Grosvenor Midlands Masters FINAL DAY: Interactive

[JungleCat03]

Welcome back to the final day!

The players have taken their seats, Dana is eagerly mingling among them gathering snippets of information like a squirrel gathering nuts...

...sort of...except she doesn't keep her notepad in her cheeks...er and she doesn't climb trees, or have a tail. In fact she's nothing like a squirrel really. I probably need a coffee...Wait, she does play the banjo which gives me just enough ammunition to post this ...





ANYWAY, enough of my inane ramblings and on with the poker for what should prove an exciting climax to the event.

Chip count to follow...

[JungleCat03]

Here are the final chip counts from the end of yesterday.

Marc Goodwin --------114,200
Anthony Nicholls -----113,100
Joseph Koumi   ------ 74,100
David Mitchell   -------  58,300
Paul Jackson    -------  57,500
Steve Jelinek   -------  54,100
Thomas McCready --- 46,600
Mickey Wenick  ------  41,800
Clive Padden    -------  39,300
Rob Reece      -------  39,200
Kuljinder Sidhu -------  38,100
Zafar Mirza       -------  35,500
Rana Gurnham --------  35,500
Ian Helmsley    -------   30,800
Richard Cashman ----   28,900
Dave Colclough   -----  26,500
Surinder Sunar   ------  25,500
Anthony Kennedy ---- 22,700
Mick Corrigan    -------- 21,700
Jujihar Reehal    -------  21,600
MZ Hussain        -------- 21,000
Martyn Cavanagh  -----  18,400
Mark Segal           -----  18,000
Ved Madan         ------- 17,700
Maria Demetriou   ------ 14,500
Arulmaran Sivaguru  ---- 12,600
Trevor Dunwoodie  ----   6,000

[TightEnd]

Good luck Red and Chili!

Chicken Joe and Marc G will be fearsome with those stacks though

[danafish]

Oh my god, it's like looking into the mirror. Which I do a lot.

But I've also been looking around in the cardroom, and things I have so far seen include the exit of Chili.

A gent who we believe is Clive Padden raises, only for Paul Jackson to reraise. An all-in call from Chili, with extra added hysterical giggling, and a fold from Padden later, and they're on their backs. As it were.

Paul Jackson -

Chili -

Board - and although, as Red Dog commented, her hand was getting better all the way, it failed to improve enough for the double up and Maria is OUT.

[danafish]

Good luck Red and Chili!

Chicken Joe and Marc G will be fearsome with those stacks though

BOK!

[danafish]

Also now OUT is Mr Thomas Dunwoodie - all in with pocket Eights against Mohammed Hussain's K-6, I think preflop, he sort of got unlucky, but with only 6k coming back today he would have needed some kind of miracle to make any real progress.

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[JungleCat03]

Paul Jackson is having a good old banter with his table.

After resuming to finish the last remnents of the 600 1200 level this morning, the blinds have escalated onto 800 1600 and thieving has become an important skill...

Paul Jackson tries his hand at it by raising to 4k or so from late position. The short stacked Arulmaran Sivaguru debates whether or not to reraise. "Make some noises like a girl and fold" suggest Paul, before Arulmaran folds (sans girly noises) what he says is K-Q.

"Oh, good fold. I had you in bad shape" CLAIMS Actionjack.

"I don't like to go allin without a hand" CLAIMS Arulmaran before shoving his 12k stack the next hand when it is passed unopened to him. "He's your bitch" Paul Jackson tells the big blind jovially...


Martyn Cavanagh has certainly been prospering today and his stack appears to have risen to 60k or so from his initial start of 18k.

I see him play two hands while I am at his table.

Firstly he calls a bet on a turn and on the river he and his opponent both check.

Martyn's sixes are good versus the A-5 of his opponent. WP sir.

Next hand Martyn raises it up and is called from the blinds by the table chippie Anthony Nicholls...

The flop comes . Anthony checks, Martyn bets 4.5k or so and Anthony calls.

The turn is the and the river the and both these streets are checked by both players.

Martyn tables a winning, cautiously played K-Q whilst Anthony shows a no good pair of . The welshman's stack grows ever larger...


Marc Goodwin still has plenty of chips and has arranged his stack into a quite pretty looking, intricately interlaced tower. Not quite at the level of some of Carlos Mortensen's magnificent creations, nonetheless he gets a B for effort. I'll see if I cna grab a shot of this shortly.

[Karabiner]

  Dana and Rod, and thanks again for your updating which is indeed most intrepid.

Mohamed Hussein is known in Walsall as taff. Nice bloke and a good solid player.

PS Thanks for the excellent gurning pastiche which I found whilst catching up on the Waterford thread  

[danafish]

A not-massively-explosive hand between Surinder Sunar and Dave Colclough. Surinder raises under the gun and Dave calls from sort of mid position. The flop comes down and Surinder bets 6.5k. Dave folds. I'd sort of like to know what he had. In my mind he had Kings. He probably didn't have Kings. He might have had Kings. Please enjoy the photos below, including Super-Branded Mr Blondie himself:

[JungleCat03]

There has just been an interesting hand on Micky Wernick's table.

Micky raised to 5k, which Red-Dog now called, but it was re-popped behind by (i think) Clive Padden to 15k.

Micky passed after a bit of thought and equally Red Dog passed, showing J-J...

Clive showed K-K and Micky apparently passed Q-Q!!!

Big pairs all round, well played all round. It's funny, in Waterford, with a deeper average stack, that hand would have almost certainly resulted in 3 allins but here, both Micky and Red Dog got away from their big pairs...No easy chips on THAT table...


There are just 2 tables remaining now.

The players are on a break of 5 minutes or so before they resume on the 1k 2k level...

[danafish]

Tony Nicholls raises to 4k, Martyn Cavanagh calls. A shortstack who we believe is Jujihar "Carson" Reehal (apologies, didn't snap him and now it's too late) also calls. Steve Jelinek now makes it 14k. Martyn Cavanagh folds but both Nicholls and Carson call the extra 10k.

The flop comes and Carson is all in for change. Jelinek calls the change, but Nicholls insta-folds. "You're not even going to think about calling?" protests Jelinek.

Jelinek -

Carson -

A harmless turn and river later, and Carson walks off without a word and Jelinek takes the hefty pot, muttering about how incredibly happy he is that Carson's flush didn't hit...

[NoflopsHomer]

Go-on the Dog!

[danafish]

An incredibly shortstacked Doc Sivaguru was just now all in holding to Mickey Wernick's .

"Don't do anything silly," says Mickey, as the dealer deals out the  flop. "Nothing silly now as the turn hits the felt.

"I told you nothing silly!" he cries as the river doubles up the Doc.

[danafish]

PS Thanks for the excellent gurning pastiche which I found whilst catching up on the Waterford thread 

You mean the Montage Of Drunkenness? We were very proud of that.

By the way, I think there is still a Harpit Gurnam left in the tournament (we spelled it wrong on the chip counts, sorry. We'll try to get you a photo...

[JungleCat03]

There are now 17 remaining players and the average is 60,700. The 1k 2k blinds are likely to take a heavy toll on the small to medium stacks whilst play is likely to tighten up as we approach the bubble.

Who will grasp the nettle and start to dominate is the question...

Whoever it is will be hoping that this doesn't happen...

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