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« Reply #45 on: July 18, 2008, 10:37:05 PM »

Mr Vinson Jr is also still in and doing well, although not in this particular hand. He raised in early position to 1.5k and received absolutely no respect from Fran Creed who called and Richard Hawes who also called. Martino Libertini, however, moved all in from the small blind for a whisker short of 10k in total, and a veritable tsunami of folding followed. Libertini showed , to some ooh-ing from the table.
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« Reply #46 on: July 18, 2008, 10:38:34 PM »

Daniel Jolowicz is gone. His stack was decimated like a tower of cards in the wind, pocket kings being outgunned by the pocket nines of James Bishop on an ensuing 2-3-9-8-4 board. To say he was dismayed would be like calling a hamster in a snake pit slightly disgruntled.

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I join the action with the relentless Ali Mallu all in from the blind after Jim Reid's opening raise from mid position. Mallu's reputation has obviously made an impact, Jim claiming, "You could be making this move with any two cards," before adding, "you're a good player to take up, but not to double up." Mallu, meanwhile, could only shrug his shoulders and declare, "I need a double up."

After a brief pause, Jim announced, "You know what, I'm going to gamble," before making the call. With a couple of raised eyebrows, Jim showed , but he was going to need help as Mallu revealed three clubs. Sadly for Reid, it didn't arrive on the board allowing Mallu to scoop what must have been a circa 20k pot.

"Go easy now," advised Jim.

"You've created a monster," commented Chris Bruce.
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« Reply #47 on: July 18, 2008, 10:56:02 PM »

After a bit of a raising war on the flop, Jeff Rogers bet out an enormous 11k on the apparently harmless turn. His on-the-flop raising opponent Richard Berridge folded so fast it looked like his cards just disappeared into thin air.

I made that last bit up.
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« Reply #48 on: July 18, 2008, 11:01:13 PM »

I only caught the latter stages of this bizarreness so I'm not massively sure how it came to this, but I witnessed He Who Cannot Be Named bet a fairly sizeable quantity of chips on the turn of the board and Mr Wernick raising him an equally sizeable quantity of chips. Mr Cannot Be Named called. Mr Wernick had maybe 5.5k remaining behind at this time. The river was the and Mr Wernick checked to Mr Cannot Be Named, who bet 4.5k. Mr Wernick got his chips in, Mr Cannot Be Named called the difference, and they were on their backs.

Mr Cannot Be Named: three diamonds three clubs
Mr Wernick:

Double up for Mr Wernick, disgruntlement for Mr Cannot Be Named. Extraordinary.

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Now accompanying Alan Vinson in the race for the chip lead is son Ben with around 55,000 in chips. It required a touch of fortune in the end though, his in need of a little assistance against the of Irishman and former Irish Open finalist Conor Smyth. However, the Poker Gods are a mischievous lot, and after a flop and a turn, out popped the on the river for the Broadway straight. Oooh, nasty, as Knightmare's Tregar would say.

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Fran Creed is down to just 3,000 after doubling up neighbour James Bishop (pictured). With Richard Berridge making a small raise from the button, James and Fran (J-T) both called leading to a three way flop of J-Q-6 rainbow. James checked, Fran bet, Richard folded and James called. The turn came a nine ("I'm not passing now," Fran later commented), to which James check-raised Fran's bet all in for little more. Fran made the call, but was met by a K-T for the straight.
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« Reply #49 on: July 18, 2008, 11:26:38 PM »


I have conferred with the steward and he has agreed that Ben has balls made of gold.

Now that we have established the true value of Mr Vinson Jr's metaphorical scrotal contents, I must tell you that something utterly dreadful seems to have happened to Vinson Sr. First I noticed that he had rather fewer chips than he had a little while ago, but thought nothing of it. But the next time I passed his seat, there was neither any Vinson nor any stack of chips in evidence - just a sad, lonely leather jacket draped over the back of Mr Vinson's former seat. The next time I passed his table after that, he jacket was gone too. Either mysterious government experiments are being carried out, or Mr Vinson Sr is OUT. Sorry, assorted family members and supporters.
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« Reply #50 on: July 18, 2008, 11:31:08 PM »

Fran Creed is still hanging in there - just. She shoved for her last 2,675 and found a caller in Richard Hawes holding . "I've got connected cards," said Fran apparently by way of some kind of apology for the filth she was about to turn over - the filth was exactly .

Board: making Ms Creed a rather unlikely full house.

She moved in again the very next hand, but this time her table gave her rather more credit for some reason, all folding including big blind and big stack Richard Berridge, who showed her A-8.

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blondeite Neil 'jakally' Giblin has doubled up courtesy of Danny Rudd, kings holding up against K-Q on a nonthreatening A-3-3-7-9 board.

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Benjamin Carpenter is out after making a move with K-8. He was picked off by Joe Grech's A-K, which stood up on a raggy board.
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« Reply #51 on: July 18, 2008, 11:37:13 PM »

Mr James Bishop continues to enjoy good fortune while the fortunes of the Vinson clan sink lower still.

Mr Bishop bet out 4k on the flop, and Mr Vinson Jr called. Mr Bishop bet a further 6k on the turn and after some short deliberation, Vinson Jr raised to cover him. Bishop called, and they were on their proverbial backs, like so -

Ben Vinson:
James Bishop:

River: a not very Vinson-friendly in the circumstances
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« Reply #52 on: July 18, 2008, 11:58:48 PM »

Table 14...

Seat 1: Jeff Rogers -- 27,500
Seat 2: Ben Vinson -- 25,500
Seat 3: Richard Berridge -- 30,000
Seat 4: James Bishop -- 54,000
Seat 5: Shahnawaz Randera -- 14,000
Seat 6: Richard Hawes -- 41,000
Seat 7: Martino Libertini -- 10,000
Seat 8: Steve Jelinek -- 44,000

Table 12...

Seat 1: Jon Omara -- 39,500
Seat 2: Mickey Wernick -- 22,500
Seat 3: Paul Lammas -- 16,000
Seat 4: Karl Johnson -- 21,000
Seat 5: Chris Bruce -- 50,500
Seat 6: Mick McCool -- 15,000
Seat 7: Jim Reid -- 51,500
Seat 8: Andrew Andreou -- 25,000

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« Reply #53 on: July 19, 2008, 12:15:53 AM »

Some good old-fashioned aggression from Jim Reid before the break. Thomas Carpenter made it 1.8k from the button and small blind He Who Cannot Be Named Or Have His Face Shown In the Slightly Creepy Photo Below called. Jim however made it around 5k from the big blind, and they both folded.

The next hand it went a little bit less well for him, though. It folded around to him and he raised up his small blind. Big blind Andrew Andreou called and they checked down the 6-7-3-3-A, three-heart board - at which point Reid mucked to Andreou's T-2.

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« Reply #54 on: July 19, 2008, 12:16:48 AM »

Current chip counts:

Marc Goodwin   11   1   79750
Christopher Bruce   12   5   70700
James Bishop   14   4   61500
James Reid   12   8   56400
Jon Omara   12   1   55800
Richard Hawes   14   7   45700
Daniel Rudd   11   9   45000
Thomas Carpenter   12   6   42000
Thomas Nightingale   11   4   38600
Jef Rogers   14   1   36100
Steve Jelinek   14   9   34900
Richard Berridge   14   3   33100
Andrew Greekfish   12   9   31500
Richard Stanley   11   3   28800
Ben Vinson   14   2   21900
Karl Johnson   12   4   14100
Joseph Grech   11   7   13800
Paul Lammas   12   3   13800
Richard Sherwood   11   5   13300
Michael Mccool   12   7   13200
Shahnawaz Randera   14   5   12200
Neil Giblin   11   2   11900
Gary Teatum   11   6   10100
Martino Libertini   14   8   8500
Steve Read   11   8   7500
Michael Wernick   12   2   5400
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« Reply #55 on: July 19, 2008, 12:27:04 AM »

Double elimination, not in the same hand, but different tables at roughly the same time. First up was the exit of Steve Read. He fell at the hands of Tom Nightingale, the youngster holding As-Ks against Steve's Kc-Qc and surviving a raggy flop. Simultaneously, we lost Karl Johnson on the nieghbouring table. With the board reading As-4d-7c-Ts-Qs, he bet and called a raise from Chris Bruce only to be shown pocket sevens. Meanwhile, Jon Omara did well to escape cheaply with A-K.

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As they were announcing the chip counts during the break, Simon Trumper highlighted Mickey Wernick's paltry stack, adding, "Mickey's more than capable of quadrupling that up a few times and making it through to day two." Well, those words of wisdom may well be justified as the Worm has just doubled up courtesy of Andrew Andreou with queens versus jacks, all in preflop.
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« Reply #56 on: July 19, 2008, 12:39:27 AM »

CRAZINESS ALERT

Not entirely sure how this happened, but come the flop, He Who Cannot Be Named is all in for 10k, there is considerably more than 10k in front of Tomas Carpenter in a kind of that's-what-he's-betting sort of way, and Andy Mr Greekfish is announcing, "I have queens, I'm all in."

They flip 'em, in the parlance.

HWCBN:
Carpenter:
Andreou: indeed he speaks the truth, he has

Turn:
River:

Thus Mr Cannot Be Named triples up to 30k or so, Mr Andreoufish wins the side pot and makes around 10k on the hand, which bumps up his stack to 40k, and Mr Carpenter is down to the proverbial felt. May not be long before Mr Carpenter bites the tournament (saw)dust.
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« Reply #57 on: July 19, 2008, 12:54:18 AM »

Mr Richard Hawes is OUT. Finding his stack somewhat depleted after "Ben Vinson owned my soul" (apparently Vinson called him on the river with queen-high and it was good), he called an 1800 raise from James Bishop with . When James bet 4k on the jack-rag-rag, two-diamond flop, Hawes shoved for another 20k or so, and after some considerable dwellage, James called with . No miracles, and Hawes is no more.
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« Reply #58 on: July 19, 2008, 12:57:25 AM »

Mr Thomas Carpenter is similarly a goner. He shoved from the button for his last 6k with and found himself called by Jim Reid holding in the small blind.

Board: a jack-free, not-making-Carpenter-a-straight-or-similar .
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« Reply #59 on: July 19, 2008, 01:09:43 AM »

There has been a lot of blind-stealing, some of it more honest than most.

It folds to Andrew Andreou on the button. "Whose big blind is it? Oh, it's Mickey Wernick's, ok, I respect that. I'm all in." Mickay folds K-5, and Andreou shows the ahead-but-not-by-much A-2.
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