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

[Matt D]

Some of the leading stacks after 4 levels of play.

Dylan Herbert: 43k

Chris Phillips: 33k

Gareth-Lee Smith (pictured below): 49k

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Mark Channer (pictured below): 49k

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

[Matt D]

67 players left with an average of 19k chips.

Level 5: 100/200/25.

Prizepool breakdown to follow.

[MintTrav]

Sometimes, imaginative play can pay off.

Example 1 - Dave Burt raises from the button with after a couple of players have called pre-flop and flops two pair. By the time the hand is over, he has added 10k to his stack, moving from 14k to 24k.

Example 2 - Dan Owston calls a raise with and flops a flush at the same time that the raiser flops a set with on a board of . That"s the end of Dean Griffith"s tournament.

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Dan Owston (in light blue shirt) looking a bit sheepish.

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From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Dave "Chuckie" Burt

[MintTrav]

Dave Howard has gone out holding today"s losingest hand - AA. He bet every street and shoved the River, losing to a rivered flush.

We have also lost Steve "Scouse" Bayliff. He lost 12k with QJ against 99 on a QQ9 flop and bluffed off the rest, representing a made hand on a 3-flush, 4-straight board, but being called by top set.

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Steve "Scouse" Bayliff (left), Dave Howard (right).

[MintTrav]

Having been all-in for his life earlier, Kyle Hyman is now among the leaders, increasing his stack to 48k with a flopped set.

[Matt D]

What we"re playing for:

138 runners total over the 2 day 1"s = £10,350 prizepool.

1st. £3,100 + APAT Gold Medal + WCOAP Main Event entry (£110).
2nd. £2,010 + APAT Silver Medal
3rd. £1,300 + APAT Bronze Medal
4th. £870
5th. £600
6th. £430
7th. £340
8th. £290
9th. £260
10th. £230
11th. £200
12th. £190
13th. £190
14th. £170
15th. £170

[MintTrav]

Debbie Kimm shoves her short-stack of 5,075 with 88 and three players go all-in behind her. That doesn"t seem good for her, but...............they all have AK. They all miss and Debbie quadruples up to just over 20k and is back in the tournament.

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Debbie Kimm

[MintTrav]

Rob Quinn opens for 800 from middle position and Floyd Williams 3-bets to 1,600 from the cut-off and is called.

The board comes out .

Floyd bets 1,600 on the Flop and Rob check/calls. The Turn goes check/check. On the River, Rob bets 4k and Floyd calls.

Rob shows and we find that Floyd has picked off the bluff with .

[MintTrav]

There has been a big transfer of chips on Table 5.

Gareth Lee-Smith, holding , doubled up Dyfan Jones, who had , when the cards came out .

Dyfan now has 54k and Gareth has reduced from the tournament chip lead to 38k.

[Matt D]

Stu Greenan facing a flat of 400, then a raise to 1.2k from Floyd Williams, shoves all in with AT pre-flop for 7.5k. Original flat-caller folds. Called by AK. T on flop. K on river that stings. Stu departs (to the bar!)

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Floyd Williams (left of pic wearing hat).

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From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Stu Greenan (2nd from right, in this row of ponderers).

[MintTrav]

Sharon Dallas is down to 12k and shoves all-in, but doesn"t get called.

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Sharon Dallas.

[Matt D]

Sharon Roberts isn"t faring so well. An early mishap with Aces vs a flopped flush, is compounded by the failure of pocket 7"s to beat pocket Kings all in pre-flop.

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

Sharon Roberts in happier times.

[MintTrav]

Leading chip counts:

65k Mark Channer
60k Dylan Herbert
55k Terry Evans (pictured below)

From S9 - APAT Cardiff - Day 1b - 29.08.15

54k Dyfan Jones
44k Floyd Williams
38k Gareth-Lee Smith
35k Dan Owston

[MintTrav]

Some more counts:
30k David Gregory
15k Sharon Dallas
28k Stephen Bradbury

[Matt D]

There"s less than 9 minutes left until the 45-minute dinner break. 51 players remain from day 1b"s 85 entries. The average stack is exactly 25k.