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

[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.

[NoflopsHomer]

Incidentally, with the lower than usual number of runners, we're not totally sure how the day will finish, I'm not sure that there will be enough players for us to play nine levels, so we might end up just playing down to 20 players or something.

A couple of random counts (more to follow shortly):

Nik Persaud -- 9.5k
Jerome Bradpiece -- 9k
Jen Mason -- 7.5k

[danafish]

Complete seating plan, courtesy of Mr Raab at Bluesquare:

Table     Seat     ID     Player     Start
2    1    1    101    Mark Bointon    10000
3    1    2    102    Ian Farrell    10000
4    1    3    103    Julian Thew    10000
5    1    4    104    Dane Tallen    10000
6    1    5    105    Aurun Bernard    10000
7    1    6    106    Ganesh Rao    10000
8    1    7    107    David Smith    10000
9    1    8    108    Anthony Phillips    10000
10    1    9    109    Graeme Ladd    10000
11    1    10    110    James Browning    10000
12    2    1    201    Aaron Barry    10000
13    2    2    202    Jen Mason    10000
14    2    3    203    Jason De Freitas    10000
15    2    4    204    Mark Tomblin    10000
16    2    6    206    Nik Persaud    10000
17    2    7    207    Sam Trickett    10000
18    2    8    208    Ben Reynolds    10000
19    2    9    209    Matt Myford    10000
20    2    10    210    Lynne Beaumont    10000
21    3    1    301    Peter Linton    10000
22    3    2    302    Gareth Teatum    10000
23    3    3    303    Daniel Messinger    10000
24    3    4    304    Matthew Buckland    10000
25    3    5    305    Barry Neville    10000
26    3    6    306    Hongji Liu    10000
27    3    7    307    Gary Wilson    10000
28    3    8    308    David Birtles    10000
29    3    9    309    Julien Twigg    10000
30    3    10    310    CT Law    10000
31    4    1    401    Joey Lovelady    10000
32    4    2    402    Miroslaw Klys    10000
33    4    3    403    Barry Smith    10000
34    4    4    404    Alan Vinnicombe    10000
35    4    5    405    Dominic Kay    10000
36    4    6    406    Roddy Burns    10000
37    4    7    407    Thomas Middleton    10000
38    4    8    408    C Bell    10000
39    4    9    409    Richard Teatum    10000
40    4    10    410    Ben Vinson    10000
41    5    1    501    Jeff Kimber    10000
42    5    2    502    Kerry Taylor    10000
43    5    3    503    Hamid Rowshanaei    10000
44    5    4    504    Scott Merryweather    10000
45    5    5    505    Michael Ellis    10000
46    5    6    506    James Hart    10000
47    5    7    507    David Lloyd    10000
48    5    8    508    David Maudlin    10000
49    5    9    509    Jerome Bradpiece    10000
50    6    1    601    Anthony Chapman    10000
51    6    2    602    Paul Gardener    10000
52    6    3    603    Glen Ashworth    10000
53    6    4    604    Matthew Osbourne    10000
54    6    5    605    Jonathan Lundy    10000
55    6    6    606    Richard Whitmore    10000
56    6    7    607    Mark Dalimre    10000
57    6    8    608    Keith Hawkins    10000
58    6    9    609    Steven King    10000
59    6    10    610    Finn Stuart    10000
60    7    1    701    Mark Lowe    10000
61    7    2    702    Paul Jackson    10000
62    7    3    703    John Conroy    10000
63    7    4    704    Max Decorne    10000
64    7    5    705    Richard Stanley    10000
65    7    6    706    Mickey Wernick    10000
66    7    7    707    Mark Suddes    10000
67    7    8    708    Fred Venus    10000
68    7    9    709    Nick Gibson    10000

Chip counts there are from the start of play. Obviously.

[danafish]

Jen Mason -- 7.5k

"I have been dwindling. Liberally."

Jerome Bradpiece -- 9k

"I have played 30 hands, 24 of them badly."

[NoflopsHomer]

oing well, Nik Persaud and Sam Trickett.



Ben Vinson has doubled up with vs Barry Neville's despite Barry hitting a Queen as Ben turned a flush.

Nick Gibson went out just before the break.

Paul Jackson (7.3k) said, "Anytime he played a pot, the other player flopped top pair against him, or top pair with a better kicker, I don't think he won a single hand..."

Jeff Kimber is out, moving in for around 2.5k on a board with but finding the equally drawtabulous calling him. The river was the which helped neither and Jeff is OUT.

[NoflopsHomer]

Scott Merryweather is OUT, getting it all-in with on a board against Mark Sudes' and failing to hit Ace or Eight.

Random chip counts from Dana:

Jen -- 8k
Barry Neville -- 19k
Kenny Burke -- 11k
Nik Persaud -- 9.5k
Julian Thew -- 6.5k
Pete Linton -- 6.2k
Paul Jackson -- 6k
John Conroy -- 11k
Joey Lovelady -- 35k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Jerome Bradpiece has, very kindly, just written a couple of hands down for me.

The first was explaining the exit of Merryweather, apparently all-in on the river and not the flop of the 8-8-7-2-x board, after they had both checked the flop.

The second was a multiway limped pot with Jerome holding on a Q-4-6 rainbow board. The small blind lead out for 200 and 3 people called including Jerome, the turn was the , the small blind bet 875 and Jerome was the only caller. The river was the and this time the small blind bet 2,000. Jerome raised to 7,000 and the small blind made a 'very good fold' of a set of fours.

Paul Jackson defends from the blinds against Ben Vinson's raise.



Check check.



Paul check calls a 550 bet.



Paul check calls a 1,000 bet. Ben announces, "Two pair," turning over A-9. Paul shows J-6 and says, "Don't be putting that one online. I was calling the river anyway, you were just unlucky."

[danafish]

Mark Bointon bets out on a Q-3-3 flop and takes it right there. Much to his disappointment. He shows Q-3.

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Meanwhile on Table Jen, Kenny Burke bets 400 on a flop, only for Jen to make it 1125. Burke dwells for a while, cradling in his hand enough chips to cover Jen. "It's either that or fold," he says, and opts for the latter. Jen back up to the heady heights of 7k. Go, my one percent!

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Mr Paul Jackson has doubled up his super-shortstack, all in on the river holding on I believe a four diamond board.

[danafish]

Pete Linton has doubled up, moving in on a flop, called by Gareth Teatum.

Pete -
Gareth -

Turn -
River -

Pete now up to 13k or so.

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul Jackson is OUT. He raised Pete Linton's bet on a 8-6-4 two spade board before pushing on the offsuit 3 turn. Pete called with ahead of which was the way it stayed.

Mike Ellis has knocked out Kenny Burke with Kings vs Queens.

Thomas Middleton just made an excellent call for his whole stack after Paul Gardner check/raised him for most of his stack on a board. Middleton called with , whilst Paul Gardner showed the dominated and drawing . No spade on the and turn and river has left Gardner virtually on the felt.

[danafish]

It folds around to Jen on the cutoff, who makes it 600. Big blind Nik Persaud calls.

Flop - - Nik checks, Jen bets 500 and Nick calls.

Turn - - again Nik checks and now Jen makes it 1k. Nik peeks at his cards, and calls.

River - - in much the same way, Nik checks, Jen bets 2k and Nik calls.

Jen shows . Obviously. Nik mucks. "Bad turn for you," says Jen. And then to me: "Don't report that hand." Jen back up to 11k.

[NoflopsHomer]

And now Paul Gardner is OUT, he walked into John Conroy's Aces.

Thomas Middleton has just given a load of chips to Joey Lovelady, around 8k or so, after they saw an A-6-Q-9-T board with Joey's flopped set of sixes triumphing over Thomas' A-J.

[danafish]

Just before that Thomas Middleton hand, Joey Lovelady was down to around 20k. By way of explanation he merely pointed to John Conroy and his 25k or so, who slapped himself on the back of the hand.

[NoflopsHomer]

**************1 hour dinner break***************