Sky Poker UKPC @DTD £1,000,000 GTD Day Two

[Tal]

Did I hear the sound of a falling gauntlet, Tighty?

[Tal]

161 remain with ten minutes before the break.

A long slog to get here and an even longer one ahead.



Who will save the Princess?

[TightEnd]

meanwhile across the bottom floor is a real table

Alex Goulder
Alex Spencer
Wadey
Mad Turk

all sat in seats 5-9

looking like two choirboys and two gangsters thrown together in a weird altar-lock up combo

as i arrive at the table Spencer has raised and Goulder has called in the big blind

they both check

Goulder leads for 15,000 on the turn

Spencer calls

river

Goulder 40,000

Spencer looks up from his cajun chicken long enoguh to call and Goulder says "no pair"

Spencer shows to win the pot

--

i continue to watch and its all raise fold until a short-stack doubles through Wadey, shoving Q-J, Wadey calls in the big blind with Ace-King and loses to a flopped queen

unfortunately, as the TV rigging has added a lot of paraphanealia to the room i am unable to exit sharply

i am caught

wadey rises and saunters towards me

i know what is coming, and it is unavoidable

"lost three times with kings to an underpair this tournament."

pause

"each time on the river"

pause

"now he flops a queen"

"can't believe it"

i take my medicine, and eventually make my excuses

poker updaters should get aural danger money

[Knottikay]

Cimbolas gathers more chips. Tuna, harpooned, sinks back into his chair   

 

[Tal]

Leigh Wiltshire has decided he wants to let someone else win this year. Having just met the chap, he seems nice and took his exit like a gent (story is a slightly dull succession of running into better hands and not getting therrrrrre).

I would have done this:

[TightEnd]

156 left after two levels play today, at the first break

blinds go 4000-8000

average is 320,000

recent exits

158    David Dee
159    Anonymous
160    Leigh Wiltshire
161    Christopher Brammer
162    Kfir Ivgi
163    John Eames
164    Kambiz Meskini
165    Andy Darwood
166    Neil Cleghorn
167    Tony Andreou
168    Liam Obrien
169    Clive Jones
170    Peter Astley
171    Tony Salmon
172    Robert Moss
173    Jonathan Wilson
174    Anonymous
175    Sophie Rigali
176    Carl Shaw
177    Yehoram Houri
178    Robert Malvasi
179    Ahmet Melin
180    Peter Craw
181    Renee Xie
182    Justin Astley
183    Jason Chamberlain
184    William Kassouf
185    Anonymous
186    Anonymous
187    Matthew Curtis

[Tal]

On table 33, John Engledow shoves his shortstack over the 17k open of Michael Welland.

AQ matches up poorly against AK.

It's no prettier after a king on the flop and Engledow departs.

[Tal]

Gary Bryan lasts one hand longer, his 16bb J5o cut off shove not defeating Kev Williams's AQ.

[TightEnd]

Dewi James is up over 800,000

to be fair to me, given my surprise at this turn of events, my eyebrows only shifted slightly higher when he confirmed his stack to me

"a lot of big hads, Aces, ace king" he tells me is the simple story of his progress to over double average.

long may it continue

--

Paul McTaggart is also in the upper echelons of the field, well over 700,000 on the bottom tier. Keep waiting to see him play a hand, only to be left wanting, but i will keep trying

[TightEnd]

Gareth Brideaux opens to 17,000 and Chris Vernon calls in the cut off

Osman Mustanoglou calls on the button and former grand priz winner Tan Le calls in the big

it comes 

All four players check

 

Brideaux 23,000

Vernon and Le call



all check to Vernon who bets 40,000 playing around 300,000

Le folds

Brideaux calls

"i am playing the board" says Vernon

Brideaux shows him 

Vernon sighs

"i was leaning" he says

"remind me not to try that" i reply

[TightEnd]

Moving on to the next table i only arrive at the board of 3-2-3-6-8

Ballymore chris in the big blind has led for 25,000 on the river into alex goulder, who ponders

Goulder who is another big stack of a day of quick exits and huge stacks being built, calls

"King high" says Chris

Goulder almost imperceptibly appears to begin to muck, when Chris revelas KJdd

Goulder flips K-J too

everyone loves a chop pot, especially with no pair between them

[TightEnd]

Chris Radford opens to 17,000

Gordon MacArthur calls in the cut off

Paul actionjack calls on the button

it comes 6-2-6

all check

Ace of spades on the turn

Radford 23,000, call

King of spades on the river

Radford checks

Jackson 40,000

fold

Jackson shows 2-2 for the flopped house

[TightEnd]

side by side now on the feature table...

Click to see full-size image.

[TightEnd]

at the other end of the feature, its tiring business for steve watts

[iangascoigne]

   Just how good is it to have Tighty and Tal providing these updates. Well done guys.