THAT CONCLUDES TODAY'S PLAY

16 return at 2pm tomorrow to win, for one of them, the £89,000 first prize



Jonathan McCann out 17th with 1 minute to play.....

A-Q 3 bet shove against William Dorey's A-K



Marc Foggin first hand at the table opens 10-10

Keith Johnson jams 17x bb A-J in the big blind

Marc calls and wins the race

Keith Johnson out 18th



Ben Martin raises and William Dorey calls

A-J-9-K-4

Dorey check calls flop, turn and a shove on the river

With a flopped set of Aces

Martin mucks the moment he is called, a failed triple barrel bluff

Ben Martin out 19th



Terry Mitford is out 20th

Queens into Jonathan McCann's Aces, 250,000 pot


Emyr Lewis pushes for 77,000

He is the shortstack of the 20 left

Matt Russell in the big blind for 10,000 grimaces, an upper lip askew at the prospect of having to call

Calls with A-5

Lewis 10-7

J-8-10-9-J doubles Lewis up


We hit another break

Level 19 next, the last level of the night

20 left

432,000 average

blinds 5000-100000 ra 1000

Chip counts coming


Simon Hemsworth out 21st

Mark Chantler raise called a short-stacked shove with J-J

Hemsworth A-6, no help


Colburn Tomlin knocks out Dan Daley 22nd

Daley limp calls  Aspades 6h

Tomlin the raiser in the big blind

Ten high flop all spades, bet and call

Offsuit Jack, bet and call

6 on the river, Tomlin check calls a shove from the missed draw

Tomlin Q-Q



Tomlin and Chinese Frankie the chip leaders here!


Colburn Tomlin raises

Jake Cody calls in position

flop 

Tomlin leads, Cody sets him in

CALL

Tomlin 

Cody 

turn 

river 


600,000 pot to Tomlin, Cody now 400,000


chinese frankie raises

Amir masood re-raises

frankie 4 bets

masood 5 bet shoves

Frankie Q-Q

Masood 8-8

3-6-8

9

Q

Chinese Frankie goes over 950,000, clear chip leader

Amir Masood out 23rd


Mark Chantler raises to 20,000

William Dorey shoves 350,000

With 

Chantler calls  for a lot of his stack

board    to take Dorey to the chip lead and 730,000 of your tournament chips



Jerome Bradpiece raises

Paul Walters shoves

Jake Cody calls

Bradpice folds

Cody AQ v Walters AJ

Cody holds, Paul Walters out 24rh



chinese frankie raises ep to 16,000

Mark wates all in 170,000 on the button

frankie calls with 

Wates 

 

Mark Wates is runner runnered out 25th

Frankie vying for the chip lead with 700,000



Marc Foggin raises

Terry Plummer 3 bets

Michelle Bennett 4 bet shoves A-Q

Plummer calls for the extra with 6-6, holds on 4-9-7-7-J

Michelle Bennett out 26th


Tournament staying 8 handed, 8 handed final for stream....

0     3     Jake Cody 700,000
0     4     Iwan Jones 300,000
0     5     Dan Daley 140,000
0     6     Thomas Mccready 155,000
0     7     Jerome Bradpiece 550,000
0     8     Paul Walters 70,000

12     1     Terence Mitford 140,000
12     3     Paul Skipper 200,000
12     4     Jonathan Mccann 400,000
12     5     Mark Chantler 350,000
12     6     William Dorey 130,000
12     7     Keith Johnson 360,000
12     8     Simon Hemsworth 130,000

14     1     Mark Wates 120,000
14     2     Aamir Masood 250,000
14     3     Emyr Wyn Lewis 125,000
14     5     Jack Allen 500,000
14     6     Chin Chai Koh 600,000
14     7     Alex Goulder 535,000

26     2     Michelle Bennett 120,000
26     3     Matt Russell 220,000
26     4     Andrew Wayman 350,000
26     5     Colburn Tomlin 160,000
26     6     Marc Foggin 700,000
26     7     Terry Plummer 400,000
26     8     Ben Martin 300,000


blinds go 4000-8000 ra 500

Average 332,000


1     -     £89,213
2     -     £52,155
3     -     £31,293
4     -     £21,960
5     -     £16,470
6     -     £12,353
7     -     £9,608
8     -     £6,863
9     -     £5,490
10     -     £3,843
11     -     £3,843
12     -     £3,843
13     -     £3,843
14     -     £2,745
15     -     £2,745
16     -     £2,745
17     -     £2,745
18     -     £2,745
19     -     £1,500
20     -     £1,500
21     -     £1,500
22     -     £1,500
23     -     £1,500
24     -     £1,500
25     -     £1,500
26     -     £1,500
27     Todd Swain     £1,500



I hope you are enjoying this as much as I am. My favourite tournaments of the year, the Monte Carlos



Todd Swain open shoves  Ahrt 7h

Alex Goulder finds 10-10 behind, calls, holds and knocks Todd out 27th


Just three minutes before the break and approaching 80 minutes into the bubble we have an exit


Anthony Nicholls open shoves  on the button

Jake Cody  in the small blind calls


the flop is intriguing   

the turn gives Nicholls club outs 

river  and we lose Anthony Nicholls in 28th


The 27 remaining competitors now guaranteed £1,500


shortstacks are Paul Walters, Anthony Nicholls, Tom McCready each on 60-80k at 2500-5000, all on the feature with Jake Cody and 800,000, on the bubble


David La Ronde min raises

Jack Allen and Frankie call in the blinds

 Jd 2c Tc

checked to La Ronde who shoves, an overbet, 180,000

Allen folds Q-J off

Frankie then goes into a touch of the Larry Graysons

"Oooh I can't fold. Oh no. I must play to win the tournamnet. Oh no."

He calls, a really big one for him

Palpable tension as a crowded rail of DTD regs lean over from the second tier

with  Jc 8c

La Ronde  Ac 5c

Yikes

turn and river brick for clubs

Frankie goes over 400,000

David La Ronde out 29th

Frankie gets a huge roar

He shakes hands with David, played in fantastic spirit and then rushes over to the other rail by the front door and gives a startled Terry Plummer an enormous kiss on the cheek and a hug

Terry's lucky day


Two exits means we are 29 left, 27 paid


Nathan Lee had got very short by the time he shoved with A-K

Matt Russell called with K-J and flopped a Jack



Alan Stearn shoves K-Q, Iwan Jones finds A-K

Q on the flop, A turn, A river



Andrew Wayman opens to 11,000

Alex Goulder 23,000 in the cut off

Ryan Spittles playing 120,000 on the button, all in with A-Q

Wayman tank calls J-J, Goulder folds

Jacks win the races and Spittles out 33rd


Chinese Frankie and Neil Giblin get it all in pre flop blind on blind

Cooler, K-K v J-J in a 250,000 pot.

Kings hold, Jakally sadly down to the felt



Iwan Jones raises

Keith Johnson calls in the big blind

4-6-10, check-call

8

check, bet, raise, all in and call

Jones 8-6

Johnson 5-7

Johnson doubles to over 300,000


Break after 15 levels

2500-5000 ra 500 next

average 245,000

35 left 27 paid


Approx chip counts

0     1     Anthony Nicholls 200,000
0     2     Alan Stearn 210,000
0     3     Jake Cody 750,000
0     5     Dan Daley 280,000
0     6     Sam Macdonald 100,000
0     7     Jerome Bradpiece 450,000
0     8     Paul Walters 200,000

11     1     Thomas Mccready 60,000
11     2     Andrew Wayman 350,000
11     3     Keith Johnson 120,000
11     4     Alex Goulder 220,000
11     5     Ryan Spittles 160,000
11     6     Iwan Jones 200,000
11     8     Emyr Wyn Lewis 120,000

12     1     Terence Mitford 130,000
12     2     Marc Foggin 180,000
12     3     Paul Skipper 200,000
12     4     Jonathan Mccann 450,000
12     5     Mark Chantler 400,000
12     6     William Dorey 150,000
12     8     Simon Hemsworth 220,000

14     1     Mark Wates 110,000
14     2     Aamir Masood 150,000
14     4     Todd Swain 100,000
14     5     Jack Allen 440,000
14     6     Chin Chai Koh 160,000
14     7     Neil Giblin 130,000
14     8     David La Ronde 160,000



Jerome Bradpiece 9,000 UTG

Jake Cody 25,000 on the button

Marcin Milde 200,000 allin small blind with QQ

Bradpiece calls with Aces, holds, knocks out Milde

Bradpiece 450,000



Simon Deadman 8,000 UTG playing 130,000

Ali mallu all in UTG+1 playing 110,000

Andrew Wayman all in UTG+2 playing 119,000

Back to Deadman he calls off with  Ahrt Kc

Mallu  3d 3h

Wayman  Ahrt Ad

 6d 4d 9s 9h Ks

Wayman trebles up to nearly 400,000 knocking out Mallu and felting Deadman


Ali Mallu raises  in the cut off and Iwan Jones calls  in the big blind

The flop is a tantalising 

Two stacks go in, 180,000 chip pot with Iwan at risk

His flopped set holds to double him up