PARIS WPT - SECOND DAY ONE - LIVE UPDATE

[Colchester Kev]

Just tell the froggies that you dyed it blonde to celebrate London getting the olympics im sure that will win you lots of new friends

[Karabiner]

I believe M. Gaultier sometimes sports a kilt.

That might be interesting Tikay.........

 

[TightEnd]

I believe M. Gaultier sometimes sports a kilt.

That might be interesting Tikay.........

 

no, lets change the subject

[Djinn]

Just saw Surinder Sunar, defending champ, going into one of the rooms - he asked a tournament lady who the chip leader of day 1 1 was.  She said "Francois Callaghan.  92,000."

[Robert HM]

Bonjour mon joli Jen comment allez vous ?

(Knew there was a use for O Level French)

[Djinn]

Rob Hollink and Devilfish clash early over a sizeable pot on an  A J x x x board with four hearts on it.  Rob (whose hand wasn't shown) raised Devilfish on the end, who eventually passed showing a heartless AJ.

Someone, as yet nameless, is down to the felt after five minutes with a surprise all-in (trips versus a full house).  Today might be quite exciting.

[Djinn]

Bonjour Monsieur Robert HM

Ca va bien, merci.  J'ai mange un omelette ce matin. C'etait delicieux.  Um, je dois travailler maintenant. 

Chip counts on their way.

Jen

[TightEnd]

jen, we want you stationed next to the elblondie/brian wilson table please

a) to report verbatim the verbals

b) to watch the fireworks

 

[Shaa]

Good luck to Willie Tann

[Ruru]

I'll echo that YWB

[tikay]

Plenty action on the Colclough/Wilson/Brindley table, but NOT involving them. Dave just slipped us a note with some interesting action - Jen's posting it right now.

Lucky that blonde have DC on hand, notes from the players themselves at a WPT Table, you don't get that on many sites!

Some heat on the Trumper/Black table, something about showing hands at the showdown. We will get the lowdown at the break. Heat on the Willie Tann table too. Everybody seems to be tetchy today.

And Carlo just nipped me for 20 Euros - looks like he left his money at homre, as well as his clothes.

[Djinn]

Straight from horse's mouth - this couple of stories come from Table 1 where El Blondie seems to be able to do our jobs as well as his! 

"Russian ace Alexander Kuzmin tussles with Claude Cohen (previous French WPT finalist.  It appeared that Claude flopped a set of against Alex's top pair of Aces and he lost 6000 chips to Claude.
The very next pot Alex flops his own set of against Tobey Maguire's AK on an A 8 4 board.  Alex trap checks his way into getting his whole remaining 9000 in and doubles through off Spiderman caught in his Russian web...Tobey down to 6,000 while Alex at 18,000"

How good is this- real time hand reports from the players themselves.  So TightEnd no need to be there in person...

[tikay]

After I managed to be 16 hours late writing my "Day One Diary" the techs at www.poker425.com have excelled themselves & got it up on the site in 20 minutes flat.

But the baa-lambs have found and posted an old pic of me - THE worst pic you ever saw - & doctored it. Never try to get the better of a techy, eh?

PS - It was taken when I was younger. (Aint that the strangest question, when you show someone a pic, & they ask if it was "taken when you were younger?"... I mean, how many answers are possible to THAT?...)

[Shaa]

Sort that picture out RURU YWB!!!1

[Djinn]

Some early counts:

Simon Trumper  12,100
Andy Black        15,300
Woody Deck      14,850 (you may know him as the ultra agressive young US cash player sometimes to be found loitering in Gutshot; has good name)
Barny Boatman   9,100
Willie Tann        16,600
Stuart Nash       21,000
Brian Wilson      14,150
Rob Hollink        19,700
Peter Roche      13,700
John Gale          17,200
Tony G             14,600
Bambos            14,300
Surinder           15,300
Jeff Lissandro    15,400
Chuc Hoang      25,000 (with whom Tikay shared a final in Deauville, which he won (CH not TK)