Pokerstars EPT Barcelona - Day 1b - Live Update Interactive

[AlrightJack]

Who's got the best poker face?

[AlrightJack]

Blue Square sponsorship freeroll winner Bernie 'sandino' Stoddart.

He won BSQ's April sponsorship freeroll, finished 2nd in the Paris €750 event that he played in as part of it and as a result won two further months sponsorship. This is his 3rd outing in Blue Square colours.

[AlrightJack]

I have managed to track down the full overnight counts from yesterday:

Pedersen   Dan Bitsca   118400
Abrahams   Javed   99700
Nord   Johan   84400
Keston   Robin   76000
Karkus   Andras   71900
Ulriksen   Kristian   70300
Helland   A.   69700
Thorel   Philip   57600
Dalhuisen   Peter   57300
Sehljtedt   Bo   50300
Davas   Abu   49800
Lodden   Johnny   47100
Woodley   Ian   46700
De Wolfe   Roland   44700
Hageland   Seval   44700
Van der Vollen   Brice   42600
Can   Fuat   41000
Lahtinen   Teemu   40600
Daneshgar   David   39900
Otte   Alan   39900
Gibson   Nick   39500
Pierrard      38500
Cailin   Jin   37800
Thater   Katja   35800
Lisandro   Jeff   34600
Kerrigan   Leslie   33500
Kelly   JP   31800
Gould   P   31200
Dull   Jon   31000
Eskilsson   Hans   28800
Brenes   Humbeto   27000
Boudewijn   Markus   26900
Chessa   Tony   26600
Attali   Hubert   26200
Pietila   Petri   26200
Petit   Emile   25700
Elkeslassy   Daniel   25400
Jetten   C. Peter   25000
Ivey   Phil   24800
Boudet   Patrice   24300
Bergquist   Johan   24000
Pyysing   Aki   23700
Kindle   Michael   23100
Wahlroos   Thomas   22900
Silverstein   Frank   22700
Doraminson   Anton   22100
Grundy   Ben   22100
Marciano   Elie   21500
Alberti   Michel   21000
Huttunen   Aki   20300
Lindberg   Erik   20200
Rotach   Stephan   20200
Halioua   Mike   19500
Golser   Markus   19400
Akos   Nemeth   18800
Pagano   Luca   18600
Van Rooyen   Vincent   18600
Temelkovski   Vladimir   18300
Davenport   James   18000
Lopez   Iago   16800
Chow   Leopold   15400
Strom   Per   15000
Hobson   Greg   14900
Duarte      14200
Mikkelsen   Dag Martin   13700
Hurtig   Andreas   11100
Sass   Alan   10900
Romanello   Antoni   10800
Passeron   Thierry   10700
Billum   Thomas   10500
Mulin   Thierry   10200
Gonzalez   Marga   10000
Pearce   Stephen   8700
Dyrstad   Allan   8000
Lindstedt   Tony   7700
Cuberos   Manuel   6900
Joahnsson   Birgitta   6700
Kuusik   Jules   5100
Bensimon   Franck   5000

[snoopy1239]

chippy count time:

Jim Kerrigan -- 9,225
Henning Granstad -- 7,250
Mads Andersen -- 9,375
Kevin O'Connel -- 8,075
Simon 'SuffolkPunch' Young -- 10,025
Kevin Moore -- 10,900
Simon 'Chubbs' Nowab -- 8,775
Bengt Sonnert -- 8,950
Willie Tann -- 10,300
Joe Hachem -- 10,350
Mickey Wernick -- 9,750
John Gale -- 9,750
Jim Reid -- 10,200
Tony Nichols -- 5,100
Edgar Skjervold -- 14,350
David 'dpommo' Pomroy -- 12,450
Marcel Luske -- 425
Simon Zach -- 5,525

[snoopy1239]

Although Luske rose back up to 820 after hitting a straight on an 8-7-4-4-J board (Mateyboy had K-4), it looks as though he may finally be OUT, as he is currently undertaking an interview in the press room.

[snoopy1239]

Willie Tann has just over 10k and, althogh he reckons his table is pretty solid, there is one guy across the way who 'Is playing every hand'.

Willie believes this chap will soon dump his chips, hopefully to him. A few hands ago Willie made a straight against him and checked both the Turn and River but, to Willie's dismay, Crazyboy failed to bet.

Next time, Gadget!...

[Karabiner]

  Jen and Spoony.

Pink rocks 

[The_nun]

  To the workers...

[snoopy1239]

Okay, managed to grab a hold of Luske's exit hand.

Bit of a bizarre one really.

Although he'd lost some chip previously when his trips were outkicked, this hand took him down to just 400:

Mateyboy & Luske checked a K-9-9-x-x board down to the River, where Mateyboy bet, Luske raised, MB re-raised and Luske called.

Luske had turned a flush, but MB had flopped Quad Nines.

Eek

[Djinn]

Henrik Olander, who caught the Updater's attention in Dublin last year, and is undoubtedly one of the strongest young players, just lost a pot of over 14k, leaving him with 6,500 after a promising start.  I actually saw this hand all the way through, which is a miracle as the press seem to multiply daily, and quite a few bold lurkers are crowding the tiny gangways between the tables too.

So - Henrik on the button sees a flop of with the small blind Matey.  Matey checks, Henrik bets 175, and is raised to 300.  Call.
Turn:  .  Check; Henrik bets 350, and another min-raise to 700 from sb-Matey.
River:  .  Now small blind bets out 2k, about a third of his stack.  Henrik thinks for a minute (probably about the development of the paired board) before pushing all-in.  Small blind Matey calls in a flash with his , and Henrik shows the bare before mucking his hand and accepting the loss, without reaction.

[snoopy1239]

Juha Helppi doubles up to 10,200.

A-T vs J-J

Ten on the Turn

[snoopy1239]

 

[Djinn]

Nun; Karabiner - always a pleasure...

Just watched one of those big circles of gawkers surround a table conveniently located right in the middle of the floor as a big ruling is called for from TK himself:

It's the river - the board lies and there's a bet and a raise from Gary Jones.  The Spanish guy who made the initial river bet for some reason has exposed his hand:  .  Now Gary gets very agitated, talking about his hand being 'over the line' and calling Thomas over for a ruling after two other floor people failed to calm the situation.  Thomas rules (fairly, in my opinion) that the hand-exposer can only call, and will subsequently get a 10 minute penalty.  That isn't accepted very happily by Gary, who insists Kremser's wrong and is obviously not happy about being called and subsequently losing both the pot and the plot, a little.

Thomas says, "the line is not a line for the cards" - it seems unless they touch the muck, they're not strictly dead.  So there you go, potential hand exposers.

[snoopy1239]

Sverre Sundbo, who many of you may remember from London a while back, is currently on around 8k.

He made a tricky laydown a few hands back though.

MB raised from early position, two callers, including Sverre who had A-K in the BB.

Sverre checks the K-7-4 Flop, MB (not the initial raiser) bet 500 and Sverre made it 1,400. MB called.

Sverre then bet 2,000 on the Jack Turn, but MB made it 5,000.

Sverre thought and though before finally letting his hand go.

"Do you think he had a set?" I asked
"Well, he played it like a set, but the problem is that he plays all his hands like a set," replied Sverre.

[db]

  Hello all, awesome update!

Could you PLEASE give some updates on the team bestpoker.com players ERIK FRIBERG, JOHN PERSSON and RICKI NIELSEN, all great players, you have any pics of them too! Again, Blondepoker has the best coverage on this, nice! Thanks alot.