DTD Grand Prix 3: £80,000 GTD

[smashedagain]

AQ v KK v 10 10 all in pre. Idiots can't fold. Lol. Busted before alex too but I bet he don't gloat about it

[Karabiner]

Yessss outlasted herbert!

Variance obv.

[cambridgealex]

^no such thing.

[EvilPie]

Wow what an amazing table!!

Pure comedy standard, one guy didn't even know what blinds were. He outlasted me though

Grinded the shit out of it absolutely card dead. Squeezed a couple of times to maintain stack.

Got it in at 300/600 + 50 with AQ vs JJ vs KJ. KJ binked it.

To be honest I was kinda glad when it was over. Slow painful death is all I can say.

[Forrester]

I played last night. Arrived early and was greeted by two friendly girls,who gave me my "Golden" chip. We had a bit of banter about me possibly being the 1st player to cash  in a golden chip!
 Went accross to Frankie and Bennies and had the New York Calzone which is very nice- the waiter asked me what I was up to...it must look funny somebody eating alone. I told him I was Playing cards accross the road - he said "oh are the Scandinavians here again"??
With 3 minutes to go "Aces" tells us the game will start on time as usual. I have been coming to DTD since it opened and I can only remember once when a Tournament started late; due to a computer malfunction. Some things in the place have changed since it opened, there are slot machines, Roulette and now Black Jack.  If these games keep it viable they can only be a good thing - If possible a craps table would be a great addition.
I am on seat 8 on my table which is my favourite seat but it turns out to be seat 7.5 as there are 10 players to each table which confuses everybody who sit in wrong seats. Once this is sorted the game starts - there are a mixture of standard of players, obviously some dont usually play for so much prizemoney and are quite tentative but there are a couple of young men who obviously play at a high level and are talking about "Stars,Tilt, 3 betting, pot odds and stuff like that. You can tell they are good players because of the angle of their caps. These "modern " players have some infuriating habits, other than talking incessantly about what they have won online, or which hotel you will be staying in in Vegas next month, things like ....can you spread the pot please? I have been playing this game for 20 years now and if i am in a pot I know to within a chip or two how much is in the pot - I can only assume they do this to demonstrate that they are aware of pot odds or implied odds and it helps them to foster their table image!
However, despite knowing how much is in the pots I proceed to lose most of my chips. For the 1st hour I can not win anything and am soon down to 3,000 from the starting stack of 10k. So I do what all good players do I shove on any two, which changes my fortune and I soon start building a stack. I am now getting good cards and get back up to average stack by the 1st break. The dealers are generally good and the rotation of dealers can be a bit offputting particularly if you get your "lucky" dealer and he/she leaves in the middle of a hot streak.
After a couple of hours of not getting any cards and just folding and watching the young people having fun three betting and stuff , my cards suddenly change. I get AA and KK and hit a Q on the flop for trips and before you know it I have 25k and the average is 14k. The blinds increase insidiously and before I know it my 22k is just average but I then get the hand that changes things ;"I look down at or wake up to " and after a lot of three four and five betting me and a young person are all in. He has  The board come  for a split second both of us were frantically looking for a heart and mine was bigger than his- so I doubled up. The blinds were now 800 /1600/ 200 ante and the nature of the game changes - more folding ,stealing with big raises or all ins .Eventually there are about 70 players left at close of play I have 61,o00 which is above the average of 46k so will be back on Saturday.

[The_Kid]

Dylan caught ed in a 30k pot. Ed down to 3k and ten mins left to make me look a genius. Richard won a small pot jamming a J high flop with qj. 3 way all in AJ v J J and KK.......flop AA x bing bong. Wait one. Ed all in A 10 v AQ . Fuck my life 7 mins out

I'm a cash player

[The_Kid]

And not holdem...

[The_Kid]

Did I mention I suck at poker?

[TightEnd]

Day 1C of the Grand Prix III

The total number of runners for the Grand Prix III stands at 1,448, just 152 short of the 1600 player guarantee. Day 1D currently has 203; will we end up with the 355 required

Day 1C had 287 entrants and 64 approximately 22% of the field made it through to day 2  with an average chip count of 44,800, chip leader is Jamie Forest with 103,200. So far during the first 2 days 12 Golden Chip holders have progressed to Saturday’s restart at 1pm. Tonight, there were 22 and 4 will be joining them. Should one of these Golden Chip satellite qualifiers make it to the final 8 on Sunday they will earn an additional £5,000.

Cheers

ACES

[TightEnd]

Here are the players that got through 1c

23    1    William Atherton
23    3    Sarah Priest
23    4    Dann Williams
23    5    David Langsdale
23    6    Warren Austin
23    8    Richard Sherwood
23    9    Philip Bell
23    10    Raymond Wong

31    1    Jonathan Cole
31    2    Kevin Porritt
31    3    Gary Sims
31    4    Adrian Wallace
31    5    Iain Dalton
31    6    Adam Paris
31    7    Ian Mccarrick
31    9    Daniel Roper
31    10    Steve Mooney

32    1    Ashley Flathers
32    2    David Sandrovitch
32    3    Rob Painter
32    4    Chris Hamill
32    5    Fred Wise
32    6    Michael Murray
32    7    Anne Woollett
32    9    Jadey Ducasse
32    10    John Gardner

33    1    Sam Graham
33    2    Gary Tomney
33    3    Michele Parrillo
33    4    Jamie Forrest
33    5    Jonathan Sharpe
33    6    Paul Evans
33    7    Michael Hynes
33    8    David Bayliss
33    9    Timothy Chung
33    10    Paul Geary

34    1    John Powdrill
34    2    Joe Barradell
34    3    Stephen Montgomery
34    4    Frazer Beattie
34    5    Vance Martin
34    6    Mark Elliott
34    7    William Barker
34    8    Ben Pearce
34    9    John Mcmahon

35    1    Deborah Heard
35    2    Karl Dobson
35    3    David Loughlan
35    4    Karl Grainger
35    5    Anonymous
35    6    Jak Orton
35    7    Anthony Thornhill
35    8    Les Fenton
35    9    Jason Manning
35    10    James Omalley

36    1    Sean Byrne
36    2    Anonymous
36    3    Jay Robyn Gethen
36    5    Dilhazur Rahman
36    6    Raymond Telfer
36    7    Manoj Mistry
36    8    Nathan Farnaby
36    9    Chris Roadknight
36    10    Calum Dalton

[smashedagain]

Did I mention I suck at poker?

you played brilliant tonight and a pleasure to watch.

[Tiger-flash]

I played last night. Arrived early and was greeted by two friendly girls,who gave me my "Golden" chip. We had a bit of banter about me possibly being the 1st player to cash  in a golden chip!
 Went accross to Frankie and Bennies and had the New York Calzone which is very nice- the waiter asked me what I was up to...it must look funny somebody eating alone. I told him I was Playing cards accross the road - he said "oh are the Scandinavians here again"??
With 3 minutes to go "Aces" tells us the game will start on time as usual. I have been coming to DTD since it opened and I can only remember once when a Tournament started late; due to a computer malfunction. Some things in the place have changed since it opened, there are slot machines, Roulette and now Black Jack.  If these games keep it viable they can only be a good thing - If possible a craps table would be a great addition.
I am on seat 8 on my table which is my favourite seat but it turns out to be seat 7.5 as there are 10 players to each table which confuses everybody who sit in wrong seats. Once this is sorted the game starts - there are a mixture of standard of players, obviously some dont usually play for so much prizemoney and are quite tentative but there are a couple of young men who obviously play at a high level and are talking about "Stars,Tilt, 3 betting, pot odds and stuff like that. You can tell they are good players because of the angle of their caps. These "modern " players have some infuriating habits, other than talking incessantly about what they have won online, or which hotel you will be staying in in Vegas next month, things like ....can you spread the pot please? I have been playing this game for 20 years now and if i am in a pot I know to within a chip or two how much is in the pot - I can only assume they do this to demonstrate that they are aware of pot odds or implied odds and it helps them to foster their table image!
However, despite knowing how much is in the pots I proceed to lose most of my chips. For the 1st hour I can not win anything and am soon down to 3,000 from the starting stack of 10k. So I do what all good players do I shove on any two, which changes my fortune and I soon start building a stack. I am now getting good cards and get back up to average stack by the 1st break. The dealers are generally good and the rotation of dealers can be a bit offputting particularly if you get your "lucky" dealer and he/she leaves in the middle of a hot streak.
After a couple of hours of not getting any cards and just folding and watching the young people having fun three betting and stuff , my cards suddenly change. I get AA and KK and hit a Q on the flop for trips and before you know it I have 25k and the average is 14k. The blinds increase insidiously and before I know it my 22k is just average but I then get the hand that changes things ;"I look down at or wake up to " and after a lot of three four and five betting me and a young person are all in. He has   The board come   for a split second both of us were frantically looking for a heart and mine was bigger than his- so I doubled up. The blinds were now 800 /1600/ 200 ante and the nature of the game changes - more folding ,stealing with big raises or all ins .Eventually there are about 70 players left at close of play I have 61,o00 which is above the average of 46k so will be back on Saturday.

great post! hope i get your luck on friday

[Dubai]

I played last night. Arrived early and was greeted by two friendly girls,who gave me my "Golden" chip. We had a bit of banter about me possibly being the 1st player to cash  in a golden chip!
 Went accross to Frankie and Bennies and had the New York Calzone which is very nice- the waiter asked me what I was up to...it must look funny somebody eating alone. I told him I was Playing cards accross the road - he said "oh are the Scandinavians here again"??
With 3 minutes to go "Aces" tells us the game will start on time as usual. I have been coming to DTD since it opened and I can only remember once when a Tournament started late; due to a computer malfunction. Some things in the place have changed since it opened, there are slot machines, Roulette and now Black Jack.  If these games keep it viable they can only be a good thing - If possible a craps table would be a great addition.
I am on seat 8 on my table which is my favourite seat but it turns out to be seat 7.5 as there are 10 players to each table which confuses everybody who sit in wrong seats. Once this is sorted the game starts - there are a mixture of standard of players, obviously some dont usually play for so much prizemoney and are quite tentative but there are a couple of young men who obviously play at a high level and are talking about "Stars,Tilt, 3 betting, pot odds and stuff like that. You can tell they are good players because of the angle of their caps. These "modern " players have some infuriating habits, other than talking incessantly about what they have won online, or which hotel you will be staying in in Vegas next month, things like ....can you spread the pot please? I have been playing this game for 20 years now and if i am in a pot I know to within a chip or two how much is in the pot - I can only assume they do this to demonstrate that they are aware of pot odds or implied odds and it helps them to foster their table image!
However, despite knowing how much is in the pots I proceed to lose most of my chips. For the 1st hour I can not win anything and am soon down to 3,000 from the starting stack of 10k. So I do what all good players do I shove on any two, which changes my fortune and I soon start building a stack. I am now getting good cards and get back up to average stack by the 1st break. The dealers are generally good and the rotation of dealers can be a bit offputting particularly if you get your "lucky" dealer and he/she leaves in the middle of a hot streak.
After a couple of hours of not getting any cards and just folding and watching the young people having fun three betting and stuff , my cards suddenly change. I get AA and KK and hit a Q on the flop for trips and before you know it I have 25k and the average is 14k. The blinds increase insidiously and before I know it my 22k is just average but I then get the hand that changes things ;"I look down at or wake up to " and after a lot of three four and five betting me and a young person are all in. He has  The board come  for a split second both of us were frantically looking for a heart and mine was bigger than his- so I doubled up. The blinds were now 800 /1600/ 200 ante and the nature of the game changes - more folding ,stealing with big raises or all ins .Eventually there are about 70 players left at close of play I have 61,o00 which is above the average of 46k so will be back on Saturday.

Great post. People who ask for the pot to be spread tilt the life out of me too. As do horrible spotty young kids who incessantly talk about poker to anyone who will listen

[SuuPRlim]

You can tell they are good players because of the angle of their caps. These "modern " players have some infuriating habits, other than talking incessantly about what they have won online, or which hotel you will be staying in in Vegas next month, things like ....can you spread the pot please? I have been playing this game for 20 years now and if i am in a pot I know to within a chip or two how much is in the pot

haha A+++ brilliant angle of their caps !

yeah I get irritated by this, i spose fair enough if the pot has been particularly complex - like 4 people all in or somethign....

but normally its a pretty simple sum of pre-flop raise*number of players and that gives you a pretty good idea lol, prolly too busy figuring out they are gonna merge their river range to do all this looking/counting/mulitplying.

[scotty77]

I played last night. Arrived early and was greeted by two friendly girls,who gave me my "Golden" chip. We had a bit of banter about me possibly being the 1st player to cash  in a golden chip!
 Went accross to Frankie and Bennies and had the New York Calzone which is very nice- the waiter asked me what I was up to...it must look funny somebody eating alone. I told him I was Playing cards accross the road - he said "oh are the Scandinavians here again"??
With 3 minutes to go "Aces" tells us the game will start on time as usual. I have been coming to DTD since it opened and I can only remember once when a Tournament started late; due to a computer malfunction. Some things in the place have changed since it opened, there are slot machines, Roulette and now Black Jack.  If these games keep it viable they can only be a good thing - If possible a craps table would be a great addition.
I am on seat 8 on my table which is my favourite seat but it turns out to be seat 7.5 as there are 10 players to each table which confuses everybody who sit in wrong seats. Once this is sorted the game starts - there are a mixture of standard of players, obviously some dont usually play for so much prizemoney and are quite tentative but there are a couple of young men who obviously play at a high level and are talking about "Stars,Tilt, 3 betting, pot odds and stuff like that. You can tell they are good players because of the angle of their caps. These "modern " players have some infuriating habits, other than talking incessantly about what they have won online, or which hotel you will be staying in in Vegas next month, things like ....can you spread the pot please? I have been playing this game for 20 years now and if i am in a pot I know to within a chip or two how much is in the pot - I can only assume they do this to demonstrate that they are aware of pot odds or implied odds and it helps them to foster their table image!
However, despite knowing how much is in the pots I proceed to lose most of my chips. For the 1st hour I can not win anything and am soon down to 3,000 from the starting stack of 10k. So I do what all good players do I shove on any two, which changes my fortune and I soon start building a stack. I am now getting good cards and get back up to average stack by the 1st break. The dealers are generally good and the rotation of dealers can be a bit offputting particularly if you get your "lucky" dealer and he/she leaves in the middle of a hot streak.
After a couple of hours of not getting any cards and just folding and watching the young people having fun three betting and stuff , my cards suddenly change. I get AA and KK and hit a Q on the flop for trips and before you know it I have 25k and the average is 14k. The blinds increase insidiously and before I know it my 22k is just average but I then get the hand that changes things ;"I look down at or wake up to " and after a lot of three four and five betting me and a young person are all in. He has  The board come  for a split second both of us were frantically looking for a heart and mine was bigger than his- so I doubled up. The blinds were now 800 /1600/ 200 ante and the nature of the game changes - more folding ,stealing with big raises or all ins .Eventually there are about 70 players left at close of play I have 61,o00 which is above the average of 46k so will be back on Saturday.

I'm 24 and I like this a lot.   Plz post more on Saturday!