Morning.
Well now, Friday was very busy, but last night was even busier. The Sharpy Main hit it's highest prize pool for 6 months, whilst the Mini was at a 4 month high. Looks like things are warming up nicely for UKOPS, which is less than a week hence now.
In sport, England got off to a winning start in the T20 World cup against what looked an awful performance by the Windies, who could muster only 55 runs & were gone 6 overs before their allotted 20. England somehow lost 4 wickets in chasing that down but they did it in just 8 overs.
The football comedy highlight must surely be Ranieri's Watford being 2-1 down away to Everton, & somehow winning 5-2. There will be no better, or more surprising comeback all season. I wrote that Ranieri would bring fun back to football when he returned 2 weeks ago, & he's delivered already. In his first match in charge, Watford were humiliated 5-0 by Liverpool. Asked about that 5-0 thumping after yesterday's win, Ranieri, with a twinkle in his eye, said "no no, I not remember that". God Bless him. Dilly ding dilly dong. In the toxic world of football, how can anyone not love this man?
£700 7 @ 7 £1,029
£1,000 BH £1,000
£6,000 Sharpshooter £8,280
£2,000 Mini £2,535
£1,000 Mega £1,250
£1,500 Sheriff £2,200
£1,500 Reload £1,938
£1,500 Turbo £1,620
£1,000 Quickdraw £1,040
£1,000 MidEx £1,360
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7 at 7 Bounty Hunter (£1,029)
Looks like Bradstent secured his maiden featured MTT win last night. A handful of assorted FT's, but 7 @ 7 was the first trophy.
In 5th was edrich, who largely flies under the radar. Has 94,012 games against his name, of which 98.8% - literally - were DYM's, so MTT's are a rare excursion for him. Pretty sure he joined Sky Poker the very day it started, back in February 2007, & is a wonderfully low-maintenance Client. Sky Poker held some sort of Promo for an "Invite Only" £25,000 Freeroll at DTD some years back, & I had the very great pleasure of sitting next to him for a while, & to this day I recall his warm & friendly demeanour. Not the sort of chap you'll ever find slow-rolling others or gratuitously swearing. Lovely bloke. I've met so many wrong 'uns in my time here, but it's the good ones I remember.
@Bradstent 294000 1 £141.49 + £63.52 Head Prizes 7
@silille 0 2 £85.41 + £30.49 Head Prizes 7
@stephe1953 0 3 £52.48 + £20.98 Head Prizes 4
@nslater112 0 4 £41.67 + £25.15 Head Prizes 5
@edrich 0 5 £35.50 + £2.63 Head Prizes 1
@Lethiferou 0 6 £29.84 + £24.78 Head Prizes 6
£1,000 Bounty Hunter (£1,000)
BooBoo is rampant, he won Wednesday's Predator Main, was AWOL on Thursday, bricked Friday, then took both the £1k BH & Turbo last night. That's form.
In 6th was MICKYRIG, who made a rare appearance in these threads 24 hours earlier after winning 7 & 7.
@BooBooTheB 147000 1 £188.70 + £102.91 Head Prizes 6
@Archie666 0 2 £112.20 + £29.39 Head Prizes 1
@GFKIJKLL 0 3 £76.50 + £87.56 Head Prizes 8
@MASTER210 0 4 £56.10 + £15 Head Prizes 2
@roughboy 0 5 £40.80 + £17.93 Head Prizes 2
@MICKYRIG 0 6 £35.70 + £15 Head Prizes 2
£6,000 Sharpshooter (£8,280)
Quite a victory here for DL1988, only previous mention was when 5th in Sharpy Main 30 months ago. A single tabler, modestly rated by Sharky, playing only his 8th MTT in a month, he had to endure a long HU battle with Palace Bloke before emerging triumphant. Fair to say Palace is as tough & awkward an individual as you could ever wish - or not wish? - to meet, both on & off the table, so this was a terrific win by DL1998.
Palace, of course, you know all about, a huge winner here, & it's not widely known that's he is a dead ringer for MattBates, they are like two peas in a plump pod.
@DL1988 2760000 1 £1097.10 + £268.22 Head Prizes 8
@cpfc_2010 0 2 £654.12 + £272.98 Head Prizes 11
@Feiffer 0 3 £393.30 + £71.90 Head Prizes 4
@19walker88 0 4 £310.50 + £106.74 Head Prizes 4
@longjob 0 5 £262.89 + £192.25 Head Prizes 8
@cabbaz 0 6 £219.42 + £75.42 Head Prizes 4
£2,000 Mini Sharpshooter (£2,535)
The Mini went to another alias I am not familiar with, Duarte1999. I suppose, to a degree, that's a function of how much busier the site has been this last 48 hours.
@Duarte999 5070000 1 £316.88 + £83.36 Head Prizes 13
@ramos282 0 2 £177.45 + £22.25 Head Prizes 6
@Conor275 0 3 £104.70 + £32.64 Head Prizes 9
@021960 0 4 £83.02 + £16.74 Head Prizes 5
@Jak44 0 5 £69.71 + £24.86 Head Prizes 7
@rich1966 0 6 £56.40 + £6.08 Head Prizes 2
£1,000 Mega Stack B/Hunter (£1,250)
SAXONTOM seems to do things in two's - in recent months he's twice won Mega, twice won Quickdraw, & twice been 2nd in Main Events.
Runner-up was KOBAC, a recent Marksman Main champ, with Wednesday's Reload winner taxi1970 in 3rd.
In 6th was Alphabet Bloke, who ran 6th in Tuesday's 7 @ 7.
@SAXONTOM 760000 1 £220.40 + £204.51 Head Prizes 12
@KOBAC 0 2 £144.40 + £60.81 Head Prizes 4
@taxi1970 0 3 £89.30 + £89.53 Head Prizes 10
@IamAll_En 0 4 £72.20 + £33.76 Head Prizes 4
@THETANK 0 5 £58.90 0
@abcdefg834 0 6 £49.40 + £39.96 Head Prizes 4
£1,500 Sheriff Bounty Hunter (£2,200)
CutePoison, with just 21 games to their credit in the 2 months with Sky Poker, took Sheriff. An interesting profile here, in their first & 2nd night on Sky Poker in late August they ran 2nd in Sheriff both times, & now wins it. So that's 2nd, 2nd & 1st in Sheriff from just 9 attempts.
In 3rd was UnEuropean, who looks an interesting one to follow, & who already has a BWBH win to his name in his short time on Sky Poker.
It's all a little uphill MAXALLY lately, he finished 7th but got paid nothing for it. On the bright side he won his seat in a £3 All-In Sat so he was almost freerolling.
@CutePoison 220000 1 £385 + £293.15 Head Prizes 6
@GFKIJKLL 0 2 £242 + £106.05 Head Prizes 4
@UnEuropean 0 3 £165 + £23.44 Head Prizes 1
@Acebet 0 4 £121 + £100.78 Head Prizes 3
@donkhunta 0 5 £99 + £75 Head Prizes 4
@kgee 0 6 £88 + £107.82 Head Prizes 5
@MAXALLY 0 7 0
£1,500 Reload Rebuy B/Hunter (£1,938)
avinit1 turned up after a 10 day absence & took the Reload, while Voltage charged into 4th. Was unfortunate not to finish 3rd actually, which would have made a potential difference. One for the electrical nerds there.
@avinit1 1745000 1 £256.79 + £105.88 Head Prizes 13
@JJ71 0 2 £153.10 + £15.63 Head Prizes 4
@Thakowsky 0 3 £92.06 + £39.13 Head Prizes 7
@Voltage 0 4 £72.67 + £29.59 Head Prizes 10
@SCOTTYBOT 0 5 £61.53 + £38.52 Head Prizes 11
@genjumper 0 6 £51.36 + £27.08 Head Prizes 4
£1,500 Turbo Bounty Hunter (£1,620)
This was Leg 2 of the BooBoo double on the night, & 3rd win since Wednesday.
Runner-up beefmyster only puts in small volume but does very well on it.
3rd in MidEx a few nights earlier, SGK was 3rd here too.
@BooBooTheB 270000 1 £299.70 + £266.47 Head Prizes 11
@beefmyster 0 2 £178.20 + £59.07 Head Prizes 4
@SGK1968 0 3 £121.50 + £49.23 Head Prizes 3
@Cocoghost 0 4 £89.10 + £49.21 Head Prizes 3
@snoxx11 0 5 £64.80 + £22.50 Head Prizes 2
@Rnaylor 0 6 £56.70 + £11.25 Head Prizes 1
£1,000 Quickdraw (£1,040)
StayOrGo is in rip-roaring form right now & took a very tough Quickdraw ahead of Sharki0 & Jessie
@StayOrGo 146000 1 £210.90 + £221.58 Head Prizes 7
@Sharki0 0 2 £142.50 + £103.60 Head Prizes 5
@Jessieak 0 3 £85.50 + £56.84 Head Prizes 4
@rancid 0 4 £68.40 + £41.26 Head Prizes 3
@adair333 0 5 £62.70 + £22.50 Head Prizes 2
@heddoh18 0 6 £15 Head Prizes 1
£1,000 Midnight Express B/Hunter (£1,360)
carliahol loves MidEx, & was winning it for the 2nd time since August, & has FT'd it at least 7 times over the last year or so.
@carliahol 204000 1 £204 + £197.48 Head Prizes 13
@POKEOFFU 0 2 £136 + £44.53 Head Prizes 5
@chrislough 0 3 £81.60 + £68.01 Head Prizes 5
@ExoEndo 0 4 £68 + £22.50 Head Prizes 3
@wood45 0 5 £54.40 0
@mrbroyd23 0 6 £44.20 + £57.30 Head Prizes 6
£1,000 UKOPS Eliminator Freeroll (276 runners)
What a rich & varied mix of players & abilities these Elim Freerolls attract. Serious heads like Arrogant, retromingents such as loosecamel, & rofflers such as TimmyRaRa & SR23.
The top 20;
@henners10 828000 1 £100
@teeeceee 0 2 £70
@jamygeorgi 0 3 £60
@Arrogant 0 4 £60
@beanfish 0 5 £50
@bukylarsta 0 6 £50
@loosecamel 0 7 £40
@albertg 0 8 £40
@famouscfc 0 9 £40
@Perspecti 0 10 £40
@Terry001 0 11 £30
@mrblk30 0 12 £30
@SR23 0 13 £30
@liquourout 0 14 £30
@h26h26 0 15 £30
@neelyj 0 16 £20
@BLAD3SMAN 0 17 £20
@__IRE__ 0 18 £20
@TimmyRaRa 0 19 £20
@Barlicker 0 20 £10
UKOPS 14 £15,000 High Roller Semi (11 runners)
What a satellite run StayOrGo is on, he has now won 4 UKOPS/SPT seats in the last 3 nights.
@Sharki0 15095 1 UKOPS 14 £15,000 High Roller B/Hunter
@Jessieak 9750 2 UKOPS 14 £15,000 High Roller B/Hunter
@StayOrGo 8155 3 UKOPS 14 £15,000 High Roller B/Hunter
SPT Manchester Semi (15 runners)
Great news, with madprof, roddy & TommyD all qualifying.
It was a little odd actually, I took a look when there were 4 left, & Rose was Chippie, with madprof clinging on grimly in 4th. Minutes later madprof had finished 1st & Rose had missed out. How that happen?
@madprof 24015 1 Entry to SPT Manchester Seat
@roddy28 13115 2 Entry to SPT Manchester Seat
@TommyD 7870 3 Entry to SPT Manchester Seat
@IrishRose 0 4
A double on the night - £1k BH & Turbo - just a few nights after winning Predator Main, plus, if I'm honest, I love the alias, it goes to....
@BooBooTheB
In other news...
Last night @Duesenberg & @The--Don held a joint charity stream, & helped raise over £800 for YouthAbility, a charity for disabled & disadvantaged children in Cumbria.
Huge respect to both of them. I'd like to have the bants & give them both a poke in the eye, but I just can't bring myself so to do on thus occasion. Well done them.
Today's music is dedicated to @The--Don & @Duesenberg for reasons I'd prefer not to explain, but bless them both for their charitable work last night.
Aerosmith, "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing".
This track was the theme music for a Movie called Armageddon, in which - quite by chance I believe - Steven Tyler's stunningly beautiful daughter Liv appeared.
If you are not misty-eyed - at the very least - by the end of that, you did not listen to it properly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkK8g6FMEXE
I didn’t get to meet edrich there but agree that he’s a lovely chap at the tables and a very good dym player
The mtt was great value as half the people didn’t turn up. I Maxallyed it into the money for £600. Haysie was on my table and didn’t want to do it the same way abs bubbled with a big bluff. He was very quiet and amiable at the table which is a little different to how he is on the forum. Met Jonnyrkd there and he’s a nice bloke too
Carl Froch played and i think it was Begs who got the trophy “I knocked Froch out”
Devilfish was there with a very young blond lady
Free bar and Sky players probably isn’t a great mix
I recall Sikas took advantage of the free booze
@Jac35
Yes, I recall it was some sort of Prio Freeroll. Was a great night, only half the invitees showed up, & there was a free bar & food galore. There was only about 20 of us & the bar bill was a 4 figure number.
I don't recall HAYSIE being there, which is odd.
Carl Froch played it, & we organised a trophy for whoever busted him, engraved with "I KNOCKED OUT CARL FROCH". In fact edrich may have been the one who did the deed.
As you know full well know , clinging on like a dangle Berry is the name of the game when you’re the shortie and not very good at this game like me…..getting AA for the final hand was a help, mind!
Unlucky @irishrose . I know you’ll win at least one more seat, if not the full 4!
Not sure I agree😤😭😠