Bluesq.com GUKPT Grand Final - Day 1b

[Djinn]

Michael Hill was just eliminated in pretty harsh fashion by Robert Boon after a preflop raisefest led to an autoallin after the flop...

But to back up - Dinh Le raised to 600 preflop, reraised by Boon to 2,100.  Over to Hill who fourbet to the tune of 5,200 - exactly half his stack.  Le was no longer interested, but Boon called.

Flop: .  Straight away Hill moved all in for 5,200.  After a very brief think, Boon called.  On their backs!
Hill:
Boon:

Turn:

River: 

And an unlikely running fourflush sends Boon out with a bang.
ouch!

[JungleCat03]

Another exit.

Joe Grech has just been Mallu-ed.

He made a big raise preflop with Q-Q, only to find a willing caller in Ali.

The flop fell jack high with two clubs and when Joe bet out 2.2k and Ali made it 5k, Joe moved all-in, called by Ali with for the flush draw.

The Queen on the turn gave Joe top set but also opened up a straight draw possibility and incredibly the fell on the river to complete Mallu's straight and eliminate Joe.

That pot has fired Any Two Mallu up the leaderboard with what is likely to be 35-40k now.

[danafish]

We are down to a single Romanello in today's field, after he got it most of his chips in on a coinflip.

Antoni raised to 500 from the button and Maz Nawab called from the small blind - but big blind Abed Eid reraised all in for around 11k. Romanello took some time about it, but eventually reshoved for not much more. Maz folded, and they were on their backs.

Romanello:
Eid:

"If you wanna win, you've gotta call," philosophized the Welshman. Indeed, but a queen on the flop and a notable lack of jacks or any other of Antoni's outs on the board meant that he was down to just 1,450.

All in the next hand, he was ahead with A-Q against Padraig Parkinson's 3-5 suited, but a five on the board, and he was heading for the rail. Chances of a Romanello win at this tournament = noticeably slimmer than earlier today.

[Colchester Kev]

Best pic on the updates ever FACT !!!

 

[Djinn]

Flushy was looking smug about this so I almost couldn't bring myself to write it, but it was pretty entertaining so here goes:

Sunny Chattha limps in late position (for 200).  Small blind Ali Mallu raises to 700.  Big blind James Dempsey calls.  So does Chattha.
Flop:   Check from the preflop raiser, so Flushy bets 1,200.  Chattha folds, but Mallu ch-raises by a further 3,600.  Undaunted, Flushy calls.
Turn:   Mallu checks again, Flushy makes a (weak, or 'seeming weak' I get so confused sometimes) 4,200 bet and Mallu passes what he says was Eights.
Flushy shows him the which apparently had a to go with it.  His neighbour punches him on the arm and says, "You just can't help yourself can you?"

[JungleCat03]

And it was Flushy who admitted his pwning to me just a moment ago.

Jim Moult just popped it up to 600 on the button, called by Mallu, before Flushy re-popped to 1,800, holding 9-T.

Back to Jim he now repopped it  to 4.5k, only for Flushy and Mallu to both fold.

Jim showed T-8 in a slick re-move.

"Why couldn't he have J-8! I was dominating him. Sick!" said Flushy jovially as Jim laughed heartily at getting one over on him.

[danafish]

Let's Hear It For The Layyyy-Deeeeezzzz

Er, actually there are only two of them playing today. Poor show, imo. Anyway, here they are.


Louise Duffy:

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Cecilia Borg, possibly a friend of Fran"Terminator Eye" Egan:

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And for no reason other than that there's something very pleasing about things coming in threes, Dealer Of The Day: Ms Dena Hassan:

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[Nico29]

Any idea how james keys is doing please?

[Djinn]

And while a heated argument breaks out over a last minute ruling here, they head off on a 40 minute break for dinner, if they did not avail themselves of the food bowls, or just to hang out and talk about poker, probably, if they did. 

[Rozza1]

Could there be a less flatering top to make the dealers wear?


 Dena Hassan:

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[danafish]

Any idea how James Keys is doing please?

James Keys doesn't look to have progressed terribly high in chips - Jen said he was on about 9,000 at last check but there should be full counts coming from the Main Break any minute now.

[JungleCat03]

Dinner break over, the players are back at it again!

Lots of questions will be answered in the following levels...

Can Flushy hang onto a stack?

Will Pab play another hand before christmas?

Can Romanello no 2 (Roberto) avenge his brother?

All these and more questions will be answered shortly!!

[JungleCat03]

Chip counts, courtesy of Jon Raab. Thanks Raaby!

Liam Flood   52000
Nikhil Persaud   46025
Stuart Nash   43800
Alli Mallu   38700
Robert Boon   38675
James Dempsey   34925
John Rigoli   34925
Bob Malin   33575
Martin Green   32525
Michael Wernick   32525
Michael Tureniec   30325
Arshad Hussain   29875
Stephen Basri   29825
Robert Sherwood   29725
Andrew Bradshaw   27650
Paul Foltyn   27425
James Moult   27100
David Callaghan   24175
Sunny Chattha   24025
Nathan Lee   23100
Lee Atherton   21800
Edward Cahill   21600
Francis Egan   21575
Keith Hawkins   20825
Richard Sudworth   20400
Thomas Bichon   20300
Noel Burger   20150
Jack Baars   18900
Graham Pound   18675
Abed Eid   18300
Padraig Parkinson   18075
Darshan Sami   18050
Richard Simmonds   18025
Glenn Ashworth   17850
Fuad Serhan   17225
Henning Granstad   16875
Richard Ashby   16675
David Powell   16500
Knut Rysstad   16325
Neil Channing   16275
Ketul Nathwani   15725
Ramu Vaswani   15675
Steven Watts   15625
Marty Smyth   15450
Erik Svanes   15025
Willie Tann   14650
Curtis Ledger   14575
Nichlas Mattsson   13725
Louise Duffy   13500
Jonathan Kalmar   13475
Julien Legros   13325
Roberto Romanello   13225
Stephen Devlin   12800
Frode Gjesdal   12650
Frank Cruesscallaghan   12625
Mazhar Nawab   12575
Andrew Warnes   12250
Adam Stoneham   11975
Richard Wheatley   11875
Nicholas Power   11375
Cecilla Borg   11350
Benjamin Roberts   10900
Priyan Demel   10875
Jeffrey Burke   10850
Nick Jenkins   10550
Stephen Hill   10450
Dinh Doat Le   10000
Andy Kingan   9500
Adam Vinson   8600
Robert Taylor   8000
Gareth Jones   7775
Richard Stanley   6800
Walid Salim Khalil   6350
James Keys   6200
David Mcconnon   6125
Espen Hagen   4775
Stuart Fox   4750

[danafish]

Willie Tann is no more. He found his way into a hand against Ash Hussain and got all his chips in on the river of the A-T-T-rag-rag board holding A-Q -- but Ash had flopped a rather nice full house with A-T and moves into Official Chip Leader Position (according to me) on 55k, while Willie's had his hide Tanned and heads towards the cash game.




Happy Hussain:

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[Djinn]

Mr. Ledger aka Curtis aka Sheriff Fatman just busted to Eirik Svanes, who if you couldn't tell by the name and the dapper exterior is a Scandie, also has one of those mysterious round tins of snus (those teabags full of tobacco) by the rail next to him...

The Sheriff raised preflop, which involved announcing a bet which I think was 1,200 and throwing in his last remaining 5k chip (his total stack around 6k).  Over to Svanes who reraised to 3,600 and before you could say, "Race!" he was all in and called.  Sheriff's vs. Svanes' .  The came straight away on the flop, and with no more drama we're down another blonde and to 68 players in total.