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

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Mickey Wernick is OUT.

Crippled with failing to crack , he then shoved all-in but Matt Tyler flopped a flush with and Mickey was forced to just muck his cards.



Ali Zihni is OUT.

Simon Zach, "Our table is so tranquil and quiet, then every thirty minutes or so, BANG! Someone is out."

[Bongo]

News has just reached me that Dave Colclough is out!

He held 97 on a 9 2 2 board, but his opponent had him trumped with a K 2 to send him to the rail!

[NoflopsHomer]

41 players remain with nearly a level and a half to go. Jon Raab is currently rallying the bald players, who make up almost 30% of the remaining field, though they are tending to suffer in the chip:hair ratio stakes.

[Bongo]

Stuart Langford is out.

The board was K 3 4 5 7 and had been checked down from flop to river where his opponent, Simon Zacharias, set him in.

A bit of talking later and all of Langford's chips are in the pot with K9.

Zach shows A6 for the straight.

I'm left wondering why Langford didn't bet his king earlier!

[NoflopsHomer]

Womble -- 9k
Simon Zach -- 68k

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Andrew Probyn just flopped a set of nines to bust Darren Pearce.

Mad Turk shouts, "Hey Blondie!" before vigourously pointing to a big hand being played on his table between Niall Charlton and Ky Hutchinson, Hutchinson bets  a big 6k on the river of the board, where Charlton makes a good call with as Ky can only show .

Ben Callinan flat-calls a raise in early position before pushing for barely double his opponents' bet on the board. Sensing the strength of the push, the OR decides discretion is the better part of valour...

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And the last level of the night begins, straight away Matt Tyler attempts to get everyone to fold on his big blind, it's passed to the small blind who shows and Matt gets his walk...



Now if he can just get them to do that everytime...

[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
 

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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!

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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...

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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.

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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.