DTD Deepstack £500 - Day 1: At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Dave Colclough has added another 6k or after betting 3k on the river of a board, getting called, and proudly showing his for a rivered flush.

Scott Keates continues to impress, he raises from the button and gets 3 callers including Woodsey, who apologises in advance, points to the other two players saying, "If I win it's their fault" implying he's calling because of odds and nothing else.



Checked around.



It's checked around to Keates who checks to the button, who bets 5k. Keates is the only caller.



Check check, the American's A-K wins.

[NoflopsHomer]

Tom Rutter bets 6k on a board and receives two callers. Clearly a little worried, he checks the river but his opponents can't beat his and he scoops a 20k pot.

[Djinn]

Chip counts from Table Snoopy:

11   1   Richard Wilcox -- 15,150
11   2   Paul Murphy -- 19,075
11   3   Adam Goulding -- 18,000
11   4   Peter Charalamobus -- 6,450
11   5   Nichiei Hicks -- 18,000
11   6   Tony Salmon -- 12,000
11   7   Kyriacos Dionysiou -- 38,300
11   8   Darren Chadwick -- 14,800
11   9   Ben Pearce -- 13,250

From the stack sizes, I cleverly deduce that Greek Jack is the denter of the Snoopy Stack, along with several others...

[NoflopsHomer]

Joe Stevenson is out due to an old anal mauling, he moved in with on the flop and was snap-called by which picked up extra outs on the turn and made the nuts on the river to scoop the pot.

John 'Reggie' Perrin has also now left Thunderdome, he was all-in with aces against the flush draw of , an Ace on the turn delaying the sickening thud that must have hit his stomach when a diamond appeared on the river.

Thewy has gone. No sign of Dewi or Louie either.

[Djinn]

Latest from the end of Level Seven:  Przemek Rusin does some calling and passing; Tyler doubles up; Billy's chips not ngoing anywhere...

Carl Williams added a few chips to his stack raising to 3,400 under the gun and receiving one caller in Rusin. 
Flop:    Rusin checked, Williams bet 5k, and after a dwell got a call.
Turn:    Again, check to Williams, who again bet 5k, this time taking it down.

The next hand, Billy Ngo raises preflop to 1,450, called by neighbour Rick Trigg and button Przemek Rusin. 
Flop:    Billy bet out 2,400, which was quickly raised to 5,500 by Rick... Without dwell Rusin AND Ngo passed, the latter showing which went into the muck instantly.  Rick Trigg had the eyes of the table fixed on him as he tantalised them with a lift of the corner of a card, before mucking them to general disappointment.  Anyone else think that was a pretty tight fold?

But Billy is clearly in a good mood, with enough chips to see him comfortably into day two...

[Djinn]

Full Last-Break Chip Counts (TY DTD).....

Andrew Tuxworth   12   2   70000
Richard Berridge   12   4   68800
Billy Ngo   25   2   67050
Mick Mccloskey   12   1   55825
Scott Yeates   23   1   52050
Tom Rutter   25   5   46300
Kyriacos Dionysiou   11   7   44550
Przemek Rusin   25   6   44150
Shahnawaz Randera   14   4   39400
Andrew Woods   14   3   39000
David Jones   15   1   38500
Andrew Middleditch   12   6   37500
John Sadler   14   1   36575
Carl Williams   25   7   35925
Erdinc Inan   23   3   34375
Daniel Rudd   15   9   33950
Paul Gourlay   12   9   32775
Desmond Jonas   14   8   32350
Stuart Hopkin   12   5   30000
Matt Tyler   14   9   28800
Nichiei Hicks   11   5   28550
Irina Liepina   14   5   28025
Alex Williamson   15   7   28025
Thomas Besnier   23   5   27850
Jonathan Spinks   14   2   26850
Scott Byron   15   4   25175
Neil Blatchly   23   2   22475
Jason Wheatley   25   1   21900
Steve Jelinek   15   2   20125
Richard Hawes   23   6   20000
Richard Trigg   25   3   19600
Paul Murphy   11   2   19475
Adam Goulding   11   3   19000
Darren Chadwick   11   8   18450
Adam Wilkinson   25   9   18325
Richard Wilcox   11   1   15850
David Colclough   15   8   14900
Nicolas Risdale   23   8   14800
Frances Creed   14   6   13200
Paul Moyce   23   4   13075
Neil Giblin   15   6   12825
Carla Goddard   25   4   12650
Ben Pearce   11   9   12325
Peter Charalamobus   11   4   11000
Christopher Bruce   12   3   10700
Craig Emptage   12   7   9795
Daniel Ball   15   5   7975
Paul Lammas   15   3   5425
Khalid Akram   23   9   4775

[NoflopsHomer]

LeKnave raises to 1,700 from the cut-off. Steve Jelinek re-raises to 4,700 from the button. Paul Lammas thinks for a long while before moving all-in for about 7k. LeKnave immediately sets Jelinek in for his remaining 11k, but the latter quickly passes, with just the slightest hint of a man who knew he got caught.

Lammas:
LeKnave:



I guess Paul would've taken that flop at least, but he's out now while Dave 'LeKnave' Jones is up to the virtual nosebleed heights of 50k.

[Djinn]

Paul Gourlay gets out of jail, and a very large double up in the process...

Paul raised under the gun (he does seem to do this more often than one might expect) to 2,100, called in three spots - Richard Berridge, the button and the big blind Scott Yeates.
Flop:    Check from Yeates, and out bets Paul 8,500.  He's called quickly by Berridge, and the others pass.
Turn:    Paul instantly makes that hand-wavy gesture which signifies all-in, and after a moment's hesitation, Berridge makes the call - and it's not for peanuts - 27,525.
Paul Gourlay: 
Richard Berridge: 

River..... , and barely a wince later, from Richard at least, Paul is up to over 75k and looking ever so slightly sheepish.

[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.

[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]

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.