Gala Casinos Poker Tour - Liverpool Day 2 - Final

News & Reports

Ford cruising

Sun, Sep 21st 2008, 17:36 by Reporter

Zachary Ford started the day as chip leader and has cemented his place at the top since. He now leads the way with 285,600 – nearly double the second place stack.

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Dinner break

Sun, Sep 21st 2008, 17:26 by Reporter

Players are currently on dinner break. We will be bringing you up to date chip counts for every player very soon.

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Ford forges ahead

Sun, Sep 21st 2008, 16:59 by Reporter

A mammoth pot on table 4. Brian Greslow got it all-in pre-flop with pocket queens against Zachary Ford’s pocket kings. A flop of A-K-J looked good for Ford but actually doubled Greslow’s outs to four. However, turn and river of 7-A gave Ford a full house, the largest pot of the tournament so far (at least 150k), and the chip lead.

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Eglintine on the march

Sun, Sep 21st 2008, 16:54 by Reporter

After being on the critical list not so long ago Carl Eglintine is building a decent stack. His 8 9 just flopped two pair which was good enough to eliminate Tony Slater. Eglintine’s stack now looks to be at around the 75,000 mark.

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Hallinan busto

Sun, Sep 21st 2008, 16:51 by Reporter

With the first break of the day approaching Luke Hallinan has just busted out at the hands of Bryan Donovan.

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Double-Up for David McCrone

Sun, Sep 21st 2008, 16:49 by Reporter

Its folded all the way to McCrone on the button, who moves in for 17600 and is called by Tony Slater.

Both players table their cards.

McCrone: Q Q
Slater: A 6

Flop: 10 Q 7 9 2

McCrone doubles up to around 34,000 Slater is left very short.

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Big fold by Beaumont

Sun, Sep 21st 2008, 16:47 by Reporter

Lynne Beaumont raised to 7000 under the gun and Harry Zammit re-raised a further 20000 in middle position. It was folded back to Beaumont who thought long and hard before folding ace-king face up. It is a big hand to fold so she must have had a good reason. However, since Zammit declined to show his hand, she will never know if her instincts were correct.

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Big hands collide

Sun, Sep 21st 2008, 16:43 by Reporter

From the cut off Alistair Findlay raises to 7,500 before Mustafa Sepanji moves all in from the button for 15,400 more. When Gerald David calls from the small blind, Findlay decides it’s time to bail out and he’s right. David shows K A but Sepanji has K K
A low board of 2 4 2 3 9 is good for kings and Sepanji more than doubles up.

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McGinn out

Sun, Sep 21st 2008, 16:33 by Reporter

Grant McGinn found a spot to get his short stack in with JQ on a flop of 10 J K but his opponent Mark James had flopped the straight already with Q9. No ace on the turn or river means McGinn is now out of the tournament.

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Grand Old Oprey

Sun, Sep 21st 2008, 16:29 by Reporter

Jamie Morgan raised to 6000 in middle position and Carl Oprey moved all-in for an additional 15100. Morgan said he was probably pot committed and Oprey said that he hoped that was the case. Morgan then did the maths and found that he was getting 2-1 on the call. He said he was definitely behind and was probably making a donation but eventually stuck the chips in the middle with A J. He was getting roughly the right price against Oprey’s K K. A flop of J 6 3 gave Morgan extra outs but 6 on the turn was not one of them. However, A on the river was and Oprey hit the rail.

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