Bluesq.com GUKPT Champion of Champions Tournament

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A double up for Ketul!

Having somehow felt he could let the blinds go through him once, he finally snapped and shoved with . Richard Grace called from the big blind with , but oh! the luckiness!

Board:

Mr Nathwani back up to around the 12k mark.

[JungleCat03]

Pab has lost some chips and one of the problems facing him has been his tablemate, the famously monikered Paul Newman.

Paul watched Pab raise it up to 2,100 from early position, only to make the call from the small blind.

They went to a flop of 3-4-5 rainbow, and Paul showed him the colour of his money leading for 2,400.

Pab now made it 6.5k, sometimes a great notion but Newman is nobody's fool and immediately pushed all-in.

Small grimace from Pab, well on the road to perdition and he proceeded to get a count of how much more it was...around 15k or so.

He spread the pot, did some mental calculations but decided Paul wasn't kidding, he didn't want to sun-dance and wasn't feeling too butch.

Then he folded.

Paul Newman 1 Pabra 0.

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Mr Kevin Parkes: K-K
Mr Richard Grace: 7-7

Mr The Board: 6-Q-T-J-7

Ouch. Mr Parkes = bust.

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No sooner had he doubled up than Ketul Nathwani was back down to 6k, doubling up Darren Seed to around the 12k mark.

Seed: 6-6
Nathwani: A-3

Board: K-4-3-4-T

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After a very tiny rollercoaster of micro-double-ups, like one of those crappy little trains that the really little kids go on at theme parks, Mr Ketul Nathwani has kicked the COC tournament bucket (no COC jokes, please).

Ash Hussain raised to 2.2k from the button, and Nathwani sort of giggled at his his very few chips. "I'll see a flop and then pass," he said, and did just that -- flat call. So they saw a flop, and at that point the chips did find their way in after all.

Hussain:
Nathwani:

Turn:
River:

We are down to 20.

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A micro double up for Essy Jahanpour. Green woolly hatted Anthony Thorpe raised to 3.5k in early position, and Essy shoved for 2.6k more from the small blind. An easy call for Thorpe, and they were coinflipping.

Thorpe:
Jahanpour:

Board:

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Marc Goodwin raised to 3k from the button and big blind Ben Callinan called.

Callinan checked the flop to Goodwin, who immediately announced all in. A quiet pass from Callinan, and Goodwin showed him the ... and then the with it for two pair.

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It's playing out much more tightly than previously now as we home in on the 13 payout spots...

The last 15 minutes or so have passed with few contested pots and isolated preflop raises doing a good job of picking up the blinds.

A few moments ago, it looked like it may take off as Jerome Bradpiece raised from UTG to 3.2k, only for Ganesh Rao to dive into the tank for some time, before re-surfacing with a raise of 9.5k to 12.7k...

Jerome, who is oft compared to a good natured bear, due to his furry features had only briefly ventured out of his cave though and after blinking laconically at the sun for a moment, he folded and lumbered back inside, possibly for a short nap and some honey.

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Shortstack Robert Bostock has been sent to busto-ville and who naturally it was the deadly Pabra who sank his teeth and gave him a venial delivery of poison.

A-J was the hand in Pab's hands...er coils(?) and the A-9 of Bostock looked in bad shape and by the river, it was.

19 left...31.5k average chip stack...

[JungleCat03]

Seed-less Tournament

Many players are waiting for big hands to stick their chips in and when Darren Seed found one, he did just that.

Sadly his A-K was to run into a cooler, as Derek Miller had picked up pocket cowboys at the same time and the chips inevitably all flew into the middle.

No suprises, Miller's KK held and seed was spilt from the roster.

18 left...

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Our Final Two Tables

Five Of These Unfortunates Will Not Be Getting Paid


Table 2
1 The Pabra
2 Jerome Bradpiece
3 Jeff Kimber
4 Ben Callinan
5 Martin Knibb
6 Paul Parker
7 Paul Newman
8 Marc Goodwin

Table 3
1 Essy Jahanpour
2 Derek Miller
3 Anthony Thorpe
4 Richard Grace
5 David Rudling
6 Ash Hussain
7 Pascal Heynsen
8 Anthony Ross
9 Alan Mower

[JungleCat03]

Another hand, another drama.

This was an interesting one, as Ben Callinan popped it up to 3.6k form early position, only for Martin Knibb to ship, ship mcgipp quicker than you can say "imallin."

Back to Jerome in the big blind who had woken from his apparent slumber and after a short dwell, he counted out a small re-raise.

Facing a shove and re-raise though, Callinan was no longer interested and folded his hand, leaving Bradpiece heads up with Knibb.

Knibb : J-J
Bradpiece: A-A "I knew it" said Knibb regretfully...

A flop of did much to revive his spirits though.

"There's my jack!" he said happily as Jerome merely looked on implacably from behind his shades..

A three on the turn left him just 2 outs to redraw and when the river was a baby, Knibb had almost trebled up.

Jerome tapped the table as Knibb consoled him with a platitude of little use to the professional bear impersonator.

"It could have been worse!"

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Pab raised to 3.2k and Ben Callinan called from the big blind.

Flop:

Callinan checked, and Pab bet 4.5k. Callinan made it 12k, to which Pab responded by making it All In.

Callinan dwelled up long enough for the whole of this hand to be played out on the other table:


Alan Mower Doubles Up On The Other Table

Mower raised, and then called a reraise that put him all in from Derek Miller in the small blind. A clinical affair:

Miller:
Mower:

Board:

Thus Miller doubles up.


Now Back To Pab V Callinan

Callinan was still dwelling, but eventually made a decision -- he called.

What could they possibly have? ? ?

Er, bit of a disappointment really.

Pab:
Callinan:

Turn:
River:

Sigh.

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Ash Hussain is taking no prisoners. He raised to 4.2k from the button and was called by Pascal Heynsen in the small blind. They saw a flop, which Heynsen checked -- and on which Hussain immediately announced all in, to easily cover Heynsen, who had around 15k behind. A swift pass.

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All the evidence points to some action preflop, but when I arrived, Essy Jahanpour was checking a flop. David Rudling announced all in, Essy INSTAcalled, and it was an easy double up for Essy.

Jahanpour:
Rudling:

Turn:
River:

Essy up to around 28k, more chips than he's had all day.