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Morning from Monaco!

Our Live Update of the Monte Carlo Millions will begin here very shortly.

Play is scheduled to commence at Noon (Local), that's 11am UK.

Morning Mr Kay :)

Can't wait :)

Will sticky this for you :)

Heid
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Morning everyone, looking forward to this, was supposed to be playing, but the wife wanted me too take the bins out.  :tikay:

Morning Heid!

Jen is busy inputting the names of every player, & their seat allocation, and I am downloading 40 or 50 pics we have taken already.

Play is due to commence in 45 minutes.

Morning!  It's a pretty pleasant day over here and time to settle down in the corner of yet another room so grand it looks like a film set.  Gilt pillars before breakfast!  I have taken the gracious allowance of one of the TV guys to sit in the corner of their room as licence to do just that until our press briefing.  I am just writing out a full list of players and tables which may entertain you until the start an hour from now.

Coverage proper will begin as soon as the Press Conference  - meaning a briefing for us alleged Members of the press - has taken place. The Press Briefing was scheduled for 11.00 local, & it's now 11.15.

Play is due to being at Noon, & the players are starting to congregate outside the Venue - they are not permitted to enter before 11.45.

Mornig Tikay , Jenn & all ..Looking forward to the updates.

Jen, Remember this time.. FAST camera action if anyone is to change Tops :kiv:

And a special blonde welcome to Matt Savage & his team. Matt is the promoter of this Tourney, & will be "lifting" the blonde Live Update onto his own site, which has a huge following in the United States of America.

We are grateful to Matt for striking a deal with blonde to allow this LU to take place. Matt has shown us much warm hospitality, & provided us with sumptous accommodation, more of which later.

Quite what our American friends will make of a blonde Live Update remains to be seen - methinks it is going to be a bit of a culture shock, but hey-ho, we shall see.

So, the message from blonde in Monte Carlo, to Matt Savage's viewers is............

OK, we are off to the Press Briefing now, won't be long.

Play begins in 25 minutes, so get the dinner on, then join us for what is going to be one of the great days in poker, with a list of players that reads like a poker Who's Who. 

Got there before me Tikay, where is Nemesis when u want him  :tikay:

morning all .............looking forward to the usual first class reporting from the blonde team...... :hello:

And here are the full counts, in seating position, as taken from official printed (in tiny tiny type) list:

Table 1

Scott Fischman
Conor Tate
Barny Boatman
John Kretz
Stephane Francissi
Mark Goodwin
Dave Colclough
Stuart Rutter

Table 2

David Wells
Henrik Joern
Jon Kalmar
Phil Ivey
Richard Herbert
Ross Boatman
Sandy Koor
Patrik Antonius

Table 3

Richard Redmond
Kenna James
Bobby Bellande
Andreas Hoel Barstad
Michael Greco
John Conroy
Tore Lagerborg
Michael Tait

Table 4

Fuat Can
Andy Bloch
Steven Dunkleberg
Julien Studley
John Juanda
Morten Erlandsen
Ayhan Alsancak
Arnoud Mimran

Table 5

Richard Gryko
Joe Beevers
Yaron Swerdlow
William Thorson
Tyrone Zinman
Feriolo Romain
Achilleas Kallakis
Istvan Novak

Table 6

Johnny Lodden
Patrick Bruel
Stefan Sabel
Ram Vaswani
Tommy Hansen
Robert Cooper
Howard Lederer

Table 7

Theo Jorgensen
Jatinder Singh
Emile Nijmeh
Andrew Black
Morten Lassen
Harry Demetriou
Jason Dollinger

Table 8

John Kabbaj
Per Ummer
Ron Fanelli
Ted Forrest
Kathy Liebert
Gavin Smith
Dan Pedersen
Jesse Jones

Table 9

Bengt Sonnert
Jan Sorensen
Mikael Thuritz
Dave Ulliott
David Oppenheim
Farzad Bonyadi
Phil Hellmuth
Jennifer Tilly

Table 10

Sargon Ruhu
Chris Ferguson
Thomas Olesen
Kevin Daly
Erik Seidel
John Duthie
Gus Hansen
Alan Goehring

Table 11

Karl Kruse
Mike Matusow
Peter Roche
Peter Eichhardt
Nik Persaud
Victor Ramdin
Sandor Demjan
Carlos Mortensen

Table 12

Jean-Jacques Ghebali
Bill Edler
Jacky Adda
Ken Lennard
Al Ardebili
Martin Vallo
Kristy Gazes
Tony G

Table 13

Juha Helppi
Bob Voulgairis
Iwan Jones
Martin De Knijff
Erik Sagstrom
Johan Storakers
Jani Sointula
John Ioannou

Table 14

Fred Banjout
Mads Andersen
Alex Jagodik
Charles Harvey
Joe Cassidy
Mel Judah
Randy Jensen
Scott Numoto

Table 15

Michael Khouris
Diamadis Diamadidis
Antonio Esfandari
Paul Jackson
Paul Spillane
Phil Laak
Vincent Lindon
David Poole

devilfish and helmuth on the same table.....thats entertainment !

Jeez, every single on eof those tables looks like they will have juicy action!

Sounds fantastic!

Oh, and a big Hellp to our transatlantic cousins :)

We're looking forward to entertaining you with our usual style of update!

Go with the flow and you will have a blast :)

 :hello:

Morning all!

Does anyone else get the feeling that this is going to be the best LU ever?

And Booders beat me to my initial post - wouldn't I love to be a fly on the wall for THAT table! 

Good luck to Jen and Tikay with the Updates, and of course the players!


Trace
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Hi Tikay, do you need real names of all Bad-beat members?

Paul Jackson,  Antonio Efsandari and Laak on one table, should be a quiet affair.

Jon Kalmer nicking Ivey's BB all day.  Go Jon.

Good luck to all Blonde's and Badbeat members.

Meds - No, we are OK thank you. We have fiull Profiles for ALL the Bad Beat team, which we will release as we proceed, & will be putting up some pics of them in due course.

Right, off we go.

For this $25,000 to enter jobbie, the players get a 90 minute clock, & 50,000 chips - think about how long I could last with THAT stack & clock!

Now, you will be getting lots & lots of pics of playaers at the table over the next 4 days, but to help you identify their stacks, here's a starting stack.

Pinkies are 5,000, Blue 1,000, Yellow 500, Black 100.

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Play has began, and Jen & I are both equipped with cameras. I've got a Nikon ZZ345b (Mark 2) with Zoomy thing, & Jen's got an instamatic, so if you want a pic of any player, or any table, just say, & we will get you the pic right away, we have plenty of room to work here, so let's make the most of it.

OK, who's pic do you want?

There are not only empty seats here as people have looked at the structure and gone, "Lie-in!" but up until a minute ago, a whole empty table!  There are plenty of faces you'll recognise, however, and I will snap some in just a few moments.

Early 10-min penalty news now - John Ioannou, thinking everyone had passed to him, showed pocket 10s, which was deemed exposure of hand and he's spending the first minutes of the tournament away from the table.  A bit of a tough start but let's hope it doesn't throw the Gutshot's 'Granite' manager...

What's an instamatic?  Does it make coffee?

Hi friends on Blonde...

There wil be quite intensive coverage from Scandinavia. I hope you dot mind that I posted the link to you into the www.Swedishsanta.com , the site where Bengt Sonnert, Sargon Ruya, Daniel Larsson and Tobias Persson are writing about their gambling experiences (unfortunately in Swedish to a large extent).
There are som 370 members on that site so updates about Bengt and Saron are extremely appreciated.  

However I agree with boodereham that the table with Hellmuth and Devilfih is interesting, could be some action with Bengt and Michael Thuritz there as well. Both among the top 10 internet players in  Sweden  :D

Thanks for a great site and interenting updates.
Lassoo

pic of skalie and ivey would be great

Sargon Ruya is the name. sry

Jen has pitched tent the other end of the Venue (which we will describe shortly) , so we have max coverage.

Here's the table which is right next to my work-station.

Scott Fischman is in the orange, then BadBeats's Conor Tate ("sealey"), Barny Boatman, Marc Goodwin in  the USA Poker apparel, then Mr Burns himself. Sorry the pic is a bit dark. (Though it helps to actually attach the pic.....)

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Good morning Jen and Tikay.

I'm really looking forward to this, it sounds great.

Sure Lassoo - they're even known about over here, wouldn't you know... pics of your guys coming in a moment.  And Skalie and Ivey.

Lassoo - we met many of the Swedish guys last night, including the Manager of Expekt.com, & we took pics of them & most of the Scandie players.

Tell us who you want us to follow - names or whatever -  & consider it done.

Morning Karabiner!

Pics of skalie, Phil Ivey, Bengt Sonnert, Michael Thuritz - Jen's trotted off to take the pics.

Did you forget something Tikay??????

im logged in but cant see any pics?

There may have been a technical problem with the last pic - I had to download the root source database MS code, but it's sorted now.


If you CANNOT se the pics, tell us. Remember, you HAVE to be logged in as a Member to see the pics. Membership is, of course, FREE.

Sorry Trace, I'm busy busy busy! -  :dd:

You mentioned a 4 day event, isnt the final tomorow?

First of many requests:  Phil Ivey and Jon Kalmar looking rather intense for just past noon

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And I believe this is Sargon Ruya, next to Jesus...

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The Final is on WEDNESDAY at 5pm Local. We have 4 days of play, in one form or another. We will explain what happens each day as soon as we find time.

Here's a rather deserted table 15. The fella in black is none other than ActionJack, in his BadBeat colours, then it's Paul Spillane, of Stan James, I met Paul last night, he's got a story or two to tell, a big mate of Camel's I believe. Then it's Phil Laak in the Hoodie. (Try putting the correct pic up this time tikay....)

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Mad Yank Ron Fanelli, as will be featured shortly as part of the Badbeat team, just took a 14k pot from Kathy Liebert holding AJ.  I didn't see the hand play out, but there was word that the first pair appeared on the flop (J) followed by the Ace and he simply called down the 5,000 bet on the river to pick up one of the larger pots of the tournament so far.  Everyone heading in to play had that look that meant "I'm ready for the long haul" and there has been no kamikaze action, even on those tables one might expect it from.

Jen sort Tikay out for us would you please!!

And take that drink off him, maybe then he might stop confusing us.  lol   

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BadBeat - we will try & explain later who they are & what they are about - seems to be getting more than their share of coverage right now, but that's just the way it's panned out. They entered no less than TEN players, at $25,000 a pop! They are NOT a CardRoom.

Here's blondeite & BadBeat-er Iwan Jones - blonde alias oi-oi-saveloy, next to WPT winner & Top Swedish Bloke Martin de Knijff, who's sponsored by a Hair Clinic.

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what is the blind structure please updaters

structure: http://www.montecarlomillions.com/tournamentstructure.php

thank you

Hi all. Looking forward to following this.

Quick question for everyone.

What table would you like to be on if you had the choice?

I'd go for table 11 with Mike the Mouth and Carlos Mortensen.

Tnx Tikay, was away from the PC for a while - great that you are there and are updating us - great service.
For the fans on the swedishsantas.com (missed the last s bf) reports about Sargon, Bengt and the two other Linköping guys Erik Sagström and Fuat Caan are prioritized but of course reports about any swedes are apppreciated if you have time (you have of course your English guys where your main public is found) but I look forward to reporting from this tournament as the number of participants is quite nice.

Keep up the good work and good luck

Lassoo :D

I've just changed my mind.

Table 10. Wow!

Ferguson
Seidel
Duthie
Hansen
Goehring

Tough or what?

Hi TK and Jen

Pics of Richard Gryko and Nickj Persaud please ,and wish them the best while you doing it.


Thanks

Greg

Greg A - from VC???

I'd like to be on the final table of course<g>.

Too much choice at the moment!

tikay , could you wish jatinder singh the best of luck

Morning boys and girls . This is gonna be great . Now which table .. hmmmm... I'd give my right arm to be on any of em!

Richard Gryko? I did not realise he was here, but if he is, yes, pics will follow.

Chip Counts during Day One early stages - there is a 15 minute break after EACH 90 minute level, during which we will do a FULL CHIP COUNT - every player - & Copy & Paste it onto the full Table List for you.

Two players have already been eliminated, resulting in a bit of a table merge, having broken one.

Antonio Esfandari is out, and currently being interviewed directly behind me by the camera crews perched for just such an eventuality.  Tyrone Zinman I am guessing is also out, as there is a new player residing in his old seat...

Oh dear..so soon! That must sting!

Hello to all you guests lurking and reading :)

You'll see all the great pics, and enjoy the banter much more if you register - join up and say hi!

Heid
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Hi, im new to this forum (which is superb by the way) any idea who KO'd antonio?

Matt Savage was heard to say that Antonio - "The Magician" - improved on last year's showing. Last year he was the first player out - this year he lasted one spot longer!

Get your money on The Magician for the 2125 Monte Carlo Millions, then.......

Hi Jim-D.  :hello:

Welcome to Blonde.  ;karabiner;

lol - quite witty for the old fella.  :D

Jim D - We will try & se who bust Antonio, should be easy by his stack size!

We just met skalie, Jon Kulmer - who's had an AMAZING first hour, wait till you see what happened to HIM. I can't believe anyone could see so much action in the first hour, all with MONSTER hands.

Thankyou for the nice welcome, and keep up the good work

Just an excuse to bring out the dancing smilie.  :D

Hi!

I am new to the board and joined it to follow a friend of mine. Andreas Barstad started at table 3, and is one of the bet365 winners.

It would have been great to have some pictures of him.

Oh yeah, poteten for the win :-)

more dancing men.

 ;karabiner; ;karabiner; ;karabiner;

Welcome.  :D

Tony G and Kristy Gazes settle in on table 12.  In good spirits yesterday, Tony was pretty focused on winning, as, I would imagine, most of the players here are.  And even when they're out, they're in with a Golden Ticket second chance, so there's everything to play for, twice.

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woohoooo more on skalie, is he skinning ivey?

You want Nik?  Well he's pretty high-vis, so you got Nik.

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Give us time axenor - & maybe remind us if we forget - & pics of your buddy you shall have.

Now, here's the Antionio Esfandari exit. He's up against one Diamadis "Diamond" Diamaddis - yes, that's his REAL name, he's a Greek guy who lives in Sweden, speaks no English, & he qualified for $30....!.

Antonio was holding  Asp Kh

This is the board......

 Ad Ks 7h  Jc 2h

And Diamond was holding? You got it.  Qc Ts

Afternoon all (even the colonials :)), looking good so far....................

I don't know if Skalie's details have made it on yet, but according to a whirlwind description he gave us in the little tea emporium outside, it's been a story of a flopped straight with Jon holding A3 turning into the full house for the other guy, followed by his own top set being laid down after the turn and river made a total of four spades to his none... and a couple of other hands in similar vein.  Undaunted, he's got over 30,000 still which is an enormous amount of chips in any other tournament, and a fair few in this one.

I see Ram there as well :D

how did he acrue them chips after suffering those beats?

This is as close as I could get to the good ol' feature table, separated from the rest of the ballroom-sized room and featuring at present Bengt Sonnert, Mikael Thuritz (whom I believe you can see), Devilfish, Jan Sorensen, Jennifer Tilly and that sinister black-draped thing that looks like it's in seat 5 but is actually a camera.

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Skaie also had AA, & Matey Boy, holding KQ, hit QQ on turn & river!

OK, 15 minute break time, we are off to get chip counts.

Well, snoopy, seeing as they started with a phenomenal 50k, it's more of a loss than a gain, but they've got all day.  And tomorrow, and another day. 

Scooby   ;scarymoment;  go get a job

i thought there was something wrong with the piccy of the chips earlier, the old fella said there were 25k starting chips but showed a stack of 25k in 5k's alone!!!

hehe. ta. should have checked the starting chips. 50k wow.

 ;reallyamsorry;

Thanks Djinn,
Looks a bit empty, but featured i guess that should be quite much action with the players listed for that table, if they showed up all of them
  

Are Dave C and Brian Wilson playing ?

sorry he showed a pic of 50k but said it was 25k, not your fault scoopy

It's gonna be a long comp!

Can you try to take some pics on negreanu, erik123, bengt sonnert and ken leenard ? would be nice if you tell how this guys are doing as well.

thank god. A whoosh can now be retracted.

... for the first time.  :D

Negreanu? Does he play?

now and then. I hear he's quite handy.

skalie wont be bothered by a few early losses, good to know he keeps getting his money in way in front....they cant keep getting lucky!!

Hereby Retracted scrappy

And now to the real question and the real answer: Does he play in this tournament? He's not on the player list!  Asp Jc Asp Jc Asp Jc

negreanau is not in the table list

Then I think we have the solution!  ;applause;

You got it bf me lol :blonde:

Negreanu is playing at the 2005 WSOP Tournament Circuit-Paris/Bally's Las Vegas

Correction; he WAS playing in that tournament, but got eliminated early.

I didnt think that tourney had started yet??

That's what you can call an early exit.

Lmao, well I just assumed that was the tournament he got eliminated from when I read in the forum at his site that he had been eliminated  yesterday. Maybe it was another tournament?

All is quiet on the Tikay and Jen front - busy little bees that they are!

Table 1

Scott Fischman - 44k
Conor Tate - 90k
Barny Boatman - 44k
John Kretz - 45k
Stephane Francissi - 49k
Mark Goodwin - 51k
Dave Colclough - 47k
Stuart Rutter - 32k

Table 2

David Wells - 48k
Henrik Joern - 50k
Jon Kalmar - 37k
Phil Ivey - 46k
Richard Herbert - 50k
Ross Boatman - 49k
Sandy Koor - 54k
Patrik Antonius - 63k

Table 3

Richard Redmond - 51k
Kenna James - 67k
Bobby Bellande - 26k
Andreas Hoel Barstad - 48k
Michael Greco - 45k
John Conroy - 55k
Tore Lagerborg - 53k
Diamadis Diamadis - 111.5k

We are checking now to see if Michael Tait is still in.

Table 4

Fuat Can - 82k
Andy Bloch - 53k
Steven Dunkleberg - 23k
Julien Studley - 53k
John Juanda - 52k
Morten Erlandsen - 50k
Ayhan Alsancak - 53k
Arnoud Mimran - 36k

Table 5

Richard Gryko - 56k
Joe Beevers - 52k
Yaron Swerdlow - 81k
William Thorson - 70k
Tyrone Zinman - 52k
Feriolo Romain - 42k
Achilleas Kallakis - 51k
Istvan Novak - 49k

Table 6

Johnny Lodden - 36k
Patrick Bruel - 47k
Stefan Sabel - 49k
Ram Vaswani - 48k
Robert Cooper - 70k
Howard Lederer -  55k

Table 7

Theo Jorgensen - 62k
Jatinder Singh - 48k
Emile Nijmeh - 47k
Andrew Black - 52k
Morten Lassen - 42k
Harry Demetriou - 52k
Jason Dollinger - 48k


These counts were taken while the players were on break, so maybe some of the players have moved seats, as we have broken one table already. Now the players are back, we can check them visually, so apologies if any are wrong or missing, it's tough to keep track of everyone at this stage.

And the rest of the chips, estimated with fair to good accuracy, during the all-too-short break:

Table 8

John Kabbaj     62k
Per Ummer      40k
Ron Fanelli       56k
Ted Forrest     45k
Kathy Liebert   36k
Gavin Smith     59k
Dan Pedersen  50k
Jesse Jones     53k

Table 9 - fascinating though this table probably is, it's in the Feature Area and a little hard to access - going to try in a minute though.

Table 10

Sargon Ruya      36k
Chris Ferguson   53k
Thomas Olesen  44k
Kevin Daly          62k
Erik Seidel          46k
John Duthie       49k
Gus Hansen       72k
Alan Goehring    40k

Table 11

Paul Jackson      51k         
Mike Matusow    50k
Peter Roche      60k
Peter Eichhardt  67k
Nik Persaud        18k
Victor Ramdin     24k
Sandor Demjan   52k
Carlos Mortensen  78k

Table 12

Jean-Jacques Ghebali  35k
Bill Edler            55k
Jacky Adda       60k
Ken Lennard     55k
?                     
Martin Vallo       57k
Kristy Gazes      63k
Tony G            51k
 
Table 13

Juha Helppi        36k
Bob Voulgairis     47k
Iwan Jones        86k
Martin De Knijff   52k
Erik Sagstrom     13k
Johan Storakers  53k
Jani Sointula       49k
John Ioannou     58k
 
Table 14

Fred Banjout        63k
Mads Andersen     37k
Alex Jagodik         52k
Charles Harvey      61k
Joe Cassidy          31k
Mel Judah            48k
Randy Jensen       66k
Scott Numoto      44k

Good job guys :)

That Diamond Geezer is doing alright!

Just to clear up the misunderstanding, they began with 50,000 chips, Jen (she's a girlie) must have got confused. Certainly my post says 50,000.....

Iwan is fast out of the blocks as well. One big win already this year what odds the double??

Great reporting :blonde: :blonde:

with that featured table some additional exitement is created lol

We have, literally, dozens & dozens of pics for you, but right now, we are concentrating on keeping abreast of the tourrney. You gotta keep abreast.

But we went to a champagne reception at The Hermitage last night - 40 or more pics from there, including some weird ones of Devilfish, & some varied ones of Jen. Not in the same pic though. But we snapped ALL the players in their civvies. And a whole heap of pics of Monte Carlo, this is SOME place. And the Harbour. And the view from our Hotel rooms in The Hermitage Hotel, RIGHT overlooking the harbour. Tough game, this updating lark.

Looking forward to see these pictures a lot.

Hi Jen and Tikay, i am gutted i cant stay for this awesome update! I gotta leave now to play the £30 freezeout in Nottingham.  MMMMMM where would i rather be???????  Good luck and please find the time for a pic Gus H to cheer me up when i return xx

i think Charles Harvey is the fella that qualified thru the freeroll on allin poker.

Cmmmmmmmmmmmmooooooooonn Dc and Iwan 

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As he lives 5 mins away from me I have decided to throw my weight (and theres a lot of it ;) ) behind skalie this week but if not him I agree with Iwan as a popular choice.

We had the good fortune to run into Mr. Mikael Thuritz in the hallway a minute ago, who gave us a sneaky peek into the action on the feature table:

He has around 45k
Jennifer Tilly    55k
David Oppenheim  5k
Devilfish            50k

And probably chip leader is one Bengt Sonnert, who Mikael said had "just shy of 100,000"!

bengt is very underrated imo, he has all the moves and will win a big one soon.

any chip count for mr hellmuth please

if hes not got unlucky yet I would expect him to be on around 80kish ;)

does he sometimes get unlucky then ?            ;)

Hi new here, nice updates, and some familiar faces. nice to find a place to follow the tourneys as they happen

Drop us off at the roundabout mate <g>

Welcome to Blonde :)

Great news Djinn,
hope your guess is right Ariston.
 ;karabiner; ;karabiner;

(some lookalikes to the betfair pics lol)

Andy Black has been finding Aces, but finding them not as good as advertised - a big pot developed between him and the players to either side of him (Emile Nijmeh and Morten Lassen) who held AK and QQ respectively.

What, do you imagine, happened on a  Ts Jh Qd flop?  Andy got out of the way, and when another  Th appeared on the turn it signaled a huge win for Morten and the AK knocked down his opponent's stack nearly to the felt.

Mr Hellmuth, we are informed by Michael Thuritz, is steady on around 50k. He's on the Feature Table, which we cannot access right now.

welcome to blonde graham , a great place to spend an hour or a lifetime !



 :hello:

Here's a snap from last night's reception. This is the unmistakeable & imposing Mr Chris "Jesus" Ferguson. We tried to get the name of the guy on the extreme left of the pic, but he seemed a very shy sort of guy, you know, quiet, would not say boo to a goose......

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thank you for the welcome

...and talking of quiet & retiring guys, here's Mr Matusow.

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*************Correction*****************

Tyrone Zinman was not eliminated second, it was the gentleman to his left, Feriolo Romain, who exited around the time Antonio did.  So Mr. Zinman is still in.

Forgot to say that these two dancers are Ariston and Bengt after they eliminated Buzzer in last years televised tournament
 :D

thank you boodereham, still trying to drive my way round this site, did i see "cardstud" is playing here?

See you in Norwich in Dec.

I should explain to our regular members that the blonde Live Update is being taken "as is" by the official Monte Carlo Millions website, which has huge traffic in the US of A, so we are giving our American friends plenty of coverage this week. I will try & find the site address of the Oficial MMC site for you shortly, unless one of you has it to hand. As you know, blonde, & in particular myself, have always been very supportive of our special friends in America, both on blonde, & on Poker 425. Ahem.

OK, this one is almost worthy of a Caption Comp. Here we have Mr Lederer making a point to Mr Hellmuth. For the benefit of American viewers, the geezer in the front of the pic is Mr Paul ActionJack Jackson, one of THE greatest online players ever ever ever. As you can see, he really enjoyed the company of Phil Hellmuth, though to be fair, this is about as happy as Paul ever gets. Note how close together his eyebrows are - you can't trust a guy with eyebrows that close, believe me.

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Who wanted Richard Gryko?  Can't recall but here he is with familiar headphones.  And the gent to his left is Joe Beevers, who looks about as happy as ActionJack

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And especially for you, Chili:  Gus Hansen

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Great updates, keep up the good work. The official MCM-site is here:

http://www.montecarlomillions.com (http://www.montecarlomillions.com)

Heard something about Jan V Sorensen not showing up for the tournament with Tommy Hansen - is that true?

yes mate cardstud is jatinder singh
yes

And the triple: Andreas Barstad(?) (verification would be welcome), Michael Greco (you might remember him from such televised events as Celebrity Love Island), and John Conroy, who lifted hat brim long enough for me to snap him.

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I can verify. Great to see him :). Thanks alot.

Rumours were circulating around that there were at least a couple of no-shows; names not forthcoming as yet but I'll see what I can do.

Bepe doesn't seem to have many chips

is salmonoysta out david poole from team bad-beat?

Good updates Jen & tikay. Seeing as no-one took up my offer to buy me in I will be watching the updates from England, sigh.

Blinds now gone 200-400, 108 players remaining. But remember, they began with 50,000 chips, so blinds are still nice & small.

Hi Jen, It's Dad from Calif. Hoping this is the right way to do this. Monte Carlo Sounds great.

Hi,
Any chance of an update on the Bad Beat team please... Conor (sealey) Tate - Paul (actionjack) Jackson - John (PunkFloyd) Conroy - David (salmonoysta) Poole - Rich (strummer9) Herbert - Jon (skalie) Kalmar - Iwan (ijsj2003) Jones - Mad Yank - Pocket72 and squelch.
Thanks
Great job again all

micky go to page 7 for chip counts

An EXTRAORDINARY thing just happened.

Marc Goodwin & Dave El Blondie Colclough, just clashed. We all (Marc, Dave, Jen & me) travelled here on the same flight/taxi, da de da de da, & Dave & Marc ended up sitting next to each other.

After some pre-flop action, the flop comes like this.

 Asp Th 6d

ALL the chips go in - on their backs.

Marc has  Ad Kc

Dave has  Ac    Ts

Turn is  9h

River is........ Kd

Dave is OUT. He looked like all the wind had been knocked out of him, but I just sorta sensed that King was gonna River. Dave's luck is awful, & he walked away like he was in a world of pain. He's so out of form it's untrue, but it's a cruel game, & the show goes on.

Hi meds,

cant see sal's name there so guess he's the ?    lol

lets hope so

unlucky DC but remember form is temporary , class is permanent     

cant believe i was a midge's dick away from playing in this  :(


Does anyone know the name of the bloke who beat me in the All in Poker final (rebecca1 on line name)

I would like to follow his progress and wish him luck

Oh commiserations to El Blondie whose luck just isn't forthcoming at present...

Counts coming for all those who have had interest expressed in them pending the next table-vacating break.  On the way back to my computer I noticed that Iwan Jones is around 100k, joining the Diamond Diamadis Diamadidis and Bengt Sonnert at the top of the chip table.

His name is Charles Harvey. He had 61k at the chipcount.

Hi dad (one of our new American followers! How exciting!)  Thanks for overcoming the time difference and technical problems to watch the play via blonde :tikay:

hi jens dad ,   welcome to blonde      :hello:

Right, a few pics taken during the break.

Here's a very focused Phil Ivey, with the trademark headphones. £9.99 in Comet, & all good electrical wholesalers.

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Here are a few of the bad beat boys (i believe the collective noun is a 'gaggle')

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And John 'Granite' Ioannou with Mrs. Granite and Artie.  Mrs. Granite (aka The Dish) says that she's rooting for the 'little guys' and would be happy for a qualifier to win the big prize as she just naturally supports the underdog.  After John, of course.

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Hiya Jenn and Tikay

Great updates as usual, but can I request a Bengt Sonnert piccy pleeeeeeeeaaaassssseeeeee???

Ta muchly

Jo xxx

Hi to Jen's Dad

Now about these shoes of hers...............

Here's, from left to right, Robert Cooper, Achilleas Kalakkas & Lascelles. Dave & I are guests of Achileas this week, on his rather splendid yacht, along with Michael Greco & Andy Pyrah.  A big thanks to Achilleas, who really is a magnificent host, & has been very kind to me, in particular. Top Bloke. If he ever needs a few bob, he only has to ask. Meanwhile, poor Jen is slumming it in the 7 Star Hermitage Hotel, with a balcony view overlooking the Harbour. Our thanks to Matt Savage & the Monte Carlo Millions peeps for looking after blonde so well.

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I thought that the collective noun for badbeats was an earful  ;reallyamsorry;

actionjack must be gutted as he cant wear one of his old jumpers  lol

A Bengt Sonnert pic was requested by JustJo - this was taken during the break, 20 mins ago.

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Who's that with Skalie????

By eck is she back in the land of the living? ? ? ? ? ? ? 

Lodger...................

It's Kev aka pocket72

And trying manfully to maintain the transatlantic balance, here's a real gentleman, Mr Erik Seidel. By the way, a message for Jen's Dad, who lives in California, & has tuned in. You have a special daughter there. Bright, intelligent, great to listen to, and utterly & completely mad. The blondeites adore her.

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Thank you Tikay!!!

Can I make another piccie request?  Do you have any Antonio Estfandari??   ;pokergods;


Jo xxx

Two legends of Poker on their way back to the arena to do battle. Ram became a Father a few weeks back, and Martin, who has a really cracking Poker Club in Stockholm which I visited last year. Martin left his neck in Stockholm, by the look of it.

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any chipcounts of all the swedes??? plzzz  :D

This man - Dave "Boy Band" Ulliott - has just been eliminated in 100th place. That's sad.

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The Devilfish and Phil Hellmuth have been on the same table since the beginning (now moved off the Feature so full counts coming) and there have been verbal fireworks of a quiet but pointed nature.  Just now Phil's  Kd Ks took out David Oppenheir's  Ac Kc with the addition of a flopped  Kh.  Mr. Ulliott just couldn't keep quiet, saying "Does this Phil catch the deck, or what?" which despite Phil's headphones got through and got them biting a bit at each other.

Jo, hope you are feeling better  :hello:

Which Swedish guys you want counts for db?, & we will see what we can do.

Sounds like Mr Helmuth is happy, & Mr Ulliott not so.

I think we were promised achipcount of all in nextbreak, I have full confidence in the reporting service of the eminent Blondeoker team so just relax.  8)

:blonde:

I was just about to announce that they were down to 100 after that little spar with Phil, but looks like the Devilfish just messed up my stats.  OK 99 then... (a second table has broken)

It certainly is Tikay,,,,,,, I feel ya pain DC - chin up :)

Thanks Dewi, I guess it turned into MAN FLU after all, but the piccies are helping!!

Jo xxx

I would like to know how these swedish guys are playing, estimated chip count, you guys are the best covering this event, just became a member and im happily surprised, even better coverage than the monte carlo million website!!! :-)

Bengt Sonnert
Ken Lennaard
Fuat Can
Martin de Knijff

thanks,

db

cmon tikay, uve mentioned the yacht, ure dying to put a piccy on

Yes, full chip counts, or as full as we can get them, quite soon. Players are moving from table to table, but the bigger stacks are starting to energe, so hopefully we can give you all the ones that matter.

Here's Prima's Joe Beevers telliing partner Ross Boatman of a really narrow escape Joe just had.

Joe had  Ts Th, on a flop of  Ks Kh Td.

Nice.

Turn came  Js.

Matey boy, to his left, was sat with  Kd Jh........

Somehow, Joe got away from the hand without incurring too much pain.

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OK starting to get your requested counts (going round the tables, so if your guy's not in this list, never fear, he'll probably pop up in a minute):

MadYank Ron Fanelli   100k
Tony G                      46k
Nik Persaud                28k
ActionJack                 45k
Peter Roche                3k
Mike Matusow            116k
Ram Vaswani               44k
Howard Lederer           67k
Robert Cooper             65k
Harry Demetriou           33k
Andy Black                  36k
Achilleas Kallakis           34k
Andreas Barstad          50k
Mikael Thuritz              25k
John Kabbaj                48k
John Conroy                35k
Richard Redmond         85k

Nice update! Nice to see my friend Andreas Barstad still in the game with 50k.

Good news for Bengt Sonnert fans:  He is extending his huge chip lead up to nearly 200,000.  Thanks to Gutshot's Jake for this - every time I turn my back Bengt has another 30k or so..it's hard to keep up.

Andreas is keeping steady I see.

Absolutely brilliant as always . What time do they play untill today?

YES!!! Go Sweden and GO my buddy Bengt!!!  8)

OK db, we are off to find those guys for you. Better than the Monte Carlo Millions website? - actually, as far as I know, it's just about the same thing, as we are priveleged to have contracted to supply them our Live Update on this occasion, hence we are giving the American guys more coverage than usual.

And no, no pics of the Yacht, I'm afraid. We are private guests, & it's sorta "not done" to publish pics of the yacht, I'm afraid. It's a bit nice though, I can tell you! You are right though, I'd love to!

Now, Michael Greco, is down to the felt.

Barny Boatman, talking 13 to the dozen, is up to 60k after a shaky start.

Achilleas Kalakkis has 35k, & Robert Cooper 66k.

Here's blondeite Harry Demetriou, seemingly singing. Stick to poker Harry, trust me.

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For anyone wondering how Ron 'Mad Yank' Fanelli doubled up - it was against Ted Forrest.  They saw a flop of  7s  3d 4h.  Immediately, Ron moved in for the full 45k, and eventually Ted called with  8d 8c.  Ron had  3h 3s, however and that looks to have tilted him a bit as he was out within five hands from that point... and Ron is the second badbeat player to make it up to 100k, or very close.

23:15, or 11:15 PM!

Yes, we play 7 x 90 minute levels today, with a 15 minute break between each, & a 90 minute break for dinner.

We can't seem to get these BadBeat boys out of the frame here, they keep featuring. It seems like we are spamming them, but they are not a cardroom, & we don't do spam, it's just the way it's panned out. They do, after all, comprise nearly 10% of the field. Think of that - $250,000 invested! Here's a bunch of their pesky boys - can you name them?

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the monte website has a watered down version, just chipcounts and piccy's

Is Gus still in the game??

Good reportage so far Jen&Tikay, Keep those quips coming Tikay!

Fuat Can chip count , please?

Yes ifm, they are filtering out all our internal blathering - it would be out of context to them.

Gus Hansen? Yup, he's stil in, I'll get his Chip Count in a moment.

Very nice updates!

The $250k investment is paying off.. at least I got intrested, what is the URL of whatever they are marketing?

Now then, Live Updates with a difference.

I just took this pic, he's the nephew of a very famous, world-class player, known to poker followers equally in both Europe & America. Who's his Uncle? The clue is in the hands, which, you note, are in the "raise it up" mode........

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they aren't marketing anything I dont think. Just a few up and coming players banding together to make a formidable force.

Welcome to the many new members signing up today  :hello:


If you get the time, please look around the rest of the forums and the home page www.blondepoker.com...we hope you like what you see and feel free to post wherever

There you go. Uncle Gus!

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Good post Tighty - we are just too busy here right now, but I'm glad you posted that, & I do hope these new Members & Guests will take a look round the rest of the site.

Here's a good friend of mine, and great player - Johan Storakers.

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Why has Gus's nephew got a pink blanket?

Here's Phil Hellmuth, evidently sucking a lemon.

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www.bad-beat.net

and pink shoes and looks like the baby is wearing a denim pinafore  :blonde:

Ang

Here's Andy Black. Note the empty table - it must be something he said.

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Because it is Gus' niece not his nephew. Her name is Sally and she is my little girl. If you see my wife Tine say hi to her as well will ya.

Go Gus my man

You're not wrong Ange!

I only noticed the pink blanket cos there was so much of it!

Has anyone told Gus that he has a neice and not a nephew?


More to the point can someone explain to tikay the differences between a boy and a girl!

If he don't know by now...

Al Ardebili gets a bit of a lucky double-up with  Ad  Tc vs  Asp Qs, catching two tens on the flop.  Although there was a hefty draw for his opponent on the turn, nothing came and he gets back in the running.

Counts from another sector:

Martin De Knijff  44k
Patrick Bruel      25k (he was part of the Prima press conference earlier this morning and spoke rather charmingly, I thought)
Barny Boatman  38k (who also spoke this morning in the lineup)
Tyrone Zinman  60k
John Ioannou    75k
Jani Sointula      20k (after a triple up with  8h 4h which flushed against two opponenets)
Richard Gryko    77k
Scott Fischman  48k
Phil Ivey           116k
John Juanda      94k
Ross Boatman    52k
Patrik Antonius  20k
Mads Andersen  84k
Jon Kalmar 'Skalie'  55k
Paul Jackson      48k
John Kabbaj       50k
Conor Tate        46k
Joe Beevers       38k

Me thinks the motions of the yacht have got to him today!

 :tikay:

Ask Gus - he completely adores her - and he should - fortunately she takes after her mother :D

Anyone knows Uncle Gus' chip count? Cannot get a hold of my missus...

welcome to blonde eikyman, it was just another misread from the old fella :hello:

Now then - Now then.

Hello everybods.  Tikay, is ewan jones still punchin please? and, btw, got a new tuxedo. You know, to replace the one you verbally assasinated at P4C launch party, and you still owe me for it !  ;o)

Regards,

The Slickster

p.s.   Is the "Mad Yank" still punching as well?

she's a beautiful baby BTW, any chance of a pic of her mum?

 :redcard: :redcard: :redcard:

Marc Goodwin (from birmingham) now has 130,000 chips and is looking good (pin stripe suite, sunglasses, nice shirt...)
abd for those who hate bad beat stories switch off now.

I had 48,000 chips and had not plaed many hands. Marc had reached about 85,000 and had started well.
The first hand back after the second break, the big blind had not returned.
marc doubled the big blind (800) on the cut off
I raised to 2000 on the button with A10 clubs.
The flop came A10 6 off suit and mark checked
I thought an overbet of 10,000 might spark a reaction ( Marc isnt a great thief so I may not get any action from a check if he had no hand)
Marc sighed (and I was sure I was ahead)...and then he moved all-in
I really didnt fancy him for trip 6s after the sigh, so I eventually put my remaining 36,000 in
Marc wasn't happy and rolled over AK
tikay turned his back and pretended he wasn't there but it was no good. He had bokked me, and a heart breaking King fell on the river.

MR BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB!  what the hell took you so long?

Hi and Welcome Aboard the Good Ship Blonde   

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Iwan Jones dai bach has 78,000

Michael greco is eliminated with 10,10 v KK

I dont have any pics on this computer -sorry

Go Brother-in-law

LOL

The pain of DC's bad beat came across in the reading of that post.


Commisserations.

Trace
xxxx

tikay and Jen have wandered off for a pot of tea (their first break today) and left me in charge...as a punishment for my early exit ..

Mad Yank is still in, Gus Hansen is still...I will try and get some chip counts

112 players started...there are now 91 left..th exit door are just beginning to turn...I predict that the next level will get them moving properly.
The 50,000 chips provides a wonderful structure for playing poker, and it is very difficult to get them all-in before the flop. Flops have to be played and the players are being tested.

Dai bach - another welshman ?    ;letsparty;

Now then - Now then.

Thanks for the ewan update.  understandably you may have missed Ron Fanelli as he is such a quiet chap ::)

And Trace.  WOOHOO, love yer babe!  So, you're a blondette as well eh?

Also, how many are left in it.

Ken Lenaard, Fuat Can, Bengt Sonnert chipcounts anyone?

Bill Edler is eliminated after flopping a set of 9s, his opponent made a straight...down to 90

DC is Ram still in? if so, how many chips does he have?

that's it guys/girls get the boss running around ;karabiner;

Just been chatting with Fuat at the break. He is still in. Bengt is probably chip leader. I'll just ahve a look for Ken..2 minutes please

Ram Vaswani had 58,000 at the break 30 mins ago

Ram 44K a while ago, but DC probably best updated (got my figure from the web chipcount)

I am indeed part of the furniture here now Mr B.

I even made it to be one of the first two people onto the Blonde Hall of Fame - the link is on my MSN if ya wanna go and be nosey  lol


Loves ya too hunny, and I am soooooooooo looking forward to our little trip in a couple of weeks, although God knows what state I will be in after spending 2 hours in a car with Gemma, I think I may be in a lot of pain with her making me laugh.

xxxx

Ok I had a quick wander around the tables (to my embarassment)They all stared at me !

Gus hansen is on the TV table and I can't get close. He looks like he has over 100,000
Ken Lennard is struggling and looking a bit down. he has about 27,000

Harry Demitriou (blondite) with QQ takes out Andy 'WSOP final table' Black with JJ

Iwan Jones 90,000 diolch yn fawr
Bangt Sonnet around 150k
Mike 'the mouth' Matusow has informed the whole room he has exactly 128,000
Fuat is also doing well with 125,000

For perpesctive, the average stack is now just over 60,000

Gemma ?

Can't see or hear Ron the Md Yank...but I dont think he is out

Jeniffer Tilley is eliminated in 88th place  ... A10 v JJ

thanks man. Gus' niece Sally is rooting for him 8)

Just to clarify in case this tidbit of information is buried somewhere earlier... the out people are heading back for a Consolation Tournament on Tuesday, the top prize of which is an unprecedented re-entry into the tourney final table with 10 big blinds, thus guaranteeing themselves $100,000!  This Golden Ticket idea is pretty interesting, and will keep the players on their toes for one more shot at it...

Mdas Anderson has 85,000...now theres a nice guy

Ron Mad Yank Finelli has 83,000 (just teasing Trace)

Mike the Mouth is teasing and baiting Phil Hellmuth and Phil is biting

thanks! go bengt!

Connor Tate (12th in the 2005 WSOP) has AA on a 10 high flop...but Marc Goodwin (that man again) has flopped a set of 10s
exit stage left for Connor
Mark is up to 213k ...glad to see his is using my chips well
(for those of you who don't know, Marc is a 20 year friend and we sat next to each other on the plane over....what are friends for)

ok Table 1 is now becoming the table of death...it was the table where Marc eliminated me
It was the table where Connor died with AA
and now barney was unlucky enough to pick up AA the very next hand after Connor tates exit
Scott Fischman who has been playing a lot of low cards whilst the blind structure allows it.. was playing 45
a flop of 344 got Barney Boatman into a lot of trouble. an 8 and J were no help and barney is also out

Mad Yank says Hi to James Dempsey and Chris Smith, in case you can't hear him from the UK.

how is jason dollinger doing?

Joe Beevers is up to 58,000
John Juanda (my favourite nice guy from the far side of the pond) has 140k

but he doesn't say Hi to Trace ???????

I thing flushy is still in bed after his awesome 24hr charity poker comp yesterday
though mad yank probably just woke him!! :D :D :D

Hard lines DC. Miles ahead when the money goes in, again.

Gemma is one of Mr B's two lovely daughters, she is slightly crazy in a nice way, takes after her Dad.  But still God help my stomach muscles after 2 hours.  lol


Nice updating Boss btw.

can anyone please tell me how jason dollinger is doing...... he is my homeboy from college!

Paul Spillane from Gibralter is sitting pretty on 75,000 and says he does not want to see keith Hawkins baby photographs... sorry keith

I sent the boy tikay off to find him

thanks a lot man truely appreciate it!

Mr Bossman DC - are you by any chance confusing me with another Trace?

I don't know the Mad Yank and I ain't ever met him, and you have got me soooooooooooooo confused.


<weep>


Can we have a "my head is hurting now" emotie please?

The revoling door is picking up pace...Jan Petersen out in 85th
The table of death also claimed another victim, but I din't recognise him...will try and find his name before tikay gives me the sack

Tony G 100k is now competing with Mike the Mouth Matusow...Ron the Mad Yank is well out of his league with these two around...ever likely I cant hear him

Just trying to start a malicious rumour

any chance of a bad-beat update?

Howard The Professor Lederer is down to 25k....Annie does not seem to be here

harry D informs Blonde that he has a 20 grand last longer with Phil The Unibomber Laak
Harry D 43k is slightly behind Phils 58k

OMG!  are you and Tikay in cahoots or something?  lol

I knew I shoulda tapped you on the shoulder when you were signing into Grosvenor Blackpool on Thursday night - I was stood right behind you, but I got shy.  lol    <<<<  First time in a long time!

sure, well I had this A10 and flopped two pair and my so-called mate.............

Bengt 210k is probably just behind Marc Goodwin as the two chip leaders

Phil Hellmuth 37k is being asked if he has made any good laydowns by Mike the Mouth...errrr every 4 minutes

Joining the list of Out people, in case the boss hasn't covered them already:

Martin de Knijff
Patrick Bruel

And Phil Hellmuth seems to be working himself up (and kind of enjoying it) folding theatrically while saying stuff like: "I'll be quiet when I feel like it, how about that?" and other such.  He is within ranting distance of Matusow.  Bit of a change from the old EPT, eh?

Now then - Now then.

Trace, Gemma says  :hello:

On the bad news side, we are going down in the van (taking the tables).  So you can then see the other side of THEBIGSLICK (Raging White Van Man).

But, in saying that, i may not be able to go.  I have been very hungry lately, and think I have that bird flu.  When I sayinh hungry, I have certainly been PECKISH!  (Centrafugle Force, i'm here all week)

elblondie i just read about your exit. Terrible luck there, fair play to you for staying on to do some reports.

talking of nice guys...Johann Storaakers has 70k (just above average...

Phil Hellmuth has now asked Matt Savage if Mike could have a 10 minute penalty...please
Mike is grinning from ear to ear....phil is not

What the hell have you been giving her Mr B?

Whatever it is lower the dosage NOW!!  lol

Ermmmm, if we are all going down in the van - where am I going to sit?

Worried now!

With just two minutes to go before a hungry mass of poker players descend on the buffet (wherever it is) a visitor exodus has begun and we're going to avoid it and go somewhere else... but I will try to get full chip counts while the tables stand empty and fill in the names when they return.

Mr Cool Marc Goodwin says he is not interested in the fact he is chip leader in a million dollar race...he is only interested in looking good
...no comment 8) 8)

how long until the next break in the action? if you do find jason dollinger by the way( he isnt hard to pick out considering he might be the only guy at the tourney under Five foot five) tell him becker from fsu says whats up and now that u marcel is out he has a shot at winnign this one haha

Now then - Now then.

Don't worry Trace.  3 seats in the van, and your name is on the 3rd seat.

And WTF is Matasow worried about.  10mins,  I got chat-banned for 24hrs on VC last week!

i was reading the banter between the mouth and the brat in the big freeroll the other day, entertaining stuff...i think helmuth has more thatn met his match

Phil Ivey an ominous 165k

jani S the hellraiser...the defending champion was down to 5200...he now has 80,000...a nice recovery

some London boys...
Joe beevers 65k
john kabbaj 52k
ram vaswani 25k

Gus?

not  4d 5s, say it aint so!!!!

 

Jason Dollinger, an internet qualifier here on a $6 ticket, with his borhter and terror in his eyes, wins a nice pot.


Nijmeh has top set but Jason is on a straight draw.

The turn  gives himn the straight and his money goes in. Nijmeh calls.

The river  does Emile no good. Dollinger, from Florida, looking at ease now on 100,000.

 

HD and PL say they go broke on the turn.

Laak:That's the sickest hand so far!

 

Dave

Not from Nottingham Nick here.

I am somewhat confused !!!

I must be missing some sort of inter-play - How has Mark got all his stack in with just AK on that flop in a comp with 50000 starting stack and excellent level structure.

It beggars belief !!

Any news about Andreas barstad?

Jen can you say hi back to Ron for me please!!

I really want that guy to win this!!

As for Mouth and Brat, i was lucky enough to be at that WSOP Freeroll final table last week and it was the best table i have ever watched! Whoever put up the $2m got value!!

Mike has rapidly become my faveourite player, he is hilarious!!!

 :blonde:

Players are now on a break for an hour or so, everyone, including the updaters had to leave the room at short notice and didn't have time to let you guys know

His blondeness will be back soon, no doubt fortified with smoked salmon or sushi (He needs all the brain food he can get)

Untill then, talk amoung yourselves or ask me a question, anything you like, if I don't know I have Mrs Red here and she knows everything

Hello DC, Jen, Tikay

Please tell Marc to take care of DC's lucky chips, I want him to have plenty of extra $$$$ for the golf course in St Kitts in a few weeks. DC, you really do a good job on this reporting thing :blonde:

Hope you guys are having a good time, I am off to the Plaza ( ya DC were your bad beats all started 8))  to try and make some TV table thing??????

Marc, just win baby, just win

where do flys go in the winter ?     :dontask:

He is a friend... he was trying to give me his chips

Why do Blondes have more fun?

In this country all the flies die except a tiny % who can afford to go to Montie Carlo for the winter, then they come back refreshed and breed like mad

I thought that was fish!

lol :)up

We have been thrown out of the tournament area and the players are now on a 90 minute dinner break (for another 60 mins or so)
I have no rushed back to the yacht to continue the updates.
The yacht ? yes the yacht. Achilleas Kallakis luxury yacht..it's a hard life

Achilleas 60k , Robert Cooper 80k
Robert got off to a flier...he was the only player at his table for the first 6 hands and collected a 1200 bonus head start

Michael Greco is also here...he is gutted...and he is not acting

Because they are too dumb to realise how much trouble I can get them into

So glad I'm a brunette  lol

did you get that ...Michael Greco, acting?
talking of actors...both Boatman Brothers go out with Aces
Barney against 4,5...Ross against 89
talking about Aces going down...
Mr Cool  8) Marc Goodwin (our chip leader) has given me the run down on the huge pot with bad Beat guy Conner Tate
Connor made it 3,000 before the flop and Mark called
Conner led out 5,000 on the flop which was 10,000
Marc went 5,000 with another 7,000 to 'give Connor opportunity to hang himself'
Connor duly obliged by moving in his whole stack of 60,000
and Mr Cool  8) ...pushed his chips in, and sat back looking cool for the cameras

 :blonde:hi all

Brunettes have fun too, but they ask a lot of questions

any news on my welshy boyo init IWAN "CODEYED2JONES :DFROM JIMMY THE FISH

he really hates the codeyes nickname, probably stick then I would imagine (chubbs,smithers,mr burns etc)

I only asked one!  ;tracet;

Hi team Blonde!

Can you appologise to Paul for me, tell him i'm rooting for him. One of the most inventive players in the field. IMO.

He had approx 85k on the break...so dai bach is sitting pretty

Oh yeah, I stand you up once and it's all "Where are you, What are you doing now, Who are you with?"

Alledgedly

He has a major challenge right now...can he go on dinner break and resist, sorry, limit the alcohol intake
and if he spots all the beautiful ladies over at the cafe de paris, he may not even come back today

I travelled for 15 mins especially just to see you, and you'd left!

What do you expect?  I was gutted!  I'd been excited about it for weeks, and you let me down!

I don't think I will ever get over it, you have scarred me for life!

I'm just no good Trace, you deserve better

I'm off to Walsall to try to qualify for next weeks  main event (If thats ok with you) wish me luck

ps, I was gutted too  ;reallyamsorry;

Awwwwwwwwwwwww best of luck Mr Red.

I hope Walsall is nicer to you than Blackpool was.

xxxxx

Red?  How much longer do we have to entertain the masses for with our domestic?  lol

I'm getting BOOOOOOOOOOOOOORED NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!  lol

DC,

WhaTS UP W/ THE EPIC BATTLES  w/ Marc lately, you know he plays for "USA poker", you cant mess w/ USA 8)

Yup...I should have known better...but I'm getting old and set in my ways...I'll try and be more careful in the future

Are you kidding Trace? they love it, it's like a soap

(Will they/Won't they....?)

Will we or won't we then? 

May as well give DC some more ammunition for his malicious rumours.  lmao

You have to tune in next week

 2s 3sty welsh dave if you see him tell him ginger martin got 180k in blackpool 12 left ty m8

lol. Know what you meen Dave, hoping to see him soon, but at my age it's a frightening challenge.

Probably packing his bags!

DC,

Whats the deal w the "golden ticket" and doea it involve a candy bar?????

The golden ticket is the re-entry into the final table of the winner of Tuesday's consolation tournament... two shots at it for the price of one.

We are back after that rather sudden ejection from the halls which meant sadly no access during the break even for the noble purpose of chip counting so we're just off to do it the hard way... back after a circuit.

Incidentally, just ran into Richard Gryko: as we came up he was running down having noticed as he sat back down that he'd left his sunglasses in the restaurant.  At least he's got his priorities right - the blinds are an hour and a half a level but who knows how long a nice pair of glasses is going to last lying on a table somewhere.

Could someone tell me how Stuart Rutter is getting on?

Half the eliminations for today soon completed, the aim is to come down to 36 players.

How many left?

OK, we are back from a rushed meal at the Cafe de Paris (chirp chirp,....)

Mr Rutter? Can't see him.

And El Blondie, aka Mr Burns, who Updated for fully 10 minutes, seems to have disappeared too.

Right, let's get back up to speed.

The winner of the consilation tournament (i.e. me as long as tikay keeps his distance) re-joins the final table (6) of the main competition with 10 big blinds (a short stack)

And a fine job he did despite winding me up!

Harry Demetriou has just busted out in 77th spot. And he owes Phil Laak $20,000 for a Last Longer. (Fancy one of those Trace?).

Bengt Sonnert is absolutely MURDERING his table, he's up to 280k & it's Raise, Raise, Raise. Nobody can stop him, he can bust them all in one hand.

Meanwhile, on the same table, Phil Hellmuth is in mega-Tilt Mode. Snarling & growling & rising to bait from everyone. Players on adjacent tables are winding him up, passing dogs are winding him up, a ship's captain in the Med is winding him up. How on EARTH can such an experienced player be so mentaly fragile?

$20,000  will do me nice thank you Tikay.

But   :redcard: for what you really meant!  lol

Out in 76th is Richard Redmond, whose button Kh Kd saw a flop with one other mid-position guy.  The flop was  Jh 7c Qc; Richard bet 10k, call.  The turn was the  2c, and he was check-raised all-in for the rest of his stack only to find  3c 6c against him.  The river was the  Ks just to rub it in, and he joins the quickly growing queue for the Consolation tournament.

Just thought I'd add that the battery in my camera has gone and it's one of those rechargable thingies with no charger in the country, so it's up to Tikay the photographer to bring you the visuals. 

Who calls 10k with 36 suited? :(

Well you can have pics, or Updates, but it's hard to do both. Up to you guys, I have dozens more pics to put up yet if you want em, & Jen can do the chip counts & hand jobbies.

 Meanwhile, at the tables......

The Feature "TV" Table is a real corker. Tony G, Phil Ivey, Matusow (in full flow), skalie, Nik Persuad (?), the funny little chappie from Gutshot who hangs around Scott Fischman, he can talk too.

I am sure Phil Laak would be winding Mr. Hellmuth up too, as he's definitely the strangest person on his table.  The K9 destroyer of Demetriou was involved in a hand with him (which Laak won) which involved a lengthy rather cyclic conversation:

Laak "I'm nervous.  I'm probably not gonna talk for the rest of the hand."
Alex Jagodik (I think): "It's better than K9 this time."
"I'm not talking anymore."
"Are you calling?"
"That's it."  And the hood comes up and zips up; his opponent passes and it all begins again...

Gl to Nik P, missed him earlier in the thread.

hi guys , is jatinder singh still in and if so how many chips ?     thank you

Paul Spillane, Stan James Head Honcho, (he's a Rock - lives in Gibralter) just got AA & found an all-in merchant with 88. Naturally, an 8 fell (no point reporting it otherwise) & Paul's brief dream of a 220k stack becomes a merely healthy 80k stack.

Id be very interested in this too

blonde really does offer everything!!

 :D :D :D

And now for some number-based factual information:

Juha Helppi      26k
Per Ummer      54k
Bob Voulgairis   27k
Marc Goodwin  215k
Erik Seidel        20k
Gus Hansen      38k
Joe Cassidy       50k
John Duthie     16k
Chris Ferguson  110k
Mel Judah         65k
Phil Laak           70k
Richard Gryko    88k
Scott Fischman  67k
John Juanda     120k
Joe Beevers       63k
Mads Andersen  110k
Eric Sagstrom     44k
Johan Storakers  62k
Kathy Liebert     56k
Iwan Jones        38k
John Conroy       20k
Ron Fanelli         86k
Achilleas Kallakis  46k
John Kabbaj       48k

And Jani Sointula, who last time I checked had trebled through TO 20k, now has 120,000!

     Tikay/Djinn

   I've just managed to catch up on here,and what an excellent job u2 are doing.It's one of the reasons I joined.


   Excellent site,excellent updates


                                                           :respect:

How are the Hendon Mob doing?

Look ^^^  I asked a serious question!

Well done Trace :)up :-*

And what about Andreas Barstads chipcount?

 :Dwhat a great site your not bad for your age tony lol :Djames fisher

Going into the last hours of the first day (You have still some 30 players to count out) I just want to thank you for the great reporting.
Keep on the excellent work. ;applause; ;applause; ;applause;

Poker as played by some of the American guys, becomes more like the WWF Wrestling farce every day. Phil Laak makes every hand a three-act play. Talking, baiting, clowning, jibes, mocking, acting, the whole works, every hand. Funny, entertaining, absorbinb. But pure poker is better. Give me pure poker every day.

Laak just got involved in a hand that musta taken fully 15 minutes. He asked the Dealer if he could show me his hand, & let me decide if he should call Matey Boy's all-in 13k in a 80k pot. Thankfully, the dealer said "no way", though the players said it would be OK.

Eventually, after an age of verbal sparring, Phil Laak says "I call, but I'm not gonna turn my hand over, I'm too embarrassed". TD is summoned, "you MUST turn it over".

"I just hope you have AK, I KNOW you have AK says Laak".

The flop was....

 Jh 8d 2d

Matey Boy turns over  8s 5h

Laak still won't turn his cards over. Matey Boy says "don't be slow-rolling me you *******".

More theatricals from Mr Laak, then, at last, he reveals his hand.  8c 5d

And the 90k+ pot is split. Extraordinary. I don't approve of all this horsing around, but boy of boy, he can't 'arf play poker. Eight bloody Five on a J high flop!

Well both boatmans went out holding AA Trace, dunno about the other half

Erik Seidel is OUT - short-stacked Seidel was all-in on a  Kh 7h 2h flop with  Kd 9c, but Scott Fischman had flopped the flush, holding  Jh 8h and with no help on the turn he was drawing dead, and then out.

Ahh, James Fisher - lovely lad, ex boxer, took Dave Boy Band Uliott apart at Walsall one day, a great memory. Welsh though. Me good for my age? Easy peasy. :dd: :dd: :dd:

Ariston -  :redcard: :redcard:

Yes James I thought they had, but couldn't be bothered scrolling back to be sure.


TIKAY/JEN

How are Ram and Joe doing please?

Great Jatinder Singh story now (with pic coming from Tikay):

He played a hand rather beautifully against non-stop talker Phil Laak who was clearly not too impressed with Jatinder, chatting his ear off while he just calmly sat there holding AQ on what ended up being a Q 5 7 2 8 board.  Jatinder checked the river and after a five minute speech which included "don't do it kid, think about your family," and "OK Mr. Bet365, you gonna check to raise me, or just check?" Phil Laak bet putting his opponent all-in on the river, which he called to double up.

Yeah Tikay upload as much pic's as possible please

Give me a minute Trace, & I'll see how Joe Beevers & Ram Vaswani are doing. I promise. The names tikay, not Red-Dog.

Now, Jen asked me to post this pic, this is the guy who decided to quieten Mr Laak down. Nice work Sir.

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 8) they say wit comes with age and we all know how funny you are lolnice 1 m8

 8) just like to say what a great site and you all seem to work very hard well done all and thankyou

this boy has got game...........my tip for the final table

please let him know i am sweating him tk              thanx

Joe Beevers 36k

Ram Vaswani 80k.

There you go Trace (BHOF). Not all men are let-you downs, eh?

Hellmuth is getting himself into a right lather.

He loses a big pot to Johan Storakers. Johan has AQ & has flopped both, so Mr Helmuth goes off on one big time.

"You guys are the worst players I have ever seen. You play with AQ, & I throw AK away like it's pure garbage. And you WIN with AQ - this is ridiculous, you boys get lucky, & I get skilful, & you beat me with that heap of crap.....". Steady Phil, this is blonde, you know the rules.

      If Hellmuth throws  AK like garbage,What game is he playing? :D :D :D

Classic!

OFFICIAL CORRECTION.

It turns out that Jen got it all wrong. Gus Hansens nephew is a girlie, it seems, not a boy. I don't think we ever said it was a boy, as it happens. How peeps kopw it's a girl or a boy from the clothes is a mystery to me. I've got a plum jacket - what does that make me? (Other than well-dressed?).

Here's the little sweetie again. Has to be said, he/she/it's really lovely.

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what do helmuth wanna win with ?quads? :D

thank you for posting another picture of my daugther - she is the rising poker star :D

15 minute break now, the last break of the day, preceding the last level of the day. 90 minutes to go, & that's it for Day One. Blinds 400-800, Running Ante 100. 72 players left. GAME ON.

You didn't say it was a boy, but nephew was the clue - doh!

mad martys running wild in blackpool massive chip leader 5 left still got faith in our welsh marin cavanagh 200k

Who else is left in Blackpool ?///wish marty lucky for me

M Cavanagh 120k

Bambos 100k

Mad Marty 780k

John the Greek 70k

Iqbal 250k

"With around 70 players left tables are beginning to scare. Big names sit side by side, along with the few qualifiers left and the pro's looking for luck.

The TV table alone will test the watershead, with Mike Matusow, Tony G, Phil Ivey and Nick Persaud fighting for TV rights.

We're playing till midnight or 36 left." (From Gutshot reporting)

Seem to be a tough objective?

like to say good luck to jatinder "cardstud" singh, very nice bloke as well as a top poker player. also all the guys from bad-beat.

Hi, may you please tell the count of yaron swerdlow ?

Got some news that Phil Ivey is chip leader at 230K?

Have you any updates about Bengt? What has happened?

is gus still there?

Mad Marty takes out Bambos, who gets £8,190. 3 left

Can you check up how much Sonnert has and who the people at his table are.

Aww thank you Tikay xxxxx

Sorry for late reply I'm on the phone  lol

Hi all !!!

I'm new on this forum. I've discovered you grace to the official site of the Monte-Carlo Millions tournament
Sorry for my poor english but i'm french ;)

I'm living in Nice, it's near of Monte-Carlo (15' minutes in car).

Tomorrow i'll go to watch the tournament with a friend which was gone to today !
So i hope Gus Hansen wont' be out because i want to look him playing !!!!!!!!!!

I'll take my camera to take some photos :)


Come On The Great Dane !!!!! You're the best !

Gus Hansen has 13k. Phil Ivey is on the feature table, so we are struggling to get his count. Bengt Sonnert has 190k.

Meanwhile, Phil Hellmuth, sat to the immediate right of Gus Hansen, is doing his Ariston impression. Drone, drone, drone....... "People call me - they just do, I don't know why. Maybe they can't believe just how good I am. It puts me at a disadvantage, being so much better than you guys, because you just can't believe I have the goods every time. And I knew - I KNEW - he had AJ, & I just could not believe he turned over AQ - how can he play AQ like that, how the hell am I expected to read THAT play?".........

how is jason dollinger doing at this point?

Bengt Sonnert's table?

I recognize these.....

Bengt Sonnert.

Iwan Jones

Johan Storakers

Pretty Lady.

Phil Hellmuth

Gus Hansen.

I'll ty & get a pic of the table shortly, maybe you will recognize a few more of them.

 :Dnever mind the guys get one of the pretty lady

Bad-Beat Boys, have we lost anyone else apart from the very inlucky sealey and squelch?

Great Work as always. My little sis wants a chip count for the love of her life, Phil Laak!

I am afraid it's one more down for the bad beats - John Conroy moved all-in with  Jh Jc against  Td Qd.
Flop:  9d Ah Tc
Turn:  Qh
River:  9h sending him out in 66th place.

And on the table right next to me, Marc Goodwin & Chris Jesus Ferguson are sitting there playing great poker. Quiet as lambs. Ever ready to smile, but you'd not know they were there. At the other end of the same table, Scott Fischman & Gavin are vying for the World Boorish Championship. But after this confrontation, it's a bit quieter, as one of them has departed in high dudgeon.

Flop comes  Kh 3s 4s

ALL the chips go in. Gavin turns over  Kd Jc

Scott turns over  5s 6s

Before the dealer shows the turn, we have a 3 minute delay, while the guys haggle over a saver. "5%?". "No, 3%". "OK".

Turn is the  Jd

River is the..... 2c

Gavin "you called me all-in with SIX HIGH?".......

Scott - "You limped with K-J?"..

Gavin - "You suck Fischmann".

Blackpool will never seem quite the same, ever again. Thank the Lord for Blackpool.

Was Sealey unlucky? He put the vast majority of his chips in when he was a huge dog on a 2 card draw ? A nasty coupe to deal with...but not really unlucky.

Rigged!

Hi

Thank you for this service. I was just wondering whos still in the tournament? Is there a list ?

does anyone have an update on jason dollinger??

I am going to get a chip count for......JASON DOLLINGER who is still here and is officially recognised now.  Sorry for the excruciating delay, but I'll be right back.  And with Phil Laak's too, little sis.

latest from blackpool

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Cavanagh 400k

Mad Marty 770k

Iqbal 250k
 

Cavanagh 400k

Mad Marty 770k

Iqbal 250k

Blackpool final 3

Money

1: £40,340
2: £23,400
3: £15,210

For jbsc's little sis, anything. Phil Laak has 130k - unflattering pic to follow.

As the day draws towards the end, we are making plans to get a full chip count of every player before the end of play.

hows AJ doing? and whos he sat with please

Jason Dollinger was found to have 110,000, or thereabouts.  He asked me how many he had before saying, "I wish you'd counted before the break, I had 133,000."  Seems like a nice guy, the Gutshot team were appalled I hadn't tracked him down already  :D

By AJ do you mean Mr. ActionJack?  He's got about 150,000 and my sieve-like memory has let me down as to his immediate neighbours but there's a pic of his table on its way and you can see for yourself...

thanks so much... tell him all of his college buddies are praying for him.... go dollinger!

Two more occupants of Bengt Sonnerts table. Oriental looking Gent & Pretty Lady. And a Welshman.

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iwan CODEYES LOOKS LIKE A PIKEY TELL HIM LOL 8)

was that Roy Keane in the left hand corner   great updates as usual  Tikay and Jen   ;applause;

is Gus still there?

More of Bengt's table - just Gus Hansen not shown now, & we've seen 3 pics of his nephew already, so that's enough for the Hansens today.  Here's Johan Storakers, Hoody Man, & Phil Hellmuth.

Hellmuth has now moved to Marc Goodwin & Scott Fischman's table, & is busy telling them what a load of fish there were on his previous table. Nice.

Meanwhile, Gavin Smith is heckling him big time, as well as Chris Ferguson. "Chris, I promised not to have another drink until you played another hand, & I've nearly sobedred up, do me a favour, play a hand - just one hand. PLEASE"........

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LOL Good spot!!

Lady is Kristy Gazes, and gent is Scott Numoto.  In that picture which features the Welsh guy.

GO DOLLINGER!!!! His older brother taught him how to play... (just kidding)

mad marty gets the lions share 32k cavanagh 2nd 24k iqbal 3rd 22k

And Roy Keane, would you believe, is Gus Hansen - truly!

Heres, in seats 1, 2 & 3, Scott Fischman, Stan James Big Suit Paul Spillane, & Ulitimate Bet's Phil Hellmuth.

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3 players just agreed a deal during the break

First place trophy £32,000 Mad Marty Wilson

Second PLace £24,000 M Cavanagh

Third place £22,000 Iqbal Patel

Right. Play ends in 6 minutes. We have been warned that we will be removed from the Arena as soon as play finishes. BUT.......  we WILL be given FULL CHIP COUNTS - EVERY PLAYER - as soon as the bagging up is done.

So we are gonna get out of the Arena & set ourselves up in the Cafeteria, to await the Chip Counts. Meanwhile, the pics & stories will continue whilst we wait for rthe chip counts. We still have LOADS of stuff for you.

Roy Keane is Gus Hansen? - I dont get it?

lol !

Come on Gus ! Keep fighting like Roy :D

Yes, they've been really very good here about the lists and the table numbers etc. and we're hoping that everything comes in a nice, seat ordered, navigable tomorrow kind of format.  But we'll wait for the to-the-chip counts before trying to tell you who's finished where.  Although I reckon Marc Goodwin is finishing at or near the top.

Just spoke with Richard G 170k, Nik P short stacked on feature.  Fischman doing ok too.

Hi All....

Another new user here - Awesome action at the tables huh  :)up

First off all.... This is cool update by you guys/gals - Nice work

Go Gus.... You're the man hope you're gettin after it... Understood you we're down to 17K  :(

Anyone who knows the chip count for Gus?

Acctualy he REALLY looks like Roy Keane at that pic   lol

Greetings from a dane

wish I had not said anything about Roy Keane now    -  cmon   ;letsparty; ;letsparty; ;letsparty; ;letsparty; ;letsparty; ;letsparty;

Hi new user dane!

Gus is really seriously short stacked, having just doubled up a positively miniscule stack, but we'll have his accurate count, along with everyone else's in about 40 minutes, when it's all been bagged and tagged.

Roy Keane - sorry - Gus Hsnsen - had 13k last time I looked. Full chip counts later, bear with us......

Nearly forgot. Here's Phil Laak - are you SURE about him Justine?

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So, Gus Hansen, or Roy Keane?

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It looks like he has fairy lights round his left ear. 

Great work guys, thanks for another excellent days coverage

Ok thx Djinn.... I'll be patient - Worth waiting for

A shame he's short stacked - Looking forward hearing the story off how he got there... Tilted or... And thx Tikay

...and I quote "Oh yeah Baby" (re: Phil Laak)

Hmmm was that aimed at his tongue? 



P.S.  Hi Si! xxx

Team Talk time for some of the Bad Beat Boys.

ActionJack is rounding up the Chip Counts for ALL the Bad Beat Boys for us. 6 of them have survived Day one.

Kevin Daly 148k

Jon Kalmar (skalie) 106k

Richard Herbert (strummer9)132k

Ron "Mad Yank" Finelli 78k

Iwan Jones 45k

ActionJack 167k.

Nice work by the Bad Boys, many of whom are blondeites.

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Jason Dolllinger for President

nah - Gus "the best of them all" for President. Go family!

Two of the less boorish players on Table 1. Marc Goodwin from USA Poker, & Chris  Ferguson from Full Tilt. Two Gents.

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True.....

Lige præcis  :respect:

Does anyone know the prize structure?

Below is the payout structure for the top 12 places of the main event.

1st: $1,000,000 4th: $250,000 7th: $53,000 10th: $35,000
2nd: $600,000 5th: $175,000 8th: $50,000 11th: $25,000
3rd: $300,000 6th: $125,000 9th: $35,000 12th: $25,000

 :ironside:

The Chip Counts will be delivered to us on a memory stick. They did tell me what that was, but I forgot. Not be long now.

Upgrade needed for Tikay's memory! xx

I dont think it is just his memory.....

thanks tony and jen for another superb update..........hope you both have a relaxing evening , thoroughly deserved      :)up :)up :)up

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More info?

dont even know what it is yet

Nice :respect: ;letsparty; ;letsparty; ;letsparty; ;letsparty; ;letsparty; 1 Sixpac  

thanks

Tnxs for all the updates, hope you can give the same good messages  :D tomorrow as well.

congrats!!

Well done you :)

Heid
xx

Mr K and Jen,
Thanks for a great day of updates.
 :respect:

Jen will post the Chip Counts shortly, as soon as we have them.

I've gotta do a little Review of the days play for the MMC peeps, then that's it.

I'm logging off now - there's a bit of a game going off on the yacht, & they have demanded my presence. Something about valooooo.......

Thanks for being with us today, we start again at Noon tomorrow, that's 11am UK, & heaven knows what time in the US of A.

It's been emotional.

xx

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It's been fantastic as usual Jen and Tikay - and the short input from Mr C himself.

Just hope I have a quiet day at work tomorrow then I keep stay tuned.

Night all

xxxxx

Hoorah for sixpac and thanks audience - there has been a great online atmosphere and I think it will only get more exciting tomorrow...

Any minute now those precious counts in electronic form are heading this way, and I'm heading to bed.  I think Tikay might be heading for more single table action, or perhaps he'll be sensible and go to sleep.  He is at the moment wrapping up the day with some kind of interview (a celebrity's work is never done) about the ups and downs of the day's play with regard to the main players etc etc. 

see you on there sixpac

without reading any further i just wanna say............WHAT!!!

Thanks Jen and TK for a great job.

See you in Walsall next weekend.

Nutflush.

Sorry, counts were made available, but in Excel which my laptop doesn't seem to be able to convert, so we're getting emailed a word document... just a matter of minutes now, honest.

Great job guys, looking forward to tomorrows coverage.

1   Goodwin   Marc   $231,700
2   Ivey   Phil     $226,700
3   Sonnert   Bengt    $205,200
4   Gryko   Richard    $180,300
5   Jackson   Paul    $167,400
6   Can   Fuat   $153,900
7   Ioannou   John    $146,600
8   Bonyadi   Farzad    $143,500
9   Daly   Kevin    $141,800
10   Jones   Jesse    $135,100
11   Herbert   Richard    $131,000
12   Laak   Phil    $128,300
13   Matusow   Mike   $125,400
14   Eichhartdt   Peter    $125,300
15   Kretz   John   $124,200
16   Ghebali   Jean-Jacques    $123,500
17   Storakers   Johan    $121,600
18   Diamadidis   Diamadis    $120,500
19   Dollinger   Jason    $109,300
20   Kalmar   Jon    $106,800
21   Ferguson   Chris    $105,500
22   Sointula   Jani    $104,300
23   Lagerborg   Tore    $103,000
24   Gouga   Tony    $102,400
25   James   Kenna    $97,300
26   Cooper   Robert    $95,000
27   Hellmuth   Phil    $94,600
28   Sabel   Stefan    $94,000
29   Hoel Barstad   Andreas    $89,300
30   Francissi   Stephane    $86,100
31   Sagstrom   Erik    $84,100
32   Erlandsen   Morten    $83,400
33   Fischman   Scott    $82,500
34   Zinman   Tyrone    $82,000
35   Spillane   Paul    $79,300
36   Bloch   Andy    $78,900
37   Fanelli   Ron    $78,200
38   Juanda   John    $77,000
39   Singh   Jatinder    $74,200
40   Jagodik   Alex    $70,500
41   Ruhu   Sargon    $70,200
42   Vaswani   Ram   $61,200
43   Judah   Mel    $60,800
44   Gazes   Kristy    $60,300
45   Ummer   Per    $57,300
46   Andersen   Mads   $53,300
47   Beevers   Joe    $48,200
48   Jensen   Randy    $47,500
49   Jones   Iwan    $45,200
50   Numoto   Scott    $44,200
51   Ardebili   Al    $37,900
52   Lindon   Vincent    $37,200
53   Voulgairis   Bob    $37,000
54   Harvey   Charles    $33,800
55   Koor   Sandy    $31,800
56   Kallakis   Achilleas    $31,600
57   Cassidy   Joe    $30,700
58   Alsancak   Ayhan    $29,700
59   Lassen   Morten    $28,300
60   Persaud   Nick    $23,300
61   Liebert   Kathy    $14,800
62   Hansen   Gus    $13,400
63   Poole   David    63rd
64   Swerdlow   Yaron     64th
65   Helppi   Juha    65th
66   Conroy   John   66th
67   Jorgensen   Theo    67th
68   Smith   Gavin    68th
69   Duthie   John    69th
70   Goehring   Alan    70th
71   Kabbaj   John    71st
72   Studley   Julien    72nd
73   Wells   David    73rd
74   Vallo   Martin   74th
75   Siedel   Erik   75th
76   Redmond   Richard    76th
77   Demetriou   Harry     77th
78   Mortensen   Carlos    78th
79   Lederer   Howard    79th
80   Antonius   Patrik    80th
81   Lennaard   Ken    81st
82   Banjout   Fred   82nd
83   Boatman   Ross   83rd
84   Thorson   William    84th
85   Pedersen   Dan    85th
86   Boatman   Barny    86th
87   Tate   Conor   87th
88   Tilly    Jennifer    88th
89   De Knijff   Martin   89th
90   Edler   Bill Edler   90th
91   Black   Andrew    91st
92   Greco   Michael    92nd
93   Ramdin   Victor     93rd
94   Dunkleberg   Steven    94th
95   Demjan   Sandor    95th
96   Bruel   Patrick    96th
97   Joern   Henrik    97th
98   Roche   Peter    98th
99   Thuriz   Mikael    99th
100   Ulliott   Dave    100th
101   Forrest   Ted     101st
102   Oppenheim   David    102nd
103   Novak   Isvan   103rd
104   Lodden   Johnny    104th
105   Bellande   Bobby    105th
106   Olesen   Thomas    106th
107   Colclough   David    107th
108   Mimran   Arnoud    108th
109   Rutter   Stuart    109th
110   Nijmeh   Emile    110th
111   Esfandari   Antonio    111th
112   Romain   Feriolo    112th

 ;karabiner; ;karabiner; ;karabiner; ;karabiner; ;karabiner;


Some dancing while waiting for the results for today.....

Come on, come on, come on.... Djinn  ;applause; 2d

Sorry that took so long and looks a tad wonky - you'll get them again tomorrow in seat order.  Night.

Thanks Jen good night have fun  ;letsparty;

hello
while i am on here mark "mr cool" goodwin is playing points (gin rummy variation i think) v Iwan " sheep worrier" Jones.
At this stage Iwan is seriously kicking marks bottom and mark will be going back to his hotel talking to himself , albeit while looking very cool

Thank you very much for your today coverage :)

Gus is near to be out :(
Wait me for tomorrow Gus !!!!!

I hope i'll see you too tomorrow, Djinn ant tikay ;)

good luck paul and the rest of bad-beat still in

hi there all,been visiting a while but just found time to join so hello all :D

fantastic coverage all 31 pages worth i just read!

Good Luck to Actionjack who is sitting in a very nice position, keep it up!

Good Luck to Mr Goodwin!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck to 'Granite' John Ioannou, cardroom manager at the Gutshot club - a really nice guy, who I hope does well.

However, from a more selfish perspective, go go Fuat Can who, thanks to Nemesis, is carrying the hopes of £10 of my 'hard earned' money. Let's see if the current run of useless Blondepoker betting tips is broken.

Also Tikay and Jen, say hello to Dan Furnival, who is assisting Matt Savage in tournament directing (he's the guy stood behind Phil Laak in the photo where Phil is going a bit mental at the camera). Dan's done a bit of male modelling in the past and I understand that he's currently adorning the walls of Tesco modelling jumpers - you could make TraceT and JustJo happy by posting a photo of him...

good luck marc and action jacko

Bengt Sonnert won!  Ad Ah  ;karabiner;

if that's the result i am not impressed!!
just about to go thru the updates and i will not be happy if the result is posted seperately