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

[danafish]

Chip counts at the dinner break, from the fine chipcounting Bluesquare elves:

Jan Lundberg   42150
Sam George   37675
Farid Badiemansour   33200
Jim Reid   32375
Keith Hawkins   30825
Praz Bansi   28550
J Shaw   28550
Alli Mallu   26650
Fran Egan   26625
Mark Friedman   26525
Paul Rosati   25600
Victoria Coren   25450
Ian Gerrard   24800
Davijay Sadarangani   24225
Michael Mccool   24000
Daniel Burgess   23800
Alan Stearn   23400
Steven Chandler   23100
Paul King   22500
John Wright   22150
Stewart Clutterbuck   22125
Mike Panteli   21675
Simon Wickenden   21475
Glen Altham   21375
Antony Phillips   21275
Terry Chapman   20500
Tony Kelly   20275
Tom Camp   20275
Neil Channing   20075
Keir Fitzgibbon   19825
Frank Romanello   19500
Jonathan Huckle   19275
Javed Ghazi   18850
Sunny Chattha   18350
Daniel Kerridge   17900
Andrew Teng   17850
Van Hoang   17625
Carlton Joseph   17600
Marius Hogtun   17450
Louise Fennell   17400
David Rudling   17100
Des Jones   16975
Koroush Nikkhahe   16800
Frank Pini   16750
Barry Carter   16700
Alan Armitage   16700
Stuart Nash   16700
Daren Braddick   16650
Jeraint Hazan   16550
Craig Owen   16475
Liam Flood   16050
Davood Mehrmand   16000
Teddy Sheringham   15875
Fahid Ali   15750
Robert Garfield   15550
Ian Holman   15500
Nick Goodall   15325
Anthony William Hardy   15100
W Cheung   15025
James Woodruff   15025
Trevor Reardon   14900
Christoffer Nilsen   14800
Nicos Ioannou   14625
Chris Rhodes   14575
Frank Callaghan   14425
Sebastian Saffari   14225
Dave Colclough   14225
John Rigolli   14225
Albert Kenny   14200
Nik Stylianou   14025
Paul Hambleton   13975
Sean Gregory   13775
Spencer Lawrence   13600
Jonathan Kalmar   13200
Yilfer Shevket   13050
Dave Penley   13000
M Mcelhinney   12925
Walid Salim Khalil   12900
Simon Ashdown   12775
Trevor Pearson   12725
Ghassan Elhoss   12675
Frode Gjedsal   12150
Jonathon Martin   12000
Lars Eidissen   11875
Anthony Chapman   11875
Chris Bruce   11825
Will Kassouf   11500
John Chambers   11500
Jonathon Baylis   11275
Anthony Cascarino   10900
Dan Carter   10800
Ben Roberts   10800
Mark Rayson   10500
Johnathon Reynolds   10350
Matthew Waddington   10350
Karl Mahrenholz   10300
Alan Rawling   10125
Maria Demetriou   10100
Brian Prescott   10075
P Ruddy   9925
Jenyue Chiang   9900
Paul Bracken   9775
David Clark   9700
Charles Denton   9600
John Fletcher   9600
Anu Mikkola   9375
Chris Moorman   9350
Fran Creed   9200
Steve Jelinek   8925
Suzanne Pyefinch   8900
G Husnu   8875
Carlo Citrone   8825
James Morgan   8725
Dr Aris   8425
James Ballantyne   8400
Carlo Gabriele   8350
John Burberry   8225
E Svanes   7900
Richard Fuller   7875
Ketul Nathwani   7800
Laurence Houghton   7775
David Welch   7750
Rumit Somaiya   7700
Stephen Walmsley   7575
Caroline Cunningham-brown   7400
Ramazanali Abbassi   7225
Mark Survila   7125
Liam Boland   7100
B Reynolds   7075
Richard Simmons   6950
Frank Doyle   6925
Mark Survila   6650
Sasha Rosewood   6550
Lloyd Rees   6425
Mark Tomblin   6325
Lam Trinh   6200
Simon Joseph Eastwood   6100
Hugo Martin   6100
Alan Ivinson   6050
Lawrence Windish   6050
Warren Wooldridge   5900
Alex Blackwood   5600
Fabio Esposito   5500
Antonio Romanello   5425
Rob Taylor   5325
John Hadjinicolaou   5125
Jerome Bradpiece   5000
Sal Ghozali   4675
Mark Steer   4425
Tim Blake   4400
Anooj Sareen   4225
Harprit Gurnam   3950
David J Lloyd   3875
Ian Gerrard   3750
Stuart Rutter   3350
F Javed   2975
David Maudlin   2900
Simon Taylor   2725
Peter Hansen   2000
Andrew Booth   1800
Derek Miller   625
Fuad Serhan   175

[snoopy1239]

All-in pre-flop, Stuart Rutter seems lacking in confidence as he rises from his seat in preparation for an exit, but that's probably due to being up against two other players, rather than the strength of his hand. One of those foe's was the Salim Khalil, who bet out on the Flop to single out an encounter with the Bummie Bandit.

As Stuart learned that his was in cracking shape against Salim's , he huddled closer towards his seat and held his breath in anticipation of the remaining cards. His heart pumping fast, the Turn brought a , then a on the River to trigger Stuart into a restrained clenched fist celebration and a much needed double through.

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One of the chip leaders at the moment is this furry chap, the complicatedly named Davijat Sadarangani (try saying that with your mouthful). Dav (I apologise for the abbreviation) somehow managed to send three players to the rail in one hand with Fives versus Twos versus Queens versus a shortstacker's Q-T on a 2-5-x Flop. None of of his opponents were deeply stacked, but Dav has nonetheless shot up to just under 40k. His victims, however, Stephen Fuad, Antonio Romanello and Lawrence Spencer, are forced to group together in the bar and collectively drown their sorrows.

[danafish]

Those requests...

Dave Penly - 9k
Jim Reid - 23k
Chili - 12k
Fran - OUT (terrible details to follow...)
Vicky Coren - 20k
Brother Carter: Barry - 11k
Brother Carter: Dan - 4.5k
Karl Mahrenholz - 11k - "Feels like the chip lead!"
Praz Bansi - 23k
Sunny Chattha - 17k
Dave Lloyd - can't find him, so for the moment presumed OUT but Snoopy's on it just in case I missed him...

[danafish]

Poor old Fran is indeed OUT. She was out on the terrace, smoking the Cigarette Of Angry Busted-ness when I got into the cardroom, but blondeite Greekstein filled me in. It went like this.

Steve Jelinek limped utg, and there was another limper before Fran made it 1k from the cutoff. Both limpers called.

Flop -

It checked to Fran, who made it 1.5k. Jelinek made it 4.5k. The other guy got out of the way and Fran went all in for 6 or 7k; call. Says Jelinek, "Nice hand," and turns over . Fran is holding pocket Aces, obviously.

Turn - a red Five
River -

Apparently then spoke up Vicky Coren, "I think that's the result we were all hoping for." Which seems a bit unnecessary. Anyway. Unlucky, Fran.

[danafish]

Possibly not-long-for-this-tournament are Rob Garfield (6k) and Womble (<7k).

[snoopy1239]

Barry Carter -- 12,900
Maria Demetriou -- 11,700
Dan Carter -- 6,575
Stuart Rutter -- out
Dave Clark -- 6,825
Karl Mahrenholz -- 10,800
David Lloyd -- 3,000
Rob Garfield -- 6,475
Alan Armitage -- 11,125
Nick Goodall -- 12,750
Dave Colclough -- 16,425
Lam Trinh -- 26,500
Jon Huckle -- 17,375
Hugo Martin -- 13,800
Stuart Nash -- 14,100
Dave Penly -- 6,500
Sunny Chattha -- 20,000
Praz Bansi -- 22,200
Andrew Teng -- 17,275

David Lloyd is now out. I didn't catch the hand, but I did see him storm off towards the cashier, so I feel the cash games may be seeing some action.

Kenny Albert is OUT. He felt the wrath of Fabio Esposito whose A-Q held up against Albert's K-Q on a 9-8-3-6-5 board.

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With the Flop reading , four players see a meatylicious (yes, it's a word!) Flop that triggers Will Kassouf to fire out a 5,650 multi-coloured bet. The action passes around to Peter Hansen in late position who, after a momentary pause, slides his entire stack across the line. Back to Will, and although it's only about 6k more, he grimaces awkwardly, as if aware that he's almost certainly behind. In the end, he convinces himself that he has reached the point of no return and makes the reluctant call. As expected, Kassouf's is in the proverbial canine excretion, and the tide fails to turn as the Turn and River bring a harmless and a very blank respectively. Kassouf now down to just a few thousand.

[danafish]

While I was at Sunny Chattha's table attempting to take photos (it's the most awkwardly-positioned of all the tables), Harpit Gurnam shoved his microstack (around 2.5k) in on a flop. Trevor Reardon reaaaaally, reeeeeeeaaaalllllly considered it, but passed. Harpit showed him the for his trouble.

[JungleCat03]

Ok first off we have Chris Moorman getting involved in a big pot...

After several limpers on 200 400, Chris, who hasn't seen many cards today, felt like he could use his relatively tight image to pick up the pot so popped it up to 2,400 with K-9, only to receive a flat call from one of the limpers...

The flop came .

Chris felt like this was a hard flop to represent anything so after the limper checked, Chris also checked behind.

The turn was the .

Limper now bet 3.5k, Chris was happy he was ahead and happy to take down the pot so shoved for 11.5k.

Limper thought for a while....and CALLED!

Chris's K-9 top pair was good, whilst the other player showed As for the flush draw...

Needing a spade, Ace or Jack to take it down, a cruel fell on the river, and Chris who has grinded his stack all day without many cards, got it in as a good favourite but couldn't hold, falling by the wayside in what would have been a 30k ish pot.

"At least I made the dinner break" said Chris. "£1k for dinner, not bad!"

Bad luck Chris. No need to follow through on my threat to attach donkey ears to him, he did well today and lady luck just didn't smile on him.

Here is the man himself, showing his feelings about that last hand...

[JungleCat03]

Dan Carter - OUT! And it's blonde on blonde action!

He had got a little bit short-ish and after making a small raise preflop, found Maria re-popping him on the button. Dan's chips were instantly over the line allin and Maria's were too.

Dan had come well equipped for battle as he flipped K-K, but a harsh deal from his point of view found Maria poised to deliver the killer blow having been dealt pocket rockets.

Dan picked his coat up, ready to leave and a flop of 8-8-4-7-7 changed nothing.

"I'm sorry, didn't want to knock you out" lied Chili, but her and Dan exchanged hugs and he departed to the rail, ready to get into training for his future career as a pantomime horse.

Here is chili, stacking her newly won chips and riding high after her slow, intiial start...

[JungleCat03]

ATTENTION DAVID RUDLING'S WIFE:

MESSAGE FROM DAVID: PLEASE RECORD MATCH OF THE DAY

It's a new service we're providing. Message delivery to player's wives. Flowers are extra.


Paul King is looking chirpy, currrently on 13k, he had quite a bit more but ran a flush into a full house for an 18k pot. "Now I know who you are, I'll know who to come after if you slag me off!" he tells me with a note of joviality in his voice that suggests he is only joshing with me, but you never know, and in that vein, I'd jsut like to point out that the handsome, highly capable professional is currently setting the tournament alight with his bold, imaginative and downright fantastic poker.

Good work sir!

[JungleCat03]

I was about to rejoin the throng in the cardroom when a couple of news bulletins come rushing in like so...

ZING!

Sunny Chattha, hitsquad member....OUT! Sorry folks no details at the moment.

ZING!

Rob Garfield...ALSO OUT. Again no further details but if a little birdy happens to land on my shoulder and whisper in my ear then naturally I'll....be ******* suprised.

OMG, obviously carnage occurring upstairs. I am off to witness these happenings for myself. See you soon!!!

[danafish]

Vicky Coren ain't slowing down any. There's 11k in the pot preflop and she seems to have re-raised Javed Ghazi another 5k. After an almost endless dwell, he folds up. She shows the  ...

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Meanwhile everything's gone crazy on what is now the Former Table Rumit. Rumit is all in, Ali Mallu has at least called and possibly re-raised, I'm not sure because all I see as I get there is John Chambers folding pocket Queens face up, which is something that I have to say sort of pains me in most situations...

Anyway, they're on their proverbial backs.

Rumit -
Ali Mallu -

Board -

John Chambers - "God I'm good!"
Rumit - OUT
Mallu - replete with chips.

[danafish]

Chris Bruce has been quadded right in the face.

He tells me he made it 2100 with , only for Ben Roberts to move in for 7k from the big blind, which he called.

"The flop was Queen, King, Queen... Er, I've forgotten the other cards actually," but it of course doesn't really matter as they were definitely not both Kings (he would have remembered that) and he is down to 16k.

[danafish]

End Of Level 6 Chipcounts from magic Bluesquare chipcounting fairies:

Mark Friedman   70050
Fran Egan   58200
Jan Lundberg   47975
Stewart Clutterbuck   47175
Neil Channing   44675
David Rudling   38275
Steve Jelinek   37600
Davijay Sadarangani   36950
Farid Badiemansour   36050
Ketul Nathwani   35275
Tony Kelly   34900
Steven Chandler   34075
Daniel Burgess   33400
Marius Hogtun   32200
Frode Gjedsal   32100
Peter Hansen   30600
Praz Bansi   30575
Yilfer Shevket   30000
Mike Panteli   29700
Jonathan Kalmar   28225
Alan Stearn   26775
J Shaw   26300
Carlton Joseph   26275
Jeraint Hazan   25700
Paul Rosati   25500
Frank Romanello   25500
Davood Mehrmand   25050
James Morgan   24950
James Ballantyne   24125
Maria Demetriou   24025
James Woodruff   24000
Alli Mallu   23800
Nicos Ioannou   23725
Jim Reid   23625
W Cheung   23400
Chris Bruce   22975
Terry Chapman   22950
Daniel Kerridge   22175
Keith Hawkins   22100
Louise Fennell   21900
Walid Salim Khalil   21450
Christoffer Nilsen   21125
Victoria Coren   20975
Fabio Esposito   20900
Keir Fitzgibbon   20850
Jonathan Huckle   20350
Nik Stylianou   19625
Sebastian Saffari   19450
Javed Ghazi   18775
Martins Adeniya   17575
Tony Kelly   17475
Jonathon Martin   17000
Andrew Teng   16800
Koroush Nikkhahe   16775
Chris Rhodes   16575
Simon Wickenden   16575
Dave Colclough   16300
John Rigolli   16175
Paul King   15975
Trevor Reardon   15550
Nick Goodall   15450
Antony Phillips   15425
Harprit Gurnam   15275
Glen Altham   14700
Sunny Chattha   14400
Frank Doyle   14200
Stuart Nash   14075
Carlo Citrone   13850
Lam Trinh   13850
Craig Owen   13650
John Chambers   13350
Hugo Martin   13275
E Svanes   12950
Jerome Bradpiece   12900
John Burberry   12575
Ghassan Elhoss   12400
Simon Ashdown   12100
Fahid Ali   11875
Anthony William Hardy   11725
Tom Camp   11200
Dr Aris   11025
Paul Hambleton   10550
Daren Braddick   10300
Jonathon Baylis   10100
Barry Carter   10100
Simon Taylor   9500
Ramazanali Abbassi   9400
Anthony Chapman   9350
Frank Pini   9250
John Fletcher   9150
Alan Rawling   8725
B Reynolds   8475
Mark Rayson   8300
Teddy Sheringham   7750
Paul Bracken   7650
Rumit Somaiya   7175
Alan Ivinson   7175
Simon Joseph Eastwood   7100
Johnathon Reynolds   7100
Ben Roberts   7075
Charles Denton   7025
Lloyd Rees   6700
Liam Flood   6600
Mark Steer   6600
Laurence Houghton   6500
Dave Penley   6300
Alan Armitage   6225
Derek Miller   6150
Mark Survila   6100
Van Hoang   5775
Lawrence Windish   5700
Matthew Waddington   5625
Robert Garfield   5600
David Welch   5550
David Clark   5225
Des Jones   4950
Caroline Cunningham-brown   3850
G Husnu   3300
Karl Mahrenholz   2675
Will Kassouf   1700

[danafish]

Breaking news overheard from the AWOP folk:

Fabio (FAAAABIOOOO!) Esposito has just knocked out Dave Clark. From the tournament, not with fists or anything.

Also just now OUT - Mr Trevor Reardon.