The 12pm flight has begun with 22 runners, late registration is until 4.40pm
Shortly a list of players and their seating will appear here
From last night, with day 2 today
Chi Zhang 197,200
Ben Vnson 123,000
Mitch Johnson 58,000
Martyn Frey 87,500
Ben Dobson 40,800
Raj Dhiri 93,300
Andrew Hills 32,500
Table 2
Dan O’Callaghan 94,000
Wadey Ashraf 40,000
M Ishfaq 64,400
Asif Raja 98,900
Alex Lindop 30,000
Phil McConnell 78,200
Mick Fletcher 55,400
Table 3
Nish Hndocha 58,500
Natalia Breviliglieri 41,300
Tom Kugelstadt 33,100
Robert Bickey 77,300
Alan Stead 53,300
Luke Marsh 26,800
Terrence Owens 78,300
Mario Surano 45,900
currently adding £42,00, entry is open to 3.20pm today
Sitting next to each other in our small opening field are layers with a combined age of (deleted to spare their blushes)
Tim Blake (a Leicester City fan since 2016, about to be a Manchester United fan) and Mark McCluskey
and next to them, but with position, Rob Moss
A new table is opened as players file into the building to buy-in
First hand at a newly opened table Richard Paul opens to 450 at 75-150 in mid position
Tamara King calls in the small blind
King check calls a 525 continuation bet on a flop of
the turn comes and both check
the river and King checks
Paul reaches for chips and bets 1600
King calls
and mucks when Paul shows for the rivered nut flush
Newly arrived is the runner up from the first Grand Prix of the 2015-16 GPPT, Paul Romain
Paul had a golden chip for that event and effectively lost a £50,000 flip to win the event and cash in the chip.
Looks like its still on his mind (or it might be Alan Pardew’s strategy in the transfer market, or both)
Danny Toffel is up for the weekend. Danny bought a Tesla car this week, its adorning the DTD car park…
Jonty Willis, known for reasons i do not know as Pigeon, is here. Following the standard “modern life” tenet of always being attached to a mobile phone