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Starting again at 2pm GMT (3pm for us). The chip counts of the remaining 118 players will be posted here as soon as we get them.

Good luck to all the blondeites left in.

good luck Pab.....heres hoping for an early doubleup

And Good Luck to Jen, Floppy & the Womblecam Operator Mr Raab in what I imagine will be "crash & burn afternoon"

I'm so looking forward to this.

Lets just hope it doesnt become an ALLIN OR FOLD lottery for the first few hours and poker can be played...............Good luck to all the blondes still left in, although I must admit Johnny Lodden with 100k+ in chips is gonna do some serious bullying early doors IMO.

any chance of a payout structure please?

agreed, but will he still be around at the business end of the tourny ?

Just spoke to womble and unlike most who would be desperate for an early double up (he has 16,500) he is still very confident and expects to final lol. JR are we having womblecam again today?

Why of course Russ.

Here are the full overnight chip counts:

   EPT DORTMUND   2nd Day      
            
   
1   Johnny Lodden  -- 101,400   
2   Mattias Andersson -- 97,400
3   Danny Ryan -- 93,600   
4   Mudassar Khan -- 89,900   
5   Gunnar Rabe -- 89,400   
6   Brian Hansen -- 88,600   
7   Andreas Hoivold   -- 86,000
8   Henning Granstad -- 84,700   
9   Fredrik Haugen   -- 83,400   
10   Frederich Hostrugs -- 79,900   
11   Hans Eskilsson   -- 77,600   
12   Tuncer Ellezer   -- 76,600   
13   Pablo Luis Rua   -- 76,300   
14   Roland de Wolfe   -- 76,200   
15   Rehne Pedersen   -- 71,900   
16   Mika Paasonen -- 71,700   
17   Thang Duc Nguyen -- 70,800
18   Andreas Hagen -- 70,600   
19   Paul Gourlay -- 69,600   
20   Zacharn Fritz -- 69,000   
21   Sebastian Ruthenberg -- 68,300   
22   Miroslav Sima -- 67,900
23   Markus Schlepphorst -- 65,500
24   Mark Bartlog -- 64,400   
25   Fabrice Soulier   -- 62,500   
26   Sverre Sundbo -- 62,300   
27   Ben Grundy -- 62,300   
28   Thierry Van den Berg -- 58,300   
29   Jacob Rasmussen   -- 57,000   
30   Florian Longmann -- 54,500   
31   Haward Speer -- 54,400   
32   Jeff Kimber  -- 52,900   
33   Markus Golser -- 51,800   
34   Dilba Demirbag   -- 51,600   
35   Jim Kerrigan -- 51,000   
36   Dirk Specht -- 50,900   
37   Micky Wernick -- 50,800   
38   Joe Beevers -- 49,900   
39   Ronnie Gustafsson -- 49,500   
40   Tommy Klurup -- 49,000   
41   Jens Vortmann -- 48,800   
42   Qushqar Morad   -- 48,500   
43   Karl Mahrenholz   -- 48,300
44   Vincent Sokalski -- 45,800   
45   Philip Yeh -- 45,400   
46   Romco Stek -- 45,100   
47   Paul Kristoffersson -- 44,400   
48   Marco Liesy -- 44,100
49   Cristiano Blanco -- 43,900
50   Alan T. Andersen -- 43,800   
51   Hael Allabani -- 41,700   
52   Tobias Holmeide   -- 41,200   
53   Daniel Schweitzer -- 40,300
54   Steve Vladar -- 39,900   
55   Tavernier -- 39,200   
56   Erik Lindberg -- 39,000
57   Trond Erik Eidserg -- 38,000
58   Jesper R. Witved -- 37,900   
59   Mike Tse -- 37,000   
60   Asghar Amirfatahi -- 36,900   
61   Oliver Bosch -- 36,600   
62   Sven Hoffelner   -- 36,500   
63   Dennis Hansen -- 36,500   
64   Cyriel Dohmen -- 36,400   
65   Geir Inge Haugland -- 36,200
66   Ros David -- 34,600   
67   Frank Werder -- 33,700
68   Tommy Dender -- 33,500   
69   Martin Hansen   -- 32,900   
70   Jose Luis Navarro -- 32,700   
71   Edward Moncada   -- 32,400   
72   Michael Mucklisch -- 30,900   
73   Matthieu Logel   -- 30,400   
74   Dennis Christensen -- 29,800
75   Henrik Holm -- 29,300   
76   Emmanuel Rosetta -- 29,000   
77   Sorel Mizzi -- 28,800   
78   Ben Wolbers -- 27,500   
79   Danny Mankowitz -- 27,300   
80   Gary Wharmby -- 27,300   
81   Nicolas Levi -- 27,000   
82   Anthony Mackay   -- 26,800   
83   Michael Gustaffson -- 25,600   
84   Christer Johansson -- 25,200   
85   Carlos Ferron   -- 24,100   
86   Nguyen Van Bum -- 23,800   
87   Claus Schumacher -- 23,500   
88   Thomas Fougeron   -- 22,800   
89   Joe Braun -- 21,600   
90   Hiroshi Shimamura -- 20,500
91   Davide Fazzone   -- 20,200   
92   Samuel Lehtonen   -- 20,200   
93   Masaaki Kagawa   -- 20,000   
94   David Barnes -- 19,700   
95   Metin Katkay -- 19,400   
96   Thomas Wahlroos   -- 19,300   
97   Christoph Stiehler -- 19,200   
98   Jens Lubbe -- 18,800   
99   Uwe Ziegler -- 18,100   
100   Paul Foltyn -- 18,000   
101   Michael Greco -- 18,000   
102   Klaus Jensen -- 17,900   
103   Abdullah Hamidy -- 17,500   
104   Brad Cowling -- 17,200   
105   Anthony Holden   -- 17,000   
106   Andreas Zwickel   -- 17,000   
107   Stephen Walmsley --16,500   
108   Xuyen Pham -- 15,600   
109   Andreas Hurtig -- 15,200   
110   Rino Mathis -- 14,800   
111   Kalle Gasstorp   -- 14,300   
112   Marc Friedmann   --  14,200   
113   Kristian Kjondal -- 13,500
114   John Hansmeyer   -- 12,600   
115   David Kammerer --   12,300   
116   Robert Johanson   -- 11,800   
117   Wim Emo   -- 9,000   
118   Norbert Holting   -- 6,900   

today, my 3 tips have a musical connection


Paul  " Kris " Kristofferson
Ros  " Craig " David
Nicolas  Levi  " Stubbs"

Full Prize Structure to follow when we get it, but I managed to sneak in and find the top 8 places just now. I do know they're planning to pay 40 places.

1st -- €683,720
2nd -- €386,950
3rd -- €224,750
4th -- €171,460
5th  -- €141,340
6th -- €111,220
7th -- €88,840
8th -- €62,560

So biggest (non-Monte Carlo) EPT Prizes ever. Who is your money on?

Jen's Picks:

Roland De Wolfe
Andreas Hagen
Marcus Golser

Floppy's Boks:

Thang Duc Nguyen
Ben Grundy
Pablo Rua

Our Bonus Updater Pick:

Henning Granstad

Wow, you just have to say that the scandis seem to be dominating european poker at the moment

my picks

womble
roland
womble again

How has Smokin' Steve played enough hands to get 39,000 in chips?

He must have had aces about 14 tumes!!!

My three picks to win this are.....

The Boy Lodden.

Mark Bartlog - (Demian on 'Stars) very interesting character, & a most charming man.

Lord Wernick

Another 20 minutes or so, we think, til play starts.

can you give my regards to Mattias Andersson good to see him back on the felt again hopefully though he will have matureda little and be less exciteable but he is a nice kid even if he is a scandie

My 3 boks are:

Jeff Jaffacake Kimber
Dave Barnes
Johnny Lodden

my 3 are

Florian Longmann
Mattias Andersson
Nguyen Van Bum

i want to be different

My three picks are:


Joe Beevers
Joe Beevers
Joe Beevers



 ;hattip;

Neil the Stars Photographer pics:

Johnny Lodden
Thomas Walhroos
Christer Johansen

Stephen from Gutshot:

Fabrice Soulier
Thomas Walhroos
Andreas Hagen

Marc from Gutshot:

Roland De Wolfe
Sverre Sundbo
Karl Marenholtz

Been around a long time ... registered just now ...

My money would be on

Markus Golser (played him once ... AQ was no good against his KK)
Ruthenberg
Mathis

... german speaking winner this time IMO

(I guess this is was the EPT/pokerstars marketing would like, too)

And a warm welcome to blonde my good man. I just tried to pronounce your surname, (as shown in your e-addy) & nearly fell off my bike.

impossible for english people I am afraid ...

Hope your bike is okay

late start again?

this bike ?


(http://friendsofbeamish.co.uk/cycles/assets/pennyfarthing.jpg)

Yes, it took a bit of time for people to file into the main cardroom. Play is about to start now though.

Jen is downstairs in the midst of the action, and I'm going keep an eye from the balcony and get as many exits as possible. We're expecting it to be crazy early on.

ok i have given up on my currywurst so i will settle for a bratwurst instead commonly known as a brattie

oh and zwei beer bitte

My picks

1:  Lodden
2 Granstad 
3 Andreas Hagen
4 Hoivold

what part of 3 does you not understand i am wanting a recount ;D

in fact i like the idea ofhaving more than 3 picks i pick the following

1   Johnny Lodden  -- 101,400   
2   Mattias Andersson -- 97,400
3   Danny Ryan -- 93,600   
4   Mudassar Khan -- 89,900   
5   Gunnar Rabe -- 89,400   
6   Brian Hansen -- 88,600   
7   Andreas Hoivold   -- 86,000
8   Henning Granstad -- 84,700   
9   Fredrik Haugen   -- 83,400   
10   Frederich Hostrugs -- 79,900   
11   Hans Eskilsson   -- 77,600   
12   Tuncer Ellezer   -- 76,600   
13   Pablo Luis Rua   -- 76,300   
14   Roland de Wolfe   -- 76,200   
15   Rehne Pedersen   -- 71,900   
16   Mika Paasonen -- 71,700   
17   Thang Duc Nguyen -- 70,800
18   Andreas Hagen -- 70,600   
19   Paul Gourlay -- 69,600   
20   Zacharn Fritz -- 69,000   
21   Sebastian Ruthenberg -- 68,300   
22   Miroslav Sima -- 67,900
23   Markus Schlepphorst -- 65,500
24   Mark Bartlog -- 64,400   
25   Fabrice Soulier   -- 62,500   
26   Sverre Sundbo -- 62,300   
27   Ben Grundy -- 62,300   
28   Thierry Van den Berg -- 58,300   
29   Jacob Rasmussen   -- 57,000   
30   Florian Longmann -- 54,500   
31   Haward Speer -- 54,400   
32   Jeff Kimber  -- 52,900   
33   Markus Golser -- 51,800   
34   Dilba Demirbag   -- 51,600   
35   Jim Kerrigan -- 51,000   
36   Dirk Specht -- 50,900   
37   Micky Wernick -- 50,800   
38   Joe Beevers -- 49,900   
39   Ronnie Gustafsson -- 49,500   
40   Tommy Klurup -- 49,000   
41   Jens Vortmann -- 48,800   
42   Qushqar Morad   -- 48,500   
43   Karl Mahrenholz   -- 48,300
44   Vincent Sokalski -- 45,800   
45   Philip Yeh -- 45,400   
46   Romco Stek -- 45,100   
47   Paul Kristoffersson -- 44,400   
48   Marco Liesy -- 44,100
49   Cristiano Blanco -- 43,900
50   Alan T. Andersen -- 43,800   
51   Hael Allabani -- 41,700   
52   Tobias Holmeide   -- 41,200   
53   Daniel Schweitzer -- 40,300
54   Steve Vladar -- 39,900   
55   Tavernier -- 39,200   
56   Erik Lindberg -- 39,000
57   Trond Erik Eidserg -- 38,000
58   Jesper R. Witved -- 37,900   
59   Mike Tse -- 37,000   
60   Asghar Amirfatahi -- 36,900   
61   Oliver Bosch -- 36,600   
62   Sven Hoffelner   -- 36,500   
63   Dennis Hansen -- 36,500   
64   Cyriel Dohmen -- 36,400   
65   Geir Inge Haugland -- 36,200
66   Ros David -- 34,600   
67   Frank Werder -- 33,700
68   Tommy Dender -- 33,500   
69   Martin Hansen   -- 32,900   
70   Jose Luis Navarro -- 32,700   
71   Edward Moncada   -- 32,400   
72   Michael Mucklisch -- 30,900   
73   Matthieu Logel   -- 30,400   
74   Dennis Christensen -- 29,800
75   Henrik Holm -- 29,300   
76   Emmanuel Rosetta -- 29,000   
77   Sorel Mizzi -- 28,800   
78   Ben Wolbers -- 27,500   
79   Danny Mankowitz -- 27,300   
80   Gary Wharmby -- 27,300   
81   Nicolas Levi -- 27,000   
82   Anthony Mackay   -- 26,800   
83   Michael Gustaffson -- 25,600   
84   Christer Johansson -- 25,200   
85   Carlos Ferron   -- 24,100   
86   Nguyen Van Bum -- 23,800   
87   Claus Schumacher -- 23,500   
88   Thomas Fougeron   -- 22,800   
89   Joe Braun -- 21,600   
90   Hiroshi Shimamura -- 20,500
91   Davide Fazzone   -- 20,200   
92   Samuel Lehtonen   -- 20,200   
93   Masaaki Kagawa   -- 20,000   
94   David Barnes -- 19,700   
95   Metin Katkay -- 19,400   
96   Thomas Wahlroos   -- 19,300   
97   Christoph Stiehler -- 19,200   
98   Jens Lubbe -- 18,800   
99   Uwe Ziegler -- 18,100   
100   Paul Foltyn -- 18,000   
101   Michael Greco -- 18,000   
102   Klaus Jensen -- 17,900   
103   Abdullah Hamidy -- 17,500   
104   Brad Cowling -- 17,200   
105   Anthony Holden   -- 17,000   
106   Andreas Zwickel   -- 17,000   
107   Stephen Walmsley --16,500   
108   Xuyen Pham -- 15,600   
109   Andreas Hurtig -- 15,200   
110   Rino Mathis -- 14,800   
111   Kalle Gasstorp   -- 14,300   
112   Marc Friedmann   --  14,200   
113   Kristian Kjondal -- 13,500
114   John Hansmeyer   -- 12,600   
115   David Kammerer --   12,300   
116   Robert Johanson   -- 11,800   
117   Wim Emo   -- 9,000   
118   Norbert Holting   -- 6,900   

now get it won

Rino Mathis
Thomas Wahlroos
Roland de Wolfe

Samuel Lehtonen was our first casualty, knocked out by Thierry Van Den Berg.

Has Pab doubled up yet ?

I think it is absolutely wonderful - we don't have such names in GB.

You hoped my bike is OK - what about me?

Enjot the coverage, & have a good weekend.

Booder, you dont look anything like your avatar

I see there's someone called Stieler playing, that could prove punful  ;D

neither do you

my 3 pics :
Grandstad
Soulier
Khan

It's funny you should say that, because Aces just knocked him down to 10k... first hand of the tournament (which has now been running 15 minutes) Tony Mackay raised under the gun to 6,000 (blinds 800/1,600 ante 200) and button Steve put him all in.  Call.
Steve:  Aspades Ad
Tony:  Qs Qd
First card out:  Qh and no help so reversal of fortune puts Mackay on over 50k.

sorry Tikay ... I just thought "As long as he is able to post comments, he should be ok" ...

any injuries???

@booder
I am happy someone else believes in Rino - he needs some double ups, though

I look more like your avatar than you do!!

Also OUT in the first frantic minutes: 
Wim Emo
Kalle Gasstorp

While short stacks Michael Greco and Pab look to be pushing repeatedly...

Popular Frenchman Thomas Fougeron (who seemed to get all his luck when short stacked) has just doubled up, too.  Heading back downstairs - apologies for delay caused by the commute between floors.

No, I'm fine Elc, I was just joking. We English have a weird sense of humour, unlike you guys.

obvious 3 picks would have to be

roland- class
lodden- amazing
grundy- long overdue

still cant help feeling one for the rocks though - goooooooooo womble

actually I got it ... lived in Loughborough for some crazy months ... (the joys of being an Erasmus Student)

+ unlike the germans, Austrians have some sense of humour

Good luck to all, and especerally to JOE BEEVERS

If he can stear clear of the confrontations and banter at the table, he should sail thorugh!

Andreas Zwicker has gone out to Ros David with Kd Tc against Ad Qc on a 9s 7h 4h 7d Jh board.

Thomas Wahlroos has doubled through Christer Johansen with Kc Ks against Ahrt Td on a Ts 5c Js 2d Kh board.

Bad Girl is OUT, she pushed with Q-T and was called by Dennis Hansen's Jacks and received no help on a 4-5-A-7-5 board.

Loughborough, quite near me, I am in Gods Country, Derbyshire.

Did you ever use Loughboroigh Train Station? - it's on the Midland Mainline. very old-fashioned station, with a quaint canopy.

Erasmus - was that European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students? I was one, too. A year or two back, mind you.

Womble moved all in with pocket threes. Mickey, in the seat next to him looks down and finds kings. Calls.

Three on the flop. Womble doubles up to 27,000.

Mickey is down to about the same.

The lights just went out.  No kidding, mid hand, and the ballroom was down to what looked like battery operated lighting.  So - brief pause from the madness and I can relate another quick story -

This one about Dilba Demurbag (for Viet, if he's managed to sign up):  She'd finished day one in good position, and just won a big pot off M. Khan.  It looked like she'd check-raised all in on the turn, with the board: Ks 4c Jc 2d.  Khan had bet 15,000, and wasn't liking the raise, eventually passing as the room was plunged into murkiness.

She is pictured here, mid tense moment:

Kalle Gasstorpe's exit hand was a bit of a sickner. He held Qc Qd against Matthias Andersson's Ad Jh but a Jack came on the flop and another on the turn to send him home.

 ;D

Michael Greco, looking at the paused clock as everyone ran out of the room for an impromptu cigarette break.  He's still very short stacked, so better go back down and check on that area again...

what about womble

Ok, here's the complete revised structure from the one I saw earlier

1st -- €672,000
2nd -- €380,000
3rd -- €220,000
4th -- €169,000
5th -- €139,000
6th -- €109,000
7th -- €85,700
8th -- €60,300
9th and 10th -- €37,100
11th and 12th -- €27,800
13th and 14th -- €20,900
15th and 16th -- €16,250
17th to 24th -- €12,750
25th to 32nd -- €9,250
33rd to 40th -- €6,950
41st to 48th -- €5,800

sure ... a friend of mind lived in London, so I used that Train Station a couple of times ...

go go pokermatts

I read that Joe Beevers speaks near fluent German.


Perhaps he will be dealing out some German Banter??



der ist ein schrecklicher Anruf! (that's a terrible call!)

Was ist dieses? (What is this?)

Ich schicke Sie Haus nach Düsseldorf! (I'll send you home to Düsseldorf!)


 ;m3boy;

Good man! The Loughborough - St Pancras service is pretty good (if you use the Class 43 hauled stock) & St Pancras Station is one of the world's most beautiful buildings. The ironwork in St Pancras station came from Butterley Engineering, in Derby in, I think 1896.

My pick, (Thang) and Jen's pick (Marcus) are table buddies.


And on another table another of our two picks, Pablo Rua and Roland De Wolfe are sitting together. Lee Jones, standing behind them, doesn't seem to be too concerned about the rip in the space/time continuum that's destroying the very fabric of reality in front of his eyes.

tikay was a shop steward during the building phase

Joe Beevers is OUT -

He raised in late position to 4,500.  Small blind Andreas Hagen repopped him another 8,500.  Now, there are probably lots of times when Andreas is doing this with less than premium cards.  This, however, was not one of them.  Joe's re-raise all-in was pretty quick, and Andreas' call even quicker...
Joe showed:  Js 7s
Andreas showed:  Kc Kh
The flop brought hope for Mr. Beevers:  9s Qh 3s
But the turn and river - 5d Ahrt - were no help and he's rather suddenly on the rail. 

Rino Mathis is also OUT - down to just 5,600 ten minutes ago and then no longer at his seat.

Dave Barnes lays his raised hand (3,800) down preflop to a button re-raise from Howard Speer, leaving him on a round 20k.

Nicolas Levi must have doubled up somewhere (perhaps through Rino?) as he's now on 54k.

Dieser Widerstand steht nicht (This resistance will not stand)



 :(


this is bad news jen.

could we have a chip report for Pab please

Another shock OUT (and one of my picks - this so rarely happens...)  Roland de Wolfe is gone!

With 70k and lead on the table, he looked unassailable, but Ben Wolbers (a local or something - he had a crowd round him) assailed him and knocked him down to under 10k in the process - here's the hand:

Roland raised on the button with Ac Qd, to 4,000.  Big blind Ben re-raised 10,000.  Roland gives it a bit of "Come on then, I'm all in" according to Jim Kerrigan, whose recall is excellent (he is on that table after all).
Wolbers asked for the full countdown, and made a pretty brave call for his whole stack with Th Ts.
The flop brought 6-K-J so a couple of extra outs (literally) appeared, but disappeared with the Jack on the turn, and the blank river.

The rest of it went in with A-9 against the hand which did the damage when he held it, A-Q.

Pab has 22.5k, taken the blinds a few times. Still looking for a place to push

Sverre Sundbo was just dwelling on a Jd 8d Qc 4h 2d board after being check/raised twice on the flop and turn before his ultra-agressive scandie opponent moved in on the river. Sverre dealt for a good long while, to the point where the break came and he said, "Now I can take as much time as I want!" He eventually mucked what was later revealed to be King Jack.

Kings become outs on the turn though. ;)

Actually, Swede Mattias Andersen is probable leader, with 200k, according to BA.  But this is really changing every five minutes.  Break currently.

Sad to see Roland bust out, but I just felt this was not gonna be his day, thus I did not nominate him amongst my 3 picks.

96 players remaining, Marcus Golser's table is now the feature table which is now fully set up.

Hi Jen / Snoops,

Great job again as usual.

Could you please pass on my GOOD LUCK wishes to Jeff Kimber.

TY in advance.

Thanks for that, O Oracle, we'll just see how the rest of mine fare - Henning, Markus Golser and Andreas Hagen compared to yours...

Er, it's been Chris 'NoflopsHomer' Hall bringing it to you live from Dortmund on nap-like sleep and fuelled by gummy bears - - credit where it's due.  ;tk;

Apologies to Chris

Cheers, snoopy at your service.  ;hattip;

The screaming swede eh?

This guy has a lot to answer for as far as I'm concerned.

The coverage of him screaming his annoying head off at the turn of every single community card did my and a lot of people's heads in.

This type of behavior became more commonplace since that coverage (WSOP - 2004).

I hope that he has calmed down.


 :tikay:

you have to forgive Micky - he aint getting any younger and only logged on cos the bingo was cancelled at the old folks home this afternoon :) 

Come on the Jaffa - get in amongst those Scandis and shake em up m8!!!!!

 ;nemesis;

Someone call the waitress and order a pot of tea for 3.....Tim, Micky & TK.

Oh and come on Jeff get amongst them Scandis and give em hell.

just seen a huge pot on the live tv feed (about 200k). AJ v kq on a board of t j x a x - money went allin on turn obviously.

John Duthie doing the annoucing on the Feature Table.

Matthias Andersson, chip leader with around 200k+

Ben Wolbers and Henning Granstad.

How is Thomas Wahlroos, is my 200-1 looking good?

many thanks

A distinct long shot now, Andreas Hoivold has just taken him out.

Neighbours Henning Granstad and Mikey Tse (don't knock each other out!  You can both make the final...) involved here in a blind on blind battle.  Henning bet out on the Aspades 8d 7d flop, and faced a chunky raise to 12,500.  A long think before passing, and I think I heard a "You had 7-8...?" which seems a reasonable sort of guess.

Elsewhere we've lost Thomas Wahlroos, Fabrice Soulier and Sven Hoffelner, the latter having lost most of his stack when re-raising with A-K from the small blind and finding the shorter stacked raiser with Kings, and then pushing in under the gun with Ks Jc - racing Tens, and losing.

Pot of tea for three? with Jaffacakes?

Approaching the tables has become more difficult, as you can see from this picture - which is of Karl Mahrenholz and neighbour Hiroshi Shimamura.

Someone order a Jaffacake?

Not me Jen Im on a diet and that one looks a but fattening xxx

How many calories - sorry chips has he got??

Tablemates Sverre Sundbo and Ben Grundy mid-chat:

sorry bit not but - butt is fat as well :)

woohooo 50 years old and im now  junior member - how old does that make Tikay?

this is not a EPT, it´s a showdown between Sweden and Norway!

Is Hurtig still in game?

Behave you......

sorry dad

Mine will do better, trust me. Long live the Edit Button.

Chip counts might be delayed for a while the press area is off limits - for the press. The tv crew are taking over the area making all access for us very limited. The need to interview the masseuse is obviously more important than than blogger coverage. ::)

Ok it's only a partial rant, and they do pay for the rights and so on, but it does make it very difficult for us to do work.


Here's the DTD girls to hold your attention for now...

I'll take the 2 on the right

and flushy wants the 2 at the bottom

Karl Marenholtz is OUT, he pushed a short-stack Ahrt 9d into the almost equally short Uwe Sigler who had Ac Ks:

Board:

3d 2c Jh 6h 5c

In a 3-way pot, Pab (big blind) pushes on a 6d 2c 5h board, MP folds, Big blind shows the 6h before passing.

Unlucky Karl. I soooo nearly made him one of my 3 picks. All 6 remain in though.

Please wish Paul Gourlay gl from me and update me on his stack when you can please

that marcus look like that gayman in gimme gimme on tv  comedy is that him?

Chip counts from the rail (just a few, the rest when it's my turn to get in there)

Ben Wolbers     71k
Paul Gourlay     95k
Mike Tse         58k
Jim Kerrigan     82k
Mattias Andersson  220k
Christer Johansson  40k
Philip Yeh       33k
Dave Barnes      30k
Mickey Wernick   21k
Womble           OUT
Pablo Rua        58k
Jeff Kimber      60k
Ben Grundy       50k
Mark Bartlog     62k
Sverre Sundbo    80k
Edward Moncada   20k
Sebastian Ruthenberg  210k

All the womblecam viewers have tuned into the main updates now.
I'm sure you guys are up to the task.  ;applause;

On the TV table, Thang Duc Nguyen just raised preflop and found Markus Golser next to him re-raising.  He called, and the pot was then 45k.
Flop:  6s Kc 4d  Thang checked.  Markus made a slightly lame 9k bet and Thang instantly moved in; he was instantly called.
Thang showed:  Ks Qs
Markus showed:  Ad Ac
Turn:  Jc
River:  Ahrt 

So a double through for the man with the green jumper and a set back for the Baden winner (my pick, incidentally, beating Homer's).

vgl to pab.....he's a real pest on the short stack just never seems to exit the tournament (touch wood) lol

On a total sideline, I have a great story from the German Superstars of Poker single table tournament that was filmed on Day One.  They introduced all the players, and among them were sat Jan Heitmann and George Danzer.  When it was George's turn, he was introduced as "Jan's friend" but 'freund' in German, we've been informed, can mean 'friend' or 'boyfriend.'  SO Jan looks to have been inadvertently and incorrectly outed on German TV.

And here he is, in all his pestlike hanging on:

Blinds status:

1,000/2,000 ante 200 for the next few minutes.

Around 70 players remaining.

Hows johnny lodden doing?

ON THE PABLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   can someone make this go accross -------------------------------------------->>

hi jen and flopski,    tell pab he needs some new clobber, all that money he's got

more pix on the only girl left, Dilba!
and more story on Jan and George  Djinn

15 Minute Break -

A couple more counts before the Main Event players poured out, and the first Side Event players poured in:

Vincent Sokalski     70k
Tobias Holmeide     32k
Tony Mackay         65k
Frederik Hostrup    100k
Andreas Hagen      170k
Hael Allabani           48k

Pic of Dilba when they restart - here's Jan to keep you going - he's currently doing the commentary for the TV feed in German (there's a parallel in English and Swedish too).

Jen's Picks:

Roland De Wolfe
Andreas Hagen
Marcus Golser

Floppy's Boks:

Thang Duc Nguyen
Ben Grundy
Pablo Rua

All my three are still in though.


Anyway here some of the chip leaders

Fredrik Haugen (Scandie)
Andreas Hoivold (Scandie)
Mattias Andersson (Scandie)
Sebastian Ruthenberg (German)
Andreas Hagen (Scandie)
Dirk Specht (German

huge gl to pab

rudders ill bell u next week for a drink at cheltenham

Payout:

1 €672,000
2 €380,000
3 €220,000
4 €169,000
5 €139,000
6 €109,000
7  €85,700
8  €60,300
9-10 €37,100
11-12 €27,800
13-14 €20,900
15-16 €16,250
17-24 €12,750
25-32  €9,250
33-40  €6,950
41-48  €5,800

Total:  €2,317,100

We're heading bubblewards, and we've been told when they get to just over 50 players our access will be all but nonexistent.  Going to do our best from the rail.

Nice updates floppy. Your Avatar is very disturbing mind.

GL to all brits still in, esp Grundy + Pab.

Im off to get rat arsed.....................

How many are remaining? :)

Any updates on Jhonny Lodden's stack Jen? :)

Big sloth out of the goonies aka hoivold came third in this years poker million but by far played the best on the nite.
Fancy him to go deep now as he has relentless aggression with a big stack.

Hey u guyyyys! (Goonies)lol

Micko -- Johnny Lodden told us he had 160k at the break, he just realised his blind to Henning Granstad who pushed all-in, Johnny passed the Qc 4s, Henning showed the Ac.

Matt -- Paul has 70k but lost a few running trip Kings into a rivered flush.

Tim635 -- I'm afraid your man Hurtig is standing at the rail so he must be out. Sorry.



Went to Pab's table, as if on cue he raised preflop and was called by the big blind. The blind checked the and Pab pushed (pictured) on the Kd Td 9s flop getting his opponent to fold. He later told me he had pocket Queens. Still shortish, but I don't think he's shown a single hand yet, which if true is mighty impressive.

Also on this table is Dilba Dermirbag, she has 60k at the moment.

thanks Jen, saw ur update about dilbas AI about 3 last night just now.
way better info than the swedish coverage.

who are the dtd girls? is that a new poker site?

I know for a fact that George is Jan's freund, the way Jan put it when I and George went to their place after George's unfortunate exit from wsop "Im lying here in bed waiting for u guys". and later George said "I was thinking of buying **** but I have to wait for Jan, he has all the money"  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if7DrdMFu8o

Just gone:  Dilba - from the resigned look about her I think she might have been comparatively short, and made one of those "what could I do?" moves.
 
I thought we'd lost Henning Granstad too, but no, our blonde updater wildcard is still there, but with only 40k.  Just saw him move in preflop uncalled, probably not the first or last time that'll happen around now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXMfaisnKe4

*teary eyes* too bad for dilba ... so close but so far

 Dortmund EPT 104.jpg , is that the pix of Mattias Andersson? he plays for Tellpoker?
just want to make sure he is not the "screaming swede" from 3 years ago.

Great updates guys- Please tell P. gourlay Middlesborough2- man u 1 2nd half just started!

You're not the first to suggest that - I think he has in fact been positively ID'd... been fairly quiet here, though.

cool mate- will be there nice and early mate!

ok great, i know mattias "the screaming swede" and knows how he looks like, just wonder if u guys got the correct picture.
but i think that this guy is his opposite twin brother from another father :)

tell dilba that we are proud of her, that was great strength she has shown ...

Any updates on how many players are remaining? :)

56 players left -

Just lost Rehne Pedersen (I think - access denied til post bubble) to Masaaki Kagawa's Aspades Td (T-2-2-4-3 board)...

Johnny Lodden had around 130k when he was moved to the TV table (funny, that).  But he's won at least a couple of hands since his arrival, and that was only 15 minutes ago, so add a few more.

Marcus Golser is OUT, twice he had Sevens, twice he lost with them. First cruelly against Fours, and then the second time, he lost against King Queen with a Queen on the river.

Jen Picks: 1.5 remaining.

Floppy Boks: 3.5 remaining.

The half is for Henning. ;)


Incidentally, this guy next to Ben Grundy should really get a tissue...

can i get chip counts on my 3 picks please

Florian Longmann
Mattias Andersson
Nguyen Van Bum

Yes, it does appear that there are two Swedish players by the name of Mattias Andersson.  That's confusing of them.  One of them is the one we pictured, however.

Pab, Geir Inge Haugland (who had pushed utg earlier for 15k and Pab felt he had to call with pot odds J-7 but lost to Geir's Q-9) and our friend Pablo Rua.


Gunner Rabe adds to his 200k+ stack elimanting an opponent with Ahrt Aspades against Kc 9s on a 9c Qs Th Tc 2h board.

In about 40 mins - post dinner break - and if we can get to them - chip counts really tough until we're allowed back in.  Going to get some stories from the grazing players.

important thing is are they still all in

mind you i was tricked into backing matts anderson as i thought it was the real one

How's Pj  Gourlay doing now please

That is none other than Mark Bartlog, one of my 6 Top 3 selections. Extraordinary man. German/American, lives in the US of A in the Winter, & Genoa in Italy in the summer. Is a Landscape painter. Used to play the Concorde Card Room cash games fort a living, but the smokey atmo caused him to stop going there. Is "Demian" on 'Stars. Not playing as much recently, as he had some misfortrune in his priivate live. (He fell in love with a girl). He was Player of the Fessie at The Aviation in Paris a year or two ago, too. Big buddy of Robert Binelli, the walking jumble sale. Huge fun to play cash with, but not one to be messed with, he knows where he's at in a hand, & loves playing down the streets.

Dinner Tale #1:

Pablo Rua looks excitable as he's suffered the loss of a 120k pot right before the break, but says it's been going "very very very well."  We needed some elaboration:  He'd built his stack against the table chip leader (we think Sebastian Ruthenberg) when he raised in second position with AQoff and big blind leader called, checking the flop in the dark.  It was A-7-9 rainbow; Pablo checked behind.  King on the turn and Leader bet out 15k (Pablo's words, "I am waiting his raise for pushing...") and that was that - all in took the pot down.

Then it went a bit wrong - he raised early again to 12k (blinds were 2k/4k), this time with 9d 9c, and the big blind (we think this might have been Pab) raised another 13k.  Call.  Flop:  Qs 5s 7d.  Push in from the big blind.  He thought for a good while, and I believe there was some chatting, before he decided he was ahead and called.  His opponent did have the Aspades xspades and when it hit Pablo was down to 42,000, in danger of tilt, and in need of the dinner break.

Dinner Tale #2

Just been speaking to Pab and Ben, (It wasn't Pab that re-raised Pablo in Jen's story but the guy to his right). Neither of them are looking to limp into the money and both want big stacks and are prepared to gamble for them. Pab has 45k and is in 'pushbot' mode, he did have to release A-J to a re-raise all-in from the big blind who showed A-K though pre-break. Ben has 70k but is also looking for a big double up, he thinks we may well be down to around 30 players by the end of this level.

Dinner Tale #3

Brief Paul Gourlay update - been moved three times, no time to settle, but, in his words, "Hanging on with 100k.  No hanging on for me though, if I get a hand I'm going to be in there..."

And I think that's all we have time for as a restart is planned for around now.  I can tell because the commentators have all gone towards the commentary booth in a purposeful manner.

Oh, OK one more - Mikey Tse is on just under 100k too.  Plus he got quads.  Under the gun raised, he re-raised (from 12k to 20k) on the button with Qd Qh, call.
Flop:  Qs 5d 8c  Check-check
Turn:  Qc Check; Mike slow checked
River:  Kh Slow check back, and the cameras were all over that table by this point so Mike bet 17k.  A dwell for a long time, a pass, and a show of the Four Queens, thereby almost guaranteeing that he'll get on TV.

Mattias Andersson in the hat next to Christer Johansson - both are actually now on the TV table.

Henning Granstad is OUT, I spied him putting his coat on from my vantage point along the balcony, Mark Bartlog was the assassin.

how many left please... great updates as ever guys- oh and can you tell pab good luck from me oh .......... and that he looks like a tramp..

50 players left. One more and they go hand for hand.

49 now, which can only mean one thing......

STOP: BUBBLETIME!!!

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any news on faffa cake and mickey the legend plse guys?

more of a jaffa than a faffa - or is he?
wish them luck plse

Still 49 left, very tense situation...

Lots of shouting from Frederik Hostrup, but it turns out that he's happy - still in after what looked like a river bluff for a big pot (there was some high-fiving involved).  Meanwhile Climber of the Tournament Thomas Fougeron has topped the 200k mark, having been down to just 600, with the blinds at 150/300...

Jaffa is out.

Mickey is still in, on about 90,000.

Average stack is 100,000.

tx John - wish mickey luck from me if u get a chance m8 - gutted for Jaffa he fought hard yesterday

Mr Jones! How the devil are you Big Man?

Just spotted Johnny Lodden giving Mickey Wernick a shoulder massage...

Thanks Jon (he's got a balcony table overlooking the tournament - I've sacrificed that for a live feed from the feature table instead)...

Still hand for hand. 

Oor snoops is live on telly right now. He looks lovely with make-up......Channel 846.

An all in player just survived with Q-T versus Sverre Sundbo's Q-J

The flop was T-T-6

Sverre is now short stacked an all in himself

Sverre survives as they all pass.

Tony MacKay is the next all in player with pocket tens versus A-K. He survived.

probably the longest hand-by-hand play?

very nice webcast from the pokerstars gang, http://eptlive.com/WebCast/Default.aspx?ID=12

can imagine how chaos that is right now inside the tournement area, poor Mad who in charge of clearing the area.

u guys have full access to the tables ?

fine ty mr kendall - bad time of it in Dortmund, but the cash omaha action was best I've seen - look forward to seeing you in Cardiff m8

We wish... officially no one's meant to be round the tables, and it looks like gangs of spectators have infiltrated the inner circle, which could be avoided by the sensible application of a rope.

Anyway, apart from those two all-ins who survived, there's been lots of waiting recently. 

Pab is sat there still with his short stack, and despite pushing twice before the hand for hand part started, hasn't found another opportunity.  Meanwhile the clock is still running, so if he survives the bubble the level will have risen once again, making his short stack shorter.

Another all in player doubled up with KK versus A-5 on a Q-4-2 board. Turn and river were harmless.

The blinds have now gone up to 4,000/8,000 with an 800 running ante. It now costs them 18,400 a round!

Two all-in at the same time now, but in both cases the all-in players double up.

Here's Philip Yeh - on TV and mixing it up even through this period, which seems to have favoured every all-in player, regardless of how far behind they've been.

I kind of forgot about him, but if I were allowed to pick some more people he might well make the cut.  A confidently relaxed player, he's got one of those gravity-defying chip towers and has just called a short stack all-in on the feature table...

is it normall at ept to let people stand round the table like this

that 10 on the river would never happen on the internet lol

Philip Yeh (playing strongly, stacking high with confidence) just called the all-in of Jesper Witved (very short) with his Ks 8h.  After an eternity of set-up, we get to see Jesper's Ac Jd...
Flop:  Qd Kc 9h
Turn:  9d  ("He has outs," go the tense Danish press, cursing the luck of the Swedish)
River:  Tc    And the crowd goes wild.  We're still on the bubble.

The bubble has burst. All in player had 4-4 versus T-T. A T on the turn sealed the deal and the whole room erupted.

The bubble has burst.  Finally.  Hiroshi Shimamura is 49th, Homer was downstairs and will probably have some details, if he can get through the ridiculous crowd.

Any updates on Andreas Hagen and Johnny Loddens chipconts? :) I hear roumers they are quite big...

Great update as always

Right, now we can try to get some counts - but just to show you what it's like in the crowd:  this is a picture of the live feed from downstairs.  I'm just about to push my way through that.

Good luck doing that!

Looks like Paul Gourlay has gone. Floppy is going to try to get this confirmed.

It really irritates me when players cheer and whoop when the bubble bursts.

Have they got no empathy for the for poor sap who has just been knocked out and feels terrible.

Get it quietly ffs.

Yes Hiroshi Shimamura is the bubble with 4-4 vs Mark Bartlog's T-T with the board coming J-3-J-T-2

During this long bubble situation Johnny Lodden looked incredibly bored, remarking that they had only played 7 hands in an hour. Too much online poker methinks? ;)


Straight after the stacks went crazy in the pushing stakes. Jen is off looking for the exits.

Just after the bubble I see Pab pushing and he's called by Sebastian Ruthenberg's big stack

Pab:

Qs 8h

Sebastian:

Kc Qd

Flop:

Qh 2h Aspades

Turn:

6d

Anyone shouting, "One time?"

River:

8c

Pab has 85k now, but still short with the blinds 4k/8k.

Sverre Sundbo is OUT, that Q-J losing to a short stack's Q-T crippled him and he never recovered, though he couldn't believe the Q-T call. His final hand was when he pushed with 9-8 sooted and ran into Tens.

There's a fair amount of table thumping, hi-fiving and general uncouth behaviour going on as well. Very undignified.

38 players left.

The Brits who are still in are

Tony MacKay
Paul Foltyn
Ben Grundy
Mickey Wernick
Mikey Tse

Some counts (this took 20 minutes):

Dirk Specht      166k
Johnny Lodden  320k
Nicolas Levi         90k
Pab                  90k
Ben Wolbers      96k
Mike Tse           150k
Mickey Wernick   48k
Ben Grundy        80k
Mark Bartlog       200k+
Vincent Sokalski   82k
Tony Mackay       55k
Frederik Hostrup  56k
Andreas Hagen   270k

 :goodpost:

Jim Kerrigan was on his way to pick up his cash for 40th place - AQ lost to an under the gun suspicious limper ("Is it my big blind?") who turned out to have Kings, and then Q-9 vs. A-J for his last hand.

He's very calm and pleased with the result, given that (a) he didn't see any big hands and (b) he was in the same boat with all the medium stacks who found the wasted hand-for-hand hour very frustrating.

Johnny Lodden is quite right to complain about the number of hands played during that period - it took any sort of play away from at least 25 of the remaining players after the bubble finally burst, who were mainly just sitting around while the previous level ticked away.  Definitely should have paused the clock, in my opinion.

or a sporting hand clap

Thanks alot Jen! Ur the man(women?) :P Johnny is the chippie`?

 :goodpost:

I prefer to slink gently, unseen, to the bar, actually.

agree with the idea of stopping the clock during the hand-by-hand period.
U should talk to mr television Duthie to get it going!

really bad play of Florian Langmann, didnt have no patience there.

I don't see you as a slinker Jen, more of a scurrier, or even a scuttler.

Yes, yes he is.

The first big buyin event I played was in the caribbean a couple of years back. When the bubble went it was the exact opposite to the cheering you get now. In fact most of the room felt for the young lad who had just bubbled. Maybe it was because most of us left in were online qualifiers tasting a 5k event for the first time. I even took my cap off to have a whip round for the poor lad so at least he could could go get lashed up and have a few lapdances- every single person on my table immediately put their hands in their pockets to chuck a 50 or so in (we were all guaranteed 7k now so why not). As it happens somebody else went broke at the same time after a long dwell on the other table and they chopped the prize.

I think now poker has moved on to be more of a TV type affair and has more "celebrities" people seem to go too far with their whooping and hollering- it really is a pet hate of mine.

it acrually lets the real players know that your the type thats playing to win rather than squeek into the money so next time they will respect you and you will get your steals thru as the squeakers are likely to avoid anyone

Nicolas Levi doubled up (he's been under the radar chipwise for a while, but now on TV with a few more) getting it all in with Kings against Florian's Jd 9d - that, I think, was the hand mentioned earlier - the critics are divided about this play, Jan says "Why not? Ten big blinds is ten big blinds..."

Anyway, they're on a 15 minute break at the moment, Homer has the recent events, and it's my turn to "Excuse me," my way to the front of the crowd when they restart.

Add Ben Grundy and Pab to those complaining about the fact they only played 7 hands in the last level (3k/6k). Pab is advocating that they roll back the blinds.

Incidentally Ben has doubled up with errrr 7-5 pushing and found a caller from Jose Luis Navarro with A-T for the board to come A-5-2-x-7, shipping 200k Ben's way. Navarro's bad luck continued calling another all in with Ad 2d against Kc 9c, with the board coming out Ahrt 5h 9h Jh 3h !

I found Paul Gourlay on my travels, he went out in 46th place. A victim of the card deadyness and increasing blinds lead to him pushing for 45k from midposition with A-T only to run into the A-K of the big blind.

Also out is one of my picks Pablo Rua, his pushed blind with 30k left and was called in two spots, hitting two pair on the turn only to have it counterfeited on the river. He was in good spirits and felt he made the right decisions most of the time and didn't feel too bad about it all.

Pic from earlier I found - chip leader Johnny Lodden being moved to the TV table ("Did you just wait til my big blind?") and behind him in the white shirt, Nicolas Levi.
They've all mixed and moved totally, it seems, since then.

I've got to agree with Jennifer here. Just let me get to the bar for a very large snifter. A round of applause will almost certainly be disingenuous.

Geir Inge Hauland is out, he pushed a short A-K against K-9 only for a nine to be spiked on the flop.

Clash of the Titans on this table(pictured). They all have huge stacks here, though Lodden is the Zeus figure...

are any of my 3 still in

Florian Longmann
Mattias Andersson
Nguyen Van Bum

Jen's Picks:

Roland De Wolfe
Andreas Hagen
Marcus Golser

Floppy's Boks:

Thang Duc Nguyen (limped into the money with 1 BB)
Ben Grundy
Pablo Rua

Our Bonus Updater Pick:

Henning Granstad


Iron - Florian and Mattias are still in I think, not sure about Van Bum.

can someone shout out if mr bum is still in please

Are U sure about Florian, wasn't he busted by Nicolas Levy

..I'm watching the EPT live coverage of the featured table....


Lee Jones does something that I always find annoying. A player bets on the flop and another player moves all-in, Lee Jones jumps in to start counting the alin players chips.

Exactly what is the dealer there for ??? ?

Why do tournament directors feel the need to do this? The dealer wasn't having any sort of problem, but Lee Jones just jumped in for no reason.


Does this confuse or irritate anyone else?

 ;carlocitrone;

Totaly agree. I also hate when he jumps in when its a showdown and puts the whole cards way up so we almost dont see them... What is that all about?

Can't beat Jen and Floppy.....

im more annoyed of the concentration level of the commentators at the moment.

a limper, both small blind and big blind limped resp. check to see a flop. John Duthie went "a couple of limpers, could be interesting".

then the flop came down 442, small blind bet out, BB went over the top AI. Then the both commentators started guessing the hands. They both saying, time and time again,  that the SB has a five. why on earth does he have a 5 and what does that has to do with the flop?

Lee Jones probably wants to be seen more often on tv now, to maximise the popularity of pokerstars. Like John repeatedly mentions pokerstars.com on TV.

Mickey Wernick (shown here, sitting next to Pab) is OUT - blinds are now 5k/10k ante 1k and he got his short stack in against Eric Lindberg (On the far right with the demon eyes)'s A-J with Q-9 - no joy.  "Now you need some luck," he says as he heads to get his prize.

28 players remain.

Down one Dirk Specht too - about the same time as Mickey.  Prize money for 30th and 29th - €9,250

you have probably told us- but how many are they playing to tonight- and brits stack size if poss please.

Phillip Yeh (pictured) bets out what looks like around 75k on the turn of a 4c Ts Jh 3d board. Gunnar Rabe moves all in and Phillip passes after a short dwell

Gunnar shows Ac Ad.

By the way, chips counts and hands are a REAL bugger to get again, they've closed off the last 4 tables off and the press are stuck behind the same rail as the spectators, so very hard to see anything again. :(

Man, we're really struggling to see what's going on.  I mean the detail, like whose are the cards that are on their backs, how much is in the pot/stacks, what the board cards are.  Ropes have finally gone up around the three non-TV tables, but it' too much too late - a jostly crowd of non-journalists kept annoying the directors, and now the press and others are behind the lines.  Mainly, I am behind tall people.

Therefore please excuse the rather basic coverage now.

Marco Liesy is OUT, for all of you not watching the live coverage online...

27 players left, I imagine three tables of nine reforming.

John Duthie confirms: there is now going to be a redraw.  I think we'll wait for it to settle and then give you all the names and positions of the last three tables.  Probably not full counts, though, sorry in advance.

 keep up the great work Jen and Floopy,...... the live webcast is only covering the TV table, ....and its not too detailed at that !!

thanks guys- sounds like bedlam- best team there is.... thanks

I think the idea is to get to the final table, but I reckon they'll stop when it hits 3 or 4am.  I have to say there hasn't been a whole lot of flop play, or really big hands that don't involve a preflop push/call scenario in the last hour or so. 

We know it's a struggle for you both Jen, & Floppy, but hang in there, the Webcast has not damaged our Traffic, & anyway, your Coverage is better.

A shame about the TV Directors getting upset, it's almost impossible to imagine......

We are with you all the way.

where do i find the german live webcast?

Wow, Oh to - just once in my life - have a Stack like Mr Yeh! i'm so jealous.

24 players left, and we are redrawing the last 3 tables.

This coincides with the departure of Paul 'Pab' Foltyn. With blinds 5k/10k/1k, he pushed utg for 75k with A-K, the short stack next to him called all-in for 25k with A-Q and the flop came Q-T-x but Pab missed his 7 outs. This left him with about 50k left, 10 of which went straight into the big blind, Vincent Solaski, who Pab said had been very aggressive, raised, and Pab called all-in with A-T and found himself racing against pocket nines. It was a race he lost sadly, though not that much of a race since Ben Grundy and one other player both said they had both passed an Ace.

I believe Phillip's middle name is "Clap Your Hands Say"

While Jen gets the new seating arrangements, how about this for the consolation tournament...

€1000 entry fee.

First five levels are 20 minutes long.

30 minute levels from then after.


Anyone think they missed out? ::)

Trafic? Traffic? Is that all we are to you Mr Tikay?!

 ;gobsmacked;

To tell the truth, my concern is for our Updaters, working in really difficult conditions, & then folks Post on here "look, you can watch the Live Webcast here @ >>>>>>>>"......!

I really feel for Jen & Floppy, & was trying to keep their chins up.

No no, on the contrary, I encourage people to watch the live TV - it's just one of the tables and saves lets us get down to the business of trying to see what's going on on the other tables which are being somewhat ignored (except by hordes of spectators actually in Dortmund).

Go to the EPT website and follow the links from there...

ah I'm only takin the piss!

Have the bloggers been restricted access they were meant to have because of the webcast?

This would be a shame, as the webcast only covers the featured table. Also, while it is a nice development to be able to watch it, the commentators have been talking
utter gibberish all day, and can't even read the hands/boards when they are right in front of the camera.

Table 1 (TV table)

Gunnar Rabe
Tobias Holmeide
Tommy Dender
Mike Tse
Eric Lindberg
Nicolas Levi
Madassar Khan

Table 2

Mark Bartlog
Philip Yeh
Tuncer Allezer          (hang on, not any more - Homer has the hand)
Ben Grundy
Thomas Fougeron
Jens Vortmann
Vincent Sokalski
Christiano Blance

Tuncer Allezer is OUT, with Nines against Thomas Fougeron's Ac Tc, a raggy flop and Tuncer moves all-in and Fougeron called(?) but somehow spiked an Ace on the river.

Mike Tse is OUT, A-7 vs Jacks of Nicolas Levi with a Jack on the flop and the slim runner runner straight possiblity extinguished by the ace turn.

i have had a great night watching the live webcast and reading Jen and floppy updates still the best updater's in town bar none there is room for both like Jen said they are only doing the main table

Andreas Hagen is eliminated - he got it all in with Ahrt Jd against Michael Mucklisch's Kd Td... The flop was raggy (two diamonds, however) but a King popped out on the turn, Andreas Hagen got his coat, the river brought another King and he shook his opponent's hand and headed off in 19th place.  No celebrating, just a handshake and commiseration on the outdraw.

Too bad, one of my favs this day. I know its hard for you guys. But any chance on Johnny Loddens chipcount? :)

Action picture from that final hand for Andreas Hagen (last of my picks):  Taken from standing on top of a chair behind a crowd 5-deep, but you get a feel for it anyway...

When that hand happened, I was just getting a few pictures from the other table - at one end, all by himself, Philip Yeh, and the rest of them bunched at the other...

Time to remind everyone of my picks earlier??

Johnny lodden
Philip Yeh
<insert someone else near chiplead>

 ;yippee;

Aspades 7h for Christoph Stiehler as an all-in hand which is called by Eric Lindberg with Js Jh...

Flop: Th 7s 9d
Turn: Ad
River:  6s

116k x2 for Chris, then. 

(for the benefit of those without high-speed internet ;)   )

OK sure, will do my best.  Going down there now...

Play is scheduled to finish at 3am, which is the end of this current level. 

you wouldnt have the list of who is on the 3rd table would you

what a slow day, although lots of interesting plays!
hope the tv commentaries get better tomorrow!

just get a glimse of you on tele Jen ... u cracked a smile even after a long day, not bad at all ...

just remember to party your arse out, and make sure to have the bodyguards with u so they can bring u home :=)

sick sick sick outdrawn Tommy just got ...

OK here is my estimate of Johnny Lodden's chip count:  between 280 and 300k.  Now, from all the stories of how he'd been running over his table, this doesn't seem quite right.  The maximum I could have miscounted is a further 80k (if there was a side stack of brown 5k chips I couldn't see from the only angle I could get to) so I looked for other big stacks.

Sebastian Ruthenberg has something like 625,000.  I think some chips might have swapped table sides in the last half hour or so.

thanks a bunch! :D

Seems like they will stop this live feed when they hit 2 tables... So keep on doing a great job ! :D

Yes, flopped set must have looked like it might be a very good thing for his tournament, but Nicolas Levi's rivered straight (I think - I was downstairs being caught on camera counting chips) knocked him out instead...

I am in no way partying until tomorrow night, minimum.  And hey - you're not one to lecture me   ;whistle;

*************************Redraw Break**************************

That is all.

Does anybody know the reasoning behind the 3-table redraw and then the 2-table redraw following on?  I don't get it.

There was nothing remotely sick about this, and Lee Jones is a clown.

He actually said this was 'the worst beat of the tournament'

JQ v 33, ALL THE CHIPS WENT IN PRE-FLOP.


My god, it doesnt matter what order the next 5 cards are dealt, its a race, end of story.
The way they are dealt adds a bit more drama, but this is not a a bad beat of any sort.

Lee Jones, Clown.






Don't get this either, they seem to do a lot of it in the latter WPT stages too I hear, it just seems confusing and annoying to me, how are you meant to stay settled and
get a read on players when there are constant re-draws for no particular reason....

Mark Bartlog was another casualty before the redraw, he had A-K against 7-7 for a big chunk then pushed with 5-5 agains A-T and lost both races. Fairly upbeat though, he also says :hello: to Tikay.

FAO HornswaggleU

I didn't know they went in preflop.

You are quite right.

Here's a picture of Joe Beevers to calm you down (Stu Rutter's idea).

I know it wasn't what you said Jen!

It was rebornVTV who seemed to think this senario was sick!




Picture of Joe Beevers to calm me down?!

....I'll never get any sleep


 ;woohoo;

Regardless of when the money went in, if I flopped a set and got runner, runnered like that I'd feel really sick.

thanks for the updates Jen and the rest of you! :)

See ya tomorrow! Good Night!

hey easy there lady, that wasnt mean as a lecture, just a flashback of some good times :)

i actually do hope that u could take some time and partying with the boys after all that hard work.

the swedish coverage is not even close to your good work, as the update is way slower (even with three seperate updating "sources").

if u could, go out and party with tommy. Im sure that even though he was badbeaten out of the ept, his partying mood and style will be one not to be missed! haha

and Jen, make sure u make it out of the ladies room when u drunk, pls! :)

take care! and more update when the tele is off!

Great updates, thank you.  ;applause;

I believe they are now playing the remaining 30 minutes of this level and finishing for the day.

Thanks to Simon 'Suffolk Punch' Young for the chip counts.

Nicolas Levi -- 160k
Michael Mucklish -- 360k
Johnny Lodden -- 344k
Jacob Rasmussen -- 680k
Jesper Witved -- 120k
Sebastian Ruthenberg -- 702k
Tommy Klurup -- 99k
Thomas Fougeron -- 264k
Ben Grundy -- 170k
Phillip "Clap Your Hands Say" Yeh -- 493k
Erick Lindberg -- 275k
Christop Stiehler -- 248k
Gunnar Rabe -- 294k
Cristiano Blanco -- 470k
Andreas Hoivold -- 345k
Vincent Sokalski -- 150k

if u been around the pokerscene enough, and have played enough hands, then it is something you have seen before.

it doesnt matter imho if the money went in pf there, it is still creating a sick feeling for me. Take it from a mathematical pointerview, and u understand what I mean.
Everybody knows ofcourse that u cant change the order of the cards coming, but so what?

If I get punched in the tummy, I feel sick! If u are stronger than I am, you probably get a kicked out of it!

is the german webcam off as well?

and Jen, is Stuart there with you?

say hi to him will u, thought he was in africa for some teaching job ...

Yep, I'm afraid you'll have rely on us now. ;)

Ben Grundy is the 16th place finisher, winning €16,250

Right at the end of the day, after 17 hours' total play, he found himself with "an unplayable stack" and an open spot, pushing in with Kh 3h.  He found Michael Mucklisch behind him with Ac Kd, however...

Two hearts on the flop and a double up looked more possible than it did before the flop cards came down, but a blank turn and river knocked the exhausted Ben out as Day Two draws to a close.

And would you believe it - following Pab's advice to stand on a chair and just hold the camera high in the air and hope - I got this photo too.  That's Ben's arm on the left in blue.

Yes - he's off to Vienna any minute though.  Seems to be enjoying himself here, despite the knockout of tournament and everything.

Tommy Klurup is OUT in 15th winning €16,250

He pushed with A-T and was called by Nicolas Levi's Sixes. No improvement for either mean that Tommy was gunned down.

Final photo: Pab.  Shortstacked bearer of frustration during that hour hand-for-hand, and eventual casher, which he will see as a triumph of some sort tomorrow.

If you want me to understand what you mean, a mathamatical viewpoint is the last you should ask me to take!

I would of expected Lee Jones to not talk like a complete donk, seeing as he is
'Pokerstars Online Poker Room Manager'.


 :)up

did he not resign after the usa banned online poker and stars carried on as normal to save any legal issues ?

Well done, Pab.  :)up

nah... he works out of the Isle of Man, don't know if Pokerstars have any staff located in the USA.

A somewhat weary clap signifying end of play has come from downstairs - Homer is on his way back up to give you the final (and we mean final) update on today.

Thanks for the updates Jen and Homer.

If you see Joe Beevers, could you get me a signed  Js 7s ?    ;)


I would be forever in your debt....

Ok we have finished for the day with 13 remaining players.

Andreas Witveld is OUT in 14th place winning €20,900

He made his move with Q-J and was called by Vincent Sokalski with those bullets  ;snoopy'sguns;

The board was K-K-6-5-3 offering nothing resembling the nearest hint of any help.

At this point Johnny Lodden and Nicolas Levi almost began playing rock, paper, scissors for €100 a time, but then Nicolas realised he might need taxi money. BA also told me that Lodden needs to get 6th or better to break even for the week. But enough gossip, here are chip counts:

Andreas Hoivold -- 335k
Gunnar Rabe -- 431k
Thomas Fourgeron -- 192k
Cristiano Blanco -- 424k
Philip "Clap Your Hands Say" Yeh -- 597k
Michael Mucklish -- 440k
Sebastian Ruthenberg -- 537k
Christoph Stiehler -- 182k
Vincent Sokalski -- 278k
Jacob Rasmussen -- 657k
Johnny Loden -- 360k
Nicolas Levi -- 365k
Erick Lindberg -- 266k

2pm GMT start tomorrow again, I'm guessing the final table will be around 5pm GMT-ish and certainly the odds now point to another Scandie winner here...

 ;stickaforkinme;

P.S

Here are the earlier cash places that we didn't announce. Thanks to Mad Harper for these. (Prize money in €'s)

17 Jens Vortmann Germany 12,750
18 Tommy Dender Denmark 12,750
19 Andreas Hagen Norway 12,750
20 Mark  Bartlog Germany 12,750
21 Mike Tse UK 12,750
22 Ellezer Tuncer Germany 12,750
23 Madassar Khan Denmark 12,750
24 Miroslav Sima Czech Republic 12,750
25 Mathias Andersson Sweden 9,250
26 Paul Foltyn UK 9,250
27 Marco Liesy Germany 9,250
28 Dirk Specht Germany 9,250
29 Mickey Wernick UK 9,250
30 Mackay Anthony UK 9,250
31 Mika Paasonen Finland 9,250
32 Fredrik Haugen Sweden 9,250
33 Masaaki Kagawa Japan 6,950
34 Fredrich Hostrugs Denmark 6,950
35 Jose Luis Navarro Spain 6,950
36 Inge Haugland Norway 6,950
37 Florian Longmann Germany 6,950
38 Ben Wolbers Holland 6,950
39 Jim Kerrigan UK 6,950
40 Hans Eskilsson Sweden 6,950
41 David Ros France 5,800
42 Thang Duc Nguyen Germany 5,800
43 Pablo Rua Spain 5,800
44 Markus Schlepphorst Germany 5,800
45 Holm Henrik Denmark 5,800
46 Johansson Christer Sweden 5,800
47 Paul Gourlay UK 5,800
48 Sverre Sundbo Sweden 5,800

Great stuff as always, thank you very much.

Fine work Jen & Homer  ;hattip;  :cheers:

Well done Pab & Ben

Hear hear!

Another FANTASTIC Update, thank you Jen, thank you Floppy.

It truly was absorbing, entertaining, informative & above all side-splittingly funny. I intend to start a debate via a thread on General Discussion about the 3 table redraw, & the hand for hand play, both of which seemed extraordinary.