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

[Matt D]

45 minutes to kick off, meaning those who have reserved via EventBrite have 45 minutes to turn up and pay for their seat

If you"ve already paid in or won a satellite or seat prize, your chips will be in play from the start. Turn up to play them!

194+ Day 1b photos, courtesy of the talented Alex Riccardi:

[Fluence]

GL to everyone playing today.

[Matt D]

The Silver Fox has arrived and taken up residence on the updater"s table. 10 mins to kick off!!.

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

John Murray.

[Matt D]

Today"s table draw (before any late entries).

Table 1

1	1	David	Paxton
1	2	Mark	Morris
1	3	Stephen	Manning
1	4	Adrian	Lovelock
1	5	Warren	Jones
1	6	Nicolas Jon	Thatcher
1	7	Graham	Wills
1	8	Daniel	Crabbe
1	9	Steven David	Bayliff
1	10	David	Howard

Table 2

2	1	Lee	Wyatt
2	2	John	Round
2	3	Thomas	Clark
2	4	Linda	Iwaniak
2	5	Jonathan	Lane
2	6	Scott	Brown
2	7	Christopher	Webber
2	8	Mark	Channer
2	9	Garry Ronald	Wildin
2	10	Guy	Gullen

Table 3

3	1	Maurizio	Pili
3	2	Gabor	Gelleri
3	3	Floyd	Williams
3	4	Richard Steven	Magee
3	5	Scott	Berridge
3	6	Shirley	Cole
3	7	Chris	Stylianou
3	8	Robert	Dove
3	9	Jason	Kemp
3	10	Robert Ian	Quinn

Table 4

4	1	Christopher	Retallick
4	2	Dave	Burt
4	3	Nicholas	Lacey
4	4	Donald	Roberts
4	5	Debra	Kimm
4	6	James	Orchard
4	7	Sharon	Roberts
4	8	Paul	Davis
4	9	Jim	Owen
4	10	Steve	Bradbury

Table 5

5	1	Daniel	Lewis
5	2	Gareth Lee Stanley	Smith
5	3	David	Potter
5	4	Michael	Slee
5	5	Simon	Brooke
5	6	Steve	Kearns
5	7	Daniel	Dennehy
5	8	Lloyd	Jones
5	9	Tod	Wood
5	10	Rhys	Bullock

Table 6

6	1	Paul	Haines
6	2	Richard	Rudlingsmith
6	3	Bogdandorin	Serea
6	4	Matt	Bowditch
6	5	Simon	Hill
6	6	Joseph	Carrhill
6	7	richard	baker
6	8	Robert	Davies
6	9	Dylan	Herbert

Table 7

7	1	Terry Stephen	Evans
7	2	Stephen	Rumming
7	3	Diane Marie	Chevrier
7	4	Darren	Shallis
7	5	David John	Gregory
7	6	Daniel	Williams
7	7	Stephen	Roderick
7	8	Ian	Witt
7	9	Kyle Anthony	Hyman

Table 8

8	1	Steven	Rugh
8	2	Joseph	Keegans
8	3	Dean	Griffiths
8	4	Gavin	Priestley
8	5	Alan	Ellis
8	6	Kenneth	Mcbride
8	7	Stuart John	Greenan
8	8	Dan	Owston
8	9	Roy	Powell

Currently 81 entrants, of which 79 remain. JM with the latest exit update to follow.

[MintTrav]

It"s a fast start to Day 1B, with one player already eliminated.

Steve Rumming raised to 200 pre-flop at 25/50, holding AK, which was called by David Gregory with AA and Dann Williams in position with JT. The Flop was AK4 and all three players checked (tricky lot, these APAT players). A blank Turn saw just 500 chips each entering the pot from Gregory and Rumming, with Williams folding. Another K on the River gave full houses to both players, AAAKK against AAKKK, and the pot was raised and reraised until all the chips were in.

Very unlucky spot for Rumming. Gregory is the early chip-leader with a little over double the starting stack.

[MintTrav]

Two big hands in succession on Table 6.

In the first hand, no cards were actually seen, so we only have the players" word for what they claim to have had.

Simon Hill raised to 150 pre-flop and was called by Richard Baker, but then reraised to 650 by Dylan Herbert. Paul Haines then raised further to 1,700 and it was folded back to Dylan, who called. On a J-high flop, Paul led out for 2,300 and Dylan folded.

Paul says he had AK, Dylan QQ. Also Richard Rudling-Smith says he folded JJ pre-flop, which I can easily believe.

[MintTrav]

The very next hand saw Richard Baker lose 7,000 chips to Robert Smith.

Richard had AA, Robert had KQ, and the flop was AJT.

Richard did well not to lose the lot.

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

An unhappy Rich Baker.

[MintTrav]

Table 5 was showing a board of when I came by, with 4,000 chips already in the middle.

Gareth Smith in Seat 1 checked the River and Daniel "Day" Lewis in Seat 2 bet 3,000.

After thinking about it, Gareth called and was shown , with Daniel having flopped a set, which was the winner.

[MintTrav]

Scott Brown has been knocked out. He lost just about his whole stack when Mark Channer flopped a set of sixes against his AA.

Chris Webber quickly mopped up the small amount Scott had left.

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Chris Webber

[MintTrav]

Richard Baker is out, getting his diminished stack in with on a flop that gave him straight and flush draws. Both players were drawing and both missed, but Q-high beat T-high and Richard is now free to prepare for the seven o"clock tournament.

[MintTrav]

Diane Marie Chevrier is on 30k, having had QQ a couple of times.

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Diane Marie Chevrier

[MintTrav]

The player who replaced Richard Baker has been particularly active. Having raised pre-flop, he moved all-in on a flop of Q94.

Due to the history over previous hands, Dylan Herbert had no hesitation in calling with KQ and was shown AJ.

The board blanked out and Dylan added 12k to his stack. Debbie Kimm was moved into the lucky seat.

The very next hand, Dylan opened for 725 (at 75/150), which he claimed was an accident. He was called by Bogdandorin   Serea in the SB. With the flop showing   , Dylan bet 800 and Bogdandorin raised to 1,875. Dylan asked how many chips Bogdanorin had behind. Some other players tried to answer on his behalf, but Andrea the dealer was very firm in telling them that they were not allowed so to do (though I could see he had 16,000 behind).

Dylan raised again to 4,500. "Have you got Kings?. I beat Kings" said Bogdandorin, and called. On the Turn of  , he moved all-in and was quickly called by Dylan. Dylan"s had flopped a set and was ahead of .

Having knocked out two players in two hands, Dylan now has the most chips, with 50k. Andrea is ruling Table 6, with Dylan close behind.

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Dylan Herbert (left of shot).

[Matt D]

That"s the end of Level 4, and the 15 minute break commences. When we come back we"ll be on 100/200/25.

70 players remain with an average stack of 18,200.

If anyone has any chip requests, post them here and me and JM will get them in the break.

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Me and JM.

[MintTrav]

And AA keeps losing.

It has lost several times already today, and Ian Witt has lost with it twice.

First he had   against Kyle Hyman"s and three spades on the board doubled up Kyle. Then he had it again against Diane Marie Chevrier was eliminated when she made a straight.

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Ian Witt.

[MintTrav]

Richard Magee has been eliminated unluckily, rivering a straight with Q4 and losing to a bigger one, when his opponent had 84.

Board 77653.

No raises pre-flop, presumably.


JP Round has also been eliminated, though we haven"t heard the details. "Bad beat?", I asked. "No", he said. "Bad play?". No answer.