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Liverpool CBMPT Trip Report

Date: Mon, Jul 12, 2010 Live Tournament

SUP Guys.

Well last weekend saw me head to Liverpool for the third leg of the Coral British Masters Poker Tour. So far this year I’ve really enjoyed the Coral tour. I had a nice result down Bristol and really enjoyed the Leeds leg with so many friends in the field so I was really looking forward to Leg 3 in Liverpool. Due to the Newcastle G running their annual Club Championships on the same weekend everyone who would have usually played the Liverpool leg understandably stayed in Newcastle to support the local event. I also had this event in my poker calendar this year but when the dates clashed I had to drop it from my schedule in favor of the Coral tour. Fortunately I did have a good percentage in my brother who was playing the event and he seems to be making final table after final table at the minute so naturally I still had a lot of interest in the event.

So anyway, I headed off to Liverpool on the Saturday morning by myself. I had to make a quick pit stop at Scotty Hocking’s on route to dropped off my lap top, Scotty had kindly agreed to help clean up my lap top and install HEM for me. I’d bought HEM in January this year and after I failed in my attempt to install postgres I contacted HEM support who somehow were also unable to resolve the problem. So anyway, 7 months on and I eventually decided to get my arse in gear and cue Hock-Dogg who’s IT expertise is well known amongst the NPF crew. I’m running late as per usual so I quickly drop my lap top off at Scotty’s and get back on the road. I also played the Liverpool leg last year and on the drive down I thought back to the journey down there last year.

Since the 2009 leg happened before we started the blog let me tell you a little bit about it. It was without doubt the funniest road trip I’ve ever been on on-route to a poker event. Last year I made the trip down to Liverpool with my brother, James ‘Brick on the River’ Howard and my cousin Paul ‘The Don from Gosforth’ Donaghey. It’s hard to pick a highlight of the road trip as it was a laugh from start to finish but I do remember getting stuck in standstill traffic on the M62 for about an hour. After a long wait in the static traffic on the motorway we spot a Ginsters food van about half a mile down the motorway. We ask the Gossy Don to run down the road and try to buy a few sausage rolls from him as were getting a bit peckish. Needless to say the driver didn’t oblige but watching him run down the motorway and knocking on the drivers’ window was pure comedy gold, probably one of those you had to be there moments but it was hilarious at the time. Anyway, when we all eventually got to the Liverpool Gala we ran into a few further problems. The first being that BOTR had forgot his ID and was not allowed in, the second being Dan was also not allowed in as he was still nationally barred at the time. Had played previous legs under his alias Craig Tumilty but had been rumbled in Nottingham and had seemingly got everything sorted out before the trip down – obviously not. The third being that the Gossy Don had only brought £200 with him for the £550 event. LMAO. Anyway The Don decided to try and spin up his £200 on the black jack, degen stylie. A couple of hands later and a few whoops and high fives with the dealer he walked into the card room with £600. Sweet, at least I was not playing the event by myself. If I remember correctly Dan and the Bensham Brick found a local casino and played a small stakes game before going for a few beers.

Anyway, fast forward one year and I doing the same drive but this time myself. I’d punched in the postcode for the hotel and hoped to check in and get changed before heading over to the casino. I always like to do this before an event but as I was running a little behind schedule I was concerned I wouldn’t have time this time around. Anyway, the sat nav takes me straight to the casino. FML. I must of put the casino post code in instead of the hotel. I’m definitely not going to have time to get freshened up now. Oh, hang on a minute, the hotel is next door to the casino, that close to each other they share the same entrance. Sweet, nice one Coral. I checked in, got changed and headed over to the casino in good time.

I head into the casino and grab a cup of coffee before the cards are in the air. In total 51 players registered for the Liverpool leg which on the face of things looks like a disappointing turn out, and the smallest Coral field to date but considering all the Club Championships around the country, other poker events, players still in LV and the world cup final I think it’s a pretty good turnout. I was quite happy to be part of the smaller field and hoped to capitalize on this and make my third Coral final table. There is a slight delay before we are underway which suits me fine having cut things a little fine. Anyway, I eventually take my seat and have a quick scan around the table. FML I’m out of position to the most established player at the table in Ash Hussain. Former winner of the Grosvenor champion of champions and with over $1 million in tournament earning was certainly a player to watch out for.


Anyway, I get out the blocks flying and pick up a few nice hands straight away. I win my first significant pot vs Ash Hussain with KsQs. I join a multi way raised pot from the BB and flop a FD on a paired board. After the flop is checked around I make my flush on the turn and check raise Ash who had opened the betting pre flop UTG. He calls my check raise and I VB the river but Ash lets it go. I also win a nice little pot when I opened from early with JJ. I’m called by a Scandi lad who has noticed how active I’ve been and he looked like he wanted to 3BET me in an earlier pot before letting his hand go. Anyway he had position on me and I could sense he wanted to play some poker with me. Anyway, he flats my open and I check the Ace high flop to him. He quickly fires at the flop and I make the call. We both check the turn and I again check the river to him. I’m pretty sure I’m good here and ready to pick off a river bet. He dwells for a little while before checking back. I open up my hand and he mucks face down. I also pick up QQ in the first level and 3BET an early position open. I called and lead the 9 high flop which meets no resistance and by the end of level 1 I’m up to 13,225.


By the start of level 2 (50/100) I’ve been in like two pots every orbit and I really do have a laggy image. Not long into the start of this level I win a really big pot and find myself all in. I open from mid with Ah3h to 250 and I’m looked up by unknown villain called Steven King in the cut off. The flop is a dreamy 7h3cKh. With a pair and the NFD I look to build the pot & C-Bet 400. I’m flat called and I meaningless 4d hits the turn. I again fire out this time for 750. Villain then raises me to 2,100. I deliberate for a little before making the call. The beautiful 5h hits the river giving me the nuts and I again check to the villain. With the pot now 4,850 he fires 3,300 into the middle. I tank for a little bit before sliding my full stack over the betting line. It’s a great feeling to check raise the nuts on the river although is a risky play in terms of missing out on value. Villain asks for a count and it’s another 7,500+ more and all of his chips. With 8,150 already in the middle he has a long tank before folding 4h8h face up. I fold face down and I’m up to about 17,500. I win a few more little pots throughout the course of the level and by the end of the level I’ve almost double my starting stack as I’m sitting on 19,075.

Nearing the end of level 2 we had a late entrant join our table by the name of Alan McClean. Alan is an elderly chap and very unassuming but I knew all about him. He plays a lot of pots and has a very good poker game. With over $820,000 in tournament earning over a 14 year career he was certainly a player to watch. Anyone who doesn’t know him might look at him and think it’s a bit of a soft spot but he can mix it with the best of them and I was certainly aware of this. For some strange reason I had a feeling we would end up playing a bit pot together and turns out I was right.


Level 3 (75/150) wasn’t as active for me but my stack was heading in the right direction and without playing any key pots I end the level on 22,650. With only 50,000 needed for final table chip average I was absolutely crushing and it was just plain sailing for me to be honest. We had only lost 6 players from the 51 runners and the chip average was still only 11,300. I had however noticed that Alan was also playing a lot of pots and despite his late arrival had managed to accumulate a lot of chips without taking much to showdown. So I start level 4 (100/200) feeling very good and just playing my usual TAG game. There is a new player at the table who is sitting with a cap and shades on. He is BTN to my BB. He’s got a few chips and is quite active and has opened a lot of late position pots. Action folds around to said villain and he makes what is almost a standard BTN open to 450. I have AJo in the BB and decide to flat. I’m not a huge fan of AJo. My brother once told me you either win a small pot with it or lose a big one and I tend to agree. However, as with most things in poker it’s all situational and the call feels right. The flop is KJT and I check call villains flop and turn bets. The river goes check check and he tables KQ. I muck face down and lose my first meaningful pot of the day. Towards the end of the level I open a pot from mid position with QT and I’m looked up by the BTN. I C-Bet the Ace high flop and get called. Villain has not played many hands and it’s unlikely I’ve been floated. I get the information I need I shut down. Turn is checked and I check fold the river. I end the level on 16,825. Chip average had crept up to 13,400 and we were down to 38 players. I tried to remain optimistic despite a disappointing level. After all I was still above the chip average and had a good feel for the table.

We break for lunch before level 5 and I have a bit of a catch up with John ‘Loopy’ Littler and his missus. John’s a really nice guy who always supports the tour, I first met him at the sponsorship sit and go in Blackpool last November. John was one of the finalist as the online league winner. He often follows the Coral tour and is one of the nicest guys in the game so it was a pleasure to spend a bit of time in his company when we broke for lunch. He’s a good player as well as a sound bloke, his online record is the Coral qualifiers is top class although he’s still chasing his first big live score.

Anyway, back to the action. I sit down for level 5 (150/300) and muck the first few hands before getting involved in a huge pot with, you guessed it, Alan McClean. Alan opens from mid position to 800. Some Black Belt poker guy, who had already made one unsuccessful move on me earlier flats behind. Action passes to me in the SB. I look down at AKo and consider my options. I guess the obvious play here is a 3BET to about 2,400. I can add 1,900 to my stack pretty much uncontested most of the time. However, this was not the line I took. With 50 bigs I was still plenty deep and decided to flat call. My thinking behind this had a lot to do with the fact that Alan McClean was in the hand who was also very deep. From my observations of him he had limped called quite a bit and liked to play a lot of flops so I figured he’d look up my 3BET and although that’s not necessarily a bad thing I didn’t really want to build the pot then air ball and be forced to check fold or bet fold if he looks interested post flop. Another reason for the flat call is to disguise the strength of my hand if I connect and I can get more value from Ax Kx hands.

So fit or fold it is then and we see a 3 way flop which is A8Tcc. Nice one I think to myself. I check and Alan leads 1,100 into the 2,700 pot. Black Belt poker guy mucks and action is on me. With the draw out there and what I interpret as a weak bet from Alan there’s nothing I’m really scared of so I decide to flat call and let him fire another bullet. Maybe he has clubs but I flat call anyway and hope not to see one on the turn. I figured with any kind of big hand; a set or aces up type of hand a player of his experience would bet bigger in a multi-way to protect his hand and price out any straight or flush draws. The 6h hits the turn putting a heart draw out as well as the club draw. I again check to Alan. With 4,900 in the middle Alan again makes what I read as another weak bet and fires 2,000 into the middle. Now heads up I decide this is the time to build the pot a little as I look to get value from AQ and or any drawing hands. I check raise to 5,000. So action is now back on Alan and with 11,900 now in the middle Alan moves all in. WOW, I wasn’t expecting that. I ask for a count and it’s another 11,000 to make the call. Pretty much a pot sized shove. I count my stack and I still have over 9,000 back. It’s an interesting spot. I mean I’m not beating much now but the hand just doesn’t make sense. I mean, WTF does he have? I’ve watched as Alan has almost effortlessly chipped up without taking hardly anything to showdown and I know he’s one of a very small percentage of players in the card room capable of making this move with complete air. He also knows I’m capable of making a big fold. Could he be going crazy with a heart or club draw? Maybe. Is he spazzing out with AQ? Possibly. He can’t have a set or aces up I say to myself, maybe he has 97. It’s about the only hand that makes any sense, but would he play it that strong? Maybe. I just didn’t know. With so much uncertainty I could easily justify the pass here and forget about the hand and still be very comfortable with 30 bigs. My head was screaming fold, your beat but there was something about this hand that just didn’t add up and I was really struggling to find the fold. Maybe Alan just thought I was making a move on him and decided to use his big stack to play back at me. I had a gut feeling my hand was good, nothing really made sense. I tank long and hard and re-run the whole hand back in my head. I know most times I’m beat in this spot but just felt this was not one of them. I decide to make the hero call and call off the rest of my stack. At 150/300 were on our backs for a 100+ BB pot and also playing a pot for the tournament chip lead. Alan tables AT for aces up. FML, how does he have AT there I think to myself. Anyway, I got my read wrong, missed my king and headed out the tournament is spectacular style. I mean I went from penthouse to outhouse in one hand. Alan scoops the pot and becomes the tournament chip leader.

I head out the casino, get back to my hotel and pack up and hit the road so I could spend the Sunday with my family rather than stop over and spend the morning driving home. On the way home I thought long and hard about my exit hand. I guess in hindsight the obvious move here was the 3BET pre. I think if I’m not 3BETing pre I have to either check raise the flop so I can get away cheaper or check call 3 streets. Check raising the turn was pretty much the worst thing I could do. After I’ve check raised the turn I can still lay the hand down and be sitting on a comfortable 30 bigs once he moves in on me. My head said fold and my gut said call. Well as they say you live by the sword and die by the sword and sometimes in poker you have to be prepared to die or order to succeed. I went with my gut and I was wrong. I wasn’t the call that made me mad, it happens. That’s poker as they say. It was the way I played it that I was upset about. Playing it that was put myself in a horrible spot where I was asked the question for my tournament life. Oh well, you live and learn as they say and it certainly something I’ll be reluctant to do in future without a lock on the hand. As they say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

Anyway, with 51 runners there was only 6 places paid and the tournament was eventually won by Mark McCluskey when after a cagey period heads up all of the chips fly into the middle with Mark’s 99 vs John Cullen’s AhKh. Mark’s 9’s hold and it’s enough to take the money, the trophy and his place in the sponsorship play off at the end of the year.

Final tables payout listed below

1) Mark McCluskey £9,430
2) John Cullen £5,610
3) John Callaghan £4,340
4) Ron Wilkinson £3,060
5) Ky Hutchinson £2,040
6) Brian Martin £1,020



Ok guys, so that’s it from me. Next stop for me is leg 4 of the Coral British Masters Poker Tour in Nottingham on the 31st July. Daniel had a really deep run there last year going into day 2 as one of the chip leaders before playing a monster pot with Blatch running AQ into AK all in pre. Hope to see a few of you down there and don’t forget you can win you seat online for only a couple of bucks. Give it a shot, you might just win a seat and be the next Coral champion.

As always, thank you for reading and feel free to comment.

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Grosvenor Club Championships

Date: Sun, Jul 11, 2010 Live Tournament

Another disappointing attendance for what could have been a great event over the Grosvenor, unfortunately by the end of registration their was only 37 runners in the field. I had a good seat draw with;

1) Ian Bertram
2) Dave Heathfield
3) Marc Mulhern
4) Me
5) Dave Collins
6) Unknown
7) Scott Collins
8) Hamid Rowshanaei
9) Unknown

The crack was good and I had a good laugh particularly with Dave as he took the piss out of me for dressing to impress, I was wearing a new FTP shirt, trousers, & smart shoes which I suppose is a slightly difference appearance to my usual cap, polo shirt, jeans, & trainers but M’EH it’s all good. Below is a photo courtesy of http://teamdobbs.blogspot.com/ of both myself and Dave 'teamdobb' Collins;


I played pretty poor if I’m honest and seemed to miss a bunch of draws, call people off too light (one time I picked off a river bluff with ace high and villain turned up with a better ace high, he was either bluffing with the best hand or a sicko with an incredibly wide/light value range), didn’t price my value bets/missed them altogether, and finally found I picked my spots wrong particularly vs. Marc who had me boxed and I twice value bet river’s after he under repped his hands only for me to show up second best. I finally bust after a rollercoaster couple of hours;

95s vs. Hamid Rowshanaei K4h: 200/400/25 “10,000” (I completed from the SB behind Hamid calling from middle position, Dave checked his option and we took a flop. It fell 77Kss and I set up a check raise with my flush draw, Hamid obliges with a 800 bet which I pump up to 2,200 (40% of my remaining stack). Dave folds and I’m kind of hoping Hamid will give me credit for a seven and give it up, but I’m happy to go with it and try to catch my flush for an average stack. Hamid thinks momentarily before moving his stack over the line, I of course make the call and brick my draw to head to the rail.)

I’m not entirely happy with how I played but M’EH whatever, that’s the way it goes sometimes. I head over Aspers with Ian who had went bust approximately an orbit earlier to play some 50NL, I actually have no idea why because I hate that game but it seemed like a good idea at the time. I lost approximately £60 before taking a call from friends who were out in Newcastle, so cut my losses in favour of getting on it with the lads. It was a first class night with endless amounts of piss taking as I was out with non poker playing friends who decided to call me ‘Full Trett’ all night and kept asking me where I got my blue suede shoes, of course they didn’t care that my shoes were neither blue or suede but whatever. Back to the tournament and I would like to personally congratulate Marc 'mulhuzz' Mulhern who I understand finished second officially after already agreeing a split which seen him get £2,000, brilliant result mate and well deserved as you played ace on our first table. It’s likely Marc will post his road to success in this tournament over his blog http://mulhuzz-poker.blogspot.com/, so be sure to check that out guys. This tournament was on simultaneously to the Liverpool CBMPT which Mark was playing and explains his absence from the Grosvenor, so hopefully he’ll give a CBMPT summary in the near future.

Moving on and I’m off out tonight to watch Holland vs. Spain in the final of the World Cup, then to Circus for the ‘£20 +1 Rebuy’. Then next weekend is the ‘Gala £100 (+£10) NLH F/O w/£1,000 Added’ down Teesside, which both Mark and I will be playing. Finally I’m at a point where I don’t have the drive to continue posting tournament recaps in all our monthly tournaments like I have done since launching FTP, of course I will blog every now and then but most regular readers will agree all tournament reviews lately have been very half-hearted efforts.

Bye For Now

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Circus £50 (+£5) NLH F/O w/£500 Added

Date: Fri, Jul 9, 2010 Live Tournament

Yo Guys. I spent a couple of nights over my local card room Circus midweek, first of which was Tuesday for the flagship monthly £50 freezeout and second was Wednesday for their weekly £20 freezeout which I wouldn’t normally report but comes with an interesting proposition bet. As per usual another packed house with 124 runners generating £6,700 (including £500 added), I was drawn T3-S3 with Philip Proud (2), Simon Cameron (5), FTP affiliate Paul Trett (8), and NPF administrator Dave Collins (10). Very little to report as I never got above 10,000 chips, a few hands after the break I hit the rail;

74d vs. T.J. KQo: 200/400/25 “9,250” (After two villains limped I squeezed all in for 4,000 from the C/O, this uncalled would add 1,650 increasing my stack by almost 40% & if called I expected to have live cards for a double up. It’s folded around to T.J. who makes the call holding KQo, after turning broadway he has me drawing dead.)

Mark doesn’t last too much longer as he loses a race for chip average with AJ vs. 33 whilst Paul got down to the final thirty only to lose a 90,000 chip pot after getting all in with two pair only for villain Stephen Sung to catch a bigger two pair on the river. Quick shout out’s to my boys Dom Davidson, Michael Joyce, & Ian Bertram who all split for north of £1,000 with Dom getting a little extra after holding the chip lead, nice score chaps congratulations. A disappointing 0/3 for FTP but M’EH never mind, it’s such a unforgiving structure you just simply have to gamble to prevail in this tournament and lady luck wasn’t on our side. So yeah the following night I was back over, I’ll give a brief review below.

£20 Double Chance
After watching the first half of Spain vs. Germany in the semi finals of the World Cup I decided to head over to Circus for the £20 double chance, whilst registering I bought both myself and Mark into the novelty ‘£30 (+£3) Heads Up Tournament’ they have coming up on August 1st. I was drawn on the same opening table as my good friend Simon "Simmy" Cameron. I’m quite pleased I’m joined by Simmy as I struggle to enjoy tournaments with a bunch of strangers & serious heads on the table, so having a bit crack with him helps me from donking out early. Following from the jovial banter whilst we both have approximately 11,000 chips, I agree to crossbook a 100% of my action with Simmy. This giving what pursued I guess was the FTP GIM, but more on that later and for those not familiar with the term crossbook;

“Crossbooking is a bet between two players that raise the stakes between them. In tournaments, it’s a payment of the difference between what each player cashes for. In cash games, the two players add their total chips together to determine what is on the table and at the end of the session they calculate the difference between the two stacks of chips.”

This gave me little extra excitement and action to an otherwise small buy in tournament, coupled with the edge I felt I had in the field this was an optimal crossbook to maximise my potential expected value. I ran pretty well and managed to take the lion share of a heads up split for £300 and a seat into next months ‘£50 (+£5) NLH F/O w/£500 Added’, this was particularly unlucky for Simmy who unfortunately for him bust around thirteen which was about two spots from the bubble.

Another busy weekend for FTP is imminent as I’m back over the Grosvenor for the third weekend in a row to support their ‘£200 Club Championships’, this already has north of twenty runners just from NPF members so looking like a fabulous event. Meanwhile Mark is on the road again and is off to Liverpool for the third leg of the CBMPT, so yeah all systems go from FTP.

Speak Soon Guys

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Trip Reports

Date: Sun, Jul 4, 2010 Live Tournament

Below are links to some comprehensive trip reports, detailing FTP affiliate Dan Trett's gambling, drinking, partying, and poker exploits and adventures around the globe.

Las Vegas 2005 Trip Report
Las Vegas 2006 Trip Report
Las Vegas 2007 Trip Report
Las Vegas 2008 Trip Report
Las Vegas 2009 I Trip Report
Las Vegas 2009 II Trip Report
Macau 2010 Trip Report
Las Vegas 2010 Trip Report

Note: Las Vegas 2008 and both 2009 trip reports are coming soon but haven't been published, as soon as they have the links will be live.

We here at FTP hope you enjoy these travelling misdemeanors as their dedicated to all the fans around the world who enjoy visting, reading, and commenting on FTP articles.

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TRETTS OF TYNESIDE

Date: Sun, Jul 4, 2010 Live Tournament

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World Cup Tag Team

Date: Sun, Jul 4, 2010 Live Tournament

SUP Guys. Yesterday (Saturday 3rd July) both Mark & I headed over Grosvenor for the second weekend in a row, this was to compete in their novelty tag team event. Upon arrival their was unfortunately only seven team registered, so we watched the Argentina vs. Germany match for an hour whilst we waited for more teams. I hadn’t planned on drinking but got offered a drink by Marc & was easily tempted, I ended up going rounds for the entire tournament & afterwards but more on that later. Unfortunately the teams never arrived & as things stood we didn’t have the minimum requirement (ten) of teams for the two added £200 club championships seats, I asked the other teams if they would be interested in ghosting the other three teams to generate the seats & thus have value to play. This request was taken offensively by teacher Stephen which prompted him to withdraw his team, I hope he understood why I asked & last thing I wanted to do was offend him. But anyway another team had deregistered so we were down to five, the tournament was then cancelled & everybody was refunded their £55 buy in. Then I suggested to Candice they could meet us half way & add one £200 club championships seat, which after speaking to the powers that be was agreed & gave us the value to play the tournament. I would like to take this time to thank Candice & the Grosvenor for compromising & adding the seat in such a poorly attended tournament, for all the bad publicity they get of which there is lots they should be complimented in the same casual manner.


So we finally got underway in the winner takes all sit & go, giving the winners a collective £250 as well as a £220 tournament buy in. The seat draw was;

1) Team Full Trett Poker
2) Team Wilson (Garry Snr. & Jnr.)
3) Team Dynamic (Ian Bertram & Rob Charlton)
4) Team Butcher (Marc Mulhern & Glen Whitehead)
5) Team Uruguay (Colin Taylor & Scotty Hocking)

Despite the poor attendance I was friends with the entire field & with the corona’s flowing I had an absolute first class day, it was played in great spirit’s with everybody laughing & joking. We ran pretty well during the tournament finding some nice spots, this helped us get heads up holding approximately a 3:1 chip lead vs. Team Uruguay. A short time into heads up we finished the job;

J8o vs. Team Uruguay K9o: 200/400 “16,000” (I opened the BTN to 825 which Colin flatted out the BB, the flop runs 8TQ to give me bottom pair & a gut shot straight draw. Colin open shoved out the BB for approximately 8,000 & I paused momentarily before committing the chips, fortunately they missed their three kings/two jacks for the live outs & we were crowned champions.)

I had arranged to hit it up in town with Marc & Scotty after the tournament, although I wasn’t suitably dressed with flip flops/three quarters but M’EH I’d sort something out. They wanted to play dealers choice for an hour or so first & I refused to gift them a buy in so instead watched the Spain vs. Paraguay game with my kid in the downstairs bar, by around 20:30 they had finished & Mark had entered the scheduled weekly Grosvenor tournament so we headed out. I swapped footwear with Mark wearing his trainers to help be more suitably dressed to get in the bars, this helped to a degree but still got turned away from some places for the three quarters. Despite the entry problems I had a brilliant night in the bars we got in with these two guys, although the several vodka red bulls mean I remember very little of our activities.



I know from the stamp on my right hand we visited for your eye’s only last night, which I’m kind of making a ritual to take Scotty to a strip club every time I’m out with him after he said he’d never been to one in his life last month down Leeds. Finally I have a vague memory of being back over the Grosvenor & dropping a buy in on the cash table, before Mark took me home stopping me from gifting the table anymore money in my impaired state.

So overall an absolute brilliant day/night spent in fantastic company, so thanks guys for another top night. This Tuesday is the monthly £50 freezeout over Circus which we will of course be playing, I’ve had a couple of final table’s in this event recently so I hope it continues & I can report some more success.

World Cup Tag Team Champions

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CBMPT Liverpool

Date: Sat, Jul 3, 2010 Live Tournament

The third leg of the 2010 Coral.co.uk British Masters Poker Tour is in Liverpool from 9 to 11 July. Hosted by Gala Casino Leo overlooking Liverpool’s Queens Dock, the £500+50 main event will kick off at 2pm on Saturday 10 July. The two day event is expected to have a prize pool in excess of £35,000, with the winner also securing a seat at the end-of-season play-off for £15,000 worth of Coral.co.uk sponsorship in 2011*. There are also a £200+20 and £100+10 side events on Friday 9 and Sunday 11 respectively.


Getting your seat at the CBMPT Liverpool
Coral.co.uk is running online satellites to this event, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8:30pm. These $80 finals pay-out a guaranteed seat and expenses for every 14 runners. Players can qualify for online finals in daily $5.50 rebuy and $11 freeze-out satellites. Gala Casino Leo is running a freeroll super-satellite on Thursday 8 July with five main event seats guaranteed. Buy-in is FREE with a £5 fee; 2,000 starting stack, two rebuys (4,000 chips) and super-add-on (6,000 chips) are available for £20. Players can also buy-in to any event of the Liverpool CBMPT via the cash desk of Gala’s 27 casinos in the UK and Gibraltar. The dates and venues for the 2010 CBMPT are:

- Bristol: Gala Harbourside Casino: 7-9 May (Winner: David Harris)
- Leeds: Gala Casino Leeds: 11-13 June (Winner: Ross Johnson)
- Liverpool: Gala Casino Leo : 9-11 July
- Nottingham: Gala Casino, Maid Marion Way: 30 July to 01 August
- Stockton-on-Tees: Gala Casino Teesside: 10-12 September
- Edinburgh: Gala Maybury Casino: 29-31 October

The end of season play-off is a live 8-seater event, comprising the winners of the six 2010 Coral.co.uk British Masters Poker Tour events, the top money winner on the tour, and the highest online points scorer (points are awarded to players in CBMPT satellites on www.coral.co.uk, www.galapoker.co.uk and www.eurobet.com). The winner of the play-off will receive a £10,000 poker sponsorship package for 2011 from Coral.co.uk, and for the first time in 2010 the runner-up will get £5,000 sponsorship.

For additional information about the tour visit the official website: www.britishmasterspokertour.co.uk

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Gala £50 (+£5) +1 Rebuy

Date: Fri, Jul 2, 2010 Live Tournament

Hey Guys. I’ll be keeping this synopsis pretty brief after what was an all round disappointing evening, so yesterday I travelled south to Teesside for the newly launched £50 +1 Rebuy tournament which with 40 runners would have an added £500. I made the journey alone as Mark was at his son Zach’s 1st birthday party, he however had provisions in place to join as a late entrant. The game didn’t get 40 players & only managed 26, which I was most disappointed about after making the 50 minute drive. I rang Mark immediately to tell him the situation, explaining it wasn’t worth his time travelling down.


I was drawn T3-S7 with C.T. Law (2) & Kris Lawrence (8) the only guys I recognized, they were in fact probably they only Teesside regulars I recognized in the small field. The small field meant the prize pool was really poor, so I quickly made my mind up to gather chips ASAP & charge for the win or head back north double sharp;

AKo vs. J8s: 50/100 “10,000” (I opened UTG+1 to 350 behind UTG limps, I get two callers of which one was the UTG limper. Flop is AxJcc & after checked to me I lead for 500, which get’s called by UTG limper. Turn is an off suit jack which I guess could have tripped him up, but after it’s checked to me I don’t like checking back & giving flush draws a free one so bet 1,500. The guy then check raises me all in, sigh I know for sure he has it but with 2,350 of my 5,000 stack out their I’m just too stubborn to leave it behind & call.)

“CHIPS”

AQc vs. QTh: 50/100 “9,000” (Three limpers onto my blind & I make my intentions clear by raising my option 800 total, in a word I’m not folding & going with this hand. I find two callers, so take a flop with 2,600 in the middle which falls x9T. I have approximately 3,200 left & open shove, this get’s called by the BTN holding QT which holds to send me to the rail.)

As I was leaving I caught up with Chris Wood who was in for a cash game, I spoke with him for approximately 10 minutes mainly regarding his forthcoming trip to Las Vegas. He won a seat to the WSOP main event around a month back, so he was really excited about playing that. I would like to wish him the very best of luck on behalf of myself & Mark, but more importantly have a fantastic trip which I’m sure you will mate.


Moving on & to further commiserate my already disappointing evening the A19 was closed for road works, so I was diverted through Hartlepool adding around half an hour to my journey home. In a nutshell I don’t mind busting early & happy with my approach all things consider, however it’s simply not worth my time to travel 40 miles for a 26 player tournament with somewhere around £700 up top. Further more the tournament was self dealt & the clock had teething problems, totally unorganised event if you ask me. This tournament is now officially dropped from FTP’s schedule, I’d go as far to say even if I fancied a game next month that coincided with this tournament date I would play the weekly game over Circus.

Team Full Trett Poker will be over Grosvenor tomorrow for the world cup tag team event, I know of several friends playing this so it should be a thoroughly enjoyable day which should go some way to making up for the disappointing Teesside tournament.

Cheerio

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GUKPT Summer Series £100 Bounty

Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2010 Live Tournament

Hey Guys. Fourth night in a row on Sunday 27th June over the Grosvenor for the closing £100 bounty tournament of their summer series, this was divided 3/1 with £75 going towards the prize pool & £25 on each runners head as a prize for knocking them out. We were running approximately 45 minutes late after watching the abysmal performance by England in the last sixteen, but the Grosvenor had put some provisions in place & delayed the start time by an hour so we didn’t need to be a late entrant.


Another poor attendance as 25 runners took to the felt giving a prize pool of £1,875 with somewhere north of £700 for top spot, I was drawn T1-S6 with Jimmy Lawson (1), Emma Fullerton (2), Rakesh Gupta (4) & Az Kareem (7). I play pretty much ABC until the field thins to ten so the final table begins with the following recognizable faces Rakesh Gupta (2), Steve Wills (4), Ian Bertram (9), Syed Zaidi (10) as well as my brother Mark (5). I went bust in tenth after I find KQo twice first vs. AJo (Nemesis) & second vs. AKo (Unknown) & both times fail to improve, I did however knock Grahame Morl out earlier in the tournament to recoup £25 of my buy in. Mark faired slightly better as he finished in fifth after a £100 bubble prize was agreed & managed to knock out two bounties for a total of £150, he got coolered blind vs. blind (Ian Bertram) when he flopped trips vs. open ended straight draw & all the money flew in before the turn completed Ian’s straight. So a double final table in a GUKPT summer series & I know their was only 25 runners but don’t rain on my flame (J/K), but yeah anyway between us we made a small loss of around £30ish for the evening. This event closed what was the busiest poker month in the history of Newcastle & I’ve been grinding out tournaments off the hook. I would just like to take this opportunity to thank everybody for the kind words in the form of congratulations, well wishing, & condolences received over the month which means so much to me guys, god bless you all. Despite June’s schedule coming & going their’s still an exciting couple of months ahead though with a host of special events to look forward to;

Grosvenor £50 (+£5) World Cup Tag Team (Saturday 3rd July)
Grosvenor £200 (+20) Club Championships (Saturday 10th July)
Circus £30 (+£3) Heads Up Tournament (Sunday 1st August)
Grosvenor £300 (+£30) Team Game ‘The G Cup’ (Saturday 28th August)

As well as my normal schedule of the monthly added value tournaments over Circus/Gala & Mark has a couple of CBMPT main events in July with his sponsorship. Team Full Trett Poker (Mark & I) became the first team to register for the ‘World Cup Tag Team’ over Grosvenor next Saturday, these tag events are a great laugh & a small £27.50 individual buy in ensures you’ll have a great day. I strongly encourage readers to find a partner & participate in this event, first & foremost it’ll be a good day/night but also their’s effectively £440 added with both members of the winning team getting a seat at the £200 (+£20) Club Championships the following weekend. Thursday 1st July see’s the newly launched ‘£50 (+£5) +1 Rebuy’ over Gala Teesside which has £500 added to the prize pool, this tournament is scheduled for the first Thursday of every month. Mark & I will be looking to support this monthly if possible, so stay tuned this week all for summarizes of both events mentioned above.

Winding Down Now

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GUKPT Summer Series £300 Main Event

Date: Sun, Jun 27, 2010 Live Tournament

I was back over Grosvenor for the third night in a row this time for the main event, my preparation for this tournament was very poor as after splitting the £150 freezeout the night before I was suffering from sleep deprivation. I obviously expected with such a heavy money chasing schedule this would be the case, however I’ve had a unforgettable summer which I never usually say when spent in the UK.


I was kind of running bad before the cards were even in the air for this event as I had pre-booked ‘Premier Enclosure’ tickets to the tune of £40 with my non poker friends for the ‘John Smiths Northumberland Plate’ over Gosforth. They directly clashed as well with the cards going in the air over Grosvenor for 14:00 whilst the first race was off at 14:00 over the plate, FML guess I’ll just have to miss the highlight of Newcastle’s racing calendar.


So having played in the Grosvenor for the previous two nights in their ridiculously hot card room, I put some provisions in place to help keep cool. I booked a last minute appointment with my hairdresser to cornrow braid my hair, swapped tea for ice water, & wore t-shirt, three quarters, & flip flops. If you ask me the Grosvenor need to seriously look at installing an upgraded air condition system, everybody I spoke to mentioned the uncomfortable heat.


Anyway moving onto the tournament & with Mark just arriving in the UK during the early hours of the morning & my last minute hair appointment we were both running late & didn’t arrive until approximately an hour after the cards were in the air. Nice to see 66 runners generated £19,800 with 1st place netting £6,340 which considering runners for the previous two events isn’t bad, I was drawn T2-S1 with a few recognizable faces on the table including Neil Harvey (2), Peter Newton (3), Ian Woods (6), & Rakesh Gupta (9). I was relatively quite without really picking anything up through first three levels & then played these AIPF pots over the next few levels;

66 vs. A4: xx4xA
TT vs. A7: xxx7x
TT vs. KQ: 9xxxx
AK vs. A3: xxx3x

So winning half the hands despite three times being a 70/30 favourite, anyway this put me on chip average when I get moved to T1-S6 at level seven on same table as Chris Wood (1), Craig McDowell (4), Jamie Dale (5), & Syed Zaidi (7). Here I find a set up hand in my favour before managing to gift my 60,000 to two of the best players in the field;

AA vs. AK vs. AQ: (AIPF & I hold for 60,000 chip pot)
T8s vs. Chris Wood JTh: (Board is xxTK & I B/F after committing half my chips)
ATo vs. Dave Maudlin 45s: (Board read x5AT5 & all goes in on the river)

I played the hand vs. Chris way to aggressive out of position & he made a good read to shove with second pair vs. me on the turn. He opened up his JTh unnecessarily after the hand which was kind of a rubdown, but M’EH he’s a cool kid & I guess he was just happy with his play so wanted to get a don’t bully me message out their. Anyway I wasn’t fazed as still had chip average but found what I thought was a good opportunity to looked tilted the very next hand vs. Dave blind on blind, which was a bit of a cooler as I run my top two into his trips after over value shoving the river to bust in 13th. As far as I know both Chris & Dave are going back this afternoon already in the money with eight remaining, also Karen Newton was left when I bust so if she’s still running I would like to wish those three guys the best of luck. Mark was unfortunately an early casualty, here he recaps his day/tournament;

"CHECK BACK SOON GUYS"

Sorry for the short synopsis everyone but I was looking to get in finished before lunch as I’m heading out for some food before watching the England vs. Germany match. I’ll be going over to the Grosvenor for the closing £100 (+£10) NLH Bounty F/O after the match, likely be a late registration by the time I get into city centre.

Come On The Lads

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GUKPT Summer Series £150 (+£15) NLH F/O

Date: Sat, Jun 26, 2010 Live Tournament

The second event of the GUKPT summer series was a one day £150 freezeout which entertained a very poor 26 runners generating a small £3,750 prize pool paying four spots;

1) £1,500
2) £1,120
3) £750
4) £380

Although a disappointingly small turnout the tournament offered value in the form of a seat into the £100,000 guaranteed ‘Champion Of Champions’ tournament to be held the first week in December. Moving onto the tournament & I was drawn T1-S3 along with C.T. Law (2), William Poulsen (5), Tommy Dunwoodie (9), & Craig McDowell (10) & things got off to an exceptional start as by 100/200 I had 27,000;

AK vs. Tom Dunwoodie KQ on K6x6x
TT vs. C.T. Law 64s on 4xxxx
44 vs. Tom Dunwoodie A2s on 4x42A

Then I nose dive as I make an audacious bluff;

Q8c vs. Craig McDowell’s A7d: 100/200/25 “38,000” (I come in out front UTG+1 for 425 & get called in two spots including Craig out the BB. Flop comes 227 & I CBET just shy of half pot which Craig check raises to 2,500 after third villain folds inbetween, I’m not expecting a two to be check raising here so feel with enough pressure I can take this away & 3BET 5,600 which Craig calls as we peel a turn. An insignificant five hit’s the turn & after Craig checks to me, I quickly calculate the pot is approximately his remaining stack & look to shut it down now & move him all in. He goes into the tank for approximately 2/3 minutes before eventually committing the chips & catching me with my pants down, I miss my six outs & plummet to 4,000 as Craig rakes in the 40,000 chip pot with only 180,000 in play.)

I guess for every FTP GIM their’s a villain GIM & I was most impressed with Craig’s call, I narrowed his range down to a bear seven by the time he called my flop 3BET & just didn’t think considering he was already well chipped up he would commit his tournament life. Most impressive mate, now please if it’s fine with you I'll have my soul back now.


I’m now on the short stack & looking to find good spots to get them in which, I make some calculated shoves vs. villains in the blinds who can’t afford to call light. Despite being half chip average I was only all in & called once (33 vs. A8s) as I make the final table with just below average on 17,425;

1) Clayton Avery “8th”
2) Sean Barlow “Split £1,000”
3) Craig McDowell “Split £1,300”
4) Jonathan Godsmark “6th”
5) Rob Charlton “10th”
6) Peter Sanson “9th”
7) William Poulsen “7th”
8) Robert Porrit “4th £380”
9) Syed Zaidi “5th”
10) Daniel Trett “Split £1,000”

So after 20 minutes of play I sense almost the entire final is airing on the side of caution, so I opt to open up my range & begin to open very light which works in my favour as I generate chips rather quickly. Although not a fantastic call, I guess for the good instinct moment it was the best of what was otherwise a standard tournament;

QTo vs. 55: 1,000/2,000/200 “39,000” (FTP GIM: Six handed & once folded around to me I open the H/J for 4,100 which gets called from the BTN as both blinds fold. Flop come’s 9Kx giving me a gut shot which goes check/check & on the turn I pair my 10, I consider leading but feel my hand is better used as a bluff catcher so I check/call his bet of 5,000. The river was a nothing card & if the turn had went check/check I would have lead this for value but as played I expect villain to bluff again, so set this play up with a check & of course make the easy call with second pair after he fires around 9,000.)

Although a simple call I actually considered momentarily a sick river min raise for value but couldn’t quite pull the trigger, I don’t think he calls much but with a min raise he’d be getting over 5/1 on the call for his under pair. After playing six handed for approximately two levels which worked massively to my advantage as I abused the bubble it finally bursts;

AQo vs. Syed Zaidi ATo vs. Jonathan Godsmark A3d: 1,500/3,000/300 “45,000” (Jonathan open shoves approximately 9,000 & Syed reshove's around 18,000 out the SB. I have around 65,000 at this point so make the easy call out the BB, I have the ace of clubs in my hand so when board reads four clubs by the river I have the nuts to wrap up the hand.)

Playing four handed around another level as the short stack just seemed to double up every time until we lose Robert Porrit in fourth & we begin three handed play. I’ve been opening a mega wide range since it’s been short handed which works in my favour for the next hand;

QQ vs. Sean Barlow ATo: 2,000/4,000/400 “110,000” (Sean opens for 9,000 & after Craig folds the SB I 3BET out the BB to 21,000 & of course make the call as he shoves. Ace in the window as the board ensues Axxxx & I plummet down to 30,000.)

If that holds I would have had 140,000 of the 180,000 in play & looking really good to apply some relentless aggression towards Craig‘s short stack, but cest la vie that’s the way it goes sometimes & I’m very much decisions not results orientated. Anyway we play a little longer & as Craig doubles through Sean at 1,500/3,000/300 level to give stack sizes of approximately;

Craig: 90,000
Sean: 50,000
Me: 40,000

We agree a split where Sean & I take £1,000 each with Craig taking home £1,300 for having the chip lead. Although split were forced to play it our for the seat & the trophy which would be nice but with the main event the following day my priority was to go big or go broke, so I quickly begin to open shove my 8BB into every unopened pot until;

97o vs. Craig McDowell 88: 2,000/4,000/400 (I open shove the BTN for around 40,000 & Craig makes the easy call out the BB holding 88. The board give's me no help as I finish in third officially despite the earlier agreed split.)

I found out this morning that Craig went on to win the heads up battle for the ‘Champion Of Champions’ seat & the trophy which I was most pleased about & very well deserved if you ask me. Top work Craig mate & best of luck in ‘Champion Of Champions’, bring it home to Newcastle.

So the main event this afternoon which is the culmination of three weeks grinding festivals & although I’ve had a lot of fun I’m really looking forward to returning to my lighter schedule. On another note I sadly think the disappointing numbers for this summer series will signal the end of it coming to Newcastle, we already lost an official GUKPT leg for lack of attendance & unfortunately I see the summer series going in the same direction. I of course hope I’m wrong but if festivals aren’t supported they just simply won’t run them, guess it’s in the hands of the Grosvenor to decide.

Grind, Grind, Grind

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GUKPT Summer Series £200 (+£20) NLH F/O

Date: Fri, Jun 25, 2010 Live Tournament

Grosvenor opened it’s GUKPT summer series with a £200 freezeout which attracted 46 runners including as expected a host of recognizable faces from both Newcastle & Teesside.


The low numbers generated a poor £9,200 prize pool with if I remember correctly £3,400+ going to the winner, anyway I took my seat approximately 20 minutes late & during the course of the tournament after occupying 4/5 of the tables in play I shared the felt with a number of familiar faces;

Steven Liu
Neil Harvey
Paul Johnstone
Dave Stephenson
Graeme Jones
Richard Howe
Adam Matues
Rob Richardson
Hamid Rowshanaei
Dave Maudlin
Dom Mahoney
Paul Gardener

All of whom I like playing against & more importantly enjoy being in the same company. I’ll move straight onto the tournament good instinct moment which gave me a courtesy level two double up, In order to set this play up I had to first make a genuine human error. I picked up 67s UTG & with deep stacks I like to peel with this hand & thought the cheapest way would be to come in for 225, of course being prepared to re-evaluate if I heard any noise behind. However I accidentally replaced a 25 value chip for a 500 chip & come in for 700 (FML), which fortunately get’s through & evidently set’s up my next play pretty well;

AA vs. ??: 50/100 “13,000” (FTP GIM: It’s folded around to me in the H/J around two/three hands after I make the above error, looking to continue my dumb ass image I open for 700. I’m looked up by the small blind, a Teessider lad who I think was called Mark James (or something along those lines) but could be wrong. Flop come’s AxKcc & I make a very small (scared looking) continuation bet of 600 which get’s check raised to 1,600 so I slow up & smooth call, fully expecting a turn bet. I know it’s a high variance move but I’m not folding if I club hits, so I’m happy to let villain lead any turn. He however checks the blank on the turn, so running out of streets to get stacks in I lead 2,000 which get’s called. Pot is now 8,700 & villain open shoves the river for my remaining 2,000ish which I of course call, open my top set & villain declares that’s good as he fold’s face down.)

Villain declares “You were very lucky, I was straight/flush drawing” which I find almost impossible giving his line, particularly the river which has absolute zero fold equity. If you ask me he was cold decked with AK for top two, which would explain shoving the remaining 1,900 in on the river for value rather than a ridiculous bluff which he’s claiming.

During the break I catch up with Paul Gardener & discuss the recent controversy that has shocked the UK poker world regarding sports trader Neil Blatchly, I won’t go into any detail as a lot of people are very passionate about the whole affair & I’m not looking to upset anybody. So were called back to our seats & I struggle to pick anything up/get anything going as I hover between 15,000/20,000 through until the penultimate table playing the below medium size pots;

KK vs. Richard Howe AJcc “25% of my stack in PF, no ace & I win 8,000ish pot”
A9s vs. Unknown JJ “25% of my stack in PF getting 2/1 on my money, I miss & take a hit”
89h vs. Unknown AKc “All in on 9xKh, I make creative semi bluff at huge pot with second pair & back door flush draw which misses & plummet 4BB”
KQo vs. ATo vs. JTs “I get my 4BB in PF & board runs xxxKx to give me a much needed treble up”
AKo vs. Dom Mahoney’s AKo “AIPF & board runs a split”

Then my run come’s to an end as I lose a pivotal race;

AK vs. Dom Mahoney’s JJ: 500/1,000/100 “37,000” (Dom comes in from mid position for 2,700 & I 3BET all in out the small blind for approximately 18,000. Dom make’s the call & it’s off to the races for an almost double chip average stack, the board ensues 3TJ3T to fill Dom up & he narrowly has me covered to send me to the rail.)


Standard exit hand & to be honest pretty standard tournament throughout with the exception of the GIM which I played a little different to the norm, so although missing the spoils it’s refreshing to know I didn’t spew my chips off with a crazy nine high bluff this time. The second day commences at 14:00 this afternoon with nine returning for the final table, of which five are really good friends of mine including Newcastle locals Adam Matues, Neil Harvey, & Rob Richardson with Teessiders Paul Gardener & Dom Mahoney completing the five. I have a lot of time for these guys & would like to wish them all the very best of luck for this afternoon, keep your composure/confidence boys & enjoy the day.

Moving on then & I’m 50/50 about whether or not to play the £150 freezeout over Grosvenor this evening, I’ll likely play that one by ear & if their’s a big enough field I’ll donate. Failing that I’ll 100% be playing the main event (along with Mark who will be home from Tenerife) on Saturday, so let’s hope that get’s well supported. I’ve been in contact with Lee Allinson of the Grosvenor regarding the start time of day two for the main event, it’s scheduled for 14:00 which clashes directly with the 15:00 England vs. Germany kick off in the last sixteen of the world cup. As efficient as ever Lee got back to me immediately & informed me the tournament will recommence at 14:00 as scheduled, however their will be a two hour break for the game after the opening level of day two at 15:00. I think I speak for 95%+ (if not 100%) of the potential main event field in saying we all welcome these changes put in place, brilliant work as always Lee.

The grind continues

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