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

[TightEnd]

One more hour long level

Finish in 1.20 then post break so 12.20am ish

[Young_gun]

Thanks again, may have to catch up in the morning to see if beanhead bubbles

[typhoon13]

Excellent work Tighty

[smokynuts]

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

Go on Darren got a wedding to pay for

[LIONRAMPANT]

Excellent work Tighty

[outragous76]

tommy c count if you manage a glimpse

[TightEnd]

tommy c count if you manage a glimpse

About 85,000 at 600-1200

[TightEnd]

Jamie Sykes raises, Stacey Coore calls in the big blind

Coore checks 10-6-4 rainbow

Sykes sets him in

Coore though has hit the jackpot, flopping top two having called the raise with 10-6 and he holds against Ace-Queen to double up and take Sykes down to a short-stack

[TightEnd]

Lee Williamson opens to 2700

Alex Goulder 7,000 in the big blind playing 140,000

Williamson calls playing 90,000



Goulder 7,500

Williamson 18,000

Goulder folds, and Goulder's run of winning small to medium pots and winning without much confrontation is temporarily halted

[TightEnd]

A 170,000 pot between John Eames and Wadey Ashraf, that creates a new chip leader......

Eames raises

Wadey 3 bets to 5,500 with  in the blinds

Eames calls

  flop.

Nice Wadey, nice

Wadey leads, Eames raises, Wadey calls

 , so Wadey is flushing, straightening and paired

Wadey check calls

  river

Good or bad news do we think?........


Wadey checks

Eames sets him in....

Wadey calls and is knocked out by  for flopped set, rivered full house



Eames now a 230,000 chipleader


Wadey out, try tomorrow

[TightEnd]

Lynne Beaumont doubles through Tommy Cunningham

Cunningham 6,500
Beaumont shove 20,000

call

Cunningham KQss loses to two red Aces

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James Keys raises

A sauced up Stuart Fox stops ribbing Keys about finishing second in the Aussie Millions long enough to 3 bet the small blind

John Engledow shoves the big

Keys folds

Fox calls all in with JJ and has ran into Aces, which holds to knock him out


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Stacey Coore button raises

Chinese Frankie stops ribbing Staurt Fox for coming from Dudley and having "the worst accent in England innit" long enough to call in the small blind

Rupinder Bedi calls in the big

K-2-A flop

check to Coore who c-bets

Both call

Q turn

all check

5 river

check

Bedi 9,500 into about 30,000

Coore folds

Frankie calls, only calls, with K-Q

Bedi 4-3off for the rivered straight

[TightEnd]

exits in this lasat level, with 5 minutes or so to play

41    Stuart Fox
42    Adebayo Odetoyinbo
43    David Lhonore
44    Vaidas Belenavicius
45    Mark Wates
46    Waheed Ashraf
47    Anonymous
48    Gary Phillips

set to be a really good line up going through for Saturday from today

chip counts as soon as I get them

[TightEnd]

Mistake earlier, I reported Devilfish out

He's wasn't, I was given the wrong seat number on the hand written down for me

Apologies

Devilfish had almost enough chips for a while that I thought that he'll be in the bar with his guitar later

[TightEnd]

"Finished day 1 with 10 times my usual main event stack. 254k!"

thats John Eames

we finish with 35

average 97,000

blinds for Saturday are 800-1600

[TightEnd]

exits in the last ten minutes of play

37    John Conroy
38    Dave Ulliott
39    Peter Gardiner
40    Imran Mckenzie