Bluesquare.com London GUKPT: Day 3: Interactive

[Djinn]

We're down to just 22 players, and these are their rough counts and seating positions...

Table 1

Jonathan Martin -- 210k
Snoops -- 80k
Simon Eastwood -- 96k
Brian Gilbert -- 95k
Martin Bader -- 205k
Michael Bale -- 146k
Ian Cox -- 175k
Robert Boon -- 320k
Craig Owen -- OUT

Table 2

Mark Banin -- 160k
Nick Gibson -- 460k
Charles Denton -- 220k
Sunny Chattha -- OUT in 23rd place
Jamil Okunmakinwa -- 380k
Gerald Ringe -- 80k
Priyan de Mel -- 136k
Adam Heller -- 67k

Table 3

Kourosh Nikkhahe -- 220k (showed up half an hour late and immediately got into an argument)
John Kabbaj -- 160k
Leo Kam -- 300k
Patrik Selin -- 168k
Carl Buskirk -- 540k
Andrew Cruickshank -- 143k
Davood Mehrmand -- 112k
Frank Pini -- OUT

[Djinn]

Here's Nick Gibson, cheerfully restacking his chip triangle.  Jon Raab caught me with the camera and asked me who I thought would make Day Four and I said Priyan because he played very well yesterday and I was facing him at the time, but I would like to pick Gibson too (he has more chips and always looks like he's laughing about something - possibly one of those whose ipod isn't just music and plays Bill Hicks, perhaps?)

[JungleCat03]

Adam Heller, Jamil Ogunmakinwa and Priyan De Mel have just collided in strange fashion..

Jamil has plenty of chips and opened the betting with a 24k raise from early position. Priyan flat called the raise and Adam Heller announced "ALLIN" for an additional 41k.

Jamil made the call and Priyan thought about it for ages, making comments about value...pot odds....and smiling a lot before throwing his away.

He let out an anguished cry though as Jamil flipped and Adam showed (!) for a somewhat strange squeeze play, that had no hope of getting a fold given his stack.

"Fortune favours the brave" as the saying goes (or is this a "random fluctuation of dumb luck" -Bill Fillmaff) and the board came to give Adam a flush, a double up, a big grin and assorted confused stares from the watching crowd. He was very pleased with himself and Mark Banin observed, "I knew you couldnt have been making a move because you didn't have enough chips, but then you showed 8 5 suited!"

Poker's a strange game sometimes!

[Delboy]

Go On Snoopps

[JungleCat03]

 Davood Mehrmand and Patrick Selin have just tangled.

Selin made a raise from late position and Mehrmand, who now had a pretty short stack went over the top.

Selin made the call and on their backs Davood showed Ad3d and Selin showed the dominating As .

A flop brought hope to Mehrmand but a turn cut down his outs and a blank river sealed his exit and...


Davood Mehrmand is OUT in 22nd place, winning £3,030

[JungleCat03]

Snoopy's stack is getting chunks ripped out of it by the blinds and antes and his stack had dwindled down to just over 50k. With blinds at 3k 6k with a running 500 ante that won't last long without some help.

I joined his table as the action reached Snoopy on the button of an unopened pot. He moved his stack into the middle. After not too much thinking both blinds passed and Snoopy quietly stacked his chips before silently taking my notepad off me and writing 3-2o on the pad, the scalleywag.

Andrew Cruickshank has just been in a crucial pot with Leo Kam. The two players saw a raised pot, Andrew holding 99 decided to commit himself on a board of with just the one overcard to his pair. Unfortunately for him Kam held JQ for top pair, which once all the chips were thrown into the pot and the dust had settled, held to reward Kam with a very useful pot and send Andrew to the rail.

Thus...

Andrew Cruickshank is OUT, eliminated in 21st place, winning £3,030

[Nakor]

Good luck to Snops and Ian.

Had the pleasure of Ian's company last night and a nicer chap I did not meet all week.  A great attitude (admittedly he had just made the money with a workable stack) and a true Blonde at heart. One This time

[Tractor]

Come on Snoops!
Time to get them chips in the middle.

[JaffaCake]

Could you ask Gibbo if he owns any shirts that aren't white? Oh and wish him luck, he's the class left in this one. And good luck Snops, lump em in and hope mate (seems to be working elsewhere), can't wait for 85 and the chance of an impossible squeeze play

[danafish]

Don't let the beagle go out! I'm driving down to the casino now. See you shortly...

[Robert HM]

Go Mutt Go

Really want to see you take this down

[ifm]

Don't let the beagle go out! I'm driving down to the casino now. See you shortly...

Hang on sloopy

[JungleCat03]

Mark Banin just moved allin.

It was passed to his small blind and with a smallish stack of 50k ish, he shoved allin. Nick Gibson reasoned he would be doing this with a pretty wide range and called very quickly with 5s5c, Mark showed KTo.

A board devoid of Kings or Tens ensued and Nick eliminated Mark from the comp, meaning...

...Mark Banin is OUT, eliminated in 20th spot, winning £3,030[/b].

[Djinn]

Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding finishes in 19th place, winning £3,030

Having successfully stolen, re-stolen and shoved his way to just under 100k, on which he's rested gently all day, Snoops finally got caught, shoving in early position with and finding Cox in the big blind with .  It wasn't the worst situation in the world, but nothing about it changed, including the fact that Snoops was behind, and the beagle is on the rail.

[Robert HM]

Don't let the beagle go out! I'm driving down to the casino now. See you shortly...

Just in time for the housekeeping