Luton Main Event - LIVE UPDATE, DAY ONE

[Dewi_cool]

Whats Tikay doin in your house he was in Luton 5 mins ago?

[NoflopsHomer]

anyone trying to take my chips in tomorrows $50 blondepokerleage comp better make sure they have a hand cause i am aiming to win my 2nd blonde comp

And the banter begins....

Cant wait for this comp personally. Been waiting to mix it up with some of the big boys for a while now. Blonde has some VERY in form players right now.

Why thanks Baron.

[tikay]

We have the full list of Runners & Riders, Jen is inputting them right now.

Chubby Nowab, Rob Yong, Mike Magee, Joe Grech are all  here.

The players are taking their seats right now.

[tikay]

More late arrivals, Smokin Steve, Bad Girl, & Greek Jack.

Willie Tann too - he tells me his wife, who has been in Hossie for a while, is much better. So that's nice.

[NoflopsHomer]

What's the starting stack/blinds/clock?

[tikay]

And it's SHUFFLE UP & DEAL!

Opening Blinds are 25-50, the clock is 1 hour, the stareting points are 10,000.

[TightEnd]

tikay, jen

when you have the list of runners and riders if you need biographical info on any of the locals just holler.....I have some stories to tell!!!


loads of Luton players qualified in the sats that have been running for six weeks now....good luck to them too, would be nice for some money to be kept local for when the regulars return  

[tikay]

Pino Valentino, the local favourite, Hair Salon & Health-Farm owner, is here too. He offered to do my hair for free.  Top bloke!

[Djinn]

Seeing as they've been so kind as to hand me an alphabetical list of runners, it's only fair that I exercise the fingers and tell you who all 107 are...

Farhad Alaaldin
Richard Ashby
Lee Atherton
David Baker
Jeanette Baker
Dave Barnes
Mark Bartlog
Tim Blake
Barny Boatman
Steve Bovis
Vincent Calenti
Andrew Callaghan
Dan Carter
Laurent Charvet
Dave Clarke
Dave Colclough
Terry Cook
Phil Cooklin
David Courtney
Steven Craig
Jomas Dahlbom
Matt Dale
Theodore Dalton
Dany Dborin
Kyriacos Dionysiou
Michael Ellis
Yucel Eminoglu
John Falconer
Tim Flanders
Lionel Flaum
Michael Fletcher
Marc Foggin
William Fox
R. Gardner-Brown
Robert Garfield
Alan Geddes
Tim Gillig
Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding
Joe Grech
Ben Grundy
Mark Harris
John Hassan
Keith Hawkins
John Hewston
Ash Hussain
Stavros Ioannou
Brian Johnson
Roger Jones
M. Kazi
JP Kelly
Chandra Khajuria
Lalit Khajuria
Jeff Kimber
Paul King
Bhupinder Kholi
Curtis Ledger
David Lloyd
Mark Luwe
Andrew Lyew
Mike Magee
Paul Malone
David Maudlin
Tom McCready
Ambro Morreale
Andrew Muir
John Murphy
Stuart Nash
Nour Nouri
Simon Nowab
Denis O'Mahoney
Luke Patten
Stephen Pearce
Niamh Peters
Philip Peters
Stephen Read
James Reid
Jeffrey Rogers
Hamid Rowshanaei
Allan Rudge
Brian Sadler
Dan Samson
Chris Sandercombe
Jason Simpson
David Smith
Peter Smyth
Rumit Somaiya
Chris Stavri
Willie Tann
Julian Thew
Hamid Toghyan
Justin Turner
Matt Tyler
Pino Valentino
Paul Vicary
Ben Vinson
Steve Vladar
Xuyen Pham
Keiran Walsh
Sam Wardlaw
Mickey Wernick
George White
Melissa White
Nick Whiten
Ian Woodley
Ian Woodward
Bambos Xanthos
Rob Yong

And two late entries, making it 109, whose names are:  R. Fronda and M. Morjaria.

They're sat, and the cards are in the air!

[TightEnd]

Alan Geddes is Tony Blair's tennis coach

I kid you not.

don't try asking him anything important though, he had to sign the official secretS act.

[tikay]

Thanks Tighty, keep that sort of stuff coming please, it's most useful.

Now, we have BIG action already........

[Djinn]

News from RED-DOG - Dave just lost half his stack at this oh-so-early stage after turning a straight, but he was up against a house... still plenty of time for recovery and then some, however. 

[tikay]

I arrive at Table 3 to see Jim Reid ALL-IN, with Simon Nowab dwelling - then passing, & Richard Gardner-Brown having a HUGE dilemma.

This is the Flop & Turn, Jim moved in on the turn......

 

Mr Gardner-Brown, incredibly, eventually passed pocket sixes, & Chubby Nowab tells me he passed the nut straight draw! And Jim, word has it, had  for the nut straight. Phew!

[tikay]

Oops, I've been instructed by the Boss-ess - Jen - to go & take some pics. So I had better do as I'm told..... She's a MEAN woman.

[tikay]

Dave Colclough loses half his stack with a straight, when Brian Johnson, with 2-2 in the hole, made the full-house!

But amazingly, we have an exit, too....