BARCELONA EPT: DAY 2 AT A GLANCE LIVE UPDATE

[snoopy1239]

Nick Gibson -- 25,000
Andreas Hagen -- 110,000
Stephen Pearce -- 155,000
Phil Ivey -- 115,000

The blinds are 2000/4000 (400) with an average stack of 97,939

[Djinn]

And Nick Gibson sidles up as I'm watching the feature table - saying, "I hate the bubble," and near enough, he's hit it:

Most of the damage was done when he called a small blind's auto-all-in with his , and found against him (the pot was a total of 30k).  A nine popped out on the river, and then soon thereafter he made a stand with Q 10 and found 77 against him; despite a K J x flop, he failed to improve and is now just hanging out, like us.

[Djinn]

The feature table has been fattened again:

It's now:

John x
Paul Testud
David Plastik
Nick Szeremeta
JP Kelly
Johnny Lodden
Phil Ivey
Ross x      (sorry for lack of 2 surnames)

Just watched it for a while, seeing as we can't get to the other tables - JP and Johnny are playing a little more than most (or were, before the addition of Ivey).  A couple of examples:

The first flop on the new TV table was seen by those two - small blind limp from JP, check from Johnny.  .  JP checks, Johnny bets 6k, call.
Turn:    Check-check
River:   Check-check.   JP turns over the surprise (winning) hand of AK and says, "I forgot to raise."

Then the next hand, JP raises on the button, Johnny calls.  Flop:    Check-check.
Turn:  Johnny bets out 16,000.  JP calls.
River:    Johnny quickly announces "all-in" and it looks like a real self countdown is going on, but he passes, sending his tricky neighbour a wry grin.

[Djinn]

47 players remaining.... money for 45th... going to go see what I can see from behind the backs of the spectators' heads...

[snoopy1239]

Two Frenchmen have taken 47th and 46th, with Paul Testud eliminated in 47th.

[snoopy1239]

Paul Parker has just doubled up.

He moved in for 22k with Q-7, only for Noah Boeken to make a good call with K-4.

However, Paul outdrew the young Dutchman to shoot up to around 50k.

[snoopy1239]

Julian Gardner is now on 320k after outdrawing Q-Q with A-9 in a 120k pot.

Les Kerrigan -- 23,000
Paul Parker -- 48,000
Julian Gardner -- 320,000
Roland De Wolfe -- 135,000

[Djinn]

Round of applause for Paul Parker, who despite the Media Ban has been sprinting over to where I've stood at the rail to send me interesting bits of information:

Like, Les Kerrigan just doubled up to 44,000+ with against ...

Chip leader is Jeff Lisandro with around 420,000

Noah Boeken was just all-in (uncalled) for his whole 80k stack

Paul himself is now on 70,000

   for Mr. Parker!

[snoopy1239]

JP Kelly is now on 117k after eliminating Nick Szerameta

Nick raised preflop with K-T, JP moved all-in with A-T and Nick called.

No help for either player.

[Djinn]

Stephen Pearce, even though his audience is restricted to behind the barriers, still gave an almighty shout when moving all-in: "It's my moment!"
Then rather surprisingly, we heard Ian Woodley shouting right behind him, "We know about his moment, what about my moment - I'm all in!"  I couldn't see the first inch of the flop or anyone's hands, but the net result is that we are down one Stephen Pearce.

Snoopy and I are down to one pick each - Johnny Lodden and Andreas Hagen respectively.

[Djinn]

After a bit of prompting from Jon Raab - found the Payout for this event, which is surely an appropriate detail now as they're all in the money...

1st      691,000
2nd     371,000
3rd      184,300
4th      161,300
5th      138,200
6th      115,200
7th        92,200
8th        69,100
9th        46,100
10-12th  25,400
13-15th  20,750
16-18th  16,250
19-27th  11,500
28-36th   9,200
37-45th   6,900

All prizes in Euro.

[snoopy1239]

Noah Boaken doubles up to 170k after his 83k pre-flop all-in was called by K-T.

Ace high was enough.

[snoopy1239]

Players still left in:

JP Kelly
Paul Parker
Andread Hagen
Les Kerrigan
Johhny Lodden
Noah Boaken
Phil Ivey
Roland De Wolfe
Marc Boujewin (sp?)
Allesandro
Paul Parker
Kristian Ulriksen
Julian Gardner
Ian Woodley

Incidentally, Parker is on 65k

[snoopy1239]

Roland de Wolfe is down to 30k after losing a big pot with A-J vs A-9.

opponent spiked a 9


Blinds are currently at 3000/6000 (600) and there are 34 players left, one of whom is Julian Gardner who has dropped down to 210,000

[snoopy1239]

Jeffrey Lisandro (not Allesandro as reported earlier) eliminates 2 more players in a Q-Q vs A-Q vs A-K pot - couldn't be too much better for him, especially when the board bring  5 blanks.

Lodden -- 165k
Kerrigan -- 35k
Gardner -- 195k
Paul Parker -- 50k

Noah Boaken has eliminated another player with A-K vs 6-5, King on flop sealed the deal.