EPT at the Vic - Day 1a Live Update - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Hello, and here's your Info Only thread for this first day of the Vic London EPT... numbers and news galore, but no replies please - that's what Interactive is for...

[Djinn]

Let's start with the Spotteds:

Among many, many others (we hear we have another sell-out crowd):

Isabelle Mercier
Luca Pagano
Victor Ramdin
Joe Hachem
Barry Greenstein
Phil Ivey
Johnny Lodden
Roland de Wolfe
Neil Channing
John Shipley
Dave Colclough

And that's just the ones I saw hanging around the downstairs bar...

[NoflopsHomer]

10,000 chips and an hour clock.

Sounds good?

[snoopy1239]

Some more names for you:

Kenna James
David Plastik
Barney Boatman
Isabelle Mercier
Richard Ashby
Matt Tyler
Ben gRundy
Mark Teltshcer
David Pomroy
Neil Channing
Vik Kanwar
Bambos Xantho
Phil Ivey
Paul Testud
Ian Woodley
Simon Zach
John Shipley
Jeff Buffenbarger
Victor Ramdin
Trevor Reardon
Stuart Nash
Steve Vladar
James Akenhead
Mickey Wernick
Julian Thew
Ross Boatman
Torstein Iversen
Luke Patten
Praz Bansi
Ram Vaswani
Dave Colclough

[snoopy1239]

Terrance Chan is the first casualty.

Kings vs Aces

preflop action inc raise, re-raise, and call.

2,400 bet on Jack high flop, Chan calls.

4,000 on rag Turn, Mateyboy bets 4,000, Chan moves all-in, MB calls and wins a double-up.

[snoopy1239]

How about this for an intimidating table?...

James Akenhead -- 7,225
Kristanian Ulriksen -- 8,475
Jeff Lisandro -- 9,500
Alli Mallu -- 12,725
Jan Slovik -- 13,525
Marc Gosler -- 9,075

And a few chip counts from the same area:

Liam Flood -- 8,400
Stuart Nash -- 9,500
Ian Woodley -- 10,550
Jeff Rogers -- 11,100
Jeff Buffenbarger -- 11,275
John Shipley -- 10,375
Steve Vladar -- 9,850

[NoflopsHomer]

Blind Structure, all 1 hour levels.

SB             BB          Ante
25             50     
50            100
75            150
100          200
150          300
150          300           25
200          400           50
300          600           75
400          800          100
600         1200         100
800         1600         200
1000       2000         200
1500       3000         300
2000       4000         400
3000       6000         600
4000       8000         800
5000      10000       1000
6000      12000       1000
8000      16000       2000
10000    20000       2000
15000    30000       3000
20000    40000       4000
25000    50000       5000

And if you're still in then, you could well be looking at scooping an estimated £500,000 for 1st place, since both days have sold out. (200 each day).

[snoopy1239]

Harry Demetriou -- 10,075
Marc Naalden -- 10,900
Robin Keston -- 18,000
Ben Grundy -- 17,000
Vik Kanwar -- 9,400
Roland De Wolfe -- 7,000
Stu Rutter -- 9,700
Mark Teltscher -- 4,500
David Pomroy -- 8,925
Isabelle Mercier -- 7,850
Matt Tyler -- 4,450
Edgar Skjervold -- 17,200
Paul Alterman -- 7,700
Phil Ivey -- 6,200

[NoflopsHomer]

Isabelle Mercier has lost a chunk of chips early on, in a 3 way pot, with a healthy stack of the yellow (1k) in the pot she was forced to fold on a  board when the river came  and matey stuck in a 5k bet.

[snoopy1239]

Pascal Perrault is OUT.

Meanwhile, Roland De Wolfe is down to 7k (Rather than up to 16) after having Kings outdrawn by A-K.

[NoflopsHomer]

Stu Rutter is up to 20k, his 77 was way to strong for scandieboy's A7 on an A-7-6-K-6 board.

Kenna James is OUT.

[snoopy1239]

Barny Boatman -- 13,700
Luca Pagano -- 9,250
Mickey Wernick -- 8,450
Henning Granstad -- 16,000
Ram Vaswani -- 12,275
Luke Patten -- 11,550
T8mml -- 5,525
Martyn Cavanagh -- 13,475

[NoflopsHomer]

Total number of entries today:- 198 and we are now on the third level with 179 players after just finishing a short break. Blinds are now 75/150

[snoopy1239]

Simon Zach doubles up to 19k

7-7 vs K-K (inc heart) on 7-x-x (all heart) board.

Set holds up.

[snoopy1239]

Jeff Burffenbarger has eliminated John Shipley.

open ended straight draw vs set

All-in on the flop

Jeff hits straght on Turn with a 6


Soon after, Bob Commbes was also eliminated from the Event.