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Jennifer Tilly out

Sat, Nov 10th 2007, 20:26 by Robert

Phil Laak calls out 200/1 on Jennifer to win the tournament as she pushes in very short stacked with QT and Barny Boatman shouts out he wants to get his tenner on before he gives her protection, then raises with AT She doesn’t improve and the day’s starting chip leader is out.

Jennifer Tilly down to felt

Sat, Nov 10th 2007, 20:24 by Reporter

Barny Boatman limped under the gun and Jennifer Tilly moved all-in from middle position. It was folded back to Barny who insta-called. A Q for Jennifer, K K for Barny. The first card out was K and Jennifer required a miracle. The remaining cards (7 4 3 6) did not provide it.

At first Jennifer thought Barny had her covered but a careful count of the chips revealed that she still had 1000 chips.

Magician makes Jennifer's chips vanish

Sat, Nov 10th 2007, 19:54 by Reporter

Peter Cockayne limped in early position, Jennifer Tilly limped in the cut-off, Jitesh Thakker completed the small blind and Antonio Esfandiari checked his option. A flop of K T 4 was checked around. The turn was 2 and Esfandiari bet 6000 which Tilly called. The river was T and Esfandiari led out again, this time for 9000. Tilly went into the tank and eventually found the call. The Magician turned over T 6 and Tilly mucked in disgust. She is down to about 30000 having started the day as the chip leader.

Andrew gets his Mitson some chips

Sat, Nov 10th 2007, 18:34 by Reporter

Barny Boatman limped on the button. Andrew Mitson completed the small blind and Jennifer Tilly checker her option. The flop came 8 5 4. Miston checked, Tilly bet 5000, Barny called, as did Mitson. The turn was 2. Miston checked again, Tilly continued her aggression with a bet of 16000 and Barny folded. Miston moved all-in for an additional 1700 which Tilly was obliged to call. He had 4 4.diamonds, she had K 8. The meaningless river was K and Mitson is back in the hunt.

Esfandiari works his magic on Tilly

Sat, Nov 10th 2007, 17:53 by Reporter

Jennifer Tilly limped and Antonio Esfandiari raised another 6000. Tilly called and the flop came 6 3 2. Tilly led out for 7000 and Esfandiari went into the tank before raising an additional 25000. Now it was Tilly’s turn to think as the cameras descended on what was shaping up to be a big hand. Tilly asked for a count of Esfandiari’s remaining chips: 17400. After asking a few questions of the Magician, who kept a stony silence, she decided to fold. Esfandiari immediately shouted “get Phil!” (Laak, Jennifer Tilly’s boyfriend) as he proudly turned over A T.

Tilly uses her big stack

Sat, Nov 10th 2007, 14:58 by Reporter

Jitesh Thakker limped in early position, as did Barny Boatman on the button. Andrew Mitson completed the small blind and Jennifer Tilly checked her option. The flop was K 5 4. Mitson checked, Tilly bet 2000 and Barny called. The turn was K and Tilly fired another 4000 into the pot. Barny muttered something and folded. Antonio Esfandiari asked Tilly if she would let her boyfriend Phil Laak play her stack, as the table would much prefer it.

Our chip leader

Sat, Nov 10th 2007, 13:30 by Robert

Welcome back to Gala Harbourside

Sat, Nov 10th 2007, 13:21 by Robert

Day 2 proper will begin in around an hour with Jennifer Tilly, the only female entrant, leading the pack of 53 remaining players with 74,100 chips. In 2nd place is Rob Akery. WSOP Main Event winner Jamie Gold hasn’t made it, nor have top pros Robert Williamson or Ram Vaswani. Other well known players who will be joining us today though are Joe Beevers, sitting 4th in chips with 54,950, Charalambous Xanthos on 36,800. Further down the field but still with average stacks are Barny Boatman, Antonio Esfandiari and Roland de Wolfe.

Benedetto Passantino, Stuart Rutter and Pete Singleton may need to make some early moves, whilst Jani Johansson will return with a single 500 value chip.

Jennifer Tilly doubles up

Fri, Nov 9th 2007, 21:03 by Reporter

Through ex-chip leader Albert Sapiano.

Tilly takes a hit

Fri, Nov 9th 2007, 17:58 by Reporter

Jennifer Tilly led out for 600 on a flop of 8 7 4. Steve Holden, winner of the Nottingham GBPT, check-raised to 1500. Tilly called. The turn was the Q and Holden fired 2,000 into the pot, which Tilly called again. The 3 fell on the river and Holden bet 4,000. Again Tilly called and Holden flipped over 7 7, which was enough to beat Tilly’s K Q.