DTD Deepstack £500 - Day 1: At A Glance

[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.

[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.

[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]

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

[Djinn]

The marvellous efficiency of the DTD staff has brought us the End of Day counts - enjoy, players and followers of players:

Paul Gourlay   12   9   87200
Mick Mccloskey   12   1   83300
David Jones   15   1   82900
Richard Berridge   12   4   79400
Andrew Tuxworth   12   2   75000
John Sadler   14   1   74000
Erdinc Inan   11   1   66500
Andrew Woods   14   3   66100
Scott Byron   15   4   59200
Tom Rutter   14   9   57500
Adam Goulding   11   3   56200
Przemek Rusin   15   8   50400
Shahnawaz Randera   14   4   45600
Adam Wilkinson   12   7   38500
Darren Chadwick   11   8   37600
Scott Yeates   12   8   35900
Richard Trigg   14   8   35600
Kyriacos Dionysiou   11   7   30200
Frances Creed   14   6   29300
Thomas Besnier   11   6   29000
Neil Blatchly   15   3   28100
Billy Ngo   11   4   24600
Nicolas Risdale   15   7   24000
Carl Williams   12   5   21300
Steve Jelinek   15   2   20600
Christopher Bruce   12   3   18000
Richard Hawes   14   7   17300
Daniel Rudd   15   9   16500
Nichiei Hicks   11   5   16200
Paul Moyce   15   5   15500
Paul Murphy   11   2   15400
Irina Liepina   14   5   13500
Jonathan Spinks   14   2   12400