Bluesquare.com London GUKPT: Day 3: At A Glance

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Martin Bader is OUT in 17th place, winning £3,460 for his troubles.

Ian Cox was the man who did the damage, his JcJs taking on Martin's Ac9h preflop and a 2-3-7-Q-4 board changed nothing. With blinds this big it's hard to get away from A9 with Bader's chips, so I will refrain from making any Daft Bader jokes, and simply leave it at gg wp.

Robert Boon and Kourosh have just crossed swords in a big pot.

At 5k 10k with a 500 ante now, Koresh made a LARGE raise to 60k off a stack in the region of 170-200k, Martin Boon behind reraised allin.

Kourosh said "Ok, let's gamble" assuming his 9-9 would be in a race. However, if he had watched Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels he would have realised that "assumption is the mother of all f*** ups," as Boon flipped over K-K.

Kourosh was left looking like a man badly in need of police assistance as he quietly repeated 9-9-9, but no were forthcoming and Kourosh departed, meaning....

Kourosh Nikkhahe is OUT in 16th place, winning £3,460.

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Jonathan Martin is OUT in 15th place, winning £3,460

With the blinds at 5k/10k/ante 500 Martin pushed preflop for around 160k after there had been a raise from Robert Boon.  The chips were counted out, laid in a row and left for Boon to contemplate.  He found it within himself to call the extra c.80k with , and found Martin holding .
Flop: 
Turn:
River:

Jonathan Martin (pictured) hung his head over the table briefly before coming to terms with his exit and taking his leave of his fellow players.

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There seems to be a 30 minute break starting right now, during which I am sure the argument over wanting to break for longer and watch the rugby will continue.  Updates will resume after the argument is lost and they restart in half an hour.

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Priyan De Mel has just doubled through.

Nick Gibson raised to 35k preflop and Prian shoved for what looked like around 120k.

Nick eventually called with T-9, Priyan showing K-Q.

Priyan's hand held up to give him a very useful double up and make a small but possibly important dent in Nick's stack.

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Simon Eastwood has walked into a spot of bother.

After the aggressive Carl Buskirk limped from the small blind onto Simon's big blind, Simon shoved and Carl INSTA-CALLED.

Simon was probably fairly pleased about this as he held Q-Q, till Carl turned over a sneakily played A-A. In truth blind on blind, this was lilkely to end up in a preflop war that was inevitable however it was played.

A harmless board did nothing to alter the status quo, Carl remained in front and had Simon comfortably outchipped meaning....

Simon Eastwood is OUT, eliminated in 14th place, for £3,460.

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Here are the end of level 20 chip counts, courtesy of the jovial jugglers at blue square.

Buskirk, Carl   838500
Boon, Robert   742500
Gibson, Nick   533500
Selin, Patrik   311000
Kabbaj, John   286500
Kam, Leo   269500
Bale, Michael   247000
De Mel, Priyan   232500
Gilbert, Brian   209500
Denton, Charles   208000
Heller, Adam   174500
Ringe, Gerald   153500
Cox, Ian   142000

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Gerald Ringe doubles up - and what a catch...

With no action before him, Ringe shoved for 130k preflop.  Neighbour Priyan on the button really gave a dwell worthy of his opponent, before passing with a show of reluctance.  Pass to big blind Patrik Selin, who instacalls, however.
Selin shows: 
Ringe shows: 

Flop: 
Turn:
River:    Patrik shakes his head, and can't have liked Priyan adding here that he'd been dwelling with A-J, while Nick Gibson had passed A-9!

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Leo Kam has doubled up courtesy of Carl Buskirk.

Both players saw a raised pot of . Kam bet 30k and was called. The turn was a Q. Kam again bet, this time 45k i think and was called. On the river Kam checked and Buskirk set him in which Kam insta-called.

Showing QT for top 2 pair Kam took the large pot down whilst Buskirk instantly mucked...

[Djinn]

Leo Kam has doubled up courtesy of Carl Buskirk.

Both players saw a raised pot of . Kam bet 30k and was called. The turn was a Q. Kam again bet, this time 45k i think and was called. On the river Kam checked and Buskirk set him in which Kam insta-called.

Showing QT for top 2 pair Kam took the pot down whilst Buskirk instantly mucked...

Leo Kam, by the way, is raising on his table about as often as Nick Gibson is raising on his.  He's got away with three sets of 6k/12k blinds in the last 20 minutes, only pushed off a preflop raise once by Michael Bale moving in over the top.  The guy seems a pretty tidy player and has gradually built chips until it all went a bit wrong earlier, and he started to drift back down - but not for long.  If he makes the final table, it will be with a good stack and a pretty formidable, if quiet, table presence.

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As Jen related Leo Kam has been busier than a beaver raising from late position and has just been involved in another big pot. Raising from the cut-off to 45k or so, Charles Denton went over the top for another 120k on top. The blinds of Ian Cox and Michael Bale paused for a while before laying down and Kam eventually made the call.

Kam showed , Denton .

The first two contrasting cards of the flop sorted things out, the falling to give Denton the advantage before the   fell to virtually sew it up for Lam. Three more largely irrelevant cards later and Lam had bolstered his stack whilst meanwhile....

Charles Denton is OUT, eliminated in 13th place for £3,460

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With the blinds now 8k/16k ante 1k, those around the 100k mark are shoving with increasing regularity.  Just now it was Michael Bale with his doubling up short stack Ian Cox's .

After that, the chips:

Table Gwibbo

Patrik Selin -- 252k
Nick Gibson -- 660k
Brian Gilbert -- 260k
John Kabbaj -- 270k
Priyan de Mel -- 150k
Adam Heller -- 165k

Table Many Chips

Gerald Ringe -- 188k
Carl Buskirk -- 455k
Michael Bale -- 250k
Ian Cox -- 118k
Robert Boon -- 700k
Leo Kam -- 900k

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Adam Heller is OUT in 12th place, winning £3,460

Priyan de Mel raised to 50k in the cutoff, Heller pushed on the button with and de Mel called with (this time).  Eleven left...

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Gerald Ringe has just been involved in a big pot. Holding JJ and no doubt facing another of Kam's preflop raises, Ringe was happy to move his chips in preflop with .

Kam made the call with Q9 and one Q-3-T-2-9 flop later Kam's ever swelling stack was even larger and ....

Gerald Ringe is OUT, eliminated in 11th place for £4,330[/b].

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And we have our unlucky final table bubble finisher.

Once Priyan found AK and Nick Gibson found AA, the large blinds meant this woud inevitably mean the chips all went into the middle preflop and indeed that is what happened.

There were no fluked straights, flushes or trippy kings to surprise anyone, meaning...

Priyan De Mel is OUT, eliminated in 10th place for £6,500 and we now know the full line up for tomorrow's final...

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That elimination means we are now finished for the day.

The full line up plus official chip counts will follow shortly, but just a quick note to remind you to join us at 3 pm tomorrow for the final table.

Blondite Ian Cox will be there (as usual!) and it will be interesting to see how the aggressive big stacks of Karl Buskirk, Leo Kam and Nick Gibson all deal with each other.

We'll see you there, but for now