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Hey everybody. Play starts again at 2pm (1pm GMT), we're anticipating another 150 players or so.

Be sure to check out the pciture gallery from yesterday by clicking the following link:

http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=image/tid/236 (http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=image/tid/236)


The current line-up for Day 1B looks like this:

Richard Lis
Clayton Mozdzen
Dimitrios Nistas
Stefan Barbré Nielsen
Dennis Barting
Thomas Billum
Jes Bondo
Casper Dahl-Hansen
Johannes Fonnesberg
Ole Gammeljord
Thomas Holm
Jacob Juhl
Søren Kongsgaard Nielsen
Ricki Nielsen
Thomas Nielsen
Frederik Hostrup Pedersen
Helge Rahbek Pedersen
Rehne Pedersen
Carsten Skouboe
Henrik Sorensen
Martin Vallo
Michael Van Putten
Peter Willers Jepsen
Juha Helppi
Juuso Kauppinen
Skytta Samuli
Jani Sointula
Simon Stenbaeck
Ville Wahlbeck
Thomas Wahlroos
Alexandre Poulain
Francois Archimbaud
Hoang Chuc
Sebastien Compte
Bertrand Grospellier
Vicente Julien
Marc Lesur
Farid Meraghni
Hanouna Mikael
Julien Neumann
Pascal Perrault
Fabrice Soulier
Paul Testud
Andrea Traldi
Benjamin Kang
Thang Duc Nguyen
Markus Ross
Katja Thater
Cornelis Alblas
Noah Boeken
Roy Brindley
Tony Cascarino
Peter Roche
Andrea Balla
Luca Pagano
Antonio Pezzi
Davide Vanzo
Engin Balcik
Wim Emo
Marcel Luske
James Honeybone
Anders Berg
Torstein Berget
Henning Bolstad
Lars Eidissen
Orjan Gronmo
Arild Helland
Orjan Holt
Arve Johansen
Espen Uhlen Jørstand
Marius Skoglund Torbergsen
Åge Spets
Christopher Ulsrud
Tomasz Al Chalabi
Paweł Chmiel
Radosław Kołodziej
Jacek Ładny
Piotr Łopusiewicz
Łukasz Mazurek
Stanisław Miądzel
Grzegorz Mikielewicz
Sławomir Rypiński
Przemyslaw Samsel
Łukasz Wasek
Jakub Wiśniewski
Jan Wronowski
Claus Christiansen
Tomas Alenius
Peter Eichhardt
Ola Engberg
Alexander Hanell
Ulf Jonsson
Elias Kokkinos
Paul Kristoffersson
Kim Hon Lai
Loc Ly
Marco Massucci
Jonas Molander
Christian Öman
Magnus Petersson
Azad Pirooti
Pawel Plucner
Sebastian Riviere
Sargon Ruya
Sebastian Skuja
Christoffer Sonesson
Thomas Tyszkiewicz
Anders Wijk
Sharam Zeraatkar
Erbahar Kaan
Marvin Babul
Joseph Beevers
Barny Boatman
Ross Boatman
Terry Cook
Andrew Feldman
David Gregory
Ben Grundy
Thomas Grundy
Arshad Hussein
Iwan Jones
Robin Keston
Anthony Mackay
Kevin O'Connell
Andrew O'Flaherty
Christopher Robson
Ben Searle
Nick Slade
Matthew Tyler
David Welch
Dustin Dirksen
John Donnelly
Will Haydon
Roberto Matic
Tyler Netter
Alexander Ofer
Michael Pesek
Daniel Ryan
William Stevenson
Alec Torelli
Patrick White
Joseph Aval
John Houston

Yesterday's end of day chip counts can be found here:

http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/8099 (http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/8099)

Nic Slade has lost a few k with two pair vs. an open-ended straight draw which hit on the river.

Bertrand Grospellier is up after his 2-3 flopped trips on a K-3-3-6-5 board.

Kevin O'Connell ran into Anders Berg's flush (6-8) on a K-Ad-Td-7s-3d and paid off the 600 to 1,500 River re-raise.

Anders Wijk, who you may recall from Copenhagen several weeks back. Anyhow, he's just eliminated Jonny Hewston in dramatic circumstances, catching 'Texas' with his fingers firmly trapped in the cookie jar. On an all heart flop, John had hit top pair with his A-Q, but come the River, the board had dealt out four hearts. Still, this didn't stop John Hewston taking a stab, well, more than a stab really, with him betting out, Anders Wijk minimum raising and 'Texas' moving all-in. Of course, Anders had the Ace of Hearts and oc course he called, leaving Jon to wonder aimlessly around the rail with a slightly perplexed expression on his face.

Marcel Luske -- 11,650
James Honeybone -- 10,625
Luca Pagano -- 9,100
Rolf Woods -- 10,775
Nick Slade -- 10,000
Matt Tyler -- 10,950

Elky raises from the cut-off to 300, Ben Grundy re-raises from the button to 1200 with Ahrt Kc. The ex-gamer calls.

Flop:

Kd 6d 4c

Elky check/calls Ben's 1800 chip bet.

Turn:

Qd

Elky checks, Ben checks. Now at this point Ben looks at his cards and realises he doesn't have the Ahrt at all but the Ad!

River:

2d

Elky bets 2k, Ben moves in for 6k. Elky calls and mucks. Ben on around 18k, the Frenchman was down to 6k as I left the table to watch a couple of others, but when I came back a minute later Elky was back over 10k again. He's faster than a Quake Pr0 that one. ::)

Iwan Jones -- 13,475
Jonas Molander -- 9,750
John Conroy -- 10,100
Thomas Wahlroos -- 8,800

Ash Hussain dropped to 4k after running 7-5 into A-Q on a Q-7-5-A board, but has climbed back up to 8k.

Nick Slade -- 11,450
Betrand Grospellier -- 13,575
Ben Grundy -- 17,500
Chuc Hoang -- 4,425
Katja Thater -- 10,975
Azad Pirooti -- 4,175
Robin Keston -- 6,825
Thang Duc Nguyen -- 7,250
Søren Kongsgaard Nielsen -- 13,100
Ash Hussain -- 11,025
Kevin O'Connell -- 7,400
Kim Hon -- 9,250
Juha Helppi -- 13,750
Henning Bolstad -- 11,200
Jani Jointula -- 5,825
Anders Berg -- 23,300
Roy Brindley -- 17,600
Christoffer Ulsa -- 10,600
Morten Erlandsen -- 6,925

:hello:

He has 15k at the moment, piccy to follow a bit.


Morten 'Pokergirl' Erlandsen (He of the super huge shoulders) is a bit short. Ben Grundy limped for 150, Morten made it 750 which was flat-called by the Jacob Wisniewski in the big blind, Grundy folds.

Flop:

Tc 4h 5h

Jacob check/raises Morten's 1200 bet to 2500. Morten calls

Turn:

Th

Jacob leads out for 2500 and Morten passes. I think Jacob flashed something along the lines of Kc 8c, but the cards weren't lifted up high enough for me to see properly.

Martin Vallo -- 13,200
Anthony Mackay -- 7,950
Roberto Matic -- 13,125
Alec Torelli -- 7,200
Age Spets -- 19,625
Matt Tyler -- 9,925
Tony Cascarino -- 7,850
Peter Willers Jespen -- 8,975
William Stevenson -- 13,875
Dave Gregory -- 17,500
Peter Gould -- 8,950


Just after I completed those counts, Tony Mackay doubled through with Ad 4s vs. Scandieboy's Qs 6s.

All-in on Flop with the board reading Aspades 4s 6h 7h Tc

Flatcalling with full house news now. (Blinds still 75/150)

Seat 6, (who I think is Cornelis Alblas) limps, Christopher Ulsrud makes up the blind and Roy Brindley checks.

Flop:

Ad Ahrt 6h

Checked round.

Turn:

Kd

Checked to the limper who bets 425, Christopher calls and Roy folds.

River:

3d

Now Christopher bets 1200 and Cornelis calls.

Christopher:

Qd Jd

Cornelis:

Aspades 3s

A bit cautious?

Elsewhere, Matt Tyler claims, "I'm being outplayed by eight players, luckily Tony Cascarino is here."

Andrew O'Flaherty -- 9,900
Patrick White -- 6,725
Ross Boatman -- 12,825
Juuso Kauppinen -- 3,075
Christian Öman -- 11,350
Jerome Nayan -- 5,850
David Welch -- 10,350
Simon Stenbaeck   -- 3,850
Clayton Mozdzen   -- 6,800
Helge Rahbek Pedersen -- 18,050
Loc Ly -- 8,275
Paul Testud -- 15,000
Peter Eichhardt -- 6,250
Simon Kelly -- 18,175
Pascal Perrault -- 8,350
Marcel Luske -- 11,600
Fabrice Soullier -- 14,275
Noah Boeken -- 1,625
Anders Wijk -- 17,900
Peter Roche -- 10,525
Iwan Jones -- 8,100
Jonas Molander -- 9,250
John Conroy -- 13,125
Thomas Wahlroos -- 4,300
Rehne Pedersen   -- 7,825
Christoffer Sonesson -- 11,600

Cautious set play now.

Helge Rahbek Pedersen raises and finds two callers in Peter Eicchardt and Espen Uhlen Jorstand.

Flop:

6s 5c 4d

Jorstand check calls Pedersen's 600 bet, Eicchardt gets out of the way.

Turn:

Qd

This time Jorstand check calls a 1,700 chip bet.

River:

8s

Both check.

Pedersen:

8d 6d

Jorstand:

4c 4h

Ash Hussain raises preflop and leads out on a Th 9c 7c board and he is check/called by his only opponent Cornelis Alblas.

The turn is an 8d and Cornelis checks, as does Ash.

The river is the dangerous looking Tc and Cornelis leads out for 1,775, Ash thinks for a while and raises to 5,000. Cornelis calls quickly and Ash flips over 7h 7s. Cornelis mucks his cards in disgust though I saw he had Aspades Jc. Good raise.

On the same table Roy Brindley raises from the button to 500 and Azad Pirooti pushes his 3.4k stack all-in. Roy calls.

Azad, "You got a good hand Roy?" As he flips over Jd Js.

Roy, "I hoped I was in a race." Showing 8h 8d.

Board:

Qd Jd Ts 2d 4h.

Kevin O'Connell is on (http://www.colmedsupply.com/images/propaqcs2l.jpg)

He made it 600 from the button with 9h 9d and found a similar sized stack push all in for around 6k.

Eventually he called and found himself up against Kd Qh.

Board:

Jd 6c 4d 7d Qs

Seeing the river, his opponent let out a whoop of delight and told the table how he doesn't ever hit any outs.

This left the DTD player with just 625 chips.

Chip leaders:

Anders Berg -- 30,325
Tomasz Al Chalabi -- 29,575
Roy Brindley -- 27,200
Mateyboy -- 25,075
Dave Welch -- 8,975
Helge Rahbek Pedersen -- 24,275
Ben Grundy -- 22,500
Luca Pagano -- out


Morten Erlandsen is OUT. Jacks vs. Queens. Q-T-Q Flop.

Baden winner Thang Duc Nguyen is OUT. Set of Queens on a K-Q-J flop, only Elky is holding A-T.

Players are just coming back from a 15 minute break. Blinds are now 150/300. Average stack is 11,472 which means we've lost very few players. Certainly, it does seem a lot rockier tonight.

Ash Hussain -- 15k
Katja Thater -- 9k
Ben Grundy -- 23k

Guess the Hands now.

Raised pot between Age Spets and Tony Cascarino

7h Qh 7c flop

Age bets 1k and Tony Casacarino calls.

Turn:

9s

Age bets 3.5k, after a dwell Tony calls.

River:

4d

Age puts Tony in for his last 6k or so. Tony eventually calls. Tony ends up being knocked out, but what were the hands?

Also on this table is Matt Tyler and Thomas Grundy, Matt has dribbled down to 4.5k or so, mostly through antes, though he also bluffed off 3.5k with A-K to a set.

Hoang Chuc is OUT.

Iwan Jones is also OUT - Kings vs. set of Nines on T-9-5 Flop.

And so is Jonas Molander, after running into Aces.

1st €325,633
2nd €182,063
3rd €109,238
4th €78,027
5th €64,502
6th €50,978
7th €40,574
8th €29,130
9th to 10th €18,726
11th to 12th €14,565
13th to 14th €12,484
15th to 16th €9,363
17th to 24th €6,242

Blinds are now 150/300 with a 25 ante.

Yep the running antes are kicking in...

;ra;

Ash Hussain is OUT. Ran Tens into Kings.

Noah Boaken has also bitten the dust.

Anders Wijk -- 14,350
Juuso Kauppinen -- 4,650
Paul Testud -- 13,500
Patrick White -- 3,125
Helge Rahbek Pedersen -- 30,875
Jerome Noyon -- 10,725
Christoffe Sonneson -- 17,350
Peter Roche -- 18,800
Peter Eickkhart -- 14,700
Tomasz Al Chalabi -- 25,800
Marcel Luske -- 5,525
John Conroy -- 14,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 16,800
Fabrice Soulier -- 9,400
Ricki Nielsen -- 5,225
Pascal Perrault -- 16,550
Simon Kelly -- 16,475
Dave Welch -- 15,550
Martin Vallo -- 6,800
Ross Boatman -- 10,325
Andrew O'Flaherty -- 20,325
Christian Öman -- 13,350

No sign of Peter Gould.
Also, Matt Tyler is a gonna, missed 19 outs according to Nick Slade, so I assume he had a big draw which failed to develop.

Jacek Ladny -- 3,925
William Stevenson -- 20,500
Matt Tyler -- out
Thomas Grundy -- 10,900
Age Spets -- 35,700
Chris Robson -- 10,250
Peter Gould -- missing
Peter Willers Jepsen -- 19,400
Dave Gregory -- 39,175
Thomas Nielsen -- 10,475
Thomas Holm -- 12,775
Sławomir Rypiński -- 21,750
Nick Slade -- 23,200
Ben Grundy -- 12,250
Rolf Woods -- 18,200
Bertrand Grospellier -- 17,225

Matt called a Scandie raiser with Qd Jd, flop Td 8d 3c. Matt moves in and gets called by A-8.

Nick Slade lost a 30k pot with 5-5 against K-K on a K-T-5-A board. He's recovered a bit, calling two Elky bluffs with J-9 on a K-2-3-9-x board.

Speaking of Elky, he has doubled through Thomas Nielsen.

Nick raised, Elky and Thomas called.

Flop:

Ks 7s 4c

Nick checked, Elky bet 3.4k (almost half his stack) and Thomas moved in. Nick passed his A-K and Elky called.

Elky:

Aspades Qs

Thomas:

7d 7h

Turn:

Js

River:

2s.

Elky a lot healthier than before.

Christian Oman -- out
Asad Parooti -- missing
Richard Lis -- 8,525
Ole Gammeljord -- 16,875
Orjan Holt -- 17,800
Henning Bolstad -- 7,850
Jani Sointula -- 19,675
Juha Helppi -- 16,775
Katja Thater -- 12,250
Robin Keston -- 7,950
Christopher Ulsrud -- 21,200
Roy Brindley -- 17,425
Søren Kongsgaard Nielsen -- 17,425
Dimitrios Nistas -- 17,000
Anders Berg -- 28,000

Table 4 is the place to be at the moment, the general consensus from the players on there is that they are all steaming, including the dealer.

Rolf Woods, raises in early position, Elky calls from the blinds, Ben Grundy moves all-in from the big blind. Rolf dwells and passes.

Ben practically begs Elky to call. "Please call." "I want you to call." "I want a coinflip." And so on...

Eventually Elky calls and shows Jh Jc

"Uh-oh." says Ben, flipping Tc Ts. (Rolf passed Nines incidentally).

Flop:

Kd Jd 9d

Mr Grundy in deep doo-doo.

Turn:

8h

Mr Grundy with 8 outs.

River:

7c

Ben sits back down with 14k now.

Elky, "I guess I'm steaming now."

A small crowd of fans/press gatherered around one table, which is normally a sign that something is going down, so off I run, and, not unurprisingly, we had an all-in, a young man named Sebastian Riviere with his testicles on the line.

The Flop read 9h 7h 9d, and Sebastian was awaiting the decision of his Danish opponent, who was probably settling nerves by saying, "I think I might have to call", especially when the Swede held 9s Tc.

Well, he did call, and he was behind, but by no means dead with Jd Td, and although a crushing 8c hit the Turn, Riviere er... Rivered his opponent with a fourth nine.

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Henning Bolstad (K-K vs. A-Q) and Thomas Holm are both OUT.

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Slade is also struggling with just 10k after running a set of Fives into a set of Kings and Tens into Ben Grundy's Kings.

enjamin Kang takes out Thomas Mathisen, the latter pushed with A-K against the lead on the turn of an J-T-4-A board and was called instantly by Kang's K-Q

No Queen on the river for a split. Kang up to 30k.

Nick Slade is now OUT.

Opponent raised with A-K, Mateyboy called with A-T, Nick moved all-in with J-J and received two calls.

A-K-Q Flop pretty much finished him off.

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Richard Lis is OUT. Didn't see his hand, but I spotted that he was up against Jacks and the board was Ace high.

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Orjan Holt of Norway is emerging as a major contendor with just over 40k.

Dave Welch is still plugging away. Was down to 5k at one point after having his set outdrawn to a runner runner straight. The third spade on the Turn caused the problems, but also stopped Dave's opponent from re-raising the River.

But, although virtually down to the felt, Dave didn't concede and has doubled through twice, one of which was a 7-7 vs. A-J encounter, 7 on the Flop a very welcome sight indeed.

Now with his shades down, the usually smiley Dave is looking very serious indeed, and he has every right to as he's managed to build his 5k up to a very playable 21,250, not that far away from average.

Looks like there are 6 tables left; here are three, along with some chip counts:

Davide Vanzo -- 11,000
John Conroy -- 14,800
Katja Thater -- 7,100
Thomas Whalroos -- 21,500
Søren Kongsgaard Nielsen -- 23,800
Christopher Ulsrud -- 41,200
Frederik Hostrup -- 16,600
Ole Gammeljord -- 11,300
Anders Berg -- 34,500
Andrew O'Flaherty -- 25,900
Sebastian Riviere -- 17,600
Pascal Perrault -- 5,200
Juha Helppi -- 14,400
Juuso Kauppinen -- 7,200
Orjan Holt -- 40,200
Jani Sointula -- 17,300

Was just on my way to undertake the second batch of chipcounts and photos when I was forced into an about turn on the staircase by the passing of two familiar figures. One of them was Thomas Grundy (sry), and the second was Roy Brindley, who confirmed the earlier murmur of his exit by saying, "I knocked myself out, moved in with Ace high but ran into a set, so slightly behind."

Chris Robson -- 8,200
Paul Testud -- 10,500
Fabrice Soulier -- 8,100
Age Spets -- 55,200
Peter Willers Jepsen -- 63,800
Benjamin Kang -- 36,400
Rolf Woods -- 17,400
Ben Grundy -- 21,800
Bertrand Grospellier -- 29,400
Tomasz Al Chalabi -- 10,100
Ben Searle -- 21,200
Peter Eichhardt -- 13,600
Simon Kelly -- 9,300
Łukasz Mazurek -- 35,500
Ross Boatman -- 2,500
Martin Vallo -- 15,400

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Just to explain a few of those big dips in chips...

Firstly, and probably most painfully, Ireland's Simon Kelly lost a 50k pot with Aces against Queens - two Queens hitting the Flop from what I heard.

Secondly, Ross Boatman, in his own words, said, "my bluff got called by Queen high". From what I understand, Ross had an open ended straight draw.

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Oh yes, and I also Marcel Luske chatting away with the cameras on the rail, so he's a gonna.

Hmmm, no internet make Homer mad grrrrr. We've also been denied acess beyond the rail so we couldn't watch anything either. Not a great outcome.

I did spot Thomas Grundy go out with A-Q against K-T, Queen on the flop, King on the river. Ouch.


Anyway sorry for complete lack of stuff going on in the last hour, we've been truly hamstrung I'm afraid...