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Welcome back to the EPT Grand Final, second start day, commencing at 2pm (1pm UK time).  Chip counts will be posted before the start of play today.

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

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)

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...

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...

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...

Ricahrd Waters -- 14,400
Mark Pinter -- 5,300
Roy Brindley -- 14,550
Rumit Somaiya -- 14,900
Keith Hawkins -- 12,650
Isabelle Mercier -- 16,200
Nick Slade -- 23,850
Dave Ulliott -- 13,625
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

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.

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)

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 showed his 7h 7d, for some reason.

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.

Hachem Busts With Aces:

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...

Paul Alterman -- 9,875
Peter Gould -- 14,750
John Gale -- 12,275
Jim Reid -- 22,275
Andy Black -- 10,725
Nick Slade -- 32,450
Roy Brindley -- 7,100
Keith Hawkins -- 16,850
Jeff Williams -- 16,850
Aranud Mattern -- 17,500
Phil Hellmuth -- 7,875

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 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.

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

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

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
Kevin O'Connell -- Missing, presumed lost.

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

Richard Redmond is also gone, running Ace King into Aces on Ace high Flop. Ace on Turn. All-in.

No sign of Henning Granstad or Brian Townsend either.


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

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.."

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.

Ali Masterman has doubled up to 22k after flopping a straight with 6-7 on a rainbow flop of 8-9-T, smooth calling a bet and then calling an all-in from his opponent's J-rag. Blank on River.

David Benyamine -- 34,775
Karl Mahrenholz -- 8,050
Richard Wild -- 19,000
Azad Pirooti -- 4,500
Bjorn Erik Glenne -- 58,900
Ali Masterman -- 22,000
Julain Gardner -- 22,000

Thomas 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.

Dave Mobbs has doubled up in simple fashion.

Mobbs = Kc Kh

Joey Lovelday = Aspades Ac

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

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Meanwhile, Joe Beevers has eliminated an opponent with 5h 4h on a board of 4s 4d 5c 2d 7c and an all-in on the River of 7k.

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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

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

Bluff Magazine Player of the Year, Chad Brown 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.

Nick Slade       51,000
Rick Wildman   19,300
Vicky Coren     21,750
Alexander Stevic  25,500
Tony Chessa      11,400
Sebastian Riviere  43,000
Casey Kastle       60,000
Julian Gardner    33,000

Kirderf -- 23,475

Glenne -- 31,225

Ash Hussain -- 21,325

Ash won a nice pot off Bengt Sonnert, his 6k bet with Qh 9h on a Jd 5d Kh Th 8h board being called by Bengt Sonnert. 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.

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...

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.

Blinds are about to be 150/300 with a 25 ante.

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. 

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.

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

DTD Chip Count:

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

Ripple11      40k
Andy Black   85k
Roy Brindley  42,200
Osman Mustanoglu  11,300
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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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...

Looks like these are your current chip leaders:

(1) Chad Brown -- 147,000
(2) Hans Eskilsson -- 111,250
(3) Andy Black -- 84,400
(4) Maurice Kaenter -- 72,500
(5) Patrik Antonius -- 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

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

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

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).

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