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

[MintTrav]

Tom Clark carries on where he left off last night, shoving his short-stack and taking down the pot pre-flop.

He tries it again, but it is once too often, his   running into Rob Thomas" .

Rob was chip-leader at the start of the day and has already knocked out two players to stretch his lead.

Rob Thomas 165k.

[MintTrav]

Bashir opens, Dyfan Jones 3-bets to 10k from his stack of 35k, Bash shoves and Dyfan folds. He told me he had .

The next hand, Dyfan got all-in pre-flop with against Bob Bulman"s , but didn"t hit and has been eliminated.

[MintTrav]

We have lost James Cawley. No details of how he met his demise.

[fandango]

Good luck Dann, Dan, Dylan, Steve, Debbie, Joe, Warren and Lee..

Be an amazing day if Warren can win his third National title on home ground!!

[MintTrav]

Joe Char-Grill is building on his success.

Three ways to the Flop, following a raise.

Joe bets the Flop and the others fold.

Joe is now up to just over 60k.

[MintTrav]

A double-up for Debbie Kimm - all-in pre-flop for 22k with against Dan Owston"s   .

Debbie"s Queens hold up.

Dan has about 30k left.

[Matt D]

Today"s initial table draw:

Table	Seat	Name	Chips
1	1	Mark Channer	53600
1	2	Joel Lang	33700
1	3	Dan Owston	56600
1	4	Dylan Herbert	66400
1	5	Lee Wyatt	22100
1	6	Dave Burt	20400
1	7	Steven Pugh	39000
1	8	Roy Powell	28200
1	9	Debra Kimm	28500
Table	Seat	Name	Chips
2	1	Warren Jones	57800
2	2	Daniel Crabbe	46500
2	3	Shirley Cole	24200
2	4	Jason Kemp	73400
2	5	David Paxton	38900
2	6	Keith Thomas	82300
2	7	Gholum Reza	30300
2	8	Guy Gullen	59500
2	9	Anthony Jones	112000
Table	Seat	Name	Chips
3	1	Kyle Hyman	102000
3	2	Sebastian Morariu	37800
3	3	Phillip Wise	52800
3	4	Dann Williams	66800
3	5	James Cawley	38600
3	6	Michael Dobbs	34000
3	7	Mark Morris	43000
3	8	Robert Davies	48200
Table	Seat	Name	Chips
4	1	Lewis Tucker	51700
4	2	Bashir Ahmed	107600
4	3	Gavin Priestley	16500
4	4	Rob Thomas	114200
4	5	Tom Clark	16700
4	6	Joe Carr-Hill	17700
4	6	Dyfan Jones	42300
4	7	Bob Bulman	37400
4	8	Linda Iwaniak	23000
Table	Seat	Name	Chips
5	1	David Singh	36400
5	2	Bill Law	34800
5	3	Jonathan Lane	29900
5	4	Stephen Roderick	50400
5	5	Steve Bradbury	61100
5	7	Michael Gale	55500
5	8	Isaac Palmer	78400

[MintTrav]

With blinds at 600/1200/200, it"s folded around to Bash in the Small Blind and he raises to 2,600. Gavin Priestley calls from the Big Blind.

The Flop is   .

Bash checks and Gavin shoves all-in for 17k.

Bash thinks and makes the call with top pair, but is in terrible shape.

Bashir
Gavin  

Turn River - Gavin fills up on the River and gets a much-needed double-up.

[MintTrav]

Roy Powell doubles up with , all-in pre against Joel Lang"s .

Joel lost 28k in that hand and shoves the next hand for his last 5k when it is folded around to him on the button.

Dan Owston reshoves from the Small Blind.

Joel    
Dan  

Dan stays ahead and we lose Joel.

[MintTrav]

More chips for Debbie Kimm.

Dylan Herbert opens and Debbie calls.

On a board of   , Dylan c-bets the Flop and Debbie calls. Dylan shuts down and checks the Turn and River, folding to Debbie"s River bet.

Dylan claims   . Debbie doesn"t disclose.

[MintTrav]

Steve Pugh opens to 3,500.

Isaac Palmer raises to 8,500.

Joe Carr-Hill calls the 8,500.

Steve shoves and then Isaac shoves behind. Joe folds.

Steve has   . Isaac has . Joe says he folded   .

An Ace on the Flop leaves Joe kicking himself. Isaac more than doubles up.

[Matt D]

Last night"s results for the No Limit Hold'em side event.

34 players, £850 prizepool.

1. Stephen Rumming, £320
2. Stephen M. Kearns, £210
3. Richard Baker, £150
4. Gholam Modir, £100
5. Dean Griffiths, £70

[Matt D]

Frome Poker Group have been here in force this weekend. Their latest chip counts are:

Daniel Crabbe 80+k
Mark Morris 55k
Guy Gullen 64k
Steve Pugh 60k

Blinds 1000/2000/300, 32 players remaining, average stack 64,700.

The 33rd player to exit was player no. 33, sitting on table 3, seat 3. at 13:33. Spooky ey?

[MintTrav]

Straight afterwards, Joe opens to 4,000. Lewis Tucker goes all-in for 40,600 and so does Steve Pugh.

Joe open-folds

Lewis

Steve

A King on the Flop wins it for Lewis and leaves Steve short.

However, Steve doubles up with against   almost straight away.

[MintTrav]

Dave Paxton is out, against Dan Crabbe"s   .

Dave hits one King, but that"s all and Dan collects Dave"s 24k.