EPT Dortmund: Day 1B - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Jan Heitmann and Ramzi are both OUT.

Jan had Ace Queen against all in preflop and the flop contained both the and and his opponent hit one of his two bazillion outs. No info on Ramzi, but Jan also mentioned that he (Ramzi) was very card dead for most of the day.

[Djinn]

Chip Rough Classifications (because the break was 4 minutes away):

Big Chip (40k+)
Fabrice Soulier (42k) Marcus Golser, Florian Langmann (82.3k), Mickey Wernick

Little Chip (>15k)
Marc Goodwin, Martin Green, Nicolas Levi

[Djinn]

Nick Slade, who was just in the Little Chip area, just suffered some kind of beat which had left him with under 10k.  Then - a limp from the cutoff, button Marcus Golser raised to 2,000 and big blind Slade moved in.  Call.
Marcus showed: 
Nick showed:    (tilt?  resteal?  I say both)
The board came:  and Nick should have a playable stack now, if he keeps his temper...

[NoflopsHomer]

Geir Inge who just doubled up. The scales tipped from being a possible double up to an almost certainty when his opponent caught the perfect turn card.

Geir Inge:



Mateyboy:



Flop:



Do you see where this is going?

Turn:



Dream card. (Apart from the obviously). Chips shower down into the centre of the table.

River:

[Djinn]

"50p in the tin..." says Ian Fieldhouse - and indeed what was a healthy 22k+ stack is now under 10k, it looks like.  He did, in fact, suffer a bad beat.  And by that I mean he got his money in well ahead, after a player called for his whole tournament life with a dominated hand, and lost.  An actual bad beat, rather than a cold-deck bad beat (AA cracked by KK, King on the flop type), or a not really bad beat (race, sucked out on by draw).

The situation - he found under the gun and made it 1,200 (the blinds were 200/400).  Matey raised a further 2,500 (leaving himself 8k behind) and when Ian pushed in he instacalled with K-J.  7-9-T-J and the river helped not at all.  Bit of a struggle now.

[Djinn]

Floppy on Jen's comp here. We've lost our EPT Copenhagen Winner Magnus Petersson. He raised in mid-position to 1900, Paul Gourlay made it 4k from the button, which was flat-called by the big blind. Magnus then pushed for around 15k more. Paul quickly passed, what I later discovered was A-Q. The bleach blonde big blind, (try saying that with your mouth full of jelly babies) dwelt for a little while before calling with Jacks, Magnus showed Ace King. The flop came with a Jack and no help for our last EPT winner. I asked the big blind his name but all I got was a scrawl on a piece of paper. Perhaps some expert sleuthing, (this could be a job for Slade P.I) is needed to find out his name.

[Djinn]

Double through for Ian Fieldhouse - short for about a level after that earlier setback, he's now feeling the pinch as the blinds have reached 400/800 ante 100.  Time for an under the gun all in for 11,000...

Button Jeff Kimber dwells for a good long time, before deciding to take him on with .  Ian shows .
Flop: 
Turn: 
River:  academic

So Jeff is down to 10,200 in a reversal of fortune race.

[Djinn]

Tough break for Irish player Frank Callaghan - he'd raised preflop (I don't know for sure, but it was probably him) with and ended up heads up on a flop of .  He bet out 5,000, and the other guy raised all-in for around another six.  Frank thought for ages before calling, and the knocked him under 15k.  This happened a little while ago now, going to go check if he's still there.

[Djinn]

How is Jonas "Molle" Molander, member of Team GNUF, holding up?

After having been dented (Homer has the story) a few hands earlier, he found what looked like a favourable situation - vs. .  But no, a T-9-T-J-3 came, and that was that - Jonas quietly wandered off while his opponent got a bit shouty and excited.  I rather think if the situation was reversed there might have been a bit more decorum shown, somehow...

Sorry, you're not a bok, really.

[Djinn]

Paul Gourlay News Now:

He's not really been in trouble throughout the day, and just now got a few more chips:  he saw a flop out of position and bet out 5k.  Call.
Turn:    Now he checked, and got a check behind.  The same happened on the river and Matey showed while Paul slammed the down.  This was clearly misinterpreted by the dealer, who promptly mucked his flush, but after a few seconds the matter was resolved and the pot awarded correctly.  It just shows that staff of all kinds are getting a little fatigued at this point.

Last level of the night.

[Djinn]

How is Jonas "Molle" Molander, member of Team GNUF, holding up?

After having been dented (Homer has the story) a few hands earlier, he found what looked like a favourable situation - vs. .  But no, a T-9-T-J-3 came, and that was that - Jonas quietly wandered off while his opponent got a bit shouty and excited.  I rather think if the situation was reversed there might have been a bit more decorum shown, somehow...

Sorry, you're not a bok, really.

Extra lemon juice for the paper cut - I only saw the very end of the hand so missed two crucial points.  Jonas had check-raised all-in on the turn for the majority of his 50k stack.  So not only was he nastily outdrawn, it was most likely for the biggest pot of the day.  We feel that there is no justice in poker.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ian Fieldhouse is out. He was down to less than the small blind on his small blind and didn't survive the hand.

More on this, he had raised with and got several callers including Jeff Kimber who had been priced in with . All the chips went in on a board and the river didn't help Ian.

Elsewhere. Paul Goulay is up to heady heights of 90k, he called a raise with and was rewarded with a flop and his opponent eager to put it all in with .

Finally Nick Slade is OUT. He lost a chunk passing on a board when his opponent pushed the turn. The rest went in preflop with when he was called by . The brought a mixture of emotions but no help on the turn and river.

[Djinn]

Just a few minutes left -

Richard Wild has been eliminated.  Very very short stacked, he moved in once with no caller before finding Fives on the big blind.  Small blind Jeff Kimber looked at one card and put him all in.  The card was the .  There was the to go with it... although the board brought split possibilities, they failed to emerge and he's out at the eleventh hour, literally.  In good spirits, however, and already qualified for Monte Carlo.

[Djinn]

And finally, Roland's table move put him to the left of equally aggressive Marcus Golser.  Much chat and back and forth of pots later, and Roland has become well and truly chipped up, and dangerous with it.  Look out for him tomorrow.  Homer is getting a few final details as they start to bag up for the night.

I'm going to get tomorrow's threads ready so we can sleep as late as possible before the 3pm restart (that's 2pm UK time for anyone who wants to watch the knockout part of Day Two at its most frenetic).

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok and the climber of the day is Sverre Sundbo, who was down to just 525 chips at one stage and finished the day with 63.3k. Plus I did jokingly say I'd automatically give it to him if he got over 60k. Honourable mention to Ben Grundy also, who was down to just 2k at one point but finished the Day with 62k.