BlueSquare.com London GUKPT: Day 1A - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

"Why did you move in on the Flop?" asks a disgruntled Dan Samson, his 1.5k bet on a Flop being first smooth called by Bernd Alexander before check-raised all-in by Mr Chufty Richard Ashby. With the rest of the table departing for the break, Dan Samson, with Richard standing fro his seat and casting a foreboding shadow over the table, was left to mull up what appeared to be a tricky and torturous decision. "You've got a flush draw, haven't you?" he inquires, to which Richard gives no answer either way. In the end, Samson reluctantly passes, clearly smelling a rat but not being willing to commit so many chips to the pot. As Richard takes another quick glimpse at his cards, I pretend to look and later admit to seeing them (a slight porkie) only for Richard to show the rest of the table . "Did you fold a set?" he asks Samson. "Course I didn't have a set," he replies. "I had you beat though."

[snoopy1239]

update on Toby Le Rony please

Melted I'm afraid.

[snoopy1239]

After betting 1.2k into a 3h-Qd-Kh Flop, Zaheer Zab pushes all-in and takes the pot. This leaves Gryko with 10,325.

Other chip counts on that table:

Jan Magnus Brevik -- 7,800
Ben Vinson -- 19,500
Karim Vegas -- 6,175

[Karabiner]

No, don't adjust your sets folks, this jacket really is as bright and sparkling as it appears and yes, that really is Elvis. He lives... although has adopted the pseudonym of Pol Astaniotis.

LOL Sorry but what a prat

I always wondered what became of Liberace's wardrobe....

[sofa----king]

what you think??

[snoopy1239]

The second man pictured, Rahim Tadjsaadat, is now OUT. He raised Steve Townsend all-in with on a board but was called by . Rahim didn't realise that he'd lost the hand when the fell on the River, so sat patiently waiting for some chips to be pushed his way, but a quick flurry of finger pointing from dealer and players and he was soon watching from the rail.

[JungleCat03]

how is pryian de mel and akenhead going on please, ive put my monies on them

Good news for you fella.

James Akenhead has made slow but positive progress in the early stages and is up to 12,000.

Priyan however has leapfrogged ahead of his fellow Hit Squadder in imperious fashion and is sitting on a stack of 16,500 as things stand.

It took me a while to relate thsi information as there have been some suprising developments in the cardroom, news of which I will be relating shortly...

[danafish]

Jon Raab has shared with us the names of the nine lucky alternates who got in today, they are
Asi Mayo - 2101
Cicelli Necmettin - 2102
Mark Russel - 2103
G Wilson - 2104
F Meoni - 2105
Matteo - 2106
R Lee - 2107
Ed Giddens - 2108
Cristian Ciurea - 2109

Also Ram Vaswani and David La Ronde didn't play, so 200 minus those two plus the nine alternates makes 207 total runners, of which 180 remain.

[JungleCat03]

Shocking developments! Julian has a leak! Well, not through his poker play, although he is down from his initial starting stack but more excitingly, there was a mysterious jet of water that began raining down on his head a few moments ago.

Julian running like he does, you may have expected the fluid pouring down to be a decadent cocktail of Dom Perignon and Asses Milk, lightly interspersed with croutons of manna from heaven. In fact it turned out it was merely manky old condense from a leaking air conditioning unit...


Meanwhile as fears for the players safety grew in the face of this ominous flood of water, the table was evacuated, the tournament was temporarily stopped and efforts were made to contact Jack Bauer at CTU to come in for assistance. Sadly he was unavailable due to the writer's strike in the US, meaning it was left to the brave intervention of the Grosvenor staff to save the day.

Here we have Zach, with little thought for his own safety, fearlessly stepping in to catch the offending tsunami in a glass...



Julian was genuinely upset by the whole incident, commenting "It was the worst thing to happen to me since my dog died!"

[I KNOW IT]

what you think??

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[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.

[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.

Surprised:

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Full of wine!

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[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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[dino1980]

And here is our new friend Mr Snicker, sat next to Kevin O'Leary:

"Is he sponsored by Snickers," I inquire to the bemusement of my colleagues.

Then follows an array of chocolate based names, including Toby Lerone, Bo Ounty, Mal Teser, T Wix. Genius!

If you know of any more, then please let us know, although if they're as bad as our, they may be removed so we don't lose viewers.

What you mean move onto another topic 
That wouldn't be very smart(ies)

[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!




Quick dealer norkage for you!