Dan Samson finishes 3rd for £50,880

Dan (TT) goes allin and called by Ketul (AJ) who rivers an Ace.

Shortly afterwards, Tony with 450k and Ketul with 3.8 million and Tony moves allin with A2 and called by Ketul with pocket 55’s.  No double up for Tony and,

Anthony Phillips finishes 2nd for £69,960

And then there was one

Ketul Nathwani finishes 1st for £119,780

David Rudling (AQ) doubles up through Tony Philips(K3)

Then gives them all away to Ketul Nathwani (now massive chip leader)

David raises to 90k from the small blind and Ketul “allin” and insta called by David who has AJ.  Ketul was making a play with Q2 .. BUT .. he hits the deuce and ..

David Rudling our courageous online qualifier finishes 4th for £33,920

Blinds at 15k 30k ante 2k 

David Rudling (AK) doubles up to 800k offa Tony Phillips (KJ - “I’ve made worse calls”)

Ketul Nathwani 2 million
Tony Phillps 1 million
David Rudling 800k
Dan Samson 300k

Fran Egan finishes 7th for £15,900

On a flop of 7J9 Fran moves allin and called immediately by Tony Phillips (J9) with top two pair.  Fran has a gutshot draw with 58… no good.

Steve Jelinek finishes 6th for £20,140

He goes allin with pocket TT’s and called by Ketul with AK with a King coming on the flop.

Maria Demetriou finishes 5th for £26,500

Ketul makes it 65k to go then a ruling is called for when Maria announces allin and Ketul “call” out of turn with Tony Phillips still to act.  He folds AK face up knowing that Ketul was now forced to call.

Maria with AdTd and Ketul Qh8h.  An Ace does materialise but Ketul Nathwani makes a flush and builds his stack back up.  We’re now 4 handed and they are taking a short break to discuss matters.

Tony Phillips 1.6 mil and level with Ketul Nathwani 1.6 mil

 David Rudling 600k and Dan Samson 400k going into Level 23

Lloyd Rees is out courtesy of Anthony Phillips, our new chip leader

Lloyd went allin with A5 and called by Tony with AJ and hit the Jack.

Lloyd Rees gets £12,720 for 8th

Tony Phillips doubles up through Ketul Nathwani.  Ketul has raised his BB too many times so Tony takes a stand and moves allin with K4. Ketul calls, though with pocket 99’s.
The first card out on the flop is a King and a huge roar goes up around the room.  Likable chap this Anthony Phillips.

David Rudling (calls with A5 on the big blind) takes out Colin Kennedy (KT from the small blind)

Colin finishes in 9th for £9,540

Ketul Nathwani 1.2million
Daniel Samson 650k
Tony Phillips 440k
Fran Egan 400k
Lloyd Rees 335k
Steve Jelinek 320k
Maria Demetriou 315k
Colin Kennedy 200k
David Rudling 200k

Blinds for this level 12k 24k ante 2k

Entries: 424
No of players left: 9
Average stack: 424,000
Chip Leaders: Ketul Nathwani (1 million)
Blinds for Level 21: 10k 20k ante 1k

Players have just broken for nice sitdown dinner in the Vic restaurant.  The break will last approx an hour.

Ketul Nathwani is dominating the table and looks to have around a million in chips - TBC shortly.  His over the top raises are being met with respect from all quarters.
Tony Phillips makes it 55k to go and Ketul asks “how much more?”  “Around 350k”. Ketul bets allin on the flop of 9hJs7s.  Ketul lifts his collar up to his chin and assumes the pose… and takes it down.  “Flush draw?” asks Tony a few mins later.

Fran Egan is a player.  He picks on Maria to raise-bluff her flop bet with the two of them left in the blinds.  He’s building his stack nicely.

David Rudling very quiet this level, esp. since Ketul has position on him (his immediate left) and taken him off hands.  David down to 250k it looks like (TBC)

Tony Phillips gets some back from Fran and Fran takes some from Jelinek.  Steve not getting any joy with his preflop raises as yet. 

Colin Kennedy focused and in his own world, unspeaking and unflappable, but dwindling fast.

Chip counts to follow.

No flops seen for 25 minutes then Fran Egan raises to 65k from the cut-off and is called by Tony Phillips in the small blind.

Tony announces allin on a flop of 8dQsKh and Fran thinks before calling with AQ.  Tony has pocket 66’s.  The turn and river come 8c3d and Fran Egan doubles up with the final bet of 84k.

1st £119,780
2nd £69,960
3rd £50,880
4th £33,920
5th £26,500
6th £20,140
7th £15,900
8th £12,720
9th £9,540