BADEN EPT - Day 1A - At A Glance

[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]

45 minute BREAK now, and as I recall a very large room off the central hallway will just about now be filling with foodstuffs.  I'm off.  See you when the players return...

[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: 

[NoflopsHomer]

Well we are back. Blinds are now 200/400 with a 50 ante.

[Djinn]

Karin Lundgren Resteals Preflop News Now -

There was a mid-position raise to 1,200 (blinds were at the tail end of 200/400), call from Karin, raise to 3,100 from neighbour Ramzi.  After a think, the original raiser passed, but Karin's whole stack moved over the line (about another 13k or so).  Despite a bit of a think, the chip leader passed.  "Better situation?"

Speaking of Mickey Wernick, he's in a cash game along with other exiter Willie Tann, and others.  The back room has been cleared of tournament tables, leaving the cash players to start up a variety of very pricey looking games. 

[Djinn]

A couple more stacks on the increase:

Dave Colclough who says he's feeling "drained," and is drinking coffee while his 27k stack doesn't look to be going anywhere soon.  "Did you know I was down to 600 earlier?"  Well, actually, no - that must qualify you, El Blondie for my Climber of The Day Award! 

[Djinn]

Also accumulating:  Pascal Perrault - 17,000
Steve Vladar (although infinitely more slowly)  - 24,000
Ram Vaswani - 17,650.

[Djinn]

Jan Heitmann is indeed OUT - and not looking too unhappy about it (ah the miracle of beer    )

His 27k turned into 0k over the course of two big hands:

One:  After two limpers for 400, Phil Shaw raised to 2,500 (a move he was going to make anyway with AQ).  Jan made it 6,000 in total, and when Phil then pushed for another 6,500, he called and found what he didn't really want to see - AK.  So there went some...

Anyhow, a round or so later, he found and made it 1,300 three from the button.  Matthias Stiger (?Sp) made a funny old small raise to 3,200.  A lot of debate of the interesting sort kicked off over what he should do here, but Jan eventually called and the flop was .  So overpair and flush draw, against flopped set o Jacks- a hand which might well have laid down if re-raised preflop.

In any case, it all went in, and Jan was sent to the rail, where he mulled over his decisions and even asked the opinion of Marcel Luske....who, he was delighted to report, thought similarly to him...

[Djinn]

Chip leader status leaning towards....Steve Vladar - on a table with several chunky stacks, it looks like his might just be the chunkiest, at 55,000.  Not the top stack over all, but something dramatic must have happened while I was looking the other way to nearly double him up.

[Djinn]

I think Mr. Chessa is no longer playing...

But table a la Ramzi has been a sort of magnet for chips - there are certainly some big stacks on there - Steve Vladar, 61,000, Ramzi, 80,000+, also Karin Lundgren, Pascal Perrault, Karl Mahrenholz (50k, probably) and this young, aggressive, Italian dude - Dario Mineri.  Interesting lineup for the last level...

[Djinn]

When do we expect day 1A to come to a close?

I think it's at the end of the next level - in about an hour and a half's time... I know it seems like a little short day, but actually, we missed almost three levels, due to not being in the country, and also it's an hour later in Austria (22.15 currently).  They've been playing since 12pm so that's already 10 hours (some of which has been breaks)  but yep, finish before midnight.  It's only reasonable; we're back here tomorrow at midday again.  And will be here.

[NoflopsHomer]

A guy who looks like Siegfried Stockinger and Ramzi are amongst our chip leaders with around 70k and 80k respectively.

[Djinn]

And as we enter the last half hour of play, there are just 44 left in.  Blinds 600/1,200 ante 100.

Some Selected Chips:

Karl Mahrenholz     33,000    ("Not enough")
Karin Lundgren     32,000
Ramzi Jelassi         80,000
Steve Vladar        45,500
Dario Mineri          54,000
ElkY                    22,000
Ram Vaswani        16,000
Phil Shaw             15,500   (Half asleep)
Rob Hollink           15,000
Mel Judah            20,000
Jonas Molander     70,000    (A self-counter; good at this late hour)
Marc Goodwin       23,000
Sigi Stockinger      52,000
Kristen Johanssen  21,000

[Djinn]

Hmmmm.

Before: Flopping the nuts and getting paid.

After: Flopping the nuts, getting paid, then flopping the nuts again and getting paid.

The latest victim of this man was John Kabbaj who had raised with AJ and was forced to call when his opponent flopped the nut straight with KQ on the A-J-T board and pushed.

He now has, according the guestimates of Ash Hussain, Julian and Bad Girl around 180k. Easily the super chip leader.

More accurate accounting, perhaps, by supersleuth Stephen Bartley - 134,000 (still chip leader) and this is the Mystery Russian, who won't, apparently, give a full name when questioned.  He is simply "Rodion," which sounds like an obscure vitamin in breakfast cereal, or something which makes ants in 50s movies grow really really big.