Bluesquare.com London GUKPT Final Day - At A Glance

[danafish]

Good morning good morning,

Especially for Sofa King, and anyone else who would like to post entertaining and poorly photoshopped pictures, I bring you...

Today's Thread!

Spotted so far - actually just a lone Marius Hogtun drinking beer in the casino. But we're all set up in the press room and I suspect all the other players are lurking somewhere, so rest assured that we will be watching them play the good poker, and at some point today we will have a Winner.

These are our players:
Tony Phillips   668000
David Rudling   546500
Maria Demetriou   470000
Ketul Nathwani   410500
Alessandro Meoni 349500
Lloyd Reece   346000
Dan Sansom   310000
Darren Pearce   294500
Steve Jelinek   258000
Colin Kennedy   243500
Marius Hogtun   144000
Fran Egan   101000
Simon Wickenden   67000
Davood Mehrmand   55500

And this is what they're playing for:
1st £119,780
2nd  £69,960
3rd   £50,880
4th   £33,920
5th   £26,500
6th   £20,140
7th   £15,900
8th   £12,720
9th    £9,540
10th   £6,360
11th-13th £4,240
14th  £3,180

[danafish]

There has been a redraw, which has taken a little time to orchestrate, and also at the time of writing no-one could find any dealers, according to over-keen field reporter Junglecat. Should hopefully be starting soon though...

[danafish]

And they're off! We're employing a kind of relay strategy today, to ensure there's at least one of us in the cardroom at all times. I suspect we will soon see either the demise of, or the spectacular comeback of, Davood Mehrmand and Simon Wickenden, the both of them on 5 or 6 big blinds currently. Eek.

[snoopy1239]

Unsurprisingly, the fast paced action has continued from where it left off yesterday, Fran Egan doubling up within the first couple of hands with Pocket Rockets against the K-Q of Dan Samson. Samson loses a third of his stack.

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Bedlam here. Another gone in Simon Wickenden. We didn't catch the full pattern of play, but by the end, Simon had T-8 on a T-Q-2-Q-2 board. Unfortunately, Tony Phillips had T-9, and although it may take a double look, that all-important does indeed play to give Tony the pot.

[snoopy1239]

As displayed by the picture of Dana above, it's shocking stuff down here at the Grosvenor Victor, if only because the players are dropping like lemmings on a tightrope. He managed to survive two exits, but shortstacked Davood Mehrmand is now OUT. Pushing with K-8 pre-flop, he was looked up by Marius' A-5. The Td-6d-9c-Tc-9h board was of no use and the bouffant is gone.

[danafish]

Marius Hogtun makes it 36k from the button. Danny Rudling is on the big blind. There is a long pause. Really long. They're staring at each other, twiddling chips. Eventually someone calls the clock. More staring. 30 seconds left. Pipes up Rudling, "Let this one go, son. You can have my blind next time." Looks of confusion on the faces of Marius and your updaters. "Er, what?" Apparently Rudling had quietly gone all in and Marius (and I) hadn't noticed and were under the impression that the clock had been called on Rudling. "Oh yes, of course," he says, and pushes his chips in. Much merriment.

Marius Hogtun -
David Rudling -

Board -

A double-up for the twigged-just-in-the-nick-of-time Marius. Just out of interest, say he hadn't twigged and had run out of time, what do you reckon the ruling would have been when they tried to fold his hand?

[danafish]

Chili's taken a pretty big hit. Dan Samson raised and Chili re-raised enough to put him in. He called with A-J, dominated by her A-K, but oh the cruelty!

Board -

Not sure exactly how big the pot was, Junglecat tells me it looked to be about 300k, but it could well be more - general consensus in the pressroom was that Samson had over 200k at the start of the hand...

[danafish]

Rollercoaster ride for Maria, yikes.

She and Dan Samson see a flop; it is . Dan bets 12k, Maria calls.

Turn - - and they both check now.

River - - and Maria bets 30k. Dan calls, and his Ten for rivered trips squashes her Jack for two pair. Chili is burning with fiery rage, and down to around 200k.

[danafish]

But Marius-on-Maria action!

In a classic gods-paying-her-back-for-that-AK-v-AJ-outdraw scenario, Maria has totally sucked out against Marius Hogtun. He raised from the button and she shoved with , only to get herself called by Marius' unbelievably-dominatey A-Q.

Board Of Divine Demetriou Favour -

Back up to around 400k, we reckon; Marius way back down that all important chip-based leaderboard thingy.

[danafish]

Some tableside gossip from Doglet:

Tony Phillips told him that he's not had a good start to the day. He's apparently raised five times, and every time he's had to lay it down to a re-raise because he's, er, been at it with absolutely nothing. Also, he says that the whole table is pretty tight, except for Ketul Nathwani two places to his right, who likes to play his button really strongly, thus eating all Tony's blinds. Yikes and similar.

Also David Rudling has been playing a very aggressive game, it seems, because he raises from the button and Dan Samson says, "Hmm, I have Five-high and I'm thinking it's good." He folds and Rudling asks him if he'd like to see, and he doesn't. Fran Egan does, but Rudling won't show him. Not even one. By the time he's finished arguing that he was the small blind and therefore had equity in the hand and somehow deserved to see, the cards have found their way into the muck, so we shall never know...

[danafish]

Mr Colin KENNEDYYYYYYYYY!!!!!



...has doubled up.

Blind-on-blind action, Tony Phillips with  in the small blind and Colin KENNEDY!!!!! with in the big blind. KENNEDY!!!! all in for 202k preflop.

Board -


...And also another double-up for Fran Egan and his microstack! All in pre with against Marius Hogtun holding, er, .

Board -

Says Egan in celebration, "Bing bong. I talked him into calling with J-5."

Nevertheless he remains the short stack - he's on probably around 150 or 200k.

[JungleCat03]

News from the other table...



Tony Phillips raises it up and Meoni and Ketul Nethwan both call from the blinds.

There is no action on any streets of the board till the river, where Ketul puts out a bet of 70k.

It's called by Phillips who shows for top pair and Ketul looked like he was trying to make a thin value bet with his 2nd pair but it was no good.

Phillips has strengthened his position after a wobble whilst Meoni now finds himself short...

[danafish]

And a dirty exit!

Excitable Italian Alessandro Meoni raises from the button, and Ketul Nathwani re-raises from the small blind. Meoni moves all in, and Ketul must have just boiled over or something, because he calls.

Ketul Nathwani - 
Alessandro Meoni -

And obviously Nathwani flops the nuts on a board, and Meoni is OUT in 11th place. Apparently he takes it badly, according to Field Reporter Doglet: "He waved his arms around a lot. You know, like he was angry. Lots of waving. Then he stormed off."

Ketul is our new chip leader with over 900k.

[JungleCat03]

is it the final table bubble?

Yes it is.

And here are the current standings courtesy of that doggy diva, snoopy.

Steve Jelinek 215k
Ketul Nathwani 840k
Lloyd Rees 445k
Tony Phillips 530k
Colin Kennedy 525k
Maria Demetriou 335k
David Rudling 440k
Fran Egan 200k
Dan Sampson 340k
Marius Hogtun 335k

[JungleCat03]

Things have gone a little quiet at the tables in recent times.

David Rudling has maintained the aggression he has shown recently, illustrated by one hand where Marius raised to 40k, to be met by a re-raise to 140k by David.

Floppy haired Marius said "I might do something stupid here..."...but passed.

"Wouldn't be the first time" was David's comical put down. 1-0 to Rudling in that exchange i think.


Meanwhile, all this tension is clearly getting Fran thirsty. He is heard bellowing to the rail "Get me a f******* pint!" That's a man who needs a drink.


Steve Jelinek has doubled up!

Holding 9-T he was getting a little short and shoved preflop only to find the well chipped up Ketul calling with K-Q.

A flop of gave Steve a decisive full house, and left Ketul steaming. Will any hands hold up today??!!


We are on a short break for the players to gather their thoughts and re-formulate their strategies.