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[Claw75]

Gooooooo Jen and Chili!!!!!

[danafish]

A most unusual thing - a six-way pot. Preflop, at least. That's far too many ID cards for one updater to be reading, so I shall merely tell you that Chili finally allowed them all to see a cheap flop by considerately checking the big blind, and that that flop was .

It checks around to Anthony Phillips on the button, who bets a chunky 9100. Brian Johnson and Talal Shakerchi both call.

Turn - and everyone's back to checking now.

River - and there is some sneaky and un-sneaky checking from Johnson and Shakerchi respectively, until Phillips bets 30k. Johnson calls with for almost the nuts, and an irked Phillips mucks.

[JungleCat03]

Knockouts seem to be coming thick and fast...

Barney Boatman, the last remaining Hendon Mobster is OUT!


Christopher Nilsen is also OUT! his shortstack being forced allin blind in the BB and Johnathan Martin's A-J prevailing over the 2-3 of Nilsen. Johnathan celebrated by requesting a massage.


Johnathan Baylis just raised from the cutoff, only to find Johnathan Martin in action YET AGAIN as he made it an additional 30k.

Baylis opted to flat call this big re-raise and the flop fell . Martin bet enough to put Baylis in, and although he had reservations Baylis called. He looked mightily unhappy though, flipping Q-Q, only to be shown A-A in the hands of Martin. A 3 and 6 finished off the hand and a sighing Baylis collected his things and departed.

"I knew massages were lucky for me!" chirped Martin chirpily.

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Gl to chili! Latest chip count if poss pls!

[JungleCat03]

Steve Jelinek looks to have won a MONSTER coup at some stage, up to the heady heights of 150k+ at the moment!

How he has done this I do not know BUT i intend to find out. Good job Steve!

[snoopy1239]

As has been the patten throughout the day, there has been more action here than an Arnie flick on sterids making full chip counts difficult to produce. However, even though it can all change in a flash, I did manage to grab full counts from the far two tables, both of which can now boast the presence of John Conroy, Dave Colclough and co. Meanwhile, on the other tables, I can tell you that Steve Clutterbuck (pictured) is still riding high with 275k, as is Marius Hogtun on 200k, whilst players like Derek Miller (36k) and Inil Abraham (45k) are fighting for their lives.

Dave Colclough -- 70k
Yilfer Shevket -- 71k
Talal Shakerchi -- 41.5k
Tony Phillips -- 88k
Maria Demetriou -- 83k
Brian Johnson -- 132.5k
Mark Friedman -- 145k
Chris Rhodes -- 73k
Jeremy Longley -- 27.5k
Mark Rayson -- 38.5k
Nik Stylianou -- 49k
Jen Mason -- 65k
Fran Egan -- 47.5k
Ian Cox -- 34.5k
Steve Jelinek -- 192k
Dan Samson -- 68.5k
Jonathan Martin -- 195k
John Conroy -- 43k

[danafish]

Mark Friedman limps on the button, and small blind Talal Shakerchi makes it 10k. Big blind Chris Rhodes calls, as does Friedman.

Flop - - Shakerchi checks, and Rhodes shoves. Friedman gets out of the way, but Talal thinks about it for a bit. He calls, most ill-fatedly, as his is no match for Rhodes'  .

Turn -
River -

And big-stack-through-the-whole-of-days-one-through-now Talal Shakerchi is OUT. The entire hand was conducted in absolute, stony, creepy silence. I have no idea why.

[NoflopsHomer]

Bizarr-o Laydown Of The Day

Jeff Buffenbarger barges in and shoves on a flop that reads .

James Sudworth thinks and thinks about it - and then folds pocket Kings! Face up! Pandemonium on the table! Particularly upset is Willie Tann. "You fold pocket Kings! Pocket Kings! I have a Nine I'm calling. Kings!!!" Buffenbarger shows A-8. Apparently Sudworth put him on a draw that we wasn't prepared to gamble against...

[danafish]

Jan Lundberg limps in from mid-position, and Jerome button-raises. The blinds pass, and Lundberg re-raises. Jerome folds pretty swiftly. He rolls his eyes at me and giggles.

And disaster for the start-of-day-2 chip leader! Just moments later he is all in on a 3-Q-9 flop and called by Steve Townsend, and oh the pain! Jerome has Q-3 and Townsend is holding a nutsy Q-Q. King and Ace on the turn and river, and with a noise that sounds a lot like "oh no!" Mr Bradpiece is OUT.

--------- 40 minute dinner break ---------

Maybe M&S is still open.

[JungleCat03]

James Keys just played out a big pot.

Raising to 7k from MP, he was re-raised an additional 21k by Ketul Nathwani.

He thought for a bit then moved all the rest of his stack, c 85k into the middle and Nathwani quickly called.

Q-Q for Nathwani
A-J for Keys.

No Ace transpired meaning Keys is OUT whilst Ketul is coming to the boil nicely.

[Colchester Kev]

No Ace transpired meaning Keys is OUT whilst Ketul is coming to the boil nicely.

 

[Victoria Coren]

Someone just told me about this "reporting" which happened on day 1B:

"Poor old Fran is indeed OUT....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."

!! It's hard to know where to start really. Why on earth would I have said that??? A few hours into a three day tournament, a young woman I've never met or spoken to gets knocked out and I'm supposed to say "That's the result we were all hoping for?" Why??!! Just to be horrible?! I hope that anyone who's ever met me would know that I wouldn't say anything like that even if it was the final table and somebody's exit won me £50,000 ! But at level 3 or 4, when nobody's exit makes any difference to me one way or the other, why would *anybody* think I would say that? What am I, Satan?!
  Needless to say, of course I didn't say that! I said "Well that's not a good result". And it wasn't meant to be horrible to Steve Jellinek either - he'd just won loads of pots in a row, he was chip leader on the table, this knockout gave him lots of power, so it was just a way of showing a bit of sympathy for the woman who'd been knocked out, and a bit of banter with Steve because I didn't want him to have quite so many chips. I wouldn't have said it if losing the pot could have damaged Steve; he had a big stack already, so it was just a kind of joky thing about it being bad for us that now he had even more.
  Fran - it did seem that you were annoyed with me when you walked away and I had no idea why; I now realize you must have thought I said that too. Not at all - quite the opposite! I was sorry to see you go; I'm always sorry to see someone get knocked out, unless I've got the chips myself or (selfishly) we're on the bubble - and even then I'm sympathetic because it's always a horrible moment when your hopes get dashed. I would never cheer when I knocked someone out or anything like that. God knows I certainly wouldn't cheer when someone ELSE knocked someone out!!! I'm incredibly sorry if you thought I was being mean, but I hope you realized quite quickly that OF COURSE I wasn't - there's only a tiny handful of people in poker who'd be quite that horrible, and I'm not one of them!
  But to the person who 'reported' this... really I think perhaps you might have spoken to me before you wrote that down in public for people to read. It's a very unpleasant allegation, and even if it didn't occur to you that there must have been a misunderstanding, you should always check a quote before you attribute it to someone. It's kind of irresponsible not to.
  And Fran - sorry again if you misheard me, I really hope this clears it up, and good luck in your next tournament.
  

[kieron_j_uk]

I told you all to watch out for 'Chris Rhodes' which isn't his real name, he's actually Gus Hansen playing under a pseudonym for tax reasons.

[nirvana]

Great updates and especially mr rod, panth, junglec, thundercat ?

Is mr bauffenberger a bitova name in poker ? is he still in ? either way, nice chap in a poker sense in my limited experience.

Vicky, just read your post - I own 3 houses, a BMW and a merc, i know that's not really relevant but I think your gorge and I'm sure people here just misunderstood something - apologies please everyblondie

[londonpokergirl]

go jen & chili