BADEN EPT: DAY 1A

[NoflopsHomer]

And the last one.

Text from Snoopy. "Ade, Bovis and dave barnes on mine. Lost first hand! Now on 11k though. Woodley 1st out."

[Djinn]

Karin Lundgren Resteals Preflop News Now -

There was a mid-position raise to 1,200 (blinds were at the tail end of 200/400), call from Karin, raise to 3,100 from neighbour Ramzi.  After a think, the original raiser passed, but Karin's whole stack moved over the line (about another 13k or so).  Despite a bit of a think, the chip leader passed.  "Better situation?"

Speaking of Mickey Wernick, he's in a cash game along with other exiter Willie Tann, and others.  The back room has been cleared of tournament tables, leaving the cash players to start up a variety of very pricey looking games. 

[Djinn]

A couple more stacks on the increase:

Dave Colclough who says he's feeling "drained," and is drinking coffee while his 27k stack doesn't look to be going anywhere soon.  "Did you know I was down to 600 earlier?"  Well, actually, no - that must qualify you, El Blondie for my Climber of The Day Award! 

[Djinn]

Also accumulating:  Pascal Perrault - 17,000
Steve Vladar (although infinitely more slowly)  - 24,000
Ram Vaswani - 17,650.

[NoflopsHomer]

Marc Goodwin -- 26k (or "Not enough" in his own words). It's ok considering the blinds are 300/600 with a 75 ante and the average stack is 21,687.

Elsewhere,

UTG raiser is all-in with  on  vs  MP's

Turn:

 

River:

 


Ouch... plus, calling an UTG raise with ATo. 

[Djinn]

Jan Heitmann is indeed OUT - and not looking too unhappy about it (ah the miracle of beer    )

His 27k turned into 0k over the course of two big hands:

One:  After two limpers for 400, Phil Shaw raised to 2,500 (a move he was going to make anyway with AQ).  Jan made it 6,000 in total, and when Phil then pushed for another 6,500, he called and found what he didn't really want to see - AK.  So there went some...

Anyhow, a round or so later, he found and made it 1,300 three from the button.  Matthias Stiger (?Sp) made a funny old small raise to 3,200.  A lot of debate of the interesting sort kicked off over what he should do here, but Jan eventually called and the flop was .  So overpair and flush draw, against flopped set o Jacks- a hand which might well have laid down if re-raised preflop.

In any case, it all went in, and Jan was sent to the rail, where he mulled over his decisions and even asked the opinion of Marcel Luske....who, he was delighted to report, thought similarly to him...

[Djinn]

Chip leader status leaning towards....Steve Vladar - on a table with several chunky stacks, it looks like his might just be the chunkiest, at 55,000.  Not the top stack over all, but something dramatic must have happened while I was looking the other way to nearly double him up.

[GlasgowBandit]

Is Chessa still in?

I hope he goes deep it will keep him away from the cinCin for a while where he just makes too much noise!!

[Djinn]

I think Mr. Chessa is no longer playing...

But table a la Ramzi has been a sort of magnet for chips - there are certainly some big stacks on there - Steve Vladar, 61,000, Ramzi, 80,000+, also Karin Lundgren, Pascal Perrault, Karl Mahrenholz (50k, probably) and this young, aggressive, Italian dude - Dario Mineri.  Interesting lineup for the last level...

[NoflopsHomer]

Along with Ramzi, who just took out a shorty with 99 vs A9, this gentleman has around 80k which would make him one of the remaining big stacks. He's also the guy who hit the full house with AT vs QQ that I mentioned earlier, so he's definately doing something right.

[Djinn]

Jeff Lisandro, who besides being still in, is wearing the most interesting shirt of the night.  At first glance, neither garish nor particularly vibrant, but look closer...closer...

[NoflopsHomer]

Picked up another text from Snoopy from the Gutshot main event:

Snoopy -- 11k
Red Dog -- 8.5k
Chilli -- 13k
Wardonkey -- 14k
Tikay -- 8k
Byron -- OUT
Bovis -- OUT
Barnes -- OUT
Liffey -- OUT
Vodkaredbull -- 4k
Jeff B -- 10k

[GlasgowBandit]

When do we expect day 1A to come to a close?

[Djinn]

When do we expect day 1A to come to a close?

I think it's at the end of the next level - in about an hour and a half's time... I know it seems like a little short day, but actually, we missed almost three levels, due to not being in the country, and also it's an hour later in Austria (22.15 currently).  They've been playing since 12pm so that's already 10 hours (some of which has been breaks)  but yep, finish before midnight.  It's only reasonable; we're back here tomorrow at midday again.  And will be here.

[Djinn]

Meanwhile, people only seem to be getting into big pots when Homer's trundling by - I am reduced to snapping this Mystery Foot, complete with outfit and accessories such as one might expect on a gap-year student about to set sail (metaphorically) for Far Off Lands.  So whose is it?