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So, it's the amalgamation of the players from days 1a and 1b, filling up the hallway/cash game area of the ACF.  Snoopy has been unfortunately lost for the last half hour, but it looks like the streets of Paris have not defeated him entirely, and I'm sure you're all looking forward to his special brand of updating...

But first, thanks a bunch to Celebrity Updater tikay - it reminded me of how much fun it is to commentate sometimes, in a fun place like this.   :cheers: to the Original Updater who started the trend...

Anyway, we're hoping for a reasonably timely start, as we watch Dave Colclough, Thewy, Matt, Chubbs and so many more vie to take the title back to the UK.  Again.

 :hello: Jen, hope you're not too tired.

 :hello:  Jen and Snoopy when he gets there, how many runners today please?

133 started today, and there have already been a handful of early exiters.  In general, the chips seem to be split with the majority of players hovering in the 20ks, while a couple are well above the field, and the small stacks are making a bid for glory...

Sorry for the delay - I have found the press bit even more crowded than yesterday, and am currently kneeling in a corner with my laptop on a coffee table.  And this space is actually a timeshare with a Danish guy.  Sweaty is not the word. 

Surely Grease is the word?

Hi folks

Incredibly, we've managed to stumble across the hotel after scouring the streets of gay Paris for an hour.

Seems there are two 177's on this road, and, not suprisingly, the naughty cab-driver took us to the wrong one. Bah, humbug!

Not a great day so far...

I'm wet, tired, hungry, and aching all over due to rain, lack of sleep, no food, and big heavy bags.

But, seeing as I'm an updating machine (cough), I'll be with you as soon as possible. Just to need to dry off and get a bit of tucker before I collapse.

See you in a jiffy.

Here's recently-out Thomas Middelthon, in a QQ vs KK decider.  He looks more cheery than one might expect...

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wish julian good luck for me please

The car park at Cardiff did.

Wales 1 France 0

Here's German George talking to Rolf - want to know what he's saying (I paraphrase):

"So I have Aspades Ad, I raise to 1,800.  The guy on my left flat calls.  Flop:  Ks 9c 2d.  I check, he bets 2,500, I raise to 10k, planning to fold if he re-raises, as that says "set!"  So he re-raises all-in - the pot is huge, 50k, and instead of passing like I planned, I stared at him for a while, and bearing in mind that he likes to bluff a lot, and seemed to be shaking a bit, I called.  He had 2c 2h and I'm out."

He's being quite critical of himself at the moment, but I'm sure he'll hang around to watch his pal Jan Heitmann...

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Oooh, bok alert - Julian has just this moment gone -

After valiantly battling the hours of bad cards with patience, Julian found himself in much the same situation today.  After he was pushed away with preflop re-raises a couple of times, he had 8,000 and decided to "stop the rot" by moving in on the button with Ac 7d when it folded to him.

Unfortunately one of the blinds called with his Ad Js instead of letting him pick up the antes like he was hoping, and his run is over early this afternoon.  Slow couple of days for YoYo - but it happens sometimes.  At least it's glorious outside...

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Just for a reminder of how the day started chipwise - the ever-overachieving Rolf Slotboom has alphabetised them and kindly granted permission for their reproduction here.  So:

    * Aktell, Greger 29,225 15/8
    * Albregin, Sergey 40,400 15/3
    * Atlani, Maurice 14,975 9/8
    * Attali, Hubert 5,775 11/5
    * Ayoubi, Nabil 21,875 5/10
    * Beevers, Joe 25,850 1/9
    * Berg, Anders 24,525 4/1
    * Bertelsen, Daniel 20,350 7/2
    * Bilney, Sarah 29,775 2/5
    * Bonyadi, Farzad 41,050 11/3
    * Boudet, Patrice 31,825 16/6
    * Boutboul, Henri 39,850 12/4
    * Brochard, Marc 35,150 11/7
    * Brummelhuis, Michiel 62,175 10/2
    * Buchanan, Shawn 52,850 11/8
    * Bueno, Patrick 7,000 12/3
    * Bulichec, Ilia 28,775 8/10
    * Burlet, Gabriel 28,100 9/6
    * Cannon, Nichomas 8,850 9/1
    * Carvin, Michel 8,850 9/1
    * Cazals, Thierry 19,975 16/8
    * Champagnol, Patrick 7,425 4/8
    * Cherrett, Tom 26,975 15/1
    * Chessa, Tony 40,850 8/5
    * Cohen, Massou 17,225 8/3
    * Colclough, Dave 25,275 9/5
    * Comper, Gheorghe 17,500 3/1
    * Cristea, Lucian 10,675 6/6
    * Dahan, Didier 10,100 7/7
    * Daneshgar, David 24,325 1/1
    * Danzer, George 31,025 4/2
    * Davenport, James 27,425 6/4
    * Davidsen, Peter 16,350 1/2
    * De Wolfe, Roland 17,475 12/9
    * Deeb, Freddy 3,500 11/4
    * Detournel, Xavier 7,775 16/4
    * Durand, Jacques 17,050 1/6
    * Duthie, John 29,800 1/7
    * Ek 22,175 12/2
    * Esfahani, Shahram 48,850 15/5
    * Fagerli, Frode 30,250 16/5
    * Fawaz, Joe 6,650 4/5
    * Feriolo, Romain 46,950 4/3
    * Frederick, Steve 7,500 7/5
    * G, Tony 10,100 8/4
    * Gale, John 23,575 5/5
    * Garreth, Patrick 8,975 5/3
    * Goehring, Alan 17,800 16/2
    * Grospellier, Bertrand 22,775 3/2
    * Grundtvig, Christian 18,850 16/7
    * Gulesian, Andre 5,600 5/1
    * Hacquet, Emmanuel 3,700 1/4
    * Haddad, Gilles 39,725 4/9
    * Hagen, Andreas 46,300 9/2
    * Hairabedian, Roger 15,300 16/1
    * Hannuna, Benjamin 30,950 4/6
    * Haslam, Pete 19,700 9/4
    * Hassid, Franck 10,675 8/9
    * Heitmann, Jan 17,025 12/5
    * Hellmuth, Phil 46,475 5/2
    * Hollink, Rob 7,925 11/10
    * Hostrup, Frederik 5,700 15/9
    * Jelassi, Ramzi 46,250 10/10
    * Jepsen, Peter 13,100 7/6
    * Jerney, John 21,925 6/10
    * Johansen, Karsten 72,200 12/7
    * Johansson, Birgitta 18,825 12/1
    * Johansson, Chister 49,450 8/8
    * Jorgensen, Theo 8,675 9/3
    * Jurskis, Arnas 38,775 7/10
    * Kabbaj, John 41,050 8/2
    * Kakoun, Haim 41,775 11/6
    * Kastle, Casey 16,300 1/8
    * Kerrigan, Jim  20,775 3/8
    * Kohlberg, Curt 44,900 10/8
    * Koskas, Eric 66,075 16/3
    * Kuzmin, Alexander 23,850 15/2
    * Kwang, Lee 24,775 8/7
    * Lamsa, Janne 28,875 3/9
    * Lellouche, Antony 7,175 3/4
    * Lellouche, Daniel 24,475 6/1
    * Lepage, Patrice 39,675 2/8
    * Lester, Jason 19,000 2/9
    * Mackay, Anthony 22,425 10/5
    * Marciano, Elie 32,825 8/6
    * Mathew, Rory 11,125 15/6
    * Mazur, Jon 15,325 4/6
    * McDonald, Ian 16,875 7/1
    * Middleton, Thomas 11,900 5/6
    * Nowab, Simon 33,725 2/7
    * Pandestre, David 26,475 5/9
    * Parkinson, Padraig 23,675 5/8
    * Pedersen, Rehne 13,925 6/9
    * Pereira, Jose 37,600 11/9
    * Perrault, Pascal 5,500 15/7
    * Petersen, Mark 7,800 2/2
    * Petit, Emile 33,825 7/9
    * Pinson, Bruno 17,825 10/7
    * Pluskwa, David 10,000 10/1
    * Polze, Laszlo 39,100 7/4
    * Poujade, Jean 74,425 2/1
    * Rahal, Kalil 85,125 6/2
    * Rahimi, Bob 9,300 1/3
    * Ramdin, Victor 19,675 15/4
    * Rousso, Vanessa 10,900 10/4
    * Rybachenko, Sergey 8,475 9/9
    * Schoenberg, Erica 34,850 4/7
    * Schuhl, Patrick 50,550 3/3
    * Sjogren, Per 39,300 6/3
    * Smurfit, Alan 23,400 16/9
    * Sointula, Jani 21,000 2/3
    * Sorensen, Jan 31,975 5/7
    * Soulier, Fabrice 22,025 12/10
    * Storakers, Johan 20,125 11/2
    * Strandli, Kenneth 16,500 6/8
    * Sunar, Surinder 28,475 6/7
    * Tann, Willie 5,625 10/9
    * Testud, Paul 19,825 2/6
    * Teltscher, Mark 31,225 7/3
    * Thew, Julian 16,525 7/8
    * Thuritz, Mikael 27,225 2/4
    * Torbey, Sami 60,650 9/7
    * Touil, Samuel 49,375 3/6
    * Tykoczinski, Raphael 14,975 8/1
    * Tyler, Matt 17,425 3/5
    * Vaswani, Ram 58,900 6/5
    * Wahlroos, Thomas 31,825 11/1
    * Wasicka, Paul 7,000 12/8
    * Weiss, Adam 32,125 10/6
    * Witt, Henrik 53,000 12/6
    * Yeh, Philip 53,150 7/3
    * Yitzhaki, Roman 30,700 1/5
    * Yu, Angelo Zuo Ping 22,050 5/4

 :hello: Jen & Snoops. Have a great day, superb work as usual. Good Luck Blondeites

Thanks Tonji!

Dave has around 35k and that impenetrable image which is so unnerving sometimes... he just put the lovely Vanessa Rousso in a bit of a pickle when she raised to 1,500 in late position, and he re-raised another 2,300 from the small blind (blinds 300/600 ante 50).  She had about 8,500 in total left, and decided after a while to flat call.
Flop: 2h Qc 3c.  Immediately El Blondie bet out a stack-covering 10k, and she passed, her frustration showing as she exclaimed, "Why can't you put an Ace or a King out there - God!"

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Psssst Jen!

Can we girlies have some pics of male totty please?

They don't have to be playing poker btw....

Double up for Elky with 7h 7d vs Ahrt Jh - a seven on the club-heavy flop let him breathe more easily, and he now has 14k or so.

Other counts:

Padraig Parkinson    20,300
John Gale              35,000
Surinder                47,000
Freddy Deeb          OUT
Matt Tyler             22,000
Anders Berg          28,000
Joe Beevers          29,000
John Duthie          52,000
Ramzi Jelassi          43,400

Oooo yes please I agree! Brighten my working day a little please!

Err, how about Ram Vaswani?  He's still in good chip shape but appears to have his attention easily distracted :)

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Or neighbours Willie Tann and Ramzi?  (although not sure either of them would thank me for suggesting they might be 'totty')  :D

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OK let me level with you - I haven't taken any photos since the first 15 minutes of the comp - but I'm just about to do another tour.  Snoopy is recovering from the foodless journey, and there's a wonderful rumour he may be bringing me pain au chocolat back in a sneaky manner...

We're actually at a *****************************break*************************** right now, so back in 15 mins with more of the glimpsed-over-someone's-shoulder action!

OOPS dont tell him i bokked him  ;scarymoment;

i'm completely with floozy and trace ;)  more male totty please

and good luck elblondie, matt and everyone else :)

and me ;)

Hi Jen, I'm back in cloudy & grey London, missing you & Paris already.

Thank you for looking after me so well, booking my Eurostar & Hotel, & letting me whop you at our Late Night Heads-Up Session. (I beat her 3-2!).

As for sloppy, well, we won our bet - he was "no offers" to get lost. What a twonk. Though Jen & I BOTH lost our way from the Hotel to the Aviation yesterday - & it was ony 300 yards!

We have just finished 425, & I have a meet next, then over to do PNL, &, at long last, I get to go home first thing Thursday morning & meet the cat.

Thanks again Jen, you are a star, & I really enjoyed my brief return to Updating.

Good Luck to all the remaiing blondes, get the job done guys!

Hey guys

Thanks for the all the updates, great to be kept informed as ever. Have I missed the payout schedule or is it not available yet?

Cheers

Rob

Come on Chubbs, use my 50% wisely, ill be up to Aviation Club in 30 mins, Rob

Sorry Ladies, must go and pay attention to the cards and chips and stuff now - but I'll leave you with Men In Black Jim Kerrigan and Joe Beevers playing posealike:

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Can you tell us if young Scot Rory Mathews is still alive please? Great reporting thanks.

aah mr beevers is a babe with 2 gorgeous babies and his wife claire is a sweetie

but wheres the single ones ;)  lol

Jen, was there a proper redraw of players for Day Two, or was there a lazier amalgamation going on with players being with the same opponents as they were on the first day they played?

Good luck today Jen and snoops. oh and any blondes playing the event.

Or alphabetical order like one tourney last year ???

That was in France too if I recall ......

snoops here

Matt tyler is out.

KJ v Q-Q

Shorstaced when he made the move, but still looks gutted.

H's had most of his big hands cracked and just couldn't get the ub of the green.

jen is on a break now...

I've only just arrived. Just trying to get on my feet. It's roasty toasty and the conditions for press are poor to say the least.

something strange gone on. why is thread title Q on main board?

Yup, that was Deauville, following which I believe young Dr Livingstone, aka sloppy, changed his name to Kendally, which the Ruminting Camel seemed to find funny.

Rory Matthews is on 39k with the average being 37. - so, he's running okay but nothing spectacular.

There are 94 players wuth blinds of 400/800.

As I was checking the board, I spotted El Blondie.

He's currently sharing a table with Simon Nowab and Adreas Hagen, both of whom were involved in a hand.

Mateyboy bets 2.5k from underthegun, Hagen calls, and so does Simon from the button.

The flop comes in Ts 5d 7s.

Mateyboy bets 7k, Hagen folds, and Chubbs makes it 20.

After a brief dwell and the usul 'how much have you got behind you' rubbish, he eventually folds.

That's an interesting table just there, in fact -
Vanessa Rousso   14,500
Andreas Hagen    40,000
Simon Nowab      40,000
DC                     38,200

The chips were correct about 20 mins ago - sorry for the lag, but Snoopy's wireless card doesn't like it here, and he's having to use the old-school Vodafone thingy instead.  Got to say, although it may not appear so due to heat and crowding, but I'm glad to see him....

gotta love the updates,
matt and i are off to drown our sorrows in some italian joint, swapping plentiful tales of woe...lol
as is always the case, the thought of seeing the family tomorrow does cure all known ills,
we'll stagger in later no doubt...

rotflmfao

This fella is Nabil Ayoubi aka NabTheAce, who played in this event last year after qualifying online, and lo and behold, he's done it again!  Two years running, and he looks to have improved on his performance already.

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Bad luck Jools and Matt, have a couple of bottles of red and then you can go and terrorise the cash games  ::)

Some chippy counts for you...

Padraig Parkinson -- 30,075
John Gayle -- 17,500
Surinder Sunar -- 59,200
Mark 'Get Me A Coke' Teltshjshjshjsher -- 27,300
Jan Heitman -- 10,425
Anthony Chessa -- 45,125
Dave Colclough -- 39,050

Simon Nowab is OUT

which is a bit out of the blue tbh

QQ v AQ

just in time to see the raggy board, didn't catch how it went, but will ask later when he's calmed down...

This, I believe, is Erica Schoenberg - pointed out to me by a helpful chap with the WPT crew as an up-and-coming American who might not be familiar to the UK - yet...

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ive heard about this girl,apparantly shes got a good game.go on the ladies

Terrorise the cash games?

Not even Thewy could do that in the Aviation. I was railing a Cash Game there last night - David Benyamine had top side of 100k in front of him, Bruno 40k, & several others in the 20k to 30k range. Only Euros, mind.

There was a 400-800 Limit game, & a 2,000 sit down Dealers Choice.

Tough to find the 25 quid table.

Monte Carlo king from a couple of years back, Jani Sointula, has just doubled through of courtesy of John Kabbaj.

All the chips went in on the turn (bet, reraise, all-in, call) with a board of Ahrt 5c Ac Jc.

Both were in the blinds with Kabbaj in the small and first to bet out.

Kabbaj shows Jd 7h and asks Jani if he holds an ace.

The answer?

AdQh

Jani punches the air and watches joyfully as the river brings a harmless Qc

i believe she's just signed an endorsement deal with Mansion (see latest inside edge) speaking of which is Roland still in?

Jan Heitmann is OUT.

Moved his shortstack in with pocket knaves, but ran into the ladies.

According to Jan (ahem) he 'knew the guy had queens but wanted to bust out so he could watch the Germany game' hmm

Hi, Jen. Is there any chance of a chip count for Tony "Rockfish" Mackay or Jim "Man in Black" Kerrigan?

Just caught up!

Come on El Blondie!

Erica Schoenberg~~~~~~~~~ More please!

Some chip counts, then (going after Jim and Tony in just a sec)

Roman Yitzhaki      22,600
Casey Kastle          10,125
Johan Storakers     25,500
Phil Hellmuth        105,000
Ram Vaswani         62,000
John Duthie          55,000
Padraig Parkinson   25,500

Rory Matthews is faced with a 6k bet on a 7c Td 2c Ahrt Th board, which he calls.

Opponent has A-K, Rory mucks, but his stack has taken a small dent as the pot was around the 25k mark.

Mr Colclough says, "But I still have chips!"

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Jim Kerrighan (No 'h' if I remember correctly) -- 38,100

He has EPT top dog John Duthie and Scandinavian star Johan Storakers seated to the immediate right.

He's a cool cucumber though, so he shouldn't be intimidated.

is the tann man still in?

I've been here at least 10 minutes and this guy hasn't made a murmur, in fact, he's barely moved a muscle.

I'm starting to suspect that he's a waxwork brought in to promote the event.

If that's true though, he's somehow managed to surpass the 100k mark, which isn't bad at this stage.



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Hello, Dana here. I don't have much to do so I've typed up the lovely moneylicious payout...

1)  €712,500

3)  €243,250

4)  €168,750

5)  €131,250

6)  €93,750

7)  €75,000

8)  €56,250

9)  €37,500

10-12)  €25,000

13-15)  €21,000

16-18)  €18,000

19-21)  €15,000

22-24)  €13,000

25-27)  €11,000

Most poker players are big, bald, and sweaty.

Then there's this lass.

Aye carumba!



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Hi guys, is Sarah Bilney still in, picture would be nice!

Met her at Oxford student tourny, nice as pie off the table, bit spicky in the game.

By the way she came 63rd in the WSOP main event in 2005, for $145,000.

The action here is just gripping... simply gripping.



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Could be a wig  ::)

Awwwwwwwwww poor DC  he looks completely goosed!!

"Go on, make it quick, but there's no way I'm putting my food down."



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WTG Jen


Nice male totty pics earlier!

More please...

It's quality, not quantity, but this guy seems to have both.

Top marks for tower size, only surpassed by Hellmuth I believe.



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Here are Bob Cherrett (left) who, in one of those great photographic accidents, looks like he's crowned with the chandelier, and next to him young Edward Rhee.

Rhee recently eliminated Roland de Wolfe, who'd been rather mercilessly raising his blind, but who was also pretty short stacked.  Roland moved in for 9k, and Edward found Qc 9c in the blind - decided to go for it - ran into Qh Kd but flopped the Nine! 

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No sign of Tony,  but Jim Kerrigan doubled up during this last level with Jc Jd against the then chip leader's As Kd, spiking a Jack for good measure.

Just now, though, he called a raise from Johan Storakers with Td Th only to find the button pushing in for 13,275.  Johan called, and Jim passed - then Johan said "I think you're bluffing" and turned over Aspades Js - unfortunately for him his opponent had Ac Qc and it stayed good. 

And now time for a more dignified pic of Mr. Cherrett, who qualified online in one of those million-player, one-seat freerolls!  He says himself he's a 'novice' but it looks like he's holding his own here in the WPT... incidentally, sat next to Anders Berg, who looks twitchy in this photo, but actually isn't.

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Good news blonde fans!

They've just raced off the green 25 chips and El Blondie was dealt the Aspades scooping him a rather tasty black 100 chips.

Release the baloons!!!

Thanks for all the updates, great stuff. Any idea how many players left overall now? And please keep the news on Rory Mathews coming!

82 players left

blinds 600/1200

 ;letsparty;

Padraig would shake 'em up a bit if he made a WPT final table..

So, I'm cheering for the viper tongued one!

I dont know if the Americans would understand one word he said 8)

whats the latest on willie tann?

Hello

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I didn't know YOU were in Paris.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do!

Almost a Mateyboy cubed moment, but I narrowed it down to squared once I realised that previous wpt winner, Victor Ramdin was involved.

Victor flatcalls, the small blind raises, only for Mateyboy on the big to move all-in.

After taking a sneak peek (naughty me), I see Victor muck fives.

The small blind calls with pocket nines, only to run into the big blinds ladies. Oddly though, the big tapped the table before he showed as if he was behind. Hmm.

Anyhow, the board didn't provide a third nine, but the flop did bring a five which would have tripped Victor up if he'd been in the hand, thereby scooping him a tasty pot.

As it happens though, the big blind survives, and rakes in the chips for a well-timed double up.

Any El blondie news?

Thanks.

Joe 'The Elegance' Beevers -- 31,500



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Has anyone been able to catch up with Chubbs after his exit?

Any updates on Ramzi Jelassi or Tony Chessa?

Victor Ramdin -- 48,500



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As my battery coughs its nearly-last, counts from the last sweaty perusal of the packed tourney rooms -

ElkY              23,000
Tony Mackay  20,500    (CORRECTION - he's not out as I previously reported)
Ramzi Jelassi   48,000
Roman Yitzhaki  33,000
Joe Beevers    31,000
Vanessa Rousso  32,000
Andreas Hagen  43,000
El Blondie          27,000
Jim Kerrigan       35,000
John Duthie      70,000
Johan Storakers  OUT    (more on this in a sec)
John Kabbaj       39,000
Jani Sointula      45,000
Tony Chessa     37,000
Ian Macdonald   66,000
Mark Teltscher   25,000
Phil Hellmuth     100,000
Karsten Johanssen  155,000
Edward Rhee      11,000
Nabil Ayoubi        60,000
John Gale          43,000
Padraig Parkinson  25,000
Surinder Sunar     38,000
Ram Vaswani       50,000

Vanessa 'Youch! Feeling hot hot hot!' Russo is on 38,200

More importantly though, check out that nifty gadget on her arm. Anyone guess what it is, it really shouldn't be hard.



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Seeing as Joe Beevers now occupies the seat he was in next to Ramzi - I have to gather he is OUT.

Hi all.
Great updates.

Any chance of photos of Vince Van Patten and Mike Sexton?

or do they only show up on the final day?

Thanks...they're my heroes..... :D :D


 Td Th

Joe Beevers has doubled up courtesy of an oldish English fellow called Tom.

Joe raised to 3.2k from under the gun and Tom smooth called from the big blind.

Flop comes J-T-5, followed by a Beevers bet of 3.2k.

Tom reraises another 6k, allowing Joe to make another raise for 15k more.

After a dwell of around two minutes, Tom calls with his pocket queens only to find Joe sitting pretty (well, elegantly) with his set of jacks.

The late night poker man must be on around the 65k mark now.

And here's Mr. Beevers in the last break, chatting to Padraig and the back of John Duthie (well, that's the part you can see, not the part that was being chatted to)

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Sorry, no sign of the Televised Poker Icons as yet, but we'll be sure to snap them when they show up.  To be honest, I don't blame them for avoiding the crowds today.

Johan Storakers' final hand was an all-in push preflop with 9c 8d, and he couldn't have been too unhappy with the 6h 6d call -

But the board came 3d Ks 5h Jc Kh which was no good, and another player shakes the hands and walks the out-walk.

It's an ipod holder

Mark Teltscher has been relieved of his position in this year's European WPT by a certain Mr Phil Hellmuth.

All-in preflop.

Phil shows Big Slick, Mark A-T.

"Nice hand", comments Phil.

"I'm not out of the woods yet," replies Phil.

He was though by the river and an 8-3-5-2-A board.

"Bad play, Phil?" enquires Mark as if they've been pals for a lifetime.

"Seemed like...' hesitates Phil, "well, do you want me to be honest?"

Mark nods.

"I reckon it was a little too much to risk with A-T," critisises an honest Poker Brat. " I threw in 35k instead of 36 to make it look like a weak bet."

Mark shrugs his shoulders and exits the cardroom.

I've been relieved of my coke duties, but, in all fairness, he took his exit well.

Aaron, send this man 100 ipods as his prize.


Meanwhile, John Duthie is down to the felt after a rather nasty beat.

He called an early position raise with Q-8 suited (caused his own downfall perhaps?), and then, after the 5-9-J-T board gave him a potentially lucrative straight, shoved all those chips in quicker than a tikay exit.

Mateyboy, with his tourney on the line, flips over K-J and spikes a Queen on the river for a bigger straight.

Ouch!

I'm going to hang over Duthie now like a vulture, as it looks like his sawn song is fast approaching.

Here's young Roman Yitzhaki who turned around a bad start to the day into his current average stack.  I kind of lumped him in with the brashYoungAmericans, but he's actually very personable.  And plays some big old games.  Like this one.

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Calling all Chessa fans, the ribena berry is on 36,500.

Meanwhile, on that very table, Christer Johannson raises 3.8k from the button, Kabbaj moves all-in for another 23.1k and the former folds.

Duthie's on around 30k.

Mateyboy raises underthegun, Duthie moves all-in, MB mucks A-J.

Ram's chip count please

The Dinner Break Draws Nigh, and there are a couple of all-ins - one after a raise from Roman Yitzhaki to 3,500, a re-raise from the gent in the seat next to him to 10,500, and then a push for over 30k.  Roman passed quickly, Matey called quickly, and Hellmuth offered, "Kings?"

He was close, it was Qc Qd against Jc Jh and we're down to 63.

And we're a Duthie down...

He moved over the top of a button raiser with Big Slick, but his 31.7k extra was called by Q-Q.

Although the flop gave his opponent trips, the board wasn't without hope...

Ac Kd versus Qh Qc

2d Qs Ad 4d 4c

From the looks of it (as in he's wandering around the press area aimlessly), it would appear that shortstack John Kabbaj is OUT.

Um, I'm not 100% but having just seen him in the bar I think his count is 0...

OK - The 'ding' has donged, signifying DINNER BREAK -   Back in 1hr45!

Get your questions ready since we'll be all energised and full of tasty food when we return...

Hey guys, please ask Phil Hellmuth what is his favourite track on his iPod, & has he got a carrier bag with him for his winnings?

Enjoy your dinner on the Champs Elysses Jen, Dana & slopps, I'm back down to earth with a sarny in East London tonight!

Chip Counts - what a remarkable comeback by Ian McDonald, who was down to 3,000 yesterday.

Go, the Gala Notts Guy.

I shall be "watching & working" tonight, so any hot news that comes through on the Live Update may well get aired on Live TV, on tonight's PNL.

Who is the more annoying out of these 2?

Tough one!

Who is the more annoying out of these 3?  :D

picture of ian mcdonald please,cant put a face to the name

page 2 or 3 of the pics on this thread  hes got a blue short sleve shirt sitting behind Ram
grey hair and such a nice guy

Hope this helps

regards

M

Very polite, quiet, gentleman, you do know him Fran. About 70 years old.

i know who it is seen the picture :blonde:

Aren't they back yet?

Doubt it Trace - the Dinner-Break is 105 minutes.

OK my maths is crap - what time are they due back?

I guess it would be 105 mins after the post saying going to dinner for 105 mins

What ya think :D

I think you're being mean cos my maths is crap and I'm too lazy to go look at the time of that post!!!

Very soon Trace, I think.

OI!!
Bundle, where's she gone???????????????
I demand her return immediately!!!!!!!

Yeah Bundle the boobs were better!

My maths says they are 5 minutes late back!!!

Hi guys Chubbs here on the yongs lappie  I Raised mid position with AQ hearts and get smooth called by the button ( put him on mid pair or same as me ) flop 4h 5h  8s  i check he bes the pot which is 7k and i dwell and move all in for 27k total he calls with QQ and i dont improve on turn or river  he almost passed on flop he must have made me sweat for 5 mins  but the good news is i have just lost £1k on the yongsta internet account with QT on a K92 flop............well i had a gutshot! Yongsta not pleased.

Chubbs.

Oops?

Unlucky, I like the play though!

Hello from the doc, If anyone is interessted i have some chipcounts on the norwegians left, only 4 but... This is before dinner:
Anders Berg 24 200
Kenneth Strandli 45 400
Andreas Hagen 71 900
Frode Fagerli 27 800

U might hav posted this already, i just loged in. So if i am spamming i am sorry.. Will go throug the tread soon :)

WE'RE BACK! And they're off! And Jen's gone to find out some stuff! Meanwhile here's a nice banjo to keep you occupied.

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yum

I had a banana bliss

Meanwhile, the players are back at the felt and I've taken a few minutes out to go face spotting.

Saw Mike Sexton at the bar, Jan Boubli hanging around a street corner, and Hassan Habib at the cash tables with a huge pile of chips in front of him.

But back to the action...

55 left
800/1600 (200)

Of the 55 left...

Andreas Hagen
Phil Hellmuth
Frode Fagerli
Jim Kerrighan
Castor J
Christer Johannson
Dave Colclough
Ed Reh
Roman Y
Tony Chessa
Joe Beevers
Jari S
Surinder Sunar
Snoopy

Jen on her way with chippy counts.

Watch this space...

I would just like to clarify that Snoopy is NOT playing in this tournament, he just made that up. He is being Disciplined now.

Thnak you for your attention

ooo, beat him with the banjo :D

Any confirmation on Ram's elimination?

Sorry I'm late to the coverage ... that time difference from Europe to Las Vegas is a killer, especially when someone like me oversleeps.

Still plenty of players for the Americans to root for. The average American poker TV viewer won't know many of these names (other than Hellmuth), but there are plenty left that are well known in American poker circles. Is Padraig still in? He's a fun guy, even if he can be tough for us to understand sometimes.

And when you're looking for Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten, keep your eyes open for Sabina Gadecki. She's the new WPT host replacing Courtney Friel this year. (Courtney is the woman who replaced Shana Hiatt.) She's a very charming young girl, and she's very accessible. If you run into her, tell her that BJ, her unofficial official photographer, wishes her luck in Paris.

I've got a link to my website with some photos of her, but not sure of the policy here about links. I'll see if I can figure out how to post a picture of her directly here in the forums.

He has his own banjo now, he'll beat me back. My ukulele is no good as far as threats go   >:(

Okay, hopefully this works. Keep an eye out for the new host, Sabina Gadecki. She loves meeting the players and checking in on the action, so she'll probably be hanging around at some point either today or tomorrow. And she might be hanging around with Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten.

(http://web.mac.com/bjnemeth/iWeb/BJNemeth/Images/Sabina_Victory-1.jpg)

She seems quite nice

As promised, a few chip counts at this 800/1,600 ante 200 level, which has already seen 4 players eliminated...

Roman Yitzhaki    90,000    (and doing his best to wind up Phil Hellmuth on his table)
Phil Hellmuth      145,000   (and actually not getting that wound up, although firmly defending his 'best No-limit player' title against attack)
Dave Colclough    24,200
Tom Cherret       34,200
Tony Chessa       23,800
John Gale            OUT
Ian Macdonald     OUT
Karsten Johanssen  160,000
Nabil Ayoubi          41,400
Padraig Parkinson   29,000
Surinder Sunar       84,000
ElkY                     75,000
Ramzi Jelassi          38,500
John Kabbaj          OUT

Spectators are ominously starting to bunch behind their velvet ropes, which means that getting in and out is becoming more and more time-consuming, with more 'Pardon's as you nudge and are nudged in return, especially around Table Hellmuth, where the camera crews are enjoying the Banter.

and she has a friend called BJ ! what more do you want?

can you wish DC and Tony Chessa GL from me ( hes the fat bald one)

Phil Hellmuth is whining about a beat from this guy. (That's Phil shoulder on the right - expert photography I'm sure you'll agree)

A-K v A-T

2-T-T-9-8



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They've playing all the day's footie on the tv screen, to the joy of all the Saudi and Tunisia fans (??) in here.

However, forget that, what the 'eck's that wierd 'lost-like- number at the top?

Any guesses, peeps?



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Why did they dump the last host?

I'll be keeping more than an eye out for her...

 :kiv:

Down Boy :)up

I Pod stand

The previous WPT host, Courtney Friel, just had a one-year contract, and it wasn't renewed. She's a TV journalist, and has already moved on to other things.

I figured it wouldn't be too tough to put Snoopy on the lookout for Sabina. But I think Jen will find she's quite nice too. Sorry you missed out, Tikay ...

Not another 'unleashing' of the guns I hope...  ;pokergods;

snoops here

my lappie has been lent out to a young girl who has lost her credit card.

hope she doesn't examine my drive too thoroughly.

eek

Meanwhile, Jim Keriighan is low stacked with 28,400, with the average at a rather more chunky 64,400. However, the blinds are still at 800/1600.

He asked me to ask you blondeites what you'd do in his situation with his stack.

So, tips please...

I offered mine, but he didn't seem too thrilled.

fold

We both caught sight of the back of El Blondie while writing out here, and it was disappearing either in the direction of the loo or the door.... further inspection revealed that Dave is most likely OUT, but we'll need to do some investigating to tell you anything else.  Hard luck and a good two days though..

Frode Fagerli doubles upp with a pair of laidies and now have about the norsemen says 63K

Cash Game Madness News Now -

Just caught up with a more relaxed post-dinner Matt and Julian who are comfortably ensconced in a cash game, and Simon Nowab was describing this €300/€600 cash game kicking off which was one round of NLHE and one of PLO - crikey.

I put Snoops on the waiting list.

300/600 is that the blinds or the buy in?

Daniel Bertelsen doubles through.

A-K v A-9

4-J-5-K-5

Roland De Wolfe's assassin lookalike, Phil Jeh, adds more to his ever-increasing stack.

Flop = Kh 8c 7d

PJ checks, trap 2 bets 10k, PY calls.

Turn = Th

check check

River = 4s

check check

PJ shows pocket jacks, Mateyboy chucks down his cards, mucking in anger.

Any news on Padraig Parkinson guys please - Cheers

Padraig Parkinson - still in, with a small stack (just under 30k) but not looking like he's ready to give up at all...

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In fact, when Padraig was dangerously short (13k) he got a double up with Jd Qh, called by Qd Ts - no surprises and that's why he's approaching the average now...

This is European shark Christer Johannsen (apologies for the potentially incorrect spelling).

Don't be too quick to count his chips up, he's just lost a huge pot.

I only caught the end, but there was already 60k in the pot.

The board reads 4h 9h Kd 8s Qh and Mateyboy decides to bet a rather tempting, but somewhat milky-looking, 15k on the river.

After a very lenghty dwell indeed (all other players had left for the break), Christer reluctantly makes the call, but looks displeased with himself when his opponent flips over an ultimately lucrative Jh Th.

Still, it's not all doom and gloom, Christer still has around 95k.



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Urgetnt Message to Jim Kerrigan: Double up....er, quickly

Tony Chessa is OUT.

He was Hellmuthed.

Phil raised preflop with K-9 suited, Tony moved all-in, and Phil called what was probably not too much more.

9 on the turn sees an end to Tony's WPT venture.

Just before the break, Roman Ferriolo took down a pretty chunky pot.

All I caught was his cards and the board...

which were Js 9s and 4c Jh 6c 8c Tc

He punched the air and celebrated with his girlfriend/wife (maybe sister, it was difficult to tell - no nookie involved)

the message has been passed on

if it works, you could be a genius...

LJB

He thanks you whole-heartedly for the advice, but was wondering which hand you thought he should do it with.

Jim Kerrighan -- 22,300
Frode Fagerli -- 54,000
Andreas Hagen -- 32,500

(same table)

Ah, I see.

Cool, antecool, or just god damn ridiculous?

You decide??

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Another table has broken, finally creating something like a path through the room!  Hurrah!

Some surprise OUTs -

Roman Yitzhaki, who had nearing 100k when I last saw him, just picked up and left - and with that they're down to 47 players, after a shortish stacked Anders Berg moved in with what looked like J9 and found AQ behind him calling, and hitting the Ace for good measure.

Also Tom Cherrett's adventure in high stakes tournament came to an end just now, with the major damage being done before the dinner break when he took his Js Jd against an aggressive player, who pushed all-in on the river (for the fourth time or so) and he decided to go for it - only to find Ad Ac against him.  So from 60k to out, in 20 minutes (give or take two hours)...

Bermuda triangle of the hat-glasses combo (and bit of an overview of the room for good measure).  Now imagine the people on the outside gently encroaching during twenty minute spells, before they're firmly shooed out and the Eternal Cycle continues.

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She was really bad. I mean... terrible... had no idea what she was talking about.

*****Attention Lurkers  (aka Guests) ******

You won't be able to see the pictures unless you sign in (create an alias) which is free and will take about 10 seconds.  Not that we're particularly amazing at the art of photography, but they add a certain something to the overall effect...

So go on - don't you want to see the colourful players? 

Vanessa Rousso doubles up, making a bit of a scene in the process.

Vanessa made her move from the button, and found action from Hellmuth in the big blind.

Hellmuth = Kh Qc

Rousso = Ac Jc

Board = Jd 2c Ad 4h 9s

Rousso celebrates with a few cheers, simultaneously knocking down the table (and drinks - to which I took a spalsh) behind her with her flailing arms.

Incredibly, Phil didn't seem to bothered about the loss and the, whatsome may call, rubdown, and even became somewhat flirty post-hand.

Wierd huh?

Have I shown u a piccy of her lately?

Can you say to Padraig... "Camel asks which one's Phil Hellmuth?"

I think he'll understand!

no socks... never heard of M&S, snoopy your half dressed

Like this pic of Vanessa herself, sat next to Hendon Mobster Full Tilter Joe Beevers...

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Jim Kerrigan is OUT in 44th position.

Card-dead and, with the blinds at 1k/2k, forced to make his move pretty sharpish - which he did with A-8. Unfortunately for Jim, he ran into Queens, by which time, the whole table had preceeded to announce that they had folded an Ace. Grr, don't you just hat that.

(slight exaggeration to be honest)... but he still only had the case Ace to hit, which he didn't.

what do you reckons kev? you would have to I think

I forgot to put this pic up yesterday of Elky (still in) and Matt Tyler (still in the cash game).  It's rather nice.

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Good job, wish i was there!

Quick brag, just won a super 6 seat for bolton, woot

Is Rory Mathews still in? And how sober is Padraig?  :D  Thanks

be rude not to ;)

2nds?

Phil 'bullet dodger' Hellmuth is on one of his rants.

Phil raised preflop to 16k, and Christer Johannsen.

I didn't quite catch what he was moaning about, but something to do with his hand being 'dead'.

Christer must have had his cards on the line or something, but, either way, Hellmuth was in full tantrum mode.

Strangely, Phil opted for a fold.

Some counts, not including Padraig whom I am afraid I can't see...

Ramzi Jelassi       48,000 (up)
Frode Fagerli      60,000 (down)
Joe Beevers       78,000 (up)
Vanessa Rousso  48,000 (up)
Andreas Hagen   52,000 (up)
Jani Sointula      100,000 (up)
Phil Hellmuth       75,000 (down)

I don't usually remember how people's chips compare to their earlier chips, but since I've used the same ratty bit of paper for about 3 hours I can give you that thrilling extra detail.

Sry, buddy, but Rory's a gonna.

Now sit back, you may need to brace yourself for this one...

Padraig, I hear, has quit drinking.

Spot any non-movers in the charts pop-pickers?  8)

padraig quits drinking every year from january until after the world series main event. He then spends the rest of the year legless.

i read Hellmuth just doubled with nut flush against rockets

Phil Hellmuth has moved into fifth gear thanks to a timely double up.

On a board of 6d 5d 2d Qh, a local fellow (pictured below) bets 8k, to which Phil responds with a 16k reraise.

Local fellow announces all-in, and Phil, practically jumping out of his skin, checks his cards saying, 'hold on one second, I think I have the nuts,' before finally making the inevitable call.

Phil confidentally shows the Ad 8d, whilst Mateyboy reluctantly flips pocket aces.

The 9d river is academic, and Phil doubles up to 120k, maintaining that strange determined look that he seems to wear when he gets down to the nitty gritty.

And his opponent? Well, I think the expression on his face below speaks volumes.


-- Oh yeah, and before I forget, Jani S raises from the button the very next hand and Phil, still stacking his chips, raises to 17k from the small blind.

Phil's on a roll...

gulp

could be a loud evening.



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Ramzi Jelassi, who came 2nd in Helsinki last week, is OUT.

Mateyboy raised underthegun, there was a flat-call, which triggered Ramzi into pushing 42k in with his pocket sixes, hoping that the original raiser had a foldable hand, or perhaps A-K, A-Q.

Unforunately, he had jacks, called, and, with no six hitting the board, took down the pot.

38 left
1000/2000 (300)

Joe Beevers is on 66.5k

There was a bit of a kafuffle earlier. Lots of shouting and lots of French being spouted. My francais is a tad rusty, well... fossilised really, so I didn't quite catch what they were moaining about, but it seemed pretty heated.

Anyhow, even though the Thomas Kremsers of the WPT were forced to step in, in all ended in smiles (perhaps forced) and handshakes all around.

After speaking to Joe, he claims to have been pretty card-dead over the last couple of hours. Few hands and few opportunities, especially with the table now playing ten-handed.

***************************BREAK*****************************

15 minutes for the remaining four tables to regather their strength for at least one more 90 min level... I was kind of prepared for it to be a battle to the bubble, and am not disappointed so far.

I heard from Henning that that fuss may have been to do with a ruling on "exposed cards=hand dead?" - which earlier in the week saw him forced to match an all-in which covered him, and then muck his cards, knocking him out of the €2,500 tournament.  He said that in this fresh case, the card-exposer was allowed to keep his chips, and only call bets - - a bit of annoyance expressed in the bar foyer area, and I don't blame him.  Rules, unusual or otherwise, are fine, it's just a matter of consistency.

Also had a quick word with Christer Johanssen, as I was eager to find out exaclty what Phil was moaning about during his 'that hand should be dead' rant.

Apparantly, Christer sat down just as his cards werer being dealt to him. A marginal decision, but one to which Phil was voicing his complaints, rather vocally as usual.

The interesting thing, however, is that the complaint only emerged once Christer had reraised Phil's initial bet.

Blinds have now shot up to 1500/3000 and we're down to 35 players. From what I understand, they're hoping to stop at the 27 mark.

Finishing 35th was none other than Joe Beevers, with this rather unfortunate Jd Jh -
He saw a flop of 3d 7d 6d with Karsten Johanssen, and the biggest pot of the night kicked off - resulting in Joe making the all-in move with his overpair and flush draw, only to find Kd Kh against him!  It was pretty irrelevant as he was drawing to the Jacks only, but the flush came on the river, making Mr. Johannsen chip leader (again) with over 400k.

Right before this big hand occurred, Elky made his last stand with 8d 8s, re-raising to 31k a preflop raise of 6k.  The initial raiser took his time about calling, as you may expect with Aspades Jc, but the board came a rather definitive Jh Jd 3d Ac Tc to knock the Pokerstars Star out.

Unlucky Joe - next time perhaps...

Any chance of a rundown of all the Brits left in?

Patrice Lepage is OUT after calling an all-in reraise from Vanessa Rousso.

Lepage raises to 12k from early position, Rousso moves all-in with tens and the frenchman, after a longish dwell, makes the call with pocket sevens.

The rather vocal Roussa leaps from her seat, claps and chants 'Don't suck out on me', 'Don't suck out on me' after every card.

8-Q-5-K-J

... and then a punch of the air at the river.

And here's your current chip leader, Karsten Johansen, looking very chippy indeed. In fact, it's taken him 20 minutes to stack 'em.

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Are they not the cheapest looking chips ever?

Still flying the flag are...

Surinder Sunar and Nabil Ayoumi

Count them and weep WPT, the Brits are here in full force.

Maybe we should claim Hellmuth, I'm sure he stayed in one of our hotels once.

After all, we do have Rusedski...

Please don't judge all Americans based on Rousso. Or Hellmuth, for that matter. (Unless he wins.)

She wasn't rude, just vocal...

Hellmuth however...  :D

I would slap the cow.

That kind of stuff needs to be removed from poker.

It's a pet peeve of mine ... I hate when players who are way ahead in a hand start loudly calling for cards. Leave that to the player in need of help ...

I wouldn't do that, but I would stare at her angrily like she'd taken the last of the milk from the fridge and not replaced it.

It is quite unusual to find a female player who chats the whole time (although not when it's not her involved in a hand, unlike some) - example:

Vanessa Rousso didn't seem to like to tangle with Christer Johanssen (in fact telling him earlier "you scare me, I don't want to play against you - you find me re-raising I have the nuts," admitting to having made "the worst laydown of my life" to you.

Then a hand developed where Christer raised to 8,500 preflop, and Vanessa called. 
Flop: Kh 2h Qs  a quick check-check
Turn: Ac  Vanessa checked, Christer bet 12,500 and she quickly made it 25,000.  Christer, a heartbeat later, put her to a decision for her whole stack.  There was the totally expected and utterly understandable dwell (interrupted by the dealer calling 'Time' and getting quickly overruled before a chorus of American voices raised holy hell, as well they might).  She's definitely a talker - "I don't have the nuts but I have damn close....I admitted to being scared by you.." thinking out loud like so she ended by (probably wisely) passing and saying, perhaps a little unexpectedly considering her earlier comments, "I'm assuming you have AQ..."   :dontask:

Surinder Sunar is very love, probabaly the shortest out of everyone, but he's just lost a few more.

He raised 3k preflop, Mateyboy made it 9k, forcing Surinder into a fold.

Those British chippy counts for you after the hand...

Surinder Sunar -- 17,500
Nabil Ayoumi -- 97,300

Where is she from? Never heard of her but my guess is she's not from Europe.
 That kind of behaviour is exactly the kind that will give poker a bad image. One of these days she'll be surprised when she realises players will be glad when she's knocked out.

How are Julian and Matt faring in the cash game?


p.s I started to feel the effects of Walsall towards the end of Sunday, so much :respect: to you guys doing this marathon week.

Tough guy

Your final three tables...

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How about these for towers??

Extra brownie points if you can name the player.

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Christer Johannson

Vanessa Rousso is from Miami, Florida, and actually went to the same college as Pokerwire's Jen Creason (one of our American poker reporters). She appeared briefly on a Bodog TV special, and then bubbled at the recent WPT World Championship in 7th place. (In her defense, she went out on a bad beat, when her A-K suited lost to James Van Alstyne's A-J suited when a jack fell on the turn. They were both all in preflop; she reraised all in, and he called.)

With only those two things to her credit (along with her looks), she's been signed to Team PokerStars. Perhaps they wanted to fill the void left by Evelyn Ng, who moved over to Bodog.

Erica Schoenberg, who was shown in a photograph earlier, is one of the loveliest girls you'll ever meet. She's a class act all the way, and she can definitely play. She actually finished 16th in the same WPT World Championship as Rousso, but has more respect from other professional players. Erica has signed a big contract with MansionPoker.net, which Blondeites will recognize as the primary sponsor of the PokerDome event -- where Rhowena Colclough won their first televised speed poker tournament.

Regardless of how she fares in this event, you can all but guarantee that Vanessa Rousso will be invited to the WPT's Ladies Night IV.

Guests, if you're wondering why you can't see the pictures, it's because you need to be a blonde member. It's quick, easy, and free. All you have to do is click register and the type, before setting a moniker and password.

Easy peasey lemon squeezey

Hmm, perhaps it's about time they invited some of the female players who have been battling it out for years to make it in this male dominated game, without the advantage of freebies and handouts.

Hand for hand!

My spidey senses tell me Rousso is out, but I'll have to confirm.

Meanwhile, some chip counts whilst we wait for the final man to fall.

Jeh -- 205k
Roman Ferriolo -- 215k
Andreas Hagan -- 70k
Surinder -- 28

Wooohoooo

Thanks for the updates all. Time for me to get some shut-eye now.

Cheers.

I don't care if she's a triple WSOP champion, that kind of behaviour has no place at the poker table. At least not on this side of the big pond. Perhaps other criteria apply elsewhere. That's my opinion anyhow.

BJ and Flushie, it doesn't sound like either of you are much of a fan of Vanessa and I certainly don't condone players shouting for cards when they are ahead. In fact I think that it's a bad thing and shouting and giving high fives etc has no place in poker. I met Vanessa for the first time to day and I liked her. She is fun to play with and she was very excited because she got lucky in a pot earlier when she hit a runner runner flush to stay in. She thought that she was then on a freeroll and was generally very enthusiastic about the whole event. I think you might be being a little unfair on her but what do I know.

Vanessa Rousso is indeed OUT, eliminated by Jani Soyintula.

All the chips in flew in preflop with Rousso making the final push with jacks.

She was resistant to show her hand first, coninually asking if Jani had a pair.

She eventually revealed her hand after Jani showed A-K.

However, the king hit the flop, and Jani scooped the pot.

Rousso, at first, looked as though she was about to cry, before pulling herself together and announcing 'good game'.

Hi Joe, i trust your judgement on the matter, i am not having a go so much at her but at the practice of card calling, cheering when you knock someone out etc.

It really pisses me off and i wish a speedy exit in a poker comp to people who do it.

P.S. How are things? Congrats on the FTP deal. Speak soon.

grrr again....deep breaths

I agree with these comments. As I stated earlier, she was indeed shouting for cards and so on, but I don't believe she was being intentionally rude or disrespectful. It's just that it's part of her character and her vocal presence is merely her releasing tension and excitement at these late and potentially highly lucrative stages of the tournament.

Besides, unlike various other players I've witnessed today, I don't recall her moaning or taking any digs at anyone. She seemed like a genuinely friendly and chatty person.

Joe -- Your experience with Vanessa is far more direct than ours, so it should hold more weight. (And I respect your opinion.)

But it still irks me when players ahead in a hand call for cards. Is it a fair critique? Possibly not. But it's one of those etiquette things that gets under my skin.

A huge crowd was suddenly allowed to surge forth around one of the tables...and there was baited breath, and then...

I agree and I don't even like players calling loudly for cards when they are behind. I just don't think that Vanessa would do it it a way that some other players would though. She seemed genuinly nice throughout.

I'll tell you the kind of thing that really gets me though and it happened at the same table. Maybe Jen or Snoopy could provide the names? A French guy sat on Eli Marciano's left made a raise to 10,000 in early position and the player in the ten seat, I believe he was from Norway, pulled his cards right in behind his chips. The dealer looked at me (I was in the 1 seat) so I passed, then four more players passed including Phil Helmuth who was on the big blind. The French guy started to move his cards forward and the dealer went to push the pot when Phil realised and pointed out that the Norwegian still had cards. Then the Norwegian tried to get a ruling that Frenchies hand was dead as it had crossed the line!

The point is that some people are good and some are bad. Mr Norway is genuinly bad and I believe that Vanessa in genuinly good.

And our bubble boy is...

Gabriel Burlet

And it's a rather 'one up the bum' nasty outdraw.

His all-in push is called by the Ac Kd of Thomas Whalroos. Gabriel flips Kc Ks.

Board = Js 6c Jc Qc 8c

Ouch.

Gabriel took it well, but looked gutted, whilst Thomas is left singing with delight. (Probably 'I am the egg man, I am the Whalroos) (ahem)

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Angle shooters should be drawn-and-quartered, and I agree that is an offense against poker on a whole different level.

Bad etiquette = annoying
Angle Shooting = downright evil

As for the bubble -- What a painful beat! That turn card was viscious, increasing Whalroos from three outs to eleven.

Update:  Nemesis is right -- Whalroos increased to 14 outs. In my post, I was only counting his NEW outs, and forgot to include the original three aces that were still live in the deck. Thanks, Nemesis!

Right, well we've been informed that play will start at 4pm again tomorrow, as the final 27 (all in the money) play down to the televised few...

And that means that we will be here tomorrow too - and on time as we're all in the city and ready for more WPT poker.  As ever.

Stick a fork in him - he's held the fort for the last half hour so  ;cheerleader; for snoopy - he's done.

nighty night  ;sleep; ;sleep;

14 outs ;)

Great updates, good night.

Of course, far far worse. One is annoying, one is cheating imo

Thanks for keeping me honest, Nemesis! You're right, of course, he had 14 outs on the turn. (I forgot to count his original three outs -- the aces.)

When you see a card like that hit on the turn, your stomach drops and you feel the loss already, even though you're still technically a favorite with just one card to come.

Great updates - thanks guys!

He is only 1.6% better off on the turn than he was pre flop!

CHIP COUNTS END OF DAY TWO! By your friend Dana

Player                                    Chips             Table               Seat

JOHANSEN Karsten            338,000               1                      8
WAHLROOS Thomas          268,400               3                      9
FERIOLO Romain                234,300               2                      6
JOHANSSON Christer          214,400               2                       2
HELLMUTH Phil                  208,000               2                       7
SOINTULA Jani                  183,200               3                       2
YU Zuo Ping Angelo           182,400               2                       8
YEH Philip                         181,900               1                       5
POUJADE John                  157,000               2                       5
WITT Henrik                     147,300               3                       5
TORBEY Sami                    126,400               2                       1
BERTELSEN Daniel             119,000               1                       6
PAINDESTRE David            118,800               2                       3
DAVENPORT James           114,200               3                       4
GRUNDTVIG Christian         111,300               3                       3
AYOUDI Nabil                    105,500               1                       9
SCHUHL Patrick                    95,700              2                       9
BOUTBOUL Henri                 94,100               2                       4
MARCIANO Elie                    89,500              3                        1
JERNEY John                       78,400              1                        1
STRANDLI Kenneth              74,900               1                       2
BOUDET Patrice                   54,800               1                       3
LELLOUCHE Daniel                53,000               3                       8
HAGEN Andreas                   49,700               3                       6
HADDAD Gilles                     34,100               1                       7
HANNUNA Benjamin              30,800               1                       4
SUNAR Surinder                    18,100               3                       7

brilliant updates, well done


I like the controversial stuff, good debates!

Another enthralling Update, big thanks to Jen, snoops & Dana.

To those reading them, I can tell you that the working conditions for the Updaters at Aviation are the worst we have ever had anywhere, so kudos to the blonde Team.