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Welcome back to the Gran Casino Barcelona, where the second flight of players for this packed-to-the-rafters EPT event is about to get underway.

This is the 'lite' thread, so no Q&A, just numbers and stuff.

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Unfortunately, these were the only chip counts we have received from Day 1A.

Carlos Leira Lopez (Spain) -- 16,800
Dag Martin Mikkelsen (Norway) -- 13700
Daniel Elkeslassy (Morroco) -- 25400
Erik Lindberg (Sweden) -- 20,200
Frank Silverstein (United States) -- 22,700
Greg Hobson (United States) -- 14,900
Hubert Attali (France) -- 26,200
Humberto Brenes   (Costa Rica) -- 27,000
Jerome Duarte (France) -- 14,200
Jonathan Dull (United States) 31,000
Jukka Petri Pietila (Finland) -- 26,200
Katja Thater (Germany) -- 35,800
Leopold Chow (Canada) -- 15,400
Leslie Kerrigan   (United Kingdom) -- 33,500
Luca Pagano (Italy) -- 18,600
Manuel Cuberos (Spain) -- 6,900
Mike Halioua (Canada) -- 19,500
Stefan Rotach (Switzerland) -- 20,200
Thierry Passeron (France) -- 10,700
Vladimir Temelkovski (Macedonia) -- 18300

A chunkier list of spotteds (trying not to repeat Snoopy's ones):

Juha Helppi
Edgar Skjervold
Jim Reid
Matt Tyler
Mel Judah
Pascal Perrault
Noah Boeken
Paul Parker (on Noah's left)
Suffolkpunch
Jim Kerrigan
Henning Granstad
David Plastik
Dean Sanders
Paul Testud
Des Wilson
Ramzi Jelassi
Roy Brindley
Isabelle Mercier
Peter Roche
Henrik Olander
David Pomroy
Gus Hansen
Andy Black
Kenna James
Joe Hachem
Sverre Sundbo
Wille Tann
Kevin O'Connell

Passed Willie Tann's table as a showdown was reached between him and a young French player (probably, going on accent alone) - The board was Q x x 9 8 and Willie flipped the Tc Jc for the nuts, while I think he was up against two pair.  I think there was some trapping going on which the youngster escaped, saying, "You're tricky - checking the straight..." to which he got a trademark Tann shrug in return.

early chip count:

Jim Kerrigan -- 9,225
Henning Granstad -- 7,250
Mads Andersen -- 9,375
Kevin O'Connel -- 8,075
Simon 'SuffolkPunch' Young -- 10,025
Kevin Moore -- 10,900
Simon 'Chubbs' Nowab -- 8,775
Bengt Sonnert -- 8,950
Willie Tann -- 10,300
Joe Hachem -- 10,350
Mickey Wernick -- 9,750
John Gale -- 9,750
Jim Reid -- 10,200
Tony Nichols -- 5,100
Edgar Skjervold -- 14,350
David 'dpommo' Pomroy -- 12,450
Marcel Luske -- 425
Simon Zach -- 5,525

Although Luske rose back up to 820 after hitting a straight on an 8-7-4-4-J board (Mateyboy had K-4), it looks as though he may finally be OUT, as he is currently undertaking an interview in the press room.

Luske's exit:

Mateyboy & Luske checked a K-9-9-x-x board down to the River, where Mateyboy bet, Luske raised, MB re-raised and Luske called.

Luske had turned a flush, but MB had flopped Quad Nines.

Henrik Olander, who caught the Updater's attention in Dublin last year, and is undoubtedly one of the strongest young players, just lost a pot of over 14k, leaving him with 6,500 after a promising start.  I actually saw this hand all the way through, which is a miracle as the press seem to multiply daily, and quite a few bold lurkers are crowding the tiny gangways between the tables too.

So - Henrik on the button sees a flop of 5d Ac Tc with the small blind Matey.  Matey checks, Henrik bets 175, and is raised to 300.  Call.
Turn:  3c.  Check; Henrik bets 350, and another min-raise to 700 from sb-Matey.
River:  5s.  Now small blind bets out 2k, about a third of his stack.  Henrik thinks for a minute (probably about the development of the paired board) before pushing all-in.  Small blind Matey calls in a flash with his 8c 5c, and Henrik shows the bare Ahrt before mucking his hand and accepting the loss, without reaction.

Juha Hellpi doubles up to 10,200.

A-T vs J-J

Ten on the Turn

Just watched one of those big circles of gawkers surround a table conveniently located right in the middle of the floor as a big ruling is called for from TK himself:

It's the river - the board lies Th 8c 8h 3h Kh and there's a bet and a raise from Gary Jones.  The Spanish guy who made the initial river bet for some reason has exposed his hand:  Ahrt Jh.  Now Gary Jones gets very agitated, talking about his hand being 'over the line' and calling Thomas over for a ruling after two other floor people failed to calm the situation.  Thomas rules (fairly, in my opinion) that the hand-exposer can only call, and will subsequently get a 10 minute penalty.  That isn't accepted very happily by Gary Jones, who insists Kremser's wrong and is obviously not happy about being called and subsequently losing both the pot and the plot, a little.

Thomas says, "the line is not a line for the cards" - it seems unless they touch the muck, they're not strictly dead.  So there you go, potential hand exposers.

Chip Counts - level 2 50/100....

Kenna James    11,800
Sverre Sundbo  10,400
Willie Tann        11,500
Kevin O'Connell   8,525
Julian Gardner    9,700
Tony Nicholls      5,425
Andreas Hagen   7,300
Mark Teltscher     8,800
Mike Matusow      5,175
Davood Mermand  10,100
Abel Meijberg       9,400
Juha Helppi          5,625
Edgar Skjervold    14,700
Jim Reid              10,450
Matt Tyler           9,400
Mel Judah            9,475
Pascal Perrault      16,100
Noah Boeken        10,300
Paul Parker           12,000   (Flushy, said Hi)
Simon Young        10,250
Jim Kerrigan          8,350
Henning Granstad  8,275
David Plastik          8,100
Dean Sanders        5,800
Paul Testud          16,300   (Good showing for the Frenchmen)
Des Wilson            9,850
Ramzi Jelassi          9,500
Roy Brindley          12,200
Peter Roche          10,350
Henrik Olander        6,500

One Team Bestpoker, coming right up:

Top:        Erik Friberg  6,025
Middle:    Ricki Neilsen  9,925
Bottom:  John Persson  9,100

Mike Matusow is OUT.

8-7 vs T-T on a T-8-8 flop.

5 Turn, 3 River

Isabelle Mercier is now OUT - caught her swapping a wistful "C'est la vie" with BA Kildalen on the way to the bar.

Andreas Hagen -- 5,450
Pascal Perraul -- 15,200
Simon Zach -- 6,375
Andy Black -- 9,550
Mel Judah -- 12,375
Matt Tyler -- 11,250
Simon Young -- 11,925
Ramzi J -- 6,575
Mark Teltscher -- 11,325
Gary Jones -- 26,125
Henning Granstad -- 7,450
David Binstock -- 9,575
Jim Kerrigan -- 7,225
Paul Parker -- 11,600
Kevin O'Connel -- 7,500

A couple more countlets before we join half Two of the field in having a dinner break...

Matt Tyler    13,000
Jim Kerrigan   7,500
Henning Granstad  7,700
David Plastik    9,150
Dean Sanders  9,100
Paul Testud    15,350
Des Wilson     16,150
Peter Roche   18,700
Mr. Anticool - Peter Kjellen  9,800 

Kenna James has doubled up to 17,975 with Q-Q vs 4-4 on a 5-2-3 Flop.

Jim Reid doubles up.

Board = Jd 9c Td Jh

Ks Js vs 9d Th

River = 7s

Jim Reid is now on 12,700

It appears as though Simon Nowab is OUT.

He missed an inside straight flush draw (A-Q on K-T-x flop)

K-J held up

Paul Zimbler has doubled

Qc Tc vs Qs Ts on a 7s Ts 8h Flop.

Qd Turn, 3d River

David 'dpommo' Pomroy is OUT.

He raises preflop, MB re-raised, dpommo raised again and MB moved all-in.

By this time, dpommo was virtually pot-committed and had to call with his A-8

MB had Q-Q

No Ace arrived

Nick Slade is OUT.

He flopped a set of sevens and bet 1.6k, 1.6k and 2k. Each time the preflop raiser called, finally rivering a runner runner flush with K-Q suited.

Slade then ran a turned flush into a full house.

Choc Hoang6 -- 925
Philip Hilm -- 6,450
Andy Black -- 26,350
Gus Hansen -- 26,350
Mel Judah -- 10,350
Paul Parker -- 10,500
Ryan Fonda -- 14,000
Willie Tann -- 8,950
Joe Hachem -- 11,450
Sverre Sundbo -- 9,500
Andreas Hagen -- 5,200
Mickey Wernick -- 18,750
Pascal Perrault -- 18,125
Kevin O'Connel -- 18,450
Gary Jones -- 24,550
Simon Zach -- 12,250
Bengt Sonnert -- 18,875
Peter Roche -- 23,850
Tony Nicholls -- 13,500
Mark Teltscher -- 8,900
Jim Reid -- 13,075
Stu Rimmer -- 9,200
Juha Helppi -- 19,150

Level 5
Blinds = 150/300
Next Level (in 15 mins) = 150/300 (25)
Average Stack = 13,636
176/240 remaining

Went to see what railer Anders Berg was watching, and it appeared to be Henning Granstad:

He'd gotten involved on the small blind against a late position player (either caller or small raiser; couldn't see the pot too well) on a board of:
5c 2c 6s.  Henning bet out 3k (about a third of his stack) and received a call.
The unconnected-looking Kh fell on the turn, and Henning was quickly all in for the rest... a pass saw him show the, er, Td.  Up to 13k now though.

John Perssen  10,600
Ricki Nielsen    14,600
Not sure where Erik is; he's been moved recently or is OUT

Another controversy, this time preflop - the Spanish Button Matey had limped in, and Mark Teltscher on the small blind had raised.  A fuss was kicking off, and it turned out to be over whether Mark had said, "1,200," or, "Raise 1,200."  He seemed to want to put the full 1,500 in front of him, but the button only wanted to call 1,200...quite a lot of aggro over 300, but in the end the full raise went and there was a swift All-in from Mark on the Ahrt 7c Qc flop which got rid of his opponent anyhow.  The most remarkable thing that happened during this debate was, however, that I swear the gesticulating Matey lost a front tooth, while explaining to the floorman.  He just picked it up and popped it back in.  Extraordinary.

10 minute **********************BREAK*********************

Here are a couple of other counts I got on the way in here:

Gus Hansen     38,100
Mickey Wernick  27,000
Sverre Sundbo    8,050
Willie Tann         10,500
Bengt Sonnert   15,600
Julian Gardner     16,000
Abel Meijberg     35,000
Juha Helppi        21,000
Matt Tyler          14,000
Pascal Perrault     20,300
Noah Boeken      12,800
Paul Parker         10,175
Dean Sanders      5,000
Des Wilson           24,000

Double Up for Andy Black -

A more cleanshaven Mr. Black was tearing up the cash games last night, and just got involved in a pretty enormous pot which sent his neighbour to the rail. 
Andy looked down at Ad Kh, but there was a bit of a kerfuffle with the dealing, and before taking any action he checked to see whether that particular deal was of the Mis type.  No - play was told to continue, and he got into a raising war with the gent on his left, resulting in it all getting all-in.  He wasn't thrilled to see Aspades Ahrt against him.  But one King on the turn and one on the river helped.  Up to 26,000.

He says, "Twenty years playing, and I don't think I've ever done that particular outdraw."  Well, one for the records!

Andreas Hagen, who somewhere along the line had managed to get himself rather precariously short stacked, got all the chips in against a nearly equal stack with 8h 8d.  A middling hand, yes, but not when your opponent has 6d 6s and the flop's Tc 8s 7s...
Turn:  6c  ("A good card for me" says Hagen, and he's right, a nine now splits it and only the final 6 outdraws him)
River:  5h

And he's now up to, at a guess, 12,000.

Jim Reid is OUT.

MB bet into 4d 5d Jd flop, Jim re-raised, MB raised again and Jim called all-in.

Jim = Ac Jh

MB = 6s 6d

diamond on the River

Simon Young is OUT

With a few limpers and a button raiser, Simon moves all-in from the Bib Blind with Pocket Fours.

The limpers fold, leaving the initial raiser to go into a long dwell, before calling with K-T.

Hit a straight on the River.

Ouch

Blinds are currently 200/400, ante 50, but very soon it's becoming 300/600.  Last two levels approaching, then...

138 players left tonight.

Andreas Hagen, after being all-in that one time, doesn't look keen on dwindling again - he's just taken down a 10k or so pot with a 5,000 bet on the river, in position, with the board 9c 7d 5d 6h 8d.  A lengthy think from his opponent (whose 20k stack wouldn't have liked a 5k loss) and then a pass. 
 
His sunglasses rank as the least silly and the most reminiscent of the Terminator.

Tony Nicholls doubles up.

Moved all-in preflop with Aspades Qs but ran into  Qh Qd.

Board = Ks 7h 6s Js 5c

I don't think so.

Also missing, presumed OUT are:

Ramzi Jelassi
John Gale
Davood Mermand
Bengt Sonnert
Henrik Olander
Jim Kerrigan

Simon Zach is OUT

Disaster Hand For Mickey Wernick -

Mickey raised under the gun to 2,500 (blinds now 300/600, ante 75).  The player on his immediate left re-raised another 5,000.  Call from Mickey.
Flop:  8s 7s 4d.  Mickey checks, and the young guy pushes for around 19k - call!
Mickey shows Qd Qc against new big stack's Ks Kh!
Turn and river:  8d 3d  so no help and Mickey is left with just 2,500 after the blinds went through him right afterwards...

Tony Nicholls is up to 33k after his 8-7 (called a 3k raise preflop) outdrew MB's K-K on a 7-7-2 Flop. All-in on the Turn after both checked the flop.

Chip counts from Table Know Quite a Lot of Them:

Kenna James   21,000
David Plastik    12,325
Willie Tann      25,000
Joe Hachem    13,600
Mickey Wernick  2,500
Julian Gardner   40,000
Richard King      18,150

Going to bring a photo and chip count from the table chip leader, the blond guy who took Mickey's chips...

Mickey Wernick is OUT.

A-9 vs K-J

J on Turn

Henning Granstad, while never seeming to develop a chunky stack, seems to be stealing a small pot almost every time I pass his table.  Before he was moved to his present location, where he's in the company of Noah Boeken and Andreas Hagen, I saw this slightly odd one:

Henning called a raise from the Under-the-gun Matey in the big blind.
Flop:  3d 7s 4h  Check-check.
Turn:  Th  Check-check again.
River:  7d  Henning bets a little take-a-stab-at-it bet of 1,100.  Call.  He turns over 4c 6c.  It's the winner.  :dontask:

Le chip count Francais:

Pascal Perrault   26,000
Paul Testud      16,200

And some other miscellaneous counts:

Noah Boeken   30,000 or so, hard to count - he says, "I think it's 30,000.  I hope it's 30,000."
Gus Hansen     27,500

105 left...

Paul Parker -- 35,700
Mark Teltscher -- 8,025
Matt Tyler -- 18,725
Mel Judah -- 13,650
Richard King -- 12,250
Mads Andersen -- 24,100
Andreas Hagen -- 28,500
Henning Granstad -- 17,525
Juha Helppi -- 43,600
Gary Jones -- 6,325
Noah Boaken -- 24,625
Gus Hansen -- 27,875
Pascal Perrault -- 29,125
Joe Hachem -- 5,050
Andy Black -- 47,500

Kevin O'Connell is OUT

Henning Granstad is out - making a shortstack move there on the cutoff with Td 6c, the lady on the small blind thought her 8d 8c were good, and she was right.  A late exit for Granisimo, while on the table next door, Gus Hansen had also moved all in preflop, on the button, over the top of a raiser... He had 22k to call (around 8k in the pot) and the initial raiser eventually thought better of it and the pot was his.

Richard King is OUT.

A-Js vs Pocket Pair.

And here's the player who got that boost from Mickey's chips, and has been yoyoing in chips in a manner of which Julian would be proud - BA identifies him as Ilari Salmies, from Finland.  A friend of Thomas Wahlroos, the latter describes himself as 'pretty crazy' but Ilary as 'really crazy'.  Another superagressive Finn, probably your chip leader at present:

Play has finished for the day.

Kenna James exited just before the end.

Most of his stack went to Bernard Stoddart when James moved in for 21k with A-6 from the cut-off. Bernard had Kings in the blind which stood up.

Kenna James exited just before the end.

Most of his stack went to Bernard Stoddart when James moved in for 21k with A-6 from the cut-off. Bernard had Kings in the blind which stood up.

Chip counts will be uploaded by the start of Day 2.