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Well, there's no point in pretending that we're not a good ways towards the start of Day 1B now, as we wrap up for the night on Day 1A...  We'll be back at 2pm (1pm UK time) for the same thing, all over again, with different (but no less well-known) players to follow through the start to the marathon that is the €10k EPT Grand Final.

Good luck all playing today.

You guys are far too keen!

I may be tempted into a wicked deletion later to ruin all your dreams of pre-preparedness!!

Good job today, now get some rest!

Gonna hit the sack in 20 mins or so, but before I do, just a quick reminder that if you want us to follow a player, whatever his/her nationality, then be sure to tell us who that person is early doors, because once they've broken from their original table, it's a real needle in a haystack job when we don't know what they look like.

cheers,

snoops ;snoopy;

Please can you give updates on Richard Waters ( Wales ) . He is starting off on table 20 seat 5  . Thanks

blonde wish all the DTD guys playing today the very best that the Poker Gods can provide.

We are grateful to DTD for the support they have given to the blonde Live Updates.

Good luck to the Hawkins family today Keith and Mark.

;goodluck;

I just hope the Father and son combo don't get the same table- Best of luck to them both tho!!

Hi Guys

Can you try and keep us updated on Roberto Romanello and Iwan Jones

Thanks doing a great job

can you do updates on Mark Pinter-table 26-seat 7

tia

Would be ace if you could keep an eye on Arnaud Mattern (France) during 1B... Easily recognizable, possibly the thinnest man you've seen in a while.

Tyvm peeps

:hello:

Good luck to all blondes and DTD'ers playing today :)

Outstanding update yesterday with hands written in such informatively descriptive terms that it really was like being there (€20 burgers not withstanding).

Ian Nelson please snoops , BTW excellent first days reporting from all :)

Are you the lady I met from Shetland last weekend in Cardiff - if so nice to meet you. Was a great tourney - im the big drunken scotsman being a nusiance after I got put out!


Jen/Snoopy can you keep tabs on Rory Mathews "mafews" Thanks!

Snoopy, stop taking glamour pics of Chubbs and get to the cardroom!

Hi, could you give me an update on Nicolas Goodall? Thanks alot.

He's currently on average chips, sitting on around 15k

The bar has been raised wrt norkage today.

Do what you must!

Hi guys,
Nice job yesterday.
I expect the same today.
If you happen to see Isabelle, I'd like a pic of her.
See what she looks like today,
and say  HI  for me.
She knows I'm here,
Keep up the good work.

 :hello:

coooooeeeeee

All names have been noted.

Except for that Karl 'Dry Em' Mahrenholz fellow who will be ignored for excessive cheekiness.

is the world famous Woody Deck playing today ?

how did Leslie McLean (Ireland) Finish Up yesterday? Is Roy Brindley In action today also?


Matt are you playing the Irish Open??Joe here from Dublin

 :hello:

Is Phil Ivey over for this event? or is he on the pitch & putt.

Fine work yesterday guys, have a good'un  :)up

Well, if Chubbs eating his brekkie is your idea of glamour...

Whatever takes your fancy I guess, we answer all requests.

Chip counts on their way shortly...

 gl 2 my fello team shadow members
 
ash hussain
nick slade
 best of luck guys bring the crown jewels home

Forget Cusk Till Cawn's Kevin O'Donnell, this is the real deal... Dusk Till Dawn's Kevin O'Connell, proudly wearing that DTD logo.

Here are the Survivors from start day 1A:

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=21926.msg446860#msg446860 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=21926.msg446860#msg446860)

Crikey, DTD are out in full force today, and one of those players will be more confident than any of them, and rightly so after deservedly taking down last week's Cardiff GUKPT. Let's just hope Beppe Le Pew doesn't cause a stink today and cleans up yet again.

Hey All, Great coverage from yesterday

We have a few BadBeat players in today

Dan Smith
Richard 'Squelch' Redmond
Richard 'Strummer9' Herbert
Marc 'MrCool' Goodwin
Lawrence 'Lozza' Frost

If you could try and give an update of these it would be much appreciated

Cheers

And we are off...

And so am I, to the cardroom...

Leslie went busto last night. Flopped a jack-high straight, but opponent (Mateyboy) turned queen-high straight.

Yes, the rumours are right, DTD have signed up a beauty and here she is.

Introducing the loverly jubberly Michaela Johansson.

Booder, down!  ;kev;

DTD aren't the only group of players here today, I also found half of the shadows in the form of this motley crew, PI Slade  ;hattip; and Ash Hussain.

Now there's an incentive for Kinghawko... heads-up with Mikka in Monte Carlo???

Could happen next Tuesday... if not before (in Hawko's dreams!)

Talking of shadows, this giant fish don't half cast a big un. We had an eclipse here earlier.

GO ON THE SHADOWS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's the same girl who won the 22k tourney at the Bellagio, fairly new to live poker, but nonetheless very good it seems.

An earlier request for Nicholas Goodhall may be a toughie - he played yesterday and finished Day 1A with 46,225 in chips.

For the full chip count, please click the following link:

http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/8433 (http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/8433)

I was a busy bee on the way here, stars aplenty. I also bumped into a few Mateyboys, one of which was this chirpy beige trousers sandal wearing satchel carrying chappy. Anyone know him?

He seemed a bit new to the game, so I passed on a few tips.

good luck to all...

Could you let me know how Roy Brindley is doing.  Cheers

Ah, so that's Mikka from Crypto. I remember playing against the multi-tabling minx on the low-limit NL cash tables a year ot two ago and had noticed that she'd moved up.

(http://www.pokerpages.com/players/images/photos_200x250/87539.jpg)

But forget about the Mateyboys, we have to superstars here today in Ariel Adda (disappointingly not donning his usually horrific shirts) and Paul (brother of Ashley I believe) Alterman.

Two Luton Bulldozers!

Jeff Lisandro & Willie Tann - I'd swear that they were brothers!

PI Slade is already up to 21k, something involving raising 3-5off in early position, hitting a 3-5-9 flop and getting raised on the river by a pair of sevens (?)

Yes mate, coming over thursday- see u there?

Hey there zipppppy.
Ditto that!!

THATS THE SPIRIT OF THE SHADOWS GO SLADEY GO !

20 minutes in and it's already first ruling from Thomas Kremser for Antony Mackay - one of the Americans (surely) just made one of those cut-bets holding a bigger stack over the line and taking some back after he'd put a couple hundred in, as is standard in the World Series, and disallowed in the UK.  There is a yellow line round the table, but apparently it's not a betting line in the traditional sense, and that kind of bet is in fact allowed.  American 1; Tony 0.  Let's just hope the dealer doesn't call time on him...

Is Hank Marvin playing ?

Marcel Luske is OUT already. We think he held A-x on a A-T-A-3-2 rainbow board and bet all the way and was called all the way and put in on the river by... 4d 5d

Yes, we don't know how this one happened either...

I second that motion.

In the event of no player list turning up, which is a bit of a bummer, here are a few players I spotted. Quite a few!

Roy Brindley
Michael Greco
Arnaud Mattern
Ram Vaswani
Jan Heitman
Nick Slade
Mads Anderssen
Gunner Ostebrod
Des Jonas
Arshad Hussain
Tomas Brolin
Thomas Fougeron
Bruno Fitoussi
Dave Ulliott
Philip Hilm
Paul Testud
Osman Mustangolu
Iwan Jones
Michaela Johansson
Jeff Lisandro
Emad T
Xuyen Pham
Ian Woodley
Richard Herbert
Jim Kerrigan
Torstein Iversen
Vicky Coren
Nick Jenkins
John Kabbaj
Philip Yeh
Jeff Rogers
Richard Redmond
Joe Beevers
Phil Ivey
Chad Brown
Karl Mahrenholz
Praz Bansi
Anders Berg
Tony Chessa
Vanessa Rousso
B Cohen
Paul Linton
Jerome Bradpiece
Julian Gardner
Richard Ashby
Bjorn Glenne
JJ Hazan
Joe Hachem
Mel Judah
Surinder Sunar
Brian Townsend
Michael Keiner
Martin De Knijff
Rory Matthews
Keith Hawkins
Marcel Luske
Isabelle Mercier
Henning Granstad
Gus Hansen
Juha Helppi
Sverre Sundbo
Oscar!!!
ElkY
Kollman
Willie Tann
Jim Reid
Des Jonas
Peter Gould
Andy Black
Paul Alterman
Patrik Antonius
Marc Goodwin

And there are even more, but my hands are about to drop off.  :'(

Hit Squad team mates Praz Bansi and Karl Mahrenholz have landed on the same starting table.  It looks like Karl is still asleep.  When he wakes up I reckon it could be tough for the people between them, but only because they're so competitive against each other...

And for the Dusk Till Dawn fans out there, we have two of your bigger, but lesser known faces in Odd Lavik (who played and survived Day 1A) and Frederik Ostervold (right), who is one of the Ask The Pro's on the DTD board on the blonde forum. Top lads and mean poker players, not even tikay could stop these two hotshots!  ;carlocitrone;

Joe Hachem and Micky Wernick.

Flushy-favourite Vanessa Rousso

Mateyboy

I'd like to see more pics of Snoopy's pink tennis shoes that irked Chris Moneymaker yesterday.

Here's a chap we haven't seen for a few month, JJ Hazan who finished 2nd in last year's Amsterdam Master Classics. Supremely confident as ever, JJ has just started his own website.

The (nearly) full DTD gang is here posing feet from the bay in the beautiful sunshine they've all come here to avoid...

I may treat you during the break. To be honest, I had a few strong words with Moneymaker at the end of day's play just to sort out our differences. I think he's bucked up his ideas now, but if he steps out of line again I'll send him a message from the guns.

This is Brian Townsend, who High Stakes Poker fans should recognise.

Henning Granstad, Gus Hansen and Juha Helppi all share this table.

Baden Winner Thang Duc Nguyen and Blondeite Nick 'Ripple11' Jenkins.

Isabelle, hiding from my camera, for Surprise.

one of Snoopy's guns

I bet he dual wields them to maximaze the produced scare effect ...

Take a look at this cool dude...

Oh, and let's not forget Chubbs and the Devilfish in the foreground.

DTD players, Richard Ashby

And fresh from his Cardiff success, Michael Greco.

Vegas-based and now less frequently seen in Europe, Patrick Antonius,

Twice EPT final tabler Jonas Molander, and the runner up last year here, Ash Hussain

Double BadBeat Richards - Redmond and Herbert, the latter next to Jim Kerrigan (not on the same table as Praz and Karl, that would just be silly):

Before I venture back into the fray, let's not forget that the Godfather of Poker is here in Monte Carlo. He may look simple, but he has the brain of a rocket scientist.

"Look at this teapot, isn't it odd," comments an observant genius.

And who took $175K from Ram in a totally sick 300/600 NL heads-up game on Monday in which both players seemed to be allergic to their fold buttons.

Early bit of Mateyboy squared action. Amazing, €10k buy-in and these things still happen.

Jh 7h 3h

MB1 has Qh Qc, MB2 has 9h 6h

Turn:

2d

River:

3c

Sometimes it's impossible to see how 300BB's can get in the middle there...

And another finalist from Amsterdam who recently proved that that wasn't a fluke by winning the GUKPT in Walsall outright with what appeared to be effortless chip-gaining - Jerome Bradpiece, slightly hidden behind dealer, but still recognisable due to permanent red hat.

Only time he stops talking

i see gus has got several shirt buttons undone,a closer picture of that would be much appreciated,
patrick antonious is looking HOT aswell,keep the norkage for the ladies coming.

Caught a small but interesting pot involving the Lizard, Tony Bloom. With the board readin 5d 9s Qs 2s Kd, Bloom's 2k bet on the River was reluctantly called by his reluctant Scandinavian opponent who meekly revealed a potentially dominated 5s 4s. Bloom took it down with 8s 7s, but I think his opponent did well to lose so little.

Brian Ashby? Is that Richard Ashby's twin brother?

Any chance of some pics of Keith Hawkins and his chubbier son Mark?

I'll give you one guess who's seated at this table, and no, unsurprisingly, it's not our Oscar.

Table Greco has neighbours Rumit Somaiya and Sverre Sundbo on it - I heard the Cardiff winner saying "nice hand" which I assume meant he'd just lost a pot, but his stack looks OK so it must have been a small early one. 

Here's the Camel next to Isabelle.

Isabelle Mercier -- 16,200
Keith Hawkins -- 12,650

Richard Waters -- 14,400

I was thinking more on the father son type picture- caption comp dream :)

Mark Pinter -- 5,300

One day, that time will come. I think Isabelle could pass for Camel's sister though. The likeness is uncanny.

Roy Brindley -- 14,550

Would love if you guys could get an update on Chris "Hattrick8810" Odle?  If he is still alive tell him his boys in the states are rooting for him.  Cheers.

And Roy's best buddy, Devilfish (you really can't keep them apart!), who just took a small pot off table opponent Phil Hilm (remember him from the 2006 Copenhagen EPT final?).

Board = 2d Js 4h

Devilfish bet 300, Hilm called.

Turn = Qd

check check

River = Jd

Devilfish bets the pot, Hilm folds.

Devilfish, as relaxed, smarmy and laid back as ever, up to 13,625 after an initial dip.

Ok, do you have a picture? We've not been given the player list yet.

Fresh from Noir streets of New York, PI Dick Slade -- 23,850  ;hattip;

"Why youuuuuu dirty rat!"

"Heya toots, scotch on the rocks, and make it snappy kid"

I remember playing against him out in Las Vegas last year. I'm really rubbish at spotting tells but this guy almost had his cards tattooed on his forehead when he was in a pot.

GO SHADOW

ANY CHIP COUNTS ON ASH HUSSAIN ASWELL

He may be known online as The Cube, but in the world of snoopy he'll always be 'One Hand' Rumit after his impressive record of first hand knockouts on the UK circuit.

However, as the photo suggests, he IS still in, and as we roll into the 50/100 level, it appears as though we are going to have to call him 'One Level' Rumit.

Currently on 14,900, but give him time...

Sorry no picture on my comp, there might be one on pocketfives.com but I can't search right now.  I wish I could describe him but he looks like every other internet wiz kid out there.  When you get the list just try to remember you guys are doing a fantastic job keep up the good work. 

Hi snoop etc, any idea whether azad pirooti is playing today? Danke.

I hope they're those removable transfers you used to get as a kid.

Just spotted Mr Harry Demetriou roaming the cardroom. He's STILL fully decked in his Martins Poker gear which was the result of a lost bet last year and although I offered to take him down to Walsall for the £20 rebuy, he says it's a televised event he needs to win to get rid of the gear. Oh, and if you're wondering how long the dare lasts...

"For ever," says a concerned Harry.

Will do m8, it was about 3 hours in yesterday, but with these blinds and clocks, we don't lose too many players so few tables are broken and there's a good chance he'll still be in his original seat.

Yes m8, I'll keep an eye on him.

And did we really go to school together??...

Hey Snoop, Jen, Homer...can you keep an eye on Andrew Black's stack for me please.

Thanks as always for the best show in town...no matter what town you go to!!! ;applause;

Cheers for the great updates guys, together wit hthe cricket ur rightfully keeping any degree related work that should be happening non existent :).

Snoops/Jen is Jeff Sharpe of Leicester playing today or was he eliminated yesterday mate. Thanks, and great updates as per ususal.

Still only level 2, but here are a few very early chip counts:

Ash Hussain -- 15,600
Roberto Romanello -- 9,150
Tomas Brolin -- 13,425
Marc Goodwin -- 12,325
Iwan Jones -- 10,750
Lee Nelson -- 5,525
Mickey Wernick -- 16,300
Willie Tann -- 12,850
Michaela Johansson -- 11,600
Bertrand Grospellier -- 15,300
Mohammed Hassan -- 15,000

will do

not sure, will have to see when they player list arrives

Roberto Romanello is down to around 5k.

A lot quieter than usual, the popular Welshman called a 300 pre-flop raise from the big blind (along with three others) and then 700 bet on the Jh 6c Ad Flop.

Turn came the 5c, and, once again the initial raiser bet out, this time 1.3k. Roberto smooth called, and then yet again on the 7c River (2.1k), only to be shown Ahrt Jc.

Roberto shook his head and slowly mucked his cards.

Any other kiwi's playing snoops/jen/flops??

Is Lee wearing a Hawaiian shirt? - if not get him to change quick.

Mark Goodwin has just doubled up an opponent, although, fortunately for the Brummie, it was only an all-in for 1,050.

The Flop read 4d 5h 6d, and Marc and there was around 900 in the pot, but Marc took a shot with Ac Qh, which, incredibly, was behind Mateyboys Pocket Deuces.

Ks Turn and 9h River was of no help.

Karl Marhenholz and Praz Bansi have seen a flop together, but Praz got out of the way hen the confused giant bet 600 on the Qs 4d 9c. A neighbour called, but after checking the Qh Turn and the Jd River, Karl still took the pot with a pair of Tens.

Updates on Sladey please, and tell him to remeber his gears! Thanks guys... wish i was there...sob sob

That really has split my sides, snoops mate your a genius i can see the furrowed eyebrows now loooooool

Cheers snoop. The quote "I went to school with snoop, he was a good egg" actually refers to the old program Shooting Stars and a line that George Dawes (Matt Lucas) once said :)

Yes he is Jules, I'll get his count in a bit.

Meanwhile, I saw everyone rushing round one table, a big hand? No, Phil Helmuth has arrived. He's on the same table as Kirderf. Also playing today is former French International Footballer, Vikash Dharasoo. If you had the original Championship Manager 3, you'll remember he was a good buy as a DMRC (Defensive Midfielder Right/Centre)

Xuyen 'Bad Girl' Pham may well be the early chip leader after she removed all of one opponent's chips in two bites:

After she called a preflop raise with Kh 4h, a pleasing triple heart flop came down, and Seat 1 bet when she checked to him.  She wasted no time in check-raising, and was called.  The turn was a blank - she check-raised for a second time, and despite this show of strength, didn't dislodge Seat 1 from calling.  The river brought a fourth heart - not the ideal card by any means, and now she checked, and faced a 5,000 river bet.

Husband and railer Steve Vladar said that "she called before she could talk herself out of it," and was shown 7-4 in return... So, up to 22k in level One.

After the first break, she got involved with the same guy again, seeing a multiway flop with 4s 4d and hitting the ever-hoped-for set...there was a heart flush draw with it, however, and Seat 1 was still there on the turn when the flush hit.  He got his shorter stack all-in on the turn, showing Jh 9h for the made flush, but the board paired on the river and we had one very unhappy OutMatey.

Tablemate Casey Kastle added the colour to the end of this story, saying that the guy went bonkers when he busted and pushed over all the glasses on his table, banging the other tables on his stormy way out, breaking a lot of, I imagine, very pricey Monte Carlo tableware.

Had to smile earlier on. One guy had a 'friend' come up to the table and give him a quick peck for good luck. The players on the table looked like they'd just seen tikay streaking.  :D

Hmm, homosexuality isn't particularly rife in poker.

He's wearing a Pokerstars shirt, I played for about an hour with Lee in the media tournament. He was very funny and a true gent. Apparently he's got another book coming out soon called 'Kill Everyone' which is a sequel to 'Kill Phil' and not, I'm guessing, a guide on becoming a serial killer.

Many of you Leeds fans (are there many?) should recognise, although perhaps not too fondly, this blonde locked chap as Tomas Brolin.

I think he ate more pies than Kev back then!  :o

See you next Friday as well Matt hopefully in a sober state unless I bump into that cretin Martin Smyth again  :)up

Here's Welsh Wizard and the master of the fold (apparently, he knows more ways of folding than Heinz varieties) and beneath that picture, the real reason why I was watching that table.

great stuff updaters, can i have a count on Mark Hawkins please, son of Stephen

Devilfish News Now:

Apparently there was quite a bit of commotion earlier when Devilfish (apparently) laid down Kings to Aces - but since I have only the faintest of hearsay to go on with that one I'll talk about a hand I saw him win instead...

Playing against Philip Hilm (we think - he had different facial hair at the last event) I saw them staring at a 2h 3d Tc flop intently after Devilfish bet 1,500.  When he got called, he asked the old, "How much you got?" one, and then stared at the Ad turn before throwing in 4,000.  This is quite a chunky bet; Hilm dwelled for ages before eventually passing, and Ulliott (pictured below) showed his 7h 7d, for some reason.

Oh my god Brolin!

Age Spets and a pair of babylons.

One for the caption comp mi thinks.

Casey Kastle has doubled up off early pace setter Xuyen Pham, the semi-Vladar raising from the button with K-9, only for Kastle in the small blind to call with A-9 and double up on a 9-9-3 Flop.

Bad Girl down to 17k.

Blinds are still 50 and 100.

Whilst I was checking the board, I noticed a certain Mr Azad Pirooti in the corner of my eye. A quick glance down and I learned of his 8,400 stack.

Is he a good egg too, hartwith?

John Gale is down to just 7k. I was reliably informed that he ran into Big Slick which ultimately became big full house when 2 kings and 1 Ace hit the board.

Here's Vicky Coren, level one, when the empty seat's chips next to her could so easily be caught in shot to make it look like she'd doubled up (her crafty idea, not mine)... sadly, I'd already taken this fetching photo.  On last pass by, it appeared she may have been doing a crossword at the table...

Chip count for the Hawkins family please snoops.

Two poker titans do battle in Phil Ivey and snoopy Patrik Antonius. According to Jeff Kimber and Tim Blake, Phil called a 700 bet from Antonius on an 8h 4c 5c Flop before giving him one hell of a staredown (an Iveydown, perhaps?) on the Js Turn when the online whiz bets another 1,400.

"Even I was touching cloth," commented Tim Blake on the Iveydown.

Anyhow, Ivey called, but folded to a 4.5k bet on the Jh River, thus leaving him with around 11k.

Muppet!

Hachem Busts With Aces News Now:

One opponent on a Q-Q-2 rainbow flop... Joe bet 1,500, Matey raised to 4,000, Joe re-raises to 8,000, Matey moves in - Call.  Matey's A-Q was plenty good, and stayed that way...so we're one WSOP champ down in Level Two...

'Regal girl pointedly becomes centre of attention' (8,5)

Ye snoop, indeed he is a very good egg. I liiiiiiike! Anyone else from Team Buddha there?

How does that saying go ... dont get married to your hand !

Rio evict a corn journalist (8,5)

very clever jen, sure vicky would appreciate that one. must be someway of using the mighty oak analagy from the acorn??

The players have just this second gone on a short 15 minute break. When they return, we'll be on Level 3, and at that point I'll obtain a more thorough chip count.

For now, check out this table, which contains a few names that will be familiar to us Brits:

Paul Alterman -- 9,875
Peter Gould -- 14,750
John Gale -- 12,275
Jim Reid -- 22,275
Andy Black -- 10,725

seamen for jinn- blonde wordsmith (8,5)

I know some of these names have been requested previously:

Nick Slade -- 32,450
Roy Brindley -- 7,100
Keith Hawkins -- 16,850
Jeff Williams -- 16,850
Aranud Mattern -- 17,500
Phil Hellmuth -- 7,875

Nick Slade did have a few more, but he was unfortunate on a Jd Ts 2s 7s Jc board, hitting his flush with 8s 9s but running into J-7. Luckily, his opponent made an unnecessarily big bet on the River allowing Nick to escape. "If he'd bet 4k, I would have called," he added.

Who else makes up team Buddha?

Thanks dude

No sign of a player list yet for any of the media, so all we have is our ability to recognise faces. In that sense, if you want a chip count of a relatively unfamiliar player, then please supply a photo of some sort so we can identify him.

I cant believe there are 16 guests looking at the thread , especially as Snoops is about to post some norkage.

I'll get a picture as soon as my camera has recharged. In the meantime though, I must say that Arnaud is a top man. I met him in Vegas last year and then again at the big Gutshot comp, which he then went onto win. Genuinely nice chap.

Lol, you're too clever for me!  ;topofclass;

I've just spoken to Azad. His table he says, is 'very good' meaning they are very bad, he value bet a Queen on the river of a A-K-Q-9-2 board and got paid off by Eights. He's lost most of his chips having to pass A-Q, A-K type hands having missed on the flop to the table frenchmen who don't fold anything at ever. He could easily end up with a huge stack if he starts hitting flops though.

Will search for Mark Hawkins next time I go out.

hawko junior is on woodleys table if thats any help

Hi Snoop or Jen,
Good work as usual and thanks for the pics.
How many chips the players had to start the tourney ?
and thank you

Hi there Mrs Mercier, your daughter keeps hounding me. Next time you see her, can you let her know that I already have a girlfriend.

With regards to the tourney, they started with 15,000 in chips and a 90 minute clock.

Cheers, that helps.

Heading out for chip counts, so there'll be a brief delay...

Indeed. I used to live with Levi up to a few days ago but just now moved in with Arnaud in London.... I think it's going to be a good house. Wish him luck from me (Gab) if you happen to walk past and you're not in too much of a rush! ;)

Edit: Also, if all you are looking for is a random poker related pic of Arnaud (or Nic for that matter) you might find a few @ here (http://www.teamrobusto.com). If, instead, you want a EPT one from Monaco we'll just have to rely on you ;P

Any news on ladbrokes players, Richard Wild.

Thank you Snoopy
and I'll pass you message to her

Cheers Homer.

Snoop, from what I remember, other members include Daniel Larsson (Fragell), Tomas Martinsson (Five_Aces) and others, I believe they all have a buddha card protector so that should be a clue :) Wish him all the best from me pls and great work as always.

They are still a LOT of players left, so the chip counts are going to come in quarters. Gaps indicate a new table.

Iwan Jones -- 8,150
Andy Black -- 8,325

Cristiano Blanco -- 15,400
Nick Slade -- 25,850
Mads Anderssen -- 16,350

Ariel Adda -- 22,000
Ash Hussain -- 12,350
Jonas Molander -- 13,100
Bengt Sonnert -- 17,825

Mohammed Hassan -- 9,700
Tomas Brolin -- 24,100
Thomas Fougeron -- 13,900

Bruno Fitoussi -- 5,300

Dave Ulliott -- 23,450
Philip Hilm -- 7,925
Paul Testud -- 26,250

Roy Brindley -- 24,475

Osman Mustanoglu -- 19,950

Spoke to the Camel in the break - he said, "I'm on 15,050.  Ran into quads and lost the minimum."  Ad 7d on an A-7-J board... picked up a flush draw on the turn, too, but the Jack on the river slowed him down.  If it had been the Seven, I'm sure there would have been more damage...and so's he.
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Richard Redmond is OUT - never one to sit quietly, he's one of those lots-or-no-chips players.  This time he raised one from the cutoff with A-K.  The small blind called, and the big blind re-raised to 700.  He made the pot extra big here, raising to 2,500, which meant that the later bets were of a size which could consume a stack...anyway, the big blind called, and the flop came King high.  Big blind checked, and so did Squelch - not sure what was going on here, but there appeared an Ace on the turn, which kicked off the betting which went: 5k, all-in, call rather quickly.
The big blind turned out to have Aces, and Richard was drawing dead on that enticing-looking turn card.

Phil Ivey is OUT.

According to my secret source (anagram STEVE VLADRA), Ivey had T-6 and had reached the Turn with Patrik Antonius on a 3-5-6-T board (2 diamonds). Ivey moved all-in for 6.5k (about 10k already in the pot) only for Anonius to call for half his stack with a massive draw, 9d 7d.

Qd on the River and Ivey was gone.

He is currently in the press room receiving tutoring from Floppy.

Meanwhile, I saw everyone rushing round one table, a big hand? No, Phil Helmuth has arrived. He's on the same table as Kirderf. Also playing today is former French International Footballer, Vikash Dharasoo. If you had the original Championship Manager 3, you'll remember he was a good buy as a DMRC (Defensive Midfielder Right/Centre)
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Im sure he was in the french world cup squad last year! Last i heard about him PSG sacked him, not sure wot for....maybe playing too much late online poker and missing the team bus... ;nemesis; Used to be a quality player in real life and on champ mange.

Hi. Mad Harper here ... I am responsible for giving you guys the list. OBVIOUSLY I have had this list for hours and hours and am just refusing to hand it over. No, seriously, I am sorry for the delay but they are still reconciling all the dosh etc. I PROMISE the list will be with you as soon as poss. In the meantime, my compliments to jen, snoopy and foaming for excellent updates as usual.

None of the other Buddhas are here, something to do with taxes apparently.

Many thanks for the excellent Devilfish updates boys and girl. Isn't he wearing a nice t-shirt? Keep it up!

Torstein Iversen -- 12,000

Bertrand Grospellier -- 11,325
Dilba D -- 6,200
Jeff Lisandro -- 5,725
Willie Tann -- 8,525
E Kollmann -- 34,275
Alexandre Strandli -- 9,525

Isabelle Mericer -- 17,900
Keith Hawkins -- 18,475
Rory Matthews -- 9,550
Paul Alterman -- 5,350

Arnaud Mattern -- 5,350
Ram Vaswani -- 32,175

Jan Heitman -- 23,425

Mats Iremark -- 7,175
Jim Reid -- 21,450

Peter Gould -- 7,250
Phil Hellmuth -- 20,125

Nick Jenkins -- 33,400
Richard Herbert -- 6,900
Jim Kerrigan -- 21,350

Richard Ashby --- 20,300

Couldn't they have got the helicopter?

William Thorssen has doubled up. Jim Reid bet out on a 8s 7c 5s board, Odd Erlend called, and Thorsten raised, Jim passed, Odd put William all-in and he quickly called.

Thorsten:

8c 8d

Erlend:

Ts Th

No help for Erlend, an unhungover Thorsten up to 25k.

Jim Reid passed Nines apparently and still has 21k

Smiling Jan Heitmann has 27k

Finally, here is Nick 'Ripple11' Jenkins, on about 34k. Mostly down to Ts Th vs Jc Js on a Th 6s 2s board.

Here's a little DTD chip count for you:

Mikka -- 15,475
Michael Murphy -- 14,325
Richard Ashby -- 16,600
Kirderf -- 16,225
Michael Grecco -- 13,200 (and crazy vibrating hand syndrome)
Kevin O'Connell -- Missing, presumed lost.

Paul Linton -- 25,650
Julian Gardner -- 24,575
Jerome Bradpiece -- 4,825

Ds Jonas -- 8,400
Richard Waters -- 16,450
Michael Murphy -- 12,100

Patrik Antonius -- 23,600
Bjorn Erick Glenne -- 61,950

Praz Bansi -- 15,325
Lee Nelson -- 11,250
Richard Wild -- 19,925

Mickey Wernick -- 21,500
Mel Judah -- 13,150

Michael Keiner -- 10,875
Ali Masterman -- 11,250

Vanessa Rousso -- 1,100

Tore Lagerborg -- couldn't see
Michaela Johansson -- 14,250
Roberto Romanello -- 9,500
William Thorsson -- 23,350

Tony Chessa -- 8,350
Karl Mahrenholz -- 6,500
Anders Berg -- 12,925

David Benyamine -- 26,950
Vicky Coren -- 21,775

are the god like hunks gus hanson and patrick antonious still in? :kiss:
any pictures would go down well,4 the ladies

 :-*

yes, I'll second this request.

Americans are interested in: Shaniac, Ray Coburn, Adam Junglen (little Asian kid, 7 fingers, glasses). no pics, sorry.

Hi

Great work - do you have a count for Rory Matthews?

Thanks

Balloo

Mark Hawkins is OUT.

Found Aces vs. A-Q, but the A-Q flopped a Flush and all the money went in.

great reporting as always

is Andy Black still in?

Ian Woodley -- 12,300
Xuyen Pham -- 9,500
Frederik Holstrup Pedersen -- 21,600

Tony Bloom -- 15,125
Surinder Sunar -- 11,875
Mick Clarke -- 15,350

Azad Pirooti -- 6,300
Jeff Rogers -- 31,100

John Kabbaj -- 15,050
Philip Yeh -- 4,450
Martin De Knijff -- 14,125
Marc Goodwin -- 3,450
William Chen -- 16,375

Rumit Somaiya -- 28,000
Sverre Sundbo -- 15,325
Michael Greco -- 14,850

Ross Boatman -- 14,125
B Cohen -- 16,175
Age Spets -- 5,950

Chad Brown -- 24,175
Gus Hansen -- 34,900

Okey dokey, I'll do my best.

Last time I checked, yes, but it's a big room. Will confirm shortly.

I think I uploaded a chip count with him involved a page or two back.

Will get a photo and new count on my next venture out into the battlefield.

If you want a picture of me, please, just ask me directly. I won't be embarrassed, happens all the time.  ;danafish;

Dana would have posted 17 norkage shots by now .... get to work !!

I got some pictures. Would you please try to check on these guys:

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t197/peglyn_photos/Adam.jpg)


(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t197/peglyn_photos/Ray.jpg)


thanks!

Richard Redmond, who I believe wrote Grange Hill and Brookside, is now OUT after running Ace King into those darn American Airlines.

As told by his namesake Richard 'Strummer' Herbert, Redmond raised pre-flop, was raised and called. He then called a King high Flop before getting it in on an Ace Turn.

Tough one.

you know me so well,lol

Thanks, big help, I know the bottom one, he's Ray isn't he? I believe we saw him in Dublin.

Yo Snoppy,

How many players started today???

Cheers

Yogi

Henning Granstad is OUT.

Lost 5k with a missed straight and flush draw, then another chunk with a pair and missed flush draw before spotting the fat lady warming up her vocal chords and shoving in his remaining stack of 4-5k with Jacks on a 7 high Flop Unfortunately, Mateyboy had Sevens.

Ul Hawko. Have a good party anyway

329, exactly the same as yesterday, which is a rarity.

Actually, it was 328, Hellmuth arrived fashionably late.

What a cool dude!

(http://www.guyweb.co.uk/images/fonz.jpg)

Xuyen Pham is down to 9k after her Pocket Cowboys (yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaa) didn't want to go yeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaa anymore when they were lassoed by Mateyboy's A-Q, an Ace hitting board.

Hey snoopy-any chance of a piccie of Iwan Jones plse?Ta x

Ross looks so glum here, I think he knows he could never match the awesomeness of that 'tache.

No sign of Brian Townsend. He's either OUT or in the toilet with explosive diarrhea. I'd like to think the latter, but the former is more likely.

Yes, but Dana's a mucky puppy. ;snoopy;

Just caught up with updates.
Very unlucky Mark :(

I just understand my audience. I assure you my interest is purely academic. ;topofclass;

The bemused look on Gus Hansen's face is down to the fact that Juha Helppi is OUT. With the board reading 7s Qs Ts 2d 5c his opponent, (shown here on the left of Gus) pushed all-in on the river, covering Juha, who dwelt for absolute ages and called and was immediately shown Aspades 4s for the flopped nuts. Juha mucked his hand and briskly left the table. One of the other players wanted to see the cards and a ruling was called for, Juha's hand was shown as Qd Jd, which really shocked everyone, especially Gus, who couldn't stop saying, "Wow.."

Hansen is a midget though, you'd never be able to wear your heels.

yeah i was supposed to deal at it but won a satellite last week so ill chance my ever-enthusiastic arm at it! looking forward to it!

im only 5ft,lol

aw. lol, well then you might be a good match.

PI Slade strikes again, using all his detective skills that he learnt as a maverick cop before he went rogue and became "PI Slade".

He limped in with Jd Td and, along with another player, called Mads Andersen's raise.

Flop:

Tc 4s 6h

Nick check-called a 1.2k bet from Mads, the other player folded.

Turn:

5d

Nick check-called a 2.5k bet this time.

River:

7s

Nick checked, Mads bet 7.5k with only 4k behind. Nick reasoned that he could only be behind to a pair of eights rivering the straight, and called, correctly when Mads showed Ace King.

Smiling Age Spets has doubled up, pushing on the turn of a Qs 3s Kh Jc board with Ad Ts and getting a call from Qc Td. Here he is raking in the chips..

Mr Helmuth, in a good mood for once.

Barcelona winner, Bjorn Erik Glenne, chip leader at the moment with about 60k.

Julian Gardner, Paul Linton and Jerome Bradpiece.

Azad Pirooti -- 4.5k

Seems to be struggling, Julian, but he remains in positive, as you'd expect. I mentioned your name, and he knew exactly who I was talking about. Said you were a good egg.

He stands on a chair for those pics.

His words or yours?! His english isnt up to much so I presume the latter :P

Karl Mahrenholz is struggling with just several k, as of many of the Brits playing today. He says he's lost lots of little pots rather than one big one, but he seemed pleased that none of them were at the hands of fellow Hit Squad member Praz Bansi.

This pose was a spontaneous one - normally I'd point the look of confusion to prove this, but Karl always looks confused with those hairy eye slugs.

He understood me perfectly when I said tikay the younger.

Lederer is big in all directions, I think about 6'5, I may be wrong on Hansen, but I think he is 5'4 - 5'6. He is pocket sized.

Ali Masterman has doubled up and is now up to 22k.

Master Masterman masterfully emulated his hero Men The Master by masterfully outmastering his masterless opponent by flopping a straight with 6-7 on an 8-9-T rainbow board.

Masterman then mastered his opponent by smooth calling on the Flop and then again on the 4 Turn when his Master Mateyboy opponent moved all-in with J-rag.

Blank Turn and Masterman proved his masterful mastery by raking a nice pot, subsequently rising from his chair and roaring like He-Man from Masters of the Universe.

In simple terms, Ali flopped a monster and had some numpty betting into him. Owooga!

I'm sorry , but Gus would need to stand on a box to pat Tom Cruise on the head.

Is Thewy playing today, I can't recall any mention of him yesterday, but I am only twenty years younger than Tikay ???

Managed to catch Julian Gardner during the break - he was rushing back to the tables, but he did find time to pose for his fans and inform me of his 22k chip stack.

I wouldn't put it past Jules (not sure I can call him that, but I will) to go deep in this one. He has one hell of a game.

chip count for des jonas plzzzz

He exited yesterday.

evening snoops and crew..

btw nice trainers cant think why he was eyeing them up.

dont think i like annette anymore, Mikka she's da shizzle...!!!

I recall someone asking about Richard Wild - well, here is the little (gigantic in fact) tinker now.

Assuming he's not fibbing to make himself look better on blonde, he's doing well with 19k, which is around the average. He did have 28k at one point though, but missed a flush draw, with bottom pair too, only to lose to some guy who rivered a 6 with 9-6. He also ran A-Q into A-K, but he remains positive.

This high stakes player has prised himself away from the online world to grace us with his presence over here in Monte Carlo. If the Internet. goes slow, then he's probably out and back in his hotel room playing on Full Tilt. That shouldn't be just yet though, as he's trundling along okay at the moment with 34,775 in chips

No, I'm saying Howard's kneeling in that one.

And finally, before I dip back into the never ending web of poker madness, this is your current chip leader, Barcelona EPT winner and recent Norwegian star, Bjorn Erik Glenne with 58,900.

I did search for the other requests, but they were on their dinner break.

I asked Simon 'SuffolkPunch' Young if Andy Black was still in, and he said yes, he's one of those middling stacks over there.

Precise chipcounts on blonde is one of our strong points.  :D

As Snoopy said, Lederer is kneeling, also, It's a camera trick, Lederer is 10 feet further away than Gus

I met this guy in the Bahamas, I've forgotten his name but he's a nice guy. He's an american of Greek origin and was a regular in the 10/20nl games at the WPT over there in Jan.

cheers snoops

have you had a dinner break yet?ive just realised i havent.
good work guys

any chance of a chip count on roberto romanello please!!!!!!!
and some pics if possible.   thanks millions!!!!

Thomas 'I AM VIGGO!!!' Fourgeron, who is very popular with the French press (although less so now) is OUT.

He mucked on the River, but I think he was in a spot of bother, his opponent holding Tens on a 4-4-x-x-T board.

On questioned why he took so long to reveal his hand, the pot winner said, "Well, he could have had Fours", which raised a giggle or two.

Here Welsh Wizard Iwan Jones waving to wife and kids (or is that kid?)

I shall translate...

COOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

 :hello: :hello: :hello:

hows chubsand co doing thx

As Simon Young said earlier, Andy Black is indeed in, but he's got slightly more than a middling stack with a very useful 41,375. Could be a potential go deeper in this comp, which would be great for us onlookers as he's top entertainment, especially when supplied with alcohol.

Bad news for Scot fans, Rory Matthews is on life support with just 3,050. Long way to go yet though.

;ls;

Is that geezer Celine dion's husband?

Rightoe, go out on a limb time.

Question for my American veiwers....

Are the following players...

(1) Shane 'Shaniac' Schleger -- 34,500

(2) Adam Junglen -- 26,150

(3) Roman Yitzahki (sp?) -- 13,075

Maybe. He looks familiar, but I'll have to think twice on that one.

Now Phil Ivey is out he could play in The Open on Sky,he might end up on the same table as Filth Ivey!!

 :D :D :D rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

Word has got out to Claus of Martins Poker of our debate about Gus Hansen. Word has it that Gus Hansen will soon be informed of my accusations and perhaps make his way over to the pressroom to sort me out (although this will take him a very log time due to his short legs).

I did consider hiding underneath the table, but I feel he might spot me because I'd be at eye level.

LOL Good job you're a class long-distance runner  ;nemesis;

I hope its 'kid'..he's only got one as far as I know hehe!
he looks happy anyway so he must be doing alright!!Cheers

Chubbs isn't playing.

update on the altermans please... chips?

Howdy. This is snoops on Jen's computer.

I have just found conclusive evidence that Gus Hansen is smaller than Tom Cruise.

Even holding that trophy up, he still doesn't reach Tom's armpit.

Next case!

Snoopy,

After a couple of updates on two of my friends

Martyn Bebb and Jonathan McCann, could you do the honours for me.

Thank you sir

ClintonO

I'm going to take a quick break, but I'm sure Floppy will give it a crack. We don't have any playerlist, so he's going to require pictures I'm afraid.

just had word from the mighty Iwan Jones... been a bit of a struggle but now upto 30,000.


come on the wizard...!!!

 :hello: ;welcome; Clinton

Could you give me an update on Norsemen Team player Anders Berg? I have a share in him :D

Evening Dewi,

hope you well buddy!

ClintonO

This is
(http://hosted.ap.org/photos/N/NY13402020126-big.jpg)

Hey, Great Updates!!!!!!!!

Go on the MMMMMMAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSTTTTTTTEEEEERRRRRRRMMMMAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!

Chip count? plzzzzzzz

Unlucky hawko   good luck to your dad

great work guys,
as always, a very enjoyable read,
i'll pop along later...once everyone's tucked up  ::)

We are on another short break, after which the blinds will be 150/300.

come on Pauly!!  Do the business.. Aspades

Snoopy any chance of an update on Mattern? Ta guys

Oo-er, Gus Hansen is apparently coming down to have his height measured shortly for Martinspoker Radio. Seems to be the big story... ::)

oh what have i started i only wanted a picture

Hey Snoopy, have you seen LittleMissC's avatar? And what she says about it underneath? Told you it was not for grown adults...  ;hide;

Snoops dont let her get away with that comment.  Get them guns out.

Great updates as ever.

lol,my 9 year old is obsessed with wrestling.hes autistic  and he can tell you any match from the last 20 years who won and where it was held.quite spooky

snoopy you would love him,he would pile drive you strait to hell,lol.
he told me to say that ;hide;

amazing...he held a deck of cards yet fran?

yes he watches me online and i go through hands with him,i think in a few years he could be better than me.his memory is amazing.

Hello again...

Due to the fairly unrelenting nature of these updates (staggered dinnerbreak=no dinnerbreak) we'll be on rotation so a couple of levels out will give us a bite to eat and quick nap.  Just caught up on the last 256 pages, and Snoops has outdone himself (I swear, he photoshopped Gus like a pro) so ;applause; to him and Homer.  Enjoy your €100 sandwich, I know I did, whosever go it is now...

Your recent requests are underway as well as a ridiculous plan to measure Mr. Hansen once and for all being hatched by a Snoops/Klaus diabolical team...

Dave Mobbs has doubled up in simple fashion.

Mobbs = Kc Kh

Joey Lovelday = Aspades Ac

Board = 3h 8s 5c 4s 8d

They may have their heads dipped in a syncrhonsied fashion, but this is the only 3-in-a-row English trio, the latter of which being the GUKPT Champion from Walsall.

Julian Gardner -- 17,750
Paul Linton -- 20,925
Jerome Bradpiece -- 5,600

Looks more like doubled down for Dave Mobbs

Any updates on Ash and P.I. appreciated jen tytytytyty

ok, pencil me in for some lessons in 2009  /:-|

..........Anders Berg? Pleeease...? Tell him I am watching my investment closely hehehe

chip count on ash hussain n nick slade please guys

lol,will do.my dad will probably have him round his house going through the finer points of dealers choice.we could be creating a monster

You know that image you get of Devilfish off the TV as a vastly confident, if somewhat smarmy TV poker celeb? Well, it's probably not too far from the truth, and Mr Ulliott wasn't shy in expressing that side of his character in a hand with Paul Testud.

With the table encapsulated by the media, most of whom were enthralled that their countryman, Testud, was involved in a hand with the Fish, Devilfish lapped up the attention and took the opportunity to push his character even further into the cartoony image it has thus far created.

Laid back with his shades perched on the end of his nose, Dave was looking at a bet of 4k and a board of 5s 3s Jd 4s 7s. A beautiful American massuese massaging his back and shoulders, and possibly his ego, Dave sized up his opponent before making a swift call.

Testud meekly revealed his paltry Kd 9d, only for Devilfish to confidently, and perhaps slightly arrogantly show his only just superior 7d 2s.

Quiet in defeat, Testud listened on as Devilfish played up to the cameras, smugly making comments such as "Aah, trying to beat the Fish, huh?", "Let's Rock N Roll, baby," and "I don't need Aces here."

Devilfish loves it, the cameras love it, the other players probably hate it, but that's the Devilfish, and he's sure done a lot for the game in terms in raising it's profile, so it's tough to be overly critical.

Ridiculas, clealy Hansen has been greaseing the wheels, I've seen him at WSOP last year, he is a pixie.



P.S: Devilfish is a plonker.

John Gale just lost a chunky 10k pot or so. He bet 4.5k on the turn of a 8c 7s Jh 4s board into a pot of around 6k, at this point his opponent moved in and John was forced to fold.

I wouldn't go far as a pixie, but he's certainly in gnome territory.

I wouldn't mind seeing William Thorsson (35k) and Roberto Romanello (10.5k) clashing in a bit pot - the blunt stare and sharp comments of Thorsson bashing heads with the Romanello gift of the gab... would surely be a thorougly entertaining sight.

Hey guys! Vincent "Harry Potter" here, coming live from Amsterdam. Thanks for all the updates and everything else! The only problem is that I can't focus on my exam I have to learn for tomorrow because of the updates ;)

Keep up the good work and give Rolf my regards!

Ahhh ha ha ha, I like Devilfish, he's funny. Funny, like a clown.

I can definetely smell norkage enroute..............20 guests ffs are they mad to miss out

With blinds at 100 and 200 and a board of 4s 4d 5c 2d 7c, Joe Beevers was faced with an all-in of what looked liked 7k (although it doesn't help when the 5k chips are the same colour as the felt) from his neighbour pictured nextdoor below.

Although he dwelled for a decent amount of time, including counting out his stack, Joe made the call and showed 5h 4h, which surprised one player who questioned why he took so long. "He could have Sevens, Fives," says Beevers understandably.

Anyhow, I don't need to tell you if the 4-5 was the best hand, just look at the second picture for a clue.

ps. Mateyboy had 2s 2h

Good evening, sir.  ;hattip;

I've been watching this tread from the start of play today, and I am impressed of the amount of chips the player "Mateyboy" have raked in. He must be close to 450k by now, with the average chipcount being 27k....

How are the remaining Norwegians doing anyway?

Breaking News!!!

Gus Hansen has come to get his height measured... Snoops is on the case...

get a picture tell him hes HOT,lol

 ;oopsy;

 ;kev; ;kev; ;kev;

..... Michael Knight was right 'one man can make a difference'

My pointing out that Hansen is pixie sized has resulted in him getting a photo taken, which I might add, does not show his height relitive to anything other than a piece of paper with a random height written on it.

I'm not concvinced, I've seen the guy, he is pixie sized.

Chip Counts as they headed into the Break they're currently on (don't worry if your request doesn't appear - about a third of the room left to search when they got up and flooded towards the exit):

Joe Beevers       45,000
Mads Andersen    8,200
Nick Slade          33,500
Jonas Molander   19,250
John Gale           14,800
ElkY                   7,100
Dilba Demurbarg   14,150
Willie Tann           10,700
Isabelle Mercier     7,650
Keith Hawkins      15,150
Paul Alterman       6,850
Ram Vaswani        33,000
Surinder Sunar     13,550
Arnaud Mattern    19,000  (currently being massaged; looks relaxed)
Devilfish               43,000  (unless his DEVIL and FISH gold knuckledusters, strategically placed at the bottom of his blue 1k chips are hiding any 5k ones)
Paul Testud          1,300
Roy Brindley         38,500
Tony Bloom         15,200
Osman Mustanoglu  20,600
Des Jonas              9,400
Phil Hellmuth          15,400  (just paid off a rivered flush; only 2k, but worth a hands-in-the-air and slight table bang)
Andy Black             46,500
Iwan Jones            22,600
Torstein Iversen      9,275
Jim Kerrigan           10,125
Nick Jenkins           29,650
Richard Herbert      60,000+  (Jim Kerrigan said he's had Aces three times - more on this in a minute)
Praz Bansi              21,250
Xuyen Pham          10,000
Ian Woodley          19,200
Bruno Fitoussi       5,825
Jan Heitmann        11,500

Anders Berg update coming, no worries...

"He's standing on a soapbox!"

"He's on stilts."

"Check his shoes!"

... I hear you cry.

But before you delve too deep into such unfair conspiracy theories, here's a longshot to dispel such atrocious and inaccurate gossip.

Well now I know he is taller than a piece of paper randomly affixed to a wall, But I knew he was capable of that already.

Still, he is a good sport, as well as a pixie.

May I also add that the background is NOT the skirting board and Gus has never met the Borrowers.

im with u mate

is Azad's lack of presence on the chip count list down to the fact he's out or not?

Am I one of the few people that realise a picture of him standing againest a blank background is unconvincing? Put a chair there, another person, someone we know, etc, items.

How is this vindication?


Gus Hansen: Taller than a piece of paper affixed to a wall.

i think i spot some half mast's

The Tom Cruise size is written on a postcard ffs...

how do you upload images here?

He just went out this minute - champion lazy person BA Kildalen called him when I asked if he was still in the tournament - saying, "He was short stacked and saw a flop of 6-7-Q which suited his 8-0 pretty much good, bet 500, raise to 1,500, all-in (+100 chips), his opponent held 6-7 and the turn and river were 2-6."

So there you have it.

Hi does anyone know how Ali Masterman is doing? Much appreciated cheers!

AFAIK you can't upload images straight onto blonde, but you can do the following...

- if the image you want to show on your reply is already on the internet, link with (url)www.hello.com/one.jpg(/url)            - remember to use square parenthesis [] instead of round ()

- if it isn't on the web, upload on imageshack.us

This picture has only solidified my stance. If you are going to have your picture taken to prove you are not pixie sized, then you have it
taken relative to some other things/people, the fact he is standing in front of a blank background only proves me point that him pretending
not to be a pixie is only smoke and mirrors.

I think Max Clifford must do the guys P.R


 ;joestrummer;

Or you can click on Additional Options and attach your photos

where is the norkage? get your priorities straight

Damn :)

Only for people coming to bB4...

 ;nanana;

Joey Lovelady please....

ok give the norkage for them, I am happy to make the sacrifice, I will turn the other cheek for the good of the people

any vicky c pic's? i got pissed in cardiff last week and offered to buy her a drifibiignk  she declined! thoughtful as well as gorgeous then.

Anders Berg has 21k, I've just spotted him up on one of the upper-tier tables...

Elsewhere, Praz, Micky Wernick, Nick Jenkins and Jim Kerrigan are all sharing a table together.

The exits continue with one-hand Rumit's [Snoopy's nickname not mine] (now one-day Rumit, perhaps)?

He had a good start, up to 34k at one point, but knocked back to under the starting stack and he picked up Kings.  He raised in mid-position, gathering three callers.  THe flop came down 2-4-8, he bet 2k, one caller clung on.  Turn 9.  He bet 5k, and called when he was raised all in for about the same again.  Resignedly looking at his opponent's 9-9, he missed his two outs and was in a hurry to get out the revolving door when I caught him in the break.  And not because revolving doors are just the most enjoyable form of exit.

Hi, I've noted this and will be sure to check asap.

POST NORKAGE PICS OR SNOOPYS blonde poker cardroom ALIAS gets REVEALED !!!!     you have 2 pages to comply !!

Cheers Snoopy thanks very much

havent you still got that password kev?

she refused a drink from PUA champ?

Anders Berg -- 21,075

PUA?

Pick Up Artist, spit mad game on the one time wassup?

lol, I'm not bitter, its just so convincing, there is nothing relative in the picture, its laughable!

But I think Gus is a good humoured pixie, even though the picture posted is clealy smoke and mirrors.

William Chen (clearly enjoying his poker) -- golly, I've forgotten to write down his chip count... oops, I must have been distracted.

Bad Girl had the best start out of the lot, today, perhaps, but is back to under 11k after another unsuccessful Kd Kh... hers raised to 800 preflop, found a re-raise to 3k, made it 8k and then when it was back to her to call the guy all in for 18k, she went for it, finding the unexpected Ac Qd against her.  The time the Ace on the flop hurts most is probably when you've got it in with Kings, and she's now in worse-than average shape. 

Still plugging away, although only just, with 6,900 is Des Jonas.

According to my sources, Des is an ultimate fighter.

Fancy sticking a bad beat on this guy??

i totally agree...vicky c pic...thats a must, i'd rather see her norks than the long awaited lucy pinders nips from page 3....!!!!!!!!!!!

more pics of this girl plz

What he said!

Any ash or pi news please?

I've got some math problems lying in front of me I have to study for tomorrow's exam. If I post them here, can you ask William Chen for some advice on how to solve theM?  ;topofclass;

Shortish stacks in descending order:  Willie Tann (10k), Isabelle (8k), Kevin O'Connell (0K)

With the crowd swarming around this table, I understandably assumed that it was Phil Hellmuth involved in a big pot, but even with cards perched in front of him, it was in fact his neighbour (left) who had his tournament life on the line, comfortably surviving a Jacks versus Tens confrontation with Seat 2.

Philip (as he is known to his buddies) incidentally, has 12,325.

gud day mate,go on pokerstar blog.com,  and go to chip counts

John Gale is down to the felt after his Kings failed to outdraw Aces.

Board = 6c 6d 4c 2h 9c

"He's not done yet," says railer Greg Amoils. "Remember what happened in the WPT, chip and chair."

Just found this which confirms it.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Hansen


Skip to the Trivia Section

 ;nana;

Mickey Wernick (30k) is now sitting on a Brit dominated table along with Praz Bansi, Jim Kerrigan, Richard Herbert and Nick Jenkins.

Just like a night at the local Grosvenor then.

Will search for a Vicky Coren picture to keep your stormy testosterone seas calm, but for now, you'll have to make do with a certain Miss Isabelle Mercier, who is currently behind schedule with 8,300.

snoopy can u wish des good luck from me and tell him to bloddy play his aggr game no matter what

lol

you have some chipcounts for glenne and kirderf??

lol, wasn't vicious!  ;scarymoment;

Here's PI Dick Slade, in usual position about three feet away from his chair.  He's in good shape with over 50k.  Ash Hussain was apparently on the table next door, but I got distracted by some shouty hand-waving on the top tier and missed him that time...

Bluff Magazine Player of the Year, Chad Brown (pictured) is now chip leader with a stonking 121k having just busted two players, one being Gus Hansen, the other being the Mr Celine Dion guy.

I didn't catch the preflop action, all I saw was the chips in the middle with the board reading  7c Th Kc

Hansen:

Td 7h

Mr Dion:

Ad Kh

The Chad:

9c 6c

Turn:

8c

River:

6d

Phil Helmuth has doubled up, he had 8-8 on a A-4-A-8-3 board yet still managed a decent dwell on the river when he was put all-in.

Ali Masterman is currently on 32,050, last seen re-raising a 2k raise to 8k on a Flop of Qh 8d 4h and taking the pot down with considerable ease.

While I hestitate to pander to your insistence on 'norkage' (a word I only learned two years ago) I am supportive of Vicky, who has 21,750 in chips currently - so here's a pic of her.  Plus, unusually, there are two other female players on her table (any names?) and I got an awesome gender-role-reversal picture of their male railers coming up to the table at the same time. 

Andy Black raises pre-flop to 725 in early position only to fold to Iwan Jones' 2,125 re-raise... pretty sharpish too.

I caught sight of Andy's hand (he had Kd Qd - keep that hus hush), which was amusing as Iwan confessed to having the same hand, although his were the other red suit.

Going off on a tangent slightly (we never do that here at blonde, ahem  ::)), does anyone have any idea what Andy's card protector is?...

Thanks jenx

Just spotted this request, but, coincidentally, I did take a quick gander at Glenne's chip count, and although it's still well above the 21,666 average, his 39,900 stack is still well below the 65k he had earlier on.

Meanwhile, he has joined a table taken up by Jerome Bradpiece (7,825) and Joey Ladylove (14,500), two of the UK's up and coming young guns.

ty, what about fredrik østervold   kirderf???

any picures of vicky puffing on a cigarette, i think i have developed a women smoking fetish   :D

Also, some Ash Hussain news now, which also encapsulates the highly feared Bengt Sonnert.

Board = Jd 5d Kh Th 8h and Ash has bet 6k, which is most of his stack.

Bengt rises from his seat (as all the stars seem to do), puts his hands on the back of his head and suggests trips as a possibility before making a reluctant call. Ash, clearly chuffed to bits, proudly reveals his Qh 9h whilst Bengt quickly mucks, mumbling something Aces and mentioning, "Rivered," to which Ash responds by highlighting that he hit the straight on the Turn.

"Make sure you put that one up, snoop," requests Ash.

"I prefer just to put the ones you play badly on though, it's more fun," I reply.

I've been generous this time though...

That hand put Ash up to 19,100 Bengt down (if you can believe that) to 43,575. Meanwhile, WPT and WSOP bracelet winner John Gale dressed in his best Clingon outfit with a sad and lonely 5,725.

Kirderf -- 23,475

Glenne -- 31,225

Ash Hussain -- 21,325

thx
What about sverre sundbø and thor hansen??

Mafews out?

its a brass dorje which is a buddhist symbol/carrier of enlightenment, quite sophisticated for a card protector eh?  :D

EPT Dortmund winner Andreas Hoivold went OUT late last night, apparently on the penultimate hand of the night. My source for this is highly trusted so I have do reason to doubt his authenticity, plus his initials may be A and H.

Forgot to mention that Vanessa Rousso went out earlier, according to another updater, she was spotted telling someone that she wasn't going to tell them her bad beat story...

Any news on Badgirl - has her table broken and how are her chips?

btw snoopy has andys stack dramatically changed since the last chip count?

Chip Count on Chris Odle, I know now that he was orginally sitting at the same table at Antonious and Ivey.  So if that table is still around just look for the very Irish looking American.

BREAKING NEWS

According to Dusk Till Dawner and former Eastender, the latter being more crucial in this particular post, everyone on the Albert Square cast wanted that duff duff duff at the end, and prayed for the explosive ending However, and he said this rather bitterly, Tiffany, Grant Mitchell and then Kat Slater (he really didn't seem too keen on her) seemed to hog all the duff duff limelight.

"I got it a few times," added Beppe, "but not particularly often."

Meanwhile, neighbour Mel Judah just won a small pot, taking the hand away from one of many ElkY lookalikes (they seem to be running rampant these days) by betting a Th-6c-6h-2s board from the button after smooth calling the flop.

Whilst Judah is still having trouble with just 13,925, Beppe is fairing slightly better with his 16 stack, adding that it's the first time he's been over the starting stack.

"This is the way it normally goes with me, start off slow and end with a bang," which is how we got into Eastenders, me comparing his progress in comps to an episode of the show. I even got him to perform the duff duff (of his own free will might I add), which I was immensely proud of.

I haven't forgotten about Mr Walters, who is wearing a very unsubtle purple shirt. He's still here, and not too far behind the average with 21,425.

She has 20k, and has described her table as 'crazy' and 'sick', I think she's referring mostly to uber-maniac Dane Frederik Holstrup, who I can vouch for, plays like a madman.

Ahhh I think I know who you mean now. I check after the end of the break, which is when the running aunties 'kick' in.

;ra;


Blinds becoming 150/300/25

For those of you who haven't seen Hellmuth in the flesh, then I'd seriously recommend it if you ever get the chance, if only to witness the full Helmmuth persona that he carries with him. Big and foreboding, Phil shadows his table and truly towers above his opponents, as is clearly evident in the picture below. Like a caped crusader, the Poker Brat leans across the felt as if he owns it and possesses a real presence that he uses to intimidate his opponents. When Phil's at the table, you know about it, even if he doesn't say a word, which can occur in longer spells that you might initially assume.

chipcounts on sverre sundbø and thor hansen please?
Thx for great updates.. You are doing a very good job.

second that cheers Snoopy keep up the good work

Give Anders a.k.a. "Donald" Berg a big quack-quack from his fans in Norway and wish him good luck. We that posess "real" jobs, are forced to hit the sack, sadly enough.

Sig

Not to bad when you live in the states only about 6:30 p.m over here =)

After FINALLY!! getting through all the updates for the last couple of days... what a sterling effort so far!!

Here's hoping a blondite/DTD'er brings it home!

Snoopys hows my boy Joey Lovelady getting on please mate?

Fredrik has been getting involved with US player Casey Kastle in some pretty dramatic pots recently.  Both pictured here (Casey on Bad Girl's left, Fredrik in the DUFFER hoodie), the first one went to Kastle - Fredrik apparently bet all the way (flop, turn and chunky river) until the board was 5-5-Q-7-4.  I would hazard a guess that the fives arrived on the turn and river...anyway, Kastle eventually called with 9-7 and his pair was good against the crazy Dane's A-K.  Julian was standing nearby and related this hand, and was so surprised by the American's calls that he would have fallen off his chair, if he'd been sitting on one.  "I thought he was super tight," he mused...

Then a couple of hands later, and Bad Girl limped on the small blind, Casey raised from the big blind, and Hostrup called.  The flop came Aspades 7s 6s (OK I made the rank of the ones that aren't spades up, but that's strictly irrelevant).  Casey must have bet, but the raise was an insta-all-in from Fredrik - 25k+.  A full dwell (nearing the five minute point) before Casey passed (Bad Girl said an Ace) and Fredrik Hostrup showed:  Kh 2s. 

If he was the green hat wearing guy, I can't find him anywhere and have to assume he's out sorry. It's really hard without a player list I'm afraid.

It's my turn for a break, which will involve taking advantage of the room service and the mini bar er... other stuff.

But before I go, here are a few chip counts from some of the names mentioned over this thread:

Ash Hussain -- 16,825
Isabelle Mercier -- 5,350
Keith Hawkins -- 32,850
Ali Masterman -- 34,125
Andy Black -- 83,000
Xuyen Pham -- 21,700
Rory Matthews -- 2,500 (although his seat was empty on the way back so it looks like he's gone)
Sverre Sundbo -- 2,475
Joey Ladylove -- 11,450
Bjorn Erik Glenne -- 24,825
Iwan Jones -- 8,500
Chad Brown -- 123,025
Mickey Wernick -- 39,400
Adam Junglen (sp?) -- 50,400

Thor has 6,275 so he'll need to start picking up the pace in 'lightning' speed. (Hahaha, you see what I did there?)

Sverre has just over 5k having just doubled up, he pushed with 5-6 suited and Mel Judah called with A-J but the Norwegian flopped a six.

tyty

how is Roy Brindley doin?

Are Bansi and Kerrigan still table mates?

updates on these 2 please?

jus caught up on the updates whats this all about i didnt no kings beat aces

snoop  why u mentioned tikay  early o n     does he kiss man?

Jen is on her way now.

go on the camel ,wish him luck from me plz jen or sloppy .

btw brilliant updates as ussual. ;tightend; ;tightend; ;tightend; ;tightend;

word from the horses mouth is that

bling bling des jonas had doubled up to 17k

only off phill helmouth apparantly he has week table only phill helmouth and patrick antonius on there

can u try find hand details for me plz snoops

Yes, they're still tablemates, facing each other from the opposite ends of the table... got there just in time to see a very odd hand give Jim Kerrigan a bit of a present:

Jim raised preflop and must have been re-raised from the big blind (that's the only way I imagine there was around 10k in there by the time the flop strangeness happened).  So, heads up they see Tc 2c 5s.  Big blind checks, Jim bets 3,500 and the big blind min-check-raises (Jerome standing behind me on the rail - out, details forthcoming - said, "I hate that.")  Jim wasn't loving it either, clearly, and slowly counted out his remaining 9,5k or so before deliberately pushing them over the betting line in a resigned sort of way.  There was a remarkably quick call, considering what was about to be shown down:
Jim showed:  Jc Jh
Big Blind showed:  Ac Jd
Turn and river:  2d Js
And a double up which made Praz almost lose the plot, "There's Jim thinking he's against a set and the guy shows A-J.  I've been grinding all day - it's hard work, and this happens to him."  Pause.  "Well done, Jim," said in a tone so flat you could measure door frames with it.

Jim Kerrigan     34k
Praz Bansi        20k

Illustrations from Table Hit Squad -
Praz (I know it looks like his neighbours have kind of moved away either side of him, but that's not the case really)
Jim and neighbour Ripple11 (I believe) who has a tidy 40,000

Pretty well, actually - 42,200, pictured here in the process of figuring that out for himself...

Hopefully thats not him.  If it is oh well, you guys are doing a great job keep up the good work. Cheers.

snoopy  i know u r busy   but can u see if osman mustanoglu still in for me please  as my preivouse requests have been ignored  last 1 m8  thanks

DTD Chip Count:

Richard Ashby -- 25k
Mikka -- 8.6k
Michael Greco -- 22k
Michael Murphy -- 6k
Kirderf -- 29k

Jerome Bradpiece was moping (moderately) around Praz' table just now. "Boo!," he said, eloquently, "I lost a race."  He'd been short for a while and in one of those spots where aggressive people were always making the raises in front of him, doing things like passing Deuces to a raise on the button which would have given him a house, a double up and a playable stack.  Frustrating, perhaps...anyway he found Sevens and the button raised, as they so often do, with a caller from a big stack.  Jerome went for it - and he got the first guy racing him with A-Q.   It hit (or this story would have started with Jerome saying, "Yeah!") and he's in that recently-eliminated down zone before he realises he's in Monte Carlo and can just go to the beach.

I was saving this picture for when I could get to Hellmuth's table to get him in this exact pose and post them together, but now will have to do:

jen  snoopy did also des jones doubled up with phill helmut? how many he s got  thanks

18 k turk

i wana no the hand plz find out jen or snoops

Well, you're close, he's off on break (we're rotating right now)

But here's your guy, looking relaxed despite the 11,300 stack.

Your requests are not ignored; the distance of the room end to end grows in proportion to the time we've been running round it, and due to the large number of posts sometimes a request gets buried in the haystack of poker related queries and stories.  Such is the nature of interactive update threads.

Snoopy may be ignoring you for personal reasons, however.

lol   wait till i see him       thanks anyway jen  i didnt think he was ignoring  too busy i understand   np    good  work any way   i ll buy u a drink when i celebrate my win in irish open

He appears to have comfortably over the 80k mark, although the Towers make it tough to tell for sure.  Pictured mid-chat, I'd imagine; looks like the player on the left is developing a headache...

 :cheers:  No problem! 

Incidentally, we always try to just come clean if we have no idea who 'John Smith, Distinguishing Features:  Brown hair, Pokerstars shirt, sunglasses' is...anyone we do know we'll find eventually!

Djinn and Snoopy,

   Please stop running....you guys are making the rest of us down here in the press room look bad!!!


    Claus

You are on the RADIO - if you run around you will sound all out of breath and that's unprofessional.  Anyway, I only ran that one time and it's because I thought I might be about to trip over the bottom stair on the way into the press room.  It's Snoopy that's the road-runner to your Slug.

any reports or updates on americans adam junglen or ray coburn?

they are both prominent online players, from the same vein that brought the defending champion Mr. Williams

thanks for the great coverage, you guys are always top notch far-away better than anyone

I double the request on Adam and Ray, and Shaniac too PLEASE??!!!!  Yes, you guys are top-notch on this tourney!!!!!

Sry, just spotted this. Mobbs had the Aces.

Adam Junglen...

It's funny you should mention his name, because he's just been involved, in probably the most fascinating pot I'm likely to see in this tournament, trust me...

Patrick Antonius makes it 1k from the button. Adam makes it 3.2k from the small blind and Antonius makes it 9k. Adam calls.

Flop:

Qc 2s 4c

Adam checks, Patrick moves in for 34.5k. The break has just happened, but a crowd is developing around the table as only the two players remain seated. Adam keeps staring intently at Patrick, checking his chips, it'll cost most of his stack to call. Patrick sits impassively. Finally, eyes still focused on Patrick, Adam pushes the 34.5k into the pot, and Patrick visibly loses the colour out of his face as he flips over 3c 5s. Adam turns over first the Ac, then....the Jh! Everyone including Patrick manages a double take. I hear people shocked, yet still somehow impressed at the call.

Turn:

8s

River:

Aspades

A 90k pot goes to Vegas based Scandie, there's not even a collective groan or sigh from the audience, people are still transfixed at the action.

Adam briefly, yet without a shred of regret in his voice explains, "His range for 3-betting preflop is so wide...When I called the 6k extra I was trapping." He seems remarkably composed for someone who has just lost such a big pot, "I don't care, I've played 10k comps before, his move in was a scared bet, I'd have probably called with King high."

And although that may sound arrogant to people, I could completely believe him.

just wow...

that makes me sick, thank you for the report

Hi, I posted pictures of these two (can't find Ray) earlier and was looking for confirmation that it was indeed them. I'll post them again...

That has to be the sickest hand I have ever read what a call and what a river.  My boy Chris Odle is still alive just an f.y.i and I finally know what he is wearing.  A green hoodie with diamonds and boombox's on it and a brown and beige checkered hat.  If you can find him tell him we are all rooting for him and to keep up the good work.  Love the coverage this is my new favorite site for updates on live tourneys, at least in Europe.

***edit*** he is at table 12 if that helps

He is still only 54.24% v 45.76% to win

this is true but I loved his read on the situation, just didn't hold.

Your boy... Chris Odle -- 36,000

Cheers, and thanks for signing up. You might be interested to know that Jen and Snoopy will be covering the WPT at the Bellagio at the end of April, so might need some help with the photos. ;)

The hand turned out to be Adam's swansong, he pushed with 7-8 and got called by A-T, an Ace on the flop and no help thereafter.

Here is Shaniac (Shane Schleger), who if memory serves me correctly, is a regular on the 2+2 forums, he has Isabelle Mercier and Keith 'The Camel' Hawkins to his immediate left and has 29,350.

Ray is proving hard to find, but please bear with us.

ray coburn is sort of well known for his stunt at EPT dublin a year and a half ago, dying his entire head green and finishing 14th

(http://profile.ak.facebook.com/v52/1113/125/n24802758_3066.jpg)

he may have already busted tho

gud da guys great updates,u couldnt find out for me how the ShaDows are doiNG, ASH AND NICK TY

Thanks Thanks Thanks you guys are wonderful, Cheers.

Blue Square Bolton GUKPT winner, Praz Bansi, is OUT.

My head's a bit mangled and overloaded with poker, so I apologise if this is slightly off, but the gist is that Praz got his chips in with 9-6 on a K-9-4-x (2 spades) board was beaten by Ace high which I believe hit a flush on the River.

I remember him from Dublin the following year... see here for a photo. Is this him?

(http://www.blondepoker.com/files/images/DSC_2852_0.jpg)

If yes, I haven't spotted him today, which would suggest that he's already out.

However, I'll keep an eye out just in case.

Getting It Quietly News Now:

Julian Gardner (50k) and Jeff Rogers (44,650) have been rather overlooked in the general craziness of this start day - not to say that they haven't been involved in some big pots, perhaps even dramatic ones, but they're both looking like finishing the day with comfortable stacks and minimal fuss.  The cameras might be round Hellmuth getting a massage, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Julian (pictured) going to day 25 or whatever counts as 'deep' here.

Other counts from mid-way through the final level of the day:

Joe Beevers (pictured)  65,000
Rick Wild           37,000
Patrik Antonius   77,000
Isabelle Mercier   12,100
Keith Hawkins     26,500
Ram Vaswani      32,000
Arnaud Mattern   24,000
Devilfish              16,000
Des Jonas           12,700
William Thorsson  50,000
Osman Mustanoglu   OUT  (saw only the winning hand - 9d 9s with a nine on the board - sorry no more information)
Tony Bloom           OUT

yes that is him

i will assume he is BUSTO and consoling adam junglen =)

I can't find him sorry. Shaniac says :hello: to all by the way.

25 minutes remaining, on this the last level of Day 1B. 190 remain at the moment, the blinds being 200/400 with a 50 ante.

Prize pool, all in €'s.

1   1,825,010
2   1,061,820
3   610,550
4   471,180
5   391,550
6   305,270
7   238,910
8   159,270
9   99,550
10   99,550
11   66,360
12   66,360
13   49,770
14   49,770
15   39,820
16   39,820
17   33,180
18   33,180
19   33,180
20   33,180
21   33,180
22   33,180
23   33,180
24   33,180
25   26,550
26   26,550
27   26,550
28   26,550
29   26,550
30   26,550
31   26,550
32   26,550
33   23,230
34   23,230
35   23,230
36   23,230
37   23,230
38   23,230
39   23,230
40   23,230
41   19,910
42   19,910
43   19,910
44   19,910
45   19,910
46   19,910
47   19,910
48   19,910
49   16,590
50   16,590
51   16,590
52   16,590
53   16,590
54   16,590
55   16,590
56   16,590
57   13,270
58   13,270
59   13,270
60   13,270
61   13,270
62   13,270
63   13,270
64   13,270

any more news on Richard "strummer" Herbert please.

great reports as always thank you

 ;applause;   great reporting

Last minute double up for John Gale -

An early-mid raiser to something like 1,500 found one caller and a button push for 6,575 from the bracelet-winning, easy-going player.  Desperate?  It's not his style, it looks like, to lose the will to survive short just because they've announced Last Five Hands (which they have) - he was probably happy that the early raiser re-raised to isolate him with his Jh Js, as John had Qd Qh.
The board came:  Ks 7c 9h Kd Qs  which was overkill, but he looked happy to have doubled through to around what he started the day with, over 12 hours ago...

Sorry, they've sent us all packing as they wrap up the day's play.  Usually there's one announcement per hour along the lines of, "Will everyone milling around between the tournament tables please leave the area?"  which we get to ignore and carry on writing our little notes.  This time they meant business.  "And the press," came over the loudspeaker as I continued to stroll around the pleasingly spacious walkways pretty much on my own.

What I'm trying to say is, you'll probably have to wait until they get the final counts to us, which is more like tomorrow than tonight. 

 Thank you. Great days reporting as per usual.

Got it just before Big Thomas Kremser dragged me kicking and screaming from the floor, my fingernails leaving marks in the expensive floor. He has roughly 47k, nicely above average.

Great Day of reporting and I can't wait to hear more from you guys through the next few days. Cheers

Looks like these are your chip leaders (although these counts were collated 20-30 mins prior to the final whilste)

(2) Hans Eskilsson -- 111,250
(3) Andy Black -- 84,400
(4) Maurice Kaenter -- 72,500
(5) Patrik Antonius (not pictured)-- 70,900
(6) Joe Beevers -- 64,100
(7) Dan Bush -- 63,700
(8) Ali Masterman -- 63,200
(9) Nick Jenkins -- 59,400
(10) Philip Hilm -- 58,025

Wonderful job, Blonde! Thank you!! Please send us a donation link for hamburgers and such...........?

And here this chip leader, Chad Brown with 147k

A reminder of what most of Team Dusk Till Dawn looked like this morning, a century ago - in the bright light of day...and a quick Richard Ashby count from the last 15 minutes - 18,000...

Thank you, Thank you, Good Luck Strummer

And of course, we still have some Dusk Till Dawners in (once again, info collated 20-30 mins before the end):

(1) Michael Greco -- 15,275
(2) Richard Ashby -- 15,000
(3) Michaela Johansson -- 13,025
(4) Frederik Ostervold -- 11,000
(5) Michael Murphy -- 8,550

Straight from the horse's mouth (I am by no means calling him a horse), Danish player and Warsaw EPT finalist Frederik Holstrup Pedersen has also climbed into the top ten with around 70k.

Roberto Romanello bit the dust right at the death, moving his shortstack in with Jack-rag, but running in to Ace King.

He was, in the words of Jeff 'Jaffacake" Kimber "utterly devestated".

Oh, we are all good thanks. Just let all your friends know about us and that's enough for us. :)

All the players that we identified near the end, such as Chris Odle and Shaniac, will be followed more closely in Day 2.

According to Mad, our media representative from PokerStars, player listing will be available tomorrow  ;pokergods;, which should make tracking players a lot easy.

However, if you get in your requests for names to follow early doors (on tomorrow's thread rather than this one), then that would awesome.

The official chip counts should be with us early morning (probably around 6am), so we'll upload those counts prior to the commencement of the Day 2 live coverage.

Ok, it's passing out time, (Djinn is collapsing next to me as I type). We're off to regain our strength returning for level 8 with blinds 300/600/75, the early hours of Day 2 of EPT's have traditionally been scenes of bloody carnage, but with the extra 5k on the starting stack, plus 90 minute blinds, I think it'll be around level 11 when the blinds go 800/1600/200 which will be the tipping point. (i.e when we get people knocked out at literally one every minute).

Time for bed, we'll be back to restart at 2pm (1pm GMT).

 ;stickaforkinme;

no problem, ya'll are "official" on 2+2 now. Truly, a job well done.

Woohoo Guys - you hear that?  Official!  How about we celebrate by sharing a €9 beer???

;stickaforkinme;

Thank you very much Mrs Gobbomom (I still can't believe I'm calling someone that, lol), your support has been much appreciated.

Finally, word on the grapevine is that Day 2 will come with a player list, which will mean we will be able to identify any names that you American readers wish to throw our way.

Remember, this is an interactive thread, so feel free to interrupt us with requests for players, whatever nationality, and we'll do out very best.

 :respect:

Time for beddie byes.

 ;stickaforkinme;

Same bat-time, same bat-channel. (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/images/smilies/batman.gif)

Couldn't be happier two great players, among many others.  Can't wait till the coverage starts agian is making my work day/evening a whole hell of a lot more entertaining.  Cheers

One of the best live updates i've ever read. Brilliant stuff guys.

Just caught up this morning DITTO Matt.....

Me too, just caught up with the last four or five pages.

Another superb update from the great triumvirate  ;applause; ;hattip; ;applause;

Flucking superb stuff.

Just caught up on the 1B action and brilliant work people. I bet its a fun job but can get a bit tiresome on days like this!

Kev

A breathtakingly good Update - thank you Jen, Adam & Chris.

I love you all, & we shall have babies.

Great updates guys wish I was there with you...
Next year for sure.