Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - Interactive

[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.

[Jasko]

Just wanna say great updates Keep up the good work!

(And if you should stumble into Johnny Lodden's & Bjørn Erik Glenne's(Last year Barca winner) stacks, please do post them)

[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...

[Djinn]

Just wanna say great updates Keep up the good work!

(And if you should stumble into Johnny Lodden's & Bjørn Erik Glenne's(Last year Barca winner) stacks, please do post them)

Many thanks!  We're heading into the last level of the day in about 15 minutes (eight levels a day) and both of these players are still in... chip counts coming.

[Mango99]

Here's hoping the man Carter's stack is in a healthy state for tomorrow

He doesn't like coming back to day 2 with a short stack, so I either predict he's up to 16>20k at the end of the day, or ... dread I say it ..... out.(!)

I don't believe in this bokk nonsence (he says setting himself up for a fall )

[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 .

[Mango99]

Thanks Chris. Great updates from you and Jen as always

[Djinn]

Consistently faring well today have been:

1) Annette Obrestad (Annette_15, online scourge)
2) Rayan Nathan (despite looking half asleep)
and
3) This guy, whom I was calling Hollister Orange for obvious reasons but whose name is actually Cort Kibler-Melby, which was the next combination of letters I was about to guess.  He was chip leader for a good while with over 60k, and although he's slightly down from that now, he's still up there in the top five in chips, without a doubt

[Djinn]

Somehow these three have been moved throughout the day until they're in a line: Dan Carter, Julian Thew and Johnny Lodden (the latter on 17,500, for you who were asking).  They only get to spend 45 minutes as immediate neighbours however - Day Two will see a redraw, and apparently eight-handed tables throughout.

[NoflopsHomer]

DTD Counts:

Richard Ashby -- 43k
Michael Greco -- 20k

Elsewhere, Mark Vos is on over 60k now, after he 3-bet all-in a constant re-raiser of his raises with Ace Jack. When he was called, he assumed he was in trouble, when his opponent decided to call off his entire 25k stack with J-9, it was obvious he wasn't.

[NoflopsHomer]

Johnny Lodden is OUT. A-K against A-Q. Queen on the turn. Eek.

[Djinn]

Willliam Thorsson is OUT - he raised most of his bowl of rice preflop (1,700) and was put in by - no folding for the half handful of greens remaining, and his was in bad shape as the board came down .

Mark Teltscher  45,800
Mickey Wernick  17,000
Phil Starrs  13,400  (pictured)
Paul Testud  30,200
Julian Thew  6,800
ElkY  23,800

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, in the last few minutes, Thewy managed to get up to 25.3k with a little K-Q vs K-4 action, whilst Dan Carter is on 11.6k. Instead of the final 10 minutes, we had a final 5 hands which included David Williams losing a monster pot with Q-J vs A-A on a T-9-4-2-4 board.

But that is everything. We are off to sleep now. See you all tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel.