End of Flight 1a, 1b & 1c Accumulated Chip-counts:
With 130 players surviving the three opening day flights here at Aspers Casino in Newcastle, Khadir Khoshawy has the slimmest of margins in leading Alan Tinlin. Just 100 chips are between the two men at the top of the leaderboard. Coverage begins from 1pm on Saturday, so stay tuned!
Chip-counts:
Khadir Khoshawy 163600
Alan Tinlin 163500
Eldon Orr 162800
Luke Slisz 150500
Andrew Hills 142100
James Charlton 129300
John Pogue 128600
Cristos Katsikas 127500
Steven Graham 126600
Nathan Watson 120300
Jonathan Beck 118300
William Gravell 118000
Erol Taylan 117700
Alistair Smith 116400
Robert Patrick 115700
Gary Collins 115200
David Morris 111700
Daniel Trett 103500
James Mitchell 103300
Jordan Dungey 101900
James Arthur Brady 100000
Mark Gray 99600
Paul Woloszyn 95300
Gwok Fung Shek 91400
Paul Simm 91300
Alexander Walton 82900
Gerard Conway 81700
Richard Knowles 81500
William Bennett 81000
Ross Mannion 80800
Nicholas Finn 78300
Wlodzimierz Cymbalko 77200
Andrew Ferguson 77100
David Anthony Hudson 76900
Peter Agnew 76400
Jonathan Watson 76100
Kelvin Weeks 75200
Gladys Jarvis 73900
Gary Copeland 73500
Jack Lam 71300
Scott Hughes 68900
Iain Maberly 68600
Kieran Sharpe 68300
Paul Castledene 67700
John Maddison 67500
Matthew Hardy 66600
Malcolm Sandler 66200
Mark Harding 65300
Akshay Berappa 65100
Catherine Taylor 64900
Sam James 64900
Jun Lau 64800
Huseyin Houssein 64200
Jonathan Lundy 63600
Darren Mapley 60300
Daniel O’callaghan 59200
David Murphy 58200
Andrew Hetherington 57800
Jamie Rutherford 57700
Yifan Zheng 57500
Stephen Odysseas 57200
Andrew Carlin 56900
Charles Stewart 56800
Robert Martin 56700
Richard Cosgrove 56200
Glen Whitehead 54900
Lee Robert Blood 54900
Alexander Jobling 54200
Basyr Nagshband 53100
Stuart Hall 52900
Thomas Dunwoodie 52100
David Knight 48200
Jason Bateman 47900
Craig Mcdowell 47800
David Phethean 47000
Karan Bengani 45700
Samantha Griffiths 44300
Surinder Sunar 43700
Colin Adams 43000
James Ellis 42900
Vamshi Polu 42300
Clay Dalton 41700
Linning He 39600
Gareth Walker 38300
Arthur Cross 38000
Mohammed Karim 38000
Ian Bland 36800
Adam Swain 35700
Steven Owens 35400
Sidney Button 35200
Rizgar Qadir 34800
Abigail Louthan 34100
Ronald Wilkinson 33400
Kieran Sharp 32100
Lee Peake 31800
John Littlewood 30900
Di Fan 30600
Robert Ewing 30400
Stephen Hetherington 30300
Mohammed Latif 30200
Clive Underwood 28800
Hamid Rowshanaei 28600
Andrew Beatty 28400
Paul Hempseed 27500
Paul Allen 26800
Hamza Nasir 26600
Owen Mcdowell 26500
Michael Hill 26400
Neil Pearson 26300
Cheung Tai Law 23400
Syed Zaidi 23100
Dorothy Littlewood 22600
Sami Yusuf 22400
David Waites 21700
Darie Ilie 20800
Hazel Birchnall 20400
Lee Kiat 20300
Austen Burness 20000
Luke Fern 19100
James Smith 18700
Gary Langley 17500
Owen Shiels 17000
Luke Mcintyre 16400
Gary Graham 16200
Bobbie Brummitt 16000
Raymond Irving 15700
Gillian Martin 13700
David Barnes 12000
Martin Wilson 8800
Younes Sayad Sarvari 7700
Louthan Leaves, Knowles Knocked Out
There are times to move in poker tournaments – moments where you get that feeling that it’s the right point to hustle, to harry and to have at your opponent like you were dueling on a grand stage. Abbie Louthan and Richard Knowles have both found their spots to shove, but both ran into better hands to bust.
Louthan was super-short when she pushed with 
, but she was called off by David Phethean’s 
and that held to eliminate her. Richard Knowles had even worse chances when he was all-in with 
for an incredible 45,000 chips and was called by Paul Woloszyn’s 
, which rode out the 
board to bust Knowles and rake a huge pot.
Total Numbers:
133 players from Flight 1, 122 from Flight 2 and 157 from Flight 3 mean a total of 412 entries, with a prize-pool of £74,160! Wow.
End of Day 1 (TOTAL) chip-counts will follow just as soon as we have them right here. This may be some time…
Level 8: Blinds 500/1,000/100 – Average Stack 36,000 – 83 Players Remaining
Surinder Sunar (above) may be surviving, but we’ve lost a few, with Mike Hill and Paul Hempseed both busting before the end of the Day 1c flight. Everyone is desperate to make Day 2, leading to a little constipation in the action in some quarters, but others are really profiting, pushing their stack to build a chip mountain to try and topple overnight chip leader Khadir Khoshawy, who we spoke to at the last break. he decided to opt out of today’s play, having built a stack of 163k yesterday, more than enough to come back to tomorrow.
“I’m happy – it was a good day. One man was up to 163k just under mine earlier, he played the third flight too, but he just busted, so I think I’m winning.”
Khashawy isn’t even playing today and he’s here – that shows you what it means to all the players… they all want the title!
Level 7: Blinds 400/800/ante 100 – 109/135 Players Remaining – Average Stack 24,770
Hempy Takes A Hit
Paul Hempseed has taken a bit of a knock in the last level, as players battle to find themselves a stack to attack Day 2 with. Paul may already have 27,000 chips ‘in the bank’ from Day 1b, but he’d love to take more through to join them. He’s now in shoveland after the last hand.
Paul raised to 130 UTG + 1 , called by two players. the flop of 
, prompting Paul to c-bet 2800, this time only called by Rizgar Qadir. The turn of 
led to a check from Paul, but Rizgar shoved all-in, prompting a rueful fold from Hempseed. He’s down to 9,000 and that is just twelve bigs…
Ladies Night?
We’ve had several female players enter tonight’s flight so thought we’d focus on the fairer sex for a few minutes. In fact, there are seven sirens left singing in the WPT National Event here at Aspers in Newcastle, and they all have a chance of making Day 2/improving on their stack. Here are their chip-stacks as they make up around 5% of the field:
Sam Griffiths 49,000
Gillian Martin 40,000
Catherine Taylor 32,100
Gladys Jarvis 21,150
Abbie Louthan (pictured above) 20,300
Joan Kirkup 6,000
Hazel Birchnall 5,000
Level 6: Blinds 300/600/ante 75 – 122/135 Players Remaining – Average Stack 22,000
Dale Done For
Jamie Dale didn’t come for a long time, he came for a good time! Sadly, the experienced and charismatic young player has busted already here at WPT National Event Newcastle, getting his last five big blinds into the middle pre-flop with 
and being re-raised to isolate by Gillian Martin’s 
which a) had the desired effect to get rid of everyone else and b) held. An inauspicious sole flight from Dale, but its great to see such a quality player here in the field. While he waits for friends, he may sit on the cash table(not literally). That’s a bit like a shark swimming into a fishtank.
Planting the Seed
Paul Hempseed (pictured in the shades and Game of Thrones haircut) is some player, professional for many years online, combining his love of the virtual game with several stints at the live felt, including right here today at Newcastle’s stunning Aspers Casino. He took around 27,000 through from flight Day 1b, but he’s looking to add to that tonight in flight 1c.
He’s not onff to the best start, down to 17k from his starting stack of 20,000, but he’s on a fun table which includes Gillian Martin. If you remember, she was the lady from Day 1a who talked through a lot of her hands and gave lots of info away. she’s up to 33k and quiet, but starting to loosen up. Will the stacks re-balance?
Neil Pearson Interview
Between flights of the WPTNUK Newcastle Event, we caught up with Drop The Dead Donkey and Waterloo road actor Neil Pearson as he plots a third assault on the chips here at Aspers. Check it out here:
https://soundcloud.com/partypoker/neil-pearson-interview-wptnuk
Take Flight
Flight 1c is under way after a slight delay to fit all the players in their chairs and let wifi catch up with us!
We’re back in the room, at blinds of 50/100 in this opening level, with Mike Hill, Paul Hempseed, Ian Simpson, Stuart Hall, James Charlton and Neil Pearson all in action.
Let the dog see the rabbit!
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