Gala Casinos Poker Tour - Bristol Day 1A

News & Reports

Not Holden On

Fri, Jun 20th 2008, 17:14 by Reporter

Steve Holden, Nottingham Champion in 2007, is out just before the break. Raymond Dixon joins him at the rail.

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Gibraltar Gala's delegate busts out early with pocket tens

Fri, Jun 20th 2008, 17:11 by Reporter

Diego Tiozzo, winner of the Gibraltar Gala’s league prize of all expenses-paid trip to the Bristol main event busted out in the second level.

Having dropped to 5k in chips, Diego found TT on the button with 4 limpers at 100 each and raises to 400 with 2 callers.

A flop of 965 (rainbow) is bet 500 by the small blind, called by a MP player and raised to 2000 by Diego. the SB folds and only the MP calls.

A king on the turn and MP checks with Diego pushing for his reminaing stack and is called by middle pair with a gutshot. The MP’s 67 spikes a 7 on the river for 2 pair.

The tournament is now on break as of 17:20

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American races at the GCBPT....

Fri, Jun 20th 2008, 17:01 by Reporter

Paul Gardner and Dave Maudlin take time to enjoy a small side bet on the horse racing being shown on several of the screens around the cardroom.

Related Tags: David Maudlin

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Big hands continue with quad aces against a 6-high flush...

Fri, Jun 20th 2008, 16:37 by Reporter

On a board of 2 4 A 5 A Mark Cawthra’s A A scooped a 12k pot against Ray Dixon’s 5 6

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Boat takes on boat in a 19k pot

Fri, Jun 20th 2008, 16:26 by Reporter

On a board of QQ6KT, the Queen-Ten held by James O’Connell was no match for Peter Wrigglesworth’s pocket kings.

James barely hangs on with 2200 chips.

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Exclusive! Matt Dale doesn't bluff first hand!!

Fri, Jun 20th 2008, 16:10 by Reporter

Matt Dale, Bristol local and poker’s most eligible bachelor (according to the Catman) sees K6-off in the BB on the first hand with 3 limpers. Amazingly he doesn’t raise all in, and checks to see a two-suited flop of KK6.

In true trapping style he checks to a MP bet of 100 (blinds at 25/50 with no ante) and after some folds, makes a call smoother than a cat’s cashmere codpiece.

A fairly harmless turn card elicits a check from both players, and a possible flush on the river has Matt betting 1500 with fingers crossed that his opponent has hit.

His opponent, seizing his chance, pops to 3000, and with much deep and careful trapping thought which lasts for 2, maybe even 3 seconds, Matt re-raises all in.

It should have been perfect, but his opponent smelled the proverbial rat and folded.

As of the time of this post, with the blinds about to go up to 50/100 in the second level, Matt is up from his 10k starting stack to 17k

Related Tags: Matt Dale

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Main event £500+ £50 structure

Fri, Jun 20th 2008, 14:38 by Reporter

Day 1a and 1b both have approx 140 players, aiming to reduce to 25 at the end of each day 1.

Blinds and antes are as folows:

Level SB BB Ante
1 25 50 0
2 50 100 0
3 100 200 0
4 200 400 0
5 200 400 25
6 300 600 50
7 400 800 75
8 600 1200 100
9 800 1600 100
10 1000 2000 200
11 1500 3000 300
12 2000 4000 400
13 3000 6000 600
14 4000 8000 800
15 6000 12000 1000
16 8000 16000 1500
17 10000 20000 2000
18 15000 30000 3000
19 20000 40000 4000
20 25000 50000 5000

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Welcome to Gala Casino British Poker Tour Live Coverage

Fri, Jun 20th 2008, 14:27 by Reporter

Welcome to Gala Casino in Bristol. The Hendon Mob will bring you the latest news, pictures and reports as it happens.

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