DTD Monte Carlo £500,000 GTD: Day 1b and Competition

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Reminder tonight at 8pm

£50 rb Live Sat for tomorrow

Last night overlaid over £10,000 with 20 seats Guaranteed

Just over 1 in 3 got a seat, and therefore a shot at the £120,000+ first prize on Sunday

Looking like the event will overlay the £500,000 too....so double value if you can get here....

[outragous76]

In shock news Tommy Cunningham becomes the first flump ever to register for a poker torunament

haha incred! and GLGL that man

Wont be folding the ol tensy fivey after our strat discusion last week thats for sure!

Live score due for sure!

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So, from table Bedi-Sam-Jamie

at 75-150

1.

Terry Owens limps UTG
Leigh Rawson 600 UTG+1
Grafton calls
Sykes calls big blind

 

check check Rawson 1425, all pass

2

Vaidas Belenavicius limps
Grafton 500
Bedi calls
Charles Akadiri calls



checked to Bedi who bets 850, all fold

3

Sykes 400 otb

Both blinds Owens and Rawson call



Owens leads 1,000

Sykes calls

check check check check on turn and river of

 

showdown

Owens 

Sykes  is good


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Moving to the next table

David Mitchell limps

John Eames 500

Anon calls next to speak

Adrian Swingler calls

Mitchell calls

 

checked to Anon, 850

Mitchell the only caller

 

 

checked down

Mitchell 

loses to Anon 

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Tommy "Guns" Ambler, or, as he is known since his spell under the tanning lamp, Tommy Ambler Solaire

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Impromptu Poker Strategy strategy strategising about Poker ecology, perhaps...

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Winner of the APAT WCOAP here, then Gukpt Didsbury last weekend

Erimas Livonas, Lithuania's greatest export since subterranean water, which constitutes more than a half of the total value of natural resources expoirted from the country. Come on, you never knew that.

[Andypolack]

Just doubled up super tilted short stack Sopiano, aipf kk vs 44 with a 4 on the flop. Looked like he was about to blow up the next hand too

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Lynne Beaumont considers the latest hard hitting Mail Online article

"How can a bimbo like Holly Willoughby be worth £40m?"

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I have no idea

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First break of the day after two levels

90 are in, no exits

blinds go 100-200 next

Late registration open til 9pm, and all being wellnumbers will climb towards 150. That sort of figure needed to hit this guarantee tomorrow....

[millidonk]

More to the point how did this lizard face marry a woman that fit worth £40mil.



He must have a footlong.

[YEAHMAN123]

GL today all blondes

[theprawnidentity]

I wouldn't kick her out of bed.  Think it would be more down to lack of opportunity then anything...

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A big pot plays out between L'Honore and Chinese Frankie

25,000 in the middle, board reading



L'Honore all in for 25,000 after the river

Frankie rthinks and thinks, clock called, thinks some more

you know what he is thinking...



but he calls with

L'Honore 

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Alex Goulder raises to 500 at 100-200

Next to him Vasile Cosmin Stancu calls

In the big blind Scott Margereson calls

 

check

Goulder 1300

Stancu makes it 2300

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Scott folds, Goulder calls with a sidewards glance, and a very middle class expression of bewilderment, as if someone has begun talking to him on the tube. Not that he'd know what public transport is

 

Goulder checks

Stancu 2300

Call



check check

Goulder's Jacks..



Stancu   

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On a flop of  

Peejay Jenkinson checks in the small blind

Francis Obadun 1200 in the big blind

Peejay Jenkinson raises to 4000

Obadun all in for 15,000

Peejay snap calls with  

Obadun  

turn  

river  

Obadun doubles up to 32,000