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Hello and welcome back to the ACF as the Day 1 survivors check back in with a table redraw and a plan to play down to either 35 or 27, no one can quite agree which.  Good luck to all, especially the British and Irish contingent and those whom I have been following.....

Hi can you tell me how Elvis Senior is doing?

Players are starting to stand around in the hallway in preparation for returning to the tables (all the chips are still in their plastic bags and you can't get in there yet).

Among others are milling:
Frank Callaghan  --the chip leader with 92,325
Gilles Haddad       70,850
Ken Lennard        67,525
Noah Boeken       61,425
Mikael Thuritz       59,000
Stuart Nash         52,750
Roland de Wolfe  45,775
Roy Brindley        45,525
Rob Hollink          41,175
Carlo Citrone        26,625
Nabil Ayoubi        26,200
Rory Liffey           25,725
Alexander Kuzmin 25,650
Andrew Black       23,575
Juha Helppi          20,950
Bruce Atkinson     20,825
Peter Heighway   19,325
Tobey Maguire     19,125
Jani Sointula        17,850
Tony Bloom         16,275
Surinder Sunar     12,950
Ayhan Alsancak    11,275
Devilfish              10,850
Isabelle Mercier     9,975
Dave Colclough     5,525
Barny Boatman     5,075

There are 81 players remaining according to the very helpful sheet the ACF has provided.  We are also told where they are all seated - makes my job quite a bit easier.  Out of interest, Noah Boeken, Alex Kuzmin, El Blondie, Stuart Nash, Peter Heighway and Carlo are all on the same table.

Good Luck Jen!

Elvis senior being Bruce, right?  Slap in the middle in chips.  Sat with Roland de Wolfe.

Hey Tikay I don't need luck, the guys on the press table are all fish :)

Compared to you Jen - CORRECTA-MONDO!

Thanks

Oh - they've just started.  I am going to catch the first hand of the day one of these days.  Off to take a peek at the short stacks.

<aside to Tikay:  Can't remember the name of the guy who was winding Brian up calling him 'Son' - could you remind me for profile which is otherwise done>

El Blondie OUT - still not feeling well he took the inevitable double-up shot with pocket 6s on the big blind raising Noah Boeken's button raise with 10 J.  The J appeared to knock him out.

Devilfish OUT - All-in pre-flop with the Q 9 of diamonds, he was called by 44 and although he picked up a flush draw on the flop he didn't improve.

Wow, barely enough time to pick up the notepad.

Andrew Black NOT OUT - (just testing) but he was all-in picking up 13,000 from the guy he dispatched.  He's now in the low 30ks.

Counts from the right-hand room: 

Frank Callaghan  perilously close to 100,000
Dan Alspach      51,000
Alan Goehring   28,000
Surinder Sunar  19,500
Gilles Haddad    59,000
Mikael Thuritz   69,000
Ayhan Alsancak 10,000
Roy Brindley     45,000
Steve Worr      18,000
Jani Sointoula   30,000
Tony Bloom     16,000
Casey Kastle     40,000

Hi Jen,

you're doing a fantastic job in Paris just as you did at the World Series. Other blondeites may not know how good a player you are yourself though. You're far too modest to point out that you knocked Howard Lederer out of this event last year.

 :o

Keep up the good work and hope to see you soon,

Martin

did you Jen? please tell us more!

Counts from the left-hand room, where a table has just been broken:

Roland de Wolfe   66,000
Bruce Atkinson     16,000
Rob Hollink          47,000
Rory Liffey           17,000 (these two just clashed in a 14,000 pot which Rob won with the 57hearts which made a flush on the river)
Nabil Ayoubi         38,000
Ray Sanchez        52,000
Tobey Maguire     12,600
Isabelle Mercier     8,400
Adam Lounis        78,000
Barny Boatman     11,500
Andrew Black       32,000
Noah Boeken       62,000
Carlo Citrone        16,000
Alexander Kuzmin  18,800
Peter Heighway   21,000
Stuart Nash         49,000

Hurrah for the Gripper.  Didn't know you were on our forum.  Delighted.  Oh, and can I write a player profile of you upon returning?

jen is a fish
man i totally over ran her in the 2 rebuy event in walsall lol

I only knocked out Lederer that one time because he had a very small stack and I had a very big hand and went on a bit of a raising bender right before the end of the day.  John risked undignified ejection from the ACF to get a picture which I nevertheless treasure to this day. :D  I said hello to him here but he ignored me.  I think he was concentrating.

Is it true that Lederer has, er..............bulked up a bit?

Yes I can't deny it Ironside.  No contest.

Not sure who Adam Lounis is other than that he's French and really quite young-looking but I included him in the chip counts a) because he's never been low-chipped, starting the day with 48,000 and is playing very agressively just like yesterday to get himself to almost double that by the end of the first level which is about to be announced.

No problem, Jen. And give my best to John and Linda.

Martin

Tikay keeps staring at Lederer and saying, "he's very large isn't he" which i'm not so sure is that polite but he means it like rugby/american football player.  Yes.

The more I hear about that Tikay fella, the more worried I get. Let's hope someone left the door to the Eurostar carriage open for him.

isnt tikay supposed to be in the UK filming?

Nabil 'NabTheAce' Ayoubi OUT - The GetMinted qualifier was all-in on a board of Q Q Q J (two diamonds) with the Kd3d, but his opponent (Curt Kohlberg, I believe) held two black Aces to leave him drawing dead.  He headed out before I could chat to him with his cigar which presumably he can now smoke.

PLAYERS ON BREAK

Tikay IS in London.  He says he's coming back tonight.  Crazy, isn't he?

How is Roland de wolf doing??

If you see Roland on the break tell him I'm shouting for him.

Martin

What about Stuart Nash? Tricky guy to play against (current score 3 Nash 0 TightEnd)

Just before break, Isabelle Mercier - OUT

She, short-stacked,  raised in the cutoff to 2000, the button re-raised to 6000 and she eventually called with A2off.  The button showed tens, and the ten on the river only clinched it.

He knocked me out of the William Hill Comp at the Gutshot 2 or 3 months ago. No great feat though  :D

Ironside, don't forget there were two 2 rebuy comps that night and you were all beaten by a muppet in one of them  ::)

Is ironside a 2 multi player? ;)

You are doing a great job Jen , thanks.
Which brings up the question , has the old fella , matey boy with the fake blonde hair retired ?  he he


Regards

Greg

sorry guys the wifi in paris has gone down and they are sorting out the network they could be a delay in info coming from paris untill the wifi is sorted

Could someone update me on Elvis- Senior's progress? would be much appreciated.

Greg

Bruce Atkinson that is

Hi Jenn

Hope your a bit more comfortable than you were at the RIO
and I bet the foods a bit tastier too rather than those dodgy hot dogs.
Great stuff keep up the good work. Best wishes to your helper Tikay 

moden technology gone mad again lol,   last time i was in a hotel i had wi-fi with the newlaptop i got on the way,   it only took me an hour to set it up,  then another hour to call customer services cause i logged off and they wanted me to pay again even tho i paid for 24 hours,   *sighs* bring back 28k :)

Still down??

We're back! thanks for your patience.

It was apparently the internet service provider's fault, so couldn't even grumble to the ACF... 

Cheers MPower, it is very comfortable in here, with nice sofas to nap on when the computers go bust.  I have been saving up the stories, so here they come:

i havent heard from tony since he left for paris

as far as i know the techs in paris are trying to recover the wifi

if i hear anything i'll let you know

Firstly, Bruce Atkinson - he has around 46,000 after a (much earlier) lucky catch against Andrew Black.  Andy raised from the big blind with 9,3 and when he hit the flop got a  caller for all his money in Bruce who held 5,5.  The two-outer 5 on the river knocked Andy back to 18,000 but since then he has been working it back to around 30,000 now.

The biggest pot of the tourney happened while we were down (typical).  It was between Stephane Cohen and Patrick Selin (the Pokerroom MD) who were both sitting on nearly 50k.  Patrick raised preflop to 2,000, was reraised a further 7,000 and then just moved all-in over the top for 45,000.  No messing about.
After a dwell, Stephane called and showed KK to Patrick's AA (Roland, who related this story to me, passed AK).

Flop: Ah Jh 4h.  One of the Ks was a heart...
Turn:  Qc
River:  10s   So the outdraw came in the form of runner runner straight... giving Patrick a stack over 100k.

There are a couple of 100k+ stacks floating about.  One of them is Roland de Wolfe who seems to have added about 10,000 to his chips every time I do the circuit of his room.  He's also a pretty good hand rememberer which comes in useful.  Journalists, eh.  Who let them play cards anyway?  Full current chip counts on their way, via the renewed miracle of the internet.

i thought hands like that only happened online  :o

Some new counts then:

Andrew Black   44,000 (recovered nicely from earlier)
Roy Brindley     58,000 (says he's hardly found a hand but every one he's played he's won. Quote:  "I'm encouraged")
Juha Helppi      29,000
Noah Boeken   72,000
Peter Heighway  10,000
Stuart Nash        32,000
Roland De Wolfe 105,000
Bruce Atkinson    41,000
Rob Hollink          25,000
Adam Lounis       78,000
Curt Kohlberg      80,000
Stephane Cohen  82,000
Tim Anders         65,000  (this guy has the most amazing long white hair, suit, straw hat and comedy sunglasses, and he's about 8 feet tall)

Noticeable by their absence and therefore to be marked as OUT are:

Rory Liffey
Tobey Maguire
Surinder Sunar
Jani Sointula
Carlo Citrone

go Roland keep it goin............

Just heading into the dinner break and here are some chip counts:

Roland De Wolfe   101,500 (having just lost a race against a small stack holding 22 vs AK)
Bruce Atkinson       41,000
Ray Sanchez          31,200
Tim Anders           52,000
Dan Alspach          52,300
Mikael Thuritz       108,400
Roy Brindley           71,200
Casey Kastle          19,800
Ken Lennard         80,100
Andrew Black        58,900
Juha Helppi           21,200
Alex Kuzmin          16,400
Peter Heighway     11,500

Thanks Jen

How many are they going to play down to tonight?

Oh and don't forget to regale us with the menu when you get back from dinner.... say what you want about the French they can cook a bit.

cordon blu

So there are 43 players remaining.  The blinds were just at 600 - 1200, ante 100 so we are guessing 800 - 1600 next but we press people don't know for sure as any bit of paper left lying on our little bench is nicked within two minutes of our vacating it if it has anything to do with the tournament. 

They are looking on track to get down to 27 within the next two blind levels, although I don't know if they'll then just pack it in right away or wait until a convenient level-up moment.

Hi RobertHM - Dave and Brian have gone for dinner but I have bravely decided to soldier on here (might be something to do with the long lunch I had during the internet downtime).  I can describe my lunch for you if you like - Rolf treated me to a lightly crisp salad with fresh tuna and ripe tomatoes, little bits of egg and a savoury vinaigrette dressing, served with the unlikely accompaniment of some hot chocolate.  Mmm.

To keep you entertained during the next hour and a half, here is the PRIZE MONEY:

1  479,680
2  254,830
3  179,880
4  119,320
5   89,340
6   74,950
7   59,960
8   44,970
9   29,980
10 - 13  22,485
14 - 18  14,990

I can't find the 'Euro' key

Go on Roland :) 

Press the alt gr key (right of space bar) and 4 together.

Copy and paste is another way if you are to stubborn to ask for help.

Sandy

Hi Jen,

keep up the good work...

any news on Barny?

Hi Joe,

How did the big day go??

Great thanks Shaa...just left Maui...currently wireless in Honolulu...next stop San Francisco...it was fantastic to have so many friends in Vegas for the big party... :)

Superb Joe glad it went well.

All the best in the future for you and Mrs B  :)

I have to board my flight in 20 mins...can anyone give me news on Mr Boatman?

Sorry Joe, I think they are all on a break at the moment, looking back the last mention of Barny was about 4.10pm with him on 11,500 but he's hardly the sort to be very static is he!

He went earlier to ken lonard joe. Dont know any details on the hands I'm afraid.

thanks...

Hi KT

How is Roy getting on? Any chip counts?

KT ?

Is that TK's Irish cousin ?

Sandy

Hello - chip counts just forthcoming, bear with me.

Tikay has arrived all suited and fresh from London. 

Stop press (or ongoing counting):  Ken Lennard - OUT! 

His whole 80,000 got all in against Mikael Thuritz who covered him with KK vs Mikael's AA!  No help for the Kings and he has suddenly found himself from in the top 10% to out and we have a new chip leader by a decent margin - with about 200,000

Could you let me know how Jason Strasser is doing, young american kid was chip leader at some point I think. I vaguely know him from another far inferior forum.

Thanks

P.S Sorry for the blank reply to your request earlier, Joe - upon Tikay's arrival we headed out for the dinner break after all.  Remiss of me not to tell y'all. 

Seems like the big stacks were just waiting til we got back to get busy, however.  Recount Thuritz' stack as nearer 230,000

Just off to finish the counts. Consider Jason Strasser added to the 'followed' list.

is jan boboui however ya spell it still in or he back in the cash games?

No sign of Jan Boubli in the tournament, but I haven't checked the cash games...

Jason Strasser      49,000
Tim Anders          74,000
Stephane Cohen  47,000
Adam Lounis       120,000 (just saw him make a huge call on the river with little pair against a bluffer for about 20k)
Bruce Atkinson     42,000
Roland De Wolfe   85,000
Frank Callaghan    101,000
Mikael Thuritz      130,000
Roy Brindley          29,000  (had a 'double down' as he put it)
Casey Kastle         11,000
Andrew Black       67,000
Noah Boeken       40,000
Peter Heighway    27,500  (The betfair qualifier wanted to know how many were left and when told about 40 looked quite surprised)

Final remaining female player Joanna Liu has been quietly amassing chips for quite a while.  Having started the day with a reasonable 39,800, she has built up a little tower of white chips (white=5000) equalling around 115,000

Is it only the top 19 that get paid??

Stuart Nash OUT - having seen about three playable hands all day, he was whittled down to 20,000-odd and made a stand with sevens.  They didn't work for him and his exit brings the total number of players left to 39

Oh boy. Havng been AWOL all day, I have just read Jen's Live Update, her first totally solo effort. Is she the best updater that ever lived, or WHAT?

Time for the 'ol fella to take a back seat methinks.

You guys are in safe hands with Jen, that's for sure.

And she enjoys it so - as you can tell.

Look after her lads, she's the bizz.

I think it's the top 18 (there should be a post of the money one or two pages back...)

Players are ON BREAK, but the last hand before the break was big on 2 tables:

1) Roland limps UTG with KK, gets a caller to his left, as well as two calls from the blinds.  Flop:  8 8 4.  He bets 3,000, with two callers.  Turn: 9 (now two diamonds up).  The turn is checked around, and the exciting Kd comes on the river.  His 10,000 bet is called by the s.b. who mucks his hand, but Roland reckons it was an 8 not a flush...

2) Casey Kastle moves all-in for less than 6,000 in late position.  The player to his immediate left moves all-in over the top for a little over 20,000.  The break is announced at this point and players start to get up and wander off but the small blind goes into dwell mode for what seems like ages before passing and showing AK.  Casey has AK as well, which is looking less good now against the QQ he's facing.  No help on the flop and he's out in 39th.

nice reporting i am off for early night got long day ahead of me tomorrow i think

So very true. She has outlasted ironside and now me, flagging badly.
Great 425 tikay. How do you lot get away with those dick jokes!?!?!

Y'what Robert?  Going to have to get cable... off for some more counts.

We are getting many conflicting reports of what's going on here with regard to end of play today.  The latest seems to be that they are going until there are 24 players left or it's 4am here (3am UK).  Tom asked Rolf if it was usual for them to change their minds so often and he just replied, "It's France."

Ahh, the reference to Dick (of Dick & Dom) on tonight's 425? I was extremely tired - zombie like in fact - which does not excuse my below-par peformance, but I do recall some chat about the fact that I'd never heard of Dick & Dom, but that apparently Dick's huge.

You must have an awful mind Robert, no double intendre was intended. Honest. 

Roy Brindley back up to 70,000 after announcing that he was "going to war."  The major battle of said war involved his re-raising a guy with KQ and finding a monster pot unfolding with another caller and the original guy on AK and all-in.  The Q arrived and he's back in good shape.

Roland De Wolfe was briefly at the dizzy height of 160,000 before finding AQ and getting a short(ish) stack all-in with A10.  Unfortunately the 10 came straight away and he'll have to settle with the 120,000 he has left.

classic 'carry on' - award winning stuff that the late Sid James would have been proud of

Jen

Pls tell Roy that the geezer says go boy go !!

Cheers

Greg

Rick Chase was the guy whom Roy Brindley busted - and he had no idea who'd taken his chips - was going around asking who The Boy was...

Chips:

Patrick Garrett   220,000 (definite new chip leader)
Stephane Cohen  80,000
Imraan Ladak       100,000
Tim Anders         66,000
Roland de Wolfe   120,000
Adam Lounis         114,000
Joanna Liu            120,000
Mikael Thuritz       115,000
Roy Brindley           95,000
Andrew Black        50,000
Juha Helppi           58,000
Noah Boeken        42,000
Peter Heighway     46,900

Roy's on fire!

See you Sat Greg.

Noah Boeken OUT - Tikay eavesdropping.

Noah raising with Q10 got a caller and a  K Q 10 flop.  Noah bet 12,000, bloke moved in, and he called (putting him on flush draw).  He was dead right, but when the flush hit he was dead.

**********Players on break************

It's getting a little warm in here again and people are getting tetchy as seems to be the pattern.  Some 'time' being called and an interesting scene of an all-in guy who tried to get up and walk away but was made to sit back down as it was unfair on the player thinking about calling.  So he sat down with his back to the table!

Chip leader Patrick Garrett doubled up Oskar Hornell (pokerroom owner) to the tune of 50k when he called Oskar's all in on a 10c 6c 8h board.  Patrick held 99 but Oskar's Qs 10s held up and he's back in it. 

The blinds have been 1000 -  2000 with a 300 ante.  That's not a very helpful update is it?

Very helpful, you set the scene, now I am waiting for one player to lump another before the night is out. They willl have to sort out that aircon.

Look 4ward to it  Triple B ,I will get those Corona's chilled

Jen.... Thanks so much for the updates.  Trying to follow Pete Heighways debut and you've surpassed anything else on the web.

Asking a big big favour now ...  Can you tell him Steve & Collette are following him on here and "reckon the boy's done good"

Chip leader Garrett Patrick (please excuse the name reversal, any friends of Mr. Patrick)
Mikael Thuritz just got his AQ all-in against AK and is now all but out with only 400 left.

Sure Steve and Collette I'll go and let him know.  He is quite inscrutable in his hat and dark sunglasses.

Please tell us you're joking re the hat and sunglasses..... unless they're his St George sunglasses   ;D

This is the chap who was made to sit back down, apparrently it was so his opponent could 'get a read'. so he turned his chair around!
(http://devore.typepad.com/wsop_latest_news/images/dsc00461.JPG)

Peter Heighway said thanks and to let you know he's "down to his last 20k."  Not quite accurate - I counted 27,000, but with the blinds at 1,500 - 3,000, ante 400 it's still quite short.  Going to go see what happens.

Thankyou Luckyblind - that is such a funny picture.  I didn't notice that it came from you at first and got all outraged and showed Tom that someone had ALREADY nicked his picture without attribution to antesup.com.  But that's OK.

Back-to-front chair man is Imraan Ladak, incidentally.

Quite a crowd growing on the other side of the Tournament Rope.  I think they're down to 28 and people's friends are getting a bit excited.

Tikay is playing a 200 Euro no-limit game and just lost with trips to a straight to a guy who, noticing Tikay's hand, said in all seriousness, "No, look, he's got three of a kind.  That beats a straight."  Yegads.

When u coming back Jen,  Slough Palace is missing ya :)

Hello Jen, from the Living Room Crew. Ben says he's sorry he didn't pay you back that 20 quid, cat just knocked something over. We've made a cup of tea in your honour.

Oh hello Mel. That's weird that we both started harassing Jennifer at the same time

Hi guys,great updates Jen

Tikay, is 425 really live,? guess thats why they havn't had me as a guest presenter

Hi - Wonderful that the lovely ladies have joined us.  And Red-Dog.  Was getting a bit quiet...

Sadly Roy Brindley OUT - and the tables are condensed to three... that was a phenomenal chip yoyo there.  That table was the most exciting one to watch by a long shot.

I am missing the Slough Palace too - the 2 2 no-limit game Tikay's found is beginning to appeal as a poor substitute.  Oh, and we are on TV (425)!

How did Roy go out ???

Peter Heighway just doubled through off Juha Helppi, going all-in with AQ vs AJ.  The board came out Q J 3 Q K and he's now up to 66,600.

Sadly I was behind the friends'n'media throng when Roy went out so I am going to have to ask someone for the details.  Just went to look for him and he wasn't there :-[

I remember playing that NL cash game earlier this year. Was crazy how poor and stupid the players were.

On 1 hand i finally picked up top pair vs the player who was raising evrey hand, calling all in with 83os pre flop etc.

Kxx flop we get it all in my KT vs his KQ, for something like 550, and he offered to chop the pot 50-50!!!!!!

"Yes" was my rather swift response.

Roy Brindley exited making a preflop reraise with 67.  Unfortunately, his opponent wouldn't lay down his AQ and with no improvement he was out...

Roland, having lost half his stack in bits here and there, just doubled through flopping a house (A 10 10 holding A 10).  They checked the flop, and he checked the J on the turn; the other guy bet 15k - he called.  He checked the 7 on the river and got a bet of 30k which he then raised all-in for 10 or so more.  His opponent revealed the KQ for the straight but Roland was always going to win that one and is back to 125,000.

Jen you do make me laugh :)
Unfortunately, his opponent wouldn't lay down his AQ and with no improvement he was out...  lol

I think Tikays dry humour is rubbing off on ya hehe

see u soon,   Hi Dana :)

DOWN TO 24*************  they almost finished on time.....
Peter Heighway actually informed me that everyone was leaving.  There really is no fanfare about anything down here...He has 55,000, by the way

Roland has 176,900
Frank Callaghan  7000

Very sleepy now - you will get a full list tomorrow of all the final 24's counts.  Seems harsh that 6 of them won't get any money... but such has been the decision.

Au revoir,
Jen

hey jen, r u online now?