Coverage of the SPT Grand Final LIVE from DTD

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A reminder of yesterday's news

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Sky Poker UK Poker Championships at DTD in February. A fantastic week long festival, with a £500,00 GTD Main event

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Play has resumed

36 left, 23 paid

blinds 2500-5000

average 180,000

£17,500 TO THE WINNER

Sammydrid

Gwan LFB (Nigel Boylan), 1 Time for another diamonder FT.

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Liam Batey knocks out Hayton94 in 35th, AK beats 10-10 all in pre-flop

Liam is challenging to be chip leader

Sky_Dave

First hand of the day and our first elimination, and it's bad news for Sky Poker regs: Aussie09 is OUT.

Gentleman on the button opened to 10k with the blinds at 2.5k/5k/a500 and Aussie decides to 3bet it to 26k.

The big blind now shoves for 174k total, but before the dealer can complete the count Rob calls, out of turn and with the player to his left still to decide. Oops.

The button eventually passes and Rob tables Ah-Th but is in terrible shape against A-A. The board rolls out harmless, Aussie wishes the remaining players good luck and heads to the rail.

Sky_Dave

Rob did hit the rail ahead of Liam Batey's victim by the way. Tighty is just more succinct than me. I blame his beard.

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Underway again

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James Tomlin raises button and Ben Vinson calls big blind

Q-5-5 flop

check bet call

9 turn

Two stacks in

Tomlin Q-9

Vinson K-5

River 9

Tomlin knocks out Vinson 32nd

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Chris Vernon and Rehman Kassam interviewed by tattytats before the start

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Keith Johnson, chip leader Paul Haycock and John Hicks

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Ebberdon and Oban on the rail with a Sunday lunchtime pint

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Presenter support for McClean Karr who is still in with 31 left

He has just flopped a full house with A-J and got no action post flop, which is a bit galling

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Graham Carter doubles through Raj Dhiri with AA v QQ all in on J-8-4

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Graham Carter (stayorgo) and Simon Allen (slykllist) before the arrival of Liam Batey in the middle

Sky_Dave

Paul Haycock - pears27 on Sky Poker - is a player to watch here. Totally fearless and this hand shows...

UTG+1 opens to 10k and Paul raises to 24k in the cut-off. Everyone passes back to UTG+1, who calls.

Flop comes Q-J-7. Quick checks from both players. 

The turn comes a 9. UTG+1 bets out 24k and Paul dwells shortly before announcing he's raising to 54k. The villain calls.

River comes a T. No flushes possible. Villain checks. Paul announces all-in. Shortly later, Villain folds.

"Do you want to see?", Paul asks. 

"If you want."

"No, I'm asking you - do you want to see?" Paul replies.

"Sure", says the slightly deflated opponent.

Paul shows 5s-5c.

Oooooh.

He's up to 550k with the average stack in the room a smidge under 210k.

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Blinds up to 3000-6000

31 left

exits so far today

32	Ben Vinson
33	William Kerr
34	Andrew Hayton
35	Kevin Clifford
36	Rob White

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Hasmukh Khodiyara knocks out Raj Dhiri in 31st

A-10 beats A-K.

A-K-J-3-Q

Hasmukh finalled UKIPT Nottingham here last year, very good player

pigtails51

can I have a chip count on james tomlin please

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Bash Mahmood is out 25th at the hands of James Tomlin and we are now hand for hand on the bubble

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In Response to Re: Coverage of the SPT Grand Final LIVE from DTD:

can I have a chip count on james tomlin please
Posted by pigtails51

About 600,000 at 3-6,000

Average is 259,000

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A reminder of the payouts

17500
10340
6260
4850
4130
3460
2800
2130
1530
1530
1065
1065
900
775
775
775
775
710
710
710
710
650
650

pigtails51

will there be live stream on the final table?

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exits as we run down to the bubble

25	Basharat Mahmood
26	Andrew Leivers
27	James Bywater
28	Pakken Yung
29	Ross Chapman
30	Jeffrey Hemmerman
31	Raj Dhiri

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In Response to Re: Coverage of the SPT Grand Final LIVE from DTD:

will there be live stream on the final table?
Posted by pigtails51

No there won't be

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Lee Taylor bubbles, Slykllist knocks him out

Lee shoved K-Q into A-Q, on a Q-Q-5 flop, the third raise on the flop

Ouch!

250,000 pot

The remaining 23 are now in the money

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Liam Batey is out 23rd

His previous table broke, and the table move was the pre-cursor to a bad run of second best hands culminating in 99 losing to JJ

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McLean Karr out 22nd, Mark Aldridge knocks him out with AA, calling a shove from KJ

Alrdige flopped an Ace for top set for good measure

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Sikas raises UTG with 10-10

Down to 50,000 in the big blind Slykllist shoves blind

with 8-2

5-5-3-4-A to crack the pocket tens and dounle a short-stack up

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5 chip leaders are

Nigel Boylan 1m

James Tomlin 600,000

Chris Vernon 580,000

Paul Haycock 550,000

Matthew Simpson 500,000

21 left

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Slyklist out 21st, the big damage done with A-K v Q-Q on K-Q-x

exit hand, 99 into AA!