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Welcome back to the Grand Final of the Pokerstars.com EPT Poker Tournament Which Breaks European Records!

We'll be live reporting on this, the interactive thread, as well as its non-interactive copy-pasty cousin from 1pm (12pm UK time): http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=32880.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=32880.0)

The team will do our best to find your friends/people you want for some reason to hear about, and not even the mighty Thomas Kremser will get in our way!

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1st
my prediction is tufat will be in 16th place at the end of the day

Man, you wouldn't believe the melodrama backstage sometimes.

Piechartgate:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTCkYeOaiAE

Snoopy's reaction to Piechartgate:

"OMG I can't believe I don't have a face. F*** my life."

LOL Quality :D

Absolutely fecking brill!

 ;applause; rotflmfao ;applause;

By the way blondeites, please please get your requestaments in early as we'll have a full seating plan (probably in the morning at this rate) and it's much easier to find people we don't know when we have a reliable location for them than when we have to rely on doodles etc later on...

Chip counts and seating plan, from the lovely Mad Harper. No more pie charts yet.


Name   Table   Seat   Chips
Oyvind Riisem   6   4   441,400
Johnny Lodden   2   7   380,300
Borge Dypvik   2   3   296,000
Andreas Hagen   7   1   276,800
Joe Hachem   13   3   255,300
James Campbell   13   1   241,700
Luca Pagano   12   2   229,000
Amit Makhija   1   7   219,100
Andreas Fluri   11   7   205,900
Sorel Mizzi   16   2   203,200
Martin Rask   8   7   188,200
Thomas Boekhoff   15   7   186,400
Benjamin Kang   2   8   179,900
Maxime Villemure   1   8   177,000
Rami Boukai   16   1   176,200
Noah Siegel   14   2   174,300
Gordon Vayo   14   1   171,000
Eric Liu   10   4   169,100
Raul Paez Corral   5   2   163,200
Henrik Gwinner   8   6   162,200
Alex Repik   15   5   161,700
Domenico Tinnirello   8   5   161,000
Freddy Deeb   9   6   153,300
David Shade Kruger   5   3   153,100
Cyril Bensoussan   6   6   149,100
Woody Deck   3   4   147,800
Tommi Horkko   9   5   145,500
Benjamin Sprengers   1   3   144,300
Vincent Secher   4   2   143,100
Kenny Hallaert   1   5   142,900
David Miara   11   1   139,900
Isaac Andrew Baron   2   4   137,800
Stig Top Rasmussen   15   6   137,600
Rahal Kalil   10   1   137,100
Michael Martin   12   5   136,800
Eduards Kudrjavcevs   14   4   136,000
Beniamino Speroni   10   3   133,200
Robin Keston   3   3   131,600
Brian Green   10   2   131,200
Tom Stig Ahlberg   7   3   130,000
Marcel Luske   8   1   128,700
Michel Carvin   13   6   126,800
Benjamin Sulsky   16   5   122,500
Antonio Esfandiari   4   6   121,400
Claudio Pagano   11   6   121,300
Glen Chorny   8   4   115,100
Stephen Kjaerstad   9   1   112,700
Csaba Toth   10   5   112,100
Morten Lokken   1   6   111,100
Raymond Rahme   6   8   104,200
Sean Bruder   13   4   102,200
Giovanni Bigoni   16   4   101,800
Andrew Luetchford   2   2   101,100
Peter Traply   3   5   100,700
Uffe Holm   9   8   99,800
Massou Cohen   11   5   99,800
Neil Channing   13   5   99,500
Stuart Michel Fox   3   1   99,100
Christopher Convery   14   5   96,800
Matthew Kurtz   10   6   96,500
Nikolaus Panopoulus   5   1   92,000
Mark Keightley   14   7   91,000
Felipe Ramos   11   2   87,900
Haward Speer   9   3   87,100
Mostafa Belkhayate   6   2   86,600
Ed de Haas   6   1   82,100
Juris Bonders   2   6   82,000
Simon Faure   7   6   81,300
Eliahu Ilan Elezra   16   7   77,500
Pierre Hall   13   2   76,400
Alexia Portal   6   5   76,300
Pablo Ubierna   9   4   71,400
Enrico Mognaga   8   2   68,600
Sami Ovaskainen   3   6   67,600
Christopher Klodnicki   9   7   66,700
Jan Heitmann   1   2   63,400
Tomas Brolin   4   4   62,600
Gerasimos Deres   12   3   59,900
Anthony Chatelain   1   1   59,000
Christoph Niesert   12   7   59,000
Anders Hoyer Berg   5   6   58,100
Thomas Fougeron   12   4   58,000
Alexander Morozov   8   8   55,500
Giovanni Nervo   6   7   55,300
Nordine Bouya   12   1   53,300
William Martin   4   8   52,800
Emile Petit   7   4   52,700
Sasha Rosewood   13   7   52,700
Clayton Maguire   11   3   52,600
Denes Kalo   15   4   51,700
Valeriy Ilikyan   5   5   51,600
Surinder Sunar   12   6   51,600
Anna Wroblewski   5   7   51,200
Jesse Rockowitz   7   8   50,400
Trond Erik Eidsvig   4   5   50,000
Connor Drinan    3   2   49,900
Leonardo Fernandez   3   8   47,600
Pawel Chmiel   9   2   44,700
Kari Somer   7   5   44,100
Joseph Udine   4   3   43,900
Alexander Kravchenko   1   4   42,200
Andreas Sarling   6   3   42,200
Ian Prevost   7   7   39,900
Anders Vind   12   8   36,700
Ricardo Sousa   11   4   36,500
Raoul Refos   14   3   36,200
Eric Da Silva   10   7   36,000
Andrew Teng   3   7   32,900
Alex Jalali   2   1   32,000
Sebastian Zink   16   3   31,200
Adam Sword   10   8   30,000
Edward Lawson   14   6   30,000
Stefan Geim   15   2   29,300
Walid Bou Habib   2   5   28,700
James Byrne   5   8   27,900
Nadir Jorephani   4   7   25,300
Derek Van Damme   7   2   25,100
Jan Olav Sjavik   15   3   23,900
Michaele Lau   8   3   20,300
Torbjorn Jonson   15   1   20,100
Mel Judah   11   8   19,300
Jonathan Dwek   16   6   14,200
George Lind III   5   4   14,100
Philippe Ktorza   4   1   9,200

andrew teng, connor drinan, and eric liu please!!

And by table:

Name   Table   Seat   Chips
Anthony Chatelain   1   1   59000
Jan Heitmann   1   2   63400
Benjamin Sprengers   1   3   144300
Alexander Kravchenko   1   4   42200
Kenny Hallaert   1   5   142900
Morten Lokken   1   6   111100
Amit Makhija   1   7   219100
Maxime Villemure   1   8   177000
Alex Jalali   2   1   32000

Andrew Luetchford   2   2   101100
Borge Dypvik   2   3   296000
Isaac Andrew Baron   2   4   137800
Walid Bou Habib   2   5   28700
Juris Bonders   2   6   82000
Johnny Lodden   2   7   380300
Benjamin Kang   2   8   179900

Stuart Michel Fox   3   1   99100
Connor Drinan    3   2   49900
Robin Keston   3   3   131600
Woody Deck   3   4   147800
Peter Traply   3   5   100700
Sami Ovaskainen   3   6   67600
Andrew Teng   3   7   32900
Leonardo Fernandez   3   8   47600

Philippe Ktorza   4   1   9200
Vincent Secher   4   2   143100
Joseph Udine   4   3   43900
Tomas Brolin   4   4   62600
Trond Erik Eidsvig   4   5   50000
Antonio Esfandiari   4   6   121400
Nadir Jorephani   4   7   25300
William Martin   4   8   52800

Nikolaus Panopoulus   5   1   92000
Raul Paez Corral   5   2   163200
David Shade Kruger   5   3   153100
George Lind III   5   4   14100
Valeriy Ilikyan   5   5   51600
Anders Hoyer Berg   5   6   58100
Anna Wroblewski   5   7   51200
James Byrne   5   8   27900

Ed de Haas   6   1   82100
Mostafa Belkhayate   6   2   86600
Andreas Sarling   6   3   42200
Oyvind Riisem   6   4   441400
Alexia Portal   6   5   76300
Cyril Bensoussan   6   6   149100
Giovanni Nervo   6   7   55300
Raymond Rahme   6   8   104200

Andreas Hagen   7   1   276800
Derek Van Damme   7   2   25100
Tom Stig Ahlberg   7   3   130000
Emile Petit   7   4   52700
Kari Somer   7   5   44100
Simon Faure   7   6   81300
Ian Prevost   7   7   39900
Jesse Rockowitz   7   8   50400

Marcel Luske   8   1   128700
Enrico Mognaga   8   2   68600
Michaele Lau   8   3   20300
Glen Chorny   8   4   115100
Domenico Tinnirello   8   5   161000
Henrik Gwinner   8   6   162200
Martin Rask   8   7   188200
Alexander Morozov   8   8   55500

Stephen Kjaerstad   9   1   112700
Pawel Chmiel   9   2   44700
Haward Speer   9   3   87100
Pablo Ubierna   9   4   71400
Tommi Horkko   9   5   145500
Freddy Deeb   9   6   153300
Christopher Klodnicki   9   7   66700
Uffe Holm   9   8   99800

Rahal Kalil   10   1   137100
Brian Green   10   2   131200
Beniamino Speroni   10   3   133200
Eric Liu   10   4   169100
Csaba Toth   10   5   112100
Matthew Kurtz   10   6   96500
Eric Da Silva   10   7   36000
Adam Sword   10   8   30000

David Miara   11   1   139900
Felipe Ramos   11   2   87900
Clayton Maguire   11   3   52600
Ricardo Sousa   11   4   36500
Massou Cohen   11   5   99800
Claudio Pagano   11   6   121300
Andreas Fluri   11   7   205900
Mel Judah   11   8   19300

Nordine Bouya   12   1   53300
Luca Pagano   12   2   229000
Gerasimos Deres   12   3   59900
Thomas Fougeron   12   4   58000
Michael Martin   12   5   136800
Surinder Sunar   12   6   51600
Christoph Niesert   12   7   59000
Anders Vind   12   8   36700

James Campbell   13   1   241700
Pierre Hall   13   2   76400
Joe Hachem   13   3   255300
Sean Bruder   13   4   102200
Neil Channing   13   5   99500
Michel Carvin   13   6   126800
Sasha Rosewood   13   7   52700

Gordon Vayo   14   1   171000
Noah Siegel   14   2   174300
Raoul Refos   14   3   36200
Eduards Kudrjavcevs   14   4   136000
Christopher Convery   14   5   96800
Edward Lawson   14   6   30000
Mark Keightley   14   7   91000

Torbjorn Jonson   15   1   20100
Stefan Geim   15   2   29300
Jan Olav Sjavik   15   3   23900
Denes Kalo   15   4   51700
Alex Repik   15   5   161700
Stig Top Rasmussen   15   6   137600
Thomas Boekhoff   15   7   186400

Rami Boukai   16   1   176200
Sorel Mizzi   16   2   203200
Sebastian Zink   16   3   31200
Giovanni Bigoni   16   4   101800
Benjamin Sulsky   16   5   122500
Jonathan Dwek   16   6   14200
Eliahu Ilan Elezra   16   7   77500

going to be looking for updates on Matt Kurtz, table ten seat 6

THANK U

I will be waiting for updates about Table 6 & 12 please...

GL to the (too much) few frenchies still alives...

Here I am again sounding like a broken record.  Any info on Michael Martin would be appreciated in advance.

Thanks guys and gals.

TR23

Made my day, Brilliant. Thank you

welcome back............chip count for foxy please

Hurrah. You're back!

Apologies for the delay in updates. This was not a problem our end, but an issue with the host server. The updates shall now, barring another server issue, continue as usual.

Many thanks for your continued support.

With most Day 3s, the opening level is normally the Level of Death with shortstacks pushing left, right and centre. However, on this occassion, this hasn't necessarily been the case. I don't know if it's because of the 15k starting stack, the generous 90 minute levels or the mouth-watering prizepool up for grabs, but the action hasn't been as fast paced as previous EPT's would suggest. Having said that, there were a few unhappy faces, Philippe Ktorza and the  wonderfully named Derek Van Damme both frog splashing (pun there for a very niche audience) their way out of the event within the first thirty minutes.

Go Alexia Go Franchies... ;D ;cheerleader;

 ;popcorn; ;popcorn;

There hasn't been the flurry of lemming-like all-ins we have almost come to expect from a later-day-in-tournament start.  Quite the opposite, everyone* is playing a thoughtful, considered game, and as a result there is a more hushed atmosphere, with some serious-faced hand-shaking of the table when people get eliminated.

There also seems to be a lot of Day Three Syndrome Floplessness, as re-raises take pots down from the continual raisers - like Oyvind Riisem, whose stack is of phenomenal size and doesn't seem to have been coloured up at all.  He kind of has to keep his elbows pointing out to the sides to get his hands in position to check his cards, which makes me think that keeping the tables eight-handed was definitely a good idea.


*Well, obviously not everyone, but the majority seem to be
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One pot which threatened to become very large saw Eric Liu on the cutoff betting 19k into a pot which had somehow become 36k preflop (sorry I missed that bit) on a flop of 7c 2h 4s and Csaba Toth raising on the button, to 41,400.  A serious-faced Liu considered whether to tangle with his fairly deep-stacked neighbour further, before deciding against it.  He still has 135k, though.

wooooooohooooooooooo back on track!!!

the tinernet is so boring when blonde is down, I can only watch so much red tube footage in one morning :)

Mr Marcel Luske is OUT. All we saw was the Marcel-standing-up-while-Glen-Chorny-rakes-in-his-chips bit, I'm afraid, but one thing we know for certain is that the Dutchman will be flying home tonight. Or possibly staying in lovely sunny Monte Carlo for a few more days, but I think I've made my puntastic point.

One man who suffered the wrath of the Poker Gods early doors was former Israeli army officer (deactivate smug mode for knowing pointless trivia) Eli Elezra. Short-stacked and praying for a hand, he found two cowboys grinning back at him and quickly pushed all-in. Across the table, an even short-stacked Joseph Udine picked up Pocket Snowmen and decided to take a stab. In seemingly good shape, Eli was all smiles and confident of victory, but his smile was soon wiped off his face as a stomach-churning 8-J-3 hit the Flop to leave Eli praying for one of two outs. As Vincent Secher begrudged his misfortune of releasing Pocket Jacks pre-flop, the dealer continued to deal out the rest of the board, the raggy Five and Ten Turn and River leaving Eli down to the felt. Udine, meanwhile, walked briefly away from the table, quietly celebrated, and returned with a restrained grin.

A few hands later, Eli was smiling once again and entertaining his neighbour and fellow High Stakes Poker star Antonio Esfandiair. In response to the banter, Antonio added, "Why do I have so much fun when you're at the table, Eli?"

Stuart Fox makes it 6k from one off the cutoff, only for Connor Drinan on the actual cutoff to make it All In for 45.5k. And it's pretty poor timing from Connor - Foxy does eventually fold, but not until after big blind Peter Traply wakes up with Aces and calls.

Traply - Aspades Ad
Drinan - Qs Ts

Nice flop for Drinan, nice turn and river for Traply: Ks 6s 2d 8c 3h

Meaning that Mr Connor Drinan is OUT.

Table Channing v Hachem, should be interesting  ;goodluck;

Andreas Fluri found Jacks and moved in his stacks.

A-7 had Clayton Maguire, so an Ace he did require.

The bullet on the River left Andreas in a tither, or should that be Fluri in a fury.

However subdued the start may have been, in recent minutes it's been insanity here!

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One level in and about a third of our remaining field has exploded, all this without the average stack ever dropping below 50 big blinds. Nutters.

Pablo Erbiana nearly had to be restrained, his roar of delight as his Jacks held up against Uffe Holm's A-Q being heard across the breadth of the room.

Meanwhile, Jan Sjavik was left shaking his head when his A-K failed to hold up against Stefan Gelm's Q-Js on a J-7-5-6-8 board.

great updates snoops, and could i suggest you keep up the rhyming posts as long as possible pls. Plenty of updates on Foxy and Channing pls, wish them both well from me....ty pls

By the way, this is what we think of the blondepoker server. Bad server!

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We've hit the first break and the third table break.  Some counts as they all headed for a brief dose of sunshine:

Robin Keston -- 130k
Matthew Kurtz -- 68k
Michael Martin -- 142k
Benjamin Sulsky -- 88k
Glen Chorny -- 220k
Andrew Teng -- 40k
Woody Deck -- 151k
Trond Eidsvig -- 38k
Antonio Esfandiari -- 150k
Alexia Portal -- 66k
Neil Channing -- 145k
Jan Sjavik -- 41k
Surinder Sunar -- 25k

Updates/pics of Canadian Pierre Hall please! He's on the same table as Hachem.
Thanks!

Updat of Thomas Fougeron Please, table 12 "Sunar-Pagano"

How about we make that "Martin-Sunar-Pagno".  lol

TR23

Eli Elezra Exits Eliciting Eidsvig Excitement

It looks like Trond Eidsvig raised preflop, and found Eli Elezra pushing all in for a short stack of 35k behind him.  Then Vincent Secher flat called, which was clearly a surprise to both of them...

Trond tortures himself for a while (his own stack a not too healthy 45k or so) and laments:  "I get all these decisions - why?"
He thinks it through, though:  "You flat call 35k.  Why?"  He growls a bit and stands up, hands behind head.
"I want the overcall!" pipes up Elezra, but Trond was right to smell a rat and get out of the way, as Secher flipped the Kd Ks and promptly eliminated the American.

Awesome updates you guys and clearing showing even more skills as part time dramatists.  Fantastic vid!


 :hello: :hello:  Nancy aka TR23,  how the devil are you?  I noticed you asking recently how to produce smileys in a post.  Well.......whilist you are making a post, there is button right next to Ace of spades called  [more].  Click on that and your whole smiletastic world will be opened up forever.  Enjoy.


Oh and glglglglgl Michael Martin & Stuart Fox.

Any news now?

It is terrible when the server goes down.

Recent things I posted on the Makeshift Blog.

By the way, if blonde goes down again, you can still follow the updates at a makeshift blog I set up - it's at http://blondeupdates.blogspot.com/ - bookmark it now!


3:37pm

Concerning the €10k STT, from the virtual pen of Mad Harper:

dear all

just to answer a few questions regarding the Stars of Poker $100k televised Sit and Go that is taking place right now (April1 15) at the EPT Grand Final....

Eight Team PokerStars Pros are taking part :Daniel Negreanu (actually first out after being busted, set over set, by EPT founder John Duthie), Katja Thater (Germany), Noah Boeken (Holland), Barry Greenstein (USA), Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (France, winner of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January 2008), John Duthie (UK), Dario Minieri(Italy, 3rd at EPT San Remo), plus Victoria Coren (£500k winner of EPT3 London), plus Joseph "bigjoe2003" Michael who won a special live freeroll satellite held last night for PokerStars Supernova Elites. PokerStars' chief blogger Brad Willis recently wrote a great piece on Joseph Michael: http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/2008/02/pokerstars-gives-new-meaning-to-house.html

For profiles on Team PokerStars Pros, see http://www.pokerstars.com/team-pokerstars/

All Team PS Pros paid $10,000 (dollars) to enter and PokerStars has added $20,000 to the prize pool to bring it up to $100,000.  Payout: $50k to 1st place; $30k to 2nd, $20k to 3rd.

Do let me know if you need any more information. 

Best wishes

Mad Harper
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Some counts:

Andrew Teng - 35k
Trond Eidsvig :) :) :) - 30k
Antonio Esfandiari - 150k
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Mostafa Belkhayate has doubled up to the tune of perhaps 200k courtesy of overnight chip leader Oyvind Riisem - Mostafa was holding K-Q on a King-high board, I'm afraid I didn't see what Riisem had. A massive "YESSS!!!!" and an ungentlemanly handclap from Mostafa alerted me to the double-up. Oyvind is not best pleased obviously, but certainly not in any trouble just yet.

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Mr Jan Sjavik shoves for around 25k from the big blind after, I believe, a small raise from Michel Carvin on the button. Actually I have only come over to the table because Jan is munching on a Snickers and I would like to have a photo of that. It takes me a moment to realise that all his chips are across the line, thus winning him my Most Nonchalant All-In Ever prize. Anyway, a short dwell from Mr Carvin later and they're on their backs.
Jan Sjavik - 6d 6h
Michel Carvin - Qc Th

Board - 2s 2h Ts Ad 8c

Mr Jan Sjavik - OUT. It wasn't a Marathon after all.

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Full chip counts at the end of Level 13, the first level we played today, courtesy of those good good people at Pokerstars.com:

ID    Player    Table    Seat     end level 13
604    Oyvind Riisem    9    5                     430,000
207    Johnny Lodden    12    7                     357,000
701    Andreas Hagen    3    9                     324,000
806    Henrik Gwinner    8    6                     286,000
1402    Noah Siegel    6    8                     260,000
1507    Thomas Boekhoff    9    3                     250,000
1602    Sorel Mizzi    1    10                     250,000
1202    Luca Pagano    2    1                     240,000
107    Amit Makhija    11    7                     210,000
901    Stephen Kjaerstad    9    2                     200,000
103    Benjamin Sprengers    10    5                     195,100
203    Borge Dypvik    1    1                     195,000
804    Glen Chorny    9    6                     195,000
1303    Joe Hachem    5    9                     195,000
1005    Csaba Toth    3    6                     187,000
1506    Stig Top Rasmussen    11    3                     185,000
708    Jesse Rockowitz    5    4                     185,000
1004    Eric Liu    1    4                     185,000
807    Martin Rask    12    3                     182,000
305    Peter Traply    6    3                     180,000
402    Vincent Secher    8    1                     175,000
1003    Beniamino Speroni    12    8                     167,000
905    Tommi Horkko    2    3                     165,000
108    Maxime Villemure    4    2                     163,000
805    Domenico Tinnirello    9    7                     161,000
406    Antonio Esfandiari    12    1                     160,000
906    Freddy Deeb    7    4                     160,000
503    David Shade Kruger    2    2                     155,000
1303    Joe Hachem    7    7                     151,000
204    Isaac Andrew Baron    4    1                     150,000
304    Woody Deck    2    5                     150,000
501    Nikolaus Panopoulus    4    6                     150,000
504    George Lind III    4    7                     148,000
303    Robin Keston    2    4                     145,000
105    Kenny Hallaert    3    7                     144,600
1106    Claudio Pagano    2    7                     135,000
1305    Neil Channing    8    9                     135,000
703    Tom Stig Ahlberg    3    8                     134,000
1601    Rami Boukai    2    8                     133,000
1606    Jonathan Dwek    11    5                     132,000
?    ??    11    6                     130,000
1205    Michael Martin    4    9                     130,000
1604    Giovanni Bigoni    10    2                     128,200
608    Raymond Rahme    5    2                     125,000
502    Raul Paez Corral    7    9                     124,000
1306    Michel Carvin    9    9                     123,000
1101    David Miara    9    8                     122,000
208    Benjamin Kang    9    4                     121,000
1107    Andreas Fluri    12    5                     120,000
904    Pablo Ubierna    6    5                     119,000
106    Morten Lokken    11    1                     116,000
903    Haward Speer    4    5                     112,000
1001    Rahal Kalil    5    7                     112,000
202    Andrew Luetchford    11    4                     110,000
602    Mostafa Belkhayate    10    3                     110,000
1405    Christopher Convery    6    2                     105,000
1203    Gerasimos Deres    3    5                     105,000
1302    Pierre Hall    7    2                     102,500
706    Simon Faure    3    2                     102,000
1304    Sean Bruder    8    8                     100,000
1103    Clayton Maguire    12    4                      98,000
601    Ed de Haas    6    1                      95,000
1504    Denes Kalo    2    6                      94,000
1002    Brian Green    2    9                      91,000
1605    Benjamin Sulsky    3    1                      90,000
705    Kari Somer    7    3                      88,000
1407    Mark Keightley    1    3                      83,000
102    Jan Heitmann    10    1                      81,100
403    Joseph Udine    9    1                      81,000
505    Valeriy Ilikyan    8    7                      80,000
1204    Thomas Fougeron    4    8                      80,000
808    Alexander Morozov    4    4                      75,000
404    Tomas Brolin    1    8                      70,000
605    Alexia Portal    7    6                      65,000
1006    Matthew Kurtz    1    6                      63,000
306    Sami Ovaskainen    12    6                      60,000
1105    Massou Cohen    1    7                      57,000
1404    Eduards Kudrjavcevs    1    2                      56,200
1502    Stefan Geim    5    3                      53,700
506    Anders Hoyer Berg    3    4                      52,000
206    Juris Bonders    1    5                      51,000
408    William Martin    8    4                      50,000
205    Walid Bou Habib    5    1                      45,000
707    Ian Prevost    7    8                      42,000
1104    Ricardo Sousa    7    5                      40,000
1201    Nordine Bouya    6    4                      39,900
101    Anthony Chatelain    12    2                      39,000
704    Emile Petit    8    3                      38,000
1503    Jan Olav Sjavik    10    7                      36,000
307    Andrew Teng    11    2                      35,000
405    Trond Erik Eidsvig    5    6                      32,000
607    Giovanni Nervo    7    1                      32,000
1008    Adam Sword    6    7                      28,000
802    Enrico Mognaga    8    2                      26,800
907    Christopher Klodnicki    10    4                      25,500
1501    Torbjorn Jonson    6    9                      21,800
1206    Surinder Sunar    5    8                      19,000
1108    Mel Judah    1    9                      15,500
1102    Felipe Ramos    5    5                      10,000






4pm


Peter Tramply - 320k
Pierre Hall - 112.5k
Eric Liu - 188k
Robin Keston - 130k still

Snoopy spoke to Neil Channing - he's on around 70k. "I dropped about 100k to the guy on my right," - one Joe Hachem. "Apart from that, everything's great."

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Altercation between Woody Deck and Joe Hachem! There was a big crowd around the table - apparently Hachem lost a big pot which was checked on the river, and a few people wanted to see his cards, as they were entitled to do, seeing as it was checked on the river. Hachem refused to show, at which point I understand Woody Deck called him an asshole, at which point Hachem went loopy and stormed away from the table. The way Snoopy tells it, the phrase ,"Who do you think you are," may have been uttered...




4:03pm

Michael Martin - 300k
Surinder Sunar, to Micael's immediate left - just 10k, eek

soooOOooooOoOoo tilting when the servers go down

Ok, seriously, my friends, this server thing is beyond a joke.

We will continue to attempt to update on here when possible, but I urge you, please bookmark http://blondeupdates.blogspot.com/

That is where we will be if (or more likely when) the server goes down again.

 ;frustrated; ;frustrated; ;frustrated;

***********Old Stories I only Just Now can Post on Here**********


The wonderfully named Peter Traply gets involved with Robin Keston, betting out on a Qc Jd Qs flop only to find Kestion raising him another 13,900.  He flat calls.  They both check the 8s turn, but Traply fires 38k on the 2c river which is enough to see off his opponent.

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Neil Channing is no longer in the tournament – spotted in the hallway with the somewhat surprised look of someone who has busted when he hasn’t had much recent experience of busting. Sorry mullacott etc. He can’t win ‘em all.
Also Not In but were at start of day---

Anna Wroblewski
Eli Elezra
Stuart Fox
Five full tables of players. Chip counts of remaining players on their way.

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Two to go until the money, when everyone will breathe more easily and we will be free to wander betwixt the tables gathering information like lovely spring flowers once again.  Players on a 10 min break.

Mr Paul Bracken has just now busted out of the €500 event in 13th place. "3 grand. Played like a donkey though."  ;hide;

He's buying us consolatory Cokes. Thanks Mr Bracken!

Thanks for the updates.

Good luck to all the Brits who are left.

Cheers updaters... it might not be easy with the continue serveur crashs...

did you catch the big arguement between hachem and woody?

 :hello: :hello:  Nancy aka TR23,  how the devil are you?  I noticed you asking recently how to produce smileys in a post.  Well.......whilist you are making a post, there is button right next to Ace of spades called  [more].  Click on that and your whole smiletastic world will be opened up forever.  Enjoy.


Oh and glglglglgl Michael Martin & Stuart Fox.
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Thanks so much Chili.  Let the smileys begin.   ;yippee;

Good GOD. I hate the server. Now it's letting me on and not letting Snoopy on. Sigh.

All the chip counts we did are out of date now, so please enjoy this scene-setting.


Glorious Outside

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15500&g2_serialNumber=1)

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(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15504&g2_serialNumber=1)


A close-up on that glittering azure sea. Couldn't you just dive right in?

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15506&g2_serialNumber=1)


And this is what that glorious view looks like through the gigantic windows in the cardroom:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15508&g2_serialNumber=1)

My my, yes indeedy. For a few missing chunks of this update, and my favourite ever photo of Jan Sjavik, please visit http://blondeupdates.blogspot.com/

Not like Woody to create confrontation.......can you tell him good luck from jeff buffenbarger!!!!


thanks

It seems we are in hand for hand mode, 1 away from the money. Is there some really nitty poker going on?

Copy of email recently received in the NAS mailbox from Snoopy:

Dear Members of the NAS,

In light of the recent downtime in the Blonde server please be advised that I will now spend the next 2 hours searching for as much norkage as I can find. I shall endeavour to post the results of my constant forays onto the card room floor shortly.

Yours,

The Beagle with the biggest Guns.


Gooooooooooooooooooooooooo Snoopsssssssssssssssssssssss

Wooooooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Also hitting the rail just outside the Cash Zone was Frenchman Thomas Fougeron, whom I saw giving a TV interview in the hallway.  We are at the bubble proper right now, 81 players left, 80 getting paid, so Steve Frazer is announcing every all in to the room, which is dealing hand for hand.  There were no fewer than five all-ins called while I was peering over from the rail just now, but each time it was the short stack who doubled up.  Most recent one:  Denes Kalo, all in with Qd Qh vs. Ac Kd.  I thought one of the players was having a super lengthy dwell, but they were actually holding until the film crew could get to the table, seeing how long the all-in player could stand the tension with the hands face down before screaming and throwing the table over.*

*Not true.

Fougeron:  Flying the French Flag no longer
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13020&g2_serialNumber=2)

Michael Martin - 300k
Surinder Sunar, to Micael's immediate left - just 10k, eek
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Dana --

Nice to just drop that tidbit in at the end of your post.  But....once again....no smileys after the name.  I knew I should have named him Trond Martin.

TR23

Dana --

Nice to just drop that tidbit in at the end of your post.  But....once again....no smileys after the name.  I knew I should have named him Trond Martin.

TR23
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:) :) :)

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It was cut short by a recommended and pretty much self-imposed Time Out on Hachem, who totally lost it when criticised by Woody (and another guy, who were actually within their rights to request to see his hand, but probably not within them to use the word 'asshole').  As BA Kildalen says, "He's an instigator.  Not a communicator."  Whatever the hell that means.

Wow Snoops is back, and still no bubbler.  This is turning into a (http://www.amazingtoys.net/toys/outdoor/bubbles_files/image009.jpg).

Sorel Mizzi and Luca Pagano (Luca's chips being much admired by Press Guy):

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15545&g2_serialNumber=1)


Nonchalant All-In Of All Time, Mr Jan Sjavik:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15536&g2_serialNumber=1)


And his less nonchalant assassin, Michel Carvin:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15542&g2_serialNumber=1)


Former chip leader Oyvind Riisem:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15533&g2_serialNumber=1)


And the guy he doubled up, Mostafa Belkhayate:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15530&g2_serialNumber=1)

Will the bubble ever end!!

Neverends, in the parlance. :(

gooooooooooo Woody

gooooooooooo home Frenchies









(only joking jpean)

For The Benefit Of Mr Paul Bracken
As Well As Those Who Would Like To Look At Him With John Tabatabai and Boris Becker In The €500+one rebuy event

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15510&g2_serialNumber=1)


Also For The Benefit Of Those Who Prefer Their Photos Beckerless

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15512&g2_serialNumber=1)

It's bedlam here, predominantly due to the lack of organisation on the bubble. As you are probably aware, all of the media were sentenced to the rail in order to let the television crew charge through like drunken rhinoceroses as we await that all-important bubble to burst. Unfortunately, the rail is a crowded place, and few, if any, are accommodating in allowing us to see the action. At one point, I decided to stand the other side of the rail and keep a low profile, and in doing so I was able to witness an all-in between Martin Rask and Torbjorn Jonson. As with all the all-ins at this point, the cameras have to remain poised until all hands on other tables are complete, but because players leap out their seats like epileptic salmons, it takes an age to finish them. On this particular hand, I think they may have been kept waiting five to ten minutes, and during that time I was able to learn that both players had Ace Jack, even though neither player had shown their hand yet. It was totally silly. Anyhow, when it was time for the showdown, there was a mixed ripple of sighs and laughter as the near inevitable split pot was revealed, and even more so when the Flop came down a rainbow. One player who was particularly disappointed was Brit William Martin. He's currently short-stacked with 21k, even after trebling up from 7k just moments ago.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15547&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15465&g2_serialNumber=1)

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Fantastic work getting the "side blog" up and running.

Thank you.

 ;tightend; ;hattip; :respect:

;iagree; :goodpost:

Just to save me going there and reading through it.......................any norkage on it???

There's just no hope for some people  ;)

No, sorry, not yet - frustration has rather overridden urge to take photos of ladies so far today - but it looks like we're back up here now so as soon as the bubble bursts (it has to, sooner or later) we'll get right on to it...

Hi, any news on the Brit Stuart Fox?    thanks loads

I posted this on the other blog too (actually I've posted most of that blog on here by now), but it's worth another post, I think.

T-Shirt Of The Day, Mr Christopher Klodnicki

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15516&g2_serialNumber=1)

there is plenty of porn sites out there for you

Mr Johnny Lodden and his monstrous stack a little while ago; probably still monstrous

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15519&g2_serialNumber=1)


Also Mr Andrew Teng a little while ago - we suspect he is now OUT but we're going to have to wait until the bubble bursts to confirm, I'm afraid

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15522&g2_serialNumber=1)


Apologies all, this thread has so far been Trondless today. Here he is! He's done his hair up all nice, and I like his jacket.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15525&g2_serialNumber=1)


And again, with Antonio Esfandiari, today sadly eschewing the redneck sleeveless look:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15526&g2_serialNumber=1)

Still no progress on the bubble front - another two double ups.  One of the longest most intense ones of these we have yet to encounter.

Ran into George Danzer, railing Jan Heitmann (obv) and he said that he (Jan) nearly gave him (George) a heart attack during the late bubble period stages... apparently they'd talked about things, and discussed how players were continually re-raising the German player, and to pick times to just push in when faced with one of these re-raises.  He did it with 4d 4s, ran smack into Ac Aspades.  4c the door card, and no looking back.

What a (http://www.bechteljewelers.net/catalog/DSCF0582.JPG)

Hello. I saw/heard this confrontation, and, I must confess, thoroughly enjoyed it from an entertainment perspective. Basically, Joe Hachem had just lost a huge pot, which, my source informs me, went check check at the end, and tried to muck his cards on the River. A couple of the players, one of whom was Woody Deck, were demanding to see his cards, but Hachem refused. Woody Deck then called him an asshole and hinted that he was being a diva and trying to play the 'superstar card' (ie. too famous to have to show). At this point, and I got a great view of this, Hachem leapt out of his chair in a fit of rage and bellowed, "Who the fuck do you think you are", even, and it brings a tear to my eye that a player could use such a derogatory word, calling Woody 'Euro'. As Woody shrugged his shoulders and sat their grinning like a naughty schoolchild, Hachem paced around the table momentarily before storming off.

Chip counts end of level 14, courtesy of awesome Pokerstars people. BEWARE! Mad Harper warns us that their card system is not infallible and there might be some teeny tiny mistakes here and there. Nevertheless:

ID    Player    PS Status    Country    T    S    end of L 14
207    Johnny Lodden    
   Norway    2    7    478,000
305    Peter Traply    Cash    Hungary    3    5    450,000
604    Oyvind Riisem    
   Norway    6    4    357,000
601    Ed de Haas    
   Holland    6    1    350,000
1601    Rami Boukai    Cash    USA    7    2    345,000
303    Robin Keston    
   UK    3    3    300,000
1401    Gordon Vayo    
   USA    7    8    292,000
804    Glen Chorny    Cash    Canada    8    4    290,600
1506    Stig Top Rasmussen    
   Denmark    4    1    283,900
906    Freddy Deeb    
   USA    9    6    277,000
1507    Thomas Boekhoff    
   Germany    9    2    272,000
203    Borge Dypvik    
   Norway    2    3    271,000
1004    Eric Liu    
   USA    10    4    260,000
103    Benjamin Sprengers    Cash    USA    1    3    251,000
406    Antonio Esfandiari    
   USA    4    6    250,000
503    David Shade Kruger    
   USA    5    3    250,000
204    Isaac Andrew Baron    
   USA    2    4    240,000
806    Henrik Gwinner    
   Denmark    8    6    225,000
1005    Csaba Toth    
   Hungary    10    5    225,000
1306    Michel Carvin    
   France    9    8    223,000
1205    Michael Martin    
   USA    8    1    220,000
1202    Luca Pagano    Team PokerStars Pro    Italy    8    2    219,000
901    Stephen Kjaerstad    
   Norway    9    1    219,000
107    Amit Makhija    Cash    USA    1    7    211,000
1402    Noah Siegel    
   USA    5    8    190,000
108    Maxime Villemure    
   Canada    1    8    185,000
1203    Gerasimos Deres    
   Sweden    2    6    180,000
1301    James Campbell    Cash (DS)    USA    3    2    180,000
602    Mostafa Belkhayate    
   Morocco    6    2    180,000
1303    Joe Hachem    Team PokerStars Pro    Australia    3    1    177,000
501    Nikolaus Panopoulus    
   Greece    5    1    177,000
1003    Beniamino Speroni    
   Italy    10    3    170,000
1604    Giovanni Bigoni    
   Italy    2    1    169,000
1107    Andreas Fluri    Cash    Switzerland    11    7    167,000
703    Tom Stig Ahlberg    
   Finland    7    3    160,000
402    Vincent Secher    Cash    France    4    2    158,000
808    Alexander Morozov    
   Russia    8    8    157,000
102    Jan Heitmann    Sponsored    Germany    1    2    153,000
1607    Eliahu Ilan Elezra    
   USA    9    7    152,000
505    Valeriy Ilikyan    
   Russia    5    5    150,000
807    Martin Rask    
   Denmark    8    7    147,000
1106    Claudio Pagano    
   Italy    11    6    146,000
1407    Mark Keightley    Cash (DS)    UK    6    3    145,000
106    Morten Lokken    
   Norway    1    6    140,000
1104    Ricardo Sousa    
   Portugal    11    4    140,000
905    Tommi Horkko    
   Finland    9    5    129,000
304    Woody Deck    
   Lithuania    3    4    125,000
903    Haward Speer    Cash    Germany    9    3    113,000
1102    Felipe Ramos    
   Brazil    11    2    110,300
1601    Rami Boukai    Cash    USA    3    8    105,000
805    Domenico Tinnirello    
   Italy    8    5    105,000
1302    Pierre Hall    Cash    Canada    10    7    93,000
706    Simon Faure    
   France    7    6    92,500
504    George Lind III    
   USA    5    4    90,000
?    ?    
   
   4    7    85,000
205    Walid Bou Habib    
   Lebanon    2    5    84,000
1504    Denes Kalo    
   Hungary    1    4    83,000
1001    Rahal Kalil    
   France    10    1    83,000
705    Kari Somer    Cash    Finland    7    5    78,500
904    Pablo Ubierna    
   Spain    9    4    78,000
1002    Brian Green    
   USA    10    2    77,000
?    ?    
   
   6    5    75,000
1103    Clayton Maguire    
   USA    11    3    73,400
1108    Mel Judah    
   UK    11    8    71,200
1006    Matthew Kurtz    Cash    USA    10    6    65,000
1502    Stefan Geim    
   Germany    5    7    60,000
1104    Ricardo Sousa    
   Portugal    11    5    46,000
101    Anthony Chatelain    
   Sweden    1    1    44,100
405    Trond Erik Eidsvig    
   Norway    4    5    41,000
707    Ian Prevost    
   USA    7    7    41,000
306    Sami Ovaskainen    
   Finland    3    6    40,000
404    Tomas Brolin    
   Sweden    4    4    40,000
608    Raymond Rahme    Team PokerStars Pro    South Africa    6    8    40,000
1304    Sean Bruder    Cash    Canada    4    3    38,000
701    Andreas Hagen    
   Norway    7    1    36,000
506    Anders Hoyer Berg    
   Norway    5    6    30,000
208    Benjamin Kang    Sponsored    Germany    2    8    29,000
202    Andrew Luetchford    Cash    UK    2    2    26,800
1501    Torbjorn Jonson    
   Sweden    8    3    26,800
607    Giovanni Nervo    
   Italy    6    7    17,000
408    William Martin    
   UK    4    8    9,000

Sorry about the weird formatting.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm the youth of today are so crude.......................in the good old days of TJ's childhood kids would get a smack round the earhole for comments like that.

Yes.  He's out.  Sorry loads ;)

Just noticed Robin Keston under the radar has crept up to 300k would be nice to see a Brit go a long way in this.

I thought that far back they were put in stocks  ;whistle;

A picture of Pierre Hall would be greatly appreciated :).......

Here's Joe Hachem in happier moments, pre-move to the Table o'PotentialTantrums.  Also featured on the lhs, Luca Pagano and Ed de Haas.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15552&g2_serialNumber=1)

nope, its our montrealer Maxime Villemure winning the whole damn thing. but you can enjoy second place though.

Is he normally this focused and alert?

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15429&g2_serialNumber=1)

Also falling just short of the money was Team Winamax's Alexia Portal. who built a good stack over the first two days but just didn't seem to get of the Day Three Starting Blocks.  Expect to see more of the frankly quite intimidating French lady, on and offline.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15554&g2_serialNumber=1)

We're still on the bubble, but here for your viewing pleasure is Mr Villemure.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15419&g2_serialNumber=1)

hum... nice smile...

thanks for the photos...

We're still bubbling here, I'm afraid. Until some incredible geek with super-googling powers and a lot of spare time tells me otherwise, I'm declaring this the Longest Ever EPT Bubble.

Press are still not allowed inside the rail, but I snuck in and got a few chip counts before they threw me out.

Michael Martin (Reader - :) :) :)) - 270k and shaking his head gravely, I think to express dissatisfaction with how slowly everything is going rather than disappointment with his almost-twice-the-average stack
Luca Pagano - 270k
Sorel Mizzi - 230k
Trond Eidsvig - just 35k, eek! :( :( :( He's having a massage to soothe his troubled mind/shoulders. Don't know why he's paying Legendary Masseuse Suki to do it, I'd do it for free.  ;whistle;
Ed De Haas - at this point I got thrown out. Sorry.

The bubble is still threatening to overtake teeth pulling in the pain stakes, predominantly because we can't get to the tables and are relying on someone announcing the hands as they unfold. Most annoyingly, a number of random people have decided to treat the rail as a football stand of sorts, grabbing the nearest chair and setting up camp at ringisde. At one point I ducked underneath the rail, but was swiftly escorted back out, thus forcing us to lurk behind those seated members of the audience, thus rendering our press badges useless. Meanwhile, Steve Frezer announces, "Players won't be going on their dinner break until the bubble is burst," much to the amusement of the remaining field.

An enormous crowd has formed - I run over and fight my way through to somewhere near the front of it. There is a board out, and I can see it! It is 7d 3d 8h Kh and Pagano Senior Claudio has bet 18k form the button. Felipe Taveres is deliberating. He stands up from his chair. He deliberates for some minutes. The crowd shuffles closer, holding its collective breath. Two of the other players at the tables are reading magazines. One is yawning. Felipe folds.

updaters... do you remember a so long bubble or is it realy unusual ???

Attention incredible geeks! It could be you! Anyone know for sure? Sorry, no official bubble length figures. I don't recall seeing one this long though. As it were. :o

;hide;

The bubble in EPT Dortmund 2007 was longggggggggggggggggggggg

Don't suppose this was filmed?? I would definitely pay to have seen this  ;ifm;

FACT


 - got it from google so it must be true -

From pokernews :

(http://fr.pokernews.com/files_fr/reporting/blog/4804b4e609157.jpg)

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2008-pokerstars-ept-grand-final-monte-carlo/main-event/day3/page2.htm (http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2008-pokerstars-ept-grand-final-monte-carlo/main-event/day3/page2.htm)

He's Canadian...i'm surprised it's not beer in front of him instead of water.

not the longest bubble - theres a quote on pokernews - "there was a 2 leveller in dublin"

True but all EPT's have 1 hour blind levels and this one is 90 mins so this probably is the longest bubble in history!

Much to the disappointment of all who were watching, some even chanting for the outdraw, shortstacked Andreas Hagen has doubled through courtesy of  Gordon Vayo (pictured). All-in with A-J versus 4-2s, Andreas had to survive a 5-6-7 Flop, but successfully managed to do so on the Q Turn and K River.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15571&g2_serialNumber=1)

Roughly 8mins a hand here.  Here's what happens after tables have finished promptly and one table has a confrontation/players thinking about confronting each other/players not realising it's their go:

1)  They wander around for a bit of a chat, a la Eric Liu and Clayton Maguire (I think).  You know.  Discussing approaches, stacks, life.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15573&g2_serialNumber=1)

2)  Turning 90 degrees, I see that Claudio Pagano wandering a bit, in a different way, through the corridors of his mind, bored into arm-crossed introversion by this monstrous bubble...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15575&g2_serialNumber=1)

It's Eau de Vie.

Why dont they just offer the bubble finisher 10k euros and get on with the game?

HAHAHA...what sites do u play on Girgy..I want action from you sir! :D

Jen and I are currently having a whip round in the media room. People are surprisingly charitable in these situations.

It would make sense! Im only a recreational player, and i prefer to play live than online, but its the bubble play which annoys me!

THE BUBBLE HAS BURST....

And it's the owner of this teddy...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15577&g2_serialNumber=1)

Come on..please do use you'r brain. (no offense)
What will u do with the 'bubble' before the 10k payout then??

Surinder Sunar, with 35k on the big blind, shoving over the top of Ricardo Sousa with Jh Jc.  Sousa held Kh Qh.
Flop:  Qs 4s Ac
Turn: 9c
River: 6s

And after nearly three and a half hours, Surinder takes the worst spot in the EPT Grand Final, and everyone else takes off 45mins for dinner.  Actually, he probably does that too.  It would be way too harsh to deny him access to the player buffet on top of everything.

Dana’s posting her pictures which should follow shortly.

Pardon? i was just making a suggestion! after 2 hours of bubble play (or however long it has been) playing hand for hand at 8 mins per hand thats 7/8 hands per level which takes the micheal! if the bubble goes on for this long then why not say pay the next person out whatever the buy in was and the the play would loosen up!

In the interest of fairness, I have been informed that Joe bluffed the River of this hand and was called, as opposed to it being checked down. The question is, does this make a difference, or do players still have a right to see the hand if they so wish?

and their in no ' in your!

Hows Roy Brindley/Peter Roche getting on?

Whatever you do don't tell me they are out, I'm not sure if I could handle that

Is that Scottish?

I do see u'r point sir, but u gotta see that all u do is creating another 'bubble' with that suggestion.

At least the battle between girgsy and moffsy (or whatever) has brightened up my wait for the bubble to burst ! ! ! ! PS Moffsy is right IMO  ;bumwiggle;

how is it? the previous player went out over 2 hours ago! i take your point! the bubble is there for a reason but sometimes its logical just to say this is getting a joke and in effect burst the bubble by offering the next player out his/her money back! Nobody wants to grind it out for 3 days to bubble!

going to need a chip count on matt kurtzzzzz and pics now that he is SHIPPppPpppPPin IT in the moniezzzzzzz

Ha ha..I may be going out on a limb here but..right now I place you as a player that makes a ghey raise(min raise) holding Aces pre, with 5 limpers in front, only to sit and whine for 20 mins afterwards when they get cracked by 63 sooooooted? ;D

How is it not?

At the risk of joining in your battle (i dont want to but I do have an hour to wait before 21 starts at the pictures PRE WSOP VEGAS FIX)

If you give 10k to 82nd place then oyu just create a slow down with people waiting for the Hand for hand at 82nd, the only way round this would be the "ludicrous" (IMO) suggestion of 9k 83rd 8k 84th 8k 83rd and so on but the point been if your only playing to get ur buy in back u shouldnt be playing that level.

Also many pros use the bubble as chip accumaltion by picking on the small stacks (all part of the Game)

Any way im sure moffsy has explained this whilst i have been typing it

Now Now Posters - Keep it civil.

I think we've had enough of a respectful break for poor Mr. Sunar, so HERE'S THE MONEY EVERYONE ELSE IS GETTING!!!

Position    Euros
1    € 2,020,000
2    € 1,179,000
3    € 715,000
4    € 589,000
5    € 421,000
6    € 337,000
7    € 253,000
8    € 168,000
9+10    € 126,000
11+12    € 101,000
13+14    € 76,000
15+16    € 55,200
17-24    € 46,300
25-32    € 42,100
33-40    € 38,000
41-48    € 33,700
49-56    € 29,400
57-64    € 25,200
65-72    € 21,000
73-80    € 17,000

;topman; well done, you got me down to the ground! The min raise is the way forward!!

Easy, give him €8k  ::)

Sorry Djinn, will not happen again. I just got bored, and seeing a opportunity to amuse myself on the expence of another human being; part of my sarcastic brain leapt into action..

pretty plix..with sugar on top..do forgive my rude remarks

Yes indeedy, longest ever or not, it's taken AGES. 2 hours? 2 and a half? Something like that. We all wanted to die a little bit - take player-turned-reporter Maria Maceiras, pictured here waiting on absolute tenterhooks for the bubble to burst:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15591&g2_serialNumber=1)


Of course, press were banned from the area, so we also had this to contend with. Railers come in all shapes and sizes. Note also Day 2 bustee Nicolas Levi begging for alms so he can buy a sandwich:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15585&g2_serialNumber=1)


Anyway, eventually there was action and I fought my way up to the rail just in time to see a player I don't think we mentioned much before, one Mr Small Bear, shoving for 35k:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15599&g2_serialNumber=1)


Only kidding! It was Surinder Sunar, receiving a tender yet manly squeeze from fellow Brit William Martin.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15595&g2_serialNumber=1)


Once the Queen came on the flop, Surinder was forced to bid goodbye to Small Bear, as it's being confiscated along with his dinner ticket, his room key and his passport. They're very serious about the bubble here.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15603&g2_serialNumber=1)


Assassin Ricardo Sousa:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15598&g2_serialNumber=1)


Surinder just about to weep into his enormous hankie:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15606&g2_serialNumber=1)

1. im not battling with anybody, i just made a post to suggest you could brake the bubble if u offered the next person out their money back!
B. you wouldn't get 82nd placing hanging around because not all bubbles take 2 hours to burst!
3. I also know that the bubble is the best time for big stacks to accumalte chips but is also the time where lots of short stacks double up from the big stacks!
and
4. its just my Oppinion!!!

I think you both have the wrong end of the stick about this bubble.  It wasn't a nitty Dortmund bubble.  People were shipping it all in left and right, but it just so happens that the flips/60-40s/80-20s were all going in favour of the shorter stacks.  I think it would be hard to manipulate a lot of this field on the bubble lol.

Incidentally the regress of paying off the bubble becomes absurd if you take it far enough.  Everyone could sit down and then get their money back (minus the reg fee).

Girgy is getting owned so hard

I'l own you tonight if you want?

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15607&g2_serialNumber=1)

Infinite regress theory is far to highbrow for most of us dorks out here (including me)

How about some more hamburger analysis ?

oooo..U tease u are ;) lol

Give her a hug from Junglecat! :D

LOL

lol.

No one in their right mind who had any game would want to create a €10K 'saver' for the bubble spot as it loses them soooooooo many chips which can be picked up during this 2hours of bubble time, giving another prize eliminates 2 hours of nittiness from most opponents.  why would you want to do that when u can sit there and chip up for 2 hours with no showdowns!

In regards to 'creating another bubble', i think girgy means when they get to the bubble they propose the idea.  So it wouldnt actually make anohter bubble, but would NEVER been done for the aforementioned reasoning.

ducy?

Also, updates on these guys who are going to help me ship ChipRich's monies in our last longer:

Johnny Lodden
Clayton Maguire   
Sorel Mizzi       
Eric Liu           

gogogo.

Sure.

(http://www.water.ca.gov/education/images/hamburger-L.gif)

I am as surprised as you to learn that 'Water is the First Ingredient in Every Hamburger.'  Good old water.  Can't do without it.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15609&g2_serialNumber=1)

Michael Martin
Ben Sprengers   
Luca Pagano

For me plzzzzzzzzz. tytytytyty

Still in and having dinner
Still in and having dinner
Still in and having dinner
Still in and having dinner

Chip counts for all players coming after break (20 mins)

Antonio Estfandiari
Michel Carvin
Anthony Lelouche

Please...


[edit]
OK, have'nt seen...

..PUNTASTIC...

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15611&g2_serialNumber=1)

Matt Kurtz
Matt Kurtz
Matt Kurtz

thats what i was hinting at but yes i do see your point in nobody who is chipped up wants the bubble to bust! i was just making a comment!

you could give the bubble their money back, but you can't tell anyone until you get to the bubble imo

According to the clock, play will recommence in thirteen minutes. Are you braced?

No but she is
(http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Ugly_Betty/ugly_betty_season_one_dvd.jpg)

You want in on the action Mr Pean?

We also have some individual last longers 1 vs 1. e.g. Lodden(me) vs Issac Baron(LeKnave).

lets gogogogoogo

[X]funny

mhm..all 'braced' up..


edit; ohhhhh to slow..again.. Story of my life 'sighs'

regarding the joe hachem hand.....

when i first read about it, i thought it was a shame, checked down and he didn't show his hand, that joe hachem acted so unprofessional as i really like the guy. And woody deck, whom i don't like, was right. But then reading the correct version, if Joe Hachem bluffed, was called and then other guy shows his hand, ofc Joe doesn't have to show his hand. However if the other guy asked to see the hand before he shows his, then Joe has to show.

I dislike woody deck even more now.... :-)

Maxime Villemure update please.. somewhere around 240k or so ??

I think you'll find him somewhere in this list...

305    Peter Traply    3    5    Hungary    Cash    590000
207    Johnny Lodden    2    7    Norway    530000
1601    Rami Boukai    7    2    USA    Cash    422000
604    Oyvind Riisem    6    4    Norway    350000
602    Mostafa Belkhayate    6    2    Morocco    320000
806    Henrik Gwinner    8    6    Denmark    274000
1402    Noah Siegel    5    8    USA    260000
804    Glen Chorny    8    4    Canada    Cash    257000
1507    Thomas Boekhoff    9    2    Germany    255000
1202    Luca Pagano    8    2    Italy    Team PokerStars Pro    250000
1504    Denes Kalo    1    4    Hungary    244000
303    Robin Keston    3    3    UK    244000
503    David Shade Kruger    5    3    USA    243000
1205    Michael Martin    8    1    USA    240000
108    Maxime Villemure    1    8    Canada    238000
1004    Eric Liu    10    4    USA    237000
1306    Michel Carvin    9    8    France    236000
1506    Stig Top Rasmussen    4    1    Denmark    235000
703    Tom Stig Ahlberg    7    3    Finland    235000
901    Stephen Kjaerstad    9    1    Norway    230000
204    Isaac Andrew Baron    2    4    USA    225000
1005    Csaba Toth    10    5    Hungary    222100
406    Antonio Esfandiari    4    6    USA    220000
906    Freddy Deeb    9    6    USA    219000
203    Borge Dypvik    2    3    Norway    210000
1104    Ricardo Sousa    11    4    Portugal    210000
808    Alexander Morozov    8    8    Russia    206900
505    Valeriy Ilikyan    5    5    Russia    200000
1401    Gordon Vayo    7    8    USA    200000
1203    Gerasimos Deres    2    6    Sweden    198000
1003    Beniamino Speroni    10    3    Italy    Cash    196500
1303    Joe Hachem    3    1    Australia    Team PokerStars Pro    195000
1106    Claudio Pagano    11    6    Italy    192000
1107    Andreas Fluri    11    7    Switzerland    192000
1301    James Campbell    3    2    USA    Cash (DS)    190000
1602    Sorel Mizzi    9    7    Canada    Cash    184000
402    Vincent Secher    4    2    France    Cash    180000
103    Benjamin Sprengers    1    3    USA    Cash    175000
1604    Giovanni Bigoni    2    1    Italy    156800
506    Anders Hoyer Berg    5    6    Norway    143000
102    Jan Heitmann    1    2    Germany    Sponsored    142000
1606    Jonathan Dwek    3    8    Canada    Cash    140000
608    Raymond Rahme    6    8    South Africa    Team PokerStars Pro    140000
903    Haward Speer    9    3    Germany    Cash    112000
106    Morten Lokken    1    6    Norway    108000
807    Martin Rask    8    7    Denmark    103000
202    Andrew Luetchford    2    2    UK    PS Status    100000
501    Nikolaus Panopoulus    5    1    Greece    100000
1302    Pierre Hall    10    7    Canada    Cash    98900
205    Walid Bou Habib    2    5    Lebanon    98000
304    Woody Deck    3    4    Lithuania    95000
805    Domenico Tinnirello    8    5    Italy    93700
905    Tommi Horkko    9    5    Finland    89000
601    Ed de Haas    6    1    Holland    80000
?    ?    6    6    #N/A    #N/A    80000
1103    Clayton Maguire    11    3    USA    79000
706    Simon Faure    7    6    France    76000
1002    Brian Green    10    2    USA    75300
504    George Lind III    5    4    USA    63200
701    Andreas Hagen    7    1    Norway    61500
1001    Rahal Kalil    10    1    France    57800
107    Amit Makhija    1    7    USA    Cash    55200
1407    Mark Keightley    6    3    UK    Cash    55000
904    Pablo Ubierna    9    4    Spain    55000
1006    Matthew Kurtz    10    6    USA    Cash    52700
705    Kari Somer    7    5    Finland    Cash    52000
1502    Stefan Geim    5    7    Germany    50000
1105    Massou Cohen    11    5    France    40000
206    Juris Bonders    3    6    Austria    39000
1501    Torbjorn Jonson    8    3    Sweden    34800
1102    Felipe Ramos    11    2    Brazil    27900
405    Trond Erik Eidsvig    4    5    Norway    27500
607    Giovanni Nervo    6    7    Italy    25000
101    Anthony Chatelain    1    1    Sweden    21600
404    Tomas Brolin    4    4    Sweden    18500
408    William Martin    4    8    UK    Sponsored    17400
707    Ian Prevost    7    7    15000
208    Benjamin Kang    2    8    ]14700
1304    Sean Bruder    4    3 #   11300

 ;tk; ;applause; ;applause; :)up ;yippee; ;cheerleader; :respect: ;letsparty;

Freddy Deeb FTW!

[/quote]

108    Maxime Villemure    1    8    Canada    238000
[/quote] ;D


future winner of EPT Monte Carlo 2008

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15613&g2_serialNumber=1)

By the way, did I mention that Luca Pagano has just broken the record for most EPT cashes? Nine. Sorry Julian. :(

glglgl to Jan Heitmann and Johnny Lodden.

The NAS have been pretty quiet today, there's been a worrying amount of serious discussion of poker on here instead, so I'm going to just go ahead and probably very unwisely encourage them.

One of the dealers:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15589&g2_serialNumber=1)


Ms Sandra Edlund:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15587&g2_serialNumber=1)


Ms Kara Scott:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15581&g2_serialNumber=1)

Trond's out. :( :( :(

Michael Martin's still in. :) :) :)

When you're this deep in a tournament, few flops being seen and all and sundry at the table making aggressive moves, you just pray for those Aces to pop along, those little drops of American Airline sunshine that will double you up and make you a danger again. Or, as was the case with Ian Prevost, you can get them when a double through will still mean you're a shortie. Of course, the latter is still nice, and it proved to be the case as Ian was looked up by the A-To of Tom Stig Ahlberg (pictured below in Dame Edna Everage specs).

"You're behind," announced Ian revealing his nutsy hand, perhaps forgetting momentarily that Tom could have been dealt the other two Bullets. Although Tom paired up on the T-Q-5 Flop, it wasn't enough, two Sevens hitting the Turn and River to give Ian his double up. However, he's still short, and will be looking for further opportunities to push in the upcoming rounds.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15617&g2_serialNumber=1)

Heard through the Marc Karam grapevine that Pierre Hall has doubled?! Details if you've got em!
Ps. Pretty please

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15625&g2_serialNumber=1)

Trond Eidsvig picked a spot to move in with Ahrt 4s.  It was a bad spot, because someone to his left looked down and found Kh Kc, taking the last remaining chips from the unusually-talkative Norwegian.

ALSO

Tommi Horkko, racing his 7h 7d all in pre against Ahrt Kh. 
Flop:  6s Qc Js
Turn:  The no-hope-possible Ts
River:  4s (just for completeness' sake)
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Dropped to a dangerous level and all in pre with 7s 7c - a slightly luckier pair of Sevens - was Torbjorn Jonson.  The Swede was called by Glen Chorny who promptly saw his Nines go down the tubes as Jonson spiked a Seven.  Still short though.

I know about this because an almighty roar went up from what I thought would be a coachload of railers on the, er, rail by Hall's table.  In fact, it turned out to be about three of them, but they were super excited.  One was doing some kind of dance, shouting something about shipping it and waving a beer bottle around.  Hall on 180k now - that number definitely signifies a double through.

Someone knows what happened to Cyril Bensoussan .?? I thank he was alive after the bubble but is not in the chip count ??

After a formidable run yesterday that led to him finishing the day as chip leader, you'd be forgiven for assuming that Oyvind Riisen had swalled a bag of Mario World invincibility stars, but today has been a slightly different story. Failing to improve on his stack, Oyvind has lost the chip lead to Johnny Lodden and Peter Traply and is gradually slipped down the ladder one by one. His latest sip of a rung was against Giovanni Nervo, the young Italian player finding himself all-in with Pocket Sevens against Oyvind's A-9. A 5-6-Q Flop was followed by a J Turn and T River, meaning Giovanni, much to his evident relief, receives a timely double up, whilst Oyvind takes another hit.

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Just heard  Myst  has been offered a spot at a rich norwegian 50/100 cash game..so no more updates from him and relying entirely on you! The pressure is on....

Gordon Vayo wins a 350k+ pot, doubling him to a very comfortable stack indeed.  I only caught the very end, as he was scooping nearly all of Tom Stig Ahlberg's stack holding Qh Qd on a board of Qc 4d Kc 7d 5c.  Ahlberg down to a desperate 33k - no idea how the betting on that went, or where the money went in, though.

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Dana --

I know how hard that must have been for you to type that.  But look on the bright side.  Now ALL of your attention can be thrown Michael's way!!!

Love,
TR23

Praise silence for the stack of the current chip leader, Johnny Lodden, possibly the neatest big stack I've ever seen. Until I praise his stacking abilities too much, can anyone confirm the number of chips in each column? I'd hate to think that he was trying to pull a fast one and deceive us intrepid reporters with columns of 39.
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You know how sometimes it's possible to tell just from the winner's hand and the loser's expression whether or not someone just got grotted?

Well I heard Eric Liu saying those immortal words of resignation, "That's poker.  That's what it is," and went to have a look at the table.  It turns out that he was talking to Brian Green, who'd just lost most of his stack doubling up neighbour and fellow shortstacker Rahal Kalil.  Kalil showed Ad 7d and the board was standing: 5s 7h Ahrt 8s 3s so I am guessing that he'd been a little bit dominated until receiving that nice flop...

What is 'Lakerol'?  Is is salty liquorice like loads of Scandinavian candy is, Dana and I discovered to our horror last year?

40 per stack

[X] accurate
[X] counting it means not much going at work

Can't be as bad as Spunk. Can't believe you ate that.

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Yes, it was painful.  :'(

Please though accept a picture of Michael, have to say he's looking a bit more :o than :)...

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Skipping into the cardroom I noticed that Sean Bruder and William Martin had bitten the dust, the former exiting the cardroom shapish, the latter hovering around the tables, perhaps refusing to believe that he's been eliminated.

Heard Lodden lost a monster pot to an American. Wich American? He now has under 300k

And congrats to Trond Eidsvig that now shares the record for most cashes in one EPT season with Johnny Lodden!

And shortstacked Torbjorn Jonson is indeed now thoroughly OUT. I believe there was a limp/small raise from Alexander Morozov on the cutoff, and Mr Jonson went over the top. Some dwellage, some call-age, some "wow"-age from others at the table when Morozov turned his cards over.

Torbjorn Jonson - 5s 5h
Alexander Morozov - Aspades 2d

And what else could possibly happen here but the board came: Qc Qd Ac Jc 6s

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Mr Morozov looking like a man whose tablemates have just said "wow" when he called a guy all in massively behind and then sucked out:

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Just to clear up the showing of cards issue. It is different in different places (poker rules are far from standard) but the general rule in this situation is that any player, in the hand or not, may request to see any players cards (mucked). This doesn't happen very often becasue the grounds for doing this are based on collusion and its not sporting to do so, therefore hardly ever happens, however it can be requested.

Great job as always and thx for updates.

Manuel (back home)

hey updates on AMIT MAKHIJA please anyone?

:) :) :)

Also OUT - Ian Prevost. Circumstances unknown.

I made JL's stacked chips of 39 coloumns.

Any news on Freddie Deeb for such a big named player updates have been few and far between.

Hat Of The Day

 - Mr Vincent Secher

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any updates on Matt Kurtz? a picture would be amazing, his stack was dwindling

 ;whistle;

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It's been a while, but I can proudly say that it's time to report a...

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with a stupendous number of...

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and two of the biggest...

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... in poker.

In fact, this was the biggest pot of the whole tournament.

Antonio Esfandiari = Ac Ad

Gordon Vayo = Ks Kc

Flop = 4d 8s 2c

Turn = 3h

River = 8s

Antonio now up to 680k and your current chip leader.

gogogogo antonio.

Jenn or Snoopy, Amit Makhija's stack please?

James Campell is OUT. I didn't catch the full hand, just that he ran 9h-9d into the Qc-Tc of Jonathan Dwek on a 5c-Jd-9c-8c-As. Looks cooler than a naturist field trip to Iceland.

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We'll double check for you. For the time being, we shall pleasure your eyes with a picture of Amit looking cucumber cool in his Top Gun shades.

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What happened to the autofocus lol

I think that this is still Pierre Hall, even though he's now right the other side of the card room.  Such is the nature of table breaks.  He is making a weird face because in an effort to get him to look at the camera I started grinning like I was on drugs and this is the reaction.

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If I'd photographed him about 5 minutes later, however, he may have been all (slightly apologetic) smiles.  He'd got his 120-150k all in pre with Jd Qd, called by Ahrt Qh.
Flop:  2h 6s Th
Turn: 6c
River........      ...........         ........ Jc

His railers go nuts, some high-fiving happens and he doubles through.  Slightly embarrassing celebration level, considering the circumstances...but he's now comfortably stacked.  And not American, which is what people in the room seem to think,but Canadian ;)

Sorry, that is a little wrong.  He shared it, until today, when he made it 5 cashes this year. Loddens old record was 4.  Eidsvig also holds the record for most final tables in one seson with 3.    Also he won the Master Classics but that does not count in this setting.

Amit has 90k, well, rather he did before he doubled up Anthony Chatelain in Seat one, the Swedes A-K holding up against Amit's Jacks on a K-Q-A-Q-6 board. I didn't quite catch how much Anthony had at the time, and media were urshered out after the hand whilst they colour up, but I'd hazard a guess that it was a 70k pot.

Also on that table are:

Beniamino Speroni -- 125k
Benjamin Sprengers -- 200k
Denes Kalo -- 290k
Maxime Villemure -- 365k

Lodden is now back up to 550k btw

You mean you're not on drugs? Tsk tsk...
Keep em coming, loving it! And maybe if we had him apologize more people would remember he's Canadian...eh?

the hendonmob database is handy eh??

Also gone is Sami Ovaskainen, Pagano senior was the assassin.

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Well, I'm very focused on her br... ;kev;

 ;nanana; ;nanana; ;nanana; ;nanana; ;nanana; ;nanana; ;nanana;

With all these people flanking, hows our montreal Maxime Villemure holding up ? chip count appreciated  ;D

A couple of chip counts - they are slowly colouring up a few of the monstrous stacks, but it's probably at its hardest-to-count point so forgive if these aren't totally spot on:

Sorel Mizzi -- 210k
Freddy Deeb -- 190k
Eric Liu -- 196k
Ben Sprengers -- 250k
Maxime Villemure -- 335k
Pierre Hall -- 280k
Luca Pagano -- 230k
Benjamin Kang -- OUT

Lol, thats what I tought was the case, but the betsson updates said otherwise so I figured I was wrong;)

[X]freakishly quick answer...

I use the flash, she knows I'm taking photos down her top. Apologies, I'm just a big wuss.

Looks like she's the one using the flash.

Joe Hachem - lots of chips

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Woody Deck - hardly any chips

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Actually here they are together. No idea if the air has cleared any between them, but Woody looks like he'd like to borrow some chips if Joe isn't mad at him any more.

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Seeing as we're now on a 10 min break, I can waste time add filler colour to the update by presenting you with...

Moccasins of the day!  Winner(s): those of Gerasimos Deres

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From the Virtual Pen of Mad Harper at Pokerstars. No capital letters yet, no pie charts. Disappointing.



dear all

results so far - 65th to 80th place -
65    James Campbell    € 21,000
66    Giovanni Nervo    € 21,000
67    Jan Heitmann    € 21,000
68    George Lind    € 21,000
69    Tom Ahlberg    € 21,000
70    Ian Prevost    € 21,000
71    Torbjörn Jonsson    € 21,000
72    Giovanni Bigom    € 21,000
73    Morten Lokken    € 17,000
74    Tommi Hörkkö    € 17,000
75    Benjamin Kang    € 17,000
76    William Martin    € 17,000
77    Sean Bruder    € 17,000
78    Felipe Ramos    € 17,000
79    Ed De Haas    € 17,000
80    Trond-Erik Eidsvig    € 17,000

This email has been sent to you by Mad Harper

Just stop being a wuss Dana and tell her its for the NAS and all her fans back home in blighty.

Incidentally any news of the 500 rebuy that Boris made the FT of.

Freddy Deeb - 200k

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Umm, I know that Paul Bracken came 13th and John Tabatabai came 18th or 19th, because Paul told us. That is all. Sorry.

Is this Matt Kurtz? I couldn't see his card anywhere. I'm afraid I don't know what he looks like, and this guy a) has no visible ticket, and b) has very few chips, both of which things are commensurate with him being Matt Kurtz...

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Is Freddie Deeb really Danny Di Vitos Twin?

Jow "I've a big stack I quit down now" Hachem

 ;D

A very huge pot - there seems to be around 150 or 200k in it when I get there, a flop that is made of Q-8-8 with two hearts, and 180k in front of Antonio Esfandiari. The young gentleman next to him (below; is that Matt Kurtz? we're really looking for him, I swear) dwells up long enough for the customary 5-deep crowd of press and railers to form, and then passes.

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This is what happens after you bust.  SikTilt get a hold of you and make you answer questions on camera.

"Trond, are you happier at coming second to Michael Martin now that you know how happy it made his mum?"
"Trond, what's it like passing Queens preflop, like rumour has it you did in that hand earlier?"
"Trond, is your favourite decade the 80s?"
"Trond, did you know you have a not-very-secret admirer in the press room?"

No, this is Freddy Deeb's twin:

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hahha no those are not matt kurtz, but thank you for trying .... he just recently busted 59th ai pre QQ to AA..... gg

he was at Antonio's table and starsblog reported that Antonio held AA, when in fact he did not

By the way, I know Jan Heitmann's busted now, but I'm still going to post this photo I took to illustrate his creepy, totally unmoving robotic-y-ness when he's in a hand (no flash, didn't want to put him off). Hands in front of him on the table, not a twitch. Scary.

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This has nothing to do with anything, but I found it on the internet while I was searching for something else. Cannot be bothered to think of better excuse for it. Sorry. Please enjoy.

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Oh. Sorry. :(

The 1 on the right has got the nuts

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No, Kim Wooka has got the nuts.

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and if you nick her nuts the NAS might get a better view  ;)

Our apologies, a few of the players seem to have eaten their player cards. One of those destined for the naughty step is this chap. Can anyone name and shame? Also, note the expression on the dealer's face. That look recalls all those failed attempts at chatting up girls in bars.  :'(

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Oooh oooooh, all you millions of guests reading the updates, why don't you take a moment to sign up to blonde? You'll be able to cheer on your favourite players, post your own taxidermy photos, make unreasonable requests of the update team, etc. Also you should totally open an account at the blondepoker online cardroom, which is awesome, and has a "loyalty bonus" which is equivalent to 30% of the rake etc that you generate on there, as standard, for everyone! Also kittens will die if you don't, and you know that none of you can afford to lose the karma points.

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> make unreasonable requests of the update team
okok... i wasn't going to post this (i doubt anyone here except me cares) but it's your fault now!
chipcount of Andreas Fluri?

Ricardo Sousa is OUT. He made his move with Kh 9h, but ran into the Td Ts of Oyvind Riise. Jd Jh 5d 6s 7c board.

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Also seen leaving the scene of the crime was Domenico Tinnirello. The press have now been permanently ejected from the playing area, and because that exit occurred the other side of the room, I was unable to obtain any further details.

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 :hello: lovely newbie! That counts as a reasonable request, an unreasonable request would be something like, "chipcount for Angus McMade-him-up" or "please buy me a €20 hamburger". I'm on to it...

Hello Djinn !

This is another of Pierre Hall  buddy.

Could you go tell him Jonathan Bates tell him he better bring some cash home because when he gets back, we still have to go fill our pockets at the 5-10 NL at the casino !!! Also a nice pic of him hugging another player would be welcomed. muhahaha.


Errr misread, is dana the one that fulfill requests ? :D

Will a picture of his crotch suffice? I think he may have had an accident.

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hahaha, too bad hes not looking at the camera ! :(

Thanks !

LOL we are only allowed to go in there one at a time... so this time you've drawn the short straw lucked out and got Dana.

It's about time we had a quiz on here.

Drum roll please, maestro...

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Name That Stain

coke of the liquid kind

i said coke as well, or maybe pepsi... HMM HMM, all i know is he doesnt like root beer, we used to put some in his coke to piss him off ! =D

I've always wondered what root beer is?? Is it like ginger beer?

Good question.

I'll have my friend wikipedia answer this, all i know is that it's insanely good !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_beer

The soft drink version of root beer is non-alcoholic and is generally made using extracts or flavored syrups diluted into carbonated water. It is not as widely popular as other soft drinks such as Coca Cola or Pepsi Cola, and constitutes only 3% of the U.S. soft drink market.[1]

And people still think it's good when the press are hovering around their tables...  Snoopy= no mercy.

Freddy Deeb -- 330k
Stephen Kjaerstad -- 190k
Pablo Ubierna -- 136k
Eric Liu -- 197k

Got to be honest, we're not really able to see more than one side of each table due to the Special Press Rail Area only flanking one side of the tournament, and a lot of spectators flanking the rest of it.  I'm only small.  They are only scheduled to play down to 40 players tonight, and then hopefully a well-thought out, comfortable viewing system can be devised for us press and everyone else, making the most efficient use of space and keeping everyone totally happy.








 ::)

It's preflop re-raisetastic at this late stage of the day, with first of all Joe Hachem getting a nice flop-free pot, then Antonio Esfandiari on the neighbouring table taking it up a notch with a 130k three-bet pre which basically put the full Tournament Life Pressure on Stig Top Rasmussen.  He thought for a very long time, Esfandiari remaining so quiet and still you'd have thought he was hunting something.  But no, he's just playing poker, in a quiet, still way.  Eventually he took that one down, Stig shaking his head in exasperation.

Woody Deck is OUT - and despite being basically a microstack at the end (he was called all in in two spots) he did have the Qd Qh against, er, 6-8 which only flopped a boat. 

We discovered, thanks to a particularly ingenious waitress in Tucson, AZ, that if you mix together Coke and Root Beer, it tastes almost exactly like Dr Pepper. Also we discovered on our own that another, perhaps better, Dr Pepper substitute may be concocted by mixing together Coke and Amaretto. Most unusual.

Access is limited at the moment, so I was only able to accrue the following counts:

Valeriy Ilikyan -- 170k
Simon Faure -- 80k
Gerasimos Deres -- 190k
Rami Boukai -- 460k
Tomas Brolin -- 75k
Benjamin Sprengers -- 170k
Anthony Chatelain -- 70k
Maxime Villemure -- 365k
David Shade Kruger -- 400k
Robin Keston -- 420k
Stig Rasmussen -- 275k
Glen Chorny -- 205k
Henrik Gwinner -- 310k
Amit Makhija -- 100k
Isaac Baron -- 170k
Walid Bou Habib -- 150k
Andreas Fluri -- 155k
Andrew Luetchford -- 160k

Mr Andreas Fluri (I hope ;pokergods;), on 160k. You have no idea what I went through in there to get this photo. :'(

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Hehe, nope, You were right.  And Betsson is Loddens sponsor. Nuff said, do the math:P

BTW I didn't use the Hendon mob database, I just knew it since I follow Trond very closely.  The last record of four cashes was shared by Lodden, Trond and Thierry van der Berg.  Both Trond and Thierry got their fourth cash this year simoultaniously.

I think this is Ben Sprengers, still in, but one of those 'have to remember what kind of shirt he's wearing as he has a face that looks a lot like baseball-cap a lot of the time' players. 

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Is no one going for red wine? I say Pierre looks like the refined type who indulges in a spot of Merlot or Beaujolais of a weekend with his friends down the wine club. Would I be correct in that assumption?

that's him! thank you danafish <3<3

Mr Beniamino Sperino is OUT. Not sure how the betting went, but it was all-in pre, him against the unnamed young guy who folded that big hand to Esfandiari a page or two back.

Sperino - Qc Jc
Some Young Guy - Aspades Js [EDIT - other way round, sorry. Hard to see from rail, apologies]

Board - 2c Qs Kc 6h Qd

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Hi guys, great updates as usual. I am very jealous of you people being in Monte Carlo even if it is in a darkened room.

Just wondering who you all tip to win it?

I was tipping Trond. :'(

Umm... Michael Martin? :) (Trying to get back my former status as TheReader's favourite updater, pathetic I know but it gives me a warm glow inside. No idea why).

No problemo Mr Eldenz. And as a special bonus, here is another picture I got of him, sans shades, only seconds before the other one, which I thought the camera had spitefully deleted but then I found it again.

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Completely off ! :P

Then again, i never saw him TRY wine, at ALL.

That was mostly my job ! hahaha.

Railer T-Shirt Of The Day

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Johnny Lodden Of The Day

- closely railed by sleeping guy in red shirt, Snoopy, extraordinarily dressed man not paying attention.

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looks like he had trips to me? hmm...

Borge Dypvik finishes in 47th place - but the hand which finally busted him - Ks Qd vs. Aspades Jc - wasn't the big one, I am sure.  A miss all round and the young Norwegian calmly shook the collective hand of the table and made an exit so unassuming you would hardly believe he'd missed out on €2 mil but taken down €33,700 for his three days' work.

I was tipping Trond. :'(

Umm... Michael Martin? :) (Trying to get back my former status as TheReader's favourite updater, pathetic I know but it gives me a warm glow inside. No idea why).
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Dana, my favorite reporter  ;cheerleader;

GG Deckas sounds like you've been taking friend making lessons off fellow T6 ***** Ed de Haas though mate!

dana> ill make you a cup of coffee ;ifm;

  ;D

Oh duhhh, other way round, sorry. More coffee for me.

Martin Rask (pictured below) has been eliminated in rather ugly circumstances. He was all-in with A-K vs. the A-Q of Frenchman David Miari, who, incidentally, is our mystery player card eating man, but was dealt an unhealthy slice of misfortune when a Queen arrived on the Turn. There was an Ace on the Flop, but I arrived to late to see when the money went in.

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As one might expect at such a crucial time, many hands are slow affairs with players deliberating over almost every decision. In all fairness to the rest of the players, they are remaining patient if someone spends a long time in the think tank, there's no huffing and puffing, no unsubtle sighs and little evidence of impatient clock calling. This was certainly the case for Eric Liu. With Stephan Kjaerstad pushing in pre-flop for 120,500 (there was about that in the pot), Eric found himself in the unenviable position of having to make a decision for what would be for the majority of his stack. Twitching in his seat with the discomfort of a fish out of water, Eric seem tortured by his decision, looking back at his cards, counting out his chips, separating stacks and even sinking his head into his hands in despair. Finally, he opted for the fold, and allowed his Norwegian opponent to fight another day.

The "big hand" was all in on Q high flop, Børge with AQ, other guy KK. Turn and river blank. 500k pot.

That doesn't look like coffee you're stirring, that looks like poison!

Ah well, I'll drink it if it's not like €20...

Look at that muppet in the background with the silly hair. Idiot.

how if always able to look at his cards... ::)

Tyvm - turn around for five minutes and his excellent stack suddenly gone...

I was counting chips, I would never take a sneaky peak at a player's cards.  ;angel; ;whistle;

No no, that's how they serve cafe creme here.  In a small cauldron, mixed with a wooden spoon.  (WE ARE ON A BREAK AT THE MOMENT)

special price just cause of the amazing updates, €14,95... but it will last all of you until the end of the final table...

......didn't find any other fitting smileys for coffeemaking  ;angel;

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Thanks, all. Mmm poison coffee. :)

How is the frenchie David Miara please ?

Yeah right
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15692&g2_serialNumber=1)

hehe, couldn't find that one, or the other one!

Google is your friend (I know I cheated a little)

How ? Any information ? I'm afraid... Pokernews.fr just said that 30min ago, he had busted a player...

Damn, you're too fast. Our end of level 15 counts said he was out, but Benjo and Snoopy said he was in so we deleted that post.

Repeat, to the best of our knowledge, Miara is still in.

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Could i get a live update on Pierre Hall the quebecer ! =P

We're down to 43. I've been informed that Simon Faure was the unlucky man.

Assorted snaps from the final few tables:

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(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15700&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15698&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15696&g2_serialNumber=1)

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15694&g2_serialNumber=1)

Michel Carvin is down to 150k. He had Pablo Ubierna dominated with A-K vs. A-Q but a Queen on the Flop of a 7-Q-4-5-2 rainbow board left Pablo high-fiving his fellow countrymen on the rail and Michel with a face that would make Mike Tyson quiver in his boots.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15706&g2_serialNumber=1)

Chipcount on Stephan Kjærstad please?  The gentleman with a grey t-shirt on the fourth picture has his head in the way so I can't count myself

In 43rd place falls Haward Speer - short to the point where it folded to him on the small blind and it seemed a perfectly good plan to move in with Jh Qc.  Unfortunately, the big blind had Ad Aspades.  A Js on the flop raised slim hope, but the rags which followed crushed it again. 

Chip count on Arnie please?

Sorry Canada, Pierre's OUT. According to my secret lover source, Isabelle Mericer, he called all-in with A-K against Robin Keston's 7-7. Pierre hit an Ace on the Turn, shame about the 7 on the Flop.

Please divert his attention to this thread so we can once and for all Name That Stain.

I _think_ I responded to your pm snoopy, but I'm a newb on this forum, so I'm not sure I did it right. Let me know if I should try again;)

Yes, received, many thanks.

Railing is becoming nigh-on impossible - my first attempt to photograph Mr Speer's exit came out like this:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15719&g2_serialNumber=1)


Eventually though, the offending head got out of the way; here is Mr Speer being led away to the cash desk by Steve Frezer, watched over by a dangerous-looking floor guy.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15722&g2_serialNumber=1)

By the way bonus points if you can name the owner of the long-haired head blocking my view of the tables!

"Stick around," and they'll tell you, I guess.

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There were mutterings about extending today's play to go down to 32, but at the moment it looks like we are approaching an end-of-day bubble of sorts.  What are the odds it takes 2.5 hrs to get from 41 to 40?

Some counts:

Stephen Kjerstad -- 210k
Freddy Deeb -- 160k
Eric Liu -- 350k
Luca Pagano -- 325k
Michael Martin -- 145k
Alexander Morozov -- 125k
Ben Sprengers -- 125
Antonio Esfandiari -- 650k+ 

And just like that, we're down to 39 and finished for the day. Details to follow...

DOUBLE UP AND CALL ON TABLE 3!!! is what alerted me to Joe Hachem's all in. Not sure how he lost most of that giganto-stack, but I guess he must have...

Must admit couldn't see a thing of the cards from behind the crowds, but Joe was holding Jh Jd and his opponent, I BELIEVE Mr Jonathan Dwek but POSSIBLY Mr Robin Keston, was holding 7h 7c.

Someone is shouting, "Stick a Seven out there!"

Flop - 9s 4d 7d (note the Seven in there)
Turn - Jc (railer forgot to add, "no jacks") at which Mr Hachem shouts something that sounds awfully like, "YES! YES! STICK THAT WHERE IT HURTS, PEOPLE!!!" - ???
River - 2c

Mr Joe Hachem doubles up to around 200k.

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15716&g2_serialNumber=1)

Cannot confirm if this was the doubler-upper, but here is a photo of Jonathan Dwek:

(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15710&g2_serialNumber=1)

The long hair could surely only be that of one man...

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Or

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Yes! Bonus points for you! It is Scandie cats-eye metaller Voitto Rintala. Your bonus points entitle you to now stop updating and return to your bedsit.

After hovering around the 44 player mark for a while, we lost three in relatively quick succession before, incredibly, two crashed out in just one hand to leave us with 39. I was on the other side of the playing area at the time, and spotted a three row thick crowd swamping the far table. I tied up the laces on my running shoes and sprinted around (notice that's 'around'; we haven't been allowed to go in and out of tables for a long time), but it was too late, the hand was over. Fortunately, the hand was being announced over the microphone, and I had just about enough charm left in me to lure the information out of my fellow press, so that combined, I was able to deduce the following - a three way all-in involving Denes Kalo (button), Michel Carvin (small blind) and Stephan Kjaerstad (big blind). Denes Kalo held Kings and had both men covered. The other two hands were A-Q and A-9, although I don't know who had which. The board came 3-T-J-T-2 and the Kings held up, much to the delight of Denes, myself and the rest of the field.

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Update: Michel Carvin had the A-9 and was shortstacked, Stephan Kjaerstad had the A-Q and had around 200k. The opening bet from Denes was around 20k.

Meanwhile, I learned that Robin Keston finished the day with around 900k. He took two scalps back-to-back, the first being J-J versus A-A, the second the 7-7 vs. A-K that eliminated Pierre Hall. Both players were sitting next to him and on both hands Robin hit a set.

Øyvind Riisem is down to 350k without even seeing a flop. He had 700k not to long ago.

He threw away his hand after Esfandiari 5-bet him.

Again, I think it will be a matter of some hours before we receive full, accurate chip counts for the remaining 39 players, but as soon as we do they'll be shared like the candied orange peel no one likes at the bottom of a box of chocolates.

Today has been a little fraught with technical difficulties tbh but hopefully it will be a smooth slide down to our final table here tomorrow.  From 1pm.

;stickaforkinme;

 ;hattip;  Thx for the updates great stuff.

Nice updates...

Be sure I'll follow tomorrow...

Really, nice updates today... strange long bubble but nice...

Thanks guys for some great and very entertaining coverage today.  I'm happy to say, I'll be back tomorrow!!

BTW, did you notice I've added Michael's dog to my posts?

TR23 ;sark;

It has evil eyes. :o

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Someone knows from which group he is ???

Thanks for a great day of updatyness guys, most enjoyable.

 ;popcorn; ;popcorn; ;popcorn; ;popcorn; ;popcorn;

ty for updates.
Getting lolowned in last longers imo

LeKnave has:
 
Johnny Lodden -- Norway -- 623,000
Eric Liu-- USA -- 398,000

Mine are:

Michael Martin -- USA -- 141,500
Luca Pagano – Italy -- 279,500
Benjamin Sprengers – USA – 127,000

Shipped the 1 vs 1 last longers though. 4-1 up atm out of 7.
Still left is:
Isaac Baron vs Johnny Lodden(me)
Joe Hachem vs Mike Martin(me)

Would like to see Antonio take it down though

gogoogogogo

Antonio Esfandiari (USA) -- 1,198,000
Robin Keston (UK) -- 916,000
Denes Kalo (Hungary) -- 642,000
Johnny Lodden (Norway) -- 623,000
Maxime Villemure (Canada) -- 600,000
Mostafa Belkhayate (Morocco) -- 523,000
Gerasimos Deres (Sweden) -- 494,500
Henrik Gwinner (Denmark) -- 487,000
David Shade Kruger (USA) -- 486,500
Thomas Boekhoff (Germany) -- 465,000
Rami Boukai (USA) -- 425,000
Eric Liu (USA) -- 398,000
Noah Siegel (USA) -- 388,500
Stig Top Rasmussen (Denmark) -- 373,000
Glen Chorny (Canada) -- 344,000
Oyvind Riisem (Norway) -- 340,000
Pablo Ubierna (Spain) -- 316,000
Peter Traply (Hungary) -- 300,500
Valeriy Ilikyan (Russia) -- 295,000
Claudio Pagano (Italy) -- 291,000
Jonathan Dwek (Canada) -- 282,000
Luca Pagano (Italy) -- 279,500
Amit Makhija (USA) -- 269,500
David Miara (France) -- 249,500
Isaac Baron (USA) -- 236,500
Joe Hachem (Australia) -- 214,500
Michael Martin (USA) -- 141,500
Freddy Deeb (USA) -- 140,500
Alexander Morozov (Russia) -- 133,000
Raymond Rahme  (South Africa) -- 133,000
Walid Bou Habib (Lebanon) -- 127,500
Benjamin Sprengers (USA) -- 127,000
Anders Berg (Norway) -- 124,000
Andrew Luetchford (UK) -- 116,000
Vincent Secher (France) -- 92,500
Anthony Chatelain (Sweden) -- 83,500
Tomas Brolin (Sweden) -- 74,000
Andreas Fluri (Switzerland) -- 61,000
Stefan Geim (Germany) -- 58,000

Great work guys....