DTD Deepstack £500 - Day 1: Interactive

[Djinn]

Hey Kids!

It's been over two months since I did an update for blonde so Homer has graciously given me the opportunity to kick off this thread covering the £500 ME of the DTD deepstack event.  This 15k stacked, hour-clocked poker extravaganza has attracted a lot of interest, but currently under 100 players.  We reckon about 40 of them are stuck in traffic, so there may be a brief delay, or perhaps a curtailing of the four days set aside for the tournament.  As a playing-today Snoopy just noted, "There's more staff than players in here!"

But that surely won't last, or Rick Trigg will win his bet on the number of runners... plus, you can enter up until 5pm.  That's enough time to drive up from London.  So go on then - this is a good one.

Noted already:  Fran Creed, Pete Linton, a gent who shared our cab from Scandinavia called Fredrik, er... more in a moment.

[NoflopsHomer]

My attempts to name this thread 'Metagaming 101' have been in vain...

[booder]

Welcome back Jen

gl to the Blondeites

[Laxie]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!  Jen's back!!!     Looking forward to the updates Chicka

[Tonji]

  good luck to Blondes playing

[Royal Flush]

You took a cab from Scandinavia to Nottingham?!?

gl snoopy!

[Djinn]

I am going to try to recall how to (a) touch type (b) read a poker board from 10 meters and (c) discover interesting facts about hitherto unknown players to further increase everyone's interest in and knowledge of the game which is growing still and continually introducing exciting new talent from all over the country and the online world.  But Homer told me, "Start with what you know.  Build up gradually."  So here is...

Focus On... Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding.



Snoopy hails from London via Solihull, is a journalist/poker player with a keen interest in professional wrestling.  (How am I doing, Homer?)  He says he is bolstered here today by, "My collection of inspirational songs," which fill his ipod with the rousing sounds of the Karate Kid theme, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, and various Russ Abbott classics.  A fan of online cash, Snoopy likes this deepstacked event, "Because it's a bit like cash.  At the beginning.  I wish it was 20k though."  He brings with him a small crystallised Snoopy (pictured below) which he intends, apparently, "To turn to face whoever is my victim."  Look out Nottingham, the beagle has landed.

[Djinn]

You took a cab from Scandinavia to Nottingham?!?

gl snoopy!

Yes.  I was holidaying in Sweden discovering the joys of dog sledding in the ancient forests of Vålådalen nature reserve, when I received an urgent text from Homer saying that he'd booked me into the Holiday Inn, Nottingham and I'd better show up, or else.  I bid farewell to Donner, Blitzen, Prancer, Dancer er... Hellmuth, and the other one, gave them a parting treat and took my helicopter straight away to the Helipad in the Morley Hayes Hotel, Derbyshire. 

What of it?

[Karabiner]

That's some hat that sloppy is sporting..

[NoflopsHomer]

Pete Linton, GBPT Winner Rupinder Bedi and Julian Thew are all sitting in a row on one table, Thewy betting in a four-way pot with Pete the only caller on a flop, they checked the turn and river where Thewy had cheekily caught up with for the pot. But will it affect the Metagame?!?!?!?

No Dave Smith so far so, there's a lack of comedy hats.



Snoopy has picked up some early chips re-raising preflop from 225 to 700 and receiving one caller. Both players checked the flop before his opponent checked again on the turn and Snoops bet 600, which didn't get the call he probably wanted.

[derby]

first post wow

never realised that Rupinder B was such a good player/high winner. Played with him a few times, while he was good though he was just a CASUAL LOCAL etc.

[Djinn]

PROVISIONAL PLAYER LIST...

11   1   Richard Wilcox
11   2   Paul Murphy
11   3   Adam Goulding
11   4   Peter Charalamobus
11   5   Alan Stearn
11   6   Tony Salmon
11   7   Kyriacos Dionysiou
11   8   Simon Nowab

12   1   Erdinc Inan
12   2   Andrew Tuxworth
12   3   David Jones
12   4   Thomas Townley
12   5   Stuart Hopkin
12   6   John Perrin
12   7   Jeanne David
12   8   Joe Stevenson

14   1   Mick Mccloskey
14   2   Alan Vinnicombe
14   3   Fredrik Mikaelsson
14   4   Anon
14   5   Irina Liepina
14   6   Matthew Wadham
14   7   Krzysztof Klorek
14   8   Desmond Jonas

15   1   James Eflekhari
15   2   Steve Jelinek
15   3   Chin Chai Koh
15   4   Scott Byron
15   5   Daniel Ball
15   6   Neil Giblin
15   7   Simon Lee
15   8   David Colclough

23   1   Robert Cook
23   2   Neil Blatchly
23   3   Claire Tucker
23   4   Tom Rutter
23   5   Thomas Besnier
23   6   Richard Hawes
23   7   Przemek Rusin
23   8   Michael Wernick

25   1   Craig Emptage
25   2   Billy Ngo
25   3   Julian Thew
25   4   Rupinder Bedi
25   5   Peter Linton
25   6   Paul Hardy
25   7   Carl Williams
25   8   Mohammed Shoahebe

33   1   Terry Plummer
33   2   Nichiei Hicks
33   3   Richard Trigg
33   4   Richard Berridge
33   5   Paul Lammas
33   6   Nicolas Risdale
33   7   Peter Conduit

34   1   Robert Woodcock
34   2   Jef Copeland
34   3   Christopher Bruce
34   4   Jason Wheatley
34   5   Sam Savile-barton
34   6   Robert Spencer
34   7   Thomas Middleton

35   1   John Sadler
35   2   Paul Moyce
35   3   Lee Rawson
35   4   Darren Chadwick
35   5   Alex Williamson
35   6   Andrew Middleditch
35   7   George Livanos

36   1   Andrew Woods
36   2   Frances Creed
36   3   Scott Yeates
36   4   John Shaw
36   5   Nicholas Marshall
36   6   Jonathan Spinks
36   7   Thomas Mccready

[NoflopsHomer]

Chris Bruce, "The way it's going I'm going to be out in the first level. I've raised into Aces, Kings, one hand where the caller flopped a set of eights, and another where he made the nut flush. Perhaps I should sit out for a level?"

He's currently on 12k.

[Djinn]

first post wow

never realised that Rupinder B was such a good player/high winner. Played with him a few times, while he was good though he was just a CASUAL LOCAL etc.

And it looks like he'll be put to the test today, making the filling of a Thew-Linton sandwich, as he is:



Great to see the phenomenally-performing Thew fuelling his potentially phenomenal performance (try saying that before breakfast) with lunch-beer!

[Djinn]

Here's Simon Nowab ordering, "A bottle of tequila - only joking!" off the lovely waitress lady.*  He's sat next to Greek Jack who has yet to wake up. 



Sharing their table:  Snoopy and Peter Charalambous.  There ensued several jokes from Pete about getting Nowab's 'good side."









*Yet to determine if he was actually joking