DTD Monthly £300 Freezeout Final Day - At A Glance

[danafish]

Er, we've actually just finished Day 1 and are still at DTD, but seeing as they're starting again in 10 hours, it seems thoroughly appropriate to start the threads.

Hello! Welcome back to lovely DTD, where 173 players started on Day 1 and a mere 42 have made it through to Day 2. These are they, barring illegibility of names on the chip count forms, etc:

Table 11:

Toni Le -- 30,800
Ben Dons -- 21,200
James Moult -- 25,800
Terry Arnord -- 53,300
Phil Hughes -- 15,000
Nigel Hill -- 26,500
Sam Saville-Barton -- 43,600
Steven Mills -- 18,300
Neil Henshaw -- 13,600

Table 12:

Chin Koh -- 40,300
John Cann -- 29,400
Kevin Lund -- 81,900
Chung Hoang -- 34,000
Ouday Hikary -- 119,600
Petter Haere -- 85,500
Daniel Platter -- 32,700
Zhenru Xie -- 78,700

Table 14:

Lam Trinh -- 44,300
George Kennedy -- 24,000
Goasdowe Erwan -- 27,100
Rob Woodcock -- 21,600
Lucy Rokach -- 51,000
Gareth Melson -- 41,400
Daniel Byrom -- 64,500
David Stratton -- 23,000

Table 23:

Richard Hawes -- 24,100
John Simons -- 19,200
Matt Tyler -- 42,800
Karl Bullock -- 37,800
Rob Allen -- 11,100
Joe Stevenson -- 35,200
Chris Bruce -- 31,100
Anthony Nicholls -- 6,100
Dave Smith -- 31,200

Table 25:

Maz Charalambous -- 35,400
Pete Linton -- 144,200
Garinder Purewal -- 129,600
John Burke -- 26,800
Alan Stearn -- 81,900
Nick Whiten -- 18,800
Ramazanali Abbassi -- 27,400

See you at 3pm! I hope we get Sunday lunch, but it might be another DTD burger for me and Snoops...

[danafish]

Sorry, all you bokkers, Mr Richard Hawes is OUT, running some sort of not-as-good-as-Aces hand into the Aces of Mr Dave Smith. He is currently in the bar with a cup of coffee.

[danafish]

Mr Chin Koh makes it 4.8k, and the gentleman in seat 2, whom we believe is John Cann, makes it All In, or 26k total. Mr Koh, who reminds us a bit of Hiro Nakamura from popular television drama "Heroes" when he speaks, says, "Are we still friends if I call?" He folds though. Mr Cann shows A-Q offsuit.

[snoopy1239]

The first player out today was in fact Tony Nicholls, who was so short that he felt obliged to call all-in blind from the big blind after Alan Stearn raised his button.

Alan Stearn =

Tony Nicholls =

Board =

"He played it well," joked Nick Whiten as Tony departed, with a sporting smile I might add.

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Also joining the early afternoon queue at the bar is Gareth Nelson, the youngster perhaps messing with the unmessable as he clashed with the mighty Lucy Rokach. I joined the action just in time to see Lucy (small blind) bet out on a only to be re-raised by Gareth in the big. In what felt like a machine gun smattering of action, Lucy announced all-in and Gareth called.

Lucy =

Gareth =

Gareth ran through the cards he required, but they failed to emerge as the River came a harmless .

[danafish]

Also doubling up - Mr Neil Henshaw, holding Aces against a less good hand belonging to Mr Terry Arnold.

Not quite doubling up, but grinding his way to victory: Mr Chris Bruce. Matt "Cromwell" Tyler makes it 4.5k and Chris makes it All In for not a huge amount more. Matt shakes his head, smiles and passes A-Q offsuit.

[snoopy1239]

We joked earlier about the yoyo-ability of Pete Linton, but I've come to realise that it's far from an understatement. Not since my first experience of an adult movie have I witnessed such rapid up and down motions, Pete Linton's stack possessing the boingability of a kanagaroo on a trampoline. After losing a chunk of his stack with A-K versus Sixes (a set on the River apparently), Pete then made a move with (ahem) J-6, pushing over the top of Alan Stearn on an Ace high Flop. Unfortunately, Stearn had an Ace, and bizarrely didn't respect Pete's play, and called quicker than a jet propelled whippet.

After that hand, Maz Charalambous waltzed over to me, grabbed my pad and wrote down the words 'Linton on full tilt'. Something tells me that he wasn't referring to the online cardroom and suggesting that Pete was simultaneously attacking the virtual felt with a lappie on his lap, but that perhaps Pete's demise was nigh. However, those predictions are yet to see the light of day, Pete in fact doubling up just moments ago with Aces on a raggy board.

As a result, Pete is now back over the 50k mark, but we'll keep a firm eye fixed on his current table as there are sure to be more fireworks than a decade of November 5ths.

[danafish]

The young emo-stylee-barnetted gent in this photo, presumed to be one Phil Hughes, is OUT. I'm assuming that the chips went in on the flop or turn, as there were two clubs on said flop and another on the turn - Mr Hughes was holding and Mr Dave Smith was holding . Ouch.

[danafish]

Mr Chung Hoang is also OUT after a good call from Mr Kevin Lund. Mr Lund made it 3k on a flop and Mr Hoang made it All In for 28k. Eventually Lund called.

Kevin Lund -
Chung Hoang -

Turn - (not an Eight)
River - (also not an Eight)

[danafish]

Mr Chris Bruce, Grinder Of The Tournament, is still in!!! with just over 30k, I reckon. Furthermore, he is multi-tasking most impressively, apparently both reading this update and playing the tournament at the same time. Hello, chrisbruce!

[snoopy1239]

Caught in "I'll get my coat" motion, there has been further exitage in the form of George Kennedy. All-in with versus the of Daniel Byrom, the board, and George's inner thoughts, came out as such...

= good card

= good card

= sweaty palm card

= good card, one more of those please...

= Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (That's a bad card in case anyone didn't realise what the Argh! meant)

[snoopy1239]

Full chip counts courtesy of, well... us. Yay us!

Pete Linton -- 85k
Erwan Goasdowe -- 46.5k
Alan Stearn -- 131k
Lucy Rokach -- 43k
Karl Bullock -- 28.5k
Daniel Byrom -- 116.5k
David Stratton -- 56k
John Burke -- 21k

Chin Koh -- 51.5k
Garinder Purewal -- 177k
Kevin Lund -- 125k
Ouday Hikary -- 133k
Joe Stevenson -- 42k
Petter Haere -- 51k
Daniel Platten -- 28.5k
Xia Zhenru -- 71.5k

Matt Tyler -- 31k
Jim Moult -- 40k
Maz Charalambous -- 65.5k
Nick Whiten -- 25.5k
Steven Mills -- 31.5k
Sam Saville-Barton -- 65.5k
Dave Smith -- 96.5k
Chris Bruce -- 83.5k

[danafish]

Grinder Of Like, Forever, Mr Chris Bruce - currently on around 80k! That's above average!

[danafish]

Pete Linton's chip count is a bit misleading, it makes it seem like he's just been sort of average or something, which is not the case. As I wandered over to his table, he was pretty short on 40k or so  - big surprise, he'd lost a massive hand just moments earlier - and he was now all in, called by Lucy Rokach. And he's ahead!

Pete Linton -
Lucy Rokach -

Board - and Eightless 

It takes almost forever to count up Pete's two massive stacks of low-denomination chips:

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Lucy is very unhappy about all of this, and coughs up the 42k entirely in the 100 chips. This is what Pete's stack looks like now:

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[danafish]

DTD Owner Of The Day Mr Nick Whiten is OUT, running his into the of No Longer Grinder Of The Day, Mr Chris Bruce.

Board - an eye-popping and he's gone. May or may not be whistling to himself. Also please admire the unusual light fixtures.

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[snoopy1239]

Incredibly, start of day chip leader Pete Linton is OUT. Earlier confessing that his grinding days were long gone, Pete Linton lived up to those words by pushing over the top of Daniel Byrom's pre-flop raise with A-5 from the small blind. Unfortunately for Pete, Daniel made the call with A-K suited, and although the 3-4-6 rainbow Flop lifted Pete's hopes, it wasn't to be as the Turn and River came blanks. A relieved Byrom scooped in a nice welcome pot as neighbour John Burke commented, "I could see all the blood rising in your face as that Flop came down." Pete meanwhile heads straight to the door and makes a sharp exit, clearly fuming and ready to kick the nearest car bumper.  Crap, my poor Fiesta!!!