DTD Deepstack £500 - Day 1: At A Glance

[Djinn]

More non-good Chris Bruce news, he's just had A-A cracked by J-8. NOt looking like his day.

But just look how happy he was before it all went wrong... he even won a pot earlier with vs. the of Robert Spencer.  He'd called button Spencer's raise to 1,500 on a flop of and they checked down the further and without further stabs at the pot.  He was happy then, too, announcing, "I won a pot of more than a hundred!" and even dancing just a tiny bit.  There's still time...

[NoflopsHomer]

Alan Vinnicombe is out, he was holding in the big blind on a board, except that the early position limper had ...

[NoflopsHomer]

Players are now on a 20 minute break, DTD providing us with a full chip count.

[Djinn]

Back to Simon Nowab, who's down to 8,350.  "You missed him going on tilt and losing his chips," said Peter Charalambous.  "You're off tilt now," he added in Simon's direction.  "I was never on tilt," replied a blithe Nowab, while simultaneously firing up a laptop and limp-calling a raise under the gun. 

Of course you weren't.

[Djinn]

Snoop Scoop:  (We're on a BREAK)... he's down to 11,100 but a chipper kipper due to having lost very little in some potentially very dangerous situations.  He's been dealt lots of big hands (Aces three times, Queens twice, Jacks once) but failed to get off the starting blocks.  A typical example hand involved his raising with and getting three callers.  On a flop of he bet out 800, was flat called, and then raised by Greek Jack to 2,500.  Apparently he was planning on check-folding unless he hit the turn anyway as the flat caller upset him, but it was now an easier decision.  His suspicions were proved correct when the flat caller then re-raised....

Greek Jack passed and the other guy showed an 8.... ("Set," surmised Snoopy.)

[Djinn]

Chip counts as the blinds go up to 75/150.  All of them!  TY DTD...

Carl Williams   25   7   39075
Thomas Middleton   34   7   36775
Andrew Middleditch   35   6   34450
Daniel Ball   15   5   31100
Przemek Rusin   23   7   29225
Des Jonas                          29000
Richard Trigg   33   3   28050
Richard Berridge   33   4   26300
Frances Creed   36   2   23675
Alex Williamson   35   5   22300
David Colclough   15   8   21550
Richard Wilcox   11   1   20900
Andrew Woods   36   1   20675
Stephen Lovatt   36   8   20625
John Perrin   12   6   20300
Carla Goddard   34   8   19650
Craig Emptage   25   1   19375
Nicholas Marshall   36   5   19150
Neil Giblin   15   6   19125
Erdinc Inan   12   1   18775
Paul Murphy   11   2   18700
Alan Stearn   11   5   18550
David Jones   36   9   18400
Jason Wheatley   34   4   17800
Nicolas Risdale   33   6   17675
Steve Jelinek   15   2   17500
Peter Charalamobus   11   4   16900
Claire Tucker   23   3   16575
Robert Cook   23   1   16475
Andrew Tuxworth   12   2   16350
Thomas Mccready   36   7   16350
Paul Gourlay   12   9   15925
Daniel Samson   34   9   15875
Kyriacos Dionysiou   11   7   15825
Darren Chadwick   35   4   15775
Khalid Akram   23   9   15325
Scott Yeates   36   3   14825
Thomas Besnier   23   5   14700
Mohammed Shoahebe   25   8   14625
Paul Lammas   33   5   14500
Neil Blatchly   23   2   14400
Adam Wilkinson   25   9   14200
Billy Ngo   25   2   14175
Jeanne David   12   7   14175
Joe Stevenson   12   8   14025
Jonathan Spinks   36   6   13875
Ben Pearce   11   9   13800
Chris Ellinas   12   3   13775
Lee Rawson   35   3   13675
John Sadler   35   1   13225
Sam Savile-Barton   34   5   12950
Nichiei Hicks   33   2   12875
Christopher Bruce   34   3   12800
Matt Russell   35   8   12700
Stuart Hopkin   12   5   12275
Tom Rutter   23   4   12250
Robert Woodcock   34   1   12225
Tony Salmon   11   6   11950
Scott Byron   15   4   11625
Adam Goulding   11   3   11100
Richard Hawes   23   6   10250
Chin Chai Koh   15   3   10150
Rupinder Bedi   25   4   10150
Peter Conduit   33   7   9050
Paul Moyce   35   2   8850
James Reid   35   9   8775
Paul Hardy   25   6   8400
Terry Plummer   33   1   8375
Robert Spencer   34   6   7125
Simon Nowab   11   8   7025
Peter Linton   25   5   6175
Thomas Townley   12   4   6075
Michael Wernick   23   8   5650
James Eflekhari   15   1   5626
Mick McCloskey   14   1   5550
George Livanos   35   7   4950
Simon Lee   15   7   4200
Yucel Eminoglu   36   4   3200
Maria Demetriou   33   8   3000

And just what is Simon Trumper doing here? 



Well you might ask.  Assisted by two resigned-looking dealers, he was edging through the card room, measuring a precise distance between the rail and the tables' edges so as to provide the optimum in room and comfort around each and every one.  Don't say the management aren't mad as a box of frogs don't go the extra mile.

[NoflopsHomer]

Tales of the Expected: Part LXII

Thewy bets the river of a board against Irina Liepina who makes the call. Thewy shows , Irina flashes as she mucks.

(Note the sheer awesomeness of Ginger Afro Dealer)

[Djinn]

Alan Stearn is OUT - a limped pot turns into a monster...

Threeway with minimal monies to a flop.  Richard Wilcox bet out a small amount, raised by Stearn to 1,600, and then re-raised by button Kyriacos 'Greek Jack' Dionysiou to 5,900.  A fairly intense pause on Wilcox, who eventually passed, but Stearn instacalled, leaving himself about that much back, which went in at the speed of light on the turn.  The only thing matching the speed of that was Greek Jack's call holding for the nuts.  Alan Stearn then threw his hand straight into the muck, standing up and staring in a manner such as only one who had chips a minute ago and suddenly is drawing dead does. 



Greek Jack collects a tasty stack, pictured here pointing out that his opponent had mucked his hand, in case anyone missed it.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chris Bruce just told us about this hand. There's a raise to 300 and several callers see a 9-8-6 two diamond flop. One player leads out for 1,200, the next (original raiser) moves all-in for 5,000 and then a third player moves all-in for 20,000 with the first bettor then calling all-in for his 10k.

FB: 8-8

OR: A-A

Third Player: 9-9

The turn is a 5 and the river is 7, making a straight and all three players have to suffer the ignominy of a chop.

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[NoflopsHomer]

Simon Nowab is out, calling Snoopy's raise with 9-3 and flop two pair against the Snoopster overcards + nut flushdrawing which hit.

[Djinn]

Another near-all-in situation -

On a board of Mohammed Shoahebe had bet 2,600 into a 5,500 pot.  Action over to Adam Wilkinson, who moved all-in for around 10,500.  Action back to Shoahebe, and there it remained, for a very long time.  After some traditional back-n-forth chat to pass the minutes which were ticking away, including the gem, "I've booked a hotel for tonight - make a good fold and throw it away," from Adam, it looked like Shoahebe had stalled.

"Show your Aces, Adam," piped up tablemate Billy Ngo (pictured top). 
"I'll show you one..." replied Wilkinson.
"Clock!" replied Ngo.

Eventually Mohammed passed, and Pete Linton passed judgement.  "That was a waste of time."

[Djinn]

Yes, short stack watch is already on... and its beam of conspicuous chip absence lands on...

Chili.  Live poker is so Trigged!



Mickey Wernick.  Amazingly.  But don't be surprised if he makes Day Three with the same stack.  He did tell me, cryptically, "I'm cooking with gas!"



Mad Turk.  "Are you taking a photo of me and my beard?" he demands.  "Yes."  "OK."

[Djinn]

Tom Rutter makes veeerrrry innnnteresting call on river...

On a board of Richard Hawes bet out 4,400 into a pot which must have been around that size.  Having entirely missed the action on all preceding streets, I have no idea who was the aggressor earlier, but it was definitely quite a call Tom Rutter made with .  Hawes mucked straight away and Rutter allowed himself a very slight table tap.  "He could have been bluffing with the best hand," warns tablemate Mickey Wernick, before relenting and adding, "Good poker."

You looking at me?  Are you?  Are you?

[NoflopsHomer]

Rob Spencer is OUT. Dan Sampson, the conqueror with the mighty . He limp-called from early position, as did Chris Bruce. Sampson called a bet on the flop before setting Spencer in on the , the latter feeling he was committed with , but couldn't catch an ace or eight to improve his hand.

[Djinn]

Przemek Rusin knocks out Pete Linton, as follows:

Young Mr. Linton is pictured here with many more chips than he had in his final moments - down to just over 3k (all in small denom chips after what I must assume is an efficient payoff of someone else just prior to this hand) he moved all in on his big blind after three limpers had put in 200.  Although I was definitely expecting this, he actually had something sort of like a hand, with which ended up being slightly in front of his caller (the UTG limper Rusin) who held .

Flop: 
Turn:
River:

Linton made a face like he'd just bitten into a stray cardamom pod in an otherwise nice curry and headed off towards the cash games.