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Title: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 28, 2007, 11:14:11 AM :hello:
Welcome to Barcelona for the start of Season 4 of the EPT. Play begins here at 5pm (4pm UK time). I believe the structure has been modified slightly, and now includes the 500/1000 level just to make it even more sick. An additional day has also been added so that the final table will get a full day to itself. The tournament is capped at 600 runners and it looks as though we'll probably reach that number. If there's anyone you wish us to follow, please let us know on the interactive thread. Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 03:48:15 PM Well, we're set up in the bar/press room which was the scene of our update last year, perched on some kind of sofa using a succession of small, round coffee tables as desks. It looks like an hour in advance just isn't enough to bag a proper table - I didn't think it was possible for the press to become more numerous, but multiply they have, and the pretty much guaranteed-sellout crowd is going to be thronged by comparable numbers of media. That won't, of course, be a problem until three days from now - expect each Day One to have around 300 runners wedged into it. And hidden in there are probably way more players we know than we suspect currently...as soon as any kind of list shows up, you'll get it.
Spotted (but not necessarily playing today): Isabelle Mercier John Shipley Blondeite 'doobs' Sverre Sundbo Rolf Slotboom Mark Vos ActionJeff Er... there were more at the Pokerstars Party, I think, but I can't really recall. I can tell you that the sea is nice and warm at 1am. The weather in Barcelona is textbook sunny, and the 5pm starts daily mean that we may even get a chance to see some of the beautiful city, missed spectacularly last year but lurking gloriously for whenever we crawl out of bed. Play is due to start in under 20 minutes, but we're not holding our breath. Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 04:30:29 PM And while the Day 1a Runners List is still being processed by the casino and has yet to make its way into Mad Harper's hands, here's another list, with which she rightly assumed we'd all be pacified: a list of qualifiers, buyers-in via Stars and sponsored players.
Andre Akkari Karkus Andras Isaac Baron Pascal Barrau Lukas Benkovic Noah Boeken Daniel Bokesch Martin Clemmensen Gregory Dyer Tim Flanders Philippa Flanders Jimmy Fricke Carlos Frontelo Gentili Gianluca Jose Giner Bertrand Grospellier Randy Haddox Pham Hai Eric Hardt Rakita Heijnen Anders Henriksson William Hill Mats Iremark Nikolaus Jedlicka Janne Juutilainen Matt Kay Cort Kibler-Melby Samuel Laborde Florian Langmann Ville Laukkanen Jens Lundgren Lee McCreery Sorel Mizzi Clayton Mozdzen Philippe Narboni Rayan Nathan Ketul Nathwani Patrik Neckelmann Haby Nicolas Morten Nielsen Walter Oaquim Annette Obrestad David Robinson Alexander Roumeliotis Sebastian Ruthenberg Charlotta Sjödin Benjamin Sriqui Philip Starrs Stephane Subrenat Sverre Sundbo Kovacs Tamas Stuart Taylor Katja Thater Peter Toefting Jon Turner Ville Wahlbeck Michael Watson Michael Wong Roman Yitzhaki Winfred Yu Andrey Zaichenko Jacques Zaicik Abraham Rosenkrantz Adam Junglen Aditya Agarwal Alexander Jung Anton Smolyanskiy Benjamin Freeman Brian Green Bryn Kenney Champie Douglas Chris Bush Clinton Herring Dag Mikkelsen Daniel Negreanu Daniel Stern Dario Minieri David Anderson Dennis Plejdrup Geir Haugland Geoffrey Sanford Gordon Vayo Greg Raymer Guilherme Soares Humberto Brenes Isabelle Mercier Jakob Paulsen Robert Binelli Jeff Gray Jeffrey Garza Joakim Olsson Joep van den Bijgaart Johan Hermans John Shipley Jorge Correia Jørgen Kjerkol Joris Jaspers Josh Egan Keven Stammen Konstantinos Nanos Leo Wolpert Lex Veldhuis Luca Pagano Marcel Luske Matthew Graham Ognyan Ivanov Olvedo Heinze Pascal Choquet Peter Gelencser Petri Pietilä Phillipe D'Auteuil Richard Guttmann Ryan Jones Sebastian Zink Simon Wolf Sonni Petersen Stefan Jedlicka Stephen Devlin Terrence Chan Thierry van den Berg Thomas Tollund Thomas Bentham Tommi Mourujärvi Vesa Leikos Ville Salmi Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 04:55:31 PM Now another list - this time of actual players, actually playing right now (they Shuffled Up and Dealt about 10 minutes ago):
Tim Flanders Mickey Wernick Annette Obrestad Elky Sebastian Riviere Pippa Flanders Katja Thater Nicky Jedlicka William Thorsson Richard Ashby Julian Thew Johnny Lodden Ram Vaswani Dan Carter Ramzi Jelassi Roland de Wolfe Rayan Nathan Peter Gould Patric Matensson And sharing tables we have: Jimmy Fricke Rob Hollink Jani Sointula Johan Storakers Michael Greco Noah Boeken Sverre Sundbo Alan Smurfit Sorel Mizzi Stuart Fox Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 05:02:31 PM The first casualty has been announced, over the tannoy, no less:
From what I could gather, a three way all-in with our hero the exiter holding K-9 against A-K and A-K, with a flop of A-K-9... the guy could just have repeated the winning hand, but you get the idea. So the remaining players of EPT Barcelona can now rest easy knowing they are not going to finish in last place. Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 28, 2007, 05:47:04 PM Early Roland news, he just scooped a fairly decent pot, 6k or 7k, on a Th Kh Kd 7s Qd board showing Ac Kc.
Julian was down to 6k, but just had Aces against Kings and is now back up to 12k. Mark Vos was moved to his table and raised his blind to 150, Julian called. Flop: Ahrt 5d Jc Check check. Turn: Ts Julian fires out 200 and it's enough to take it down. Michael Westerlund vs Dan Carter Kh 5s 9h 7s board, Dan check/calls a 1.1k bet. Both check the 5h river and Dan's Kd Th is good enough to take it down. Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 06:04:26 PM There have been a few large pots kicking today off, with one being won by this guy pictured. The betting ended on the flop, which was Ahrt Qc 7h. It looked like he bet out, a good couple of thousand, and Matey raised all-in. He called pretty fast with, and Matey already looked disappointed as he flipped Ad Qh, only to see the 7d 7c against him. The turn brought the 3s and the river a definitive 7c, eliminating another player at the beginning of the second level (50/100).
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=412&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 28, 2007, 06:33:54 PM Dan Carter, who I might rename Sir Gigglesalot due to the fair amount of embarrassed laughter that was heard during the tale he told me of how he got to 22k.
Michael Westerlund had, he said been raising around 50% of the hands. He raised to 300 and received 4 callers, Dan was in the blind with erm... 6-2o. He re-raised to 1,900 and Westerlund called. The flop came K-J-4 and Dan led out for 2,500. Michael called leaving himself 4,000 back, the turn was a 6. Dan checked now and Michael checked too. A miracle 2 appeared on the river and Dan set Michael in to eliminate him. Ram Vaswani is OUT we believe. No details. Mickey Wernick is short after bluffing the turn and river of a 5h Jh Kc 9c Jd river with 1,200 and 3,500 bets. His opponent called with Ac Jc and Wernick mucked sharpish. Stuart Fox won a 5k pot with Jd Tc against Qs 7d on a Jh 7c 5h 4c Ks board despite his opponent trying a minimum check/raise on the turn. Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 06:45:00 PM John Kabbaj is OUT - previously looking relaxed by early massage, he was dented chipwise by Len Collin, who told us he'd "done a lot of fishing, caught a straight and took most of his [Kabbaj's] chips. Should have put him all in, he would have called (with two pair) but there was a flush on board."
Kabbaj's actual last hand was T-6, which he ran into a flopped set of Nines. Outs for the flush apparently came in, but so did his eliminator's house... Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 07:19:16 PM Dusk Til Dawn Count:
So far it looks like Richard Ashby (6,075) and Michael Greco (9,600) are the only DTD-ers here today...both pictured below. (http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=422&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=424&g2_serialNumber=1) Other counts: Annette Obrestad 9,300 Bertrand Grospellier 28,500 Sebastian Riviere 6,100 Katja Thater 10,000 (having been whittled to 4,500 but just now doubling back up) Jimmy Fricke 9,000 Rob Hollink 8,400 Jani Sointula 13,350 Johan Storakers 10,150 Noah Boeken 16,200 (who is now gracing wall-hanging sized Pokerstars posters) Dan Carter 25,100 Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 28, 2007, 07:19:50 PM Complete Player List, with embarrassing middle names: :D
Basen Abu Davas Andre Akkari Gino Alacqua Nathalie Anna Amar Raffaele Amato Fredrik Borje Andersson Pedro Jose Antunes De Silva Dias Yvon Aouizerate Richard Anthony Frazer Ashby Akbari Ashley Terje Augdal Cornelis Bal Ivan Barbuto Isaak Andrew Baron Pascal Barrau Marko Batanjac Simon Robin Battle Lukas Benkovic Christophe Albert Roland Benzimra Marius Ioan Beranda Gustav Mattias Bergstrom Peter Michal Bertelsen Fabio Bianchi Cristiano Blanco Noah Boeken Daniel Bokesh Thierry Andre Bolleret Paul Boujenah Henri Boutboul Tayfun Turhan Bozkurtan Ola Brandborn Tomas Brolin Christopher Bruce Daniel Oliver Carter Alessio Castelli Thierry Cazals Orfeo Ceraldi Haykel Cherif Vidal Federico Cipollini Martin Clemmense Yann Elie Cohen Seastien Compte Jason Brendan Coyle Kitai Davidi Jacob Iñaki De Erausquin Pedrerol Priyan Adrian De Mel Roland De Wolfe Marcello Del Grosso Mark Bruce Dickstein Guy Alphonse Dupuis Joep Durkstra Gregory Davison Dyer Borge Dypvik Mattias Christian Eriksson Nikolay Evdakov Youssef Ahmad Fawaz Miguel Fernandez Menendez Roberto Fabio Ferrari Jerome Christian Ferron Fabio Fidanza Nicola Filesi Darinko Filipovic Philippa Anne Flanders Timothy Roy Flanders Terry Fletcher Jjochanan Robert Flink Stuart Fox Erik Friberg James Vincent Fricke Jan Marcus Friman Thomas Marshall Fuller Cayetano Garcia Ayala Guillermo Garcia Domnguez Carlos Isaac Garcia Frontelo Jesus Manuel Garde Belio Gianluca Alberto Gentili Mario Stoyanov Georgiev Perter Herbert Giordano Bjorn Erik Glenne Philip Stewart Gordon Joshua James Gould Peter Gould Michele Greco Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier Atanas Stoyanov Gueorguiev Per Martin Gunlov Nicolas Haby Randy Arick Haddox Ann Liselott Hagberg Andreas Hagen Alexander Hanell Eric A Hardt Rakita Wilhelmina Heijnen Anders Bertil Henriksson William Hill Thor Hjertenes Ole Gabriel Holgersen Santiago Holguin Lopez Santiago Holguin Romero Robertus Hendrikus Hollink Orjan Holt Frederik Hostrup Pedersen Mats Erik Iremark Alessio Isaia Michael Gregorey Johan Janot Nikolaus Jedlicka Ramzi Jelassi Carl Torbjorn Jonson Janne Wilhem Juutilainen Jean Michel Kabbaj Igor Kalinicenko Iliodoros Kamatakis Andreas Karoly Karkus Matthew Jonathan Kay Michael Erich Keiner Cort Nathan Kibler Melby Stephan Alexander Kjerstad Kristian Kjondal Eric Koskas Gabor Kovacs Tamas Yves Charles Maxime Kupfermunz Michael Kwiek Samuel Laborde Florian Langmann Ville Petteri Laukkanen Collin Len Johan Olov Lindgren Gerolf Linke Piotr Lis Seppo Juhani Liukku Carlos Llado Fabregas Jonny Lodden Francisco Lopez Martos Sampo Mikael Lopponen Emmanuel Loubradou Jon Lundberg Jens Lundgren Sander Lylloff Juan Maceiras Lapido Bent Madsen Elie Marciano Patric Martensson Nichlas K Mattsson Saarisilta Peter Mayer Zsolt Daniele Mazzia Lee Terence Mccreery Jyri Tapio Merivirta Raul Mestre Lleida Dag Martin Mikkelsen Sorel Jay Mizzi Gyorgy Moger Yahya Mohamed Pietro Antonio Monzio Compagnoni Sam Morda El Sayed Kim Mortensen Clayton Robert Mozdzen Stefan Andre Munter Zlatan Musa Maurizio Muzzi Simon Muñoz Marin Marcus Naalden Philippe Maurice Narboni Rayan Nathan Ketul Nathwani Jose Luis Navarro Giner Patric Skjold Neckelmann Morten Nielsen Seren Nielsen Aleksandar Todorov Nikolov Annette Obrestad Gunnar Oestebroed Mika Petri Sakari Paasonen Claudio Pagano Andre Pagnillo Niko Pakalen Christophe Jean Palmeri Nikolaos Panopoulos Juan Manuel Pastor Baez Valdemir Flavio Pereira Garreta Diego Perez Marco Jean Pierre Petroli Hai Pham Julien Pichetto Mikko Valtteri Pispala Brian Leslie Prescott Antti Pekka Pystynen Stefan Vigant Raffay Samir Eric Rahal Mohamad Hossein Razaghi Aval Raoul Gilmar Refos Sonny Rigwelll Sebastian Alexander Riviere Karen David Robert Robinson Wail Rohayem Jose Roldan Vicente Massimiliano Rosa Pier Paolo Roscalla Alexander Philip Roumeliotis Daan Ruiter Sebastian Ruthenberg Ilari Aaretti Sahamies Mohamed Reda Sahiaoui Jari Tapani Salonen Albert Sapiano Juan Sastre Durin Eric Scalisi Brandon Koga Schaefer Silio Schifakacqua Emmanuel Serero Luis David Sevilla Petit Charlotta Margareta Sjodin Peter Alan Smurfit Jani Tapani Sointula Benjamin Sriqui Walter Srour Phillips Starrs Johannes Steindl Johan Martin Storakers Andreas Streeck Stephane Daniel Subrenat Sverre Sundbo Jan Arthur Svendsen Matteo Taddia Erik Peter Tamm Stuart Taylor Mark Teltscher Paul Testud Katja Thater Julian Peter Thew Hans Thorelli Clas Thorsten Thorsell William Thorson Peter Tofting Christian Togsverd Richard Toth Fabrizio Tripicchio Jonathan David Turner Christopher Ulsrud Andreas Ulvestad Gianpietro Valentini Ramu Pritam Vaswani Andre Filipe Veiga Araujo Dos Santos Atte Aleksi Vessonen Fredrik Vestberg Hristo Volkov Mark Christopher Vos Gustav Henrik Staffan Waern Johan Wahlbeck Ville Petteri Johan Wahlbeck Atle Walgren Paul James Wasicka Michael Watson Michael David Wernick Anders Viktor Wessman Michael Westerlund Johan Christofer Williamsson Michael Wong Roman Yitzhaki Tutev Yovor Anastasov Winfred Ka Wing Yu Andrey Zaichenko Marc Jaques Zaicik Jerome Zerbib Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 07:29:58 PM William Thorsson becomes entangled...down to 4,300:
He'd raised in mid position to 525, been called on the button and then raised to 1,525 out of the big blind. He made the call, and so did Button Matey. Flop: 3h 7c 5s Check round, fairly fast. Turn: 5d Big Blind bets out 1,525 now, called by Thorsson only. River: Aspades Big Blind now bets out 1,600. William Thorsson raises to 4,200, only to find an abrupt re-raise all in, for more than his stack. This part took a bit longer, as he considered calling, looked at his just-over-4k and eventually decided against it. It looks like neighbour Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier is the current chip leader, nearing 30k, while erstwhile extra tablemate Pippa Flanders (pictured looking diminutive) is nowhere to be seen any more. (http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=426&g2_serialNumber=1) This could be due to a move and dinner break (they're doing the small dining room shift system - at the moment half are on break), but I think there are too many chips on table ElkY, somehow, for that to be the case... Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 28, 2007, 08:11:04 PM Roland De Wolfe just felt the full force of a cooler. I believe the expression on his face can be summed up by this picture...
(http://ouch.distilleryrecords.com/ouch2.jpg) A-Q-9 flop, Roland has 9-9, his opponent had Q-Q. Roland very short now. Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 08:18:45 PM Second half chip counts:
Sverre Sundbo 23,000 Alan Smurfit 9,975 Stuart Fox 13,250 Sorel Mizzi 12,500 Len Collin 12,750 Julian Thew 14,100 Johnny Lodden 25,100 Ramzi Jelassi 18,400 Roland de Wolfe 13,100 Mark Teltscher 19,500 Mickey Wernick 4,300 Phil Gordon 16,500 Mark Vos 12,500 Albert Sapiano 35,000 Roman Yitzhaki 16,450 Chris Bruce 8,450 Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 09:41:52 PM Sverre Sundbo has an above-averagey-looking stack (roughly 18k), but getting there hasn't been a steady climb... he called a raise to 300 at the end of the last level with 5c 6s in the big blind, and saw a threeway flop of Jc 5d 6d. That looked pretty good, as did a short stack's moving all in with Kh Js, until the board came running Sevens to counterfeit his two pair and knock him back under the starting stack.
The very next hand, however, he looked down to some small blind Aces. It got round to him standard raised to 300 - he made it 950 to go, and the big blind re-raised to 2,200. The original raiser thought about it for ages before passing (Queens, it has been said), as did another caller, but Sverre pushed all in (as one does) called pretty fast by the big blind's Jc Jh. The Aspades Ac held, and he's chirpy once again. Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 28, 2007, 09:45:19 PM MIA:
Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=65) Bruce (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=65) Tim (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=433) Flanders (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=433) Kjetil's beard. :o On the respirator: Mickey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=283) Wernick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=283) Stuart (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=419) Fox (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=419) Confirmed OUT: The guy who had Ac Aspades vs Ad Jh on a Jd 3c 7d Kd Qd board. All-in on the flop I guess. Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 10:11:31 PM Dan Carter has dropped to 20k after a spectacular early build to 26k. He is already mournfully recalling that period when, "I was probably chip leader. I had 26 within two hours..." Nothing much has been going on in the world of Lucky Scrote recently. "If you want to watch paint dry," he adds, "Stand there."
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=438&g2_serialNumber=1) _________________________ Also on 20k - Johnny Lodden and Julian Thew, neck and neck neighbours. Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 10:29:36 PM The set-over-set earlier which stopped Roland (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=384) De Wolfe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=384) from having a bullying stack was held by Ilari (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=579) Sahamies (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=579), aggressive Finn and probable second in chips to eliminator of Jimmy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=922) Fricke (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=922) (Homer has some details).
They seem to be clashing rather a lot, with a smaller pot just now drifting to Roland... he raised to 600 preflop, called by button Sahamies. They both checked the 3h 2d 3s flop; Roland check-called the 6d turn, and then found an Ad on the river pairing his hand (Ac 4d) and beating Ilari (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=579) Sahamies (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=579)' 6s which he flashed as he mucked it. (http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=460&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 28, 2007, 10:31:18 PM Jani Sointula has just been crippled. The guy sitting to his right in the 10 seat, raises to 1k preflop. Jani calls.
Flop is bricktastic: 6c 2h 2s Opponent checks, Jani bets 2k. Opponent shoves, Jani calls. These 4 moves were all complete in the space of a second, seriously, it was like watching low limit cash players in action in the speed of the action. Jani: Qd Qc Opponent: Ks Kh Turn: 8h River: Ad Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 28, 2007, 10:37:41 PM Jani (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=586) Sointula (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=586) has just been crippled. The guy sitting to his right in the 10 seat, raises to 1k preflop. Jani calls.
Flop is bricktastic: 6c 2h 2s Opponent checks, Jani bets 2k. Opponent shoves, Jani calls. These 4 moves were all complete in the space of a second, seriously, it was like watching low limit cash players in action in the speed of the chip movement. Jani: Qd Qc Opponent: Ks Kh Turn: 8h River: Ad Jimmy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=922) Fricke (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=922) is OUT. He made a move against a guy holding top set. Joining Gobboboy on the rail is Patric Martensson, who had re-raised an 800 bet to 2,250 preflop, receiving two callers. The flop came: 7d 5s Qd And before you could say, "move of honour!" the initial raiser pushed all-in for a big overbet. Martensson eventually called for his last 6k with Aspades Qc and the other player passed. The OR showed 7c 7h Turn: Td River: Ad Title: Re: EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 28, 2007, 11:09:15 PM Richard Ashby adds to his stack holding Kh Kd against Qs Js on a Kd Tc 8s 4s Qc board. All the money going in on the 'billion-outs creator' turn card.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 11:20:28 PM Chips, and Who Has Some:
Dan Carter 22,500 Mark Vos 7,000 Michael Greco 10,750 Noah Boeken 4,300 Johan Storakers 10,150 Nicky Jedlicka 24,500 Jani Sointula 7,350 Rob Hollink 6,400 Annette Obrestad 14,800 Richard Ashby 20,500 David Williams 33,800 Bertrand Grospellier 22,500 Stuart Fox OUT William Thorsson 14,600 Mickey Wernick 6,800 Mark Teltscher 42,500 (pictured) Phil Gordon 21,000 (having just eliminated someone with a set of Eights, to rapturous commentary from the rail) Ilari Sahamies 55,000 (having benefited from most of Roland's stack, and having knocked out at least half of his starting table) Roland de Wolfe 9,075 Ramzi Jelassi 24,300 Alan Smurfit 6,300 Sorel Mizzi 5,500 Andreas Hagen 6,650 Katja Thater 15,300 Sebastian Riviere 7,800 (http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=464&g2_serialNumber=1) Meanwhile Roland came to rail Peter Gould just in time to see his preflop raise getting shoved over, putting short-stacked Gould on a decision for his tourney life... he'd pretty much committed himself, and said, "Ace King?" as he shoved his remaining stack over the line, being rewarded with seeing Aspades Kd racing his 3c 3s. "You're ahead," helped de Wolfe, as the Ks popped out first card... no help, and we're down Peter Gould, leaving the number of runners left in at 168. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 11:25:41 PM Also spotted heading out of the tournament area just as railers and players-tomorrow Ryan Fronda and Ian Woodley headed in was Priyan De Mel, whom we sort of missed playing much today, but that fits with his description of his tournament as a bit of a non starter. Plus he wasn't wearing anything DayGlo this time round. "I had no hands all day. When I did, someone else had a better one." His final hand had seen him with around 3k, shoving on a Ten-high flop with Kh Jd. He was called... by Aspades Ks and it had gone from bad to worse to out in a few easy levels.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 28, 2007, 11:42:40 PM Mickey Wernick has finally doubled through, leaving him in slightly better shape than either of the two pictured players. Stuart Fox, now OUT, and Paul Testud - short and giving his neighbour a characteristically French shrug implying, "Meh, what can you do?"
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=466&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=468&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 29, 2007, 12:06:34 AM Thewy lost a chunk just now.
On a 8c 6c 2d board, Jules had check/raised another guy virtually all-in. The other player had made the call and flipped Qd Qc, Julian tapped the table and showed Ahrt Jh. The dealer then mucked the cards and pushed the pot towards the other player. Luckily the cards were brought back, Julian missed his Ace though and has about 7k now. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=470&g2_serialNumber=1) Gunnar Ostebrod (surely he could be a emo-band's lead singer if he ever quit poker), Ramzi Jelassi and Rob Hollink. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=472&g2_serialNumber=1) Roland De Wolfe has almost doubled up when his Td Tc held against Ahrt Js on a 4s 4h 7h Kd Th board. Oh and Dan Carter is bored... (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=474&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 29, 2007, 12:49:53 AM Woooot.. That's some impressive stack-building skills by the boy carter. Hope he doesn't get too bored and do anything crazy!! Wish him good luck from me if you get a chance. Thanks :) Sadly the Boy Carter's fortunes have progressed in a downward fashion since the start of Level Two...currently on 8,000 after a couple of big losses and a couple of smaller ones. The most entertaining to relate as a story involves Dan calling an early position raiser (one who was, apparently, steaming) with 8s 8d. On a Qd 9c 3c flop Dan also called the 5k push this right hand side neighbour bet out with, and found him holding Ahrt 3h... Ace on the river to take about a quarter of Dan's then stack. Still in a fairly good mood as his stack isn't at its lowest ebb of the day (that was 4,900 about 15 minutes ago...) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 29, 2007, 12:53:10 AM Mark Vos has doubled up with Jd Jh against the Aspades Kc of his nearest neighbour.
Board: 8d Tc 4c Qd 3d Meanwhile, Julian and Dan have swapped 5% of their shortish stacks... Julian went down to 1,600 but has since cracked A-Q with J-T, he then pushed A-8 against Johnny Lodden's Queens and flopped two Eights, or to quote a droll Mr Lodden, "He f**ked me in the ass." Finally, another player on this table raised from early position and was met with a re-raise which he called. OR bet out 3k on the A-T-x flop, the RR moved in for 8k more. OR raiser calls with K-J. RR has A-A for top set. The Q was the very next card out. (http://projectebola.typepad.com/photos/goddamn_funny_pictures/ouch.jpg) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 29, 2007, 01:02:18 AM Roland de Wolfe is OUT - after playing with a short stack for an uncharacteristically long time, and spending roughly 30% of the time standing watching nearby tables' action, he finally exited holding Qc Jc vs. Kh Th...
Meanwhile next door Ramzi Jelassi moves in against a short stack with Ad Kd - facing Ahrt Qd the board came Ten-high...+5k and the knockout to young Swedish sponsoree. Finally, hovering on short stacks are Alan Smurfit (5,200) and Johan Storakers (6,200) while Phil Starrs has progressed to 18,450 and so, roughly, has Paul Testud. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 29, 2007, 01:07:29 AM A hand from last level I just found scrawled on the back of my notepad: Sverre Sundbo is rather healthily stacked (I think he was also recently responsible for eliminating short stacked Sorel Mizzi) - a good chunk of this came in this odd hand -
Sverre raised on the button to 800, the small blind re-raised to 3k; call. Flop: 3d 2c 5s Don't think there was any action here (was distracted by someone shouting and waving hands around on the next door table, if I am honest) Turn: Th Small Blind Matey bet out 4k - instacall. River: Qd Small Blind Matey bet out a good proportion of his stack - around 12k, and Sverre Sundbo called pretty fast, showing Kd Td at pretty much the same time as S.B.M. just tossed his hand away... Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 29, 2007, 01:34:40 AM At the moment, Matt he's on the way up. Looked to be on 14k a few minutes ago as the last level started.
The final level stats in full: 117 players remaining, blinds 300/600/75. Average stack 22,564. Mickey Wernick is just waiting for a spot now, he's being dealt pure filth and facing a table which seems to have at least two raises everytime action reaches him. Mark Vos just called 7k on the river of a Ks Kd 9h 5h 7s board. His opponent was forced to show Qs Jh, no good against 9c 8c. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 29, 2007, 01:52:51 AM Consistently faring well today have been:
1) Annette Obrestad (Annette_15, online scourge) 2) Rayan Nathan (despite looking half asleep) and 3) This guy, whom I was calling Hollister Orange for obvious reasons but whose name is actually Cort Kibler-Melby, which was the next combination of letters I was about to guess. He was chip leader for a good while with over 60k, and although he's slightly down from that now, he's still up there in the top five in chips, without a doubt (http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=476&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=478&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=480&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 29, 2007, 01:59:46 AM Somehow these three have been moved throughout the day until they're in a line: Dan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=86) Carter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=86), Julian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) Thew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) and Johnny (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=606) Lodden (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=606) (the latter on 17,500, for you who were asking). They only get to spend 45 minutes as immediate neighbours however - Day Two will see a redraw, and apparently eight-handed tables throughout.
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=482&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 29, 2007, 01:59:57 AM DTD Counts:
Richard Ashby -- 43k Michael Greco -- 20k Elsewhere, Mark Vos is on over 60k now, after he 3-bet all-in a constant re-raiser of his raises with Ace Jack. When he was called, he assumed he was in trouble, when his opponent decided to call off his entire 25k stack with J-9, it was obvious he wasn't. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 29, 2007, 02:01:21 AM Johnny Lodden is OUT. A-K against A-Q. Queen on the turn. Eek.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on August 29, 2007, 02:06:32 AM Willliam Thorsson is OUT - he raised most of his bowl of rice preflop (1,700) and was put in by Ahrt Jd - no folding for the half handful of greens remaining, and his Aspades 7d was in bad shape as the board came down 3d 9h 4d 8d 5h.
Mark (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=263) Teltscher (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=263) 45,800 Mickey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=283) Wernick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=283) 17,000 Phil (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=351) Starrs (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=351) 13,400 (pictured) Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=863) Testud (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=863) 30,200 Julian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) Thew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) 6,800 ElkY 23,800 (http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=486&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 29, 2007, 02:25:54 AM Ok, in the last few minutes, Thewy managed to get up to 25.3k with a little K-Q vs K-4 action, whilst Dan Carter is on 11.6k. Instead of the final 10 minutes, we had a final 5 hands which included David Williams losing a monster pot with Q-J vs A-A on a T-9-4-2-4 board.
But that is everything. We are off to sleep now. See you all tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 29, 2007, 01:58:06 PM Chip Counts thanks to Mad and Pokerstars:
Gregory Dyer 76,500 Mark Teltscher 67,300 Mark Vos 64,300 Sander Lylloff 62,600 Sverre Sundbo 60,500 Massimiliano Rosa 60,100 Cort Kibler Melby 59,500 Björn Erik Glenne 56,700 Andrey Zaichenko 56,000 Jose Roldan Vicente 53,000 Rayan Nathan 52,700 Kitai Davidi Jacob 51,900 Nikolaus Jedlicka 50,900 Ilari Sahamies 46,900 Ola Brandborn 45,100 Fabrizio Tripicchio 44,700 Joan Sastre Durin 42,900 Mika Paasonen 41,800 Richard Ashby 40,500 Michael Wong 40,100 Eric Scalisi 39,400 Tutev Yovor Anastasov 38,800 Sebastien Compte 37,400 Pepe Laborde 36,200 Thierry Cazals 34,900 Juan Maceiras Lapido 34,200 Jean Pierre Petroli 34,000 Jesus Manuel Garde Belio 32,100 Sampo Lopponen 31,100 Francisco Lopez Martos 30,700 Marcus Friman 30,000 Daan Ruiter 29,400 Lukas Benkovic 28,900 Youssef Fawaz 28,800 Nickolaos Panopoulos 28,500 Bol Ceeskcj 28,000 Mark Dickstein 27,800 Carles Llado Fabregas 27,800 Alesko Isaia 27,600 Mario Georgiev 26,800 Pete Giordano 26,500 Samir Rahal 25,800 Julian Thew 25,400 Thomas Fuller 25,000 Emmanuel Loubradou 23,000 Gunnar Oestebroed 23,000 Brandon Schaefer 22,000 Juan Pastor Baez 21,100 Eric Hardt 20,900 Noah Boeken 20,800 Santiago Holguin Lopez 20,600 Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier 20,100 Erik Tamm 19,200 Ramzi Jelassi 18,700 Borge Dypvik 18,400 Joep Durkstra 17,900 Daniele Mazzia 17,900 Katja Thater 17,900 Walter Srour 17,800 Michael Greco 16,600 Christopher Ulsrud 16,600 Tomas Brolin 16,500 Jason Coyle 15,800 Jgors Kalinicenko 15,700 Marc Naalden 15,400 Christophe Palmeri 15,400 Janne Juutilainen 15,300 Soren Kongsgaard 15,300 Phillips Starrs 15,100 Gianluca Gentili 14,900 Carlos Isaac Garcia Frontelo 14,800 Andreas Hagen 14,500 Paul Testud 14,200 Atle Walgren 14,100 Peter Tofting 13,900 Pascal Barrau 13,500 Piero Monzio Compagnoni 13,000 Frederik Vestberg 13,000 Phil Gordon 12,700 Paul Wasicka 12,500 Anders Henriksson 12,300 Stephane Daniel Subrenat 11,600 Peter Bertelsen 11,300 Sonny Ridgewell 11,200 Alexander Roumeliotis 11,100 Ole Gabriel Holgersen 11,000 Dan Carter 10,600 David Williams 10,100 Michael Keiner 9,900 Annette Obrestad 9,700 Isaac Baron 9,500 Henrik Waern 9,200 Jerome Ferron 7,700 Jerome Zerbib 7,000 Alexander Hanell 6,800 Orjan Holt 6,400 Lee McCreery 6,000 Nicola Filesi 5,500 Rob Hollink 4,800 |