DTD Monthly £300 Freezeout Day 1 - At A Glance

[danafish]

Hello hello and welcome to DTD. I have just arrived after managing not to crash Snoopy's car all the way up the M1, and am all set for a night of hardcore updating and possibly eating a curry later. Mr Floppy is nowhere to be seen, but unless he has managed to crash his car somewhere on the M1, I suspect he will be here shortly. Familiar faces spotted so far include the Blondepoker Boy Band, Steve Jelinek, Des Jonas, Kinboshi who's only come down to play cash, and, er, Jen Mason, who was feeding me sandwiches and cigarettes in the car while simultaneously tuning us in to Smooth FM.

[danafish]

To the gentleman who just posted on this thread, apologies for deleting it but this is the At A Glance thread, for your updaters' typing pleasure only. Please head over to the Interactive thread if you'd like to say stuff to us:

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=35724.new#new

And it's due to start at 8pm.

[NoflopsHomer]

Hiring a car is like being a baseball player, you should never swing at the first pitch. The car which I've got that got me here is little more than a speedy toaster on wheels, which groans at any suggestion of going around 70mph. Combined with this, once I reached Nottingham the seatbelt alarm went off repeatedly. For about twenty minutes. Despite the fact I'm sitting comfortably in the chair.

The moral of the story is, don't hire a Mitsubishi Colt.

[danafish]

Mr Paul Lammas is seated at a table currently with Barry Neville, Mr Ralph Karabiner and Dave Smith, among others. One of those others is the gentleman on the winning end of our first all in encounter of the day. His now departed opponent called a bet on the 7-9-9 flop, another on the 3 turn, and somehow found himself all in on the 9 river. Mr Departed could only boast pocket Fives, while Mr Double Up was holding Kings. Here he is raking in his chip-leading new stack:

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[danafish]

According to Mr Tikay of Sky Poker fame, Anthony Nicholls attempted to carry on tradition by busting himself out in the first hand like he did at the Mini Festival a few weeks ago, but instead had to settle for losing around half his stack. Mr Nicholls made it 300, I understand from the big blind, and received six callers and one reraise to 1000. Nicholls re-reraised another 1000 and was called, and another 3000 found its way into the pot by the turn, but Nicholls eventually gave it up. There were murmurs of two-pair-over-two-pair, but, as tikay put it, "I think one was nicking and the other was at it."

Train stories not going down well again:




Meanwhile, across the table, "Tell everyone that Pete Charalambous is getting drunk."

[danafish]

As I walked past Jen Mason's table right at the very start of level 1, I noticed that she had rather fewer chips than everyone else. "Oh dear," said I, "Have you wanged some already?"

"Hey, I've been hit on the head this week, give me a break," she replied, and indeed it seems I was a little ungenerous. It turns out that there were four limpers, and, finding herself holding A-K, she made it 250. Everybody checked the flop, until Rick Trigg bet 450 from the button. The gent in Seat 1 flat called and Jen check-raised to 1,500. Trigg insta-passed, but Mr Seat 1 reraised to 4k. Jen passed faster than a cheetah stealing a hot potato or some other kind of nonsensical mixed metaphor, and was rewarded by Mr Seat 1 showing her . I take back all the unkind things I said about her.

[NoflopsHomer]

The £50 competition has kicked on the table next to us with about 20 players, many of whom are bemoaning their exit from the main event tonight with lines such as, "I didn't think he'd have a bigger kicker.." or "He overbet the pot but I thought 2nd pair was good..."

[NoflopsHomer]

'Reggie' Perrin has suffered early at the hand(s) of Simon 'Chubbs' Nowab. Perrin limped with another player limping the button and the small made up with Chubbs checking.

was the flop and it was checked to 'Reggie' who bet 225 into the 200 pot. Chubbs was the only caller and was warned, "Don't be calling me with 4-5!"

A possible action creating appeared on the term and Nowab again checked with 'Reggie' again betting 225, but this time Nowab raised to to 575 with Reggie calling. The came on the river and now Nowab bet out 1,550 and Perrin said, "You know I'm calling," which he then did.

Chubbs showed , the most average hand in the game, but good here. "Show your kings then," he added. And Perrin did flip the .

Meanwhile Ali Mallu has typically been in the thick of all the action as usual. "I got Mallu-ed" said PI Nick Slade. But Mallu since busted out. Aggressively betting a the whole way but being called by which was good against Mallu's one pair. Mallu exited soon after, so quickly that we missed the hand completely.

[danafish]

By the way...

Our complete seating plan for the start of today, courtesy of the awesome DTD website:

11   1   George Kennedy
11   2   Michael Jones
11   3   Steve Jelinek
11   4   Kevin Lund
11   5   Thomas Grundy
11   6   Brian Reid
11   7   Thomas Middleton
11   8   Liaquat Javed
12   1   Simon Nowab
12   2   Justin Davies
12   3   Mikal Blomlie
12   4   Jason Herbert
12   5   John Perrin
12   6   Anon
12   7   Simon Lee
12   8   Douglas Lindsay
14   1   Michael Jeffrey
14   2   Ismail Yusuf
14   3   Gary Dee
14   4   Desmond Jonas
14   5   Neil Giblin
14   6   Lawrence Gosney
14   7   James Moult
14   8   Jeff Sharpe
15   1   Daniel Ward
15   2   Przemek Rusin
15   3   Steven Pyatt
15   4   James Brunskill
15   5   Kyriacos Dionysiou
15   6   Peter Conduit
15   7   Daniel Platten
15   8   Brent Horner
22   1   Marios Arkadiou
22   2   John Marles
22   3   David Hampton
22   4   Alan Stearn
22   5   Scott Genever
22   6   Xie Zhenru
22   7   Julian Thew
23   1   Stuart Langford
23   2   Debbie Fox
23   3   Anthony Nicholls
23   4   Tasos Grigoriou
23   5   Peter Charalamobus
23   6   Andy Bacon
23   7   Anthony Kendall
23   8   Chin Chai Koh
25   1   Ralph Shalson
25   2   Chris Cancelliere
25   3   Paul Lammas
25   4   David Smith
25   5   Lee Nayler
25   6   Scott Oxford
25   7   John Milne
25   8   Greg Hill
26   1   Matthew Wadham
26   2   Alli Mallu
26   3   Paul Hardy
26   4   Joe Daoud
26   5   Shahnawaz Randera
26   6   Matt Tyler
26   7   Tom Lawton
26   8   Nick Slade
34   1   Pat Kelley
34   2   Martyn Reeve
34   3   Terry Brown
34   4   Andrew Wayman
34   5   Nick Carter
34   6   Gary Jones
34   7   Richard Whiteley
34   8   Bryan Anglim
35   1   Darren Chadwick
35   2   David Jones
35   3   David Mundle
35   4   Richard Hare
35   5   Charles Denton
35   6   Lee Rawson
35   7   Irina Liepina
35   8   John Mcmillan
36   1   Mario Demetriou
36   2   Waheed Ashraf
36   3   Oliver Cooper
36   4   Maria Demetriou
36   5   Thomas Mccready
36   6   Jennifer Mason
36   7   Tony Salmon
36   8   Richard Trigg

[NoflopsHomer]

Steve Jelinek might have been the recipient of some luck. Calling a raise from the small blind with 4 other players also putitng 250, he proceeded to check/raise all-in on a flop for 5,150 after the OR bet 600 and was called in one spot. The big blind thought long and hard before folding, while the OR and the caller also passed. The OR stated, "Hardest fold of my life, I had kings." Someone else piped up increduously, "You folded kings?"

During this, Jelinek quietly stacked the almost 50% additional amount of chips to his stack. Anyone else snap-calling here?

[danafish]

Ms Lucy Rokach, not on the player list owing to her being a late entry, is down to around 6.5k. She bet 1.5k on the river of an A-rag-rag-T-Q board and was called by the gent to her right. Lucy was holding A-J, and her caller was holding the altogether superior A-K.

Extreme Rokach nonchalance:

[danafish]

Mr Nicholls has now indeed busted out. Not entirely sure what happened, but he was somehow all in on the river of a board, up against Mr Stuart Langford. Langford turned over for flopped trips and a rivered flush, and Mr Nicholls just mucked, although I'm fairly sure I heard him mutter, "I had a flush and all."

[danafish]

Oh dear, goodbye my 5%.

Jen Mason is now OUT, a victim of the unnamed lady in seat 9. Jen flat limped in with A-9 on the cutoff, the small blind also called, but Seat 9 Lady in the big blind made it another 500. Two calls.

Flop:

Seat 9 Lady bet out 1k, and Jen attempted to make it 3k but Seat 9 Lady pointed out that only one of her extra 1k chips had crossed the line. Min-raise it was. Seat 9 Lady called.

Turn:

Seat 9 Lady checked, and Jen bet 3.5k. Call.

River:

Seat 9 Lady checked again and Jen went all in. Seat 9 Lady called, and her pocket Queens sent Jen to the cash game and my 5% to sorry oblivion.

[NoflopsHomer]

Miner Count:

Major Miner -- ChipRich -- 16k and looking distinctly ginger.

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Modest Miner -- Horneris -- 10.9k and grinding

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Minor Miner -- LeKnave -- 9k and looking bored.



Mad Turk has saved PI Dick Slade a few chips, the two of them made it to the river along with a third player, who bet 1k on the river. Mad Turk made the call and Nick Slade sighed and said, "Well I knew I was ahead on the flop," flashing the as he folded. The third player showed and Turk mucked, bemoaning the fact he hadn't bet the turn.

Nice start for Karabiner, he just doubled up, getting it all-in with against on a board which couldn't catch the elusive 1-outer.

[danafish]

By the by for Mr Tightend, Greek Jack, 18k or thereabouts.