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Dempsey out in third place

Mon, Jun 23rd 2008, 01:36 by Reporter

Dempsey raises to 35k extra on top of the 20k big blind, Blatchly re-raises 108k more, Dempsey moves all in.

Blatchly insta-calls and tables A Q and Dempsey shows A 2

Board comes 4 9 T 7 Q

Dempsey goes out in third place for £16,000

Marcus doubles up James

Mon, Jun 23rd 2008, 01:29 by Reporter

Marcus raises all-in from the small blind with Q7 and James Dempsey has an easy call A J in the big blind. He hits trip aces and is very much back in the game.

The Neil and James show continues

Mon, Jun 23rd 2008, 01:13 by Reporter

They have been going at each other all evening and this time it’s Neil who comes out on top. James Dempsey raises on the button and Neil moves all-in for 286,000 more and is called. James shows A9 and Neil has 88 – the race is on. The flop is T J 5, the turn brings an ace to send James Dempsey into the lead, Neil hits one of the two 8s left on the river though to double through to over 600,000.

Dempsey still applying pressure

Mon, Jun 23rd 2008, 00:59 by Reporter

Neil raises to 56,000. James Dempsey raises 60,000 more from the big blind and Neil calls. The flop is 4 8 3 and Dempsey bets 160,000. Neil takes off his glasses and ponders and it looks like James may be trying to encourage a call with some speech play, although his doesn’t give away anything when Neil folds.

Farthing hits quads, Gurnam out

Mon, Jun 23rd 2008, 00:50 by Reporter

Dempsey raises to 50k in mid position, Farthing re-raises to 150k, Gurnam moves all in for 194k total in the small blind.

Dempsey folds. Farthing calls for 44k extra.

Farthing turns over J J and Gurnam tables A A

Flop is 2 J 4

Turn 9

River J

Gurnam leaves in 6th place for £4000

Blatchly calls clock on Dempsey

Mon, Jun 23rd 2008, 00:46 by Reporter

In a pre-flop raising bout, Dempsey raises to 50k total with the big blind currently at 16k.

Blatchley re-raises to 150,000 and after 4 minutes, calls the clock on Dempsey.

Dempsey folds quickly afterwards.

Chip counts on break

Mon, Jun 23rd 2008, 00:19 by Reporter

James Dempsey 599,500
Michael Punn 522,000
Neil Blatchley 504,500
Marcus Farthing 434,000
Harpit Gurnam 219,500
Rickie Vedhara 214,500

Reeve doubles up straight-away against Dempsey

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 23:46 by Reporter

Reeve shows K-T against Dempsey’s J-Q

Board is 7-3-9-9-4

Battle of the blinds

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 23:10 by Reporter

Michael Punn calls on the button, the small blind Vedhara calls, James Dempsey checks his option in the big blind. The flop is 6 4 K and Vedhara leads out for 22,000. James calls, Punn folds. The turn is a 4 and it’s checked. The river brings an ace and it’s checked to Dempsey who bets 35,000 and is called. Dempsey shows K5 and Vedhara mucks.

Play has resumed on the final table

Sun, Jun 22nd 2008, 22:25 by Reporter

Play has resumed on the final table, with 9 players left in.

The smallest stack is Trevor Pearson with 73,000 and the largest is James Dempsey on 487,500.

There are currently 2,490,000 chips in play.

The total prizepool collected was £124,500 and with the guarantee this makes it £129,500.