DTD Deepstack £500 - Day 1: Interactive

[Djinn]

NB: Evilpie - I was actually watching your Stuart Hopkin guy (back of head pictured) but while I only saw him fold in the minutes I was standing there, that big hand happened so I will content myself with telling you his chip count:  27,650.  Sorry.

[NoflopsHomer]

Richard Wilcox has been knocked out by Greek Jack with A-K not able to crack kings. Matt Tyler is also out whilst it looks as though LeKnave is up to about 70k.

Also I'm sure we just heard Fran say she managed to stay in the comp getting all-in with 4-4 vs Q-Q only for the board to come A-2-2-2-2...

[NoflopsHomer]

LittleMissC has doubled up with queens against Des Jonas' sevens. Shortly afterwards Des Jonas pushed in with and was called by the small blind's , the flop almost sealed it coming but a hint of hope came on the turn, only to be extinguished by the river.

Chris Bruce has doubled up to around 17k after pushing preflop with and finding Scott Keates calling with , no five on board helps the current in-form man at DTD.

Dave Colclough is out after a nasty case of set over set where he flopped a set of fours and flat-called a bet only for Neil Blatchly to turn a higher set and knock El Blondie out.

Finally it looks like Stuart Hopkin just went as well, as he's headed out of the front door as I type this.

[Jim-D]

LittleMissC has doubled up with queens against Des Jonas' sevens.

Go on girl!!! x

[ChipRich]

shibbbbbbb it.

gogoog Fran.

[Djinn]

Double up for Richard Hawes, who had been sitting on 22-25k for a while...  He made it 2,000 preflop, found himself raised to 10k by John Sadler on the button.  Back to him and he decided to take his chances there and then with , which was called by Sadler's .  The board found him an on the turn, and he calmly restacked his much healthier 45k.

[Djinn]

And here's Dealer Kelly who, pleasingly, clearly takes the same kind of fiendish delight Fran must have in having her opponent's overpair counterfeited in such a wonderfully inventive way (quads with an Ace on flop)    On her left, LeKnave, stacking a very nice looking chip tower and raising with what looks like joyful abandon...

[Djinn]

Rick Trigg (pictured below) has been accumulating chips nicely with showdowns few and far between.  He has a couple of players on his table who are, he says, partial to a call now and then, and has managed to manoeuvre around their actually outdrawing him a number of times.  Recently there were four limpers and he raised preflop from the small blind - enough to make the pot over 12k on the flop.  He led straight out for 6k, and while Carla Goddard really looked like she was considering calling, didn't - and nor did Przemek Rusin. 



Rusin did, however, call down Erdinc Inan all the way on a board of and mucked when he saw his opponent's , which he'd checked on the flop and proceeded to extract 10k with on the way to the end of the hand.

[NoflopsHomer]

Kinboshi is playing in the cash games here and was inquiring about how the blondes were doing.

I mentioned that Fran, Snoops, Trigg and LeKnave were also still in.

"LeKnave is still in, how many has he got?" said Kin.

"About 70k last time I checked," I replied.

"I bet he still looks miserable as hell," was the riposte.

A brief wander over, and yep, he did.

[Djinn]

Beagle doubles!

Having stayed firmly on around 18k for a good long level or two, it's all happening for Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding in the final half hour of today's play...  He was in the big blind, and so saw a flop with limper Greek Jack and small blind Paul Murphy.  That flop was: .  Snoops bet out 2k, and Greek Jack made it 5k.  Back to Snoops and he self-counted-down before electing to raise to 15k (leaving himself just 7k behind).  In an unexpected move, Greek Jack just called.
Turn:   Immediately, the rest of Snoopy's meagre stack had crossed the line and a very long dwell ensued for someone who'd just called such a big bet in comparison to their stack size on the flop... At long last, he made the call, but admitted that he'd misread his hand, and had to table .  I am sure Snoopy was fairly relieved, as he showed for 2pr and a flush draw... The river was a harmless and he's back over average.

[NoflopsHomer]

Przemek Rusin, (he sounds like a Russiam Premier, it's an awesome name) has knocked out Jason Wheatley, vs , the being the first card out pretty much making it game over.

Pete Charalambous is also out, he was called by Nick Hicks and and Darren Chadwick who checked the down where Darren's was good as Nick could only show and Pete's was second best.

[Djinn]

Another table breaks, bringing the total to four...and as it does so, a big pot develops.  Cards are handed out so that people can move to their new seats for the final ten minutes of play, but there's still a hand going on.

So, as it stands, as most of the players move to their new locations:  there is around 13k in the pot.  Three players have reached the turn, with the board standing like so:
.  At this point, Carla Goddard has checked, Erdinc Inan has checked, and Adam Wilkinson has moved all in.  He covers Carla, who has only 8,400 left, and while it looks rather like Erdinc has lost interest in the pot, she is seriously considering calling all in.  Adam starts to chirpily talk and gets a bit of a "Shush" from Carla who struggles with the decision for her tournament life, before ignoring his advice to "Wait for a better spot to double up," and going for it with .  Adam is ahead with and remains so as the river dodges her outs and sends her to the rail in 36th.

[Djinn]

Just as dramatically, Billy Ngo told me that after a day of playing cagey, small pots (apart from that set of Fives earlier) he'd just lost a 70k pot to Erdinc Inan which would have propelled him to the top of the chip leaders had he won it.  He'd raised with and Inan had seen a flop with him.  It was x and that immediately looked like a pretty favourable prospect.  When it checked to Billy he bet 2,500, and was then ch-raised to 6k.  Billy went all in, and was called (30k of it, anyway) by Q-T... it held and a late-night pot went over to his opponent.  Down to below average it's a case of Sigh, start again tomorrow.

[NoflopsHomer]

On the last hand of the night we lose Ben Pearce, who moved all-in over the top of Mick McCloskey's raise for about 15k, Mick making the call with but found himself dominated by the that Pearce was holding. An on the turn though, and Mick will go into tomorrow as one of the chip leaders.

Play has now finished for the day and we'll be back again tomorrow to do it all over again.

[NoflopsHomer]

A complete list of bustees and their finishing places. List of chip counts to follow later, all courtesy of DTD.

34   Andrew Middleditch
35   Ben Pearce
36   Carla Goddard
37   Peter Charalamobus
38   Jason Wheatley
39   Neil Giblin
40   Stuart Hopkin
41   Desmond Jonas
42   David Colclough
43   Richard Wilcox
44   Alex Williamson
45   Matt Tyler
46   Paul Lammas
47   Khalid Akram
48   Craig Emptage
49   Daniel Ball
50   Joe Stevenson
51   Tony Salmon
52   Julian Thew
53   Fredrik Mikaelsson
54   Thomas Mccready
55   John Perrin
56   Matt Russell
57   Peter Conduit
58   Lee Rawson
59   Claire Tucker
60   Nicholas Marshall
61   Daniel Samson
62   Rupinder Bedi
63   James Reid
64   Maria Demetriou
65   Jeanne David
66   Robert Cook
67   George Livanos
68   Chin Chai Koh
69   Simon Lee
70   Chris Ellinas
71   Thomas Middleton
72   Peter Linton
73   Michael Wernick
74   Robert Spencer
75   Mohammed Shoahebe
76   James Eflekhari
77   Paul Hardy
78   Robert Woodcock
79   Simon Nowab
80   Yucel Eminoglu
81   Sam Savile-Barton
82   Stephen Lovatt
83   Alan Stearn
84   Thomas Townley
85   Terry Plummer
86   Matthew Wadham
87   Krzysztof Klorek
88   Alan Vinnicombe
89   Jef Copeland
90   Anon
91   John Shaw