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

[snoopy1239]

Since Jonathan Raab isn't sending a full chip counts until the dinner break, here are a handful from my last trip down to the cardroom. I'll try to grab a few each time.

Chris Moorman -- 8,200
Praz Bansi -- 25,500
Ed Arees -- 800
Simon Wickenden -- 18,225
Jeff Kimber -- 3,150
Fari Badimansour -- 22,550
Carlo Citrone -- 8,175
JJ Hazan -- 14,050
Vicky Coren -- 8,050
Liam Boland -- 10,650

Feminist Russell Cawley is down, but not quite out, with just 2.5k, his phallic twin towers coming tumbling down when a flopped flush draw with top pair ran into an unmoving overpair. "I hit a straight draw on the Turn to give me even more outs, so couldn't get away."

I'm afraid Robert Boon is pushing up the poker daisies, his Kings running into the Aces of Nick Goodall who has now jumped up to 16,975 as a result.

[danafish]

Those requests...

Barbara Gibson - 7k
Woody Deck is missing, presumed OUT. In his former seat is Mr Lloyd Rees, currently on around 7.4k.
Chili, eating probably something with chili in it - 8k, and stir-fry
Rob Taylor - 9k

[JungleCat03]

Suzanne Pyefinch was just heard lamenting her bad luck in the smoking arena of the casino.

Holding 6-6 she saw a flop of Q-5-6 with another player and the chips all flew into the middle, huddling together like cold little sparrows seeking warmth, unsurprisingly as her opponent held Q-5 for 2 pair.

Suzanne's set was miles ahead of matey's 2 pair but a 2 outer Q on the turn spelled big trouble for Suzanne and she missed her now required 1 outer for quads on the river.

She immediately abandoned the table fuming, both metaphorically and literally as she lit a cigarette up outside to quell her frustration at the bad beat. "He had two outs and hit...that's poker!" she told me, feigning indifference whilst clearly as mad as a bear who has caught a small girl eating his porridge.

She still has 2k remaining though and may be able to find a way back into contention. ..good luck.

Here she is enjoying a moment of levity amongst all the angst...




Vincent Mather is a recent casualty...

Chris Moorman, despite his dazzling hoody, is not dazzling with his chip accumulation skills today and is down to  6k or so (Don't make me open photoschop and get the donkeys ears out Chris...)

Next to Chris on this table, Praz Bansi has increased his stack efficiently, no sitting on a very healthy 22 or 23k "He's so lucky!" bemoaned Chris. Praz just smiled quietly.

Boy in red alert, Warren Woodridge is doing well on 17k and is keeping his table awake with an endless stream of banter.

Footballer alert, Tony Cascarino was looking concentrated and focused with circa 10k in his stack.

 

[danafish]

Also, contrary to what Snoops said, Ariston IS out. I was heartlessly taking terrible photos of him and actually didn't realise he was all in. Even when he said, "Well at least you're going to get my exit hand" I didn't quite twig for a moment... Anyway, he shoved an flop with an up-and-down and an as-it-turned-out useless overcard - his up against Alan Armitage's  .

Turn -
River -

And he's gone.


A couple of hands later Alan found himself moving in on a Jack-high flop to a reraise from Johnathon Martin, who dwelled for ages before passing. Alan showed pocket Jacks; Johnathon says he had an underpair to the Jack - a lucky escape there. Alan's on around 20k now. He's buying my CD too.

[danafish]

Also Spotted - Mr Paul King on around 20k, and most pleased.

[danafish]

Absolutely final and decisive correct player list, with alternates:

101   Fran Egan
102   Jim Reid
103   Fuad Serhan
104   Jonathon Baylis
105   Antonio Romanello
106   Ben Roberts
107   David Barraclough
108   Hugh Kirton
109   Laurence Houghton
110   Spencer Lawrence
201   Suzanne Pyefinch
202   Caroline Cunningham-brown
203   Ryan Fronda
204   Paul King
205   Carlton Joseph
206   David Rudling
207   Rumit Somaiya
208   Alex Blackwood
209   Chris Sokrati
210   Walid Salim Khalil
301   Chris Bruce
302   Maria Demetriou
303   Daniel Kerridge
304   Robert Rees
305   David Clark
306   Mark Tomblin
307   Albert Kenny
308   Fabio Esposito
309   Paul Hambleton
310   Dan Carter
401   Luke Spalding
402   Charles Denton
403   Anu Mikkola
404   Vincent Mather
405   Nik Stylianou
406   Andrew Teng
407   Barbara Gibson
408   Des Jones
409   Jonathan Kalmar
410   Ketul Nathwani
501   Brian Prescott
502   W Cheung
503   Peter Hansen
504   John Burberry
505   Glen Ashworth
506   James Woodruff
507   Will Kassouf
508   Woody Deck
509   Michael Mccool
510   Edna Adams
601   Nick Goodall
602   Mike Panteli
603   Dave Colclough
604   Jenyue Chiang
605   Simon Joseph Eastwood
606   Christoffer Nilsen
607   Bernard Litman
608   Daren Braddick
609   Robert Boon
610   Frank Pini
701   Marius Hogtun
702   Trevor Pearson
703   Lalit Khajuria
704   Simon Zach
705   Sam George
706   Glen Altham
707   Mark Harris
708   Tony Kelly
709   Davood Mehrmand
710   Ian Broadrick
801   Simon Taylor
802   Dr Aris
803   Jonathon Martin
804   Russ Cawley
805   Johnathon Reynolds
806   Alan Armitage
807   Stewart Clutterbuck
808   Chris Rhodes
809   Tariq Arees
810   Rob Taylor
901   Jason Ho
902   Praz Bansi
903   Edward Arees
904   Frank Romanello
905   Michael Vassiliou
906   Yilfer Shevket
907   Lars Eidissen
908   Chandrakant Khajuria
909   Simon Wickenden
910   Lam Trinh
1001   Laurie Tyler
1002   Trevor Lawson
1003   James Ballantyne
1004   Koroush Nikkhahe
1005   P Mcintyre
1006   Jeff Kimber
1007   Farid Badiemansour
1008   Stuart Rutter
1009   Steven Chandler
1010   P Ruddy
1101   Sunny Chattha
1102   Tom Camp
1103   Daniel Burgess
1104   Dave Penley
1105   Harprit Gurnam
1106   Mark Rayson
1107   Osman Hasan
1108   F Javed
1109   Jeraint Hazan
1110   Anthony Chapman
1201   Martino Libertini
1202   Derick Block
1203   Sasha Rosewood
1204   Mark Friedman
1205   Keith Hawkins
1206   Stephen Bayliff
1207   Richard Wheatley
1208   Aaron Barry
1209   John Wright
1210   Richard Simmons
1301   Liam Boland
1302   David Maudlin
1303   Alli Mallu
1304   Jason Powell
1305   Frank Doyle
1306   Paul Bracken
1307   John Hadjinicolaou
1308   Ray Wyre
1309   Ian Holman
1310   Paul Rosati
1401   Fran Creed
1402   Chris Huyton
1403   Derek Miller
1404   John Fletcher
1405   Steve Jelinek
1406   Keir Fitzgibbon
1407   Ramazanali Abbassi
1408   Ian Gerrard
1409   Neil Channing
1410   Clive Layton
1501   Anthony William Hardy
1502   Mark Steer
1503   Carlo Gabriele
1504   Neel Chudasama
1505   Tim Blake
1506   Jan Lundberg
1507   Andrew Johnson
1508   Alan Stearn
1509   Sean Gregory
1510   Hugo Martin
1601   Javed Ghazi
1602   Matthew Waddington
1603   Warren Wooldridge
1604   Frode Gjedsal
1605   Iwan Jones
1606   Richard Fuller
1607   Liam Flood
1608   Alan Ivinson
1609   Anthony Cascarino
1610   Davijay Sadarangani
1701   Jerome Bradpiece
1702   Lawrence Windish
1703   Fahid Ali
1704   Albert Sapiano
1705   Teddy Sheringham
1706   Victoria Coren
1707   James Morgan
1708   Terry Chapman
1709   Carlo Citrone
1710   Lawrence Morley
1801   M Mcelhinney
1802   Konstantin Sobol
1803   Eftichios Neocleous
1804   Ghassan Elhoss
1805   David J Lloyd
1806   Robert Garfield
1807   Ghassan Chehbi
1808   Antony Phillips
1809   Craig Owen
1810   Simon Ashdown
1901   John Rigolli
1902   Stephen Walmsley
1903   Stuart Nash
1904   David Laronde
1905   Jonathan Huckle
1906   Patrik Selin
1907   Alan Rawling
1908   Martins Adeniya
1909   Frank Callaghan
1910   Micheal Bolger
2001   Kyriacos Dionysiou
2002   Andrew Booth
2003   John Chambers
2004   Louise Fennell
2005   Pascal Henssen
2006   Sayil Zulhayir
2007   Trevor Reardon
2008   David Welch
2009   Sal Ghozali
2101   Johnel Bracey
2102   Mark Survila
2103   Peter Singleton
2104   Barry Carter
2105   Anooj Sareen
2106   Lloyd Rees
2107   Jason Shellum
2108   Roberto Romanello
2109   Karl Mahrenholz
2010     Nicos Ioannou
2110     J De Freitas
2201     J Shaw
2202     Chris Moorman
2203     Tom Nearney
2204     B Landehagen
2205     E Svanes
2206     Sebastian Saffari
2207     K Sidhu
2208     Van Hoang
2209     B Reynolds
2210     G Husnu

[JungleCat03]

LittlemissC called me over as I wandered by. She was looking miserable and unhappy.

"What's up Fran?" I asked, offering a sympathetic ear, whilst also mentally noting her stack had taken a hit...

"Just lost a big pot with Jacks. I raised it up preflop and got one caller. The flop came Q72 and I bet out, receiving a call, which I thought was a bit weak, so on the blank turn I bet out again...but got called again! Argh! Anyway the river was a 2, i checked and he [she indicates someone in a flatcap who I think is Keir Fitzgibbon] bet 9k, setting me allin...I passed "

She looked glum but still had around 4 or 5k i think so can still claw her way back into things potentially.

[danafish]

At the dinner break, Fran Creed was back up to 9.2k.

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"Sick!" exclaims Hugh Kirton as he reveals Pocket Sixes on a board only to be greeted by Jonathan Baylis' . "Nothing you can do," adds a table mate. Baylis up to 12,500, Kirton down to 3,450.

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Many thanks to our ringside reporter, Dena, for the following report.

Chris Rhodes was a pre-dinner break casualty, all-in with A-K vs. J-J, rollercoaster 7-K-A-J-5 board.

[snoopy1239]

More chippy counts:

Dave Welch -- 5,000
Rob Taylor -- 6,550
Fran Creed -- 9,125
Hugh Kirton -- 3,450
Barry Carter -- 12,175
Jonathan Baylis -- 12,500
John Wright -- 22,700
Will Kassouf -- 5,350
Dave Clark -- 11,750
Dan Carter -- 10,575
Jim Reid -- 28,650
Des Jonas -- 14,100
Jim Morgan -- 8,200

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Barbara Gibson is OUT. I joined the action just in time to see Glen Altman eliminate last year's finalist with -8h versus -8c on a -6d-7s-Kc-2d board.

[danafish]

Alan Armitage has just sealed the deal and bought one of my CDs. What a lovely man. He's on 22k at the moment.

There is a board on his table that reads and a gentleman I believe is Robert Boon moves all in. "Oh, I folded K-T," whispers Alan to me. "After the flop." Rob Taylor is considering the call, but doesn't make it in the end. Mr Probably Boon (couldn't see his card, sorry) shows .

[danafish]

-------- 40 MINUTE DINNER BREAK ---------

Mmm cheap hamburgers. 

[danafish]

Snoops wrestled the camera back out of my greasy paws (ohh, those dirty hamburgers) so I'm afraid you'll have to wait for the photo, but Chris Rhodes has 14.5k currently. His card was obscured by his MP3 player. "Excuse me, are you Chris Rhodes?" "WHAT?" Removal of massive headphones follows. Still for some reason at top volume: "WHAT?" He is Chris Rhodes. (Possibly greasy) photo coming from beagle.

Meanwhile, Micheal Bolger is OUT (spotted in bar), as is Alex Blackwood (exit card handed to me by Bluesquare blogger Pete).

Rob Taylor has 5.5k.

Announcement Of The Day - "Elvis and Christian to the card room please."

[danafish]

Liam Flood has moved to Paul King's table, where Paul makes it 1k utg. Says Liam, "You have a lot of chips." Says Paul, "I've been very lucky." Liam makes it 3.5k, and Paul folds  up. Continued good-natured banter, I'm sure you know the sort.

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Meanwhile a double-up for Andrew Booth, who shoves for his remaining 1650 and gets himself called by Joh Burberry, who as it turns out is ahead with  - Booth has .

But oh the flop! It is and Booth is now up to the heady heights of around 4k.

[danafish]

Double-up also for an incredibly sleepy-looking, and a before-the-hand-incredibly-short-stacked Jerome Bradpiece.

A flop, 5-way, that flop being , is checked around.

Jerome bets 1k on the turn; only Stuart Nash calls.

Jerome now has only 2950 behind, and he sticks it all in on the river. Stuart calls.

Jerome shows no signs of emotion and only the barest signs of wakefulness as he flips  for the nut flush. "Yup," says Nash.

[JungleCat03]

Could you find Chris Rhodes please and send a picture. He's a dark horse for the final table and looks remarkably like Gus Hansen.

Think I found your man...shaved head, large earphones, bright shades with some sort of sparkly diamond looking things embedded in the sides.

Sound familiar? He's on 12.5k at the moment.

Snoopy has the camera so no photo yet, although I'm sure we can sort one out pretty soon...

EDIT: In the course of finishing this post, Snoopy has returned with a picture of Chris




Chris Moorman doubled up just before the dinner break. "I' doubled up to 9.5k..." he told me, "so you can tell I'm doing well!" An AA v TT coup doubled up Chris, and fresh back from the dinner break, Chris was to face a big decision.

There was a raise from UTG+1 to 900 from Rob Garfield, which Lam Trinh had re-raised another 3k-3.5k, leaving only about 3k back...

Chris was sat in the small blind and took a while, shaking his head and examining Lam before ultimately passing reluctantly...

Rob Garfield FLAT CALLED the raise.  The flop came A-T-7

Rob checked, Lam moved in and Rob called. Lam shook his head and showed Q-Q, probably expecting Rob to show up with some kind of Ace, but instead Rob had T-T and had checked his set on the flop.

Lam was being led to the slaughter, but a moist juicy Q on the turn resulted in an ecstatic and relieved fist pump from Lam and a sit back down again, before a meaningless 7 filled both players up on the river, but didn't change the direction the pot was travelling in.  Lam scooped the pot for a welcome double up, propelling him to 13 or 14k or so. Rob looked relatively calm and unfazed.

Moorman, incidentally, passed A-K in that coup and was no doubt happy to have avoided the carnage...


Solitary random chip count...

Steve Jelinek has 9 or 10k at the moment.