Bluesq.com GUKPT Brighton Day 2: At-A-Glance

[danafish]

Good morning everyone! Rod, Jen and I (suddenly that reminds me of 70s and 80s kids' TV favourites Rod, Jane and Freddy, in so many different ways) have all had a good 10 hours' sleep and are all now fully-rested, well-fed and ready to face the day! No, just kidding, we've actually had 5 hours' sleep and vodka last night while watching Youtube documentaries about children's beauty pageants and we all feel like death. Regardless, we will be down at the Grosvenor come 2pm for the start of Day 2. Those still in include the likes of Julian Thew, Dave Colclough, aforementioned Jen Mason, Dave "Dubai on blonde" Shallow, James Atkin and Stuart Rutter, all playing for a chunk of the £290-or-so-000 pool. JOIN US...

[JungleCat03]

Welcome back guys, thanks for joining us as we prepare to embark on Day 2 of the Brighton GUKPT.

Here is the full list of the remaining 70 players. They will be playing down to the final table today. Yesterday's action was fast, frenetic and aggressive. I anticipate this morning could well start fast as the smaller stacks try and double up, so there should be some blood being spilled...I hope all those who went out till the early hours yesterday are prepared for the firestorm ahead!

I just bumped into Alex Martin, who was one of those who partook in some alcoholic beverages last night but he seems relatively fresh and is confident about the day ahead. Jen "Baconhead" Mason is also working off a few hours sleep but once she hears the sounds of chips clicking and cards riffling, she will no doubt fall into her stride very quickly.

Too many names remain to mention them all so without further ado, here is the full list plus chip counts of today's particpators.

Good luck all! Light the blue touch paper and retire....



Roberts Cowen   107975
 Michael Fletcher   96575
 Jason Powell   96575
 Niall Charlton   88700
 Clive Layton   83025
 Adam Clark   81725
 James Atkin   78575
 Simon Wickenden   71975
 W Deck   71850
 Micheal Bolger   67550
 Andrew Cunningham-brown   67500
 Stephen Slavin   63825
 Dave Shallow   63200
 Jerome Oshea   62350
 P Gardener   61100
 John Eames   59575
 Josef Grech   59475
 Peter Abela   59200
 Jen Mason   54525
 Julian Thew   51300
 Steve Jelinek   50050
 Farbod Javad   49000
 Steven Zudithipunpare   47500
 James Tyler   46575
 Darren Grosvenor   46550
 Talal Shakerchi   44650
 Ross Campbell   44025
 James Reid   42625
 Marcus Bebb-jones   42450
 Owen Lock   41550
 Dan Carter   40800
 James Sudworth   37650
 Johnathon Butters   37150
 Karim Louis   36775
 Leon Campbell   34925
 Robert Garfield   34675
 Vincent Mather   34525
 Ian Woodley   34375
 Graham Burt   34100
 David Colclough   30400
 Robert Boon   30350
 Colin Linton   29675
 Lam Trinh   29075
 Chris Sokrati   28550
 Efty Neocleous   28175
 Alan Dean   26625
 Paul Murrell   24900
 Paul Garrad   24800
 Nik Persaud   23900
 Peter Singleton   23850
 Mike Charman   23125
 A Mackay   22450
 Debbie Littlejohn   22000
 Ian Holman   21500
 Dave Clark   20425
 Alex Martin   20400
 Fabio Esposito   20375
 John Fletcher   20350
 Scott Oreilly   20300
 Luke Trotman   20100
 Anthony Adderley   17225
 Daniel Evans   17125
 Sasha Rosewood   17050
 David Barraclough   15225
 Wayne Rideout   15025
 Stuart Rutter   14300
 Mark Russell   12675
 Duncan Meyer   12275
 Mark Bointon   11975
 Neil Fox   10575
 Liv Boeree   10000

[danafish]

They have shuffled up, and they have dealt.

Full seating plan on its way, but for the moment I can tell you that an interesting table should be the one that has Jen, Julian and chip leader Robert Cowens at it. I understand there have been a couple of exits already; Junglecat will bring you details shortly.

[JungleCat03]

There may have been an exit or two, but they were very surreptitious exits if so...

The early exchanges have involved mainly riases followed by passes...

Jen was seen raising Julian Thew's big blind to 3,600 from late position. The battle between goldenboy Thewy and bacon head Mason was shortlived though, as Julian quickly passed and Jen threw him an apologetic glance, as she quietly mucked her cards.


Josh Tyler was seen betting 8k or so on the river of an A high board, only to muck when his opponent called and showed an ace, and he was left muttering something about queens...


Ian Woodley was seen raping and pillaging, well raising from the cut-off and picking up the blinds without too much trouble...


Just to clarify, the top 27 protagonists will be paid today with £280,000 of prize money in total and a cool £86,800 plus for the winner. Incentive enough to ignore that hangover for many of last night's revellers I imagine.

[JungleCat03]

Here is the full seating plan for today.


1   1   101    James Reid   42625
1   2   102    David Colclough   30400
1   3   103    Stephen Slavin   63825
1   4   104    Daniel Evans   17125
1   5   105    John Eames   59575
1   6   106    Ian Holman   21500
1   7   107    Robert Boon   30350
1   8   108    Jerome Oshea   62350
1   9   109    Dave Clark   20425
2   1   201    Wayne Rideout   15025
2   2   202    James Atkin   78575
2   3   203    Karim Louis   36775
2   4   204    James Tyler   46575
2   5   205    Clive Layton   83025
2   6   206    Duncan Meyer   12275
2   7   207    David Barraclough   15225
2   8   208    Nik Persaud   23900
2   9   209    Debbie Littlejohn   22000
3   1   301    Mark Bointon   11975
3   2   302    Owen Lock   41550
3   3   303    Niall Charlton   88700
3   4   304    Mike Charman   23125
3   5   305    Marcus Bebb-jones   42450
3   6   306    Dan Carter   40800
3   7   307    Anthony Adderley   17225
3   8   308    Ross Campbell   44025
3   9   309    A Mackay   22450
4   1   401    Scott Oreilly   20300
4   2   402    Peter Abela   59200
4   3   403    Jen Mason   54525
4   4   404    Vincent Mather   34525
4   5   405    Neil Fox   10575
4   6   406    Mark Russell   12675
4   7   407    Julian Thew   51300
4   8   408    Talal Shakerchi   44650
4   9   409    Roberts Cowen   107975
5   1   501    Peter Singleton   23850
5   2   502    Dave Shallow   63200
5   3   503    Josef Grech   59475
5   4   504    Alan Dean   26625
5   5   505    Chris Sokrati   28550
5   6   506    Farbod Javad   49000
5   7   507    P Gardener   61100
5   8   508    Fabio Esposito   20375
5   9   509    Steven Zudithipunpare   47500
6   1   601    Ian Woodley   34375
6   2   602    Luke Trotman   20100
6   3   603    Michael Fletcher   96575
6   4   604    Johnathon Butters   37150
6   5   605    Efty Neocleous   28175
6   6   606    Graham Burt   34100
6   7   607    Colin Linton   29675
6   8   608    Andrew Cunningham-brown   67500
6   9   609    Simon Wickenden   71975
7   1   701    Lam Trinh   29075
7   2   702    Jason Powell   96575
7   3   703    Alex Martin   20400
7   4   704    Darren Grosvenor   46550
7   5   705    Paul Garrad   24800
7   6   706    Stuart Rutter   14300
7   7   707    John Fletcher   20350
7   8   708    Micheal Bolger   67550
7   9   709    Paul Murrell   24900
8   1   801    Robert Garfield   34675
8   2   802    Leon Campbell   34925
8   3   803    Liv Boeree   10000
8   4   804    W Deck   71850
8   5   805    Adam Clark   81725
8   6   806    Steve Jelinek   50050
8   7   807    Sasha Rosewood   17050
8   8   808    James Sudworth   37650

[danafish]

A number of incidents:

Two simultaneous boring A-K v A-K splits, one on Table Dubai, between Dubai himself and Mr Farbod Javad (below, in shades), and the other between Nik Persaud and Josh Tyler.

Dubai looks a bit short after allegedly being (allegedly) slow-rolled by Joe Grech who was holding A-2 for trips, but he isn't slowing down any. Saw him raise utg (says Woody Deck, now on his left - "Stop raising! Fish!") and again be called by Javad; they both checked the flop, and Dubai took it with a big ol' bet on the turn.

[danafish]

Adam Clark is OUT, the victim of some very poor luck by the sound of it. After starting the day in good shape, he lost half his chips with Queens v Kings, all in on a raggy flop. He then shoved with A-J to a raise and found himself called by the mighty 7-8 suited, which obviously hit. Unlucky, Adam.

[danafish]

Ian Holman, seems to have doubled up with Q-Q against A-Q on a Q-high flop. Ouch, that A-Q. I got to the table a bit late to 100% confirm, but I believe the unfortunate A-Q-er was Dave Colclough.

[danafish]

Also OUT is Lam Trinh - sorry Lambor.

I missed his exit, but his assassin, Paul Gardener, filled me in. Apparently Lam called a raise with in late position. They both checked the Q-9-4 flop, and then ended up all in on the turn, which was another Nine. Gardener was holding 9-T.

[JungleCat03]

Hows Dubai getting on? I am sure he will have had an early night last night and wont have been on the sauce

Dubai is looking a little the worse for wear and was recently involved in a bit of a dispute with Joe Grech. Apparently Joe took a while to call a large Dubai bet holding trip deuces, and Dubai was somewhat miffed at what he felt was a slowroll.

He soon perked up though, raising on the button on Chris Sokrati's big blind. Chris found 9-9 and decided this had to be good versus a Dubai raise on the button and shoved his chips in.

Sadly for him, Dubai had a genuine hand for once in A-A and once he insta-called, Chris couldn't spike the 9 he needed to remain in contention, meaning Soxy has joined the rail. "That's as much of a coldeck as Kings into Aces versus Dubai!" bemoaned Chris with some justification.


Tony Mackay is also one of the early casualties, and Dave Clarke adn blondeite Alex Martin are also early casualties. I'll try and ascertain some details of these hands in due course....


Jen is prospering though. She has just taken a healthy chunk in the region of 25k off Roberts Cowan, one of the overnight chip leaders.  With 6-6 on a 7-8-9-2-2 board, Jen called all the way, including what was perhaps the toughest call on the river, but her baconhair-fuelled bravery was rewarded as Cowans showed her Q-T for a missed straight draw, meaning Jen is now 65-70k and well in contention with the leaders.


The cowboy Dana has been fantasising about all morning, Wayne Rideout, has hightailed it off into the sunset, losing a crucial coinflip and a fistful of dollars to Karim  Louis somewhat brutally.

Holding A-Q vs Karim's 2-2, the flop was good for him, coming x-Q-x-, the turn x wasn't bad for him.....BUT the river 2 was as UGLY as it gets, meaning Karim had rivered a 2 out for a set cruelly ending "John" Wayne Rideout's tournament/

[JungleCat03]

Stuart Rutter, who has worked tirelessly to remove the indelible association he has with scarfs this week, by failing to be spotted in one all week, despite the cold and rain, is also sadly out.

He shoved on the button with A-K, only to find a hero caller with T-8 and the flop came Q-Q-5-5...T!

Another cruel river consigns one more player to the rail and Stuart looked a bit glum as I spoke to him about his exit. He's been a great laugh whilst he's been in the tournament though and we all know he'll be back soon...

[danafish]

I'm afraid that Paul Murrell is OUT, and no-one seems to know what happened. Perhaps if anyone speaks to him they can fill us in...

Also OUT is Efty Neocleous, who made a pretty 'Efty all-in raise with pocket Sixes and ran them into Karim Louis' pocket Kings. No Six on the board, although Efty remained vocally convinced it was coming until the very end, and he's gone now.


Similarly OUT is James Sudworth who tried it on with on a flop but got himself called by Robert Cowen's . The turn and river were and , so please insert your own Sudworth/suds/flushing joke here, and know that he is gone.

[danafish]

Nik Persaud has doubled up with A-J against Clive Layton's A-7, the board coming down Q-Q-6-3-9.

[JungleCat03]

Can you wish the chip leader good luck from me, I fully intend to nip him, although please leave out the latter part.

Well you may be able to nip her from the comfort of your shared abode, since Jen Mason has moved up toward the chip lead, with now over 100k! She has an odd maniacal devil-may-care look in her eye which suggests she could easily donk them all away OR destroy the tournament. We're all hoping it's the latter obviously but she's just started drinking some Dr Pepper...




Another blondite, in fact THE ONE-OFF ORIGINAL, Dave Colclough has prospered early today and was just seen re-raising to 14,600 on the button, following a raise to 4,600 from James Reid in the cut-off.

James thought for ages, needling Dave to get some information out of him, but the strong-willed, non-peroxide requiring Colclough refused to crack under the glaring lights of Reid's interrogation and ultimately Reid let go.

Dave flipped over a solitary as he re-stacked his newly acquired chips...


Julian Thew appears to have been relatively quiet in the early stages and is slowly going along without yo-yoing too much. I doubt this will last tooo long though. We know Julian likes to get involved and he'll be diving in soon I fancy...

[danafish]

Ian Holman has made his exit, moving all in on the river of a board. After much dwelling, James Reid calls.

Ian Holman -

James Reid - for a pretty awesome call.

Says tablemate Dave Colclough: "He plays pretty well, for a fish."