Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - Interactive

[Djinn]

Three more for good measure:

Peter Gould: wide awake


William Thorsson: in the process of rebuilding his stack - at the moment towers of green 25 chips are forming the majority of it but that's better than no towers at all...

Katja Thater: fast asleep


Katja Thater: the coincidentally amusing rest-of-picture which would totally change the caption were I more childish

[The_nun]

Refering to Dan Carter ( lucky scrote) , I am quite confident that his nothing going on will be short lived, great little player turning into quite a man by the look of that piccy. Give him Good luck from me please.

[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 chip movement.
Jani:



Opponent:



Turn:



River:





Also in this picture is Jimmy Fricke, who 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:



And here is the pot winner scooping the chips.

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul Wasicka and Richard Ashby, the latter adding to his stack holding against on a board. All the money going in on the 'billion-outs creator' turn card.

[jambo22]

Any updates on Phil Starrs

Cheers

[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. 

[action man]

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." 

whats carter straightened his hair for, doesnt he know curly owns

[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?" 

[Redbull]

Best of luck to Julian and his new man-bag. It's a beauty.

Hope Chris Bruce has been moved and is not out.

Top job you're doing!

[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...

[NoflopsHomer]

Best of luck to Julian and his new man-bag. It's a beauty.

Hope Chris Bruce has been moved and is not out.

Top job you're doing!

Chris is out for sure I'm afraid.

[waltypies]

Come on Carter!  Take it down mate!  Dont forget i still pwn you.

[Mango99]

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