Bluesquare.com London GUKPT: Day 1C: At A Glance

[Djinn]

Big Hand for the Joker...  Joe Grech set off a pretty large pot when he re-raised on the button to 1,200 after an early position raise from Hugh Kirton and a subsequent flat call from Glen Whitehead.  Both of them called the Joker (who had an impressive 34,000 or so at the time) and they saw a flop:
  Check to Grech, who bet 1,200 again.  Hugh then re-raised all in, and must have been disappointed when not just Grech, but Whitehead too got all their chips in the middle.  Joe Grech covered both of them easily, and showed .  But Glen Whitehead had - both were therefore ahead of Kirton's .
Turn: a club - giving the Tens another few outs
River: - taking all hope away, even if that hadn't been the last card to come.

So treble up for Whitehead, knock back to 24,000 for the Joker, knock out for Hugh Kirton (pictured).

[JungleCat03]

Chip counts from end of level 2 courtesy of the majestic moguls at blue square.

Please note some of these counts will now have changed but this will give a flavour of the current state of events...

Rokach, Lucy   39700
Herbert, Richard   28175
Herron, Mike   28150
Hicks, Nichiei   27400
Nagrecha, N   27300
Artemis, Michael   25650
Thew, J   23875
Hayes, M   23800
Palmer, Daniel   22950
Yilmaz, Huseyin   21775
Grech, Joseph   20950
Fletcher, Michael   20450
Goodman, Gary   19350
Kabbaj, John   19325
Nawab, M   18875
Callow, Kim   18700
Ullah, Ibrahim   18675
Sapiano, Albert   17800
Rathbone, John   17200
Jones, Iwan   15975
Lee, Nathan   15800
Ozkarapinar, D   15325
Poulengeris, Antonis   14900
Shellum, Jason   14850
Dwyer, John   14325
Hepburn, George   14175
Mcdonald, George   14000
Bracey, Johnel   13950
Pavlou, M   13875
Harris, Sid   13775
Libertini, Martino   13350
Simpson, Terry   13350
Nijar, Bally   13125
Ringe, G   13100
Karelas, Konstantinos   13025
Gurnam, H   13000
Bointon, Mark   12850
Atkin, J   12775
Oshea, Jerome   12650
Romanello, Nicholas   12650
Mitchell, Chris   12550
Dionysiou, Kyriacos   12550
Ngo, Billy   12275
Kirton, Hugh   12225
Choraria, Rajendra   12200
Sareen, Anooj   12000
Mlynek, Craig   12000
Ford, Zachary   11975
Jackson, Paul   11925
Scullion, Alex   11800
Morris, James   11700
Linton, Peter james   11700
Taunton, Kevin   11550
Barraclough, David   11525
Francis, Nicholas   11500
Mohammed, Barkatul Hassan   11425
Kennedy, S   11300
Francis, Nicholas   11125
Mulla, Reyaaz   11075
Herbert, Ian   10800
Davies, Gary   10750
Altham, Glen   10725
Sherwood, Robert   10675
Hussain, Arshad   10650
Keown, John   10625
Tung, Man Kit   10400
Constantinou, Costas   10400
Wilson, Barry   10375
Smurfit, Peter   10350
Rudd, Daniel   10350
Sadarangani, Davijay   10225
Cox, Ian   10200
Tehrani, Darius   10000
Kourosh, Nikkhahe   10000
Chatterton, Gary   9950
Palanca, Manuel   9875
Penly, Dave   9750
Bradpiece, Jerome   9750
Trodd, Amy   9675
Mills, Stephen   9675
Price, Robert   9650
Sudworth, James   9575
Davies, Alan   9525
Green, Martin   9425
Annan, George   9375
Arees, Tariq   9250
Laronde, David   9125
Guy, David   9125
Trimby, Michael   9100
Parker, Paul   8825
Martin, Jonathan   8800
Welch, David   8600
Macit, Ergun   8525
Lock, Owen   8450
Koumi, Joseph   8400
Lalvani, Nirbhay   8200
Mcdowell, Owen   7900
Waresh, Michael   7775
Altynbaev, Olzhas   7650
Hogg, S   7650
Zeb, Zaheer   7600
Arnesen, Marius   7575
Oreilly, Scott   7500
Butters, Jonathan   7350
Moore, William   7250
Exley, John   7225
Mccloskey, Michael   7200
Nowab, Simon   7050
Abery, T   7025
Moodie, Andrew   6925
Trickett, Sam   6900
Talkington, Keith   6600
Ell hoss, Ghassan   6550
Smith, David   6525
Trigg, Rick   6475
Gabriele, Carlo   6450
Shantra, Mark   6425
Arnold, Micheal   6425
Taylor, Robert   6425
Harris, Mark   6350
Johansson, Mikael   6325
Campbell, Leon   6250
Whitehead, Glen   6200
King, John   6150
Ogunmakinwa, Jamil   6075
Tatupu, Shem   5750
Louis, K   5575
Allen, Danielle   5550
Davies, David   5475
Schwartz, Lucas   5025
Wan, S   4075
Flood, William   3900
Baldwin, Alfie   3650
Milbey, David   3225
Zach, Simon   3000
Cascarino, Anthony   2300
Donnelly, Andrew   1575
Chandler, Steven   1425
Renoldi, Simon   1400
Thomson, Neville   900

[Djinn]

Someone a while ago asked if the big red hoody in the background of one of the pictures was Jerome Bradpiece.  The answer is, no - Jerome is currently hoodyless and fluctuating in chips dramatically.  Saw him double up with ... apparently he re-raised a preflop raise of 625 to 1,675.  He was called, and saw a 6-high flop.  His opponent bet out 2k - Jerome just called.  The board paired the Six on the turn and Jerome now pushed all-in over the top of the next bet of 2k.  The extra 4.5k made its way in and he was shown which stayed behind on the river.

But just now news has travelled up to the press room of another big confrontation which has sent him near the felt again... more soon.

[JungleCat03]

Quote from: JungleCat03 on Today at 04:34:02 pm
Quote from: dalzini on Today at 04:12:30 pm


I havent seen the face but is that Jerome Bradpiece in the background with the red hoody on?

Yes indeed you can make out Jerome jsut above Michael Muldoon's head

Quote from: Djinn on Today at 05:34:18 pm
Someone a while ago asked if the big red hoody in the background of one of the pictures was Jerome Bradpiece.  The answer is, no - Jerome is currently hoodyless and fluctuating in chips dramatically.  Saw him double up with ... apparently he re-raised a preflop raise of 625 to 1,675.  He was called, and saw a 6-high flop.  His opponent bet out 2k - Jerome just called.  The board paired the Six on the turn and Jerome now pushed all-in over the top of the next bet of 2k.  The extra 4.5k made its way in and he was shown which stayed behind on the river.

But just now news has travelled up to the press room of another big confrontation which has sent him near the felt again... more soon.

OOPS! Got my angles a bit wrong there. All I can say is that you are very lucky to have the sharp-eyed, swift witted Jen poised and ready or you'd be left with my moronic ramblings and comical feline misreads all day...

Moving swiftly onwards, Rick's stack was decimated as I came over to check on his table. He related the hand to me. He had A9h and the flop came Q hi with two hearts. Rick played his draw very aggressively but was unable to get Kings to fold and unable to hit his draw either and a 30k ish pot went the wrong way. He's down to dust but won a few chips after raising to 600 utg and receiving a call from the BB. The flop came ATT, BB bet out 1k and rick moved allin for another 1.4k to which the BB passed....

Pete Linton has circa 15k and Simon Nowab has been busily beavering away successfully and is up to 23k.

Paul Jackson has just busted out, no doubt due to some "flair play" on his opponent's behalf. The players are about to break for an hour to gather their thoughts and relate their tales of glory and woe. We'll be back soon,,,

[Djinn]

One Hour Dinner Break has Just Begun...

Before heading towards food somewhere that isn't here (players in these events now seem to be served at the table, complete with wine and then get an hour break afterwards, for some reason) here's a list of a few selected players counted before the full count comes in (it will probably be here at the end of the break)...

Alan Smurfit -- 8,050
Joe Grech -- 23,500
Lucy Rokach -- 50,000+
John Kabbaj -- 32,000
Rick Trigg -- 3,450
Jerome Bradpiece -- 3,600
Nick Hicks -- 27,000
Julian Thew -- 18,000
Chris Mitchell -- 3,275
Rob Taylor -- 11,100
Simon Nowab -- 26,500
Paul Parker -- 5,400
Tariq Arees -- OUT (or disappeared)
Andy Donnelly -- 4,950
Martin Cavanagh -- OUT
Michael Trimby -- 21,400
George Hepburn 'slim99slim' -- 17,300   (League winner - so here's where your percentages are, blonde players - he's holding up well....)

[Djinn]

Here are the chip standings as they start the 150/300 level...

Rokach, Lucy   44150
Grech, Joseph   38675
Nagrecha, N   33775
Herbert, Richard   33525
Libertini, Martino   32525
Callow, Kim   30700
Kennedy, S   28625
Kabbaj, John   28550
Hicks, Nichiei   28500
Jones, Iwan   28175
Herron, Mike   28100
Palmer, Daniel   26800
Scullion, Alex   26675
Goodman, Gary   25850
Koumi, Joseph   25675
Nawab, Maz   25475
Shellum, Jason   24700
Ringe, G   23400
Whitehead, Glen   23400
Yilmaz, Huseyin   22975
Ullah, Ibrahim   22200
Mohammed, Barkatul Hassan   22075
Trimby, Michael   21900
Davies, Gary   21100
Hayes, M   20450
Ogunmakinwa, Jamil   19350
Poulengeris, Antonis   19325
Campbell, Leon   19200
Karelas, Konstantinos   17525
Ozkarapinar, D   17125
Mulla, Reyaaz   17050
Hepburn, George   17000
Harris, Sid   16875
Gurnam, H   16775
Annan, George   16775
Cox, Ian   16700
Dwyer, John   16200
Thew, Julian   15900
Bracey, Johnel   15650
Omahoney, Denis   15625
Linton, Peter james   15575
Bointon, Mark   14800
Simpson, Terry   14800
Nijar, Bally   14525
Pavlou, M   14375
Mcdonald, George   14225
Romanello, Nicholas   14200
Sapiano, Albert   14125
Hogg, S   13625
Davies, Alan   13450
Mccloskey, Michael   13000
Rathbone, John   12875
Taunton, Kevin   12875
Ngo, Billy   12500
Keown, John   12050
Oshea, Jerome   11925
Sudworth, James   11925
Exley, John   11900
Tehrani, Darius   11700
Palanca, Manuel   11375
Ford, Zachary   11225
Trodd, Amy   11200
Taylor, Robert   11200
Rudd, Daniel   10525
Macit, Ergun   10500
Price, Robert   10500
Boyle, Alan   10450
Mlynek, Craig   10375
Shantra, Mark   10150
Smurfit, Peter   10150
Penly, Dave   9800
Kourosh, Nikkhahe   9475
Herbert, Ian   9375
Mills, Stephen   9175
Lalvani, Nirbhay   9100
Johansson, Mikaela   8875
Fletcher, Michael   8650
Tung, Man Kit   8550
Gabriele, Carlo   8425
Lee, Nathan   8275
Oreilly, Scott   8250
Sadarangani, Davijay   8175
Milbey, David   8050
Zeb, Zaheer   7650
Nowab, Simon   7550
Waresh, Michael   7425
Wilson, Barry   6950
Sherwood, Robert   6700
Sareen, Anooj   6700
Abery, T   6675
Martin, Jonathan   6475
Altynbaev, Olzhas   6325
Green, Martin   5275
Francis, Nicholas   5150
Chatterton, Gary   5025
Parker, Paul   5000
Donnelly, Andrew   4950
Guy, David   4900
King, John   4750
Davies, David   4000
Butters, Jonathan   3900
Trigg, Rick   3850
Bradpiece, Jerome   3625
Mitchell, Chris   3275
Moodie, Andrew   3250
Talkington, Keith   2825
Constantinou, Costas   2700

[Djinn]

Michael Artemis, who went through a brief patch of being chip leader, is now out.  On the way to the top, he busted Danielle Allen, whose patience wasn't rewarded too well as Artemis called her large preflop raise with what turned out to be T-9 (she held ).  The flop came Nine-high, and that's when most of the money went in, with Danielle promptly busting as a second Nine came as their cards were on their backs.  Quickly over 30k, Artemis continued to play fast and loose, eventually, on the way back down, doubling two players up, one who held Aces and whose overbet was called promptly.  A brief typhoon-like redistribution of chips, and Artemis is on the rail and his table's anxiety levels have probably come back to normal.

[Djinn]

Some chip counts which might be out of date now as our internet has been off for a while due to Content Control Issues (is there a day that goes by which does not see Vodafone inconvenience someone, somewhere?).

Richard Herbert -- 14,750
Paul Parker -- 16,600
Simon Nowab -- 37,000
Sid Harris -- 19,350
Rick Trigg -- 11,000
Julian Thew -- 19,000
Amy Trodd -- 14,250
Denis O'Mahoney -- 37,000
Danny Palmer -- 22,000

Just now James Sudworth got it all in preflop with against Kim Callow's with the usual result - elimination.  He was down to under 7k and after raising 2k preflop, found himself committed when Callow threebet him all in.

A harsher sort of situation occurred on Table Nowab, where Simon appears to have consistently gained chips through the day until the high point of nearly 40k he's hit now.  He raised preflop with just Stephen Mills interested, and then bet 2k on the flop.  Mills gave it what Nowab described as, "The full needle," before moving in for a further 5,650. Call from Nowab.
Simon showed: 
Stephen showed: 

Turn:
River:    and with the regulation amount of swearing, Mills headed out to 'The Terrace' (cold outdoor pen for smokers) followed by Nowab who was having quite an amiable conversation with him in spite of the busting.

[JungleCat03]

Quick Quick Whilst I have breached the restrictions preventing us posting here are some quick stories , counts and quotes from the players. Enjoy!

Simon Nowab is doing welll on 20k+.

Paul Parker on his table tells me "He pinched all those chips!"

Paul's in better spirits now and is back to his usual chatty self again..."Doing much better than I was before...up to 13k now!" before he breaks off to wangle some free wine out of the nearby valet. "We didn't get any at dinner, honestly" says Paul and his chirpy enthusiasm seems to have done the trick as a delivery of wine is promised...

..."OOhhh, bring us some cheesecake too" chimes in Simon, whose chip accumulation is obviously getting him hungry.

Rick Trigg is battling on with his shortstack and appears to be on roughly 6 or 7k now. Redbull pulls me aside "Had a bit of an accident" he tells me as he points to his depleted stack which is still around the 17k or so zone. "This gentleman outdrew me" he says placidly pointing to one of his neighbours. It's nice to see players behaving well even after a bad beat...


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Red Bull and ActionMan have had their first significant face off. Rick's short stack meant that when the two found AK and QQ, the chips were destined to fly into the middle.

"Once I saw it was a flip I knew I was going to lose it the way I'm running!" said Redbull and his ominous premonition proved to be accurate as a K on the river sealed a much  needed double up for Rick who is now back to 10 or 11k whilst Redbull's stack has been torn apart bit by bit by bad beats and lost flips and he now sits on 8k or so after his promising start...

Amy Trodd is now down to 6 or 7k or so.

She was seen betting 2600 on a 2 2 3 J J river only to receive a call from AA and quickly muck her cards...

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[Djinn]

Ergun Macit takes on Lucy Rokach... it can't be a great seat with the two hefty stacks of Rokach and Kabbaj on his left, but he's not worryingly near the felt yet, and looks pretty relaxed.  Just now he bet out 4k on the river with the board standing: .  The pot wasn't particularly large, and I gather there had been some preceding checking.  Lucy Rokach now takes the 4k off the top of one of the chip towers (it's a barely noticeable removal) and plays with it while considering her opponent for a while.  Eventually she decides to pass, and is rewarded with her opponent showing the for a big set...

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Here pictured is a happy Paul Parker, after finally getting the attention of the wine steward guy for his benefit and that of his neighbours.  He's brought that peculiar magnetic set of twigs which are so compulsive to play with and provide a welcome relief for unstoppable chip twiddlers.  If you don't know what I'm talking about, imagine plastic twiglets which attach at the ends via strong magnets, which allow very satisfying linking of the twiglets and then breaking into smaller branches.  It's multicoloured as well, like Paul Parker's regular outfits. 

[Djinn]

A few more selected counts....

Daniel Rudd -- 7,900
Ibrahim Ullah -- 25,000
N. Nagrecha -- 35,000
Martin Green -- 14,500
Leon Campbell -- 16,100
Johnel Bracey -- 15,600
Jason Shellum -- 33,300

[JungleCat03]

End of level 6 chip counts, courtesy of those hardworking hamsters at blue square...

Callow, Kim   65700
Ringe, G   51000
Ogunmakinwa, Jamil   44900
Omahoney, Denis   43800
Pavlou, M   41900
Yilmaz, Huseyin   41350
Grech, Joseph   40975
Fletcher, Michael   40250
Rokach, Lucy   40000
Rathbone, John   37800
Koumi, Joseph   36650
Boyle, Alan   35850
Shellum, Jason   33050
Jones, Iwan   30325
Hogg, S   30300
Taunton, Kevin   30200
Goodman, Gary   28175
Macit, Ergun   27975
Sareen, Anooj   27700
Ullah, Ibrahim   27500
Lock, Owen   25900
Gurnam, H   25675
Thew, Julian   25275
Mohammed, Barkatul Hassan   24900
Herron, Mike   24600
Simpson, Terry   24575
Linton, Peter james   24500
Hicks, Nichiei   23475
Bointon, Mark   23375
Kabbaj, John   22675
Scullion, Alex   22325
Herbert, Ian   22075
Nawab, Maz   21575
Mulla, Reyaaz   21550
Smurfit, Peter   21525
Ford, Zachary   20500
Artemis, Michael   20200
Bracey, Johnel   20200
Rudd, Daniel   19850
Lalvani, Nirbhay   19825
Bradpiece, Jerome   19375
Hayes, M   19375
Mccloskey, Michael   19125
Ngo, Billy   18600
Shantra, Mark   18375
Annan, George   17425
Waresh, Michael   16500
Keown, John   15925
Trimby, Michael   15650
Poulengeris, Antonis   15075
Davies, Gary   14975
Dwyer, John   14500
Green, Martin   12475
Cox, Ian   12225
Ozkarapinar, D   12075
Kourosh, Nikkhahe   11050
Lee, Nathan   10950
Libertini, Martino   10725
Hepburn, George   10575
Guy, David   10125
Campbell, Leon   9175
Martin, Jonathan   9050
Nowab, Simon   7925
Kennedy, S   7450
Nagrecha, N   7275
Mcdonald, George   7025
Lalvani, Nirbhay   7025
Milbey, David   6100
Tung, Man Kit   2050

[JungleCat03]

Sad to say the genial Paul Parker is out. Never managing to get a good stack going all day, he became crippled holding T9 on a T92 flop, only to find his opponent with pocket leaving him in dire need of a 4 outer which never materialised.

Down to the felt he shoved his last few chips in with J9 and was rewarded by a call from KK. Never fear a J x J flop made him a comfortable favourite but a K on the river was the final nail in his coffin and Paul, his spangly waistcoat, chirpy banter and magnetic twiglets are OUT.

[Djinn]

didn't notice a chip count for the Twiggster

Er... that's because he is no more (in the tournament) - It was Flushy, playing in a Chinese game near the people actually still in the tournament who let me know this nugget of information.  "Trigg's in the cash game, Paul Parker's in the cash game - there goes my interest."



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And in answer to a long-ago query (we try to get to your questions here on blonde, if there's time in between making instant coffee and stealing items from the player bufffet) - the spectacular hoody belongs to Al Boyle, according to our seating list.  He wins a double prize today, that of least expected item of clothing in a poker room combined with getting the hood element of it past the MI6-trained staff near the entrance to the Vic.  He's got 6,275 in chips currently, but I hope he makes Day Two.

[JungleCat03]

At 200 400 with a 50 ante, this level is having its fair share of casualties as expected...

But it's working out nicely for Blonde's redbull who is building his stack very ncicely and looked to have roughly 30k when i joined his table.

He was also involved in another pot...on a K 5 5 flop his opponent bet the flop after Redbull checked which he called.

a 2 came on the turn and Redbull check called his opponent's bet again.

A 7 river was an effective blank and the hand went check check with Redbull's KQ well in front of his opponent's A8. Another nice chunk added to his stack which is now 35k+, Redbull is starting to develop into a threat...

There are currently 63 players remaining and the next level 300 600 -75 is just about to begin.

Let the blind pinching commence!