Title: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 12:11:09 PM We're back! Yay!
More players playing today including Greg Raymer and Luca Pagano along with an assortment of others who we've yet to spot. Play is meant to start at 2pm (1pm UK) but we're debating that it might start a little late due to the fact that everyone (including press) has to register each day to go into the casino due to Polish law. Here are last nights chip counts: Robert Flink 113,300 Anio Alcaraz 78,000 Alp Okumus 62,100 Jospeh Serock 55,000 Andreas Torbergsen 53,000 Daniel Hofmeister 51,900 Jean Claude Perrot 50,100 Tyler Netter 42,600 David Burn 41,700 Kenneth Hicks Jr. 41,200 Willian Johnson 40,900 Christoffer Sonesson 39,800 Victor Escudero 39,100 James Honeybone 38,700 Fredrik Haugen 36,800 Anton Smolyanskiy 35,800 Andrea Benelli 35,700 Jari-Pekka Juhola 34,400 Trond Erik Eidsvig 34,400 Dennis Bejedal 33,900 Roberto Nateri 32,500 Magnus Petersson 30,100 Woody Deck 29,700 Cristiano Blanco 28,800 Robert Lipkin 28,800 Niclas Svensson 27,800 Aleksandr Gorelik 27,200 Derek Montgomery 26,600 Jean François Rigollet 26,600 Juan Manuel Pastor 25,700 Ulrica Skönnemark 24,900 Johan Storakers 24,800 Mats Rahm 24,000 Johan Lund 24,000 Antonio Gomez Ribera 23,800 Jacek Ładny 22,500 Jeffrey Petronack 21,700 Christos Kravaritis 21,600 Hans Eskilsson 21,100 Daniel Carter 20,800 Daniel Ryan 19,800 Julien Boue 18,800 Marc Goodwin 18,700 Daniel Woolson 18,400 Stewart Chantler 18,300 Janusz Petlic 18,300 Dino Dinler 18,300 Daniel Mangas 17,900 Hans Ritburg 17,500 Mark Hirleman 17,200 Casey Kastle 17,200 Antti Ropponen 16,900 Kosta Anastasyadi 16,700 Christian Öman 15,700 Kim Öfverström 15,500 Nikolaj Fabricius 15,400 Morten Holm 15,300 Craig Hopkins 15,000 Jorund Soma 14,700 Joel Gunnarsson 13,800 Łukasz Wasek 13,500 Patrick Arba 11,500 Stephan Thiele-Bolivar 10,500 Julian Thew 8,900 Marek Piecha 8,700 Kai Leurer 8,600 Gino Alacqua 8,000 William Olivieri 8,000 Eugeniusz Licznarowski 6,900 Mirko Kirner 6,700 Sami Leino 6,300 John Gibson 3,900 To interact and ask for player requests, please head over to the interactive thread, where you can ask for all sorts of cool stuff: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=31926.new#new Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 12:54:58 PM People spotted so far:
Soren Kongsgaard Dave Colclough Andy Black Mark Teltscher Thomas Fougeron Pascal Perrault Rolf Slotboom Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 02:16:51 PM We're still waiting for the seat plans to come up. So it's all very Mateyboyish at the moment. A big pot on table 1 where all the chips ended up in the middle of a Qh 9c Kd Qs 3d board, the victorious winner from seat 1 showing Kh Ks, Seat 6, left with shrapnel, choosing to muck, what was thought to be Js Ts...
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 02:20:20 PM Provisional Player list, (No Stuart Rutter, don't think he's here):
Mario Adinolfi Risto Ailamo Kostadin Anakiev Mads Andersen Fatih Aydin Ziv Bachar Antonio Battisti Jadambaa Bat-Ulzii Remy Biechel Brynja Björg Sassoon Henri Boutboul Steve Bromley Stéphane Brou Michiel Brummelhuis Stephen Chidwick Raul Paez Corral David Couclas Brice Cournut Piergiorgio D'ancona Jeffrey Davidson Ed De Haas Carlos Manuel De Jesus Oliveira Gianfranco Del Re Keith Donais Michael Dunn Trevor Edwards Christoffer Egemo Hansen Hecham El Sayed Kees Eldering Azem Elezaj Björn Enberg Malak Ertas Jose Espinar Antonio Feole Thomas Fougeron Benoit Gariepy René Gisbertz Henrik Gwinner Andreas Hagen Thor Hansen Peter Haupt Phillip Hilm Chuc Hoang Michael Hogbom Marius Hogtun Thomas Holm Marcin Horecki Torgeir Husevaag Domenico Iannone Laurent Iuncker Alex Jagodik Joris Jaspers Brian Jensen Soren S. Jensen Mikael Johansson Theo Jorgensen Melvyn Judah Miika Karjalainen Janar Kiivramees Stephan Kjerstad Ilkka Koskinen Leszek Krawczyñski Mathias Kurschner Francis Lamothe Juan Lapido Mike Leah Henrik Lennholm Elizabeth Lieu Johnny Lodden Peter Macallan Roberto Machado Cameron Macmillan Ted Manios Reijo Manninen Piotr Marzec Kenneth Matsson Arnaud Mattern Emil Mattsson Nichlas Mattsson Raul Mestre Grzegorz Mikielewicz Taras Mikulik Sorel Mizzi Rain Mölderkivi Zach Moore Tomé Moreira Filipe Moreira Soren Nielsen Mikael Norinder Joao Manuel Nunes Mehdi Ouakhir Luca Pagano Dag Palovic Seppo Parkkinen Dariusz Paszkiewicz Pascal Perrault Max Tobias Persson Dennis Petronack Jose Picazo Bartosz Piesiewicz Jukka Petri Pietilä Wojciech Polak Alexia Portal Mika Puro Joao Quintella Greg Raymer Voitto Rintala David Robinson Nicky Roeg Simone Rossi David Rudling Daan Ruiter Sebastian Ruthenberg Sławomir RYPIÑSKI Andre Santos Michael Schlesiger Michael Schulze Luis Sevilla Joshua Shmerl Sandro Simon Almira Skripchenko Andrzej Słapiñski Rolf Slotboom Ilja Smid Blair Smith Jan Stefan Smolarczyk Magnus Söderholtz Ricardo Sousa Simeon Tconev Mark Teltscher Dieter Thielen Rhys Thorpe William Thorson Michael Tureniec Yavor Tutev Holi Ugrinovski Claus Uhrskov Christopher Ulsrud Thierry Van Der Berg Jose Varela Lex Veldhuis David Wagener Mathias Wiberg Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 02:49:19 PM This American Matey in the black cap who looks vaguely familiar but I can't put a name to as yet just won a pot. I was drawn attention to his river dilemma by a noise which was a bit like "Yaaaa!" and a slap of the table, as the river Qh came to complete a board of 9s 9h 5h Js.
He then performed one of those out loud thought processes, which I attempted to transcribe in full. "You've hit the straight and the flush. How can I even possibly call? You could've just hit one. [pause, counting out the 1,500 which his opponent had bet out on the river] That's all the profit I've made the whole time so far... what can I beat? You check-call the flop, lead out the turn [I mentally thank him for bringing me up to date on the action thus far] ..." Well, he figured out how to possibly call, with his 8c 9d which was good against a Ts 4s missed-draw bluff on the river, which he was obviously happy about. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11728&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 02:52:00 PM The intense, but generally friendly, Thierry Van Den Berg has had a rollercoaster of a start, first he lost over half his stack with Aces against a set of Threes then ran Queens into Aces. However he hit a double-up soon after when his all-in on a 6h 7h 8h 6d with Ahrt Qh was called by a slightly optimistic Kd 7d, which took him back up to 9k. "Happy Birthday," Liz Lieu observed.
Soon after, he was at it again, Liz Lieu raised to 350 after a UTG limper and Thierry re-raised to 950. Lieu called anthen they both checked a 9s 8c 8h flop before Lieu checked the 5s turn. Thierry bet out 2k, Liz passed and was shown Aces for her trouble. Andre Santos, who lost half his stack early on, has got it all back, he held Jacks on an 8-6-6 board against 9-8 and housed up on the turn for good measure. Finally... Early Bizzaro-Handwatch of the Day Early position raises to 250. The button calls and Arnaud Mattern calls in the big blind. 5d 5h 2h Check check check. 2d Checkity Check. 9d Checkage. Arnaud shows Tc 8h. It's good. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 02:55:44 PM Here's Luca Pagano, he of the stylish salmon shirts, and next to him one of two Mateys who had got to the river with him on a hand a minute ago.
The board: 9c 6s 2h 9d 5s The pot was 3,300 and Luca was first to act, betting out 2,500. The gent on the right of this picture gave it a good long dwell, and made one of those decisions which involve holding the potential call in your hands and then suddenly dropping it and passing like it had caught on fire. Luca was, however, instacalled by the Second Matey, who mucked when the Italian showed Ahrt 9h for the trips. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11730&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 03:05:30 PM Mads Andersen, previous Scandinavian Open winner, is here on the same table as William Thorson. I saw him win an early pot like so:
On a heads up flop of Kh Ahrt Td which had been raised and called by Mads on the blind, he checked, the Raiser bet 350, and Mads raised to 1,100. A slow call. Turn: Qs And the prior EPT winner took it there with a 2,100 bet, even though it looked for a long time like Raiser was preparing to move in. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11732&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 03:26:28 PM And here's where everyone is, and who they're sitting with, courtesy of Mad from Pokerstars (a little inconsistency to be expected though, as two levels' worth of players busting have moved them round slightly):
Dariusz Paszkiewicz 1 1 Kostadin Anakiev 1 2 Ilkka Koskinen 1 3 Henri Boutboul 1 4 Torgeir Husevaag 1 5 Joao Quintella Teixeira De Freitas 1 5 Ed De Haas 1 7 Joris Jaspers 1 8 Miika Karjalainen 1 9 Alexia Portal 1 10 Wojciech Polak 2 1 Juan Lapido 2 2 Phillip Hilm 2 3 Mehdi Ouakhir 2 4 Melvyn Judah 2 5 Tomé Moreira 2 6 Alon Mizrahi 2 7 David Wagener 2 8 Grzegorz Mikielewicz 2 9 Bernard Boutboul 2 10 Jan Stefan Smolarczyk 3 1 Bartosz Piesiewicz 3 2 Blair Smith 3 3 Jose Espinar 3 4 Ilja Smid 3 5 Henrik Gwinner 3 6 Rhys Thorpe 3 7 Theo Jorgensen 3 8 Lex Veldhuis 3 9 Jeffrey Davidson 3 10 Robert Nowak 4 1 Kenneth Matsson 4 2 Andreas Hagen 4 3 Stephen Chidwick 4 4 Björn Enberg 4 5 Dennis Petronack 4 6 Pascal Perrault 4 7 Holi Ugrinovski 4 8 Dawoud Ghena 4 9 Brynja Björg Sassoon 4 10 Filipe Moreira 5 1 Guillame Darcourt 5 2 Hecham El Sayed 5 3 Kees Eldering 5 4 Luca Pagano 5 5 Mikael Johansson 5 6 Nichlas Mattsson 5 7 Azem Elezaj 5 8 Soren Nielsen 5 9 Sorel Mizzi 5 10 Andre Santos 6 1 Michael Dunn 6 3 Sandro Simon 6 4 Andrew Black 6 5 David Colclough 6 6 Andrzej Siemieniak 6 7 Michael Tureniec 6 8 David Robinson 6 9 Leszek Krawczyñski 6 10 Jukka Petri Pietilä 7 1 Mario Adinolfi 7 2 Ange Besnainou 7 3 Peter Macallan 7 4 Piotr Marzec 7 5 Seppo Parkkinen 7 6 Jose Picazo 7 7 Raul Mestre 7 8 Mikael Norinder 7 9 Reijo Manninen 7 10 Elizabeth Lieu 8 1 Thierry Van Der Berg 8 2 Stephan Kjerstad 8 3 Mike Leah 8 4 Thomas Fougeron 8 5 Yavor Tutev 8 6 Ziv Bachar 8 7 Jadambaa Bat-Ulzii 8 8 Giuseppe Caciolo 8 9 Patrice Boudet 9 1 Nico Behling 9 2 Cameron Macmillan 9 3 Francis Lamothe 9 4 Johnny Lodden 9 5 Ted Manios 9 6 Reza Dolatshahi 9 7 Claus Uhrskov 9 8 Emil Mattsson 9 9 Antonio Battisti 9 10 Max Tobias Persson 10 1 Steve Bromley 10 2 Stéphane Brou 10 3 Soren S. Jensen 10 4 Brian Jensen 10 5 Peter Haupt 10 6 Christoffer Egemo Hansen 10 7 Michael Schulze 10 8 Eric Van Der Burg 10 9 Michiel Brummelhuis 10 10 Rolf Slotboom 11 2 Magnus Söderholtz 11 3 Rain Mölderkivi 11 4 Marcin Horecki 11 6 Risto Ailamo 11 7 Sebastian Ruthenberg 11 8 Domenico Iannone 11 9 Luis Sevilla 11 10 Michael Hogbom 12 1 Gianfranco Del Re 12 2 Damir Horoziæ 12 3 Nicky Roeg 12 4 Mark Teltscher 12 5 Brice Cournut 12 6 Simeon Tsonev 12 7 Thor Hansen 12 8 Chuc Hoang 12 9 Raul Paez Corral 14 1 Carlos Manuel De Jesus Oliveira 14 2 René Gisbertz 14 3 Benoit Gariepy 14 4 Claus Nielsen 14 5 Mohamed-Azam Razab-Sekh 14 6 Almira Skripchenko 14 7 Fatih Aydin 14 8 S£Awomir Rypiñski 14 9 Jurgen Stumpmeier 17 1 Nikolas Avlonitis 17 2 Rowad Hadrous 17 3 Dieter Thielen 17 4 Dag Palovic 17 5 Mathias Viberg 17 6 Laurent Iuncker 17 7 Piergiorgio D'ancona 17 8 Mika Puro 17 9 Taras Mikulik 19 1 Roberto Machado 19 2 Trevor Edwards 19 3 Arnaud Mattern 19 4 Voitto Rintala 19 6 Zach Moore 19 7 Ricardo Sousa 19 8 Antonio Feole 19 9 Dan B. Pedersen 19 10 Józef Ob£Oza 20 1 Christopher Ulsrud 20 2 Joshua Shmerl 20 3 Joao Manuel Nunes 20 4 Janar Kiivramees 20 5 William Thorson 20 6 David Rudling 20 7 Mads Andersen 20 8 Yilmaz Huseyin 20 9 Alex Jagodik 21 1 Greg Raymer 21 2 Keith Donais 21 3 Tomasz Krzesiñski 21 4 Michael Schlesiger 21 5 Simone Rossi 21 6 Thomas Holm 21 7 Melek Ertas 21 8 Remy Biechel 21 9 Andrzej S£Apiñski 22 1 Daan Ruiter 22 3 Thomas Wahlroos 22 4 Henrik Lennholm 22 5 Gordon Vayo 22 6 Marius Hogtun 22 7 Zadok Mazri 22 8 Mathias Kurschner 22 9 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 03:38:14 PM "That was a bad call...A bad call," says Andy Black as he watches the 3.5k he just called off with 7c 7s on a 7h 5h Aspades 6c 9h board disappear into the swelling stack of Portuguese player Andre Santos who shows Ahrt 3h for a big pot.
Francis Lamothe raises to 300 from early position, Johnny Lodden makes it 900 next to him before a player I think is Claus Uhrskov shoves it all in for 4,550. Francis pushes behind and Lodden breaks out from uberfocus into a rare giggle as he folds. Francis shows Ac Ahrt and Claus (I think) shows Kh Jh for errr two unders in a classic 83/17 battle. Js 8h Kd 3c Ts Francis is not amused. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 04:06:02 PM Chip counts, gathered The Old Fashioned Way (i.e. can't do it by just waiting for the dealers to help one out in breaks a la systeme du Raab):
Soren Jensen (yes, THAT Soren Jensen from Copenhagen - pictured below) -- 8,600 Thor Hansen -- 8,000 Thomas Fougeron -- 8,400 David Rudling -- OUT Damir Horoziæ (Hoody of the day) -- 5,100 William Thorson -- 7,300 Mads Andersen -- 11,900 Thomas Wahlroos -- 11,000 Greg Raymer -- 3,250 Voitto Rintala -- 5,125 Arnaud Mattern -- 13,150 Mark Teltscher -- 7,000 Rolf Slotboom -- 8,800 Johnny Lodden -- 7,250 Joris Jaspers -- 11,500 Mel Judah -- 11,800 Pascal Perrault -- 11,900 Andreas Hagen -- 10,500 Luca Pagano -- 15,400 Soren Kongsgaard -- 5,700 Sorel Mizzi -- 3,500 Andy Black -- 11,800 Liz Lieu -- 11,400 Angelo Besnainou -- 8,100 (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11742&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 04:13:14 PM Dave Colclough is OUT -
Just never off the ground for El Blondie today - a couple of big match-ups: Qc Qd against Ad Kd and then Aspades Qs vs. Jc Jh both went the other guy's way, leaving him leaving mid level Three. Hard luck, but I seem to remember that last year much the same thing occurred with the result that Mr. Colclough ended up doing rather well on the cash games... Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 04:17:44 PM Greg Raymer is out and there's a distinct lack of sock 'n' sandals in the tournament now. :(
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 04:32:03 PM (http://www.tactilesignage.com/permanent/exit%20california.jpg)
A heads up raised (possibly re-raised) pot preflop comes to its betting conclusion on a Ts 8d 4d flop. The gent pictured, I believe one Marcin Horecki, bets out, then Luis Sevilla moves all-in, called. This is not a small pot, by the way, and I wasn't surprised to hear tablemate Rolf Slotboom pipe up, "One of them has Aces. Him. He has Aces." Yes, Sevilla has Aspades Ad Horecki shows: Tc Jc Turn: Js (a collective wince is shared by the table) River: 9d (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11746&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 05:01:16 PM Andy Black is on crack. Well, he's not, but he's like a giddy schoolgirl or maybe he's had a shandy or two already, but either way he's bouncing around off the walls or something.
"Wake up Andy! Can you remember your name?" he bizarrely says. Then, for no forseeable reason, he let out a yell then went off for a few minutes, presuambly to smoke before coming back saying, "Ok let's go you sons of bitches!!" Then just to add a catalyst to this process, Thiomas Walroos plonked his stack down next to Andy's. A brief exchange of niceties but hopefully fireworks will follow. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 05:09:27 PM Pascal Perrault face turns into a grimace when his opponent leads out for 4,000 into a 6,500 pot on the river of a 7d Ac Tc 9h Ts board, it's almost half the Frenchman's remaining chips, and he really didn't like the river. So much so, he gives up his Ahrt 7h, his opponent shows 6c 5c for a well-timed bluff.
Sorrel Mizzi just doubled up through William Thorson, with Ahrt Ad vs Ks Qs on a 3d 5s Qc 5d 2c. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 05:13:41 PM Slightly odd exit of a player my list says is/was Lex Veldhuis. In any case, he was sitting in seat 8/9 Table 3, and had called Theo Jorgensen's raise to 700 preflop, along with under the gun limper Blair Smith. See, this hand is already a bit weird.
Flop: 9s Qd 9h Now double check to Veldhuis (probably) who bet out 2,400. Smith seemed to have instantly lost all interest in the hand and passed, but Jorgensen then promptly moved in on him. His stack was covered (around 7 or 8k more to go), but he called all-in faster than one would normally expect, saying, "I hope you don't have Queens," and showing Jh Th. Jorgensen showed: 7c 9c Turn: Td River: Jd So down one more player, and one more doubled stack. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 05:24:13 PM Mehdi Ouakhir, a pretty big early stack with 24,600 has been tangling with neighbour Mel Judah. The most recent round went to an unusually talkative Mel, who seemed to have put the third raise in from the small blind, after Ouakhir made it 1,700 on the button. They both had pretty decent stacks remaining, so it was a reasonable dwell and then a pass face up of Ad Kc from the button (there was a third guy involved but he got out of the way sharpish).
Mel Judah showed Kd Kc. "I told you I'd show you - can't say more than that. I was hoping you'd push..." but he's going to have to wait to get the wily button's stack a while. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 05:42:58 PM Double trouble for the Betsson duo Johnny Lodden and William Thorson. The former just lost a huge pot on a Qc Tc 5d Qd 3c to Ac 4c whilst Thorson called off all but 250 of his chips only to be shown Ac Qd on a Kd Jh 6s Td 3d board. He then managed to get his last chips in good with Ad 7d vs Ac 6s and even, gasp, smiled for the first time since 2003, but a 2c 6c Aspades 5s 6h board later and he was gone.
Andy Black is smarting having bet a Th Ks Ahrt Js 5s the whole way only to be raised on the river and then was shown Aspades 8s for a backdoor flush. --------------------------------1 hour dinner break---------------------------------------- Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 05:46:58 PM As we launch gracefully into the dinner break, one hand kind of dragged through the last five minutes, in an intense sort of way...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11756&g2_serialNumber=1) It looks like Claus Uhrskov (the guy in black with glasses next to the green'n'yellow guy) had made it 1,600 to go preflop after some early interest from said green'n'yellow guy whom I think is Reza Dolatshahi, only to find Patrice Boudet, the guy in the white shirt/leather waistcoat combo in the foreground re-raising to 6,800. This re-raise represented about half his stack. Dwelllll from Dolatshahi. Pass. Dwelllllllllll from Uhrskov. Pass. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11758&g2_serialNumber=1) Boudet shows Aspades Ac, and wonders out loud which one of them passed Queens. But no one cares any more because food has arrived! Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 07:13:12 PM Blind Vs Blind (small blind; the stripey Barton Fink-alike I am going to identify as Dawoud Ghena unless anyone says otherwise)...
There was a raise preflop, I think from Ghena, called by Robert Nowak (pictured bottom). Flop: 9h 2s 3h Ghena bet out 1,125 (leaving himself around 3k behind) and was almost instantly raised all in. "I have a pair," he muttered, "Flush draw?" he requested - all the while performing that chip trick which isn't really a trick it's where you just turn over the bottom chip really really fast holding the whole short stack in your hand. You'll know what I'm talking about if you've seen it/done it. Just when I was starting to get dizzy watching this, he passed, and went straight back to reading his book. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11762&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11764&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 07:18:12 PM There's a load of chips in the middle, mostly Hecan El Sayed's. Filip Moreira passes and it's left to Guillame Darcourt who asks how much it is, and gets told it's 19,000 or so. He thinks for a moment before suddenly busting out, "Call, call!" Hecan triumphantly shows his Kc Kh and then the Frenchman shows his Ad Aspades in a sort of bizarre slowrolly sort of way, (although I don't think he intended that).
Board: 2c 9c 7c....the table takes a collective breath in unison...8c..."Yes!!!" shouts Hecan....Js Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 07:20:41 PM Erik Van Der Berg doubles his microstack (1.2k) with the uberdomination holding K-K vs K-7. Elsewhere Claus Ulkhov is OUT due to gettikng all-in on an 8-high flop with Tens and then finding Michael Schulze had Jacks.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 07:25:15 PM Recent eliminations:
William Thorson Angelo Besnainou Rolf Slotboom Thor Hansen Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 07:56:14 PM Pascal Perrault is OUT.
Mads Andersen calls a button raise from the big blind, the flop comes out T-9-2, Mads bets 1,050. The button thinks, "I know what you're doing," and raises to 3,000. Mads thinks for a bit, perhaps in his head saying, "I know you think you know what I'm doing, but what you think you know is actually wrong, and what you should be thinking, is that I was actually doing was very strong. Please fold." Mads makes it 9,050. The button folds. Raul Mestre is doing very well indeed, he's just busted Kings with Fives all-in on a 7-5-3 flop. Andy Black's shoutiness is catching, Mike Leah is now yelling a little on his table too, but only because he just had Ac Jc from the cutoff against the short-stacked big blind's Ahrt Kd The mere rumour of a flush draw failing to hit on a 6c Qh 3d 4c Aspades board Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 08:00:23 PM All-in-tastic Half Hour just gone here,
Starting with Soren Jensen, who was involved in a threeway all-in on a flop of Kh Ahrt 2h. I think it's Max Tobias Persson, the winner of the double takedown, but everyone's so jumbled around now it's hard to trust in our original seating plans. Let's just say it is. Persson: Ac Kc for two pair Jensen: Ts Qh for the nut flush draw plus a possibly-irrelevant gutshot Out-and-previously-shortMatey: Kc 9c for a pair of Kings with a 9 kicker Turn: Qc River: 9s The winner rakes in a pot that just doesn't look as big as one might expect with two players' whole stacks in, but looks happy about it. Soren is strangely subdued and polite, saying, "Thank you for playing," as if he's excusing the rest of the tournament from continuing to do so, and adding, "Nice. Good luck!" Odd man. Magnanimous in defeat, frankly worrying in victory. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11742&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 08:12:16 PM Sorel Mizzi is OUT - I saw him doubling up a player's Kc Ks with two cards that had already been turned shamefully face down (I unfairly elaborate, it could have been Qc Qs or Aspades Ks or something non-shameful after the flop) but in any case it left him with under 3,000, which promptly disappeared by the time I returned to his table.
_____________________________________________ Andreas Hagen gets involved then with the guy who just doubled off Mizzi to 25k - he of the Snoopyesque blond highlights and fearsome table presence re-raising the newly doubled up guy whose photo I re-post for clarity from the big blind. The button clearly felt that this was an unacceptable cookie-jar/finger combination, because he re-popped it another 10k. He looked pained when Hagen then calmly moved in - but since it was about 2k more to call, he made it. Button: 6c 8c Hagen: Ad Ac Flop: 3d Kd 4d Turn: Js River: 8h But that's one small pair too late and he's right back down feltwards. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11764&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 08:18:24 PM A few other counts midway through the evening, but two thirds of the way through the day's play...
Mads Andersen -- 29,000 Thomas Wahlroos -- 7,000 Arnaud Mattern -- 9,600 Andreas Hagen -- 32,000 Soren Kongsgaard -- 10,600 Liz Lieu -- 10,300 Andy Black -- 24,800 Stephen Chidwick -- 24,500 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 08:33:31 PM During my forays into the tournament area I bump into Johnny Lodden,
"Hey Johnny, how's it going." "I have 9,975," he says slowly, with the air of a man trying to hide frustration. I decide I can cheer him up by putting a positive spin on this. "Well, if you're only losing your chips this slowly then you'll probably end up winning the tournament..." He almost smiles, but only almost. I admit defeat, and wish him the best of luck and carry on down to the second part of the tournament area just in time to see Thomas Wahlroos re-raise a Liz Lieu-sized American kid's (hereafter known as LLSAK) early position raise from 1k to 3k. The kid, (seen in the photo sitting next to Arnaud Mattern), checks Wahlroos stack (which is about 10k) before moving in. Wahlroos insta-calls as he would with Aces, way ahead of the Jacks that LLSAK has. An unhelpful board and 'The Eggman' has over 20k, LLSAK has about 2.5k Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 08:40:29 PM Something for everyone:
Trond for Dana, the Polish rapper's collagen-enhanced girls for the curious and Liz Lieu for everyone. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11784&g2_serialNumber=1) Speak of Liz Lieu, she just called a 1,050 bet on the turn of a 5d Ad 7h Ahrt against behoodied Stephan Kjerstad. Lieu fired out 2,000 on the Tc river after the Betsson player had checked. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 08:52:12 PM Exit! It's Arnaud... having short stack grinded (ground?) all day, from the heady heights of 13k to around 8k more recently, a rather pleasing opportunity arose with Kc Kd on the big blind... a big stack raised to 750 (not, therefore, a straight push situation, perhaps) so he said, "I raised 2,000 hoping he would push, ideally with an underpair like Jacks or Tens. He pushed with Ad Qd. Hit only two Aces."
His expression says it all: (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11788&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 09:03:31 PM Mark Teltscher (pictured) has never really progressed far stackwise, but the intense Londoner hasn't exactly sat back either - he's been involved in quite a few hands, recently check-calling two bets on the turn and river as the board emerged Kh Kd Ac 2h Jd with Ad 3c (his opponent showed and mucked 4d 4h). Then he moved on to Theo Jorgensen who raised preflop to 1,025. Teltscher on the button made it 3,400. After a decently-sized think, Jorgensen called. He passed to Teltscher's 3,300 bet on the Tc 4s 6d flop, though.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11792&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 09:08:15 PM Sssssso Sssssick News Now
Andy Black and Thomas Wahlroos get into a raising war. You know, raise, re-raise, re-re-raise, all in.... At this point, it was Andy Black who was wincing a bit, saying, "I have to call now," with Tc 6c. Wahlroos showed Ad Kd (suits made up so I can use the little cards). A 60/40 is a 60/40, although I am sure there were some raised eyebrows on the rail about this one - the flop came Ten-high with two following blanks so the astonished Finn is left talking about how sick it is. Taxi for Thomas! (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11790&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 09:14:26 PM Henri Boutboul just busted, losing a race for his 4,125 stack after Matey raised to 900 with Aspades Kh in early position and threw in the rest calling his Th Tc.
Board: 4d Kd ....Ts (there's not really any delay on the flop, just trying to create tension) Kc...8h. Looks great for AK but isn't. Down to 99 players. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 09:51:00 PM Although Arnaud is out, one of his teammates from Winamax, Alexa Portal, is still in. Though she's pretty short, she's just about hovering above the 5k mark.
He may be a newly sponsored pro, but that hasn't stopped Soren Kongsgaard from trying to steal all the bottled water in the room. Not that it'll help him, because he's now OUT. (Though at least he's properly hydrated). Johnny Lodden Smile Update!!! A collapse into giggles for the Norse Pro after the guy to his left open shoved from the cutoff for 25k, blinds 200/400/50, and then showed Jacks. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 10:11:26 PM The chip leader a minute ago isn't so anymore (although I hasten to add that I think he looks like a nice enough gent - nothing shifty about his eyes imo) - I caught a glimpse of a mini-mountain of blue 1k chips in the middle of the table and immediately started hovering (unobtrusively of course) to see what was going on.
The board was out: Kh 4d 8s 6s 5h and there was over 20,000 in the middle. Mr. Orange had bet out 10k on the river and Used-to-be-leader was thinking about calling. And thinking. And thinking. And time got called, at which point he made the call only to muck when Mr. Orange showed him Ad Ahrt. The big stack is at least staying on the same table... (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11804&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 10:16:19 PM Mr Orange = Keith Donais
Used to be leader = Dennis Petronack Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 10:18:32 PM Andre Santos has been knocked out by the awesomely named Michael Hogbom, Ace King vs Kings, but no Ace from space for Andre.
Stephen Chidwick was knocked out earlier by Dennis Petronack, Ad 9d vs Aspades 4s all-in on a 9c 7s 6s flop, but Stephen failed to hit. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 10:23:45 PM Some chip counts:
Mads Andersen -- 37k (pictured) Andreas Hagen -- 30k Mel Judah -- 18k Mark Teltscher -- 14k Soren Kongsgaard -- OUT (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11808&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 12, 2008, 10:45:11 PM You know when it's just your day? Like remember waaaay back near the beginning of the day when the gent in the brown suit identified by my list as Marcin Horecki busted Aces all in on the Ten-high flop with J-T? Well, it's HIS day.
Sebastian Ruthenberg raises pre to 1,800. Mads Andersen on the cutoff makes it 6k to go. Over to button Horecki who announces "all in." It's about 15k or so. Instapass from the first raiser, instacall from the second. Andersen: Ks Kd Horecki: Ahrt Qd Flop: 6h 5h 5s Turn: Jh River: Ad And he goes from out of his seat and sidling towards the rope to back in it, likely to make Day Two simply because there's only 13 minutes left on the clock... Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 11:08:05 PM Comedy valuebet of the day.
The young American guy here, bets about 6,000 on the river of a 4c 6h 2c 2h 3h, the big blind goes in the tank and eventually makes the call. Young American Kid, hereafter known as YAK, looks nervous and his face falls as he flips Ad 8c, the big blind grimaces and shows Ahrt 7d... Stack for the YAK. (Here pointing out the favourite part of his eyebrow) (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11810&g2_serialNumber=1) Andy Black's How to Make Friends and Influence People: To Italian Press, "Soooooo, you've been doing good in the football this week?" Liz Lieu gets a much needed double-up with Aces against J-8 at the end of play. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 12, 2008, 11:20:29 PM Chris, btw, you are now getting rid of our sole interactor. I don't know how I feel about that. OK actually. Oh, sick burn. My work here is done. Back tomorrow 2pm (1pm UK time) for the day Two ;stickaforkinme; Adequate job I guess. * I kid, I kid - awesome as usual!! ;applause; Don't you have n00bs on the PHA board to castigate? :D :'( Much Loved am I. Off I go. ;marks; All is forgiven! We'll see you all tomorrow with our remaining players from 2pm (1pm UK). ;stickaforkinme; |