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Play will commence for the remaining 118 at 3pm (2pm UK time).  Full chip counts will be posted before that hour...

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   

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Ben Wolbers is now chip leader with over 120k.

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.

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

Neighbours Henning Granstad and Mikey Tse get involved 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.

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.

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

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).

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.

Blinds status:

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

Around 70 players remaining.

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

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.

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.

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)...

**********************************All players on Dinner Break - 1hr (probably)*************************************

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

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.

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

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...

Currently 49 players - this is The Bubble...

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 role 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.

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

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.

Mickey Wernick is OUT - blinds are now 5k/10k ante 1k and he got his short stack in against Eric Lindberg'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

Phillip Yeh 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.

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. 

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.

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? ::)

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.

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.

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 ;)   )

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

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.

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

That is all.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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