Bluesquare.com London GUKPT: Day 2: At A Glance

[Djinn]

Here's the info-only thread for Day Two of the Bluesquare London GUKPT.  Chip counts and the occasional anecdote - coming at 1:30pm.

[JungleCat03]

Welcome to Day 2. The action promises to be fast and furious today.

Good luck to Snoops who can give himself the best birthday present of all....if he plays his cards right.



Starting day chip counts courtesy of those serendipitous celebrities at blue square.

Randall, Simon   99450
Heller, Adam   93900
Mohammed, Barkatul Hassan   92850
Bader, Martin   80375
Yilmaz, Huseyin   78625
Demel, Priyan   75575
Bale, M   74475
Denton, Charles   74000
Banin, Mark   72375
Rokach, Lucy   70800
Fletcher, Michael   70700
Rudd, Daniel   68675
Mulla, Reyaaz   68250
Buskirk, Carl   67675
Owen, Craig   65150
Gibson, Nick   64175
Sunar, Surinder   61000
Rathbone, John   60525
Chattha, Sunny   59025
Koumi, Joseph   58550
Hayes, M   58275
Callow, Kim   57825
Ogunmakinwa, Jamil   57600
Lawrence, Paul   56300
Xanthos, Charalambos   54875
Ringe, G   54625
Poulengeris, Antonis   53475
Mehrmand, Davood   52575
Ettedgi, Joel   50225
Eastwood, Simon Joseph   49600
Wilkinson, Adam   48475
Trotman, Luke   48025
Selin, Patrik   47000
Gelencser, Peter   45725
Goodwin, Marc   44775
Rajah, Bardi   44625
Simpson, Terry   43900
Mahrenholz, Karl   43700
Gilbert, Brian   43450
Goulding, Adam   42950
Dean, David   42625
Sareen, Anooj   41800
Herron, Mark   41575
Herbert, Richard   40675
Clarke, Jason   38550
Zeb, Zaheer   37925
Ioannou, John   37700
Littlejohn, Steve   37625
Houghton, Laurence   36275
Nikkhahe, K   35725
Mehmet, P   34625
Shakerchi, Talal   34450
Boyle, Alan   34400
Kimber, J   33675
Yusuf, Sami   33375
Herbert, Ian   33225
Cicekli, Necmettin   32700
Green, Martin   32375
Cohen, Paul   32100
Holbrook, Nick   32000
Pini, Frank   31475
Bracey, Johnel   31350
Rogers, Jeffrey   30775
Linton, Peter james   30250
Kabbaj, John   29975
Martin, Glen   29100
Lotter, Andrew   28500
Cox, Ian   27975
Eriksson, Jens   27725
Panteli, Mike   27475
Shevket, Yilfer   27250
Pavlou, M   27000
Martin, Jonathan   26625
Boland, Liam   26600
Cruickshank, Andrew   26475
Dean, Alan   26375
Herron, Mike   25625
Halsey, David   25325
Volpe, Antonio   24825
Taunton, Kevin   23875
Jones, Iwan   23225
Myford, Matt   23075
Boon, Robert   21925
Moriali, A   21925
Goodall, Nick   21900
Kam, Leo   21625
Shantra, Mark   21525
Martin, William   21400
Whyman, Piers   21200
Nosko, W   21075
Scullion, Alex   21025
Glading, Richard   20775
Wyre, Ray   19975
Ballou, Bob   19900
Hogg, S   19325
Allen, richie   18900
Macit, Ergun   18875
Persaud, Nikhil   18875
Smith, Chris   18550
Secola, F   16950
Moult, James   16675
Shellum, Jason   15575
Mcgrane, J   15250
Omahoney, Denis   14400
Murphy, John   14175
Colclough, David   13625
Mcdonagh, Simon   12625
Grech, Joseph   12450
Dwyer, John   11975
Trimby, Michael   11000
Nikkhah, S   10650
Lock, Owen   10150
Gurnam, H   9675
Libertini, Martino   7325
Poast, Kevin   6025
Moran, Sean   3575
Owston, Dan   3025

[Djinn]

With the blinds starting at 500/1,000 ante 100, the stacks around the starting stack mark are in pretty desperate shape and they have been throwing their chips in with wild abandon in the hope of doubling and then doubling again to a properly playable stack. 

Kevin Poast, for example, is OUT after shoving in late position with what turned out to be for only 6k - big blind Alex Scullion thought for longer than you might imagine before calling with his to knock him out.

Meanwhile Hitsquad member and Bluesquare sponsored player Karl Mahrenholz picks up just in time to bust the of Pete Linton.  Check out the evil eye being cast his way by neighbour Iwan Jones as he rakes in some more chips to add to The One Tower.

[JungleCat03]

Good luck to the Blondes. What blinds do they come back at?

It's 500 1k with a 100 ante at the start of today.

As expected, some chips have already been flying about and we have some early casualties...

Denis Omahoney started the day with 14k so was under some pressure to get some chips going. AK's a fine hand for that but mateyboy's 9 9 held on a blank board and IrishDenis departs the competition with a shrug and a smile.

Dan Owston is also OUT.

Shortstacked with just 3025 chips he shoved allin in late position and was called in 2 spots by S Hogg and Richard Herbert.

FLOP: ...

Both the live players check.

TURN:

Again checkage was the order of the day.

RIVER:

Check and......bet of 5k  by Richard Herbert.

Dan probably realised this wasn't a good sign and Hogg realised his bacon was cooked and passed.

Richard flipped up K8h for the flush and Dan's TT was no good...but he did a great job of cheering himself on during the hand football style. Good game Dan.

With news that one of the early chip leaders Lucy Rokach has run into some bother, it is a pretty manic start!

[Djinn]

Lucy Rokach is OUT!

From big stack to the felt - it can happen in just a couple of key hands, and one of them just happened... She'd already lost about half of her pretty hefty starting chips in one big pot, and now got involved with equally chipped up Paul Lawrence.  I saw it from the flop where Lawrence was inspecting the pot (around 10k) and the board ( ) before betting 10,600.  Lucy called quickly.
Turn:   Again, he bet 10,600 precisely.  Lucy called more quickly still.
River:    Now Lawrence checked and faced a counted-down all-in of 13,000.  He wasn't happy about it, and thought for a good while, before eventually coming off the fence on the Call side.

He showed: 
Lucy Rokach showed:

And the early aggressor and chip leader has now joined the procession heading for the rail or the bar, which is quickly becoming a river of disappointed ex-players.

Pictured: Paul Lawrence counting his new near 90k stack.

[JungleCat03]

Kevin Taunton  has been knocked out of the competition.

Holding AJ his allin move was called by Jason Shelhum, whose AQ held on a Q 9 9 blank blank board to win him a nice pot.

John Kabbaj, one of the most experienced players in the competition has just been involved in a hand with Mohammed Barkatu.

After a few thousand chips went into the pot preflop, both players liked the flop, John getting his shortish stack in with JT on a flop.

Mohammed Barkatu's 88 had less outs than he thought it would and the A and Q on the turn and river changed nothing, granting a timely double up to 35k or so for John Kabbaj.

Charalambos Xanthos has had a good start and looks to have bolstered his 55k stack up to 85k or so...

Glen Martin has doubled up at the expense of Steve Littlejohn.

Steve had called a riase preflop with 99 and liked the look of the flop, but Glen had an easy call with his stack size and QQ and he took it down and looks to have moved to around 30-35k.

Marc Goodwin is another of the day's early risers, moving his stack to around the 90k mark.

Mark Herron is on around 40k at this stage.

Nick Gibson, who is wielding what appears to be a Vic's inhaler as though it was a £50 Havana cigar is looking focused and up for all eventualities and has the stack to cause mischief...

[JungleCat03]

Sadly the original blonde, ElBlondie Dave Colclough is OUT.

Holding Ks6s on a board, he committed himself to the flop and was called by the TT of Jonathan Martin.

A virtual flip, Dave missed his outs and joined the swelling crowds who have been sent to the rail in this lightning first hour.

There are now 89 players remaining, the average stack is 47k and the blinds are a meaty 600 1200 with a 100 ante.

[JungleCat03]

Snoopy's stack size hasn't changed dramatically since the start...

As I join him, he is yawning to give the impression he is just a tired dog but this is all clearly a well rehearsed trap to fool his tablemates.

After a little gentle ribbing from his neighbour, Jeff Kimber, Snoopy warns him and anyone else within earshot "I'm the table maniac, don't mess with me."

Joe Grech has been eliminated, running his pocket Jacks into Carl Buskirk's QQ, Carl now sitting on a big stack that looks to be over the 80k mark.

[Djinn]

The Luck of the Short Stacks has completely dried up.  Some days, it takes hours to knock out the small stacks who just can't seem to lose a race, but today no matter how ahead they get it in, those near the felt are smacking into it, almost without exception.

For a start - Jeff Rogers all in on the big blind with (he'd dropped from around 35k to a stack which was coverable by his opponent John Dwyer, who himself had come back with just 11,975).  Small blind Dwyer was giving his all-in a spin with his , all in the middle preflop.
Flop:
Turn:    A dispirited Rogers stands up in frustration and kind of stalks off as the comes down, Dwyer says, "Sorry," and another guy at the table starts telling him off for apologising, all at the same time. 

Dwyer does seem to be a genuinely nice guy (although remorse is not something suitable for the poker table, generally) - JungleCat and I stole his taxi last night by running a bit up the road and hailing it in front of him.  He took it very well, and we decided to share the cab as we were all heading North.  An occasional player who enjoys the game rarely (five times a year, I remember him saying he played) he seems to be enjoying the whole thing immensely and wasn't fazed by the prospect of returning short stacked on Day Two and promptly going home again.  That hasn't happened yet, however, and he has around 25k.

[Djinn]

Any news on Ian Herbert and Iwan Jones please

Iwan Jones just busted, I'm afraid, and with a slightly peculiar set of circumstances.  He only had 15,300 left, and it all went in preflop utg+1.  Carl Buskirk, two positions to Jones' left, with a big stack in front of him, asked how much it was and promptly called.  It folded all the way round and they were heads up.
Iwan showed: 
Carl showed:     Iwan double took and then shrugged...

Flop:
Turn:
River:       "Same old same old..." sighed Iwan as he got up and wished his table good luck in the same tone in which you thank a deaf old relative for some paisley socks. 

[JungleCat03]

hows danny 'upthemariners' rudd gettin on??

I didn't get a chance to speak to him but my rudimentary chip counting skills led me to beleive he had in the region of 55k.

Nikhil Persaud is OUT!

Raising ot 2.5k in early position with 9k back, he was asked how much he had behind by S Nikkhah.

"just under 10k" to which Nikkhah announced "Raise 10k." Everyone else got out of the way quickly and it was back to Nik.

He now began to shuffle uncomfortably. With so few chips back and getting 2-1 he made the call, although felt like he was probably dominated and this was the case as Nikkhah showed AQ to his A9.

The cards came down quickly and the 9 Nik was looking for failed to materialise, sending him to the rail.

[Djinn]

With all the carnage of bust-outs from short stacks to near-leaders, someone must be benefitting: here's one of those coming out of the early destruction not just unscathed but positively healthy - Nick Gibson, one of the first players Tikay introduced me to seasons ago... he's up to 140,000 and understandably cheerful.



The blinds are now being raised to 800/1,600 ante 100.
72 players remaining.
Average stack 60,000

[Djinn]

Table Snoopy has seen quite a bit of action, with his original table breaking last level.  He found time to tell me that Reyaaz Mulla was unlucky r.e. his exit - having raised pre and been called by both blinds, the flop came J-J-x.  He slowplayed his here, eventually getting it in on the 5 turn, only to find that the blinds player who'd bet out the flop actually had 5-5 and busted him there and then.

Anyway, my attention came back to the current (then) hand, in which on the turn Jamil Ogunmakinwa had moved in for something like 45k - on a board of .

There was already nearly 50k in the pot - this was a re-raise, and a big one.  His opponent, on the button, dwelling, was Simon Randall, who had a pretty hefty stack - a call of 45k represented about half of what he had behind at this time.  He dwelled for a while, finally picking up a chip and saying, "Flip a coin."  He caught the chip, looked at it, said, "Shit," and promptly called. 
Randall showed:
Ogunmakinwa showed:   and doubled through to around 150k.  "I would've folded if it had come down the other side," he lamented.

[JungleCat03]

John Kabbaj has become a card rack at just the right time. Only on 22k at the break not long ago, he has turned this round by receiving 2 full double ups with Aces twice in 5 hands and is now sitting not far off the 100k mark.

The 2nd time Mohammed Barkatu was the unfortunate donator, calling John's raise with KQ and flopping top pair, but no good against John "Aces magnet" Kabbaj.

UpTheMariners has just taken down a pot. Facing a raise to 5,500 from David Dean in the cutoff UTM made it 11,300 more which Dean folded to after the customary pause to make it look like he had a hand

Adam Heller and Carl Buskirk are vying for the lead at the moment.

Marc Goodwin is OUT.

Raising to 8k with 88, he was reraised allin for 45k.

"You've got AK at best" said Marc, "Let's give 'em a spin" and called.

His opponent turned over the slightly suprising AJ but hit a J to win the pot and send Marc to the rail.

Mark Banin is on circa 44k and Ian Cox, having doubled up early on, is doing ok with 42k or so.

Matt Myford just moved his relative short stack into the middle and was called by his next door neighbour, Luke Trotman in an AT v KQ faceoff.

An interesting board of left Matt sweating the river, but he managed to draw a brick rather than excrete one as a T river to give him trips ensured a full double up to 30-35k or so.

[Djinn]

Ian Cox -- 45,000
Daniel Rudd -- 75,000
Mark Banin -- 42,000
Joel Effedgi -- 88,000
Priyan de Mel -- 145,000
Jamil Ogunmakinwa -- 225,000
Carl Buskirk -- 200,000
Nick Gibson -- 140,000