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Hi gang!

Day 2 was scheduled to commence at 2.30, but they appear to be running slightly late. I might be obliged to have a quiet word with Big K and tell him to get a grip.

Anyhow, many thx to SuffolkPunch for PMing me the following combined list. You've got waaaaaaaaaaay too much on your hands m8.  :D

Enjoy...

Marc Naalden -- 120,125
Xuyen Pham -- 89,625
Ram Vaswani -- 72,825
Shek Chi Hung -- 66,975
Roy Von Der Locht -- 63,750
Thomas Grundy -- 62,025
Dario Alioto -- 61,825
Jesper Frolich -- 59,700
Christian Grundtvig -- 58,350
Lars Soderlund -- 54,850
Morten Jensen -- 51,325
Greger Aktell -- 51,200
David Berggren -- 51,075
Markus Gonsalves -- 50,625
David Davidsen -- 50,400
Luca Pagano -- 45,675
Jim Hagan -- 44,850
Philip Hilm -- 43,650
Kim Frederiksen -- 42,925
Karin Lundgren -- 42,750
Roy Tommy Vekseth -- 42,025
Johan Bergquist -- 40,850
Jesper Stolpe -- 40,325
Edgar Skjervold -- 39,925
Jens Lauritzen -- 39,550
Christer Johanssen -- 39,050
Hans David Rognlien -- 38,850
Johnny Haard -- 38,700
Lennart Nystrom -- 37,475
Josef Shechter -- 36,950
Olivier Vanneli -- 36,750
Daniel Steine -- 35,725
Stian Haugerud -- 35,000
Nils Paulsen - 34,525
Daniel Elkeslassy -- 34,250
Anders Osterstrom -- 33,025
Tony Chessa -- 32,850
Henning Bolstad -- 32,750
Per Andersen -- 30,850
Simon Young -- 30,750
Anders Berg -- 30,750
Anina Gundesen -- 28,650
Bjorn-Erik Glenne -- 28,600
Henrik Olander -- 28,025
David Layani -- 27,125
Noah Boeken -- 26,925
Rainer Isaksen -- 26,775
Ken Lennard -- 25,950
Tom Jakobsen -- 24,450
Julian Thew -- 24,300
Henrik Fruergaard -- 24,100
Jan-Erik Madsen -- 22,525
Lars Bonding -- 22,300
Anton Thorarinsson -- 22,150
David McGeachie -- 22,000
Dan Pedersen -- 21,975
Robin Reed -- 21,825
Per Arne Dahl -- 21,225
Hans Eskilsson -- 20,925
Adam Nilsson -- 20,725
Niclas Adolfsson -- 20,650
Jonas Svensson -- 20,100
Mads Andersen -- 19,975
Travis Biziorek -- 19,825
Ben Sprengers -- 18,425
Chris Hancock -- 17,175
Martin Iversen -- 16,925
Nicky Smits -- 16,650
Mikkel Haga -- 16,500
Danni Schou -- 16,275
Don Protz -- 16,250
Rino Matthis -- 16,075
Ole Busberg Jensen -- 15,200
Adam Berggren -- 14,275
Andreas Hurtig -- 13,450
Jason Young -- 13,000
Mark Boudewijn -- 12,900
Justin Drechsler --12,825
Anders Lembing -- 12,625
Thomas Olavsrud 11,700
Peter Eichhardt -- 11,600
Kim Wittendorff -- 10,975
Johan Kretz -- 10,950
Ba Kildalen -- 10,950
Torgeir Kopperud -- 10,925
Erik Franssohn -- 10,875
Jan Busch -- 9,550
Douglas Protz -- 9,100
Rolf Woods -- 8,825
Runar Runarsson -- 8,725
Brian Clausen -- 8,350
Ingemar Backman -- 7,825
Runar Pedersen -- 7,525
Christer Lovas -- 5,150
Janos Spada -- 5,050
Birgitta Johansson -- 4,725
Josef Kollarits -- 4,075

Yoyo is nailed on to win this. he's about to 'yo' back up to 70k within the first two levels ;goodvevil;

I've just bent the ear of Thomas Kremser and told him that this late start was simply not acceptable.

It seems that he's taken my words on board as Day 2 has now commenced.

 :hello:  Scoopy  ;slavedriver;

Yeehaaa - shuffle up and deal - keep it coming - hope you've eaten - was considering sending a food parcel as it would be cheaper than eating the food there!

I just overheard parts of an interview with Joe Hachem who was eliminated late last night.

There were no piercing questions.

Joe pretty much said that everytime he climbed uip to a playable stack, he took a knock. He just couldn't get going.

He also mentioned that he was he was very tired last night. To be honest, he did look a bit weary, but I suppose that's the price you pay when you win the World Series. The Aussie has done interview after interview after interview and must be bloomin' shattered.

 ;reallyamsorry;

 :hello:

 :hello:


good luck today guys, especially good luck to julian, doubleup etc

Unfotunately, Jen and I are working on empty stomachs.

It was all very rush rush this morning. Jen's clock batteries went kaput sometime during the night, so her alarm failed to show its face.

And that affected you how........?  Is there something we dont know???

Were you together then, or dont you have an alarm?

If 2 of us are suspicious it must be true......

Blimey - Im going out to get a new hat.....

Will this be the first blonde wedding?  Who is doing the updates on the day?

Moving swiftly on...

I think there's some action in the cardroom.





(hehe, just kidding. You guys have got very creative minds.  :D)

Just in the card room? ;scarymoment;

 :redcard: for stirring.

There are already 13 players out, one of whom is Scandinavian TV celebrity Ken Lennard.

Ram Vaswani eliminated 2 players in one hand.

It's all go here, we're down to 84.

Anina Gundesen -- 28,650

Did the hat taste good ?

Well, you can't account for extreme luck.

Hat needed more salt.  :D

Jen has a boyfriend of 4 years. I'm a gentleman and would perish the thought. Now behave or you shall be tarred and feathered.

Ok Ok - but can we have a picture of you eating the hat?  ;D

 ;iagree;

We need the pictures...

Ram and Chessa are both going strong on the same table.

Anina Gundesen, the young lady who qualified from a $13 rebuy, is still going steady with 25k.

I just saw her take down a pot when she bet 3k on a flop of  Aspades  Th  9c

:hello: Sloopy ;slavedriver;

:hello:

Ram Vaswani eliminated 2 players in one hand...Horse science!

Hello all - technical difficulties overcome, I will be joining Snoopy in the arena momentarily.  I think Ram Vaswani's table may indeed be The Place To Be.

Hi Jen,hope you slept ok, nice to hear from you  :)up

Right - everyone stop talking about Djinn - she's here.

back to the poker.......come on Ram!!!

grrrr as fate would have it both Tony Chessa and myself (although starting at different tables) ended up side by side at the same table and as was liikely to happen ended up in a race aj vs tt which Tony won.  Ah well at least the chips stay in Glasgow...

Christain Grundtvig has just trebled through with Jh Jc v Qd Qs and  Aspades Ad

His opponents were Haugerud Endsso Stian and Olavsrud Thomas respectively with the latter being all-in with his bullets.

All the chips were shoved into the middle preflop, but the flop was a rather cringe-worthy 9h Js 4d

Turn = 9d

River = Kd


Grundtvig is now a big stack. I'll try to get a chip count.

Unlucky doubleup.

It's mayhem here this afternoon. They're dropping like flies.

 :hello: Stoopy  ;slavedriver;

 :hello:

Xuyem Pham is on the feature table with young Dutchman Noah Boeken.

Isaksen Rainer has doubled up to over 40k.

This Scandinavian fellow has only been playing poker for 3 months and qualified from a PokerStars freeroll.

At one point, he raise folded when he moved his chips AND his cards into the middle.

According to one source he has been a bag of nerves all week and, calming himself down with the wonderful remedy of alcohol.

He's also been getting titbits of information from some of the Scandinavian press who are desperately trying to offer the newbie some advice.

From what I understand, they're trying to help him avoid situations where he'll be outplayed. Therefore, the all-in push is being widely promoted.

One journalist informed me that he told the newbie to limp in with big hands and then just reraise all-in if an opponent stuck some chips in. Probably sound advice.

I shall keep an eye on his progress.

Julian Thew News Now -

He's increased his stack by at least a big pile of purple chips (500s) in the first half hour - so it looks like he's sat behind a Marcel Luske type tower of the things.  I put him on around 36,000 which is more comfortable than his starting 24k.

There is a kind of calm destructive frenzy taking place as the little stacks make a bid to double through.  The blinds are 800 - 1,600 with a 150 ante, so those 20kish guys are feeling the pressure.

I don't know if Snoopy's mentioned this, but seeing as he's been a bit, er, preoccupied with the lady players I should mention that two of them are on the same table now - Karin Lundgren and Anina Gundesen.  Both have around average chips.  Pictures will follow shortly...

A few chippy counts:

Thomas Grundy = 67.050k
Anina Gundesen = 35k
Julian Thew = 32k
Ram Vaswani = 105k

What he said  ;cheerleader; ;goodluck; ;goodluck; ;cheerleader;

Young Norwegian newbie (the raise-fold guy Snoops just mentioned) is called Rainer Isaksen - and his supporters have a new goal - to see him on the feature table or getting to the money... press star Geir tells us that HE's been coaching the nervous beginner and we here can't help but have a bit of a soft spot for him...

Pictures of the players or Snippy eating the hat?

Chessa just took a knock.

With 17k already in the pot, Janos Spada moved all-in on a board of 4h 3h Qc Ks 5s.

Chessa dwell for a quite a while. He even tried asking the Scandinavian a few questions in order to extract some information, but Spada wisely remained silent.

Chessa growled with frustration before folding.

There are 65 players remaining.

Blinds are 800 and 1600 with a 150 ante.

The average stack is 44k.

The best news of the day is that they will soon be desposing of the 25 chips, which should make chip-counts easier.

I can't any pictures of me eating my hat because I've already eaten it.

However, I shall certainly eat my shirt if either of these totties make it into the final day. I know that's a safe bet.  ;hide;

Here are the two ladies Karin Lundgren (left) and Anina Gundesen.  Karin has around 60,000 while Anina is a little shorter

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Julian has lost 9k from being reraised preflop.

The second hand he was forced to release AJ. His opponent showed KK.

ahhh now i see what snippy is saying

 :(

Here are the chippy counts for the two chippy leaders:

Marc Naarden = 250k
Philip Hilm = 145k

Naarden has a massive lead over the chasing pack.

dont worry char your prettier than both of the scandies  8)

The rate at which players are dropping out of this Day Two defies belief - it's going to be all over in a couple of levels!  Bring in the alternates...

are you saying that becasue they're good looking they won't make it to the final.

Thin ice Dave, thin ice.

 :D

lol , Dave i meant Julian losing his chips


The  ladies are stunning  :)

>snoops raises a paw<

How many left in?

58 last time I checked.

LOOOOL i knew what the unhappy face was for, i was just messing  :D Ha ha ha ha That Funny Scot is wild aint he!

No mate its you that is saying this  ;tk;

now get with the Pics of scandies...go!

Apart from the chip leader, the happiest face in the room is probably that of rookie Isaksen Rainer who just can't stop grinning.

The Scandinavian youngster is only about 20 years old and has been playing for just 3 months.

One hand saw him limp and then call a prelfop raise.

The flop came queen high.

Rainer checked, his opponent bet 15k.

Rainer quickly moved all-in.

His frustrated opponent mucked and politely requested to see one card.

Rainer turned to a journalist who has been giving him advice and asked if he should show one or not.

The journalist said, 'Just show your weakest card'.

Rainer replied, 'I don't have a weak card'.

Hmm. Smells like aces to me.

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We're finally shedding those pesky 25s.  15 minutes for the remaining players to settle down, grab a coffee etc. etc.  It's so easy to forget to eat properly (pot calling kettle black) when the time is flying by as your players concentrate for hours at a time.

Here are some counts:

Don Protz    20k
Dario Alioto  42k
Mads Andersen  30,500
Luca Pagano  45k
Julian Thew   40k
Noah Boeken  53k
Simon Young  42k
Bad Girl           either 65k or 85k - the angle from the TV table makes it unclear (anyway she's doing fine and looks pretty happy)

I think the female participants in this competition have an equal chance of winning.  ::)

Typical Moderators answer! You know where your bread is buttered, and have to say that. Especially with Jen sitting beside you

Char, one day ill show you how to use the quotation Bracket in the appropriate way babe  >:? >:?

Sloopy, why did you say earlier on that you would eat your shirt if any of the two got to final table?

After a couple of raise-fold chip losses, Julian made it all back (and a tad more) with pocket nines on the small blind.  There had been an under-the-gun limper, and a button call, so he just flat called and saw a  7c 8d Ts flop.  He thought that might be a good time to check-raise, did just that when the button bet, and picked up an extra 10k without having to show his hand...

How many chips does Ram have?

smoky says bad girl is up to 110k. go girl

Never said i had brains Dave  rotflmfao

Just over 100k

Here's a pic of Mads Andersen.  You can't quite see it but he's wearing a very odd jumper with a kind of Mickey Mouse with a huge head.  We may be a bit thin on photos for a little while until we can sort out the camera or borrow someone else's but this will be done if at all possible.

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Is that Ram in the background looking deep in thought ???

Yep, that's Ram, sitting on a healthy stack.


Simon Young (Blondeite Suffolkpunch) is OUT.

Eliminated on the feature table by Noah Boeken.

Unforuntatley, I was unable to see the hole cards, but the board was 5d Th 5h 6c.

Boeken moved in for 22k and was called by Young.

The 7s river was no help.

Well spotted Charmaine...

Hard luck Mr. Young (a blondeite dontcha know) - he said he'd gone to the Feature Table with 14k and turned it into 40k pretty sharpish...easy come easy go in No Limit though...

Yeah, I bet he's thinking...

"I wonder how Arsenal got on today"

WELL, THEY LOST!!! LOST I TELL YA, LOSERS!  ;D ;D ;D

And lastly, for a little while, here's a photo of Julian, looking focused as ever. But he always gives the wandering updaters a smile.  Good luck to him!

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Snoops,

The Villa fans have just started singing...

cos they had their first attack of the match :o :o :o

Still 0-0

Spurs v Villa  ;sleep; ;sleep; ;sleep; ;sleep; ;sleep;

 :redcard:

No warnings, straight red.

Gareth Barry's just had one of them.

>>>>>>>>>>Breaking news>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The London whale is doing ok and has just passed docklands, fingers crossed !!!!!!.


Oh i nearly forgot GO JULLIAN ..........GO BADGIRL....

Cupcake.

Just spoke to Simon, he's absolutely gutted. He enjoyed being on the final table, but is feeling quite low after his sudden exit.

He elaborated on the hand for me.

There was a preflop raise from mateyboy which Simon flat called with A-T suited. Noah Boeken also called from the small blind.

The flop came 5d Th 5h.

Noah bet 7k. The original raiser folded and Simon called.

The turn was the 6c.

Noah moved all-in for 22k. After a biref dwell, Simon called for all his chips.

Noah turned over 5c 2c for trips. No ten came and Simon was a gonna.

When I spoke to him, he mentioned that he was convinced that Noah wouldn't call preflop with a 5, and expected a preflop reraise with AA, KK, QQ, or JJ. The most logical hand was something like pocket nines or eights.

Anyhow, it wasn't meant to be and Simon is left to make the long walk off the stage and out of the cardroom.

In a bizarre moment that makes me feel like I'm dreaming, a brass band has marched into the hotel and are now standing on the stairs along the bannister.

The good news? They're all young Danish stunners in short white skirts.

The bad news?The batteries in the camera have run out.

I can see it all though. It's a visual treat!

This is quite the most surreal thing that has ever happened on an update.  The band is spread all down the stairs, cymbals are crashing, young ladies in little skirts looking very serious are playing trumpets and things and a succession of ladies and gents in evening dress is walking up the stairs between the rows of bandmembers.  I will get a picture from somewhere...

Rookie Isaksen Rainer is OUT.

Still, not bad for his first live comp.

He lost a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge pot to Scandieboy who now has around 150k.

Rainer had AJ, and Scanieboy held AQ on a board of A77Q2

Simon Young has now just finished a swanky TV interview with some stunner from PokerStars.

He's now vowed to jump onto the booooooooooooze bus.

Good lad.

Snopoy might have thought Anina Gundesen was out, but in fact she's just been moved.  Honestly, he gives the ladies no credit at all... although her stack is a low 20k.

Any news on "Thomas Grundy" who started the day on  62,025, 6th in chips ?

Thanks Jen and co.

How can you Londoner's  miss a whale?!?!

Marc Naarden might have started the day ahead of the pack, but now he's sitting on over 260,000!  Chip leader by a mile.  And he's on Julian's table.

Julian tells me that this Marc fellow just can't miss today - here's a hand in which he knocked out a little stack which is a tad unusual:

Marc raises,  and the short stack decides (a bit strangely) to just call for about half his stack.  But he pushed the rest in on the  2s 6s Jh flop.  It turned out he had  Kh Qc.  Marc called him with  4s 5s...
Turn:   7h
River:   8c

And he knocked out yet another player with the straight.

Other counts:

Dario Alioto     54k
Don Protz       40k
Ram Vaswani  115k
Karin Lundgren 42k
Anthony Chessa  40k
Julian Thew      43k
Luca Pagano    80k
Anina Gundesen  21k

67k

Julian is now on around 60k.

He raised under the gun with  Qh Jh. The big blind moved all-in with  7c 7s. Julian called as folding would only leave him with 15k.

The flop delivered a very welcome queen.

Goooo Jooools!

Level 13

1500-3000 (300)

41 players

Av stack = 70,240

15 minute break at end of level in 45 mins

Julian makes a good call - in one of those small vs big blind situations he made up the blind with J9 and they proceeded to check until the river when his opponent bet 3k.  Julian called with Jack high - and it was good.

The lights have been dimmed out here (why do we always seem to get sat in the hallway) and the room is quickly filling with hundreds of guests.  We may have to up and move back into the Press Room - where unfortunately Snoopy's internet connection isn't too happy - in a little while, but we will try to stick it out for a while.

I nice gentleman in black tie just asked if we were here for the Prince's Baptism, or something.  There's an explanation of it all for you!

I assume Snippy has said yes and is now heading for the royal celebration buffet?

We tried to move but Snoopy's internet connection isn't having it.  Temperamental technology...  So it's back in the hall where the guests seem to be drifting off somewhere anyway, and the band has dispersed.  Back to the poker.

Jen, I have a clip online of the brass band! Its two megs and its linked off here. (http://www.antesup.com/boards/showpost.php?p=514&postcount=76)

DeV.

snoopy, you're missing a great deal or no deal.
blokes having a mare.
got to the first deal hitting 4 medium to big red including the 100k
opening offer of £700  :(

Just seen the clip of the band ... very grand ideed  ;reallyamsorry; :volin: ;adamM;

Noooooo - my clip doesnt work - i want to see the band!!

I'm desperately trying to get hold of a piccy of one of the lovely band members who so willingly posed for us.

Ah luckyblind you are an absolute star - that is essential viewing. 

Other non-band related news - Anthony Chessa OUT

He moved in on the button with the perfectly respectable  Ac Td, and the small blind woke up with  Kc Ks.  I watched the cards come out and they were all irrelevant to the outcome, so we're down to 37.

Grundy -- 52.3k
Vaswani -- 85k

They're now on a 15 minute break.

Feature Table News Now -

Got there at the end of a hand as Bad Girl Xuyen was stacking some chips.  Thought, "there won't be anything exciting here now I bet," then saw her raise the very next hand to 7,000.  Daniel on her immediate left moved all-in for about 20,000 which she eventually called with  Qh Qs.  He had the  Ac Ahrt though!  So that was a 30k hit to her stack, leaving her with about 70,000.

hey, playing like a rock works,
waitin for the rush,
just hope i'm there when it's arrives!

Julian

Team Norsemen Update:

Woody is sadly out, but enthusiastically wandering the tables like us press types now.  He told me that Anders Berg had had a bit of luck, moving all-in as a desperately short stack on the small blind against the big blind who had Aces... with 94off!  But the board tripped up the four (can you say that? Sounds weird) and he's still in.  Team mate Edgar Skjervold is doing much better, though, and Julian has just been moved to his table.  Between Edgar and Mads Andersen it's not a terribly easy spot though.

I'll add some local inside info.

I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but in Denmark, a child is baptised 2-4 months after it's born. Most parents decide on the name of the child after it's born, but obviously before it's baptised.

This morning the newest member of the royal Danish family was baptised. In this country, any royal event is a big event, and it's been on the national TV channels all day. The name of the prince, who will one day become king (unless we come to our senses and gets rid of the monarchy), has been the source of much speculation, and all major bookies have been taking bets on it.

I have no idea what the party at the hotel is about though.

Anyway, keep the updates coming. And get something to eat!

35 players remaining
Blinds 2000-4000 (400)

The price of poker has gone up!  ;tk;

Ram's lost a few (including some of his new blue 5,000 chips) so is on around 85k.
Looks like Don Protz is OUT.

Julian "playing like a rock works" Thew.
good job he typed it under Snoopys login otherwise the weight of the irony might have crashed the whole system.
 ;slavedriver;

Adam - just seen my first ever deal or no deal.  Wow, it was wicked - on the edge of my seat lol.

Great job again snoops and Jen, can i ask if the final is played tonight or are they playing to a time or just finalists left?

They're braced to break down to 3 tables.

It's very hard to see the action at the moment because they're trying t ominimise the amount of press standing around the tables. They claim it's too crowded, but I just think they don't want anyone getting in their camera shots.

Not sure why, I'm very photogenic.  :dontask:

Not sure why, I'm very photogenic.  :dontask:
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Chili - hello!  I rather think it's going so fast they might just go all the way to the final 8... might see if Snoops wants to have a little wager when he returns.

Incidentally, they are doing their "now that it's a bit exciting we may not want you guys hanging round the tables" thing so we're going to do our best to bring info but if we're behind the rope, we're behind the rope...

Mads Andersen has to be one of today's big success stories - looking perilous upon returning with under 20k this afternoon, he hit a peak of 266,000 about half an hour ago and is unrelenting in his pursuit of more. 

Mads just clashed with Julian, who'd raised to 11,000.  Mads called on the big blind and they both checked the  Ac 4s 7c flop.  The  Aspades came on the turn, and when it was checked again, he bet 14,000 - Mads called.  The  2h looked unimportant, but they both checked the river and Julian ended up winning with his  Ad 3d.

Karin Lundgren had a bit of a lucky double through, moving all-in with  Ahrt Js.  She found a caller with  Ks Kd (as you may well expect) but spiked that Ace to put her right back in the running with 60k or so.

Hello fellow mad people.

Reading earlier you will have seen I was slightly miffed to go out in 48th place today. When I joined this superb forum in September I was ridiculed (by one particular individual) for being a newbie to poker (I started playing last April) who had got lucky by getting sponsorship to join the EPT tour. Yes I am lucky to work for The Sun and have the opportunity, but i felt I was playing well enough to give it a go. Well, I lasted 10 hours in London, 11 in Austria, and ten in Dublin (went out on massive bad beat) and approached Copenhagen feeling genuinely confident that I could make the money (Austria was 53rd place - money paid at 27th).

Day 1A here I finished on 30,750 chips, slightly above average, and after the rest played their Day 1B I found myself in 40 out of 97 going into day 2.
Could this be the pay day? Well after 20 mins I thought "no" when a slightly dodgy bluff on my part backfired and I reversed to 16,000 ( ace, two, bugger all on flop and a limp caller etc - and he had second pair).

But things improved. I moved to the feature TV table and within an hour had jumped from 16,000 to 42,000. The cards were with me.  Then disaster - I called a raise with Ace ten suited, Noah Boecken (srry about spelling) in small blind calls too. The flop 5, 10 5, suited me, but Noah raises I call and he moved all in on the blank turn. He can't have a five - what on earth did he call the pre-flop raise with? If he had jacks, queens kings or aces surely he would have re-raised? Sure enough, despite my top pair/ace kicker, he shows the five, with a TWO!!!

Oh well, that's why he's a top pro and I'm a Sun hack!

To say I'm gutted is an understatement - i went out in 48th, 21 short of the money, to a Noah special.

As Snoopy - who is doing an absolutely fabulous job here with Jen - said, i went off to board the Booze Bus.

Well, I've past stop 6 and intend to complete my journey all the way to the terminus.

Up the Blondes.

And see you all (or some of you) in Deauville.

Simon "Suffolk Punch in the Glue factory" Young.

It's pretty tough to get anywhere near the action at the moment. However, i do have a few piccys.

Notice Big K on the right doing some top class tournament directing.


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Thanks for the summary Mr. Suffolkpunch - enjoy your alternative entertainment to poker and we look forward to updating on you further on in Europe...

 :respect: Simon ,,,,,, go and enjoy the rest of the night , you deserve it  ;letsparty;

Hoorah - Snoopy with his borrowed camera (thankyou Gutshot Steve!!) can now bring you a few images of the last four tables... It does look a bit like Edgar Skjervold (in the white hoody) has a lampshade for a head though.

And here's John Duthie looking rather stressed.

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Due to a lack of access and very bright lights, this is the best shot I can get of the feature table.

Notice Christer Johanssen in the foreground.



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Anymore news on Thomas Grundy please? Is he still there?
Thanks again!

Thomas Grundy is OUT.

Just gone.

Luca Pagano is also OUT.

And, bad news, in 25th place - Julian is OUT

He'll probably have more detail than I could see (well, definitely actually) but he ended up all in with 89 vs 10 5 on a Q 10 6 board.  He was covered; the hand was announced in all its tension by Thomas Kremser, there was no 7 or J  and at that second the DINNER BREAK gong noise sounded.  Hard luck Julian, and well played.

Unlucky Julian.....xx

Unlucky Julian  :(

Again, unlucky matey! Go stick it to them next time.

boo.
 >:? that 'playing like a rock' worked out well then.

next time JT

Thank you Charmaine. Now past stop seven and intend to stay on the bus in the terminus while it goes around again.

Sorry about Julian T. True gentleman who deserved better.

To lift spirits, here's one of the band members.

Poor girl lost her band. How you can lose a brass band marching around a hotel I'll never know.  :dontask:



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Just to reiterate: ******************* One Hour Dinner Break *****************

Super nice lady Gili came and handed us a buffet pass (just the one, mind) saying that they were like gold dust.  We may play heads up to see who gets to eat... But I'm sure there is someone here who can sort Snoopy out ;)

Hopefully he'll join you on the bus  :)up

Hasn't he got that hat to eat?

Bless the little band girl , she only looks about 10 !!! ........ or is it coz i'm getting older and the girls just look younger ???  :blonde:

Can't Thomas K organise some lunch time entertainment with the star act

KEV!!!

Some local eye candy for you. These Danish totties all look pretty similar, but that's fine by me.  :kiv: :kiv: :kiv:



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Going for choccy cake.

Back soon...

I know that lady, I had a few drinks with her in the Vic last year, she is verrrrrrrrry nice :)

Bugger - just fallen off the bus and going back to room to sleep off. Speak tomorrow, hopefully not from Copenhagen Central Police Station........

after looking at rthat tasty bit of fluff im on the next plane out there

Bloody buses !! . enjoy sleeping it off

Well they feasted and returned, and now there's a reasonable space between the two regular tables out on the floor, and the Special Table on its little stage thing (as snapped by Snoops).  Despite the room, they're not too keen on the updaters hovering round the players, but it looks like Thomas Kremser might be on permanent-announce mode and will tell us some detail about the crucial pots.

Sorry Julian, I dont think that "rock" thing is meant for you or me 8)

 :hello: to everyone, nice job snoop and Jen, will see you all in March for EPT, I am off to the WSOP circuit in Tunica 8)

good luck mate

Good luck Brian, hope to meet you in Vegas in the summer.

They're just about to kick off again.

There was a bit of a kafuffle whilst we waited for them to move tables. There has been a redraw for seats, so all the players have had to shift their stacks elsewhere.

There are currently 24 players remaining.

How many players remaining stoopy ?  Great updates by the way  :kiv:

Just to keep you entertaining, here are a few Copenhagen piccys courtesy of the exceedingly generous Stephen Bartley. Stephen kindly lent us his camera when our batteries gave up, so any thanks should be directed towards him. What a star.  :)up



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24

And another...

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2 dozen then! Thanks

It's a shame that the combination of bad weather and updating has prevented us from seeing some of these picturesque sights for ourselves.



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And yes, it's as cold as it looks. Brrrr.



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Anina Gundesen survives her all-in with pocket Jacks - mainly because she was called with pocket 4s.  So three ladies in the final 22 (23rd went out just a minute ago with a move with Q9 called by KK). 

That reminds me, wasn't there something earlier about Snoopy eating a shirt if a there's a lady finallist??

This is young Dutchman Noah Boeken. (2nd from right)

If you look closely, you may be able to spot Anina Gundesen in the background, one of three remaining females. 3!!! What has the game come to?!  :dontask:

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That Ram never seems to be paying attention.



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Ram Vaswani has been rotated back on to the TV table, sunglasses and all.  I am going to try to get some chip counts but it's a little tricky with a bunch of spectators now crowding the rail, and no bypassing to be done.  I can see that Bad Girl has one of those World-Series-style large stacks, but it appears to be mainly made up of black chips (100s).  Looks good though, and takes up an impressive amount of space on the table...

And now for a lovely scaffold pic.



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I used to like "The Scaffold",I believe George Harrison's brother was in the band   :D

Thanky you very much, Lily.

Just in case

BTW Who's shirt is Soopyn supposed to eat should the inevitable happen  ;)

Another great result - Grosvenor have just given us dinner tickets for the buffet so we are all getting fed....could someone please pass that news on to Snippy please ;-)     


Above message from Heid

Thank you Dewi for that timely reminder... I reckon he has to eat that brown blondepoker shirt of Tikay's which fits him so well ;)

I'd be quite happy to munch away on the brown blondepokershirt. It's extra large!! Makes me feel like a right Rodney Trotter.

Noah Boeken has just doubled up Morten Boegh Jensen.

All the chips went in preflop.

Boeken = 7d 7h

Jensen = Qh Qd

Flop = Kd Qs 3h Js  Aspades 

Chippy counts are becoming increasingly difficult, especially with the mountai nof chips in front each player.

Mads Andersen has about 250k.

I can just see tomorow's headlines.

"Rabid shirt-eating beagle on rampage"   ;hide;

Noah Boeken is OUT.

He made an outrageous bluff preflop with 9-6, but was called by K-Q. No help arrived.

Now if it had been 7-4...

Buffets all around. We snuck into one during the break. I passed myself off as Julian. I almost got caught, one waitress claimed that I was way too good looking.  ;goodvevil;

 rotflmfao rotflmfao

Bad Girl 275,000

Any chance for a full chip count please?

Karin Lundgren OUT in 20th -

On the TV table, this TV-worthy hand came up:

Karin min raised to 12,000, called by Philip Hilm and Ram.  Flop:   5h Js Ks.  They both checked to Karin who bet 40k - Philip moved all-in, and Ram passed, but she called.  They got Thomas Kremser over.
Karin showed:  Ac Ad
Philip showed:   8s 4s

Turn:   Aspades - guaranteed to get the maximum gasp from the audience
River:   2h - and with that ultimate blank, Karin went out.  She didn't look best pleased.

How many ?

Woohoo   ;cheerleader;

 :cheers:

according to a dansih hp, the current chipcount is...

Anina 93K

Stolpe 50K

Peter D. 100K

Pham 292K

Mads A. 252K

Marc 392K Chipleader

Shek 150K

Edgar 250K

Christer 100K

no chipcount from tv-table

Thanks very much Pokerdane!  We are really struggling with the access...

They did bring out a silver suitcase filled with money into the hallway right behind us and filmed it for a few minutes.  Just the case, that's all.  Probably in preparation for parading it around the room in a mo.

Your welcome :-)

Looking good for us danes - 8 danes amongst the last 17! And one of them just knocked ram out ..

Hmmmmm....Snoops, when does the shirt eating commence?

Im not suprised lol only 200 or ya entered lol

Here's Jennifer plugging away at base. All looks very futuristic, but those red seats aren't half comfy.



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My threat of shirt eating only centred around Karin and Anina. And that's final!  ;tk;

Never mind that, what happened to ram?

They have broken to two tables - And yes, Ram was last seen climbing over the rope... I will try to find out some details.

Julian looks petrified as he catches a glimpse of his reflection in the lens. eek.  :o :o :o



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They were all-in preflop as far as i can tell:

Ram Had king-queen and his danish opponent had ace-jack.

A queen came on the flop but the dane caught a straight on the river!

From the Big Screen I have copied the money from here on in (the numbers look astronomical but it is in Krone...)

1) 2,548,040
2) 1,401,422
3)  716,636
4)  557,384
5)  477,757
6)  398,131
7)  318,565
eight) 238,879   (not falling for that sunglasses trick)
9)  159,252
10-12) 85,551
13-15) 79,626
16)   63,701

And for you brits - divide it through 7.45 to get the euro amounts!

For Brits its 234k sterling

Jen, is that the price list in the Cafe?

That's just the service charge.

14 players left.

Blinds are 4000/8000 with an 800 ante

bobby - it may as well be... but Julian just bought us drinks so we're OK for now...

Mads Andersen is on the absolute rampage now - just took out two players in three hands (we're down to 14).  He has a mountain of chips, I reckon around 500,000.  The last victim was Per Anderson (that's what I heard from the announcer - it's too crowded to see what's going on) who was all-in with  Kh 9h against Mads'  Jd Jh. 
The board came  5c 7d Qc 8h 7c and they're having to move another poor player onto the table of doom.

Quote from Julian about helping to chip up Mads:  "What have I done?"

Mads Andersen is a former backgammon world Champion - won the title in 2002. A lot of the stong danish poker players originally started in backgammon - most notably Gustav Hansen (who was known as Gustav Jacobsen back then), Lars Bønding and Mads Andersen.

I can't tell you how difficult it is to report on this event. The rail is jam packed and there is literally no room being offered to the press.

Chip stacks are ridiculously large so chip counts are complete guesswork.

The following names are still in:

Xuyen Pham
Anina Gundesen (shirt on stand by)
Mads Andersen
Marc Naalden
Shek Chi Hung
Christer Johanssen

I can well imagine that the rails are packed! Poker is so popular in Denmark - you wont belive it!

Managed to get a couple of chip counts whilst players are on a brief break.

Xuyen Pham = 223k
Mads Anderssen = 580k

 ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;go bad girl ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

One more:

Christer Johansson = 72k

a phew other counts:

Shek 350000
Anina 116000
Madsen (mads andersen)580000
Philip Hilm 510000

Bad Girl was getting whisked off behind the Interview Curtain during this break but she found time for this quick pic

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They have thinned down the giant chipstacks by bringing out a crate of blues, but just before they did we got a pic of Mads Andersen's stack to show you what we mean...

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Hi ponsoy and jen. Gatso here with a message from Luton

hope your boiled sweets are going down well. It's now 28 minutes and 33 seconds to buffet time and these little free food tickets are burning holes in our pockets

 :hello:

Buffet tickets are like gold-dust here. Without them you'd probably have to stump up 20 squid for a meal.

Cool. That's what I got for Mads on the previous page. I'm the new rainman!  8)

Mummy Nun will bring you a packed lunch tomorrow ..if she comes...

There's squid on the menu?  :o

 ;karabiner;

Hello Luton!  You feel so far away... but the buffet transcends borders.

Adam Nilsson here was just eliminated, moving in with  Jc Jd but finding himself up against  Qs Qh. 

Chipleader is Mads Andersen + 800 K

Here in the red is Mads, the back of Xuyen's head and I think the gentleman drinking coke is the one responsible for Adam's elimination

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I think you might get a feel from the background of this photo what a wall of spectators is around the final two tables.  I climbed a rope.  Bad me.

Commendable dedication to duty I'd call it  :D

Playing down to the last 10 today or?

Playing down to the final table.

ie. 8 players

Edgar Skjervold 176000
Johan Bergquist 100000
Bad Girl (Pham) 100000.

another few counts

Just so you have an idea of seat positions:

Table 1:

Xuyen Pham
Mads Andersen
Philip Hilm
Edgar Skjervold
Johan Bergquist

10 players remaining

Level 17

Blinds 5000-1000 (1000)

I believe Jen has information on how the 11th man fell.

Christer Johanssen OUT in 11th place -

One of the favourites in the later stages of this comp has just been eliminated by Anina Gundesen.  His  Ad Js was up against her  Aspades Qh.
The flop:  9 8 7 (a couple of extra winning cards for Christer)
Turn:  6
River:  another 9 and Christer left to a pretty decent round of applause

When Number 10 falls, they are going to a single nine-handed table, which will eliminate one further player before they break for the final tomorrow (5pm - 4pm UK time)

Xuyem Pham is down to 70k.

Hans Eskilsson is OUT and we are down to one table.

The assasin was Marcus Gonsalves.

1 more elimination and the night's over.

Will you be having ketchup or brown sauce with your shirt Poonsy ?

Stop chirping!  ;yellowcard;

She could still come 9th and miss out on the final day, so stop counting ya eggs before they've hatched, bucko.

Errr there's two of them  rotflmfao

Chips for the final Nine:

Bad Girl     67k
Mads Andersen  937k
Philip Hilm  615k
Edgar Skjervold  200k
Johan Bergqvist  58k
Anina Gundersen  224k
Marcus Gonsalves  180k
Shek Chi Hung   308k
Marc Naalden   279k

Here is the prize list in Pound Sterling:

1st = £234,036
2nd = £128,720
3rd = £65,823
4th = £51,195
5th = £43,882
6th = £36,568
7th = £29,260
8th = £21,941
9th = £14,627
97th = B.F.H.

what happened to Xuyem's chips??

Aaaah... Xuyem wasn't part of the deal.

Xuyen 'Bad Girl' Pham is our 9th place finisher!

Mads Andersen raised on the very first hand, and she moved her 67k all-in with  Th Jh.  Mads was holding   Aspades Ks, however, and the flop was no help:  Ad 9d 3d, followed by  Qh Ac.  So she misses the final by a hair's breadth... Well played these last few days though!

Ketchup please...

groan,
ul bad girl

a great trip, nearly went to plan,
but i think i boo'boo'd

raise UTG to 12k with 8-9s,
aggressive mads RR to 32k from BB
should have seen that coming and be prepared to push...
decided to call, hoping to frighten him...
flop a double bellt buster, prey he checks to me, but he moves in on 6,10,Q flop.
too quickly, think f@ck it, u got nothing & call all-in,
his 10-5 is good

next!

We've grabbed a few free drinks from the bar before the card room shuts and the chips are bagged and carted away to wherever they live at night.  We updaters might end up doing what we did last night which was a $5 sit'n'go online 4-way heads-up shootout to get it all out of our systems... I would have to defend my title, of course ;)

Great reporting and pics,really enjoyed it.

excellent night , thank you for sharing the excitement with us all xxx sweetdreams

Cheers guys.

Stick a fork in me...

... I'm done.

Well done great blonde reporting as ever.

agreed,
well done snuppy & jen, it's great to have some friendly faces around,
lookin 4ward to hooking up & havin a few drinks in deauville

The Buffet at Luton was lovely ...

We had Samosas,salmon and cream cheese, rice, ribs, wings,  chicken things ... skewers, mini scotch eggs, other indian food.

Friuit crumble and choc with cream or fruit for dessert.

How was your dinner?

 8) 8)  Thanks for  the exelent reporting guys. enjoyed following all of it.

look forward to tomorrows final 8 and further words from u guys.

cheers for the reports guys, is always good to wind the night down with 15 pages of blonde updates :)

Coooeee Mr Djinn, do you have Messenger on your computer in your room? That's where I am. I may have had some whiskies

 :hello:

Mr? Is there something we don't know about Jennifer?

Shouldn't you be getting some kip?
Long day tomorrow

Mum, is that you?

Go and eat your shirt (I SAID SHIRT!)

Great work today snoops, hope you're having fun.