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

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Andreas Hoivold (Dortmund EPT champion) Still in after dinner...



Peter Eichhardt -- 6,500



Mads Andersen (EPT Copenhagen Champion) -- 9,200

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, Jen and I have just grabbed a quick bite. Jen will no doubt be raving about her giant slab of steak. Served on a hot brick. And that's it. Nothing else added.

But anyway, some Woodley news.

Pre-break, Ian had to let go of Aces, after raising them up and receiving 3 callers. He bet out 1.5k on an all club flop with no , found Patrik Antonius re-raising to 4.3k and then Adam Junglen moving all-in behind him. Woodley and Antonius quickly passed.

Woodley then managed to doubled through with against , all the money going in on the turn of a board.

Ben Grundy is down to just 4k after his set of Queens on a Q-T-7 board was cracked by a straight draw which got there on the river.

John Shipley's ship has sailed and his chips shipped meaning things aren't ship-shape for Shipley.

Nicholas 'Croque Monsieur' Levi suffered a coolerific moment against Fabrice Soullier. Nicholas was holding 7-7 on a 9-9-7 flop, Fabrice was holding 9-7. Ouch.

Levi shortly doubled up afterwards with erm... 9-5, 6 people limped on his big blind and he raised it an extra 1,700 more leaving 3k back. Only the small blind called. The flop came a not entirely unhelpful 9-5-2 and the small blind bet 2k and was forced to called for the extra 1k with a lowly J-T against Levi's top two pair.

Greg Raymer has doubled his short stack with against in a blind on blind confrontation. The board coming .

Dave Barraclough is OUT. He ran Kings into a set of Eights and then Kings into Thor Hansen's Aces.

[NoflopsHomer]

Andreas Hoivold is glum after having his Aces cracked by Kings.

He has more chips than Greg Raymer though, who is OUT after having Jacks lose to King Jack which four-flushed. Then he had Jacks next hand and lost to Queen Jack.

Players are on a short break and then it's time for 150/300. And you know what happens in the level after that...

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Great updates guys ty, count for the Rocket man please and could you tell him Matt says 'get your cheap nasty crappy white girly sunglasses on you tart' tyvm

Gourlay has 10,500, and actually said he regretted not having those amazing sunglasses, as, "I'm wearing white."  So you are, Paul, so you are.



Also passed by his table as he was taking a pot off none other than Flying Dutchman Marcel Luske - he'd raised to 600 on the button, called by Marcel.  They both checked the flop of , with Paul taking the pot with a 700 bet on the turn.
"Every time I listen to 'Rocketman' I win a pot!" he marvels as he stacks the chips.  "Let's try it again!"  I can just picture his sleek black ipod nano with just one track on it...

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I am not sure who this guy standing up is but he wins today's Getting It Quietly award (a scale-model bronze foghorn):



A pot of aover 6k had built up around a board of , and pictured gent was in the process of talking his now very short stacked opponent into calling all in.  He'd pushed, and was saying, "You have to call..."  "I think I might," agreed short stacked oppo.  "Call.  Call!" he urged, with that kind of persistance last seen in the Hypnotist from Little Britain.  Eventually he got the call from some reluctant ... his for the turned nut straight with Good Measure Flush Draw stayed the winner, at which point he leaped up, hi-fiving some wall-attached lurkers and generally looking delighted.  "Yeah!"
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Gobbomom, Hartwith, your requests are giving us the direction we need.  Might have been about to post some interesting hands from the Omaha cash game, but we're back on track now... while we're off on the Casino floor, here's a picture of Original Scandie Thor Hansen, whom I completely missed from all previous chip counts because he's on this strange lone table which is, as you can see, hidden from the prying eyes of the rest of the room by 5-deep spectators and some unlikely palm trees.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ryan Fronda, Tony Cascarino and Dario Minieri are all out. The latter seems to be sitting down it what looks like a special big cash game with John Duthie, and some locals I'm guessing.

Here are your three requests Gobbomom.

Jeff Garza, having just re-raise a late position raise from 1.2k to 4k to take it down and put his chip count up to 15k. I'm not sure what he makes of Rolf Slotboom, putting on what looks to be a raincoat, next to him.



Adam Junglen, on 20k. Paying so much attention to his surroundings that he spotted me counting his chips and told me in a heartbeat.



Dani Stern, doing the best of the three. He's got around 37k, and probably in the top five at the moment.

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Ben Grundy, pictured earlier, wearily, is now OUT - Facing a raise to 1,250 he pushed all in for what was around 5,200 but looked like more due to the impressive nurturing of the green (25) chip towers.  Pretty much instacalled, the Milkybarkid surmised "I must have the worst hand," before being shown and finding his to be ahead.  "Not yet," he foretold, as the board came with a on the turn and an irrelevant on the river.  By the time the Nine was settled on the table Ben had already left the card room.

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Other counts:

Martin Wendt  27,000
Liz Lieu  16,550
Humberto Brenes  12,200
Stig Top Rasmussen  19,200
Thomas Wahlroos  44,500
Praz Bansi  6,300
Rolf Slotboom  9,200
Patrik Antonius  34,000

Marcel Luske is OUT - short stacked (compared to his table) he limp-called preflop with , hit a J-rag-rag flop and check-raised himself all in.  He was up against Queens.

[NoflopsHomer]

Big pot developed between Dags Martin Mikkelsen and Patrik Antonius.

UTG raised, Patrik called in EP and Dags called on the button.

The flop came

UTG checked, Patrik bet 4k, Dags made it 10k. UTG folded. And then Patrik made it 25k, in effect setting the young Norwegian all-in. After a couple of minutes with the shown pained look on his face. Dags decided not to risk his stack and an expressionless Patrik, (is there any other sort?) raked in the pot.




A slow day for both Praz Bansi and Karl Mahrenholz. The former just took down a pot with a 2.5k bet on the river of a board. Going better is Javed Abrahams, quietly moving up to 22k.

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OK we just received this list of Day 1B starters, so late in the day though it is, for the sake of completeness, here were all 279 who sat down this afternoon:

Abecassis    Michel Claude Guy
Abrahams    Javed
Agarwal    Aditya
Alblas    Cornelis Hendrik
Alexander    Robert
Amolyanskiy    Anton
Andersen    Mads
Anderson    David James
Angle    Frank Joakim
Antonius    Patrik
Arvidsson    Klas Gustav
Axelsson    Jens Pontus
Balado Cabo    Adolfo
Bansi    Pramesh
Barraclough    David Martin
Behling    Nico
Bejedal    Denis Fredrik
Bel Kyayate    El Mostafa
Bentham    Thomas James
Bergstroem    Isak Anton
Binelli    Robert Richard
Blanco Carrasco    Oscar
Blanner    Soeren Bo
Blumlein    Frank
Boatman    Ross
Bordogna    Carlo Federico
Boren    Dan Martin
Botana Camba    Angel
Boubli    Jan Joseph
Bouya    Nordine
Bracht    Maximilian
Brenes Jenkins    Jose Humberto
Bruel Benguigui    Patrick
Brummelhuis    Michiel Willem
Brzozowski    Seweryn
Bueno    Patrick
Bui    Thu Hai
Bush    Christopher Gordon
Bussot Fuentes    Frederic
Cajelais    Erik
Cascarino    Anthony Guy
Chan    Jon Chi
Chan    Terrence
Chicheportiche    Jean Yves
Choquet    Pascal
Cianfanelli    Umberto
Clark    Peter
Soares    Francisco Guilherme
Cohen    Ouri Aron
Cohen    Stephane
Colclough    David Kevin
Colman    Julius
Cornmark    Magnus Kristian
Da Silva    Eric Benjamin
Da Silva    Richard Jean
Da Silva Pinto Do Vale    Luis Manuel
Dalhuijsen    Peter Christiaan
Dauteuil    Phillipe
Dborin    Danny
De Jodar Muñoz    Pedro
Delgado Hidalgo    Cristobal
Della Penna    Paolo
Derwiche    Imad
Devlin    Stephen
Dodet    Daniel
Dominguez Gomez    Javier
Douglas    Rene Champie
Edgren    Patrick
Egan    Joshua
Eichhardt    Peter
Eidsvig    Trond Erik
El Aiouni    Abdelmajid
Escudero Mellado    Victor
Eskilsson    Hans Vimmo
Fares    Hassan
Federici    Augustin
Feriolo    David Lionel Romain
Fernandez    Leonardo Miguel
Filfili    Habib
Fjelleheim    Thomas Andre
Flanagan    John
Fogliata    Marcelo Alejandro
Freeman    Benjamin
Fronda    Ryan Matthew
Fuentes Garcia    Hector
Garza    Jeffrey Robert
Gatz    Uwe
Gelencser    Peter
Georghegan    Sylvester Christopher
Giaroni    Gianni
Glass    Jack Leslie
Gleize    Jean Pierre
Glushkov    Ivan
Goetsch    Andrew Alan
Gomez Rebenaque    Jose Manuel
Gomila Romero    Bartolome
Goodwin    Marc Michael
Gourlay    Paul James
Gray    Jeffrey Michael
Green    Brian David
Grundy    Benjamin Thomas
Gruzglin    Vadim
Guerfi    Mesbah
Guttmann    Richard
Haugland    Geir Inge
Hansen    Casper
Hansen    Thor Harald
Heikkinen    Mika Antero
Heinecker    Niklas
Heinze    Olvedo Vinvent
Helland    Arild
Helppi    Juha Ilmari
Hermans    Johan
Herring    Clinton Charles
Higgins    James Desmond
Hoivold    Andreas
Hong    Wen
Hopf    Stephan
Hornekaer    Jesper Haahr
Hostrup Pedersen    Carl Christian
Isik    Mikael Abdulmeish
Ivanov    Ognyan Todorov
Jaspers    Joris Bernard
Jedlicka    Stefan
Jensen    Henrik
Johansson    Kenny Hakan
Johansson    Mikael Hans Otto
Jones    Ryan
Jorgensen    Theo
Jung    Alexander Willy Ewld
Junglen    Adam Marc
Kalmar    Jonathan
Kamal    Sefrioui
Karke    Jani Kalervo
Karlsson    Erik Gunnar
Kenney    Bryn Joseph
Khan    Fahim
Khodr    Abdul Aziz
Kjerkol    Jorgen
Klein    Morten
Kolzch    Andre
Koskinen    Ilkka Reino Kristian
Kowssarie    Mohamad Ali
Kuremszki    Csaba
Lacoste    David
Lamsa    Janne Lauri
Lancry    Gerard
Lauttamus    Juha Jaakko
Lee    Redmond Spencer
Leikos    Vesa Oskari
Lellouche    Antony Elie
Levi    Nicolas Alexandre
Lieu    Elizabeth Diep
Liu    Shixia
Longo    Francesco
Losev    Nikolay
Luske    Marcel
Maceiras Barros    Juan Antonio
Maceiras Lapido    Maria
Magan Tier    Luis Miguel
Mahiout    Francis
Mahrenholz    Karl
Manganelli    Andrea
Mangas Nuñez    Daniel
Correira    Jorge
Mattern    Arnaud Michael
Mattsson    Stefan
Mc Cormack    Francis Harold
Mckeever    George Edward
Mehrmand    Davood
Mercier    Isabelle
Michaeli    Uri
Minieri    Dario
Molander    Jonas
Montassier    Guy Pascal
Morel    Thierry
Morgan    Gerard Patrick
Morris    William John
Morrison    Kirk Bryan
Mouritsen    Rene
Mourujarvi    Tommi
Nanos    Konstantinos
Necco    Jean Dominique Junior
Negreanu    Daniel
Ness    Kjetil
Neumann    Julien Gerard Antoine
Niemi Tjader    Sten Johan
Niesert    Chirstoph
Nilsen    Ole Petter
Olsson    Joakim
O Connell    Kevin
Osterstrom    Anders Carl
Pagano    Luca
Pasqualini    Jean Paul
Paulsen    Jakob Bo
Peretti    Pascal
Perez    Jean Louis
Perrot    Jean Claude
Persson    Sven Patrik
Petersen    Jesper
Petersen    Sonni
Peterson    Sten Thomas
Petit    Emile François
Pietila    Jukka
Pignataro    Luigi
Plejdrup    Dennis Kobbero
Posa    Daniele
Puro    Mika Petteri
Rahal    Kalil
Rahmn    Mats Anders
Ramos Covarrubias    Ignacio
Raymer    Gregory Paul
Rinaldi    Claudio Stefano
Rintala    Voitto Aulis
Rio Martn    Francisco Nicolas Del
Ritburg    Johannes Marinus
Rosenkrantz Maryl    Abraham
Rybachenko    Sergey
Rypinski    Slawomir
Sacca    Alberto
Sadrudin Manji    Ayaz
Salabaschew    Alexander Jacques Svetosl
Salikaeb    Yury
Salmi    Ville Aleski
Salvatore    Giovanni
Sanchez Thorn    Raymi Torbjorn
Sanford    Geoffrey William
Scharf    Eduard
Schumacher    Daniel
Sehlstedt    Bo Erik Filip
Selbst    Vanessa
Shipley    John Stephen
Sjaavik    Jan Olav
Skuja    Anders Sebastian
Slotboom    Rolf
Smidt    Daniel Sascha
Smith    Justin Charles
Sonelin    David Erik
Sorensen    Nenrik
Soulier    Fabrice Bruno
Spadavecchia    Giovanni
Stammen    Keven Michael
Stern    Daniel
Stevic    Alexander Billy
Ternestal    Rikard Kristofer
Terrazas Ambite    Santiago
Tollund    Thomas
Tomi    Jean Baptista
Top Rasmussen    Stig
Torres Cebrian    Santiago
Touil    Fabrice Felix
Ulriksen    Kristian
Uyanik    Petros
Vaeisaenen    Tomi Petteri
Van Den Berg    Thierry Christian
Van Den Bijgaart    Josephus Johannes
Van Der Burg    Eric
Van Leer    Erik Robert
Varsi    Hans Ari
Vasta    Carmelo
Vayo    Gordon Francis
Vazquez Ortega    Jose
Veldhuis    Alexander
Vicente    Nicolas
Vicinanza    Giovanni
Votkin    Aki Onni Aleksi
Wahlroos    Thomas Arne
Wang    Lin
Wendt    Martin
White    Patrick Joseph
Wolf    Simon Mark
Wolpert    Leo Samuel
Woodley    Ian George
Wrang    Jannick
Yague Renart    Oscar Raul
Yeh    Philip Chen Yun
Ygborn    Nestor Christopher Carl S
Zambakides    Nicolas
Zink    Sebastian

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I would just like to say that it was the whole pressroom experiencing said difficulties, and I've now got Homer connecting a special cable to some power like Doc on the Clocktower in Back to the Future.  We now resume transmission.

Short stack News Now:

Short stack Focus on - Ross Boatman... The Hendon Mobster was just all in under the gun for his whole 2,175 or so, but it passed all the way round, giving him an extra 450 to travel to the Antoniusetc. table with.  Unsurprisingly he was all-in again almost immediately, this time over the top of Marc Goodwin's under the gun raise to 1,000.  Big blind Martin Wendt called the all-in, and after a brief deliberation during which Ross reminded Marc, "Course you can raise..." Mr. Cool opted to call, leaving himself 6,725 behind.
They checked it all the way down until the board stood:  , at which point Ross said, "Give me your chips," flipping .  Marc mucked the and who knows what Martin Wendt had.  Life once more in the Boatman stack.

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The table with the most randoms gathering close to watch now has Patrik Antonius, Martin Wendt Marc Goodwin and Ross Boatman more or less in a line.  Antonius must have around 50k (but his chips, as so often, are in single coloured towers which look great but are hard to count), while Martin Wendt has just under 30k, and the two English players are not so comfortable.  There's a lot of preflop raising going on, as you might expect - just now Patrik Antonius raised to 900, was re-raised by Martin Wendt to 2,550, took a flop but check-folded to the 4k bet as the cards came . 

Ian Woodley  20k
Daniel Negreanu  14k

[NoflopsHomer]

Mmmmmnnnnn....Wirey.



Oh no! The aliens that got Phil Starrs yesterday appear to have got Praz Bansi too! And it's when he's sitting on the same table. What are the chances? Perhaps the table should carry an 'Alien Abduction' warning sticker in it?



Greg Raymer finishes off his interviews with a final one with the Invisible Man.

[NoflopsHomer]

Karl Mahrenholz is OUT. Q-J shove for last 2.2k ran into A-K.

Javed Abrahams is on 40k.

"Any stories?" I venture.

"Not really, these just keep trying to bluff me."

[NoflopsHomer]

Prizepool has been done, we're still waiting for the full prize list but I can tell you first prize is going to be:

€1,170,000

or

£793,024.31

or

$1,597,148.80

or

4,847.112 Palladium Ounces. And, I think we can all agree, that's a lot of Palladium Ounces!!