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Blog: Sky Poker £1m GTD UKPC Main Event Day Ones
The event starts at 12, with Day1a and concludes on Monday
Updates here for the duration
Good luck me, and him. Lets hpe its not goodnight from me, and him.
Updates here for the duration
Good luck me, and him. Lets hpe its not goodnight from me, and him.
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UKPC Live satellite tonight @DTD 8pm 20 (TWENTY) Main Event Seats GTD £100+1 reload
Graham Carter/ Stay or Go
34 1 Chris Latta
34 2 Neil Whitby
34 3 Duncan Mclellan
34 4 Richard Trigg
34 5 Dan Dennehy
34 6 Lee Atherton
34 7 Balint Pusztai
34 8 James Mitchell
34 9 Danish Gandhi
and lasted two hands at 100-200 because both were quite interesting and took a while
1
button seat 9
Pusztai opens to 700
Mtchell flats
Neil Whitby makes it 1900 in the big blind
call
call
8s Jc 3c
Whitby 3,100
call
call
3s
Whitby 6,000
call
call
this is a big pot for level 4
2c
Whitby (who told the table after he had Queens) check
Pusztai check
Mitchell 17,000 with an unflappable air
Whitby fold
Pusztai fold
hand 2
Dansh Gandhi 500
the button calls
Trgg defneds hs big blnd
8h 6d Qd
Trigg leads 1,000
Danish 2,500
the button folds
Trgg calls
Ad
check check
Ts
Trgg 4,400
Danish calls and soon realses hs bacon has been cooked when Trigg Tables 8d 5d for the flopped par and flush draw that hit on the turn
A pretty good turn-out i didn't think it would be this busy, though you never know
Latest into the fray is this man, a commentator on past UKPCs and all round poker personality..
Mr Sam Grafton
can anyone tell me which EPT?
Doesn't look old enough does he?
106 of 118 remain
regstration for today ends shortly
exits today
107 Terry Jordon
108 Oliver Telford
109 Sam Grafton
110 Lee Broadhurst
111 Ngoc Nguyen
112 Simon Brooks
113 Ian Walton
114 Stephen Rawle
115 Dan Dennehy
116 Leigh Williams
117 Raymond Telfer
118 Lee Wright
i watched a hand he played anyway
raised to 5,200
Gryko made it 10,600
mystery man shoves...
Gryko, well spoken and urbane, scraf wrapped around his neck asks for a count
Looks like its around 100,000 about 40% of Richard's stack. Calls
Mystery man A-Ko
Gryko 10-10
under starters orders, we are off
Q-9-6 flop
Ace on the turn for man of mystery
J river and Gryko takes a hit
Back to the media centre*
and look up mystery man
Antoine Saout.
I know that name
off to give a company who paid an exorbitant £130m to HMRC for its tradng activities over here a bit more revenue to look
Oh
3rd in the 2009 main event
For $3.5m, finished behind Darvin Moon and Joe Cada
He now has 250,000+ here
He's delighted too
* its not a media centre
106 of 118 remain
regstration for today ends shortly
exits today
107 Terry Jordon
108 Oliver Telford
109 Sam Grafton
110 Lee Broadhurst
111 Ngoc Nguyen
112 Simon Brooks
113 Ian Walton
114 Stephen Rawle
115 Dan Dennehy
116 Leigh Williams
117 Raymond Telfer
118 Lee Wright
He found 1 caller who called off the last 25 on A Q 6 flop. Marcel's JJ outdone by A9.
Robert Taylor 155,000
Ed Knox 150,000
Nadeem Hussain 130,000
James Mitchell 120,000
Graham Carter 110,000
Rick Trigg 100,000
flags of fame for ukpc winners (4 so far) in the club
it could be you come Monday
As Day1c heads into the evening, more of the regular faces are coming, or, in some cases, going.
"smoki3" just bust the Main, with a whole series of horrible beats, back to back, so he's heading home to Cwmbran, in South Wales.
He's in Highway Civil Engineering, which must be a dream job for anyone these days, so we spent a while comparing the relative merits of tarmacadam wearing courses. Fascinating, really.
Meanwhile, recent arrivals here, presumably playing tomorrow, include Pokey (Chris), Andrew1947 (Andrew, surprisingly), & a man I've not seen in ages, CTBN, aka Colin the Hippo.
I have a bit of banter with CTBN, but all joking aside, I love him to bits, a real man, who takes life's beats in his stride. So I was saddened to hear he has been really quite unwell, emergency operations & all sorts, & over 8 months "on the club" from work.
He seems to be recovered now, which is a relief, & he looks very well indeed for a man of 72.
The main is in level 12 of 15 today and we have nearly lost half the field today
exits are
I've made a very last minute decision to play UKPC on Saturday (arriving Fri evening) - will it be possible to buy-in directly via Sky or will I have to do it at the casino?
Shaun Johnston knocked out Ivor Frost with 10-9 v 7-7 on 10-9-5-2
Piecing it together with my ears open, Johnston was waxing lyrical to anyone who would listen (and anyone who wouldn't) about how he was "only stealing pre-flop" and "he must have put me on ace-king to move in then" (i assume on flop or turn)
Simon Hggins meanwhile is sat in a seat 9 having pushed his last 44,000 into a monster pot on the river of a
Td 9h 4h Kh 3d
He catches my eye. I catch his. He looks away. I try to get a read.
Meanwhile his opponent in seat 1, the other side of the dealer is Robert Alexander.
Alexander covers Higgins
I wait as Alexander decides whether to call
Several minutes later i am still waiting
The clip clap of chips being riffled around the table interrupts the air of tension
Higgins looks impassive
Eventually Aexander calls
Higgins flips 3s 4s, from the cut off
Which was not what i had put him on
As Alexander mucks, presumably neither did he.
Johnston and Higgins are on over 200,000 just approaching the final break of today with 3 levels left to play
doors open 11.30am
if you are coming on saturday especially, best to be early
Can you leave that one with me until tomorrow morning? I may be able to arrange a DBI on Sky Poker, but can't confirm it until tomorrow morning. I think it'll be do-ble.
If not, yes, it can be done via DTD at the Cash Desk upon arrival, so we have a backstop in place, just in case.
Be good to see you down here.
I'll send you a PM right now, with the details of how it will be handled.
PM sent.
^^^^
All sorted & confirmed by PM.
chip counts follow