Bluesquare.com Blackpool GUKPT: Day 2 - At A Glance

[Chili]

N Mclellan has become another victim of Ben Vinson, who is fastly becoming the knockout kid. 

Mclellan makes his final push with    and was called by the  of Ben.  The board was not exciting in the slightest and Ben 's AJ stand.

N Mclellan OUT in 25th.

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Blinds have just gone up:

5k / 10k  (800)
24 left 147,000 average.

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Crazily we have had 4 exits in about 5 mins, but I only have the names at the minute.  Floppy is back now with information on the following exits.

Andy Cruickshank  24th
Simmon Rimmer  23rd
Andrew Feldman  22nd
Paul Parker 21st

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, Andy Cruickshank was a victim of Paul Gardner with 9-9 vs A-T, a Ten on the flop. The flurry of activity is actually a little mind-blowing at the moment, and it's hard to catch it all.

But, let me continue, Simon Rimmer was the 21st place finisher when his Eights came unstuck against Paul Murrell's T-7 which spiked.

Andrew Feldman was next out, he lost a big pot AIPF with K-J against Paul Murphy's A-T. He then lost his last 10k or so (blinds now 5k/10k) against Julian Gardner's K-7.

Martyn Cavanagh has lost a huge pot to a player who hasn't got his tag, so I can't recoginse him! Grrrr, all I know is the money went in on the flop with Martyn holding Jacks and his opponent holding 8-6 on a 5-5-7 board and rivering a 4.

Paul Parker is OUT in 21st, Julian Gardner set him in with 3-3. Paul squeezed the first card which was the and declared, "If it's an Ace or an Eight I'm going to call."

He peeled a , and decided he couldn't pass for his last 50k. Gardner hit a set though and Paul was gone.

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul Bracken has knocked out Katherine Hartree with K-Q vs A-3. Julian Gardner doubles up short stack Jason Shellum with Sixes against Kings.

[NoflopsHomer]

Glittering Fan-dabby-dousy Cash Prizes:

1st -- £109,700
2nd -- £56,500
3rd -- £38,850
4th -- £28,250
5th -- £21,200
6th -- £17,650
7th -- £14,100
8th -- £10,600
9th -- £8,800
10th -- £5,300
11th -- £3,550
12th to 18th -- £2,800
19th to 27th -- £2,100

[NoflopsHomer]

Iwan 'Buzz Lightyear' Jones has doubled up with Threes against Lee Biddulph's Ace Jack.

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Iwan Jones has just doupled up through Lee Biddulph.  Iwan with only 53k left moves all in with 3's and Biddulph eventually calls with A J.  The dealer blesses Iwan with a board of

    

Iwan upto about 130,000.

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Julian Gardner doubled up Jason Shellum all in preflop.  Shellum pushed with  , Julian made the call with  .  A good chunk of Julian's chips were shipped to Jason Shellum.


Lee Biddulph was getting busy again, this time with KQ diamonds against Marty Wilson's AQ.  Lee hit a diamond flush with his KQ to knock Marty to the felt and only 7,000 chips.

[NoflopsHomer]

Julian Gardner is OUT. After a losing a couple of big pots, he called off his stack with against on a board but missed. Neil Channing said apparently that the dealer had miscounted a stack size when Gardner had a marginal decision to make. I don't have too much info on this, perhaps I can ask the table later or Neil will post, but either way Julian seemed pretty much tilted afterwards.

Marty Wilson is out in 18th, winning £2,700. His last few chips were thrown in with against Lee Biddulph's which housed up on a 4-7-A-T-7 board.

[NoflopsHomer]

Rob Sherwood is OUT, courtesy of Lee Danaher. A-9 vs Q-J

[Chili]

The players redrew after the last exit and then a huge 3 way pot developed.  It started with shortstack Lee Atherton going all in for 59,600, his neighbour Ben Vinson picked up a big stack of 5k chips and dumped them over the line effectively reraising.  This turned out to be a min raise so it was 119,200 to the next victim. 

Leo Kam looked at his cards had a little think, then moved all in himself.  This turned out to be just under Ben's raise at 113,000. So it was on their backs:

Lee Atherton 
Ben Vinson 
Leo Kam   

The board came      "club, club, club" whispers Lee next to me.

 

So a double and half for Leo Kam, a dent for Ben Vinson and OUT in 16th Lee Atherton.

Full chip counts to follow:

[NoflopsHomer]

Just before the break, we believe Ben Vinson knocked out Mark Steward with vs . A King on the flop and an Ace on the turn.

The speed of the exits even before the bubble began is quite frightening, the last couple of hours have been highly frenetic whereas usually they tend to be slow and cautious. This could be for a number of reasons, more gamble in these players, the big stacks having vastly more chips meaning the shorter stacks can't afford to sit around at all, on even that some players are already very tired and making more mistakes.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip Counts:

1   1   602    Paul Bracken   244100
1   2   908    B Herron   165200
1   3   203    Iwan Jones   125200
1   4   501    Jason Shellum   236100
1   6   401    Neil Channing   428000
1   7   206    Paul Murphy   81400
1   8   708    Paul Murrell   458700
1   9   504    Lee Biddulph   170600
3   1   306    Leo Kam   305400
3   2   109    Lee Danaher   155400
3   5   809    Paul Gardner   360900
3   7   201    B Vinson   460100
3   8   804    Martyn Cavanagh   118700
3   9   1301    Mike Williams   147000

[Chili]

With 14 players left we have now entered the last level of the night, which may finish early if we reach the final 9 but we all doubt it.

So blinds are now 6k / 12k  (1k)