BlueSquare.com London GUKPT: Day 1A - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

Thanks for the updates, now I know what to do with my time at the office. 

Greetings my French ami. In honour of your dedicated interest throughout the day, here's a quick snap of one of your men, Mr Nicolas Levi. "I forgot the hat today," he confesses, "If I win, I'll probably go all superstitious and never wear it again."

Good luck to the hatpimp!

[snoopy1239]

The true professional she is, here's our Jen juggling both coke and hoody, yet still managing to reveal her sponsor for the event.

"I feel rough," she admits on entrance.

Not something you want to hear when you have a percentage. 

[snoopy1239]

Crumbs, it's like a Triple threat wrestling match. My money's on the big fella on the left.

[snoopy1239]

I was born in the year of the cock (watch it!), but last year was the year of the Cox, the unshaven earring-ed honoury Bad Beater fan final tabling almost everything in sight including two occasions here at the Vic. Must be something in the water down there in Poole.

[snoopy1239]

Following on from Paul Alterman, here's another Londoner/local in the form of Dan Samson. The likes of Tighty will know more about him, but he's been missing from the scene of late, so it's good to see him making an appearance here today.

[snoopy1239]

Don't worry, folks, we haven't accidetnally trundled into the Grosvenor UK Fishing Tour. This is indeed last year's League winner, Dave Smith, looking happier in this photo than he did when he won the Brighton leg.

[snoopy1239]

This may appear to be a strange mating call at first glance, but it is in fact Alex Martin running away from the camera like a big girl's blouse. Still got him though, nobody escapes the flash of the blonde poker camera. Mohahahahaha! Ahem...

[snoopy1239]

Finally, and before I crawl into the cardroom to grab some early Level 1 hands, here's a photo of the cardroom as a whole, with a cheeky Brian Gilbert, who, incidentally, finalled in this very event last year, sneaking into view.

[JungleCat03]

Yes, it's true! The starter gun has fired, the familiar sounds of chip riffling and clicking are resonating throughout the Vic and the crazy kids who stumped up a cool grand are doing battle as the GUKPT London commences.


As I meandered round the tables in the early stages, I didn't manage to spot any early carnage, other the sight of a danish pastry that had been mauled by Barry Neville. It wasn't a pretty sight...

Barry seems happy after his wedding anniversary celebrations last night. "Spen t'night in Vic!" he told me proudly. I bet you this was just machismo talking and he actually had some soppy arrangement of flowers and chocolates to give to the wife though.

He told me to say he sends his love to blonde. See I told you he was soppy!


We are just typing up a full player list which will follow shortly but from an early glance round the table configurations it looks like table 7 could prove interesting...with Barney Boatman, Willie Tann and Luke Patten sharing the felt there are likely to be heartbeats racing and chips flying aplenty on this table.

[Colchester Kev]

Photos of the updaters in their new blonde/willy hill gear would be good.

[easypickings]

Send the best of luck to Alex Martin and Barry Neville..

IS it really 200 runners? Has it sold out both days?

[danafish]

Table 1:
Eoin Kennedy
Nick Riseley
Martin Bader
Andy Achillea
Colin Kennedy
John Flanagan
Azzy Asgher
Richie Allen
Barry Neville
Brian Johnson

Table 2:
Arkady Kielman
Demetris Theophanous
Michael Arnold
Terry Simpson
Joshua Tyler
Ian Cox
Bernd Alexander
David Johnson
Richard Ashby
Daniel Samson

Table 3:
Raymond Nicholas
Nathan Lee
David Laronde
Niall Charlton
Jack Powell
Leon Campbell
Julian Thew
Jaan Fiddian
Nick Holbrook
Francis Rohan

Table 4:
Thomas Dunwoodie
Vegard Nygaard
Marcus Bebb-Jones
Neil Mcculloch
Louise Duffy
Richard Stanley
James King
Maz Nawab
Jamil Ogunmakinwa
S Wan

Table 5:
Anthony Roux
Bardi Rajah
John Gale
Devilfish Ulliott
Mark Segal
Tim Flanders
Victor Foster
Ian Woodley
Stephen Bovis
Helge Stjernvang

Table 6:
Steve Robson
J Wray
Alex Martin
Kai Paulsen
Kerry Taylor
Dave Smith
Darren Pearce
Peter Charalambous
Jeffrey Rogers
Nicolas Levy

Table 7:
Chung Hoang
Joel Ettedgi
Kevin Allen
Paul Alterman
Andy Slater
Barny Boatman
Willie Tann
Talal Shakerchi
Jerome Oshea
Sonny Ridgwell

Table 8:
Julien Leonard
Charalambous Xanthos
Andy Greekfish
Ram Vaswani
Michael Mcgee
Ian Fraser
James Akenhead
Kevin O'Leary
S Nikkhah
Ashley Gorman

Table 9
Fowzi Baroukh
James Keys
Stephen Holden
John Duthie
Andy Ward
Knut Russtad
Priyan De Mel
Marius Arnesen
Paul Mendes
Surinder Sunar

Table 10:
John Eames
Bran Lenton
Matt Novak
Anthony Quinn
Thomas Roe
Richard Grace
Kevin Chandler
Nik Persaud
William Martin
Inil Abraham

Table 11:
Manuel Palanca
John Falconer
Jennifer Mason
Sami Yusuf
Justin Kean
Andrew Cruickshank
Jonathan Gotts
James Honeybone
Pol Astaniotis
Leo Kam

Table 12:
Mike Chivers
Torstein Iversen
D Anderson
Jason Shellum
John Gale (hmm, also on table 5. Anyone know if there are two John Gales?)
Wilson Chan
Tony Ringe
Michael Ellis
C Chapman
David Barnes

Table 13:
Darren FUller
Paul Cohen
Edward Cahill
Malek Naser
Zack Chesses
Ashley Hayles
Alec Foster
M Patel
Yaqub Alsami
Graeme Newman

Table 14:
Howard Smith
Dave Gregory
Steve Townsend
Lucy Rokach
Rahim Tadjsaadat
John Kabbaj
Jim Dunsford
Dan Furnival
Jeremy Longley
Ben Grundy

Table 15:
Ben Vinson
Paul Kerr
Jan Magnus Brevik
Zaheer Zeb
Josh Gould
Stuart Prior
Alexander Salabaschew
P Christodolou
Richard Gryko
Karim Vegas

Table 16:
J Bach
Piers Whyman
Michael Bale
John Gardner
Rory Campbell
Christer Bjorin
Ariel Adda
Marc Goodwin
Mickey Wernick
Au Jebali

Table 17:
Graham Wheldon
James Sudworth
John Conroy
Paul Farr
Fraser Dunphy
Najam Qureshi
Peter Gould
Mike Fisher
Stephen Vincent
Paul Murrell

Table 18:
Chen Tse
Nick Gibson
Peter Maier
Lee Clarke
Dervis Ozkarapinar
Leslie Kerrigan
Lee Squire
Rory Liffey
Scott Chaudhry
D Lee

Table 19:
Alex Clark
Alan Dean
Joe Grech
Mohammed Zahour
C Ninh
Jeff Buffenbarger
Alex Vandeweyer
Sid Harris
Dominic Ricepierse
A Khaitan

Table 20:
Jarl Klaebo
Idris Ambraisse
Louis Schwartz
Dominic Kay
Gino Desiena
James Kazal
Adam Vinson
David Evans
Panicos Ellinas
Robert Sherman

Three are already OUT - C Ninh, Stephen Bovis and another one as to be reported right now by Junglecat. Alternates are being taken until the end of the hour...

[snoopy1239]

"Monkey to the cardroom, Monkey to the cardroom," demands the tannoy.

So, the rumours are true!

[snoopy1239]

Send the best of luck to Alex Martin and Barry Neville..

IS it really 200 runners? Has it sold out both days?

Well, definitely 200 today, with a waiting list too! And with one level almost completed, we're still without an exit... according to the board.

[Chili]

Send the best of luck to Alex Martin and Barry Neville..

IS it really 200 runners? Has it sold out both days?

Well, definitely 200 today, with a waiting list too! And with one level almost completed, we're still without an exit... according to the board.

Hehe you really should read your beloved's posts Snoops.  Have a great day you guys.