BADEN EPT: DAY 1A

[Djinn]

I was kind of joking before, but it does look like the camera crew hovering around Jan Heitmann's table is actually hovering around Jan Heitmann...

He's won the last two confrontations I saw, with the last being a small blind vs big blind type:

The sb must have raised preflop  because on the flop of he chose to bet what looked like 3,000.  BB Jan eventually called.  Maybe it's the media circle round him, but he acts like he may be raising through molasses.  Better to think things through, of course, than just rush headlong into betting the turn...
Turn:     Now the small blind Matey checks, and Jan, after another deliberation, bets 3,800.  The SB can't call, and his stack reaches 23,000.

[NoflopsHomer]

So now blinds are 200/400, it's level 6.
110 players remaining, according to the TV, which rarely lies, as we all know.

I can prove that she is not lying, though 10 more players have bitten the dust, including Lairyboy (cousin of matey) who had been pulling all sorts of re-raises with rags and such until El Blondie just took him out with AA vs 55 on a 9-9-4-4-A board. The Ace was probably overkill though. Dave has over 25k now.

[Djinn]

Chips in Brief:

Luca Pagano   OUT
Marc Goodwin  20,000
Mark Boudewijn  18,000
Ramzi Jelassi (pictured next to Karin Lundgren (10,300), I think)  28,500
Edgar Skjervold  11,400
Bad Girl             8,800
Jonas Molander  23,000
Gunnar Osterbrod  6,500

[NoflopsHomer]

Errrr sometimes, you don't really think this has a £3,500 entry fee.

Couple of limpers, of which is on the button, small blind folds, big blind checks.

Flop:

 

Checked to button, who makes a big bet.

BB check/raises all-in, limper folds, button insta-calls.

BB 

Button 

Turn

 

River

 

[Djinn]

Just spotted Phil Shaw, who looks quite a bit different when in full disguise (hat, glasses, ipod etc.) - in fact he started on Dave's table and has been moved to the heavily televised one...  he's on 17,000.

[Djinn]

An Incredible thing has Just Happened - we have been given chip counts for everyone!  Yes, everyone!  As of an hour ago, so you may notice some look like they've been resurrected and DC is listed (now quite wrongly) near the bottom of the pack,  but honestly, we can't thank them enough.  Go Casinos Austria   

Gould   Peter    GBR            44900
Brolin   Tomas   SWE           32925
Schuler   Thorsten   D   31375
TÓTH   Richard   HUN          30675
Olsen   Jan Arilo   NOR     28500
Pollak   Hans-Martin   AUT   25825
Jelassi   Ramzi Alexander   SWE   25450
Judah   Melvyn   AUS            25075
Stieger   Matthias   D       24975
Molander   Jonas   SWE   24925
Kabbaj   John   GBR             24800
Minieri   Dario   ITA                24600
Goodwin   Marc   GBR           23700
Bellusci   Sandro   ITA       22100
Vladar   Steven Nicholas   GBR   21750
Boudewijn   Mark   NL    21475
Eskeland   Sigurd   NOR   20950
Sogaard   Lars                20850
Deck   Woody   LAT           20250
Carbone   Michele   ITA          19625
Bösch   Oliver   AUT             19525
Mouritsen   Rene      19000
Klein   Jürgen   D               18950
Brummelhuis   Michiel   NL   18750
Dodet   Daniel   BEL             18650
Fiore   Stefano   ITA             18450
Jaka   Faraz   USA              18425
Rongits   Thomas   AUT          18325
Orlov   Grigorij   LTU       18225
Slade   Nick   GBR               18050
KARKUS   András   HUN          17450
Biorac   Sasa   D                17150
Jedlicka Nikolaus   AUT     17125
Strandli Aleksander   NOR   17125
Hofling   Johan   SWE            16100
Bihl   Thomas   D              15550
Togsverd  Christian      15475
Jin   Cai Lin   PRC                 15475
Toth   Janos   HUN            15250
Sehlstedt   Bo   SWE   15200
Yafaoui   Khalil                 15125
Heitmann   Jan   D   14975
Fischer   Peter                14950
Vaswani   Ram   GBR          14825
Zhang   Yi   AUT             14775
Gueorguiev Atanas Stoyanov  BUL  14700
Green   Martin   GBR             14675
Bondo   Jes                 14625
Aktell   Greger   SWE             13825
Polarski   Sven   NL       13375
Laukkanen   Ville   FIN       13050
Tutev   Yavor Anastasov   BUL   13000
Müller   Götz   D                   12950
Ruthenberg  Sebastian   D     12775
Iversen   Torstein   NOR      12700
Stadlbauer   Bernd   AUT     12450
Seidelin   Tune            12400
Cherednichenko   Rodion   RUS    12400
Schou   Karsten                   12350
Hirsch   Yakov   USA                 12200
Hollink   Rob   NL                   11925
Zohnesen   Thomas      11800
Lupker   Remco   NL              11800
Hansen   Askild   NOR               11650
Perrault  Pascal   FRA         11575
Sathren   Vivi   NOR                 11550
Yeh   Philip   SWE                  11550
Vladar   Xuyen   GBR                10875
Lohs   Wolfgang Uwe   D      10625
Truby   Christopher   GBR      10400
Shaw   Phil   GBR                  10400
Rutenskold   Fej   SWE       10225
Mahrenholz   Karl   GBR        10150
Bjorklund   Eirik   NOR         10150
Pfenninger   Aldo   CH       10125
Pagano   Luca   ITA                9975
Manole   Mihai   RUM                9975
Kerrigan   Kerry   GBR        9925
Juhl   Jacob                      9850
Lisandro   Jeffrey   ITA         9800
Novak   Istvan   HUN                9775
Berggren   Adam   SWE     9750
Ammann   Philipp   CH               9675
Storakers   Johan   SWE     9625
Giaroni   Gianni   ITA                 9575
Kuremszki   Csaba   HUN      9250
Grospellier  Bertrand   FRA        9225
Provaznik   Peter   AUT       9150
Balla   Andrea   ITA                  8950
Detterbeck   Christian   D   8925
Marki   Per   NOR                    8375
Sorensen   Jan V.           8175
Vallo   Martin                      7950
Soble   David   USA                  7900
Jorgensen   Theo           7800
Sverrisson   Halldor Mar   ISL   7800
Hansen   Tommy Dender      7625
Dyrstad   Allan   NOR                   7525
Roth   Christopher Alan   USA   7500
Skaarup   Dennis Friis               7100
Rybachenko   Sergey   RUS       7050
Cascarino   Anthony   IRL          6500
de Hoog   Flemming   D         6200
Keston   Robin   GBR                   5925
Sjogren   Per   SWE                  5825
Saneystra   Joachim   AUT        5800
Pecorella   Matteo   ITA          5500
Nygaard   Vegard   NOR                 5425
Johansson   Birgitta   SWE   5375
Theisen   Jonathan   USA         5225
Sonesson  Christoffer   SWE        4925
Lundgren   Karin   SWE           4825
Bergmann   Richard   AUT        4700
Studer   Daniel   CH                     4600
Stockinger   Siegfried   AUT   4550
Ostebrod   Gunnar   NOR         4225
Sörensen   Henrik              3400
Colclough   David   GBR           2975
Borén   Dan   SWE                    2900
Keiner   Michael   D                       2550
Salonen   Jari   FIN                        1800

[Djinn]

At least a couple of these are recognisable from the Vienna EWSOP, including short stacked Siegfried Stockinger, who won the event (after a heads up battle which only that of this year's HORSE event could hope to rival...) and Andras Karkus.  Also these guys (a couple of quick pics before we stalk the dinner breakers towards their food)...

[NoflopsHomer]

Players are now on a 45-minute break. There's around 90 players left, blinds will be 300/600 when we return.

Bad Girl is OUT. Well she's not in her seat.

Woody Deck lost a big stack of chips with A-K to A-Q all-in preflop. Board: A-Q-J-J-. No sympathy here after that AJ hand...

El Blondie has just taken down a big pot in one of the last hands before the break.

With the board reading  , matey bet 3k into the 5k or so pot. Dave raises to 10k and matey is forced to call.

Dave: 

Matey: 

[Karabiner]

  Jen and Floppy, just caught up.

Enjoy your dinner, see you later (so to speak)

[NoflopsHomer]

Well we are back. Blinds are now 200/400 with a 50 ante and we've just had some very lovely potato wedges and chocolate cake, (but not together). Jen is taking some more photos at the moment, which if you are a guest, you won't be able to see unless you register. It's completely free.

Also, the Gutshot main event is tonight, and hopefully snoopy will be sending me a few texts since their are a fair number of blondes playing in that too, indeed the player list for that includes:-

Tikay
Snoopy
Actionjack
Red Dog
Byron Kincaid
Wardonkey
VodkaRedBull
Chilli
Carlo Citrone
Michigan Jeff
Aces
Joe Grech
Adebayo
Bovis
Ian Woodley
Bush
Dan Samson
Paul Parker
Stuart Nash

[NoflopsHomer]

Jen again -

to Mrs. Vaswani from Ram, who's sitting with a pretty comfortable 17,000 or so.

Also, Overheard Recently:  big-stacked Ramzi Jelassi was definitely coaxing his quieter, also-stacked neighbour to "move in blind, then one of us will have lots of chips and win it..."  Not in all seriousness, but this from a player who has portentous dreams about winning the EPT.  No kidding.  This could be the one...

[Djinn]

Some accounts from the lofty heights of the higher stacks -

Karl Mahrenholz has a pretty near-leaderish 37,000, having been moved to Woody Deck's left.  That makes it sound like it's a causal relationship - but no, he's only played two (large) hands since arriving at his new seat.  One was the boring but effective vs (up to 17k) and then he called a raise with the , caught a flop with two clubs on it, and by the time he'd raised and been re-raised all-in, "I had to call."  And hit. 

[Djinn]

Just got my shared cable back (tomorrow we are going to get here nice and early and nab a hard-to-get-to spot with less competition for the precious internet piping...)

NoFlops has pictures of all final nine tables, coming up in a minute - but while I can, here are

A) Ramzi's chips  (he's now official Leader)
B) Mel Judah and co.
C) Ram Vaswani failing to play up for the cameras

[NoflopsHomer]

I believe Woody Deck is OUT.

84 players are left on 9 tables

Here they are.

[NoflopsHomer]

Next batch.