Bluesquare.com Blackpool GUKPT: Day 1A - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Hi all, welcome to the At A Glance thread for the penultimate leg of this year's GUKPT. Play starts at 3pm. If you'd like a more personal update, or wish to see photos, interact with others on the thread, or ask the updaters for a request on a specific person, then please head over to the 'Interactive' thread here: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=28957.0

[Chili]

We are not hugely off the 200 capacity for the day at a whopping 174 players, the room really doesn't look like there are that many players in it.   

Usual GUKPT Structure
10,000 starting chips
1 hour clock

and playing 9 levels today.

[NoflopsHomer]

£500 chopper, Pete Linton plays his Aces cagily after seeing a flop, he check/calls the 200 bet from Des Jonas on the flop and the 325 bet on the . Both check the river and Pete's Aces are good against Des' .

Over on table 7, Stephen Bayliff raises David McCrone's 1,200 river bet on a board to 3,200. At this early stage any sign of the purple 1k chips being thrown into the middle gets my attention pretty sharpish. McCrone relents though and passes, and any hope of action dissipates and I'm forced to resume my wanderings to pastures new.

On a board, Rumit Somaiya check/raises Alan Davies' 600 bet to 2,500 but gets called. Rumit moves all-in on the turn and Alan mucks his face up.

The very next hand Alan Davies raises again in the big blind. getting several callers including Julian Gardner.

The flop comes:



Which is checked around.

Alan bets 600 on the turn, the player in seat 8 makes it 1,600 and Julian Gardner flat-calls.

The river is the , an effective blank. Seat 8 checks, and Gardner bets 2,500 to take the pot.

[NoflopsHomer]

Lucy Rokach is OUT. Like the sun this morning, details are hazy but we've heard she turned a set against a flopped flush and got all her chips in and missed the river.

[NoflopsHomer]

There's been a major disaster with the seating plan. Many of the players down as playing tomorrow like Thewy have their stacks on the tables and are down as playing today. So there's a load of confusion and I don't think we'll be getting a full seating plan for today, sorry.

[NoflopsHomer]

Alan Davies is OUT, he had on a king high board, but Zafar Aslam had , and all the money went in by the river.

Robert Boon has busted John Eames. The latter writhed around in utter agony when Boon moved in on the river of a board, as the pain increased, so did the crowd, flocking with each passing second. Eventually Eames called with , as Boon triumphantly turned over the for the rivered house.

[Chili]

We are currently on an hour dinner break.

[NoflopsHomer]

Rumit Somaiya is OUT. He lost a big pot to Julian Gardner holding two pair after Gardner manage to turn/river a flush. He then held top pair against a set for his last couple of thousand.

Nick Slade just paid off a 1,800 river bet to Bambos on a 3-5-4-K-J rainbow board. Bambos showed 7-6 for the flopped nuts whilst PI Slade flashed a King.

[Chili]

1   1   101    Stephen Wilsdon   15500
1   2   1805    Terrance Nelson   14525
1   4   104    N Mclellan   12175
1   5   105    Catherine Hartree   8950
1   6   106    David Maudlin   10600
1   7   107    Andrew Boulton   14225
1   8   108    Hanif Kazi   9300
1   9   109    Clive Layton   5475
1   10   1807    A Viravi   8225
2   1   201    Iqbal Khan   10725
2   2   202    Johnathon Butters   6900
2   3   203    Rajesh Modha   16350
2   6   206    Andrew Harrison   5650
2   7   207    David Paisey   8600
2   8   208    Charalambos Xanthos   6700
2   9   209    Ian Newton   9725
2   10   210    Nick Slade   11875
3   2   302    John Fletcher   18950
3   3   303    Mark Forrester   21075
3   5   305    Luke Trottman   11775
3   7   1806    Maurice McCarthy   17435
3   8   308    Darren Robertson   5800
3   9   205    Mickey Wernick   13600
3   10   310    Robert Sherwood   12050
4   1   401    Dave Mayall   11125
4   2   402    Sebastian Saffari   10925
4   3   403    Michael Oneil   10425
4   4   404    John Bousfield   6550
4   5   405    Wai Yuen   14550
4   6   1704    Kuljinder Sidhu   13925
4   7   407    Adam Clark   10825
4   8   1701    Steve Craig   13950
4   9   409    Paul Gardner   7625
5   1   501    Des Jonas   8550
5   3   503    Mathew John   9750
5   4   504    James Reid   5125
5   5   505    Pete Linton   14350
5   7   507    Matthew Stevens   6525
5   8   508    Steven Holmes   12200
5   9   509    Dean Balmforth   11325
5   10   510    B Vinson   13525
6   1   601    Dave Colclough   7575
6   2   602    Peter Singleton   13825
6   3   603    Michael Denton   7850
6   4   604    Dennis Troake   12375
6   5   605    I Yusuf   9050
6   6   606    Paul Lammas   12075
6   7   607    Stuart Guthrie   12300
6   8   608    Iwan Jones   9650
6   9   609    Glen Williams   10575
7   1   701    Adam Stoneham   8600
7   2   702    David Mccrone   13525
7   3   703    Steven Bayliff   16100
7   4   704    C.k Le   8200
7   5   705    Ryan Fronda   15150
7   6   706    Michael Parkinson   2650
7   8   708    Alan Mcnaughty   9025
7   9   709    David Mitchell   10025
7   10   710    Robert Garfield   6900
8   1   801    Robert Bright   18850
8   2   1706    William Berry   1950
8   4   804    Chris Flint   12050
8   5   805    Brian Clarke   9950
8   6   806    John Sayers   12200
8   7   807    Steve Gibbons   10450
8   8   808    David Gross   10300
8   9   809    Robert Lumb   10325
8   10   810    Duncan Jeffires   12775
9   1   901    Joan Lawley   19950
9   2   1801    Paul Gourlay   9650
9   3   903    Paul Crowson   6875
9   4   904    Allan Mclean   11875
9   5   905    Paul Mendes   11225
9   6   906    Joseph Grech   9700
9   7   1707    Eddie Swaffield jnr   10300
9   8   908    Nicholas Risdale   5525
9   9   909    Chris Murphy   14500
9   10   910    James Moult   8400
10   2   1002    reyaazx Mulla   1425
10   3   1003    Sunny Chattha   9525
10   4   1004    John Vint   8050
10   5   1005    Alan Barnacle   11825
10   7   1007    Gareth Jones   9725
10   8   1008    Andrew Fulton   2025
10   9   1009    Ken Garden   12400
10   10   1010    Sam Trickett   26500
11   2   1102    Richard Sudworth   10725
11   3   1103    Ray Harman   14700
11   4   1104    Martyn Cavanagh   16200
11   5   1105    Thomas Craven   7075
11   6   1106    Nigel Willis   10850
11   7   1107    Yunus Umarji   8450
11   8   1108    M Bebbjones   12150
11   9   1109    Richard Gilby   9800
11   10   1110    Mick Mccloskey   10000
12   1   1201    Gary Wilson   9700
12   2   1202   Rumit Somaiya   2450
12   5   1205    Chris Moores   11600
12   6   1206    Zafar Aslam   29475
12   8   1208    Matt Myford   10525
12   9   1001    Matthew Mcelhinney   22025
12   10   1901    Julian Gardner   24850
13   1   1804    John Falconer   4475
13   2   1302    Jeff Burke   12000
13   3   1303    Andrew Bradshaw   13775
13   4   1304    Richard Whitmore   9375
13   5   1305    Maurice Nicholson   6225
13   6   1306    Roy Holliday   3200
13   7   1703    Kyriacos Dionysiou   19750
13   9   1709    Mark Survila   4450
13   10   1803    Phil Roddy   26025
14   1   1401    Phil Rae   9525
14   2   1402    Robert Gillon   11925
14   3   1403    Neil Jones   8900
14   4   1404    Stephen Morris   9175
14   5   1808    Paul Murphy   9300
14   6   1406    Trevor Reardon   14775
14   7   1407    Gary Chatterton   10725
14   8   1408    Gary Dee   8750
14   9   1409    Martino Libertini   7200
14   10   1708    Jeff Duval   9325
15   1   1501    Daniel Hook   13250
15   2   1502    Mark Hurst   11125
15   3   1503    Paul john Wilson   4175
15   4   1504    K y Cheung   6125
15   5   1505    John Hewston   17200
15   6   1506    Robin Gray   3875
15   7   1507   Simon Rimmer   9425
15   8   1508    Paul Parker   9100
15   9   1509    Julian Twigg   14250
15   10   1510    Harprit Singh   11475
16   1   1601    Stephen Waldon   6400
16   2   1602    Lee Biddulph   15050
16   3   1603    Ray Wyre   4625
16   4   1604    Robert Boon   3075
16   5   1605    Suketu Patel   11625
16   6   1606    John King   12150
16   7   1607    Howard Plant   14875
16   8   1608    Keith Littlewood   6450
16   9   1801   Gary Watson   12825
16   10   1705    Eileen Patterson   8025

[Chili]

There has a little bit of carnage since the dinner break and we have gone from 141 to 115 players in Level 3.  We are now 15 minutes into Level 4 - 100/200

[NoflopsHomer]

Zafir Aslam has 18k and seemingly comfortable...

...Whilst Paul Gourlay is suffering a rollercoaster, arriving at his table with 14k, he dropped to 9k after he called a re-raise all-in with Jacks but allowed another player with Eights to also call and hit a set. Then he re-raised someone with Jacks 3 hands later only to run into Kings. This dropped him to 1.5k but he's just doubled up with against .

Officially, there is actually only 154 runners today due to the mix-up in seating, but there's already 170 registered for tomorrow, so it will most likely make capacity.

[Chili]

There has been a Pete Linton major BLOW UP......When I arrived at his table he was sat all in for his last 1,500 chips shaking his chips.  When I probed how he had got into that unfortunate situation, the table found it quite hilarious, Greek Jack said "He played brilliant yesterday and awful today!"  Pete was not divulging what he had done and told me to just state:

Pete Linton BLOW UP

His all in with 1,500 incidently resulted in a treble up for him with 33 against the Kings of Ben Vinson.  A lovely 3 on the turn for Pete and he has a few more chips to dance with.  I have instructed him to sit tight please, whilst I type up his latest misfortunes and again the table found this muchly amusing.  Pete's reputation is growing for his infamous to Notts players yoyo's...

[NoflopsHomer]

Le has 10k and seems to be enjoying himself.

Nick Slade on the other hand is OUT. He called a bet on an Q-6-2 board with A-6 intending to take away the pot on the turn, when the turn was an offsuit 7, Nick decide to just call and make the move on the river as the 7 didn't seem to help his opponent. The river was another 6, and Nick just flat called a 3,200 bet from his opponent, only to discovered that he was up against 7-7. His last 3,000 went in with 9-6 on a 8-5-7-x (two spades) against which rivered a flush.

Zafir Aslam is rivalling Greek Jack for the chip lead, he's up to around 35k after flopping a set of tens on a T-6-3, he silenced the Sid James-esque cackle of Jeff Duvall who had unluckily flopped trip 3's by making quads on the turn.

[Chili]

Sam Trickett  28,000
Sunny Chattha  16,300
Rob Garfield  13,200
David Gross  25,100
Paul Parker  10,200
Chris Bruce  15,200
Sebastian Saffari  11,100
Matt Myford 18,300
Rob Sherwood  12,100
Mickey Wernick  16,500
John Falconer  7,000
Raj Modha  17,500
Bambos Xanthos  18,700
Ian Newton  11,600
Katherine Hartree  18,700
Ben Vinson 26,800
Pete Linton 4,600
Dave Colclough  16,500
Pete Singleton  13,300
Trevor Reardon  13,200

[Chili]

Jim Moult / bookiebasher is OUT.

Down to 6,000 he raised with    and had a caller in Barbara Gibson, the flop came:

 

Jim bet 1,500 and Babs reraised to 3,000.  Jim decided to push and Barbara called with a shock  .  No diamond or 8 came to save Jim and the lady wins with A, King kicker.

In Linton news, he doubles through to about 9,000 holding A K versus K Q all in preflop.