Gala Casinos Poker Tour - Bristol Day 2 - Final

News & Reports

Blatchly takes a hit

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 19:27 by Reporter

Michael Punn moves in on the cut-off for 56,900 and gets a fairly quick call from our chip leader in the small blind. It’s a race between Punn’s 2 2 and Blatchly’s A J

Q Q 5 9 4

Michael Punn doubles up to around 115,000.

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Milton - out

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 19:23 by Reporter

Roy Milton exits when his all-in with QT is called by Gurnam’s 77 and Cawthra’s 88

A board of J 8 J 3 4 gives Mark Cawthra the full house for the win.

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New chip leader

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 19:22 by Reporter

That pot propels Blatchley into the lead with 340,000 chips.

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Javad - Out

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 19:15 by Reporter

Farzan Javad exits when his J K fails to improve against Blatchly’s A J on a board of Q J 7.clubs 5 9

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Sillick's AK out to Farthing's KQ

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 19:11 by Reporter

Neil Sillick takes a walk after he calls all-in pre-flop with AK against Marcus Farthing’s KQ.

A queen-high board sends Sillick to the rail.

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Maudlin doubles through with aces

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 19:06 by Reporter

On a flop of 5 7 T Dave Maudlin bets out 20,000 and is raised another 20,000 by Frank Flanagan which he calls. The turn brings the K and Dave Maudlin checks, Flanagan moves in for 101,000 and is called. Maudlin turns over A A against Flanagan’s A J No queen but Maudlin can only match 75,600 of the bet, so Flanagan is still hanging in there.

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Taramas shoves J7o on the bubble, called by Blatchly

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 18:51 by Reporter

In a staggering display of..ummm…‘aggression’ , John Taramas shoves all in pre-flop on the bubble from the cutoff with J 7 for 89,700 (blinds at 3000/6000/600)

After a count and a minute’s thought, Neil Blatchly calls the all-in with A King

The board runs K T 8 K Q

Taramas exits.

All players remaining are now in the money with 33 minutes remaining until the break.

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It's that time again

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 18:49 by Reporter

We’re on the bubble. Only one more player will leave this tournament without showing a profit.

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Aces strike again

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 18:44 by Reporter

This time it’s Scott McCarthy’s misfortune to run his A Q into them. He doesn’t improve and is out.

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Betting into the nuts

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 18:35 by Reporter

Harpit Gurnham on the big blind calls a minimum raise from Marcus Farthing on the button. His K J matches the Q T 9 flop very nicely and he check calls 7,000 then 6,000 bets on the flop and turn. The 6 7 means he still has the nuts on the river but Marcus just checks behind this time aware he’s not going to get called by anything which isn’t beating his A T

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