Bluesq.com GUKPT Grand Final: Day 2 - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Bad news for Jim Moult, he just made a good call with A-Q from the big blind against Kabbaj's all-in push with er... ahem... K-3. King on the Flop pretty much sealed the deal leaving Moult with 170k in chips.

[Chili]

Even worse news for bookiebasher - Jim Moult.  Sami Yusef makes a raise to 30k, Jim makes it 90k and Sami moves all in.  Jim calls with QQ but ho hum Sami had the bullets.  Beat Jim down to only 27,000.

[Chili]

With 16 players left we are on the kinda bubble in that the next out will get a £3,000 seat in next years Grand Final.  The next 15 will get:

1. £197,600
2. £106,900
3. £71,300
4. £53,500
5. £41,600
6. £32,700
7. £23,800
8. £17,800
9. £14,800
10. £8,900
11. £5,900
12. £4,800
13. £4,800
14. £4,800
15. £4,800

[NoflopsHomer]

And Jim Moult goes out to Sami Yusuf. It was passed around to Sami who put Jim in with , Jim turned over the and then....depressingly....the .

The board bricked out and Jim went from almost chipleader to OUT in 16th place in the space of just over half an hour. Although he gets a slight consolation getting a free seat to next years final to soothe some of the pain.

Poker is depressingly brutal sometimes.

[snoopy1239]

Ross Boatman has doubled up in fortunate fashion, all-in with A-2 versus the A8 of Mark Freidman, the Hendonmobber spiked a 2 on a 2-K-K-5-K board.

[Chili]

David Barnes doubles up courtesty of Simon Zach he had AK v KK and hit an A first card.

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Keith Hawkins on a very low stack of 25k made his stand with  but found Simon Zach with  .  The board did nothing for Keith in:



So Keith is out in 15th place.

[NoflopsHomer]

Play has ground down to a halt since the exit of Keith Hawkins. Ben Vinson and Simon Zach are taking it in turn on their table to mercilessly plunder the blinds with the rest of the players on their table offering little resistance.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ken Wong moves all-in for 140k, Paul Moss with a roughly similar-sized stack calls from the big blind

Ken Wong:

Paul Moss:

Board:



There's a count for Paul Moss and he has 180k and Ken Wong is OUT in 14th place.

[NoflopsHomer]

1. £197,600
2. £106,900
3. £71,300
4. £53,500
5. £41,600
6. £32,700
7. £23,800
8. £17,800
9. £14,800
10. £8,900
11. £5,900
12. £4,800
13. £4,800 -- Paul Smallwood
14. £4,800 -- Ken Wong
15. £4,800 -- Keith Hawkins
16. Bubble boy/girl Entry to Grand Final Next Year -- Jim Moult

[snoopy1239]

Paul Smallwood is OUT, Simon Zach the terminator after calling Smallwood's all-in along with Carlos Walker.

With Simon betting 50k on the 6-8-8 Flop, Carlos stepped out the way leaving Smallwood to flip over A-J onto the felt.

However, it wasn't looking too rosy for the BBC presenter as Simon had the rather formidable holding of Pocket Sixes to send Smallwood to the rail.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ross Boatman and Michael Ellis are our short-short stacks with 40k and 60k respectively.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ross Boatman has doubled through Mark Friedman with versus after Friedman only had to call 27,000 more.

Board:



He's still very short though.

[NoflopsHomer]

Dave Colclough is OUT. He pushed with Q-6 but was called by Mark Friedman's Kings which triumphed on an A-J-4-6-5 board. Dave OUT in 12th place winning £4,800.

[Chili]

Ross Boatman is OUT in 11th place and wins £4,800 thanks to John Kabbaj's AK not letting his AQ win.

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Then on a board of

 

John Kabbaj shows 
Sami Yusef shows 

and wins a big pot to put Yussef upto 500k & Kabbaj with only 150k

[Chili]

In a major flurry of action in the last 20 mins - THAT IS IT!  We are down to the final table of 9.  That unlucky TV bubble boy was John Kabbaj who taking that knock with full house rivered by better full house, he pushed with 5 2 and lo and behold Friedman woke up again with AA and knocked Kabbaj out in 10th for £8,900.

The last few exits have gone like so:

1. £197,600   
2. £106,900   
3. £71,300   
4. £53,500   
5. £41,600   
6. £32,700   
7. £23,800   
8. £17,800   
9. £14,800   
10. £8,900   John Kabbaj
11. £5,900   Ross Boatman
12. £4,800   Dave Colclough
13. £4,800   Paul Smallwood
14. £4,800   Ken Wong
15. £4,800   Keith Hawkins
16. Entry to GF   Jim Moult