DTD Monthly £300 - Day 1

[NoflopsHomer]

More trickery from Billy Ngo.

In a limped pot, he's in the big blind and after a flop is checked around, he fires 1,200 on the turn. He gets one caller and on the river, Billy fires again, this time a valuey 1,600 and his opponent folds face up for the missed draw. Ngo shows .

Ooh, he's a cheeky chappie.

Other People Who Look To Be Kings Of Thievery Due To Copious Amounts Of Yellow 25 Chips:

Rick Trigg
Garinder Purewal (who has chopped this event twice)
Tony Salmon

[NoflopsHomer]

Chris Bruce is out. Sounds like 2-2 into Q-Q.

[Djinn]

Salmon Vies for Chip Lead...

57,000 is a pretty good stack for this stage, anyway.  Salmon just added a few more courtesy of Nicholas Marshall, whose stack has now dropped to just 8,000 (but it looks like more because it's mainly small denom).

I caught this only from the river raise - Salmon bets out 2,500 on a board of , and is raised to 7,000 by Marshall on the button.  He thinks for a little while, but makes the call, and gets that head drop, sotto voce, "One pair," while he says, "Straight," showing his and scooping in the pot.  Marshall mucks, takes a little walk of irritation, and play continues...

[Djinn]

This just in...



Free soft drinks now while playing DTD cash games!  Nice.  Kinboshi is beaming like he just won the tournament (which he didn't play).

[NoflopsHomer]

Interesting hand.

Alan Stearn raises preflop and Keith Littlejohn reraises from the button. Call. (About 8k in the pot).



Stearn open-shoves for about 27k. Littlejohn calls.

"Oh shit," says Stearn showing , Littlejohn flips .





"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!" yells Stearn, he begins to laugh, "I really thought the big bet would scare him off!"

Raj Dhiri says, "If you report this hand, people won't believe you..."

[NoflopsHomer]

Like Horneris nick, "RHareisbusto". Rich Hare really is busto. He shoved for 9 big blinds with Q-T and ran into K-K.

[NoflopsHomer]

51   Mazhar Latif
52   Richard Hare
53   James Morris
54   Nicholas Marshall
55   Geoffrey Hill
56   Andrew Murphy
57   Te Ng Cao
58   Ricky Smith
59   Christopher Bruce
60   James Buckley
61   John Sadler
62   Henry Griffiths
63   Kevin Pearce
64   Stephen Jakes
65   Anthony Nicholls
66   Kyriacos Dionysiou

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip Counts from the break.

Alan Stearn   14   9   64600
Richard Trigg   23   8   60050
Garinder Purewal   25   5   54000
Adrian Swingler   35   4   49050
Tony Salmon   23   9   47675
Keith Littlewood   14   3   46825
David Smith   12   1   38875
Thomas Jones   23   6   38775
Mark Lewis   25   2   35600
Thomas Gibson   25   9   31900
Paul Rayner   25   7   30025
Mark Stafford   25   3   29825
Sam Savile-barton   14   6   29750
Michael Millar   35   2   27025
Harprit Singh Gurnam   25   4   26975
Daniel Ward   23   4   26025
Shaun Williams   34   8   24875
Paul Garnham   34   3   24850
Andrew Booth   23   7   23575
Carl Hoefkens   35   1   23475
Waheed Ashraf   12   8   21300
Stephen Thomson   12   5   20325
David Penly   12   6   20175
Robert Bostock   34   9   19325
Neil Giblin   12   3   19100
Billy Ngo   34   7   18425
Mark Gogerty   34   1   18225
David Nisbet   34   6   17650
Jeff Sharpe   35   5   17450
Greg Hill   25   8   14600
Dylan Herbert   12   7   14500
Kevin Smith   25   1   13750
Danny Toffel   35   8   12950
Jason Wong   35   7   12750
Neil Blatchly   12   2   11275
Richard Rudling-smith   14   7   11200
Alan Wilson   34   5   10475
Antonio Dicesare   35   6   9850
Nick Carter   34   4   9125
Peter Singleton   34   2   8350
Christopher Bushell   23   1   8100
Ibrahim Ullah   12   4   7875
Gurpreet Nagi   14   5   7825
Ian Gascoigne   14   1   7300
David Jones   35   9   6600
Raj Dhiri           14   2   6200
Ralph Shalson   35   3   6125
Steve Critchley   23   5   5850
Narciso Baldo   14   4   4200
Richard Hare   12   9   3775
Mazhar Latif   23   2   3750

[Djinn]

Karabiner is OUT -

Having made a valiant bid for Climber of the Day, he abruptly fell off the rock face of Daniel Ward's Kings, with only Jacks to cling to for support.  There wasn't much getting away from it - he raised preflop, was re-raised to 5,500, pushed all in for just 1k more, got the autocall and a raggy unhelpful flop.  He'd built it back slowly, but this game can bust you in just one hand...

[Djinn]

Apology

Editorial (I mean me) would like to issue an apology to Sam Savile-Barton.  You are not who I thought you were.  Please imagine, instead of him, a slightly older gent in a suit when you read stories which feature this name up to this point.  I was going to go back and change all instances of mentioning him to the correct name, but the guy I thought was Savile-Barton is now OUT and any further detective work is beyond me at this point.  I have not had much sleep.  Forgive me, SSB.

[NoflopsHomer]

LeKnave is out, he pushed A-5 from the cut-off for 5,700 and the big blind woke up with A-J.

[NoflopsHomer]

Im considering selling all my assets to back LeKnave into any live tournament he wants, he is certainly the greatest of all time.

this also applies to Horneris







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[maldini32]

Yesterday Knave and Rich were saying they're the value in live tournaments.


I dont think they are.







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[NoflopsHomer]

Curious hand between Harpit Gurnham and Paul Rayner.

Rayner raises preflop and Gurnham along with a couple of others, makes the call.



Checked to Rayner who bets 2k. Gurnham is the only caller.



Gurnham bets 3k, Rayner calls.



Gurnham bets 3k again. Rayner raises 7k, Gurnham makes the call and I'm expecting Rayner to turn over Kings or Queens, but no, he shows , no good vs Gurnham's .

[Djinn]

Thomas Jones just got away lightly, as did Pete Singleton, in this potentially explosive but not quite hand... you'll see what I mean...

Pete limped in with AK, he tells me, only for a raise to come on his immediate left from Adrian Swingler, called by Thomas Jones.  Here are Pete and Adrian looking intense just like when this hand was playing out:



Anyway, they got to the turn cagily enough - the board read - and Adrian check-called a 2k bet.
The river:   Now Adrian bet out 3k, raised quickly to 6k by Thomas...  back to Adrian who then pushed out a 20k stack of green chips - not quite enough to cover his opponent, but enough to make it very unlikely for Jones to make a comeback should he call and lose...
"Kings?" asked Thomas.  "How much more?"  "Fourteen."  "Kings?  Show me Kings," he said, as he folded face-up.

Adrian Swingler flipped the for a raised eyebrow from happy-to-be-out-of-it Singleton and a bit of satisfaction for Thomas (pictured below):