Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 3 - Interactive

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Feature table chip counts:

Juan Maceiras -- 165k
Martin Wendt -- OUT
Javed Abrahams -- 55k
Ole Holgersen -- 38k
Henrik Jensen -- ??
Philip Yeh -- 60k
Adam Junglen -- 375k
Nikolaus Jedlicka -- 267.5k

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I'm not sure exactly what was going on here, but I do know that Ian Woodley has about 110k and gives Snoopy's guns a run for their money.  Check the nervous smile on neighbour Kitai Davidi Jacob's face as he files Woodly under "unstable."

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Javed Abrahams pushes preflop - again - and gets a call this time from Nikolaus Jedlicka.  His stack is around 50k)
Javed shows: 
Nikolaus shows: 

Flop: 
Turn:    "He's going to need precisely an Eight," says our commentator, wearily, probably already on to the next hand in his head....

...River:   

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I caught up with Michael Greco for about two minutes, which is how long it took him to get his entire 14,500 stack in - again.  "The grinder is still in!" he remarked, cheerfully, seemingly as surprised at his shortstack holding as the rest of his table.  He quickly shoved in early position, and found neighbour Mark Teltscher mini-raising to 23,500 after him (which made big blind Sylvester Geoghegan lose interest despite his prior declaration that he would likely have to "call you blind...").  Button Alessio Isaia called, and that left three of them to see the flop: 
  Check to Alessio, who bet Mark Teltscher off, showing which was ahead of Greco's .
Turn: 
River: 

And the valiant run of the Dusk Till Dawn player comes to an end.  In this tournament.  He has a 20k stack in the Omaha. 

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These recent eliminations are in the €16,700 prize bracket, incidentally (32nd to 25th places) but it goes up any second.  I think Henrik Jensen might have finished 25th just now, getting it in with against Nikolaus Jedlicka's ... A King on the flop, drawing dead by the turn.  Next!  The pace is frantic...

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These recent eliminations are in the €16,700 prize bracket, incidentally (32nd to 25th places) but it goes up any second.  I think Henrik Jensen might have finished 25th just now, getting it in with against Nikolaus Jedlicka's ... A King on the flop, drawing dead by the turn.  Next!  The pace is frantic...

Down to 24 actually; Redraw Hiatus.  Ian Woodley fell in 29th, incidentally.

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Slightly wired-looking Irishman Sylvester Geoghegan has a sudden 240k in chips - this picture is slightly out of date - a high point for the tournament so far and definitely a good stack by any standards.  He had a bit of luck getting it all in preflop with (pushing after Teltscher raised to 15k, Mohamad Kowssarie called and he saw an opportunity...) and finding the original raiser with some calling Kings.  Ace on the flop, and that's 0 for 2 for Mark Teltscher's Cowboys.

[Gobbomom]

Good afternoon you fantastic reporters of the infamous Blonde Poker Forum!  Could you by any chance manage a chip count on Greg Dyer for us Americans please?

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Hi Chris here, my computer is not connecting to the network despite knowing it is there.

We just lost Jan Sjavik after Phillip 'Clap Your Hands Say' Yeh took him on with K-8 against A-2 in a blind on blind battle. The board coming 8-3-Q-9-J. Jen down to two picks, I still have three, mwahahahaha.

However, one of my picks, Dag Martin Mikkelsen just lost a 370k pot with against Sander Lylloff's . Dag raised from EP, Sander re-raised and Dag 3-bet him all in. The board came leaving Dag with just 370k.

Javed Abrahams just lost a chunk doubling up Davidi Kitai with A-Q against A-J. A jack on the flop.

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Good afternoon you fantastic reporters of the infamous Blonde Poker Forum!  Could you by any chance manage a chip count on Greg Dyer for us Americans please?

Evening Ma'am.  112k - the redraw places his table like so:

Juan Maceiras   130k
Jean Baptiste Tomi - Just gone out, story to follow
Adam Junglen  340k
Dag Martin Mikkelsen
Voitto Rintala  100k
Greg Dyer  112k
Mohamad Kowssarie  LOTS
Mika Paasonen

[Gobbomom]

thanks so much. Due credit and links cross-posted at 2+2.

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Jean Baptise Tomi just saw a flop of with late position Mohamad Kowssarie - there was around 80k in the pot preflop, but I don't know whether Tomi just called a raise or was himself a raiser... so let's skip to the flop action:
Tomi bet out three blue stacks equalling 60k.  Flat call from Kowssarie.
Turn:    Tomi shoves, for around 160k... Instacall! 
Tomi shows: 
Kowssarie shows:    leaving his opponent drawing dead to the river.  A big stack of chips changes hands; they shake hands - Jean Baptiste Tomi is OUT.
"Pretty nice flop," comments astute railbird Nicolas Levi, sagely.
"Sick," adds Arnaud Mattern.

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The other non-Feature table:

Aditya Agarwal
Pete Giordano
Patrick Bruel
Borge Dypuik
Christopher Ulsrud
Sanders Lylloff
Kees Alblas
Tronde Eidsvig

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After much head-scratching, shoulder-shrugging and bizarre-at-computer ranting until I was more blue in the face than the 1k chip, I have my connection back. So I can now post photos from earlier. Finally.

Michael Greco's chips pointed the way they eventually went...Across the table to Mohamad Kowssarie



DM Mikkel, popping out from behind the dealer.



And here's the rest of his table after the A-K vs A-J 370k pot between DM Mikkel and Sander Lylloff, (the blonde guy standing up). I did have another perhaps better photo of Lylloff, but it didn't have Christopher Ulsrud trying to deep-throat his own stack of chips.
 

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Juan Maceiras is certainly not taking it easy - his chips have been yoyoing and they're right near the line, ready to jump over... a couple of his hands: 
He pushes all in from the big blind when small blind Mika Paasonen has a go when it passes round to him... he gets the chips and nonchalantly flips his .

Then he raises to 18k (blinds 3k/6k), called by big blind Greg Dyer (whose stack was looking a little more healthy, nearer 200k). 
Flop:  .  Dyer checks, Maceiras bets 40k; call.
Turn:    Greg Dyer immediately moves in, and Juan Maceiras just as immediately passes.

Juan Maceiras is all in the next hand, preflop, uncalled.  I worry that in the time it takes to walk across the casino to the press room and back again all the chips on the table will have gone through the Spanish player's stack in interesting ways.