blonde poker forum

 :hello:

We have a special guest updater...

Here's a clue...

(http://edatpr.homestead.com/files/shiver.jpg)

(http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2005/10/15/bruce-lee.jpg)

(http://www.diwinetaste.com/html/dwt200509/images/Pepe.jpg)

Have a good one both - Chili?

Ooh, I hope it's Bruce Lee, the updates could do with some real guns.  ;hide;

  ;boltpp; :hello:  Snoopy & Chili   ;mexicanwave; ;goodluck;

Michael Abecassis -- 87,200
Anthony Adderley -- 9,600
James Akenhead -- 23,900
Ferenc Bartha -- 46,200
Frank Bastow -- 25,700
George Bennett -- 12,900
David Bergren -- 10,300
Alan Betson -- 25,100
Andrew Black -- 60,000
Ross Boatman -- 56,500
Barny Boatman -- 87,100
David Bokor -- 17,300
Andrew Bradshaw -- 38,900
Chad Brown -- 127,800
Jeff Buffenbarger -- 26,900
Frank Callaghan -- 14,200
Joseph Campbell -- 20,400
Neil Channing -- 17,400
Gary Chatterton -- 20,100
Anthony Chessa   -- 7,800
Christopher Convery -- 28,800
Mick Cook -- 32,900
Victoria Coren -- 32,000
Adrian Creagh -- 37,000
Will Davis -- 25,300
Michael Ellis -- 32,800
S Elorfi -- 17,300
Hans Eskilsson -- 19,100
David Charles Finney -- 42,800
William   Fitzpatrick -- 14,500
Tim Flanders -- 55,500
Ryan Fonda -- 41,000
Alan Glover -- 53,100
K Graczyk -- 30,400
Martin Green -- 20,900
Priyanand Hallan -- 55,800
Samuel   Hapak -- 33,100
Sid Harris -- 61,000
Ashley Hayles -- 46,000
Peter Hedlund -- 15,600
Pasi Heinanen -- 49,600
Adam Heller -- 15,800
Peter Hendriks -- 15,700
Conny Hillbom -- 41,400
Chris Hinton -- 37,200
Alon Huberman -- 36,800
Arshad Hussain   -- 86,600
Phil Ivey -- 42,200
Anders Jenson -- 36,200
John Kabbaj -- 54,100
Vik Kanwar -- 35,200
Robin Keston -- 14,700
Lalit Khajuria -- 19,600
Jeff Kimber -- 14,100
Kristian Kjondal -- 29,400
Erich Kollmann -- 46,800
Jules Kuusik -- 65,800
Damien Lemercier -- 50,700
Johnny Lodden -- 126,700
Alli Mallu -- 46,100
George Mckeever -- 36,900
Isabelle Mercier -- 36,000
Barkatul Hassan   Mohammed -- 37,800
Jonas Molander -- 53,300
Michael Muldoon -- 73,900
Daniel Needleman -- 84,600
Ricki Nielsen -- 15,100
Lenda Nygren -- 9,400
Stefan Oberholzer -- 12,200
Don O'Dea -- 71,800
Carl Olson -- 11,500
Tom Parker-Bowles -- 52,100
Kevin Parkes -- 19,800
R Pedersen -- 78,500
John Persson -- 27,600
Frank Pini -- 12,500
Joseph Rafferty -- 26,800
Ivar Rivenaes -- 60,000
Andrew Robl -- 33,700
Jeffrey   Rogers -- 37,200
Stu Rutter -- 61,500
Jani Saari -- 17,500
Vivi Saethren -- 10,600
Tom Sambrook -- 8,900
Dean Sanders -- 117,600
Oscar Schweinebarth -- 31,900
Samir Shakhtoor   -- 51,700
Shannon   Shorr -- 60,200
Jan Sjavik -- 24,400
Dennis Skaarup -- 11,100
David Smith -- 36,800
Torben Snejbjerg -- 83,100
Bengt Sonnert -- 7,900
Halldor Sverrison -- 16,700
Emad Tahtouh -- 110,300
Katja Thater -- 40,900
Femminella Tommaso -- 28,100
Timothy Vance -- 21,200
Ramu Vaswani -- 28,300
Brendan Walls -- 25,000
Michael Wernick -- 12,600
Steve Wilsdon -- 29,500
Simon Zach -- 58,900

Good luck Snoopy and Chilli.
I was watching the master updater live last night, not an easy job.
good work

Best of luck to RamRaid - JaffaCake - CRIPPIN and Demon1

After a slight delay, they have now "shuffled uppped and dealted"

 :hello: Snoops & Chili

Phil Ivey out first hand

Wow - quick!

Phil Ivey is OUT

Hand played itself really.

Ivey had K-K in the big blind, Ashley Hayles had A-K in the small.

Raise, re-raise, etc

Ace hits the board and that's all she wrote for young Philip.

Martin Green is OUT

All-in pre-flop with 6c 6s vs Chad Brown's Qd Qc

Board = 8s Ts Kh Ahrt Tc

The Chad marches on.

Beng Sonnert has doubled up

A-A vs A-2, once again, all-in pre-flop.

Witnessed a rather tense Hendon Mob confrontation, that I never really felt Barny was going to win.

Flop = 7d Qs 5c

Barny checks, Ram bets 1.5k, Barny calls.

Turn = Jd

Barny checks, Ram bets 3k, Barny calls.

River = 4h

Barny check, Ram bets 5k, Barny folds.

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo  Onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn  Ash my son

ta, buddy

The biggest non-all-in hand so far has to be this one between John Kabbaj and Dean Sanders.

The flop was Ts 7c Th and I joined the party as Sanders was re-raising Kabbaj's 8k bet to 33k.

JK reluctantly released his hand.

Personally, I'd love to see Kabbaj win this one.

Nice chap and one hell of a player. Possibly the most underrated. Agree?

C'mon chaps (and chapettes), let's hear your pics...

...or, in booder's case, your boks.

I'm going for:

Johnny Lodden
John Kabbaj
Ryan Fronda

(in that order)

I shall offer £20 English pounds if someone can pick them in the right order. Not much, but I'm a bit of a pauper.  :'(

Michael Abecassis -- 87,200
Anthony Adderley -- 9,600
James Akenhead -- 23,900
Ferenc Bartha -- 46,200
Frank Bastow -- 25,700
George Bennett -- 12,900
David Bergren -- 10,300
Alan Betson -- 25,100
Andrew Black -- 60,000
Ross Boatman -- 56,500
Barny Boatman -- 87,100
David Bokor -- 17,300
Andrew Bradshaw -- 38,900
Chad Brown -- 127,800
Jeff Buffenbarger -- 26,900
Frank Callaghan -- 14,200
Joseph Campbell -- 20,400
Neil Channing -- 17,400
Gary Chatterton -- 20,100
Anthony Chessa   -- 7,800
Christopher Convery -- 28,800
Mick Cook -- 32,900
Victoria Coren -- 32,000
Adrian Creagh -- 37,000
Will Davis -- 25,300
Michael Ellis -- 32,800
S Elorfi -- 17,300
Hans Eskilsson -- 19,100
David Charles Finney -- 42,800
William   Fitzpatrick -- 14,500
Tim Flanders -- 55,500
Ryan Fonda -- 41,000
Alan Glover -- 53,100
K Graczyk -- 30,400
Martin Green -- 20,900
Priyanand Hallan -- 55,800
Samuel   Hapak -- 33,100
Sid Harris -- 61,000
Ashley Hayles -- 46,000
Peter Hedlund -- 15,600
Pasi Heinanen -- 49,600
Adam Heller -- 15,800
Peter Hendriks -- 15,700
Conny Hillbom -- 41,400
Chris Hinton -- 37,200
Alon Huberman -- 36,800
Arshad Hussain   -- 86,600
Phil Ivey -- 42,200
Anders Jenson -- 36,200
John Kabbaj -- 54,100
Vik Kanwar -- 35,200
Robin Keston -- 14,700
Lalit Khajuria -- 19,600
Jeff Kimber -- 14,100
Kristian Kjondal -- 29,400
Erich Kollmann -- 46,800
Jules Kuusik -- 65,800
Damien Lemercier -- 50,700
Johnny Lodden -- 126,700
Alli Mallu -- 46,100
George Mckeever -- 36,900
Isabelle Mercier -- 36,000
Barkatul Hassan   Mohammed -- 37,800
Jonas Molander -- 53,300
Michael Muldoon -- 73,900
Daniel Needleman -- 84,600
Ricki Nielsen -- 15,100
Lenda Nygren -- 9,400
Stefan Oberholzer -- 12,200
Don O'Dea -- 71,800
Carl Olson -- 11,500
Tom Parker-Bowles -- 52,100
Kevin Parkes -- 19,800
R Pedersen -- 78,500
John Persson -- 27,600
Frank Pini -- 12,500
Joseph Rafferty -- 26,800
Ivar Rivenaes -- 60,000
Andrew Robl -- 33,700
Jeffrey   Rogers -- 37,200
Stu Rutter -- 61,500
Jani Saari -- 17,500
Vivi Saethren -- 10,600
Tom Sambrook -- 8,900
Dean Sanders -- 117,600
Oscar Schweinebarth -- 31,900
Samir Shakhtoor   -- 51,700
Shannon   Shorr -- 60,200
Jan Sjavik -- 24,400
Dennis Skaarup -- 11,100
David Smith -- 36,800
Torben Snejbjerg -- 83,100
Bengt Sonnert -- 7,900
Halldor Sverrison -- 16,700
Emad Tahtouh -- 110,300
Katja Thater -- 40,900
Femminella Tommaso -- 28,100
Timothy Vance -- 21,200
Ramu Vaswani -- 28,300
Brendan Walls -- 25,000
Michael Wernick -- 12,600
Steve Wilsdon -- 29,500
Simon Zach -- 58,900

To win £20 off you snoops - I'll have a £0.01 perm - any 3 of the above but to save a bit.... I'll leave Ivey out

My picks are:

Johnny Lodden
Andy Black
Jonas Molander

But my first choice will be Johhny Lodden - Ash Hussein - Ash Hayles

Hi everyone, I have been a busy since I arrived.  Got a load of pics and stuff buts lets start with a hand I just caught the end of.

Jeff Buffenbarger playing 7 handed under the gun finds AQ he raises and gets a Mateyboy caller who had AK.  Ouch.  No help for Jeff and he has left the building.  I feel bad looking at the guys when they have just gone but Jeff is the happiest chappy you are ever likely to meet.  He shrugs, smiles and said "I can go and watch the golf now!"

my top 3


chad brown
femminella tommaso
john kabbaj



 :hello:   snoopy and hot stuff

oops

Johnny Lodden raised to 4k, John Kabbaj moved all-in for 20k, only for his next door neighbour to make that rather worrying call.

After Lodden folded, Kabbaj showed his A-J, and was probably somewhat relieved to see that his opponent didn't have Aces. Not too far off though as he flipped over those cowboys... yeeeeehaaaaa.

No Ace (or two jacks, straight, etc) arrived and Kabbaj was left to make that long walk. He didn't seem too happy, he had what we say in Brum 'a cob on'

Meanwhile, back in the press room, Rolf comments, "What was he thinking raising a player like Lodden with A-J. Lodden only plays premium hands."  ;whistle;

chad brown
femminella tommaso
john kabbaj

 rotflmfao

Anybody that wants someone following, give us a shout guys.

Carl Olsen is OUT

Olsen re-raised Torben Shejbjerg pre-flop raise of 16,500 all-in, only for Shejbjerg to make a good call with A-Q.

Thankfully for the over-complicatedly named Sherbert (my new nick-name for him - it's easier), the board rewarded his call - 5-9-8-T-6

Some pictures from early.  Managed to sneak my way in the TV bit with camera and watched them at work.

Ash Hussein
Alan Betson
Ram

Mr J Lodden
Ryan Fronda
Isa Mercier  :kiss:

& Michel Abecassis may have a good run

Simon Zach started on the TV with a healthy stack of  58,900

booder's sixth sense  ;hattip;  rotflmfao rotflmfao

But you don't have enough hair to have a perm, Mickey.  ;ashamed;

An update on michael muldoon early 20's blondish hair from belfast!!

Cheers!

Mr Ivey, pre exit.  I actually decided to leave my inhibitions at the door for today.  I tapped Phil on the shoulder and just asked for a pic so here we go, nearly a smile too.

Could you tell Vicky: "I'm sure your white charger can stay the course today. Bonne chance".

I spotted Ricki Nielsen standing on his mobile by the stairs, which either means his Mrs is going into labour or he's OUT. Seeing as though I know nothing about him, I reckon its the latter.

I'm a bit concerned that I might receive a slap.

white charger???

1.Katja Thater
2.Martin Green
3.Donaccha o Dea

I'll check - fingers crossed that he hasn't moved tables.

Oi, no going for the girls you fancy!  ;nana;

White charger. She'll know. (A Joan of Arc reference that goes back to a while ago when I knew Vicky)
Thanks if you can, no problems if not.

Chipcount please: James "sickdog"Akenhead, Ashley"the bear"Hyles and Ryan Fronda.

Yes just spoke to him, he is OUT :(

Oh, and the occasional chip count on Neil Channing would be appreciated -- I've some money on him.
Congratulations, by the way, on the excellent job you're doing there.

Katja is rough what are you on about?!

can you keep tabs on Oscar Pig tub pleeeeease ... he is gonna win this !!

hey there. could you possibly have a quick look at how stuart rutter is doing please? thanks

"Katja is rough what are you on about?!"

Nice!
Anyhow, she's out.

Daniel Needleman is OUT.

Lost 3 big hands, 2 to Ram and one to Barny.

I guess he was Mobbed.

His swan song came with that classic coinflip situation when his A-K clashed heads with Q-Q

Q on the flop was pretty emphatic.

Do you have a picture, his table has split.

Tony 'Ribena Berry' Chessa was struggling with just 7k today, but he's now on 22k after his A-J saw off 4-2 all-in pre-flop.

Never in doubt though because 95 per cent of all Britain’s blackcurrants make it.

Mickey Wernick is also a gonna.

Shortstacked, he moved in for another 6.5k over the top of Molander.

Molander called with A-2, which was more than enough for Mockey K-8 which failed to hit.

Isabelle Mercier has doubled up courtesy of Bengt Sonnert.

K-K vs A-T

Board = Q-7-Q-Q-7

no mate but you'll prob hear him before u see him lol if u come across him post a count thank you!!!

As Tony Chessa approached Neil 'Bad Beat' Channing's table, Channing commented, "Go away and annoy one of the other tables. I can see why they built Hadrian's Wall now"

Good to see the table pleasantries are alive and kicking.

ash
bubble
isa

Some chip counts for ya's

72 left, blinds 800, 1600 running 200
Average 53,800

Simon TV Zach  96k
Alli Mallu           13k
Vicky Coren      52k
Tony Chessa     24k
Ram Vaswani    93k
Barney Boatman 120k table buddy with Ram
Ross Boatman   67k
Ash Hussain      91k
Dave Smith      42k
Tim Flanders    76k
Neil Channing  11k

stu rutter down to 22k after a couple of big losses, the latter being AA vs 77 with 7 on flop.

Jeff Rodgers was all in as i past him.  He doubled up with 99 v's AJ.  On 31k now but lost half his stack previously with AA versus 10 10 so he is happy to be "back" he says.

John Persson anyone? chipcount? :D:D:D

what are the blinds and antes currently please?

dear adam and maria

could i please have chipcounts (when you get a chance) for the future final tableists

chad brown
femminella tommaso
Damien Lemercier




thank you

Just posted them Numpty

Ok booder off now x

sorry....so u did.

anyway..my three picks

1 - Ram
2 - Johnny Lodden
3 - Arsh Hussain

Hi, great work with the reports!!

Any chance you could take a look at Peter Hedlunds (sweden) chipstack?

Thanks

what about OSCAR ?

Spotted Michael Munden (sp?) after a looooooooong search.

Reason why it took so long? I forgot there was a feature table. oops

He's on 36k

Andy Black
Johnny Lodden
Ram Vaswani

Those are my 3 picks.

Good job guys!

Thought u were off to bed?

Gary Chatterton is OUT

A-J vs A-K

I didn't recognise him today as he wasn't wearing his Panama hat.

According to Raab, the Blue Square Qualifier left it in a taxi and has therefore been reduced to wearing his less thrilling BS cap.

I think he may be on the feature table with the two Irishman, I'll check next time I pop down.

Incidentally, the Irishmen on the table are tearing it up, raising, re-raising and so on. One even asked in sincere voice, "Do you guys play poker?"  8)

Not sure, but I do know that Petr Hedlund just took out England's Hassan Mohammed in one of those awful Aces v Kings incidents.

You play great poker all week and then, in the space of a few seconds, it's over and you're ordering your taxi.

Nothing you can do.

Cheers snoops!!

If u can keep me updated

Any chance of a rundown of how many get paid, and the top prizes please?

Thanks!

HI MARIA AND SNOOPS

can you tell Dave"LUCKY MAN"Smith that i said hi and good luck.and let me know if he inflicts any of his bad beats on anyone please.(we know all about them LOL)

Johnny Lodden has one or two accident and is down to 70k, still above the average though which is 57,400

already mentioned you to him and passed on your good luck message

Pasi Heinanen is OUT.

eliminated by Ram Vaswani

Quite a tight one though, with a flop that garnered an 'ooooooooh' from Barny.

5-5 vs Ram's 9-9

Flop = 4-2-3

Turn = 3

River = 4

;topman;

thanks love.your both doing a sterling job.

1st -- 500,000
2nd -- 285,900
3rd -- 168,600
4th -- 110,000
5th -- 58,600
6th -- 44,000
7th -- 36,600
8th -- 29,300
9th -- 10,000
10th -- 10,000
11th --10,000
12th -- 10,000
13th -- 10,000
14th -- 10,000
15th -- 10,000
16th --10,000
17th -- 6,000
18th -- 6,000
19th -- 6,000
20th -- 6,000
21th -- 6,000
22th -- 6,000
23th -- 6,000
24th -- 6,000
25th -- 4,000
26th -- 4,000
27th -- 4,000
28th -- 4,000
29th -- 4,000
30th -- 4,000
31th -- 4,000
32th -- 4,000

Counts time

Isabelle Mercier 35k
Stuart Rutter   23k
Chad Brown    113k
Femminella Tomasso 46k
Tony Chessa  12k
Ryan Fonda    36k
Tom Sambrook 38k

63 left, average 63,200

After refusing to give out his chip count, snoopy had no option but to release the guns.

Ryan soon told me that he had 27,600

Awesome double up for James Aitkenhead.  He got moved over to the left if Ms Mercier and was very low in chips with only about 11k.

He hillariously raises 10,100 with pocket 6's and leaves himself with 900 chips.  He gets one easy caller with the rockets and James stands up with a smile and a shake of the head.  Board comes.

 7s  2h   9d  Td

James shouts for the 8 but

 6c arrives on the river for some oohhs and aarrghs from players and spectators.

Doctor Tom decides where to hide the evidence after unavoidable sneeze.

Tom Sandbrook -- 43,700

thank you...what about  Damien Lemercier

It appears as though Tyler Netter is our early chip leader with a rather totty-magnetising 216,000

I've been having trouble with Tyler's name all week - Nyler Teller, Nyler Tetter, Tyler Teller, even Net Teller at one point!

How many has Jeff (JaffaCake) Kimber got please

Johhny Lodden has a stretch as he see's me walking by with my camera  8)

Sorry Micky it appears we have lost JaffaCake.  Darn, now i'm hungry.

Wouldn't have been my choice of headwear.

Chavette in the VIc...the shame of it all!! lol

"How many has Jeff (JaffaCake) Kimber got please"

Strange! I'm playing with him on Pokerstars!!!!

is Bengt Sonnert still in ? if so, how many chips has he got? thanks a lot

Quote from: Micky147 on Today at 17:41:37
How many has Jeff (JaffaCake) Kimber got please

Sorry Micky it appears we have lost JaffaCake.  Darn, now i'm hungry.

found the chip count for john persson yet?  ;slavedriver; ;thankyou; ;hattip;

I'm out and hungry! Fourth hand of the day, I've only got 14k, make it 3600 with 55 and when sb calls am ready to lump em in if there's no ace or king on flop. 10 7 2 rainbow looks tastey when he checks, but he has 99 and calls the all in and I'm a toasted JaffaCake. Now on stars trying to get into Baden!!

Another fantastic job by the Blonde team, I'll be watching from my lappy for the rest of the weekend. Interesting to note yesterday Andy Black twice had to ask updaters to make sure they don't approach people mid-hand, not our Blonde heroes though, a thoroughly professional job done in difficult cirumstance by snoops and gang, keep up the good work guys.

how is andy black doing?

I'm afraid it appears as though Jeff has slipped through the net and made an early exit.

He may be out, I can't see him, but I'll have a more thorough check the next time I venture out. Not looking good though I'm afraid.

97,000 - he just doubled up with A-K v K-9.

Bengt Sonnert was eliminated by Isablle Mercier -- A-T vs K-K

I thought he had some shrapnell left, but she just about had him covered.

Kristain Kjondal -- 67,000
Vik Kanwar -- 37,500
David Smith -- 25,000
Stu Rutter -- 19,400
Anon Huberman -- 67200
Isabelle Mercier -- 47,000
Adrian Cregh -- 17,600
Lalit Khajuria -- 24,200
Ryan Fronda -- 36,500
Tony Chessa -- 34,700
Tom Sandbrook -- 20,100
Michael Mundren -- 52,000
Andy Black -- 40,300
Simon Zach -- 99,200
Joe Rafferty -- 30,000
Mike Ellis -- 68,000
Jan Sjovik -- 32,300
Donnacha O'Dea -- 33,300
David Fenney -- 98,200
Alli Mallu -- 143,000

Any news on Emad Tahtouh? He's sitting next to Johnny Lodden, wearing a purple PokerStars shirt, and oh, is a massive chipleader :)

Any news on Emad Tahtouh?

Yes......    He's sitting next to Johnny Lodden, wearing a purple PokerStars shirt, and oh, is a massive chipleader

Ash Hussain is out.  It appears he took a previous hit because with only 16k left he pussed with J K but was called by Sid Harris's QQ.

James Aitkenhead is also OUT but went back to check him out and his seat was very empty.

More counts

Peter Hedland  175k
Dave Smith  23k
Stuart Rutter 20k  and has been moved to new table
Neil Channing   30k

Peter Hedlund 175k, WOW.. is that 100% confirmed? He started the day with 15k so seems like the rush of all times..

WHAT ABOUT OSCAR !

We have just lost Ali Mallu.  He lost all his chips in two hands to Jonas Molander.  In final hand Molander raised pre-flop, Ali Called.  The flop came:

3 A 8

Ali bet 15k, Jonas called.  The turn was a rag, Ali went all in and Jonas called showing automobile association AA to Ali's AK.

No outs for Mr Mallu and he is toast.

any news on Chris (redorblack) Hinton please guys ........(short arsed gobby little git with spiked hair  :D

Damien Lemercier    ?????????

Any idea who is on Stu Rutter's new table?

 :hello:  woofer

Yep know who you mean  :D i'll go find him.
Booder are you serious???

And I'll find out about Stuarts table - I didnt recognise any names.

Guys I will have to get back to you on those questions because they have just now broke up for an hour dinner break.  All players will be back at 7.30pm. 

Dave Smith is OUT

He'd limped for 3k and then moved in for 17.5k when MB made it 15k.

Dave had Q-J, which had litte chance vs MB's A-Q once an Ace hit the flop.

Adrain Creagh doubles through when his J-J survived an all-in encounter vs 9-9

The board threatened a chop though... 5-7-3-4-8

As a result, Adrian is now up to 30-35k

Robin Keston is also OUT.

All-in on a flop of 2s 6s Qs with Qh Th

Shannon Shorr called instantly with 8s 8c

Although Keston appeared to believe he was dead on the Ts turn, he still had a chance to re-suck with a full house, but it failed to arrive.

I can't see John Persson.

I'm pretty sure he is OUT

Neil Channing moves all-in on a board of 3c Ks Kc 6d

Channing must have called the clock, because he asked the dealer to be clear on the countdown. Instead, the dealer called over one of the supervisors who did the countdown for him.

It was really bizarre because he counted each and every second out loud, and everyone else seemed to join in (mainly for fun, including moi).

Even more bizarrely, the guy didn't seemed to respond whatsoever, with the supervisor finally announcing his hand as 'dead'.

It was kind of strange when everyone was joining in with the countdown though, must have put Mateyboy off at least a little.

yes please

The award for 'grinder of the day', well, the week in fact, HAS to go to Sir Anthony Chessa of Ribenaness (when he's got the full purple gear on, he looks ultra ribenary - this is nothing)

Anyhow, he's been low for the whole tourney, down to 32k, and dropping as low as 2.7k at one point. His head must hurt a little.

On this photo he posed with a middle finger gesture, and then suddenly realised that it might not go down too well with the sponsors.  :D

Right, quick snack then back at 7,30pm

toodleoo for now

Hi guys, good stuff, wish Stu Rutter all the best from me. and say hello to Rolf, he's a sarky bugger.

The way Andy Black came back down from around 5k yesterday to a stonking 64k by end of play means he is my tip. (Yes I'm out of the APAT :D)

You've turned pro?

Can't say chav on blonde.

 :dontask:

 rotflmfao ;slavedriver;

My deepest apologies good sir, I must have skipped that bit in the T's & C's  :redcard: for me!

While we are waiting for the Day2 survivors to start (any time now) I'll post some pics from earlier.  These two were my "milling around pre comp" pics.

Some Norkage for those that require.

How are you finding the super-uber walk from press room to upstairs? Gets annoying after a while.

great updates as ever guys and girls - better than being there - well cheaper anyway - keep it up

Team Norsemen very hard at work not playing poker.  Edgar Skejvold and Rolf Woods.

Hi flopsy.  Annoying you say? Hmmm.  But who am I to complain when I am in the presence of greatness - Jonathon Raab and Snoopy of course.

Great job yesterday mate - even bigger respect for actually doing the runs today.  Stairs are BAAD with long boots on.

Stu Rutter is OUT

He made an over-the-top move on Mike Ellis with Qs Th

Unfortunately, Ellis had Aspades Ks and made the call.

Board = Ad 6s Qc 2c 2h

How many left now?

You shall end up with "Calves of Steel" by the end of the weekend. ;)

Great piccies btw.  :)up

Ryan Fronda -- 23,800
Barny Boatman -- 61,300
Ram Vaswani -- 98,900
Andy Black -- 91,500
Simon Zach -- 94,700
Shannon Shorr -- 71,400
Vicki Coren -- 64,800
Jan Sjlovik -- 37,600
Donnacha O'Deah -- 38,100
Pri Hallam -- 34,100
David Finney -- 88,300
Neil Channing -- 40,500
Tim Flanders -- 153,800
Jeff Rodgers -- 26,200
Isabelle Mercier -- 44,000
Harman -- 117,000
Geroge McKeever -- 26,400
Adrain Creagh -- 70,000
Lalit Khajuria -- 28,200
Chad Brown -- 266,400
Anon Huberman -- 53,200
Ross Boatman -- 30,600
Sid Harris -- 77,500
Tom Sandbrook -- 20,600

snoops can you find out if 2moro's tourney has any seats lft

Damien Lemercier ..........chip count please

well dun lads the reporting has been top draw

Simon Zach is OUT

Lost a chunk of chips with 5-6 on a 6-7-8 flop, and then finally flung his shortstack in with T-2, but was unable to master it in the same way as Doyle Brunson, eventually losing to A-5.

Is Ashley Hayles still in??

no idea, sry

give em a bell

Prob sold out because they're only selling 60 seats

And if Ash Hayles is still in,  how many chips as he got?

Whatever happened to Oscar? is he still in?

         HOW MANY LFT GUYS

Johnny Lodden is OUT

All-in pre-flop

Lodden = 8h Kc

Tom Parker-Bowles = Js Jd

Board = 3c 9c Th 8c 6d

Turn gave him outs, but it wasn't enough.

47

 can someone tell the casino 2 get some proper aircom. killed me the other day

Our requests for Oscar Info are being ignored lvsanta :(

It must be because he's not a friend of the bloggers. It is quite biased here.

  SO WHATS THE BIG TIP TO WIN. SNOOPS

Unfortunately there is no good EPT coverage anywhere. Blondepoker is one step better than the horrible Rolf on Poker Pages, but that doesn't say much.

I agree with you Real Shady,  I was in the Grosvenor in Bolton two weeks ago for their series of tournaments, it was like smoking 100 cigs a day, I had a smokers cough for a week and a half, and a headcold which still hasn't cleared.

No airchanges at all, it's put me off playing in England, I'm in Ireland where we have a smoking ban in public places :-)

Kev what happend to photo's you was going to email me  mate

Bit harsh, there are 2 guys updating and hundreds of competitors ....  Obviously members of blonde are mentioned most, and famous "names" but requests for info on other players are always noted and attempts are made to find the info.

Tony Chessa has gone.

He was sat low all day and with 23k was faced with a 3rd consecutive raise from the loosest player on the table - Tom Sambrook!!

He dwelled his AQ but not for long and in it went.  So how often does this happen, the time you take a stand against serial raiser he has KK this time.  No joy for Chessa.

Chad brown & Vicky coren $$$ come on

Peter Hedlund is soaring and now has "I don't know, somewhere between 265-300k" he said. He's on the same table as Vicky Coren, Barny Boatman, Ram, Jonas Molander and Andy Black. There's a serious amount of chips on this table and with the hyperactive Swede on it, its a fun one to watch.

Ash 'the Bear' Hayles (pls note nickname for future reference snoops) had 190k at the break

pm me your email addy Ash and i will send them over ... heres one for ya ;)

By the way, thats a pic of him from Day 1, in case anyone was wondering why 300k in chips looked so small...

 Most of the Grove casino's Ive played in have this aircom problem, its a joke. they take all this Reg for comps. about they listend to demands, We dont ask 4 alot

Ty Kev, the famous Oscar has been located and is on 45k.

There are 48 players left and the average is 82,900.

Time for a lot of players to push.

Booder your friend Lemercier is gone - sorry!

I also couldn't find Chris Hinton so he must be out.

it was not meant as a critique of the guys (girl). I am sure they are working their ass off. It is just a fact that European tournament coverage is bad.

I take offence to that. Snoopy and Chilli have a tough job, the distance between the press room and the cardroom is quite far, therefore they're more likely to pick up multiple chippy counts and hand histories rather than just one or two to save on the walking. Plus I can speak from experience how you can be off looking for one person, suddenly see an exciting mateyboy squared moment and completely forget what you were doing.  :blonde:

totally uncalled for remark

A chip count for michael muldoon please...

Ashley Hayles is on the TV table and is it diffucult to assess the chip situation but he looks comfy with a good pile in front of him.

  SNOOPS AND TEAM. TOP TOP DOLLAR.[EXCELLENTO]

i spoke to ashley hales at 7.15.  he had 190k but have heard or read nothing. anyone get an update?

 nice 1 kev topman

No probs just been by and he had in the circa of 40,000.

Thank you

For no reason other than she looks good, here is a pic of Vivi Saethren. She was knockered out very early on today.

pardon the freudian slip  :D

more close ups of this beauty. jack

 REPORTING JUST MOVED UP A GEAR

Hmm

My picks tend to drop as soon as I pick em, but I reckon Andy Black is worth a punt. Seems to be playing well too.

That's a rather untrue and unnecessary remark. Shame on you.  ;frustrated;

Chili is posting another pic of her right now Ash...

What you need to remember is that we don't know all the players and can't always identify them. We try our best to cover as many players as possible. If I recognise them, I'll follow their progress.

played with him in vegas. seems very confident. that big win has improved him 100percent. GL TO HIM

If you'll pardon the question, how many does this thing pay?

32.

500k in spondoolies

pays up to 32nd which get 4k

JACK. tell the worm to relax 2nite and not to worry .me and him 1-2 2moro

What exactly do you want from tournament reporting?

I have one suggestion if you don't like it...clear* off.

*clear is a substitute for a much more offensive word.

You want more beautiful lady, just bumped into her on the stairs.  Very sweet she is too.

Felt compelled to say that Blonde are doing a fantastic job with the updates, I am an ex-reporter and appreciate the difficulties that a reporter faces to bring swift and accurate information.

GREAT JOB GUY'S - 100 TIMES BETTER THAN THE 50 STRONG CARDPLAYER TEAM PROVIDED DURING THE WSOP. BE LOUD AND PROUD YOU ROCK!

This is about as close as I can get to the feature table.

Our eagle-eyed viewers may spot Tyler Netter, Steve Wilsdon, Dean Sanders andJan Sjlovik

 NOW YOUR COOKING BOYS.

Thanks for all the support, guys.

I PROMISE that we do our very best to supply you with as much info on ALL the players involved.

Of course we accure more info on the players we know, it's hard to follow a player when I only have a name, but we always try our best to find them.

Thx again.

Thats 1 bloody huge pint of lager on that table in that pic :D

always what I suspcted- You want class norkage then leave it to a woman. Very good taste Maria now go get us some more please. Snoopy you should be ashamed boy

Great coverage indeed!!! Any news on sjåvik and abecassis?

Introducing Pri Hallam (left) and Ned Tim Flanders (right)

Tim betiddly bet 6k into a board of Ad 8d 2d 6s 9h provoking Pri to dip into the think tank, eventually making a cracking little call with Jc 6d.

Tim had a rather palltry 2c 3s, but he gracefully tapped the table out of respect for his opponent's play.

And here is blonde's adopted star for the day...

-- drum roll please --

OSCAR!

 ;woohoo;

AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

GO OSCAR !!

And I truly feel the need to mention this young chap. For those who don't recognise him, this is Shannon Shorr, somewhat of an online master, but has also jumped feet first into the live arena, not only cashing in the WSOP Main Event, but also scooping a huge sum at the Bellagio Main Event this August.

A quite remarkable player, although not a patch on Flushy.

Thanks Snoop for the lovely picture. As I said before, I am sure you guys are working hard. Nice to see the support for you guys.

CALLING ALL GUESTS

If you wish to view the photos or post on the forum, please feel free to click the 'register' button i nthe forum menu above.

No catch whatsoever.

cheers, peeps

WHAT TIME ARE THEY PLAYIN TILL 2NITE. DO YOU THINK THEY WILL GET DOWN 2 FINAL TABLE

No worries.  :)up

Please feel free to ask for a chip-count for absolutely anyone and I'll do my best to get it.

casino close at 4am, but they're hoping to get down to the final table.

Not sure they're going to make it though. Could be close...

Okay, just so you know where we stand at the moment.

42 players left

The average stack is 94,800

And we've just entered a new level with the blinds at 2000/4000 (400)

The price of poker has just gone up!

I have just found out that Ashley Hayles has jumped up to a whopping 330,000

Time to get out the champagne Hayles fans!

can u please tell me if jef rodgers is still in and if he is hiw many chips,thanx

Whilst 'grinder of the day' Tony Chessa has bitten the dust, Adrain Creagh, who I believe someone asked about a few pages back, appears to be keen to take over the throne. He's currently overing around the 40k mark after spending most of the day shor-stacked.

Three other players also have huge stacks.

Chad Brown, Peter Hedlund and Jonas Molander have in the region of 350k each. Hedlund maybe a little more.

Bear fans....just heard from micky147 how Ash got the chip lead...he gets ace first card, dealer flips his second card, a deuce, so it becomes burn card. His second card is an ace and the guy beside him has KK...now that's a bad beat

Don't wanna do Snoops out of a job but Marky just rung and told me that Ash 'The Bear' Hayles just doubled up to 330k with the following hand.... He gets dealt his first card which is an ace, dealer flips over his second card which is a deuce so that becomes the burn card and Ash gets dealt another card, an ace... guy on the table has KK!!

Jeff Rodgers is still clinging in.

He just offered a 10k last longer bet to another clinger, Ryan Fronda. Whether he was serious or not, I'm not sure.

It's like a Star Trek convention here with all these Clingons.

How is Donnacha doing?

Ram Vawani is out. He was eliminated by fellow mobster Barny Boatman in a three way pot with Samuel Hapak. Barny flopped a set of jacks that improved to a house. Hapak had pocket queens. Ram didn't show.

Nice one Jeff... hehe    once for each ear everybody

About 45k

Incredibly, the Irish boys at Antes Up actually have a few Irishmen to follow during these latter stages. A rarity indeed.

Anyhow, one of their boys is this chap, Joe Rafferty, who many of you may remember from last year's Dublin EPT when he was dealt a severe bad beat by David Pomroy.

Come on guys, how about selecting your final 3 again.

I assume that most of the guys you seleted before have been eliminated due to the famous blonde bok squad.

How many has joe rafferty got?

Hapak, perhaps tilting from losing with his queens made a big move on Andy Black.

Hapak raised, Black reraised and Hapak moved all in for over 60k. Andy gave it the quizical stare, looked puzzled, stared at him some more (they are sitting next to each other so it wasn't like a face to face stare down) then passed his A-9.

Hapak showed  9d 7d. It was a big moment.

Top three
1. Ashley Hayles
2. Ramraid
3. The Bear

Go on my son....

Another unfamiliar face (well, to me anyhow), this is David Finney.

Can anyone divulge any info on this chap?

ok try again at top 3 in no paticular order
isa
barney
scandie mateyboy who will have about 6 million chips at the start of the final table :D

I can divulge that he HAS got enough hair for a perm

Just to prove that we are working our asses off, here's Chili grabbing the chip-counts.

Oh crap, wrong photo.

 ;noflopshomer;

he's broken his arm

28k at the last break.

The other Irish counts are

George McKeever 22k
Mike Muldoon 30k
Andy Black 100k
Donnacaha O'Dea 45k

If number (2) is Ram Vaswani, this could be the first ever bok of someone after they've exited, if that's possible.  ;ashamed;

John Magill beat him heads up in party world open heat!!

I'm heading down to get some chip counts now...

Nice 1 cheers

No, Ash plays online as Ramraid. He has 470k, go oooooooooooooon the Bear

they're all names for ash hayles lol

hes been or has a friend who has been to thailand as i have the same moody rolex

I JUST SPOKE TO ASHLEY HALES ! HE HAS ESTIMATED 490K..... CHIP LEADER BY A DISTANCE I THINK....

COME ON THE BEAR!!!!

9/10 lionesses find him irresistable

Andy.... money was wired yesterday.. you should get it Monday

Dave finny is from the old poker school. we all started playin 20yrs ago includes micky wernick and loads of brummie plyrs lucy rokach etc. he started life as machine engineer. worked his way up to become a retired millionare. great down to earth guy. lately he spent 25k on elton john's charity auction. whish him luck from me please.

NICE 1 MICKY

cheers for that..

Ariston !! shhhhhhhhhhhh I sold him the one womble gave me for 3k .... dont tell him its a bloody moody ;)

He's the guy who knocked out Sverre Sundbo yesterday. Sverre raised for I think, 1,050 on the button with AK, I think the blinds were either 150/300 or 200/400. And Finney moved in for errr....around 40k with AJ, Sverre insta-called for his 20k or so stack but a Jack came on the turn. He had a huge stack at that point but I think he lost a good half of it to the two gentlemen to his left before the end of play last night.

My pleasure mate

So he needs the money then lol

 finny only played about 6times in last 5yrs. having spoken to him at the bar the other day he told he has been playin on line.

Another Hendon Mob down...

this time it's Ross, who only had 22,000 at the time.

He moved in from the cut-off with Pocket Ducks, but ran into Cowboys.

End of story.

CONGRATS.  to my pal the mad turk he has qualified 4 the caribean poker on line. well dun mate

Not quite the end of the story. It was Isabelle who knocked out Ross.

FINNEY needs to win this to cover the bad bet he had on U.S.A. to win ryder cup

hes suddenly got very good at the online sats, anyone would think he's dicovered a secret formula ;)
well done turk

Just a quick reminder that the new blonde league kicks off on 4th OCTOBER

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=14948.0

Click the link for details

Joe Rafferty -- 28,100
Neil Channing -- 95,000
Ashely Hayles -- 460,000
Tim Flanders -- 115,000
blonde Oscar -- 30,200
Isabelle Mercier -- 61,000
Chad Brown -- 340,000
Donnacha O'Dea -- 39,500
Jeff Rogers -- 46,500
Adrain Creagh -- 42,500
Conny Hillbom -- 71,000
Jan Sjlovik -- 85,200
Geogre McKeever -- 27,500
Lalit Khajuria -- 40,000
Anon Huberman -- 62,000
Emad Tahtouh -- 245,000
Michel Abecassis -- 44,000
Ryan Fronda -- 53,000
Mike Ellis -- 90,000
Tom Sandbrook -- 45,000
David Finney-- 106,000
Shannon Shorr -- 57,000
Micahel Mouldoon -- 65,800
Torben Snejbjerg -- 46,300

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GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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ASHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY IF THE MONEY LASTS THE LUCK WILL CHANGE

According to Dave Finney ;)

Crikey, cheers, Ash. Top man.  ;tightend;

When you guys got the time, could you please take a look at Peter Hedlund chipstack?

Thanks!

HOW MANY BRITS LFT. ANY YANKS

I've got my best woman on the case. I think Chili's down there too.  ;hide;

250k

I hear he peaked at 350k tho.

snoop can you wish ASH good luck please

Jonas Molander raised from the button. Vicky Coren on the big blind moved all in for 62k. Molander called, flipping over aces. Vicky had pocket eights.

There was an eight on the flop and Vicky doubles up to 130k.

Ryan Fronda is currently standing by the bar, looking a little disappointed and seemingly uninterested in the poker.

Call it a hunch, but he may be OUT.

sure thang dude

Andy Black is out.

He bet out on a flop of A-7-J, with two diamonds.

Peter Hedlund raised. Andy reraised all in and Peter called.

Andy had 6-7 of diamonds. Peter had A-8. Turn and river produced no diamonds, sixes or sevens.

Ask Ryan if he wants a game of spoof.... that'll cheer him up

Is Vicky well stacked now ?

How many left?

Tom Parker Bowles -- 111,200

Paul..... Do you mean puppies or chips?

With Ryan Fronda and Andy Black hitting the rail, it can only mean one thing...

You know the answer

STOP!

























BUBBLE TIME!!

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33 left

4k for 32nd

then...

 ;shitfanhit;

Doo  Doo Doo Doo

Doo

Doo Doo

CALLING ALL HAYLES FANS

Place your hand on the photo in unison and chant "GOOD LUCK ASHLEY", "GOOD LUCK ASHLEY", "GOOD LUCK ASHLEY".

Transfer that positive energy over to him.

I've seen Uri Gellar do this, it works.

Booder

STAY AWAY FROM THE SCREEN

"Are you lookin at my chips u ugly *!*%"

I GOT A FEELING EVEN BOODER COULDN'T MAKE THIS GUY BUBBLE LOL

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 ;kneelsucker;

Is it just me or does Ashley Hayles look very English?

Blinds are 3000/6000 (400 ante)

We're still on 33, average is 120k

i think alot of us would kneel before vivki, not so sure about the other one though ;)

Thats because he is not British he is English

Chad Brown raised 9k from the button, Shannon Shorr called from the big blind.

Flop = 4c 5d 6d

Both players check

Turn = Ac

Shorr bet 13k, Brown calls.

River = Qd

Shorr checks, Brown bets 25k, Shorr folds.

Chad Brown looks like a very tough customer indeed.

Joe Raffery faces a 20k bet on the Turn from Tim Flanders with a board of Td 7s Ahrt Th.

You can see the pain on Rafferty's face as he looks down at his 29,200 stack, knowing full well that it's all or nothing.

And, to echo everyone's thoughts, he says, "Aaaaah, not a nice decision, a double-up or the bubble."

He eventually folded.

Sorry to repeat this to our current members, but we have 16 guests watching this update.

Please remember that if you wish to view the photos or post your requests, you need to be a member of the forum.

It's cheap and catchless. All you have to do is click register in the forum menu above and enter a moniker, email address and password.

cheers

Please advise status of Sid Harris

I played a few days with Chad at the WPT earlier this year, he played a big stack perfectly and made the final table. He's an actor and host of Ultimate Poker Challenge which is on in the UK on Challenge. However, he is as good as they come as a player too. He has made many WSOP final tables and defo at least that one WPT final.

Ash isn't British or English, he's cockernee.....laaaave it laaaaaave it laaaaave it laaaave it laaaaave it

I bet he thought, "Stupid Flanders!!!"

Aye Chad comes across both presenting and playing as a really top bloke, hope he nails this :)

Still plugging away with 50k.

Donnecha O'Dea is out on the bubble.

He moved in for 29.5k with  9d 9h

He was called by Erich Kollmann holding  Ks Kh

The board was   4s  Aspades 6s Qc 3s

There are 32 players left who are all in the money.

tell ash to send me his new number

good luck to him, showing that anyone can get lucky in poker

for my part its been a great golf watching weekend. im playing good atm , been ul in barca and london when dominating and in coin flips, back me for baden!

great coverage, more norkage please, maybe an upskirt?

Now were talkin

Post of the day :D

With 32 left now and all in the money.  Here are some latest chip counts.

Tim Flanders  100k
Michael Muldoon 114k
Neil Channing     98,500k
Isabelle Mercier   115k
Jeff Rogers        18.5k (had 6k not long ago)
Lalit Khajuria       27k
David Finney      144k
Shannon Shorr  106k
Tom Sambrook  21k
Mike Ellis           98k
Emad Tahtouh  185k

Quite a good heat IMHO. Kenna James was full of praise for Mr Finney.

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I agree though

 GO FINNEY GO. one for the old school players

Ok guys, I have more pics for you and maybe they will please me and the ladies of blonde more than you guys.

The one of Lodden and Sundbo was actually taken about 60 seconds after Lodden got knocked out.  He took it well  :D

The gorgeous lady is the EPT show presenter Natalie.

My personal favourite from this evening is the runner up in the Baden EPT last year.  Gunnar Ostebrod.  We agreed to meet up at the final this year at Baden.  OOOOOOOO yes please.  The boy has devil eyes.

And not surprisingly, with the bubble fast becoming a distant memory, the shorter-stacks have decided to start making their move.

First to go is Femminella Tommaso.

He made the correct call with 8-5 on an A-5-3 flop.

Chad Brown flopped a flush draw and hit the 6s on the River.

is jeff rodgers still in,thanks

And in 31st place is fellow who finalled in Luton recently, Lalit Khajuria.

He made his move with Pocket Nines, but ran into the Poket Knaves of Michel Abecassis.

7-5-5-Q-Q board

Not often you lose with three pairs...

yes, he's just accompanied Isabelle Mercier onto the feaure table - still very low though...

UPSKIRT!? ;hide; ;slavedriver;

after grinding away for so long u got to really fancy isa now (for this event before anyone says anything)
gl isa

Is chad pregnant or are his cards just marked?

Next to go is the Doc, Mr Tom Sandbrook.

And he has been Chadded.

Moved his short-stack all-in with A-K, Chad Brown made the obligatory call with...

6-2

EEK

rag, rag, rag, rag...








































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Jonathan Raab has rushed to the loo and will return fully dressed in a skirt.

Don't worry, Roland, we'll get that picture for you.

do we think shaved ;)

 ;snoopy'sguns; :redcard:

Ashley Hayles is on 460,000

I passed on your good wishes, and he put his arm around me (I swear, I've never met him before) -- very friendly chap and very very cokney.

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 Jc Kd

Snoops.... Tell Ashley Micky said.. 'Forget the 3% you owe him from WSOP Main Event...  he'll have 5% here instead'

as predicted earlier................how dare you mock me beagle

Jeff Roger's takes 29th.

All-in with 5-5, but couldn't see off Petr Hedlund's K-J.

Hedlund increases his massive stack.

nah

And George McKeever is also gone.

A-6 vs T-T

J-8-6-T-9

His assassin was Emad Tahtouh. (not surprisingly, I had to look that name up)

And George McKeever is also gone.

A-6 vs T-T

J-8-6-T-9

His assassin was Emad Tahtouh. (not surprisingly, I had to look that name up)

27 left

Just so you don't think the Chillied one isn't off at the bar boozing, she's at ringside ringing these through.

Very hectic at the moment.

Holy smokes.

Down to 24

They're dropping like suicidal flies here.

Frank Bastow, Erich Kollmann and Samir Shakhtoor are also recent casualties.

24 left

You just had your first Bear hug!!!

One of those casualties is George McKeever, pictured below.

They're certainly dropping like flies for the Irish boys at Antes-Up.

I hope there aren't more to come, I bruise like a peach!

Is Oscar still in ?

They're taking a five minute break.

2 chip counts from the feature table:

Barny Boatman -- 200k
Jonas Molander -- 370k
snoopy -- 371k

Quick snap of the feature table, just before Rogers exited stage left.

If you're finding that you can't see these photos, it's because you need to register as a meber. Quick, cheap and easy... just like me.

They're now on a brief five minute break.

Quotes:

Donnacha O'Dea -- "Nobody wants to hit the bubble, but, in the end, there's only ever one happy person in these tournaments, and that's the winner"

Mike Ellis -- "I'm playing okay, but I gave away a few chips in that last session"

Neil Channing -- "I think I'm playing well"

Don't forget now Snoops.... Tell Ashley Micky said.. 'Forget the 3% you owe him from WSOP Main Event...  he'll have 5% here instead'

Sorry to be a pedant again Snoops but it is free isn't it cause i haven't had to pay anything in order to find out where fish like kev play!! (free money too folks!!!)

just the old salesman coming out (poker players always seem to want valooooooooo!)

Once again great job!

and some underskirt would be cool!

Snoops michael muldoon and joe rafferty counts?

Chad Brown -- 520,000
David Finney -- 160,000
Mike Ellis -- 110,000
Tim Flanders -- 145,000
Shannon Shorr -- 170,000
blonde Oscar -- 100,000

Joe Rafferty is OUT

WOOOOOOOOHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Oscar is in the dosh ...GOOO OSCAR !!

And on Table Chad, Alon Huberman is brushed aside by David Finney's somewhat speculative holding of J-6o.

Alon had A-Q, but a Jack on the Flop and a 6 on the River spelt his end.

lol, I originally free, cheap and easy before realising that the first two were the same sort of thing. I guess I changed the wrong one.

Yep, totally free here guys, although free is as cheap as you can get.

Sid Harris has doubled up through Barny Boatman.

He moved all in with pocket sevens on the TV table. Unfortunately Thomas Kremser does not say what suit cards are so I don't have that info, but in any case its irrelevant for this hand.

Barny Boatman called with Q-J

The flop was not ideal for Sid : J-T-K giving Barny a pair of jacks and an open ended staright draw.

But the turn was ideal, as it was a further 7.

The river sealed the double through as a further ten gave Sid a full house. He now has over 100k.

Actually Eck, I've just checked your tabl... you owe us snoopy ltd 1 miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillion dollars.

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Crikey O'Reilly, how did he get away from that flop?!?!

Barny Boatman is OUT

eliminated by a girl!!!

Vicki Coren has just taken him out.

snoopy, how many has the bear got now ?

and ask him if i am on 40 or 50% ?

I just caught Barney Boatman coming out of the toilets  ;goodvevil;  Thankfully he was happy to tell me exactly what happened.

Vicki raised in the cutoff and Barney Called with A 10 off.  the flop was:

 Kh  Td  9h

Vicky Checked, Barny bet, Vicki called.

There was another heart on the turn  3h.

They both checked and the river was  8s.

Vicki then bet, and Barny went all in.  Vicky dwelled forever and then called with a K top pair.  Barney only had the  Ahrt but trying to get rid of her didnt work on this occasion.

How many left guys?

Come on the bear, how many he got?????

Is a gentleman by the name of Chris Convery still in ?

Thanks

Greg

Wireless has gone down at the vic .... not sure who wireless is, but i have to meet her :)

Snoop has phoned me with the following info

Chad Brown     590k
david Finney     175
Mike Ellis          100
Ned Flanders    125
OSCAR            145
Neil channing    165

Jan Sjovik            58
Ash Hayles           370
M.abbecassis        235
Tom P.Bowles      120
Michael Muldoon    35
Emad Tahtouh        270

Muldoon now on 80k after he pushes on SB with  Qd 7d and Netter cant pass and calls with 7h 5h ..no help and muldoon doubles up.

How about Peter Hedlund and Jonas Molanders chipstacks?

Thanks in advance

Mike Ellis is OUT ... He ran his  Jd Jc into Ned Flanders  Kc Kh which cost him 90k

then Flanders took his last 10k on the very next hand

Flanders now on the 230 mark

I'm sat on my fat arse in Colchester  ..... all the info is being relayed to me via text.

I gather there is the feature table that we are awaiting counts from ... bear with us.

Jan sjaavik is all in in SB with JJ, gets called by BB with A7 and is up to about 100K

Meanwhile. here is some music


Red is great, oh yeah! ba de da da ba da di dah dum.

Relentless updaters getting the information to us by any means necessary.  ;applause;

Good job you've got the phone, Kev would probably eat the homing pigeons

We're back on

phew

thx, Kev

And here's Tim Flanders stacking the Great Wall of China...

nice to see ted flanders stack and chance of a shot at Vicky s

This is Michael Muldoon from Belfast.

Boy, this guy can talk.

Good to see people having fun though.

black chips (with small white marks on side) = 10,000
brown = 5,000
yellow = 1,000
red = 500
black (with big white marks on side) = 100

Whose idea was it to have two black chips???

please confirm if its tyler netter the 19 year old lad who is current leader of stars TLB, get a photo or something

ps great updates blondes

Isabelle Mercier (looking very burbery down below) -- 56k
Vciki Coren -- 180k
Jonas Molanders -- 420k
Peter Hedlund  -- 550k

I think someone said earlier in the thread that its him (there was a pic)

I played with both net teller and emad tahtou over the last couple of days and you have got them mixed up - emad is the aussie guy in the purple pokerstars shirt!  He is the guy that early on in the tournament re-raised a button raise all in with  8s Tc and ran in to Kc Kd flop of  6s 7c 9h - then on the tv table tonight raised from the sb with 9h Td and was pot committed for the call, he ran into Kd Kh and flopped   7s 8c Jc!  That said he is a very solid player and expect him to do very well.

The bear took the chip lead by knocking me out with AA v KK for 250,000 taking him into the mid 400's - hope he takes it down.

Also the picture of Dean Sanders on the first couple of pages is certainly not me.



Dean Sanders

Snoops, they told us this afternoon that the 5k and 10k chips were lost in transit from the EPT, therefore they have to use the Vic's own ones which are conincindeally the same bleedin colour as the 100 and 500 chips. These chips are apparently usually used in the weekly £30 rebuy, which Bengt Sonnert immediately regretted not having played this week lol

Many left?

How can you tell ??  

Apologies, I think you're right. I thought I was being reliably informed by an American onlooker. I guess he was winding me up. Anyhow, both players are still on.

that photos not tyler netter

that pic is the aussie guy, nice fella who loves a gamble having played with him yest

We've just lost David Finney in 18th place.

Another one on the Chadded shelf.

Chad Brown raised with A-K, Finney moved over the top with A-T, and Chad called.

No help on the board.

according to another site that pic is Emad Toutouh

yes apologies, I was mislead. That's Emad Tahtouh.

The two black chips is because the EPT crew did not get all their chips from barcelona and so needed too use the lokal stacks...

lol ok

so is tyler still in?

Just to confirm, that picture is Emad Tahtouh. Tyler Netter is OUT and I don't have a piccy of him.

the ept chips are stuck in customs - the ept black 100 chips are good quality clay chips with the vic chips being cheap plastic things - not to difficult to keep seperate

Michael Muldoon doubles through off Ashely Hayes

A-T vs 6-6

Ten hits

The Irishman is now up to 140k

Whose name backwards is the most regal sounding Dame Huothat....god i'm tired

Breaking news...

Eka Caffaj is OUT

Tim Flanders has dusted off a large proportion of his chips.

It is folded round to him in the small blind and he says to Oscar in the big blind

"I'll make it easy for you. I'm all in"

To which Oscar replies "Call"

Flanders has  Kc Td

Oscar has  Jh Jd

The  9c 3d 5d Ac 6c doesn't get Tim out of it and Oscar wins a 280k pot, reducing Tim to just over 100k.

A Glover is OUT

Jan Sjovik raised 25k pre-flop, Glover made it 63k, Sjovik moved all-in and Glover called.

Glover = A-8

Sjovik = A-A

No miracle

We are now down to 2 tables.

oscar is winning this !!

Anyone know how (where) you type to chat on UB? Some lovely American fellow just hit a two outer in the 1k wpt sat and I want to tell him what a fine play it was (or something).

Chip count for the Bear pls!!!

Just click on chat box and then type, (will appear at the top of box)

Chad Brown -- 755k
Ashley Hayes -- 265k
Tom Parker Bowles -- 81k
Tim Flanders - 168k
Mike Muldoon -- 136k
blonde Oscar -- 240k
Neil Channing -- 160k
Emad Tahtouh -- 185k

The final 16...

Peter Hedlund
Chad Brown
blonde Oscar
Jonas Molanders
Jan Sjovik
Vicki Coren
Isabelle Mercier
Neil Channing
Sid Harris
Tim Flanders
Michel Abakassis
Ashley Hayles
Emad Tahtouh
Jules Kuusik
Michael Muldoon
Tom Parker Bowles

Excellent ty Jim, I'll let him have it!!!!!

Good to see Oscar still going strong. COME ON OSCAR !

Well Played Ned.

be fair JP ned did tell him he would make it easy for him

ul on stars 2nites ago paul, that river was sick.

cheers jules i saw it coming but it was the lack of sleep that hurt more than the river 6  :D

hmmm yes, 5am isnt very sociable hour, what made it worse was that the inflictor's alias was bad_beat_bud, clearly used to handing out 2 outers :D

TV Table In Order

Vicki Coren         287k
Michael Abecassis  280k
Sid Harris             104k
Jules Kussic         133k
Jan Sjavic           323k
Isabelle Mercier   64k
Peter Hedland    560k
Jonas Mulander  280k

So when is Oscar's birthday party? I'm guessing Ned got him a cake as well to make it easy for him.

Play has yet to recommence, but I did bump into Paul Parker.

Well, he bumped into me, win in hand.

He was talking (that's no surprise) about Shannon Shorr and his recent 600k (or near enough) win at the Bellagio.

"There was no-one there, just a few people watching, including myself. It was totally surreal, they're playing for millions of dollars yet no-one was interested. Maybe it was because of the lack of tv coverage, but there was no interest in the comp at all. Even the players looked disinterested, you wouldn't believe that Shorr was only 21 and playing for so much money. When he won, they casually announced it on the tannoy and I looked over. Shorr was completely stoic, no emotion whatsoever. You'd see more of a celebration at a £10 rebuy."

While they were at a small break for the final two tables I went on a walk, walk round this barrier and physically bumped into Gus Hansen.  So I say hi and whip out the camera.  The second pic HE insisted we had one together  :D

Back to players still in.  Jonas Mulander

Play has started.

1st hand... Isabelle moves all in from the small blind, Peter Hedlund laughs, and then folds.

Of course he did chilli

Just caught up - terrific job guys.  ;tightend;

Does anyone know if "TheBear" used to play with that alias online on the Prima network? Lived in Thailand about a year ago?

Wrong bear

What about the bear from the woods that tried to get labradors off the Andrex ads ?

Isabelle Mercier is OUT

All-in pre-flop against Jonas Molanders.

A-rag vs K-Q

Flop was a messy one for Isabelle

K-5-Q giving Molanders two pair

4 on the Turn and Isabelle pushes away from the table, kissing everybody down there.

In fact, I was tempted to rush down there to try and join in the fun.

Damn, OK. Too many poker playing bears about.

They have introduced some nice SALMON Chips worth 20k

Michael Muldoon has doubled up off Ashley Hayles...

K-Q vs A-T

King on the flop keeps the Irishman in the tournament.

any idea how many Ashley has now?

Ashley Hayles doubles up.

A-6 vs Emad's 9-9

Ace on Turn

Huge hand

three way all-in, with Channing making the first all-in move.

Channing (A-J) vs Flanders (Q-Q) vs Tom Parker Bowles (K-J)

Board = 6-9-K-7-A

Channing chipped up now!

Missed this one earlier.

Shannon Shorr exited with around 16 or 17 left.

We didn't catch the hand I'm afraid.

I might take this prediction thing up full time.

1 down 2 to go:

Jonas Molander and Chad Brownb ;goodvevil;

I'm guessing Ned made it easy for them.

Just to confirm the players still remaining...

13 left...

Peter Hedlund
Chad Brown
blonde Oscar
Jonas Molanders
Jan Sjovik
Vicki Coren
Neil Channing
Sid Harris
Michel Abakassis
Ashley Hayles
Emad Tahtouh
Jules Kuusik
Michael Muldoon

Ashley Hayles has doubled up again...

Oscar made it 30k, Channing smooth called and Hayles makes it 132k more.

Oscar folds and Channing calls after a lenghty dwell with T-T.

It was a good call as Hayles just had the A-6, but the board brought Q-4-9-A-9 to give Ashley the pot.

Come on Oscar! - Oh, and JP, i guess your not a fan of Ned?

Neil Channing is OUT.

He raised pre-flop to 25k with K-J, Emad Tahtouh moved over the top with A-J and another 81k to call.

Neil thinks and think before taking the gamble.

Unfortunately for the blondeite, the gamble didn't pay off and he was sent to the rail after a blank board.

1st -- 500,000
2nd -- 285,900
3rd -- 168,600
4th -- 110,000
5th -- 58,600
6th -- 44,000
7th -- 36,600
8th -- 29,300
9th -- 10,000
10th -- 10,000
11th --10,000
12th -- 10,000

Predicting who you think is going to win is different to saying who you WANT to win.

So who are your faves?

To be honest, I'd love to see Michael Muldoon take it down.

He's been thoroughly entertaining viewing all day. Always smiling and enjoying himself at the table.

I've always liked the simpsons.

Ash has doubled twice with A6? If that's right, I think we have a new hand nickname, 10 2 being the Brunson, 95 the Dolly Parton, A6 the Bear!!

It's the sight of those salmon chips, bears like salmon. How many's he got now ypoons??

Some chip counts from the non-feature table courtesy of Chili who is down at ringside, rining all this info through.

Chad Brow -- 750k
Ashley Hayles -- 392k
Michael Muldoon -- 400k
Oscar Schweinebarth -- 262k
Jonas Molander -- 270k
Emad Tahtou -- 257k

Smithers for me , never reraise the guy with a nuclear plant !!!

Just found out that it was Michael Muldoon who finished Channing off.

The above hand DID occur, but Channing was still in... just.

Shortstacked, he managed to find Pocket Tens, and a caller in Muldoon who had Sevens.

But the board was harsh with a 5-6-8 flop and then a nasty 4 on the Turn.

Emad Tahtou is now on 520k after a clash of swords with Chad Brown.

Ehad raised pre-flop, Chad called, before all the chips flew in on a 5-6-7 Flop. (Ehad bet 60k, Chad re-raised, Ehad called)

Ehad has Aces, Chad has Nines.

Aces hold up on the Ten Turn and Eight River.

surely that 8 river would have given chad a straight???

Good spot.

Flop was 4-5-7

It's been a long week.

lol snoop, apologies for being a ***** and pointing out something that was clearly a typo  ;frustrated;

Gone so far...

13th  Channing, Neil (UK) -- £10,000
14th  Flanders, Tim (UK) -- £10,000
15th  Parker-Bowles, Tom (UK) -- £10,000
16th  Mercier, Isabelle (Canada) -- £10,000
17th  Glover, Alan (UK) -- £6,000
18th  Finney, David (UK) -- £6,000
19th  Snebjberg, Torben -- £6,000
20th  Ellis, Michael (UK) -- £6,000
21th  Shorr, Shannon (United States) -- £6,000
22th  Boatman, Barny (UK) -- £6,000
23th  Huberman, Alon (Israel) -- £6,000
24th  Rafferty, Joseph (Ireland) -- £6,000
25th  Bastow, Frank (UK) -- £4,000
26th  Kollman, Erich (Austria) -- £4,000
27th  Rogers, Jeffrey (UK) -- £4,000
28th  McKeever, George (Ireland) -- £4,000
29th  Shakhtoor, Samir   (Sweden) -- £4,000
30th  Sambrook, Tom (UK) -- £4,000
31th  Khajuria, Lalit (Pakistan) -- £4,000
32th  Feminella, Tommaso (Italy) -- £4,000

is the prize pool mentioned in £ or euro
btw ive enjoyed reading the thread well done great reporting

GOOOOOOOO OSCAR!

lol just answered my question,i take it the buyin was 5000euro

£

And although we haven't reached a final table, they have decided to end play with 12 left.

With 12 players still remaining, they have decided to end play for the day and recommence tomorrow at 3pm.

Those 12 players are:

Just to confirm the players still remaining...

13 left...

Peter Hedlund
Chad Brown
Oscar Schweinebarth
Jonas Molanders
Jan Sjovik
Vicki Coren
Sid Harris
Michel Abacassis
Ashley Hayles
Emad Tahtouh
Jules Kuusik
Michael Muldoon

Cheers Snoops. Great Job as usual, and Chili too!

Chipcount Peter Hedlund?

Tut, where are your manners?

no chip counts?

Ok I have the full remaining players and full chip counts.

1) Chad Brown              611k
2) Ashley Hayles            324k
5) M Muldoon                422,500
6) Oscar Schweinebarth  173k
7) Jonas Mulander          222k
8) Emad Tahtouh          504k

Tongihts Feature Table

1) Vickie Coren             222,250k
2) Michael Abecassis      277,500k
3) Sid Harris                 213k
4) Jules Kuusik             186k
5) Jan Sjavic                296,500
7) Peter Hedland         270k

Thats it guys and girls - goodnight and I will sleep well tonight x

Play is resuming at 3pm tomorrow.

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If you scroll back some pages you can find atleast 2 posts where i express my gratitude for the great live reports and i like them to continue to keep up their good work.

Just spoken to the Bear, he has 324k Bear fans, not 224k!!

Great reporting Blondies, well done!!

See you tomorrow for some Bear supporting

I know you guys are mad at me for previous comments. It was not really meant as a dig against Dave's troops, which I really do think are doing a great job, but more about Poker coverage of Euro Tourneys as a general.


I just rode a cab back to our hotel with Oscar and told him about the incredible support he was getting here on Blondepoker and he was very greatful. He was a bit tired and wanted to go to sleep (like he will be able to sleep right away LOL) and wanted me to let everyone at Blondepoker know how greatful he was.

BTW I will buy you that drink tomorrow Snoop.

Yeah, COME ON OSCAR

I'll hold you to that...  ;nana;

Back tomorrow at 3pm for the Final Day.

Made a couple of mistakes today, my apologies. Absolutely cream-crackered.

ta ta for now.

;stickaforkinme;

Thanks Snoopy and the rest.. :)

That's a lot of k!




Great updates folks.

Looking forward to tomorrow. I'm on the Oscar bandwagan too now  8)

pardon

Great work guys. I collapsed at 11 into my bed but gooo Oscar. I never got round to asking him how, on day 1b when he had something like 2.3k left with fairly sizeable blinds, he managed in around half an hour when I next checked his chip count he'd got it up to about 13k! Vicky Coren was also pretty short early on that day and she's certainly picked the right moments to move in, especially coming back on day 2 as one of the shorties and now in the final 15.

IM SO JEALOUS

Get on the commitee :D

Tikay's troops........... ;goodvevil;

Just spent a few hours going through this :) great stuff.

My two picks still in Chad & Vicky $$

Just read all the updates a I was out all last night.
Good luck to Ash, or as Jaffacake calls him 'The Bear'!!!
Updates outstanding as always.