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Hello and welcome to the blonde poker's live update for the Pokerstars.com London EPT at the Grosvenor Victoria in London.

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Play for Day 2 of the £5,200 Main Event commences at 1pm.

Greeting blondeites, I won't bore you for too long, just quickly say good luck to anyone who I can nip on the final day, I hope you win as much as possible. For those who are tighties, then I hope you get Aces busted and hit the bricks early doors.

Of course, Day 2 sees both Day 1ers being pooled together to create a final field 142 players, of which will be whittled down to 1 all mighty King of Kings. Currently seated in that throne is Frenchman come England resider, Nicolas Levi. A blondeite and known to myself as the 'Hatpimp' due to his er... preference for all hats pimp-like, Nicolas is a highly talented young player and a top bloke to boot. He plays high stakes cash games online but can't resist the odd live comp where he has experienced mixed results, his biggest win coming in last year's Dormund EPT where he took home €85,700 for a highly commendable 7th place finish. More recently, Nicolas cashed in the WSOPE for over 30k, so is clearly in decent form and certainly a worthy contendor for the title of London EPT champ.

As always, if you have any requests from the list below, then we'll do our best to track them down and add them to our updates - please don't hesitate to give us a shout. Similarly, do remember that this isn't your normal live update; if you want to offer some support for one or more of the players, whatever their nationality, then you're more than welcome to use this thread as your stomping ground.

Nicolas    Levi    100,300
Daniel    Mangas    98,500
Antony    Phillips    94,600
Chris    Moneymaker    79,700
Ola    Brandborn    73,100
Fredrik    Haugen    63,800
Vijayan    Nagarajan    59,800
Joseph    Mouawad    59,700
Anthony    Lellouche    58,000
Fuat    Can    57,500
Ville    Wahlbeck    56,700
Peter    Gelencser    52,500
Age    Spets    50,800
Lars    Bonding    50,500
Martyn    Reeve    50,000
Pascal    Perrault    49,400
Thomas    Tollund    48,500
Johan    Spiga    46,600
Roberto    Romanello    46,500
Torbjorn    Jonson    45,800
Barny    Boatman    45,300
Tony    Cascarino    45,100
Marc    Goodwin    43,000
Samir    Shakhtoor    42,800
Sebastian    Ruthenberg    42,400
Andrew    Buzzigoli    41,900
Carlo    Citrone    40,900
Javed    Abrahams    40,300
Per    Hildebrand    40,300
Dennis    Bjerregaard    39,800
Sebastian    Riviere    39,700
David    Colclough    39,000
Surinder    Sunar    37,900
John    Conroy    37,500
Marcus    Lind    37,100
Sergey    Rybachenko    36,900
Mehmet    Cinar    36,300
Josh    Egan    36,200
Jason    Hackett    35,200
Lam    Trinh    34,600
Ian    Cox    33,900
John    Parker    33,700
Bruno    Martin    33,300
Paul    Leckey    33,100
Christophe    Benzimra    32,400
Dennis    Plejdrup    32,300
David    Sonelin    32,200
Joris    Jaspers    32,100
Stig    Rasmussen    32,000
David    Obrobac    31,800
Peter    Petersen    31,100
Thomas    Fougeron    31,000
Patrik    Antonius    30,400
Theo    Tran    30,100
Andreas    Hagen    29,700
Doug    Rudling    29,400
Joey    Lovelady    28,900
Phidias    Georgiou    27,800
Liam    Flood    27,200
Katja    Svendsen    26,700
James    Dempsey    26,500
Ken    Wong    25,900
Dave    Clark    25,600
David    Daneshgar    25,200
Andreas    Krause    24,600
Anthony William    Hardy    23,900
Richard    Ashby    23,600
Sutha    Nirmalananthan    23,600
Thomas    Bihl    23,500
Roland    De Wolfe    23,300
Paul    Mendes    23,100
Samir    Rahal    22,900
Michael    Martin    22,500
Lewis    Pilkington    22,400
Jeffrey    Rogers    22,200
Jonothan    Campbell    22,100
Florian    Langmann    21,700
Maz    Nawab    21,700
Jon    Lundberg    21,700
Dieter    Dijkstra    20,800
Daniel    Negreanu    20,100
Ben    Grundy    20,000
Shane    Reihill    19,900
Jan    Boubli    19,500
Jeffrey    Lisandro    18,700
Andrew    Bell    18,500
Ian    Woodley    18,500
Chris    Moorman    17,600
Marcel    Baran    17,300
John    Murphy    17,300
Alan    Smurfit    16,900
Mika    Paasonen    16,800
David    Finney    16,600
Stephan    Gerin    16,600
Niclas    Svensson    16,400
Pier Paolo    Ruscalla    16,100
Per lennart    Mattsson    15,800
Erik    Friberg    15,600
Michael    Greco    15,500
Mark    Vos    15,000
Stuart    Rutter    14,900
Richard    Toth    14,400
Paul    Alterman    14,300
Warren    Wooldridge    14,200
Henric    Strath    14,100
Stuart    Fox    13,600
Martin    Smyth    13,600
Samir    Patel    13,500
Anders    Johnsson    13,300
Arild    Helland    13,200
N    Nagrecha    13,200
Paul    Campbell    13,100
Ricardo    Pinto De Sousa    12,900
Guillaume    Darcourt    12,300
Stuart    Nash    12,300
Andrey    Zaichenko    12,300
Arnaud    Mattern    12,200
Christopher    Andler    11,900
Stephane    Souffir    11,800
Benjamin    Roberts    11,700
Mattias    Andersson    11,600
Thomas    Gilles    11,500
Terry    Cook    11,400
Paul    Christoffersson    11,300
Magnus    Cornmark    11,200
Jonas    Svensson    11,200
Chris    Bush    11,000
Liz    Lieu    10,600
Dennis    Vanrijn    10,600
Rafael    Comas    10,600
Nicky    Roeg    10,500
Simon    Renoldi    9,600
Manuel    Palanca    9,200
Yanick    Fressenon    8,300
Kjetil    Nass    7,500
Daniel    Dodet    7,100
Geoff    Sanford    7,000
Nicholas James    Katz    6,800
Mika    Puro    6,600
Chris    Sokrati    6,400
Adam    Heller    6,100
Yevgeniy    Timoshenko    3,800

Play commences at 1pm.

Looks Like 142 players have made it to Day2 and I reckon they will kick off about 1.30pm which has been the norm last couple of days.   Why don't we take a shufty at the prize money on offer to the lucky/skillfull last 32.

1st    £611,520
2nd   £346,528
3rd    £203,840
4th    £152,880
5th    £124,342
6th   £97,843
7th   £77,459
8th   £57,075
9th   £34,652
10th   £34,652
11th   £28,537
12th   £28,537
13th   £22,422
14th   £22,422
15th   £16,307
16th   £16,307
17th   £12,230
18th   £12,230
19th   £12,230
20th   £12,230
21st   £12,230
22nd   £12,230
23rd   £12,230
24th   £12,230
25th    £8,153
26th   £8,153
27th   £8,153
28th   £8,153
29th   £8,153
30th   £8,153
31st   £8,153
32nd   £8,153

9    400 800      (100)   
10  500 1000     (100) 
11  600 1200     (100)   
12  800 1600     (200) 
13  1000 2000    (200) 
14  1200 2400    (300) 
15  1500 3000    (300) 
16  2000 4000    (400)

I caught 2 first hands of the day and 2 double ups for the shorties.  First one was Liz (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1088) Lieu (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1088) who facing a raise, moved all in for her 10,600 with  Qd Qh.  She was called by Samir Shaktoor's  Ac Qs.  No surprises and a great start for lovely Liz, btw whilst I was earwigging at her table, Liz was asked by Levi if she was paid in for this event and she said no, she had to buy in herself.  I like to know little things like that, the things you daren't ask but are so glad when someone else asks for you.

The second first hand double was Chris "Soxy" Sokrati.  Not wanting to appear like the black widow by his side, I did think he might be making moves with his paltry 6,400 early doors.  Dennis Bjerregaard raised to 2,200 and Chris pushed right after him.  He reluctantly called the remaining 4K and on their backs,  Ahrt 6c for Dennis and  Aspades Qh for Soxy.  There were no dodgy sixes on board and Chris doubles through.  Stuart (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=420) Nash (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=420) passed A10 I saw and mumbled that he would have been in trouble.

Stuart Fox also doubleup very early doors to about 37,000 he had 99 V AJ.

It is official that 142 players started and the average stack is 27,600.

There has been a colossal pot already for Chris Moneymaker, starting the day close to the top with 79,700, he clashed with Age Spets who started with 50,800.  I do not know exact details other than Moneymaker flopped trip 2's and Spets had AA.  All their chips ended up in the middle and Moneymaker even hit the "rub it in" last 2 on the river for quads.  Age Spets is now OUT and Moneymaker chip daddy already with over 120,000.

Amicable Frenchman Anthony (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=903) Lellouche (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=903) has just eliminated the complexly named Yevgeniy Timoshenko, the young Russian all-in with 9-9, but losing out to A-J on a Jack high board.

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Erik (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=542) Friberg (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=542), who finalled in the 2006 World Series Main Event, is up and down like a whore's drawers (sorry mods if that is an unacceptable analogy), first being felted with Nines v Aces, before firing the bullets himself against Queens and Jacks on a 9-7-T-T-5 for a timely double up. The Swede still short though.

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Whilst Stuart Nash ambushed the crossword on his paper as if playing a £10 freezeout, Ian Woodey was getting jiggy on an 8h Js 4d Flop by betting 4.6k. However, Scandieboy was getting even jiggier, pushing over the top for an extra 8.1k. Realising that this would be a big hit if he lost, Ian understandably took his time to insure he made the correct decision before calling and showing Kc Jc. Scandieboy turned over 9s 9h, which failed to improve on the 8s Turn and 6c River.

On a sidenote, I was chatting to Ian prior to the hand and learned that the Lodononer has always been a winner at poker and was playing cards long before he won the Million pounds on TFI Friday. "I've always been big on poker," he said. "I used to work the market before poker, but I always though I could do it full time."

I'll need to confirm if it were an exit or a 'down-to-the-felt' jobby, but either way, Michael Greco will be wearing a long face, his push for 16k with Ac Qd after Ola Brandborn's initial 2k raise running into Aspades Ks behind. Ola dipped out of the way as Beppe failed to hit three of his outs on a 2h Jh 4h 8h 8d board

James Dempsey aka Flushy is out I'm afraid to report.  He is currently railing with Colchester Kev who is now happy to have a rail buddy.  It was rather an nasty exit for flushy though and he remains true to his belief "Its rigged!"

Flushy in the big blind with  Ks  Qd

He calls a small raise and the flop brings

 Js 9s 3s  they both check

 Th

Flsuhy led out for 4k and mateboy pushed all in for 23K, make the call Flushy did and was shown    Aspades Kh

So sadly the river came a fourth spade and Flushy is left feeling "Sik, Sik, Sik."

Erik (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=542) Friberg (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=542) -- 31,400
Arnaud (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1011) Mattern (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1011) -- 38,500
Jon Lundberg -- 13,600
Joey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=203) Lovelady (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=203) -- 16,200
Stuart (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=420) Nash (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=420) -- 29,000
Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=73) Sokrati (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=73) -- 15,000
Daniel Mangas -- 85,000
Magnus Cormark -- 14,300
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) -- 26,000
Tony Hardy -- 28,000
Ola Brandborn -- 20,000


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)'s usual bubbly mug has just turned sour, the boozy Brummie looking down at the felt and grinding his teeth as Anthony Hardy apoligises for the last hand. "No problem," says Foxy calmly. Foxy had already mucked when I joined the hand, but I did notice that Hardy had hit a set of Eights on a K-9-8-9-2 board and was happier than a woman in a shoe shop.

After having his K-K botty inexplicably spanked by A-4 earlier on, Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=69) Moorman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=69)s is fighting back with some hardcore hand to rear end action of his own. On this occasion, Ola Brandborn was the man with the raw behind, the Swede re-raising Moorman initial 2.4k bet from the cut-off to, well... he stuck in a chunk, so it was pretty much all-in.

With a severely short-stacked big blind pushing for 4,300, Moorman saw a chance for a near treble up so quickly made the call.

Moorman = 8s 8h
Brandborn = Ks Kd
Scandieboy = 6d 6c

The first two cards were far from useless, Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=69) Moorman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=69) picking up potential flush and straight draws, but it was not needed once the third Eight hit the deck, followed by King avoiding Turn and a River cards.

Board = 9h 7h 8d Aspades Js

Doig, Doug, Doig, Doug? With the 'u' neighbouring the 'i' on the keyboard and Doug the more common name to us ignorant Englishers, you can possibly allow Pokerstars this slip up. But whatever the player listings say, there is now a black line firmly bisecting his name in two, the plucky Welsh qualifier joining Flushy at the bar and reluctantly explaining with a slight red blemish in his cheeks, "I thought he had bollox, I was wrong." Still hesitant to explain in detail, Doig added, "I had top pair and thought he was at it, but he wasn't, he hit trips."

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Joey Lovelady is watching his nemesis from the sidelines, assassin Ben Grundy waking up with A-J and calling the Liverpudlian's push with K-7. No help arrived.

Liz Leiu has just gone, dont know how.

Marc Goodwin just added another 10k to his stack upto 58k, as I arrived he called a preflop all in with 77.  The unfortunate bluffer was in horrendous shape with 72 and must be just cursing himself at his bad timing and wrong person probably.

Roberto Romanello  35K 
Roberto's mouth - Full Fathom 5
Ken Wong 59K
Ian Woodley  39K
John Murphy  9.6K

Surindar Sunar 98,000 from a starting stack of around 38,000, the majority of his chips taken from a still very vocal and still in Daniel Phillips.

THE SWEDE FEED:

Fuat Can has taken a slight hit courtesy of GUKPT finalist Warren Wooldige, the red-shirted ginger bearded Poker Verdicter triumphing in a strenuous pre-flop raising war that saw his stack rise to 50k, and the Swede's drop to the same amount.

Meanwhile, Jon Lundberg, who has yet to really climb the ladder to anything sizable, is still struggling with 18k. It could be worse though, he was down to 7k at one point, but stumbled upon top pair with T-3 on a T-6-4 and pushed over the top of a 3k bet. It was an extra 8k for his opponent to call, so he was probably a little surprised to be paid off by Pocket Deuces.

During the break, I also managed to catch up with Magnus Cornmark, who, unlike the aforementioned Swedes, will be watching from the sidelines when they return. His tale of woe involved a pair of a pair of Aces (Nope, that's not a typo). The first time he raised it up with the bullets, but couldn only win the blinds. The next time he saw them, they were in the hands of someone else and it was the very next hand. Magnus had a strong holding himself with A-K, but when his opponent swiftly called his over the top push and showed the American Airlines, he knew he was in trouble. No help from the felt and he was a gonna.

I was unfortunate to see Barny Boatman just get the chop.  There was some raising preflop and Barny and matey see a flop

 6h Th 9h

Barny bet & was called, the turn came

 Kc and all the money went in at this at stage.

Barny had  Ahrt Kd

Matey had  Ts Tc

The river was an irrelevant  6c

and a sad goodbye for Barny

Pascal Perrault -- 179,000
Tony Cascarino -- 33,700
Javed Abrahams -- 23,100
Jon Lundberg -- 11,700
Thomas Bihl -- 41,500
Warren Wooldridge -- 15,700
Fuat Can -- 72,000
David Daneshgar -- 14,100
Ken Wong -- 49,500
Ian Woodley -- 15,000
Sebastian Riviere -- 52,600
Surinder Sunar -- 121,000
Torbjorn Jonson -- 59,300
Stuart Fox -- 9,300
Fredrik Haugen -- 32,200
Erik Friberg -- 46,900
Stuart Nash -- 38,300
Dave Colclough -- 44,500
Liam Flood -- 37,400
Marty Smyth -- 41,000
John Conroy -- 14,500
Nicolas Levi -- 61,700
Samir Shakhtoor -- 48,900
Ola Brandborn -- 38,800
Alan Smurfit -- 53,000
Marc Goodwin -- 98,800
Ian Cox -- 51,000

Roberto (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=376) Romanello (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=376) is OUT. Again, I raced over but was too late to track the betting order, but I did see the board...

Romanello = K-9

Friberg = Q-Q

Board = 2-J-9-A-Q

... and I'm sure I heard the Welshman mumble that it was all-in on the flop and that he'd raised pre-.

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When you're hot, you're hot, and with the run he's on, Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=95) Colclough (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=95) is hotter than the sun. His latest encounter was too hot to handle and could have given Satan a tan with its immense hotness. But before you leave for another site asking yourself what the hell has snoopy been drinking (something hot, actually), check out this hand, El Blondie getting it all-in with Kh Kd on a Th 9s Js Flop but running into 9s 9d. However, it's not over till the big boned lady sings, and she was muzzled by the Monty Burns doppelganger when the Turn brought the Ks, followed by a none-miracle-finding Ac River.

Martyn Reeve is stationary at 55,000
Soxy  25,000
Ian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=171) Cox (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=171)  60,000

David (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=520) Daneshgar (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=520) is OUT and just moved his chips right to his neighbour (and chip mark liner uper) Ken "no bluff no win" Wong.

For falsley sending Javed Abrahams on his bike, he went and doubled up with AA against JJ.  He now has 64,400

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John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=608) Conroy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=608) is also out. All-in for 25-30k from the button with A-6, ran into 7-7 in the big blind. No Ace.

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Finally, we've lost Jon Lundberg. Shortstacked and card dead for most of the day, he pushed with A-3, but ran into Queens and received no further help.

Believed to be OUT

Stuart Rutter
Patrik Antonious
Trevor Reardon
Chris Moorman

Roland Dewolfe seams a lot happier though with about 65,000

Your friend Mr Nash is doing a lot better now I feel.  In a hand with Ian Woodley, Ian has raised UTG before Nash but he reraises, folds back to Woodley who goes all in for his remaining 20k or so and Stuart calls. 

Woodley  Ad Kh
Nash       Aspades Qh

Woodley "First card out, bloody Queen, sick of it!"

54 players left
1000 / 2000  ante 200

Apparently we are only playing until 40 players today.

The players have just gone on a 30 min break, so I took my chance to take some actual counts from the chip leaders whilst they were out of the way.  Firstly, the last hand before the break Eric Friberg from Stockholm saw the Swede take out 2 players.

Matey raised UTG, Eric Friberg flat calls.  Onto Tony Phillips who goes all in for about 45K, matey goes all in too for less and Friberg also makes the call.  On their backs

Friberg  Kh Kc
Phillips   Qs Qh
Matey   Kd  Qc

So Friberg is left to stack piles of chips - circa 148,000

At the same table as Friberg's are two of the chip leaders.

Pascal (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=691) Perrault (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=691)  185,200
Surinder (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=422) Sunar (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=422)  195,700

If these clash there could be a monster chip leader on this table and I don't think Friberg sits still for very long either.

There are 51 players left.

If I left that table thinking I was looking at the chip leader in Sunar, I was mistaken when I looked at Anthony Lellouche's stack.  He has pipped Surinder to the post with 200,300.

Nicolas Levi is like a horse walking into a bar at the moment, his upside down smile the result of a faux pas with K-J versus Kajta Svendson's Aces. The hatpimp must have thought he'd spotted a tell of some sort, or perhaps just sensed weakness, but either way he received the wrong signal, Katja's Bullets holding up as Nicolas managed to create a 150k pot before the flop had even arrived.

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One of the top three chip daddies is this chap (or le chap), Frenchman Anthony Lellouche. A high stakes cash game player at his local stomping ground at the Aviation Club in Paris, Lellouche is currently on 196k after eliminating a rather bitter Stig Rasmussen of Denmark. Entering a pre-flop raising war with Ahrt Ks, Lellouche's initial raise was re-raised by Stig after a bizarrely long dwell that resulted in Nicolas Levi calling the clock. The action returned to Lellouche who then announced all-in.

"This is a tough one," said Stig, "but I call," pushing in what looked to be around 40 odd thousand in chips and showing, to the surprise of the table, Ac Ts.

A 6s 6d Js 5c 7c bord later and that was all she wrote for Stig, the Danish giant seemingly surprised by Lellouche's play with the Big Slick. "That was a very risky move," he concluded as he departed.

Surinder Sunar fists the air in frustration as he shown Ac Aspades by Fredrik Haugen, the Birmingham pro's Qh Qc in need of a threesome. However, a set of Queens could be further from the Poker Gods' minds, the board coming a rather clinical and unnecessarily gasp inducing 5s 5c Js Ahrt Ad.

Liam Flood -- 66,500
Fredrik Haugen -- 167,000
Pascal Perrault -- 180,000
Surinder Sunar -- 128,000
Stuart Nash -- 130,000
Carlo Citrone -- 29,200
Ben Grundy -- 120,000
Warren Wooldridge -- out
Vijay Nagarajan -- 52,400
Roland de Wolfe -- 65,000
Chris Moneymaker -- 55,900
Tony Cascarino -- 54,500
Katja Svendsen -- 135,000
Marc Goodwin -- 71,500
Javed Abrahams -- 77,000
Richard Ashby -- 26,300
Martyn Reeve -- 58,500
Anthony Lellouche -- 189,000
Anthony Hardy -- 30,000
Daniel Mangas -- 66,700
Ian Cox -- 58,500
Alan Smurfit -- 156,000
Ken Wong -- 63,100
Fuat Can -- 95,000
Mehmet Cinar -- 65,100

That is it, they have reached 40 and I believe Liam Flood may have been the 41st exit.  Again, same as last night, last hand of the night a gigantic pot erups on table big stack.  It started with Liam Flood raising up to 7,200 with Surinder Sunar smooth calling on the button and Eric Friberg also calling in the big blind.  The flop came

 9s 4c 8s

Eric checked, Liam Flood went all in for about 60k, which was only called by Surinder and resulted in Eric Friberg going all in for his entire 170,000.  Surinder INSTA calls and the cards are all turned over.

Liam Flood   Aspades Ks
Surinder Sunar  9d 9h
Eric Friberg   4h 4s

The turn & river are complete blanks and an amazing pot for Surinder to scoop with better set.  Liam Flood was knocked out but Eric was left with a paltry 7,000.

Surinder has finished the night with a chip tastic 403,400..

I caught up with young Ian post final whilst: "Not too many big hands, went down to 40k, back up to 60k, and now 70k. Haven't really come across any good players today, had Negreanu and Liz Lieu yesterday, they're rubbish. In fact, everyone's rubbish," he jokes.

I also grabbed a quick word with Richard Ashby near the end. Like Ian, Chufty never really enjoyed the highs of a big stack, and on just 26k he'll be looking for a late surge tomorrow.

Talking of shortstacks, Marc Goodwin must be the shortest of the shorties with just 9 chips, but luckily it's quality over quality with the majority of those chips being brown 5k ones giving him a total of 51k.

Finally, Swansea's Martyn Reeve has 82,100. After hovering around 50k for most of the day, he dropped down to 35k at one before doubling up and is now on 82,100.

Here we are, top 40 left that return for a 1pm start tomorrow.  They will also play all the way down to the final 8.


Sunar   Surinder   UK   403,400
Grundy   Ben   UK   220,000
Lellouche   Anthony   France   213,800
Trinh   Lam   UK   207,400
Georgiou   Phidias   Cyprus   200,200
Perrault   Pascal   France   172,800
Egan   Josh   N Zealand   162,300
Haugen   Fredrik   Sweden   152,400
Nash   Stuart   UK   125,100
Smurfit   Alan   Ireland   122,100
Svendsen   Katja   Norway   105,900
Baran   Marcel   Germany   102,800
Roeg   Nicky   Holland   98,200
Can   Fuat   Sweden   94,700
Obrobac   David   Sweden   93,500
Mendes   Paul   UK   92,500
Nagarajan   Vijayan   Malaysia   92,400
Reeve   Martyn   UK   82,100
Wong   Ken   China   79,700
Moneymaker   Chris   US   76,400
De Wolfe   Roland   UK   76,100
Mouawad   Joseph   Lebanon   75,400
Abrahams   Javed   UK   74,800
Petersen   Peter   Denmark   70,800
Cox   Ian   UK   70,600
Reihill   Shane   Ireland   64,100
Goodwin   Marc   UK   54,500
Andler   Christopher   Sweden   54,400
Cinar   Mehmet   Sweden   53,400
Cascarino   Tony   Ireland   52,700
Mangas   Daniel   Spain   51,700
Jaspers   Joris   Holland   51,600
Sonelin   David   Sweden   49,400
Tollund   Thomas   Denmark   49,200
Svensson   Niclas   Sweden   48,500
Hackett   Jason   UK   39,300
Langmann   Florian   Germany   37,900
Citrone   Carlo   UK   29,700
Ashby   Richard   UK   25,700
Friberg   Erik   Sweden   7,000