BlueSquare.com London GUKPT: Day 1A - Interactive

[JungleCat03]

Julian Thew was just ALLIN!

Shortstacked he moved his final 3k into the middle on a board which brought a quizzical interrogation from the other player in the hand.

"Have you got a dodgy 2 pair?"

Julian remained quiet.

His opponent eventually passed and Julian shrugged, showing for an open ended straight draw, as if to say "with my stack, what could I do?"

Currently on 5.5k and still on a bit of life support but hanging in there...

[snoopy1239]

Counts for Jeff Buffenbarger and Paul Alterman pls guys

Jeff Buffenbarger is on 19,375, although I may swipe his chips into the air after he commented, "Are you growing your hair like Triple H, Snoops, in preparation for Wrestlemania?"

Paul Alterman, meanwhile, is on 6,525, the latest hand I witnessed being an uncontested all-in against Barny Boatman on a 3d-2h-8c-7d board.

[action man]

backed some random scandie called lars aswell, is he on the list today plz?

[danafish]

By the way I have just edited the clock to say there were 206 runners - Jason Shellum apparently didn't show, and somehow made it as far as the level 4 chipcounts before anyone noticed he wasn't here.

[snoopy1239]

I'm afraid I can't seem to locate Mark Harris and he doesn't appear to be on the player list.

[danafish]

Marc Goodwin has moved to table Burnley-Jen (you see what I did there?  ) and immediately started asserting himself.

He bets 2k into a 3k-or-so pot on a J-3-9-Q board, and takes it down.

Next hand, he and Jonathan Gotts see a flop - it is - and Goodwin bets 1k; Gotts calls.

Turn - and Goodwin bets 1.5k. Gotts artlessly twiddles chips for a little while before folding. "There's a new bully on the table," says Burnley John. "Cardrack," says Marc Goodwin.

By the way, a sad loss to table Burnley-Jen is Elvis, OUT before dinner after running his pocket Kings into Leo Kam's Aces preflop. I hope he's got conversation, because there will be no more action for that Elvis in this GUKPT.

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[snoopy1239]

Bedlam on the nearest table as Ben Vinson pushes over the top of Josh Gould for what looks to be a total of 6.3k only to be called by Arkady Kielman and Josh Gould.

With the two players seeing a Flop, Ben rises from his seat, perhaps conceding before the board is dealt and sighs dejectedly as play continues. Josh and Arkady, meanwhile, go snooker loopey, Josh deep-reaching for a column of greens and purples only for Arkady to swiftly call all-in.

Arkady =

Josh =

Ben =

Turn =

drum roll please, mr yellow face man...



River =

So, Ben survives to take a very sumptuous main pot whilst Arkady is forced to settle for the still meaty side pot. Josh Gould, however, is left to count up the shrapnel before him and rue ever being dealt those blasted Ladies in the first place.

[CroqueMadame]

Hey guys, just logged on for frenchwatch - Nicolas Levi and Anthony Roux - how they doin? I would come and bring Nick his hat but my sofa's way too comfy  

[celtic]

I'm afraid I can't seem to locate Mark Harris and he doesn't appear to be on the player list.

cheers snoops, thought i saw picture of him earlier.

text from graham 'chompy' wheldon......"i am sat next to jen mason. top norkage imo" he'll kill me but i dont care!!!!!!!

[snoopy1239]

James Eames is flying high. He just bet 4,700 on a 5c-Qc-2d-5d-8c board before ducking his head in silent and adopting a statuesque posture. Redmond Lee, who'd checked the River, mulled it over for a good couple of minutes, probed his non-responsive opponent with a few questions before calling. Eames showed Qs-Jc and Redmond mucked, leaving himself with just a few thousand in chips.

[snoopy1239]

I'm afraid I can't seem to locate Mark Harris and he doesn't appear to be on the player list.

cheers snoops, thought i saw picture of him earlier.

text from graham 'chompy' wheldon......"i am sat next to jen mason. top norkage imo" he'll kill me but i dont care!!!!!!!

Hmm. You'll have to tell me which photo because he didn't make it onto the official chip counts either. Maybe he's playing the cash games.

By the way, where does that 'chompy' moniker originate? Does our Graham like his tucker?

[danafish]

I walk by table Thewy and Jack Powell has a hefty 3k or so on the table, and Niall Charlton has re-raised himself all in. Eventually Powell calls.

Powell -
Charlton -

Board - (Powell is standing already) (he's putting on his coat) (he's trying to leave)

But he has almost 2k change and sits back down, most probably to start shoving every hand and praying to God for a miracle...

By the way Thewy has around 7k in a single, incredibly tall stack of low-denomination chips. "Feels like 70k!" he says, slightly hysterical expression on face.

[celtic]

I'm afraid I can't seem to locate Mark Harris and he doesn't appear to be on the player list.

cheers snoops, thought i saw picture of him earlier.

text from graham 'chompy' wheldon......"i am sat next to jen mason. top norkage imo" he'll kill me but i dont care!!!!!!!

Hmm. You'll have to tell me which photo because he didn't make it onto the official chip counts either. Maybe he's playing the cash games.

By the way, where does that 'chompy' moniker originate? Does our Graham like his tucker?

something to do with the fast show he tells me??

[gasman]

C'mon James!

[JungleCat03]

Julian has nursed his micro-stack back up to a more healthy if still quite vulnerable 14k.

"Some top notch grinding" was the phrase he used to explain his recovery. Boy's got gears!

Richie Allen ( who incidentally was NOT Barry Neville's executioner earlier) is nonetheless not far off the chip lead with 30k+, looking relaxed and focused, wearing his large earphones.


His tablemate and indeed next door neighbour "Berndt" Alexander is not far behind, holding a meaty 25k+ stack himself. Hopefully he won't set fire to his stack and score an own coal.


Actionman and hitsquad fans attention!

Priyan De Mel just found himself in an enormous pot in the region of 45 or 50k. He was up against Louis Schwartz and it was a coldeck-tastic AA v KK coup.

Sadly for you guys, Priyan found himself with the wrong end of this situation, his cowboys no match for Schwartz's pocket rockets and a board devoid of fate-altering Kings or other combinations of cards means Priyan is banished to the rail by Schwatz, who now nurses an awesome 60k stack which is likely to be good for the chip lead as we stand.

Bad luck to Priyan, K-K v A-A always a harsh way to find yourself dumped out. I'm sure his time will come eventually though...