11:50pm: The klaxon sounds on Day 1BThat's all folks, Day 1B is over! The chip leader on the end of the day seems to be Matthew Baker. AN ENTIRE wrap of the times play is at the way and we'll bring you the overnight chip counts and seat draw before play starts tomorrow. -- NW
11:30pm: Last four handsThe clock have been paused and the previous few hands of the night at the moment are in progress. -- NW
11:16pm: Apologies to Van VeelenThe Dutchman remains to be flying despite our premature claims of Thomas Van Veelen's demise earlier.
With 60,000, he's actually doing really well. Stick with it sir and we'll do our greatest to not bust you. -- RS
11:12pm: Hey now, hey now! Don't dream it's over......unless you're the following players.
Several star players are amongst their number. Bad luck folks. Benefit from the remainder of your stay!
Maximilian MastMax SilverTimothy ChungJamie Martin
11:06pm: Coren Mitchell showing her pedigreeCream rises to the highest they say, although in poker you usually need the lubricant of a few good fortune.
Vicky Coren Mitchell has shown again and again she has the talents to make deep runs in tournaments and with the extra bonus of a marginally of run-good, her stack has now blossomed to an excellent 75,000. -- RS
11:02pm: The B-wag blog blagIt's debatable whether Bruce Wagstaff, known to his nearest and dearest (so he tells us) as "B-Wag", has merited a mention within the blog but he was so eager to get a shout out, who're we to face within the way of his dreams?
Wagstaff has grinded a shortstack for several levels, teetering on the point of elimination, but he's clearly a person who believes firmly within the concept of a chip and a chair as he refuses to buckle just yet.
"Look at me grinding away. It's B-Wag and Max Silver grinding away!"
As he gestured over, Silver looked round grinning, holding up his 12,000 stack, confirming that he too was a part of the grinder club.
It's an elite group who too can count amongst its number Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody (21,000)
Anyone fancy backing B-Wag in a final longer between the 3? Don't all shout at once!-- RS
10:55pm: Didika striving for tournament gloryDonatas Didika is quietly but efficiently going about his business and is truly looking like an impressive presence now, his stack as much as 135,000, well in contention on the top of the leaderboard.
Most recently he was seen betting 3,500 on a 7♣3♣3♠, rewarded with a fold as he quietly showed pocket fours.
10:45pm: Adeniya ebbs and flowsGarnering a large stack at a poker tournament is not any insurance of success as Adeniya is finding out.
We joined his table to seek out he had slipped from his earlier lofty position of 150,000 chips to 110,000 - a spanner flying into his works somewhere along the line.
A trough perhaps but a peak was just across the corner as Michael Josem raised to 2,500, Adeniya peeled and Dominic Evans moved all-in for 12,500.
Josem and Adeniya now both flat-called - the flop peeling Q♠8♦Q♦.
Josem checked, Adeniya fired 10,000 into the side pot and Josem folded, leaving him to showdown pocket eights for a flopped boat!
Evans groaned. "I'm drawing dead," he said showing pocket threes, and although running threes or queens would have saved him, neither arrived and he busts just previous to the top of the day.
Adeniya back to 137,000 and challenging for the chip lead once more...
10:35pm: Level 9 emergencyJust 99 players remain within the Day 1B field as we move from level nine into level 10. Dominic Evans, Colin Lovelock, Rocco Palumbo, Ryan Foster, Adam Bilcock, Dave Maudlin, Jan Bures, Yiannis Liperis, Micahel Zauner, Sam Kenny, Dariusz Paszkiewicz, Mike Adamo, Joe Grech, Sarah Boston, John Keown, Jan Przysucha, Andreas Bolling, Selwyn Rogers, Miltos Miltiadous, Stuart Atkin, Peter Robinson, David McAndrew, Simon Steedman, Sam Onions, Michael Boyd and Fraser Macintyre were all casualties of level nine though and are all out. -- NW
Blinds up: 600/1,200, 200 ante
10:20pm: Team BeetrootThere's approximately 85,000 residents at the Isle of Man but just one of them can call themselves the Manx Chef of the Year and that person is playing on this very poker tournament today.Darren Woods won that award for a dish which he jokingly called beetroot 15 ways! But how would Woods describe it on a menu? "Locally sourced beetroot, goats cheese and quail eggs. It was the primary vegetarian dish to win, go Team Beetroot" he said proudly.
He works at a cafe called 14 North at the island in case you want to sample his fare. He's got some labor to do here on the Villa Marina first though as he's currently got a stack of 23,000 -- NW
10:15pm: Home win?Usually PokerStars staff aren't permitted to play UKIPT events but an exception is made for events within the Isle of Man and Dublin where the Rational Group have offices. Many Isle of Man based members of staff took the chance to take to the felt today and quite a lot of are still in and checking, raising, calling and folding because the end of the day draws ever closer.
Heath Cram is sitting on a stack of 50,000, Robert Dix has 35,000 that is somewhat greater than Chris Straghalis (21,000) but lower than Chris Jonat (39,000). The latter two finished 19th and 4th respectively in last year's UKIPT Isle of Man Main Event. Leading the charge though are Michael Josem (97,000) and Ian Marmion (100,000). -- NW
10pm: The return of Rick DaceyAs a former PokerStars Blog staff writer Rick Dacey was a well-recognized fixture on PokerStars TV chatting to Sarah Grant at EPT stops throughout Europe every day. His appearance on this tournament was briefer than he'd have hoped, but earlier within the day Grant got the band back together for one last gig to speak about his new role, life at the Isle of Man, impending fatherhood and, his newest project, Inside PokerStars.
9:55pm: Another time unto the breachThe players have milled back into the tournament arena for the general two levels of the day. 126 remain but we will expect that number to be cropped considerably within the coming two hours as blind pressure and the bid to chip up cause quite a lot of players to fall into the abyss of broken dreams.
Who can skirt its dangerous extremities and rise from the pack, able to enter day 2 with a challenging stack? One stellar name who won't be in that number is Ike Haxton, whose formidable skills are not any longer a part of the equation having busted over the past level.
Blinds up: 500/1,000, 100 ante
9:35pm: Break TimeEight levels are done and dusted and the players have just departed for his or her final 15 minute break of the evening. We'll be back soon to bring the general two levels to you - this could give us an actual idea who one of the crucial contenders for the title can be. See then you! -- RS
9:30pm: Adeniya snatches chip leadThose within the know are well conscious about Full Tilt Poker Ambassador Martins Adeniya's ability on the tables. Give the person a stack and he's an excessively tough proposition and guess what? He has an overly BIG stack.
Skill edges are all very nice, but a slightly of fortune never hurts and he had that a few moments ago, carrying out a pre-flop chip war with the short-stacked Thomas Van Veelen - his A♥9♥ behind the Dutchman's J♠J♣.
A board of A♣Q♦T♠ turned the tables though and staring down the barrel, Van Veelen couldn't find one of the crucial six outs he required because the board completed itself with the 3♥[ and 5♣.
One more notch in Adeniya's knockout post - yet one more victim departing sadly to the rail.
Adeniya is the chip leader with 150,000 and he's going to be a difficult man to displace on the summit of the leaderboard. -- RS
9:35pm: GoneToo many exits to inform you about all of them individually but we will be able to inform you that: Jamie O'Connor, Willie Elliot, Scott Margereson, Dean Hutchison, Ben Jenkins, Mick Graydon, Renee Xie, Neil Van Der Merwe, Pablo Gordillo, Kevin Killeen, Tom Hall, Marcin Milde, Derek Murray, Jon Spinks, Jonee Stanton and James Morris are all out. -- NW
9:20pm: Chip countsWe're almost 80% of how throughout the day, here's how one of the vital riders and runners who're still seated are becoming on:
Willie Tann - 11,000Luca Pagano - 13,000Thomas Ward - 38,000Jake Cody - 35,000Daniel Myers - 70,000Phillip Szeto - 129,000Fraser Macintyre - 12,000Joe Grech - 26,000Martins Adeniya - 125,000Michael Josem - 75,000
Ike Haxton - 53,000Dave Woods - 49,000Max Silver - 50,000Chris Jonat - 43,000Fintan Gavin - 20,000Victoria Coren Mitchell - 60,000Kelly Saxby - 65,000Ducan Wilkie - 29,000David Lappin - 70,000Andrew Hawksby - 100,000
9.08pm: Prizepool breakdownThe number crunchers have crunched and we have the numbers.
The winner of the tournament is guaranteed a whopping £65,900. Drinks may be on them, though there may well be a drink or two in it for you if one in all your mates reaches probably the most other payout slots.
True some spots might mean you get a bottle of bollinger whilst others probably mean half a hofmeister with a dog-end in it but it is all alcohol, right?
Here are the whole payouts. -- RS
8:52pm: New Chip Leader!Alert! Alert! Donatas Didika appears to have climbed to the highest of the chip rankings with an excessively impressive 130,000. Lithuanian poker fans everywhere are chanting his name we assume.
Can he maintain his stranglehold at the competition? -- RS
8:40pm: Men overboard! Moneymaker and Katchalov crash outNot an even HALF-HOUR for Team PokerStars Pro as both Eugene Katchalov and Chris Moneymaker has been eliminated.
Katchalov ran ace-king into kings and Moneymaker had top two pair with ace-jack on a A K J 6 board with three clubs. Unfortunately for the 2003 World Champion, Matthew Davenport held Q♣8♣ for the turned flush. -- NW
Blinds up: 400/800, 100 ante
8:25pm: Adrienne 'talonchick' Rowsome waiting to pounceIt's hardly ever that we get to peer Team PokerStars Online's Adrienne 'talonchick' Rowsome at the UKIPT. The cause of that is no less than three-fold. Firstly she resides in Edmonton in Canada, secondly she has a role (rather than poker) as an Occupational Therapist and thirdly she's recently become a mother.
Her forte is non hold'em cash games, specifically omaha, both regular and hi/lo. Indeed her biggest live tournament scores are in triple stud (a mixture of razz, stud and stud hi/lo) and a half Omaha hi/lo, half stud hi/lo tournament.
She's seated on the same table as Chris Straghalis and Kelly Saxby to call just two and currently has a below average stack of 26,000. But should she discover a situation to get her chips within the middle there aren't any shortage of stacks who could double her up and still be above average as Mindaugas Kriauciunas has 70,000 as does Ian Marmion.
As for talonchick, she's sitting serenely on the table in a sea of calm, patiently waiting to pounce. -- NW
8.15pm: Silver goes for goldIt's been an extended shortstacked slog for maximum Silver for far of the day, and he is not out of the woods just yet, though an entire double was much appreciated.
When he raised and Chris Jonat re-raised, he moved all-in for his remaining circa 10,000 and Jonat made the call.
"I do not know why I ASSUMED you'd fold there!" Jonat said berating himself with a smile.
He was behind but live with K♠7♦ versus Silver's A♠Q♦ and gave the impression of he was about to dismiss one of the crucial tournament's more dangerous players, but over the 6♠3♣7♣5♥A♥ board, Silver finally got there.
He put down the coat he'd been picking up, organised his new 22,000 stack and ready to go back to the grind. -- RS
8:05pm: Tip of the hat, wag of the fingerA tip of the hat and a wag of the finger to Bruce Wagstaff for doubling through on the expense of Marcin Milde, albeit with the worst hand.
On probably the most more chatty tables, Wagstaff had shoved his smallish stack of 6,150 into the middle, although in a battle of the shortstacks he had Marcin Milde covered.
He needed help though, behind with the K♥T♥ - he spiked the T♦2♠3♣9♣J♦ board to defeat Milde's A♣9♦. Milde was eliminated.
"Yeah!" he chanted happy to double through, although Chris Straghalis did his best to dampen down his neighbour's celebrations ("Oh sit you!")
His entreaties fell on stony ground however as a brand new stack was dropped at the table and Wagstaff warned him he was in for a coarse ride.
"Have you ever seen 'The Walking Dead?'
You're just like the new guy. All of us just wish to bite and scratch you!"
Reluctantly Straghalis agreed with that assessment. "Yeah, you are like the fellow within the red uniform on Star Trek!" -- RS
7:55pm: ExitsIt's goodbye to: Jeffrey Harper, Christopher Backhouse, Pawel Keller, Stuart Hulston, Terence Mills, Darren Delahunty, Shola Akindele, Ross Mannion, Cesar Bello, David Stonehouse, Elliot Smith, John Baldini and Mark Wagstaff. -- NW
7:45pm: Major headacheJust before the dinner break Dave Maudlin eliminated David Major in a large all-in pre-flop pot. It was major who four-bet shoved for around 18,000 with A♠K♦ but he bumped into Maudlin's pocket aces. The Boro boy just had Major covered and he's as much as around 40,000. -- NW
Blinds up: 300/600 ante 75
6:40pm: End of Level 6: Dinner breakThat's six levels of power poker we've played through. Dreams have risen and been crushed, heroes are being carved out of this field and the strain and stakes really have gotten palpable.
A one hour respite is most welcome because the players restock on fuel whilst giving their tired mental faculties a break from all those complex calculations.
Back at around 7:40pm for level 7, then we'll play to a finish. See then you definitely! -- RS
6:30pm: Phillip Szeto the primary over 100,000There's a brand new chip leader and his name is Phillip Szeto. He's got 105,000 and leads from Guoxiao Zhang who has 87,000.
Here are some more counts from across the room:
Adrienne Rowsome - 35,000Chris Straghalis - 57,000Kelly Saxby - 25,000Chris Jonat - 48,000Michael Josem - 35,000Dave Woods - 32,000Paul Delaney - 17,000Kevin Killeen - 19,000Victoria Coren Mitchell - 45,000
6:25pm: No triple or double for McLellanBad news for history seekers - Duncan McLellan may not be adding a 3rd UKIPT title and second Isle of Man UKIPT title to his resume as he has busted just previous to the dinner break.
At present we don't have any details of his exit, although Vicky Coren Mitchell is now boasting a 40,000 stack, suggesting it's possible she dealt out the general blow. -- RS
6:20pm: Haxton game for combatThere are people to make the move on and people who will pick you off like a sniper.
Haxton falls into the latter category - something Terence Mills could have been wise to pay heed to.
Mills went for a resteal with 7♠3♣ but Haxton was wise to his game, making the decision for a smallihs chunk of his stack with A♥9♥.
"I knew I'd be live!" a remarkably upbeat Mills commented.
Live but a dog, his hand never spiked sufficiently around the A♠4♥T♠4♠3♦ board.
"Good game" the Hax man offered as he stacked up his bounty - his chips rising to an ever more threatening 37,000 or so. -- RS
6:12pm: Silver squeezes out the rocksTongue in cheek comment, few people would call Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody and probable tournament chip leader Willie Tann rocks, but Max Silver just made both surrender a few of their stacks to him moments ago.
Cody had opened to 950, Tann flat-called and Silver made the move all-in for 11,175.
Cody mucked quickly, and Tann took his time before electing to follow suit.
Silver hasn't had a perfect day so far, but he's back to 14,000 and refusing to buckle under the pressure.
Cody meanwhile has had something of a renaissance, back to 26,000 following that gigantic cooler earlier within the day (set under set.)
Tann remains the person with a plan however, his 67,000 looking just like the biggest stack within the room at the moment. -- RS
6:10pm: Star names fallThere were quite a few exits during level 5 and amongst them a handful of top-tier players meaning everyone's ROI% has gone up a smidgen. Steve O'Dwyer, Jude Ainsworth and Chris Brammer are three tournament titans who're all now cursing the vagaries of variance.
They aren't alone though as Aaron Spence, Barry McCann, Eoin Kennedy, Dylan Coady, Alexander Schilt, Norbert Berent, Carl Falconer, Thomas Spencer, Andreas Schmitt, Mark Baxter and Hubert Zauner are all out. -- NW
5:55pm: Tann's the chip leaderThe current chip leader seems to be Willie Tann, he's as much as around 70,000 but he ran up a good stack yesterday before busting. Another player on his second bullet is Martins Adeniya, earlier he eliminated Rick Dacey and he seems to be putting those chips to good use as he's as much as 56,000, that's good for second in chips.
Elsewhere Thomas Ward has 26,000 and David Lappin is as much as 33,000. -- NW
5:40pm: The most productive short stacked player in EuropeDrumroll please, the award goes to...Duncan McLellan. A minimum of that is the opinion of Fintan Gavin, although you sense he was using his Irish wit to brighten the reality somewhat for the reason that Gavin's statement came seconds after McLelan had won a hand by shoving for 3 times the pot and showing top pair.
As for Gavin he said: "I'm doing ok, I HAVE 50,000," McLellan for his part has around 12,500. They're both on the same table as Victoria Coren Mitchell who's trundling along on 11,300. She just lost some to Gavin as did two other players who called his pre-flop raise of 800 before folding on a 2♣K♣5♣ flop. -- NW
5:28pm: Beastly river sinks O'Kearney666 is the collection of the beast and it also happens to be the hand that just put paid to O'Kearney's hopes of a deep run.
He was most unfortunate, firing his last 5,000 chips or so into the center with pocket eights and looking out in great shape when David Radnor called him with pocket sixes.
A cruel board of 3♥Q♦J♦A♦6♥ however saw him ousted on the last, meaning his long list of UKIPT cashes won't be bolstered in this occasion.
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5:20pm: ExitsThere's no easy option to say this but: Gary Whipp, Christoph Koehnen, Mats Gjertsen, Tom Gallagher, Gil Lobo, Mateusz Zbikowski, Miguel Iglesias, Nigel Holliday, Diego Gomez, Donald Elliot, Nicole Zauner and Mark Burns are all out. -- NW
5:10pm: Barometer reads storms aheadWe are reaching that tipping point of the tournament, where picking up the blinds and antes is so valuable for some players that they're willing to risk their tournament life to do so.
Even the bigger stacks can get into trouble here, as they vie for position on the table, 3, 4, 5 and maybe even 6-betting one another with napkins as they appear to claim their authority.
Thusfar, eliminations was few and much between but this trickle could well thicken to a gradual stream and eventually a flood over the approaching levels.
Keep them locked in this position. --RS
5:05pm: Spinks back from the brinkShort with around 7,750, Jon Spinks needed some love from the poker gods to come back into contention.
He looked to make his own fortune, cold 4-bet shoving his stack into the center with pocket tens following some action around the table.
Just one caller took on his aggressive move - holding A♦K♠ but Spinks' slim edge held over flop, turn and river and he was left back to where he started the day - only a tad under 20,000. -- RS
4:55pm: Poker Term of the dayThe vernacular of the poker player can seem abstruse and esoteric to the outsider, but once you've steeped yourself within the game for several years, you think that you could have a handle at the language.
Imagine our surprise then once we learnt a brand new term today!
UKIPT Nottingham final tablist Willie Elliot was the person to enlighten the blog team about exactly what a "Dundee chop" referred to.
"It's whilst you start a multi table tournament, one guy gets knocked out and the remainder of the players chop the prizepool. It is a real thing I promise you!"
We can confirm that there's an entry within the urban dictionary relating to the "Dundee chop", although apparently Merriam-Webster are still in board level discussions concerning the validity of its entry into their ranks. -- RS
4:45pm: Tournament snippetsThe PokerStars Blog spotted UKIPT Season 3 leader board winner Tom Hall within the field, he's on the same table as Ike Haxton, but was thinking about a pot against Craig Parker. At the turn of a 4♦6♠Q♣7♣ board Hall fired out a gamble of 1,800 and an in position Parker smooth called. The 3♦ rounded off the community cards and Hall fired another barrel, this time 2,500 was the fee for Parker. The latter though decided to bump it as much as 5,300 and after much chip clanging in his hands and face chewing Hall let his hand go.
Elsewhere Daniel Myers is as much as 50,000 and he's got Chris Moneymaker ribbing him about not folding king-queen in a hand earlier within the day, Moneymaker is doing just fine on 24,000. As is Chris Jonat, the Rational Group Staff member who's Senior Manager of Team PokerStars Online, finished fourth last year and is as much as 40,000. Whilst Chris Brammer is all the way down to 5,500. -- NW
4:35pm: Chip counts and exitsAs the fifth level gets under way listed here are the chip counts of a few of the notables:
Ben Jenkins - 15,000Jon Spinks - 7,000Willie Eilliot - 24,000Chris Jonat - 21,000Luca Pagano - 29,000Eugene Katchalov - 17,000Vicente Delgado - 26,000Dean Hutchison - 8,000Pablo Gordillo - 14,100Andrew Hawksby - 44,000Martins Adeniya - 32,000
Whilst, Theo Jorgensen, Sinem Melin, Menelaos Pissarides, Rick Dacey, Geoff Ansell, Andrew Campbell, Darren Webb, Marc Hunter, Steven Pritchard, Krzysztof Jacyk, David Lewis, Brian Watterson and Paul Allen are all out. -- NW
PokerStars Blog reporting team at PokerStars UKIPT Isle of Man 2: Rod Stirzaker and Nick Wright. Photos by Danny Maxwell.
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