Updates - Welsh Championship at Cardiff Grosvenor 28th-30st Aug 2015

[Matt D]

day 1a photos uploaded to first post. Who do YOU recognise?...

[Matt D]

Dai Llewellyn is busto.

David Griffiths on 12k.

Rob Thomas is up to 40k.

Average is currently 20.9k. We"ve 37 from 53 remaining at the tail end of Level 6 (150/300/50).

[Matt D]

The newly tweaked APAT blind structure is in force today, that being:

Level	Small	Big	Ante
1	25	50
2	50	100
3	75	150
4	100	200
5	100	200	25
6	150	300	50
7	200	400	50
8	300	600	100 (previously 75)
9	400	800	100
10	500	1000	100 (previously 150)
11	600	1200	200
12	800	1600	200 (previously 250)
13	1000	2000	300
14	1500	3000	400
15	2000	4000	500

Day 1 sees us play until the end of level 10.

[Matt D]

Jason Stephens is "down to 32k" having been up at the heady heights of 65k not so long ago.

We"re down to 32 players here, as we approach the end of level 7 and chip up time. Major stacks to follow.

[Matt D]

The largest stacks in the room:

60k Isaac Palmer
49k Jamie Morgan
45k Lewis Tucker
43k Rob Thomas
31k Ashley Matthews

[Matt D]

Jason Stephens near felted holding on a board of .

The money goes in on the turn of .

His opponent flips .

The turn was the meaningless .

Whilst I type this Jason leaves the room, having lost the remainder of his chips in the next hand.

We"re down to 28 players. 20 mins left of level 8. Blinds 300/600/100.

[Matt D]

Facing an under the gun raise followed by 4 flat calls, David Griffiths pumps 3.5k more into the pot holding AK. The original raiser shoves for 20k and David makes the call.

His opponent flips AT. Tragedy for David when his opponent spikes the Ten. David departs.

[Matt D]

We are now entering Level 9. Blinds 400/800 with an ante of 100.

24 players remain.

[Matt D]

Down to 23 players with 30 mins left of level 9.

Blinds 400/800/100.

[Matt D]

Just 1 player to go until we reach the final 2 tables of day 1a, and we"ve just started the final level of the day. Blinds 500/1,000 with an ante of 100.

The 4 biggest stacks in the room are:

90k Late Night Poker"s Rob Thomas.
89k Anthony Jones
59k Isaac Palmer
55k Keith Thomas.

[Matt D]

Now down to just 19 players. 33 minutes left of Level 10. Blinds 500/1,000/100.

Average stack of 41,800.

[Matt D]

With 15 minutes left to play on day 1a, the siren sounds. A card is to be drawn to decide how many hands we"ll play before the day is wrapped.

3, 4, or 5....

and it"s a......

4, which means we"ll be playing FOUR more hands tonight.

Just 16 players remain, so that"s probably just as well!

[Matt D]

And that"s a wrap

Full chip counts of the remaining 15 players to follow in <10 mins.

[Matt D]

Chip counts after day 1a.

Rob Thomas, 114200
Anthony Jones, 112000
Keith Thomas, 82300
Isaac Palmer, 78400
Michael Gale, 55500
Philiip Wise, 52800
Lewis Tucker, 51700
James Cawley, 38600
Sebastian Morariu, 37800
Robert Bulman, 37400
David Singh, 36400
Michael Dobbs, 34000
Joel Lang, 33700
Gholam Modir, 30300

Until tomorrow, where superstar singing John Murray will be providing the updates.

[Matt D]

Average stack from yesterday is 56,800.