Gala Poker Tour Grand Final : Final Table

[JungleCat03]

Here are the chip counts at the end of the 2k 4k - 400 level.

Bambos           -- 207,500
Manuel Palanca -- 246,700
Rob Akery        -- 197,400
Roland De Wolfe -- 300,700
Barny Boatman   -- 84,200
Matt Tyler         -- 140,900
Neil Channing     -- 147,100
Joe Beevers      -- 175,500

The next level has jsut started. The blinds are 3k 6k, with a running 600 ante....

[NoflopsHomer]

In the last hand of the level, big TK is still announcing the action:

"Neil pass, Joe pass, Bambos pass, Manuel pass, Rob pass..."

Matt interjects from the big blind, "Roland pass...Roland pass...Roland pass."

Roland raises to 11k. Barny gets out a stack of yellow chips and begins to play with them, which for some reason, causes Neil Channing to giggle like a twelve-year-old schoolboy. Barny elects to call and Matt passes.

Flop:



Check check.

Turn:



Check check again. Some serious trapping going on, or two very cautious players.

River:



Barny checks, Roland tries 20k and Barny calls. Roland flips over . When you're golden...

[JungleCat03]

Rob Akery, who has certainly not frozen in front  of the TV lights raises to 16k from middle position on Joe Beever's big blind. Everyone passes and he is rewarded by picking up the 13,800 in the pot.


On Manuel's big blind, this time it's Neil Channing who raises making it  17,500 from the cut off. As Manuel eyes him up suspiciously, Neil sips away nonchanlantly at his cup of tea, or other similar beverage, before Manuel eventually passes...


Matt raises the next hand, with a borg-like stare at anyone who reaches for chips that seems to say "resistance is futile." Fearing assimilation, all his opponent's pass and Matt adds to his stack.


The game of "who steals the blinds next..." continues with Rob Akery again raising to 17,500 from the button and picking up the blinds uncontested.

[NoflopsHomer]

The serious money that these guys are playing for has been completely punctured by the generally jovial atmosphere. For the last couple of minutes they've been basically playing the 'next line' game from Nevermind the Buzzcocks, which Neil Channing seems the king at, although he knows far too many Alanis Morrisette lyrics than I would consider healthy. Roland is also occasionally singing, so far in this tournament, I've heard Elvis and the Smiths, he's just added Rod Stewart to his repertoire.



And here's the golden trophy that everyone wants to...errr...keep a large amount of semi-unimportant papers under.

[JaffaCake]

Great updates snoops....good luck to manuel and matt t, show those freerollers what for!!

[JungleCat03]

Barny picks up the next pot...after raisiing the limping Roland De Wolfe and being called, his bet of 22k on a flop proved sufficient to dissuade Roland from making any moves on the pot and he picked it  the  35k or so pot...


An exciting hand jsut played out here.

After Joe raised to 16k from the cut-off, Bambos reriased to 46k from the button. It was passed back to Joe, who decided the time was right to reraise which he did by moving allin!

The banter at the table died down as the players realised the gravity of this hand. Should Bambos call, they'd be playing the biggest pot of the tournament so far...you could cut the atmosphere with a knife as the entire crowded room of players, supporters, staff, bloggers Thomas Kremser et al all fixed their eyes on Bambos whilst he twiddled with chips and faced the piercing stare of Joe Beevers...

Eventually.....

......he passed though, allowing Joe to pick up the pot uncontested as yet one more hand didn't go to showdown.

[NoflopsHomer]

Bambos, Barny and Matt (the latter two in the blinds) see a flop. Barny and Matt check, Bambos fires out 4 pink chips worth 5k each. Barny thinks for a moment, a slight unsure expression on his face which then evaporates when he moves all-in for around 80k more. Matt gets out of the way and Bambos begins to think. There's a lot of draws out there that Barny could be making a move with, and if Bambos was on a draw he'd have surely taken the free card. Bambos relents though and gives up his small pair/complete bluff. Barny has slowly recovered his stack a bit from the trouble he was in a little earlier. He's probably just back over 20 BB's now. Not wonderful, but not dire either.

[gourlay]

GOOD LUCK MATT

[JungleCat03]

Bambos raises to 16k from UTG.

Matt Tyler on the button has a little chat with him, asking "have you got aces?" to which Bambos replies "maybe YOU have the aces!"

Matt eventually calls and Neil and Joe fold from the blinds.

The flop comes .

Bambos quickly moves ALLIN, and Matt equally quickly folds, enabling Bambos to pick up the 45,800 pot.

"ahhh so Bambos had THREE aces then..." says Neil to a few chuckles.



Rob Akery who has been one of the most common preflop raisers, picks up the blinds once more with a preflop raise...

[snoopy1239]

Great updates snoops....good luck to manuel and matt t, show those freerollers what for!!

Thanks, squire. Just doing my job. 

[snoopy1239]

Go Manuel!

[JungleCat03]

We are on a short break as a result of an elimination!

Floppy is busy beavering away typing up all the details of the hand, so expect exciting news shortly...

[NoflopsHomer]

Roland open-limps in in 2nd position, which seems incredibly out of place. Neil limps behind him. Bambos makes up the small blind and Manuel checks.

Flop:



Bambos bets 16k, Manuel folds, Roland flat-calls and Neil Channing moves-in. Bambos announces, "Call." And Roland wants a count from both. Channing has around 100k and Bambos has him covered by 40k or so. Roland mucks with a rueful, "So sick."

Neil:



Bambos:



Turn:



River:



Neil Channing is OUT in 8th place winning £8,000

Neil's reasoning for not raising was that Roland's limp scared him slightly and if he pushed he was only going to win 20k or so, and the risk/reward ratio wasn't good. Though he's now wishing he'd just raised to 22k preflop and then he'd have taken the pot down against just Roland.

Matt, "I would've bet £1,000 that Bambos would have a Five there when he leads out there."

[RED-DOG]

Go On Matt!!!

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Go On Matt!!!