EPT Copenhagen: Day 2 - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

And that bubble spot goes to Hilmar Tveit. He only had around 15k, but Bertand 'ElkY' Grospellier showed no mercy and finished him off in double quick time.

Halldoe Mar Sverrisson -- 20k
Magnus Petersson -- 110k
Samir Shakhtoor -- 105k
Nick Slade -- 45k
Iwan Jones -- 165k

[Djinn]

Payout structure again:

1   DKK 4078080 = €547,177

2   DKK 2308608 = €309,773

3   DKK 1340928 = €179,928

4   DKK 1022976 = €137,254

5   DKK 843264 = €113,142

6   DKK 663552 = €89,028

7   DKK 525312 = €70,481

8   DKK 373248 = €50,083

9-10   DKK 228096 = €30,606

11-12   DKK 179712 = €24,114

13-14   DKK 138240 = €18,547

15-16   DKK 96768 = €12,983

17-24   DKK 76032 = €10,201

25-32   DKK 55296 = €7,419

33-40  DKK 41472 = €5,564

TOTAL:13,824,000

So the next eight out are in the little-over-money-back-unless-qualified-online state.

[Djinn]

Add to your mental list of online qualifiers none other than TJ Cloutier.  It was a mystery to me, and to Henning Granstad why he was over here in the first place, and when he appeared on TV wearing a Pokerstars shirt, the natural assumption to make was that he'd been backed.  But no.  When Henning just came out and asked him, it turned out the veteran player won a $10 satellite on Stars.  I kid you not. 

[snoopy1239]

This scene created the biggest pot of the night, with Thomas Holm moving in for 96k.

Pre-flop action had created a 30k pot, which then rose to 70k once Bastian Landehagen flat called Holm's 20k bet on a Flop of .

Turn = , and Holm, who took an absolute age to fold (only barely an exaggeration), finally moved all in for 96 big ones.

After a brief thinking spell, Bastian stood up and shoved his remaining 100k across the line.

Bastian showed Sixes, which were behind his opponent's Pocket Tens.

The miracle out failed to appear as the River brought a black Queen.

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Just now, you could see the beady eyes of a short stack light up from across the room - the reason - he'd found and a caller.  Got to the side of the table I'm allowed to stand on just as the hands were being manoevred into the middle by the dealer, and he'd found a caller with .  Poker is a silly game.

Some chip counts:

Christoffer Sonesson        19k
TJ Cloutier                    230k (I think; it's a lot in any case)
Claus Nielsen                  40k
Christian Grundtvig          131k
Simon Mycock                205k
Magnus Petersson          116k

[Djinn]

There's a new TV table, featuring (from what I can see over the live feed in the press room) Jan Sjavik (still my top pick), Richard Toth, who's the backwards hat wearer I asked about earlier in that photo, Elky, Andy Goetsch,  Ricki Nielsen and Jim Kerrigan who looks like he's wearing a shiny hat but that's because a lot of tape has been applied to obscure the logo...

Speaking of which, they must not be filming Ricki Nielsen from the back, as he's covered in large Pokerroom logos, shirt, jacket, hat, probably pants.

[snoopy1239]

Halldoe Mar Sverrisson is OUT after he moved his last 20k in under the gun.

Jonas Hellnus made a tricky call from the small blind with , leaving himself just 45k behind.

Board =

[snoopy1239]

Jonas Helness is the new chip leader after outdrawing Iwan Jones in a monster pot.

Jonas Helness raised from the button, small blind called and so did Iwan in the big blind with Pocket Threes.

Flop comes J-7-3 and it all kicks off.

Iwan bets out 45k, Helness makes it 70k, other guy folds, Iwan and Helness get the rest of their chips in.

Helness shows Nines, Turns a nine and puts Iwan back down to 60k.

[snoopy1239]

Nick Slade is OUT.

Moved his last 42k in from the button with T-4 but the big blind called with K-J, which subsequently held up.


So is Southampton's Colin Ogden, Tens v Kings.

[Djinn]

They are down to 32 players (blinds 3k/6k ante 600).  Table break - after Magnus Petersson gets the short stack all in preflop with his dominating the re-raiser's .  The board kept him in, though, coming for a split.

Anyway, groans all round at the prospect of moving to a new table at this crucial point in the tournament - something I personally hate - although this time Thomas Kremser did the fair 'cards face-down on table' approach to seat draw, so who goes on the TV table is random, as it should be. 

[snoopy1239]

From the outer tables...

Thomas Holm -- 285k
TJ Cloutier -- 250k
A chap no one can name -- 205k
Jonas Helness -- 200k
Simon Mycock -- 170k
Theo Jorgensen -- 125k

Claus Nielsen has doubled up courtest of Marcin Horecki, Eights holding up vs. A-Q on a 6-T-4-t-5 board.
Claus is now on 70k.

[Djinn]

Andy Goetsch eliminates Ricki Nielsen from the TV table - only caught a glimpse of a 9-straightening board on the Press Room monitor and they were shaking hands.  In the secondary cash level, now, incidentally - €7,419.

[Djinn]

Action on the TV table!  Jan Sjavik is all in preflop against Richard Toth.  A camera angle which you probably wouldn't stage (and would be frankly sadistic if you did) showed us the corners of one each of their hole cards:
Jan had  ??
Richard had ??

They stood up; the board came .......

I shall infer from the relieved smile on Jan Sjavik's face, that his kicker had been the one in trouble, and his tournament life on the line...

[snoopy1239]

Table Holm:

Simon Mycock -- 240k
Anders Wijk -- 210k
Erik Lindberg -- 130k
Thomas Holm -- 285k
Jonas Helness -- 145k
Mateyboy -- 20k
Iwan Jones -- 65k

[snoopy1239]

Anders Wijk has eliminated Jonas Helness with vs. , all-in pre-flop.

Board =

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Roy Brindley is also OUT.

Fours v Tens.

No help.

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Here are a few rough chip counts from the feature table:

Jan Sjavik -- 90k
Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier -- 195k
Andy Goetsch -- 65k
Magnus Petersson -- 260k