Bluesquare.com Grosvenor Grand Prix: Day 1b Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

The Fashion Files:

Suspect Number 1: Stuart Rutter
Crime = unlawful hoody attire

Jeez, has Stu just ended his tour with the Finnish army or something?

[danafish]

The Fashion Files:

Suspect Number 1: Stuart Rutter
Crime = unlawful hoody attire

Jeez, has Stu just ended his tour with the Finnish army or something?

He's hoping to camouflage himself against the table later to steal people's chips.

[snoopy1239]

JP Kelly, who qualified via one of the final satellites, just clashed with this chap, Chao Li. I only caught the very end of the hand, but the board read and after both players checked down the River, Li took the pot with .

"You played that strong," observed Kelly.

Li just nodded and smiled.

And on that note, Li jumps to 20k whilst Kelly drops back down to 10k.

[snoopy1239]

Popular Welshman 'David' Dan Owston is up to a mammoth-at-this-stage 22k after his set of Jacks on a Jack high Flop survived against A-J. "But why survived?" I hear you cry. "He's miles ahead." Well, not when the board is all hearts with Mateyboy holding the Ace of hearts. Fortunately for Dan, no heart came and his opponent was forced to eat dust, which I've heard is not to tasty.

[snoopy1239]

Recent exits:

Jon Hewston
N Rutter
Alan Dean
Greek Jack

[snoopy1239]

Jon Hewston departed at the hands of Chris Bruce, the J-9-4 Flop seeing the chips fly in with Jon's 5-4 ahead against Chris's Q-T. But a Brucie Bonus on the Turn in the form of a straight-making 8 sealed Hewston fate.

[danafish]

News from the Smoking Section ("Car Park") in the break now.

Bumped into Alan Armitage. He says he's not feeling that great, recovering from the twin setbacks of the flu and a trip to Russia to watch the football. He's nevertheless upped his stack to about 18k.




Also ran into Gordon MacArthur, who's moving in the upwards direction from his last chip count, currently sitting on an almost-exactly-even 9.9k. As his fans may remember, he came 17th last year, and is hoping to improve on that, although he's only paid £200 to get himself here today so he's pretty much a winner either way. Pretty much. Here's another photo from the delightful surroundings of Out The Front Of The Casino.

[snoopy1239]

During the break, I managed to catch up with (well, he caught up with me) 'Red-Dog' Thomas McCready.

Picture that thick Northern accent rustling through the cookie tickler for a moment...

"I played the last two hands like a donkey, snoops," he cries.

"Well, do donkeys play good poker?" I inquire.

"Not these ones," continues Tom. "The first one I made up the small blind with J-Q of spades before betting out on a Jack high flop with two diamonds. The guy called and the Turn came another diamond. I checked, he bet, and I let it go. The second one I slowplayed T-9 on a T-9-5 board, before calling bets on the 5 Turn and 8 River. He had J-Q for the straight. Bah."

[Dewi_cool]

please tell Alan, hes a fish and to stop moaning

[snoopy1239]

That break sure was bubbling with updates, Chris Bruce being another player to retell his poker anecdotes. Apparently, he was running quite well at one point, but has dropped down to 8k after taking a butchering from 'Fred Elliot' doppelganger Jeff Burke.

Limping pre-flop with 5-6, Chris hit a magic 2-3-4 Flop, which he duly slowplayed by smooth calling a 200 bet. Come the turn, he bet out 2,500, but was called by former debt collector Jeff. A on the River made a flush possible, which was enough to trigger an all-in from Jeff Burke for 5k. After mulling over his options, Chris folded his straight adding, "He moved all-in, what could I do" only to be shown Pocket Tens. "I was planning to push all-in whatever the River," claimed Jeff.

Two questions:

(1) Is this an easy call on the River?

(2) Did Jeff play his hand correctly?

[danafish]

Paul Parker takes a decent-sized pot off of Michael Greco on a Q-J-x flop. Greco folds a Queen face up, and Parker turns over a Queen too, this one with an Ace.

[danafish]

Nick Risdale fans - he seems to have clawed back a few chips. He's currently on about 10.6k.

[danafish]

Mickey Wernick is now very firmly in his Happy Place. Having somehow dropped down to 3k or so, he moved in preflop and found a caller in Yucel "Mad Turk" Eminoglu.

Mickey -

Mad Turk -

Flop - okay...

Turn - noooo!

but wait

River -

Phew. Mickey still in, still well below average. Go Mickey! Go Mickey!

[danafish]

Willie Tann update - I don't think he's very well.

[danafish]

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