ISPT Wembley Day2b

[GlennDuskTillDawn]

Not sure of the action but I'm confident I just saw Frankie show a Full house 9's full of Jacks. His opponent flips over quad Jacks and declares 'You have 9's I go all in with 9's.' Frankie lets out a small smile and responds with 'You check, I bet, then call an all in.'

[KarmaDope]

Lots of small pots so far and lots of chatter...

No, this isn't the entirety of the Beckham room, this is just Frankie's table. He spots me as he is in a hand and calls me over:

"Write this down, yes, you, the English *points at one of our Spanish colleagues* and make sure you write this down as well! I want this in Portuguese as well". Naturally, I did, and the flop was and Frankie has checked to a player whose name has not yet appeared on our player list. Mateyboy bets 600 and Frankie calls.

The turn is the and Frankie is relentless with the speech play, but checks again. His wary opponent checks behind and the river is the . Frankie again checks and his opponent checks behind. Neither have a diamond and Frankie's is good, but there has to be one last comment as he tells Mateyboy "If you bet I fold". Mateyboy just grins ruefully and says "yeah, I know!"

[KarmaDope]

Pete Linton qualified last night with a ridiculous 190k stack. Today he's found himself on the same table as Liz Lieu and is already up over 230k after "I called a raise with QT and the flop was QT3 all spades. I got paid off when I rivered a Ten and somehow the guy over there (Nuno Miguel Campos Antunes) flats me with AK spades".

[KarmaDope]

Some early twitter updates:

Jamie Sykes @gotdeuces Ok, after an hour of queueing I'm finally sat down. Table looks good too, so hopefully I'll be able to give this thing a decent spin. #ISPT

Tom Langley @MtSpewmore Managed to get the A4 v A9 on A49A3ccc and somehow not go broke. 30k #ISPT

Nick Jenkins @nickjenkins01 started on 52k now on 72k with the help of a set of jacks #ISPT

Ben Jenkins @TFPbenj Re-entered, made a set, up to 70k and a much better table today #ispt

Guy Johnson @outragous76 Flop a set from sb  vs mr active! River quads and he somehow finds ck ck for the first time today! Sigh #ISPT #blondepoker

[T8MML]

A prophecy comes true!!

Two/three years ago I said at DTD

"if you were at Wembley stadium you would be able to hear Frankie if he was there"

[TightEnd]

Approaching the first break of the day and 408 in so far, 727 total

We are over-spilling 10 tables into the Pele Room too..

Here are the exits so far

398    Matthew Rosenberg
399    Carlo Cantone
400    Steve Krosby
401    Hugh Black
402    Patricia Almeras
403    Dorin Rauta
404    Allan Peers
405    Sunil Mistri
406    Thomas Mcmanus
407    Prapatsorn Srinamueang
408    Domonic Cugudda

All the names you'd expect to direct buy in are here, except those in Vegas.

All the DTD regs you'd expect to see are here.

Problem is, and accounting for the vast majority of the numbers shortfall compared to what is required, is that the "grass roots" of poker pubs, poker clubs, home games etc have very little presence here, and indeed didn't in the Online satellites/feeders either.

[janstar]

Afternoon Tighty....Any chance of a photo & chip count for Murtagh Mulholland(tbl 33 s 3) DTD Poker League Freeroll  to Wembley..not bad for an Irishman from Retford.thank you and good luck for the day ahead.

[janstar]

Afternoon Tighty....Any chance of a photo & chip count for Murtagh Mulholland(tbl 33 s 3) DTD Poker League Freeroll  to Wembley..not bad for an Irishman from Retford.thank you and good luck for the day ahead.

CHECK....TABLE 30 SEAT 3..MURTAGH MULHOLLAND.APOLOGIES

[TightEnd]

So currently

729 entries at €2700+300

€1.968m prize pool

20% for 1st is €393,000, added money to take that to €1m is

€607,000


Late entry til the end of Level 8

SNGs running all day here for £260 a pop


Doubt you'll see anything like this anywhere again in the UK (event or overlay!). If you want to get here, and either DBI or SNG, we'd all be delighted to see you!!

[GlennDuskTillDawn]

'Frankies Back.'
After his 9's cooler Frankie and Tom Langley chop a big pot. The pot is opened for 1175 on   Frankie 3 bets to 2800 which Tom flats. Seat two (sat between TL and Frankie) 4 bets to 7700. Frankie shoves for 36K as does Tom with 31. After much thought seat two calls and shows a set of Jacks, Frankie shows   and Tom likewise with   . The turn and river play out    . Tom rakes his pot quietly, while Frankie declares that he indeed is back.

[pleno1]

Is terr a 1c tomorrow? May as well get a flight I guess...

[pleno1]

Tom ambler updates?

[TightEnd]

Is terr a 1c tomorrow? May as well get a flight I guess...

No, buy ins end at 10pm tonight

[TightEnd]

Tom ambler updates?

will get on my next trip down

[TightEnd]

Praz is here, next to Sean Randall

Praz heads to Vegas in mid June, but not before a trip to macau for a big MTT (Trickett won it last year iirc, Champions Cup maybe?)

Click to see full-size image.

To Praz's right is the superb David Geeforce Gent