Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen - Final Day

[danafish]

We're back! While most of us spent our hour's downtime trying to do something useful, ladies and gentleman, I give you:

Jen's Dinner Break: A Saga Of Sleeping And Sadness

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[Djinn]

Small Blind Rasmus Nielsen raises preflop and hits the first resistance from Tim Vance, who counts out the call and makes it.
Flop:   Rasmus bets out 120k... and that's good enough.
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Then he pushes his luck and raises the next hand on the button, but that works, too.
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[Djinn]

Rasmus Nielsen - who can stop him?  Not Danny Ryan, who picks a spot to make resistance by moving in preflop for 350k(ish)- but it isn't such a good one:

for Danny Ryan and for Rasmus...

Flop:
Turn:
River:

So finishing in 5th we have laid-back online star Danny Ryan - he wins DKK1,286,270  €172,576.

[danafish]

Here is our 5th-place finisher making a face, although he was extremely gentlemanly and handshakey in making his exit, I must say:

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And his chipped-up assassin:

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[danafish]

By the way we are loving Danny Ryan's t-shirt. I urge you, put face close to screen - t-shirt makes no sense; move face far away from screen - t-shirt makes sense! It's like magic.

[Djinn]

Pass to small blind Tim Vance - who raises to 73k.
Now that Ryan is out, the big blind is Soren Jensen - but he offers no resistance.  As commentator Bill Chen says, "If a small raise keeps working, why risk a big one?"
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More blinds for Rasmus.
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A limp-on-button-bet-the-flop combo gets Tim Vance a few chips...
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Rasmus on the Button raises pre to 85k, and Soren Jensen re-raises to 280k.  This time, the first in a while, he doesn't get the blinds, but folds.  One person (possibly his brother) claps.

[danafish]

Small blind Magnus raises. Big blind Rasmus muches thoughtfully munches on his apple, and calls.

Flop - . Now Magnus bets. Rasmus folds. He continues to munch. Appears irked.

[jpean]

And especially for jpean, Snoops et al, our last remaining Frenchman, Mr Nicolas Dervaux, who most conveniently turned around a bit for the camera. Not wearing Hat Of The Day, I'm afraid; best of a bad bunch, I have awarded Hat Of The Day to Simon Dorslund for his Che-style efforts. Photo of that to follow if he ever turns around for the camera.

thanks Dana but I'm afraid, I just come back from my job hearing him on EPT live meanig is out !!

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS UPDATE

Jen is through to round 3!

Is that Final Table so boring ??

[danafish]

Next hand Magnus raises again, from the button. The blinds are his.

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Rasmus makes it 85k (now he has the button). The blinds are his. Shows pocket Kings!

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Tim makes it 73k. Magnus calls.

Flop - - and Magnus checks. Tim talks some nonsense for a bit, ostensibly getting a read on Magnus for a set of Sevens. He bets 160k. Magnus moves all in! Tim now claims top pair. Claims he can only think standing up. He stands up. Am now thinking Magnus does have a set of Sevens. Tim seems to be under the impression that they are still five-handed. Extraordinary. He can't make up his mind and asks for a count. The pot is currently 1,198,000. So it's like 750k? Mental arithmetic failing us...

[danafish]

Anyway, Tim is still dwelling up.

"I fold, you show me?" he asks. Magnus is like an angry wax statue, he could hold his own against the KGB or something.

Tim passes. Magnus doesn't show. Have to wait for the TV special, folks...

[danafish]

"I need my cappuccino after that," says Tim. He doesn't. "Raise." Rasmus calls.

- double check

- double check

- Rasmus puts in a bet, and wins.

Oh no, someone's given Tim his coffee.

[snoopy1239]

Here is our 5th-place finisher making a face, although he was extremely gentlemanly and handshakey in making his exit, I must say:

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And his chipped-up assassin:

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I still don't see anything. What's it meant to be?

[Djinn]

Rasmus Nielsen makes it 99k on the button - Tim Vance reraises to 350k (making sure it's OK with the TD that he stands up to do so...).  Rasmus had just under 900k at the beginning of the hand, and he's out-chipped... he calls.  That seems odd to us, and to guest commentator Annette Obrestad.  The pot's already 742k...

Flop:   Tim shoves, Rasmus didn't want to look at the flop, but calls after taking a cursory glance...
Rasmus shows:  - he's ahead
Tim shows: 

Turn:   Tim says, sounding a little panicky - "This is my second time in the tournament being in behind..."  Someone up there took pity on him because the river came:


Soren Jensen does the victory dance, in honour of Rasmus busting and him climbing the payout ladder. 

But it's curtains for Rasmus Hede Nielsen who busts in 4th place, winning DKK1,560,394  €209,355

[danafish]

The pain:

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The confusion:

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The realization he doesn't have to listen to Tim Vance singing any more:

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[Djinn]

83k is the raise on the button from Tim Vance - Soren Jensen IMMEDIATELY shoves in a big stack of pink 10k chips on the small blind - 250k worth of them.  Tim has the odd habit of talking to himself, out loud, in the third person.  At this point he's worrying about whether Soren has a pair. And having convinced us that he has A-K A-Q he says, "I have a pair, I don't know if I can lay it down."  Lots of very confusing contradictory statements from Vance - his opponents must have to just filter it out.

Call.

Flop:    Soren, first to speak, freezes for a moment, licks his lips and checks.  Tim checks behind.
Turn:    check-check
River:    check-check 

"I play the board," says Tim, which sets Soren off big time.  He must have had a little pair because he has to have won, the amount of screaming going off.

"Can I get a towel?" asks Soren, who has sweated himself into a celebratory frenzy.  But as quickly as it begun, it's over.  Next hand.