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The World Poker Tour Baden Main Event has reached its official Day 2 after the second and final starting flight was completed on Wednesday. A total of 131 players from the 254 who started still have chips to play with and Derby’s Mitchell Johnson is right up with the chip leaders with a stack of 132,200.

Johnson’s stack is enough to place him in sixth place going into today’s Day 2 and although it is very early days, Johnson will be forgiven for harbouring thoughts of a first cash on the WPT circuit. To date, Johnson has around $135,000 in live tournament winnings with his biggest burger topping the scales at 20lbs. Johnson was awarded this amount for a seventh place finish in a $2,500 buy-in tournament held at the Wynn, Las Vegas in July 2012. Prior to that, Johnson’s largest cash was £11,000 ($18,211) that he picked up for a fourth place finish in the Dusk Till Dawn £300 Deepstack.

Another of the UK & Ireland players to keep a look out for today is Tom Carpenter who turned his 30,000 starting stack into a well-above average 84,000. A large percentage of Carpenter’s stack used to belong to Team PokerStars Pro Marcel Luske, but Luske open-limped and set of a series of calls that ultimately ended in his demise. Carpenter flopped trip fives with five-three offsuit and managed to get Luske to pay him off on all three streets with just top pair.

Joining Johnson and Carpenter into Day 2 are PartyPoker Team Pro Kara Scott (41,800); Seamus Cahill (38,900); Ryan O’Donnell (34,100); Dermot Blain (30,500); Scott O’Reilly (28,600); Phillip Huxley (21,800); Christopher Kiefert (19,800); Andrew Hulme (18,000) and Keith Johnson (16,600).

Play resumes at 14:00CET and we believe it will continue until a minimum of five 90-minute levels have been completed. It is unlikely that the money bubble will burst because only the top 27 places are being paid


http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2013/02/mitchell-johnson-among-chip-leaders-at-wpt-baden-10058.htm

Nice edit.

Poker news is a great site updates. Only 2nd to tightend

On the rail... Will attempt some tighty-esc updates of mitch's shenanigans.

Aggro Swedish lookin guy opens CO out of 25bigs, Mitch piles from BB, gets it through.

Pics and lookylikies, if you please, for 'The Full Tighty'

If we give you a random table and seat number, would you do the honours?

Update on what Mitchell has ate today please, Simon.

Mitch opens UTG+1, BB defends. BB c/r to 2k to 6500 on  Th Jh Jd. Mitch peels. Turn  6s, BB bets 7200. Mitch peels. River  5h. BB bets huge 33k. Mitch is in the tank. Mitch calls.

BB flops nuts  Js Td.

Ok between 15-28

Sighs. Good to see only 3 uses of "Mitch calls" in that hand though, his average is 4.3 per hand.

19-3, please.

UTG opens min, CO peels, Mitch 3bets BTN 5100. BB cold 4's.. 11800. Mitch folds :-(

It's a lady.... Just need someone to tell me how I put pictures on here from an IPhone??

How's the other chubby one getting on?

Deadman out?

email/facebook it to me kid, ill put it on

No, he's still in - Simon "I don't use my phone at the table because I watch everybody in every hand" Deadman is just strolling round doing updates on his pals

Story checks out.. But an obvious rub from G2L

Might be on mitches table using his iPad NOT his phone :p

From Sir Simon of Deadman:

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Keith 'the silver fox' Johnson 45k
Stato 35k
Chris Kiefert 30k
All three of these guys up from the start of the day.
Walk back to see Mitchell get some back, all in on flop of AAx with AQ vs A7... Back to 100k

Any other uk players you want stack sizes for... Lemme know

As close as I could get I'm afraid... Decent pick tho tal... Better than seeing Mitch or stato IMO, saves me zooming out also.

Chip leader in HJ opens to 1600, CO peels
Copy/paste... Mitch calls.. from BB.
Donk leads 2200 on 7high flop.. Both fold.

The donk leads from the BB?

Keep up the good work, Deadman.

Any more random pics now he has the hang of it?

Not how I meant it but it works

Valet pics?

Mitch opens HJ to 1800, SB 3bets 4300.
Mitch............. Calls.
Flop  Qh Js 7h
SB cbets 5400
Mitch..................... Folds!!! WTF?

One of our heroes has just doubled to 55k with Aces v AK...
A clue which one... He recently joined me at and all u can eat buffet and by the end of it his chair collapsed into pieces from right underneath him.

Do I have to get permission or just do sneaky snaps like Goulder does of the dealers??

the AA vs AK clue suggests Stato.

The all you can eat buffet and chair collapsing clue suggests Stato.

For that reason, my guess is going to be...Stato

hey, that was supposed to be a secret.

Oops... Was actually a serious question. Well the first part anyway ;-)

Mitch opens HJ, BTN peels. Flop A83r bet/call. C/c 8 turn, c/c 5 river. BTN wins with A2o

Ask them if they mind before you take the pic

Explain its for a poker site, updates and not just for your facebook

Little Mo has put on weight since she left eastenders.....

Hey good work guys.

Is this a proper WPT jobbie or one of the Mickey Mouse ones that no one takes serious and usual gets won my some random?

Blinds going up to 500/1000-100... 106 players remain. 27 paid.
185k for the winner and all the heroes still in.

This is a proper one. :-)

UTG +1 opens, MP calls.  Stato peels from BB.
Flop  4h 6h 7d
UTG cbets 4200, MP calls. Stato 11800. UTG 35,000....
Stato all in... Called.
 4s 4c for stato
 7h Th for UTG guy.
Turn.....  Ts..... Sick sweat.
River.........




BRICK!

Huge double to 120k for stato

Hey can you also tell him if he ain't too busy an reigning champ he has got to have set the next quiz by 8pm tonight Ty

Gowan stato, who's the mitchell chancer anyway? is that the brother of Keith?

HE'S A STATMAN, BE BOP BOP BODDABOP

Flicking in a 300 side event in 1 hour... Apologies.
If I bust I'll resume my updating duties.

Keef still grinding away?

Yes... 50k ish

Stato busts a shorty 1010 v 44 in pre.

UTG2 opens. Stato peels BB. C/calls A high flop. Turn and river check through.. Good with A2 suuuuuted.

Mitchell seems to have gone quiet after his telling off from the silver fox in the break. Still got 100k going along nicely.

Cool look brah :P

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Mitch opens SB... BB peels... Checks thru AK39... Mitch pots river 2.. BB folds.

Such is the man's confidence

:)

The other large one

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Walk over to see stato tanking an all in to call on 88A99.... Bout 15k to call

Called AJ... Guy had 66 for counterfeit 2 pair. Up to 160k

It's all going on now... Mitch 4bets to 11600 CO vs SB.... Guy jams. Sigh folds... Around 85k.. Still loads at 500/1k.

Last round of stacks from me.

Stato 160k
Mitch 80k
Keef.  56k
Chris.  46k

Mitch opens early. SB peeps. Flop  5h 4c Jh. Check/bet/call.
Turn  Th.
check... Mitch bets and gets thru.
Some much need momentum for the ginger ninja

On dinner break. Mitch 121k, me 127k.

Going back at 800/1600/200.

Any updates anywhere

http://www.worldpokertour.com/Live_Updates/Live.aspx

Pretty poor but we have been spoilt over the years here on Blonde.

Zab Catches Three-Outer to Stay Alive
Level 11: 600-1,200, 200 ante
Vishal Punjabi opens to 2,600 from under the gun only to see Attila Zab, who is seated three seats to his left, three-bet all in for around 9,000. Punjabi counts his all-in opponents’ stack before calling and putting Zab at risk.
Zab: 93
Punjabi: A9
Zab is in big trouble because he needs to hit a three and only a three otherwise he will be busted out. The first three community cards fall 532 and there is a three! The T turn doesn’t alter anything and neither does the 7 river. Zab doubles up in unlikely circumstances.


WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!

Fishbowls obv

          Good luck Mitch, Stato and Mondeo Man.

Better updates here I think:

team.770.com/en

Lol 6 bet pre, sounds like fun!

Keith out :(

Lost AK to AQ to be chip leader according to teameureka.com reports

mitch 100k, stato 250k

Thanks to teameureaka.com

Unlucky Keith, best of luck Stato and Mitch!

Mitch Johnson ‏@Mitch_Johnson8
Up to 190k. Sometimes AQ>AK :-)

Contrasting fortunes in final level. Mitch heaters to 285k going back at 1500/3000, I lost every pot and finished with 115k, average is 170 coming back tomorrow

GLGL tmoro, ul Keith.

Best of luck tomorrow lads!

Yeah but its a 2.5k bowl. I've ground the big 11 as my last table on a sunday harder!

Good sweat for 2mora boys, enjoy it :)

gowan boys, how many left?

44 with 27 paid.

gogogogogo

Go Mitchel go Andy GO!
Joined blonde just to rail you champions!

Both lads played solid all day and deserve a big score. Gl tomoro boys..  1 and 2 would be sick!!!

GL boys, 1-2 would be niiiiiice!

The big 1-2 would be nice....

glgl

GL guys!

As Mr Inglesias said "you could be my hero baby"

Gooooooo

Best of British, chaps

Couple of heavyweights left in the field.







Very best of luck to them both ;)

Give it the ol 1/2 boys

Glgl

Good luck to you both , especially Mitch because a bink means he can get rid of that girly car
he has and replace it with a proper poker players car.

If you need any advice after your win just ask Alex.

Best of luck

Good luck both. Any stream of the final do you think?

good luck guys

In before Mitch min cashes and stato finishes second.

Just kidding boys. Do wins

Great guys, hope you run good

Best of luck guys

Got to move hotels pre tourny today, ours is fully booked which is a bit of a pain in the arsenal, but other that that, feeling fresh and confident for today.

Seem to have ran well with the table draw, I'm the biggest stack and have avoided some of the known better players, especially Rettermeir (sp) who has a similar stack.

Bit dissapointed how I played a few hands yesterday. Felt I was trying to make things happen in a few spots as I could never connect with any flops. Kept afloat with some 3bet/cbets in good spots and finally flopped a set last hand of the night in a dream spot, and went from avg stack, to top 10.

Pretty pumped, got butterflies like I used to get when I first started playing, hope it goes well.

GL us.

Butterflies? You'll eat anything!!!

Mitch, Mitch he's our man, if he can't do it Stato no one can

Best of luck gogogo

Good luck boys - get the lot....

Lose the butterflies quick! Feel dead inside!

Glgl

Pob Lwc Lads

They're not butterflies - you're probably just hungry.

Do a win ffs.

Ooooh, good luck Gents.

Been a great sweat this, thanks.

Anyone know what the prizes are?

Can only see it in dolla:

1    $271,258
2    $172,695
3    $11,587
4    $81,034
5    $59,496
6    $47,820
7    $38,522
8    $31,217
9    $23,911
10 - 12    $17,269
13 - 15    $14,612
16 - 18    $12,221
19 - 21    $10,760
22 - 24    $9,564
25 - 27    $8,634

gooood luck guys!

Bit tough on 3rd

I know, that's what I thought, but check payout structure on the left: http://www.worldpokertour.com/Live_Updates/Live.aspx (http://www.worldpokertour.com/Live_Updates/Live.aspx)

The casino skims 5% but I reckon they have gone for a bit more.

Good Luck Guys

Think third place has been subjected to sausage digits fingerstax :D

Didn't realise it had started:

Thomas Taubenschuss has just been eliminated over on Table 15. Our roving photographer informed us Taubenschuss open-shoved with Ax2x and was called by Mitchell Johnson who held AxKx. Neither player improved to a pair meaning Mitchell’s king-kicker came into play, busted Taubenschuss.

On a QJ48K board, Mitchell Johnson leads for 12,500 from his seat under the gun. Ismael Bojang is his only opponent and he is sat in the cutoff.
Bojang looks like he is deep in thought and that he doesn’t believe the story that Johnson is trying to tell him. Eventually, after around 90-seconds’ deliberation, Bojang calls.
Johnson shows AK and Bojang mucks.

Sounds like the big one has been busy.

cheers milli, good stuff big lad

Mitch 4th in chips 375k, think Stato has taken a bit of a knock and is now on 111k @1.5k/3k  loaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadz of play.

Go on the boys, baby milligan needs nappies.

Good Luck Guys

On a T32 flop, Paul Berende checks from the small blind putting the action onto Andrew Hulme who is seated under the gun. Hulme bets 7,500 but something tells us Berende is not done with this hand just yet. Around 30-40 seconds later Berende check-raises to 18,000 and Hulme releases his hand.

Expected him to be low in chips as last report said 111k but it now says 235k. Wiiiiiiiiiiiii

#TeamGB

Great to see these two in their element....














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Not our crew but worth of a mention:

Marton Staszko finished as the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up where he outlasted all but one of the 6,865 entrants. In order to do that you have to make some big lay downs, one like he has just made now.

We walked past his table to see him folding K7 on a four-flushed queen-high board after facing a river bet from the bluff-happy Gabriel Birlean – much to the astonishment of the table. Birlean showed the QH but then said, “Because you are a good player I show you,” and turned over the A for the nut flush.

WP that man.

^^^^^  rotflmfao

GOGOGOGOGO for the 1,2.

I think I would love to go on an eating spree with those two. Pretty sure I can hold my own with them two.







gogogogo

BOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Andrew Hulme commits his stack preflop with what turns out to be AJ. Vishal Pundjabi calls and turns over 99. Hulme pairs his ace on the AT5 flop, turns trips on the A turn and doubles up when the river is the Q.

Hmmm, I reckon the updates are out of time as that would have put him chippy. Guessing, thats how he got up from 111k earlier. I dunno.

Anyways, back to work. Sighs.

He now has a HOUSELOAD of chips!

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Updates are normally ahead of chipstacks at WSOP, so assume the same here?  EDIT: though seems pretty unlikely to get 200K all in pre with AJs unless in the blinds or with some previous.

Looks like Mitch has lost a chunk:

Andrew Hulme       220,000
Average Chipcount: 205,945
Mitchell Johnson       201,500

Stato winning important flip shocker was also noted.

nit itt :P

1500/3000 moan, moan, youth of today

              Share price at Greggs boosted on news from Baden.

                 rotflmfao

is that Greggs in Newcastle? Is it wrong, yet not that surprising, that I recognise it?! Gotta luv Greggs

I've got 35bb in with worse, I suppose.

But then I'm definitely not stato.

Only ace high at the end of the day...

LOL, I did also :)

Why, is the offie next-door? ;)

haha confirmed!

Is that you in the background Mr G? Nice cap ;-)

   As if you would ever see me in a baseball cap.

           Lol, it looks like me I think he's saying :D

Just seen Mitch and Stato - Both on about 200k.  Stato seems pretty happy, Mitch less so - closing in on the bubble.....

Ahh just realised i'm logged into Stato's account.  Keith here, can confirm stato has not started referring to himself in the third person.

Keith very content with life at the moment I imagine.

Yeah just need a stato/Mitch 1/2 to get out of it for the trip.  Either that or there's a 10k highroller about to start in a few minutes - so far only 9 runners gonna have a look and see how punterish the field looks........

Me 130 stato 30. Desperate times 4 off money!

Need a spin.

Cmon Mitch- grind!

Lestatman- lespinup pls!

Lol at Newcastle Greggs being recognised, made a lot more sense with the barbour/addidas jogger combo behind them. Give the bowl a spin boys! Gl.

We need one of these:

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         Go Go the Derby Boy.

Eyes down for level 17. Go on the Gregg's massive! GETTTTTTTTTT

Stato just bust 3 off the money.

We're now hand for hand on the pure bubble. I have 190k at 2.5/5k.

norrrr :(

Dinner break.

Still on the bubble.

gl mitch

        High stress moment for Mitch. Bubble and dinner break.

which do you like to take advantage of the most, the bubble or the diner break

Pretty much locked on for the cash now. No way he gets back from dinner on time.

In the money, 30bbs. Spin spin spin.

Enjoy the spinnage.

;)

Gg.

AKs<JJ to have 70bbs :-(

Cashed for €6.5k. Will sort transfers when I get back. TY for the rail.

Bugger. Unlucky Mitch.

Great sweat , must have lost a few pounds.

Well done Big Man.

You must be a shade disappointed, but not a bad ROI, and I'm very happy, thank you.

Well done man. Damn flips

Ul guys. Provided great sweats not that, that will ease your pain right now. It's defo coming.

wp both, ul in the end, enjoyed the thread too, that deadman will make a good (ish) partner for Snoops if Jen's not around if the pokering ever goes tits up

More importantly heard there was deece antics at the party last night...

 ;popcorn;

Orly?

We didnt go. Were staying in Baden, the party was in Vienna, and Keith and Stato were being a pair of mopey gits and wouldnt go.

Was tanking getting a taxi on my own and staying with Deadman, who i think went, but its a pretty long round trip to come back, and these things are usually sausage-fests.

Mad Marvin going for 3rd WPT title in 12 months.

Live stream:  http://www.worldpokertour.com/Live_Streaming/index.aspx

Ft bios:  http://www.worldpokertour.com/Live_Updates/Live.aspx?c=all&d=dac108e2-ae7d-475d-bd97-25d19edd7e21

Marv bust 5th, the 4 left are putting on a show.