GPS Nottingham Day 1b and 1c

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Renee Xie, thankfully in focus, otherwise I would be told off

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1a

Sam Grafton 242,649
John Conroy 195,810
Neil Strike 179,449
Mohammed Sadiq 172,011
Stuart Bill 159,900
David La Ronde 154,400
Tom Middleton 153,422
James Williams 129,875
Ganesh Jayaraman 114,654
Jamie O’Connor 112,551
Stuart Fox 112,452
Susan Adams 108,808
Ben Jones 108,620
Kevin Allen 100,385
Lee Dixon 90,444
Steve Brook 89,867
Jonathan Grice 81,763
Thomas Horton 79,404
Mitch Johnson 77,536
Russell Betts 72,688
Mats Rosen 72,040
Dave Wearing 68,375
David Burraway 67,868
Mark Wagstaff 59,953
Mark Buckley 59,148
Mark Gardner 58,892
Mark Armstrong 54,125
Nathan Henry 53,552
Neil Slade 53,484
Jason Mills 52,484
Matthew Lewis 50,552
JP Kelly 46,274
Ramazanali Abbassi 46,069
Michael Kane 45,900
Martin Darnbrook 43,717
Ash Hussain 42,425
Mark Wilson 39,549
David Swan 32,868
Joe Underwood 27,732
Keith Johnson 23,221
Thomas High 23,104
Guy Johnson 16,980

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Veteran of the circuit, a min cash in every year since late night poker

Carlo Citrone

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To Carlo's right is blueace, Sean Randall from Lincoln who won in via the Live mega sat last night. Judging by the list of qualifiers, not the toughest satellite....

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arriving a bit late, and placed into seats 9 and 10 are Jack Allen and Rupinder Bedi

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actionjack sits down two to the right of Julian Thew

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Tommy Bingham on table Bedi, in trademark pose

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Peter Wigglesworth furthering the cause of fashionable hats the poker world over

 

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I won't spoil it, but the live stream is on a delay and starts shortly

There is a big one first hand, invloving Tim Chung.

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We are up to 157 runners at the start of level 2

I caught details of one of the 4 exits in the first level

Niall Farrell opened

Rubin Phan 3 bet and was flatted in the blinds

Farrell 4 bet. This at 50-100 with 25k started

Phan called as did the third player

  flop

Farrell led for 5,000

Phan all in for 20,000

Fold by the blind

Farrell calls with Pocket Kings

Phan 

Phan bricks twice and is out (temporarily?).

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Farrell and Tim Chung are early chip- leaders

Chung found Mark Warnock bluffing all the way to the buffers with King high and, I gather, found a call for his whole stack with second pair on the first hand of the tournament

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Aussie bound MC James Atkin looking to earn some spending money

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Chances of getting Sean Belton to look up from facebook for a pic, zero

So I didn't wait

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A vision in knitwear

Terry Mitford and Gladys Long

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Long time Luton player David Lloyd with a furrowed brow, next to Andrew Wright

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Shafian Rahman raises

Will Fry and Yiannis Liperis call

Chinese Frankie calls on the button

  flop

Rahman leads for 1,000

Fry and Liperis call

Frankie makes it 3,500

Rahman calls

Fry shoves......


Frankie re-shoves, this in Level 2 so already a big pot for this early in the tournament

Rahman folds

Frankie 

Fry 

Frankie holds off spades and knocks out Fry

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Next orbit Frankie raises with 8-8 and Yiannis 3 bets J-J in the big blind

Frankie calls and calls a small c-bet on 6-9-J

Frankie calls again on the 5 turn

7 river.

How is your luck Frankie?

Yian shoves his last 15,000 with top set, is called by the runner runner straight and is out


Frankie chip leader with over 70,000