Gala Casinos Poker Tour - Teesside Day 2 - Final

News & Reports

We are now hand for hand

Sun, Oct 26th 2008, 20:03 by Reporter

The blinds are up to 6000/12000. Apparently a deal was attempted to give 21st place £500 but it was declined by one player.

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Chip counts as of the break

Sun, Oct 26th 2008, 20:00 by Reporter

These are the counts as they play the bubble

1 Richard Trigg 228,100
2 Tony Caygill 198,900
3 Ceri Rees 159,000
4 David Dring 141,300
5 Dean Kay 130,000
6 Keith Hawkins 129,500
7 Richard Howe 120,800
8 Charles Denton 113,400
9 R Hare 91,200
10 B Wu 85,500
11 Paul Hambleton 80,900
12 Stephen George 78,200
13 Billy Quang Ngo 77,000
14 Reyaaz Mulla 76,900
15 Tony Crolla 70,800
16 Alex Torrance 63,000
17 David Maudlin 60,200
18 James O’Connell 59,200
19 Colin Pearson 55,500
20 Anthony Arlot 46,400
21 Raymond Walton 34,000

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Players are on a break

Sun, Oct 26th 2008, 19:46 by Reporter

10 minutes with 21 players remaining. Ladies and Gentleman, we are on the bubble!

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John Bousfield - Out

Sun, Oct 26th 2008, 19:46 by Reporter

Mega short stack John Bousfield gets all in pre flop vs Tony Caygill in a battle of the blinds.

Tony Caygill: A6

John Bousfield: 86

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Bubble Time

Sun, Oct 26th 2008, 19:42 by Reporter

John Bousfield moves in from the small blind for around 40K and Tony Caygill thinks for a long while before deciding to risk a fair portion of his own stack and calling. He flips over A 6 and Bousfield is dominated with his 6 8 The flop comes:

7 2 2

Leaving John Bousfield drawing to 3 outs, which aren’t the K or Q and we have 21 players remaining with 20 to be paid.

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Dean Kay Doubles Up

Sun, Oct 26th 2008, 19:37 by Reporter

Blinds: 3000/6000 Ante: 600

Action Junkie Dean Kay doubles up; this time with a decent hand!

Dean Kay: Q Q

Tony Caygill : K Q

No help on the board and Dean Kay is up to over 120,000

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Rich 'Action Man' Trigg - Chip Count

Sun, Oct 26th 2008, 19:36 by Reporter

Blinds: 3000/6000 Ante: 600

Rich is on about 200,000 and is one of the chip leaders.

Related Tags: Richard Trigg

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Wu -VS- The Camel

Sun, Oct 26th 2008, 19:35 by Reporter

Colin Wu and The Camel have been battling at-it all day thus far. The Camel is two to Wu’s left and Wu once again pushes into The Camel, this time from OTB. The Camel is in the BB, a few minutes of flirting/speech play commences, concluding in Keith folding, before each player showing their cards.

Keith shows the A

Wu shows the A

Keith laughs and shows the 2

Wu shows the J and Wu takes the blinds and antes. Wu is on around 80,000

Related Tags: Colin Wu, Keith Hawkins

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Double-up for George Steven.

Sun, Oct 26th 2008, 19:34 by Reporter

George Steven gets his money in the middle with A5 against the AK of Anthony Arlot.

He manages to spike a 5 on the river to double his chips.

Board: 9 9 2 3 5.

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Another out

Sun, Oct 26th 2008, 19:26 by Reporter

RIchard Whitmore moves all in with JT offsuite, Richard Howe calls him with pocket 3s after a dwell up. The flop comes 9 T K, the J comes on the turn to give Whitmore two pair but of course the 3 comes on the river to a cheer from the crowd and Richard Whitmore is eliminated from the tournament

Related Tags: Richard Howe

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