DTD Monthly £300 Freezeout - Day 1 - Interactive

[Djinn]

Tracey Dell, giggling as per, motions me over to her table.  "See the table next to us," she says, about to let me in on something, "That guy looks like Gazza."  I peer round, but can't really see what she's talking about.  "Oh, I didn't mean Gazza, I meant David Beckham."



I am repasting this photo, and the guy on the right, Carl Hoefkens, is the one she was talking about.  He's in the running for Hoody of the Day, but only because of the lining.  Check that baby out:

[boldie]

Get Red to describe the action in that hand, will ya guys?..He must have had Quad Jacks there.

[NoflopsHomer]

I am repasting this photo, and the guy on the right, Carl Hoefkens, is the one she was talking about.  He's in the running for Hoody of the Day, but only because of the lining.  Check that baby out:

He wore the same clothes in Bolton yesterday, so it's probably Smelly Hoody of the Day...

[JungleCat03]

Jen may be mocking my elementary maths skills, but what she failed to realise was I factoring in a tip. Honest.

Anyways, how about an update from that bastion of blondepoker Mr Tony Kendall himself. Finding Kings, he popped it up to 200, only to receive SIX callers.

"...which was great" he added sardonically.

The flop popped out a draw heavy 6-7-9 with two hearts and Tikay wasn't interested in betting just yet with his Kings.

"Thought I'd see the turn before putting any chips in..." he told me, which is no doubt eliciting a chuckle from Mr Rosbif, Flushy himself. The rest of the table also elected to check this.

The turn fell a rather frightening completing any flush or straight draws that happened to be lurking.

Back to the man himself...

"Well with no hearts i checked and it went bet, call, call, call ,call so I folded them. Got out cheap for only 200!"

The winner of the hand was ultimately the form man of DTD, Mr. Richard Berridge. Tony was bemoaning Richard's early good fortune.

"He's had THREE straights you know!"

All I can say is despite his Kings being cracked, Tikay's looking mean!!!

[Djinn]

Hi Snoops + Jen.

Lots of James "The Atkinator" Atkin updates please

Here's your enfant terrible, just busted...

"Three hands determined my tournament life," he said.  And they were:  Starting with a which flopped top pair against an under the gun preflop limper, and as the board progressed raggy, he ended up losing about 3k to A-J.

Then Ah hit a board enough to get a good few chips from him as Anthony Nicholls AND another player were clearly interested - the small blind third player check-raising the flop to 1,200 and taking both others with him.  James gave up by the time the river paired with the , but Tony flat called the other's final bet with which had been sucked out by ...

Finally, it was a pair:  which called a button raise preflop with a couple of others only to flop an un-get-awayable 5-7-8.  Queens weren't going anywhere, and he's eyeing up the £50 comp 

[Djinn]

Can you say 'multiway'?

I think when the smoke cleared at the end of this frankly ridiculous hand the exiter was Stuart Hopkin, but I only got there towards the end as an excitable Tikay came to let us know that six limpers had all called a preflop raise to 400... The raiser was presumably Nathan Ticehurst, who, with was one of the two players to get his stack in on a flop.  The other was Hopkin, whose had done fairly well out of the first three cards. 
Turn: 
River:    (and while I originally thought Hopkin held Fives and was surprised to see the pot going to Ticehurst) ..."Got there in the end," he said, somewhat apologetically, with the shrug of someone counting their nice new stack regardless.

[JungleCat03]

Sad to say that Dingdell is more busto than the eggshells used to make the omelette Jen is currently  stuffing her face with.

A victim of Kings versus Aces, she couldn't get away and departs at this early stage, disappointed but wearing her omnipresent beaming smile as she wended her way to the nearby cash tables.

Incidentally vis-a-vis Jen's omelette, as she was hunched over ravenously devouring her meal like a starving wolf presented with a freshly roasted chicken, I enquired gently, although somewhat foolishly if I could taste a bit.

What turned round to confront me was no longer Jen the mild mannered updater but some insane, murderous denizen of hades, charged with protecting its horde of sustinence whatever the cost.

I won't be asking again!

Here is the demonic, caticidal killer herself...

[Djinn]

The Layout of DTD currently, minus the early casualties:

11   1   Robert Forrest
11   2   Kevin Pearce
11   3   Ricky Smith
11   4   Tom Cairns
11   5   Frances Creed
11   6   Stuart Langford
11   7   Andrew Wilson
11   9   Matt Russell

12   1   Scott Genever
12   2   Robert Ballou
12   3   Andrew Woods
12   4   George Kennedy
12   5   Thomas Walters
12   6   Paul Pitchford
12   7   Nichiei Hicks
12   8   Joanne Hyde
12   9   Stephen Brogan

14   1   Phillip Toomer
14   2   Justin Davies
14   3   Scott Marsh
14   4   Raj Dhiri
14   5   John Maddison
14   6   Narciso Baldo
14   7   Pat Kelley
14   8   Jason Wheatley
14   9   Junood Miah

15   1   Nathan Ticehurst
15   2   Richard Berridge
15   3   Lee Rawson
15   4   David Nisbet
15   5   Christopher Moore
15   6   Paul Garnham
15   7   Anthony Kendall
15   8   John Sadler
15   9   Khalid Akram

22   1   Craig Stewart
22   2   Neil Giblin
22   3   Daniel Byrom
22   4   Peter Conduit
22   5   Waheed Ashraf
22   6   Debbie Fox
22   7   Barrie Sherbert
22   9   Te Ng Cao

23   1   Jason Bates
23   2   Dean Ellis
23   3   Sarbjit Kular
23   4   Simon Lee
23   5   David Louden
23   6   Alan Stearn
23   7   Rob Allen
23   8   Antonio Dicesare
23   9   Nicholas Watchorn

25   1   Trevor Pearson
25   2   Martin Jarvis
25   3   Nick Carter
25   4   Paul Macgregor
25   5   Ralph Shalson
25   6   Stephen Hill
25   7   Julian Lefevre
25   9   Gurpreet Nagi

32   1   Daniel Walker
32   2   Keith Swain
32   3   Chintu Pattani
32   4   John Perrin
32   5   James Moult
32   6   Maurice Nicholson
32   7   Sean Breslin
32   8   Andrew Stewart

33   1   Scott Thacker
33   2   Lee Nayler
33   3   Chris Cancelliere
33   4   Mark Stafford
33   6   Daniel Ward
33   7   Thomas Mccready
33   8   Mojid Khan
33   9   Mazhar Latif

34   2   Sadikiah Tapper
34   3   Ashley Smith
34   4   Marcus Bebb-jones
34   5   Chin Chai Koh
34   6   Neil Blatchly
34   7   David Smith
34   8   Philip Clarke
34   9   Liaquat Javed

35   1   Demetrios Nikolaidis
35   2   Leon Rovira
35   3   Carl Hoefkens
35   4   Kyriacos Dionysiou
35   5   Mark Lewis
35   6   Alan Stokes
35   8   Jack Serghi
35   9   Jason Wong

36   1   Ian King
36   2   Mark Roberts
36   3   Christopher Bruce
36   4   Yucel Eminoglu
36   7   Paul Rayner
36   8   Hiren Kanabar
36   9   Gamal Mosleh

[Djinn]

While some tables are combusting with the usual sorts of fireworks, others seem to have a more laissez-faire attitude, with the players conserving their energy by not paying so much attention to the action, or just sort of focusing with resigned expressions on the middle distance. 

E.g.  Tom Cairns, Fran Creed, Stuart Langford



Meanwhile on the rail but just this moment summoned to a cash game Daniel 'Kinboshi' Philips reminds us that poker players are allowed facial expressions.



And also, presumably allowed to pose like they're in a Gap Advert.

[WarBwastard]

Is that 14 year old Olympic 8th placed diver Tom Daley raking in a pot?

Click to see full-size image.

[JungleCat03]

Nick Hicks has got himself off to a less than auspicious start, his stack dwindling down to 7k or so, partly as a result of running into Aces twice already! Snickers, he probably thought as he spied another pair of bullets trained on his stack.

The latest hand to create a dent in his stack involved him betting out with A-J on a flop, only to receive a flat call and now a check raise. He decided he didn't like this spot so laid it down, though when the check raiser bet out big on the turn and lost his only customer he was denied the opportunity to see if he was right.

Perhaps he got away from yet ANOTHER pair of bullets!

Here is Nick, down a few chips but still full of beans. Maybe a redbull would help sir...

[Djinn]

Two of the biggest names here - Kyriacos Dionysiou and Demetrios Nikolaidis clash, which attack sees Greek Jack stacked...

Jack limped for 150, as did John Perrin, and then button Jason Wong upped it to 1,250.  Interestingly, small blind Demetrios Nikolaidis as well as the two limpers called and saw a flop:    It checked round, bringing the on the turn.  Check to Greek Jack, who made it 3k to go, with only Nikolaidis calling this time.
River:    Check to Greek Jack once again, who plonked in the rest of his stack - 6,500.  He was called, albeit after some deliberation, by Nikolaidis (pictured) who showed and picked up the big pot and emptied seat 5.

[Djinn]

BLUFF ALERT



A 9k pot goes to Daniel Walker (top) after a ballsy 3,500 bet on the river with the board standing .  He left himself just 2,050 behind, which sent his opponent Andrew Woods (the guy leaning forward in consternation in the bottom photo) with a clearly unpleasant decision.  He took a long time to pass, during which Walker just sat there, hoody lowered like the Evil Emperor in Star Wars, and calmly waited until Woods passed.  When he showed him the busted flush draw .

[JungleCat03]

Tikay is buzzing now and I encountered a unique situation that rarely occurs when speaking to Tikay about his progress. He gave me an accurate chip count!

Wowzer. Normally Tikay will make bold and highly fallacious claims about his stack but on this occasion his pride was shining through as he showcased the glistening and very real 16,000 chips he has accumulated thusfar.

Much of this was down to a fortuitous flop where 4 people limped on his big blind, he checked his option with and the dealer laid out a splendid flop.

Nice to flop the nuts with a redraw eh!

Paul Garnham aka M3boy was one of the players to donate some chips this hand, in a spicy battle where he was unable to force Tikay off the nuts. Some players just can't fold eh?

Anyway I was buoyed by Tikay's rare show of veracity and I began to leave the table with a rnew found optimism and feeling of love for mankind before he stopped me dead in my tracks...

"Oh, but tell blonde I have 35,000 ok?"

Cynicism mode restored. Faith in humanity>>>>recycle bin.

Tikay has crushed my renewed spirit of hope like a quaver under a jack-boot. Here he is simultaneously boasting about his giant stack to red dog whilst holding in his stomach to appear more attractive.

Does it work?

[Djinn]

Incognito star of screen?  Note, if you will, the gent in the white hat on Red-Dog's table.  Note too, if you will, his uncanny resemblance to porn star Ron Jeremy.  Ooh-la-la.

Ron Jeremy



Lee Nayler