DTD Deepstack £500 - Day 1: At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Pete Charalambous raises to 500 from early position, Greek Jack makes it 2,500 and like a bloodhound I'm there, sniffing out the scent. The big blind then comes in for a third raise making it 10,200 and Pete quickly gets out of the way. Greek Jack though, like a bad smell in a lift, takes a little longer to disappear. He thinks for a good couple of minutes before folding, claiming he had kings, with the big blind saying he had aces and Pete said he had nines, though I'm not sure everyone is telling the truth...

'UpTheMariners' Daniel Rudd makes a concerted push on a Ah board for around 8k or 9k into a similarly sized pot, his opponent folds.

Red Dog told me of a hand where everyone on the table limped to the big blind who raised to 1,200 getting one caller. The flop came K-7-5 and the limp/caller bet out 3k onto the flop with the OR then check/raising all-in for just 4k more with . The limper called with K-8 and his hand managed to hold on for a 15k pot.

[Djinn]

El Blondie knocks out Daniel Lee, whose short stack found its way in with and out again into Colclough's stack as his held up.  DC now has 21,800, after raising on the button the very next hand (a minraise) and receiving both blinds as callers.  A weird small pot played out in which Daniel Rudd's eventually took it down on a board, Dave mysteriously showing a and mucking after loudly proclaiming how preflop there was, "Just no respect!  I just showed Queens!" 

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Meanwhile, it looks like Mick McCloskey might be in the running for chip leader, approaching 50,000 rapidly.  Here he is photographed back when he had the same chips as everyone else.  At the beginning.


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Hoody of the Day



In a sea of really noncommital type clothing (Trigg's T-shirt the exception, to be featured later) this guy, sat between Jeanne David and Paul Gourlay, stands out - Joe Stevenson in what I hope you at home can tell is a baby pink hoody with hood up and what looks like nothing on underneath.  Somewhere between the style of Patrik Antonius and a newborn.  4 stars.

[NoflopsHomer]

More beagle updates please.

+1

We tried to get him to wear a t-shirt that said "I sold my soul to Flushy and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" but for some reason he wasn't up for it. 

He has about 18k I think. Pete Charalambous is talking non-stop at the moment, doing impressions of the Cryptologic software and commentating on every hand, which is tilting Rick Trigg for sure.

Speaking of being tilted, Paul Gourlay is feeling that after calling down bets on the flop and turn of a with K-J only to find his opponent had and had got there on the river. The Leeds-based Geordie was not amused.

[Djinn]

Double up for Neil Blatchly - After Thomas Besnier made it 600 to go under the gun, Neil called on the button, and they saw a flop of .  Check to Neil who bet 1k, and was promptly ch-raised to 3k.  He called.  Turn:  .  Now Thomas bet out 4k, and found Neil raising to 10,500.  Neil left himself a mighty 100 behind - pictured here at the moment of truth, as somehow Thomas simply flat calls:



"If you check the river, I'll check behind," offers Neil generously as his threatening pile of four 25 chips threatens his opponent...  And that is what happens, Neil showing for a turned two pair outdrawing Thomas' .

[NoflopsHomer]

Little pot for the Snoopster. There's a single limper and Snoopy makes it 800 next to him with everyone else folding, the flop comes and both players check. The turn is the and both players check again, the river is the and it's checked to Snoopy a third time and he bets 500 and gets a call when his opponent shows . Snoops scoops with .

Dave Colclough (about his table), "There's nothing to see here, it's like watching paint dry. I'm saving myself and am on sleep time until they bring in the running antes. Go and watch Julian's table!"

[Djinn]

Counts on:

Dave Jones
Tom Middleton
      +
Fran, Chilli + Rick plzzzzzzz

ty.

As you wish...

Dave Jones -- 16,250
Tom Middleton -- OUT
Fran Creed -- 30,200
Rick Trigg -- 22,400

Bonus Counts for Good Behaviour:

Julian Thew -- 18,225 (now ordering wine with Matt Tyler and Des Jonas     )
Matt Tyler -- 15,500
Des Jonas -- 24,400
Tom McCready -- 15,550
Paul Gourlay -- 20,000
Tom Rutter -- 22,500
Richard Hawes -- 5,000
Nik Hicks -- 14,000
Dan Samson -- 55,000
Chris Bruce -- 10,200
Jim Reid -- 6,600
Carla Goddard -- 18,500
Chin Chai Koh -- 950  (Wistfully remembering those slowplayed button Kings which cost him so much... and eyeing up the cash games)

[NoflopsHomer]

Vying with Dan Samson for the chip lead is American Scott Yeates, who also has about 55k.



Matt Tyler enjoying a glass of that great tipple...Dancing Bull

[NoflopsHomer]

Snoopy calls a raise from Greek Jack and both checked a flop. Snoops fires a 1k bet on the turn and Greek Jack quickly calls. The river is the draw-making and all around action inducing and Snoopy checks and Jack now bets 3k. Snoopy thinks for about 20 seconds before deciding to go where beagles dare and calls. Greek Jack mucks and Snoops shows for the almost 10k pot.

All we need now is Richard Burton, Clint and a castle full of Nazis now.

[Djinn]

chip counts on Paul Lammas and ben pearce please best of luck to both of them .when is next 321 weekend? thanks for the updates

Ben Pearce has 11,750 (in the blue hat next to Rick).  Paul Lammas just lost a few thousand after getting check-raised by Dave Colclough on a flop, and was resolutely hiding his stack behind his hands when I came to the table.  Probably about the same as Pearce, though.  Check out their collective radiant countenances, expressing the passion and fascination they all clearly have for this most exciting of games.

[NoflopsHomer]

"Chris, I'm on tilt," says Red Dog with a slight smile hiding a little bit of frustration. I see a flop of A-Q-J holding K-Q, and for some reason I think I have a straight. So everyone checks to me, so I check. The turn is another ace and now someone bets, and I think he might have trip aces but he probably doesn't have the house, so the straight I have, which I actually don't have, is good. Of course, he does have the house and I don't have the straight!!

Red now dropped to a few thousand. wins

Dave 'LeKnave' Jones has won a 3-bet pot against Paul Lammas betting the river of a with and getting called by Lammas'

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip Counts courtesy of DTD.

Richard Berridge   25   8   47475
Andrew Middleditch   35   6   46075
Scott Yeates   23   1   45250
Daniel Samson   25   1   44100
Przemek Rusin   25   6   43575
Andrew Woods   23   7   39900
Desmond Jonas   14   8   39500
Erdinc Inan   12   1   36375
Carl Williams   25   7   34700
Frances Creed   14   6   33600
Jonathan Spinks   14   2   30900
Stuart Hopkin   12   5   30350
Billy Ngo   25   2   29725
Neil Blatchly   23   2   29425
Tom Rutter   35   3   29375
Shahnawaz Randera   14   4   29200
Jason Wheatley   23   4   27725
Nicholas Marshall   25   3   27275
John Perrin   12   6   27225
Paul Murphy   11   2   24225
Tony Salmon   11   6   24050
Fredrik Mikaelsson   14   3   23700
Adam Goulding   11   3   23325
Mick Mccloskey   14   1   23200
Richard Wilcox   11   1   23125
Lee Rawson   12   3   22350
David Jones   15   1   22325
Daniel Ball   15   5   20400
Nicolas Risdale   23   8   20150
Julian Thew   14   7   20100
Paul Gourlay   12   9   19650
Steve Jelinek   15   2   19225
Kyriacos Dionysiou   11   7   18425
Richard Trigg   11   8   17125
Craig Emptage   12   7   16800
Christopher Bruce   35   7   16550
Darren Chadwick   35   4   16025
Nichiei Hicks   11   5   15900
Ben Pearce   11   9   15475
John Sadler   35   1   15275
Scott Byron   15   4   13700
Irina Liepina   14   5   13700
Joe Stevenson   12   8   12025
Peter Charalamobus   11   4   11250
Alex Williamson   35   5   11250
Richard Hawes   23   6   11225
Andrew Tuxworth   12   2   10850
Adam Wilkinson   25   9   10800
Paul Lammas   15   3   10750
Matt Tyler   14   9   10450
Paul Moyce   35   2   10400
Khalid Akram   23   9   10225
Matt Russell   35   8   10025
Thomas Mccready   12   4   9350
Claire Tucker   23   3   8675
Peter Conduit   25   5   5325
Thomas Besnier   23   5   4025

[NoflopsHomer]

Big pot between Richard Berridge and Dan Samson

Berridge raises preflop with jacks and gets several callers. On the flop, he bets 2,500 and Dan Samson is the only caller. On the turn Berridge again bets but this time Samson raises and Berridge just calls. The river pairs, coming the and Berridge now checks, Samson bets 14,000 and Berridge moves all-in. Samson says, "Well I have a ten..." but he then folds, losing a decent chunk of his stack and propelling Berridge up to 78k.

[Djinn]

• understated black suit
• artfully spiky hair
• tin of snus
• quietly accumulating chips
• sent by Expekt

Yes, we have a Scandie.  Fredrik Mikaelsson, the gent we shared the taxi with from our hotel today, is still in and calmly sitting on about 27k.  Expekt a deep run from the quietly spoken player, who is currently hoping that it will be reduced to a three-day event as he's booked to fly home on the Monday.  Such practicality.  Admirable.



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Giant tangled pot eliminates both Dan Samson and Nicholas Marshall and frustrates Richard Berridge all at the same time!

It was a flop of which caused the conflict... at first it was all 'check-check-I-bet-900-I-raise-to-3,300' but then it got totally out of hand as Marshall got his 10,750 all in, called by Billy Ngo - Samson took the plunge for nearer 15k and with it just being a formality that Billy Ngo was going to call the rest, it was over to Berridge who tortured himself until he had the clock called on him.  "I wish I'd have checked now," he lamented as he looked at the lake of chips that was heading somewhere in two cards' time... he decided that it wasn't worth risking his dominant chip position on this hand, and muttering something about straights and flushes, he got out of the way.

Dan showed:  for the up'n'down draw
Billy showed:  for a set
Nicholas showed:  for the flush draw.

Turn and river.... which brought rejoicing for Billy Ngo and the rail for the other two, and an irritated Richard saying that his set of Eights would have won(!).

[NoflopsHomer]

A bit of Triggonometry for you now as Rick is angling for a spot having seen his stack size disappear off on a tangent. He's raised aces after a load of limpers, still managing to get a few callers and led out on a J-J-3 board, one player flat-called and Rick decided all he could do would be to check/fold after this, though I personally think it's a sin to fold there too quickly cos his opponent could easily have a smaller pair. He has 12k left though, but it's less than those adjacent and opposite to him, though all he needs is to find the right angle to make a move and regain those chips.

[NoflopsHomer]

Jim Reid and Chili are both out.