Gala Poker Tour Grand Final: Day 1B - Interactive

[taximan007]

Great Updates as usual.

Can you wish Tim Blake the best of luck from me if the chance arises, Thank you in advance.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip Counts:

Tim Blake -- 13,500
Samuel Wan -- 15,250
Michael Clees -- 13,275
Manuel Palanca -- 14,000
Anthony Abdullah -- 17,875
Surindar Sunar -- 30,000
Neil Kilgour (I think) -- 7,500
Dave Smith -- 13,850

Yilmaz Husseyin -- 24,700
Albert Sapiano -- 65,200
Andrew Feldman (Dead Stack) -- 12,350
Jennifer Tilly -- 25,200
Ian Holwill? -- 8,500
Nicholas Bower -- 5,850
Jeffrey Flewitt -- 36,100
Priyan De Mel -- 22,925
Lee Richardson -- 11,875

Trevor Pearson -- 16,400
Daniel Wilmer-Brown -- 28,200
Jason Ho -- 9,650
Paul Gardner -- 32,000
Jim Tierney -- 27,775
Carl Wahlberg -- 11,975
Jonothon Butters -- 21,600
Jim Reid -- 19,850

Stan Essen (We think) -- 40,000
Stephen Holden -- 10,300
Antonio Esfandiari -- 16,700
Jani Johansson -- 12,100
Neil Channing -- 16,600
Danny Dodds -- 22,575
Anthony Croalla -- 11,250
Joshu Tyler -- 18,300
Phil Laak -- 16,900

Andy Doran -- 6,400
David Harris -- 19,200
Matt Tyler -- 22,700
Stuart Rutter -- 18,300
Paul Gourlay -- 25,175
Kevin Hudd -- 3,525
David Lloyd -- 11,175
Rakesh Gupta -- 21,100
Chaz Chattha -- 25,500

[NoflopsHomer]

And we are about to restart. 44 players remaining, avg stack is 19.4k. Blinds 150/300.

[NoflopsHomer]

Stephen Holden, who won the Nottingham leg of the Gala tour, bets out 600 on a flop. Neil Channing makes it 1,700. Holden adds a further 3,500 on top of that. Neil Channing thinks and says, "Verrrrrrrry Interrrrrrresssssting," as though he's an evil Bond villain. He then just calls, which is the scariest move of them all and should've set alarm bells off in Holden's head.

Inevitably, Holden bets most of his stack on the turn and Channing immediately puts him. Joshua Tyler has been whispering to Phil Laak, and as Holden shows his and Channing flips his , he says, "I told you!" Blank river and Stephen Holden is OUT.

Almost immediately, Antonio says, "I passed A-8," Joshua says, "I passed A-9." Then Phil Laak says, "I passed 9-7."
 
Channing replies, "Why didn't you call? Or you? Errr...not you though," indicating Laak.

[JungleCat03]

150/300 now.

I notice Albert Sapiano limping on Priyan de Mel's big blind so I stick around to see if it all kicks off given these two have been crossing swords a fair bit...

Jennifer Tilley gets in the way of their confrontation, raising Albert's limp to 1300. Priyan passes after a rueful glance towards Albert that might be summed up as "don't limp my blind son."

Albert calls the extra 1k from Jennifer, who he earlier said he was "taking a shine to" and everyone else passes.

The flop comes .

Albert Sapiano checks, Jennifer bets 1k, he calls...

The turn is the .

Albert checks, Jennifer bets 2k, Albert calls...

The river is the .

Albert checks, Phil Laak's better half bets out 4k now, and, yes, no prizes for guessing that once more Albert calls.

Jennifer shows A-K for the nut trips whilst Albert mucks his hand, leaving it a mystery as to what he had. J-Q is my guess, although I may be doing him too much credit...

Another nice pot to Jennifer who is doing better than her partner Phil Laak at the moment.

[NoflopsHomer]

In the circles I frequent, this is known as "Updater Fuel"...

[The_nun]

Did you find time to wish Matt Tyler GL ?...if not get your butt into gear ..





please..xx

[NoflopsHomer]

A few players limp on Priyan's big blind.

They see a flop.

Jeffrey Flewitt bets 500, Priyan makes it 2,000. Everyone else passes.

The turn is the , now Jeffrey check/calls an oddly smaller 1,125 before both check the river. Priyan's miles ahead of Jeffrey's missed .

Jason Ho is OUT. Manuel Palanca has recovered up to 23k, but desperately needs a drink. Waitress!

[JungleCat03]

Albert Sapiano appears to be going through leaner times now after hitting the early heights of chip leader.

Although I wasn't able to do a proper count of his chips it looked like he was nursing a stack of only 30k at most, quite a bit less than his 60k of earlier.

The 150 300 level has obviously hit him hard!

Matt Tyler is doing well though, up to 25k ish at this point.

"I've bin a look box mate" he tells me. "Although I went for dinner and managed to eat a whole piece of garlic..." which prompts Stuart Rutter to say, after losing a pot to Matt, "...at least I didn't have to kiss you!"

Matt laughs but i sense he cries a small internal tear of sadness at this...

[The_nun]

Matt laughs but i sense he cries a small internal tear of sadness at this...

Behave Jungle..this man is a verile breeding machine..3 boys and a girlie to finish the job off............when he says all in he means it ..

[JungleCat03]

14 minutes of 150 300 remain before we move to 200 400.

The standings are that we currently have 40 players remaining and the average stack is 21,400.

Floppy tells me I may have slightly underestimated Albert's stack which apparently is still in the region of 35k-40k. He must have been hiding his pinks away from me the little rascal!

(When i say hiding away I mean putting them near any green or yellow chips where they are camouflaged from my colourblind eyes)

[littlemissC]

i think you will find that anthony abdulla is in fact ash abdulla of gala notts fame..nice try though ash,lol

[JungleCat03]

Matt laughs but i sense he cries a small internal tear of sadness at this...

Behave Jungle..this man is a verile breeding machine..3 boys and a girlie to finish the job off............when he says all in he means it ..

Hehe let me have my fun.

I've only met Matt for the first time today, but he comes across as a very likeable guy, very friendly and always up for a chat and an update on how he and his table are getting on.

I'm definitely rooting for him (not in the sense he may or may not be rooting for Stuart you understand)

[NoflopsHomer]

Andrew Feldman has turned up and in no time has got busy, getting Matt Tyler to call his river bet on a board and then showing .

Next Josh (Can't remember if it's Gould or Tyler) calls Neil Channing's bet on the turn of a board before firing out 3,200 on the river. He instantly begins reading a poker magazine, but is flipping through the pages very fast. After a while Neil passes,

"Excellent pass, sir" says Antonio. Josh flips the .

(a beat)

"Ok, maybe not."

[JungleCat03]

Ok, we have an elimination.

I believe the gentleman knocked out was Danny Dodds...(although there's a small chance it wasn't)

I joined the hand as he was standing up all his chips in the middle. I know he was short prior to the hand so there wasn't a massive amount in the pot.

Albert Sapiano and Priyan De Mel had called his preflop allin.

The flop was .

The two active players, Albert and Priyan both checked.

The turn was the .

Check Check.

The river was the .

Bet of just 500 by Priyan, called by Albert.

Priyan showed A-T for the straight, Albert showed A-K for ace high, whilst Danny shook his head and showed 9-9 for a flopped set that was no good vs Priyan's turned straight.

Another pot heads Priyan's way and Danny exits the tournament to join the rail...