Gala Poker Tour Grand Final: Day 1B - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

Welcome back to Day 1B for another 2pm start.

Numbers have steadily improved, at the list from the Gala site of people who definitely are playing today are as follows:

1   Ashiq Abdullah
2   Alain Bauer
3   Tim Blake
4   Emmanuel Blanca
5   Nicholas Bower
6   Johnathan Butters
7   Darren Campbell
8   Neil Channing
9   Charles Chattha
10   Michael Clees
11   Anthony Croalla
12   Matt Dale
13   Priyan De Mel
14   Danny Dodds
15   Andy Doran
16   Antonio Esfandiari
17   Stan Essen
18   Jeffrey Flewitt
19   Ian Fraser
20   Paul Gardner
21   Marc Goodwin
22   Peter Gould
23   Josh Gould
24   Paul Gourlay
25   Rakesh Gupta
26   David Harris
27   Steve Holden
28   Ian Holwill
29   Kevin Hudd
30   Jani Johanson
31   Neil Kilgour
32   Phil Laak
33   Mark McGill
34   Carl Erik Michael Wahlberg
35   Trevor Pearson
36   Lee Richardson
37   Stuart Rutter
38   David Smith
39   Surindar Sunar
40   Jim Tierney
41   Jennifer Tilly
42   Luke Trottman
43   Matt Tylar
44   Ram Vaswani
45   Samuel Wan
46   Robert Williamson III
47   Daniel Wilmer-Brown
48   Huseyin Yilmaz

No doubt a few more will be added in due course.

If you want us to follow anyone in particular then please let us know.

[gasman]

Great updates as usual guys.

Please look out for Chaz Chattha and Priyan De Mel

[DaMatrix]

yup, great updates, good luck to Matt Dale today. I just finished writing my day1a report which you can read at DaMatrix Live!

See you on Saturday.

[NoflopsHomer]

Yes, that is 'the' Darren Campbell, former Olympic sprinter. Rod is already preparing his puns...

[NoflopsHomer]

Play is nowhere near starting just yet, it'll be at least another 15 minutes or so, we have a confirmed 53 entries so far.

[snoopy1239]

I'd like to wish all the misspellers good luck from the Beagle: Matt Tylar, Surindar Sunar, Ian Fraser and Johnathan Butters - they deserve better!

[Dacey]

Have we got a prize breakdown yet?

[JungleCat03]

Hi there folks.

Back for day two and once again there is a plethora(I love that word!) of talent on show.

Jennifer Tilley and Phil Laak have just arrived....In fact I got to share a lift with them. There wasn't much room i must say. I'll leave you to speculate why exactly.

As Floppy mentioned, Darren Campbell is here and he'll obviously be quick out of the blocks....boom boom. I will try and keep weak jokes like this down to a minimum, but some may slip in unavoidably.

Sunny Chattha was seen looking chilled out in the lobby, the spiky haired and sun-glassed Robert Williamson III,  was heard saying "I like the look of this" although not quite sure what he was referring to. He did seem to have his head angled toward by blonde hoody at the time though so I'll take it as a compliment.

Anyway, a great day's action is in prospect, the players are now seated, cards are being shuffled and we are off!

[JungleCat03]

Full player list as at start of play is as follows. I'll post the table layout just after this...

Anthony Abdullah
Tim Blake
Nicholas Bower
Johnathan Butters
Darren Cambell
Neil Channing
Michael Clees
Anthony Croalla
Mate Dale
Priyan De Mel
Jason Defreitas
Danny Dodds
Andy Doran
Antonio Esfandiari
Stan Essen
Andrew Feldman
Jeffrey Flewitt
Ian Fraser
Mark Freeman
Paul Gardner
Marc Goodwin
Josh Gould
Peter Gould
Paul Gourlay
Rakesh Gupta
David Harris
Jason Ho
Stephen Holden
Ian Holwill
Kevin Hudd
Ja, Johansson
Neil Kilgour
Phil  Laak
David Lloyd
Carl Wahlberg
Mark Mcgill
Manuel Palanca
Trevor Pearson
Jim Reid
Lee Richardson
Roberto Romanello
Stuart Rutter
Albert Sapiano
Mark Seagal
David Smith
Surinder Sunar
Jim Tierney
Jennifer Tilley
Luke Trottman
Matt Tyler
Joshua Tyler
Ram Vaswani
Samuel Wan
Robert Williamson III
Daniel Wilmer-brown
Hussein Yilmaz

[NoflopsHomer]

Play has now begun, and Neil Channing seems to have already done a deal with Robert Williamson III giving him 40-1 to win the tournament, he was also attempting to give Antonio Esfandiari 33-1. I'd offer Robert evens for winning the 'Most Colourful Shirt' award though.



Roberto Romanello, who I almost didn't recognise with a stubbly beard and a injured leg, has already lost what looks to be around half his stack with a bluff against Jonothon Butters' trip Jacks.

[JungleCat03]

Here's how the draw has panned out.

Lots of mouth-watering clashes in prospect here. Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak have been drawn together in what should prove an explosive contest.

Marc Goodwin and Ram Vaswani are sharing the felt in what should prove an interesting battle...

...the tournament is filled with potential match ups.



101   Nicholas Bower
102   Josh Gould
103   Antonio Esfandiari
104   Ja, Johansson
105   Neil Channing
106   Danny Dodds
107   Mark Seagal
108   Anthony Croalla
109   Joshua Tyler
110   Phil  Laak
201   Tim Blake
201   Andy Doran
202   Samuel Wan
203   Mark Mcgill
204   Mate Dale
205   Trevor Pearson
206   Manuel Palanca
207   Anthony Abdullah
208   Neil Kilgour
209   Surinder Sunar
210   David Smith
302   David Harris
303   Robert Williamson III
304   Matt Tyler
305   Stuart Rutter
306   Paul Gourlay
307   Kevin Hudd
308   David Lloyd
309   Rakesh Gupta
401   Hussein Yilmaz
402   Albert Sapiano
403   Andrew Feldman
404   Ian Holwill
405   Ian Fraser
406   Jason Defreitas
407   Darren Cambell
408   Priyan De Mel
409   Lee Richardson
501   Luke Trottman
502   Ram Vaswani
503   Daniel Wilmer-brown
504   Jason Ho
505   Paul Gardner
506   Jim Tierney
507   Carl Wahlberg
508   Marc Goodwin
509   Jim Reid
601   Stan Essen
602   Peter Gould
603   Jennifer Tilley
604   Johnathan Butters
605   Jeffrey Flewitt
606   Michael Clees
607   Mark Freeman
608   Roberto Romanello
609   Stephen Holden

[gasman]

Hi there folks.

Sunny Chattha was seen looking chilled out in the lobby,
Anyway, a great day's action is in prospect, the players are now seated, cards are being shuffled and we are off!

I'm at home, must be my brother 

[NoflopsHomer]

The Spherical Wonder, The Scarf and The Rocketman.



Tim Blake (Seat 1), Matt Dale (Seat 4) and Dave Smith (Seat 9)

[JungleCat03]

A big hand has just been played out between Stephen Holden and Stan Essen.

Stephen raised in early position to 125 and was reraised to 425 by Stan.

He called as did Mark Freeman.

The flop fell .

Stephen bet out 600, which was called by Stan but passed by Mark.

The turn was the potentially flush-making .

Stephen bet out 1,200, which Stan now raised to 3,200.

Stephen called after a short dwell.

The river came the .

Stephen checked and Stan now moved allin for just over 10k.

Stephen huffed and puffed "QQ, KK, AA?" he asked to no response. "Will you show if I pass?" he asked and Stan told him "if you like"

Ultimately he passed and Stan showed Q-Q for queens and threes, whilst Stephen showed his outdrawn J-T...

"I expected to see more than that for an allin" said the reserved Roberto. "Looked like a bluff in the end!"

[NoflopsHomer]

I'm taking a photo of Robert Williamson III's admittedly acid-trippy shirt, who Matt Tyler claims he and Stuart Rutter are 'owning', though I did see Rutter call a river bet on a 7-J-3-Q-9 board with A-Q, ahead of Williamson's A-7.



Darren Campbell has been a slow starter out of the blocks, he might have dropped the baton a couple of times because he's already down to just 7,000.



Also shortish early on is Marc Goodwin, perhaps it's because of the goatee he is sporting?