Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

MIA:

Chris Bruce
Tim Flanders
Kjetil's beard.
 
On the respirator:

Mickey Wernick
Stuart Fox

Confirmed OUT:

The guy who had vs on a board. All-in on the flop I guess.

[Djinn]

Dan Carter has dropped to 20k after a spectacular early build to 26k.  He is already mournfully recalling that period when, "I was probably chip leader.  I had 26 within two hours..."  Nothing much has been going on in the world of Lucky Scrote recently.  "If you want to watch paint dry," he adds, "Stand there." 


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Also on 20k - Johnny Lodden and Julian Thew, neck and neck neighbours.

[Djinn]

The set-over-set earlier which stopped Roland De Wolfe from having a bullying stack was held by Ilari Sahamies, aggressive Finn and probable second in chips to eliminator of Jimmy Fricke (Homer has some details).

They seem to be clashing rather a lot, with a smaller pot just now drifting to Roland... he raised to 600 preflop, called by button Sahamies.  They both checked the flop; Roland check-called the turn, and then found an on the river pairing his hand ( ) and beating Ilari Sahamies' which he flashed as he mucked it.

[NoflopsHomer]

Jani Sointula has just been crippled. The guy sitting to his right in the 10 seat, raises to 1k preflop. Jani calls.

Flop is bricktastic:



Opponent checks, Jani bets 2k. Opponent shoves, Jani calls. These 4 moves were all complete in the space of a second, seriously, it was like watching low limit cash players in action in the speed of the  action.

Jani:



Opponent:



Turn:



River:

[NoflopsHomer]

Jani Sointula has just been crippled. The guy sitting to his right in the 10 seat, raises to 1k preflop. Jani calls.

Flop is bricktastic:



Opponent checks, Jani bets 2k. Opponent shoves, Jani calls. These 4 moves were all complete in the space of a second, seriously, it was like watching low limit cash players in action in the speed of the chip movement.
Jani:



Opponent:



Turn:



River:



Jimmy Fricke is OUT. He made a move against a guy holding top set.

Joining Gobboboy on the rail is Patric Martensson, who had re-raised an 800 bet to 2,250 preflop, receiving two callers.

The flop came:



And before you could say, "move of honour!" the initial raiser pushed all-in for a big overbet. Martensson eventually called for his last 6k with and the other player passed. The OR showed

Turn:



River:

[NoflopsHomer]

Richard Ashby adds to his stack holding against on a board. All the money going in on the 'billion-outs creator' turn card.

[Djinn]

Chips, and Who Has Some:

Dan Carter  22,500
Mark Vos  7,000
Michael Greco  10,750
Noah Boeken  4,300
Johan Storakers  10,150
Nicky Jedlicka  24,500
Jani Sointula  7,350
Rob Hollink  6,400
Annette Obrestad  14,800
Richard Ashby  20,500
David Williams  33,800
Bertrand Grospellier  22,500
Stuart Fox  OUT
William Thorsson  14,600
Mickey Wernick  6,800
Mark Teltscher  42,500 (pictured)
Phil Gordon  21,000 (having just eliminated someone with a set of Eights, to rapturous commentary from the rail)
Ilari Sahamies  55,000 (having benefited from most of Roland's stack, and having knocked out at least half of his starting table)
Roland de Wolfe  9,075
Ramzi Jelassi  24,300
Alan Smurfit  6,300
Sorel Mizzi  5,500
Andreas Hagen  6,650
Katja Thater  15,300
Sebastian Riviere  7,800


Meanwhile Roland came to rail Peter Gould just in time to see his preflop raise getting shoved over, putting short-stacked Gould on a decision for his tourney life... he'd pretty much committed himself, and said, "Ace King?" as he shoved his remaining stack over the line, being rewarded with seeing racing his .  "You're ahead," helped de Wolfe, as the popped out first card... no help, and we're down Peter Gould, leaving the number of runners left in at 168.

[Djinn]

Also spotted heading out of the tournament area just as railers and players-tomorrow Ryan Fronda and Ian Woodley headed in was Priyan De Mel, whom we sort of missed playing much today, but that fits with his description of his tournament as a bit of a non starter.  Plus he wasn't wearing anything DayGlo this time round.  "I had no hands all day.  When I did, someone else had a better one."  His final hand had seen him with around 3k, shoving on a Ten-high flop with .  He was called... by and it had gone from bad to worse to out in a few easy levels. 

[Djinn]

Mickey Wernick has finally doubled through, leaving him in slightly better shape than either of the two pictured players.  Stuart Fox, now OUT, and Paul Testud - short and giving his neighbour a characteristically French shrug implying, "Meh, what can you do?" 

[NoflopsHomer]

Thewy lost a chunk just now.

On a board, Jules had check/raised another guy virtually all-in. The other player had made the call and flipped , Julian tapped the table and showed . The dealer then mucked the cards and pushed the pot towards the other player. Luckily the cards were brought back, Julian missed his Ace though and has about 7k now.



Gunnar Ostebrod (surely he could be a emo-band's lead singer if he ever quit poker), Ramzi Jelassi and Rob Hollink.



Roland De Wolfe has almost doubled up when his held against on a board.

Oh and Dan Carter is bored...

[Djinn]

Woooot.. That's some impressive stack-building skills by the boy carter. Hope he doesn't get too bored and do anything crazy!! Wish him good luck from me if you get a chance. Thanks

Sadly the Boy Carter's fortunes have progressed in a downward fashion since the start of Level Two...currently on 8,000 after a couple of big losses and a couple of smaller ones.  The most entertaining to relate as a story involves Dan calling an early position raiser (one who was, apparently, steaming) with .  On a flop Dan also called the 5k push this right hand side neighbour bet out with, and found him holding ... Ace on the river to take about a quarter of Dan's then stack.  Still in a fairly good mood as his stack isn't at its lowest ebb of the day (that was 4,900 about 15 minutes ago...)

[NoflopsHomer]

Mark Vos has doubled up with against the of his nearest neighbour.

Board:




Meanwhile, Julian and Dan have swapped 5% of their shortish stacks... Julian went down to 1,600 but has since cracked A-Q with J-T, he then pushed A-8 against Johnny Lodden's Queens and flopped two Eights, or to quote a droll Mr Lodden, "He f**ked me in the ass."

Finally, another player on this table raised from early position and was met with a re-raise which he called. OR bet out 3k on the A-T-x flop, the RR moved in for 8k more. OR raiser calls with K-J. RR has A-A for top set.

The Q was the very next card out.

[Djinn]

Roland de Wolfe is OUT - after playing with a short stack for an uncharacteristically long time, and spending roughly 30% of the time standing watching nearby tables' action, he finally exited holding vs. ...

Meanwhile next door Ramzi Jelassi moves in against a short stack with - facing the board came Ten-high...+5k and the knockout to young Swedish sponsoree.

Finally, hovering on short stacks are Alan Smurfit (5,200) and Johan Storakers (6,200) while Phil Starrs has progressed to 18,450 and so, roughly, has Paul Testud.

[Djinn]

A hand from last level I just found scrawled on the back of my notepad:  Sverre Sundbo is rather healthily stacked (I think he was also recently responsible for eliminating short stacked Sorel Mizzi) - a good chunk of this came in this odd hand -
Sverre raised on the button to 800, the small blind re-raised to 3k; call.
Flop:    Don't think there was any action here (was distracted by someone shouting and waving hands around on the next door table, if I am honest)
Turn:    Small Blind Matey bet out 4k - instacall.
River:    Small Blind Matey bet out a good proportion of his stack - around 12k, and Sverre Sundbo called pretty fast, showing at pretty much the same time as S.B.M. just tossed his hand away...

[NoflopsHomer]

At the moment, Matt he's on the way up. Looked to be on 14k a few minutes ago as the last level started.

The final level stats in full:

117 players remaining, blinds 300/600/75. Average stack 22,564.

Mickey Wernick is just waiting for a spot now, he's being dealt pure filth and facing a table which seems to have at least two raises everytime action reaches him.

Mark Vos just called 7k on the river of a board. His opponent was forced to show , no good against .