EPT Warsaw: Day 1A - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Looks like we have around 280-90 players in total.

Among those playing today, the biggest names, and therefore ones to watch out for are:

Tommaso Femminella (17 letters)
Morten Huseby Haakenstad (22 letters)
Nichlas Mattsson Saarisilta (25 letters!!!)

[snoopy1239]

And it's good to see a broad range of nationalities:

Sergey Rabachenko (Russia)
Sameer Khuruna (India)
Ryan Hall (Canada)

I even met someone from New Zealand last night, now that's a way to travel for a poker game!

Having said that, there are still a fair few of natives here. Mind you, try wrapping your gums around this name... Krzysztof Czerwinski 

[snoopy1239]

Right, they've definitely started - about 20 minutes ago now, I believe - so I'm going to head into the battlefield and see what gems I can unearth.

My spider senses inform me that Mr Floppy has a few photos for you to have a butchers at.

[NoflopsHomer]

The tournament area seems to seperated into two areas, the first is a clumpy sort of section with a banterful table featuring Andy Black, here seen in a friendly sparring match with Lee Jones, as well as Simon 'Suffolk Punch' Young and a shaven-headed Ramzi Jelassi who has already declared he is tilting because he hasn't raised one of the first five hands.

[NoflopsHomer]

More of the clumpy section. Note the naughty nurses in the top left of the first picture. I may have to fake a heart attack at some point.

[NoflopsHomer]

Smiley Sverre. (With Dortmund winner Andreas Hoivold sporting his Laddies top on the right)

Smiley Dave.

Jeff Buffenburger - doing the 3rd syllable of his charade.

[NoflopsHomer]

Legume, do you recognise this shirt?


Yes, this is Jen's table, it's nicely tucked away in the corner away from most of the frenzied media attention

[snoopy1239]

Nope, it's not a mirage, Roland is indeed playing today. Simply shrugged his shoulders and muttered something like "Just fancied playing Day 1" when I enquired as to why he'd made the switch.

Not much swtiching with his chip stack though, it's still on around 10k.

[snoopy1239]

Just glancing at Jens stack, she seems to have added 50%, which is good news for those who have a piece of the action. 

Meanwhile, some of you Grosvenor whores might recongnise this face from the circtui as Mr Tim Gillig, a German pro, I believe, who often trundles on over our way. Must think there's a bit of value over here...

[snoopy1239]

A Scandinavian this time, a quite a well respected one too in Daniel Larsson. If memory serves me right, this fuzzy haired chap ran very well in a WPT in Aruba. Here, however, he's merely got his head above water with 10,800.

[snoopy1239]

We are now approaching the end of Level 1 (about 5 minutes, I'd say), at which point I will nip in a get my mitts on a few chippy counts. Unfortunately, I possess no table list of any kind, so the best I can do is grab counts from all those players I know or recognise.

[snoopy1239]

Anyone fancy picking their top 3?

I'm gonna go for:

Jen Mason
Ken Lennaard
Bastian Landehagen

[julian]

i'll go with
praz
jen
&
gryko

[NoflopsHomer]

Just saw Jen scoop a pot without showing, on a board.

Henning Granstad bets 350 on a board, in limped multiway pot. The Scandie big blind calls.

Turn:



Both players check.

River:



Scandie Big Blind bets out 525, Henning calls. Scandie shows the (missed) drawtastic . Henning rakes with .

[gasman]

Karl, Ramzi, Praz