DTD Mini Festival: Final Day - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Current chippy counts:

Steve Jelinek   14   9   150500
Marc Goodwin   12   7   150300
Christopher Bruce   12   5   77000
Shahnawaz Randera   14   5   70000
Richard Berridge   14   3   68200
Michael Mccool   14   7   68000
Jon Omara   12   1   56200
Andy Greekfish   12   9   38300
Neil Giblin   12   4   36300
Richard Stanley   14   8   33000
Paul Lammas   12   3   31900

Gone today...

12   Jef Rogers
13   Daniel Rudd
14   James Bishop
15   Richard Sherwood
16   James Reid
17   Thomas Nightingale
18   Michael Wernick

[danafish]

In fact, this seems an appropriate moment to post the payout.

Total prize pool £59,250, 9 places pay out.

1)  £20,737
2)  £12,442
3)  £8,295
4)  £5,332
5)  £4,147
6)  £2,962
7)  £2,370
  £1,777
9)  £1,185

Thaaaat's yer lot.

[danafish]

Jon Omara is up to exactly 77.2k (he counted it for me) after a curious hand against Marc Goodwin.

Omara made it 4k preflop, and Goodwin called in the big blind. All good.

Flop: - Goodwin check-calls 6.9k from Omara.

Turn: - Goodwin now check-calls 12k from Omara.

River: - check, check.

Omara:

Goodwin: "I only missed 22 outs," and muck. Goodwin now down to a still chip-leady-contendy 130k.

[danafish]

A clock-calling moment on Table 12. Neil Giblin raised to 4.5k in early position, and Greekfish asked for a count. Mr Giblin had 32k in total. Mr Greekfish raised to 32k. Everyone else got out of the way. There followed a lengthy argument about whether or not Mr Greekfish had a hand, and further whether or not Mr Goblin had a better hand. The clock was threatened and eventually Mr Giblin folded. Mr Greekfish declared that only your humble updater could see his cards, which were .

[snoopy1239]

Fireworks on the near table as Steve Jelinek (button) and Richard Berridge (small blind) get it all in preflop for what is surely the biggest pot of the tournament!!!

Jelinek =

Berridge =

Flop =

Turn =

River =

"Yes!," exclaims a pumped up Richard Berridge as he clenches his fists in delight. "I didn't like that," he adds. "That was horrible."

Meanwhile, Steve can only compliment "nice hand" and quietly slide the chips over to his foe, later turning to wife Irena on the rail and shaking his head in dismay.

That pot has given Richard Berridge the chip lead with a monster 180,000 in chips.

[snoopy1239]

I mentioned fireworks in my last post, but there are more explosions than World War II out there at the moment as Paul Lammas finds himself all in against neighbour Neil Giblin.

After Paul had raised it to 4,100 from the button, Neil pushed all in from the small blind. Paul called quicker than a sheep in a wooly jumper factory.

As Paul swiftly turned over and rose confidently from his chair, he was relieved to find he had his man totally dominated with a paltry .

It doesn't look good commented a dejected Neil as the flop brought a harmless looking .

But the on the turn provided the underdog with four outs. "Don't do it," pleaded Paul.

However, his cries fell on stony ground as out it came, the cruel and devastating on the river.

As onlookers shrieked, Paul's body sagged in defeat and Neil was left to meekly rake in what could prove a crucial pot.

Down to 10.

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Before the melee of those previous two encounters, we had a smaller showdown involving Richard Stanley, but it was one that doubled him through nonetheless. With the board reading , HWCBN bet out 10,500 and Richard called all in. Upon being shown a for the full house, HWCBN swiftly mucked making the on the river academic. Richard is now on 36,600, so still struggling.

[snoopy1239]

Near table...

Seat 1: Richard Berridge -- 175,000
Seat 2: Shahnawaz Randera -- 108,000
Seat 3: HWCBN -- 44,000
Seat 4: Richard Stanley -- 31,000
Seat 5: Steve Jelinek -- 22,000

Far table...

Seat 1: Jon Omara -- 64,000
Seat 2: Neil Giblin -- 40,000
Seat 3: Chris Bruce -- 81,000
Seat 4: Marc Goodwin -- 164,000
Seat 5: Andrew Andreou -- 36,000

[danafish]

Many things have been happening while the beagle has been hogging the sitting-down-and-typing aspect of an updater's job.

Chris Bruce raised to 4.6k on the cutoff, only for Marc Goodwin to make it 20.6k on the button. Andy Greekfish whispers to me, "I passed Sevens." Says Bruce: "As long as the flop doesn't come 7-9 I'll be ok," but he folds.

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Mr Andy Greekfish remains a short stack, and made a surprising fold after raising to 5k utg when Chris Bruce raised all in from the small blind. Mr Greekfish spent a long time hypothesizing over what Mr Bruce might be holding (in the end he guessed A-K) and also vaguely hoping that someone else would go out on the other table while he was considering the call. He folded pocket tens face up. Mr Bruce was indeed holding A-K.

[danafish]

Mr Steve Jelinek's fortunes continue to sink. He raised it up with pocket jacks and then called HWCBN's all in with .... and the board came down . Yikes.

Down to just 11.6k, however, Jelinek moved in utg with , and received a surprisingly fast call from HWCBN seeing as he was holding just . Board: . Though still desperate, Jelinek stays in and we remain on the bubble for the time being.

[snoopy1239]

Final!

Steve Jelinek is our unfortunate final table bubble boy. Short-stacked and in desperate need of a double up, he made his move with but was picked off by the of Richard Stanley. On the flop, Steve quickly accepted his fate and congratulated his opponent, barely bothering to look as the turn and river hit the felt.

Richard Berridge   15   5   188100
Marc Goodwin   15   2   165600
Shahnawaz Randera   15   8   102600
Christopher Bruce   15   4   83800
Jon Omara   15   3   70300
Richard Stanley   15   6   52100
HWCBN   15   7   48600
Neil Giblin   15   9   43200
Andy Greekfish   15   1   35900

[danafish]

Some minor action in the first few hands.

First Richard Berridge makes it 4.5k, and is called by Marc Goodwin in the small blind. They see a flop and Goodwin checks to Berridge, who bets 5k. Goodwin calls. They both check the turn, leading them necessarily to a river; it is the . Marc now bets out 20k, and Berridge makes a rather brave and entirely correct call with . Goodwin shows . "That's how you got all those chips, then," muses Mr Goodwin.

[danafish]

Chris Bruce is the first to make a dent, however slight, in the Berridge stack. Blind on blind, one of them raises and the other calls (sorry, missed that bit) and they see a flop, which they both check. Bruce bets out 5k on the turn, which Berridge calls, and once they've both checked the river, Brucie takes it down with , Berridge only managing .

[danafish]

Yes indeed, largely the hands that I witnessed involved either a) Richard Berridge bullying everyone into submission, b) lots of folding, or c) some largely uninteresting blind-on-blind limpy/checky action.

One exception was a fun hand where Marc Goodwin raised to 6k on the cutoff only for Jon Omara to make it a very large 40k frm the button. With the absolute minimum of fuss, Goodwin folded up.

[snoopy1239]

After a slight lull in play, a monster pot develops seemingly from nowhere. With Richard Berridge raising it up under-the-gun to 5,000 preflop, Chris Bruce makes the call from the big blind leading to a two-way flop of . After check-calling 7,000 on the flop and 20,000 on the turn, Chris finds himself facing a bet of 50,000 on the river. As Richard pushes in the chips, Chris doesn't look happy, sighing and removing his sunglasses as he looks inquisitively at his opponent. "That's not a value bet is it?" probes Chris. "Surely a value bet would be more like 20,000." After declaring that it would be a sick call, Chris finally pushes 50,000 along the felt and flips . Richard, meanwhile, can only tap the table and muck his hand.

Huge hand for Chris, whilst Richard relinquishes his chip lead and drops down to 120,000.

Seat 1: Andrew Andreou -- 28,000
Seat 2: Marc Goodwin -- 161,000
Seat 3: Jon Omara -- 77,000
Seat 4: Chris Bruce -- 183,000
Seat 5: Richard Berridge -- 121,000
Seat 6: Richard Stanley -- 33,000
Seat 7: HWCBN -- 40,000
Seat 8: Shahnawaz Randera -- 99,000
Seat 9: Neil Giblin -- 33,000

[danafish]

Marc Goodwin has been throwing his chip weight around. He raised to 6k preflop twice in a row, and the second time he found a caller in HWCBN in the big blind. Mr CBN also check-called 10k from Marc on the flop, but laid down up when Marc made it 30k on the turn. Mr Goodwin showed .

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