DTD Mini Festival: Day 1 - At A Glance

[danafish]

Continued bully-age from Alan Vinson.

Says Andrew Andreou, "Have oyu got your notepad?" I have. "Get ready to write!" But after four or five players including Andreou and Vinson checked a flop, Vinson bet out 500 on the turn from the small blind, and everyone else passed. Andreou waved his 5-6 offsuit at me as he folded.

[danafish]

It would appear, much to my sorrow as I was hoping to get a photo of his awesome dice-patterned trousers, that Des Jonas has kicked the tournament bucket, and is nowhere to be seen.

[snoopy1239]

A few miscellaneous chip counts:

Steve Jelinek -- 2,950
Josh Gould -- 7,700
Sid Harris -- 14,925
Paul Lammas -- 7,800
Daniel Rudd -- 12,475
Mike McDonald -- 7,850
Alan Stearn -- 13,175
Martino Libertini -- 9,850
Ben Vinson -- 13,000
Chris Bruce -- 13,300
Laurence Houghton -- 15,200
James Dempsey -- 11,900
Dave Smith -- 3,750
Paul Jackson -- 3,725
Richard Hawes -- 7,000

[snoopy1239]

James Dempsey's stack has been bisected in half courtesy of Bernard Garbriel. On a flop, James bet of 1,600 led to all the chips flying in with Bernard well ahead with versus . No change on the turn and river and Bernard doubled through.

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Tony Phillips has been eliminated from today's event.

[danafish]

Ooh, this is exciting.

I wandered over to the Table Of Doom to see Alan Stearn betting 2k on an flop, and Dave Smith apparently calling all in.

Alan Stearn:
Dave Smith: oh dear,

But turn: bang!

River:

Stearn: "Bloody hell!"

Smith: around 5.5k now.

[danafish]

I wandered over to Mr Ali Mallu's table to see him betting 600 on a board, and his opponent, Mr Mate E. Boy, calling. Mr Boy proceeded to check to Mr Mallu on the river, who promptly went Virtually All In for around 5k, leaving himself a single 25 chip as a card protector. Mr Boy folded, and was rewarded by Mr Mallu flashing the . "What a turn..." muttered Mr Boy.

[snoopy1239]

Another smattering of chip counts for you to feast your eyes on:

Marc Goodwin -- 17,500
Tom Nightingale -- 17,225
Andrew Andreou -- 14,850
Peter Charalambous -- 18,150
Fran Creed -- 18,500
Mickey Wernick -- 18,100
Pete Linton -- 16,525
Jim Reid -- 16,175
Steve Jelinek -- 22,000
Richard Stanley -- 19,675
Steve Read -- 17,000
Rory Campbell -- 13,475
Matthew Wadham -- 7,125

Exits so far:

59   Trevor Reardon
60   Michael Mincher
61   Michael Lee
62   Andrew Johnson
63   Paul Jackson
64   Stian Johnsrud
65   Asy Ho
66   Nicky Evans
67   Anthony Phillips
68   Jonathan Lundy
69   Desmond Jonas
70   Andrew Tuxworth
71   Ben Callinan
72   Kyriacos Dionysiou
73   John Eames
74   Dean Sanders
75   Mohammed Shafiq
76   Keith Johnson
77   Albert Sapiano
78   Anthony Nicholls
79   Adam Wilkinson

[danafish]

Mr Gareth Teatum has been making his presence felt on The New Table Of Doom (since the old one broke). He induced an uncomfortable looking 1,200 call from Ali Mallu on the board, and Mallu even more uncomfortably mucked when Teatum turned over .

[snoopy1239]

Latest chip counts:

Zaheer Zeb   15   9   31300
Michael Mccool   23   1   26600
Richard Berridge   25   2   24250
Michael Wernick   14   8   23950
Daniel Rudd   11   9   23125
Marc Goodwin   11   1   22750
Steve Jelinek   15   7   21800
Alan Vinson   25   9   20300
Richard Stanley   34   3   19900
Conor Smyth   25   3   19600
Matthew Buckland   12   4   19525
Jef Rogers   14   1   19300
Christopher Bruce   34   6   19150
Thomas Carpenter   23   5   18775
Ben Vinson   23   3   18700
Frances Creed   14   6   18550
Peter Linton   34   2   17475
Richard Sherwood   12   6   17250
James Reid   12   8   16675
Thomas Nightingale   25   7   16600
Neil Giblin   25   6   16100
James Bishop   34   7   14950
Steve Read   11   8   14725
Andrew Andreou   25   5   14700
Alli Mallu   34   9   14700
Daniel Jolowicz   14   9   14450
Laurence Houghton   23   9   14425
Paul Lammas   12   3   14300
Shahnawaz Randera   15   8   14075
Sidney Harris   14   2   13850
Ian Gwynne   11   5   13650
Tuan Le   12   2   13550
Karl Johnson   15   1   12750
Gary Teatum   34   1   12400
James Dempsey   11   3   12300
Rory Campbell   23   4   12175
Joseph Grech   25   4   12000
Ian Mcdonald   11   6   11550
Peter Charalamobus   14   4   10025
Alan Stearn   15   6   9825
Jon Omara   23   8   9675
Martino Libertini   34   8   8900
Paul Rayner   11   4   8475
Philip Ashton   11   2   8375
Matthew Wadham   12   5   7800
David Smith   34   5   7675
Benjamin Carpenter   15   2   7100
Daniel Longden   14   5   5625
Bjørn Andre Hovden   12   7   5550
James Akenhead   15   5   5475
Richard Hawes   14   7   4850
Trevor Pearson   23   6   4675
Josh Gould   15   3   4600
Darren Foster   25   8   4550
Jeff Sharpe   12   1   3325
Matt Tyler   23   2   3275

[danafish]

Just before that burger-flipping pause, a very disgusted Rick Trigg laid down his on-the-button to a 2k bet from Chris Bruce on a board. He was rewarded by Brucie showing him pocket sevens for the straight.

[danafish]

Mickey Wernick has taken down a 2k-or-thereabouts pot with a cheeky 500 bet in position on the river of a rag-rag-rag-rag-jack board. Both Mateyboy and Fran folded, and Mr Wernick showed them K-J as a kind of folding reward.

[danafish]

Shortly before his table broke, Neil Giblin raised utg and received a grand total of no callers. Blinds for him.

[danafish]

Mr Matt Tyler is winking at me every time I walk past his table, but he has not that much to be cheerful about as he is down to just 3k or so. He might make it to Nando's before closing time...

[snoopy1239]

Karl Johnson's stack has been decimated to 8,000 after coin-flipping with neighbour Ben Carpenter. I joined the drama as the hands were being mucked, but it was versus on a board, so I would imagine all the action occurred preflop. Double up for Carpenter.

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Can you wish Fran all the best from me please, Sorry i couldn't make it x

Speaking of the little tinker, Fran now has her head above 20,000 after successfully locking horns with wily veteran Joe Grech. After snapping up the blinds with A-K the hand prior, Fran raised it up with pocket kings and received one caller in the Grechster. On an flop, Grech bet out and Fran called, only for both players to slow down on the turn. A king on the river led to Joe calling a bet from Fran, announcing "I need some information" in the process, before swiftly mucking his hand.

[danafish]

Joe Grech has wrested a sizeable pot from perennial update favourite Mateyboy thus:

They saw a flop and Mateyboy bet 1k. Grech called.

They saw a turn and Mateyboy bet 2.5k. Grech called.

They saw a turn and actually at this point I was distracted by a lady enquiring after the £20 rebuy, so I am reconstructing the likely action in this manner: Mateyboy now checked, Grech bet and Mateyboy folded. Either way, Grech was raking in the chips when I turned back to the hand in progress.

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More action than a night at the Beagle's love palace now as the frantic pace continues on Table Gould. With the board reading , Zeb Zaheer and Steve Jelinek both checked to the As river where Zaheer led out for 3,000. As Jelinek targeted his opponent with a piercing stare, Zaheed remained cool under pressure as he leaned over to his plate, picked up a bun and munched down on his burger. "Will you show if I fold?" asked the Jelly man. "Yeah," replied Zaheer as he wiped the grease from his lips.

In the end, Jelinek did indeed fold, face-up, and Zaheer stayed true to his word, showing pocket ducks for the flopped set.