Bluesq.com GUKPT Grand Final: Day 1B - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Dave Barnes just doubled through former chip leader Mark Friedman who looks to have lost at least half of his former 64k stack.

The board read:



and Barnes was all-in with against , a couple of non-descript sixes later and he doubled through to what looks to be around 40k.

[Chili]

  ***** MONSTER POT ALERT ******

Glancing upon a floplike

 

Van Hoang bets 4,300.  Richard Gryko decides to raise it upto 12,300.   Van took a little while to decide (and maybe this is when Gryko picked up a little weakness in Van) but he makes it another 20,400, so Gyrko moved all in for only another 13,275 extra to Van.  Now Van is shaking his head and really is not glorious about putting in the extra strongly believing he is behind.  Gyrko played it just right to make Van believe that his  had shrunk into non pot winning insignificance! 

But with so much money in the pot, he had to make the call, so he did with only 10k left behind.  On their backs:

Van 
Gyrko      for a humoungous draw.

Turn   
River   

and Gyrko missed the lot!  That must put Van Hoang on around 95,000!!!

[NoflopsHomer]

Dan Owston has knocked out Norman Rad with 2-2 vs erm...3-4 on a Q-4-2 board. (But not before Dan introduced himself to Norman as 'Roger' for absolutely no reason whatsoever). Dan then also knocked out Richard De Freitas with K-8 against Q-8.

Brian Johnson has just lost two consecutive big pots, first to Edward Cahill with K-T vs A-J on a J-J-7-Q-A board. "Why not a Nine?" cried Brian.

Then shortly after, he doubled up Rumit to nearly 80k with K-J vs A-9 on a K-6-9-9-4 board after all the money went in on the turn..

[snoopy1239]

Van Hoang   103125
Richard Wheatley   101850
Ben Vinson   75850
Simon Zach   67950
Keith Hawkins   62275
Matt Novak   60225
Lewiss Stevens   56025
Paul Webster   53550
Jean-Luc Belin   49500
Brian Johnson   47750
Owen Lock   45400
Martin Bader   45300
Dave Barnes   42025
Rumit Somaiya   38375
Jason Defreitas   38050
Liam Flood   36650
Mark Friedman   36375
Michael Greco   35125
Michael Muldoon   34525
Ross Boatman   34100
Gareth Ower   33550
Richard Ashby   33325
Olegas Kovaleskis   32450
Allan Rudge   30625
Michael Ellis   29850
Dan Owston   28700
Ashley Hayles   27375
Norman Gold   27325
Ali Sarkeshik   26950
Mark Bointon   26375
Steve Mitchell   26350
Ben Roberts   23875
Thomas Dunwoodie   22975
John Dwyer   20800
Paul Murrell   20125
Patrick McCloskey   18325
Norman Rad   16625
Kevin Jenkins   16400
Paul Moss   15825
Edward Cahill   15350
Steve Gibbons   15025
Karl Mahrenholz   10600
Sami Mahmoud   5175

[Chili]

Grantham & Ladrokes Steve Mitchell has struggled all day to get over his starting stack.  Having Aces & Kings busted ealier in the day, anyway he plodded on and recently reached the heady heights of 26,000.  I believe in deciding to go for it in the last half hour instead of sitting still he clashed with Ashely Hayles. 

Steve limped on the button and Hayles just checked the BB.  They saw a flop of

 

Ashley bet 2/3rds of the pot and Steve pushed all in, just bad timing as Hayles was going nowhere with his J10 and Steve only had K10.  No help for Steve Mithcell and he was out in 41st place.

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul 'Muzza' Murrell is OUT, A-J no good against Ashley Hayles' Queens.

Play is almost at an end, Maria and Smoopy are just getting the last few hands...

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Ali Sarkeshik was blessed with a double up in the dying seconds. He managed to find (1) Aces and (2) cheeky Welshman Dan owston nicking the blinds at just the right time.

It wasn't a big all-in raise, but enough nonetheless, but Dan fancied a gamble and called with K-7 in the hope that he had two live cards.

... he didn't like what a saw.

A King on the Flop gave Dan a glimmer of hope, but it wasn't to be and Ali earned himself a timely last minute double through.

[Chili]

Last hand of the night and time for shortie Thomas Dunwoodie  for a make or break moment.  He shoved with K8 but ran into running hot Hayles's Aces.  Dunwoodie lost the nowhere near race and went out.

It looked like - although this might need confirming - that Van Huang was tonights chip leader with 130,00.  So that means a glorious seat in next years £3k Grand Final thanks to Blue Sqaure.

[snoopy1239]

Van Hoang   127025
Mark Friedman   111850
Richard Wheatley   106950
Rumit Somaiya   84125
Ashley Hayles   71700
Ben Vinson   69375
Liam Flood   65300
Simon Zach   64800
Lewiss Stevens   51875
Steve Gibbons   47425
Matt Novak   46925
Owen Lock   46550
Paul Webster   46150
Ross Boatman   44350
Michael Muldoon   42550
Dave Barnes   42500
Jean-Luc Belin   40925
Michael Ellis   38575
Keith Hawkins   36600
Martin Bader   32800
Michael Greco   32275
Sami Mahmoud   31775
John Dwyer   29125
Richard Ashby   26600
Dan Owston   25925
Mark Bointon   25200
Karl Mahrenholz   24400
Ben Roberts   24275
Olegas Kovaleskis   23000
Edward Cahill   22525
Paul Moss   20050
Kevin Jenkins   19225
Norman Gold   9575