DTD Monte Carlo £250,000 GTD: Day1a

[TightEnd]

Hello and welcome to the live update of the DTD Monte Carlo

£1,000 NLHE, guaranteed prize pool of £250,000

30,000 starting chips, one hour clock..and four days ahead of us in Nottingham

[TightEnd]

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[TightEnd]

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[TightEnd]

Play begins at 2pm. To give you an idea of who might be playing today


We have

Mr James Dempsey, fresh I gather from a run in with the traffic police in Nottingham last night

Mr Chris Moorman, who recently broke his live poker duck in a £50 freezeout at the Brighton Rendezvous

Mr Thomas Middleton, newly with running shoes, for some unknown reason

Ms Maria Demetriou, who will smile at the camera today

Mr Julian Thew, who will have brushed his hair

Mr Chris Brammer, replete on Sugar Puffs for Breakfast

Mr Toby Lewis, last time at this his underwear was photographed

Mr Chin Kai Koh. Is it?

Mr Adam Daniel, all charm and sophistication

Mr Waheed Ashraf, inaugural winner of this event

Mr Nik Persaud, of BlackBelt Poker

Mr Fraser Bellamy, winner of this in December

Mr Jack Ellwood, runner up in this in December


So far the DTD site has 65 bought in for today


With those names, and more, it is shaping up to be a corker

Please join me early this afternoon for all of the fun of the fair

[NigDawG]

Play begins at 2pm. To give you an idea of who might be playing today


We have

Mr James Dempsey, fresh I gather from a run in with the traffic police in Nottingham last night

Mr Chris Moorman, who recently broke his live poker duck in a £50 freezeout at the Brighton Rendezvous

Mr Thomas Middleton, newly with running shoes, for some unknown reason

Ms Maria Demetriou, who will smile at the camera today

Mr Julian Thew, who will have brushed his hair

Mr Chris Brammer, replete on Sugar Puffs for Breakfast

Mr Toby Lewis, last time at this his underwear was photographed

Mr Chin Kai Koh. Is it?

Mr Adam Daniel, all charm and sophistication

Mr Waheed Ashraf, inaugural winner of this event

Mr Nik Persaud, of BlackBelt Poker

Mr Fraser Bellamy, winner of this in December

Mr Jack Ellwood, runner up in this in December


So far the DTD site has 65 bought in for today


With those names, and more, it is shaping up to be a corker

Please join me early this afternoon for all of the fun of the fair

late night so wont be playing till tomorrow now probs

[T8MML]

Good luck to all playing today. Heading up tomorrow, but slowly, don't want to do a "Flushy"

I really hope the guys make the GTD this weekend!

[pleno1]

Really looking forward to this update tighty!

[outragous76]

Tighty

What time does the club open? - want to call and change my day to today  - but will need 2 hours to get there



Also - traffic warning - redic huge diesel spill @ J20 southbound - junction 26 should be safe from north  - but they have closed the M'way so you never know. I guess there will be ineviable rubber necking and delays going north

glgl everyone

[TightEnd]

1pm open I believe

[TightEnd]

at the club

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the bottom tier is where the Party Poker Big Cash Game is taking place, and is clear of other tables ready for tomorrow night

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[EvilPie]

How many levels are being played today?

Any idea if there's a long break somewhere in the middle?

[LML]

Will pop down tomorrow early eve Rich!! Save me one of those sharky sets eh?!

[TightEnd]

How many levels are being played today?

Any idea if there's a long break somewhere in the middle?

10 levels

breaks every 2 levels

split buffet break starting end Level 3, so half the field plays while the other half eats...no long break

c 1am finish

[outragous76]

Just a quick note to say Dtd support is the abs schnizzles! Tyty!

See you there at 3!

[TightEnd]

Play is getting underway and here is the initial seat draw

Table     Seat     Player

21    1    Chris Owen
21    2    David Tighe
21    3    Kevin Porritt
21    4    Richard Whiteley
21    5    Troye Collins
21    6    Victor Crespin
21    7    Karl Fenton
21    8    Stephen Holden

22    1    Anonymous
22    2    Vikram Digpal
22    3    Daniel Edler
22    5    Richard Blacklock
22    6    Paul Barnes
22    7    Adam O'connell
22    8    Nigel Frankish

23    1    Chin Chai Koh
23    2    Michael Fisher
23    3    Martin Hogarty
23    4    Michael Donn
23    5    Alan Stearn
23    6    Anonymous
23    7    Anthony Nicholls
23    8    Michael Wernick

25    1    Simon Higgins
25    2    Ioannis Liperis
25    3    Steve Jelinek
25    4    John Conroy
25    5    Mark Elliott
25    6    Naresh Parshad
25    7    Chris Gavriel
25    8    James Browning

26    1    Paul King
26    2    Duncan Mclellan
26    3    Peter Haslam
26    4    David Boswell
26    5    Rishi Kumar
26    6    David Montague
26    7    Jamie O Connor
26    8    Ben Spraggons

32    1    Stephen Okeeffe
32    2    Maria Demetriou
32    3    Adam Daniel
32    4    Fraser Bellamy
32    5    Lee Williamson
32    6    Basharat Mahmood
32    7    Jeff Sharpe

33    1    Ben Martin
33    2    Stuart Kinghorn
33    3    Lynne Beaumont
33    4    John Exley
33    5    Robert Day
33    6    James Clarke
33    7    Simon Deadman
33    8    Yucel Eminoglu

34    1    Waheed Rafiq
34    2    Philip Campbell
34    3    Henry Whale
34    4    Keiron Duncan
34    5    James Mitchell
34    6    Paul Bowser
34    7    Robert Woodcock
34    8    Anonymous

35    1    Umar Khan
35    2    Yiannis Liperis
35    3    Mark Wagstaff
35    4    Deborah Rawson
35    5    James Sykes
35    6    Paul Bracken
35    7    Stuart Fox
35    8    Waheed Ashraf

36    1    James Dempsey
36    2    Richard Haile
36    3    Mark Wates
36    4    Brian Goddard
36    5    Matthew Leeman
36    6    Peter Evans
36    7    Richard Finney
36    8    India Storrar