DTD Monthly £300 - Day 1

[Djinn]

Unnoticed until, oddly, right when this wince-inducing hand was played lay none other than Ali Mallu.  As soon as I got ready to snap the ubiquitous and dangerous living poker randomiser, his chips were over the line in the small blind after Fran Creed had raised and been called by the button.  She called pretty fast, and the button got out of the way:

Fran:
Ali Mallu:

Flop:
Turn:    "Don't do it to me," murmurs MissC as the possibility of the flush draw pops out...
River:

A sad Fran is just covered in chips, and walks away from the table, back to the table and away more permanently having suffered what many before her have.  Mallu's feathers aren't even slightly ruffled, though, pulse barely risen at the prospect of busting, nor at accomplishing the outdraw.  Peaceful.

[NoflopsHomer]

Can you give me a chip count for Brendan Pedley pls ?

About 15k when I checked.

[sugar]

Thank's

[Josedinho]

Just got in from a day at the rugby. Can you tell me how Jack Stokes is doing if you get chance please?

[Djinn]

Table 27 appears to be busting its members more frequently than many of the others - in just five minutes of rail hovering in its vicinity two players hit the felt and made way for new faces (who don't look delighted by some of the stacks growing on there).  Latest casualty - Con Cronin, pictured in red kit next to James Williams (who's one of the decent stacks >25k). 

Garish Hat of Day:



He - Cronin - had apparently been involved in a bit of banter with boisterous Sadikia Tapper, whose chips are even healthier on around 36,000.  "He's easy to get going," confides Tapper, before sharing some blow-up stories and pausing to call after Con Cronin, "Tell me what the weather's like on the way back to Brum!"

Jovial Wind-up Merchant:

[NoflopsHomer]

Rich Hare is out.

Tom Rutter is on a nice 45k stack or so. A double with sixes vs A-K before he got it all-in with A-A against Alex Martin's A-K. The table has got a bit more interesting now though with Sam Trickett and Dave Jones moving in to his left.

Rick Trigg has lost about 7k to Peter Baird after the latter rivered a Queen in an A-K/A-Q battle. He's still on around 30k.



[  ] I didn't nick the idea of this photo from Maria.

[Djinn]

30 Min Break

It looks, amazingly, like Pete Linton has made it to another dinner (or snack, tea, whatever) break as CL with 55k.  His table, though, isn't all that far behind - there are big stacks on all corners and more chips on Table 34 than probably two average tables tonight.  Earlier it looked like Michael Millar would be the one treading on Linton's toes, but with only a few thousand above average at the end of level 10 (c.25k) he's behind Darren Hodson (43,000) and Ken Wheatley (38,000) both also on his table (pictured). 

[NoflopsHomer]

Maria is out. A-K vs 3-3 then A-9 vs Tom Rutter's K-Q. Quick and brutal.

Tom Rutter -- 50k
LeKnave -- 25k
Montadoo -- 32k
Julian Thew -- 16k

[NoflopsHomer]

Flight 815 Bound to Bustoville.

212   Maria Demetriou
213   Victor Corbett
214   David Welch
215   James Moult
216   Chris Strickland
217   Lloyd Griffiths
218   Christopher Pye-smith
219   Richard Hare
220   Zafar Aslam
221   Alan Gray
222   Athanasios Venizelos
223   Liaquat Javed
224   Carl Williams
225   Connachie Jordan
226   David Gunter
227   David Oakton
228   Shojun Miah
229   Andrew Miles
230   James Hoyes
231   Chris Saleh
232   Paul Newman
233   Ben Turnstill
234   Jason Brown
235   Imran Mckenzie
236   Michael Wernick
237   Frances Creed
238   Brian Reid
239   Sean Farrar
240   Anthony Kennedy
241   Gareth Rees
242   Marcus Bebb-jones
243   Andy Cradock
244   Anon
245   Cornelius Cronin
246   Michael Panayiotou
247   Denis O Mahoney
248   Sean Hart
249   Ladan Lundon
250   Chris Baylis
251   Raj Dhiri
252   Raj Shina
253   Stephen Holden
254   David Colclough
255   Chin Chai Koh
256   Alistair Carins
257   Steven Watts
258   Ismail Yusuf
259   Lawrence Gosney
260   Paul Kelly
261   Edward Roger
262   Alan Wilson
263   Steven Mahony
264   Nichiei Hicks
265   Darshan Sami
266   Richard Mckay
267   Kuljinder Sidhu
268   Will Mitchell
269   Te Ng Cao
270   Sohrab Tavakkolee Tazehabadi
271   Paul Rayner
272   Tina Ainsworth
273   Peter Singleton
274   James Mitchell
275   Josefine Forssberg
276   Peter Evans
277   Stephen Davies
278   Colin Mccreadie
279   Hassan Irfan
280   Tuan Le
281   Martyn Frey
282   Stephen Eames
283   Peter Wilson
284   Kevin Noble
285   Richard Horton
286   Jason Lam
287   Tony Salmon
288   Nigel Griffiths
289   Philip Mccall
290   Terry Fletcher
291   Dave Duncan
292   Georgios Frangeskou
293   John Hammond
294   Waheed Ashraf
295   John Exley
296   Glyn Cooke
297   Keiran O Leary
298   Yuxin Li
299   Robert Patrick
300   Tony Harman
301   Darren Sprengers
302   Dominic Cullen
303   Vinh Ly
304   Tommy Bingham
305   Mark Herron
306   John Phillipson
307   John Conroy
308   Steve Vine
309   Andrew Woods
310   David Lloyd
311   James Brunskill
312   David Whitehouse
313   David Louden
314   Steve Denham
315   Simon Deadman
316   Neil Wyatt
317   Kevin Parkes
318   Daniel Brown
319   Anthony Phillips
320   Byron J Sugars
321   Steven Pearce
322   Jack Desborough
323   James Hart
324   Robert Cowen
325   Jed Tribe
326   Kendra Agnew
327   Marvin Lee
328   Tom Nearney
329   Andy Bacon
330   George Georgiou
331   Ben Martin
332   Mathew Miners
333   Shirley Lacey
334   Joe Whittaker
335   Ben Vinson
336   Carl Williams
337   Piotr Koplin
338   Nadim Sarwar
339   Ghassan Chehbi
340   Orlando Anderson
341   Michael Stuart
342   Panayiotes Tsiolas
343   Craig Waddington
344   Joe Stevenson
345   Harry Dunnell
346   Dominic Rossookh
347   Robert Woodcock
348   Harish Chandarana
349   Shamil Patel
350   Shaun King
351   Colin Young
352   Charalambos Raouna
353   Julian Lefevre
354   Richard Berridge
355   John Deeley
356   Andrew Oflaherty
357   Eddie Lundon
358   Karen Hough
359   Harprit Singh Gurnam
360   Anthony White
361   Jon Hewston

[Djinn]

Just got in from a day at the rugby. Can you tell me how Jack Stokes is doing if you get chance please?

Is this your man?  If so he's on a perfectly respectable 14,500.

[Tonji]

great job floppy & jen 

gl to the blondes still in

[fishkiller]

hi can you please let me know how nicolas mclellan is doing? thanks

[NoflopsHomer]

Short break. Saw Tim Blake who simply rolled his eyes as I noted his 6k stack or so, looks like it's been a tough and grindy day.

[Djinn]

These people are still in too:

Steve Jelinek - 13,700
Ali Mallu - 27,000
Jonathan Spinks - 28,350
Raymond Norton - 26,000

Also sat on the same table are now three of the probably fewer-than-six ladies still in the tournament.  Suzanne Gilbert (seat 2; hat; 9,000), Paula Agnew (seat 3; excellent spur-of-moment grinning; 10,175) and Kim Bain (seat 5; designer-wallpaperesque shirt and cool glasses; 8,200).  I only recognise from previous updates about a quarter of the female contingent of the field, and I take this as an excellent sign for the growing numbers of female players.  Women lurkers - get to DTD for the next one- it's fun.

[NoflopsHomer]

Me to Mad Turk, "Are you still in?"

Mad Turk, "Yes."

Me, "How?"

Mad Turk, "I have no idea. Me and Colchester Kev are the two best players in the world, but I am, I think, slightly better than him."

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