EPT at the Vic - Day 1a Live Update - Interactive

[Paulsson]

First post here, welcome!

Im part of Team Paul Rutter, go on Stuart.

Also go on to my finnish friend, Riku, make sure to say hello from me to both, and i expect that the favour is returned ;-)

Nice updates!

[snoopy1239]

Welcome to blonde, Paulsson 

Some more chippy counts for you:

Mickey Wernick -- 8,375
Dave Colclough -- 6,800
Stuart Nash -- 15,525
Henning Granstad -- 15,800
Alan Betsson -- 18,950
Ram Vaswani -- 17,325
Martyn Cavanagh -- 17,325
Ed Hollis -- 1,500
Julian Thew -- 12,000
Luke Patten -- 4,150
Barny Boatman -- 17,200
Alli Mallu -- 25,000

[snoopy1239]

Luke Patten has doubled through off Alan Bettson.

Luke was low anyhow and has only jumped to around 8k, but he managed to get his chips in with a pretty strong hand, J-J vs Alan Betsson's 9-9 on a J-7-x board.

Although the Turn gave Bettson a menacing flush draw, Luke's top two pair stood up.

[snoopy1239]

As soon as I spot Julian rising a raised eyebrow, I know that it can only mean one thing.

Either he's doing his Roger Moore impression, or Alli Mallu is on the warpath.

And, as expected, it was the latter, with Mallu all-in against a youngster with A-T vs Mateyboy's Pocket Jacks.

I think it was a case of raise by MB, button re-raise by Mallu, an all-in from MB, called by Mallu (with little hesitation might I add).

And, as Julian and I expected, that Ace hit the flop and it was all over. Even a fourth diamond on the Turn meant that Mallu's opponent was drawing to the case Jack.

Another one down, another one on the Mallued list.

[snoopy1239]

Some of you may have noticed the name 'Ed Hollis' in the last chip-count.

This is the guy who's responsible for the 'entertaining blog' thread on 'general discussion'.

Plays well above his station, knows it, but loves the buzz too much to quit. A truly great read.

Unfortunately, he is only on 1.5k at the moment and I can't imagine it'll be long before he either doubles up or exits stage left. In fact, I give him 3 hands max.

[snoopy1239]

Luke Patten has doubled through off Alan Betson.

Luke was low anyhow and has only jumped to around 8k, but he managed to get his chips in with a pretty strong hand, J-J vs Alan Betson's 9-9 on a J-7-x board.

Although the Turn gave Betson a menacing flush draw, Luke's top two pair stood up.

And here's Luke Patten straight after that hand.

I'm a little concerned by the red curtain though and the potential entrance of BOB. Could cause a few headaches for the tournament directors.

[snoopy1239]

Mickey is currently on...

er, I think I'd better ask him later...

[snoopy1239]

 

[NoflopsHomer]

Well I'm back from a tour of both floors of the Vic with lots of news. First up, there are still three tables downstairs, unfortunately, the Vic have, instead of keeping them together, seperated them in between a load of cash game tables which is a little annoying. Anyway, whilst down there you can hear the friendly banter between Jeff Buffenbarger and Ian Woodley which culminated in the former giving the latter a free walk on the blinds (100/200). Woodley laughingly slammed down the Cowboys, saying, "You could've at least given me 100 more chips!!!"

Elsewhere, some double mateyboy elimination news, the first was with the old bullets against the kings

The second was when matey and matey had a little raising war on a  , unfortunately matey's  was no match for matey's  ....


Both Isabelle Mercier and Phil Ivey have managed to recover from losing around half their chips in the opening two levels.

Ivey has around 15k last time I checked, whereas Mercier just scooped an 8.2k pot when value betting 2k on a  board. Her opponent called and then mucked when he was shown  .

[NoflopsHomer]

Mickey Wernick doubles up news now.

The Worm had been getting short and moved in with  and might have felt it was a  moment when he was called, but his opponent had  and two Jacks fell on the flop, and although a broadway straight draw came on the turn, Lord Wernick's trips held up and he is in a much healthier position. [Edit] In fact, the T did come on the river, of course that filled Micky's boat, so oops...

[NoflopsHomer]

El Blondie had made some headway after his double up but just lost some chips back to Stuart Nash in a rather unfortunate way, the board read 9-A-6-8-7

El Blondie - 

Stuart Nash - 


Eeek!

[snoopy1239]

Meet (well, look at) David Plastik and Petr Hedblom, both big characters not just at this table, but in the whole field.

Petr is in fact a rather hyper-active Swedish player who just can't zip it. He means well, but when he left for the loo, David Plastik could help but comment, "I don't know what's more annoying, the piano player or the mofo sitting next to me."

Slightly harsh, but an entertaining table nonetheless.

[snoopy1239]

144 of 198 players remaining
15 tables
639k in the pot
Blinds = 150/300 (no ante yet)
Average Stack = 13,800

(assuming that the board has been updated recently)

[snoopy1239]

Marcus Golser is OUT.

He was brave enough to call a 10k river bet for all his chips (about 10-15k in the pot), but ran into Alon Huberman's straight (T-J) on a board of 2d-Qh-8d-6h-9h.

Golser didn't look happy.

[Paulsson]

How is rutter doing? think his phone has been confiscated .. Also, has riku bluffed his way out yet?