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

[TightEnd]

David Mitchell knocks out Greek Jack and Verification Piper in the same hand

Jack shoves, Piper shoves, Mitchell in the big blind calls both

Mitchell A-J holds against A-3 and K-10 on 7-5-Q-2-9 to take us below 60 left with two and a half levels left to play today

[TightEnd]

Darren Wheldon raises and Chris Sly calls in the blinds

the flop comes

Which is fun/no fun, as

Wheldon

Sly

get 120,000 in on the flop to double Wheldon up

[JK]

Great updates as always Tighty. Not gonna do a GL list, wayyyyy too many heroes in a single tournament!

[TightEnd]

Two levels left tonight

55 of 113 remain

blinds go 500-1000 with average currently 61,000

Chip leaders all over 150,000 are Mitch, Adam Wilkinson and Dan Hardy

top ten stacks include John Eames, Livonas, Bash Mahmood


Outside the top ten but above average Alex Goulder and Rupinder Bedi with 70,000

[TightEnd]

catching up with exits

54    Ben Dobson
55    Steve Mcdonagh
56    Mathew Miners
57    Paul Zimbler
58    Kyriacos Dionysiou
59    Michael Piper
60    Alan Stearn
61    Guy Barron
62    Kev Smith
63    James Atkin
64    Iwan Jones
65    Sam Patel

[rfgqqabc]

Michael "wazz" Piper

Wazz the guy who had the sick Omaha heater? Went from 5/10 to nosebleeds in 6 months or so a few years back?

[TightEnd]

Stuart Fox opens on the button to 2200

Alex Goulder calls in the big blind



Goulder check calls 2500



check check



check check

Fox "ten high"

Goulder shows

I look, the table looks

Alex says to Fox

"didn't fancy bluffing the King or the Ace then?"

pause

"set of threes against ten high. Great"

[TightEnd]

pleno now over 100,000 next to Dennis Troake

Apparently Mr Troake has been a tough opponent for pleno, and has just had "his trousers down" (sources at the table)

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[TightEnd]

Danny Toffel next to John Eames

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[TightEnd]

James Browning and Stuart Fox

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[TightEnd]

Adam Wilkinson

[TightEnd]

50 left

Ishfaq Mohammed knocks out Devilfish

Devilfish 3 bet shoves a shortstack pre-flop with A-Q, called by 9-9

4-10-J-J-8 board

[TightEnd]

David L'Honore has doubled a short-stack through Wadey Ashraf

3-3 v A-Q all in pre on J-5-J-9-2


Meanwhile Ian Turner is out

Small blind A-10 shove 16,000

Patrick Leonard A-K on the big blind

10 high flop

King on the turn to do for Turner

[TightEnd]

Final break of the night after 10 levels

exits

49    Ian Turner
50    Mathew Perry
51    Tom Kugelstadt
52    Vasile Cosmin Stancu
53    John Sadler
54    Ben Dobson
55    Steve Mcdonagh
56    Mathew Miners
57    Paul Zimbler
58    Kyriacos Dionysiou


we now play 600-1200

average is 70,000


chip leaders are still Adam Wilkinson, Daniel Hardy and Mitch Johnson all 180,000 plus


Of others you will be following

Over 120,000

Patrick Leonard
John Eames
Erimas Livonas

Over average

Wadey Ashraf
George Bedi
Alex Goulder
Lee Williamson
Tommy Cunningham
John Conroy
Jamie Sykes
Oscar Bergling

Short

Peter Gardiner
Andrew Wayman
Tom Rutter
Chinese Frankie
James Keys
Stuart Fox
Ben Jackson

[Young_gun]

Thanks for the updates tightness, when does it finish <30 mins i assume?

Good luck all blondites