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The second day 1 and with all the Brits we've already mentioned, you can add Chris Moorman, Paul Jackson and Sunny Chattha to the mix, who will all be playing today. Literally, we'll shoot through the nine hours, which go very fast but leave no time for the bloggers to get food. Though to a certain extent I don't mind since, despite the hotel prices being relatively cheap, the food and drink are incredibly expensive) (Mad Harper was speechless when she asked for a bottle of wine which costs £40 here but would cost about £5 back in Spain. This forces us into Prague itself after the end of the day which isn't actually that bad a thing really, Prague at night is a pretty great place and whilst Maria was braving the cash games (she can claim to have played 100/200 now lol), I found a great little pizza place with the guys from Pokerlistings where you could get a freshly made pizza, a beer and a desert, all for about £8 altogether. So in summation, eating and drinking in the Hilton counts as a leak in your poker game.

Play restarts at 12pm (11am UK time)

For a fuller update, photos, and the ability to interact with the updaters please head over to the interactive thread.

Chip Counts for Day 1A:

Adrian   Koy   115500
Maciej   Mazur   104300
Luigi   Rizzi   72800
Magnus   Petersson   72300
Maik   Daehling   61000
Adrian   Schaap   58700
Oskar   Silow   57300
Andrej   Nagy   56600
Jose   Navarro   50400
Michel   Abecassis   45100
Guillaume   Frechette   44900
Thierry   Labat   44500
Kristian   Kjondal   43800
Martin   Wendt   43600
Christer   Johansson   42600
Johan   Palokangas   40100
Jari   Kylmala   39900
Simon   Christensson   39700
Brynja   Sassoon   38000
Juhani   Junnilainen   37700
Marc   Karam   36700
Oyvind   Roysem   36200
Daan   Ruiter   35700
Maria   Maceiras   35600
Ken   Lennaard   34400
Loris   Brunelli   33600
Jorma   Nuutinen   33400
David   Penly   32300
Remo   Meyer   32100
Arnaud   Mattern   31100
Dennis   Van Zoelen   31100
Menh   Hua   31000
Rob   Hollink   30700
Mugdat   Ter   30700
Jesper   Petersen   30000
John   Flanagan   29800
Tobias   Reinkemeier   28500
Katja   Thater   28400
Markus   Golser   27400
Frank   Stumpf   24800
Tony   Lindstedt   24200
Thomas   Wolfer   23900
Bjorn   Isberg   23300
Richard   Toth   23000
Britt   Petersen   22400
Zdedek   Habala   22200
Mark   Flowers   22000
Stefan   Mattsson   21700
Tobias   Persson   21500
Guillermo   Garcia   21200
Gabor   Kovacs   20800
Erik   Pettersson   20400
Henrik   Waltersson   17900
Boris   Yanpolskiy   17800
Francesco   De Vivo   17600
JeanPhilippe   Rohr   17500
Nedzib   Suman   17500
Jiri   Vacek   16900
Ghena   Dawoud   16700
Johannes   Korsar   16500
Adam   Gagliardi   15300
Kenneth   Hicks Jr   15300
Kevin   Thurman   15000
Marcel   Buissink   13300
Sebastian   Zink   12900
Pavel   Blatny   12300
Kenneth   Christensen   12000
Christian   Schackinger   11600
Ionel   Anton   11300
Joel   Gunnarsson   11100
Tommas   Olsen   10900
Huseyin   Erbay   10700
Rolf   Slotboom   10700
Jeff   Wang   10500
Peter   Bertelsen   10200
Daniel   Zink   10200
Christian   Karlsen   10100
Tilmann   Ebeling   9600
Massimiliano   Rosa   9200
Tomas   Kosicka   8800
Andrea   Manganelli   8100
Jiri   Hlavaty   7800
Jeff   Sharpe   7400
Simon   Taylor   6800
Andrew   Luetchford   1230
Hans   Eskilsson   700

Holy Moly the contrast between yesterday and today is incredible.  In a bizarre twist of letters (and no offence to any players from yesterday) its like yesterday was the B Team & today the A Team of poker sharks.  A short list of spotted sofars:

Andeas Hoivold
William Thorson
Sunny Chattha
Praz Bansi
Karl Mahrenholz
Priyan De Mel
Annette Obrestad
Peter Jepson
Chris Moorman
Florian Langmann
Paul Jackson
Joe Grech
Luca Pagano
Thomas Wahlroos
Juha Helpi
Willie Tann
Dario Minieri
Pascal Perrault
Tony Phillips
Marcel Barran
Leo Kam
Jan Stavic
Jani Sointula
Bertrand Grosspeilier "ELKY"
Barny Boatman
Age Spets
Trond Erik Eidsvig
Dag Mikkelson
Paul Gourlay
Ramzi Jelassi

Willie Tann has got an early boost, on a 4c 4h Ac Qs 8d, Betsson qualifier Frednik Jafs confidently flipped over 9s 4s after being all-in only for Willie to show Ad 4d for the flopped house, he's on 20k already.

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6644&g2_serialNumber=1)

Benjo-lookalike Luca Pagano and Joe Grech, who apparently won the big event in Paris last week.

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6646&g2_serialNumber=1)


Annette Obrestad has doubled through with the stellar Jc 4d, the board was reading Jd Jh 9d, her opponent had bet out, she'd raised him and he set her all-in, to which she instantly called. He showed Kc Qs missing his gutshot as the board came running Aces. Annette up to about 18k.

Roberto Romanello has turned up late, but is probably wishing he hadn't turned up at all. He's already down to his last 1.5k after losing most of his chips with A-K on a K-x-3 board to a flopped set of threes.

Barny Boatman is equally short, he hit his set but ran straight into a set.


Quote of the day. "Annette Obrestad is so good at poker that she can win online sit and goes without turning on her computer."

Expect a calvacade of Annette 'facts' a la Jack Bauer or Chuck Norris.

Some chip counts:

Mark Freidman  13k  (been all in 5 times already and still has more than starting stack).
Andreas Hoivold  10,200
Sunny Chatta  22k  (some chips courtesty of one of Friedman's all in)
Annette Obrestad  18,000
Chris Moorman  13,600 (and is very happy, I quote "I won a hand!")
Paul Jackson  11,600  ("flying ahead of schedule!")
Juha Helpi  11,100
Priyan De Mel  15,000
Willie Tann  15,200
Dario Minieri  3,600
Tony Phillips  9,000
Karl Mahrenholz  14,000
Praz Bansi  13,000
Leo Kam  5,500
Stuart Rutter  8,250

Cheers guys, I'll look for him shortly.

Barny Boatman, Roberto Romanello and Thor Hansen are all OUT. The last was allegedly seen leaving crying, "By the Hammer of Thor!!!"

(http://marshianchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/thor.jpg)

Leo Kam -- 21k
Paul Gourlay -- 6k
Cristiano Blanco -- 45k

A nostagic bit of mateyboy madness for you now.

There's a raise to 400 from early position, 3 calls including the big blind.

Flop:

6s 5h 3c

The big blind, the initial raiser, and the first caller all check to the the last caller who bets 1,600. The big blind moves all-in for about 10,000, the original raiser passes, the first caller shovels his chips into the middle leaving scorch marks on the table whilst the player who made the flop bet folds Jacks face up.

Matey in the big blind:

4s 2s

Matey first caller:

3d 3h

Turn:

Jh

River:

7d

Here is the full player list for today's runners, of course some of these have been eliminated alreday.  Incidently its looking like a total of 550 players over the 2 days which makes this the biggest event for the EPT so far this season.

Addison Craig  34 2
Adolfsson Niclas Sweden 12 8
Aidonopoulos Theodoros Cyprus 25 9
Alacqua Gino Italy 9 5
Aubin Denis  20 6
Bano Flavio Italy 20 9
Bansi Pramesh UK 32 9
Baran Marcel Germany 17 9
Barberio Matteo Italy 37 2
Barou Thierry  32 8
Darcourt Guillaume France 12 4
Becker Rene Germany 9 4
Bejedal Dennis Sweden 30 2
Bellusci Sandro Italy 15 4
Ben Soussan Cyril France 37 4
Benzmira Christophe France 28 1
Berdugo Saul France 19 9
Berggren David Sweden 16 1
Bergstrom Mattias Swden 37 8
Biechel Remi France 30 7
Binelli Robert Italy 36 8
Bittar Ghassan UK 29 4
Bjarnason Yngvi Norway 26 4
Blanco Cristiano Italy 22 2
Blumenthal Nicholas USA 25 7
Boatman Barrny UK 8 1
Boivin Romain  32 3
Braga Ricardo Portugal 37 3
Brolin Tomas Sweden 24 7
Brummelhuis Michel Holland 21 8
Busino Stefano Italy 22 5
Bussman Ralf Sweden 15 9
Cabalet Jean Pierre France 16 10
Celsi Simone Italy 12 1
Chattha Sunny UK 37 7
Chidwick Stephen Sweden 29 9
Chmiel Pawel Poland 27 8
Christofferson Paul  24 1
Cimaglia Fernando Italy 29 3
Cinar Mehmet Sweden 10 1
Clemmensen Martin Denmark 14 2
Czerwinski Krzysztof Poland 21 7
Dalimore Mark USA 15 6
Danielsson Jonas Sweden 12 5
De Bakker Koren Holland 30 6
De Gaetano Marco Italy 11 10
De Mel Priyhan UK 25 2
Debu Marius Romania 29 5
Devlin Stephen UK 26 7
Dhorasso Vikash  21 1
Di Renzo Carlo Italy 23 9
Didisheim Serge  17 4
Dinescu Ionut Romania 36 5
Donev Ivo  25 4
Donnelly John Ireland 29 6
Drexel Thor Denmark 27 6
Durrer Michael Denmark 28 5
Eastgate Peter Denmark 27 3
Eidsvig Trond Norway 14 3
El Murr Carl Lebanon 15 8
Ellis Michael UK 39 8
Erath Tobias Austria 18 8
Eriksson Mattias Sweden 37 1
Escudero Victor Spain 32 1
Etayo Javier Spain 33 3
Faraci Franco  33 7
Fechette Seffanita  16 7
Feinberg Bryan Israel 29 7
Feldman Andrew UK 17 10
Feliciaggi Jean  35 6
Fitzpatrick William UK 29 8
Flink Robert Sweden 38 3
Forus Tarjei Norway 23 8
Fougeron Thomas France 16 8
Frederic Leca France 22 3
Friedman Mark USA 37 6
Furnival Dan  30 3
Furst Mikael Sweden 28 9
Geoghegan Sylvester Ireland 27 10
Gerin Stephan France 23 6
Gimeno Ivan Spain 18 6
Giovannone Luca Italy 30 9
Goesten Aa  22 7
Golko Ofer Israel 16 2
Goodall Nicholas UK 28 2
Gormley Paul  31 2
Gourlay Paul UK 11 2
Grech Joseph France 33 9
Green Brian USA 10 2
Grospellier Bertrand “ElkY” France 21 3
Grossi Paulo Italy 34 7
Gustafsson Erik Sweden 25 8
Gustavsson Filip Sweden 9 8
Hagen Andreas Denmark 18 7
Hales Michael UK 10 5
Hall Niklas Sweden 29 1
Hallstrom Mika Finland 9 7
Hanell Alexander Sweden 31 9
Hansen Casper Denmark 12 10
Hansen Thor Norway 20 5
Hapak Samuel Hungary 31 1
Haran Sanjay  31 7
Harvey Charles Ireland 39 2
Hauge Kai Are Norway 30 1
Hedlund Peter Sweden 36 9
Helppi Juha Finland 30 5
Henck Thomas Germany 32 10
Heyati Farad Sweden 12 7
Hochmuth Thomas  33 2
Hoivold Andreas Denmark 35 7
Holm Thomas  17 6
Horecki Marcin Poland 35 2
Hostrup Carl Denmark 11 9
Hruby Martin Czech Republic 8 3
Hyden Martin Sweden 12 2
Iacovides Christakis UK 8 8
Iecher Flavio Italy 31 3
Jackson Paul UK 39 9
Jafs Fredrick Finland 24 2
Jagodik Alexander  27 7
Jelassi Ramzi Sweden 11 8
Jensen Brian Denmark 21 6
Jepsen Peter Denmark 35 9
Johanessen Roger Norway 29 2
Johansen Johnny Norway 38 7
Jorgensen Theo Denmark 19 7
Judet Antoanell Romania 10 7
Juvonen Jukka Finland 24 5
Kallmeyer Juan Spain 36 3
Kam Leo Canada 21 4
Kamar Fadi Liban 10 3
Kamatakis Iliodoros Greece 38 2
Keiner Michael Germany 24 10
Keitel Fredrik Germany 25 10
Kelly Gavin Ireland 20 1
Kelopuro Sami Finland 22 8
Kibler-Melby Cort USA 38 9
Kienhuis Carlos  36 7
Kildanen Bjorn-Andre Norway 29 10
Klaning Jens Denmark 10 10
Klausen Jonas Denmark 14 9
Kmet Stephen USA 25 5
Knuepfer Volkard Germany 20 3
Kollmann Erich Austria 18 10
Kongsgaard Soren Denmark 38 1
Koskas Eric France 27 5
Kraibich Martin  15 1
Krause Andreas Germany 17 5
Kravaritis Christos Sweden 26 9
Krawczynski Leszek Poland 22 9
Kristoffersen Stefan  25 6
Kuskov Nikolaj Czech Republic 39 1
Kytoharju Jukka Finland 32 7
Lair Jean-Baptiste France 19 6
Langmann Florian Germany 33 10
Laurila Mika Finland 21 2
Lauttamus Juha Finland 13 10
Leite Jorge Portugal 21 10
Lellouche Antony France 14 4
Liakos Nikolas Sweden 15 10
Lintzel Tobias Germany 27 9
Lopez Francisco Spain 11 4
Mach Zdenek Czech Republic 8 7
Madsen Mikkel USA 32 5
Mahrenholz Karl UK 16 9
Malak Vladimir Czech Republic 39 3
Malone Kevin  16 3
Maloney Perry Canada 36 4
Manji Ayaz  25 1
Manninen Reijo Finland 19 4
Margola Giorgio Italy 36 10
Marmion Ian Ireland 16 6
Martucci Germano Italy 24 3
Massalsky Enrico  14 6
Massucci Marco Italy 18 1
Mathiesen Thomas Norway 32 6
Mattila Ville Finland 25 3
McDonald Mike Canada 21 5
Meere Peter Holland 32 2
Mestre Raul Spain 8 2
Michael Joseph USA 33 6
Mihu Cristian Romania 28 4
Mikalsen Sondre Sweden 36 2
Mikkelsen Dag Martin Norway 13 8
Mikovic Aljosa Yugoslavia 13 9
Mikus Jan Slovakia 30 10
Milanov Alexandar Bulgaria 15 7
Minieri Dario Italy 30 8
Nunes Joao Portugal 8 10
Monnier Yann France 9 2
Moorman Christopher UK 39 5
Mouawad Joseph Lebanon 27 2
Mueller Gerd  34 8
Mulder Yannic Holland 38 6
Mullan Owen UK 39 6
Murr Jihad Lebanon 14 1
Muñoz Simon Spain 27 4
Nielsen Jeppe  16 5
Niesert Christoph  19 8
Nigioni David Monaco 19 5
Nikkhah Shahrokh UK 23 5
Nobili Tanja  28 7
Norberg Robert Sweden 10 8
Nordin Mikael Sweden 24 8
Norinder Mikael  24 4
Nyman Ville Petteri Finland 37 5
Obal Krisztian Hungary 33 1
Obrestad Annette Norway 26 8
Ofer Alexander  26 5
Olsen Knud Denmark 14 8
Olsen Rune Denmark 28 3
Olsson Pernilla  20 4
Oneill Michael UK 39 4
Ostensson Jimmy Sweden 9 9
Paasisalo Jarkko Finland 9 3
Paasonen Mika Finland 19 2
Paez Corral Raul Spain 14 10
Pagano Luca Italy 33 8
Palevic Rifat Sweden 13 7
Palovic Dag Slovakia 9 10
Pannozzo Walter  18 2
Paruszewski Piotr UK 33 5
Pastor Juan Manuel Spain 22 10
Patel Minal  12 9
Pavlicek Tommy Canada 23 2
Pedersen Dan Denmark 23 7
Perez Diego Spain 35 4
Perrault Pascal France 22 1
Peterlongo Mariano Italy 39 10
Peterson Thomas  26 6
Pettersson Anders Sweden 31 8
Pham Minh Dan Germany 34 9
Phillips Antony UK 28 6
Pistilli Marco  34 6
Poleshchuk Vladimir Russia 14 7
Portal Alexia  23 4
Power Nicky Ireland 26 1
Prestini Umberto Italy 38 4
Pulliainen Sami Finland 13 5
Puro Mika Finland 22 4
Raffay Stefan Tr94191 35 10
Rajala Cristian Romania 38 5
Top-Rasmussen Stig Germany 14 5
Reyman Shakil  20 2
Riviere Sebastian Sweden 19 10
Roche Peter Ireland 35 5
Rodriguez Carles Spain 31 4
Romanello Roberto UK 13 4
Roumeliotis Alexander Sweden 39 7
Roy Alain France 19 3
Rozema Jonathan Holland 23 10
Ruane Brendan Ireland 17 2
Ruthenberg Sebastian Germany 17 3
Rutter Stuart UK 36 1
Ryan Daniel USA 34 1
Saab Imad Lebanon 13 2
Saarisilta Nichlas Sweden 30 4
Sahl Hakan Sweden 26 2
Sanchez Thorn Raymi Sweden 27 1
Sandgren Conny Sweden 12 6
Schafer Frank Germany 28 8
Scheili Richard Hungary 10 6
Schneider Andre Germany 18 5
Schoennermark Ulrica Finland 35 3
Schulz Patrick  17 1
Schwarze Konstantin Germany 11 6
Secara George Romania 15 3
Sevilla Luis Spain 34 3
Sikias Tarek Lebanon 15 2
Simcelescu Dan Romania 22 6
Sjavik Jan Norway 21 9
Slate Carl USA 34 5
Smidt Daniel  17 8
Sointula Jani Finland 20 7
Sorensen Henrik Denmark 31 5
South Cole USA 13 3
Spets Age Norway 10 9
Spielmann Leond  11 5
Spigolon Alberto Italy 8 5
Steel Guy UK 19 1
Stiegler Danny Germany 24 6
Strassmann Johannes Germany 17 7
Striz Frantisek Czech Republic 9 1
Sundell Gustav  35 1
Szikrai Istvan Hungary 11 7
Tann Willie UK 24 9
Teng Andrew UK 26 3
Thorsen William Sweden 35 8
Tiikkaja Taneli  34 4
Timoshenko Yevgeniy USA 32 4
Torelli Alec USA 13 6
Torres Santiago Spain 13 1
Totsch Daniel Italy 18 4
Tsaoussis Charalampos Greece 20 8
Tutev Yavor Bulgaria 9 6
Valero Lopez Jose-Luis Spain 23 1
Valikoski Santeri Finland 12 3
Van Leer Erik Holland 20 10
Veiga Andre Portugal 38 8
Vellema Peter Holland 33 4
Vinci Rosario Italy 28 10
Vivet Nicolai Denmark 18 3
Volak Pavol Slovakia 23 3
Vollers Steven Holland 8 9
Vullion Pascal France 8 4
Waero Rolf Norway 8 6
Wahlroos Thomas Finland 31 6
Weizer Josh USA 16 4
Wetsteijn Bart Holland 38 10
Wiklund Martin Sweden 11 3
Witt Marco Germany 36 6
Wolbers Ben  15 5
Zaicik Jacques France 34 10
Zijda Rein Holland 18 9

Here he is, with about 7k looking like he's had a few Czech beers! Just kidding, it was the only photo I could take before I got ushered along by a TD.

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6676&g2_serialNumber=1)

Gavin Kelly -- 8.2k
Nicky Power -- 9.5k

Priyan De Mel is back under 10k after losing out with K-4 to A-7 on a A-K-7-4-x board.

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6678&g2_serialNumber=1)

William Thorsen is OUT, he pushed all-in for around 3.2k after Andreas Hoivold had button raised to 800 with Threes to push the cut-off limper. Hoivold made the call, won the race and Norway claims another victory against Sweden in their unending battle to the death. (NB, though Thorsen is actually sponsored by a Norwegian site and Hoivold is sponsored by a UK site, so I say we claim this as one of our own...)

1st prize has confirmed as €708,400 or £509,000 or $1,042,000 or, most importantly, 3,012 Palladium Ounces. Hopefully enough Palladium to keep you going for most of your life. :)

Roughly 16k as of 10 minutes ago

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6682&g2_serialNumber=1)

Annette Obrestad is OUT courtesy of the almightily named Alberto Spigolon.

Spigolon limped for 200, 'AllinStevie' Steve Devlin made it 800 and Annette raised to 2,800. Spigolon cold-called this bet and Allinstevie passed.

The flop was 4-4-2 and both players checked. Spigolon checked to Annette on the Jack turn, and she bet 3,750 which he called. He then checked the 8 river and she pushed for 10k. He made the call and showed Kings and she insta-mucked.

Nicky Power has doubled up with Ac Qc on a Ten-high two club board against Jacks, hitting an Ace on the turn.

Chris Moorman(1) raised to 600 after one limper with 7h 4h, and got two callers. The flop came 9-4-2 rainbow and he bet 1200 and one player called with just 2,700 behind. Moorman hit the 7 on the turn and set his opponent in, who called with 9-8 suited, the river giving Moorman a full house, though he was really perplexed that the other player didn't move in on the flop.

Joe Grech just called an all-in on a Ad 9c 8h flop. With Qc Jd. And he was ahead. Against Jc Tc, the board bricked out, and the man who hates internet poker more than anyone I know added an extra 5k to his stack.

1              € 708,400
2              € 407,300
3              € 235,300
4              € 182,200
5              € 151,800
6              € 119,000
7              € 93,600
8              € 63,200
9              € 39,200
10           € 39,200
11           € 27,800
12           € 27,800
13           € 20,200
14           € 20,200
15           € 15,200
16           € 15,200
17           € 12,650
18           € 12,650
19           € 12,650
20           € 12,650
21           € 12,650
22           € 12,650
23           € 12,650
24           € 12,650
25           € 10,100
26           € 10,100
27           € 10,100
28           € 10,100
29           € 10,100
30           € 10,100
31           € 10,100
32           € 10,100
33           € 8,850
34           € 8,850
35           € 8,850
36           € 8,850
37           € 8,850
38           € 8,850
39           € 8,850
40           € 8,850
41           € 7,600
42           € 7,600
43           € 7,600
44           € 7,600
45           € 7,600
46           € 7,600
47           € 7,600
48           € 7,600
49           € 6,380
50           € 6,380
51           € 6,380
52           € 6,380
53           € 6,380
54           € 6,380
55           € 6,380
56           € 6,380

Paul Jackson is OUT, nothing spectacular though. An Ace King against a pair of Jacks, an unhelpful board and a then a short walk to the cash game.

Chris Moorman, on the same table, is over 25k now after more fun and games and non-stop hittage with suited gappers. He raised 6-4 from underthegun, and got action from the player he and nextdoor neighbour Ramzi Jelassi, kindly called, "The table donkey" who called with 8-7 suited. An 8-7-5 flop later and Moorman was raking in the chips.

Leo Kam, GUKPT London leg winner has steadily increased his chips from an early dent. A hand just evolved with Elky limping for 300 and Leo Kam next to him raising to 1,200.  His next neighbour Mike McDonald made the call as did Elky.  So 3 guys saw this flop:

 Ac Qc 6d  all 3 checked

Turn:  2h  Elky checked, Leo bet 2,500 & Mike reraised to 5,500 total which Leo quickly called the xtra 3k.

River:   4c   Leo Kam bet 4k - about half of what Mike had left and it looked like a semi reluctant call from Mike but he did. 

Leo showed  Jc Tc for the rivered flush and Mike looked sickened and mucked.

Mike McDonald  4,800
Leo Kam  circa  36,000

Elky, Kam, McDonald  (Karl M just moved to the table)
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6686&g2_serialNumber=1)

Gavin Kelly is OUT,  his  Kd Kc was no match for  7c 7d and flopped quads!!

Age Spets is also OUT and is seen smiling his way around the way as we speak.

Antony Lellouche  29,000
Stuart Rutter  3,000
Mark Friedman  32,000
Sunny Chattha  2,000
Trond Erik Eidsvig  18,600
Peter Meere  4,600
Yannic Mulder  34,000
Luca Pagano  5,500
Steve Devlin  37,400
Praz Bansi  27,000
Priyan De Mel  12,400
DM Mikkelsen  28,000
Juha Helpi  12,500
Dario Minieri  7,200
Tony Phillips  27,300
Michael Keiner  14,700
Jani Sointula  12,100
Mike McDonald  7,200
Karl Mahrenholz  6,100

Age Spets is OUT, as are EPT Champions Andreas Hoivold and Peter Jepsen.

Dag Martin Mikkelsen raises to 800, Thomas Wahlroos makes it 2,100 from the button. Dag calls.

Flop:

Jc 6d 5c

Check check.

Turn:

Qh

Check from Dag, 'The Eggman' tries 3,300. Dag calls after a think.

River:

3s

Check check. Dag's pocket Eights are good as Wahlroos mucks.

Karma is Chris's mate at the moment, he's got 28,500

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6698&g2_serialNumber=1)


Nicky Power - 28,000
Mike Ellis - 6,300 (and that is after beating AA with JJ and a straight)
BA Kildalen - 30,600

Dag Martin Mikkelsen and Thomas Wahlroos who have already had some little duels, just got it all-in a big pot.

The board was 4d Kc 3d and Wahlroos had moved all-in over the top of Dag's bet, (I'm guessing it was re-raised preflop). Dag though for a while before saying, "Ok, I'll call." Walhroos flipped his Ahrt Ad, but didn't like it too much when Dag turned over Kd Qd.

Turn:

3s

River:

Td

The Finn is out, and DM Mikkel is the recipient of a 60k pot and tying for the lead with Leo Kam, (who Elky has been bleeding chips to all day apparently)

Stephen Chidwick is OUT with Tens vs Ace King.

Moorman has dropped down to 15k with Queens against Ace King, but not AIPF as some might think. He raised from early position and just flat-called the re-raise. The flop came three low rags that both checked, Moorman bet out on the turn when a fourth raggy card appeared and was flat-called. The river brought another rag, but a third club, Moorman moved all-in, (he called it a 'value-shove' :D) thinking that Jacks and Tens would call him, but unluckily his opponent was holding Ac Kc for the rivered nuts.

Sunny Chattha is reading this, so we think he's out. Tens vs 8-5 on a 9-7-6 board costing most of his stack.

Stuart Rutter is also out, he turned trip nines but ran into a slow played nut-flush. He then had A-J vs Sixes.

Cristiano Blanco shakes his head after paying off a 6k river bet on a Jd 6s 8s Ks 7c board when his opponent shows a rivered set of Sevens.

Another exit that I forgot to mention earlier was that of Paul Gourlay who was going ok, then got moved to another table, raised with Kings first hand and bet 2,500 on a 6-8-9 before passing for his remaining 7,500 or so, reasoning that he wasn't going be bluffed because he was unknown to the other players. Next hand, there were a couple of limpers and he decided not to raise his A-Q in the big blind. The flop came a fantastic A-Q-5, and he check/called a bet before leading out on the 3 turn, he was set-in and quickly called only to find a set of slowplayed Aces against him to knock him out to the rail.

Mixed emotions - Praz is cool on 40,000

Priyan just knocked out a player flat calling a raise with AJ.  The board was J 8 6 Priyan made a 1,600 bet and mateyboy shoved in holding KK.  The turn came another J and the river an A.  Priyan runs good on 29,800.

Karl Mahrenholz on the other hand was only down to his last 5,700 when I arrived at his table.  With him in the small blind, it had passed round to the button who just limped.  Karl made his move and shoved and then the big blind decided to dwell it up now!  He made the call in the end and the button passed.

Does this look like the face of a guy who is glad his all in bet has just been called?

(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6714&g2_serialNumber=1) 

Karl  Kh 2s
Matey  8h 8s

No King or miracle for Karl and very unlucky that a great move had to have the big blind wake up with something.

Mike McDonald has made a major recovery, and is back up to close to 20k.

He called 3k on the turn of a 8s Ts Th Td board before both checked the 5s river. Holding pocket Fives, his Tens full of Fives, (Or Fives Full of Tens too) scooping the pot.

Praz is adding to his stack, his scandinavian opponent bet out 1,650 on a 5s 5h Kh flop before Praz made it 3,500 which was called. Both checked the Qc turn. On the Ks river, the scandinavian checked again and Praz bet out 8k and won the pot. He's raised two hands since then and saw Tc 4c 4s and Qs Js 6h flops but check/folded both times to Leo Kam and Peter Meere.

Andrew Feldman, who was a late, late entry to the tournament is struggling along with around just 4k.

Tony Phillips is quickly turning into my favourite player to update on.  If I am anywhere near his table he just shouts to me his chip count - I wish every player did that.  Life would be a breeze in update land.

Tony Phillips - 27,000

Chris Moorman ran into trouble - In an intricate hand that I totally missed he lost a 50k pot with QQ v AK post flop.  THEN there was a 15 min break but Chris didn't come back for 30 mins because he thought it was an hour dinner break, so a couple of K went astray there.  He is currently on 7,500.

Jani Sointula is OUT. A-Q vs Jacks.

Steve 'Allinstevie' Devlin still looks to be far and away the chip leader with over 100k...

Nicky (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1228) Power (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1228) -- 30k
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) -- 23k (Just doubled up with Tens against Ace Queen)

They're now playing the final six hands of the day and the clock has been stopped with all the media being kicked out of the area now for the labourious bag 'n' tag time.

Maria is just doing a final couple of hands whilst we wrap everything up.

Mike McDonald has continued his surge backup the poker ladder, he re-raised an UTG raise, and found a player pushing behind him. The initial raiser passed and Mike called as you'd guess, with Aces, the all-in stack showed A-K, the board coming Q-J-2-9-5. There was a slight wince in the face from the original raiser who claimed Queens or Jacks. McDonald has around the 60k mark now.

Very interesting hand now just developed between a scandielad, Praz Bansi & Peter Meere.  It started with a raise from scandie to 1,800, a call from Praz on the button and a call from Meere in the big blind.  Flop:

 Kc  7h  8d

Meere checked, scandielad bet 2,900 and Praz reraised to 7,500.  Now Peter Meere is clearly pained and can't decide for a good while what to do.  He counts his chips to see probably if he has enough to get Praz off the hand but he really has one move left which is all in.  He does decide on the all in BUT doesn't announce it and puts his stack ove the line in two separate motions.  So the movement is deamed as a call only leaving Meere with 4,600 behind.  The original raiser and flop better passed and left Praz and Meere to it.

They see the turn:   Qh   with Meere to act first he does put the rest of his stack over the line to make it 4,600 to Praz.  Praz announces "oops" and smiles.  It's just with so much in the pot can he really pass?  Praz says "I can beat 9 10."  He calls the extra and we eagerly get to see.  I suspected someone had 9 10 but which one of them?

Meere  9d Th
Praz  4c 4d

With a 2 on the river and no help for Meere his is eliminated at this late stage of the evening by Praz making an awesome call in my opinion.  Meere was not happy and repeated something with a 4 in it!

We're finished now.

Play restarts from 12pm (11am UK time) and we'll do it all again with the remaining players.

See you there.

;stickaforkinme;

Full list of counts going into day 2.

Stephen   Devlin   122200
Adrian   Koy   115500
Maciej   Mazur   104300
Alec   Torelli   78900
Nikolas   Liakos   78000
Juha   Lauttamus   73100
Luigi   Rizzi   72800
Magnus   Petersson   72300
Tommy   Pavlicek   71300
Alberto   Spigolon   67700
Mikael   Norinder   66600
Gerd   Mueller   64900
Pramesh   Bansi   62100
Maik   Daehling   61000
Mika   Hallstrom   59800
Adrian   Schaap   58700
Oskar   Silow   57300
Andrej   Nagy   56600
Dag   Palovic   55800
Florian   Langmann   55400
Dag Martin   Mikkelsen   53900
Jonas   Danielsson   53700
Luis   Sevilla   52400
Yannic   Mulder   51400
Serge   Didisheim   51100
Jose   Navarro   50400
Mike   McDonald   49700
Remi   Biechel   48300
Michel   Abecassis   45100
Cyril   Ben Soussan   44900
Guillaume   Frechette   44900
Thierry   Labat   44500
Kristian   Kjondal   43800
Martin   Wendt   43600
Niklas   Hall   42900
Christer   Johansson   42600
Ofer   Golko   41400
Johan   Palokangas   40100
Jari   Kylmala   39900
Cristiano   Blanco   39700
Simon   Christensson   39700
Johannes   Strassmann   39400
Mikkel   Madsen   39200
Ben   Wolbers   38400
Brynja   Sassoon   38000
Patrik   Schulz   37900
Michael   Durrer   37800
Juhani   Junnilainen   37700
Marc   Karam   36700
Paul   Gormley   36500
Saul   Berdugo   36200
Oyvind   Roysem   36200
Carlos   Kienhuis   36000
Daan   Ruiter   35700
Maria   Maceiras   35600
Nichlas   Saarisilta   35500
Jukka   Kytoharju   34800
Ken   Lennaard   34400
Loris   Brunelli   33600
Jorma   Nuutinen   33400
Raul   Mestre   32600
Mikael   Nordin   32300
David Michael   Penly   32300
Remo   Meyer   32100
Casper   Hansen   31300
Martin   Kraibich   31300
Marco   Witt   31300
Arnaud   Mattern   31100
Dennis   Van Zoelen   31100
Menh   Hua   31000
Rob   Hollink   30700
Mugdat   Ter   30700
Mark   Dalimore   30400
Jesper   Petersen   30000
John   Flanagan   29800
Jeppe   Nielsen   28700
Guillaume   Darcourt   28500
Tobias   Reinkemeier   28500
Mika   Paasonen   28400
Nicky   Power   28400
Katja   Thater   28400
Christakis   Lacovides   27900
Eric   Koskas   27700
Markus   Golser   27400
Henrik   Sorensen   26300
Nicholas   Goodall   25900
Robert   Norberg   25000
Krzysztof   Czerwinski   24900
Frank   Stumpf   24800
Bjorn-Andre   Kildanen   24700
Sandro   Bellusci   24200
Tony   Lindstedt   24200
Volkard   Knuepfer   24100
Thomas   Wolfer   23900
Alexander   Jagodik   23700
Bjorn   Isberg   23300
Sondre   Mikalsen   23200
Richard   Toth   23000
William   Fitzpatrick   22700
Nicolai   Vivet   22600
Britt   Petersen   22400
Gino   Alacqua   22200
Zdedek   Habala   22200
Jonathan   Rozema   22200
Mark   Flowers   22000
Stefan   Mattsson   21700
Jacques   Zaicik   21600
Francisco   Lopez   21500
Tobias   Persson   21500
Guillermo   Garcia   21200
Danny   Stiegler   21200
Dan   Pham Minh   21100
Mikael   Furst   21000
Gabor   Kovacs   20800
Ayaz   Manji   20600
Erik   Pettersson   20400
Christopher   Moorman   20100
Mika   Puro   19800
Iliodoros   Kamatakis   19700
Joseph   Michael   19400
Charalampos   Tsaoussis   19300
Antony   Phillips   19200
Alexander   Roumeliotis   18700
Kai Are   Hauge   18600
Henrik   Waltersson   17900
Boris   Yanpolskiy   17800
Francesco   De Vivo   17600
Jean Philippe   Rohr   17500
Nedzib   Suman   17500
Christos   Kravaritis   17300
Matteo   Barberio   17100
Jiri   Vacek   16900
Flavio   Bano   16800
Ghena   Dawoud   16700
Johannes   Korsar   16500
Yann   Monnier   16400
Marco   De Gaetano   16000
Reijo   Manninen   16000
Krisztian   Obal   15700
Bertrand “ElkY”   Grospellier   15500
Adam   Gagliardi   15300
Kenneth   Hicks Jr   15300
Mika   Laurila   15300
Dean   Thurman   15000
Piotr   Paruszewski   14500
Frantisek   Striz   14400
Aa   Goesten   14100
Michael   Oneill   14100
Martin   Hruby   13900
Tomas   Brolin   13400
Marcel   Buissink   13300
Sebastian   Zink   12900
Ville Petteri   Nyman   12800
Pavel   Blatny   12300
Priyhan   De Mel   12300
Andrew   Luetchford   12300
Antoanell   Judet   12200
Kenneth   Christensen   12000
Leo   Kam   11800
Christian   Schackinger   11600
Ionel   Anton   11300
Joel   Gunnarsson   11100
Michael   Ellis   10900
Tommas   Olsen   10900
Huseyin   Erbay   10700
Rolf   Slotboom   10700
Steven   Vollers   10700
Jeff   Wang   10500
Shakil   Reyman   10400
Peter   Bertelsen   10200
Daniel   Zink   10200
Christian   Karlsen   10100
Fernando   Cimaglia   9900
Tilmann   Ebeling   9600
Cristian   Mihu   9300
Rosa   Massimiliano   9200
David   Nigioni   9200
Pavol   Volak   9100
Andrew   Feldman   8800
Tomas   Kosicka   8800
Andrea   Manganelli   8100
Jiri   Hlavaty   7800
Sami   Pulliainen   7500
Jeff   Sharpe   7400
Simon   Taylor   6800
Ville   Mattila   6600
Rolf   Waero   6400
Pernilla   Olsson   6300
Marius   Debu   5100
Antony   Lellouche   4080
Michael   Hales   3700
Hans   Eskilsson   700