DTD £150 £50,000 Deepstack Mid-May :Day 1a

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Jamie Morris takes a break from saving the planet

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Two sugars please

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Karl Grogan

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Adam Daniel is out

Amazingly, in Level 4 and 30,000 starting he is out holding an eight and a four

Daniel called in position after a limper then a raiser with 8-4

The Anon with whom he tangled earlier 3 bet the big blind with A-Q

All three limper/raisers call

A-10-4

Checked to Daniel who bet, A-Q calls

10 turn

checked to Daniel who shoves, and he's called by top two pair

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Sometimes you just scratch your head,



Terry Mitford 800 at 150-300 UTG

Karl Grogan calls

Jamie Moult 2,100 in the cut off

Peter Meldrum 7,000 on the button

back to Mitford who makes it 15,000


All the effective stacks 30-35k here

Grogan and Moult fold

Meldrum calls

So we have a 110x bb pot here

 

Mitford open shoves

Meldrum snaps him off

With  

Mitford stands up, exclaims the exclamation of exclaimer of the year and shows  

Ace-Nine holds, and Meldrum is our chipleader.

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Break after 4 levels

95 of 97 remain

Out.

96    Lewis Jackson
97    Sean Rigley

Playing 15 levels tonight

Wonder what I will talk to myself about!

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A big pot develops between Peter Thorpe, Adam Daniel and Anon

The board reads 

16,000 in the middle and I arrive as Anon bets 7,000 on the river when checked to

Thorpe passes after a ponder

Daniel tells him "I don't know what you are thinking about, you haven't even got a pair"

Daniel tells Anon "Have you got the Jack then? I've got Aces, can you beat Aces?"

No reply

Daniel sigh calls, mucking when shown 

Thorpe had Kings here

Thorpe checked the turn

Daniel 1,200, Anon calls

Thorpe c-raise to 3,300

Daniel calls

Anon calls

then the action as above

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RED-DOG is all in blind on blind at the beginning of level 5 for 27,000 at 200-400 after big blind Nicholas Flanagan has 3 bet him

Flanagan passes after a long think

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Michael Varnham doubles htrough Greek Jack, Aces against Ace-king

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Chris Rhodes doubles through

Raises with Kings, called in the big blind by Amjid Parveez

Parveez fires 2,000 donk leading on 

Rhodes makes it 6,500

Parveez shoves

with 

Immediate call

  to tie it up for LeedsRhodesy

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Sometimes you just scratch your head,



Terry Mitford 800 at 150-300 UTG

Karl Grogan calls

Jamie Moult 2,100 in the cut off

Peter Meldrum 7,000 on the button

back to Mitford who makes it 15,000


All the effective stacks 30-35k here

Grogan and Moult fold

Meldrum calls

So we have a 110x bb pot here

 

Mitford open shoves

Meldrum snaps him off

With  

Mitford stands up, exclaims the exclamation of exclaimer of the year and shows  

Ace-Nine holds, and Meldrum is our chipleader.

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Grand Prix finalist and Caribbean bound, the laconic Peter Evans

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local legend Wadey models local team strip

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Two seats in the £5-5 ROE for anyone who fancies it

Line up

Jakally
Skolsuper
Rob
Sim Trumper
Devilfish
Random

.......

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George Bedi opens to 925

Peter Thorpe calls

Orlando Anderson calls on the button

the Anon chip leader who stacked Adam Daniel makes it 3,600 in the big blind

Bedi folds

Thorpe and Anderson call

 

Anon 10,000

Thorpe shove for 17,375

Anderson fold

Anon call

Thorpe "I hope my read is right or else I am in trouble" and shows 

Anon 

That would be a wrong read then

  turn and river and Anon, luckily for me (not) is now chip leader with comfortably over 100,000

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Vittorio Carratu and Greek Jack get it all in on A-J-10 rainbow

Jack has led, Carratu shoves

Jack calls with J-10

Carratu K-Q

Broadway holds to double Carratu up

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I wander past table Peejay to see that his stack has increased considerably to over 50,000

I raise an eyebrow

Carla Goddard shoots me a look that says in no uncertain terms that I am not to enquire of her what happened

Luckily before I take my life into my own hands, Peejay volunteers that he had "a royal flush draw"

Carla "he got sooooo lucky"

Peejay "no I didn't. I hit a flush"

Carla down to about 12,000