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

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, we've just been across to Chiquitos for dinner, players are just coming back with play restarting in about five minutes or so, with the bubble approaching...

[Chili]

We have kicked off Level 14 1,500/3,000 (200) and 31 left.  Here are the counts and players up to the dinner break:

2   1    Joseph Koumi         94,300
2   2    Trevor Reardon    56,600
2   3    Pete Linton    83,000
2   4    Tim Blake    122,900
2   6    Michael Mccool    57,300
2   7    Paul Mcintyre    70,500
2   8    Simon Zacharias    29,200
2   9    Scott Edwards    70,800
3   1    Michael Fletcher    134,000
3   2    Nikhil Persaud    143,300
3   3    Luke Patten    70,900
3   4    Malcolm Mckinlay    59,900
3   5    James Morgan    57,000
3   7    Aaron Berry    200,200
3   8    Ray Wyre    55,400
3   9    Jamie Gubb    28,200
5   1    Graham Clarkson    167,900
5   2    Craig Metcalf    94,500
5   3    Terence Owens    68,500
5   4    Maurice McCarthy    86,100
5   5    Niall Charlton    51,900
5   6    Charles Denton    68,100
5   7    Asy Ho    18,200
5   9    Andrew Psaras    178,900
6   1    Neil Channing    58,200
6   2    Andrew Woods    100,050
6   3    Rupert Elder    46,000
6   5    P Charalambous    161,600
6   6    Dharminder Buttar    182,100
6   7    Jeff Kimber    259,000
6   8    Stephen Walmsley    24,300

[NoflopsHomer]

Simon Zach is OUT. He raised from the cut-off and Scott Edwards set him all-in from the small blind, Zach quickly calling and showing pocket Kings, whilst Edwards showed Ace Queen.

Board:



Simon sat in a stunned silence for a moment having lost such a big pot as the chips were sent over to his opponent, before he realised what had happened and shock hands with his conqueror and wished the table good luck.



Luke Patten raises to 10k, Ray Wyre calls from the big blind.



Ray bets 11k and Luke immediately moves in. Ray wears a sheepish looking grin on his face, and straight away, you know he's not going to be calling, and then true enough, he passes.

[Chili]

It's officially bubble time

Asy Ho was just knocked out by Charles Denton in SB BB action.  Asy was ahead with A4 but Charles's JQ pipped him with a Q on the flop.  28 left!

[NoflopsHomer]

James Morgan is OUT. But he's not the bubble! In a major bugger-up, they've miscounted the players left and just broken one table only to have to move all the original players back. So we're still hand for hand. Fortunately, no hands were played before it was realised that there were 28 left, but whoever goes out now is going to be extra gutted.

 

James Morgan's hand incidentally was vs Nik Persaud's with a major sweat for the Londoner against the Scouser as the board came down .

Nik Persaud is on 225k now and not too far behind Jeff Kimber.

[NoflopsHomer]

Womble has doubled up his meagre 11k stack against Pete Charalambous with A-9 against A-7. Charlambous hit his 7 but Womble four-flushed with the on the turn, to go from lol shrapnelments to lol shoveaments.

[Chili]

Well that wasn't too long a bubble - this time it HAS burst.

Graham Clarkson raised to 11k from late position, on to Maurice McCarthy in the blinds who reraised to 40k.  Clarkson said all in (150k stack), McCarthy said call quicksmart.  At this crucial stage:

Maurice McCarthy 
Graham Clarkson   

No help for Maurice McCarthy on the board, just a 9 on the river instead to compound his position as official bubble boy.

Here is what the last 27 are now playing for:

1st -- £83,910
2nd -- £48,790
3rd -- £35,160
4th -- £23,680
5th -- £17,940
6th -- £14,350
7th -- £11,480
8th -- £8,610
9th -- £6,460
10th -- £4,300
11th to 13th -- £2,870
14th to 18th -- £2,150
19th to 27th -- £1,440

[NoflopsHomer]

Worse news for Maurice McCarthy, as he was leaving the casino, he just had his car driven into...

Exit time. Ray Wyre was out in 27th when his A-8 lost to Womble's 6-6.

Rupert Elder went out in 26th, Jeff Kimber had raised I believe, with Ace Queen, Rupert pushed with Eights, and Scott Edwards pushed  behind with Aces. A board later and Rupert was heading for the rail.

[Chili]

Tim Blake doubles and a bit more in a 3 way pot.  Pete Linton makes a raise preflop, Tim calls & so does Scott Edwards in the big blind.  The flop comes:

 

Pete makes a continuation bet of 18.5k, next door Tim Blake goes all in for a further 79,000.  Scott just makes the call and Pete gets out the way, on their backs:

Tim Blake   
Scott Edwards   

Turn:   
River: 

Nice pot to Tim (200k) and it just goes to show what happens when you don't reraise and see a 3 way pot with AK!

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul McIntyre was all-in with vs Mick McCool's on a board, but with the turn and river coming and , he departs in 25th place.

Just after that, Womble was all-in with Eights against Luke Patten's Jacks. No help on the board, and Womble is out too. 23 remain.

[Chili]

Luke Pattern has had a rollercoaster last level.  He went down to about 20k after a race with 5's against KQ, then built up with a few timely all ins to around 70,000.  Then he raised preflop with 99 only to be reraised all in by Mick Fletcher, Luke made the call and equal in chips Fletcher turned over AJ.

The board came sadly for Luke with a J on it but then utter joy with a 9 on the river!  So Mick Fletcher is OUT and Luke now on around 140,000.

[NoflopsHomer]

On a board, Scott Edwards bets 18k, Tim Blake check/raises to 40k and Scott moves in for 27k, Tim is forced to call the rest to find his behind Scott's . The board bricks out and Scott doubles up.



Over on the other table, Graham Clarkson is facing a dilemma, he's raised it up and Charles Denton has moved all-in. Graham assumes the 'agonized' position that poker players tend to have when they think they're behind but know they probably have to call. It's the last hand before the break though so Graham has as much time as he wants whilst some of the more disinterested players float away to the oasis that is the bar area. Graham makes the call with whilst Charles shows

The first card out is the , and a Charlie-fan pumps his fist, the comes next giving the Scot a glimmer of hope, which the adds to. The blank dashes all hope though and Denton doubles up.

[Chili]

Neil Channing pushed all in for about 60,000 in middle position, he was insta called by Peter Charalambos hiding in the big blind with  .  Clearly Neil wished he just was able to pick up the blinds and ante's as his  was in trouble.  He nearly made it too with a board of:

 

but Neil Channing is OUT in 22nd place and Peter has a much nicer 140k stack.

[Chili]

A few minutes before Neil Channings exit:

2   1    Joseph Koumi         129,700
2   2    Trevor Reardon    43,000
2   3    Pete Linton    130,000
2   4    Tim Blake    126,900
2   5    Jeff Kimber    113,100
2   6    Michael Mccool    99,400
2   7    Craig Metcalf    87,500
2   8    Scott Edwards    165,600
3   2    Nikhil Persaud    254,400
3   3    Luke Patten    168,600
3   4    Malcolm Mckinlay    87,100
3   5    Andrew Woods    76,000
3   6    Dharminder Buttar    187,800
3   7    Aaron Berry    188,800
3   8    Jamie Gubb    78,300
5   1    Graham Clarkson    169,000
5   2    Terence Owens    109,300
5   3    P Charalambous    88,600
5   4    Niall Charlton    52,700
5   5    Charles Denton    170,100
5   6    Neil Channing    65,100
5   7    Andrew Psaras    196,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Big Trevor Reardon is OUT.

He ran one gauntlet with his against Charles Denton's to double up once, but a few hands later he raised with and Graham Clarkson set him in with

Board:

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