BlueSq.com GUKPT Bolton: Day 2 - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Seat 1: Dyfed Price -- 91,000
Seat 2: Gareth Jones -- 26,000
Seat 3: Justin Devonport -- 62,000
Seat 4: Dominic Rossookh -- 75,000
Seat 5: Rob Sherwood -- 29,000
Seat 6: Surinder Sunar -- 74,000
Seat 7: Roberto Romanello -- 80,000
Seat 8: Mohammed Shoahebe -- 185,000




Seat 1: Sid Harris -- 60,000
Seat 2: Tony Cascarino -- 125,000
Seat 3: Steve Craig -- 38,000
Seat 4: Dennis Clough -- 40,000
Seat 5: Tim Flanders -- 55,000
Seat 6: Lawrence Gosney -- 122,000
Seat 7: James Morgan -- 87,000
Seat 8: Pippa Flanders -- 63,000




Seat 1: Greg Hunt -- 18,000
Seat 2: Steve Higton -- 45,000
Seat 3: Kevin O'Leary -- 34,000
Seat 4: Anthony Shiels -- 19,000
Seat 5: Sam Trickett -- 73,000
Seat 6: Ali Mallu -- 111,000
Seat 7: Terry Owens -- 134,000
Seat 8: Kevin Steward -- 26,000

[snoopy1239]

End of level 12 chip counts:

Dyfed Price   95300
Gareth Jones   34000
Justin Devonport   60700
Dominic Rossookh   90000
Rob Sherwood   61000
Surinder Sunar   32600
Roberto Romanello   94000
Mohammed Shoahebe   189800
Greg Hunt   15300
Steve Higton   48000
Kevin Oleary   25700
Anthony Shields   16000
Sam Trickett   64800
Ali Mallu   123400
Terence Owens   151600
Kevin Steward   42500
Sid Harris   60300
Tony Cascarino   160000
Steve Craig   77200
Dennis Clough   48300
Tim Flanders   52500
Lawrence Gosney   73500
James Morgan   82700
Pippa Flanders   70900


I believe Floppy caught a couple of post-dinner exits, but apart from that, the pace has been rather lack lustre with the majority of hands being taken down preflop, often uncontested. There was a hand on one table where the streets were played, Tim Flander's 7,000 button raise being flat called by Lawrence Gosney in the small. On the flop, both players checked, before Lawrence insta-check-called a bet of 10,000 on the turn. A river led to a pause from Lawrence, before leading out for 18,000. Sensing he may have been bashed on the head by the river, Tim made the call with , but was dismayed to see he'd been outdrawn by Lawrence's .

Whilst this hand put Lawrence back up to around 115,000 (Lord Gosney is up and down like a pogo stick today), an evidently disgruntled Tim was left with a paltry 13,500, made up solely of green 500 chips. This stack soon went in, not once, but twice in one round. First he snapped up the blinds with , before punishing Dennis Clough's small blind limp with a shove on the big blind. "I have a nice hand," claimed Dennis, but he always looked as though he was leaning towards the fold. "I try and play nice..." he concluded as his hand hit the muck. Meanwhile, Tim remained in generous mood, showing . "It's not a bad hand, suited too."

[NoflopsHomer]

Yeah, Sam Trickett is out. Kevin O'Leary raised from the cutoff, Sam pushed from the button before Alli Mallu re-raised all-in from the big blind as Kevin got out of the way.

Sam:

Alli:



And the Luton champion is gone.

[NoflopsHomer]

Rob Sherwood got up to 60k just before the break, mainly courtesy of a nice coup with aces against Surinder Sunar's kings in a button vs small blind battle.

"Surinder just flatted me preflop from the small blind, because I had enough chips to get away if he'd re-raised, he'd gone to get the maximum and was unlucky. Once the flop came down 10-high it all went in."

Surinder though has since doubled up himself with A-K against Justin Devonport's A-Q, while Pippa Flanders has eliminated Steve Higton in the same manner.

Finally, fitting into these AIPF battles, Kevin Steward has doubled through Alli Mallu with vs

[NoflopsHomer]

James Morgan raises to 8k from UTG, Tony Cascarino re-raises to 30k from midposition and everyone folds back to Morgan.

"Aww, this is so sick, I don't know if I can fold here. I'm going to bubble. Do you have aces?"

"No," says the footballer, "Do you have aces?"



Morgan waves into an imaginary camera and says, "Hi mum, I'm about to bubble."

He then moves all-in but Cascrino doesn't instantly call.

"So you don't have aces..."

But after about 10 seconds Cascarino does call with against Morgan's . The board bricks out and Morgan is eliminated but unrepentant, "I didn't just want to cash, I wanted to go for the money."

As the chips were being moved across to Cascarino's stack there's a yell from the table next door.



We look across and Greg Hunt is letting out a roar after his A-K held up to knock out Kevin Steward's A-Q, leaving us with 19 players left.



Stop! Bubbletime!

[NoflopsHomer]

Just before these pre-bubble shennanigans, Sid Harris doubled up, getting lucky with against Lawrence Gosney's by spiking a third bullet on the flop to put him over 100k.

[snoopy1239]

"That's as enthusiastic as I've ever seen him," observed Dena, and she's not wrong. It's not often you see someone as composed and level-headed as Rob Sherwood bang the table, but on this occasion, the adrenalin must have been flowing through his bloodstream like a Swiss bobsleigh team.

Raising it up preflop from the cut-off with , Rob found action from Dyfed Price in the big blind, and within seconds all the chips were in the middle.

With Dyfed tabling an inferior , Rob was in confident mood, but his joy soon turned to chagrin on the flop. But the turn gave the Mancunian some outs, one of which arrived on the dramatic river.

Afterwards, Rob wore a Cheshire cat grin that would have taken a team of plastic surgeons to remove, whilst a stoic Dyfed just accepted that justice had been done  and simply began restructuring his now depleted 125,000 stack.

Rob, on the other hand, is up to 88,000, a figure which increased even further when he took the blinds from under the gun just a hand or two later.

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We've reached the stage where a lot of the players are shoving either preflop, or on the flop if they have enough chips to journey that far. Roberto Romanello is one of these players, and he was last seen shoving for 65,000 into a 45,000 pot and a board of .

As soon as Terry Owens began to hesitate, the Welshman pounced. "I have an open ended straight flush draw," he claimed. "You've got a lot of cards to dodge." Terry remained silent. "Don't slowroll me whatever you do. If you got the jack just call."

In the end, his speech was in vain, as Terry never really looked convinced, and ultimately opted for the fold.

[NoflopsHomer]

Players are on a short break. Chip counts to follow.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip counts courtesy of Jon Raab.

2   1   Dyfed Price   122400
2   2   Gareth Jones   28900
2   3   Justin Devonport   18500
2   4   Dominic Rossookh   96100
2   5   Rob Sherwood   104100
2   6   Surinder Sunar   65000
2   7   Mohammed Shoahebe   109400
3   1   Philippa Flanders   100900
3   2   Greg Hunt   135000
3   3   Roberto Romanello   91100
3   4   Kevin Oleary   17700
3   5   Ali Mallu   154500
3   6   Terence Owens   145900
4   1   Sid Harris   105000
4   2   Tony Cascarino   237300
4   3   Steve Craig   59200
4   4   Dennis Clough   91900
4   5   Tim Flanders   17900
4   6   Lawrence Gosney   56300

[snoopy1239]

The bubble may not have burst, but the onlooking crowd are still being treated to a plethora of hot poker action. Most of the entertainment is in full view on the near table, and mostly involved short-stack Kevin O'Leary and Ali Mallu. In fact, their first encounter was one writhing in controversy as Ali revealed his cards prematurely thinking Kevin was all in. Kevin had slid a large chunk of his stack across the felt, but had left just a couple of thousand behind, of which went unnoticed by Ali who swiftly announced call and flipped over .

With the crowd swamping around the table, it was ruled, eventually, that Ali wasn't allowed to bet, and the dealer was urged to deal out the . Kevin checked, and although Ali tried his very best to put the Londoner in, he was reminded that he had no choice but to check behind. The turn came a , and Kevin checked again, before a river triggered a chuckle from Kevin, and an ultimate fold.






On every hand, the players from the other two tables continually nestle towards the sole table still playing out a hand, their hands clasped in prayer as they will the bubble to burst. Unfortunately for Kevin, it was he who the masses want to fall, his shortstack going in on the very next hand.  With callers Ali Mallu and Terry Owens checking down a , the future looked bright for Kevin as he revealed a for second pair. Terry was the first man down, his close, but no cigar. Ali, meanwhile, was yet to look at his hand, and as he turned over a , the drama heightened as Kevin held his breath. Ali teased his foe, but upon finally flipping over his second card, Kevin was relieved to see it was a lowly .

"You were giving me a free slowroll there," observed Kevin and he raked in the pot.






Although he'd tripled up his stack, it wasn't long before Kevin was shoving once again, and like before, he left a little behind in the form of a single 100 chip. As with the hand prior, Kevin was going to need to topple two players, as both Ali Mallu and Greg Hunt made the call.

On the flop, Ali paused momentarily, before leading out for 5,500. Kevin didn't looked best pleased, perhaps hinting that he'd missed the flop. Greg Hunt was equally disgruntled, and after mumbling under his breath, opted for the fold.

Incredibly, Ali once again began to reveal his hand before all the chips were in the middle, Kevin O'Leary highlighting the faux pas after Ali had revealed a , but before he'd flipped over his second card. "He's done it again," laughed Kevin.

There was a brief moment of confusion while people tired to work out if Ali could bet, whether the 100 had to go in the middle, how many cards should be shown, and so on, but to save the organisers a multitude of headaches, Kevin rose from his seat, flung his sole remaining chip into the pot and turned over . In response, Ali flipped over his other card, which was the .

As Kevin gathered his belongings in preparation to leave, the Poker Gods had their wicked way with Ali, dealing out a turn and river to keep Kevin alive with a devilish backdoor straight. At this point, Greg Hunt rose from his seat fuming like petrol and roared, "Why did you bet? If you don't bet, I win, I had the five and the spade."

"Yeah, don't you understand how to collude," joked Kevin, clearly not approving of where the conversation was heading.

"It's standard practice to check it down," added Terry Owens.

"It's standard practice for Ali to do what he wants," replied Kevin.

Whilst Greg remained irate that he'd been bet out of the pot and the bubble had remained unburst, the clock ticked down and a twenty minute break began, which, judging by the tension building at the table, was probably for the best.

[NoflopsHomer]

Double up for Kevin O'Leary.

He moved in from the button and Ali Mallu made the call from the small blind flipping . Kevin O'Leary showed !

board later though and O'Leary is still on life support but much more comfortable than some of his fellow pros.



Tim Flanders has also doubled up with 9-8 on an A-9-7 board against Lawrence Gosney's J-T. As has Gareth Jones with Queens against Dfyed Price's .

[snoopy1239]

After going down to just one chip (well, okay, it was mid-hand, but still...), Kevin O'Leary has somehow avoided the bubble as the tournament is finally whittled down to 18, and thus two tables. The unfortunate victim was instead Steve Craig. Pushing with , he was looked up by the of Dennis Clough, but although the was kind, the river was as mean as a bitter traffic warden. The far table is now being broken.


Justin Devonport has doubled up courtesy of Tim Flanders, versus on an uneventful board. Tim now low once again, but at least guaranteed of a pay.


Not sure of the numbers, so they're named after world-famous updaters...

Table Snoopy:

Seat 1: Sid Harris -- 77,000
Seat 2: Tony Cascarino -- 263,000
Seat 3: Dominic Rossookh -- 99,000
Seat 4: Dyfed Price -- 85,000
Seat 5: Dennis Clough -- 109,000
Seat 6: Tim Flanders -- 21,000
Seat 7: Lawrence Gosney -- 36,000
Seat 8: Rob Sherwood -- 86,000
Seat 9: Justin Devonport -- 56,000

Table Floppy:

Seat 1: Pippa Flanders -- 46,000
Seat 2: Greg Hunt -- 113,000
Seat 3: Roberto Romanello -- 68,000
Seat 4: Kevin O'Leary -- 42,000
Seat 5: Gareth Jones -- 53,000
Seat 6: Surinder Sunar -- 75,000
Seat 7: Ali Mallu -- 156,000
Seat 8: Terry Owens -- 175,000
Seat 9: Mohammed Shoahebe -- 111,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Lawrence Gosney is OUT. Sid Harris the conqueror. Sid has since doubled up again with against Dominic Rossookh's pocket nines and seemingly running better than a Frankstein's monster-blend of Thewy and Usain Bolt.

Pippa Flanders, meanwhile is out. Ali Mallu raising once more and Pippa seemingly sick of it, went with , but the "Malluster" had and the sealed her doom.

Justin Devonport is also out pushing against Rob Sherwood's cut-off raise for not much more with only for Rob's cowboys to survive the shootout on the board. Rob also took a few chips of Sid Harris before then, button raising and then immediately announcing all-in after Sid led out on a board to which the latter quickly mucked. After a few near misses, could the Robster do it this time? Or is this the time of the Surindernator or the Mallu Express?

[snoopy1239]

Tim Flanders has doubled up yet again and displaying the fighting spirit of a Rocky/Creed battle. All in with versus the of Tony Cascarino, Tim flourished on a clinical board to increase his stack two fold.


Dyfed Price is out in 15th. He pushed his short-stack in under the gun for a rumoured 35,000, but was looked up by Sid Harris in the small blind.

Sid =
Dyfed =
Board =

[NoflopsHomer]

It's Christmas in the Sherwood house. Terrence Owens pushed on the button for 120k, but Sherwood woke up in the big blind with , dominating the Scouser's .

Rob put his hands on his head as the dealer dealt the flop saying, "If I lose this one now..."

He needn't have worried though, the board came out to give him the nut flush and suddenly Rob has shot into the join lead with Tony Cascarino.




If they continue to drop at this pace, we could be done by midnight, Blackpudlian Gareth Jones becoming the next departee and hitting the deck in 13th. With circa 35,000 in chips, Gareth pushed under the gun with , but was called, albeit after a moment or two of deliberation, by Greg Hunt's on the button. The board had about as much excitement as a trip to the station with tikay, and The Nugget was gone.