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

[snoopy1239]

(5) Hans Ritburg -- 70,300

[NoflopsHomer]

Crazy big pot now.

Mateyboy, Ben Grundy and fairly large stacked Christopher Ulsrud get all the chips in the middle.

Mateyboy:



Ben:


Christopher:



Board:

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At which point Christopher admitted he was actually Jesus...

And Mohammed. And Buddha....

Click to see full-size image.

Ulsrud now has triumphantly ruined Snoopys' list of chip leaders... He has 145k.

[Djinn]

Paul Gourlay gets Last Ten Minute Penalty News Now:

An odd hand developed when he called a raise in the big blind with .  He'd been battling with this guy all day (according to my list it's Emanuele Carboni, but I am not sure) and when the flop came he called a 2,500 bet to " possibly bluff the flush on the turn."  The flush did appear next card, and he checked quickly (which doesn't quite tally, unless he was sure he'd be able to check-raise) but anyway, a check behind brought an Ace on the river. 

Paul checked, and thought it had been checked behind (which it hadn't).  Then he exposed his cards, a pair of Sevens his best hand.  The floor was called, and he was given a ten-minute penalty and allowed only to call.  His opponent then bet 3,500.  He was given a minute maximum to call, and after using up the full time bank, he did.  Incredibly, with three spades, an Ace and King on the board, and a bet in position from someone who'd already seen his hand, the Sevens were good.

Much shouting ensued (but it was all pretty good-natured).
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"Last three hands of the night" have been declared.  Nearly home-time for the Day 1A-ers.  And a whole ten hours before play re-starts. 

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, instead of four-flushing the , Ulstrup could've have had the board come ...

So he's not 'quite' as lucky as I've made out...

[The Camel]

Paul Gourlay gets Last Ten Minute Penalty News Now:

An odd hand developed when he called a raise in the big blind with .  He'd been battling with this guy all day (according to my list it's Emanuele Carboni, but I am not sure) and when the flop came he called a 2,500 bet to " possibly bluff the flush on the turn."  The flush did appear next card, and he checked quickly (which doesn't quite tally, unless he was sure he'd be able to check-raise) but anyway, a check behind brought an Ace on the river. 

Paul checked, and thought it had been checked behind (which it hadn't).  Then he exposed his cards, a pair of Sevens his best hand.  The floor was called, and he was given a ten-minute penalty and allowed only to call.  His opponent then bet 3,500.  He was given a minute maximum to call, and after using up the full time bank, he did.  Incredibly, with three spades, an Ace and King on the board, and a bet in position from someone who'd already seen his hand, the Sevens were good.

Much shouting ensued (but it was all pretty good-natured).
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"Last three hands of the night" have been declared.  Nearly home-time for the Day 1A-ers.  And a whole ten hours before play re-starts. 

He was only allowed to call?

Well, that's a stupid ruling.

Only a fish like Tikay would raise after exposing his cards.

[snoopy1239]

I know this'll please at least one of our viewers.

Missing presumed lost, but we've found, albeit by accident.

This is the once mythological but now very real Paul Murrell, reaching the end of Day 1 with 29,225 in chips.

[snoopy1239]

One of the very last hands I witnessed involved one of the chip leaders, and it was a clash that took his mighty stack to a slightly less mighty, but ultimately still formidable, stack of 95k.

Calling a late position pre-flop raise from the blind, Steve checked the Flop before betting 2k on the Turn. His opponent briskly matched the bet and called even quicker when the Brit bet 3.5k on the River.

Folding like a whippet, Steve was initially teased by the revealing of an irrelevant , but showing mercy, his opponent generously showed a King, commenting, "That'll make you feel better."

[NoflopsHomer]

And here is our new chip leader in 'scooptastic' mode.

[Djinn]

Paul Gourlay gets Last Ten Minute Penalty News Now:

An odd hand developed when he called a raise in the big blind with .  He'd been battling with this guy all day (according to my list it's Emanuele Carboni, but I am not sure) and when the flop came he called a 2,500 bet to " possibly bluff the flush on the turn."  The flush did appear next card, and he checked quickly (which doesn't quite tally, unless he was sure he'd be able to check-raise) but anyway, a check behind brought an Ace on the river. 

Paul checked, and thought it had been checked behind (which it hadn't).  Then he exposed his cards, a pair of Sevens his best hand.  The floor was called, and he was given a ten-minute penalty and allowed only to call.  His opponent then bet 3,500.  He was given a minute maximum to call, and after using up the full time bank, he did.  Incredibly, with three spades, an Ace and King on the board, and a bet in position from someone who'd already seen his hand, the Sevens were good.

Much shouting ensued (but it was all pretty good-natured).
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"Last three hands of the night" have been declared.  Nearly home-time for the Day 1A-ers.  And a whole ten hours before play re-starts. 

He was only allowed to call?

Well, that's a stupid ruling.

Only a fish like Tikay would raise after exposing his cards.

The point is that is standard procedure - no creating action yatta yatta yatta, the actual debate was on the liveness of his hand.  Of course.  It happens almost every time in a situation like this that someone decides to get a ruling on whether the exposer's hand is live.  And that ruling is given almost every time in response.

[snoopy1239]

As they were bagging up, I managed to take a sneak look at a few final chip counts:

George Korch -- 17,800
James Hovgaerd -- 23,850
Tony Cascarino -- 12,000
David Adulo -- 10,050
Josh Arieh -- 60,575
Daniel Kelley -- 19,075
Uskov Alexandre -- 29,075
Simon Christensson -- 38,050
Paul Murrell -- 29,225
George Danzer -- 36,800
Steve Jelinek -- 95,375
Joe Rafferty -- 42,125
Paul Gourlay -- 53,175
Kurt Rystad -- 44,475
Thomas Wahlroos -- 87,625
Fabrice Souiller -- 8,550
Jesper Hougaard -- 23,850
Owen Crowe -- 27,700
Barry Strickland -- 25,650
Dave Colclough -- 12,900

And last but not lease, a Mr Mark Forrester with 37,775, a Brit from Preston who we shall now be following on Day 2 Good luck that man!

[Djinn]

Oh, and forgot to add this picture of Paul.  Behind him, the incongruously glowing purple dancefloor.

[Redbull]

Great job with the updates as always.  Much appreciated

[The Camel]

Paul Gourlay gets Last Ten Minute Penalty News Now:

An odd hand developed when he called a raise in the big blind with .  He'd been battling with this guy all day (according to my list it's Emanuele Carboni, but I am not sure) and when the flop came he called a 2,500 bet to " possibly bluff the flush on the turn."  The flush did appear next card, and he checked quickly (which doesn't quite tally, unless he was sure he'd be able to check-raise) but anyway, a check behind brought an Ace on the river. 

Paul checked, and thought it had been checked behind (which it hadn't).  Then he exposed his cards, a pair of Sevens his best hand.  The floor was called, and he was given a ten-minute penalty and allowed only to call.  His opponent then bet 3,500.  He was given a minute maximum to call, and after using up the full time bank, he did.  Incredibly, with three spades, an Ace and King on the board, and a bet in position from someone who'd already seen his hand, the Sevens were good.

Much shouting ensued (but it was all pretty good-natured).
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"Last three hands of the night" have been declared.  Nearly home-time for the Day 1A-ers.  And a whole ten hours before play re-starts. 

He was only allowed to call?

Well, that's a stupid ruling.

Only a fish like Tikay would raise after exposing his cards.

The point is that is standard procedure - no creating action yatta yatta yatta, the actual debate was on the liveness of his hand.  Of course.  It happens almost every time in a situation like this that someone decides to get a ruling on whether the exposer's hand is live.  And that ruling is given almost every time in response.

I think the exposed hand should be dead.

The other player was almost forced to bluff when he saw the weakness of the hand against him and although Gourlay made a good call, he certainly wouldn't have won those chips if he hadn't exposed his hand.

Gourlays error won him the extra chips. surely not fair.

[elblondie]

Snoops just asked me to add an update on how my day went....
It was in fact a very rare day indeed. A day when I really wasn't in the mood to play poker at all. So from that respect I'm just glad to get through with any chips.
However, I do have to be a little disappointed finishing on 12,950 after being as high as 24,000. I didn't have a very strong table and should really have found a way of dominating it. I played a pair of badly just after my high point when seat 1 (Ireland) slow played his Kings. We had a low flop and I lost 6,000 chips where I could have got away for the minimum. When i had hands I seemed to have the usual problem of not being able to get paid.
The blinds are still low though so although I'm way below average the pressure isnt quite on yet.
 

[hartwith]

Paul Gourlay gets Last Ten Minute Penalty News Now:

An odd hand developed when he called a raise in the big blind with .  He'd been battling with this guy all day (according to my list it's Emanuele Carboni, but I am not sure) and when the flop came he called a 2,500 bet to " possibly bluff the flush on the turn."  The flush did appear next card, and he checked quickly (which doesn't quite tally, unless he was sure he'd be able to check-raise) but anyway, a check behind brought an Ace on the river. 

Paul checked, and thought it had been checked behind (which it hadn't).  Then he exposed his cards, a pair of Sevens his best hand.  The floor was called, and he was given a ten-minute penalty and allowed only to call.  His opponent then bet 3,500.  He was given a minute maximum to call, and after using up the full time bank, he did.  Incredibly, with three spades, an Ace and King on the board, and a bet in position from someone who'd already seen his hand, the Sevens were good.

Much shouting ensued (but it was all pretty good-natured).
____________________________________

"Last three hands of the night" have been declared.  Nearly home-time for the Day 1A-ers.  And a whole ten hours before play re-starts. 

He was only allowed to call?

Well, that's a stupid ruling.

Only a fish like Tikay would raise after exposing his cards.

The point is that is standard procedure - no creating action yatta yatta yatta, the actual debate was on the liveness of his hand.  Of course.  It happens almost every time in a situation like this that someone decides to get a ruling on whether the exposer's hand is live.  And that ruling is given almost every time in response.

I think the exposed hand should be dead.

The other player was almost forced to bluff when he saw the weakness of the hand against him and although Gourlay made a good call, he certainly wouldn't have won those chips if he hadn't exposed his hand.

Gourlays error won him the extra chips. surely not fair.

Keith I had a very similar hand in the Vic once. We had got down to the river where I thought the guy behind me had checked when in fact he hadnt, so having revealed my QQ on a K hi board, the ruling was passed that I could only call a bet. The guy then instantly went all in and after some thought I called and won