EPT Warsaw: Day 1A - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

Just caught sight of Tony Chessa on the stairs talking in Italian. It was bit like that sketch in the Fast Show. Scorchio! Remember?

Anyhow, I couldn't quite make out the hands as my Italian is a little rusty, but I definitely picked up the line, "Mama Mia, I be outio."

A-K into A-6 on an A-6-2-T-x board. "I tried to trap an young American kid and ended up trapping myself."

[snoopy1239]

The wonderfully named Dennis Plejdrup Kobbero has doubled up without too much bother, getting it in with Ah vs the of Thomas Mathisen. 8 was pretty emphatic.

Mathisen (pictured below) still remains one of the chip leaders with 52,525

The same two people have just clashed again, and for a second time it's Dennis who comes out on top, calling an all-in re-raise from Thomas' A-K with A-Q and asking for a Queen to arrive, which duly obliged on the Flop.

[snoopy1239]

The wonderfully named Dennis Plejdrup Kobbero has doubled up without too much bother, getting it in with Ah vs the of Thomas Mathisen. 8 was pretty emphatic.

Mathisen (pictured below) still remains one of the chip leaders with 52,525

The same two people have just clashed again, and for a second time it's Dennis who comes out on top, calling an all-in re-raise from Thomas' A-K with A-Q and asking for a Queen to arrive, which duly obliged on the Flop.

"Why do I not get luck like that?" jokes Priyan De Mel. "I've gone out of my last 5 comps with hands like that Jacks vs. Aces, but can't seem to outdraw. Surely if I keep sticking it in from behind I'll win one, it's 1 in 4 or something isn't it, and I've had 5 of them already."

Not sure that's sound strategy though.

[snoopy1239]

Some chip counts I thought you might be interested in:

Priyan De Mel -- 15,950
Jeff Buffenbarger -- 5,150
Karl Mahrenholz -- 22,050
Dave Colclough -- 8,675
Stefan Thomas -- 48,275
Ken Lennaard -- 16,275
Jim Kerrigan -- 28,900
Henning Granstad -- 53,275
Johnny Lodden -- 6,975

[snoopy1239]

Jan Sjavik is either the most confident player in the world, or he's OUT and on the rail. I think it's the latter.

[NoflopsHomer]

Jeff Buffenburger and El Blondie are both OUT.

Jeff made his swansong with 6-6 and hit trips but ran into a flush.


Didn't catch Dave's exit but he did the slit throat thing which means either he was out or he has a new job as a contract killer and has to go perform his first 'hit'.

[thetank]

Jan Sjavik is either the most confident player in the world, or he's OUT and on the rail. I think it's the latter.

Could be both

[NoflopsHomer]

Short break and then we will be on our last level, 400/800 with the running ante.

[snoopy1239]

Confident as ever, the ET-like arms of Karl Mahrenholz dish out a 1.8k pre-flop raise, only to find a caller in the big blind.

Flop =

Bizarrely, the big blind, who perhaps trys to give off the notion of naivity, bets out a suspicious 1k. Karl swiftly makes it 2k, to which the big blind calls as if to say, "Oh, go on then, it's only 1k".

Turn =

The Big Blind checks and Karl, along with that permanently confused expression that he enforces with the aid of his thick set of eyebrows, bets out 2.5k. Karl receives yet another call and we see a fifth card.

River =

Out of nowhere, the big blind waves his hand nonchalently and mumbles "all-in".

Somewhat taken back, Karl lifts up a headphone and inquires, "Excuse me?", to which his opponent repeats the overused phrase. "Oh okay," replies Karl before folding rather swiftly.

Still confused and with 18k behind him Karl recollects his thoughts and leaves the table after the buzzer sounds for the end of the penultimate level. And he had a right to be bamboozled, as his opponent was making the all-in with 50k! Crikey.

You'd guess the flush, but would he really just shove it all-in with the nuts??

[snoopy1239]

I think Martin Wendt er... went too, caught him on the rail chatting with friends in that "I've just to been taken down" way. I'll need to confirm that one though.

[snoopy1239]

Okay, as mentioned, we're now into the last level of the night (Level 9). The blinds are 400 and 800 with a running ante of 100. At the break, there were 63 players remaining.

[snoopy1239]

Caught Jen at the break, she was in philosophical mood. Mumbling something about Plato and trees falling.

[Djinn]

Caught Jen at the break, she was in philosophical mood. Mumbling something about Plato and trees falling.

I am glad he took the gist of "poker is a silly game" and made it something deep-sounding.  I have finally acquired internet in the bar of the hotel (good place for me really) and so I thought I'd sum up the tournament as a kind of one-person update.

Sat on a fun table, actually, although with Jan Sjavik (one of my top European players, if anyone ever asks me) on my right.  Off to a flying start, all-in uncalled first level, quite a few other things went right, and then I basically hung myself (or dropped to a harder-to-play stack - less, sadly than was reported at the time) with that weird call.

In a nutshell, I'd got to the flop with an aggressive guy with Ace-bit of spades.  Flop T-7-4, with two spades.  Bet out; call.  Check the Kofhearts turn, he autobets pot.  I figure he's pure at it, and I have a draw, and I'm ahead; call.  River offsuit 5 and now he bets pot again.  Chunky - suspiciously chunky in my opinion.  I think "that's an everything or nothing bet.  How can it suddenly be everything?  It's nothing."  So I call with Ace high and lose all those playable chips to his 6-8 (no flush draw) rivered 2x gutshot.  Out on a boring button-all-in-coinflip and that's that. 

I will be watching the superlative efforts of Snoopy and Homer while considering if there are any sights to see...  Good luck everyone still in (just going to read all the updates to make sure I don't wish post-elimination luck to anyone, but at a guess Ramzi, Henning (currently well chipped up, looked happy in the break), Richard Gryko, Karl).

[snoopy1239]

Nasty exit for Ken Lennaard now who is probably feeling like he's just been through as session of...



Anyhow, imagery of pain aside (I couldn't find a picture of someone being kicked in the nuts - well, not this hard anyhow), Ken made his move with A-Q from the big blind after the initial raiser had made it 1.7k and Sondre Sagstuen had smooth called in the small.

Ken managed to get rid of (if that is indeed what he wanted) the original aggressor, but not Norwegian Sonde somehow managed to find a call for most of his chips with . Talk about a gamblor, it was several k more after all!

A bemused Ken turned over his , only to see it outdone on the Turn in squeamish circumstances with the board reading .

Ouch.

[Jasko]

Nice updates again. Too bad about your exit Jen.

Snoopy, could you update me on Gunnar Østebrød's stack?