4:30pm: Time to move outsideLevel four is over and that suggests the break is upon us. Play will start again in 25 minutes and you will find updates in a brand new post. -- NW
4:25pm: Mateos out but O'Shea left cursing pokerThe PokerStarsBlog joined the action on table 42 to look WSOP Europe winner Adrian Mateos Diaz all -in and two opponents still with action pending. A board of 2♥Q♥8♠7♠ was at the felt and Jerome O'Shea had checked the action to Rumen Nanev. The Bulgarian elected to bet 7,500 right into a pot of 24,500 and this sent O'Shea deep into the tank. He had about 40,000 in total behind, but after running the verdict through his mind he elected to fold and showed K♥K♣ as he did so.
He soon came upon it was a fair fold as Nanev opened2♦2♣ for the flopped set and Mateos was drawing dead with K♥Q♠. The K♠ - the case king - fell at the river and O'Shea cursed loudly when he saw it. "F******g game," he shouted. "YOU ARE MAKING the appropriate decision and it still f***s you."
A table mate reassured him he'd made the right kind decision. "It was the precise fold man, the correct fold." -- NW
4:20pm: MacIntyre's good start somewhat undoneFraser MacIntyre had gotten off to a flier but just dropped around 20,000 chips to drop back to 40,000.
The action folded to the Scot at the button and he raised to 450. Vlad Nena was within the big blind and three-bet to 1,500. MacIntyre called and both players checked the 7♣6♦9♣ flop before Nena led for 1,800 at the K♥ turn. MacIntyre called after which bet 3,500 at the Q♦ when the action was checked to him. Nena responded by check-raising to 16,400, all in except a 100 chip left behind.
The line confused MacIntyre and he went into the tank for several minutes before flicking at the call, only to be shown K♦K♣ for prime set by Nena. "Wow. Yeah, nice hand!" said MacIntyre before folding. -- MC
4pm: Geilich running up a stack once moreMore chip counts of the names and notables for you now, UKIPT4 Marbella champion Ludovic Geilich made the general table at UKIPT4 Isle of Man 2 earlier this week, he's running up another big stack here in London as he's already as much as 41,000. If he were to win this week he'd have the similar choice of UKIPT titles as Joeri Zandvliet, the Dutchman who's been living in London, but is set to transport back to Holland for work, has 19,250. Mickey Petersen is another who's leaving/left London, he's about to up sticks to Edinburgh, he's got 26,600 at the moment.
And Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov is on the same table as Team PokerStars SportStars Fatima Moreira de Melo, not much to choose from them on the moment, with De Melo (23,250) having a slightly greater than Katchalov (22,000). -- NW
3:50pm: Like a Bull in a china shopRobbie Bull was all smiles as he flashed one his cards to the blog after taking down small five-way pot.
The reigning champion of UKIPT London is sat on the same table as UKIPT Nottingham finalist, Angelo Milioto, and looking out to become the primary double champion of the similar UKIPT.
He and 4 opponents checked a 6♥4♥7♥ flop before Bull's 1,600 bet was enough to force all of them off their hands at the 5♥ turn. Bull showed the 8♥ for a straight flush and raked within the pot to transport as much as around 22,000. -- MC
3:35pm: Thew lives as much as nicknameFormer EPT Champion Julian Thew is named the nicest man in poker, but he's also known by his nickname 'yo-yo' as a result of his penchant for having a fluctuating chip stack. Whilst that reputation could have been stoked over a decade ago he just showed that maybe it's just as prevalent today.
With a whole board of 6♥4♠A♦6♠3♥ at the felt Thew moved all-in for around 19,000, which was slightly over a pot sized bet. His opponent within the hand, Ross O'Neill, was in some pain over his decision. After spending quite a while within the tank he folded the A♥ face up and Thew is as much as around 35,000 because of this. -- NW
Blinds up: 100/200, 25 ante
3:25pm: Level three fallersWith late registration open until the beginning of level five players like James Greenwood and Matthew Davenport are still taking their seats. However, what goes up must come down and, Albert Sapiano, Aelxander Johnson, Marc Daubach, Piergiorgio D'ancona, Aurelian Chirieci, Daniel Shapiro, Cheng-Wei Yin, Matthew Braye, Daniel Bland, Tuhin Maitra, Jonathan Roux, Adrian Demusca, Yehoram Houri, Laszlo Balogh, Mark Hamilton, Gary Fisher, Advani Naresh, Hamish Morjaria, Waseem Nazir and Phillip Comben are all out. --NW
3:20pm: The large (and the loud) guns have arrivedThe mix in tournament room C has gotten more interesting with the additions of Fintan Gavin, Roberto Romanello and Chris Moorman.
Gavin, fresh from the Isle of Man final table, and Romanello will give the likes of Sam Grafton a run for his money within the talking stakes. Moorman, meanwhile, might sign a duplicate of his new book should you bust him. -- MC
3:05pm: Counts from Room BSome might call Tournament Room B the principle room for the reason that it's dominated by the television stage. That rig essentially splits the room in half but there are still a variety of star names dotted across the tables. Here's how a few of them have become on:
Sin Melin - 13,500Mitch Johnson -22,000Joe Laming - 6,000Will Kassouf - 20,300Katja Spillum Svendsen - 16,000Diego Gomez - 21,325Paul McTaggart - 21,000Ade Bayo - 29,250Patrick Leonard - 11,200
Nick Wealthall - 15,300Richard Hawes - 7,000Tom Hall - 20,450Brett Angell - 23,400Simon Trumper - 27,000Fraser Macintyre - 20,250Dave Ulliott - 19,200Kelly Saxby - 16,000Nick Newport - 22,300
3pm: Chips from rooms C & DHere are some selected counts from the hundreds within the top two rooms:
Fintan Gavin - 20,000Martins Adeniya - 31,000Dominik Panka - 19,000Chris Brammer - 21,500Marvin Rettenmaier - 25,500Sam Grafton - 18,300David Vamplew - 11,500Adrian Matteos - 23,000Dermot Blain - 24,000Ben Jenkins - 14,000-- MC
2:45pm: The cold and hot of tournament room CThe floor staff are having problems maintaining a consistent temperature in tournament room C. It has got a musty atmosphere because of the sheer choice of players packed within its walls and the one solution to counter that may be to have the air-con on full throttle. The issue with that's the main vent is directly above Craig McCorkell's table. Whilst the remainder of the room sit in t-shirts, McCorkell and his tablemates are wrapped up in each piece of clothing they've with them.
I'm sure McCorkell can be fine with the scenario if his stack was soaring, but it isn't. He dropped all the way down to 15,200 after he squeezed pre flop, bet the flop but folded to an opponent's lead when the board read 8♦Q♥3♣6♦. -- MC
2:30pm: Cards back within the airLevel 3 in underway nevertheless it runs without the likes of Haakon Enoksen, Danny Lamming, Mohammed Suhail, Luis Jordan, Paul Whyman, Paul Ephremsen and Niall Farrell. -- MC
LEVEL UP: BLINDS 75-150
2:02pm: End of level 2Two hours have flown by and there at the moment are 630 players registered often Event today. Sorel Mizzi and Team PokerStars Online's Vicente Delgado were two players taking their seats on the last seconds of the extent ticked down.
They, and everybody else, have a 20 minute break. -- NW
1:57pm: Gordon hunted, Renaut back within the gameIt's horrible to run bad on this game, sometimes one thinks one's luck won't ever come to an end.
Gordon Huntly appears like that presently. He couldn't make a hand within the Isle of Man and he's out here already. Everything missed after which he lost with pocket kings for his last 11,000 after an opponent made trip tens against him.
Claire Renaut is a widely known French poker player and journalist but was off the scene for some time after she and fiancée Fabrice Soulier had their first child. That is her first tournament since giving birth and he or she has the exact opposite look on her face in comparison to Huntly, fresh, excited and never weighed down by bad beats. -- MC
1:50pm: Panka makes third UKIPT appearanceTen months ago Dominik Panka shot to prominence when he defeated Mike 'Timex' McDoanald to win the PCA10 Main Event. He placed on a consummate display and there has been no suggestion that this was a fluke result. He's greater than proved that since with a victory within the €10,000 High Roller at EPT Deauville and a deep run at #EPT100 Barcelona.
Today though he's making his third UKIPT appearance and is a kind of players up in Tournament Room D. Michael Kane, Peter Charalambous and Jamie O'Connor are three other players who've recently entered the tournament and also are in Tournament Room D. -- NW
1:40pm: Too many players!It was kept as an emergency but Room D was called into action due the to large numbers of players wading in. It won't be long until the 10 tables in there are full and an alternative list called into action.
Sam Grafton drew table 54 (room c) which just happened to be the table his girlfriend was dealing at. "Quality!" was his reaction but she was soon pushed to a brand new table and he was far too distracted seeking to get a word it edgeways with tablemates, Pratyush Buddiga and Zachary Korick, to note.
Marvin Rettenmaier settled in beside Antoine Saout and Craig McCorkell and Daniel Charlton have one another for company. -- MC
1:35pm: Not the most productive day for...Oleh Okhotskyi, Robert Tinnion, Albert Wong, Luca Fiorini and Christopher Koehnen as their Main Event experience was shorter than a football match. -- NW
1:30pm: The players keep comingThere's over 500 registered now on Day 1B and we've spotted some more familiar faces among them: Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo has made the fast hop from Isle of Man to play in London. Harry Lodge, who, like De Melo, final tabled UKIPT Isle of Man a year ago is sat to the fitting of Brett Angell, he was runner-up to Garth Walker at UKIPT2 Nottingham. Tour reg Richard Milne Snr is playing, as is Nick Newport and varnish player Patryk Slusarek, who now calls London home, can be hoping to best his seventh place finish on this tournament last year. -- NW
1:20pm: Zimbler on time todayEarlier in Season 4 of the UKIPT Paul Zimbler made the overall table of this tournament last time it was on the town. Despite living in London (and being short stacked) he was late to the overall table. "Yeah it is just final tables I CANNOT ensue on time for," he joked. -- NW
1:10pm: Join the queueThere's a queue stretching out the door nowadays with players who've late registered lining as much as get their seat assignment. It's providing a captivating game of 'spot the player' from our lofty blogging position within the Grand Connaught Rooms. Antoine Saout, who finished third within the 2009 WSOP Main Event, is only one of these waiting to get in at the action. -- NW
1pm: Adeniya back for moreMartins Adeniya took a brutal beat to bubble the UKIPT4 Isle of Man 2 final table - kings cracked by jack-ten - but he shrugged it off or even commentated at the final table an afternoon later. He's trying his luck again in London today.
Blinds up: 50/100
12:58pm: Too good, Wealthall, too goodOne of the toughest activities in poker is to flop a collection and fold. One of the crucial hardest activities ever is to flop a collection against Albert Sapiano and fold.
Nick Wealthall found himself on the river of a A♦J♣Q♥3♣9♦ board and facing an all in over-bet from Mr Sapiano. Call and be wrong and out, or maintain the 15,000 chips you could have and look forward to a better, less risky, spot?
The UKIPT host chose the latter and Sapiano was kind enough to turn king-ten for the nuts. Wealthall's cards were already within the muck but he claimed to have folded pocket jacks. -- MC
12:40pm: Faces from downstairsThere's gong to be a large number of stairs covered today as players are spread inside the glamorous surroundings of The Grand Connaught Rooms.
The UKIPT London titleholder, Robbie Bull, is back to defend and will be found downstairs. Former PCA champion, Dimitar Danchev may be in attendance down there, as are: Sin Melin, Niall Farrell, Kelly Saxby, Ludovic Geilich, Mickey Petersen, Joeri Zandvliet, Rory Brown, Julain Thew and Carlo Citrone. -- MC
12:30pm: Who's in Tournament Room C?Yesterday only one lonely table was needed within the auxiliary tournament room referred to as Tournament Room C. Today, with no less than 400 players already registered, there are 17 tables with bums on seats in that room at the present time.
There are a number of big names and engaging tables among them too. Perhaps essentially the most interesting table contains Marc Daubach, who won the UKIPT High Roller here last year, Christopher Frank (5th, EPT9 London Main Event), Kevin Allen and entire Tilt Poker Ambassador Ben Jenkins. What's more the latter three are sat in a row in seats six to eight, with Jenkins the in position player.
Elsewhere you will find Philippe Souki, fresh off a deep run at EPT Barcelona. The money game specialist could be hoping to raised his fourth place finish at UKIPT3 London on this event. The loveable Romano Pizzo could also be in action today, famous for sporting two hats at UKIPT2 Nottingham (where he finished third), he's just got the only on today, a white ski hat providing good enough warmth it seems.
There's UKIPT champions and EPT champions within the mix too with Richard Evans and David Vamplew representing, as are Dermot Blain, Jamie Roberts, Jonathan Weekes and Adrian Mateos. One thing's for sure, it may be fun to observe that lot play. -- NW
12:15pm: Leonard off the leashNo prizes for guessing who's playing table captain at Patrick Leonard's table. The number 1 ranked online poker player from the united kingdom was getting concerned early on.
12:02pm: Day 1B is offThe announcements are over and cards are within the air. Just 600 minutes of poker stand between the players and Day 2. -- NW
11:30am: Last chance to play in Season 4In around HALF-HOUR time the shuffle up and deal announcement could be made on a starting flight for the last time in Season 4 of the united kingdom and Ireland's premier poker tour. It has been a fun 18 months and if you would like the risk to enroll in the celebrated rosters of champions, you've a couple of hours to get right down to The Grand Connaught Rooms and register.
We're expecting greater than 500 players to pack where out and help create a buzzing atmosphere. Four players managed to pass the 200,000 mark yesterday with Gino Levrini top on 260,800.
Team Pros and Tour Ambassadors might be out within the force today, hoping to enroll in Matthias De Meulder (the one survivor from four Team Pros) on Day2 tomorrow. Join us back here soon.
Key UKIPT4 London 2 facts:
- 20,000 starting stack- Blinds starting at 25/50 for 400 big blinds- One hour levels and we'll play ten today.- Two Day 1s then the Day 1 survivors will merge for Days 2, 3 and four until a winner is crowned (cue winner's photo, trophy swinging around, celebrations in Trafalgar Square).- If you are planning on playing any events within the EPT London Festival, in partnership with The Hippodrome Casino, it's important to read this, because it contains important details about where/how/when you'll be able to register for events.There's even a flow chart!- The whole festival schedule will also be seen here.
PokerStars Blog reporting team at UKIPT4 London 2: Marc Convey and Nick Wright. Photos by Gunvor Danny Maxwell.
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