EPT Dortmund: Day 2 - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Mickey Wernick is OUT - blinds are now 5k/10k ante 1k and he got his short stack in against Eric Lindberg's A-J with Q-9 - no joy.  "Now you need some luck," he says as he heads to get his prize.

28 players remain.

[Djinn]

Down one Dirk Specht too - about the same time as Mickey.  Prize money for 30th and 29th - €9,250

[NoflopsHomer]

Phillip Yeh bets out what looks like around 75k on the turn of a board. Gunnar Rabe moves all in and Phillip passes after a short dwell

Gunnar shows .

By the way, chips counts and hands are a REAL bugger to get again, they've closed off the last 4 tables off and the press are stuck behind the same rail as the spectators, so very hard to see anything again.

[Djinn]

Man, we're really struggling to see what's going on.  I mean the detail, like whose are the cards that are on their backs, how much is in the pot/stacks, what the board cards are.  Ropes have finally gone up around the three non-TV tables, but it' too much too late - a jostly crowd of non-journalists kept annoying the directors, and now the press and others are behind the lines.  Mainly, I am behind tall people.

Therefore please excuse the rather basic coverage now.

Marco Liesy is OUT, for all of you not watching the live coverage online...

27 players left, I imagine three tables of nine reforming.

[Djinn]

John Duthie confirms: there is now going to be a redraw.  I think we'll wait for it to settle and then give you all the names and positions of the last three tables.  Probably not full counts, though, sorry in advance.

[Djinn]

you have probably told us- but how many are they playing to tonight- and brits stack size if poss please.

I think the idea is to get to the final table, but I reckon they'll stop when it hits 3 or 4am.  I have to say there hasn't been a whole lot of flop play, or really big hands that don't involve a preflop push/call scenario in the last hour or so. 

[NoflopsHomer]

24 players left, and we are redrawing the last 3 tables.

This coincides with the departure of Paul 'Pab' Foltyn. With blinds 5k/10k/1k, he pushed utg for 75k with A-K, the short stack next to him called all-in for 25k with A-Q and the flop came Q-T-x but Pab missed his 7 outs. This left him with about 50k left, 10 of which went straight into the big blind, Vincent Solaski, who Pab said had been very aggressive, raised, and Pab called all-in with A-T and found himself racing against pocket nines. It was a race he lost sadly, though not that much of a race since Ben Grundy and one other player both said they had both passed an Ace.

[NoflopsHomer]

While Jen gets the new seating arrangements, how about this for the consolation tournament...

€1000 entry fee.

First five levels are 20 minutes long.

30 minute levels from then after.


Anyone think they missed out?

[Djinn]

Table 1 (TV table)

Gunnar Rabe
Tobias Holmeide
Tommy Dender
Mike Tse
Eric Lindberg
Nicolas Levi
Madassar Khan

Table 2

Mark Bartlog
Philip Yeh
Tuncer Allezer          (hang on, not any more - Homer has the hand)
Ben Grundy
Thomas Fougeron
Jens Vortmann
Vincent Sokalski
Christiano Blance

[NoflopsHomer]

Tuncer Allezer is OUT, with Nines against Thomas Fougeron's , a raggy flop and Tuncer moves all-in and Fougeron called(?) but somehow spiked an Ace on the river.

Mike Tse is OUT, A-7 vs Jacks of Nicolas Levi with a Jack on the flop and the slim runner runner straight possiblity extinguished by the ace turn.

[Djinn]

Andreas Hagen is eliminated - he got it all in with against Michael Mucklisch's ... The flop was raggy (two diamonds, however) but a King popped out on the turn, Andreas Hagen got his coat, the river brought another King and he shook his opponent's hand and headed off in 19th place.  No celebrating, just a handshake and commiseration on the outdraw.

[Djinn]

for Christoph Stiehler as an all-in hand which is called by Eric Lindberg with ...

Flop:
Turn:
River: 

116k x2 for Chris, then. 

(for the benefit of those without high-speed internet    )

[Djinn]

Play is scheduled to finish at 3am, which is the end of this current level.

[Djinn]

OK here is my estimate of Johnny Lodden's chip count:  between 280 and 300k.  Now, from all the stories of how he'd been running over his table, this doesn't seem quite right.  The maximum I could have miscounted is a further 80k (if there was a side stack of brown 5k chips I couldn't see from the only angle I could get to) so I looked for other big stacks.

Sebastian Ruthenberg has something like 625,000.  I think some chips might have swapped table sides in the last half hour or so.

[Djinn]

*************************Redraw Break**************************

That is all.