EPT Dortmund: Day 1A - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

A few soundbites I got in the break:

Steve Vladar (28,000 and one of the chip leaders), "It's all going alright at the moment."

Iwan Jones (9,000 Same table as Steve), "I want our table to break and to be put on a table full of scandies who'll give me their chips."

JP (9,950 counted out his chips for me, bless him) "Better than when I had 3k."


Finally Thewy tells me a story, "UTG, old guy makes it 600 with the blinds 100/200 and then a guy in early position makes it 1600. They both seemed fairly rocky and I had Ace King and decided to pass, and then UTG makes it 5100 and the re-raiser calls(!) They both have about 15k back after this and the flop comes Q-7-9 rainbow. UTG asks how much the other guy has before leading out for 6k, other guy eventually passes Jacks. UTG shows 66!!" Julian then adds, "That's what I used to do!"

[Djinn]

Henning Granstad and Mark Bartlog to his left - forgot to relate a hand I saw earlier; not a lot changed hands but it shows the atmosphere on the table:

The cutoff raised to 600 and Henning (on the button) said something along the lines of "You trying to steal my button?" before calling, while the big blind called too.  Flop: checked round.
Turn:  check-check and Henning couldn't help himself betting 1,200.  Pass-pass and a showing of A-9 from a more comfortably-stacked Henning.
Mark told the preflop raiser, "He's calling your raises with A-9 now, you got him set up!"  He's not been knocked down yet, though...

[Djinn]

Claus Schumacher   37,000
Tommy Dender        1,700
John Shipley           4,100
Dirk Specht             16,400
Dilba Denurbarg        13,200
Daniel Ryderman       6,400
Jim Kerrigan            17,000
Dave Colclough         6,600
Anders Wijk               9,250
Praz Bansi                 12,600 
Bad Girl                     17,200
JP Kelly                     12,800   
Torstein Iversen         14,000
Mike Tse                    7,450
James Feeney            5,175
Pablo Rua                  24,000
Bruce Atkinson           14,150
Johnny Lodden           30,000+
Tony Mackay              22,700
Pab                          15,750
Carlos Ferron            30,000+
Sven Hoffelner           8,025
Iwan Jones               11,800
Julian Thew             23,450
Steve Vladar             23,100
Osman Mustanoglu        10,000  (Yes, exactly where he started 6 hours ago, as he told me resignedly)
Edmund Carter            50,000+ (chip leader by a good 10k or so)
Thomas Wahlroos          15,700
Mads Andersen         13,900
Christian Grundtvig    6,800
Lee Mulligan            3,400

[Djinn]

When these counts were taken the blinds were just finishing on 150/300 and heading into 150/300 ante 25.  Players remaining:  178.  It's going to be a long week.

[NoflopsHomer]

John Shipley is OUT, no details I'm afraid.

El Blondie is also OUT, having been hovering around the starting stack, he was getting shorter and limped on the button with after utg limped. The big blind checked and the flop came a likable . Sadly the big blind was holding ....

Andreas Hagen has eliminated a scandieboy on his table:

He called a raise from the blinds and the flop came .

Both checked before Hagen check/raised scandieboy's 1200 turn bet to 2700 when the came only to have the latter push for another 5,150. Hagen really didn't like the 3-bet and called the extra 5k (which he could well afford) saying, "Show me Jacks..."

Instead he was shown the which was drawing dead to Hagen's and the river was academic.

[Djinn]

And Lee Mulligan is OUT -

Short stacked as the blinds get heavier, he made a stand with and ended up racing A-K (of Emo Wim, I've been informed).  Two Aces on the flop made it look unlikely that he would survive that confrontation, and indeed the APAT Qualifier has left the tourney.  He looked like he was suffering a bit of that post-knockout adrenaline comedown, but it looks like he's also greatly enjoyed the EPT experience.

[Djinn]

Iwan Jones' chip stack is looking ropey after a losing confrontation with Tens against AQ (having Morten Erlandsen on the button on his blind can't be the easiest situation to manoeuvre in).  Just now he raised on the button and found a non-believer in small blind Jim Kerrigan.
Flop:    Must have gone check-check
Turn:    Now Jim bets out 1,500 and Iwan folds, showing .  Jim sheepishly reveals the .

"He didn't believe me raising on the button," says Iwan, correctly.
"He had me dominated," admits Jim, "I had King Queen.  Three outs, and I hit two of them at once."

[NoflopsHomer]

Blinds are now 200/400 with a 50 ante, so with it being almost 1k a round the short stacks like Elky (3k) better start getting a move on.

[NoflopsHomer]

Blinds are now 200/400 with a 50 ante, so with it being almost 1k a round the short stacks like Elky (3k) better start getting a move on.

Elky tripled up, that's right, I'm no bok! His held against and another passed hand on a board.

[NoflopsHomer]

JP -- 18k "I turned quads and he came out firing 4,000..."

Julian -- 16k "I've been moved tables 4 times, and I'm guessing this table will be broken in the next hour or so..."

Bad Girl just had a curious 'almost double-up' from a scandie. On a board she bet 2k with 4k back. Scandie min-raised and she quickly pushed and he insta-passed.

[Djinn]

Third time's the charm (sorry) for Tony Mackay...

The only GUKPT hat-wearer in the room has a real problem with the dealers here - the local rules (the team is mainly local, not the usual EPT dealers, and even Thomas Kremser is absent) state that players have a minute to act, before they are prompted by the dealer.  That doesn't, of course, hold in a tournament like this, but there have already been three incidents where the toys have gone out of the pram, managers called and instructed to get it right.
"Bollocks to your f***ing rules!" he rants, after passing the on a board on the big blind to the small blind's all-in move.
If the player saying he was relieved at the pass doesn't tilt him, the dealers eventually will.

[NoflopsHomer]

Andreas Hagen is your current chip leader with 64k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Elky is OUT and there's a Thewy-shaped object in his place, next to the chair of the DPF who is now the chip leader with around 82k.

[Djinn]

Mats Iremark gains a few chips increasing his stack to 34,000 while taking those few off Johnny Lodden... I surmise he bet the flop, with a call, then on the turn he made a 5,700 bet which put Mr. Lodden to a decision.  The result of that decision was: No, which leaves him with 23,000 or thereabouts.

Elsewhere and Bad Girl chooses a bad time to "Gamble!" calling a very short stack all in from the small blind with .  The short stack fllipped
The flop gave plenty of hope, however, but the blank-y turn and on the river doubled up the short stack.  She still has plenty (over 20k) however.

[NoflopsHomer]

Sigi Stockinger bets 3k on an board and gets a reluctantly matey to pass adding another 5k or so to his stack.