EPT Dortmund: Day 2 - Interactive

[Djinn]

Jim Kerrigan was on his way to pick up his cash for 40th place - AQ lost to an under the gun suspicious limper ("Is it my big blind?") who turned out to have Kings, and then Q-9 vs. A-J for his last hand.

He's very calm and pleased with the result, given that (a) he didn't see any big hands and (b) he was in the same boat with all the medium stacks who found the wasted hand-for-hand hour very frustrating.

Johnny Lodden is quite right to complain about the number of hands played during that period - it took any sort of play away from at least 25 of the remaining players after the bubble finally burst, who were mainly just sitting around while the previous level ticked away.  Definitely should have paused the clock, in my opinion.

[Ironside]

It really irritates me when players cheer and whoop when the bubble bursts.

Have they got no empathy for the for poor sap who has just been knocked out and feels terrible.

Get it quietly ffs.

 

or a sporting hand clap

[Jasko]

Some counts (this took 20 minutes):

Dirk Specht      166k
Johnny Lodden  320k
Nicolas Levi         90k
Pab                  90k
Ben Wolbers      96k
Mike Tse           150k
Mickey Wernick   48k
Ben Grundy        80k
Mark Bartlog       200k+
Vincent Sokalski   82k
Tony Mackay       55k
Frederik Hostrup  56k
Andreas Hagen   270k

Thanks alot Jen! Ur the man(women?) Johnny is the chippie`?

[tikay]

It really irritates me when players cheer and whoop when the bubble bursts.

Have they got no empathy for the for poor sap who has just been knocked out and feels terrible.

Get it quietly ffs.

There's a fair amount of table thumping, hi-fiving and general uncouth behaviour going on as well. Very undignified.

38 players left.

The Brits who are still in are

Tony MacKay
Paul Foltyn
Ben Grundy
Mickey Wernick
Mikey Tse

 

[Djinn]

It really irritates me when players cheer and whoop when the bubble bursts.

Have they got no empathy for the for poor sap who has just been knocked out and feels terrible.

Get it quietly ffs.

 

or a sporting hand clap

I prefer to slink gently, unseen, to the bar, actually.

[rebornVTV]

agree with the idea of stopping the clock during the hand-by-hand period.
U should talk to mr television Duthie to get it going!

really bad play of Florian Langmann, didnt have no patience there.

[tikay]

It really irritates me when players cheer and whoop when the bubble bursts.

Have they got no empathy for the for poor sap who has just been knocked out and feels terrible.

Get it quietly ffs.

 

or a sporting hand clap

I prefer to slink gently, unseen, to the bar, actually.

I don't see you as a slinker Jen, more of a scurrier, or even a scuttler.

[Djinn]

Some counts (this took 20 minutes):

Dirk Specht      166k
Johnny Lodden  320k
Nicolas Levi         90k
Pab                  90k
Ben Wolbers      96k
Mike Tse           150k
Mickey Wernick   48k
Ben Grundy        80k
Mark Bartlog       200k+
Vincent Sokalski   82k
Tony Mackay       55k
Frederik Hostrup  56k
Andreas Hagen   270k

Thanks alot Jen! Ur the man(women?) Johnny is the chippie`?

Yes, yes he is.

[ariston]

The first big buyin event I played was in the caribbean a couple of years back. When the bubble went it was the exact opposite to the cheering you get now. In fact most of the room felt for the young lad who had just bubbled. Maybe it was because most of us left in were online qualifiers tasting a 5k event for the first time. I even took my cap off to have a whip round for the poor lad so at least he could could go get lashed up and have a few lapdances- every single person on my table immediately put their hands in their pockets to chuck a 50 or so in (we were all guaranteed 7k now so why not). As it happens somebody else went broke at the same time after a long dwell on the other table and they chopped the prize.

I think now poker has moved on to be more of a TV type affair and has more "celebrities" people seem to go too far with their whooping and hollering- it really is a pet hate of mine.

[Ironside]

It really irritates me when players cheer and whoop when the bubble bursts.

Have they got no empathy for the for poor sap who has just been knocked out and feels terrible.

Get it quietly ffs.

 

or a sporting hand clap

I prefer to slink gently, unseen, to the bar, actually.

it acrually lets the real players know that your the type thats playing to win rather than squeek into the money so next time they will respect you and you will get your steals thru as the squeakers are likely to avoid anyone

[Djinn]

Nicolas Levi doubled up (he's been under the radar chipwise for a while, but now on TV with a few more) getting it all in with Kings against Florian's - that, I think, was the hand mentioned earlier - the critics are divided about this play, Jan says "Why not? Ten big blinds is ten big blinds..."

Anyway, they're on a 15 minute break at the moment, Homer has the recent events, and it's my turn to "Excuse me," my way to the front of the crowd when they restart.

[NoflopsHomer]

Add Ben Grundy and Pab to those complaining about the fact they only played 7 hands in the last level (3k/6k). Pab is advocating that they roll back the blinds.

Incidentally Ben has doubled up with errrr 7-5 pushing and found a caller from Jose Luis Navarro with A-T for the board to come A-5-2-x-7, shipping 200k Ben's way. Navarro's bad luck continued calling another all in with against , with the board coming out !

I found Paul Gourlay on my travels, he went out in 46th place. A victim of the card deadyness and increasing blinds lead to him pushing for 45k from midposition with A-T only to run into the A-K of the big blind.

Also out is one of my picks Pablo Rua, his pushed blind with 30k left and was called in two spots, hitting two pair on the turn only to have it counterfeited on the river. He was in good spirits and felt he made the right decisions most of the time and didn't feel too bad about it all.

[Djinn]

Pic from earlier I found - chip leader Johnny Lodden being moved to the TV table ("Did you just wait til my big blind?") and behind him in the white shirt, Nicolas Levi.
They've all mixed and moved totally, it seems, since then.

[The Camel]

It really irritates me when players cheer and whoop when the bubble bursts.

Have they got no empathy for the for poor sap who has just been knocked out and feels terrible.

Get it quietly ffs.

 

or a sporting hand clap

I prefer to slink gently, unseen, to the bar, actually.

I've got to agree with Jennifer here. Just let me get to the bar for a very large snifter. A round of applause will almost certainly be disingenuous.

[NoflopsHomer]

Geir Inge Hauland is out, he pushed a short A-K against K-9 only for a nine to be spiked on the flop.

Clash of the Titans on this table(pictured). They all have huge stacks here, though Lodden is the Zeus figure...