BlueSquare.com London GUKPT: Day 1A - At A Glance

[danafish]

Jen has been on a bit of a rollercoaster ride, which must be uncomfortable as she also seems to be getting stuck into the free wine...

Apparently Sami Yusuf, directly to her left, check-raised a J-6-5 flop - apparently the third time he'd tried it on, so Jen put him in and he never came out again. She then promptly lost all her profit from that hand, mis-timed-ly bluffing Justin Kean, but then made it all flopping a set of Threes a hand or two later. She's currently on an almost-exactly average 11-point-some k.

[danafish]

Nicolas Levi seems to have doubled up his mid-stack to around the average level, possibly owing to the loving ministrations of the massage lady.

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Marcus Bebb-Jones has eliminated Newcastle Champ Maz Nawab in a Sheffield versus Birmingham encounter (hostile reaction for Steve Bruce). Marcus raised it up under the gun with Jacks and was called in four places, one of whom was Maz. Marcus led out for 1,875 on a Ten high Flop with two spades, only for Maz to push all-in for an extra 2,900. Marcus duly called and was relieved to see Maz holding T-5, which subsequently failed to improve come the raggy Turn and River. Back up tut motorway for Maz.

[snoopy1239]

Kevin O'Leary is down to 5,650 and was keen to inform his fanbase that he ran Aces into Fours, the latter of which made a flush on the Turn.

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For those viewers with eagle eyes, you may have noticed that although most of the tables here boast beige felts, there is one that remains a traditional blue. This ugly duckling of the table world currently holds the following crop of misfits:

Anthony Roux -- 6375
Bardi Rajah -- 18,100
John Gale -- 12,000
Dave Ulliott -- 19,950
Mark Segal -- 13,550
Ned Flanders -- 11,500
Ian Woodley -- 10,525
Mark Russell -- 4,100
Helge Stjernvang -- 23,325

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John Eames has doubled up to 16,000 with Tens v A-K.

[danafish]

Ian Woodley bets an x-Q-A-A-x board, and Devilfish passes. Says Woodley to the Fish, "At it again?"

[JungleCat03]

Meanwhile, Dana and Snoopy were blissfully unaware of me having to backstroke my way from table to table upstairs and were busy beavering away in the pressroom, sporting their spanking new, sparkly and thoroughly DRY William Hill / Blondepoker accessories. Don't they look fetching...




Another shot. I captured the exact moment Dana was sadly experiencing a severe brain haemorrhage. Ever the fighter though, she is going down battling, managing to offer a 2 finger salute to the camera before collapsing. What spirit!

[danafish]

Ariel Adda is OUT. John Duthie is also using his Pokerstars glove to help him lift wine to his face in the bar, suggesting that he is also OUT.

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Leon Campbell has just used up his first lifeline, his all-in with Sixes for 3,200 being snap-called by Kings, before a Q-6-4-3-7 board gave the former a much needed double up. Coat back off, apology made, game on!

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Richard Gryko is sliding down hill quicker than a lubricated bobsleigh, his chip stack dropping to circa 3.5k after calling an all-in from Zaheer Zeb (5k into 10k pot) on a board of . Zeb proudly fronted his to lap up the pot.

[danafish]

Tony Ringe has dropped down to 4k somehow. Doesn't seem terribly sad about it though. More gently disapproving.

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Alex Martin is now biting the dust of the rail, his tournament life on the line when he moved all-in for 4,075. He looked as guilty as a pig in the queue of a hotdog stand, but when he turned over his cards, he had the goods in . Unfortunately, Kai Paulsen had better goods, his leaving Alex in all sorts of bother. An Ace on the Flop pretty much sealed the deal, and Alex was left to exit stage left.

[danafish]

Indeed the rail is alive with the sound of bad beat stories. Among the no-longer-runnings is Mr Jerome Oshea, who called all in on an with ; however sole apparent backward chair sitter Joel Ettedgi had and went on to make a full house with the river.

[JungleCat03]

They're dropping like flies....well dead flies anyway. Live flies would surely be...well flying? Never really understood that expression.

OH SORRY, I'm waffling again.

On with the poker.

Luke Patten has bitten the dust....being relatively short he found it easy to get his remaining chips in the middle with A-K and found himself called and flipping against the 7-7 of Kevin Allen. A flop of 4-9-5 was of little use and the decisive 7 on the turn sealed the pot in Allen's favour, meaning despite all his "nitting", patten is out. Ok contrived pun I agree. NEXT.


Some random counts...

Jen Mason - 10k
Leo Kam - 18k
Willie Tann 10k
Barney Boatman 14k
Manuel Palanca 7.5k
Josh Tyler -18k

[danafish]

Nicolas Levi is back down to 6.5k, although he claims to have at one point he reached the heady heights of 24k. I understand they mainly went the way of Peter Charalambous - I don't really know what he was saying to me, sounded like he was saying something about cheese, but he was grinning and making the universal sign of sweeping other people's chips into one's stack, so I'm guessing that's what happened.

Also looking a bit shorter than formerly is Julian Thew, down to less than 4k, yikes.

Marc Goodwin - 10k
Mickey Wernick - 20k

Marcus Bebb-Jones - 15k

[danafish]

Martin Bader has doubled up. Eoin Kennedy bet 3k on a flop and Bader shoved for another 6.5k. Kennedy called with I think QJ. Bader - - which tuens into a house on the turn, river.

[danafish]

Richard Gryko is OUT, suspicions aroused by seeing him walking down the stairs in the direction of OUT, and confirmed by John Raab saying, "By the way, Richrd Gryko is OUT."

[danafish]

Chip counts at the end of level 4, courtesy of those fine people at Blue Square:

Richie Allen   40825
Torstein Iversen   33350
Knut Russtad   32425
Joseph Grech   31175
Adam Vinson   30625
Nick Holbrook   30450
Steve Townsend   30325
M Patel   27775
Nick Gibson   27350
Leo Kam   26750
John Gardner   26500
Tim Flanders   24300
Jeremy Longley   23025
F Meoni   22000
Kevin Chandler   21400
Wilson Chan   21350
Priyan De Mel   21250
Joshua Tyler   21125
James Sudworth   20450
Mickey Wernick   20275
Stuart Prior   20100
Bran Lenton   19900
Charalambous Xanthos   19825
Jeff Buffenbarger   19775
Chris Bjorin   19575
Talal Shakerchi   19525
John Conroy   19450
Justin Kean   19250
Graham Wheldon   18975
John Eames   18800
David Ulliott   18625
John Falconer   18575
Jarl Klaebo   18550
Mark Segal   18425
Edward Cahill   18400
Josh Gould   18150
Rory Liffey   18025
Darren Pearce   17900
Jamil Ogunmakinwa   17750
Matteo   17625
John Gale   17625
Andy Greekfish   17250
Scott Chaudhry   16950
Cicelli Necmettin   16925
Vegard Nygaard   16350
Andy Slater   16300
D Anderson   16125
Jeffrey Rogers   15925
Bernd Alexander   15900
Marcus Bebb-Jones   15900
Joel Ettedgi   15850
Mike Fisher   15800
Thomas Dunwoodie   15800
Louis Schwartz   15500
Ian Woodley   15350
David Smith   15350
Howard Smith   15250
Kai Paulsen   15200
G Wilson   15200
Lee Squire   15100
Alex Clark   14900
Barney Boatman   14850
Julien Leonard   14700
Peter Maier   14500
C Chapman   14125
William Martin   14000
Raymond Nicholas   13975
Alec Foster   13850
Mike Chivers   13825
Terry Simpson   13725
Jaan Fiddian   13450
Peter Charalambous   13275
Dave Gregory   13250
Ashley Gorman   13100
Jonathan Gotts   13100
Anthony Quinn   13000
Brian Johnson   12825
Arkady Kielman   12800
Kevin Oleary   12500
Bardi Rajah   12450
Leslie Kerrigan   12200
Piers Whyman   12175
Lee Clarke   12100
S Wan   12050
Manuel Palanca   11775
Fraser Dunphy   11500
Neil Mcculloch   11430
Eoin Kennedy   11400
James Keys   11350
Jenifer Mason   11225
Malek Naser   11100
Inil Abraham   11000
Helge Stjernvang   10925
Zaheer Zeb   10800
Ian Cox   10725
Dominic Kay   10250
J Wray   10125
Nick Persaud   10000
Nathan Lee   9850
R Lee   9800
James Honeybone   9800
Colin Kennedy   9775
Willie Tann   9700
Paul Mendes   9500
Najam Qureshi   9425
Niall Charlton   9375
David Evans   9250
D Lee   9050
Jim Dunsford   9050
Stephen Holden   9025
Darren Fuller   8800
James Akenhead   8650
Michael Bale   8600
Marius Arnesen   8575
Peter Gould   8475
Andy Achillea   8300
Jack Powell   7975
Zack Chesses   7950
Marc Goodwin   7875
Richard Gryko   7800
Rory Campbell   7800
Martin Bader   7650
Paul Alterman   7550
S Nikkhah   7550
Nicolas Levy   7475
A Khaitan   7375
Daniel Samson   7225
James King   7200
Paul Cohen   7150
Chung Hoang   7125
Jason Shellum   6925
Anthony Roux   6650
Chen Tse   6500
John Kabbaj   6325
Paul Farr   6175
Kevin Allen   5975
Fowzi Baroukh   5850
James Kazal   5075
Louise Duffy   5030
Paul Murrell   4950
Kerry Taylor   4850
Mark Russell   4625
Graeme Newman   4425
Ed Giddens   4350
Leon Campbell   4250
Michael Arnold   4150
Karim Vegas   3800
Julian Thew   3750
Jan Brevik   2600

[danafish]

Hello everybody,

Just arrived and read all before...

Good Luck to Jen and to the other blondes here !!!

Snoop and Dana... Could you find a hat for Mr Nicolas Levi... He seems to have forgoten his luck with it at home

It's not that he's forgotten his luck at home, it's just that his luck is all over the place. He's currently up to 7k. "That's improvement!" say I. "Yeah, I won't die easily," says he...

On alternate Frenchwatch, Anthony Roux is down to around 6k.

[JungleCat03]

Jen Update.

Jen is drunk. 2 glasses of wine has done for her and she spent the short dinner break with myself, Dana and Snoopy in Macdonald's, alternating between violent outbursts, sleeping for a few moments then suddenly waking up and threatening to bite people. If she starts foaming at the mouth, whichever government department that deals with infection control are surely going to swoop in, tranquillise her and take her away to be quarantined in their rabies section.

Nonetheless she has 11k and at 150 300, she knows this is a crucial level and she told us her aim is to acquire 20k by the end of the level.

Good luck to the sozzled sausage I say.


Some more random counts.

Trigg, perk up, your boy Priyan De Mel, who I agree has a great game is on 17k.

Sadly, your other pick is doing less well. James Akenhead, the former train driver and current hitsquadder falling behind with only 7k to his name...

Knut Russtard, is going along in similar vein to the legendary ruler as a steady tide of chips keeps moving in his direction although he obviously differs from his historical namesake in that he is not trying to keep them at bay.

King Knut marches on with 23k, his regal background only slightly undermined by Dana's decision to rhyme his surname Russtard with custard.

Nik Persaud is a little off the pace, sitting on a slightly lowly 8,500.

Micky Wernick is doing just dandy at the moment with 16,500.