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Title: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 11:08:04 AM Having made the strenuous decision to try and get out of bed and get breakfast at our hotel, I found out that they don't serve breakfast after 10.30am. I really feel the universally accepted system of when meals are is designed to make people in the updating field miserable. :(
Nevermind though, here's the full seating plan for todays remaining 130 players. Juan Manuel Pastor 1 1 25700 Kenneth Matsson 1 2 32200 Sebastian Ruthenberg 1 3 45100 Henrik Gwinner 1 4 48500 Thierry Van Der Berg 1 5 19900 Theo Jorgensen 1 6 50300 Kosta Anastasyadi 1 7 16700 Johan Lund 1 8 24000 Keith Donais 2 1 76200 Łukasz Wasek 2 2 13500 Joao Manuel Nunes 2 3 9100 Janusz Petlic 2 4 18300 Jean Claude Perrot 2 5 50100 Brian Jensen 2 6 24300 Fredrik Haugen 2 7 36800 David Robinson 2 8 55800 Craig Hopkins 2 9 15000 Trond Erik Eidsvig 3 1 34400 Daniel Mangas 3 2 17900 Dennis Petronack 3 3 48100 Mark Hirleman 3 4 17200 Christos Kravaritis 3 5 21600 Mads Andersen 3 6 22900 Mohamed-Azam Razab-Sekh 3 7 22800 Johnny Lodden 3 8 6000 William Olivieri 3 9 8000 Cameron Macmillan 4 1 20100 Joao Quintella Teixeira De Freitas 4 2 22200 Hecham El Sayed 4 3 66700 Torgeir Husevaag 4 4 16600 Juan Lapido 4 5 29600 Cristiano Blanco 4 6 28800 Ilja Smid 4 7 26200 Mike Leah 4 8 9900 Christoffer Egemo Hansen 4 9 23700 Joel Gunnarsson 5 1 13800 John Gibson 5 2 3900 Elizabeth Lieu 5 3 9100 Daniel Carter 5 4 20800 Jacek Ładny 5 5 22500 David Burn 5 6 41700 Gino Alacqua 5 7 8000 Mats Rahm 5 8 24000 James Honeybone 5 9 38700 Remy Biechel 6 1 14000 Andy Black 6 2 42400 Julien Boue 6 3 18800 Antonio Gomez Ribera 6 4 23800 Nikolaj Fabricius 6 5 15400 Darcourt Guillaume 6 6 33600 Jan Stefan Smolarczyk 6 7 2600 Miika Karjalainen 6 8 26100 Raul Paez Corral 6 9 18200 Jurgen Stumpmeier 7 1 25000 Anton Smolyanskiy 7 2 35800 Jari-Pekka Juhola 7 3 34400 Daniel Woolson 7 4 18400 Ulrica Skönnemark 7 5 24900 Michael Schulze 7 6 87900 Daniel Ryan 7 7 19800 Sami Leino 7 8 6300 Claus Nielsen 7 9 18000 Piergiorgio D'ancona 8 1 13100 Leszek Krawczyński 8 2 27100 Tomasz Krzesiński 8 3 18000 Seppo Parkkinen 8 4 25900 Eugeniusz Licznarowski 8 5 6900 Kostadin Anakiev 8 6 20900 Aleksandr Gorelik 8 7 27200 Nikolas Avlonitis 8 8 14300 Jorund Soma 8 9 14700 Robert Flink 9 1 113300 Mathias Viberg 9 2 11300 Derek Montgomery 9 3 26600 Bernard Boutboul 9 4 37000 Henrik Lennholm 9 5 10300 Willian Johnson 9 6 40900 Jean François Rigollet 9 7 26600 Alp Okumus 9 8 62100 Christoffer Sonesson 9 9 39800 Andreas Torbergsen 10 1 53000 Kai Leurer 10 2 8600 Mehdi Ouakhir 10 3 40700 Patrick Arba 10 4 11500 Woody Deck 10 5 29700 Giuseppe Caciolo 10 6 36600 Andrea Benelli 10 7 35700 Marc Goodwin 10 8 18700 Casey Kastle 10 9 17200 Ricardo Sousa 11 1 29200 Blair Smith 11 2 18100 Victor Escudero 11 3 39100 Johan Storakers 11 4 24800 Michael Hogbom 11 5 34400 Jose Picazo 11 6 18400 Antti Ropponen 11 7 16900 Daniel Hofmeister 11 8 51900 Morten Holm 11 9 15300 Taras Mikulik 12 1 34400 Anio Alcaraz 12 2 78000 Dino Dinler 12 3 18300 Steve Bromley 12 4 25100 Alon Mizrahi 12 5 27500 Niclas Svensson 12 6 27800 Dennis Bejedal 12 7 33900 Dan B. Pedersen 12 8 98500 Christian Öman 14 1 15700 Hans Ritburg 14 2 17500 Hans Eskilsson 14 3 21100 Risto Ailamo 14 4 23900 Julian Thew 14 5 8900 Jospeh Serock 14 6 55000 Andreas Hagen 14 7 35100 Nico Behling 14 8 24500 Stephan Thiele-Bolivar 17 1 10500 Stewart Chantler 17 2 18300 Magnus Petersson 17 3 30100 Roberto Nateri 17 4 32500 Rowad Hadrous 17 5 24900 Kim Öfverström 17 6 15500 Marek Piecha 17 7 8700 Melvyn Judah 17 8 15500 Kenneth Hicks Jr. 19 1 41200 Antonio Battisti 19 2 32900 Jeffrey Petronack 19 3 21700 Mirko Kirner 19 4 6700 Azem Elezaj 19 5 29200 René Gisbertz 19 6 5200 Tyler Netter 19 7 42600 Robert Lipkin 19 8 28800 Let us know who your picks are on the Interactive thread: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=31958.new#new Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 01:29:22 PM Thewy is OUT in the first hand, "It was always going to be an uphill struggle."
He pushed with K-5 from the cut-off but Andreas Hagen found A-K in the small blind. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 01:35:37 PM All-in short stacks all over the room are taking their shots and holding their collective breath, some doubling up, some adding to the rich's riches...
Kai Leurer makes a stand preflop for 8,400 and finds a caller in Marc Goodwin. But Leurer's Aspades Jh is ahead of Mr. Cool's Ahrt Tc and stays so, knocking him back to the point where the very next hand he's the one shoving pre... Down to 10,000 or so but still in. ____________________________________________________ Likewise David Robinson doubled up Craig 'The Apple' Hopkins, who shoved it all in (13,200) over the top of his RHS neighbour's preflop raise to 2,400. He got called pretty speedily with 7d 7c and found his Ad Qd in a tournament-life race... Flop: 6d 2h 5d Already pretty good for Hopkins Turn: Qs Better River: Qc Better still. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 01:40:33 PM Amongst all these doubler uppers, we lose short stack Mike Leah, who was called all-in preflop by Hecham El Sayed.
"I hope you have K-J..." remarked Leah, flipping Qd Kd. "Two Kings," deadpanned El Sayed, showing 4s 4h. By the turn the board was paired, and Leah was hoping for the second pair over the Fours making his kicker spring to life, but it was not to be. He wished Liz Lieu good luck and headed for the rail. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 02:01:43 PM Niclas Svensson (pictured) rakes in a lake of chips as he gets a threeway pot in which his flopped set of Threes bide their time until an Ace on the turn makes the other guys two pair each (A7 and A3 their hands). The betting goes nuts and this happy stacker is the result. Note blogger/secret service agent talking to earpiece in background.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11822&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 02:03:03 PM Johnny Lodden has hit at least one double up already, he's up to about 16k now.
Liz Lieu is out, reshoving with Th 9h against the button, who held Queens. James Honeybone has knocked out Joel Gunnarsson with Qh Qd against er...4c 3c AIPF, the board a harmless 7d 2h 9d 9s 8h. Seppo (Wasn't he one of the Marx Brothers?) Parkkinen just knocked out both Kostadin Anakiev and Nikolas Avlonitis with Ahrt Ks vs 2h 2d vs 6h 6s on a 7h 4h 3h Th 8c Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 02:37:41 PM Christos Kravaritis has knocked out former Copenhagen winner Mads Andersen and crippled Johnny Lodden in the process. Kravaritis button raised, Andersen pushed and Lodden pushed behind, Kravaritis didn't have enough chips himself to fold and made the call with A-Q, finding himself live against Andersen's 9-9 and Lodden's 7-7.
A 6d Ac Kd Qs 3h was great from a non-Scandie viewpoint leaving Lodden with just 2k. He's since gone out. Journalist, last year's Dortmund runner-up, and occasional GUKPT player, Cristiano Blanco just doubled up with Ahrt 9h vs Hecan El Sayed's Ad 4d on a 3h 2h Kd 9d Aspades, all-in on the river. The Italian now has 65k. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 02:40:50 PM Today we're playing 8 levels or down to 3 tables of 8. We're leaning towards the latter.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 02:41:49 PM when do you have chip counts ? every break or every increase of the blinds ? Asking that to avoid bothering you with that when you cannot answer... We get full counts every 2 hours or so, but if you want an individual one just ask for it and we'll swing by their table. LaFranceWatch Please ? and who are the blondes playing today ? If some are still in... Was just counting some French chips like so: Remy Biechel -- 10k Bernard Boutboul -- 27,200 Jean Francois Rigollet -- 30,000 Mehdi Ouakhir -- 45,000 Jean Claude Perrot -- 45,000 Guillaume Darcourt -- OUT (he was on the Andy Black Table of Death, after all) But then found Boutboul calling a button all in in the big blind. He only had the Ahrt Ad... up against a looks-good-when-short Ac 2c. The flush was quick in cracking the Aces, and he's down to around 20k. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 02:46:08 PM Those glamorous glittering goodly cash prizes.
Position Polish Zloty Euros approx 1 2,154,000 609,782 2 1,220,600 345,543 3 718,000 203,261 4 538,500 152,445 5 437,980 123,989 6 344,640 97,565 7 272,840 77,239 8 201,040 56,913 9 122,060 34,554 10 122,060 34,554 11 100,520 28,456 12 100,520 28,456 13 78,980 22,359 14 78,980 22,359 15 57,440 16,261 16 57,440 16,261 17 43,080 12,196 18 43,080 12,196 19 43,080 12,196 20 43,080 12,196 21 43,080 12,196 22 43,080 12,196 23 43,080 12,196 24 43,080 12,196 25 28,720 8,130 26 28,720 8,130 27 28,720 8,130 28 28,720 8,130 29 28,720 8,130 30 28,720 8,130 31 28,720 8,130 32 28,720 8,130 7,180,000 2,032,607 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 02:50:15 PM Andreas Torbergsen check raises all in on a flop of 5h 3c 8c. His opponent was looking at the 20k or so somehow already in the pot while Torbergsen talked at him.
"Your Ace Jack is no good." "You have me on Ace Jack? You are good..." "TIME." He gets the pass he looked like he was aiming for. __________________________________________________ Meanwhile over on table Carter young Dan is storming ahead, just now raising preflop to 2,700, and getting re-raised by David Burn (just noticed new UK player) to 7,200. A brief pause which gave me time to count his chip towers (just under 50k) and he moved all-in. He covered his opponent, but not by a huge amount, and he folded. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 02:56:00 PM Recent eliminations include:
Liz Lieu Johnny Lodden Marc Goodwin Gino Alacqua Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 03:20:49 PM Andreas Hagen moves all-in for 15k on the dangerous looking 3s 4s 5s board, Kenneth Matsson decides he's racing at best, and folds 8d 8h.
Jeffrey Petronack is left smarting, he's got it all-in with Ks Kd on a 9h 8h 8c 8s board only to find Steve Bromley holding 9s 9c. No King or indeed 8d on the river, seals the double up for Bromley. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 03:22:09 PM Just like Jeffrey Petronack who just busted a minute or so before the end of the level and current 15 min break...
He re-raised Danny Ryan preflop all in, for an amount Mr. D__RY wasn't going to pass to, even holding Ahrt Tc after Andy Black had accidentally mucked Aspades 5c face up... Petronack showed: 8d 8s "Good luck," wished goodnatured Danny as the board came out Ac 3s 5s (You know how Andy Black felt about this)... 2h Ks. "Sorry about that," said Andy as Ryan stacked some new chips. "That's OK." The table of Death has got all laid back, all of a sudden. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 03:27:52 PM Keith Donais must have seen this poster before the start of the tournament.
(http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/fireballs/426/hero.jpg) Jean Claude Perrot makes a huge shove on a 2c Tc 6s flop, Donais eventually calls with 3s 3h, however, before he can add a superhero cape to his back, the Frenchman shows Js Jh, which is good and holds for a 100k pot. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 03:44:44 PM The gent in the silver shades is Anton Smolyanskiy, actually a US Stars qualifier who is pictured here betting 8,500 on a Ahrt 2h Kd flop the hand before the break started. Next to him is one of my picks, a sleepy-looking Joe Serock. Admittedly, today hasn't been going so well for him, down to around 30k while silver-shaded neighbour has around 70,000.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11832&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 03:59:18 PM when do you have chip counts ? every break or every increase of the blinds ? Asking that to avoid bothering you with that when you cannot answer... We get full counts every 2 hours or so, but if you want an individual one just ask for it and we'll swing by their table. [What's the latest with 'The Apple'??] Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 04:03:27 PM Stewart Chantler, who was caught playing Avril Lavigne from his Ipod so loudly that everyone in the cardroom could hear, a couple a days ago, has been caught doing it again. This time Andy Black told him to turn it down, presumably so Black can hear himself shout...
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 04:06:54 PM Trond Eidsvig raises to 3,300 on the button. Dennis Petronack calls from the big blind.
Kh Jd 9s Check, Trond says, "Next card please." 2c Petronack bets 4k, Trond calls. Ts Petronack checks, Trond makes a noise like a parrot being strangled and says, "I don't know what to do." But he checks. Petronack shows Kc Jc. It's good. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11840&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 04:28:16 PM A pot grows like it's been genetically modified and zapped with pesticides:
Christoffer Sonesson in the big blind sees a flop after calling a raise from Claus Nielsen. The rest of this action, though it will take you mere seconds to read, took a lot longer than that in real life. Both players, though both young and aggressive, don't give the impression of acting impulsively - always a calm, measured decision. Flop: 8c 7s 4d Sonesson checks. Nielsen bets 4,800. Sonesson check-raises another 9,200 on top. Slowly, Nielsen counts it out, and then adds another 18,000 in there. Back to Sonesson, and while they were both pretty nicely stacked at the beginning of this hand, one more raise and it's stack-commital. Here's how he looked while thinking about that, probably, as well as other things, like what his hand actually was: (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11844&g2_serialNumber=1) Eventually, though, he decided to let it go, allowing Claus Nielsen to calmly stack up some blue towers which I reckon equal nearly 150k. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11846&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 04:34:13 PM Willian Johnson, raising preflop with Jc Js, found Jacek Ladny picking this spot to move in with Ad Qd. Nice fair fight.
Flop: 9s 4d 9h Turn: Kh River: Td No help - down another player. Around half the field that started today has now been eliminated. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 04:38:52 PM Dan down!
Danny Ryan is out after being all-in with Kings on a Q-5-2 board vs Q-J only for another Queen to hit the river. Also missing is Dan Carter, we can't find him at the moment and no-one has news of his exit. :( Craig 'The Apple' Hopkins has doubled up with Tens vs Ace King. On to 30k now. One of my picks, Andreas Hagen has just doubled through another of my picks, Sebastian Ruthenberg with Jacks vs Ace Queen. The third, Theo Jorgensen, is also on this table. Goooo Team Homer!!! Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 04:43:54 PM (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11848&g2_serialNumber=1)
Mel Judah. 27,000. Has he played a hand today? Probably. I haven't seen it though. At least you can be pretty sure he's not going to tilt-push like he says Daniel Mangas (on the right, below photo) just did. Apparently he lost a pot and then kind of just pushed after a Trond Eidsvig button raise. It looks like Trond might have had something of the same idea because he called the raise with 7d 7h. Mangas showed: Th 4h Flop: 9d 3h Jc Turn: Kh River: Td Ouch for Trond, but he's OK with 42,000 still remaining. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11850&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 04:48:52 PM Hans Ritburg's bustout really hurts...
(http://www.allcarstogo.com/ouch.jpg) All-in with Qd Qc vs Dan B. Pedersen's Ad Th 7s 2h Qh 3h....you know what's coming...Ahrt. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 04:51:43 PM Kosta Anastasyadi OUT
Dan B. Pedersen 155000 Andy Black 110400 Claus Nielsen 108000 Jean Claude Perrot 107400 Niclas Svensson 107000 Kenneth Hicks Jr. 105800 Ricardo Sousa 105000 Willian Johnson 96800 Anton Smolyanskiy 79700 Daniel Hofmeister 79000 James Honeybone 76000 Christoffer Egemo Hansen 54000 Dennis Bejedal 52700 Michael Schulze 50300 Steve Bromley 48800 Brian Jensen 47700 Fredrik Haugen 46000 Christos Kravaritis 43600 Daniel Ryan OUT Risto Ailamo 42500 Taras Mikulik 42400 Woody Deck 42100 Piergiorgio D'ancona 42000 Christian Öman 41900 Daniel Carter OUT Giuseppe Caciolo 40500 David Robinson 40400 Juan Lapido 39600 Mathias Viberg 38000 John Gibson 37900 Jospeh Serock 36800 Aleksandr Gorelik 34000 Jean François Rigollet 34000 Daniel Woolson 33800 Jose Picazo 33000 Tyler Netter 32300 Michael Hogbom 32000 Sami Leino 30900 Daniel Mangas 30500 Antonio Battisti 30200 Hecham El Sayed 29900 Thierry Van Der Berg 29200 Theo Jorgensen 28700 Janusz Petlic 28200 Melvyn Judah 27000 Mats Rahm 25500 Jari-Pekka Juhola 24000 Cameron Macmillan 23300 Miika Karjalainen 23000 Raul Paez Corral 23000 Hans Ritburg 22000 Andreas Hagen 21400 Leszek Krawczynski 20000 David Burn 19800 Craig Hopkins 19200 Ulrica Skönnemark 19200 Robert Lipkin 18200 Keith Donais 17900 Roberto Nateri 16800 Joao Manuel Nunes 15600 Jacek Ladny 15600 Tomasz Krzesinski 14000 Derek Montgomery 13200 Andreas Torbergsen 13000 Nico Behling 12800 Antonio Gomez Ribera 11600 Kim Öfverström 11000 Stewart Chantler 10900 Julien Boue 9300 Stephan Thiele-Bolivar 3000 These were the full counts at the end of Level 10, courtesy of Mad at Pokerstars. NOT ACCURATE any more, but you get the idea of the relative stacks of most of them. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 05:29:12 PM Woody Deck is OUT. Chris's picks still in: 3 Jen's picks still in: Jen, the 'GlasgowBandit' of player picking? Well, Joe Serock has busted too, now, re-raising all in preflop for a total of 36,100. His opponent, whose name I probably do know but whose ID is obscured by ipod thought about it for a while and counted out the call (which didn't really hurt considering he has to be one of the chip leaders). "It's gonna be an awful call, though..." he mused, before making it anyway and turning over Kh Jh. Serock showed: Aspades 8h The board came: Js 2c Ts Th 2d so he calmly shook hands all round (including Lee Jones' who was overseeing the action in TD mode) and headed out. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 05:39:54 PM A couple of chip counts - the rest to follow at end of current DINNER BREAK.....
James Honeybone -- 80k Christoffer Sonesson -- 85k Magnus Petersson -- 95k But the chip leader, whoever he is, appears to have over 200k. All will be revealed in approx. one hour's time. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 06:20:38 PM Chip Counts:
Name Table Seat Chips Dan B. Pedersen 3 5 215,000 Jean Claude Perrot 2 5 190,000 Claus Nielsen 1 7 176,200 Robert Lipkin 7 5 165,000 Niclas Svensson 4 1 140,000 Darcourt Guillaume 6 5 120,000 Ricardo Sousa 2 2 114,000 Michael Schulze 5 7 104,000 Raul Paez Corral 6 8 103,000 Thierry Van Der Berg 1 5 100,600 Antonio Battisti 3 3 100,000 Mehdi Ouakhir 6 4 97,000 Andy Black 6 2 92,000 Magnus Petersson 4 4 88,000 Willian Johnson 5 4 88,000 James Honeybone 5 8 84,000 Dennis Petronack 3 2 80,000 Cristiano Blanco 4 6 79,000 Trond Erik Eidsvig 3 1 77,300 Tyler Netter 7 7 76,000 Andy Black 6 6 70,000 Anton Smolyanskiy 7 2 68,000 David Robinson 5 3 65,000 Seppo Parkkinen 7 6 62,000 Brian Jensen 2 6 60,800 Andreas Hagen 1 8 59,800 Kenneth Matsson 1 2 59,400 Juan Lapido 4 5 55,000 Sebastian Ruthenberg 1 3 51,100 Craig Hopkins 2 7 50,900 Fredrik Haugen 3 6 50,000 Leszek Krawczyński 6 3 50,000 Daniel Woolson 7 4 50,000 Giuseppe Caciolo 4 7 44,000 Taras Mikulik 5 1 44,000 Piergiorgio D'ancona 2 3 43,500 Hecham El Sayed 4 3 43,000 Christos Kravaritis 3 4 42,000 Daniel Hofmeister 3 7 40,000 Jari-Pekka Juhola 5 2 38,000 Janusz Petlic 2 4 34,200 Christian Öman 6 1 30,000 Sami Leino 7 8 30,000 Derek Montgomery 5 5 29,000 Miika Karjalainen 6 7 28,000 Michael Hogbom 4 2 27,800 Jean François Rigollet 2 1 22,300 David Burn 5 6 21,000 Henrik Gwinner 1 4 20,300 Theo Jorgensen 1 6 13,900 Alp Okumus 7 3 2,600 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 07:11:48 PM The first of my picks, Theo Jorgensen is OUT. Thierry Van Der Berg's A-Q crippling his A-K.
David Burn, is OUT I think, his card was left on the table, as was his chips, being pushed towards Jari-Pekka Juhola whose Nines were still showing along with a J-6-J-9-x board. Craig Hopkins calls a raise from Ricardo Sousa, both check the 6h 3h 8s flop before Craig fires out 7k on the 9h turn. The Portuguese player gives up without much though. Tyler Netter bets 8.5k on a Th 6s 8c flop before CRAI on the 9s turn, but Daniel Woolson had got lucky with 9c 9d and quickly called. No help on the river and another player is gone. Also out is William Johnson, Ace King no good against Taras Mikulik's Nines. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 07:24:30 PM Fredrik Haugen (top) doubles through James Honeybone... he raised preflop and found Honeybone re-raising out of the big blind to 14,500. After quite a pause, Haugen announced all-in, for 31,000 more. Now even more pause action (if such a thing exists) as a tough call was eventually decided upon.
Honeybone: Aspades Jd Haugen: 7h 7c The board included no Aces or Jacks, but the 7d for emphasis, and the tournament whizkid is up to a very playable near 100k while James heads towards what looks suspiciously like a short stack. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11866&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11868&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 07:32:01 PM The Hof Turns Pushbot...
Daniel Hofmeister has been in this exact position, short stack over the line, quite a few times in this level. With just 20k, then 20k+5k, then 20k+5k+5k... you get the picture. How many times will he need to do this to: (a) get all the chips in the tournament (b) create a stack which can dent the leaders (c) piss off his table? No one's given him a spin as yet. But it's about 5 mins to the tournament area from here so I would wager heavily that upon returning to the floor Mr. Hofmeister has 60k+ or 0k. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11870&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 07:46:33 PM A lot of similarly created situations to the Honeybone/Haugen re-raise all-in one have been occurring, but theirs was the exception in that the final shove was called. Big numbers of chips are therefore being shipped around the tables not only with no showdown, but with no flop either.
Example A Juan Lapido raises pre to 5k. Neighbour and cutoff Cristiano Blanco re-raises to 10,500. Immediately Lapido announces, "raise," then takes a minute or so to decide how much. The pot is gathered, he counts his stack, peers at Blanco's, and then he makes it another 12k to go. This gives Blanco some tough-looking dwell time. "How much do you have left?" It turns out that he covers Lapido and decided that that raise may be the kind of "Go on, do it" sort of prompt which meant his hand (or re-steal) was not worth it. Pass. Example B Sebastian Ruthenberg does almost exactly the same thing as Juan Lapido, raising pre, getting re-raised 18k and moving in for 41,700. "I should have just called," laments his would-be attacker, folding. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 08:01:02 PM Don't do this too often, but big up to our Polish Tournament Director, who has sensibly decided to break the tables starting at the back of the room, i.e the ones that the rail cannot see. This, at the same time, frees up lots of extra room for the press as they're actually removing the tables which is making everyone very happy. A far cry from Barcelona where we were all slowly crushed into a tiny area with little help.
Thanks Mr TD. :) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 08:07:19 PM Craig 'The Apple' Hopkins eliminates Derek Montgomery. Hopkins raises Ac 8s from the cut-off and Montgomery moves in for a little less than 10k more. Hopkins is behind, but forced to call. The Canadian, who qualified from a Step 2 sattelite flips Ad Ks.
9c 7c 7h Th 8d The Apple is now sitting with a golden delicious 70k. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 08:21:12 PM Poor old Brian Jensen.
First he calls a 25k push from Piergiorgio D'ancona with Th Tc up against his (I'm guessing) Italian opponent's 8h 7h. Kc 8d 5h Brian raises his eyebrows slightly. 4d He raises his eyebrows higher. 7d His eyebrows end up hovering above his head. No matter because soon after he battling another short stack with a dominating Ac Js against Jc Qs, no problems here surely?!? 4d Kh Tc 5c Ad...Ahhh crap On the plus side, crazy Frenchman Jean Claude Perot hasn't actually punched him. Yet. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 08:29:19 PM David Robinson and Jari-Pekka Juhola manage to create a 60k pot on a 9c 6h 4h board holding 8c 7c and Ac Qs respectively, no help for either and the former is stuck with just 25k left.
Kenneth Matsson has been knocked out by Henrik Gwinner, A-T no good vs Q-Q. Breaktime! Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 08:34:13 PM Andy Black is less loud than before, mainly because of having his Aces four-flushed by pocket Eights, he's currently nursing a 30k stack.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 08:34:48 PM Some chip counts pre-break, when you'll actually get all of them, more accurately. Hmm, might want to work on my timing...
Trond Erik Eidsvig -- 32,000 Craig Hopkins -- 45,000 Christoffer Sonesson -- 210,000 Andy Black -- 20,000 Claus Nielsen -- 195,000 Sebastian Ruthenberg -- 75,000 James Honeybone -- 28,000 Fredrik Haugen -- 118,000 Andreas Hagen -- 45,000 Michael Schulze -- 100,000 Jean Claude Perrot -- 237,000 David Robinson -- 24,000 Jari-Pekka Juhola -- 107,000 Michael Hogbom -- 53,000 Antonio Battisti -- 51,000 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 09:12:41 PM Andy Black is less loud than before, mainly because of having his Aces four-flushed by pocket Eights, he's currently nursing a 30k stack. Here he was just a short while ago with stacks. And where he could be again, you really never know with him. In the break I asked Mike if he was still sponsored by Full Tilt. "Yeah, since that WSOP final." Benjo: "I thought he was sponsored by Eminem." (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11880&g2_serialNumber=1) And somehow, between writing that, taking the lift back to the casino floor, writing a hand down and coming back, Andy Black has turned that into 80k and was blithely raising Christoffer Sonesson's big blind as I passed, standing up and shouting, "I have NO FEAR!" We all believe him. We wonder, though, when he announces, "I am sleeping with the angels!" Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 09:18:16 PM We're at the just pre-bubble stage, and among those who have fallen just out of reach of that tasty money - as recorded by Floppy who quite rightly assumed we'd miss the bubble if we looked the other way even for a moment and bravely volunteered to remain down in the Cave where the temperature is rising uncomfortably:
Magnus Petersson, whose Ac 43d fell to the 9d 9s of Juan Lapido (the board a not-much-help Tc 3s Qd 5h 8d)... But among those who found Aces against Kings at this most crucial of stages (OK the only one so far): Ricardo Sousa whose Ahrt Ad scoffed at Jean Claude Perrot's Kc Kd (the former all in pre and doubling up). Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 09:50:18 PM Brian Jensen finally wins a hand, all-in with Kc Kd against Jean Claude Perot's 9d 9c, though not without a little sweat on the 6d 5c 8d 5h 3s board. A very grateful Brian delighted to rebuild his stack back up to 65k.
Andy Black has doubled up ubermicrostack Raul Paez Corral with Fives against Aces. "Four times, you've doubled me up," says the Spaniard with glee. He still only has 20k though. Next, Andreas Hagen reraised all-in with Qs Qc against Giuseppe Caciolio, only to find the Italian was holding Ahrt Aspades. 2c Kh Jh 9h..............Tc! The Swede gets a lucky double-up! Antonio Battisti doubles up through one of the Petronack brothers (Dennis) with Ad Js vs Qc 9c. Finally, We've just lost the bubble-bubble, Michael Hogbom, Ace Jack against Dennis Petronack's Eights. STOP! ;mc; BUBBLETIME! Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 10:06:57 PM Oh the bubble was a tense one. This guy - Raul Paez Corral -was one of the short stacks (of which there were about 7) unafraid to ship it in and hope for the best... he got away with it twice, in fact, during Hand For Hand - and the first time while someone was considering a call, he released all the tension in the moment by shouting, "El bubbel boy! More famoso! I am the star right now! I am like Ben Affleck! I am Ben Affleck!" as the media literally swarmed around the table. No call though.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11884&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 10:11:36 PM Michael Hogbom didn't quite make it either... here he is in the background talking to the sad railer lady in the gray hoody. His eliminator underneath, making the universal hand sign of, "Eeh, what're you gonna do about it?"
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11886&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11888&g2_serialNumber=1) But the actual bubble boy was Cristiaaaanooooo Blanco who did the traditional Qd Qc vs. the Aspades Ks of Kenneth Hicks, Jr. Ace on the turn, and we're down to four tables. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 10:24:38 PM Elaboration, courtesy of the Pokernews guys who had the full story rather than catching the bits drifting from in front of a four-deep row of tall Scandinavian men:
His exit wasn't just your run-of-the-mill preflop AK vs QQ race. Oh no. He actually had a reasonable stack and got to a flop with Kenneth Hicks Jr. The flop had no Ace or King on it- Hicks then openshoved and Cristiano Blanco made the not-small call for his tournament life. Joy! He was ahead! Misery! Ace on the turn. Ouch. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 10:35:49 PM Claus Nielsen, who has actually been a blogger for a Danish site earlier in the tour, has emerged as huge chip leader after knocking out two players in successive hands.
First he calls Thierry Van Der Berg's raise and they see a Jd 3s 7d flop, Thierry bets 24k, Claus raises to 58k and Thierry moved all-in with Queens, only for Claus to call with Jacks. One down! Next hand Claus is still stacking his chips up and raises to 9.2k. Frederik Haugen moves in for about 33k, and Claus calls again with 8s 8c. Frederik shows Ad Js but is sent to the rail after a 5c 2h 7s 6d 8d. Claus must have nearly 350k. Go bloggers!!! Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 10:38:15 PM Daniel Woolson has knocked out Brian Jensen with Kings vs Ace Queen.
Andy Black doubled up on a T-9-x board with A-T vs Christoffer Sonnesson's 9-7. Henrik Gwinner has knocked out Giuseppe Caciolo with Nines vs Ace Queen. Phew!!! It's going to be close as whether we finish 8 levels or get to 24 players... Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on March 13, 2008, 10:56:56 PM Oh, the sickness. The last full hand I am going to report tonight is this one: the exit of Dennis Petronack.
He was outchipped by Juan Lapido Maceiras (pictured) and his hand also outranked his - the Deathly Flop was: Jd 5h 5d. Upon this flop, Maceiras made a move and Petronack went for it - as you might well with Ad Ahrt. Maceiras showed: 8h 8c. Oh, what would be the ideal card for him now? Yes - the wondrous 8s appeared on the turn, and the Jh on the river. Wow. Petronack wanders off looking slightly stunned, just in the money, or that would have been even harsher. Maceiras' supporters go wild (in moderation, out of consideration for the bad beat) and then he says to the dealer, "I'm gonna give you a big tip." (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11894&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 13, 2008, 11:08:22 PM Chippy Leader Claus Nielsen
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11896&g2_serialNumber=1) We're off. We play down to the final table of 9 tomorrow from 2pm (1pm UK). ;stickaforkinme; |