Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1B - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

Welcome back to the second starting day of the EPT event in Barcelona, sponsored by Pokerstars. Expect a full sell-out field today including Johnny Chan and Daniel Negreanu.

Play starts at 5pm (4pm UK time).

Let us know if there is anyone you wish us to follow.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip Counts of Day 1A thanks to Mad and Pokerstars:

Gregory   Dyer   76,500
Mark   Teltscher   67,300
Mark   Vos   64,300
Sander   Lylloff   62,600
Sverre   Sundbo   60,500
Massimiliano   Rosa   60,100
Cort   Kibler Melby   59,500
Björn Erik   Glenne   56,700
Andrey   Zaichenko   56,000
Jose   Roldan Vicente   53,000
Rayan   Nathan   52,700
Kitai   Davidi Jacob   51,900
Nikolaus   Jedlicka   50,900
Ilari   Sahamies   46,900
Ola   Brandborn   45,100
Fabrizio   Tripicchio   44,700
Joan   Sastre Durin   42,900
Mika   Paasonen   41,800
Richard   Ashby   40,500
Michael   Wong   40,100
Eric   Scalisi   39,400
Tutev   Yovor Anastasov   38,800
Sebastien   Compte   37,400
Pepe   Laborde   36,200
Thierry   Cazals   34,900
Juan   Maceiras Lapido   34,200
 Jean Pierre   Petroli   34,000
 Jesus Manuel   Garde Belio   32,100
Sampo   Lopponen   31,100
 Francisco   Lopez Martos   30,700
Marcus   Friman   30,000
Daan   Ruiter   29,400
Lukas   Benkovic   28,900
Youssef   Fawaz   28,800
Nickolaos   Panopoulos   28,500
Bol   Ceeskcj   28,000
Mark   Dickstein   27,800
Carles   Llado Fabregas   27,800
Alesko   Isaia   27,600
Mario   Georgiev   26,800
Pete   Giordano   26,500
Samir   Rahal   25,800
Julian   Thew   25,400
Thomas   Fuller   25,000
Emmanuel   Loubradou   23,000
Gunnar   Oestebroed   23,000
Brandon   Schaefer   22,000
Juan   Pastor Baez   21,100
Eric   Hardt   20,900
Noah   Boeken   20,800
Santiago   Holguin Lopez   20,600
Bertrand "ElkY"   Grospellier   20,100
Erik   Tamm   19,200
Ramzi   Jelassi   18,700
Borge   Dypvik   18,400
Joep   Durkstra   17,900
Daniele   Mazzia   17,900
Katja   Thater   17,900
Walter   Srour   17,800
Michael   Greco   16,600
Christopher   Ulsrud   16,600
Tomas   Brolin   16,500
Jason   Coyle   15,800
Jgors   Kalinicenko   15,700
Marc   Naalden   15,400
Christophe   Palmeri   15,400
Janne   Juutilainen   15,300
Soren   Kongsgaard   15,300
 Phillips   Starrs   15,100
Gianluca   Gentili   14,900
 Carlos Isaac   Garcia Frontelo   14,800
Andreas   Hagen   14,500
Paul   Testud   14,200
Atle   Walgren   14,100
Peter   Tofting   13,900
Pascal   Barrau   13,500
Piero   Monzio Compagnoni   13,000
Frederik   Vestberg   13,000
Phil   Gordon   12,700
Paul   Wasicka   12,500
Anders   Henriksson   12,300
Stephane Daniel   Subrenat   11,600
Peter   Bertelsen   11,300
Sonny   Ridgewell   11,200
Alexander   Roumeliotis   11,100
Ole Gabriel   Holgersen   11,000
Dan   Carter   10,600
David   Williams   10,100
Michael   Keiner   9,900
Annette   Obrestad   9,700
Isaac   Baron   9,500
Henrik   Waern   9,200
Jerome   Ferron   7,700
Jerome   Zerbib   7,000
Alexander   Hanell   6,800
Orjan   Holt   6,400
Lee   McCreery   6,000
Nicola   Filesi   5,500
Rob   Hollink   4,800

[tantrum]

Thanks a lot for great updates.

[Djinn]

Hiding in the air conditioned comfort of the press bar (for this is really what it is - complete with stage at the front of the room on to which I half expect to see John Duthy and the Pokerstars Dancers in cabaret) we see a few players trickling in to mill around a half hour before play starts.

Marc Goodwin was descending the stairs just now, in company with DTD's Dave Colclough and played-yesterday Michael Greco.  I am amazed at the numbers of players who've already spent 12 hours in here coming back when there is a lot of beach and multiple pleasant bars literally seconds away... Ryan Fronda is one of these self-admittedly "suffering from sickness," but he's actually got a purpose to being here today...

Also playing (probably - they're here):  Luca Pagano
Isabelle Mercier
Daniel Negreanu
Doobs
Martin Wendt
Dario Minieri
Iwan Jones

Off for a fuller scout in a minute - any other requests?

[gasman]

Good Luck everyone playing today.

Updates on Javed Abrahams, Praz Bansi and Karl Mahrenholz please...

[NoflopsHomer]

Anybody here?

Give me a...

[Robert HM]

Anybody here?

Give me a...

 

[snoopy1239]

Hiding in the air conditioned comfort of the press bar (for this is really what it is - complete with stage at the front of the room on to which I half expect to see John Duthy and the Pokerstars Dancers in cabaret) we see a few players trickling in to mill around a half hour before play starts.

Marc Goodwin was descending the stairs just now, in company with DTD's Dave Colclough and played-yesterday Michael Greco.  I am amazed at the numbers of players who've already spent 12 hours in here coming back when there is a lot of beach and multiple pleasant bars literally seconds away... Ryan Fronda is one of these self-admittedly "suffering from sickness," but he's actually got a purpose to being here today...

Also playing (probably - they're here):  Luca Pagano
Isabelle Mercier
Daniel Negreanu
Doobs
Martin Wendt
Dario Minieri
Iwan Jones

Off for a fuller scout in a minute - any other requests?

Doobs is David Barraclough, I believe. A big tourney player on Betfair.

[Djinn]

Ten minutes until supposed start, and players are drifting around, the more famous, like Liz Lieu, being interviewed by one of several media outfits with cameras of the moving sort, and the less famous just clumping around the gaming tables or outside the tournament area, where the neat 10k stacks of chips wait by each seat.

Spotted:

Jan Sjavik
Ben Grundy
Praz Bansi
Humberto Brenes
Jonas Molander
Karl Mahrenholz
John Shipley

Meanwhile the cash games, helpfully located at the opposite corner of the casino to the tournament (I seem to remember last year's organisation of the room being somewhat chaotic) look like they haven't wound down since 2am yesterday...a list of around 30 names seems to build for every game by about 7pm and then they get shouted out when their seats become available at a pitch and volume that would make Black Sabbath cringe.
"EEE CEEE HOLD'EM!"  The shouter lurks right outside the entrance to the press room and every time I get caught in the verbal fire I feel like telling them that yes, I am C.V. - where is my seat, here is my money - just don't shout at me any more...

[LLevan]

Good luck to all Blondes & Brits playing today..........PS: has the new camera been tried out on any norkage yet 

[NoflopsHomer]

And after much cajoling finally we are off...

[Djinn]

So who's sitting where?  That's always the first question of an update...

Let's start with Ian Woodley.  The mouthy Brit is going to get a good deal of photographic and possibly film coverage, because he's drawn the seat next to Greg 'World Champion of Poker Quite Recently' Raymer.


Both are pictured looking decidedly underwhelmed with each other.

[Djinn]

David 'doobs' Barraclough draws two to the left of Ryan 'the lion' Fronda, who looks like he's doing that hand telescope thing.  I am waiting for him to intimidate his table: "I squish your head," etc. etc.

[Djinn]

Just before the start (thankfully they've now Shuffled up and Dealt) - Karl Mahrenholz with a glass of vintage cola:



John Shipley patiently waiting for his table to fill around him, like the go-faster-striped beige eye of the storm:

[Djinn]

I was trying to snap the small figures of Paul Gourlay and Thomas Wahlroos in the background of this photo, but actually thought it might be interesting to present you with the view from the rail which is made of slot machines, like Swampland 2.  It looks like the premise of this is some kind of inter-amphibian-reptile war, where each side looks hungry and ready to devour the other.  If you look closely, the frog is doing that kung fu beckon thing which precedes a fight... no idea what you get when you put money in this thing.