GukPT Goliath 2013 Day 3
Prizepool Payouts – 16:01
Goliath
£100 NLHE
Entries: 2570
1st – £56,540
2nd – £31,000
3rd – £19,000
4th – £11,000
5th – £8,000
6th – £6,100
7th – £4,800
8th – £3,200
9th – £2,400
10th – £1,630 – Ernesto Aguilar
11th – £1,330 – Stephen Young
12th – £1,330 – Peter Rhodes
13th – £1,080 – William McMurray
14th – £1,080 – Richard Johnson
15th – £1,080 – Khalick Mohangee
16th – £860 – Phillip Bain
17th – £860 – Ciprain Berdan
18th – £860 – Ying Wong
19th – £700 – Rhys Ellis
20th – £700 – Donovan Burton
21st – £700 – Marc Brazier
22nd – £700 – William Greenwood
23rd – £700 – Jonathan Cosgrove
24th – £700 – Paul Kelly
25th – £700 – Paul McCardle
26th – £700 – Lee Taylor
27th – £700 – Nigel Bull
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Day Three Is In The Books – 15:54
After just three hours of play we have lost 18 players!! It has been a manic, but short day here at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
The 27 players who came back today were all guaranteed £700 and within half an hour we had lost a third of them as we were down to 2 tables.
They fell in this order
19th – £700 – Rhys Ellis
20th – £700 – Donovan Burton
21st – £700 – Marc Brazier
22nd – £700 – William Greenwood
23rd – £700 – Jonathan Cosgrove
24th – £700 – Paul Kelly
25th – £700 – Paul McCardle
26th – £700 – Lee Taylor
27th – £700 – Nigel Bull
We would then redraw for seats as Dan Cullen still held the chip lead, with 11.5million.
It wouldn’t take long before the players started to bust out again! Then within another few levels we were done!! There wasn’t even a final table bubble because Stephen Young & Ernesto Aguilar busted at exactly the same in 11th & 10th.
The final table will be started at 1pm tomorrow with Jiri Sladkovsky leading the way with his huge 18million stack.
Final Table
Seat One – Nishid Pnadipleuman – 5,125,000
Seat Two – Steven Winstanley – 4,350,000
Seat Three – Daniel Arbon – 8,660,000
Seat Four – Luke Vinnicombe – 4,355,000
Seat Five – Jiri Sladkovsky – 18,025,000
Seat Six – Robert Trueman – 4,515,000
Seat Seven – Daniel Cullen – 13,380,000
Seat Eight – Kevin Stevens – 2,305,000
Seat Nine – Jake Skidmore – 3,330,000
Who is going to take down the biggest field ever to be assembled in europe?? We will find out tomorrow.
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Getting There
Day 3 of the GUKPT Goliath 2013 has wrapped for the day we will be along in awhile with a wrap of todays action – DM
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Quick Succession – 15:01
Our final table is set folks in very quick succession we lost Stephen Young in 11th for £1,330 when down to just over two bigs he shoved from the HJ with 
and the BB making the call with 
flopping a pair and a flush draw on 
it was and up & down straight draw but a 
turn and 
we were just one away from the feature table.
When we get to 10 players it was suppose to play hand for hand but there was a hand in progress on the other table, board reading 
hearing all in and call from the TD we rush over to see Ernesto Aguilar is at risk holding A8 vs Jiri Sladkovsky flopped straight 
:10d the latter had checked the turn with the former moving all in and snapped it Aguilar was drawing dead, river 
and we would have our final table of 9 set. – DM
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Rough Chip Counts – 14:46
Table One
Seat One – Luke Vinnicombe – 4,200,000
Seat Two – Nishid Pnadipleuman – 6,000,000
Seat Three – Stephen Young – 650,000
Seat Four – Steven Winstanley – 3,700,000
Seat Five – Robert Trueman – 3,000,000
Seat Six – Jake Skidmore 2,800,000
Table Two
Seat One – Daniel Arbon – 8,600,000
Seat Two – Daniel Cullen – 14,000,000
Seat Three – Jiri Sladkovsky 14,600,000
Seat Four – Ernesto Aguilar 3,200,000
Seat Five – Kevin Stevens – 2,400,000
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Level 32
Players are back as we begin the 32nd level of the tournament.
Blinds are now 100,000/200,000 with a 20,000 ante.
11 players remaining.
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Break Time – 14:21
All players are now on a 20 minute break.
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Chip Leader Extends Lead
Daniel “Harry Styles” Cullen is taking apart the field right now, and has just eliminated Peter Rhodes when his 
held up against Rhodes’ 
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Rhodes had shoved over Cullen’s opening raise, and was probably not looking for him to call. The board ran out 
, and Rhodes picks up the 12th place prize money of £1,330. – RK
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Day 2 Round Up Video – 14:18
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Just Missed Money Jump – 14:16
William McMurray was down to under 1 big blind after putting his SB into the pot, action folded around to Jiri Sladkovsky on the button opening to 370,000 McMurray having to call all in from the SB turned over 
but was absolutely dominated by 
Drawing virtually dead after the flop came down 
& completely dead on the turn the board ran out
McMurray finishes in 13th place £1,080 a spot shy of a money jump. – DM
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Trueman up to 3 Million, but Chops Big Pot
Robert Trueman just got unlucky to chop with Stephen Young, but his stack is still up to up to just over 3 million. Trueman’s split the pot with the 
held by Young as the board ran out 
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Win One Lose One – 13:54
Luke Vinnicombe 3bet to 1,000,000 straight from the button after an UTG 360,000 open BB really tanked and looked like he was making a reluctant fold, action back to the original raiser who mucked his hand, was shown and the BB was quite happy with his fold then holding pocket 9’s.
Next hand action is folded around to Vinnicombe in the CO 400,000 was the bet with only one caller from the BB, BB check called a 500,000 bet 
turn slowed the action by going check/check river 
all in for around 2,000,000 from the BB sent Vinnicombe up of his chair looking at the board but can’t make the call and mucked his hand.
So all the chips he won in the hand previous he lost them and more on this one. – DM
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Prizepool Payout – 13:49
Goliath
£100 NLHE
Entries: 2570
1st – £56,540
2nd – £31,000
3rd – £19,000
4th – £11,000
5th – £8,000
6th – £6,100
7th – £4,800
8th – £3,200
9th – £2,400
10th – £1,630
11th – £1,330
12th – £1,330
13th – £1,080
14th – £1,080
15th – £1,080 – Khalick Mohangee
16th – £860 – Phillip Bain
17th – £860 – Ciprain Berdan
18th – £860 – Ying Wong
19th – £700 – Rhys Ellis
20th – £700 – Donovan Burton
21st – £700 – Marc Brazier
22nd – £700 – William Greenwood
23rd – £700 – Jonathan Cosgrove
24th – £700 – Paul Kelly
25th – £700 – Paul McCardle
26th – £700 – Lee Taylor
27th – £700 – Nigel Bull
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Mohangee Hits the Rail – 13:47
Khalick Mohangee pushed his last 1.8 million into the middle from the button, and after a count, Daniel “Harry Styles” Cullen made the call from the big blind. Mohangee turned over and was dominating Cullen’s . The flop was dealt out and left 
staring up from the felt. Mohangee was left effectively looking for an ace, but the turn and river ran out as , and he hit the rail in 15th place for £1,080.
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McMurray Doubles Again – 13:44
Will McMurray moves his short stack all in again this time 275,000 and is called by Khalick Mohangee in the small blind.
It’s a coin flip as Will tables 
Khalick shows
The flop comes 
Will flops a set and it’s all but over!
It is over as the turn comes
The river card is the meaningless .
Will doubles up to 650,000.
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Phillip Bain Has Gone – 13:37
Bain opened the pot with a 320k bet from under the gun +1, and got a single call from Jiri Sladkovsky on the button. The flop fell and Bain fired out a continuation bet of 425k, which Sladkovsky flat called in position, The turn hit the felt, and Bain fired again, this time for 570k, but Sladkovsky fired a salvo back, raising to 1.2m. After some consideration, Bain announced he was all in, and Sladkovsky snap called, tabling for the flopped set. Bain turned over the to be drawing dead. The river fell , and Phillip Bain hit the rail. – RK
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Huge Pot – 13:32
We’ve just had the biggest pot of the tournament close to 8,000,000 chips Peter Rhodes held 
vs Jiri Sladkovsky held with all the chips going in pre flop.
All hear flop 
brought muttered “ooohhs” from the table as Rhodes held the only heart and had the player out chipped, turn and the board ran out a harmless and Sladkovsky now becomes out tournament chipleader, while Rhodes is left with around 1,600,000 – DM
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Another One Gone
Ciprain Berdan has just busted out of the Goliath. The hand before, he had called Daniel Arbon’s shove. Berdan had and 207 showed the . The pot was chopped.
Berdan shoved the next hand with his short stack holding 
hoping to see the table fold. Arbon however woke up with and the board ran out 
to send Berdan home with £860. – RK
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Level 31 – 13:22
The blinds increase as we begin level 32.
They are now 80,000/16,0000 with a 20,000 ante.
18 players remaining
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Down to Two Tables – 13:16
An all in and a call on table two.
I stand up to see a huge 5 million chip pot.
It is blind on blind between Rhys Ellis & chip leader Daniel Cullen
Rhys is the all in player tabling , He has ran into the of Dan.
The board runs out 
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Rhys is elimninated in 19th place, taking home £700.
Dan Cullen now has around 11.5million. A huge stack with the average only 3.5million.
18 players remaining, so we are now down to two tables.
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Chop It Up – 13:12
William McMurray just shoved his small stack again, and saw Ciprian Berdan re-shove behind him. Phillip Bain taook a few moments evaluating his decision, with the out loud thought “It’s close!” but he chose to pass instead.
Murray showed down his 
and Berdan showed his . the board ran out to chop up the chips in the middle. – RK
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Burton Bashed – 13:05
Donovan Burton will be our 20th place finisher walking away with £700 short stack all in with 
in bad shape against flop on the turn sealed his fate with an inconsequential on the river. – DM
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…and the Crowd Goes Wild – 13:03
William McMurray just got his short stack into the middle and found himself against on a flop of while he was holding . The turn of the didn’t help matters, and just left McMurray looking for Barry Greenstein’s card. The brought loud cheers from his rail, but McMurray is still short, and needs to find some cards to get too much deeper in this event. – RK
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Double For Vinnicombe – 13:02
Ernesto Aguilar makes it 360,000 to play, Luke Vinnicombe directly to his left moves all in!!
The action comes back to Ernesto who asks for a count. It’s 1.4million more.
Ernesto makes the call and the cards are tabled.
Luke..
Ernesto..
The flop comes 
The rail start to shout for a Quuuuueeeeeennnn!!
The turn card is !!!!!! As Luke takes the lead.
The river card is 
Luke takes the pot and doubles up to 3.5million!!
Ernesto is down to 3.1million.
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Reluctant Pro
Marc Brazier is an accountant by trade, but in these tough times, he’s had a hard time finding enough work in his chosen field to pay the bills. To make ends meet, he’s been playing poker, and from our conversation, making a more than decent hash of it. He’s mainly a cash player, but he’s also taken down the Bigger 22 online, and between his online poker winnings and the odd bit of freelance work, he’s living a comfortable life. This is his second live cash of note, after coming 99th in a WPT Event in 2005. – RK
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“Thought he had AK” – 12:54
Action on table 2 from Marc Brazier opens 250,000 pre flop, folded to Daniel Arbon the SB 3betting it up to 495,000 BB dwells hard before mucking his hand, call.
was spread Arbon keeping up with the betting lead cut out a smaller bet than his pre flop raise, 365,000 it was Brazier playing circa 1,800,000 moved all in but bad news as he was snapped off, vs not drawing dead as he had a gutterball, turn paired the board 
& river.
Maybe the smaller bet on the flop than the pre flop raise brought him to the conclusion “I thought he had AK” Marc Brazier finished in 20th for £700 – DM
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Quiet 10 minutes – 12:44
Well we have had a quiet 10 minutes after the manic first half an hour of the day.
21 players remaining in the biggest european field ever!!
The next player out will also receive £700.
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Dropping Like Flies – 12:33
William Greenwood just pushed his remaining 1,010,000 over the line, announcing “All in” and after some significant deliberation, Peter Rhodes made the call, turning over . Greenwood turned over his to start the coin flip.
The flop came putting Greenwood in a lot of trouble. The turn sealed his fate, and the river was irrelevant. Greenwood leaves in 22nd place for £700. – RK
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Jonathan Cosgrove – 23rd
Jiri Sladkovsky limps from under the gun, the action comes round to Jonathan Cosgrove in the small blind who moves all in for his last 550,000. The big blind gets out of the way and Jiri quickly calls.
Jonathan will need massive amounts of help as he shows 
Jiri proudly tables 
The flop comes
Jonathan leaves his seat as he is drawing very thin.
The turn card comes
The river card the .
Jonathan finishes in 23rd for £700.
Jiri is now up to 4.5million.
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Double up Again – 12:30
Kevin Stephens is situated up on the feature awhile back he managed to double up with KK vs A3 and he has now just doubled through again.
All in pre for 930,000 with he was racing against sees him double up to over 2,000,000 which is still under the average but a lot better than where he was awhile back. – DM
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Paul Kelly – 24th
The action is passed round to Paul Kelly on the button who moves all in for 900,000, Daniel Cullen also moves all in from the small blind and the big blind gets out of the way.
Daniel tables
Paul is behind but has live cards showing
The board runs out
Daniel takes the pot with a pair of ace and now is up to 8 million chips!!
We lose Paul Kelly in 24th place for £700.
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Wong Doubles Again 12:23
Wong just doubled through Jonathan Cosgrove when his started out ahead against Cosgrove’s , and only got better as the board was dealt to show . Cosgrove has been left very very short. – RK
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Feature Table No More – 12:19
Hearing TD Nick O’Hara calling out all in & call on the feature table Paul McCardle held but was dominated by
Flop with both players holding each others straight card it went to rooting for the other but as the turn paired it was now back to rooting for your own card, river ran out 
and we lost another player.
Paul McCardle will walk away with £700 – DM
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Taylor – 26th
Lee Taylor all in for his tournament life up against Phil Bain.
It’s a classic coin flip as Lee tables vs the of Phil.
The flop comes , a decent flop for the A-K considering he hasn’t connected with the board yet.
The turn comes another over card to the pocket fours meaning three more outs for Phil.
The river is !!! Sick for Lee as he gets counterfeited. He leaves us in 25th place for £700.
Phil takes the pot with two pair and now has 2.5million chips.
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Level 30
Blinds now running 60,000/120,000/15,000 24 players remain with an average stack of 2,675,000 from this level onwards we will now also move to a 1 hour clock. – DM
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Seating Positions
Table One
1 – Khalick Mohangee
2 – Jiri Sladkovsky
3 – Paul Mcardle
4 – Ying Wong
5 – Kevin Stevens
6 – Robert Trueman
7 – Richard Johnson
8 – Nishid Pnadipleuman
9 – Jonathan Cosgrove
Table Two
1 – Paul Kelly
2 – Daniel Cullen
3 – Steven Winstanley
4 – Daniel Arbon
5 – William Greenwood
6 – Nigel Bull
7 – Jake Skidmore
8 – Peter Rhodes
9 – Rhys Wyn Ellis
Table Three
1 – Ciprian Berdan
2 – Stephen Young
3 – Philip Bain
4 – Ernesto Aguilar
5 – Luke Vinnicombe
6 – Donovan Burton
7 – William Mcmurray
8 – Lee Taylor
9 – Marc Brazier
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Fast and Furious
The action is starting off at a blistering pace, and we’ve just had another all in and a call, this time at the feature table.Danny Wong jammed his short stack into the middle, and got a call from Kevin Stevens sat just to his left.
Wong had and Stevens had 
. The board ran out as and the king high took the pot. Wong is still relatively short, and Stevens is running on fumes. – RK
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Bull Got the Horns – 12:12
Nigel Bull will be our first player eliminated from todays action, opening to 230,000 pre flop Peter Rhodes 3bet to 560,000 Bull playing a litte over 1,000,000 flats the raise.
Flop Bull waits a few moments before moving all in, snap called by Rhodes who turned over for a set and was dominating turn sealed Bulls fate with the river completing
Nigel Bull will walk away with £700 for his 27th place finish. – DM
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Prizepool Payout
Goliath
£100 NLHE
Entries: 2570
1st – £56,540
2nd – £31,000
3rd – £19,000
4th – £11,000
5th – £8,000
6th – £6,100
7th – £4,800
8th – £3,200
9th – £2,400
10th – £1,630
11th – £1,330
12th – £1,330
13th – £1,080
14th – £1,080
15th – £1,080
16th – £860
17th – £860
18th – £860
19th – £700
20th – £700
21st – £700
22nd – £700
23rd – £700
24th – £700
25th – £700
26th – £700
27th – £700
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Shuffle up and Deal!
We have 13 minutes of Level 29 remaining, and after that, we are moving to a 60 minute clock for the remaining action in the 2013 GukPT Goliath. – RK
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Chip Counts – 11:49
We have the chip counts from last night, and these are the stacks the players are taking into Day 3.
Daniel Cullen – 7200000
Nishid Pnadipleuman – 5765000
Daniel Arbon – 4750000
Peter Rhodes – 4410000
Ernesto Aguilar – 4250000
Steven Winstanley – 3930000
Jiri Sladkovsky – 3890000
Jake Skidmore – 2630000
Ciprian Berdan – 2560000
Marc Brazier – 2490000
Khalick Mohangee – 2460000
Rhys Ellis – 2230000
Jonathan Cosgrove – 1507000
Richard Johnson – 1500700
Donovan Burton – 1460000
Philip Bain – 1455000
Luke Vinnicombe – 1400000
Paul Mcardle – 1380000
Robert Trueman – 1345000
William Greenwood – 1206000
Stephen Young – 1205000
William Mcmurray – 1080000
Nigel Bull – 1065000
Lee Taylor – 1045000
Paul Kelly – 980000
Kevin Stevens – 740000
Ying Dyt “Danny” Wong – 675000
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Here We Go! – 11:47
Day 3 is about to start, and we are playing down to 9 from the 27 who survived last night – RK
