Bluesq.com GUKPT Brighton FINAL DAY: Interactive

[taximan007]

Good Luck To:



Thank you to Dana and J C for the quality coverage the past 3 days.

[Dingdell]

Yes - unlucky Jen - it was a breatholding game from this side - good luck to Julian. Looking forward to the updates.

[danafish]

Oh, and a special hello to my darling honey bunny, Dana. Kiss kiss. 

Oh the embarrassment

 

Hello beagle! Be back home tomorrow, or tonight if tikay is offering a lift as Jen hinted he might be capable of...

[GlasgowBandit]

Good tBest of luck to Hules and Marcus thats where my money has gone

[Longy]

Good luck to Julian and looking foward to the updates.

[JungleCat03]

Yes, indeed, Grosvenor have kindly provided us with a cordoned off area next to the final table which will facillitate the updates immensely.

They have introduced the players, who have already rescued their chips from their overnight plastic sleeping bags, and they are sitting there chatting merrily away as they eagerly wait for the start.

Here is how the table is laid out.

In Seat One..Michael Bolger.

Seat Two.....Karim Louis

Seat Three...Fabio Esposito

Seat Four....Joe Grech

Seat Five.....Jim Reid

Seat Six......Nik Persaud

Seat Seven..Julian Thew

Seat Eight...Roberts Cowen

Seat Nine...Marcu Bebb-Jones

[Dingdell]

Oh, and a special hello to my darling honey bunny, Dana. Kiss kiss. 

Oh the embarrassment

 

Hello beagle! Be back home tomorrow, or tonight if tikay is offering a lift as Jen hinted he might be capable of...

It's official - after knocking Dana out of the GUKPT last year they are eventually talking 

[snoopy1239]

Oh, and a special hello to my darling honey bunny, Dana. Kiss kiss. 

Oh the embarrassment

 

Hello beagle! Be back home tomorrow, or tonight if tikay is offering a lift as Jen hinted he might be capable of...

It's official - after knocking Dana out of the GUKPT last year they are eventually talking 

Oh, sorry, made a typo there, meant Dena. 

[Dingdell]

Oh, and a special hello to my darling honey bunny, Dana. Kiss kiss. 

Oh the embarrassment

 

Hello beagle! Be back home tomorrow, or tonight if tikay is offering a lift as Jen hinted he might be capable of...

It's official - after knocking Dana out of the GUKPT last year they are eventually talking 

Oh, sorry, made a typo there, meant Dena. 

Priceless!

[taximan007]

Yes, indeed, Grosvenor have kindly provided us with a cordoned off area next to the final table which will facillitate the updates immensely.

They have introduced the players, who have already rescued their chips from their overnight plastic sleeping bags, and they are sitting there chatting merrily away as they eagerly wait for the start.

Here is how the table is laid out.

In Seat One..Michael Bolger.

Seat Two.....Karim Louis

Seat Three...Fabio Esposito

Seat Four....Joe Grech

Seat Five.....Jim Reid

Seat Six......Nik Persaud

Seat Seven..Julian Thew

Seat Eight...Roberts Cowen

Seat Nine...Marcu Bebb-Jones

Would be great if other tournaments were able to follow Grosvenor in accommodating the updaters so well for the FT coverage (if they don't already).

Well done to Jon Rabb and Grosvenor 

[danafish]

Seat 1: Michael Bolger

Michael is a professional poker player and spread better. He mainly playing the big cash games down at the Vic with the likes of Neil Channing et al, although he is also involved in spread betting - "I can lose money at any given game," he laughs. In fact it was watching them play big events like this one that first got him into tournament poker - "I though, if those muppets can do it, so can I," he says jovially. His biggest live result so far was the €800 event at the 2006 Irish Open, which he chopped with Ian Woodley and a few others, and although he wins online (mainly on the Ladbrokes site), he's never won over $10k and this could well be his biggest ever cash.

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[danafish]

Seat 2: Karim Louis

Karim only started playing poker two years ago after spending some time "just being into the roulette". He learned to play on the internet and progressed to live poker, often playing tournaments at the Vic and the Sportsman. He has only played one GUKPT before - it was Brighton this time last year, when he came 18th, and thought he'd come back to see if he could improve on that result.

[danafish]

Seat 3: Fabio Esposito

Fabio has a full-time management job in local government and spends his weekends being a part-time lone parent so he doesn't have that much time for big tournaments, but he likes to play them when time permits. He played two GUKPTs and an EPT last year - no results, but he made Day 2 down here in Brighton. Day 3 now! No word on whether he has a water bed, for our readers who were enquiring yesterday.

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[JungleCat03]

And we're off!

First hand, Jim Reid raises to 30k from UTG+1. Roberts Cowen reraises an enticing 20k to 50k....ACTION FIRST HAND!

Everyone else passes...

Jim Reid calls the extra 20k.

The players see a flop of .

Jim checks and Roberts now moves in for his last 70 or 80k...

Jim instantly calls him with an unbeleivable 4-4 for quads! First hand!

Roberts looks understnadably dejected as he shows Q-Q and a 3 on the turn leaves him drawing dead, meaning .......

Roberts Cowen is OUT, elminated in 9th Place for £5,600

[danafish]

Seat 4: Joe Grech

Joe Grech is one of the most successful long-term festival players in the UK. A regular on the scene, he is a consistent winner who never surprises when he reaches a final table.

Joe has adapted his game over the years to one that is more aggressive, particularly early on, and is prepared to gamble to get a chip stack from which he can apply pressure. This was a conscious decision borne of deep thought into the changing nature of festival fields and the skills required to remain a winner. Most recently Joe final tabled in the inaugural GUKPT event in Bolton. In 2006 he hit over a dozen final tables including winning the February 2006 Broadway festival Main Event outright after a titanic heads-up struggle with Paul Jackson. However Joes biggest career result was achieved in April 2005 when he finished second in the WPT Five Star World Poker Classic at the Bellagio.

An absolute chip monster through almost all of Day 2, it would have taken a miracle to keep him off the final table.