DTD Mini Festival: Day 1 - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Bad news for loafer fans, the Flushter's gone.

54   James Dempsey
55   Philip Ashton
56   Peter Charalamobus
57   Bernard Gabriel
58   Richard Trigg
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

[snoopy1239]

A day of turmoil and misery has ended for Pete Linton as he crashes out at the affluent hands of table menace Chris Bruce. In a limped pot and with the flop reading Q-8-5, Chris led out for 600, Ali Mallu called and Pete made it 2,500 to play with A-Q. Chris raised again to 8,000, Mallu stepped out of the way and Pete called, later confessing it, "I didn't particularly like it at the time, but he'd been pissing me off." Although Chris had been aggressive throughout the day, Pete had pushed at the wrong time as Brucie had the goods on this occasion, his eights in dominant shape against a now paltry top pair. Blanks on the later streets and Pete was gone.

"There was a hand from earlier where I think I should have made my move. The flop was A-8-3, under the gun bet, I smooth called with A-K and Chris reraised. I let it go, but maybe I should have shoved it in then."

Some of your current chip leaders:

Mickey Wernick -- 35,000
Chris Bruce -- 40,000
HWCBN -- 27,000
Joe Grech -- 25,000

[danafish]

I caught the very end of a hand between Ali Mallu and Richard Stanley. The board read 7-A-6-Q-K and the two of them were eyeing each other with indescribable suspicion. Very slowly, Mallu turned over an Ace. Very slowly, so did Stanley. Then veeerrry sloowwwly, Mallu turned over a three to go with it. Not breaking eye contact, Stanley turned over a five. Split. Not sure what all the eyeing was about. Very dramatic, though.

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A few more chip counts for you to go crazy with:

Gareth Teatum -- 10,800
Martino Libertini -- 12,400
Tom Nightingale -- 11,400
Richard Stanley -- 15,500
Ian McDonald -- 22,400
Thomas Carpenter -- 25,000
Matt Tyler -- 5,000
Trevor Pearson -- 5,100
Alan Vinson -- 26,900

[danafish]

Mickey Wernick is down to a very-roughly-estimated 25k after doubling up Richard Berridge to an equally-roughly-estimated 30k. Not sure what Mr Wernick was holding but Mr Berridge was holding for a turned flush.

[snoopy1239]

Dave Smith is OUT. He was drawing dead with versus the of Gareth Teatum on a board. Academic on the river.

Also gone is James Akenhead, who departed in more testicle crunching circumstances, his pocket kings losing out to Karl Johnson's big Slick river when a flush arrived on the turn.

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All in preflop.

Matthew Buckland =
Jim Reid = qs

Board =

As Red-Dog once sang in his slimmer vest-wearing days, "another one bites the dust."

[danafish]

Also no longer on his last published chip count, Mr Gareth Teatum. With around 7k in the pot, and a full board reading dealt, Richard Stanley bet 2.5k. After a good long dwell, announced Teatum, "F***. Me." He folded, and is now on around 8.5k.

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Ben Vinson -- 37,800
Karl Johnson -- 10,400
Conor Smyth -- 15,100
Richard Berridge -- 25,100
Chris Bruce -- 43,200
Marc Goodwin -- 16,200

[danafish]

More Tales From Table Andreou. "Ooh, you missed a good one..."

It folded around to Mr Andreou on the button, who found 3-5 offsuit. "A monster." He raised. He found himself called by a mysterious gentleman who insists on being identified only as "The Chinese Guy". The flop came an unappetizing Q-J-4 and The Chinese Guy came out betting the pot, 1.5k. Mr Andreou considered his options, and did the decent thing - he raised to 4k. The Chinese Guy folded, and Mr Andreou gleefully showed him the bluff.

[snoopy1239]

No joy for Matt Tyler either. After grinding like a champion skateboarder, Matt eventually succumbed to the might of Thomas Carpenter and his accompanying bullets. "I had a king high flush draw and a gutshot on the flop so called off my chips. I knew what he had, I just wanted to gamble."

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After building a mammoth stack, Ben Vinson has taken a step backwards and double up neighbour Marc Goodwin. I didn't catch the preflop action, but all the monies flew in on a board with Ben's Ah drawing dead against MrCool's . Looks like Marc has rocket up to around the 30-35k mark.

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Bjorn Andre Hovden (pictured) has been eliminated by Richard Sherwood in what was a classic queens v A-K coinflip. "Well, that makes it interesting," observed Andrew Andreou as the flop came to give Sherwood a set of ladies, but his foe the Broadway straight draw. However, even though Sherwood bizarrely requested a "jack" for his opponent, it failed to emerge on the turn and river and Hovden was gone.

"You know you're not meant to call out your opponent's card don't you?" asked Jim Reid. "Reverse psychology," was the reply.

[danafish]

Mr Steve "Cardshark" Read is up to the heady heights of 25k. He bet out 1.2k on a flop, and his Mateyboy opponent called. He bet out another 2.5k on the turn, appearing rather irked. This time his Mate-opponent made it 5k. Can't have been too irked underneath, as with barely a thought, Read moved all in, and Mate-opponent folded even faster.

Steve Jelinek -- 31,800
Joe Grech -- 23,500
Jeff Rogers -- 27,300
Richard Hawes -- 16,200
Jeff Sharpe -- 2,100
Paul Lammas -- 17,700

[danafish]

A short-stacked Daniel Longden has enjoyed a rather lucky double up. He checked the flop, and the only other gent in the hand, Richard Berridge, put him in. Insta-call from Longden.

Berridge:
Longden:

Absolute blanks on the turn and river, and all in stays in, as they say.

[snoopy1239]

Latest chip counts:

Christopher Bruce   12   5   44900
Michael Mccool   23   1   36000
Thomas Carpenter   23   5   35075
Ben Vinson   23   2   33225
Jef Rogers   14   1   29000
Conor Smyth   15   4   28375
Michael Wernick   14   8   28150
Richard Berridge   14   3   28075
Richard Sherwood   12   6   24800
Richard Hawes   14   7   21100
Zaheer Zeb   15   9   20525
Andrew Andreou   12   9   18250
Jon Omara   23   8   17600
Benjamin Carpenter   15   2   17450
Frances Creed   14   6   17200
Paul Lammas   12   3   16275
Joseph Grech   15   3   15375
Alli Mallu   23   4   14475
James Bishop   14   4   11700
Neil Giblin   23   7   11450
Martino Libertini   23   3   11400
Laurence Houghton   23   9   11375
Karl Johnson   15   1   8275
Gary Teatum   15   5   7000
Daniel Longden   14   5   4900
Steve Jelinek   15   7   2975
Shahnawaz Randera   15   8   2200
Jeff Sharpe   12   1   2175

Eliminated so far...

38   Tuan Le
39   Bjørn Andre Hovden
40   Ian Mcdonald
41   Matt Tyler
42   Sidney Harris
43   Matthew Buckland
44   Alan Stearn
45   Trevor Pearson
46   Rory Campbell
47   David Smith
48   Paul Rayner
49   Matthew Wadham
50   Darren Foster
51   Josh Gould
52   James Akenhead
53   Peter Linton
54   James Dempsey
55   Philip Ashton
56   Peter Charalamobus
57   Bernard Gabriel
58   Richard Trigg
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]

Alan Vinson has a lot of chips. Most recently witnessed, he bet out on a flop and Marc Goodwin, with a look of regret, folded.

[danafish]

Daniel Longden is OUT. He tangled with Richard Berridge again, holding to Berridge's . A distinct lack of aces on the raggy board, and he was gone.

[danafish]

Another one bites the tournament dust, this time rather more unfortunately. Laurence Houghton moved in preflop with the and found himself pleasingly called by Marc Goodwin's , but a wincingly unfavourable board later and Mr Houghton was wandering around the cardroom in that all too familiar "I just busted out with aces" daze.

[danafish]

Yes indeed, Mr Vinson Sr is on fire - it looked like nearer 60k when I strolled past. He was in the process of calling Marc Goodwin's small position bet on a flop - they both then checked the turn and Goodwin tried it on again for 2k on the flop but Vinson was having none of it and swiftly called. Goodwin mucked before Vinson even turned over his .

Goodwin however is not doing too badly either though - on around 45k, he's easily the second biggest stack on Table Vinson.