Mr Channing has had an accident with Aces and is now down to 3600. He is also on dinner and has just been told James Akenhead has knocked him off the top of the 100 challenge leaderboard. He isn't in the best mood.
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The Day 1A qualifiers have 1 level left to negotiate and it appears that we still have 3 remaining.
Tim Rowland has built a nice stack and was last seen floating an ealry position raise on the flop and taking it away on the turn. He is up to about 60k with Dave Maudlin and Lee Rogers both around the 30k mark. Lee Rogers does not have an easy task with Alan Cunningham sat to his immediate right.
Day 1B qualifier Colin Muir also has it tough with Praz Bansi on the same table.
Pretty awkward day to follow our qualifiers today, with 30 odd players spread randomly across 3 different rooms. Most of them are not on their originally allocated seats or tables, either.
To complicate it further, Flights a & b are not physically separated. They are on different tables, of course, but they are all mixed up together, so some tables are from a, & some from b.
In addition, yesterday's $1,500 continues, as does the $25,000 PLO.
Tomorrow, fingers crossed, it will be a lot easier, & we'll be able to follow our qualifiers more easily.
One thing that does help a bit is that almost all of our players are wearing a Sky Poker patch &/or hoodie.
And here's the thing. Most years, dozens of sites send players to the WSOP, but this year, there is a noticeable absence of qualifiers from various sites. I'd go so far as to say I doubt many, if any sites, have sent as many players as Sky Poker. There may be a few, but I doubt there are many. Who'd have thought?
Paul Jackson continues to tick along nicely and has 27k. The Day 1B players of which there are still many left will play until 4am tonight (12pm UK time).
Day 2 begins tomorrow at 2pm (10pm UK time). We are approaching 4400 players but hard to gauge an average stack with 2 flights occuring at the same time.
Neil Channing set a target of 40,000 by the end of day one, a few of our players are fast approaching or in some cases exceeding that. Neil however will not be returning tomorrow for day 2.
I was just patrolling the tables, & inadvertently wandered into the area where yesterday's $1,500 is being played out, & just 80 odd of 2,500 remain. The different tournaments are not separated from each other, they just blend into each other, so it's hard to know at first glance who is playing what.
I spotted Tom Middleton, aka "Middy", & stopped to say hi, & wish him good luck. A glance at the size of the chip stacks soon told me that Middy was in yesterday's $1,500 NLH, & deep in the money already. He said "thanks, I'm hopeful of going very deep".
He was in the Small Blind, & once the cards were dealt, I stepped a pace away from the table, which is standard updater etiquette, you should never "hover" over players whilst they are in a hand.
Suddenly, with no action in front of him, the Button moved all-in for plenty, which seemed a rather odd play.
Middy, without a moments hesitation, moved all in too. Have I bought him some luck, I wondered?
And then the Big Blind, in a heartbeat, moved all in, too.
What?
The Button had Q-8. (?).
Middy had J-J.
Big Blind had the Aces.
Easy game, eh, when it plays out as simple as that.
And the flop killed all the excitement - A-6-7.
Middy looked at me, I looked at him. The tikay bok had worked again.
I bumped into an old mate from Luton G, Paul Ephremsen, playing the Little One Drop.
Paul's name may be familiar to you - he finished 3rd in WSOP Event # 20 a fortnight ago, for $196,986, easily his biggest ever cash.
Then he flew home for Greyhound Derby Final night - Paul is involved in Greyhound TV, as well as owning several greyhounds. In fact he had a runner on Derby night in on of the support races, Ballymac Sinbad.
He then flew back to Vegas last weekend with his pal Mark Wallis, said to be the UK's leading trainer of greyhounds, who trained the winner of the Greyhound Derby twice in the last 6 years & both of them are playing the Little One Drop.
What a life, eh?
Here's Mark Wallis......
...and here's Handsome Paul. And no, I've no idea how he got that nick.
The Fire Alarm was a false alarm, & so the WSOP continues.
Not sure if you all know how fire alarms work, but one thing that happens is that all the doors to the various rooms - all rooms, be it cardrooms, hotel rooms or toilets - are held open by magnetic catches. As soon as the fire alarm activates, it breaks a circuit which releases all the magnetic catches, so all the doors instantly slam shut, & can only be opened from the inside. (So people can get OUT, but can't get IN).
So those who were wandering the corridor, or going from room to room, were all locked out.
As chance would have it, I was in the Media Centre at the time, but Dan & Sam were both on their way back to the Media Centre, from their usual 5 hour dinner break, & so were locked out.
I heard them knocking to get back in, so I decided to let them wait outside. That was an hour ago, & I'm still refusing to let them in, obv.
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9.44pm - we might just have to disappear shortly, there is currently a Fire Alarm going off in The Rio.
Everyone is looking at each other, wondering if we have to evacuate.
There are some 4,000 chip stacks in play, so if an evacuation is necessary, those stacks will be unattended, & chaos will ensue.
Pretty awkward day to follow our qualifiers today, with 30 odd players spread randomly across 3 different rooms. Most of them are not on their originally allocated seats or tables, either.
To complicate it further, Flights a & b are not physically separated. They are on different tables, of course, but they are all mixed up together, so some tables are from a, & some from b.
In addition, yesterday's $1,500 continues, as does the $25,000 PLO.
Tomorrow, fingers crossed, it will be a lot easier, & we'll be able to follow our qualifiers more easily.
One thing that does help a bit is that almost all of our players are wearing a Sky Poker patch &/or hoodie.
And here's the thing. Most years, dozens of sites send players to the WSOP, but this year, there is a noticeable absence of qualifiers from various sites. I'd go so far as to say I doubt many, if any sites, have sent as many players as Sky Poker. There may be a few, but I doubt there are many. Who'd have thought?
I was just patrolling the tables, & inadvertently wandered into the area where yesterday's $1,500 is being played out, & just 80 odd of 2,500 remain. The different tournaments are not separated from each other, they just blend into each other, so it's hard to know at first glance who is playing what.
I spotted Tom Middleton, aka "Middy", & stopped to say hi, & wish him good luck. A glance at the size of the chip stacks soon told me that Middy was in yesterday's $1,500 NLH, & deep in the money already. He said "thanks, I'm hopeful of going very deep".
He was in the Small Blind, & once the cards were dealt, I stepped a pace away from the table, which is standard updater etiquette, you should never "hover" over players whilst they are in a hand.
Suddenly, with no action in front of him, the Button moved all-in for plenty, which seemed a rather odd play.
Middy, without a moments hesitation, moved all in too. Have I bought him some luck, I wondered?
And then the Big Blind, in a heartbeat, moved all in, too.
What?
The Button had Q-8. (?).
Middy had J-J.
Big Blind had the Aces.
Easy game, eh, when it plays out as simple as that.
And the flop killed all the excitement - A-6-7.
Middy looked at me, I looked at him. The tikay bok had worked again.
Handsome Paul
I bumped into an old mate from Luton G, Paul Ephremsen, playing the Little One Drop.
Paul's name may be familiar to you - he finished 3rd in WSOP Event # 20 a fortnight ago, for $196,986, easily his biggest ever cash.
Then he flew home for Greyhound Derby Final night - Paul is involved in Greyhound TV, as well as owning several greyhounds. In fact he had a runner on Derby night in on of the support races, Ballymac Sinbad.
He then flew back to Vegas last weekend with his pal Mark Wallis, said to be the UK's leading trainer of greyhounds, who trained the winner of the Greyhound Derby twice in the last 6 years & both of them are playing the Little One Drop.
What a life, eh?
Here's Mark Wallis......
...and here's Handsome Paul. And no, I've no idea how he got that nick.
The Fire Alarm was a false alarm, & so the WSOP continues.
Not sure if you all know how fire alarms work, but one thing that happens is that all the doors to the various rooms - all rooms, be it cardrooms, hotel rooms or toilets - are held open by magnetic catches. As soon as the fire alarm activates, it breaks a circuit which releases all the magnetic catches, so all the doors instantly slam shut, & can only be opened from the inside. (So people can get OUT, but can't get IN).
So those who were wandering the corridor, or going from room to room, were all locked out.
As chance would have it, I was in the Media Centre at the time, but Dan & Sam were both on their way back to the Media Centre, from their usual 5 hour dinner break, & so were locked out.
I heard them knocking to get back in, so I decided to let them wait outside. That was an hour ago, & I'm still refusing to let them in, obv.