Bluesq.com GUKPT Walsall: Day 1A - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Welcome to latest GUKPT update straight from Walsall, where last year Jerome Bradpiece took home the trophy. Can he repeat the feat this year or will we be crowning a new champion? One person it won't be, is Julian Thew, who is taking a break this week (the poker community breathes a sigh of relief...), however all the usual suspects should be here, so let us know on the interactive thread if there's someone you want us to follow.

Guest updating today will be Bongo, whilst Chili will be helping me out from tomorrow onwards.

Tournament begins at 3pm.

[NoflopsHomer]

It looks as though there will be around 118 runners today. Is it natural for there to be less than last year? Has the lack of TV coverage affected to numbers? Or is it just that most of the players want to spend a bit more quality time with their better halves on Valentines Day?

[Bongo]

 

The tournament still hasn't started, but hopefully will be underway soon.

Floppy is in a rather odd mood today and keeps asking me "How'd it get burned?"

[Bongo]

And they're off!

[NoflopsHomer]

Over on table 6, there's a pot as the gentleman to Nick Slade's left checks to Ali Mallu who checks behind on a board. Ali shows his for a rivered straight, but was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind to the straight-flush. Although he only won a small pot, he got some consolation, a bear hug from Nick Slade for his river check

Ian Woodley bets 1,100 on the turn of a board, his opponent mucks, leaving Ian muttering, "Fackinhell..." I'm guessing he felt he bet too much,.

Finally at this juncture, unopened pot on Ariston's table. One player opens for 2,000. Gets no callers. I can't confirm that he showed Jacks and declared, "I only ever seem to lose a big pot with these..."

[Bongo]

As I arrived in the arena I saw the end of a hand between matey boy and matey girl, both holding baby aces on the A high flop. Matey boy being the victor of a rather meaty looking pot.

Another matey boy moment, this time with 5 of them!  

An UTG limp was raised to 250 by the Hijack. The button started a string of calls as the SB, BB and original limp all called.

The flop came
 

Quickly checked round to the raiser who slid a lone 500 chip into the pot. The SB was the lone caller and the 2 mateys saw the   on the turn.

A quick check from the SB saw matey boy in the hijack bet out 1000, again a single chip.

After a brief thought the SB calls and the river is black... but the doesn't complete the possible flush draw.

A quick check from the SB sees 2 chips being slid in from the hijack - a 1000 and a 500.

The SB dwells up and passes, a bit of an anti climax but a decent boost to the stack of matey boy in the hijack!

[Bongo]

I just caught the exit hand of Alan Vinnicombe, arriving at the table just as they were counting down the stacks!

Vinnicombe had flopped the straight on a 10 high flop, all the chips were in on the river which made his opponent Andy O'Flaherty holding  a runner, runner full house.

All In Vin is all out...

[NoflopsHomer]

And we've lost another, in fact this guy, Phil Green went out before Alan Vinnicombe.

All the money went in on the flop of against Adam Clark who held against err Green's . The turn = sealageaments.

Speaking of 'aments', Jon Raab has just had a long moan about the use of adding 'aments' to everything these days. He compared this to Watergate and how people are lazy in adding the little suffix to everything.

LOL Rantaments.

[NoflopsHomer]

1   1    Tim Slater
1   2    Mark Jones
1   3    Anthony Quinn
1   4    Darren Pearce
1   5    Russ Cawley
1   6    Stuart Langford
1   7    Jamie Fowles
1   8    Stephen Slavin
1   9    Alan Vinson
1   10    Lynne Beaumont
2   1    G Stafford
2   2    Richard Simmonds
2   3    A Patel
2   4    K Bullock
2   5    Scott Edwards
2   6    Andrew Booth
2   7    Dale Chambers
2   8    Andrew Clarke
2   9    Dave Colclough
2   10   Singleton Peter
3   1    David Rudling
3   2    Malcolm Mckinlay
3   3    Niall Charlton
3   4    Chris Wright
3   5    Martyn Robinson
3   6    Zaheer Zeb
3   7    Ky Hutchinson
3   8    Gareth Teatum
3   9    J Moult     
3   10   Mohammed Shafiq
4   1    Dereck Barnes
4   2    Essy Jahanpour
4   3    David Penly
4   4    Jeffery Duvall
4   5    Matt Tyler
4   6    Majid Damavandy
4   7    J Buffenbarger
4   8    Luke Patten
4   9    Craig Tarmey   
4   10   David Tighe
5   1    Rob Ellis
5   2    Ben Callinan
5   3    Karl Mahrenholz
5   4    Adam Clark
5   5    Reyaaz Mulla
5   6    Carl Barrera
5   7    Robert Garfield
5   8    Richard Teatum
5   9    James Nicholson
5   10   Phil Green
6   1    Ali Mallu
6   2    Paul Ruddy
6   3    Norman Levitt
6   4    Nick Slade
6   5    M Choudhary
6   6    Mark Forrester
6   7    Ali Zihni
6   8    Albert Sapiano
6   10    Martin Fogg
7   1    P Charalambous
7   2    Matt Mckinlay
7   3    Andrew Johnson
7   4    Ved Madan
7   5    Paul Marvin
7   6    Nick Bowers
7   7    Sebastian Saffari
7   8    L Smart
7   9    Des Jonas
8   1    John Shipley
8   2    Rumit Somaiya
8   3    Maurice McCarthy
8   4    Michael Fletcher
8   5    Andrew Probyn
8   6    Paul Jackson
8   7    James Morgan
8   8    Ben Middleton
8   9    Andrew Gwynne
9   1    Paul Gourlay
9   2    Mark Segal
9   3    Jonathan Kalmar
9   4    Barry Grime
9   5    Craig Burgess
9   7    Mick Wernick
9   8    Mark Whitley
9   9    Stephen Nash
10   1    Terence Owens
10   2    Thomas Naylor
10   3    Luke Vinnicombe
10   4    Simon Zacharias
10   5    Stephen Walmsley
10   6    David Smith
10   7    Robert Rees
10   8    Dominic Kay
10   9    Kyriacos Dionysiou
11   1    Yucel Eminoglu
11   2    Jeff Kimber
11   3    Ben Reynolds
11   4    Surinder Sunar
11   5    Kuljinder Sidhu
11   6    Danny Antoniazzi
11   7    Jehan Zaib
11   8    Dave Powell
11   9    Tony Ringe
12   1    Ian Woodley
12   2    Trevor Pearson
12   3    James Metcalfe
12   4    James Keys
12   5    Ray Wire
12   7    Gemal Husnu
12   8    Kenny Burke
12   9    Adam Wilkinson
13   1    Andrew Oflaherty
13   2    James Ballantyne
13   3    James Reid
13   4    John Heath
13   5    Rebecca Leach
13   6    Chris Johnson
13   7    Alan Vinncombe
13   8    Leon Ferry
13   9    James Browning

[Bongo]

I just caught a hand between Barry Grime on the button and Craig Burgess in the SB.

I arrived to see the flop action with a bet by BG of 700 into a pot that was slightly bigger.

The board read:
 

The turn was  and both players checked.

The river was met with a bet of 700 from CB, which was called after a small dwell.

Burgess tabled pocket kings and took down the pot.

[Bongo]

Another hand I just caught the tail end of now, arriving at the table the board read:
 

The pot was rather meaty, I counted it to be a touch over 6000 chips and Kenny Burke had made a bet of 3000.

Gemal Husnu was in the tank, and eventually passed showing  .

Burkes offers to show his hand, but Husnu declares he'd rather not see it and leaves the table to gather his thoughts. His stack looks to have lowered to around the 5000 chip mark.

In less interesting news they have no broken up table 4.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ian Woodley bets 800 on a board, Ray Wyre makes it 1,700 and then explains to Woodley that he 'knows' the latter doesn't have a King.

Woodley is non-plussed.

He then says, "Fackinghell, you're a facking genius ain't you? You're the best player I've ever played against..." He then folds the face up.

Shaf is OUT. Damn right.

[Bongo]

I just caught the end of Thomas Naylor at the hands of Robert Rees.

Naylor's last chips going into the pot on the river with the A on the board matching the A in the A9 he held.

Rees however had made 2 pair with his Q5 and the pot was shipped to him.

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul Jackson was just bluffed out of a pot when Ben Middleton bet 500 on a flop and then 1200 on the turn. Ben showed after Maurice McCarthy convinced him to. Don't like showing this, I'd hate to reveal for free that I'm capable of firing the second bullet...

[Bongo]

I just arrived at table 11 just in time to see mad turk slide in a huge stack of 1000s in response to a bet of 1600. In total there must have been at least 15 of them, "I've learnt my lesson, no more free cards!".

The flop read:
 

Matey boy went into a big dwell, the raise covers his entire stack of 7000 chips, and turk starts talking, listing possible hands including flush draws, straight draws and air at one point he even asked me if I'd call with matey boy's hand (assumed to be KJ).

I said I'd definitely call and we both agreed that is probably why I'm not playing...

Eventually Turk calls for the clock and with mere seconds to spare matey boy calls.

On their backs and Turk has pocket kings v matey boys .

Turn and river are both queens and matey boy is eliminated.