DTD Deepstack £500 - Day 2: At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Welcome back to day 2 of the DTD deepstack. 33 left, and we're guessing this will now become a three-day event with play going down to a final table tonight. The blinds will restart at 500/1000/100. The chip counts, courtesy of DTD, are below, please pick your top three and post it in the 'Interactive thread' here: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=36229.0

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

[NoflopsHomer]

Early double up for short stack Jonathan Spinks, getting it in with and getting a spin from Shahnawaz Randera with in the big blind. A blank board later and he's now up to 25k.

[Djinn]

And the rich get richer!

Adam Wilkinson raises either the first or second hand of the day to 3k, called in position by chip leader Paul Gourlay.
The flop comes:   "Four and a half," bets Adam, adding, "To make you laugh." 
"To make me laugh?" responds Paul, before raising to 14k.  In a split second Adam has moved in and Paul has called:
Adam: 
Paul:
Turn and river: 

"That was quick," remarked Wilkinson.  "Glad I stayed."  He bid farewell to Mick McCloskey and headed to the rail.

[NoflopsHomer]

Double up now for Nick Hicks, a late position limper and Billy Ngo made up in the small blind. Nick made a raise and the limper folded but Billy must have thought Nick was 'at it' because he moved in and Nick instantly called with with Billy only able to show . The board came out a decisive , Nick gets a full double up whilst Billy is crippled.



Whilst that all was happening, Rick Trigg has been knocked by Tom Rutter. They'd seen a limped pot in the small and big blind respectively where the flop came Q-J-7, Rick lead out for 2k, Tom raised to 6k, the limper folded and after some consideration Rick jammed for about 25k. Tom called with J-7 and Rick could only show Q-T. The turn brought an extra few outs with an ace but Rick failed to get there on the river. He's still pretty sure it was the right move as Tom could easily be raising with a worse queen or a draw in that position vs Trigg's lairy rep.

Daniel 'UpTheMariners' Rudd has also been knocked out though we missed it in all the frenetic actively.

[Djinn]

SHORTWATCH!

There are about 5 short stacks who are taking every opportunity at the moment to get it in the middle and take their chances for a double up!  It's actiontastic, as tends to be the case at the beginning of Day Twos...  Here I present to you a who's-who of the shortstacks making their bids for glory or the front of the buffet queue...

Fran "We're on the table of death here!" Creed



Billy "Let's see how lucky I am" Ngo



Steve "I am more interested in my paper" Jelinek



Thomas "I haven't said anything or done anything to poke fun at" Besnier

[Djinn]

Richard Berridge busts Carl Williams...

They got as far as a flop of before Richard checked, Carl moved his last 14,900 in and after Richard answered his own, "Have you got any of that?" question, made the call.

Richard: 
Carl:

And his outflopping hand stayed good as the board brought no redeeming Ace sending yet another to the rail...

[Djinn]

One-Two Big Slick Knockout!  Irina Liepina hits the rail...

One of the short stacks, she took shots in the way anyone would, finding an Ace in the small blind first off when it passed to her, and putting big blind, even shorter-stacked Richard Hawes all-in.  He said, "Let's have a look," peeled up an and said, just as reasonably, "I call based on one card."  The other happened to be the , which dominated her .
His advantage was further pressed as he turned the nut flush on a board ending up , and she was down to under 10k.



The very next hand, it folded to her on the button, and she moved her 8,600 all in.  Small blind Hawes again reached for chips and made the call, but newly-table-moved Scott Byron in the big blind checked out his stack and moved in over the top, prompting a quick fold.  Yet again, it was a domination situation:
Irina:
Scott:
Board: ...

And in a pretty chilly situation she exits from the last three tables.

[NoflopsHomer]

More exits than in the 4x100m relay events here!

Chris Bruce is the latest to go, having previously been crippled, he moved in for his last 700 chips. Richard Berridge re-raised behind before Fran Creed moved half her stack in. Berridge then set her in and Fran instantly called as well.

Fran:
Richard:
Chris:

A board helped no-one and this day is going faster than Usain Bolt at the moment.

[Djinn]

Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce our new chip leader:  Nik Hicks!  Quietly heading upwards in chips, it looked like Erdinc Inan was as surprised as he was to be handing over 60k to the tricksy Hicks as his scooped a huge pot.  On a board reading , shortstack Ngo was all-in, Hicks had gone for it as well, and Inan, who covered them both (but only just) was along for the ride.  So who had what?

Nik Hicks: Aces.  I already said that.
Erdinc Inan:
Billy Ngo:

"Club one time!" failed to produce the goods, and over 150k wings its way to the behatted player.  As his stack was counted down he commented, "That's quite a lot."  Understatement award of the day is his, no doubt.  Paul Gourlay was standing over the table as all this took place, wondering if he'd been knocked from the chip leader spot.  I hated to break it to him, but...

"And Nik's quite a good player," Gourlay ruefully added. 

[Djinn]

chip counts for Neil Blatchley and Darren Chadwick please

Neil Blatchley -- 20k (Chris will tell you why..)



Darren Chadwick -- 24k

[NoflopsHomer]

Neil Blatchley suffered a bit of a hit early on a 9-8-5-T-4 board paying off Richard Berridge who had flopped the nut straight with 7-6, Blatchley saying the ten was such a bad card for him as it made him two pair.

Nicolas Risdale has gone out in 23rd place, he raised, Steve Jelinek re-raised from the blinds and Risdale shoved with , Steve snap-calling quicker than Michael Johnson in his prime with . A board devoid of Jacks or Aces sent Risdale to the rail.

[Djinn]

Et Voila -

11   1   Scott Byron -- 110,000
11   2   Paul Murphy -- 15,600
11   5   Nichiei Hicks -- 150,000
11   6   Thomas Besnier -- 18,000
11   7   Przemek Rusin -- 64,500
11   8   Darren Chadwick -- 35,000
11   9   Steve Jelinek -- 38,000

12   1   Mick Mccloskey -- 92,000
12   2   Andrew Tuxworth -- 105,000
12   4   Richard Berridge -- 90,000
12   5   Adam Goulding -- 64,000
12   6   Frances Creed -- 26,600
12   7   Neil Blatchly -- 17,800
12   8   Scott Yeates -- 37,300
12   9   Paul Gourlay -- 120,000

14   1   John Sadler -- 65,000
14   2   Jonathan Spinks -- 33,000
14   3   Andrew Woods -- 45,000
14   4   Shahnawaz Randera -- 26,000
14   6   David Jones -- 95,000
14   7   Richard Hawes -- 28,100
14   9   Tom Rutter -- 98,000

[NoflopsHomer]

LeKnave raises to 3,300 from the cut-off. John Sadler in the big blind re-raises to 8,300. LeKnave moves all-in and is quickly called.

LeKnave:
Sadler:



Sadler wins a 100k+ pot, LeKnave down to about 27k.

[Djinn]

With unrelenting self-destruction, the field rids itself of two more in two minutes!

A threeway all-in preflop just saw short stacked Paul Murphy shove pre with , called by Przemek Rusin with , only to find Steve Jelinek shoving behind him - as it turns out, with .  Rusin called covering both players...
Flop: 
Turn: 
River:

So a bit of a reprieve for Ace-spiking Murphy (top), while Jelinek busts and leaves Rusin about where he started due to the side pot.





THEN

Richard Berridge raises in the cutoff, and Neil Blatchley calls in the big blind.
Flop: .  Instantly Neil pushes his remaining 15k into the middle, and waits... Richard Berridge was clearly expecting this, but Neil wasn't expecting him to call with what he had:

Richard: 
Neil: 

Turn: 
River:

"Sorry.  I thought you were pushing the flop thinking I'd missed," said Berridge.
"You had," pointed out a disappointed Neil as he headed, frustrated, from the table.

[NoflopsHomer]

More chips for Sadler he raises preflop from the small blind and Jonathan Spinks calls from the big blind.



Sadler leads out and Spinks moves in. Sadler calls and shows for the second time in 10 minutes, and Spinks shakes his head showing , no help on the turn and river and Sadler must be vying with Nick Hicks for the chip lead.