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Good morning once again from the Comfort Hotel Esplanaden, where I am enjoying my now customary breakfast vitamin pill. A new player list/chip count type document has arrived from Pokerstars overnight, but I understand that it still has Marc (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) Goodwin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) on it, and also they're claiming they can't find Steve Frezer on it even though he's quite obviously right at the bottom; nevertheless, I am posting it, and you will enjoy it, or I will set Jen on you. Corrected version hopefully available by the time we make it to the casino.

Play starts at 2pm Danish (1pm UK time, and it's suddenly occurred to me I haven't seen a single Danish pastry all week; am outraged by this). See you then!

Name   Country   Chips
Joris Jaspers   Holland   44,900
Mathias Andersen   Denmark   71,600
Miikka Samuli Mustonen   Finland   47,500
Stig Farholt   Denmark   70,600
Jonas Klausen   Denmark   13,800
Raymond Landaas   Norway   35,000
Allan Bække   Denmark   50,900
Ulrica Skönnemark   Sweden   9,400
Matin Talebi   Denmark   35,400
Severin Hovde   Norway   24,600
Christer Laudius   Sweden   12,900
Thomas Markussen   Denmark   10,900
Nikolas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1177) Liakos (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1177)   Sweden   25,800
Barny (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=41) Boatman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=41)   UK   30,000
Peter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=701) Hedlund (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=701)   Sweden   16,100
Michele Limongi   Italy   21,000
Michael Marek   Czech Republic   11,600
Jospeh Serock   USA   35,200
David Figueroa   Peru   12,300
Wim Emo   Holland   30,900
Bill Chen   USA   40,300
Tomasz Krzesiñski   Poland   29,200
Michael Eriksson   Sweden   10,100
Thomas Petersen   Sweden   17,600
Mattias Ressner   Sweden   50,000
Andreas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=467) Hoivold (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=467)   Norway   23,600
Johan Lund   Sweden   51,900
Nicolas Dervaux   France   20,000
Jarle Aasen   Norway   38,000
Ilari (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=579) Sahamies (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=579)   Finland   37,800
Magnus Hansen   Denmark   23,300
Morten Johansen   Denmark   15,400
Runar (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1181) Runarsson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1181)   Iceland   25,400
Jan Sørensen   Denmark   57,800
Gesi Bason   Holland   9,200
Peter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=968) Eastgate (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=968)   Denmark   79,700
Anders Martinsen   Denmark   17,400
Janno Cazemier   Afghanistan   37,500
Patrik Andersson   Sweden   14,400
Morten (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=673) Erlandsen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=673)   Denmark   28,000
Jesper Hougaard   Denmark   33,400
Giacomo Rosa   Italy   29,200
Theo Jørgensen   Denmark   75,900
Frederik Brink Jensen   Denmark   45,700
Lars Juul Madsen   Denmark   34,200
Tom Larsen   Denmark   50,000
Kristian Hasløv   Denmark   50,700
Bengt (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=481) Sonnert (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=481)   Sweden   31,900
Pernille (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=699) Ravn (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=699)   Denmark   12,700
Jonas Lennartsson   Sweden   37,000
Nhi Bui   Sweden   12,600
Jesper (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=597) Petersen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=597)   Denmark   16,000
Norman Levitt   UK   13,000
Omar Adel   Denmark   18,400
Tobias Holmeide   Denmark   28,400
Mika Puro   Finland   10,500
Brian Jensen   Denmark   28,200
Dennis Naci Hansen   Denmark   63,300
Kristian Pedersen   Denmark   18,500
Torbjörn Jonson   Sweden   19,300
Sidsel Helle Boesen   Denmark   25,900
Tommy Pavlicek   Canada   67,000
Paul Grabowski   USA   12,600
Martin Skovgaard Anersen   Denmark   25,500
Markus (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=644) Golser (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=644)   Austria   54,800
Marcin Horecki   Poland   50,100
Sonny Sareen   Denmark   19,900
Mikael Norinder   Sweden   19,000
Lasse Jeppesen   Denmark   13,300
Anthony Chatelain   Sweden   13,600
Nicolas (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=675) Levi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=675)   France   20,900
Christina Orth   Sweden   13,000
Claus Uhrskov   Denmark   33,300
Jerzy Hajdamowicz   Poland   8,300
Ulrik Pedersen   Denmark   33,600
Luca (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=995) Pagano (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=995)   Italy   56,400
Kresten Nielsen   Denmark   32,900
Brian Linnet   Denmark   10,000
Timothy Vance   USA   27,900
Johannes Korsar   Sweden   28,200
Istvan Szikrai   Hungary   22,500
Timmi Jofur   Sweden   15,900
Claus Tversted   Denmark   10,300
Rigo Nyfjeld   Denmark   27,500
Jesper Askholt   Denmark   35,300
Nicolaj Linneballe   Denmark   12,500
Marcus Friman   Sweden   17,200
Anders (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=464) Berg (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=464)   Norway   26,200
Pehr Petersson   Sweden   7,100
Ola Brandborn   Sweden   79,300
Daniluk Andrey   Russia   24,600
Gino Alacqua   Italy   38,900
Claus Bentzen   Denmark   22,100
Anders Rasmussen   Denmark   7,700
Peter Kalsen Petersen   Denmark   50,900
Andreas Per Ragnar Davidsson   Sweden   27,300
Olli Kurvinen   Finland   14,400
Arnaud (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1011) Mattern (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1011)   France   7,300
Martin Bjerring Hansen   Denmark   30,800
Piotr Paruszewski   UK   17,100
Jannick Wrang   Denmark   4,300
Erik Veld   Holland   17,600
Matthias Neu   Germany   6,200
Frederik Hostrup-Pedersen   Denmark   11,900
Joseph Morneau   USA   26,200
Erik Bodén   Sweden   25,800
Jan Rune Olsen   Denmark   12,900
Morten Holm   Denmark   30,500
Leroy Soesman   Holland   46,000
Rolf (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=726) Slotboom (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=726)   Holland   9,400
Stuart (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=421) Rutter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=421)   UK   21,200
Peter (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=700) Eichhardt (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=700)   Sweden   12,000
Kenneth Lyons   USA   19,300
Simon Dørslund   Denmark   59,500
Sven Polanski   Holland   7,000
Georgios Pittas   Greece   8,800
Sargon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=733) Ruya (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=733)   Sweden   10,800
Sigbjørn Mortueit   Norway   9,900
Alexander Ellingsen   Norway   14,800
Christian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=501) Grundtvig (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=501)   Denmark   28,900
Jakob Vedel Lauridsen   Denmark   25,900
Peter Bregnhøj   Denmark   8,900
Mikkel Middelbo   Denmark   18,000
Noah (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=677) Boeken (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=677)   Holland   9,400
Marcel Baran   Germany   30,200
Dustin Mele   USA   13,400
Christoffer Thorsen   Norway   39,400
Thomas Christiansen   Denmark   32,100
Mike McDonald   Canada   32,500
Lars Hoe Madsen   Denmark   10,000
Morten Klein   Norway   22,200
Luca Ferrario   Italy   7,600
Kaj Jørgensen   Denmark   11,400
Tung Huynh   USA   16,000
Aron Wallden   Norway   14,400
Scott Harwood   USA   15,300
Peter Hauerslev   Denmark   15,900
Gunnar (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=563) Rabe (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=563)   Sweden   14,300
Anders Henriksson   Sweden   34,300
Mathias Kuerschner   Germany   29,200
Jon Lundberg   Sweden   6,900
Ryan Badii   USA   12,600
Thor (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=878) Hansen (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=878)   Norway   20,200
Jens Hansen   Denmark   24,500
Marc (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257) Goodwin (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=257)   UK   
Andreas Glannbro   Sweden   69,700
Anders Bekhøj Hansen   Denmark   27,300
Søren Jensen   Denmark   20,600
Tommy Dender   Denmark   7,400
Charles Furey   USA   44,600
Frank Gersby Jacobsen   Denmark   8,000
Brian Bischoff   Denmark   25,600
Ed de Haas   Holland   42,000
Trond Erik Eidsvig   Norway   35,400
Nedin Musa   Denmark   67,300
Rene Kovacs   Denmark   9,400
Vegard Mandal   Norway   43,900
Paul (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=863) Testud (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=863)   France   19,700
Claus Valloe   Denmark   13,100
Daniel Ryan   USA   21,400
Ramzi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=714) Jelassi (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=714)   Sweden   46,200
Jonas Danielsson   Sweden   39,700
Henrik Rune   Denmark   46,600
Jonas Mathiasen   Denmark   8,400
Børge Dypvik   Norway   44,200
Rasmus Hede Nielsen   Denmark   43,100
Haward Speer   Germany   25,700
Roar Wang   Norway   20,400
Alexander (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1002) Kravchenko (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1002)   Russia   40,500
Kenneth Raun Hemmingsen   Denmark   30,600
Steve Frezer   USA   22,500

hi Jen and Dana. Great work as always. Much appreciated.


Especially for you Dana,you crazy minx


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looks like a deformed jammy dodger

who does ?

come on mr rutter ;)

Thank you thank you for the well-meant pastry, I'm sure if it were real I would be a happier, less hungrier updater.

As it is, we've just arrived at the casino and as might be expected, the hallway is full of poker players, milling. Particularly interesting early doors will be the fate of Arnaud Mattern, currently an absolute microstack on about 7k - he's praying the seat draw puts him on the button. Also interesting should be the Rollercoaster Rutter - he's about average with 22k or so, but can't seem to help getting it all in on a race just when we're least expecting it, so we'll be keeping a close eye on him. Incidentally, he's terribly sorry about the lack of scarf these past few days. A scarf has been found, and photos have been posed for. To follow shortly...

Mr Kremser is on the mic - he tells us that today we'll be playing eight levels or down to 40, whichever comes first. Tomorrow we'll be playing down to final table. Juuuuust about to start. Good luck everyone! My picks/favourite players of the day are Trond Eidsvig, Micke Norinder and Steve Frezer.

The hallway is full of expectant Day Two-ers waiting to take their newly redrawn seats and get playing once again.  The rested Day 1A players will battle the hardy Day 1Bs and we'll probably know who makes money from the EPT Copehagen and who doesn't today.

We were delighted that the tournament is now housed in one really large conference/ballroom type area - it's a very good layout and literally next door to the press room.  All in all the thing's gone pretty smoothly, starting on time and running without a hitch.  Well done pokerstars, Casino Copenhagen and everyone involved.  (Can we get some more tea now?)

They are starting play 9-handed, but when one player goes from each table they will stay at 8-handed through the day.  OK shuffling up has begun.

Cmon Rutter Nutter Butter

BREAKING NEWS

The button is at seat 9; Arnaud Mattern is at seat 8. Good luck, Arnaud!

I pick Stuart Rutter, Ramzi Jelassi and Christian Grundtvig.  Sandwiches the bet.  The stakes are high, but I am confident.

Early action includes:

Multiple simultaneous instances of stacks under 15k moving in, uncalled.

One instance of Arnaud Mattern somehow having doubled up before we even got into the room today (Dana fills in the tantalising details - QQ vs AQ).

One bust-out of Jerzy Hajdamowicz who moved in with Ahrt Ts on the cutoff but was instacalled by the big blind who woke up with Kd Kc.
There was a little bit of breath-holding despite the fact that the first card out was the Kh because the turn saw the board reading Kh 3h 5s Qh providing a possible flush/straight for the all-in player, but the blank 4d on the river sent him to the rail.

Sorry about that, the server exploded.

Anyway, the action has been FAST and it has been FURIOUS thus far, as though everyone's hotel requires that they check out by 3pm or pay for an extra day.

Georgios Pittas of Greece is gone, somehow getting it in with Q-9 offsuit against the pocket Tens of Leroy Soesman. Soesman's vocal appeals to God that all the Queens stay firmly buried in the deck paid off.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9652&g2_serialNumber=1)


Nicolas Levi and his special friend Micke Norinder are sharing a table again today, although possibly not for long. I have obviously bokked Mr Norinder by picking him, as he's down to just 8k, his Jd Qd flush draw failing to come through for him against Christina Orth's Aspades 2s on an Ad 2h 3d 5s Js board, all in on the flop.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9656&g2_serialNumber=1)


Pretty ladies still in include Sidsel Helle Boesen (in shades) and Pernille Ravn. Oh no, hang on, just as I'm scribbling down that she's still in, Pernille shoves with Ahrt Jd and gets herself called by the Kd Kc of Bengt Sonnert. An incredibly decisive Ks 4h Kh 6h Tc board later, and she hits the rail, giggling.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9660&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9663&g2_serialNumber=1)


Also, please witness Hat Of The Day/ Outfit Of The Day/ Blue Guy Of The Day multiple blonde award winner Peter Bregnhoj. We can only imagine he lost some sort of bet. Says Jen - "I'm never going to make any kind of clothing-based prop bet." But I can feed her enough beer to wear anything, I reckon... Hang on, Blue Man is in the press room. He must be out. That is a great loss to the tournament.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9646&g2_serialNumber=1)

We are down one Nutter.

Stuart Rutter has lost another race.  J-J vs A-K was the real knocker-backer and then someone gave his A-9 a spin with Q-T.  “I just can’t win a race.  This year,” he says, with only the minimum amount of self-pity.  It does look like when the cards are on their backs, Stuart tends to have one foot out of the tournament area, to be fair – seen this happen to him at least once or twice… Still, he’s already looking forward to next weekend at the Broadway. 

Please witness Mr Rutter, front and rear:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9642&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9649&g2_serialNumber=1)

And Mr Mattern, post-double-up:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9655&g2_serialNumber=1)

Benjo appears to have some dirt on his face, please tell him to go and have a wash.

That's his Esfandiari-likey goatee, man! All his cool resides there.

The tournament's range of headwear is significantly less cool with the knockout of Nicolas Levi.

I caught this hand from where Levi moved all in from the small blind over the preflop raise of cutoff Lasse Jeppesen (pictured combining Nicolas' chips with his own).  Jeppesen was thinking about it, then came down on the side of 'OK then' and called the all-in with Ac Qc, which probably wasn't what Nicolas had in mind when he shoved Kc Jc.  A Queen on the flop sealed his fate, and he calmly exited with a, "Nice hand," presumably to be pursued vigorously by the cameramen who seem to permanently film the gregarious young player.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9664&g2_serialNumber=1)

Here is Jesper Hougaard.  I thought he was Nick Gibson for one confusing moment.  But he's not.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9666&g2_serialNumber=1)

Saw a pretty big pot between Mathias Andersen (pictured) and Jonas Klausen just now...

The board was an interesting 4c Jc 7c Ac when Klausen checked, Andersen bet areound 5k and was called, eventually. 
River:  Jd  curiouser and curiouser...  Now check to Andersen once again, and he bet 9k.  A very long think later, complete with self-countdown etc. etc. (the decision was pretty serious for shorter-stacked Klausen).  Eventually he called but was shown the rather board-relevant Kc Jh...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9668&g2_serialNumber=1)

How is barny doing please :)

Thanks for your hard work guys :)

LEADERWATCH

The start-of-day big stacks are here pictured:

1) Theo Jorgensen - resigned once again to having a really big stack

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9670&g2_serialNumber=1)

2) Ola Brandborn (although news has filtered in that he's actually lost about half his stack thus far...) He's here pictured telling me, "You didn't remember my name yesterday."  Oops.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9672&g2_serialNumber=1)

Ta-da - Mr. Boatman and neighbour Peter Hedlund, who seems to be relatively chilled out this morning.  Barny's stack:  c. 30k

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9674&g2_serialNumber=1)

All of our picks are struggling somewhat, or looking a bit sad not to be chip leaders...  Most recent near-casualty (down under 10k) is Ramzi who got it in with Aces preflop (again - see his Dortmund exit) vs. Rolf Slotboom's Queens.  Out popped the Queen to give Rolf a good stack for the first time this tournament and near felt his opponent, who will probably inwardly wince whenever he gets it all in with Aces, good though that's meant to be to do.

Chip count for Norman Levitt please

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Yes indeed, it seems that as soon as we pick them, they suddenly bust out, or become very depressed. Ramzi down to 8k. Micke Norinder out. Stuart Rutter out. Steve Frezer - depressed (see below). Can't even find Trond Eidsvig. Go Christian Grundtvig!

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9684&g2_serialNumber=1)

Thanks Jenn.

The interesting chip stacking technique of Mr Lars Juul Madsen. I claim these chips in the name of Denmark!

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9676&g2_serialNumber=1)

Istvan Szikrai has doubled up with a flush courtesy of Kresten Nielsen. He is pleased.

Less pleased is Soren Jensen, who turned a straight holding Q-T on a K-9-3-J-T board and got himself called by Anders Hansen, who of course split with him at the end. Jensen was furious, although I didn't see the pre-river betting so it's hard to say if it was a slow-play gone wrong or foolish calling from Hansen that did it. He fumes, currently.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9680&g2_serialNumber=1)

Also one of our two remaining Brits is out. Sunderland-born Woodstock-lookalikey Andreas Hoivold is OUT, holding A-J against Raymond Landaas' A-2 on an A-8-7-2-4 board. Not sure when the chips went in, I'm afraid, but go in they did and they came out the property of Mr Landaas.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9687&g2_serialNumber=1)

Finally have some time to start checking this.... How's things going fellas? Glad to Nico and Arnaud are still in.... go frenchies!

Damn :/

See Dana - now your guys aren't doing so well you want to jump on the Christian Grundtvig bandwagon... OK I'll allow it.  Because he's got 60,000 or so - more than enough to share.  Not that he's going to share them, he's going to assimilate everyone else's stack!  Which is the whole point of tournaments, after all... Gooo intense Danish WPT Champ.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9690&g2_serialNumber=1)

Ok, as far as I can see, we are now officially playing a Brit-free tournament.

Norman Levitt is not in his seat, presumed OUT.

Also we found on the list one Piotr Paruszewski listed as a UK qualifier, but he is also not in his seat, thus presumed busted.

And Mr Barny Boatman, sole UK survivor of Day 1a, has just this moment picked up his proverbial wooden spoon and headed for the rail. Canadian Tommy Pavlicek makes it 3k to go, and Barny shoves for another 8.7k. After a not-very-lengthy dwell, Pavlicek calls.

Boatman - Jd 9d
Pavlicek - Js 8s

Board - 8d ("oooooh," says everyone) 3h 4h 2c 2h

"You thought you were committed?" says Barny. "I'll send you a maths book."

Where's Trond? I want Trond!

Peter Hedlund doubles up courtesy of Thomas Markussen.  Eventually.

Hedlund plonked his 9,400 stack in under the gun with a devil-may-care motion, implying that in no way did he have the Ks Kh which he actually had.  Longest.dwell.ever from Markussen on the button - Time was called before he put in the chips with Aspades Qd - over half his stack.
Flop: Jh Qh 9c
Turn: 4c  "Keep it LOW," asked Hedlund, and just in case the god of cards didn't hear the first time, "Low, low, low." 
River: 5s  (low).

Players are on a short break, during which Mr Kremser has ordered all the dealers to take rough chip counts, which we will apparently receive via the magical medium of email. Yay!

Grrr.... Nicolas has been knoxked out... but you're right ! Go frenchies...

Speahing of that... What about Paul Testud ??? and Markus Golser ? always one of the chip leaders ?

Markus Golser was in the hallway earlier when everyone still in the tournament was playing, which leads me to believe he's OUT, sorry.  Testud... we reckon still in but we're going to wait for confirmation from the official chip counts.

French Climber of the Day is definitely Arnaud Mattern whose 4k or something equally mini has become over 30k in the course of the first two levels.

That will serve us right for basing our picks on who's actually doing ok at the start of the day.

Go Arnaud! 2nd title in 2 months, anyone put their money on it?

has ever everyone make it ??

Hm not in such a short time span I dont think... but Elky (another one of my newly acquired housemates! :P) has a decent result history (http://www.europeanpokertour.com/db/player_details.htmls?id_player=494) too

whou yes. I did'nt lnow him... but Elky is probably the frenchie who has the best results in EPT...

Yeah he is.

And if Griffin didn't win Monte Carlo last year (huge payout) he'd have been the EPT most paid player ever. To avoid a "fake" ranking, EPT staff have created - or copied off PS... :P - a TLB (Tournament Leaderboard) ranking system which, through a formula based on their finish position, the number of entrants and the buy-in of the event, gives a more "consistent" overall ranking I suppose. Check it out here (http://www.europeanpokertour.com/db/players_list_ranking_tlb.htmls) if you like....

G

Funny that the worst hendonmob player (Barny) wants to send Tommy (Skier_5) a book about poker when Tommy is a much much better player. Thanks for the updates again guys, really enjoying it!

Also can you post a pic of (probably) one of the top 3 players from Europe: Bengt Sonnert?

Would really appreciate it!

I stroll into the room to find about 40 or 50k in the middle, and some kind of complicated negotiations between Giacomo Rosa and Frederik Jensen regarding who will show the other how many cards if they agree to fold. Jensen folds. Rosa flips the Kc. "King-Eight?" asks Jensen. "King-Deuce," says Rosa.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9697&g2_serialNumber=1)

I found Trond! Yay Trond! I found him because Jen said, "You can't miss him, he's dressed like a barbershop pole." Looks like he's got around 50 or 60k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9699&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://www.entertainmentrights.com/uploads/image_bank/asset_1594_hl.jpg)

Tom Larsen bets 20k into a 20 or 30k pot on the river of a Ts 7s Tc 5d Th board. Raymond Landaas folds. Larsen shows Ks Qs, for almost certainly the losing hand. Landaas appears irked.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9708&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9705&g2_serialNumber=1)

There he is!

You better be nice about Trond...

lmao


people in the office now looking at me in a rather strange way...nothing to do with me giggling hysterically at that one, of course.

Our updates have up to this point been pretty Tung Huynh-free.  Our list says he's American, but apart from that we don't really know much about him - however he's been pretty active this level so here are some updates about him...

He moved in on a board of Aspades Kh 8c 6c with about 20k in the pot, for about a pot-sized bet.  This sent opponent Allan Bække into consideration-mode (he had a stack of around 91k at the time).  Eventually he said something you really shouldn't say, just in case: "I think I'm going to make a sick call..." before doing so with Kc Jh and finding Huynh holding Ahrt Ad.  "I don't think I can win," he calmly changed his opinion. 


About ten minutes later, a pot grew between button Hyynh and Christina Orth - she check-raised him on the 5s 7h 2s flop (from 4k to 10k).  He called.
Turn: 3c  Now she bets out 7,500, but passes in consternation when Huynh moves all-in for 40-something thousand...

End of the Road for Arnaud...

He lost a few chips getting check-raised off a King-high flop by Prague runner-up Gino Alacqua (They Meet Again!) but only just busted this moment, having outlasted all British players and almost half of the day 2 starters.  Congrats/commiserations. 

A couple of counts while we expectantly await full ones from Pokerstars/Mad...

Steve Frezer - 14,400
Rolf Slotboom - 70,000
Bill Chen - 40,000
Nedin Musa - 67,000
Joris Jaspers - 63,000
Andreas Glannbro - 65,000
Mattias Ressner - 65,000+

Dana has the camera - please bear with us - your requested photos are on their way.  And probably more of Mr. Eidsvig whom Dana rather likes.

So if I've well understood, there are now, no french nor english players ?? :tikay:

End of level 10 approximate chip counts are here! Courtesy of our friend Mad Harper and those fine people at Pokerstars. They have two chip counts apiece because one is their count at the start of the day and one is their count an hour ago. Enjoy!



Name    Country    PokerStars Status    Start    end of Level 10
509    Lars Juul Madsen    Denmark       34,200    110,000
708    Tommy Pavlicek    Canada    PokerStars qualifier    67,000    100,000
1801    Trond Erik Eidsvig    Norway       35,400    100,000
107    Allan Bække    Denmark    PokerStars qualifier    50,900    93,000
409    Peter Eastgate    Denmark       79,700    92,000
1009    Ola Brandborn    Sweden       79,300    92,000
103    Miikka Samuli Mustonen    Finland       47,500    90,000
1502    Thomas Christiansen    Denmark       32,100    85,000
806    Lasse Jeppesen    Denmark    PokerStars qualifier    13,300    84,000
1302    Rolf Slotboom    Holland       9,400    79,000
1403    Christian Grundtvig    Denmark       28,900    75,200
601    Tom Larsen    Denmark       50,000    75,000
106    Raymond Landaas    Norway       35,000    71,700
101    Joris Jaspers    Holland       44,900    67,000
609    Omar Adel    Denmark       18,400    64,000
1703    Anders Bekhøj Hansen    Denmark       27,300    64,000
508    Frederik Brink Jensen    Denmark       45,700    57,000
1105    Peter Kalsen Petersen    Denmark       50,900    57,000
1702    Andreas Glannbro    Sweden       69,700    57,000
706    Torbjörn Jonson    Sweden       19,300    56,000
803    Marcin Horecki    Poland    PokerStars qualifier    50,100    53,000
1709    Ed de Haas    Holland       42,000    53,000
904    Luca Pagano    Italy    Team PokerStars Pro    56,400    52,000
204    Nikolas Liakos    Sweden       25,800    50,000
1306    Simon Dørslund    Denmark       59,500    49,000
1605    Mathias Kuerschner    Germany       29,200    49,000
1704    Søren Jensen    Denmark       20,600    47,400
1501    Christoffer Thorsen    Norway       39,400    47,000
407    Jan Sørensen    Denmark       57,800    46,500
304    Tomasz Krzesiñski    Poland    PokerStars qualifier    29,200    46,000
801    Martin Skovgaard Anersen    Denmark       25,500    45,000
1002    Claus Tversted    Denmark       10,300    45,000
1203    Erik Veld    Holland    PokerStars qualifier    17,600    43,000
1406    Mikkel Middelbo    Denmark    PokerStars qualifier    18,000    42,700
404    Magnus Hansen    Denmark       23,300    42,600
607    Jesper Petersen    Denmark       16,000    42,000
307    Mattias Ressner    Sweden       50,000    41,500
402    Jarle Aasen    Norway       38,000    41,000
303    Bill Chen    USA    Team PokerStars Pro    40,300    40,400
506    Giacomo Rosa    Italy    PokerStars qualifier    29,200    39,000
605    Jonas Lennartsson    Sweden    PokerStars qualifier    37,000    39,000
1505    Morten Klein    Norway       22,200    39,000
309    Johan Lund    Sweden       51,900    38,000
704    Dennis Naci Hansen    Denmark       63,300    38,000
908    Johannes Korsar    Sweden       28,200    38,000
909    Istvan Szikrai    Hungary       22,500    38,000
201    Severin Hovde    Norway       24,600    35,000
209    Jospeh Serock    USA    PokerStars qualifier    35,200    35,000
1108    Arnaud Mattern    France       7,300    34,300
703    Brian Jensen    Denmark       28,200    34,000
901    Claus Uhrskov    Denmark       33,300    34,000
305    Michael Eriksson    Sweden       10,100    33,500
1006    Marcus Friman    Sweden       17,200    33,000
1301    Leroy Soesman    Holland       46,000    33,000
502    Janno Cazemier    Afghanistan       37,500    32,600
903    Ulrik Pedersen    Denmark       33,600    32,000
905    Kresten Nielsen    Denmark       32,900    32,000
401    Nicolas Dervaux    France       20,000    30,600
1102    Gino Alacqua    Italy       38,900    30,300
1004    Jesper Askholt    Denmark    PokerStars qualifier    35,300    30,000
1305    Kenneth Lyons    USA    PokerStars qualifier    19,300    29,500
104    Stig Farholt    Denmark       70,600    29,100
406    Runar Runarsson    Iceland    PokerStars qualifier    25,400    27,600
602    Kristian Hasløv    Denmark       50,700    27,000
1103    Claus Bentzen    Denmark       22,100    26,500
1309    Sargon Ruya    Sweden       10,800    26,500
1601    Scott Harwood    USA    PokerStars qualifier    15,300    26,000
1609    Jens Hansen    Denmark       24,500    26,000
306    Thomas Petersen    Sweden       17,600    25,700
208    Michael Marek    Czech Republic    PokerStars qualifier    11,600    25,000
1602    Peter Hauerslev    Denmark    PokerStars qualifier    15,900    25,000
503    Patrik Andersson    Sweden       14,400    24,000
907    Timothy Vance    USA    PokerStars qualifier    27,900    24,000
707    Sidsel Helle Boesen    Denmark       25,900    23,700
1402    Alexander Ellingsen    Norway       14,800    23,500
405    Morten Johansen    Denmark       15,400    22,800
804    Sonny Sareen    Denmark       19,900    22,000
1109    Martin Bjerring Hansen    Denmark       30,800    18,700
108    Ulrica Skönnemark    Sweden       9,400    16,100
1409    Dustin Mele    USA    PokerStars sponsored player    13,400    16,100
403    Ilari Sahamies    Finland       37,800    15,500
206    Peter Hedlund    Sweden       16,100    14,000
1304    Peter Eichhardt    Sweden       12,000    14,000
1401    Sigbjørn Mortueit    Norway       9,900    13,900
1701    Steve Frezer    USA       22,500    12,800
504    Morten Erlandsen    Denmark       28,000    12,000
1604    Anders Henriksson    Sweden       34,300    12,000
501    Anders Martinsen    Denmark       17,400    11,400
408    Gesi Bason    Holland       9,200    11,300
1007    Anders Berg    Norway       26,200    11,000
202    Christer Laudius    Sweden       12,900    10,000
1507    Kaj Jørgensen    Denmark       11,400    10,000
807    Anthony Chatelain    Sweden       13,600    9,000
109    Matin Talebi    Denmark       35,400    4,400
507    Theo Jørgensen    Denmark       75,900    1,000

Did'nt u say that Arnaud Matterd had been put out ???

Here is Arnaud telling his woes to George Danzer. George, by the way, didn't play this week, somehow not managing to get himself a ticket. He has spent much of the week trying to find an ATM so he can hit the cash tables.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9709&g2_serialNumber=1)

Yes, like I said, these counts were taken at the end of level 10 and we're now 10 minutes into level 12. It took an hour or so for them to get to us from the tables.

By the way, there'll be a 45 minute dinner break at the end of this level.

Tommy Pavlicek went out in Prague, 3 tables out in the sickest way ever. He had 9d 7d on a 9c 8c 7c 9s board, except Juha Lauttmaas had 6c 5c...

What about a photo of the "Norwegian sensation" Vegard Mandal? (76K now) He qualified through some freerolls at Centrebet, and this is his first big tournament. Wearing a green shirt, I think.

Thanks for these great updates, btw!

A few Players We Haven't Mentioned In A While But Are Still In:

Angry Alex Kravchenko

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9711&g2_serialNumber=1)


Yay, it's Young Joris Jaspers

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9713&g2_serialNumber=1)


Oh Me, Oh My, O-la Brandborn

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9715&g2_serialNumber=1)


Dennis Naci Hands-Off-My-Chips Hansen. Or something.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9719&g2_serialNumber=1)

By the way, for the gentleman asking after Bengt Sonnert, he's not in his seat and indeed nowhere to be seen; we must therefore conclude that he's OUT.

Smurf Hat Of The Day/ Railer Of The Day/ probably also Stoner Of The Day by the looks of him:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9701&g2_serialNumber=1)

A big thank-you to Ladbrokes, by the way, for not saying anything when I stole an orange and a pretzel stick from their room. Spotted in said room: Julian Thew, playing some poker, I think. Also spotted: bunch of pretty ladies playing table football, like so:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9695&g2_serialNumber=1)

Railers Of The Day (Team Event) - the be-dreadlocked wonder of this lady I don't recognize and Dutch player Marcel Kloof.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9678&g2_serialNumber=1)

We have threeway ACTION on Table Slotboom...

It folds to short stack Sargon Ruya on the button, who moves in fro 6,600, as you do.  Small blind, the chatty Leroy Soesman then moves in over the top for around 25k in what turned out to be a vain attempt to move fellow Dutchman Rolf Slotboom off the big blind and take on the all-in himself.  But Rolf (pictured), after thinking out loud, "Maybe I'm making a big mistake..." made the call out of his 65-70k or so.  On their backs, everyone!

Ruya - Ad 9d
Soesman - Kh Qs
Slotboom - Aspades Jc

Flop: 5c Qc 2h    "Aces Aces," mutters Rolf
Turn:  Ac 
River: Qh    A jubilant Soesman busts Sargon Ruya, and dents Slotboom's stack, while shouting, "I don't deserve this!  But thank you thank you thank you!  Well, I said I was going to be the bubble, actually."

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9720&g2_serialNumber=1)

Cowboy Alfonso has entered the press room. "He's Italian," says Jen. If he were a real cowboy, he would ride an Italian stallion. If that didn't sound terrible when I say it like that.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9694&g2_serialNumber=1)

I'm not sur, but it could be Anouk Teuwe, a dutch singer...

I forgot to add this picture of him.  So here he is again... I quite like what appears to be a zip-up pocket on his sleeve - I could do with one of those.  Never lose my bus pass/mobile phone/chapstick and remove the need for the purse (for ladies) or the risky man-bag (for gents)...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9722&g2_serialNumber=1)

WOW..nice shout Jpean! She has put on some pounds or aged a fair few years (about 8?) since I 've last seen anything from her (she had one or two decent "hits" in the Netherlands) but you might be right.

If it is her...well done! (though she's sodding annoying though and rather full of herself)

she has only made 2 single in France, but I've been one of her fan since her beginning...

But not sure it's really her...

Where did Barny's post go? Was going to get my vote for POTW :)

This is what just over 100k worth of chips looks like... and also what Patrik Andersson looks like, their owner.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9724&g2_serialNumber=1)

Before I pre-empt the dinner break and go in search of foods - here is my contender for Hoody of the Day (I know Dana has another one but honestly I don't think you can get better than the skull-with-rhinestone-eyes/wings/crossed pistols combo)...

Haward Speer

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9726&g2_serialNumber=1)

About Anouk, She has made moire than 1 or 2 succed titles...

She had even sing at the Milan AC's statium... in Italia...

Hoodie Of The Day contender no. 2, unnamed owing to him inconsiderately putting his MP3 whatsit over his number:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9736&g2_serialNumber=1)

Vegard Mandal, still in with 47k:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9730&g2_serialNumber=1)

And while I was taking photos of Vegard Mandal, a big hand conveniently played out on his table. Big raising war resulted in Anders Hansen sticking it all in with Ad Qc against the 8d 8h of Ed de Haas.

Board - Ts 6h 2s 3h Th and Hansen is OUT.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9733&g2_serialNumber=1)

What is this T6 poker? everybody seems to wear a shirt.

No fisherman hat to be seen anywhere, so we are assuming that Steve Frezer is OUT. :(

Trond has well over 100k though! :)

Here he is:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9739&g2_serialNumber=1)


And again, with his headphones on, looking like he's making an important speech:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9742&g2_serialNumber=1)


And from the back:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9745&g2_serialNumber=1)

Players are just on the verge of a DINNER BREAK. See you in 45 minutes...

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Great updates guys, thanks.

How is crazy Swedee Peter Hedlund doing? He is genuinely crazy,and possibly irrittates a few people with his loud manner,but a good guy, and tons of fun

He was in Casino Royale, didn't you see?

(http://www.pokerpages.com/players/images/photos_200x250/34118.jpg)

(http://z.about.com/d/movies/1/0/s/o/8/casinoroyalepubi.jpg)

Great Updates.

Yeah Anouk was huge in italy. (I'm italian)

End of level 12 chip counts, from Ms Mad Harper:

ID    Name    Country    Table    Seat    Chips
309    Johan Lund    Sweden    32    4    170,000
503    Patrik Andersson    Sweden    33    4    165,000
1306    Simon Dørslund    Denmark    33    5    140,000
1801    Trond Erik Eidsvig    Norway    30    6    132,000
1502    Thomas Christiansen    Denmark    35    2    125,000
409    Peter Eastgate    Denmark    35    6    125,000
1709    Ed de Haas    Holland    37    1    121,700
209    Jospeh Serock    USA    30    5    117,000
407    Jan Sørensen    Denmark    30    7    113,000
1209    Morten Holm    Denmark    32    8    110,000
1704    Søren Jensen    Denmark    37    5    110000
103    Miikka Samuli Mustonen    Finland    30    1    104,000
107    Allan Bække    Denmark    32    1    97,000
1904    Rasmus Hede Nielsen    Denmark    37    4    96000
101    Joris Jaspers    Holland    36    7    93,000
402    Jarle Aasen    Norway    36    6    92,000
806    Lasse Jeppesen    Denmark    28    5    90,000
106    Raymond Landaas    Norway    30    4    90,000
703    Brian Jensen    Denmark    31    6    85,000
1403    Christian Grundtvig    Denmark    34    3    80,000
1302    Rolf Slotboom    Holland    33    2    79,000
???    #N/A    #N/A    31    7    70,000
502    Janno Cazemier    Holland    28    1    68,000
907    Timothy Vance    USA    29    7    67,000
904    Luca Pagano    Italy    29    4    63,000
1406    Mikkel Middelbo    Denmark    34    7    62,000
1907    Alexander Kravchenko    Russia    32    6    61,000
803    Marcin Horecki    Poland    28    3    60,000
1109    Martin Bjerring Hansen    Denmark    31    9    60,000
605    Jonas Lennartsson    Sweden    36    8    58,000
706    Torbjörn Jonson    Sweden    28    8    55,000
606    Nhi Bui    Sweden    29    9    55,000
1903    Børge Dypvik    Norway    36    1    55,000
???    #N/A    #N/A    32    7    54,000
1702    Andreas Glannbro    Sweden    37    7    54,000
1908    Kenneth Raun Hemmingsen    Denmark    28    2    52,000
1809    Jonas Danielsson    Sweden    29    6    51,000
1102    Gino Alacqua    Italy    31    3    51,000
305    Michael Eriksson    Sweden    30    3    50,000
705    Kristian Pedersen    Denmark    33    7    50,000
1301    Leroy Soesman    Holland    33    1    49,000
1804    Vegard Mandal    Norway    37    3    48000
1508    Tung Huynh    USA    32    2    47,000
602    Kristian Hasløv    Denmark    34    2    45,000
1807    Daniel Ryan    USA    28    7    42,000
1002    Claus Tversted    Denmark    30    2    41,000
801    Martin Skovgaard Anersen    Denmark    31    8    38,000
1505    Morten Klein    Norway    35    5    38,000
1105    Peter Kalsen Petersen    Denmark    31    5    37,000
1901    Henrik Rune    Denmark    35    8    37,000
901    Claus Uhrskov    Denmark    29    1    36,000
401    Nicolas Dervaux    France    37    6    36,000
708    Tommy Pavlicek    Canada    32    5    35,000
1409    Dustin Mele    USA    35    7    34,000
1203    Erik Veld    Holland    32    3    33,000
307    Mattias Ressner    Sweden    34    5    33,000
1501    Christoffer Thorsen    Norway    35    1    33,000
306    Thomas Petersen    Sweden    34    8    32,000
406    Runar Runarsson    Iceland    34    9    32,000
304    Tomasz Krzesiñski    Poland    33    9    31,000
1401    Sigbjørn Mortueit    Norway    34    1    31,000
1905    Haward Speer    Germany    36    3    31,000
1604    Anders Henriksson    Sweden    36    4    28,000
104    Stig Farholt    Denmark    31    2    27,000
806    Lasse Jeppesen    Denmark    29    8    24,000
1602    Peter Hauerslev    Denmark    36    2    24,000
404    Magnus Hansen    Denmark    31    4    22,000
201    Severin Hovde    Norway    33    3    22,000
1605    Mathias Kuerschner    Germany    36    5    22,000
509    Lars Juul Madsen    Denmark    37    2    21000
208    Michael Marek    Czech Republic    28    6    17,000
903    Ulrik Pedersen    Denmark    29    3    17,000
905    Kresten Nielsen    Denmark    29    5    15,000
403    Ilari Sahamies    Finland    35    4    14,000
1906    Roar Wang    Norway    35    3    13,000
405    Morten Johansen    Denmark    28    4    12,000

Go, Trond!

Seeing as he's not on the list, and also cleverly deduced from the fact that he was in the press room shortly before the dinner break, we're guessing that Peter Hedlund is OUT, making the remaining runners, as a group, approximately 54% less talkative than before.

Timothy Vance News Now (I think it might be the first so far...)

The gruff-voiced American plays in a short-sharp manner which is quite refreshing after the amount of times I've heard 'Time' called today... He got involved in one of those blind on blind scenarios (as the bb) with sb limper Jonas Danielsson. 
Flop: Js 3s 9d  Danielsson bet out 3,500.  Instacall.
Turn:  The least blank of all possible cards, I reckon: 8s  Danielsson tries a 3k bet, and Vance insta thumps down a stack of blue 1k chips.  It's 15k total - he gets a call.
River: Ac  Check from Danielssen and Vance's cards - the 5s 2s - are over before you see his hand move.  The microflush wins a decent pot.

This guy, Jan Sorensen, has a lot of chips. I don't think he likes me though.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9749&g2_serialNumber=1)


So does this guy, Young American Joseph Serock. He took a few off of Trond just now holding Q-7 on a Queen-high board. I believe Trond had raised with A-J and was a bit unhappy about it. Poor old Trond.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9753&g2_serialNumber=1)


Also this gentleman is not doing badly, chip-wise - Patrik Andersson:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9756&g2_serialNumber=1)

Meanwhile Henrik Rune gets re-raised all in by Christoffer Thorsen after raising to 6k preflop, but gets the same 6k (well, obviously not exactly the same) back the very next hand when he takes his turn moving in pre over a raiser.  No calling on table Cagey right now, but it looks like a stack around 25k is almost seen as an insult around here and it's over the line at the first hint of resteal opportunity.

Trond this Trond that - I think you might be in danger of forgetting that my pick of the day is still in and doing formidably well - with an easily 120k stack and pretty excellent live record which beats that of your whippersnapper. 

Christian Grundtvig - introducing as a concept the Knitwear Hoody:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9763&g2_serialNumber=1)

I believe I reported a hand earlier where the be-Western-shirted gentleman below, Mr Soren Jensen, went a bit nuts over a split pot. Well, he's been going even nuts-er since then.

A little before the dinner break, the gentle buzz-y hum of the press room is disturbed by a howl from outside. Everybody stops typing/drinking stolen tea/watching youtube videos and looks up. Mr Jensen is stomping around outside in the hallway, making weird squeaky yelping noises every few seconds. Busted, think we, exchange glances that say "yikes," and wait for the howls to stop before going back to whatever we were collectively doing before.

During the dinner break, he is in the lobby. He is on his phone. He is gesticulating like a crazy man. He does this for most of the dinner break. We begin to pity him. Let it go, think we, have you not got over your bad beat yet, crazy man? Leave your poor wife alone, she can't make it go away. We also begin to pity whoever he's on the phone to.

But when we come back from the break, he's still in! With lots of chips! It turns out that all the howling was not because he'd busted out, but amazingly because he'd won a hand and got so excited about it that he had to leave the room and make squeaking noises in the hallway! We do not understand.

So anyway. Now he makes it 7k utg. Vegard Mandel, two to his left, makes it 15k - maybe half his stack. Soren flat calls.

Flop - Qd 3h Jc

Vegard moves in, and Soren instacalls.

Vegard  Mandel - Ac Ad
Soren "Crazy Boy" Jensen - Jh Js

Turn - Th
River - Ts

Soren rises from his seat, fists in the air. He shouts at length in Danish. It sounds like, "C*** sorry me! Harm sir the veal lids me!" And so on. And then, recognisably in a kind of Scandie-English: "Sheep eat baby! Sheep eat baby!!!" Sorry, Vegard fans, he is totally gone. I do quite hope Soren makes final table now. God help us all when he does bust out...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9759&g2_serialNumber=1)

I really can't top that Soren story.  I feel like I might as well go home now.  But seeing as that isn't an option:  DOUBLE TAKEDOWN NEWS!

Tim Vance (all the way from St. Louis, Missouri, I overheard), below pictured (and really remarkable Jack Nicholson-voice-alike) just took out two players, one holding Ac Kd and one what looked like Ks 2s with his Jd Jh which held all the way from preflop to the river, which is what you need to knock people out.  A bit more excitable now, Mr. Vance did some standing up, shaking hands with his busted opponents, talking to the dealer, talking to the new player on the table (you get the picture).  I wonder whether he's ever studied with a vocal coach.

He now has a very respectable 170,000.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9765&g2_serialNumber=1)

Here's a photo of a section of the big tournament area, in case you haven't got a good idea what the playing environment is like.  It's nice.  Gradually the spectating is becoming a little more intense, although I heard that there was a side event underway tonight which might siphon some of them off.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9767&g2_serialNumber=1)

Prize for Magicking Chips out of Seemingly Thin Air goes to Danny 'The_D_RY' Ryan who last time I checked had just one slightly sad stack of blue chips but now seems to have around 120k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9769&g2_serialNumber=1)

Indeed, I have just witnessed a second astounding hand involving Mr Vance. Luca Pagano raises to 7k utg. Mr Vance makes it 21k. Mr Pagano makes it all in, or an additional 44.9k to Mr Vance. Says Vance, "Yowzers," or something similarly stereotypically American. He dwells for a few minutes. "Well, I do have a hand." He dwells some more. "You see, when your stack gets this big, I'm gonna like it even when it's 45k less." Mr Pagano shrugs.

Some minutes later (the intervening time whiled away by me listening to BA Kildalen whispering offensive things about Americans in my ear), Mr Vance says, "What you got? Kings? Aces?" He asks if he can turn over his hand before he decides whether to call or fold. He's not allowed to do that, it's a ten-minute penalty apparently. "Which would make it 15 minutes so far," says Pagano.

Some minutes pass before he passes a not-very-premium Ad Qh face up, and follows it with some more minutes' worth of bravado along the lines of, "Nice hand, sir, oh, I won't lay it down again" type stuff. The crowd that had formed is disappointed, and leaves.

Severin Hovde has doubled up courtesy of a now-a-bit-sad Nicolas Dervaux. Dervaux made it 7k and Hovde moved in for 13.4k total; call.

Hovde - Qs Kd
Dervaux - Ac 2h

Board - 4h 9s Ts 5s Qc

Leroy Soesman, overheard saying to his neighbour Rolf Slotboom:

"Why am I not enough for you, Rolf? Why am I never enough?"

Trond checks a Kc 2c 5h Jc 6h board, and then cagily calls Jan Sorensen's 8k bet. He mucks when Sorensen shows Js 6s. He shakes his head and smiles, sadly, like he's cradling a baby in an Athena poster.

I need a nap.

Players are on a

-----15 MINUTE BREAK-----

I think, though am not sure, that chip counts may be coming to all of us.  But just in case that is not the case - here are some I made earlier:

Luca Pagano - 88,400
Magnus Hansen - 45,000
Gino Alacqua - 42,000
Thomas Christiansen - 100,000
Michael Eriksson - 35,600
Nhi Bui - 56,000
Haward Speer - 26,000
Timothy Vance - 154,000
Jonas Lennartsson - 60,000
Miikka Samuli Mustonen - 95,000
Jarle Aasen - 95,000
Jospeh Serock - 230,000
Torbjörn Jonson - 65,000

I love this comment.

Great update this. It's getting me interested in what is happening in a tournament I couldn't care less about.

Ladies, do you think that the fact so few players we know are still in this (and thus, requests for specific player info are almost non-existant now) has given you the freedom to follow your WoodwardandBernsteinesque journalistic noses for good stuff to write about?

So was Pavarotti. 

Is there a possibility you can follow the action on Joris "JazzyFace" Jaspers.

I just heard he doubled to 191K so GO JORIS!!!!

The real announcement people have been waiting for...

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=31421.0

We're back! We spent a few minutes during the break in the Pokerstars Hospitality Suite. You know it's a party when...

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Upon returning to the press room though, we discovered that we had been invaded! There's a code there - see if you can guess which nefarious updater from which country is responsible for leading the troops against us. (Not to fear, they have since been mercilessly dispatched.)

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Yes this is all true - he's sat behind a pretty mountainous pile of chips (1k still the highest denom around).  There was the world's tallest man (or thereabouts) forming part of the crowd around his table so I couldn't get a good picture - bear with us and we'll bring you one by the end of the day though...

Ok thank you!

Rasmus Nielsen (pictured) just picked up about 20k like so...

Peter Eastgate raised preflop to 8k, called by Andreas Glannbro.  Over to Rasmus in the blind who slowly upped it to 35k - enough to commit the initial raiser's whole stack.  He was no longer interested, but it took Glannbro a little longer to let it go.  Which he did, tapping the table.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/SqueezeSponge.jpg/225px-SqueezeSponge.jpg)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9777&g2_serialNumber=1)

Joseph Serock has taken down a pretty chunky 40k pot. He called a bet from Jan Sorensen on a Ks Th 9c flop, and then they both checked the 7s turn and, a bit inexplicably (I guess he thought Sorensen would bet), the Jc river. Sorensen just mucked when he saw Serock's Jd 9d.

He's since been ABUSING his giganto-stack and bullying poor old Trond Eidsvig (in a very unbiased reporting sort of way). He raises from the button and Trond calls. Poor, honest, hard-working, attractive Trond checks the Ad 6s 7h flop and Serock bets 14k. Trond folds.

And confirming the giganto-stackness of Mr Serock, the chip counts from the end of level 14:

ID    Table    Seat    Name    Country    Chips
209    30    5    Jospeh Serock    USA                240,000
503    33    4    Patrik Andersson    Sweden                210,000
1904    35    4    Rasmus Hede Nielsen    Denmark                210,000
309    32    4    Johan Lund    Sweden                200,000
407    30    7    Jan Sørensen    Denmark                198,000
101    34    7    Joris Jaspers    Holland                192,000
1801    30    6    Trond Erik Eidsvig    Norway                162,000
409    34    9    Peter Eastgate    Denmark                155,000
907    29    7    Timothy Vance    USA                145,000
1306    33    6    Simon Dørslund    Denmark                145,000
402    30    3    Jarle Aasen    Norway                115,000
1109    31    9    Martin Bjerring Hansen    Denmark                111,000
1704    35    3    Søren Jensen    Denmark                110,000
1105    31    5    Peter Kalsen Petersen    Denmark                108,000
103    30    1    Miikka Samuli Mustonen    Finland                104,000
1209    32    7    Morten Holm    Denmark                100,000
1702    35    1    Andreas Glannbro    Sweden                100,000
401    35    2    Nicolas Dervaux    France                100,000
1807    32    5    Daniel Ryan    USA                 95,000
904    29    4    Luca Pagano    Italy                 88,000
708    33    3    Tommy Pavlicek    Canada                 85,000
506    31    7    Giacomo Rosa    Italy                 81,000
1406    34    6    Mikkel Middelbo    Denmark                 81,000
1502    29    1    Thomas Christiansen    Denmark                 80,000
1709    35    7    Ed de Haas    Holland                 80,000
806    33    5    Lasse Jeppesen    Denmark                 76,000
307    34    5    Mattias Ressner    Sweden                 73,100
1203    32    3    Erik Veld    Holland                 72,000
1302    33    2    Rolf Slotboom    Holland                 72,000
107    32    1    Allan Bække    Denmark                 65,000
706    30    4    Torbjörn Jonson    Sweden                 61,000
208    34    4    Michael Marek    Czech Republic                 60,000
605    29    6    Jonas Lennartsson    Sweden                 56,000
606    29    9    Nhi Bui    Sweden                 56,000
1401    34    1    Sigbjørn Mortueit    Norway                 56,000
406    34    8    Runar Runarsson    Iceland                 55,000
1403    34    3    Christian Grundtvig    Denmark                 50,000
703    31    6    Brian Jensen    Denmark                 47,000
1501    34    2    Christoffer Thorsen    Norway                 46,000
1907    32    6    Alexander Kravchenko    Russia                 45,000
404    31    4    Magnus Hansen    Denmark                 44,000
903    29    2    Ulrik Pedersen    Denmark                 41,000
305    29    5    Michael Eriksson    Sweden                 41,000
1102    31    2    Gino Alacqua    Italy                 40,000
1002    30    2    Claus Tversted    Denmark                 38,000
1901    31    8    Henrik Rune    Denmark                 28,000
1505    32    2    Morten Klein    Norway                 28,000
1508    33    8    Tung Huynh    USA                 27,000
1301    33    1    Leroy Soesman    Holland                 26,000
201    35    6    Severin Hovde    Norway                 26,000
1905    29    8    Haward Speer    Germany                 25,000
502    30    8    Janno Cazemier    Holland                 24,500
705    33    7    Kristian Pedersen    Denmark                 24,000

Tung Huynh is eliminated by continual talker Leroy Soesman (pictured next to Rolf in his spacevisor) who drew attention to the situation by saying, "I'm losing my audience! 'Oh he's all in again, what a surprise!'"  which of course drew back his audience and camera crew...  He showed Jd Js to Huynh's 3h 3s.
The board emerged... Ahrt 7h 4d 5d ... Qs to bring the total number of players down to a bubble-approaching 48.

Also pictured - dealer (attention 5%) and the lovely Kristen (attention 100%)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9779&g2_serialNumber=1)

One Official End Of Level 14 Chipcount that is no longer accurate is that of Pavarotti-a-like Gino Alacqua. He doubled up courtesy of fellow Italian Giacomo Rosa, shoving with  Aspades Ks and getting himself called by Ad Qc from Rosa's small blind.

Board - 3c 6s 5h 6d 7d

Rosa is down to about 40k.

This is probably the most biased piece of reportage I have ever read in my whole life.  Simply saying it isn't doesn't make it true.

Everyone is always talking about the 'big names' of poker, nice to see a little one doing well.

Rolf auditioning for Star Trek.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/GeordiLaForge.jpg)

Yeah, I thought he was a typo at first.

Well here we are into most definitely the last level of the day, with 5 places to go until the money. It's all very exciting.

Our current chip leader we reckon, on around 280k, is this young gentleman, Mr Rasmus Hede Nielsen:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9786&g2_serialNumber=1)


Alas alack though, our friend Trond Eidsvig has taken a bit of a beating - he's down to around 85k now with the blinds up to 2k/4k. Latest loss is down him calling a 13k raise from Jan Sorensen out of position, and then check-folding the 3d 4s Aspades flop. Come on, Trond!

Sorensen has also been doing damage to former chip leader Joseph Serock - he took a big pot off him with A-K on an A-x-K-x-x board. Serock mucked.

Joris Jaspers wins some chips!  JohanNED you may continue to celebrate...

What happened was this - Runar Runarsson was under the gun and Jaspers in the big blind.  I caught the hand from the flop so I don't know whether Runarsson raised and if so how much (pot visibility minimal).
Flop:  6d 7s Qh  Check to Runar who bet 15,000.  Joris thought for a little while and then flat called.
Turn:  2d  Check...think...check
River:  Kc  Check from Joris again - Runar kind of gave up and showed his 5h 5s while JJ took it with his Ad 7d.

Not sure whether this was before or after Jen saw that last pot, but when I counted Joris Jaspers' stack, it was around 220k. Here he is:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9789&g2_serialNumber=1)

Yeaaaah, Go Joris!!!

And Go Leroy Soesman as well!!!!!

Just outside the money busts Lasse Jeppesen getting it all in with Qs Qd vs. Ahrt Kd ("We have a race," helpfully comments Leroy Soesman).  Two Kings later and he quietly leaves the room while his buster - Patrik Andersson - now has a 310k stack at least. 

Friends, we are hand for hand!

Mr 43 was Jonas Lennartsson, who ended up sticking them in with Kc Jc against Ed De Haas' Ac 8h.

A 9s 8s 5h 9h Qc board later, we are down to 42; Jen has details of that...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9795&g2_serialNumber=1)

Sadly, we have lost him in 42nd place (the bubble bubble)... With 44k he shoved on the cutoff when it folded round to him, waited as Rolf and the small blind passed, but the big blind instacalled - it probably wasn't going to be good news for his Qd 9c...and it wasn't - he was up against Kd Ks.

Flop:  Ahrt 7s 8c  "Ten?  No, doesn't really do that much..."
Turn:  2c  "I said I was going to bubble!  When I say something, I mean it," he resignedly joked...
River: 2d and he shook hands with his eliminator in a gentlemanly fashion and exited. 

Hand for hand is now in operation...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9792&g2_serialNumber=2)

Incidentally, fellow Dutchman Rolf in this picture was caught muttering to himself by Dana.  It was something like, "Weak.  Playing tight.  Tight weak.  Weak tight."  Hope he's not losing the plot on the bubble.

I don't believe you :)

Say hi to sijb for me!

DOUBLE BUBBLE!!

Three tables simultaneously found players all-in during the same hand for hand hand (that looks odd). 

1)  Gino Alacqua survived his one with Ad Kh after Rasmus Nielsen attempted to burst the bubble by taking the shortstack on with Q-x... no joy there (except for Gino).

2)  Haward Speer got it all in with Aspades Kc (see a pattern here?) given a spin by Trond Eidsvig with Qh Jh...
Flop:  8c 5d 8h
Turn: 5h
River: Qs

SO down one bubbler...

3)  Claus Tversted got it all in wtih Ks Js, and this time it was a big slick that called him - that one hit two pair and so Tversted is probably the official bubble - as his chip stack was the shorter of the simultaneously all-in players. 


Phew.  Dana watched this, by the way, nudged vigorously by some Italians.  I applaud her efforts and will be buying some beer for her.

Photographic evidence from the three crowd-tastic bubble all-in, Italians poking me in the ribs and shouting "El Diablo!" spectaculars.

Witness Hand no. 1 - Gino Alacqua (sort of) and Rasmus Nielsen (small, in centre of photograph):

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9802&g2_serialNumber=1)

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Hand no. 2 - Haward Speer and Trond Eidsvig:

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Hand no. 3 - Claus Tversted (star hat; actual money bubbler) and Jarle Aasen (Che hat) - both possible contenders for Hat Of The Day if I'd noticed them earlier:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9798&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9812&g2_serialNumber=1)


This all took ages, and proved a bit much for Joseph Serock:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9804&g2_serialNumber=1)


Also proved a bit much for some guy in the press room:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9783&g2_serialNumber=1)

That's it! See you tomorrow at 2pm for a much-faster-probably-now-everyone's-in-the-money day.

 ;stickaforkinme;

Yeah what she said.

;stickaforkinme;

thakns for that great report

Barney has that effect on me too. Was quite rude to me at Blackpool GUKPT. Will buy a light so he can see up his arse.

;applause; thank you for the updates...

Great reporting Ladies:

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A thoroughly enjoyable read once again. My sincerest "Thank you".

End of day chip counts:

Rasmus Hede Nielsen   Denmark   295,500
Joris Jaspers   Holland   294,800
Johan Lund   Sweden   290,500
Patrik Andersson   Sweden   268,500
Jospeh Serock   USA   265,000
Jan Sørensen   Denmark   173,500
Ed de Haas   Holland   167,500
Timothy Vance   USA   154,000
Peter Eastgate   Denmark   154,000
Trond Erik Eidsvig   Norway   149,500
Simon Dørslund   Denmark   148,500
Thomas Christiansen   Denmark   145,500
Nicolas Dervaux   France   143,500
Miikka Samuli Mustonen   Finland   131,000
Daniel Ryan   USA   129,000
Michael Marek   Czech Republic   111,000
Henrik Rune   Denmark   105,500
Martin Bjerring Hansen   Denmark   105,000
Allan Bække   Denmark   95,500
Luca Pagano   Italy   93,500
Jarle Aasen   Norway   93,500
Tommy Pavlicek   Canada   87,500
Andreas Glannbro   Sweden   85,500
Torbjörn Jonson   Sweden   85,500
Ulrik Pedersen   Denmark   77,000
Peter Kalsen Petersen   Denmark   70,500
Gino Alacqua   Italy   70,000
Alexander Kravchenko   Russia   68,000
Rolf Slotboom   Holland   64,000
Christoffer Thorsen   Norway   64,000
Magnus Hansen   Denmark   60,500
Søren Jensen   Denmark   58,500
Runar Runarsson   Iceland   56,000
Christian Grundtvig   Denmark   54,500
Sigbjørn Mortueit   Norway   47,800
Erik Veld   Holland   46,000
Michael Eriksson   Sweden   32,000
Kristian Pedersen   Denmark   28,000
Severin Hovde   Norway   27,200