DTD £500 WSOP Warm Up Deepstack £150,000 GTD Day 1a

[Sulphur man]

Julian Thew has now moved to table cambridgealex, which I will be watching


Thew opens the button to 1,200

Alex 4,000 in the blinds

Thew 9,000 on the button

Alex a rueful smile and a fold....

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[TightEnd]

Keith Johnson pauses from eating lasagne long enough to min-raise UTG. UTG raise and stops eating to raise. If Carlsberg did tells...

but as Alex Goulder who calls in the small blind says "you know that we know that you should be strong if you stop eating to raise"

Barrie Evans all in for 9,000 in the big blind

Johnson passes and goes back to his meaty pasta goodness

Goulder "Ha, I knew you were at it"

then he has to consider the shove

As he considers Evans tells him

"I want a call"

Goulder laughs

"is that becauses you have a strong hand or want the double up?"

Goulder knows that Evans knows the lasagne reverse tell indoctrinated in Navarro's book of tells, clearly

Goulder calls with K-Qo

Evans J-10o

"Ha, I was ahead!" says Goulder


Jack on the turn to double Evans up.

Suddenly, Alex is silent. Another cunning plan goes awry.

[TightEnd]

Break after 7 levels

Only 4 to go. Only 4 to go

If I repeat it often enough it doesn't sound so bad


43 of 70 entries +12 re-entries left

blinds go 400-800 next

Average 49,000


Everyone chasing Matthew Maule with 220,000.....

[TightEnd]

Immediately after the break

Matthew Maule doubles up Andy King

Maule button raises K9cc and calls the 12,000 King shove

King Aces, flop 8-9-A



Meanwhile Colburn Tomlin shoved a short-stack with A-J, getting multiple callers, possibly for a multitude of reasons

Kenny Prazer with A-6 accounted for him on a 6-2-6 flop

Shola Akindele with 10-10 an unlucky caller but got away without too much damage

[RobM]

Hi. Can I have a chip update for John Wootton please? Rotherham player like me..

Cheers

[TightEnd]

Craig Owen opens to 2,600 at 400-800 in the cut off

Alex Goulder calls on the button


Owen check calls 3,200 from Goulder on 

Owen check calls 6,100 on the  turn

Owen leads for 7,000 on the  river

Goulder thinks, calls, mucks when Owen shows 

[TightEnd]

Hi. Can I have a chip update for John Wootton please? Rotherham player like me..

Cheers

Still in with 43,000. Average is 52,900 with 40 left today.

[TightEnd]

catching up with the last 20 exits, some of whom are in for two entries already ahead of tomorrow

41    Ben Senior
42    Colburn Tomlin
43    Lawrence Gosney
44    Neil Giblin
45    Anonymous
46    Matthew Davenport
47    Sunil Mistri
48    William Champion
49    Algernon Buchanan
50    Justin Devonport
51    Stephen Lovatt
52    Mark Holden
53    Terence Mitford
54    Kevin Asquith
55    Gordon Goodall
56    Stephen Rawle
57    Ian Gascoigne
58    Jamie Burland
59    Paul Rayner
60    Syed Zaidi

[TightEnd]

Craig Owens opens

Alex Goulder flats the 2,200

Jamie Moult 8,000 3 bet

Owens flats

Goulder now shoves, K-Q

Moult calls with J-J

Owens folds

Jacks hold, Goulder out

[TightEnd]

Keith Johnson raises J-9

Paul Skipper calls in the big blind with J-4hh

flop 6-8-9hh with 4,000 in the middle

Skipper open shoves his flush draw for 17,000

Johnson calls

8 turn

8 river

Full house sends Skipper to the exit.


36 left nearing the end of Level 8

[TightEnd]

Danny Toffel raises with J-J

5 callers. In Level 8!

flop 4-5-7

Andrew Wilson leads out of the blinds for 10,000

Toffel the only caller

turn 10

Wilson shoves 27,000

Toffel calls all in

Wilson 6-6

river 3 to knock Toffel out

[TightEnd]

Level 9

500-1000

Average 60,000

35 of 74 entries/13 re-entries remain


3 levels to play tonight, Entry still open.

[TightEnd]

Tim Blake and Anthony Nicholls get it all in on K-Q-4-9

Blake with K-9 doubles up Nicholls with 4-4 and he is left very short-stacked

[TightEnd]

Chip leaders


Simon Deadman 205,000
Matthew Maule 180,000
Graham Carter 140,000
Nicholas Fellone 130,000
Jamie Moult 120,000
Thomas Ambler 120,000
Nick Hicks 100,000
Kenny Prazer 100,000

Of the 35 left, these are the only >100k stacks at 500-1000

[TightEnd]

and Tim Blake now out A-Q falls to K-Q

of Anthony Nicholls he said "I had two pair but somehow I never believe he has it..." This time, he did have it. Same old story, sometimes..