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:hello: all. The EPT event starts at 2pm GMT (3pm for us) on Thursday afternoon. Come and join Jen and I for the debut of the Dortmund EPT.

Usually we do a 'spotted so far' thread when we get to the casino, before the action starts but here's a 'Spotted on our plane' bit instead. Packed plane huh? :D

Thewy
Smokin Steve
BadGirl
JP
Pab
Jon Raab
Iwan Jones
El Blondie
The Gutshot Guys
John Shipley

Any sign of Lee?  Winner of the Welsh APAT event.  If you do see him, wish him luck.

:)up

can you say hi to everyone in dortmund that might know me from when i used to work in the area

Good luck to all the blondeites playing.

have they gone on strike or am i a day early?

Good Luck to JP 5-Time!!!!!!

Ship it home JP-5Time, do it for hardeep

Play starts tomorrow at 3pm.

Hi there,

Can you say hello, good luck and get well soon to the Jaffacake Jeff Kimber

Bring it home buddy

Please could you look out for a guy called ClintonO please, guys. I'm assuming Clinton is his surname.

Gl to all playing and to the updater's :P

Good luck to all blondes playing this event...............awaiting the full list of runners and riders before I can make my boks.

Ok, Jen and I have made it to the press room at this very glitzy casino. The Europeans do do it better, the room is huge with its own staircase to the tournament area. And, happily for Jen, a supply of Pretzels which she went pretty loopy for.

Well, the usual frenzy of registering, accreditation and milling is underway.  We don't have player lists quite yet, but I am off into the throng to bring some names back.  Plus, if you're the type to recognise people more by their screen names, there's a full draw of all qualifiers up on the EPT website.

It's nice in this casino.

He is playing today. Met him at the Media Party last night, and thought he was a very nice chap, so we made him our mascot for pokernews. :)

Lee is playing today - Homer recognised him on the nickname list... he's already popular with the press, by the sound of it...

my very early 3 picks are 3 brit blondites.

womble- will final hes promised me
thewy- always wins early in the year
grundy- usual jan and feb of despair followed by big cash march

anyone else?

is woody deck playing?

Stuart 'The Nutter' Rutter is going to take this one down.

Overview and underview of the tournament area (rapidly filling with players):

I might as well apologise for the photo quality now, as it's quite atmospheric dark in there and the pics will either be a bit dark or scary with flash...

Spotted as they squeeze through the tournament room bottleneck (Player ID checked as they seem to be handing out champagne, which is nice):

Andy Black
John Shipley
Dave Colclough
Iwan Jones
Mats Iremark
JP Kelly
Torstein Iversen
Mads Andersen
Pascal Perrault
Julian Thew
Pablo Rua

Pictured: Andy Black with ever-growing earphones settling down.

Late sneakers in Praz Bansi and Karl Mahrenholz have been spotted too - apparently last minute drop outs allowed these British chancers to get in... I am sure there must be a Kerrigan here somewhere and I saw James Akenhead in the airport, so it looks like a full show for the Hit Squad.

Still life of John Shipley and Release Forms -

He pointed out that you sign the rights away throughout the 'universe' now, which seemed to amuse him...

Interestingly, the tournament has sold out with 500 runners, but the prizepool is actually only €2,350,000. There was no juice but this represents 6% of the prize fund, so really making this tournament a €4,700+€300 event.

Meanwhile I've discovered APAT winner Lee Mulligan, he's on the same table as Henning Granstad. Seems very calm and is looking forward to it, he's also very appreciative of the good luck messages.

We haven't started just yet, still a lot of people needing to sit down.

My earlier prediction of a timely start was clearly some kind of bok - they just don't seem ready to kick off, which must be something to do with the organisation rather than the players, as they don't have that silly "In your seat first hand or you're out" rule and could just shuffle up and deal regardless of the absentees...

A couple more minutes, and some cards will be played, surely...

Breaking News!!!

I've got my own bottle of 'Apfel Schorle'. It's very refreshing.

Please can u wish Iwan Jones gl.

good luck to sid owner of cincins in glasgow he will need it! my top tip to be first out!

gl from me to hes over due another big 1

Cambo..your barred lol

And the cards are in the air - level one is progressing with quiet intensity, and there are therefore not too many giant pots to report.  No, wait, Homer has one.  But to stall until he can tell you, a few more people noticed on the first wander (the room is very tightly packed with tables, making the inner ones inaccessible unless you want to climb over players or squeeze through their chairs in an annoying way, which we don't):

Paul 'Pab' Foltyn  (right near the entrance and therefore very watchable)
James Feeney  (Gutshot online qualifier)
Joe Beevers
Osman Mustanoglu
Mike Tse
Andreas Hagen
Antony Mackay
Jeff Rogers
Steve Vladar
Henning Granstad

Andy Black has claimed an early victim, he called a re-raise with Tc Th and spiked a set against Aspades Ad on an all spade Ten high board.

Any news who is on Ben Vinson's table please???

Early position limps, Henning Granstad makes it 225, all pass to the limper who calls.

8d 2c 5h

The limper check calls Henning's 350 bet.

5c

Both players check.

9s

Limper leads out for 1k. Henning makes it 2k. Limper calls. Henning shows Kc Kh but the limper was holding 5d 4s

It's also the table with Lee Mulligan on. (jjandellis on blonde)

Yo gave the name of Pablo rua in a list before. Are u following him?

Thx in advance. Spanish players waiting action.

Hi Jen - please pass on best wishes to Iwan Jones and Jeff Kimber - Thanks Tim

Iwan Jones and Steve Vladar sharing a table.

Julian posing whilst Mats Iremark is doing a rubix cube whilst listening to headphones and playing the tournament. Someone say short attention span?

Thorsten Iversen and JP

Johnny Lodden trying to kick-start a resurgence of the shell-suit.

Pab dwelling before passing his hand on a K-2-3 board which his opponents either side eventually chopped, each holding A-K.

Late arrival Praz and Badgirl are also sharing a table.

Hello Jen, is Mr Cool there???  Tell DC its time for a win!!!!   

Yes we've 'adopted' him for now. :D

If you have any other players you'd like us to follow then please let us know.

The old  4d 5c, works everytime

have you got any of the gunky orange stuff on today jen or back to your normal self?

Can you tell me where he qualified?  And also if you're sure he's playing today... there's a list on a pillar but it's not a full one and lists 'Qualifier, X site' rather than all the names. 

If you speak to Lee, tell him to "stick it up the Scandies".  He'll know what I mean, and that it's nothing vulgar.

Best of luck to Pab too.

;goodluck;

Any news on Ladbrokes players? I think Richard Wild (wildrick) is there....

The Pretzel Tree, source of life for Jen.

he qualifed on ultimate bet

Hey there!  DC is comfortably sat in the seat listed as Carlo Citrone's while there's no sign of Mr Cool on today's runners' board.  That is not, however, conclusive.

El Blondie is sat next to Anders Wijk (remember him from Copenhagen?) who has forsaken the hoody in favour of what looks like school uniform.

Mr. Rua was in the taxi we took from the airport, as the taxi driver just kind of squeezed four of us in there and we conducted an odd conversation in a mixture of German, Spanish and English.  They were staying at the wonderfully named 'NH Hotel' (can you believe it?) but we were a good 20km away and much wandering ensued.  Anyway, he's a charming guy and his ladyfriend (whose name I cannot recall but who said she would be railing) is very nice too.

Gimme some news about his stack. Eacj two or 3 hours is good, i know u are busy. THX for all.

See u in Monte-Carlo.

Joe Beevers gets it all in -

Yes, with 15 minutes left of Level One, the Mobster's tournament life was on the line.  For a good five minutes, too -

On a board of 3h 4d 3s 2s his neighbour (they're heads up and there's 3,800 in the pot) bets 2,000.  Joe thinks for a little while and moves in, for a total bet of 7,800.  This is a big decision for Initial Bettor (whose pink apparel deserves a photo; see below) and the full Time Bank is used, until he eventually concedes the pot to Joe.  Then they had a chat about it, but I couldn't hear what they were saying.

There should be a number of under 21 american punks playing, just tell them to sit down and shut it when they act up /:-| ;noflopshomer;

bit like dealing with most americans ;)

Elsewhere:  Bad Girl check raises on a Kh 7d 4h flop when the button has a go for 800.  He doesn't want to call 2k, however, so she's off to a decent start.

After a not-so-decent start for Henning Granstad, he gets a little bit back from that neighbour on the river:  Kd 3s Qd 9h Th the board, and a valuetastic raise to 750 from 250 gets him paid off with his Qc Jh.  Slowly does it...

mrcool flies out at 8am tomorrow brian so will be there in time to play tomorrow afternoon.

Rubix Cube Update:

Mats Iremark has completed it. Then he got bored and messed it all up again and started to do it again.

Julian next to him is accumulating chips, he bet 600 on a Th 9h 5s 7c board and got one caller and then bet a milky 500 on the 6d river which is when his opponent folded.

Lee Mulligan is really cross with himself, he threw three chips in meaning to bet 700 into a 1k pot but picked up the wrong colours and bet 2,500. His opponent realised and moved in forcing the APAT Welsh Winner to fold. He has about 6k.

JP has about 3k, Jon Raab said something about running Queens into a set of 4's

Pab is above his starting stack now, having previously had 7k he's back up to 11k.

Here's Julian and Mats Iremark - with completed Cube - no idea what he's doing here, looks like he's hiding in the neck of a transparent sweater.

Pretty quiet now, maybe they're all going to swarm down tomorrow.

If they are here, I am surprised they are quiet after what must have been a huge sugar rush.  Check out the remains of this giant four-tiered, poker-themed cake!

And look, someone's passed two marzipan Kings...

thanks

Thats the guy that thinks he is a YOYO

Any news on Thoman Wahlroos? (I don't even know if he is playing today)

I've had a cheeky bet on him.

thanks

I reckon a little ways through level two is a good time to get chip counts, so bear with me as I traverse the room.  Chris is on the case of Ben Vinson + table, will hopefully have a photo soon.  All I know is Julian has around 16,000 and Praz had two huge small denomination towers just twenty minutes into the first level, so there's definitely some redistribution of wealth going on.  Back soon.  Here's a picture of Jeff Rogers (I think that's the right Jeff) to keep you entertained...

Any news on Ladbrookes player Jeff Kimber yet? Not sure if he is playing today

Cheers
Gareth

This is Pablo Rua, one of the three Spanish players. Jen and I ended up sharing a taxi with him and his girlfriend from the airport last night and we ended up having a long conversation about football. As a Madrid fan, he was very supportive of the Liverpool result the other night. :D

Are you sure he is playing today? I can't find him on the player list. The only UB players I've found so far are the ones below.


There's a bit of confusion with said player list, some players are down as playing today but aren't here and there are other players not on the list who are playing. It's all slightly perplexing.

Yes, that's the right Jeff Rogers.

And only in the English language, as spoken by an American, can you see these two words together, & quite correctly so. Jen pushes the literary boundaries.

Praz had two huge small denomination towers

We're having slight table trouble. Think the London EPT at the Vic in terms of space in between the tables, combine this with the large numbers of press plus spectators around too and you can see the problem. Hopefully this will get rectified for day 1b.

El Blondie

A guy who gets his jumpers from the same shop as Snoopy's trainers.

Doesn't sound like he's playing Day 1, Floppy, but just incase, this is what he looks like. Had a win at Walsall recently I believe.

I actually don't know his name (im from sweden) but talked alot with him yesterday at the 10/20€ NL cashgame and he told me he was playing today, so he should be there somewhere.

Ok, I'll find him after the break.

Meanwhile Jeff Rogers is OUT. He held Fives on a J-5-3 board. His opponent had Jacks. Ouch.

good luck jullian ,and the rest of blonde guys.

I would have stared my opponent down, prised out a tell and made the fold.

Hi Jen,

Any updates on Joe's chat?

hi
i was wondering if you could tell me how garry harrington is doing?
 he qualified via ladbrokes i think
 many thanks
viva kernow

He's better looking than my old mate Alan (his dad)  ;D

OK, despite the intermittent Wifi (which is great when On, but has been mainly Off for the last half hour), here are the chip counts gathered in the break.  Just before the break - so you get table One in its entirety, and then a hastily swept few others as the clock counted down four minutes.  Here they are:

Table 1

Claus Schumacher   10,100
Tommy Dender        9,100
John Shipley           11,100
Samuel Lehtonen     7,500
Dirk Specht             15,000
Dilba Denurbarg        10,700
Daniel Ryderman       7,975
Ahmed Koc              13,600
Nicholas Donieb         7,700

Others Scattered

Jim Kerrigan             14,900
Michael Lunderskov   14,200
Elky                        17,000
Henning Granstad     14,250
Mark Bartlog              8,100
Pascal Perrault          10,650
Dave Colclough         10,000
Anders Wijk               7,600
Praz Bansi                 20,800  (the towers of "I've been stealing" green have mutated to red and blue "I've been outplaying" ones)
Bad Girl                     11,000
JP Kelly                     5,450    (only three red 500 chips remaining, but the black and green 50s and 100s add up)
Torstein Iversen         12,500
Mike Tse                    7,350
James Feeney            7,400
Pablo Rua                  10,250
Bruce Atkinson           12,000
Johnny Lodden           14,600 
Andreas Hagen           22,000
Tony Mackay              21,650
James Akenhead          9,100
Pab                           12,500  (Just been moved - not happy about it, but stabilising after that bumpy first level)

Next to "The Blondie" at his right is a 45 man with glasses called Carlos Ferrón. Is one of my best friends with Pablo rua.

Can u show my his count chips. Thx

quanto es chippie Carlos Ferron? is that anywhere near ?

tony mackay ,hes got plenty ,hes very dangerous with that many.

Jen if you get the chnce can you pass on best wishes to Lee Mulligan from micky and alan

Good to be back, good luck to all the Blondeites playing today!!

Hopes of Germany hosting a great EPT aren't looking too good, the main culprit is the daily 60 Euro entrance fee, for anyone wanting to play, eat or just pop in to watch. I tried a couple of sneaky attempts to get in, but the German man was of course too cunning.

If you mean the guy with the PokerStars, it looks like he has 7.5k (just from looking at the photo that is).

60  euro for what exactly?

players too?

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Chris and Jen may be able to confirm, but as far as they were telling us, 60 Euro for anyone, whether spectating, eating, or playing today (though funny enough, not for Poker Stars qualifiers). A really short-sighted decision from the casino I think.

Ok, Wifi is really being a pain. In fact most of the press room's access to the net is down, so it's very difficult at the moment.

('it with an 'ammer is my suggestion)


Off to get your requests and hopefully some action.

Hay 19,000+ chips - just saw him take down an ever-so-slightly dodgy pot on the river... the board read Th 4s 3c 7h 5c.  He bet out against his one opponent, button man Rolf WeiBhaupt, who called the river 2,500 (3,500 in the pot) and was shown Kc 6c.  Somewhere along the line, a gutshot was hit...
"Pokerstars play!" muttered the disgruntled German, and then some other stuff I couldn't understand under his breath but I think it was rude... ;)

hello again :)
have you found any news or info on a mr gary harrington yet?
many thanks

Yes!  He's wearing a Ladbrokes shirt, which helps.....17,625.

 :hello: Jen and Floppy, it seems like ages since the last live update, welcome back. :cheers:

Nice one :)
we all behind you gaz lets put cornwall on the poker map

Ah, yes, apologies about the delay, but we're really struggling to stay online.  The Head Techie has been turning the router on and off all day, and now we have a terrible, slow and on-and-off wireless.  Apparently they have a different router on each floor, but they're all working badly.  I am trying to cool off an irritated Homer while wondering whether to pull the plug and use the equally temperamental Vodafone cards...

Please bear with us, it should be much smoother tomorrow.

Brief window of connectivity - here's Gutshot qualifier James Feeney, looking intense and a bit disheartened in level three after losing with several Premium Hands.

And Gutshot player and recent European tourney hopper Mike Tse.

I'm back. I've moved downstairs and got a signal. Hurrah!

Online high roller Arnaud Mattern is OUT after playing three hands (pretty much).  Tens took his stack under 10k in the first level (an Ace on the flop and a call there too switched him off) before two pairs of Queens did the rest of the damage.  The first time he re-raised on the button to 1,200 preflop, and got one caller, who checked the T-6-6 flop, Arnaud bet 2,000, and after nearly a minute Matey pushed in, making his fold quite easy (he was against K-K).

Then button Queens again, mid-position raiser made it 500 (blinds 75/150) with one caller and then a re-raiser to 1,500.  He called, with the intention of re-evaluating, he said, on the flop, if there was no Ace or King.  Or Jack.  In fact he wasn't 100% about this call, but when the board came down 6-6-4 he faced a 3k bet and with only 5,500 left went for it.  He was against Aces, no help, and an early dinner.

 

Ben Vinson, got around 10k at the moment.

Carlos Ferron, next to DC with a more chunky 25k.

I have to move now, too - quick question which would help me get photos for you...

Anyone know how to remedy the situation with a digital camera (Casio QV-R61) when as you turn it on it warns you 'The card is locked'?

I don't know how I've managed to lock the card, first time in 2 years, go to reset all the settings, and of course, that's not allowed because The Card is Locked.  In the process of downloading a manual from Casio but my Adobe reader keeps crashing my PC.  Any quick fix?

'it with an 'ammer.

I'm going to hit something with a hammer in a minute...

Meanwhile, possibly the last images from my useless camera:

Original Table Vladar, with the back of Iwan Jones' head in the foreground (with natty orange neckline)
Pab
The Thinker (Osman Mustanoglu)

Jen.........take the memory card out and there should be a switch somewhere on it which locks it............failing that it is in the settings somewhere.

PS hopefully its sorted and the norkage pics will be freeflowing  :)up

Lee Mulligan is down to just 3k. He raised it up with Ahrt Qs and was rewarded with a caller and a Kc Jc Th board. Even more surprisingly he found someone going all-in against him, his opponent held Ac 4c and although the turn was a blank, the river was a pesky club and cost him a 14k pot.


Steve Vladar, Pab and Thewy are now table chums, Pab just took Steve's BB, Steve mucked his 7-2o face up. Pab flashed Ace King.


Elky, runner-up in Copenhagen with those over-sized glasses.


A prime example of what I call a "Laak-alike".

TOP MARKS

I don't know about norkage but I will take pictures of the lady players just this once if that's what you want in the way of thanks.

Incidentally, it's the DINNER BREAK - half have already gone for the buffet, and the other half are on break now. 

So a few updated counts:

Sven Hoffelner    8,400
Michael Ellis         5,500  (a valiant effort after being reduced to 1,700 after his QQ ran into JJ earlier)
Iwan Jones        8,075
Steve Vladar      28,000
Pab                   15,400
Julian Thew        22,500
Osman Mustanoglu  8,600
ElkY                    16,500
Karl Mahrenholz     9,400  (Folded middle set on a 2 3 4 flop to a big blind all-in check-raise, not happy about it; lucky the dinner break fell now)
Henning Granstad   12,000
Mark Bartlog           13,850
Praz Bansi              20,400
Bad Girl                  7,300  (No, wrong, doubled up just now, but I have a story about her losing a pot, so let's pretend that's still accurate)
JP Kelly                  7,200
Torstein Iversen      15,450
Andreas Hagen        26,000  (Too early to tip him?)
Thomas Wahlroos     don't know but James Akenhead tells me he has 11,000.  That's 11,000 more than James.

any more info on mr harrington ?
 maybe a pict too that would be nice
many thanks :)

OK so after just six players were eliminated in the first level, we've had a few more now:

James had an averagey stack (or a bit more, 15k) when a 'rock' raised to 500 preflop (blinds at 100/200).  His Sevens on the cutoff looked like they merited a call - fair enough - and the blinds jumped on the bandwagon.
Flop:  8-7-5  So when the initial raiser bet 2,000, it looked like a correctly identified, and picked off, overpair.  Raise to 5,500.  But no, the small blind pushed in now, which was around 8,000 to call - even if they'd limped their way into a flopped straight, it wasn't the worst call in the world ("I can fold," he says in the clear light of Hindsight)... No pair-up and a dinner-break exit due to the other guy's 6-4 straight.

Your "Laak-alike" is Mike Ellis, a semi-regular on the UK circuit and has also been spotted in some of the recent EPTs. I think he may have cashed (just) in the London EPT near the end of last year.

Praz has dropped 3k betting 7c 6h on a 4d 9h 5s flop and having the big blind move in with 9d 5s. Turn and river were Kh and 5c filling the big blind up.

Elsewhere, JP raised from the small blind and was called by the big. He bet out 725 on the Js 3c 8s flop and was called and check/passed when the 7d came on the turn when the big blind confidently bet 1200.

Finally Tony Cascarino moved all in on a 8c 7d Qd Td board for 5k and got a quick pass from his opponent.

That hand with Bad Girl which took half her stack or so - she was in the big blind with Ts 3d.  Limp from Matey in early-mid position, small blind makes up and the flop comes a tasty Ks 3h 3c.  Bad Girl checks, Matey bets, call.
Turn:  Tc  Full house gets a check-raise from Bad Girl.  Matey calls.
River:  Kd  Now she checks, and resignedly calls the 1,500 (a small bet but a crying call).
Matey shows the mighty Kh 8h for the two-out rivered bigger house.  And as she mucks without showing he says, "King with a smaller kicker?" which was odd...but quite funny.

Guests, remember, if you want to see the pictures you have to sign up for blonde, it's totally free and easy. Just like me.

Dont forget, 8.30 tonight on blondepoker (http://www.blondepokerleague.com/download) our $10 NLHE Freezeout ..... Come and join the fun.

How is Iremark doing, and has he solved the Rubick´s cube yet (he always bring one along)?

Yep - still in, between 16 and 17k in chips... here he is:

A few soundbites I got in the break:

Steve Vladar (28,000 and one of the chip leaders), "It's all going alright at the moment."

Iwan Jones (9,000 Same table as Steve), "I want our table to break and to be put on a table full of scandies who'll give me their chips."

JP (9,950 counted out his chips for me, bless him) "Better than when I had 3k."


Finally Thewy tells me a story, "UTG, old guy makes it 600 with the blinds 100/200 and then a guy in early position makes it 1600. They both seemed fairly rocky and I had Ace King and decided to pass, and then UTG makes it 5100 and the re-raiser calls(!) They both have about 15k back after this and the flop comes Q-7-9 rainbow. UTG asks how much the other guy has before leading out for 6k, other guy eventually passes Jacks. UTG shows 66!!" Julian then adds, "That's what I used to do!"

Henning Granstad and Mark Bartlog to his left - forgot to relate a hand I saw earlier; not a lot changed hands but it shows the atmosphere on the table:

The cutoff raised to 600 and Henning (on the button) said something along the lines of "You trying to steal my button?" before calling, while the big blind called too.  Flop: 8c 3c 7s checked round.
Turn:  Kd check-check and Henning couldn't help himself betting 1,200.  Pass-pass and a showing of A-9 from a more comfortably-stacked Henning.
Mark told the preflop raiser, "He's calling your raises with A-9 now, you got him set up!"  He's not been knocked down yet, though...

Just got in from the casino, 4.2am here.

Great updates as per usual:

If you get the chance can you say hi to Gary Harrington from me? Thank you in advance. (i'm hoping he is still in)

Neighbours Pab and Thewy, both with a bit of give in the wrist:

gl Jules, JP. Also snoop-a-loop, is Azad Pirooti playing today, shouldnt be too hard to find if he is, plays with a buddha statue by his side, if you recall from previous epts.

Cheers, Jules

Our adopted Spaniard Pablo Rua just was involved in a huge pot.

Chips all in on a Ts Ahrt 9h board.

Pablo:

9s 9c

Mateyboy:

Ad Kh

Turn:

6c

River:

3h

He's above 20k now.

Elsewhere, this is Azad Pirooti of 'Team Buddha', he's got about 12k at the moment. According to George Danzer, he won the Sunday Million on Stars twice in 6 weeks.

Thank you for the pic of Gary, Looking his usual happy self.

Hi to any of the cornish clan looking in

I'm not there, Julian.

Ye he did, most recently as ZIGENAAREN two weeks ago.

Apologies snoop, didnt realise :(

hi gbraham

Hes not all there either snoops :)

Hi Monkey,

Jen if you get the chance, could we know who is on Gary's table please. Thank you

Hi Tim, you and your good lady keeping well i trust. You not playing in this one?

no mate - monte carlo and dublin tho :) - hazel is well - never mind tho!

Lee Mulligan who was down to 3k just made a very nice move. Scandie raised from the button Lee called from the big blind and moved in on a 8s Kh 5d board, Scandie eventually mucked. Lee shows Qs Jh.


Joe Beevers with about 9k.

Mats Iremark (enough chips to stop playing about with his Rubix Cube) over 20k now.

Iwan Jones (I think he's explaining to the Scandies how he's going to take their chips :D) 10.2k.

hi graham
how's it going?
 have been checking on mr harrington he seems to be doing allright i forgot to ask who was on his table :)lol

hi,how manyleft?knocked out??

Hi Dave i'm good thanks, yes gary's doing ok, well he's still in, thats the main thing

how was the curry "fingers"

where are you graham,is ir vegas?
where are you staying?

I wish you well for those my good friend, and i'm sure hazel would say the same lol

how is DC doing?????

No, though could be next on the agenda, i;m in the Philippines at the moment

CHIP COUNTS:

Claus Schumacher   37,000
Tommy Dender        1,700
John Shipley           4,100
Dirk Specht             16,400
Dilba Denurbarg        13,200
Daniel Ryderman       6,400
Jim Kerrigan            17,000
Dave Colclough         6,600
Anders Wijk               9,250
Praz Bansi                 12,600 
Bad Girl                     17,200
JP Kelly                     12,800   
Torstein Iversen         14,000
Mike Tse                    7,450
James Feeney            5,175
Pablo Rua                  24,000
Bruce Atkinson           14,150
Johnny Lodden           30,000+
Tony Mackay              22,700
Pab                          15,750
Carlos Ferron            30,000+
Sven Hoffelner           8,025
Iwan Jones               11,800
Julian Thew             23,450
Steve Vladar             23,100
Osman Mustanoglu        10,000  (Yes, exactly where he started 6 hours ago, as he told me resignedly)
Edmund Carter            50,000+ (chip leader by a good 10k or so)
Thomas Wahlroos          15,700
Mads Andersen         13,900
Christian Grundtvig    6,800
Lee Mulligan            3,400

Anyone else?

got friends in the philipines ,cebu ,i think

When these counts were taken the blinds were just finishing on 150/300 and heading into 150/300 ante 25.  Players remaining:  178.  It's going to be a long week.

how about mr harrington plse ?

Gary Harrington please

he's our cornish hero :)

how was the curry   ??   fingers??

nice bit hot tho lol

whats the prize structure??

how many to the bubble??

Snoopy, hope you are feeling somewhat better

Tell Lee - "Nice move".  Beat them at their own game.  :)up
 
Unlucky with the rivered flush against his straight though.

Prize structure will be confirmed tomorrow when we know how many entries there are. We're guessing at them paying out 48 to 50 with around €650,000 to €700,000 for first place.

Oooh a double Red-dog level

thankyou

We hear that there may not have been the full 250 players present today - I noticed quite a few playerless chip stacks and I think the total may have been 241.  Will the extra nine play tomorrow or will the field be short by a table or so?  Who can say... tune in tomorrow for the thrilling conclusion...

This was your pre-break chip leader, Mr. Edmund Carter

John Shipley is OUT, no details I'm afraid.

El Blondie is also OUT, having been hovering around the starting stack, he was getting shorter and limped on the button with 8d 7d after utg limped. The big blind checked and the flop came a likable 8c 8s 2h. Sadly the big blind was holding Ac 8h....

Andreas Hagen has eliminated a scandieboy on his table:

He called a raise from the blinds and the flop came Qs 2c 6s.

Both checked before Hagen check/raised scandieboy's 1200 turn bet to 2700 when the Jc came only to have the latter push for another 5,150. Hagen really didn't like the 3-bet and called the extra 5k (which he could well afford) saying, "Show me Jacks..."

Instead he was shown the Ad Qc which was drawing dead to Hagen's 2s 2h and the Js river was academic.

Mats Iremark sitting opposite Johnny Lodden.


Bet that table will be really dull.


Mats Iremark Rubix Cube Count: 4 times and still going.

An exercise in river control for Pab now, who got into a hand with Bradley Cowling** - they saw a flop of 2h 3h 6c and Pab bet out 1,500, got minraised and called.
Turn:  Jc  This time Pab check-called the 1,500 bet.  If you're wondering what was going on here, you're not the only one...
River:  9c  Pab checked again and Bradley moved in for his remaining 3,100.  Pab squirmed for a little while, before eventually passing, showing the Jh.

His opponent showed him the mighty-on-the-river 9s 9h...  Pab said he passed the J-7 of hearts which he felt suddenly was no good at all on the river.

And Lee Mulligan is OUT -

Short stacked as the blinds get heavier, he made a stand with 6c 6h and ended up racing A-K (of Emo Wim, I've been informed).  Two Aces on the flop made it look unlikely that he would survive that confrontation, and indeed the APAT Qualifier has left the tourney.  He looked like he was suffering a bit of that post-knockout adrenaline comedown, but it looks like he's also greatly enjoyed the EPT experience.

Hi can we have update on Gary Harrington the cornwall labrooks player. my first post lol Thanks  Hi to Graham

Unlucky Lee.  If that club hadn't hit earlier - you'd have been laughing.

Hope you enjoyed it.  :)up

Just finished 2nd in tonights Blonde Poker Tourney, my KK lost to Claws QQ (Q on the flop) good game good fun.

Hello to a few more of the Cornish contingent coming in, Tonights "wrecking and smuggling" must be over

Iwan Jones' chip stack is looking ropey after a losing confrontation with Tens against AQ (having Morten Erlandsen on the button on his blind can't be the easiest situation to manoeuvre in).  Just now he raised on the button and found a non-believer in small blind Jim Kerrigan.
Flop:  5d Qc Qd  Must have gone check-check
Turn:  6c  Now Jim bets out 1,500 and Iwan folds, showing Aspades Kd.  Jim sheepishly reveals the Qh.

"He didn't believe me raising on the button," says Iwan, correctly.
"He had me dominated," admits Jim, "I had King Queen.  Three outs, and I hit two of them at once."

Blinds are now 200/400 with a 50 ante, so with it being almost 1k a round the short stacks like Elky (3k) better start getting a move on.

Yes, indeed.  He has 22,800, comfortably stacked, but not comfortably positioned - look how he's sat (in order) between:
Henning Granstad, Mark Bartlog, James Feeney, Gary, Torstein Iversen, Pab 

He looked confused when I told him I knew who he was because Cornwall was watching.

  ;D ;D ;D  Hello Hope all is going well in the tourney! If it is possible ;hattip; can you let me and everyone else in cornwall know how Gary Harrington  ;tightend; ;tightend; is getting on!!  Many Thanx from all in Cornwall  ;mexicanwave; ;mexicanwave; ;mexicanwave; ;mexicanwave; ;mexicanwave;

Easy table then lol, Gary ALWAYS looks confused!!!! but thank you for letting him know we are here

After I mentioned Elky... guess what happened... ::)

Any Idea what time they will be playing till please, 6.45am here, i need to sleep, i'm not as young as i used to be

Thanks for that what a great job u r doing!!!!!!! Go Gary!! The players wont worry him! Much better ones in cornwall lol

Elky tripled up, that's right, I'm no bok! His Qc Qh held against 8s 8c and another passed hand on a 5c 2h 6d Th 5h board.

But the BEST ONE moved away

JP -- 18k "I turned quads and he came out firing 4,000..."

Julian -- 16k "I've been moved tables 4 times, and I'm guessing this table will be broken in the next hour or so..."

Bad Girl just had a curious 'almost double-up' from a scandie. On a Ac 5c Ts 2s board she bet 2k with 4k back. Scandie min-raised and she quickly pushed and he insta-passed.

Flying the flag for

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Third time's the charm (sorry) for Tony Mackay...

The only GUKPT hat-wearer in the room has a real problem with the dealers here - the local rules (the team is mainly local, not the usual EPT dealers, and even Thomas Kremser is absent) state that players have a minute to act, before they are prompted by the dealer.  That doesn't, of course, hold in a tournament like this, but there have already been three incidents where the toys have gone out of the pram, managers called and instructed to get it right.
"Bollocks to your f***ing rules!" he rants, after passing the Ad on a Kd Ahrt 6s 2s board on the big blind to the small blind's all-in move.
If the player saying he was relieved at the pass doesn't tilt him, the dealers eventually will.

At least another three hours.  The field is almost too large to be crammed into four days, otherwise.

someone get jules a nice expresso after the nightmare trips hes had in last few days he must be feeling it now- hows he doing as well please jen?

can someone take a trip down to the local schenimbiss (sorry my german spelling is worse than my english) and bring me back a currywurst mit pommefrittes

and some apple korn

Julian's just been moved to Osman Mustanoglu's table, where his blind has been shamelessly raised from mid-position (albeit with an "I'm sorry I have to do this" shrug).  I think he's still decently - above average - stacked, but will be going on another chip count hunt soon.

The room has been pretty thoroughly scrambled with the moving and the table breaking - Pab's moved twice and we've lost and found several players many times.  Some are actually gone, though, like Iwan Jones.

Signing off for now! Would like to wish  Ad Ac   Gary Harrington   Ahrt Aspades the best of luck and will catch up tomorrow whilst he's on his way to the final table!!!!! Fly the Flag for Cornwall Gary. ;mexicanwave; ;mexicanwave;

Just caught up guys great work as usual  ;tightend; ;tightend;

just noticed 12 guests watching and 37 in total on the forum. Now people you have been told its free and easy to join so i can only assume this is a relative of yours. ( unless you register you'll never know)



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then again aren't the cornish descended from the welsh  :dontask:

Rule 32 from the EPT website:

Calling for the clock procedures: Once a reasonable amount of time has passed and a clock is called for, a player will be given one minute to make a decision. If action has not been taken by the time the minute is over, there will be a 10-second countdown. If a player has not acted on his hand by the time the countdown is over, the hand will be dead.

But it does also say this as a preliminary to the rules:

 
Section B: In the first series of the European Poker Tour ("EPT") it is hoped that each venue will adhere to the following rules and regulations. However, due to local gaming body guidelines there may be minor differences between events, but it is our ultimate intention to have a standardised set of rules applying to all poker tournaments within the tour schedule.

In the event of any disputes, the Tournament Director's decision at each venue on the 'EPT' is final.

Players are advised to familiarise themselves with any local rules and regulations before entering the tournaments held there.

They have been told numerous times its FREE lol

Who seems to be chipleader??

I knew i was tired, got the wrong quote 1st time round, superb work as always, will catch up later, thank you and goodnight/morning wherever you may be

Some chip leaders now, the first one is Andreas Hagen who has around 64k and is now sitting in between Mats Iremark and Johnny Lodden.

The others I'm not sure of but they have circa 60k, 45k and 40k.

ty
..and the Rubix cube, still warm?

I imagine it is dangerously close to melting from the friction of the compulsive puzzling.

lol
that´s my boy

We're on a break, currently, about to come to an end.  About half the field has gone, but they've still got a good few hours left today and signs of fatigue are beginning to show in the players.  It's red bull hour here in Dortmund.

The third gent says, "Tell them the chair of the Danish Poker Federation has 60k!"  So there.

Neil the pokerstars photographer and I have another theory, we think he actually just has layers of sticky coloured paper on the cube and peels them off when no-one is looking.

Is that Kerrigan fellow still in ?? if so, bout time he done something in one of these " tell him if u get the chance " .....Great job

Elky is OUT and there's a Thewy-shaped object in his place, next to the chair of the DPF who is now the chip leader with around 82k.

Well played Lee....unlucky against the rivered flush.

Cheers,

Des.

Jim Kerrigan -- 36,000.

Mats Iremark gains a few chips increasing his stack to 34,000 while taking those few off Johnny Lodden... I surmise he bet the Kh 9d Qs flop, with a call, then on the 3c turn he made a 5,700 bet which put Mr. Lodden to a decision.  The result of that decision was: No, which leaves him with 23,000 or thereabouts.

Elsewhere and Bad Girl chooses a bad time to "Gamble!" calling a very short stack all in from the small blind with Kh Qs.  The short stack fllipped Kc Kd
The Js Jh 4c flop gave plenty of hope, however, but the blank-y turn and Ks on the river doubled up the short stack.  She still has plenty (over 20k) however.

Sigi Stockinger bets 3k on an Ad Qs 6h 8s 4s board and gets a reluctantly matey to pass adding another 5k or so to his stack.

Other counts:

Henning Granstad    20,425
Mark Bartlog           11,200
James Feeney         18,000
Gary Harrington        16,400
Torstein Iversen        6,100
Paul Foltyn               15,300
Karl Mahrenholz        22,000
Sigi Stockinger         13,000
Volker Karran           15,700
Carlos Ferron            26,000
Praz Bansi                14,150
Bruce Atkinson         14,000
Julian Thew              25,000  (Quite liking the table he's arrived at after his fifth seat change)
Steve Vladar            30,000
Jim Kerrigan             36,000
Joe Beevers             17,400     

There is a real lack of aggression on the tables at the moment, very few hands going to a showdown, meaning that everyone is playing extremely tight. Hopefully the last couple of levels will kickstart some action and give us some hands to talk about.

*******BREAK*******
The last hand before it, JP moved in over the top of another short stack (both with just over 10k)... on their backs and it was JP's Jc Jd vs. all-in's 6d 6c.  A Jack on the flop confirmed his aheadness and gave him a proper stack.  He has really fought his way up in chips today, from that measly 3k in the first levels up to over 17k and now topping the 20k mark.

There are definately two more levels to be played tonight.  Marathon, yes - justified by structure and number of runners, yes.

Meanwhile Pab has dropped to 10k from the heights of 17k. First he got pushed off Queens on a King high board when someone moved in, then he raised A-J and released after he was re-raised. He's returning to the fray looking for spots to push.

James Feeney is OUT - having called a preflop raise with Ac Qc, the flop came Tc Jd 2c and when the raiser bet he simply pushed and waited... the call eventually came from Kc Jh and no hit later, he's on the rail.  Wearing both a Gutshot T-shirt and Pokerstars jumper...

Action Action Action!!!


Gary Harrington moves all-in from early position fairly short. Torsten Iversen moves all-in straight after him, also short. Pab moves all in TOO after the pair of them, covering both.

Everyone else passes.

Gary Harrington:

8c 8s

Torsten Iversen:

7d 7h

Pab:

Ks Kh


Flop:

Kc Ac 9c

Pab liked that first card and hated the next two since Gary was the only one with a flush draw.

Turn:

Jd

River:

Td

Meaning both Harrington and Iversen are eliminated and Pab now has about 24k.

still waiting for my takeaway order i think the helicopter has gotten lost can you reorder and send asap as i am starving

We don't have any of that but I found a big bowl of twiglets in the press room...

Julian checks a 3d Js 8s flop to Scandieboy.

Scandie bets 3k, Julian makes it 6.1k. Scandie passes.


Elsewhere a little Mateyboy squared action on Bad Girl's table as as shorty pushes in with Ks 9d and is called by the button's Th Td.

Board:

Qd 6h 5h Kd 5c.

Karl Mahrenholz is up to 40k or so.  I asked him what happened.  "I had Aces."  Pause.  "I had Deuces.  But I played them like Aces."
It turns out he'd called an all-in for 10k or so and found A-J - no hit and he scooped a big pot with a small pair.

Joining the contention for Chip Leader is Jim Kerrigan, who now has 60,300... hot on the heels of Frederik Hostrup with his 59,400.  Still no breakaway chip monster, although I still say the leader at the end of play will have broken the 100k mark.

number of players left?

Other counts from the somewhat weary penultimate level:

Osman Mustanoglu  22,800
Mark Bartlog           37,500
Henning Granstad    32,500
Paul 'Pab' Foltyn      31,000  (Just saw him break that 30k mark by stealing some blinds - I think he feels like that high point is a breakthrough)
Tony Mackay          14,000
Mats Iremark           26,300
Edmund Carter        38,000
Johnny Lodden        30,400
Julian Thew             26,000
Steve Vladar            36,000
Jim Kerrigan             60,300
Thomas Wahlroos     21,800
Pablo Rua                54,000

Mats Iremark is OUT and can concetrate on his rubix cube, he made his stand with 5d 6h and ran into pocket Queens receiving little help on the 5-J-7-8-T board.

Julian lost a chunk of chips with 8c 8d on a 4d 4s 2h board when his opponent moved in with Ac Aspades and Julian was pot commited and the turn and river came 3h and 7h.

Fredrik Haugen is the chip leader with around 84,000.

Steve Vladar, who has quietly built up his stack all day. Sitting with over 30k now.

Johnny Lodden calls a raise and sees a T-3-3 flop against one opponent. Johnny checks. His opponent bets out 5k, Johnny makes it 10k. His opponent makes it 25k. Johnny makes it 50k. Eventually he gets a fold from his opponent. Lodden shows A-5.

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And with that, Johnny Lodden (nicknamed, bravely, by one of our American counterparts 'J-Lo') becomes chip leader, with 85,000.

And the blinds are now 600/1,200 ante 100, so those 20k stacks and under (JP teetering on the edge of that set with 20,000 and Bad Girl and Tony Mackay under it) are looking to get a few more before the end of play at the end of the level.

julian is still in and fighting isnt he?

Praz just lost a 40k pot. The board was 2h 3c Qc and Praz put another stack all-in with his 3s 3h only for the slightly shorter stack to call for all his chips with Kc Jc.

A 7d turn but a 5c river sent the pot the other way.


He went out shortly afterwards with A-T into J-J.

The two letter answer?

With only 9k after that Eights hand, he picked a loose raiser and pushed in with A-9.  The raiser had Tens and a tired looking Julian is on his way to the taxi queue.  We feel like he's been one of the struggler-builders, like JP and Praz (more on this in a sec) and are sad he's out.

The two letter answer?

With only 9k after that Eights hand, he picked a loose raiser and pushed in with A-9.  The raiser had Tens and a tired looking Julian is on his way to the taxi queue.  We feel like he's been one of the struggler-builders, like JP and Praz (more on this in a sec) and are sad he's out.

With just eight minutes left to play today, JP Kelly is eliminated...

After a long day of struggling from 3k to 20k and gently yo-yoing between that and 15k or so, he decided to move in, not so short as to be instacalled, mind you - he found a caller, however with Aspades Kd, and although his Qd 9c was live, the Kh 6c 6s 6d Js was pretty definitive.  A tough day ground out pretty well, and then an eleventh hour exit.

A couple of counts before they disperse (it's officially GAME OVER here and it's gone worryingly quiet.  Like taxis might be rare):

Henning Granstad     80k  (a last level leap to top five in chips)
Osman Mustanoglu    OUT  (A harsh beat all-in preflop with AA vs QQ - board 8-9-J...A...T)
Mark Bartlog              45k
Karl Mahrenholz         49,500
Sigi Stockinger            OUT
Joe Beevers                48k
Andreas Hagen           68k
Bad Girl                      17k
Bruce Atkinson            21k

Yes, folks, Chris is getting some final pics of the remaining tables, then it's a wrap....

We hold out little hope of chip counts tonight, but I'm just about to start the Day 2 threads so feel free to speculate....

OK, they finished before I could get a picture, natch. So here's a couple of tables sorting out their chip bags.

The first one includes our friend Pablo with 76.3k

The second features the unstoppable juggernaught that is Johnny Lodden, he has 101.4k. Chip leader, I'm guessing.

wow just caught up with this thread at the final whistle. Its the first time i have followed a live update on blonde but will be following intently from now on. Great work dijinn and floppy. God i love the EPT!!!!!!!!!

EDIT- as i was logging off blonde noticed thewy on this thread, so just thought id say unlucky mate!

Ok guys we are done now. Back at 2pm GMT tomorrow (3pm here) for Day 1B whose runners include Roland De Wolfe, Ram Vaswani and Micky Wernick. We'll post a full list of the Day 1A chip counts here when we get them later.

 ;stickaforkinme;

Just caught up with all the news. Top reporting as always, thank you very much.

Gutted to read Gary got knocked out, unlucky mate, at least he was infront and didnt outdraw you.

You have done Cornwall Poker PROUD mate very well done, now go and enjoy the rest of your time in Dortmund

 WOW !!!! amazing.

Great updates per usual guys :)up.......looking forward to day 2.

Thanks to all my freinds from Cornwall (and Phillipines) for the support was well appreciated,Was very tough here but totally enjoyable see you soon back in Gods country lol

still waiting for my currywurst

Just caught up with this. Great update.

Unlucky Mr Thew. Best of luck to Pab.