WPT National Newcastle Main Event – Day 1c

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 6♥ 7♥ , but she was called off by David Phethean’s A♥ Q♦ and that held to eliminate her. Richard Knowles had even worse chances when he was all-in with K♦ 9♠ for an incredible 45,000 chips and was called by Paul Woloszyn’s A♦ K♣, which rode out the J♦ 3♠ 6♣ K♥ 2♠ 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 J♦ A♣ 3♦, prompting Paul to c-bet 2800, this time only called by Rizgar Qadir. The turn of K♠ 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 Q♥ 10♦ and being re-raised to isolate by Gillian Martin’s A♠ J♣ 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!