Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1B - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Ian Woodley -- 42k (having won a big coinflip with Queens vs Ace King)
Praz Bansi -- 25k (Improved since Karl began to rail him)

Jeff Garza seems to be in every pot on his table. First he calls a 2.1k bet on the turn of a board before the river goes check, check. His is good for the 8k or so pot.

Next he takes down another with a 2.5k bet on . Rolf Slotboom says, "Jack high at best." Jeff smiles.

Marc Goodwin and Ross Boatman have a little tussle,

Flop:



Marc checks, Ross bets 1.5k, Marc calls.

Turn:



Check, check.

River:

Marc bets out 4k, and Ross decides to let it go.


Roughly half the field left and we almost about to start the final level of the night. (300/600/75)

[Djinn]

Drum roll please... Chip Leader Watch:

It looks like Dani Stern has topped the 80k mark (or is about to at any minute), his stack towering over the others on his table...



Elsewhere Karl Mahrenholz declines a railbird picture as he watches Praz on the accidental feature table and gets one anyway, along with a very relaxed looking Thor Hansen across it.




144 players remain.

[Djinn]

The back of Rolf Slotboom, typical tic-tac topped tower just visible (and only totalling about 20k)... it looks like he's prepared for the weather to turn, or someone to set the fire sprinklers off... considering he was wavering about playing as recently as last night (which he spent updating in the press room) he's had a fairly good day.



Also pictured, Ian Woodley, approaching 37,000.

[NoflopsHomer]

Add more chips to Dani Stern's stack.

I don't know the preflop or flop action, but he just called 7k on the turn of a board before both players checked the river. His J-5o (no spade) was good enough to take the pot, which looks like 20k from this picture.



Adam Junglen at the same time busted a short stack with vs , board coming .

Lazarus comeback no.1

Dag Martin Mikkelsen aka "DMMikkel" all the way back up to 40k after dropping that huge pot to Antonius.



Lazarus comeback no.2

Jan Sjavik (in seat 1), down to around 4k, now on 41k.



Thomas Wahlroos doubles up with against , the board an emphatic for complete overkill. Perhaps he'll push his own stack over this time instead of someone elses?

[NoflopsHomer]

Full Payout:

Position    Euros
1    1,170,700
2    673,000
3    388,800
4    301,000
5    250,800
6    196,500
7    154,700
8    104,500
9    64,800
10    64,800
11    46,000
12    46,000
13    33,450
14    33,450
15    25,100
16    25,100
17    20,900
18    20,900
19    20,900
20    20,900
21    20,900
22    20,900
23    20,900
24    20,900
25    16,700
26    16,700
27    16,700
28    16,700
29    16,700
30    16,700
31    16,700
32    16,700
33    14,650
34    14,650
35    14,650
36    14,650
37    14,650
38    14,650
39    14,650
40    14,650
41    12,550
42    12,550
43    12,550
44    12,550
45    12,550
46    12,550
47    12,550
48    12,550
49    10,500
50    10,500
51    10,500
52    10,500
53    10,500
54    10,500
55    10,500
56    10,500

[Djinn]

With 15 minutes left of play the authoritative voice of big T.K. himself ordered everyone apart from players to vacate the tournament area.  This was doubly necessary as the spectators had gradually wormed round all the tables, and showed even more reluctance to be prised away than the press...

Here's what I saw before that happened:

Rolf Slotboom is eliminated with vs. - all in pre - (not sure how they got to the part where they were all in with a crowd shouting round them).  All I know is a Ten came on the river and there were many handshakes as Rolf left the table...

Paul Gourlay raised on the button to 1,700 and found the big blind shoving over the top for another 11k or so.  Paul had 13,500 behind and this was therefore a pretty crucial decision.  He got the full countdown treatment and eventually passed...he was shown the as his opponent took the pot down...

Other counts, given that it's not quite end-of-play and anything can happen in good old No Limit Hold'em...

Jan Sjavik  37k
Praz Bansi  16k
Marc Goodwin  15k
Martin Wendt  35k

[NoflopsHomer]

Full chip counts to arrive later tonight, (much later) so they'll be put up first thing tomorrow.

A general note about Day 2 is that from now on, all tables are going to be 8-handed, instead of 9.

Time for Jen and I to saunter along the empty streets of Barca and collapse into our respective beds. See you all tomorrow at 5pm.

[Djinn]

It looks like we'll be ending today with a few more than last night - the screens say 114 players remain so let's guess...107.  Full chip counts from the combined Day Ones (which together make our redrawn Day Two) will be posted tomorrow before the start of play, which is 5pm (4pm UK time).

That's all we can get for tonight, so it's time to