BARCELONA EPT: DAY 2 AT A GLANCE LIVE UPDATE

[Djinn]

Just heard that Gus Hansen doubled up with , all-in against Brigitta Johansen (I think)'s .  He hit both the Ace and the Ten, and now has chips to push around again.

[Djinn]

my top 3

ben grundy
jp kelly
matt tyler   julian gardner

I'm afraid you've lost another - Ben Grundy has been knocked out by JP - all in preflop with against JP's .  The flop brought K Q 7, but I think it was a flush which ended up sending him to the rail.

[snoopy1239]

it appears as though the undeniably talented Julian Gardner is your chip leader with just under 150k.

[snoopy1239]

Johnny Lodden has overtaken Gardner for the chip lead after eliminating an opponent with A-Ks vs 4-4.

other raise, Lodden makes it 21k, MB moves all-in for 35k, Lodden calls.

Ace first card

Lodden is now on 165k

[Djinn]

****************************************1hr Dinner Break******************************************

Bear with us while we nip out for a pizza - here are some chip counts to tide you over:

Juha Helppi      21,800
Abel Meijberg   108,000
Andreas Hagen  32,000
Paul Testud       72,000
JP Kelly            110,000
Johnny Lodden   155,000
Tony Chessa       33,000
Julian Gardner     140,000
Paul Parker         41,000
Gus Hansen        75,000
Stephen Pearce  115,000
Nick Szeremeta   32,000
Ryan Fronda       45,000
Ian Woodley      100,000

[Djinn]

A few more chip counts I left off that pre-dinner list because they were on another piece of paper (lame, I know):

Max Kraanen     19,300
Roland De Wolfe  115,000
Hubert Attali        26,000
Gusten Sjoberg    100,000
Joel Farsberg        95,000
Mark Boudewijn     53,000
Andy Black            24,000
Gustav Bjornsson   22,000
Kristian Ulriksen     76,000
Marga Gonzalez     65,000
Les Kerrigan          73,000
Elie Marciano         27,000
Ilari Sahamie         50,000
Dan Pedersen       94,000

[snoopy1239]

Bernard Stoddart -- 34,200
Nick Gibson -- 24,000
Ian Woodley -- 82,000
Paul Parker -- 40,000
JP Kelly -- 40,000
Gus Hansen -- 95,000
Tony Chessa -- 21,900
Ryan Fronda -- 38,700
Johnny Lodden -- 158,000
Nick Szeremeta -- 26,400
Roland de Wolfe -- 110,00
Les Kerrigan -- 76,000
Paul Zimbler -- 45,400
Marcus Golser -- 26,500

[snoopy1239]

JP lost a huge amount of chips making a move wtih A-7.

He ran into Kings and couldn't find an Ace on a Q-5-8-8-5 board.

Meanwhile, Jeffrey Allesandro is our chip leader with 205k.

[Djinn]

Anyway, back on the Feature Table, which has a full set of stands round it now so it's hard to see what's going on - there was a pretty big hand.  A raise to 11,500, followed by not one, but two over-the-top all-ins.  One was what sounded like 'Ford' and the other was Ivey.  After a suitable dwell the original raiser threw his hand away, and it was an (Ford(?)) and (Ivey) match-up.
Flop: 
Turn:    (at which I distinctly noticed a raised eyebrow from Phil, who ended the hand smiling)
River:

So down one player - who will they bring to fill the gap?  Oh yes, it's random...

[snoopy1239]

Marcus Golser is OUT.

A K-J vs 8-4 loss on a K-8-2-4 board took him down to 11k.

He departed shortly after.

[Djinn]

Paul Parker raises from the button to 10k, MB in the BB makes it another 15, Parker folds, claiming he had A-8.

Do we believe him?

Anyhow, he's back down to 21.100 and struggling.

Well, he gets some back with a very nice call on the river, for a pot already holding c.20k:
Board:

He's facing an 8,000 bet from Matey, and counts it out from his diminished stack... and calls with .  And wins.    

[Djinn]

Huge elimination News Now -

Gus Hansen presses the Red Button, somehow getting it all in preflop with against ... this pot isn't peanuts, either, it's over 200k!

Board comes: , and the three-deep crowd part to let Gus make his exit (a little annoyed with himself, it looked like).

[snoopy1239]

Jeffrey Allesandro now has 465,000, his recent elimination being that of his neighbour when his A-T held up against 8-8 on a Ten high flop.

The chip-leader by a long way

Meanwhile, Aukaham Eytan has just been eliminated from the comp.

[Djinn]

Tony Chessa's up and down run just ended in a down - with a battle of the blinds (he was s.b. with AJ) - how was he to know that the big blind had AK - and I just got this slightly blurry picture of him, Lodden and JP...

[snoopy1239]

Nick Gibson has doubled up.

A-K v A-T

Ten on Flop, but King arrived to take him up to 34k.