The 22 Remaining Players have taken a short break to devour the Fox Poker Club’s Famous Sunday Lunch…
We’ll grab chip counts while they are away. When play resumes the blinds will be 2,000-4,000 with a 3oo ante
This is how they line up on Table 1
| 1 | Pizzo, Romano | 61,500 |
| 2 | Karoullas, Mark | 129,400 |
| 3 | Moc, Trung | 44,900 |
| 4 | Doret, William | 109,400 |
| 5 | Choi, Yujung | 24,400 |
| 6 | Sunar, Surinder | 90,800 |
| 7 | Gustafsson, Karl | 102,800 |
| 8 | Tafalla, Alvin | 35,400 |
| 9 | Huntly, Gordon | 66,900 |
| 10 | Brooks, Simon | 71,300 |
Hand for Hand Play has Begun. Talk of a saver deal was immediately quashed by a big stack veto. Here’s a reminder of how the £42,900 prize pool breaks down…
Total Prizepool £42,900
1st £13,300
2nd £7,720
3rd £5,470
4th £4,080
5th £3,110
6th £2,140
7th £1,720
8th £1,290
9th £860
10th £640
11th £640
12th £640
13th £430
14th £430
15th £430
Nik Persaud is down to less than 15,000 chips after finding a pocket pair in a battle of the blinds. He moved his 70,000 stack immediately All-In from the Small Blind and Kenneth Larsen found a hand to call.
Persaud
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Larsen
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The near coinflip race ran out
for Larsen’s 55,000 stack to more than double up to put him in a strong position.
Blinds: 100-200
Players Remaining: 95
Average Chips: 24,300
The registration period is now closed. We have 106 entries total (of which three are re-entries) making a total prizepool of £31,800. The prize money will be announced shortly after all entries have been confirmed.
£60,000 in prize money up for grabs…
1 £20,100
2 £12,000
3 £7,200
4 £5,400
5 £4,200
6 £3,000
7 £2,400
8 £1,800
9 £1,200
10 £900
11 £900
12 £900
Blinds are now 2,500-5,000
18 Players Remaining
150,000 Average Stack
The players will have a dinner break at the end of this level (6pm)
We catch the action on the turn tho I was told Hakin had opened pre and got two callers( Baka and Mike Conway).
On a board of
baka and Conway checked to Hakin who was happy to take a stab at the pot, betting 8k with both players again calling.
Turn card was
everyone checked
River card come down
everyone checking again. Conway tables
wfor two pairs ftw.
Baka said to Hakin “bluff sometimes man” Hakin said “not in to two player I can’t”
The Bank Holiday Special £150+£10 London Calling Side Event attracted 95 players today who built a £14,250 prize pool.
| 1 | Evan Gladstone | £4,670 |
| 2 | Duncan Mackie | £2,770 |
| 3 | Hasan Akkaynak | £1,900 |
| 4 | William Rogers | £1,420 |
| 5 | Davide Magnan | £1,000 |
| 6 | Dion Lawerence | £710 |
| 7 | Arash Toofan | £570 |
| 8 | Sami Barghouthi | £430 |
| 9 | Michael Green | £280 |
| 10 | Alan Rogers | £200 |
It’s been a short, sharp Day 2 for Katt Wann.
He shoved from the small blind to a button raise from Alan Calzari and got a call – the call he probably wanted, but the flop, not so much.
Wann:
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Calzari:
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Board:
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Katt doesn’t get nine tournament lives, he only gets the Wann. As it were. Busto before the first break.