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End of Day 1b – 09/06/2018 – 01:35
Brown Leads 1b – 09/06/2018 – 01:20
After ten levels of play Day 1b at GUKPT Reading is in the history books, it’s been another great day with a huge turnout.
In total there was 155 entries, meaning a field of 245 in total, creating a £122,500 prizepol for the players to play for tomorrow.
Play has now finished on all tables, 56 players have made it through and they are led by Ethan Brown who holds a slight chip lead over Keiron Duncan who has finished in second place. Full chip counts are:
| Ethan Brown | 125,200 |
| Keiron Duncan | 123,000 |
| Benjamin Winsor | 114,900 |
| Anon | 106,800 |
| Lee J French | 98,500 |
| Tina Loraine Bandyle | 96,900 |
| Jack Nolan | 94,200 |
| David Burke | 88,500 |
| Dean Clay | 86,700 |
| Justin Tsui | 86,700 |
| Andrew Garland | 84,000 |
| Brian Caswell | 83,400 |
| Tan Le | 81,000 |
| Daniel Hopkins | 79,900 |
| Richard J Hasnip | 78,900 |
| Aaron Biggs | 74,700 |
| Stephen Barrett | 70,400 |
| Daniel Hardy | 62,900 |
| Konrad Zalewski | 59,500 |
| Aleksandrs Golubevs | 58,500 |
| Masoud Etemadiherisi | 58,200 |
| Peter Wigglesworth | 56,100 |
| Mazalahedwa Bako | 54,100 |
| Barry Cobb | 53,300 |
| Daniel Knapp | 53,100 |
| Sam Goodman | 51,500 |
| Aaron Helmore | 50,700 |
| Joseph Rushton | 49,500 |
| Michael Rolt | 49,400 |
| Ryan Cooper | 49,400 |
| Martin Hogarty | 49,200 |
| Anon | 47,300 |
| Jamie Roseir | 45,800 |
| Nguyen Le | 45,500 |
| Andrea De Giorgi | 43,900 |
| Michael Woods | 43,300 |
| Alan Ellis | 42,700 |
| Byron Sugars | 41,100 |
| Stephen Weatherall | 40,500 |
| Vamshi Vandanapu | 40,400 |
| Balbir Pottiwal | 32,700 |
| Chip Keen | 32,100 |
| Ryan Jonathan Mandara | 31,500 |
| Karen Mead | 30,800 |
| Neil Woolfrey | 30,000 |
| Timothy Wright | 29,600 |
| Gavin Manley | 25,700 |
| Manhon Luk | 24,300 |
| Ben Maregedze | 23,800 |
| Alinsebastian Balcau | 21,500 |
| Ilir Mesiti | 20,800 |
| Peter Arrigoni | 20,100 |
| Alexander Howell | 16,100 |
| Samuel Harwood | 15,200 |
| Connor Mcnaught | 14,400 |
| Justinas Pactauskas | 12,000 |
We will be back tomorrow for Day 2 where there are 84 players coming back to play another 10 levels.
Join us from 1pm, with the live stream beginning at 1:25pm.
Play Has Finished – 09/06/2018 – 00:50
Play has now finished on all tables.
Full chip counts will be up with you as soon as possible.
Last 6 Hands – 09/06/2018 – 00:35
The clock has been paused with ten minutes remaining.
The players will now play 6 more hands before bagging up for the night.
Table Shots – 09/06/2018 – 00:16
All is Quiet – 09/06/2018 – 00:04
Play has really slowed down in the last level of play, we have 40 minutes left before we bag and tag for the day and at the moment there’s 63 players remaining. All hoping to join the 28 players who made it through day 1a yesterday.
Level Ten – 08/06/2018- 23:45
The blinds increase for the last time today, they are now 500/1000 with a 100 ante.
66 players remaining.
Chip Counts – 08/06/2018 – 23:30
Jack Nolan – 80,000
Brian Caswell – 90,000
Dinarte Desousa – 32,000
Keiron Duncan – 125,000
Pete Wigglesworth – 90,000
Tom Cropp – 9,000
Martyn Hogarty – 41,000
Exits – 08/06/2018 – 23:15
A couple of exits from the field as we lose Paul Dunne & Ashley Timms.
With their exits we are down to 75 players in the main event.
Cash Games – 08/06/2018 – 23:05
Cash games have started here in Reading.
There’s currently two £1/£2 games running and an omaha game is just about to start.
Level 9 – 08/06/2018 – 22:50
The players are back seated as we begin the final session of the day.
The blinds are now 400/800 with a 100 ante.
79 players remaining.
Break Time – 08/06/2018 – 22:30
Break time now for the players as they take 15 minutes before beginning the last session of the night.
Chip Counts – 08/06/2018 – 22:01
Tony Phillips – 33,000
David Crane -7,000
Ashley Timms – 23,000
Neil Woolfrey – 35,000
Ethan Brown – 42,000
Chris Cooper – 15,000
Paul Dunne – 22,000
Treble For Wright – 08/06/2018 – 21:45
Tim Wright moves all in for his 6500 stack and is called by Madlena Trifonova, the action then gets to Lorenc Boci who then raises, Madlena takes little time before getting out of the way and the cards go on their backs…
Tim has ACES and its a cooler as Lorenc tables KINGS!!
The board runs out
Aces hold for Tim as he gets a much needed treble up. He now has around starting stack.
Level 8 – 08/06/2018 – 21:30
The blinds increase as we begin level number 8.
They are now 300/600 with a 100 ante.
100 players remaining.
Bust Outs – 08/06/2018 – 21:15
The most recent bust outs from the tables:
Amarjit Singh Virk
Adam Jones
Christopher Goodson
Larisa Hulpea
Jerome Oshea
Ning Lu
Numbers Are In – 08/06/2018 – 21:01
Registration has now closed for GUKPT Reading 2018.
The numbers are in…
A great turnout of 245 entries for The Main Event, collecting a prizepool of £122,500!!
Chip Counts – 08/06/2018 – 20:45
Jamie Lane – 10,000
Gavin Manley – 55,000
Thomas Myland – 28,000
James Wilson- 18,000
Sebastia Balcau – 32,000
Balbir Pottiwal – 27,000
Level 7 – 08/06/2018 – 20:33
The players are back seated as we begin level number seven.
The blinds are now 200/400 with a 50 ante.
Break Time – 08/06/2018 – 20:15
Break time now for the players as they take 15minutes.
Last Level To Buy In – 08/06/2018 – 19:50
This is the last level t buy into the GUKPT Reading main event. The plyers have to the end of this level and then the 15 minute break to join the field.
At the moment the prizepool stands at £122,000!!
Table Shots – 08/06/2018 – 19:30
Level Up – 08/06/2018 – 19:16
The blinds increase as we begin the next level of play.
They are now 150/300 with a 25 ante.
This is the last level of buy ins for Day 1b.
Exits – 08/06/2018 – 18:50
The most recent from the tables as we lose:
Javed Akhtar
Dean Clay
Timothy Wright
Dost Ghrabie
Adam Neighbour
Big Stacks – 08/06/2018 – 18:35
| Stephen Barrett | 95000 |
| Tina Bandyle | 70000 |
| Andrew Garland | 55000 |
| Daniel Hardy | 55000 |
| Gavin Manley | 50000 |
Level 5 – 08/06/2018 – 18:15
The players are back seated as we begin level number 5.
The blinds are now 100/200 with a 25 ante.
110 players remaining from the 142 entries so far today.
Dinner Break – 08/06/2018 – 17:15
Dinner break now for the players as they take 60 minutes.
Connection Issues – 08/06/2018 – 17:05
We have just had some connection issues in the casino, which is why there has been a lack of posts.
Everything is sorted now though just as players are about to go on their dinner break.
We have been working on a facebook competition while waiting for the internet to correct itself. That will be going online very soon.
Level Up – 08/06/2018 – 16:16
The blinds increase as we begin level number 4.
They are now 100/200.
Cooper Gets Philips – 08/06/2018 – 16:10
Chris Cooper up late and finds KINGS in the small blind, he three bets and is met with a four bet shove from Janice Philips who has just 2500 remaining. The original raiser gets out of the way and Chris makes the call as the cards go on their backs…
Chris tables KINGS and needs to dodge aces, as Janice shows A-Q.
The board runs out 8–9–10–3–4
Kings hold for Chris as he has had a good start to the day.
Unlucky for Janice, who can now re-enter if she wishes.
Exits – 08/06/2018 – 16:01
The most recent exits from the tournament:
Daniel Knapp
Terence Plummer
Timothy Chung
Janice Phillips
Kevin Drinkell
Gtd Hit! – 08/06/2018 – 15:45
The Guarantee has been hit here in Reading and surpassed as players continue to buy in.
The prizepool currently stands at £105,000 with 4 and a half hours left to buy in.
Chip Counts – 08/06/2018 – 15:30
Keiron Duncan – 23,350
Maz Bako – 20,000
David Crane – 17,000
Ryan Mandara – 20,000
Ashley Timms – 8,000
Jonathan Walker – 24,000
Colin Smith- 19,000
Nguye Le – 23,550
Andrew Kyte – 22,000
Level 3 – 08/06/2018 – 15:16
The players are back seated as we begin level number 3.
The blinds are now 75/150.
112 entries so far today!
Break Time – 08/06/2018 – 15:01
Break time now for the players as they take 15 minutes.
Start of Day 1b – 08/06/2018 – 14:30
Omaha Result – 08/06/2018 – 14:15
GUKPT Side Event
£100 PLO
Entries: 34
1st – £1,280 – Tomos Knight
2nd – £840 – Jack Nicholls
3rd – £600 – Sam Goodman
4th – £390 – Ryan Ly
5th – £290 – Mark Brockwell
Level Up – 08/06/2018 – 14:01
The blinds increase as we begin level number 2.
They are now 50/100.
80 players so far today.
Day 1b Seating Plan – 08/06/2018 – 13:30
| 7 | 1 | Liam Scott Reading |
| 7 | 2 | Connor Mcnaught |
| 7 | 3 | Justinas Pactauskas |
| 7 | 4 | Philip Green |
| 7 | 5 | Joseph Rushton |
| 7 | 6 | Matthew Newman |
| 7 | 7 | Aleem Kanji |
| 7 | 8 | Dinarte Araujodesousa |
| 7 | 9 | Mark McChump |
| 7 | 10 | Peter Arrigoni |
| 8 | 1 | Stephen Weatherall |
| 8 | 2 | Samuel Orledge |
| 8 | 3 | Alexander Joseph Russell Booth |
| 8 | 4 | Peter Wigglesworth |
| 8 | 5 | Alan Summers |
| 8 | 6 | Byron Sugars |
| 8 | 7 | Lee Brown |
| 8 | 8 | Konrad Zalewski |
| 8 | 9 | Dane Tallen |
| 8 | 10 | Jordan Daniels |
| 9 | 1 | Adam Neighbour |
| 9 | 2 | Mark William Jeffrey |
| 9 | 3 | Mark Hanley |
| 9 | 4 | Naaman Morris |
| 9 | 5 | Terence Plummer |
| 9 | 6 | Barry Cole |
| 9 | 7 | Michael Woods |
| 9 | 8 | Stephen Barrett |
| 9 | 9 | David Burke |
| 9 | 10 | Daniel Knapp |
| 10 | 1 | Anon |
| 10 | 2 | Denis Prickett |
| 10 | 3 | Brian Caswell |
| 10 | 4 | Lee J French |
| 10 | 5 | Ben Maregedze |
| 10 | 6 | Jamie Roseir |
| 10 | 7 | Tina Loraine Bandyle |
| 10 | 8 | Glen Gains |
| 10 | 9 | Timothy Wright |
| 10 | 10 | Paul Dunne |
| 11 | 1 | Anon |
| 11 | 2 | Manhon Luk |
| 11 | 3 | Justin Kyriakides |
| 11 | 4 | Daniel Hopkins |
| 11 | 5 | Madlena Trifonova |
| 11 | 6 | Joe Dennis |
| 11 | 7 | Lorenc Boci |
| 11 | 8 | Richard Glew |
| 11 | 9 | Paul Romain |
| 11 | 10 | Sebastian Skurzynski |
| 12 | 1 | Keiron Duncan |
| 12 | 2 | Mazalahedwa Bako |
| 12 | 3 | David Crane |
| 12 | 4 | Ryan Jonathan Mandara |
| 12 | 5 | Ashley Timms |
| 12 | 6 | Jonathan Walker |
| 12 | 7 | COLIN SMITH |
| 12 | 8 | Javed Akhtar |
| 12 | 9 | Nguyen Le |
| 12 | 10 | Andrew Kyte |
| 13 | 1 | Nathan Thomas |
| 13 | 2 | Ilir Mesiti |
| 13 | 3 | Jamie Keith Lane |
| 13 | 4 | Kevin Drinkell |
| 13 | 5 | Justin Tsui |
| 13 | 6 | Thomas Myland |
| 13 | 7 | James Wilson |
| 13 | 8 | Alinsebastian Balcau |
| 13 | 9 | Dost Ghrabie |
| 13 | 10 | Anon |
| 14 | 1 | Christopher Cooper |
| 14 | 2 | Janice Phillips |
| 14 | 3 | John Allison |
| 14 | 4 | Alexander Howell |
| 14 | 5 | Neil Woolfrey |
| 14 | 6 | Joshua James Boulton |
| 14 | 7 | Aleksandrs Golubevs |
| 14 | 8 | Alan Ellis |
| 14 | 9 | Paul Henson |
| 14 | 10 | Aaron Helmore |
| 15 | 1 | Samuel Harwood |
| 15 | 2 | Harry Fenner |
| 15 | 3 | Andrew Garland |
| 15 | 4 | Anon |
| 15 | 5 | Omar Khan |
| 15 | 6 | Martin Warfield |
| 15 | 7 | Ryan Cooper |
| 15 | 8 | Rob Staples |
| 15 | 9 | David Kingswell |
| 15 | 10 | Barry Cobb |
| 16 | 1 | Thomas Edward Cropp |
| 16 | 2 | Christopher Goodson |
| 16 | 3 | Karen Mead |
| 16 | 4 | Michael Rolt |
| 16 | 5 | Stanislav Chataline |
| 16 | 6 | Emma Ames |
| 16 | 7 | Andrea De Giorgi |
| 16 | 8 | Andrei Dobre |
| 16 | 9 | Jerome Oshea |
Numbers So Far – 08/06/2018 – 13:15
15 minutes into todays play and the numbers have increased to 78.
Unlimited re-entries are available in this tournament, so if you do bust out you can buy back in as many times as you like in the first six levels of play.
Welcome To Day 1b – 08/06/2018 – 13:01
Good afternoon and welcome back to Reading for Day 1b of the GUKPT Reading Main Event.
Yesterday for Day 1a we had a total of 90 entries which was slightly down on the 93 from last year. Today though we are looking to smash through the guarantee and beyond, hopefully getting close to the 247 entries that bought in for this tournament last year.
The main event is a £500+£60 Buy in with a £100,000 GTD!! For your buy in the players will receive 20,000 chips on a one hour clock with the best structure around!
Play has just started in the room, with late registration open for the first 6 levels of play today, up until 8:30pm.
It should be another great days poker in Reading.
12.05am: Day 1A is done
After 10 levels of play Day 1A has come to an end. Roughly 72 of the 246 runners made it through with Rich Trigg the overnight chip leader. You can read all about today's action in our end of day wrap which will be up shortly. Overnight chip counts will also be made available on the blog overnight.
We'll be back from noon to bring you live coverage of Day 1B. -- NW
11.55pm: Last four hands
The tournament clock has been paused and there will be four more hands before play ends for the day. -- NW
11.45pm: Late night news
Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody and defending champion Sergio Aido are amongst the last level casualties as are James Mitchell and Chris Sly. Team PokerStars Pro Vicky Coren is still grinding away with around 25,000. -- NW
11.25pm: Rich Trigg wins massive pot to take the chip lead
I just saw a massive pot between Rich Trigg and UKIPT2 Brighton winner Chris O'Donnell, one which ended with O'Donnell heading for the exit and Trigg heading to the top of the chip charts
Pre-flop O'Donnell raised to 2,600 from early position and Trigg three-bet to 5,400 on the button, call from O'Donnell. The flop fell Q♥J♥K♦ Trigg bet 2,000 and O'Donnell called. The 4♠ turn was checked through and the 6♥ completed the board. First to act O'Donnell led for 11,800 and had around 35,000 back, Trigg set him all-in and O'Donnell called it off.
First to show was Trigg who opened K♥6♥ for the rivered flush, whilst O'Donnell showed [10c]9♠ for the flopped straight and a bit of a cooler. After that hand Tirgg has roughly 190,000 although it was understandably taking him a while to stack his chips.
11.15pm: Latest exits
The total number of players left in has dipped to double digits for the first time today some of those who've facilitated that are: Scott Shelley, Ingemar Stahle, Ali Chaaban, Mark Reed, Richard Blacklock, Demetris Theophanous, Arjun Pasricha, Michael Jones, Ross Boatman, Louis Vial, Mohammad Sharifkazemi, Chaz Chattha, Mark Scarman, Christopher Barron, Mark Wates, UKIPT Series 3 Winner Dinh Tuan Nguyen, Carl Croucher and Dave Shallow, who late, late registered did not last long as he too is out. -- NW
11pm: No soft-playing
There aren't an enormous number of women in today's field, and they're not exactly sticking together either. Louise Duffy has just knocked out Sonja Kovac, making a big call for almost half her stack.
Kovac open shoved for about 12,000 and it was folded round to Duffy in the big blind. She asked for a count, asked forgiveness from her table for taking a little while to decide, counted her own stack, and then called.
Kovac tabled K♣7♣ and Duffy allowed herself a little nod as she turned over K♦J♥.
The board came 9♠3♠K♥Q♠6♣ and that was the end of that for our Croatian visitor. Duffy will likely now live to fight into day two. -- HS
Blinds up: 600/1,200, ante 200
10.35pm: Sick river for Zindrick
Oh boy was this a tough one to swallow for Bryan Zindrick. On the turn of an A♥5♥3♦[10s] board Ion Tronaru set him all-in for around 27,000. Zindrick committed his chips with a flourish and showed A♠K♣, which was well ahead of Tronaru's A♣2♠. An ugly 4♦ on the river gave the Romanian a straight and a stack of around 80,000.
As for Zindrick, he could only curse his luck as he picked up his coat and walked off into the night. -- NW
10.25pm: Latest exits
There's no easy way to say this but: Daniel Laming, Niels Ladefoged, Louis Livramento, Paul Parker, Chris Bjorin, Ioannis Vogiatzoglou, Steve Watts, Arvin Ravindran, Tim Davie, Daniel Edgington, Enkan Ismail, Nicky Katz, Philip Lee, Jackie Glazer, Jack Young, William Whittaker and Patrick Gaughan were all out before late registration closed. -- NW
10.20pm: From Bulgaria with chips
The chip lead is swinging around spectacularly tonight, with the latest incumbent seeming to be Rumen Nanev. He has about 130,000 and quite a decent reputation, so long as you're from Bulgaria. He holds the record for most number of poker cashes for any Bulgarian, and is fourth on the money list. (The PCA winner Dimitar Danchev is quite a way out front in that race.)
Henrique Pinho, of Team PokerStars Pro and Portugal, is not far behind Nanev. He has about 110,000 at this stage. There's one level left until we bag and tag for the evening.
10.15pm: The late show with Dave Shallow
The total number of entrants for Day 1A is 246. It had been stuck on 245 for ages but then one hero rocked up and bought in with just five minutes to go before registration shut. He's well known too for Dave 'Dubai' Shallow is that man. According to close friend James Dempsey he was always planning on playing today but decided to have dinner and watch the football first.
The two-time WCOOP winner wasted little time in putting his 20 big blind stack to use, he shoved over the top of Leon Louis 2,000 open and Louis tank folded. 'You have A-10?' asked Shallow, Louis gave a little nod as if to say that Shallow had guessed right. -- NW
10.05pm: Late night visit to the chip shop
Our exceptionally helpful tournament staff and media co-ordinator, Jen Mason, have found us the top chip counts in the room. Here's the top ten. These are approximate, but they give a pretty good indication of how things are going.
Nathan Davies 130000
Tom Langley 117000
Darren Pearce 101900
Michael Opree 100000
Sunny Chattha 99000
Phillip Mighall 95000
Ion Tronaru 95000
Kenny Hallaert 90800
Jack Salter 90200
There are two levels still to play.
9.55pm: Day 1A locked out
The players are back in their seats for the final two levels of the night. The start of level nine also marks the end of late registration, meaning if you really wanted to buy-in and get a 20 big blind stack then you're too late.
There are still seats for Day 1B available though for anyone who missed out today. A reminder to read this if you're planning on playing any UKIPT or EPT events. -- NW
Blinds up: 500/1,000, ante 100
9.35pm: Easy come, easy go for Philip Patrick
Philip Patrick was just involved in back to back hands winning one and losing the other. In the first he raised it up to 2,200, Mark Wates meant to call but put out too many chips so it went as a raise to 4,000. When it came back to Patrick he called.
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Both players checked dark on the J♣3♣5♦ flop and the T♥ fell on the turn. 'I can't check any longer,' said Patrick and true to his word he fired out a bet of 4,000, call from Wates. The K♣ fell on the river, both players checked, Patrick rolled over pocket fives for a sneakily played set, whilst Wates showed K♣[Qd.
In the second Patrick raised it up to 2,200 again, Ian Simpson moved all-in over the top for 7,725 and Patrick tanked for an age before putting the extra in.
Simpson: 4♥4♦
Patrick: J♠T♦
The 6♥9♥A♥K♥K♠ kept the pair in front and Simpson doubled up.
He and the rest of the players are now on a 15 minute break. -- NW
9.30pm: The end of the road
Come in Shlomi Gardi, Luis Dono, Stuart Preece, Mark Goodchild, Daniel Rankin, David Burraway, Stefan Baustert, Stephen Lockett, Cristian Bala, Ramey Shaio, Sebastian Mueller, Alex Zeligman, Deborah Worley-Roberts, Stephen Chidwick, Ondrej Kopecky, Laurence Houghton, Nik Persaud, Jamie Dodd, Sameer Singh, Tom Ward, Adrian Mateos, Chun Ho Law, Willie Tann, Petra Hruskova and Philip Gorres. Your time is up. -- HS
9.20pm: Cody chats
Jake Cody is always good for an interview. Here's proof:
9.05pm: Big stacks
A lot of the chips in this room are sitting in front of two men: Phillip Mighall and Michael Opree. The former is probably chip leader at the moment, with what looks like about 130,000. His neighbour Tim Davie is looking on with envy.
Opree, on the other hand, has about 95,000 and is on one of the toughest tables in the room. He has a chipped-up Chris Bjorin there, plus Scott Shelley and Steve Watts. The good thing for Opree is that they are all to his right.
Opree just added another small portion to his stack when he called on the button after Paul Whyman had made it 1,600 to play under the gun. The flop came K♦A♥6♥, which they both checked, taking them to a 5♦ turn. Whyman bet 2,100, Opree called, and they saw a J♠ river.
Whyman checked, Opree bet 3,000 and Whyman made a crying call. Opree showed A♦9♦ and took the pot. When it happens repeatedly, it makes a stack like Opree's. -- HS
8.50pm: Lundmark making his mark
Kent Lundmark is one of four former EPT champions still playing today in London. (That's even when you discount Tom Middleton, who is now out.) Lundmark is wearing a bright blue zip up top bearing the badge of Arsenal football club, and is under jaunty-coloured headphones. But he's still doing much of his best work away from our gaze.
However, we did catch this hand, in which he took a tidy portion to add to his stack. Lundmark raised to 1,200 from under the gun and picked up four callers: Iaran Lightbourne two seats to his left, Paul Williams in the cut off, Shlomi Gardi on the button and someone in the big blind who called and folded at first opportunity.
The flop came 8♥3♠K♦ and after two checks, Lightbourne bet 2,400. Williams called, as did Lundmark. The turn was 2♠ and this time Lundmark and Williams checked, allowing Williams to bet 5,150. Lundmark was the only caller.
The 2♦ rivered and Lundmark checked again. Williams checked behind, much to Lundmark's disappointment. He tabled 3♦3♣ for a flopped set and rivered boat. Williams showed K♠[10s], then mucked.
8.45pm: Chip counts
Just 153 of 245 registered players remain the latest exits include: Shevron Glover, Catalin Dragomir, Matuesz Zbikowski, Souheil Mansour, Stewart Kirby, Martin Hogarty, Tony Fayad, Julien Legros, David Licht, Dahe Liu, Michael Welland, David Dineen, Jerome Bradpiece, Martin Bader, Praz Bansi, Dost Mohammad Ghraibe, Hakon Johansen, Team PokerStars Pro Mickey Petersen, Goran Mandic, Jan Muller, Dylan Linde, Thomas Kettel, Paul McTaggart, Marc Goeschel, Oleg Emelianov, Jose Schwaiger, Athir Ali, Julian Reuter, Nigel Goldman, David Gant and Anthony Wright.
Blinds up: 400/800, ante 100
8.30pm: Chip counts
With almost 70% of the days play completed here's how some of the notables stack up: Steve Watts (31,000), Sergio Aido (8,600), Tim Davie (17,100), Henrique Pinho (8,800), Stephen Chidwick (39,000), Leon Louis (22,000), Dinh Tuan Nguyen (15,600), Robbie Bull (34,000), Thomas Ward (15,300), Mickey Petersen (10,350), Paul Parker (37,500), Toby Lewis (48,000), Chris O'Donnell (31,000) and Jack Salter (57,000). -- NW
8.15pm: Coren counts chips with ace knockout
A slightly controversial hand to involving Team PokerStars Pro Victoria Coren to tell you about. It was only controversial in the sense that the floor was called and in truth both players were happy with the resolution and it probably could've been sorted out without the intervention of the floor staff.
The action was started by Adrian Mateos Diaz, he min-raised from under-the-gun+1 to 1,200, next to act Coren flat called, the player on the button did likewise only for Adrian Smith to silently slide his stack of chips totalling 17,700 across the line, Diaz folded, Coren then slid her stack of chips across the line (she covered Smith) without uttering a word, the button folded and Coren and Smith both exposed their hands.
So far, so standard, but it was then and only then that it became clear that Smith was not in fact all-in and had around 500 in chips behind, all in 25 denomination chips. So the floor was called, Smith's chip that were across the line totalled 17,700, Coren's 19,500.
It was established by the floor that both hands were live and betting action could still take place. On the Q♣5♠7♠ flop Smith committed the rest of his chips but bricked on the J♦ turn and 4♥ river and Coren is now up to around 38,000.
8pm: Salt and shake
Sometimes you have to make tough calls, as Josh Stamp-Simon proved in our 6.35pm post. But sometimes you'll be wrong. Jack Salter bet all the way on a board of 8♦4♠7♣5♠7♦ so that by the time they got to the river, he was sliding out 7,825 chips.
Julian Reuter had been calling, and he also called on the very end, which is when he was shown Salter's A♦6♦. The straight was good and Reuter mucked in frustration. -- HS
7.40pm: We're back
Players have now returned and are into level seven. The tournament information screen shows that there are 172 players remaining from 245 who entered. Both figures can change. The former will likely plummet as these blind levels increase. The latter could yet creep upward as registration is not closed for another two hours. -- HS
6.40pm: Chip counts
Here's a batch of chip counts for your delectation: Barny Boatman (40,000), Nik Persaud (16,700), Mickey Petersen (16,500), Leon Louis (28,000), Willie Tann (14,200), Paul Zimbler (45,000), Jake Cody (44,000), Kevin Allen (37,000), Mat Frankland (51,000), Tom Hall (19,800), Laurence Houghton (42,000), Chris Sly (22,000), Karl Mahrenholz (37,000) and Richard Trigg (14,000).
The players are now on a one hour dinner break.
6.35pm: Not the king of the Kastle
Casey Kastle is as regular a face at major poker festivals as anyone. Barely an event slips past without him in the fold. It goes without saying that you pick up a few tricks the more experience you get, but big moves don't always pay off.
Kastle has just lost more than 25,000 of his stack, doubling up Josh Stamp-Simon in the process, who made a gutsy call.
Three players saw a flop of 3♠K♣4♣ and Kastle bet 3,875. Only Stamp-Simon called, which took them to a 4♣ turn. Check, check. The river was the 6♥ and after Stamp-Simon checked again, Kastle said that he was all in, pushing forward four blue chips, worth 5,000 apiece.
It seemed that that covered Stamp-Simon, who went into the tank for a good couple of minutes. When he emerged with a call, Castle was forced to table Q♠J♠, or air in other words. Stamp-Simon was clearly delighted to be able to turn over K♥Q♦. -- HS
6.30pm: Middleton hits the rail
EPT10 Barcelona champion Tom Middleton was sat at a table with James Dempsey, the latter was on the phone so I took the opportunity to ask Middleton about his exit: 'I got heroed by James Cawley (although Middleton used Cawley's online handle). I checked the flop, bet the turn and shoved the river with Q-10 on a J-6-2-9-A board and he called with eights. I had about 10k to start the hand.'
Just one table along sat a similarly dispatched Kimmo Kurko meaning that the first and second place finishers at EPT10 Barcelona are both out. -- NW
6.15pm: Shelley avoids set-up
Scott Shelley is one of the few players in the field today who has a WSOP bracelet to his name, having won the £1,000 no-limit Hold'em event at the 2010 WSOP-E. He's down to 17,000 but it could've been much worse had he not made a disciplined laydown.
22 on 672 8 4, guy raised turn and bet 85% of pot on river, pretty sure he has 910 every time, 17k from 20k start with 30mins till din break
— Scott Shelley (@PKR_Scott) October 2, 20136pm: Gone
There are just 192 of 245 registered players left in the tournament. There's no easy way to say this but: Elliot Panyi, Sokratis Linaras, Kimmo Kurko, Neophytos Neophytou, Robert Timothy, Chris Spinks, Brent Chapman, George Hassabis, Alan Brown, Yucel Eminoglu, Immanuel Siebert, William Champion, Dillion Cathro, Karoly Kiss and Thomas Wallsgrove are only part of the latter number, not the former.
5.40pm: Debs the destroyer on the comeback trail
During her run to fifth place at UKIPT3 Cork, Deborah Worley-Roberts picked up the nickname 'Debs the destoryer'. The only thing getting destroyed earlier was her stack which plummeted as low as 6,100 at one stage. It was back over 30,000 when I saw the following hand play out.
There was a raise to 1,025 from UKIPT2 Brighton winner Chris O'Donnell, from the cut off, a call from Tony Vu in the hijack and Worley-Roberts then called on the button. The 2♥5♥A♦ flop was checked to Vu, he bet 2,100 and Worley-Roberts was the only caller. The 6♦ hit the turn, Vu slowed down, checking it to Worley-Roberts, she bet 3,700 and it was enough to take the pot. --NW
Blinds up: 200/400, ante 50
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5.30pm: All-in and call
A very interesting hand just played out between Samir Tageldin and Eugenio Verde, one which saw betting on every street and Tageldin all-in by the river. Pre-flop Tageldin made it 875 to go, Verde three-bet to 1,750, Tageldin four-bet to 4,400 and Verde smooth called.
The flop fell 6♠J♣K♥, Tageldin c-bet 3,675, Verde seem surprised at the size of the bet and elected to smooth call. The [10d] fell on the turn, Tageldin fired again, this time for 6,525 and again Verde smooth called. The Q♦ put four to a straight on board, Tageldin, who had roughly 14,000 back elected to check, Verde set him all-in and Tageldin snap called.
Verde: A♣Q♥
Tageldin: A♦K♠
So it was a chopped pot, Tageldin pointed at the flop and said: 'You're basically drawing dead there,' he then said: 'Nice turn and nice river though.' -- NW
5.20pm: The slow death rattle
Poor old Aleksandar Denishev. He had two green chips to his name, meaning a stack worth 50 tournament points. He was under-the-gun with J♦3♦ but had no choice but to get the chips in.
Both blinds went with him, but when the flop ran 3♣K♥Q♥A♥2♦, that three, remarkably, was good. Amazing. The coup was worth 425 in blinds and antes.
But with a big blind of 400 now to pay, he found himself with only a solitary green chip to play with. Samir Tageldin opened from under-the-gun and after mocking a fold, Denishev flipped the 25 chip in the middle.
Tageldin tabled 8♣9♣. Denishev slowly revealed the 2♥, which made him wince, and then the 8♠, which was about as bad as it could possibly be. 'I'm drawing dead,' he said, even before the 8♦7♣Q♥6♥A♥ flop, turn and river sealed it.
Sometimes you want to just rip off the Band Aid, but others make you peel it slowly.
5pm: The fallen
No easy way to say this, but Craig Sweden, Philippe Souki, Nicholas Pryce, Danny Blair, Simon Fuller, Oliver Price, Jonathan Weekes, Marc Daubach, Nicholas Aly, Daniel Hardy and Rajkumar Ramakrishnan have all busted before registration even closed. Indeed, registration is open until the end of level eight - three hours from now - so come on down. You've no excuse. --HS
4.35pm: Start again
We're into a new level here in London, but have a couple of skirmishes to report from late in the last.
First up, Tom Hall lost a bunch after he flopped a set of fours but Sheveron Glover made a flush. This one prompted quite an inquest as to how to play it, although the cards were on their backs by the time I arrived, so I can't tell you exactly how it went down.
Hall had 4♠4♦, Glover had A♣8♣ and the full board read 4♣9♣7♣[10d]2♣. Hall ended up doubling Glover's 9,400 stack.
Over in another corner of the room, John Eames pulled off a double knock-out, finding aces and two players all in ahead of him. Eames opened to 500, the first victim, Daniel Eversole, shoved for his short stack (less than 6,000) and the second, Oliver Price, also shoved for about 13,500.
Eames snap called with his aces and was up against threes (for Eversole) and kings (for Price). The board ran 4♦7♦8♣[10h]Q♦ and one of Eames's aces was the A♦, so that was easy.
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Reporting team: Howard Swains and Nick Wright. Photos by Rene Velli.