Morning.
Friday MTT traffic was the best for a month, & all 10 featured MTT's covered - a rare occasion at this time of year.
Yet another day lies ahead packed with great sport. Today's highlight - by a very long way - is the 2nd Lions Test v South Africa. (The Lions won the first). 5pm, don't miss it. We also have the Stewards Cup at Goodwood, F1 Qualifying from Hungary, & plenty more besides. Thank goodness for sport.
£700 7 @ 7 £1,085
£6,000 BWBH £7,100
£8,000 Avenger Main £9,320
£4,000 Mini £5,210
£1,000 Mega £1,400
£1,500 Sheriff £2,050
£1,500 Reload £1,683
£1,500 Turbo £1,740
£1,000 Quickdraw £1,260
£1,000 MidEx £1,600
Comments
7 at 7 Bounty Hunter (£1,085)
Sharkscope gives a rather miserly rating to lucy1111, luckily we all know how unreliable it can be. Anyway, I doubt lucy cares after winning 7 @ 7 last night for the second time in six weeks.
@lucy1111 310000 1 £147.83 + £48 Head Prizes 6
@ezyem 0 2 £88.70 + £16.76 Head Prizes 4
@Jsummers17 0 3 £54.25 + £25.05 Head Prizes 6
@jakescol 0 4 £42.59 + £18.97 Head Prizes 4
@rundagame 0 5 £36.35 + £23.43 Head Prizes 5
@dodger16 0 6 £30.60 + £6.05 Head Prizes 1
£6,000 Big Weekend Bounty Hunter (£7,100)
Just six MTT's on Sky Poker in 2021, & playing their first game for over two months, Durry polled up out of the blue to take BWBH & a very handsome £1,840.
@Durry 355000 1 £1313.50 + £525.22 Head Prizes 4
@ChIpSiSbK 0 2 £781 + £328.26 Head Prizes 5
@RCord 0 3 £532.50 + £488.09 Head Prizes 10
@SHYBOY51 0 4 £390.50 + £58.59 Head Prizes 1
@humberfish 0 5 £284 + £305.28 Head Prizes 6
@Jessieak 0 6 £248.50 + £168.76 Head Prizes 3
£8,000 Avenger Rebuy B/Hunter (£9,320)
In 2019 AIRWAVE won Avenger Mini. A year ago they tried to win Avenger Main & could only manage 6th, but last night it all came together for the win. Not too many players have won both Main & Mini versions of Avenger. ( @waller02 maybe?).
An outstanding result by dameflop - Mrs GlencoeLad - to finish 3rd. Eat your heart out George.
@AIRWAVE 1094000 1 £1251.68 + £447.74 Head Prizes 8
@gez_bear 0 2 £747 + £142.94 Head Prizes 6
@dameflop 0 3 £445.50 + £152.10 Head Prizes 6
@Martinbros 0 4 £350.43 + £106.01 Head Prizes 3
@Twinnytb 0 5 £298.24 + £189.03 Head Prizes 11
@Rushquinn 0 6 £249.78 + £134.99 Head Prizes 5
£4,000 Mini Avenger Rebuy B/Hunter (£5,210)
No surprise result this time as roddy28, representing Team Big Boy took the Mini & a very pleasing £885. In fact it could have been so much more, as he only just missed the Avenger Main final (8th) and so with a bit of luck he might well have helped himself to a hefty slice of FTJ pie.
HUGHMANS ran 3rd, with Mr Bates, now showing more of his customary consistency, in 4th. (He made at least four finals last night).
The outstanding recent form of BooBoo continued, 5th here.
@roddy28 2480000 1 £651.25 + £232.22 Head Prizes 16
@ImProfitz 0 2 £364.70 + £40.53 Head Prizes 5
@HUGHMANS 0 3 £215.17 + £89.51 Head Prizes 13
@MattBates 0 4 £170.63 + £35.55 Head Prizes 3
@BooBooTheB 0 5 £143.28 + £64.25 Head Prizes 10
@Fretail 0 6 £115.92 + £46.12 Head Prizes 8
£1,000 Mega Stack B/Hunter (£1,400)
Just over two weeks ago Bleurgh won Mega with Uncle Ungo 2nd. We almost saw a carbon copy* last night, with Bleurgh winning it again, though our ungulate friend could only manage 5th.
* "carbon copy". Our younger viewers - assuming we have any - may not remember carbon copies & carbon paper. Back in the day it was an essential in every office & home, how else could we copy documents when there were no photocopiers & no computers? We were never without carbon paper. Then along came computers, cut & paste & all that stuff & carbon paper disappeared. It was beautiful stuff, & came in super thin flimsy sheets with a silky texture. Changing carbon paper for a fresh sheet was a little like putting on a clean pair of under crackers, it just felt so good.
@Bleurgh 700000 1 £203 + £154.34 Head Prizes 7
@kiankate 0 2 £133 + £52.73 Head Prizes 5
@andy705 0 3 £82.25 + £87.41 Head Prizes 9
@WAKO490 0 4 £66.50 + £37.51 Head Prizes 4
@loosecamel 0 5 £54.25 + £41.72 Head Prizes 5
@sehmi007 0 6 £45.50 + £30.47 Head Prizes 3
£1,500 Sheriff Bounty Hunter (£2,050)
Sheriff went the way of Crushy, & he went on to make it a double later in the evening.
Bates, 4th in the Mini, was 4th here too.
@loololollo 205000 1 £410 + £255.07 Head Prizes 6
@JBERGZ 0 2 £256.25 + £77.34 Head Prizes 3
@peiratis88 0 3 £153.75 + £144.14 Head Prizes 5
@MattBates 0 4 £112.75 + £60.94 Head Prizes 2
@nslater112 0 5 £92.25 + £18.75 Head Prizes 1
@bigfatfish 0 6 £60.94 Head Prizes 2
£1,500 Reload Rebuy B/Hunter (£1,683)
Reload winner bustout44 has a ton of good form on the CV, including at least 3 Main events & several Minis too. In fact they once won back to back Mains.
It's a rare pleasure to see NOSTRI at the tables on a Friday - domestic complications - and I'm pleased he nicked a few bob to prolong his very solid week. On Sunday he won a seat in the Major via the Freeroll, since when he's run 3rd & 6th in Mega, 5th in Mini & now 3rd in Reload. A decent win must surely be imminent.
4th was bigfatfish with goldnballz in 6th.
@bustout44 1539000 1 £223 + £80.47 Head Prizes 8
@kettle9930 0 2 £132.96 + £52.90 Head Prizes 11
@NOSTRI 0 3 £79.94 + £26.09 Head Prizes 5
@bigfatfish 0 4 £63.11 + £27.96 Head Prizes 6
@sonicsco15 0 5 £53.44 + £14.06 Head Prizes 3
@goldnballz 0 6 £44.60 + £17.72 Head Prizes 5
£1,500 Turbo Bounty Hunter (£1,740)
Slev23 began July with a Mega win, & now, with just one day of the month left, they added Turbo.
Runner-up NpC_DulaY has what might well be described as an interesting line in table chat.
Thursday's Hitman Main winner IamAll_En was 4th.
@Slev23 290000 1 £321.90 + £146.64 Head Prizes 4
@NpC_DulaY 0 2 £191.40 + £175.62 Head Prizes 10
@Spiderpig0 0 3 £130.50 + £39.38 Head Prizes 3
@IamAll_En 0 4 £95.70 + £108.29 Head Prizes 8
@humberfish 0 5 £69.60 + £22.50 Head Prizes 2
@DUTCHESS62 0 6 £60.90 + £36.56 Head Prizes 2
£1,000 Quickdraw (£1,260)
Having already taken down Sheriff, Crushy added Quickdraw for a fine double on the night.
pizzled, who won this on Wednesday, was 5th.
@loololollo 156000 1 £252 + £189.82 Head Prizes 5
@mma420 0 2 £157.50 + £142.04 Head Prizes 8
@scrogie 0 3 £94.50 + £15 Head Prizes 1
@jakescol 0 4 £69.30 + £7.50 Head Prizes 1
@pizzled1 0 5 £56.70 + £15 Head Prizes 2
@NIXY2011 0 6 £7.50 Head Prizes 1
£1,000 Midnight Express B/Hunter (£1,600)
A year ago jimblue showed eye-catching improvement to win Avenger Main & two Megas, all in the space of a week. We've seen or heard very little of Jim since, but he popped up here with a MidEx win.
5th in Quickdraw, pizzled repeated the trick here.
@jimblue 240000 1 £228 + £239.22 Head Prizes 15
@RobRenzi 0 2 £146.40 + £66.33 Head Prizes 7
@Davesnuts 0 3 £91.20 0
@147111 0 4 £74 + £35.51 Head Prizes 3
@pizzled1 0 5 £60.40 + £25.32 Head Prizes 2
@MZS 0 6 £50.40 + £16.88 Head Prizes 2
Not awarded today.
Last night on TV there was a very lengthy and excellent documentary featuring Mark Ronson. Almost uniquely, he has won so many Awards in the music industry that there is a whole Wiki page devoted to them, aside from his own, regular Wiki page.
He's done the lot - DJ, solo artist, musician - but is perhaps best known as a record producer, especially of Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, Robbie Williams & Miles Cyrus, whoever he is.
Whilst watching stuff like this I can't help doing google & Wiki deep-dives, & I noticed that Mark's Uncle is none other than Gerald Ronson. Not a name many youngsters will be familiar with, but he was a huge name in the City in the 80's & 90's, though he eventually fell foul of the law & ended up in prison over the Guinness Four affair. Back in the 1980's Gerald Ronson owned around half of all petrol stations in the UK. Quite a character.
Here's one of Mark's biggest numbers - Uptown Funk. Don't quite know whether to believe this, but it supposedly has 4.2 billion views on You Tube. Actually, I'd never watched it before, so 4.2 billion & 1 now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0
Very kind of you, thank you, you too.