EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo: Day 1A - Interactive

[Karabiner]

Just went on a stroll with my American friend (and best man) Paulie

Something that you've not told us yet Sloppy ?

[snoopy1239]

Levi -- 16,300
John Shipley -- 19,275
Pat Bueno -- 17,375
Jimmy Fricke -- 19,000
Paul Gourlay -- 8,475
Carlos Mortensson -- 13,850
Leslie McLean -- 17,225
JP Kelly -- 3,025
Jules Kuusik -- 13,375
Joe Rafferty -- 17,300
Dave Colclough -- 16,800
Ben Roberts -- 18,650
Humberto Brenes -- 17,250
Theo Jorgensson -- 21,650
Dennis Plejdrup -- 21,225
Tim Blake -- 6,600
Marc Naalden -- 15,625
Musaki -- 16,200
Jan Boubli -- 13,300
Barny Boatmna -- 18,300
Harry Demetriou -- 22,400
Paul Roper -- 18,450
Richard Toth -- 25,474

[snoopy1239]

Looking at the counts above you'll notice that Harry has lost a chunk from that early double up he enjoyed, the most significant loss being when he lost a big pot to Hungarian pro Richard Toth, folding to an 8.5k bet on a board of .

[snoopy1239]

A quick look over my shoulder and my eyes widen as I see a hoard of people rushing over to Ben Callinan's table, camera crew included. But, as with the football where if one person stand up and looks behind them at nothing, then everyone else follows suit, there was nothing of note happening to any big names. However, the hand certainly was noteworthy, two men getting it all-in on a J-rag-rag Flop, one with Kings, the other with a set of Jacks. But a King on the River and a gasp from the crowd meant that Raul Paez was gone. And the assasin? Well that was Dutchman Hans Ridbug, perhaps a celebrity of sorts in Holland as his involvement provoked the Dutch cameras and pursuing sheep to rush over their like madmen.

[NoflopsHomer]

Here's the probable current chip leader. Steve Jelinek has around 55k at the moment. He just added to his stack calling a 7k bet on the river of a board with to win the pot after his opponent quickly mucked.

Interestingly, the rule, which I think is totally wrong, is that if you CALL a river bet and your opponent mucks, you can't request to show. Totally ludicrous. I was informed of this after Harry D called a 4k river bet, his opponent mucking but Harry wasn't allowed to see the cards yet still had to show his. Surely you're calling to see your opponents cards?

Annette_15 moves all-in for 5.2k on a board after her opponent bets 1,550, he eventually passes.

[Djinn]

Chip counts please:

Jude Ainsworth   Ireland
Tony Cascarino   Ireland
John Conroy   Ireland
Paul Roper   Ireland
Alan Smurfit   Ireland
Joe Rafferty UK Northern Ireland
George McKeever UK Northern Ireland
Leslie McLean USA Ireland

Please telll mads to get the nationalities right

Never mind his surname, Mr Roper is as mad as they come! He will either get gazilions of chips or be home in time for tea.

OK here are a few of them (sadly Table 20 contained two and it's been broken):

Jude Ainsworth      20,200/5,800  (depending on if he's the guy on the left or right; if he's neither, I don't know)
John Conroy          10,350
Alan Smurfit           17,000  (who appears to have some kind of Last Longer with Mark Teltscher, who has 24,400)

[NoflopsHomer]

JP Kelly pushes after a series of limpers on his big blind, the first calls and everyone else folds.

JP:



Limper:



Board:

.......


River:

[snoopy1239]

Pete Linton -- 22,000
Jimmy Fricke -- 15,875
Christian Grundvig -- 2,200
Ashley Alterman -- 12,100
John Conroy -- 10,474
George Danzer -- 22,100
Chris Moneymaker -- 25,900
Dean Sanders -- 13,100
Barry Greenstein -- 19,450
Julian Thew -- 14,225
Ben Callinan -- 7,625
Hans Rutlig -- 45,225
Martyn Cavanagh -- 10,275
Noah Boeken -- 19,200
Johnny Lodden -- 14,425
Kevin O'Donnell -- 10,275

[Djinn]

Top railers Tony Mackay and Jim Kerrigan were keeping an eye on Nik Persaud (amongst others).  He just can't keep hold of chips once they've drifted his way - his yo-yoing is of Early Thew proportions.  Just now I saw him re-raising a short-stack's preflop raise to 475 (one caller in the middle already).  He upped it to 2,600 (enough to cover the short stack) who obliged by pushing the rest of his chips in.  The middle guy got out of the way after a bit of a think, and Nik got to show his against the short-stacks .  "That's a monster for Nik," comments Jim, "Surpassed all our expectations."
Flop: 
Turn:    ("Eight," one of the Mackay/Kerrigan supporters said, eliciting a frown from the all-in, at which they both pointed at each other, "That was him.")
River: 

Nik's back to 12k, asking, rhetorically, "Can I hold on to my chips for like one minute?"

[snoopy1239]

Just spoke to Mark Vos at the bar (remember him from the World Series?) - he's currently hovering around average, but he did just confess to folding Aces to Max Pescatori.

"He had a set," he moaned, "and I folded to a re-raise on the Turn after calling a Flop bet."

"Did he show?" I asked inquisitively.

"Well know, but I'm pretty sure he had a set - I can't believe he had anything else judging by the way the hand played out.

[Djinn]

A couple of tables along, we find Jeff Kimber's settled, after his starting table was one of the first to be broken.  He just made up the small blind after it folded round to him, the big blind raised 350, he called.
Flop:    Jeff check calls 700
Turn:    Check-check
River:    Jeff bets out 1,250, which was probably a good idea whatever he had as he didn't meet with much resistance.  That brought his stack up to 11,300, for anyone following him.

[NoflopsHomer]

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[Djinn]

Pic of John Shipley - he started off well getting to over 20k in the first couple of hours, at the time of getting that count I found him delighted to discover himself 100 chips ahead of Colclough.

[snoopy1239]

Great job as always Blondes!!!  Any and all info/commentary/pics/anecdotes/opinions.... on the life, times and tournie of Thomas Wahlroos will be welcomed!

snoopy at your service. 

Thomas 'The Eggman' Wahlroos -- 32,475

[CRIPPIN]

Another chap Paulie pointed out was Carl Olsen, who apparently came runner-up in a Deauville EPT, although that was before my blonde time, so I'll have to take his word for that one. Currently on 13,950.

Carl Olsen was a good buddy of Brandon Schaeffer, they both qualified for EPT Deauville 2005 on Pokerstars using player points I think. They ended up heads up with Brandon winning - Pokerstars were so impressed that they gave them both seats at the final. It's a nice story, Brandon was a student at the time and when he went to Monte for the final I'm sure he took his Mum!!