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

[Djinn]

Consistently faring well today have been:

1) Annette Obrestad (Annette_15, online scourge)
2) Rayan Nathan (despite looking half asleep)
and
3) This guy, whom I was calling Hollister Orange for obvious reasons but whose name is actually Cort Kibler-Melby, which was the next combination of letters I was about to guess.  He was chip leader for a good while with over 60k, and although he's slightly down from that now, he's still up there in the top five in chips, without a doubt

[Djinn]

Somehow these three have been moved throughout the day until they're in a line: Dan Carter, Julian Thew and Johnny Lodden (the latter on 17,500, for you who were asking).  They only get to spend 45 minutes as immediate neighbours however - Day Two will see a redraw, and apparently eight-handed tables throughout.

[NoflopsHomer]

DTD Counts:

Richard Ashby -- 43k
Michael Greco -- 20k

Elsewhere, Mark Vos is on over 60k now, after he 3-bet all-in a constant re-raiser of his raises with Ace Jack. When he was called, he assumed he was in trouble, when his opponent decided to call off his entire 25k stack with J-9, it was obvious he wasn't.

[NoflopsHomer]

Johnny Lodden is OUT. A-K against A-Q. Queen on the turn. Eek.

[Djinn]

Willliam Thorsson is OUT - he raised most of his bowl of rice preflop (1,700) and was put in by - no folding for the half handful of greens remaining, and his was in bad shape as the board came down .

Mark Teltscher  45,800
Mickey Wernick  17,000
Phil Starrs  13,400  (pictured)
Paul Testud  30,200
Julian Thew  6,800
ElkY  23,800

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, in the last few minutes, Thewy managed to get up to 25.3k with a little K-Q vs K-4 action, whilst Dan Carter is on 11.6k. Instead of the final 10 minutes, we had a final 5 hands which included David Williams losing a monster pot with Q-J vs A-A on a T-9-4-2-4 board.

But that is everything. We are off to sleep now. See you all tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip Counts thanks to Mad and Pokerstars:

Gregory   Dyer   76,500
Mark   Teltscher   67,300
Mark   Vos   64,300
Sander   Lylloff   62,600
Sverre   Sundbo   60,500
Massimiliano   Rosa   60,100
Cort   Kibler Melby   59,500
Björn Erik   Glenne   56,700
Andrey   Zaichenko   56,000
Jose   Roldan Vicente   53,000
Rayan   Nathan   52,700
Kitai   Davidi Jacob   51,900
Nikolaus   Jedlicka   50,900
Ilari   Sahamies   46,900
Ola   Brandborn   45,100
Fabrizio   Tripicchio   44,700
Joan   Sastre Durin   42,900
Mika   Paasonen   41,800
Richard   Ashby   40,500
Michael   Wong   40,100
Eric   Scalisi   39,400
Tutev   Yovor Anastasov   38,800
Sebastien   Compte   37,400
Pepe   Laborde   36,200
Thierry   Cazals   34,900
Juan   Maceiras Lapido   34,200
 Jean Pierre   Petroli   34,000
 Jesus Manuel   Garde Belio   32,100
Sampo   Lopponen   31,100
 Francisco   Lopez Martos   30,700
Marcus   Friman   30,000
Daan   Ruiter   29,400
Lukas   Benkovic   28,900
Youssef   Fawaz   28,800
Nickolaos   Panopoulos   28,500
Bol   Ceeskcj   28,000
Mark   Dickstein   27,800
Carles   Llado Fabregas   27,800
Alesko   Isaia   27,600
Mario   Georgiev   26,800
Pete   Giordano   26,500
Samir   Rahal   25,800
Julian   Thew   25,400
Thomas   Fuller   25,000
Emmanuel   Loubradou   23,000
Gunnar   Oestebroed   23,000
Brandon   Schaefer   22,000
Juan   Pastor Baez   21,100
Eric   Hardt   20,900
Noah   Boeken   20,800
Santiago   Holguin Lopez   20,600
Bertrand "ElkY"   Grospellier   20,100
Erik   Tamm   19,200
Ramzi   Jelassi   18,700
Borge   Dypvik   18,400
Joep   Durkstra   17,900
Daniele   Mazzia   17,900
Katja   Thater   17,900
Walter   Srour   17,800
Michael   Greco   16,600
Christopher   Ulsrud   16,600
Tomas   Brolin   16,500
Jason   Coyle   15,800
Jgors   Kalinicenko   15,700
Marc   Naalden   15,400
Christophe   Palmeri   15,400
Janne   Juutilainen   15,300
Soren   Kongsgaard   15,300
 Phillips   Starrs   15,100
Gianluca   Gentili   14,900
 Carlos Isaac   Garcia Frontelo   14,800
Andreas   Hagen   14,500
Paul   Testud   14,200
Atle   Walgren   14,100
Peter   Tofting   13,900
Pascal   Barrau   13,500
Piero   Monzio Compagnoni   13,000
Frederik   Vestberg   13,000
Phil   Gordon   12,700
Paul   Wasicka   12,500
Anders   Henriksson   12,300
Stephane Daniel   Subrenat   11,600
Peter   Bertelsen   11,300
Sonny   Ridgewell   11,200
Alexander   Roumeliotis   11,100
Ole Gabriel   Holgersen   11,000
Dan   Carter   10,600
David   Williams   10,100
Michael   Keiner   9,900
Annette   Obrestad   9,700
Isaac   Baron   9,500
Henrik   Waern   9,200
Jerome   Ferron   7,700
Jerome   Zerbib   7,000
Alexander   Hanell   6,800
Orjan   Holt   6,400
Lee   McCreery   6,000
Nicola   Filesi   5,500
Rob   Hollink   4,800