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

[danafish]

Pre-break red-button-pushing from one young Mateyboy - he apparently raised it up with T-8 only for a gent I believe is Mark Tomblin to move all in. Apparently deciding he was live/couldn't be bothered coming back after dinner, Mateyboy called. Tomblin had Jacks.

Meanwhile, I can inform you that the buffet here is totally worthy of the newly-instituted Blondepoker Grosvenor Buffet Of The Day award. I managed to fit vegetable lasagne, an excellent chicken curry with rice, mixed vegetables, salad and the obligatory chips on a plate. Scampi was also available for those less repulsed by seafood. Mmm. By far the crowning glory though was dessert - as promised, a squishy, buttery sticky toffee pudding presented in its own pond of toffee sauce ("Is it soup?" asked a foreign-sounding gentleman) and topped with a scoop of banana ice cream. The chef promised me that each bowl contained a minimum of one million calories. Sugarlicious.

[NoflopsHomer]

Gary Wilson -- 12k



Thomas Middleton and Steven King -- around 17k each.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip counts thanks to Blue Sq:

1   1   Mark Bointon   7525
1   2   Ian Farrell   9675
1   3   Julian Thew   8450
1   4   Dane Tallen   9175
1   5   Aurun Bernard   3800
1   6   Ganesh Rao   33500
1   7   David Smith   11225
1   8   Mickey Wernick   19250
1   9   Anthony Chapman   13450
1   10   James Browning   3500
2   1   Aaron Barry   11800
2   2   Jen Mason   6575
2   3   Jason De Freitas   3750
2   5   Mark Lowe   11875
2   6   Nik Persaud   4700
2   7   Sam Trickett   26200
2   8   Ben Reynolds   13850
2   9   Matt Myford   12125
2   10   Lynne Beaumont   7225
3   1   Peter Linton   26950
3   2   Gareth Teatum   10850
3   3   Finn Stuart   17475
3   4   Matthew Buckland   2725
3   5   Barry Neville   19475
3   6   Mark Dalimre   10225
3   7   Gary Wilson   12675
3   8   Richard Stanley   15750
3   9   Julien Twigg   14150
3   10   Ben Vinson   8650
4   1   Joey Lovelady   33575
4   2   Miroslaw Klys   5850
4   3   Barry Smith   28475
4   4   Alan Vinnicombe   10025
4   6   Roddy Burns   1625
4   7   Thomas Middleton   17600
4   8   Steven King   17500
4   9   Richard Whitmore   8425
4   10   John Conroy   24450
5   1   #N/A   8300
5   2   Kerry Taylor   6300
5   3   Hamid Rowshanaei   26225
5   4   Jonathan Lundy   2750
5   5   Michael Ellis   15925
5   6   Keith Hawkins   14350
5   7   David Lloyd   13175
5   8   David Maudlin   9050
5   9   Jerome Bradpiece   13375
5   10   Mark Suddes   20625

[danafish]

Barry Neville's stack somehow took a significant beating before the break - something about Pete Linton raising with any two - but doubled up his shortstack with all in against on the flop of a board. Looks like he's now up to, er, 10k.

Other shortstacks on Table Neville include Gareth Teatum, who shoved for 6950 on a . Julien Twigg dwelled up approximately foreever, and then disappointingly passed, leaving Gareth very slightly less short than before.

[danafish]

A Duo Of Double-Ups

Kerry Taylor has doubled up courtesy of a now very disgruntled Jonathan Lundy - Taylor was holding and moved in the the river, the board reading 8-J-7-9-A. Disgrundy Lundy mucked.

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And back on Table Neville, David Knight is galloping ahead  and Gareth Teatum is further down to the felt than he's been all day. He makes it 1050 from the button on a flop, called by Barry Neville - David Knight makes it 3650. Gareth calls and Barry gets out of the way.

Turn - - and Knight wastes no time in gettign his last 4200 in. Gareth dwells up, has the clock called on him, dwells again very briefly, and calls.

Gareth Teatum -
David Knight -

And actually I missed the river, but it wasn't a King or a Nine, and Knight's crusade has won him the fair lady or, as may be in actual reality, the chips.

[danafish]

Sorry Aarun Bernard fans, he is OUT with pocket Nines against Dane Tallen's A-J, and Ace on the turn. Aarun is now involved in a ludicrous cash game with, among others, Skalie, Paul Jackson, Jeff Kimber, and most vocally, Henning Granstad, who seems to be going all in every hand and guffawing hysterically and good-naturedly at everything. "That is the Scandie way," he was saying...

[NoflopsHomer]

Jen is OUT.

A load of limpers including one who was limp/folding a lot. She shoved blind from the sb, the utg snap-called and everyone else folded. UTG showed Queens, Jen showed erm, . No help and she's gone.

Barry Neville is also OUT. He moved in on a board with but was called by 7-6 and didn't hit.

[NoflopsHomer]

Nik Persaud is OUT. A 10BB push from the button with A-3 ran into A-K.

Nik, "I run so bad in GUKPT's..."

[danafish]

Awesome Hair Owner Finn Stuart is OUT to the golden balls of Pete Linton. Pete made it 1050 from the cutoff and Finn in the small blind made it 4.2k. Pete thought about it for a bit, and then took back his 1050 and replaced it with a big ole stack of purple 1k chips. Finn called.

Pete Linton -
Finn Stuart -

I am aware that this is a coinflip situation, but please view board below for golden ballage.

Board -

[danafish]

Also OUT is William Hill's own Julian Thew - pretty short, he made it 1100 from the button, and then called when big blind Ganesh Rao put him in.

Julian -
Ganesh -

Board -

No third GUKPT victory for the Thewster this time around. He must be Thewrious. Ganesh is in the general region of Chip Leader, on what looks like around 40k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Sam Trickett looks to be our chip leader, but Mickey Wernick is also going well. It's going to be close but I think we might just get down to 20 players before we make nine levels.

[danafish]

Bad luck Julian and Jen. Bad day for players with names beginning with that letter. Maybe they were just feeling a bit jaded?

Yes indeed, also now fallen by the wayside is Jerome Bradpiece. He bet 1200 on the flop, and just flat-called Kerry Taylor's raise to 4k - most of his stack. The turn came the and Taylor moved all in to cover Jerome; Jerome called.

Jerome -
Kerry -

"Nice call," some random people are saying to Jerome, but:

River -

And he's OUT.

[danafish]

Alan Vinnicombe has been trying it on with Keith Hawkins  - blind on blind, Alan makes it 1k; Camel calls.

Flop - - and Alan bets another 1k. Keith calls.

Turn - - now Alan checks, and Keith takes it with a 1600 bet. Camel wins the pot, and it is Alan who has the hump. 

[danafish]

Oh, actually, this just in from our new friends at newcastle-poker.org - Tom Middleton exited in the last hand of level 6 - he was holding a Nine on a K-4-9 flop, but the other guy made two pair on the turn and Tom didn't. Sorry, bokkers.

[NoflopsHomer]

Yes indeed, also now fallen by the wayside is Jerome Bradpiece. He bet 1200 on the flop, and just flat-called Kerry Taylor's raise to 4k - most of his stack. The turn came the and Taylor moved all in to cover Jerome; Jerome called.

Jerome -
Kerry -

"Nice call," some random people are saying to Jerome, but:

River -

And he's OUT. Here he is in happier days:

A brief chat with poker's answer to Gentle Ben, Jerome was pretty much convinced his opponent would've have re-raised him preflop with most bigger Kings, so was planning on getting all-in on any non-heart turn.