BlueSquare.com GUKPT Walsall - Day 1A

[snoopy1239]

He might not be chip leader, but Josh Tyler would like to think he is at least captain of his table.



The only thing Dave Colclough will be captaining, however, is the next day outing at the mental institute.

[snoopy1239]

A couple of double ups. Firstly MZ Hussain shooting up to 8,000 with queens v threes all in preflop, and then Jimmy Morgan with aces versus K-Q on a queen high board. Morgan now on 15.500.

[snoopy1239]

A short-stacked Dave Smith is now so short-stacked that he doesn't actually have any chips. His tournament life was left hanging by a thread when he pushed all in with 8-9 versus K-K, and although he had a gutshot straight draw on the 5-Q-J flop, and a chance for a split pot when a fourth diamond came with the two on the turn, no such luck emerged on the jack river, and he was gone.

[snoopy1239]

Players are now on a break, but five minutes before they dispersed, I noted some of the chip leaders:

Jerome Bradpiece -- 53,000



Marcus Bebb-Jones -- 52,000



Dan Carter -- 42,000



James Akenhead -- 40,000



Also not too far behind are Josh Tyler, Tony Phillips and Martyn Cavanagh.

[snoopy1239]

Right Said Rabb. Certainly not too sexy for their shirts, and their shirts aren't even sexy.

[sweepstr]

good luck to the excellent dan carter.so unlucky not to make the final in dortmund ept when his qq lost to mr mateys rerer with a2. Ackeep going martyn cavanagh.

[Dry em]

Players are now on a break, but five minutes before they dispersed, I noted some of the chip leaders:


James Akenhead -- 40,000

gg rest of field

[snoopy1239]

I joined the action with the board reading Ah, 13,000 in the pot, and 9,500 lying in front of Martyn Cavanagh. The decision lay on Trevor Reardon, someone who never makes a rash decision. On this occasion, he looked tortured, his head resting in his hand as he mulled over a seemingly taxing decision. After asking Cavanagh how much he had back (10,000 was the answer), Reardon abruptly grabbed a column of high denomination chips and plonked them across the line, as if to say, "Fuck it, let's dance". But his expression soon turned sour as Cavanagh flipped over for the flopped flush. Reardon tried to muck into his cards, so it was clear he was drawing dead, but the dealer turned them over anyhow to reveal , thus making the river academic. In fact, I won't even tell you what that river was. How do you like that?

Reardon now down to his starting stack after that recent misstep.

[snoopy1239]

Chippies from the last break:

Marcus Bebb-Jones   56100
Jerome Bradpiece   55825
Ben Vinson   50400
James Akenhead   45075
Joe Grech   42800
Dan Carter   40800
Kevin Ho   38025
Trevor Reardon   37350
Arjanit Kondaj   34175
Guy Steel   33075
Tony Phillips   30800
Josh Tyler   30275
Andy Miles   30225
Tim Flanders   29375
Kashir Haq   29275
Matthew Roberts   26600
Martyn Cavanagh   26000
Jon Kalmar   25650
Michael Greco   24875
Kerry Taylor   24325
Darren Hickman   23875
Robert Price   22050
Trevor Pearson   21325
Jim Reid   20175
Dave Colclough   19775
Mike Ellis   19750
Nick Gibson   18450
Richard Dawson   18450
Mark Dalimore   18100
Jeff Hemmerman   16150
James Morgan   15625
Ash Pervaiz   15475
Matthew Mckinlay   15400
Iwan Jones   15075
Pippa Flanders   14825
Christopher peter Johnson   13625
Dave Welch   13125
Paul Ruddy   12100
Jerome O'Shea   11775
David Maudlin   11650
Shiv Kumar   11075
Andrew Clarke   10825
Steve Jelinek   10450
Andreas Hoivold   9850
Karl Fenton   9350
Julian Thew   8700
Steven Watts   8450
Matthew Eiler Gadsden   8025
David Birtles   7150
MZ Hussain   7125
Rob Reece   5925

[snoopy1239]

"Good luck, boys," said James Morgan as he shook his assassin's hand. The board read when I was alerted to the all-in, Morgan's in trouble against Jim Reid's . "Pair the board," he pleaded, but alas, to no avail, as the river came a very raggy to give Reid the pot.

On another table, we also lost Guy Steel.

[sweepstr]

good luck to jeff hemmerman (football legend down our way) now physio,iwan jones and martyn cavanagh from everyone down cardiff bay casino as ive been instructed to say.

[snoopy1239]

Julian Thew has doubled up courtesy of Pippa Flanders with aces versus A-K. I'm unsure of Yoyo's count as he's still stacking his booty, but I can report that Flanders has dropped to 12,000.

[AlexMartin]

gl dan carter and tony phillips.

[Demios]

I will be there tomorrow, cannot wait!

[snoopy1239]

In what was surely the biggest pot of the night, Nick Gibson (UTG) and Marcus Bebb-Jones (small blind) found all the chips launching in on a flop, both players forced to clench their exit hole with and respectively. Possibly focused on avoiding a heart it was the bullet that came, the turn being followed by an river to give Gwibbo a potentially chip leading pot. With 57,000 he's certainly up there, but will still have to keep a careful eye out for any creepy hands stealing his nicotine inhaler.