EPT Dortmund: Day 2 - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Actually, Swede Mattias Andersen is probable leader, with 200k, according to BA.  But this is really changing every five minutes.  Break currently.

[Djinn]

Neighbours Henning Granstad and Mikey Tse get involved in a blind on blind battle.  Henning bet out on the flop, and faced a chunky raise to 12,500.  A long think before passing, and I think I heard a "You had 7-8...?" which seems a reasonable sort of guess.

Elsewhere we've lost Thomas Wahlroos, Fabrice Soulier and Sven Hoffelner, the latter having lost most of his stack when re-raising with A-K from the small blind and finding the shorter stacked raiser with Kings, and then pushing in under the gun with - racing Tens, and losing.

[NoflopsHomer]

Karl Marenholtz is OUT, he pushed a short-stack into the almost equally short Uwe Sigler who had :

Board:

[NoflopsHomer]

In a 3-way pot, Pab (big blind) pushes on a board, MP folds, Big blind shows the before passing.

[Djinn]

Chip counts from the rail (just a few, the rest when it's my turn to get in there)

Ben Wolbers     71k
Paul Gourlay     95k
Mike Tse         58k
Jim Kerrigan     82k
Mattias Andersson  220k
Christer Johansson  40k
Philip Yeh       33k
Dave Barnes      30k
Mickey Wernick   21k
Womble           OUT
Pablo Rua        58k
Jeff Kimber      60k
Ben Grundy       50k
Mark Bartlog     62k
Sverre Sundbo    80k
Edward Moncada   20k
Sebastian Ruthenberg  210k

[Djinn]

On the TV table, Thang Duc Nguyen just raised preflop and found Markus Golser next to him re-raising.  He called, and the pot was then 45k.
Flop:    Thang checked.  Markus made a slightly lame 9k bet and Thang instantly moved in; he was instantly called.
Thang showed: 
Markus showed: 
Turn: 
River:   

So a double through for the man with the green jumper and a set back for the Baden winner (my pick, incidentally, beating Homer's).

[Djinn]

On a total sideline, I have a great story from the German Superstars of Poker single table tournament that was filmed on Day One.  They introduced all the players, and among them were sat Jan Heitmann and George Danzer.  When it was George's turn, he was introduced as "Jan's friend" but 'freund' in German, we've been informed, can mean 'friend' or 'boyfriend.'  SO Jan looks to have been inadvertently and incorrectly outed on German TV.

[Djinn]

Blinds status:

1,000/2,000 ante 200 for the next few minutes.

Around 70 players remaining.

[Djinn]

15 Minute Break -

A couple more counts before the Main Event players poured out, and the first Side Event players poured in:

Vincent Sokalski     70k
Tobias Holmeide     32k
Tony Mackay         65k
Frederik Hostrup    100k
Andreas Hagen      170k
Hael Allabani           48k

[Djinn]

Payout:

1 €672,000
2 €380,000
3 €220,000
4 €169,000
5 €139,000
6 €109,000
7  €85,700
8  €60,300
9-10 €37,100
11-12 €27,800
13-14 €20,900
15-16 €16,250
17-24 €12,750
25-32  €9,250
33-40  €6,950
41-48  €5,800

Total:  €2,317,100

We're heading bubblewards, and we've been told when they get to just over 50 players our access will be all but nonexistent.  Going to do our best from the rail.

[Djinn]

Just gone:  Dilba - from the resigned look about her I think she might have been comparatively short, and made one of those "what could I do?" moves.
 
I thought we'd lost Henning Granstad too, but no, our blonde updater wildcard is still there, but with only 40k.  Just saw him move in preflop uncalled, probably not the first or last time that'll happen around now.

[Djinn]

56 players left -

Just lost Rehne Pedersen (I think - access denied til post bubble) to Masaaki Kagawa's (T-2-2-4-3 board)...

**********************************All players on Dinner Break - 1hr (probably)*************************************

[NoflopsHomer]

Gunner Rabe adds to his 200k+ stack elimanting an opponent with against on a board.

[Djinn]

Dinner Tale #1:

Pablo Rua looks excitable as he's suffered the loss of a 120k pot right before the break, but says it's been going "very very very well."  We needed some elaboration:  He'd built his stack against the table chip leader (we think Sebastian Ruthenberg) when he raised in second position with AQoff and big blind leader called, checking the flop in the dark.  It was A-7-9 rainbow; Pablo checked behind.  King on the turn and Leader bet out 15k (Pablo's words, "I am waiting his raise for pushing...") and that was that - all in took the pot down.

Then it went a bit wrong - he raised early again to 12k (blinds were 2k/4k), this time with , and the big blind (we think this might have been Pab) raised another 13k.  Call.  Flop:  .  Push in from the big blind.  He thought for a good while, and I believe there was some chatting, before he decided he was ahead and called.  His opponent did have the xspades and when it hit Pablo was down to 42,000, in danger of tilt, and in need of the dinner break.

[NoflopsHomer]

Dinner Tale #2

Just been speaking to Pab and Ben, (It wasn't Pab that re-raised Pablo in Jen's story but the guy to his right). Neither of them are looking to limp into the money and both want big stacks and are prepared to gamble for them. Pab has 45k and is in 'pushbot' mode, he did have to release A-J to a re-raise all-in from the big blind who showed A-K though pre-break. Ben has 70k but is also looking for a big double up, he thinks we may well be down to around 30 players by the end of this level.