DTD Deepstack £500 - Day 2: At A Glance

[Djinn]

Tom Rutter slows Sadler's run down, like so...

John Sadler raises under the gun to 5,200.  It folds to big blind Tom who makes the call.
Flop:  .  Check to Sadler who bets 10k.  Slowly and deliberately Tom calls once again.
Turn:  .  Check to Sadler, who quickly checks behind.
River:    Now Tom bets out just the one 5k chip.  Possibly smelling a rat but unable to restrain the call, Sadler throws in the 5k, only to be told that after the flop the deck "killed the action I think, there," for Tom Rutter's .  John Sadler shows (and mucks) .

[NoflopsHomer]

Tom Rutter slows Sadler's run down, like so...

John Sadler raises under the gun to 5,200.  It folds to big blind Tom who makes the call.
Flop:  .  Check to Sadler who bets 10k.  Slowly and deliberately Tom calls once again.
Turn:  .  Check to Sadler, who quickly checks behind.
River:    Now Tom bets out just the one 5k chip.  Possibly smelling a rat but unable to restrain the call, Sadler throws in the 5k, only to be told that after the flop the deck "killed the action I think, there," for Tom Rutter's .  John Sadler shows (and mucks) .

I think Tom rues not check/raising that flop, he could well have got it all on the flop, and if the ace didn't come on the turn, he'd have got it all anyway.

Meanwhile, Andrew 'Woodsey' Woods is out in 19th, he moved in on the turn of a Q-8-7-6 board with 5-5 but John Sadler made the call with 9-9 which holds on the Q river.

[Djinn]

SO we're down to just two tables.  A 20 minute break has just begun (I can't describe to you how disappointed we are that the buffet is in an hour's time.  So disappointed we've ordered chilli beef in protest).  And here they are:

12   1   Mick Mccloskey
12   2   Andrew Tuxworth
12   3   Scott Byron
12   4   Richard Berridge
12   5   Adam Goulding
12   6   Frances Creed
12   7   Darren Chadwick
12   8   Scott Yeates
12   9   Paul Gourlay

14   1   John Sadler
14   2   Paul Murphy
14   3   Thomas Besnier
14   4   Shahnawaz Randera
14   5   Nichiei Hicks
14   6   David Jones
14   7   Richard Hawes
14   8   Przemek Rusin
14   9   Tom Rutter

[NoflopsHomer]

********* 20 minute break ************

Simon Trumper just gave tickets to the buffet.

On a completely unrelated matter, can I just say what an all-around top guy and outstanding fellow he is.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chippity Counts thanks to Yogi.

12   1   Mick McCloskey -- 121,600
12   2   Andrew Tuxworth -- 108,100
12   3   Scott Byron -- 142,500
12   4   Richard Berridge -- 92,000
12   5   Adam Goulding -- 57,600
12   6   Frances Creed -- 29,800
12   7   Darren Chadwick -- 42,400
12   8   Scott Yeates -- 37,800
12   9   Paul Gourlay -- 99,000

14   1   John Sadler -- 153,600
14   2   Paul Murphy -- 50,600
14   3   Thomas Besnier -- 20,000
14   4   Shahnawaz Randera -- 28,100
14   5   Nichiei Hicks -- 107,200
14   6   David Jones -- 38,700
14   7   Richard Hawes -- 39,000
14   8   Przemek Rusin -- 76,200
14   9   Tom Rutter -- 118,100

[NoflopsHomer]

Fabulous Glittering Prizes...

1st -- £15,925
2nd -- £9,555
3rd -- £6,370
4th -- £4,095
5th -- £3,185
6th -- £2,275
7th -- £1,820
8th -- £1,365
9th -- £910

[NoflopsHomer]

Btw, the £50 comp at 8pm is now definitely running, I've just been told.

[Djinn]

Straight off the bat we lose Shahnawaz Randera in 18th place...  He raised to 4,500 preflop, and it passed to Tom Rutter in the big blind, who made it another 8k.  Within a couple of seconds Randera had pushed and Tom instacalled, as you do with .  Randera held , and it was pretty much all over after the flop of with the following doing nothing.  Tom was giving himself the traditional poker-player's hard time in the break for not getting a lot more out of his Kings vs. Queens scenario just now, but will probably be in a better mood now. 



Meanwhile Randera does the walk of sadness - at least as far as the sofa behind the table.  Oh the bitter taste of defeat.  And the lovely taste of coffee.

[NoflopsHomer]

Fran is out, she raised to 4,500 from mid-position and was called by Andrew Tuxworth in the big blind.



Check check.



Tuxworth checks, Fran moves in, and Tuxworth insta-calls with having caught a four-outer against Fran's which miss the river. We're now down to 16 players.

[Djinn]

Berridge Barrage!

He's in every hand at the moment!  And they haven't exactly been going his way...

Starting with hand #1 - Scott Byron raises to 4k preflop, called in position by Richard and out of it by Paul Gourlay.
Flop:    Paul checks, Scott makes it 7k and Richard calls.
Turn:    Scott bets out 11k; call.
River: Scott bets out 25k; call.

Scott Byron flips for only the stone cold nuts, while Richard Berridge kicks himself a little, perhaps, as he shows down a losing .

Hand #2

Scott Byron limps in early position, and then calls a Berridge raise to 6k.
Flop:    Check-check
Turn:    Quick check-check
River:   They both check so fast I missed it and Richard Berridge flips some winning .

Hand #3

Richard raises pre to 4,500, and finds big blind Andrew Tuxworth re-raising to 11,500.  He calls immediately.  Again, the checking it down progresses at lightning speed until the board reads at which point Richard pays off Andrew's river bet of 5k, mucking when he's shown Eights.

Pictured, left to right:  Scott Byron, Richard Berridge, Snoopy.  I have to say that even after nearly two days even I have no idea what Byron's face looks like.

[NoflopsHomer]

Richard Hawes raises to 4,200 on the button. Tom Rutter in the big blind, asks for a count and Hawes has about 30k behind, the former takes out a big stack of purples and sets them down on the table and Hawes moves his stack in faster than Jen chasing a newspaper when she finds the crossword hasn't been done yet.

Tom gives a half-nervous, half-embarrassed giggle.

Richard:
Tom:



Richard Hawes up to 70k, Tom Rutter probably on around the 85k - 90k range. (he's probably reading this then will suddenly count and tell us. )

[Djinn]

Down one more - It was permashortstack Thomas Besnier who made a reasonable squeeze of three limpers preflop from the big blind for c.15k.  But limper #2, Przemek Rusin, made the call with and found Besnier with the admittedly live .  The board paired nothing but the Ten, however, and we're down to 15 players already.

Pictured:  Rusin.  Intimidating.  Likes the call button.  Thomas Besnier made an exit so hasty I literally didn't have time to lift up the camera to snap him.

[NoflopsHomer]

Players (and us) are on a 1 hour dinner break. They (and us) are now legging to the buffet.

************** 1 hour dinner break ***************

[NoflopsHomer]

Odd hand between Scott Byron (UTG+1) and Richard Berridge (UTG+2). Scott raises to 5,500 and Richard calls.



Scott bets 7,000. Richard calls.



Check, check.



Scott checks, Richard bets 9,000. Scott calls, Richard shows , Scott giggles for a bit and shows .

Richard moans, "Awww, if I known you'd have that I could've won so much more!"

Mick McCloskey, "Jeez, you've just won 20k from the guy and now you're giving him a rubdown!"

[Djinn]

Richard Hawes gets involved, but is possibly regretting it after two hands don't go his way...

For starters, he made it 5,500 only to find Tom Rutter re-raising to 15,500 on the button.  Some slow and highly focused self-counting later, he passed that one, and gave it another go the next hand.  This time small blind Paul Murphy called the 5,500, and they saw a flop of .  Murphy checked, and Hawes bet 9k.  Back to Murphy, who announced all-in, and received a call.  It was close - Hawes showed against Murphy's . 

Pictured:  Paul Murphy doubling up in serious mode.