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It's officially Day 1B, although they're not scheduled to start until 3pm...

Overnight chip counts from Day 1A will be put up here as soon as we receive them/ pre start of play.

bit racist.

OK we're here, and so are around 250 players, just kind of hanging out downstairs.  We're back in the press room a little further from the action, but the action is currently restricted to people registering, eating snacks and trying to get into the tournament foyer. 

But I'm sure you'll all be delighted that NoflopsHomer is getting many a picture of the DTD girls, who are posing in the grey rain outside...

Overnight Chip Counts:

Lodden Johnny (Norway) -- 101400
Hansen Brian (Denmark) -- 88600
Granstadt Henning -- 84700
Haugen Fredrik (Sweden) -- 83400
Hostrugs Frederich (Denmark) -- 79900
Rua Pablo Luis (Spain) -- 76300
Paasonen Mika (Finland) -- 71700
Hagen  Andreas (Norway) -- 70600
Schepphorst Malrus -- 65500
Bartlog Mark (Germany) -- 64400
Van den Berg Thierry (Holland) -- 58300
Rasmussen Jacob (Denmark) -- 57000
Demirbag Dilba (Sweden) -- 51600
Kerrigan Jim (UK) -- 51000
Specht Dirk (Germany) -- 50900
Beevers Joe (UK) -- 49900
Vortmann Jens (Germany) -- 48800
Morad Qushqar (Afghanistan) -- 48500
Mahrenholz Karl (UK) -- 48300
Stek Romco (Holland) -- 45100
Liesy Marco (Germany) -- 44100
Blanco Cristiano (Italy) -- 43900
Andersen Alan (Denmark) -- 43800
Schweitzer Daniel (Austria) -- 40300
Vladar Steve (UK) -- 39900
Lindberg Erik (Sweden) -- 39000
Eidsvig Trond Erik (Norway) -- 38000
Witved Jesper -- 37900
Tse Mike (UK) -- 37000
Bosch Oliver (Germany) -- 36600
Hansen Dennis (Denmark) -- 36500
Hoffelner Sven (UK) -- 36500
Ros David -- 34600
Dender Tommy (Denmark) -- 33500
Hansen Martin (Denmark) -- 32900
Moncada Edward (USA) -- 32400
Muecklisch Michael (Germany) -- 30900
Holm Henrik (Denmark) -- 29300
Rosetta Emmanuel (France) -- 29000
Mankowitz Danny (Norway) -- 27300
Wharmby Gary  (UK) -- 27300
Mackay Tony (UK) -- 26800
Gustafsson Michael (Sweden) -- 25600
Ferron Carlos (Spain) -- 24100
Van Bum Nguyen (Germany) -- 23800
Schumacher Claus (Germany) -- 23500
Fazzone Davide (Italy) -- 20200
Lehtonen Samuel -- 20200
Barnes David (UK) -- 19700
Wahlroos Thomas (Finland) -- 19300
Ziegler Uwe (Switzerland) -- 18100
Foltyn Paul (UK) -- 18000
Hamidy Abdullah (Holland) -- 17500
Cowling Brad (Ireland) -- 17200
Holden Anthony (UK) -- 17000
Pham Xuyen (UK) -- 15600
Kammerer David -- 12300
Emo Wim (Holland) -- 9000
Hoelting Norbert (Germany) -- 6900

gl to any blondes playing today!

Strolling into the casino, looks like we are behind schedule again, I'm guessing another late start, 14.30pm GMT at the earliest.

Anyway Jen and I have this really weird journey to get to this casino which is up a hill in a forest. Basically, we have to travel up this road that's simply a winding staircase for about 10 minutes to get to the top, but the view is fantastic.

Oh, when we got to the casino, look who we bumped into...

The Boy Lodden - legend.

Does Marcel Luske, Juha Hellpi and Tony G play today or did I just miss their exit yesterday?

Marcel is certainly playing today, he won the German Invitational televised sit-n-go yesterday that lasted 7 hours (I'm reckoning it might have been better structured than the actual tournament), Jen is milling around downstairs at the moment so she'll have a list of names for you shortly.

Cincinnati Sid (Mike Caro lookalike) is playing today.  Can you wish him luck fae all the gang at Cincin's

Any chance of a wee photo of him in action...... please

Ok, we'll look out for him, you don't happen to have a picture of him do you?

Players spotted thronging the lobby:

Carlo Citrone
John Kabbaj
Barney Boatman
Ross Boatman
Ram Vaswani
Mickey Wernick
Ramzi Jelassi
Jonas Molander
Sebastian Riviere
Sverre Sundbo
Fabrice Soulier
Daniel Bertelsen
Marc Goodwin
Birgitta Johanssen
Juha Helppi
Martin Wendt
Roland de Wolfe
Noah Boeken
Theo Jorgensen
Rene Pedersen
Marcel Luske
Rino Matthis
Womble
Greg Amoils
Roy Brindley
Liam Flood
Ben Grundy
Jan Heitmann
George Danzer
Katja Thater

Bit Buttist!

Jan and George are now kind of Ambassadors of Poker in Germany, making the final (though, sadly, not the money) of that 'German Superstars of Poker' televised thing which looked like a lot of fun, although we probably won't get a chance to see it as it's only going to be broadcast here and in German. 

Anyway, we think it's funny that they are the German equivalent of like the Devilfish, or Negreanu  - probably a household name among 14-year-olds playing poker with their parents' credit cards with matchsticks.

Thanks for the updates - good work. Has Tony G been sighted?

Ok, we're guessing another 10 minutes and then we will have startage...!

How about a real name (unless his parents called him Cincinnati in which case I apologise)?

Ariston - Womble said he hoped you'd left enough food for the cat.  I hope that doesn't mean that you've been eating the cat food.

jen surely you reckonise sid from bB2 in glasgow the guy was the one wondering where all the people came from and where was he going to put them

also can you ask someone if they have wheelchair access just incase i go looking for a curywurst in future years

Sorry we have no picture on file.... he looks like Mike Caro.

A few blondite's will recognise him, It's Sid the owner of The Cincinati Club.

Cheers mate

tell womble ive just called back at the house and left 2 bags of dried cat food out for them. If they aren't greedy bstrds and eat it all today they will be fine. I've done my job now tell him to get his done ;)

Ok, we are off. Just spotted Ben Grundy and Micky Wernick sharing a table. Jen and I are off to get a few photos.

..and his name is.....?

do you have a full list of runners please

Bosom buddies, those two!

Wonderful!

Sid inonois or something like that its all greek to me

Looks like an easy day then......

Wow!

Aint even going to try and spell it...

I'll get Damon or Tina, his children to post his name.   Tikay you know him

have to say top show last night granddad. I had tears in my eyes at some of the hands and knowing they would be shouting down your earpice- he doesnt win with a ten etc. Brilliant TV and for the first time ever I felt sorry for you as you just kept digging lol. Im in Ireland Sunday so unfortunately will miss Sunday nights show.


anyway down to the serious stuff- is Woody Deck playing today?

Fair comment.

Yes, I know him, but it's tough for Jen & Floppy unless you can give them a name. "Handsome geezer" ain't much help.....!

Hello can u give a GL to Tonio(21) who is playing today.
All the member of teh "Dijon Poker Tean"  wish him a big s**t for this fisrt big tournement.
For a picture from him visit www.dijonpoker.fr (http://www.dijonpoker.fr)  "Membres/les membres" and Tonio is the "vice tresorier".

Here's a smiley Carlo Citrone who swapped days with DC, even though today's list makes it look like Dave got a second chance Day 1...  And beneath him, an undoctored photo to show you how dark it is in there.  I am lightening pictures, or using flash where possible, but I think we're meant to go easy on the latter, partly for the filming people and partly because it sucks as a player to have flash photography all around when you're trying to concentrate...

Yeah, I got in a right mess with that one. The earpieces from the Gallery don't give hand advice, just "we are struggling with the graphic, can you waffle for a bit please?". Can I waffle? They got the right man for that, if nothing else.

True Tikay,  I'll try and get the right spelling..... he's a guest of Littlewoods and Tony Chessa if thats any help.

He'd be made up if Jen could get a snap of him

Hi - sure, I found his little photo on the site, and will try to recognise him in the crowd...my sight isn't that hot, however, so if you know his surname, I could look him up on today's seating chart... and then get a picture...

On that table I was using as an example of the interesting lighting concept they have downstairs, I found Roy 'The Boy' Brindley, in a film noir bad guy kind of shadow:

Ben Grundy, Micky Wernick and Baden winner Thang Duc Nguyen. They all look like they are suspects in an Agatha Christie novel.

So who killed Roger Ackroyd? Was it A, B or C?

His surname is Tonio(fr) or Tonio(21).... Thanks a lot!
Wish him good luck from all the team at the same time.
Dont fall in his arm he is a Don juan  ;) :D

I swear that Sverre has a warning system to alert him when a camera is near by. :D

Is it my imagination or is day 1b of an ept event always have a stronger field ie all the big name players ?.

This one certainly does!

I imagine the "faces" fix it that way, saves them a day. No evidence of that mind.....!

good luck to Stuart 'The Nutter' Rutter!!


 ;applause;



any updates on The Nutter from The Blonde Team will be greatly appreciated!  ;thankyou;


 ;popcorn;

Jonas Molander feels like dancing...

He's on the same table as two of Jen's friends, Ramzi and Jan Heitmann. I'll get a photo of all three shortly.

of course he wont have yet but can you tell us when womble plays his first pot. The spread at the minute seems to be somewhere between saturday and sunday.

Go go go go go Jaffa - laddies newly sponsored pro!

All the best mate!!

The nutter is around where he started, and tells me he just got back from a while in Ghana.  Fully rested and ready to play, er, 3-4 on a K-K-2 flop.  Which hit running Fours.  Which he opted out of betting on the river.  Starting slowly, then. 

Hooray for Ramzi and Jan!  Taking it easy right at the entrance to the tournament area, so it's easy to keep an eye on that laidback yet action table.  Its full lineup:

Rifat Pavevic
David Asche
Ramzi Jelassi
Jan Heitmann
Christopher Andler
Flemming de Hoog
Stu Rutter
Sargon Ruya
Kristian Kjondal
Johan de Kruijf

lol, that sounds like our Nutter!!  3s 4c is premium and you know it!

Nutter is fresh from a stint in Africa where he was screaming alone in the jungle and taming lions, tigers, and bears with only a deck of playing cards, stripped from the 8's down

I totally disagree, I mean I looked around and the first three people I saw were errrr....Marcel, Ram and Roland... ::)

Ramzi & Jan - two lovely guys, both capable of winning this.

And here is Mr Rutter.

Sorry we have no picture on file.... he looks like Mike Caro.

A few blondite's will recognise him, It's Sid the owner of The Cincinati Club.

Cheers mate
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..and his name is.....?
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OK the best Caro lookalike with the name Soteris Iannou is here:  Have I got your guy?  He is unfortunately right in the middle of the room, and tough to get a direct line of photo as there's a 'proper' camera crew in the way at the moment.  Never mind - if he's the one, we'll follow him through today.

"Stripped from the 8's down"  Stuart is wearing a very jaunty scarf, looks like the wild sort... LOL Hornswaggle do you want my job? 

This is George Danzer, Jan Heitmann's friend and scarf connoisseur. He also finished 3rd in the World Heads Up last year in Barcelona.

Next to him in seat 10 in John Kabbaj, quietly going about his business.

Also on this very difficult to acess table is Barney Boatman.

Paul Gourlay, who tells me his best side is the other one, photographable from an area accessible only by jetpack.  So you get this side.

Seconded - Good luck Mr Kimber.

Any updates greatly appreciated.

Bring home some smoked bacon beer!

..and his name is.....?
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OK the best Caro lookalike with the name Soteris Iannou is here:  Have I got your guy?  He is unfortunately right in the middle of the room, and tough to get a direct line of photo as there's a 'proper' camera crew in the way at the moment.  Never mind - if he's the one, we'll follow him through today.



Jen your a star...Thats our man Sid

Go on Sid

trust me mate - he may bring the beer home but he certainly won't pay for it! I know from painful experience :)

Pmsl Tim

OK here he is, caught in the act of checking...

Oops forgot to say GL Jeff too.

Any news on Richard Wild aka wildrick, he'll be wearing a laddies top.

We interrupt this photo show to bring the news of (possibly the first) elimination:  I heard the words 'all in' and turned round to see Farid Meraghni moving in on the river of an 8c 8h Td 4s 6s board and getting called.  There wasn't 20k in the middle, so I reckon damage had been done to the all-in's stack prior to this.  Anyway, he mucked to Florian Langmann's 7d 8d and we're off to a flying start, compared to yesterday.

Im asuming womble will be on about 9825 allowing for anteing away but if you could check on him that would be nice tyvm . Oh tell him to give you the £20 I owe you for the kiss Jen and I will sort it with him when he gets back :)

Seems a bit more 'agreeeeesive' today, as Edgar Stuchly would say.

Roland De Wolfe bets 500 on the turn of a 9s 8s 7h 9c board, two players including Noah Boeken fold. One person calls. Roland then bets 1600 on the 3h river and is called, the other players asks, "Straight?" Roland shows 6d 5h and his opponent mucks.

Elsewhere Hans-Martin Vogl pushes all in on a 4s 5s 6h 3c 8h board for about 5k, with 6k in the pot already. Daniel Smits-Bertelsen thinks for a while and passes, I think Liam Flood and a couple of the other players put Vogl on a pure bluff there.


Finally, on the table in yonder distance an early position raiser makes it 300, (blinds are now 50/100). He's called in two spots before George Danzer makes it 1,550 from the small blind. The original raiser makes it 3,800 and everyone including George mucks pretty sharpish. Incidentally John Kabbaj is looking a bit short here, he's down to around just 3k.

Everywhere you look more recognisable people pop up:  Paul Testud next to Rob Hollink, Martin Green, Michael Greco next to Sebastian Riviere, and P.I. Slade next to Daniel Bertelsen...

There really does seem to be a discrepancy in the number of Big Names in Days One.  I don't care either way - it was pretty entertaining yesterday and we're looking at ten hours of fun today too.  Deep breath, second cup of coffee.

I think there is a direct correlation between Jen's happiness and the amount of pretzels in the vicinity. :D

Yes, yes he is.  And one of those more subdued black ones, so I missed him first sweep of that Hollink/Testud table.  But here he is, yawning already..

Bad news for Cincin Sid followers - your man is down to just 1,525 after a dramatically non-profitable first level and a half.  Just recently he lost a 3k or so pot (calling 1k on the 2h Ks 8d Jh board with Ad Qc and finding, when his opponent checked the 2c river, that he was against Aspades Kc) so cross your fingers for a double double-up!

Here's your man - sat next to Womble.  Real name Antoine Boudat (Tonio, not Womble), we think - thanks to Benjamin Gallen who, being French, is the best source of such information.

lol knew sid would be first out

JP and Iwan Jones have torn themselves from the online world and are looking for a cash game... these spring up as soon as dealers and tables are available to accommodate them.  They were still going at 4am when we finally taxied out of here. 

Meanwhile the tourney is on its first break - chip counts when they return.

Barney Boatman is gone, a lot of the damage was done apparently when held two pair of Kings and Queens, but his opponent had a set of aces. He then had Tc 9c against A-K and flopped a pair but Big Slick hit runner runner flush. Not sure where the money went in there.

We thought Ben Grundy had gone too, but in fact he'd been moved into Barney's seat, no major stack swings either way for him.


More definite is that Ram Vaswani is OUT. Recounted to me by one of the Ladbrokes guys, a guy sitting to Ram's right raised to 300 and Ram made it 1100 from the CO, everyone else passed and the original raiser called, and then check called Ram's 1800 bet on the Qc 2d 3c board. He then checked to Ram when the 5h came on the turn and Ram pushed and was instantly called. Ram was holding A-5 and was drawing pretty slim against his opponents pocket Threes, and indeed no four came on the river.

Ok, Jen is on chippy count alert. Are there any people we've not really mentioned so far that you would like us to keep an eye on?

is colchester kev still in .?

Just spoke to Womble - he's on just over 9,000. Said he might as well not have played a hand yet. He did play a few though, including one where he bluffed a few chips off to Brigitte Johansson.

I have a good view of Womble's table from where I'm set up in the gallery overlooking the tournament area so will keep you posted if I see anything or his chips stack changes significantly.

Is that really Womble, or a cardboard cut-out? Not much sign of life there.

I must say, Jen is on tremendous wordy-form today. As Floppy noted, it must be the pretzels. WTF ARE pretzels?

Thanks JR!

In other news, they brought the buffet out early and a lot of people were tucking in during the break. Womble's plan of action is to play a few more hands then nip out to tuck in while there's no queues. By play a few hands I assume he means pass a few hands...

Stop Press

Womble plays a hand!  He raised his big blind when there were two limpers and took down the pot.

You think he has started charging limpers tax this early?

I think he may have had a hand actually raab. Keep me in touch as this is the first time ever I'm sweating a % in him instead of the other way round lol.

Womble has gone....

...to get some food.

to the buffet?

no way is he out this early

May have just been a toilet break cos he's back already.

Womble's big blind again. There's a mid position raiser. Womble gives it up.

you aint seen womble when hes hungry raab, he could inhale a cow inside 30 seconds when hes starving. Give us details when he plays a hand rather than having a womble EPT thread lol. My guess would be he may play a total of 6 hands in the rest of the day.

Just spotted some hi fiving. The guy who did it busted somene who had trip deuces when he rivered a flush.

Counts from the other half of the room as the blinds go up to 75/150...

Ross Boatman       9,600
Richard Wild         10,875
Liam Flood            15,600
Carlo Citrone         10,275
Michael Greco       15,900  (The two Dusk Til Dawn players got drawn on the same table wouldyoubelieveit)
Sebastian Riviere    9,300
Marcel Luske         14,200
Noah Boeken        13,525  (The two Dutchmen, Flying and Pokerstars are also on the same table, with Noah in position to attack Marcel's blind...)
Stu Rutter            10,950
Ramzi Jelassi          13,800
Jan Heitmann        11,000
Priyan Demel         12,900
Katja Thater           6,575
Ian 'hotdog' Fieldhouse  14,000
Roy Brindley          11,500
Marcus Golser        31,500  (Chip leader, I'll warrant)
Juha Helppi            8,750
Tony Chessa          10,800
Martin Wendt         10,800
Roland de Wolfe     18,200  (Reassuring to see that even Superstars forget their phone chargers)
Mickey Wernick       11,100
Jonas Molander        7,000
Sverre Sundbo         3,000
Marc Goodwin         9,550

Womblecam

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=21206.0

Jeff Kimber -- 6,700
Cicinatti Sid -- 2,350 (Just saw him push on a Jh Qc Th board to take down a pot)
George Danzer -- 8,900
John Kabbaj -- 6,275
Ben Grundy -- 6k

Ben was well above 10k until moments ago, then in a 4-way pot on a 5h Qd 5d board, there was a bet of 500, called in one spot, before a raise to 1200. Ben made it 3k getting just the raiser calling. He followed up with a 2.5k bet on the Th turn which was called before his opponent led out 4k on the 6d river. Ben dwelt for about two or three minutes, as there was now 18k in the pot. Then the dealer actually said something along the lines of, "You have to make a decision." In effect calling a clock, although I was there for the whole hand and no player had called a clock on Ben. (Local german rules say that dealers can call clocks on players). Ben eventually mucked, though he did take exception to the dealer telling him what to do.

Michael Greco to the left of Sebastian Riviere - off to a good start.

Thanks a lot......

For a better view see this blog http://www.team770.com/blog_coverage/ (http://www.team770.com/blog_coverage/)

John Kabbaj next to the Panzer - not off to a good start

The board now says there are 233 players remaining from today's 257 starters. Average stack is just over 11k and there are 15 mins until the blinds go up.

Ordinarily we don't allow links (just for future reference) but your photos are so good that I'd like to leave this one...

Also your blog is in French so might be somewhat tough for us, although everyone can guess what 'Table de la mort' means...

Just a quick reminder that TONIGHT at 8.30 is our last comp on Tribeca before we move networks.

Tonight at 8.30 on blonde-poker (http://www.blondepokerleague.com/download) $30 NLHE Feezeout with 30 min blind levels.


See you at the tables.

Nice one Jen!

Barney Boatman (top) and Ross Boatman.  It almost comes as a surprise that they're not on the same table, the way the draw has fallen today...

Could u please tell Mr Cool that I need him to stay in the comp so I have someone to follow!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then ask him if he wants to play 18 ;scarymoment;

ty Djinn for giving us some news of tonio (dijon powwwwwa).
your coverage of copenhagen was excellent ,i hope it will be the same results for the french players.

Sverre Sundbo is after the title of climber of the day, having been down to just 600, he's now on a more modest 4,000.

We've now got another staggered dinner break, with half the tables getting a one hour dinner break whilst the others play the 100/200 level before having their break.

Level is now over and tables 1-13 are off on a dinner break. The rest play on. Blinds now up to 100/200.

I'd like to offer a heartfelt  ;sexybanana;*CONGRATULATIONS* ;sexybanana; to Stuart 'The Nutter' Rutter for not been the first one out this EPT!!

We are all very proud of you mate!   ;letsparty;

Keep  ;izimbra;




;karabiner; (recent picture of Stuart)

Micket Wernick is down to 4,900. He lost about 3,500 in a pot with K-Q v A-Q.

Just spotted a bit of table thumping. Nick Slade was the victim of the outdraw and the thump and looks rather unimpressed by the whole situation. He stepped out of his backwards facing chair, went for a bit of a walk, muttering to himself, then sat back down again.

you coming over for bB4? i fancy some easy chips

The blurry view from upstairs. And yes, that's Jeff Kimber in the red in the bottom right corner.

not this year, sorry about not being there for easy chips ;D

The gummy bears haved landed....an enormous bowl of Haribo sweets have entered the press room. They are currently being mobbed by Jen.

well i hope your in vegas later in the year when i finally fly the pond

I don't think I'd be as good though, my word power does not compare to yours!


I have done a thesaurus search of 'jaunty' though, so I might add that Stuart is looking 'dapper', 'debonair' and 'dashing' (while at the same time avoid the pitfalls
that the search offered in 'airy', 'gay' and 'whimsical').

I'll tell him it's imperative he remains in when it's his half of the room's turn to go on break.  Here's a pic for now.

If you r in vegas how could I miss that VALUE added action, see you there!!!

Carlo Citrone calls an under the gun raise to 400 from the big blind.  Flop:  Ac Aspades Th  Carlo checks, UTG bets 400, Carlo calls.
Turn:  9c  Carlo checks, UTG Matey checks.
River:  Ts  Now Carlo bets out 1,000.  UTG calls.  This is quite mysterious considering Carlo then immediately tries to muck saying, "You win," but is forced to show some rag type cards before UTG shows his Ahrt Qc....

I have a picture on file though...  ;hattip;

(http://www.blondepoker.com/files/images/Cincin'sSid_0.jpg)

Womblecam picture - with other neighbour Birgitta Johanssen.  Not sure what's going on with him chipwise at the moment, probably time to go back down and check while the first half are still on break.

Paul Gourlay made it 600 to go under the gun.  One mid-position caller, and one of the blinds re-raised another 1,000.  Paul called, and so did intermediate caller.
Flop:  2s 2d 7h  The re-raiser simply moved in now for 4,900.  Round to Paul who looks at the third player gauging how many chips he's got and then eventually calls.  The other guy gets out of the way, Paul shows Jd Jc which were actually good against 9s 9c, and stayed that way.

Hello

Is there a player there with the surname Clinton (his alias is ClintonO)?

I've been following his blog recently and was wondering how he's getting on.

Sry, I have no further information, but if you spot a Clinton anywhere on the list, please could you let me know.

More Gourlayaction.

First on a Jd 3c 4h Kh board he bets enough to put Ben Grundy all-in who passes quickly. Paul shows 3s 3h.

Next he limps in mid position and calls George Danzer's 800 chip raise before calling Danzer's push on a 9h 6h 2c. The latter action was done albeit quite reluctantly and included him asking other players if they felt George had Aces.

George:

Ahrt Ac

Paul:

9s 8c

Turn:

7d

"Lots of outs now," says Paul. George stays impassive.

River:

Jh

George up to 7k. Paul on around 30k still though.

The chip leader is Sebastian Ruthenberg who had pushed on a 4-T-5-4-Q board for 11.5k with 19.5k already in the pot. He found a surprising caller from a pair of sevens, which have put him up to 42k.

I'll have a look. He plays a lot on Crypto I think.

Do you know who here qualified with?

This is his blog for anyone who's interested.

www.clintono.blogspot.com (http://www.clintono.blogspot.com)

I've found him snoops, the very helpful Tony Chessa pointed him out to me. A Cryptologic regular, he's here sponsored by Littlewoods and at the moment, he has 10,350.

Thanks, Floppy.

Good evening Jen and Floppy, hope you are both well.

How is Ian "Hotdog" Fieldmouse doing ?

He kept that a bit quiet about playing in this.

Will find out for you now Ralph, I'm sure he started a thread about winning his seat somewhere a couple of weeks ago.

Pretty well, actually.  Over 20k currently, despite just getting away from a set of Deuces, like so:
A five-way limped pot, with a 2-3-6 flop.  Two checks, a bet of 900, Ian raised it to 2,200 and one of the blinds ("rocky") just pushed in over the top for 11,000.  Ian thought about it for a while, determined he'd shown enough strength for a bigger set or the flopped straight to do that (although he says he would have doubled the guy up if he'd just called and checked again on a blank), and laid it down.
He was shown the 4-5 just to confirm his suspicions.

What service  ;mexicanwave;

Only on Blonde.

Nice escape, Ian.

The Flying Dutchman Marcel Luske has been scuttled. Jacks versus Aces, with an ace on the flop for good measure.

Stuart Rutter's table has just returned from break.  When I saw his stack was now 15,300, he said, "I tried to give some of it to Ramzi the last hand before the break, but it worked out for me."  What had happened?  They'd seen a flop 6s 5c 2d.  Ramzi bet 600.  Call. 
Turn:  Qc  Now Ramzi bet 1,500, and Stuart (out of position, probably should have mentioned that before) check-raised it to 3,500 (he held 7s 7h, by the way, probably time to tell you that, too).  Call. 
River:  Td   Stuart bet out 5,000.  This is the crucial part where he considered himself to have gotten the hand to go his way - the bet was so large that even though Ramzi (with Ace-high) had pretty much sussed that Stu's hand was a bit dodgy, he couldn't really do much in the way of raising.  He still thought about it for ages before passing with what one imagines to be slight irritation. 
Stuart was in that funny position of knowing that he (Ramzi) knew that he (Stu) knew that he (Ramzi) knew his hand wasn't great, but couldn't do anything about it.  Silly game.

Thanks for the update!

Rutter knew nothing! Well done dude! Keep it up  ;sark;

Jonas Molander Makes Very Interesting Call News Now:
I wish I'd seen how this blind-on-blind hand with Jonas (sb) and William Malloy (bb) had gone all the way to the river, because they'd managed to get 7,400 in the middle.  The board:  Ahrt 5c 8s Ks Qc.  Jonas had checked and now faced a 2k bet from Malloy - he thought about it for ages.
And called what looked like a reasonably sized value bet with his 9c 8s
Willam Malloy showed Tc 8h.
Chop chop, amazingly.

hi guys any chance we can get a update on how Richard Wild aka wildrick is doing he qualified on ladbrokes poker.

any more news on sid is he still in?

Seems standard, Jonas is from Sweden, he may of been considering a value raise.

Good luck Clinton!....sent him £50 in bubble deal the other week....obviously put it to good use!!

Chip leader now is Tobias Holweger with about 50k. Piccy to follow.

Sitting next to him is Roy Brindley who just raised from UTG+1, to 475, the German next to him made it 1,175. Passed back to Roy who made it 3,475. German guy moves all-in fairly quickly and Roy passed instantly. (Surely the German guy should flat call the 3-bet, since Roy would have to fire on any flop?)

Jen has just been chatting to him. She'll bring you more.


He's just come back from the dinner break, so I'll find out how he's doing now.


Blinds are now 150/300.

Sid's three chips have become a whole short stack - 6,650

-------------------------------

Richard Wild seems in a great mood, is enjoying his table, has around 12k and has been watching Mitch and Spetson playing when he's not involved... Just come back after the break so photo op shortly.

One of the most intersting tables is right at the back - it has these players and stacks on it:

Ben Grundy    3,600
George Danzer   5,700
Paul Gourlay      22,000
John Kabbaj       6,800
Fabrice Soulier   30,000

George had a larger stack by, oh, about Fabrice's divided by two a minute ago, before he raced his 9c 9h against Ac Qd.  The board brought a wheely 2-3-4-4-5 and so he's back under 6k.

Goodwin update???   thanks

Goodwin was on about 13,000 at the break.

Wernick, who was down to 4,000 is back up to aroun d 7,000.

Not a bad poker face considering you're about to be abducted by aliens.

More counts for which I have no stories but they'd better go up now because they're probably inaccurate by the time I've climbed the stairs to the press room:

Nick Slade         15,000
Womble             8,750
Paul Testud       11,925
Rob Hollink         5,200
Antoine 'Tonio' Boudat   13,350
Martin Wendt          OUT
Sargon Ruya       8,500
Jan Heitmann      11,300

Our current Chip leader, Tobias Holweger with around 50k.

And our Baden winner Thang Duc Nguyen has about 30k.

thank u sir, how r u??

Please tell me he's going to come out from under that light with an enormous Afro.

Hi All,
Looking for imfo on March Schwartz thank you

any news on Jeff Kimber please?

Is this him pictured? If so he is going well with over 30k.


Jeff Kimber -- 14,800

Martin Wendt is OUT, something nasty sounding about a guy hitting runner runner straight.

Good luck to Soteris or Sid or Cid or MikeCaro or Saddam Hussein or the Cincinnati Adult or whatever we're calling him today.

Quodos to Snoopy for finding a picture of him on file from blonde bash 2.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=21170.msg429364#msg429364

what a clebba dog.

Here's Nicolas Levi, whom we met at a peculiar party (the Pokerstars one the night before the tournament).  It was down this somewhat deserted alley which every attendent felt might be the last place they'd see... but no, inside was a weird bar, half full of sand, with table football and free drinks.  This combination was a little odd.  Anyway, Nicolas had just under the starting stack last time I checked, but they're moving his table and it's hard to tell in transit.  He has the most distinctive hat at this EPT event.

That was not a picture of March thank you for trying

************************15 minute break**********************

That's it, I can't keep walking past that buffet every time I go in the tournament area. 

Hold your horses one minute - that was the wrong seat number, give us another go in 15 minutes when they restart.

(https://jaredlee.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/TS-155-TSC-72holdyo.jpg)

I've played againest Nicolas before, nice guy, and great hat collection it would seem.

Michael Greco Lays Down Kings News Now -

Michael probably wasn't loving the 3h Td Aspades flop, but his opponent's check on it made him tentatively bet 1k on the 7d turn, which was called pretty sharpish, and then he checked the 4s river.  5k at him and a bit of unnecessary self torture "I have a pair of Kings...Do you want me to call?"  to which he got the reply, "Call!" with an adamant sort of table slap from his opponent.  He flashed the Kings as they sailed into the muck and seemed annoyed by what he reckoned was his opponent's hit with Ace-rag, but which tablemates reckoned could also have been a monster AA. 

Fantabulous updates guys- Please send my best wishes to Pi slade and Pj Gourlay and updates on them both when u can please and thankyou x

......hello...

looks like the pfennigs have gone out on the meter :)

Mickey Wernick is on around 20k

Just saw Michael Greco lose a fair few chips.

Paul Gourlay is running well, on circa 25k.

tell him to sit still he might get on better

TIP FROM THE TOP for all the new players out there

registered today.. like it. will for sure come back when I move back to Germany from the US. good to see that the Europeans are getting better and better. here the US kids think they are wordlchampions....

153 players left now.

15 mins until the blinds go up to 200/400

The average stack is 17,000.

Funnily enough I've just got hands involving both of them. PI Slade called a raise in the big blind and check/raised the CO's 1500 bet on a Ks Ac Qs board to 3600. CO showed Ahrt before passing, Nick shows 8d 7h.

Elsewhere Paul bet 2000 on a Tc 2s 7h board and was check/raised by the scandie to 4,125 and passed. We have 10 more minutes at this level (150/300/25) before it becomes 200/400/50, meaning it's 1k a round and people start getting very loose. Or if you're a scandie, nothing changes.

PMSL

William Thorssen, 3rd at the EPT in Dublin, is sitting at a side table looking grumpy. So I think he might well be out.

Christer Johansen just flopped a Royal Flush, couldn't really get paid that much, but did take out a short stack who had pushed preflop.

I'm guessing a fair few will come over for the Monte Carlo Grand Final, it should be interesting to see how they fare against each other.

The blinds are now 200/400 with a 50 running ante.

They have not updated the number of players left for a while but its definitely less than teh 151 they are currently showing on the screens.

Any word on if  March shwartz is still in
Thank You

Is this your guy?  If so he's on the better side of 20k...

well some of us american kids are world champions ;dewi;

Action shot of PI Slade collecting some chips.  His table, it has to be said, has one of the higher player to complaint ratios in the room.  Just now a player made a contentious one-chip raise on the button which Nick thought should have been a call.  No, it went as a min raise - Nick called from the big blind.  The flop came down Ks Jh 9h and the button checked out of turn.  Nick bet 900 or so (an angry little pile of black chips) and the button promptly pushed in.  A minimum whinge and he passed. 

He still has 17,800.

Mickey has just won a big pot. Can't see the hand from here but he punched the air in my direction after the hand, so it must be a good one. Will try to get some details.

Will you be there?

Mr Goodwin still in or did he hit the back 9?

If I get my real work stuff done, off to Atlantic City this weekend for the wsop circuit, I am hoping but its 50/50 right now.i

Paul Gourlay is up to 40k. He showed down Aces on a 6c 5d 3c 2h Jd board and his opponent mucked and the 18k pot got shipped his way.

Elsewhere Thang Duc Nguyen is going very smoothly, on 45k as we speak. Somone to keep an eye on...

How is Andreas Hurtig doing (also known for having the highest IQ in europe), is he busted??

13,000 and possibly a little fatigued.  It sounded from his travel description like it was Goa (lovely), travel here (lengthy), get changed (quick), play straight away (lengthy).

Also still in:

Birgitta Johanssen   8,000
Antoine Boudat      8,200
Juha Helppi            20,000
Roland de Wolfe     36,800
Mickey Wernick       19,000  (more, actually, after whatever just happened happened)
Jonas Molander       15,500
Sverre Sundbo        15,000
Womble                 17,700
Nicolas Levi             12,900

FYP

I loved Monte Carlo last year, YOYO was my team manager and WE almost made a great comback. I would recommend that comp to anyone!!!!!!!

I was told I even made the TV final cut w/ the 1 and only hand that I played at the TV table, have not watched it myself yet.

 

Katja Thater has just come into the pressroom, so I'm guessing she is OUT.

Incidentally, if you had been wondering what Ben Grundy had when the dealer had the clock on him, he was holding pocket Kings, he'd flatcalled a raise (or re-raise,) hoping to trap the original limper (or raiser). But he's managed to grind up from 6k he was on up to 13,600 at present time.

How is Stuart 'The Nutter' Rutter doing ?

Hi All.  Any news on roy brindley please,

OK, that Mickey Wernick double up.

LAG in seat 4 raises to 1,700. Mickey flat calls with  7h 7s

Flop

  Kc 7d 2s

LAG bets 3,000. Mickey raises 5,000. LAG goes all in.

LAG has  9h 4c !!!

Turn is  Kd River is  6s

LAG shrugs his shoulders.

Mickey is on around 40,000 now.

So who's out?  Stu Rutter, in unfortunate circumstances -

He ran two pair into sets twice to knock him down to 7,000, then found Kd Kh under the gun.  He raised.  Small blind Jan Heitmann decided now was the time to push for his slightly shorter stack, with Aspades 5c.  The suits have been approximated.
The board came:  spade spade othersuit-rag Ks...(you must know what's coming next) spade - to fourflush Stuart out of the tournament, pretty much.  Jan said he'd buy him a drink.

I saw him in the restaurant area and he was implausibly chirpy.  "Am I meant to look disconsolate?" he said, beaming.

Also sitting railside is Cincinnati Sid, whose comeback lasted well into level six, it looks like.

I can't find Roy Brindley either, but that one's not conclusive.

Nice to see people take a bad beat with dignity

Thanks for the updates!

 ;stickaforkinme;

will post final chip counts.... oops




I mean, have a good rest of the day!

Ok Rab, i'm the sucker... Whats a LAG?????

womblecam is doubting your womblecount. Any chance you could confirm when you get chance please Jen?

Loose Aggressive

I notice that they have now demoted the number of todays runners from 257 to 256 on the info screens, 142 of whom are still in.

Damn, i feel so stupid... wish i'd pm'd now lol

Marc Goodwin is having a back massage. Looks like he's still asleep though.

cant believe you dont know what a LAG is  when most of your poker buddys are LAG's    LOL

no jen thats nick he's a s'LAG lol great updates guys x

Your man has 11k.

lol ello's m8. Your the king lag

Jan Heitmann and Ramzi are both OUT.

Jan had Ace Queen against 6h 8h all in preflop and the flop contained both the 7h and 5h and his opponent hit one of his two bazillion outs. No info on Ramzi, but Jan also mentioned that he (Ramzi) was very card dead for most of the day.

Close but i would class him more in the Donkey Type, but you could confuse him as very LAGisssssssshh   ( sorry Nick)
LOL

Not King i think  Lawrence and Jules come b4 me  lol, Hi buddy hows family see you soon

great work with the update guys, can you find out how many left, highest stack, ave stack, lowest stack and what chip count richard wild has plz ?

Updates on PI slade and Gourlay please guys, Gourlay's been on great form recently. See u soon chubbs m8. Prob Cardiff!

 :hello:
No, that smile will do very nicely.

Chip Rough Classifications (because the break was 4 minutes away):

Big Chip (40k+)
Fabrice Soulier (42k) Marcus Golser, Florian Langmann (82.3k), Mickey Wernick (45k)

Little Chip (>15k)
Marc Goodwin, Martin Green, Nicolas Levi

Nick Slade, who was just in the Little Chip area, just suffered some kind of beat which had left him with under 10k.  Then - a limp from the cutoff, button Marcus Golser raised to 2,000 and big blind Slade moved in.  Call.
Marcus showed:  Jc Jh
Nick showed:  Tc 7d  (tilt?  resteal?  I say both)
The board came:  Kh Th Ts 8d Ac and Nick should have a playable stack now, if he keeps his temper...

Roland De Wolfe, here shown in 'casual attire', is lurking around and has built up a 47k stack.

Go On Nick aaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaar

AyARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR


What's roland got on his t-shirt?

Matt,

So now you know what a LAG is, what go you think a TAG is?

Marc Goodwin may well be out. Someone else is now in the seat he was in.

Tight assed git?

This is Tomas Brolin, former Swedish International Footballer, not so fondly remembered if you're a Leeds or Crystal Palace fan though.


Also on this table is Geir Inge who just doubled up. The scales tipped from being a possible double up to an almost certainty when his opponent caught the perfect turn card.

Geir Inge:

2h 2d

Mateyboy:

Ac Ts

Flop:

Ts 8c 2c

Do you see where this is going?

Turn:

Tc

Dream card. (Apart from the 2s obviously). Chips shower down into the centre of the table.

River:

Qc

"50p in the tin..." says Ian Fieldhouse - and indeed what was a healthy 22k+ stack is now under 10k, it looks like.  He did, in fact, suffer a bad beat.  And by that I mean he got his money in well ahead, after a player called for his whole tournament life with a dominated hand, and lost.  An actual bad beat, rather than a cold-deck bad beat (AA cracked by KK, King on the flop type), or a not really bad beat (race, sucked out on by draw).

The situation - he found Aspades Ks under the gun and made it 1,200 (the blinds were 200/400).  Matey raised a further 2,500 (leaving himself 8k behind) and when Ian pushed in he instacalled with K-J.  7-9-T-J and the river helped not at all.  Bit of a struggle now.

Very good. I was hoping you were going to say "Is it Tight Aggressive?", to which I would have replied
"no, it's a watch."

Looks like half lady half prawn.

Coool :-) x

Trust me i'm not that clever.... you out-played me :-))

Ariston had a fish on his t-shirt once.... turned out he was topless....

Update on PI slade and Gourlay please team

FAREWELL PICTURES of the eliminated, which I found in my camera:

Farewell Tony Chessa, in disguise and graded 'B'
Farewell Ramzi, pensive over short stack
Farewell Jan Heitmann, who has an unfair advantage in chip tricks as he can do magic
Farewell guy with red hair who tilted Nick Slade by shouting, "Mansion sponsor you and you call with Q9?" but then made up and shook hands later.

So is Cincinnati Sid still in or out?? Everyone here has a different meaning to sitting railside!!!  ;carlocitrone;

Cheers

Floppy on Jen's comp here. We've lost our EPT Copenhagen Winner Magnus Petersson. He raised in mid-position to 1900, Paul Gourlay made it 4k from the button, which was flat-called by the big blind. Magnus then pushed for around 15k more. Paul quickly passed, what I later discovered was A-Q. The bleach blonde big blind, (try saying that with your mouth full of jelly babies) dwelt for a little while before calling with Jacks, Magnus showed Ace King. The flop came with a Jack and no help for our last EPT winner. I asked the big blind his name but all I got was a scrawl on a piece of paper. Perhaps some expert sleuthing, (this could be a job for Slade P.I) is needed to find out his name.

Good Line  LOL

I'm afraid it means he's out.

They have just started level 9, which is 400/800 with a 100 running ante. 99 players are left and the average stack is 25,858.

Thanks jen...and well done Sid!!!We're all still proud of you!!!

How is Jonas "Molle" Molander, member of Team GNUF, holding up?

Hi all, we have lost our hero Tonio but I want to thank you for giving us the best coverage...
Thanks to jen end snoop to try to satify each of us... this is what makes the difference

Any time.  ;hattip;

hehehe

lol at snoppy getting the credit

He's feeling ill.  Let him have it.  A big hand for Snoopy.  And thank you for your support, it keeps us going through hour 9+.  :)

PI Slade has 28k and Paul Gourlay has 40kish.

Also on 40k is Ben Grundy who just knocked out Carlo Citrone with Kings against Eights. Considering he was down to 2k at one point, he's grinded today out well.

Pictured below is Andreas Hoivold is, I think, the chip leader with about 87k at the moment. 3rd in last years Ladbrokes Million last year apparently.

I never get any love. :'(

Double through for Ian Fieldhouse - short for about a level after that earlier setback, he's now feeling the pinch as the blinds have reached 400/800 ante 100.  Time for an under the gun all in for 11,000...

Button Jeff Kimber dwells for a good long time, before deciding to take him on with 9c 9d.  Ian shows Ad Jh.
Flop:  Jc Ahrt 2s
Turn:  Ac
River:  academic

So Jeff is down to 10,200 in a reversal of fortune race.

Pictures to go with the story, you know, round it out a little:

1)  Jeff Kimber, who lost the hand
2)  Ian Fieldhouse, who won the hand

Tough break for Irish player Frank Callaghan - he'd raised preflop (I don't know for sure, but it was probably him) with Aspades Ad and ended up heads up on a flop of 7d 7c Js.  He bet out 5,000, and the other guy raised all-in for around another six.  Frank thought for ages before calling, and the Ahrt 7s knocked him under 15k.  This happened a little while ago now, going to go check if he's still there.

Brilliant updates guys, jen's unique words and floppys cheeky scandie jokes... it gets no better.

Benjamin Gallen, French reporter of high calibre, gets a head massage with what looks like a whisk of some sort.  And in the background....NoflopsHomer himself, much harder at work. 

You might wonder, "what is the relevance to the tournament?"  Well, honestly, none.  But it's getting on for the last level and we're saving ourselves for the carnage which is sure to happen tomorrow afternoon, and, in fact, in about 20 minutes' time when the final blind level gets underway.

Nice reports...can you now do a tourist bit on Dortmund     you know the opera, castles , galleries etc....

Florian Langman has added to his stack holding 5c 5h on a 8d 4s 5s board against Matey's Ahrt 8h, he's back over 60k now


Pictured is David Tavernier, who finished 2nd to Roland De Wolfe in Dublin, he's quite healthily stacked too with about 55k.

Left out in the cold.  :'(

I never get any credit.  ;tracet;

9 minutes to the end of the level. 76 players left. Average stack 33,684.

 ;hattip; to Jen & Homer







& the sickly beagle  ;D

Oops sorry, it seems I forgot someone... Thanks to you too  ;-)

After having been dented (Homer has the story) a few hands earlier, he found what looked like a favourable situation - Qd Qh vs. Jd Jc.  But no, a T-9-T-J-3 came, and that was that - Jonas quietly wandered off while his opponent got a bit shouty and excited.  I rather think if the situation was reversed there might have been a bit more decorum shown, somehow...

Sorry, you're not a bok, really.

Paul Gourlay News Now:

He's not really been in trouble throughout the day, and just now got a few more chips:  he saw a 3c Qc 8c flop out of position and bet out 5k.  Call.
Turn:  9c  Now he checked, and got a check behind.  The same happened on the 2d river and Matey showed Ahrt Qh while Paul slammed the Qs Jc down.  This was clearly misinterpreted by the dealer, who promptly mucked his flush, but after a few seconds the matter was resolved and the pot awarded correctly.  It just shows that staff of all kinds are getting a little fatigued at this point.

Last level of the night.

No worries. I'm working my ass off here, but NoflopsHomer is doing a good job too and deserves a mention.

Don't forget a certain Mr Raab too ;)

Ian Fieldhouse is out. He was down to less than the small blind on his small blind and didn't survive the hand.

Extra lemon juice for the paper cut - I only saw the very end of the hand so missed two crucial points.  Jonas had check-raised all-in on the turn for the majority of his 50k stack.  So not only was he nastily outdrawn, it was most likely for the biggest pot of the day.  We feel that there is no justice in poker.

great updates again as usual, see ya tomorrow for around 5 mins probably, lol

I reckon Mr snoops is at home because he is gonna be a tv star tomorrow - show 'em how it's done snoops!

Cool - don't be offended if we do that vulture thing round your table - you know we want you to double up...

Another stunning blonde Update, Thanks to JR, especially for the Womblecam, to floppy, for his energy & cartoony things, & Jen, whose weird-wordiness reached new heights today.

More on this, he had raised with Qc Tc and got several callers including Jeff Kimber who had been priced in with 4h 3d. All the chips went in on a Jc 3h 3s 9c board and the river didn't help Ian.

Elsewhere. Paul Goulay is up to heady heights of 90k, he called a raise with Jd Jh and was rewarded with a Jc Ts 2c flop and his opponent eager to put it all in with Ac Ahrt.

Finally Nick Slade is OUT. He lost a chunk passing Ad 9h on a 9s 5s 3s 5c board when his opponent pushed the turn. The rest went in preflop with Kc Qc when he was called by Aspades Jh. The Jc 4c Js brought a mixture of emotions but no help on the turn and river.

matt  how come u not playing m8?

Just a few minutes left -

Richard Wild (pictured next to his eliminator, Jeff Kimber) has been eliminated.  Very very short stacked, he moved in once with no caller before finding Fives on the big blind.  Small blind Jeff looked at one card and put him all in.  The card was the Ts.  There was the Td to go with it... although the board brought split possibilities, they failed to emerge and he's out at the eleventh hour, literally.  In good spirits, however, and already qualified for Monte Carlo.

Turk! Where you from?

Looks like the final Womble count is around 17,500.

And finally, Roland's table move put him to the left of equally aggressive Marcus Golser.  Much chat and back and forth of pots later, and Roland has become well and truly chipped up, and dangerous with it.  Look out for him tomorrow.  Homer is getting a few final details as they start to bag up for the night.

I'm going to get tomorrow's threads ready so we can sleep as late as possible before the 3pm restart (that's 2pm UK time for anyone who wants to watch the knockout part of Day Two at its most frenetic).

 ;stickaforkinme;

tk  is that tv show on or not m8  i ve been waiting

Womble finished on 16,500 - see the Womblecam thread for the full Wombling story of the day.

Mickey ended the day on 50,800.

See ya all tomorrow.

Ok and the climber of the day is Sverre Sundbo, who was down to just 525 chips at one stage and finished the day with 63.3k. Plus I did jokingly say I'd automatically give it to him if he got over 60k. Honourable mention to Ben Grundy also, who was down to just 2k at one point but finished the Day with 62k.

We're all off to bed.  ;sleep; ;stickaforkinme;

i'd rather stick it in a currywurst but its still not arrived

Which TV Show?

Great updates, thanks.

Great work as always guys, much appreciated, thank you very much

Great work as ever jen and floppy. Knocked out in the 11th hour (literally)....where else do you get lines like that

I rollercoasted to 52.9k overnight, thanks for the support. Was struggling to sleep before I found JR's hand by hand of Womble  :o