EPT Dortmund: Day 1B - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Play commences at 3pm (2pm UK time).  Full chip counts from the night before will be posted before start of play.

[Djinn]

Overnight Chip Counts:

Lodden Johnny (Norway) -- 101400
Hansen Brian (Denmark) -- 88600
Granstadt Henning -- 84700
Haugen Fredrik (Sweden) -- 83400
Hostrugs Frederich (Denmark) -- 79900
Rua Pablo Luis (Spain) -- 76300
Paasonen Mika (Finland) -- 71700
Hagen  Andreas (Norway) -- 70600
Schepphorst Malrus -- 65500
Bartlog Mark (Germany) -- 64400
Van den Berg Thierry (Holland) -- 58300
Rasmussen Jacob (Denmark) -- 57000
Demirbag Dilba (Sweden) -- 51600
Kerrigan Jim (UK) -- 51000
Specht Dirk (Germany) -- 50900
Beevers Joe (UK) -- 49900
Vortmann Jens (Germany) -- 48800
Morad Qushqar (Afghanistan) -- 48500
Mahrenholz Karl (UK) -- 48300
Stek Romco (Holland) -- 45100
Liesy Marco (Germany) -- 44100
Blanco Cristiano (Italy) -- 43900
Andersen Alan (Denmark) -- 43800
Schweitzer Daniel (Austria) -- 40300
Vladar Steve (UK) -- 39900
Lindberg Erik (Sweden) -- 39000
Eidsvig Trond Erik (Norway) -- 38000
Witved Jesper -- 37900
Tse Mike (UK) -- 37000
Bosch Oliver (Germany) -- 36600
Hansen Dennis (Denmark) -- 36500
Hoffelner Sven (UK) -- 36500
Ros David -- 34600
Dender Tommy (Denmark) -- 33500
Hansen Martin (Denmark) -- 32900
Moncada Edward (USA) -- 32400
Muecklisch Michael (Germany) -- 30900
Holm Henrik (Denmark) -- 29300
Rosetta Emmanuel (France) -- 29000
Mankowitz Danny (Norway) -- 27300
Wharmby Gary  (UK) -- 27300
Mackay Tony (UK) -- 26800
Gustafsson Michael (Sweden) -- 25600
Ferron Carlos (Spain) -- 24100
Van Bum Nguyen (Germany) -- 23800
Schumacher Claus (Germany) -- 23500
Fazzone Davide (Italy) -- 20200
Lehtonen Samuel -- 20200
Barnes David (UK) -- 19700
Wahlroos Thomas (Finland) -- 19300
Ziegler Uwe (Switzerland) -- 18100
Foltyn Paul (UK) -- 18000
Hamidy Abdullah (Holland) -- 17500
Cowling Brad (Ireland) -- 17200
Holden Anthony (UK) -- 17000
Pham Xuyen (UK) -- 15600
Kammerer David -- 12300
Emo Wim (Holland) -- 9000
Hoelting Norbert (Germany) -- 6900

[NoflopsHomer]

Strolling into the casino, looks like we are behind schedule again, I'm guessing another late start, 14.30pm GMT at the earliest.

[Djinn]

Players spotted thronging the lobby:

Carlo Citrone
John Kabbaj
Barney Boatman
Ross Boatman
Ram Vaswani
Mickey Wernick
Ramzi Jelassi
Jonas Molander
Sebastian Riviere
Sverre Sundbo
Fabrice Soulier
Daniel Bertelsen
Marc Goodwin
Birgitta Johanssen
Juha Helppi
Martin Wendt
Roland de Wolfe
Noah Boeken
Theo Jorgensen
Rene Pedersen
Marcel Luske
Rino Matthis
Womble
Greg Amoils
Roy Brindley
Liam Flood
Ben Grundy
Jan Heitmann
George Danzer
Katja Thater

[Djinn]

Table one, by virtue of being right by the entrance, is easy to keep an eye on, and there are quite a few fun players to watch there:

Rifat Pavevic
David Asche
Ramzi Jelassi
Jan Heitmann
Christopher Andler
Flemming de Hoog
Stu Rutter
Sargon Ruya
Kristian Kjondal
Johan de Kruijf

Also got the full lineup (minus seat 6 which isn't listed) for Table 6:

Ben Wolbers
Jakob Glassl
Jonas Molander
William Malloy
Christoph Wollers
?
Thiara Amarjot
Ben Grundy
Frank Blumlein
Mickey Wernick

[Djinn]

News of (possibly the first) elimination:  I heard the words 'all in' and turned round to see Farid Meraghni moving in on the river of an board and getting called.  There wasn't 20k in the middle, so I reckon damage had been done to the all-in's stack prior to this.  Anyway, he mucked to Florian Langmann's and we're off to a flying start, compared to yesterday.

[Djinn]

Everywhere you look more recognisable people pop up:  Paul Testud next to Rob Hollink, Martin Green, Michael Greco next to Sebastian Riviere, and P.I. Slade next to Daniel Bertelsen...

There really does seem to be a discrepancy in the number of Big Names in Days One.  I don't care either way - it was pretty entertaining yesterday and we're looking at ten hours of fun today too.  Deep breath, second cup of coffee.

[NoflopsHomer]

Seems a bit more 'agreeeeesive' today, as Edgar Stuchly would say.

Roland De Wolfe bets 500 on the turn of a board, two players including Noah Boeken fold. One person calls. Roland then bets 1600 on the river and is called, the other players asks, "Straight?" Roland shows and his opponent mucks.

Elsewhere Hans-Martin Vogl pushes all in on a board for about 5k, with 6k in the pot already. Daniel Smits-Bertelsen thinks for a while and passes, I think Liam Flood and a couple of the other players put Vogl on a pure bluff there.


Finally, on the table in yonder distance an early position raiser makes it 300, (blinds are now 50/100). He's called in two spots before George Danzer makes it 1,550 from the small blind. The original raiser makes it 3,800 and everyone including George mucks pretty sharpish. Incidentally John Kabbaj is looking a bit short here, he's down to around just 3k.

[Djinn]

Bad news for Cincinnati Sid followers - down to just 1,525 after a dramatically non-profitable first level and a half.  Just recently he lost a 3k or so pot (calling 1k on the board with and finding, when his opponent checked the river, that he was against ) so cross your fingers for a double double-up!

Meanwhile Nick Slade is chatting away while having accumulated over 900 in green 25 chips in the first half of the first level...

[NoflopsHomer]

Barney Boatman is gone, a lot of the damage was done apparently when held two pair of Kings and Queens, but his opponent had a set of aces. He then had against A-K and flopped a pair but Big Slick hit runner runner flush. Not sure where the money went in there.

We thought Ben Grundy had gone too, but in fact he'd been moved into Barney's seat, no major stack swings either way for him.


More definite is that Ram Vaswani is OUT. Recounted to me by one of the Ladbrokes guys, a guy sitting to Ram's right raised to 300 and Ram made it 1100 from the CO, everyone else passed and the original raiser called, and then check called Ram's 1800 bet on the board. He then checked to Ram when the came on the turn and Ram pushed and was instantly called. Ram was holding A-5 and was drawing pretty slim against his opponents pocket Threes, and indeed no four came on the river.

[Djinn]

Counts from the other half of the room as the blinds go up to 75/150...

Ross Boatman       9,600
Richard Wild         10,875
Liam Flood            15,600
Carlo Citrone         10,275
Michael Greco       15,900  (The two Dusk Til Dawn players got drawn on the same table wouldyoubelieveit)
Sebastian Riviere    9,300
Marcel Luske         14,200
Noah Boeken        13,525  (The two Dutchmen, Flying and Pokerstars are also on the same table, with Noah in position to attack Marcel's blind...)
Stu Rutter            10,950
Ramzi Jelassi          13,800
Jan Heitmann        11,000
Priyan Demel         12,900
Katja Thater           6,575
Ian 'hotdog' Fieldhouse  14,000
Roy Brindley          11,500
Marcus Golser        31,500  (Chip leader, I'll warrant)
Juha Helppi            8,750
Tony Chessa          10,800
Martin Wendt         10,800
Roland de Wolfe     18,200  (Reassuring to see that even Superstars forget their phone chargers)
Mickey Wernick       11,100
Jonas Molander        7,000
Sverre Sundbo         3,000
Marc Goodwin         9,550

[NoflopsHomer]

Jeff Kimber -- 6,700
Cicinatti Sid -- 2,350 (Just saw him push on a board to take down a pot)
George Danzer -- 8,900
John Kabbaj -- 6,275
Ben Grundy -- 6k

Ben was well above 10k until moments ago, then in a 4-way pot on a board, there was a bet of 500, called in one spot, before a raise to 1200. Ben made it 3k getting just the raiser calling. He followed up with a 2.5k bet on the turn which was called before his opponent led out 4k on the river. Ben dwelt for about two or three minutes, as there was now 18k in the pot. Then the dealer actually said something along the lines of, "You have to make a decision." In effect calling a clock, although I was there for the whole hand and no player had called a clock on Ben. (Local german rules say that dealers can call clocks on players). Ben eventually mucked, though he did take exception to the dealer telling him what to do.

[NoflopsHomer]

Sverre Sundbo is after the title of climber of the day, having been down to just 600, he's now on a more modest 4,000.

[Djinn]

Carlo Citrone calls an under the gun raise to 400 from the big blind.  Flop:    Carlo checks, UTG bets 400, Carlo calls.
Turn:    Carlo checks, UTG Matey checks.
River:    Now Carlo bets out 1,000.  UTG calls.  This is quite mysterious considering Carlo then immediately tries to muck saying, "You win," but is forced to show some rag type cards before UTG shows his ....

[Djinn]

Paul Gourlay made it 600 to go under the gun.  One mid-position caller, and one of the blinds re-raised another 1,000.  Paul called, and so did intermediate caller.
Flop:    The re-raiser simply moved in now for 4,900.  Round to Paul who looks at the third player gauging how many chips he's got and then eventually calls.  The other guy gets out of the way, Paul shows which were actually good against , and stayed that way.