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Welcome to Paris on another blisteringly hot day in the Capital of Cool.

Day 1b starts in around 2 hours, & today will be almost a blonde benefit.

We will see these guys today, amongst others.....

Dave "Monty Burns" Colclough

Thewy

Matt "b4Matt" Tyler

Rob "The Yongsta" Yong

Simon "Chubbs" Nowab

Roland de Wolfe, the reigning champion, one of several blonde WPT & WSOP Winners.

Ben "MilkyBarKid" Grundy.

John Gale, another WPT Winner.

Willie Tann, WSOP Bracelet Winner & blondeite.

John Kabbaj

Ian McDonald, from Gala Notts.

Anthony Lellouche

More to come when I remember them, or see them.

But as you can see, today's gonna be a humdinger, & maybe we will put together a "Ten to Follow" if you give us your suggestions as to who you'd like us to pay special attention to.

Joe Beevers played yesterday, but I don't know if the rest of the boys will be here today, I have yet to see any of them.

If he plays, would like for Ram V to be one fo your 10 to follow


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iwans not there is he tk?and thnx for updates m8 and i havent forgot i owe you £50 m8 see you soon

1 other thing m8 have you heard about this 6 seater thingy in bolton on the 1-2nd july?added money and you cant buy into it ?

Please say good luck to B4Matt and Chubby Nowab for me, and tell the Yongsta he IS ready.

Have a look at the Internet Poker board for news of the Grosvenor Super Six event you are referring to.

All messages noted, thanks.

We still do not have the Overnight Chip counts, but this is France, remember.

Jen is not with us yet, she is sleeping like a baby, she was extremely tired yesterday. But i've arrived early to reserve us two workstations, the Updaters Corner here is hellish overcrowded, & there are loads of foreign Updaters.

The AFC has Wifi now, but it fell over yesterday, so it was lucky that Jen & i had our Vodafone thingy's.

Willie Tann just rung me, he's just this moment arrived in Paris, so he's gonna have to get his skates on.

Thanks Tighty.

The breaking news on the Bolton event is that it's almost certain, subject only to "clearance" from Rank & Grosvenor, that blonde will be running a Live Update for that event.

Willie Tann on skates, I'd pay to see that!

Hi Sofa. You are referring to the Poker 6 event, a new concept brought to you by Blue Square and Grosvenor Casinos. There is a total of £21,000 added across the weekend - £7,000 to the main prize pool, £9,000 to a consolation tournament of day 2 for day one losers and £5,000 to the Starting Table Saver prize.

To learn more about the event please take a look at http://www.bluesq.com/pokersix

or read this piece I did for Blonde on it http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/2480

It will be possible to buy tickets for the £1,000 event but not until the lion's share of the qualifiers are over - anyone interested in buying in diirectly should email pokersix@bluesqpoker.com and they will be added to the reserve list. There are currently about a dozen people on the reserve list and it is anticipated that there will be roughly 30 or so seats available for direct buy in.  There is no obligation to buy a seat if you put yourself down on the reserve list, so anyone who wants to take part in the event would be advised to get on the reserve list asap and then keep on trying to qualify.

When I see the table all set up like this, 15,000 Chips in each place, 90 minute clock, I absolutely ache to be playing the comp. Who would not?

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Alright Jack strokes the ball into the open goal and scores!

 8)

15,000!!!

A dealer hard at work........

This guy is a lovely man, deals all the big comps, & he did the Jonny Texas TV Comp the other week.

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Yup, & blinds begin at 50-100, & there is a 15 minute wee break at the end of each level, & a 105 minute Dinner Break mid-evening.

Yup, he's the Peter Crouch of Poker.......

Just arrived are Dave Colclough, Matt Tyler, & Johan Storakers.

I heard that Surinder Sunar is on his way, but I've not seen him yet, talking of whom reminds me, I have not seen Tony G either. Those two are "acquainted" here....!

Morer arrivals, Willie Tann & Jim Kerrigan.

Fantastic! I missed the update yesterday, this looks like some comp! Gl to all playing!

How many runners are there in total? Approx.

P.S. if Jen wants to sleep all week i am sat here passport in hand!

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Well I am!

Here's our Willie. They made him leave his skates outside.

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...and next up, Jim Kerrigan, who won TWO seats for this!

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I Know just how you feel :D

Don't know the field size yet Flushy. About 120 played yesterday, but a lot of folks had not signed up yesterday. I imagine about the same today.

I shall be vacating the # 2 Updaters Seat tomorrow, to make way for sloppy to strut his stuff, & i will be homeward bound on the 0900 Eurostar, with a day in London with 425 & PNL, a couple of meetings & then, at last, home on Thursday morning.

Yes,. the "we are jealous" theme is undoubtedly true. For an Updater this is THE worst time, just before the comp begins, it's horrible, as the desire to play is overwhelming, but once it starts, it's OK. And half an hour later, well, I woulda been out anyway.

Any news on chip counts for 'wideish' boys Jim Kerrigan and Tony MacKay please?

More faces spotted, John Kabbaj & Alan Smurfit. Alan needs a result, times are hard, he's down to his last 3 bilion.

Hi Lemon, & welcome to blonde.

Play has not begun yet, so they both have 15,000....! I did not realise Jim was Welsh, I actually quite like him.

Thx , if he's Welsh that's a new one on me , lol

But please wish them both luck from em , thx

This is the enigmatic & charismatic Anthony Lellouche. He will win a huge tourney soon, be very sure of that.

We shared a table in this very venue a year or two ago from start to finish, when, unsurprisingly, he crippled me early in the Final, leaving John Kabbaj to finish me off. I swear he Raised every hand for 2 days - just little niggly "Camel" type Rsaises. Tough to play against, he really is.

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Oops, my apologies for insulting them both - I thought you said "Welsh" but you said "wideish".....!

Jim sure looks "wide", in that "man in Black" outfit.

And, remarkably promptly, (it's 4.20pm here) play has started.

Anybody running a book on this ?

 :redcard:

No sign of Jen yet, I hope she's just overlaid. I do worry about her wandering the streets alone in these foreign parts. but she'll be OK I guess.

Here's Tony G.

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Thats how i feel about cooking chips today instead of nicking them or updating on them xx

And just for Chili, herrrrrres Thewy!

Jealous yet Maria?

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And another for Chili, this is one Ram Vaswani

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SuperGroup here - Rob Yong, Chubby Nowab & Marcel Luske, with Willie Tann in the background.

What did they just say to Chubby to cause that look? "You are not ready yet"?

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...and the Defending Paris WPT Champion, Roland de Wolfe. What a lovely smile this boy has.

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Has Chubbs not changed clothes since Walsall? :D

Amazingly, Rob Yong is up to 25,000 already! He rivered the nut straight, bet 5k on the end, & Matey Boy with top pair called in a flash! He then repeated the trick two hands later.

Rob tells me there were 7 limpers in each of the first few hands, & players were limping with hands such as KQ suited. He LOVES his table!

Tikay -  :tikay: :tikay:

But thanks for the pics - i guess.  Tell Jules he needs a few lessons on posing for the camera lol

Thewy needs lessons in posing? I don't think so.....

But yes, he does look a wee bit spaced out. Too much Red wine last night methinks.

Here's another blondeite & favourite, Stuart Fox. The get up? It's a fashion statement. Suggestions?

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You've done A great job on this 1 tikay.

These updates are genuinely EXCELLENT.

Surinder Sunar IS here.

OK, I'm off for a table wander now, to see if I can find any interesting tables. Still no sign of Jen, so bear with me please.

Well sloppy, if they are half as good as yours, then, well, yours are twice as good.

Have a safe journey tomorrow Bud, I wish I could stay all week, but things to do, people to see, cats to feed.

Here's Mr Colclough, & sat to his left, a gentleman from The Adams family, if I'm not mistaken.

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...here's John Gale.

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...Surinder Sunar.

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thnx jon just caught up m8 there is a sattslite in cardiff tonight m8 if there is not enough runners is the seat still guarateed m8?thnx for help

If anyone's a caption comp fan, vote on your fave from this week's caption comp by clicking here (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=11399.new;boardseen#new)

Similarly, if you like quizzes, then make sure you enter this week's quiz by clicking here (http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/2616). Only a couple of days left!

Good Luck to Julian, B4Matt, and the rest of the blondes

My spidey senses inform me that one of our boys is gonna with this one....

Kudos to Jen and tikay for the top notch updates. Awesome piccies too!

Jani Sointula (sorry about the spelling) is the fella with the flowing locks if I'm not mistaken. He might look a little odd, but he can't 'arf play poker. If I can learn to play the game, me & he will be on level terms......

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News from Matt Tyler, who tells me he's just played a hand beautifully, given it's his biggest ever comp by a mile.

4 limpers, BB, a  serial over-bettor makes it 450, Matt calls with  9h Tc, the others all Pass.

Flop   7d Td 4s

Serial Bettor makes it 2.5k, Matt calls, he thinks his Ten is good.

Turn..... 8h

Now Matt is up & down, Serial Bettor makes it 5k, Matt still thinks he's winning, but maybe he shoulda pushed here.

River.... Ad

Serisal Man bets 5k, leaving just 2.5k behind now. Matt dwells, eventually calls, & Serial Man insta-mucks.

Matt Tyler, blondeite, 31k. How good does that sound?

ok my tips from todays field are chubbs (who kindly bought the lucky glasses after walsall- remind him its embassy number one please tikay ) and milkybar kid (I think ben is gonna final this week). I already tipped yoyo and roland yesterday so no need to tip them again.

.....and here is our Hero, Matt Tyler, just after that very nice coup. The guy to his right, in the black shirt, is monster online hottie "Elky". Anthony Lellouche is on the same table.

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Amazingly, these two guys find themselves sat next to each other - Thewy & Chubbs. Marcel is on the same table.

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Here, especially for DesD, is a trio that could well get interesting later - Tony G, Stu Fox & John Kabbaj, blondeites all.

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jesus there will be sum action in that corner.

This is Thomas Somebody, who won the Somewhere EPT - was it Deauville? Interesting gharacter.

I do wish Jen were here, she knows these things. I really don't know where she has got to, it's a little worrying.

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Middelthon I think.

Say Hi to Mr Thew for me. All the boys at William Hill are keeping up with your updates.

Is that Chubbs and Julian sitting next to one another on the table behind? should be fun....

Gl to all the Blonde's and Tony G :)


thanks for the great updates.

I think you spelt it right anyway.

Good work (as always) with the updates.

Cheers.

 :hello: djinn

Will do JLo.

Are you a singer?

Well I seem to have missed a level here in Paris, due to oversleeping with no means of contact - lucky tikay went early to reserve seats, as this is by far the most comfortable spot I've had in here...

I've caught up with the early action. and as soon as they get back from their short break I will be joining in the fun.  :hello: snoopy and all those enjoying the WPT remotely.

Wow, how pleased am I to see Jen, & now you can expect some decent Chip Counts & Hand Histories & made up words & stuff.

I'm off to London now.

Eurostar in the morning.

Good luck to all the blondeites, hope to see you soon.

And well done to jen and tikay for the great updates. I think you'll all agree that tikay is showing no signs of ring rust. (no jokes please Kev)

See you all tomorrow folks for Day 2.

congrats doc12345 on ure win, nice one buddy, good luck all the blondies in paris, esp DC, time he got a win. ;goodluck;

When we left last night, the cash games of all sizes, smallish to ludicrous, were in full swing.  I have a feeling some of the players at the cash tables may not have made it back to bed... nothing like the 24hour sound of chips being twiddled...

Incidentally, we apologise for the non-roundup of chip counts etc. last night, but our hunch was correct, they're just not available to anyone even now.

what did he win?

Backtrack alert:

The chip counts from end of day is here and I am just about to write them in... bear with me.

Ram is up to 25k.

"Happy Ram?" I asked. "Not really" he replies.

Why, it's only Level 2, just, slow down man, I say.

"Slow down, nah, I'm gonna kick on"  replies the great man. Hope he does.

Flushy have a look at the blonde results section. Last Thursday at Walsall

Tighty, Flushy cannot read. Words or hands.

Jen is well on with the Overnight Chip Counts, a few more minutes & they will be up. The AFC just gave them to us, 5 minutes ago. That's French efficiency for you.

Rahal, Kalil  85,125
Poujade  74,425
Johansen, Karsten  72,200
Brummelhuis, Michel  62,175
Torbey, Sami  60,650
Buchanan, Shawn  52,850
Schuhl, Patrick  50.550
Johansson, Christer  49,450
Esfahani, Shahram  48,850
Feriolo, Romain  46,950
Hellmuth, Phil  46,475
Jelassi, Ramzi  46,250
Kakoun, Haim  41,775
Chessa, Tony  40,850
Albregin, Sergey  40,400
Boutboul, Henri  39,850
Polze, Laszlo  39,100
Jurskis, Arnas  38,775
Petit, Emile  33,825
Weiss, Adam  32,125
Sorensen, Jan  31,975
Wahlroos, Thomas  31,825
Teltscher, Mark  31,225
Danzer, George  31,025
Fagerli, Frode  30,250
Duthie, John  29,800
Aktell, Greger  29,225
Lamsa, Janne  28,875
Bulichev, Ilia  28,775
Cherrett, Tom  26,975
Pandestre, David  26,475
Beevers, Joe  25,850
Lellouche, Daniel  24,475
Parkinson, Padraig  23,675
Mackay, Anthony  22,425
Yu, Zuo Ping Angelo  22,050
Soulier, Fabrice  22,025
Bertelsen, Daniel  20,350
Cazals, Thierry  19,975
Testud, Paul  19,825
Ramdin, Victor  19,675
Johansson, Birgitta  18,825
Pinson, Bruno  17,825
Heitmann, Jan  17,025
Strandli, Kenneth  16,500
Davidsen, Peter  16,350
Atlani, Maurice  14,975
Cannon, Nicholas  14,825
Jepsen, Peter  13,100
Rousso, Vanessa  10,900
Dahan, Didier  10,100
Rahimi, Bob  9,300
Rybachenko, Sergey  8,475
Hollink, Rob  7,925
Petersen, Mark  7,800
Champagnol, Patrick  7,425
Fawaz, Joe  6,650
Perrault, Pascal  5,500
Hacquet, Emmanuel  3,700

Not the most well-known player in the world by any means, but this guy has got game. Mostly an online player, but certainly a name to watch out for in the future.

Matt Damon on Crypto I think

come on b4matt ;) 
gl blondites ;) 

Jen & I just had a ciggie break, during which a nice gentleman tapped me on the shoulder & said he enjoyed watching me on PNL. (No, really, he did....). Turned out his name is Tom Cherrett, (online "annacash") & he said he just played €10 MTT's & stuff, a "novice" he described himself as. "What you doing here Tom?", I enquired.

It transpires that he entered a Freerill on Poker Heaven - 1,400 runners - & won the thing, winning himself a seat in the Paris WPT. He ended Day 1a with 26,975. How wonderful.

Gotta be nice to him, he represents over 50% of my Fan Club, if we include Flushy.

Pass on my regards and LUCK to Matt please Tikay..oh and this ...X

Will do Maureen. He gave me a kiss & a massage to pass on to you. I prefer yours, to be honest.

Matt has just over 30k now, after dropping a few thou earlier. He just made a BIG call with AQ (no spades) on a 4 spade board, the bet on the end was 10k & Matt eventually called, Matey Boy insta-mucked.

Thewy has 20k, Chubbs 14k.

Thomas Middlethon just had quads, & is sailing along nicely on 19k.

Do you know how Rob Yong is doing? I hope he's still enjoying his table.

Rob is sailing ahead with 26,325 exactly, as of one minute ago.  I know that looks like the speediest response ever, but I'm just about to post some current counts :)

Thanks Jen and Old TK,

A big  shout to the Dusk till Dawn 1-2 double team please lets make it another.

Dave Colclough 18k

Ram Vaswani 30k

Surinder Sunar 14k

Ian McDonald 7k

Jani Sointula 10k

Bullit Pete Haslam 15k

John Gale 20k. John, spying me with a notepad, asked for a Gin & Tonic. I picked up the red postillion, flashed it at John - "RED CARD JOHN" & he dutifully got up & left the table. It's true!

More of those Level Two counts I can just feel the held breath for:

Julian Gardner  18,000
Theo Jorgensen  32,000
Edward Rhee    10,125
Roland de Wolfe  16,000
Tony G            14,650
Stuart Fox        13,000
John Kabbaj      22,000
Ben Grundy      13,800
Andreas Hagen  16,600
Willie Tann        13,375
Elky                  7,600
Matt Tyler        30,000
Jim Kerrigan      13,600
Julian Thew      19,700
Simon Nowab    15,800
Mikael Thuritz    20,150
Marcel Luske     17,000
Casey Kastle      16,400
Thomas Middelthon  21,500

I just spotted Julian Gardner for the first time today, he has 20k.

Jani Sointula has moved to the Thewy/Chubbs/Marcel Table. That could turn nasty.

Mat Tyler has just irritated his entire table. He was squished in Seat 2, & he asked everyone to move round to give some space. Being mainly French, they ignored him with studied indifference, so he got the dealer to sort it. They all grudgingly moved, but he got a few black looks shot in his direction. Does he give a monkeys? I doubt it.

Get um told Matt..

Stuart Fox 1,600.

John Kabbaj 22,000

Tony G 15,000.

Alan Goreing (that spelt right?) is on Rob Yong's table, & the poor fella has not won a hand all afternoon, & is down to about 4k.

I hope thats a typo but what the hell happened to Foxy's chips??

Rob Yong is OUT.

He had AA v K-T, & even picked up 4 to the nut flush on the flop, but K-T man had 2 pair. Rob's Pre-Flop R was 1,200 (blinds 50-100) & the flop came K-T-2, ALL diamonds, & Rob had the A of Diamonds. K-T man moved in, Rob felt he had to call, but he's toast, as the turn & river were both blank hearts. K-T man has 58,000.

Rob was extremely complimentary about K-T man's play. Sort of. Ahem.

That's poker. One day all the way, next day, early bath.

jeez....ul Rob.
Calling 1200 raise with K10?

Not sure just yet, Chili - but unfortunately that's accurate.  Something big has happened in the last ten minutes - and not good for Foxy.

calling 1200 with KT? welcome to France.

would love to hear why Rob raised so much (preusmably because of lots of multi limpers pre flop as described earlier) and whether K10 was in the Blinds

Had Rob shown a lot of "at it" hands to encourage a call such as this?

Defo right Tighty,

Thats how he gets chips with atit hands then gets paid with nuts,
Not in this case though.

Unlucky Mate!!

*********************break***********************

Here's camerashy(?) John Gale with his healthy stack.  He may just be subtly pointing to the flatscreen TV right above his head where the France World Cup match is kind of holding a lot of people's attention (See: Conspiracy Theories of Tikay - why there were more French players playing yesterday   Published 2007)

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And here he is in the corridor, ruefully discussing the disastrous Ahrt Ad with Simon...

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And they're retaking their seats - now blinds 100/200. 

I leave you with El Blondie, looking like an oasis of calm between the twitchers.  Going for some tea.

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A typo? A TPYO? What?

Behave Girlie.

Stu bluffed his stack away, unfortunately, but he's not dead yet.

As for you Girlie, it's not a Debate, right?

I have not answered the Rob Yong hand questions, as we have persuaded Rob to Post his thoughts, which he is inputting right now. From the horses mouth.

The way it played, which is different to how it was first described, Kuskas had, imo, every right to call pre-flop, & Rob "just" got very unlucky. These things happen.

Three days ago, I R'd pre-flop with KK, & Rob busted me with 4-5. It's just Poker, & it stings a bit when you are on the wrong end, but we can't have our cake & eat it. Rob wanted K-T man to call pre-flop.

I wouldn't be that critical of the guy with KT, Sammy Farha called a 1k raise with blinds 25/50 in the WSOP last year to bust out a guy with aces. he had pocket threes.

Ben Grundy is OUT.

He had the old KK v AA coup, & failed to improve.

By Rob Yong:

Not the best day today of my life - I missed my plane this morning due to leaving my passport at home and had to get a taxi to Birmingham, tried to make myself feel better and bought a 1st class ticket only to find out that that the plane had no 1st class seating when I boarded - how does this happen?

After these 2 mishaps I was over the moon to have 30,000 chips after level 2, double average. Anyway, how ironic is this. I'm just having a debate about AA with a guy who raised 6,000 pre-flop v a 300 raise, I was telling him what a plonker he was and he was saying that he didn't want AA. Guess what, while still in this conversation I look down on the BB and find 2 red Aces - what a coincidence.

The hand went like this:

A rock UTG raises 300, Mr Fish (playing any 2 cards out of position flat calls).
Now, Mr Fish has 31,000 after busting a guy in the most horrible way, so I decide to only raise 1200, as I know that he will pay me off if he hits top pair. UTG Mr Tight has passed to every RR so far so I'm prerry condfident of playing my AA heads-up V Mr Fish - who I know will call. I'm giving him about 2-1 pot odds - 900 to win 1800. The hands I put him on are KQ, KJ, KT, QJ, QT, JT or maybe A rag / small pair 99's or lower.


Flop  Kd Td 3d. Now, I have the Ace of diamonds and the Ace of hearts. I dont want to check raise him as the its unlikely that he won't take a free card on that flop, and I have bet every time that I am the raisor, so he would be suspicous if I checked - so I lead out 2,500, about 85% of the pot. I want him to think I have pair, but no diamond, and am protecting my hand V the turn, I also dont want to give him a free card wif he has QJ. Basically, I want him to RR me so I can move-all in.

But when I bet he annouces all-in immediately. I riffle my chips and think a bit, but at the end of the day, I'm just not passing this hand to this player in this situation becuase:

1. Worst Case: If he has 33 or TT I still have 7 outs (why would he move all in with a set, he would milk me, he''s that type of player, plus he knows I cannot have a made flush as the Kd is out there (AKd is the only hand he is scared of, so an all-in move means no set in my book.

2. 2nd Worse Case: If he has KT I have 14 outs (+an extra 3 on the turn). Now this is a big possibility, the MUG would call with this hand as he doesnt care about care about being potentially dominated. (I'm only calling him a mug cause he is, not cause I'm bitter, if he calls with 67s I have no problem, but KT is very dominated by a re-raisors probable hand of AK or KK). But, if he has this hand, I don't mind gambling ot get 60,000 chips anyway, I came to win, not grind.

3. Most Probable: He has K with the Qd or Jd and stick it all in without thinking, its a big hand for him, and a big move - THIS IS THE HANDS I PUT HIM ON

So, I called and he had KT offsuit, missed all my outs, It was pretty much an even money shot but hey, bad things come in 3's, so the rest of the day should be okay.

C'est La Vie. Rob


 

The point is - & I DO feel desperately sorry for Rob, he did nothing wrong at all - but if the hands were face up  pre-flop, would Rob wanna put his money in? Course he would. 8 times in 10 (or whatever) he scoops, & loves it, 2 times in 10 he gets busted. That's the nature of the game, & life.

When Rob busted my KK with 4-5 on Saturday, I WANTED his pre-flop call, & I WANTED his all-in flop bet. What value I had with KK, & what value Rob had today with AA.

Bad calls are good calls. Most of the time!

Seems like a rational thought process to me.

Thanks for sharing Rob.

TK, that is a friend of mime Steve sat next to John Gale, he just made a WPT final about 2 weeks ago, great guy

When told Rob was out, this guy looked well disappointed.

He had ambled across to blonde for some chip-counts. "We don't follow American's Mr Hellmuth" I say. "You follow me" says he.

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You have FRIENDS?

I am sure he will fix those little frens axx whxxxx, have I ever told u i hate the french????

Colclough shows how to win with AA - he even flops his set AND gets all-in.

Dave Colclough, 40k, approx. He won't let me near to count his stack, says I'm a bok. He's not wrong.

How's Matt doing Tony?

yes tikay i have friends, but this guy is not one!!!!!  please tell Phil Hell that I plan to track him down at the WSOP and challenge him to a heads up match , may for $100K or so, just tell him about that mister :D  

Who's Helmuth refering to with that Hand motion?

never mind the hand gesture ... what about that shirt !!!  he looks like a walking crossword puzzle :D

40,125!

Now that I have regained my laptop, more tales from outside, rather than insight from inside...

How about some Aces-Cracking Bad Re-raise News Now?

So, there's a mid position limp, a predictable raise to 1,000 from the button, and then a young player in the small blind makes it 2,500, less predictably, from the manner in which he's been playing.

The original limper then makes a big old bet of all-in, for his 35k or so, covering both other players still in by a long way.  The button folds, but the small blind calls quick as a flash for a little under 10,000 with his Ad Aspades.  The big re-raiser shows Js Kc

Flop: Jc 6h 2d
Turn: 8s
River: Ks

A torrent of swearing from the French Aces-holder, in a mixture of colourful languages.

Thanks..

Any chance of chip counts for Ram Vaswani and Julian Gardner? Thanks.

Last year's champ Roland de Wolfe, looking very summery with his white shirt and head-balanced sunglasses.  He's always been one of these players who can play these big tournaments while simultaneously chatting with whoever speaks his language sitting next to him, or across from him, or in the same room as him. 

For example, just now, I heard him talking sports betting with Willie and Tony G (football, of course).  Tony G said, "If you can find me as a punter, you're a millionaire - I'm the worst sports bettor in the world." 

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Julian Gardner 30k

Ram Vaswani 41,075.

Thanks ;tk;

Cheers.

I just found out about DC's elevating chips - but about half an hour previously when he had only 18k, I saw him take a couple of smaller pots from the same person with that quietly deliberate manner which is so much his style, and he looks to be as comfortable as can be.

Dinner break in 20 minutes, for that lengthy hour and three quarters - I think I may be off in search of steak with Norwegian blogger BA.

And sticking with the theme, here's a photo I left out of my last batch - the now exited Ben 'Milkybarkid' Grundy with a Norseman sat to his right - Snoopy challenge - Name That Norwegian!

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Willie Tann, looking inscrutable - a good asset in poker, I'm told.

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And finally, Mikael Thuritz, I believe, chatting to Mark Teltscher (the one in the stripey shirt who played yesterday, if that picture of him at the table confuses anyone).  As far as I know he only gets to play one Day One like everyone else.

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There will now be a Quiet Period of 1hr45 while we go and eat stuff outside in the sweaty but beautiful environs of the Champs Elysees...

Back later to bring you the rest of the day's play.

where is spacefrog?

no french update is complete until we get one of his "you tell me how many pascale has" comments

nice updates, gl to all the english boys/girls playing

dont u mean "how many is pascals stack has please?"

Just caught up on the coverage. EXCELLENT WORK!!! As always!

Thanks and keep it up!

Please let Jan Heitman and George "the Panzer" Danzer know that the homegame gang from the Schelling Open is watching them and sends GL....of course to all other Blondites as well.

Tom

We are surfing the coverage ourselves, after climbing the eiffel tower and a peek into notre dame.
Watching the brasil-croatia game after a disppointing 0-0 by france.

Back in action later, and as i can't find the link: when does it start tomorrow?

How is Kerrigan doing - anybody????

How is Thuritz and Storåkers doing?

Jen, log on to msn if you have time.

Well you guys coild always read through the updates while the dinner break is on  8)

The glossy brochure says it starts at 4pm tomorrow, 2pm the day after, but as ever things are prone to change - that's what I know so far, but I'll be checking at the end of day's play with someone official to get the definitive answer...  Welcome to blonde, Erdnase...

Hi Guys,

OK, we are back from dinner, & play is about to begin.

All "requests" are being sorted by Jen, right now.

Jim Kerrigan has 12k, Jen has the rest. (of the counts......)

A big blonde welcome to Erdnase - Jan Heitmann - & Ramzi, with whom we had such fun in Helsinki last week.

Well, we're back and play has restarted, after a delightfully gentle-breezy kind of meal outside on the Champs, once again.  I ordered a cheese omelette, and was slightly surprised to receive 3 fried eggs with cheese sprinkled generously on top.  Ate it anyway.

We're just scouting for those chip counts you were asking for - keep them coming in so I can keep tikay nice and busy.

Firstly - Jim Kerrigan  12,000    He was knocked to just 3k earlier after his nut flush was housed against on the river, and David Benyamin's Q5 cracked his KK...

Dinner was an open-air affair in a Pavement Cafe on the Champs Elysses.

Matt Tyler, Dave Colclough, Nick Slade, Tony Chessa, Thewy, Jen & me. Onion Soup, Egg benedictine, Spag Bol & Norweigan Salmon featured strongly - Monty Burns had the salmon for starter AND Main Course!

The bill was a mere €337 - gulp - but Monty Burns kindly paid for Jen & I.

OK, 2 more levels tonight, & play has re-commenced.

Blinds are 100-200, Running Ante 25, 90 minute levels, & 93 of todays original 117 survive.

Gonna be a huge field tomorrow at this rate.

Any news on Chubbs guys

Thuritz - 26,000

Storakers - 12,600   Just lost a few to John Gale on a 6s 3s Kh flop after he bet 3,200 and found John putting him all-in.  Passed.  But here he was earlier, relaxing.

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That's only about £14 each. it cost almost that much in the motorway services for a cup of tea and a cake

Wow, where do you buy your Euros from Tom?!

Chubbs (at "70's Nick's" request) 40k.

Thewy 15k & bored.

Michael Thuritz 22k

Surinder Sunar 30k

Thomas Middlethon 11k

Now, news of a Julian Gardner "incident".....

Ok, so it's £32.25 each. What do you want, jam on it?


Ps, I'd rather starve.

Julian Gardner & Matey Boy were in the Blinds, Matey Boy holding  Ad 5d, & Julian Gardner  Qc 5s.

It was always gonna end in tears, & Julian is down to 8k after this ungetoutofable flop.....


 5h 5c 4c

Thanks "Old Man TK" Its good that  pensioner's like you get to go on the old peoples trip to France.

Hello from Spain

With the blind structure being so drawn out did anyone deliberately miss the first couple of hours of play and have you since noticed anyone sitting out?

Also it looks like 9 to a table  - yes?

jen/tk is roland still in,its just that his screen name is playing a 300 pound sng on crypto!

Out of interest (probably to me only) it seems that very few of the big name Americans came across the pond. Hellmuth yes (perhaps he has appearance money for all I know), but no Negraneau, Matusow or the rest. I know its not unusual but....

Why do we think that is?

Havent you heard about Multitabling in the UK?

Hello person from Spain.

I was not aware of any "late sit-downs".

I am not aware of anyone sitting out.

They began with 10 to a table, and still are 10 to a table.

Evening guys

Jen / TK

Can u let me know how my ex-room mates The Foxmeister and the Bullit are doing please

If u have trouble IDing them look for the short stubby one that looks like a barrell and a shabby brummie with silly facial hair (commonly known as a flavour savour whateverthat is!)

Cheers

Gwibbo

In honour of the absent Snoopy - here are your Chippy Counts:

Julian Gardner  10,550
Bullitpete         21,500
Jani Sointula     20,650
Edward Rhee   14,100
Roland de Wolfe  13,500
Tony G            26,000
John Kabbaj      27,000
Andreas Hagen  12,850
Willie Tann         7,450
Elky                 17,700
Matt Tyler         33,000
Julian Thew      17,200
Simon Nowab    40,000
Casey Kastle       5,275   (he said he wanted every 25 mentioned as 'this might be the last count.'
Anders Berg       23,500
David Benyamine  OUT
Marcel Luske        OUT

Yes, he has 14,100.

Questioned about his screen name being in use, he gave an answer I can't exactly Post here, but basically, he registered no surprise, & appears to have sub-contracted out his account for the night. Hope, for Roland's sake, it's not to Ariston, poor Roland will end up boracic.

Is Simon Trumper playing?

Richard,

Very few big names came over last year either.

It seems they were a bit shook up from the srmed robbery in 2004 where several had guns pointed at them and were forced to ground hands on head...

Someone told me a funny story how Ivey reacted. He's just too 'king cool!

The big names havent been back...

I am afraid Stu Fox's small stack went in after the break, in a blind vs. blind situation with John Kabbaj, who took him out after he'd struggled between 1 and 2k for a good long time.

Nope, no sign of him.

thanks Keith, i remember that now


If it's tellable on here, would love to here the Ivey story.

Indeed - they have much more pressing concerns this week. Yesterday Negraneu, Ivey, Lindgren, Brunson, Sexton and Greenstein were playing golf at Shadow Creek in Vegas...

thx jen

Bullitt Pete?

There are a few here Tighty - Hellmuth & Gohering, for example, but no real invasion force. I guess it's barely worth their while to travel so far, there must be €10k+ events in the US of A every week. To be honest, I don't feel their absence is a negative, Mr Wilson apart. And the Americans were not at all happy with the armed robbery thing here - the Americans have that wholly anti-violence thing going.

I think the scheduling for WPT Paris has had the biggest effect. In 2004, the WSOP was earlier in the year, in the late spring, and everyone was free to travel to Paris. Last year it was right after the WSOP (when everyone was pokered out or broke), and this year it's right before the WSOP.

Plus, we just finished a WPT event here in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay, and there is a $10,000 event up in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, starting on Friday. (Not sure how many big pros will play in that one, since it won't be televised.)

None of the pros I've talked to have mentioned the robbery a few years back. I think it all comes down to travel schedules, jet lag, and things like that.

Sorry I missed the coverage yesterday, but I was still catching up on Mandalay Bay photos and coverage for myself. And I missed watching Isabelle, who busted in the last 15 minutes.  :(

But that's okay, I like following your coverage even when Isabelle and Jen aren't in action. Keep up the good work!

Oh, what poker players get up to in the dinner break - astounding story about some football related side action amongst the crazy old Norwegians - around €20,000 got, er, redistributed over dinner between their lot.  Mentalists.

Here they are down to 86 players, and I think might struggle to hit yesterday's target.

Jen reported his count of 21,000 on the previous page Nick. She may have confused you by describing "BullitPete" as "BullitPete".......

Thewy's 55 hand, the Q came on the river? The 4 came on the turn? Runner runner clubs?

Apparently Ivey was playing some mega huge game (2000-4000euro limit or somesuch) with the usual gang, Lindgren, lGreenstein, Benyamine etc etc when the robbers came in..

Everyone was forced to the ground under the tables. Much screaming and panicing ensued.

Meanwhile Ivey was just looking for action. Under the table he whispered to Lindgren.

"Have you got a line on whether I get shot?" And then collapsing in fits of laughter...

 ;goodvevil;

Jen

Is there a little icon that can replicate Vic & Bob's handbag routine for Tony?

Probably apocryphal, but with Ivey who knows

 :D

John Gale said he'd sue me if we published this picture.

Say no more.

Captions please.

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Tom, have you been drinking, or am I going senile - what Thewy 55 hand?

I am confused, & old. Please be gentle with me.

I should think so, he hasn't got his lippy on yet.

Has John Gale been out shopping at the LV shop across the road during the break?

Roland just had the dreaded AA which duly got cracked by  Js 4s rivering a fliush.

"How many chips left Roland?".

"Life Support" he replied.

Oops.

wheres my moisteriser?

watching EPT deauville on eurosport again ...  ;cheerleader; for the cool bubbling ...

Oops sry, it was Julian Gardner



My fault, I got it all wrong, forget I asked

actually, who is that nice lady? ;-)

Wow, good spot Andrew, of the Louis Vuitton motif. But it is a girlie bag, right?

How are the "scandies" doing?

Julian Gardner is OUT. (Julian THEW is not....).

Julian (Gardner) held  Ad 7d, and it obviously all went in on this flop.....

 Aspades Td 9d


...but no further improvement, & he succumbed to a bigger A.

Jen has gone Scandie hunting for you Ramzi.

By the way, the WiFi here has dropped out again, so Jen, & all the other Updaters, are impotent (Updaterly-wise) right now. Luckily, my Vodafone thingy is working nicely.

Forget you asked what, Tom?  8)

Technically, I suppose they're 'unisex'.

But honestly, look at it.

how is ram doing?

Ram has 46,700.

DC story coming up next.......

Scandie Chip Count:

Anders Berg   27,000
Thomas Middelthon  24,600
Jani Sointula     20,000
Mikael Thuritz    23,000
Andreas Hagen   17,800
Johan Storakers  22,500
Sverre Sundbo   9,635,500   (On his pinball game in the Press Zone)

Dave Colclough is down to 26k or so.

He found  Qs Qh, and first to speak limped, next guy called, Dave Re-Raised to 2,500. The middle caller called the 2,500 RR (his total stack was 10k) with  3c 3h & flopped the set. He then bet all-in, & Dave got out of the way.

Hi.....

First off all.... Nice coverage there Tikay and Jen... Excellent  ;goodvevil;

Could you get a chip count on the danes (Theo, Jan V., Fredrik H., Grundtvig, etc)

And some about their action, stories from the lobby etc...

And if Theo is still in... Wish him luck from DK ;-)

Matt Tyler has 33k, & Chubby is on 32k.

Willie Tann is struggling along with 5k. That's plenty for him.

Thanks guys

Nice to see you on the up dates Tony. Is it Snoopy tomorrow?

First read of this tonight, as you click each page you hope your
favorite gets stronger so to see Rob go so soon is a Basser.  

So as always good luck to YOYO and Simon from DTD and all the
other Blondes not forgetting DC.

My final Table

John Gale
Tony G
Phil Helmuth
YOYO
Chubbs
DC

Dark horse Ram V "or is that crazy"

Good Luck

Regards

M  

Hoorah for the Wifi - back on track... never thought of the bubble as particularly cool, but that's very generous of you...

I think John Gale was laughing at that pic of him (or it could have been a menacing sort of noise)

Wow, that's a tough one, so I've sent - sorry, asked - Jen to sort it.....

Yes John, I head for London by Eurostar in the morning, & sloppy takes my place as Jen's aide-de-camp.

Theo Jorgensen     32,850
Grundtvig              12,500
Jan V                     OUT

Working on the other one...

 ;hide;

Sorry

regards

M

You guys are the best......  :respect:

VERY quick there Jen..... NICE

And thanks a lot - Good to see Theo is cruisin.... Had a big pot early and is in tight position now i guess....

Looking forward hearing more...  ;letsparty;

80 players remain from today's original 117 or 118. They are on 8 tables of 10.

Blinds are 200-400, Running Ante 25 (how cool is that?, we are 30 minutes into Level 5 after 9 hours!), & the average stack is 21,582. (They began with 15k).

The very thought makes me ache to play these type of comps. Think I'll try & save up my pennies & try & play some of these these jobbies.

The only gripe I would have - were I playing - would be I'd prefer to play 8 or 9 to a table. At 10 to a table, everyone is squished up terribly. Always seem to be the way that pokerists get all scrunged up, too many round an inadequately-sized table. Guess it cuts down on dealer costs, & frees up tables for revenue earning cash games.

Dave Colclough 26k.

Roland de Wolfe 4k

Tony G 15.7k

John Kabbaj 37k

Alan Smurfit 22k

Matt Tyler 23k

Jim Kerrigan 21k

Jani Sointula 12k

Michael Thuritz 21k

Chubbs Nowab 32k

Thewy 22k

Ram Vaswani 60k

John Gale 19k

Surinder Sunar 19k

Thomas Middlethon 7k

Ian McDonald 4k

Elky 17k.

45 minutes left before stumps are drawn.

The only gripe I would have - were I playing - would be I'd prefer to play 8 or 9 to a table. At 10 to a table, everyone is squished up terribly. Always seem to be the way that pokerists get all scrunged up, too many round an inadequately-sized table. Guess it cuts down on dealer costs, & frees up tables for revenue earning cash games.
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Is it to differentiate between the EPT– poker stars 9 seat set up?

Seamus in Spain

Hi Ramzi, well done in Helsinki!

Im getting kicked out of my hotel in the morning. And everything seems to be fully booked. I hope somone will let me sleep on the floor of their hotelroom.

Qualifier Feature Now -

Edward Rhee - qualified on Upperclass Poker, and this is his first live tournament of any kind of size - he was watching the action yesterday and keeping one semi-forlorn eye out for any representatives who look after online qualifiers, but, alas, was left all on his own...

In this picture he's scooping probably his biggest pot of the night, putting his shortstacked opponent all-in for 5,050 on the river and taking the 7k pot down.

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Matt Tyler Takes Hit News Now -

That most recent of counts for him (23k) comes after some bad Aces on the button.  He raised, and got called by both blinds.  The flop came raggy with two hearts.  Check to Matt, who bets nice and sizeably, only to find the small blind re-raising and the big blind pushing in!  He folds, and, to his surprise, so does the small blind, despite putting in around 3/4 of his stack!

It has come to our attention that there may be a slight delay (13 hours or so) for the End of Day chip counts to get to us, and therefore you, so I am going to go on a wander with Rolf to see if we can kind of do our own highly professional rough version.  Bear with me...

Is it to differentiate between the EPT– poker stars 9 seat set up?

Seamus in Spain

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Possibly, Nice Person In Spain. (The comma is vital).

It would be a weird reason to do it, though!

It's just a hobby-horse of mine. Poker Rooms Europe-wide, we get squeezed into rooms & onto tables way too small.

It's just a hobby-horse of mine. Poker Rooms Europe-wide, we get squeezed into rooms & onto tables way too small.
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Couldn’t agree more. I was once put in seat 11  - almost behind the dealer – couldn’t even see those in seats 1-4

SEAMUS

Annabelles in Coventry have the one Huge poker table, and three very small ones.

On a busy night they put 10 players on each of the small tables, and 13 on the big one,

Picture the scene.....

13 Greg Raymers

ram vas news?

At the Barca EPT last autumn, they used the "2 person" Heads-Up Tables as full size tables, & sat 8 players at them!

Regarding the ten-handed tables:

Generally, the WPT has no influence over the tournament until the final table. The casino's tournament director runs the tournament until then regarding blind structure, rulings, etc.

I would imagine it's either a house style for the ACF, or perhaps they were tight on space (sounds like it) and needed to fit as many players as possible.

In some American WPT events, they switch to nine-handed on Day Three, but again, it varies from casino to casino.

OK, in the hope that something really dramatic doesn't alter this too much in the last 3 minutes of play, here are the Chip Counts According to Me and Rolf:

(deep breath)

Alan Smurfit    24,000
Frederik Hostrup  7,025
Erik Koskas       76,000
Alan Goehring   13,000
Tony G            10,000
John Kabbaj      44,000
Edward Rhee    20,000
Freddy Deeb      7,000
Patrick Bueno     7,000
Roland de Wolfe  8,000
Henrik Witt         58,000
Kurt Kohlberg     49,000
Willie Tann         6,400
Johan Storakers  22,000
Andreas Hagen   43,000
Pete Haslam        20,000
Theo Jorgensen   7,500
El Blondie            26,000
Gilles Haddad       38,000
Anders Berg        26,500
Rene Pedersen    13,000
Ram Vaswani       55,000
Thomas Middelthon  7,800
John Gale             25,500
Roman Yitzhaki      31,000
Surinder Sunar      30,000
Julian Thew          19,000
Simon Nowab       32,000
Casey Kastle         22,000
Sarah Bilney          26,000
Mikael Thuritz        26,000
Steven Frederiks    7,500
Jani Sointula          22,800
Elky                     21,000
Matt Tyler             19,450
Anthony Lellouche  20,000
Jim Kerrigan           19,000

Sorry, this is not a totally comprehensive count, and there may be a 1000 or so misplaced, but it's the best we can do.  The crowds are milling and the cash games are buzzing.  I might hang around to get a few stories before heading for the air-conditioned sanctuary of the hotel...

Rather unsurprisingly, the tired players are going home now to rest before tomorrow's start at 4pm (France time), so I will amuse you (well, myself really) with these contrasting pictures of the press -

1) Tikay - industrious, focused, businesslike

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2) From left to right, BA Kildalen, Stephen Bartlett, Rolf Slotboom - not.

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Love the 'blondes in bold' idea Jen.

Actually, to give credit where it's due, Snoopy came up with that little gem, but we periodically forget... ta though!

Yep - Tom (aka ANAKASH) qualified via our Online Series of Poker - a series of 12 freeroll's culminating in a final where the winner took a seat in Paris!

To find out a little more about Tom you can read his player profile on the Community section of our site.

Good luck Tom from myself and everyone at Poker Heaven!!

A bit late I know - but is it that nice Hennig chap who played at Luton in January and then liked it taking our money so much stayed for the rest of the week down at the Vic? If so a very nice chap - and seems to specialise in calling with filth and taking all the chips.

great stuff guys


just read days 1 and 2


one day....one day i'll be there

lol

(I'll be the bitter barman looking for tips )

Thanks for the updates everyone.

Cheers.

Brilliant updates.

Just reading about it all makes me want to be there

The Norwegian to the left on that picture is Torstein Iversen, who won the €2500 side event in Paris on Sunday.

Yes he is, very nice guy, he knocked me out of said Luton main event in 25 minutes flat!