Bluesq.com GUKPT Manchester: Day 1A - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Ray Wyre has bizarrely doubled up against previous 'cannot miss king' John Morris.

They saw a 2-4-8 flop, Morris bet out, Wyre shoved for a huge amount, (10kish we reckon), Morris called and was ahead with A-Q, as Wyre showed caught-in-the-trap-Oh-I-thought-you'd-fold T-9. That was until a straight-inducing Jack turn and vomiting-reaching 7 river for a lucky straight.

"Poker," as Rolf Slotboom would say, "It's a shkill game."

[NoflopsHomer]

Marc Goodwin has doubled up, all-in with Aces against Ace Queen on a Queen high flop.

John Morris continues to be involved in the biggest pots, he called a flop bet on a 9-2-3 board, before being the shorter stack then c/raised all-in on the Jack turn. Morris went for it with 9-5, but was in trouble vs pocket Tens. Blank on the river and he's lost another 20k or so and is back down to 35k.

[NoflopsHomer]

******************1-hour break for dinner*****************

[NoflopsHomer]

Jen may be smiling in this picture, (Nik Persaud paid for her and Tony to have a massage) but she gave away a few chips earlier, betting the turn of a board and then betting again, 3.5k on the river. She received a nasty surprise, though, being check/raised to 10k which is when she gave up the pot.



During the dinner break she said she'd been very impressed by the gent three to her left, who'd folded the nut-flush to her on the river of a K-5-2-K-x board when he'd bet the river and she'd set him (she was holding 5-5). "Maybe I should've just min-raised..."

Askild Hansen continues to do well, he bet out 1,200 on a flop, Terrence Owens made it 3,200, the Norwegian thought for a while before adding another 10k on top to elicit a quick fold that he probably surmised he would get.




Laurance Houghton bets 1,250. Dominic Kay raises to 3,500 and Houghton flat-calls. Kay then checks the before folding to a 4,750 bet.

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul Parker has been quietly going under the radar in that traditional Parkery sort of way. Though, he'll happy tell you, in full detail, any single hadnd you wish to ask about.

"I limped for 50 with Kings, and Reyaaz Mulla raises to 250, and I know his range is huge, so I decide to just call, but before I can, someone else makes it 750. Now I'm only getting action from Aces if I re-raise again here so I decide to just flat-call and Mulla folds. Now the flop comes Ten-high and he bets out 1,000, I flat-call and now surely even Aces will slow down here. The turn is an Ace and he checks, and so do I. I now think he most likely has Queens or Jacks and I can value bet the river. A Queen comes on the river and it goes check/check, but I think I played it right."

[Colchester Kev]

4   1   401   David Smith   10700   
4   2   402   Richard Offless   15725   
4   3   403   Danielle Allen   7800   
4   4   404   Jonothon Butters   6375   
4   5   405   Adam Aitken   4950   
4   6   406   Sunny Chattha   19275   
4   8   408   Dominic Kay   20000   
4   9   707   Nathan Tang   13200   
4   10   109   Willie Tann   10175   
5   1   501   Stephen King   6725   
5   2   106   Marc Goodwin   25700   
5   3   407   Mark Tomblin   1450   
5   4   504   Askild Hansen   35250   
5   5   505   Paul Gardener   16050   
5   7   703   Terry Owens   8425   
5   8   507   Tuan Lee   22975   
5   9   708   Stephen Sass   7300   
5   10   305   John Gardner   7500   
6   1   601   Zachary Ford   15800   
6   2   602   Bahman Aghatabay   12550   
6   3   603   Neil Rigby   4950   
6   5   605   Kevin Bloor   5115   
6   6   606   Ryan Fronda   1400   
6   7   1207   Peter Kvisthammar   14625   
6   8   608   Laurance Houghton   17500   
6   9   609   Joe Grech   26250   
6   10   301   Paul Murphy   15925   
8   1   801   Adam Clarke   8925   
8   3   803   Peter Hutton   15375   
8   4   804   David Mitchell   26775   
8   5   805   Andy Bradshaw   29300   
8   6   806   Clive Layton   2850   
8   7   807   Mike Williams   10150   
8   8   908   Mark Suddes   6025   
8   9   709   Mohammed Kazi   13025   
9   1   901   Ryan Malone   4300   
9   2   902   Mark Bointon   10600   
9   3   903   Kulkjinder Sidhu   5450   
9   5   704   Eddie Lundon   9150   
9   6   906   John Perrin   18725   
9   7   907   Alan Armitage   8075   
9   8   108   Aarun Bernard   11650   
9   9   909   Jeraint Hazan   22750   
9   10   202   Daniel Wicks   12400   
10   1   1001   George McDonald   12400   
10   2   1002   Richard Simmonds   2300   
10   3   702   Michael Ahearne   9675   
10   4   1004   David Docherty   8175   
10   5   1005   Chris Bruce   11750   
10   6   306   Sam Trickett   3900   
10   7   1007   Martino Libertini   9625   
10   8   1008   Alan Mclean   25150   
10   9   1009   Paul Brammer   13150   
10   10   206   Craig Metcalfe   19475   
11   1   1101   Martyn Robinson   12225   
11   3   1103   Jen Mason   27925   
11   4   701   Tony Phillips   9600   
11   5   1105   Stephen Holden   13275   
11   6   1106   Turgay Bagdagai   6950   
11   7   1107   Darren Roberts   8200   
11   8   1108   Simon Eastwood   48000   
11   9   1109   Michael Porter   23475   
11   10   1110   Jamil Ogunmakinawa   7800   
12   1   1201   Dennis Troake   1125   
12   2   1202   Ray Wyre   18550   
12   3   107   Jammie Hallam   37400   
12   5   1205   John Morris   39035   
12   6   1206   Jimmy Morgan   6350   
12   7   209   Liv Boeree   8200   
12   8   308   Trevor Lawson   10650   
12   9   1209   Gareth Stafford   14875   
12   10   210   Paul Parker   16925   
13   1   1301   Des Jonas   21250   
13   2   1302   Martin Smythe   14625   
13   3   1303   Anthony Cagill   13200   
13   4   1304   Clark Watson   5625   
13   6   302   Stephen Slavin   14175   
13   7   1307   Steve Walmsley   7775   
13   8   1308   Jonathan McCann   4350   
13   9   1309   Martin Petter   14000   
13   10   207   Chris Berry   10675   
14   1   1402   Barry Grimes   22850   
14   2   1508   Martin Tomes   11725   
14   3   1404   Joey Lovelady   38900   
14   4   1405   Anto Farkas   7925   
14   5   802   Steven George   13500   
14   6   1003   Rob Ellis   9550   
14   7   1408   Thomas Treacy   13500   
14   8   203   Reyaaz Mulla   6575   
14   9   1410   Amiri Maz   33925   
15   1   1501   Billy Ngo   14125   
15   2   201   Brendon Clarke   15200   
15   3   1503   David English   14950   
15   4   1504   Alex MacFarlane   15250   
15   5   1505   James Akenhead   4675   
15   6   1506   Andrea Gough   9925   
15   8   706   Alex Kong   6550   
15   9   309   Stephen Henshall   22975   
15   10   101   Michael Clarke   7700   


Chip counts from the nice people at blue square.

[NoflopsHomer]

James Akenhead, Ketul Nathwani, Reyaaz Mulla, Chris Bruce, (Reggie) John Perrin have all been shipped off on the big train to Bustoville.

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[Colchester Kev]

Jen has lost 3 decent sized pots, now in push or pass mode.

Alex Kong has gone, short stack shove with  met resistance from Joey Lovelady's  Jhand no surprises, we are a man down.

[Colchester Kev]

2 departures .... Womble is no longer in his seat, an AK v AQ coup of which Womble was at the wrong end of.

and serial GUKPT finalist Jonathan Butters is not going to add to his final table count, he has left the building

[Colchester Kev]

JJ Hazan ( our Ralph Malph lookalike from earlier) is on a bit of a tear, he called a short stack all in with  because in his own words "I am only calling because im running good .. he was shown  but as he warned the table ... a  duly arrived on the flop and he adds a few more chips to his stack

[Colchester Kev]

Down to 69 players and just heading towards a 15 minute break at the end of this level.

[NoflopsHomer]

How is Jen's stack ?

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Stuck with Tony Phillips constantly re-raising her preflop and also trying to float her on a T-T-3 board with K-Q against her 6-6 and then hitting the K turn took a chunk from her stack. She also had her K-Q rivered by K-T for more chips before knocking out Sam Trickett with 4-4 vs A-J, then finally she pushed with A-K into Michael Porter's Q-Q and missed.

One of the biggest pots though has just occured though.

Waseem Shahid was all-in preflop and a sidepot was happening between Mark Goodwin and Askild Hansen.



Marc quickly moves in, and the crowd grows.

Askild thinks, the crowd grows more.

Askilds keeps thinking, clever locals set-up small amenity shops so that crowds have somewhere to get snacks from whilst they wait.

Askild calls. Marc flips over ahead but vunerable as Askild shows . Waseem shows .



Now Waseem has the lead and Askild picks up an extra 3 outs.



Marc dodges all the bullets and wins the decent-sized side pot of about 30,000 whilst Waseem wins the main pot of around 10,000.

[NoflopsHomer]

George 'Wellchief' McDonald (who still has nightmares about folding KK preflop last year to Dave Colclough last year) has been going errr, well again erm, chief. He's on about 45k having won two nice pots with Aces then knocked a player out with A-K vs A-Q. Here he is with Liv Boeree.



Marty Smyth -- 27k



Askild Hansen has just been knocked out by Marc Goodwin leaving Petter Martinsen as the last Norwegian in. But evenhe's just been crippled getting it all-in with T-4 vs K-J on a T-4-K board, only to be hit by a rivered King. Astute viewers will remember that he was also the slightly tipsy guy who ended up renaming Nick Slade as 'Nick Salad' in Dortmund last year...

[Colchester Kev]

Joey Lovelady has taken out another player Peter Hutton was the unlucky victim ... His  was no match for Loveladys 

Mind you, all the chips went in on a  flop


Lovelady now has 45k

[NoflopsHomer]

Sunny Chattha has escaped!!!



Well sort of. The small blind limped and Sunny checked 9-8o in the big blind. The flop came a beautiful Q-J-T which they checked. The small blind led out on the 5 turn, and Sunny raised, the small blind flat-calling. The river paired the Queen, and the small blind checked and showed his cards before Sunny could act. Sunny said he'd have checked behind anyway, despite seeing the A-K of the small blind. He lost around 9k, though probably should've lost his whole stack on the turn. He's now short, having just been made to fold from the cut-off due to Tuan Lee's re-raise from the small blind.

Another player who was lucky to hold onto his stack was Jonathan McCann, he hadn't see Clark Watson already move-in and was forced to minimum raise from the 5k all-in short stack push to 10k. Enough to make Marty Smyth fold A-Q in the big blind. Clark showed 9-8o and was slightly relieved to see K-J, and even more delighted to see the board come out Q-7-7-8-7 in his favour. Although Marty might be rueing that decision...

Marc Goodwin looks to be the chip leader with around 80k now.