Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - Interactive

[Djinn]

The first casualty has been announced, over the tannoy, no less:

From what I could gather, a three way all-in with our hero the exiter holding K-9 against A-K and A-K, with a flop of A-K-9... the guy could just have repeated the winning hand, but you get the idea.  So the remaining players of EPT Barcelona can now rest easy knowing they are not going to finish in last place. 

[NoflopsHomer]

Tim Flanders and Micky Wernick



Chris Bruce, Roland De Wolfe and err... that shirt.



Phil Gordon



Dan Carter and ZZ Top guy

[Djinn]

Word has just trickled down to us that players are going to be able to register until the end of Level Three.  Maybe the prestart sellout widely expected wasn't so realistic after all, with the buyin now at €8,000 and a lot of players having to decide between multiple forthcoming high-buy-in events in September.  I reckon if you lived near Gatwick airport, you could actually get here in time to play, if you left right now.  How about it, lurkers?

[NoflopsHomer]

Michael Greco



Jimmy 'Gobboboy' Fricke



Table John Kabbaj



Finally, Elky and William Thorsen, who look a bit like Thunderbird puppets in this photo

[snoopy1239]

Has Roland been smoking the whaky baccy? I wondered where the curtains down my local curry house had got to.

[ollyk1]

Table John Kabbaj

Hey guys!

Good luck with the updates from Barcelona. Can you keep an eye on the big bald man in the pic above please? Len Collins is his name. Wish him all the best from the boards crew if you get a chance?

Thanks

Olly

[DrPauly]

Has Roland been smoking the whaky baccy? I wondered where the curtains down my local curry house had got to.

LOL! Snoopy... where art thou?

[NoflopsHomer]

Early Roland news, he just scooped a fairly decent pot, 6k or 7k, on a board showing .

Julian was down to 6k, but just had Aces against Kings and is now back up to 12k.

Mark Vos was moved to his table and raised his blind to 150, Julian called.

Flop:



Check check.

Turn:



Julian fires out 200 and it's enough to take it down.


Michael Westerlund vs Dan Carter

board, Dan check/calls a 1.1k bet. Both check the river and Dan's is good enough to take it down.

[snoopy1239]

Has Roland been smoking the whaky baccy? I wondered where the curtains down my local curry house had got to.

LOL! Snoopy... where art thou?

I'm there in spirit.

[express79]

Could you keep an eye on Len Collin for us please. I see him  in the picture at John Kabbajs table. He's the bald fella thats sponsored by Paddy Power(should narrow it down!!)

If ya get a chance ye might tell him that the Mayo Mob all wish him luck
        

[Djinn]

There have been a few large pots kicking today off, with one being won by this guy pictured.  The betting ended on the flop, which was .  It looked like he bet out, a good couple of thousand, and Matey raised all-in.  He called pretty fast with, and Matey already looked disappointed as he flipped , only to see the against him.  The turn brought the and the river a definitive , eliminating another player at the beginning of the second level (50/100).

[Djinn]

Who says hunched grimly over the felt is the only way to play a tournament?  It might work for millions, but there are a few adapting the pose...modelled as a kind of control by Rayan Nathan, who may be practising some kind of breathing control here:



Roman Yitzhaki, neither a backward chair sitter nor a traditionalist:



Julian Thew and Johnny Lodden, mucking about:

[NoflopsHomer]

Dan Carter, who I might rename Sir Gigglesalot due to the fair amount of embarrassed laughter that was heard during the tale he told me of how he got to 22k.

Michael Westerlund had, he said been raising around 50% of the hands. He raised to 300 and received 4 callers, Dan was in the blind with erm... 6-2o. He re-raised to 1,900 and Westerlund called. The flop came K-J-4 and Dan led out for 2,500. Michael called leaving himself 4,000 back, the turn was a 6. Dan checked now and Michael checked too. A miracle 2 appeared on the river and Dan set Michael in to eliminate him.

Ram Vaswani is OUT we believe. No details.

Mickey Wernick is short after bluffing the turn and river of a river with 1,200 and 3,500 bets. His opponent called with and Wernick mucked sharpish.

Stuart Fox won a 5k pot with against on a board despite his opponent trying a minimum check/raise on the turn.

[NoflopsHomer]

It's Dick and Dom...

"See kids!!! Gambling can be FUN!!!"

[Djinn]

John Kabbaj is OUT - previously looking relaxed by early massage, he was dented chipwise by Len Collin, who told us he'd "done a lot of fishing, caught a straight and took most of his [Kabbaj's] chips.  Should have put him all in, he would have called (with two pair) but there was a flush on board."

Kabbaj's actual last hand was T-6, which he ran into a flopped set of Nines.  Outs for the flush apparently came in, but so did his eliminator's house...