Bluesq.com GUKPT Walsall: Day 1A - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

Guests, I know it is late, but please remember...

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[Bongo]

I just watched a few hands on Ariston's table and the following hand came up on Russ' bug blind...

Matey boy says "raise", "not too much" pleads Ariston and he's given a fairly standard 3xBB raise to 3000.

It's passed round to Ariston who calls fairly quickly and checks in the dark as the dealer spreads:
 

Matey boy bets out another 3000 and responds with a raise to 12000.


After a lengthy dwell matey boy passes, but both show their cards and Ariston has top set with pocket , matey boy shows QQ - good pass!

[NoflopsHomer]

Very slow now, Mad Turk passing Sevens and a 3,550 raise to a re-raise to 11,500 from Niall Charlton who reciprocated by showing Queens.

Mick Fletcher, after a quiet day, (a regular day can involve him having 50,000 by level 2 and being out by level 4) has slowly been building up his stack due to some impressive grinding. Matt Tyler and Ariston are also going well. Everyone is playing pretty cagily though.

[Bongo]

Alan Vinson is out!

His push with KQo was met with a push behind him from Maurice McCarthy with pocket .

The board was
 

[NoflopsHomer]

Luke Patten has knocked out Craig Burgess, vs . Crucial bullet hitting the flop, prompting a flurry of good-natured handshakes and good-luck wishes from the exiteer.

[Bongo]

Another exit now, there was a raise and a call preflop before Mad Turk pushed all in, he found a willing caller in the Tetris-styled hoody wearer John Heath.

Heath's As was in bad shape against the Turk's rockets.

The first card out however was a Q, raising the spectre of a grizzly out law, but the rest of the board was blanks - ending up as Q 4 7 2 10 - and the Mad Turk gets a healthy boost to his stack while Heath heads to the rail!

[NoflopsHomer]

Hmmm, bit of a controversial one here.

Jim Morgan has raised from what looks to be the cutoff, and it's passed to Maurice McCarthy who moves all-in. Jim says he doesn't think he can pass. Maurice keeps telling him to pass, "Fold" "You're behind" etc...Jim says, "I'm only behind to two hands", Maurice replies, "Then you should fold" and "I'm going to show you." Jim passes his Queens, Maurice shows Kings but it felt like they were both giving away their hands there.

Someone could have argued for possible collusion here, but then I'm told by someone else Maurice has done this in a cash game only to show 7-3off or some such filth for a £1,000 pot or so...

[NoflopsHomer]

And just before the end of play Womble doubles through Matt Tyler with Nines against King Queen, Matt flopped a King only for Womble to river a Nine.

Matt, "I'd rather not have hit."

Play has now finished for the day. We'll be restarting once more tomorrow at 3pm. See you then.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip Counts courtesy of Blue Square:

2   1    G Stafford   15500
2   2    Matt Tyler   43975
2   3    Mark Segal   24025
2   4    P Charalambous   23125
2   5    K Bullock   16525
2   6    Russ Cawley   50175
2   7    Stephen Walmsley   20850
2   8    Andrew Clarke   24250
2   9    Michael Fletcher   40900
2   10    Ray Wyre   33250
3   1    James Morgan   47075
3   2    Malcolm Mckinlay   71325
3   3    Niall Charlton   68375
3   4    Luke Vinnicombe   19075
3   5    Scott Edwards   19700
3   6    Ky Hutchinson   36775
3   7    Andrew Probyn   27625
3   8    David Tighe   67325
3   9    Yucel Eminoglu   112800
5   1    Maurice McCarthy   51275
5   2    Terence Owens   63800
5   3    Luke Patten   45000
5   4    Surinder Sunar   61275
5   5    Jeff Kimber   84600
5   6    Tony Ringe   11125
5   7    Ben Callinan   14800
5   8    Richard Teatum   75400
5   9    Paul Ruddy   4150
5   10    James Browning   27925

Edit - Surindar Sunar is obviously OUT. I'll find out who the other stack is tomorrow.

[JungleCat03]

Great stuff floppy and bongo. Looking forward to day 2 when Ms Mason will be making an appearance.

It's great to see the irrepressible Matt Tyler bang in the thick of things. I imagine he was being his usual quiet, shy, reserved self no doubt! 

Also good to see the Jaffa leading the pack at the moment. It's always evident when you discuss poker with Jeff he has a really profound understanding of the game and it's a real pleasure talking strategy with him.

If he runs half good when he comes back for Day 2, he's going to take some stopping and should he make it through to heads up, well...I know he hates people mentioning it but he is the World Heads Up champ you know.

What do you mean, he's already told you??

Who'd've thunk it??!!!

GL both you guys and Jen tomoz.

[JaffaCake]

Chip Counts courtesy of Blue Square:

2   1    G Stafford   15500
2   2    Matt Tyler   43975
2   3    Mark Segal   24025
2   4    P Charalambous   23125
2   5    K Bullock   16525
2   6    Russ Cawley   50175
2   7    Stephen Walmsley   20850
2   8    Andrew Clarke   24250
2   9    Michael Fletcher   40900
2   10    Ray Wyre   33250
3   1    James Morgan   47075
3   2    Malcolm Mckinlay   71325
3   3    Niall Charlton   68375
3   4    Luke Vinnicombe   19075
3   5    Scott Edwards   19700
3   6    Ky Hutchinson   36775
3   7    Andrew Probyn   27625
3   8    David Tighe   67325
3   9    Yucel Eminoglu   112800
5   1    Maurice McCarthy   51275
5   2    Terence Owens   63800
5   3    Luke Patten   45000
5   4    Surinder Sunar   61275
5   5    Jeff Kimber   84600
5   6    Tony Ringe   11125
5   7    Ben Callinan   14800
5   8    Richard Teatum   75400
5   9    Paul Ruddy   4150
5   10    James Browning   27925

Edit - Surindar Sunar is obviously OUT. I'll find out who the other stack is tomorrow.

That's Simon Zach beside me not Surindar...just caught up on the updates, great work Snoops. And yes Karl, I am indeed alright over there...as is your 10%...sigh

[ariston]

simon does look a lot like surinder though so an easy mistake to make

no contraversy on the maurice v jimmy hand. I have been present many times when maurice goes into "your beat"mode and he often turns over absolute junk then laughs and points at you. A couple of hands after that he raises my big blind the standard 7 x the bb and I look down to see jacks. This time he hardly says a word and I have to question him, he is still quiet. I eventually fold them as I hadnt played all day to go out with them damn hooks (my only option was push/fold v maurice having position). He had AK so I was happy with that.

Of the blackpool boys who came down we got a good few through but were let down by the salad so we didn't get a full compliment through- that boy will never win anything I swear

[MadTurk]

a quick question  since when jonathan raab became poker expert to comment on how player will progress? for him to offer 11/10 for me not to make second day while i was chip leader was abit comical  but   ever1 have their opinions i respect

[NoflopsHomer]

a quick question  since when jonathan raab became poker expert to comment on how player will progress? for him to offer 11/10 for me not to make second day while i was chip leader was abit comical  but   ever1 have their opinions i respect

I'm not sure he was serious.