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Title: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 11:53:56 AM Welcome back for Day 1b at the Copenhagen Casino! I have a head cold and am currently situated under a duvet at the Comfort Hotel, drinking one of those funny water-soluble orange-flavoured vitamin cocktails and waiting for Jen to bring me coffee from the lobby, but come 2pm we will be all bright and chirpy down at the Radisson, ready to update levels 1 through 8 in a weird Groundhog Day kind of way.
Familiar faces expected today include the Rutter, Andy Black, Roy Brindley, Liam Flood, Marc Goodwin, Tony G, Jeff The Jaffacake Kimber, Steve Jelinek; in fact, all of the people in this here list which Taximan alphabetized for us, thanks very much. Bjørn Agertved Gino Alacqua Alaa Al-Chani Fahid Ali Alfonso Amendola Anders Andersen Mads Andersen Patrik Andersson Daniluk Andrey Martin Skovgaard Anersen Roger Archtander Marcel Baran Anders Berg Remy Biechel Thomas Billum Brian Bischoff Andy Black Cristiano Blanco Erik Bodén Deniz Bozgeyik Peter Bregnhøj Roy Brindley Tomas Brolin Patrick Bueno Ole Busborg Vincent Clark Byrd Sigurð Carlsson Russell Carson Janno Cazemier Paul Christoffersson Charlie Ciresi Jonathan Cirilli Darin Cook Magnus Cornmark Kuremszki Csaba Thomas Dahlgren Richard Dalberg Peter Davidsen Nicholas Dervaux Stephen Devlin John Donnelly Simon Dørslund Rasmus Edenfall Martin El-Kher Alexander Ellinsen Andreas Elofsson Michael Eriksen Anders Gustav Eriksson Michael Eriksson Sigurd Eskeland Stig Farholt David Figueroa Liam Flood Livion Foianesi Steve Frezer Erik Friberg Charles Furey Rasmus Gandrup Hristo Genov Stephane Gerin Jogvan K. Glerfoss Markus Golser Marc Goodwin Tony G Gouga Josh Gould Rune Granath Henning Granstad Kenneth Gregersen Tom De Groot Christian Grundtvig Henrik Gwinner Ed de Haas Casper Dahl Hansen Lars Hansen Magnus Hansen Scott Harwood Kristian Hasløv Will Haughey Peter Hedlund Jonas Helness Kenneth Raun Hemmingsen Peter Hendriks Kenneth Hessellund Sándor Hollaar Rob Hollink Morten Holm Thomas Holm Uffe Holm Tung Huynh Frank Gersby Jacobsen Henning Jakobsen Joris Jaspers Ramzi Jelassi Steve Jelinek Johnny Jensen Søren Jensen Peter Willers Jepsen Timmi Jofur Roger Johannessen Karsten Johansen Mikael Johansson Theo Jørgensen Jacob Juhl Jogi Karamishi Bulent Karsli Matt Kay Sami Kelopuro Jeff Kimber Frei Dilling Kjær Søren Kongsgaard Johannes Korsar Rene kovacs Torben Hübertz Knudsen Tomasz Krzesiñski Olli Kurvinen Raymond Landaas Richard Larsen Christer Laudius Jakob Vedel Lauridsen Trevor Lawson Jonas Lennartsson Sven Leu Nicolas Levi Norman Levitt Nicolaj Linneballe Brian Linnet Per Loeff Richard Løth Jens Lübbe Johan Lund Sean Lund Jan Walther Lund Jon Lundberg Stephan Ma Lars Hoe Madsen Vegard Mandal Michael Marek Thomas Markussen Jonas Mathiasen Arnaud Mattern Per Lennart Stefan Matts Nick Mazur Mike McDonald Tom McEvoy Said El Mekki Dustin Mele Erlend Melsom Jyri Merivirta Mikkel Middelbo Mihai Mika Kyriakides Miltiadis Carlo Misuraca Arild Moldøy Steen Møller Bernd Monsma Bent Mortensen Ståle Mortensson Rene Mouritsen Nedin Musa Miikka Samuli Mustonen Matthias Neu Jens Laurbjerg Nielsen Toke Nielsen Dario Nittolo Micke Norinder Rigo Nyfjeld Erik Olsen Jan Rune Olsen Kim Olsen Luca Pagano Rifat Palevic Marcus Palm Seppo Parkkinen Dan Bitsch Pedersen Frederik Hostrup-Pedersen Kristian Pedersen Rehne Pedersen Pascal Perrault Alexander Petersen Mika Puro Antti Pystynen Gunnar Rabe Anders Rasmussen Pernille Ravn Simon Ravnsbaek Lasse Rimmer Giacomo Rosa Sasha Rosewood Henrik Rune Stuart Rutter Sargon Ruya Nichlas Saarisilta Ibrahim Sacrista Ilari Sahamies Luoto Sakari Sonny Sareen Andreas Sarling Michael Schulze Ryan Segelke Jan Olav Sjåvik Almira Skripchenko Rolf Slotsboom Henrik Lotto Sørensen Jan Sørensen Haward Speer Anthony Spinella Robert Stain Johan Storåkers Ljubomir Stosic Johannes Strassmann Nedzib Suman Trond Sundby Halldor Sverrisson Kjetil Tellefsen Paul Testud Katja Thater William Thorson Kristian Tolvhed Richard Toth Michael Tureniec Claus Valloe Timothy Vance Erik Veld Nicola Voss Aron Wallden Roland De Wolfe Ismail Yilmaz Sebastian Zink My three picks are Kristian Pedersen, Frederik Hostrup-Pedersen, and Dan Bitsch Pedersen. See you all at 2 o'clock... Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 01:13:29 PM And the cards have indeed made it into the air and probably back down to the felt already by now. We're off to find some entertaining stories...
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 01:38:49 PM How about another selection of some interesting looking tables?
Katja Thater Peter Hendriks Søren Kongsgaard Cristiano Blanco Almira Skripchenko Johannes Korsar Joris Jaspers Haward Speer Stuart Rutter Bjørn Agertved Jens Laurbjerg Nielsen Jonathan Cirilli William Thorson Nicolas Levi Micke Norinder Paul Testud Miikka Samuli Mustonen Rifat Palevic Tony G Gouga Plus all the excitement of a combined Andy Black, Roland de Wolfe, Marc Goodwin, Jeff Kimber and Liam Flood, making today nearly 65% more UK-tastic. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 02:48:17 PM Yes indeedy, hoodie of the day is very special and will be with you shortly, it's just a-loading right now.
In the meantime, BRITWATCH and we're down a man already. Somehow finding himself down to 1200, Marc Goodwin shoved to a raise from the below gentleman, one Uffe Holm of Denmark. Mr Holm apparently lost some sort of wager, and as a result will be known for the rest of this EPT as Elephant Man. Hard luck, Mr Holm. But also hard luck Mr Goodwin - racing his pocket Sixes against Elephant Man's K-J, a King on the flop meant that raising with K-J offsuit and subsequently calling the shove paid off for Elephant Man. Tusk, tusk. Sorry, ivory'll bad headache now. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 03:18:00 PM BREAKTIME CHIP COUNTS
Just a few, mind. Steve Jelinek - 7,300 Josh Gould - 10,000 on the nose Elephant Man - just 2,875 somehow, in spite of knocking out Marc Goodwin Jan Sjavik - 10,400 Arnaud Mattern - 5,125 Jeff Kimber - 17,200 Roy Brindley - 3,050 Tony G - apparently OUT Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 03:30:47 PM This gent, awesomely named Charles Furey like out of a 70's punk band (Dana thought Porn Star/Action Hero) is your early chip leader with almost 30,000. That's pretty good going. Honestly this photo represents the largest proportion of his face I could snap as he seems to spend most of his time looking downwards intensely. Pretty cool Escher-y hoody too - but you can't win more than one blonde title per day, it just wouldn't be fair.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9500&g2_serialNumber=1) Other counts: Table Kimber Nicholas Dervaux - 18,400 Kenneth Raun Hemmingsen - 975 Nedzib Suman - 5,300 Gunnar Rabe - 12,000 Jeff Kimber - 17,000 Christian Grundtvig - 8,100 Patrik Andersson - 15,200 Peter Bregnhøj - 10,200 Said El Mekki - 5,225 Erlend Melsom - 9,225 Table Extra UK player - Mr. Trevor Lawson! Hristo Genov - 12,000 Bernd Monsma - 10,250 Peter Davidsen - 11,550 Sebastian Zink - MOVED/OUT Jan Walther Lund - OUT Roger Archtander - 7,450 Mike McDonald - 11,000 Trond Sundby - 9,500 Ståle Mortensson - 15,500 Ole Busborg - 13,800 Trevor Lawson - 10,100 Table I might have got these counts out by one place, sorry... Seats 8-10 definitely right though Katja Thater - OUT/MOVED Peter Hendriks - 10,700 Søren Kongsgaard - 4,500 Cristiano Blanco - ?? Almira Skripchenko - 12,000 Johannes Korsar - 8,300 Joris Jaspers - 11,150 Haward Speer - 13,700 Stuart Rutter - 11,000 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 03:49:15 PM OK how about a hand?
None other than Tom McEvoy is involved here - for those that don't recognise him he's the distinguished-looking white haired gentleman on the leftish of this picture, sporting Team Pokerstars gear today. He re-raised preflop on the button to 1,000 after Nedin Musa had initially shown interest... but when it got back to Musa he upped it to 3,000. A pretty swift call from McEvoy later and they were looking at a flop of 3h 5c 4s. Musa bet out 5k and McEvoy passed sharpish. Then Peter Hedlund - the blurry guy in blue - resumed talking (he'd briefly paused during the hand and to drink some beer) saying, "I should have pushed! Flopped a set!" before continuing to drink beer and talk a lot. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9508&g2_serialNumber=1) Arnaud Mattern is also on that table in seat 5 (you can just make out an ear and a bit of brown T-shirt) so I've added a pic of him for no particular reason. Musa is the guy on the left, here though. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9510&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 04:15:10 PM I have to say, it's a bit slooooow and a bit not much fuuuuuunnn out there. By which I don't mean everyone's in a terrible mood and there's a bad atmosphere. Everybody seems fairly content. It's just, nobody seems to be talking, or otherwise interacting, or having a good time. Take this hand from Table Rutter, for example.
There's a flop - 5d 5s 7c Joris Jaspers doesn't do anything for a little while. Nobody speaks. Then he bets 1000. There's a pause. Not a pregnant pause, more a pause of polite contemplation. Then Cristiano (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=512) Blanco (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=512) raises to 2200. Everyone looks at the felt. Then, after a decent interval, Johannes Korsar calls. Eventually Joris Jaspers passes. The dealer waits until he's absolutely certain that everyone has acted, and then deals the 8s turn. Both remaining players ponder this for a moment, and then check. Now the dealer carefully places the 2h river in its proper place next to the turn card. Blanco thinks about it. He checks. Korsar is now not sure what to do. He considers his next move, in silence. Everyone waits patiently. Finally, he decides his move. He bets 2500. Now the action is on Blanco again. He doesn't know what to do. He looks down at the felt. He licks his lips, and apparently counts to somewhere in the region of 40 or 50 before he acts. He silently passes. GAHHHHH! By the way, the Rutter has a dirty stack. But he assures me that he has 11.5k, and is happy. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 04:18:23 PM French Counts:
Arnaud Mattern - 4,525 Renaud of Dammartin (aka Raynald I)- no show Paul Testud - 8,600 Nicolas Levi - 27,000 He seems to have taken all of France's luck today and spun it into some nice chip towers (I especially like his hoard of green 25 chips). Here pictured are the four middle seats on what looks to be a pretty tough table: William Thorson, Nicolas, Mikke Norinder and Paul Testud. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9526&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9528&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 04:30:13 PM Of course, there is the exception that proves every rule, and that exception is Table Levi/Norinder/Testud.
Nicolas Levi raises in early position, and Micke Norinder calls. Levi eyes him up. "I have the distinct feeling that you like me," he says. "I do like you, man," says Micke, but neither of them seem to want to get more involved than that at this stage. Paul Testud also calls, and so does Bjorn Agertved. Flop - 9c 7c 4c Nicolas bets 1200. Micke, probably because he likes him, calls. Paul Testud gets out of the way. Now Agertved dwells, boringly. Oh no, think I, it's going to be like every other hand I've watched, where everyone dwells for ages and nothing at all happens at the end of it. Then Agertved goes all in for 6325 total. Oh ok, think I, everyone's going to fold now. Now Nicolas Levi goes all in too, for loads! Now Nicolas' new friend Micke lets out this kind of weird guttural groany scream like probably the sound that Vikings used to make when they were just about to rape or pillage. "WUUEEOOOOOEEUUUUUURRRRRR! That was my move!" says he. He thinks about it quite seriously for a moment, but gets out of the way. Levi - 5c 6c obviously, what with that early position raise and everything Agertved - Kc Jd Turn - 2d River - 5s Agertved is OUT. So there you go. Who'd've thunk it. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 04:48:55 PM Young Swede Ramzi Jelassi was down to around 5 or 6k last I checked.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 04:53:00 PM Roy Brindley, pictured here somewhat depressed after sinking to just 4k at the break, might be in a better mood now having doubled up with Qc Jc on a Q-J-xxx board against Pascal Perrault's A-Q. As it was he said it was a good thing I was taking his picture as he might be out any minute etc. etc. before describing the last fifteen minutes of play before the break as 'torture.'
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9532&g2_serialNumber=1) Oh, sorry - Marc just told us that his brief resurgence in chips is over and he's now OUT - Ski-outfitted Rolf Slotboom his assassin, mainly. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 06:02:23 PM By the way, a few bits and pieces we established before the Betfair conference...
Andy Black was up to 13k, but ran his pocket Kings into a neighbour's Mighty 6-7 Offsuit and is long gone. Steve Jelinek is no longer in his seat, and seeing as his orange t-shirt is nowhere to be seen, we're assuming he's gone. Big stacks include one Roger Johannessen. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 06:12:10 PM Just bumped into Stuart Rutter, who tells me that he's been having a pretty good time of it and is up to 23k.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 06:16:37 PM The below gent, who reminds me a bit of Bill Bailey but is in fact called Luoto Sakari and is an online qualifier, doubled up courtesy of the gent below him whose name I don't know.
Sakari - Aspades Qc Mateyboy - Kc Jd All in on the flop of a Qh Qd Kh 5d 9d board. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 06:21:54 PM The final and definitive Day 1b player list has arrived! Enjoy.
Torben Hübertz Knudsen Kenneth Gregersen Darin Cook Mikkel Middelbo Thomas Markussen Steve Jelinek Richard Larsen Stephen Devlin Livio Foianesi Henrik Lotto Sørensen Claus Uhrskov Daniluk Andrey Russell Carson William Paulsson Will Haughey Timmi Jofur Richard Løth Claus Valloe Thomas Holm Marcel Baran Michael Tureniec Rasmus Edenfall Henning Jakobsen Seppo Parkkinen Charles Furey Giacomo Rosa Vincent Clark Byrd Mihai Mika Frank Gersby Jacobsen Erik Veld Jan Rune Olsen Toke Nielsen Nichlas Saarisilta Kristian Hasløv Kyriakides Miltiadis Sigurd Eskeland Karsten Johansen Henrik Rune Stefan Mattsson Timothy Vance Alaa Al-Chani Janno Cazemier Olli Kurvinen Marc Goodwin Mikael Johansson Michael Eriksson Alexander Ellingsen Lars Hoe Madsen Deniz Bozgeyik Uffe Holm Bjørn Agertved Jens Laurbjerg Nielsen Jonathan Cirilli William Thorson Nicolas Levi Micke Norinder Paul Testud Miikka Samuli Mustonen Rifat Palevic Tony G Arild Moldøy Nick Mazur Ed de Haas Richard Toth Ilari Sahamies Lars Hansen Kim Olsen Rigo Nyfjeld Ljubomir Stosic Jogvan K Glerfoss Matthias Neu Jyri Merivirta Andy Black Christer Laudius Scott Harwood Alexander Petersen Luca Pagano Rene Kovacs Stig Farholt Stephane Gerin Jan Sjåvik Casper Dahl Hansen Nicolaj Linneballe Johan Storåkers Søren Jensen Antti Pystynen Henrik Gwinner Kenneth Hessellund Mika Puro Morten Holm Marcus Palm Ibrahim Sacrista Omar Adel Nedin Musa Arnaud Mattern Vegard Mandal Tom McEvoy Per Loeff Peter Hedlund Anders Rasmussen Martin Skovgaard Anersen Kjetil Tellefsen Carlo Misuraca Frei Dilling Kjær Michael Marek Dan Bitsch Pedersen Erik Bodén Alfonso Amendola Jens Lübbe Jon Lundberg Luoto Sakari Erik Friberg Johannes Strassmann Pernille Ravn Sonny Sareen Martin El-Kher Raymond Landaas Paul Christoffersson Andreas Glannbro Richard Dalberg Andreas Sarling Roland Olsson Remy Biechel Rasmus Gandrup Brian Bischoff Jonas Lennartsson Mads Andersen Tung Huynh Simon Ravnsbaek Andreas Elofsson Nicolas Dervaux Kenneth Raun Hemmingsen Nedzib Suman Gunnar Rabe Jeff Kimber Christian Grundtvig Patrik Andersson Peter Bregnhøj Said El Mekki Erlend Melsom Steen Møller Anders Gustav Eriksson Frederik Hostrup-Pedersen Halldor Sverrisson Lasse Rimmer Erik Olsen Sean Lund Roger Johannessen Markus Golser Brian Linnet Jonas Mathiasen Sasha Rosewood Michael Eriksen Sven Leu Anders Berg Rob Hollink Ramzi Jelassi Jacob Juhl Bent Mortensen Jakob Vedel Lauridsen Roger Archtander Johnny Jensen Dario Nittolo Fahid Ali Anthony Spinella Tomas Brolin Anders Andersen Gino Alacqua Sándor Hollaar Dustin Mele John Donnelly David Figueroa Rolf Slotboom Simon Dørslund Ismail Yilmaz Kristian Tolvhed Roy Brindley Pascal Perrault Bulent Karsli Magnus Cornmark Patrick Bueno Magnus Hansen Thomas Dahlgren Michael Schulze Theo Jørgensen Sami Kelopuro Tomasz Krzesiñski Rehne Pedersen Nicola Voss Jan Sørensen Hristo Genov Bernd Monsma Peter Davidsen Sebastian Zink Jan Walther Lund Mike McDonald Trond Sundby Ståle Mortensson Ole Busborg Trevor Lawson Katja Thater Peter Hendriks Søren Kongsgaard Cristiano Blanco Almira Skripchenko Johannes Korsar Joris Jaspers Haward Speer Stuart Rutter Istvan Szikrai Tom De Groot Jonas Helness Johan Lund Steve Frezer Thomas Billum Peter Willers Jepsen Norman Levitt Rene Mouritsen Ryan Segelke Matt Kay Aron Wallden Charlie Ciresi Jogi Karamishi Liam Flood Kristian Pedersen Stephan Ma Sargon Ruya Kuremszki Csaba Sigurð Carlsson Robert Stain Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 06:26:32 PM Also we have received the all-important PAYOUT.
Position Danish Kroner (DKK) Euros (approx) 1 6,220,488 834,590 2 3,521,429 472,463 3 2,045,381 274,425 4 1,560,394 209,355 5 1,286,270 172,576 6 1,012,147 135,798 7 801,283 107,507 8 569,333 76,386 9 347,926 46,680 10 347,926 46,680 11 274,123 36,779 12 274,123 36,779 13 210,864 28,291 14 210,864 28,291 15 147,605 19,804 16 147,605 19,804 17-24 115,975 15,560 25-32 84,346 11,316 33-40 63,259 8,487 Total prize pool 21,086,400 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 06:28:29 PM I'm not sur, but I think it's not Roger Johannessen but Markus (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=644) Golser (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=644) ;carlocitrone; Oh maybe, thanks. Couldn't see his ticket so had to go on where he was sitting. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 06:56:12 PM I was just snapping Dario Nittolo's proudly embossed nick-name and comedy-hand hoody (each card one off the half-Wilson, I note) when he promptly shoved his microstack all in preflop... resignedly showing down Ks 3s which failed to improve against his caller's Ad Jd.
But what I was taking his picture for was to compare with Stuart Rutter's The Nutter hoody which he appears to have made himself with poster paint. Bless. Also good for reinforcing that very image. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9560&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9562&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 07:01:43 PM Mr Rutter would like it to be known that his phone is dead, so if he's not answering your calls, that is the reason. Or possibly he doesn't like you.
Anyway, he's back down to 15k or so - he lost a 14k pot with Aces, one of them a club, calling a guy all in on a two-club flop. The dude was holding Jc Tc and hit on the river. His stack is still around averagey and perfectly manageable, but he says: "It feels like Groundhog Day, I just can't win a single all in." Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 07:06:46 PM The Rutter, incidentally, has moved table.
On New Table Rutter, Arild Moldoy has just doubled up with Tc Ts against Rigo Nyfjeld's Aspades Kc. Board - a very firm Th Ad 5s 5h 9h. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 07:17:12 PM Some Assorted Numbers (of chips that people have):
Steve Jelinek - Not out but on 3,925 Mr. Furey - 27,000 William Thorson - OUT Nicolas Levi - 18,000 Stuart Rutter - 18,000 Jeff Kimber - 4,100 Jan Sjavik - 17,500 Ramzi Jelassi - 12,000 Sasha Rosewood - 19,000 Rob Hollink - 9,450 Markus Golser - 18,500 Frederik Hostrup-Pedersen - 26,500 Ilari Sahamies - 27,000 Luca Pagano - 21,000 Christian Grundtvig - 4,000 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 07:18:27 PM Scandie Shows Emotion At Yucky Outdraw Shocker!
Young Toke Nielsen makes it 950 to go, and directly to his left, Olli Kurvinen makes it 2400. Nielsen calls. Flop - Jh Jc 3h Nielsen bets 3k, and Kurvinen dwells boringly for a while. I must say, I always assumed that a boring lengthy dwell usually resulted in a fold, but I am beginning to realise that for the young Scandies the boring lengthy dwell usually means they're going to go all in. Go all in he does. Now Nielsen checks his cards, looks a little irked, and dwells boringly for a little while. He duly calls. Nielsen - 4d 4c Kurvinen - Ac Kd Turn - Qc River - Qs Suddenly not boring any more, Nielsen is outraged. He shouts something which sounds like "Knife, knife, knife, squirly thing!" and hits himself in the face with a magazine. He stalks off. Kurvinen shows no emotion. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 07:33:30 PM Problems for Prague-Winner Arnaud Mattern… The cutoff whose name tag has him as Roland de Wolfe but who definitely isn’t and is in fact Omar Adel re-raised preflop to 3,100 after early position Peter Hedlund had opened. Arnaud thought for a while before making it 6,200 – the kind of bet which pretty much would commit both of them if it was taken up… Hedlund got out of the way and Adel made a token dwell before moving all in with a weird slidey-round motion with his stack as if to say, “Are they going all in? Aren’t they going all in?” which must have been a bit annoying to Arnaud, who showed Ac Kh and had to wait for a pseudosqueeze and therefore slight slowroll from Adel with his Ahrt Ad. Down to around 6k now.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 08:06:02 PM Matthias Neu takes a hit to his not-so-comfy stack now courtesy of Luca Pagano. He'd raised to 850 preflop and picked up one other caller as well as big blind Pagano.
Flop: 2d 6s 8d Check to the raiser, who bets 2050. Only the snappily dressed Italian calls... Turn: Ahrt Now a considered check-check for a free River: 9c Luca Pagano throws out four blue 1k chips and whatever the opposite of a dwell and slowroll is happened almost too fast to be seen with the naked eye... Instacall and instaflip of 5c 7c for the second nuts for Pagano and a quiet muck from Neu. Steve Jelinek is OUT - not sure what happened but he was under 4k at last count so I think they all went in and didn't come back out. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 08:14:56 PM SOme hands that look like they might go somewhere but actually never quite happen:
Arnaud Mattern makes it 875 utg but lays it down when Anders Rasmussen moves all in. Jan Sjavik bets 1500 on a Qd Ks 5s flop, but lays it down when Kristian Tolvhed goes in over the top of him. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 08:18:55 PM Yes yes, as I was most righteously corrected earlier, that dude getting the massage was indeed Markus Golser. He has around 30k.
Ramzi Jelassi has 34k. "Not bad," he is thinking as he contemplates his stack. I imagine. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 08:23:12 PM The guy who looks really surprised to be raking in the pot next to Thinker Johan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=604) Storakers (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=604) here knocked out Henrik Gwinner who pushed with a not-really-foldable-to stack after he'd raised on the button. He held Jh Qh and Gwinner 7d 7h.
The flop came Th Ks 6c but the tension of the race was firmly squashed with the Ad turn. Drawing dead, a feeling which ranks somewhere above tooth pain and below locking your car keys in the car. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9593&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 08:24:24 PM The board reads Ad 2h 8d Ahrt 7c and awesomely monikered Rasmus Gandrup bets 3k. Roland Olsson asks for a count, but with a "yeahhhh, ok," he just flat calls.
Olsson - Ac Kh Gandrup - Aspades Kd They split, with giggling. The two of them are sitting either side of Steve Frezer. Must confess I didn't recognise him and didn't see him play a hand, but I took another photo of him anyway just because he looks like such a nice, smiley man, and I like his hat. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 08:51:19 PM Also is Liam (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=638) Flood (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=638) still in ? if so ay chance of a chip count please. No, 'fraid not. By his own admission he apparently didn't play so well, largely because he didn't sleep last night. Bad luck, Mr Flood, on all fronts. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 08:54:22 PM and what about the very known players like Markus (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=644) Golser (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=644), Tony G, Tom (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1138) McEvoy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1138), and the others ??? Don't worry, Jen and Dana, your reports are very interresting... Markus Golser has 42k. Tony G and Tom McEvoy are both OUT, Tony G super-early (I think we reported it as soon as we knew; nobody seems to have seen his actual exit hand though, sorry). Will check on the French guys... Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 09:18:17 PM Over on table Slotboom super short stacked Trond Sundby looked ready to push when it folded to him on the button. "Please take it easy on me," pleaded small blind Rolf, "I need the money!" I have never seen anyone so protective of their small blind... anyway when Sundby's last 2,500 hit the middle it wasn't Rolf but big blind Roland Olsson who made the call showing 6h 6c to Sundby's Ts Js. A 6d on the flop sealed the deal and we're down another player.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 09:25:57 PM LA FRANCEWATCH
Nicolas Levi - approx. 20k Paul Testud - approx. 25k Arnaud Mattern - exactly 6.1k and a bit unhappy about it, bless Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 09:27:14 PM Arnaud didn't self destruct after his AK problem, but has been grinding with around 6k... but he did come to tell me during a particularly weird hand other people were involved in on his table, "I am going INSANE!" Whether this is to do with the play or some of the players or the dealer, I am not sure, but one worries. He said that the floor had just been called due to a pretty remarkable series of dealer errors - like so:
1) On the flop with two players in the pot, a guy not in the hand made the sign of the check (you know, tapped the table) and the dealer dealt the turn. It was then pointed out that the checker had no cards. 2) The players (who hadn't acted) then sort of accepted that they wouldn't make a fuss and play the turn. While action was still on player 1, who was doing some thinking, the dealer dealt the river. 3) Now player 2 wants to bet. 4) The floorman rules that the river is to be reshuffled into the deck and a round of betting completed for the turn (fair enough). Player 2 now doesn't look so delighted about betting, but does anyway and somehow wins the pot right there. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 09:27:57 PM Chugging along as a relatively big stack all day has been Gino Alacqua. Just now I saw him knock out Erik Boden.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 09:29:45 PM Are Testud and Levi always at the same table ???? any collusion ? lol... Yes, they've been at the same table all day, with Levi's New Best Friend, Amsterdam Master Classics Final Tabler Micke Norinder between them. Cannot possibly comment as to collusion, But probably. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 09:33:29 PM Stuart Rutter, yo-yoing about all over the place, is in a much better mood now that he has doubled up to 29k, not least because he had Aces and it could so easily have gone terribly wrong.
He flat-called a raise to 1200, but there was another caller, and he was a-feared come the K-J-6, two-hearts flop. The original raiser bet 1800 and The Rutter raised to 3800, and then called the all-in. Original Raiser had Kd 3d. "It's the first all in I've won in donkeys' years!" he enthuses. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 09:37:06 PM Ramzi Jelassi has just been moved two to the left of Markus Golser (does Mr. Golser ever not build a good stack in these events?) who has 55k which makes his 30k look less good. He sat down and received his first hand utg+1. He raised (here we go, the table may sigh) to 1,025, called by Livio Foianesi and big blind Golser.
Flop: 7s 2c Kd Check to Ramzi who makes it 2,500. Pass back but not further than Markus who promptly makes it 6,500. "Are you sure?" asks Ramzi, "It's my first hand..." then says, "It's winning," and folds what looked like a raggy suited Ace face-up. "You wouldn't like it if I made it 15k..." he tries, but Markus is giving away absolutely nothing. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 09:38:08 PM Nicolaj Linneballe, in the suit in the photo, has doubled up his 3.8k microstack. He shoved with Qh Qc utg and big blind Christian Grundtvig, not in the suit in the photo, called with Js Jd.
Board - a decidedly un-Jack-filled 3c Kh 3h 4s Ts Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 09:43:40 PM Steven "all in stevie" Devlin has doubled up, moving in on the turn of a 5d 7s Qs Jd board and finding a caller in Kenneth Gregersen.
I know Devlin has a monster, because he does not give me the evil eye as I take a photo of him while he is all in (a kind of blogger's tell). He flips over Qd Qh. Gregersen makes a sad noise, and flips over the Qc; he is informed that he must show his other card too, and it is the inconsequential seeing as he's drawing dead Ks. UPDATE - actually he's OUT now, apparently hurling himself into Ramzi Jelassi's Aces. Oops. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 09:45:09 PM A defiantly-staring Mike McDonald - about 20k.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 10:15:07 PM Um, yes, obviously as soon as we find a UK player he promptly exits. One day someone's going to sue us for cursing them or something.
Anyway, I believe what happened was that Nick Mazur raised some preflop and then Stig Farholt re-raised to 5k or so (missed the very early stages of the hand, so I sort of pieced that back together with my Awesome Powers Of Deduction). Nick called. Flop - Jh 3h Td and Farholt says, "How much you have?" They end up with Nick all in. He has Qd Qc. Stig Farholt has Ac Ad. No Queen, and he's OUT. I take a heartless photo of him as it's sinking in, before he's even stood up to leave. Sorry, Mr Mazur. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 10:17:01 PM Um, yes, the Rutter Rollercoaster also continues. He's down to 12k again, after finding himself on the losing end of a QQ v AK race, an Ace on the turn. He is becoming hysterical.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 10:19:01 PM The clock has been stopped, and they're playing the last apparently-randomly-generated-number-of-hands of the day. Today that number is seven. I shall continue to report stuff that happened before that while Jen watches those last seven hands.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 10:21:48 PM Martin Skovgaard Anersen doubled up with Ad 3d on an Ahrt 3s Aspades 5s 4d board, somehow convincing Frei Kjaer that he wanted to call on the flop with K-Q.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 10:24:29 PM Tom de Groot is OUT, to the dude below who is not Tom de Groot (anyone?). All in preflop, his 3d 3h didn't stand a chance against his opponent's Ad Aspades, particularly when the first card out of the deck was another Ace.
Board - Ahrt 5h Td 9c 2d (some very optimistic soul cried "hearts!" on the flop, but it was not to be.) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 10:33:29 PM Stig Farholt, who took out Nick Muzar, has around 70k and is among the chip leaders. Nedin Musa is also flying high with around 85k.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on February 20, 2008, 10:40:04 PM A couple of end of day counts as they prepare to wrap things up for Day 1B:
Rolf Slotboom - 12,000 Nicolas Levi - 22,000 Micke Norinder - 14,000 Stuart Rutter - 12,000 Ilari Sahamies - 47,000 Paul Testud - 20,000 Ramzi Jelassi - 45,000 Markus Golser - 50,000 Frederik Hostrup-Pedersen - 14,500 Charles Furey - 29,000 Arnaud Mattern - 6,500 Steve Frezer - 23,700 He gets his own line because he has the best attitude I've seen - cheerful, enjoying the game, not afraid to wear a sunhat indoors. Plus he's wearing a shirt that says something nice and optimistic like "Yesterday is history, tomorrow never comes. Today's the day." Or similar. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 20, 2008, 10:44:28 PM Steve Frezer - 23,700 He gets his own line because he has the best attitude I've seen - cheerful, enjoying the game, not afraid to wear a sunhat indoors. Plus he's wearing a shirt that says something nice and optimistic like "Yesterday is history, tomorrow never comes. Today's the day." Or similar. Yes, he always smiles at updaters, too. Even when they don't smile back. We are totally finished for the day, chipcounts to follow when Mad Harper (definitely a lady, to clear up the confusion) and those fine Pokerstars people send them over. Thomas Kremser: "Everybody please now LEAVE the tournament area. See you tomorrow at 2pm. Goodnight." Daily report also to follow at the William Hill site, soon as we've written it. Bar beckons. ;stickaforkinme; Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - At A Glance Post by: danafish on February 21, 2008, 01:24:11 AM Chip counts:
FullName Chips Country Peter Eastgate 79.700 Denmark Ola Brandborn 79.300 Sweden Theo Jørgensen 75.900 Denmark Mathias Andersen 71.600 Denmark Stig Farholt 70.600 Denmark Andreas Glannbro 69.700 Sweden Nedin Musa 67.300 Denmark Tommy Pavlicek 67.000 Canada Dennis Naci Hansen 63.300 Denmark Simon Dørslund 59.500 Denmark Jan Sørensen 57.800 Denmark Luca Pagano 56.400 Italy Markus Golser 54.800 Austria Johan Lund 51.900 Sweden Allan Bække 50.900 Denmark Peter Kalsen Petersen 50.900 Denmark Kristian Hasløv 50.700 Denmark Marcin Horecki 50.100 Poland Tom Larsen 50.000 Denmark Mattias Ressner 50.000 Sweden Miikka Samuli Mustonen 47.500 Finland Henrik Rune 46.600 Denmark Ramzi Jelassi 46.200 Sweden Leroy Soesman 46.000 Holland Frederik Brink Jensen 45.700 Denmark Joris Jaspers 44.900 Holland Charles Furey 44.600 USA Børge Dypvik 44.200 Norway Vegard Mandal 43.900 Norway Rasmus Hede Nielsen 43.100 Denmark Ed de Haas 42.000 Holland Alexander Kravchenko 40.500 Russia Bill Chen 40.300 USA Jonas Danielsson 39.700 Sweden Christoffer Thorsen 39.400 Norway Gino Alacqua 38.900 Italy Jarle Aasen 38.000 Norway Ilari Sahamies 37.800 Finland Janno Cazemier 37.500 Afghanistan Jonas Lennartsson 37.000 Sweden Matin Talebi 35.400 Denmark Trond Erik Eidsvig 35.400 Norway Jesper Askholt 35.300 Denmark Jospeh Serock 35.200 USA Raymond Landaas 35.000 Norway Anders Henriksson 34.300 Sweden Lars Juul Madsen 34.200 Denmark Ulrik Pedersen 33.600 Denmark Jesper Hougaard 33.400 Denmark Day 2 seating plan: 21 1 Joris Jaspers 2 Mathias Andersen 3 Miikka Samuli Mustonen 4 Stig Farholt 5 Jonas Klausen 6 Raymond Landaas 7 Allan Bække 8 Ulrica Skönnemark 9 Matin Talebi 22 1 Severin Hovde 2 Christer Laudius 3 Thomas Markussen 4 Nikolas Liakos. 5 Barny Boatman 6 Peter Hedlund 7 Michele Limongi 8 Michael Marek 9 Jospeh Serock 23 1 David Figueroa 2 Wim Emo 3 Bill Chen 4 Tomasz Krzesiñski 5 Michael Eriksson 6 Thomas Petersen 7 Mattias Richard Emil Ressner 8 Andreas Hoivold 9 Johan Lund 24 1 Nicolas Dervaux 2 Jarle Aasen 3 Ilari Sahamies 4 Magnus Hansen 5 Morten Johansen 6 Runar Runarsson 7 Jan Sørensen 8 Gesi Bason 9 Peter Eastgate 25 1 Anders Martinsen 2 Janno Cazemier 3 Patrik Andersson 4 Morten Erlandsen 5 Jesper Hougaard 6 Giacomo Rosa 7 Theo Jørgensen 8 Frederik Brink Jensen 9 Lars Madsen 26 1 Tom Larsen 2 Kristian Hasløv 3 Bengt Sonnert 4 Pernille Ravn 5 Jonas Lennartsson 6 Nhi Bui 7 Jesper Petersen 8 Norman Levitt 9 Omar Adel 27 1 Tobias Holmeide 2 Mika Puro 3 Brian Jensen 4 Dennis Naci Hansen 5 Kristian Pedersen 6 Torbjörn Jonson 7 Sidsel Helle Boesen 8 Tommy Pavlicek 9 Paul Grabowski 28 1 Martin Skovgaard Anersen 2 Markus Golser 3 Marcin Horecki 4 Sonny Sareen 5 Mikael Norinder 6 Lasse Jeppesen 7 Anthony Chatelain 8 Nicolas Levi 9 Christina Orth 29 1 Claus Uhrskov 2 Jerzy Hajdamowicz 3 Ulrik Pedersen 4 Luca Pagano 5 Kresten Nielsen 6 Brian Linnet 7 Timothy Vance 8 Johannes Korsar 9 Istvan Szikrai 30 1 Timmi Jofur 2 Claus Tversted 3 Rigo Nyfjeld 4 Jesper Askholt 5 Nicolaj Linneballe 6 Marcus Friman 7 Anders Berg 8 Pehr Petersson 9 Ola Brandborn 31 1 Daniluk Andrey 2 Gino Alacqua 3 Claus Bentzen 4 Anders Rasmussen 5 Peter Kalsen Petersen 6 Andreas Per Ragnar Davidsson 7 Olli Kurvinen 8 Arnaud Mattern 9 Martin Bjerring Hansen 32 1 Piotr Paruszewski 2 Jannick Wrang 3 Erik Veld 4 Matthias Neu 5 Frederik Hostrup-Pedersen 6 Joseph Morneau 7 Erik Bodén 8 Jan Rune Olsen 9 Morten Holm 33 1 Leroy Soesman 2 Rolf Slotboom 3 Stuart Rutter 4 Peter Eichhardt 5 Kenneth Lyons 6 Simon Dørslund 7 Sven Polarski 8 Georgios Pittas 9 Sargon Ruya 34 1 Sigbjørn Mortueit 2 Alexander Ellinsen 3 Christian Grundtvig 4 Jakob Vedel Lauridsen 5 Peter Bregnhøj 6 Mikkel Middelbo 7 Noah Boeken 8 Marcel Baran 9 Dustin Mele 35 1 Christoffer Thorsen 2 Thomas Christiansen 3 Mike McDonald 4 Lars Hoe Madsen. 5 Morten Klein 6 Luca Ferrario 7 Kaj Jørgensen 8 Tung Huynh 9 Aron Wallden 36 1 Scott Harwood 2 Peter Hauerslev 3 Gunnar Rabe 4 Anders Henriksson 5 Mathias Kuerschner 6 Jon Lundberg 7 Ryan Badii 8 Thor Hansen 9 Jens Hansen 37 1 Mark Goodwin 2 Andreas Glännbro 3 Anders Bekhøj Hansen 4 Søren Jensen 5 Tommy Dender 6 Charles Furey 7 Frank Gersby Jacobsen 8 Brian Bischoff 9 Ed de Haas 38 1 Trond Erik Eidsvig 2 Nedin Musa 3 Rene kovacs 4 Vegard Mandal 5 Paul Testud 6 Claus Valloe 7 Daniel Ryan 8 Ramzi Jelassi 9 Jonas Danielsson 39 1 Henrik Rune 2 Jonas Mathiasen 3 Børge Dypvik 4 Rasmus Hede Nielsen 5 Haward Speer 6 Roar Wang 7 Alexander Kravchenko 8 Kenneth Raun Hemmingsen Hmm, I notice one Marc Goodwin in there when we're fairly sure he busted in Level 1, and it doesn't seem fair that he gets to play Day 2, so we're guessing that that's some kind of mistake. Hopefully this will all be rectified in the morning... |