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Johnnie,
Just over £2k and a Tallinn live package |
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Didn't get to meet doobs or nick flick, apologies to both of you. Unfortunately I was worse for wear on Saturday and not with it at all. Trains moving. Arrow home at. 0.20hrs. So 3.20hr journey for what is normally just 1hr 5 min trek.
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Artuu with a 2 to 1 chip lead calls Hugo's shove and his 66 is beaten by KT when the board comes 2JJAA and now Hugo has a 2 to 1 chip lead.
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Wow bit of a difference then, was gonna tell you to tell them to spilt and get yourself home. [;)]
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johnnie,
I have tried the Jedi mind trick on both of them for the last hour but to no avail. Hugo has a bigger lead than I thought with probably a 3 or 4 to 1 chip lead. |
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Sorry Johnnie the difference is £1700 and the Tallinn package.
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If they go past midnight they will have to buy each other a rose.
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Or their carriages will turn into pumpkins.
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On a 9JK board they both end up all in and Arttu shows JJ and Hugo K7 so Arttu wins the hand and the never ending card game continues!
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Feeling your pain here Dave.
From what I saw of these two's play, I would have expected this to be over by now. |
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RESULT.............
Arttu calls Hugo's shove with AQ and Hugo shows K8 and an Ace on the flop seals Hugo's fate and Arttu Pitkangas from Finland is the Betfair London Live 2011 Champion.  |
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Well played to Arttu, and unlucky Hugo.
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Thanks Dave to you for the updates. See you soon.
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At the next one.
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Great updates Dave, but you can't leave until you've posted the pic of Arttu, Jon Taba and the ridiculous comedy Betfair cheque.
The weekend wouldn't be complete. |
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Thanx for the praise gents, much appreciated.
Winners photo will only be up tomorrow as i wont be able to get the photo's approved and all the forum administrators have gone home! |
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Safe journeys home then folks.
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drive safe hunny xxx
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Just arrived home now, safe to say i'm slightly on the tired side!
 Here is Arttu proudly holding his giant cheque for his deserved winnings  |
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Arttu with his chip haul and his decisive hand.
Nice touch from Richard giving him the two cards to take home with him.  |
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Thanks for the photos Helmuthian Folds, a great result for Portuguese player Hugo "Valentim" Cruz, member of MDPoker portuguese forum!
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Brilliant reporting, well done that man!!!!
Did Betfair steal that logo from Heinz beans[:x] |
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A big virtual round of applause and thanks to Helmuthian Folds for his excellent work this weekend.
Hope you all enjoyed his updates.  |
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yes he was superb, now and in the future all his reports should start with 'BETFAIRS OWN KATE ADIE LIVE AT ....' onward to Tallin[:(]
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gg gg
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Really good weekend had ... Great to see some old faces and meet some new ... Brilliant updates dave .. I bet you slept like a baby once home bro
p.s I'm so over my K's been cracked by 10's then 6's |
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Just through the door and what a brilliant weekend. Big Kudos to Klup, ILikeTrips, Kunotuba, SussexGirl, NickFlick, The Brann Bergen supporters and Helmuthian Folds. Sorry I didn't get to meet other forumites but there will be other occassions.
Quick rundown of my trip. The flight I was to get was diverted to Belfast International, this added 3 hours onto my trip and I missed the first 45 minutes of the game. I won a few hands and was up to 13k before I run into the Chinese Girl (who bubbled on a bad beat above), she was short stacked and pushed TT which I called with AKs. Her TT held up and in a way I was glad - she was a good player and she brought a lot of smiles to the table. This knocked me back to 8k. I couldn't really get moving again and was totally card dead. I had 4 aggressives to my left which in a way helped me but I dropped to 6k even though I won without a showdown KQo and K9o pushes. My exit hand was TT v an AJo utg flat raise by the same Chinese Girl who I kept in the tournament. Unfortunately an A flopped and that was me. I was pretty sober by Ovalman standards so I pub crawled back to Victoria but last orders was called at midnight and I had an early night Sunday's turbo was just that. Decent starting stack and clock but the blind structure meant you had to build a stack quickly. Raising UTG with J5s is not a good move however especially with 3 callers and I spaffed a few chips trying to emulate the Klup. I had 12BB's when I re-raised AQo utg. I had 6800 chips and 1 limper, I raised to 700, everyone folded to John Tabatabai who reraised to ?1500? I only had a quick think before pushing all in. John called me in an instant and turned over AA. I don't think with my stack it was a mistake but in hindsight the hand played through correctly. I'm not sure if John would have played it differently. John's a chatty guy and brought a bit of banter to the table, of course I'm disappointed but it gives me something to tell my poker buddies about. I made a few mistakes over the weekend but overall I'm happy with my play. I'd a great chat with ILikeTrips, Klup and Kunotuba. I'm a small fish in a big pond and a lot of respect goes to many I was chatting to. Sorry if my accent is a broad Belfast one! I was well sozzled when I left the club but I had room for more. I done another pub crawl and then by magic my hotel mysteriously vanished. 15 pints does this to many hotels I visit but eventually I must have found it (and my phone under the bed.) Anyway I'm safe home and saving for the next event. It was a pleasure, sorry for the long post! |
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I should also note, I think Doobs was on the table behind me but a big hug and thanks to Rachael the phone charging girl
 All the Betfair staff were great and I suppose the biggest thank you goes to Betfair. I've been to other sites' events and Betfair really does knock the socks off the lot of them.I'm still owed a 10 minute back rub (ala Builder  ) |
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met a few nice guys. been to vienna, london and betfair doing great job. but why to hell did they fooked up the pokersite???? :-(((
nice blog dave ty dinos for beeing a pain in the ass for 48 hours :-) |
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Lost race vs somebody who had already spewed 5k chips in 2 levels, then pushed kings into aces with just shy of 3k chips.
Then lost £500 at cash and went home (65/35 for a monster pot, then 3 suckouts. I think I won one hand in 2 hours). Top updating thrappers. I would have hung round but a) I wouldn't have been great company in the circumstances and b) I was sure if I carried on much longer I'd walk under a bus or similar. Will try to be more sociable at the next one. Tallinn clashes with the GUKPT, so may wait for something warmer. |
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Must do Tallinn doobs. Much more social out there. Beer house is worth the trip on it's own.
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Hi All
Fantastic weekend of poker all round, made a little sweeter by my 23rd place finish. Was good to get to know some of the regular players like JBong, Ovalman, Wonky, Klup and Kountoba amongst others. It was the first major tournament I have played in so I was pleased with my cash finish, although not too pleased to exit with my AK busted by AJ :( Had a fantastic weekend though, very impressed by the Club and Staff, hopefully we'll do it all again soon! |
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Where can we view the rest of the photos that were taken on Saturday? Be good if they were tagged also
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P.S Big thanks to HelmuthianFolds for posting my chip stack updates for my friends at home to keep track of how I was doing, and for providing photo evidence whilst I still had some chips!
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Celtic,
I will get the Gallery address off the photographer and post it up later hopefully, unfortunately they wont be tagged! |
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Thank you, enjoyed good day out, never seen Aces cracked so often, including mine!!1
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And finally, just to let you know how well Betfair and Dave (and also Fox) were my bubble prize ticket for next Betfair Poker Live! Qualifier is sitting in my Poker Account.
Thanks. |
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Helmuthian will you post the Gallery address here please?
Thanks! |
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I have requested the gallery address off the photographer and as soon as he sends me the link I will post it up here.
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Photos from the event can be found here
http://www.theimagefile.com/?skin=1641850&Action=_VC&id=70711602&ppp=0 courtesy of Marc Pearce |
