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Title: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 12:19:41 AM Welcome back to the Grand Final of the Pokerstars.com EPT Poker Tournament Which Breaks European Records!
We'll be live reporting on this, the non-nteractive thread, as well as its interactive cousin from 1pm (12pm UK time): http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=32879.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=32879.0) The team will do our best to find your friends/people you want for some reason to hear about, and not even the mighty Thomas Kremser will get in our way! (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15388&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 01:29:27 AM By the way blondeites, please please get your requestaments in early as we'll have a full seating plan (probably in the morning at this rate) and it's much easier to find people we don't know when we have a reliable location for them than when we have to rely on doodles etc later on...
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 01:45:57 AM Chip counts and seating plan, from the lovely Mad Harper. No more pie charts yet.
Name Table Seat Chips Oyvind Riisem 6 4 441,400 Johnny Lodden 2 7 380,300 Borge Dypvik 2 3 296,000 Andreas Hagen 7 1 276,800 Joe Hachem 13 3 255,300 James Campbell 13 1 241,700 Luca Pagano 12 2 229,000 Amit Makhija 1 7 219,100 Andreas Fluri 11 7 205,900 Sorel Mizzi 16 2 203,200 Martin Rask 8 7 188,200 Thomas Boekhoff 15 7 186,400 Benjamin Kang 2 8 179,900 Maxime Villemure 1 8 177,000 Rami Boukai 16 1 176,200 Noah Siegel 14 2 174,300 Gordon Vayo 14 1 171,000 Eric Liu 10 4 169,100 Raul Paez Corral 5 2 163,200 Henrik Gwinner 8 6 162,200 Alex Repik 15 5 161,700 Domenico Tinnirello 8 5 161,000 Freddy Deeb 9 6 153,300 David Shade Kruger 5 3 153,100 Cyril Bensoussan 6 6 149,100 Woody Deck 3 4 147,800 Tommi Horkko 9 5 145,500 Benjamin Sprengers 1 3 144,300 Vincent Secher 4 2 143,100 Kenny Hallaert 1 5 142,900 David Miara 11 1 139,900 Isaac Andrew Baron 2 4 137,800 Stig Top Rasmussen 15 6 137,600 Rahal Kalil 10 1 137,100 Michael Martin 12 5 136,800 Eduards Kudrjavcevs 14 4 136,000 Beniamino Speroni 10 3 133,200 Robin Keston 3 3 131,600 Brian Green 10 2 131,200 Tom Stig Ahlberg 7 3 130,000 Marcel Luske 8 1 128,700 Michel Carvin 13 6 126,800 Benjamin Sulsky 16 5 122,500 Antonio Esfandiari 4 6 121,400 Claudio Pagano 11 6 121,300 Glen Chorny 8 4 115,100 Stephen Kjaerstad 9 1 112,700 Csaba Toth 10 5 112,100 Morten Lokken 1 6 111,100 Raymond Rahme 6 8 104,200 Sean Bruder 13 4 102,200 Giovanni Bigoni 16 4 101,800 Andrew Luetchford 2 2 101,100 Peter Traply 3 5 100,700 Uffe Holm 9 8 99,800 Massou Cohen 11 5 99,800 Neil Channing 13 5 99,500 Stuart Michel Fox 3 1 99,100 Christopher Convery 14 5 96,800 Matthew Kurtz 10 6 96,500 Nikolaus Panopoulus 5 1 92,000 Mark Keightley 14 7 91,000 Felipe Ramos 11 2 87,900 Haward Speer 9 3 87,100 Mostafa Belkhayate 6 2 86,600 Ed de Haas 6 1 82,100 Juris Bonders 2 6 82,000 Simon Faure 7 6 81,300 Eliahu Ilan Elezra 16 7 77,500 Pierre Hall 13 2 76,400 Alexia Portal 6 5 76,300 Pablo Ubierna 9 4 71,400 Enrico Mognaga 8 2 68,600 Sami Ovaskainen 3 6 67,600 Christopher Klodnicki 9 7 66,700 Jan Heitmann 1 2 63,400 Tomas Brolin 4 4 62,600 Gerasimos Deres 12 3 59,900 Anthony Chatelain 1 1 59,000 Christoph Niesert 12 7 59,000 Anders Hoyer Berg 5 6 58,100 Thomas Fougeron 12 4 58,000 Alexander Morozov 8 8 55,500 Giovanni Nervo 6 7 55,300 Nordine Bouya 12 1 53,300 William Martin 4 8 52,800 Emile Petit 7 4 52,700 Sasha Rosewood 13 7 52,700 Clayton Maguire 11 3 52,600 Denes Kalo 15 4 51,700 Valeriy Ilikyan 5 5 51,600 Surinder Sunar 12 6 51,600 Anna Wroblewski 5 7 51,200 Jesse Rockowitz 7 8 50,400 Trond Erik Eidsvig 4 5 50,000 Connor Drinan 3 2 49,900 Leonardo Fernandez 3 8 47,600 Pawel Chmiel 9 2 44,700 Kari Somer 7 5 44,100 Joseph Udine 4 3 43,900 Alexander Kravchenko 1 4 42,200 Andreas Sarling 6 3 42,200 Ian Prevost 7 7 39,900 Anders Vind 12 8 36,700 Ricardo Sousa 11 4 36,500 Raoul Refos 14 3 36,200 Eric Da Silva 10 7 36,000 Andrew Teng 3 7 32,900 Alex Jalali 2 1 32,000 Sebastian Zink 16 3 31,200 Adam Sword 10 8 30,000 Edward Lawson 14 6 30,000 Stefan Geim 15 2 29,300 Walid Bou Habib 2 5 28,700 James Byrne 5 8 27,900 Nadir Jorephani 4 7 25,300 Derek Van Damme 7 2 25,100 Jan Olav Sjavik 15 3 23,900 Michaele Lau 8 3 20,300 Torbjorn Jonson 15 1 20,100 Mel Judah 11 8 19,300 Jonathan Dwek 16 6 14,200 George Lind III 5 4 14,100 Philippe Ktorza 4 1 9,200 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 01:49:16 AM And by table:
Name Table Seat Chips Anthony Chatelain 1 1 59000 Jan Heitmann 1 2 63400 Benjamin Sprengers 1 3 144300 Alexander Kravchenko 1 4 42200 Kenny Hallaert 1 5 142900 Morten Lokken 1 6 111100 Amit Makhija 1 7 219100 Maxime Villemure 1 8 177000 Alex Jalali 2 1 32000 Andrew Luetchford 2 2 101100 Borge Dypvik 2 3 296000 Isaac Andrew Baron 2 4 137800 Walid Bou Habib 2 5 28700 Juris Bonders 2 6 82000 Johnny Lodden 2 7 380300 Benjamin Kang 2 8 179900 Stuart Michel Fox 3 1 99100 Connor Drinan 3 2 49900 Robin Keston 3 3 131600 Woody Deck 3 4 147800 Peter Traply 3 5 100700 Sami Ovaskainen 3 6 67600 Andrew Teng 3 7 32900 Leonardo Fernandez 3 8 47600 Philippe Ktorza 4 1 9200 Vincent Secher 4 2 143100 Joseph Udine 4 3 43900 Tomas Brolin 4 4 62600 Trond Erik Eidsvig 4 5 50000 Antonio Esfandiari 4 6 121400 Nadir Jorephani 4 7 25300 William Martin 4 8 52800 Nikolaus Panopoulus 5 1 92000 Raul Paez Corral 5 2 163200 David Shade Kruger 5 3 153100 George Lind III 5 4 14100 Valeriy Ilikyan 5 5 51600 Anders Hoyer Berg 5 6 58100 Anna Wroblewski 5 7 51200 James Byrne 5 8 27900 Ed de Haas 6 1 82100 Mostafa Belkhayate 6 2 86600 Andreas Sarling 6 3 42200 Oyvind Riisem 6 4 441400 Alexia Portal 6 5 76300 Cyril Bensoussan 6 6 149100 Giovanni Nervo 6 7 55300 Raymond Rahme 6 8 104200 Andreas Hagen 7 1 276800 Derek Van Damme 7 2 25100 Tom Stig Ahlberg 7 3 130000 Emile Petit 7 4 52700 Kari Somer 7 5 44100 Simon Faure 7 6 81300 Ian Prevost 7 7 39900 Jesse Rockowitz 7 8 50400 Marcel Luske 8 1 128700 Enrico Mognaga 8 2 68600 Michaele Lau 8 3 20300 Glen Chorny 8 4 115100 Domenico Tinnirello 8 5 161000 Henrik Gwinner 8 6 162200 Martin Rask 8 7 188200 Alexander Morozov 8 8 55500 Stephen Kjaerstad 9 1 112700 Pawel Chmiel 9 2 44700 Haward Speer 9 3 87100 Pablo Ubierna 9 4 71400 Tommi Horkko 9 5 145500 Freddy Deeb 9 6 153300 Christopher Klodnicki 9 7 66700 Uffe Holm 9 8 99800 Rahal Kalil 10 1 137100 Brian Green 10 2 131200 Beniamino Speroni 10 3 133200 Eric Liu 10 4 169100 Csaba Toth 10 5 112100 Matthew Kurtz 10 6 96500 Eric Da Silva 10 7 36000 Adam Sword 10 8 30000 David Miara 11 1 139900 Felipe Ramos 11 2 87900 Clayton Maguire 11 3 52600 Ricardo Sousa 11 4 36500 Massou Cohen 11 5 99800 Claudio Pagano 11 6 121300 Andreas Fluri 11 7 205900 Mel Judah 11 8 19300 Nordine Bouya 12 1 53300 Luca Pagano 12 2 229000 Gerasimos Deres 12 3 59900 Thomas Fougeron 12 4 58000 Michael Martin 12 5 136800 Surinder Sunar 12 6 51600 Christoph Niesert 12 7 59000 Anders Vind 12 8 36700 James Campbell 13 1 241700 Pierre Hall 13 2 76400 Joe Hachem 13 3 255300 Sean Bruder 13 4 102200 Neil Channing 13 5 99500 Michel Carvin 13 6 126800 Sasha Rosewood 13 7 52700 Gordon Vayo 14 1 171000 Noah Siegel 14 2 174300 Raoul Refos 14 3 36200 Eduards Kudrjavcevs 14 4 136000 Christopher Convery 14 5 96800 Edward Lawson 14 6 30000 Mark Keightley 14 7 91000 Torbjorn Jonson 15 1 20100 Stefan Geim 15 2 29300 Jan Olav Sjavik 15 3 23900 Denes Kalo 15 4 51700 Alex Repik 15 5 161700 Stig Top Rasmussen 15 6 137600 Thomas Boekhoff 15 7 186400 Rami Boukai 16 1 176200 Sorel Mizzi 16 2 203200 Sebastian Zink 16 3 31200 Giovanni Bigoni 16 4 101800 Benjamin Sulsky 16 5 122500 Jonathan Dwek 16 6 14200 Eliahu Ilan Elezra 16 7 77500 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 01:23:07 PM There hasn't been the flurry of lemming-like all-ins we have almost come to expect from a later-day-in-tournament start. Quite the opposite, everyone* is playing a thoughtful, considered game, and as a result there is a more hushed atmosphere, with some serious-faced hand-shaking of the table when people get eliminated.
There also seems to be a lot of Day Three Syndrome Floplessness, as re-raises take pots down from the continual raisers - like Oyvind Riisem, whose stack is of phenomenal size and doesn't seem to have been coloured up at all. He kind of has to keep his elbows pointing out to the sides to get his hands in position to check his cards, which makes me think that keeping the tables eight-handed was definitely a good idea. *Well, obviously not everyone, but the majority seem to be _________________________________ One pot which threatened to become very large saw Eric Liu on the cutoff betting 19k into a pot which had somehow become 36k preflop (sorry I missed that bit) on a flop of 7c 2h 4s and Csaba Toth raising on the button, to 41,400. A serious-faced Liu considered whether to tangle with his fairly deep-stacked neighbour further, before deciding against it. He still has 135k, though. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 01:23:21 PM Mr Marcel Luske is OUT. All we saw was the Marcel-standing-up-while-Glen-Chorny-rakes-in-his-chips bit, I'm afraid, but one thing we know for certain is that the Dutchman will be flying home tonight. Or possibly staying in lovely sunny Monte Carlo for a few more days, but I think I've made my puntastic point.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 15, 2008, 01:26:59 PM With most Day 3s, the opening level is normally the Level of Death with shortstacks pushing left, right and centre. However, on this occassion, this hasn't necessarily been the case. I don't know if it's because of the 15k starting stack, the generous 90 minute levels or the mouth-watering prizepool up for grabs, but the action hasn't been as fast paced as previous EPT's would suggest. Having said that, there were a few unhappy faces, Philippe Ktorza and the wonderfully named Derek Van Damme both frog splashing (pun there for a very niche audience) their way out of the event within the first thirty minutes.
---------- One man who suffered the wrath of the Poker Gods early doors was former Israeli army officer (deactivate smug mode for knowing pointless trivia) Eli Elezra. Short-stacked and praying for a hand, he found two cowboys grinning back at him and quickly pushed all-in. Across the table, an even short-stacked Joseph Udine picked up Pocket Snowmen and decided to take a stab. In seemingly good shape, Eli was all smiles and confident of victory, but his smile was soon wiped off his face as a stomach-churning 8-J-3 hit the Flop to leave Eli praying for one of two outs. As Vincent Secher begrudged his misfortune of releasing Pocket Jacks pre-flop, the dealer continued to deal out the rest of the board, the raggy Five and Ten Turn and River leaving Eli down to the felt. Udine, meanwhile, walked briefly away from the table, quietly celebrated, and returned with a restrained grin. A few hands later, Eli was smiling once again and entertaining his neighbour and fellow High Stakes Poker star Antonio Esfandiair. In response to the banter, Antonio added, "Why do I have so much fun when you're at the table, Eli?" ---------- Andreas Fluri found Jacks and moved in his stacks. A-7 had Clayton Maguire, so an Ace he did require. The bullet on the River left Andreas in a tither, or should that be Fluri in a fury. ---------- Pablo Erbiana nearly had to be restrained, his roar of delight as his Jacks held up against Uffe Holm's A-Q being heard across the breadth of the room. Meanwhile, Jan Sjavik was left shaking his head when his A-K failed to hold up against Stefan Gelm's Q-Js on a J-7-5-6-8 board. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 01:28:12 PM Stuart Fox makes it 6k from one off the cutoff, only for Connor Drinan on the actual cutoff to make it All In for 45.5k. And it's pretty poor timing from Connor - Foxy does eventually fold, but not until after big blind Peter Traply wakes up with Aces and calls.
Traply - Aspades Ad Drinan - Qs Ts Nice flop for Drinan, nice turn and river for Traply: Ks 6s 2d 8c 3h Meaning that Mr Connor Drinan is OUT. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 01:36:11 PM However subdued the start may have been, in recent minutes it's been insanity here!
(http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/images/insanity.jpg) One level in and about a third of our remaining field has exploded, all this without the average stack ever dropping below 50 big blinds. Nutters. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 01:49:06 PM We've hit the first break and the third table break. Some counts as they all headed for a brief dose of sunshine:
Robin Keston -- 130k Matthew Kurtz -- 68k Michael Martin -- 142k Benjamin Sulsky -- 88k Glen Chorny -- 220k Andrew Teng -- 40k Woody Deck -- 151k Trond Eidsvig -- 38k Antonio Esfandiari -- 150k Alexia Portal -- 66k Neil Channing -- 145k Jan Sjavik -- 41k Surinder Sunar -- 25k Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 01:56:19 PM Eli Elezra Exits Eliciting Eidsvig Excitement
It looks like Trond Eidsvig raised preflop, and found Eli Elezra pushing all in for a short stack of 35k behind him. Then Vincent Secher flat called, which was clearly a surprise to both of them... Trond tortures himself for a while (his own stack a not too healthy 45k or so) and laments: "I get all these decisions - why?" He thinks it through, though: "You flat call 35k. Why?" He growls a bit and stands up, hands behind head. "I want the overcall!" pipes up Elezra, but Trond was right to smell a rat and get out of the way, as Secher flipped the Kd Ks and promptly eliminated the American. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 03:09:02 PM Recent things I posted on the Makeshift Blog.
By the way, if blonde goes down again, you can still follow the updates at a makeshift blog I set up - it's at http://blondeupdates.blogspot.com/ - bookmark it now! 3:37pm Concerning the €10k STT, from the virtual pen of Mad Harper: dear all just to answer a few questions regarding the Stars of Poker $100k televised Sit and Go that is taking place right now (April1 15) at the EPT Grand Final.... Eight Team PokerStars Pros are taking part :Daniel Negreanu (actually first out after being busted, set over set, by EPT founder John Duthie), Katja Thater (Germany), Noah Boeken (Holland), Barry Greenstein (USA), Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (France, winner of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January 2008), John Duthie (UK), Dario Minieri(Italy, 3rd at EPT San Remo), plus Victoria Coren (£500k winner of EPT3 London), plus Joseph "bigjoe2003" Michael who won a special live freeroll satellite held last night for PokerStars Supernova Elites. PokerStars' chief blogger Brad Willis recently wrote a great piece on Joseph Michael: http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/2008/02/pokerstars-gives-new-meaning-to-house.html For profiles on Team PokerStars Pros, see http://www.pokerstars.com/team-pokerstars/ All Team PS Pros paid $10,000 (dollars) to enter and PokerStars has added $20,000 to the prize pool to bring it up to $100,000. Payout: $50k to 1st place; $30k to 2nd, $20k to 3rd. Do let me know if you need any more information. Best wishes Mad Harper ----------- Some counts: Andrew Teng - 35k Trond Eidsvig :) :) :) - 30k Antonio Esfandiari - 150k ---------- Mostafa Belkhayate has doubled up to the tune of perhaps 200k courtesy of overnight chip leader Oyvind Riisem - Mostafa was holding K-Q on a King-high board, I'm afraid I didn't see what Riisem had. A massive "YESSS!!!!" and an ungentlemanly handclap from Mostafa alerted me to the double-up. Oyvind is not best pleased obviously, but certainly not in any trouble just yet. -------- Mr Jan Sjavik shoves for around 25k from the big blind after, I believe, a small raise from Michel Carvin on the button. Actually I have only come over to the table because Jan is munching on a Snickers and I would like to have a photo of that. It takes me a moment to realise that all his chips are across the line, thus winning him my Most Nonchalant All-In Ever prize. Anyway, a short dwell from Mr Carvin later and they're on their backs. Jan Sjavik - 6d 6h Michel Carvin - Qc Th Board - 2s 2h Ts Ad 8c Mr Jan Sjavik - OUT. It wasn't a Marathon after all. ----------- Full chip counts at the end of Level 13, the first level we played today, courtesy of those good good people at Pokerstars.com: ID Player Table Seat end level 13 604 Oyvind Riisem 9 5 430,000 207 Johnny Lodden 12 7 357,000 701 Andreas Hagen 3 9 324,000 806 Henrik Gwinner 8 6 286,000 1402 Noah Siegel 6 8 260,000 1507 Thomas Boekhoff 9 3 250,000 1602 Sorel Mizzi 1 10 250,000 1202 Luca Pagano 2 1 240,000 107 Amit Makhija 11 7 210,000 901 Stephen Kjaerstad 9 2 200,000 103 Benjamin Sprengers 10 5 195,100 203 Borge Dypvik 1 1 195,000 804 Glen Chorny 9 6 195,000 1303 Joe Hachem 5 9 195,000 1005 Csaba Toth 3 6 187,000 1506 Stig Top Rasmussen 11 3 185,000 708 Jesse Rockowitz 5 4 185,000 1004 Eric Liu 1 4 185,000 807 Martin Rask 12 3 182,000 305 Peter Traply 6 3 180,000 402 Vincent Secher 8 1 175,000 1003 Beniamino Speroni 12 8 167,000 905 Tommi Horkko 2 3 165,000 108 Maxime Villemure 4 2 163,000 805 Domenico Tinnirello 9 7 161,000 406 Antonio Esfandiari 12 1 160,000 906 Freddy Deeb 7 4 160,000 503 David Shade Kruger 2 2 155,000 1303 Joe Hachem 7 7 151,000 204 Isaac Andrew Baron 4 1 150,000 304 Woody Deck 2 5 150,000 501 Nikolaus Panopoulus 4 6 150,000 504 George Lind III 4 7 148,000 303 Robin Keston 2 4 145,000 105 Kenny Hallaert 3 7 144,600 1106 Claudio Pagano 2 7 135,000 1305 Neil Channing 8 9 135,000 703 Tom Stig Ahlberg 3 8 134,000 1601 Rami Boukai 2 8 133,000 1606 Jonathan Dwek 11 5 132,000 ? ?? 11 6 130,000 1205 Michael Martin 4 9 130,000 1604 Giovanni Bigoni 10 2 128,200 608 Raymond Rahme 5 2 125,000 502 Raul Paez Corral 7 9 124,000 1306 Michel Carvin 9 9 123,000 1101 David Miara 9 8 122,000 208 Benjamin Kang 9 4 121,000 1107 Andreas Fluri 12 5 120,000 904 Pablo Ubierna 6 5 119,000 106 Morten Lokken 11 1 116,000 903 Haward Speer 4 5 112,000 1001 Rahal Kalil 5 7 112,000 202 Andrew Luetchford 11 4 110,000 602 Mostafa Belkhayate 10 3 110,000 1405 Christopher Convery 6 2 105,000 1203 Gerasimos Deres 3 5 105,000 1302 Pierre Hall 7 2 102,500 706 Simon Faure 3 2 102,000 1304 Sean Bruder 8 8 100,000 1103 Clayton Maguire 12 4 98,000 601 Ed de Haas 6 1 95,000 1504 Denes Kalo 2 6 94,000 1002 Brian Green 2 9 91,000 1605 Benjamin Sulsky 3 1 90,000 705 Kari Somer 7 3 88,000 1407 Mark Keightley 1 3 83,000 102 Jan Heitmann 10 1 81,100 403 Joseph Udine 9 1 81,000 505 Valeriy Ilikyan 8 7 80,000 1204 Thomas Fougeron 4 8 80,000 808 Alexander Morozov 4 4 75,000 404 Tomas Brolin 1 8 70,000 605 Alexia Portal 7 6 65,000 1006 Matthew Kurtz 1 6 63,000 306 Sami Ovaskainen 12 6 60,000 1105 Massou Cohen 1 7 57,000 1404 Eduards Kudrjavcevs 1 2 56,200 1502 Stefan Geim 5 3 53,700 506 Anders Hoyer Berg 3 4 52,000 206 Juris Bonders 1 5 51,000 408 William Martin 8 4 50,000 205 Walid Bou Habib 5 1 45,000 707 Ian Prevost 7 8 42,000 1104 Ricardo Sousa 7 5 40,000 1201 Nordine Bouya 6 4 39,900 101 Anthony Chatelain 12 2 39,000 704 Emile Petit 8 3 38,000 1503 Jan Olav Sjavik 10 7 36,000 307 Andrew Teng 11 2 35,000 405 Trond Erik Eidsvig 5 6 32,000 607 Giovanni Nervo 7 1 32,000 1008 Adam Sword 6 7 28,000 802 Enrico Mognaga 8 2 26,800 907 Christopher Klodnicki 10 4 25,500 1501 Torbjorn Jonson 6 9 21,800 1206 Surinder Sunar 5 8 19,000 1108 Mel Judah 1 9 15,500 1102 Felipe Ramos 5 5 10,000 4pm Peter Tramply - 320k Pierre Hall - 112.5k Eric Liu - 188k Robin Keston - 130k still Snoopy spoke to Neil Channing - he's on around 70k. "I dropped about 100k to the guy on my right," - one Joe Hachem. "Apart from that, everything's great." -------- Altercation between Woody Deck and Joe Hachem! There was a big crowd around the table - apparently Hachem lost a big pot which was checked on the river, and a few people wanted to see his cards, as they were entitled to do, seeing as it was checked on the river. Hachem refused to show, at which point I understand Woody Deck called him an asshole, at which point Hachem went loopy and stormed away from the table. The way Snoopy tells it, the phrase ,"Who do you think you are," may have been uttered... 4:03pm Michael Martin - 300k Surinder Sunar, to Micael's immediate left - just 10k, eek Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 03:35:43 PM Ok, seriously, my friends, this server thing is beyond a joke.
We will continue to attempt to update on here when possible, but I urge you, please bookmark http://blondeupdates.blogspot.com/ That is where we will be if (or more likely when) the server goes down again. ;frustrated; ;frustrated; ;frustrated; Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 03:59:23 PM ***********Old Stories I only Just Now can Post on Here**********
The wonderfully named Peter Traply gets involved with Robin Keston, betting out on a Qc Jd Qs flop only to find Kestion raising him another 13,900. He flat calls. They both check the 8s turn, but Traply fires 38k on the 2c river which is enough to see off his opponent. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15391&g2_serialNumber=1) _______________________________ Neil Channing is no longer in the tournament – spotted in the hallway with the somewhat surprised look of someone who has busted when he hasn’t had much recent experience of busting. Sorry mullacott etc. He can’t win ‘em all. Also Not In but were at start of day--- Anna Wroblewski Eli Elezra Stuart Fox Five full tables of players. Chip counts of remaining players on their way. _________________________________ Two to go until the money, when everyone will breathe more easily and we will be free to wander betwixt the tables gathering information like lovely spring flowers once again. Players on a 10 min break. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 03:59:53 PM Also hitting the rail just outside the Cash Zone was Frenchman Thomas Fougeron, whom I saw giving a TV interview in the hallway. We are at the bubble proper right now, 81 players left, 80 getting paid, so Steve Frazer is announcing every all in to the room, which is dealing hand for hand. There were no fewer than five all-ins called while I was peering over from the rail just now, but each time it was the short stack who doubled up. Most recent one: Denes Kalo, all in with Qd Qh vs. Ac Kd. I thought one of the players was having a super lengthy dwell, but they were actually holding until the film crew could get to the table, seeing how long the all-in player could stand the tension with the hands face down before screaming and throwing the table over.*
*Not true. Fougeron: Flying the French Flag no longer (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13020&g2_serialNumber=2) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 15, 2008, 04:22:47 PM It's bedlam here, predominantly due to the lack of organisation on the bubble. As you are probably aware, all of the media were sentenced to the rail in order to let the television crew charge through like drunken rhinoceroses as we await that all-important bubble to burst. Unfortunately, the rail is a crowded place, and few, if any, are accommodating in allowing us to see the action. At one point, I decided to stand the other side of the rail and keep a low profile, and in doing so I was able to witness an all-in between Martin Rask and Torbjorn Jonson. As with all the all-ins at this point, the cameras have to remain poised until all hands on other tables are complete, but because players leap out their seats like epileptic salmons, it takes an age to finish them. On this particular hand, I think they may have been kept waiting five to ten minutes, and during that time I was able to learn that both players had Ace Jack, even though neither player had shown their hand yet. It was totally silly. Anyhow, when it was time for the showdown, there was a mixed ripple of sighs and laughter as the near inevitable split pot was revealed, and even more so when the Flop came down a rainbow. One player who was particularly disappointed was Brit William Martin. He's currently short-stacked with 21k, even after trebling up from 7k just moments ago.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 04:35:40 PM Still no progress on the bubble front - another two double ups. One of the longest most intense ones of these we have yet to encounter.
Ran into George Danzer, railing Jan Heitmann (obv) and he said that he (Jan) nearly gave him (George) a heart attack during the late bubble period stages... apparently they'd talked about things, and discussed how players were continually re-raising the German player, and to pick times to just push in when faced with one of these re-raises. He did it with 4d 4s, ran smack into Ac Aspades. 4c the door card, and no looking back. What a (http://www.bechteljewelers.net/catalog/DSCF0582.JPG) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 04:38:03 PM Chip counts end of level 14, courtesy of awesome Pokerstars people. BEWARE! Mad Harper warns us that their card system is not infallible and there might be some teeny tiny mistakes here and there. Nevertheless:
ID Player PS Status Country T S end of L 14 207 Johnny Lodden Norway 2 7 478,000 305 Peter Traply Cash Hungary 3 5 450,000 604 Oyvind Riisem Norway 6 4 357,000 601 Ed de Haas Holland 6 1 350,000 1601 Rami Boukai Cash USA 7 2 345,000 303 Robin Keston UK 3 3 300,000 1401 Gordon Vayo USA 7 8 292,000 804 Glen Chorny Cash Canada 8 4 290,600 1506 Stig Top Rasmussen Denmark 4 1 283,900 906 Freddy Deeb USA 9 6 277,000 1507 Thomas Boekhoff Germany 9 2 272,000 203 Borge Dypvik Norway 2 3 271,000 1004 Eric Liu USA 10 4 260,000 103 Benjamin Sprengers Cash USA 1 3 251,000 406 Antonio Esfandiari USA 4 6 250,000 503 David Shade Kruger USA 5 3 250,000 204 Isaac Andrew Baron USA 2 4 240,000 806 Henrik Gwinner Denmark 8 6 225,000 1005 Csaba Toth Hungary 10 5 225,000 1306 Michel Carvin France 9 8 223,000 1205 Michael Martin USA 8 1 220,000 1202 Luca Pagano Team PokerStars Pro Italy 8 2 219,000 901 Stephen Kjaerstad Norway 9 1 219,000 107 Amit Makhija Cash USA 1 7 211,000 1402 Noah Siegel USA 5 8 190,000 108 Maxime Villemure Canada 1 8 185,000 1203 Gerasimos Deres Sweden 2 6 180,000 1301 James Campbell Cash (DS) USA 3 2 180,000 602 Mostafa Belkhayate Morocco 6 2 180,000 1303 Joe Hachem Team PokerStars Pro Australia 3 1 177,000 501 Nikolaus Panopoulus Greece 5 1 177,000 1003 Beniamino Speroni Italy 10 3 170,000 1604 Giovanni Bigoni Italy 2 1 169,000 1107 Andreas Fluri Cash Switzerland 11 7 167,000 703 Tom Stig Ahlberg Finland 7 3 160,000 402 Vincent Secher Cash France 4 2 158,000 808 Alexander Morozov Russia 8 8 157,000 102 Jan Heitmann Sponsored Germany 1 2 153,000 1607 Eliahu Ilan Elezra USA 9 7 152,000 505 Valeriy Ilikyan Russia 5 5 150,000 807 Martin Rask Denmark 8 7 147,000 1106 Claudio Pagano Italy 11 6 146,000 1407 Mark Keightley Cash (DS) UK 6 3 145,000 106 Morten Lokken Norway 1 6 140,000 1104 Ricardo Sousa Portugal 11 4 140,000 905 Tommi Horkko Finland 9 5 129,000 304 Woody Deck Lithuania 3 4 125,000 903 Haward Speer Cash Germany 9 3 113,000 1102 Felipe Ramos Brazil 11 2 110,300 1601 Rami Boukai Cash USA 3 8 105,000 805 Domenico Tinnirello Italy 8 5 105,000 1302 Pierre Hall Cash Canada 10 7 93,000 706 Simon Faure France 7 6 92,500 504 George Lind III USA 5 4 90,000 ? ? 4 7 85,000 205 Walid Bou Habib Lebanon 2 5 84,000 1504 Denes Kalo Hungary 1 4 83,000 1001 Rahal Kalil France 10 1 83,000 705 Kari Somer Cash Finland 7 5 78,500 904 Pablo Ubierna Spain 9 4 78,000 1002 Brian Green USA 10 2 77,000 ? ? 6 5 75,000 1103 Clayton Maguire USA 11 3 73,400 1108 Mel Judah UK 11 8 71,200 1006 Matthew Kurtz Cash USA 10 6 65,000 1502 Stefan Geim Germany 5 7 60,000 1104 Ricardo Sousa Portugal 11 5 46,000 101 Anthony Chatelain Sweden 1 1 44,100 405 Trond Erik Eidsvig Norway 4 5 41,000 707 Ian Prevost USA 7 7 41,000 306 Sami Ovaskainen Finland 3 6 40,000 404 Tomas Brolin Sweden 4 4 40,000 608 Raymond Rahme Team PokerStars Pro South Africa 6 8 40,000 1304 Sean Bruder Cash Canada 4 3 38,000 701 Andreas Hagen Norway 7 1 36,000 506 Anders Hoyer Berg Norway 5 6 30,000 208 Benjamin Kang Sponsored Germany 2 8 29,000 202 Andrew Luetchford Cash UK 2 2 26,800 1501 Torbjorn Jonson Sweden 8 3 26,800 607 Giovanni Nervo Italy 6 7 17,000 408 William Martin UK 4 8 9,000 Sorry about the weird formatting. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 05:13:54 PM We're still bubbling here, I'm afraid. Until some incredible geek with super-googling powers and a lot of spare time tells me otherwise, I'm declaring this the Longest Ever EPT Bubble.
Press are still not allowed inside the rail, but I snuck in and got a few chip counts before they threw me out. Michael Martin (Reader - :) :) :)) - 270k and shaking his head gravely, I think to express dissatisfaction with how slowly everything is going rather than disappointment with his almost-twice-the-average stack Luca Pagano - 270k Sorel Mizzi - 230k Trond Eidsvig - just 35k, eek! :( :( :( He's having a massage to soothe his troubled mind/shoulders. Don't know why he's paying Legendary Masseuse Suki to do it, I'd do it for free. ;whistle; Ed De Haas - at this point I got thrown out. Sorry. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 05:19:36 PM An enormous crowd has formed - I run over and fight my way through to somewhere near the front of it. There is a board out, and I can see it! It is 7d 3d 8h Kh and Pagano Senior Claudio has bet 18k form the button. Felipe Taveres is deliberating. He stands up from his chair. He deliberates for some minutes. The crowd shuffles closer, holding its collective breath. Two of the other players at the tables are reading magazines. One is yawning. Felipe folds.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 15, 2008, 05:54:26 PM Much to the disappointment of all who were watching, some even chanting for the outdraw, shortstacked Andreas Hagen has doubled through courtesy of Gordon Vayo (pictured). All-in with A-J versus 4-2s, Andreas had to survive a 5-6-7, but successfully managed to do so as the Turn and River came a Queen and King respectively.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 06:01:35 PM Roughly 8mins a hand here. Here's what happens after tables have finished promptly and one table has a confrontation/players thinking about confronting each other/players not realising it's their go:
1) They wander around for a bit of a chat, a la Eric Liu and Clayton Maguire (I think). You know. Discussing approaches, stacks, life. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15573&g2_serialNumber=1) 2) Turning 90 degrees, I see that Claudio Pagano wandering a bit, in a different way, through the corridors of his mind, bored into arm-crossed introversion by this monstrous bubble... (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15575&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 06:11:49 PM Surinder Sunar, with 35k on the big blind, shoving over the top of Ricardo Sousa with Jh Jc. Sousa held Kh Qh.
Flop: Qs 4s Ac Turn: 9c River: 6s And after nearly three and a half hours, Surinder takes the worst spot in the EPT Grand Final, and everyone else takes off 45mins for dinner. Actually, he probably does that too. It would be way too harsh to deny him access to the player buffet on top of everything. Dana’s posting her pictures which should follow shortly. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 07:19:12 PM Maxime Villemure update please.. somewhere around 240k or so ?? I think you'll find him somewhere in this list... 305 Peter Traply 3 5 Hungary Cash 590000 207 Johnny Lodden 2 7 Norway 530000 1601 Rami Boukai 7 2 USA Cash 422000 604 Oyvind Riisem 6 4 Norway 350000 602 Mostafa Belkhayate 6 2 Morocco 320000 806 Henrik Gwinner 8 6 Denmark 274000 1402 Noah Siegel 5 8 USA 260000 804 Glen Chorny 8 4 Canada Cash 257000 1507 Thomas Boekhoff 9 2 Germany 255000 1202 Luca Pagano 8 2 Italy Team PokerStars Pro 250000 1504 Denes Kalo 1 4 Hungary 244000 303 Robin Keston 3 3 UK 244000 503 David Shade Kruger 5 3 USA 243000 1205 Michael Martin 8 1 USA 240000 108 Maxime Villemure 1 8 Canada 238000 1004 Eric Liu 10 4 USA 237000 1306 Michel Carvin 9 8 France 236000 1506 Stig Top Rasmussen 4 1 Denmark 235000 703 Tom Stig Ahlberg 7 3 Finland 235000 901 Stephen Kjaerstad 9 1 Norway 230000 204 Isaac Andrew Baron 2 4 USA 225000 1005 Csaba Toth 10 5 Hungary 222100 406 Antonio Esfandiari 4 6 USA 220000 906 Freddy Deeb 9 6 USA 219000 203 Borge Dypvik 2 3 Norway 210000 1104 Ricardo Sousa 11 4 Portugal 210000 808 Alexander Morozov 8 8 Russia 206900 505 Valeriy Ilikyan 5 5 Russia 200000 1401 Gordon Vayo 7 8 USA 200000 1203 Gerasimos Deres 2 6 Sweden 198000 1003 Beniamino Speroni 10 3 Italy Cash 196500 1303 Joe Hachem 3 1 Australia Team PokerStars Pro 195000 1106 Claudio Pagano 11 6 Italy 192000 1107 Andreas Fluri 11 7 Switzerland 192000 1301 James Campbell 3 2 USA Cash (DS) 190000 1602 Sorel Mizzi 9 7 Canada Cash 184000 402 Vincent Secher 4 2 France Cash 180000 103 Benjamin Sprengers 1 3 USA Cash 175000 1604 Giovanni Bigoni 2 1 Italy 156800 506 Anders Hoyer Berg 5 6 Norway 143000 102 Jan Heitmann 1 2 Germany Sponsored 142000 1606 Jonathan Dwek 3 8 Canada Cash 140000 608 Raymond Rahme 6 8 South Africa Team PokerStars Pro 140000 903 Haward Speer 9 3 Germany Cash 112000 106 Morten Lokken 1 6 Norway 108000 807 Martin Rask 8 7 Denmark 103000 202 Andrew Luetchford 2 2 UK PS Status 100000 501 Nikolaus Panopoulus 5 1 Greece 100000 1302 Pierre Hall 10 7 Canada Cash 98900 205 Walid Bou Habib 2 5 Lebanon 98000 304 Woody Deck 3 4 Lithuania 95000 805 Domenico Tinnirello 8 5 Italy 93700 905 Tommi Horkko 9 5 Finland 89000 601 Ed de Haas 6 1 Holland 80000 ? ? 6 6 #N/A #N/A 80000 1103 Clayton Maguire 11 3 USA 79000 706 Simon Faure 7 6 France 76000 1002 Brian Green 10 2 USA 75300 504 George Lind III 5 4 USA 63200 701 Andreas Hagen 7 1 Norway 61500 1001 Rahal Kalil 10 1 France 57800 107 Amit Makhija 1 7 USA Cash 55200 1407 Mark Keightley 6 3 UK Cash 55000 904 Pablo Ubierna 9 4 Spain 55000 1006 Matthew Kurtz 10 6 USA Cash 52700 705 Kari Somer 7 5 Finland Cash 52000 1502 Stefan Geim 5 7 Germany 50000 1105 Massou Cohen 11 5 France 40000 206 Juris Bonders 3 6 Austria 39000 1501 Torbjorn Jonson 8 3 Sweden 34800 1102 Felipe Ramos 11 2 Brazil 27900 405 Trond Erik Eidsvig 4 5 Norway 27500 607 Giovanni Nervo 6 7 Italy 25000 101 Anthony Chatelain 1 1 Sweden 21600 404 Tomas Brolin 4 4 Sweden 18500 408 William Martin 4 8 UK Sponsored 17400 707 Ian Prevost 7 7 15000 208 Benjamin Kang 2 8 ]14700 1304 Sean Bruder 4 3 # 11300 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 07:36:47 PM By the way, did I mention that Luca Pagano has just broken the record for most EPT cashes? Nine. Sorry Julian. :(
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 07:52:09 PM (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15625&g2_serialNumber=1)
Trond Eidsvig picked a spot to move in with Ahrt 4s. It was a bad spot, because someone to his left looked down and found Kh Kc, taking the last remaining chips from the unusually-talkative Norwegian. ALSO Tommi Horkko, racing his 7h 7d all in pre against Ahrt Kh. Flop: 6s Qc Js Turn: The no-hope-possible Ts River: 4s (just for completeness' sake) _______________________________________ Dropped to a dangerous level and all in pre with 7s 7c - a slightly luckier pair of Sevens - was Torbjorn Jonson. The Swede was called by Glen Chorny who promptly saw his Nines go down the tubes as Jonson spiked a Seven. Still short though. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 15, 2008, 07:52:18 PM When you're this deep in a tournament, few flops being seen and all and sundry at the table making aggressive moves, you just pray for those Aces to pop along, those little drops of American Airline sunshine that will double you up and make you a danger again. Or, as was the case with Ian Prevost, you can get them when a double through will still mean you're a shortie. Of course, the latter is still nice, and it proved to be the case as Ian was looked up by the A-To of Tom Stig Ahlberg (pictured below in Dame Edna Everage specs).
"You're behind," announced Ian revealing his nutsy hand, perhaps forgetting momentarily that Tom could have been dealt the other two Bullets. Although Tom paired up on the T-Q-5 Flop, it wasn't enough, two Sevens hitting the Turn and River to give Ian his double up. However, he's still short, and will be looking for further opportunities to push in the upcoming rounds. ---------- After a formidable run yesterday that led to him finishing the day as chip leader, you'd be forgiven for assuming that Oyvind Riisen had swalled a bag of Mario World invincibility stars, but today has been a slightly different story. Failing to improve on his stack, Oyvind has lost the chip lead to Johnny Lodden and Peter Traply and is gradually slipped down the ladder one by one. His latest sip of a rung was against Giovanni Nervo, the young Italian player finding himself all-in with Pocket Sevens against Oyvind's A-9. A 5-6-Q Flop was followed by a J Turn and T River, meaning Giovanni, much to his evident relief, receives a timely double up, whilst Oyvind takes another hit. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 08:03:05 PM You know how sometimes it's possible to tell just from the winner's hand and the loser's expression whether or not someone just got grotted?
Well I heard Eric Liu saying those immortal words of resignation, "That's poker. That's what it is," and went to have a look at the table. It turns out that he was talking to Brian Green, who'd just lost most of his stack doubling up neighbour and fellow shortstacker Rahal Kalil. Kalil showed Ad 7d and the board was standing: 5s 7h Ahrt 8s 3s so I am guessing that he'd been a little bit dominated until receiving that nice flop... Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 08:23:30 PM And shortstacked Torbjorn Jonson is indeed now thoroughly OUT. I believe there was a limp/small raise from Alexander Morozov on the cutoff, and Mr Jonson went over the top. Some dwellage, some call-age, some "wow"-age from others at the table when Morozov turned his cards over.
Torbjorn Jonson - 5s 5h Alexander Morozov - Aspades 2d And what else could possibly happen here but the board came: Qc Qd Ac Jc 6s (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15637&g2_serialNumber=1) Mr Morozov looking like a man whose tablemates have just said "wow" when he called a guy all in massively behind and then sucked out: (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15638&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 08:27:01 PM Also OUT - Ian Prevost. Circumstances unknown.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 15, 2008, 08:30:08 PM Skipping into the cardroom I noticed that Sean Bruder and William Martin had bitten the dust, the former exiting the cardroom shapish, the latter hovering around the tables, perhaps refusing to believe that he's been eliminated.
---------- James Campell is OUT. I didn't catch the full hand, just that he ran 9h-9d into the Qc-Tc of Jonathan Dwek on a 5c-Jd-9c-8c-As board. Looks cooler than a naturist field trip to Iceland. -------- It's been a while, but I can proudly say that it's time to report a... (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/boo_licious/misc/koongwohtong2.jpg) with a stupendous number of... (http://pro.corbis.com/images/42-17066632.jpg?size=572&uid=%7B186258C1-3FBA-4CDA-B5F2-937019FB8D7A%7D) and two of the biggest... (http://cardboardmonocle.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/trgetasut2-1.jpg) ... in poker. In fact, this was the biggest pot of the whole tournament. Antonio Esfandiari = Ac Ad Gordon Vayo = Ks Kc Flop = 4d 8s 2c Turn = 3h River = 8s Antonio now up to 680k and your current chip leader. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 08:41:27 PM I think that this is still Pierre Hall, even though he's now right the other side of the card room. Such is the nature of table breaks. He is making a weird face because in an effort to get him to look at the camera I started grinning like I was on drugs and this is the reaction.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15648&g2_serialNumber=1) If I'd photographed him about 5 minutes later, however, he may have been all (slightly apologetic) smiles. He'd got his 120-150k all in pre with Jd Qd, called by Ahrt Qh. Flop: 2h 6s Th Turn: 6c River........ ........... ........ Jc His railers go nuts, some high-fiving happens and he doubles through. Slightly embarrassing celebration level, considering the circumstances...but he's now comfortably stacked. And not American, which is what people in the room seem to think,but Canadian ;) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 15, 2008, 08:53:19 PM Jenn or Snoopy, Amit Makhija's stack please? Amit has 90k, well, rather he did before he doubled up Anthony Chatelain in Seat one, the Swedes A-K holding up against Amit's Jacks on a K-Q-A-Q-6 board. I didn't quite catch how much Anthony had at the time, and media were urshered out after the hand whilst they colour up, but I'd hazard a guess that it was a 70k pot. Also on that table are: Beniamino Speroni -- 125k Benjamin Sprengers -- 200k Denes Kalo -- 290k Maxime Villemure -- 365k --------- Also gone is Sami Ovaskainen, Pagano senior was the assassin. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 09:01:32 PM A couple of chip counts - they are slowly colouring up a few of the monstrous stacks, but it's probably at its hardest-to-count point so forgive if these aren't totally spot on:
Sorel Mizzi -- 210k Freddy Deeb -- 190k Eric Liu -- 196k Ben Sprengers -- 250k Maxime Villemure -- 335k Pierre Hall -- 280k Luca Pagano -- 230k Benjamin Kang -- OUT Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 09:12:33 PM From the Virtual Pen of Mad Harper at Pokerstars. No capital letters yet, no pie charts. Disappointing.
dear all results so far - 65th to 80th place - 65 James Campbell € 21,000 66 Giovanni Nervo € 21,000 67 Jan Heitmann € 21,000 68 George Lind € 21,000 69 Tom Ahlberg € 21,000 70 Ian Prevost € 21,000 71 Torbjörn Jonsson € 21,000 72 Giovanni Bigom € 21,000 73 Morten Lokken € 17,000 74 Tommi Hörkkö € 17,000 75 Benjamin Kang € 17,000 76 William Martin € 17,000 77 Sean Bruder € 17,000 78 Felipe Ramos € 17,000 79 Ed De Haas € 17,000 80 Trond-Erik Eidsvig € 17,000 This email has been sent to you by Mad Harper Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 09:20:18 PM Also seen leaving the scene of the crime was Domenico Tinnirello. The press have now been permanently ejected from the playing area, and because that exit occurred the other side of the room, I was unable to obtain any further details.
----------- Ricardo Sousa is OUT. He made his move with Kh 9h, but ran into the Td Ts of Oyvind Riise. Jd Jh 5d 6s 7c board. ------------- A very huge pot - there seems to be around 150 or 200k in it when I get there, a flop that is made of Q-8-8 with two hearts, and 180k in front of Antonio Esfandiari. The young gentleman next to him (below; is that Matt Kurtz? we're really looking for him, I swear) dwells up long enough for the customary 5-deep crowd of press and railers to form, and then passes. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15652&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15650&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 10:09:34 PM And people still think it's good when the press are hovering around their tables... Snoopy= no mercy.
Freddy Deeb -- 330k Stephen Kjaerstad -- 190k Pablo Ubierna -- 136k Eric Liu -- 197k Got to be honest, we're not really able to see more than one side of each table due to the Special Press Rail Area only flanking one side of the tournament, and a lot of spectators flanking the rest of it. I'm only small. They are only scheduled to play down to 40 players tonight, and then hopefully a well-thought out, comfortable viewing system can be devised for us press and everyone else, making the most efficient use of space and keeping everyone totally happy. ::) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 10:19:02 PM It's preflop re-raisetastic at this late stage of the day, with first of all Joe Hachem getting a nice flop-free pot, then Antonio Esfandiari on the neighbouring table taking it up a notch with a 130k three-bet pre which basically put the full Tournament Life Pressure on Stig Top Rasmussen. He thought for a very long time, Esfandiari remaining so quiet and still you'd have thought he was hunting something. But no, he's just playing poker, in a quiet, still way. Eventually he took that one down, Stig shaking his head in exasperation.
Woody Deck is OUT - and despite being basically a microstack at the end (he was called all in in two spots) he did have the Qd Qh against, er, 6-8 which only flopped a boat. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 15, 2008, 10:21:26 PM Access is limited at the moment, so I was only able to accrue the following counts:
Valeriy Ilikyan -- 170k Simon Faure -- 80k Gerasimos Deres -- 190k Rami Boukai -- 460k Tomas Brolin -- 75k Benjamin Sprengers -- 170k Anthony Chatelain -- 70k Maxime Villemure -- 365k David Shade Kruger -- 400k Robin Keston -- 420k Stig Rasmussen -- 275k Glen Chorny -- 205k Henrik Gwinner -- 310k Amit Makhija -- 100k Isaac Baron -- 170k Walid Bou Habib -- 150k Andreas Fluri -- 155k Andrew Luetchford -- 160k Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 10:22:07 PM Mr Andreas Fluri (I hope ;pokergods;), on 160k. You have no idea what I went through in there to get this photo. :'(
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15676&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 10:27:56 PM Mr Beniamino Sperino is OUT. Not sure how the betting went, but it was all-in pre, him against the unnamed young guy who folded that big hand to Esfandiari a page or two back.
Sperino - Qc Jc Some Young Guy - Aspades Js [EDIT - other way round, sorry. Hard to see from rail, apologies] Board - 2c Qs Kc 6h Qd (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15680&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 10:38:28 PM Borge Dypvik finishes in 47th place - but the hand which finally busted him - Ks Qd vs. Aspades Jc - wasn't the big one, I am sure. A miss all round and the young Norwegian calmly shook the collective hand of the table and made an exit so unassuming you would hardly believe he'd missed out on €2 mil but taken down €33,700 for his three days' work.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 15, 2008, 10:53:12 PM As one might expect at such a crucial time, many hands are slow affairs with players deliberating over almost every decision. In all fairness to the rest of the players, they are remaining patient if someone spends a long time in the think tank, there's no huffing and puffing, no unsubtle sighs and little evidence of impatient clock calling. This was certainly the case for Eric Liu. With Stephan Kjaerstad pushing in pre-flop for 120,500 (there was about that in the pot), Eric found himself in the unenviable position of having to make a decision for what would be for the majority of his stack. Twitching in his seat with the discomfort of a fish out of water, Eric seem tortured by his decision, looking back at his cards, counting out his chips, separating stacks and even sinking his head into his hands in despair. Finally, he opted for the fold, and allowed his Norwegian opponent to fight another day.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 15, 2008, 11:31:37 PM Michel Carvin is down to 150k. He had Pablo Ubierna dominated with A-K vs. A-Q but a Queen on the Flop of a 7-Q-4-5-2 rainbow board left Pablo high-fiving his fellow countrymen on the rail and Michel with a face that would make Mike Tyson quiver in his boots.
---------- Sorry Canada, Pierre's OUT. He called all-in with A-K against Robin Keston's 7-7. Pierre hit an Ace on the Turn, shame about the 7 on the Flop. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 11:34:41 PM In 43rd place falls Haward Speer - short to the point where it folded to him on the small blind and it seemed a perfectly good plan to move in with Jh Qc. Unfortunately, the big blind had Ad Aspades. A Js on the flop raised slim hope, but the rags which followed crushed it again.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 15, 2008, 11:51:42 PM There were mutterings about extending today's play to go down to 32, but at the moment it looks like we are approaching an end-of-day bubble of sorts. What are the odds it takes 2.5 hrs to get from 41 to 40?
Some counts: Stephen Kjerstad -- 210k Freddy Deeb -- 160k Eric Liu -- 350k Luca Pagano -- 325k Michael Martin -- 145k Alexander Morozov -- 125k Ben Sprengers -- 125 Antonio Esfandiari -- 650k+ Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 15, 2008, 11:58:03 PM DOUBLE UP AND CALL ON TABLE 3!!! is what alerted me to Joe Hachem's all in. Not sure how he lost most of that giganto-stack, but I guess he must have...
Must admit couldn't see a thing of the cards from behind the crowds, but Joe was holding Jh Jd and his opponent, I BELIEVE Mr Jonathan Dwek but POSSIBLY Mr Robin Keston, was holding 7h 7c. Someone is shouting, "Stick a Seven out there!" Flop - 9s 4d 7d (note the Seven in there) Turn - Jc (railer forgot to add, "no jacks") at which Mr Hachem shouts something that sounds awfully like, "YES! YES! STICK THAT WHERE IT HURTS, PEOPLE!!!" - ??? River - 2c Mr Joe Hachem doubles up to around 200k. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15716&g2_serialNumber=1) Cannot confirm if this was the doubler-upper, but here is a photo of Jonathan Dwek: (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15710&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 16, 2008, 12:03:40 AM After hovering around the 44 player mark for a while, we lost three in relatively quick succession before, incredibly, two crashed out in just one hand to leave us with 39. I was on the other side of the playing area at the time, and spotted a three row thick crowd swamping the far table. I tied up the laces on my running shoes and sprinted around (notice that's 'around'; we haven't been allowed to go in and out of tables for a long time), but it was too late, the hand was over. Fortunately, the hand was being announced over the microphone, and I had just about enough charm left in me to lure the information out of my fellow press, so that combined, I was able to deduce the following - a three way all-in involving Denes Kalo (button), Michel Carvin (small blind) and Stephan Kjaerstad (big blind). Denes Kalo held Kings and had both men covered. The other two hands were A-Q and A-9, although I don't know who had which. The board came 3-T-J-T-2 and the Kings held up, much to the delight of Denes, myself and the rest of the field.
Update: Michel Carvin had the A-9 and was shortstacked, Stephan Kjaerstad had the A-Q and had around 200k. The opening bet from Denes was around 20k. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 16, 2008, 01:29:59 AM Antonio Esfandiari (USA) -- 1,198,000
Robin Keston (UK) -- 916,000 Denes Kalo (Hungary) -- 642,000 Johnny Lodden (Norway) -- 623,000 Maxime Villemure (Canada) -- 600,000 Mostafa Belkhayate (Morocco) -- 523,000 Gerasimos Deres (Sweden) -- 494,500 Henrik Gwinner (Denmark) -- 487,000 David Shade Kruger (USA) -- 486,500 Thomas Boekhoff (Germany) -- 465,000 Rami Boukai (USA) -- 425,000 Eric Liu (USA) -- 398,000 Noah Siegel (USA) -- 388,500 Stig Top Rasmussen (Denmark) -- 373,000 Glen Chorny (Canada) -- 344,000 Oyvind Riisem (Norway) -- 340,000 Pablo Ubierna (Spain) -- 316,000 Peter Traply (Hungary) -- 300,500 Valeriy Ilikyan (Russia) -- 295,000 Claudio Pagano (Italy) -- 291,000 Jonathan Dwek (Canada) -- 282,000 Luca Pagano (Italy) -- 279,500 Amit Makhija (USA) -- 269,500 David Miara (France) -- 249,500 Isaac Baron (USA) -- 236,500 Joe Hachem (Australia) -- 214,500 Michael Martin (USA) -- 141,500 Freddy Deeb (USA) -- 140,500 Alexander Morozov (Russia) -- 133,000 Raymond Rahme (South Africa) -- 133,000 Walid Bou Habib (Lebanon) -- 127,500 Benjamin Sprengers (USA) -- 127,000 Anders Berg (Norway) -- 124,000 Andrew Luetchford (UK) -- 116,000 Vincent Secher (France) -- 92,500 Anthony Chatelain (Sweden) -- 83,500 Tomas Brolin (Sweden) -- 74,000 Andreas Fluri (Switzerland) -- 61,000 Stefan Geim (Germany) -- 58,000 |