BADEN EPT - Day 1B - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

"Vicky Coren finds the nuts at just the right time" news now. Late position mateyboy raised to 1,800 with pocket kings and must have thought he was ahead when Vicky Coren pushed all-in for 9,700 from one of the blinds so obviously he insta-called. Unfortunately for him, Vicky was holding  and when she four-flushed the four he was left rueing his chances at running into such a big monster. He ran AT into the almost as big AA shortly after so is now out.

[Djinn]

OK Some poker-related stuff has been happening -

Another Player Gets Overexcited by King-Queen News Now -

Standard raise from the (although of course we don't know that at the time).  Raise in late position to an amount a little over half the initial raiser's stack (i.e. commit or pass kind).  Initial raiser decides to move in; finds .
Flop:     (already the Aces are sighing)
Turn: 
River: 

Cracked Aces Guy out in two hands' time...

[NoflopsHomer]

Ash Hussain doubles up. 9-5 vs A-7. Board 7-4-3-6-6

[Djinn]

And the tournament is down one Julian Thew....

He raised under the gun to 2,500 (blinds currently 400/800), and the small blind re-raised to 7,400 when it folded to him.  It was young Mr. Small Blind's lucky day, because Julian decided to make a stand, moving in for around 19k with his , while he got an immediate call from the .
Flop: 
Turn: 
River:  can't read my writing but it's irrelevant.

[Djinn]

Huge pot was just being taken off Henrik Olander when I made it up the stairs (it takes a few seconds longer each time - I have the lungs and muscle strength of a 90 year old)...

80,000 went from one stack to another, and the rumour is that he's out now...and just when he was looking really threatening.

[Djinn]

Huge pot was just being taken off Henrik Olander when I made it up the stairs (it takes a few seconds longer each time - I have the lungs and muscle strength of a 90 year old)...

80,000 went from one stack to another, and the rumour is that he's out now...and just when he was looking really threatening.

Nope, still in, just with 16,000...

[Djinn]

OK we've hit the final level of the day - 600/1,200 ante 100. 

56 players remaining.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ash Hussain up to 23k A-8 vs A-7 and the kicker played.

[Djinn]

A couple of counts from the rapidly dwindling 54 (although I stand by my guess of 45 left):

Andy Black        21,500
Edgar Skjervold  16,000
Peter Eichhardt  27,000
Paul Testud       14,000
Vicky Coren       11,100
Juha Helppi        14,300
Ash Hussain       22,000   (quite a comeback, no?)
Martin Wendt    19,000
and
Azad Pivooti       78,000  (Ramzi says he is Swedish - anyone verify or add anything?  So far he's a bit of a mystery, identified by the Buddha statue....)

[Djinn]

Play has sidled to a close.

It looks like there are 45 left.  I win.

[Djinn]

I suppose I could report how in the last minutes, Vicky Coren was all-in twice, the latter time to resteal the button's steal, and the former with .
To elucidate:  SB vs BB (she is BB):  Flop:  .  The small blind makes a bit of a bet; call.
Turn:    Now it goes bet, raise, re-raise all-in etc etc. but the split is clear before the chips really move - he had .
Vicky says, "That magical Five.  What was that?" (pointing at his hand...)

[NoflopsHomer]

Play is over for the day. 83 will return tomorrow at 11am UK time.