DTD Monte Carlo £250,000 Gtd: Day 1a

[The_nun]

Just arrived and placed onto table Jakally/Chilli

PKR's new recruit, triple crown winner Jake Cody

looking a lot better than he was at 6am.

Too much info.

[TightEnd]

Keith Hawkins has just doubled through Sam Macdonald. There was 9,000 in the middle, board reading 3-A-K-10, Sam bet 3,250, Keith called. River 7, Sam put Keith all in for 13,000 and Keith called faster than the speed of light, showing 33 as Macdonald showed AQ.

[TightEnd]

Late registration has now closed, meaning we have 120 entrants for today. With this tournament having a guaranteed prize pool of £250,000, we will need 130 runners on Day 1b to reach it, with Saturday usually proving the more popular day 1. 85 players remain.

[TightEnd]

Dan Edler is now on the rail, he got his stack of 8,000 in the middle with 88, just to be up against the KK of Mark Wates which held.

The two chip leaders are Ian Woodley and Anthony Nicholls over 100,000 at 200-400 ra 50

[TightEnd]

Paul Ho is out

Background is he had been 3 or 4 bet several times in a row by Ian Woodley

He had 16,000 in the small blind with A-K

Woodley UTG to 1,600

Alex Rousso flats

Ho jams

Woodley calls with A-K

Woodley flops the nut flush with a royal flush draw to send Ho Home.

[TightEnd]

Jake Cody has  eliminated an anonymous player. Anon made it 1500, Cody raised to 3,600, Anon flatted.

Flop - Q-9-8r

check check

Turn - J

Anon checked, Cody bet out 5,000, Anon called.

River - 9

Anon checked, Cody put Anon all in for 15,000 and he made the call, Cody showing 10 10, Anon mucked.

Cody is now up to about 55,000.

[Girgy85]

The DTD list says The Ho is in da House. Keep an eye on him pls Mr Tightend.

Just arrived onto table Marcin Milde, Boz O'Connor

glgl boss

[TightEnd]

Sam Macdonald knocks out actionjack, Kings against Queens all in pre. 60,000 pot

Macdonald up over 120,000. second in chips to Woodley

[TightEnd]

Anthony Nicholls over 100,000

[LeedsRhodesy]

The DTD list says The Ho is in da House. Keep an eye on him pls Mr Tightend.

Just arrived onto table Marcin Milde, Boz O'Connor

glgl boss

Nice rub down

[TightEnd]

Former Irish Open winner James Mitchell wins Jumper of the Day award, amidst fierce competition

[RED-DOG]

Former Irish Open winner James Mitchell wins Jumper of the Day award, amidst fierce competition

I'll be vying for his title tomorrow.

[TightEnd]

John Conroy knocks out Jack Ellwood

60,000 pot, all in pre

Conroy K-K beats Ellwood A-K

Ellwood will be back tomorrow

[TightEnd]

Getting up to date with today's exits

77    Jack Ellwood
78    Daniel Morgan
79    Paul Jackson
80    Steve Brown
81    Paul Ho
82    Anonymous
83    Anonymous
84    Daniel Edler
85    Anthony Pyatt
86    Jamil Ogunmakinwa
87    Paul Skipper
88    Danny Toffel
89    Albert Sapiano
90    Keith Johnson
91    David Nisbet
92    Daniel Ball
93    David Cheesman
94    Tabraiz Shabir
95    Mark Hawkins
96    Peter Haslam
97    Steven Chennells
98    Ben Jackson
99    Tan Luan Le
100    Anonymous
101    Luke Flack
102    Kirit Patel
103    James Moult
104    Habib Chatoo
105    Mark Mccluskey
106    Ian Gascoigne
107    Mark Karoullas
108    Guy Steel
109    Ben Dobson
110    James Clarke
111    Alex Martin
112    Barry Neville
113    Caicai Huang
114    Paul Ephremsen
115    Feng Jiang
116    Sinem Melin
117    Stacy Coore
118    Lee Mcmillan
119    Haresh Thaker
120    Lu Xu

[matt_damon]

Does the bubble pop day 2 or 3? ty