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Evening all.
For the record, I was not "taking a nap", I was working out, in the gym.
Pretty sure I'll soon get Brett & Martin up over 100,000 each, just you wait & see.
Sam is currently on his dinner break, I expect him back in the next 4 or 5 hours.
Martin, 40,000.
He is on a table adjacent to Little Danny & Scotty Nguyen, with Phil Hellmuth a few tables away.
Someone has been winding up Hellmuth, who is slowly building a head of pressure, ready to explode at any moment.
Look, I do what I do, you do what you do, OK?
I've won 60 Tournaments, how about you?
Do you know who I am?
If I had the time, I'd rail him for the next few hours. When that volcano erupts, it could be spectacular.
Brett 23,200
I arrive to see Brett in the Big Blind, facing an UTG raise of 2,500.
Brett, at the poker table, does things at his own pace. That's slow. Very slow. Earlier today, he almost had the clock put on him TWICE in one hand. (Just the once in the end).
Eventually, he moves all-in. Which is handy, as I get to know his exact stack size. "Count" or something similar says the angry UTG raiser.
"20,800" says the Dealer.
Mr Angry eventually folds, & so Brett now has 23,200 or so.
With 80 minutes of today's penultimate level remaining, Blinds are 500-1,000/100.
Next up, 600-1,200/200, but that's 90 minutes away yet.
See you when you have finished dinner, in what, 4 hours?
* 20 minutes really, but that would not work.
Just seen Michael Kane, a guy with real style, he has 85,000.
James Rann has around 30,000.
Martin has 47,000.
That's fine, plenty time.
MAN OVERBOARD
I arrive at Brett's table to find his seat vacant, & a noticeable lack of chips in front of his seat. Like, none.
The players on his table know me by now, so they volunteer the story. Did not catch all the details, but villain slow played K-K on an all low board. That's usually bad news.
The table were full of praise for Brett, & how he played his short stack for several hours. I've never met him before this trip, but I must say, he's a smashing kid, polite, well-mannered, respectful, speaks well, & a credit to Sky Poker.
And then there were two
So that just leaves Martin (playing today) & Daren, who has eased into Day 3 already.
Will post links to some videos now.
We generally produce 4 or 5 per day. Dan films them, then has to edit them, compress them, upload them & all that stuff.
Then he sends them to Head Office, who Tweet & FB them.
I work sort of separate to them, & first up, take out a shortened link for each one, then I Post that link on Twitter, Sky Poker & another forum. It's not difficult, but it's surprisingly time-consuming & fiddly. I like to do it properly, too, in a consistent manner. Detail, detail, detail.
Back soon, if not sooner.
Nightmare.
NIGHTMARE
NIGHT MARE
N-I-G-H-T-M-A-R-E
Wandered into Brasilia just before the break, & Martin's Table had broken.
Asked Floor where the table breaks were going, he said "Pavilion".
Pavilion must have 150 tables on the go, I kid you not.
So that'll be my first job after the break, go & patrol all 150 tables until I find our man.
Did I mention that will be a nightmare?
Play has started, so I'd best go start the search. Bear in mind the words of Captain Oates.
I assume that's Zach Hall. He's a fairly well known character, he was on the feature table for the early part of ESPN's coverage last year playing alongside Phil Ivey.
His Day 3 table has now been completed
1 James Bord (GBR) 98000
2 Tyler Witteman (USA) 181400
3 John May (USA) 131100
4 Alex Tran (USA) 194500
5 Andrew Zuzolo (USA) 33400
6 DAREN MORETON (GBR) 27200
7 Alexander Debus (GER) 79400
8 Timothy Buxbaum (USA) 75600
9 Christopher Horter (USA) 91500
I dealt with the even numbered seats yesterday, so for the odd ones (and on average, they have a more impressive poker CV than the evens)
James Bord has been a bit quite of late on the tournament front, but he has one of those bracelet things in his possession after winning the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event the last time it was held in London. This also netted him over £800,000. He also had a 6-figure payday finishing runner-up in a shootout event at the 2011 Aussie Millions.
John May has just 3 Hendon Mob recorded cashes, a 177th in the 2010 Main Event, $7K from an event in New Orleans in 2011 and a cash in a Eureka event held alongside EPT Prague last December
Andrew Zuzolo is a local who has cashes on his record going back to 2004, but with long barren spells included in that. His last 3 recorded tournament cashes were all in the WSOP Millionaire Maker, the highest of those being 9th in 2014. He did win a tournament at Caesars for $66K, but that was nearly seven years ago.
Alexander Debus - you want flags, he's got 'em, with in the money finishes in 9 different countries. He's been in Vegas for at least a month, cashing in Events 28 & 51, making the FT of the latter finishing 4th for $164K. Over his career he as 12 5-figure or better scores, the biggest being $245K for finishing runner-up in an event in Monte Carlo.
Christopher Horter by contrast has all his cashes in the US, a lot of modest ones but 2 of over $10K, 34th for $15K in last year's "droplet" and $23K for runner-up in a tournament at Borgata last November. He too looks like he's been in Vegas for the last month, but his three cashes over that period (only one of which was a WSOP event) come to just over $4K in total.
Daren just found himself in a very awkward spot.
There was an open to 3,700, flatted, then Daren called, the geezer behind jams, the opener gives it up, next geezer (first flatter) jams & Daren folds.
First flatter had K-K, jammer had 7-7.
Board ran out 9-8-6-A-5, & 7-7 man got the lot.
Daren began today with 27,200, & it is costing 4,200 per orbit (800-1,600/200) & we have played 30 minutes (1.5 orbits or so), so don't think he can limp or peel any more, it's all or nothing.
There is 4,200 of dead money in the middle every hand.
Charles Chattha LONDON, , GB 423,300
Louis Salter London, , GB 344,400
Jake Cody ROCHDALE, , GB 340,100
Jamie Roberts LONDON, GB 284,400
Marc Foggin NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, , GB 282,900
Fraser Macintyre Ayr, , GB 219,300
Georges Georgiou London, GB 198,900
Craig McCorkell WEST SUSSEX, GB 194,200
Chris Moorman BENFLEET, GB 190,700
Luke Marsh SCUNTHORPE, GB 186,800
Robert Sherwood Birmingham, , GB 186,600
Toby Lewis SOUTHAMPTON, , GB 164,200
Matt Davenport Cheshire, GB, GB 162,700
Oliver Price London, GB 158,100
Nicholas Katz Watford Horts, , GB 145,400
Michael Greco LONDON, , GB 140,600
Tom Alner BRISTOL, , GB 130,400
Talal Shakerchi ESHER, , GB 129,900
Chris Bjorin LONDON, , GB 123,600
Stuart Rutter BIRMINGHAM, , GB 118,700
Philip Carey Haverfordwest, , GB 117,500
Ian Woodley LONDON, , GB 115,800
Borja Gross Bournemouth, , GB 109,100
Chiraag Thanki London, , GB 107,200
Phillip Mcallister Winchester, GB 103,500
Daniel Bland LONDON, GB 102,500
James Bord STANMORE, , GB 98,000
Charles Carrel London, , GB 96,800
Alex Goulder Nottingham, GB 95,700
Chun Law LONDON, , GB 91,800
Daniel McAulay Glasgow, GB 90,500
Sebastian Ruthenberg LONDON, , GB 74,800
Jareth East Redhill, GB 73,400
Alfie Adam London, GB 71,800
Rob Akery BRISTOL, , GB 71,200
Sebastian Saffari LONDON, GB 63,000
Christopher Brammer SOUTHAMPTON, GB 57,300
Keith Johnson NOTTINGHAM, , GB 52,700
Jon Spinks EXETER, GB 49,800
Andrew Seden SOUTHAMPTON, , GB 48,700
Christopher Gordon Southend-On-Sea, , GB 48,000
Tim Davie Haywards Heath, , GB 45,500
Jonathan Somekh London, , GB 44,000
Jerome Ogrodzki REIGATE, GB 35,200
Peter Akery BRISTOL, , GB 33,900
David Greene Luton, , GB 31,000
Peter Charalambous SUFFOLK, , GB 29,300
Daren Moreton Manchester, , GB 27,200
Constantine Paparestis DULWICH LONDON, GB 20,400
Robert Cowen Swansea, , GB 19,400
James Scott FERRING W SUSSEX, GB 18,800
Andrew Teng LONDON, , GB 12,900
Steven Watts London, , GB 1