GPPT UK Online Leg: $50,000 Gtd + $10,000 Added

Daniel McNairne Wins partypoker Grand Prix Poker Tour (£35,000)

After a very short heads-up match it is Daniel McNairne who is the new Old Trafford partypoker GPPT champion.

The action was limped preflop and they saw spread in the middle. McNairne checked and Brian O’Conner bet 2,500,000. McNairne responded by moving all in and, with a shrug, O’Conner called.

O’Conner had a piece of it with his but McNairne had the best of it with .

The turn card was the and the river card the .

The two remaining players shook hands as the crowd applauded the marathon poker session. O’Conner walked away with £21,000 for his second placed finish while McNairne got the glory, the title, the trophy and £35,000.

Phillip Toon Eliminated In 3rd Place (£14,630)

Daniel McNairne opened for 2,000,000 on the button and Phillip Toon moved all in from the small blind. Brian O’Conner folded the big blind and the cards were on their backs.

McNairne tabled and Tomlin the .

The board ran out .

What looked like another saviour flop for Toon crumbled to dust on the river as McNairne spiked his jack to send the gallant Toon to the rail with a generous round of applause.

McNairne Doubles Through Toon

Daniel McNairne opened for 2,000,000 and Phillip Toon moved all in. McNairne called and the cards were on their backs.

Toon showed but was behind again to the of McNairne.

The board ran out and this time Toon couldn’t do it but he is still in while McNairne got the double up he was craving.

Daniel McNairne – 36,000,000
Phillip Toon – 8,000,000
Brian O’Conner – 13,000,000

Toon Survives

Brian O’Conner opened for 2,000,000 and picked up a call from the Micheal Micheal on thr button. The small blind folded and Phillip Toon moved all in from the big blind.

O’Conner called and Michael left them to it.

Toon was in trouble and at risk of elimination with his suited against the of O’Conner

The board ran out 3d and Toon doubled up through O’Conner to even up the game again.

Phillip Toon – 29,000,000
Brian O’Conner – 12,000,000

O’Conner Takes Huge Pot From Toon

Phillip Toon completed in the small blind and Brian O’Conner checked his option in the big blind.

The flop was and Toon checked it over to O’Conner who bet 1,100,000. Toon responded with a check-raise all in. O’Conner called and was at risk.

Toon tabled for a gut-shot straight draw while O’Conner held for middle pair.

The turn was the and the river was the to give O’Conner a huge pot and cut Toon down to fumes.

Brian O’Conner – 23,500,000
Phillip Toon – 14,000,000

Roy Hamilton Eliminated in 7th Place (£4,790)

A three way all in preflop saw Wes Hutchison table against Brian O’Conner holding and Roy Hamilton with .

The board ran out with the turn and river cards delivering an emphatic victory for O’Conner and eliminating Hamilton while Hutchison saw his recovery severely dented.

Roy Hamilton – Eliminated
Brian O’Conner – 9,000,000
Wes Hutchison – 1,500,000

Paul Clarke Eliminated In 8th Place (£3,740)

Paul Clarke moved all in with a short stack from the cut-off and Brian O’Conner on the button re-shoved. Micheal Micheal in the big blind gave it a long think before folding face up.

Clarke turned over and O’Conner showed .

The board ran out .

Clarke headed for the rail and Michael felt that he had dodged a bullet on that particular hand.

Lukasz Podyma Eliminated in 9th Place (£2,940)

Wes Hutchison, Lukasz Podyma and Brian O’Conner tangled in a pot where short stacked Podyma was all in preflop.

The flop was and Hutchinson and O’Conner checked. On the turn card Hutchinson bet 1,200,000 and O’Conner folded. The cards were on their backs and Hutchinson tabled for a straight and the #td of Podyma was dead in the water as the completed the board.

Wes Hutchison – 8,000,000
Lukasz Podyma - Eliminated

Official Final Table Of Nine With Chip Counts

1- Wes Hutchison: 6,050,000
2- Lukasz Podyma: 1,800,000
3- Paul Clarke: 2,525,000
4- Brian O’Conner: 11,650,000
5- Roy Hamilton: 2,725,000
6- Micheal Micheal: 3,975,000
7- Joseph Donelon: 5,400,000
8- Daniel McNairne: 15,075,000
9- Phillip Toon: 15,300,000

Hiten Keshavala Busts In 10th

Hiten Keshavala moved all in from the button and it was that man again, Phillip Toon, who called from the small blind. The big blind folded and it was Keshavala who was the player at risk.

Keshavala had and Toon tabled .

The board ran out . This time it took until the turn before Toon spiked his card but the result was the same. Victory for Toon and some more blood on the carpet as another victim headed for the pay-out desk.

The unofficial final table of nine will now be set.

Phillip Toon Doubles Up

There was an open to 700,000 from the player in the cut-off before Phillip Toon moved all in from the button. Xia Ke in the small blind then moved all in too and the other players left them to it.

Toon held and was up against the of Ke.

The flop of shot Toon into the lead and the turn card and river card saw Ke’s stack cut down to 800,000 while Toon was right back in contention with a stack of around 9,000,000.

Richard Edmonson, Final Golden Chip, Busts

Richard Edmonson was the last player left in the tournament who still had a golden chip. If he made the final eight he would have won an extra £8,000 and if he had won the event it would have seen him double the first place prize of £35,000. It was not to be though as Edmonson has just busted in 16th place.

Edmonson moved all in before the flop and got called by Michael Michael. Edmonson showed but was dominated by the of Michael.

The board ran out and Edmonson was off to collect his £1,400 as Michael scored his second knockout in quick succession.

Michael Michael Doubles Up

Michael Michael moved all in preflop for just over 3,000,000 and picked up one caller. Michael tabled the and was in the classic race against the .

A run out of saw Michael hit the flop hard and stay there to double up to just over 6,000,000.

Cat Winch Busts In Double Knockout

Cat Winch was all in preflop and had been called by Chuck Khuu and Joseph Donelon who both had chips behind.

The flop was and both Khuu and Donelon checked. The turn card was the and Khuu then moved all in. Donelon didn’t look delighted and asked if Khuu had hit his set of nines. He took his time though before eventually calling.

Khuu showed and Donelon the better while Winch need a deuce to go with her . The river bricked out though and Donelon scored a double knockout.

Three Way All In

Three players were all in preflop with Jonathan Cornish the player at risk, but he had and was praying it held against the of Reyaaz Mullah and the third player holding .

A flop of could scarcely have been any better for Cornish, hitting top set. The turn card and river card however delivered a stunning runner runner three high flush for Mullah as a stunned Cornish staggered from the table.

Mullah scored a triple up to 3,000,000.

Charlie Grant Out But Happy

Charlie Grant moved all in holding and got called by a player with . “I’m all in with ace high.” Grant called to his friend who rushed over to see the result.

Grant was the player at risk and he was out of his seat as the dealer dealt his fate. A final board of saw the tens hold to bust Grant but he was fine with it.

“I’ve sat in this chair for nearly nine hours so this is a great result. I only fired two bullets.” Grant was taken to the pay-out desk to collect his £1,050 for his 25th place finish.

Personal Best For Stewart Mason

As another player busted and there were 26 players remaining there was one player who had more reason to celebrate than the rest, and he was out of his seat to remind his friends of his achievement.

Stewart Mason had finished in 27th place at his previous two big partypoker / DTD tournaments and been keeping a close eye on the tournament board to make sure he broke his personal hoodoo and ensure his friends couldn’t take the mick on the journey home. Everything from now on for Mason is a bonus.

Shove Or Fold Time: Paul Pitchford Busts

There haven’t been a lot of flops recently as stack sizes mean a lot of players are opting to put their chips in preflop.

Chip leader Philip Toon is using his big stack to bully the table and he too opted to move all in from under the gun. Paul Jackson asked for a count and found Toon still had 5,100,000. “I hope my second card is the same as my first one.” Jackson said but it turned out not to be and Toon’s shove got through.

On another table Cat Winch moved all in for considerably less, (820,000) and action folded to the player in the big blind. “If anyone is going to double me up it’s going to be you,” Winch said reminding him of the fact they had been on several tables together, but he let it go with a shake of his head. “I need someone to double me up.” Winch told her table.

On a third table Paul Pitchford moved all in with and had been called by . The board ran out and Pitchford was the 35th placed finisher.

Four Tables Remain

Action is hotting up again here at Old Trafford.

Gary Smith moved all in with but ran into . A final board of saw Smith head for the pay-out desk in 35th with just four tables remaining in play.

Don’t Miss Out On the Next partypoker Grand Prix Poker Tour

Satellites start for the next stop of the GPPT sponsored by partypoker tomorrow. The event will be held at St James’ Park, home of Newcastle United, on 20-21st February. Full details can be found on partypoker or by clicking the link at the top of this page.

Mark Bird On A Draw

The flop was and there was a bet of 160,000 before Mark Bird moved all in for 780,000 and sat motionless waiting for his opponent’s decision. A minute or so ticked by before his all in bet was called and Bird turned over his flush draw with a gut-shot. His opponent had made a gutsy call with .

The turn card was the giving Bird his straight and the river #tc completed the board to deliver a double up to just over 1,600,000.

Jacks For Joseph as Donelon Doubles

There was an open to 120,000 before the action folded round to Joseph Donelon who moved all in for 710,000. The original raiser didn’t look like he loved it but he had Donelon covered and called.

Donelon turned over his and was in good shape against his opponent’s .

The dealer put out a board of and with that Donelon could breath again as the pot was pushed his way.

Above or Below … Average

Half a million chips can sound like a lot, but when the average is 1.17million and blinds are 25,000/50,000/5,000 , it’s not what it looks like. Ten big blinds and a dream of that top prize of £35,000 - just what the longest-lasting lady Cat Winch has. the BRS player is at a tournament-high of 545,000 but that’s nothing much to fight with unless she can find a double-up!

Elsewhere, Chuck Khuu has 660,000, while Paul Jackson has 2.7 million (and he’s one of our remaining ‘golden chip’ players - there are quite a few of them left)!

Ben Butler Busts

Ben Butler had an all in confrontation with Iain Mclaughlin where they both had very similar stack sizes. Butler had the pair 6d but Mclaughlin had the better pair with .

The board ran out to double up Mclaughlin and leave Butler with less than one big blind and it was his big blind next hand. The player on the button shoved with and Butler liked his but a run out of finished him off for a 55th placed finish that was good for £630.

“Magic Maik” the German Horse Hits 1 Million

Eric Bradbury opened the action for 62,000 before “Magic” Mike Jendrytzki three-bet to 175,000. It folded round to Bradbury who moved all in for 270,000 more and Magic Mike was left to puzzle it out.

Looking on from the side lines was Vincent Sanchez who said he had bought a number of German players into the tournament and one of them was Magic Mike. As he waited for his decision Sanchez admitted that he had dusted off his stack in fairly quick fashion earlier in the day but had few regrets. He recounted some fairly hair-raising but funny stories from last night before insisting that he taught Magic Mike everything he knew about poker.

Mike then asked Bradbury is he had queens or kings before folding face up. Bradbury in turn showed him his own .

“I didn’t tell him to fold ace king in that spot though.” laughed Sanchez. Mike Jendrytzki sin’t doing too much wrong though as he looks to have topped the 1,000,000 chip mark.

Hyper Turbo Time

The single re-entry $109 Hyper Turbo side event is set to kick off in 15 minutes time at 4pm. There are 9 entrants registered so far for the last chance at some live poker here at Old Trafford.

99 Problems

The Grand Prix Poker Tour had 3646 entries in this Old Trafford Leg, but we are down to the last 100 players, meaning whoever wins it just has to outlast 99 players to carve their name in history and bank a whopping £35,000. Every player in the top 99 is guaranteed £490, with the next pay-jump at 81st place, whoever finishes above that point will cash for £560.

Norman Whiteside has enjoyed a huge resurgence, thanks in no small part to two players following him in raises pre-flop, post-flop and on the turn as he hit QUAD KINGS to leap up to 850,000 in chips. He’s just a little way off the lead.

A reminder that anyone with a DTD ‘golden chip’ still in their possession on the final table of eight players will bank an extra £5,000. If they were to win it, it would be an extra £35,000! There were 65 golden chip holders still in play as Day 2 began.

Mike Degriffa Fells Two

Mike Degriffa opened the action before a short stack moved all in and then Anthony Manuel moved all in as well for 252,000.

Degriffa was left shaking his head but the price looked right and he called. The first all in player had and Manuel showed while Degriffa was looking to bust them with #td.

The board ran out and Degriffa collected the pot to send another two players to the rail.

Gardner Plants the Seed

Steven Gardner appears to be flummoxing his table judging by the number of hands he is playing, the size of his stack and the reactions he has been getting from other players at the table. In a recent hand it was heads up to a flop of all low cards when action was checked to Gardner who put out a bet. His opponent was left muttering and shaking his head before throwing his cards in the middle. Gardner made no comment but tabled his before stacking more chips. Gardner is closing in on the 880,000 count and looks calm and in control.

Lukasz Podyma Busts One

Lukasz Podyma was in the small blind when the action folded to him. He opened and the player in the small blind moved all in for 260,000. Podyma asked for a count and called. The player in the big blind showed and if was hoping that Podyma was calling light he was sorely disappointed when he saw his .

It was far from over of course, but after a final board of it was and Podyma collected the pot to increase his stack to the 700,000 mark.

Norm, What Are You Doing?

It looked as though Norman Whiteside wanted to raise but the dealer ruled it a call and the action was then on the player on the button who obliged by raising to 50,000. It folded back to Whiteside who was advised on how much he had to put in to call, but Whiteside had other ideas and raised it up to 100,000.

“Norm, what are you doing?” his opponent asked before he called.

The flop was and Whiteside continued for 100,000. His opponent checked his hole cards several times before he folded and a rare pot was pushed to Whiteside who started the day as chip leader but hasn’t been able to get much going so far. There is a long way to go though and with a stack of around 640,000 Whiteside is still above average.

Brown Out

Glen Brown is another recent faller with 147 players left. Brown recounted his exit hand where a player with a similar stack had moved all in from late position. Brown was in the big blind and called holding ace-king only to find he was up against queen-eight. A queen on the flop signalled the end as no ace or king came on the turn or the river. Brown shrugged it off though and was already looking forward to playing a side event.

No Repeat For Sunny Mistri

Sunny Mistri has just busted the Old Trafford leg of the Party Poker GPPT ending his hopes for back-to-back victories after his triumph at Stamford Bridge back on November.

Mistri lost the majority of his stack with pocket sixes when his opponent paired his ace and he was out soon after when he shoved some suited cards from early position and got no help from the dealer.

Anthony Manuel Dispatches Two

Lee Childs moved all in with a hand he said he had been waiting for all day and got one call from Anthony Manuel.

Childs turned over and was calling for an ace when he saw the of Manuel. He got it, but in the end probably wished he hadn’t, as the board ran out #td . The jack on the turn gave Manuel his straight but there were no complaints from Childs as he went in search of his cash.

On the very next hand Manuel called another shove for 120,000. His opponent had and Manuel the #. The board ran out and another player’s stack headed over to the smiling assassin Manuel.

How Does Your Gardner Grow?

Steven Gardner is having a decent first few levels today. In a recent hand he opened the action and then faced a shove of around 200,000 from Rhydian Mathias. Gardner took his time before telling Mathias, “Go on then.” and calling.

Mathias said he was fairly sure he was behind and so he was as his was dominated by the of Gardner. The board ran out and Mathias headed for his pay-out while Gardner stacked his chips.

On the next hand Gardner opened again for 25,000 and picked up two callers. A continuation bet on a jack high flop saw him pick up those chips too to propel him to around the 800,000 mark.

Pay-Outs Confirmed, Side Event Filling Up

The pay-out structure for the main event has been confirmed and the remaining players are pouring over it, calculating how far up the ladder they imagine they can finish. With 226 left they are now guaranteed £280 with the next pay jump at 162nd worth £350.

Meanwhile the $109 Turbo side event has attracted a healthy 103 entrants so far and the atmosphere here in the tournament room at Old Trafford is starting to buzz again as the caffeine and adrenaline kick in after a bleary eyed 11am start.

Delahunt Defends Against Mistri

Sunil Mistri, winner of the Stamford Bridge leg of the partypoker GPPT, was in action in a recent hand; on a flop of Darren Delahunt in the big blind check-called a bet of 20,000 from Mistri. They both then checked the turn card and the river.

Both players indicated that the other one should show first before the rule was clarified that the player to the left of the button shows first when there has been no action on the river. Delahunt turned over his and Mistri spun his cards into the muck.

Darren Delahunt – 520,000
Sunil Mistri – 180,000

Daddy Sanchez Back In Action

Vincent Sanchez talked up a storm yesterday, playing a lot of hands and seeking to dominate the table, or be the daddy as he put it, on the way to accumulating a healthy stack. Sanchez was another who arrived a little after the start of play but he looks as keen as ever to get involved in the action.

Three players saw a flop of and Sanchez bet 55,000. Gaz Reynolds stuck around and the remaining player folded so it was heads-up to the turn card . Sanchez opted to check this time and Reynolds moved all in.

Sanchez appeared to give it some thought before folding and Reynolds told him he could see one card telling him, “I’ve always got it.” The card turned over was the .

Mark Briggs One Of the Early Exits

Mark Briggs has just been eliminated but he still has a smile on his face although slightly bleary eyed after he admitted to enjoying a great night out in Manchester last night. As he recounted it the fun meant he and his friends arrived ten minutes late, and not long after he sat down he shoved over an open holding ace-jack. His opponent called with ace-queen which held and Briggs headed to the pay-out desk where he intended to use part of his winnings to register in one of the side events.

Side Events Running Today

If you are in Manchester and haven’t made Day 2 you can still play in a couple of single re-entry side events. There is a Turbo starting at 12pm with registration open until 2:20pm, and a Hyper-Turbo starting at 4pm with registration open until 5:15pm.

Both events are $109 buy-ins and can be entered with funds from your partypoker account.

There is also plenty of fun and games to be had in the players’ lounge as well as the Liverpool Vs Manchester United game live on the TV screens around the room.

Seat Open!

“Seat open.” is the cry from the dealers as a flurry of bust-outs mark the first few minutes of the days play here at Old Trafford. The next pay jump is nearly 100 players away so there is no incentive to sit tightly on a small stack. Any ace, any pair or pretty looking Broadway cards are enough incentive for the small stacks to get their chips in the middle and let the cards decide their fate.

goodnight

after a long night and a 12 hour 2,446 runner tournament thats it

Old Trafford satellites, for the live leg of the GPPT in January, start this week…..

ythesnail wins the GPPT Online leg

going into the hand 47 to 23m up

he raised the button, was three bet from the big blind and called

the flop comes two hearts, all low cards

it all goes in

A-6hh for ythesnail

3-3 for radford999

a heart on the turn wins the tournament for the german player

he wins $34,981

radford999 from the uk finishes second and wins $22,000

billyjoe81 is out 3rd

radford999 button raises and billyjoe big blind shoves 10xbb

radford AQ beats K8 to take us heads up

a long three handed battle

and now into level 41 600,000-1,200,000

radford999 the chip leader

billyjoe81 the shortstack

pksebens is out 4th

he button shoves AJ into billyjoe81’s AK

at the break

radford999 uk 23m
pktsebens australia 18m
billyjoe81 germany 18m
ythesnail germany 14m

300-600k blinds

payouts

$35k
$23k
$15k
$11k

pizzaaaaaa out 5th

radford 99 raises to 1m UTG

Pizzaaaaaa shoves 9m with KQ

call

Aces

Aces hold and the UK’s radford999 is a big chip leader

zu_shilka out 6th

billyjoe81 raised and shilka shoved 5.8m

playing 10.5m billyjoe called with AQ

Shilka AK

Q on the turn to take us down to 5

plonk783 finishes 7th

4.5m shove 6-6 into billyjoe81s Jacks

betbetoverbet finishes 8th

pizzaaaaaraises in ther cut off

betbetoverbet shoves 3m in the big blind

call

K-10 for the shover, A-6 for the raiser

K on the turn

A on the river

slimshakey2 finishes 9th

he three bet shoves 10-10 UTG+1 and pizzaaaaareshoves J-J UTG+2 covering him

Jacks hold, we are down to 8

pktsebens doubles through

QQ v 77 of billyjoe81 to go second chip leader with over 10m

Final table

there are no golden chips, as slimshakey2 is on a re-entry

at the 2am break

25 left guaranteed $941

blinds going 60-120k

average 2.6m

chip leaders

SLIMSHAKEY2 6.6M
KRISPIIROLLS 6.4M
DRIP45T 4.5M

2 golden chips remain, slimshakey2 and I_GIMP_U

simon trumper’s exit, all in pre

ouch

4 golden chips remain

in the last 60

13th place Slimshakey2
14th place jimorosz
29th place I_GIMP_U
51st place likeyserv

at the 1am break

65 of 2446 remain

7 of those 65 have golden chips

blinds are 25,000-50,000

betbetoverbet from poland has 3.3m
qertz from germany has 2.6m
boingblitz from west bromwich albion has 2.5m

One time?

Brian Yates/boingblitz66

“After 7 hours play I am 1/133/2446 in the Online Grand Prix on Party Poker. $371 locked up with $35,000 for the winner. A long way to go yet but PokerGods….I hereby request access to my “ONE TIME””

10 golden chips remain

110 left

golden chips are

SlimShakey2
hideouslitUK
likeyserv
richking
I_GIMP_U
WHYdoittoMYSELF
mat_fab
maniacmike3
twoforest
jimorosz

Boing Boing

new chip leader with 2.2m is boingblitz66

boing refers to the west bromwich albion fc supporters song…boing boing they chant at home games

the username belongs to brian yates of the black country poker club, an experienced online and live player from the west midlands

SlimShakey leads

Approaching the 11pm break there are 155 left, payout is $311+$109 seat

slimshakey2 is the chip leader with 1.36m ahead of prahlad77 and Boingblitz, just

sophie moone and polands betbetoverbet round out the top 5

Guy “tempor02” taylor is in 6th

blinds are 10-20k

golden balls?

top 2 players have a Golden Chip

PleaseDontLie 1.16m
Slimshakey2 1.15m

205 left at 8-16k blinds

Into the cash…..

the bubble has burst, with the unlucky player exiting in 251st being GreatDany

the remaining 250 players are guaranteed a minimum of $221 plus an entry to a $109 GPPT leg

Golden chip update

4 players in the top 20 have a Golden Chip:
hideouslitUK
FashionBandit
Slimshakey2
august210

the 11pm break

275 of 2446 are left

250 are paid

blinds are shortly to be 6000-12000

chip leaders as follows

Brodders_84 902,000
vishmaini 875,000
bigbangjr 839,000
paulh1111 748,000
fashionbandit 745,000
moonpigman 723,000

Trump’s tales

Simon Aces Trumper ‏@Dusk_Till_Dawn_

Going strong on Twitch http://www.twitch.tv/thetrumpershow

got 300K 78th/290 remaining should make the money! Ryan is chipleader

Running into Aces

thanks to my informant for the message that

” the Chip leader TheNineBetFold just ran into AA twice in two hands to be knocked down to 656k.”

298 left with 10 minutes to the next break

250 paid

All those nights watching poker

do not appear to have been wasted

TD and DTD Cardroom manager Ryan Brodsky (Brodders_84) is the new chip leader with 955,000

317 left

We would never hear the end of it…….

the rich get richer

theninebetfold is now approaching 1m chips, 2nd has 674,000. the fun of being a chip leader

only two golden chips in the top twenty currently

fashionbandit and slimshakey

357 left, 250 paid

Have you ever seen a nine bet fold?

I hadn’t until now

NineBetfold from the UK is up to 856,000 in the level after the break.

Nearly 200,000 ahead of the player in 2nd

Down to 422 left as the tournament quickly winds its way towards the bubble perios

the 10pm break

players left 475

players registered 2446

first place is $35,000

level 18 next blinds of 3,000-6,000

chip leaders

paulh1111 555,000 (uk player)
fashionbandit 519,000
mrpotatohead 471,000
Brodders84 455,000 (this is DTD Cardroom manager Ryan Brodsky)
ellendegeneres 445,000
Qertz 436,000

golden chip updates

6 of the top 20, currently, have golden chips

PleaseDontLie
KingKai84
mushyph
hideouslitUK
Peahead88
grandzuwro

Chasing Qertz

636 left and we have two more stacks over 400,000

Dybkaer and KrispiiRolls from Denmark and the Netherlands respectively

A clear chip leader

Qertz, from Germany, has 446,000. 100,000 clear of the player in 2nd with 730 left at 1500-3000 blinds

a look at the chip leader’s table

373,000 at the break

The 9pm break

Players remaining 875

Players registered 2446

1st prize $35,000

250 players are paid

blinds in level 14 1200-2400

chip leaders

Pokerzuckovic 375,000
Qertz 361,000
PleaseDontlie 351,000
heartsbroken89 325,000
Dybkaer 300,000

Registration is CLOSED

The tournament has closed for entries with 2446 runners, tantalisingly close to the 2500 needed for the $250,000 GTD. Thank you to everyone for their support.

There are 1132 players remaining, and we now play to a finish with $35,000 first place

10mins left to reg. $109 buy in $250,000 GTD, 1st place is $35,000

10mins left to reg. Get online QUICK $109 buy in $250,000 GTD, 1st place is $35,000!! 15BB if you buy in now

with your help, we can do it

the third break. scores on the doors….

Players remaining 1360

Players registered 2225

$250,000 GTD

8.30pm is the last late registration

1 re-entry permitted

Blinds after the break are 600-1200 in level 11

chip leaders are

georgdieneil1 265,000
pizzaaaaaa 240,000
WooDooMagic 230,000
lhar1488 209,000
le_capitan88 195,000

one hour warning….

1 hour warning! You can still register the GPPT Online Leg for the next 60 mins

currently 2100 entries, needing 2500…will we make the guarantee?

three golden chips in the top 20

geordieneil1 still leads, and is the first stack over 200,000 now in level 9

We have three players with golden chips in the top 20. if they final they win another £5,000. if they win they win another whopping £35,000

will keep you in touch on golden chipper progress as we get deep into the tournament

in case of bad beat…

this seems like a plan…

Michelle Orpe raises with 9-3 on the button (no, really…) and then

yes, really

three way all in anyone?

nice time to get Quads sir

The second break

Players remaining 1513

Players entered 1865

Late registration til 8.30pm

1 re-entry permitted

blinds go 300-600 after the break in level 8

the chip leaders are

geordieneil1 149,000
mrpotatohead 143,000
jonny7 122,000
bordolino 117,000
m0k0to 115,000

please let us know on twitter @grandprix_poker or DTD groups on facebook how you are getting on

Coming up trumps?

Simon Trumper gets all the good hands. Possibly

www.twitchtv/thetrumpershow

A geordie and a teacher…

i know two of the players who are now chip leaders

georgieneil1. Guess what? He’s called Neil and he is originally from Newcastle and last i knew lives in Mlton eynes

Tommyxtra1. A teacher from Kent.

both have just now popped up in the top 5 chip counts

A new name emerges

real_deal666 and benjustjammin have been at the top of the chipstacks since the start but a new top three stack is the UK’s “swissbambi_1” for whom this competition is not proving too dear, so far

just look at the value. two hours of late reg remain

At the first break

Players remaining 1386

Players entered 1474

Late registration til 8.30pm

1 re-entry permitted

blinds go 100-200 after the break in level 4

the chip leaders are

REAL_DEAL666 116,000
mr potatohead 116,000
le_capitan88 97,000
benjustjammin 95,000
logan719 84,000

please let us know on twitter @grandprix_poker or DTD groups on facebook how you are getting on

Remember, remember

Remember to follow Simon Trumper’s progress

http://www.twitch.tv/thetrumpershow

a DTD who’s who

playing tonight in the GPPT Online….

Simon_Trumper - (Simon Trumper) All things poker
DTD-Nicola - (Nicola Veitch) All things marketing
DTD_Derek (Derek Gregson - All things IT
GaryOakes (Gary Oakes) - All things online
rheneghan (Rachel Heneghan) - All things social media
Jamie_Moniz (Jamie Moniz) - All things Grand Prix Poker Tour
MichelleOrpe (Michelle Orpe) - All things camera related
BostonsFinest (Fred Wise) - All things re-entry
Ryan_Brodsky (Ryan Brodsky) - All things live poker

Look out for us at your table!

into level 2, a UK chip leader

With 94,000 “Benjustjammin” has moved into the lead in level 2 with over 1100 runners at 75-150 and 28 minutes til the first break in the tournament

90,000. Already?

very early chip leader as we pass the 1,000 runner mark is Austria’s “real_deal666”

10 minutes into the tournament and 91,000 chips already

and we’re off

873 runners at the start

remember late registration until 8.30pm

to watch Simon Trumper play, on a delay, go to twitchTV and search for “The Trumper Show”

Nearly time………..

so late registration for the final mega-sat is closed and we now look ahead to the start of the $250,000 GTD GPPT Online leg at 5pm

$109 buy in
1 re-entry allowed
$35,000 guaranteed for first

late registration available until 8.30pm

a massive 2500 runners required

In his blog this week Rob Yong said “Without the constraints of licencing that we have in the football stadiums, we are able to offer a better structure, with a 30,000 starting stack, WPT Main Event structure and 16 min clock (equivalent to 40 mins live)”

remember, if you are reading this and want to get involved you can tweet us your chip counts, or hand summaries at @grandPrix_poker or into any of the DTD facebook groups

good luck everyone

The final $22 Mega Sat into the GPPT Online leg

Your last chance to satellite into the $250,000 GTD GPPT Online leg at 5pm is the $22 Mega Sat at 3pm, late reg to 4.20pm. 100 seats into the main event guaranteed

good luck!

Trumper twitch

For the GPPT itself Simon Trumper will be playing the partypoker online $250,000 guarantee Grand Prix while broadcasting on Twitch TV

link to come later, twitch feed live from 5pm

Today’s the day

Grand Prix Online event. Kick-off is @ 5pm UK time, 18:00 CET, 12:00 EST. Late reg is 8.30pm UK time

Check out the current satellites to win your way to the tournament from just one cent

Today we have 200 seats GTD for the late comers in Mega Sats at 1pm and 3pm – grab the last chance to win your way to the tables and aim to win a share of a massive $250, 000 GTD

All satellites can be found in our lobby under Grand Prix Cent Roll/Feeder or Mega Sat under our Satellite or Live Events > DTD> Grand Prix tabs

Coverage of the tournament here from 5pm today

Grand Prix Poker Tour Online Leg: $250,000 GTD

I am ALL-IN this Sunday at 5pm

ALL-IN
This Sunday at 5PM we have the first ever Online Leg of the Grand Prix - I am ALL-IN

When we orginally scheduled the $250,000 Online Leg of the Grand Prix, of course, it was intended to be a multi day 1 event but despite Ross at partypoker having expertly scoped the multi Day 1 techology {partypoker call this format ‘flighted’} to be honest, I quite fancied the idea of doing the first Online Grand Prix without any additional Day 1s - all over and done in 1 day - job done! Like many things, this seemed a good idea at the time and I felt this would challenge us all more to get unique players, rather than relying on players playing multiple Day 1s.

Fast forward 3 months, and the week of the Online Grand Prix has arrived, we need 2,500 players and we have 65 players pregistered with precisely 5 days, 52 minutes and 22 seconds to go {source GPPT Web Site }. As you know we have done Grand Prix’s live up to $1M Gtd, 10,000 entries, so 2,500 Online didnt seem such a problem 3 months ago, it wasnt the most scientific of decisions but taking a look at other $109 events last week {PokerStars Sunday Bigger $109 got 2173 for $200K Gtd, partypoker $109 Main Event got 1495 for $150K}, little old DTD find oursleves doing the biggest $109 event available in the online world this Sunday at 5pm!

The only words I can think of to describe how I feel are simply - ‘I am all-in”. Untimatley, the responsibility of the challenges we set ourselves rests with me personally, this year has been 12 months of falling short, I would be embarassed to go up and collect any poker awards in 2015, in fact, I genuienly hope that we are omitted from the British Poker Awards this year, which we seem to win every year, almost by default.

THE IMPORTANCE OF ONLINE POKER
People do ask to me why set such massive targets, especially when they rely so heavily on the success of online, but I have said time and time again, unless we get the UK online poker market growing and bouyant, the future of live poker is uncertain. We are getting more things right than wrong online, when we signed the partnership with partypoker many players raised their eyebrows, but then after 10 months the UK market is now partypoker’s biggest country and partypoker as a global business is moving in the right direction for the first time in many years. I said that the new management at partypoker were sincere, hard working and would deliver for us and that is happening, of course, there are some bumps along any road, but even the most sceptical of poker players must acknowledge that partypoker is contributing to the poker industry more and more.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Back to the Online Leg of the Grand Prix. There are times when I have to come out and ask for your support, I look at the DTD / Player relationship as a two way street, this time is one of them, without you, DTD is that shed in Nottingham, with you, DTD reaches for the stars and gets there most of the time. To everyone that knows me, I need you to help me out with 2 things;

1. Please Pre Register for this Sunday’s Grand Prix Online Leg ASAP if you intend to play - it’s in the partypoker lobby under ‘featured’ as well as in the Dusk Till Dawn Tab under ‘Grand prix’ and ‘All’. This will help me get a rough idea of how many players intend to play {we currently only have 65 pre registered}, either use your $109 Ticket OR register with cash {if you win a Grand Prix Ticket in one of the satellites this week, you can just de-register and re-register with you’re ticket.

2. Please Help the DTD Team spread the word about the Grand Prix Online Leg, we have never done this before, many players won’t understand the concept of a Grand Prix Online Leg, Nicola and her team will be offering prizes for guessing the entries, sharing and retweeting etc, the whole of DTD will be focussed on the Online Grand Prix for the next 5 days, Simon Trumper has done an explaination video.

MEGA SATS
As usual for all of our Grand Prixs, there will be Mega Sats starting this Thurday night. They start from Cent-Rolls (no re-buys - just $0.01}. These will be in the partypoker lobby later today and Nicola will be PR ing them, but here is snapshot:

Thursday 7pm - 50 seats Gtd
Thursday 9pm - 50 seats Gtd
Friday 7pm - 50 seats Gtd
Friday 9pm - 50 seats Gtd
Saturday 7pm - 50 seats Gtd
Satuday 9pm - 50 seats Gtd
Sunday 1pm - 100 seats Gtd
Sunday 3pm - 100 seats Gtd

Players who win multiple Grand Prix Tickets and play the Online Leg can swap their Ticket for a generic Grand Prix Ticket for use in any Leg, live and online.

ONLINE STRUCTURE
Without the constraints of licencing that we have in the football stadiums, we are able to offer a better structure, with a 30,000 starting stack, WPT Main Event structure and 16 min clock (equivelent to 40 mins live). We kick off at 5pm with late registartion till 8.30pm, there is a maximum of 1 re-entry allowed.

Thanks for your support, I know when I need it you guys will back me up.

Keep The Faith

Rob

NEXT STOP THE THEATRE OF DREAMS: £250,000 GUARANTEED GRAND PRIX POKER TOUR, 16-17 JANUARY 2016

Plus win a slice of another $250,000 guarantee in time for Christmas playing the online Grand Prix Poker Tour leg at partypoker.com, 20 December

Hot on the heels of the Grand Prix Poker Tour visiting Stamford Bridge, the first in a series of seven iconic football stadium venues, qualifiers have now started for the next leg at Manchester United’s legendary Old Trafford home, 16-17 January.

Players have the option to play four live day 1’s at Manchester235 casino on 9, 10, 14 &15 January, the weekly online day 1’s on partypoker or head straight to United’s ‘Theatre of Dreams’ to use their partypoker account to buy in and take their seat directly at the stadium itself on Saturday 16 January, 2016.

Simon Lazenby, partypoker ambassador and ardent Manchester City supporter said: “I am looking forward to playing my first Grand Prix Poker Tour event after coming straight off the Formula 1 circuit. As a City fan I know the exquisite pleasure of winning at Old Trafford so I urge all poker fans to take up this unique opportunity to share that feeling!”

Before that, partypoker players also have the option to join the action online on 20 December for just $109 and $250,000 guaranteed. The one-day tournament kicks off at 5PM (GMT) with a top prize of at least $35,000 to be won.

The Grand Prix Poker Tour will travel to the following stadiums across 2015/2016:

*Proposed schedule is subject to change. Any changes will be communicated to players in advance

All buy-ins and payouts will be completed using player’s online partypoker accounts. Players can buy directly into the action with a $109 ticket or can use their poker skills to qualify from as little as $0.01. For more information visit the partypoker website, check out the partypoker blog, follow @partypoker or like partypokerUK.

Sunil Mistri is Grand Prix Poker Champion (£35,000)!

Sunny has a smile on his face as he takes down the title, and it was a dramatic last hand! With just a few minutes left on the clock before we’d be looking at getting calculators out, Pak Chung shoved blind with and was called by Mistri, who held

The flop of put Sunny well ahead, and he survived the turn and river to hold and lift the trophy! It’s the biggest win of his poker career and he is absolutely ecstatic here at Stamford Bridge as he wins £35,000, Pak Chung taking £23,100 for the runner-up place!

Join us in Manchester’s Old Trafford stadium, home of Manchester United in January for the next leg of the record-breaking Grand Prix Poker Tour …you can qualify on partypoker from tonight!

Double for Chung

Pak Chung (pictured above) was super-short and shoved all-in pre-flop with called by Sunil’s

The board of doubled up Pak Chung to 13.5m … but he doesn’t hang about…and we’re all-in again!

Sunny Takes Control

Sunil Mistri has taken control of the heads-up almost instantly here at Stamford Bridge as the Grand Prix Poker Tour builds to a heads-up climax!

No sooner had Tony Vu disappeared from the table did Mistri take charge. With 6m in the pot and a board of Pak Chung led 10m into the middle, but after Sunny shoved, made an instant fold.

Is this nearly over?

Sunil - 47.25m

Pak - 6.75m

Tony Vu Eliminated in 3rd Place: £15,680

The sequence began with Sunil Mistri getting a stack as he moved all in with from the button for around 8m and getting called by Chung Pak in the big blind with . The board ran out and Mistri hit his flush to double up to around 16m and put the hurt on Pak.

Mistri had added a few more chips to his stack over the next few hands before he opened for 2.5m from the small blind and Tony Vu moved all in. The stacks were close and Mistri asked for a count, but before it was completed Mistri called and the cards were turned over.

Vu:
Mistri:

The board ran out and when the stacks were counted down Mistri just had the tricky Vu covered. It was handshakes all round before heads up play began.

Tim Rowlands OUT in 4th (£11,790)

Tim Rowlands (pictured) lost a huge pot with A-J when Sunil Mistri’s AQ decimated his stack (and Tony Vu open-folded A-K) which sent him low on chips. He called his last off with as Sunny shoved blind-on-blind on him with the which hit a jack on the flop and held as the board played out .

Tim leaves us in 4th for £11,790 - a very good weekend’s work by most people’s standards! - and leaves the following chip-counts:

Sunil Mistri - 19 million

Tony Vu - 16 million

Pak Chung - 19 million

Let’s find a winner!

Swapping Chips But No Eliminations

There have hardly been any flops in the last half hour with mostly uncalled shoves but there have been three all in confrontations.

First Sunil Mistri moved all in with and was called by the big stack Tony Vu who tabled . A run out of delivered a straight to Mistri who got his double up as Vu lost his commanding lead.

Next it was Mistri who shoved from the small blind holding and he was called by big blind short stack Tim Rowland who had . No help from the dealer this time for Mistri as the board ran out and it was Rowland’s turn to double up.

A short while later Mistri shoved from the button, Rowland called from the small blind and Vu agonised for a while before open folding Ace-King. It would be a fold he would shortly regret as Mistri showed and Rowland the . The final board read giving Mistri a double up, leaving Rowland as the short stack and a missed opportunity for Vu.

Fab Four

With 4 players left, the blinds are up to 300,000/600,000/75,000 with the following chip-counts:

Tony Vu - 26 million chips

Pak Chung - 14m

Sunny Mistri - 12m

Tim Rowland - 8m

The atmosphere is electric here at Stamford Bridge, after the last three quick-fire bust-outs:

Dave Mundle Eliminated in 5th Place £8,330

Dave Mundle moved all in from under the gun and it was Tony Vu again who called.

Mundle:
Vu:

The runout was and in short order Vu had claimed his third victim in a row.

Seelantha Kangaha Eliminated in 6th Place for £6,230

Seelantha Kangaha moved his short stack all in and it folded round to Tony Vu who made the call to put Kangaha at risk.

“You got a pair?” Kangaha asked as he tabled his . Vu nodded that he did and revealed .

The final board read and Vu scored another knock out to bust Kangaha in 6th place.

Vincent Sanchez Eliminated in 7th Place for £4,830

Vincent Sanchez moved all in under the gun and Tony Vu, sat next to him, called. The other players left them to it and the cards were on their backs.

Sanchez:
Vu:

The board ran out and Sanchez was eliminated in 7th his golden chip worth an extra £5,000.

Meet The Final Seven!

With that double elimination, just seven hopefuls remain in the hunt for the title of 2015 Stamford Bridge Grand Prix Champion! Who will win it?

Let’s meet the players!

Seat 1 - Sunil Mistri - 13 million chips

‘Sunny’ lives in Kettering, and works as a telephone engineer, in case you’ve been wondering about the lines he takes at the table! Sunny has been playing poker for a decade now, with his biggest win to date being £18k. He’ll need to finish in the Top 2 to better that here tonight.

Seat 2 - Tim Rowland - 6.8m

Tim hails from Boston, Lincolnshire, so won’t be walking home tonight whether he wins or loses! Having played since he was 18, Tim is now also a decade into his career, with the Manchester United supporter hoping to score a famous victory in enemy territory here at the home of Chelsea. Will he be over the moon or sick as a parrot? Only time will tell, but whatever happens, this will be the biggest live cash of his tournament career.

Seat 3 - Dave Mundle - 4.7m

Nottingham-based DTD regular Dave is 44 years old, and has been playing poker since the day Dusk Till Dawn opened its famous doors. He’s seen it all back in Nottingham, where he cheers on Forest when he’s not at the felt. He has literally no idea what he’d done with the money!

Seat 4 - Vincent Sanchez - 3.7m

Vincent is not only the brother of soccer legend Lawrie, he’s he only player at our final table who still has a golden chip in play. It’s worth an extra £5k to him at present, because he made it to the final, but should he take the tournament down then Rob Yong will have to DOUBLE his winning score of £35,000. It would be fair to say that Vincent has a big following! He’s promised to buy friends gifts should he bag that particular double-up and has read more poker books ‘than Amazon’!

Seat 5 - Tony Vu - 7.9m

Tony has been an enigma throughout this Grand Prix Poker Tour, and maintains his air of mystery as we head towards the biggest pay-outs of all. Having survived many an all-in on the approach to the final, he’s now playing like a man with nothing to lose. But will it be £5,250 for 7th place or can Tony take down the £35,000 top prize? We’ll take a Vu on it!

Seat 6 - Pak Chung - 14m

Having been the shortie with nine left, Pak Chung is suddenly right back in major contention for the title after a stunning comeback. Having worked as ground staff, Pak is used to walking down a large field, and ironically would spend the winnings on a new car! He loves football and poker, so this has been a dream tournament for him!

Seat 8 - Seelantha Kangaha - 3.0m

Seelantha has played some of the very best poker to work himself into this position and although he’s short-stacked, will fancy his chances of a winning result as he has been so hard to play against this weekend. A double-up and he’s be a man to fear, with the 31-year-old IT worker having ten years of live cash experience in his armoury. He’s seen every hand a thousand times, and he’s going for the win to book a holiday…he deserves one!

Chung Pak Scores Double Elimination

Action folded to Chung Pak on the button who opened for 6,000. Martyna Valkunas was in the small blind and he moved all in. Hristo Genov in the big blind gave it close to a minute’s thought as he was the shortest stack of the three of them but he put his chips in too. Pak quickly called to put them both at risk.

Pak:
Valkunas:
Genov:

The board ran out .

That meant that Genov was ninth and Valkunas the eighth placed finisher.

Pak busted two players in one fell swoop with his aces to set what would now be an official final table of seven.

Final Nine Chip-counts:

With blinds at 125k/250k/25k, just nine players remain, and the final table being an official eight , that means one more needs to go. That is quite significant, as the final player with a gold chip (worth £5,000 if they can reach the final table) is Vincent Sanchez. He must survive the next bust-out to earn a whopping bonus on top of what he’ll cash for for finishing in any of he last nine positions.

Everyone is on the same table now, however, so let’s see what they’ve got…

Seat 1 - Sunil Mistri - 12 million chips (chip leader)

Seat 2 - Tim Rowland - 8m

Seat 3 - Dave Mundle - 6.4m

Seat 4 - Vincent Sanchez - 4.1m

Seat 5 - Tony Vu - 7.5m

Seat 6 - Chung Pak - 1.5m

Seat 7 - Martyna Valkunas - 3.1m

Seat 8 - Hristo Genov - 4.15m

Seat 9 - Seelantha Kangaha - 5m

Craig Goddard Busts Short of Unofficial Final Nine

Craig Goddard moved all in and was probably just hoping to pick up the antes and blinds but Martynas Valkunas called to put his tournament at risk.

Goddard showed and was just behind the of Valkunas.

The final board read and the pair for Valkunas signalled the end for Goddard who will collect £2,310.

That left nine players who will form an unofficial final table.

Haribur Rahman Rivered and Out

Timothy Rowland opened the action and then called when Haribur Rahman moved all in.

Rahman was the player at risk with his pair of while Rowland tabled .

The board ran out . The river card delivered the killer blow to Rahman’s hopes and he was eliminated in 11th position for £2,310.

Seelantha Strikes Again

Seelantha Kangaha has proved a tricky opponent for dozens of others on this final day of the Stamford Bridge leg of the Grand Prix Poker Tour, and that’s not changing the closer we get to a final table.

Seelantha got all his 2.3m chips in pre-flop with and was called by Mo Abrar-Yasin, pictured above, who held . The board provided no help, however, and Kangaha doubles to 4.6m. Mo drops to around 1.7m and will need help to reach the final table.

Shaun Symister Out In 13th

Shaun Symister was all in holding but had run into the of Hristo Genov who had him covered.

It looked grim for Symister and it didn’t get any better as the cards ran out .

Symister was eliminated in thirteenth place.

Busst is Bust

Thomas Busst shoved pre-flop for around 2.3m chips, and was re-shoved on by Tom Vu, who sat behind 4.5m.

Busst showed , while Vu flipped over pretty quickly. He survived the board of to go up to 6.8m and eliminate Thomas.

Gary Sanford Hits the Rail

Gary Sanford moved all in for a little over 500,000 and Kangana Arachchi called. The blinds got out of the way and the cards were on their backs.

Sanford showed and was dominated by the of Arachchi. There were chop possibilities but the board fell with the final card emphasising the bust out.

Tre Childs Eliminated

Tre Childs held the chip lead for a while this afternoon but his Grand Prix Poker Tournament adventure has just come to an end on the feature table. Childs was all in holding and had been looked up by David Mundle with .

A queen in the window as the cards ran out # 10c did for Childs and he was the next player to head for the exit.

Dionysiou Busts To Leave Two Tables

Kyriacos Dionysiou has just been eliminated when his shove with found a caller who tabled .

The board ran out missing both players but Dionysiou couldn’t beat ace high and was the last player to be eliminated before the tournament went down to two tables.

Weekes Is Out

Jonathan Weekes (above, right) shoved all-in over-the-top of the opening raise from George Hughes, and after asking what his stack was, Hughes made the call. Weekes had 1 million chips in the middle with and Hughes, who hails from the Eltham Terrace Club, called with .

No drama on the board and we lose Jonathan, who as always in a live arena (literally here at Stamford Bridge) put on a great show for anyone watching. Hughes, who had a Day 2 berth along with 4 of his ETC friends, is now the only one of those left.

I asked him if any of the guys are on his rail.

‘Nope, they’ve all gone home! I don’t blame them really, the Eltham Terrace Club is a really nice place, friendly, it’s a fun place to play.’

We’re guessing if he wins, George might be able to afford a lift home….!

Neal Bethune Next To Be Eliminated

Neal Bethune moved all in before the flop and picked up one caller in Shaun Symister.

It was a coin flip for Bethune’s tournament life as he showed and was against the of Symister.

The final board read . The sevens were good and Bethune was gone.

Dougal Done For

Jonathan Dougal had just raise folded to a three bet where his opponent showed him pocket kings. He was still in reasonably good shape but as it folded to him in late position on the very next hand he shipped it all in and got called by Mohammed Yasin.

Dougal had risked it all with jack-three and needed a bit of hep against the suited ace-queen of Yasin.

The board bricked out and a slightly stunned Dougal headed for the pay-out desk.

25 Left in Grand Prix Poker Tour Main Event

With the average stack now at 2.4m, 25 people are still in with a chance of taking the title.

Sunny Mistri has already bullied a little out of a frustrated Tre Childs, who has dropped a chunk of his chips after a flop of saw Sunny bet 500,000 into a 700k pot. Tre looked extremely cheesed off to have to fold to a man with a few more chips than him. Mistri now has more than 10% of the chips still in play.

Blinds = 50,000/100,000/10,000 - Average Stack = 2.4m - 25 Players Remaining

Coin Flip Does For Corbo

Pietro Corbo was all in and at risk against Mohammed Yasin. It was a flip for his tournament life as Corbo held and Yasin the pair .

Pietro Corbo was all in and at risk against Mohammed Yasin. It was a flip for his tournament life as Corbo held and Yasin the pair .
A run out of saw the nines of Yasin hold to send Corbo to the rails.

A run out of saw the nines of Yasin hold to send Corbo to the rails.

Stamp Licked By Big Slick

Christopher Stamp liked his hand. So much so that he wagered all his chips. Jonathan Dougal called to put Stamp at risk.

Stamp had but was dominated by the of Dougal.

The cards ran out . No complaints from Stamp who gathered his belongings and wished the table good luck on his way out.Christopher Stamp liked his hand. So much so that he wagered all his chips. Jonathan Dougal called to put Stamp at risk.

Stamp had but was dominated by the of Dougal.

The cards ran out . No complaints from Stamp who gathered his belongings and wished the table good luck on his way out.

Outer Table Chip-Counts

With just 27 players left, the outer tables have the two biggest chip-stacks at their seats.

Tre Childs has dominated his table all day, and has 5.6m in chips, good for almost 10% of the chips in play with three tables left. but he has just been moved to Sunny Mistri’s table. we call it his because he is definitely wearing the captain’s armband here at Stamford Bridge, sat behind 5.9m and looking imperious.

Elsewhere, Jonathan Weekes, a regular on the live poker circuit when it comes to London-based tournaments, has 1.35m, while Seelantha Kangaha has 2.85m. Thomas Busst has 4.4 million to his name and double average.

Final Three Tables

There are now just 27 players left in the Grand Prix Poker Tournament Main Event spread across three tables. With an average stack of 27 big blinds there is still plenty of play left.

Adam Watkins Eliminated

Mohammed Yasin opened the action from under the gun and was close to getting it through before Adam Watkins in the big blind moved all in.

Yasin seemed a bit put out by this development and issued a plaintive, “I’ve got queen jack.” before calling and showing his . Watkins was the player at risk with .

The cards ran out .

The turn gave Yasin the lead with a pair and any remaining ace stayed in the deck to send Watkins packing.
Mohammed Yasin opened the action from under the gun and was close to getting it through before Adam Watkins in the big blind moved all in.

Yasin seemed a bit put out by this development and issued a plaintive, “I’ve got queen jack.” before calling and showing his . Watkins was the player at risk with .

The cards ran out .

The turn gave Yasin the lead with a pair and any remaining ace stayed in the deck to send Watkins packing.

Blinds 30,000/60,000/10,000 - 32 Player Remaining - Average Stack = 1.8m

Kangaha Not Laughing

Seelantha Kangaha raised, was three-bet by Shaun Symister and then 4-bet to a whopping 560k. No problem from Symister, who shoved all-in for 1.6m - and got a frustrated fold from his opponent. Power.

Nesbit Bites the Dust

Jack Nesbit got his last 320,000 into the middle with and was called by Jonathan Weekes, who held . the flop of put Nesbit in real truble, and a on the turn sent him packing with him drawing dead.

Nick Bell Wrung Out By Tre Childs

Nick Bell moved all in and chip leader Tre Childs put out the call.

Childs could afford the call and he had a pretty . Bell was just ahead with his .

The board ran out with the laid back Childs scoring another knockout with his pair while Bell took his medicine like a man and left to collect his winnings.

Tre on Top

Tre Childs put Michael Brown to the test on the river of a board that had come , with Brown already heavily invested in the pot from his 1.1 million chip stack at the start of the hand. He eventually called, only to be shown Tre’s hand, .

‘I keep telling you, I’ve always got it!’ said Tre (pictured, above right) as Brown left his seat, busted.

Tre Childs has 4.7 million and the clear chip lead!

Ali Zinhi Crashes Out

Ali Zinhi had 1.7m when he played what would be the pivotal hand of his Day 2 here at Stamford Bridge.

Zinhi was all-in and at risk with the best of it, pocket queens against A-Q. He just couldn’t hold, his opponent flushing on the river, only to tell Ali ‘how bad I played it!’ in Ali’s own words.

Robert Tate Felted But Feeling Fine

Robert Tate has just busted the tournament but he exited with a smile on his face after two great days of poker and a cash worth $700 including a GPPT ticket.

Tate got the last of it in with #th but was called by a player holding . It was looking grim and there was no help from the dealer as the cards ran out .

With Tate on the rail there were 38 players remaining.

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Jamie Bott Busts

Jamie Bott moved all in with and was called by a player holding .

The board ran out with the baby pair holding up to send DTD regular Bott to the pay-out desk.

Second Break

There are just 45 players remaining in the hunt as the tournament goes on the second fifteen-minute break of the day.

Adam Bone Phone Home

Blinds: 20,000/40,000/5,000 - 53 Players Remaining - Average Stack = 1.1 million

Adam Bone can certainly count himself rather unlucky not to be in the tournament, as he busted the Grand Prix Poker Tour in very unlucky fashion.

First, Adam got it all-in for a 400k pot with A-K up against A-Q and lost. Then, with 25 big blinds left, all his chips went into the middle on a Q-K-2 flop, Adam had pocket queens, while his opponent, one of the few around him to cover his stack at the time, had pocket kings.

Ice cold!

‘I’ll win one of these big tournaments soon, it’s a matter of time.’ said Adam to us afterwards, ‘Onto the next one.’

The next one in terms of the Grand Prix Poker Tour is in January next year. Could Adam, a die-hard Manchester United fan, make all his dreams come true at the Theatre of Dreams?

Justice For Jerome O’Shea After Slow Roll

Jerome O’Shea started the hand with fewer than nine big blinds and was all in before the flop against an opponent who had slightly fewer chips. O’Shea said he had a feeling his opponent had his beaten but with his stack he had no choice but to go with his hand.

The bad feeling began when O’Shea was asked by his opponent, “Have you got a pair?” before taking his time turning over pocket aces.

O’Shea had the ace of diamonds though, and with four more diamonds emerging on the flop, turn and river he boasted the nut flush to crack aces and send the perpetrator to the rail. No one likes a slow roll and the verdict of the table was a unanimous, “Justice. Poker justice.”

Brown ~vs~ Symister

Michael Brown (pictured above) raised to 50k pre-flop, before Shaun Symister re-raised to 130,000. Brown wasn’t having it, thought it was a bluff, so shipped all-in for 891,000 with ! Symister made a very quick call with and was a huge favourite after the flop.

The turn of and river of sent the table into raptures and Brown couldn’t believe it! Nor could Shaun, who loses a massive chunk of his stack. He could have had 2 million chips but instead has only 450k. Brown, by contrast, sits behind 1.79 million. Unbelievable.

Jacks Fail Chappel

Sean Symister was in late position and made his move, pushing all his chips forward. Richard Chappel was in the blinds and called to put Symister at risk.

Chappel had but wasn’t celebrating yet as Symister showed the suited 6d# and well, because jacks. Symister though stood up ready to exit.

The board ran out .

The river rode to the rescue and Symister quickly sat back down to stack his chips while Chappel looked as if he had half expected it.

Online Majauskas Beats Live Baloch

And so it came to pass. As reported in a post not too long ago live player Feroz Baloch had been verbally jousting with online advocate Arturas Majauskas. Their feud really could end only one way and it has just happened.

Action folded round to Majauskas in the small blind. Baloch warned his opponent not to do it, that he had a big hand in the big blind, but Majauskas paid no heed and moved all in. Baloch was the player at risk and he called.

Majauskas tabled ace-five and Baloch was in great shape with ace-jack. The cards ran out 3-4-5-T-K and the five on the flop gave Majauskas a pair to bust the incredulous and none too pleased Baloch.

Bagshaw Cripples Steer

Philip Steer might have thought that being in the big blind with he had to get involved with Simon Bagshaw in the small blind after the latter raised. But when Bagshaw’s raise was three-bet by Steer, Bagshaw shipped all-in with and Steer called.

The pair were racing, and Steer stood, put on his coat and zipped it up before the flop of dropped. He needed help, but the turn and river sent him home.

Paul Romain busted shortly after in 96th place when his was all-in pre-flop against and a queen-high flop came to deal his chances a fatal blow.

Future Feature Table Stars?

On table 9 Arturas Majauskas in seat nine and T Bloch in seat one are unlikely to be best of friends after this tournament as they have been needling each other mercilessly for the last while to the amusement, and at times exasperation, of the rest of the table. Seated where they are, they have to lean around the dealer to throw barbs at each other making it even more comical.

Both players have vowed to bust each other and have resorted to insisting, “You’re a bluffer.” “No, you are a bluffer.” in what seems like an insult. The discussion then moved on to whether Bloch’s twelve years playing poker was more important that Majauskas’s extensive online experience. There is no end in sight to this unless one of them busts, but they are agreed on one thing: “We want to be on the feature table.” Whether the world is ready for that though, we’ll have to wait and see.

On table 9 Arturas Majauskas in seat nine and T Bloch in seat one are unlikely to be best of friends after this tournament as they have been needling each other mercilessly for the last while to the amusement, and at times exasperation, of the rest of the table. Seated where they are, they have to lean around the dealer to throw barbs at each other making it even more comical.

Both players have vowed to bust each other and have resorted to insisting, “You’re a bluffer.” “No, you are a bluffer.” in what seems like an insult. The discussion then moved on to whether Bloch’s twelve years playing poker was more important that Majauskas’s extensive online experience. There is no end in sight to this unless one of them busts, but they are agreed on one thing: “We want to be on the feature table.” Whether the world is ready for that though, we’ll have to wait and see.

Huge Pot Gives Mohammed Yasin Lead; Cripples Willis

Start of Day chip leader Jonathan Willis has just lost a huge pot to Mohammed Yasin in a three-way preflop all in. The player at risk tabled with Willis showing #10 and Yasin his .

The board ran out with Yasin spiking his set on the flop and staying in the lead to bust one player and severely dent any hopes that Willis had of making a deep run.

Willis now has around 350,000 while Yasin has a monstrous 2,500,000.

Raymond Lynn’s Golden Chip Out

Raymond Lynn was all in with his short stack and his golden chip pushed out in front of him. He had been called by Victor Corbitt and one other player already. Action was on a fourth player who took his time, to the slight annoyance of one player, and then folded saying he had a legitimate decision with king-jack. As there were still two active players in the hand he received a reprimand and the hand continued.

The dealer fanned a flop and a further all in bet from Corbitt couldn’t shake off the final player so the cards were on their backs.

Lynn and his Golden Chip was happy to see he was still ahead holding . Corbitt tabled and the third player showed .

The turn card gave Corbitt more straight outs and the #td on the river meant that his broadway scooped the pot to bust Lynn.

Childs is the Man

Tre Childs didn’t come into the day with the chip lead. That was Jonty Willis, who had 900k when he sat down, and now sits behind 1.45 million chips. His chip-stack is dwarfed by Tre’s chip mountain, currently at 1.9 million and growing seemingly hand by hand.

Calling a three-bet with , he checked the flop of and let his opponent who held pocket kings shove all-in, before making the easiest call of his life, holding to knock another player out.

Childs is playing the game very well and is in a superb position for a real tilt at this title.

Graham Gone as Guy Gripes

Rupert Graham has busted the Grand Prix Poker Tour, shoving when short with #tc and called by the of Hasmuk Khodiyai who held to knock out hi opponent, the ebullient Graham.

Elsewhere, Guy Taylor saw us hovering and bemoaned his stack, which was only just over the average of 512,000. Several light blue 100k chips dotting his chip mountain, he’s sad he doesn’t have more.

All a matter of perspective, isn’t it?

Pay-out Jump Approaches

The remaining players are intently studying the pay-out sheets that are doing the rounds. You can see the details by clicking the “PAYOUT” tab above.

With 115 players left the next pay jump will be at 100 left worth £280 plus a £70 GPPT ticket. There is no sign of stalling at the moment though, there is a long way to go and action remains hot and heavy.

Level 24: Blinds 8,000/16,000/2,000 - 134 Players Remaining - Average Stack: 447,000

Jonty is Jumping

Jonty Willis came into play here today on Day 2 of the Grand Prix Poker Tour right at the top of the leaderboard, and he’s showing no signs of relinquishing his chip superiority as the final furlongs approach.

With a stack of around a million, Willis called bets of 75k, 100k and another 100k on flop, turn and river on a board of 3c and saw his opponent turn over pocket sevens. Jonty quickly flipped over pocket eights and rakes in yet another chunky pot. He’s got to be up to 1.3m million, the biggest stack in the room.

Kassouf Kaput

Will Kassouf busted just before the first break of the day after, as he recounted it, losing three big hands to the same player. First Kassouf held tens versus aces on a 9-7-4-3 board, next it was his ace-queen versus ace-ten on a J-J-T-6 runout and the killer blow came when his ace-ten couldn’t improve against his opponent’s pocket tens.

Kassouf was understandably disappointed but phlegmatic and was contemplating jumping into the 3 p.m. turbo event.

Can a Golden Chip Final Table Again?

At the last Grand Prix Poker Tour event at Dusk Till Dawn three players holding Golden Chips made it to the final table and collected an extra £5,000 with second place finisher Paul Romain finishing in second place narrowly missing out At the last Grand Prix Poker Tour event at Dusk Till Dawn three players holding Golden Chips made it to the final table and collected an extra £5,000 with second place finisher Paul Romain finishing in second place narrowly missing out on an extra £35,000.

Jonathan Willis started today as the chip leader on 900,000 and his Golden Chip sits proudly atop his tower of chips. There is a very long way to go before he reaches the final table, but if he keeps on running like a recent hand then he is set to make at least a deep run.

Sitting in late position Willis opened and then called a shove from a short stack in the big blind who was not sure whether to be relieved or outraged when they both turned over the same seven-six hand. A safe runout saw both players chop it up.
on an extra £35,000.

Jonathan Willis started today as the chip leader on 900,000 and his Golden Chip sits proudly atop his tower of chips. There is a very long way to go before he reaches the final table, but if he keeps on running like a recent hand then he is set to make at least a deep run.

Sitting in late position Willis opened and then called a shove from a short stack in the big blind who was not sure whether to be relieved or outraged when they both turned over the same seven-six hand. A safe runout saw both players chop it up.

Chattaway On The Up

Billy Chattaway (pictured above) is a tough boy not to like. He’s always got a smile for his fellow player, whether he wins or loses, and he’s fun at parties.

Maybe two players who won’t be popping a Christmas Card in the poker post are Tanit Suwankumpoo and Arren Woodward after the last hand.

With the action folded around to the hijack position, Tanit made an all-in move for 125k with , but was shocked to see Arren Woodward in the small blind re-shove for 280k with . Both all-ins got a very quick call, however, as Billy Chattaway in the big blind snapped and turned over for the pre-flop nuts.

Predictable oohs and aahs around the table, and they came again on the flop of as first Tanit then Billy hit sets. The turn and river of and saw Billy leap to around 630k, while Tanit departs and Arren is left with just 30,000 chips. Dramatic stuff!

Level 23: Blinds 6,000/12,000/2,000

Paul Romain has rocked up today in the hope of going one better than his recent runner-up finish at Dusk Till Dawn. Of course, he’s at Stamford Bridge today - home of Chelsea Football Club, and a different London side to his beloved ‘Eagles’ of Crystal Palace. Having started the day on around 192,000, he dropped to 60k after calling a marginal all-in with A-7, dominated and defeated by A-Q.

Since then, however, he’s spun back into the game, and is now up to 270,000 after a double-up and subsequent elimination of a short-stack. Back in the game…

Elsewhere, Mats Rosen is building slowly but extremely surely, up to 350,000.

We’ll have live commentary coming up very soon on the live stream, they’re just chipping off the icicles that formed overnight in the booth! Our man behind the mic, Paul Zimbler, tells us that he’s got his thermals on and will be warming up his larynx in no time at all.

Bone in Contention

Adam Bone is following up on his success at Dusk Till Dawn’s Team Challenge sponsored by partypoker last month. Having taken down the Team Challenge, Adam was taken on by BankrollSupply, headed by legendary UK Pro Paul Jackson.

‘It’s going really well. I’m learning a lot and enjoying it so far.’

Adam’s also enjoying today’s Day 2 action so far. Having come into play on around 540k, he is already up to 700k and looks in the mood to continue his assault on yet another prestigious live title.

Berry Crushed

Sarah Berry came into play with a decent stack and a great chance of victory after - literally - dancing out of the cardroom last night on top of the world.

She’s sadly walking from the cardroom after a fairly brutal beat. Sarah raised to 13k and was called by both the small and big blinds. So far, so good. On the flop of A-K-T, Sarah c-bet to 18k, which the small blind shoved over-the-top of and the big blind called. So too did Sarah. The turn came a ‘complete brick’ according to the table, and that’s when the money went in, the big blind covering Sarah, who turned over pocket aces for top set.

Both the small and big blinds turned over J-Q for a flopped Broadway straight! That call the tune and for Sarah the performance is at an end! Ouch.

Kassouf Watch

Everyone’s favourite poker chatterbox, as long as you are not on the receiving end of it, Will Kassouf, is hanging in there looking to build a stack to the point where he can get involved in a few more hands to bring his talking game to bear.

Kassouf has recently opened twice from late position for 18,000 while warning the table he had a strong hand and the only reason he wasn’t moving all in was to get value. Both times he met no resistance and picked up the antes and blinds. Both times he flashed a single . Kassouf is currently on 125,000.

In the Money

Level 19: Blinds: 4,000/8,000/1,000 / 206 Players Remaining

All the returning 296 players today in the Grand Prix Poker tournament are in the money, having finished in the top 10%. the ‘min-cash’ is £140 cash and a ticket to another Grand Prix stop on the GPPT!

Stay Hydrated

There are a few bleary eyes here this morning with plenty of coffee and energy drinks being consumed to get the players up to speed, as well as one or two early beers for the brave, the foolhardy and the recovering.

There will be short breaks for the players every two hours but there is no scheduled dinner break. There is table service for the players though to provide them with hot drinks and snacks to keep them going through the long day.

More Than the Main Event

While the main attraction for the majority here today is the Grand Prix Poker Tour there are plenty of other things going on to keep everyone entertained.

If it’s more poker you’re after the first side event is about to get underway with late registration open until 2:15 p.m. Another turbo event is set to go at 3 p.m. and a final Hyper Turbo at 6 p.m.

There is also the players’ lounge where you can play FIFA on a giant screen, challenge Mad Marty Wilson to a game of Killer Pool for the chance to win a ticket to the GPPT at Old Trafford, or grab a selfie with one of the Dusk Till Dawn valets.

Big Stacks and Chip Attacks

Some players came into play with an above-average stack (Frank Bastow, pictured above is one of them!) and they are putting them to good use this morning.

Tony Poulengeris was all-in pre-flop with and up against it, with his opponents holding and . He needed help, and got it in spades on the board of

Mia Sinagoga wasn’t so lucky, after she made a set with her pocket queens on the turn, only to get her chips into the middle and see that she was up against a flush. she missed pairing the river to bust.

Early Fallers

Day2 started with 295 on the board and there have been a flurry of exits already as short stacks look to double up or go home. With one level in the books there are now 259 players who remain in contention.

Colin Sen was one of the unlucky early fallers. Any pair will look good to a short stack against a random hand and Sen was all in with . Unfortunately he wasn’t against a random hand as his opponent tabled . The board ran out and Sen was headed to the pay-out desk to ensure the funds were safely transferred to his partypoker account.

Cards In the Air

There is a great atmosphere here this morning at Stamford Bridge, with 295 players having officially qualified for Day 2 they are all in the money. The pressure is off for now, there is nothing to lose and everything to gain so optimism is the current mood amongst the players.

The blinds have been rolled back two levels to level 17 which is 2,500 / 5,000 with a 500 ante and there is a great day of poker ahead for the second leg of the Grand Prix Poker Tour at the end of which someone will be crowned the new champion and walk away with at least £35,000 richer.

Day 1 Chipcounts

Up to and not including yesterday’s flights, here are the 225 players who made it through to today’s final day of the Grand Prix Poker Tour at Stamford Bridge:

6 p.m. Flight Wraps Up

The 6 p.m. flight is in the books with 24 players remaining.

The full chip counts won’t take long to tally and be reported, but for you fans of chatty ex-solicitors, Will Kassouf has bagged 249,000.

Kassouf Kruising

Will Kassouf looks to be cruising into Day 2 of this £250,000 guaranteed event at Stamford Bridge. The Grand Prix Poker tour will visit several classic grounds as part of its incredible tour, including Old Trafford, Elland Road and Brighton’s Amex Stadium, but for some players, to be in it to win it from the very first leg will be very special. Kassouf has every chance, running up a 200k stack, and using his not inconsiderable poker prowess to boss his table for this 20-minute blind flight. He’s used his stack and the sizes of his opponents stacks to really influence the flow of the game - perhaps one of the hardest things to do in poker. We joined him for a little chat between hands, asking him if he was enjoying being a poker pro.

‘I used to be a solicitor, I’m still qualified. But I’ve been a pro [in poker] for three years.’

Not unlike his most famous adversary, Vanessa Selbst (also a fellow law devotee) who he infamously bluffed during a now-viral European poker moment. Is it a comfort having such a qualification?

‘I’d have to brush up on the law if I ever needed to. But so far, poker has been really good to me.’

He’s as entertaining in a £70 tournament as he is one that costs £5k to enter, to his ultimate credit. Sure, he loves a big win as much as the next player. The more money, the bigger prize, the longer the ride of poker thrills him as well as everyone around him. But you get the feeling, just from sitting with him for an orbit, that every hand is worth the same amount. It’s one he can win, of course, but also one he learns from, enjoys, revels in. There is a hunger behind the bluff and bravado, a heart behind that steely eye or jolly jape. Maybe it only exists between him and the cards, that merry dance he so enjoys. But it is there.

Kassouf loves the game. He loves poker. And those who really love it, devote their heart to it like he does until the clock stops, so often go on to reap the rewards for years to come. You can’t help but root for the guy.

Said el Aloui Playing Ear Bleed Stakes

With just over one level to go Said el Aloui was in need of a decent hand with his stack around 60,000. It wasn’t desperation time by any means but he was being distracted by a slight, irritating bleed from his left ear.

All of Aloui’s stack was in the middle before the flop and he had picked up one caller who tabled # . Aloui though had the best of it with .

A run out of gave Aloui a timely double up and once he had stacked his 120k+ chips he mucked the next hand and called for a first aid kit to stem the flow of blood now his stack had been shored up.

Crunch Time At Level 16

With just over an hour of action remaining here at Stamford Bridge let’s have a look at the state of play.

The 3 p.m. flight had 254 entries with 41 still in. They are on level 16 (2,000 / 4,000 / 500) with an average stack of 30 big blinds.

The 6 p.m. flight had 164 entrants and 34 remain. They too are on level 16 with an average stack of 24 big blinds.

Alin is All-in..But Who Wins?

Alin Griga was all-in with the slightly larger stack against his opponent, who held red deuces, . Alin had and it was a straight race, except Alin’s opponent was providing the commentary for his giddy’up moment.

The flop came

‘No queen, no eight, no king, no ace.’

The turn was the .

‘No queen, no eight, no jack, no ace, no king, no ten!’ Alin’s opponent gasped, drawing needed breath as he prayed for his deuces to hold.

The river? A devastating . As one man walks away, claiming, ‘I was still ahead going to the river’, the table recover fro either rooting for him or laughing along with his growing plight, while Griga stacks new chips.

Comeback of the (Poker) Century

Frank Bastow was on fumes. Down to 9k, and having seen his attending friends busted, he had just a handful of big blinds, and only a pinch of hope.

We’ve just seen his stack in the third and final Day 1 flight here at Stamford Bridge (the 20-minute blind 6pm flight) , which is now up to a table-toppling 220,000!

A sensational bounce back off the ropes from Bastow, who as Tyson Fury - whose name sounds like a 1990’s Amstrad boxing simulator game - is named heavyweight champion of the world, friendly Frank is right back in this title fight!

Knockout stuff!

The Rupert Annual

He’s making a seasonal visit to London, and trying his best not to deliver any presents to the table. No, not everyone’s favourite jolly holiday guy Santa, but Rupert Graham, who’s been part of the festive-season fun at the poker table today in a couple of the Day 1 flights of this Grand Prix Poker Tour spectacular!

Firstly, he set up a real coup and very nearly a coup de gras by involving himself with 7-2 off-suit before getting his chips in with jacks against eights. But an eight on the flop, in the window in fact, did for that flight.

Since then, he was ground down in the later flight, but has turbo’ed his way back into contention and its on 63,400 while sharing the table with another star of the ‘Turbo’ flight, Mia Sinagoga. Mia is much stronger, chip-wise, however, with over 120,000 to her name. Powerful.

“Only the Nuts” For Kassouf

There had been an open before Will Kassouf raised to 16,300. Action then got to the player in the small blind who was weighing up what to do. Kasouf started the chatter: “Only the nuts,” he said referring to his own hand. “Look at this punter, checking his cards again to see if they’ve changed.”

The player in the small blind moved all in and Kassouf called while admitting that he hated his hand. The player in the small blind was at risk and tabled while giving a bit of chat back to Kassouf.

It was Kassouf who had the last word though as the cards ran out 3d .

Bluffing Buddies

On the turn of a board reading Kelly Lawrence checked it over to Steve Berry who bet 20,000. Lawrence was unsure what to do as her whole stack would potentially be at risk by the river. She deliberated a little too long for one of the other players at the table though who wasn’t in the hand but called the clock on her.

With one second remaining of the countdown Lawrence called and they saw the hit the river. A bit of pleading from Lawrence held no truck with Berry though who bet another 20,000 enough to put Lawrence at risk. A short time later Lawrence flashed the and mucked. Berry showed his bluff followed by a fair bit of apologising and teasing.

On the next hand the pair tangled again. The flop of was checked around, and on the turn Berry bet 10,000. Lawrence responded by moving all in for 19,000. It was Berry’s turn to show and fold while Lawrence showed a semi-bluff with the feeling that at least she had clawed a bit back.

Xie Up & Down

Renee Xie is taking part in the Day 1 flight that kicked off at 3pm, and has 30-minute blinds. She tells us that she’s enjoyed being part of this incredible event live at the home of Chelsea Football club at Stamford Bridge, but has enjoyed an up and down day. Renee is currently at around 88,000, a chunk behind the 108k average.

Also still in the hunt but a little short is Rory Cartwright, the Irishman down to around 20,000 which equates to around seven big blinds. He has ‘one move left’ as they say.

Turbo-Tastic!

With two Day 1 live flights and one online taking place (just 15 minutes left to enter that via the partypoker lobby, value-hunters!) it might be hard to keep track. So let’s update you on the Turbo, which kicked off at 6pm, but with 20-minute blinds rather than 30-minutes.

With 164 entries, 71 players remain, with Jac Arama one of the chip leaders on 87,000. Frank Bastow is at the other end of the scale, having just 12,500 at 600/1200/200.

In the 3pm flight, 68 players still have chips from the 254 who entered, with Rory Cartwright and Chuck Lee both still with their heads above water.

Play will finish before 1am for absolute sure, as by then, the lovely Stamford Bridge security staff need to lock down this iconic stadium in readiness for tomorrow’s thrilling finale!

Matt Church Coolered

A player who had reportedly not played a hand in a long time open shoved from early position. Matt Church isolated from late position but then saw Joe Parsons stick the last of his chips in the middle.

The original aggressor showed . Church turned over kings and said he was not surprised to see Parsons reveal aces.

The board ran out #ts and the aces held to confirm Parsons remarkable comeback while a frustrated Church took a hit but held on to a decent stack.

Jason Beasley: Go Big Or Go Home

Jason Beasley had opened the action and on a flop of had called an all in bet to put his tournament life at risk.

Beasley turned over his but needed help against his opponent’s . When the hit the turn Beasley was out of his chair, preparing to call it a day. The river brought redemption however and his better two pair saw Beasley sit back down to a new 100,000 pot. His opponent wasn’t best pleased with the outcome but Beasley admitted he thought he may be in trouble and was prepared to gamble for the chance of a decent stack. He has one now.

Fully Committed…

…or maybe they should be!

Liv Boeree and Igor Kurganov take a break from the action at today’s Grand Prix Poker Tour High Roller to take each other on at table football.

From Burning Man to ice cold, these two always give 100%!

First Flight Ends With 28 Through

The final ten minutes of the 11 a.m flight saw a lot of deep thinking before acting. Just don’t call it tanking. No one was willing to call the clock and the atmosphere amongst the remaining 28 players, from a starting field of 215, could even be described as giddy.

As the clock ticked down and the players joked with each other about calling the clock the tournament director warned them to keep the integrity of the game intact. The action may have sped up just a little in the last minute or two but no one put their stack at risk and soon it was time for the 28 players to bag up their remaining chips. They have all made the money and will return to merge with the total field at 11 a.m. tomorrow.

Jones The Birthday Wizard of Wales

Michael “Green Beard” and Will Jones, the birthday boy, both made a decent fist of earlier flights but it was not to be and they are at the same table in the final live flight to see if their luck changes. For Beard it doesn’t seem to have got much better as he was all in blind from early position.

Jones was in the big blind and action folded to him. He told Beard that he would call with, “A pair, two pictures, or ace eight suited.” They didn’t materialise though and Beard turned over .

Jones immediately bonded with this fearless bearded player and insisted that he should have a drink on him. “Cheeky rum and coke?” was his first offer, before he defended from the small blind and warned his opponent that he’d be in trouble if clubs came down.

The flop was and Jones check-called a bet of 1,400. They both checked the turn and on the river Jones faced a bet of 3,000. “Sometimes you have to be a payoff wizard.” Jones said and called, but his had been rivered by his opponent holding .

Prickett Puts Down the Hammer

We have an incredibly full room, yet one Day 1 flight and the High Roller tournaments are coming to a close!

In the 11am Day 1 flight, Denis Prickett raised his opponent off a tricky flop of with an all-in after a called 20k raise pre-flop. Prickett is well above the 145k average now as that flight’s 18th and final level draws to a close.

In the £100k Gte High Roller, Terry Jordon (pictured above, right) saw his shove over the top of Paul ‘Action’ Jackson’s raise called by Jacko and Jordon’s pocket sixes were crushed by Jackson’s kings to bust Terry and leave us with nine players, our feature table players you’ll know, but from the outer table the chip-counts are:

Paul Jackson 940,000

Keith Johnson 555,000

Rob Linton (above, left) 275,000

Enzo Del Piero 230,000.

To Flat Or Not To Flat?

Vincent Sanchez had flatted a 2,000 bet preflop in the 3 p.m. tournament and three players saw a flop of . The original raiser continued and picked up a call before it got to Sanchez who moved all in.

The original raiser folded but the remaining player thought for a short while before decisively calling. He would regret it though when he saw his #td was in terrible shape against the of Sanchez.

“I wasn’t sure whether to flat there.” Sanchez said as he collected the pot and the busted player departed. The table consensus though was that it was a good shove and it had worked out even better as he was now sitting on a stack of around 80,000.

“Jacks” Nesbit

With 37 players left from the 11 a.m. flight there was one player who was all in preflop before Jack Nesbit moved all in to put his tournament life at risk. A third player was contemplating the call but showed his ace-ten before leaving them to it.

“I almost folded my big pair,” said Nesbit as he turned over . “My strategy was to nick a pot every round. We are so close.” His opponent tabled to reveal they were in a race.

The cards ran out and despite picking up additional straight outs on the turn, Nesbit’s pair of jacks held up to put him in good shape with a stack of 150,000.

Unlucky for Some?

With just 13 players left in the £100k High Roller and only 8 players being paid (min-cash is a buy-in doubling £2,000) it really is anyone’s game at the moment.

Paul Jackson has 450,000, while Rob Linton stacks 470,000 on the outer table. they’re the two biggest stacks, certainly set to challenge Igor Kurganov on the current feature table, but no-one can be discounted, with blinds now 5k/10k/1k and the average stack at 31 big blinds, play is not shallow. Terry Jordon (220k) and Enzo Del Piero (300k) will consider themselves well placed to make deep runs, building their already powerful high roller reputations.

Richard Burton Tables the Goods

With three players involved in a relatively small pot preflop in the 6 p.m. flight, the dealer spread a flop of and Richard Burton came out firing with an over bet of 7,000. There were a few raised eyebrows but Daniel Iacob was still in the hand and he shrugged before moving all in for around 15,000. The action folded to Burton who called.

Iacob tabled but had run it straight into the of Burton. The turn card and river card caused brief confusion but there was to be no chopped pot as Iacob was busted and Burton stacked close to 40,000.

Two Tables Go to War

Just 16 players are left in the partypoker £100k Gtd High Roller here on the Grand Prix Poker Tour, and that means two tables of eight-handed play.

While you’ll no doubt have been watching legendary high roller expert Igor Kurganov (pictured) battle for supremacy with Alex Goulder and Arran Fletcher (not Arron Fletcher, who has busted) , the outer table action has been noo less hot.

With blinds now 4k/8k/1k, Enzo Del Piero has 190,000, while Terry Jordon had just 120,000, but has recently doubled up when his held against on a board of .

Back in the game…

Birthday Party Poker for Will Jones

If you are playing a partypoker event and it’s your birthday then there is no excuse for not having a good time. It is Will Jones’ birthday (we know because he is wearing an outsized birthday badge) and playing his second flight of the day he has had one or two alcoholic refreshments.

One of Jones’ friends came over to see how he was getting on and was met with a good natured tirade about how he only ever asks that if he himself has a big stack. Bang to rights his friend laughs that he is right and asks what Jones wants to drink next. “Long island ice tea?” ponders Jones who then says that when he hasn’t been in a hand he has been playing “Lodden thinks” with his neighbour and bemoans the fact that he is in the hole for £1.50.

Before the drinks can be sorted through Jones calls a limp but gets out of the way when there are two all-ins. T Ahmed was at risk with pocket jacks against his opponent’s queens, but a jack on the turn rides to the rescue and Jones at last settles on, “Rum and coke.” Party on Will!

Cheema Busts Purser

Andy Purser got his last 80,000 chips into the middle in the High Roller with #tc #td and was called by Rapinder ‘Raps’ Cheema, who held .

Purser was surprised to see Cheema make the call, but when the flop came jack-high, he was disgruntled, standing up. No further help came on the board and Purser was left out of the tournament. Cheema now has 380,000 and a real shot at taking down this £100,000 Guaranteed High Roller.

Hilton Stoch Up From a Low

Hilton Stoch is one of 93 entrants for the third flight of today which started at 6 p.m. of which 87 remain. The players started with the same 20,000 stack as other flights but the action will move slightly quicker as the blinds go up every 20 minutes as opposed to the previous flights 30 minutes.

Stoch had lost over half his stack in the opening levels and was all in and at risk holding up against his opponent’s .

The board ran out with the set on the turn giving Stoch a double up to 16,000 and renewed hope in this last live chance to make Day 2.

Fletcher Busted by Favourite Hand

‘I think I like sevens too much.’ was how Arron Fletcher put it when he busted the £1k High Roller with £19,000 overlay and a field of superstars (Alex Goulder and Igor Kurganov both still going strong)

Fletcher didn’t lose to either of those guys, however, as he raised to 7k, and then shoved over the top of a 20k three-bet for 80k. He was called by A-K and a king on the flop saw him exit the tournament before the money.

We are going to have just two tables left very soon.

Clarkson in Cruise Control

David Clarkson has doubled up to become chip leader in the Grand Prix High Roller. With around 40 bigs from each player in the middle, Clarkson was covered and flipping for not just his tournament life, but the lead with twenty players left.

His pocket jacks were up against A-K, and it was a dramatic play-out as the flop came A-A-5, the turn was a 3 but the river of a jack sealed the deal for David and Clarkson has hit ‘Top Gear’ at the Grand Prix!

Evans Draws a Line, Hewett Triples Up

There was a 400 limp from early position before George Evans raised it up to 1,100. The player sat to his left then made it 2,650 and it folded back round to Evans who scolded his opponent and warned that he wasn’t going to call out of position. The all in seemed to be on his mind but Evans showed his and folded. “You had three outs.” he was told as Evans then warned the rest of the table that with his stack there would be no more raise-folding.

On the very next hand there were two limpers when the action got to Evans. True to his word he didn’t raise, but he did call and it went to a multi-way flop of . I believe the phrase most appropriate for what happened next is, “Well that escalated quickly.” as three players moved all in before action was on Evans who looked bemused and folded.

Olly Hewett turned over and was up against and . The turn card was the and the river the giving Hewett the full house and three times as many chips as when he started the hand to end on 27,000.

Evans returned to nursing his stack and looking for a spot while Hewett stacked the chips.

Green Beard Shoves

Michael “Green Beard” Beard has been pretty patient over the last couple of levels as his stack currently doesn’t allow him a lot of play. He has just been joking with his neighbour though who had just folded ten-nine to a shove from Beard who held pocket queens.

Beard is on 19,000 chips, just below starting stack, but he is keeping a smile on his face behind his dyed green beard and why not? He has survived 12 levels of poker and still has chips in front of him, life is good.

Scores On the Doors

The 11 a.m. flight has 86 players remaining from the starting field of 215 and they are currently playing level 11 which is 600 / 1,200 with a 200 ante.

The 3 p.m. flight has just started level 5 (150/300/50) and with registration still open there have been 239 entrants with 204 currently still in.

Forty Left in High Roller

With just 40 players remaining in the £100k Gtd High Roller, each player with their £1,000+100 entry is desperate to make the money.

Arron Fletcher has just busted Mark Gardner after shoving over-the-top of Gardner’s micro-all-in for 25k with pocket fives. Fletcher got folds from the rest of his table (including Igor Kurganov) and showed #td which hit on the board of #ts to bust Gardner.

Chip-counts:

Igor Kurganov 193,000

Jamie Laing (pictured) 140,000

Arron Fletcher 115,000

Enzo Del Piero 95,000

Terry Jordon 70,000

Adam Bone 67,000

Ali Zinhi 17,000

Tamas Kiss Shares the Love

Tamas Kiss has just taken a selfie with his tower of chips and promptly posted it on Facebook. Why wouldn’t he when the stack is so big. Kiss has amassed close to 200,000 and looks to be the chip leader at the moment.

Kiss has been picking up a lot of uncontested pots recently as he covers everyone else at the table and there is little appetite at the moment to play back at him without the goods.

Kurganov ~vs~ Eminoglu

Igor Kurganov started the hand with around 73,000, and ‘Mad Turk’ Yucel Eminoglu had around 130k. with a pre-flop raise of 5k, the two players went heads-up to a flop of #th and Turk continued for 8k, quickly called by Igor.

On the turn of #Ac , Turk made it 15k, Igor shoved over the top and Turk snap-called with the nuts - Broadway. His was under threat, however, from Igor’s two-pair of #td and on the river of #tc Igor hit a full house to double-up. Liv left the rail for a few minutes during the hand, ironically, as Igor told his unfortunate opponent that ‘I wouldn’t have done that if my girlfriend was still here’.

Mad Turk drops to around 57,000, with Kurganov now chip-leader in the High Roller with 155,000.

Merry Christmas Ms Lawrence

Kelly Lawrence had check-called increasingly large bets all the way down to the river on a board reading giggling each time, seemingly unsure what to do. Her neighbour was obviously a good friend and was shaking his head in amusement as she called each bet.

On the river Lawrence said to her opponent, “Check if I check?” but with no answer she checked and faced a bet of 6,000. A pause and then Lawrence called. Her opponent showed for a missed flush draw and Lawrence tabled the winning hand with one pair.

“Good call.” was the murmur from the table as an even happier Lawrence gathered in the pot.

Fletcher’s Rise

Arron Fletcher (pictured in the wallpaper blazer) continues his rise through the chip-counts of the partypoker Grand Prix £100k Guaranteed High Roller.

After seeing his opponent make it 5k to play pre-flop, he raised to 11,500, got a shove from his quarry with pocket eights, and snapped him off with pocket aces, holding to double to around 103,000.

Elsewhere, Liv Boeree has busted, running pocket sevens into jacks after losing ‘a pretty absurd hand’ against Made in Chelsea’s Jamie Laing as viewers of the livestream will be watching soon!

Flight Numbers

The 3 p.m. flight is just starting their second level with the board showing a healthy 184 entrants.

Meanwhile the action is set to heat up over in the 11 a.m. flight with 118 players remaining from a starting field of 215. The average stack at this stage for the early survivors is 43 big blinds with a number of short stacks looking for a spot to get the chips in the middle.

Tony Napolitano With Ace High River Call

Aleksandras Puras tangled with the player on his right, Tony Napolitano, right at the start of the day and it looks like they are still going at it.

Napolitano opened for 1,600 from the cut-off and faced a raise to 2,600 from Puras on the button. The blinds got out of the way and Napolitano threw in the calling chips.

The flop was which saw Napolitano check-call a bet of 1,300 from Puras. The turn card was the and Napolitano again opted for a check-call, this time for 2,200. When the completed the board Napolitano leaned over to get a better look at how much of a bet he would be facing. Puras gave him a puzzled look before making it 4,100.

There was a short pause before Napolitano called and Puras said, “Queen high.” Napolitano turned over and his ace high was good for a decent pot leaving them both on around 40,000.

It’s a Grand Prix Party!

With both the £1,000+100 High Roller and £60+10 Grand Prix Main Event taking place in tandem, there is a variety of action to take in. With two flights of the Main Event now both under way, players in the first flight know they have immediate option if they fail to progress to Day 2 from the 11am flight.

Two players have recently been involved in all-ins, with Arron Fletcher getting 15 big blinds into the middle with against K-Q , surviving on a board that flopped a queen and turned a king…but a heaven-sent seven on the river doubled him up.

Elliott Panyi was less fortunate when his A-Q ran into pocket kings and couldn’t overtake. Liv Boeree, Jamie Laing, Mad Turk (pictured) and Igor Kurganov are all still involved.

Biria Binks with Big Slick

Karim Biria faced off against James Leighton over a final board of . There was just over 10,000 in the pot and Leighton checked it over to Biria who threw out a bet of 6,000.

Leighton didn’t look particularly happy about this turn of events but he called. He was even less amused when Biria turned over with a shrug which was indeed the winner. Leighton was still left with a healthy stack just over 50,000 and Biria looked relieved to win that pot to climb over 30,000.

Main Event Getting Busy

With over 210 players in the Grand Prix Main Event, action is racing towards the second flight being open to register - that kicks off at 3pm (along with the football of the day!)

Neil McCulloch is certainly one of the biggest stacks still alive in the first flight, sitting behind 63,000, while Charlotte Eaton is one of the lowest, with just 8,500 to her name.

Lee Davies Busts; Vows to Return

Lee Davis was slightly dazed as he related his bust out hand. Davis had built his stack to over 50,000 in the preceding levels and felt he had the measure of his table with only one player who had more chips than him. Unfortunately it was this player who would tangle with Davis with disastrous results.

Davis had flatted a raise preflop with pocket sixes and saw the flop fall . Davis led out and the original raiser made it 6,800. Davis called the bet and with an inflated pot of around 18,000 in the middle he moved all in when the hit the turn. His opponent called with Ace-Queen and a blank river sent Davis reeling to the rail.

Davis said that he was going out to clear his head but was ready to give the next flight a go and it won’t be long before he is back in action.

Tran Busts One

There a fewer more famous names in poker than Tran and today Tai Tran is flying the flag.

With an open to 1,100 from early position Tran opted to call. as did one other player. and the three players saw a flop of . Action was checked to Tran who chased one player out with a bet of 1,000 but faced a check-raise to 3,500 from the original raiser.

Tran called and the turn card was the . The original raiser moved all in and Tram, who had him covered, called and showed his top set. His opponent turned over and when the river completed the board the pot was pushed to Tran who now has just over 30,000.

Late Registrations in the £100k Guarantee High Roller

Numerous pros have arrived fashionably late in an effort to take down the #gppt High Roller, with potential for a large overlay! It’s £1,000+100 to play, and we’ve seen 68 entries so far. Terry Jordon (pictured, above) is joined by Sylvia Hewitt, Adam Bone, Yucel ‘Mad Turk’ Eminoglu, Nik Persaud, Eliott Panyi and Arron Fletcher in the luminescent field.

Joe Show

The player in the cut-off opened for 800 preflop and picked up calls from the small blind and Joe Parsons in the big blind. The flop was which was checked to the raiser who made it 1,600. Parsons called and they saw the turn card hit the felt. No action there but on the river Parsons moved all in.

His opponent showed his and mucked his hand which saw Parsons turn over his in turn, but as he went to take the pot his other card, the #td, was exposed revealing his rivered straight to a few chuckles from the table. That pot brought Parson’s stack to around 15,000.

McCulloch Making Profit

Neil McCulloch knows when to get involved in a post. He’s got a real instinct for the game, as they say. Others might say ‘hang on, this story starts with him raising with from early position?’ but they’d be wrong!

With 4 players heading to a flop of , Neil saw his opponent bet out from Seat 1 with McCulloch himself in Seat 9. Neil raised (naturally) to 1,000, with his enemy re-raising to 2k. Neil made it 5k and got just a call. Ahead of the turn of #tc , Neil bet 6k ‘in the dark’. Another call after the card came. Neil knew he could get full value, and shoved in the dark ahead of the river. It got a call, and Neil saw what he thought he would, his opponent show pocket aces, before being busted.

McCulloch up to over 35,000.

Sharp Shooters

With players such as Jamie Laing (above taking part in the ‘Clear the Table’ pool table challenge with ‘Mad’ Marty Wilson) and Igor Kurganov sitting down in the High Roller (late reg closing soon with overlay still available!) the Main Event with its £250,000 guarantee is also pulling in the pros.

Will Kassouff has sat down and got right into the action, very much falling in line with his reputation. He’s not an internet sensation for nothing (search Twitter) and he’s near-doubled in his first orbit after calling a raise pre-flop with in position.

The flop came and Will called a bet, but then the big blind jammed all-in. Kassouff clicked the call button and was up against , meaning he essentially had blockers to his opponent trying to flush-over-flush him out as soon as he’d sat down. Will survived, of course, fading the turn and river. Will Kassouff is up to 38,000 and talking the table to distraction already !

Unlucky 13 at First Break

With four levels in the books there have been a total of 206 entries so far and 193 players remain. That leaves 13 unlucky players who have been eliminated but with another Day 1 flight set to start at 3 p.m. there is time to relax in the games area, have a look around the pitch or do some quick shopping on the Fulham Road.

Ante Up; Pot For Puras

The antes have kicked in so there is more to fight over in the pot each hand and the levels of aggression are likely to be ramped up, however there were two limpers putting in 200 before it got to Aleksandras Puras who put the price of poker at 1,300.

There was just one caller of Puras’ raise and the two players saw a flop of . Action was checked to Puras who continued for 2,500 and got called. The turn card was the and a bet of 5,000 from Puras again got called. The river was the and for a last time it was checked to Puras.

“Check again?” Puras asked as he eyed his opponent with suspicion but nevertheless threw out a final 5,000 bet. His opponent quickly mucked which led to speculation on what he could have had from the other players but he wasn’t saying and Puras sure wasn’t showing as he raked the pot in and increased his stack by a healthy amount.

Join the High Rollers

With players such as Made in Chelsea’s Jamie Laing and Liv Boeree taking part in the £1000+100 High Roller tournament, the £100,000 Guarantee on the action is sure to pull in the poker punters!

Outside Stamford Bridge, you can have your picture taken with football royalty such as Jose Mourinho like our own Mad Marty Wilson (above). Inside, the action is already very fast, with players not hanging around with their 50,000 starting stacks.

Local Lads Loving It, Brad Has a Stab

Brad Pohl and John Clarke have made a few visits to Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham but the firm poker friends jumped at the chance to play this low buy in high guarantee event as they are both Londoners and qualified online. And wouldn’t you know it they have been seated right next to each other.

In a recent hand Clarke folded under the gun but with an open to 450 and a couple of callers Pohl opted to put in the extra from the big blind. The flop of was checked around and when the hit the turn Pohl opted to bet out for 700. The original raiser bumped it up to 1,800 and another player called before Pohl threw his cards in the muck.

Burt Bluffs Elliot

With Simon Trumper (pictured above) welcoming new players such as Liv Boeree and Made in Chelsea’s Jamie Laing into the fray, the Grand Prix Poker Tour Day 1 early bird flight is hotting up!

Claire Burt is in no mood to lose any chips, and made a really good move on a board of . After check-calling bets of 600 and 1300 from her opponent Angus Elliot on flop and turn, she led the river for 2600 and got him to lay it down, refusing to show her table-mates what her cards were.

Winning play…

Bridge of Smiles

There is a great atmosphere here early doors with smiles all round, players introducing themselves to their tablemates and taking selfies to commemorate the day. So far the hoodies are down and the earphones holstered and with an average stack now at just over 130 big blinds and a game of poker at the home of the English Premier League champions what’s not to love?

Players Flying In!

With late reg closing at 1.20pm for the first Day 1 flight today here at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge, players are registering quicker than you can say ‘Diego Costa’.

Charlotte Eaton, Charlie Godwin, Denis Prickett, Julian LeFevre and Henry Stafford are just a few of the players sitting down - and with flights at 3pm (30 minute blinds) and 6pm (20 minute blinds) still to come, we’re going to see a Super Saturday right here in West London!

Early Birds

As the first level draws to a close there are currently 151 entrants spread across 22 tables for the first of three flights here are Stamford Bridge today.

Registration for this flight closes at 13:20 so there is still plenty of time to get involved.

Zhang Makes Puras Pay

Zhang Yunyi and Puras Aleksandras clashed early in Level 1 here with the blinds at just 50/100. This Day 1 flight has 30-minute blinds throughout, with the starting stack of 20,000 chips giving players plenty of time to get involved. Yunyi and Aleksandras weren’t hanging about.

On a complete board of and with around 7k in the pot already, Puras popped another 2.5k into the middle. Yunyi thought long and hard about it, but raised to 7k, getting a super-quick snap-call. Ynuyi turned over for the nut flush, while Aleksandras, grimacing, flipped to see his set flushed away.

Dusk Till Dawn Grand Prix Poker tour - Stamford Bridge Day 1 Live Updates

Welcome to Stamford Bridge!

We are in South-West London today, all ready for the early bird flight of this incredible Grand Prix Poker Tour.

Yes, Dusk till Dawn has bid a fond ‘Au Revoir’ to Nottingham for the weekend and moved into one of the most iconic football grounds in Europe as we present live Grand Prix Poker Tour coverage from Stamford Bridge, the home of Chelsea Football Club.

With the first Day 1 flight of the day ‘kicking off’ in just a minute or so, let’s get the action on!

Building work begins!

Do the double?

Tonight Chelsea take the long trip to Tel Aviv for their Champions League Group Stage match. Can you and Chelsea both find a win and head to Stamford Bridge happy? We have our GPPT Online Day 1’s on partypoker so you can watch the game and earn your Day 2 stack at the same time.

STAMFORD BRIDGE – HERE WE GO!

We can all sit round and debate in detail the upsides and downsides of a project, analyse these on a nice pretty spreadsheet, add a slick power point presentation……but then some bright spark just need to quote Delboy’s famous 4 words “He who dares wins” and those downsides will instantly shrink, and the upsides suddenly become larger.

This weekend, we travel to Stamford Bridge, the home of premiership champions, Chelsea FC, for the first stadium leg of the partypoker Grand Prix Poker Tour. Buying the tables, designing the branding, testing the mobile MTT clock, booking hotels, arranging the staff and overcoming the logistical challenges of transporting DTD’s card room to a football stadium will be delivered, but the shame of only 3 players turning up on Saturday cannot – and this does lurk in the back of my mind because not everyone thinks that your ideas are as cool as you. 100 tables have been purchased so that capacity will not be a problem, the converted ‘poker room’ at Stamford Bridge will look fantastic overlooking the pitch, there is a partypoker lounge for entertainment and relaxation, DTD Girls will milling around to welcome the players, Simon Trumper will announce shuffle up, Michelle Orpe will be hosting and Mad Marty will be doing his thing injecting fun into the proceedings. The full DTD team will be there in force, no half measures have been taken BUT the big question is - are you lot going to turn up and get this Grand Prix show on the road?

This event will succeed or fail at the Stadium on Saturday, where we will need huge numbers in the Day 1s not only to hit the £250K GTE, but for atmosphere and to justify the effort and cost.London is expensive, but for players wanting to keep expenses to minimum, you can choose where to play your Day 1 and players can play multiple Day 1s and take their Highest Stack to through to Day 2:

Online: 8pm Mon-Sat this week on partypoker
Live: 7pm at Aspers on Thu and Fri

OR Live at Stamford Bridge on Saturday 11am, 3pm, 6pm, click here to download the full schedule

I have been through my messages and picked out a few FAQ’s from players and answered below

High Roller, £1000+£100 buy-in, £100,000 Gtd

* Yes, there a plenty of ways to buy-in to the High Roller, but we cannot take any cash at the Stadium due to licensing rules, so your options buy in are;

1. on partypoker
2. Cash Desk at Aspers Casino, London
3. Cash desk at Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham

If you have any problems buying in, message Simon Trumper on Facebook or email him on simon@dusktilldawnpoker.com and we will find a way to help you, Simon is in London from Wednesday

* No, the High Roller is not online payout, Simon will sort whatever is most convenient for each player, cash, bank wire, Aspers, DTD, pigeon delivery to your house, whatever suits you

* Yes, you can buy straight to Day 2 with 50 big blinds on Saturday at Stamford Bridge without having to give up the whole weekend OR you can play Day 1s;

Online: 8pm Thursday on partypoker
Live: 6pm Friday at Aspers

There is + 1 re-entry allowed on per Day 1, and + 1 re-entry allowed for the first 2 levels of Day 2. Day 1s play 8 levels of 40 mins, 50K chips, 75-150 starting blinds, the Live Day 1 at Aspers finishes around midnight

* Yes, late reg is until 1:20pm Day 2, the same format as all of our High Rollers, you can buy directly into Day 2 for 50 Big Blinds/40 min clock, you must be there in first 2 levels (so by 1:20pm)

* Yes, we have added online satellites at 9pm every night on partypoker Mon-Fri. $100+$9, 2 seats Gtd

* Yes, the High Roller will be streamed on Saturday. Feature table down to the winner

Grand Prix £60+£10 buy-in, £250,000 GTD

* No, we cannot handle any cash at the Stadium, buy-in is through partypoker only, just go to Live Events>Dusk Till Dawn>Grand Prix (On the Mobile App tick DTD & HIGH & REGULAR & TURBO, nothing else) and all the Day 1s are listed in the lobby, you can buy PaySafe vouchers at the shop across the road from the Stadium, we have been to see them and they are stocking up

* Yes, you take your Highest Stack through to Day 2, so you if you have made Day 2 already, you can still come to Stamford Bridge on Saturday and try for a bigger stack

Yes, the blinds are rolled back on Day 2 by 2 levels to 2500-5000, Day 2 has to start at 11am as we need to be done and dusted by 1am for licensing at Chelsea (some stadiums are 2am, but local council at Chelsea want 1am)

Yes, online sats are still running on partypoker, $22 buy-in, 10 seats 6pm, 20 seats 8pm, 10 seats 10pm

Yes, any problems you have we can deal with personally, in addition to the Grand Prix facebook group - we now have Live Chat Support on theGrand Prix web site - bottom right hand corner, click on the orange bar and Jamie, Nicola, Rachel, Glenn, Michelle can help you with any problems. You can use this on your mobile and tablet as well, even if you get lost on way to Stadium just message us and we will help you!

Keep The Faith, you choose where we go from here.

Rob