EPT Copenhagen Day 1A - At a Glance

[Djinn]

3 Requests in priority order-

1- DTD Birds 10 pictures from a variety of angles

2- A sandwich exactly as Dana just described it....mmmm

3- Chip count on Nick pls... though if u can only do 2 out of 3....

Well, I have one. Not sure it's the one you wanted most, but...

Nicolas Slade has 10,675

After his shaky start, I saw him checking a river (heads up, second to speak) on a board of A-Q-rag-rag-rag, with about 4,500 in the middle.  He showed and that dodgy hand won a nice early pot, edging him back up to his current 11k or so.  "Gifts from the gods..." he muttered.

[snoopy1239]

Noah Boaken is OUT.

Slighty unlucky too.

Moving his shortstack all-in from early position with Q-Q, Noah found a call in Johnny Lodden who called, and hit, with his A-T.

Board = 

[snoopy1239]

Here are some of the bigger stacks on show at the moment:

Brent Wheeler -- 53,000
Alexandre Poulain -- 48,450
Erik Lindberg -- 45,250
Pat Bueno -- 42,150
Peter Fischer -- 38,400
Jens Klaning -- 27,625
Jonas Helness -- 27,500
Richard Toth -- 26,450
Phil Hilm -- 26,300
Peter Roche -- 25,025

[Djinn]

Double up for Peter Roche, whose towers had crumbled ever so slightly - we think his neighbour, whose stack was so big he was still left with 28k+ after doubling Peter to over 45k, is Eric Lindberg...

Anyway, I saw Peter's chips being counted out by the dealer in preparation for matching them, and his hand was vs. the of Big-stack.  We all can see what happened there - the board was .

[snoopy1239]

Maximillianos Trigas -- 14,025
Dennis Skaarup -- 15,225
Pernille Ravn -- 32,200
Henning Granstad -- 11,500
Bertrand Grospeiller -- 7,100
Claus Nielsen -- 7,350
Claus Tversted -- 9,525
Jan Richard Johannssen -- 15,200
Bernard Boutboul -- 31,250

[Djinn]

Then a really odd one for Peter Eichhardt and, if the seating chart can still be relied upon (sorry for lack of prior knowledge of a lot of these guys) Espen Saltnes.  I'll call him 'Seat One.'  Anyway, Peter had raised preflop to 1,500, called somewhere in mid position, before Seat One pushed all-in for a little less than 10k.  Think, then call from Peter, run away from caller.  Reluctant to show his hand, Seat One asked, "You have a pair?" before revealing his .  "I haven't got much either," said Peter, showing .
Flop:    so far so good for the all-in
Turn: 
River:    Chop.  They both get 750 from the preflop folder, though.

[Djinn]

With the blinds currently 200/400 ante 50, some more selected counts:

Eirik Bjorklund     15,250
Maarten Meijer    10,400
Ricki Nielsen        14,800
Dave Colclough    11,500
Morten Sivertsen  18,000
Anders Kuhl         13,800
Jonas Helness      30,000
Luca Pagano       15,700
Erik Nickelson      20,550

[snoopy1239]

Marco Lucidi -- 38,125
David Berggren -- 13,075
Harrison Williams -- 26,025
Olle Lindburg -- 6,550
Klaus Frederikse -- 15,850
Alexandre Poulain -- 47,850
Maarten Meijer -- 9,500
Christoffer Sonesson -- 24,825

[Djinn]

Nick Slade's had a hard time getting off the starting blocks...just when he looks to be getting over 10k, something happens to drop him back down to around 8k (where he is presently).  His latest loss involved calling "a Scandie preflop raiser with ."  He got an unwelcome second caller, and the flop came K-J-Q.  Original raiser Matey bet out, Nick raised, and then "that plum Dutchman re-raised.  I folded and he showed K-J."  Doesn't mince his words, does Nick.

Just saw him move all-in for what at the time was 6k over the top of cutoff raiser Pernille Ravn's raise to 1,200.  She said, "very bad timing."  "Who for?"  "For me."  And passed.

Meanwhile, still in the secondary room (which is down to just three tables - player count now 102), Johnny Lodden has yo-yo'd his stack back up from under 7k to over 20k.

[Djinn]

This level (300/600 ante 50) will be the last played tonight.  Originally planned was a nine-level day, but apparently they're being too efficient at reducing the field so we're going to get an early night.

[Djinn]

Frode Fagerli, short stacked for at least two hours, seems to have gone into multipush mode - just picked up 1,200x2 uncontested, increasing his chips to 5,000 in the process. 

I reckon the quick fall in players will soon stall, as the chips consolidate and they find themselves with plenty of play for the blind level coming next.  That's going to make day Two (day after tomorrow) a very long haul...



Meanwhile... Johnny Jensen is one of your latest chip leaders with a pretty chunky 60,900.

[Djinn]

Could you do me an update on Daniel please

Actually, yes - he was down to a bowl of rice 3,600.  On the small blind.  Button Frode Fagerli says before he looks at his cards, "If I have Nine high, I'm all in..." then looks and passes.  The coast is clear for him to push on big blind John Persson....and push he does - call.
Daniel shows: 
John shows: 
Flop:    ("Ooh, that's good," quietly remarks Daniel)
Turn: 
River: 

And he's doubled up in the last 45 mins of play...

[snoopy1239]

After being around 6k only moments ago, Dave has now worked his way up to a much more playable 26,075.

Not one big hand, just a series of big starting hands.

"I haven't found a hand all night, and then, all of a sudden, 4 or 5 big hands in a row. First I won an all-in with Jacks v Fours, then I took the blinds with A-Q. After that, I re-raised a raise with Kings and added some more to my stack before finally eliminating a player with Ace King versus Ace Nine".

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And even more good news for the British warriors as Nick Slade recieves a timely up courtest of the rather wild Johnny Jensen.

Nick made it 1,800 with A-J and Jensen re-raised to 6,100.

Knowing he had to get this one right, Nick decided that he was ahead and moved the lot in for 9,500 in total.

Jensen had a (virtually) obligatory call to make and was forced to reveal his T-5o.

Slade's hand stood up and now he's up and running around the 20k mark.

[Djinn]

If something good has happened to DC, something bad has happened to Jonas Helness.  He didn't look best pleased to be on around 5k after having a very good start to the tournament.  He's got the last seven hands to do something about it - Thomas Kremser announced when the clock hit 10 mins that they would be playing Seven more hands instead of waiting for the minutes to tick away.  Interesting alternative.  I think I like it.

[snoopy1239]

The last hand of the night has been played (pretty early finish, huh?) and the bags have been pulled out.

Just at the death, Brent Taylor lost a 15k pot to a fellow American with Nines vs. A-Q (An Ace hit the Turn), but he's still a massive chipper with around 75k, quite probably the overnight chip leader.

Hot on his heels, however, are the likes of Jonas Helness with 50k, Anton Smolyanskiy with 60k and Peter Fischer, who is currently Johnny Lodden's neighbour with 70k.

As the last hand was dealt, the board claimed there were 89 players left with an everage stack of 22,471.