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« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2007, 05:20:19 PM »

Here is John Kabbaj giving an advanced lecture on how to find aces when you are shortstacked.



Another picture of InTheMariners, strictly speaking redundant since Jen just posted one, but being a blonde he's allowed that extra bit of camera exposure.



And this is the Dog caught slightly offguard by me, sat next to the intimidating stack of Priyan Demel but does Snoopy look intimidated? Not a bit of it. He just looks knackered sharp, alert and more focused than a laser beam passing through a convex lens that has 5 minutes left to finish the last tricky question on its advanced nuclear physics final paper exam.

Come on Doggy, you can do it.




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« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2007, 05:31:35 PM »

Steve Littlejohn has just gone at the hands of Brian Gilbert.

Steve was holding JJ, Brian AA and a turn A and river A for quads hammered home Brian's advantage, winning him a big 80k pot and sending Steve on his way.
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« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2007, 05:34:27 PM »

Jamie Moult just won a big pot knocking out Simon Randall.  They were threeway to a flop of , and Moult moved all in for 31,500 (the pot around half that).  Randall squirmed for a minute, having made the call in later position than Moult preflop and now faced with a decision to call all in, with one player left behind him to act.  He eventually went for it, the Third Man got out of the way, and they were on their backs:

Jamie Moult: 
Simon Randall: 

The turn and river were non-straightening non-flushing Two Diamonds and Randall's gamble didn't pay off leaving him out and Moult on around 75,000.  As he left I may have had a quizzical expression on, but that was to do with how the preflop action went so that Randall ended up in a raised pot with 7-3 suited - did he raise, call a raise?  No idea - and that's the missing piece of the story - may try to catch Mr. Moult in the dinner break.  Perhaps misreading my puzzlement, Randall said to me, "In case you're wondering, if he's got A-K, I'm actually favourite."  I thanked him and decided now was not the time to ask about the preflop action.

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« Reply #18 on: October 19, 2007, 05:49:53 PM »

Pre-dinner break chip counts - hope we've got most of your requests (full, accurate counts will be provided courtesy of Bluesquare GUKPT counters post-break in an hour and a half or so):

Surinder Sunar -- 40,000
Mark Herron -- 126,000
Priyan de Mel -- 166,000
Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding -- 47,000
Carl Buskirk -- 240,000
Adam Wilkinson -- 44,200
Sunny Chattha -- 46,000
John Dwyer -- 36,000
Davood Mehrmand -- 140,000
Richard Herbert -- 47,000
Jamil Ogunmakinwa -- 223,000
Laurence Houghton -- OUT
H. Gurnham -- 34,000
Bambos -- 130,000
John Kabbaj -- 120,000
Joel Effedgi -- 102,000
Ian Cox -- 105,000
Brian Gilbert -- 90,000
Nick Gibson -- 185,000
Owen Lock -- 24,000
Leo Kam -- 122,000

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« Reply #19 on: October 19, 2007, 07:19:12 PM »

40 players remain...and with 36 paid things have slowed considerably as bubble dodging becomes the order of the day for many.

This is not slowing down John Kabbaj who I saw raising several times, once from the cut off to 7k, all pass and the 5.6k in blinds and antes was picked up(he didn't show).

Once more from UTG raised to 8k this time, all fold and this time he shows the AdQd. Another 5.6k thank you.

Nick Gibson also appears to be using his big stack well, raising from middle position and picking up the blinds and antes before shuffling his cards round to find an ace to show...

Surinder Sunar is OUT. No details of his exit hand at the moment.

Here are the chip counts from the end of level 13 courtesy of the number-crunching ninjas at blue square...

Buskirk, Carl   269200
Owen, Craig   210000
Gibson, Nick   207000
Heller, Adam   201500
Ogunmakinwa, Jamil   194300
Demel, Priyan   175800
Shakerchi, Talal   166800
Martin, Jonathan   143700
Kam, Leo   143700
Eastwood, Simon Joseph   142300
Dean, Alan   139600
Xanthos, Charalambos   132100
Bader, Martin   130000
Banin, Mark   129500
Kabbaj, John   125100
Selin, Patrik   118000
Herron, Mark   118000
Cox, Ian   103800
Denton, Charles   101700
Mehrmand, Davood   101400
Ettedgi, Joel   99300
Bale, M   96700
Rudd, Daniel   80400
Allen, richie   80100
Moult, James   78700
Ringe, G   74300
Fletcher, Michael   62800
Chattha, Sunny   61800
Hayes, M   59400
Boyle, Alan   59400
Herbert, Richard   54800
Cruickshank, Andrew   54200
Pavlou, M   51600
Boon, Robert   51400
Wilkinson, Adam   51000
Goulding, Adam   47100
Lawrence, Paul   45200
Pini, Frank   45000
Whyman, Piers   35600
Lotter, Andrew   31100
Nikkhahe, K   27800
Lock, Owen   27400
Holbrook, Nick   23200
Sunar, Surinder   7600
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« Reply #20 on: October 19, 2007, 07:31:18 PM »

Richard Herbert busted earlier this level (been having connection problems for the rest of it) - raising under the gun after, "Playing like a rock for ages," which fact didn't put off Matey from re-raising him all in with A-J - Herbert's failed to hold and so close to the money he does the Walk of Shame instead, looking irritated more than shamed.

Also - Mick Fletcher - just gone on the Pre-bubble.
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« Reply #21 on: October 19, 2007, 07:39:46 PM »

Adam Heller has just busted another of the shortstacks, Owen Lock,  agonisingly close to a payday.

He has blessed with some nice hands and found KK at the same time Owen found AK, ensuring they were going to get in a preflop tangle.

No surprises from the board, and Adam Heller's stack grows ever larger and Owen moves away to regale his friends with stories of his bad luck and unfortunate timing...

39 players remain...

M Hayes has been knocked out after seeing a K hi flop with 2 spades, he commited his chips and was called by the A9s of the chipped up Leo Kam and a spade river finished Hayes off...

38 players remain....

There was one more knockout to bring us down to 37 making it BUBBLE TIME...

Which doesn't last long as we have out bubbler and I'm afraid to say it was Blondite, Daniel Rudd aka UpTheMariners.

His executioner was also a blondite, Ian Cox.

The hand played out that Daniel made it 7k from the cutoff and Ian reraised to 22k. Daniel then pushed for another 54k.

Given the tough decisions both players made the hand started with 40 left and finished with 37 left by the time all the dwelling was done.

Ian eventually made what must have been a fairly difficult call with JJ and was rewarded by being shown 99 in the hands of Daniel Rudd.

The flop gave Daniel a flush draw and additional hope but blanked out to give the giant pot to Ian and push him up with the leaders. Sadly Daniel became the 37th placer, one off the money, and will be feeling a bit sick inside but he played a good tournament from what I saw and can be proud of his performance.
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« Reply #22 on: October 19, 2007, 07:41:23 PM »

Snoopy's forty-something thousand chips looked great at the start of today, but don't look so comfortable now... Just before the bubble he did move all in after Carl Buskirk limped in late position and Priyan de Mel made up the small blind.  Whatever he had on the big blind, it was time for Snoops to push and push he did... with no calling. 

A couple of hands later (this is still a pre-bubble story) Priyan de Mel raised preflop to 7,200, and found Adam Wilkinson re-raising to 31,200 (which left him just 15k behind).  Priyan considered for a minute and opted to just call this large committed-looking preflop re-raise... they saw the flop: .  Wilkinson checked, and de Mel threw out enough yellow 5k chips to cover him.  He went into the tank, and eventually passed - showing and leaving himself with just 15k...  Haven't been back down there in a while to check on how the doubling up (or not) is going, but I imagine action will have been faster now that everyone's in the money....
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« Reply #23 on: October 19, 2007, 07:51:06 PM »

Here are the payouts that lie in wait for our remaining players....

1st: £119,590 + £10,000 added + fab watch + Grand Final seat
2nd: £64,950
3rd: £43,300
4th: £34,640
5th: £25,980
6th: £21,650
7th: £17,320
8th: £12,990
9th: £10,820
10th: £6,500
11th: £4,330
12-18th: £3,460
19-27th: £3,030
28-36th: £2,160
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« Reply #24 on: October 19, 2007, 08:16:40 PM »

Sunny Chattha was just involved to some extent in a biggish pot. One of the shorterstacks pushed allin and Sonny called, only to find the now chipped up Ian Cox behind him setting him allin.

Sunny passed after a long dwell with 99...

The shorter stack, who I believe was Michael Fletcher had AK and Ian Cox also revealed AK when the cards were turned over...

The flop came blank, blank, blank, NINE, blank which must have been painful for Sunny who would have close to trebled up on that hand and he showed his frustration, walking away from the table loudly lamenting "I knew he had AK, I knew it, I knew it...."

As it is the lack of flushing cards meant the pot was chopped between Ian and Michael.

29 players remain, 2 more eliminations until we know our Day 3 lineup...
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« Reply #25 on: October 19, 2007, 08:31:56 PM »

This one shows Alan Boyle doubling through off of Carl Buskirk (like Snoopy just did a minute ago....)

This time Boyle made a bit of a last-stand move with , and was understandably sad when Buskirk called in the small- until he turned over .  The board brought four hearts so a flush took a few of Carl's chips and gave The Jumper a new lease of life.

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« Reply #26 on: October 19, 2007, 08:39:24 PM »

Recap of eliminations:

30 - Alan Boyle
31 - Talal Shakerchi
32 - James Moult
33 - Joel Ettedgi
34 - Adam Wilkinson
35 - Piers Whyman
36 - Paul Laurence
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« Reply #27 on: October 19, 2007, 09:34:36 PM »

Chip Counts from Table Snoopy:

1. Mark Herron -- 55,000
2. Priyan de Mel -- 227,000
3. Snoopy -- 80,000
4. Bambos -- 105,000
5. Nick Gibson -- 310,000
6. Carl Buskirk -- 420,000
7. Robert Boon -- 145,000
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« Reply #28 on: October 19, 2007, 09:48:17 PM »

How lucky is this man?

Not only is he just collecting a 150K pot off Mark Banin with QQ vs Mark's JJ, but he is receiving a soothing massage from one of the good looking massage girls. What a life!

Johnathan Martin


Carl Buskirk, the unpredictable chip leader has been aggressively raising Priyam DeMel's big blind with his big stack.

Priyam is not short of chips himself though.

I saw him call one of Carl's late position raises to 16k.

The flop came As .

Priyam checked and Carl bet 20k. Priyam called.

Turn was a .

Check Check.

River was a two spades.

15k bet by Priyam, called by Buskirk with.....K7....King high he announced proudly as he called before Priyam showed AT for top pair and collected the pot in his impassive, impenetrable way.

You'd have thought this might have slowed down Buskirk's thievery but the very next round he again raised Priyam's blind to 16k and Priyam again called.

The flop came As and both players checked.

on the turn 8 Priyam bet out 15k and Carl  called.

River 8 and Priyam bet out 30k but Carl folded and Priyam showed him AK.

Here is the naughty Carl Buskirk along with his enormous stack.....

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« Reply #29 on: October 19, 2007, 10:02:30 PM »

And finally....




....the day 2 bubble has burst!

We are down to our final 27!

Mark Herron, who had become short, went allin preflop with KK and got called in 2 spots by Nick Gibson and Robert Boon.

The 2 live players checked it to the river where Nick Gibson's AJ had made a four flush and eliminated the unfortunate Mark Herron to bring today's events to a close...

Final chip counts will follow on later but for now thanks for following everyone from myself and Jen, well done blondites snoopy and Ian Cox and
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