EPT in Baden Live Update Day 1

[Djinn]

Roland just lost the vast majority of his chips raising all-in for 70,000 or thereabouts on the cutoff with  ah kd, only to find the button with  asp ac!

The board came  td , taking the aggressive Mr. de Wolfe down to just a couple of thousand...

[Djinn]

And I'd just taken this picture of him next to El Blondie when the huge hand mentioned above took place.

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[Powerdane]

Wow - thats great service :-) Grundtvig must be danish! You cannot imagine the boom poker is experiencing in denmark - ist crazy!!! This sunday we had the danish championships an Gus Hansen finished in 4! Quite good considering that everyone else were going after him :-)

[Djinn]

Noah Boeken Gets Out Of Jail News now...

Having just received a straight on board which saved his AK from being destroyed by KK, Noah was all-in again (my informants tell me against the same poor guy) with  ac all-in preflop against, yes,  kc kh.

The board came, in order,  js qc.... ad to take him to 50,000.  An already dangerous player looking a little more chipped up. 

[Djinn]

Do you think Gus is one of the reasons so many Danes are going poker crazy?  Do you all play like him??

[Powerdane]

A part of the reason for sure - a tv-station started sending from the wpt 1 season where gus was extremely strong, so that has played a great role! Now we get all of these different show all over tv - its really crazy! I have been living some time in Germany and the poker "wawe" is not nearly as great there!

And no - I dont think we all play like Gus :-)

[Djinn]

Other counts from the hugely diminished field:

Dave Colclough    21,000
Daniel Larsson     82,000
Alexander Stevic 24,000
Patric Antonius   117,000
Kjersti Grini         62,000


Just going back to check on Julian and give him your collective support, after indulging in some of the wonderful desserts this place has hidden in a back room which Tikay found.  Mmm, profiteroles.  It just doesn't get any better.

[Powerdane]

Do you know the story of Kjersti Grini? She was one of the worlds greatest Handball Players and has been a coach in denmark for a coupple of years!

[Djinn]

By diminished, I mean there are 38 players left.

The blinds are currently 800 - 1600 with a 150 ante.  A little dissatisfaction expressed by Henry Nowakowski over how quick it's all gone, but given that this is a Problem Universally Applied to the EPT, this tournament actually has a much better structure than Barcelona, at least...

[Djinn]

Yeah I heard that about Kjersti!  Extraordinary... well she certainly is a competitive person, and judging from her performance at the Vic and now out here, she has changed field to another she has natural skill in.

[Djinn]

40 minutes left of level 10, at which point I believe the new plan is to stop for the night.  There are going to be about a third of the players they originally intended to end today with when we come back tomorrow morning (yes, morning!)

[RED-DOG]

You and tikay have updaters/poker players body-clocks, you will just be going to bed

[RED-DOG]

You and tikay have updaters/poker players body-clocks, you will just be going to bed

Seperate beds   

[Djinn]

Separate  beds, I'm not fussed, but yes, they will be seperate.  I should, perhaps point out that this is the 'ol fella inputting on Jen's thread...........

Play has ended for the nght, & Jen has trotted off to get the Overnight Chip counts, which she will post within the next 10 minutes.

There are, amazingly, just 36 plyers left.

[RED-DOG]

I'm really glad you pointed that out