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Welcome to Day 2 of the Barcelona EPT.

The two fields will now merge into 1.

Full chip counts, going into day 2...

Pedersen Dan Bitsca   118400
Sahamie   Ilari      109500
Abrahams   Javed   99700
Nord   Johan      84400
Tyler   Matt      82600
Marmion   Ian      79100
Keston   Robin      76000
Karkus   Andras      71900
Ulriksen Kristian   70300
Helland   A.      69700
Stevic   Alexander   63900
Thorel   Philip      57600
Dalhuisen   Peter   57300
Akkari   Andre      56600
Keiner   Michael      53600
Johnson   Ross      51700
Meyberg   Abel      51500
Sehljtedt   Bo   50300
Davas   Abu      49800
Gregory   David      49800
Fitzpatrick   Bill   48400
Osberstrom   Andres   47800
Helppi   Juha      47600
Lodden   Johnny      47100
Woodley   Ian      46700
Glenne   Bjorn erik   45700
De Wolfe   Roland   44700
Hageland   Seval   44700
Black   Andrew      42900
Stoneham   Adam   42600
Van der Vollen   Brice   42600
Roche   Peter      42400
Thorson   William      41800
Can   Fuat      41000
Lahtinen   Teemu   40600
Daneshgar   David   39900
Otte   Alan      39900
Gibson   Nick      39500
Westerlund   Mikael   39500
Pierrard      38500
Kravchenko   Alex   38200
Cailin   Jin      37800
Kjeller   Peder      36400
Schodorff   Anne   36000
Thater   Katja      35800
Eytan   Aukaham      35500
Lisandro   Jeff   34600
Forsberg   Joel   34500
Alioto   Dario      34400
Kerrigan   Leslie   33500
Fronda   Ryan      33200
Hansen   Gus      33200
Testud   Paul      33200
Gardner   Julian      33000
Perrault   Pascal   32500
Kelly   JP      31800
Parker   Paul      31800
Hoang   Chuc      31600
Rabl   Andrew      31300
Gould   P      31200
Boeken   Noah      31100
Faraz   Jaka      31100
Dull   Jon      31000
Stoddart   Bernard   30400
Pickett   Marc      30200
Cook   Terry      30000
Merkel   Tess      29200
Eskilsson   Hans   28800
Blanco   Angel      28600
Laxani         28600
Pedersen Frederik   28300
Daemimukx      27900
Brenes   Humbeto      27000
Boudewijn   Markus   26900
Chessa   Tony      26600
Attali   Hubert      26200
Pietila   Petri      26200
Mestre   Raul      26100
Cazals   Thierry      25700
Petit   Emile      25700
Lindback   Mikael   25500
Elkeslassy   Daniel   25400
Eriksen   Cato      25100
Jetten   C. Peter   25000
Aktell   Greger      24900
Salchi   Shajan      24900
Ivey   Phil      24800
Cohen   Robert      24700
Boudet   Patrice      24300
Bergquist   Johan   24000
Pyysing   Aki      23700
Lundberg   David   23600
Kindle   Michael      23100
Khiffsh   Imtias      22900
Wahlroos   Thomas   22900
Silverstein   Frank   22700
Doraminson   Anton   22100
Grundy   Ben      22100
Marciano   Elie   21500
Alberti   Michel      21000
Kraanen   Max      20400
Huttunen   Aki   20300
Lindberg   Erik   20200
Rotach   Stephan      20200
Zimbler   Paul      20200
Geigert   Joakim      19800
Halioua   Mike      19500
Golser   Markus      19400
Akos   Nemeth      18800
Bertelsen   Peter   18800
Cavret   Guillaume   18700
Pagano   Luca      18600
Van Rooyen   Vincent   18600
Tsalis   Konstantinos   18500
Temelkovski Vladimir   18300
Bjornsson   Gustav   18200
Davenport   James   18000
Plastik   David      18000
Lopez   Iago      16800
Olsson   Martin      16700
Mattsen   Stefan      16300
Vlemmiv   Peter      16000
Chow   Leopold      15400
Strom   Per      15000
Hobson   Greg      14900
Sjoberg   Gusten      14800
Duarte         14200
Mikkelsen Dag Martin   13700
Sathern   Vivi      13200
Thabet   Jean-Pierre   13200
Nygaard   Vegard      13100
Tann   Willie      12800
Kjerkol   Jorgen      11800
Luukkarinen   Lasse   11600
Hurtig   Andreas      11100
Palmstahl   David   10900
Sass   Alan      10900
Romanello   Antoni   10800
Passeron   Thierry   10700
Billum   Thomas      10500
Nicholis   Anthony   10300
Manger   Trond      10200
Mulin   Thierry      10200
Stadlbauer   Bernd   10100
Gonzalez   Marga   10000
Cohen   Ouri      9600
Mattsson   Nichlas   9100
Smith   Ian      9100
Daverto   Mattia      9000
Guanti   Mauro      8900   
Hagen   Andreas      8700
Pearce   Stephen      8700
Lima   Joao Marcello   8300
Dyrstad   Allan      8000
Lindstedt   Tony   7700
Peterson   Thomas   7100
Cuberos   Manuel      6900
Joahnsson Birgitta   6700
Szeremeta   Nic   6500
Kuusik   Jules       5100
Bensimon   Franck   5000

The following are sharing tables:

Peter Roche & Andy Black
Andreas Hagen & Pascal Perrault
Ben Grundy & Noah Boaken
Matt Tyler, Nick Gibson, Roland De Wolfe
Julian Gardner, Paul Parker, Markus Golser, William Thorson & Humberto Brenes

Willie Tann is an early casualty.

Tens v Sixes

6 on the River

Luca Pagano is OUT

Oh the wonders of the Re-draw - the two chip leaders have been sat on the same table - Dan Pedersen and Ilari Sahamie.  The rest of them aren't exactly tiny stacks, so in total their table's chip count is nearly 400,000!  This means that other tables are totally staffed with small stacks, and they are getting busy busting half out, doubling the other half up...

Check this table out - somehow it's not the feature table (yes, the little stage and TV cameras are out and whirring) yet probably should be... nicely chipped up and full of recognisables.  Peter Roche has a very problematic back (and hasn't been playing live for a good while) and the wooden chairs don't look the most comfortable on earth.  I hope it's not too distracting (he's one of my picks).

Stevic   Alexander   63900   
Osberstrom   Andres   47800   
Lisandro   Jeff   34600   
Roche   Peter   42400   
Perrault   Pascal   32500   
Westerlund   Mikael   39500
Davenport   James   18000
Can   Fuat   41000
Woodley   Ian   46700

JP Kelly has shot up to 86,000

called a preflop raise with A-J, A-J-T flop, his 5k bet was called, Turn = 5, an 8k bet was met by an all-in, JP called, opponent held Q-J, the two pair held up.

He then eliminated the same player with Q-Q vs 7-7

Matt Tyler is down to 29,500

raised 4.6k preflop with K-K, BB called with A-J

Flop = A-J-4

check, Matt bets 7.5k, MB makes it 15k, Matt moves all-in, MB calls

Typical style of double up for Stephen Pearce - he raised on the button and the Scandinavian player on his left (therefore on the small blind) moved in, for a lot - more, in fact than Stephen had.  A think and then a slap of the whole stack as he announced loudly, "OK!  I call!" showing Ad Jc, but only after his opponent had revealed his 9d 9h.  "I hoped you had something like that," says Pearce, and then stands up, as a little crowd forms.
Flop:  Jh 8h 5d  "I wanted it on the river, not the flop!" says Pearce.
Turn and river:  8d Aspades and as he collects his double up he turns to big TK and says, "From 7 to 77!"  receiving a quip from a bystander, "What, your age?"

Peter Vlemmix hits a miracle Turn and River to survive an all-in.

6-5 vs A-A

Board = 8-J-2-4-3

I am afraid that Matt Tyler has busted, now, following the chip loss brought on by the Kings - he moved in with Tc Jc, but this time found Aces behind him.  It can be so quick, this game...  Well played all day yesterday, and then a couple of huge pots and out. 

Jin Cai Lin is OUT

6-6 vs K-K on 7-7-3 rainbow flop

bet, raise, all-in, call with Cai Lin as the initial bettor

Peter Roche is OUT

set over set

no escape

During the 10 minute break, chat with JP - in the last half hour he's managed to climb to 120k (or something) and then double up Chessa, dropping to 95,000 again:

He raised to 4,500 with Kc Jc on the cutoff, and found Tony re-raising from the small blind to 11,000 (leaving himself just 6,500 back).  Instead of alarm bells ringing, JP told himself it was just as likely to be A9 or something, and flat called, calling again when Chessa pushed on the 9 x x flop.  It had one club on it, after all... Anyway, he was shown Ahrt Aspades, and saved the Purple One from extinction.

Then he got some back, after raising with AJ and receiving a swiftish caller whom he put on a middle pair.  Flop: 3 4 5 and he decided to call the 4,000 which was bet, was rewarded by a Jack on the turn and after checking that, he bet the 3 river to the tune of 5k and was called by Matey's Tens.

Just heard that Gus Hansen doubled up with Ahrt Td, all-in against Brigitta Johansen (I think)'s Jc Js.  He hit both the Ace and the Ten, and now has chips to push around again.

I'm afraid you've lost another - Ben Grundy has been knocked out by JP - all in preflop with Ac Qd against JP's Aspades Ks.  The flop brought K Q 7, but I think it was a flush which ended up sending him to the rail.

it appears as though the undeniably talented Julian Gardner is your chip leader with just under 150k.

Johnny Lodden has overtaken Gardner for the chip lead after eliminating an opponent with A-Ks vs 4-4.

other raise, Lodden makes it 21k, MB moves all-in for 35k, Lodden calls.

Ace first card

Lodden is now on 165k

****************************************1hr Dinner Break******************************************

Bear with us while we nip out for a pizza - here are some chip counts to tide you over:

Juha Helppi      21,800
Abel Meijberg   108,000
Andreas Hagen  32,000
Paul Testud       72,000
JP Kelly            110,000
Johnny Lodden   155,000
Tony Chessa       33,000
Julian Gardner     140,000
Paul Parker         41,000
Gus Hansen        75,000
Stephen Pearce  115,000
Nick Szeremeta   32,000
Ryan Fronda       45,000
Ian Woodley      100,000

A few more chip counts I left off that pre-dinner list because they were on another piece of paper (lame, I know):

Max Kraanen     19,300
Roland De Wolfe  115,000
Hubert Attali        26,000
Gusten Sjoberg    100,000
Joel Farsberg        95,000
Mark Boudewijn     53,000
Andy Black            24,000
Gustav Bjornsson   22,000
Kristian Ulriksen     76,000
Marga Gonzalez     65,000
Les Kerrigan          73,000
Elie Marciano         27,000
Ilari Sahamie         50,000
Dan Pedersen       94,000

Bernard Stoddart -- 34,200
Nick Gibson -- 24,000
Ian Woodley -- 82,000
Paul Parker -- 40,000
JP Kelly -- 40,000
Gus Hansen -- 95,000
Tony Chessa -- 21,900
Ryan Fronda -- 38,700
Johnny Lodden -- 158,000
Nick Szeremeta -- 26,400
Roland de Wolfe -- 110,00
Les Kerrigan -- 76,000
Paul Zimbler -- 45,400
Marcus Golser -- 26,500

JP lost a huge amount of chips making a move wtih A-7.

He ran into Kings and couldn't find an Ace on a Q-5-8-8-5 board.

Meanwhile, Jeffrey Allesandro is our chip leader with 205k.

Anyway, back on the Feature Table, which has a full set of stands round it now so it's hard to see what's going on - there was a pretty big hand.  A raise to 11,500, followed by not one, but two over-the-top all-ins.  One was what sounded like 'Ford' and the other was Ivey.  After a suitable dwell the original raiser threw his hand away, and it was an Ad Ks (Ford(?)) and Qh Qc (Ivey) match-up.
Flop:  Ac 9s 5c
Turn:  Qd  (at which I distinctly noticed a raised eyebrow from Phil, who ended the hand smiling)
River: Jh

So down one player - who will they bring to fill the gap?  Oh yes, it's random...

Marcus Golser is OUT.

A K-J vs 8-4 loss on a K-8-2-4 board took him down to 11k.

He departed shortly after.

Well, he gets some back with a very nice call on the river, for a pot already holding c.20k:
Board: 6h 7c Ad 2d 4d

He's facing an 8,000 bet from Matey, and counts it out from his diminished stack... and calls with Th Tc.  And wins.   ;topman; 

Huge elimination News Now -

Gus Hansen presses the Red Button, somehow getting it all in preflop with Qd Th against Kc Ks... this pot isn't peanuts, either, it's over 200k!

Board comes: Aspades 9d Kd Td 6s, and the three-deep crowd part to let Gus make his exit (a little annoyed with himself, it looked like).

Jeffrey Allesandro now has 465,000, his recent elimination being that of his neighbour when his A-T held up against 8-8 on a Ten high flop.

The chip-leader by a long way

Meanwhile, Aukaham Eytan has just been eliminated from the comp.

Tony Chessa's up and down run just ended in a down - with a battle of the blinds (he was s.b. with AJ) - how was he to know that the big blind had AK - and I just got this slightly blurry picture of him, Lodden and JP...

Nick Gibson has doubled up.

A-K v A-T

Ten on Flop, but King arrived to take him up to 34k.

Nick Gibson -- 25,000
Andreas Hagen -- 110,000
Stephen Pearce -- 155,000
Phil Ivey -- 115,000

The blinds are 2000/4000 (400) with an average stack of 97,939

And Nick Gibson sidles up as I'm watching the feature table - saying, "I hate the bubble," and near enough, he's hit it:

Most of the damage was done when he called a small blind's auto-all-in with his Ks 8s, and found 9c 4d against him (the pot was a total of 30k).  A nine popped out on the river, and then soon thereafter he made a stand with Q 10 and found 77 against him; despite a K J x flop, he failed to improve and is now just hanging out, like us.

The feature table has been fattened again:

It's now:

John x
Paul Testud
David Plastik
Nick Szeremeta
JP Kelly
Johnny Lodden
Phil Ivey
Ross x      (sorry for lack of 2 surnames)

Just watched it for a while, seeing as we can't get to the other tables - JP and Johnny are playing a little more than most (or were, before the addition of Ivey).  A couple of examples:

The first flop on the new TV table was seen by those two - small blind limp from JP, check from Johnny.  8d 3h 3d.  JP checks, Johnny bets 6k, call.
Turn:  6d  Check-check
River: Kd  Check-check.   JP turns over the surprise (winning) hand of AK and says, "I forgot to raise."

Then the next hand, JP raises on the button, Johnny calls.  Flop:  Jd Kc 8s  Check-check.
Turn:  Johnny bets out 16,000.  JP calls.
River:  Qh  Johnny quickly announces "all-in" and it looks like a real self countdown is going on, but he passes, sending his tricky neighbour a wry grin.

47 players remaining.... money for 45th... going to go see what I can see from behind the backs of the spectators' heads...

Two Frenchmen have taken 47th and 46th, with Paul Testud eliminated in 47th.

Paul Parker has just doubled up.

He moved in for 22k with Q-7, only for Noah Boeken to make a good call with K-4.

However, Paul outdrew the young Dutchman to shoot up to around 50k.

Julian Gardner is now on 320k after outdrawing Q-Q with A-9 in a 120k pot.

Les Kerrigan -- 23,000
Paul Parker -- 48,000
Julian Gardner -- 320,000
Roland De Wolfe -- 135,000

Round of applause for Paul Parker, who despite the Media Ban has been sprinting over to where I've stood at the rail to send me interesting bits of information:

Like, Les Kerrigan just doubled up to 44,000+ with Kc Qs against Kd Td...

Chip leader is Jeff Lisandro with around 420,000

Noah Boeken was just all-in (uncalled) for his whole 80k stack

Paul himself is now on 70,000

 ;mexicanwave;  for Mr. Parker!

JP Kelly is now on 117k after eliminating Nick Szerameta

Nick raised preflop with K-T, JP moved all-in with A-T and Nick called.

No help for either player.

Stephen Pearce, even though his audience is restricted to behind the barriers, still gave an almighty shout when moving all-in: "It's my moment!"
Then rather surprisingly, we heard Ian Woodley shouting right behind him, "We know about his moment, what about my moment - I'm all in!"  I couldn't see the first inch of the flop or anyone's hands, but the net result is that we are down one Stephen Pearce.

Snoopy and I are down to one pick each - Johnny Lodden and Andreas Hagen respectively.

After a bit of prompting from Jon Raab - found the Payout for this event, which is surely an appropriate detail now as they're all in the money...

1st      691,000
2nd     371,000
3rd      184,300
4th      161,300
5th      138,200
6th      115,200
7th        92,200
8th        69,100
9th        46,100
10-12th  25,400
13-15th  20,750
16-18th  16,250
19-27th  11,500
28-36th   9,200
37-45th   6,900

All prizes in Euro.

Noah Boaken doubles up to 170k after his 83k pre-flop all-in was called by K-T.

Ace high was enough.

Players still left in:

JP Kelly
Paul Parker
Andread Hagen
Les Kerrigan
Johhny Lodden
Noah Boaken
Phil Ivey
Roland De Wolfe
Marc Boujewin (sp?)
Allesandro
Paul Parker
Kristian Ulriksen
Julian Gardner
Ian Woodley

Incidentally, Parker is on 65k

Roland de Wolfe is down to 30k after losing a big pot with A-J vs A-9.

opponent spiked a 9


Blinds are currently at 3000/6000 (600) and there are 34 players left, one of whom is Julian Gardner who has dropped down to 210,000

Jeffrey Lisandro (not Allesandro as reported earlier) eliminates 2 more players in a Q-Q vs A-Q vs A-K pot - couldn't be too much better for him, especially when the board bring  5 blanks.

Lodden -- 165k
Kerrigan -- 35k
Gardner -- 195k
Paul Parker -- 50k

Noah Boaken has eliminated another player with A-K vs 6-5, King on flop sealed the deal.

Andreas Hagen is eliminated, moving in preflop with Aspades Jd (he had only 40k) and finding a caller in Ulle who had something and a King (my Norwegian gave out at this point; I was trying to eavesdrop on my neighbour reporters).  Anyway, Hagen came out on the wrong side of this last hand, and we're down to just four tables.

The table he just left is the one with JP, Les Kerrigan, Ulle, Marga Gonzalez and Ilari Sahamie on it - pretty interesting.  Ilari just had a nasty bit of luck calling an all-in preflop with his Qh Qc and finding 2c 2d against him.  A pesky Deuce was out on the flop (I knew this mainly from the hissing intake of breath of the rest of the table) and Ilari got up and threw his cards across the table in disgust...

Phil Ivey -- 130,000
Les Kerrigan -- 35,000
Julian Gardner -- 190,000
Paul Parker -- 50,000
JP Kelly -- 150,000
Ian Woodley -- 95,000
Kristian Ulriksen -- 70,000
Robin Keston -- 210,000

29 left, blinds now 4000/8000

Paul Parker is OUT -

He moved all in once on the feature table (they've got it going again, perhaps because soon there won't be enough players left to feature) without a caller, but when it folded to his small blind, he moved his short stack all-in (as you do) with 8h 8d.  The big blind, Noah Boeken, woke up with Aspades Ahrt, however, and the board brought only this:  Js Qh 3d 5h Ts.  Sorry Flushy.

Sjoberg has doubled up a PokerStars qualifier from California (overheard forename - John)

J-4 vs K-Q

Jack on the Flop

Huge hand (also taking place between the blinds) this time between Per (Strom? we think he's Swedish) and Johnny Lodden.  Again, Per raised in the small blind, just a normal raise, however, as he wasn't at all short stacked.  Pretty quickly Johnny just went, "all-in" - a sizeable overbet as his stack, when counted, was 174,800.

A tortured pause, and a surprise call from the small blind - who showed Ahrt Jd - it looked like one of those annoyed calls, when unwilling to be pushed off by a notorious mover...

The result - a board of 2s Jh Ts 7d 8h and a cheer from the Lodden supporters, and, narrowly, an elimination for Per.  His place on the TV table has been taken by Mark Boudewijn...

Joachim Geigerts -- 365,000
Ian Woodley -- 95,000
Johnny Lodden -- 340,000
Noah Boaken -- 240,000
G Sjoberg -- 70,000
Julian Gardner -- 210,000
Kristian Ulriksen -- 140,000
JP Kelly -- 105,000

JP Kelly is OUT

A-8 vs K-K

all-in preflop

no help

Dave Gregory doubles up after outdrawing Roland de Wolfe's K-9 with 9-8

Marga Gonsales is OUT

A-J vs Ivey's 6-6

6 on River

Roland de Wolfe is OUT

eliminated by chip leader, Jeff Lisandro, who had top pair to Roland's draw.

Chips went in on the Flop and Roland missed his draw.

G Sjoberg has doubled up in fortunate circumstances.

All-in with A-2, Julian Gardner called with A-8 in the Big Blind, only to see a Deuce hit the Turn.

Ian Woodley -- 90,1000
Noah Boaken -- 200,000
Johnny Lodden -- 180,000
Julain Gardner -- 110,000
G Sjoberg -- 180,000
Ivey -- 135,000
Keston -- 190,000

Blinds are 5,000/10,000 (1,000), but they are about to go up.

There are 16 players left.

The population of the TV table at present, in seat order -

Johnny Lodden
David Danuschar (I don't know him, but this is what it sounds like his name is when announced)
Phil Ivey
Gusten Sjoberg (SWE)
Dave Gregory
Robin Keston
David Layani  (FR)
Noah Boeken 

Ian Woodley is OUT

Woodley moved all-in utg for 115,000, Ulriksen also moved in from the small blind for 193,000 and Lisandro folded from the Big Blind after a lenghty dwell.

Woodley: A-6
Ulriksen: A-K

Board = T-Q-J-7-5

Phil (sb) and Gusten (bb) see a flop of Ks 9h Qs.  Phil checks, Gusten tries a 15k bet, Phil calls.
Turn:  Td  Check-check
River:  8s  Phil checks again, and Gusten pops in 25,000.  A fairly sizeable Ivey think, with a little staring, then finally a call.  Gusten instamucks, so by default it's Ivey's.  Q6 is shown anyway.

David Layani has been crippled by Phil Ivey in am A-A vs 6-6 confrontation. A 6 on the flop and all the chips flew in.

Ivey is now up to around 800k and is surely the tournament favourite.

Johnny Lodden is OUT.

All-in on a raggy flop (two clubs) with a nut flush draw (Ac 8c) against Glenne's pcoket kings.

No club or Ace arrived


New chip counts:

Kristian Ulriksen -- 95,000
Bjorn Erik Glenne -- 890,000
Johnny Lodden -- OUT
Dave Gregory -- 955,000
Phil Ivey -- 785,000
Teemu -- 210,000
Joachim Geigerts -- 330,000

Play has ended, back at 4pm (local time) tomorrow for the final day.