Bluesq.com GUKPT Brighton Day 2: Interactive

[danafish]

Josh Tyler bets 9k or so utg, only for Michael Bolger to go all in. He folds.

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[Mango99]

Mick Fletcher button-raises to 6k; apparently no-one takes him seriously as both SB James Atkin and BB Karim Louis call. However, they both check the  Raiser's Flop, and give it up when Fletcher bets 8k, Louis folding pocket Fives face up. "That's the last time I give you chips," vows Atkin. Fletcher is not afraid.

Well he should be afraid. Very afraid.

James Atkin isn't internationally known as "The Atkinator" for nothing you know!

[danafish]

Entertaining machismo-isms from Robert Cowen:

Luke Trotman bets 10k on a flop. Cowen asks for a count; Trotman has 24.3k remaining. He asks, "Is that 24.3 or 24.2?" "What difference does it make?" says Trotman. Cowen thunks 24.2k down on the table. "You call this, I'll check it down," he challenges. Trotman folds, and looks harassed; Cowen shows . Jen is clearly bored of poker and checking how long is left until the dinner break.

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[danafish]

Dan Carter is OUT, most very unfortunately. Not sure what the preflop action was as I only scuttled over when I heard "All in!", but Carter was all in on a raggy flop with looking nice against Karim Louis'  . Ace duly spiked on river. Unlucky, Dan.

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[lucky_scrote]

Yeh i look pretty pissed off in that picture for good reason!

I make it 6k UTG to get two callers. Flop brings 568 rainbow so i lead out for 11k to be pushed allin at by donk mateyboy. After 5 mins or so i decide to make the call for 35k more. River was a beautiful ace.


Sour grapes obv.

[danafish]

As we approach the dinner break when I will be investigating the buffet, I can tell you that one more player has gone out, he being the same Luke Trotman who was previously next to Jen. Jen herself is on around 65 or 70k. Robert Cowen and Dubai are becoming increasingly aggressive in their banter with one another. The buffet will hopefully be nice. Back in 45 minutes when we'll have full chip counts. Mmm.

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[b4matt]

Thanks for the great updates so far

Tell Thewy to ignore the buffet and go for a curry...

[Rivertony]

Can you wish Nik Persaud and Julian Thew good luck from Tony P. Thanks Alot!!

[snoopy1239]

Go the Merton! 

[Karabiner]

B'tayavon...

Top quality updates as usual..

[danafish]

We're back! Mmm steak buffet.

News is that Mick Fletcher went out in the last hand before dinner to Monstrous Stack Joe Grech.

By the way, here is the rather long overdue payout, stolen from the nice Bluesquare people:



1st Place £86,800 plus seat in Grand Final
2nd Place £46,200
3rd Place £30,800
4th Place £22,400
5th Place £16,800
6th Place £14,000
7th Place £11,200
8th Place £8,400
9th Place £5,600
10th Place £4,200
11th Place £2,800
12th to 15th £2,240
16th to 21st £1,960
22nd to 27th £1,680

280 players, total of £280,000

Final tablists each receive a nano iPod, apparently.

[JungleCat03]

Just before the break a very big hand played out between Roberts Cowen and Talal Shakerchi, who Jen has been duelling with.

Talal raised to 7k, which was called by Cowen.

The flop came .

Talal now led for 10k and Cowen raised another 15-20k.

Talal now pushed  for 50k more or so and Cowen (who incidentally is carrying a piece of paper saying "STOP AND THINK") followed the advice on his paper and after firing a few questions at Talal and thinking about what to do decided to make the call with J-J.

It proved a good call, as Talal flipped over 9-9, leaving Cowen punching the sky happily as the turn and river blanked. Exit Talal and Cowen moved into the dinner break in 2nd spot, behind the extremely well stacked Joe Grech...


Here are the rest of the chip counts as we approach the bubble. Players will no doubt go crazy now, all desperate to finish outside the money...

Either that or they will merely follow convention and all the medium and short stacks will lock up allowing the biggies to bully them.

Let's see what happens!

 Josef Grech   438600
 Roberts Cowen   260400
 Karim Louis   227500
 Julian Thew   193100
 Niall Charlton   163200
 James Reid   151200
 Robert Garfield   120200
 Nik Persaud   95600
 Steve Jelinek   93900
 Marcus Bebb-Jones   71900
 John Eames   70600
 Jen Mason   70400
 Jonothon Butters   68900
 Fabio Esposito   68800
 Alan Dean   67500
 Farbod Javad   63500
 Darren Grosvenor   61200
 Paul Gardner   57800
 Colin Linton   57200
 Micheal Bolger   56600
 Woody Deck   55700
 Ross Campbell   55600
 Dave Shallow   50500
 Josh Tyler   48700
 Stephen Slavin   43200
 David Colclough   40500
 Jason Powell   40100
 Simon Wickenden   38600
 James Atkin   24900
 Mark Bointon   22400

[danafish]

Here is our Monstrous Chip Leader:

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And another gratuitous photo of one of the massage ladies, this time with Woody Deck:

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[danafish]

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BREAKING NEWS:

Stephen Slavin OUT, A-A v John Eames' 9-9; another 9 on the turn. Ouch.

Also more breaking news - Dubai Dave Shallow OUT somehow. Will try to find out what happened.

Hand for hand, legging it downstairs for the bubble. Someone please post a pic of M C Hammer.

[JungleCat03]

Paul Gardner played out a big pot earlier. Having raised he was re-raised allin by a shorter stack, Alan Dean...

The shorty didn't have him covered but there was still a sizeable amount in the pot as Paul called with J-J and found Alan with As ...

Josh Tyler ran a commentary on the hand as the dealer dealt out the cards.

....

"oooooohhhhhhh" (said Josh)



"OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH" (said Josh)

"No heart, no heart" was the heartfelt plea from Gardner...

River was.....A JACK! making a set for Gardner but completing Alan's straight to keep him in the competition.

"Oohhhhhhh.......SICK SICK SICK!" (was Josh's final contribution)....I feel he may need to work on the diversity of his commentary if he ever wants to seek professional work in the field.

In the words of Dana "You can see the moment Gardner's heart actually breaks in two..." Showing the ruthless streak that causes her to steal my puns and dye her hair pink, Dana nonetheless bravely dived in and snapped the man's moment of pain. And here it is...

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