Alex Spencer raises to 60,000 UTG Steve Sargent calls on the button John Haigh 3 bet 225,000 in the big blind Spencer allin Sargent fold Haigh all in KK Spencer AJ 7-7-6-q-6 To double Haigh up Spencer is an interesting story. He had never played a live MTT, went with a made to his local Grosvenor 25-25 series in Sheffield. Won it for £13k. Week after entered the DTD Deepstack. Fianlled it for £10k. This is his third live tournament and he is chip leader two tables out Posted by SPT
13 1 Alexander Spencer 5.2M 13 2 Paul Delaney 1.625M 13 3 Allan Graham 1.36M 13 4 Charles Chattha 1.57M 13 5 Danny Blair 3.115M 13 6 Deborah Oconnell 1.84M 13 7 John Haigh 870K 13 8 Steven Sargent 1.19M 13 9 James R immer 1.88M
Alex Spencer from Doncaster is a 20 year old student. Previously primarily a cash game player, he won the Sheffield 25-25 series and finalled the DTD Deepstack and went deep at GPS Star City in the past month
Danny Blair. Danny is from London and is primarily a cash player, £5-10 at the Victoria Casino is his regular game. He bought in direct
Paul Delaney. Paul is from Galway, with a background in Online Tournaments. He and his friends have branched out into Live events in the last year, playing major UK and Irish Tours for the first time and travelled across for this event. He bought in Direct
Deborah O'Connell, from Stoke. Qualified online through DTD for £1 through feeders and three levels of satellite is now guaranteed at least £10,000, her biggest ever cash.
Allan Graham from Leicester, a Sky Poker qualifier “Beefy777” for £2.80 in an Online “all-in” satellite
Chaz Chattha from London. He and his brother Sunny have been fixtures on the UK Circuit for nearly a decade, originally as part of the “Hit Squad” group of players. He has live winnings of nearly $1m including 2nd in WPT Dublin, a win at GUKPT Luton, 2nd in a GUKPT Grand Final and a Bellagio Cup win.
John Haigh from Liverpool. Qualified live via Genting but also won in via the High Roller satellite at DTD on Tuesday which he used for this buy in.
James R immer. Three of James' friends won seats online for the Main event and there was a spare seat in the car up from Bexhill on Sea on Tuesday. He came up, won a seat in the £50 satellite and entered the event. This is by far his biggest tournament ever. His biggest previous live buy in was £50 with 38 runners. He runs a local home game.
Steven Sargent is a DTD Online Qualifier with two live cashes before, both at DTD for a total of £6,000 including winning an Incredible 100 last June
Me and Alex Spencer both used to work at the Doncaster Morrisons, we both got into poker around the same time. We have become good friends.
We both play in the sheffield live 1/2 game regualrly. His growth in poker is rapid, this year as mentioned he won the 25/25 series in sheff for 13k, came 3rd in the 550 deepstack for 14k, came 13th in GPS star City for like 1,7k and obv now this, Gl Alex
Me and Alex Spencer both used to work at the Doncaster Morrisons, we both got into poker around the same time. We have become good friends. We both play in the sheffield live 1/2 game regualrly. His growth in poker is rapid, this year as mentioned he won the 25/25 series in sheff for 13k, came 3rd in the 550 deepstack for 14k, came 13th in GPS star City for like 1,7k and obv now this, Gl Alex Posted by bolly580
Me and Alex Spencer both used to work at the Doncaster Morrisons, we both got into poker around the same time. We have become good friends. We both play in the sheffield live 1/2 game regualrly. His growth in poker is rapid, this year as mentioned he won the 25/25 series in sheff for 13k, came 3rd in the 550 deepstack for 14k, came 13th in GPS star City for like 1,7k and obv now this, Gl Alex Posted by bolly580
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Back tomorrow guys, until then thank you for the support on this thread.
Good night!
13 2 Paul Delaney 1.625M
13 3 Allan Graham 1.36M
13 4 Charles Chattha 1.57M
13 5 Danny Blair 3.115M
13 6 Deborah Oconnell 1.84M
13 7 John Haigh 870K
13 8 Steven Sargent 1.19M
13 9 James R immer 1.88M
30-60k blinds on resumption
Alex Spencer from Doncaster is a 20 year old student. Previously primarily a cash game player, he won the Sheffield 25-25 series and finalled the DTD Deepstack and went deep at GPS Star City in the past month
Danny Blair. Danny is from London and is primarily a cash player, £5-10 at the Victoria Casino is his regular game. He bought in direct
Paul Delaney. Paul is from Galway, with a background in Online Tournaments. He and his friends have branched out into Live events in the last year, playing major UK and Irish Tours for the first time and travelled across for this event. He bought in Direct
Deborah O'Connell, from Stoke. Qualified online through DTD for £1 through feeders and three levels of satellite is now guaranteed at least £10,000, her biggest ever cash.
Allan Graham from Leicester, a Sky Poker qualifier “Beefy777” for £2.80 in an Online “all-in” satellite
Chaz Chattha from London. He and his brother Sunny have been fixtures on the UK Circuit for nearly a decade, originally as part of the “Hit Squad” group of players. He has live winnings of nearly $1m including 2nd in WPT Dublin, a win at GUKPT Luton, 2nd in a GUKPT Grand Final and a Bellagio Cup win.
John Haigh from Liverpool. Qualified live via Genting but also won in via the High Roller satellite at DTD on Tuesday which he used for this buy in.
James R immer. Three of James' friends won seats online for the Main event and there was a spare seat in the car up from Bexhill on Sea on Tuesday. He came up, won a seat in the £50 satellite and entered the event. This is by far his biggest tournament ever. His biggest previous live buy in was £50 with 38 runners. He runs a local home game.
Steven Sargent is a DTD Online Qualifier with two live cashes before, both at DTD for a total of £6,000 including winning an Incredible 100 last June
Lots of unlikely names given the strength of the field coming in to today.
Have to support the underdog, Deborah O'Connell to win. 1 pound in to 125,000 pounds!
32 of 202 got through
Sinem Melin 58 5 570600
Julian Thew 46 2 549700
Elaine Cockburn 48 2 339800
Ben Dobson 68 5 323300
Anooj Sareen 48 3 312500
Martyn Frey 47 2 302700
Bruce Jones 58 6 254400
Mazalahedwa Bako 46 5 253500
Thomas High 67 5 245000
Harry Zammit 67 3 243700
Waikiat Lee 68 4 233200
Mathew Perry 46 4 200700
John-paul Kelly 48 4 197500
Gary Strang 47 4 180100
Lee Taylor 67 1 176700
Jack Allen 58 3 173600
Robert Bostock 47 6 164700
Emrah Yildiz 68 1 152700
Waheed Ashraf 47 1 147300
Jeremy Nock 67 4 146100
Stavros Ioaanou 67 6 117900
Masud Prodhan 58 2 106700
Paul Garner 48 5 93600
Marc Convey 48 1 83200
John Sadler 48 6 80900
Anonymous 47 5 80000
Ian Tough 58 1 64300
Dahe Liu 68 6 57800
David Crilly 46 6 41400
Oluwashola Akindele 68 3 25300
Timothy Chung 46 1 17800
Paul Grummitt 46 3 6800
70 of 402 (£201,000 prize pool!) resume at 2pm