and there are quiet a few!  
My picks would have to be - Anthony Romanello (if he is not playing, then I will have to begrudgingly settle for Roberto), Martin 'the grandmaster' Cavanagh (whose ability far outwieghs his luck) and last but certainly not least, Tariq 'yes, but I took the backdoor flush into consideration' Arees, the last minute Iraqi/Welsh draft, who will either blitz the tournament or exit before his dinner bowls.
All the best Lads!! and a well done to Dan, who bumped his way into Friday.

[sweepstr]

didnt know you were playing today .good luck alan davies and is that tariq arees opposite?good luck both

[sweepstr]

Didn't work out so well for me yesterday, but I wanted to wish goodluck to all the welsh boys playing today, and there are quiet a few! 
My picks would have to be - Anthony Romanello (if he is not playing, then I will have to begrudgingly settle for Roberto), Martin 'the grandmaster' Cavanagh (whose ability far outwieghs his luck) and last but certainly not least, Tariq 'yes, but I took the backdoor flush into consideration' Arees, the last minute Iraqi/Welsh draft, who will either blitz the tournament or exit before his dinner bowls.
All the best Lads!! and a well done to Dan, who bumped his way into Friday.

unlucky for yesterday ed.i didnt know the grandmaster was also playing.surely a welsh/iraqi will be chipped up by the end of today.good luck martyn cavanagh

[Djinn]

Here's someone on a lot of players' lists (those of support, and those of potentially first to get a stack or go bust in these early stages) - Man of the Moment Julian Thew, fresh from his EPT victory and several other victories and ready to go for another one.  The Golden One looks like the morning might not be his best time, but he always has a smile and time to tell the press what has and hasn't been happening on Table Thew.  Not so much, as yet, it appears.

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[Djinn]

Yes, if you'd like to know where your supportees are sitting - now it is possible with a glance down this nearly complete start of day Player List, in Table Order.  Thanks Jon Raab and Team... There have been two alternates so far in today, but if you want a fashionably-late entrance you only have about an hour left in which to make it...

1   1   Lock, Owen
1   2   Barraclough, David
1   3   Pennetta, Giovanni
1   4   Oshea, Jerome
1   5   Libertini, Martino
1   6   Harris, Mark
1   7   Herbert, Ian
1   8   Laronde, David
2   1   Omahoney, Denis
2   2   Smith, David
2   3   Artemis, Michael
2   4   Trimby, Michael
2   5   Ford, Zachary
2   6   Allen, Danielle
2   7   Callow, Kim
2   8   Patel, A
3   1   Sareen, Anooj
3   2   Rathbone, John
3   3   Trodd, Amy
3   4   Oreilly, Scott
3   5   Frazer, Ian
3   6   Gurnam, H
3   7   Tatupu, Shem
3   8   Bracey, Johnel
4   1   Ashby, Richard
4   2   Bradpiece, Jerome
4   3   Johansson, Mikael
4   4   Tung, Man Kit
4   5   Ringe, G
4   6   Poulengeris, Antonis
4   7   Thew, J
4   8   Khajuria, Lalit
5   1   Talkington, Keith
5   2   Jackson, Paul
5   3   Shantra, Mark
5   4   Trigg, Rick
5   5   Hicks, Nichiei
5   6   Brevik, Jan
5   7   Moore, William
5   8   Koumi, Joseph
6   1   Kirton, Hugh
6   2   Altham, Glen
6   3   Whitehead, Glen
6   4   Moodie, Andrew
6   5   Smurfit, Peter
6   6   Zeb, Zaheer
6   7   Grech, Joseph
6   8   Annan, George
7   1   Atkin, J
7   2   Constantinou, Costas
7   3   Mccloskey, Michael
7   4   Mlynek, Craig
7   5   Scullion, Alex
7   6   Davies, David
7   7   Hussain, Arshad
7   8   Keown, John
8   1   Bointon, Mark
8   2   Arnesen, Marius
8   3   Milbey, David
8   4   Nawab, M
8   5   Francis, Nicholas
8   6   Chatterton, Gary
8   7   Green, Martin
8   8   Harris, Sid
9   1   Simpson, Terry
9   2   Horn, Anthony
9   3   Cavanagh, Martin
9   4   Ullah, Ibrahim
9   5   Nowab, Simon
9   6   Goodman, Gary
9   7   Palmer, Daniel
9   8   Welch, David
10   1   Davies, Alan
10   2   Lee, Nathan
10   3   Chandler, Steven
10   4   Arnold, Micheal
10   5   Arees, Tariq
10   6   Cox, Ian
10   7   Mulla, Reyaaz
10   8   Price, Robert
11   1   Wan, S
11   2   Pavlou, M
11   3   Donnelly, Andrew
11   4   Karelas, Konstantinos
11   5   Flood, William
11   6   Fletcher, Michael
11   7   Taunton, Kevin
11   8   Morris, James
12   1   Broadrick, Ian
12   2   Dwyer, John
12   3   Herbert, Richard
12   4   Altynbaev, Olzhas
12   5   Zach, Simon
12   6   Rudd, Daniel
12   7   Martin, Jonathan
12   8   Ronanello, Roberto
13   1   Baldwin, Alfie
13   2   Ell hoss, Ghassan
13   3   Ozkarapinar, D
13   4   Taylor, Robert
13   5   Tabatabai, John
13   6   Sapiano, Albert
13   7   Mcdonald, George
13   8   Kennedy, S
14   1   Hogg, S
14   2   Mitchell, Chris
14   3   Linton, Peter james
14   4   Palanca, Manuel
14   5   Gabriele, Carlo
14   6   Butters, Jonathan
14   7   Shellum, Jason
14   8   Mills, Stephen
15   1   Muldoon, Michael
15   2   Rokach, Lucy
15   3   Sherwood, Robert
15   4   Trickett, Sam
15   5   Parhizkar, Hossein
15   6   Mohammed, Barkatul Hassan
15   7   Abery, T
15   8   Schwartz, Lucas
16   1   Yilmaz, Huseyin
16   2   Kabbaj, John
16   3   Nagrecha, N
16   4   Javoski, Bogden
16   5   Assomull, Gaurav
16   6   Parker, Paul
16   7   Cascarino, Anthony
16   8   King, John
17   1   Ngo, Billy
17   2   Wilson, Barry
17   3   Romanello, Nicholas
17   4   Guy, David
17   5   Lalvani, Nirbhay
17   6   Exley, John
17   7   Dionysiou, Kyriacos
17   8   Jones, Iwan
18   1   Mcdowell, Owen
18   2   Davies, Gary
18   3   Thomson, Neville
18   4   Ogunmakinwa, Jamil
18   5   Boyle, Alan
18   6   Campbell, Leon
18   7   Hepburn, George
18   8   Herron, Mike
19   1   Nijar, Bally
19   2   Sudworth, James
19   3   Waresh, Michael
19   4   Renoldi, Simon
19   5   Hayes, M
19   6   Sadarangani, Davijay
19   7   Louis, K
19   8   Macit, Ergun

[Djinn]

Hi please keep an eye on Jon Tabatabai

I sort of failed here, in that he was out before a second Tour of the Building could be completed - I would not be surprised if something like coming second at the WSOPE Main Event (which he did, in case there are any players out there who didn't know that) kind of made it hard to focus for a little while thereafter. 

Here he was, though, sat next to Rob Taylor, who wins todays Prize for the Startled. 

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[Dewi_cool]

good luck to all the welsh lads & all blondes

Ed

[JungleCat03]

I went to catch up with Redbull and Actionman and Redbull is off to a flyer...

Holding JJ he flat called a raise by Rick Trigg which was called behind. On a 3 4 8 flop with 2 hearts he riased a bet from mateyboy which was called. The offsuit on the turn was a nice moneycard, giving him the nuts with top set and he managed to eke a bet out of his opponent on turn and river to increase his stack nicely and he looks to have 18k-19k at the moment, putting him up with the early pace setters.

Rick was looking confident and ready for a good day's poker, although still clearly holding a grudge against my flatmate James Dempsey for thieving his beloved sunglasses. GIVE THE RAYBURNS BACK FLUSHY! With Rick and Redbull sharing the felt, this table should be good for banter!

Julian is on the same table as Jerome Bradpiece, winner of the Walsall GUKPT. Likely two of the early favourites in the competition, their face offs could prove very interesting, although the are seperated by half the table, which might limit the occasions they come into contact with each other. At the moment though, the pace of the last few weeks looks like it may have caught up with Julian slightly as I caught him staring vacantly into space. He has a pretty good excuse for a few late nights recently i guess...

Ian Cox, blonde's crapper, was looking relaxed and composed in a grey hoody. His form has been very impressive as of late and being so familiar with the GUKPTs as well as running well, he has to be in the running as one of the likely candidates to reach the latter stages of this event.

[booder]

has Trigg had a haircut or is he persisting with that hippy mop ?

[Djinn]

Richard Herbert vs. Simon Zach

The dusk till dawn player Zach has gotten into a bit of difficulty early on, dropping down to 4,600 in Level One. A pot which took a pretty big chunk was against Richard Herbert: 6,200 had made its way into the pot with the flop already out: .  Herbert checked, Zach bet 2,300, and found a check-raise of another 7k back at him.  He declined, in the end, to call all in, after a bit of a tortured think and an enquiry: "If I pass, will you show?"  Herbert just slowly shook his head..."Show just one of them?"  The head shook again.  So, no information, no chips.

[Djinn]

has Trigg had a haircut or is he persisting with that hippy mop ?

See for yourself:

[badhaircut]

keep an eye on Rick Trigg, James Atkin and Scott O'Reilly please:)

[booder]

has Trigg had a haircut or is he persisting with that hippy mop ?

See for yourself:

how appropriate was the next posters name       

[TightEnd]

Keep an eye on Denis O'Mahoney, Daniel Rudd and Rob Sherwood for us please guys

(IrishDenis, Up the Mariners, Rob S)