DTD Monthly £300 Freezeout Day 2 - At A Glance

[danafish]

Thomas Grundy is rather short, and getting shorter. He raised to 8.5k preflop, only to wearily lay it down when Matthew Wadham made it 24k to go.

[danafish]

We will be ctrl-v-ing no more, as Mr Ginikachukwu Izuogu is OUT. Mickey Wernick raised to 10k utg and Mr Ginikachukwu Izuogu reraised all in, but found himself in a spot of bother with A-K up against The Wall Of Wernick's A-A. A King on the flop offered a glimmer of hope, but that was all, and Mr Ginikachukwu Izuogu has left the building.

[NoflopsHomer]

Mikal Blomlie finally succumbs his short stack losing out with after it was checked down between Chris Cancelliere and Michael Humphries on a board, Humphries showing the winning .

12 players left.

So...

[NoflopsHomer]

When you're as short as Philip Clarke and facing a raise from the very aggressive Chris Cancelliere, you'd expect that your would at least be live, but not when Cancelliere shows

The flop came out and suddenly Clarke felt better...



He hung his head and got up to leave...



Only to sit down again and somehow survive. The picture doesn't show it here, but he's a very happy man.

[danafish]

Daniel Ward raises, but Thomas Grundy goes all in. There follows infinite dwelling.























Then he folds.

[danafish]

Michael Humphries is a very lucky man. No coins were flipped this time, but he raised to 10k with and called Joe Daoud's 26.6k total all in reraise. Daoud turned over .

Board: d

Choppity chop.




Not sure what Mr Daoud is doing here:

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[danafish]

Mr Tony Salmon has tipped the scales a little on The Great Wall Of Wernick.

He raised to 10k preflop, and Mickey flat called, before shoving the flop. He couldn't poach Mr Salmon's chips, though - Mickey turned over K-Q but Tony turned over Aces. No change on the turn or river, and it's a double helping of chips for Salmon.

[NoflopsHomer]

Joe Daoud moves all-in for 20.4k. Lee Rawson makes the call from the small blind before Chris Cancelliere moves all-in from the big blind. Rawson folds his pocket fours face up and Cancelliere flips his which is in fine shape against Daoud's .

A board later though, and Daoud has trebled up to over 60k and the bubble period continues.

[NoflopsHomer]

Rough chip counts:

Matthew Wadham -- 93k
Michael Wernick -- 200k
Stuart Langford -- 30k
Tony Salmon -- 84k
Thomas Grundy -- 67k
Daniel Ward -- 48k

[danafish]

Rough chip counts for the other table:

Joe Douad: 63k
Philip Clarke: 35k
Lee Rawson: 70k
Chris Cancelliere: 130k
Michael Humphries: 250k
Gary Orme: 50k

[danafish]

Stuart Langford's intense lack of chips is down to this:

He raised preflop, and found a caller in big blind Matthew Wadham. Wadham bet out 8k on the flop, and Langford made it 20k or so. Wadham then moved in for 51.6k total, and Langford dwelled up before folding. Wadham showed , and I believe I heard Lagford mutter that he'd passed a King...

[danafish]

After doubling up with A-J against Humphries, Joe Daoud moved in again to a raise from Humphries, who folded. "You don't want to double me up again?" said Daoud. "Same hand..." and flipped A-J.

A few hands later, Daoud open-shoved preflop, and Humphries called. Daoud was once again holding , but this time Humphries was way ahead of him with . No surprises on the board, and ladies and gentlemen, we are in the money. Hand for hand play will continue, however, until we are down to final table.

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[NoflopsHomer]

Phillip Clarke is OUT, he ended up moving in against Michael Humphries' raise with but failing to hit against on the board. We're now down to 10 players. Humphries is the big chip leader now, with Mickey Wernick close behind.

[danafish]

Good lord, this has been a super-fast final day so far, and indeed we are already down to our final table. Latest casualty = Mr Gary Orme, who shoved with , and got himself called by Chris Cancelliere who woke up with on the big blind.

An exciting but fair board, and Mr Orme is OUT in 10th place, and we will very shortly be starting the 9-handed final table on the nice table at the front of the room, with the swivelly chairs instead of the regular ones so that final tablists know they've hit the big time.

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[NoflopsHomer]

The final table will start in 15 minutes or so.