Blinds 75-150 : Entries 94 : Remaining 82 : ave 11,500

Surinder Sunar and Marty Wilson sharing  one-way banter (from Marty) and numerous pots, with Surinder getting the best of it so far.

Surinder intense

Tony Phillips lateness and travel deserving of a muscle rub

Mick McCool cracks Aces of Colin Chin with 4c5c

Kevin Bloor gets his aces cracked and is out.  Lawrence Gosney called his preflop raise with 97 and hit second pair on the flop, then once all the money had gone in he hit another pair on the turn.
 

Now that the alternates period has closed, the final seating plan for all of today’s 94 starters has been released. Please note that the player listed as Stephen Walmsley is not the same person as the Stepen Walmsley who played yesterday. There are two of them.

Table  - Seat  - Player  - Starting Chips
1  - 1  - Sunny Chattha  - 10000
1  - 2  - Kevin Steward  - 10000
1  - 3  - J Omara  - 10000
1  - 4  - Richard Liotta  - 10000
1  - 5  - Dennis Clough  - 10000
1  - 6  - Colin Chin  - 10000
1  - 7  - Nik Persaud  - 10000
1  - 8  - Philippa Flanders  - 10000
1  - 9  - Michael Mccool  - 10000
2  - 1  - Martino Libertini  - 10000
2  - 2  - Charles Denton  - 10000
2  - 3  - David Laronde  - 10000
2  - 4  - Stefan Raffay  - 10000
2  - 5  - Andrew Taylor  - 10000
2  - 6  - Ian Mcdonald  - 10000
2  - 7  - Chris Bruce  - 10000
2  - 8  - Ash Hussain  - 10000
2  - 9  - Mark Dalimore  - 10000
3  - 1  - Keith Littlewood  - 10000
3  - 2  - Bill White  - 10000
3  - 3  - Simon Randall  - 10000
3  - 4  - Justin Devonport  - 10000
3  - 5  - Rob Taylor  - 10000
3  - 6  - Michael Moore  - 10000
3  - 7  - Anthony Phillips  - 10000
3  - 8  - Richard Buck  - 10000
3  - 9  - Billy Ngo  - 10000
4  - 1  - Charles Chattha  - 10000
4  - 2  - Kevin Bloor  - 10000
4  - 3  - Stephen Walmsley  - 10000
4  - 4  - Surinder Sunar  - 10000
4  - 5  - Nichiei Hicks  - 10000
4  - 6  - Martyn Wilson  - 10000
4  - 7  - Gary Holden  - 10000
4  - 8  - Maurits Van der poel  - 10000
4  - 9  - Lawrence Gosney  - 10000
5  - 1  - Waseem Shahid  - 10000
5  - 2  - Andreas Mihail  - 10000
5  - 3  - Alan Vinnicombe  - 10000
5  - 4  - Lars Hougaard  - 10000
5  - 5  - Jorn Martinsen  - 10000
5  - 6  - Mark Armstrong  - 10000
5  - 7  - Gary Chatterton  - 10000
5  - 8  - Katherine Hartree  - 10000
5  - 9  - Greg Howard  - 10000
6  - 1  - J Byrne  - 10000
6  - 2  - Tim Moreland  - 10000
6  - 3  - Alan Mower  - 10000
6  - 4  - Ben Middleton  - 10000
6  - 5  - Ian Nelson  - 10000
6  - 6  - Chris Moores  - 10000
6  - 7  - Kevin Oleary  - 10000
6  - 8  - Tim Flanders  - 10000
6  - 9  - M Cheung  - 10000
7  - 1  - Gerald Klippel  - 10000
7  - 2  - Tony Cascarino  - 10000
7  - 3  - Barry Grime  - 10000
7  - 4  - Adam Wilkinson  - 10000
7  - 5  - Richard Cook  - 10000
7  - 6  - Steven Clear  - 10000
7  - 7  - Stuart Rutter  - 10000
7  - 8  - Priyan De mel  - 10000
7  - 9  - Mohammed Shoahebe  - 10000
8  - 1  - Nicholas Gibson  - 10000
8  - 2  - Fahri Omuzubozlu  - 10000
8  - 3  - Nick Slade  - 10000
8  - 4  - Roberto Romanello  - 10000
8  - 5  - Neil Channing  - 10000
8  - 6  - Jerome Bradpiece  - 10000
8  - 7  - Andy Miles  - 10000
8  - 8  - Steve Higton  - 10000
8  - 9  - Adam Osborne  - 10000
9  - 1  - Alan Armitage  - 10000
9  - 2  - Nicky Power  - 10000
9  - 3  - Andreas Olympios  - 10000
9  - 4  - Richard Herbert  - 10000
9  - 5  - Kenny Burke  - 10000
9  - 6  - Lee Atherton  - 10000
9  - 7  - Michael La vell  - 10000
9  - 8  - James Browning  - 10000
9  - 9  - Robert Garfield  - 10000
10  - 1  - James Reid  - 10000
10  - 2  - Ryan Fronda  - 10000
10  - 3  - Christoffer Lindroos  - 10000
10  - 4  - Carl Hoefkens  - 10000
10  - 5  - Jehan Zaib  - 10000
10  - 6  - Greg Hunt  - 10000
10  - 7  - Glenn Ashworth  - 10000
10  - 8  - Sid Harris  - 10000
10  - 9  - Kuljinder Sidhu  - 10000
Alternate  - n/a  - Howard Plant  - 10000
Alternate  - n/a  - Gareth Jones  - 10000
Alternate  - n/a  - Michael Humphries  - 10000
Alternate  - n/a  - Michael Butterfield  - 10000

Blinds 50-100 : Entries 93 : Remaining 88 : Ave. 10,600 : (20min break)

Katherine Hartree looks to fold on the turn with the board showing 7TQ6.  Michael Humphreys has moved all-in after check-calling the flop and check raising the turn.  She picks her cards up to muck then pulls ‘em back and sticks her chips in, looking like she just spotted something.  He turns over pocket 77’s and Ms Hartree not happy with her call holding only AQ.  The river is an elephant and KH left with 500 chips.

A strange play from Gary Holden in a pot with Marty Wilson and Lawrence Gosney.  On a flop of 2d7s9h Marty and Gary both check and Lawrence bets 1.2k.  Marty calls, then Gary makes min. raise to 2.4k.  Lawrence calls and Marty folds.

4h on the turn and they both check (Lawrence looks bemused with the check).  9s river and Gary checks, so Lawrence bets 2.2k.  Gary folds his hand face up and it’s pocket JJ’s.  Lawrence then shows 2s6s. (Marty had folded a 9)

Chris Bruce, Ash Hussein and Mark Dalimore

Jorn Martinsen with pocket Aces gets 4k river call from Mark Armstrong (out shortly after)

Blinds 25-50 : 92 entries : 90 remaining : Ave. 10,100

(We have a notable alternate in Surinder Sunar)

Nick Gibson is second out by that man Romanello.  Nick from the cut-off makes it 150 to go and Nick Slade (button) and Roberto (SB) both call.  The flop comes 5T7 and checks to Gibson, who bets 500.  Slade folds and Roberto calls.  The turn is another 5 and Roberto checks to Gibson, who bets 2.5k.  Roberto pushes all-in and has Nick well covered.  A full 7 minutes later and Nick calls all-in for around 4.5k.  His AT is no good as Roberto shows 57 for 55577’s house.  Nick has two outs, but a queen on the river and Nick contemplating driving back home to Hertfordshire.

Michael le Vell and James Browning

Blinds 25-50 : entries 78

Some folks yet to arrive.  Most notably Neil Channing, who when he appears will sit down amidst Nick Gibson, Nick Slade, Roberto Romanello and Jerome Bradpiece !!

Your chips await you, Neil

Nick Gibson sits down

Former footballer with Japanese connections

First out is Simon Randall when his pocket Aces run foul of pocket Kings .. niice !

Only 60 entries so far today, but we are expecting a late influx and we will have two levels of play whilst we accept “alternates”.

Play is expected to start at 2PM BST and finish around 1AM.  We will play to 20 minutes into level 9 today (that’s when play finished last night for Day 1A), with each level lasting an hour apiece with a break every 2 hours and 40 mins. for dinner after level 4.

Just 17 players made it through the day, including last month’s Luton GUKPT winner Sam Trickett, who lies in second place. Brighton winner Julian Thew is also still in the mix with an above average chip stack. Chip leader Dominic Rossookh was a late entry today, but missing much of the first level seems to have done him no harm.

Player  - Chip Count
Dominic Rossookh  - 88750
Sam Trickett  - 82425
Ali Mallu  - 76925
Andy Greekfish  - 65575
James Morgan  - 64100
Julian Thew  - 59975
Terence Owens  - 52575
Dfyed Price  - 51075
Victor Kaye  - 47500
Rob Sherwood  - 40975
Richard Swerling  - 39825
Steve Craig  - 30025
Joan Lawler  - 25525
Paul Gourlay  - 24574
Steve Walmsley  - 24300
Miroslaw Klys  - 19025
Anthony Shields  - 16825

.. the clock stopped with 40 minutes left to play and down to 18 players - sorry, down to 17 as Tony Cartwright bit the dust insisting he play out his pocket 88’s against Terry Owens AK … whoops!.  With the blinds at 500-1000 ante 75 David Paul falls foul of a move that backfired from Andy Greekfish.  David had limped with A9 and Andy moved all-in for 35k with David insta-calling.  Andy bemoaning his fate turns over Q9 and is dominated.  He hits a queen on the turn to knock David out in sicko fashion.

Ali Mallu set Paul Bellamy all-in holding KQ and Paul with pocket 44’s.  The King came on the turn.

The very active Terry Owens made a play with a gutshot draw on the turn and set Sammy Cheung in for his remaining 7k.  Terry with 9T and Sammy with AT.  The river made the gutshot and Sammy made his way home.

Jimmy Morgan called Mohammed Zahour’s all-in bet of 6k preflop with A9 and Mohammed with K9, “good call”.  Mohammed will not be joining us on Saturday.

Day 1B tomorrow (FRI) will play down to 40 mins left on the clock during level 9 or until one remains (they could play headsup for the privelege of cashing or bubbling).  Full chip counts of the remaining 17 from today will follow shortly.

With one level left to play, just 24 players remain.

Table  - Seat  - Player  - Chip Count
1  - 8  - Dominic Rossookh  - 93225
1  - 4  - Sam Trickett  - 82650
1  - 1  - Ali Mallu  - 61250
2  - 5  - Dfyed Price  - 59950
2  - 2  - Julian Thew  - 54725
1  - 9  - James Morgan  - 49925
1  - 7  - Rob Sherwood  - 42925
2  - 3  - Victor Kaye  - 42525
3  - 7  - Andy Greekfish  - 35425
3  - 1  - David Paul  - 33750
2  - 4  - Terence Owens  - 31800
3  - 3  - Richard Swerling  - 28925
2  - 1  - Steve Craig  - 27450
1  - 6  - Steve Walmsley  - 24150
3  - 8  - Joan Lawler  - 21550
2  - 8  - Anthony Shields  - 20500
3  - 4  - Miroslaw Klys  - 19250
1  - 2  - Mohammed Zahour  - 17925
1  - 5  - Paul Gourlay  - 14125
2  - 7  - Sammy Cheung  - 12525
3  - 5  - Paul Bellamy  - 12475
2  - 6  - Tony Cartwright  - 10125
3  - 6  - Christopher Bell  - 5600
3  - 9  - Mark Lowe  - 5425

Blinds 400-800 ante 50 : 24 players remaining on 3 tables : ave chips 33,750

One more level to play today or down to 18 players, whichever is soonest. 

Lynne Beaumont will not be among those returning on Saturday for Day 2 proper.  She’s been taken out by Dominic Rossookh after making a stand holding KJ in the small blind.  Dominic’s raise was legitimate from the button as he turns over pocket QQ’s.  Dominic adds a further 6k to his stack.