EPT Dortmund: Day 1B - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

More Gourlayaction.

First on a board he bets enough to put Ben Grundy all-in who passes quickly. Paul shows .

Next he limps in mid position and calls George Danzer's 800 chip raise before calling Danzer's push on a . The latter action was done albeit quite reluctantly and included him asking other players if they felt George had Aces.

George:



Paul:



Turn:



"Lots of outs now," says Paul. George stays impassive.

River:



George up to 7k. Paul on around 30k still though.

The chip leader is Sebastian Ruthenberg who had pushed on a 4-T-5-4-Q board for 11.5k with 19.5k already in the pot. He found a surprising caller from a pair of sevens, which have put him up to 42k.

[Djinn]

Ian 'hotdog' Fieldhouse is doing pretty well.  Over 20k currently, despite just getting away from a set of Deuces, like so:
A five-way limped pot, with a 2-3-6 flop.  Two checks, a bet of 900, Ian raised it to 2,200 and one of the blinds ("rocky") just pushed in over the top for 11,000.  Ian thought about it for a while, determined he'd shown enough strength for a bigger set or the flopped straight to do that (although he says he would have doubled the guy up if he'd just called and checked again on a blank), and laid it down.
He was shown the 4-5 just to confirm his suspicions.

[NoflopsHomer]

The Flying Dutchman Marcel Luske has been scuttled. Jacks versus Aces, with an ace on the flop for good measure.

[Djinn]

Stuart Rutter's table has just returned from break.  When I saw his stack was now 15,300, he said, "I tried to give some of it to Ramzi the last hand before the break, but it worked out for me."  What had happened?  They'd seen a flop .  Ramzi bet 600.  Call. 
Turn:    Now Ramzi bet 1,500, and Stuart (out of position, probably should have mentioned that before) check-raised it to 3,500 (he held , by the way, probably time to tell you that, too).  Call. 
River:     Stuart bet out 5,000.  This is the crucial part where he considered himself to have gotten the hand to go his way - the bet was so large that even though Ramzi (with Ace-high) had pretty much sussed that Stu's hand was a bit dodgy, he couldn't really do much in the way of raising.  He still thought about it for ages before passing with what one imagines to be slight irritation. 
Stuart was in that funny position of knowing that he (Ramzi) knew that he (Stu) knew that he (Ramzi) knew his hand wasn't great, but couldn't do anything about it.  Silly game.

[Djinn]

Jonas Molander Makes Very Interesting Call News Now:
I wish I'd seen how this blind-on-blind hand with Jonas (sb) and William Malloy (bb) had gone all the way to the river, because they'd managed to get 7,400 in the middle.  The board:  .  Jonas had checked and now faced a 2k bet from Malloy - he thought about it for ages.
And called what looked like a reasonably sized value bet with his
Willam Malloy showed .
Chop chop, amazingly.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip leader now is Tobias Holweger with about 50k.

Sitting next to him is Roy Brindley who just raised from UTG+1, to 475, the German next to him made it 1,175. Passed back to Roy who made it 3,475. German guy moves all-in fairly quickly and Roy passed instantly. (Surely the German guy should flat call the 3-bet, since Roy would have to fire on any flop?)

[Djinn]

One of the most intersting tables is right at the back - it has these players and stacks on it:

Ben Grundy    3,600
George Danzer   5,700
Paul Gourlay      22,000
John Kabbaj       6,800
Fabrice Soulier   30,000

George had a larger stack by, oh, about Fabrice's divided by two a minute ago, before he raced his against .  The board brought a wheely 2-3-4-4-5 and so he's back under 6k.

[Djinn]

More counts for which I have no stories but they'd better go up now because they're probably inaccurate by the time I've climbed the stairs to the press room:

Nick Slade         15,000
Womble             8,750
Paul Testud       11,925
Rob Hollink         5,200
Antoine 'Tonio' Boudat   13,350
Martin Wendt          OUT
Sargon Ruya       8,500
Jan Heitmann      11,300
Richard Wild        11,500
Cincinnati Sid        6,650

[NoflopsHomer]

Jeff Kimber -- 14,800

Martin Wendt is OUT, something nasty sounding about a guy hitting runner runner straight.

[Djinn]

Michael Greco Lays Down Kings News Now -

Michael probably wasn't loving the flop, but his opponent's check on it made him tentatively bet 1k on the turn, which was called pretty sharpish, and then he checked the river.  5k at him and a bit of unnecessary self torture "I have a pair of Kings...Do you want me to call?"  to which he got the reply, "Call!" with an adamant sort of table slap from his opponent.  He flashed the Kings as they sailed into the muck and seemed annoyed by what he reckoned was his opponent's hit with Ace-rag, but which tablemates reckoned could also have been a monster AA. 

[NoflopsHomer]

William Thorstein, 3rd at the EPT in Dublin, is sitting at a side table looking grumpy. So I think he might well be out.

Christer Johansen just flopped a Royal Flush, couldn't really get paid that much, but did take out a short stack who had pushed preflop.

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul Gourlay is up to 40k. He showed down Aces on a board and his opponent mucked and the 18k pot got shipped his way.

Elsewhere Thang Duc Nguyen is going very smoothly, on 45k as we speak. Somone to keep an eye on...

[Djinn]

Mr Goodwin still in or did he hit the back 9?

13,000 and possibly a little fatigued.  It sounded from his travel description like it was Goa (lovely), travel here (lengthy), get changed (quick), play straight away (lengthy).

Also still in:

Birgitta Johanssen   8,000
Antoine Boudat      8,200
Juha Helppi            20,000
Roland de Wolfe     36,800
Mickey Wernick       19,000  (more, actually, after whatever just happened happened)
Jonas Molander       15,500
Sverre Sundbo        15,000
Womble                 17,700
Nicolas Levi             12,900

[NoflopsHomer]

Katja Thater has just come into the pressroom, so I'm guessing she is OUT.

Incidentally, if you had been wondering what Ben Grundy had when the dealer had the clock on him, he was holding pocket Kings, he'd flatcalled a raise (or re-raise,) hoping to trap the original limper (or raiser). But he's managed to grind up from 6k he was on up to 13,600 at present time.

[Djinn]

So who's out?  Stu Rutter, in unfortunate circumstances -

He ran two pair into sets twice to knock him down to 7,000, then found under the gun.  He raised.  Small blind Jan Heitmann decided now was the time to push for his slightly shorter stack, with .  The suits have been approximated.
The board came:  spade spade othersuit-rag ...(you must know what's coming next) spade - to fourflush Stuart out of the tournament, pretty much.  Jan said he'd buy him a drink.

I saw him in the restaurant area and he was implausibly chirpy.  "Am I meant to look disconsolate?" he said, beaming.