GUKPT Coventry Day 2

[TightEnd]

David Jones 60,000

This is after a hand where he opened to 2,400

Julian Thew 3 bet button 6,000

Jones 14,200 4 bet

Thew calls

flop 

Jones checks

Thew 12,000

Jones folds

[TightEnd]

Anthony Barnes knocks out Alistair McLaren

McLaren raises, Barnes calls in the big blind with 8-6

flop 8 high

Barnes check calls a shove, for less than pot size, from A-A

turn 6

[TightEnd]

Carlo Citrone raises

Lee Taylor 3 bet

Carlo calls

flop 

Carlo check calls a c-bet

turn 

Carlo checks

Taylor shoves




Citrone gives it one of his Monster trademark dwells

Looks into Taylor's soul for an eon looking for a read




and does a trademark pass

[TightEnd]

David Jones opens  UTG+1

Kids, huh?

Luong Bui in the big blind calls

Jones bets three streets on

2-J-4-3 (Kerching)-8

Bui check shoves the river having check called flop and turn, with J-8 for an unlucky rivered pair

Jones knocks him down to 4,000

A full double for Jones to 130,000

[TightEnd]

Rick Trigg 2,600 UTG

Dean Morris calls in position

flop 

Trigg 3,500, called

turn  check check

river 

Trigg checks

Morris 5,500

Trigg calls with 

It's good, beating "King high" 

[TightEnd]

Adam Wilkinson

[TightEnd]

Nick Hicks and new to the table Sam Grafton

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[paulhouk03]

wow the payouts are really shallow

i never played a gukpt before

[TightEnd]

No chance of getting a good picture of Carl Spicer

Perpetually head down hidden behind a Scooby doo Hat. Or something that approximates

[TightEnd]

Two levels played today

52 began and we are down to 30 with 15 paid

blinds go 800-1600 next

Average is 73,000


Chip leaders


Rick Trigg 300,000
Paul VasNunes 200,000
Sam Grafton 120,000



Others

Paul Romain 65,000
Jeff Kimber 50,000
Ryan Spittles 32,000
Carlo Citrone 45,000
Stuart Rutter 88,000
Skalie 80,000



This could, just could, be a corking final table line up


We play today nine levels or if we hit a final first, we stop then

[TightEnd]

Last hand before the break a 190,000 chip pot between David Jones and Julian Thew

Jones 2,400 min raise UTG playing 140,000

Jeff Kimber calls

Thew 5,600 in position

Jones 14,000

Kimber passes

Thew 34,000 playing 92,000

Jones shoves covering Thew

Thew calls


All this elongated over several minutes


Jones A-Ko

Thew Q-Q

The flop, as only Julian can......

Q-9-Q

He doubles to 190,000

Jones down to under 50,000

[TightEnd]

Official counts at the break

Rick Trigg   286500
Paul VasNunes   227400
Julian Thew   190400
Sam Grafton   133700
Nicholas Fellone   112100
Stepohen Brown   107100
Skalie   96400
Stuart Rutter   91800
Adrian Eley   65300
Ian Riggs   65200
Senh Ung   63200
Antony Barnes   59800
Lee Taylor   56900
Carl Spicer   56200
Paul Romain   53500
Jonathan McCann52300
Jeff Kimber   49900
Adam Wilkinson   49900
Adriano Liuzzi   49200
Dean Morris    42200
Brian Sheppard   41900
David Jones   38200
Lee Rawson   37200
Chris Retallick   34000
Carlo Citrone   32100
Margaret Sheridan30000
Ryan Spittles   27400
Freddie Russell   21900
Nick Hicks   15300
James Kerrane   15200

[TightEnd]

Nick Hicks shoves his short-stack into an unopened pot with K-6

Senh Ung in the small blind with A-A knocks him out

[TightEnd]

Out 29th Freddie Russell

Found K-K

Stephen Brown found A-K behind, called the shove

Ace. Goodbye Freddie

[TightEnd]

Skalie opens the button to 4,000

Dean Morris shove 31,000 small blind

Skalie calls immediately

Skalie A-J

Morris A-K

2-3-4-7-8

Morris doubles to 65,000