Bluesquare.com Grosvenor Grand Prix: Day 1a Interactive

[better than hellmuth]

Hi snoop's do you know what the structure of the event is?

[snoopy1239]

Chris Smith, a local boy with an uncanny Grundy-esque ability to make himself look 10 years younger than he actually is, has got off to a flier today and seems to be playing pots a plenty. And if ever there were proof that you should never muck your hand prior to the showing of cards, then it's in his last encounter with Lord Lawrence of Gosneyville. On a board of , Lawrence and Chris added 1.6k each to the pot before checking down the River. Lawrence won with... drum roll please....

[snoopy1239]

Chris Smith again involved in a chunky pot, this time with his other neighbour Richard Simmonds. With the board reading , Chris bet 1.5k on the River with but was flat called by Richard's .

As a result, Chris drops to 15.1k.

Two questions sprung to my mind. (1) should Chris have checked that River and (2) should Richard have raised? Hmm, food for thought. 

[snoopy1239]

Here are several of the most recent of departures, two of which are pictured:


Kim Callow
A Adda
R Nightingale
Zafar Aslam
Jez Perdesi
A Powell
Paul Jackson
M Ong
G Wainberg
Alan Davies
Chris Gavriel
J Simpson

[snoopy1239]

Hi snoop's do you know what the structure of the event is?

I'm sorry, but I don't have the full blind structure to hand.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chris Smith again involved in a chunky pot, this time with his other neighbour Richard Simmonds. With the board reading , Chris bet 1.5k on the River with but was flat called by Richard's .

As a result, Chris drops to 15.1k.

Two questions sprung to my mind. (1) should Chris have checked that River and (2) should Richard have raised? Hmm, food for thought. 

Yes and yes.

[ItsMrAlex2u]

Evening all,

Soxy and Foxy updateaments please?

Is Foxy sober, if so buy him a pint.

Do you really need me to answer that question?

Well if possible i wouldnt mind an answer to the "how are they doing bit" bit as another option can you rate their drunkenness on a scale of 1-10 please?

ta muchly

[better than hellmuth]

Hi snoop's do you know what the structure of the event is?

I'm sorry, but I don't have the full blind structure to hand.

no worries

[better than hellmuth]

Chris Smith again involved in a chunky pot, this time with his other neighbour Richard Simmonds. With the board reading , Chris bet 1.5k on the River with but was flat called by Richard's .

As a result, Chris drops to 15.1k.

Two questions sprung to my mind. (1) should Chris have checked that River and (2) should Richard have raised? Hmm, food for thought. 

Yes and yes.

Agreed Id say yes and yes to that as well

[snoopy1239]

Ian Herbert -- 8,600
Rob Sherwood -- 13,000
Lee Horton -- 19,850
Mick Jones -- 12,300
Stuart Fox -- 9,700
Matt Tyler -- 11,650
Olabode Ayegun -- 18,775
James Moult -- 36,000
Karl Mahrenholz -- 19,675
Henry Griffiths -- 8,700
Martyn Cavanagh -- 14,200
Charalambos Xanthos -- 30,450
Paul McCue -- 17,875
Des Jonas -- 13,950
Neil Saunders -- 4,225
Chris Sokrati -- 24,000
Amrat Patel -- 21,625
Jeff Kimber -- 12,875

[danafish]

A six-way pot with the flop reading and everyone checks around to the button, this gent sitting to Amrat Patel's right (who I think be called Wainburg? Any offers?) who inquires as to the size of the pot and then bets it - 1800 of your English chips. To which Mr Patel promptly raises it another 5.2k. Mr Button dwells up for absolutely ages (I actually got four or five photos of him with various expressions of consternation on his face while he was mulling it over) and then folds 5-6 face up, and turns his attention towards gently nursing his slightly diminished stack like it's a sick kitten. Bless.

[snoopy1239]

Evening all,

Soxy and Foxy updateaments please?

Is Foxy sober, if so buy him a pint.

Do you really need me to answer that question?

Well if possible i wouldnt mind an answer to the "how are they doing bit" bit as another option can you rate their drunkenness on a scale of 1-10 please?

ta muchly

1...

with 10 being sober.

[snoopy1239]

Stuart Fox survived a virtual all-in, but then again, so did Matt Tyler, the two players chop chopping with Pocket Queens.

"He called all-in with Queens," joked the roundhead.

[snoopy1239]

H Tran is OUT. He bundled it all-in with A-Q on an A-A-x-8 board but came a cropper against Mateyboy's 8-8. Gulp! No Queen on the River meant he was a gonna.

[danafish]

I'm sorry to say that we are down one moustache. Martino Libertini bets 2.1k on a flop, and the gent two seats to his right calls. The turn comes and Martino throws what remains of his stack in the middle, and is called. Looks like he knows he was taking libertinis, because he resignedly mutters "okay..." as he more casts his from him than shows it. His opponent is delighted, as he is holding and actually didn't seem that happy about calling the all in. The river neither shakes nor stirs anything at all, and Martino is gone.

Picutred below is the pleased if somewhat surprised winner of the hand, and Mr Libertini in happier times.