Bluesq.com GUKPT Newcastle: Day 1A - Interactive

[Mango99]

good luck to Barry Neville and dewi tomorrow

Looks like he's playing today (he's on the list above).

Good luck to Barry Neville, and to Jen Mason too! She's got to be one of the favourites coming fresh from a magnificent bb6 victory

[NoflopsHomer]

Ben Vinson is down to the virtual felt, getting it all-in with vs the of I think David Birtles on the turn of a board and missing all his outs.

Eleswhere there's around 6k in the pot on a board, Matthew Osbourne checks to Steven King who bets 4,500. Osbourne does the umming and aahring associated with a hand that's usually behind but makes the call. King shows the , Osbourne mucks his .

Good bet or are we in Toothinsville?

Pete Linton, "I've had more cards in first hour than I had in the whole of Manchester, I flopped a set of Kings and lost, I was lucky though because he flopped a flush and the turn was a fourth diamond which saved me. I've had Aces cracked, though I did call for and hit a gutshot..."

Paul Jackson and a valet just before the camera flash blinded her.



Tony Phillips calls a 1,625 bet on the river of a board from James Browning who mucks, Tony shows and mutters something about not driving up for 8 hours on the motorway to pass there.

[danafish]

where are the cats

I'm afraid to post them in case Jon Raab beats me.    Soon as he leaves the room...

[NoflopsHomer]

Mickey Wernick raises it up I think a standard raise to 150, Nick Gibson re-raises from the small blind and now Mickey makes it 1,800. Nick Gibson moves all-in. Mickey passes Kings face up. Nick shows Aces.

[danafish]

Julian takes down around a 1.5k pot with K-T on the river of a J-T-x-x-x board, courtesy of Aarun Bernard. Aarun just mucks. Julian has tea. Mmm, I want tea.

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[danafish]

On Table Wernick, some preflop limpage results in an A-7-7 flop being dealt. It checks around to Mickey, who bets 150. Mark Lowe raises. "That's the last time I'm going to bluff today," announces Mickey, but he's probably bluffing. Either way, he folds.

[Dry em]

Mickey Wernick raises it up I think a standard raise to 150, Nick Gibson re-raises from the small blind and now Mickey makes it 1,800. Nick Gibson moves all-in. Mickey passes Kings face up. Nick shows Aces.

standard

[danafish]

A couple of late additions to the player list: Messrs Gary Wilson and Ben Vinson. Also it seems that David Knight is playing tomorrow instead. Full revised seating plan apparently on its way courtesy of the nice people at BlueSquare...

Meanwhile please enjoy my Hoodie Of The Day So Far, Mr Mark Dalimre accorsing to the seating plan, although a small part of me suspects that his name be a typo of sorts? Either way, enjoy, or I'll get the kittens out.

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[danafish]

Another astonishing hand from Table Wernick.

Somehow they make it 5 or 6-handed as far as the river of an board, at which point Mr Richard Stanley bets a paltry 125 into the so-small-I-suspect-they-checked-it-down-all-the-way pot. Both Nick Gibson and John Conroy call him, and imagine their surprise as Mr Stanley turns over the very winning . Nick turns over the , John turns over . There is much hilarity.

[NoflopsHomer]

More Wernick laydown shennanigans.

J-6-3

Paul Jackson leads out for 300, Mickey flat-calls. The awesomely named Fred Venus raises to 900. Paul Jackson re-raises to 2,000. Mickey folds a set of Threes. Venus moves in. Paul Jackson folds, I think J-6, Venus shows 6-6.

CT Law was our earliest casualty, down to 1,700 chips which went in with K-Q on a J-T-x- board but ran into A-J.

Famous Scottish Poet Roddy Burns calls a 1,500 bet on the river of a from Miroslaw Klys and confidently shows his flush , unfortunately he was drawing dead on the turn as Miroslaw had caught his full house already with .

[danafish]

Nick Gibson calls a 500 bet from Mark Lowe on a flop, but he doesn't like either the turn or the 800 that Lowe bets on it, and passes.

Looks like Julian Thew is up to around 15k and Dave Smith on around 12k. Full chip counts after the break. Last I checked, it looked like Barry Neville was early chip leader on around 25k, although no information on how he got them...

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Meanwhile there is uproar (well, mild consternation and a bit of muttering) on Table Jen. The board reads and some of the players complaining that it is identical to the board in the previous hand except for the suit of the Seven. "Do you still have the same hole cards as last hand?" say I. "I wish," sighs Sam Trickett, "I had an Eight that time." "Live poker is rigged!" shouts Nik Persaud into his imaginary loudspeaker.

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[Colchester Kev]

sod the poker ... what time is the buffet !!

[NoflopsHomer]

Tony Phillips is OUT, he raised and saw a Q-J-3 flop with one heart, bet and called. The turn is the and both players check. The river pairs the Ten and his opponent checks again, "So I think I'm good now and move in." He's called though by Q-J and is now out and off to play online.

Meanwhile Jen is having trouble with Kenny Burke who seems to be a player who refuses to fold any two suited cards preflop. Jen raises and Kenny is the only caller. , Jen bets 350, Kenny calls.



Jen bets 800, Kenny calls again.



Jen check folds pretty quickly to the bet, Kenny shows the speculative .

[danafish]

There is a whole board out; it is and Richard Teatum bets around 1200. Joey Lovelady raises to around 3.6k, and Richard calls. Richard turns over and is most upset to see that Joey is holding for the worst possible flush. He starts giggling anyway. Maybe to mask the pain. Joey's happy though. Obviously.

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[danafish]

sod the poker ... what time is the buffet !!

Soon, my pretties, soon. I have incredibly high hopes though - the chef just appeared in the press room with a platter of miniature fruit salad bowls as a kind of hors d'oeuvre! Saying something about counteracting the calories we will shortly be ingesting via the medium of sticky toffee pudding! Thanks, chef! This is awesome.