EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo: Day 3 - At A Glance

[Djinn]

More counts - Starting with that Lodden/Black table you're all so keen on:

Ricki Nielsen        65k
Pete Giordano    170k
Andy Black         580k (?) (Not allowed to get close enough to thoroughly inspect the monster stack)
Nicholas Goodall   52.7k
Hans Erlandsson  141k
Johnny Lodden   355k
Gavin Griffin        291k

Jesse Steinberg   87k
Ryan Nathan       56k
Dario Alioto        55k
Fadi Kamar         48k
Chad Brown      240k
Richard Herbert   110k
Lars Eidissen       144k
Hans Eskilsson      76k

Josh Arieh           320k (bad angle; I jotted 'lots; top five' on my notepad)
Antony Lellouche   235k
Eric Van der Berg   150k
Thomas Wahlroos  169.5k

Vladimir Troyanorsky  160k
Biri Balazs             290k
Steve Jelinek        150k
Dean Sanders        168k
Herman Zango        63k
Oscar Blanco          162k
Sergey Altbregin     175k

Christopher Ulsrud  117k
Philip Hilm              468k
David Peters           ?
Jonathan Little      162k
Thomas Bihl          242k
David Barraclough    65k
Cristinel Dumitru     105k

Will go try to fill the gaps on the third tablw - tables 10 and 11 have been dispersed throughout the room as the early players fell...

[NoflopsHomer]

71 are left.

Ricki 'Hello Mary Lou' Neilsen is OUT, no details I'm afraid.

[Djinn]

Philip Hilm and Christopher Ulsrud have been in some skirmishes recently, it appears, and Ulsrud has come out of it a bit dented.  Just now a crowd was forming (what a surprise) as Ulsrud bet 40k on the river, with the board:  .  Hilm thought about it for not as long as you might think before calling with ; Ulrud was caught red-handed (oh I amuse myself sometimes) showing the .

Hilm has become something of a contender for second-to-Andy-Black today...perhaps a very dark horse final tablist?

[snoopy1239]

Two big all-ins occurred at once, and both required announcing from Big TK Thomas Kremser. With Michael Martin (below) all-in with against the of Josh Arieh, the tension was left to build as the action unfolded on the other table, but with the dealer looking over her shoulder awaiting the green light, Big TK returned to offer a cool nod and off she went.

Flop =

A slight gasp from the audience, no real response from the players and the Turn was dealt...

Turn =

One card left, Big TK gives the dealer a gentle tap on the shoulder and away we go...

River =

No help for Martin and the American is OUT, pensive in defeat, yet taking it bubbly exit very well.

[snoopy1239]

Whilst I mentioned the pre-bubble exit of Michael Martin, I also spoke of another all-in, and one which involved Richard Herbert. Although he didn't win it, it was not a costly one and simply doubled up a short-stacker.

Queens v Kings, 7-6-8-7-6 board.

Strummer remains on 100k.

[snoopy1239]

POP!

Christer Bjorin is OUT and becomes the unfortunate bubble boy.

It was very hard to see with everyone swarming around the table, including Age Spets who had moved all-in on his table with Jacks and taken the blinds just moments before.

With a Flop of , all the chips go flying in with Christer holding a potentially fulfilling against Soren Kongsgaard's (we think it was him, he was high fiving) .

Turn =

River =

and Christer is OUT.

[snoopy1239]

Xuyen Pham/Vladar is OUT.

All-in against Gunnar Osterbrod of Norway with Fives v Sevens on a Queen high board.

[Djinn]

Dean Sanders (pictured) just took a tidy chunk off neighbour Steve Jelinek - Steve raised from the cutoff to 12k, Dean on the button re-raised to 31k (preflop).
The flop came:    Steve checked and Dean quickly bet 50k.  Call.
Turn:    Steve checked again and Dean put in 100k, pretty much covering the Day One chip leader (now dropping behind the front runners).  He thought for a while, and passed, while Dean took the pot, showing .

Railer Nik Persaud is very excited that his percentage is heading for the dizzy heights of the prize pool; he put Jelinek on a pair (Tens or thereabouts) but was uncritical of both the preflop and flop call... he did, however, manage to get over a third of his stack in check-calling "what could easily have been a continuation bet following the standard button re-raise," but is still on over 100k.

[snoopy1239]

Rayan Nathan is OUT, and the assassin, Ben Callinan, who is now up to 70k after struggling for quite a while.

All-in pre-flop, Ben pushed it in with and found himself up against .

But perhaps this is Ben's week, because look at this rewarding, although still terrifyingly horrifying Flop...



"It's okay, you got it, don't worry," rails Des.

And he was right!

Turn =

River =

[snoopy1239]

Quick Brit check (excluding Ram and who is on the feature table and perhaps Nicholas Goodall who we need to track down)...

(1) Dean Sanders -- 330k
(2) Richard Waters -- 170k
(3) Steve Jelinek -- 125k
(4) Dave Mobbs -- 105k
(5) Joe Beevers -- 100k
(6) Richard Herbert -- 95
(7) Ben Callinan -- 70k

[NoflopsHomer]

Other chip counts:

Josh Arieh -- 450k
Andy Black -- 600k
Joe Beevers -- 145k
Phillip Hilm -- 570k
Chad Brown -- 285k
Simon Johansson -- 300k

[snoopy1239]

Meanwhile, while I'm faffing around, Ben Callinan's remarkable comeback is complete as he has just trebled through!!

All-in with sevens, Ben found himself up against 2 callers and a T-4-6 Flop and although one guy had Eights, Ben's turned set completed the Houdini act.

[Djinn]

Joe Beevers wins a huge pot on the TV table (for those without the benefit of high speed internet) -

Threeway all in between him ( ) Thomas Bihl ( ) and Philip Hilm ( ) (not sure about Philip's hand, actually, can anyone watching enlighten us?)

Anyway, the end result was no hit for the other two, the board coming 8-7-2-T-T (tense on the turn, though) and knocking out Thomas Bihl while giving Joe a nice stack to riffle in front of the cameras.

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David Barriclough is no where to be seen, he must be OUT.

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Steve Jelinek, who dropped down as low as 85k, is now back up to 170k after re-raising all-in with 8-7 and being called by K-Q.

"I can't believe he called," commented a bemused Steve.

K-7-7 Flop.

[Djinn]

Whats the average chipstack?

220,000, or thereabouts.  48 players remaining, or thereabouts.  Blinds definitely 3k/6k ante 600.

[NoflopsHomer]

They are playing down to 4 tables tonight, (32 players). And obviously down to 8 players tomorrow night.