DTD Monthly £300 Freezeout Day 1 - At A Glance

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Assorted chip counts, photos etc.

Matt Tyler - not actually 37k as he claims, but in reality 3.7k and a single Maoam candy atop his stack. Looks to be either strawberry or cherry flavour.
Nick Hicks - 7.5k
Lucy Rokach - around 15k
Alan Vinson - around 25k
Chris Bruce - 8k
tikay - 6k

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Some approximate chip counts:

Mazhar Latif -- 26.5k
Pete Linton -- 22k
Des Jonas -- 9k
Maurice Nicholson -- 6k
Andrea Gough -- 5.2k
Raj D -- 17k
tikay -- 7.2k
Davy Jones -- 8.4k
Chris Bruce -- 8.5k
Matt Doyle -- 16.7k
Nick Whiten -- 18.5k
Ramazanali Abbasi -- 13k
Alan Vinson -- 28.5k
Tony Nicholls -- 45k
Abdul Rashid -- 7k
Ben Callinan -- 27.5k
Maz Charalambous -- 28.5k
Simon Lawlor -- 6.1k

Sam Trickett isn't in his original seat, so could be out.
Wade Ashraf -- 7k

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Payout Copied Off Of Board

1) £17,127
2) £9,601
3) £5,968
4) £4,359
5) £3,373
6) £2,335
7) £1,816
8 ) £1,297
9) £1,038
10-17) Currently not on board, therefore unknown, but they'll be more than £300 and less than £1,038.

17 places paid, £51,900 total prize pool.

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My apologies if Dana reported this earlier on (I couldn't spot anything), but a big scoop that we may have missed was the exit untimely exit of Simon Nowab. It wasn't the most fortunate of hands, and it certainly didn't come particularly late in the day as the opening line reveals...

The blinds were 25 50 and with five limpers in front of him, Simon made it 450 to play with A-K. They all folded round to one chap who dwelled before calling. The Flop came A-A-8. Mateyboy bet out 1k, Chubbs made it 3k and Mateyboy pushed all-in. Chubbs, perhaps semi-reluctantly, made the call, only to be shown A-8.

Personally, I think it was a bit of a cooler, but is there an argument there to say Simon could have folded. Would any of you guys have let it go?

"A-Q or A-J, I think I could have got away from it," added Chubbs.

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Ben Callinan has tripled up! He found himself all-in with Td-Th vs. 9c-9s vs. As-7s on a 2s-3c-7c Flop. Kc and Qs Turn and River now means he's shot up to 27k.

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The ever-talkative Raj Dhiri has doubled up and eliminated a Mateyboy. Raj limp called a pre-flop raise of 700, before checking a Q-T-3 rainbow Flop and hitting a loverly jubberly Four on the Turn. Raj bet 1.7k, Mateyboy made it 3.4k and Mateyboy pushed all-in. Raj called quicker than a cheetah on roller-skates only to find his dejected opponent drawing dead with A-T. Raj now on 17k.

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"I've been Thewed (Mallued is so last season)," weeps 'Rana' Harpit Gurnham. "I had Aces, Kings and Queens three times and lost with all of them. The last one I raised it up with Queens and Julian called. The Flop came Nine high with two diamonds, Julian bet out, I raised, he re-raised and I pushed all-in. He asked how much it was and announced that he couldn't really fold before calling and flipping A-9 of diamonds. Blank turn was followed by a black Nine on the River, and that was that, the nasty way of losing the hand."

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The below gentleman, sitting in the seat designated for Ginikachukwu Izuogu but looking probably a bit too Caucasian to have a name like that, calls a 1500 bet from Mr Ramazanali Abbassi on a board. The river come the and he moves in. "Have you got a flush?" sighs Abbassi and calls; indeed he does, and it's the best kind he could possibly have on that board, it's the nut flush. Mr Probably Not Izuogu doubles up to 11k and Mr Abbassi mucks.

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Chili has now moved to Table 33, where she seems to be getting some respect. Mr Seat 8, probably Gerald McInally (in the stripy sweater below - can anyone confirm?) bets 1000 on a flop - both Mr Seat 1, probably Martin Reeve (in the red below) and Chili call.

Turn - and Mr Probably McInally in seat 8 bets 2k; Mr Probably Reeve makes it All In. Chili passes but Mr McInally calls.

Mr Probably McInally in Seat 8 -
Mr Probably Reeve in Seat 1 -

Chili is muttering that she also had a Six. Mr Seat 8 is telling the table that he wouldn't have dreamed of calling Chili had she made the move instead of Mr Probably Reeve (there's the respect, right there!) but this is how it turned out...

River - which obviously does not give Mr Probably McInally a flush, and Mr Probably Reeve doubles up.

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I stroll by Pete Linton's table to see him bet out 3-point-some k on a K-Q-4-5 board. His opponent sighs and passes an Ace face up. Pete shows him a Three. I believe he had raised this hand preflop. Possibly it was K-3. Possibly it was not. "I saw that," say I. "I'm reporting that."

He tells me there's been a measure of Irish Open-stylee sucking out too - apparently he moved in with middle pair against Keith Littlewood's two pair, obviously got himself called, and made good like a very lucky boy. Apparently Keith smacked him over the head a bit for it, but it sounds like he sort of deserved it so there's no hard feelings. On his part, anyway.

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Call him a rock no more, because in the space of just seven levels (yes, you heard me right, just seven levels), Marc Hodge has gone from 10k to 5k to 14k and boasting a day of yoyo-ing that even the Thewster himself would be proud of. Well, okay, he's played two hands, the latest of which saw his Pocket Queens survive a flopped flush draw to shoot him up to 14k. What have they done?! They've created a monster!

Agy Constanti -- 33k
Marc Hodge -- 14k
Dominic Kay -- 18k
Julian Thew -- 10.5k
Keir Fitzgibbon -- 5.3k
Danny Rudd -- 9.5k
Jim Moult -- 28.5k
Alan Stearne -- 8.8k
Martyn Reeve -- 4.8k
Trevor Reardon -- 13.5k
Alan Davies -- 20.9k
Mick Jones -- 18k
Nick Hicks -- 5.9k
Matt Tyler -- 11.5k
Maria Demetriou -- 36.5k
Richard Hawes -- 17.5k

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"Good game! Good game!" thought Chris Bruce as he found himself all-in with A-9 versus Kevin Lund's A-K. But a nine on the Flop was a Brucie bonus, and a Kingless Turn and River was nice to see, to see, nice. As a result, Bruce doubles up to 8k. Woweeeeee.

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Julian Thew is down to 10.5k after running into Mick Jones. Julian called a 600 bet with A-7 on an A-7-J all heart Flop and then called a 13k all-in from Mick. Mick showed Kh-Th and hit a Queen to take the pot.

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Simon Lawlor, Redsimon on blonde, has just above his starting stack. He was down to the felt at one point, but tripled up with A-J vs. K-Q vs. K-Q.

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WEATHER UPDATE FROM MY CIGARETTE BREAK:

Bitterly cold and snowing heavily, even though it was sunny before.


TIKAY UPDATE FROM BEFORE MY CIGARETTE BREAK:

I thought I was taking a heartless photo of the Great Man busting out, but he was merely moving tables. Might not be long, though - he's on 4.5k, with the blinds going up to 200/400. Having a lovely time, though, as not evident from this photo.

Click to see full-size image.

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Alan Davies is OUT - he found Kings but the Matey-gent two to his left found Aces. No help from the board, which read exactly .

Looking sad - Chris Bruce on 4.5k

Looking just massively pleased with himself - Pete Linton on a whopping probably-the-chip-leader 68k

Looking absolutely impassive - LeKnave, on around 15k

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Danny Rudd is OUT. According to my secret source, Jim Moult called from the small blind and Mateyboy re-raised from the big. The Ruddster pushed with Eights, only to be snap-called by Kings, and that was all she wrote, although I don't know who 'she' is or what the eck she was writing when that phrase was coined.

Alas, like all good train journeys, there must be a terminus, and tikay's station was Level 7. All-in with A-Q versus the A-9 of Kanabar Hiren, the dealer switched off the ol fella's life support machine by laying a 2-4-5-9-4 board onto the felt.

Chip leaders:

Pete Linton -- 62k
Tony Nichols -- 47k
Bing Donh -- 46k
Dave Smith -- 45k
Joe Stevenson -- 44.5k

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any news on any swansea lads

I know it's possibly 7 pages too late, but, as you can imagine, it's tricky to work out which players are from Swansea just by looking at them. However, just out of pure luck, I stumbled upon Swansea's own Martyn Reeve who retold his recent tale of departure. Unable to find a hand all day, Martyn raised from the button with a 6k stack, only to be the re-raised all-in by the big blind. Martyn believed he was against a overcards, so took a shot, but was unable to earn that much needed double through as he failed to survive a coinflip against A-J.

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Also dust biting is Wade Ashraf. He ran A-Q into Queens and is now in search of a fruity cash game.

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Pete Linton is suddenly most upset - he'd got himself up to the heady heights of a definitely-chip-leading 75k, and then he done gone and lost a 50k pot, most unfortunately. Apparently the gentleman next to him, whom Pete does not right now think is a gentleman, called for a gutshot and hit - I believe Pete had A-Q and his neighbour J-T, all in on an A-Q-rag flop.

Pete still on a moderately-chip-leading 50k though.