Bluesquare.com Grosvenor Grand Prix: Day 2 At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Righteo, I'm off to Ireland on Monday for the Dublin EPT, so I shall be handing the update baton over to NoflopsHomer for the final two days.

On that note, I shall leave you with the overnight chip counts heading into Day 2 and wish everyone the very best of luck.

Toodle pip.

Paul Rodgers   84200
Andrew Bradshaw   80600
Y. Umarji   72300
J. Iqbal   72300
Ved Madan   71600
Ash Hussain   70800
M. Ghani   65200
Andy Johnson   61700
Chris Smith   54000
Karl Mahrenholz   53900
Lee Birchall   52700
Kevin O'Leary   51900
Richard Gray   50100
A. Kennedy   49800
Roberto Romanello   46700
Lee Horton   45600
Martin Green   43300
Jeff Burke   41000
M. Damavandy   40700
Karl Limbert   40100
Chris Sokrati   37900
Jonothon Butters   36300
Jamie Moult   35500
Michael Lott   34900
G. Westcott   32600
Paul McCue   32500
Paul Vicary   32400
M. Shiels   32000
Paul Rayner   32000
Jeff Kimber   32000
Willie Tann   28900
Ash Ahmed   28700
G. Whytell   28400
Trevor Payne   28100
Mohammed Hussain   27800
Charalambos Xanthos   26700
P. Taylor   25300
A. Patel   24300
A. Harding   24100
Dylan Herbert   23500
C. Li   23300
Olabode Ayegun   23300
I. Patel   22000
Lawrence Gosney   21700
R. Alden   21200
S. Basri   20700
P. Baldock   20200
John Burberry   19900
Henry Griffiths   19700
Rob Reece   19000
Osman Mustanoglu   18800
Dave Knight   18200
J. Pescot   17900
Dean Mitchell   17700
Richard Simmonds   17400
Piers Whyman   16100
Rob Sherwood   15700
John Marles   15300
Tony Harman   14300
M. Akinson   13200
Michael Arnold   12400
Gary Chatterton   12300
Dave Clark Jnr   11800
Allan Rudge   10600
Mike Arnold   9600
R. Gilby   9400
Marcus Bebb-Jones   7900
Nick Risdale   7000

[danafish]

Morning! I've just arrived at Grosvenor Walsall and I must admit tht through my sleep-deprived haze the only thing I have thus far noticed is Kevin O'Leary's hair, glowing like a beacon. Excellent choice of colour, that man.

Oooh, Floppy's just this second arrived and he's already broken a glass. Yay! It's going to be a fun-packed day...

[NoflopsHomer]

Yes, I'm here and have immediately managed to smash a glass all over the floor.


I know how to make an entrance...

[danafish]

It is action-packed here today to make up for the despairing of previous days. 3 players have already, as John Raab puts it, bitten the felt.

Nick Risdale and Mathew Sheils went out to Antony Kennedy in the same hand. I believe Risdale was all-in before the flop for his 7k microstack and Sheils got it in on the flop, reraising to a 5k bet from Kennedy, who instacalled the all in.

Risdale - A-J

Sheils -   

Kennedy -

And Kennedy is shouting "No King!" - the poker gods obey and spit out the and the . Kennedy shouts a slightly ungentlemanly something that sounds like "Cooo tooo nwaaaahhh!" that I don't think even he understands, and the losing players make their exits. Here is the winner, recovering from the excitement.

[NoflopsHomer]

Henry Griffiths - theres a photo of him in the day 1a interactive thread page 2 I believe

I'm afraid he's out, I was covering a hand on the next table and turned round to see that he was getting out of his seat. Also, gone from that table already is M Arnold.

The hand in question was between Malcolm Atkins and Richard Gilby. Gilby had pushed over the top on the turn of a . Atkins eventually made the call with . Gilby showed which held on a blank river. Atkins was down to the felt and left soon after.

[NoflopsHomer]

Gary Chatterton, much to his chagrin, has just been forced to chop a pot with Antony Kennedy. All-in on the turn with A-Q vs A-J on an A-A-3-7 board, Chatterton was in great shape until the river paired the 3.

[danafish]

Also OUT is Malcolm Atkins, with to Javed Iqbal's .

[danafish]

Ash Hussain moves table. Says Danny the dealer, "You're on the big blind now so you get to play a hand."

He's now next to Lawrence Gosney, who announces, "Listen boys, there's 60 of us left, how about we take 5 grand a piece and f*** off out of this town?" There is some tittering, but no-one takes him up on it.

[danafish]

Contrary to earlier reports, Michael Arnold is still in. Still, er, plastered.

[NoflopsHomer]

Soxy news...

In a four way pot, Soxy bets out 3k with A-Q on an board starting off a chain of events. One player moved all-in behind him for around 13k, another player dwelt before folding, the third, on the button flat-called the all-in and Soxy dwelt to the point where he had the clock put on him. Eventually he passed, the all-in showing A-Q also, but the button held a set of nines, though the fourth player in the hand had the flush draw which would've hit.

"It was the flat call that scared me..." said Chris.


Ashfag Ahmed had doubled up in style, Andrew Bradshaw had raised from the button with and was very much liking the board that gave him two overs, a gutshot and a flush draw. The problem was that Ahmed had called with, yup, , for the flopped straight. As the turn and river came and , Bradshaw was left repeatedly muttering, "I can't get away, I can't get away..."

[NoflopsHomer]

say a big good luck to blondes sweepstr- aka Dylan herbert. Also fellow taffies such as roberto et al

great updates as ever guys

Just been involved in a hand with Willie Tann, he raised it up to 3,600 from early position. Willie made it 8,400 more with around 20k back.

"I've played this hand exactly the way you said I should yesterday!" said Dylan.

Willie then admitted he couldn't remember what hand it must be, but offered that since both had around the same amount of chips that if they did both get their stacks in the middle, whoever won the hand should give the other 2% of their action. Eventually though, Dylan decided that discretion was the better part of valour and folded.

[danafish]

A very curious hand here. I wandered over to Table 4, where there was an flop out, and over 30k in the pot. The gentleman in Seat 7, whom I believe to be Mike Lott (pictured below, hand on mouth), had 7.4k left in front of him and was waiting for the Seat 2 gent, Mr P Rodgers, to act. I stand around for a few minutes. Nothing is happening. Eventually Seat 2 snaps, and throws enough chips in to cover Lott.

"Oh dear me," says Lott. There is silence for one of those incredibly sloooooowww minutes. "Well, I know you haven't got T-J. I don't see how I can't be ahead." He still doesn't act though. For a minute or two he looks up at the board displaying the prize structure, for guidance. "Do you have Q-8?" he asks. "Sorry, what? Q-A?" says Rodgers. "I said Q-8," says Lott. "Oh, replies Rodgers. "No." Says Lott, "How about Q-A then?"

Supervisor Danny has now sidled over to the table. "Are updaters allowed to call the clock?" I whisper. It turns out we're not, but Danny has turned up for just that purpose and Lott has one minute to act. He's now guessing every possible hand that Rodgers could have. And then, with maybe 20 seconds to go before his hand is automatically folded, he goes ahead and folds all by himself. He folds face up. And Rodgers shows , for the not-winning hand. Mike Lott is sad now, and very, very short.

[danafish]

While I was watching Andrew Harding take down a pot on a flop with a cheeky all-in, Richard Simmonds said hi. He says he regards himself as lucky still to be in, considering that he really hasn't had any hands for quite some time. Does that make him lucky? Or unlucky? I can't tell. Also I think I've broken the coffee machine, it's spitting out slightly yellow water instead of coffee now.

[NoflopsHomer]

Kevin O'Leary is up to 85k, in a re-raised pot, he correctly put his opponent on A-K and called the push on a Q-J-6 board.

Jeff Kimber is OUT, he was almost felted when Andy Johnson min-raised his 7k bet to 14k on a board. Johnson's reputation as a complete crazy play any two cards player worked for him though, as Jeff went for it with , only to find him behind Johnson's and it stayed that way. Crippled, Jeff managed to double up once with against , but then his was no good against Roberto Romanello's .

I Patel is OUT, K-Q into Paul Taylor's A-K.

[danafish]

Current Big Stacks (70k plus) include Ash Hussain, Ashfag "Dana Must Resist The Childish Urge To Call Him Fagash" Ahmed and Antony "Boo babby nwaaahhhhh!" Kennedy.