Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 3 - At A Glance

[Djinn]

TV Table Chip Counts (they're almost, but not quite, ready to restart).

Johan Lund - 381,000
Tim Vance - 324,000
Joseph Serock - 303,000
Soren Jensen - 260,000
Martin Bjerring Hansen - 179,000
Gino Alacqua - 84,000
Nicolas Dervaux - 81,000

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Martin Bjerring Hansen is OUT!  Suddenly - like so - He raised preflop, and found Tim Vance re-raising... I think it was a push for a huge pot - around 400k after Hansen called for his entire stack showing .
Vance showed: and was muttering something about being owed, "I deserve it..."

Well, it came straight away: 
Turn:    ("Just not a Ten - anything but a Ten," reminds Vance)
River:

And something seems to have given way inside the extrovert American - he's singing now.  Singing while he stacks the chips, singing through the next few hands - including some ironic-style lyrics:  "You're driving me mad...driving me mad..."  In between which he re-raises Gino Alacqua all in (no call) and then bestows this gem of advice on his silent adversaries:  "Ask and you shall receive!"

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Full dinner break chip counts from Madam Harper and her most excellent Pokerstars slaves:

Name    Country    Table    Seat    New ID    Chips dinner break
Kristian Pedersen    Denmark    3    1    301    99000
Simon Dørslund    Denmark    3    2    302    320000
Tommy Pavlicek    Canada    3    3    303    210000
Ed de Haas    Holland    3    4    304    245000
Jan Sørensen    Denmark    3    5    305    127000
Patrik Andersson    Sweden    3    6    306    235000
Jarle Aasen    Norway    3    7    307    94000
Magnus Hansen    Denmark    4    1    401    229000
Sigbjørn Mortueit    Norway    4    2    402    181000
Runar Runarsson    Iceland    4    3    403    175000
Rasmus Hede Nielsen    Denmark    4    4    404    458000
Joris Jaspers    Holland    4    5    405    209000
      4    6       
Daniel Ryan    USA    4    7    407    410000
Martin Bjerring Hansen    Denmark    TV    1    TV1    179000
Nicolas Dervaux    France    TV    2    TV2    80000
Jospeh Serock    USA    TV    3    TV3    303000
Timothy Vance    USA    TV    4    TV4    324000
Gino Alacqua    Italy    TV    5    TV6    84000
Johan Lund    Sweden    TV    6    TV7    376000
Søren Jensen    Denmark    TV    7    TV8    260000

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Gino Alacqua pushes all in preflop with for his 70-something thousand...

Soren Jensen calls quickly, no fuss with ...

Flop: 
Turn:
River: totally irrelevant

So I am afraid we've lost the besuited Italian, as Jensen vigorously punches the air and chants his own name loudly.  I am not making this up.  He was saying it in a kind of hoarse stage whisper, probably as a kind of nod to modesty as he's being filmed. 

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Tommy Pavlicek has been getting jiggy, first moving all in from the small blind to Simon Dorslund's button raise, thus making him fold, and then limping in on the button next hand and stealing the pot with a chunky bet on the flop.

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Runar Runarsson is OUT!

Peter Petersen raised on the button to 28,000, but walked into a world of raising as Runarsson moved all-in on the small blind, and Rasmus Nielsen in the big blind either called or raised again (a flurry of cameras now block our view unless we're already accidentally in prime viewing position).  Either way he got it heads up with the all-in player.

Nielsen showed: 
Runarsson showed:

The board came: er... no paint, no straight, no split so -

Exit for the 18th place finisher and even more chips for a media-swarmed Nielsen, as you can see.

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Also now Magnus Hansen is OUT in 17th place, meaning that we are down to just 16 players, and this is now Hansen-free tournament. They're redrawing for the last two tables right now.

[Djinn]

Everyone on the non-TV table apart from one who had his back to me:

Soren Jensen - 260k
Tim Vance - 620k
Danny Ryan - 500k
Joseph Serock - 205k
Patrik Andersson - 211k
Tommy Pavlicek - 145k
Jarle Aasen - 185k
Kristian Pedersen -- had his back to me

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Nicolas Dervaux finds himself all in against Ed De Haas, with A-K against De Haas' A-T. Board - K-Q-Q-7-T and De Haas is crippled.

Just a few hands later De Haas moves in and again he is dominated by Dervaux.

De Haas -
Dervaux -

Board - A de/der-lightful and De Haas is OUT in 16th place.

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Joris Jaspers exits in 15th place (DKK147,605  €19,804)...

He moved in over the top of Johan Lund who had a bit of a decision with his ... something like 200k in his stack.  He surprised the commentators by relatively quickly making the call...
Jaspers held which was in bad shape - worse after the flop.  No help in the which followed on, so we're down to 14.

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Chipcounts and whatnot from the redraw break, courtesy of the Pokerstars chipcounting elves:

Rasmus Hede Nielsen    Denmark    TV    6    778,000    
Timothy Vance    USA    1    4    563,000    
Daniel Ryan    USA    1    6    450,000    
Johan Lund    Sweden    TV    8    427,000    
Simon Dørslund    Denmark    TV    5    310,000    
Søren Jensen    Denmark    1    8    285,000    
Patrik Andersson    Sweden    1    1    267,000    
Magnus Hansen    Denmark    TV    3    246,000    
Jospeh Serock    USA    1    5    225,000    
Tommy Pavlicek    Canada    1    7    192,000    
Joris Jaspers    Holland    TV    4    187,000    
Ed de Haas    Holland    TV    7    139,000    
Kristian Pedersen    Denmark    1    3    139,000    
Nicolas Dervaux    France    TV    1    134,000    
Jan Sørensen    Denmark    TV    2    130,000    
Jarle Aasen    Norway    1    2    69,000

[danafish]

An intriguing hand from the TV table -

Simon Dorslund and his pink hoodie open-shove the flop. Johan Lund, as those of you watching the EPT Live will already have become bored with, dwells for an unnecessarily long time - so long that I really would quite like to know what he had. He passes.

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14th place is Joseph Serock, falling at the hands of fellow but much louder, more in-your-face, excitable American Timothy Vance.

A hand prior to this, Vance had made up the small blind and Serock had raised him off with an extra 30k.  So when Vance limped on the button for 12k (not something seen all that often here so far) and Serock made it 50k to go, he clearly didn't feel like backing down again.  He called.
Flop:   Serock calmly moves the rest of his stack in, and Vance instacalls.
Serock: 
Vance: 

The younger player sits almost impassively, saying not a word as Vance yells, "DEUCE! DEUCE!" as the turn comes the - the river is the - apparently close enough to a Deuce to bring forth a loud, "YEES!" from Vance and send the blue-shirted Serock to the rail.  Pictured - Vance leaping from his seat (again). 



Next to Joseph Serock (in blue) is Danny Ryan - another American, but of the same low-key attitude as his neighbour.  It looks like contrary to some experiences we've had updating in the US, over in Europe the young American players making the transition from online to live do so with a low-blood-pressure, dignified professionalism, while it's the slightly older ones giving them a reputation for perhaps a tad less self control...

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Just after Dana got back (isn't it always the way) big action on the Feature Table:

Jan Sorensen raises preflop and gets put to the test by the all-in move of Magnus Hansen.  He sweats about it for a bit, obviously not too happy with how this has gone, but eventually commits the rest of his stack with .  Hansen has the dominating , though.
Flop:
Turn:   So there's still hope for the win, the split or perhaps for the power to go out in the building, alarms go off and the hand declared dead an hour later when everyone's been evacuated...
River: 

None of those things happens and Jan Sorensen finishes 13th winning DKK210,864 ( €28,291)

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15 minutes pass and nothing happens on the non-TV table. Then something happens! Or almost happens!

Tim Vance makes it 40k or so from the button, and big blind Danny Ryan says, "I can't fold this, I'm going all in. Nothing personal." It's about 200k more, looks like.

So Vance is the centre of attention; lots of people suddenly appear from nowhere and try to stand in front of me even though I've been standing there watching nothing happen for ages. Sigh.

Again he asks whether he can turn over his hand before he decides whether to call. He's told it's a ten-round penalty. He is considering it; the decider seems to be that he will get absolutely no attention during the ten rounds he has to sit out, plus the blinds are now 6k/12k/2k (sorry, SOMEONE'S hijacked our tournament clock) and would therefore eat all the chips he'd be taking off of Ryan anyway, should he theoretically win the hand. He passes. Double sigh.

Ryan shows him the . "Oh, you had me beat anyway," says Vance.

Photos to follow, battery is dead and recharging...