Bluesq.com GUKPT Brighton Day 1b: At A Glance

[JungleCat03]

Hi folks and welcome back to the Brighton Grosvenor as we prepare to resume for Day 1b.

The wind and rain and general inclement weather we faced yesterday has not abated, but nor has our boundless enthusiasm to cover the inevitable excitement that today's poker will surely generate.

Doing battle today is at least one former winner in the perenially behatted Dave Smith, winner of last year's Brighton GUKPT. Also present will be Chris "Sorry I can't talk im playing 16 donkaments at the moment" Moorman, who will surely be a threat to the field given his recent form.  We don't have a confirmed list of runners just yet but there will be many other poker luminaries donning poker faces and limbering up to exchange chips across the felt.

Good luck to all the players today. A full player count and seat arrangement will be disseminated as soon as we get it.

Let's get ready to rumble!

[danafish]

Ok dear friends, we are all set up at the casino, we have sorted out the multiple threads that we accidentally started and then had to delete and then realise we'd done it wrong, and they have very definitely shuffled up and dealt. Wooo!

We are not starting the tourney clock until we are absolutely certain of the number of runners, but if we were to start it, it would look something like this currently:


GUKPT BRIGHTON
WITH DANAFISH AND JUNGLECAT
Entrants - like probably 150
Starting Chips - 10,000
Players Left - proabably still 150, barring accidents
Average Chips - 10,000
50:12
Level 1 - 25/50


Player list will eventually show up, we're not going to type it out again like yesterday because Mr Raab will eventually email it to us and it's so depressing when you realise you've needlessly lost an hour of your life to data entry. Any hypothetical picks for today before the player list arrives? I'm heading down there with the camera...

[danafish]

 

Hello the both of you! News so far is that WOODY DECK HAS ENTERED THE BUILDING. Also we already have an exit without actually knowing everyone who's playing yet. Junglecat has details...

[JungleCat03]

As I mingled amongst the throng of players, several faces caught my attention.

Scott Reilly, who finished 3rd in last years's Plymouth leg of the GUKPT, is present as is Paul Parker, who is wearing a typically colourful shirt and dapper waistcoat. (Photos to follow)

Hitsquadder Priyan De Mel was spotted as was Chris Sokrati, who is seated next to one of the stalwarts of the game and Brighton regular, Ronald DeBeaulox.

Luke Patten, Dave Smith and Ali Malllu were also spotted and the latter has been invovled in the early stages in a big coup. Although I was not present as this hand played out, allegedly Ali was holdiing Aces full versus Adrian Passfield's Jacks full and both players managed to get all their chips into the pot, meaning Adrian was one of the early casualties. A full house is probably pretty hard to fold against Ali...

Kevin O'Leary who was in scintillating form at the tail end of 2007 has also turned up to play today and will be looking to continue tapping the rich vein of form that yielded him the 2007 GUKPT heads up championship.

A full seating plan will follow shortly.

[JungleCat03]

1   1   101    Mike Charman
1   2   102    A Mackay
1   3   103    Robert Coombes
1   4   104    Ivan Donaghy
1   5   105    Jason Ho
1   6   106    Steven Boyd
1   7   107    Chris Sokrati
1   8   108    Ronnie Debeaulox
1   9   109    D Samson
1   10   110    Ian Frazer
2   1   201    Dale Greenleaf
2   2   202    Farbod Javad
2   3   203    John Flanagan
2   4   204    George Annan
2   5   205    Ali Mallu
2   6   206    Vincent Mather
2   7   207    Adrian Passfield
2   8   208    Daniel Evans
2   9   209    Fabio Esposito
2   10   210    Martin Adeniya
3   1   301    John Keown
3   2   302    Mark Robinson
3   3   303    Alex Buton
3   4   304    Steve Phillips
3   5   305    M Rowlands
3   6   306    Phil Risley
3   7   307    Glyn Altham
3   8   308    Stephen Slavin
3   9   309    Darren Baxter
3   10   310    M Cutting
4   1   401    Johnathon Butters
4   2   402    Gursel Gulfer
4   3   403    Keir Ratcliff
4   4   404    Paul Smallwood
4   5   405    Bran Lenton
4   6   406    John Wood
4   7   407    Dan Owston
4   8   408    Jerome Oshea
4   9   409    Stuart Rutter
4   10   410    M Libertini
5   1   501    David Colclough
5   2   502    Necmettin Cicekli
5   3   503    Michael Tucknott
5   4   504    Michael Pereira
5   5   505    Tony Ringe
5   6   506    Lynne Beaumont
5   7   507    Nick Riseley
5   8   508    Roberts Cowen
5   9   509    Granville Cochrane
5   10   510    H Liu
6   1   601    Zack Chesses
6   2   602    Steve Littlejohn
6   3   603    Huseyin Yilmaz
6   4   604    Michael Fletcher
6   5   605    David Tighe
6   6   606    Michael Hynes
6   7   607    Luke Patten
6   8   608    Talal Shakerchi
6   9   609    Kevin Oleary
6   10   610    Efty Neocleous
7   1   701    Karim Louis
7   2   702    Glynn Rees
7   3   703    Ghassan Elhoss
7   4   704    W Deck
7   5   705    Richard Rudling smith
7   6   706    Grant Mercado
7   7   707    T Wong
7   8   708    Rod Davies
7   9   709    Mark James
7   10   710    Robert Wilfred
8   1   801    M Pavlou
8   2   802    Andy Greekfish
8   3   803    Terry Chapman
8   4   804    Jamil Ogunmakinwa
8   5   805    Priyan Demel
8   6   806    Steven Hill
8   7   807    Albert Sapiano
8   8   808    Geoffrey Mockford
8   9   809    Alan Dean
8   10   810    Neil Morris
9   1   901    Simon Wickenden
9   2   902    Michael Clarke
9   3   903    Mark Burton
9   4   904    Charles Denton
9   5   905    Jeff Duvall
9   6   906    Roger Brush
9   7   907    G Swan
9   8   908    S Wan
9   9   909    K Dionysiou
9   10   910    Kirit Patel
10   1   1001    Paul Gourlay
10   2   1002    Sami Yusuf
10   3   1003    Adam Clark
10   4   1004    Jim Woodruff
10   5   1005    Jason Powell
10   6   1006    James Browning
10   7   1007    Robert Stain
10   8   1008    Ben Carpenter
10   9   1009    J Macnair
10   10   1010    Joel Ettedgi
11   1   1101    Craig Owen
11   2   1102    Paul Parker
11   3   1103    Brian Martin
11   4   1104    Fred Ogilvie
11   5   1105    Debbie Littlejohn
11   6   1106    Lee Bidulph
11   7   1107    Luke Trotman
11   8   1108    Rob Taylor
11   9   1109    Amir Zahiri
11   10   1110    Robert Garfield
12   1   1201    Steven Cunningham
12   2   1202    Raymond Nicholas
12   3   1203    Clive Layton
12   4   1204    Chris Moorman
12   5   1205    Micheal Bolger
12   6   1206    Devon Shearer
12   7   1207    Stavros Ioannou
12   8   1208    Guy Steel
12   9   1209    G Tlynrwes
12   10   1210    Van Hoang
13   1   1301    Martin Green
13   2   1302    Dean Coombes
13   3   1303    Joe Sullivan
13   4   1304    Brian Prescott
13   5   1305    Alin j Rapoport
13   6   1306    Steve Holden
13   7   1307    Tuan Le
13   8   1308    Scott Oreilly
13   9   1309    Steve Jelinek
13   10   1310    Chung Hoang
14   1   1401    Koroush Nikkhahe
14   2   1402    Matthew Franklin
14   3   1403    Roberto Romanello
14   4   1404    Greg Yates
14   5   1405    Paul Marrow
14   6   1406    David Smith
14   7   1407    James Mcbride
14   8   1408    Michael Arnold
14   9   1409    Colin Linton
14   10   1410    Lam Trinh
15   1   1501    David Barraclough
15   2   1502    Paul Noble
15   3   1503    Nick Slade
15   4   1504    Dave Shallow
15   5   1505    Vik Kanwar
15   6   1506    Darren Grosvenor
15   7   1507    Charles Chattha
15   8   1508    Liv Boeree
15   9   1509    Bardi Rajah

[danafish]

Is Allin J Rappaport wearing tails and have a large cigar clenched between his teeth and a bigger moustache than Red-dog ?

No, he's not even here, but please feel free to post your own groucho marx photos and/or photoshop efforts.

Meanwhile, some poker has been played, some of it well, some of it frankly inexplicably. Almost as soon as I'd entered the cardroom, I witnessed the bizarre exit of Mr Guy Steel (below, walking off, possibly consumed with shame). To be fair to the man, I didn't actually see what happened in the early stages of the hand, but when I joined them at the table, Steel was all in on a flop and a gent two to his left (apparently a late entry so he's not on the list, but I think we saw him having problems signing into the casino; if it's the same guy he's called Hoang) was dwelling up. Eventually he called.

Hoang - - hmm, ok, pretty loose at this stage, I guess, but -

Steel -  - ummm

Turn and river - and respectively. O-kay...

[danafish]

Another notable exit, this one courtesy of Phil from AWOP who's currently sending rude replies to Junglecat's emails while he's out of the room, is that of Michael Arnold.

Apparently Dave Smith bet 600 on a flop and Arnold called. Matthew Franklin made it 3.5k and Smith got out of the way but Arnold called.

The turn comes and Franklin shoves; Arnold calls.

Arnold - and the the 5 of something for the made straight on the flop

Franklin - for the made flush.

[danafish]

Another hand from Table Last Year's Winner:

The board reads and Koroush Nikkhahe (prize for anyone who can spell that out phonetically for me - Junglecat's best effort has been "Caress My Car Key") bets 1600. After some considerable dwelling, he folds, and is shown a third Six to make the Devil's own trips for his trouble. "Did I make a good fold?" chirps up Roberto Romanello, "Q-6?" Obviously no-one believes him, but the little smile from Nikkhahe suggests that he may well have been holding a full house.

[JungleCat03]

The early levels of poker events tend to be replete with slightly bleary-eyed and tired players, quietly working their way through the shallow blinded levels until the more exciting later levels kick in and they awake from their lethargic slumber and begin to chatter and move chips about more animatedly.

There are exceptions to this rule of course. Roberto Romanello is one of the obvious examples of this... As I traversed the rows of zombie-esque players, many of who seem barely concious, Roberto's stream of incessant chatter immediately drew my attention...

He was involved in a pot with Dave Smith on a flop and Dave had just moved in for 2k or so...

"What have you got Dave? You want a call? I can't beat much! Do you have T-J? I can beat that! Do you have a pair??"

"I don't have a pair" Dave told him before Roberto laughed "How can I fold?" and called.

"I've got trips" said Dave to a ripple of laughter from the assembled onlookers drawn in by Roberto's patter like moths to a loud, welsh light.

"Haha, I'm drawing dead then" said Roberto showing to Dave's rather juicy Q-Q set...


Dave "Dubai" Shallow was quiet, looking like he may have had a late one (or two) recently. Tut tut!

Still, he also looked as if he might have added a chip or two to his quietly growing stack at this early stage so perhaps it is all a cunningly designed ploy...

[danafish]

SICK OUTDRAW ALERT

Again the setting is Table Romanello, and isn't Roberto a lucky boy?

All in on the 9-K-7 flop, Lam Trinh turns over a set of Nines, which is of course crushing Roberto's Q-K.

Turn - Q - ouch

River  - K - OUCH.

Trinh's still a pretty big stack though, with at least 20k.

[danafish]

Chip Counts For Your Boys/Ladies:

Danny Samson - still on around his starting stack
Liv Boeree - ditto
Rob Garfield (on Table Parker/Taylor) - 15k or so
Robert/Max Wilfred - just over 5k but I'm afraid I don't know exactly what happened.

SOMEONE was hogging the camera, but I'll get photos next time I head down.

[JungleCat03]

Here is a shot of Roberto shortly after damaging his stack versus Dave Smith's set of queens.



If you look closely you may notice former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton's slightly deranged twin brother, Matthew Franklin is his table partner. Actually this is a bit harsh and I am not sure if there are blood ties between Matthew and the former 007 star but the resemblance is there i feel...

[JungleCat03]

Rod u got that parker update!
Cheers
Khalid

He never seems to be at his table when I'm there!

The only newsflash I can give you is that he is looking very pleased with himself at the moment. I will hopefully have a more expansive description the next time I visit his table (assuming he's there)


I just spoke to Richard "rudders" Rudling-Smith, who is currently sitting on 11,000. "I've been lagging it up" said Rudders excitedly! I gave him a slightly dubious look, as I am familiar with his game.

"Really.....?"

"Yes! Well I've had a few hands too...."

No ***t! He seems in good spirits anyway and has the game to run deep given a few cards.


Dubai has a large stack after apparently hitting a straight flush, the rack.  He seems intent on maintaining his expression of complete disinterest though, despite the positive fluctuations occurring in his stack...

Good luck big man...

Priyan De Mel also looks to have increased his stack nicely during the early stages and had his chips neatly arranged, allowing me to easily ascertain he had 17 or 18k.

[danafish]

End of Level 2 Chip Counts (thanks Raaby!)



Table   Seat   ID   Player   End of Level 2
12   10   1210    Van Hoang   26850
14   10   1410    Lam Trinh   25575
8   5   805    Priyan Demel   24325
7   4   704    Woody Deck   23100
2   2   202    Farbod Javad   22100
5   5   505    Tony Ringe   21925
11   7   1107    Luke Trotman   21900
9   4   904    Charles Denton   21125
14   9   1409    Colin Linton   19925
6   4   604    Michael Fletcher   19275
8   9   809    Alan Dean   18225
4   9   409    Stuart Rutter   18025
2   7   1506    Darren Grosvenor   17125
12   7   1207    Stavros Ioannou   17125
2   1   201    Dale Greenleaf   16425
3   2   302    Mark Robinson   16225
13   8   1308    Scott Oreilly   16175
3   6   306    Phil Risley   15950
14   5   1405    Paul Marrow   15725
14   2   1402    Matthew Franklin   15700
5   10   510    H Liu   15575
1   4   104    Ivan Donaghy   15200
6   1   601    Zack Chesses   15200
2   5   205    Ali Mallu   15175
11   10   1110    Robert Garfield   14950
9   8   908    S Wan   14850
3   8   308    Stephen Slavin   14800
4   5   405    Bran Lenton   14775
7   6   706    Grant Mercado   14650
2   6   206    Vincent Mather   14350
12   8   1501    David Barraclough   14200
1   1   101    Mike Charman   13800
13   5   1305    Alin j Rapoport   13225
10   2   1002    Sami Yusuf   13050
2   10   107    Chris Sokrati   12875
2   3   203    John Flanagan   12825
8   8   1502    Paul Noble   12725
5   3   503    Michael Tucknott   12600
4   1   401    Jonothon Butters   12575
3   10   310    M Cutting   12500
10   8   1008    Ben Carpenter   12050
6   6   606    Michael Hynes   12000
8   1   1006    James Browning   11975
9   5   1503    Nick Slade   11975
1   8   108    Ronnie Debeaulox   11900
1   7   1505    Vik Kanwar   11775
4   10   410    Martino Libertini   11600
8   2   802    Andy Greekfish   11525
13   1   1301    Martin Green   11325
11   1   1101    Craig Owen   11250
8   4   804    Jamil Ogunmakinwa   11200
9   7   907    G Swan   11125
5   8   508    Roberts Cowen   11025
9   2   902    Michael Clarke   11000
12   1   1201    Steven Cunningham   11000
1   3   103    Robert Coombes   10925
7   5   705    Richard Rudling smith   10925
13   10   1507    Charles Chattha   10900
13   9   1508    Liv Boeree   10850
13   4   1304    Brian Prescott   10700
12   5   1205    Micheal Bolger   10450
1   5   105    Jason Ho   10425
7   9   709    Mark James   10425
13   2   1302    Dean Coombes   10425
7   2   702    Glynn Rees   10400
10   9   1009    John Macnair   10400
10   3   1003    Adam Clark   10075
10   4   1004    Jim Woodruff   10025
3   9   309    Darren Baxter   10000
12   6   1206    Devon Shearer   10000
10   6   1509    Bardi Rajah   9975
7   7   707    T Wong   9925
8   7   807    Albert Sapiano   9900
11   5   1105    Debbie Littlejohn   9850
4   8   408    Jerome Oshea   9825
9   10   910    Kirit Patel   9800
12   9   1307    Tuan Le   9650
8   6   806    Steven Hill   9550
13   3   1303    Joe Sullivan   9550
14   7   1309    Steve Jelinek   9475
4   7   407    Dan Owston   9300
13   6   1306    Steve Holden   9300
5   9   509    Granville Cochrane   9250
3   3   303    Alex Buton   9225
6   5   605    David Tighe   9225
9   9   909    K Dionysiou   9125
6   9   609    Kevin Oleary   9000
10   1   1001    Paul Gourlay   9000
10   5   1005    Jason Powell   9000
10   7   1007    Robert Stain   8875
11   6   1106    Lee Bidulph   8850
14   4   1404    Greg Yates   8825
11   9   1109    Amir Zahiri   8775
2   8   208    Daniel Evans   8750
6   10   610    Efty Neocleous   8725
5   6   506    Lynne Beaumont   8700
7   1   701    Karim Louis   8700
8   10   810    Neil Morris   8700
8   3   803    Terry Chapman   8575
3   1   301    John Keown   8525
6   3   603    Huseyin Yilmaz   8400
11   2   1102    Paul Parker   8400
12   4   1204    Chris Moorman   8350
14   1   1401    Koroush Nikkhahe   8325
1   9   109    Dan Samson   8300
9   3   903    Mark Burton   8275
1   2   102    Anthony Mackay   8200
6   7   607    Luke Patten   7700
5   1   501    David Colclough   7475
4   3   403    Keir Ratcliff   7300
9   6   906    Roger Brush   7125
12   3   1203    Clive Layton   7000
9   1   901    Simon Wickenden   6875
4   6   406    John Wood   6550
11   3   1103    Brian Martin   6550
14   3   1403    Roberto Romanello   6100
3   5   305    M Rowlands   5950
4   4   404    Paul Smallwood   5875
6   2   602    Steve Littlejohn   5775
11   8   1108    Rob Taylor   5575
7   3   703    Ghassan Elhoss   5175
7   10   710    Robert Wilfred   5100
6   8   608    Talal Shakerchi   4675
3   7   307    Glyn Altham   4600
5   4   504    Michael Pereira   4200
4   2   402    Gursel Gulfer   4175
11   4   1104    Fred Ogilvie   3900
14   6   1406    David Smith   3600
2   9   209    Fabio Esposito   3400
1   10   110    Ian Frazer   3100
10   10   1010    Joel Ettedgi   3100
1   6   106    Steven Boyd   2850
3   4   304    Steve Phillips   2625
7   8   708    Rod Davies   1600

[danafish]

Double up for Charles Denton courtesy of Bruce Lee-a-likey unknown first-namer S. Wan (coincidentally sitting next to someone whose surname is Swan. Spooky.) on Table Dubai.

All in on an flop, the turn is the and the river the harmless so Denton's made straight holds up against Wan's drawlicious-and-preflop-dominatey .