Bluesq.com GUKPT Grand Final - Day 1b

[danafish]

Continuing with Irishwatch, Rob Taylor may be in a spot of trouble soon. With a board out, Ali Mallu bet enough to put Taylor all in. The follically challenged Irishman thought about it, but eventually passed, shaking his head. He's down to just 7k.

[danafish]

No surprises and he's down to the felt... in fact the grapevine is now telling me he's OUT.

Andrew Bradshaw may be out now, but not before taking a few chips off of Ram Vaswani, who, as we understand it, is having a pretty bad run at the moment. Vaswani raised to 1.8k with and then called when the tilty Bradshaw pushed for around 7k total with , but a board briefly doubled up the crazy tilter and left the Full Tilter glum.

[JungleCat03]

Please see the end of level 6 chip counts.

Some of these will be out-dated by now (for instance ignore Flushys) though it will give you an idea of which players are currently holding sway.

Thanks to Jon Raab for these.

William Flood   59050
Stuart Nash   57250
Arshad Hussain   57125
Stephen Basri   57100
Michael Tureniec   52925
Erik Svanes   50625
Martin Green   46225
Glenn Ashworth   46050
Fuad Serhan   45700
Darshan Sami   41775
Roberto Romanello   39150
James Dempsey   38175
Michael Wernick   35200
John Rigoli   32075
Nikhil Persaud   31975
Neil Channing   31625
Robert Boon   30775
Lee Atherton   28575
Priyan Demel   28275
Ramu Vaswani   27725
Paul Foltyn   27050
Richard Ashby   26875
Padraig Parkinson   26575
Knut Rysstad   26500
Sunny Chattha   25425
Francis Egan   25175
David Callaghan   24975
James Keys   23825
Nichlas Mattsson   23600
Graham Pound   22375
Jack Baars   22350
Thomas Bichon   22325
Dinh Doat Le   20100
Bob Malin   17500
Mazhar Nawab   17100
Cecilla Borg   16200
Richard Simmonds   16075
Stephen Hill   15925
Richard Wheatley   15925
Ketul Nathwani   15650
Andrew Bradshaw   15575
Walid Salim Khalil   14100
James Moult   13150
Noel Burger   12600
Richard Stanley   12025
Frode Gjesdal   11375
Robert Taylor   11200
Adam Stoneham   11175
David Mcconnon   10300
Louise Duffy   9000
Robert Sherwood   8975
Nicholas Power   8950
Frank Cruesscallaghan   8400
Andrew Warnes   8300
Darshan Sami   8175
Stephen Devlin   7925
Nathan Lee   7750
Andy Kingan   5750
Benjamin Roberts   5725

[Djinn]

The Power Goes Out

Yes, folks, supershort Nicky Power is busto.  Sorry, fans - here's a picture I forgot I took of him earlier looking confused to help ease the pain of his exit:

[Djinn]

Also hitting the rail before the end of the seventh level of the day is Louise Duffy.  It looked like her stack wasn't overhealthy - perhaps 10-12k - but it was still a cold deck which put her Kings in the way of Gareth Jones' Aces. 

Here's Jones (I think - his ticket is sort of wedged in the table - apologies if I've got your name wrong) in the oversized pseudoaviators, clearly moved deeply by the plight of his vanquished opponent:

[danafish]

One player whose chip count has improved considerably since the last break is Pab, and some of it at least seems to have come from the stack of Roberto Romanello.

With about 20k in the pot by the river of the board, Roberto checked to Pab who bet 11.5k. A curiously silent Romanello merely attempted to stare down the impassive Pab, who stared down at the felt. Eventually Roberto folded, leaving himself on a still fairly healthy 25k. Pab, however, is up to 55k.

[byronkincaid]

Please see the end of level 6 chip counts.

Some of these will be out-dated by now (for instance ignore Flushys) though it will give you an idea of which players are currently holding sway.

Thanks to Jon Raab for these.

William Flood   59050
Stuart Nash   57250
Arshad Hussain   57125
Stephen Basri   57100
Michael Tureniec   52925
Erik Svanes   50625
Martin Green   46225
Glenn Ashworth   46050
Fuad Serhan   45700
Darshan Sami   41775
Roberto Romanello   39150
James Dempsey   38175
Michael Wernick   35200
John Rigoli   32075
Nikhil Persaud   31975
Neil Channing   31625
Robert Boon   30775
Lee Atherton   28575
Priyan Demel   28275
Ramu Vaswani   27725
Paul Foltyn   27050
Richard Ashby   26875
Padraig Parkinson   26575
Knut Rysstad   26500
Sunny Chattha   25425
Francis Egan   25175
David Callaghan   24975
James Keys   23825
Nichlas Mattsson   23600
Graham Pound   22375
Jack Baars   22350
Thomas Bichon   22325
Dinh Doat Le   20100
Bob Malin   17500
Mazhar Nawab   17100
Cecilla Borg   16200
Richard Simmonds   16075
Stephen Hill   15925
Richard Wheatley   15925
Ketul Nathwani   15650
Andrew Bradshaw   15575
Walid Salim Khalil   14100
James Moult   13150
Noel Burger   12600
Richard Stanley   12025
Frode Gjesdal   11375
Robert Taylor   11200
Adam Stoneham   11175
David Mcconnon   10300
Louise Duffy   9000
Robert Sherwood   8975
Nicholas Power   8950
Frank Cruesscallaghan   8400
Andrew Warnes   8300
Darshan Sami   8175
Stephen Devlin   7925
Nathan Lee   7750
Andy Kingan   5750
Benjamin Roberts   5725

no camel?

[JungleCat03]

Controversy!

Once again the news comes from table Flushy. Table partner Andrew Bradshaw and Ram Vaswani were also involved.

Flushy started the party off, making it 1,600 from UTG, picking up a call from Ram Vaswani who threw in a 5k chip to signify it was a call.

This is where the arguments started. Andrew Bradshaw was apparently told by the dealer "5k on you" so put in a 5k chip to call, only for Flushy to query it.

"Huh? It was only 1,600 to call so he called 1,600?" Bradshaw was not at all happy about this.

"I was told 5k so I called 5k! If I thought it was 1,600 I might have raised!" He now stood on his chair and began flailing about - a classic debating technique, oft used in the house of commons - while the floor was called.

The floor were called over and it was ruled that as the dealer told him it was 5k, his bet was a raise to 5k...

Flushy passed, a disgruntled Ram called and before the flop was dealt Andrew moved it all-in blind.

It came K-8-8 Andrew was all-in and Ram called, unsuprisingly as he had !

Bradshaw flipped over Aces and once two blanks hit the turn and river, Ram had doubled through to a more dangerous looking 25-30k whilst Andrew was down to dust with 4 or 5k.

[JungleCat03]

Flushy's stack has vacillated wildly today but always seems destined to return to the 21-22k mark.

He is on 21k presently having lost a big pot to Ram where he flopped top pair but was out-kicked by Ram's top pair.

[Dry em]

One player whose chip count has improved considerably since the last break is Pab, and some of it at least seems to have come from the stack of Roberto Romanello.

With about 20k in the pot by the river of the board, Roberto checked to Pab who bet 11.5k. A curiously silent Romanello merely attempted to stare down the impassive Pab, who stared down at the felt. Eventually Roberto folded, leaving himself on a still fairly healthy 25k. Pab, however, is up to 55k.

Did he offer to show if he passed?

[Richard Gryko]

If those facts are completely accurate, then that ruling is equally completely ridiculous. 

[Djinn]

Rollercoaster for Thomas Bichon (pictured):



His stack suddenly got a bit healthier after he dwell-reshoved over shorterstacked Noel Burger, with the pleasing which held vs. .  Then it immediately shriveled after he raised preflop, got moved in over by Roberto Romanello, called as one might with , and found Roberto on a move with .

Flop:
Turn:
River:

"I had the best hand on the turn," said Roberto helpfully, before telling him it was a race and giggling about the whole thing with neighbour Padraig Parkinson, who held the in front of his stack so convincingly the dealer nearly shipped him the pot

[Djinn]

no camel?

Oh, I think the post which would have said "The tournament field is down one Camel" got lost in the last half level.  I meant to write it, honest.  Sorry about that. 

[danafish]

It's been up and down for Ram Vaswani. Somehow down again to just 4.5k, he shoved from mid position - and the Andrew Bradshaw Tiltarama experience continued, and he called. This time, though, he was ahead.

Bradshaw:
Vaswani: er,

Board:

Ram doubles up to around 9k (which may dismay Neil Channing, who has a last longer with him as well as around half of today's field by the looks of the bit of paper he was consulting) and Bradshaw was down to just 2k.

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As it turns out, although we managed to erroneously declare him busted a little earlier on, Mr Bradshaw has now at last bitten the tournament dust.

[danafish]

A fortunate double up for Lee Atherton, who thought it would be a good idea to shove utg with and found himself called by Liam Flood holding . The board made it all ok though, and he doubled up to around 23k.