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*** Team Sky Poker at the DTD Monte Carlo: LIVE UPDATES ***
Midday sees the start of Day 1c of the DTD Monte Carlo, a £1000 buy-in £500,000 event here in Nottingham
Today, and hopefully over the weekend, tikay and I will be bringing you news, pictures and stories from here at the event.
Today, and hopefully over the weekend, tikay and I will be bringing you news, pictures and stories from here at the event.
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In no particular order, qualifiers and those chosen by Sky poker's own Sir Alex Ferguson (plenty of experience, slightly red nose and prone to the odd hairdryer moment...)
Aussie09, aka Rob White.
“Madeye11”, aka Feargus Hutchins
“touchsmart”, aka Graham Weston
“carrsbar” aka Stephen Carr
"Albania" aka Endrit Geci.
"yoyo" aka Julian Thew.
"scotty77" aka Ryan Spittles
"TommyD aka a Luckbox
"Jamie Lou" aka Jamie Louise Barrett
"LAMBERT180" aka Paul Lambert
"Andrew1947" aka Andrew Garland
Good luck to them all.
Well Wednesday night saw 69 playersplay the Online leg, Day 1a and 22 made it through with the chip leader having 279,000
Yesterday 113 played the first live day, 1b, and 35 made it through as follows
John Eames 25 9 254000
Adam Wilkinson 23 8 211200
Mitchell Johnson 13 3 203900
Stacy Coore 35 5 180100
Basharat Mahmood 34 1 147100
Daniel Hardy 13 8 145400
Matthew Davenport 23 9 136100
Patrick Leonard 13 6 133400
Lee Williamson 25 2 127800
Eirimas Livonas 34 9 127600
Tom Rutter 34 2 122700
Alex Goulder 25 6 117500
John Engledow 25 5 114100
Rupinder Bedi 35 7 107600
Tom Sabell 34 7 106300
Ishfaq Mohammed 34 3 105600
Philip Hepburn 35 1 88800
Dennis Troake 13 7 83800
Oscar Bergling 34 5 81100
Darren Wheldon 13 4 74300
Jeremy Brown 23 4 70200
Chris Sly 23 3 69100
Andrew Wayman 25 8 68800
Anonymous 23 5 66000
Tom Cunningham 23 6 61800
David Mitchell 13 2 58500
Danny Toffel 13 5 56000
Ben Jackson 35 4 43100
Lynne Beaumont 23 7 41400
Chin Chai Koh 35 6 39800
Peter Haslam 13 1 32900
James Browning 25 3 30400
James Keys 25 7 30400
Rahuse Asgher 35 8 27500
James Sykes 35 9 25800
You might recognise a few names, such as beaneh...
The chip leader is one of THE most accomplished UK MTT players both live and Online, John Eames from Southport. Worth a bit of research if you have the time.
All of these players started with 30,000 chips at 50-100. 11 levels to be played today on the EPT Grand Final Structure....finish for the players around 12.30am...
"So the numbers are a little behind our targets going into the home straight tomorrow:
Day 1a Online 69 runners (target 75)
Day 1b Live 113 runners (target 125)
Day 1c Live runners (target 300)
Because we are 18 runners behind target, we now need 318 players tomorrow, to put this into context, the record for a previous Monte Carlo is 313 runners over 2 Day 1's, so we have to exceed that - but all on the same day. Currently we have 183 pre registrations for tomorrow, so need 135 players to stump up £1K tomorrow.
Once you go into the £1K mark, direct buy-ins a whole different ball game, that is why we have always been cautious not to GTE more than £250k (250 runner) for the previous Monte Carlo's. However, we felt we wanted to have a punt at getting the Monte Carlo up to £1M so we are punting this week and are not million miles away - would love to hit the number going into the ISPT launch next week, will give us a boost"
Here's Beaneh playing yesterday
and John Eames. He livened up later
and a valet. Just because I like the uniforms
Which of the 11 Team Sky Poker players will last longest in the event?
Tiebreaker: Which position will they finish?
Prize: Sunday Primo seat to the winner
So, for example
Aussie09 (Humour me), 24th
or
yoyo, 1st
etc etc
A two part answer please
Everyone who gives the correct name then goes to the tiebreaker, nearest to finishing position wins..
Please join tikay and I from midday for Live Updates, Sky Poker style.....til the last Team Sky Poker chip falls.....
Best of luck to the team today, also I really hope the guarantee is met.
Tommy 13th
Sky buy Rich Orford into the tournament and then advertise they are doing this through facebook/twitter etc. Poker players will flock to Nottingham when they see the value!
1 Mark Reed
2 Jack Allen
3 Mohammed Ifzail
4 Wayne Rogers
5 Kelly Peters
6 James Atkin
7 Lee Connett
8 Chris Jones
9 Charles Akadiri
10 Ravinder Chahal
11 Barkatul Mohammed
12 Mark Briggs
13 Adam Picken
14 Sinem Melin
15 Mark Mccluskey
16 Stephen Barrett
17 Terry Carter
18 Vikas Sabharwal
19 Francis Obadun
20 James Hoyes
so what? you say
well, 16 Stephen Barrett
is none other than "stebar", Jamie Lou's Dad!
The Rochdale massive are here to rail Jamie Lou and now they have her Dad to rail too....
Nice!
The key hand was a fun one
A raise, and a shorter stack shoves all in. This is with 50 left, and 20 seats
Stebar calls the 3 bet shove with 5-5, and finds himself against A-K and A-Q
Whoever wins this pot, goes a long way to winning a seat
King on the turn
River? 5
The crowd (well Jamie Lou, through the post-work yawns) goes wild....
The man with A-K, less so....
Last longest: Albania
Pos: 18th
andrew1847 and 3rd
gl all
Morning!
Are we ready? Well no, not exactly.
Wrong Laptop today. I forgot the power cable of my "number 1 Lappie", ugh.
Wrong weather. Got a summer scarf on.
Wrong socks. Don't ask.
Wrong TV Presenter. Orford is here. Into each life, a little rain must fall.
But.......RIGHT DAY for our Team.
Arrived already are.....
Thewy (wearing CARPET SLIPPERS!). Will try & get a photo.
JamieLou
Scotty
Andrew1947
Lambert 180
Carrsbarr
Feargus (Madeyell/MadeEye/Mareye11)
Aussie09 (flew down from Edinburgh this morning by FlyBe Bombadier, twin propellers).
TommyD
Touchsmart (Graham).
Only one I have yet to find is "albania", aka Endrit. Probably in Europe somewhere.
The 861 crew (Dan & Bruce) are currently interviewing all the lads.*
For the purpose of this Update, they will ALL be lads. Even JamieLou. Proper lad, him. Her. Whatever.
23rd
Play has started!
Table & Seat draws shortly, if I can find them.
All present & correct, all 11 of them.
Thewy still wearing carpet slippers.
Other familiar Sky Poker faces playing are Guy Collins, aka direwolf, & Ian Senior, aka MacMonster.
Others notables spotted so far....Rick Trigg, Keith "Camel" Hawkins, Simon Deadman & his beautiful girlfriend, Shana Akafrtfbjjkigvfedfhatra, & loads more, names to follow shortly.
Lovely lovely atmo here, very exciting.
Jeez, I'm so jealous of those playing!
Pictured nice and early. Just in case you understand
Some interesting seat draws.....
To the immediate LEFT of Scotty is Devilfish, who has come complete with his own hair. He has a whacking great "Hummer" parked outside the front door. Unostentatious. Not.
JamieLou has to her immediate RIGHT one Paul Zimbler, aka Marbella Kid, aka The International Poker School, aks "TIPS". Paul is VERY good indeed. I know that for a fact, he told me.