Title: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 01:27:50 AM Hello and ;welcome; back to the casino Sanremo as we await the start of Day 1B of the San Remo EPT. The EPT organisers excel at finding lavish locations to set the EPT events and the casino SanRemo is up there with the best. The sumptuous surroundings yesterday were lit up by the fiery excitement generated in the cauldron of the playing arena.
Big names came and big names fell until ultimately a mere 99 players remained to come back for day 2. We anticipate more of the same today. More carnage, more shocks, more great poker and please please please more of the absolutely delicious dessert that I eagerly wolfed down yesterday. Mmmmmm. Play is due to commence at 15:00 local time, that's 14:00 for you guys. Join us as we continue the exciting journey to discover who will become the latest EPT champion... Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 12:40:53 PM Last nights chip counts, courtesy of Pokerstars:
Ville Nyman 107,100 Henrik Brockmann 100,100 Yung Hwang 96,000 Hakan Sahl 93,700 Perrot Jean-Cleaude 72,700 Anthony Spinella 71,600 Eero Kekäläinen 70,000 Roberto Masullo 66,200 Isaac Baron 62,700 Dag Palovic 59,200 Steven Van Zadelhoff 54,600 Luca Pagano 54,500 Luca Mortarino 53,900 Paul Testud 53,700 Alessandro Pennisi 53,200 Andreas Larsson 52,000 Mark Teltscher 50,400 Peter Roache 49,600 Jochen Heirman 49,400 Luca Castagnola 49,000 Håkon Hol 48,900 Brandon Schaefer 48,400 Damir Horozic 47,600 Terje Augdal 46,500 Jan Suchanek 45,600 Marco Della Monica 45,400 Jeremiah Fitzpatrick 45,000 Raymond Rahme 43,700 Carl-Johan Ericson 42,200 Mark Petersen 41,700 Roland De Wolfe 39,800 Massimiliano Tamburini 39,800 Patric Mårtenson 38,500 Alessandro Arcidiacono 38,100 Thomas Fougeron 37,900 Markus Golser 37,800 Claudio Fontana 37,800 Battista Cantonati 37,600 Jimmy Blom 37,500 Ryan Daut 35,900 Evert Jan Dondergoor 34,100 Lee Nayler 34,000 Robert Flink 33,800 Steve Zolotow 33,800 Anders Vind 31,900 Nicolas Ragot 31,400 Enrico Mognaga 31,200 Stefan Raffay 31,000 Thomas Bentham 29,700 Marcello Terracciano 29,400 Henrik Kask 29,100 Giorgio Marletta 28,700 Tim Van Der Zwet 28,300 Dario Minieri 28,200 Liz Lieu 27,800 Rolf Slotboom 27,600 Simon Johansson 27,300 Daan Ruiter 26,800 Denis Doran 26,600 Andrea Cortona 26,400 Stephane Albertini 24,800 Chris Lee 24,500 Jean Pierre Petroli 24,400 Jason Mercier 24,300 Pascal Perrault 23,500 Michael Hogbom 22,900 Emiliano Conti 22,300 Jesper Hougaard 21,900 Guillaume De La Gorce 20,100 Anthon Nikaj 20,000 Jesse Optekar 19,600 Sandro Soncini 19,900 Dustin Mele 17,800 Henrik Warn 17,500 Joep Van Den Bijgaart 17,200 Andreas Torbergsen 16,600 Angel Ivanov 16,500 Graham Clarkson 16,300 Luis Miguel Magan Tier 16,200 Jeop Durkstra 16,100 Stéphane Pessin 16,100 Anthony Gregg 15,600 Alexandre Rubinsztejn 13,500 Cesare Florio 13,100 Walter Johnston 13,000 Antoon Kleijnen 11,800 Thor Hansen 11,600 Asger Boye 10,600 Davidi Kitai 10,400 Sandro Bellusci 10,100 Benjamin Abou 9,500 Cort Kibler-Melby 8,900 Lex Veldhuis 7,600 Bart Wetsteijn 7,000 Christian Bonde 6,800 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 03:03:28 PM Super-early bust-out for James Honeybone. The board reads 7-7-9-Q and James gets it all-in with Queens only to find
P.S No knowledge if Antonio jumped on the table and pretended to swim shouting, "Quaaaaaaaaadddddddddddsssssssssss." (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13544&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 03:12:56 PM 'The' Chad Brown and Jan Heitmann, the German Wizard. (lvl 5, high WIS but low CON, nice spells though).
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13546&g2_serialNumber=1) Roberto Romanello informs a friend he can't really chat right now... (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13548&g2_serialNumber=1) Marco Traniello, has a darn good tourney to cash ratio in the WSOP (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13550&g2_serialNumber=1) Sleepy Soren Kongsgaard (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13552&g2_serialNumber=1) Anthony Lellouche, Almira Skripchenko, BEANY OF THE DAY! and Christian Harder. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13554&g2_serialNumber=1) Daniel Negreanu in 'Apprenhensive Hamster Mode'. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13556&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 03:20:16 PM Stuart 'Pen Thief' Rutter and his lucky chicken
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13558&g2_serialNumber=1) EPT Champion Arnaud Mattern (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13560&g2_serialNumber=1) EPT Champion Mike 'Timex' McDonald (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13562&g2_serialNumber=1) Spanish-based Danny Ryan (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13564&g2_serialNumber=1) Mars-based Soren Jensen (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13566&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 03:25:20 PM Early disaster for Andrew Teng, all-in on a flop of Ks 2h Qs with Qc 2c but up against the crushing Kd Kh, a 7h turn and then a Kc river for Quads left Andrew with just 300 chips, which he did manage to double up with next hand with K-5 vs 4-4.
P.S No knowledge if the other guy jumped on the table and pretended to swim shouting, "Quaaaaaaaaadddddddddddsssssssssss." (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13568&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 03:28:19 PM Trond Eidsvig, still a Beaker/Quentin Tarantino lookalike.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13570&g2_serialNumber=1) Isabelle Mercier (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13572&g2_serialNumber=1) George Danzer and his Scarf of the Day!!! (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13574&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 03:36:58 PM Antonio Esfandiari has built on that early double up/ cooler hand versus James Honeybone by raking in another decent pot.
I joined his table as he bet the turn of a 2 heart board for 450, receiving a call from mateyboy. The river was a third heart prompting a 2.1k bet from Antonio. Mateyboy again called only to suffer the misery of being shown Ahrt 6h for the nut flush. Antonio quietly collected the chips that move him up to 24k or so and the likely chip lead at this stage... (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13576&g2_serialNumber=1) Marc Goodwin is one of those flying the flag for england today. He hasn't got too involved yet, on roughly his 10k starting stack. Here he is covering up his mansion-sponsored shirt, accidentally I'm sure, and looking absolutely riveted with the action thusfar. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13578&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 03:46:16 PM EPT Dortmund winner, Mike "Timex" Mcdonald is fairly quiet at the moment. Perhaps he's heard the rumours that there are some hoodlums lurking in the tournament and is biding his time before making a move.
Apparently these guys are masters of disguise. In fact there is one at his table, but he's pretty hard to spot. Perhaps the more (http://thumbs.photo.net/photo/2230387-sm.jpg) viewers amongst you might spot the chameleonic ne'er do well? (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13580&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 04:04:22 PM There are many other players of note in the arena today in a field that looks littered with stars.
John Kabbaj is present, off tha back of his recent good performance in the Irish open. Ramzi Jellasi, who has run REALLY bad in these EPTS... (I'm tallking about running as bad as this fella... (http://www.wainwright.army.mil/safety/images/ice%20bear%20fall.jpg) ) ...is BACK and hungry for success. Can the young Swedish pro put his previous EPT nightmares behind him today? Also I noted the imposing figure of Tony G entering the arena late, simultaneously increasing the star, noise, table insult and controversy quotients of the tournament. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 04:04:28 PM Tim Blake lost a load of chips early on with A-Q to trip Aces, but then he hit Quad Jacks to get himself back up to 9k.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13584&g2_serialNumber=1) P.S No knowledge if Tim jumped on the table and pretended to swim shouting, "Quaaaaaaaaadddddddddddsssssssssss." Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 04:04:49 PM Johnny Lodden is OUT. He got all his chips in on the turn of a 5-8-6-Q board with 5-5 only to find out his opponent, Mr Cowboy below, had turned a set of Queens and then hit the case Queen on the river for Quads.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13594&g2_serialNumber=1) P.S No knowledge if Mr Cowboy jumped on the table and pretended to swim shouting, "Quaaaaaaaaadddddddddddsssssssssss." Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 04:05:07 PM The impeccably dressed Gino Alacqua got it all-in by the river of a Kh Qh Ks Ahrt Qc board, his opponent quickly called all-in with Kd Qs only for the Prague EPT runner-up to show Jh Th for a turned Royal Flush!
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13592&g2_serialNumber=1) P.S No knowledge if Gino jumped on the table and pretended to swim shouting, "Royaaaaaaaaaaaaal Fluuuuuuuuuuuuushhhhhhhhhhh." Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 04:09:21 PM Paul 'Tiny Dancer' Gourlay
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13586&g2_serialNumber=1) Todd 'Comicbook Guy' Brunson (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13588&g2_serialNumber=1) I think this is Dani Stern/Ansky, early in the year he wrote an excellent post on 2+2 asking for players to be aware and help crackdown on online cheaters and multi-accounters. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13590&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 04:27:50 PM ***********The players are currently on a 10 minute break*****************
I grabbed a quick chat with Roberto Romanello during the break. He's had a torrid start ("Some of the players are REALLY bad!" - he told me) but after going down to 3k or so, he recently doubled up, shoving with Q-Q and getting looked up by A-2. "I hit a Queen but it was a scary board coming A-Q-3-A and a final effective blank T was safe enough!" Roberto says if he can get some chips, he can use his world famous table talk to win him some chips. Here he is chirpy chatty and undeniably welsh as always. Good luck Roberto! (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13596&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 04:28:51 PM Full provisional player list from pokerstars.
Michael Watson 1 1 Micheal Tureniec 1 2 Marius Bobinas 1 3 Paolo Arcudi 1 4 George Danzer 1 5 Andrea Di Marzio 1 6 Salvatore Dambra 1 7 Alberto De Nardi 1 8 Matthew Nichol 1 9 Simone Rossi 1 10 Angelo Alberto Falcone 2 1 Peiter van Gils 2 2 Patrick Uzan 2 3 Vincenzo Dechò 2 4 William Thorson 2 5 Peter Skriver 2 6 Marek Kolk 2 7 Jason Su 2 8 Ranith Wimalaratna 2 9 Marco Figuccia 2 10 Erwan Granvalet 3 1 Isabelle Mercier 3 2 Brian Green 3 3 Bob West 3 4 Mats Rahm 3 5 Michele Cammarotta 3 6 Daniel McVicar 3 7 Jonas Jakobsson 3 8 Pier Fabretti 3 9 Flavio Ferrari Zumbini 3 10 Daniel Negreanu 4 1 Sven Leu 4 2 Niels Rikhof 4 3 Tomas Brolin 4 4 Jussi Nevanlinna 4 5 Joris Jaspers 4 6 Thomas Boekhoff 4 7 Cristiano Loioli 4 8 Juha Helppi 4 9 Jonas Klausen 4 10 Felipe Ramos 5 1 Michael Schulze 5 3 Rasmus Nielsen 5 4 Piet Bakker 5 5 Nico Behling 5 6 Giampiero Cocciò 5 7 Jason 'the hood' Gray 5 8 Gregory Genovese 5 9 Robert Giordano 5 10 David Czaja 6 1 Johan Berg 6 2 Jordan Lande 6 3 Cataldo Alfì 6 4 Dennis Kobbero Plejdrup 6 5 Sandra Crapanzano 6 6 Tim Blake 6 7 Francesco De Vivo 6 8 Michele Limongi 6 9 Janno Cazemier 6 10 Henric Andersson 7 1 Rosario Filippo Galtieri 7 2 Davide Belsito 7 3 Matt Kay 7 4 Kees Alblas 7 5 Roelof Sasburg 7 6 Pasquale Cicatiello 7 7 Mauro Stivoli 7 8 Paul Gourlay 7 9 Maxime Masquelier 7 10 Christoph Zweig 8 1 Adrianus "Jarno" Goesten 8 2 Luigi Canclini 8 3 Noah Boeken 8 4 Steve Fink 8 5 Michele Gobbin 8 6 Daniel Brunner 8 7 Daniel Smidt 8 8 Marin Hruby 8 9 Marcello Marigliano 8 10 Ivar Kleive Voll 9 1 Andreas Unger 9 2 Taneli Tiikkaja 9 3 Billy Argyros 9 4 Juan Diez 9 5 Gianni Filieri 9 6 Anders Henriksson 9 7 Joshua Gould 9 8 Julian Powell 9 9 Ludovic Lacay 9 10 Fausto Cheli 10 1 Dimitrios Kotinas 10 2 Lee Nelson 10 3 Metin Cicek 10 4 Carl Olson 10 5 Jacques Zaicik 10 6 Mike Sowers 10 7 Marcus Bower 10 8 Konstantin Bücherl 10 9 Claudio Rinaldi 10 10 Heinz-Peter Bock 11 1 Jose Tsujita 11 2 Darren Moy 11 3 Gianvalerio Bindi 11 4 Mike McDonald 11 5 Gianluca Gargano 11 6 Pasi Heinanen 11 7 Elias Brussianos 11 8 Todd Brunson 11 9 Mauro Sussan 11 10 Antonio Grimaldi 12 1 Stuart Rutter 12 2 Massimiliano Reggiani 12 3 Luis Jaikel 12 4 Leslie Kerrigan 12 5 Thomas Dekker 12 6 Alexis Mazurier 12 7 Antanas Guoga 12 8 Andreas Glannbro 12 9 Arnaud Mattern 12 10 Mihaela Novak 13 1 Jukka Isopahkala 13 2 Justin Truesdell 13 3 Marius Pospiech 13 4 Fritz Pfau 13 5 Wayne Emerson 13 6 Anthony Chatelain 13 7 Rajala Mihai 13 8 Casper Dahl Hansen 13 9 Sampo Verkasalo 13 10 Marco Cavarrieri 14 1 Trond Eidsvig 14 2 Rehne Pedersen 14 3 Bryn Kenney 14 4 Kjan Kasper 14 5 Paul Alterman 14 6 antonio De angelis 14 7 Imad Derwiche 14 8 William Wanke 14 9 Fabrizio Roglady 14 10 Mads Wissing Andersen 15 1 Jannick Wrang 15 2 Daniel Ryan 15 3 Paolo Della Penna 15 4 Cristiano Viali 15 5 Kai-Are Hauge 15 6 Leroy Soesman 15 7 Marc Goodwin 15 8 Thomas Wolfer 15 9 Julien Pouchain 15 10 Alessandro De Michele 16 1 Mario Riccio 16 2 Gino Alacqua 16 3 Daniel Didech 16 4 Mika Paasonen 16 5 Akos Nemeth 16 6 Alessandro "Desmo" Pastura 16 7 Lorenzo Lagana 16 8 Matin Talebi 16 9 Johannes Strassmann 16 10 Jonathan Lundy 17 1 Stieven Razab-Sekh 17 2 Nicolò Calia 17 3 Santiago Holguin-Lopez 17 4 Massimiliano Pescatori 17 5 Davide De Prosperis 17 6 Klaus Pautrot 17 7 Leonardo Ebeling 17 8 Roland Rozel 17 9 Hans-Ari Varsi 17 10 Kenneth Matsson 18 1 Daniele Vesco 18 2 Nicolas Dervaux 18 3 Hakan Copur 18 4 Bo Sehlstedt 18 5 Richard Frischer 18 6 Robin Bos 18 7 Julian Parmann 18 8 Luca Cainelli 18 9 Niels Stampe 18 10 Brian Flood 19 1 Paolo Realmuto 19 2 Mihai Manole 19 3 Ed De Haas 19 4 Dino D'Onofrio 19 5 Steffen Vahlkvist 19 6 Lawrence Spencer 19 7 Hans Eskilsson 19 8 Bertrand Grospellier 19 9 Jiri Kulhanek 19 10 Giuseppe Caciolo 20 1 Søren S. Jensen 20 2 Gary Bickle 20 3 Glen Cymbaluk 20 4 Daniel Walker 20 5 Guy Benhamou 20 6 MASSIMO REYNAUD 20 7 Gonzalo Castro 20 8 Eric Koskas 20 9 Johnny Lodden 20 10 Daniele Cuomo 21 1 Mikael Gibbemark 21 2 Daniel Stern 21 3 Kenneth Tomming 21 4 Frederic Ghintran 21 5 Mattias Nordhamn 21 6 Ola Öinert 21 7 Stefan Streifeneder 21 8 Norbert Hölting 21 9 Tyler Reiman 21 10 Chuc Moang 22 1 Maurice Schulmann 22 2 Brian Freche 22 3 Bruce Atkinson 22 4 Carmelo Vasta 22 5 Giovanni Drago 22 6 Jerzy Hajdamowicz 22 7 Viviano Burchi 22 8 Fernando Cimaglia 22 8 Scott Wilson 22 9 Minh Diep 22 10 Antoine Dodivers 23 1 Michael Clees 23 2 Daniel Lega 23 3 Rob Hollink 23 4 James Honeybone 23 5 Pal Hjertenes 23 6 Antonio Esfandiari 23 7 Flavio Bano 23 8 Martin Wendt 23 9 Benjamin Straate 23 10 John Kabbaj 24 1 Miroslaw Klys 24 2 Guillaume Darcourt 24 3 Vanessa Rousso 24 4 Alexandre Coulaud 24 5 Martin Lundenius 24 6 Claudio Lancia 24 7 Alexander Linder 24 8 Giuseppe Randazzo 24 9 Arthur Mooibroek 24 10 Jairsinho le Grand 25 1 Andrea Balla 25 2 Stanislav Zavoyskiy 25 3 Morten Erlandsen 25 4 Peyman Mohammadzadeh 25 5 Andrew Teng 25 6 Robert Price 25 7 Laurent Mascarello 25 8 Maurizio Marchese 25 9 Stephan Kjerstad 25 10 Giuseppe Incuria 26 1 Kevin Shutt 26 2 Ramzi Jelassi 26 3 Marine Labernardie 26 4 Peter Jetten 26 5 Tony Basile 26 6 Georg Geissler 26 7 Theo Jørgensen 26 8 Marco Dell'Utri 26 9 Soren Eriksen 26 10 Constant Caiola 27 1 Giorgio Sampietro 27 2 Jacek Landy 27 3 Søren Kongsgaard 27 4 Richard Holmes 27 5 Michael Friedrich 27 6 Alfonso Amendola 27 7 Viktor Wessman 27 8 Marco Brech 27 9 Marco Traniello 27 10 Paul Kiely 28 1 Marcos Gabriel 28 2 Thierry Van Der Berg 28 3 Patrick Arba 28 4 Antony Lellouche 28 5 Almira Scripcenco 28 6 Per Strom 28 7 Christian Harder 28 8 Henry Terranova 28 10 Lorenzo Esposito 29 1 David Moreau 29 2 Jerome Zerbib 29 3 Jukka Ylitalo 29 4 Tommaso Natale 29 5 JELTE KRUIJER 29 6 Ezio Guagliata 29 7 MICKE JOHANSSON 29 8 PASCAL BARRAU 29 9 MAURO RONDONI 29 10 Petter Sundbye 30 1 ALESSIO MASINI 30 2 Andreas Krause 30 3 Andrea Nunes 30 4 Leo Gizzarelli 30 5 Mattia Taddia 30 6 Roger Hairabedian 30 7 Massimiliano Trifoglio 30 8 Tommaso Ambrosini 30 9 Paolo Grossi 30 10 Rocco Schiarrone 31 1 Darrin Melwani 31 2 Salvatore Pengue 31 3 Besim Sumer 31 4 Salvatore Chillemi 31 5 Francesco Speziale 31 6 dennis Maratta 31 7 Escobar Cinthia Carolina 31 8 Fabrice Soulier 31 9 Agazio Gerace 32 1 Giovanni Izzi 32 2 Jean Rohr 32 3 Fabrizio Baldassari 32 4 Guido Crapanzano 32 5 Enrico Botter 32 6 Salvatore Di Mauro 32 7 Giovanni Salvatore 32 8 Gezi Bason 33 1 Daniele Guidetti 33 2 Francesco Ciriani 33 3 DANILO CASALVIERI 33 4 Luca Bargilli 33 5 Alessio Isaia 33 6 Maurizio Bacci 33 7 Helen Davis 33 8 Petko Marinov 33 9 Alfio Previti 34 1 Marcello Fogliata 34 2 PierGiorgio D'Ancona 34 3 Wlodzimierz Laczkowski 34 4 Mark Flowers 34 5 Carlo Savinelli 34 6 Domenico Gargano 34 7 Alessandro Minasi 34 8 Alessandro Lusso 34 9 Edward Corrado 35 1 Stefan Mattson 35 2 Pasquale Vinci 35 3 Ugur Ucoskun 35 4 Voitto Rintala 32 5 Sven Polanski 35 6 Santiago Houlguin Romero 35 7 Haward Speer 35 8 Mikaela Nordin 35 9 Maurizio Musso 36 1 Lacasa Francisco 36 2 Isidoro Alampi 36 3 Filippo Russo 36 4 Daniel Donovan 36 5 Antonio Albanese 36 6 Ljubomir Josipovic 36 7 Salvatore Catia 36 8 Numa Bennamou 36 9 Jan Heitmann 37 1 Huseyin Yilmaz 37 2 Basem Davas 37 3 Gandrup Rasmus 37 4 Filippo Magni 37 5 Roberto Romanello 37 6 Orazio Granvillano 37 7 Mirko Puskadija 37 8 Chad Brown 37 9 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 05:13:03 PM Juha Helppi has hit an early double up with 7c 4c on a 7s 4h 6s board vs Aspades Qs after harmless blanks on the turn and river.
William Thorson has lost about 5k after setting a short-stack all-in on a 3d 9h 6h flop with Jc Jh, but his opponent had Ahrt Kh and hit the Qh on the turn to leave the Swedish player drawing dead. Tim Blake has knocked out Soren Kongsgaard lookalike Johan Berg who held A-Q on a Qh 4s 6h Qd 5s board, but plucky Tim was not the one saying, "Hasta La Vista Blakey," as he was holding 6d 6s for a full house that put him over 20k. Kevin Shutt was meant to be sitting next to Ramzi Jelassi but Ramzi said that the guy to his right, whom he thought was Italian, was OUT. Ramzi bet a Q-7-5 board with 8-6 and only Italian guy/Kevin? called, the latter c/raising all-in on the 4 turn with 7-5, by which time Ramzi had the nuts and knocked him out. Stephan Kjerstad -- 7k (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13598&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 05:15:13 PM Some assorted chip counts from the playing arena.
J Kabbaj - 9k Mike Mcdonald - 12.5k Arnaud Mattern 7.5k Todd Brunson (who incidentally makes it VERY difficult to count his stack as he usually has his chunky bear-like forearms clamped firmly round his stack) - 6.5k Dan Negreanu - 12k Stuart Rutter - 7.5k - Stuart has his "lucky" charm with him today. You saw him posing earlier with "REG THE CHICKEN" who has accompanied Stu to San Remo. So far though Reg has not been working his magic. As I approach Stu's table to talk to him, he lifts Reg up and gives him a glum squeeze resulting in a somewhat limp squeaking noise coming out of the chicken. It was a heart rending moment. "He's not doing it for me at the moment. Down to 7.5k" Stu tells me. "Start using Reg to push your chips in" I advise him. "That will probably help" "I need some chips first!!" Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 05:20:39 PM Mads Wissing Andersen (best middle name ever imo) raises to 425 from midposition, Danny Ryan calls next to him. Everyone else folds.
Kh Ad Kc Mads checks, Danny bets 600, Mads calls. 2d Mads checks again, Danny bets 1,300 and again Mads calls. 9s Mads checks once more and Danny fires a third 2,500 bullet. Mads calls, Danny taps the table and mucks. Mads shows Ahrt Jc. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 05:32:28 PM Isabelle Mercier is down to 7.5k after one particular hand.
I missed the preflop action but Isabelle bet out 2k on a Qh 9h Tc flop, only to find Pier Fabretti raising in position to 5k. Isabelle huffed and she puffed, but ultimately it was her house of cards that blew down as she threw her hand into the muck in disgust. She instantly leapt to her feet and walked away from the table, steam pouring out of her ears, looking as though she wanted to kick some serious butt. A channel cleared in the dense throng of watching press to let her pass as she sliced through them like a little Canadian firebrand through some eurodonk butter. Here she is mid decision, seconds away from combustion. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13600&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 05:39:51 PM Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier, winner of the Caribbean leg of the EPT , is now very short. Climbing to the heights of 17k earlier on, he has since had several bluffs picked off and finds himself very short on 3.1k.
One of the casualties of today is Brian Flood. He will no doubt be an unknown to most people but I spent sometime talking to the Canadian player at the opening of the EPT. He told me he plays thousands of online comps every year as well as being involved in the running of a big chain of pool halls. I promised him if he did well then I would get a few pictures of him and some good puns on his name, but as he busted out before I got the chance, all i can say is that "Flood is all washed up." Good game sir! Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 05:59:07 PM Roberto Romanello has just doubled up to 26k getting it all-in on a Jh 6h Jd flop with pocket Sixes against Ahrt Qh which was drawing much thinner than it could possibly imagine.
Elky is OUT. 8-8 vs J-J on an A-J-8 board. Soren Kongsgaard has 15k having disposed of Marco Traniello on a K-high two heart board vs Ahrt 5h. Mike McDonald makes a nice little value bet on a 2d Ts 9c 2h 4c with Td 6s against Juha Helppi for 1,100. But soon after he loses 4k to a short-stack calling a limp/re-raise all-in with A-J and finding himself dominated by A-K. He has about 7k remaining. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 06:24:36 PM Pokerstars.com have just provided us with the official prizepool breakdown. Some juicy rewards out there for the players.
Here it is in all its glory... 1 € 869,000 2 € 505,000 3 € 287,600 4 € 223,600 5 € 188,500 6 € 140,600 7 € 111,800 8 € 76,700 9-10 € 46,300 11-12 € 28,750 13-14 € 22,400 15-16 € 17,600 17-24 € 16,000 25-32 € 12,800 33-40 € 11,200 41-48 € 9,600 49-56 € 8,000 57-64 € 7,020 65-72 € 5,750 Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 06:30:20 PM Arnaud Mattern, winner of the EPT Prague and owner of the most celebrated eyebrow in poker, is looking a bit short, holding a mere 6.5k at the moment.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13602&g2_serialNumber=1) Danny Negreanu is busy raising almost every pot in late position as he is prone to do and so far his strategy is paying dividends as he is up to 20k or so. Here he is, receiving a massage from an invisible Suki and loving it maybe a bit too much. WAKE UP KID POKER WAKE UP! (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13604&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 06:37:32 PM I travel over to EPT Dortmund final tablist Johannes Strassman's table only to find the ex-army man has gone AWOL. I send out a team of commandos to locate him but manage to catch a shot of his impressive stack, up to 23k+ at the moment.
Also notice the worst attempt in history to appear surreptitious whilst sneaking into a photo by the dealer... (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13606&g2_serialNumber=1) Aha, my commandos report back successfully and have tracked down Strassmann to a location near to Danny Ryan. I move in with my reconnaissance team and we discover him chatting away to the currently less successful but equally cheerful Danny Ryan, down to 7k after that unsuccessful bluff earlier. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13608&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 06:42:59 PM Trond Eidsvig bets 1,975 on the turn of a Ac Td 3c Qd board, having also bet decently on the flop. He's called but then forced to face a 3,500 bet on the river 2s. He counts out his stack and eventually calls, only to be shown a turned gutshot Kh Js, sickened, he flings his cards in the muck and says, "Nice hand sir." At least he has now a 1 hour dinner break to stave off the tilt.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13618&g2_serialNumber=1) Mike McDonald is OUT. He moved in on the turn of a Qh Th 4d Ac board with 5h 4h and was looked up by Juha Helppi's Kh 8h for the "everything draw". Juha hit the Kd on the river and we're down an EPT champion. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13616&g2_serialNumber=1) Theo Jorgensen -- 22k (Also Anthony Lellouche -- 30k in the background) (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13614&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 06:44:43 PM Les Kerrigan wanted me to say "HI" to the hitsquad members so to Praz, Karl, James, Sunny and Chaz and anyone else I have accidentally missed off, I say "HI!"
Here is the back of Les' head, apologies for rubbish photo but his table isn't well placed for me to photograph. I'll try and do better later. He's doing great on 20k or so at the moment. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13610&g2_serialNumber=1) It's funny. Normally if someone were to dig their elbow into your back, you would feel hard done by and possibly involve some sort of authorities into proceedings. When this lady does it though, no one seems t complain. Hmmmm....... (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13612&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 07:56:47 PM Hows Roberto's stack looking? thanks for the updates I don't know how he does it sometimes but from a low point of 3k, Roberto, the Welsh Wizard, has conjured his stack up to a whopping 22k or so. He had a big beaming smile on his face as I spoke to him and I fully expect Radio Romanello to be broadcasting full volume on all frequencies very shortly. Great work Roberto! US High stakes poker watch. Todd Brunson - short 7k or so. Antonio Esfandiari - 21k Daniel "Barry Negragnu" Negreanu - 22k, just pipping his fellow high stakes professional at the moment... Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 08:16:09 PM Arnaud Mattern is OUT. 88 vs AQ then TT vs AA in consecutive hands
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 08:20:02 PM BritWatch!
Stuart 'Pen Thief' Rutter -- 8k Marc Goodwin (pictured) -- 3.3k Josh Gould -- (pictured) 25k John Kabbaj -- 11k (pictured) (A nice little pot with Ks 9s vs Kd 5h on a Kh Qh 3c Ahrt 8d board) Roberto Romanello -- 30k Paul Gourlay -- 7k Danny Ryan is in the media room, so he must be out. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13620&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13624&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13622&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 08:25:03 PM On a 9c 8s 9h 7s board, Antonio Estfandiari bets 2,400 and is check/raised to 5,500. After a serious think, he says, "I'm folding a straight to you sir..." he flashes the 6d 5d. His opponent shows him 9d 9s for more quads and then jumps on the tables and pretends to swim in the chips shouting, "Quaaaaadddddddddddssss!"*
*This last part of the statement may or may not be true. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13626&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 08:29:48 PM Odd situation for Josh Gould just now. There was a mid position raise to 1,200, flat-called from the button and Josh pumped it up to 4,800 from the big blind. At this point, the dealer raked in all the chips and dealt an 8s 5c 3c flop before the two other players had even thought about calling the re-raise. With the burn card already taken out, the flop was re-shuffled into the pack and action went back on to the original raiser who ended up quickly folding, as did the button. Josh up to 28k.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13628&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 08:54:38 PM Stuart Rutter is surviving at the moment - up to 8.5k which is actually an improvement from earlier...
"I've had lots of interesting hands - had to bluff about 8 times and got away with half of them so I can't tell how well I'm playing." He tells me he's been taking strategy advice from Reg, his LUCKY CHICKEN. Here is Reg, available for poker tutoring up to 10/20NL. You think Lloyd is tough with his advice though, wait till you meet Reg. Looks are deceptive. He takes NO prisoners... (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13630&g2_serialNumber=1) Todd Brunson - back up to 12k, one day he WILL smile when I snap him. Well he'll either smile or smack me. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13632&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 09:14:28 PM Jan Heitmann and George Danzer fans! Your guys have 36k and 24k respectively. Jan had just doubled up before the break with 8-8 on a J-8-7 board after c/raising all-in and being snapped called by...A-K.
Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 09:27:49 PM Barking mad lunatic Soren Jensen is thinking for ages, shaking his head continually as he systematically flicks one card over another whilst eye-ing up the 5k bet his opponent has put into the pot whilst the board reads Aspades 5d Jc Kc 7s. He does this for about a minute, before taking out the 5k and putting into the pot and quickly turning over Ad Qd. His opponent mucks, the fire in Soren's eyes lights up. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a Soren eruption!!
"SOOOOOOOOOOREEEEEEEEEEEN, SOREN KUN SUE ME!!! AYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEE SOREN SOREN SOREN!" and temporarily Soren the poker player has been replaced by Soren, the 9th century Viking Beserker, drunk with rage and out to rape and pillage... Or at least dance around like a kid with his arms aloft, screaming for a minute. He has over 30k. We have burst eardrums. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 09:49:40 PM Antonio has prospered after his early start, although progress has slowed slightly.
Here he is holding 26k or so with the always impeccably dressed Thomas Kremser looking to pick up i-pod tips off him... (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13634&g2_serialNumber=1) John Kabbaj is going along well on 20k or so. As I join his table he raises to 1200 from EP and is called in 2 spots. FLOP 2d 8h 7d Check from Kabbaj, Mateyboy 1 bets 700, raised to 2,100 by mateyboy 2, JK gets out of the way, Mateyboy 1 calls... TURN: 8c CHECK, CHECK RIVER: 4h CHECK, Bet of 3.5k, called by Matey 1. Matey 1 shows T-T which is good versus the busted mighty flush draw of matey 2 Jd 4d. Here is John, pre-surgery to have a Katja Thatur growth removed from his head, sandwiched between two zombies... (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13636&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 09:59:29 PM Tony G!
One of my favourite players and he's barely had a mention. To be fair he is secreted discreetly away in a far flung corner of the poker room. Nontheless I travelled far and wide, traversing dangerous lands, braving wave after wave of belligerent media trying to halt and hinder my progress but ultimately, bruised and bloodied, I emerged and found shining in my path, the holy grail and purpose of my adventure. TONY G!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here is the man. He was a bit miffed actually as he'd jsut had a bad beat KK v JJ. Thank god it wasn't a Russian who did it! He currently has 10k or so and looks a bit tired. Don't worry though...I gee'd him up! (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13638&g2_serialNumber=1) Accidental random picture of the day. Or excellent toe shot. Your call. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13640&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 10:16:05 PM Big pot for Jan Heitmann.
UTG limps, Jan limps in mid-position, the button limps, the small blind folds and the big blind checks. Qs 4d Td With 1.4k in the pot, the big blind open shoves for 6k, UTG calls, now Jan thinks and then pushes for around 24k total. UTG snap calls! BB: Jd 9h UTG: Ahrt Aspades Jan: Qh Th Turn: 5c So, Jan has to dodge any Ace, King, Four, Five or Eight... River: 9c No luck and Heitmann is the chip leader with 60k. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13646&g2_serialNumber=1) And close behind him is Eric Koskas with about 57k. Benjo says, as we upload photos, "If you go back out there he could have 100k or he could be out, either is just as likely." (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13644&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 10:38:00 PM Roberto has been SHOOTING up, now on a massive 37k or so. Wowzer.
As I predicted the augmentation of his stack has been matched by a proportionate increase in the noise levels at his table. It's interesting because he is sharing the felt with Johannes Strassmann. I witnessed Johannes first hand on the final table in Dortmund and he was by far the most vocal of all the players there. He hadn't met Roberto at that stage though. As Roberto raises another pot and wins the blinds, Johannes tries to make him put the brakes on. "You're raising too much, I'll have to get involved soon!" "I'm raising too much??? Every time I've riased I've shown a hand. Not like you. You keep raising and showing me T-8 rubbish like that. Isn't that right?" [Roberto gestures to his tablemates looking for support. There is just some quiet Italian giggling.] "I've always got a hand me." - Surprisingly the table doesn't burst into laughter at this point. Whatever, it's working well for Roberto and he now holds a powerful stack. Here is mid lecture on his tight raising requirements with the fellow to the left of the dealer trying desperately to get a word in! (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13652&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 10:44:26 PM Thanks for the great updates guys. Any news of Paul Gourlay please. 15k at the moment, with 'Rocket Man' by Elton John on the iPod. :D Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 10:47:36 PM George Danzer hasn't had the same luck as his friend Jan.
"I raised to 1,200 with A-7. I get one caller, the flop comes 4-4-7 with two diamonds, we both check, the turn is the Ad, he bets 1,000, I make it 3,000, he makes it 8,000 so I go all-in for 25,000. He calls with Ac Qd and rivers the Td." George down to around 5k. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 10:49:35 PM I bumped into Martin Wendt as he popped out for a quick cigarette.
"How's it going Martin" "Ahh, not great. Only got 10k" We chat a bit about a couple of things and he mentions several times how he thinks Julian is a great player and even has a quick chirp about how he had a % of him in Baden. "I knew he would win a tournament soon at that point" - pretty spot on judgement then! Here's Martin, hoping to work his 10k into a worthwhile stack... (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13654&g2_serialNumber=1) Just after this, Soren came marauding into the area, clenching his forearms repeatedly, waving them about like he was carving apart foes on one of his viking expeditions. I tried to photograph him but he called on the spirits of Valhalla before I could snap him and disappeared with a roar into the ether. He's an amusing chap i must say! Artist's impression. (http://www.gifs.net/Animation11/Geography_and_History/Vikings/Man_attacks_2.gif) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 02, 2008, 10:49:42 PM Thanks for the great updates guys. Any news of Paul Gourlay please. 15k at the moment, with 'Rocket Man' by Elton John on the iPod. :D Tim Blake is also around this amount with about 17k. Best dressed man in the room, Gino Alacqua is OUT. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 10:58:47 PM Pretty dealer picture to keep you perked up. Sorry to the guy on her right who thought I was snapping him. Hey I was! Kind of.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13650&g2_serialNumber=1) Stu Rutter - 9k now. Can't seem to build his stack into something worthwhile but he's not sinking yet. Here he is with his poker tutor. The guy on his right really needs to sort out his dreads though - I hesitate to say they're dreadful but.........they're dreadful! (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13656&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 11:32:38 PM Tim Blake aka the Timinator...( Ah go on then....just one more time!
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13351&g2_serialNumber=2) ) is down to 11k and suffering. He'll be needing to make a move to double up soon. Danny Negreanu - 22k. Good work from the canadian superstar! Dennis Kobbero Plejdrup is OUT, victim of a canadian player i THINK is called Jordan Lande. Lande flopped a set of 8s with 8-8 whilst Dennis 8-9 top pair was virtually drawing dead on the flop and by the turn, it actually was. He'll probably be telling his mates about his one out bad beat later... Lande up to 35k or so... Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 02, 2008, 11:42:38 PM Are you into (http://www.seaviewmeats.co.nz/133_pies_lg.jpg) s ?
Do you like...(http://shipanalysis.com/images/chart1f.jpg)s ?? Are a fan of statistical breakdowns of EPTS by player nationality!!!!!!!!???!?!??????? BOY are you going to LOVE THIS THEN! www.europeanpokertour.com/EPT4_sanremo_nationalities.html Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 03, 2008, 12:02:47 AM Stuart Rutter is OUT. Kh 4h against Jh Jd with a Jack on the flop for good measure.
Soren Kongsgaard is out too, he ended up all-in on the river of a A-7-4-9-6 board only to run into a river 8-5 straight from the big blind. Daniel Negreanu is complaining about the lack of hands per hour, we've had three in twelve minutes, and to be honest, there does seem to be a lot of unnecessary dwelling, guys waiting to the last second before calling all-in after a clock has been called. It would annoy me too. George Danzer is OUT. After a load of limpers, 'Tiny Dancer' Paul Gourlay pushed for 5,250 and managed to get all of them out, he then showed Jc 7h (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13662&g2_serialNumber=1) Mark Teltscher has snuck into the tournament area using a media pass. He multi-jobs you know... ;) (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13658&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 03, 2008, 12:19:22 AM Todd Brunson has lived in the shadow of his fellow overseas superstar players today but he is starting to come into his own now, moving his stack up to 27k...
...Meanwhile early riser Daniel Negreanu has not capitalised on his earlier success, holding a mere 20k, which puts him under a little more pressure now. Tim Blake has nursed a short stack for some time now, although he will be forced to get his chips in very soon, with less than 10k at the moment. Can I get an update on Mark 'Randal' Flowers? He's on the left. (http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/3446/n13604860323831473701iw4.jpg) Ok, I THINK he has 20k. I saw a guy who looked a bit like him with that stack so hopefully that is him, although I didn't have the camera so couldn't snap him to confirm at the time. Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 03, 2008, 12:33:42 AM Josh Gould -- 40k
Tim Blake -- El Busto Marc Goodwin -- 12k And drumroll please.... Your chip leader with 94k (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13664&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 03, 2008, 12:54:50 AM Marc Goodwin has jsut doubled through.
He made a good call with Kings on an A-A-x board, only to be shown 9-9. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13668&g2_serialNumber=1) Here he is happily raking in his new chips. up to 25k or so now... (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13670&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: JungleCat03 on April 03, 2008, 12:56:20 AM John Kabbaj has around 24k at the moment.
Roberto gave me a count and he is just shy of 80k... Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 03, 2008, 01:15:44 AM And as they go into last four hands for the day.
Anthony Lellouche bets 10k into a 11k pot on a Ahrt 2s Ks Qs Ad board. The frenchman flips over Aspades Kc and Antonio mucks quickly. Lellouche must have close to 100k now. Ludovic Lacay, on the other hand is OUT. 8-7 on a K-8-7 board, up against K-K... Title: Re: Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on April 03, 2008, 01:29:07 AM Play has now finished for the day.
Chip counts to follow when we get them, most likely tomorrow due to the lack of net access outside the Casino. ;stickaforkinme; See you tomorrow at 3pm (2pm UK) |