DTD Monte Carlo £250,000 GTD: Day 1a

[Karabiner]

How's my old mate Pete the bandit doing please?

[TightEnd]

How's my old mate Pete the bandit doing please?

as you can see from the pic above he is sandwiched, lugubrious, phlegmatic and weather-beaten, between Pab and Middy

He has about 45,000 which is around 2/3 average, but that's plenty for the old timers. Patience a-go-go

[lightbreeze]

How's rookie gettin on?

[celtic]

Why do most people playing today look miserable?

[Karabiner]

Why do most people playing today look miserable?

I think you'll find that they are actually lugubrious and weather-beaten

[TightEnd]

Reckon the current chip leader is now Birmingham's finest, Stuart Fox

Must have nearly 300,000

Went to table Yong/Goulder with a good chunk (probably the vanquisher of recently exited Ben Turnstill) then had AA vs Goulder's 10-10 to make further progress

[smashedagain]

Said it before but foxy is pure class and one of my fav players along with mike ellis

[TightEnd]

OK bear with me on this one

It gets complicated


Limped pot pre. Bandit Evans on the button, Middy and Daniel Beswick in the blinds

flop 

checked round

turn 

This turns out to be the mother of all action cards


checked to Evans who leads for 2,000

Before Middy gets the chance to do anything Beswick calls out of turn

Middy decides to raise to 6,500

Beswick has to call this but instead puts in too many chips

He is made to min raise to 11,000

Evans calls this!

Middy then shoves for 65,000 total

Beswick folds having made two errors and done 11,000 or 1/4 of his stack in cold blood

Evans calls, and we suddenly have a 150,000 pot. Evans 

Middy 


I look several times at all of this trying to transcribe the hand correctly, players round the table peer over at the developing commotion


Middy needs a club then. He bricks the river and leaves, handing Evans a 150,000 stack that will probably last him a week with this structure 

[TightEnd]

towards the final level of the day, these are the departing players

32     Basharat Mahmood
33    Thomas Middleton
34    David Johnson
35    David Jones
36    Albert Sapiano
37    Andrew Tuxworth
38    Nikhil Persaud
39    Chin Chai Koh
40    Ben Turnstill

[Chompy]

Still the chip leader I reckon, moved to table Bedi

Oh well, as it's lookylikey day...

[TightEnd]

Flushy min raises to 2,000

Ronaldo flats

Lee Williamson 11,000 on the button with 

Flushy folds

Ronaldo makes it 25,000

Williamson 5 bet shoves, 65,000 total

Ronaldo calls with 

Kings hold to knock the aptly named leethefish out

[TightEnd]

Tristan McDonald opens to 3,200 in the cut off

Rob Yong flats on the button

Tim Slater 10,000 in the big blind

McDonald passes

Yong calls

flop   

Slater leads for 14,000

Yong wonders out loud whether his Ace is good.

Slater tells him he is miles ahead

Yong calls

turn 

Slater immediately shoves his last 45,000 in

Yong tells the table he is only losing to one hand, AK.

"He must have AK here"

Eventually he folds, showing  , lets assume its AQ

Slater flips over  from a considerable height

Rob's hands go onto his head.

[TightEnd]

Danny Toffel is shortstacked, he opens KK and Mohammed Fatemi calls him in the big blind

flop comes 10 high

All the chips go in with Fatemi having 10-2, that well renowned blind defence hand

A cruel 2 comes on the turn for Toffel to depart, back tmorrow

[TightEnd]

Flushy and Anon get 200,000 in pre in na hail of 3-4-5-6 bets. Anon at risk

Flushy 

Anon 

Aces hold and Flushy does about 2/3 of his stack to the Anonymous one, who is taller than Flushy

[Horneris]

towards the final level of the day, these are the departing players

33    Thomas Middleton
35    David Jones
40    Ben Turnstill

oh dear, GG my friends.

Oh well boys, its a new day tomorrow, its a new day.