Bluesq.com GUKPT Luton: Day 1b - At A Glance

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Here's a smattering of chip counts like a little assortment of random chocolates for your delectation.

Apologies if you get the coffee or orange, yuk.

Dana Immanuelle - up to 18,500, didn't win with kings a moment ago, but didn't lose either. Onwards and upwards!

Here she is looking cheeky as she sips her vodka and gin glass of water.




Bond villain Seasoned poker veteran Stuart Nash, looking menacing as he sweeps in his latest pot. Only 5,000 chips though...




Darren Shallis was propping up the rail, beer in hand of course. Sadly, he departed a while ago. After taking an early hit against A-K, he managed to build back up to 14,000 before raising it up with kings, finding two callers, and running into a flopped set of threes. Cooler than a mother-in-law's kiss.


There are a number of players lingering around the 50k mark, but it would appear as though Huseyin Yilmaz is your current chip leader with 67,000.

Huseyin Yilmaz (pictured) -- 67,000
Ken Wong -- 60,500
Mike Ellis -- 60,150
Dave Smith -- 58,500
Billy Ngo -- 46,225
Adam Lawler -- 43,300


G Stafford just found himself all in and fighting for his tournament life against Sunny Chattha. Stafford will have been relatively content with his , but maybe experiencing a mixture of relief and frustration as the Hit Squadder tabled the same hand, . Meeting everyone's secret desires, the board was a dramatic one, a flop and turn dealing both players a flush draw and sending the rest of the table into a frenzy of oohs and aahs. But, as always seems to be the case in these situations, the anti-climaxal river missed both players and the pot was duly chopped up. Nevertheless, Stafford remains low and will be looking for further opportunities to push in the upcoming rounds.

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Dave Smith has amassed a mountain of chips. I couldn't get in a good position to snap him in his usual black suit ensemble (sans yellow flower sadly) but will do so at some point. I made a rough estimate of his stack at 40,000 which is very nice thank you very much.


Stuart "The Nutter" Rutter - 7k.

Not Stuart's real nickname but I like it. Stu was out in Vegas where both he AND his brother managed to simultaneously lose their passports - clumsy!.

After two weeks of beatings in Guantanamo Bay however he was released back to the UK black and blue but a wiser man.


Jerome Bradpiece - 16k.

Jerome grew up in a cave and lives for honey. All his poker winnings have been spent on honey apart from a small portion which he kept aside to donate to charities which support disadvantaged and handicapped bees.

One day he hopes to have enough honey to take on Albert Sapiano in a high stakes HU4honeyrollz game. There can bee only one.




Neil Channing - 12k.

Neil Channing's success in life and poker has led to him now reputedly staking 63% of the known world. Small children in hitherto undiscovered unknown villages deep in south america have now been bought into the WSOP ME next year by Neil. "It's the only way to beat variance."

He has recently started a petition to let chimpanzees play in poker competitions as he is running out of humans to stake. "There's an old saying. Give a million chimpanzees a million buyins and one of the hairy fellas is gonna run good" someone who could have been Neil was heard saying.

[JungleCat03]

Sunny Chattha and Stu Rutter were both hovering around the 14k mark when this hand broke out between them.

Sunny raised to 1,725 from early position and Stu Rutter called from the small blind.

The flop fell .

Check from Stu and check from Sunny.

TURN:

Stu reached into his stack and pulled out 2,500 which he then proceeded to bet.

Sunny thought about it before picking up the requisite five 500 chips to call...which he did.

RIVER:

Stu now bet out 4.5k which was enough to send Sunny flying into the tank for quite some time. After several minutes of contemplation, someone called the clock just to make sure Sunny wasn't in a coma but he eventually called, only to be shown 8-8 by Stu for a set which was clearly good as Sunny mucked his cards.

He was left very short with 4.5k left whilst Stu is back up to over 20k and starting to look in good shape for the first time this tournament.

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Jeff Buffenbarger or "Beefburger" as he is known to his friends just took a hit, losing out to a shortstack with pocket Aces against the shortstacks pocket Tens.

A ten on the flop left the burger needing to ketchup, but the chips went the wrong way, his opponent relishing the blank turn and a blank river lettuce all rush off to report the horrendous outdraw.

This report brought to you by badpuncentral.com.

Jeff still has 25k or so though at thsi point.


Faring less well are the aforementioned Sunny Chattha who is OUT and the muticoloured Josh Tyler who has been temporarily silenced by the loss of all his chips.


Better news coming for all Dana fans though (and there's lots of you fanatical Danamaniacs with big wigs, pseudo banjos and half empty bottles of bournon cheering her on...I know!)

Snoopy has the scoop...

[JungleCat03]

Chip counts from the end of level six for you here. Hope your supported brethren are doing well...if not my advice is to disown them.

Here you go, thanks very much Jon Raab.

13   6   706   Huseyin Yilmaz   67100
15   9   1509   Michael Ellis   60850
16   4   1604   Ken Wong   56400
13   7   1307   David Smith   50375
15   4   1907   Gary Cargill   45750
18   7   202   Michael Manning   45400
18   6   1003   Flemming Stensgaa   44400
13   10   509   Billy Ngo   43775
8   9   809   Adam Lawler   42450
14   8   1408   Chandrakant Khajuria   42175
11   1   608   Stephen Slavin   37025
9   6   906   Robert Sherwood   35650
16   5   1605   Jeff Buffenbarger   35600
18   2   1802   K Sole   33375
12   3   1203   A Sapiano   31925
17   1   1701   John Potts   31150
16   8   805   Stuart Barnett   29625
16   10   103   W Mardle   29375
11   4   1001   Willie Tann   28625
14   1   1401   Peter Singleton   27650
14   5   305   Dana Immanuel   27200
9   3   903   James Mitchell   26725
11   7   1107   Leo Kam   26450
17   2   1702   Jonathan Martin   25650
12   2   1202   Vishal Bhurtun   25225
12   7   1207   Robert Garfield   24050
17   8   107   Jonathon Butters   23650
13   8   1009   Mo Muse   23275
9   5   905   Lee Atherton   22750
9   9   309   Ian Roberts   21875
11   5   1105   Darran Judges   21150
15   5   101   Paul Noury   20375
9   4   904   Mark Suddes   20000
15   8   1508   Peter Arrigoni   19375
12   8   301   Peter Wigglesworth   19200
16   6   1606   Paul Rigg   18650
14   7   109   Alex Loh   18425
15   6   1006   Aaron Short   18325
14   2   307   Andrew Gibb   18125
12   10   2005   Neel Nagrecha   17600
18   1   104   John Fake   17450
15   1   1808   Paul Bracken   16325
8   2   802   Daniel Nutt   16200
8   4   804   E Jones   16075
8   5   610   Richard Wheatley   16000
16   9   203   Neil Brooks   15525
18   5   1806   Simon Wickenden   15200
16   1   505   Conan Bailey   14675
12   9   703   Javed Akhtar   14550
17   9   2001   Stuart Rutter   14450
15   7   701   Ed Frost   14300
13   3   1303   Jack Ramsden   14250
8   8   1007   Dean Morris   14150
18   3   404   Jerome Bradpiece   13950
14   6   401   Trevor Bulless   13800
14   9   1409   Keith Miller   13225
16   7   707   Alin Rapoport   13100
16   3   1603   Liam Boland   12600
13   2   409   Paul Lammas   12550
9   10   110   Stephen Pritchard   12375
17   4   1704   Sunny Chattha   12350
13   9   207   Robert Whybrew   12300
15   3   408   David Batty   11950
9   2   506   Michael Horne   11275
12   6   206   Michael Mccool   10850
8   6   806   Adam Wilkinson   10400
11   9   1109   Cuong Tran   10375
15   10   1906   Ryan Fronda   10250
14   4   1404   Warren Wooldridge   10150
8   10   209   Neil Channing   10075
16   2   2006   Joshua Tyler   9950
14   10   1905   Blair Ross   9675
9   7   907   Paul Campbell   9325
17   7   1708   James Morgan   9225
8   7   807   Louise Fennell   8975
9   8   907   Paul Campbell   8900
11   2   1102   Roberto Romanello   8325
15   2   403   Kate Langshaw   7950
18   8   1903   Matthew Buckland   7650
11   3   204   Paul Brown   7625
8   1   604   Gary Avery   7200
9   1   901   Jake Rudman   7000
11   6   1004   James Woodruff   6900
8   3   803   A Byng   6875
12   4   1204   John Falkner   6850
18   4   1805   Richard Stanley   6525
13   1   1301   M De vyldes   6200
17   6   205   Eddie Gaines   5900
12   1   108   Damian Glavin   5725
14   3   1403   Wai-ming Lam   5625
17   3   1703   Andrew Stone   5550
11   8   1108   Abhishzk Khaitan   5425
13   4   303   Mark Forrester   3725
12   5   210   Paul Kemp   3425
17   5   302   G Stafford   3100

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Christmas has come early for one Dana Immanuel. With chip daddy Huseyin Yilmaz limping under-the-gun for 600, Mateyboy on the button made it 1,800 to play and Dana reraised to 4,500. Expected to fold, Huseyin pushed all in, leading to a fold from the button and a swift call from Dana who shoved her remaining 15,000 over the felt.

Dana =
Huseyin =

Board =

Dana now has over 40,000 in chips. 


Neil Channing and Josh Tyler have been eliminated from today's event, although Neil obviously has money invested in the eventual winner, whomever it may be.


'The Mole' Stephen Boyd is in a hole after being snipered down by fellow online pro Rob Sherwood.

"Do you know what happened to The Mole, Rob?" I probed.

"Yeah," he giggled, "it was me who took him out."

"What happened?"

"Er... I did him over with pocket sevens against pocket eights," he replied. "He only had 4,000 at the time after bluffing off all his chips."

"Come on," his neighbour jumped in, "it cost you about a third of your stack."

Rob tried to laugh it off, but it was clear that his neighbour was revealing a few home truths and preventing Rob from downplaying his story.

"Say it was 9/10ths of his stack now," he continued, "just to make it him look as bad as possible."


After being down to just a few thousand, Irishman come Brummie (it's a rare transition) Adam Wilkinson is now boasting a sumptuous-in-comparison stack of 30,000 after doubling up with Q-2 versus 8-6 and J-J versus T-T. Sounds easy when I put it like that.


After a plucky performance, Sunny Chattha has left the arena courtesy of Eddie Gaines (pictured). With versus , the flop teased Sunny before the turn and ineffective river sent him packing. There are rumours going round that Eddie was using an earpiece and new exactly where he stood in the hand - although this is yet to be confirmed.

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I'm tempted to act biased and revolve the update around Dana, but there's no real need to really as she's been immersed in a number of big hands. Unfortunately, her last encounter didn't fall her way, pushing all in from the button after Pete Singleton had raised in middle to late position and Paul Lammas had come over the top from the cut-off. As expected, Pete leapt out of the way as Paul and Dana tabled and . No joy for the Banjo Bully on the board gave Paul the pot and left Dana with circa 28,000 in chips after suffering a 10 to 15,000 hit.


Just as I was heading back upstairs towards the press room, I managed to catch a hand, and consequent double up, from the table nearest the door. On the receiving end was big chipper Adam Lawler (pictured) who had called Gary Avery's all in with pocket fours. Gary showed pocket queens, which subsequently stood up on a 6-K-7-J-K rainbow board. It would have required Rainman to tot up the chip count as he raked them across the felt, but it couldn't have been too much more than 10,000.

[JungleCat03]

Aaron Short just shoved for his stack of 13,000 over the top of Leo Kam's raise only to be called all-in behind. Dave Smith also thought about calling before eventually passing.

Short may have been living up to his name with a mere 13k but this was all about to change as his Kings held versus his opponent's Tens, meaning he pretty much doubled up and one quick trip to the deed pole office later he is now know as Aaron Decently Stacked.


(incidentally I was mistaken about the absence of Dave Smith's flower - it's there in all it's yellow glory - here's the proof...)

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Stu Rutter was down to 2,000 at one point but has battled and battered his way back to a far more respectable 33,000. Go Stu!

[JungleCat03]

And just like that the end of level 8 chip counts have reached us from Blue Square via that shiny headed poker magnate Jon Raab. Thank you sir!

14   8   1408   Chandrakant Khajuria   79875
8   9   809   Adam Lawler   64250
18   9   602   James Morris   56825
9   9   1509   Michael Ellis   56150
16   5   706   Huseyin Yilmaz   53400
12   4   107   Jonathon Butters   50400
16   8   805   Stuart Barnett   49775
14   5   305   Dana Immanuel   43825
18   8   202   Michael Manning   43450
12   3   1203   A Sapiano   42575
16   4   1604   Ken Wong   42300
18   6   1702   Jonathan Martin   39850
16   6   1606   Paul Rigg   39675
12   9   703   Javed Akhtar   39575
14   10   1108   Abhishzk Khaitan   38450
18   4   1804   Mark Wilson   37775
18   2   1802   K Sole   36050
9   7   907   Paul Campbell   35500
8   2   1907   Gary Cargill   34900
8   3   803   A Byng   34150
8   10   1605   Jeff Buffenbarger   33000
9   4   904   Mark Suddes   32125
16   10   103   W Mardle   31925
11   4   1001   Willie Tann   30900
11   2   1102   Roberto Romanello   30000
9   1   1508   Peter Arrigoni   29400
16   7   101   Paul Noury   29350
11   10   509   Billy Ngo   29000
11   7   1107   Leo Kam   28825
18   7   1003   Flemming Stensgaa   28775
12   5   1009   Mo Muse   28600
9   3   903   James Mitchell   28425
12   7   1207   Robert Garfield   27875
11   8   1006   Aaron Short   27625
11   5   2001   Stuart Rutter   27450
11   3   1307   David Smith   27225
8   5   610   Richard Wheatley   25775
18   3   205   Eddie Gaines   25575
11   1   608   Stephen Slavin   25050
9   6   906   Robert Sherwood   24000
18   10   1808   Paul Bracken   23900
12   8   301   Peter Wigglesworth   23535
14   4   409   Paul Lammas   23350
16   9   203   Neil Brooks   23075
12   2   1202   Vishal Bhurtun   22950
8   8   1105   Darran Judges   22250
8   6   806   Adam Wilkinson   22100
11   6   109   Alex Loh   21200
14   1   1401   Peter Singleton   19000
9   2   506   Michael Horne   17025
18   5   404   Jerome Bradpiece   13725
18   1   104   John Fake   12850
8   4   804   E Jones   12400
14   3   1403   Wai-ming Lam   12200
9   5   905   Lee Atherton   12025
14   7   403   Kate Langshaw   12000
12   6   206   Michael Mccool   11850
16   1   505   Conan Bailey   10650
16   3   1603   Liam Boland   9400
16   2   408   David Batty   9000
14   6   401   Trevor Bulless   8880
8   7   1701   John Potts   8750
9   8   908   Anthony Garbacz   8600
8   1   604   Gary Avery   7900
14   2   307   Andrew Gibb   7650
9   10   110   Stephen Pritchard   5500

[JungleCat03]

Jonothon Butters is a slippery customer and he has just put the skids under Ryan Fronda's tournament, sending him to the rail.

Details are scarce but Fronda has been sent to grace the catwalks of europe once more whilst Butters is moving ever closer to the bread.

[snoopy1239]

Dana Immanuel is now one of your potential chip leaders after eliminating two players in the space of three hands.

Not long after returning from the break, Wai-Ming Lam made his move from late position with , only to be picked off by Dana's in the small blind which duly survived a board.

Two hands later, Dana called Pete Singleton's preflop raise from the cut-off, before betting 6,000 on the flop after Pete had checked. Without too much hesitation, Pete raised all in. After asking what the count was, Dana shook her head dejectedly before calling the extra 7,550 and tabling . Pete showed .

The turn added eight extra outs with an open ended straight draw, but it was the set that arrived, the on the river delivering Dana the pot and leading to Pete exiting with the most disgruntled of looks.

Dana was still collecting her chips as I left, but she must surely have around the 70k mark and odds on to finish the day in the top three.

[snoopy1239]

Rob Sherwood doubled through at the death with versus the of Paul Campbell. Harmless board.


On a board, Albert Sapiano pushes all in to an 8,500 pot for around 15,000 in chips. Mo Muse eyes up his opponent carefully before folding.

Sapiano shows .

[JungleCat03]

Some quick counts before we get final confirmation of today's standings from the Raabster.

The much followed lover of lasagna Rob Garfield has 25,000.


Johnathon Butters, shortly after taking care of Ryan Fronda, has milked his way to a 30k stack.


The honey monster Albert Sapiano has seen his stack fluctuate almost randomly before settling upon 22,000 just a few minutes prior to the end of proceedings today.

Unless he runs into any sticky situations he should return with this for day 2 tomorrow.


And with those last few snippets of information we have reached the end of the day!

Once Mr Raab's busy little fingers have finished typing up and sending us the chip counts, we'll disperse these amongst you, the blonde faithful but till then we can look back on a great day's poker that has seen beats, big hands and excitement aplenty.

One lady has taken the tournament by storm though and we have to herald her, as she will do unspeakable things with a banjo if we fail in our duty, so I give you Dana Immanuelle, close to the chip lead and happy as larry with a wonderful day.

Here she is taking a few moments out to give Snoopy a tip or two.

Keep up Snoops!



Day Two should be superb. We'll see you back here for a 2 o'clock start. I can't wait, we know you can't wait, Snoopy can't wait but wait we must.

For now  though

[snoopy1239]

Start of Day 2 Chip Counts:

David La Ronde   100425
Adam Lawler   83125
Chandra Khajuria   74675
Adam Stoneham   67300
James Dempsey   65025
James Morris   64175
Steve Jelinek   63225
Jonothon Butters   59650
Dave Gregory   59625
Paul Foltyn   58800
Dana Immanuel   58250
Sanjay Nandwani   56975
Ian Frazer   55650
Neil Bethune   55575
Paul Rigg   55100
Tim Flanders   53100
Garinder Purewal   52050
Ken Wong   51050
Ian Cox   50975
Rob Sherwood   50325
Javed Akhtar   45975
Gary Cargill   45650
Leo Kam   45100
Richard Furse   43600
James Mitchell   43550
Pippa Flanders   43250
Martin Green   41775
Tony Chapman   41725
Mo Muse   40825
Abishek Khaitan   40325
Mike Ellis   40275
Michael Manning   39975
Mark Wilson   39825
Ian Farrell   39450
Mark Suddes   39300
Stuart Barnett   39275
Jeff Rogers   39175
Jonathan Martin   38825
Christopher Kyriacou   37250
Nik Persaud   37100
Martin Robinson   37025
Andy Warnes   35425
Nick Gibson   35225
Wayne Mardle   34700
Craig Bickerton   34525
Mohammed Zahour   33950
Eddie Gaines   33500
Andrew Bradshaw   32500
Alan Davis   32475
Richard Wheatley   32450
Sam Trickett   32275
Chris Moorman   31725
Jon Brown   31725
Rob Garfield   31600
Iwan Jones   31100
Roberto Romanello   31075
William Martin   30925
Jeff Buffenbarger   30400
Graham Wheldon   30250
John Fake   29600
David Smith   29025
Desm Jonas   28550
Sami Yusef   28375
Stephen Slavin   28350
K Sole   27700
Stuart Rutter   27550
Darren Judges   27150
Mickey Wernick   27000
Dave Clark   26975
Alex Martin   26450
Andreas Mihail   25875
Dara O'Kearney   25450
Paul Campbell   25200
Paul Noury   25200
Richard Scott   25100
Martin Jarvis   24550
Steve Tucker   24500
Liam Boland   24350
Albert Sapiano   24325
Alex Loh   24300
Adam Wilkinson   23750
Peter Wigglesworth   23700
Bernard Litman   23525
Willie Tann   23400
Richard Gryko   22775
Huseyin Yilmaz   22725
Ian Bowden   22025
Tony Ringe   21425
Flemming Stensgaa   20150
Peter Arrigoni   19525
Neil Brooks   19200
David Sargeant   18675
Conan Bailey   18600
David Seear   18350
Trevor Pearson   17900
Paul Bracken   17775
Vishal Bhurtun   17525
Michael Horne   17425
Philip Mildon   17300
Aaron Short   17250
David Batty   16575
Panicos Ellinas   14150
Andrew Gibb   14150
Jerome Bradpiece   13800
Graham Rogers   11250
Kate Langshaw   10800
Billy Ngo   10075
Hugh Frew   9900
Gary Avery   8750
David Binstock   8325
Yucel Eminoglu   8125
Emma Jones   7100
Howard Whittingham   3225