DTD Monte Carlo £250,000 Gtd: Day 1a

[TightEnd]

Adam Picken is out, and is another victim of Sam Macdonald's.

There was 7,500 in the middle on a 10-9-9 board,

Sam bet 2,800, Lockett called, Picken made it 9,000. Macdonald made it 14,600, Lockett folded and Picken shoved for 45,000, with Q-10. Macdonald made the insta call with K-K, and the King on the turn ended it.

Sam Macdonald now up to well over 100,000 again

[pleno1]

Adam Picken is out, and is another victim of Sam Macdonald's.

There was 7,500 in the middle on a 10-9-9 board,

Sam bet 2,800, Lockett called, Picken made it 9,000. Macdonald made it 14,600, Lockett folded and Picken shoved for 45,000, with Q-10. Macdonald made the insta call with K-K, and the King on the turn ended it.

Sam Macdonald now up to well over 100,000 again

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[Madone]

Ben Vinson's just doubled vs sunny mistri. Mistri 4b shoving hj vs btn bens qq holds vs sunnys A6hh. Ben on 65k now.

tyty

[TightEnd]

exits as we dip towards sixty players left today

62    Adam Picken
63    Oluwashola Akindele
64    Julian Thew
65    Tim Blake
66    Lewis Hunter
67    Jonothon Butters
68    Alan Mcbride
69    Kyriacos Dionysiou

[TightEnd]

 only joined the action on the river with the board of with about 50,000 already in the middle.

Jamie O'connor shoved for 20,000, Anthony Nicholls called.

O'Connor showed for a rivered flush, taking a chunk out of Anthony's stack.

[TightEnd]

It's slow going

Two perambulations of the remaining seven tables saw not a lot

- A couple of 4 bet shoves, from Michelle Bennett against John Picken and then Terry Mitford against Marcin Milde, both got through


- Jake Cody on 70,000. Looks like he had a hard night last night

- Maria Demetriou 60,000 ish on Jake's table


- Elsewhere The Camel has, it seems, had a double up along the way to around 50,000. Andrew Hulme on his table is short-stack grinding. Paul Grummitt in charge on that table, alongside young local Jack Allen with around 90,000


- Ben Vinson and Alex Goulder are-co-tabling. Both comfortable 70 and 90k

- John Conroy's run has come crashing to a halt and he is down to 20,000

- Iwan Jones, Ian Woodley and Simon Deadman all on the table I can't reach. All look to be comfortably above average

[TightEnd]

Jake Cody made it 2,100, and found 2 callers before John Picken shoved for 22,300.

Cody tanked, then Picken said "record this hand, it's where he doubles me up".

Cody look bemused/hungover, shoved and players behind folded.

Picken -  
Cody -

Flop came  , leaving Picken drawing very thin, but   was perfect for Picken on the turn, and was a river brick, doubling him up.

[mulhuzz]

from Alex's twitter:

Run good much? AA vs AK vs Ben Vinson for 50k. Got 175 now, avg 63. #ilovethemontecarloooooo!

gogogogogo Alex!

[TightEnd]

from Alex's twitter:

Run good much? AA vs AK vs Ben Vinson for 50k. Got 175 now, avg 63. #ilovethemontecarloooooo!

gogogogogo Alex!

saves me a typing job

[tonytats]

Go go Alex mbn gl

[TightEnd]

Into the last level of the day with 54 left on six tables

exits

55    Richard Haile
56    Sunil Mistri
57    Ben Vinson
58    Luke Spalding
59    Adam Churcher
60    Gary Orme
61    Jonathan Grice

blinds now 600-1200 ra 100

average 65,000

[pleno1]

also gl harvey butters.

[KarmaDope]

From fb:

Alex Goulder
X] paiiiiddd [X] 220k #onfuckingfire!!

[pleno1]

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• barreled twice
• rivered gutshot
• paiiiiddd
• 220k #onfuckingfire!!

[TightEnd]

Glen Storey is now out, he got it in with 33 and was called by the QQ of John Conroy, and found no help. In other news James Mitchell has been moved to the table of Jake Cody, with Cody to his immediate right.

Mitchell had been in the bar for an hour. His table had broken, he returned from the bar and wandered from table to table wondering which of the dead stacks was his. He looked like a slightly bewildered green jumpered Kermit the Frog doing so

one party of poker players, eliminated today have just ordered 12x Sambucas and 12x red bulls from a valet.

No hanging on for the next excerpt from an Alex Martin trip report, ladies and gents