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

[snoopy1239]

Howdy ho poker degenerates, and welcome to Day 1b of this years Luton GUKPT. This will be the no thrills 'At A Glance' thread with just the bare information. If you would like to follow a fuller update, then please feel free to check out the interactive live update by clicking the link below:

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=35880.new#new

La Ronde, David   100425
Stoneham, Adam   67300
Dempsey, James   65025
Jelinek, Steve   63225
Gregory, David   59625
Foltyn, Paul   58800
Frazer, Ian   55650
Bethune, Neil   55575
Flanders, Tim   53100
Purewal, Gurinde   52050
Cox, Ian   50975
Furse, Richard   43600
Flanders, Phillipa   43250
Green, Martin   41775
Chapman, Anthony   41725
Farrel, Ian   39450
Rogers, Jeffery   39175
Kyriacou, Christo   37250
Persaud, Nikhil   37100
Robinson, Martin   37025
Warnes, Andy   35425
Gibson, Nick   35225
Bickerton, Craig   34525
Zahour, Mohammed   33950
Bradshaw, Andy   32500
Davis, Alan   32475
Trickett, Sam   32275
Brown, Jon   31725
Moorman, Chris   31725
Jones, Iwan   31100
Martin, William   30925
Wheldon, Graham   30250
Jonas, Desmond   28550
Yusuf, Sami   28375
Wernick, Mickey   27000
Clark, David   26975
Martin, Alex   26450
Mihail, Andreas   25875
O'Kearney, Dara   25450
Scott, Richard   25100
Jarvis, Martin   24550
Tucker, Steve   24500
Litman, Bernard   23525
Gryko, Richard   22775
Bowden, Iain   22025
Ringe, Tony   21425
Sargeant, David   18675
Seear, David   18350
Pearson, Trevor   17900
Mildon, Philip   17300
Ellinas, Panicos   14150
Rogers, Graham   11250
Frew, Hugh   9900
Binstock, David   8325
Eminoglu, Yucel   8125
Whittingham, Howard   3225

[snoopy1239]

The first player to crack today was Daniel Nutt, who will have collected the lesser desired wooden spoon on his way out. He was closely followed by former international footballer Teddy Sheringham who was said to be "playing a lot of hands" by my secret source.

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As I was lingering over Dana, awaiting the perfect opportunity to request a percentage, table mates Andrew Gibb (pictured) and the wonderfully named Peter Wigglesworth tangled in a nasty set over set confrontation. I only caught the end of the hand, but as a host of chips sailed in on the river of a 2-3-9-5-K board, Andrew was understandably dismayed to see that his pocket twos had been more than caught up by Peter's pocket cowboys. As a result, Andrew's stack was disected in half and he was left to repeat the word "sick" under his breath as his opponent quietly raked in the pot.



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Richard Herbert echos the victim from the previous post by mumbling the word "sick" to himself and shaking his head profusely. Sadly, for curiosity purposes, I didn't get to see his hand, but the board read and opponent John Earle (pictured) was sitting pretty, and smugly, with . Even as I departed the table, Richard was still beaming a disgruntled expression, so I can only assume he had a similarly nutty hand. Unlike before, Richard's stack has been more than bisected as he now sits with just a few thousand in chips.



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Sacha Ordelheide is one of a handful of early eliminations to be forced to chew on dust. His exit emerged in rather surprising circumstances as he gambled with a flush draw and pushed with on a flop. Less surprisingly, Q Tran (pictured) looked him up quicker than a hiccup with . A turn triggered an academic river and that was all she wrote for Sacha who swiftly exited stage left.

[JungleCat03]

Passing Kings preflop is one of those things players naturally hate to do, but one player has done just that.

Rob Taylor was happy to see a raise in front of him when he looked down to see those cheeky cowboys. He re-popped the initial 350 raise to 1,100 from the small blind, only to then find the big blind re-raising to 3,000!

He ummed and ahhed but as I'd already revealed he made the decision to lay them down and was rewarded by being shown Aces. Sweet!

Here is Rob shortly after his impressive fold, only 1,100 chips worse off. Cheap as chips.

[JungleCat03]

Here's the requested John Eames, who has just over his 10,000 starting stack at the moment, roughly 11,250. He was seen wandering around shoeless in the casino as the £12 shoes he'd bought to replace his illegal trainers were "very uncomfortable". Tut, tut, tut!

[JungleCat03]

Leo Kam is a player to keep an eye on. He won last year's London leg of the GUKPT and made another final, impressing many a pundit with his play. He's just off the back of a successful trip to Vegas where he ran deep in the 5k event and won one of the bellagio 1k events, winning a total of $140,000 or so. Not a bad summer...

 The young Canadian looks to have a bright future ahead of him in poker.

[JungleCat03]

There's a subdued atmostphere in the casino at the moment. The players are quietly getting on with the business in hand without too much fuss or noise. One player who I thought would buck this trend was Roberto Romanello, the effusive Welshman nearly always good for some exciting table banter.

However the grey clouds outside appear to have taken their toll even on the normally irrepressible Roberto who was sat there, uncharacteristically quiet and meek. Give him a couple of hours and I'm sure he'll be chirping away though.

[snoopy1239]

Table 1:

Paul Noury
Nick Bower
Wayne Mardle
John Fake
Laurence Houghton
Andrew Grove
Jonothon Butters
Damian Glavin
Alex Loh
Stephen Pritchard

Table 2:

Greg Howard
Michael Manning
Neil Brooks
Paul Brown
Eddie Gaines
The Artist Formerly Known as Mick McBag
Robert Whybrew
Harpit Gurnam
Neil Channing
Paul Kemp

Table 3:

Peter Wigglesworth
G Stafford
Mark Forrester
Andreas Georgiou
Dana Immanuel
Ismail Yusef
Andrew Gibb
Sid Harris
Ian Roberts
Suhail Elorfi

Table 4:

Trevor Bulless
Frank List
Kate Langshaw
Jerome Bradpiece
Craig Owen
Steven Boyd
Nathaniel Deocampo
David Batty
Paul Lammas
Stuart Nash

Table 5:

Neil Suarez
Craig Metcalfe
Leon Bui
Lawrence Gosney
Conan Baily
Michael Horne
Thomas Myland
Matt Myford
Billy Ngo
John Kabbaj

Table 6:

Mark Bjork
James Morris
Maged El Masry
Gary Avery
Eduardo Drilo
Jason Defreitas
Rob taylor
Stephan Slavin
Paul King

Table 7:

Ed Frost
Martin Sanderson
Javed Akhtar
M Hill
Tahir Akram
Huseyin Yilmaz
Alin Rapaport
Stephen Holden
John Eames

Table 8:

Simon Hennessey
Daniel Nutt
A Byng
Emma Jones
Stuart Barnett
Adam Wilkinson
Louise Fennell
Salim Karmali
Adam Lawler

Table 9:

Jake Rudman
Darren Shallis
James Mitchell
Mark Suddes
Lee Atherton
Rob Sherwood
Paul Campbell
Anthony Garbacz
Michael Chambers

Table 10:

Willie Tann
Andy Kay
Flemming Stensgaa
James Woodruff
Rumit Somaiya
Aaron Short
Dean Morris
J Twigg
Mo Muse

Table 11:

Jonathan McCann
Roberto Romanello
Anthony Adderley
Paul Parker
Darren Judges
Terry Simpson
Leo Kam
Abishek Khaitan
Cuong Tran

Table 12:

Michael Jagger
Vishal Bhurtun
Albert Sapiano
John Falconer
Oscar Dharamshi
Neil Suter
Rob Garfield
Matt Eiler-Gadsden
Dan Carter

Table 13:

M De Vyldes
Praz Bansi
Jack Ramsden
Jamie Briggs
A Peronnet
Glen Altham
Dave Smith
Edward Batch
Steven Bayliff

Table 14:

Pete Singleton
Darren Foster
Wai-Ming Lam
Warren Wooldridge
N Ioannou
Nicholas Holbrook
Steve Craig
Chandra Khajuria
Keith Miller

Table 15:

Andros Spyrou
John Earle
Richard Whitmore
Paul Smallwood
Richard Herbert
Mark Abraham
Julian Thew
Peter Arrigoni
Mike Ellis

Table 16:

Andrew Jackson
William Mawer
Liam Boland
Ken Wong
Jeff Buffenbarger
Paul Rigg
Charles Denton
Alan Dean
D Price

Table 17:

John Potts
Jonathan Martin
Andrew Stone
Sunny Chattha
Andrew Booth
Sacha Ordelheide
Adam Clark
James Morgan
Q Tran

Table 18:

Stacey Easter
K Sole
E Rensink
Mark Wilson
Richard Stanley
Simon Wickenden
James Williams
Paul Bracken
J Byrne

Table 19:

Paul Ephremsen
Alistair Carins
Matthew Buckland
Peter Rodgers
Blair Ross
Ryan Fronda
Gary Cargill
Anthony Hughes
Kevin Daly

Table 20:

Stuart Rutter
Teddy Sheringham
Paul Gardener
Sandip Pindoria
Neel Nagrecha
Josh Tyler
Chaz Chattha
Jason Shellum
Dave Courtney

[snoopy1239]

any chip counts pls guys?

We won't get official chip counts until after level four but in the meantime we're keeping our eyes peeled for some of the bigger stacks. If you have any specific players, you'd like us to go check on, let us know and we'll hunt them down

As JC said, we'll have to wait for the full chip counts, but for now, here are a few I accrued upon my last outing:

John Kabbaj -- 18,500
Julian Thew -- 9,550
Paul Smallwood -- 7,200
Ken Wong -- 20,600
Sunny Chattha -- 6,975
Dan Carter -- 5,850
Dave Smith -- 19,500
Richard Stanley -- 4,825
Chaz Chattha -- 8,325
Willie Tann -- 9,550
Darren Shallis -- 4,175
Dana Immanuel -- 5,900
Stuart Nash -- 8,100
Kate Langshaw -- 11,575
Ryan Fronda -- 15,400
Stephen Holden -- 10,350
Dean Morris -- 11,000

[JungleCat03]

Some chip counts from the felt.

Curly haired Dan Carter was not doing so well down to 4,500. "I'm not playing well" he told me, though he doesn't seem too dispirited.

He was very happy that his "wierdest poker player on facebook" thread went down so well. It was a cracker.


"Happy grizzly bear" Jerome Bradpiece is toodling along slowly but surely, his stack up to 13,800 at this stage.


Albert Sapiano is known for his imaginative plays and so far they have bourne fruit as he is up to 13,000 at this point.


Harpit Gurnam has had an unsuccessful first few levels and is down to 5,800. Plenty of play left though. Chin up!

[JungleCat03]

Bad news for Hit Squad-a-maniacs.

Whilst Praz and Sunny remain firmly rooted in the comp, Chaz is out, a victim of silent assassin Willie Tann.

Bit of a horrible one though...

Holding A-A he limped in, only to find Willie Tann making it 1,000 behind and another player flat calling. He now popped it up to 3,400 and Willie was the sole caller.

The flop fell ten high, Chaz shoved for 6,500 ish and Willie called with Jacks. Chaz looked in great shape to double...good till the turn at least when a horrible Jack fell to propel Willie into the lead. A final Jack on the river was horrible overkill and with that nasty beat 1/3 of the hit squad participants were removed from the tournament.

He looked understandably distraught as he stormed out of the poker room...


He may resemble the Honey Man Albert Sapiano, but don't be fooled as the chap in the foreground is actually K Sole. With several thousand in the pot and a waiting patiently on the green of the baize, Sole threw in his final 3,550 and sat back with his hands behind his head. Meanwhile, neighbour E Rensink removed his sunglasses and gave his opponent a stare that could have pierced through a diamond quarry. After convulsing in his seat as he pondered what appeared to be a torturous, but perhaps overly tempting due to the pot odds, decision, Rensink eventually made the call. As he did, Sole immediately showcased his , leading Rensink to mucking in similarly quick time.

[snoopy1239]

We're not losing men at too rapid a pace, but one war-wounded soldier to be stretchered off the battlefield was Lawrence Gosney. All in with on a board, Lawrence was looked up by the energetic-as-ever (see picture of Ngo rising from his seat before making the call) Billy Ngo who revealed a superior . A turn and river was of no use and Lord Gosney was gone.




'Newportlad' and former APAT winner Darren Shallis is currently struggling with 4,175.

"Did it go in one hand?" I inquired.

"Yeah," he confessed still smiling. "I thought my second pair was good and called on the river. He had A-K with a king on the flop."


I don't know if we've been blessed by the presence of multiple Irishmen today, but one who was unearthed upon my travels was popular circuit regular Rob Taylor. Sadly, it wasn't on celebratory terms however as Rob was in the process of exiting the tournament, his pocket aces running into the pocket tens of Gary Avery (pictured) on a J-Q-T-2-8 board. As always, Rob was a good sport in defeat and made his departure with little more than a murmur, whilst a chagrined Paul King could only comment in the aftermath, "He folded kings to my aces earlier, but he couldn't fold the bullets."

[JungleCat03]

10pts for a photo of Garfield smiling
Bonus 10pts if you ask him whether he had lasagne for lunch

I can't claim 20pts as I bottled the lasagne questionbut I think I've earned my 10pts (plus you get a free bonus smiling face)...



He's doing ok with 15,000 or so at the mo.


Here is blondite the sicilian, who has circa 16k i think at the moment, going along nicely and looking primed and ready for anything anyone can throw at him. Make it to day 2 and we might get to see that Flushy Sicilian heads up game that was mooted earlier.

[snoopy1239]

When you're updating, you have to wander around aimlessly in search of big pots (or, more accurately, the sign of purple chips in the middle). Sometimes, however, the job is made easier by players standing from their seat as they anticipate an all-in showdown. On this occasion, the man standing aloft and sweating like a fried chicken was DTD Mini Festival finalist Richard Stanley (aka The Knife).

Virtually all in with , he was in desperate need of divine aid against the of E Rensink.

"Make it quick," pleaded Stanley, perhaps greedily demanding his card hit the flop rather than a later street.

Sadly for the Londoner, the dealer was far from accommodating as he dealt out a clinical flop. The on the turn was of no use, and on the river, Stanley simply tapped the table and congratulated, "Nice hand".

Although down to the felt, he's still in, but struggling with 1,425 and looking keen to throw in his remaining shrapnel at the next available opportunity.

Rensink, meanwhile, jumps up to 17,000.


Josh Tyler is always worth a watch. Some may see him as one of the more arrogant players on the scene, but often this character trait can be mistook for confidence. As is always the case, Josh was brimming with confidence as he bet out 3,000 into a board of , but his expression soon swayed when Ken Wong raised what appeared to be an additional 7,000. After correctly deducing that Ken had pocket fives, Tyler folded what he claimed was A-Q. But that wasn't the end of the hand, as down the other end of the table, one short stack was all in with and looking to complete his flush on the river. As Tyler basked in his glory of getting Wong's hand "spot on", the dealer dealt out a harmless non-spade on the river and Wong was awarded the pot.


Greg Howard, better known as online giant Gregior and not to be confused of a certain New Zealander of the same name, is now out after falling at the hands of John Earle, the latter's on a queen high board enough to send Gregior and his flying out of the comp.


With the flop reading , John Eames was left with what appeared to be a tricky decision in the face of a 3,600 bet from Javed Akhtar. After a minute's thought, and the inevitable huff and puff from the table, John sighed and said, "Sorry guys, going to need a sec." In response, Javed smiled and commented, "I won't call the clock on you because then you'll think I want a call."

After a further momentary pause, John ultimately, and rather hesitantly, pushed a tall column of purple 1,000 chips across the felt to put his opponent all in. Javed's smile quickly turned to a dejected grimace, which thus triggered a "phew" and stroke of the brow from John who now realised he was in good shape.

After a dwell of his own, Javed opted for the call and flipped , but he was chagrined to see John turn over . However, poker is the cruelest of games and on the turn, Javed clenched his fist in delight and said, "bring the ace out" in celebration. A queen-less river, and the pot went unjustifiably to Javed whilst John rued ever making the correct play on the flop in the first place.


Some miscellaneous chip counts:

Dana Immanuel -- 14,875
Stephen Boyd -- 11,475
Paul Smallwood -- 6,750
Wayne Mardle -- 18,250
Sunny Chattha -- 6,400
Stuart Nash -- 7,400

Harpit Gurnam had 3,025, but I later saw him heading for the door so it looks like he's out.

[JungleCat03]

Thanks to blue square we now have the chip counts from the end of level four.

Here's how the remaining players are faring. Apologies for not updating about Paul Smallwood earlier but here he is vying for the chip lea;, not so much a small wood as a giant rainforest.

14   8   1408   Chandrakant Khajuria   42175
15   8   1504   Paul Smallwood   39525
16   4   1604   Ken Wong   34575
7   6   706   Huseyin Yilmaz   34350
12   3   1202   Albert Sapiano   30825
13   7   1307   David Smith   30700
14   1   1401   Peter Singleton   29950
17   9   1709   Q Tran   29775
5   10   510   John Kabbaj   26725
11   4   1001   Willie Tann   26250
18   1   104   John Fake   26200
16   5   1605   Jeff Buffenbarger   25900
5   9   509   Billy Ngo   24175
11   1   1101   Jonathan Mccann   23850
7   5   1906   Ryan Fronda   23375
15   5   101   Paul Noury   22875
13   8   1009   Mo Muse   22550
6   6   1909   Kevin Daly   21900
12   2   1202   Vishal Bhurtun   21900
8   5   805   Stuart Barnett   21450
16   2   2006   Joshua Tyler   21400
14   9   1409   Keith Miller   20325
7   3   703   Javed Akhtar   19950
8   9   809   Adam Lawler   19900
3   4   304   Andreas Georgiou   19575
16   10   103   W Mardle   19475
3   10   310   Suhail Elorfi   18550
5   7   1007   Dean Morris   18500
6   2   602   James Morris   18500
12   10   2005   Neel Nagrecha   18450
16   6   1606   Paul Rigg   18225
18   4   1803   E Rensink   17800
9   4   904   Mark Suddes   17525
14   4   1404   Warren Wooldridge   17375
7   2   1005   Rumit Somaiya   17250
9   5   905   Lee Atherton   16800
8   10   209   Neil Channing   16625
18   6   1806   Simon Wickenden   16600
15   6   1006   Aaron Short   16300
6   8   608   Stephen Slavin   15600
18   7   1003   Flemming Stensgaa   15375
13   10   2003   Paul Gardener   15025
4   7   407   Nathaniel Deocampo   14975
4   4   404   Jerome Bradpiece   14950
9   7   907   Paul Campbell   14950
11   7   1007   Dean Morris   14800
8   6   806   Adam Wilkinson   14725
5   2   1907   Gary Cargill   14675
5   6   506   Michael Horne   14500
3   1   301   Peter Wigglesworth   14400
18   10   2009   David Courtney   14050
12   5   210   Paul Kemp   13975
9   8   908   Anthony Garbacz   13875
13   9   207   Robert Whybrew   13875
3   5   305   Dana Immanuel   13850
17   8   1708   James Morgan   13800
11   3   204   Paul Brown   13750
17   2   1702   Jonathan Martin   13575
13   1   1301   M De vyldes   13450
17   1   1701   John Potts   13375
11   8   1108   Abhishzk Khaitan   13300
18   2   1802   K Sole   13275
17   3   1703   Andrew Stone   12975
18   8   202   Michael Manning   12750
6   7   107   Jonathon Butters   12650
15   1   1808   Paul Bracken   12450
4   8   1004   James Woodruff   12300
4   6   406   Steven Boyd   12200
12   4   1204   John Falkner   12200
8   3   803   A Byng   12125
15   9   1908   Anthony Hughes   12125
9   10   1002   Andy Kay   11900
12   1   108   Damian Glavin   11475
9   1   901   Jake Rudman   11425
4   9   409   Paul Lammas   11325
12   7   1207   Robert Garfield   11175
18   5   404   Jerome Bradpiece   11175
9   3   903   James Mitchell   10850
7   7   707   Alin Rapoport   10700
11   5   1105   Darran Judges   10500
4   1   401   Trevor Bulless   10475
15   7   1508   Peter Arrigoni   10475
7   10   1903   Matthew Buckland   10300
16   9   203   Neil Brooks   10000
7   1   701   Ed Frost   9850
4   2   402   Frank List   9700
3   2   1904   Peter Rodgers   9525
17   4   1704   Sunny Chattha   9450
11   10   110   Stephen Pritchard   9400
3   3   303   Mark Forrester   9325
8   2   802   Daniel Nutt   9325
15   3   1503   Richard Whitmore   9200
16   1   1601   Andrew Jackson   9000
16   3   1603   Liam Boland   8925
14   10   1905   Blair Ross   8900
6   5   605   Eduardo Drilo   8825
11   9   1109   Cuong Tran   8800
18   9   1809   J Byrne   8775
4   3   403   Kate Langshaw   8750
3   8   308   Sidney Harris   8575
17   7   205   Eddie Gaines   8475
5   5   505   Conan Bailey   8300
13   4   1304   Jamie Briggs   8175
6   10   610   Richard Wheatley   8100
9   6   906   Robert Sherwood   7850
13   3   1303   Jack Ramsden   7825
6   9   609   Paul King   7800
6   4   604   Gary Avery   7700
17   5   1705   Andrew Booth   7600
13   5   1305   A Peronnet   7525
9   9   1008   J Twigg   7500
4   5   102   Nick Bower   7425
15   4   1504   Paul Smallwood   6975
13   6   1306   Glen Altham   6850
3   9   309   Ian Roberts   6400
4   10   410   Stuart Nash   6400
5   4   109   Alex Loh   6400
3   7   307   Andrew Gibb   6375
7   9   709   John Eames   6250
5   3   503   Leon Bui   5800
8   1   801   Simon Hennessey   5700
14   3   1403   Wai-ming Lam   5675
14   7   1707   Adam Clark   5450
12   8   1208   Matt Eiler-gadsden   5250
14   5   1205   Oscar Dharamshi   4900
12   6   206   Michael Mccool   4800
8   8   808   Salim Karmali   4675
8   4   804   E Jones   4600
16   7   1607   Charles Denton   4500
17   6   302   G Stafford   4500
5   1   501   Neil Suarez   4250
11   2   1102   Roberto Romanello   3350
14   2   208   H Gurnam   3025
8   7   807   Louise Fennell   2875
3   6   408   David Batty   2825
5   8   508   Matt Myford   2500
6   3   603   Maged El masry   2300
13   2   1302   Praz Bansi   2275
17   10   2001   Stuart Rutter   2025
15   2   1507   Julian Thew   1450 - er...no. Julian is now OUT.

[snoopy1239]

Matt Eiler Gedsden is out, eliminated I believe, and hope, by this chap, Paul Kemp. It was lucky I scraped into the building with my plimsolls on as I had to race over to the table to catch the tail end of the hand. All in on the turn of an board with , Paul was up against , and although the on the river was the right colour, it was the wrong suit and Matt was gone.




When you double up, you're inevitably on a high, in confident mood and ready to start beating up the table with your newly acquired stack. Not so Ian Roberts, as even after doubling up with J-T against the A-3 of Sid Harris on an ensuing 8-K-T-4-8 board, he still only has 1,900 chips. Still, from small acorns...


John Kabbaj, Stuart Nash, Simon Hennessey and Dave Courtney have all been spotted at the cash tables, looking rather glum and braced to blow off some post-tournament steam. I think they may be out.