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Welcome to Day 1 of the Pokerstars.com Baden EPT. Of all the casinos on the EPT tour, Baden is my favourite, I never managed a trip to Deauville and have heard many a story about how wonderful it is there, but out here in the Austrian countryside, there is a quiet pleasantness unlike anything I think you'll find in the UK or anywhere else for that matter. Dana (Yes, for it is her and I! Not a single person chose that combination in the competition, you're all rubbish!) and I had slight crazy panic when our original flight to Prague was 20 minutes late leaving us (literally) with a mad dash through the terminals and security to reach our mosquito sized connecting flight to Vienna.

Anyway, who should be on this tiny hamster of a plane but Aussie Mark (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=651) Vos (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=651), still on tilt from his boys losing the rugby, he's played five events whilst in Europe (the two EPT's and the WSOPE events) and cashed in two, but I could sense his preference for online play, especially when his regular game is the 200/400 PLO on Full Tilt.

Whilst collecting our baggage in Vienna, I felt a familiar hand on my shoulder, that of 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), who, with his birthday coming up is no doubt looking for a special present to celebrate. Then our taxi-cab was complete when Nicolas Levi also appeared at the airport, of course, complete with his hat. A 30 minute ride later which included conversations about or relating to some card game or other and we had arrived in the picturesque town of Baden.

Dana and I went to check into the Hotel Schloss only to find we weren't booked in there, the friendly but ever so slightly haughty man on reception pointed out we hadn't booked a room at the Hotel Schloss, but had actually booked a room at the Schloss Hotel which was two minutes round the corner. He seemed slightly unimpressed that I had mixed the two up.

After a quick dumpage of the bags, Dana and I headed to nearby Club 2, where the free bar and Pokerstars greeting party was being held. Although pretty quiet from when we arrived with few players around and a couple of slightly bemused locals, there was a wonderful moment of balance where the number of young twenty-somethings from Baden began to fill the club as the official party subsided and Lee Jones, John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=209) Duthie (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=209) and Barry Greeenstein became lost amongst a swathe of indie and dance fans who probably would've have been quite irate if they'd known about the free bar they'd missed. Of course, at this point they were all too busy dancing to 'Funky Town' by Lipps Inc. Disco is not dead in this part of the world baby!

At this point, Dana and I decided to retire for the evening, but we'll be ready to bring you updates from 6pm (5pm UK time) from what is, in my opinion, the best casino in Europe.

Fee; free to ask us for updates on anyone you want tracking, or tell us who your tips are.

See you soon!

 Looking forward to the updates!.....have a good one Floppy and Dana.

  ;goodluck; b4matt and Julian and any other blondes.

good luck to tiny tyler and thewy.....................

good luck to julian and dave colclough..x

Morning all! Following the astoundingly free drinks provided by our friends at PokerStars, I slept for 14 hours, and am now just itching to update.

We have arrived at the incredibly lovely Casino Baden, where smoking is allowed in the press room, and I have just discovered that all the rumours concerning the buffet were true. Photos to follow, as soon as I'm hungry again. If I go up there now I'll only make myself sick on tiramisu.

About 250 registrations have been taken so far, and they're expecting in the region of 300 total. Don't forget to let us know whom you'd like us to stalk. Play will begin at 6pm, Austrian time. I have to lie down for a little while now. Urrr, full of food.

What time is that here in the UK?

ps- enjoy the food :D

That is 5pm on your backward British you-don't-get-to-eat-the-buffet time. :)

Here's what you're missing...

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Looks nice but im just about to tuck in myself....

(http://www.millcaferestaurant.co.uk/roast-dinner.jpg)

My three picks:

Chad Brown
Age Spets
Marcel Luske

Dana and Homer --

If you could follow some Americans and a Canadian for me, it would be appreciated.....

Michael Martin aka Martine23

Steve Bilirakis aka MrSmokey1

Aurangzeb Sheikh aka Ozzy87

Roman Yitzhaki aka Roman2000

Chris Bush aka Bushman

As always, thanks to blonde for keeping me updated during these European events......you're great!!!!!

TR23

This is a crazy question but how do you quote from a previous post when doing a post here.
TR23

You click on the "QUOTE" option on the relevant post, or, if you've already hit reply, scroll down the page to the post in question and click on "Insert Quote".

We'll be doing our best to keep you updated on all those folks. Play is due to start in 2 minutes, and they seem to be running this with military precision, so I'm heading upstairs now...

People are still milling around getting up into the tournament area which is being cagely policed by smartly dressed tuxedo-wearing men.

Spotted:

Dario Minieri
Luca Pagano
Andreas Hagen
John Shipley
Dave Colclough
John Kabbaj
Matt Tyler
Andreas Hoivold
Jonas Molander
Elky
Vanessa Rousso

Play has now started!

Among those spotted so far is 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), sharing a table with Vanessa (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=886) Rousso (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=886) and Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=478) Greenstein (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=478). In fact Julian has already, in his words, donked off 4k to Mr Greenstein, apparently with pocket jacks on Q-Q-x flop - Greenstein rivered a flush to take it. "Vengeance will be mine!" says Julian.

Also seen Matt (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=274) Tyler (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=274), currently sharing a table with Barny (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=41) Boatman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=41) (see below). Rumours travel faster than light here - he asked after the state of my head following the party last night. I am just fine, thank you. Although I might have some coffee shortly.

All the requested North Americans have been spotted too, with the exception of Aurangzeb Sheikh. I guess he's on his way though. Floppy's got some photos of the rest of them, just about to be uploaded. Other fashionably late arrivals include 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), unable to find his seat on the plan owing to a late buy-in, and Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=367) Ashby (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=367), climbing the stairs to the Festsaal (it's a party in there!) as I was heading back down.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1873&g2_serialNumber=1)

At the moment the number of players is teetering on the brink of being 290, so anyone choosing over 350+, you're out of the running in the competition. Anyone who chose over 400 hadn't obviously checked the EPT website that said Baden has a 400 max capacity.

Anyway, onto the photos:

Aurangzeb Sheikh

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1838&g2_serialNumber=1)

Roman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=728) Yitzhaki (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=728)

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1840&g2_serialNumber=1)

Steve Billirakis

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1846&g2_serialNumber=1)

Chris Bush and Michael (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=937) Martin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=937) are sharing a table, here they are in respective order.

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1842&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1844&g2_serialNumber=1)

Gotta say, Michael (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=937) Martin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=937) looks a bit like 'Iceman' from Top Gun...

(http://www.jaunted.com/files/admin/valkilmericeman.jpg)

Wow, pictures already.....thanks so much.

TR23
PS.......I think Martin is better looking!!!! lol

Talking of which, here's one for the lay-deeez.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1850&g2_serialNumber=1)

...And one for the gents. Should feline stylings be your thing.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1852&g2_serialNumber=1)

Vanessa Rousso is down to less than 4k, partly the result of this accident against an as-yet-unnamed-owing-to-the-full-list-not-being-available-til-the-end-of-this-level Mateyboy.

Vanessa raises to 200 preflop and is called by two Maties. The flop is 9d Ts Js, and she bets out 600. The first Matey calls, and the second Matey raises another thousand - Vanessa calls and Other Matey folds. The turn is the 3c, and Raiseyboy bets out 3200. Eventually Vanessa folds.

Andy Black in interesting fold news now.

7c 7s 3c

The small blind checks, the big blind bets 300, Black on the button makes it 675. The small blind now makes it 2,500. The big blind folds and Black passes Ks 7h face up after about 30 seconds dwell. Anyone justifying a fold here?

Also, it seems that people winning pots don't have to show their cards here. Noah Boeken called a 600 bet on the river of a Qh 9s 4h 4d Td board after a lengthy dwell, his opponent quickly mucked and Noah didn't show his cards either, though no-one on the table raised the issue. Seems the showing to take the pot rule changes everywhere you go...

And some assorted Spotted Personages - Mark Vos, Andy Black, Barny Boatman, Dave Colclough, Annette Obrestad, Thewy (pre-vengeance), and Matt Tyler.

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(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1861&g2_serialNumber=2)

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(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1868&g2_serialNumber=2)

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And the middle one of these nice trophy cup things is what they're all playing for. That and the big piles of cash money.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1871&g2_serialNumber=1)

Does Matt Tyler have the roundest head in poker ??   ;)

Thats almost a perfect circle !!

That Annie Duke has really let herself go...

We thought for a brief moment that Dave Colclough was out, but it turns out he's not, he's just moved table, and he seem to have doubled up somewhere along the way too.

Meanwhile, of your Americans, Mr Reader, Michael Martin is on maybe 5k after unknown losses, Roman Yitzhaki is slightly up on his 10k starting stack, and Chris Bush is slightly down on his.

Don't you say bad things about Annie Duke! Or the cat lady!

I think David Smith is heaidng the field.

I honestly don't know. I'll keep an eye out for rounder.

Meanwhile he has been picking metaphorical fights with Barny Boatman. On an 8c 7h Tc flop, Matt bets 1600 and Barny calls.

Turn - Kd - they both check. The mood is thoughtful.

River - and they both check again. Matt is clearly relieved at the river-checkage from Barny as he shows his non-flushing  Ahrt Aspades. "Yup," says Barny and mucks. "Pass the chips," says Matt in a friendly and non-grandstandy sort of way. The chips are duly passed.

How about Jason Hackett from the recent London EPT.

He must get confused for the moon when it gets dark. Head and shoulders above Tyler, surely?

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1689&g2_serialNumber=1)

Vanessa (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=886) Rousso (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=886) is OUT. The WCOOP ME 3rd place finisher had top pair and a flush draw against bottom set but missed.

Here's a pre-exit table photo.

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1848&g2_serialNumber=1)

Sometimes, I think titles can be lost in translation, I have no idea what these two stand for...

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1875&g2_serialNumber=1)

Not a face known to many in Europe, but this is Bill (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1016) Edler (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1016), an American pro who has been knocking around for years but is in the purplest of purply patches. He won the $5k 6-handed event at the WSOP this year, took down a $10k buy-in heads up comp defeating Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=478) Greenstein (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=478) and recently won a WPT title. So a good year then.

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1877&g2_serialNumber=1)

By the way dear Guests, you might like to sign up to Blonde while you're passing through. It's quick, free and easy, and the benefits are simply innumerable.

Im not having that Snoops, click the link mate ... his head aint as round as Matts.

Mr Richard Ashby, he of the fashionable lateness, is currently sharing a table with the also fashionable Marcel Luske, and taking his fashionable chips off of him too.

On a board of 4h 3d 6h 2d Kc with an absolute bunch (the technical term) of chips already in the pot, Ashby bets 2500 and Luske folds, giving up the big ol' (also a technical term) pot to Ashby.

Sitting at their table is also an as yet unidentified but amusingly accented Mateyboy, who earlier in the day wandered into the press room shouting for Rosie, only to be met with some blank, buffet-glazed stares. Sure enough, as I approached the table, he looked up hopefully. "Rosie?" Nope, sorry. I almost feel bad. I might go back and pretend to be Rosie. Or send Floppy up there.

The table of Barcelona winner Sander Lyloff looks tough. As well as Marcel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=642) Luske (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=642) and Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=367) Ashby (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=367) being on this table, the EPT champ also has to contend with Phillip 'Clap Yours Hands Say' Yeh

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1879&g2_serialNumber=1)

And here is Jeff (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=594) Lisandro (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=594), obviously he has a kids' party to do afterwards.

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1881&g2_serialNumber=1)

thats a good shout, but i feel he lacks the symmetrical spherical dimensions of Tyler



Blimey ... who has hacked my account, there are a couple of good words in that sentence ;)

The full list of runners, thanks to Mad and Pokerstars.

Grigore Dan   Adamescu
Andre   Akkari
Anton   Allemann
Juan   Alvarado
Ali Asghar   Amirfatahi
Mads   Andersen
Christopher   Andler
Patrik   Antonius
Donny   Ariel
Christian   Aris
Richard   Ashby
Marcel   Baran
Mark   Bartlog
Marko   Batanjac
Jan   Bendik
Thomas   Bentham
Christophe   Benzimra
Ezana   Bernth
Steve   Billirakis
Robert   Binelli
Balazs Gergely   Biri
Andrew Fitzgerald   Black
Christopher   Black
Christiano   Blanco
Pavel   Blatny
Barnaby   Boatman
Noah Pierre   Boeken
Lars   Bonding
Ricardo Oscar   Braga Pinto De Sousa
Michael   Brandau
Chad   Brown
Michiel   Brummelhuis
Chris   Bush
Harald   Casagrande
Paul   Christoffersson
David   Colclough
Ugur   Coskun
Michael   Csango
Daniele   Cuomo
Krzysztof   Czerwinski
Mark   Dalimore
David   Daneshgar
Alioto   Dario
Eldos   Davlet
Roland   De Wolfe
Christophe   Defforey
Sandor   Demjan
Christian   Deuss
Carlo   Di Renzo
Thomas   Dolezal
Ivo   Donev
Denis   Drogaykin
Joep   Durkstra
Michael   Durrer
Bill   Edler
Sam   El Sayed
Morten   Erlandsen
Victor   Escudero Mellado
Hans Vimmo   Eskilsson
Ilhan   Eyikat
Alexander   Fadeykin
Bonyadi   Farzad
Youssef   Fawaz
Johann   Fest
Giuseppe   Festa
Peter Graven   Fischer
Andreas   Fluri
Thomas   Fougeron
Baroukh   Fowzi
Hugo   Franca
Hector   Fuentes
Thomas   Fuller
Peter   Gelencser
Gianni   Giaroni
Jeffrey   Glaser
Michael   Gloning
Victor   Goossens
Joshua James   Gould
Peter Edward   Gould
Barry   Greenstein
Bertrand   Grospellier
Andreas   Hagen
Manfred   Hammer
Casper Dahl   Hansen
Christoffer Egemo   Hansen
Dennis Naci   Hansen
Thor   Hansen
Tommy Ernst   Hansen
Klaus   Haunschmidt
Olvedo Vincent   Heinze
Juha   Helppi
Yakov Zvi   Hirsch
Andreas   Hoeivold
Christian   Hohendorf
Robertus Hendrikus Bernardus   Hollink
Uffe   Holm
Soraya   Homam
Marcin Krzysztof   Horecki
Roland   Huerbin
Mats Erik   Iremark
Martin   Jaeger
Joris Bernard Antoine   Jaspers
Stefan   Jedlicka
Nikolaus   Jedlicka
Ramzi   Jelassi
Johnny Groenne   Jensen
Theo   Joergensen
Mikael   Johansson
Benjamin Charles   Johnson
Janne Wilhelm   Juutilainen
Jean Michel   Kabbaj
Henri   Kaesper
Denes Tamas   Kalo
P.   K.
Matthew Jonathan   Kay
Michael   Keiner
Hevad   Khan
Cort   Kibler Melby
Josef   Klinger
Horst   Koch
Josef   Kollarits
Erich   Kollmann
Gabor   Kovacs
Adrian   Koy
Heimo   Krainer
Andreas   Krause
Alexander   Kravchenko
Csaba   Kuremszki
Michael   Kwiek
Alexander   Lakhov
Thomas   Lamatsch
Florian   Langmann
Eric Pierre Francois   Larcheveque
Mikkel Aakjar   Lassen
Edward   Lawson
Markus   Lehmann
Mikko Oskari   Lehtonen
Ang Pang   Leng
Nicolas   Levi
Adam   Levy
Jeffrey Dominic   Lisandro
Daniel   Lococo
Werner   Lorenzoni
Nikolay   Losev
Marcel   Luske
Sander   Lylloff
Daniel   Makowsky
Magnus   Mamsen
Andrea   Manganelli
Daniel   Mangas
Michael   Martin
Petr   Masojidek
Rino   Mathis
Zsolt Peter   Mayer
Acar   Mazlum
Riccardo   Mazzitelli
Michael Ian   Mcdonald
Nenad   Medic
Raul   Mestre Lleida
Jeppe   Mikkelsen
Dario   Minieri
Sorel Jay   Mizzi
Gyoergy   Moger
Jonas Petter   Molander
Rene   Mouritsen
Simon   Munoz
Marcus   Naalden
Ketul   Nathwani
Matthias   Neu
Thang   Nguyen
Soren   Nielsen
Istvan Zsolt   Novak
Alexander   Novikov
Annette   Obrestad
Jonas Erik Svante   Oedman
Jimmy   Oestensson
Mario   Oliva
Herbert   Otto
Richard   Otto
Mika Petri Sakari   Paasonen
Luca   Pagano
Seppo   Parkkinen
Manutscher   Parsian
Dan Bitsch   Pedersen
Diego   Perez Marco
Pascal Jean Didier   Perrault
Magnus   Persson
Mark Secher   Petersen
Jeffrey John   Petronack
Thanh   Pham
Dean   Plumley
Harald   Poeschl
Vladimir   Poleshchuk
Sorin   Posa
Mika Petteri   Puro
Gunnar   Rabe
Antoine   Rahal
Kalil   Rahal
Martin   Rask
Andreas   Rathje
Raoul Gilmar   Refos
Tobias   Reinkemeier
Voitto Aulis   Rintala
Johannes Marinus   Ritburg
Sebastian   Riviere
Vanessa   Rousso
Daan   Ruiter
Pier Paolo   Ruscalla
Sebastian   Ruthenberg
Jari   Salonen
Raymi   Sanchez Thoern
Szabolcs Attila   Saskoey
Pier Luigi   Scatola
Adriaan   Schaap
Mark Raymond   Segal
Dao   Selin
Patrik   Selin
Luis David   Sevilla Petit
Vlado   Sevo
Aurangzeb   Sheikh
John   Shipley
Wolfgang   Simperl
Jan Olav   Sjaavik
Eva Marianne Ulrika   Skoennemark
Damir   Skundric
Daniel Sascha   Smidt
Justin Charles   Smith
Alan Peter   Smurfit
Jani Tapani   Sointula
James   Solomon
David   Sonelin
Robert Christoffer Marcus   Sonesson
Jan   Sorensen
Olaf   Sperlich
Age   Spets
Christina   Stadel
Johannes      Steindl
Daniel   Stern
Matthias   Stieger
Danny   Stiegler
Armin   Stocker
Siegfried   Stockinger
Dieter   Stollenwerk
Michael   Stryhn
Daniel Otto   Studer
Surinder Pal Singh   Sunar
Katja Sophie Spillum   Svendsen
Matteo   Taddia
Daniel   Tarnopol
Paul   Testud
Katja   Thater
Julian   Thew
Harald Franz   Thomaser
Miguel   Tier
Christian Dan   Toboc
Stig   Top Rasmussen
Richard   Toth
Konstantinos   Tsirakidis
Matthew   Tyler
Giannis   Typoas
Jiri   Vacek
Martin   Vallo
Thierry   Van Den Berg
Jorryt   Van Hoof
Johan   Van Til
Ram   Vaswani
Lex   Veldhuis
Roy   Von Der Locht
Jan Christoph   Von Halle
Mark Christopher   Vos
Thomas Arne Johannes   Wahlroos
Martin   Wendt
Marco   Witt
Philip Chen Yun   Yeh
Roman   Yitzhaki
Jukka Tapio   Ylitalo
Andrey   Zaichenko
Jacques   Zaicik
Lu Zhe   Zhang
Rein Roelof   Zijda
Dalibor Oliver   Zjacic

Or done by table number if you prefer.

Jonas Erik Svante   Oedman    1   1
Mikkel Aakjar   Lassen    1   2
Nicolas   Levi    1   3
Paul   Testud    1   4
Noah Pierre   Boeken    1   5
Giannis   Typoas    1   6
Katja   Thater    1   7
Stig   Top Rasmussen    1   8
Andre   Akkari    1   9
Giuseppe   Festa    2   1
Csaba   Kuremszki    2   2
Roman   Yitzhaki    2   3
Michael   Keiner    2   4
Peter Graven   Fischer    2   5
Baroukh   Fowzi    2   6
Uffe   Holm    2   7
Casper Dahl   Hansen    2   8
Gunnar   Rabe    2   9
P.   K.   3   1
Magnus   Persson    3   2
Robert Christoffer Marcus   Sonesson    3   3
Ali Asghar   Amirfatahi    3   4
Andreas   Rathje    3   5
Diego   Perez Marco    3   6
Chad   Brown    3   7
Jeffrey   Glaser    3   8
Vlado   Sevo    3   9
Balazs Gergely   Biri    4   1
Annette   Obrestad    4   2
Tommy Ernst   Hansen    4   3
Mats Erik   Iremark    4   4
Sam   El Sayed    4   5
Alexander   Lakhov    4   6
Petr   Masojidek    4   7
Raul   Mestre Lleida    4   8
Aurangzeb   Sheikh    4   9
Zsolt Peter   Mayer    5   1
Michael   Brandau    5   2
Ivo   Donev    5   3
Dan Bitsch   Pedersen    5   4
Klaus   Haunschmidt    5   5
Adrian   Koy    5   6
Roy   Von Der Locht    5   7
Robertus Hendrikus Bernardus   Hollink    5   8
Andreas   Krause    5   9
Dennis Naci   Hansen    6   1
Michael   Kwiek    6   2
Marcin Krzysztof   Horecki    6   3
Morten   Erlandsen    6   4
Surinder Pal Singh   Sunar    6   5
Christian Dan   Toboc    6   6
Donny   Ariel    6   7
Janne Wilhelm   Juutilainen    6   8
Soraya   Homam    6   9
Andrew Fitzgerald   Black    7   1
Martin   Vallo    7   2
Johnny Groenne   Jensen    7   3
Ezana   Bernth    7   4
Hugo   Franca    7   5
Thomas Arne Johannes   Wahlroos    7   6
Jimmy   Oestensson    7   7
Thor   Hansen    7   8
Thomas   Fougeron    7   9
Thomas   Fuller    8   1
Jan   Bendik    8   2
Mads   Andersen    8   3
Martin   Jaeger    8   4
Cort   Kibler Melby    8   5
Mikael   Johansson    8   6
Carlo   Di Renzo    8   7
Paul   Christoffersson    8   8
Seppo   Parkkinen    8   9
Simon   Munoz    9   1
Daniel   Stern    9   2
Krzysztof   Czerwinski    9   3
Denes Tamas   Kalo    9   4
Christoffer Egemo   Hansen    9   5
Pier Luigi   Scatola    9   6
Ketul   Nathwani    9   7
Johan   Van Til    9   8
Mark   Bartlog    9   9
Richard   Toth    10   1
Sebastian   Ruthenberg    10   2
Michael Ian   Mcdonald    10   3
Chris   Bush    10   4
Mark Raymond   Segal    10   5
Harald   Poeschl    10   6
Voitto Aulis   Rintala    10   7
Magnus   Mamsen    10   8
Michael   Martin    10   9
Peter   Gelencser    11   1
Ricardo Oscar   Braga Pinto De Sousa    11   2
Sebastian   Riviere   11   3
Christian   Hohendorf    11   4
Jean Michel   Kabbaj    11   5
Nikolaus   Jedlicka    11   6
Jeffrey John   Petronack    11   7
Christophe   Benzimra    11   8
Jorryt   Van Hoof    11   9
Jari   Salonen    12   1
Istvan Zsolt   Novak    12   2
Robert   Binelli    12   3
Jani Tapani   Sointula    12   4
Daniel Otto   Studer    12   5
Peter Edward   Gould    12   6
Szabolcs Attila   Saskoey    12   7
Olaf   Sperlich    12   8
Manutscher   Parsian   12   9
Katja Sophie Spillum   Svendsen    14   1
Raymi   Sanchez Thoern   14   2
Miguel   Tier    14   3
Armin   Stocker    14   4
Hector   Fuentes    14   5
Stefan   Jedlicka    14   6
Harald Franz   Thomaser    14   7
Jan Olav   Sjaavik    14   8
Martin   Rask    14   9
Daniel   Makowsky    15   1
Christopher   Black    15   2
Marcel   Baran    15   3
Marcus   Naalden    15   4
Riccardo   Mazzitelli    15   5
Rein Roelof   Zijda    15   6
Youssef   Fawaz    15   7
Wolfgang   Simperl    15   8
Joep   Durkstra    15   9
Matteo   Taddia    16   1
Ram   Vaswani   16   2
Nikolay   Losev    16   3
Sorin   Posa    16   4
Daniel   Mangas    16   5
Jeffrey Dominic   Lisandro    16   6
Jeppe   Mikkelsen    16   7
Pascal Jean Didier   Perrault    16   8
Justin Charles   Smith    16   9
Benjamin Charles   Johnson    17   1
Mark Christopher   Vos   17   2
Christina   Stadel    17   3
Theo   Joergensen    17   4
Hans Vimmo   Eskilsson    17   5
Dao   Selin    17   6
Raoul Gilmar   Refos    17   7
Matthias   Neu    17   8
Daniel   Tarnopol    17   9
Mark   Dalimore    18   1
Dean   Plumley    18   2
Josef   Klinger    18   3
Vladimir   Poleshchuk    18   4
Victor   Escudero Mellado    18   5
Thierry   Van Den Berg    18   6
Roland   De Wolfe   18   7
Thanh   Pham    18   8
Jan Christoph   Von Halle    18   9
Julian   Thew    19   1
Nenad   Medic   19   2
Christophe   Defforey    19   3
Alexander   Fadeykin    19   4
Barry   Greenstein    19   5
Alioto   Dario    19   6
Jukka Tapio   Ylitalo    19   7
Richard   Otto    19   8
Vanessa   Rousso    19   9
Michiel   Brummelhuis    20   1
Mario   Oliva    20   2
Sorel Jay   Mizzi    20   3
Marko   Batanjac    20   4
Gyoergy   Moger    20   5
Hevad   Khan    20   6
Michael   Durrer    20   7
Josef   Kollarits    20   8
Victor   Goossens    20   9
Alexander   Kravchenko    21   1
Konstantinos   Tsirakidis    21   2
Mark Secher   Petersen    21   3
Lars   Bonding    21   4
Florian   Langmann    21   5
Yakov Zvi   Hirsch    21   6
Martin   Wendt    21   7
Bertrand   Grospellier    21   8
Pier Paolo   Ruscalla    21   9
Patrik   Selin    22   1
Matthias   Stieger    22   3
Ugur   Coskun   22   4
Philip Chen Yun   Yeh    22   5
Richard   Ashby   22   6
Dalibor Oliver   Zjacic    22   7
Alan Peter   Smurfit    22   8
Marcel   Luske    22   9
Christian   Deuss    23   1
Dieter   Stollenwerk    23   2
Andrey   Zaichenko    23   3
Jiri   Vacek    23   4
Andrea   Manganelli    23   5
James   Solomon    23   6
Rino   Mathis    23   7
Patrik   Antonius    23   8
Siegfried   Stockinger    23   9
Bill   Edler    24   1
Jan   Sorensen    24   2
Age   Spets    24   3
Tobias   Reinkemeier    24   4
Harald   Casagrande    24   5
Andreas   Hagen    24   6
David   Sonelin    24   7
Ang Pang   Leng    24   8
Gianni   Giaroni    24   9
Daan   Ruiter    25   1
Joshua James   Gould    25   3
Erich   Kollmann    25   4
Marco   Witt    25   5
Mika Petteri   Puro    25   6
Adriaan   Schaap    25   7
Michael   Csango    25   8
Rene   Mouritsen    25   9
Thomas   Lamatsch    26   1
Pavel   Blatny    26   2
Dario   Minieri    26   3
Eric Pierre Francois   Larcheveque    26   4
Steve   Billirakis    26   5
Luis David   Sevilla Petit    26   6
Soren   Nielsen    26   7
Christopher   Andler    26   8
Antoine   Rahal    26   9
Acar   Mazlum    27   1
Matthew   Tyler    27   2
Lex   Veldhuis    27   4
David   Daneshgar    27   5
Alexander   Novikov    27   6
Daniele   Cuomo    27   7
Herbert   Otto    27   8
Barnaby   Boatman    27   9
Horst   Koch    28   1
David   Colclough    28   2
Gabor   Kovacs    28   3
Michael   Gloning    28   4
Mikko Oskari   Lehtonen    28   5
Daniel Sascha   Smidt    28   6
Anton   Allemann    28   7
Jacques   Zaicik    28   8
Edward   Lawson    28   9
Olvedo Vincent   Heinze    29   1
Johannes Marinus   Ritburg    29   2
Bonyadi   Farzad    29   3
Denis   Drogaykin    29   4
Sandor   Demjan    29   5
Andreas   Fluri    29   6
Matthew Jonathan   Kay    29   7
Henri   Kaesper    29   9
Eva Marianne Ulrika   Skoennemark    30   1
Heimo   Krainer    30   2
Mika Petri Sakari   Paasonen    30   3
Andreas   Hoeivold    30   4
Daniel   Lococo    30   5
Johannes      Steindl   30   7
Manfred   Hammer    30   8
Damir   Skundric    30   9
Adam   Levy    31   1
Juan   Alvarado    31   2
Werner   Lorenzoni    31   3
Christian   Aris    31   4
Grigore Dan   Adamescu    31   6
Michael   Stryhn    31   7
Johann   Fest    31   8
Ilhan   Eyikat    31   9
Jonas Petter   Molander    32   1
Christiano   Blanco    32   3
Eldos   Davlet    32   4
Luca   Pagano    32   5
Thang   Nguyen    32   6
Thomas   Bentham    32   7
Ramzi   Jelassi   32   8
Danny   Stiegler    32   9
Kalil   Rahal    33   1
Lu Zhe   Zhang   33   2
Joris Bernard Antoine   Jaspers    33   3
Thomas   Dolezal    33   4
Sander   Lylloff    33   5
Juha   Helppi    33   6
Markus   Lehmann    33   7
John   Shipley    33   8
Roland   Huerbin    33   9

my favorite site for tourney coverage! You Blondes do such an awesome job!

Would you be so kind to keep an eye out for Daniel Stern, Mike McDonald  and Sorel Mizzi please?

Thanks so much! 

We are currently on a short ten minute break and the blinds will be be 75/150 and then we'll be on it.

In fact, I have the remnants of a Dani Stern hand from just before the break. It looked to be blind on blind but I'm not sure what the betting was preflop or post flop, but I saw him check the river of a Qh Kh 3c 6s 5h board and saw the scrabbletastically named Krzysztof Czerwinski make an almost pot-sized bet of 3.6k through shaking hands. Stern ended up passing what would've cost pratically all his stack, so I think he roughly had about 4k left.

Chip updates - Chris Bush -- 8k and change
Michael Martin -- 4.25k
Julian Thew -- 5k
Matt Tyler -- 13k - "It's an easy table. Me and Barny are having a bit of a craic. The rest of them are miserable bastards. Quote me on that."
Barry Greenstein -- 20k+ big stack

258 players remain. I believe Vanessa Rousso is among the no-longer-playing contingent.

Here are some nice photos of Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=367) Ashby (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=367), Marcel (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=642) Luske (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=642) and a dealer's arm, Barry (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=478) Greenstein (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=478), the lovely Katja (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=624) Thater (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=624), our friend the Cat Lady's male counterpart Voitto Rintala, and Nicolas Levi's impressive sausage ("You're not the first person to ask to take a photo of my sausage"). As you can see I am using precious camera space constructively.

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Sorrel Mizzi is OUT.

He was all-in on a Ts 7s 5s board but was likely to be to be drawing very thin against Michael Durrer's Aspades Qs. Mizzi simply mucked as the turn and river came Ad and Qd. Hevad 'Rain' Khan told me he thought Mizzi probably had Jacks as he would've have flipped a set over as he still had outs.

Here is the Canadian about 2 minutes pre knockout.

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Elsewhere Dani Stern almost had a double through but missed his freeroll with Aspades Qs vs the Ahrt Qd of Mark Bartlog on a Qh Ts 6s 6d board when the river came an anti-climatic Ad.

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Mike McDonald just knocked Richard Toth with Ace King against Ace Queen.

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It's funny but all these things actually happened as I go to their respective tables. I'm like a lightning rod for action I guess. ::)

Travis Bickle Ramzi Jelassi raises to 400 and gets 3 callers, including big blind Dave Colclough. The 9c 7c Qs flop is checked all the way around, before Ramzi takes a 1.1k stab on the 2s turn to take the pot down and shows the drawtastic 8s 6s.

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They all look so darn young..

Thomas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=877) Wahlroos (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=877) is doing well on about 20k.
Also I found Ramzi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=714) Jelassi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=714), doing a little less well on about 5k.
Also on about 5k is Jeff (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=594) Lisandro (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=594).

Meanwhile no change for Michael (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=937) Martin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=937) and Chris Bush, sitting on 4k and 8k respectively.

Richard (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=367) Ashby (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=367) has lost a pretty big pot against Mateyboy's pocket jacks on a 4c 3h 7d 5c 4s board, but is still doing fine on about 12k.

Across the room, Katja (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=624) Thater (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=624) is not happy after her raise to 600 preflop was met with a reraise to 2200 by a gent two seats to her left and she folded.

Can you keep a look out for Dean Plumley? He qualified to play through my site so will be attired accordingly (well, he'd better be lol!).

You updating is keeping me awake through some nice delays in an airport.  Isn't wifi great?  And wonderful pictures, especially Lisandro and Marcel Luske... I will be refreshing when I hit the ground in the UK too.  Gl to Ramzi and Sebastian, Roland dW and Spherical Matt, among others. 

Dana, I told you the buffet was generously proportioned, did I not?  Enjoy something covered in whipped cream for me. 

Thomas 'the Eggman' Wahlroos chip height of 20k can pretty much be explained by one hand. He had Aces, found a caller with Ace Seven. The flop was A-7-x. You do the math(s). (The 's' is optional depending on you being in Europe or the states).

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Johann Storakers was given a full double up by Christophe Defforey, the former pushing for his last 7,275 into a 10k pot on a 5s 3s Tc 6c board with Kc Kh and getting called by an unlikely Qc Ts sending the Scandie up to around 25k. Thewy, on the same table managed to double with Queens against Kings.

Glittering Cash Prizes (in Euros):

1   670,800
2   375,000
3   225,000
4   160,820
5   132,900
6   105,000
7   83,600
8   60,000
9   38,600
10   38,600
11   30,000
12   30,000
13   25,700
14   25,700
15   19,300
16   19,300
17   12,860
18   12,860
19   12,860
20   12,860
21   12,860
22   12,860
23   12,860
24   12,860

gobboboy here filling in for gobbomom.  Ansky/Dani Stern is out.  Guy shoves unimproved AK on 972 board with no flush draw against Dani's QQ, he snapcalls the shove and guy sucks out.

Tales of the shortstacks now...

Andy Black is on about 4.5k, and was attempting to get members of the press to bring him food. He was failing.

Roland De Wolfe meanwhile is sitting on a 2k microstack, periodically looking around the room like he wants to leave already.

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Americanwatch now.

Michael (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=937) Martin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=937) has doubled up off of Chris Bush with Q-J on an x-x-J-J-x board - he's now on around 8k, while Chris is down to about 6k. Here they are, Michael looking very attractive indeed now that he has chips, and Chris looking longingly at his neighbour's stack.

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The big stack on their table is Voitto Rintala, with about 25k. He knows how to stare an opponent down.

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Found Mark Vos chatting to Roman Yitzhaki on the stairs. I asked if he was out, but he is apparently not. Still on about 4.5k, he is demoralised owing to a gent on his table who may or may not be Theo Jorgensen continually outplaying him, and doesn't want to play any more. "I'm putting out a hit on him," says Mark.

Roman however is cheerful on about 15k. I tell him that someone on here has being enquiring after his progress. Says Mark, "It's a hot chick." I say, it could be, I really don't know. Wide-eyed, Roman says, "Seriously??" So Mr or Ms TheReader, if you are indeed a hot chick, you may be in with a chance...

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Yes yes, the wonders of wifi never cease to amaze! Happy flying to you, I'll see you in a week or so, unless I'm too fat to get on the plane on the way back. Did I mention that sandwiches have also appeared in the press room? I'm going to die of happiness.

Owner of the largest comic book collection in Norway, Mr Andreas Hoivold, currently on around 12k.

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Matt, is this your guy? If so, he's on around 8k at the moment.

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Ram and Dave, the former with a dispassionate look on his face despite just taking down a 6k pot with a 3k bet on the river of a 8h Jh 5d 4d Th board

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Last years highest placed Brit here was Peter Gould, but he was just forced to pass to Catlady's bet on the river here.

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Patrik Antonius just added another 10k or so to his stack. Sometimes it can be easier to read from the rail whether someone is weak or strong but with Antonius, I don't think anyone knows when he's strong or not. After an midposition limper Antonius for 200 tried to raise to to 1,200 but it was counted as a string-raise and he could only make it 400. After a few minutes discussion with the TD and the big blind coming out in support of Antonius saying he'd been able to get away with the same thing earlier on a different table.

Anyway, the big blind and limper both called the raise.

Flop:

8s Qd Aspades

BB checks, limper bets 1,200, Antonius calls and the BB folds.

Turn:

Kh

Limper checks, Antonius bets 2,600 and the limper calls.

River:

Jh

Limper checks, Antonius bets 7,600, the limper calls quickly. Antonius quietly says, "Straight," flipping over Ahrt Tc to take a 22k pot.

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), Annette (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=902) Obrestad (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=902) and John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=215) Kabbaj (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=215) are all OUT. (The last of these running into Aces two hands in a row). Also MIA is Dani Stern who is no longer in his seat.

Ahh, thankyou sir.

any chance you could look out for the goulds please?

ANY CHANCE OF A CHIPCOUNT FOR THEWY AND SPHERICAL HEAD TYLER

Our own Roundhead Matt Tyler has dropped down to about 8.5k. He twice found Queens and reraised preflop, both times for the flop to come A-K-x. Ouch.

As Good As Out is Roland De Wolfe. He had one chip left last I saw. And not even a good chip, it was one of the crappy 100s. Here he is. With his chip. Sitting in his chair. And then looking just crazy. I guess he might still be in. It's possible...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1934&g2_serialNumber=2)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1937&g2_serialNumber=2)

THNX

I guess they're back from their 10 minute break now, so blinds are 150/300, with 209 players left in. We'll be playing two more levels tonight.

Last hand before the break, Ramzi Jelassi got involved with a Mateyboy on a Qd 6d  Ahrt flop - Matey bet 500, and Ramzi called.

The turn came the 6c - Matey bet 700, and Ramzi called, looking for a split second just a little bit hesitant, like he might fold or raise instead. But he called.

River - Ks - and Ramzi bet 1500. "Ohhh noooo," says Matey, whose accent I like very much. "He has a seeex!" And Matey folds.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1943&g2_serialNumber=1)

And here is another photo of Ram Vaswani and Dave Colclough, for no reason other than that I like the photo. Enjoy.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1941&g2_serialNumber=1)

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any chance you can get the chipcounts of both the goulds?

Peter Gould is on 17k, Josh Gould's table has broken but I couldn't find him and Gould Sr didn't know either, but he did say Josh had 16k last time they spoke.

TY

187 players remain, we're almost onto what we're being told is the last level of the day, (150/300/25). Thomas Walhroos is over 35k now.

He made it 800 to go in early position, a gentleman to his left called leaving just 1400(!) behind, the big blind also called.

Flop:

3s 9d 6h

BB checks, Wahlroos checks, shorty moves in. BB folds, Wahlroos shrugs and throws in the 1,400 like the small change it is and flips over his Ad Qd. Shorty shows Kc Ks.

Turn:

3d

"Ooooh, now you're in trouble," exclaims the Eggman.

River:

Aspades

"With my luck, I was a favourite on the turn," he tells Thor Hansen before adding, once the departee had er..departed. "He played it so badly he deserved to lose."

It's People I Don't Know Who They Are time now.

Ram Vaswani raises to 800, but folds when this be-ponytailed gent makes it 2500 from the button. Can anyone shed any light on his identity?

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1945&g2_serialNumber=1)

Also this guy below called Barry Greenstein's chunky bet on a Qs Jd 4s flop. The turn came 3h and Barry bet 2k; the Mateyboy below made it 4.5k and Barry folded. Prize for anyone who knows who it is! (Prize may or may not actually exist.)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1947&g2_serialNumber=1)

Patrik Antonius won an enormous pot against the below Paradise Poker be-shirted gentleman. Not sure exactly how quite so many chips made their way into the pot, as he had Queen-high to Patrik's pair of Aces. I think he may have had an Accident.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1949&g2_serialNumber=1)

On Table Wahlroos, Mr Wahlroos made a raise only for the owner of the incredible jacket below (doesn't it look like some kind of scarlet letter equivalent, like he has to wear it for crimes in his country?) to reraise. "Is so bad, this hand," says Wahlroos, folding  Ahrt Jh face up.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1951&g2_serialNumber=1)

Julian Thew is up to 24k after his pocket Queens hit a Q-9-2 flop hard and and someone loved their inferior Q-J a little too much. "I played complete rubbish in the first level," says Julian. He has now yo-yo-ed himself into serious contention.

This is a Spanish player called Daniel Mangas.

Random Chipcounts -

Sebastian Riviere -- 15k
Michael Martin -- back down to 4k
Marcel Luske -- about 5k - I saw him min-raise from early position, and fold extremely unhappily when the small blind, an Asian gent with a little jade Buddha sitting on his cards, reraised.

Here is Mr Luske, who is now sad.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1953&g2_serialNumber=1)

Thanks!

Here is Mr Wahlroos shortly after folding that A-J, and Mr Gambler (almost out of shot) gesticulating about it.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1955&g2_serialNumber=1)

Cheers mate. Judging by the photo on his license, that's the chap. Pah, he hasn't worn the shirt I specially courried out to him before the event :(

Marcel Luske is OUT. UTG limped for 300, as did the Cut-Off, the button then made a rather large 3,600. Marcel pushed from the big blind for a total of 4,925, put on his iPod and began singing. As you do. The limpers got out of the way and the button called with his Ahrt Kc, up against Marcel's Jacks.

Board:

9s 4s 7c Qh Ks

There is precisely one less singing Dutchman in the Casino now, making a grand total of 0 singing Dutchmen.

Also out are Martin Wendt (who Wendt and gone ;hide;), Jonas Molander, Juha Helppi and Travis Bickle/Ramzi Jelassi. The final words of the last of these were allegedly, "Are those chips coming to me? Are those chips coming to ME? Well I don't see anyone else in the pot, are those chips coming to me?......Oh you have the best hand, I guess not."

uh-oh...

Floppy the grass  /:-| What a snitch!

Surinder Sunar has just used one of these cards.

(http://www.aim.org/images/get_out_of_jail.gif)

He pushed all-in over the top of a 1k button raise for around 4k total, his opponent dwelled and Surinder called the clock before his opponent made the call for half his stack with Aspades Jc. A good call considering Surinder was only able to show Ad 9h.

Board:

Qh 7d 5c 5d 5h

;kc;

Surinder still on around 4.5k, here pictured sitting between Morten Erlandsen (aka Pokergirl) and Cristiano Blanco (EPT Dortmund runner-up).

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1963&g2_serialNumber=1)

Meanwhile, in the category "EPT Champions who are close to the Chip Lead", you could fit EPT Barcelona winner, Sander Lyloff who has around 45k.

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1961&g2_serialNumber=1)

What are the chances of getting a photo of what is surely one of the biggest names to ever enter an EPT...

Eva Marianne Ulrika Skoennemark?

Mr Gambler Jacket Man avoided some kind of disaster maybe with his Qh Jh against pocket Queens when both players rivered their straight on a Th 9s Js 6d Ks board, with a whole pile of betting all the way down. He now seems to be quite a big stack. Staying on Table Gamblor, Mr Thomas Wahlroos also seems to be a big stack, on around 40k.

Other rough chip counts (the smaller the stack, the greater the accuracy) include

Patrik Antonius -- 35k+
Barry Greenstein -- 40k
Sebastian Riviere -- 35k
Aurangzeb Sheikh -- 4k
Dave Colclough -- 16k, ipod firmly ON
Matt Tyler -- 11k and making faces. He is now sharing a table with Patrik Antonius, but has promised to buy me a drink when play finishes for the day, so a completely unbiased Yay Matt! Ahem.

Is she the blonde lady? Or is she Cat Lady on her day off? Either way she sounds awesome. We'll do our best...

Contrary to what was previously reported, there remains exactly one singing Dutchman in the building. Marcel Luske is enjoying the massive cash game action that has taken over the greater part of the Festsaal since they started breaking tables. Also spotted trying to make their buy-in back are Jeff Lisandro, Jan Sointula, my friend Rosie Man, and about 200 others.

Couldn't see Attractive American Michael Martin on my rounds, so let's assume for the moment that he's OUT.

By the way I'm not allowing any part of that in Scrabble. Just so's we're clear on that.

Dana --

Right you are.  Not only did his Queens run into aces but they ran into two sets of aces in the same hand....QQ vs AA vs AA.  But, he's still attractive. 

TR23

Roman Yitzhaki will be heartbroken.   :'(

Yes he's out. He was standing by Roman Yitzhaki delivering encouragement to his friend. In the form of rap.

I kid you not.

I think this is the non-Scrabble-compliant Eva Skoennemark. I hope it is, anyway.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1965&g2_serialNumber=1)

Random assortment of chip counts taken about 10 minutes before the end.

Aurangzeb Sheikh -- 4.6k
Bill (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1016) Edler (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1016) -- 17.3k
John (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=217) Shipley (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=217) -- 17.4k
Luca (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=995) Pagano (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=995) -- 25.7k
Sander Lyloff -- 54k
Phillip Yeh -- 17.1k
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) -- 6.5k
Noah (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=677) Boeken (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=677) -- 3.4k
Nicolas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=675) Levi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=675) -- OUT (Kings into Aces then his last 225 with Qd 4d against Aspades Qc)
Dean Plumely -- 8.2k
Dario (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=517) Minieri (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=517) -- 9.5k
Patrik (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=692) Antonius (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=692) -- 27k
Matt (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=274) Tyler (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=274) -- 9k

Full chip counts et al to come later when we get them and the lengthy bag and tag process is complete.

Dana has a few more photos to go up. 

Remember play restarts tomorrow at 2pm or 1pm GMT.

Sitting next to Possibly Ms Skoennemark is Mark (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=651) Vos (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=651), who must have escaped Theo (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=758) Jorgensen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=758) as he's up to 35k - he was on 4k last time I saw him.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1967&g2_serialNumber=1)

Also here is a nice shot of Table Antonius-Tyler (note how the Tyler head does not appear perfectly spherical from this angle).

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1969&g2_serialNumber=1)

And one of Katja (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=624) Thater (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=624) for no reason other than that she's still in.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1971&g2_serialNumber=1)

Oh, that means we're done! Yay! Apparently we're playing down to 40 tomorrow, from 2pm (1pm your time, UK people).

I get to stick forks in things now. Like I haven't been doing that all day. Mmm.

 ;stickaforkinme;

Chip counts:

Sander   Lylloff   66150
Gyoergy   Moger   46775
Manfred   Hammer   43825
Thierry   Van Den Berg   42100
Markus   Lehmann   40100
Raul   Mestre Lleida   39700
Michael   Durrer   39700
Victor   Escudero Mellado   39325
Christophe   Defforey   39300
Thomas   Wahlroos   38150
Sebastian   Riviere   35575
Mark   Vos   32875
Mark Secher   Petersen   32675
Voitto Aulis   Rintala   32625
Daniele   Cuomo   32050
Andreas   Fluri   31275
Luis David   Sevilla Petit   31075
Tobias   Reinkemeier   30750
Dan Bitsch   Pedersen   30650
Barry   Greenstein   30325
Patrik   Antonius   29925
Sigi   Stockinger   29675
Christian   Aris   28900
Florian   Langmann   28400
Dennis Naci   Hansen   27925
Andre   Akkari   27925
Roman   Yitzhaki   27900
Hevad   Khan   27825
Simon   Munoz   27350
Pascal   Perrault   27250
Balazs Gergely   Biri   27000
Julian   Thew   26525
Denes Tamas   Kalo   26475
Bonyadi   Farzad   26250
Robert   Binelli   26200
Magnus   Mamsen   25500
Sebastian   Ruthenberg   25300
Christophe   Benzimra   25075
Mads   Andersen   24650
Edward   Lawson   24625
Adam   Levy   24525
Harald   Poeschl   24500
Janne Wilhelm   Juutilainen   24050
Luca   Pagano   23725
Acar   Mazlum   23225
Johan   Van Til   23150
Joep   Durkstra   23075
Johnny Groenne   Jensen   23025
Andreas   Hoivold   22650
Ram   Vaswani   22175
Jan Olav   Sjaavik   22075
Armin   Stocker   22025
Klaus   Haunschmidt   21975
Johann   Fest   21875
Thang   Nguyen   21200
Martin   Rask   21025
Mikael   Johansson   20700
Mats Erik   Iremark   20700
Baroukh   Fowzi   19975
Paul   Testud   19925
David   Sonelin   19675
Rino   Mathis   19325
Philip Chen Yun   Yeh   18950
Hector   Fuentes   18700
Theo   Jorgensen   18525
Vlado   Sevo   18300
Richard   Ashby   17825
David   Daneshgar   17625
Matthias   Neu   17575
Katja   Thater   17525
John   Shipley   17350
Joshua James   Gould   17350
Andreas   Rathje   17250
Thor   Hansen   16800
Thomas   Fuller   16575
Eldos   Davlet   16500
Martin   Vallo   16300
Kalil   Rahal   16250
Alexander   Kravchenko   16175
Szabolcs Attila   Saskoey   16075
Victor   Goossens   15925
Hans Vimmo   Eskilsson   15625
Johan   Storakers   15150
Alan Peter   Smurfit   15025
Werner   Lorenzoni   14700
Giuseppe   Festa   14625
Vladimir   Poleshchuk   14575
Dave   Colclough   14550
Pier Paolo   Ruscalla   14475
Bill   Edler   14400
Adrian   Koy   14050
Roy   Von Der Locht   13850
Jeffrey   Glaser   13750
Anton   Allemann   13700
Krzysztof   Czerwinski   13675
Andreas   Krause   13575
Daniel   Mangas   13550
Magnus   Persson   13425
Marcus   Naalden   12600
Barny   Boatman   12575
Herbert   Otto   12300
Morten   Erlandsen   12125
Josef   Kollarits   11900
Raoul Gilmar   Refos   11825
Christian   Hohendorf   11625
Mark   Bartlog   11575
Thanh   Pham   11575
Dario   Minieri   11450
Rein Roelof   Zijda   10750
Dalibor Oliver   Zjacic   10475
Mika   Paasonen   10425
Gabor   Kovacs   10425
Matthew   Tyler   10125
Peter   Gould   10075
Jonas Erik Svante   Oedman   9200
Justin Charles   Smith   9200
Pavel   Blatny   9050
Jeppe   Mikkelsen   9025
Eva Marianne Ulrika   Skoennemark   9025
Ilhan   Eyikat   8975
Daniel   Tarnopol   8975
Istvan Zsolt   Novak   8950
Katja   Svendsen   8775
Marcin Krzysztof   Horecki   8750
Age   Spets   8700
Martin   Jaeger   8675
Dean   Plumley   8650
Surinder Pal Singh   Sunar   8575
Michael   Csango   8525
Heimo   Krainer   8450
Matteo   Taddia   8250
Ugur   Coskun   8025
Joris Bernard Antoine   Jaspers   7875
Paul   Christoffersson   7750
Yakov Zvi   Hirsch   7325
Mika   Puro   7125
Carlo   Di Renzo    6850
Hugo   Franca   6675
Gunnar   Rabe   6600
Adriaan   Schaap   6575
Mark Raymond   Segal   6475
Danny   Stiegler   6475
Benjamin Charles   Johnson   6200
Jan   Bendik   5275
Sorin   Posa   4875
Uffe   Holm   4750
Jiri   Vacek   4725
Zsolt Peter   Mayer   4675
Gianni   Giaroni   4650
Noah   Boeken   4575
Aurangzeb   Sheikh   4500
Mikkel Aakjar   Lassen   3925
Chris   Bush   3875
Soraya   Homam   3575
Christina   Stadel   3025
Manutscher   Parsian   2650

Lovely work Flops & Dana, keep those pics coming please, they are just terrific.

Good Luck to Thewy & Roundhead Tyler.

Fantabulamundo!

 rotflmfao  That goes for the whole lot of you scrabble sharks out there!

Great reporting Dana and Flop.  Have saved the pic of a smiling Marcel Luske to my computer.  There's just 'something' about that guy.