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Welcome back to Day 3 of this competition, 88 players return with the blinds being 1500/3000 with a 300 ante. I'm unsure how many levels are being played, but we will tell you as soon as we know. Chip counts will also follow when we get them. If you want anyone followed, please, as usual post their names here.

Morning :)

Morning, the players are warming up and ready for action and the... oh, hold on. Crap, I've forgotten to go to bed!

tyhats why they call me mr farenheit

gonan make a supersonic man out fo of u ;starwars;

These three have worked so hard this week they actually look like they could sleep for a week, but still I think not only has the usual blonde updating service, with the perfect blend of humour and factual content, been in evidence, I actually think this is the best update ever. I doth my cap to the three of you for your dedication, hard work, humour, and maintained high standards, fantastic work...so good I came back to my hotel room to read the updates online rather than watch the action live!! ;hattip;

Now lets see a final with andy black, josh, chad, carlos and ram.

The GF is back from Uni and thus means im busy and am MISSING the EPT Live Feed. Feck Feck Feck Feck Feck. Whats more is that her internet at home is busted too so cant even watch it whilst she moans about me doing so! I do love her though!

 ;angel; :)up

Best of luck to Strum though, for anyone for reads his diary ( sorry, rants ) on the BB site he's not had the best couple of weeks before his little trip to Portugal so hopefully the " poker gods " will be looking down on him today.

How many get paid out of interest!?

Good to see you again in Cardiff Jeff, next time hopefully we will have time to go out for dinner and plenty of drinks... Well done on getting sponsored - very deserved.

good luck

Stu

Andy Black and Johnny Lodden share a table today

expect fireworks

Day Three Chip Standings:

Andy Black (Ireland) -- 513300
Josh Arieh (USA) -- 343100
Antony Lellouche (France) -- 332100
Johnny Lodden (Norway) -- 310900
Simon Johansson (Sweden) -- 302100
Christopher Ulsrud (Norway) -- 286800
Philip   Hilm (Denmark)   -- 273200
Oscar Blanco Carrasco (Spain) -- 245900
Steve Jelinek (UK) -- 226400
Biri Balazs (Hungary) -- 219200
Chad Brown (USA) -- 212900
Vladimir Troyanovsky (Russia) -- 202100
Marc Karam (Canada) -- 196700
Elie Marciano (France)   -- 187100
Christian Neirinck (Belgium) -- 181800
Thomas Bihl (Germany) -- 179800
Jonathan Little   (USA) -- 176300
Carlos   Mortensen (Spain) -- 174700
Alexander Kim (USA) -- 173600
Pete Giordano (USA) -- 167800
Dean Sanders (UK) -- 166000
David Sonelin (Sweden) -- 165000
Kristian Kjondal (Norway) -- 164000
Nicolas   Ragot (France) -- 163700
Jan Veit (Germany) -- 159800
Soren Bakfort (Denmark)   -- 157500
Thomas Wahlroos (Finland) -- 154900
Kristof   De Smedt (Belgium) -- 154800
Dario Alioto (Italy) -- 149600
Sergey Altbregin (Russia) -- 144600
Ram Vaswani (UK) -- 141900
Ricki Nielsen (Denmark)   -- 138400
Chris Bjorin (Sweden)   -- 136600
Lars Eidissen (Norway) -- 136200
Halldor Mar Sverrisson   (Iceland) -- 135800
Samir Rahal (France) -- 134300
Richard   Waters (UK) -- 131200
Peter Christiaan Dalhuijsen (Holland) -- 120600
Lars Bonding (Denmark) -- 119500
Nicholas Goodall (UK) -- 119400
Roi Elmaliah (Israel) -- 118800
Cristinel Dumitru (Romania) -- 117900
Gavin Griffin (USA) -- 111200
Johannes Strassmann (Germany) -- 105700
Fabio Bianchi (Italy) -- 103600
Shane Reihill (Ireland)   -- 103100
William   Hill (UK) -- 100400
Jesse Steinberg (USA) -- 97400
Richard   Herbert   (Ireland) -- 95000
Rayan Nathan (Australia) -- 85700
Joe Beevers (UK) -- 82800
Eric Van der Berg (Holland) -- 80800
David Sykes (Canada) -- 80400
Jacob Larsson (Sweden)   -- 77000
Fadi Kamar (Lebanon) -- 76800
David Mobbs (UK) -- 76300
Michael   Martin (USA) -- 74600
Ernst Hermans (Holland)   -- 63800
Staale   Egenes (Norway) -- 62200
Josh Prager (USA) -- 60400
David Barraclough (UK) -- 58000
Atanas Gueorguiev (Bulgaria) -- 57500
Ben Callinan (UK) -- 55500
Soren Kongsgaard (Denmark) -- 55500
David Ulliott (UK) -- 54400
Zack Stewart (Israel) -- 54300
David Peters (USA) -- 51900
Sasa Biorac (Germany) -- 51100
Hans Eskilsson (Sweden)   -- 51000
Jason Mellross   (Australia) -- 50700
Hans Vars (Norway) -- 47600
Patric   Martensson (Sweden) -- 47300
Ali Masterman (UK) -- 44300
Herman   Zango (Costa Rica) -- 43900
Hans Erlandsson (Sweden) -- 42800
Ouri Aron Cohen (France) -- 42300
Anthony   Chatelain (Sweden) -- 36800
Age Spets (Norway) -- 33700
Ross Boatman (UK) -- 32900
Fowzi Baroukh (UK) -- 32400
Xuyen Pham (UK) -- 31900
Daryl Jace (USA) -- 30600
Gunnar   Ostebrod (Norway) -- 29200
Maurice   Kenter   (USA) -- 19400
Mickey Wernick   (UK) -- 13700

This many!

1   1,825,010
2   1,061,820
3   610,550
4   471,180
5   391,550
6   305,270
7   238,910
8   159,270
9   99,550
10   99,550
11   66,360
12   66,360
13   49,770
14   49,770
15   39,820
16   39,820
17   33,180
18   33,180
19   33,180
20   33,180
21   33,180
22   33,180
23   33,180
24   33,180
25   26,550
26   26,550
27   26,550
28   26,550
29   26,550
30   26,550
31   26,550
32   26,550
33   23,230
34   23,230
35   23,230
36   23,230
37   23,230
38   23,230
39   23,230
40   23,230
41   19,910
42   19,910
43   19,910
44   19,910
45   19,910
46   19,910
47   19,910
48   19,910
49   16,590
50   16,590
51   16,590
52   16,590
53   16,590
54   16,590
55   16,590
56   16,590
57   13,270
58   13,270
59   13,270
60   13,270
61   13,270
62   13,270
63   13,270
64   13,270

Updaters?  Shall we all pick three as usual?  Oh, you're not in the press room yet.  So I get to pick first!

Andy Black
Thomas Wahlroos
Richard Herbert

3 picks/boks for today:

Nice and easy...............the 3 mobsters still in:

Joe Beevers
Ram Vaswani
Ross Boatman

Coooooeeeee  :hello:

Chad Brown
Thomas Wahlroos
Maurice Kenter

I detect a link here. Snoopy Holmes on the case.  ;hattip;

Good luck to Mickey Wernick. As the lowest chip stack of the remaining 85 players I'm sure none of us would be surprised to see him go on and win this.  ;goodluck;

Johnny Lodden

Josh Arieh

ram vaswani

my picks. 3 friends are playing but dont wana bok them

Play will start shortly.

the webcast has started

Sun is shinin' in the sky
There ain't a cloud in sight
It's stopped rainin' ev'rybody's in a play
And don't you know
It's a beautiful new day hey,hey


not much been said about ram so far... gotta be in with a cracking shout from here. Id like to see strummer do well, very underated player. My lay not to make the final would be lodden. The guys had plenty of chances in ept's with big stacks. i predict he will be knocked out two tables out.

My picks

Mr Black
Mr Brown
Mr Pink Vaswani

very nearly a pleasing Tarantino link  ;D

have fun guys  :)up

hot dog is correct.

Mortensen, Vaswani and Dalhuijsen are seated at the TV Table I've been told! :D

somebody got a link to the live tv sending??

http://www.eptlive.com/WebCast/high.html (http://www.eptlive.com/WebCast/high.html) There you go. Or did you want the German Webcast? :D

witht he t.v thing it says cannot start media player??  does anyone know what the problem could be, on my media player it says something about reducing pixels or summat?

There was a choice of high speed or lower speed connection, maybe you've got the wrong one..

ty

black
lodden
masterman

Josh Arieh
Ram Vaswani
William Hill :)

Correct. As is Bad Girl.

Micky Wernick is sitting in between Thomas 'Eggman' Walhroos and Josh Arieh, (who I think will go all the way).

the webcast has realy low sound any one else having this prob

Rumour has it that we may have some American viewers todays, so for our fans across the other side of our pond, here are 9 of your boys playing today. Michael Martin is also starting today, whilst Daryl Jace appears to have been an early departure as his seat is now vacant.

(1) Chad Brown
(2) Jon Little
(3) Pete Giordano
(4) Gavin Griffin
(5) Jesse Steinberg

Any chance of a recap of the chip denominations please.

and...

(6) Josh Prager
(7) David Peters
(8) Maurice Kenter
(9) Josh Arieh

You're down one American already - Maurice Kenter is OUT - rather spectacularly running into Aces... not that there's anything that unusual about that occurrence, it's more the open shove from under the gun with Td Tc for 50k which made the spectators' eyes open wide.  Greg Amoils saw the beginning of the hand, and was fairly surprised to find the big blind Antony Lellouche calling so quickly, until he flipped the Ad Ac.
The board came:  7c 2h 2s 6d Aspades (this is the part I saw firsthand) and that was a definitive knockout, and a good start for the Frenchman (pictured below).

Chip counts for

Ali Masterman
Dave Barraclough

If you can please? TY

For a moment there, I thought we'd lost one on Dean Sander's table, but they actually play 7-handed. Dean, meanwhile, has just lost 40k to his neighbour Herman Zango, calling Zango's over the top all-in with J-Q in a battle of the blinds. Zango, who didn't have much more in chips, had A-8, which ultimately stood up.

Age Spets doubled up first hand, getting his 30k or so in as a comfy favourite with Aspades Ts against Lars Bonding's Kh Th preflop.
Board:  5d 3c Jd 6s Td and a happy Spets is back in it.
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Richard 'Strummer' Herbert takes a pot of chipped up Chad Brown on the river, fearlessly taking on the table big stack and, it appears, tidy player.
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Marc Karam (pictured) takes a goodly chunk of chips from his neighbour - repositioning ipod while Greice Yamaguchi looks on from behind the rope (the last eleven tables are spectator free and there is plenty of room for the zombie-like press to stumble around them - thank you Thomas Kremser, or whoever sorted the space out - it makes a huge difference to us)

Black   100
Red     500
Blue    1,000
Brown  5,000

Flop = 2c 6h 4h

Roi Emiliah bets out a suspicious, but perhaps weak 6k, only for William Hill (what are the odds on that) moving over the top for around 60-80k.

Roi folds.

Any news on Devilfish please

Zack Stewart is OUT, eliminated by Nicolas Ragot (below). Nines v Kings, no help.

ben callinan dave mobs and mick wernick counts plz??

Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott is OUT.

He shoved it in with Kh Jh on an Ah-8h-x Flop, but ran into A-8 and failed to improve.

Micky Wernick doubles up, in predictable Micky style, he pushed his very short stack in and got protection from Josh Arieh next to him, Josh's Kh Qc was no good for Micky's Ad Ahrt though, especially after the Tc 5h 9s 2d 7c board.

This table featuring Patric Martesson, Steve Jelinek and Joe Beevers has just been broken making this picture annoyingly redundant. Beevers did win this checked down pot against Jelinek with 5c 7c though, hitting a Seven on the river.

Johnny Lodden stacking the chips, having knocked out Hans Erlandsson, a pokerstars qualifier. Erlandsson raised from the small blind and pushed on the 6s 3c Ts with Jc 9h, Lodden made the quick call with Kc Th. 9c on the turn but 8d river sent him home.

Nicolas Ragot (on the right) with Richard  here, just knocked out Lars Bonding with A-A vs K-K.

Mickey Wernick is OUT.

There was a min raise on his table, and Mickey decided to go for it with A-8 (he still didn't have many chips). Came up against Aces and failed to escape.

This was received second hand, so it needs to be confirmed 100%.

Someone tell the organisers to put the plug in!!!

any 1 knows if we can bet the winner here?

And that source, Mr Mark Forrester, who played yesterday but was take out by a former World champion (not a bad way to go) in Carlos Mortensen, a simple Jacks v Big Slick coinflip, an Ace hitting the Flop.

i  meant any bookies taking bet?

William Hill would be a good bet.

dave mobs and ben callinan plz snoops

w hill dont have  i reckon  lodden will win

Who do you want to bet on ?

jonny lodden

ian is that ben  des s friend?is he still in?

Be great so see Lodden or Lellouche take this down, bioth have extravagently aggrressive games & play tjhe game in the right spirit.

Anthony Lellouche has been knocking on the door for a goodly while, & deserves a big win, imo.

tikay backing a Frenchie, whatever next?

yes and dave mobs is still in

Carlos Mortensen appears to have a massive stack any idea how big please?
Oops that sounds rude lol

this is a perfect saturday

live net coverage.live updates,coffee and a $5 mtt on stars


kids at the cinema watching Mr.Bean



Ram is looking good,steals a bit though.....Ram to get to FT

Ali Masterman is OUT.

He'd pushed with A-K the hand before and taken the blinds, and the next hand he did the same with K-Q (for around 33k), but this time he ran into Queens and failed to improve.

"I was shortstacked the whole tournament and just never really got going. I called a pre-flop raise with Sixes earlier on today when I should have either jammed or folded. He had K-J and it came a Jack on the Flop, so I think I missed an opening there. Ah well, pretty gutted, wanted to at least get my money back"

i'll stand a few bets if anyone wants one let me know who you want and what price.

About 250k+ is my guesstimate

Will check on Dave and Ben next time I go out.

£50 Richard Herbert @ 100/1

Former Hearts player, Hans Eskilsson, is hanging in. He just re-raised a 10k button bet from Lars Eidessen all-in for around 50-60k. His opponent passed, albeit after a long dwell.

50  on lodden  what price u give?

50  on lodden  what price u give?

Selected counts, with 73 players remaining:

Ben Callinan       46,800
David Barraclough  71,000
Joe Beevers        95,000
Jonathan Little    162,000
Thomas Bihl        186,000
Richard Waters    160,000
Staale Egenes      36,000
Age Spets           43,500
Nicolas Ragot       255,000
Richard Herbert    102,000

Eric Van Der Berg (on the right) and called a pre-flop button raise from the sooted and booted chap on the left.

Flop = 4c Qc 4s

Van Der Berg bets 9k, Mateyboy makes it 18k and Van Der Berg calls.

They then both check the 8c turn and 5d River, clearly scared of the Flush.

Vand Der Berg shows 4h 3h to take the pot, Mateyboy had Aspades Qs

I think Mortenson will win from here.

Thats him out then in the next hour  ;whistle;

FS, what DOES Hoodie Man think he looks like? Can't believe guys wear Hoodies.

Djinn and snoppy, what are your three picks today? Mine are Lodden, Ram or Mortensen

£25 Lodden @ 10/1 for you turk (i fancy lodden to win to)

£20 Herbert @ 33/1 for you micky

win only.

reply with agreed if you want it and the bets on. pokerstars transfers for settlement.

Has the bookie closed shop already?

Board = 3c 8h 2d 5d 6s

Antony Lellouche bets 20k into an 90k pot.

Josh Arieh, calm and relaxed, carefully sizes up the situation, trying to work out if this is too cheap a price to fold. In the end, he does indeed decide that he can't fold and drops in the 20k, shrugging his shoulders in the process. But when Lellouch mucks, Arieh is genuinely surprised, commenting "Wow" as he reveal his Ad 3d.

Hows our Irish Man doin now - Andy Black -

Is Devilfish out ???

Hey Jen, Snoop, Homer,

Me again with the usual Mr. Black track request.

Thanks

Chad Brown
Thomas Wahlroos
Maurice Kenter... out  ;oopsy;

The players are now on a short 15 minute break. Chip counts when they return.

Andy Black
Thomas Wahlroos
Richard Herbert

And so say all of us!

Thank you Jeff - you have no idea - really - how much that means to our intrepid triumverate, who have had a difficult week, & worked till they dropped.

Just gettin settled for the afternoon now, soccer saturday and live updates from monte carlo, :-)

Updates top drawer as usual, and i only envisage them getting better, looking forward to the next few days

Agreed all the updaters have done a sterling job as usual..................in fact I would say even though we are only just over halfway through this has been the best update ever.............I dont know if the budget stretches to 3 updaters regularly but the coverage is more than 100% better................long live the Blonde updates.

Tikay when is that Irish event that ye covered for Sky Poker broadcast .. Poker events €1500 event it was

I think we ALL really APPRECIATE the work these guys put in on our behalf, i can never say thank you enough.

Congratulations and good luck with your sponsorship Jeff

i don't know him and hes got resonable chips so 33/1 is generous and thats all thats on offer.


your bets on turk.

couldn't agree more with jaffa and llevan. first class job from all three. i'd be lost without blonde updates. personal thanks and buying of pints at bb4. off to feltham...... hi hooo

OK ACE - £20 @ 33/1  AGREED

ok your bets on.


Great updates guys, coupled with live streaming, this saturday afternoon at work ain't half as bad.

Ok, well it's going to be difficult from now until the bubble as we've now got about.. "as much access as a homeless guy..."  that's according to one of our american blogger colleagues. Yes, the camera teams have abruptly made everyone leave the area, because, as you can see, there's very little space in the huge gaps in between the tables.

During the break, I managed to undertake a bit of eves-dropping, during which I overheard American Jesse Steinberg comment to his friend on the rail, "These guys aren't scared of the bubble, they're quite prepared to push at this stage."

wots the odds on Ram making the FT?

Do you think that William Hill guy could get himself a deal by threatening to change his name ?

Odds on Jon Little making the final table? 

I also caught up with Brit Dave 'doops' Barriclough, who seemed vastly chirpy, and understandably so as he'd just doubled up to 80k, raising to 8.5 pre-flop, finding one caller in the big blind, before calling an all-in push on a T-9-2 Flop. David called with Aces to find himself well ahead against K-J, but with a Jack on the Turn, the Dave Penley lookalike was up against 9 (I think) outs, all of which failed to hit.

"An 9 hit the River so for a moment I thought I'd lost to a straight," said a relieved doops.

win only bets guys, sorry. not enough action for final table bets.

Thanks for posting the pic of Michael Martin before you had to leave the area.  Your coverage continues to be the BEST online.

TheReader23

Huh? Who are you, some kind of comedian?  ;)

Good Luck tonight Mr Pace, & look forward to seeing you at bB4, where the Pace-Setters will win the Heads-Up Comp.

How about doing some Live Updating on Sky Poker tonight? A few Chip Counts from Monte Carlo, courtsey of blondepoiker, would not go astray.....

Odds on Little to win?

I will find out for you fella. Bits of it HAVE been shown, regularly, on Sky Poker recently, including my Last-Longer with the DTD-er Carlo Pretty Boy Citrone. Which I won......

First class updates as usual guys! Keep it up!!

(P.S. Any chance of Johnny Loddens chipcounts? :) )

Yeah i know i enjoyed that .... Thanks Tikay ... Prob see u in Dublin for the Irish open next week ..... Ye are prob coverin this one .... Wonder if any of hendon mob or poker stars crew are comin  over

Thanks Tikay

Table 4:

Ernst Hermanns -- 75k
Ouri Cohen -- 30k
Christer Bjorin -- 235k
Simon Johanssen -- 320k
Sasa Biorac -- 80k
Soren Kongsgaard -- 175k
Marc Karam -- 110k
Fabio Bianchi -- 20k

Hi guys just came on looked through saw no news on strummer so i guess hes still in!? Am i correct? Have his chips changed

In case we haven't reported it, Dutchman Peter Christiaan Dalhuijsen was eliminated on the TV table earlier on by Ram Vaswani.

Stars just posted a recent update with Lodden at 400k

ANDY BLACK UPDATE SNOOPY? TY MATE

Hi Dan

Last count he was on 105k

update on which uber cool trainers snoopy is wearing today plz

Cheers micky

Meanwhile on the final table of the €500 1 rebuy side event, I spotted Steve Vladar and Annette_15 are involved there.

Greg Raymer has briefly popped by to speak to Chad Brown before undertaking announcing duties.

Hey Snoop,

Hows Andy Black doin?

See you next weekend in Dublin.

Richard Herbert -- 100k

Very little change at all since the start of the day.

Blinds are now 2k/4k with a 400 ante meaning it's 9.2k a turn.

ben callinan and dave mobbs plz snoops

More counts - Starting with that Lodden/Black table you're all so keen on:

Ricki Nielsen        65k
Pete Giordano    170k
Andy Black         580k (?) (Not allowed to get close enough to thoroughly inspect the monster stack)
Nicholas Goodall   52.7k
Hans Erlandsson  141k
Johnny Lodden   355k
Gavin Griffin        291k

Jesse Steinberg   87k
Ryan Nathan       56k
Dario Alioto        55k
Fadi Kamar         48k
Chad Brown      240k
Richard Herbert   110k
Lars Eidissen       144k
Hans Eskilsson      76k

Josh Arieh           320k (bad angle; I jotted 'lots; top five' on my notepad)
Antony Lellouche   235k
Eric Van der Berg   150k
Thomas Wahlroos  169.5k

Vladimir Troyanorsky  160k
Biri Balazs             290k
Steve Jelinek        150k
Dean Sanders        168k
Herman Zango        63k
Oscar Blanco          162k
Sergey Altbregin     175k

Christopher Ulsrud  117k
Philip Hilm              468k
David Peters           ?
Jonathan Little      162k
Thomas Bihl          242k
David Barraclough    65k
Cristinel Dumitru     105k

Will go try to fill the gaps on the third tablw - tables 10 and 11 have been dispersed throughout the room as the early players fell...

As I said earlier, Jen is typing in the chip counts.

How many left snoops?

Hi Jen.

No sign of Dave Mobbs, Ian, looks like he has crashed out. I'll double check.

71 are left.

Ricki 'Hello Mary Lou' Neilsen is OUT, no details I'm afraid.

How many left now ?

how bout ben

Bonjour, Monsieur!

mobs is still in he has got white jacket on snoops

Scratch that, just found him, he moved table.

Dave Mobbs -- 100k

go on the mobsterwhat bout ben

gr8 udates snopps and team u work to hard

Same as the previous count from 5 minutes ago, 55k.

Philip Hilm and Christopher Ulsrud have been in some skirmishes recently, it appears, and Ulsrud has come out of it a bit dented.  Just now a crowd was forming (what a surprise) as Ulsrud bet 40k on the river, with the board:  2d 8c 6c 9c Ac.  Hilm thought about it for not as long as you might think before calling with Aspades Ts; Ulrud was caught red-handed (oh I amuse myself sometimes) showing the 6h 7h.

Hilm has become something of a contender for second-to-Andy-Black today...perhaps a very dark horse final tablist?

Not decided if I will do Dublin yet, €3k is a bit pricey, but Dublin ius such fun!.....

But blonde will be running  Live Update, for sure. If it's half as good as this one, it'll be twice as good as most.

Taxi dont be a hero

Ah to late, i already am

 :dd:  ;sexybanana; :dd:

Jen's understated humour at it's best.......

Kelly will you pay attention you muppet.

And with the elimination Snoopy is about to post, it brings us to that special time, when the special man announces it's..........

















BUBBLE TIME

;mc;

Two big all-ins occurred at once, and both required announcing from Big TK Thomas Kremser. With Michael Martin (below) all-in with Ac Ks against the Qd Jd of Josh Arieh, the tension was left to build as the action unfolded on the other table, but with the dealer looking over her shoulder awaiting the green light, Big TK returned to offer a cool nod and off she went.

Flop = 8s Qc 3s

A slight gasp from the audience, no real response from the players and the Turn was dealt...

Turn = 2h

One card left, Big TK gives the dealer a gentle tap on the shoulder and away we go...

River = 2s

No help for Martin and the American is OUT, pensive in defeat, yet taking it bubbly exit very well.

According to the screen, there are 65 left, 64 to be paid.

The blinds remain at 2,000/4,000 with a 400 running ante.

Whilst I mentioned the pre-bubble exit of Michael Martin, I also spoke of another all-in, and one which involved Richard Herbert. Although he didn't win it, it was not a costly one and simply doubled up a short-stacker.

Queens v Kings, 7-6-8-7-6 board.

Strummer remains on 100k.

PHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW KEEP GOING RICH

Meanwhile, a similarly shorstacked Jan Veit (got to be one of the smallest names in poker) is pushing all-in, however, his moves are getting through uncontested.

I am picking Marc Karam to go deep - highly underrated... top performer..
Other 2 picks are..

Ram Vaswani and Chad Brown.

GL to all the UK players left...

No time like bubble time to view some norkage.............it helps calm the nerves trust me  ;)

POP!

Christer Bjorin is OUT and becomes the unfortunate bubble boy.

It was very hard to see with everyone swarming around the table, including Age Spets who had moved all-in on his table with Jacks and taken the blinds just moments before.

With a Flop of 5c 8c 7h, all the chips go flying in with Christer holding a potentially fulfilling Ac Jc against Soren Kongsgaard's (we think it was him, he was high fiving) 4c 4s.

Turn = Ks

River = 8h

and Christer is OUT.

i'd find Raymer's constant anecdotes very offputting if i was at that feature table.

You're an addict!

How did you guess lol

Just prior to that, I sneaked a peek at Andy Black's stack, which was hovering around the 600k mark.

And here is a very relieved Martinspoker qualifier Anthony Chatelain, he has 2.8k and was big blind next hand...

Talking of sneaking, all that bubble talk means that Stoke's Ben Callinan has made it into the cash with around 60k.

Two more Brits that made the cut, although rather more comfortably than Ben, are Steve Jelinek (210k) and Dean Sanders (190k).

Age Spets was the bubble in Warsaw, twice would've been harsh.

Xuyen Pham/Vladar is OUT.

All-in against Gunnar Osterbrod of Norway with Fives v Sevens on a Queen high board.

Another man making the money is this chap, Spaniard Oscar Blanco.

wow, i realise who this is now i've seen the pic. Good luck fella.

On the live streaming they just said a prominent US poker player was jailed recently, any ideas who?

Could some1 post the link to the live webcast please?

http://www.eptlive.com/WebCast/high.html

Cheers

damn weblink wont work, any ideas? P.s. great updates team blonde

Quck note about Chris Bjorin...boy did he look sad..
Chris has been playing in the Uk and US for almost 30 years ...I think his WSOP cashes definately go back to the 80s and he won a bracelet somewhere around 2001 if I remember correctly.
When in the UK he was a regular in the big Omaha/Lowball game in the Vic throughout the 90s
Great player and an absolute gent...but someone has to bubble
And Chris always has his very lucrative sports betting to fall back on...which is where he is a real star

Lodden gone?

Looks like it

El blondie have u played much cash in monte carlo to fund ure trip?

Dean Sanders (pictured) just took a tidy chunk off neighbour Steve Jelinek - Steve raised from the cutoff to 12k, Dean on the button re-raised to 31k (preflop).
The flop came:  Qc 4d 7d  Steve checked and Dean quickly bet 50k.  Call.
Turn:  Aspades  Steve checked again and Dean put in 100k, pretty much covering the Day One chip leader (now dropping behind the front runners).  He thought for a while, and passed, while Dean took the pot, showing Ahrt Qh.

Railer Nik Persaud is very excited that his percentage is heading for the dizzy heights of the prize pool; he put Jelinek on a pair (Tens or thereabouts) but was uncritical of both the preflop and flop call... he did, however, manage to get over a third of his stack in check-calling "what could easily have been a continuation bet following the standard button re-raise," but is still on over 100k.

Rayan Nathan is OUT, and the assassin, Ben Callinan, who is now up to 70k after struggling for quite a while.

All-in pre-flop, Ben pushed it in with Qd 6d and found himself up against Aspades Qh.

But perhaps this is Ben's week, because look at this rewarding, although still terrifyingly horrifying Flop...

2s 3s 6s

"It's okay, you got it, don't worry," rails Des.

And he was right!

Turn = 8c

River = Kd

"I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD!"

(artistic license taken; he was just stretching)

Yep - again, so close but so far... the biggest chunk of his chips went in a 5-5 vs. J-J pot, while he moved in on the final hand with A-2, looked up by some victorious Tens. 

Fantastic work guys! Any news on Nick Goodall? I've had a look through the thread, can't see if he's been eliminated or not though. Keep up the good work. :)

I gotta say what a beautiful looking poker room


when i grow up i want to play there

As the VW Golf Ad used to say, if only everything in life were as reliable as the blonde Live Updates.....

There are no cash games in Monte Carlo. It's illegal.
They do however have lots of sit'n'go's ranging from 100 to 10,000 euro buy-in...but I didnt play them either

There you are...being yukkie again...caught you

Quick Brit Pack check (excluding Ram and who is on the feature table and perhaps Nicholas Goodall who we need to track down)...

(1) Dean Sanders -- 330k
(2) Richard Waters -- 170k
(3) Steve Jelinek -- 125k
(4) Dave Mobbs -- 105k
(5) Joe Beevers -- 100k
(6) Richard Herbert -- 95
(7) Ben Callinan -- 70k

Steve Vladar is still in the €500 1 rebuy event, 4 are left. He has 250k, blinds 15k/30k average is 340k. Annette_15 gone, ran A-6 into A-A apparently.

that Hilm chap doesn't seem to care if it don't look too pretty...
this was late yesterday evening,
at 1k-2k the blonde yankee kid who won a bracelet 2 years back (bushey was runner up) made it 5k, 1other caller,
hilm pushed from BB for well over 50k,
blondie calls real quick with 10-10,
hilm turns over K-J and hits the jack...
even i was shocked

mr callinan has got moves a plenty from my experience playing him so don't be surprised to see a big run from him.

I shall search for him when the players return from the current 15 minute break.

Gl Smokin

nick good   has made the money still in i think

Payout structure?

Andy Black is a brit too, he was born in Belfast.

Other chip counts:

Josh Arieh -- 450k
Andy Black -- 600k
Joe Beevers -- 145k
Phillip Hilm -- 570k
Chad Brown -- 285k
Simon Johansson -- 300k


And here's Ram with daughter Holly, (obviously perfecting the art of the check/raise with Joe Beever's chips)

1   1,825,010
2   1,061,820
3   610,550
4   471,180
5   391,550
6   305,270
7   238,910
8   159,270
9   99,550
10   99,550
11   66,360
12   66,360
13   49,770
14   49,770
15   39,820
16   39,820
17-24   33,180
25-32   26,550
33-40   23,230
41-48   19,910
49-56   16,590
57-64   13,270

Andy black is irish

Sorry jen i ment the side event if possible?

We can't see it at the moment, I can remember that there were 300 entries and 244 rebuys and 1st place was roughly €84k. Beyond that, I'm afraid we don't know.

The blonde yankie kid to whom Julian refers is Gavin griffin I think.
He won a bracely when bushy was second but it was at Binions...so more than 2 years ago.

Josh Arieh however, did win a bracelet 2 years ago...but in Pot Limit Omaha...where I came 7th
  ;tk;

Still can't find Nick Goodall, none of the Brits have heard of him.

I'm determined to track him down though, but I'm going to need a photo or, at the very least, a description. If anyone can text him to see where he is, then please do.

Can any1 help us hunt down this phantom?...

Joe Beevers doubles up with A-2 against 5-5. Two 2's on the flop.

Got him!  He's in the unenviable position of being on Andy Black's left.

Count:  101,500

Meanwhile, while I'm faffing around, Ben Callinan's remarkable comeback is complete as he has just trebled through!!

All-in with sevens, Ben found himself up against 2 callers and a T-4-6 Flop and although one guy had Eights, Ben's turned set completed the Houdini act.

Lol. He has gingery/auburn hair. He looks English and is probably dressed smart. Duno if that helps.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Phantomcomics2.jpg) ?

Lol, I didn't want to risk it...

FFS. 30-15.

Chip count on Dave (doobs) Barraclough please?

I think he is still in

anyone else notice that andy black was dealing the feature table?? :)

i spotted a tell on Dave Mobbs a while ago, think he will give me 10% if i tell him what it is?

Hi Flops,

Can you let us know how this event is going??

If you get a chance pass on my best wishes to Steve.

Thanks

Ram Vaswani is now off the feature table and mixing it up down here with us commoners.

As a result, I was able to obtain a quick chip count, which came to 225k.

He looks into the middle distance over his right shoulder when he's flopped the nuts?

spot on, damn there goes my 10%

double up to approx. what?
I may be on a small saver here  ;whistle;

ya Gavin Griffin in 2004, everyone on PartyPoker thought I will him as I had the name "WSOPin05" on party , he had a similar name on party I guess. When I played the $15,000 buyin sng ( they only had like 4 total) on party (remember that DC?) I had all his friends railling and aking me questions like " can u pay me back now ect,ect???????

Snoop , did u ever talk to Josh and find out where he has been????????

Are you following the updates? Are you Welsh? Are you looking for someone to support? Do you like sheep?

If so, then look no further than Swansea's Richard Waters, an online qualifier who has just eliminated the player pictured below.

All-in pre-flop, Richard made the call with Aspades 9s.

Board = Qd 5d 4d Jh Ahrt

Dismay on the flop, especially from Waters senior on the sideline, but that sorrow soon translated into joy as the River brought the Ace. Even the restrained Richard couldn't hold back his emotions, a mumbled "Yes!" coming from the youngster.

Can you guess what Mateyboy had?

Very hard to get close to the table m8, so it's a matter of grabbing him during breaks. If I get the chance, I shall take it like a leaping panther.

Are Andy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=469) Black (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=469) and Dr Black (the owner of the house) in
image removed

One and the same person? I think they could be  ;)

Whats the average chipstack?

Joe Beevers wins a huge pot on the TV table (for those without the benefit of high speed internet) -

Threeway all in between him (Qd Qh) Thomas Bihl (Ac Jd) and Philip Hilm (9h 9c) (not sure about Philip's hand, actually, can anyone watching enlighten us?)

Anyway, the end result was no hit for the other two, the board coming 8-7-2-T-T (tense on the turn, though) and knocking out Thomas Bihl while giving Joe a nice stack to riffle in front of the cameras.

Pictured - that table before the move to the Feature - Christopher Ulsrud in peach, Joe Beevers and Phil Hilm.

Can't seem to see Dave, which is a very bad sign indeed, but I will double check. Bear with me. Ta

yup he had 99

Nick Goodall -- 105k

Joe raised and Thomas called(?) for about half his stack, the guy with 99 reraised, Joe pushed and Thomas had so much value for his last 25k or so that he was forced to call.

The original flat call was questioned by the commentators and I found it rather strange too...

I think these LIVE games must be 'rigged' an ACE ALWAYS comes ONLINE

Now that's just showing off, surely.

Anyone got a catapult?

Great effort snoop! Thanks a lot!

David Barriclough is no where to be seen, he must be OUT.

Just finished now, Steve got 2nd for €46k.  ;applause;

Steve Jelinek, who dropped down as low as 85k, is now back up to 170k after re-raising all-in with 8-7 and being called by K-Q.

"I can't believe he called," commented a bemused Steve.

K-7-7 Flop.

any updates on Andy Blacks stack? still the chipleader?

According to an american blogger, his wife has had another child and he's only played two tournaments since the 2006 WSOP.

220,000, or thereabouts.  48 players remaining, or thereabouts.  Blinds definitely 3k/6k ante 600.

Is that sverre sunbo commentating with joe hachem? He seems to play every event is he a sponsored pro cause i dont rate as a player. Any1 no?

where did richard wild finnish

They are playing down to 4 tables tonight, (32 players). And obviously down to 8 players tomorrow night.

Battle of the shortstacks - blind on blind. Lars Eidissen pushed for not a lot from the small blind, and Hans Eskilsson had only 22k left after the 6.6 already in, and went for it with his 7d 2h.  Probably not what he wanted to see at his all-in moment... his opponent had the 9c Td, but the board brought and Ace, two Queens, a King...and a Deuce, so Eskilsson is still in, but both of them fairly close to the bottom of the pack. 

He went out late last night, probably in the 90's.

go smokie!
not a bad day for the vladar household...
& yes dc, it was gavin griffiths.
methinks hilm will make one, if not 2 or 3 more pushes too far

David Sonelin is OUT -

A button raise saw him pushing from the small blind, a lot of chips (physically) but it couldn't have been more than 50k in total.  Called with Kc Qh, David showed Aspades 8s, but could only watch helplessly as the Qd came straight away on the flop, with no glimmer of draw hope.  After three days of playing deep, lots of streets play, it's always depressing to find your cards on their backs and your tournament life in the hands of fate alone, favourite or not.

Sverre has been sponsored by Pokerstars for Dortmund, Warsaw and here, but he's not part of Team Pokerstars

yoyo, Gavin Griffin is the real reason I won the bracelet, he doubled me up 3 times in the last level of day 1 in that event, he is a good player, just a little full of himself

Down to 46 with average stack of 230k.

One of those men fell at the hand of Antony Lellouche of France, who has now climbed up to a massive 575k with Nines v T-3 suited.

Also gone is Hans Eskilsson, who was eliminated by Ben Callinan. Ben now on around 160k.

Who cares?

Gavin Griffin has taken another player out, Ad Th vs. Kd Qc on a Kc Ac 3c Kh Tc board.

my one original pick is still in steve jelineck

With all this madness, it's hard to get chip counts. You start doing them (it's very hard to get close enough) only for an all-in to be called on another table.

However, amidst all the aforementioned bedlam, I did manage to grab the following counts.

Richard Waters -- 140k
Ram Vaswani -- 325k
Carlo Mortensen -- 360k
Jesse Steinberg -- 125k
Josh Arieh -- 205k
Chad Brown -- 230k
Thomas Wahlroos -- 205k
Antony Lellouche -- 575k
Eric Van De Berg -- 225k
Gunnar Ostebrod -- 80k
Ernst Hermanns -- 70k
Simon Johanssen -- 185k
Steve Jelinek -- 175k
Marc Karam -- 210k
Soren Kongsgaard -- 345k
Nick Goodall -- 115k
Roi Elmaliah -- 120k

sorry, didnt know u owned the forum u axx wxxxxx

Is Richard (strummer) Herbert still in?

If so.... chip count pretty please  ;tightend;

He in on televised table... www.eptlive.com

ben and dave mobs chip counts plz???

sorry m8  but who r u       u actually won the wsop?

As the level before the dinner break draws to a close, Ram gets involved with cutoff raiser Oscar Blanco, calling a total of 16k preflop.
Flop:  3d Qc 6c  Ram checked, Oscar checked.
Turn:  Ac  Ram checked, Oscar bet 15k.  Ram pushed in a 20k stack; the dealer promptly gave change, but there was a brief altercation over whether anyone had heard Ram say, "Raise."  He didn't fight his corner too hard - the floor was called, it was judged as a call, and they saw the river:  7s.
Ram instantly bet 50k.  Oscar dwelled for a good three minutes - we were all convinced he was passing - but no, he called, and was shown 7d 3s.  Instant muck.

mr colcolough  r u coming to walsall tonight  300 double chance   f/out    u may go back to winning ways again m8   well i m   it s my cup of tea

Antony Lellouche -- 610k

Shane Reihill -- 220k

Sergey Altbregin -- 85k

Oscar Blanco -- 175k

Pete Giordano -- 210k

Richard is on the feature table along with David Peters, Joe Beevers, Chrisopher Ulsrud, Herman Zango, Jan Veit and Philip Hilm.

Sorry to highjack this BUTTTTTTTTT

Micko,


who the hell do u think u are? And me sucking out on John Gale, What ever u think, ever got it in w/ a pair headsup and been behind???? 1 suckout and I should feel bad, come on. Dont go there w/ the  6c 6d vs  Jd Ac all in preflop hand either, thats not a suckout when u get your money in ahead.

I will say I played the 4c 4d vs  Td Ts like a donkey, but it was the next hand after i doubled up and I got carried away!!!!!!

Anyways, have a great day, and If u ever want to play 4 lets say $10k or more just let me know, would be happy to suckout and take your money

This guy is my dark horse pick/bok to win, he's possibly the winningmost touney player on 'stars.

OK let's try pretty pretty please   :respect:  :respect:

poker dispute, standard heads up challenge issued. check. (thanks totalise)

The players are now on a 60 minute break.

The blonde live update team are going on a well deserved dinner break.

Media access to the tables has been appalling today, but we are doing our best.

Please rejoin us in one hour's time.

damn good work

im having a break too

anyone want a bottle of bud?

Truth hurt Brian? Listen i will play u heads up for $5 if u fancy it pm me 2c

WHERE IS THE TRUTH??? I play 3 days at the WSOP 5K event,  and put my chips in behind twice the entire comp, then you tell me I sucked out to win, come on, put the crack pipe down and get some fresh air!

this is the wrong topic for this can a mod say somthing plz u r spoiling the udates

I think we're done now. Sideshow over with any luck.

(http://www.zenithair.com/kit/tools/tape.jpg)

Sorry, didnt mean to take it that far ;oopsy;, just wanted to state my side, i am done w/ it

yep great updates jen/floppy and snoops


brian and micko lets keep the past in the past

any other challenges made on the correct boards

Nice pic Totalise.

Meanwhile, hot gossip from the 'live feed which is still being broadcast during the break as the staff sit there and talk amongst themselves' is that they'd changed the place where some of the staff were eating and not told one of the female members of staff of the change.

"This is really f---ing annoying' she said, 'I'm going to speak to Guillaume about this'.

It's not quite gossip of the year, but there is something wonderfully illicit about microphones being left on.

i liked it when she said 'i'm absolutely livid'

nice pic totalise

Awww, someone's just come and spoiled my fun.

Two dealers were talking about the quality of the table, and one was teaching the other how to deal better when someone else comes over and tells them their conversation is being broadcast to the world.

Booooo.

come on benny boy this guy is so overdue a big cash

he goes deep in big events like last year at the festa de largo at bellagio

seconded, he was cool with me when i said something a bit stupid in the heat of the moment when he easily could of got the hump. good luck.

Action soon to recommence - thanks for those behind-the-scenes mic-left-on tidbits.  We got some of that at the GUKPT Walsall.  The one time I was miked, the lady said, "Just don't go to the loo wearing it," which put the fear in me, and I wouldn't get out of my seat without the whole contraption coming off.

We got into the buffet today - hurrah for the precious Pokerstars tickets... reminds me that there are other sorts of food than panini.

Dave Mobbs says he's going to push his 85k asap. With people like Ram Vaswani, he knows that he can't reraise all-in too easily, not unless he picks the exact right guy.

Once he gets over 100k though he reckons he might be able to start pushing people off hands.

Meanwhile, Ben is on 165k, and that hande where he Turned Sevens vs. Eights all-in, he also flopped a flush draw and could believe his luck when the guy turned over a pocket pair.

Those fabulous cash payouts so far...(in €'s)

46  Sverrisson Halldor Mar 19,910
47 Balazs Biri 19,910
48 Eskilsson Hans Ari 19,910
49 Sonelin David 16,590
50 Ragot Nicolas 16,590
51 Bihl Thomas 16,590
52 Cohen Ouri 16,590
53 Varsi Hans Ari 16,590
54 Martensson Patric 16,590
55 Spets Age 16,590
56 Biorac Sasa 16,590
57 Mateyboy 13,270
58 Sykes David 13,270
59 Rayan Nathan 13,270
60 Lodden Johnny 13,270
61 Pham Xuyen 13,270
62 Little Jonathan 13,270
63 Chatelain Anthony 13,270
64 Marciano Elie 13,270

Only four foot tall apparently.

really top guy he plays 20 rebuy at walsall

only 2nd ept and has cashed both times

really hope he finals he might realise how good he is then because i dnt think he nos how good he actually is

and mention for dave mobs he got in on the last chance qualifiers on stars the day after her got nocked out of cardiff

bet hes glad he got nocked out of the gukpt now lol

snoops tell mobs i sed good luck

Does anyone know the last 3 to go? pls

Still, taller than Gus Hansen...

that guy little johnathon i think he was on my table in dortmund

vv agressive looks like a boy but plays like a man lol

Did we ever get Gus measured lol

Yes. He's taller than Tom Cruise.

Jen its ZIM Do you know if strummers still in please?

Gunnar Ostebrod is OUT.

Pushed his shortstack (Around 70k or so I believe) with 9-3, but was looked up by Pete Giordano's Pocket Sixes. 2-4-A-2-7 board.

Talented big stacked Frenchman Antony Lellouche has been moved to the TV table.

Ram Vaswani -- 280k
Ben Callinan -- 160k
Dave Mobbs -- 85k
Dean Saners -- 320k
Sergey Altbregin -- 85k
Roi Elmaliah -- 210k
Nick Goodall -- 95k
Thomas Wahlroos -- 250k
Richard Waters -- 160k
Richard Herbert 00 130k
Marc Karam -- 275k
Soren Kongsgaard -- 320k
Ernst Hermanns -- 65k
Carlos Mortensen -- 330k
Cahd Brown -- 315k
Simon Johanssen -- 295k
Josh Arieh -- 395k
Steve Jelinek -- 175k
Oscar Blanco -- 130k
Shane Reihill -- 220k
Gavin Griffin -- 490k
Christian Neirinck -- 365k
Alex Kim -- couldn't see

David Peters has doubled through with Q-Q vs. A-8. K-T-6-T-4 board. Philip Hilm making quite a reckless play perhaps against someone who has played relatively tight.

Correction:
Taller than a piece of paper with Tom Cruise written on it.

reckless he should be banned from playing poker that is somthing u would see in a 20 rebuy

i nearly fell off my chair when i sin what he turnedd over the guy who had qq is a rock lol

some ppl r a joke

Here are the remaining four tables from the floor. The feature table contains Herman Zango, Christopher Ulsrud, Philip Hilm, Joe Beevers, David Peters, Jane Veir, Antony Lellouch and a player that I have yet to name.

37 players left. 5 to go.

Just Madness!!! Maybe commited after his re-raise with a mid to high pair or AK But that was truely STUPID

which hand we talking about

belive me it was stupid he didnt need to call no where near had any pot odds to call

Three quick exits now to bring us to 37.

First Ernst Hermans A-4 departs to Marc Karam K-8, King on the flop.

Gavin Griffiths takes out Nick Goodall, holding Fives on a 5-7-8-3-J board against A-Q.

Finally Richard Herbert is OUT, pushed with A-2, ran into A-K. Ace on the flop, King on the turn. Sorry for lack of flop details, but the press rail isn't the best viewing spot.

Oscar Blanco moved in preflop (not sure for how much, but let's say that it was short enough to do this on a move, but large enough that he had a good chance of getting everyone out of the way without a strong calling hand).  He got a swift call from Eric Van der Berg, who showed Aspades Ad - just ahead of Oscar's Kd 7d.
The flop must have brought such hope to one party, and such tension to the other:  Kc 6d 5d
Turn:  9s
River:  2s

And we're down another.  Looks like the 32-player finish line is within sight in the next two levels.

Table ex-Blanco:

Johannes Strassman   180k
Jacob Larsson            175k
Ram Vaswani             370k
Dave Mobbs              120k
Eric Van der Berg       285k
Kristof de Smedt        354k
Alex Kim                   320k+

Jacob Larsson

The Scandie invasion continues!

Having said that, I was talking to a Swedish photographer and he said that there are only two Swedes left in, while they'd had seven with 70 players left.  One was the bubble, and three short stacks busted earlier.  How unusual is that?  There are four times as many UK players than Swedish ones in with 36 players left!  Although I wouldn't like to bet that a Scandinavian won't snatch the top spot. 

Spotted another American player, Josh Prager -- 200k

Whilst the Main Event is going on, a bit of space has freed up for us media, predominantly due to the biggest spectacle becoming the $20,000 STT next door involving Greg Raymer, William Thorsson, Azad Pirood, Johnny Lodden, Tore Lagerborg, Joe Hachem and Musaki Kagawi.

15k and I would have played.

winner takes all????

Largerborg is currently playin 10=20 on laddies also lol

David Peters raises it up, Cristinel Dumitru of Romania moves all-in and Peters folds, to the surprise of commentator Barry Martin.

my dad Trevor said if he was there he would have paid you in   :o)

what are the blinds levels and starting stack in this btw?

Starting stack was 15k with 90 minute clocks.

I can see Joe Beevers exiting the feature table. I think he was eliminated by Jan Veit of Germany. If anyone's watching the live feed, then please could you fill us in on the hand details. I heard rumours of a K-Q.

Maybe into a $20 STT.

how did he not win it?? the amount of pots and bad beats he had throught the tournament was unreal.... ;noflopshomer;

beavers RRAI with KQ and was called by TT, flop came K, K T no change...

Really tight player raised with TT, joe shoved over with KQo, tight player called, flop KKT92

i meant in the STT for 20k

Jan raised with TT, Joe pushed with KQ and got called.

Flop is a heart-breaking KKT for Joe, and the camera follows him as he does the walk of shame back to the accumulated masses.

Dean Sanders has gone elimination crazy, first knocking out the Russian Vladmir Troyanovsky with Jh Jd against 9h 9s on a 4d 7s Ts 5d 5h - All-in on the flop.

He then knocked out Chad Brown in 33rd place, all in on a flop of 6s 9d 2c, Chad's 7h 7c looking feeble against Dean's Kh Kc and he went out after a 4c and Qs river in 33rd place.

Gavin Griffiths also previously busted a player, (possibly Thomas Walhroos but we can't confirm it) holding 3c 3s on a 3d Qc Kc 5s 4s against the other player's Q-4, all-in on the turn.

Freeroll Qualifier Richard Waters is down to the last four tables!  Apparently playing his first ever live tournament, purple-shirted Richard just got involved with Carlos Mortensen, calling his 24k bet preflop and seeing a 2c Kd 9c flop.  Check to Mortensen - swift 30k bet, and a think-pass.  Shortish now, with around 130k, but still there and getting a better night's rest tonight.  Early finish! 

And like that... We're done! Play ends for the day, tomorrow we'll go from 32 players to the final 8. Once again starting at 2pm (1pm GMT)

ACE... what's your PS alias m8?

Plus, despite a chip dip earlier today, Steve Jelinek is comfortably progressing with around 360k.  But it has to be Dean Sanders (pictured) who's the top of the UK stack tonight - looking confident and relaxed, with intrepid sidekick Nik railing with fervour...

when will u have chip counts please?

Andy said on the way through the pressroom as he headed off that he ended the day still probable chip leader, with 720k, but without the ludicrous lead on the rest of the field he may have gotten used to.  His high chip point was somewhere around 860k(!) and he admits that the last session saw his first slide backwards in chips the whole tournament.  Good he's getting a proper rest, then - and so should we.




But we're not.  We're going to check out the dusk til dawn party and maybe share a beer.

Placed 45 to 32. (So Gavin Griffiths did knock out Wahlroos)

33  Brown Chad 23,230
34 Wahlroos Thomas 23,230
35 Beevers Joe 23,230
36 Altbregin Sergey 23,230
37 Hermans Ernst 23,230
38 Herbert Richard 23,230
39 Goodall Nick 23,230
40 Blanco Carrasco Oscar 23,230
41 Ostebrod Gunnar 19,910
42 Gueorguiev Atanas 19,910
43 Steinberg Jesse 19,910
44 Kamar Fadi 19,910
45 Troyanovsky Vladimir 19,910

We will look forward to the norkage pics from the party tomorrow..............enjoy your early finish and thanks again for great updates.

 ;stickaforkinme;

nice work team, enjoy the DTD party, catch ya tomorrow

great updates, dont  :cheers: :cheers: to much tonight

lmfao

Thank You Very Much, Enjoy the Party  :cheers:

who won the stt> and more importantly who won the $5 hu between brian and micko, and when did ripple get K.O'd  great work guys, uve saved me a fortune on cash, no boredam here, ship

I am gutted too 'cos Thomas Wahlroos deeply lovely. Note the player who busted him is Gavin Griffin, not Griffiths. He's a PokerStars qualifers from the US.