Ramsey Ajram has been dropped to just 1,675 after he called a squeeze all-in from a Scandananvian-looking short-stack. Ajram tabled 
ahead of the weak but live 
but the board came 
and the disappointed British youngster was forced to hand over a 5,000+ pot as a result.
We've got two levels in the books, and the players are taking their first 20-minute break of Day 1a.
I spoke to Jamie Burland during the break. He's currently on 2,700 after a rather uneventful opening two levels. He did play one slightly interesting pot, raising it up to 250 from the button with 
before being called in the small blind by Vic grinder Julian Quance.
Burland fired out on the 
flop, but then checked back on the 
turn and 
river. Quance revealed 
for top pair.
Burland was wondering how profitable shoving the river would be (an all-in would be around twice the pot), thinking he could get his opponent, who was playing pretty tight, to fold top pair. But although Quance is a solid player, he's also rather shrewd, and could possibly smell out the bluff and make the call.
"Would be great if I'd shoved it in," added Burland, "and he'd deemed the over-shove to be a bluff and made the call with tens or something and turned my hand into an accidental value-shove."
Level: 3
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
We missed the action, but overheard Martins Adeniya telling his buddy Praz Bansi that he was done. We then checked Adeniya's old table and indeed his chips were all gone. Who got them? Kevin MacPhee was busy stacking up to about 11,000.
James Dempsey moved all-in for his last 500 chips from UTG and then the UTG+1 player pushed all-in behind him for around 1,500.
"Oh no, not the first guy!" sighed Dempsey, looking around and shouting "Taxi!"
The rest of the players fold and Dempsey revealed 
almost happy to be coinflipping against 
.
"Royal flush?" inquired Dempsey of the dealer.
The flop came down 
pretty much sealing Dempsey's fate.
"Three-five?"
But the turn was the and the river a full-house completing 
ending the tournament for one of today's more colourful characters.
PokerNews' own Matthew Parvis raised from under the gun plus one to 250. The player in the cutoff seat called and then the big blind also called. The three of them saw the flop come down 
and the big blind open-shoved for 2,300. Parvis stuck all of his chips in for a reshove worth 3,125. The cutoff then folded.
When the hands were turned over, two flush draws were shown and Parvis' hand wasn't looking too good. He held the 
against the 
for his opponent.
After a 
fell on the turn, Parvis could no longer win this pot. The river completed the semantics of things with the 
.
Parvis sent over the chips and was knocked down to 825 chips.
Jerome Bradpiece, who won the second ever GUKPT event back in 2007 for £121,600, has endured somewhat of a roller coaster ride during these opening levels.
His first loop-the-loop came prior to the break, his open with 
three-bet and Bradpiece making the call. Bradpiece check-raised a 
flop, before getting it all in on the turn, his opponent failing to improve with and doubling Bradpiece through.
Soon after, Bradpiece locked horns with Andriena Nutt, a name you could be hearing a lot of is she goes deep (you'll have to trust me on that). After calling a raise with 
(suited) in the big blind, (Nutt called on the button), Bradpiece check-raised a 200 lead to 700 and Nutt made the call. On the turn, he bet 1,100 before check-calling 1,600 on the river and being shown .
"I got lucky though to get it back," he replied, having returned to a 4,000 stack. "She [Nutt] raised to 125 on the button, the small blind called and I three-bet 
from the big blind. She called and the small blind folded. Check, check on the 
flop, then I bet 600 on the 
turn. She moved all in, I called, but she had . river."
Upon the conclusion of the tale, Bradpiece returned to his seat with a cheeky grin on his face, accompanied, I'm sure, with a huge sense of relief.
Matthew Parvis was just crushed after running a flush draw into a bigger flush draw before he stuck the last of his chips in from the small blind. He moved all in over the top of a late-position raise and the player called. Unfortunately for Parvis, his was dominated by the 
for his opponent.
The board ran out 
and Parvis has been sent back to the desk.
Ramsey Ajram was nursing a short stack earlier so it was a surprise to see him presiding over a 10,000 chip stack this early in the start of the third level.
"I doubled up then tripled up in the first two hands," Ajram gleefully told us.
"I had against then the next hand I had against and on a 
board where we all got it in and I held."
