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Title: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 03:19:30 AM Welcome to Day 1B of the PokerStars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final. Play is due to start at 1pm.
This is the At A Glance thread and will involve updater posts only. For a fuller update and the chance to interact with the updaters, please visit our Interactive thread by clicking the link below: (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=32827.new#new) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 12:18:08 PM Morning all! We have coffee and a packet of miniature salamis we found somewhere. Mmm.
Here is a list of yesterday's survivors: Stephen Kjaerstad 111200 Chris Min Lee 96050 Johnny Lodden 88425 Mostafa Belkhayate 88275 Driman Connor 87675 Shaun Deeb 84375 Thomas Boekhoff 83350 Shane Reihill 82150 Nils Christian Paulsen 80825 Beniamino Speroni 80525 Gilbert Abela 78875 Peter Wolfgang Roche 78425 Pierliuigi Tiziani 77225 Claudio Stefano Rinaldi 74475 Noah Siegel 73725 Tommi Horkko 73150 Sasha Rosewood 72125 Woody Deck 70800 Terris Preston 70125 Morten Lokken 68700 Maxime Villemure 68000 Juris Bonders 67800 Valeriy Ilikyan 67450 Kenny Hallaert 67000 Clayton Maguire 66800 Domenico Tinnirello 58100 Sebastian Zink 58050 Andreas Torbergsen 56600 Enrico Mognaga 56325 Dan Glimne 54725 Sorel Mizzi 52550 Alexander Uskov 52550 Nordine Bouya 51400 Thomas Fougeron 50300 Jean-Pierre Gleize 49100 Jan Heitmann 48900 Mel Judah 47450 Eduards Kudrjavcevs 46650 Stuart Michel Fox 46600 Aliaksandr Dzianisau 46550 Marcel Luske 46375 Andre Santos 46000 Travis Klein 45975 Trond Erik Eidsvig 44525 Christoffer Stahle 44225 Thomas Bichon 44050 Luca Pagano 43750 Eric Liu 43600 Derek Vandamme 43400 Nicolas Levi 43250 Ronny Alex 42550 Patrick Sacrispeyre 42125 Andreas Fluri 41875 Anthony Chatelain 41225 Peter Traply 41000 Rahal Samir 40575 Kirill Rabtsov 38875 Andreas Sarling 38625 Josh Arieh 38500 Nikolaus Panopoulus 37800 Jonathan Dwek 37600 Richard Fohrenbach 37500 Stefan Gerim 37475 Cecilia Borg 36575 Joshua Gould 35550 Jason Mercier 35375 Fabrizio Baldassari 35275 Freddy Deeb 35175 Benjamin Locatelli 35100 Christoph Niesert 34900 Ian Prevost 34875 Fadi Kamar 34550 Thomas Wahlroos 34500 Giovanni Bigoni 33775 Tomas Brolin 33175 Pawel Chmiel 33175 Karl Gal 33075 Humberto Brenes 32700 Jeremy Wray 32525 Raymond Rahme 32225 Joakim Osth 31675 Dominik Stopka 31675 Ryan Fisler 31600 Gualter Santos 31550 Ryan Daut 31425 Anna Wroblewski 31325 Teodori Saverio 31150 Thomas Richter 31050 Carl Olson 30775 Fowzi Baroukh 30325 Stefanie Bergener 29825 Pier Paulo Ruscalla 29450 Ross Boatman 29000 Csaba Toth 28400 Pierre Xavier Lenoir 28300 Josef Klinger 28150 Jan Olav Sjavik 27500 Martin Rask 27225 Stephen Devlin 27100 Simone Coppari 26375 Gino Alacqua 26275 Thierry Van Der Berg 25975 Peter Feldman 25725 Robin Keston 25425 Eric Scalisi 25200 Kari Somer 24825 Mark Bech 24775 Michel Abecassis 24550 Gianni Mocchi 24450 Paul Maddern 24400 Steven Van Zadelhoff 23875 Alexander Argoe 22575 William Edler 22250 Nadir Jorephani 21850 Pablo Ubierna 21825 Alec Torelli 21325 Anthony Gregg 21275 Edward Lawson 20000 Osman Mustanoglu 19650 Vladimir Kochelaevskly 18525 Christer Bjorin 18250 Noah Boeken 18250 Samuel Chartier 17700 Matthew Kurtz 17550 Adam Levy 17500 Ricardo Sousa 17175 Sandra Edlund 17075 Pierre Baronville 17025 Daniele Masini 16775 Adam Sword 16775 Dominick Raynis 16725 Tommy Pavlicek 16075 Halldor Mar Sverrisson 15975 Carl Johan Ericson 15850 Dorrance-Bowman 15500 Andy Greekfish 15425 Luis Merino 15425 Tommy Dender 15225 Alexander Morozov 15050 Severin Walser 14950 Guillaume De La Gorce 14875 Max Tobias Persson 14700 Scott Sitron 14450 Eliahu Ilan Elezra 14400 Christian Togsverd 14250 Patrik Antonius 14000 Mario Puccini 13950 Benjamin Kang 12600 Richard Nadler 11775 Iliodoros Kamatakis 10900 Owen Crowe 10475 Andreas Hagen 10275 Rahal Kalil 10200 Mike Bartholomew 10075 Nathan Doudney 10000 Miguel Magan Tier 9800 Asbjorn Lunde 9775 Stephane Michel Sage 9650 Ken Justin 8800 Konstantin Bucherl 8750 Mikhail Ustinov 8475 Josef Kollarits 7450 Gordon Vayo 7325 Jared Hubbard 7225 Johan Van Til 7125 Francois Tardieu 7075 Anders Henriksson 6700 Barry Greenstein 5825 Martin Wendt 5575 Christophe Perraud 5325 Ditspong Pinpramot 4750 Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 12:23:13 PM ...And indeed an extremely provisional and incomplete player list for today, all courtesy of the fine figure of a woman that is Mad Harper of Pokerstars. At the time of, er, us arriving a little while ago, people were still dumping massive wads of €500 notes on the registration desk, so expect more people than this to suddenly appear on a revised player list at some point soonish:
Name Country PS Status Jerzy Hajdamowicz Poland Gerasimos Deres Sweden Andreas Larsson Sweden Matthew Hopkins UK Kevin O'Connell UK Joey Lovelady UK Martyn Bebb UK Alexia Portal France Manuel Bouvant France Anthony Lellouche France Ludovic Lacay France Thierry Cazals France Jean Claude Perrot France Christian Lohmann Denmark Jonas Molander Sweden Tero Laurila Finland Ørjan Holt Norway Andrey Zaichenko Russia Marc Goodwin UK Uffe Holm Denmark Thor Hansen Norway Johan Storakers Sweden Juha Helppi Finland Jérôme Mangin France Charles-Edwin Mangin France Derwiche Imad Leroy Soesman Netherlands Denis Patout France Daniel Elkeslassy Morocco Joakim Frank Angle Sweden Keith Johnson UK Michael Ehrencrona Sweden Felice Piccaluga Italy Minal Patel UK Michael Keiner Germany Fabrice Soulier France Raúl Mestre Spain Luis Sevilla Spain Diego Pérez Spain Victor Escudero Spain Simón Muñóz Spain Jose Valero Spain José Espinar Spain Max Pescatori UK Roger Suter Switzerland Stig Top Rasmussen Denmark Thomas Dolezal Austria Jonathan Friedberg USA Ramez Fouad Haddad Lebanon Souhail Joseph Nassar Lebanon Ghassan John Bitar Ghana Mikael Lundell Sweden Rony Jazzar Lebanon Janno Cazemier Dutch Juan Manuel Pastor Spain Mark Phillips London Fraser Dunphy Ireland Afzal Hussain Antoine Arnault Jan Bendik Ariel Adda UK Dieter Albrecht Switzerland Mickey Wernick UK William Thorson Sweden Tore Lagerborg Norway Surindar Sunar UK Jean Phillippe Rohr France Carl Hirschman Switzerland Gus Hansen Denmark John Dwyer Ireland Neil Channing UK Wooka Kim Japan Simon Faure France Anthony Gil Switzerland Cristiano Bruschi Italy Julien Sallin Switzerland Fabrice Andreani France Cash Ziv Bachar Israel Cash Isaac Baron US Cash Chad Batistia US Cash Boris Becker Germany Sponsored Saul Berdugo France Cash Anders Berg Norway DBI Remy Biechel France DBI Yngvi Bjarnason Norway Cash Keith Block US DBI Andrew Boccia US DBI Erik Bodén Sweden Cash Dan Borén Sweden Cash Rami Boukai US Cash Franz Bracher Switzerland Cash Tobias Brieler Germany Cash Steven Brown US FPP Chad Brown US Sponsored Sean Bruder Canada Cash Mory Bruno Switzerland Cash Jonothon Butters UK DBI Gregory Byard US DBI James Byrne UK Cash James Campbell US Cash (DS) Rey Cardenas US Cash Gerald Carter Canada Cash Yau Wan Chan US Cash Glen Chorny Canada Cash Selim Citak Turkey DBI Marco Compagno Italy Cash Vicky Coren UK Sponsored Spencer Cossette Canada DBI Brice Cournut France Cash David Cowling Canada Cash Daniel Didech US DBI Børge Dypvik Norway Cash Jacob Eaise US Cash Sondre Eftedal Norway Cash Josh Egan Australia Cash Jospeh Elpayaa US Cash Shawn Eno US Cash Alain Faust France Cash Maor Feldinger Israel FPP Leonardo Fernandez Argentina Sponsored Martin Fernandez Argentina Cash Miguel Fiatt Costa Rica Cash Bobby Firestone US Cash Leca Frédéric France Cash Benoit Gariepy Canada Cash Jeffrey Garza US Cash Adrian Gavile US Cash Jima Geary US DBI Herbert Gelman US DBI Celii Gianni Switzerland Cash Gavin Griffin US Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand Grospellier France Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem Australia Team PokerStars Pro Scott Hall US Cash Pierre Hall Canada Cash Harald Hautzinger Germany Freeroll Peter Heim Austria Cash Thomas Henck Germany Sponsored David Hickman US Cash Cristobal Hidalgo Spain Cash Patryk Hildebranski Canada Cash Sándor Hollaar Netherlands Cash James Honeybone New Zealand Cash Carl Hostrup-Pedersen Denmark Cash Nathan Hudson US Cash Gail Hummel US Cash Jan Iversen Norway Cash Faraz Jaka US Cash Ali Jalali Germany Cash Joris Jaspers Netherlands Cash Peter Jetten Canada Cash Mikael Johansson Sweden Cash Mark Keightley UK Cash (DS) Fredrik Keitel Germany DBI Yury Kerzhapkin Russia DBI Hafiz Khan US Cash Brad Kliever US DBI Alex Kloos Germany FPP Goran Kojic US Cash Tomasz Krzesiñski Poland Cash Mario Kühl Germany Cash Martin Kværnstuen Norway Cash Florian Langmann Germany Cash Ronnie Larsson Sweden Cash Michalle Lau US Sponsored Paul Leckey UK Cash Ivan Lehoczky Hungary DBI Stevie Levy US Freeroll Randy Lew US DBI George Lind III US DBI Pakinai Lisawad Thailand Cash Sander Lylloff Denmark Sponsored Jared Mahoney US Cash Amit Makhija US Cash Emil Malevsci Bulgaria Cash Armando Marquez Spain DBI Michael Martin US DBI Roberto Massullo Italy Cash Arnaud Mattern France Sponsored Mike McDonald Canada Cash Guido Meacci Italy Cash Edmond Melamed France Cash Dustin Mele US Freeroll Erlend Melsom Norway DBI Joseph Michael US DBI Dario Minieri Italy Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker US Team PokerStars Pro Jospeh Mouawad Lebanon Sponsored Philippe Narboni France Cash Peter Neff US Cash Daniel Negreanu Canada Team PokerStars Pro Lee Nelson New Zealand Team PokerStars Pro Jussi Nevanlinna Finland Cash Xuantien Nguyen US Cash Vinh Nguyen Denmark Cash Armando Pagliari Canada Cash Steve Paul-Ambrose Canada Team PokerStars Pro Richard Pettibone Costa Rica Cash Stephane Prevost France Sponsored Gunnar Rabe Sweden FPP Victor Ramdin US Team PokerStars Pro Andreas Rathje Germany Cash David Redlin US Cash Shane Reihill UK Cash Jordan Rich US DBI Niels Rikhof US Cash Jesse Rockowitz US FPP Paul Rotstein Belgium Cash Vanessa Rousso US Team PokerStars Pro Runar Runarsson Iceland FPP Sebastian Ruthenberg Germany Sponsored Daniel Ryan US Cash Loïc Sabatte France Sponsored Eric Samuelian France Cash Carsten Schlesener Germany DBI Calle Schöldborg Sweden Cash Torsten Schulz Germany Cash Michael Schulze Germany Sponsored Vincent Secher France Cash Jospeh Serock US Cash Eric Sfez France FPP Christian Simunic Germany FPP Todd Sisley Canada DBI Matthew Smith US Cash Marc Smits Netherlands Cash Rumit Somaiya UK Cash Mike Sowers US Cash Haward Speer Germany Cash Benjamin Sprengers US Cash Bernd Stadlbauer Austria Cash Ben Stark US Cash Gunther Steinbach Germany Cash Daniel Stern Canada DBI Frank Stumpf Germany Cash Jan Suchanek New Zealand Cash Benjamin Sulsky US DBI Paul Testud France Cash Yevgeniy Timoshenko US Cash Marin Truvnev Netherlands Cash Jospeh Udine US Cash Christopher Ulsrud Norway Cash Per Ummer Cyprus Cash Bas van Beek Netherlands Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 12:27:18 PM And they're off!
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14357&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 01:00:24 PM Play has begun, and although I struggled to spot early action other than you might expect with a 10k stack, 90 min clock and 25/50 blinds, Dana says she's seen some odd play already, chips are flying on at least one table.
I saw one flop: it involved Kevin O'Connell raising preflop to 200, getting three callers and a Qc 5s 2s flop. Checks all round, and then Kevin called a 600 bet on the Js turn only to fold on the 9h river to a 1,600 bet. His chip count, therefore: 14,200. Meanwhile the floor was called as a becowboy-hatted latecomer sat down in a seat 9, but didn't give the dealer his seat ticket. "Didn't they give you a card when you bought in?" asked the dealer. "No," replied the jovial American, "I gave them €10k, they didn't give me anything at all." Oops. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 01:07:01 PM Good Lord, craziness here already. I just saw a gentleman call off about half his stack with A-Q on a King-high board. The gentleman who raised him obviously had fourth pair. Amazing.
Meanwhile I have found Mr Michael Martin, who says "Hi mom!" for when Ms TheReader appears. He says he's tired, but appears most cheerful. He's right at the back of the room, next to the window, and as I was chatting to him the curtains opened and oh my God the sunshine! I could live here forever and I swear I'd never get used to it. Will most surely get some photos of the awesome, awesome view, as soon as Snoopy lets me have the camera. >:( My first circuit of the cardroom in numbers: Cowboy hats = 4 Pink/fuchsia shirts = 5 Times Steve Frezer pulled my hair = 1 Extra green chips that Maz Nawab has somehow added to his stack = approximately 10 Miniature salamis/woodland animal poos I have consumed = 8 urrrrr :-X Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 01:19:55 PM A crowd has formed around a table, and it is because Daniel Negreanu, Paul Testud, a Mateygent sat in what must not be the funnest place to be today in that he directly to Daniel Negreanu's right, and a Canadian gentleman called Benoit Gariepy (omg I love it when people have their names on their shirts) are seeing a flop. Said flop is Aspades 4d 6s. They unspectacularly check it.
Turn - 5d and now Mateygent bets 300. Negreanu and Benoit call, Paul Testud passes. River - 7d and Mateygent bets 700. To which Negreanu makes it 2k. Benoit passes, and Mateygent dwells up, grinning. He seems very pleased with himself. I think it's because Daniel Negreanu's just raised him. The crowd around the table is now unreasonably large for a smallish pot in Level 1. Eventually he folds. How happy he looks to be losing to Daniel Negreanu! Or something. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 01:33:21 PM Hi! I have an quite unusual request for you guys today. Any chance you could take some kind of closeup pic of some chips? would like to know how close those replica sets are to the real thing:) Ok, shall do, although a curious thing - yesterday the 5k chips were white, and today they are a sort of beigey brown colour. Either somebody spilled their coffee on them, or, more likely, they are today using for the tournament the chips that they were yesterday using in the sit n gos. So bear in mind that there may indeed be more than one design of Official Pokerstars EPT Tournament Chips, if that's what you have... ---------- Andrew Teng is currently on 13,450 and sharing a table with fellow Brits, Manuel Palanca (12,575 - "I keep bluffing off my chips, that's my problem"), Paul Ephremsen (11,500 - "I've had A-K beaten twice") and Paul Bracken (15,000 "We had a great piss up in Manchester last year"), not to mention a cucumber cool Mats Iremark, the EPT Dueville winner flying high with almost 30k in chips. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 02:30:03 PM While I was
--------- Like a machine gun rattling out an flurry of bullets, a swift raise, re-raise, re-re-raise, all-in, call causes a sudden showdown on the far table, one man turning over Kings, the other Aces. A King-less board later and we're a Spaniard down, leaving young American Joe Udine to stack up his newly acquired stack whilst simultaneously thanking the Poker God's for his good fortune. ----------- Another famous face that has been spotted today is Italian Pirate and former WSOP bracelet winner Max Pescatori. As I joined his table, he was seemingly praying to the poker gods with his hands clasped before him. With a 7h-5d-Th Flop on board, Max had called an initial bet of 1.2k, only to find Mateyboy push all-in for 8k behind him, with the initial aggressor following suit with an all-in of his own. Hesitant to fold at first, Max did eventually pass, likely pleased to see the aggressor turn over 5h-5c for a set of Fives. Surprisingly, the all-iner could only muster a Ac--Kc (he understandably smirked when he saw how much trouble he was in), and quickly exited stage left as the turn and River dealt out blanks. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 02:51:01 PM I'm afraid all we know currently about number of runners etc is that there are 449 remaining at this moment in time. From the virtual pen of Ms Mad Harper:
dear all I don't think I'll have a full list for today until about 6pm. The tournament team had a computer problem - it's now fixed but it's set them back time-wise. Best wishes Mad Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 03:15:21 PM Here it is: The back of Boris Becker's head. Yes, as you see he's attracted quite a media frenzy, being famous for at least one thing other than poker...
As I pretended to be much more interested in Runar Runarsson (the guy with the sunglasses looking suspiciously upwards) the media gent opposite me kept a firm track on the tennis star's face and a floorman or security person came up to me and insisted I turn my flash off. I was then sort of watched as I went to the nearby tables, and felt it only prudent not to annoy him on that round. Incidentally, all this concern being shown about Boris at the table (i.e. Stop the Flashing or he Might Get Distracted in his First Big Tournament) seems counterintuitive - he's surely creating a lot of media buzz for Pokerstars and must be used to the paparazzi blinding him with their cameras by now. I do, however, feel for the other players at the table. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14810&g2_serialNumber=1) ___________________________________________________________ Some level Two chip counts: Chad Brown -- 7,300 Paul Testud -- 20,200 Daniel Negreanu -- 18,500 Casey Kastle -- 16,400 Max Pescatori -- 13,700 Gus Hansen -- 14,800 Marc Goodwin -- 10,800 Andrew Teng -- 9,175 Mats Iremark -- 32,500 Manuel Palenca -- 10,500 Paul Bracken -- 14,000 Joseph Serock -- 11,750 Ram Vaswani -- 11,900 Juha Helppi -- 17,000 Dario Minieri -- ?? Think I saw him at the beginning of the day, but you never know with him - would gamble on OUT Neil Channing -- 19,100 (Wants to know who his supporter is...so who are you Supporter of Channing?) William Thorson -- 21,000 Vanessa Rousso -- 8,200 Joey Lovelady -- 21,800 John Tabatabai -- 11,125 Thomas Dunwoodie -- 17,825 Thor Hansen -- 15,850 Kevin O'Connell -- 8,700 Vicky Coren -- 10,450 Micky Wernick -- 14,300 Rumit Somaiya -- 13,300 Chris Moneymaker -- 4,000 Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 03:42:34 PM Slightly disappointed by the hat after all that build up. How about that of Wooka Kim? She seems an intriguing character, what with the, er, hat, and the shades and the big box of Macadamia chocolates. Like she might have bumped off a rich husband and be fleeing the country, stopping only for a brief high-stakes poker tournament. Not really, of course - she actually won the Everest Poker 'Live the Dream' package which means she may be a familiar face on the tournament circuit for a while to come. Well done her. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14876&g2_serialNumber=2) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 03:44:27 PM With Dana and Jen doing hatwatch, hoodiewatch, wristwatch and every other watch under the sun, I feel I should get involved with a watch of my own.
Drum roll please maestro... (http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/images/smilies/music_drums.gif) BORISWATCH After a slow (ahem) back and forth start, Boris has dropped down to 7,925 after locking horns with Mateyboy. After some brief pre-flop action, Boris check-raised a T-8-x Flop, and Mateyboy called. Both players checked down the raggy Turn and River before Mateyboy revealed T-8 to take the pot. Boris, meanwhile, showed an inferior pair of Pocket Nines. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 03:55:37 PM Sharing a table with Gavin Griffin is Jon Friedberg, just one of many players in this room who seem to have won a World Series bracelet. He currently has 8,725 after doubling up an opponent. "Do I have to show if I call?" asked Frieberg as his foe pushed all-in for 1,950 on a 2c 8d Qc Flop. The answer, not surprisingly, was yes, but this didn't seem to deter the American, Jon calling with Ac Kh and being shown Aspades Qh. At this point, Gavin Griffin piped in with a "You would have folded if you didn't have the Ace of Clubs," but that joke almost turned into a reality, the Turn bringing a 4c before a 7s River left one player mighty relieved.
Also on this table is a sunglassed up to the max Joris Jaspers with 17,925, and a battered and bruised Gavin Griffin with just 2,450. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 04:13:51 PM And not forgetting a bit of eye candy for the ladies, Mr Danny Ryan (21k at the last count):
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14909&g2_serialNumber=1) Also the perennial Ladies' Favourite (never saw it myself), Gus Hansen, currently seated next to Mr Marc Goodwin: (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14894&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 04:17:22 PM Mickey Wernick, the Shortstack King, is on his way towards his comfort zone. He's down to 12k after mucking to the owner of our Trousers Of The Day who was holding K-Q on a rag-rag-King-King-rag board.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14884&g2_serialNumber=1) Mr Trousers has a co-ordinating bag: (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14880&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 04:50:12 PM Mickey Wernick was on around 22k at one point, but lost a lot of chips with a full house, much to his own understandable disgruntlement. Before the Aces hand against, I believe, Spaniard Daniel Mangas, Mickey flopped a full house with Pocket Sevens on a J-J-7 board. Mickey checked, before smooth calling an 800 bet. 2k was then called on the Five Turn, before Mateyboy re-raised Mickey's 4k bet all-in on the King River. Mickey rhetorically asked, "The King helped you then?" before folding, his comments leading to the revealing of a most welcome K-J. Good fold, Mr Worm.
Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 04:50:49 PM CHIIIIPS Seeing as it's not my turn to take photos (It's one camera between three here, feel like the fates with their one eyeball)
Alexander Kravchenko -- 8,900 Danny Ryan -- 20,000 (Just re-raised Kravchenko off something preflop to add around 800 more) Ram Vaswani -- 43,500 (Up from the last time I counted him at under 12k) Michael Keiner -- 19,000 Wooka Kim -- 17,600 Jani Sointula -- 21,450 Anthony Lellouche -- 25,000 Per Ummer -- 10,700 Tim Vance -- 8,400 Jonas Molander -- 23,000 Neil Channing -- 16,975 John Tabatabai -- 9,425 Kevin O'Connell -- OUT Arnaud Mattern -- 6,300 James Honeybone -- 16,000 Patrick Bueno -- 13,500 Sebastian Ruthenberg -- 5,100 -------- Paul Ephremsen is now OUT. He flopped a set of Jacks, but ran head-first into a set of Kings. Ouch. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 05:10:08 PM thanks snoop Go guys... GO GO GO GO GO !!!!!! It doesn't end there ,Mr Pean, it's a Frenchfest over here, the latest Frenchie to get his hands dirty being Ludovic Lacay. I didn't see where the money in, but with one card to come and his opponent all-in, Ludovic Lacay had Tc 7c versus Ac 7h on a Kc 2c Qc 7d board. No club on the River and Mateyboy was sent packing. Victory for France! Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 05:38:24 PM Chip counts! I actually had custody of our mechanical eyeball when I went out, but you'll have to wait until I've edited and uploaded them. In the meantime please enjoy:
Dan Didech - 15k James Honeybonster - 16k The Lemon Man - 16.2k Arnaud Mattern - 13k Ed De Haas - 17.5k Vicky Coren - 12.3k Thomas Dunwoodie - 18.3k Rumit Somaiya - 14k Boris Becker, whose two bodyguards now do not want the press to count his chips either, but I was rude to them and then counted his chips from across the way; just as well he's more or less down to the felt on just 3.6k as small quantities of chips are so much easier to count from a distance. I wonder if the bodyguards tried to rough up whoever took the rest of his chips. Gah! Rant over. Sorry. Mickey Wernick - 9k Richard Ashby - 13.5k Joris Jaspers - 22.5k Jonothon Butters - 11.5k Danny To The D-Ry Ryan - 23k Vanessa Rousso - 16.5k Manuel Palanca - 9k and a bit upset - he was muttering some stuff about it being hardly worth the effort, and also some stuff concerning the devilish good luck of the gentleman two seats to his left... Neil Channing - 16.3k Tim Vance - 9k Gus Hansen - 22k Marc Goodwin - 12.5k Max Pescatori - 7k Eric Larcheveque - 13.5k John Tabatabai - 6.5k Ram Vaswani - 35k at least Michael Martin - 35k at least too - I asked him what happened, but all he said was, "I didn't really sleep much." ??? Joseph Serock - 14k Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 06:09:32 PM Back on Table Britain...
Manuel Palanca -- 9,350 Mats Iremark -- 25,250 Andrew Teng -- 25,850 Paul Bracken -- 13,500 Manuel Palanca was complaining of a poor run of cards. "I've only won three pots," he said. "One was a walk, the other I had 9-2 in the blind and flopped a two, and the other, I can't remember." Manuel then went on to, perhaps with a touch of understandable envy, highlight Mats Iremark's good fortune. "This guy is unbeatable at the moment. He doubled up within the first level with Aces when someone pushed in with A-K on a King high Flop." Also finding life tough is Paul Bracken, but he did just pull out a nice bluff on fellow Brit Andrew Teng. With a Flop of 5h-Ac-Jd, Andrew check-called a 1.2k bet before check-folding to a 3k bet on the Tc Turn. Andrew revealed As-Kh, confident that he was behind and perhaps hoping for a free look at Paul's hole cards. Happy to oblige, Paul proudly flipped over 9h-8h. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 06:26:54 PM I found a T6 lady as well, but I win because mine is still playing and just took a pot off her neighbour (also pictured) in a small blind vs. big blind confrontation...
He raised by 600 in the sb, and Mme T6 called. Flop: 9d 9s Kh. He checked, she bet 800; call. Turn: Jd Now he checked again, and she threw 2k out... shaking his head, he eventually passed - you can see he is still displaying that unique expression I like to call 'folder's frown.' (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14975&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 06:53:41 PM Complete Day 1b player list from the lovely Mad Harper (we have been bribing her with chocolate). No point posting their original seats as they've all moved around/been replaced with €1,000,000 sit n gos or a "€200 orange" as the guy on the mic just now announced:
Jarle Aasen Mazlum Acar Grigore Dan Adamescu Ariel Adda Tom Stig Ahlberg Cornelis Albla Dieter Albrecht Aniol Alcaraz Dario Alioto Amendola Fabrice Andreani Joakim Angle Luca Antinori Antoine Arnault Klas Gustav Axel Arvidsson Richard Anthony Ashby Terje Augdal Ziv Bachar Marcel Baran Isaac Andrew Baron Chad Batista Martyn Bebb Boris Becker Rachid Ben Rezkallah Jan Bendik Andrea Benelli Christophe Benzimra Saul Berdugo Anders Hoyer Berg Gustav Bergstrom Giorgio Bernasconi Manuel Bevand Fabio Bianchi Remi Biechel Sasa Biorac Ghassan John Bitar Yngvi Bjarnason Blanco Carrasco, Oscar Keith Block Andrew Boccia Erik Boden Mark Bollinger Farzad Bonyadi Dan Boren Walid Bou Habib Rami Boukai Bernard Boutboul Franz Bracher Paul Bracken Tobias Brieler Chad Brown Steven Brown Sean Bruder Michiel Willem Brummelhuis Mory Bruno Cristiano Bruschi Patrick Bueno Jonathan Butters Gregory Byard James Byrne Giuseppe Caciolo James Campbell Rey Cardenas Gerald Carter Michel Carvin Casey Castle Thierry Cazals Janno Cazemier Yau Wan Chan Neil Channing Glen Chorny Umberto Cianfanelli Selim Citak Valeriu Coca Stepane Cohen Gerard Cohen Massou Cohen Marco Compagno Daniel Conte Christopher Convery Victoria Coren Raul Corral Spencer Cossette Brice Cournut David Cowling Guido Crapanzano Glen Cymbaluk Marcel Cyrill Eric Da Silva Richard Da Silva Alain Daien Mangas Nunez Daniel Freddy Darakjian Ed de Haas Bab De Haas Gerasimos Deres Nicolas Jean Dervaux Imad Derwiche Vikash Dhorasso Daniel Didech Thomas Dolezal Dumitru Cristinel Fraser Dunphy Thomas Dunwoodie John Dwyer Borge Dypvik Jacob Eaise Sondre Eftedal Josh Egan Michael Ehrencrona Sam El Sayed Daniel Elkeslassy Joseph Elpayaa Shawn Eno Victor Escudero Antonio Esfandiari Jose Espinar Simon Faure Alain Faust Maor Feldinger Andrew Feldman Franck Fellous Romain Feriolo Leonardo Fernandez Martin Fernandez David Lazare Fernando Miguel Fiatt Joshua Field Bobby Firestone Wojciech Frankowski Leca Frederic Jonathan Friedberg Benoit Gariepy Jeffrey Garza Adrian Gavile Jima Geary Peter Gelencser Herbert Gelman Gianni Geroni Jean Jacques Ghebali Celii Gianni Anthony Gil Robert Giordano Marc Goodwin Metaal Govert Brian Green Gavin Griffin Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier Mesbah Guerfi Giovanni Battista Guzzo Henrik Gwinner Joe Hachem Ramez Haddad Jerzy Hajdamowicz Pierre Hall Scott Hall Haller Hansen Thor Hansen Harald Hautzinger Will Haydon Peter Heim Arid Helland Michel Helou Juha Helppi Thomas Henk Emil Magnus Henriksson David Hickman Cristobal Hidalgo Emile Hijman Patryk Hildebranski Carl Hirschmann Sandor Hollaar Uffe Holm Orjan Holt James Honeybone Damir Horozic Jesper Hougaard Nathan Hudson Gail Hummel Afzal Hussain Ipworld Mats Iremark Eugeny Ivanov Jan Erik Iversen Omar Jadaa Moen Jairam Faraz Jaka Ali Jalali Jani Vilmunen Joris Jaspers Rony Jazzar Peter Jetten Mikael Johansson Keith Johnson Torbjorn Jonson Theo Jorgensen Picazo Jose Luis David Kahan Haim Kakoun Igors Kalicenko Denes Kalo Sefrioui Kamal Alexander J Kamberis Marc Karam Bulent Karsli Maxim Kats Mark Keightley Michael Erich Keiner Fredrik Keitel Sami Kelopuro Yury Kerzhapkin Hafiz Khan Cort Kibler Melby Davidi Kitai Brad Kliever Christopher Kloonicki Alex Kloos Vasiliy Klukin Goran Kojic Erich Kollmann Alexandr Kostritsyn Alexander Kravchenko David Shade Kruger Tomasz Krzesiñski Philippe Saadani Ktorza Mario Kuhl Tero Kunnas Csaba Kuremszki Kurschner Martin Kvaernstuen Ludovic Lacay David Lacoste Wlodzmierz Laczkowski Tore Lagerborg Tato Lancillotti Florian Langmann Eric Larcheveque Andreas Larsson Ronnie Larsson Michaele Lau Tero Laurila Juha Lauttamus Paul Leckey Markus Lehmann Ivan Lehoczky Antony Elie Lellouche Ken Richard Douglas Lennaard Alex Leviev Stevie Levy Randy Lew George Lind Iii Pakinai Lisawad Christian Pillip Lohman Joey Lovelady Tonino Lucisano Andrew Luetchford Mikael Lundell Sander Lylloff Jared Mahoney Amit Makhija Emil Malevsci Charles Edwin Mangin Jerome Mangin Ayaz Manji Jean Christian Marelius Marcello Marigliano Armando Marquez William Martin Michael Martin Roberto Massullo Arnaud Mattern Rino Matthis Mike Mcdonald Guido Meacci Nenad Medic Edmond Melamed Dustin Mele Antti Pekka Merilainen Raul Mestre David Miara Massimo Miceli Joseph Karl Michael Arnaud Mimran Dario Minieri Benboubker Mohamed Barkatul Mohammed Jonas Molander Chris Moneymaker Joseph Mouawad Simon Muñoz Antoine Nahas Phillipe Narboni Souhail Joseph Nassar Mazhar Hussain Nawab Peter Neff Daniel Negreanu Lee Nelson Giovanni Nervo Jussi Nevanlinna Vinh Nguyen Xuantien Nguyen Nielsen Thomas Nielsen Kevin Oconell Matthew Osborne Sami Ovaskainen Claudio Pagano Armando Pagliari David Paindestre Manuel Palanca Dag Palovic Juan Manuel Pastor Minal Patel Denis Patout Steve Paul-Ambrose Constantin Pavel Dan Pedersen Salvatore Pengue Diego Perez Juan Jose Perez Jean Claude Max Pescatori Emile Petit Richard Pettibone Mark Phillips Felice Piccaluga Frank Platano Alexey Popov Alexia Portal Brian Powell John Poynton Stephane Prevost Antti Pystynen Gunnar Rabe Victor Ramdin Andreas Rathje David Redlin Raoul Refos Alex Repik Riccardo Ricciardi Jordan Rich Oyvind Riisem Niels Rikhof Johannes Ritburg Luigi Rizzi Jesse Rockowitz Cherednichenko Rodion Jean Philippe Rohr Antoni Romanello Paul Rotstein Phillippe Rouas Vanessa Rousso Roland Rozel Jan Ruijters Runar Runarsson Sebastian Ruthenberg Danny Ryan Sergey Rybachenko Ioic Sabatte Erik Sagstrom Ilari Aaretti Sahamies Julien Sallin Giovanni Salvatore Eric Samuelian Ekrem Sanioglu Szabolcs Attila Saskoy Adrian Schaap Gerhard Schiesser Carsten Schlesener Calle Scholdborg Nick Schulman Torsten Schulz Michael Schulze Vincent Secher Joseph Serock Luis David Sevilla Eric Sfez Talal Dan Shakerchi Christian Simunic Todd Sisley Mameche Slimane Matthew Smith Marc Smits Leroy Soesman Jani Sointula Rumit Somaiya Fabrice Soulier Mike Sowers Haward Speer Benjamin Sprengers Bernd Stadlbauer Ben Stark Guy Steel David Paul Steicke Gunther Steinbach Daniel Stern Johan Storakers Matt Stout Frantisek Striz Frank Stumpf Jan Suchanek Benjamin Sulsky Surinder Sunar Roger Suter Peter Swartling Sebastien Szwarc Reza John Tabatabai Rahim Tadj Saadat Felipe Taveres Andrew Teng Paul Jean Testud William Thorsen Yevgeniy Timoshenko Stig Top Rasmussen Laurent Torossian Fabrice Touil Edwin Elisabeth Tournier Vladimir Troyanovsky Marin Truvnev Tsang Elton Joseph Udine Claus Uhrskov Christopher Ulsrud Per Magnus Ummer Tom Underwood Jose Valero Martin Vallo Bas Van Beek Timothy Vance Mark Vargas Ram Vaswani Jan Veit Thomas Vestergaard Damiani Vincenzo Anders Vind Rasmus Vogt Jan Christoph Von Halle Helene Wagneryd Michael Watson Thomas Weghofer Mickey Wernick Anders Wijk Kim Wooka Cherif Zacca Jacques Zaicik Marwan Zakhem Stanislav Zavoyskiy Jerome Zerbib Szabo Zoltan By the way there were 450 players starting today, meaning a total of 842 over both days, which means that this is the largest tournament ever held in Europe, says our Mad. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 06:59:17 PM Michael Martin and Surinder Sunar just clashed in a moderate manner. There was 2k in the pot by the turn of the 7d 8d 4d Jh board, and Michael bet 1800. After a brief dwell, and possibly some conferring with his furry little friend, Surinder passed. Michael now on 40k, Surinder and his friend now on 15k.
Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 07:01:58 PM BORISWATCH
Sadly, Boris is out. "You cannot be serious!" I hear you cry, but unfortunately we are. It was a back and forth rally that saw Boris' stack go up and down all day (well, just down actually), but after a series of shots that trickled over the net, Boris finally double faulted when he pushed all-in with Ace high on an 8-8-8-Q board. When Boris made the bet, the umpire stated that his chips were still behind the line. "It was on the line!" he replied with a squeal. Either way, his opponent called with a Pocket Pair, and after the raggy River, Boris was sent back to the changing room. ----------- Andrew Teng (29,500) has now been plonked down next to Tim Vance (12,725) on Table Channing (16,875). Also present is Jonas Molander with 25,250. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 07:12:05 PM Paul Testud and Mr Mate E. Boy check down a T-J-Q-8-J board all the way to the river, when Paul bets 400 in position. Mr Boy calls, and all present are amused to see Mr Testud turn over 9h 9d for the turned straight. "Do you have a flush?" asks Mr Testud in jest as Mr Boy mucks.
Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 07:13:15 PM A couple of counts I missed earlier, and Negreanu again because the big crowd around his table makes me feel obliged to get his count every time I walk past:
Sander Lylloff - 23k Daniel Mangas - 12k Alex Kravchenko - 11k Daniel Negreanu - 19k Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 07:16:05 PM Today has really been one of those days where in a room full of action-generators I just haven't personally stumbled upon many fascinating hands. I approach a table just when Joris Jaspers is stacking the result of winning a pot, cards being reshuffled, or when Vicky Coren gets a walk in her big blind (both of these heart-stopping events have occurred) but just now I approached Table Thor Hansen just as Thor was getting his remaining stack in the middle.
He'd moved all in for 5,125 into a pot of around 6k with the board standing 5s 6c Jc 9c. His opponent took a surprisingly long time to call, seeing as he held Kc 3c for the second nuts and Thor had 9d 9h. By no means drawing dead, the board failed to pair and sent the experienced Scandie to the rail. My first exit experience of Day 1B. And his, too. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 07:20:43 PM By the way there were 450 players starting today, meaning a total of 842 over both days, which means that this is the largest tournament ever held in Europe, says our Mad. http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=28146 (http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=28146) Phew, glad I blamed it on someone else. Ok, largest main event ever held in Europe. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 07:31:15 PM Evening, good updates, if you can pick him out. can i have an update on Antoni Romanello pls (brother of roberto, look very similar) thank you Roberto was wandering through the cardroom in good spirits today, keeping an eye on his bro. Apparently a concerted effort from him, Antoni and Mickey Wernick spun up the last-minute buy-in for Romanello #2 yesterday in the SNGs! *Note* This is in no way meant to encourage the frivolous journeying of young poker players to places where it costs to breathe like Monaco in search of the Great Spin Up... ...But it does work sometimes. He's currently on 18k Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 08:15:49 PM tx dana and snoopy, i notice richard didn't make it, any further info on james and jan always appreciated, tx again for the sterling work... Mr Lee Nelson is alive, well and definitely still in - I actually have an awesome photo of him but Snoopy's wandered off with the camera. Neverends. Coming soon... Jan's original seat is empty - this doesn't necessarily mean the worst has happened, but I'm afraid I can't see him anywhere currently so it is a definite possibility. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 08:19:22 PM I was just passing table Brown/Negreanu/Testud/Iremark (depending on your nationality) when this hand kicked off...
Chad Brown raised to 500 utg (blinds still 100/200), called in late position by Mats Iremark and in the big blind by Paul Testud. Flop: Ahrt 3d 6h Testud checks, Brown bets 700, called by Iremark, but that gets rid of Testud. Turn: Td Both players check. River: Jd Now Chad Brown checks and then thinks about the 5k bet at him. For a while. But not an unreasonable length of time given that his stack couldn't have been more than c.22k. He passes, and the chips are pushed over to the tricky Swede who is so unexpressive in victory and defeat that he appears botoxed. Pictured: Testud and Brown. Neither of them won this hand. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15017&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 08:23:50 PM Sander Lylloff bets 1800 on a Jd 9s 9h 7h board and Mateyboys x 2 call him.
The river is the housealicious Js - Mr Lylloffnow bets, er, a considerable sum - sorry, there was some shouting from another table and my attention wandered, but when I turned back to Table Lylloff, both Mateyboys had folded, letting Mr Lylloff rake in the chunky pot. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 08:26:13 PM Mr Maz Nawab, wandering back in from his dinner break, has been "up and down, up and down," which is obviously better than just down but not as good as just up. Currently in possession of about 12k.
Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 08:31:54 PM Potlet between Patrick Bueno and Dan Didech (Dcal Zone) filled up the last few minutes before the short break that just happened. I caught this from Bueno betting 800 on a Qh 8s Qc 3s board, only to face a check-raise from Dcal. The 2k lay there for a minute, while it was the American doing the talking, unexpectedly: "You got a Queen? Full house?" as he toyed with the 11,100 he had left behind. Bueno called. The river brought the Kd and another suspiciousish 2k bet out from Didech. Bueno passed. Most of the room had already left, though (isn't there something a little sad about winning when no one can see?)
Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 08:41:20 PM Vicky Coren and fellow Brit Talal Shakerchi both check a 7h 6s 3s Ac board (I think they check it - I arrived as the river was just about to be dealt). Looked like there had been a bit of betting at some point before the turn, though.
The River - 2c - and Vicky, first to act, considers it for some time. Eventually she leans forward and says, "Do you have the Aspades, is that in your hand?" Very sensibly replies Talal, "I can't tell you that." She checks, and Talal turns over Jd Jc. Vicky picks up her cards, 9s Ts, and shakes them slowly as if admonishing them for not being the winning hand. It's all very good-natured though, as evidenced by all the smileyness etc below: (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15016&g2_serialNumber=1) (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15013&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 08:47:45 PM Feast your eyes on these, obtaining as the other side of the cardroom returned from their dinner break.
Faraz Jaka -- 8,700 Manuel Palanca -- 7,900 Alex Kravchenko -- 11,375 Tim Vance -- 15,500 Joe Hachem -- 23,00 Florian Langmann -- 28,500 Glen Chorny -- 25,175 Juha Helppi -- 4,125 Gus Hansen -- 27,825 Eric Larcheveque -- 13,350 Andrew Feldman -- 30,500 Maz Nawab -- 8,775 Ludovic Lacay -- 26,000 Alfonso Amendola -- 29,625 Neil Channing -- 15,700 Paul Bracken -- 28,000 Jeff Garza -- 22,125 Surinder Sunar -- 18,225 Oscar Blanco -- 20,450 Paul Steve-Ambrose -- 20,600 Kasey Castle -- 28,000 Richard Ashby -- 14,975 Joseph Mouawad -- 30,550 Paul Leckey -- 6,175 Mats Iremark -- 28,750 Chad Brown -- 58,025 Paul Testud -- 15,200 Daniel Negreanu -- 26,600 Yuri Kerzhapkin -- 53,725 Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 08:57:31 PM Hi! I have an quite unusual request for you guys today. Any chance you could take some kind of closeup pic of some chips? would like to know how close those replica sets are to the real thing:) Ok, shall do, although a curious thing - yesterday the 5k chips were white, and today they are a sort of beigey brown colour. Either somebody spilled their coffee on them, or, more likely, they are today using for the tournament the chips that they were yesterday using in the sit n gos. So bear in mind that there may indeed be more than one design of Official Pokerstars EPT Tournament Chips, if that's what you have... Have you guys been able to get a deacent pic for me yet? Sorry - hang on just a little bit more and both sets of chips will be coming. We are still suffering one-camera three-fallible-updaters syndrome. Ta-Da! I am not actually allowed to touch any chips, but this player had the neatest stack giving excellent examples of all colours: (OK a not-so excellent) 1 brown 5k chip 7 blue 1k chips 4 red 500 chips 13 black 100 chips 12 green 25 chips Altogether now his stack is.......? (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15037&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 09:05:03 PM any chance we can get updates on faraz jaka (aka the-toilet 0): (http://www.pocketfives.com/jpgs/B3D0BBA8-CED5-4BD2-910B-C2A295324F96.jpg) tytytyty With an interesting dress sense and blonde highlights in his hair, I knew Faraz would be relatively easy to find, and that proved to be the case as he was unearthed on Table Lee Nelson at the very far end of the room. Unfortunately, my arrival seemed to have jinxed him, as I popped my beady eyes around the corner just in time to see poor Faraz being dealt a good old fashion rogering by New Zealand maestro and former Aussie Millions Champ Lee Nelson. It all went crazy on a Kd 6d Js Flop, a flurry of raises seeing Lee Nelson make the final push with Ad 8d. Faraz made, what may have been a near obligatory call in an already meaty pot with Jc Ts, but was ultimately unable to survive the 2s and... wait for it.... 9d River. When I first saw the photo of Faraz, I thought he might be the more vocal type who wears his heart firmly on his sleeve, but, unexpectedly, he remained cool in defeat and took it like a man. Lee Nelson, meanwhile, who even rose from his seat on the Turn and consequently interrupted his own massage, seemed truly relieved to have survived his all-in, and, along with his masseuse (Lee must have been paying well) was all smiles by the time he raked in the pot. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 09:08:45 PM Not since Waterloo have France experienced such a disaster, but I'm saddened to report that Fabrice Soullier has gone the same way as Napoleon and finally bitten the dust. Shortstacked and in desperate need of a double up, Fabrice made his move with K-Q, but went hurtling into an A-K which called quicker than a hiccup. A T-7-8-3-3 rainbow Flop was no good and the Frenchman was gone.
-------- Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier is OUT. Jacks v Kings. What a fish, he'll never win anything. -------- All-in with Td 5d against Jc Js on a 9d 8d 6s Flop (I shall assume the chips went in on the Flop), Ludovic Lacay managed to hit a 9d on the River to take a most welcome of pots. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 09:21:27 PM Something for a few of you now (OK, mullacott and the guy who wins the hand I'm about to describe, mainly...)
Let me start with this photo - this is Winning Matey at the end of the hand (not wearing a green feathery hat - just an awkwardly placed plant: (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15041&g2_serialNumber=1) I arrived at the table as the eventual victor was dwelling in front of a Qd Kh Th flop considering calling a 5,500 bet. He did. Turn: 2d WinnerMatey checked again, and this time faced something in the region of 7k. Back to this guy who called, leaving himself 6,500, which garnered a few raised eyebrows. River: 5d Now check once again. A reluctant check behind as the Loser shows down Qh Qc.... and is shown the victorious, and clearly surprising to the loser, Ad Td... Now here's the photo of the player who lost the hand, on the left of Neil Channing. The reason I didn't crop Channing out of this hand which has nothing to do with him, is twofold. One, he said, "I am photogenic," or something along those lines, and Two, I'd counted his stack at 25,200, when it was actually 25,100 and he said, "Do you think that would be good enough for Bloomberg?" (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15043&g2_serialNumber=1) Finally, the card protector of the rivered player - is he perhaps the one earlier referred to with the 'toilet' nickname?? (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15045&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 09:29:39 PM Chip counts from your friendly neighbourhood chipcounter - me!
Manuel Palanca - 9k Danny "Benjo Has Banned Me From Calling Him To The D-Ry" Ryan - 35k Alex Kravchenko - 8k William Martin - 35k Richard Ashby - er, just 850 Sander Lylloff - less than 5k, including the loss of 800 I saw him raise utg only to lay it down when Mateyboy two to his left makes it 1700 more Paul Testud - 12.5k Benoit Gariepy - 45k Daniel Mangas - 25k Eric Larcheveque - 11.5k Mickey Wernick - was 16k before an astounding hand to be documented below - said he during my chipcounting, "I've come back from the dead," where The Dead turned out to be 6k or so Marc Godwin - 36k Vicky Coren - 14k Ed De Haas - 23.5k Thomas Dunwoodie, still doing good-y - 23k Lee Nelson - 16k Michael Martin - 38k Surinder Sunar - 14k Neil Channing - "24,350 to be accurate" Joe Hachem - his hand was in the way :( but I reckon probably in the region of 20k "Texas" Alfonso Amendola 30k Ludovic Lacay - 25k Ram Vaswani - 23k Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 10:00:03 PM Yes, and that extraordinary Mickey Wernick hand.
I arrive just in time to see a Qc 4h 2d flop, and to see that Mr Trousers Of The Day (who I have discovered is called Michiel Brummelhuis) has bet 1600 and that a Mateyboy to Mickey's immediate right has made it 4k. Mickey sighs and checks his hole cards. THEY'RE ACES!!! Sorry, got a bit excited there, but at this point Roberto Romanello taps Mickey on the shoulder. "I'm just in a hand here," says Mickey. Roberto comes over to where I'm standing. "Didn't realise he was in a hand there." MICKEY FOLDS!!! Ahem. Says Roberto, "Did you see his pass?!?! He passed Aces!!!" Mr Brummelhuis-Trousers calls. Mickey gets up and comes over to us. "I passed Aces. I trap-checked and the guy bet, but then the other guy went over the top." Meanwhile Mr Brummelhuis and Mr Mateyboy check down the 8d turn and the 5s river. Michiel Brummelhuis - J-J Mateyboy - 8-T An almighty sigh from Mickey... Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 10:03:18 PM Manuel (I genuinely can't stop thinking about Faulty Towers whenever I write that name) has doubled up to 19k. He raised to 1k from the cut-off with Tens before smooth calling an extra 1.2k re-raise from the small blind. The small blind led out on the 8-9-J Flop, Manuel pushed all-in and Mateyboy called with Kings. Manuel Turned a Seven for the straight and proceeded to jump onto the table swinging his trousers over his head whilst chanting "I am a golden God, I am a golden God!". Okay, maybe that last bit was made up.
Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 10:05:09 PM Look at this! The awesome people at Pokerstars.com made a pie chart of all the nationalities representin' here this week! Cool. 8)
(http://www.europeanpokertour.com/images/EPT4_montecarlo_nationalities.jpg) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 10:20:37 PM Look at this! The awesome people at Pokerstars.com made a pie chart of all the nationalities representin' here this week! Cool. 8) (http://www.europeanpokertour.com/images/EPT4_montecarlo_nationalities.jpg) I notice the omission of the Republic of Ireland Flap being swumg by at least 1 Player Mr Paul Bracken of County Cork OHHHHHH I have made an error here - the pie chart does not include every nationality representin' here, just the main ones. Here they are in their entirety: USA 138 France 105 UK 67 Germany 58 Sweden 49 Italy 49 Canada 40 Holland 32 Denmark 32 Russia 30 Norway 27 Spain 23 Finland 20 Switzerland 15 Lebanon 13 Austria 10 Hungary 10 Australia 9 Poland 8 Belgium 6 Ireland 5 New Zealand 4 Portugal 4 Turkey 4 Argentina 3 Brazil 3 Bulgaria 3 Costa Rica 3 Israel 3 Morocco 3 Romania 3 Senegal 3 Greece 2 Hong Kong 2 Iceland 2 Japan 2 Latvia 2 Lithuania 2 Luxembourg 2 South Africa 2 Ukraine 2 Czech Republic 1 Estonia 1 Monaco 1 Rumania 1 Scotland 1 Slovakia 1 Thailand 1 Unknown 35 TOTAL 842 Ms Mad Harper is upset enough about this that she is re-doing the pie chart. Yay! Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 10:37:01 PM Eeeeeexit at the hands of Ed de Haas, one of the biggest names in poker.
He was playing against the gent pictured below (anyone identify) who, if one was going to judge him by a quick look, one might think to be a pretty solidish player, maybe cautious - after all this is nearly the last level of the day and he had a little over his starting stack. Of course, it's absolute rubbish to make such conclusions based on nothing at all, as this hand illustrates perfectly: Ed de Haas raised preflop to 1,150, called by the small blind. Flop: 4c Qc 7d SB bet out 3k pretty fast, but not as fast as de Haas called it. Turn: 8d Now he bet out 4k, got raised by 13k, moved all in (the only raise option left to him, and it wasn't a lot), call. de Haas: Ahrt Qh SB Matey: Kc 2c The river - a blank (considering) 3d and the stacked player just kind of sat there shell-shocked for a few moments (which is when I took this picture - discreetly and without flash, of course) before wandering off. Then, like at school when someone leaves the room and everyone else talks about him, they did that. (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15063&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 10:39:00 PM Below are chip counts for some of the remaining players that have been requested today. If we've missed anyone, please give us a shout, although the chances are that they might be out.
Thomas Dunwoodie -- 14,500 Lee Nelson -- 15,325 Vicky Coren -- 14,100 Neil Channing -- 31,300 Mickey Wernick -- 15,200 Steve Paul-Ambrose -- 5,875 Michael Martin -- 68,500 Andrew Teng -- 28,575 Manuel Palanca -- 23,150 Paul Bracken -- 22,000 No sign of James Honeybone, Tero Laurila, Maz Nawab, Faraz Jaka, Jeff Garza or Mike McDonald, so it looks as though they may have been eliminated. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 10:55:08 PM James Honeybonster is indeed OUT. "It's like I was going forwards in a snow plough, but it was in reverse." Not sure I understand that particular simile, but most of the damage was done with A-K v J-J earlier on, and he never really recovered.
Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 11:07:57 PM One Neil Channing has been moved to Vicky Coren's table - yikes...
And he's wasted no times in getting involved. Vicky limps utg and Mateyboy in Seat 9 (henceforth to be known as MB9) makes it 900 to go. The ginger Mateyboy in Seat 1 (henceforth - MB Ginger) calls. Neil on the button makes it 3k. "Nothing to see here," he says to me, "It's going to be a small pot." The blinds and Vicky fold, but MB9 and MB Ginger call. Flop - 4d 8d 7d and it checks to Neil, who promptly bets 6.5k. To which MB9 promptly announces all in. MB Ginger gets out of the way, and so too does Neil. He's now down to 22k or so. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 11:13:23 PM Michael Martin is up to 75 or 80k. "I just got every card you can possibly imagine."
The Twelve of Clubs! The Twenty Five of Emeralds! I'm sorry, I'm very tired now. ;sleep; Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 13, 2008, 11:24:07 PM "Mike, Mike," exclaims Mickey Wernick beckoning over his sponsor. "Look at this for a beat, hit it on the Turn."
On a 9s 4c Kc Ac 9h board, Frenchman Antoine Nahas had bet out 8k, only for Mickey to hesitantly call with Qc Tc, saying "Got the full house? If you've got the full house, you've won" as he hovered the chips over the felt. As Mickey planted the 8k onto the baize, Antoine flipped over 4d 4s, much to the Worm's dismay. "Yeah, you got it," he sighs in admission. Mickey down to 7k and, dare I say it, looking mighty pissed off. ------------ Looking like the Robert Wadlow of poker as he rises from his chair and puffs his beating chest out, Frenchman Eric Larcheveque prays for divine assistance from the poker gods as his paltry in comparison A-8 goes tete-a-tete with Chaoul Berdugo's A-T. With an Eight hitting the K-Q-8 Flop, Eric finds all his prayers answered immediately as Chaoul can do nothing but bang his fist on the table. A Five Turn and Nine River are of no use and Chaoul drops down to 17.5k. Eric, meanwhile, although donning a smile wider than Pavarotti's pants, still only has 6k. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on April 13, 2008, 11:24:37 PM we have a request from 2+2 for status on Ben Sulsky, no pic. thanks! (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15077&g2_serialNumber=1) This is he! I know because I asked him - the cop out way to get information, when the underground network runs dry. He was having a massage just a moment ago and looked pretty happy, with around 43,000. Not a bad stack at all. He seemed endearingly surprised to have been asked about online (via a kind of US-UK-forum Columbo by Gobbomom :) ) and I said he had requests for updates on him. "I want fans! I have more chips than he does..." wheedles Glen Chorney (sat two to Sulsky's right, incidentally. So he gets a photo too, and a count: 52k. Let's hear some Glen support! (http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15079&g2_serialNumber=1) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 13, 2008, 11:37:10 PM Ms Mad Harper of Pokerstars Presents...
PIE CHART TAKE 2: AN APOLOGY (http://www.europeanpokertour.com/images/EPT4_montecarlo_nationalities.jpg) I hope you all feel bad now. It sort of reminds me of watching the Open University at home when I was off sick from school - like these guys should be pointing to it with a stick - (http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42356000/jpg/_42356423_man203.jpg) Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on April 14, 2008, 12:00:24 AM Steve Paul-Ambrose, who, I believe, won the Caribbean Poker Adventure a year or two back, was last spotted walking away from the table, down the hallway and towards the exit with a face like a smacked bottom. I've never claimed to be the brains of Britain, but I'd say that suggests he's out.
A few quick chippy counts: Mickey Wernick -- 11,575 Paul Bracken -- 19,850 Mike McDonald -- 10,950 Jonothon Butters -- 19,625 Manuel Palanca -- MIA Dan Dedich -- 22,000 Marc Goodwin -- 40,000 Rumit Somaiya -- 13,175 Vicky Coren -- 16,750 Neil Channing -- 25,800 Surinder Sunar -- 22,200 Glen Chorny -- 38,850 Michael Martin -- 80,000 Andrew Teng -- 23,425 Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 14, 2008, 12:09:02 AM Manuel Palanca - 22k (his table was broken so forgive Snoopy's declaring him out, is most easily done in the Monte Carlo Poker Factory)
Rumit Somaiya - 13k. Oh no, hang on! As I'm standing there chatting with him, confessing that I haven't done any chip counts in a while so I can't really tell him who the chip leaders are, that sort of thing, a Mateyboy makes it 1300 utg and Rumit is the sole caller. They both check the 6h Th 6d flop, and then UTG MB checks the 5s turn - Rumit bets 1800 and takes it. "How much have you got now?" say I. "Is that 15k?" Says Rumit - "If it is, that's the first time all day!" Rumit Somaiya - 15.4k, and beaming. Title: Re: PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance Post by: danafish on April 14, 2008, 12:17:06 AM We are literally minutes away from the end of play, at which point we intend to scarper at high speed to avoid the miserable 45-minute wait for a taxi in front of the casino that we had to endure last night. In fact, the clock has stopped! Snoops says they've cleared the press out of the tournament area for the last 5 hands so we are so out of here...
Mad Harper says no chip counts or payout until tomorrow :( but we'll be back bright and early with all that good stuff. See you for Day 2 at 1pm (12 noon GMT)... ;stickaforkinme; |