Anyway, enough of Nutty Nan, let's have a look at the Overnight chip Counts from Day 1A. Give me 5 minutes to type them up & we'll be off & running.
At the moment, I don't have the total number of runners to hand from yesterday, but I believe the entries are close to £50,000 now, with the Guarantee at £100,000, so grounds for optimism that it might well get over the line.
I was first to arrive here yesterday, sat myself near the door so I could see everyone arriving, patrolled the tables half a dozen times, & mingled during the breaks, & yet I failed to spot someone I know very well & who appeared on the chip counts this morning.
Ambo was going OK, but disappeared late evening. (Play went on until almost 2am).
Sam somehow ran up a 200,000 stack.
Meanwhile, Percy Pot Belly - that's me at the mo - despite going well for most of the day, peaking at 65,000 in Level 4, failed to advance.
The last 3 levels were turgid, & I dribbled down & down, until I had just 24,000 (10 Bigs) & found the A-K. Needed a caller, got one, he had the A-J, which was as good as it gets for me. Until the door card.
I'm not sure if I ran bad the last few levels, or the kids are just too good for me these days.
Play starts at 2pm, & currently the room is deserted, apart from 3 guys playing 6 card PLO. It's just a low stakes fun game, so its all I can do to stop myself joining them, but I barely done a stroke of work yesterday so my guilty conscience is giving me gip & I've managed to resist.
So whilst we await the event to start at 2pm, some irrelevant waffle.
I'm never quite sure about Manchester, whether to love it or loathe it.
It does have some lovely buildings though, and this one - Manchester Central Library - is smack opposite my Hotel, so I indulged myself & spent an hour admiring it's sheer beauty this morning.
Just along the road from the Library are Asia House & India House, magnificent Victorian edifices with those lovely shiny brass plates by the entrance, & just a few yards along is Albert Hall, not quite as grand as London's Royal Albert Hall, but pretty nice all the same.
We have to balance our ranges though. Look at these two monstrosities in Manchester. What were they thinking?
Back to the poker now, I had the good fortune to share tables yesterday - & I moved tables no less than 5 times - with some lovely chaps, but none more pleasant than @Morris707 & @Gambelo.
Smashing blokes, both of them, got great game but, unusually it seems to me these days amongst really good poker players, great social skills too, articulate, polite & smartly turned out. No bad in them at all from what I could see.
Groggy @FeelGroggy was here too, another great bloke in every way.
This Tourney is being run under the new-fangled "Big Blind ante" rule.
In short, the BB antes for the whole table, and you only post an ante once per orbit.
So, for example, at 1,200-2,400, the ante is 2,400 so the BB has to post 4,800 (2,400 ante + 2,400 BB). The SB posts 1,200 & nobody else posts anything.
I'm not a fan of change for the sake of change, but it definitely helped speed things up & saved all that wasted time trying to collect Antes from forgetful sort. We don't actually need to speed things up, it's not a race, but eradicating all that wasted time is huge plus.
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Good morning to you all from Manchester.
The sky is grey, the clouds low, and the pavements are glistening as a persistent drizzle makes everything & everything look drab, miserable & wet.
It's what we used to call fine rain". My Nan used to say "fine rain, the sort of rain that soaks you right through", as if normal heavy rain did not.
Mind you, she also used to say never have a bath after eating a banana, as you'll drown.
My Nan was nuts.
Anyway, enough of Nutty Nan, let's have a look at the Overnight chip Counts from Day 1A. Give me 5 minutes to type them up & we'll be off & running.
At the moment, I don't have the total number of runners to hand from yesterday, but I believe the entries are close to £50,000 now, with the Guarantee at £100,000, so grounds for optimism that it might well get over the line.
Day 1A Chip counts (23 survivors)
Andrew Wilson 277,300Sam Tyrrell 272,700
Gea Wune Yik 199,200
Ryan Shreeve 153,300
Arran Fletcher 151,700
Bradley Rawson 141,800
Danny Grogan, 132,900
Alex Whitenstall 128,900
Gary Smith 123,300
Jayesh Thakker 113,600
Joe Greenwood 112,000
Athir Ali 98,700
Hugo Whitehouse 96,100
Cengiz Karasu 91,800
Ming Ju 90,100
Kevin Kearney 84,800
Gary Whitehead 81,000
Benjamin Dobson 67,200
Patrick Ryan 65,900
Simon Steedman 61,600
Alex James Montgomery 54,900
Colin Muir 51,200
Graeme Sneddon 50,400
Note the fella in 2nd, "Samuel Tyrrell".
That's @Sky_SamT.
How do these things happen?
I was first to arrive here yesterday, sat myself near the door so I could see everyone arriving, patrolled the tables half a dozen times, & mingled during the breaks, & yet I failed to spot someone I know very well & who appeared on the chip counts this morning.
How do these things.......?
Team Sky?
Ambo was going OK, but disappeared late evening. (Play went on until almost 2am).
Sam somehow ran up a 200,000 stack.
Meanwhile, Percy Pot Belly - that's me at the mo - despite going well for most of the day, peaking at 65,000 in Level 4, failed to advance.
The last 3 levels were turgid, & I dribbled down & down, until I had just 24,000 (10 Bigs) & found the A-K. Needed a caller, got one, he had the A-J, which was as good as it gets for me. Until the door card.
I'm not sure if I ran bad the last few levels, or the kids are just too good for me these days.
Sky Bet go 25/1 the former, 1/10 the latter.
I was having some bants on Twitter yesterday & Tweeted this;
I've got the pesky kids on the run at the @SkyPoker Grand Final in Manchester. 30,000 starting stack, and after 3 levels I have approx 4,950,000.
Now I'm not at all sure a single person on earth believed that, but it did prompt some fun retweets, including this, which tickled me somewhat;
Play starts at 2pm, & currently the room is deserted, apart from 3 guys playing 6 card PLO. It's just a low stakes fun game, so its all I can do to stop myself joining them, but I barely done a stroke of work yesterday so my guilty conscience is giving me gip & I've managed to resist.
So whilst we await the event to start at 2pm, some irrelevant waffle.
I'm never quite sure about Manchester, whether to love it or loathe it.
It does have some lovely buildings though, and this one - Manchester Central Library - is smack opposite my Hotel, so I indulged myself & spent an hour admiring it's sheer beauty this morning.
It's utterly lovely in every way.
Just along the road from the Library are Asia House & India House, magnificent Victorian edifices with those lovely shiny brass plates by the entrance, & just a few yards along is Albert Hall, not quite as grand as London's Royal Albert Hall, but pretty nice all the same.
We have to balance our ranges though. Look at these two monstrosities in Manchester.
What were they thinking?
Back to the poker now, I had the good fortune to share tables yesterday - & I moved tables no less than 5 times - with some lovely chaps, but none more pleasant than @Morris707 & @Gambelo.
Smashing blokes, both of them, got great game but, unusually it seems to me these days amongst really good poker players, great social skills too, articulate, polite & smartly turned out. No bad in them at all from what I could see.
Groggy @FeelGroggy was here too, another great bloke in every way.
Poker is blessed to have guys like these.
This Tourney is being run under the new-fangled "Big Blind ante" rule.
In short, the BB antes for the whole table, and you only post an ante once per orbit.
So, for example, at 1,200-2,400, the ante is 2,400 so the BB has to post 4,800 (2,400 ante + 2,400 BB). The SB posts 1,200 & nobody else posts anything.
I'm not a fan of change for the sake of change, but it definitely helped speed things up & saved all that wasted time trying to collect Antes from forgetful sort. We don't actually need to speed things up, it's not a race, but eradicating all that wasted time is huge plus.
^^^^
Thanks @SidV79, great shame you can't be with us.
This man is here though, @rspca12, but the Big Man can't decide whether to play or whether to go out of the lash with "the boys".