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:hello: guys. We're starting once again at 2pm (1pm GMT). If you want any certain players followed, please put up their names and we'll do our best to follow them, take pictures etc...

Blinds are 300/600 with a 75 ante, and there's roughly (until I get the actual number) 340 players left. On the EPT site, it says we are only playing 5 levels today, but we'll get this confirmed as soon as we know.

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 any of you guys wish to throw our way.

Remember, this is an interactive thread, so feel free to interrupt us with requests for players (chip counts, photos, big hands, etc), whatever nationality, and we'll do out very best to find them.

All requests will be noted.

Joey Lovelady please

Hi there

Can you please try and follow the Badbeat players still in please

Chris Smith
Richard Herbert

When i find out who else from badbeat is left in ill post it.

Cheers

Ash Hussain

morning guys,
did badgirl get thru?
gl to peteL and, er, everyone else i know

Morning

Wish Ali Masterman the best of luck today!! (Lamm from Peterborough) he should know who it is!

GOGOGOGOGGOGOGOGOG

ANY1 NO HOW MANY CHIPS ASH HUSSAINS GOT

Hi guys,
Isabelle as usual and a pic would be greatly appreciated.
Been following you all day.  Great JOB,
Thanks

the roof is off,
repeat,
the roof is off,
i'm about to post a pic on my blog & will do one here if i can figure out how it works

Ok my 3 picks for today

Ali masterman
Dave Clayton
Nick Slade
isa

;)
I couldnt decide who to drop from the list but I reckon at least one of them will final

Peter Christiaan Dalhuijsen (a dutch guy who finaltabled a WSOP event in LV last year): Table 27 seat 8. He's on the same table as Paul Gourlay and Mark Teltscher. Thank you guys and have fun today :D

Hi can you please give some updates on Richard Waters. He starts the day on 50k .
Thanks

Where did you find a list of the table and seat numbers for today? Thanks.

OK chip counts taken from betfair forum for day 2, hope this saves time having to type them in snoops/jen/flopsy

Chad Brown USA 150425
Christopher Ulsrud Norway 133875
Hans Vimmo Eskilsson Sweden 110600
Jani Vilmunen Finland 95925
Steve Jelinek UK 95375
Dario Alioto Italy 87850
Thomas Wahlroos Finland 87625
Andrew Black IRE 86925
Peter Dalhuijsen Holland 82600
Maurice Kenter III USA 76500
Hans Ritburg Holland 76100
William Hill UK 75825
Lars Brasholt Denmark 72400
Patric Martensson Sweden 71325
Frederik Hostrup Denmark 70725
Erik Pettersson Sweden 70025
Nicholas Jenkins UK 69550
Patrik Antonius USA 67325
Masterman Ali UK 66625
Mark Teltscher UK 66425
Graziano Cecchetti Italy 66075
Johnny Lodden Norway 64250
Alan Smurfit Ireland 63500
Robert Gergely Hungary 63050
Cristinel Dumitru Romania 63000
Sergey Altbregin Russia 62050
Josh Arieh USA 60575
Philip Hilm Denmark 60575
Orjan Holt Norway 60250
Daniel Conte France 60100
Dan Bush USA 59450
Roi Elmaliah Israel 58500
Erik Magnus Persson Sweden 58125
Erich Kollmann Austria 55825
Allan Drake Canada 55275
Fadi Kamar Lebanon 54700
Frank Guenther Germany 54400
Christopher Smith UK 53725
Greg Raymer USA 53625
David Layani France 53025
Paul Gourlay UK 52875
Olof William Thorson Sweden 52650
Kristian Kjondal Norway 52450
Marc Karam Canada 52100
Vladimir Troyanovsky Russia 52000
Victor Ramdin USA 51625
Joe Beevers UK 51525
Richard Waters UK 49950
Jani Sointula Finland 49800
Jonathan Little USA 49300
Joseph Starcevic Canada 49000
Julian Gardner UK 48650
Christian Togsverd Denmark 48250
Christian Neirinck Belgium 48225
Michael Martin USA 48200
Age Spets Norway 48200
Stuart Fox UK 47950
Jacob Larsson Sweden 47575
Richard Herbert Ireland 47525
Joseph Lovelady UK 47425
William Vance USA 47125
Kristof De Smedt #N/A 47050
Harry Demetriou UK 46650
Carlos Mortensen Spain 46450
Johannes Strassmann Germany 46350
Nicholas Goodall UK 46225
Jean Claude Perrot France 46225
Cristiano Blanco Italy 45750
Peter James Linton UK 45525
Emad Tahtouh Australia 45500
Kenneth Strandli Norway 45450
David Peters USA 44725
Knut Rysstad Norway 44475
Hans Ari Vars Norway 43975
Aaron Kanter USA 43900
Opria Cristea Romania 43600
Nicolas Levi France 43325
Sebastian Riviere Sweden 43125
Brice Cournut France 43000
Emile Petit France 42600
Stuart Hooft Canada 42450
Joe Rafferty UK 42125
Sam El Sayed Switzerland 41525
Antony Elie Lellouche France 41375
Frank Hilton USA 41350
David Sonelin Sweden 40875
Mark Vos Australia 40875
Barry Greenstein USA 40725
Souhail Nassar Lebanon 40275
Csaba Kuremszki Hungary 40225
Ramzi Jelassi Sweden 39675
Rayan Nathan Australia 39650
Jeffrey Rogers UK 39350
Theo Jorgensen Denmark 39125
Pier Ruscalla Italy 39100
Dan Abouaf France 39075
Ariel Adda UK 38875
Lars Bonding Denmak 38550
Samuel Lehtonen Sweden 38500
Atanas Gueorguiev Bulgaria 38300
David Leavey UK 38125
Simon Christensson Sweden 38050
Johannes Steindl Austria 38000
Pete Giordano USA 37950
Chris Odle USA 37900
Mark Forrester UK 37775
Nick Slade UK 37675
Joakim Sorensen Denmark 37450
Halldor Mar Sverrisson Iceland 37400
Noah Boeken Holland 37175
George Danzer Germany 36800
Luke Staudenmaie USA 36725
Nordine Bouya France 36650
Lars Eidissen Norway 36300
Jan Zeuschner Germany 36150
Andy Lowe UK 35750
Odd Lavik Norway 35325
Clint Brothertorn USA 35200
Ram Vaswani UK 35150
Eric Van der Berg Holland 35025
Alexander Stevic Sweden 34775
Andrew Robl USA 34675
Kim Nielsen Denmark 34450
David Mobbs UK 34300
Jimmie Guinther USA 33200
Andrea Borea Italy 32600
Tommy 31925
Simon Johansson Sweden 31600
Ernst Hermans Holland 31575
Paul Ladanyi Hungary 31300
Dean Sanders UK 31200
Alexander Holovko Ukraine 31150
Elie Marciano France 31125
Sverre Krogh Sundbo Norway 31000
Keith Hawkins UK 30850
Michael Melin Sweden 30625
Nicolas Ragot France 30550
Daniel Amich Makowsky Israel 30425
Roy Brindley UK 30250
Paul Linton UK 30175
David Clayton UK 30150
Biri Balazs Hungary 30125
Ross Boatman UK 30075
Mark Joseph Gregorich USA 29975
Jan Boubli France 29925
Eric Kronenberg USA 29725
Jason Gray Australia 29700
Mark Pinter Hungary 29700
Phillipe Narboni France 29575
Josh Seeburger USA 29300
Paul Murrell UK 29225
Jim Kerrigan UK 29150
Alexander Uskov Russia 29075
David Barraclough UK 28925
Fabio Bianchi Italy 28725
Daniel Steine Norway 28675
Haim Kakoun France 28100
Josh Prager USA 28000
Nikolai Evdakov Russia 27900
Jan Christop Von Halle Germany 27800
Carl Olson USA 27750
Owen Crowe Canada 27700
Joseph Karl Michael USA 27475
David Ray Cotten USA 27450
Haward Speer Germany 27400
Richard Wild UK 27400
Bernd Stadlbauer France 27300
Sasa Biorac Germany 27225
Sergey Feklisov Russia 27175
Jason Mellross Australia 27075
Mickey Wernick UK 27075
Roland Rozel France 26975
Soren Kongsgaard Denmark 26800
Claude Marbleau France 26700
Terence Cook UK 26375
Samir Rahal France 26350
Johan Storakers Sweden 26250
Noah Stephens USA 26200
Arnaud Mattern France 26175
Ion Pavel Romania 26000
Bengt Sonnert Sweden 25975
Sebastian Ruthenberg Germany 25850
Jean Phullipe Leandri France 25725
Anders Indrebo Norway 25650
Barry Strickland USA 25650
Dean Thurman USA 25650
Istvan Novak Hungary 25600
Hans Erlandsson Sweden 25550
Christophe Barabe France 25500
David Sykes Canada 25450
Fowzi Baroukh UK 25175
James Kilarjian USA 24900
Jude Ainsworth Ireland 24600
Jan Veit Germany 24550
Patrick Gaillardo France 24400
Chris Bjorin Sweden 24350
Francisco Lopez Spain 24225
Soren Bakfort Denmark 24050
Gregory Byard USA 23975
Isaac Baron USA 23850
Jesper Hougaard Denmark 23850
Marcel Rhin France 23725
Pernille Ravn Denmark 23400
Gunnar Ostebrod Norway 23350
Zahid Wahla UK 23300
Michel Vat Holland 23175
Tore Lagerborg Norway 23000
Ricki Nielsen Denmark 22900
Gavin Griffin USA 22725
Xuyen Pham UK 22525
Dennis Plejdrup Denmark 22525
Thomas Bihl Germany 22375
Oscar Carrasco Spain 22075
Chris Moneymaker USA 22050
Jonathan Mccann UK 22000
Xavier Laszcz France 21875
Staale Egenes Norway 21575
Pascal Peretti France 21450
George Mckeever UK 21050
Nik Persaud UK 20950
Juan Manuel Pastor Spain 20900
Mesbah Guerfi France 20750
Yevgeniy Timoshenko USA 20725
Jasper Wijbenga Holland 20625
Erik Palm Sweden 20500
Luca Mortarino Italy 20275
Bruno Fitoussi France 20200
Scot Wilson Canada 20000
John Persson Sweden 19950
Adam Szalak Poland 19650
David Benyamine France 19500
Victor Olaru Romania 19400
Lasse Ubostad Norway 19375
Kareem Alsaihati Saudi Arabia 19275
Daniel Kelley USA 19075
Piers Whyman UK 19050
Niklas Liljegren Sweden 18950
Shane Schleger USA 18900
Bernt Grytdahl Norway 18875
Conor O'Keefe USA 18875
Phil Hellmuth USA 18275
Amritraj Singh USA 18275
Brian Weisner Canada 18275
Nicolas Pussini France 18050
Marcus Jessen Denmark 17975
William Davison USA 17925
Georg Lothar Korch Germany 17800
Michele Greco Ireland 17750
Dan Glimne Sweden 17525
Jonas Helness Norway 17100
Denes Kalo Hungary 17075
Julien Neuman France 17050
Barkatul Mohammed UK 16925
Gea Gregory Marc Russia 16800
Casey Kastle USA 16625
Ben Walter Callinan UK 16350
Alexander Kuzmin Russia 16300
Richard Ashby UK 15850
Stuart Taylor Holland 15500
Michael Long USA 14700
Ken Goldin USA 14675
John Gale UK 14650
Alfred Zaccagnino USA 14475
Gregory Orlov Russia 14350
Darius Hastings USA 14300
Zack Stewart Israel 14275
Katja Thater Germany 14275
Lyndon Basha Australia 14250
Robert Cohen France 14050
William Chen USA 13800
Stefan Mattsson Sweden 13725
John Shipley UK 13700
Alexander Kim USA 13625
Isabelle Mercier Canada 13575
Marc Zaicik France 13200
Olivier Czerwonogo France 13150
Dave Colclough UK 12950
Richard Barnett UK 12875
Jesse Steinberg USA 12775
Baard Dahl Norway 12625
Daryl Jace USA 12550
Mihai Manole Romania 12550
Michael Hill UK 12300
Khalil Rahal France 12300
John Brooks USA 12225
Tomas Petterson Sweden 12150
Ouri Aron Cohen France 12100
Reuben Peters USA 12050
Tomas Brolin Sweden 12000
Tony Cascarino Ireland 12000
Michaela Johansson Sweden 11925
Tyler Netter USA 11675
Emil Holmsten Sweden 11650
Anthony Holden UK 11525
Scott Piecha UK 11425
Ivan Barbuto Italy 11000
Anthony Chatelain Sweden 11000
Per Magnus Ummer Sweden 10850
Dave Ulliott UK 10750
Carl Hostrup Denmark 10575
Desmond Jonas UK 10550
Thor Hansen Denmark 10475
Herman Zango Costa Rica 10250
Erika Schonberg USA 10225
Roberto Nateri Italy 10125
Davide Adamo Germany 10050
Bo Schults Italy 10050
Victoria Coren UK 9825
Nitin Malik India 9800
Lee Nelson New Zeland 9775
Guillaume De La Gorce France 9500
Noboru Mark Nagaoka USA 9350
Emile Elias France 9325
Bryn Kenney USA 9250
Arshad Hussain UK 9150
Mikhail Ustinov Russia 9150
Philip Yeh Sweden 9025
Giuseppe Ruvolo USA 8850
Fabrice Soulier France 8550
Henrik Sorensen Denmark 8425
Cametti Laurent France 8250
Jan Erik Iversen Norway 8050
Vegard Nygaard Norway 7950
Richard Shtrax USA 7900
Ulrica Skonnemark Sweden 7850
Shane Reihill Ireland 7700
Michael Murphy UK 7425
Jose Luis Navarro Spain 7350
Bertrand Grospellier France 7075
Marko Batanjac Yugoslavia 7000
Uffe Thorup Petersen Denmark 7000
Stuart Hosen USA 6950
Jose Guevara Argentina 6375
Michael Muecklish Germany 6350
Afzal Hussain UK 6200
Vikash Dhorasoo France 4450
Imad Derwiche France 3825
Gilles Pieri France 2650
Jukka Ylitalo Finland 2550
 
 
 
 

3 boks:

"ActionJeff" Jeff Garza
Chad Brown (regardless of huge chip lead he's on good form of late)
"LuckyULSA" Chris Ulsrud.

Andrew Black UK 86925

uh oh someone wont be happy :D

looking forward to another excellent day of reporting, keep up the great work guys

Scratch that he's out ;) I'll try again: "iweargoggles" Luke Staudenmaier

Good luck to Foxy and The Camel, and Desmond Jonas  ::) too (I bet only his mum calls him that)

Amazing work yet again all three of you, well done and thank you..!

As usual, info on both

- Nicolas Levi    and
- Arnaud Mattern

will be much appreciated. Have a good day 2!

Great posts guys..  could you let us know about Roy Brindley please..

Cheers

Please keep me updated on Scott Piecher – he’s starting off at table 8 seat 1. Many thanks

Any updates on:

Norkage  - current chip stack unknown

Pics more than welcome :-)

Great stuff guys,

Only blddy place on the net I can get info and accurate chip counts, unless ofcourse your freinds with the big boys.

Can you please keep me updated with the progrees of Richard "wildrick" Wild please. UK. THink hes on about 27400 chips dont know taables or seat numbers though.

Wish him gl from MADV as well if you would please. Keep up the good work.

Does any1 no if betfair has a market still runnin?

bet fair market was suspended.

GL to Lee Nelson and the DTD clan

Really great updates - best ever.

Just wish I was there :)  Damn I hate self discipline.

Well, we're here, and it looks like everyone from both start days is too - the lift, lobby, spacious pool-filled grounds and tournament building literally swarming with players.  A seat plan is OURS today - so at least until the initial carnage shrinks the field we'll be able to snap your requests...

This is most definitely the most populous Day Two (WSOP excepted) I have ever seen - five levels planned for today, but who knows?

Cant wait for the action to get underway, gl all those players out there but cmonnnn wildrickyyyyyyyy wahooooooooo.

MAke sure u give him an elbow in the ribs please from me ;)

table 32 and 4 looks interesting

32
Dave Colclough
Andy Black
Barry Greenstein
Chris Moneymaker
John Shipley

4
Chad Brown
Erik Persson
Joe Beevers
William Thorsson
Noah Boeken

for anyone wondering what the table draws are, go here http://www.europeanpokertour.com/EPT3_montecarlo_day2_players.html

Wow table will be great. Chad's chip stack v Thorsens aggression... one to watch

We just lost our wireless at possibly the worst point of the week - panic broke through the press lethargy, but we've now got back online.  In an emergency, we've got backup dialup connection, so in any case we'll be bringing you the stories from today, quickly or slowly, depending...

OK The players are seated - time to photograph your requests (no offence, but shortstacks have a nasty habit of vanishing into thin air). 

And Julian - The roof is ON!  I have been waiting all week to see that, read your post and got ludicrously excited, but it's just that disco-tastic black ceiling again.  I can't believe they allow it to even threaten to rain in Monte Carlo.

Coooooeeeeee :hello:

Can you keep tabs on Badgirl while I am in (ahem) the office? Tx

Neat trick that BadGirl, playing in Monte Carlo AND working in the office!

Good Luck to Xuyen though. She looked lovely this week, as always..

my 3 to make it though the day are

Tommy 31,925
Michael Muecklish Germany 6,350
Victoria Coren UK 9,825

Some requests as promised...

First up, Joey Lovelady (awesome name!) who thanks Dubai for his support. He seemed confident at these early stages and was laughing jovially at the table.

This is the buoyant as ever Chris Smith (senior to Dan).

"I haven't played a hand yet."

My 3 selections are:

Josh Arieh
Jonny Lodden
Aaron Kanter

Chris Smith looking cheery in the hallway, before and after noticing I was brandishing a camera:
Richard Herbert is on a UK-filled table, and probably action-filled too - here's the lineup:

Philip   Hilm
Xuyen   Pham
Mickey   Wernick
Richard   Herbert
David Ray   Cotten
Alexander Billy   Stevic
George   Danzer
Luca   Mortarino
Lars   Brasholt

Mr Hussain, not dejected by his 9k stack - remember last year?

For those new to blonde out there, this is the guy that came out of nowhere to finish runner up last year for half a mil. Not bad for a few days at the office.

"You could have warned me you were taking a photo," he complains jokingly.

"Why, were you going to comb your hair," I replied.

Bad Beat's Richard Herbert, clearly spurred on by Meds good luck wishes. "Yes, that will push me to victory, that's the inspiration I needed to take this one down."

Tough table though. Philip Hilm and Gearge Danzer across the table, not to mention neighbours Mickey Wernick and Xuyen Vladar.

Here's Joe Beevers, William Thorsten and Chad Brown.

Bad Girl and Micky Wernick.

Isabelle Mercier and Shaniac.

Des Jonas.

Luke Staudenmaier 
Scott Piecher

Say gidday to Joey from me too Snoops - I busted him atthe GUKPT Bolton when I woke up with the cowboys in the BB - when there was only 20 of us left. Nice guy and plays better when not on the buds...

Another request, this time Ali Masterman pictured here next to Geordie boy and general cheeky chappy, Paul Gourlay.

Early doors yet, but Ali is one of the few to play a hand, calling a bet pre-flop from the big blind, checking it down to the River, before taking it away with a small bet.

I know danafish is probably not awake yet, but here's Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott, in comparatively sober attire, pictured (a) thinking about going all in, (b) moving all in saying "Don't let me down, buddy," to either one of his two opponents or one of his cards, (c) Devilfish all in for 10k, uncalled in the end.

These two make seem like lovers making lustful eye contact, but they are in fact arch enemies on the bitter batterfield that is the poker table.

Mr Left (Vat Michel) just check-raised Mr Right (Speer Haward) on a Td Ac Jh Flop.

Check, 3k, then 12k, before Speer eventually folded, although he seemed very reluctant, showing an Ace in the process.

Good work team good work,

Anychance you can dazzle thw wild one with your flash and say gllllllll ya big muff :)

Cheers team :)

Big-stacked Peter Dalhujsen, who just added another 30k or so to his stack, re-raising Ali Masterman off a Td Tc 3d board.

London EPT Winner Vicky Coren more interested in the Daily Mail than the uber-stacked Christopher Ulsrud next to her. (He of the K-K vs K-K vs A-A coup on Day 1A)

Richard Walters, stack looking a little short.

Andy Black managing to look drunk as El Blondie looks unimpressed.

Judging by the empty seats, Alfred Zaccagnino, Carl Olsen, Dan Glimne and one of the biggest names here today (20 letters!), Jan Christoph Von Halle, have all bitten the dust during these early stages.

Will do m8. All good luck messages are being passed on.

Meanwhile, I just witnessed a rather gut wrenching hand which involved two players either side of Harry Demetriou.

All in pre-flop, Sebastian Ruthenberg and his Pocket Nines were looking rather vulnerable when Josh Seeburger (Great name! - he see burger, he eat!!!) revealed his pocket Aces, but a J-T-J-8-Q resulted in our first vomit of the day.

The Beever man is going TO EAT THEM ALIVVVEEEEEEEEEE    ;goodvevil;

The player list shows Michele Greco and Richard Herbert as being Irish, Can you vrify their passports and credentials please.

Well Andy Black is apparently from the UK, they must have traded.  Two for one, not bad...

Especially for Surprise - Isabelle, looking especially cool.

Hi, can you guys get a pic of Joey Michael - table 21 seat 3 - and any updates on his stack changing?

cheers, keep up the amazing work you're doing.

can you let me know how Richard Barnett is doingm please.
Willow

Please pass on my best wishes to Stuart Fox and Steve Jelink - thanks

Sure - his table lineup started like this:

Oscar Blanco Carrasco
Jude Ainsworth
Joseph Karl Michael
Jimmie   Guinther
Rayan Nathan
Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Victor   Olaru
Francisco Lopez
Bengt   Sonnert

According to Nick Slade, Des Jonas is gone, caught bluffing with King high vs. top pair. I caught Jen talking to him in the lobby, so I'm sure she can elaborate.

Hey Jen,

Sorry I gave you the wrong seating assignment for Scott Piecher  ;hide; - he's at table 8 but in Seat 5!

He's been added to the list.

Here is your man, nicely placed on Table 1 so I don't have to fight may way through the jungle that is this tournament.


This is Ali Masterman, who worked for Virgin Poker, (I'm guessing he doesn't now) and posts occasionally on the forum as 'Ali'. At the start of this year he won one of the side events at the Aussie Millions for something between 200 and 300k. He's impressed Paul Gourlay sitting to his left:

Paul, "I haven't played a hand in 40 hands or so, he raises the button to 2k, I've got 6-4 and make it 6k, he pushes so I have to fold. He shows me J-6!"

any of my 3 doubled up yet

Tommy 31,925
Michael Muecklish Germany 6,350
Victoria Coren UK 9,825


and when does tommy get a chance to play a hand inbetween his pinball

which one is going to be the tv-table?

Great Stuff people

If you could keep an eye on.....

Table 16 - Chris Smith
Table 12 - Richard herbert

That would be excellent

The TV table will be set up from tomorrow.

The Gecko has doubled up, and I bet he doesn't mind being called Beppe.

Moving over the top of Gnuf member Sebastian Riviere, Beppe got caught with his fingers in the (Dusk) till (Dawn) and was forced to show his lowly Qs 2s. However, with Sebastian, who admittedly made a very good call, turned over his Ac Ts, Beppe was delighted to see that he had two live cards, and even more delighted when the board delivered a two on a Ks 2d 7c Js 5h board. Had to be the 2!  ;D

"I raised enough for him to pass," added the DTDer worried that I'd make him look like a plum.

Thank you for your fine updates on Devilfish's inevitable slide towards ruin. Keep 'em coming!

If you look in any poker dictionary under LAG it just has a picture of ali, very dangerous player with chips who will make most scandies look like rocks

can you do updates on Mark Pinter table 4 seat 1?

 :kiss:

No problem.  :)up

American Chris Odle is still in with just over 30k. He's very quiet and reserved at the table, but I spoke to him briefly yesterday and he seemed like a nice lad. A silent assassin of sorts.

Tyvm for the picture, hope you passed on my muffy message hehe, looks like hes going ok,

Great reporting guys.

Whilst ya there wish all the badbeat muffs gl, spec stummuff hehe. Ill buy em a beer with me 2 spare raffle tickets in London lol :o

Gl all those still in and great reporting guys. Keep me informed

Shane Shleger or Shaniac (I see what he did there, very clever) is also present, recently winning a nice pot after betting a Ts 6s 4d Flop. As he raked in the chips, it was difficult to get a count, but it appeared to be around the 20k mark.

To prove that he did actually go to bed rather than spend all night online as most young American hot shots seem to do, here is proof that he has at the very least encountered a change of clothes from yesterday.

Whilst we're on the topic of Shaniac, here's a quick lookalie for you to gawp at...

(http://www.tennisidols.com/images/pete_sampras.jpg)

Soren Kongsgaard has take a big pot off Guerti Mebah with Jacks v Tens. 4-4-8-6-9 board. The latter is down to 17k as a result.

Certainly, he's a dirty stacker, so much so I had to ask how much he had, "24k" was the answer.

Ash Hussain has doubled up with A-K against Ricki Neilsen's A-Q.

Sverre Sundbo is OUT, he didn't want to talk about it...  ;scarymoment;

Nick 'Ripple11' Jenkins has just been moved off Johnny Lodden's table, "He just raised 9-5o hit trip fives and busted some poor guy."

By the way (and to add some chitchat:

Jan is Katja Thaters boyfriend and they are gping to get married this year during the WSOP.

This is what he posted on his blog a couple of days ago:
Oh, there is one more important thing: Katja and I are going to get married. In Las Vegas. During the WSOP this year. After all those years we will finally keep our promises. Details will follow.

Rumour has it that Barry Greenstein, Chris Moneymaker and John Shipley (who would have believed that the former was the only one not to make a WSOP Main Event final??) have all bittend the dust.

Swift correction, Greenstein is still in.

Adam ask Soren if he in Dublin next week and wish him all the best please.

LOL v true. Will play anything as long as he 'has outs'

Please wish him luck from myself and his old colleagues at Virgin...

And she said I was the one when we playing in the media event. Sigh!

is Isabelle Mercier still single - maybe you should try to make her your  Qh?

hi can you let me know how my friend Richard Barnett is doing please

TEAM SHADOW CHIP COUNTS PLEASE !!!!!!!!
 ASH HUSSAIN
NICK SLADE

Zippy u coming to Wallsal Saturday?

I saw Isabelle in the hallway pre-break - I have to assume the worst - she's OUT...

So is Nick Slade, in pretty dramatic circumstances (100k pot)... A short stack had raised to 2k preflop, and he'd called with the Ad Jd along with the big blind.  The flop came down 4s 4d 5d.  The short stack bet 2k again, Nick upped it to 5k, and the big blind made it 10k...Nick flat called.
His nut flush draw came on the turn:  7d  So in two swift bets both big stacks were in, Nick with his flush, and the big blind with 4h 5c...  He looks a bit shell-shocked, to be honest.

Has Badgirl managed to worm any chips from Mickey yet?

Chip count on wildrick please ty ty :)

40,000, if he's the guy warily eyeing the camera in this shot:

gud da m8,yea probably,gos all on what happens in Monty.wid ash.....if so see u there,u not go 2 monty?wat time it start.?

the room earlier today

Found another Brit in Dave Barriclough, who was slight disappointed in losing a 15k pot just before the break - something about 4-3 vs. A-T on a 7-5-3 board and a Ten hitting the River. Still dupes (as he is often known) is still smiling, as shown in this picture.

Great photo Julian, thanks. Wish we'd been there to see it. :)

Hey jen snoops and co. GR8 reporting keep it up guys!!!

Can you let me know how chris 'zim' smith is doing!?

Thanks

it was stunning...
i walked in with roo & thought, wow they've cranked up the air con in here today...
you know me, easily duped  ;topofclass;

I don't know about that, but there's been a Legend Double Through...

I think it was Luca Mortarino under the gun who limped first, then Mickey in late position, then Alexander Stevic made up the small blind, George Danzer checked.
Flop:  Td Qh 6c  Despite Alexander and George murmuring about 'keeping it friendly' Luca bet out 2,200 and Mickey Wernick called.  This was enough to get rid of the blinds ("Not against Mickey..." warned Danzer), so heads up for the turn:
Kh  Luca checked, Mickey bet 8k, saying, "It's an overbet; this time I call all-in.  11,000."  True to his word, when he got check-raised all-in he called, showing Qs Kd, ahead of his opponent's Qd Jd.
A slightly tense moment as the 2c rivered.
"Mickey never lies," pipes up Danzer as the young player doubles Mickey through to over 45k.

Chris is on 50k, caught him in the hallway, said he'd barely played a hand.

Reuben does not look impressed.....

He is growing up so fast, & is a cracking lad.

Thew the Daddy pased me young Barnaby to hold yesterday, instant - & I do mean instant - howls & real tears resulted. Barnaby cried, too.

Sounds about right!!! Cheers m8ty!!!:)

Zippy too much money to play mate and it was either Monty or the Paddypower. Latter won easy. 8.30 start mate.

During the 15 minute break, I managed to ask the same question to both Joe Beevers and Roy Brindley, the two giving somewhat contrasting answers.

snoopy: "Any change?"

Joe: "55k"

Roy: "f***ed"

I think Joe's doing the better of the two...  ;carlocitrone;

Richard Strummer has lost a 40k pot with Jacks versus Big Slick, a cruel King hitting the River.

Hey Jen, Snoop, Homer,

Looking for some Andrew Black tracking again today if you can.

Thanks as always  :)up

Mark Vos, who appears to be a thoroughly pleasant and articulate young chap, is having a troublesome day...

"I'm down to 13k, losing pretty much every pot I enter. I had nines on the small blind at one point, hit a straight but ran into a flush. Plenty of time though"

The first colour-up has occurred, and play has restarted, blinds 400/800 ante 100.  Players remaining:  272

Hey Blondes! Any updates on the Dutch guy named Peter Dalhuijsen? I believe he was second in chips a while ago. Thank you!

Some notes courtesy of Dave Colclough...

"The blonde one is up to 29k at the break. Sharing blinds with Andy Black, twice it was passed round twice, twice he raised - twice I moved all-in over the top with an ace - twice he folded.

The John Shipley moved all-in for 9k under the gun with J-Q. I called with A-K. Ace on the Flop, Jack on the River. I knocked out my closest friend in poker (It's been that sort of week for me).

Andy Black (now 98k) knocked out Chris Moneymaker. Andy raised with Q-Q, Chris called from the BB, Flop of K-K-7, no action, Turn 2, Chris bet, Andy called, River 4, Chris bet, Andy out-talked Chris and re-raised. Chris chose to move all-in for another 10k. Andy called, showed Q-Q and Chris mucked.

Barry Greenstein is also on the same table with approx 55k"

Straight from the blonde one's mouth.

He's on the to-do list.  :)up

What about Soren, Adam

sorry to keep asking but I cant work out if you have giveb me a reply. How is Richard Barnett doing, sorry to hassle you but he is a good personal friend, its his first ever tournamnet I would love to see him doing well.

They've been on a 15 minute break m8.

Arnaud Mattern tackles Chad Brown (not in a physical sense):

Arnaud had raised to 3,600 on the button and limpers (and big stacks) William Thorsson and Chad Brown called.  This is the point at which I would be thinking, "Wonderful."
Flop:  8s 4c Jc  William checked, Chad checked, and Arnaud gave it a 7.5k bet.  William got out of the way, but Chad counted out 25k and calmly shoved it into the middle.  Arnaud still had 37,000 behind, and after a brief consideration, passed with mild to moderate pain.

CHIP COUNT ON

NICK SLADE
ASH HUSSAIN

We put a photo of him up on one of the earlier pages (just click the earlier numbers to have a quick scan), and his count at the time was 40k.  Will recheck on next pass.

Good news Steve and Julian. Bad Girl has trebled up.

One off the cut-off raised to around 2.5-3k (I missed this part of the hand) the cut-off flat called and Bad Girl moved in from the button, both had her covered, the shorter moving in and the larger calling.

One off the Cut-off:

Ad Kh

Cut-off:

Ac Ks

Bad Girl:

Qs Qh

Board (with Bad Girl jumping up and down saying "Come a Queen"):

5h 3d 5c 2h 8d

She's understandably happy now, with around 90k.

Nick Slade out  http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=22009.msg447933#msg447933 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=22009.msg447933#msg447933)

Ash doubled up earlier, will have a check.

Newbie to the forum.  Hoping to get updates on two players:

John Little
Joe Michael

Thanks and keep up teh good work.  

WOOHOOOOOOOOO!

Tell her I'm watching and nearly in the money...!

lol terrellk11, welcome

Joe Michael's table was one of the first to break - we've lost our seating cheat sheet (try saying that 10 times fast) for him...so if you can post a picture we'll have better luck...

(http://i11.tinypic.com/4ge84qs.jpg)

Joey Michael as photographed by Snoops.

she shells she shells on the she shore

I'm not a pheasantplucker I'm a pheasantplucker's son...

Hello again, have now worked out how to look at the picture, but it isn't Richard Barnett so maybe he hasn't got 40000.

Are you copper-bottoming 'em? No, I'm aluminiuming 'em...

Thanks snoops, & please be sure to thank el blondie, them there DTD boys are way too quiet! Quotes from the table are just what we want.

DTD began with 10 players, & they remain in good shape with at least 6 or 7 still going nicely.

Last year's runner-up, Ash Hussain, is OUT.

Stuart Fox raised it up under the gun and Ash, along with another player, made the call.

T-6-2 rainbow Flop, Stu checked, Ash moved all-in, Mateyboy called, and Stuart put Mateyboy in for his last 9k.

Ash = A-T

Stu = Q-Q

Mateyboy = 6-6

"I'm surprised Stu called that," said Ash, "I knew as soon as the guy called that he had a set. Stu's had a nightmare today."

UNLUCKY ASH GG

Barry Greenstein Eliminated
Barry Greenstein and his Big Slick ran into Andy Black's pocket Aces. Black is way past the 100K mark.

hows pete linton doing please

Is STRUMMMMMMMMMMMER still in? or did he get knocked out with his  Js Jh?? ;karabiner;

Talking of DTD players, I just witnessed an interesting pot between Conor O'Keefe and Odd Lavik. The board read 8d 7d Td Jd Ahrt and I joined the action with Conor, and the rest of the table for that matter (including Marcus Jessen who asked for the clock), deciding whether to call Odd's 6k River bet.

However, although he was taking an age to make up his mind, he suddenly shocked everyone by popping in an extra 10k re-raise. "I certainly didn't expect that," commented Jessen, "I was sure he was folding".

Anyhow, the Dusk Till Dawn player folded pretty swiftly and proudly revealed the Ad.

"Have you not been playing long?" asked O'Keefe.

If O'Keefe did have the straight flush, is it bad practice to take that long before re-raising?

GL doobs keep going mate

I can confirm this. Does this mean that Andy has to donate his winnings to charity now?

Yep, could we have a chip count for Pete Linton please? Also could you see if he's ironed his top?

Ta muchly :)

Nicolas Levi (pictured) is sharing a table with Phil Hellmuth, who just took the blinds saying "I have a very nice sized pair" in the process. There's no need to brag!  :redcard:

Nextdoor is Dean Sanders, who has his head above water with 36k.

Yes, he will be in Dublin. Just asked him and passed on your good luck message.

Let me get this straight, the guy with the A diamonds insta folded despite only facing a small reraise? This guy is tighter than John Conroy.

please wish richard wild and roy the boy gl from the oldwitch and omay  tyvm ;cheerleader;

If only there was a member of the DTD team who had experience in dwelling before raising with the nuts in a major event that could venture an opinion on this matter...?

If this is your man, then's he potentially the chip leader with in excess of 150k. A quick glance at his chips (browns 5k, blues 1k, reds 500) shows just how well he's doing.

Wasn't instantly, but he certainly didn't spen much time in the think tank considering he had the Ace of Diamonds. I would have been there for years trying to make this decision, but I guess he's a strong believer in instincts.

cmon guys the huge moody dwell then a small value reraise what do you think he has? You have the ace of diamonds and he cant put that bet in without the 9 ds unless both stacks are deep and he can pass to another reraise (ie if the other guy actually had the 9d).

easy fold- the guy should've raised quicker on river and may have got a call

good afternoon Snoopy! awesome reporting AGAIN  :)   Lots of eliminations already; is Shaniac still hanging in?

The enigmatic and highly celebratory Kareem Alsainhati has doubled through (although still only to 15k) his Scandinavian neighbour (pictured second) with Kh Jh vs. Qd Qh on a Th 9h 4h Td Kd board. Looked like the spondoolies went in on the Flop, but either way, I think you can tell who won and who lost by looking at the photos.

That's him! Thank you Snoop! :)up

DTD counts, as they break yet another table (225 remaining, apparently):

Odd Lavik       22,500
Michael Greco  22,000  (now tablemates flanking the Camel)
Richard Ashby  36,900
Dave Colclough  20,200
Dave Clayton    72,000  (despite having just doubled a short stack's Tens with his Button Eights - looks in good shape for a DTD last longer...)

Ali Masterman has taken a slight hit, folding to a 35k bet (pot was just under 10k) on a 4c 7c 4h 8d 9s board and showing a King.

He was desperately trying to get some info off is opponent after the hand, and he might have succeeded, the winner of the pot claiming to have held J-T.  ;joestrummer;

Phillipe Narboni has been sent packing by Keith Hawkins, betting a missed flush draw all-in on a board of 9-7h-5h-T-6. By this time though, the Camel had made a straight with Pocket Snowmen.

rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

Dave Clayton is probably the most underrated of the UK players. He is one of the biggest UK online winners over the past few years and is long overdue a big live result (apart from the TV finals hes made in the sixpac format).

He's nowhere near chip leader now, Chad Brown and William Thorsson just got involved in a HUGE pot. K-Q-9 board, Thorsson had Nines, Brown had Queens. Thorsten is OUT and Chad now has about 290k.

Also out is Patrick Antonius (pictured), he ran Tens into Jacks.

Seconded OMAY,

Gl to richard Wild and Roy the Boy, all the best from the muffs back in muffland. Can we have an update on these twos chip counts please if at all possible. Jsut had a text from rick and he made a nice move with 85 on the old A high board lol, dont know his chip count though. He looks swell decked out in his laddies gear pmsl.

Keep up the good reporting team. Also anyone know what time the next break is please?

Gl to all those from DTD and badbeat, gooooooooooo strummymuff :)

Meanwhile, Dave and Andy Black seem to have defrosted over the course of the first few levels - Andy asked me, "What's the leader got?  I don't want to be the chip leader..." 
"I thought that was the point of poker tournaments," I queried.  "No, no..." he trailed off enigmatically.  He had 150k which was in the top five or so, but since that huge hand Homer just reported he's firmly off the potential top spot.  It's all clearly going according to plan.

Here is Mikka, (who always has her chips in easily countable stacks, thankyou!) -- 27k

Which one of Odd Lavik, Keith Hawkins and Michael Greco looks as though they've had an evil curry?  ;carlocitrone;

I think Im gonna have to go with Keith.... His facial expression is priceless.

wot are the blinds at pretty please?

Do we know if O'Keefe had the  9d ??

His comment seems to suggest he didn't!

PS., Great reporting so far bloggers, any chance you can pass on a goodluck message to Paul Gourlay and give us an update on him. Thanks - The good wishes come from the chaps from 'the ship'

PPS., If you spot Thomas Brolin can you give him an evil stare, love a Leeds United fan LOL (Only kidding)

CHEEKY EDIT: I'm sure Paul will do a pose for camera if asked

Some chip counts that have requested over the course of this thread:

Chris Smith -- 50.5k
Richard Wild -- 59k
Ali Masterman -- 39.5k
Richard Herbert -- 38k
Luke Staudenmaer -- 44.5k
Chris Odle -- 26.5k
Shane Schleger -- 33.5k
Mickey Wernick -- 22k
Andy Black -- 155k
Stuart Fox -- 27k
Nicolas Levi -- 39k
Arnaud Mattern -- 33k
David Barriclough -- 27k
Peter Linton -- 9k
Xuyen Vladar -- 85k
Richard Waters -- 45k

Couldn't find Joey Lovelady and I'll need a picture of Scott Piecher if that wasn't him pictured earlier.


And some others you may be interested in:

Julian Gardner -- 49k
John Gale -- 18.5k
Ben Callinan -- 41.5k
Phil Helllmuth -- 43k
Alan Smurfit -- 55.5k
Dean Sanders -- 33k
Tony Cascarino -- 12.5k
Jim Kerrigan -- 15.5k
Ram Vaswani -- 66.5k
Devilfish -- 35k
Harry Demetriou -- 102k
Johnny Lodden -- 77k
Tomas Brolin -- 12k
Thomas Wahlroos -- 82k
Ricky Nielsen -- 35.5k

If you want anyone else, let us know.

ali has 395k or 39.5k ?

Ty once again for the updates team.

Looks like ricks going along nicely, good dooooooooooo, give him a pat on the back from me :)

Do we know what the stats are as yet please? or am in the wrong place?

Ie average stack, players left, blinds and antes etc?

Great reporting guys and good camera work :)

I hung around for a while, and although the other players probed him, he didn't reveal his hand.

I will pass on your message to Paul.

I'm surprised he doesn't use the term 'ship it' more often.

2nd one

"John Gale -- 18.5k"

An amazing piece of "hanging in" afer John had a torrid day yesterday. Well played him.

I'm pretty sure this guy was out a while ago, at least that's what he posted on 2+2 atleast an hour ago ;)

Richard Wild is now up to 68k.

He raised from the cut-off with J-8o (as you do) and the button and the big blind both called.

Everyone checked the A-J-5, Richard bet the 8 Turn and the button called.

River came an Ace, and although the button made a 4k bet, Richard still called, only to find that his Jack was indeed good against the button's Q-T.

Any idea what happened to Devilfish? 35k is a respectable stack! Who'd have thunk it...  ;whistle;

Updates on Ali Masterman and Joey Love pleeeeease

Joey has 120k

Just doubled check this one, my apologies, the guy on 44.5k is the white arm in the photo below. He fooled me by shuffling over into the vacant spot.

Soz.

(http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=22009.0;attach=13042;image)

Nice play rick go get em my sonnnnnnnnnnn

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Bring it home :):):)

Loverly top muffing hand! We aint top of dream team for no reason you know, cmon the mufffffffffffs :)

Are Fabrice Soulier or Bruno Fitoussi still in ?
Thanks,

Do you know what happened to Dalhuijsen? He first lost a pot to Teltscher, leaving him with around 120k in chips. Pokernews.com chipcounts list him as having 11k chips. Que Pasa?!

can you please get word to foxy and tell him to pull his finger out...!!!

cant be wearing his lucky cap

We're on a 15 minute break now, after which blinds with be 600/1200 with a 100 ante.

Ok, I found Jonathan McCann, he has 35k at the moment.

This picture, I think, is Paul Murrell, please tell me if that's right, since his original table has been broken. He has about 20k

Nick Slade told a sick story about the boy Lodden, Johnny raised a guy's 5k bet on a A-T-9 flop to 16k, before flat calling his 16k on the 2 turn (presumably to bluff the river, (there was a flush draw on the flop). The river came of course, a 4... and he was paid off to the sum of 26k.

If you could post any updated chip counts for Michael Martin/USA, it would be appreciated.

TheReader23

gl badgirl,
this is/was her & smokie's last comp for WH

Do you know what their plans are after WH?

Dean Sanders has had a bit of a rough last level - firstly limping with Ad Aspades under the gun, and getting three others in for the flop.
2d 3c 6c  Dean bet out 2,500, got raised to 6,000, made it 11k...the third raise all-in, however, Dean couldn't call, and was shown the monstrous 4c 5c.

Now admittedly, "Tilting a bit," Dean called preflop the next hand in the big blind with 7h 9h.  I think what he was calling was an utg raise...never mind - the flop came down Aspades 7c 5h.  Check from Dean, check from raiser.
Turn:  2h  Check from Dean, 7k from raiser, "Then I just jam for 24k."  He got a call from Ad 8h, but a third heart on the river made that nine-high flush draw good, and propelled him to 50k.

I think it's good he just got a 15 min break.

do you have a chip count on Richard Barnett please

Lodden had the 3 5 ?

spot on

well it had to be either that or the 9 4 lol

Yes, that is Paul MUZZA Murrell.... wish him luck please m8

Snoopy could you get me a chip count on joseph michael when you get a chance? not sure what table he got moved to tho :-S

Dave 'El Scoopie' Colclough has come in giving me just so much news, which a blogger could only get if he'd was watching the same table for the entire level, so we're all incredibly grateful to him.

Anyway, he says Andy Black knocked out both Chris Moneymaker early on and Barry Greenstein. The betting for the latter was interesting, Andy made it 3.5k from EP with A-A, Barry made it 10k with A-K, Andy moved all-in and Barry called all-in for his last 35k with Big Slick. (Not too sure I like that play)

Barry and Chris have been replaced by Carlos Mortensen and Richard Ashby, and Dave said he thinks, "the table actually got harder."

Dave started the level with about 28k, saw a Carlos Mortensen raise first hand, and then the button pushing, Dave ended up passing A-K from the big blind, though he came very close to calling. He then managed to get blinded down from 29k to 18k without winning or playing a pot before seeing Carlos raise again, the guy who had pushed before, flat-called this time, and Dave pushed with A-K, Carlos passed and Seat 6, lets call him Mateyboy, called with A-Q. Dave on 40k now.

Expect more stuff from Dave, I've given him a pen and paper! :D

Carlos Mortensen -- 200k

Andy Black (who continues to prove that I can't take a photo of him that doesn't make him look drunk) -- 160k

 ;cheerleader;Go Go Go to the remaining badbeaters!!!!!!!!!!! ;cheerleader;

Yes, sorry, the other player had trip Tens!!!

I 2nd that good luck Muzza

God Bless DC, these "tales from the table" are priceless.

Katja Thater is down to the bare minimum (just 5k) after being outdraw by a man who should be Gregory Byard if the player list is correct.

Byard moved in from the button with Ahrt 8h and Katja called with 8d 8s.

Board = 5d 3c Ad Qs 7h

Thater's post-beat stare could have made Hannibal Lecter quiver.

 ;goodluck; El Blondie

John Gale is OUT.

He seems like the type who doesn't want to go over it, but he did let me know that it was nothing dramatic.

DTD's Dave Clayton -- 51,000

Thanks for the updates on Chris Odle they are much appreciated.  Keep up the great work and if you see him tell him to double up for me. Cheers

Any updates on Joey Lovelady or Ali Masterman please? And any chance you can give them a good luck/keep going msg from me if passing,

Cheers,

Ben

Any update on Ali Masterman please?

Any chance of an update on Paul Gourlay Please.

do y think the DTD team are doing so well as they dont want to fall behind beppe in the rankings?

You know when you're at the footie and one person turning around causes a ripple effect that results in every bugger getting out of there seats, only to ultimately find that there's nothing to see. Well, I think that happens in poker, only this time, there was actually something to see.

For some reason, every single player at this table was standing up except for the man with a decision to make, Pier Ruscalla. Pier had raised it from the button, only for Herman Zango (gotta love that name!) to move all-in for around 24k more. After a very long pause indeed, Pier finally confessed that he was "curious" (which is basically to avoid embarrassment overload if he is indeed dominated) and called.

"I think we have the same hand," said Zango, but Pier replied with "I doubt it" as he revealed his lowly Pocket Fours.

Zango popped Ace Queen onto the table and gave the table a mini bang once the board dealt him a Queen on the Flop.

If it's the guy in headphones, he has a comfy 104k; his neighbour about a fifth of that. 

And just out of shot on the left is Stuart Fox, who's got 35k at present.

Why?????

The Devilfish, who is sharing a table with DTD's Michael Greco (16k), just saw his pre-flop raise of 3.4k called by another DTD player in Odd Lavik.

After Odd had checked the Kd 6d Ts Flop, Devilfish asked what he had left behind (although he added 'son' at the end in that typical Devilfish way) before announcing all-in.

Odd folded and the Fish revealed Jacks.

Fabrice was out a good while ago, but Bruno is still in, in fact just winning a 24k pot with a push on the turn, the board Th 9c 5h Jh (he raised preflop 3.8k, bet 6k on the flop, and unhesitatingly announced all-in with one of those flippant hand gestures on the turn)...

He knows that this isn't the most flattering photo of him and neighbour Thomas Wahlroos, but it's quite funny so it's going up.  Apologies.

While all this is going on, the perfectly gentlemanly William Chen is busy participating in the PokerStars battleships comp that has been going on throughout the week. Lee Jones seems to be running the comp and, if for some bizarre reason, people wish to follow the action (if you can call it that  ;sleep;), onlookers can keep up to date by watching the big screen at the back.

can i get a count on my 3 to follow please


Tommy
Michael Muecklish Germany
Victoria Coren UK

Thanks so much for the Michael Martin update......he is, in fact, the one with the headphones. It was exciting to hear that he's in good shape.   Any other updates would be appreciated.  You guys are really doing a fantastic job.

TheReader23

 that lad from Preston busted in level 9, raising to 2,700 with Jh Jd Carlos Mortensen re-poped him 10k with As Kh and was met with the push for another 15k. After a short pause the affable Spaniard called, no drama as he hit his ace on the flop.

Do you have a chipcount for The Camel, or le chameau as he may be known in MC please ?

From the photos before it looked like around 50/60k I reckon..

I believe Vicky is out, Michael Muecklish only had 6k on returning (but I'll check his seat anyway) and I've forgotten who Tommy is...

i heard he been kidnapped by teh french forgein legion as they were short  of a camel or 2

Phil Helmuth is OUT, Kings against Aces, with an extra bullet on the flop (which had flush potential for Hellmuth) for good measure.

Aces were held by Dean Sanders (now on over 100k).

i thought tommy must of been well know as he was the only one on the day 1 list without a surname

i now micheal only had 6k but it was 10x the bb and i fancied his chances of a couple of double ups

can you say to him i thought you could dodge bullets baby

pete linton-9k

can you find out what happened,he started the day on 45k.i hope im not bocking him by wishing him good luck now.

thanks

I believe Snoopy and I hold one of several competing claims to have invented this style of play as spectator sport...at the Vienna EWSOP last year (or was it two years ago - it's all such a blur) we had our laptops back to back playing heads up while various people watched and laughed at either side.  We believed we'd invented the ultimate way for lazy people to play heads up, but I think many similarly lazy players have come up with this as an alternative to those pesky shuffle-requiring cards...

Anyway so far on this trip our team (in the form of NoflopsHomer) has beaten the Norwegians (in the form of BA Kildalen) and we're inclined to just leave it at that...

I reckon you picked those low stacks to maintain your impressive bokking average....

Dapper Mobster Joe Beevers is pictured here, asking after friends Ross Boatman and Ram Vaswani... missed out Ross but Ram has 88k, just in front of Joe's neatly-stacked 72k.

ralph where have you been hiding

along with my own recent return to online form my tipping skills are 2nd to none

Paul Gourlay is on 70k, his table has just broken. He seems happy, still smiling.

Dave Colclough is OUT

His table got broken just now, "I finally got away from Andy Black..." and he was moved to the Greg Raymer/Ram Vaswani table.
"I wasn't so much worried about Greg, but Ram has taken me out of four comps recently."  I could see where this was heading.

Dave found Ac Ks on the big blind.  Ram had raised.  So, no messing, with 35k, Dave pushed in.  Call from Ram, who held Ahrt Aspades...

A quick end to a very determined couple of days' play from El Blondie, and we will miss his table-eye view of the big hands.

No sign of Joey Lovelady, Ali reckons he must be out. Speaking of Ali, he claims to be card dead and has dropped down to around 30k.

Geaorge 'The Panzer' Danzer has doubled up to 63k after surviving a coinflip with 8-8 vs. A-9.

2 years ago, i was there and I sold the idea to poker stars ;scarymoment;

DTD's Richard Ashby has also come up trumps, doubling through with A-6 vs. K-Q on an A-3-6-K-Q board. He's now on 31k.

Any news on strummer and Zim please guys??? ;kev;

when is the last time DC put a bad beat on someone?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

LOL thanks for clearing that up!  You should challenge us if you're at Bellagio in April...

The Quifftastic Mark Teltscher is running well with 95.5k.

Meanwhile, someone whispers, "Side Event" and this is what happens, a four-deep, out-the-door queue to sign €500 away...





P.S. Guests - if you wish to see this and other examples of our self-taught photographic skills, you have to sign in!  It's free. 

Bummer! That played itself, especially against a serial-raiser like Ram.

An yes, Dave's "from the table" quotes have been wonderful, & they'll be much-missed. Very inconsiderate of him to bust out.....

i will be there for 3 straight weeks, see u there!!!! :cheers:  who all is coming over?

Is his Ferrari unostentatiously still parked on the steps to the Cardroom?

He's OUT. Just ran A-Q into Dave Mobb's A-K

Also on that table is the reverse chair sitter, Michael Greco with 40k, double chair stacker Jim Kerrigan and (not pictured) Odd Lavik with 25k.

Tell him I want my pen back!

update on Richard Barnett please

I think Pete Linton is OUT, his distinctive yellow top is nowhere to be found, that, and Greg Raymer is in his seat.

Finally, here's Nick Jenkins, and the scarily chipped Josh Arieh who must have about 200k.

Just got text from my old man Chris 'ZIM' Smith!!! Down to 30K

Any news on strum??

Can you spot Nic Levi's hat or Mattern's bony arms anywhere? Any update welcome :)

Welcome to the 100k+ club...

Chad Brown -- 228k
Christopher Ulsrud -- 211k
Carlos Mortensen -- 193k
Maurice Kaenter -- 187k
Andy Black -- 163k
Dean Sanders -- 155k

Hi jen/snoopy,
please can you try find out how nik persaud is doing? thanks
india

and...

Peter Dalhuijsen -- 144k
Hans Ritburg -- 144k
Laakalite -- 139k
Mateyboy -- 137k
Josh Arieh -- 131k
Frenchieboy -- 121k

TY Snoop! Dalhuijsen is in for quite rollercoatser today! 150k, 11k, 144k... oompff.. my stomach is turning inside out!

Joe Rafferty is OUT after his Pocket Queens lost out to a flopped flush draw on a Jack high Flop.

Update on Chris Odle if at all possible. Thanks

you have some updates on lodden and ulsrud?

hi you lot ,srry is peter linton still in .

If he's in the same seat he started in, he's got 65k.

Fancy playing for 25 grand? These two do and are.

They don't look too serious though...

I know him by his hat now, but they've just this minute called the One Hour Dinner Break  so further updates on him after that.  We've also got a bit of a backlog of wonderful poker stories which will no doubt fill the gap...

Arnaud Mattern is on 35k. Nicolas Levi, however, is OUT, after taking a gamble with 4-3 vs. a domineering pair of sixes.

No, he lost a load of chips with 7-7 against A-Q, and A-K against K-Q before losing with A-Q to K-6.

Ramzi Jelassi is also out, A-7 vs Andy Black's K-Q on a 3-5-K-2-6 board.

DTD's Mikka is OUT too, she re-raised all-in with A-K and didn't get any help against a pair of Threes.

Again, dinner break gap - sorry - but here are some other counts, which might be of interest:

Michael Martin     105,000 (steady as can be)
Rick Wild              75,000
Chris Smith          27,100  (how about that for accuracy?)

Badgirl just did the Rookie proud...

Having lost a race for half her stack with QQ vs AK, she limped on the button after four previous limpers with  7c 4c and saw a juicy  Qc 6c 2c flop. Checked all round, she bet 10k, only to be raised a further 15k all-in from the big blind...calling with a "I'm not passing this" the raiser turned over  Ad Qh for top pair...by the turn he was drawing dead and Badgirl is back up to around 70k.

Where are you Brian...?

Just caught up, Excellent updates, very well done :)

We want  ;yippee; ;bumwiggle; ;bumwiggle; ;yippee;  norkage

is stuart fox still with us , if so can we get a count please.

Ah bugger, thanks snoops

Cheers Dale, know anything about him?

Hi India -

Oh I have some stories about him - today has been a rollercoaster (is it ever a smooth climb?  No.):  over 30k, under 10k coming to rest about 25k... but the note I can read my writing on was actually from yesterday, where he was basically given a second life...

OK so Nik had 36k (at one of his peaks) at the 200/400 blind level.  UTG (described as 'Scandie, aggressive, good, aggressive etc.') raised to 1,100 and Nik decided to smooth call from the blinds with Qd Qh.
Flop:  6h 2h 3s  Nik bets out 2k, gets raised to 5,500.  "This is where I start to feel a bit ill.  But I call."
Turn:  2s  Nik checks, Scandieboy bets 12,500 - full pot - leaving Nik to dwell until the clock is called.

Now, in the first version of events I heard, he used up a full five minutes before passing the Queens and being shown Kings.  Good pass Nik.

What actually happened was that the floor was called to put the clock on him, and he sort of waved his hand around when the clock rules were being recited.  The floor shut up until he started to count down from 10..9..8.. During this time, Nik said, "I didn't put him on Aces or Kings because he'd always re-raised preflop with hands like that, been playing with him seven hours, that's an oddly large bet for someone with a huge made hand..." 
"Seven...Six...Five...Four," said the floor.  Nik didn't snap out of it until the floor said, "One." 
"All in," said Nik, pushing his stack over the line.
"If you'd listened to the rules," replied the floor, "You'd have known that your hand is declared dead on 'One.'"

THEN he got to show QQ and be shown KK in return.  What a save.

Meanwhile in the battleship game William Thorsson and Masaaki Kagawa (I think) are playing each for €25k a time.

William won the first one...

Does anyone know what has happened to strummer is he in(if so chip count if poss) or is he out!!!??? ;D

We can't answer any request at the moment because the players are on their dinner break.

used to be a SNG player, plays under jcardshark on stars
came 4th in January at the WPT PCA

very nice, very very nice :respect:

great story!

Photos:

Greg Raymer    IN
Nicolas Levi      OUT
Nik Persaud     BOTH

no worries snoops, i've just spoke to the fox and he's back to 40k.

anyway how many more posts before i get another gold star im feeling a little inadequate here.

Can you sing 'My Way' for us?

My buddy Chris Odle is out, he pushed QQ into AA.  Thanks everyone here and blondepoker for giving me updates, and good luck to everyone that is still in.

You really don't want to hear Smoopy sing...  ;hide;

thanks very much jen x

how about my buddy Richard Shtrax????   he was very short comong into today, only had like 8k i think

Players should be returning very shortly.

How likely is that?

Very possible.

chip counts on dave mobs

mick wernick

ben callinan plz

 ;hattip; wonderful updates as usual, and how many runners are left.

               many thanks
                    neves.

                 

Nik Persaud can literally walk on water...

(http://stanice.com/uploaded_images/walkwater2-770659.jpg)

Well he can't, but he might as well try because he'd probably succeed...

He pushed for 22k (blinds are 800/1600/200) after there was a standard raise in early position to 4.8k. Ulrika Stonnemark pushed for 27k sitting right next to him. And next to her, Shane 'Shaniac' Schleger called.

Nik:

Qc Qh

Ulrika:

Kc Kd

Shane:

Aspades Ahrt

Board:

6d 6c Th Qs Td

Shaniac takes a hit, Ulrika is OUT and Nik is on around 75k now.

Nik, "The hand played itself."

how many left?? avg?? what level are they playing now??

chipcounts on lodden and ulsrud??

tyty

150 left, avg 70k

Chipcount:
Alex Stevic 42K
Badgirl Pham 68K
Devilfish 65K
Hasse Eskilsson 90K
Christopher Ulsrud 230K
Harry Demitriou 75K
Tomas Brolin 52K
Johnny Lodden 190K
Patrik Mårtensson 90K
Jakob Larsson 76K
Thomas Wahlroos 130K
Ram Vaswani 145K
Johan Storåkers 41K
Åge Spets 60K
Theo Jörgensen 31K
Anthony Chatelain 45K
Chris Björin 75K
Chad Brown 245K
Noah Boeken 48K
Andy Black 270K

147 remaining
800/1600(200)

Odd Lavik -- 39k
Dave Mobbs -- 80k
Michael Greco -- 48.5k
Marc Karam -- 61.5k
Hans Eskilsson -- 86k
Julian Gardner -- 75.5k
Johan Storakers -- 31.5k
Pete Giordino -- 60.5k
Theo Jorgenssen -- 26k
Noah Boeken -- 49.5k
Mark Teltscher -- 73k
Richard Wild -- 90.5k
Age Spets -- 58.5k
Stuart Fox -- 42k
Arnaud Mattern -- 40.5k
Ricky Nielsen -- 38.5k
Chris Smith -- 23k
Tore Lagerborg -- 39.5k
Eli Marciano -- 37k
Joe Beevers -- 83k
Ram Vaswani -- 159k
Carlos Mortensen -- 167k
Chad Brown -- 235k
Greg Raymer -- 67k
Gunnar Ostebrod -- 41k
Hans Ritberg -- 45.5k
Tony Cascarino -- 23k
Shane Schleger -- 41.5k
Nik Persaud -- 60.5k
Jon Little -- 113k
Andy Black -- 260k
Victor Ramdin -- 19.5k
Jim Kerrigan -- 41.5k
Ali Masterman -- 16.5k
Richard Ashby -- 37k
Maurice Kaenter -- 212k
Josh Arieh -- 229k
George Danzer -- 64.5k
Ben Callinan -- 35k
Thomas Whalroos -- 117.5k
Nick Jenkins -- 79.5k
Paul Gourlay -- 50k
Steve Jelinek -- 76k
Xuyen Vladar -- 81.5k
Mickey Wernick -- 64k
Philip Hilm -- 39k
Richard Herbert -- 46k
Christopher Ursrud -- 195k
Tomas Brolin -- 46.5k
Johnny Lodden -- 194k
Dean Sanders -- 151k
Ross Boatman -- 52.5k
Dave Clayton -- 64.5k

Top updating from the team that I dubbed "The Great Triumvirate"  ;tightend;

But about the norkage......

Soren Bakfort has trebled up with A-K vs. Q-Q vs. 6-6, the latter belonging to the biggest stack, Hans Ritberg.

Board = 8s Kd Kh 7s Ad

Andys our chipleader? uh oh say no to the voices Andy

wonder if harry could do this so he can finally win his bet with mr dkniffe and be allowed to wear normal clothing again

Yes it does look like Andy's topping the leaderboard...

A couple of big hands have shifted some of the stacks in the last half hour; at the risk of repetition (sometimes we just pass each other on the way in and out of the press room) here are my chipcounts too - taking into account some of them, and with a few additions:

Chris Smith        15,400
Richard Herbert   50,000
Ali Masterman      19,000
Rick Wild             70,500
Michael Martin     91,500
Thomas Wahlroos  80,000  (overheard him complaining about someone making a bad call with A-K and clearly having won)
Devilfish               61,000
Mark Teltscher     60,000
Andy Black          275,000
Greg Raymer        78,000
Johan Storakers    34,800
Gunnar Osterbrod  66,000
Joe Beevers          48,000
Arnaud Mattern     44,500
Theo Jorgensen     36,000
Viktor Ramdin        20,000
Nik Persaud           61,000  (suddenly wearing a Pokerstars shirt, as they must've noticed he's blessed)
Richard Ashby        28,000
Steve Jelinek         83,000
Ram Vaswani        155,000
Mickey Wernick       64,000
George Danzer        40,000  ("What I started with; best hand in six hours A-9,"  looking dejected)
Alexander Stevic     37,700
Ross Boatman         58,000
Dave Clayton          60,000
Dean Sanders        155,000
Jim Kerrigan            41,400
Odd Lavik               25,000
Bad Girl                 50,000  (doubled up an all-inner holding Aces with her Nines, on a Ten-high rag flop)

Kristof De Smedt, commonly known as Deluxy on PokerStars, has just eliminated a young American player.

Raising from the button to 13k, yankieboy was re-raised all-in by Smedt from the big blind. Shortstacked (although he had just about enough to fold), the American made a reluctant call before flinging his Nines onto the table as Smedt revealed his Pocket Ladies.

Useless K-6-4-4-8 board and we'd lost another.

Doesn't take a genius to work out which is De Smedt.

Carlos Mortensen is still stack up to the high heavens, and isn't it a beautifully structured piece of craftsmanship.

I had to restrain myself from giving it a whack.

Dare you...

For some reason, my spider senses are tingling me and informing me that (1) this is an American player and (2) he is big shark online.

Either way, he's currently struggling with just 26k.

Can anyone name him, or at least prove or disprove my spiderlike superpowers?

I think someone asked for Julian Gardner - I saw him walking out of the tourney room, headphones in hand, which leads me to believe he's now exited...

The field is thinning  pretty rapidly, to be honest - not sure whether they'll be going for the full on Seven Level day or not today.  It was published on the EPT website that they'd be playing five levels today, but we never really know until towards the end of the published last level whether or not it remains so.

Dale, do you carry American blood?

Dave Clayton has sunk down to 13k after his Ad Td ran into Jh Jc on a 6c 6h 7c 4c Ts board.

snoopy,

that is renowned American online player Andrew Robl, he goes by the alias "good2cu" online and he's been playing 5/10 NL+ online for a long time

however he is more famous for being a part of the famous "Ship it Holla Balla" crew which is comprised of well known online poker players that like to live in excess =)

shipitholla.com  <---

GO SPIDEY-SENSE

any news on micky wernick and richard herbert(strummer) at all?

Big sigh of relief for Richard Wild, who manages to risk a lot of chips with the worst hand and live to tell the tale.

Flop = Aspades 3c 3s

Richard calls a 15k bet (clearly there was action pre-flop) from Mark Teltscher before making his move on the Turn. Mark folding Kings face-up, leaving Richard to reveal Pocket Queens. Pent up about the hand, Richard leans back and releases a huge exhale that had obviously been braced for the duration of the hand.

Nick 'ripple11' Jenkins is down to 50-60k after his 10k bet on a 4s 2s 6d Flop was re-raised behind him to 30k. Nick showed Jacks and folded.

good2cu / Andrew Robl

90% sure

I think this may ring a bell. Do they dress smartly, sip on booze and holler "SHIP IT" so the rest of the room can hear them?

Carlos has a big stack as shown here, but Josh Arieh is into 300k, including picking up around a 100k pot with 6-7 on a K-8-7-x-x board against A-J which bet 40k on the river. Pic of him to follow


Here's some heavyweights of poker, Lodden, Vaswani....Tomas Brolin is also here.

ya these guys are a real joke, they will all be busted before they know it, as u can see I dont really care for them

yep!

I'm actually at the Monte Carlo Bay but they just kicked all non-press observers off the floor to the rails (what nerve).

Can anyone update me on Doctorin2010/Maurice Kenter III at table 14? (I believe he is still there)

Last time I checked with Jon Raab, Mickey had 60k.

Tomas was certainly a heavyweight at Leeds.

I've got a Maurice Keanter listed. Is this him pictured below?

that's him, should be at table 14.  It is Kenter.

Is this behaviour common over your side, Brian? They've been getting a few funny looks over here.

It's amazing that he's the third Maurice Kenter playing here, what were the chances of that??

yes thats him

haha :)  I'd appreciate any updates, I can't get over to that side of the room without being scolded by the floor.

Frederik Holstrup Pedersen, who finalled in Poland the other week, is OUT.

He came into the pressroom and imply said, "70k at the start of the day, and I blew it."

they really r just a bunch of stupid punks, i think everyone is just waitting for they day they go broke, it is the exception over here, they are not very well liked

During the break, Harry Demetriou told me that he was on 88k.

Shane Schleger is OUT, according to Nik Persaud, he pushed with J-4 and was called by A-Q, he hit his Jack but I'm guessing there was a Ten and a King around somewhere because his opponent river the nut straight.

Carlos Mortensen managed to get away from Kings cheaply on a 5c 9d Jh board when a Ad slowed him down on the turn and Chad Brown bet 40k, Carlos said, you have Nines, and Chad duly showed the 9s 9c.

Chip counts:

Micky Wernick -- 50k
Xuyen Bad Girl Pham Vladar -- 68k
Richard 'Strummer' Herbert -- 60k

any luck w/ finding Rick?

anything on Kenter?

We're on a break now, give us ten minutes or so.

thank you very much, didn't mean to press just anxious.  ty for providing this excellent service, this is the best update site I've seen :)

you have some updates on odd lavik??

In the meantime, here is the €25k a game battleship comp, between William Thorsson and the Japanese player whose name escapes me.

DTD's Richard Ashby doubles up:  He was actually standing up beside the table and kind of drew my attention to the pot he was involved in; all in with two callers.  The callers in the picture are either side of the guy in the red cardy - on the 2s 6s Jd Kh board Patric Martensson moved in, knocking out the opposition and getting it heads up with his Ks Qs.  Not bad; Ashby showed Ad Ahrt however: better.
River:  2h  and a clearly relieved Ashby is back in it with something around 60k. 

Do you think people get other people to watch hands they're already all-in in if they have a bunch of rubbish and reckon they're about to get busted?  Not so often. There's something nice about having observer vindication in having (a) won your all-in or (b) gotten cracked when you were a favourite when the money went in.  I was happy to be that observer.

Well, looks like people won't have to worry about them anymore because his boy's gone. Ship out?...

Do you have a picture, Brian?

Musaki Kagawa.

Odd Lavik is struggling with just 16.5k. He hasn't really progressed today, but he's still in, which is the main thing.

The others are doing the chip counts - I'll whack an extra picture in this, my 'rest of DTD' now that I've seen Dave Clayton heading for the exit...

jsut read all updatse since tea. looks like ricks smootighing along muffing it up lol

Keep me updated please, and if u can give him a gl from me please

Keep up good work team :)

If I had to pluck a random Japanese sounding name from the air, I'd go for Masaki Kagawa.

:D

Here's Jim Kerrigan (48k) adopting his 'I'm so bored, I've been grinding for days' look that we have become so accustomed to. Karl suggested we train him up for the Marhenolz look of confusion, but he's gonna have to work on those eyebrows.

Great updates.
Keep up the god work...

how many left?? avg??

130 of 706 left
1k/2k(200) blinds
81,561 average stack

He's not even that now, he pushed with 8-9 sooooted, ran into this guy's Aces.

Here is Maurice Kenter for mffnike, he counted his chips for me, he has 133k.

Finally, Johnny Lodden just busted the guy in seat 1 on his table, I only saw the scoopage at the end, whilst Paul Gourlay and Steve Jelinek told me how Lodden called a raise with 3-5 and managed to river two pair against K-J on a K-9-5-x-3 board putting his opponent in on the end.

They are amongst the best online players in the world, make shit loads of $$$$ and spend it properly. Whats so wrong with that?

Good on em, im jealous..

This American chap (sry, don't know his name) is gone. He took it like a total gent, simply saying nice hand when his A-K lost to Patric Martensson's 8-8, empahtic 8 on the flop of a Q-T-8-A-5 board.

Andy Black 360K
Ricki Nielsen 80K
Anthony Chatelain 33K
Greg Raymer 110K
Chad Brown 330K
Josh Arieh 300K
Noah Boeken 46K
Theo Jörgensen 17K
Johan Storåkers 41K
Thomas Wahlroos 30K
Tomas Brolin 48K
Jakob Larsson 72K
Ram Vaswani 200K
Patrik Mårtensson 60K
Badgirl Pham 78K
Ross Boatman 90K
Devilfish 85K
Hasse Eskilsson 75K
Åge Spets 51K
Christopher Ulsrud 320K

holllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

no, sorry, i know its a long shot

Here he is!  Back when he had a few more chips to play with, though - down to 30k at last count - if he gets over 100k again he'll be one of my three picks going into tomorrow, however...

Paul Gourlay, thronged with eager spectators behind the rail like that white panda cub on the news lately.  Only around 35k when this shot was taken.

Victor Ramdin is OUT. Didn't catch the hand.

Thomas Wahlroos -- 24,500

The tenacious Mark Teltscher.  He does look like he's been hypnotised, a little bit, or as Snoopy says, "needs winding up."  I don't think it takes much, Snoops...this might've done it, in fact.

recent pic of the laddies muff and chips stack for wildrick please team:)

GO rickkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk :):):)

Saw ur recent chip updates hope he aint out :(

Richard Water's Dad, who's been railing him today pulled me to one side just to inform that his lad was up to 50k after doubling up with Jacks v Aces. Clearly, he had to get slightly lucky to win that one, but to hit Quad Knaves was just downright greedy.

His Dad qualified for the World Series in a freeroll recently and suggested Richard played one for this event, but Richard wasn't too interested. But after being convinced by his Dad, Richard went on to plough through 4 satellites and be sitting where he is.

What was that song Dire Straits sang?....

Could come true this week for Richard.

Oh yeah, and the guy with the Aces? His next door neighbour, not looking too chuffed as you can imagine.

Romeo & Juliet?

:dontask:

Pic of Rick Wild after the QQ vs KK hand

[img width= height=]http://z.about.com/d/poker/1/7/E/6/grey.JPG[/img]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Liam

pmsl

aged a bit heh loloool and took up sponsorship off another site lool

Nice one fella lol

cmon rickkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk


have itttttttttttttttttt

Hi, there hasnt been Any news about Bengt Sonnert at any site for some hours.
Do you have any clue if he is still there or out?

lol

Great updates guys! Keep it up! Could you hunt down Johnny Lodden's stack for me? :)

wow Andy Blacks on fire, over 400k now. He's a joy to watch when hes in this kind of form - take it down Andy.

oi oi kopper, all the scousers in tonight?

CMon rickyyyyyyyy :)

81K average stack Blinds 1/2 ante 200, seems like this is tough going here. 40BB average isnt bad but at 4600 a round its definetly a time for playin and not sitting back! KAArrap shhot! lol

Lo Vad, Nice stack in the 10 rebuy, got 14k meself.

Any news on how many left in Monte Carlo??

Hi people. Please, follow spanish boys. Mortensen, Oscar Blanco and Francisco Lopez aka Pakito. Ty.

any update on Jon Little (green hoodie)?

Any chance of an update on Nick Jenkins, please?

jsut lost 30k pot m8 A10 vs Qj on A108 board obv K turn FFS.

but fck me who cares,

hows rick doingggggggggggggggg?????

Richard Wild is OUT.

Pushed a few times before being looked up by 6-6 with J-8. Coinflip, failed to hit. Had just 16k at the time and was philosophical in defeat.

snoops say gl to Nic reraiseallin persaud - he may have had his share already - hope he makes the bagging up tonight

Rick Wild is OUT -

Having dropped to just 18k he pushed on the button with Js 8c...the big blind thought about it and called him with 6c 6s.  Neither one of his overcards hit, and he resignedly made his way to the rail.  And how did he lose a big chunk of chips previously?  "That serial bluffer in seat nine wasn't serial bluffing one time - he had trips."

I think the tournament directors maybe agreeing with you, the next level will be 1.2k/2.4k with a 200 ante instead of the 1.5k/3k/300. There's only 116 players left with still 10 minutes and two levels to go.

Latest casualty is Paul Gourlay, pushed his last 35k in with 7d 7h against Steve Jelinek's Aspades Kd but the board came Kh 9s 5s 6d Td. Here he is in the enjoyable restacking process.

Amongst the chip leaders is Christopher Ulsrud with 350k, I think it was mentioned in the Warsaw EPT update that he managed to make $1.3 million online in January alone... he just busted a short stack with Qc Qh against Qs Ts on a 4h 4s Tc 9s (Fun turn card!) Jh board.

This is Carlos Mortensen's stack, he's quite the architect isn't he? He, along with the previously mentioned Christopher, Andy Black, Josh Arieh and Chad Brown make up a big-named group of leaders in this tournament.

aye jsut got text :(

Ul rick :(

wp though :)

Snoopy... Can you tell Nic Micky said ... 'You're freerolling after the QQ... play your game and bring it home'

116 of 706 remaining
1,000/2,000 (200) blinds
91,293 average stack

Age Spets -- 63k
Christoffer Ulsrud -- 335k
Harry Demetriou -- 54k
Devilfish -- 54k
Michael Greco -- 43k
Marc Karam -- 92k
Hans Eskilsson -- 67k
Dave Mobbs -- 72.5k
Soren Bakfort -- 198k
Ross Boatman -- 56k
Dean Sanders -- 175k
Ali Masterman -- 53k
Xuyen Vladar -- 53.5k
Philip Hilm -- 30.5k
Mickey Wernick -- 70k
Richard Herbert -- 35.5k
Josh Arieh -- 306k
Richard Ashby -- 70.5
Ben Callinan -- 70k
Thomas Wahlroos -- 47k
Gunnar Ostebrod -- 52.5k
Nick Jenkins -- 43.5k
Patric Matrensson -- 72.5k
Fabio Bianchi -- 106k
Steve Jelinek -- 160k
Tomas Brolin -- 39.5k
Johnny Lodden -- 229k
Ram Vaswani -- 220k
Nik Persaud -- 37.5k
Pete The Beat -- 147k
Jon Little -- 76k
Joe Beevers -- 70k
Carlos Mortensen -- 176.5k
Noah Boeken -- 18k
Chad Brown -- 438k
Eli Marciano -- 110k
Greg Raymer -- 73k
Richard Waters -- 49.5k
Michael Martin -- 64.5k
Johnny Lodden -- 92.5k
Ariel Adda -- 34k
Mark Teltscher -- 55k
Andy Black -- 408k

Will do my best, m8.

Well, I could steal chips from the dopey players and pop them on his. No cameras in this cardroom and I have quick hands.

Bengt is a very distinguishable figure and I haven't seen him for ages so I'm pretty sure he must have dropped out a few hours ago.

Rumour has it that although it dropped down to 100k, he's got some of it back. Jen's gone to find out...

Wouldn't expect anything less m8   :respect:

We know Mortensen, obviously, but do you have any pictures of the other less familiar names?

I'll let him know you're railing, Greg.  :)

mickey wernick plz snoops

Thanks.... Please keep an eye on JOE RAFFERTY..........
GO ON JOE GOOD LUCK.......
 Aspades Ac

Thats good the TDs are afraid to change the structure, the event is much more expensive than the WSOP with current exchange rates so a good structure shouldnt be in doubt.

real shame about Paul Gourlay great guy, cracking player - wouldve liked to see him go deep in this one.

These updates are class and are gona be so good for next couple of days because theres so many huge names and lag players still in.

People like Josh Arieh (my pick), Jonny Lodden, Mortenson, Ram are gona be good to watch.

Shout out to our former striker Tomas Brolin , who while he was never very good up front for us (Leeds), i hear hes something of a decent poker player.

Marc Karam who came 4th?? last year is still doing well i see too.

I have to agree its good to see the back of "Good2cu". Although i admire the ship it hollas for the way they spend theyr money and how successful they are, some of them are ok (Raptor, Durrrr etc), but he is an utter prat.

what happened here? wasnt he on 200K earlier??

I think Joe was on the rail some time ago, unless he was just getting up for a stroll

Some big names well up in the chip counts.....class is showing

Fine work guys

Nik is OUT, T-T into A-J.

Richard Waters has trebled up, he held K-K against Mateyboy's A-J and Greg Raymer's J-J which held.

Nick Jenkins has 44k whilst Johnny Lodden has about 160k last time I checked.

Remaining DTD players:

Michael Greco -- 45k
Richard Ashby -- 70k

Blinds are now 1200/2400/200

Pakito is a big bald boy from the spanish Everest team, and you can see Oscar here http://www.pokerpages.com/players/profiles/12535/oscar-carrasco.htm

fantastic updates as per usual team, looking forward to the next few days


In a cash game once with good2cu and others who were talking about being balla, i asked if i put spinning rims on my metro would that make me a balla. I was then told i will never be a balla, it was a crushing blow, and one im still not over

my pick for this one is johnny  lodden he is so overdue in an ept

he has jus got to learn to curb the lag at stages and slow down
i  think he might have learned enough by now he nos where he is going wrong

i think we could well see a star studded final

Well, would you Adam and Eve it, look who I've found... it's Mr Pakito himself, Francisco Lopez who recently wandered into the press room. Don't worry though, he's not out, it's just the 15 minute break. Pakito is on 39k and he also informed that fellow countryman, Oscar Blanco, is on 190k. Scorchio!

rotflmfao

I watched a hand earlier where there were three players in, one had bet, evidently this ship it holler guy, and mateys one and two were thinking over the bet. Matey one folded, and some American charachter beside me on the rail shouted SHIP ITTTTTTT at the top of his voice. As the chips didn't move he noticed there was another guy in the hand, who after some more thinking decided to call the flop bet. These American idiots on the rail then backed off a bit, dropping their bottle of champers on the way, and their boy check folded the turn, a pretty big pot. I think his shout of ship it when the first guy folded on the flop actually helped the second guy call and ultimately cost his mate a big pot. Shame.

lol try puttin them on a robin relient u might get some respeck then paul lol

suckers

The Black Stack - so large it needs a bodyguard during the break...

Quote from the man himself, "I've got to hold on to them one of these times."

sorry guys just back in from fat dinner..what's the latest on ali masterman??

I'm so sorry. Still...


























I MADE IT!

HOLLA BOLLA!!!

;mc;

ps. ship it, bucko

he's definitely due, just needs to slow down at certain points of the tourny and he done that to an extent at the aussie millions, just didnt happen for him when it got 3 handed. Hopefully this is the one.

Ali is on 60k after doubling up with 6-6 v Phil Hilm's K-J (over the top all-in re-raise)

First card Jack, followed by another 6 on the Flop.

cheers snoop

u coming tomorrow hotdog?

Harry Demetriou is OUT. No hand details, just a cut of the throat gesture and a passing, "That's the way it goes" comment.

Alright snoops and Jen its chris and dan smith! gr8 reporting!

Do you have a chip count on richard herbert(Strummer)

Little known Richard Waters has eliminated poker titan Greg Raymer in a true 'what dreams are made of' moment.

Richard Waters calling an all-in re-raise from Raymer with A-K, only to find himself in a coinflip with the former World Champion's Pocket Snowmen.

But although he's already out, the spirit of Barry Greenstein was prevalent as the board brought an Ace on the River.

well i wanted to but i think i am goin to bham to get pissed up my m8s bday.might change my mind yet tho turk so might be therer

mickey wernick plz snoops

Hi Dan iwan here m8 u feeling better? Where did yr father finish?

Apparently, this is the last level.

Age Spets just got out of jail.......big stylee (remember guests you can only see the photos if you sign up)


He check/raised all-in on the turn of a Qd 9s 7s Jh board holding Qh Jd only to find his opponent sitting comfortably with a set of 9's

River:

Jc

Bit m8 had to go for blood test this morn! all clear! got antibiotics and back home tomorrow cant wait! Dad came out around 8:30pm not sure what placem8!

From Lena's Swedish Pokerstars Blog.

Chipcount:
Hasse Eskilsson 82K
Devilfish 35K
Ross Boatman 55K
Badgirl Pham 50K
Johnny Lodden 250K
Ram Vaswani 180K
Tomas Brolin 25K
Jakob Larsson 75K
Thomas Wahlroos 73K
Johan Storåkers 28K
Patrik Mårtensson 63K
Theo Jörgensen 50K
Chad Brown 320K
Chris Björin 320K
Noah Boeken 22K
Carlos Mortensen 190K
Anthony Chatelain 31K
Ricki Nielsen 165K
Andy Black 430K
Christopher Ulriksen 320K

phew that was a lot to catch up on!! Great work gang. GL to Andy Black. He was obviously warming up for this game playing the €50 double chance in the Fitz on Tuesday night!! lol

He keeps putting himself in good spots to get a really big score in these events and I hope this itme it comes right for him.

1 hour remains tonight, we have 102 players left.

shame u had to miss out m8 - see u in dublin?

FOR SURE going for the win buddy! Good thing came from this though! Cause i was sick Bad beat giving me seat in London WSOP Main Event!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHA ;letsparty;

So anyone got news on my man STRUMMER pls

Mickey Wernick (48.5k) proudly concealing his Blue Square logo.

Richard 'The Sherbert' Herbert -- 64k

Andy is absolutely dominating his table - with what I can only describe as a fearsome intensity, he raises almost every hand with a kind of routine - grab some 1k chips, cut them in, while throwing a couple more smaller denom ones in for good measure, stare at everyone as they generally pass, and restack the blinds and antes with alarming speed and dexterity.  Then grab some black chips and rotate the top five, followed by the bottom one, top five, bottom one until the dealer is ready to start the whole swift process again.

Just now a young chap in a green hoody (could it have been Andrew Robl?) re-raised his utg preflop raise of 2,400 about another 8k.  Andy called instantly.  They check-checked their way down to the river at lightning speed, and the board stood 5s Ac 5d Js 2s.  Andy bet as soon as the river was out:  12k.  He was called immediately, and showed a winning Ahrt Td.

It looks like his fast-paced, unrelenting aggression inspires quick reactions from his opponents too - not giving themselves time to think about decisions.  He's about as focused as a person is possible to be without setting fire to the baize with the concentration of his stare.

GO ON MY SON wish him luck from me plse guys and also the legend

Mickey Wernick raises to 16k, Gavin Griffin (pictured) makes it 36k, Mateyboy moves all-in from the big blind for just 20k and Mickey folds.

"I had Nines!" exclaims The Worm as Mateyboy reveals Aspades Ts and Gavin Js Jc.

3h 4d 3c 2s Th board and Mateyboy's a gonna.

apparently he was quoted as saying if he cashes he is going to Splash out on the €100 DC in the JAckpot that night instead, and the cash in fitz after....

GO ON MY SON wish him luck from me plse guys and also the legend

Blimey, just reading that has shaken me up  ;tightend;

Thanks snoops!!! :)up

djinn,

the young chap in th green hoodie is very likely american Jon Little, who finished 4th in the PCA @ the bahamas in Jan.

and, assuming it was, given the way the hand played theres no chance he did not have anything but KK/QQ

Great reporting Jen!

P.S. Joe I'm pretty sure there was no seat open in the big cash game hence the reason he was killing time - funny stuff nevertheless!

Hi,hows Kerrigan doing ? is he still in ??and what about the rest of the Hit Squad ??  thanks !!!!!

Hi,hows Kerrigan doing ? is he still in ??and what about the rest of the Hit Squad ??  thanks !!!!!

ask Griffin if he has recently sent any "riskaaaaa" photos to any strange woman on the web lately. Seems he made some ADULT photos of himself and sent them w/ some money to a guy acting as a chick online. I dont think he will forget that soon ;scarymoment;

Odd Lavic seems to be long gone. Michael Greco, however, is still plugging away (just) with 30-35k.

Jim Kerrigan is OUT.

8-8 vs. A-T on a T-2-7 Flop. Opponent bet 10k, Jim thought his Eights were good and pushed for around 40k, but was quickly called.

Remember this guy? This is Ernst Hermanns who finished 3rd in the Vienna EWSOP last year. He's on 61.5k today.

Meanwhile, Spaniard Francisco Lopez has been eliminated.

Oh dear !!,but thanks anyway.Back to the drawing board then.....

Are they nearing the bubble yet ?

haha yeah i know, but with this weeks winnings who knows next week! he might try an irish open satellite!lol.

Noah Boeken is clinging on to grim death, his latest all-in being for around 16k, finally picking up the blinds uncontested when Joe Beevers folded in the big bling, showing a 4 in the process. Noah revealed A-8s and added, "I was hoping you wouldn't have A-9."

Other news, Emille Petit departed earlier today.

98 remaining
1,200/2,400 (200)
108,001 average stack

Top Updates, Thank You.

Good Luck Strummer

Great work guys, Snoopy do you got the chipcount on Johnny Lodden please? :)

Will he hurt me if I ask him this question?...

he will prob give you a mean look and tell u to fk off :p

Hey there

This is Shah, the asian dealer whom many of you know. Not dealing at this years event due to reasons i dont want to get into.

Hello to Tikay, el blondie and the rest of the gang.

Good job guys.

Noah Boeken is OUT, he moved in after Simon Johasson's raise. Carlos Mortensen dwelled for a while before passing. Back round to Simon who quickly called.

Simon:

Ac Aspades

Noah:

Js Jh

Board:

5c Tc 6d 2c 3c


We are down a dutchman.

Mark Teltscher is very very nearly OUT --

He'd made a couple of all in moves with good timing, in between Andy Black and the guy in the bottom photo raising (Peter Dalhuijsen is on that table too and there was a bit of chat between him and Mark, "Do you think I'm playing badly?" "On the first day you were playing awesomely - up to 60k and no hand shown."  "But do you think I'm playing badly?")

Anyway, this time there had been a raise under the gun by the guy pictured next to Andy.  Teltscher moved in again.  Passed back round and the guy goes into the tank, eventually calling for his whole stack with Ahrt Qs.
Mark shows:  Ad Kd
Flop:  3s Aspades Tc
Turn:  Qd
River:  3h

Mark is obviously annoyed that such a favourable situation went sour, but he took it very well, shaking his victor's hand and accepting his 300 chips change (they were nearly equal stacks) with good humour. "1000 to 1 I make the final?" he offered, or something like that.

I forgot to add Carlos passed A-K.

Michael Greco has bitten the dust, leaving Richard Ashby as the sole remaining Dusk Till Dawn player.

Snoops has the top ten counts - Lodden among them - just typing them up now...

Ashby doesn't look too happy with his 60k next to Andy Black, but is still there as the players drop to just 88 and play is about to stop for the night.  Redraw tomorrow, to eight-handed tables...

Just a quick note to say great coverage as usual.  John

With the clock running down, the top 10 appears to look like this...

(1) Andy Black -- 510k
(2) Josh Arieh -- 349k
(3) Anthony Lellouche -- 330k
(4) Simon Johansson -- 310k
(5) Philip Hilm -- 279k

the tv table webcast begins tomorrow correct?

(6) Christopher Ulsrud -- 278k
(7) Johnny Lodden -- 256k
(8) Steve Jelinek -- 223k
(9) Marc Karam -- 217k
(10) Chad Brown -- 190k

Carlos Mortensen and Eli Marciano not too far behin with 180k and 172k respectively.

Caught a few on the way out post bag'n'tag -

Strummer     90k
Ali Masterman  40k
Dean Sanders  160k

(the latter two pictured here)

Thanks for the chipcounts. Keep up the superior work!

This hasn't been confirmed.

Maybe, u better play it safe :redcard:

suoerb updates as usual and looking forward to more of the same! ;applause;

fantastic coverage as always guys. nice of john duthy to post. give strummer big love if poss

Play has now finished for the day.

Joe Beevers is still in, Here's One I Took Earlier of him next to William Thorsson....

Gogogogogogogogogogoggo Strummer Wish him good luck from the ZIMsnr and ZIMjnr ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause;

Josh Arieh has disappered from the circuit, a lot of people have been asking where the hell he was, he may have had another child ( i mean his wife may have had another), people really dont know where he has been.

Thats a question u could ask snoop, findout what this guy has been doing since the 2006 WSOP ;popcorn;

Get back to work!  ;slavedriver;

... and thank you kindly  ;hattip;

Yes, we believe that the Feature Table will be up, running and streaming live tomorrow at some point. 

Gr8 reporting so for guys Well done to you all!!! ;letsparty;

He was just in the press area, according to one of the American bloggers, his wife (who is also here) has just had another child, and Josh I guess has been at home. I got told he's only played two tournaments since the WSOP 2006.

i know this is the wrong place to say this ,but i just won my seat for manchester .

yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

boy needs to get his poker/life balance soretd

JOE WILL EAT YOUNG THORSSON ALIVE, CMON GET OUT!!    :pop:

Any news on Nick Goodall? Thanks alot. Great updates as always.

We'll upload chip counts when we receive them.

For now...

 ;stickaforkinme;

What he said

;stickaforkinme;

How many left guys??? pls

am gonna guess and say 91

cheers

I am going to break the golden rule of updating and repeat myself, just this once:  88 remaining.  Good night, and good luck.

I have nothing relevant to say with regards to this. I'm off t' bed.

Excelent work Djinn and snoppy! Sleep well, I'm off to bed aswell ;)

Good job all :)

thanks god shah u not dealing  how can i forget that ten.ten i still have nightmares about it      lol

Well played Strummer; Best of luck:

Top Coverage Guys, Thank You as always

Probably the wrong place to say well done, but well done.
 ;applause; ;applause; ;applause;

Wow - WHAT an Update!

Jen, snoops, flops, thank you.