BlueSq.com GUKPT Grand Final - Day 2

[JungleCat03]

Boom!

Busto!

Robin Keston has been sent packing, despite being in control for much of the day with a big stack.

He even had a big stack when he busted but his aggressive play ran into the aggressive play of Eirik Svanes. Give them both a big pair and the fireworks were guaranteed to go off.

In this case it was Svanes who held the advantage, his pocket cowboys crushing the pocket ladies of Keston and with no surprises to the river, a whopping pot was shipped to the Norwegian who now has amassed a HUGE stack of 750k or so, more than double 2nd place.

Pics to come...

[Djinn]

Aloha, Dana here once again on the Cardroom Work Station:

Blind on blind, Mazarus Nawab and short stack Jim Moult saw a flop and Maz bet enough to put Moult and his sad shirt stack in -- maybe 25k. Call.

Moult:
Nawab: a rather lacklustre

Turn:

River:

"Oh no," said Maz, genuinely sorry to suck out on the unfortunate Moult. No use crying over spilt Moult though, as he's gone and we're down to 14.

[DesD]

Paul 'The Pabra' Foltyn.

[Djinn]

Aloha, Dana here once again on the Cardroom Work Station:

Blind on blind, Mazarus Nawab and short stack Jim Moult saw a flop and Maz bet enough to put Moult and his sad shirt stack in -- maybe 25k. Call.

Moult:
Nawab: a rather lacklustre

Turn:

River:

"Oh no," said Maz, genuinely sorry to suck out on the unfortunate Moult. No use crying over spilt Moult though, as he's gone and we're down to 14.

Here's Maz next to the empty seat which used to have Moult on it.  Doesn't it look like he's a bit anguished about it?  Come to think of it so does Martin Green, and he wasn't even in the hand...

[JungleCat03]

Here is Eirik being shipped that potentially tournament winning pot.



I am liking the chips!

We got a few expert commentators and players to give their reaction to this shocking elimination and super-sized pot...

Dana Immanuel - poker journalist slash musician.

What do you make of it?



Stu Rutter Poker player and professional scarf wearer.

What are your thoughts right now?

[danafish]

Excellent fortune for Guy (Don't) Steel (My Blind). Jeff Duvall raised from the button and then called the shove from Steel, and it couldn't have been better for the Not Iron Man.

Steel:
Duvall:

Board: just a hint of drama with

Double up for Steel.

[Djinn]

There has been quite a lot of action down on the last two tables in five hands, starting with:

Jeff Duval l has button.  He notes that Guy Steel, hitherto not in the habit of going in light and with a short stack is on the big blind.  So he just whacks in some yellow 5k chips, and suddenly Steel goes all in!  It's not a lot, in fact the initial raise might have had him covered, but as he turns his eyebrows go up as he sees Steel's !  Suddenly back in it, Steel has 170k, which is still short, to be fair, while Jeff Duvall had to wait about four more hands before he did bust someone...

[Djinn]

Yep, Ash Hussain's lessthan3bb go in right away and big blind Surinder calls with - against Ash's .

The flop is promising:  but the turn absolutely crushes him with the and the river pours lemon juice on his paper cut with the .

14th for Ash and £5,500 for his efforts.

[danafish]

Good fortune for Tony Cascarino too:

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Ash Hussain shoved his short stack in from the button, and Cascarino stuck his even shorter stack in from the big blind. On their backs.

Hussain:
Cascarino:

Board:

A double up to a still frankly woefully short stack for Cascarino but it's considerably better than nothing; Hussain, pretty damn short before, is now down to the absolute felt and I suspect he may be in danger of getting eaten by the antes at this stage.

[Djinn]

And now is when Duvall strikes - and takes out Martin Green in 13th place!  Green, who seemed to me to have been playing solidly all day (not in the sense of nit either) had a decent stack, and we were quite surprised to see it in preflop and a happy Jeff Duvall up against him... with the .  Green held , they did him no good and we are now down to 12.

[Djinn]

JUNGLECAT HERE:

Stu Rutter sees Richard Ashby raise to 20k from late position and re-pops to 55k...

Richard thinks about it before folding A-T face-up...

Stu shows Q-9 for a nice re-steal and has taken to wearing his scarf very aptly in the manner of a bandito!

Go Stu the bandit!

[Numpty Dumpty]

JUNGLECAT HERE:

Stu Rutter sees Richard Ashby raise to 20k from late position and re-pops to 55k...

Richard thinks about it before folding A-T face-up...

Stu shows Q-9 for a nice re-steal and has taken to wearing his scarf very aptly in the manner of a bandito!

Go Stu the bandit!

sickhead. go stu! any chance of a count?

[DesD]

A concerned and short stacked Ash Hussain, on the bubble. 

[Djinn]

I said the barometer of Jeff Duvall was going up slowly but continually - with the occasional flood of chips recently building his now nearly 500k stack.  I still tip him for the final, only much less tentatively than this afternoon.  Go Jeff Duvall!  I would like to see him and Eirik Svanes play on the final... especially now that Henning has come over and outed Svanes as a cash game player who's...

"The worst at tournaments in Norway.  Isn't that right?"
"Hmm?" goes Svanes interrupted from the table by grinning Henning.
"You are actually the worst tournament player in Norway!"
At this the sanguine mainly fairly expressionless Svanes grinned suddenly and laughing agreed.

Then he went back to looking at his 750k:



While Duvall with his 500k stack just reraised out of the small blind getting Surinder, who's not comfortably stacked any more, to pass and give up his button raise.  Note how neither player in this hand will look the other in the eye...

[Djinn]

Blind on blind, Eirik Svanes raised and Stuart Rutter called.

The flop:

Swanes bet out 28.8k and Rutter flat-called.

Onwards to the turn:

Cagey check, cagey check.

And finally the river:

Swanes fired out 44k followed by an INSTAcall from Rutter, who turned over for trips. A nod and a muck from Svanes, and Rutter is up to 240k.