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Morning all - what time is THIS to start playing poker? 10.00am Local, 9am Austria. Jeez......

Morning Tikay. Is the start time usual over there as it does seem a bit wierd to the brits. Looking forward to keeping up with the updates whilst writing and sending emails this morning.

I am the sole occupant of the Press Room, Jen is still zzzz-ing, & I guess so are all the other Updaters - Rolf Slotboom, Brad Wilias, Rolf Woods, & Uncle Tom Cobbley.

But I can hear thr soothing chinkle chinkle of riffled chips, so I think thry may have started.

I came down from the Hotel with Dave, he's in good heart, & 1 of only 4 Brits left in.

OK, I'm up that winding conjoined staircase (as Jen described it) to see what's happening.

By the way, is there anybody there? (Watching this?). 9am, FFS!

good morning sir


when was the last time you saw 9am?


original scheduling by the organisers!

lord knows what the players think


The whole of the playing blonde world may be asleep, but just to let you know someone's here!

Good luck to DC

What are the blinds when they start out today? How much play has he got?

Morning Tighty, Davey.

Answers to yoor questions in a mo.

Last time I saw 9am? Loads of times - BEFORE I get to bed usually!

I think the Blinds are 1k-2k, I'll check right now, but Dave has plenty of time IMO.

All the best to El Blondie..........

Another question - whats the players feelings about the structure for this event?

The Chips are all laid out on the tables, but there is not a player to be seen, I guess they have gone off to breakfast. So in fact it looks like the start time is 11 Local, NOT 10..... Sorry!

Brilliant....

Cue the expert pundits like they have in the build up to sky live football etc. Or maybe describe the twoo doves strutting on a nearby balcony ala test match special.

Whether the players are ready or not I'm with you all the way today tikay.

Mr Colclough's chips, awaiting their owner..... Count them, go on! (Should be 27,450).

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who is on his table then? any monster stacks? about 6 scandies?

Bag of Chips Sir?

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I'll answer that in a mo tighty, but let me just finish scene setting. By the way, "Bag of Chips Sir?" is Martin Pollak, Table 1, Seat 2. Table 1, Seat 1 is his blondeness.......

This is the room where the last 4 tables have been placed.......

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I don't THINk this is Gala Notts, or Grosvenor Salford,.......

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today they are playing down to 9 yes?

with so many players knocked out yesterday, why not change and start later?


sorry to ask about common sense!!

Here's what they are playng for. Plus the mulah, of course....

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Good Morning tikay. Good luck to the Brits!

Nice pics, lovely place to play poker.

Who is on Dave's Table was the question.......

set 1, Dave Colcloiugh, (Wales) 27,450

Seat 2, Martin Pollak, (Austria) 89,200

Seat 3, Julian Thew, 15,675

Seat 4, Dustin Dorrance Bowman (USA) 19,375

Seat 5, Morten Jensen, (Denmark) 47,475

Seat 6, Alexander Stevic (Sweden) 43,500

Seat 7, Erich Kollmann (Austria), 29,575

Seat 8, Strfan Jonasson (Sweden) 11,775.

Seat 9, Thomas Bihl, (Germany) 24,500

Please be on hand to recount the tales of button raises on Yo Yo's BB please.....


DC has a tough position on the right of chipped up matey.....

Wow that place looks impressive ... it always amazes me when some venues pull out all the stops to make an event special, and make the players feel as though they are a part of something... then you have the others that look like they forgot the event was happening at all and everything is chaotic and seems like they cant be arsed to make an effort ...after all those poker players dont care where they play or what conditions they play under ..and shoved somewhere in the corner.

Very best of luck to dave colclough and Julian (although Julian has probably swapped a percentage with any eventual winner ;) )

Tony tell Julian & Dave to stay away from each other we want them both in the final

Action already.

No action until Thewy in the SB, he goes for it with 2-2, but the BB has something - two overs maybe? - & Thewy is down to the felt, he has 2k.

Blinds are 800-1,600, with a running ante of 150.

Thewy swapped 5% with Dave Colclough, so the latter is nailed on to win this.

This place? It's AWESOMELY beautiful, WHAT a venue. And nothing, NOTHING, is too much trouble. They even have girls (black skirts, red skin tight tops) whose sole job is to carry the players chips when there is a table move.

Jen has arrived, we've just grabbed a freebie brekkie - an omelette cooked "to order" with whatever ingredients you wish. Plain for me, all sorts of dreadful stuff in Jens, onions & that.

Jen is now doing her "player identification" job, where she makes notes on what players look like & ties them up with names on the list. For me, I guess she'd say "blonde, stunningly handsome, mid-thirties, & amazingly hunky".

you see the thing is oldblonde, I spoke to Dena the Hunky dealer the other night who said "He called me hunky! How could he do that?" She was only partially persuaded of your charms on hearing that you also called her "a goddess"

If she's hunky, and you think you are hunky, what does that imply?

Guess again tikay

pictures please.

Now.

Will pay.

Why on EARTH did so many players bust out yesterday? We are on Level 10 now, & the blinds are still only 800-1,600. It's a complete mystery to me, the structure & clock is (are?) excellent.

Robert - you think my guess a tad optimistic?

Tighty? Dena is only partially persuaded of my charms? Well that's a start.

mmmmmmmmmm omellettes, haven't had one in years. Thanks tikay thats luch sorted!

Good luck Dave....

Tikay - Claire said can you give ElBlondie a kiss from her for luck - by the way, you may as well take of photo of you doing it and put it on that Kiss-A-Bloke TV show you do !!!


 ;) ;)

Congrats for Gutshot !

Terrible news - El Blondie had a Blinds Battle - K-6 - against Mr BB A-4. No idea how so many chips got in the middle, but Dave Colclough is OUT.

We can blame The Doc12345 for bokking Dave.

Morning all - I have been quickly identifying the players I don't know by hat colour, so that when they all start with the musical chairs I'll be able to keep you informed.

So for Yo-Yo news - bit of a comeback - Alexander Stevic has tried to knock him out not once but twice, and doubled him up both times instead.

Try 1: Very short-stacked Julian all in with  qs 8c, he called on the big blind with  7d 9d, as he ought - no help - double up 1.

Try 2: Julian has another go with  kh 5d and Alexander's  asp qs is no good when the King and Queen flop together.  So still short, but has a shot, as ever in these things. 

Another bad day at the office, & you can see the pain.

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Early exits from the final 36 are Rob Hollink, Morten Erlandsen, Stefan Jonasson and Markus Freiberg as well as Dave.

The blinds are now 1,000 - 2,000 with a 200 ante.  Funny thing - when they have their one-minute warning it plays ten seconds of The Entertainer.  Great.

Good try Dave, next time!

Morning hunky Jen  :D

Hey there, excellent updates, as usual!
Could you please keep us posted on the last Dutchman still in, Abel Meijberg?
He's the big fella sitting on Table 4, Seat 1...
Squeezed in between those horrible Scandinavians he must have a tough time.

Thanks!

These are a few of the Chip Mover Ladies. Apparently, it's skirts in the evening, slacks in the day.

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Morning all

I must say this venue seems very impressive from the photo's

good luck to yo-yo and unlucky to Dave

Good morning Jen, please tell Tikay that I am sulking.

 ::)

sorry to ask the question if it has already been answered but what is the payout structure?

Great job Jen & Tikay - these updates keep getting better!

And another.

OK Thorma, I'll pop & take a look at Abel Meijberg........

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Oo er hunky Robert - I will get to the payouts after I tell you that Julian has doubled up AGAIN and is now on just under 30k after he cracked QQ with KJ.  Ben Grundy standing behind him filled me in on this hand, as I just assumed I could turn my back for a minute...

Alexander Stevic is OUT - having moved all-in with  jh qc only to find Dustin Dorrance-Bowman with  ks kd.

go on Julian...what a recovery...so far


Tikay, thanks for the pics....any chance of the blonde in the middle's e-mail address?

 *a *a *a *a *a

 :'( :'(

Payouts - -

1 €218,880
2 €120,384
3  €61,560
4  €47,880
5  €41,040
6  €34,200
7  €27,360
8  €20,520
9  €13,680
10 - 12 €8,208
13 - 15 €6,840
16 - 18 €5,472
19 - 27 €4,104

and if you can pass me the e-mail address for the small one on the left ty

Thanks Jen

The levels appear to be 75 minutes long now - the structure does have its strong points.  Unfortunately (or fortunately) the fearless nature of the play today means we might have quite a short day's work ahead of us (they're playing to 8).

Please send Ariston e-mail address of bloke in dicky-bow.

You know it makes sense.

...and I'll have whoever's left  ::)

Thorma asked for a pic of Abel Meijberg, so here we are. By the way, I am told by Rolf Slotboom that Thorma is a MAN. Ooh-er.

The guy to Abels left (right as we look) is the imprressive Maniac Daniel Larsson

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Thanks Tikay, Abel's looking good... perfect face for radio, as always :)

One more for Thorma the man......

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This helps to explain why the field is falling so fast. (Down to 27 now, so they are all in the money). It's AK v 55, & ALL the money - PLENTY - goes in pre-flop.

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The board in that prev photo was summat like  kh jh 2c 5s kd, the two hands being fives, & the big slick. I thought it was a good photo, but Jen got all shirty & asked why we could not see the players. What players?

What was the AK v 55 pot worth? Dunno, but you can see the chips in the pic. (Good pic, see?). The blues are 5k, yellows 1k, multi colour brown 500. So, i dunno, maybe an 80k pot - blinds are 1k-2k..........

That was the hand that doubled Edgar Skjervold up to about 160k...

And you can call me Peter, if you prefer ;)

(btw, this is me, you prolly remember my face, tikay: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=26590 (http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=26590))

I THINK this is Henrik Joern, from Austria. I'm gonna get one of these gangsta-hoods, well impressive, well hard, eh?

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Dealer looks happy  ;)

HinPeter/Thorma, yes, I know  who you are NOW. But i'd advise against using the name "Thorma" in England, we have some very hungry, & unfussy, blokes in England.

Now, here's the man they call Yo-Yo, & this morning he's once again demonstrated why. "Any 2 cards will do Thew"......

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So we're down to 26 now, with American Jonathan Hancock the first money finisher.  He's out, by the way, racing his AQ against 99 which hit a set to take him out.

Dave McGeachie is hanging on - just saw him quadruple up his tiny stack having moved in blind with (as it turns out)  jc 7h and hitting the lone seven to beat all three opponents. 

Also making a stand with little stacks and doubling through were Erich Kollmann and Kurt Muller.

Morning Folks, just popped in for a look - brilliant update and great pics - congrats to TK on the Gutshot performance. Have to show my face at work so will check back later . Keep up the great work it's really appreciated. :)up

morning all. Thomas Bihl on Julians table is blondite/betfair player buzzer. He cashed in new orleans and has had a couple of near misses this year (as well as winning the 200k 1st prize in the biggie on laddies just before the ws). Hows julian getting on now?

An Announcer now moves between the remaining three tables (oh, there's just so much glorious space here) and tells you whenever someone's all-in, which is handy.  Then you have to run down this kind of grand marble staircase between these extraordinary chandeliers (pic coming) to type in the action.  Slightly inconvenient, but very glamorous.

Thanks jezza, later.

Going back to that last pic of Thewy, the big geezer stood behind Thewy (to his right as we LOOK) is someone me & Thewy refer to as Bentnose. He accused Thewy of a mega-moody in Amsterdam, but it turns out that Bentnose is the World Moody Champion, he's got ALL the moves.

What is Shaun Ryder doing sitting next to Julian :)    ( he was lead singer of "Happy Mondays"  just for Tikay's benefit)

I know EXACTLY who Shaun (surely it's Sean?) Ryder is, how many drugs he does (copious amounts) & have the video shot on the hotel roof, when the other geezer has  those weird flip up sunglasses. GREAT track.

Now, Thewy has 40k, his latest double up coming with KQ v AJ, the river bringing the all-important K.

And talking of double-ups, blondeite Double Up is still in, pic in a mo if I can find him......

In fact, blondeite Double Up (Dave McGeachie) has gone from HALF a BB to 25k plus, in 10 minutes. The new Yoyo? Pic in a mo.

Joining the OUT collective (and picking up €4,104) are Daniel Larsson, Frode Fagerli and Stefan Rapp.

For those Danish fans out there - your man Christian Grundtvig was just involved in a very exciting coup.  He held the  ad ac and got it all-in re-raising Peter Muhlbeck, who was pretty much obliged to call with his  kc ts. 

The flop came K 5 5, so only a bit exciting

The turn was another K (chorus of oooohs)

The river an Ace for the bigger full house.

ARE YOU ALL MAD?????????

Go back to bed and stay there until I'm ready for you

This is blondeite "Double-Up", who, judging by this pic, does not want a caller......

PS - Morning Red. What time you call this?

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Is buzzer still in- you cant miss him he looks a little like me  ;) If he is how many has he got?

But he looks happier here......

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Hi Ariston, if buzzer is Thomas Bihl, I gather he has about 45k, after losing a big pot 20 minutes ago.

My world has gone all chanel 4, the live updates are on at sparrowfart, the lawn has decided to grow 6in over night, Mrs Red and the girls are parading about trying on hats and shoes  in anticipation of a forthcoming wedding (clashes with the main event at Blackpool) we have run out of teabags and my teeth itch!

LOL @ that pic of double up .... is that Cyrano de bergerac sitting on the stairs with the red top on ?  :)

(http://shop.castleclassics.co.uk/acatalog/GL100704.jpg)

How dare someone get married on a festival weekend. I assume you have already tried to get them to change the wedding  >:D

10 minute break as they finally race off the green 25 chips.

Julian has around 34,000 as they sit back down, with 23 players left.
Edgar Skjevold  156,000
Kjersti Grini         8,200
Abel Meijberg     168,000 (the lucky Dutchman just won a big pot with 33 vs 99)

The Casino Baden is just magnificent, all marble & gold & circular grand staircases & stuff, beautiful. They have a chandelier - no, two, there is a matching pair - of Chandeliers that are THREE FLOORS deep, they "drop down" a stairwell. I have tried to convey the scale of it here. That's Rolf Slotboom trotting down the stairs, & if you have really good eyes, our Jen stood at the bottom, looking up at me. As all women should.

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That's my boy!
My 5% stake is getting larger by the minute...

Great reporting Jenn.  Glad your back

I hope the Poker Gods stay with Julian all  the way.  

Hello Tony well done on the 17 Large front

Rergards

M

 

that's one hell of a stalactite, or is that stalagmite?

help!

Colchester Kev, nothing, but nothing gets by you...

I'm off to count buzzer's chips.

tites come down. didn't you ever learn anything at school?

Are you wearing those shorts again?

Stalactite TightEnd

reply of pun to Ariston rejected on grounds of "reply too blinking obvious"

Ariston! BEHAVE.

But whatever, it's a whopping chandelier. And they've got two of the buggers. What a wonderful venue, truly.

Yes, or at least have the nuptuals at the Sandcastle

I don't know what you are all going on about. At school I was taught stalactites come down and stalagmites go up. tites come down was easiest way to remember it.

If we could get them to do it at the sandcastle during the dinner break it would be even better  ;)

On a pesonal note, I had my first full-night's sleep for a week last night, I did no work before I went to bed, & I feel refreshed, young, & vigorously healthy this morning, so beware ladies. But on the negative side, I note i have 23 - TWENTY THEREE - new Personal Messages, ayya. The children have not been squabbling again, I hope.........

Gonna take me for ever to get through that lot.

Buzzer's chips are around 50k, but that table (Julian, doubleup, et al) is quite an action one so I'd better check again...

Other counts:
Martin Jensen   36,000
Martin Pollack   55,000
Dustin Dorrance-Bowman 114,000
Paul Testud     55,000
'doubleup'        26,000

We just wandered oitside the Press Room for a quick ciggie. Here's a rear view of our Jen admiring the fountains, which are very similar to those at Walsall.......

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Any significant chip changes?

Could you take another picture of action table 4?
Things have changed a lot over there, I hear.

 OK Thorma, Jen is up there now getting Chip Counts, & I'll pop up & get you some pics in a few mos......

Meanwhile, here's a front on view of our Jen, & a lovely pot plant. For Red's benefit, Jen is on the left as you look......

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not a bad looking geyser, really

And here's a statue come sculpture, it's none other than Gewidmet Fanny Olser, if my memory serves me correct.

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would prefer a picture of the goddamwet olsen fanny

This is better than the Discovery Channel  :)up

Julian Thew - OUT

Having made the bravest of comeback efforts, he's eliminated in 19th for €4,104.

Moving in on a  9s qh 8s flop with  9h th, he had the misfortune of finding his opponent on  ks kd!  No help, and they're breaking another table (you're very right, Thorma, everybody's moving around - when they're settled I'll put pics up).

This is more of a rock than a statue.

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Wow


The Art is lovely and the  Buildings superb

Regards

M

Goddamit Fanny Olser is saying "Bloody hell, he askes me to stand at the bottom of this stairwell, and I can see up his shorts"

Unlucky Julian

If You had  jh th  you may have won

Very Marginal pass time is poker

regards

M

Any clever-clogs out there who know who Miss Olser is, or was?

Norseman v Norseman News Now -

Poor old Edgar Skjervold just handed over a stack to Torstein Iverson (AA vs KK) and then got involved with Patrik Antonius for all his (Patrik's) chips.

The board was:  qd 8d 7h 4d, and he bet 20k, and faced an all-in for over 40k more.  After a big dwell, he called, showing  qc ts, and was right - Patrik was on a draw with  ad 5s.

The  kd fell on the river, though, and Patrik Antonius has around 150,000 while Edgar's in trouble.

Other counts, pre two-table check:

Abel Meijberg  174,000
Kurt Muller       50,000
Henrik Joern    66,000
Torstein Iversen 175,000

Commiserations Yo-Yo

If you are talking about Lady Fanny Octavia Louisa Spencer-Churchill, nee Osler (not Olser)

She lived from 1853-1925, dying in Baden

related to the Dukes of Marlborough by marriage

Gewidmet is German for devoted

so let's hypothesise that one of the Duke's family had a statue made about his Mrs, who loved him a lot, and there she is now. a Blondeite. And a rather fetching one at that


P.S Anyone else googling for Fanny, be careful if you are at work  :o

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JEN CAN YOU PLEASE ASK BUZZER IF MY 5 PER CENT HAS BEEN TRANSFERED FROM THE VIC TO BADEN

Many Thanks,

SHAA

Quote from tikay, "I remember Fanny....."

I sussed out the "devoted" translation and the MISPELLING but the rest... impressed. Expert googling is a sign of  mispent office hours.

The pic's are fantastic, I've said it before but they add soooo much, thanks!

tx for the support guys, felt it might happen but came unstuck, shame really.
now i'm going to avail of the excellent food & beverages to ease the pain

Unlucky Julian......

Paul Testud OUT in 15th - his late position all-in with  kc qs was called by the small blind Peter Muhlbeck's  ad qc.  15th place prize was €6,840

Doubleup doubles up with pocket Jacks which held up against Dustin D-B's K10 so their positions are reversed: breathing space for Dave while Dustin one of the short stacks.

Wow, can we have a little 'who sits where with how many chips'?

Thanks

good luck Doubleup  :)up

Thanks Red.

The idea of the pcs is to give those at home, & especially those who have never visited the venue, a feel for what it's like, to help everyone feel like they are part of it. Meanwhile, Jen is inputting a heap more chip counts now, & I'm about to upload some more pics.

15 players left, I believe.

Jason McCombie in all his Pokerstars finery was OUT in 18th (€5,472)
Buzzer OUT - he was the 17th place finisher (€5,472)
Henrik Joern OUT - he was 16th (€5,472)

Sorry for the little blank space.  There was this lunch, you see...

has anyone got the payout structure please....


Cheers,

SHAA

Buzzer out  :-[    Unlucky M8....


Watch out for this fella as he is due a big one soon.......

classic line!

...and for lunch you had?

We might as well get the full story as we know what you had for breakfast.  ;D

Complete counts (in seat order - wahey, finally on top of this)

Christian Grundtvig  110,000
Ingemar Bachman    81,400
Gunnar Osterbrod   275,000
Edgar Skjevold        75,000
Peter Muhlbeck      300,000
Abel Meijberg         175,000

Doubleup McGeachie 84,400
Martin Pollak            65,000
Patrik Antonius       128,000
Dustin Dorrance-Bowman 63,000
Martin Jensen         64,300
Torstein Iversen     200,000
Kurt Muller              40,000
Tobias Persson        52,000

scandies everywhere!!!

We are going to have to call this the SPT.

Payouts - -

1 €218,880
2 €120,384
3  €61,560
4  €47,880
5  €41,040
6  €34,200
7  €27,360
8  €20,520
9  €13,680
10 - 12 €8,208
13 - 15 €6,840
16 - 18 €5,472
19 - 27 €4,104

How about the ScandEPT Royal?

I like it!

Oh lunch... the food here is Glorious - lunch appeared to be all you can eat little steaks with creamy potatoes and beans and some sort of terrine (stayed away from that) and some fruity creamy desserts.  It's just wonderful, and they don't bat an eyelid if you keep going back.  Yesterday Tikay took all the chicken legs out of a huge paella and got away with it.

Dave 'doubleup' McGeachie out in 13th (excuse the gap - info coming) apparently, according to Brad and Woody, trying to bluff Patrik Antonius.... He gets €6,840 for his great comeback.

are they playing to 9 or 6?

Dustin Dorrance-Bowman was the 14th place finisher... just going up for a recount.  And maybe a steak.

Not many left now.......

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Down to eight today (the magic TV number)

Here's that QPR Supporter.

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Sorry, that was an earlier pic, THIS is what i intended to post....

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This is the other remaining table, I posted one 10 minutes ago.

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lol, thx
Abel Meijberg (pronounce: Ah-ball Mayberg) has apparently found a way to battle those pesky scandies... good going!

This rather poor pic is of Frenchman Paul Testud, that's as happy as a Frenchman ever gets to look. And he's out, which IS a shame. In truth, he's great fun at the table, rather loud maybe, but always smiling, & I like peeps who smile a lot.

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Ariston.. A dinner break at the Sandcastle. Are you having a laugh. They can have the wedding any afternoon, only finals take place then. Will Red-Dog be playing in finals this year or shall we keep him a table at the bar for the afternoons??????

Only Joking Mr. BlueWriting Red-Dog Sir.

Yogi

Tobias Persson OUT - 12th place and €8,208 to him.

Martin Jensen's A2 got him a double up from Torstein Iversen's KQ so these counts are a bit off, but here they are regardless:

Christian Grundtvig  170,000
Ingemar Bachman   160,000
Gunnar Osterbrod   260,000
Edgar Skjevold         71,000
Peter Muhlbeck       320,000
Abel Meijberg         220,000
Martin Pollak             54,000
Patrik Antonius        340,000
Martin Jensen           40,000
Torstein Iversen      180,000
Kurt Muller                30,000

But this is a much better pic, this is none other than the ever-smiling Spaniard Luca Pagano. He's bricklayer by trade, apparently. And you moan about MY Jacket?

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Are you absolutely sure he is Spanish ? I suppose Italy is the capital of Spain ?

We NEVER moan about your jacket, you are too hard on yourself. Scoff at and ridicule your jacket maybe but never moan.

Kurt Muller OUT in 11th place (€8,208)

Having held on for simply ages with an ever-dwindling stack, his eventual all-in with A10 got four callers, with Patrik Antonius hitting two pair to send him home.

Well, we have an appartment together in Barcelona, which makes him partially Spanish, I guess...

I rest my case. He's certainly got a bit of Spanish in him, or has had at some time.

Actually, he is a TOP bloke, I like him a lot. Another constant smiler. Massive feet though, absolute canoes.

Five minute break as the remaining ten shuffle around.  It looks like Woody from the Team Norsemen is more nervous than his countrymen Torstein Iversen, Edgar Skjevold and Gunnar Osterbrod, who are all still in!  It's a near all-Scandie final! 

More trivia for you. Here's an overview of the rather nice Honours Board they have here, ("framed" between the two flags),  it's hewn from solid granite. Close up to follow, as there are one or two interesting names upon it.

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Not sure if you can see the detail or text on the Honours Board, but it's the big 7 Card Stud Championship they have held here for many years. The 1999 winner is listed as Paul Alterman - you may have heard of him, his wife is the player in the family,  but Paul can play a bit, too, and the 2000 winner is "Philip Hellmuth", who'd be unbeatable if there was no luck in poker. it amazes me that a truly brilliant player - as he is - cannot come to terms with outdraws after playing for so long.

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I bet the engraver was not best pleased when matey boy won it in 1997

If you click on the little paper-clip UNDER the pic, it makes the pic nice & big, & you can see the text better. And stop yawning, I'm talking.

did you notice Ray Brown too in 2003?....Luton player, nice guy

Martin Pollak OUT in 10th, winning €8,208 after a very lengthy cagey period of short-stack doubleups and re-raised folding.  Just when I was coming down for tea, small blind Abel Meijberg made a raise to commit big blind Martin, and after a lengthy think he went for it.

Abel showed  th 8c, Martin  ks qc.

The board came out (slowly)  5h 7s jh tc js and Mr. Pollak was out of the tournament.  They're just rearranging the final nine on their final table, on which they will stay until the 9th place goes out, at which time it's Day Over for us, and TV time tomorrow.

The "Matey Boy" Tighty refers to, is someone I just know as "Henry". WHAT a character he is, a wonderful experience to share a table with him. He's a great chip-getter & chip distributor. Anyone know what the prefix before his name (on the Honours Board) stands for? He always strikes me as  being a Diplomat or summat. Deffo not a butcher.

Go Abel ! (lucky fish strikes again)

Yes, players are trickling in for the 7-stud event which they praise highly.  Sverre Sundbo says he would have liked to give it a go, but travel arrangements got in the way etc etc.  Incidentally, Sverre's favourite game is 7-stud hi-lo.  So there you go.  Pity there's not a huge range of places and events to play it in, eh.

But the Seven-studders are descending on the casino; the central area is Closed between 5 and 7pm (I rather think this is where the final of the EPT is right now - that's going to be interesting) and Henry Nowakowski (who won it in '97) was asking if we were updating it... I think we may be having a little rest.  But if anything really interesting happens, I am sure it will sneak on.

Henry Nowakowski is a property magnate from Germany

Co-incidentally, a Henry Nowakowski was once US Ambassador to the UK, I seem to remember

 

Morten Jensen OUT in 9th place, receiving €13,680 and bringing today's action to a close.

His final hand was the  8h 8c, which he moved in with, finding Abel Meijberg all-in over the top with  ad kh.  The King came on the flop, and there was no recovery for the Danish player.  Everyone else is coming back tomorrow to play for the cameras.

Hurrah !

OMG did anyone notice they have spelt Phil Hellmuth's name wrong!!!

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VERY clever _bw_...!

A sign of the times?

The Final 8 includes 3 Norwayers, a Finn, 2 Swedes, a Dane, and a Dutchman. Extraordinary!

We should never forget that my good friend Abel 'lucky fish with perfect face for radio' Mayberg was all-in on day one with AQ vs QQ and rivered a straight, and now he's chip leader going into the final 8.
Go figure...

# Seat 1: Gunnar Osterbrod 184,300
# Seat 2: Patrik Antonius 308,400
# Seat 3: Torstein Iversen 179,500
# Seat 4: Edgar Skjevold 9,400
# Seat 5: Peter Muhlbeck 247,700
# Seat 6: Ingemar Backman 294,500
# Seat 7: Christian Grundtvig 180,000
# Seat 8: Abel Meijberg 315,000

That's how it will look tomorrow when they come back - thanks to Rolf yet again for tracking down the chip count so speedily (no hour for photocopies today).

We are doing 'something fun' for tonight, which I have a sneaking suspicion may involve actually playing cards... will let you know how that goes.

_bw_ I'm not sure whether your post fills me with admiration or pity for you. probably quite a bit of both.  ;)

well!, i have only heard of one of them.  unfortunate there is no british or blondite interest in the final!

great reporting though and the pictures are fantastic.

unlucky Julian!

Ingemar Backman is better known as one of the worlds top Snowboarders during the 90´s and Patrik Antonius is better known as I_Knockout_U at the highstakes tables, e.g. Lads....

/The club of neccessary information.

..and I_Kncokout_U are bored at the hotel in Baden sitting with 30k on the table on Laddie..

and Gunnar Ostebrod is known as "Stevie" or "El Capitao" on same highlimit tables, Edgar Skjervold is Ragde on pokerstars who won the WCOOP main 2004. Torstein won the european champ. at the vic two years ago. then again, only fishes go far in that one :D

Torstein and Edgar are also a part of the new norwegian team "Norsemen" who have gathered two players on final table in addition to another one in the money. Out of five starters (myself included) this seems just within expectations :D

well i hope the norwgiens fill there boots during the EPT as its the only thing they will win this week as the tartan army is heading over to olso to support moldova due to the scotland game being sold out

now where did i put that passport applcation form i will need it for going to germany2006 after we finish 2nd in our group ahead of the vikings