WPT $25,000 Final: Day 1B - Interactive

[SOXY]

hiya snoops...

please pass my best on to da boys....Stu 'the cunning' Fox... Pete  Haslam and Praz  (if they are still in that is, and a chip counts would be very nice).

[snoopy1239]

Former WPT winner Mike Gracz is struggling with just 26k, recently folding to a 11k bet into a 12k bet from neighbour Carlos Zamborano, the board reading .

[snoopy1239]

hiya snoops...

please pass my best on to da boys....Stu 'the cunning' Fox... Pete  Haslam and Praz  (if they are still in that is, and a chip counts would be very nice).

Stu and Pete played yesterday m8 and are probably spending the day recovering from a night at the local strip club.

[SOXY]

ah of course... sorry , couple of days spent in manchester has fryed my brain, must have been all that lovely food at the buffet.

[Djinn]

Plus, always on the lookout for stacks topping 100k, on Abel's left is sat Bill Ferrand, with 112k or so.  I noticed his stack because of his card protector, a little tortoise (pictured below) which came into view when he moved his arm (exciting action shots of this also below).  He was eager to remove any false suppositions of mine that he might be some kind of professional gambler, handing me a business card and saying, "I am a biologist first, poker player as a hobby!"  Unusual to see this combination of interests, however, saving and studying of species and playing poker for huge buy-ins. 

[snoopy1239]

There was a brief debate on the table of doom (currently holding Hansen, Haversen, Brunson, Watkinson & Toto L), after Doyle had bet 700 only for the bet to be ruled as 200 because his 500 chip dropped before the line.

Erick Lingren's call, was them deemed a re-raise and, after the ruling was confirmed by the tournament director, Doyle opted to pass, although he did briefly ask, "Can I re-raise?"

"It's pretty obvious what he was doing," commented the Great Dane.

[Djinn]

Thanks for the updates! Quick question, can we post the Dutchie pictures of Abel and Sander in the forum over @ Pokerinfo.nl? We will credit you guys for it off course! I already put some links to your site up there.

Sure, a name-check good enough for us... thanks for asking first, though

15 minute break, currently.

[snoopy1239]

"This is real poker," exclaims 'The Mouth' Matusow to the rest of the table. "We play the people here, not the cards."

And the reason for the ants in pants moment? Well, with the board reading , Bryan Sumner had bet 15k only for Matusow to ask that oft dreaded question, "How much do you have left". On answering around 20k, Mike quickly replied, "Okay, I'm all-in" to which Sumner instantly folded.

Mike showed the , and then, after a moment, the , which was the calm before the storm in the Matusow celebatory speech.

[snoopy1239]

The players are now on a short 15 minute break.

[Vinnebin]

Thanks for that Jen! Here's a little linkie so you check the thread out: http://www.pokerinfo.nl/Topic659480-626-1.aspx#bm659490. Be ready for a Dutch invasion guys Time for me to go to bed now, keep up the good work!

[Djinn]

Also still over there, the European duo of David Benyamine and Paul Testud, both looking like someone's just told them "Act natural!"

[Djinn]

Of course, we hope to have some European viewers, many of which may be following these two - Mad Mads Andersen who I believed finalled in a WPT earlier in the year and the Eggman himself,Thomas Wahlroos, who informs me that he has a few stalkers on MySpace. I know he has a fan or two on blonde, are you one of his obsessors?

Just catching upl... you guys are doing a great job as always!!!

I don't suppose you're referring to lil 'ol me here are ya Snoops.  Of course not.  I'm not a stalkier, my love is real.  Please tell Thomas I will always and forever be eternally devoted to... wait what is the definition of stalker?  um... nevermind...

Well, he asked, "What's all this about me being popular online?" or words to that effect...so I made the international sign of the big head, where you place both hands either side of the head and slowly move them apart.  And then took his photo, thereby giving a mixed message of sorts. 

[snoopy1239]

Michael Mizrachi is OUT. Replacing him at Table Beevers is William Thorsson.

Bryan Sumner has also left us.

[Djinn]

Warning: Off topic!!

Jen/Snoopy: Will any of you come to Gothenburg next week to update on the Norwegian championship? (In Sweden, I know...) It's called "Spring Week Poker" for some reason. It's a $500 PL Omaha and $500 Limit Hold'em as side events and a $1000 NL Hold'em as Main Event.

See you there?

:-)

Hello there -

To be honest, it slipped my planning stage somewhere in the last five updates - we were originally planning to go to the Paris WPT event but it looks like that may be iffy... everything apart from this here WPT Final Update until the WSOP is going to be a last minute plan for one reason or another, so no for now, but you never know about the last minute adventuring spirit.  It was lots of fun last year.

[snoopy1239]

Michael Mizrachi -- out
Joe Pelton -- out
Carlos Zambrano -- 102,000
John Racener -- 87,500
Mike Gracz -- 46,500
Chad Layne -- 12,500
William Thorsson -- 60,000
Joe Beevers -- 45,000
Edward Moncardo -- 98,000
Joe Hacehm -- 54,500
Johnny Chan -- 42,500
Lars Bonding -- 85,000
Timothy McCarthy -- 52,000
Jack Schanbacher -- 62,500
Noah Jefferson -- 54,000
Per Ummer -- 80,000
Mike McClain -- 41,500
Brett Richey -- 58,500
Mads Andersen -- 26,000
Rhett Butler -- 31,000
Johan Storakers -- 73,500
Paul Wasicka -- 128,000
Jennifer Tilley -- 35,500
Michael Binger -- 39,000
Roll Linden -- 40,500
Bryan Sumner -- out
Tom Werthmann -- 89,000
Gina Fiore -- 11,000
Colin Gordon -- 83,500
Mickey Appelman -- 41,000
Surinder Sunar -- 61,000
Patrik Antonius -- 81,000
William Chen -- 35,500
Jeff Shulman -- 50,000
John Pham -- 44,000
Lee Markholt -- 71,500
Scotty Nguyen -- 59,000
Bob Slezak -- 50,500
David Danshegar -- 32,500
Mike Matusow -- 125,500