GUKPT Walsall: Day 1

[TightEnd]

Stuart Rutter 22,000

Sitting next to noactionjack who tells me

"He" pointing to the besuited Rutter "is sitting there like a nit waiting for aces"



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Ben Vinson is out. He opened fives, was 3 bet by Wayne Rideout and shoved 5-5. Up against Ace-King, Ace first card out


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Flight1b starting soon, 63 names in that so far


We are about to multitask, more so than normal

[TightEnd]

Seat 6 opens for 875

Ben Dobson 3 bets to 2,200 from 7,000

David Nicholson shoves for 14,000

The opener folds and Dobson calls all in

Dobson

A♥

K♠

Nicholson

A♣

Q♣

board

7♥

8♣

9♦

K♦

5♥

Nicholson down to 7,000

[TightEnd]

Just had a funny moment in the cardroom where Alan McLean Table 5 seat 9 went for a walk and ended up in the seat of Gary Lindsay which was table 7 seat 9.

Gary had gone out to use the phone and while he was gone Alan sat in his seat, started playing with his chips, posted his ante. Then Rana Gurnam told him he was sat in the wrong seat.

To which Alan replied "Oops! It's getting late"

[TightEnd]

George White has just been eliminated at the hands of Darren Stanley.

George holding A-10 which was unable to beat Darren's pocket 10's.

[TightEnd]

Michelle Bricknell

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[TightEnd]

Amongst the now 70 run ners for the later flight is Brian Martin. Wearing his only jumper

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[Supernova]

Flight B Table Draw

Table Thirteen

Seat One.....Chris Lythgoe

Seat Two.....Robert Boon

Seat Three.....Cai Huang

Seat Four.....Brian Martin

Seat Five.....Andy Booth

Seat Six.....Peter Wrigglesworth

Seat Seven.....Darren Hickman

Seat Eight.....Dipak Makawana


Table Fourteen

Seat One.....Fariborz Badiemansour

Seat Two.....Amrat Patel

Seat Three.....Walid Khalil

Seat Four.....Joe Grech

Seat Five.....Ramazanali Abbassi

Seat Six.....Nichaols Gavriel

Seat Seven.....Nam To

Seat Eight.....Juno Hokkanen

Table Fifteen

Seat One.....Yucel Eminoglu

Seat Two.....Mickey Wernick

Seat Three.....Helena Brett

Seat Four.....Paul Humphries

Seat Five.....Robert Lacey

Seat Six.....Dave Maudlin

Seat Seven.....Dale Harper

Seat Eight.....Glen Storey

[TightEnd]

Ali Mallu, with Greek Jack in the background

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[Supernova]

Table Sixteen

Seat One.....Brian Hitchcott

Seat Two.....Devon Shearer

Seat Three.....Michael Greco

Seat Four.....Nick Hicks

Seat Five.....Graham Pound

Seat Six.....Alex Lindop

Table Seventeen

Seat One.....Andrew Miles

Seat Two.....Danny Tran

Seat Three.....Mick Corrigan

Seat Four.....James Reid

Seat Five.....Martin Holmes

Seat Six.....Vinnie Campbell

Seat Seven.....James Swatman

Seat Eight.....Arulmaran Sivaguru

Seat Seven.....Peter Norton

Seat Eight.....Michael Ellis

Table Eighteen

Seat One.....Greg Hunt

Seat Two.....Mark James

Seat Three.....Will Kassouf

Seat Four.....Ali Mallu

Seat Five.....Gary Peniket

Seat Six.....Anthony Byrne

Seat Seven.....Chris Nicol

Seat Eight.....Steve Warburton

[TightEnd]

No Muse in 1a, good news as Muse is in 1b

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[TightEnd]

Steve Jelinek raises all in for 9,000 and Alan McLean calls in the big blind for half his stack

Jelinek AQ, McLean 22

The pair holds, Jelly gets it in the neck and heads for the exit

McLean up to 25,000

[Supernova]

Table Nineteen

Seat One.....Mo Muse

Seat Two.....Lee Taylor

Seat Three.....Raymond Power

Seat Four.....Kyriacos Dionysiou

Seat Five.....Stephen Boyd

Seat Six.....David Mitchell

Seat Seven.....David Johnson

Seat Eight.....Dennis Troake

Table Twenty

Seat One.....Simon Cawley

Seat Two.....Raj Patel

Seat Three.....John Earle

Seat Four.....William Anderson

Seat Five.....Nicholas Bahhai

Seat Six.....Priyan Hallan

Seat Seven.....Terence Mitford

Seat Eight.....Paul Grummitt

And that completes your initial 1b startlist pending late arrivals.

[mouth]

Steve Jelinek raises all in for 9,000 and Alan McLean calls in the big blind for half his stack

Jelinek AQ, McLean 22

The pair holds, Jelly gets it in the neck and heads for the exit

McLean up to 25,000

Gary lindsay now telling Alan to come back and sit in his seat if he can make that call and hold.

[TightEnd]

Stuart Rutter is up to 46,000

"How?" I enquire across a crowded table

Paul Jackson tells me "He has sets coming out of his %%%%"

Stuart tells me he has won pots with two sets that he has shown down and had several more unshown

[TightEnd]

Obligatory TD photo. I take such flattering photos

Apologies to dealer Santosh, who was mysteriously cropped out of this photo