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Hello, and here's your Info Only thread for this first day of the Vic London EPT... numbers and news galore, but no replies please - that's what Interactive is for...

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Let's start with the Spotteds:

Among many, many others (we hear we have another sell-out crowd):

Isabelle Mercier
Luca Pagano
Victor Ramdin
Joe Hachem
Barry Greenstein
Phil Ivey
Johnny Lodden
Roland de Wolfe
Neil Channing
John Shipley
Dave Colclough

And that's just the ones I saw hanging around the downstairs bar...

10,000 chips and an hour clock.

Sounds good?

Some more names for you:

Kenna James
David Plastik
Barney Boatman
Isabelle Mercier
Richard Ashby
Matt Tyler
Ben gRundy
Mark Teltshcer
David Pomroy
Neil Channing
Vik Kanwar
Bambos Xantho
Phil Ivey
Paul Testud
Ian Woodley
Simon Zach
John Shipley
Jeff Buffenbarger
Victor Ramdin
Trevor Reardon
Stuart Nash
Steve Vladar
James Akenhead
Mickey Wernick
Julian Thew
Ross Boatman
Torstein Iversen
Luke Patten
Praz Bansi
Ram Vaswani
Dave Colclough

Terrance Chan is the first casualty.

Kings vs Aces

preflop action inc raise, re-raise, and call.

2,400 bet on Jack high flop, Chan calls.

4,000 on rag Turn, Mateyboy bets 4,000, Chan moves all-in, MB calls and wins a double-up.

How about this for an intimidating table?...

James Akenhead -- 7,225
Kristanian Ulriksen -- 8,475
Jeff Lisandro -- 9,500
Alli Mallu -- 12,725
Jan Slovik -- 13,525
Marc Gosler -- 9,075

And a few chip counts from the same area:

Liam Flood -- 8,400
Stuart Nash -- 9,500
Ian Woodley -- 10,550
Jeff Rogers -- 11,100
Jeff Buffenbarger -- 11,275
John Shipley -- 10,375
Steve Vladar -- 9,850

Blind Structure, all 1 hour levels.

SB             BB          Ante
25             50     
50            100
75            150
100          200
150          300
150          300           25
200          400           50
300          600           75
400          800          100
600         1200         100
800         1600         200
1000       2000         200
1500       3000         300
2000       4000         400
3000       6000         600
4000       8000         800
5000      10000       1000
6000      12000       1000
8000      16000       2000
10000    20000       2000
15000    30000       3000
20000    40000       4000
25000    50000       5000

And if you're still in then, you could well be looking at scooping an estimated £500,000 for 1st place, since both days have sold out. (200 each day).

Harry Demetriou -- 10,075
Marc Naalden -- 10,900
Robin Keston -- 18,000
Ben Grundy -- 17,000
Vik Kanwar -- 9,400
Roland De Wolfe -- 7,000
Stu Rutter -- 9,700
Mark Teltscher -- 4,500
David Pomroy -- 8,925
Isabelle Mercier -- 7,850
Matt Tyler -- 4,450
Edgar Skjervold -- 17,200
Paul Alterman -- 7,700
Phil Ivey -- 6,200

Isabelle Mercier has lost a chunk of chips early on, in a 3 way pot, with a healthy stack of the yellow (1k) in the pot she was forced to fold on a  7h 5s 2s Qd board when the river came  5c and matey stuck in a 5k bet.

Pascal Perrault is OUT.

Meanwhile, Roland De Wolfe is down to 7k (Rather than up to 16) after having Kings outdrawn by A-K.

Stu Rutter is up to 20k, his 77 was way to strong for scandieboy's A7 on an A-7-6-K-6 board.

Kenna James is OUT.

Barny Boatman -- 13,700
Luca Pagano -- 9,250
Mickey Wernick -- 8,450
Henning Granstad -- 16,000
Ram Vaswani -- 12,275
Luke Patten -- 11,550
T8mml -- 5,525
Martyn Cavanagh -- 13,475

Total number of entries today:- 198 and we are now on the third level with 179 players after just finishing a short break. Blinds are now 75/150

Simon Zach doubles up to 19k

7-7 vs K-K (inc heart) on 7-x-x (all heart) board.

Set holds up.

Jeff Burffenbarger has eliminated John Shipley.

open ended straight draw vs set

All-in on the flop

Jeff hits straght on Turn with a 6


Soon after, Bob Commbes was also eliminated from the Event.

Harry Demetriou is OUT, he lost 4 hands in a row and then was all-in with  Ac 9c against  Ahrt 6h only for the flop to come  9h 7h 3h and no miracle runner runner.

Matt Tyler is OUT

eliminated by Edgar Skjervold whose top pair saw off Matt's Fives.

Meanwhile, Ricki Nelson is on 15,300 and Stu Rutter has 19,600

El Blondie - 3,025 at the break...

Play will recommence at 8.30pm

Paul Campbell is OUT.

A-5 vs A-6

Board = 8-9-T-Q-7

A-6 rivers a straight

Edgar Skjervold -- 21,575
Steve Vladar -- 12,000
David Pomroy -- 12,050
Stu Rutter -- 18,900
Jeff Rogers -- 13,700
Phil Ivey -- 26,000
Simon Zach -- 18,250
Jeff Buffenbarger -- 25,000
Jan Slovik -- 15,350
Trevor Reardon -- 7,425
Ricki Nielsen -- 15,400
Nail Channing -- 10,700
Robin Keston -- 20,750
Paul Alterman -- 7,300
Ben Grundy -- 22,250
Bambos Xanthos -- 6,200
Mickey Wernick -- 8,375
Dave Colclough -- 6,800
Stuart Nash -- 15,525
Henning Granstad -- 15,800
Alan Betsson -- 18,950
Ram Vaswani -- 17,325
Martyn Cavanagh -- 17,325
Ed Hollis -- 1,500
Julian Thew -- 12,000
Luke Patten -- 4,150
Barny Boatman -- 17,200
Alli Mallu -- 25,000

Luke Patten has doubled up off Alan Betson.

7-J vs 9-9

all-in on flop of J-7-x

Mallu jumps to 25,000 after first Mateyboy with A-T vs J-J (all-in pre-flop, Ace on the Flop) and then re-rasing another youngster off a hand preflop with a re-raise.

Mickey Wernick doubles up, JT vs AK, two jacks on the flop.

Mercier just scooped an 8.2k pot when value betting 2k on a  2h Kh 8d 9d 7s board. Her opponent called and then mucked when he was shown  Ahrt Ks.

El Blondie had made some headway after his double up but just lost some chips back to Stuart Nash in a rather unfortunate way, the board read 9-A-6-8-7

El Blondie -  Aspades 9h

Stuart Nash -  Ac 5s

144 of 198 players remaining
15 tables
639k in the pot
Blinds = 150/300 (no ante yet)
Average Stack = 13,800

(assuming that the board has been updated recently)


Meanwhile, Marcus Golser is OUT.

He was brave enough to call a 10k river bet for all his chips (about 10-15k in the pot), but ran into Alon Huberman's straight (T-J) on a board of 2d-Qh-8d-6h-9h.

Henning Granstad is OUT

Luca Pagano limp calls his Kings from mid postition.

Kc Qc vs Kh Ks on a 9c Tc rag flop.

All-in on flop

Turn = K, River = 2

No clubs, Pagano's moves up 21,500

dpommo has eliminated Mark Teltscher.

dpommo raised to 950 from utg+1, only for Mark to make it 3k a few seats down.

dpommo then pushed all-in, and Mark called for his final 2k, although he was considering folding.

dpommo = A-Q, Mark = K-T

A-Q held up

Tuncay Ozel is OUT.

Td 9d vs Ks Kh

All-in on the flop... 8d Qd 3c

Turn = 9s

River - Kh

Dave Colclough is OUT, AQ vs JT on a A-K-7-Q-x board.

Bambos, John Duthie and Liam Flood are OUT.

John Kabbaj = 28,000c

Rikku is OUT.

The chip leaders at the moment appear to be Victor Ramdin (around 60k), Barny Boatman (59,500), Mateyboy [(55,750) picture on Interactive thread] and Ram Vaswani (42,500).

Johnny Lodden -- 50,000
Steve Vladar -- 6,850
Mickey Wernick -- 17,000
John Kabbaj -- 42,000
Luca Pagano -- 8,475
Victor Ramdin -- 57,200
Barny Boatman -- 53,800
Jeff Lissandro -- 18,800
Paul Alterman -- 18,100
Trevor Reardon -- 6,050
James Akenhead -- 19,425
Julian Thew -- 3,575
Ram Vaswani -- 27,000
Simon Zach -- 14,250
Isabelle Mercier -- 18,900
Neil Channing -- 13,875
Phil Ivey -- 22,150
Ben Grundy -- 5,250
Jeff Rogers -- 12,250
Roland de Wolfe -- 18,175
Vic Kanwar -- 25,250
Tim Flanders -- 10,925
Ross Boatman -- 23,850
Ian Woodley -- 9,525
Alan Betson -- 10,050
Stuart Nash -- 8,875

Edgar Skjervold is OUT.
Although an early chip leader, he lost a large chunk of his stack when he ran A-Q on an A-x-3-Q into a set of threes.

Stuart Nash is OUT, AQ vs AK.

Julian Thew doubles up after moving UTG with AJ only to find the button move all-in with 10,4 off, not having seen Julian's all-in.

Julian Thew is OUT.

Ks Qs vs 7s 5s

Flop = A-J-7

Turn = 8

River = 4

Luca Pagano is OUT.

He moved all-in, unfortunately at a very bad time indeed as Petr Hedblom had Pocket Kings next door, and Barny Boatman had A-Q off in the Big Blind.

But it was Barney who won the hand after flopping an Ace. Petr allowed him in cheap by flat-calling the pre-flop all-in, and then bet 1.5k on the Ah-Ts-9c flop, to which Barney called.

Inevitably, with Barney being out of position, it was checked down with Barny taking the pot with top pair.

Pagano mucked.


Jeff Lissandro, who finalled in Barcelona last week is also OUT.

Stu Rutter is now on Isabelle's table, but she's already seduced him into handing over some chips.

She made a small re-raise to Stu's pre-flop raise with Pocket Fives and then bet him off the flop.

As a result, Stu has made a small drop down to 27,000, but is still running well.


The players are now on a short break.

Ben Grundy is OUT. AQ vs K8, king on the river.

Jan Slovik -- 21,850
Jeff Buffenbarger -- 62,300
Roland de Wolfe -- 10,750
Petr Hedblom -- 21,350
Phil Ivey -- 20,075
Victor Ramdin -- 52,000
Ricki Nielsen -- 16,725
Mickey Wernick -- 16,000
Luke Patten -- 18,000
Simon Zach -- 35,125
Alan Betson -- 16,850
Ram Vaswani -- 21,300
Barny Boatman -- 56,000
Sam Hapak -- 77,400
Alli Mallu -- 45,150
Ross Boatman -- 28,600

Pommo is OUT

chip-leaders:

Johnny Lodden -- 146,000
Simon Zach -- 74,650
Sam Hayak -- 73,500
Baryny Boatman -- 67,750

Luke Patten is OUT.

Q-Q vs A-K

the Ladies failed to stand up.

Phil Ivey -- 26,100
Stu Rutter -- 62,300
Ross Boatman -- 34,000
Mickey Wernick -- 10,200
Ram Vaswani -- 12,700
Shannon Shorr -- 33,000

63 players left. Avg Stack 31,400. Blinds 400/800 with 100 ante.

Simon Zach has lsot a chunk of chips and is back down to around the 55k mark.

Zach called a shortstack's all-in with 9s 9c, but Mateyboy's Kd Qd hit a Queen on the river, to the delight of the owner.

Board = Ad 8s Ac 8d Qh

With just 3 minutes left on the clock, these will most likely be the overnight (well, two night) chip counts for the players listed below:

Ram Vaswani -- 24,000
Jeff Buffenbarger -- 25,700
Stu Rutter -- 56,300
Isabelle Mercier -- 36,200
Neil Channing -- 33,500
Ricki Nielsen -- 15,300
Mickey Wernick -- 13,700
Alan Betson -- 19,900
Vic Kanwar -- 36,400
James Arkenhead -- 7,300
Barny Boatman -- 69,000
Phil Ivey -- 35,800
John Kabbaj -- 53,500

And just as we approached the end, James Arkenhead doubled through his tiny 7,300 stack when his Pocket Eights held up against Big Slick, all-in preflop.

Martyn Cavanagh, Ed Hollis and Roland de Wolfe are both OUT.

Play has now ended for the day.

And Day 1A survivors:

Lodden, Johnny -- 126,700
Boatman, Barny -- 87,100
Sneibjerg, Torben -- 83,100
Muldoon, Michael   -- 73,900
Rutter, Stuart -- 61,500
Shorr, Shannon -- 60,200
Rivenaes, Ivar -- 60,000
Zach, Simon -- 58,900
Boatman, Ross -- 56,500
Flanders, Tim -- 55,500
Kabbaj, John -- 54,100
Molander, Molander - -53,300
Parker-Bowles, Tom -- 52,100
Shakhtoor, Samir -- 51,700
Lemercier, Damien -- 50,700
Bardha,   Ferenc   46,200
Mallu, Alli -- 46,100
Hayles, Ashley -- 46,000
Ivey, Phil -- 42,200
Bradshaw, Andrew -- 38,900
Rodgers, Jeffrey -- 37,200
Huberman, Alon -- 36,800
Mercier, Isabelle -- 36,000
Kanwar, Vik -- 35,200
Robl, Andrew -- 33,700
Hapak, Samuel   33,100
Cook, Mick -- 32,900
Ellis, Michael   -- 32,800
Vaswani, Ram -- 28,300
Tommaso, Feminella -- 28,100
Buffenbarger, Jeffrey -- 26,900
Bastow, Frank -- 25,700
Davis, Will -- 25,300
Betson, Alan -- 25,100
Sjåvik, Jan -- 24,400
Akenhead, James -- 23,900
Vance, Tim -- 21,200