EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo: Day 1A - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Harry Demetriou is on 34,475k after flopping a straight against a set and surviving the Turn and River.

Pete Gordinio -- 17,875
Carl Olsen -- 13,950
Greice Yamaguchi -- 8,250

[NoflopsHomer]

JP -- 4k "They keep trying to bluff their chips off to me and then hitting the river."

Ben Grundy -- 11k "I've had Aces twice, Kings twice, flopped three sets, flopped the nuts three times and I've still got less than my starting stack." This included him leading out with a set of Threes on a T-7-3 board getting raised, he 3-bet it and the other guy (inexplicably) moved all-in.

[Djinn]

Ben Roberts -- 15,925

Ben is one of those players that most poker fans have heard of, but not seen much of, and although he can be spotted on the odd TV comp, he's a rare participant on the circuit yet has an incredibly formidable reputation. Ask anyone who they'd hate to see sit down at their cash game table, and Ben Roberts will one of the names that consistently crops up.

Ben Roberts Double-Up Hand (Courtesy of El Blondie):

He has and one caller (on the button) after the 9-T-J (one club) flop.  The turn must have been fairly pleasant, and ben check-raised it from 1,500 to 4,500.  This meant that his 9k all-in bet on the river wasn't a silly size, and he got called by something (DC didn't want to hazard a guess) thus doubling his average-y stack to a chunkier one.

[NoflopsHomer]

omplete List of Players for Day 1A (Sorted by Nationality). (This did come with a seating plan, but that obviously won't be reliable anymore)

Kevin Odonell   
Mike Pesek   
Loyo Gabriel Argentina
Jose Guevara Argentina
Lyndon Basha Australia
Jason Gray  Australia
Tracy Varcoe  Australia
Mark Vos   Australia
Oliver Bosch   Austria
Markus Golser   Austria
Josef Kollarits   Austria
Carlo Gosselin   Belgium
Marc Naalden   Belgium
Bruno Azevedo   Brazil
Thiago   Carriço De Azevedo   Brazil
Ciaran Carter   Canada
Samuel Chartier   Canada
Owen Crowe   Canada
Stuart Hooft   Canada
Marc Karam   Canada
Denis St Aubin   Canada
Joseph Starcevic   Canada
Humberto Brenes   Costa Rica
Soren Bakfort   Denmark
Thomas Elmkjaer   Denmark
Bjorn-Erik Glenne   Denmark
Christian Grundtvig   Denmark
Andreas   Hagen   Denmark
Carl Hostrup   Denmark
Jesper Hougaard   Denmark
Peter Jepsen   Denmark
Marcus Jessen   Denmark
Theo Jorgensen   Denmark
Ricki Nielsen   Denmark
Uffe Thorup Petersen   Denmark
Dennis Plejdrup   Denmark
Henrik Sorensen   Denmark
Martin Wendt   Denmark
Ilari Sahamies   Finland
Jani Sointula   Finland
Jani Vilmunen   Finland
Ville Wahlbeck   Finland
Thomas Wahlross   Finland
Jukka Ylitalo   Finland
Klaus Pautrot   France
Michel Abecassis   France
Dan Abouaf   France
Lionel Azoulay   France
Cyril Ben Soussan   France
Jan Boubli   France
Patrice   Boudet   France
Herve Boulan   France
Patrik Bueno   France
Michel Carvin   France
Ouri Aron Cohen   France
Sebastien Compte   France
Daniel Conte   France
Jean Marc Cristiani   France
Reza Daeipour   France
Imad Derwiche   France
Rattenbach Didier   France
Daniel Dodet   France
Habib Filfili   France
Patrick   Gaillardo   France
Andre Gulessian   France
Ramez Haddad   France
Haim Kakoun   France
Xavier Laszcz   France
Cametti   Laurent   France
Charles   Mangin   France
Elie Marciano   France
Jack Melki   France
Phillipe Narboni   France
Jean Claude Perrot   France
Emile Petit   France
Khalil Rahal   France
Marcel Rhin   France
Fabrice   Soulier   France
Sebastien Szwarc   France
Philippe Vert   France
Marc Jacques Zaicik   France
Jerome Zerbib   France
Davide Adamo   Germany
Marcel Baran   Germany
Thomas Bihl   Germany
Christian Danner   Germany
George Danzer   Germany
Frank Guenther   Germany
Norbert   Holting   Germany
Georg Korch   Germany
Adrian Koy   Germany
Florian Langmann   Germany
Michael   Muecklish   Germany
Sebastian Ruthenberg   Germany
Haward Speer   Germany
Katja Thater   Germany
Jan Veit   Germany
Johannes Vogel   Germany
Jan Von Halle   Germany
Noah Boeken   Holland
Peter Dalhuijsen   Holland
Rob Hollink   Holland
Hans Ritburg   Holland
Grm Spijkers   Holland
Stuart Taylor   Holland
Jasper Wijbenga   Holland
Andor Daroczi   Hungary
Sandor Demjan   Hungary
Denes Kalo   Hungary
Csaba Kuremszki   Hungary
Richard Toth   Hungary
Novak Istvan   Zsolt   Hungary
Jude Ainsworth   Ireland
Tony Cascarino   Ireland
John Conroy   Ireland
Paul Roper   Ireland
Alan Smurfit   Ireland
Ziv Bachar   Israel
Avraham   Golan   Israel
Daniel Makowsky   Israel
Zack Stewart   Israel
Sandro Bellusci   Italy
Sergio Cacace   Italy
Emanuele Carboni   Italy
Luigi Donati   Italy
Gianni Giaroni   Italy
Riccardo Mazzitell   Italy
Dario Minieri   Italy
Luca Mortarino   Italy
Luca Pagano   Italy
Max Pescatori   Italy
Pier Ruscalla   Italy
Masaaki   Kagawa   Japan
Hiroshi   Shimmamura   Japan
Gilbert   Abela   Lebanon
Joseph Mouawad   Liban
Souhail Joseph   Nassar   Liban
Jihad Saade   Libano
Dan Adamescu   Monaco
Stian Bjorsvik   Norway
Jemil Butt   Norway
Lars Eidissen   Norway
Bernt Grytdahl   Norway
Ambjorn   Haga   Norway
Kristian Kjondal   Norway
Odd Lavik   Norway
Johnny Lodden   Norway
Erlend   Melsom   Norway
Dag  Martin Mikkelsen   Norway
Rolf Myking   Norway
Annette   Obrestad   Norway
Thomas Osterholt   Norway
Knut Rysstad   Norway
Jan Sjavik   Norway
Daniel Steine   Norway
Lasse Ubostad   Norway
Kristian Ulriksen   Norway
Christopher Ulsrud   Norway
Hans Ari Vars   Norway
Kristian Wiermyhr   Norway
AdamSzalak   Poland
Cristinel Dumitru   Romania
George Secara   Romania
Christian Dragomir   Rumania
Mihai Manole   Rumania
Sergey Feklisov   Russia
Alexander Grishchuk   Russia
Valeri   Ilykan   Russia
Gea Gregory   Marc   Russia
Gregory   Orlov   Russia
Alex Repik   Russia
Alexander Uskov   Russia
Mikhail   Ustinov   Russia
Peter Zaselskiy   Russia
Alexey Zilberg   Russia
Oscar Blanco Carrasco,   Spain
Angel Blanco Puras   Spain
Guillermo Garcia   Spain
Francisco Lopez   Spain
Maria Maceiras   Spain
Miguel,   Magan Tier   Spain
Raul Mestre   Spain
Carlos Mortensen   Spain
Raul Paez   Spain
Juan Manuel Pastor   Spain
Santiago Torres   Spain
Igemar Stahle   Swe
Nicklas   Andersson   Sweden
Johan Bergqvist   Sweden
Chris Bjorin   Sweden
Simon Christensson   Sweden
Peter Eichhardt   Sweden
Andreas   Folkesson   Sweden
Dan Glimne   Sweden
Shahin   Hajbarati   Sweden
Ramzi Jelassi   Sweden
Jules Kuusik   Sweden
Jacob Larsson   Sweden
Niklas   Liljegren   Sweden
Gustav Lundholm   Sweden
Patric Martensson   Sweden
Erik Palm   Sweden
Magnus Petersson   Sweden
Tomas Petterson   Sweden
Erik Pettersson   Sweden
Magnus Renberg   Sweden
Raymi Sanchez Thorn   Sweden
Fredrik   Silfverber   Sweden
Johan Storakers   Sweden
Mikael Westerlund   Sweden
Mark Bolliger   Switzerland
Denis Cohen   Switzerland
Rino Mathis   Switzerland
Ashley Alterman   UK
Richard   Baldwin   UK
Richard   Barnett   UK
Fowzi Baroukh   UK
Tim Blake   UK
Barny Boatman   UK
Terence   Burke   UK
Ben Walter   Callinan   UK
Matryn Cavanagh   UK
Carlo Citrone   UK
David Clayton   UK
David Colclough   UK
Terence   Cook   UK
Roland De Wolfe   UK
Harry Demetriou   UK
David Finney   UK
Mark Forrester   UK
Stuart Fox   UK
Jonathan Gaskell   UK
Nicholas Goodall   UK
Paul Gourlay   UK
David Gregory   UK
Ben Grundy   UK
Michael   Hill   UK
Andreas   Hoivold   UK
Craig Hopkins   UK
Afzal Hussain   UK
Steve Jelinek   UK
Jp Kelly   UK
Jeff Kimber   UK
Derek Lawless   UK
David Leavey   UK
Nicolas   Levi   UK
Peter Linton   UK
Bernard   Litman   UK
Andy Lowe   UK
George Mckeever   UK
Rico Morris   UK
Paul Murrell   UK
Shaun Needham   UK
Shahrokh Nikkhah   UK
Nik Persaud   UK
Scott Piecha   UK
John Poynton   UK
James Price   UK
Joe Rafferty   UK
Ben Roberts   UK
Christopher Rossiter   UK
David Rudling   UK
Dean Sanders   UK
Jeff Sharpe   UK
John Shipley   UK
Christopher Smith   UK
Mark Teltscher   UK
Julian Thew   UK
Steve Vladar   UK
Piers Whyman   UK
Michael   Williams   UK
Jeremy Wray   UK
Greice Yamaguchi   UK
Marwan Zakhem   UK
Josh Arieh   USA
Isaac Andrew   Baron   USA
Francis Kemper   Cagney   USA
David Cotten   USA
Adam Elpayaa   USA
Daryn Firicano   USA
Russ Floyd   USA
Jimmy Fricke   USA
Jeffrey Garza   USA
Pete Giordano   USA
Ken Goldin   USA
Barry Greenstein   USA
Mark Gregorich   USA
Dan Grolemund   USA
Frank Hilton   USA
James Hoeppner   USA
Steve Hohn   USA
Stuart Hosen   USA
Daryl Jace   USA
Daniel Kelley   USA
Bryn Kenney   USA
Alexander Kim   USA
Eric Kronenberger   USA
Maros Lechman   USA
Michael   Long   USA
Leslie Mclean   USA
Joseph Karl Michael   USA
Chris Moneymaker   USA
Noboru Mark Nagaoka   USA
Tyler Netter   USA
Carl Olson   USA
David Peters   USA
Reuben   Peters   USA
Jeffrey   Petronack   USA
Patrick   Powers   USA
Victor Ramdin   USA
Greg Raymer   USA
Andrew Robl   USA
Christopher Roth   USA
Daniel Ryan   USA
Justin Schwartz   USA
Richard   Shtrax   USA
Amritraj Singh   USA
Luke Staudenmaier   USA
Jesse Steinberg   USA
Noah Stephens Davidowitz   USA
Steve Stolzmann   USA
Matt Stout   USA
Barry Strickland   USA
Dean Thurman   USA
Alec Torelli   USA
Hung Tran   USA
David Tuttle   USA
William Vance   USA
Alessandro Nocerino   Venezuela

[snoopy1239]

Kristian Ulriksen -- 23,100
Greg Raymer -- 15,800
Rob Hollink -- 7,200
Markus Golser -- 4,525
Pete Linton -- 14,250
Humberto Brenes -- 15,950
Ando Dacroczi -- 13,925

First hand back after break, Ben Roberts flops a set of threes and takes 4,000 off a French opponent. 2nd hand back, Ben raises and flops a set of Eights on a 6-8-T all club board. Mateyboy moved all-in  with K-J one club and took a nice 30k pot when the Turn came the Ace of clubs. Ben down to 23k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Incidentally, the media tournament was the most awesomely crapshooty event ever. 1k chips, 15 minute blinds. 25/50 and the blinds doubled every level. It was hilarious fun. I won $25 for finishing 7th from 80 odd. SHIP IT!


Back to the real work, there are 301 remaining players from todays 329 entries, DC just passed me a note which reads as follows..."Seat 1 Frenchie raises with A-K and gets called by BB (who had 6-6). They both check a flop of 6-6-A and an innocent 7 on the turn starts a raising war, Frenchie all-in for 9k. 19k pot and no outs. Seat 3 moves up to 22k..."

Good reporting from Mr Colclough there, I think he might have a future in this updating lark...

[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
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

[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.

[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:

[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?"

[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.

[snoopy1239]

Thomas Wahlroos -- 32,475
Chris Smith -- 32,800
Mark Vos -- 23,200
Max Pescatori -- 24,325

Mark Karam, who finalled in this event last year, has just doubled up unavoidably Annand Ramdin with Kings v Aces all-in pre-flop. Jh-4d-3s-Td-2d board.

[Djinn]

JP Kelly is OUT - just caught him exiting the tournament area as I was wandering in.  He didn't look upset, but I think that's because he was still in shock over his exit:  After a preflop raise to 600 and one call, JP moved in for 5k.  One of them got out of the way, but the other "called instantly" in spite of the call being around a third of his stack.
JP: 
Caller: 
Flop:  5-7-8 (or all low, at least, one club)
Turn: 
River: 

A big call with Ten-high, and apparently JP had been looking to get this exact player to help him out - but it wasn't to be.