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Lewis - thanks, but Blandy has a mountain of kit to lug around, so that's not really an option, plus it's hard to see the Tables from the Edgware Road.
The various streams here are down to a guy called Jon Shoreman, a wily old so & so who you may have seen on (the original) Late Night Poker many moons ago.
Jon is a very fine Stud player, & has an uncanny ability to place players on precise hands in NLH. He rarely smiles, but has a dry humour, & works a lot with a guy clled Pete "Happy" Singleton. Pete never smiles, ever.
Jon owns the rights, with, I think, Nic Szeremata, to the World Heads Up Poker Championships, & between them they also control the magazine "Poker Europa" (Europe's first & some say now worst) dedicated poker mag, also the website "PokerInEurope" which is a good source for Tourney Schedules right across Europe.
When I was with Wm Hill, when I first started in TV & stuff on Poker 425, Jon was hawking around the TV rights to the WHUPC, he wanted, like, £400k or somesuch. Err, lower, Jon.
In those days, the WHUPC was a big, big, thing, & was held in the Gran Casino, Barcelona, & sold out every year. It's a mere shadow of it's former self now, I think it only got 30 odd runners this year, whereas it used to sell out weeks in advance, & was capped at 128 runners. The TV coverage used to be spectacular, too. The problem is, a 128 runner "live" Heads Up Tourney takes 2 weeks, & that's too long for players to commit to. changing times.
Jon's a good guy, I get on with him just fine, & he's made more money at poker (business, not playing) than almost any player I know. The kids mock him - it's the fashion to knock old skool now, & indeed success - but they'd die to earn - & keep - as much money has Jon has in poker. Bully for him, too.
In EP and the blinds at 50/100, GB looks down at JJ. Chucking 250 in as a raise, he's not noticed that matey-boy UTG has opened for 275. Wayne decides to make it look like a mistake and calls.
Two other players call before the action gets around to the SB, who pops it up to 1,500. Opener flats and GB now has to decide what to do with the hooks. He felt the 1,500 looked like a squeeze but then remembered there's been one 3-bet prior to this on the table and so makes a pass deciding the SB probably has a hand. He folds JJ.
Flop comes T-high, turn and river baby cards and SB ends up showing down QQ, good enough to take down the pot. Nice little situation Wayne avoided there.
Chip count around 26,000. He's just doing some business at the moment and the transactions so far have been good.
Alternates will be permitted for the first TWO Levels, so, until, in effect, 4pm.
The "penalty" for an Alternate is ONE BIG & ONE SMALL Blind at that Level. So, in Level 2, with Blinds at 50-100, the "penalty" is 150 chips. Out of a 25,000 stack. Some penalty, eh?
Our Man in London - Wayne 'Gliterbabe' Rideout
This guy can play - William Martin
Yikes, that 3.30pm £5.75 with a £100 Guarantee made 65 runners! Spam ftw.
Thre is a £150 G'td BH at 4pm, £5.75, which only has 12 runners so far.
Des & Adam will have a baby if they have any overly in that, so buy in now to avoid Des or Adam enduring childbirth. I wonder who'd be Mum?
Once footballer, now poker player - Tony Cascarino
Always smiling - the ever-likeable Neil Channing
PS - Great effort bid, great effort. Did you know that James's Mum was telling him what hands to play?
"Do as you are told, James".
"Yes, Mummy".
The end of Level 2 is minutes away, so a 15 minute break. We'll film a Wayney Intervire, but we cannot upload it today I'm afraid, we'll have to get Mother to do that next week.
Neil Channing
Nik Persaud
Bruno Fitoussi
Marc Goodwin
Richard Gryko
James Mitchell (milling - not sure if he's playing)
Keith Hawkins
Total of 207 players, £517,500 prizepool. Not bad. Chip leader from yesterday closed play on 155,000, so Wayne will be aiming for 300,000.
HU, I would have made the same play with an ace, stupid gambling with K9 though, just wish it was live cards....never mind, always next month
Got 2 more weeks at home, then see you Newcastle
Hi and Gl again to Wayne
Gliterbabe: 24k
Neil Channing: 22k
John Duthie: 26k
James Sudworth: 19k
Nik Persaud: 23k.
Interesting hand from Nik's table. 5 way pot on a Ah-Qs-7h-Ad-Tc board. Pot of around 3k in the middle, so I am guessing it went open raise, four flat callers. Checks around on the flop, turn and river. Chap who I assume opened the betting (I hope to god he didn't flat, anyway) shows KK and, to not too much surprise, wins the pot. Furrowed brows all around.
Here's hand from Gliterbabe and I want to see what you lot put him on. I know but I think it's more fun if you all guess.
WHAT DID GLITERBABE HAVE?
Action is at the 75/150 level and GB is on the button. Three limpers to him and GB now makes it 600 to go. Only one caller in the form of Richard Gryko, two seats to Wayne's right in the hijack.
Flop: As-2d-6c
Gryko checks, GB bets 1100 into a pot of 1,725. Gryko calls.
Turn: 4s.
Gryko check-calls a bet of 2,500 from Wayne.
River: 6s.
Gryko checks, GB bets 8,000 and Gryko goes into a tank. Some eyebrow raising and a slight smirk as he eventually releases his hand.
We'll ask Wayne about the hand on the break and post the video to YouTube as soon as we can get a proper connection. Go on then folks, what did Wayne have?
Hand from Wayne's table. On a board of A-4-J-9-A, a bet of 5k on the river is raised another 11k all-in. The chap who had led out dwells for a sufficient amount of time to make you think he's folding. He evenually calls and seems to know his A-9 was no good against the villain's A-J.
Chilly!
And after that coup v Wayne earlier, Richard Gryko is now OUT, in a right cooler, his setted Tens bested by setted Aces. Ouch.
Richard shook his head wryly, & said "oh well, at least I can go & watch the Tennis now".
Can't say I know any other tennis playing poker players. They'd pass any deuce, presumably.
Floods of tears.
I just passed a very miserable looking Liam Flood on the stairs, & with impeccable timing, asked how he was going in the Tourney. "Sick, sick" was all he said. That'll be "Taxi for Liam Flood" then.
I bumped into The Camel, too, which was unexpectedly painful, as I reminded him that he owed me £100 from some staking I did in him for the 2009 WSOP-E. He agreed, but added, "don't forget you owe me $500 for 10% of my WSOP Main Event action this year". Me and my mouth. Dunno what the £/$ is right now, but I reckon I'm gonna be down about £300 on the day without even playing a hand of poker.
There's a right juicy Omaha Cash game going off here, & it's so tempting to sit in. Must resist.......