Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 1a - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

I didn't catch the immediate pre-flop action (although we can quite easily jump to reasonably accurate conclusions), but Greg Raymer's raise to 3,025 was facing a re-raise from a young Scandieboy on the button. With the cameras hovering over the tables like vultures, Greg conceded the hand with a Fossilman glare that silently bellowed 'next time, sunshine, next time'. "If you had Aces," he later added, "you should have gone all-in in, I could have called you then."

He lost out that time, but Greg is neverhtless running strong with 19k. Next door neighbour, Sorel, meanwhile, has 13,600.

[snoopy1239]

Italian stallion Jeff Lisandro is going steady eddie with 16,250.

Here is pictured turning up with crew.

[snoopy1239]

The Apple Craig Hopkins has 16,125, although we're yet to hear any shouts from his usually adamant rail of blonde supporters. A couple of tables down, Julian is keeping in touch with 12k whilst Josh Arieh has his head just above water with 15,500. At the very back of the room, Ben Grundy has been unearthed; he's on 11k. Next door to him is Roland de Wolfe with 15.5k, the WPT and EPT winner fairly, but perhaps hypocritically given his permed locks, greeting me with a joking jibe at my hair-do.

[meds]

Hi All,

Looking forward to this ......can you please get  a pic of John Conroy, and if they are playing Dan Smith, Dave Colclough and Manuel Palanca....

[Djinn]

Here raking in a pot as Ex-Seat-One hits the rail is William Hill's Julian Thew (This to be said in the same tone as film titles such as 'Bram Stoker's Dracula')...

Another player (not the one he busted) was congratulating him:  "Good Call," and Julian filled in the details.  "I always seem to have to make a nice call early in a tournament to get the ball rolling," he said, as if it would be much easier just to flop some nuts and get paid. 

It turns out he'd held in the small blind, and had seen a flop with BustedMatey.  He'd checked, Matey bet 550, Julian raised to 1,550 and then faced a c.5k all-in move.  He'd eventually called, and Matey had shown down . 

[Fat Afghan]

loving the coverage guys, keep up the good work

any chance of any stephen 'allinstevie' devlin updates? i wanna keep track of my 3%, cheers

[danafish]

Chipcounts! The bigger the stack, the more approximate the count, that's just how I roll.

Marcel Luske - 13k
Woody Deck - 20k
Greg Raymer - 20k
Maria Maceiras - 20k
George Danzer - 10k
Adrian "Bleu" Koy - 17k
Barny Boatman - 5k, eek - see below in just one moment for what happened there
Johnny Lodden - 36k
Annette Obrestad - 15k
Jan Sjavik - 13.5k
Dave Colclough - 15k
Cecilia Borg - 9.5k
Roberto "Shamooooown!" Romanello - 5k
Ben Grundy - 9k
Roland De Wolfe - 4.3k (also to follow below)
Trond Eidsvig - 13.5k
Gino Alacqua - 20k
Barry Greenstein - 10.3k
Nicolas Levi - 22k
Tommy Pavlicek - 13.5k
Noah Boeken - 26k (doubled up with AA v AK, according to Julian Thew - I think on the first hand...)
Humberto Brenes - 14.5k
Pascal "The Shirt" Perrault - 13k
Julian Thew - 16k
Josh Gould - also according to Julian Doubled Up Early, so I guess 30k or so
Phil Ivey - 14k

[LLevan]

The view inside: also extremely pleasant.

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Picture 2 namecheck and chipcount too please.

[danafish]

loving the coverage guys, keep up the good work

any chance of any stephen 'allinstevie' devlin updates? i wanna keep track of my 3%, cheers

Jen will be on to it, soon as her million-euro cheeseburger is ordered...

[danafish]

Yes, poor old Barny - he was apparently up to 23k when he got himself involved in a 30k pot. He raised utg with and got two callers, as you do.

Flop - - and Barny bet out small. One gentleman folded, but the gent on the button raised; Barny called.

Turn - and Barny checks. Mr Button bets, and Barny calls.

River - something raggy that was approximately the , and Barny checks. Mr Button moves almost all in, leaving himself about 3k behind - apparently not a massive bet compared to the size of the pot - so Barny put him for his last few k. Mr Button turned over . Ouch.

[Pakito]

Hi buddies, could you gime some information about how María Maceiras is running?

[iggy]

Snoopy thanks for the update on "the Apple" any further updates during the day would be appreciated mate.

You boys have a great life enjoy the week

Iggy

[moveras1]

 

If I got this right, there should be a pic of stephan kjærstad in this post.  This one is taken earlier today, but he have moved til another table since then.

[danafish]

Hi buddies, could you gime some information about how María Maceiras is running?

Maria Maceiras - 20k

Umm, will get some more info next time I head out...

[moveras1]

didn't get it right...  how the hell do I upload a pic here then?