DTD Monthly £300 Freezeout - Final Day

[Djinn]

Weird 60k pot makes its way to James Moult... Ian King opened preflop (8k, just as the blinds were about to go up to 1,200/2,400/300) - he pushed in 26k, pretty much his whole stack of green 1k chips, leaving him under 18k behind.  I was just about to note down the on-their-backs details, when King suddenly flat called.
Flop:

Here's the moment post flop where King is considering James Moult's move all in (which he must, surely, have been expecting), the pot laid in neat little rows, Moult having taken the pressure off himself somewhat by shoving as soon as it was checked to him, and now just sitting waiting for the result...



Which was that Ian King passed. 

[JungleCat03]

Wong Side Of The Coin

And almost as if it was heralded by me, the all powerful cat (er....), the quiet is broken in dramatic fashion as Tom Cairns pushes his stack over the top of a Wong cut-off raise.

He has just about enough chips to make Wong pass, but Wong had some sort of a hand and made the call with A-T...

Cairns was not in bad shape though, with a hand himself in pocket eights and now both players were forced to subvert their will to that of the poker gods to see who had been a good boy and would thus be thus permitted to run good.

Sadly for Cairns, it appeared it was he who hadn't been keeping his bedroom tidy and washing behind his ears as a ten on the flop put Wong firmly in the driver's seat and it was a position he didn't relinquish as the rest of the board blanked out, leaving a disapponted Tom Cairns to depart the tournament, his dreams of an impressive spin up from a small satellite in tatters.

Wong meanwhile, fresh from picking up his Dubai looky-likey award yesterday has added yet further to his stack and is looking better and better placed all the time...

[Djinn]

Short Stack Watch

Nope, too late for that - my photos are going to have to go on "Just Busted Watch" instead...

Just when Narciso Baldo was looking like his short stack was armoured (last saw him splitting a pot all in with vs. as the board double paired) he got it all in again with , looked up by .  This time there was no getting out of jail, and he heads off.

Also, Peter Conduit (below) was holding on gamely to a lot of small denomination chips which still only equalled half a short stack, and those went somewhere recently.  Sorry, not sure where.



In fact, the only short stack still in after I uploaded these photos is George Kennedy.  Now they're down to two tables there's a slight easing of pressure on the smaller stacks as they're no longer short handed, but still, I don't reckon the action will grind to anything like a halt until they get to the final 

[NoflopsHomer]

gl to Jim Moult.

[Djinn]

We are spoiled here at DTD with the full counts every break etc. so I thought I would give it a go actually using eyes to count chip stacks (which are changing around at a frightening rate at the moment) to sort of keep you up to date:

12   1   Dean Ellis -- 45,500
12   2   David Smith -- OUT, in dramatic fashion, with much commotion, being investigated
12   3   Te Ng Cao -- 105,000
12   4   George Kennedy -- 45,000
12   5   Hiren Kanabar -- 46,000
12   6   Paul Pitchford -- 62,000
12   7   Paul Garnham -- 42,800
12   8   Kevin Pearce -- 33,900
12   9   Nick Carter -- 130k+ - mid raking in an enormous pool of chips...

14   1   Ian King -- 50,000
14   2   Justin Davies -- 65,000
14   3   Demetrios Nikolaidis -- 26,000
14   4   James Moult -- 19,000
14   5   Matt Russell -- 67,000
14   6   Jason Wong -- 90,000
14   7   Philip Clarke -- 80,000
14   8   Ashley Smith -- 37,100
14   9   Junood Miah -- 120,000

[Djinn]

gl to Jim Moult.

bok, bok-bok-bok

[JungleCat03]

Junood Miah didn't have a massive stack a few moments ago, but his fortunes appear to have turned round courtesy of those beloved bullets poker players seem so keen on getting.

I joined the hand on the river of a 3-4-5-8-8 board, Miah's AA having conquered, and avoided the spliit outs of James Moult's A-Q.

Here he is gleefully sweeping up his new found assortment of chips at this crucial juncture of the tournament whilst a disconsolate Moult can only dream of what once was but no longer is, but yet still might be.

(If he can double through a couple of times of course...)

[Girgy85]

We are spoiled here at DTD with the full counts every break etc. so I thought I would give it a go actually using eyes to count chip stacks (which are changing around at a frightening rate at the moment) to sort of keep you up to date:

12   1   Dean Ellis -- 45,500
12   2   David Smith -- OUT, in dramatic fashion, with much commotion, being investigated
12   3   Te Ng Cao -- 105,000
12   4   George Kennedy -- 45,000
12   5   Hiren Kanabar -- 46,000
12   6   Paul Pitchford -- 62,000
12   7   Paul Garnham -- 42,800
12   8   Kevin Pearce -- 33,900
12   9   Nick Carter -- 130k+ - mid raking in an enormous pool of chips...
14   1   Ian King -- 50,000
14   2   Justin Davies -- 65,000
14   3   Demetrios Nikolaidis -- 26,000
14   4   James Moult -- 19,000
14   5   Matt Russell -- 67,000
14   6   Jason Wong -- 90,000
14   7   Philip Clarke -- 80,000
14   8   Ashley Smith -- 37,100
14   9   Junood Miah -- 120,000

Any details on this hand?

Gogogogo Nick!!

[JungleCat03]

We are spoiled here at DTD with the full counts every break etc. so I thought I would give it a go actually using eyes to count chip stacks (which are changing around at a frightening rate at the moment) to sort of keep you up to date:

12   1   Dean Ellis -- 45,500
12   2   David Smith -- OUT, in dramatic fashion, with much commotion, being investigated
12   3   Te Ng Cao -- 105,000
12   4   George Kennedy -- 45,000
12   5   Hiren Kanabar -- 46,000
12   6   Paul Pitchford -- 62,000
12   7   Paul Garnham -- 42,800
12   8   Kevin Pearce -- 33,900
12   9   Nick Carter -- 130k+ - mid raking in an enormous pool of chips...
14   1   Ian King -- 50,000
14   2   Justin Davies -- 65,000
14   3   Demetrios Nikolaidis -- 26,000
14   4   James Moult -- 19,000
14   5   Matt Russell -- 67,000
14   6   Jason Wong -- 90,000
14   7   Philip Clarke -- 80,000
14   8   Ashley Smith -- 37,100
14   9   Junood Miah -- 120,000

Any details on this hand?

Gogogogo Nick!!

Sorry none yet, we're working on it, suffice to say it was the hand that sounded the death knell for Dave Smith, whose tournament was brought to a crashing halt.

It appeared Nick had walked away from the table, facing an all-in confrontation versus Smith, only to be summoned back as he hit the required card(s) to keep him in the tournament and move his stack up to stratospheric levels.

More details as and when they arrive.

[Girgy85]

We are spoiled here at DTD with the full counts every break etc. so I thought I would give it a go actually using eyes to count chip stacks (which are changing around at a frightening rate at the moment) to sort of keep you up to date:

12   1   Dean Ellis -- 45,500
12   2   David Smith -- OUT, in dramatic fashion, with much commotion, being investigated
12   3   Te Ng Cao -- 105,000
12   4   George Kennedy -- 45,000
12   5   Hiren Kanabar -- 46,000
12   6   Paul Pitchford -- 62,000
12   7   Paul Garnham -- 42,800
12   8   Kevin Pearce -- 33,900
12   9   Nick Carter -- 130k+ - mid raking in an enormous pool of chips...
14   1   Ian King -- 50,000
14   2   Justin Davies -- 65,000
14   3   Demetrios Nikolaidis -- 26,000
14   4   James Moult -- 19,000
14   5   Matt Russell -- 67,000
14   6   Jason Wong -- 90,000
14   7   Philip Clarke -- 80,000
14   8   Ashley Smith -- 37,100
14   9   Junood Miah -- 120,000

Any details on this hand?

Gogogogo Nick!!

Sorry none yet, we're working on it, suffice to say it was the hand that sounded the death knell for Dave Smith, whose tournament was brought to a crashing halt.

It appeared Nick had walked away from the table, facing an all-in confrontation versus Smith, only to be summoned back as he hit the required card(s) to keep him in the tournament and move his stack up to stratospheric levels.

More details as and when they arrive.

Good work keep it up!

[ChipRich]

gogogo Nick Carter, win it alllllllll.

[Girgy85]

Going to bed now so can you tell Nick Carter to get it won!

Will catch up with the updates when i get up!

Cheers.

[Djinn]

A couple of hands to report, replete with showdowns (sort of) and flops, and betting, and all that good stuff...

Justin Davies limps (for the second hand running) as does Jason Wong and Philip Clarke; Ian King checks his big blind.
Flop:  Check round to Philip Clarke who bets 15k.  Ian King thinks and then calls, while the others fold.
Turn:   Check to Clarke again, who just pushes the rest in - it's a quite considerable 59,100.  King does a few of the standard "I'm concerned about this," gestures, like hands-behind-head, sighing, etc. before giving it up.

On the other table, Teng Cao (we just don't know the correct spelling of his name - should we just trust the Hendon Mob, or go with the tripartite version on the list here?  Who can say.  Probably him.  We'll ask him in the break) built back his stack after some early setbacks, but just now I saw him betting out on a board of , called by button-weilding opponent Nick Carter.
River:    Out bets Cao - 10k, instacalled by Carter.  Teng Cao gives up the ghost immediately, mucking his hand and raising an eyebrow at Nick's , which was clearly good.

[JungleCat03]

Nick Carter has seen his stack fluctuate marginally over the last few hands.

First off, he raised from UTG+1 on M3boy's blind to 10k, only for George Kennedy to dwell from late position before ultimately passing as did the Pitchford and M3boy in the blinds.

As Carter flipped over pocket Tens, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief at Kennedy passing..."I didn't want to see a flop!"

He then lost a few chips in a blind battle with Dean Ellis, paying off Ellis turned trip Queens to the tune of 4k or so...

[kinboshi]

Tell Matt 'EvilPie' Russell to get it won, and remind him of my 10% (he's probably forgotten about that).

Unlucky bookiebasher, I'm sure you're going to take one of these down very soon.