DTD Monthly £300 Freezeout Day 1 - At A Glance

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Mr Mickey Wernick has not yet entered his shortstack comfort zone, and is in fact steaming ahead. The gentleman in seat 4 on his table bet 3k on the river of a board, only for Mickey to make it 6k. After some consideration, he laid it down. Mickey showed for absolutely nothing.

Here he is, with chip envy from Mad Turk:

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Chili got a bit short early on, but she doubled up through Mad Turk after raising with K-J and him calling, Turk set Maria in on the turn of a K-5-2-5 board and she made the call, Turk's 2-4 offsuit not looking in the best of shape.

Elsewhere, the big stack between Red Dog and Wick Twigg (Maria has been moved), a 25k pot being created with all the money in on the turn of a board between and . No queen on the river.

Meanwhile Tikay has won a pot! The turn and river of the board were checked down and our Fearless Leader's tens were good.

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A rather sad Mr Lawrence Gosney is down to 8k or so after a very large pot went the way of Mr Jeff Sharpe. I caught it on the river, the board reading . Mr Gosney seemed to have checked to Mr Sharpe, who bet 2k. Gosney very nonchalantly threw in a bunch of green chips, enough to cover Sharpe, who called all in.

Gosney:

Sharpe:

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Mr Barry Neville has most thoughtfully reported a hand to me. Mr Mid Position raised to 625 and Mr Neville called from the big blind with pocket Fives. The flop came down J-8-8 and Mr Neville bet out 1,200. Mr Mid Position went all in for around 6k and Mr Neville insta-called ("I insta-called, insta-called") and indeed Mr Mid Position was very far behind with A-K.

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Some chip counts from the break around 10 minutes ago, how we love that DTD website:

Tony Salmon   36   7   30400
Barry Neville   25   9   24150
Anon   12   6   22500
Chris Cancelliere   25   2   20200
Richard Trigg   36   8   19600
Ralph Shalson   25   1   18550
Michael Humphries   33   2   17150
Mikal Blomlie   12   3   17000
Basharat Mahmood   33   1   16350
Chris Kearney   33   6   15700
Nick Slade   12   8   14500
George Kennedy   11   1   14000
Billy Ngo   33   9   14000
Paul Hardy   36   3   13200
Greg Hill   33   8   13000
Philip Clarke   12   9   12500
Thomas Mccready   36   5   12300
Justin Davies   12   2   11500
Simon Lee   12   7   11500
Lee Nayler   25   5   10725
Michael Wernick   25   7   10725
Paul Lammas   25   3   10250
Arshad Pervaiz Hussain   36   6   10000
Christopher Utting   33   5   9625
Darren Chadwick   36   1   9500
Simon Nowab   12   1   9200
Waheed Ashraf   36   2   8500
Jason Wong   33   7   8200
Tom Lawton   36   4   8000
Michael Jones   11   2   7700
Gamal Mosleh   33   4   7350
David Smith   25   4   6875
Scott Oxford   25   6   6825
Matthew Wadham   25   8   6825
John Perrin   12   5   6000
Anon   36   9   5975
Jason Herbert   12   4   5800
Ramazanali Abbassi   11   3   4175
Cenker Inan   33   3   3925

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The banter is flowing between Pete Charambalous (I suck at spelling) and Tikay is flowing. Apparently Tikay's once a year bluff actually got through.

Exiteers -- Matt Tyler, Steve Jelinek (sitting next to Jen in the cash)

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Flushed with his bluffing triumph, tikay raises to 700 utg. Pete Charalambous calls from the small blind. "Does he know I've raised?" protests tikay. "Yes," says the dealer, "That's why he's called."

They see a flop. They check it.

They see a turn, and Pete bets 800; tikay calls.

They see a river and Pete bets another 1k. Tikay calls.

Pete:

Tikay: entirely not bluffing with . "Be sure to report how well I played that hand."

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LeKnave has doubled up after the button raised and Dave shipped his stack in with A-J for about 3k, his opponent somehow managed to find the call for most of his stack with K-J. A raggy board later and Dave is in much better shape. Meanwhile Barry Neville called Karabiner's small re-raise with eights and flopped quads against Ralph's Aces to double up, before immediately losing a chunk back with kings against aces the next hand.

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A few chip counts, in the absence of any major action to report:

The Thewster: 9k
The Lam-master: still on a starting-stacky 10k, and with Mickey Wernick now on his table
The Mickster Wernickster: 25k
Leknavester: 7k and sharing a table with ChipRich
Chiprichster: 12.5k
The Karabinster: just 3k.

Mr Karabiner's almost total lack of chips is down to the doubling-up of Mr Barry Neville. Mr Neville raised with pocket Eights in the small blind and Karabiner woke up with Aces in the big blind. He called. The flop came Q-8-8, two hearts. They saw a turn, which was another heart, and although Karabiner suspected that he may well be behind by this point, he was holding the for a flush draw too and they got their chips in. Yikes. Mr Neville = ludicrously happy; Mr Karabiner = not quite spitting with rage but if he were a less polite man I imagine that that might be the sort of thing that he could conceivably be doing around now.

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Another recent exiteer is Mick Jones. Not massively sure how it came to this, but he got his chips in with on a flop. His opponent was holding and the turn and river were absolutely no help to Mr Jones.

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Our Valiant Exiteers Thus Far

82   Jason Wong
83   Kiumars Zarandi
84   Bryan Anglim
85   David Tighe
86   Peter Charalamobus
87   Pat Kelley
88   Daniel Platten
89   Babak Naini
90   Waheed Ashraf
91   Michael Jones
92   David Smith
93   Simon Nowab
94   Tasos Grigoriou
95   Matt Tyler
96   Charles Denton
97   Yucel Eminoglu
98   Paul Rayner
99   Chin Chai Koh
100   Matt Russell
101   Steve Jelinek
102   Oliver Cooper
103   Gary Tomney
104   Mario Demetriou
105   Andy Bacon
106   Przemek Rusin
107   Douglas Lindsay
108   Brian Reid
109   Mazhar Latif
110   Andrew Wayman
111   Jennifer Mason
112   Ismail Yusuf
113   Anthony Nicholls
114   Alli Mallu
115   Desmond Jonas
116   John Milne

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Thewy can win EPT's, GUKPT's and big Venetian events, but it doesn't look like he's going to win this month's DTD Deepstack. He called a 3k bet on the river of a board only to be shown for the rivered straight. He's down to just 2,000 now, but still doing better than Simon Nowab who is out.

Peter Charambolous is also out, he'd put a lot of his depleted stack in on a flop but felt he couldn't fold his against his opponent who flipped , the GUKPT Walsall runner-up picked up a lifeline with the turn, but was confounded by the river.

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Our Current Big Stackers As Far As I Can See

Gary Dee - 32k
Gary Orme - 35k
Stuart Langford - 34k
Mr Bin Bag, I believe one Andrew Wayman - around 40k and therefore our current chip leader by my reckoning

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Another Walsall GUKPT, albeit last year's, is OUT. Billy Ngo was raised all-in for his shortened stack on the river of a and made the call saying, "I have an ace,"

His opponent said, "I have a flush," flipping .

"Oh well, that's enough," said Billy, "Good luck everyone."

Horneris has doubled through, Greek Jack had made it 700 and Brent moved in for 5,250 from the small blind. The big blind called all-in for around 4,000 or so and Greek Jack agonised before folding what he said was A-K.

Brent:

Big Blind:

Board:

Brent, "I flip good."

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Shahnawaz Randera limped, and tikay raised to 1,200 behind him. Everybody at the table had of course already been witness to tikay's annual bluff, and therefore folded. He showed pocket Tens.