Bluesq.com GUKPT Manchester: Day 2 - At A Glance

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79 players return today. Chips counts to follow.

But who is going to win? Is Marc Goodwin, with 150k, a certainty to make the final table? Will Pete Linton bulldoze his way through the field? Can John Conroy become a true 'Rock Star' by winning the event?

All these questions and more that I might make up later, could well be answered at some point, perhaps, in this thread during an allotted period of time. Maybe.

We restart at 2pm.

Join us, or we'll photoshop it to make it look like you joined us anyway.

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Day 1B Chips Counts, courtesy of Jon Raab.

 Carlo Holmes   98850
 T Lukashaugen   74925
 Adam Lawler   70000
 Paul Lammas   68525
 Kyle MacPherson   67250
 Nik Persaud   66225
 Tien Le   66075
 John Conroy   64200
 Justin Devonport   62900
 Paul Gourlay   61150
 Dan Owston   58725
 Pete Linton   52325
 Robert Bright   51275
 Giovanni Nervo   50125
 Morris Mcarthy   48675
 Andrew Brisland   47175
 Karim Louis   47050
 Henning Granstad   42825
 Mazhar Nawab   41850
 Glenn Ashworth   39900
 Charles Ihle   39150
 Nick Honey   38125
 Chris Brammer   38000
 Steve Littlejohn   35775
 Fran Egan   34725
 Irina Liepina   34300
 Dean Sanders   33675
 Patrick Dolan   31075
 Steven Davey   30025
 Tahir Akran   28425
 Nick Slade   28150
 Finbar Tracey   27125
 Lee Atherton   24250
 Mal Dawson   21050
 Taj Jugpal   19900
 Phil Roddy   16975
 John Murphy   14375
 Peter Singleton   13625
 James Browning   12250
 Matt Tyler   11975
 Ross Tavakoli   11775
 Simon Turton   9525
 Ved Madan   9350
 Richard Stanley   8750
 Matt Eiler-gadsden   8500

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Seating plan for today.

Table   Seat   Player   Start of Play
1   1    Stephen Holden   45050
1   2    Chris Brammer   38000
1   3    Nick Honey   38125
1   4    Karim Louis   47050
1   5    Tahir Akran   28425
1   6    Finbar Tracey   27125
1   7    Justin Devonport   62900
1   8    Peter Singleton   13625
1   9    Kyle Macpherson   67250
2   1    Zachary Ford   39175
2   2    Henning Granstad   42825
2   3    Jeraint Hazan   37275
2   4    Robert Bright   51275
2   5    Adam Aitken   13825
2   6    Charles Ihle   31950
2   7    Marc Goodwin   149950
2   8    Morris Mcarthy   48675
2   9    Steven Davey   30025
3   1    Gareth Stafford   27550
3   2    John Conroy   64200
3   3    Joey Lovelady   35525
3   4    Steve Littlejohn   35775
3   5    Glenn Ashworth   39900
3   6    Thomas Treacy   15550
3   7    Matt Tyler   11975
3   8    Dean Sanders   33675
3   9    David English   15100
4   1    Paul Lammas   68525
4   2    Mark Suddes   11375
4   3    Patrick Dolan   31075
4   4    Aarun Bernard   55500
4   5    Stephen Sass   18325
4   6    Nick Slade   28150
4   7    MH Kazi         45250
4   8    Stephen Henshall   41225
4   9    Ross Tavakoli   11775
5   1    James Browning   12250
5   2    Carlo Holmes   98850
5   3    Mal Dawson   21050
5   4    Taj Jugpal       19900
5   5    Mark Jones   12225
5   6    Paul Gourlay   61150
5   7    Kuljinder Sidhu   84125
5   8    Mazhar Nawab   41850
5   9    John Murphy   14375
6   1    Adam Lawler   77000
6   2    Dan Owston   58725
6   3    Paul Gardner   55950
6   4    Andy Bradshaw   24725
6   5    Stephen Slavin   52600
6   6    Simon Turton   9525
6   7    Pete Linton   52325
6   8    Brendon Clarke   23450
6   9    Willie Tann   42900
7   1    Maz Amiri   23975
7   2    Jamil Ogunmakinwa   25250
7   3    Martin Smyth   45725
7   4    Barry Grime   89775
7   5    Phil Roddy   16975
7   6    Andrew Brisland   47175
7   7    Jammie Hallam   6750
7   8    Kevin Bloor   52825
7   9    Martino Libertini   34600
8   1    Nik Persaud   66225
8   2    Mark Bointon   18525
8   3    Laurence Houghton   53925
8   4    Craig Metcalf   32325
8   5    T Lukashaugen   74925
8   6    David Mitchell   14050
8   7    Irina Liepina   34300
8   8    Lee Atherton   24250
9   1    Michael Clarke   47775
9   2    Giovanni Nervo   50125
9   3    Matt Eiler-gadsden   8500
9   4    Joseph Grech   47925
9   5    Ved Madan   9350
9   6    Richard Stanley   8750
9   7    Fran Egan   34725

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Fast start down here, JJ Hazan took 20k off Mark Goodwin first hand, re-raising him preflop and pushing a Queen-high board, Goodwin electing to fold his A-K.

Joe Grech has knocked out Simon Turton with one of those nasty coinflip "Hurrah-Oh-Crap" moments, Turton was holding to Grech's , the board coming .

Matt Tyler has picked up an early double up with Tens vs Glenn Ashworth's Ace Ten.

Paul Gourlay is on song also, he's already knocked out both James Browning and Mark Jones on his table.

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Dean Sanders is OUT, he pushed from the button over the top of Thomas 'Traffic Light' Treacy with King Jack but ran into Kings. "Somehow he took over a minute to dwell..." said Dean with a shrug.

Nik Persaud told me of a big three-way pot where Craig Metcalf, who had lost a big pot pushed for around 10k, T Lukashaugen called after a dwell, before JJ Hazan raised to isolate. Lukashaugen then pushed for 45k and JJ snap-called for his stack.

Metcalf:

Lukashaugen:

Hazan:

Board:



Nik said, (Indicating Lukashaugen), "He should really re-raise to isolate, and if you're (JJ Hazan) are going to isolate you should be moving all-in. In fact you both played it terribly, what are you doing???"

Must add, that this last line was said in a fairly joking manner.

Kuljinder Sidhu knocked out T Jugpal but then has just doubled up Maz Nawab in a massive pot.

I didn't see when the money went in, but Maz was holding , Kujinder, and the board was reading .

Richard Stanley has doubled through Michael Clarke with vs .

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Patrick Dolan has doubled through Paul Lammas with K-K vs J-T, all-in on the flop of a T-9-4-Q-J board.

Marc Goodwin has just knocked out John Murphy.

Willie Tann and Nick Slade are both OUT.

Jamil Ogunmakinwa (Now there's a big name) is keeping his head above water, but only just when he survived a sweat with 3-3 against Kevin Bloor's autocall with .

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John Conroy's push.



Paul Gourlay now has too much time on his hands...

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10 minute break.

Here's a dancing sheep for your entertainment.

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Paul Gourlay just paid off 20k, (a huge chunk of his stack) on a board, when his opponent showed the nutty .

Tahir 'Maldini32' Akram has doubled up with on a vs Finbar Tracey's . All-in on the flop.

Laurence Houghton has knocked out MH Kazi with A-K vs Q-5 after the latter made a big button push and ran smack bang into Houghton in the big blind.

Marty Smyth has busted, looked like he'd suffered a few hits and was all-in with A-Q vs T-9 on a Q-J-4 board but was drawing dead after the 8 turn.

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Paul Gardner is OUT. looked good but lost out to the current coinflipping king Joe Grech's .

Over on table 7, a crowd was developing. Glen Ashworth and Maz Amiri were both already all-in and Barry Grime was dwelling for ages, inexplicably then showing after a good two minute dwell.

Glen showed to Maz Amiri's

Board:

Maz OUT. Glen over 50k.



Maldini32's earlier doubleup.

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Chip count from the end of level 11.

1   1    Stephen Holden   27300
1   2    Chris Brammer   37700
1   3    Karim Louis   48100
1   4    Tahir Akran   28300
1   5    Finbar Tracey   51200
1   6    David English   43500
1   7    Peter Singleton   22200
1   8    Kyle Macpherson   41500
4   1    Paul Lammas   54800
4   2    Charles Ihle   115300
4   3    Patrick Dolan   50600
4   4    Aarun Bernard   69200
4   5    Stephen Sass   23900
4   6    MH Kazi         36900
4   7    Henning Granstad   45600
4   8    Laurence Houghton   59800
5   1    John Conroy   50800
5   2    Carlo Holmes   89200
5   3    Mal Dawson   10100
5   4    Matt Tyler   50300
5   5    Marc Goodwin   160200
5   6    P Gourlay   56100
5   7    Kuljinder Sidhu   88800
5   8    Mazhar Nawab   89400
6   1    Adam Lawler   94800
6   2    Dan Owston   39000
6   3    Gareth Stafford   50200
6   4    Thomas Treacy   22600
6   5    Stephen Slavin   55500
6   6    Maurice McCarthy   114000
6   7    Pete Linton   71100
6   8    Brendon Clarke   39700
7   1    Maz Amiri   31000
7   2    Jamil Ogunmakinwa   45600
7   3    Martin Smyth   27400
7   4    Barry Grime   116700
7   5    Glenn Ashworth   34400
7   6    Andrew Brisland   44200
7   7    Zachary Ford   69100
7   8    Kevin Bloor   55800
8   1    Nik Persaud   101500
8   2    Mark Bointon   34200
8   3    Steve Littlejohn   65000
8   4    T Lukashaugen   24900
8   5    Simon Turton   21600
8   6    Irina Liepina   37700
8   7    Jeraint Hazan   55900
8   8    Adam Aitken   54800
9   1    Nick Honey   20800
9   2    Giovanni Nervo   41900
9   3    Steven Davey   40400
9   4    Joseph Grech   98000
9   5    Richard Stanley   27400
9   6    Robert Bright   75700
9   7    Tien Le   110700
9   8    Paul Gardner   33900

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Pete Linton has lost a chunk of his stack firing 12.5k on the river of a T-9-8-Q-2 board but being looked up by .

Zachary Ford has eliminated Kevin Bloor with vs on a board. All the money predictably in on the flop. Zachary must be over 100k now also.



John Conroy's exit.

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JJ Hazan was kicking himself having openly folded Queens only to be shown Jacks, soon after though, he himself pushed over the top of Paul Gourlay's raise. Paul thought for about 4 minutes before folding Ace King, this time JJ showed King Queen.

Henning Granstad was down to 15k after having A-K cracked by a rivering A-5. But soon after, he was all-in in a three-way pot with 8-5 against Matt Tyler and Kyle Macpherson on a Q-T-8 board, Kyle bet Matt out of the pot with K-J but missed everything allowing the Norwegian to almost triple up. Matt was not impressed with this play, (I'm assuming Matt had a Ten).

Since then, Matt Tyler has been knocked out by Kyle with Kings being cracked by Tens.

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*******Dinner break 1 hour*******

Excuse us while we dash off in front of all the remaining players...

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G Stafford doubled up through Morris McCarthy just before the break on a board. He lead out for 10k in a raised pot, which also involved Pete Linton. Morris moved in quickly, and Pete passed just as fast. Stafford thought for a while before eventually calling all-in, Morris had a slightly bemused looked on his face when he saw that Stafford had dwelt for over a minute with , ahead against Morris' monster draw. came on the turn and Stafford made quads on the river.