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

[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 on the interactive thread 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

[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
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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...

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And after much cajoling finally we are off...

[NoflopsHomer]

Hamster-sized Daniel Negreanu



Vole-sized Adam Junglen, recently Stars Million winner, TLB winner and maker of a sick call against Patrick Antonius at the Monte Carlo EPT earlier in the year with Ace high on a Q-4-2 that had been 3-bet preflop. He was correct.



Orient Express-sized Johnny Chan. Sans Orange.



Errr..Martin Wendt-sized Martin Wendt. Sans Earphones.

[snoopy1239]

That's an excellent photo of Johnny Chan.

[NoflopsHomer]

Geordi La Forge Slotboom and I think, Jeff Garza?



Paul Gourlay. He's a Rocket Man. Yes a Rocket Man.



Marcel Luske. Errr, nothing really funny about this one. Bah.



Jon Kalmar had regretted saying, "If I make the WSOP Main Event final, then I'll superglue my hand to my head."

[Djinn]

It's not like action isn't happening, but it always seems to be five tables over and two across from where I am watching one of our English players calmly folding...

But there have been eliminations, like the into right near the start, or the first level super-optimistic all-in preflop against (Spiking a Jack and giving the other guy a bad beat story)...

And there's always Marc Goodwin (pictured, along with tablemates Patrick Bueno and Liz Lieu).  He just bet 250 on a threeway flop of , called by Patrick Bueno who had checked before him, and one guy in position on them both.  The turn brought a , checked to In Position Matey, who bet 500, getting rid of Marc but getting a call from the Frenchman.  The river was checked, and Patrick Bueno's was shown the winning hand.

[NoflopsHomer]

Daniel Negreanu raises to 250 in early postion, Jan Sjavik calls from the hijack, the cut-off and the small blind also call.

Flop:



Daniel bets 800, Jan calls, the other two players pass.

Turn:



Daniel now bets 2,200. Jan moves all-in and Daniel insta-passes. Welcome to the EPT.



In a multi-way limped pot, it's checked to Greg Raymer who bets 1k on the board of . One player calls.

Turn:



The caller now bets 1.5k which Raymer quickly calls.

River:



Now the caller checks, Raymer thinks for a second before declaring, "I'm not sure I should bet this." He flips , and his opponent shows . Raymer now has just 3k or so. Which is twice as much as Dario Minieri, languishing on just 1.5k

[NoflopsHomer]

Any chance of an update on how Dag Martin Mikklesen is getting on? Norwegian internet player who was long time chip leader of the wsop main event this year..... thanks

Jen on the case now, he's sharing a table with Kevin O'Connell and Ben Grundy.

Meanwhile Johnny Chan is amongst the chip leaders. Here's how it happens.

One player limps, Chan makes it 325. A short-stack moves all-in for 850. Now the limper re-raises to 2.3k. Chan calls.

Flop:



The limper bets 3.6k, Chan calls.

Turn:



The limper now bets 6.6k and Chan moves in for 12k more. Limper insta-passes. and Chan's A-K holds against the all-in player's A-6. The limper claimed he had 7-7, and a 7 came on the river too...

[Djinn]

Counts from one half of the room (it's Staggered Dinner Break time here in the Gran Casino Barcelona):

Isabelle Mercier  8,900
Santi Torres  7,075
Ross Boatman  5,175
Dave Barraclough  13,650
Ryan Fronda  8,400
Dave Colclough  7,825
Marc Goodwin  9,775
Patrick Bueno  9,550
Thomas Wahlroos  29,200
Liz Lieu  4,875
Praz Bansi  11,700
Dario Minieri  1,400
Paul Gourlay  7,000
Marcel Luske  12,350
Humberto Brenes  13,700
Jonas Molander  1,500
Karl Mahrenholz  10,500

[NoflopsHomer]

Rolf Slotboom - "I've folded 46 hands in a row, some with my left hand, some with my right."

Dario Minieri doubles up his meagre stack with against on a board. The young looking Italian has about 3k now.

Big TK comes into his element when one player shoves his stack of 8,225 on a board. The player next to him apparently throws in 6k and flips over his for the straight, the other player shows for the flush though. The confusion is over whether the player with the straight has called the all-in. Big TK declares that no call was made, but the 6k was put in the pot and by showing the cards, it's then considered a fold.



Finally, here's Javed Abrahams, sitting on 10k.

[Djinn]

Jonas Molander, having cut his teeth on the Bellagio Cup III with instant success this summer, returns to the EPT circuit...but is now approaching the felt after an entertaining hand, the first part of which I didn't see - did someone raise preflop?  If so, was it Molander or his in-position opponent?  Anyway, they saw a flop of , and Jonas bet out 550...it was raised fairly rapidly to just 1,200.. re-raise!  The shorterstacked Matey whacked it all in, showing the against Jonas' ...  Hardly even blinking, he paid off the flopped trips as no miracle occurred, allowing just a hint of a wry smile as his calmly tabled Seven-high drew doubletakes from onlookers...

[Djinn]

We hear that El Blondie is OUT - pictured here at the start of the day, he wasn't in the danger zone chipwise when I last saw him so something must have happened just after the dinner break.  Michael Greco is in one of those across-the-room cash games and was solicitous concerning Dave's stack last time I walked by... going to have to break him the bad news.


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We are down one Kevin O'Connell - vs. all in preflop with the most usual outcome... DTD count now two, and both got through yesterday.

[NoflopsHomer]

John Shipley -- 3.3k
Johnny Chan -- 36.7k
Rolf Slotboom -- 8.5k
Jeff Garza -- 6.7k
Greg Raymer -- 3.7k
Ian Woodley -- 7.4k
Dags Martin Mikkelsen -- 35k
Adam Junglen -- 10k
Patrik Antonius -- 13k
Ben Grundy -- 13k
Jan Sjavik -- 14k
Daniel Negreanu -- 12.7k