Poker Stars UKIPT at DTD Days 1a, 1b

[Laxie]

norrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....ul Blatch.  Sigh.

[TightEnd]

Maria Demetriou just won a nice pot and in the process eliminated Michael Vassiliou.

She raised it up to 1,800 from utg+1, Vassiliou moved all-in from the small blind for 2,500 and big blind Sam Grafton called and Maria also called - a raise here was not possible as Vassiliou's all-in was an under raise. T

flop was 

Grafton checked, Maria bet out for 7,000 and Grafton insta-folded.

Vassiliou stood up - in the time honoured tradition of the all-in player - and said, 'You've got me haven't you?'And turned over pocket eights, Maria was well in front with pocket kings.

The  hit the turn prompting a grimace from Grafton (he folded an ace) and a whoop of delight from Demetriou, the river was a blank.

Demetriou now has just over 30,000

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exits exits exeunt stage right

 175 Victoria Coren
176 Yvonne Harrison
177 James Mahoney
178 Alan Harris
179 Richard Cashman
180 Timothy Boyle
181 Dara Okearney
182 Eyal Yunger
183 Pawel Walczak
184 Charles Denton
185 Mark Attridge
186 Alli Mallu
187 David Nunez
188 Alan Mansbridge
189 James Morris
190 Mark James
191 Neil Mackay
192 Neil Fox
193 John Patrick
194 Christopher Dash
195 Stephen Kidsley
196 Craig Oneill
197 Richard Swerling
198 James Leeson
199 Neil Blatchly
200 Paul Zimbler
201 Thomas Jones
202 Brian Martin
203 Stephen Lovatt
204 Lee Anderson
205 Adam Furze
206 Sylvester Geoghegan
207 Ryan Oconnor
208 Yonatan Basin
209 Steven Warburton
210 Andrew Hayes
211 Stephen Pearce
212 Richard Garner
213 Ernst Hermans
214 Ben Janson
215 Mark Cullumbine
216 Andrew Osayemi
217 Mark Spellman
218 James Clarke
219 Tina Bandyle
220 Simon Scobie-trumper

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New chip leader news

Joseph McCormick and Chen Yin battle. The big blind was sitting out and McCormick raised from UTG, Yin three-bet, it folded back to McCormick who four-bet, Yin then five bet shoved and McCormick called in Yin's words, 'very quickly'. No surprise really as McCormick had aces, Yin's had queen-ten and did not improve.

McCormick now has around 120,000, Yin is around 10,000.

[Q8Holds]

Gl The Rudders @@###@@@ Aka Khazi / Richard Rudling-Smith

[Shogun112]

great updating tighty

possibly a pic and updates of Miles Mckenzie/Gaz Walker/Mark Trett?

Thanks

McKenzie 35,000

Miles McKenzie, the pro golfer?

[SuperJez]

is greig mcintosh still in?

[Fluence]

Hi - a few thoughts on day 1a. I recently won a free day at a TIPS seminar with Paul Zimbler - and Liv Boeree as the guest pro. She emphasised the importance of entering satellites to get into big comps - so on Monday night I joined DTD and won a £560 entry into this event for £34. I’d never been to DTD or a tourney like this before - and with three minutes to go the excitement built as all the names and seat allocations came up on the screens - and as usual my name wasn’t there! Managers were summoned to sort out some Aussie guy waving a copy of an email saying he did in fact have a seat, and after missing a few hands I finally made it to a table.

Before all this, I had arrived very early and stumbled across a lone piece of paper on one of the empty tables stating that Nick Weathall was giving a one hour tutorial in the VIP room before the show started. I scampered off to find a starving crowd of about 20 who actually knew about this, and listened to Nick and Team PokerStars Ireland Pro Jude Ainsworth give a great seminar - and got some PokerStars goodies too. But, to quote www.ukipt.com, “unfortunately Jude went bust during level 4 when his nut flush was beaten by Daniel Sidebotham’s straight flash in one of the notable hands of the day”. Since Dumbledore had banned the use of the Petronus Curse (with so many muggles about in the card room), it’s almost impossible to beat a straight flash - unless your name is Hermonie.

I got off to a terrible start - hit full in the face with the deck - Aces three times, Kings twice, Queens, my A.J of hearts flopped three more hearts for a nut flush, my 7.8 suited made a straight and a flush, etc, etc. No one would play against me, I limped with Aces and checked to the end - and still only picked up 75 chips for the blinds! With the blinds 25-50 and a one hour clock I only managed to get an extra three to four thousand chips. Then nothing for the rest of the day, and endless stream of junk all the way to the end. But there was one proper poker player at my table - he had his hoodie pulled up over his face the whole time, cool sunglasses, iPod, serious jewlery - the lot.

And it was his turn at the end - he not only got huge cards, but he hit everything, knocking people out left, right and centre. When two new medium stacks arrived at the table in the last hour, they ended up going all-in against each other with monsters, but our hero called the two large all-ins with.....6.4 of course. Obviously the flop was 6.6.4 and two more bit the dust. So make a note ye mortals, if you ever see two solid players (with above average chips at the end of the day) go all-in -  and you look down to see 6.4, get in there my son.

Actually it was a bit boring ‘till Caroline "Mouth" Cove (as she was described earlier in this blog) turned up to play with us. Boy did that liven things up - luckily she did not perform the aforesaid ‘straight flash’ at the table.

The tournament structure is interesting, one hour blinds, eight levels and every two hours there is a 15 min break. So you start at Noon and finish at 8.45 pm. Quite civilized. A free meal voucher is provided and you have to fit your (very indifferent in my case) meal into the above structure. Coffee is £1.75 a cup - what a bloody stupid price - poor waitresses fiddling about with change at the tables while trying to balance a tray of other orders. I like to give them at least a small tip and so gave £2.50 each time - with a resulting cost of £10 for four smallish cups of equally indifferent coffee. Just don’t tell the mob at G Luton you can get the punters to pay for coffee.

So that’s it - all in all I didn’t get anywhere, but had a great day out for my 34 quid - thoroughly recommended.

tip 25p ldo ( and 5 coffees for the price of 4)

Also G Casino Luton has blackjack, roulette, and 3 card poker tables all of which make profit for the house. Casinos traditionally "comp" drinks to keep gamblers sat at tables so they can degen money to the house.

DTD is a poker club it does not not need to incentivize players to stay at tournament poker tables. We all (pretty much) want to stay there as long as we can!

[AMRN]

great tourney, great venue, and great Tighty updates...... but for £60 rake, I at least expected to be fed! Got a ticket for a free meal, but when tried to order the kitchen was closed to give the staff an "hour" rest..... two and a half hours later, they opened the kitchen again just as I was leaving.  That, and AA into QQ to bust...... god I run so good

GL to Will Young.

[buzzharvey22]

great updating tighty

possibly a pic and updates of Miles Mckenzie/Gaz Walker/Mark Trett?

Thanks

McKenzie 35,000

Miles McKenzie, the pro golfer?

naaah the little jew kid from harrogate

[outragous76]

norrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....ul Blatch.  Sigh.

norrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

ul

[Shogun112]

great tourney, great venue, and great Tighty updates...... but for £60 rake, I at least expected to be fed! Got a ticket for a free meal, but when tried to order the kitchen was closed to give the staff an "hour" rest..... two and a half hours later, they opened the kitchen again just as I was leaving.  That, and AA into QQ to bust...... god I run so good

GL to Will Young.

I thought you out was particularly unlucky Steve..  Hard luck..!!

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Chip leader Joe McCormick

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Wadey "Never without" Ashraf

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Top Gear's James May dealing the event today for a new Television series on BBC3